Prophesy God shall take away his Part out of the Book of Life Let us enquire what the Scripture speaks to this Point that there shall be a Time in which God will destroy the Wicked of the World and the Enemies of his Church and People and that there shall be a Time of Peace and Freedom from all persecuting Power a Time of great Holiness and Happiness a Time wherein he will pour out his Spirit in great Abundance from on high such a Time as was never yet in the World a Time of refreshing from the Presence of the Lord Times of the Restitution of all Things and those Times have been spoken of by all the holy Prophets since the World began The Truth is it is the Time of the Duration of Christ's Kingdom in this World which is to be given to him after the Destruction of the little Horn as is clear from Daniel 7 and which he is gone to receive for himself and to return Luk. 19.12 And seeing such Times and Things have been spoken of by all the holy Prophets we will enquire what every one of them have spoken to these Things We shall begin with ISAIAH Chap. 2.2 the Prophet tells of a Time when the Mountain of the Lord's House shall be established in the Top of the Mountains and be exalted above the Hills when he shall judge among the Nations and rebuke many People when the lofty Looks of Men shall be humbled c. And when shall this be It shall be in the last Days t is yet future It hath never yet been accomplished 'T is call'd the Day of the Lord ver 12 when he alone shall be exalted a Time of Peace when Nation shall not lift up Sword against Nation no more War then ver 4. T is true there will be a bloody World before this Day comes and Distress among Nations foregoing Christ's Coming Luk. 21 Mat. 24 Dan. 12. But afterwards it will be otherwise when they shall not hurt nor destroy in all God's holy Mountain for the Earth will be filled with the Knowledge of the Lord Chap. 11.9 the Light of the Moon shall be as the Light of the Sun and the Light of the Sun seven-fold Chap. 30.26 no more weeping then ver 19. And when shall this be It shall be when Christ shall reign in Righteousness Chap. 32.1 and when his People shall dwell in peaceable Habitations when the Jews shall be called and the Saints raised and live and reign with Christ a Thousand Years Then t is their Eyes shall see the King in his Beauty and see Jerusalem a quiet Habitation and the Lord our Judge our Law-giver and our King Chap. 33.17 20 22. Then t is there shall be such Holiness Chap. 35.8 and everlasting Joy shall be on their Heads and Sorrow and Sighing shall flee away Then and not till then will God create new Heavens Jerusalem a rejoicing and her People a Joy Chap. 65.17 18 21. Then shall the build Houses and inhabit them plant Vineyards and eat the Fruit of them and long enjoy the Works of their Hands None of these Things have yet been accomplished nor will be till that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his Mouth and destroy with the Brightness of his Coming 2 Thes 2.8 Neither can these Things be understood to be in or after the general Judgment For then there will be no Building of Houses nor planting of Vineyards nor eating the Fruit of them nor long enjoying the Labour of their Hands It must be after the Calling of the Jews this Promise having special Respect to them and therefore all this and much more will be in the Thousand Years In the beginning of which Christ will come in the Clouds of Heaven visibly as hath been shewed before to judge the Man of Sin and all other Enemies which shall be found in Arms against him And this Thousand Years must be placed between this Appearance of Christ and the general Judgment which will be after the last Resurrection But of this more may be spoken when we come to speak to the third Question when this Time shall begin Those also that hold that the general Judgment will begin at the beginning of the Thousand Years and so continue that whole Term of Time are utterly mistaken For besides what hath been said before as to building and planting the Scripture is clear that even then there will be wicked Men in the World tho' they will be Slaves as the Gibeonites were and chained up as the Devil will be all that while but at last will be so multiplied that they will be as the Sand of the Sea and at last being deceived by the Devil when he is let loose at the End of these Thousand Years they will make an Attempt against the Saints to their own Ruin and that this should be in the Time of the general Judgment is a Thing not to be believed We have already shewed what one Prophet hath spoken but because these are the Times of the Restitution of all Things spoken of by all the holy Prophets which have been since the World began let it be enquired into what the rest of the Prophets have spoken JEREM. 