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A59938	A plain and evident discovery of the two personal comings of Christ one at the beginning of his thousand years reign, Rev. 20, 4, with his holy and blessed raised saints in the Now [sic] Jerusalem, come down from God out of heaven, Rev. 21, the other after the little space when the thousand years are ended, &c. : whereunto are added many profitable applications of the same doctrine for all sorts of persons.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1670 (1670)	Wing S3408; ESTC R38237	52,178	52

and also the Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie lower than the Angels and crowned him with Glory and Worship making him to have dominion over the works of his hands and putting all things under his feet c. Which the Apostle applyes to Christ Heb. 2. and also saith he hath made him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little while as our Translation hath it in the margent likewise inferiour to the Angels and then speaketh of the same subjection of the creatures under him then afterwards to come and therefore ver 8. he saith we do not yet see all things put under him only we see Christ in his own person that for a little while was made lower than the Angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour But he again further teacheth Phil. 2.9 c. that God had given him a Name above every name that at the Name of JESUS every knee should bow or be subject of things in Heaven and things on Earth and things under the Earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father Which will not be done till he hath received his Kingdom and shall return as he himself speaketh Luke 19.12 15 and all these things can at no other time upon Scripture-ground be expected but at his said 2d coming when God shall bring again his Son into the world and say Let all the Angels of God worship him Heb. 1.6 and that was also foretold Psal 97.7 which whole Psalm beginning The Lord reigneth let the Earth rejoyce c. setteth forth prophetically in what a glorious manner Christ will come then to set up his glorious Kingdom both by destroying his Idolatrous Enemies and wonderfully delivering and exalting his People as is observable throughout the whole Psalm and this as to the time and order Christ succinctly explains Rev. 20.4 saying the Saints reigned with Christ a thousand years And accordingly thereunto are all the Promises of raising again the Tabernacle of David which was fallen Amos 9.11 Acts 15.16 and those for the perpetuity of Davids Kingdom to his seed so long as the Sun and Moon do endure See Irenicon p. 77 78 79. and the like are all to be interpreted which will be manifest when the Kingdom of the Stone Dan. 2.33 34. shall become a great Mountain filling the whole Earth And this is that Coming of the Son of man in his Kingdom spoken of by Christ Matth. 16.28 of which he soon after shewed a glymps unto his three Disciples Peter James and John at his Transfiguration Mark 9.1 Luke 9.27 Neither can these Texts be justly denied to be meant of such a Kingdom of Christ to come upon his coming again nor warrantably be interpreted in any other sense if the said Texts be seriously and duly considered 22. Obser I have observed only three great Earthquakes spoken of in all the series or order of the Book of Revelation And where the Spirit of God calls them great we may expect they will be great indeed For Earthquakes are often spoken of besides these great ones The first is upon the opening of the sixth Seal Rev. 6.12 when God by Constantine the Great overturned Satan's Paganish Kingdom when five or six several Caesars were so potent to oppose him See Fore runner p. 29. and cast down Satan from his Heaven of Heathenish Worship into the Earth Rev. 12.9 which was spoken of the same time which is described as a day of Judgment Rev. 6. to the Paganish Powers as indeed it was and there the Spirit of God sets down an Ecce before it and Lo saith he there was a great Earthquake The second is Rev. 11.13 at the ascension of the two Witnesses after their resurrection and then the holy Spirit tells us at the same hour there was a great Earthquake when the tenth part of the Dition of the City of Rome probably will quite fall from it See Fore runner p. 8. where the Witnesses are to rise again c. and this Earthquake we may daily expect But thirdly there is another great Earthquake afterwards spoken of to come which he further illustrates much above both the former and that will be at or about Antichrist's final destruction at the end of the sixth Viol and pouring-out of the seventh for the compleating of his ruine Rev. 16.17 18. and then the Spirit of God speaks with a great deal of emphasis of it saying v. 18. And there was a great Earthquake such as was not since Man was upon Earth so mighty an Earthquake and so great Which seems to be further described in the three following verses and seems to be at or about the same time of Michael's standing up to deliver Daniels People when such a time of trouble will be as never was since there was a Nation Dan. 12.1 and when St. Paul saith of Antichrist 2 Thess 2.8 Christ will destroy him with the appearance of his coming and happily of both Rev. 14. latter part of the chapter And then will not only the Earth be shaken but also the Heavens as saith the Prophet Hag. 2.6 7 21. Heb. 12.26 and as upon good reason from several Scriptures seems to be the main drift of them then to be fulfilled as Mal. 3.2 Rev. 11.16 Which shaking of the Earth probably may seem was first at that great Earthquake Rev. 6.12 when God by Constantine the Great overthrew Paganish Idolatry and may be again by the next great Earthquake now approaching Rev. 11.13 which will also begin to shake Antichristian Idolaters who are called in this Book the men of the Earth and the perfecting of that shaking is to be at that third and greatest Earthquake Rev. 16.18 when not only the Earth and evil men will be shaken but also the Heavens namely such Churches as will be then in a degree reformed Churches and thereupon will the new Heavens and new Earth ensue of both reformed Church and State in the whole World I conceive at the setting up of Christ's Kingdom on Earth Rev. 20.4 5.10 23. When the Prophet Moses denounceth threatnings against the twelve Tribes the Spirit of God seems to guide him divers times to set them down prophetically as including Prophecies in their order afterwards to be fulfilled as is observable Lev. 26. Deut. 28. 4.30 which he said expresly should be in the latter dayes and Deut. 32. from ver 1. to 44. See these Texts more fully in the Irenicon pag. 60 61. 24. Obser The heavy weight of God's wrath upon mankind next after the fall of the first Adam seems very observable through the first great Period of the World until the Flood for first good Abel the remotest type of Christ after Adam being slain by his brother Yet cursed Cain was then suffered to live to people the World which further appears that in those first ages of the World to the Flood few are recorded or hinted in Scripture to

