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A25221	The beloved city, or, The saints reign on earth a thovsand yeares asserted and illustrated from LXV places of Holy Scripture, besides the judgement of holy learned men both at home and abroad, and also reason it selfe : likewise XXXV objections against this truth are here answered / written in Latine by Ioan Henr. Alstedius ... ; faithfully Englished, with some occasionall notes and the judgement herein ... of some of our owne famous divines.; Diatribe de mille annis apocalyptis. English	Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638.; Burton, William, 1575-1645.	1643 (1643)	Wing A2924; ESTC R19975	88,201	114

or Dragon and his two companions the Beast and the false-Prophet Day and night Continually without intermission For ever and ever A description of all Eternity 11. And I saw a great white Throne By this Throne a cloud is understood and being termed a great Throne the Universall judgement is figured out and being also called a white one Truth Equity and Justice are thereby signified And one sitting thereon Namely Christ God and Man Now he is said to be seen to sit there that hereby we may be taught That he is prepared and ready to passe judgement From whose face Being both most ref●lgent and full of austherity The Earth and Heaven fled away That is the fashion of this world passed away and was consumed with fire which went before this Judge and the Creatures the Inhabitants of earth and heaven did all tremble at the sight of him And there was found no place for him By reason of the resplenden●y and Majesty of the Judge which no creature could endure without being changed into some other state and condition Therefore there shall be an Universall change of the whole world in that Judgement day 12. And I saw the dead That is Those who had been dead but were now raised and restored unto life Small and great A Dichotomy or division naturally to be understood in regard of quantity morally in regard of quality or dignity So that all must be placed before the Tribunall of Christ Standing before God As expecting his definitive sentence And the Books were opened Books not devised or written by any other then by every one in his own private conscience dictated according to his severall thoughts words and deeds These Books therefore thus written have hitherto been reserved shut up and not taken notice of as it were in some private closet or place of account But now they are opened so that they may be plainly read by every particular man And another book was opened That onely book written by God himself Which is the book of Life That is The secret and hidden Decree of God concerning our Election which there shall in publike be exhibited and made manifest Now it is called The book of Life because therein God hath as it were set down the names of them who through his grace and favour shall become heirs of eternall life Compare Luke 10.20 And the dead were judged A definitive sentence passing upon all acquitting some and condemning others Out of those things which were written in the Book To wit In the books of mens consciences Now these books shall be opened after a severall manner For the books of the Consciences of godly men shall not be so opened that their sinnes shall rise up in judgement against them for in this respect they are still sealed up but they shall be so opened that they may read indeed their sinnes there many and g●eat ones but so as they are covered by Christ and the power of them more and more weakened by the Spirit of Christ through repentance and the study of good works Therefore the godly shall reade in their conscience the justice of Christ covering their sinnes and through him bringing forth good works But the condition of the ungodly shall be farre otherwise For they shall read in their consciences their sinnes not pardoned by Christ According to their works Which shall give testimony either of their faith in Christ or else of their impiety and unbeleef 13. And. T●ansitively for After that that is After the sentence of the Judge now passed and published The sea gave up her dead that were in it B●ing drowned or devoured of fi●nes And death That is The Fire Aire and Beast of the Earth and Fowls yeelded up their dead which had not been bu●yed And Hell That is The Grave In these words then is contained partly a description of the generall Resurrection partly a distribution of the bodies of them that were dead into three sorts One of them that were drowned in the Sea Another of those which were not drowned in the Sea but being dead had no buriall as being brought to ashes either by the fire or aire or else devoured by beasts of the earth or by flying fowls A third sort of those who were laid in their graves Gave up their dead By the command and appointment of God Which were in them The very same