observed The Design of God in all the promised mercies to all those Fathers was that their Race and State should grow up or prosper into a Kingdom as was hinted before Ezekiel 16.13 which their natural Race had only as a Type for a time conditionally but it was surely confirmed to Christ in the renewed state to come when all the said spiritual Seed shall rise and reign with him as is confirmed by all the Prophets witnessed to in the Gospels and Apostles Writings and carryed on by Christ himself from the beginning of the Revelation to the end thereof And 3. Hence also observe that that personal comeing in the Clouds is so often spoken of in that most Divine Book as chap 1.7 Behold he cometh with Clouds the same comeing in time with Daniel 7.13 14. to be fulfilled Rev 19 11. to the end when the Lord God Omnipotent is said to Reign v. 6. and when the said Saints shall also reign with him Rev. 20.4 6. Again to Philodelphia ch 3.11 is another Behold I come quickly again after the Revelation was given and John commanded to leave it open chap. 22.10 then v. 12. he adjoyns another Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me even the same reward ch 11.19 of whiâ—h the Spirit and the Bride also say Come which Christ again ascertaineth v. 20. saying Surely I come quickly and it is there once more implored by the Spirit in the Saints even so come Lord Jesus v. 21. What man can then with reason or shall dare against so much evident Scripture without good Reason to deny any of these much more all of these so often repeated Texts respecting his said comeing in the Clouds Hence saith Jeremie of that time ch 3.17 Jerusalem shall be called the Throne of the Lord when also the Prophet Isa witnesseâ—h ch 24.23 The Moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in Mount Sion and in Jerusalem and before his Ancients gloriously And Ezekiel stiles that City from that time it shall be set up Jehovah Shamma The Lord is there ch ult v. ult So Zachery twice ch 2.10 11. he will dwell in the middest of Sion and Zephany ch 3.13 14. the King of Israel is in the middest of thee c. with much illustration there observable c. And Daniel shews punctually the beginning then of Christs said universal and perpetual Kingdom ch 7. viz. when the Body of the Beast shall be given to the burning flame of which state speak also all the rest of the Prophets as in our Iren. ch 5 6 7 8. and our 12 Foundations from Gen. 3.15 to the end of the Revelation besides what more was proved in Assert 7. of our Key and in other parts 3. Now as from the drift of all the said Covenants Promises and Prophesies and all the said parts of holy Scripture his said personal comeing appearance and Kingdom is evidently intended as is from them all manifest So the third head of Argumenrs do prove all the same to be personal will be from the Consideration that at the said comeing he will begin his great day of Judgment stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Judgment of the great day Jude 6. when will be the Matutinum Judicium or the first Session thereof which the Jews from Dan. 7. used to stile ×™×•× ×“×™×Ÿ or ×™×•× ×“×™× × ×¨×‘× the day of Judgment or the great day of Judgment Hence the Spirit of God ascribes thereto all the peculiar marks and parts of a day of Judgment as 1. The Judgment is set Dan. 7.10 2. The Books are opened 3. The Quick And 4. The Dead are Judged 2 Tim. 4.1 and that at his appearance and Kingdom or which is the same Rev. 11.19 when his Enemies are destroyed and his Saints rewarded and all the like marks and parts of that Judgment will be again at the Vespertinum Judicium above 1000 years after as is distinctly manifest Rev. 20.11 to the end c. Hence the destruction of Babylon is stiled the beginning of Revenges Deut. 32.42 in Moses hiâ— song for Posterity upon which follows Daniels Matutinum Judicium when the Body of the Beast shall be given to the burning flame upon which the Prophetical song brings in the joyful union of Jews and Gentiles as then to take place viz. upon that execution of Vengeance when Gods hand takes hold on Judgment and makes his Arrows drunk in blood when that enemy Antichrist shall be dispatched out of the world v. 40 41.42 and the frequent expression of Gods judging the Whore then suits thereunto as ch 19 2. upon the great Hallelujah then sung for the same v. 1. the like often in ch 18. v. 8. strong is the Lord that judgeth her and v. 10. in one hour is thy judgment come again v. 19. in one hour is she made desolate so v. 20 God hath avenged you of her ye holy Apostles and Prophets with much more to the end and this Revenge is greatly encouraged Reward her as she hath rewarded you and double her double c. v. 6 c. But as for the Beasts ruine the Judgment is set and the Books were opened saith Daniel ch 7.10 and that was because of the great words the Horn spake v. 11. and the issue was the Body