The wonders of the year 1716
Subtitle: collected from the Scriptures, and the histories and writings of the learned : 1. The year 1716. puts an end to the tyranny of Antichrist, or the Pope of Rome and his hierarchy : 2. The year 1716. puts an end to the tyranny of the several idolatrous kingdoms in the Roman Empire : 3. The year 1716. puts an end to the persecuted and afflicted state of the Church : soon after which, will follow the conversion and restoration of the Jews, the entire ruin and destruction of the beast's and antichrist's kingdom, and a flourishing state of the church for 1000 years : all plainly prov'd from prophecies of Scripture, more particularly from Daniel and the Revelations : as will appear to any man, who will add to a competent skill in arithmetick, an impartial examination of those sacred books : published for the benefit and instruction of those pious Christians, who want time or abilities to search into those sacred records, which declare such wonderful revolutions to be now at hand ...
By: by a native of L.M.W.Y.
Contributors: Strange, Thomas
Edition: The second edition, with large additions, and an answer to such objections as the author has met with ...
Publisher: Prinred [sic] for Wm. Ward
Published: 1716
Place of publication: Nottingham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Protestant authors; Bible -- Prophecies -- Christianity; Prophecies -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: Attributed to William Whiston. Cf. NUC pre-1956.

Whiston claimed in his memoirs that this work was taken almost entirely from the first imperfect edition of his Essay on the Revelation of St. John. Cf. NUC pre-1956.

Dedicatory epistle signed: B.S.

Fisher B-13 copy: With [20] blank pages of commentary in MS. bound in at front and end, signed and dated: Thomas Strange, May 29th, 1716.