and not others the same in number And they were judged every man Not any one being excepted According to their works So that no man shall have cause to complain of any injury done unto him 14. And death And for But adversatively Death that is some and indeed most of the dead but not buryed And Hell The Grave which is here put for them that were buryed therein And again not all the buryed are here to be understood but some and indeed most Now by Death and Hell may be understood men deserving both Were cast into the lake of fire That is made subject and slaves to eternall damnation so that the Saints for the time to come need not stand in any danger or fear of them Which is the second Death Or Eternall This Relative Which may either be referred to the word Lake or else may be taken collectively In the former acception the Lake is called the second death that is a signe or Symbol of the second or eternall death In the latter the judgement of condemnation committed to execution is called the second death Now this is called the second death because the bodies and souls of the damned do in very deed dye twice For the body dyeth both when it is separated from the soul and also when being again joyned to the body it is seperated from God And the soul dyeth both when in this life it separateth it self from God by sinne and when after this life it is separated from God by everlasting punishment Lastly This punishment is called Death because it taketh away the life of grace and glory with which if the life of nature be compared it is rather to be called death then life 15. And whosoever was not found And for For a copulative particle for a declarative Finding is here applyed to God by an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or by attributing of humane actions passions and affections to the unlimited power and unsearchable operations of the Deity Written in the book of Life Both in the former book as well through the love and election of God as in the latter by faith hope and charity Was cast into the lake of fire Through the just judgement of God and by his own default 2. A Logicall-Theologicall Analysis This Chapter is divided into five parts I. THe Description of the Angel Vers. 1. II. The Effects or operations of the Angel that is what the Angel did In part of the 1. Verse 2.3 III. The happy estate of the Church which followed upon what the Angel had effected In part of the 2 3 4 5

Cerinthians or Chilias●s But here de 1000 a●nis nihil corum narratur que Cerin●hus 〈…〉 Vbi enim luxus ille ubi cibus poius ubi nuptie 〈◊〉 sacrificia di●sfesti Hierusalem agen saith Trem. Besides Cerinthus affirmed Christ to be begotten at other men he denied God to be creator of the world he separated Christ and Iesus as two distinct persons Et que nescires melius * Christoph Angelus a Grecian whom I have been acquainted withall here in England some years agoe wrote a Book in Greek to prove that Mahomet was that Antichrist mentioned by S. Paul 2 Thes. 13. under the termes of the Man of si●ne and sonne of Perdition His book is ent●tu●ed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. I cannot blame the poor Greek for thinking so considering the horrid Tyranny and slavery his Countrymen live under being vassals to the Great Turke the admirer of Mahomet I rather wonder that there should be found among us learned men who are ab●tters of this opinion when as the Apostle Paul teacheth us expressely that Antichrist shall sit in the Temple of God as God 2 Thes. 2.4 and Dominus DEUS noster Papa is a thing taken notice of in the world before yesterday The XXII Objection it appears is left out I know not by what chance if not by the Printers negligence * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} v. Arislot Analys. Post lib. 1. cap. 16 M. Cotterius {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He alludes to Glaucus changing his golden Armour with Diomedis for brasse Armo●r in 1. of the Rhapsody of Ho●●s Ilias {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Besides the Antients Iustim●n useth it proverbically P●o●m F. Concerning Elias comming Parvum sed magnae sedulitatis opus Als●edius Sedalitas Dialog cum Tryphone Part of which Dialogue so farre south as it con c●●●s the Millenary Reigne of Christ Mr. Mede hath bo●h corrected and illustrated with notes in the 281 pag. c. of this wo●k where hee hath also published the opinions of the Iewish Doctors concerning the kingdome of the Messias Every whe●e in the Prophets as when they say in that day● and e●sewhere in the O.T. A● a●so ●he N. as Mat. 6.11 Luk. 11.13 8 2 Pet. 3.18 The day of an Age whi●h wee rende● for ever and ev●r verse 13. Dan. 13.14 18.22.26.27 Dan. 7.21 vers 8. Dan. 11.34.35 Multi Ecclesiaricorum virorū Martyrum ista di●erunt Hieron. in Hierem lib. 4. * Lactant. Institut l. 7. Lactantius expresseth this