of the Beast is given to the burning flame at that time when the Son of man comes in the Clouds of Heaven v. 13 14. and receives his said Kingdom also both those parts of the morning Judgment as Psal 49. are explained by Judgment Rev. 11.19 God is praised for then judging his Saints with reward as well as judging his Enemies with destruction the manner of Execution is set forth at the Armageddon Battel Rev. 19.11 so Gog and Magog both to be destroyed upon that Gods great day of Vengeance or Recompences Ezek. 39.8 which in special is often in Scripture so called and described as Isa 66. in many particulars where also the Conversion and Deliverance of the Jews are joined in that Prophesie with the destruction of the same Enemies at the great day of God Almighty as it is called Rev. 16.14 16. as was said before from Deut. 32.41 42 43. Now when Christ comes to that Judgment in the morning of that great day he will come personally and all the time he will be in rewarding his Saints at the first bodily Resurrection in his Kingdom and reign then and in the New Jerusalem state then in the world he will be personally with them and they shall then and there behold his glory which his Father hath given him as Mediator God man Joh. 17.24 all the time he is raising of them to enjoy the happiness of that state which Mr. Mede conceives will be in doing a great part of the 1000 years who shall then enjoy the Vision of his Person with them who shall then be their happiness and their glory But the evidence of such personal Judgment then will be farther
Dan. 11.45 12 and will also bind Satan and shut him up in the bottomless pit for 1000 years taking away out of Christs Kingdom the evils brought into the world by sin viz. the Curse the Enmity Bondage and Corruption with all that offends Mat. 13.41 at the making of the New Heavens and the New Earth for his Saints and Angels then at those times of Restitution of all things Rev. 21.5 as is manifest by Scripture to be done then for Christ personally with his Saints as in our Restit largly is manifest for Christ might as easily have put down Satan from being any longer the God of this present evil world and Prince by Usurpation of the power of the Air when he wrought his spiritual conquest over him and all the powers of Darkness Col. 2.15 at his first comeing as soon as he had reconciled the Saints to God by the blood of his Cross had not the Father most wisely and holily for his own great glory and his Sons and his said Saints great glory and happiness in that world wherein they had suffered before set down the order and time for the carrying on of that his great Design in the world for the said Reign of Christ with his Saints as the greatest thing as was said then to be obtained and enjoyed in that world to come by Christ and all his said suffering Saints together who having before there suffered with him should also then reign with him 2 Tim. 2.12 as he set forth in that book with 7 Seals given so gloriously to the Lamb Rev. 5. to open and execute as the Fathers Commissioner in their due order and time until about the end of 1700 years from Christs Birth But that then he should be his King upon his holy Hill of Sion sitting on the Throne of his Father David as he had promised and not until that time c. But 2. The Spirit of God manifests that in his first said gracious Declaration Gen. 3.15 was also contained the restoring of the Dominion over the Creatures which includes the Kingdom of Christ Rev. 20. and all that belongs to it in the two following chap. as being the positive end and purpose of Christs first undertaking of that his said great work of Redemption to be fulfilled at the time of the Restitution of all things and then to be personally enjoyed by himself and his Saints when God will wonderfully make all things new for them Rev. 21.5 when the suffering Saints fulness shall be then come in and that same Lambs Wife hath made her self ready as Rev. 19.7 And in that sense he evidently explains Psal 4.6 7. by Heb. 2.6 7 8. shewing the Son of Man there unto whom all things shall be surely at last subjected to be Christ the second Adam not the first Adam who was not the Son of any man but only the Son of God by Creation Luke 3. ult and teacheth that under the feet of Christ the second Adam all things were to be put in subjection again at the said time as was by God fore-determined and appointed though we do not yet see all things subject to him viz. in the present state of things as the Apostle speaks v. 8. although for the suffering of Death God had before Crowned him with glory and honour upon his becomeing lower than the Angels for a little time whilst he by his death had wrought reconciliation for his said Saints But as to the restoring of the said lost Dominion by the first Adams Fall which is also still usurped by Satans continuing the Prince of the power of the Air and by his wicked retinue of evil men Devils that will not be fulfilled until the beginning of Christs great day of Judgment when all his said Foes will be made his footstool and when the Kingdoms of the world shall actually become the Kingdoms of God and of his Christ and when he shall personally possess them as being then given to him for his actual possession of them Ps 2 8. 