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Of the Dissolution

1. The Suddenness of Christ’s coming,

27. lightning comes out of the *

ttnd shineth even unto the West, so pud Vcoming of the Son of Man le. 2. The Sig nof his coming, verse 29. Immediately up ethe tribulation of those days shall the Sundarkned , and the Moon shall not givelight, and the Stars shall fall from Heav ^'and the powers of Heaven shad le pP 1 *',3. The manner ot his coming, verse zo ^then (hall appear the fgn of the Son of M& n jHeaven; and then shad all the Tribes of t fEarth mourn, when they shall see the Sou st.Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven jpower and great glory. And he shadhis Angels with a great found of a Trumps'and they st hill gather together his Elefl st 1the four Winds, f -om one end of HeavMthe other. 4. 1 he uncertainty of the ti^of his coming, and this dissolution as to ^But of that day and hour knoweth no matt* ?not the Angels in Heaven and Markneither the Son, but the Father only.

All this Prophecy Dr. Hammond und cf ,stands of the destruction of the CityTemple of Jerusalem, and whole Nationthe Jews; as may be lien in his Paraph f ?and Annotations upon this place. And sdeed our Saviour himself seems toit to this, saying, verse 24. Verily Ijst ^