Prophecy in Virgils verses changing the order thus 38.39.40.41.28.29.30.42.43.44.45.21.22 Cerinthius and his followers the Millenaries were branded for Heretiques by reason of their carnall conceit of a meere temporall felicity That the earth during these 1000. yeare● should be not a paradise of spirituall delights but a stewes of all impure pleasures and a stage ef libertinisme not unlike the phantasticall heaven the Turkes dreame of This is also the fond fancy of the circumcised Iewes and our late rebaptized Heretiques * Hieron. de VV. M. numerosum antiquorum Pa●●●m Catalogum in banc sententi●m recenset The first revolution of the fiery Trigon happened in Enco and in the then flourishing estate of the Church The third in Moses and the freedome from Egyptian slavery The fifth in CHRIST and the restoring of us to Gods ●avourby his Passion 〈…〉 SABBATISMI qu●●da●●●cculta● rationē ob●inet praecaeteris peculiare magni momenti quid denunciat Tycho Brahe d. l. * Without doubt he meanes the 20 Chapter

other reformation ought to be expected The Antecedent may be proved from hence because the Doctrine of the Fundamentalls of our Salvation is proposed so that it cannot be done more cleerly or with greater light Answ. The great Reformation which we declare shall come to passe shall concerne matter of Life as well as Doctrine As for matter of Doctrine the foundation thereof shall remain But as for those infinite contentions whereby the Body of Christ is torn in pieces an end shall be put unto them Again many places of Scripture whose expositions have hitherto troubled the most learned men shall more cleerly and better be understood As for matter of life what should I say The matter it selfe speaks loud enough that in the whole course of our lives as good and as great as we are we have little or no Divinity at all There is great need therefore of a Reformation XXXVI Object It was an ancient Distinction that the kingdome of God is either of Power Grace or Glery But this Distinction is taken away by this Millenary so much pleaded for because it cannot be referred either to the Kingdom of Grace or to the Kingdome of Glory Answ. It belongs to the Kingdome of Grace which doth consist of divers degrees Neither is this opinion any way prejudiced because in the former discourse I have sometimes made mention of glory and Majesty as part of the happinesse of this Millenary For this glory is only inchoative or in it's beginning and shall be broken off by the War of Gog and Magog But the Glory of the Life Eternall is perfect and never at all to be interrupted V. The Doctrines arising out of this Chapter 1. According to the Order of the Heads in the Catechisms I. THe XI and XII Articles of the Creed concerning the resurrection of the flesh as also concerning the last Iudgement and eternall life are treated of II. The first and third precepts of the Decalogue or Tenne Commandments are here illustrated in the 4 verse where mention is made of Godly Confessors who worshipped not the Image of the Beast III. The second and sixth Petitions of the Lords Prayer may be explained out of this Chapter 2. According to the Order of Common-places This Chapter makes mention of Gods Providence of Angels of Predestination of the Church and it 's enemies of Martyrdome of the Resurrection of the flesh of the last Iudgement of Life and Death Eternall 3. Doctrines out of the severall Verses Vers. 1. 1. God instructeth men sometimes and teacheth them extraordinarily by Visions as also by divine Extasies or Raptures 2. The Angels are ministring Spritis who receive their commands at God's hands 3. Good Angels are endowed with great power and strength Vers. 2. 1. Good Angels have power over evill Angels or Spirits 2. The Devill is stronge and crafty as being both a Dragon and a Serpent 3. The onely and continuall work of the Devill is to calumniate and falsly accuse both God and Man and to endeavour the hinderance of the Glory of the one and the Salvation of the other 4. The Militant Church hath severall and differing times here on earth namely both of oppression and refreshment after the divers degrees thereof according to the dispensation and good pleasure of God Vers. 3. 1. The Devill is bound and tyed up by the reines of God's Providence 2. The Devill is the author of the generall seduction of mankinde 3. Warres shall cease for a thousand years 4. The Warre which shall begin after these thousand yeers shall not last long Vers. 4. 1. Christ is a Iudge appointed by God to whom the holy Angels are joyned as Assessors or inferiour Iudges 2. The Professors of the Gospel are hated in the sight of the world 3. Constancy is required in the Profession of the Truth 4. They are Idolators who worship Antichrist and follow his doctrine 5 The Martyrs shall reign with Christ for a thousand years in the Militant Church Vers. 5. 