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A85549	A true reformation and perfect restitution, argued by Silvanus and Hymeneus; where in the true Church of Christ is briefly discovered here in this life in her estate of regeneration, as also her persecution in the life to come, as it hath been foretold by all the holy prophets and Apostles, which have been since the world began. / By J.G. a friend to the truth and Church of God.	Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.	1643 (1643)	Wing G1595; Thomason E55_10; ESTC R212817	46,091	47

And the Iudgement of the enemie follows And the Devill that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and Brimston where the beast and the false Prophets are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever And so the holy Ghost goes on in the description of the generall ●udgement by describing first the Iudge himself in these words And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate on it from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away and there was found no more place for them And so proceeds to describe them that are judged And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened That is all those meanes were manifested and those severall ways by which the Gospell and way of salvation had been preached to them whether they had the Scriptures or the Creatures or only the more secret dictates of conscience all which preached the word of grace and although it prove a Savour of death to some yet to others a Savour of life by every of those books as it followeth And another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were writen in the books according to their works c. There needs no Paraphrase the Scripture is so clear to prove the thing intended Hym. It doth appear to me that the Millenaries opinion hath no ground in the Scriptures they alleadge yet I must tell you plainly in my judgement the Resurrection is past already proved by your self in your description of the first Resurrection Silv. That was an old error which S. Paul condemns in his 2 Epistle to Timothy where he taxes one of your name saying their word doth fret as doth a gangrene of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus who concerning the truth have erred saying the Resurrection is past already and overthrow the faith of some Hym. Shew me how that doctrine may be said to overthrow the Faith Silv. This doctrine is the Religion of Homo-novus or of the new-man falsely so called in plaine termes the Familists doctrine who turne the whole Faith of our Lord Iesus Christ into an allegory affirming Christ to be a quality saying righteousnesse is Christ and sin is Antichrist teaching that all the Articles of the Creed are fulfilled in every one of their illuminated ones and that now they themselves are dead and buried raised and ascended set at the right hand of the Father descend and come and judge the world the quick and the dead that they are the holy Catholique Church that they only are the forgiven people and have the Communalty of the Saints and enjoy life everlasting infinitely succeeding one another in this coedified condition affirming also that God is cohominified with them and so this estate and condition even this present evill world to continue for ever saying that as we come from God so againe we return to God at our death affirming no other Resurrection then from that sinfull estate to be illuminated in which illumination they say they are conceived of the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary c. Hym. You know the Apostle speaking of two seeds of Abraham one born of Hagar the bond woman the other of Sarah the free woman and he saith that by them another thing was meant Silv. As at the first I told you that Christians when they speak they ought to speak as the word of God that is according to the meaning of the Scriptures for though Saint Paul say the two seeds are an allegory in regard of the two Covenants that either stood in the one thereby the child of death the other the child of life Yet he doth not as you do make them nothing but an allegory turning the person of our Lord Iesus Christ into a quality and the person of Antichrist into sin which is no substance but a privation of good take heed of this Hymeneus for it calls to my mind the Apostles words who saith that such doctrine to the soul is as dangerous and destructive as a gangrene is to the body which is inevitably destructive for nothing can prevent the saving of the next member but the death the cutting off of that which is but infected Hym. I am sure if I be mistaken in my opinion yet that which you have delivered in other respects concerning the short time of this worlds continuance crosses most Ministers opinions both in new England and here too Silv. What is that which they teach that I have said doth oppose their Tenents Hym. They almost all with one consent hold the nationall calling of the Iews and that there shall be a great and glorious estate of the Church both of Iews and Gentils alleadging all the Prophets that speak of the deliverance of Syon from all her Captivities and bring the Jews into their own Land out of all Countries whither they have been disperst and scattered Silv. What Scriptures do they bring to prove that the Nation of the Iews shall be called and brought out of every Countrey into their own Land Hym. The 11 Rom. in these words I would not Brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery lest you should be wise in your own conceits that blindnesse in part is hapned to Israel untill the fulnesse of the Gentils be come in And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written c. Silv. In these verses there is not one word of the Nationall calling of the Iews but shews that the Apostle declared to the believing Romans a Mystery to take off their vaine boasting of themselves who thought that God had forsaken the seed of Abraham wholly and therefore he secretly reproves them and saith It was but a part of the seed that was hardned or blinded as in the seventh verse he clearly distinguisheth between the Elect part and the rest what then Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for but the Election hath obteined it and the rest were blinded or hardned and in this verse he saith They shall be hardned untill the fulnesse of the Gentils be come in that is for ever Agreeing with the Prophet l●t their eyes be darkned and bow down their backs alwayes thus God putting no diff●rence between the Iews and the Gentils extends his free grace to both for the calling of the full number of his Elect in all the world and so all Israel shall be saved that is the whole house even every one f●reknown and chosen of God shall be c●lled sanctified and saved both Iews and Gentils throughout the world and this word saved hath respect unto the estate of perfection in the world to come according to the Prophet Esays words Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation he shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end That is all Gods Elect wheresoever of all kindreds tongues nations and people Hym. In this Scripture it doth not appeare there is any

