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contain until the time of the restitution os a .things. Speaking of our Saviour: and

y&mtnet, or Regeneration of the World,very word the Stoicks and Pythagoreans uin this case, Mat. 19. 28,2.9. Verily, djvunto you, That ye which have followed tfhin the regeneration, when the Son of man r 13fit on the Throne of his glory, ye also fittUrupon twelve Thrones , &c. Plal. ioi.xd. ya vesture shalt thou change them, and t' 3 vshall be changed. Which words are ag al1taken up and repeated, Heb. x. ix. N'o ^' 1is one thing to be changed, another to ^

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