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A86120	Christs kingdome on earth, opened according to the scriptures. Herein is examined, what Mr. Th. Brightman, D. J. Alstede, Mr. I. Mede, Mr. H. Archer, The glympse of Sions glory, and such as concurre in opinion with them, hold concerning the thousand years of the saints reign with Christ, and of Satans binding: herein also their arguments are answered. Imprimatur; Ia. Cranford. Feb. 12. 1644.	Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing H1217; Thomason E278_1; ESTC R200009	77,855	95

his feet Ephes. 1.20 21. Therefore Satan was then also conquered and triumphed over by Christ for hee was the grand Boutifeu and chiefe enemie of Christ and was by Christ imprisoned and laid fast up in chaines as conquerors deale with the ringleaders of such as with hostilitie oppose them Arg. 4. The 70. Disciples sent forth by Christ subdued devils by Christs name and Christ thereupon tels them that hee saw Satan fall from heaver as lightning and then did Christ give to his disciples power to tread on Serpents and Scorpions and all power of the enemy so that nothing could hurt them Luk 10.18 c. To which purpose also wee read 1 Joh. 5.18 that the evill one cannot touch them that are born of God Therefore in the primitive times one thousand five hundred years agon the devill was bound and in eminent manner restrained by Christ Chap. X. Objections answered whereby it further will appeare that Satans eminent binding for a thousand yeers is already past HOwever the arguments in the former Chapter sufficiently confirme the truth some there are who will not be satisfied therewith I will therefore answer what they produce to assert the contrary Object How was Satan bound say they when all the Apostles were persecuted Christs subjects distressed and destitute of all comforts and most of them cruelly put to death Gl. pag. 9. had not Satan a manifest hand and plot herein and indevored hereby to hinder if not to extirpate the Gospel Answ. Satan was long agon cast down by Michael or Christ and subdued as is above proved and seeing then hee could not doe the mischiefe hee desired to Gods Saints and hinder the advancing of the Gospel hee Rev. 13. gave his power and throne and great authority to the ten horned beast the Roman Tyrants who by their agents and friends then murthered the Apostles and Saints of God Secondly though the servants of God were persecuted and put to violent deaths yet Christ having conquered death its sting was taken away so that it was but a passage for them to a better life and to endlesse blisse Thirdly Christ when it so pleased him did often deliver his servants from dangerous persecutions and from death it self As namely Peter strictly watcht in prison Act. 12.7 and Paul when fattie persons had sworn not to eat or drink untill they had kild him Act 23.12 and then onely did God permit them to bee slain when they had finished their course and might best glorifie God by their deaths which they underwent willingly couragiously comfortably So that as formerly their lives so now their deaths made the Gospel greatly to bee taken notice of and to bee glorified Object Satan is cold the Prince of the ayre who works in the children of disobedience Ephes. 2.2 Hee is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a ruler of the world in darknesse here beneath Ephes. 6.12 The comming of the man of sin is by the works of Satan with signes and lying wonders 2 Thess. 2.9 Therefore Satan was not in the primitive times bound chain'd and sealed up the bottomlesse pit Answ. That which in Rev. 20. is termed the bottomlesse pit is in other notions cald Earth and Sea Rev. 12.12 and aire or darknesse Ephes. 2.2 The aire saith Philo Jud. is black and dark of its own nature and is cald {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} darknesse Hence the devill is stiled the Prince of the ayre and of darknesse The Sea and Earth also have no light of themselves but from above When therefore it is said the devill hath power in the ayre earth or sea by these are meant men of dark earthly and unquiet minds In which sense it is said Rev. 12.12 Woe bee to the inhabitants of the earth and Sea for Satan being by Christ cast out of the heaven of the Church hee came amongst the inhabitants of the Ayre Sea and Earth that is men who were not heavenly minded The affinitie of these terms appears first because the Beast which Apoc. 13.1 is said to rise out of the Sea is spoken of Apoc. 9.7 as ascending out of the bottomlesse pit And secondly there is a Tehom an Abysse or bottomlesse pit Psal. 71.20 ascribed to the Earth as elswhere to the Sea Now when Satan was cast down from domineering in the Church and had his speciall abode among wicked men hee set up first the ten horned Beast Revel. 