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A27634	The universal Christian doctrine of the Day of Judgment applied to the doctrine of the thousand years kingdom of Christ (herein guided by Mr. Baxter's Reply) to vindicate it from all objections ... / by Thomas Beverley ...	Beverley, Thomas.	1691 (1691)	Wing B2186; ESTC R5659	45,032	44

Mystery which we must not hope perfectly to Understand till we see the Blessed Accomplishment of it I could not but Transcribe a Paragraph worthy of Letters of Gold Not because suitable to my Sense of small Account but because so Agreeable with Sense of Scripture if I can be sure I see or know any Thing And yet how little taken notice of To conclude the Argument The Thousand Years are made by God the Emblem and Hierogliphick of the Perfection of Time and do litterally express that very Time God hath Ordain'd to be the Fulness of Time and the Perfection of it And so I come to the Third Thing propos'd to consider any other Hipothesis or Model of Things in Bar of this propos'd And I find these Two 1. That All this Kingdom of Christ with its New Heaven and Earth are suppos'd rather to Fit the Kingdom of Eternity Against this I Argue 1. The New Heaven and the New Earth the Scripture speaks of Revel 21. v. 1. are certainly the very same that Fly away from the pure Crystal Throne of Eternity and from his Face that Sate upon it Ready to Deliver up the Kingdom to God All in All. This is certain because the New Heaven and New Earth are Concurrent with the New Jerusalem as is most Clear by the Conjunct Vision John had of Them Revel 21. 12. I saw a New Heaven And v. 1. And I John saw the holy City When he Saw the New Heaven c. and the New Jerusalem The first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away So then the Heaven and Earth that were with the New Jerusalem were not the first Heaven and Earth but the Heaven and Earth that were at the same time with the Holy City And they fled away as is most Evident by the close Connexion and Order between the Compassing the Holy and Beloved City which cannot be suppos'd to be any other then the New Jerusalem call'd by the Name of the Holy City as c. 20. 9. so c. 21. 2. and the Beloved City because the Bride For after that Assault that was after the 1000 Y. Satan was cast into the Lake that had the Power of Death And then immediately the White Throne was seen and Heaven and Earth fled away which must be the Heaven and Earth Cotemporary with the New Jerusalem and so with the 1000 Years and seeing as was said just now They must be new Heaven and New Earth Therefore the New Heaven and New Earth continue not to Eternity For I cannot see where there can be any Doubt in the Connexion or Order the Divine Prophecy hath so taken care Sathans casting into the Lake must needs be after the 1000 Years therefore after the New Heaven and Earth the Heaven and Earth that Fled must be Those that were at the Judging and casting the Dead into the Lake Can we suppose then that this White Throne the Judging the Dead and casting the Dead into the Lake was before the 1000 Years and so the Heaven and Earth flying also and then indeed They must be the First Heaven and First Earth and not the New Ones But All that cannot be because whatever was not Written in the Book of Life was then cast into the Lake And it is certain Sathan was not Written in the Book of L●fe therefore he Could not be out of the Lake at the Time of Death and the Dead being cast into the Lake But he was not cast into the Lake till the 1000 Years were past So that this whole Transaction upon Death and the Flying of Heaven and Earth were all after the 1000 Years and therefore the New Heaven and New Earth which Run along with the 1000 Years were the Heavens and Earth that Fled away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which was the Thing to be shown and is shown For if such a Connexion as this will not prove nothing can be prov'd by Consequence from Scripture 2. Those Three Expressions of the Apostle The Kingdom shall be deliver'd up by the Son The Son shall be subject God shall be All in All so strongly sway with me that no distinction of Acquisition and Fruition can weigh against them but that such a State as of the New Heaven and New Earth and a Kingdom of Christ proportionate to it cannot be the State of the Kingdom of Eternity Especially when I Joyn to it those Words of our Lords Mediatory Prayer John 17. That They may be one in us and that They may see my Glory and that Glory was the Glory Christ had with the Father before the Foundation of the World So that the Glory of the Humane Nature of Christ and of the Elect Angels and Saints being first confess'd All the State of Glory is Brought to the nearest that can be to that State of Glory before the World began and so not of New Heaven and a New Earth and what is Agreeable to the Creation 3. A Delivery up of the Glory of the Judiciary Kingdom or of that proper to the Day of Judgment to the Father and the Son 's being subject that is laying down that Lustre of Appearance proper to that Administration cannot be denied And that and no other which is always Attributed to the Son of Man and to the Man Christ Jesus and the delivering up that Kingdom and no other is what I plead for and no otherwise then so far as is necessary for the making Good of what the Apostle hath said That the Kingdom is to be deliver'd up that the Son is to be subject and God to be All in All From which as having some Higher Deeper and more Substantial Sense then the distinction of Acquisition and Fruition can Comprehend I cannot depart 4 The Superlative unexpressible Excellency of the Divine Glory from Eternity hath so Great a Command upon my Understanding together with that Expression of the Apostles of God's being All in All that altho the Humane Nature of Christ as united to the Divine though the Humane Nature of Christ and his Saints the Union of Saints to God by Christ be Free and wholly Grace and were not indeed from Eternity yet Joyning the so often mention'd Assertion of the Apostle Paul with our Lords of the Glory before the World began Assures me that the State of Angels and Saints is Brought to the highest Nearness Created Nature is capable of to that Glory before the Foundation of the World even as the Humane Nature of Christ is so Advanc'd and that that Objectition viz. that the Humane Nature of Christ had not an Existence in that Glory before the World Argues to me the more strongly that All this is so For it speaks that Humane Nature it self therefore drawn more out of all Created Glory into the Glory of the Eternal Word and that the Divine Nature of the Eternal Word is our Object and not the Humane Nature of Christ all the objective Glory of Christ in his Humane Nature and of Angels and Saints being

