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A59925	An additional supplement to the Eirenikon, or, Peaceable considerations of Christs peaceful kingdome to come upon the earth in the thousand years Rev. 20, lately published, 1665.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1674 (1674)	Wing S3396; ESTC R34218	66,984	74

finished at the last said sudden and terrible ruine of the Roman Monarchy by the destruction of Antichrist And here again observe how God all along the Beasts forty two months gave his Spiritual Power unto his two Witnesses prophesying in sackcloth those Sons of Oyl as they are called Zech. 4. to prophesy against Antichrist to consume him with the Spirit of Christ's mouth 〈◊〉 bring on the said Destruction gradually accomplished by the seve● Angels with their seven last Plagues poured out upon him Rev. 15 16 chapters till that Destruction be accomplish'd at the seventh Trumpet and last Vial of the seventh Angel poured-out upon him about the said time fore-spoken of when Christ comes in the clouds of Heaven Dan. 7.13 14. to receive his Monarchy upon Earth spoken of likewise Rev. 1.7 when the Jews shall generally be brought home unto him as Isa 66.8 and when the iniquity of that Land shall be removed in one day Zech. 3.9 And then will the four living Wights with the twenty four Elders have that honour given to them which they were assured of to their so great exultation aforehand See Iren. pag. 32. Rev. 5.10 and whereupon all Angels and all Creatures render to Christ the glory due to him which they acknowledge there to be his deservedly saying Thou art worthy to receive Riches and Power and Wisdom and Strength and Glory and Blessing c. And then the Kingdom of the Stone will become a Mountain filling the whole Earth when there will be given to him the Son of man by his Father the Ancient of dayes Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all People and Nations and Languages shall serve him and that for ever whose Dominion is an everlasting Dominion that shall not pass away as the four former Kingdoms did and his Kingdom such as shall not be destroyed as the four former were Dan. 7.14 with many other Texts in Daniels Visions as we shewed which manifest it evidently to be to the utmost extent of Dominion both of place Over the whole Earth and under the whole Heaven as was said chap. 7.15 27. and of continuance and duration for ever while the World remained and for ever and ever to eternity v. 18. when that Kingdom of the Mountain shall be perfected in the Kingdom of Glory in the highest Heavens In that visible Kingdom of Power Christ having received that Kingdom of his Father he will then give it to his Saints who shall then take it as Dan. 7.18 and manage it for him as ver 27. having the Judgment that is the authority of judging then given to them to reign with Christ a thousand years Rev. 20.4 And that it is the same Kingdom given at the same time as the series and order of the Prophecy of Daniel and of the Revelation both manifest and the same Authority of Judging in the like expressions of Ruling and Governing is in both places assigned to the Saints as followeth For first Judicandi potestas illis facta Rev. 20.4 It is said I saw Thrones and they sat upon them Dan. 7.9 So I beheld till the Thrones were pitched down and the Judgement that is the Judges were set Rev. 20. And Judgement was given to them Dan. 7.22 And Judgement was given to the Saints of the most High Rev. 20. And the Saints lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years Dan. 7. And the Saints possessed the Kingdom with Christ the Son of Man that came in the Clouds of Heaven But after the finishing of the said thousand years Reign of Christ with his Saints on Earth we are to observe what Christ in Rev. 20.7 8 9 10. further explains shall be fulfilled concerning the last wicked attempt of Satan after he shall be loosed for a little season vers 3. from his thousand years imprisonment in the bottomless pit all which time he was bound that he could not seduce the Nations until the said thousand years were ended namely that after that time was finished that he shall then seduce the last Gog and Magog the wicked Hypocrites then in the World who shall then become very numerous in the four quarters of the Earth from whence he shall tempt them to come with a joynt consent who being a wicked generation that had been forced in the thousand years unwillingly yet-outwardly did conform to the holy and good Government of the Saints successively unto whom before time they were necessitated to be subject for the said thousand years space though against their own heart yet shall think then upon Satans seducement and conduct to free themselves from their yoke by attempting to compass with their multitudes the Camp of the Saints and even attempt to besiege the beloved City too the New Jerusalem that came down from God out of Heaven even Heaven it self upon Earth where the blessed and holy raised Saints had all the thousand years before happily beheld Christs glorious Presence shining bright with light and comfort upon them the Lamb being in each respect the light of that City Rev. 21.23 Isa 60.1 expecting by such means to free themselves from that by them supposed heavy yoke of the Saints good Government that so the Kingdoms of the World might again become the Kingdoms of Satan and of themselves his Vassals Upon which abominable attempt of Satan and those by him seduced hypocrites the Vengeance of God by fire as formerly upon the Beast and false Prophet shall again fall from God out of Heaven upon them and devour them and thereupon the Devil that deceived them be cast into the lake of Fire and Brimstone where the said Beast and false Prophet were cast above a thousand years before to be perpetually there tormented with them unto which will succeed the end of the World and the general judgement when again the Judge will sit and the Books will be opened and another Book will be opened which is the Book of Life and the Dead shall be judged out of those things that shall be written in the Books according to their Works as follows Rev. 20.11 12 c. whereunto succeds Eternity of Blessedness or Misery to every Man and Woman accordingly as they stand or fall in that general Judgment And thus briefly of the main things of Christs Kingdom in its several states of the Stone and of the Mountain filling the whole earth with what respects the beginning and ending of the latter state of the Mountain namely that it begins upon the destruction of the first Gog and Magog to wit of the Turk and Pope Ezek. 38. 39. before the New Jerusalem Ezek. 40. to the end of the Book which shall be called Jehova Shamma the Lord is there and at the end of the 1000 years reign of Christ and his Saints will succeed the attempt and defeat and ruine of the last Gog and Magog of wicked hypocrites against the Camp of the Saints and the beloved City as was shewed upon which will ensue the end

