C. A P.9. touching Antichriff. 689 place you would prove, that 'the end Both follows immediately af= -ter that little Horn. But you fhould have confidered withal! what is Paid afterwards, verf. 14. Anddsminien, glory and Kingdom Was given unto him, that hefhould male all people, nations, and langua- oes toferve-him; Thefe wordsare meant ofhim that fhould defiroy the little Horn, and fhould be made an univerfall King, to whom all nations fhould dofervice, but what ? Shall there be any diftin±ion of people, nations and languages remaining after the laf! end ? and yet this is made more plaine, ifany thing can, he plainer, verf: 27. But the Kingdome and the .ample authority, and the government of Kingdomes, 'ballbe given to the people ofthe holy and high Saints, -Whofe Kingdom (hall be a perpetual! Kingdome, and all Rulers 'hall ferve it. Where it is firft of all tobe obferved, that the jurifdics}ion ofthis Kingdome (hall be ofthings under heaven, and then that it (hail be a Kingdome of the-holy and high Saints, and laftly that all Rulers fhall ferve this kingdome; which things cannot be applyed to the heavenly Kingdome. The matter is thus that is there meant that little Horn is theTurke, who being at length rooted our, the IeWes that flow all of them-univerfally to the faith of Chrift, (hall obtaine a perpetualldomirtïonthatMall continue until! the comming of -our Lord .front heaven.. Loathe little Horn in Daniel is Gog that is fpoken ofby Ezechiel, whobëing utterlyábolifhed, the Chriftian faith (hall flourifh ex- ceedingly in the peopleof the /ewes: as it is declared by that typi- call buildingof theTemple,.and the new City. The neW lerufalem fpokeri ofin this-book of he Revelation, that (hall be built after Gog is killed, tends to the fame end with this Prophecie in Daniel and that in Etechiel': of which we reade, Chap. so. and at of this booke. Thefe things we have learned partly out of the i6. Chap. of the Apocalypre; partly.they.íha;i be explained unto us more fully afterwards. And this is that which Latlantitu writeth, Book 7. Chap. 15. TheRomifh name andAuthority, (faith he) tereWith the Worldùnow ruled (racy heart trembleth tofpeake it, but yet IWill(peak, it, becatsfe it is a thing that 'hall be one day) (hall be taken away from theearth, and the Empire (hall returne into .Afia, and thé Eaft 'hall have the dominion once araine, and the weftfhall be in fub- - tíion. Your..fecond place is Rev. so. 4. After thefe things he mull be losfclffor afhort time, andIf WThrones, and they fate upon them, ami indge.. -
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