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A47560	A glimpse of Sions glory, or, The churches beautie specified published for the good and benefit of all those whose hearts are raised up in the expectation of the glorious liberties of the saints.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Glover, Jose, fl. 1641.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.; Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1641 (1641)	Wing K711; ESTC R8454	21,933	42

shall be plenty and fruitfulnesse in the Church yet First Rome must de burnt and Babylon first downe and brings the Sybills the Heathen Oracles for it and after a little Time there shall be stirring up of Enemies against them Thus farre they goe if they did not beleeve that Christ himselfe should come personally to reigne yet he shall with his Saints reigne in a Glorious Manner and the Church shal be so raised up in the world outwardly as to be aboue all the men of the World in outward Glory And there are many Scriptures full for that which we may be much more confident in then wee can be of the other There is a Time comming when there shall be this Halleluiah in the Church The Lord God omnipotent reigneth As in the 7. Dan. 17.18 The fower Beasts are the foure Monarchies and the last is the Roman Monarchy and that Babylon shal goe down together and immediatly upon that the Saints of the most high shall take the Kingdome and possesse the Kingdome for ever and ever at the 21.22 Ver. 27. Verse And the Greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven shall be given to the People of the Saints of the most high the Kingdome under Heaven is not the Kingdome of the World to come More apparant is that in the 12th of Dan. which is ordinarily interpreted of the day of Iudgment but surely this Text doth not aime at the Day of Iudgment principally but at a Time before First because many that sleepe shall awake not all but many Secondly he saies that they that are wise shall shine as the Brightnesse of the Firmament Whereas the Glory that shall be put upon the Saints in Heaven shall be as the Sunne Though this Glory be great it is inferiour to that which shall be The Third Reason is that Daniel must shut up these Words and seale up this Book as a great Secret That there should be a Resurrection at the last Day a reward of happinesse to the righteous and of Misery to the Wicked is no great Secret but this that was revealed to Daniel was a great Secret But Daniel might say if the Booke be shut up how shall the Truth come to bee knowne Many shall runne to and fro and take paines in finding it out and at last this Truth shall come to be found out and Knowledge shall be increased And certainely it is the Antichristian yoke that doth hide this Truth Men dare not whisper of any truth but of such as are held in the Church of Rome But when there comes to be liberty of Churches and that men may freely search into this truth knowledge will be increased The fourth Reason is because in the last verse there seemes to be a Promise euen to Daniel that hee should have his share and part in this glory Was it such a matter that Daniel in the resurrection should have his lot and that he should stand up at the Day of Iudgment No! but that he should haue his Lot in that Resurrection was a great Priviledge Againe for Christs Reigning with the Saints take two Places in the Psalmes Psalme 49.14 The Vpright shall haue Dominion ouer them in the Morning there is a Time they shall haue Dominion though now they have a Night a morning shall come that the Vpright shall have Dominion Psalme 149.5 and so on Let his Saints be ioyfull in Glory c. and a two Edged Sword in their hands To execute Vengeance upon the Heathen and punishments upon the People c. What shall we make of these Scriptures Indeed if we be put upon Allegoricall senses we may put off any Scripture but if we take them literally why should we not And the Promise that is made to them that overcome Revel. 12. the latter end of it Hee that overcommeth and keepeth my words to him will I give Power over the Nations and he shall rule them with a Rod of Iron and as the Vessels of a Potter they shall be broken to shivers What shall we make of this except the Saints shall reigne and there shall be a glorious Reigne of Christ with the Saints and so that place of the Saints reigning and judging the World some interpret it of the Day of Judgement but these Scriptures seeme to have an apparancie to be before and therfore Christ is said to make them Kings and Priests unto GOD spiritually though not every one properly Kings over others yet so as to have Power and Dominion in the World and therefore where it is said in the Gospell that righteous men desired to see those things that you see and did not in the 10th of Luke it is said Kings desired to see those things that you see and have not