Having endeavored to mention, in the foregoing discourse, some of those times which shall be fulfilled at Antichrist's fall, and at the church's entry into her Millennial rest, I am now,
II. To describe the Church's happy condition during the thousand years of her glory and purity.
1. The Holy Scriptures and the preaching of the Gospel, accompanied with Divine influence, shall then be enjoyed by all nations.
2. The kingdom of Christ shall then be erected, and the pure worship of God shall be celebrated in all nations.
3. God's ancient people, the Jews, shall then flourish in the midst of the earth, as an holy and prosperous Christian church.
4. Great purity shall be obtained both in the civil and ecclesiastic constitutions and administrations which shall then exist in the world.
5. Universal and permanent peace, both among the nations of the earth and the churches of the living God, shall then be maintained.
6. The number of the world's inhabitants and of God's saints, shall then be exceeding great.
7. The holiness, the religious exercises and blessedness of the saints, shall then be of the most exalted order.
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