we find in the Prophet Ifaiah, when he defcribes "the Covering caft over all People, and the

Vail that is spread over all Nations.

"But God will deftroy it, and, wipe away

"Tears from all Faces, and the Rebuke of his People fhall he take away from all the Earth.

There would then be fome by whom it "should be faid in that Day, We have waited "for him, and he will fave us. And again,

Ifa. xxv.

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"In the way of thy Judgments, O Lord, Ifa.xxvi. "have we waited for thee, the defire of our Soul is to thy Name, and to the Remembrance of thee.

"With my Soul have I defired thee in the Night, yea, with my Spirit within me will I 9 "feek thee early, for when thy Judgments are: "in the Earth, the Inhabitants of the World "will learn Righteousness.

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"Let Favour be fhewed to the Wicked, yet 10 ❝will he not learn Righteousness, in the Land "of Uprightness will he deal Unjustly, and will "not behold the Majefty of the Lord.'

"Lord,' when thine Hand is lifted up, they 11.

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Dan. XI. 34.

"will not fee, but they fhall fee, and be "afhamed for their Envy at the People, yea, "the Fire of thine Enemies fhill devour them.

Here are the Wife and the Wicked, and those that cleave to the Wife with Flatteries, and their final Deftruction, when the Time of the End comes, when the Ten Horns themfelves shall hate Rev. xvii. 16. the Whore and eat her Flesh, and all that are her open or fecret Friends, which Isaiah calls the Fire of thine Enemies devouring the Wicked in the Land of Uprightness.

Rev. vii.

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But the most exact Commentary upon Daniel, as on all other occafions, fo on this 10th Verfe of the XII Chapter of that Prophet, is in St. John's Revelations, where he fees

"Another Angel afcending from the East, having the Seal of the Living God, and he cryed with a loud Voice to the four Angels, "to whom it was given to hurt the Earth, and "the Sea,

Saying, Hurt not the Earth, neither the "Sea, nor the Trees, till we have Scaled the "Servants of our God in their Foreheads.

" And

And I heard the Number of them which "were Sealed, and there were Sealed an Hundred and Forty and Four Thousand of all the Tribes of the Children of Ifrael. And here it might be proved, if the compass of this Treatife would permit it, that these One Hundred and Forty and Four Thousand are the fame with the Two Witnesses in Sackcloth.

Rev. vii.

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Rev. xi.

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IX. 4.

So far there were but few that Underflood, who are likewise mentioned in Ezekiel, when the Lord faid unto the Man with the writers Ezek. Ink-horn, "Go through the midst of the City, "through the midst of Jerufalem, and fet a "Mark upon the Fore-heads of the Men that Sigh, and that Cry for all the Abominations "that be done in the midst thereof.

"And to the others he faid, in mine hearing, "Go ye after him through the City, and "fmite, let not your Eyes fpare, neither have ye Pity.

"Slay utterly Old and Young, both Maids and little Children and Women, but come not "near any man upon whom is the Mark, and Q

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IX. 7.

Rev. vii.

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"begin at my Santuary, then they began at "the Ancient Men which were before the Houfe. "And he faid unto them, Defile the Houfe, " and fill the Courts with the Slain; Go ye forth, "and they went forth and Slew in the City. Where Ezekiel calls that Jerufalem and the City which St. John calls the Earth and the Sea, &c. viz. the Chriftian Roman Empire.

But afterwards St. John gives an account of a great Addition to this fmall Number, by which means there were in all,many that Understood, and were Wife.

"After this, I beheld, and lo, a great. Multi"tude, which no Man could Number of all "Nations, and Kindreds, and People, and "Tongues, ftood before the Throne, and before "the Lamb, Cloathed with White Robes, and "Palms in their Hands.

There follows a Doxology, or Thanksgiving from them, and then the Angel informs St John, «These are they which came out of great Tribulation, and have Wafhed their Robes "and made them. White in the Blood of the os. Lamb..

"There

“Therefore are they before the Throne of “God, and serve him Day and Night in his Temple, and he that fitteth on the Throne “shall dwell among them.

They fhall Hunger no more, neither Thirst any more, neither fhall the Sun light on them, Heat.

nor any

"For the Lamb which is in the midst of the "Throne, fhall feed them, and shall lead them unto living Fountains of Water, and God fhall "wipe away all Tears from their Eyes. '

Rev. VII

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Here is a plain Defcription of the Reforma tion, when great Multitudes washed their Robes, by Purifying their Worship, and came out of great Tribulation, by escaping the further Perfecution of the Church of Rome. Thus were the One Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty days of Tribulation fhortned for the Elects fake, who after Matth that, did not Hunger or Thirst after the Words of xxiv. 22. the Lord, nor were the Heat, or Sun to fmite viii. II. them after the Prifoners were to inherit the defolate. xlix. Heritages, or the Wilderness, and the Captives 8. 9. 10. of the Mighty, and the Prey of the Terrible 19. 25. delivered. Q 2

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