finished at the last said sudden and terrible ruine of the Roman Monarchy by the destruction of Antichrist And here again observe how God all along the Beasts forty two months gave his Spiritual Power unto his two Witnesses prophesying in sackcloth those Sons of Oyl as they are called Zech. 4. to prophesy against Antichrist to consume him with the Spirit of Christ's mouth 〈◊〉 bring on the said Destruction gradually accomplished by the seve◠Angels with their seven last Plagues poured out upon him Rev. 15 16 chapters till that Destruction be accomplish'd at the seventh Trumpet and last Vial of the seventh Angel poured-out upon him about the said time fore-spoken of when Christ comes in the clouds of Heaven Dan. 7.13 14. to receive his Monarchy upon Earth spoken of likewise Rev. 1.7 when the Jews shall generally be brought home unto him as Isa 66.8 and when the iniquity of that Land shall be removed in one day Zech. 3.9 And then will the four living Wights with the twenty four Elders have that honour given to them which they were assured of to their so great exultation aforehand See Iren. pag. 32. Rev. 5.10 and whereupon all Angels and all Creatures render to Christ the glory due to him which they acknowledge there to be his deservedly saying Thou art worthy to receive Riches and Power and Wisdom and Strength and Glory and Blessing c. And then the Kingdom of the Stone will become a Mountain filling the whole Earth when there will be given to him the Son of man by his Father the Ancient of dayes Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all People and Nations and Languages shall serve him and that for ever whose Dominion is an everlasting Dominion that shall not pass away as the four former Kingdoms did and his Kingdom such as shall not be destroyed as the four former were Dan. 7.14 with many other Texts in Daniels Visions as we shewed which manifest it evidently to be to the utmost extent of Dominion both of place Over the whole Earth and under the whole Heaven as was said chap. 7.15 27. and of continuance and duration for ever while the World remained and for ever and ever to eternity v. 18. when that Kingdom of the Mountain shall be perfected in the Kingdom of Glory in the highest Heavens In that visible Kingdom of Power Christ having received that Kingdom of his Father he will then give it to his Saints who shall then take it as Dan. 7.18 and manage it for him as ver 27. having the Judgment that is the authority of judging then given to them to reign with Christ a thousand years Rev. 20.4 And that it is the same Kingdom given at the same time as the series and order of the Prophecy of Daniel and of the Revelation both manifest and the same Authority of Judging in the like expressions of Ruling and Governing is in both places assigned to the Saints as followeth For first Judicandi potestas illis facta Rev. 20.4 It is said I saw Thrones and they sat upon them Dan. 7.9 So I beheld till the Thrones were pitched down and the Judgement that is the Judges were set Rev. 20. And Judgement was given to them Dan. 7.22 And Judgement was given to the Saints of the most High Rev. 20. And the Saints lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years Dan. 7. And the Saints possessed the Kingdom with Christ the Son of Man that came in the Clouds of Heaven But after the finishing of the said thousand years Reign of Christ with his Saints on Earth we are to observe what Christ in Rev. 20.7 8 9 10. further explains shall be fulfilled concerning the last wicked attempt of Satan after he shall be loosed for a little season vers 3. from his thousand years imprisonment in the bottomless pit all which time he was bound that he could not seduce the Nations until the said thousand years were ended namely that after that time was finished that he shall then seduce the last Gog and Magog the wicked Hypocrites then in the World who shall then become very numerous in the four quarters of the Earth from whence he shall tempt them to come with a joynt consent who being a wicked generation that had been forced in the thousand years unwillingly yet-outwardly did conform to the holy and good Government of the Saints successively unto whom before time they were necessitated to be subject for the said thousand years space though against their own heart yet shall think then upon Satans seducement and conduct to free themselves from their yoke by attempting to compass with their multitudes the Camp of the Saints and even attempt to besiege the beloved City too the New Jerusalem that came down from God out of Heaven even Heaven it self upon Earth where the blessed and holy raised Saints had all the thousand years before happily beheld Christs glorious Presence shining bright with light and comfort upon them the Lamb being in each respect the light of that City Rev. 21.23 Isa 60.1 expecting by such means to free themselves from that by them supposed heavy yoke of the Saints good Government that so the Kingdoms of the World