1. At the period of the Millennium, to establish his kingdom —
[Christ laid the foundation of his kingdom in the Apo- stolic age : and it has been maintained and carried forward, even to the present day. But there is a time coming, when all the kingdoms of the world shall be subdued unto him, and he alone shall reign over the face of the whole earth". That I apprehend to be the season called, in Scripture, " the times of the restitu- tion of all things ;" till which period the heavens have received him : but when that period shall have arrived, " he will again be sent, after the manner of his departure hence q," in power and great glory. And it seems, from prophecy, that, as he ascended from the mount of Olives, so on that very mount will he again appear1, and not improbably as he did once on Mount Tabor ; but certainly to establish his empire over the face of the whole earth s. Then will take place what is called in Scripture the first resurrection, when, it is said, all his saints shall rise, in order to reign with him. Whether this shall be spiritually accomplished, as beyond all doubt the resurrection of God's ancient people, spoken of by the Prophet Ezekiel, will be1 ; or whether any, or all, of them will be summoned to meet him, as Moses and Elias were on the Mount of Transfigura- tion ; I will not take upon me to determine. But I must enter my protest against that bold, confident obtrusion of this mat- ter upon the Church of Christ, which we have witnessed of
n Eph. i. 20 — 23. ° ovtioq op Tpimov. p Dan. ii. 44.
<i Acts iii. 20, 21. r Zech. xiv. 4. s Zech. xiv. 9.
1 Ezrk. xxxvii. 1 — 14.