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A86120	Christs kingdome on earth, opened according to the scriptures. Herein is examined, what Mr. Th. Brightman, D. J. Alstede, Mr. I. Mede, Mr. H. Archer, The glympse of Sions glory, and such as concurre in opinion with them, hold concerning the thousand years of the saints reign with Christ, and of Satans binding: herein also their arguments are answered. Imprimatur; Ia. Cranford. Feb. 12. 1644.	Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing H1217; Thomason E278_1; ESTC R200009	77,855	95

21.5 And appears further thus Christ is the second or new Adam hee maks new matters floods in deserts them that were not his people to bee his people be makes a new Covenant speaks to people by new tongues gives them new hearts and new spirits puts new wine into new bottles gives beleevers a new name written in a white stone clothes them with new garments puts a new song into their mouths makes a new heaven and a new earth and a new Jerusalem that is a Church of all beleevers both Jews and Gentiles These things began to bee performed in Christs life time and have been are and will bee continually in fulfilling unto the worlds end For all Christians from the first to the last have their portion herein Secondly the marriage of Christ with the Christian Church began with the preaching of the Gospel for then God made a marriage Feast and invited guests unto it Mat. 22.2 Joh. 3.29 Hee hath ever since now doth and will continue still inviting them thereunto so long as the world lasts Paul long since prepared the Corinthians a pure virgin for Christ their husband 2 Cor. 11.2 The other Apostles and Religious Teachers ever since have endeavoured the same for other people and Nations Thirdly the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Tabernacle of God was among men at the Gospels beginning Then Christ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} bad his Tabernacle among men Job 1.14 and became Immanuel God with us by assuming humane nature This Tabernacle Christ took up with him to heaven at his ascension Besides as God had his dwelling or Tabernacle among the Israelites in the wildernesse and in Canaan so Christ walks amidst the golden Candlesticks the Churches here on earth Rev. 1. and on his throne hee sits in the midst of the Rulers of his Church Rev 5.6 and all Christians did doe and shall acknowledge his glory honour dominion to the worlds end as they in that Chapter doe Fourthly the Covenant by which men of all Nations are Gods people and hee their God Rev 21. was made at the beginning of the Gospel and continues to bee made with all converts to the end of time For God dwelt among the Corinthians and by Paul said unto them I will bee your God and ye shall bee my people 2 Cor 6.16 and hee is the same to every person of any Nation that fears him Acts 10.35 This Covenant is made with all that bee taught of God and hear him Jer 31.33 34. Iohn 6.45 And fifthly from the Christian Churches beginning to the worlds end All tears are wiped from the eyes of all beleevers no death sorrow crying pain doth rest on them but passes away Apoc 21.4 So that if they weep as men in affliction cannot but sometimes doe they upon better consideration will bee as though they wept not 1 Cor 7,31 They suffer tribulation but they come out of it and by the Lamb of God are filled full of all joy and comfort Rev 17.14 There will bee wicked men who with their tongues will calumniate and with their weapons wound them but their malice shall not prosper in the end They themselves shall fall because Gods Covenant of mercy and peace shall never fail his people Esa 54.10 c Hence the Saints are bidden when perils are at hand not to fear Acts 27.24 not to fear the fear of the wicked 1 Pet 3.14 God being their helper they need not fear what man can doe unto them Heb 13.6 Yea tears shall bee so wiped away and pain so allayed that they shall count it exceeding joy that they fell into temptations and afflictions Jam 1.1 Their sorrow is in the issue turned into joy which no man can take from them Joh 16.20 This is of force sufficient to wipe off all tears For they shall have assurance by their faith in the Lamb and in his blood and by their testimony given unto Gods truth to overcome Mat 28.8 Rev 12.11 I might goe on and further instance in other particulars which subserve and are fitted unto these already spoken of In brief I will collect them and say no more but what may point at them in generall First seeing the old Jerusalem is ruined God builds a new one the mother of all faithfull Christians both Jews and Gentiles and this must needs bee a great and capacious City having glorious foundations and walls to bee strong for defence and have gates on each side of it for accesse thereunto from the foure coasts of heaven Secondly if the twelve Patriarchs of old had their names graven in pearls and jewels and born by Aaron a type of Christ the upholder of all the faithfull for the comfort of each godly person in the twelve Tribes much more may the names of the twelve Apostles bee set upon the twelve foundations of this glorious City