of R 'E LIG I 'O N. / II9 of divine J udgtnent, referved to th~fe · laft Times, when a1nore imtnediate Ap- • pearance of :,the Lord will be feen, than in any former Deliverances of his Church. . . III. It is no conjeClural Thing, but I what /by a clear Scripture ConduCt, we 1nay fee, that this Ti!ne of the Church , now, u~1der fo notable a Crifis in her Cafe,· is e'vidently falling u11der that re– tnarkable Affault and ConfliCt with-that Adverfary, before the accomplifhing of that Vial on his Seat and Throne, asr we may fee, Rev. xvii. I 3, 14. That \V hen fo confpicuous aStep of the Church'sVi– c1ory is near ;· the Oppofition thereto alfo \vill be in fon1e &higher Degree pro– portionable ·to the fame, when the great Men of the Earth, and fuch · who fball receive Power as Kings, one Hour with - the Beaft, fliall have one 1\t1ind, and give their Power and Strength 'thereto, and . fhall1nake War with the Lamb, but the Latnb ·£hall overco1ne thetn," for he is King of Kings, and Lord of /Lords, C§'c~ " Nor is it found through the Scriptu.7;e~ where the Lord hath done any great · Thing for his Church, b,ut fotne unufual Darknefs1 and fo~e Wreftlings have ftill gone . .
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