3.14 God tells them there that he would bring them to Sion and at that Time they should call Jerusalem the Throne of the Lord and all Nations should be gathered to it ver 17. And Chap. 30.3.9 the Prophet tells them the Days should come that God would bring again the Captivity both of Israel and Judah and they should serve the Lord their God and David their King. Jer. 31 the whole Chap. throughout speaks fully to the Point in Hand The Prophet EZEKIEL also Chap. 36 tells us of a Time when God would gather them i. e. the Jews out of all Countries and bring them to their own Land and cleanse them from their Filthiness pour out his Spirit on them and they should be his People and he would be their God all which is yet future Yea the last nine Chapters speak in a mystical Way of the State of the Gospel Church in the Thousand Years Let us see further what DANIEL speaks He tells us what shall be in the latter Days that is in the latter End of the 4th Kingdom viz. the Roman which is now on his last Legs if it hath any Leggs left We are sure he hath Feet upon which the Stone cut out of the Mountain without Hand shall fall and break the whole Image to Pieces from the Head to the Feet Why then and not till then shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed nor pass over to another People but stand forever and become a great Mountain and fill the whole Earth what else is this but the Mountain of the Lord's House exalted above the Hills or any other Mountain than this cannot be meant of a spiritual Kingdom for that doth not break other Kingdoms to
are the Subjects of it together with the Effects thereof and then lastly as to the Time when this shall be intimated in the Word afterwards something may be written briefly to these Things And first what 's meant by POURING OUT OF THE SPIRIT And here we must know that the Communication of THE SPIRIT is represented to us in Scripture more Ways than one as sometimes by Donation 1 John 3.13 God is said there to give us his Spirit John 14.16 God the Father is said there to give the Comforter which is his Spirit Luk. 11.13 how much more shall your heavenly Father give his Spirit to them that ask it Again sometimes t is represented to us by Mission or sending John 14.26 Christ tells them that the Father would send the holy Ghost that should teach them all Things And Chap. 16.7 he tells them again he would send the Comforter Gal. 4.6 God is said there to send forth the Spirit of his Son into our Hearts Sometimes also by Aspersion or sprinkling hence Christ is said to sprinkle many Nations Isai 52.15 and to sprinkle clean Water upon them Ezekiel 36.25 which I understand of the Spirit Again sometimes by Infusion or putting his Spirit in us Ezekiel 36.27 and Chap. 37.14 And the last that I shall mention is by Effusion or pouring out of his Spirit upon us as in the Text proposed to be spoken to quoted also by the Apostle Peter Act. 2.17 we have the same Expression of pouring of the Spirit Isai 44.3 as also Chap. 32.15 where the Spirit is promised to be poured out from on High we have the like Expression Zech. 12.10 there is one Scripture more and all that at present is with me where this Expression of pouring out the Spirit is used and that is Prov. 1.23 behold I will pour out my Spirit upon you c. But what may we think is meant by pouring out Pouring out in Scripture doth ordinarily if not always signify an Abundance of that which is poured forth as when God brings Abundance of Wrath on a People he is said to pour out his Wrath as we might easily instance in Scripture hence we read of so many Vials of Wrath which were to be poured out on them that were the Subjects of them until they were destroyed Rev. 16 the like is said when God promiseth Abundance of Mercy he is said to pour it out as in Mal. 3.10 God saith there that he would open the Windows of Heaven and pour out such a Blessing as there should not be Room to receive it So that we see what is meant by pouring forth The next Thing to be inquired into is what is meant by Spirit which is thus to be poured out By Spirit in this Place I do not understand the Person of the HOLY SPIRIT tho' that is said to dwell in all Believers and if any Man hath not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. 