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

Firft Spiritual, Secondly Personal:

FROM
Above one hundred Texts out of the Old and New

Teftament. (r an Explanation of a multitude of
Scriptures, which contain or hold forth the King-
dom of Christ in them: And also shewing the Cer-
tainty of its near Approach (it is to be hoped
in this Generation) from many undeniable Scrip-
ture-Signs.

By JOSEPH PER R Y, 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, shall 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 bim.

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

BY

Y Reason of my being often absent, 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 patiert Reader is desired to cover with the Mantle of Chriftian Love, the other to correct as followeth:

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T is recorded in Honour to the Noble Berears,

more than those of Thesalonia, in that they received the Word of God with all Readiness of Mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those Things were so. 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 Christ. Doth our Lord say, in Rev. i. 3. (for the Encouragement of his People) Blefed is be that riadeth, and they that bear 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,