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The doctrine of the kingdom and personal reign of Christ asserted and explained in an exposition upon Zach. 14, 5, 9 / by Ed. Bagshaw.
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Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.
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the Sons being given to them Is 9.4 Jer 30.8 9 10. c. Our Saviour in his reply doth grant their supposal but reproves them sharply for not being better acquainted with the Scriptures out of which they might have learn't That Christ ought to have suffered all those things and then to enter into his Glory where by his Glory is meant his Kingdom as is plain Mark 10 37. compared with Mat. 20 21. In the same manner after his Resurrection our Saviour doth blame his Apostles in that forementioned demand of theirs not for their expectation but for their hast and therefore he bids them v. prepare for suffering and witnessing as their next immediate work His Kingdom being to be prolonged as to the setting of it up till the number of his witnesses was compleated Rev. 6.11 And then there should be no longer time Rev. 10 6. i. No more delay but he would presently come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to reward his Servants and to destroy them which destroy the earth Rev. 11.15.18 4. In the Revelation which our Saviour saith cap. 1.1 That he had received from the Father to this end that he might show unto his Servants what things were to come to pass hereafter there we have this Reign fully manifested and the time of it duration for a Thousand years expresly mentioned Rev. 20.4.6 So that now there can rationally be no more scruple about it because the words of that book are declared to be the true and faithful sayings of God Rev. 19 9 and they are pronounced Blessed who read and hear the words of the Prophecy and keep the things that are written therein i. Who live up to a full belief and expectation of them But if such a reign and Kingdom as is there spoken of shall never be how can those sayings be true or if they are to have another interpretation put upon them then the words themselves do naturally and necessarily import how are they Faithful So that I conclude this third reason with this that our Saviour was so far from denying his personal reign and visible Kingdom upon Earth that he doth clearly own and assert it 4th Reas Fourthly Another reason why the Prophecies of Scripture concerning the reign of Christ are literally to be understood is this because this way of putting mystical and spiritual meanings upon plain and positive texts is very unsafe and dangerous many Heresies were of old introduced and still are fomented by it I believe it was upon this very prtence that some in the Church of Corinth did deny the resurrection of the dead and others as Hymaeneus and Philetas did affirme 1 Cor. 15 12. 2 Tim. 2.17.18 it was past already and indeed what truth can be so clearly revealed which may not by taking the words in a figurative sence be altogether eluded farre be it therefore from us to limit the holy One of Israel or to seek how we may darken his counsail by our words which if in any respect they contradict his must needs be without knowledge since it hath pleased God to promise that his Christ shall reign with his Saints upon earth let us not by unbeleif for I cannot yet see from what other root such denyal can proceed cast off the mercy but rather labour to receive the truths of God according to his own word in the utmost extent and most comprehensive meaning of it and not according to what seems possible in our own narrow conceptions Fiftly This reign of Christ in person serves to make up and to compleat Reason 5. the great Mystery of the Gospel which consists not only in having God our Saviour but the same God in the same humane Nature likewise our King and this was that Mistery which God revealed to the Prophets Rev. 10.7 and remained to be fulfiled under the seventh Trumpet as I have already observed from Revel 11.15 therefore when our Saviour was taken up into Heaven the Angels comforted his amazed and sorrowful Disciples with this that the same Jesus should return as he went i. in the same visible and apparent manner as he went away Acts 1.11 which also the Apostle Peter testifies c. 3.19 20 21. when the times of refreshing i. the time of calling the Jews which will be a time so glorious that it will be as life from the dead Rom. 11.15 shall come from the presence of the Lord whom the heaven must receive until that time which he then calls the time of the rectitution of all things which God hath spoken of by the mouth of his holy Prodhets to imagine that the eternal Son of God took a Body and Flesh upon him merrily contemned and crucified and that he will not bring the same body to receive it's promised glory Isa 52.13.15 this is neither sit for the Mistery of God nor the admirable contriveance ond discovery of his Grace in the Gospel For he must reign 1 Cor. 1.24.28 saith our Apostle till he hath put all his Enemies under his feet and till that be done which as the same Apostle oâ—â—er Heb. 3.8 we see not as yet accomplished the end shall â—othe i. the end of the World and the final judgement This â—â—â—e Rom. 8.19.23 not only the Saints and the whole creation long for as hoping â—en to be delivered from the bondage of corruption because the caâ— shall be taken away Zech. 14.11 but likewise ous Saviour said in Heaven to exspect it Heb. 10.13 that so he may be put into actual possession of his soveraignty promised Psal 2. and have all his Enemies become his footstool Psal 110. After the period of which reign the humane Nature of Christ it self shall be brought into a state of inferiority and subjection unto the Father that God may be all in all 1 Cor. 15 28. Reason 6. Lastly This was the general and fixed beleif of all the holy men both before and since our Saviours coming until the time of the Apostacy under Anti-Christ what the expectation of the Prophets was sufficiently appears from the concent and harmony of their predictions upon which the Prophet Zachary for at that time it is said that he prophecied Luk 1.67 doth make a breif and plain comment Luke 1.68.75 where he saith that now in sending of Christ God had done what he had promised by the mouth of his holy Prophets which have been since the world began that we i. we Jewes for of them he speaks especially as also doe the Prophets should be saved from our Enemies and from the hands of all that hate us with more words concerning the Peace Plenty and Righteousness which was to be in the time of Chrast as is more fully prophecied of Psal 72. Is. 11. Jer. 30. Ezeck 34 and 37. c. which time having never yet been in the world it is infallibly certain that it will be and ought to be expected what was the Faith and Hope of the Apostles I have already mentioned out of