Chapter

XXIV.—Christ’s Millennial and Heavenly Glory in Company with

His Saints.

Yes, certainly, you say, I do

hope from Him that which amounts in itself to a proof of the diversity

(of Christs), God’s kingdom in an everlasting and heavenly

possession. Besides, your Christ promises to the Jews their primitive

condition, with the recovery of their country; and after this

life’s course is over, repose in Hades in

Abraham’s bosom. Oh, most excellent God, when He restores in

amnesty what He took away

in wrath! Oh, what a God is yours, who both wounds and heals, creates

evil and makes peace! Oh, what a God, that is merciful even down to

Hades! I shall have something to say about Abraham’s bosom in the

proper place. As for the

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