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But the Time that we have been speaking of, is the chief Time of the Bestowment of this Blessing; the main Season of the Success of all that Christ did and suffered in the Work of our Redemption. Before this the Spirit of God is given but very sparingly, and but few are saved; but then it will be far otherwise; Wickedness shall be rare then, as Virtue and Piety had been before: And undoubtedly, by far the greatest Number of them that ever receive the Benefits of Christ's Redemption, ⟨p. 47⟩from the Beginning of the World to the End of it, will receive it in that Time. The Number of the Inhabitants of the Earth will doubtless then be vastly multiplied; and the Number of redeemed Ones much more.—If we should suppose that glorious Day to last no more than (literally) a thousand Years, and that at the Beginning of that thousand Years the World of Mankind should be but just as numerous as it is now, and that the Number should be doubled, during that Time of great Health and Peace and the universal Blessing of Heaven, once only in an hundred Years, the Number at the End of the thousand Years would be more than a thousand Times greater than it is now; and if it should be doubled once in fifty Years (which probably the Number of the Inhabitants of New England has ordinarily been, in about half that Time) then at the End of the thousand Years, there would be more than a Million Inhabitants on the Face of the Earth, where there is one now. And there is Reason to think that through' the greater Part of this Period, at least, the Number of Saints will, in their Increase, bear a Proportion to the Increase of the Number of Inhabitants. And it must be considered, that if the Number of Mankind at the Beginning of this Period be no more than equal to the present Number, yet we may doubtless conclude, that the Number of true Saints will be immensely greater; when instead of the few true and thorough' Christians now in some few Countries, every Nation on the Face of the whole Earth shall be converted to Christianity, and every Country shall be full of true Christians; so that the successive Multiplication of true Saints through' the thousand Years, will begin with that vast Advantage, beyond the Multiplication of ⟨p. 48⟩Mankind; where the latter is begun from Units, the other doubtless will begin with Hundreds, if not Thousands.

But the Time that we have been speaking of, is the chief Time of the Bestowment of this Blessing; the main Season of the Success of all that Christ did and suffered in the Work of our Redemption. Before this the Spirit of God is given but very sparingly, and but few are saved; but then it will be far otherwise; Wickedness shall be rare then, as Vertue and Piety had been before: And undoubtedly, by far the greatest Number of them that ever receive the Benefits of Christ's Redemption,