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in my people; and the voice of weeping fhall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There fhall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days; for the child fhall die an hundred years old; but the finner, an hundred years old, shall be accurfed. And they fhall build houfes, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They fhall not build, and another inhabit; they fhall not plant and another eat; for as the days of a tree are the days of my people; and mine elect fhall long enjoy the work of their hands. They fhall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the feed of the bleffed of the LORD,and their offspring with them." Here are five things mentioned which thofe fhall have who are born, and live in the thousand years of Christ's reign upon earth.

1. They will have a general time of rejoicing; the voice of weeping fhall be no more heard, nor the voice of crying, this is rentioned as peculiar to the Jews, but I do not think there will be any partiality in the king of glory. O what a time that will be when for one thoufand years, weeping and crying will be done away! This will be a time of general health; and if they need medicine, the leaves of the trees which will grow on the banks of the new river, which will run into the dead fea,will be for medicine, and for the healing of the nations.

2. There will be none die in infancy, "A child fhall die an hundred years old." From this it appears that a perfon an hundred years old will be confidered a child;

There fhall be no more thence an infant of days." If at that age they fin, the curfe of God will be on them, and they will die for their fin.

3. In this thousand years there will be a great plenty of every thing they need.

4. They will live to a very great age to enjoy the abundance which God will give them. Thofe who are raised, or changed at the coming of Chrift will not have these things; they will not marry nor be given in marriage; but thofe who are converted of the Jews, or other nations at the coming of Chrift on the earth,or are bora L

afterwards, will have thofe outward bleffings; the difference between them and the raifed and changed faints, then, will be like difference now between angels and faints on the earth now. But that the faints, particularly the twelve tribes will live to a great age in the thoufand years, is plain from this expreffion; "For as the days of a tree, are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands." Now all flesh is as grafs, and we are as the flower of grafs. It is altogether likely from this account, that people will live to as great an age as they did before the flood. But though they will live long; yet they must die, to rife again, when all hear the voice of the Son of God.

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5. I think it plain from one expreffion here, that women who bring forth children, will be delivered from that labor and trouble which is peculiar to them now. 23, "They fhall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble, for they are the feed of the bleffed of the LORD, and their offspring with them." I think this plainly fhews that they will not experience what they do now, and that they will not have the trouble of feeing all their labor and pain in vain, by the death of their children foon after they are born.

In this time there will be an amazing increase of the inhabitants of the earth in one thousand years, being delivered from wars, famine, peftilence, earthquakes, &c. It may be asked, where will there be room for them on the earth? The earth and fea will contain them all, før God has faid it. It must be remembered that at the coming of Chrift, the greatest part of the inhabitants will be flain, but few will remain, after the army of Gog is destroyed, and all the other enemies of Chrift are cut off. However numerous they are, the earth and fea will contain them, and yield a rich fupply for them all.

All these things which I have mentioned, are only the outward things of the kingdom of Chrift in the thousand years. I shall now mention fome of the inward bleffings, which will be peculiar to this thousand years we are now defcribing, which will be an eighth particular.

8. In this thousand years, there will be a general knowledge of Chrift and his ways all over the world; not only among the Jews, but among the Gentiles.

As it refpects the Jews, this is one thing contained in the new covenant ;-Hebrews viii. 11, "And they fhail not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, faying, know the Lord, for all fhall know me, from the leaft to the greateft." Ifaiah fpeaking of the Jews, after they return, fays, Isaiah liv. 13, "All thy children fhall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children." All these thus taught, will have the law of God in their hearts, which is love, and thus will they have a new and clean heart; being all righteous. This knowledge will not be confined to the Jews, though it will begin there, all nations will be taught by the fame teacher, Chrift, who like Solomon the king and preacher, will teach the nations his ways. Ifaiah i. 3, "And many people fhall go and fay, come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the houfe of the Lord; to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion fhall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerufalem."

