GLORY

OF

CHRIST'S VISIBLE KINGDOM

IN THIS

WORLD,

Asserted, proved, and explained, in its two-fold Branches;

First Spiritual, Secondly Personal:

FROM

Above one hundred Texts out of the Old and New Teftament. Or an Explanation of a multitude of Scriptures, which contain or hold forth the Kingdom of Chrift in them: And also shewing the Certainty of its near Approach (it is to be hoped in this Generation) from many undeniable Scripture-Signs.

By JOSEPH PERRY, an unworthy Servant in the Work of the Gospel.

Dan. vii. 27. And the Kingdom and the Dominion, and the Greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven, fhall be given to the People of the Saints of the Most High, whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and all Dominion shall Serve and obey him.

NORTHAMPTON:

Printed by R. Raikes and W. Dicey, for the Author, 1721

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Y Reason of my being often abfent, and not that Care taken as there ought to have been at the Press, these following Faults have escaped; besides the Misplacing of some Points, which the patient Reader is desired to cover with the Mantle of Chriftian Love, the other to correct as followeth:

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Page 84. 1. 1. for Rev. 2. read Rev. 11. P. 87. 1. 11. for him T. them. P.94. 1. 27. for clearing I. cleaning. P. 108. 1. 21. for Ephesians r. Epistle. P.135.1.6. for brood r. proud. P.135.1.14. for Seventhly r. Sixthly. P. 135. 1. 22. for finishing r. smiting. P. 139. 1. 29. for Face. r. View, not only in this but several other Pages upon the like Occafion. P. 156. 1. 27. for Property r. Propriety. P. 165. 1. 10. for Souls r. Sons, P. 218. 1. 9. for Sixthly r. Fifthly. P. 221,1.4. for Chrift r. after Chrift's Coming. P. 229. 1. 23. for Earnest r. Harvest. P. 308. 1. 9. for Child r. Child of God. P. 303. 1. 7. for conceffed r. couched.. P. 313. 1. 27. for secret r. facred. P. 335. 1. 24. for colud r. could. P. 372. 1. 22. for be prevented r. we shall not prevent them. - P. 402. 1. 6. for happier r. happy. P-422. 1. 9. for detain r. deceive. P. 495. 1. 17. for paeached r. preached. P. 501.1. 30. for knewn r. known. P. 546. 1. 21. for first r. fifth.

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Courteous Reader,

T is recorded in Honour to the Noble Bereans, more than those of Theffalonia, in that they received the Word of God with all Readiness of Mind, and fearched the Scriptures daily, whether those Things were fo. Certainly this Honour be cometh all the Saints, whose Duty it is to read and search the Scriptures, and not with Indifferency pass by any Part of God's Word, especially (next to our Salvation, that great Doctrine of the Coming and Kingdom of Chrift. Doth our Lord fay, in Rev. i. 2. (for the Encouragement of his People) Bleffed is be that readeth, and they that hear the Words of this Prophecy, and keep those Things which are written therein, for the Time is at hand? Then surely it evidently appears to be both the Duty and Privilege of the Children of God to hear,