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A86981	Chiliasto-mastix redivivus, sive Homesus enervatus. A confutation of the millenarian [sic] opinion, plainly demonstrating that Christ will not reign visibly and personally on earth with the saints for a thousand yeers either before the day of judgement, in the day of judgement, or after it: where you also have many texts of scripture vindicated from the vain glosses of one Dr. Homes, a great Millenarian [sic], and all of his cavils (of any consequence) refelled and answered. With a word to our Fifth Monarch-Men, whose dangerous practises of late, clearly shew that this opinion leads to schisme, and sedition in church and state. / By Tho Hall B.D. and pastor of Kingsnorton.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing H428; Thomason E1654_2; Thomason E2135_2; ESTC R208344	36,388	116

'T is the Fathers Kingdom and Secondly 'T is purely Spiritual when theirs is the Sons Kingdom as themselves confess and is mixt being partly spiritual and partly consisting of corporal delights 'T is my judgement that if these Opinionists be a little longer tolerated they wil Practically convince those of the danger of this Tenets who wil not Nationally beleeve it That the Peace and Prosperity of this Church and State may be preserved that the Lord at last would bring us not to a Millenarian Utopian Imaginary Terrestrial Kingdom but to a Real Caelestial and Everlasting Kingdom is and shall be the Prayer of Thy Servant in Christ for Christ and His Kingdom THO: HALL A TREATISE against the MILLENARIES WHen I considered how strangely this opinion of the Millenaries spread and got ground every where to the great disturbance of Magistracy and Ministery of Church and State I conceived that I might do very good service to undeceive people in this particular Thereupon having but lightly touched the point before I fell more closely to study it and finding that Dr Homes his Book in Folio was universally cried up by such as were tickled with this fancy as the Chiliastorum Achilles the one and onely Book in this kind I took some pains to read his Book more exactly I must confess I have read Dr. Homes his book in Folio usque ad nauseam till I was a weary of it yea I do seriously profess that I am more fully convinced of the vanity of that fancy since I read the Drs. Book then ever I was before I may say of it as 't was said of Dr. Heylins Book in defence of St. George some doubted whether ever there were such a St. but since they read this book they believe there never was such a Saint in being so some have doubted whether there might not be a Personal Reign of Christ on earth but since they have read Dr. Homes his Book they are fully satisfied that there is no such thing 'T is true the Dr. hath said more for it then any man I know for whereas others lye in Quarto his in Folio but how little to the purpose I come now briefly to examine True there is none that ever yet I saw which hath answered the Dr. as judging his Book I suppose unworthy of an answer yet since 't is so highly cried up as an invincible piece by the Favourers of that Tenet for when they can say nothing they send us to Dr. Homes I shall therefore 1. shew them how he states the Question 2. How he proves it 3. I shall answer his most material proofs And fourthly for brevity sake I shall refer them to such as clear any Text more fully The Doctors Tenet upon search for he hath not stated the Question Methodically and Scholastickly as he should have done I find to be this viz. That all the Saints departed shal Rise and Reign with Christ a thousand yeers on earth but the wicked shall not a Rise till the end of the thousand yeers in a wonderful both b visible yet spiritual glorious manner drinking Wine eating Dainties and enjoying all the lawful c pleasures which all the Creatures then redeemed from their ancient slavery can afford All this shall be before the time of the d ultimate and general Resurrection and day of Judgement Then shall the Jews be raised and all Antichristian and e secular powers that do not love the members of Christ submit unto his Laws and advance his interest in this design be ruined Then shall the Saints on f earth be Sin-less Sorrowless Temptation-less Deathless having a confluence of all comforts a perfection of all qualities and g union amongst themselves on earth Then shall there be no Magistrats no coercive Superiorities no Church Censures no Fears Wants Weaknesses Desertions or Labours c. All this happiness saith Dr. Homes you must expect on earth but take heed you be not so unhappy as to believe it least you be deluded by it for Dr. Alsteed can tell Dr. Homes that Godly men for the whole space of those thousand yeers excepting Martyrs shall be subject both to sin and death and shall have the wicked intermixt with them Habemus confitentum reum One of these Doctors must needs be in an error I leave them to reconcile themselves whilst I go on Here you see is much said but how is it proved Why the Dr. proves is very Learnedly 1. By Heathens l. 4. c. 2. 