Battel, the Number of whom is as the Sand of the Sea. This Gog and Magog, which is to appear at the End of the thousand Years, I do not look upon to be the fame with Ezekiel's Gog; but different from it, both with refpect to the Manner and Time of their Coming, as may be easily discerned, if we confider the 38th and 39th Chapters of Ezekiel : First as to the Number; though this Gog will be a great Company, and gathered out of many Nations, yet not as the Sand of the Sea, nor gathered out of the four Quarters of the World.

2ly, In this War there is to be fome Execution done more than a mere Attempt, viz. The Overcoming of Gog and Magog by theSaints; the Smiting of the Bowe out of the Left Hand,and caufing the Arrows to fall out of the Right Hard. The 39th, ver. iii. In the other there is only an Attempt made, by taking of a Compafs upon the Breadth of the Earth, and are immediately deftroyed by Fire from Heaven.

Thirdly, Here are fome to efcape and turn back again, as in Verse 2. And I will turn thee back, and leave but the fixth part of thee. But the Gog in Revelations not one fhall efcape that dreadful Fire of the Wrath of God.

Fourthly, In Ezekiel's Gog there is to be a Burning of the Weapons, both the Shields and the Bucklers, the Bows and the Arrows, and the Handftaves and the Spears, and they fhall burn them with Fire feven Tears. In John's Gog we read of no fuch thing, neither will there be fo much Time allowed as feven Tears for the Burning of Weapons; but the laft Judgment immediately to enfue. Verfe 9. Befides the Cities of Ifrael are at this time to go forth, to Jet on fire and burn their Weapons; the Fire that is to

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come upon Gog and Magog, in the Revelations, is faid to come from God out of Heaven.

Fifthly, The Time of Burning of these Weapons will laft fo long as that there will be no need to take Wood out of the Field, nor to cut down any out of the Forefts; for they fhall make use of the Burning of thefe Weapons: And they fhall Spoil thofe that Spoiled them, and rob thofe that robbed them, faith the Lord. Verfe 10. Which fhews that the People of God will at this time be in a mortal State, as having need to make ufe of thefeCreatures: But the Saints in the thoufand Years Glory will be perfect, and fo confequently will have no need of going into the Field or the Foreft to cut down Wood, nor yet to burn the Weapons of their Enemies.

Sixthly, Here is to be a great Burying of the Multitude of the Slain, which will be deftroyed out of this Gog and Magog Army. Verfe 11. And it Shall come to pass at that day, that I will give unto Gog a Place there of Graves in Ifrael, the Valley of the Paffengers on the Eaft of the Sea; and it fhall ftop the Nofes of the Paffengers, and there fhall they bu ry Gog, and all his Multitude, and they fhall call it the Valley of Hamon-Gog, that is the Multitude of Gog. And feven Months fhall the Houfe of Ifrael be burying of them, that they may cleanse the Land. But the Gog in Revelations we read of no fuch burying, though they are deftroyed by Fire from Heaven, or the Attempt deftroyed which they made against the Saints: Yet here is no burying at the End of the thousand Years, because they are immediately to appear before the Judgment-Seat of Jefu Chrif, to be judged.

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Seventhly, Here is to be a great Sacrifice of the Enemies of God, and fo a great Feast for theFowls of the Air, and for the Beafts of the Field. Verse 17. And thou Son of Man, thus faith the LordGod, Speak (or give Commiffion) unto every feather'd Fowl, and to every Beaft of the Field, Assemble your felves and come, gather your felves on every fide to my "Sacrifice that I do facrifice for you, even a great Sacrifice upon the Mountains of Ifrael (where it is that they fhall be flain, a great Multitude of them) that ye may eat Flesh, and drink Blood. (As they before delighted in Blood, fo now their Blood fhall be given as a Prey to the Fowls and to the Beasts.) Te hall eat the Flesh of the Mighty, and drink the Blood of the Princes of the Earth (great Men and mighty Potentates, if ungodly, fhall not efcape no more than others) of Rams, of Lambs, and of Goats, of Bullocks, all of them Fatlings of Bahan. All Sorts and Ranks of Sinners (whether more openly profane, or fecretly wicked) may be fignified. But at the End of the thoufand Years there will be no fuch Sacrifices, nor Feafts made unto the Fowls of the Air, out of that Gog and Magog; no eating the Flesh, nor drinking the Blood of the Slain then: Not a word of this is to be read in all that Chapter.

Indeed at the Beginning, or before the thousand Years begin, we read there fhall be fuch a Time as in Rev. xix. 17. And I saw an Angel ftanding in the Sun, and he cried with aloud Voice, faying to all the Fowls that fly in the Midft of the Heaven, come and gather your felves together unto the Supper of the Great God, (Here it is called a Supper, because this is not to be until the Evening of the World)

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this Army of Gog and Magog will come up, that he may take a Prey; to carry away Silver and Gold, to take away Cattel and Goods, and to take a great Spoil, Ver fe 13. Which things cannot be at the End of the thousand Years, because the Saints will then be perfect. This taking of a Prey, to carry away Silver and Gold, Cattel and Goods, and a very great Spoil, which this Gog counted to take unto himself, can in no wife stand confiftent with that Glory which the Saints will be in the poffeffion of at that time. It is not Gold and Silver, nor the good things of this Life, that the Glory of the Children of God will confift of, in that perfect Kingdom State: Tho' there will be abundance of these things in the time of the Spiritual Reign. And therefore that will not be the End of this Gog's coming to compass the Camp of the Saints, when the thousand Tears are finished; but fomething else that has been before hinted. Well then! This Gog in Revelations cannot be the fame with that in Ezekiel; the one being before the thousand Years begin, the other not until the thousand Years are ended.

Verfe 9. And they went on the Breadth of the Earth, and comraffed the Camp of the Saints about and the beloved City. And Fire came down from God out of Heaven, and devoured them.

This Gog and Magog at the End of the thousand Years, went on the Breadth of the Earth, which fhews what an inexpreffible Number there was to be of them, fo as to cover or fill the Face of the whole Earth. And compassed the Camp of the Saints

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about, and the beloved City. Here is a Diftinction made between the Camp of the Saints, and the beloved City; though this glorious City (as to the Largeness of it) is faid to be twelve thousand Furlongs, which according to the account that fome have given,is no less than four thousand five hundred Miles. However a large Place it is certain this great City will be, yet it feems as if it were not large enough to contain the Inhabitants thereof, and therefore there will be adjacent Places round about the City; invefted with the fame Privileges, Dignity and Glory of the City; out of which there will be a continual Egrefs and Regrefs by the Saints into the City, the Gates being always open. Which I humbly conceive may be called the Camp of the Saints, the beloved City, being as it were the Metropolitan, where Chrift, (and thofe for whom it fhall be prepared) will fit upon Thrones, fome on the Right, and fome on the Left band in his Kingdom.

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Well, they compaffed the Camp of the Saints about; this is all we read of that they did, no Execution done on either fide, neither by them nor the Saints; here is only an Attempt made by the Gog and Magog Army, in taking a Compafs about the Camp of the Saints and the beloved City. Upon which Attempt they are immediately deftroyed, by fire coming down from God out of Heaven, fo that the Repulfe which they meet with was immedi ately from the Lord himfelf. This Fire that is faid to come down from God out of Heaven, I don't look upon it to be the fame with that Fire fpoke of by the Apoftle Peter in his fecond Epiftle, Chap. the third. Becaufe that Fire (I do conceive) will be at the beginning of the thousand Years; when K kk

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