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End of the world - Early works to 1800

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    The folly and danger of enthusiasm: or, the wickedness of attempting to know the secret councils of God. In a discourse on the pretended conflagration of the world, by the comet which is to appear in the year 1758. Wherein the ridiculous Fears of the superstitious Part of Mankind are clearly exposed; and a plain Demonstration that the Restoration of the Jews, and Call of the Gentiles, will be completed before the World is destroyed. The Whole supported by unanswerable Proofs, that the before-mentioned Comet will not hurt or damage the Earth.

    | Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]
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    Eight sermons on a future general judgment. By Thomas Amory.

    Amory, Thomas, 1701-1774. | Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]
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    The theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things. The two last books, concerning the burning of the world, and concerning the new heavens and new earth.

    Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715. | Date: 1690
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    A farther warning of Popery, and of the second dreadful wo [sic] that are now certainly at hand: and of the third dreadful wo, which cometh soon after them; ... Written by Digby Bull, ...

    Bull, Digby. | Date: 1710
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