in the Image that were the lowest and last parts of it it should I say make those together with the Silver and the Gold and the Brass and the Iron at once become as the chaff of the Summer Threshing-floor namely in regard of what was said in chap. 7.12 to wit though the Dominions of all the former Kingdoms were taken away yet their lives were prolonged for a time and season till the last great and utter destruction of the Fourth Beast should be accomplished when the first Great Judgment was set and the Books opened Dan. 7.9 10 11. and when Christ came with Clouds to receive the Kingdom which his Father the Ancient of Dayes gave him over all the world ver 13 14. which should never pass away nor be destroyed as he there fully shews Now how this First State of the Kingdom of the Stone began to be set up as it is stiled ver 23. until the Kingdom of the Mountain took place as verse the 34. by the God of Heaven and hath all along been upheld powerfully and graciously by him as Daniel foreshe●ed is to be observed from the History of the all along the times of the Roman Empire being Contemporaries with it Vide Irenicon on Rev. 5.27 28. in respect both of the affairs of the State under both Seals and Trumpets now near to the end of the sixth Trumpet or second Wo when the Turk must be destroyed Dan. 11. ult 12.1 And also in respect of the affairs of the Church both true and false till Antichrist the Pope with the former half of him the Turk be likewise destroyed as is probable at the same time or near together To which purpose observe how this spiritual Kingdom of the Stone was set up in that manner as Christ-shewed to Zachary in a Vision Chap. 4. how the Oyl was supplied to the Candlestick and its seven Lamps and seven Pipes thereof from the two Olive-Trees standing by it the use whereof he explains vers 6. Not by power nor by might but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts which is applied to the two Witnesses Rev. 11. and in this manner the Spirit of the Lord was originally as in the Fountain upon Christ himself being anointed above his fellows to preach the Gospel as Isa 61.1 This anointing was derived from him unto and fell upon the Apostles in an abundant measure and likewise in their measure upon all succeeding Messengers of Christ in the primitive Times and so forward in the times succeeding till this day and also on all faithful Christians in their degree all along unto the Antichristian Apostacy and from thence during the Popes forty two months wherein those anointed Ones or as the original word signifies those Sons of Oyl 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the two Witnesses prophesying in Sackcloth 1260 days of years Rev. 11. have fed the Woman the true Church in her wilderness condition her time times and half a time now probably almost expired all which time this Oyl hath been divinely conveyed and supplied to preserve that light of Divine Truth and Grace by their Ministry in the Candlestick the true Church And as it appears this Kingdom of the Stone was at first set up so divinely by the God of Heaven and so spiritually and powerfully upheld by him that no wicked opposition could either destroy it or hinder it but even his spiritual Power and Grace made the opposition of men and Devils to promote it in the faithful Christians inward man So it may further appear to be his work both to set it up and preserve it by the unlikeliness of the means whereby he hath and still doth the same not as was said by power and might of the World for that not onely hath usually been deficient to help in that work but hath with Satans help made strong and violent opposition against it both in the Dragons heathenish and Antichrists apostatizing times which hath abundantly been evident both in the time of Christs own Ministry and in the Ministry of the Apostles who were his Legati a latere or Ambassadors immediately sent from him on the Message of the Gospel with all other mediate Messengers and Ministers sent by him from their times and also in all real and true subjects of the Kingdom of the Stone ever since to this very day To instance a little in each respect 1. Of their own outward meanness 2. Of the Worlds fayling to help them and 3. Of both the Devils and the wicked Worlds both malicious and violent opposition for the most part made against them First As Christ himself at his coming in our flesh was that foundation-Stone elect and precious which God sets such an Ecce Behold unto it that his People should take notice thereof when he should lay it in Sion Isa 28.16 and witnessed unto it by other Prophets long before his coming yet when he came into the World every way wonderful in Conception Birth Life Doctrine Miracles yea before in and after his death yet was he not by the Great Ones or the most or wisest or learnedest of men either owned or received But even then though he was very divinely and spiritually wonderful yet in regard his outward aspect and garb appeared to the Worlds Eye mean and contemptible the very Builders themselves rejected that elect and precious corner-Stone though to faithful mens eyes and Angels discovery very conspicuous and glorious So that our Saviour toward his Death applies the Prophecie of David Psal 118.22 unto the then Rulers which respected both him and them Matth. 21.42 saying The Stone which the Builders rejected is become the Head of the Corner which was the Lords own doing and was marvellous in the Eyes of men And so it hath been with the Kingdom of the Stone all along that Kingdom of Patience as we may by Gods assistance set down afterwards Now how this Stone it self in respect of his humane Nature may be observed eminently to be cut out of the Mountain by the God of Heaven without hands was declared also as a wonder before he came by the Evangelical Prophet Isaiah Behold saith he a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and his Name shall be Immanuel God with us Isa 7.14 So he was conceived by the holy Ghost and born of his Mother a Virgin without any real natural Father of his Flesh though he had a reputed one appointed by God himself to be a very useful help to the Virgin Mother of the Son of God yet how mean and low were then their outward conditions what attempts were made to destroy that spiritual King as soon as he came into the World How was he driven about to endanger him in his tender infant age soon after he came into the World How was he exposed and driven about whilst a child neglected and despised by the most of men and that amongst his own People and Kindred in the time of his private life where it was so