might again become the Kingdoms of Satan and of themselves his Vassals Upon which abominable attempt of Satan and those by him seduced hypocrites the Vengeance of God by fire as formerly upon the Beast and false Prophet shall again fall from God out of Heaven upon them and devour them and thereupon the Devil that deceived them be cast into the lake of Fire and Brimstone where the said Beast and false Prophet were cast above a thousand years before to be perpetually there tormented with them unto which will succeed the end of the World and the general judgement when again the Judge will sit and the Books will be opened and another Book will be opened which is the Book of Life and the Dead shall be judged out of those things that shall be written in the Books according to their Works as follows Rev. 20.11 12 c. whereunto succeds Eternity of Blessedness or Misery to every Man and Woman accordingly as they stand or fall in that general Judgment And thus briefly of the main things of Christs Kingdom in its several states of the Stone and of the Mountain filling the whole earth with what respects the beginning and ending of the latter state of the Mountain namely that it begins upon the destruction of the first Gog and Magog to wit of the Turk and Pope Ezek. 38. 39. before the New Jerusalem Ezek. 40. to the end of the Book which shall be called Jehova Shamma the Lord is there and at the end of the 1000 years reign of Christ and his Saints will succeed the attempt and defeat and ruine of the last Gog and Magog of wicked hypocrites against the Camp of the Saints and the beloved City as was shewed upon which will ensue the end
An Additional Supplement to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR Peaceable Considerations of Christs peaceful Kingdome to come upon the Earth in the Thousand years Rev. 20. lately published 1665. The PREFACE Christian Brethren I Having in my late 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 2. declared my purpose to make some parallels of part of the Prophesie of Daniel with the things contained in the book of Revelations of Jesus Christ which is plainly a Divine Mystical Comment upon the particulars of the 4th and 5th Monarchies contained in Daniels Prophesie that is of what was more fully to be performed under the Roman and Christs Monarchy both before the Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands had so strucken the Image on the feet and toes thereof that it was wholly destroyed and also afterwards when the Stone was become a Mountain and filled the whole earth But by the hand of God upon me then shewing me my mistake in respect of the manner of Christs coming and of Christs Kingdome that it was not Mystical but personal as before I apprehended until I found that coming was the beginning of the day of Judgment and likewise upon occasion of those other parallels of the three Babels which I at first thought not of until by Gods guidance led unto them I was so far thereby taken off from my former purpose That onely in the 5th Chapter concerning those three Babels I did but briefly touch upon that intended parallel of the Books of Daniel and the Revelations But since through Gods merciful goodness having further discovery of the usefulness of such an endeavour I have accordingly by his grace set upon that business in this ensuing order First to set down a brief and plain Abridgment of the sum of the Prophetical Visions in Daniel contained First in Nebuchadnezzars dream of the great â—mage Chap. 2 and Daniels Vision of the same matter namely of four Earthly Monarchies under four Beasts to pass before Christs glorious Kingdom take place Chap. 7. wherein is shewed to Daniel a Jew the beginning of the Judgment at the destruction of the fourth Beast which was not shewed to Nebuchadnezzar a Gentile as Mr. Mede observe though he saw the Kingdome of the Stone A Second Prophetical Vision was given unto Dan. c. 8. of the subduing of the second Monarchy for the ruine f the first to wit of Babylon had been shewed before to Daniel chap. 7.4 namely of the Kingdome of the Medes and Persians by Alexander the Great the founder of the Grecian Monarchy with the dividing thereof to his four Captains jointly succeeding him towards the four winds as the Text speaketh where the Spirit of God passing by the Greek affairs for a long time unto that one King of fierce countenance Antiochus Epiphanes at last rising out of one of them whose wicked actings against the Church of the Jews is shewed should be short and his death terrible towards the end of that 8. chap. In chap. 9. Daniel had a third Vision of the 70 weeks of years till Christ had finished his work of Redemption and confirmed the Covenant with many both Jews and Gentiles for that time But his fourth and last Vision chap. 10.11.12 sets forth before him again the Persian the Greek and the Roman Kingdoms with the beginning of Christs Monarchy yet chiefly in the 11 chap. he speaks of the intestine wars and thereby the