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A85438	A sermon of the fifth monarchy. Proving by invincible arguments, that the saints shall have a kingdom here on earth, which is yet to come, after the fourth monarchy is destroy'd by the sword of the saints, the followers of the lamb. / Preached by Mr. Tho. Goodwin, on Rev. 5. 9, 10. By which it will appear, that it is for the same truth (that formerly was so much contended for) that some of the people of God suffer at this day. Published for the truths sake.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1256; Thomason E812_9; ESTC R207633	19,861	35

accompany that Church or Mountain the riches of the Nations shall be brought into it Kings shall bow down their heads unto it and lick the dust of their feet c. Where saith he were these and the like prophecies ever fulfilled if not in the Church of Rome And for my own part I must acknowledge that let any one read such prophecies as these are and give me an answer how or when they either are or can be fulfilled unless this be granted for a truth That after all is done there is kingdom to be given unto the Saints upon the Earth When you come to deal with the Jews you shall finde that they alwaies knew and expected and do now know and expect a kingdom to come for them in the end The Apostles themselves seemed to have such thoughts for in Act. 1. 6 7. when Christ was about to ascend into Heaven they ask'd him Lord wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel Christ you see doth not deny that there was a kingdom to come for them onely he saith It is not for you to know the times and the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power Plainly intimating that there was a time and a season which God had for it which he reserveth in his own power And the Apostle Peter when he comes to deal with the Jews and preach the Messiah to them in Act. 3. knowing that their great mistake lay in looking that the Messiah should even from the first come to them as a glorious Monarch and restore to them the kingdom and not come meek and lowly as he did riding upon an Ass he deals with them according to their own Principles onely removeth their mistake Repent ye saith he vers 19. and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refershing shall come from the presence of the Lord and he shall send Iesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the heaven must receive until the times of the restitution of all things The very word which the Disciples used in Acts 1. Wilt thou not restore say they which God hath spoke by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began You Iews saith he expect a restitution but here is your mistake this Jesus must first be preached and he must go into Heaven and the Heaven must receive him till that time of restitution cometh and then he will at least manifest himself unto you He that wrote that little book called The Voyage into the Levant he saith That he had often occasion to converse with the Iews whom he generally found to be in expectation of their Messiah and when he told them of these kinde of notions that were up and down this Kingdom and other places of Europe concerning a Kingdom that God would give unto his Saints here upon the Earth after the calling of the Jews and that their Messiah would manifest himself unto them even according to their own expectations he saith They were infinitely taken with the hearing of it It suiteth with all their Notions and with their Expectations and with all the Interpretations the Rabbins have given of those Scriptures And consider one thing more All sorts almost out of all quarters of the world though they run several waies yet they fall all into this Notion As now for instance Those that are for the Restoration of Churches to their first purity they conclude for this reigning for a thousand yeers and that the Saints shall have thrones given them c. There is a time coming say they after Antichrist is down when there will be a resurrection of Churches to their first purity and glory in which there shall be onely Saints without mixture of others And so they interpret that place in Rev. 20 5 6. This is the first resurrection blessed and holy is he that hath his part in the first resurrection And say they Until then all Churches will be but as dead things the great resurrection is reserved till that time Others that are for the coming of Christ in Spirit as the language of some is they say this also That towards the end of the World Jesus Christ will break forth to his people with a great deal of glory and splendor so as never before The very Jesuites themselves have been so much convinced that such things are to be in the later daies that some of them have written a book of the fifth Monarchy onely indeed they do apply and appropriate it unto themselves and call that kingdom which they say shall be in those daies Regnum Jesuiticum The scope I have in saying this is to shew you that although men run several waies in their explication and expectation of this time the Jews going one way the Papists another and those amongst our selves several waies yet as it is an Argument and a strong one That there is a God and that the Notion of a Deity is stamped in the Spirits of men because all Nations have pitched upon worshipping of some God although their error hath been to worship the false so the variety of waies that men have run and the expectations that men are in of such a time coming as I speak of it argueth still for the substance that there is some such thing although one mistake and another mistakes and perhaps none can distinctly tell what is to come This I am certain of that the Primitive Christians did abundantly comfort themselves with this Notion and the consideration of it And here you see the Saints had it in their eye at the very first when Christ took the Government of the World upon him as that which should be the close of his Kingdom We say they shall reign on the earth there is a Kingdom reserved for our Generation speaking as I said in the language of the Communion of Saints And there is all the reason in the World for it besides what I have mentioned out of the Scriptures for First The Saints that have been opprest here in this World it is a righteous thing with God to give that Generation rest and that they should have their turn after all Kingdomes are dissolved that what Adam lost should be restored to them again Secondly That all those promises which my brethren have had an accomplishment but in an indirect way as that which Christ which the Psalms also mention The meek shall inherit the earth That all the prayers that have been put up as That thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven That Abraham and his seed should be heirs of the world That there shall be a new heaven and a new earth in which righteousness dwelleth which saith Peter we look for and that promise if you look in Isa 65. I am sure you will finde to be made to men on earth for he saith plainly They shall build houses and inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of