1. The generall resurrection shall be in the end of the world 2. The first resurrection and particular of the Martyrs is the proeme unto the second or universall resurrection Vers. 6. 1. As the children of God in this life have one above another prerogatives of gifts works and sufferings so shall they also have prerogatives of blessings both in this life and in that also which shall be hereafter 2. The common happpnesse of the godly among other things consists in this that the second death hath no power over them 3. We must certainly resolve that there is a second or eternall Death 4. Though all Christians are Kings and Priests yet in a mor● speciall manner the Martyrs raised at the beginning of these thousand years shall be Kings and Priests in the Militant Church Vers. 7. 1. The happynesse of the Church which shall continue for the●●thousand years must not be confounded with● or mistaken for the happynesse of life eternall 2. Satan can do nothing except by Gods leave he be let loose out of his prison 3. God alone can restrain Satan as if he had him shut up in some prison Vers. 8. 1. Satan when soever he gains power playes over his old pranks again 2. Satan is delighted with the shedding of mans bloud especially of the Godly and therefore useth to seduce and entice men to Warre 3. Whatsoever is said in the Old Testament of Gog and Magog is to be understood partly literally partly typically 4. The Enemies of the Church are in number many Vers. 9. 1. Men seduced by the Devill set slip no occasion so watchfull herein they are of persecuting the Godly 2. The Chur●h is the beloved City of God 3. It is the duty of Christians continually to be exercised in Christ's warfare 4. God executes wonderfull judgements against the enemies of his Church Vers. 10. 1. The Devill and his Instruments are cast into Hell and shall be tormented there for ever 2. Eternity is nothing else then a continuation of Age to Age for ever 3. Hell is a place full of horrour Vers. 11. 1. The M●jesty of Christ coming to Iudgement shall be very great 2. Heaven and Earth in the day of the last Judgement shall passe away in respect of the fashion of this world Vers. 12. and 13. 1. The last resurrection shall be universall 2. Men in the last Judgement shall be judged according to their works 3. The Conscience of a man is like a book in which all his thoughts words and deeds are as it were set down 4. The book of life or Predestination shall be opened in the last Judgement for then shall it appear plainly who are the Elect and who the reprobate who have truely beleeved in Christ who hypocritically who have truely worshipped God who according to appearance onely 5. The last Judgement shall be universall infallible and just Vniversall because it shall be of the dead and living of great and small Infallible because God is all-knowing and hath

chosen his own from Eternity The Omnisciency or all-knowledge of God is signified by the books in which the works of every particular man are written His Election is signified by the book of life Iust because God shall judge according to every mans works without acceptance of persons 6. God knoweth in what place the particular body of every dead man is reserved Vers. 14.15 1. Hell is a place full of horrour 2. Reprobation from life eternall is nothing else but a not-writing in the book of life Election to eternall life is a writing of our names in the book of Life An Appendix BEcause in the handling of this Chapter I proposed to my self not onely to maintain that which mine own Conscience witnessed with me to be true but withall to furnish these times also with this not the least Consolation it was needfull for me to use this Method which in the Explanation of holy Scripture without doubt exceeds all others It will not be amisse therefore if I set down this Method in the following Table In every Chapter yea Verse of holy Scripture there are to be considered The Prolegomena or Praecognita that is the foregoing matter or things to be known before hand and they are either of the Author and authority thereof Subject or matter Connexion or Coherence The Text it self in which are to be considered the Argument or Summe thereof Analysis or Resolution either Philologically and Theologically or Logically and Theologically Paraphrase or larger upholding thereof Questions either Fundamentall proper to that place and necessarily arising or Lesse principall common with other places and honorary or accessory Doctrines according to The order of the Heads in the Catechisme Common Places The order of the Context Of these the Argument Paraphrase and Doctrines belong to the handling of the sacred Text in the way of Preaching the Analysis or Questions to the Scholasticall part of Divinity Glory be to God alone FINIS Testimonies concerning this worke of Alstedius Dr. Hukewill in his Apology c. lib. 4. cap. 12.5.6 