8.9 2 Tim. 1.14 Neither do I think by Spirit here is meant the ordinary Gifts of the Spirit which every Believer Receives at his first Conversion But I think by Spirit in this Place is meant a plentiful Effusion of the Gifts of the Spirit which are extraordinary as will evidently appear if we compare this Text with Act. 2.17 and take the postle Peter's Commentary on the Words For it cannot be denied but that the Apostles and for any Thing that I know others that were with them at Jerusalem after Christ was ascended they all had received the ordinary Gifts of the Spirit at their first Conversion and yet they were to wait there for the Promise of the Father which Christ hath told them of before Luk. 24.49 But what was this Promise only of more and higher Degrees of the ordinary Gifts of the Spirit which they had already received I cannot think so and the Consequence doth make it evidently to appear that it was otherwise But when and where was this Promise of the Father made which they were to wait for The Apostle Peter when they began to speak with other Tongues Act. 2.4 in the 16th Verse tells them that this was that which was spoken of by the Prophet Joel and therefore this in my Understanding is the Promise of the Father which they were to wait for consisting only in the pouring out of extraordinary Gifts both of Tongues Prophesy and Miracles The next Thing to be considered is the Subjects or Recepients upon whom the Spirit was thus to be poured out and that the Prophet tells us and after him the Apostle that t is upon all Flesh By all Flesh here we are not to understand all Mankind as t is taken in Gen. 6.12 where t is said that all Flesh had corrupted their Way No nor are we to understand it of all Saints neither but some of all Sorts and Sexes viz. Jews and Gentiles young and old Male and Female Sons and Daughters Servants and Handmaids And there were above an Hundred besides the Apostles and that Women as well as Men assembled together at Jerusalem waiting for this Promise Act. 1.14.15 and they were all with one accord in one Place Chap. 2.1 and they were all filled with the holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues as the Spirit gave them Utterance and that not only upon Jews but upon Gentiles also were poured out the Gifts of the holy Ghost as we may see Act. 10.45 46. Upon Cornelius his Family and his Kindred and near Friends ver 24 and in Chap. 19. ver 2 we read of Disciples that were Believers and doubtless had received the ordinary Gifts of the Spirit and such as were saving and yet were Strangers to these extraordinary Gifts till Paul laid his Hands on them and then they received these extraordinary Gifts and spake with Tongues and did Prophesy and t is very likely these were Gentiles The first Effect then that followed after the pouring out of the Spirit was the Gift of Tongues the Gospel being now to be preached to all the World and the Disciples being most of them if not all unlearned Men the Wisdom of God saw it necessary in order thereunto to give them to speak and to understand all Languages that those Nations to whom they were to preach might understand what was spoken T is true indeed this Gift of Tongues nor Miracles is not mentioned by Joel but yet Peter tells us and we must believe him that when they thus spake with Tongues this was that which was spoken of by the Prophet Joel without which they could not Prophesy or preach the Gospel to all Nations or to the Edification of them to whom they were to speak The next Thing therefore we shall take Notice of is that which is mentioned both by the Prophet and the Apostles and that is Prophesy Prophesy in Scripture is sometimes taken for a foretelling of Things to come much of what the Prophets spake in Times past was then future when spoken the whole Book
of Revelation is called a Prophesy Chap. 1.3 and yet when made known to John was all future ver 1. But I do not understand Prophesy in this Sense in this Place tho' I do not know but God may sometimes in an extraordinary Way make known to some of his Servants Things to come for there were Prophets in the primative Times as we may read Act. 13.1 as Barnabas and Simeon and Lucius and Manaen and Saul and these were called their Teachers We read also Act. 11.27 of Prophets which came from Jerusalem to Antioch of whom Agabus was one who signified by the Spirit that there should be a great Dearth in all the World which came to pass in the Days of Claudius Caesar and in Act. 15.32 we read of Judas and Silas that were Prophets and Act. 19.7 t is said there were twelve Disciples at Ephesus which did prophesy and the Apostle Paul who was more than a Prophet speaks very much of Prophets and Prophesying 1 Cor. 12. 