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= 2 ke - hc iS 5 F - Sword, and ſhall beled away captrue into al! Natizns , and Forufalers ſhall be trodden dywn of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gomtiles are fulfilled, Theſe Vertes muit be underſtood with reference to the 7owiſh Nacion , and whoſo thall read in Foſzphis rhe tiſtory of the Wars of the Fews, will cafily agree, there is nothing in ali the foregoing Jewiſh Story, which we have recorded in Scripture like unto ir; che final Deftruftion of chem by Tits, was rather an abatement of Miſeries they ſuffered by the Fations wirh- in themſelves than any thing clic. And rchus ſome think, char God fhortned rhofe Days of their Mifery, by ſending che /12n.n Armies to quiet their Seditions and Fattions amongſt chemſelves, which were more cruel one to another ;God promiſerh ro ſhorter: theſe Days for the Elects ſake , that were among$ this ſinful Pe:ple ; ſo rhar as this City was taken 1n lefs than fix Months, fo was rheir whole Country, 1n leſs than eighreen Months more : And if the Lord had not in Compatſion to thofe amongtt chis People, wac belonsed ro his Ele&ion of Grace, thortned thete Days of Calz- mity, both by ſending the Roman Armies to quiet their Intefiine Divitions, and then giving chefe Armies fo quick a Victory, none of rhe Jews would have been letr alive, which indeed any one will judze, thar ſhall bur read rhofe Hiſtorics, * Then it any man ſhall ſay unto you, Lo. here zs Chriſt, or there : believe 27 not.
24 For * there ſhall ariſe falſe Chrifts, and falſe Prophets, and {hall ſhew great figns and wonders, inſomuch that (if iz were pollible) they ſhall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Whersfore, if they {hall ſay unto you, Bekoid, he is in the delart, go not forth : behold, b- 7 is the ſecret chambers, believe zt not.
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king advantage of the Jewiſh Expedtation of the Mefſuab 45 A See eular Prince who ſhould reſtore chem to Liberty, ( an Opinion, which as we have often heard, had intcaed the generality of the Jows; and not 4 little even the Diſciples of Chriſt) made them- jelves Reads of Parties, and pretended rhat they were the Meſſt.ch, the Chi, thereby to incourage People to tollow them, and to find up tor their Liberty ; of which kind there were teveral men- rion-d Hot't in che Hiſtory of Joſephs, and in the Romar Hiſtory, relpetins thofe rimes. Our Lord theretore caurioneth his Dit- ciples azainſt ſuch, and chereby rakerh chem off cheir Expetta- tion of any tuch Secular Kingdom of the Meſſich, as they had creamed of, He tells them, that there would ſuch Perſons arite, and tome of them theu'd do great Signs and Wonders , inſo- much har if ic were pcffible, they would deceive the Eleft of Gt, bur he had prayed for chem; only rhey muſt alſo watch and take heed , that they might nor be cheated , and deceived by them , tho' they came with never ſo tair Prerences; for his Comin:; would be quire of another Nature , and his Kinedom would be a quite other Kingdom.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the eaſt,
and ſhincth even unto the weſt : {o thall alſo the
coming of the Son of Man be. | ; 28 For whcereſvever the carcaſs is, there will the