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p. 126. He who will read the Learned Treatife published in 1714, called Spes Fidelium will be convinced that the primitive Christians believed all these Doc. trides, viz. the Millennium fer 144. The first return of the

Jews will be. A.D.1020.

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THE

PROPHECIES

OF THE

Second Book of ESDRAS

Amongst the

APOCRYPHA,

Explained and Vindicated

From the Objections made against them.

To which are added,

A Comment on the Prophecies of ZACHART and MICAH: With fome Obfervations concerning the Prophecies of DANIEL and MALACHI :

Likewife the State of the Jews after the Return of the Two Tribes, till the Refurrection of the JUST.

As alfo a Defcription of the State of the Ifraelites of the Ten Tribes, after their Return into their Countrey.

By Sir JOHN FLOTER, Knt.

LONDON,

Printed for MICH, JOHNSON, Bookfeller in Lichfield; and fold by JAMES HOLLAND, in St. Paul's Church-yard, and JOHN KINDON, in London-Houfe in Alderfgate-freet. MDCC XXI.

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EPISTLE

TO THE

READER,

Concerning the APOCRYPH A.

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ANT of our Canonical Books of Scrip ture were not at first admitted into the Chriftian Canon; and the fame Fate has happened to the Two Apocryphal Books of Efdras, which, I think, may be efteemed Canonical. The First of Efdras has a fufficient Testimony, it is written in Greek; and the Ancient Councils and Fathers mention Two Books of Efdras, and feem to understand Three of them in the Septuagint, as Bellarmine conjectures. And he gives v.Bellarm.de thefe Citations of it; Athanaf. orat. 3. contra Arianos; ab Auguftino lib. 18. de Civ. Dei, cap. 36. à Clemente Alexandrino, lib. ftrom. 1. ab Auctore operis imperfecti, Hom, 1. in Mat.

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