13.1 to blaspheme the name of God to war with to overcome and kill Gods people And secondly hee set up the Beast with two horns Vers 11. who did the works of the first Beast and did also deceive the world with signes and lying wonders Vers 13,14 for this second Beast expresses fully the man of sin who 2 Thess. 2.9 is described by his false and commerfeit wonders What mischief Satan bound by Christ could not then work by himself hee endeavoured to act by these two his wicked instruments Quest Suppose it bee denied that heaven in Scripture at any time signifies the Church and that Earth Sea and Aire denote wicked blind and unquiet worldlings how can the contrary bee proved Answ. It is thus proved First The disciples are called the lights of the world Matth. 5.14 The godly Philippians must shine in the world as lights Phil. 2.15 When the teachers of sacred doctrine in the Church were puld down the Stars are said to fall from heaven Dan. 8.10 Rev. 9.1 The Angels or chiefe teachers of the Church are cald Stars Revel. 1.20 Therefore the Church is the heaven in which they move and shine and from which their light and influence proceeds to take men off from their worldly estate Secondly Saint Augustine saith expresly Sancti justi coelum vocantur holy and just men are called Heaven De civ Deilib 2. c. 21. and expounds that in Mal. 4. lest I come and destroy the earth of the wicked upon the Earth qui terrena sapiunt who mind earthly things Ib. c. 29. His judgment herein is sound because wee finde the members of Christs Church called heaven Rev 12.11 where the heavens and they that dwell therein that is such as overcome by the blood of the Lamb are bid to rejoyce And on the contrary the inhabitants of the earth are expounded to bee such as have not their names written in the book of life Rev. 12.9 Thus what was denyed I conceive is sufficiently proved Many learned Expositers give their assent hereunto Repl. The casting down of Satan to the earth and excluding him from heaven Apoc. 12. and Satans binding shutting and sealing up in the bottomlesse pit Rev. 20. are so far from expressing one and the same thing in different notions which some Expositers think they doe that there is no one word the same in both 1 The Angel binding Satan Apoc. 20 came from heaven but Michael in Chap. 12 fights with the Dragon in Heaven 2 Concerning Satan be is 1 taken 2 bound 3 shut up 4 sealed up

saith that John in the Revelation prophesied that Christians should accomplish that thousand year in Jerusalem Answ. Justin beleeves the resurrection of the body wee deny it not But Justin asserts not two resurrections as some now doe one a thousand years before the other Justin sayes that Jerusalem shall bee re-edified inlarged adorned in such sense as Ezekiel and Esay foretold it is most true A Jerusalem that in Rev. 21.10 Gal 4.26 all the world over shall bee made a place of Gods worship as was the old Jerusalem to the great joy of all people the distinction of Jew and Gentile shall bee taken away and all true Christians shall bee the Israel of God and true Jews and shall have no need of the old Jerusalem How implicitly in Esaies words by Justin cited the thousand years should be pointed at he is quicksighted that can discern No man I think endeavours now to prove the thousand years from that text in Esay It there were any such thing in Esays words Logick now if ever would work it out Further St John sayes not totidem verbis in expresse terms what Iustin alledges but that there shall be a new Ierusalem comming down from heaven not built by man and that the Saints shall reign a thousand years with Christ and I will also grant that this reign should bee in the new Jerusalem But that reign was in the beginning of the Gospels times for a thousand yeers and shall not bee towards the end of the world This Ierusalem is mother of us all of all the Israel of God of all beleeving Iews and Gentiles in all times to the world end and is not limited to old Jerusalems seat and some certain time That kingdom began long since and was such as hath been above shewed not such as the pleaders for the thousand yeers to come describe it Object Divers of the Ancient Fathers besides Iustin Martyr as Ireneus Tertullian Lactantius Nepos and others held the opinion of the thousand yeers reign Austine himself sometime inclined to the same and it seems to bee Ieroms prime Argument against it that it savoured of Judaism to reject this opinion is a neglect