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verſes which have been publiſhed between the ſeveral parties in theſe diviſions theſe fifty years by-paſt, and now prevail in many places with more threatening aſpects than ever. But thanks be to God we have a more ſure word of prophecy to which we do well to take heed.
Extract of a Letter from Mr. ALLAN LOGAN, to the Reverend Mr HAMILTON ſome time Miniſter of the Goſpel in STIRLING.
МY dearly beloved Brother is Jeſus Chriſt, and fellow-labourer in his goſpel, your thoughts concerning Zion in the latter age of the world which you intimated to be when parting, hath beer the whole of my ſtudy thro' the day and my meditation in the night. I find your judgment on certain authors is what I can attaint and no further. The Prophets indeed ſpeak of the time but the dates are not clear, at leaſt to my comprehenſion: But the Lord, who knows our ſpirit is weighted with love, even deſire of the foreknowledge of the well-being of our mother-church here militant on earth; which ought to be the concern of all the lovers of truth. The Lord himſelf knows the perplexity of Spirit I have been in for three weeks together upon this very head, ye he hath been pleaſed to give me a glimpſe of light beyond tha of nature, whether in the body or out of the body God knoweth I cannot tell. I was as a man ful of wores but had no tongue nor utterance. I was in the Spirit or he Spirit of all comfort and conſolation was in me: as Peter was on the top of Simon's houſe for as I in my cloſet. And tho' Paul, when caught up to the third heaven, evenin that Paradise heard words upſpeakable, t lawful to be uttered yes it was commended & approven of by God himſelf. So when they that ſcared the Lord,
