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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42199	Hosanna to the son of David, or, A testimony to the Lord Christ shewing his rule and reign over the people of the Jews upon earth a thousand years together with his second personal appearance proved from the Scripture of truth : with a general word of life from the point to saints and sinners / by Samuel Grosvenour.	Grosvenour, Samuel.	1659 (1659)	Wing G2080; ESTC R28257	31,270	48

Now it will be to our purpose to consider in what respect these shall be said to sing the song of Moses which is Typical for I believe that both Jews and Gentiles shall sing this song And they sung a new song saying Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the Seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and Nation And hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall reign upon the Earth Rev. 5.9 10. so that out of every people Christ will have a peculiar people Now let us see how well the children of God travelling towards this new Jerusalem and the children of Israel towards the Land of Canaan will Agree together First then to take in the spiritual meaning as the Children of Israel were in Egypt under sore bondage so are all the sons and daughters of Adam by nature under the bondage of sin and Satan and led captive by him at his pleasure 2 Tim. 2.26 now the Lord by the hand of Moses he brings them out of Egypt and they are set safe over the Red Sea and now for the Land of Canaan but they came not thither for we read of their sad fall through unbelief Heb. 3.18 so the Lord by the death of Jesus Christ hath set out a way for all towards the heavenly Canaan but few come thither and why so Many are called but sew are chosen one of a Tribe and two of a Family as the Scripture witnesseth Many that are first shall be last and the last first Secondly if we look at the mystical meaning then by Egypt we are to understand Babylon mystical Babylon amongst whose inhabitants there is Egyptian darkness and the Lord now in the dayes of the Gospel having called and brought his people out of Babylon while they stand upon a Sea of glass mingled with fire they are inabled by the Spirit of God to sing They sing the Song of Moses and of the Lamb saying Just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Isa. 33.22 The Israel after the flesh they sing being delivered from outward Enemies the Israel after the Spirit they shall sing being delivered from all their enemies both inward and outward In Rev. 19. you have the great joy and rejoycing of the Saints at the downfal of Babylon whilst the Kings of the Earth which have committed Fornication with her and the Merchants of the Whore are weeping and wailing and crying out Alas alas the Saints they shall be saying Alleluiah salvation and honour glory and power unto the Lord our God even so Amen Alleluiah It is a praising and rejoycing in the Lord for his great Judgements and vengeance which he had taken and to this end Christ was anointed to proclaim the day of vengeance of our God Isa. 61.2 63.4 34.8 but in what posture then shall the Saints be in that day you may see in the 7. vers. Let us be glad and rejoyce and give honour to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his Wife hath made her self ready Well amongst all this vengeance and Judgement let us see what will be the Name of Jesus Christ and that is King of kings and Lord of lords vers. 16. We come now to Rev. 20.1 we have presented unto us an Angel coming down from Heaven having the Key of the bottomless pit whether Christ be meant here by this Angel or no I shall leave that to the judicious Reader with his meditations upon Rev. 1.18 where Christ faith I have the Keys of Hell and Death now this Angel layeth hold on the Dragon which is Satan and bindes him a Thousand years and he is cast into the bottomless pit with a Seal upon him Some there are that do imagine that this thousand years was in the time of Constantine but I see no ground for the truth of it for when he shall be bound the Nations shall not be deceived with any false worship as ever hitherto they have been since the man of sin that son of perdition hath been up and that he was loosed in the time of wicked Hildebrand a Necromancer but the words here in the 3. vers. faith That after his binding he must be loosed for a little season now the wise man faith There is a time a season for everything and if the time since in the Scriptural Account can be lookt upon as a little season yet where hath Satans work been For I believe that Satan is yet at his first work in being a lying Spirit in the mouthes of false Prophets and so deceiving the Nations in the things of God and of Christ and carrying on the Mystery of Iniquity and at this work he is new very busie labouring to pervert Foundation-truths by sinful suggestions into our hearts I know it by mine own experience for he hath been very much labouring to blind my understanding and judgement in a foundation-truth but O for ever blessed he that faithful High Priest the Lord Jesus Christ who knowing all his plots hath still kept my Faith running out upon his word with an answering It is written But now his last work that we read he shall do is to gather the nations against this beloved City to their final destruction he is no sconer out of prison but he goes to his work and loseth no time it is said that he went out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth Why it is reported by writers that Jerusalem is in the midst of the earth and so in this sence Christ will rule in the midst of his enemies as it may truly be said when Christ taketh possession of any heart why there is flesh and sin and the world I but Christ he is King he keeps his Throne and will at length bring them down under his seat though for a time for ends best known unto the Lord they may have their lurking corners in the soul Now when Satan had cathered them together the next news that we finde is their general destruction by fire which I believe is the general destruction of the whole world with all things that are therein Heaven and earth shall pass away faith Christ but not one tittle of my word until all be fulfilled for I finde that the general Judgement of the righteous and the wicked it followeth afterward and then shall those wicked ones who were in that last Conspiracie against Christ and his people and so filled up the measure of the sins of all the Serpents seed that went before them be condemned before his Tribunal for the book shall be opened and every one shall be judged according to his works But before this Throne and Judgement of Christ upon this white Throne by himself particularly spoken of in vers. 11. we have divers Thrones spoken of in the fourth verse And judgement was given unto them who had