120 q be_ cotifirnzing ff/ork ~ gone before, and fhould be no Matter of - fiaggering to _· our Faith, (whatev_er it pe of .prefent Fears,) to fee fo dif1nal a _ '"fitne of Trial as no\v is, and an1azing _Heighth of Trouble beyond what fanner Times have knovvn, wqen one of the greateft Events of Prov-id~nce in Behalf of t}:le Church, fince the revealing ·of Chrift to . tl)e World, until his fecond _ colrling, is affuredly near in the Fall and Overtbrow of the Man of Sin. IV. We have clear . Gruund alfo to judge, that fo great an Eclipfe, as feems - altnoft univerfally over the State of the ' RefOnned Churches, is no going down of _the S_un thereon, {l-vhatever did befal/ the m-oft fa1nous Eaftern Churches to an ut– ter D.iffipation thereof;) if thefe different Periods of Titne he ·juflly confidered, / l1ovv tneir Sun ~ fet did then fall in with the Entry of that great Apoftacy of the Chriftian Church, and with -that long and difmal Night of Antichrift's Reign ; whjlfi: now this. Hour of Trial on the .. Churches, coth' tneet in that hleffed Pe– riod of Antichrift's begu'n Fall, and of a growing Light of the Gofpel, and when the Scripture fo - clearly warrants our ·:Faith herein, that the Work of Provi– t' dence
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