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 come up before them, they are broken up, and have paſſed through the gate, and are gone out by it, and then king ſhall paſſbefore them, and the Lord on the head of them. Natum, iii. 12. llWill [sic] thy ſtrong holes ſhall be like fig trees with the firſt ripe figs; if they be ſhaken they ſhall fall into the mouth o the carer.'Compair Iſa xxvi 19 'They dead man ſhall live, together with my dead body ſhall they ariſe: Awake and ſing ye that dwell in duſt; for thy dew is a the dew of herbs, and the earth ſhall caſt out the dead. Hoſe xiii. 14. I will ranſom them from the power of the grave: I will redeem them from death. O death I will be thy plague; O grave I will be thy deſtruction; Repentance ſhall be hid from min eyes.

1. The ſtruggles of the Chruch with all her Adverſaries, will have a ſurppriſing comfortable iſſue at length As weak as ſhe is and as ſtrong and numerous as they are ſhe will infallibly have ſucceſs, ſurpriſing ſucceſs againſt them, attending the encounter with them Micah iv. 11 12. 13 &c.

And as the preſent ſtate of the Church, learn

Frſt It is not at all ſtrange, nor will it make the caſe of this Church nopeles that prodigiouſly high mountains, higher than our fathers law, are raiſed up againſt her, over topping Worm Jacob, and threatning to cruſh him: Mountains of national guilt, of forty years gathering, laid upon the top of the mountains, of guilt raiſed by our fathers: Prophanity overflowing and becoming faſhionable: A conſpiracy carried on in the houſe of her friends, againſt the grace Chriſt and ſerious Godlineſs to p lm upon us returned Heathen iſ um for, the foundation  at: mountains of damnable hereſies and blaſphemies, againſt the perſon of Chriſt and divine authority of the ſcriptures; and the advanced learned of the e improved to theſe monſtrous ends. But, the mountains of oppoſition that ſtand in your way  earth to hell, thou ſhalt get through them all at, and thou ſhalt ſtand on the ſea of glaſs, Rev. 1. 2. 3.