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A92706 The glorious kingdom of our blessed Lord Jesus Christ on earth, rightly timed: proving it not to be till His second coming In answer to two treatises; the one, intituled, Theopolis; or, The city of God. By a nameless author. The other, A treatise of the new-heavens and new-earth. By T.M. By W.S. a servant of Christ. W. S. 1693 (1693) Wing S194A; ESTC R230180 35,908 48

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and the Consideration of his Churches W. S. The ANSWER to the First Book Intituled THEOPOLIS c. SIR I Have impartially read and seriously considered what you have writ in your Theopolis c. weighing it in the Ballance of the Sanctuary according to the Rules proposed by you and find it greatly wanting insomuch that I cannot but wonder you should take so much pains to so little purpose for all that you have said in my Judgment proves nothing for which you urge it viz. That the Saints shall reign a thousand Years upon Earth before Christ's Second Coming And that you may see your great Mistake herein I shall give a brief and plain Answer to what may seem most material therein for that purpose not in the least denying but plainly acknowledging the glorious Kingdom of Christ on Earth And first you tell us page 97 98. That there is a five-fold Kingdom belongs to Christ spoken of in the Scripture viz. 1st A Providential 2dly A Spiritual 3dly A Mystical 4thly A Monarchial or Davidical Kingdom 5thly A glorious Mysphatical Kingdom viz. The Soveraignty that Christ in Person with all the Saints in their glorified Bodies with him shall upon their general Resurection and Judgment exercise here upon the Earth before all is given up into the Father's hands And for want of a right distinguishing herein proceed as you humbly apprehend all the mistaken Notions and Differences about the Kingdom of Christ treated of in your Book And truly I do acquiesce with you herein for I conclude your wrong Distinction or Misapprehension of a five-fold Kingdom of Christ as thus distinguished by you is the great cause of all those your mistaken Notions about the Kingdom of Christ in your Book for to say nothing of four of your five I cannot yet see by all that you have said that the Holy Scripture speaks of your fourth Kingdom as distinguished by you from the fifth Kingdom which fourth you call a Monarchial or Davidical Kingdom that is to take place here over the Nations before the Second Coming of Christ but rather that the Holy Scripture is wholly a stranger to it And now I shall answer your Arguments urged on that account The first sort you direct your Reader to ●0 31 32. as most fit to be taken notice of in the first place are in number five urged by you to prove at least consequentially or in the second place That Christ will not come in Person at the beginning of the thousand Years Arg. 1 Your first Argument is Because his Personal Coming is not to be till the Judgment-Day And that say you is not to be till after the thousand Years and after the Battel of God and Magog meaning Gog c. Rev. 20.8 Answer The first part of this Argument I grant viz. That his Personal Coming is not to be till the Judgment-Day But the two last Branches I deny viz. That the Judgment-Day is not to be till after the thousand Years after the Battel of God and Magog For 't is evident to all that will not shut their Eyes that the Judgment-Day begins at the beginning of the thousand Years Rev. 20.4 AND I SAW THRONES AND THEY SAT VPON THEM AND JVDGMENT WAS GWEN VNTO THEM c. with the Chapter before compared with Dan. 7. where the same thing is spoken of He beheld the little Horn viz. the Man of Sin or great Antichrist make War with the Saints till the Antient of days comes and one like the Son of Man came to the Antient of days yea near before him and until the Throne were set or PITCHED DOWN so it is in the Original not thrown down And the Antient of days did SIT ver 9. with his Son brought near before him or set by him with the Saints ver 10.22 THE JVDGMENT WAS SET ver 10.26 Arg. 2 Because when he comes in Person 't is not to such a Work as this viz. to fight and subdue Enemies with material Swords nor to put his People as the Lamb's Army and Followers upon any such Service at that time being then all to be in the Resurrection and glorified State made like himself in Glory and as the Angels of God Neither will any of his Enemies be in a Capacity to make Resistance or Opposition who in their own Persons shall be destroyed by Fire and the very Earth they inhabit and all its Works burnt up and consumed at whose Presence the Earth and Heaven flee away Answer If by those words not to such a Work as this you mean not at all then I deny it and tell you 'T is to do such a Work as that Reason 1 You reason First Because Christ's People will be all in the Resurrection and glorified State made like himself in Glory and as the Angels of God Answer Now this Reason of yours I also deny and tell you You are greatly mistaken herein for although all the Saints that died in the Faith and are found alive in it when Christ comes in the Clouds c. shall then be raised changed and glorified and so said to be in the Resurrection c. yet all Christ's People that shall stand with him Rev. 14.1 Zech. 14.4 and follow him in that Army when he shall come down and stand upon Mount Zion and upon the Mount of Olives will not then be in the Resurrection viz. raised and glorified c. For part of those People and Followers or Army will be of the Jews who will not be converted till after the Resurrection of the fore-mentioned Saints and therefore not raised and so changed with them 'T is conspicuous enough that their Conversion will not be fully wrought till the Deliverer viz. Christ comes to Zion Isa 59.20 Rom. 11.25 26. Then shall he turn Vngodliness from Jacob Or more fully thus Our Lord Christ appearing in the Clouds of Heaven and the Saints Resurrection and Ascension up to him together with the wonderful things that shall be wrought then and Christ's coming down with his glorified Saints and Angels to deliver the whole House of Israel then remaining from the hand of their strong and mighty Enemies Isa 59.19 Ezek. 38.9.16 Zec. 14.2 3. that will come in like a Flood a Storm and Cloud to cover the Land yea all Nations gathered against Jerusalem to battel These things I say will produce the Jews Conversion or be the means to bring forth that Nation and therefore not till these things be accomplished shall that Nation be converted Ergo Not raised and changed but still in their mortal State Therefore according to your own Argument may under Christ do such a Service as above specified We are likewise told the Jews the number of whom Rev. 7.4 to the 8 Verse Verse 9. even of all the twelve Tribes of Israel will be one hundred forty four thousand who are distinguished from the innumerable Company of glorified Saints as you may clearly see Chap. 14. 1. These are said
