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before the door. i John x. 18. Little Chddr en it is the lafl time ; or as some transitit, the last hour , infirm £>&.. Hebr. io. fl'Tet a little while, and he that Jhall cometscome, and will not tarry. (aw*Jv oowLuke 18.17. I tell yon he will avenge thespeedily. All these places the foremention e ^Dr. Hammond still applies to that famous * friod of the destruction of the City/TemP^and Polity of tire Jews; only in hisupon ZXiOpA that everlasting d £ *

struction mentioned x Thejf. 1.9. he h stt *|some qualification, faying thus, Mean whijnot excluding the eternal torments offire , which ex pell all impenitent sinnersthus fall , but looking particularly on the 1)1 ,file deft rull ion and vengeance which fete 6 ’.on whole Nations or Multitudesat once in Wlife. And in conclusion hath left us but 0$place in the N. Testament,to prove the ge ,1<! 'ral Ccnlagration of the World, viz.z Pet- 1 J'

Now because some have been offended ^these Interpretations of his, others have frken very slightingly of them : l shall briewsum up what hath been alledged in defe s,c:of them by this great Man.

1 .That the Prophets use to set down th c !Predictions in Tropes and Figures,and not ’,plain Expressions f their Style beings octiw>And therefore in describing thole liidc^