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Such Consequents, as promis'd are to spring
From Christ and his Apostles publishing

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This Gospel (whether it shall come abroad
As preached in the ordinary mode,
Or by the Holy Ghost, which oft conveighs
The same by extraordinary wayes)
Are without fail to them vouchsaf'd for ever,
Who entertaine it; and shall still endeavour
Conformity, sincerely, that to do
Which Grace and Nature them inables to.
But everlastingly it shall not be
Preacht in this World: For this believe must we,
That his Commission, who Authorized
Those men, by whom it was first published,
Is nigh expir'd; and that it shall not last
One minute longer, when that date is past;
Which will be in that Moment wherein all
Shall die, or changed be; but sooner shall
Be so to them, who summon'd are away
By Death, before that Grand Assizes day.