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A44277	Apokalypsis anastaseōs The resurrection revealed, or, The dawnings of the day-star about to rise and radiate a visible incomparable glory far beyond any since the creation upon the universal church on earth for a thousand yeers yet to come, before the ultimate day of the general judgement to the raising of the Jewes, and ruine of all antichristian and secular powers, that do not love the members of Christ, submit to his laws and advance his interest in this design : digested into seven bookes with a synopsis of the whole treatise and two tables, 1 of scriptures, 2 of things, opened in this treatise / by Dr. Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1653 (1653)	Wing H2560; ESTC R4259	649,757	646

by and by at that denyed the Resurrection ☞ and held that the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob was not ☞ the father of our Lord Jesus Christ This was the reason Irenaeus maintained it in his Book contra omnes hareses against all heresies and ●er●u●●an against the Marcion●●es Chapter 3. Eusebius who sound out one Gaius to father it upon Cerinthus deserves no credit He was a party and one of those which did his best to undermine the autherity of the Apocalyps Not did any know of any such Gaius but from his relation And if there were any such he should seem to be one of the Alogi who denied both Jesus Gospel and Apocalyps as is testified by Epiphanius And their age jumps with the age which Eusebius affignes to Gaius Yet I deny not but some might maintaine very carnall and intollerable conceits about the Regnum Kingdom of a thousand yeers as the Mahumetans doe about their Paradise But these are not to be imputed unto those Primitive Fathers and Orthodox Christians The censure of Ferom S. Jerom was a chiefe Champion to cry downe this opinion and according to his wont a most unequall Relator of the opinion of his adversaries what credit hee deserves in this may appeare by some fragments of those Authors still remaining whom hee charged with an opinion directly contrary to that which they expresly affirmed And yet when he had stated it so as it must needs be Heresie and Blasphemy whosoever should hold it he is found to say he durst not damne it because multi virorum Ecclesiasticorum c. i.e. because many Ecclesiastical men and martyrs said the same things Comment on Jer. 19.10 So that S. Jerome is a man of no faith with mee when he describes the opinion of his adversary which whatsoever it were he would set it forth as odious as possibly he could He was a man that cared not what hee said so it might disparage his adversary This appears sufficiently in the cases of Vigilantius and Jovinian Yea but he lived the same time Answ So doe we with those we differ from and yet we see the experience daily that scarce any one will relate the opinion of his adversary candidly Yea but I cannot deny that Lactantius was for the abounding of meats and the satiating of the belly and appetite c. Lactantius cleared But what if I can His words only are these lib. 7. cap. 24 Tunc inquit qui erunt in corpore vivi c.i.e. Those who then shall be alive viz. he means at Christs second comming shal not dye but for those thousand yeers shal generate an infinite multitude and their off-spring shal be holy and dear to God But those that shal be raised from the dead he means at the first resurrection they shal be over the living in manner of Iudges And then presently addes The said Regnum or Kingdome to be the thousand yeers of a celestial Empire in which righteousnesse shall reigne throughout the world But of satiating the appetite c. I finde no word unlesse you thinke it must needs follow upon the taking away the curse off the creature and the restitution thereof to the perfection it lost through mans sinne For Lactantius means no more but that such as then lived should live the life that Adam should have done in Paradise had he not sinned But those that should then rise from the dead should live in a far more heavenly and Angelical condition even the life of the blessed spirits in heaven But S. Jerom is wont to relate the opinion as if those who rose againe should generate and give themselves to feasting and gormandizing You say that Saint Austin intimates that some held some such carnal Beatitude I answer so he intimates that some did not and that himselfe was once of that opinion and that to hold so was tolerable His words are * De Civit. Dei l. 20 c. 7. Quae opinio esset ut cunque tolerabilis c. i.e. which opinion however would be tollerable if any spiritual delicacies or dainties should in that Sabbath be given to the Saints by the presence of the Lord Christ For we also sometime have thought the same But where can