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INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. xi.
denborg, and which is demonstrated by him with great
force of reasoning and the most conclusive Scripture
testimony. If this be the true view of the subject, and if
Scripture does indeed deliver the oracles of truth, this
New Jerusalem,-this new and improved form of the
Christian Church,-must begin to be manifested at some
time or other. The predictions respecting it cannot be
allowed, by their Divine Author, to remain a dead letter
for ever ; at some time or other they must be accom
plished. And what times have ever yet arrived, at which
their accomplishment might so reasonably be considered
to be about to commence, as the times now present ? A
longer period has already elapsed since the first foundation
of the Christian Religion, than has intervened between the
first communication of any former dispensation of divine
things to man and its modification by a succeeding one.
Neither the Antediluvian Church, nor the Noetic, nor the
Israelitic, lasted so many centuries as has the Christian
Church already. If then a new modification of this is
ever to appear, if a New Jerusalem is ever to form the
tabernacle of God with men,-the present age, as the
probable era of its commencement, cannot be objected
against on the plea of immaturity. If, also, it is reason
able to suppose that such an era would be marked by
extraordinary signs, no era, assuredly, was ever more
decidedly so marked than the present. For a long period,
which does not seem yet to have entirely closed, the
judgments of heaven have been abroad in the earth, in a
more distinguished and more universal manner than has
marked any former age since the establishment of the
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