14 and saith expresly that God hath set in his Church next after Apostles PROPHETS and we read not only of Prophets but Prophetesses also Act. 21.8.9 Philip the Deacon had four Daughters that were Virgins that did Prophesy I do not think that all good Men and Women could Prophesy the Apostle seems to deny that 1 Cor. 12 Are all Prophets are all Teachers do all work Miracles or do all speak with Tongues but there are Diversity of Gifts but the same Spirit as the Apostle shews at large 1 Cor. 12. And indeed it was for this very End amongst others that Christ ascended to give Gifts to Men and that not only ordinary but extraordinary and the Gift of Prophesy as well as others Eph. 4.11 and Christ told his Disciples that if he did not ascend the Comforter would not come but had they not the saving Presence and Power of the Spirit already and the ordinary Gifts of the Spirit long before this Time yea doubtless therefore it must needs be meant not of higher Degrees greater Measures of the ordinary Gifts of the Spirit only but of those which was extraordinary And the Effect of pouring out the Spirit was seeing of Visions and dreaming of Dreams of which I shall write a little and but a little We know that God revealed his Mind to his Servants and sometimes to others also in the old Testament often by Visions and by Dreams Abraham had a Vision Gen. 15.1 and t is like a Dream also ver 12. Jacob had a Dream Chap. 31.11 Joseph had two Dreams Moses had a Vision Exod. 3.2 Job had his Dreams and Visions tho' they were a Terror to him Job 7.14 Isaiah had Visions Chap. 1.1 6.1 Ezekiel had many Chap. 1.1 And we read in the New Testament Joseph had a Dream to fly into Egypt and a Dream to return out of Egypt Mat. 2.13.19 the wise Men were warned by a Dream not to return to Jerusalem ver 12. Zecharias had a Vision Luk. 1.22 And after the sending of the Spirit by extraordinary Gifts Annanias had a Vision Act. 9.10 Cornelius had a Vision Act. 10.3 Peter also saw a Vision ver 17 Paul had a Vision Act. 16.9 yea more then one for he had as many as he could well bear 2 Cor. 12.1 much of the Revelation was made known to John by Vision And t is likely the Effects of pouring out the Spirit are not all recorded in Scripture yet we must and ought to believe that either they have been or shall be fulfilled but it hath been shewed that it hath been poured out in an extraordinary Way upon Jews Gentiles young and old Male and Female Servants Handmaids Now of other Effects about the Sun being turned into Darkness and the Moon into Blood we have written something of this before and therefore shall forbear to write of it here and come to The last Thing proposed to be spoken to and that is the TIME to which this Prophesy doth refer held forth in the Word Afterward This Word Afterward seems to refer to some remarkable Time which was to go before it and the Apostle Peter renders it in other Words Act. 2.17 It shall come to pass in the last Days but both the Prophet and Apostle agree in this that t is a most remarkable Period of Time a Fore-runner of the great terrible Day of the Lord as the Prophet speaks and the Apostle after him calls it the notable Day of the Lord. And indeed whether we take it as past or future it hath been both notable and terrible and will yet be more notable and terrible when this Prophesy shall be fully accomplished Notable to the People of God that call on him for they shall be saved ver 21 but terrible to his and their Enemies for they shall be destroyed Multitudes Multitudes in the Valley of Decision for the Day of the Lord is near in the Valley of Decision Joel 3.14 The right Understanding of the Time to which this Prophecy refers will give great Light to the Point under Consideration 'T is true indeed this Prophecy was in Part fulfilled immediately after Christ's Ascention but that there is yet a further Accomplishment of it to be expected will easily be made to appear for some prophetical Scriptures may be fulfilled more than once but to speak a little more fully to the Time. There are two remarkable Periods of Time recorded in Scripture besides the ultimate Period the one is already past the other is yet to come the one at soon after the first Coming of CHRIST and this Time was much spoken of in the Scriptures and this the Apostle calls the Fulness of Time Gal. 4.4 and this was a most remarkable Time when the Son of God became the Son of Man to save poor lost Men This was a great Day and many great Things were done at this Time The Way of instituted Worship wholly changed and the ceremonial Law abolished and another Way appointed by our Lord Jesus Christ instead thereof the Levitical Priesthood laid aside or changed and Gospel Ministers appointed