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shall break in pieces, and consume all those kingdoms, and
it shall stand for ever. This may be verified, in some
measure, by the first coming of our Saviour in the
days of the 4th kingdom; when his Religion from
small beginnings, in a short time overspread the greatest part of the known World. As the stone cut out
without hands, became a great mountain and filled the
whole Earth. But the full and final accomplishment of
this Prophecy cannot be till the second coming of our
Saviour. For not till then, will he break in pieces and
consume all those kingdoms; and that in such a manner,
that they shall become like the chaff of the Summer threshing-floor, carried away by the wind: so as no place shall
be found for them. This, I say, will not be done, nor
an everlasting Kingdom erected in their place, over
all the Nations of the Earth, till his Second Coming,
and his Millennial Reign.
But this Reign is declared more expresly, in the
Vision of the four Beasts, chap. 7. For after the destruction of the fourth Beast, the Prophet says, I saw
in the night, Visions, and behold one like the Son of man,
came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient
of days, and they brought him near before him: And there
was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that
all people, nations, and languages should serve him: His
dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass
away: and his kingdom that which shall not be destroy'd.
Accordingly he says, ver. 21, 22. The last Beast and the
little Horn made war against the Saints, until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the Saints of
the most High; and the time came that the Saints possessed the kingdom. And lastly, in pursuit still of the same
argument, he concludes to the same effect in fuller
words, ver. 26, 27. But the Judgment shall sit, and they
shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it
unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be
given to the people of the Saints of the most High: whose
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions
shall serve and obey him.
Here is the end of the matter: says the Prophet. Here
is the upshot and result of all. Here terminate both
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