for the comfort of all such as are begotten children to Christ by them and their doctrine Thirdly if Gods Law was esteemed by David walking therein above gold above the finest gold and thousands of it then doubtlesse the streets of the New Jerusalem in which all good Christians walk may very well bee compared to gold as pure and clear as glasse Fourthly the Tabernacle and Temple of old glittered with golden surniture and the choicest gems the Christian Church comes not short of either of them but is as every man must needs grant far more glorious in all respects hath more excellent and spirituall priviledges and clear and comfortable doctrine far beyond all former times As the Tents for Gods people are inlarged and their curtains further spread then of old Esa. 54.2 So are Gods favours more extended to the Christian Church then formerly to the Jewish Fifthly If David was the light of Israel and by his high esteem of Gods word the light to mens paths made his people to walk safely in that light much more now is Christ the David or beloved of God and the light of the world and directs Christians to come out of darknesse unto the saving Truth These and other matters most glorious spoken of the Churches estate in Rev. 21. 22. are belonging to the Church of God in this life Nor need any man to admire that the high and heavenly expressions in these two Chapters used concern the estate of the Christian Church in this life For first the faithfull in their life time have {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} an exhibition or subsistence of things hoped for of the happinesse promised them for life to come They have {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a summary inventory of things not yet seen Heb. 11.1 that is of the inheritance immortall and undefiled and that fades not away but is reserved for them in Heaven 1 Pet. 1.4 The eye of faith is quicksighted and beholds things afar off as present Hereby Abraham in his dayes saw and enjoyed Christ and redemption by him and Moses which is much

was in Gods place and his Deputy to direct Aaron and the Israelites and David who was Gods shepheard to govern and feed the Jews did {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} perform the best service they could for the bringing the people in those times of the world under them to a more blessed estate in another world Replicat But when the people would have made Christ a King hee did not assent thereunto but went from among them Joh. 9. Answ. The people there out of a sudden apprehension of Christs power who miraculously fed many thousands with five barly loaves and two fishes were not fit instruments nor had a calling to fit them for conferring on Christ so great a dignity Scinditur incertum studia in contrariavulgus is a true and cleare verdict upon them as the schism Joh. 10.19 plainly shews they which to-day would make Christ a King will to morrow depose him if not they some others in a like but contrary heat upon some sleight distaste will doe it Their Hosanna one day their Crucifige soon after shew the mutability of their fancy Secondly had Christ accepted of the kingdom at these few Jews instance this might have been an occasion of a grievous combustion in that seditious and discontented people because the chief Rulers of the Jews consented not thereunto and had much people blindly led by them If the chiefe builders refused the head corner stone and said Wee will not have this man rule over us and further conspired saying Come this is the heire let us kill him Christ who well knew Gods law for the government of that people would not bee made King unlesse hee was orderly called thereunto by the chief Elders and Rulers of their Tribes Thirdly Christ did not deny or publikely gainsay his being made a King but perceiving their intention to take him and make him a king hee withdrew himself and thereby both avoided civill dissention to which that people were too too prone and continued also his humble course of life that as a Lamb hee might come to the slaughter and die for us Hee well knew the time appointed for his humiliation and waited his Fathers good pleasure for his exaltation Fourthly when hee was set as a king upon the holy hill of Sion his purpose was to propagate his kingdom by other courses then suited with these peoples plots and devises Their thoughts and wayes were not Christs thoughts and wayes For his mind was to demonstrate his glorious might and Sovereignty and his Infinite and all-seeing wisdome by means in the worlds eye and humane esteem most unlikely This in his good time he accordingly peformed Object The Saints are said Apoc. 20 to raign with Christ a thouand yeeres this is not yet fulfilled Therefore there shall be hereafter a thousand yeeres of Christs raign in which the Saints shall raign with him on earth For their raign with him in Heaven is everlasting Answ. Obsrve well that 't is no where said that Christs raign on kingdom is of a thousand yeares continuance His kingdom foretold Dan. 7.14 begun long since and continues for ever hee neyer reversed his command of teaching all Nations Ever since that edict