to supply that Place the national Church ceased the Jews rejecting the Gospel are cast off and the Gentiles receiving the Gospel are taken into their Room City and Temple ruined the Nation Multitudes Multitudes destroyed the rest scattered all the World over the Gospel to be preached to all Nations to that End extraordinary Gifts are given and many other Things done which might be mentioned And therefore this was a great Day both notable terrible And this Peter calls the last Days it shall come in the last Days Paul also calls Gospel Times the last Days Heb. 1.1 in these last Days God hath spoken to us by his Son. There is also the latter Part of the last Days and this is also called the last Days Isa 2.2 The Prophet there tells us that in the last Days the Mountain of the Lord's House shall be established in the Top of
be meant by Spirit in this Prophesy and what by pouring out upon all Flesh together with the Effects of it and something as to the Time viz. the last Days as Peter renders it all which hath been Accomplished in Part or in whole That there is yet a further and future fulfilling of it is more than probable and that will appear if we view the Context both before and after It will be in those Days and at that Tâ—me when God will bring again the Captivity of Judah and Jerusalem be jealous for his Land and pity his People do great Thing for them deal wonderfully with them ver 26 when Judah shall dwell forever and Jerusalem from Generation to Generation and after he hath poured out upon them the Spirit of Grace and Supplication Zec. 12.10 and they be converted to Christianity When these Things shall be fulfilled all which is yet to come then afterward the Spirit shall he poured out on all Flesh then and not till then and all this will be before the great and terrible Day of the Lord come For further Demonstration hereof let it be considered that the Gospel must be preached both to Jews and Gentiles t is likely generally if not to all Nations how else shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a Preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent so then Faith cometh by hearing I might ask how shall they understand what they hear except it be spoken in their own Language T is possible they may receive Conviction of Unbelief by Vision by looking on him whom they have peirced and other Gentile Nations together with them for when he comes with Clouds every Eye shall see him Rev. 1.7 but yet there is something more necessary to Salvation besides Conviction of Sin. The Jews were convinced and Pricked at the Heart Act. 2.37 but yet they did not know what to do till Peter old them that they must repent and be baptized before they could receive the Gift of the holy Ghost Paul was convinced both by Voice and Vision but yet did not know what to do nor would CHRIST tell him but sends him to Ananias and he was to tell him what he should do Act. 9.6 The Jaylor was convinced by an Earthquake but yet did not know what to do to be saved till told by Paul and Silas CHRIST hath a great Harvest yet to fetch in all the World over both among Jews and Gentiles and it will not come in without a great many Hands and we pray for the Coming in of it but never think of Hands but CHRIST will find Hands and qualify them for his Service he did so at his last Harvest he poured out his Spirit upon them by extraordinary Gifts without which they could not Work and why may we not think he will do it again The same Promise of the Father by Vertue of which the Spirit was then given for any Thing I know still remains good and is not out of Date nor fully accomplished till this Work be done also And if we pray the Lord of the Harvest to send forth Labourers into his Harvest he will do it tho' we cannot tell who or what they will be And when this Harvest is over CHRIST hath another Harvest and this is a great Harvest too and this must be done with other Instruments Swords and Sickles Chap. 3.10.13 Plowshares must be beaten into Swords and Pruning-hooks into Spears when their Wickedness is great then the Harvest is ripe and then put in the Sickle We have a further Discription of this Harvest Rev. 14.16 where CHRIST is brought in or represented to us sitting on a Cloud with a sharp Sickle in his Hand and an Angel crying to him thrust in thy Sickle and reap for the Harvest of the Earth is ripe and he that sat on the Cloud thrust in his Sickle and the Earth was reaped The same Thing is signified to us both by Joel and John by a Vintage and the Cry of an Angel to him that had the sharp Sickle to thrust in his Sickle and gather the Clustors of the Vine of the