2. By Mahumetans l. 4. c. 3. 3. By the Jewish Rabbins l. 4. c. 4. he hath pickt it out of their Taxgum's and their Talmuds the Turks a Alcoran yet William Burton the Translator of Alsteed takes upon him to prove it out of Tieho Brahe who tells you of a fiery Trigon which prognosticats great peace to the world to come yea the Sibils prophesies are brought for proof of this point and the Apochrypha 2 Esd. 13. 39. 40. yea and Alsteed tells us of Phaenomena or Apparitions in the Heavens which portend I know not what strange and extraordinary things Qui amant ipsi sibi somnia fingunt When men be enamoured with an opinion then they dream that every thing makes for them though it be never so much against them How Heathens Mahumetans and Rabbins which abound with lyes and fables should come to the knowledge of such a Spiritual Sinless Sanctified and Glorious Kingdom is a Paradox to me Hae manus Trojam erigent Nullas habet spes Troja si tales habet Sen. Trag. If Millenaries have no better Prophesies then these no wonder if their Fabrick totter The Dr. therefore suspecting these goes farther to the Greek and Latin Fathers to Modern writers The Drs. Quotations I shall answer as the Dr. doth Dr. Prideaux his Argument Testimonio Humano His Argument saith he from meer Authorities of men is inconsiderable and not worth answering Most true of Dr. Homes his Argument in this kind and whereas the Dr. pleads Antiquity Dr. Homes shall answer Dr. H. out of Tertullian Antiquitas sine Veritate vetustas est erroris Antiquity without Verity is of no Validity See how smartly Mr. a John Paget Schismaticorum ille malleus reproves Mr. Ainsworth for his so frequent alledging of Talmudick and Rabbinical testimonies 'T is an offensive thing saith he so abundantly to alledge such Authors for our guids unto the Mysteries of Religion as do abound with innumerable dotages Presumptions and vain Traditions lying Visions fained Miracles prodigious and monstrous Fables such are the Thalmudists and Cabalists there is almost no work nor Word of God which they do not defile with their Elesies And then goeth on in giving many instances to the end of the book yet these are one of Dr. Homes his Pillars Q. But doth the Dr. bring no Scripture for what he holds A. O yes he cites Scripture in abundance what Heretick is there that

Chiliasto-mastix redivivus Sive Homesus enervatus A confutation of the MILLENARIAN OPINION Plainly demonstrating that Christ will not Reign Visibly and Personally on earth with the Saints for a thousand yeers either before the day of Judgement in the day of Judgement or after it Where you also have many Texts of Scripture Vindicated from the vain Glosses of one Dr. Homes a great Millenarian and all his Cavils of any consequence refelled and answered With a word to our Fifth Monarch-men whose dangerous practises of late clearly shew that this opinion leads to Schisme and Sedition in Church and State By Tho. Hall B. D. and Pastor of Kingsnorton Jonah 2. 8. They that wait on lying Vanities forsake their own mercy John 18. 36. My Kingdom is not of this world LONDON Printed for John Starkey at the Miter at the West end of Pauls 1697. TO THE CANDID READER HAving finisht my Exposition on 2 Tim. 3. by way of Supplement to Mr. Barlow when I came to the 2 Tim. 4. 1. I perceived that Dr. Homes was tampering with it forcing it to plead his Millenarian cause upon this I encountred him and have Vindicated the Text from the Vain Glosses which he put upon it Afterwards perusing his whole book I found it so jejune and empty and his proofs so grosly wrested and impertinent that I conceived it might be time well spent to Vindicate the Text which he abuseth especially such as have any seeming weight in them as to his purpose which here thou hast now presented to thy view I thought it good to give it thee single by it self and the rather that such as cannot buy the Exposition of those two Chapters yet may have this little Antidote at hand against this Epidemical error which spreads so strangely and hath already brought forth the malignant fruit of Schisme in the Church and Sedition in the State to the hazarding of both as appears in that Seditious Declaration of the Fifth Monarch men who cry down Magistracy and Ministery as that Beast so do these Bruits call them which hindreth the coming of their King Jesus The Apostle tells us of some that despise Government and among the the rest he gives them this Character 2 Pet. 2. 