OF.

CHRIST's VISIBLE KINGDOM
W ORLD.

IN THIS

Aflerted, proved, and explained, in its two-fold Branches ; .
Firf Spiritual, Secondly Personal;

FROM
Above one hundred Texts out of the Old and New

Teftament. Or an Explanation of a multitude of
Scriptures, which contain or hold forth the King-
dom of Christ in them: And also shewing the Cer-
tainty of its near Approach (it is to be hoped
in this Generation) from many undeniable Scrip-
ture-Signs.

i

By JOSEPH PER R y, an unworthy Servant

in the Work of the Gospel.

Dan. vii. 27. And the Kingdom and the Dominion, and the Greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven, Mall be given to the People of the Saints of the Most High, whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and all Dominion shall serve and obey him.

NORTH AMPTON:
Printed by R. Raikes and W. Dicey, for the Author, 1721.

DY Reason of my being often abfent, and not that Care

D taken as there ought to have been at the Press, there following Faults have esca ped; besides the Misplacing of some Points, which the patient Reader is desired to cover with the Mantle of Christian Love, the other to correct as followeth: i co

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IT is recorded in Honour to the Noble Berears,
I more than those . of Thessalonia, in that they
received the Word of God with all Readiness of
Mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether
those Things were so. Certainly this Honour bę.
cometh all the Saints, whose Duty it is to read
and search the Scriptures, and not with Indifier-
ency pass by any Part of God's Word, especially
(next to our Salvation, that great Doctrine of the
Coming and Kingdom of Christ. Doth our Lord
say, in Rev. i. 3. (for the Encouragement of his
People) Blessed is he that rzadeth, and they that hear
the Words of this Prophecy, and keep those Things
which are written therein ; for the Time is at hand?
Then surely it evidently appears to be both the
Duty and Privilege of the Children of God to hear,