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in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle alfo fhall be with them; yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the Heathen shall know that I, the Lord, do fanctify Ifrael, when my fanctuary fhall be in the midst of them, for evermored" " Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee.-The Lord fhall inherit Judah, his portion in the holy land, and fhall choose Jerufalem again."" And Jerufalem fhall be called, A city of Truth; and the Mountain of the Lord of Hofts, the Holy Mountain. Thus faith the Lord of Hofts, there fhall yet be old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerufalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the ftreets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. Thus faith the Lord of Hofts, If [or though] it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in thefe days, fhould it also be marvellous in mine eyes?

"It fhall yet come to pafs, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of

Ezek. xxxvii. 24-28.

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• Zech. ii. 10-12. many

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many cities; and the inhabitants of one city fhall go to another, faying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to feek the Lord of Hofts: I will go alfo. Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of Hofts in Jerufalem, and to pray before the Lord. Thus faith the Lord of Hofts; In those days it fhall come to pass, that ten men fhall take hold, out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, faying, We will go with you; for we have heard that God is with you" For Zion's fake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerufalem's fake I will not reft, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the falvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. And the Gentiles fhall fee thy righteoufnefs, and all kings thy glory, and thou fhalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord fhall name. Thou shalt alfo be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be termed forfaken, neither fhall thy land any more be termed defolate &"

Zech. viii. 3-6. 20-23.

Ifaiah Ixii. 1-4.
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From thefe fublime defcriptions, and from innumerable other paffages in the Old and New Teftaments, I think it appears probable, that when the amazing progrefs of wickedness shall have nearly ba-, nished faith from the earth (excepting "those nations which are to be faved," Rev. xxii.)-when the INFIDEL POWER has reached its utmost pitch of daring, and the rest of the various followers of Antichrift, or Satan-Pagan, Mahometan, Papal, and Heretical-impelled by various motives, fhall have filled the earth with tumult and mifery, and their principal. force shall be directed against the land of Judea, and the Religion of Christ-when the Jews fhall repent of all their fins, and look to God alone for their deliverancewhen the Church of Chrift, that is, the body of faithful worshippers of all denominations throughout the world, purified by tribulation, enlightened by Prophecy", and exalted by the hope of approaching redemption, fhall "lift up her head with joy," amidst surrounding terrors, looking for the glorious appearing of her Lord

h❝ The giving ear to the Prophets, is a fundamental character of the true Church." Sir Ifaac Newton. Then

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Then fhall appear the SIGN of THE SON OF MAN in the heaven, and then fhall all the tribes of the earth mourn; and they fhall fee THE SON OF MAN coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great found of a trumpet, and they fhall gather together his elect from the uttermost part of the earth, to the uttermoft part of heaven. Then two fhall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women fhall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left." For then fhall "the righteous" be openly diftinguished" from the wicked, and him that ferveth God, from him that ferveth him not.".

The conjectures I have prefumed to offer

1 Mr. Mede fuggefted the idea of Chrift's appearing to the Jews fomewhat in the fame manner as he appeared to St. Paul at his converfion, and was inclined. to think this hinted at by St. Paul himself, in 1 Tim. i. 16. and by our Saviour, Matt. xxiv. 29, 30. which he fuppofed to refer to Zech. xii. 11. but confidering the "tribulation" which was to immediately precede "the coming of the Son of Man," as referring folely to the Jews, he found it difficult to reconcile these ideas together.

* Malachi iii. 18.

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refpecting the course of things yet future, have conducted us to this awful period, without the fuppofition of any apparently miraculous interpofition of Divine providence: but an entire new fcene, as I humbly conceive, now opens to our view; for I confider the appearance of the Meffiah at this period of the world, to be the founding of the feventh trumpet, which is to

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finish the mystery of God." I imagine the feventh vial filled with wrath," will be poured out when this trumpet " fhall begin to found;" and that the conclufion of Daniel's Prophecies accurately accord with this laft trumpet; "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great Prince, which ftandeth for the children of thy people; and there fhall be a time of trouble, such as never was fince there was a nation, even to that fame time; and at that time thy people fhall be (finally) delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that fleep in the duft of the earth fhall awake, fome to everlafting life, and fome to fhame and everlasting contempt. And they that turn many to righteousness, fhall fhine as the ftars for ever and ever1." 'Behold, I come

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