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The Destruction that God often foretold and threatened to ancient Babylon (which is often referred to in the Revelation, as a great Type of the antichristian Church) was gradually accomplished, and fulfilled by various Steps, at a great Distance of Time one from another: It was begun in the Conquest of Cyrus, and was further accomplished by Darius, about eighteen Years after, by a yet greater Destruction, wherein it was brought much nea•er to utter Desolation; but it was about two hundred and twenty three Years after this, before the Ruin of it was perfected, and the Prophecies against it fully accomplished, in it's being made an utter and perpetual Desolation, without any human Inhabitant, becoming the Dwelling-Place for Owls, Dragons ⟨p. 107⟩and other doleful Creatures. But yet when God had once begun to destroy her, he went on 'till he finished, and never suffered her any more to recover and establish her former Empire. So the Restitution of the Jewish Church, after the Babylonish Captivity, was gradual, by various Steps; there were several Times of Return of the Jews from Captivity, and several distinct Decrees of the Persian Emperors, for the restoring and rebuilding Jerusalem, and re-establishing the Jewish Church and State; and it was done in turbulent Times; there were great Interruptions and Checks, and violent Oppositions, and Times wherein the Enemy did much prevail: But yet, when God had once begun the Work, he also made an End; he never suffered the Enemies of the Jews to bring Jerusalem to such a State of Desolation as it had been in before, 'till the promised Restoration was complete. Again, The Deliverance of God's Church from the Oppression of Antiochus Epiphanes, (another known Type of Antichrist) was gradual; they were first holpen with a little Help, by the Maccabees; and afterwards the promised Deliverance was completed, in the Recovery of Jerusalem, the Restoration of the Temple, the miserable End of Antiochus, and the consequent more full Deliverance of the whole Land. But after God once began to appear for the Help of his Church in that Instance, after it seemed dead and past all Hope, he never suffered Antiochus to prevail against his People, to that Degree, again; tho' the utmost Strength of this great Monarch was used, from Time to Time, in order to it, and his vast Empire was engaged against an Handful that opposed them:

The Destruction that God often foretold and threatned to ancient Babylon (which is often refer'd to in the Revelation, as a great Type of the antichristian Church) was gradually accomplished, and fulfil'd by various Steps, at a great Distance of Time one from another: It was begun in the Conquest of Cyrus, and was further accomplished by Darius, about eighteen Years after, by a yet greater Destruction, wherein it was brought much neaer to utter Desolation; but it was about two hundred and twenty three Years after this, before the Ruin of it was perfected, and the Prophecies against it fully accomplished, in it's being made an utter and perpetual Desolation, without any human Inhabitant, becoming the Dwelling-Place for Owls, Dragons