Earth for her Grapes are fully ripe and the Angel thrust in his Sickle into the Earth and gathered the Vine of the Earth and cast it into the great Wine-press of the Wrath of God and the Wine-press was trodden without the City and Blood came out of the Wine-press even unto the Horse Bridles by the Space of a Thousand and six Hundred Furlongs And this I understand to be the great and terrible Day of the Lord of which the Prophet speaks in this Context and the Battle of the great Day of God Almighty Rev. 16.14 mentioned also Zec. 14.2.3 and elsewhere in Scripture But of this I have written more fully when we spake of the great Battle of Gog and Magog to which the Reader is referred and this I conceive will be the pouring out of the last Vial when the great Voice shall be heard out of the Temple of Heaven and from the Throne saying IT IS DONE Thus although I have written but a little yet it is more than I intended when I first began but not half so much as might have been written to every one of these Things nor by far what hath been written by others upon these Subjects but I would not impose upon any Man's Understanding nor be offended with such as are otherwise minded yet they may do well without Prejudice impartially to search the Scriptures and see whether these Things be so or no And now for a CONCLUSION I shall propose some useful Considerations touching what hath been mentioned in this Discourse And first we may take Notice by this little Scrip how much and how many great Things God hath yet to do in the World how much of the Prophetical Part of the Scripture is yet unfulfilled how many great and glorious Things are yet unaccomplished which are to be done now in this last Age of the World in the Deliverance of his Church People out of the Hands of all their Adversaries Power and the Destruction of all the Enemeies of Christ and his Kingdom in bringing about all his glorious Designs which he hath purposed in himself and hath promised the Accomplishment of for his own Glory and the Advancement of the Kingdom of Christ in this Worl when all the Kingdoms of this World shall be his and he shall reign and his Name be great from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same a little and but a little thereof hath been hinted in this Discourse I further propose that seeing these Things and many Things more which might be named must come to pass what Manner of Persons ought we to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness Looking for and hastening to the Coming of the Day of God and our Lord Jesus Christ that we may be found of him in Peace without Spot and
Blameless at his Appearing and be like good Servants having our Loins girt and our Lights burning waiting for the Coming of their Lord and looking for that blessed Hope and the glorious Appearnce of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ and blessed is that Servant whom when his Lord cometh he shall find so doing I likewise propose to Consideration that it is a great Duty incumbent on all Christians at all Times not only to wait but to watch Hardly any Duty more prest in Scripture than this Christ foreseeing that wise Virgins as well as foolish would be apt to slumber and sleep when he should come This watching is that which is in direct Opposition to carnal Security we shall give a few Instances The Apostle 1 Thes 5.6 speaking of the Day of the Lord Coming as a Thief he warns them to watch and be sober Luk. 21.36 Christ upon the same Consideration gives the like Council watch pray that ye may be counted worthy to stand before the Son of Man And Mark 13.33 Christ gives Caution to take Heed watch and pray for ye know not when the Time is and ver 35 watch ye therefore for ye know not when the Master of the House cometh Again Mat. 24.42 watch therefore for ye know not what Hour your Lord doth come all which implieth that Christ would come in such a Time when the World would be asleep at Midnight was the Cry made behold the Bridegroom cometh in a Time wherein he is not looked for and in a Time of general Security when Men shall say Peace and Safety and as a Snare that Day will come on all them that dwell on the Earth God hath made every Man a Watchman Mark 13.37 That which I say unto you I say unto all WATCH but some are so in a special Manner by Office and t is very dangerous for those to sleep and cause others so to do by their Example the evil Servant did not say in his Heat that his Lord would never come but he thought as many good Servants now do that it would be a great While first not till the general Judgment and then he knew he would come Oh let none