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A59935	Iero-metropolis, or, The holy, the great, the beloved new Jerusalem shortly to come down from God out of heaven : being the work of Gods own hands ... / by William Sherwin ...	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1670 (1670)	Wing S3405; ESTC R34224	30,582	34

Christ amogst which the sitting on the Throne of David as man will be one 1 Iohn 4.2 3. And as for the raising of the dead Saints at the Resurrection of the Just as it is called Luke 14.14 or the blessed first Resurrection above a thousand years before the rest of the dead shall be raised Rev. 20.5 they being such as will be counted worthy of that world called the world to come Heb. 2.5 where those Children of the Resurrection as our Saviour speaketh Luke 20.35 36. shall be as the Angels in Heaven since at his appearance and coming into the world Christ will bring his Saints with him and such as sleep in Jesus with him 1 Thes 3. ult 4.14 Zac. 14.5 to the end that being raised from the dead he may reward them Rev. 11.11 22.12 or recompence them at the said Resurrection of the Just Luke 14. when they shall behold the glory of Christ which the Father hath given him as Mediator Iohn 17.24 when his Disciples shall sit upon twelve Thrones judgeing the twelve Tribes of Israel Luke 22.30 and his faithful servants according to the improvement of their Talents shall rule over so many Cities Luke 19.17.19 Psal 49.14 and shall have power over the Nations Rev. 2.26 Psal 45.6 their bodies being then redeemed from the prison and Corruption of the grave Rom. 8.23 and their former mortal bodies shall then be powerfully raised by the same spirit of him that raised up Christ from the dead Rom. 8.11 that so then such as suffer for Christ in the body may reign with Christ in his Mediators Kingdom in their bodies 2 Tim. 2.12 and those raised bodies when he shall appear being like him shall see him as he is 1 Iohn 3.2 when the Tabernacle of God shall be with men and he be with them in the new Ierusalem come down from God out of Heaven Rev. 21.3.10 in that City whose name shall be Iehovah Shamma the Lord is there Ezek. 40. ult and which shall then be called the Throne of of the Lord as in the text that City prepared for the faithful fore-fathers yet so as without the faithful that died since Christs first to his second coming they shall not be made perfect Heb. 11.40 or perfect in one as our Saviour prayed Iohn 17.23 and declares his will in the presence of his Father and before his Disciples that such as were given him should then be with him to behold his glory which his Father had given him v. 24. who will then be that spiritual and mystical Bride the Lambs Wife Rev. 21.9 in the time of his thousand years reign Rev. 20.4 when as saith the Apostle Paul Christ must reign till he hath put all his enemies under his feet 1 Cor. 15.25 even till he deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father having put down all rule and all authority and power that stood in his way as in the verse before the last enemy Death being destroyed v. 26. Many of these texts of holy Scripture our blessed Saviour by his book of Revelation hath given much evident light unto as whosoever carefully compares them and duly weighes them with humble and faithful seeking the guidance of his spirit may hopefully find till which time many of these and divers others were darkly delivered have not otherwise so clear and fit exposition given of them as that they will be fulfilled at that time of the restitution of all things when the times of refreshing shall come for his people from the presence of the Lord when God will send Jesus whom the Heavens must contain till then Acts 3.19 20 21. in which times the many great things are to be accomplished which we formerly set down on Gen. 3.15 and Christs explication of them will at last be most certainly found the best and the mean time let it be observed that the Doctrine of the Resurrection was a long time but darkly set down in Scripture and but by degrees were the mysteries thereof revealed 1 Cor. 15.51 52. Rom. 8.11 as we have else where observed and as Mr. Mede saith that the Prophets in the old Testament except Daniel spake darkly or promiscuously of the first and second coming of Christ so we may say of the whole Scriptures speaking of the first and second bodily Resurrections till Christ explained them and chiefly in Rom. 20. yet by the guidance of that many others fall in with it See more in the Appendix after the Irenicon page 97. to 109. for I have in a manner but touched upon these texts of Scripture because I study brevity and have spoken there more largely of the first bodily Resurrection and because the Scriptures carry with them so great evidence in their consent one with another and bearing witness in their order to the same truth which serious Christians may in their Meditations more inlarge and improve that being rightly from the word informed of these things and the like they may both frame their prayers make other improvements thereof accordingly to help forwards Gods work in the fulfilling of some of them having such sure and comfortable foundations from the Word to raise up their affection to such purpose and especially in those latter dayes when their fulfilling approacheth near as may be observed from the fulfilling of so many Prophesies already and for the accomplishing of those that remain tends in a special manner that prayer at the end of these Visions with an even so as if it had been said that these great things in the said thousand years of Christs reign may be fulfilled Rev. 22.20 Even so Come Lord Jesus And that happy estate of Christs Church in that time of his said reign upon earth seems to be the main drift and scope of the three first petitions of the Lords Prayer which will then have their greatest fulfilling on earth as they are now fulfilled in Heaven when Satan shall be bound and sealed up in the bottomless pit from deceiving the Nations for that thousand years Rev. 20. and wicked men destroyed that destroyed the earth Rev. 11.18 the blessed and holy Saints raised from the dead at the first resurrection Rev. 20. and the holy Angels be Christs attendants in Christs Kingdom as the Courtiers of their most glorious King Heb. 1.6 Psal 97. where also his terrible coming into the world then is decyphered eminently with the joy of his people thereupon and that which will make it an Heaven indeed will be the Tabernacle of God will then be with men c. and the Lamb will be the visible light of that City and the living waters of divine grace will flow so abundantly from the Throne of God and the Lamb c. with many other heavenly excellencies of that state Rev. 21. 22. but that this may yet further appear to be then on earth all other inferiour Creatures must then also do their homage to their heavenly King by bowing the knee or yeilding their subjection to him

