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Question, yet not any to be met with whoQuestion this; but herein all agree, beingc . 0rr >pelled (faith Origen) by the Authority of*he Scriptures. As for the time of this DiPoption the ancient Christians held it to be^ hand, as might easily be proved by manyp e stimonies, were it not granted on all^ a ods. And here it may be worth the ob-er ving, that the longer the World stood, thepother ofF generally have Christians set theof Judgment, and end of it. Many ofthe Ancients did conceive, that the Dislolu-tlQ n should be at the end of six thousand^ars. As for Example , Justin Martyr inG Refp. ad Orthodoxos, if he be theAuthor of that Piece, where this Questionf^hen the end of the World should bet ) be-.ln g put, the Answer is, v Et

juastvej'xv, &c. We may rational -f conjee lure and conclude from many ScriptureExpressions, that they are in the right who fay*hat the World will last fix thousand years.

° r in one place it faith , ln these last days j5^ in another , Upon whom the Ends of the)/°rld are come; and in a third, When thepness of time was come. Now it is evidentfat these things were spoken in the sixth Mil-* e »ary.

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