[148] “’Tis a part of this prophecy, that it should not be understood before the last age of the world; and therefore it makes for the credit of the prophecy, that it is not yet understood.” Sir I. Newton, p. 251.
[149] St. Jerom, who lived in this time, speaks in the very terms, here supposed, Romanus orbis RUIT. Ep. iii.
[150] Isai. lxv. 17.—2 Pet. iii. 4. 13.
[151] Rev. x. 7.
[152] Daniel xii. 10.
[153] Mede, More, Daubuz, Vitringa, and, above all, the learned Founder of this Lecture.
[154] Hence, the allusion of our great poet,
—or from behind the moon
In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds
On half the nations, and with fear of change
Perplexes monarchs—P. L. i. 596.
[155] See these two works, published together, under the title of Artemidori Daldiani et Achmetis Sereimi F. Oneirocritica, by Nicolaus Rigaltius. Lutet. 1603.
[156] Non enim credo, nullo percepto aut cæteros artifices versari in suo munere, aut eos, qui divinatione utantur, futura prædicere. Cic. de Fato, c. 6.