10. that they are self-conceived persons such as love to sing their own song and to get a name they 'l go a strain of their own beyond the Ordinary even to the contradicting and out-facing of the clearest evidence of Scripture and Reason they are so wedded to their own Fancies that they think every thing makes for them and every one pleads their cause Scriptures Fathers Astronomers Sybils Poets Turks Talmuds Targums c. and this is Dr. Homes his case as the ensuing Treatise will shew where you have the Question debated Polemically {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Negative Positive 1. I shew the Weakness and Invalidity of the Drs. Thesis and his proofs 2. I have set down the Truth in an Antithesis proving it by Scripture and Reason with as much brevity as may be And herein I shall be directly opposite to the Doctor for I have used all means to contract my self and have compacted as much matter in as little a compass as possibly I could whereas he doth de Industria use all meanes to swel his book into a Folio and therefore he hath put a great part of it into Latin and English for the credit of the Cause that all the world may see he Lyes in Folio in the mean time forgetting the Proverb {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that a great book especially when stuft with such a cramb bis cocta as the Doctor hath stuft his book withall is a great burden especially to an Ingenious Reader who delights in Laconick brevity and must have much in a little Neither can this displease any sober man if I in the Spirit of Love and Meekness tendring the good of the Land of my Nativity publish a Tract in Octavo in defence of the Ancient common received Truths of Gods Church since Doctor Homes hath publisht a Treatise in Folio against them He must be a man of singular patience that can endure to read over the Doctors book his proofs are so impertinent and ridiculous that the bare rehearsal of most of them is confutation sufficient Surely should the Doctor write a Folium Plaustrale a Volumn big enough to load a Cart yet if he bring no better proofs to maintain his Tenet then I have yet seen I Question who wil believe him For my own particular in this thing I have done nothing out of any spirit of opposition to the Person or parts of any nay I could heartily wish that the Doctor had spent his Operam Oleum his Time and Talents on some better Subject which might have furthered his Account in the Day of the Lord when we must all give an Account of our Stewardships and not to have fed mens fancies with lying Vanities and that in a time when the World surfets with them already I find the Builders of this Babel strangely divided amongst themselves both about the Place where this Raign shall be whether in Heaven or on Earth whether in Ierusalem or in the whole World 2. About the Persons whether the Martyrs only shall Raign this thousand yeers or whether all the Saints shall not Raign with them or whether there shall be no wicked ones mixt amongst them 3. About the manner of their Raign whether it shall be in carnal delight or spiritual or both 4. That they may be sure to disagree in all the principal points they differ in the time when this Raign shall begin some say before the day of judgment others say in the day of judgement others say after it Scarce any of the Chiliasts but hath his peculiar conceits in these points Truth is but one errour is manifold Obj. Whereas some may think this a smal and harmless errour not worth confuting Answ. I answer 1. As no sin simply considered in it self is little because there is no little God that we sin against so no errour in it self is litile because 't is against the same glorious and infinite Majesty 2. As little sins so little errours like little wedges make way for greater and he that makes no conscience of little errours wil when a Temptation comes make no conscience of greater 3. This Tenet is not so harmless and smal as some imagine Is that a smal matter which overthrows the fundamentals of Religion making two bodily distinct Resurrections two dayes of judgment three Ascentions and Descentions of Christ Is that a harmless opinion which breeds Security Sensuality Anarchy Is that a harmless opinion which overthrows Ordinances Magistracy Ministery Is that a little errour which perverts the Creed and wrests the Lords Prayer wracking that Petition Thy Kingdom come to a desire of the coming of their Millenarian Kingdom when the Kingdom we pray for in the Lords Prayer 1.