of an ancient Tradition of the Church Papias recommended it to the Fathers above they to us Answ. The antiquity of this opinion will be little warrant to the verity of it if wee consider that Ireneus sayes That Papias an Auditor of St. John asserted it whereas Papias himself denies that ever hee saw or heard the Apostles And Eusebius B 3. Histor Eccles. sayes that Papias was too credulous and of shallow judgment and by mis-interpreting Apostolicall expositions led others into errour as Ireneus in this very point and as some conceive in the opinion of Antichrists reign but for three years and an half near the worlds end You see then what a tottering and weak foundation this tradition hath It is granted that Austin had an inclination to like of it but his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} second thoughts made him wisely to abandon those Fathers faulty opinion and to correct his own as for Ierom hee censures the millenary conceit to bee a Iewish {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} fable and so inconsistent with the vision in Apoc. 20. jarring in it self contrary to other Scriptures and unworthy of the Christian faith See Ierom on the life of Papias Hee had therefore Arguments sufficient to confute it Dionysins a learned and judicious Bishop of Alexandria called together the chief abettors of this opinion and argued with them about it three dayes from morning till night and examined Nepos Book in defence thereof whereupon in conclusion his chief opposer yeelded and promised never to teach or so much as to mention the opinion again and all the rest there present submitted to the truth Euseb. Histor. B. 7. Repl. Bee this opinion true or false or whether the Fathers held an errour herein or no to bee of the same minde with the Jews is not alwayes culpable The Rabbins tell us that the seventh millenary is the great day of Judgment That the world shall continue six thousand years and in the seventh thousand bee destroyed with fire and purified and the Lord alone shall bee exalted in that day Esa. 2. that is shall bee King over all the Earth They say that God in this millenary shall break the wicked and that it shall bee a great Sabbath or day of rest Other Rabbins hold that the sixt millenary shall be the day of Judgment Rabbi Elias sayes that the world should continue two thousand yeers before the Law two thousand years under the Law two thousand under Christ See these and other their opinions cited by Mr. Mede on Revel. 20. Answ. No man holds the Jews in all things culpable They are most carefull and vigilant preservers of the originall Hebrew Text intire and uncorrupt so that had not the Jews and Greeks been kept distinct people untill these times the knowledge both of the Hebrew Greek originals had perished by the prevalency of Papistical darknesse See my preface to Cognatio Linguarum The Iews also when they list to speak out shew good skill in the sacred stories Besides many passages in their Talmuds about their rites and customes serve better to open some difficulties in the New Testament then our Latine Commentaries What I attribute to the knowledge lockt up in the Hebrew tongue see in my Book Cognatio Linguarum Posit 9. The Rabbins have many truths but like good corne in much chaffe themselves often times so speake that they will tell you Stultus credit omni verbo it is sillinesse to take all they speak for sad truth Maimonid part 1. chap. 62. Schick Bechin Happer pag. 114. Some truths they hide under Enigmaes and Parables and of them they say I finding a Pomegranat did eat the Kernels and laid by the Rinde P. Galatin 1.7 Yet many such riddles they have not worth the cracking their shell and more like a deafe nut then an wholsome Pomegranat These fall under Pauls prohibition of not giving heed to fables 1 Tim. 1.4 Hee that will prositably peruse them must try all things in them and keep that which is good 1 Thes. 5.21 And whoever will hope to deale soundly with them which would bee a glorious and heavenly work for their conversion must bee able to match and surpasse them as in sound knowledge of the Scripture so in their own tongue and learning as the Apostles and ancient Fathers did the Greeks Herein Mr. Broughton did much and had hee lived longer by good incouragement was both able and willing to have done far more Secondly for the present question observe the Jews jarring opinions Some of them hold the day of judgment the wickeds breaking and the Messias his exalting to bee at the end of the fift millenary which is fully past for I hold the world to be five thousand five hundred seventie one years old in this year