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then) on their minds;'' which i% the day of the rising of the sun, when accordingly we find them dest^at* ed aa kinga. And erto we vbo have bad ftith fivcn u& to believe inChnat under the prcse dtspensatton have the same style ^Tcn to na the flrat chapter of the Apocalypse! " U; who loved ua and washed tis from our sins in own blood, and made us to be kings and prieisi unto our Uod," And the saints in glory ado the aamcstylc; adding to it, " and we shall re with him on the earth ;" which hath led some believe that the risen saints are the kinga fi the rising of the sun* But to prepare the way such would require no wasting away of Buphrat for when they come they will come in the g and irrcsiatible strength of the resurrection, wfai 6eah and blood can nerer withstand. Ptfrh the strongest reexon of all for using thia of the Jewish pci^ple la derired from famous prophecy of the firo monarchies, the progress of the Lord's proridence is set fbrA m on f Ufi TKN TftlBRI. ■HM ufKJer the Hgufe of a great colossal ima^; whose ticud uf gold was Nebticliih()iie//^r'» lcm|*:tloin, and hia breast and arms of silver tlio Persian, atid his belly and ihigh* of brass the Greek, and his legs &ad tiia toes of iron and clay the Roman ter- ritory in the ten Gothic kiagdoma, Thi3 i»tatue is [K>w in the tnca : and in the battle of Amut^od^ don, the&e and ai) the rcatof it ar^ ground into dust by the sniiting of the stone cut out without hands : sAer which it U said ttiat the God of liea- TCQ shall set up a kintj^dom which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom hUqU not be left to other people, but it shall brctnk in piccc<» and con- sume all their kingdoms, and it shall stand for even And who the rulers of thi-i tiflh kingdutii tire, we are told inthevi&ion of the four lieasts, which repre^ sents the «ame fourfold succc^don of brutal power. After wbieb it is sfud, that the kiREfdom, and do- minion, and greatness of the kingdom und<r the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdnni. Atidaigaii>, thennintaofthe Most Hi^h f^hall take the kingdom, and shull pos* s>e53 the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. Ibis is the kingdom of God to which the Jews looked, and of which they inquired in the days of our Lord : to which IhL^y still look, and which aball be given them as surely as it is written every- urbere in the word of God. To them therefore be- longs tbo fitatc of kinjrs, if it belonged to the Babylonian head of gold^