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Ans. 5. If notwithstanding all that I have said, it be still judged that there is sufficient Reason to determine that the Ruin of Antichrist is at a very great Distance, and if all that I have said, as arguing that there is Reason to hope that the Beginning of that glorious Revival of Religion, which in it's Continuance and Progress will destroy the Kingdom of Antichrist, is not very far off, be judged to be of no Force; yet it will not follow that our complying with what is proposed to us in the late Memorial from Scotland, will be in vain, or not followed with such spiritual Blessings, as will richly recompense ⟨p. 176⟩the Pains of such extraordinary Prayer for the Holy Spirit, and the Revival of Religion. If God don't grant that greatest of all Effusions of his Spirit, so soon as we desire, yet we shall have the Satisfaction of a Consciousness of our having employed ourselves in a Manner that is certainly agreeable to Christ's Will and frequent Commands, in being much in Prayer for this Mercy, and much more in it than has heretofore been common with Christians: And there will be all Reason to hope, that we shall receive some blessed Token of his Acceptance. If the Fall of mystical Babylon, and the Work of God's Spirit that shall bring it to pass, be at several hundred Years Distance, yet it follows not that there will be no happy Revivals of Religion before that Time, that shall be richly worth the most diligent earnest and constant praying for.

Ans. 5. If notwithstanding all that I have said, it be still judged that there is sufficient Reason to determine that the Ruin of Antichrist is at a very great Distance, and if all that I have said, as arguing that there is Reason to hope that the Beginning of that glorious Revival of Religion, which in it's Continuance and Progress will destroy the Kingdom of Antichrist, is not very far off, be judged to be of no Force; yet it will not follow that our complying with what is proposed to us in the late Memorial from Scotland, will be in vain, or not followed with such spiritual Blessings, as will richly recompence ⟨p. 176⟩the Pains of such extraordinary Prayer for the Holy Spirit, and the Revival of Religion. If God don't grant that greatest of all Effusions of his Spirit, so soon as we desire, yet we shall have the Satisfaction of a Consciousness of our having employed ourselves in a Manner that is certainly agreable to Christ's Will and frequent Commands, in being much in Prayer for this Mercy, and much more in it than has heretofore been common with Christians: And there will be all Reason to hope, that we shall receive some blessed Token of his Acceptance. If the Fall of mystical Babylon, and the Work of God's Spirit that shall bring it to pass, be at several hundred Years Distance, yet it follows not that there will be no happy Revivals of Religion before that Time, that shall be richly worth the most diligent earnest and constant praying for.