They may be believed, and they may be doubted, 'salva Catholica fide'.

Further, from these points I exclude all prognostications of time and event; the mode, the persons, the places, of the accomplishment; and I decisively protest against all parts of Mr.
Irving's and of Lacunza's scheme grounded on the books of Daniel or the Apocalypse, interpreted as either of the two, Irving or Lacunza, understands them.

Again, I protest against all identification of the coming with the Apocalyptic Millennium, which in my belief began under Constantine.
II.

In what sense?
In this and no other, that the objects of the Christian Redemption will be perfected on this earth;--that the kingdom of God and his Word, the latter as the Son of Man, in which the divine will shall 'be done on earth as it is in heaven', will 'come';--and that the whole march of nature and history, from the first impregnation of Chaos by the Spirit, converges toward this kingdom as the final cause of the world.

Life begins in detachment from Nature, and ends in union with God.
III.