people of all Nations and languages have been called to Christianity shewed their faith by their practise and sealed their Testimony such as have been called thereunto by their deaths Secondly for the space of a thousand years after Christs time many were called in severall Nrtions and in every part of that thousand yeeres many lived and raigned with Christ and the true doctrine of the Gospel was held in some good measure untill neare the end of the thousand yeeres at which time there was a declining Mr. Fox Mart. Pres. pag. 5. Then matters grew worse and worse Fox p. 215 vol. 1. Sylvester a Sorcerer about that time held the Popes Chair And Hildebrand soon after appeared to rule not by Gods but by Satans spirit Id. pag. 237. So that soon after these wicked beginnings error and superstition spread very much in the Churches proceedings Quest When then did the thousand years of the Saints raigning with Christ end Tell us the time punctually Answ. As wee cannot design the very year and day of the beginning of Christs famous kingdom Gods setting him up King upon the hill of Sion nor doe wee hold it necessary but onely in generall aver with Scripture that it was begun in Christs life time on Earth So for the end of the thousand yeares of the Saints raigning with Christ wee will not point out the very yeare and day ● but wee say that about a thousand yeers after Christs time Satan being loosed did with the full height of his malice infuse into the Pope and his instruments Pride error and other impieties insomuch that by the Popes power and craft conjoyned the Nations in al the kingdoms of this western part of the world in great measure yeelded to the Popes supreme authority over all Kings to his pretended infallible determinations to many superstitious observances and were led blind fold into a multitude of false and currunt doctrines In this grand Apostasie Christ had faith full servants who saw Romes declining from truth and growth to an height of wickednesse These as the rest of the Saints formerly continued to inhabit the holy City the new Jerusalem though they were assaulted with bloudy and most violent persecution and were extremely oppressed and tyrannized over untill Luthers time Object The Saints are said to reign with Christ the thousand yeares in which Satan is bound Rev. 20. Their reigning with Christ imports more then when it is said that Christ reigns in or with them This their reigning with Christ hath never yet been performed For Christ hath never yet visibly and personally come again to the Earth that they might reign with him as the words import And therefore hereafter he must so come and they reign with him Archer Answ. 1. There is nothing spoken Apoc. 20. which may assure us or indeed give us any the least warrant of Christs personall and visible comming again to reign here on earth If such a matter had been it might much better have been concluded from this Lo I am with you always to the worlds end Mat●ult Or from Christs walking amidst the golden Candlesticks Rev. 1. that is the Churches of God That hee then did perform and in the same manner which is there meant he will ever do it to the last day These speeches and the like put together would soonerafford which indeed they do not a personall presence of Christ still on earth then any speech Apoc. 20. And 2. where t is said The Saints reign with Christ on earth how can that be more emphaticall and imply more then this Wee shall suffer with Christ Rom 8.19 No man ever hence inferred that Christ must again come down from Heaven that wee may suffer with him In both speeches of reigning with and suffering with Christ

this means hee will make the world continue three thousand three hundred years from Christs time Hee may likewise make the woman Rev 12.6 and 13. fly twise into the wildernesse because there her flight is twise mentioned In this way I think Mr. Brightman will walk without company Sixthly Concerning the Turks Mr. Medes opinion is more probable first that their dominion began when Tangolipex was made King in the year one thousand fifty seven not in the year one thousand three hundred as sales Mr. Brightman Secondly that from the year one thousand fifty seven count three hundred ninety six years moe which come to the year one thousand foure hundred fifty three and then in this very year the Turks took Constantinople and rose to greater might and not began to fall as Mr. Brightman affirms they should after three hundred ninty six years Thirdly the Text is expresse that upon the times mentioned Apoc. 9.13 they should kill the third part of man whereas the Text hath not one word of their fall nor is the ruin of the Turkish Empire foretold in what year it should fall saith Mr. Mede And again Mr. Mede still holding his accustomed ingenuity gives another sense of Apoc. 9.15 thus The Turks will bee prepared for a fit time to wit for a day a moneth and a year to kill the third part of men And surely this sense is more probable then the other depending upon the exposition of each day for a year which is not to take place except somthing in the Prophecy lead us thereunto Seventhly If the ten