of Christ's good Servants say as he did my Lord delays his Coming and smite your fellow Servants who are in Expectation of him You should be always ready or your Lord will come in an Hour ye think not of And this Coming is not meant only by Death or in any other Way of common Providence for so he is always Coming and ever hath been tho' this may be also intended but there is a Coming of his in an extraordinary Way I mean a personal Coming when he will not come alone but bring all his Saints with him and he hath told us so Zec. 4.5 and told us also why he will come and what he will do at his Coming that t is for the Perdition of ungodly Men 2 Pet. 3.7 and to execute Judgment on them all Jude 15 and to set up his Kingdom which he is gone to receive and to return These are some of the great Businesses about which he comes and this being over I do not know but that he may withdraw his bodily Presence and leave the Government of his Kingdom to his Saints for I see no Scripture Grounds for his personal Presence any longer Sure I am that when he comes to the general Judgment he will come from Heaven and this is that Kingdom the Jews are in Expectation of and which is so little too little taken Notice of by Christians But some may say what doth this concern us we are never like to live to see this Coming of Christ To them I say as Christ did long ago of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man. And now what Matter of Joy and Rejoicing is this to all those that love the Lord Jesus Christ in Sincerity Tho' they have never seen him with their bodily Eyes yet believing rejoice with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory who now see him but darkly in the Glass of the Gospel what Joy and Rejoicing may we think there will be when we shall see him Face to Face when he shall appear we shall be like him and see him as he is 1 John 3.2 see him in all his glorious Excellencies and Perfections see him Coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory the second Time without Sin to our Salvation see him that hath loved us and shed his Blood for us borne the Curse and Wrath of God for us and is now appearing as an Advocate with the Father for us Oh what a Heart-ravishing Sight will this be to every sincere Soul Abraham saw but a little in Comparison of this and that afar of and he rejoiced and was glad Joh. 8.56 And how did Job comfort himself in this in the midst of all his Misery that he knew his REDEEMER lived and that he should stand in the latter Day upon the Earth and that in his Flesh he should see GOD and that his Eyes should behold him and not another Job 19.25.26 How were the Disciples ravished with but a Glimpse of his Glory which they were Eye Witnesses of when they were with him in the Holy Mount 2 Pet. 1 Mat. 17.4 And good old Simeon was so transported with the Sight of him in the Days of his Flesh and when a Child that he desired to live no longer And t is but a little While before he that shall come will come and will not tarry Oh then all ye his Saints lift up your Heads for your Redemption draweth nigh and comfort yourselves with these Words And now to conclude what remains but that we pray with greatest Instancy and Importunity and that continually for the Accomplishment of all these Things pray that CHRIST'S Kingdom may come that his Will may be done in Earth as it is in Heaven pray for the Peace of Jerusalem keep not Silence Day nor Night give the Lord no Rest till he make Jerusalem a Praise in the Earth pray for the Coming of the new Jerusalem down from Heaven pray for the Destruction of the Kingdom of Darkness pray for the bringing in both of Jews and Gentiles to the Obedience of the Gospel that there may be one Sheep-fold under one Shepherd JESUS CHRIST to this End pray that the Spirit may be poured out from on High pray that the Times of refreshing may come from the Presence of the Lord when God will send JESUS pray for the Times of the Restitution of all Things Act. 3.21 pray for the Accomplishment of all Promises and for fulfilling of all Prophesies pray for the Coming of CHRIST let the Spirit and Bride say come Let him that heareth say come I add Let him that readeth this say come Rev. 22.17 and the Answer will be Behold I come quickly ver 7 and behold I come quickly ver 12 and my Reward is with me surely I come quickly ver 20 quickly quickly quickly AMEN veni Domine JESU veni Cito So Prays thy poor unworthy Creature The Author of this Discourse Written with his own Hand In the Seventy Ninth Year of his Age And in the Year of our LORD 1687. 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