that is To seek out the best and fairest Sense that I could possibly find wherein I had any Reason of Check at what is Written should I be so unjust as to understand by Mr. Baxter's being a Papist presently on such Terms any Thing else but that as to that Point of Acnowledging the Pope as Head of Vnity as they speak He would be a Papist and only upon the Supposition of Divine Institution and that the Essence of Popery consisted in that whereas to be a Papist is generally understood to be an Embracer of all the Idolatry and Superstitions c. the Pope hath established by the Authority which is suppos'd to be in Him to establish what he pleases as He is such a Head Should I Turn this every way to Aggravate it and Raise Tragical Suspitions and Discourses upon it Far be it from me I take his Meaning simply as He intended it It is but the same Measure I desire But I come to the main Point and thereunto I make Answer in these following Particulars 1. By the Churches I do not understand so the Symbolized Vniversal Church as that the particular Churches named should be Excluded but each Church with its Pastors Included So that supposing a Proesto's to be understood by the Angel It would Arise to no more then that all these Seven Successions through the Vniversal Church were Represented in each Succession by these single Churches and their Angels 2. I am very far from Thinking that either Pope or Bishop or so much as a Proesto's is understood by Angel but that Angel throughout this Prophecy Generally I do not say in every Particular Signifies a Collective Ministery of sit Instruments to every Purpose and so Angels of the Churches Intends the Holy Pastors or Ministers of each Successional State of the Church who were Instructed in the Main Concernments of the Kingdom of Christ in each Age and Remonstrated them to the Churches And therefore I observe a Care as I Apprehend of the Divine Spirit Foreprizing any such Interpretation of the Angels a● if They were single Persons For saith Christ Chapter 1. vers 20. The Seven Stars are the Angels of the Seven Churches Seven is applyed to the Stars and to the Churches but not to the Angels as it were Declining the Application of the Number to the Angels the nearest and most immediate Symbol of what-ever was intended that there might be no Collection They were single Persons 2. I observe such a Sympathy between the Angels of the Churches and the Churches that in one Great Instance the Spirit turns off from the Angel to speak to the Body of the Church To You I say and to the Rest of Thyatyra Chap 2. v. 24 ●● And that is a Key to the Intention in every Epistle to the Churches Besides the Book of what John saw to be Written by Him Chap. 1. v. ●0 is directed to each Church by Christ's especial Command and to the Angels only as Speakers or Prolocutors as to our Speakers in Parliament and it is still said He that hath an Ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches And the Promises are made to each single Person of each Church so that what is said to any One is said to All wherefore as to me it is most plain All Ecclesiastick Power any further than it holds out the Word of Christ which every single Christian is to know for himself and so to submit unto is no other than some Vein at least of the Feet of Clay much more when it Takes upon it to be Sirly or Lordly over Consciences and most of All when to Enforce it self It pleads by Law Established So far am I in my own Judgment from being Guilty in this matter of an Over-zeal supported only by Ignorance or not according to Knowledge that I was always aware and Guarded against this Consequence 2. I come in the Second place to Apply my Thoughts to Philadelphia and Laodicea as Churches of Another World which that They should be none of the Asian Churches or Christians for 1500 Years ever Believ'd Answer 1. This I look upon as not Known to us what was Believ'd in the Time nearest to the Giving that Prophecy Since then Gradually a Horror of Darkness came upon the Churches especially as to the Apocalyptical Prophecy and most especially as to the Retir'd parts of it And Ah las how much doth it still Remain This I look upon then as so Little of an Argument against their being so that I pass from it Answ 2. Each Epistle is writ not so to the Churches of the Future World but that They are for the Learning and Admonition of every Age of the Church in their most Mystic Sense if They had Ears to hear which very words shew the Sense to be highly Parabolick and Mystic and still much more in their plain Doctrinal Instructing or Reproving Correcting Consolatory Sense and directed to all Churches and Christians in all Ages since Even as They were for the Churches of that Time and more particularly Written Each Epistle to the Church then to which each was directed 3. As to the Church of Philadelphia and the Objections concerning it I have so Fully spoken in my Treatise of the Reformation to be Reform'd especially at Page 62. c that I would only Recollect this Brief Satisfaction That I look upon some Low and Depress'd State of Saints of Christ Symboll'd all along by it from the Reformation Entring until the Reformation it self shall be Reform'd to which the Little strength and such like Expressions are to be Applied That it is so Long Over-Lour'd by the Height and Grandieur of Sardis especially those of it who make Them of the Synagogue of Sathan That it ●nters its proper Time of Succession when it shall Appear in Another Kind of Glory at 97 when also the Kingdom of Christ enters its Succession at the end of the Apostasie and the Time of it as I have always explain'd that Succession Then Christ hath Right of a Kingdom the Four Monarchies being at an end and prepares for its Glory by the Seven Thunders opened and the Vials poured out wherein the Church of Philadelphia shall be Highly Serviceable This State lasts for Daniel's 75 Added to 1260 of the Apostasie and making 1335 Dan. 12. 12 13. shall be at our 1772. Then the New Jerusalem comes down on the Philadelphian Church in a Glory Transcendental to he Church States that ever have been ●n E●●th for a 〈…〉 ●he end of the 1000 Years the Glory Retires fr●m 〈…〉 on Earth This Loose● Sathan and the Condemn'd Captiva●●● 〈…〉 ●og and Magog to make whatever Attempt They 〈…〉 ●●ss●●ility o● Change in the State of the Saints of the first Resurrection Above but on the Saints Below it hath the Operation of the Abatement of the former Fervors of Bringing all their Glory to the Jerusalem Above and Earnest Desire of being Caught up to it as it s intended but are