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The future promised advancement of the kingdom of Christ is an event unspeakably happy and glorious. The Scriptures speak of that time as a time wherein God and his Son Jesus Christ will be most eminently glorified on earth; a time wherein God, who till then had dwelt between the cherubims, and concealed Himself in the holy of holies, in the secret of His tabernacle, behind the veil, in the thick darkness, should openly shine forth, and all flesh should see His glory, and God's people in general have as great a privilege as the high priest alone had once a year, or as Moses had in the mount, wherein the temple of God in heaven should be opened and there should be seen the ark of His testament; a time wherein God will be greatly glorified and the saints made unspeakably happy in the view of His glory; a time, wherein God's people should not only once see the light of God's glory, as Moses, or see it once a year with the high priest, but should dwell and walk continually in it, and it should be their constant daily light, instead of the light of the sun, which light should be so much more glorious than the light of the sun or moon, that the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed when the Lord of Hosts should reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, before His ancients gloriously.

It is represented as a time of vast increase of knowledge and understanding, especially in divine things; a time wherein God would destroy the face of the covering cast over all people and the veil spread over all nations. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge. And they shall no more teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying 'Know the Lord' because they shall all know Him from the least to the greatest. A time of general holiness. Thy people shall be all righteous. A time of great prevailing holiness, when little children should, in spiritual attainments, be as though they were a hundred years old. Wherein he that is feeble among God's people should be as David. A time wherein holiness should be, as it were, inscribed on everything, on all men's common utensils of life, all shall be dedicated to God, and improved to holy purposes. Her

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merchandize and hire shall be holiness to the Lord. A time wherein religion and true Christianity shall, in every respect, be uppermost in the world; wherein God will cause His church to arise and shake herself from the dust, and inherit the throne of glory. A time wherein vital piety shall take possession of thrones and palaces. A time of wonderful union, and the most universal peace, love and sweet harmony, wherein the nations shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and God will cause wars to cease to the ends of the earth. A time wherein all heresies and false doctrines shall be exploded, and all superstitious ways of worship shall be abolished. A time wherein there shall be great and wonderful joy throughout the earth. . .82