Note 1111 — Chapter XXVII · THE SABBATH IN AMERICA.
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2 Pet. 3; Isa. 65; Rev. 21, 22. Milton thus states this doctrine:—
“The world shall burn, and from her ashes spring New heaven and earth, wherein the just shall dwell, And after all their tribulation long, See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing, and fair truth.” —Paradise Lost, book iii, lines 334-338.
“So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign; Under her own weight, groaning; till the day Appear of respiration to the just, And vengeance to the wicked, at return Of Him so lately promised to thy aid, The woman’s seed; obscurely then foretold, Now ampler known thy Saviour and thy Lord: Last, in the clouds, from heaven to be revealed In glory of the Father, to dissolve Satan with his perverted world; then raise From the conflagrant mass, purged and refined, New heaven, new earth, ages of endless date, Founded in righteousness, and peace, and love; To bring forth fruits, joy, and eternal bliss.” —Id. book xii, lines 537-551.