This general knowledge of God and his ways, is particularly mentioned in Ifaiah xi. 9, "For the earth fhall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the fea." This is to be when the lion, the lamb, the cow, bear and little child, are all in harmony-See verse 6, 7, 8. What knowledge can be greater than this? Can any man meafure the fea? No. It will not only be general, but. great; if it is fuch a time as this now, as fome think, the feas in Ifaiah's time, were very narrow and fhoal.

The Lord,by Malichi, has given a fublime description of that happy day; Malichi i. 11, "From the rifing of the fun, even unto the going down of the fame, my name fhall be great among the Gentiles." In Habakkuk ii.14, The fame thing is mentioned; "For the earth fhall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the fea."

It may be asked how this knowledge will become fo great and extenfive? There are feveral ways in which it will be done.

1. Then, as now, Chrift who is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world, will not be a lefs light than he is now; for when he appears in perfon, at Jerufalem, it will certainly be known; for when he was here before, his fame was founded all abroad. It is faid of Solomon, 1 Kings iv. 31, 32, that his fame was in all the countries, that men were fent from all kings of the earth to hear his wisdom. "And his

fame was in all nations round about; and there came of all nations to hear the wifdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wifdom." At that time it will be faid, "Behold a greater than Sotomon is here."

2. Another thing will spread and increase the knowledge of God and Chrift in the world, and that is, the great victory which Christ will gain over his enemies all over the world, when he takes all their kingdoms from them, and rules in the midft of his enemies.

When the LORD told Ezekiel of the deftruction of Gog and his army, which will be gathered against Jerufalem when he comes; he told him that the confequence of it would be that many nations would know him to be God in the earth. Ezekiel xxxviii. 33, "Thus will I magnify myself, and fanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations; and they fhall know that I am the Lord." This makes the matter plain.

3. Another way in which knowledge will be increafed is, people will come from all parts of the world to Jerufalem, to learn the ways of God, as the queen of Sheba came to hear the wifdom of Solomon. This is mentioned in Zechariah viii. 22, "Yea, many people, and ftrong nations fhall come to feek the Lord of hofts in Jerufalem, and to pray before the Lord." See alfo Micah iv. 2.

4. There will be many to go from place to place to give information of the things of this one glorious kingdom in all the earth. Daniel xii. 4, "Many fhall run to and fro, and knowledge fhall be increafed." This is

to take place when Michael, the great prince, stands for the Jews, in the time of their great trouble. I think it proper here, for the inftruction of the reader, to make a few obfervations upon what is mentioned before this ver. In verse 1, 2, 3, of this chapter, are these words; "At that time, fhall Michael ftand up, the great prince that ftandeth for the children of thy people; and there fhall be a time of trouble, fuch as never was fince there was a nation, even to the fame time; and at that time thy people fhall be delivered, every one that fhall be found writ-ten in the book. And many of them that fleep in the duft of the earth fhall awake, fome to everlasting life, and fome to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wife fhall fhine as the brightnefs of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteoufnefs as the ftars

forever and ever."

This text has particular reference to the fecond com ing of Christ to reign on the earth. Michael means Chrift the Archangel, or prince of angels. We are told that he shall stand up for the Jews, when the king of the north fhall enter into the glorious land, (the land of Canaan) having a command of the treafures of Egypt, and the Lybians, and Ethiopians, are following him; it is faid, that he fhall come to his end, and none fhall help him. This is the fame army which Ezekiel mentions, with Gog at their head, who came from the north. See chap. xi. 41, 42, 43, 44, 45,

When this army comes into the land to take the Jews, it will be a time of great trouble; this has been mentioned in a former Sermon. Then Michael, will stand on the mount of Olives, for the Jews; he will be for them and not for their adverfaries. Then he will deliver all that are not cut off; called them that are written in the books. The fame as the third part mentioned in Zechariah.At this time we are told of the refurrection of the faints; and though the refurrection of the wicked is mentioned, yet it will not take place till after the thousand years. Paul in one place speaks of a refurrection of the juft and unjuft in one verfe; yet it is certain they will not both be at one time. We are told that thofe public faine,

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