...at great warfare in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, when Antichrist shall fall, and his powers be broken in the battle of Armageddon. But the faithf... ...is own to be modelled after perfection, and to have in it the seed of eternity, and the power of universal application, if not the promise of univer... ...t is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost ... ... forgiveness to the world, with which he had so long forborne; to show the glory of his power in casting out Satan from his usurped dominion; and in... ...ly ones contained in scripture; while any speculation concerning the blessedness of the middle state is entertained as most orthodox and profitable,... ...r evil than this oblivion of the second advent and resurrection and exaggeration of the middle state, hath grown upon the church; which is the strang... ...s grand reunion with the Lord. For, as hath been said, I do find in the Apocalypse this middle state represented as a state of longing expectation, ... ...sorrow and death, which have thence flowed in upon us. But this finale of death and the middle state gives me, gives Christ’s people no sight nor ex... ...s sybilline leaves were never given up, invent fictions and imaginations concerning the middle state, adopt heathen ideas concerning the judgment, a...