Francis Moore

“ Mighty armies shall be raised in the North, which shall be joined by a prodigious army, collected in other parts of Christendom, which shall drive out the Turks, recover from them the Holy Land, and gloriously rebuild the city of Jerusalem, and make a worthy and excellent Englishman Patriarch of the same. Then shall the eyes of us Jews (says he) be opened; and we shall all acknowledge Jesus to be the true Messias.
Moore in his observations says, that these times look something like a preparation for the destruction of Antichrist. We know his destiny is near at hand ”

“ Reason, certainly, if it is but permitted to employ the powers with which it is capacitated, not only instructs us that man lives after death, but also that he lives more; that is, that he then comes into the essence and spirit of his life, before imprisoned. ”

“ The Turks are eminently pointed at by these celestial messengers. War and desolation has already invaded their territories. The Ottoman empire must be weakened, and Antichrist must be destroyed; France and Italy, more especially Lorrain and Naples, will meet with new troubles. New troubles and misfortunes arise in the North. The King of P— will suffer by sickness, or some other calamity; but however he will gain some military honours and advantages this year. A great General stoops to fate. Death alone convinces us, that all men are vanity. ”

“ There is a tradition among the Jews, that the world shall continue six thousand years; (viz.) two thousand years void, two thousand years under p. 5the law, and two thousand years under the Messias; and at the end of this six thousand years will commence the Millennium, or one thousand years of rest for the people of God, and particularly for his chosen people the Jews.—Lactantius says wherefore,—because all the works of God were completed in six days, it is necessary that the world continue in this state six thousand years ”

“ A famous French author, in his account of the non-effusion of the seven vials, says, the first vial poured on the earth, intends the loss of church revenues, and so falls upon the worldly interest of Antichristian men; the second vial, poured upon the sea, which he says is the Papal kingdom in its greatest extent, which will become as the blood of a dead man; so that every soul which liveth in it shall die; for as fish cannot live in water turned into blood, neither can mankind any longer endure the yoke of Popish Priests and Governors ”

“ Letters from various parts of Germany state, that great sensations have been excited among various classes of the inhabitants of Germany by several preachers having held forth to their congregations that the approach of the time of the Millennium had arrived, and this doctrine has been illustrated from the departure of a great number of Jewish families from different parts of Germany on their way to the Holy Land. ”

“ Every body knows that upon the first appearance of the Northern Lights, [7] they were by all sorts of people compared to swords, lances, and other military weapons, or else to blood, fire, and pillars of smoke, in the very expressions of the prophet Joel; and indeed they do greatly resemble all these things; and in fact are fires and pillars of smoke, or vapour, which do frequently in their colour represent blood, and by their form and motion, swords, lances, and other military ensigns ”

“ The Almighty God of all principalities and powers, by his infinite wisdom and all-seeing providence, hath intended and proposed, and by these his glorious and powerful instruments, declares and presignifies such notable events and transactions, p. 11such unexpected commotions and various mutations to happen to many of the principal kingdoms and nations in the world; for the affairs thereof seem to be in a hurry and confusion, and to be acted by such a ferment as is not usual; their passions and fury rise higher ”