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and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:

2 For true and righteous are his judgements: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his fervants at her hand.

3 And again they faid, Alleluia. And her fmoke rofe up for ever and ever.

4 And the four and twenty elders, and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that fat on the throne, faying, Amen; Alleluia.

5 And a voice came out of the throne, faying, Praife our God, all ye his fervants, and ye that fear him, both fmall and great.

righteousness of saints.

9 And he faith unto me, Write, Bleffed are they which are called unto the marriage fupper of the Lamb. And he faith unto me, These are the true fayings of God.

10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he faid unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow fervant, and of thy brethren that have the teftimony of Jefus. Worship God: for the teftimony of Jefus is the spirit of prophecy.

I I And I faw heaven opened, and, behold, a white horfe; and he that fat upon him was called, Faithful and true, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

12 His eyes were as a 6 And I heard as it were flame of fire, and on his head the voice of a great multi-were many crowns: and he tude, and as the voice of had a name written that no many waters, and as the man knew but he himself. voice of mighty thunderings, 13 And he was clothed faying, Alleluia: for the with a vefture dipped in Lord God omnipotent reign-blood: and his name is called, The word of God.

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7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

8 And to her was granted, that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white for the fine linen is the

14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

15 And out of his mouth goeth a fharp fword, that with it he should fmite the nations: and he fhall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth K 3

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the wine-prefs of the fierce- 21 And the remnant were nefs and wrath of Almighty | flain with the fword of him God.

16 And he hath on his vefture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

17 And I faw an angel ftanding in the fun; and he cried with a loud voice, faying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come, and gather yourselves together unto the fupper of the great God;

18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horfes, and of them that fit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both fmall and great.

19 And I faw the beaft and the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make war against him that fat on the horfe, and against his army.

20 And the beast was taken, and with him the falfe prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beaft, and them that worshipped his image; these both were caft alive into a lake of fire burning with brimftone.

that fat upon the horse, which word proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

CHAP. XX.

ND I faw an angel

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come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomlefs pit, and a great chain in his hand.

2 ¶ And he laid hold on the dragon, that old ferpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thoufand years,

3 And caft him into the bottomlefs pit, and fhut him

up, and fet a feal upon him, that he fhould deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years fhould be fulfilled: and after that he must be loofed a little season.

4 And I faw thrones, and they fat upon them, and judgement was given unto them: and I faw the fouls of them that were beheaded for the witnefs of Jefus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beaft, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Chrift a thousand years.

5 But the reft of the the falfe prophet are, and dead lived not again until fhall be tormented day and the thousand years were night for ever and ever. finifhed. This is the firft refurrection.

6¶ Bleffed and holy is he that hath part in the first refurrection: on fuch the fecond death hath no power, but they fhall be priests of God and of Chrift, and fhall reign with him a thousand

years.

7 And when the thoufand years are expired, Satan fhall be loofed out of his prifon,

8 ¶ And fhall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the fand of the sea.

9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compaffed the camp of the faints about, and the beloved city and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.

II And I faw a great white throne, and him that fat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, fmall and great, ftand before God; and the books were opened and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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13 And the fea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works,

14 And death and hell were caft into the lake of fire. This is the fecond death.

10 And the devil that 15 And whosoever was not deceived them was caft into found written in the book of the lake of fire and brim-life was caft into the lake of ftone, where the beaft and fire.

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BOOK II.

FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.

From the First Book of MoSES, called GENESIS.

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CHAP. I.

N the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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And God faid, Let there be light: light.

6 And God faid, Let there be a firmament in the midft of the waters: and let it divide the waters from the

waters.

7 And God made the firmament: and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament and it was fo.

8 And God called the firand there wasmament Heaven: and the evening and the morning were the fecond day.

4 And God faw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.

9 And God faid, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear and it was fo.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the ga thering together of the wa

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ters called he Seas; and God | to divide the light from the faw that it was good. darkness and God faw that it was good.

II And God faid, Let the earth bring forth grafs, the herb yielding feed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose feed is in itfelf, upon the earth: and it was fo.

12 And the earth brought forth grafs, and herb yielding feed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose feed was in itfelf, after his kind: and God faw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God faid, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night: and let them be for figns, and for seasons, and for days and years.

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth and it was fo.

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16 And God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day, and the leffer light to rule the night: be made the stars also.

17 And God fet them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth:

18 And to rule over the day, and over the night, and

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God faid, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God faw that it was good.

22 And God bleffed them, faying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the feas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 And God faid, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beaft of the earth, after his kind: and it was fo.

25 And God made the beaft of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind; and God saw that

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