of the book in this vision of Chap. 5. which as I have shewn is the prologue to the whole that follows They utter it when they did but first see Jesus Christ undertake to be King of the world and had taken the government thereof upon him and the execution of the decrees contained in that book he took out of the hand of him that sate on the throne Before the end of the world should come there was a long time and a great many things that were contained in this book in this roll which Christ took which was written within and without that were orderly one after another to be performed therefore in the next Chapter to this after this Vision is past which as I said is the prologue there is first a going forth to conquer Behold saith he vers 2. a white horse and he that sate on him had a bowe and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer He had begun to set upon the world then he went forth conquering but he must go on to conquer for he had the Heathenish world to conquer and he hath the Antichristian world and he hath the Mahumetane world to conquer And all his conquest is carried on till towards the later end by his bowe he takes nothing out with him else he overcomes by his Word which are the arrows he shoots into the hearts of the Kings enemies as you have it in Psal 45. 5. So that now all the story thorowout this book afterwards it is but the story of Christs conquering of his Kingdom with his bowe and with his arrows and executing the decrees that were contained in the roll he took out of his Fathers hand When you come towards the end of the book in the 19 Chapter he that in the sixth Chapter you saw when he went first out riding upon a white horse you shall see him with Armies attending of him whereof he is the General riding likewise upon a white horse I saw saith he vers 11. heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sate upon him was called Faithful and True and in righteousness he doth judge and make war For towards the later end when he comes to grapple with the Antichristian world he doth do it by the Sword and not by his Bowe onely And therefore when he speaks of the Beast chap. 13. who had made war with the Saints he tells us vers 10. that he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword It shall be the sword that shall end it Therefore he that at first went forth upon a white horse with nothing but his bowe you see him in the nineteenth Chapter coming to make war the Armies which were in heaven following him And what is the issue of it Vers 20. The Beast was taken and with him the false prophet whether the Mahumetane party and the Pope I will not now determine but they were altogether ruined and destroyed cast into a lake of fire burning with brimstone All this Jesus Christ doth before he comes fully to possess his kingdom And this you have related to you between the 6 Chapter and the 20 Chapter Well now at the 20 Chapter you shall see that what they said at the beginning would be the issue of Christ's taking upon him the government of the world and undertaking to fulfil the Decrees contained in the book the same is declared to be made good then as being the eminent season for it For after that he had taken the Beast and the false Prophet an Angel came down from heaven so vers 1. having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand and he lays hold on the dragon that old serpent which is the devil and Satan and bindes him a thousand yeers and casteth him into the bottomless pit and there shuts him up sets a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more c. And then vers 4. I saw thrones and they sate upon them and judgement was given unto them And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God and which had not worshipped the beast neither his image neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and raigned with Christ a thousand yeers But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand yeers were finished This is the first resurrection Blessed and holy is he vers 6. that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death shall have no power but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall raign with him a thousand yeers Mark what they say at the beginning when they saw Jesus Christ undertake the Kingdom the very same after he had conquer'd all his enemies the Beast and the false Prophet and then taken the devil and all and flung him for a time into the bottomless pit is here fulfilled That which before they said would be the issue of Christs government is here in the very same terms said to be accomplished Here in the 5 Chapter they say Thou hast made us kings and priests in Chap. 20. 6. they are said to be priests of God and of Christ. Here they say And we shall raign on earth in the 20 Chapter it is twice repeated first vers 4. They raigned with Christ a thousand yeers and again vers 6. And they shall raign with him a thousand yeers This I say shews it evidently that at the beginning they had this in their eye as that which should be the issue and close of Christs governing the world But you will say Is what is said in Chap. 20. meant of the Saints raigning on earth Certainly yes and the reason is this Because during this raign Satan is said to be bound Now to have Satan bound while the Saints raign in heaven is unnecessary and needless for how can he disturb them or be an annoyance to their kingdom there Whereas you see that by way of preparation to this kingdom they shall have on earth both the Beast and the false Prophet are taken and Satan himself bound Neither secondly can it be meant of the raign of the Saints in heaven for that is for a longer time then a thousand yeers and those Saints that were slain in the Primitive times they have already raigned longer then a thousand yeers But that which doth most clearly evince it is this That in the 7 verse the devil is said to be let loose And when the thousand yeers are expired saith he Satan shall be loosed out of his prison Therefore it must necessarily be meant neither of the kingdom of heaven after the day of Judgement nor of the kingdom of heaven before the day of Judgement but of a kingdom which they shall have on the earth as the words are in this 5 Chapter Me-thinks my brethren that thus much should be evident to