2. The first Mercy to Shems Race the Jews Gen. 9.26 having then present interest in Gods favour tended as Baalam prophetically spake to point out the lineage of Christ who when he had reconciled his Saints by the blood of his Cross at his first comeing should at his second comeing be such Gods King at that same time whose Scepter was to arise out of Israel as Numb 24.17 which v 19. is particularly applyed to Christ then out of Jacob said he shall come he that shall have Dominion mainly that in the said 1000 year carryed on after by all the Prophets Gospels and all the Apostles Writings and most Divinely so explained by Christ in the Revelation Hence also saith the Prophet Isa ch 55.3 That the spiritual Seed of that Divine Seed of the Woman Christ shall with him have those sure mercies of David that is by all the said Scripture explication c. they all most certainly shall then reign with him personally in his said Kingdom which is the very meaning of Gods making David a sure House so that his House Throne and Kingdom shall continue for ever to the worlds end 2 Sam. 7. viz. in Christ his Divine Seed as also in many other Scriptures though in respect of Davids natural Race it was not so as he speaks 2 Sam. 23.5 yet as a type for a long time his natural Race also prospered into a Kingdom as Ezekiel 16.13 4. As all Promises to Abraham and his whole Seed were chiefly to and by that his one Divine Seed Christ as Gal. 3. so also more especially to all his spiritual Seed then See their many distinctions Resurrect p. 10 11. and likewise to Isaac Jacob and David and to all their Spiritual Seed at the same time and though the natural race of them all had for a time in Canaan a Typical Conditional Temporal Changable interest which by sin they all successively lost Mich. 2.10 yet Abraham Isaac and Jacob looked for that City and heavenly Countrey a far off viz. of a heavenly nature whose Maker and Builder is God Heb. 11.16.40 for themselves and all their spiritual Seed at the first Resurrection as by our paper of the Jews Conversion is largely evident pag. 5 6. Jacob also Prophesied of Judah's Dominion Gen. 49. which was the Type of Christs who was to descend from Judah who is therefore in that state stiled the Lion of the Tribe of Judah Rev. 5. which Dominion of his and his Saints shall not be forfeited nor pass to other people as Daniel speaks when he shall cease to sit on his Fathers Throne and come to sit on his own Throne in the said 1000 years with his Saints Rev. 3.21 as the Son of David for ever viz. while the world remains 2 Sam. 7. When will really be the sure Mercies of David as was said for himself and all his spiritual Seed which are so many wayes distinguished from the natural as ought to be well
Context of ch 8. and by many other reasons in our Summary of Daniel p. 6 7. 2. Because the experience of that threefold Overturning of David's Kingdom Ezek. 21.26 27. until he come whose right it is and which God hath there promised to give him then are almost compleated by experimental fulfilling as we shewed Introduction pag. 9 10. which very probably will be fulfilled at the same period 3. It consists of two evident parts very admirably concurring with the joynt times of Daniel and the Revelation viz. Of the first part of 600 years from the Captivity of Babylon in the beginning of the fourth year of Jehojakim and the first of Nebuchadnezzar Anno Mundi 3398. about three years before 3400. which therefore will be out so much before Christs Birth at 4000. as Bishop Vsher Computes it when 37 years more ended Daniels Weeks from whence also are reckoned 1700 years of Revelation Prophesie to Christs said appearance at the Destruction of the last or Roman Monarchy Rev. 17.10 of both Ezekiels Gog and Magog at the same time ch 39.6 7 8. which two numbers make up the 2300. Dan. 8. of the latter number more afterwards 2. Again it is also manifest to be the measure of both the other mystical numbers in Dan. 9. and Dan. 12.12 in connexion with the Revelation Numbers reaching to the same period all being the dictates of the Eternal All-knowing All-working Lord the Spirit whose Epochaes being many hundred years distant yet exactly agree in the same Period the same glorious Divine evidence of Truth being carryed on by them all both of the Jews deliverance and the Enemies said Ruine at Christs appearance as was said 1. Of the 70 Weeks Dan. 9. or 490 years from the 20th of Artaxerxes Longiomanus Neh. 2.1 An. Mund. 3550. at the execution of the Decree for