seene them so that Christ shall reigne together with his Saints And that there shall be such a reigne of Christ and this Hallelujah appeares by many Arguments as take this one drawne from Scripture If there be many Prophesies and Promises in Scripture that are not yet fulfilled and the fulfilling whereof will bring the Church into a more glorious condition then ever it was yet in the World then there is a glorious Time a comming Now there are such Scriptures wherein are such glorious things promised to be fulfilled to the Church as yet never were fulfilled And that wee know not what to make of unlesse there be a truth in this 24. Isay 23. Then the Moone shall be confounded and the Sunne shall be ashamed when the Lord of Hoasts shall reigne in Mount Zion and in Ierusalem When was this that there was such a reigne of Christ in Mount Zion as that the Moone was confounded and the Sun ashamed Certainly this cannot be understood of their returne from their Captivity for the People of the Iewes were under Contempt after their Deliverance from Captivity and came not to such a Glory as this and were under a kind of Captivity and met with such oppositions that they were as long building the Temple as they were in Captivity seventy yeeres But some that were in Captivity saw both the first the second Temple how could this be if it were so long The Foundation they might see but not see it finished And in Ahasuerus time they were in Captivity as that had not God wrought mightily they had all beene cut off by a wicked Haman Therefore they were not so glorious Isaiah 33.20 Look upon Zion the City of our Solemnities Thine eies shall see Ierusalem a quiet Habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken downe This Text neither hath not bin fulfilled hitherto but must remaine Isay 54.11 Oh thou afflicted tossed with Tempests and not comforted Behold J will lay thy Stones with faire Colours and thy Foundations with Saphires c. When Antichrist shall fall down and the Iewes called and this Halleluia sung The Lord God omnipotent reigneth then this Promise may be made good Isay 60. if you read the whole Chapter there are

would permit Antichrist to rise and to Rule for a long time and he had many things to bring out the Kingdome of Antichrist to worke for his Glory therefore God hath left this Truth to be so darke the setting up of Christ in his Kingly Office Thirdly because God would exercise the Faith and other Graces of his Spirit in his Children that they might beleeve in and love Jesus Christ for his spirituall Beauty though there appeares nothing but spirituall Beauty though no outward Beauty no outward Kingdome doth appeare but he be as a spirituall King only It was a great and a glorious Worke in those three wise Men that came to Christ that offered Frankincense and Gold and Myrrhe to Christ when he was in a Cratch in a Manger and so for Gods people now to beleeve in him now to love now to reioyce in him to offer all to him now his Kingdome is darkned now he doth appeare so meane as he is this is a glorious worke of Faith and we should labour much to exercise this worke of ●aith in looking vpon this spirituall Beauty that is in Christ and satisfying our Soules in that that so we may not be offended at the darkning of Christs Kingdome outwardly And the lesse Christ doth reigne outwardly in the world the lesse glorious his Kingdome doth appeare outwardly the more let us labour to bring our hearts under his spirituall Reigne The more others say We will not have this man reigne over vs the more let our Soules subiect themselves to him and say Christ is our KING and let him reigne for ever over us yea let us labour to symphathize with Jesus Christ in the darkning of his glory and of his Kingdome IESVS CHRIST though he the glory of his Father the Brightnesse of his Glory the Character and graven Forme or the Image of his Father yet is he contented to have his glory darkned Who are we that we must have Glory in this world and outward excellencies when Christ is willing to be without them Let us be willing to goe like the Witnesses clothed in Sackcloth till Christ comes to reigne There are white shining garments prepared but that time is not yet though it wil not be long The Bridegroom yet seems to be absent and therefore it is fit for the Spouse to goe low and mean in the mourning weeds as a Widdow the trimming of the Bride in her outward glory may come hereafter when Christ shall come in glory into the World And Lastly the Kingdom of Christ is darkned for a while outwardly and therefore it should teach us to blesse God so much the more for that Opportunitie that we have of setting vp Christ as King amongst us For yet the Voyce is not heard much That the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth abroad in the World though lately some noise we have heard But blessed be God in our