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Show have con!lantly oo your Mind the Impreffions I ba.:e endeavoured to make, with regard to this Matter, 1 have here in(crted the Scheme I have taught you of the whole Body of Scripture, and of t.he Ghri!lian DoCtrine, with fame of its moll /hiking Evjdet]ces, which, I hope will excite in you a Curiofity to attain a mar~ perfeCt and particular Under!landing of them, in order to your regulating by tl~eir heavenly Laws your whole Life and PraCtice, in the certain Hope, that in fo doing you will not fail of evcrlafiing lhppinefs. H 0 L Y S C R I P T U R E contains a \>rid", but uniform and confi!l:ent Vit w_, given at very dillaot Ages of . the World, by many dill~ teJl~ J?erfons inli>ircd and conduCled by a Spirit, who faw clearly through Futurity, of all the TranfaCliom of Almighty God, that were proper to \le revealed to Mankind, with rega.rd to the tational Inhabitants of this W orld, during the whole Period of irs being inhabited, at leaf! by· our Species, beginning with iiS lir!h Change from a Chaos, to an habitable World, and concluding with its being reduced again to a Chaos by Fire; giving fome Account, eitJ1er hi!lorically or prophetically, of almoft every Thing great or: important, that has been, or is to be, tranfotl: ed upon the vafi Theatre of the World, :;nd opening a View, bel'ond Death and Time, into Eternity, bringing to Light the World of Spirits, with clear, fublime, and rationaL Notions of the PerfeCliotJS of God, and his Will, 2ml the Duty of Mankind, and their Means to 'lain Happinefs, and the ooly rational an.d conJificnt Notions of Futurity, that are any .where to be found, and i~umcr;U>le interefiiog Truths, which ( 3 I ) which no human Sagacity could ever have found out, or fo much as thought of; not only en] ightcning thofc Countrit:"s, on which its diretl Beams have !hone with their full Splendor, but even, in lpite of the Clouds of Heathenifm and Super!lition, breaking through, and affo rding a glimln ering Light to the moll: barbarous Nations, without which they- had been buried m total Darkncfs and lo·norance as to divine and fi>iritu al Things. Tl1e Out-lines of the im· menfe and vat ious ProfpeC!: it exhi bits are thefe. I. The reducing of this World from a Chaos to an habitable State •. 2. The Creation of the firft of Mankind in a State of Innocence and Immortality .... 3· H1s Fall from that State to one obnoxious to Death, by an ACl of D ; fobedie~tcc ' · 4· A de rk l'ro\'hecy of the Relloration of him anJ hi:s Pofic ri ty to the Favour of God and lmmorrali ty (after D eath) by J d us Chri/ld, 5· A Flood lent to dcfl roy all Mankind for their ( XcdEve \ Vickedncfs, exrcpt one vi1tt1ous Famil) ': A /tanding Example to all Ages, of the dillerent Confe<Juences of Obedience and Irregularity. 6. The Term of Man's :Life fhortened on account of the bad Ufe the Antc<liluvians had made of its great Length'· 7· Mankind, degenerating into Idolatry, feat· tered o ver the Face of the Earth, to prevent their fetting up an univerlal idolotrous Empire<. a Gen i. 2-n. b TI)id. 26. ii. 7· c Ibid. iii. d lbiJ. jii. r r; . c Ibid. vL 5· r Ibid vi. 3· • Ibid. xi. I-to. 8. A |