Building the City Jerusalem until the three years and an half ending Daniels last Week An Dom. 37. after Christs Birth in the middle of which last Week Christ hy his Death put an end to Transgression c. and by his Resurrection brought in everlasting Righteousness and at his Ascention triumphed gloriously over the spiritual Principalities and Powers Coll. 2.15 when also began the Kingdom of the Stone Dan. 2.44 for that 1666 years to his Descending again in that interim to break and consume the Dragon and the Beast until about the end of 1700 years from Christs Birth when it will become the Kingdom of the Mountain filling the whole Earth at Christs second comeing And 2. For that Divine Mark or Discovery of taking away Sacrifice ultimately given to Daniel by the same Lord the Spirit above 800 years before it came to pass when his 1335 years ch 12 12. should reach to the said blessed times which was eventually manifest by Gods Wonder-working Providence and Power about An. Dom. 365. against the provoking Abominations of Julian the Apostate Emperour who not only in opposition to Jesus Christ set up many Heathen Idolatries but incouraged the Jews to build their Temple for Sacrifice granting allowance for the same out of the publick Treasury But when they had layed Foundations for the Temple and multitudes came to see the Workmens proceedings as many Historians relate Gods wrath was manifest against them by Fire and Earthquakes and the like terrible appearances thereof killing many Workmen Amianus Marcel Socrat. Zozamen Theodoret c. with such as came to see the same burn'd their very Tools or melted them and cast out the very stones layed in the ground for Foundations occasioning Cyrill then Bishop there to say Now is fulfilled our Saviours Prediction One stone shall not be left upon another that shall not be thrown down c. From which time we read no more of the Jews publick Sacrificing and that time wonderfully fits the said Mark for 1335. being added to 365. make up likewise 1300. to the said blessed time c. Whereunto 4. We may annex those 45 years of the Jews last troublous times Dan. 12.1 from the 1290. years in v. 11. unto 1335. in v 12. when the blessed times begin the former said 365. years till Julian being added to them which so together make up as was said 1700 years from Christs Birth to his second comeing which we observed in our late Address to the Kings Majesty to be now a special Alarm to this World In these words Of the neer approach of whose said comeing I conceive the world of late years hath been sufficiently alarm'd by the Jews attempt in that season to seek their promised Land 45 years before that his second comeing as appears from Dan. 12.11 12. and as is very observable in that type thereof Joshua ch 14 7.10 in that so very apt decyphering of our Jesus now which whatever others think of it I have much pondered since in my heart from Gods former like mysterious proce dings when he is about to do great things in the world and of which I now understand an useful book is written c. 5. The Beasts Date of 42 moneths with the Sack-cloth Witnesses 1260. years and the Womans time times and half a time being all contemporaries now ready almost to expire as in Restit p. 57 58. p. 74 75. not long before the VVhores Burning Rev 18. which must precede the utter destruction of the man of Sin at Christs said appearance 2 Thes 2.8 at Gods sure number of 1666. counted as appears by his own Divine wisdom of Daniels said numbers and St. Pauls Doctrine from Christs ascending to his descending with Clouds about 20 years hence as before 6. The Turks day hour moneth and year viz. 396. years Rev. 9.11 being the sixth Trumpet or second VVoe beginning about An. Dom. 1300. or little after in the Ottaman Family whose said 396 years will be compleated about the same time as in Restit pag. 74. 7. The probable proceedings of the Vials under the said sixth Trumpet to prepare for the ruine of the Beast about the end of the sixth Vial when Ezekiels said Gog and Magog viz. Turk and Pope are like to perish neer in time together 8. The Table of the bad times Rev. 11. to verse 15. referring to both Revelation Schemes of the Civil and Ecclesiastical state of Rome as in our short Scheme of the whole Revelation is manifest for about 1700 years from Christs Birth or three years before c. 1. Of the Civil state to the Red Dragons casting down to the earth by Constantine the great about An. Dom. 320. and that other viz. the Christian Emperours for a short space Rev. 17.10 for about 100 years after and then the Inroades of the Barbarous Nations upon the VVestern Empire in the four first Trumpets breaking the Empire to prepare for the ten Kings to follow who should give their power to the Beast Rev. 17 1â— dissolving the Senate sacking and burning the City and plucking the last Emperour Augustulus as it is storyed out of his Throne which