III. 3. Suppose now the fullness of time to be come, and the prophecies to be accomplished. What a prospect is this! All is peace, 'quietness and assurance for ever.' Here is no din of arms, no 'confused noise,' no 'garments rolled in blood.' 'Destructions are come to a perpetual end': wars are ceased from the earth. Neither are there any intestine jars remaining; no brother rising up against brother; no country or city divided against itself, and tearing out its own bowels. Civil discord is at an end for evermore, and none is left either to destroy or hurt his neighbour. Here is no oppression to 'make' even 'the wise man mad'; no extortion to 'grind the face of the poor'; no robbery or wrong; no rapine or injustice; for all are 'content with such things as they possess.' Thus 'righeousness and peace have kissed each other'; they have 'taken root and filled the land'; 'righteousness flourishing out of the earth'; and 'peace looking down from heaven.

4. And with righteousness or justice, mercy is also found. The earth is no longer full of cruel inhabitations. The Lord hath destroyed both the blood-thirsty and malacious, the envious and revengeful human. Were there any provocatio, there is none that now knows to return evil for evil; but indeed there in none that does evil, no, not one; for all are harmless as doves. And being filled with peace and joy in believing, and united in one body, by one Spirit, they all love as brethren, they are all of one heart and of one soul. 'Neither says any of them, that aught of the things which he possesses is his own.' There is none among them that lack; for every person loves his neighbor as himself. And all walk by one rule: 'Whatever you would that men should do unto you, even so do them.'