decaying of the Kingdome of Grecia under two principal heads of Egypt and Syria called the Kings of the South and North mutually battering down each other and yet both of them sadly oppressing â—he poor Jews that lay between them from v. 4 to 21. and from thence to 36. is set down a more full discription of that vile and wicked Antiochus Epiphanes before the Roman Kingdom took place who at last was said to come out of one of the four heads chap. 8.9 being that wicked little horn that probably may well be reckoned as a type of the great Antichrist in whose ruine the Grecian Kingdome and Javans rage together ended Now after the brief consideration of these Visions I shall endeavour in such a said Parallel respecting the 4th and 5th Monarchy in Daniel according as our blessâ—d Saviour by his divine wisdom hath been pleased to open and set them down for the use of his Christian Church in his very useful book of Revelations for these last times and leaving particular observations and applications to Christians in their private Meditations aiming herein at brevity and clearness I shall satisfie my self onely Thirdly To set down somewhat in general to those purposes if God will in the last place N w in considering of these I have to the said purposes or brevity and clearness profestedly avoided all those perplexing controversies whereby some have unhappily obscured both the scope and meaning of the Visions as likewise some commonly mistaken expressions as That the Thrones were cast down 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—onec throni eâ—ati sunt as Aâ—â—â— Moâ—â—nus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sept for the Thrones were set Chap. 7.9 having enâ—eavoured as God hath enabled me to seek out the most genuine sense and the most clear and evident drift of these Visions in the main of them with divers natural explications from the matter and subject of them which by the assistance of Gods spirit together with the Rule of his Word I either have or shall observe to be most consonant unto truth Yet in the intended Parallel between the Fourth or Roman and Christs Kingdom held out in Daniel and the Revelation ye may with me take notice of what Mr. Mede sets down of their different handling thereof namely that it is done in Daniel more darkly summatim in genere summarily and in general onely but in the Revelation Particulatim in specie more particularly and specially Or saith he in another place Daniel speaks of the Roman â—mpire in imaginè confusa But Christs Revelation contains the series rerum gerendarum the order of things to be done according to the diverse fates and states of the Church in which respect many things in Daniel were said to be sealed up and shut up till the time of the end as Ch. 12.9 till Christ Jesus the true and faithful Witness had so Divinely made them known for his Churches great advantage by his Servant John This further beloved Brethren I would advertise you of that besides Daniel's Visions we shall beyond former intentions endeavour to represent somewhat of Ezekiel's Visions and especially from Chap. 37. to the end of that Book who bâ—ing a Prophet of the same time of the Captivity though not in the same place with Daniel yet by the same Spirit was guided into the same truth then made known to Gods people for their comfort yet one explaining the other in some things Therefore after Ezekiel chap. 37. had the Vision of the Jews last and great Restauration when both they and the rest of the twelve
beginning of the following state namely of the Kingdom of Power or the Kingdom of the Mountain then to succeed as Rev. 20. and Rev. 11. which as that of the Stone was many hundred years in passing to this last state So this shall never pass away or be destroyed while the World continues but shall at last be perfected in the Kingdom of Glory in Heaven for evermore as that of Patience was perfected in the Kingdom of Power before Now of the time of the beginning of the first saith Daniel chap. 2.44 In the dayes of those Kings shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom c. and of the beginning of the Second chap. 7. saith he again v. 13 14. I saw the Son of man coming with the Clouds of Heaven and unto him was given Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all People Nations and Languages should serve him c. Of which more by Gods assistance afterwards 3dly We must especially observe how the first Session of the day of Judgment begins the said last state of Christs Kingdom where the Judgment is said to be se and the Books opened at the destruction of the Beast and upon that account Dan. 7.12 because of the great words which the Horn spake ver 9 10 11. will be executed by Christ at the Armageddon Battel Rev. 19.11 to the end spoken of Rev. 16. And likewise another like Session of Judgment after the thousand years we may again observe will according as God hath appointed and our Saviour declared Rev. 20.11 13 c. perfect the said Kingdom of the Mountain