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High-Well-Born Lord

President of the Privy Council,

My especially Highly-Favored great

Patron!

Because for many years it has been known to me how Your High-Well-Born Excellen-

-cy, amidst all your high affairs—for which you have been employed by the greatest powers in this world—harbor an uncommon love and veneration original: "Veneration"; meaning deep religious reverence for GOD and His Word. You have well examined the writings of the Prophets, wherein they have prophesied concerning the fates of the Church original: "fatis Ecclesiæ", and especially concerning her final days. You have clearly perceived both the current corrupted state and the future better condition of the Church, when she shall again come up out of the wilderness and lean upon her friend A biblical allusion to Song of Solomon 8:5, frequently used by 18th-century theologians to describe the spiritual restoration of the Church.. Therefore, in this present treatise—prompted by the children in Silesia who were driven to prayer by an uncommon movement This refers to the "Kinderbeten" or children’s prayer revival in Silesia (1707–1708), where groups of children gathered in fields to pray and sing hymns, an event Petersen viewed as a prophetic sign.—I have presented this current age and its identifying marks, and have shown from the writings of the Prophets how such things...