I shew Cyprian to be a Chiliast Cypriar Headged He shews himself plainly to be such to such as know the mystery of that opinion In his book of exhortation to martyrdome in the Presace whereof he speaks thus Desiderasti Fortunate charissime c. i.e. Thou hast desired most dear Fortunatus that in regard the weight of persecutions and pressures is now incumbent upon us and the insesting time to be in the end and consummation of the Antichristian world now begins to approach that I should compose some encouragements out of the holy Scriptures to prepare and corroborate the minds of the brethren whereby I might animate the souldiers of Christ unto the heavenly and spiritual combate Six thousand yeers are now almost compleated if the Devill shall sinde the souldier of Christ unready c. But he that thus expected that the comming of Antichrist should be at the end of the six thousanth yeer which he supposed then neer at hand did yet thinke the world should last seven thousand yeers viz. a thousand yeers after the destruction of Antichrist as appears by his eleventh Chapter in these words Quid vero in Maccabaeis septem fratres c. i.e. What mean the seven brethren in the Maccabees most like in condition of birth and vertue making up the septenary number of compleat perfection Even as the first seven daies according to divine disposal so the seven ☟ ☟ brethren adhering in martyrdome Irenaeus alleadged at large lib. 5. c. 28. c. 30. coutra Heref. do containe seven thousand yeers that a lawful summe may be made up This to him that knows Chiliasme is plain Chiliasme which Irenaeus will make plain Quotquot diebus hic factus est mundus c. i.e. Look in how many dayes this world was made even in so many thousands of yeers it ends ●or if the day of the Lord be as a thousand yeers and in six dayes were sinished the things that were made it is manifest that the end of them is in the six thousanth yeer When Antichrist reigning three yeers and six months shall devastate or lay waste all things in this world then shall THE LORD COME FROM HEAVEN IN THE CLOUDS IN THE GLORY OF HIS FATHER casting HIM and those that obey him into the lake of sire but procuring or bringing with him unto the just ☟ the times of the KINGDOME The great Council of Nice alleadged for our opinion that is a Rest that is the great SABBATH the seventh day sanctified and restoring to Abraham the promise of the INHERITANCE c. Adde to all as MOST REMARKABLE That the GREAT COUNCIL OF NICE called by Constantine the Great besides the definition of faith and Canons Ecclefiastical did set forth

certain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Formes of Ecclesiastical doctrines according to which all Teachers in the Church were to frame their discourse and direct their opinions Some of these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Formes of Ecclesiastical doctrine are recorded by Gelasius Cyzicenus in his Historiâ Actorum Concilii Niceni History of the Acts of the Council of Nice Amongst these there is this Forme for the Doctrine of the state of the Resurrection * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cap. 7.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P● 27.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 5.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●●a 26.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The world was made more minute or lesse i.e. imperfecter or viler because of fore-knowledge For God fore-saw that man would sinne Therefore we expect NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH accrding to the holy Scriptures when shall shine forth the apparition or appearance and Kingdome of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ And THEN as Daniel saith Chap. 7.18 The Saints of the most HIGH SHAL TAKE THE KINGDOME and there shal be a pure earth holy a land of the living and not of the dead which David fore see●ng by the eye of faith cryes out Psal 27.13 I beleeve to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the LAND OF THE LIVING A land of the meck and humble For blessed saith Christ Matth. 