SECT. VIII. And of their writings; because in them are contained many things which the event proved to be revealed by a Divine Power.

FOR we find in them many predictions concerning things which men could not possibly know of themselves, and which were wonderfully confirmed by the event; such 133as the sudden and universal propagation of this religion; ⁴⁰⁴⁴⁰⁴   Matt. xiii. 33. and following verses. Luke x. 18. John xii. 32. the perpetual continuance of it;⁴⁰⁵⁴⁰⁵   Luke i. 33. Matt. xxviii. 20. John xiv. 16. that it should be rejected by very many of the Jews,⁴⁰⁶⁴⁰⁶   Matt. xxi. 33. and following verses; xxii. at the beginning; Luke xv. 11. and following verses. and embraced by strangers;⁴⁰⁷⁴⁰⁷   In the same places, and also Matt. viii. 11. xii. 21. xxi. 43. the hatred of the Jews against those who professed this religion;⁴⁰⁸⁴⁰⁸   Matt. x. 17. the severe punishments they should undergo, upon the account of it;⁴⁰⁹⁴⁰⁹   Matt. x. 21, 39. xxiii. 34. the siege and destruction of Jerusalem and the temple,⁴¹⁰⁴¹⁰   Matt. xxiii. 38. xxiv. 16. Luke xiii. 34. xxi. 24. and the sore calamities of the Jews.⁴¹¹⁴¹¹   Matt. xxi. 33. and following verses; xxiii. 34. xxiv. 20.