Congregations amongst us we may heare That the Lord GOD Omnipotent reigneth It is through our wretched wickednesse if his Kingly Power be not fully set up amongst us in all his Ordinances And that we should have an opportunity to set up his Kingly Power amongst us heere while it is so much opposed and so little knowne in the world it is a great mercy And let us take heed of abusing that opportunity we have for darkning the Kingly Power of Christ which we professe to set up Especially in these Times when there comes to be a Voyce though confusedly from the Multitude and some Kind of Voyce of Thunder from the Great ones But though it be darke for a while certainly he shall reigne and the Voyce will be glorious and distinct one Day Saying HALLELVIAH the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth He shall reigne first Personally secondly in his Saints First Personally we will not fully determine of the manner of his Personall Reigning but thus farre wee may see there is a Voice of great waters though not distinct but a Probability in his Person GOD and MAN he shall reigne vpon the Earth here in this World before that great and Solemne Day There are divers Scriptures that have somewhat of this in them we cannot give the distinct Voyce of those Scriptures but many of Gods Saints they do heare somthing and when a thing growes neerer and neerer God will reveale it more distinct Zachary 12.10 They shall looke upon him whom they have pierced and shall mourne for him as one mourneth for his only Sonne It is usually understood either of a spirituall looking by the eye of Faith or beholding Christ at the Day of Iudgment But why should we take it for a spirituall looking and looking at the day of Iudgment that place doth not hold out that is not the thing intended They shall mourne every one apart this is not like the setting forth of the mourning at the Day of Iudgement And take but this one Rule that all Texts are to be understood literally except they make against some other Scriptures or except the very Coherence and Dependance of the Scripture shewes it otherwise or it makes against the Analogy of Faith now there is nothing against this but it may bee so A second Scripture that seemes to hold out somewhat is that in the 26th of Mathew 29. I will not henceforth drinke of the Fruit of the Vine untill that Day when I drinke it new with you in my Fathers Kingdome It is true this is likewise interpreted in a mysticall sense but there is no reason why wee may not take it literally Not in the Kingdome of his Father in Heaven but in that Kingdome that hee shall come in here to drinke the Fruit of the Vine to have Communion with his Saints in this World 2. Thes. 2.8 Antichrist shall be destroyed by the brightnesse of Christs comming the brightnesse of his Personall comming And that place Revel. 20. where it is said The Saints shall reigne with him a Thousand years which cannot be meant reigning with him in Heaven It is made as a proper peculiar benefit unto such as had refused Antichrists Government especially to the Christian Church It is likely divers of the Prophets and Patriarchs may come in but especially it belongs to the Christian Church Now the reigning with Christ a thousand yeeres is not meant reigning with him in Heaven for after these thousand yeares there shall be many enemies raised against the Church GOG and MAGOG shall gather themselves together if it were meant of Heaven that could not be and therefore it must be meant of Iesus Christ comming and reigning heere gloriously for a Thousand yeares And although this may seeme to be strange yet heretofore it hath not beene accounted so it hath beene a Truth received in the Primitive Times Iustine Martyr that lived presently after IOHN he spake of this as a thing that all Christians acknowledged and likewise Lactantius hath such expressions in divers places of his Seventh Booke That there are glorious Times comming wherein

Glorie Jeremiah 14.21 Againe The Ornament of God and The Beauty of his Ornament Ezek. 7.21 Againe The Beauty of his Ornament in Majestie in the same place Now to have all this made up to the full to shew that these are no high expressions but rather come short of what will bee it must be a glorious condition But you will say Are these things true To that wee answer For the truth of them I will goe no further then this Chapter verse 9. These are the true sayings of God It is a very strange Phrase If they be the sayings of God they must needs be true Were it not enough to say they were the sayings of God or true sayings No they are the true sayings of GOD And in the Originall it is not onely the true sayings of God but the true sayings of that God that is true therfore they are certaine But how can they be Zachary 8.9 If it be marvellous in your eyes should it also be marvellous in my eyes saith the Lord of