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Extract of a Letter from a Gentlemen in the Country to his friend in London.
MY bad ſtate of health rendered it expedient for me to take a long journey, and therefore I accompanied a friend into Scotland: While I was at Edinburgh, I dined with a gentleman whoſe wife was a living witneſs to the firſt hearing of the following Prophecy delivered by a late eminent Miniſter, which ſhe voluntarily gave me in her own hand writing, viz. Mr. Allan Logan Miniſter at Culroſs, in the Preſbytery of Dumfermline and county of Perth; a man of great piety and devotion, he died in the year 1733, aged about 72.
Some years before his death, he prayed in public for the King of Pruſſia, after ſermon, That he and his deſcendants might be ſtirred up and honoured to ſupport the reformation intereſt in Germany: Being aſked in the evening by a Lady of diſtinguiſhed good character, what led him to name the King of Pruſſia in prayer contrary to law ? anſwered, that he was ſtrongly impreſſed both when aſleep and afterwards in his cloſet with a firm belief that one of what illuſtrious houſe would be raiſed to head a victorious army, and prove as a Saviour upon mount Zion; for preſerying the proteſtant intereſt there, when at the loweſt ebb. This account is avouched by two young Ladies of undoubted veracity, who were preſent when the converſation paſſed between that Lady and Mr. Logan; and who are both now alive at this date, Sep. 16 1758.
In proportion Sir, as this prophecy is real, the late conduct of providence appears beautiful, and the iſſue of the war will be proſperous. I thought this relation would not be unintereſting, and therefore you are at liberty to make what uſe of it you think proper.
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