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ing life and happiness. These are the faints of the Moft High, who, under the

Meffiah, are to be the lords and governors of the rest of the world; thefe are they to whom the kingdom, and dominion, • and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given, who shall take it, and poffefs the kingdom for ever. Dan. vii. 18, 27.' that is, till the end ' of the kingdom of the Meffiah, by whose appointment they will reign in fubordination to him.

Such will be the great happiness of thofe who fhall be found worthy to partake of this refurrection.' For the reft "of the dead are not to live again, till the "thousand years" of fabbath or reft, under the Meffiah, "be finished;" See John's Apocalypfe xx. v. when," as I have repeatedly remarked, "he fhall deliver up "the kingdom to God who gave it, that

"God may be all in all." be all in all." See I Cor. xv.

28. "For thine," Jehovah, "is the king"dom, the power, and the glory, for ever "throughout

throughout all ages world without end." To thee therefore alone," the God of the

fpirits of all flesh, God and Father," as well" of our Lord Jefus Chrift," as of his fellow men, who "haft bleft us with all

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fpiritual bleffings in Chrift," be addrest all worship, prayer, praife, and thankfgiving, by all thy rational creatures, through the boundless duration of eternity.

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Now at the beginning of this glorious ftate,' the millennium, 'there seems as if fome renovation would be made here, both

on the earth, and in the air or heavens; 'fuch an alteration will make them more healthy and more fruitful, without any of thofe inclemencies they are now fub'ject to, and therefore they are called by

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the name of new heavens and a new

earth, Isaiah lxv. 17, 18. in oppofition to their present state.

As to the state and condition of the rest ' of mankind, still living in the various parts of the world, we find, that the earth shall

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be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the • waters cover the fea. Ifaiah xi. 9. So that the practice of virtuewill appear truely amiable, and a life fuitable thereto, will be enforced by the ftrongeft arguments, and by the nobleft examples; and true religion and virtue will very probably greatly prevail. And it is of thefe times we 'think, God by his prophet Malachi i. 11. fpeaks, faying, from the rifing of the fun even unto the going down of the fame, my name fhall be great among the Gentiles, &c. The confequence of this will be, (as long as mankind fhall continue to be good and virtuous) the happy enjoyment of every bleffing, with health and long life. Ifaiah lxv. 20. and the greatest plenty and profperity.

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• Thus fhall univerfal peace and happiness • flourish in the world, free from thofe terri⚫ble deftructions and calamities, thatwafting and defolation which the rulers of this

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world, from pride, ambition, or revenge, now spread among mankind: For during • these

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thefe laft times there fhall be no more

war,

the peaceful kingdom of the Meffiah • fhall be established over the whole earth,

⚫ and all nations fhall go up at proper feafons to Jerufalem, to the throne of the Lord, to worship before him at his holy mountain, and to receive his laws and com'mands, It shall come to pass in the laft days, that the mountain of the Lord's houfe 'fhall be established, &c. and many people fhall go and fay, let us go up to the mountain

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of the Lord, &c. and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion fhall go forth the law, &c. And he fhall judge among the nations, &c. and they shall beat their fwords into ploughshares, • &c. Nation fhall not lift up fword against *nation, &c. But they fhall fit every man under his vine, &c. Ifaiah ii. 2. 3. 4.

• Micah iv. 1 to 5.

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And now even the noxious animals will become harmlefs, and the wild beafts of

prey no longer devour. The wolf and the

lamb fhall feed together, &c. &c. The 'fucking

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my holy mountain: Isaiah lxv. 25. xi. 6 to

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So that all nature will put off the deformity and confufion of its present state,

and be restored to the purity, fplendor, and beauty of the first creation. This opens a new scene worthy of the attention

of every good and beneficent mind, to find • a reftitution and renovation of the first times before Adam's tranfgreffion, new heavens and a new earth, the habitation of the righteous, crowned with everlasting glory and honor, and univerfal peace and harmony reftored throughout the whole 6 creation.'

I have now finished my copious extracts from this ufeful treatife, diftinguished by inverted commas, from my additions to, and remarks on them. They feem well adapted, my Jewish friends, to co-operate with my arguments in producing those defirable happy effects, your general converfion to the faith, that Jefus was the

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