stone thrown into the sea." But Antichrist will not wholly be destroyed till the end of this world. The seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent will both grow together until the harvest; and the harvest is the end of this world. That wicked (Antichrist) the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. "He will not be destroyed before the coming of our Savior; and that will not be till the end of the world. For the heavens must receive him until the times of restitution of all things; that is, the renovation of the world." Moreover, his coming will be in flaming fire, 2 Thess. i. 7, 8, and therefore we are not to look for it till the conflagration; “in which flames Antichrist will be universally destroyed. Agreeably to John's representation of the worshippers of the beast, they are tormented with fire of Babylon, her smoke rose up-the smoke of her burning—and of the beast and false prophet, these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And in the same manner Daniel describes the final destruction of Antichrist, or the beast; his body was given to the burning flame-that fiery stream which issued and came forth from before the Lord, when, as in the vision, he approached to judgment, and the books were opened. As, therefore, Christ and Antichrist cannot reign together; and as Antichrist will not he destroyed till the end of this world; it follows, that the promised kingdom of Christ will be in the world to come.*

*"First, the monarchs and great men of the world. are to have their time here; and then Christ's time, and the time of his saints, is to begin; when the kingdoms of

Again, the future kingdom of Christ will not be till the judgment and the resurrection; but they will not be till the end of this world: therefore, neither the kingdom of Christ. By the judgment here, we do not mean the final and general judgment; nor, by the resurrection, the last and universal resurrection: but we mean that judgment called the battle of that great day of God Almighty, and that resurrection called the first resurrection.* That the millennium will not be till the judgment and resurrection, in this sense, we have the testimony of both Daniel and John. In Daniel, chap. vii., the beast is

this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and the time of the dead will come, that they should be judged: when this world's hour-glass is run out, then that of another world is to be turned up to run. when there shall be a new heaven and a new earth."

DR. GOODWIN.

God saw fit to allot this world, called the times of the Gentiles, to his enemies, to rule and reign; but the far more glorious world to come, called the times of restitution of all things, he has reserved for his friends. These were the sentiments of this great divine. See Expo. pages 19, 20.

*The millenarians hold, that, in the millennial day, there will be a morning and an evening resurrection and judgment, each, together with other most solemn and glorious scenes, included in that great and dreadful day of the Lord. "The seventh trumpet, with the whole space of one thousand years thereto appertaining, sigui. fying the great day of judgment, circumscribed within two resurrections, beginning at the judgment of Antichrist, as the morning of that day, and continuing during the space of one thousand years granted to New Jerusa lem (the spouse of Christ) upon earth, till the universal resurrection and judgment of the dead." MR. J. MEDE.

supposed to live and rule till judgment shall sit, and then they shall take away his dominion, and it shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. And Rev. xx. 4, thrones were set, as for a judicature, and they who in Daniel are said to take away the dominion of the beast sat upon them. Judgment being ready to commence, there was a resurrection from the dead; "and those that rise reigned with Christ a thousand years. Here is a judicial session; a resurrection and the reign of Christ joined together.” In the same manner, the judgment, the kingdom of Christ, and the reward of the saints, are joined together in the eleventh chapter of Revelation. "And the seventh_angel_sounded, and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great." "Here the judging of the dead, and the kingdom of Christ, wherein the prophets and saints are rewarded, are plainly expressed and linked together; but the judging of the dead is not in this life, neither is the reward of the prophets and saints in this life; as we are sufficiently taught in the word of God; therefore the reign and kingdom of Christ, which are joined with these things, cannot be in this life, or before the end of the world. And, as a farther testimony and confirmation of this, we may observe, that Paul to Timothy hath joined together these three things: the appearance of

Christ, the reign of Christ, and the judging of the dead: I charge thee, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdom, 2 Tim. iv. 1."

Once more: "The new Jerusalem state is the same with the millennial state; but the new Jerusalem will not be till the end of the world, or till after the conflagration; therefore neither the millennium."

"That the new Jerusalem state is the same with the millennium, is generally agreed upon by millenaries, ancient and modern. Justin Martyr, Ireneus, and Tertullian, speak of it in that sense; and so do the later authors. And for this they have good authority; for John said the camp of the saints, and the beloved city, were besieged by Satan" and his Gog at the end of the millennium. That beloved city is the new Jerusalem; and the camp of the saints is that holy assembly. "Besides, the marriage of the Lamb was in, or at the appearance of, the new Jerusalem; for that was the spouse of the Lamb, Rev. xxi. 2. Now this spouse was ready, and this marriage was said to be come, at the destruction of Babylon, before or at the beginning of the millennium, chap. xix. 7; therefore the new Jerusalem ran all along with the millennium, and was, indeed, the same thing under another

name.

And what is this new Jerusalem, if it be not the same with the millennial state? It is promised as a reward to the suffering saints of Christ, Rev. iii. 12, and you see its wonderful privileges, chap. xxi. 3, 4; and yet it is not heaven above,

for it is said to come down from God out of heaven, chap. xxi. 2, and chap. iii. 12. It can, therefore, be nothing but the glorious kingdom of Christ upon earth, where the saints shall reign with him a thousand years. And "that the new Jerusalem will not come down from heaven till the end of the world, we have this plain proof: John places it in the new heavens rand new earth, which come after these are passed away, Rev. xxi. 1, 2. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. When the new earth was made he saw the new Jerusalem coming down upon it; and this renovation of the earth not being till the conflagration, the new Jerusalem could not be till then neither. Isaiah, long before, had said the same thing, though not in terms so express. He first says, Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, wherein you, my servants, shall rejoice; then subjoins, Behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, Isa. xlv. This rejoicing is still in the same place; in the new heavens and new earth, or in the new Jerusalem. And John, in a like method, first sets down the new earth, then the new Terusalem, and expresses the sense of the prophet more distinctly."

Therefore, let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; let the fields be joyful, and all that is therein; let the trumpets sound before the Lord the King; for he cometh to judge the earthto