that 't is conceived the computation from the Creation to this day ordinarily received is not right but far longer then it ought to be How true this is I leave it to the Chronologers and the Dr. to dispute whilst I proceed to more profitable matter Quest But before I proceed any further will you have the Cream and Quintessence the Sinews and Mary bones of all Dr. Homes his Arguments from the forecited places in one Demonstrative Syllogisme Answ. Yes by any means the briefer the better for we have been tired out hitherto with his empty nothings In brief the Drs. Argument is this p. 115. Those things which are prophesied in the Word of God and are not yet come to passe must be fulfilled very true But the great a sensible and visible happiness of the Church on earth before the b Ultimate Day of Iudgement is prophesied in the Word of God which is the Old and New Testament Very true ergo it shall come to passe who ever denied it But what is this to the point in hand Or what Logick is this Because in the last dayes the Jews shall be called and because the Glorious Spiritual Priviledges of the Church shall then be advanced Ergo Christ and the Saints alone shall Raign on earth a thousand yeers This is the Drs Logick you see from first to last I come now to answer more punctually to Revel. 20. 4. 5 c. 1. The Text is Allegorical and so is no fit ground to build Arguments upon The book of the Revelation is the most mystical book in all the Bible full of deep Allegories and this Text is one of the darkest and deepest in all the book 'T is Prophetical and Prophesies are best understood when fulfilled Yet such is the folly of the Papists and Anabaptists that they take the Letter and neglect the meaning of the Scripture whereas the Scripture lyeth not in the Words and Letters but in the sense and meaning 2. The Raigning here meant is purely spiritual and so is the first Resurrection St John says he saw the Souls and not the Bodies of the Martyrs Raigning with Christ 2. He saw the Souls not of all the Saints but only of those that were beheaded for the Testimony of Christ By beheading by a Synecdoche saith Dr. H. all manner of persecution is meant Now if you stick to the Letter of the Text none but Martyrs shall raigne this thousand yeer as Piscator Alsteed and Grotius affirm and if this be so then the Martyrs will be in a worse condition then ordinary Saints for whilst they are enjoying the beatifical Vision of God in Heaven the Martyrs must be upon earth feeding on the Quintessence of the Creatures drinking wine for which Dr. H. cites Matth. 26. 29. yea the Dr. tells us he doth not see any grand inconveniency that would follow if he should affirm but that he dares not elss he hath a good mind to it as the dog hath to the Mutton but that he fears the cudgel that men should beget children at that time His Reason is for he is not mad without Reason Adam might once have done it without sin or carnality of mind and the Apostle saith he implies that our State then Heb. 2. shall be as innocent as Adams was and then that promise shall be fullfilled Matth. 19. 29. he that hath forsaken Father Mother Wife c. shall have a hundredsold To the like purpose speaks Mr. Burroughs a Hos. 1. 11. Lect. 7. he tells us that in that glorious time there will be building of houses and inhabiting them planting of Vineyards and eating the fruits of them But the Scripture is clear against this it tels us that the Kingdom of God is within us that it consists not in meat or drink Rom. 14. 17. that in the Resurrection there shall be no carnal but spiritual delights only Matth. 22. 30. In the Resurrection they marry not but are as the Angels of God Christs Kingdom comes not to us with exnernal pompe or worldly observation Luke 17. 20. but 't is spiritual and is maintained by spiritual delights 3. The Text doth not say that Christ shall come down to them on earth for the Saints may and do R aign with Christ already on earth though he be now in Heaven As we are said to suffer with Christ though he be in Heaven and we on Earth Rom. 8. 17. So we are said to Raign with him Hence beleevers are called Kings because even now they raign with him in in a spiritual manner Revel. 1. 6. and 5. 10. and the Church is now called the Kingdom of Heaven Matth 13. 47. and 5. 19. 25. So that the Text doth not speak of earth or any earthly raigne but they shall be with Christ i. e. they shall be free from their former persecutions as living now under Christ not under Antichrist rising from sin to newness of life 4. This first Resurrection is not a bodily but a spiritual Resurrection of the soul from the death of sin to the Life of Grace The Text clears it for of such the second death hath no power As the second death is not corporal but spiritual so is the Resurrection Else this absurdity would follow that we should have two bodily resurrections viz. one of the Saints to raigne a thousand yeers before the Day of Judgement and another of the wicked at the Day of the General Judgement Bnt the Scripture makes but one Resurrection of good and bad of Martyrs as well as others Matth. 25. 31. and 24. 15. John 5. 28. 29 Holy Job knew nothing of such a raign or rising Job 19. 25. he tells us of his Resurrection onely at the last day and Paul tels us of the rising of all in the twinckling of an eye to Jugdment 1 Cor. 15. 22. 41. 52. and that the Saints shall be caught up suddenly in the ayr to meet Christ and be for ever with him 1 Thes. 4. 16. and Daniel joynes the Resurrection of all and the day of judgement together Dan. 12 2. So doth John Revel. 20. 12. 5. If none but perfect Saints shal reign with Christ this thousand yeers as Dr. Homes saith and no wicked men shal be mixt with them as the Millenaries affirm the Dr. may do well in his next book in Folio printed at his own charge to tell us from whence that persecuting Gog and Magog i. e. those open and secret enemies of Gods Church shall arise which shall make such havock of the Church of God Revel 20. 7 8 9. when the thousand yeers are exquired Satan shall then be loosed saith the Text out of prison and shall go out and deceive the Nations which are in the 4. Quarters of the Earth a Gog and Magog to gather them against the beloved City q. d. Satan shall then be suffered to raise great troubles and tumults in the world and shall stir up all