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him, crucify him. Thus was he brought before the Kings and Rulers of the Earth, and accufed, and condemned, and put to Death as a Malefactor: The barbarous Soldiers, in Mockery and Scorn, infulted the Sovereign of all the World: They put on him a Scarlet Robe, and when they had platted a Crown of Thorns, they put it on his Head, and a Reed in his Right Hand, and they bowed the Knee before him, and mocked him, faying, Hail King of the Jews.

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But altho' thou wert, O bleffed Jefu, thus ill Etreated, crucified and flain", thou wert ftill the happy Conqueror of Sin and Death: It was not poffible that thou shouldst be holden of it, but with Royal Power thou didst arife to Life again. After thy Resurrection all Power was given thee in Heaven and in Earthk: Thou didft in glorious Triumph afcend into Heaven, and waft there fet down at the Right Hand of the Majesty on high. Then was thy Regal Power moft eminently exerted for the Planting and Propagating thy Church and Kingdom upon Earth.---Thou didft fend down thy holy Spirit in miraculous Gifts and heavenly Graces for the most extenfive Propagation, and moft powerful Confirmation of the Truths of the Gofpel.---It is in Virtue of this Power that thy Church is preferved in the World, notwithstanding the utmost Rage, of Men and Devils against it; and that we expect, in thy good Time, the Fulness of the Gentiles to come in ", when the Dominion of our

(e) John xix, 15. (f) Luke xxi, 12: (g) Matth. xxvii 28, 29. (h) Acts ii, 23.

xxviii, 18. (1) Heb. i, 3.

(i) Ibid. ver. 24.
(m) Rom. xi, 25.

(k) Matth.

Lord fhall reach from Sea to Sea, and from the Rivers unto the World's End";--when all Kings fball kneel before him, and all Nations do him Service--when the Lord fhall fet his Hand again the fecond Time to recover the Remnant of his People, and fall affemble the Outcafts of Ifrael, and gather together the difperfed of Judah from the four Corners of the Earth ;--when the Heathen fhall be given to my Lord and Saviour for his Inheritance, and the ut moft Parts of the Earth for his Poffeffion

-Oh thou who art the Head over all Things to thy Church, may thy Kingdom come: Come Lord Jefus, come quickly; let thy Way be known upon Earth, thy faving Health among all Nations"; fo that the Kingdoms of the World becoming the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Chrift, God's Will may be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Y.--- Haften that bleffed Time, when Men fhall beat their Swords into Plough - Shares, and their Spears into Pruning-Hooks, neither shall they learn War any more, nor hurt nor deftroy in all thy holy Mountain; but the Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb, and the Leopard fhall lie down with the Kid, and the Calf and the young Lion together, and a little Child fhall lead them: And the Cow and the Bear fhall feed, their young ones fhall lie down together; and the Lion fhall eat Straw like the Ox, and the jucking Child

(n) Pfal. lxxii, 8. (0) Isaiah xi, 11. (p) Ifaiah xi, 11, 12. (q) Pfal. ii, 8. (r) Eph. i. 22. (f) Matth. vi, 10. (t) Rev. xxii, 20. (u) Pfal. lxvii, 2. (x) Rev. xi, 15. (y) Matth,

vi, 10.

(a) Ifaiah ii, 4.

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fhall play on the Hole of the Afp, and the weaned Child fall put his Hand on the Cockatrice Den". Then fhall be Peace upon Earth indeed, and good Will towards Men: They fhall come to Zion with Songs, and everlasting Joy upon their Heads; they fhall obtain foy and Gladnefs, and Sorrow and Sighing fhall flee away.

