Is antichrist to be destroyed? then let us live in the expectation
of it; and let this be one of our songs in the house of our
pilgrimage. God bids his people, while in Babylon, to let Jerusalem
come into their mind; and writes to them that were then in her, to
acquaint them that he remembered them still, and would assuredly
deliver them from that place and state. And wherefore doth he thus,
but to beget an expectation in them of their salvation and
deliverance? The Lord is so pleased with the faith and expectation
of his people as to this, that they seldom are herein concerned as
they should, but he steps in with them and warms their hearts. The
reason is, because the faith of God's people as to the downfall of
Babylon, stands upon so sure a foundation as doth the salvation of
their souls; and that next to that, God is as much delighted in what
he has purposed to do against Babylon, as in any thing else in the
earth: and therefore, if you consider it well, the great and
glorious promises that are to be fulfilled on earth, are to be
fulfilled when antichrist is dead and buried. These dainties are too
good even for his children to have, so long as this dog is by, lest
he should snatch at the crumbs thereof; wherefore they are reserved
until he is gone. Jer. 19: 31, 32.