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(6) The church of God shall then be beautiful and glorious on these accounts; yea, it will appear in perfection of beauty: Is. lx.1. "Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." Is. lxi.10 "He hath covered me with a robe of righteousness, as a […] himself with ornaments, and as a bride […]." On these forementioned accounts, the church will then be the greatest image of heaven itself.

(6) The church of God shall then be beautiful and glorious on these accounts; yea, it will appear in perfection of beauty: Is. lx.1. "Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." Is. lxi.10 "He hath covered me with a robe of righteousness, as a 〈…〉 himself with ornaments, and as a bride 〈…〉." On these forementioned accounts, the church will then be the greatest image of heaven itself.

(7) That will be a time of the greatest temporal prosperity. Such a spiritual state as we have just […] a natural tendency to temporal prosperity: it has a tendency to health and long life; and that this will actually be the case, is evident by Zech. viii.4. "Thus saith the Lord of […] ▪ There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age." It has also a natural tendency to procure ease, quietness, pleasantness, and cheerfulness of mind, and also wealth, and great increase of children; as is intimated in ⟨p. 266⟩Zech. viii.5. "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls pl•ying in the streets thereof."—But further, the temporal prosperity of the people of God will also be promoted by a remarkable blessing from heaven: Is. lxv.21. "They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them." And in