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be taken, as was obferv'd before, Temple, 2 Theff. 2. 4. or ratherB ward Court of the Temple, Rev. 2 Pt be in the Hands of Antichrift, we a fit as God, to receive Divine What then is the advantage of thi alf liation, if it delivers neither the C Temple? Why it is this, that all the obey and Repent, fhall deliver ther Souls, and be hid in the Day of the Lord ger. Zeph. 2. 3. How God fhall de them, is hard to determine; it may moft probably by giving them noti depart, before the City is Invested, hiding them in the Deferts or Moun where the Enemy can't find them, Prophets were hidden, during Ahab's ftacy, (a Type of thefe Times) I Ki 4. Thus Jeboafh the Heir of the King of Judah was preserved in the Houfe of Lord from the Maffacre of Athaliah, d the whole Six Years (the Number of! th Some Per- fliction) of her Ufurpation. 2 Kings 710 fonal Cha- 19. HERE then we fee Jerufal E racters at- ken by the Antichriftian Army, and tributed to tichrift himself fitting in the Temple Antichrift in Scri- magnifying himself as if he were God, f pture, viz. marvellous things against the God of Gods, His Blaf- ing himself that he is God, according to w phemy ;not was foretold, Dan. 11. 36. 2 The regarding the Defire This is no doubt the ultimate meaning of Women; the Abomination of Defolation standing in the his worship-ly Place.For what can be a greater Abom ing the God tion to the Divine Nature, than Antich Maozzim; his very Oppofite and Reverse? Let us Wonders.:

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mention'd before. These are the moft renarkable Perfonal Qualities attributed to im in Scripture. The laft of these, viz. nis doing Wonderful and Miraculous Works is largely attefted by the Holy Fahers. The Sybilline Oracles, Lib. 3. speak argely to this purpose, that Antichrift fhall emove Mountains, ftop the Courses of the Sun and Moon, raife the Dead, &c. St. Hippolytus, p. 36. Edit. Morell. fays, " He fhall remove Mountains in the fight of Men, he fhall pass thro' the Sea dry-fhod, he fhall call down Fire from Heaven, he fhall change Day into Night and Night The yog T into Day, and alter the Course of the

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