horned beast Rev 13.1 bee not the Popes as they are Clergy men but the secular Rulers of Rome then Mr. Brightman erres in making this beast to expresse Antichrist or the Popes onely Secondly hee erres in saying that this beast began in the year three hundred and six whereas the Caesars began before and were in Saint Johns time For it is said of the seven heads that five are past that one is Rev 11.10 that is the Cesars And then thirdly if this beast bee to rule two and forty moneths in Mr. Brightmans sense they must begin in or before Saint Johns time and so must bee ended many years agon though his account for the wounded beasts cure bee taken in to make the summe swel Other exceptions against Mr. Brightman will in part appear elsewhere in this Discourse Chap. V. Dr. J. Alsteds and M. H. Archers accounts about the times in the Apocalyps and Daniel propounded and refuted DOctor Alstede layes his plot for the account of times thus Daniels seventy weeks end at Jerusalems ruine in the year of Christ 69 Adde thereunto the dayes after this desolation Dan. 12.11 that is so many years 1290 These two summes make up the years of the Churches affliction 1359 Then follow the dayes that is years which make them happy who live unto them 1335 These two summes reach unto the year of Christ 2694 The last thousand of the years in the summe last above mentioned are the thousand years in Apoc. 20. in which Satan is bound and the Church flourisheth So that this thousand years begin in the year 1694. Mr. Archer thus frames his accounts of these times page 47. Julian set up the abomination of desolation in the year of Christ 366 To this adde the account of dayes that is years Dan. 12.11 at the end whereof the Jews shall bee called to Christ 1290 Then adde also 45 years moe part of the 1335. Dan. 12.12 45 These three summes amount to about years 1700 Then in the year 1700. Satan is bound and the Churches happinesse begins After this follow the wars of Gog and Magog So that the world ends not before but some time after the year 2700. Mr. Archer brings us another account page 51. that if one misse the other may hit Thus it stands The Papacy begun and the ten Kingdoms arose in the year of Christ 406 The Papacy continues years 1260 So that the Papacy is ruined in the year 1666 Then begin the years of Satans binding in which the Saints reign with Christ in much prosperity These are years 1000 Then follow the wars of Gog and Magog after which the last and sinall judgement comes so that these wars are not before the year of Christ 2666. These accounts of time I hold to bee many wayes faulty First Daniels weeks end not at Jerusalems fall by Titus Arg. 1. Jerusalems wall is built and the Messias slain after seven weeks and 62 weeks Dan. 9.26 and in the half of the one week remaining the Messiah puts an end to sacrifice and oblation There is the end of the seventy weeks But the destruction of Jerusalem was thirty and odde years if not forty after Christs death which did put an end to sacrifice and oblation Therefore the seventy weeks cannot end at Jerusalems fall by Titus Arg. 2. The Covenant with many at which the seventy weeks end was confirmed in the half of the one week which remained after the seven and sixty two weeks Dan. 9.27 But this Covenant was confirmed by Christ at his death and resurrection Therefore the seventy weeks end at Christs death and not at Jerusalems fall above thirty years after Object T is said Dan. 9.27 That in the one week remaining after the seven and sixty two weeks the abomination of desolation shall be powred on the City Jerusalem Therefore the seventy weeks end at the destruction of Jerusalem Answer The one week the last of the seventy ends as in the Text is plain when by Christ the Covenant is confirmed and sacrifice caused to cease by his death That which is added concerning the abomination of desolation powred on the City shews as Mr. Brightman on Dan. 12.11 well saith the Jews punishment for killing the Messias and that Christ by confirming a new Covenant and by his death putting an end to legall ceremonies declared that there should bee no need of the old Jerusalem There is not nor needed there to bee an expression of any time foretelling the ruin of the City By story it fell forty or neer forty years after Christs death and in this time the Apostles called some Jews to repentannce and faith in Christ that Christs blood might not bee upon them all to their eternall ruine Secondlly Dr. Alsiedes opinion fails in making the daies one thousand two hundred and ninty Dan. 12.11 to take place at Jerusalems destruction by Titus Arg. 1. Those daies one thousand two hundred and ninty take place upon the taking away of the daily s●crisice and setting up the abomination of desolation But these both were do● by Antiochus Epiphanes many years before Jerusalems ruin by Titus Therefore they may not bee referred to the destruction of Jerusalem after Christs time by Titus But here perhaps it will bee objected The setting up of the abomination of desolation spoken of in Daniel is in Mat. 24.15 Mark 13.14 and Luk. 21.20 expresly referred to the Romans and their Soldiers