so accordingly they understood it as shall be proved hereafter The Apostles Peter and John both testifie to this truth without question as before I have briefly shewed and that it may be out of question here what Saint Iohn saith of the Testimony of the foure and twenty Elders praising and lauding the lamb their Lord and they sang a new song saying that art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for thou wast slaine and hast redeemed us unto God by thy bloud out of every k●ndred and tongue and people and ●ati●n and hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall raigne on the earth Which Scripture without explanation is a full answer unto all such thoughts that concerne this inheriting the earth may be in ●his life in a Mystery all which agrees with ●ur Lords words to the Apostles at his parting from them let not your hearts be troubled c. In my Fath●rs house are many mansions and I go to prepare a place for you and if I go an prepare a place for you I will come againe and receive you unto my self that whe●e I am there you may be also Now our Lord is gone into Heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father where he is preparing the blessed and glorious estate for us as the Apostle Peter saith Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his aboundant mercy hath begotten us againe unto a lively hope by the Resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and und●filed and that fadeth not away reserved in the heaven for us who are kept by the power of God through Faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time of which last time and revelation of the glory S. Iohn speaks where ●e saith and I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea In that he saw no more sea he declareth that the great oppressors of Gods Church consisting of heathen as open enemys or Christians as secret and cunning enemys shall all cease there shall be none to hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountaine saith the Lord And S. John goes on and declares the place where the Lord shall be with his at his returne and I Iohn saw the holy City new Ierusalem comming down from God out of heaven prepa●ed as a bride adorned for her husban● And I heard a great voice ●ur of heaven saying the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and th●y shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God and so goes on in describing the perfection of that condition tha● there shall be no more death sorrow crying and paine and as it follows after no more curse This is the glorious condition of Christ comming againe to his own people according to his promise and that he will abide with them forever in the new things which he shall create that it may appear unquestionable that the Saints shall inherit the earth after the Resurrection heare Gods promises to the Patriarks and their understanding of and ho●● and expectation in them and first we will begin with Abraham where it is said and the Lord appeared unto Abraham and said unto thy seed will ● give this Land and againe I will give unto thee thy seed after thee the Land wherein thou art a stranger all the Land of Canaan for an everlasting possession and I will be their God No●e here that the Lord promiseth the possession of the Land to Abraham himselfe to his owne person as well as to all and every one of his spirituall seed and so witnesseth the Author to the Hebrews saying That Abraham was called to go into a place which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance Marke it is said he that is himself not others for him as some unwarily have affirmed in these last times and 〈◊〉 this sence ●nly Saint Paul calls Abraham the heire of the w●rld by promise and grace included in Gods promise above and I will give unto thee c. So the the Lord Almighty engages himself to Isaack that he would performe the oath that he sware unto his Father Abraham saying unto thee and thy seed will I give all these Countries and God appeared to Iacob his chosen at Lusse in the Land of Canaan saith to him the Land whereon thou lyest to thee will I giv● it and to thy seed and their seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shalt spread abroad to the West and to the East and to the North and to the South and in thee and thy seed shall all the families of the earth be ●…essed Hym. Most Christians understand that ●h●se promises were fulfilled by Ioshua when he divided the Land of Cannan by lot ●or a possession to the Tribe of Israel Silv. But had our Ministers and Christians read and laboured to understand the Scriptures they would have been of the Apostles mind who affirmes and clearly sheweth that Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the faithfull and holy servants of God ever understood thereby the everlasting inheritance and possession to them and their seed for ever when they in their own persons that never enjoyed it yet shall inherit it for the holy Ghost saith by the testimony of faithfull Stephen the Martyr That Abraham had no inheritance in Canaan no not so much as to set his foot on yet he that is God promised that he would give it him for a possession and to all his spirituall seed which the aforesaid Apostle to the Hebrews in the eleventh Chapter proves beyond all exception to be the heavenly Countrey and the temporall Canaan no other or further neither in promise nor possession of the following seeds nor otherwise I say then that it was a speciall representation a tipe figure and shaddow preaching and teaching unto them the spirituall heavenly holy new and everlasting Land wherefore thus saith the Apostle These all dyed in Faith not having received the promises but having seen them a far of and were pe●swaded of them and imbraced them and confessed that they were strangers and Pilgrims on the earth for they which say such things declare plai●ly that they seek a Countrey and truly had they been mindfull of that Country from whence they came out they might have had opportunitie to have returned but now they desire a better Countrey that is a heavenly wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a City which City new Ierusalem is that before spoken of even that new and heavenly City that comes with our Lord at his descension to the earth where and in which he will dwell for ever Hym. I did not think the Scriptures had been so plain for this matter as now I see them I pray