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instead of which we look for a new Chri-Ch t -n* tate * wherein all provision is made byto ^ ^° r Righteousness to inhabit,accordingthe Promile of Christ concerning the Pu-^tat l ^ at ^ould plant in the Evangelical

r he makes out and confirms this Pa-Phrase, ste in his Annotations upon this!j? Ce - So confident is he of the Truth ofls his Interpretation, that he censures ther Ua l one as a great Mistake, in his Annota -is? ° n ver f e ro.where he thus writes; Wliar^ here thus expresled by 8. Peter , is ordina-ry conceived to belong to the end of the, 0r ld, and by others applied to the end ofUs World, and the beginning of the Millen-1^, or thousand years. And so, as S.Peter^ ere laith, verse 16. many other places in• *W’s Epistles, and in the Gospel, especi-Matthew 14. are mistaken and wrested.

1 "at it doth not belong to either of tho'e,^ to this fatal day of the Jews, iuflicient-y Appears by the purport of this whole E-which is, to arm them with Constan-^apd Perseverance till that day come; andj/'tstcularly , in this Chapter , to confutewho object against the Truth of Christ’sre dictions, and relolve tt should not come^ a h : Against whom he here oppoles theAttainty, the Speedinefs, and the Terrible*

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