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Concerning the

SECOND EDITION,

S this Differtation has been printed in Quarto, and is not to be

had without buying the Paraphrafes and Notes, on fix of St. PAUL'S Epiftles, in Imitation of Mr. Locke's Manner; the Author has been prevailed upon, by the request of fome of his friends, A 2

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to print this Edition feparate; for the use of fuch as may choose to have this small piece by itself.

A DIS

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DISSERTATION

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Concerning the

MAN of SIN, &c.

2 THESS. II. 1 ̧----12.

Now we beseech you, brethren, by 1. the coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not 2. foon fhaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by Spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the day of Christ is at band.

Let no man deceive you by any 3. means: for that day shall not

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come,

come, except there come a falling away firft, and that man of fin be 4. reveled, the fonof perdition: Who oppofeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he, as a God, fiteth in the temple of God, fhewing himself that he is a God.

5. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you thefe 6. things? And now ye know what withholdeth, that he might be re7. veled in his time. For the myftery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now leteth, will let, until he be taken out of

8. the way. And then fball that

wicked one be reveled, (whom the Lord will confume with the Spirit of his mouth, and will defroy with the brightnesse of his 9. coming: Even him) whofe coming is after the working of 10. Satan, with all power, and figns,

and

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