5.5 are the meek for they shall POSSESSE THE EARTH And the Prophet s aith Isa 26.6 The feet of the meek and the humble shall tread upon it 1. Judge by this notwithstanding fifty yeers opposition how powerfull the Chiliastical party yet was at the time of that Council By some whereof if this Forme were not framed and composed yet was it thus moderated as you see that both parties might accept it every mans interpretation being safe to himselfe as being delivered in the terms and language of Scripture 2 Judge whether in my explication of the state of the Thousand yeers I have not kept within the compasse of this Forme and not swerved one jot there-from This you see was the opi●●on of the whole Orthodox Christian Church in the age immediately following the death of S. John when yet Polycarp and many of the Apostles Disciples were living as Justin Martyr expresly affirmes A Testimony absolute without all comparison to perswade such as rely upon authority and antiquity even as you have seen the same opinion continued throughout the next age following that And therefore it is to be ADMIRED that an opinion once so generally received in the Church should ever have been so cryed down and buried But those times which extinguished this brought other alterations into the Church beside this and perhaps something in lieu of that and relating to it which perhaps few observe that have knowledge enough of the rest namely that this opinion of the FIRST RESURRECTION was the reall ground and mother of prayers for the dead so anciently received in the Church which were then conceived after this manner THAT THEY MAY HAVE THEIR PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION See Tertullian who first mentions them The reason was because this having part in the first resurrection was not to be common to all but to be a priviledge to some namely of Martyrs and Consessors equipollent to them if God would so accept them Moreover the beleefe of this Prerogative of Martyrs in the first resurrection was that which made the Christians of those times so joyously desirous of Martyrdome These things will perhaps seem strange but will be found true if examined And yet may not seem so strange to considering minds if they take notice that even so neer to us as in King Edward the sixth his time in comparison of those ancient times though now an antiquity in parallel with later times this our opinion of the glorious state on earth yet to come before the ultimate judgement was given to that age as a Catechismal fundamental King Edward the fixth his Catechisme alleadges for our opinion to be drunk in by all that should receive the true Christian or Protestant Religion For the Author of the Catechisme set forth in that King Edward the fixth his time and by that King authorised May 20. in the last yeer of his reigne explicates the second Petition of the Lords prayer thus Q. How is that Petition Thy Kingdome come to be understood A. Wee aske that his Kingdome may come for as yet we see not all things subject to Christ wee see not how or that the stone is cut out of the mountaine ☞ without humane helpe which BREAKS INTO PEECES AND REDVCETH into NOTHING THE IMAGE DESCRIBED BY DANIEL how or that the onely rocke which is Christ doth POSSESSE AND OBTAINE THE EMPIRE OF THE WHOLE WORLD given him of the Father As yet Antichrist is not slaine whence it is that we desire and pray that at length it may come to passe and be fulfilled and that Christ alone may reigne with his Saints according to the divine promises And that be may live and have dominion in the world according to the decrees of the holy Gospel and not according to the traditions and laws of men and the wils of the TYRANTS of the World God grant saith the Reply of the Questionist that his Kingdome may come most speedily In Mr. Foxe his Martyrologie you shall find in the examination of Mr. Philpot that the Bishops when they came brought this Catechisme with them but what special relation it had to him I know not nor is ought there mentioned about it The Kings Letters before it begin thus Cum brevis explicata c. Whereas a compendious and plain way or forme of Catechisme written by a learnedman was presented unto us we committed the perusal and trial thereof to certain Bishops and other learned men c. And in the same Catechisme concerning the end of the world The Question being put thus The end of the world the sacred Scripture cals the consummation and perfection of the MYSTERY OF CHRIST and the RENOVATION OF ALL THINGS So the Apostle Peter speaks 2 Ep. Chap. 3. We expect new heavens and a new earth according to Gods promise wherein dwels righteousnesse And it seems agreeable to reason that the corruption mutability and sinne to which the whole world is subject should at last cease Now by what means or wayes of circumstances those things shall be brought to passe I desire to know of thee Answ I will declare as well as I can the same Apostle attesting The heavens in manner of a stormy tempest shall passe away and the elements estuating shall be dissolved and the earth and the works therein shall be burnt As if the Apostle should say The world like as wee see in gold shall be wholly purged with fire AND SHALL BEE BROVGHT TO ITS UTMOST PERFECTION which the little world man imitating shall likewise bee freed from corruption and mutation And so for mans sake for whose use the great world was