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2. Now •s the principal fulfilment of all the prophecies of the Old Testament which speak of the glorious times of the gospel which shall be in the latter da••. Though there has been a glorious fulfilment of those prophecies already, in the times of the apostles, and o• Constantine; yet the expressions are too high to suit any other time entirely, but that which is to succeed the fail of Antichrist. This is most properly the glorious day of the gospel. O•her times are only •ore•unner• and preparatories to this: other times were the seed time, but this is the harvest — But more particularly.

(1) It will be a time of great light and knowledge. The present days are days of darkness, in comparison of those days. The light of that glorious time shall be so great, that it is represented as though there should then be no night, but only day; no evening nor darkness▪ So Zech. xiv.6.7. "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark. But it shall be one day, which shall be known to the Lord, not day, no• night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light." —It is further represented, as though God would then give such light to his church, that it should so much exceed the glory of the light of the sun and moon, that they should be ashamed: Is. xxiv.23. "Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously."