but that a Voyage may be made from London to Mexico in as little time as from London to Jerusalem In that respect If the New World should be made the seat of New Jerusalem if the City of the Great KING should be set on the Northern side of it Englishmen would meet with no Inconvenience thereby and they would find this Convenience that they might visit the Citizens of New Jerusalem and their Countrymen all under one As they go thether Barbados stands advanced three hundred Leagues Eastward ready to meet them with a Welcom to the New World And Jamaica is posted just in the way to invite them thother or to salute them in their passing by and to pilot them to St Juan de Ulva if there be occasion When homeward bound Providence will firstly take care of them and after that they will have their Countrymen to friend all along shoar Solitary Bermuda will be overjoyd if they happen to touch there And if in that Latitude any Captain shall commmand Helm a Starboard on purpose to visit our New English Tuzah they will be met with answerable Respect mutual Kindness shall render the Congress happy Yea if the spending of a Mast or springing of a Leak do oblige them to such a Diversion the Pleasantness of the Effect in bringing good Company together shall help to qualifie the bitterness of the Cause Ad cujus minimum fines Regnum Christi portensum iri testantur Prophetatum oracula This word minimum contains in it the most Light for America of any one in the whole Chapter The worthy Author seems here to begin to relent By this means being fairly got without the Invisible walls of the Imperial Prison and expatiating as far as Japan and the Cape of Good Hope I know nothing should hinder but that we may from thence take Shipping for the New World As for Psalm 72.8 and Isa 49.6 they are summoned to speak on our side And there are no less than Six times Three very Credible Witnesses who have given their Affidavit that the Conversion of American Indians is an Accomplishment of those glorious Prophesies Their Testimony is to be seen at large in their Epistle set before a Book published at London in the Year 1652. entituled Strength out of Weakness Or a Glorious MANIFESTATION of the further Progress of the GOSPEL AMONGST THE INDIANS IN NEW ENGLAND c. The Epistle is as followeth Christian Reader These ensuing Letters do represent unto thee and to the Churches the Outgoings of Christ as a Light to the Gentiles that the Grace which brings Salvation hath appeared unto them also in the furthest parts of the Earth for the accomplishment of that ancient and glorious Promise I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles that thou mayst be my salvation to the End of the earth Isa 49.6 c. We have therefore thought fit to commend this great work of Christ unto the view of all the Saints under these following Considerations 1. Hereby the Kingdom of Christ is enlarged Aâ—ma diaboli Gentes crant … c autem Gentâ—um vulneratuâ— cap … quâ—… hab 〈…〉 A … in Psal 118. and the Promise made unto him in the Covenant between him and his Father accomplished his Dominion shall be from Sea to Sea from the Floud unto the Worlds End Therefore his design is upon all the Kingdoms of the Earth that he may take possession of them for Himself They shall all become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ Rev. 11.15 And the Kingdom Dominion under the whole Heaven being so possessed by Christ shall be given to the People of the Saints of the most High Dan. 7.18 27 c. 2. The glorious Gospeâ— of Christ is hereby Propagated c. 3. Hereby the Souls of men are rescued out of the snare of the Devil in which they were before held captive by him at his will c. 4. Hereby the fullness of the Gentiles draweth near to be accomplished that the Calling of the Jews may be hastened c. The first Conversion of the Gentiles in its fullness makes way for the coming in of the Jews the Kings of the East c. 5. That the LORD hath blessed the labours of our Brethren who were driven out from among us A gracious heart as he prays for so he cannot but rejoyce in the success of other mens labours as well as his own So the work which is Gods may prosper whoever be the Instrument 't is enough to him c. 6. This we hope may be but the First fruits of those great Nations unto Christ The Lord doth not usually cause to bring forth and then shut the womb Isaiah 66.9 Let no man despise the day of small things The Lord hath opened a great door which we hope Satan shall never be able any more to shut c. This we humbly offer unto all those that love the Lord JESUS in sincerity and remain Thine in the furtherance of the Gospel William Gouge Tho Goodwin Lazarus Seaman John Owen Edm Calamy Joseph Caryl Jer Whittaker Will Greenhil George Griffith Henry Whitfield Will Spurstow William Bridge Simeon Ashe Sidrach Simpson William Strong Philip Nye William Carter Ralph Venning In quatuor angulis terrae In the four Quarters of the Earth Rev. 20.8 In Asia Africa Europe America East West North and South saith Mr. Cotton MSS. p. 33. Phrasi repetita ex cap. 7.1 hoc est universo Christianismo per omnes mundi partes dilatato Ubique enim grassabitur apostasia sed magis in Oriente Occidente ubi apices erunt imperij c. Pareus col 1111. To suppose that America should not at all be containd in Rev. 7.1 and that all America and no other part of the World beside should be expressed by the very same words Rev. 20 8. Is to me a perfect Riddle which I can by no means expound And it seems Pareus never dream'd of any such thing Gog et Magog sunt Nationes parentes Turcico imperio Brightm p. 658. Quorum utrumque in Orbis Americani Arctici et Antarctici incolas competere nemÃni rei Geographicae perito ignotum est The whole Empire of America being Europaean is a firm and plain Demonstration of its being accessible Barthol de las Casas would fain make us believe that it hath been invaded before now Dr. Whitaker reports that the Spaniards killd more than they left alive de notis Eccl. p. 505. Carthagena was Assaulted Taken by Sir Francis Drake 1585. this very Summer 1697. Emptied of vast Treasures by a French Fleet. Ab Esse ad Posse valet Consequentia As for New Spain by reason of the Isthmus situm ita comparatum habent as that they may be more easily attacked on both sides than Jerusalem can Europe excells in Shipping and the Trade Wind carrieth their Fleets thether From China Japan and other parts of Asia a Fleet may invade them on the side of Acapulco
BRIDEGROOM To whose HONOR I earnestly desire that all that I am have may be entirely and eternally dedicated Psalm 139. 7-10 From sight of thy all-seeing Spirit Lord whither shall I goe Or whither shall I fly away thy Presence to scape fro To Heaven if I mount aloft loe Thou art present there In Hell if I lie down below even there Thou dost appear Yea let me take the morning wings and let me goe and hide Even there where are the farthest parts where flowing Sea doth slide Yea even thither also shall thy reaching Hand me guide And thy Right hand shall hold me fast and make me to abide In Enarratione hujus Psalmi col 1593. Nemo trepidet sed memo de Pennis sais praesumat Opus est ut habeamus pennas Opus est ut Ipse deducat Adjutor enim noster est Affirmat AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS SOME FEW LINES Towards a description of the NEW HEAVEN NOT to begin to be and so not to be limited by the concernments of Time and Place is the Prerogative of GOD alone But as it is the Priviledge of Creatures that GOD has given them a beginning so to deny their actions or them the respect they bear to Place and successive duration is under a pretence of Promotion to take away their very Being Yet notwithstanding some Things have had this to glory of that they have been time out of mind and their Continuance refuses to be measured by the memory of Man Whereas New England and Boston of the Massachusets have this to make mention of that they can tell their Age and account it their Honour to have their Birth and Parentage kept in everlasting Remembrance And in very deed the Families and Churches which first ventured to follow Christ thorow the Atlantick Ocean into a strange Land full of wild men were so Religious their End so Holy their Self denyal in pursuing of it so Extraordinary that I can't but hope that the Plantation has thereby gaind a very strong Crasis and that it will not be of one or two or three Centuries only but very long lasting Some who peremptorily conclude that Asia must afford situation for New-Jerusalem are of the mind when that divine City comes to be built the Commodities of It will be so inviting as will drain disconsolate America of all Its Christian Inhabitants as not able to brook so remote a distance from the beloved City But if Asia should be again thus highly favored and the eldest daughter be still made the darling yet 't is known there will be a River the Streams whereof shall make glad the City of God The Correspondence and Commerce of the little cities and villages in the three Kingdoms and Plantations do make LONDON glad And so it will be with New Jerusalem the Nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it and the Kings of the Earth do bring their glory and honour into it New Jerusalem will not straiten and enfeeble but wonderfully dilate and invigorate Christianity in the several Quarters of the World in Asia in Africa in Europe and in America And one that has been born or but liv'd in America between thirty and fourty years it may be pardonable for him to ask Why may not that be the place of New Jerusalem Problematical Questions do circulate … e Epist 〈◊〉 979. and this was set up by Dr. Twisse above threescore years ago the newness of it in its return after so cosiderable a space of time will I hope render it gratefull or at least will procure leave for one with a little alteration to enquire Why may not New-Spain be the place of New Jerusalem It s being part of the New World one would think carries with it no contradiction thereunto Places are usually called new from the newness of their situation and not from their being built anew as New-Spain New England New-London For certain If Mr. Eliot's Opinion prove true viz. that the aboriginal Natives of America are of Jacob's Posterity part of the long since captivated Ten Tribes and that their Brethren the Jews shall come unto them the dispute will quickly be at an end Manasseh Ben Israel is said to have published a book entituled The hope of Israel endeavouring to prove this Position For my own part what Mr. Downam and Mr. Thorowgood have written on this head seems to be of far more weight with me than what Hornius or any other that I have seen have guess'd to the contrary Mr. Eliot was wont to say The New-English Churches are a preface to the New Heavens and if so I hope the preface and Book will be bound up together and this Mexican Continent shall comprehend them both Who can tell but that David may thus fetch a compass behind his Antichristian enemies and come upon them over against the Mulberry trees and utterly destroy them by the brightness of his coming Who can tell but that Christ may in this manner expose the lewd fondness of the Unholy War and happily umpire the Difference about the holiness of Places by causing New Jerusalem to come down from God out of Heaven upon that Earth wherein Satan for many Ages has peaceably possessed an entire and far more large empire than any where else in the whole world besides No body doubts but that our Saviour can enter into this strong man's house bind him and spoil his goods Let us wait till He revive us by saying I am willing If I mistake not we have a warrant sufficient enough to encourage us unto a perseverance in hoping and waiting upon God for this Salvation Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the Uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession Of all the parts of the world which do from this Charter entitle themselves to the Government of Christ America's plea in my opinion is the strongest For when once Christopher Columbus had added this fourth to the other three parts of the foreknown World they who sailed farther Westward arriv'd but where they had been before The Globe now failed of offering any thing New to the adventurous Travailer Or however it could not afford another new World And probably the cosideration of America's being the Beginning of the East and the End of the West was that which moved Columbus to call some part of it by the Name of Alpha and Omega Peter M Decad. 1. p. 13 Now if the Last ADAM did give Order for the engraving of his own Name upon this last Earth 't will draw with it great Consequences even such as will in time bring the poor Americans out of their Graves and make them live Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potters vessel 'T was most awfull to see or but to hear of Christ's Spanish-Iron Rod walking amongst the earthen pots whereby great Kingdoms and Empires were quickly broken to shivers with many
Phaenomena quaedam APOCALYPTICA Ad Aspectum NOVI ORBIS configurata Or some few Lines towards a description of the New HEAVEN As It makes to those who stand upon the NEW EARTH By Samuel Sewall sometime Fellow of Harvard Colledge at Cambridge in New-England Psalm 45.10 Forget also thy own people and thy fathers house Isai 11 14. But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistins toward the west Act. 1.6 8 Lord wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel ye shall be witnesses unto me unto the uttermost parts of the earth hasta lo ultimo de la tierra Spanish Bible Luke 15 24 For this My Son was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found V 32. For this thy Brother c. Ille non deerit Promissis restituet Regnum Israeli sed suo modo loco ac tempore Bullinger Nequis ista a me dicta aut adducta accipiat quasi contendendi aut adversandi studio ac non discendi potius ac conferendi gratia Fox Med. Apoc. p. 371. ad Phialam Sextam MASSACHVSET BOSTON Printed by Bartholomew Green and John Allen And are to be sold by Richard Wilkins 1697. TO THE HONORABLE Sir WILLIAM ASHVRST Knight GOVERNOUR and the COMPANY For the Propagation of the GOSPEL to the Indians in New-England and places adjacent in AMERICA THE Commendation of Erasmus in his Book entituled Ecclesiastes doth very justly belong to the English Nation upon account of their effectual Desires that the Americans might be gospelliz'd Pulcherrimum Deoque gratissimum erat dare potius quam accipere ijs quos stude mus Christo lucrifacere It was a most beautifull Thing Richard Ed in his Epist to P Martyâ— Decads of â—â— Ocean and most acceptable unto God rather to give to them than to receive from them whom we endeavour to gain for Christ. And yet their Praises are to be sung in a higher Note For I can't but think that either England or New-England or both Together is best is the only Bride Maid mentioned by Name in David's prophetical Epithalamium to assist at the Great Wedding now shortly to be made And for ought I know this Noble Gift Administred by your Hands may be partly intended Angels Incognito have sometimes made themselves guests to Men designing thereby to surprise them with a Requital of their Love to Strangers In like manner the English Nation in shewing Kindness to the Aboriginal Natives of America may possibly shew Kindness to Israelites unawares In the Year 1649. Mr. Downam gave his Conjecture to that purpose in his Appendix to New-English Letters then printed And Mr. Thorowgood was so far satisfied in his Opinion about it that he published a Treatise in the Year 1650. entituled Jews in America And it should seem many judicious Divines have been much of the same mind Mr. Eliot in his first Attempts to make them Christian was much concernd to find out some Promise in the Scriptures relating to them upon which he might ground his Faith and Hope in his incessant Labours for them But afterward he concluded that the Thirty seventh chapter of Ezekiel was written principally for their sake as also many other Scriptures In this Perswasion that worthy Person both liv'd and dy'd On the other hand if America be laid out as a Rendezvous for Gog and Magog this must needs tend to supersede all Desire and Endeavour for their Recovery But better Things are hoped concerning them even such as will issue in their Salvation when the fullness of Time is come In stead of being branded for Slaves with hot Irons in the Face nzo p. 11 â— and arms and driven by scores in mortal Chains they shall wear the Name of God in their foreheads and they shall be delivered into the glorious Liberty of the Children of God The Indians upon various Occasions do much affect to be called by a new Name which is given them by the Approbation of their Elders Persons of note among them that they may wash off their Mourning and be clean and that they may have a convenient Opportunity for publishing their New Name sometimes call for a solemn Dance Now tho their Miseries be very inveterate yet GOD can speedily and easily give them a New Name and in a moment change the Scene Asia Africa and Europe have each of them had a glorious Gospel Day None therefore will be grieved at any ones pleading that America may be made a Coparcener with her Sisters in the Free and Soveraign Grace of God God many times sets one thing against another and we may hope that Vnparallel'd Severity will be succeeded by Super abundant BENIGNITY And when the Messiah shall have gathered his Sheep belonging to this his American Fold His Churches Musick being them compleat in the Harmony of Four Parts The whole Universe shall ring again with seraphick Acclamations ONE FLOCK ONE SHEPHERD That your Honour and the Honourable Company and all concerned with you may be prospered by God in bringing forward this happy Match is the constant Desire and Prayer of Boston N. E. April 16th 1697. YOVR HONOVRS most humble Servant S. SEWALL TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM STOUGHTON Esq Lieut. Governour AND COMMANDER in Chief in and over His Majesties Province of the Massachusets Bay in New England WHEN I look upon the Longing Desire Non nos a tent siliqucorum doci nae daemon rum Ang. Psal 138. 1589 15 Psal 47.4 and Parental Pity that was raised in Divines and Christians of all ranks both in England and here upon the very first Appearance of the American Predigal his coming to himself and being disposed to return unto his Father I cannot chuse but judge it to be very like to if not the very same that is spoken of Luke 15.20 But when he was yet a great way off his Father saw him and had Compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him Venienti ocrit non verbe uno to squal deform amplectits Calvin p For as all physical Actions are of a Divine Original so the Actions of good and holy Men are in a peculiar manner ascribed to God A Relation entituled The DAY-BREAKING if not the SUN RISING of the GOSPEL with the INDIANS in New-England which was printed at London 1647. together with the following printed Relations do give a very pleasant Prospect of this notable Transaction from October 28. 1646. unto July 5. 1659. inclusively Bullinger Apoc. p. 2â— Ipse solus â— diceretur Aphricant Europaeus Asiatious Columbiun Christus â— tum hoc D ma hodic si vendicat The sorrowfull Decay and Languishing of the Work in many places since that time and the little Faith that is to be found in exercise concerning it are so far from being a ground of Discouragement that it gives us cause to expect that the set Time draweth very near for our blessed Lord Jesus Christ to be Recognised and Crowned KING of Kings LORD of
of it were Jews and there have been of that Nation converted in all Ages who have kept Possession for the rest so that I cannot discern any incongruity in affirming that this Book belongs to them also and gives an Account of God's Providence toward them especially upon their Return Return Return O Shulamite Return Return But let us see what is laid in against their Claim Ambitu suo Gentes The Church consists not of Gentiles only The four Quarters of the World with all their Furniture make the Apocalyptical Stage and in every one of these are the dispersed Jew to be found Eodem ni fallor faciunt c. If there be not Room enough in Rev. 10.11 to entertain the Jews I cannot imagine any thing large enough to comprehend them Sed omnium maxime illud confirmat Parabolarum Symbolorumque propheticorum in hoc Libro indoles atque ingenium in quibus nempe passim observare licet Judaeos sive synagogam Israeliticam Personam Verae Christi Ecclesiae ex Gentibus surrogatae sustinere Gentes contra typum Idolatrarum ejusdemque Ecclesiae hostium c. Atqui in ea Prophetia ubi Gens Israelitica alienam personam sustinet ibi suam ipsius gestare nullo modo verisimile est quandoquidem illud fieri nequit quin totius Parabolae ratio conturbaretur c. It is indeed a sugular Honour to that Nation that sincere Christians such as with inviolable Chastity keep themselves to the Institutions of their LORD shoold be called Jews Rev. 2.9 But to take an occasion from thence to exclude all Jacob's Posterity from this Privilege is to argue perversely Our Saviour doth not deny Nathanael to be a Jew by pronouncing him an Israelite indeed The Revelation doth not so much regard what Nation a man is of but whether he be a follower of the LAMB or no. For he is not a Jew in this spiritual sence which is one outwardâ—â— only But he is a Jew which is one inwardly Rom. 2.9 In this glorious State of the Church which John introduceth the Jews must needs be very much concerned because Christs Receiving them again is a notable means reserved of God to revive and bring on the Spring of the Gentiles and to cause them to flourish as is herein described Rom. 11.15 And yet there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the same LORD ever all is Rich unto all that call upon him Hinc adeo fit ut tantillum c. The Jews are not mentioned by the by only but directly and on purpose as in the beginning of the nineteenth chapter And that which is last accomplished is firstly and chiefly designed by the Efficient I will be their GOD and they shall be my People Is the most Great and Glorious and All that can be said Whatsoever else is spoken must be only in explanation of this or it will be perfectly blasphemous Nonsence Upon which consideration me thinks tantillum and Sponsa AGNI do not stand well together in the same chapter However we are beholden to this great and worthy Author for his concurrent Testimony that the Jews are the People intended in the sixteenth and nineteenth Chapters Pari ratione May it not with more or equal strength be argued New-Jerusalem is not the same with Jerusalem but as Jerusalem was to the westward of Babylon so New-Jerusalem must be to the westward of Rome to avoid disturbance in the Order of these Mysteries If we might be allowed to take Mr. Mede's words as they seem to sound at the first hearing they would signifie no less New-Jerusalem is not the whole Church but the Metropolis thereof and of the New World Epist. 20. p. 944. The thirty seventh of Ezekiel treateth of the Marriage of the LAMB Therefore it seemeth probable that the thirty eighth Chapter treateth of the same Gog and Magog that John doth the same Order being kept in both places If Ezekiel have some respect to former Enemies that doth not hinder but that this might be the ultimat and principal Aim of the Prophesie The Reverend Learned and Holy Mr. John Cotton had much of the meaning of this mysterious Book shewed him be Christ as a Blessing upon his much Prayer and Study in order to his Exposition of the same in his weekly Lecture at Boston in New England He hath written thus This Gog cannot be Gyges nor Antiochus Epiphanes This Gog in Ezekiel is the same with this Gog in the Text. For 1. Gog in Ezekiel is foretold when he shall come to be the same whom the Prophets of old spake of Ezek. 38.17 2. Gog in Ezekiel cometh after the Resurrection and Reunion of Judah and Israel Ezek. 37. throughout And upon his Destruction Ezekiel seeth a Vision of a glorious Church of the Jews Chapt. 40. to the end of the Book So doth this Gog arise up to fight against the Holy after the first Resurrection of the Churches of Jews and Gentiles And after his Destruction John seeth the New Jerusalem come down out of Heaven Chapt. 21. to the end of the Book When the Saints and Witnesses of Jesus Christ have enjoyed the Liberty Purity and Authority of Church Government for the space of a Thousand Years after the Destruction of Antichrist Satan will again find Liberty and Power to deceive the Nations Princes and People in great multitudes to war against the Church especially against Jerusalem V. 7 8 9. Taken out of a Manuscript of Mr Cotton's own Hand-writing p. 34 36. Mr. Greenhil upon Ezek. 38.5 6. p. 496. Observes From all quarters of the World there be Enemies ready to combine and act with Gog c. Those of the East comprehended under Persia those of the South intended under Ethiopia those of the West included in Lybia and those of the North contained under Gomer and the house of Togarmah were all at the beck of Gog to go against Jerusalem the Servants and Worship of God therein Ex quo autem hominum genere Hostis hic novissimus Ex gentibus in opposito nobis Hemisphaerio quas Deus Opt. Max. occulto suo judicio maximam partem nunquam sit Evangelij sui lumine perfusurus Moses Deut. 29.29 speaking for ought I know of the Unparalleld Providences awaiting the aboriginal Natives of America shuts up all with that solemn and silencing Axiom The Secret things belong unto the LORD our GOD. A man may know more by himself than all others can and yet he cannot lawfully account himself a Castaway much less may he denounce another man Reprobate and least of all a whole World of men except he shall suppose himself licenced to cast firebrands arrows and death and say Am not I in sport One of the chief Spices wherewith Historians have embalmed the Memory of Isabella Queen of Castile is that she did greatly love Learned men who were of good Conversation especially Prelats of an holy and religious Life preferring such Accordingly Twelve learned Clerks of good