and mocked at 1 Pet. 3.3 but by the Scoffers of those times very possible much more Now whereas besides Christ's coming in humility to take our nature and to suffer for his Church there remains according to holy Scripture as we hope by the Grace of God to make manifest to all impartial searchers into these Mysteries there still remains a twofold personal coming of Christ One when God will subdue and destroy the great Enemies of Christ and his People both Jewes and Gentiles namely the Turk and Pope set forth by Ezekiel under the titles of Gog and Magog chap. 38 39. before he set up his New Jerusalem chap. 40 to the end of the Book Whose name shall be JEHOVAH SHAMMA the Lord is there just as the Beast and his Armies shall be destroyed Rev. 19.11 c. before the Jerusalem Rev. 19 20 21. called the Holy Beloved the great and holy Jerusalem which is also there the Bride the Lambs Wife be built by God's own hand as Heb. 11. which will be accomplished at the sounding of the seventh Angel Rev. 11.16 upon which comes in the thousand years when Christ will take to himself his great Power and reign as chap. 19. v. 1 to v. 10. And afterwards when our blessed Saviour had given a clear and perfect computation of all succeeding times to the end of the world with all the suiting circumstances before in at the end and after his said thousand years Reign on Earth in that last Table of the last and best times in the new World in chap. 20. as he gave a Table of all the last and worst times chap. 11. to ver 16. in the old bad World he shews manifestly from the compleating of that Judgment upon those great Enemies from his second Personal Apearance or Coming at that time when the Judgment was set to destroy the Beast Dan. 7.9 10. there are to pass above a thousand years before the third when is to be the last Session of the day of Judgment at the general Resurrection of all that lived not again before both good and bad as our Saviour distinctly teacheth chap. 20. called there the rest of the dead that lived not again before ver 5. setting forth to the end the manner of God's carrying-on many wonderful works from thence unto the end And then Christ further proceeds in the two last chapters to set forth in a very divine and wonderful manner the succeeding glorious estate of his Church upon Earth with her excellent prerogatives and priviledges all that time of his thousand years Reign from his second coming to his third saving the little space Satan is after loosed and seduceth the last Gog and Magog chap. 20.7 8 9 10. to their destruction to which ensueth the last Judgment ver 11. to the end when he will again descend from Heaven not with clouds as at his second coming but with a shout and the voice of an Arch-Angel and the Trump of God as the Apostle sheweth 2 Thess 4.16 c. and as here chap. 20.11 sitting upon a great white Throne before whose face Heaven and Earth fled away Now to that end we may the better and more clearly carry on this great work to satisfaction of some hitherto unresolved consciencious Christians we shall endeavour to this purpose to set down many evident Texts of holy Scriptures upon the advantage of what hath been already said which may appear manifestly to relate to those two Personal Comings and then come more fully to consider them from the order of their distinct times wherein they are to be both from Daniels Visions and the Book of Revelations in both which we have the series and order of the accomplishment of the Generalities of the greatest marters wherein God's glory and the Churches concernment should lie from the beginning of Daniels Visions for the space of above three thousand three hundred years 2dly To observe for Christians information the different names and titles sometimes given to them and answerably thereunto their natures as suitable to those names 3dly The different things to be done by Christ at both those said Comings with many distinct particularities under both those heads besides what is orderly to be accomplished both according to Daniel and the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ the faithful and true Witness from his second to his third personal coming at the last resurrection of good and bad which our Saviour after his ascension into Heaven hath at last declared and opened and left unsealed as was noted for his Churches instruction and comfort as by special order is manifest Rev. 22.10 by which means his People are inabled rightly to understand many otherwise dark passages of Old and New Testament and besides hath given great incouragement of blessing to the faithfull and diligent searching into them to the spiritual hearing or believing of them and to the keeping of the sayings of that Book chap. 1.3 Now therefore in reference to the first part of our business let it be observed That many judicious men well vers'd in the mysteries respecting the latter times unanimously agree that Christ will remain from his appearance or coming at the destruction of Aptichrist thenceforward all the thousand years of his reigning with his raised Saints in the ●orld Rev. 20.4 and will as Mr. Mede conceives probably through that time be raising up all the dead bodies of all the formerly deceased Saints to the end of that thousand years in their own order having departed out of this life during the Kingdom of the Stone or the Kingdom of Patience for almost seventeen hundred years having believed through their word as is said John 17. namely by the Apostles Doctrine with all the Faithful under the Old Testament even till that time when they shall all be made perfect in one with Christ their visible Head then in that his glorious Kingdom on Earth for the said thousand years space unto which that Scripture must necessarily be referred Joh. 17. from ver 19 to 25. But it seems from the time that Satan at the end of the thousand years shall be loosed for a little season that Christ will withdraw from the world for that little season to give as it were opportunity to the Devil to play his last most abominable wicked prank in the world with his seduced Hypocrites the last Gog and Magog as followeth Rev. 20.7 8 9. to bring on that last destruction of all them and the whole World v. 10. which thereupon will suddenly be dissolved as follows ver 11 to the end when the Apostle Paul plainly saith 1 Thess 4.16 Christ will again descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Arch-Angel and with the Trump of God and shews that immediately the dead in Christ shall rise first namely such as had died in the thousand years since his second coming that they with such as are alive and remain all the time since they were raised to live