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fhould give Reward unto thy Servants the "Prophets, and to the Saints, and them that "fear Thy Name, fmall and great, and fhouldft "Deftroy them which Deftroy the Earth.

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Here is an abftract of many of Gods paft Judgments, and a View of what was yet to come, and there the Prophets are mentioned as the firft that are to be Rewarded, and then the Rev. xx Saints, and laft of all, the Small and Great, who do not stand before God till the Thousand Tears are expired; and then all that have Deftroyed the Earth, firft the Beast and False Prophets, then 10. Satan, and laft Death and Hell will be deftroyed, as St. Paul expreffes it to the fame effect, when he fays,

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"For as in Adam all dye, even fo in Chrift 1 Cor. fhall all be made alive.

"But every Man in his own Order, Christ "the first Fruits, afterwards they that are Chrifts at his coming.

"Then cometh the End, when he shall have ❝ delivered up the Kighdom to God, even the "Fathe

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"Father, when he shall have put down all Rule, "and all Authority and Power.

"For he muft Reign till he hath put all XXV.25 « Enemies under his Feet.

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"The last Enemy that shall be Destroyed, is "Death."

Thus we fee in the order of Events, that the Prophets are part of those that are to be Rewarded firft, and are Chrifts at his Coming; and furely Daniel among them, at the end of the 1335 Days which if they begin with the Year 455 will end in the Year 1790.

SECT. XII

A Review of the Three Periods.

ND now that I have endeavoured to explain the Three Periods of 1260. 1290. and 1335 Days, I will only Obferve, That in thofe Places where they might be expected Principally to be mentioned, they are fufficiently diftinguifhed.

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The First Period is defcribed in the XII. Chap- Dan. xii. ter of Taniel, by Scattering the Holy People for 7. a Time, Times and a Half, in the VII. of Daniel VII. 25: in the Vision of the Four Beafts, by thinking to Change Times and Laws, which shall be given into his Hand, for a Time, Times and Dividing Rev. xi. of Time; and by St. John, by Treading down the Holy City Forty Two Months, and by the Mouth Speaking Blafphemies, having Power given. him to continue Forty Two Months,

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The Second Period is defcribed to laff from the taking away the Daily Sacrifice, and fetting up the Abomination that maketh Desolate One VII, 26. Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Days, in the XII., of Daniel, and in the VII. that Period is defcribed by The Judgment fitting to take away his Dominion.

Rev.xiv. Which is exactly agreeable to St. John's. De- 7.8. nunciation, That the Hour of Gods Judgment is come. Juft before the Angel fays, Babylon is XVI fallen, is fallen, which Babylon was only faid to

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have Come in Remembrance before God, to give unto her the Cup of the Wine of the Fierceness of his Wrath, at the Time of the Earth-quake. And that Earth-quake, in another place, follows the Rev. XI. Witneffes ftanding on their feet, and great Fear falling on them which faw them, after they had finished their Teftimony, which was to be performed in Sackcloth, during the One Thousand two hundred and fixty Tears. From all which it appears, that the 1260 Years were finished fome Time before Babylon's fall.

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And again, when Babylon is defcribed as Fallen, in another Chapter, it is faid,

Alas! alas! that great City, Babylon, that mighty City! for in one Hour is thy Judgment come. Which fuits exactly Daniel's defcription, in the VII. Chapter and 26th Verfe, and is the XVII, 10. Woman in the Wilderness with a Cup full of Abominations; which anfwers to the Abomination that maketh defolate, in the XII. Chapter of Daniel, at the 11th Verfe.

The Third and Laft Period is defcribed in the

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XII. Chapter of Daniel, by Blessed is he that Dan., waiteth and cometh to the One Thousand three Hundred and Thirty Five Days.

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Chapter, by Confuming and Destroying unto the VII, 26, End.

"And the Kingdom and Dominion, and the 27. * Greatness of the Kingdom under the whole "Heaven, being given to the People of the Saints "of the Moft High, whose Kingdom is an Everlafting Kingdom, and all Dominions fhall ferve "and obey him.”

And in St. John, this final Deftroying of the Little Horn, and setting up the Kingdom of the Saints, is thus described at the clofe of the Vifion of the Trumpets, after the account of Babylons fall, and the Smoke of her Torments afcending up e for ever and ever.

And I looked, and behold, a White Cloud, "and upon the Cloud fate one like unto the "Son of Man, having on his Head a Golden "Crown, and in his Hand a fharp Sickle,

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