ALstedius a famous Professour at Herborne in his Diatribe d● mille annis Apocalypticis published about two yeares since is of this opinion as also that the thousand years mention●d in the 20. of the Revel. during which time Satan should be bound is yet to come which assertion he first builds upon a litterall interpretation of the number in as much as it is five severall times repeated within the compasse of seven verses and the foure last with a special article added {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the thousand year●s Secondly upon a supposition that Satan as yet hath not been bound up a thousand yeares together since the delivery of that Prophecie by the Angell to St. Iohn and by him to the Church considering that ever since much and grosse idolatrie hath raigned among the Pagans obstinate blindenesse among the Iewes since the rising of Mahomet pittyfull defection seduction among the Saracens strang errors a●d heresies sects and schisms among the Christians and since the rising of Antichrist wonderfull ignorance sup●rstition and persecution of the ●aints together with a generall prophanesse and corruption in matter of manners all which saith he cannot stand with the binding up of Sathan the principall actor of all these for a thousand yeares and consequently that the performance of that promise is yet to be expected and for confirmation of this opinion though the booke it selfe be but little he alleadgeth 66. passages of Scripture inforceth many reasons answereth 36. Objections p●oduceth the testimonies of sundry learned men either expresly defending it or at least wise favouring ●t And they are Iustus Heurnius Ioannes Keplerus Petrus Curaeus Ioannes D●bricus Ioannes Piscator Petrus Molinaeus Ioannes Ferus Seraph Firmianus Remalcus d● Vaulx Martinus Cellarius vid apud Alst●dium Christoph B●soldus Cael Sec. Curio Alf. Con Mantuanus Lucas Osiander Matthaeus Cotterias Michael S●ndivoga●● Stephanus Pan 〈…〉 Quos●mnes su●si 〈…〉 The Auth●r of a book lat●ly published in latine and inscribed Nuncius Proph●icus who in modesty conceales his name pag. 34.42 Diatribe de mille ●nnis Ap●ca● quem tractatum c. th●t is the treatise of Alstedium concerni●g the thousand yeares in the Revelation ● est●eme above the value of gold and precious stones it being full of secret wisedome And pag. 42 Als●ed in his t●uely golden little work of the th●usand yeares in the Ap●calypse Which work though small yet full of great sedul●tie takes away all scruple of doubt herein And it is much to be de●ired that some one or other that delights himselfe in Theologicall misteries so we● worthy of our knowledge would translate it out of the Latine and make it speak English {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Thou wilt straightway thinke Reader that this was no small inciteme●t to me to goe on with this Translation having before the edition of this booke taken it into mine hands Testimonies concerning the Opinion it selfe approved by some famous English Divines And first Dr. H●kewill of Oxford in his Book intituled An Apology of the power and providence of God in the governement of the world Lib. 6. Cap. 12. v. 6. AS wee neede not doubt that Antichrist is long ●ince come into the world so many passages of holy Scripture and testimonies of learned men make us more then hope that notwithstanding his late victories and triumphs his downefall is not farre off and that thereupon the Church of Christ shall flourish more in peace and power in doctrine and manners in lustre and glory then hitherto at any time in former ages it hath done To instance in all the passages in Scripture which to this purpose are alleadged would prove I doubt me tedious and in some perchance impertinent mine endeavour then shall be to pick out the choisest and among them specially those which seeme to point at a fuller calling as well of the Gentiles as the Iews then heretofore hath been The particular places for brevitie I have set downe which Reader p●ruse at thy leasure Psal. 22.27 Esay 2.2 Matth. 24.14 Rom. 52.26 2. Cor. 3.15 Micah● 3 Esay 30.26 and 54.11 But you shall have them all in this treatise The Doctor goes on ANd all this peace ●nd glory shall arise from the subversion of Rome and Antichrist a●d his adherents so eviden●ly described in the 14.18 and 19. of the Revelation that the very Iesuits themselves Ribera and Vegas cannot possibly devise any jugling conveyance how to shift i● off And if for the effecting of this great worke we should grant that which all antiquity both Iewish and Christian much beates upo● that Elias shall come and restore all things I cannot see what great absurdity can from thence be inferre● or what Article of Christian faith it imp●gneth Indeed our Saviour telleth his Disciples that Elias was then come meaning Iohn the Baptist whom he tear●eth E●ias in regard of his zeale