Hoasts they are marvellous in your eyes but they are not so in mine It is God Omnipotent that shall doe these things by that power whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himselfe Mountaines shall be made plaine and hee shall come skipping over Mountaines and over difficulties nothing shall hinder him And why should you thinke it strange that these things should be though they bee great God hath done already as great things as these Certainly Christians that shall acknowledge the great and never sufficiently admired and adored worke of God in the Hypostaticall Union of the Natures that God should be Man should never aske this Question how these things should be or to think that any object propounded for our Faith is too difficult But when shall these things be Truly Brethren we hope it is not long before they shall bee and the neerer the Time comes the more clearly these things shall bee revealed And because they begin to be revealed so much as they doe now we have cause to hope the Time is at hand In Daniel 12. God bids Daniel seale his Booke untill the time come as if then it should be opened Doth God begin to open this Booke Know that the time is at hand Iohn was bidden not to seale the Booke because the Time was at hand The neernesse of the Time at hand discovers the Booke and the neerer the Time the more it is discovered No place in Scripture gives us so much light to know when this shall be as Dan. 12.11 And from the time that the dayly Sacrifices shall be taken away and the abomination that maketh desolate set up there shall bee a thousand two hundred and ninety dayes What is the meaning of this The light that I have from this I acknowledge to be from that worthy Instrument of God Mr. Brightman A day is usually taken for a yeare and so many dayes as were set so many yeares it should be All the question is about the beginning of the time This abomination of desolation was in Julians time 360. because then Iulian would set up the Temple againe that was destroyed in despight of the Christians and would set up the Iewish Religion againe That was the abormination of desolation sayes he and the whole Iewish Religion was not consumed till that time Now reckon so many yeeres according to the Number of the dayes it comes to 1650. and it is now 1641. and that place for the abomination of desolation is like to bee it as any that can be named But it is said Blessed is he that comes to another Number 1335. dayes that is 45. years more added that is sayes he in 1650. they shall begin but it shall bee 45. yeares before it comes to full Head and blessed is hee that comes to this Day And he hath hit right in other things as never the like in making Sardis to be the Church of Germany and foretold from thence how things would fall out and wee see now are Now we have also a voyce from the Multitude as from the Waters and it begins to come from the Thundrings Seeing these things shall be what manner of persons ought we to be That is the worke I intended to have done to have shewed you the Duties these things call for at our Hands If God hath such an intention to glorifie his Church and that in this World Oh let every one say to his owne heart What manner of persons ought wee to be and especially What manner of persons ought yee to be because you are beginning this despised Worke gathering a Church together which way God will honour Certainly the Communion of Saints and independency of Congregations God will honour And this Worke is a Foundation of abundance of glory that God shall have and will continue till the comming of Christ And blessed are they that are now content to keep the Word of Gods Patience And doe you keep the Word of Gods Patience though you suffer for it as you now doe And wait the Text sayes Those that testifie against Antichrist and Antichristianisme and keep the Word of Gods Patience God will keep them in the houre of Temptation hee will make them a Pillar in his House and they shall never goe out God will open their dore so as none shall shut it till the comming of Christ and hee will write upon them the Name of the new IERVSALEM Therfore keep the Word of Gods Patience now you have an opportunity in your hands for furthering this great Worke Take heed that you loose not this opportunity certainly if there should fall out any just cause amongst you of scandall in regard of Divisions or any other way you may do more hurt to hinder this glorious Work then all the Persecutors could doe For you will perswade the consciences of Men that this is not a Way of Christ Persecutors cannot doe so So that the Governours of Iudah wil not say Our strength is in the Inhabitants of Ierusalem those that professe themselves to be the People of Ierusalem FINIS Quaest Answ Quaest Answ 1. Doct. 2. Doct. Doct. Reas. 1. Reas. 2. Reas. 3. Object Answere Quest Answ Quest Answ Quest Answ