both great and small without Exception as that is it you must intend or else you say nothing then I deny this Proposition also and tell you Christ's Personal Coming will have no such Product Your Scriptures produced for this are three viz. Rev. 6.15 and 1.7 Matth. 24.30 In two of these there is not a word of Destruction In the other it 's only wished or called for But admit this that every one of these shall be destroyed mentioned in this last Text yet doth it not follow that every Person both great and small upon the face of the Earth at that time shall be destroyed For it 's well known this phrase every Man in Scripture is oft-times to be understood respectively without reference to that sort of Men the Discourse concerns and not every Man in the World as 1 Cor. 12.7 and many more and so here 't is as evident for at the opening of the sixth Seal when he sees these run to the Rocks 〈…〉 7.3 c. there 's a 144000 of the Tribes of Israel upon the Earth which are not of this Number that run to the Rocks and wish for Destruction besides many more that might be named which shall not perish immediately at the Appearing of Christ Ergo Your Demonstration is become no Demonstration Demonst 2 When Christ comes all the dead Saints are raised and the Living changed and all together caught up to meet the Lord in the Air and so to be for ever with the Lord 1 Thess 4.17 18. So that from that time they could no more converse with the unconverted of this World as the thousand Years requires See Luke 20.35 36. Answer If by these words Caught up into the Air and ever with the Lord you intend these shall never come down out of the Air again then you say something as to these But pray who told you that not this Text nor any in the whole Bible 2dly What you mean by Conversing with the Vnconverted I do not well understand and therefore when you have told me I shall give you a further Answer 3dly What if these should not so converse with the Unconverted as you mean Shall there be no other Saints then to do it Pray mark the Text speaks only of such as were converted before Christ's Second Coming and not of those that shall be converted when he comes See more in my Answer to the 9th Argument of the first Author in my 24th and 25th Pages Demonst When Christ comes he comes in flaming Fire taking Vengeance on them that know not God c. 2 Thess 4.7 8. Jude 14 15. and then also the World and the Works that are therein shall be burnt up 2 Pet. 3.10 Now all these Persons and things being destroyed at that Day if this were at the beginning of the Thousand Years where was the Reign for a thousand Years after of the Saints over the World in converse with the Unregenerate Therefore Christ's Coming is after the thousand Years Answer I answer And first by way of Concession taking your first Proposition to be true according to your three Texts I resolve your Query as to the Persons thus That notwithstanding these Persons spoken of in these Texts should be destroyed at the beginning of the thousand Years yet there shall many more remain undestroyed over which these Saints shall reign As 1st Though one of these Texts tell us that he will take Vengeance in flaming Fire on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel c. yet it follows not from hence that he will then destroy them that do know the Lord and turn to him Nor 2dly Those that are at that time incapable to know him for Incapacity is no Sin nor Cause of Vengeance Nor 3dly Those that have not heard of his Fame or had the Gospel preached to them for pray mark the Texts and you may clearly see they speak of such Persons which had the Gospel preached to them and were disobedient to it and persecuted them also that did obey the Gospel Secondly As to the Destruction of things which you say will then be pray remember your self what you said of it in your 5th Page viz. That none of these i. e. Shaking Melting Dissolving Burning up Folding up and Changing express an Annihilation but destroying the former Surface and the Works of Men on Earth Therefore you have no cause to say Where shall they reign c. But Thirdly What Cause had you to make this Supposition if this were at the beginning of the thousand Years Certainly no ground from these Texts nor any other and therefore you do by this subtilly deceive your Readers ●●et 3.10 Pray mind once more the Text But the Day of the Lord will come as a Thief in the Night in the which the Heavens shall pass away Not in the beginning of which So that your Conclusion viz. That Christ's Coming is after the thousand Years falls to the ground See more in my Answer to the first Author's second Argument in my 4th Page Demonst 4 Upon Christ's Coming and Raising the Saints c. Then follows the Day of Judgment 2 Tim. 4.1 which is clearly set down in the Order of things to follow the thousand Years Rev. 20.11 to the end See p. 9 10. So that Christ's Coming to Judgment cannot be before but after the thousand Years Answer Your first Proposition I grant viz. That the Day of Judgment shall follow Christ's Coming and the Saints Resurrection c. But what you assert in the second place I deny and intreat you and every unbiassed Man to consider First Whether there be any thing like it in this Text ●ev 20. nay it 's so far from it that the very contrary is found evident therein First see 2 Tim. 4.1 Who shall judg the Quick and the Dead at his Appearing and his Kingdom and Rev. 20.4 5 6 7. gives us an Account of the Saints Resurrection and their reigning with Christ a thousand Years before this in the 11th Verse shall be accomplished And you confess herein and in your 10th Page That upon the first Resurrection viz. of the Just Christ will sit and judg his People So that 't is plain the Judgment-Day shall begin as you confess when Christ comes and hath raised his Saints which as I have already shewed will be at the beginning of the thousand Years and therefore Christ's Coming in Person will be before and not after the thousand Years See more in my Answer to the first Author's first Argument in my 2d Page and to his 4th and 5th Arguments of the 2d sort in my 20th and 21st Pages Demonst 5 Psal 110.1 Acts 3.21 Christ is to remain at God's Right-hand till his Enemies be made his Footstool But after the thousand Years Gog and Magog assault the Saints Rev. 20.8 9. Therefore he came not a thousand Years before while that Enemy was unsubdued Answer This Demonstration is much-what the same with the third Argument of the