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&c. And at last, "Having a Form of Godliness, "but denying the Power thereof; from fuch turn "away;

"For of this fort are they which creep into "Houses, and lead away Captive filly Women "laden with fins, led away with divers Lufts;

"Ever Learning, and never able to come to the "Knowledge of the Truth."

And then he adds, "But they fhall proceed no further, for their Folly fhall be made manifeft "unto all Men.

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Of the fane St. Peter fays, "But there were "False Frophe's alfo among the People, even "as there fhall be falfe Teachers among you, who "privily fhall bring in Damnable Herefies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring themselves fwift Deftruction.

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"And many shall follow their Pernicious Ways, by means of whom the VVay of Truth shall be " evil spoken of.

"And thro' Covetousness fhall they with feigned "Words make Merchandize of you, whose Judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and

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And afterwards, "Having Eyes full of Adul- 2 Pet. II. "tery, and that cannot cease from fin, Beguiling "Unstable Souls; an heart they have exercifed with Covetous Practices, Curfed Children, 1. " And he clofes thus,

"For when they speak great Swelling Words "of Vanity, they allure through the Lufts of the "Flesh, thro' much Wantonness, those that were "clean efcaped from them who live in Error.

"While they promise them Liberty, they "themselves are the Servants of Corruption; for "of whom a Man is Overcome, of the fame is "he brought in Bondage:

"For if after they have Efcaped the Pollutions "of the World, thro' the Knowledge of the "Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, they are again

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Entangled therein and Overcome, the latter End "is worfe with them than the beginning.

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"For it had been better for them Not to have "known the Way of Righteousness, than after they "have known it, to turn from the Holy Command❝ment delivered unto them.

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for the Period when, Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty Five Days; which agrees perfectly with St. John's Declaration,

"Bleffed and Holy is he that hath Part in the "first Refurrection, on fuch the fecond Death. "hath no Power, but they fhall be Priefts of "God and of Chrift, and fhall Reign with him. "a Thousand Years. "

As the next Verfe of Daniel, does with the reft of St. John's Defcription of the fame Reign of a Thousand Years.

Daniel ends thus, "But go thou thy way till "the End be, för thou fhalt reft, and tand in cc thy. Lot at the End of the Days.

And St. John fays, " And I faw Thrones,. 4. "and they fate upon them, and Judgment was. "given unto them, and I faw the Souls of them "that were Beheaded for the Witness of Jesus, "and for the Word of God, and which had not "Worshipped the Beast, neither kis Image, neither "had received his Mark upon their Fore-beads

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or in their Hands, and they Lived and Reigned "with Chrift a Thousand Years.

"But the rest of the Dead Lived not again, Rev. xx. "until the Thousand Tears were finished, this

is the first Refurrection.

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This is the Lot that Daniel is promised to ftand in, at the End of the Days.

And this is agreable to St. Paul's Defcription, to the Theffalonians.

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"But I would not have you to be Ignorant, 1 Ther. "Brethren, concerning them which are a Sleep, IV. 13.

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that ye Sorrow not, even as others which have no Hope" (that is, no Revealed Religion which intitles them to the Promise of a Refurrection;) He goes on,

"For if we believe that Jefus dyed and rose "again, even fo them alfo which Sleep in Jefus "will God bring with him.

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"For this we fay unto you by the Word of 15 "the Lord, that we which are alive, and remain "unto the coming of the Lord, fhall not pre"vent them which are asleep;

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"For the Lord himfelf fhall defcend from "Heaven, with a Shout, with the Voice of "the Arch-Angel, and with the Trump of God, "and the Dead in Chrift fhall rife firft. "

This Trump of God is the fame with The Voice Rev.x.7. of the Seventh Angel, which," when he fhalp "begin to found, the Mystery of God fhould "be finished, as he hath declared to his Servants "the Prophets."

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And when "the Seventh Angel Sounded, "there were great Voices in Heaven, faying, "The Kingdoms of this. World are become the Kingdons of our Lord and of his Chrift, and he fhall Reign for ever and ever.

"And the Four and Twenty Elders which "fate before God on their Seats, fell upon their "Faces and Worshipped God.

"Saying, We give thee Thanks, O Lord "God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art "to come, because Thou haft taken to Thee "Thy great Power, and haft Reigned.

"And the Nations were Angry, and Thy "Wrath is come, and the Time of the Dead,

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