O may thy holy Doctrine take deep Root in the Hearts of all thofe who profefs themselves the Subjects of our great MESSIAH; and may they all adorn it in their Life and Converfation! May we be all fitted and prepared to meet our King and our Judge in that great Day which is appointed for the general Judgment of all the Earth! When the Son of Man fhall come from Heaven in his Glory, and all his holy Angels with him, and the Trumpet shall found e loud enough to awaken the Dead: When all the little Diftinctions among Mortals shall have no longer Place, but the Rich and Great, as well as the Poor and Mean, fhall be fummon'd to appear before the Judgment Seat of Chrift Kings and Princes and Nobles fhall ftand upon a Level with the meaneft Beggar; High and Low, Rich and Poor, one with another ff: When the Son of Man fhall fet up his Throne, high I exalted in the Air, and determine the ever-.. lafting Fate of all Mankind.---O tremendous and terrible Day of the Lord! O glorious and auguft Affembly! How dreadful to all wicked Men, when the Lord fhall come to take Ven

(b) Isaiah xi, 6, &c. (c) Luke ii, 14. (d) Ifaiah xxxv, 19. (e) Matth. xxv, 31. (ee) 1 Cor. xv, 52. (f) 2 Cor. v, 10. (ff) Pial, xlix, 2. (8) Matth. xxv, 31,

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geance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of cur Lord Jefus Chrift, who fhall then be condemned by an irrevocable Sentence, Depart from me ye curfed into everlasting Fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels1: How will their Hearts melt, and their Knees then fmite together? How will they call in vain on the Mountains to fall on them, and the Hills to cover them1? Remorfe and Despair will ever prey upon them; they will be given up to wailing and gnashing of Teeth, and not be able to obtain fo much as one Drop of Water to cool their Tongues, tormented in the Flame ". They that would not that Christ should reign, over them, and be willing Subjects of his Kingdom, fhall be for ever forced to abide under the Dominion of the Devil, and be fubject to his Reign and Tyranny for ever and

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But the Righteous fhall ftand with great Boldnefs in that Day, fecure and happy in His Favour and Protection, who has put down all oppofite Rule and Dominion, and all Authority and Power P, and fubdued all his and their Enemies, Sin, and Death, and Hell. Their Trial is at an End, their Warfare is accomplifhed, and now the Time of Recompence and Reward is come; not for any Works of Righteoufnefs which they have done, but by the infinite Mercies of God, thro' the abun

[h] 2 Theff. i, 8. [i] Matth. xxv, 41. [1] Luke xxiii, 30. [m] Matth. xiii, 42. 24. [0] Ibid. xix, 27. [p] 1 Cor.xv, 24. [r] Tit. iii, 5.

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dant Merits of their Redeemer, their Judge, and their King; for whofe Sake their imperfect Righteoufnefs fhall be accepted and rewarded: Their Redeemer cometh, and his Reward is with him, and his Work before him1. He will invite and receive them to come unto him, and dwell with him in Glory.---Come ye bleed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the World': They fhall be caught up into the Air, and be ever with the Lord": They fhall be advanced to Thrones, and Crowns, and Kingdoms,---to an exalted Happinefs but faintly fhadowed out by fuch Descriptions ;--to an Happiness that Eye hath not feen, nor Ear heard, nor is the Heart of Man able to conceive: No Speech can utter, no Language can defcribe the Happinefs of him whom God delights to honour; but every one fo honoured may truly fay of that confummate Blifs, as the Queen of Sheba did of Solomon, It was a true Report that I heard of thee in mine own Land, and behold the half was not told unto me": -This Honour have all

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God's Saints; and none but Saints, none but holy, righteous Perfons, are entitled to it; none but fuch are capable of fharing in the Merits of our bleffed Redeemer, of relifhing the Happiness of Heaven: Without Holiness no Man fhall fee the Lord.----O that we may therefore, in this our Day, know the Things that belong to our Peace, before they are hidden from

[f] Isaiah xl, 10. [t] Matth. xxv, 34. [u] 1 Theff. iv, 17. [x] 1 Cor. ii, 9. [y] Efther vi, 11. [2] 1 Kings x, 6. [a] Pfal. cxlix, 9. [b] Heb. xii, 14.

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