Express the vaft exuberance of praise.

Which feems too big for birth, and rises high
To rapt'rous notes of joy, extatic joy,
And by redoubled efforts feeks to gain
Its end, unbounded gladness to express,

This glorious period Jefus had in mind,
When he the glories of his reign foretold
To his difciples, while he dwelt below;
And after he was rifen from the dead,
He fpake to them of things that appertain❜d
Unto the kingdom of the bleffed God.
But when he did in ftate to heav'n afcend,
God, the eternal Father, fpake, and said,
My Son, belov'd, fit down at my right hand,
Until I fhall thy foes thy footstool make.
Jehovah fhall from Zion fend thy rod,

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Thy rod of ftrength wherewith thou shalt fubdue Thine enemies, and rule them by thy fway.

How lib'ral fhall thy chofen people be,

When thou shalt govern in thy day of pow'r! 1245
Thy converts, like the drops of morning dew,
Shall fhine in beauties of thine holiness

How num'rous fhall thy happy subjects be!

Jehovah fware, and never will repent ;
Thou art a priest to him for evermore,
After the order of Melchifedec,
Without a predeceffor in thy line,

Or a fucceffor in thy office work.

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Jefus, our Lord, now fits at God's right hand,

Heav'n has receiv'd him, and muft him retain, 1155

Until the Reftitution times begin;

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Of which most glorious age the Lord hath spoke, By all his Prophets fince the world began. Then fhall the Father fend his Son again To vifit earth, and dwell, and reign below. Then fhall his enemies be cloth'd with fhame, While on his head the crown thail flourifh long. Then fhall a King in truth and justice reign, And princes rule in ftricteit righteoufnefs. The God of Heav'n fhall fet a kingdom up, 1265 And give it to his Son, and to his Saints: This kingdom fhall endure a thousand years, Without the leaft difturbance, or attempt From any of its foes to break its peace. For no oppofing pow'rs fhall be on earth, And Satan all this age fhall be confin'd In close imprisonment, in the abyss. During this happy period men fhall know

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Thofe glories which the Scriptures have defcrib'd, And which my feeble pen hath briefly touch'd. 1275 But so abundant are the prophecies

On this important fubject, that the time

Would fail, fhould I attempt to quote them all.
But from this little fpecimen, we see

That nothing can be more abundantly
Confirm'd, than this fo interefting scene.

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Our Lord will come, and with him all his faints, Whom he will raise, and they, with him shall reign. His kingdom fhall be righteousness and peace,

And all fhall be obedient to his fway.

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All men shall know the Lord, both small and great,
And all fhall ferve him with one free consent.
No jarring difcords fhall on earth prevail,
No difference of faith and worship then.
Believers shall be all in harmony,

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And all the world fhall the Meffiah know.
The earth fhall with inhabitants be fill'd,
And highly cultivated and improv'd,
And ev'ry useful art and science brought
To full perfection. Happiness and peace,
Health, plenty, joy, delight, and chearfulness,
Shall overfpread the globe, and ban fh care,
Sickness, vexation, ftrife. and difcontent;
Then pleasure shall be gay and innocent:
All these shall tend to lengthen out life's thread;
Which shall by God's appointment be reftor'd 1301
To the longevity of ancient times.

And further, men be privileg'd to pass

Unto the life immortal, by a way

Not now to them indulg'd; by chan ge, not death.

All the advantages of former years,

Shall meet together in that happy age.

Then all the good men who have ever liv'd,

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Shall be on earth at once, with Chrift, their head.

And far more numerous shall be the births

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Within that period, than shall be before,

If all were counted from the birth of time.
Then all the ufeful knowledge ever known
Shall be combin'd, but all the evil loft,
Sunk in oblivion, overwhelm'd with good

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Thus fhall that age roll chearfully away, While Jefus reigns on earth, and all mankind Yield willing fervice to his holy laws,

And live in happiness complete and full.

O glorious day, when shall it once arrive? 1320 Fain would our longing eyes behold the fight, A world of rationals: a government

Juft, univerfal, free from all defects;

A monarch wife, good, pow'rful, righteous, kind,
Without a fault, and who fhall never change, 1325
Nor die, nor by his foes be overcome :
And happy fubjects, num'rous as the drops
Of pearly dew, from morning's fruitful womb,
All faithful to their Sov'reign, free from vice:
And age that will dishonor God no more,
And that will prove his promises all true
His laws all just, and all his dealings right,
Will justify his works, his words, his ways,
And fhew both what God is, and man should be.

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BOOK X.

THE END OF THE MILLENIUM.

The Loofing of Satan, his Deception of the Nations, their hoftile Attempt, and dreadful Overthrow, the second or general Refurrection, the Day of Judgment, the Sentence paffed on the Wicked, the Conflagration, and the Punishment of Tranfgreffors in the Lake of Fire.

AS I must now attend to gloomy themes,
The darkeft fcenes that ever have been known,
Since God created man upon the earth,
Or ever shall take place till that great day:
I choose a season when my mind is tun'd
To grief and mourning, and lamenting woe.
Help me, O facred Spirit, who didst call
The prophet Jeremiah, when a child,
And taught his melting heart those plaintive airs,
His pen to write those mourning odes of woe,
For which his genius was fo well defign'd,
And which the times wherein he liv❜d requir’d.
He was a fon of forrow, fo am I!.

He mourn'd a nation ruin'd, I, a world;
He faw, and he lamented Judah's fate.
Deceiv'd, betray'd to ruin with their king.
I mourn ten hundred thousand millions burn'd
With fire from Heav'n, becaufe they did rebel,
In confequence of being once deceiv'd
By that deceiver, cunning, pow'rful, fly,

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