in glory after the last Gog and Magog shall be destroyed after the thousand years shall be ended when also the Judgment will again be set and the Books opened which is proper only to the Judgment of the great Day as St. Jude calls it and why should it seem strange that Christ should have such a great Day to judg and rule in over all creatures as he is Mediator whilst the Kingdom which the Ancient of Days gave him shall remain in his hand when Antichrist had his Day of before And not to speak of the days of Captivities of the Jews or of 1260 years their forty years in the Wilderness Heb. 4. St. Peter reckons Eternity under the name of a day 1 Pet. 3. last 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in the Original So that upon many considerations Mr. Mede might well reckon all that time from Christs coming with clouds Dan. 7.13 of which Rev. 1.7 and Rev. 19.11 c. to the last Sessions end under the title of the Day of Judgment wherein first at the destruction of Antichrist when he destroys the quick with visible temporal judgment and rewards his Servants the Prophets and his Saints and all that fear his Name both small and great in their order Rev. 11.18 and Rev. 20.4 5. when likewise Daniel sheweth the Saints shall take the Kingdom being then given to them and possess it for ever to the Worlds end as Christ then will receive it of his Father to give it to them ver 13. yet they shall rule for him ver 27. all that time in all Nations under the whole Heaven 4thly In the next place the God of Heaven is said to be first the Founder of Christs Kingdom in the whole of it under both states of the Stone and Mountain of Patience and Power chap. 2.44 In the dayes of those Kings the God of Heaven shall set up a Kingdom that shall never be destroyed c. And also he is said to be the Doner or Giver of it to Christ his Son chap. 7.9 13 14. So likewise Rev. 5. Christ hath not onely the Revelation given to him from God the Father to open and make known the same to his Church but the Lamb hath Riches and Honour and Power and Wisdom and Strength c. to execute and fulfil all things contained therein ver 12 13. which he himself declared before his ascention Matt. 28.18 19 20. his Commission from the Father enables him to fulfil the contents of that Book in both states of that Kingdom in order from the beginning of the first Seal chap. 6. when he sent out his Apostles as before Matt. 28. to and in his 1000. years reign on Earth Rev. 20.4 Rev. 5.10 5thly So likewise for the extent of his Kingdom under both States In the first state it is large without restraint unto Jews or Gentiles Greeks or Barbarians in respect of the tender of it Go preach the Gospel to every creature Mar. 16.15 Go preach the Gospel to all Nations Matt. 28.19 As Augustus Coesar would have all the World taxed so Christs riding on the white Horse hath the same bounds Rev. 5. No doubt their sound went into all the world and their words to the end of the earth saith the Apostle Rom. 10.18 So Dan. 2.24 It shall never be destroyed but shall break in pieces all those Kingdoms and extend sometimes very largely in the Empire and at one time or other all over the known World But the other state of the Kingdom of the Mountain is not onely unlimited in the tender of it but also boundless in the extent of it over all the whole Earth as an huge Mountain it fills the whole Earth Dan. 2.35 and ch 7.13 14. To the Son of Man was given Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all People Nations and Languages should serve him and his Deputies the Saints take the Kingdom ver 18. and that which was the greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven v. 27. and then all Dominions shall serve and obey him So Rev. 20.4 the Saints reigned with Christ a thousand years and the representative Church exult assuredly That they shall reign upon Earth Rev. 5.10 and Rev. 11.15 The Kingdoms of the World are become the Kingdoms of our God and of his Christ c. 6thly Again for the nature of this Kingdom although the first state of it being mostly invisible and therefore in the outward aspect for the most part despised neglected yea opposed by the men of the World of all sorts for the most part of the time of the Kingdom of Patience in which state though the Devil and the wicked World have endeavoured earnestly to destroy it yet it could never be destroyed Dan. 2.44 And though the Beast make war with the Saints and think to wear them out yet his time is limited to a time times and dividing of a time but then the Judgment shall sit and destroy him Dan. 7.25 26. even when he shall have accomplished to scatter the Power of the holy people Dan. 12.7 for he shall never utterly destroy their Power Rev. 12.6 So Rev. 13. Rev. 11.2 But in the second state it will not onely be an inwardly invisible true Church but also an outwardly visible and glorious Kingdom likewise when Jews and Gentiles shall be so largely and unlimitedly brought into it Rom. 11.12 c. Dan. 7.14 Even