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ather themselves unto banner which he will lift tip. This joy which feel ill understanding and interpreting the my»ter^ THE DAYIKO UF OF TRC CUmRATCS. 985 of his provifleitce, U a spiritual joy, because I know and am assured from the Apocalypse, that tbi!^ prcAt controversy between the kings of the Enst and the assembled nations, in the battle of the great day of God Almighty, is the sign of the rRcdecmer's advent Tvith all his saints; is the happy deliverance of his church from the oppressions of the world, of Satan, and of the grave; i» the re- demption of the creation from the bondage of cor- ruption ; is the manifestation of the sons of God, for which all the creation groaneth and is in bon- dage until now. I say, I rejoice, yea, and 1 will rejoice in these things; and in these things will call upon the church of Christ Ut rejoit^e along with mt% because they arc the end of all our hopes, and the burden of all our prayers, when we shall be for ever with the Lord, when we shall see him as he ifi» and know him even as wc arc known. 'ITiis is the consummation devoutly to be prayed for^'the destruction of Babylon, the destruction of Antichrist, the receiving of the Jews, the ful- ness of the Gentiles, and life from the dead ; when he shall begin to have mercy upon all, and the church shall no more be a despised and rejected few, but kings shall be her nursing fathers, and queens her nursing mothers, and her children shall be princes in all the earth. Is that not joy, is that not glory ? Can any discourse which bnngeth that before the eye of hope be but awe^t! Can any evidence which insurelh that he but welcome? Rejoice then, with me, that at the end of our first stage, in this our journey of discourse, we have been refreshed with sucEi glad and joyful tidings, that we have had opened to us such wells of salvation! 8 S TtJ£ DUViNQ UP Of TUR htJ|-UIUT&«* [ I .^* Uttving thus endiravDurcd to gatlier into o (bciii^ ih^rAyft, at' light whi<;li li« •caiuer«4 QV ibo U(>Iy Scriptui',^ <:oiKvriiii«<; Uio«e kin^r)^ fro the rising of the sun, who come up to tbe ^^ar ibe Sreftt day of God ^l]nkr(;hty« and shewn goo grounds forbclivviu" ttmltlicyaie thorfi-coUe^ JcwUh people, and ceit^ioly thnt they are t Uea(Ii» i}( some grt-at aniiy, winch. like Ju^k against the ten kiugs in GibeoQ, and David again the Avt king« in Peraztm, are to do the Ixrd service against Antichrist, and the ton confcd kin^9 of the Apo&ta^y. and for their faithfulo to witnc«5 their de»tnici)OQ by the breath