their sufferings in the mean time and make them with joyfulness to serve him and praise him and willingly even to suffer for him when he calls them to it since he hath promised gratiously to be with them in the deepest waters of their afflictions and will not suffer them to be tempted above their measure in the mean time and will in the issue deliver Israel from all their afflictions and even recompence their measure of faithfulness and sufferings for him with a suitable degree of glory with him 2 Tim. 2.12 Rev. 20.4 in that blessed New Jerusalem state upon earth Esa 24.23 when the Lord of Hosts will reign in mount Sion and before his ancients gloriously as from Divine Authority in the ensuing parcel may be observed to the honour of the great King and the magnifying of Gods Divine wisdom and goodness and great consolation to faithful Souls c. A word or two I shall further add of the nature and use of my four parts lately published which to some Christians may prove advantagious First the drift of the Irenicon is chiefly to prove that the things respecting Christs Kingdom upon Earth were spoken of by all Gods holy Prophets since the world began as the Apostle Peter teacheth Acts 3.21 with divers other heads of arguments to the same purpose and an Appendex added to it concerning the blessed first Resurrection of the Just Yea and all likewise that have written in the new Testament have added some explications thereof as in that second book is manifest but chiefly the great Apostle Paul in alm st all his Epistles Heb. 16. 2.5.6 7 8 4 9 9.28.10.13.37 11.8 9 10.13.14.16.22.35.39 40. 12.22 23 28. but above all in that to the Hebrews as might be shew'd particularly in many Chapters thereof as being the people most especially concerned in things of that nature c. Unto which said Irenicon was afterwards added this Parallel or third part before intended as pag. 2d of the former book as a strong foundation of that truth both from Daniel and the Revelation of Jesus Christ which is only a Divine mystical Exposition as we have shewed therein of that part of Daniel that was sealed and shut up before till the time of the end or Gospel times as in some measure may be discerned by our short summary of Daniel As for the forerunner or first piece it co sists of divers things which were occasional and after placed together as apparently very useful for the whole work whereunto reference is afterward fitly made in the following parts And for the fourth part it contains many observations and other particulars very useful for the understanding of mystical Prophesies with the removal of prejudices from this Doctrine And as from my own exercise by Gods gracious assistance in drawing up those I am by his goodness inabled to speak groundedly and knowingly upon other subjects respecting these things from Divine warrant and especially from the help of that golden Key of Christs Divine Revelation left to his Church for that purpose to open that part of Daniels shut up Visions so may others also by Gods blessing by the help of those parts receive much advantage which may be observed in the considering both of the forementioned treatise on Gen. 3.15 of Christs breaking the Serpents head First Decreetively and Declaritively before he began his Mediators Office joyntly with the Father and with the Holy Ghost And secondly Executively in his Mediators offices ever since the fall of ma● hitherto and will most eminently as the great King and only Potentate as the Apostle Paul stiles him then do it in the Millennium when as he also saith 1 Cor. 15.25 he must reign till he hath put all his Enemies under h●s feet And so concerning the ensuing subject of the New Jerusalem which are as examples to shew the usefulness of the forenamed books as containing foundations thereof wherein th re is often reference made to things contained in them which I wish all such as l●ve the glorious appearance of the great God and our Saviour Jesas Christ seriously to consider and the great things thereunto appertaining according to Scripture warrant And chiefly to look to that direction at the end of the Parallel pag 68. and well to peruse those summaries of the Revelation in the forerunner pag. 22 23. c. And in the Irenicon pag. 26 27 28. with the Abridgment of Daniel or the summary thereof hereunto annexed for such Abridgments help much in the discovery of the order of the Parallel to shew wherein the Revelation explains the Visions of Daniel which is a very strong evidence of the truth and gives great light to the understanding of these Divine Misteries from the hands of both those beloved Messengers of God the writers of them which should much commend these subjects to truly faithful Souls conveyed to them by such high Favourites of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords c. I shall only here add this further direction in the use of the said Books which I have often given already by word of mouth to divers knowing persons namely to read the two last books first and the References in them to the former And so commending thee Christian Reader to the guidance of the Spirit of t●uth to lead thee into all such comfortable and blessed truths of the Gospel as may make most for the glory of God and our Saviour Jesus Ch ist and thy own great rejoycing in the faith of such great things pertaining to his glorious Kingdome on earth to come for which end I am especially Thine in him William Sherwin Scripture evidenced for the New Jerusalem on Earth Jerem. 3.17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the Throne of the Lord and all Nations shall be gathered to it to the Name of the Lord to Jerusalem c. THat first on the negative part this Text is not to to be understood of any Jerusalem that hath been destroyed may be made evident from this portion of Scripture ver 14. to 20. whereunto and to the times whereof the things herein mentioned are no ways competible First not old Jerusalem call'd Sulem in Melchisedecks time Gen. 14. after held by the Jebusites in Joshuaes time and after subdued by David and beautified and fortified by Solomon the Type of the true Prince of Peace as that was also of the New Jerusalem that is to come of which this Prophet and others fore-told the Desolation to come by the King of Babylon neither was it of that after the 70 years Captivity afterwards repaired and adorned by Herod and as our Saviour denounced against it laid even with the ground by Titus and Vespatian about 40 years after his death for as that was less glorious in it self so it not only killed the Prophets and stoned those Servants of the Lord that were sent unto it from God but did not spare the Son himself when he came to gather her