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Here if any one shall say, That the Ascension of the Witnesses into Heaven in the Sight of their Enemies, may, as has more generally been supposed, signify the Church's last Victory and Triumph over her antichristian Enemies, and final Deliverance from them, and yet the Battle between Antichrist and the Witnesses, spoken of Rev. xi.7. wherein the Witnesses are slain, may not be the same with that last and greatest Battle between Antichrist and the Church, Chap. xvi. and xix. that immediately precedes and issues in the Church's final Victory and Deliverance; there may be two great Battles, soon following one another, tho' both are not mentioned in the same Place; one a Conflict, wherein Antichrist prevails against the Witnesses, and overcomes them, and kills them, and another that great Battle described Chap. xvi. and xix. after the Witnesses Resurrection, before their Ascension into Heaven, wherein they shall prevail and overcome their Enemies, and kill them: I say, if any one shall say thus, they will say that which the Prophecies give no Reason, nor allow any Room to suppose. That last Battle between the Church and Antichrist, wherein Christ and his People obtain a complete Victory, is evidently one of the greatest ⟨p. 116⟩and most remarkable Events foretold in all the Apocalypse: And there is no one Thing, unless it be the Consummation of all Things, in the two last Chapters, that is described in so solemn and august a Manner. And the Description shows that it is an Event which with its Circumstances must take up much Time. There is vast Preparation made for it by the Church's Enemies: The Devils, in order to stir Men up, and gather them together, to this Battle of that great Day of God Almighty, go forth unto the Kings of the Earth and of the whole World, to propagate various Kinds of Delusions, far and wide, all over the World; which undoubtedly must take up many Years Time; Chap. xvi.13, 14. And then great Preparation is made in the Church of God, to make Opposition; Chap. xix.11,—17. Now can any reasonably suppose, t••t in what is represented, Chap. xi.

Here if any one shall say, That the Ascension of the Witnesses into Heaven in the Sight of their Enemies, may, as has more generally been supposed, signify the Church's last Victory and Triumph over her antichristian Enemies, and final Deliverance from them, and yet the Battle between Antichrist and the Witnesses, spoken of