then and now be said to do these signs which those of the first times personally did 2. But this will more appear by the words Mar. 16.17 Shall follow them that believe for as the Signs and Wonders done by Moses and in his Ministration did follow the Israelties that is accommodate them in all after-Ages till the Messiah promised came not in being done over again but in that first Deut. 6.6 7 20 24. with Exod. 12.26 27. they were left upon record together with the Law and Doctrine confirmed by them in which they had those Signs together with the Law and Doctrine to teach their Children and one another And secondly in having and believing Psa 78. all and minding the Law and Doctrine so confirmed they had all those Signs also to minde and believe And thirdly Psa 66.6 Hos 12.4 Jer. 32.19 20 21. Mat. 12.38 39. 16.1 4. in minding and believing the Doctrine confirmed by those Signs they had the same use and benefit of those Signs for farthering their confidence and rejoycing in God in praying to him seeking help of him and resting on him for it in every need as they had in whose personal sight they were done And so did these Signs follow them Mar. 8.11 12. Luk. 11.29 Joh. 2.18 6.30 31. Heb. 12.22 23. and it was an evil and adulterous Generation that did call for the doing them over again even so the Believers being come into the same Society and Congregation with the first Witnesses The Apostle in this very sense takes in all the Believers to the coming of Christ using that word we 1 Cor. 15.51 1 Thes 4.15 And in this sense we all may be said to have those Signs done by the first Witnesses to follow us and to accommodate us in that they are left upon Record for us in the Record of the Gospel that was confirmed by them Luk. 2.1 4. Joh. 20.31 Rom. 15.4 Mar. 16.20 Heb. 2.4 1 Cor. 14.20 21. Isa 28.11 12 13. Luk. 16.31 that therein and thereby we may have the same use for minding and teaching them and being confirmed in the Faith of the Gospel and so for farthering our confidence as they of the first times had yea they are affirmed to be writ for that end and it is a Sign of an evil heart to call for these Signs to be done over again which if it should be granted yet would not such evil hearts believe And as this appears both by the manner of Christ his promising and the words in his promise so it doth also appear 3. By the Apostles setting them down having set down the abiding gifts first second third sort he saith After that 1 Cor. 12.28 miracles then gifts of healing helps in Government diversities or kindes of tongues After God had called Moses and Aaran and spoken by them to the Children of Israel and sent them to speak to Pharaoh he added Signs and Wonders that made the Enemies say This is the finger of God and he fighteth for Israel and causeth Israel to believe his Words and sing his Praise But those Signs were not to be done over again but remembred in all Generations following and so much the Apostle intimates here by the word afterward as an addition and over-plus for a time All that may seem to darken this sense is because helps in Government is named among these Gifts to which answer might be given That the naming them with these doth no more equal them and make them of the like Nature for their Tendency and Temporariness then the naming things indifferent and evil onely in the use by Circumstance in one and the same sentence with things simply and absolutely evil Act. 15.20 doth equal them and make them of like Nature and Tendency at all times And yet this placing helps in Government among the things that come in afterward and in the middest of those temporary Gifts doth instruct us also 1. That these helps in Government Elders and Deacons and such outward Offices were not of the Essence of those spiritual Gifts which Christ ascended up to Heaven to give but such as in the Wisdom of those spirituall Gifts given they might as occasion and need was after appoint or elect and so those came in afterwards as hath been foreshewn 2. That these helps in Government are not of the Essence of the Church nor simply requisite thereto the Church was before them and truely in being before it had them and these came afterward into the Church for outward Order and Ornament as is foreshewn yea it may be to instruct us 3. That as those outward Offices had not their rise immediately in the first pouring forth of the heavenly Gifts but afterward so they shall not have their continuance in the true Church and Sanctuary the real and mystical Body of Christ till his personal coming again as those spiritual Gifts shall though they were of longer continuance then the Miracles and Gifts of Healing and diversites of Tongues for outward acting were a time was fore-seen to come when some of these outward Officers would fall from Heaven from the simplicity of Christ and receiving their Knowledge and Furniture from the Gospel believed even the Testimony of Jesus that is the Spirit of Prophesie and came from Heaven and those spiritual Gifts and Furniture received in belief thereof which came from Heaven and so fall to the Earth in love of the Learning Philosophy Rev. 19.20 Arts and Sciences of the Gentiles and with that interpret and teach using it as the Key of Knowledge and so bring in a smoke covering the Face of the Gospel and Church with Darkness And such Officers getting to be the chief in the outward Court the outward Court would be left unto the Gentiles and then the Man of sin would enter and sit therein and he would be making Apostles Evangelists Pastors and Teachers and none should be counted so but those of his making and calling and if by his usurped Power and feigned Miracles he could not generally perswade Men of this yet he would claim such Authority for ordaining Bishops and Deacons that there should be none acknowledged but of his ordaining yea he and the Officers ordained by him shall bear the Name of the Church and Clergy as if out of Union with them no Salvation and all that will not submit to and acknowledge this Power in him and his Officers shall soon be thrust out of Office and excommunicated out of the outward Court of the Church and then the Holy City the true Church and Sanctuary would be trodden under Foot Rev. 11.1 2 3. 2 Thes 2.4 Joh. 6.2 and clothed with sackcloth in disgrace and persecution yet the Testimony of Jesus and Truth and Verity of all these spiritual Gifts was in and would remain and be in this Sanctuary the true though despised Church and stript of her outward Ornaments and Officers and Power is given to these by
same Spirit and Covenant yet there is as much difference between this given and that promised as between a handful or first Fruits of the Corn and the whole fulness of the Harvest which is in this making of the Covenant now treated of in which it appears they shall all be made sinless and righteous perfect in the love of God and one another compleat in all true holiness II. And I will be their God and they shall be my people Jer. 31.33 30.22 32.38 Ezek. 11.20 Exod. 3 4 6 20. Psal 120. And this appears in that which went before in verse 32. and several places to be spoken emphatically to be understood in a higher sense and after a more eminent manner then ever before for he was their God and they his people when they were afflicted in Egypt and in more manifestation when they were in the Wilderness and still more appearingly when they were setled in Canaan and his Worship setled among them and of these remaining while Jeremiah prophesied among them and still more manifestly in special manner Rom. 9.24 25 26. he is our God who believe in Christ and receive of the first Fruits of the Spirit and we his people but here is cleerly more implied to be done after those dayes and here and elsewhere exprest as namely That he will multiply his wonders among them and his favours on them so as he will make himself known to all Nations to be their God Ezek. 36.36 37.28 Isa 60.14 Ezek. 37.26 27. and make them known to all Nations to be his peculiar People when the Heathen shall know That he is the Lord and That he doth sanctifie and build Israel and shall acknowledge them The City of the Lord The Sion of the holy one of Israel yea he will set his Sanctuary in the middest of them for evermere yea he saith My Tabernacle also shall be with them yea I will be their God and they shall be my people And so he hath opened his own meaning And what this Sanctuary and Tabernacle is and from whence it comes and where it shall be he hath told us viz. Jesus Christ The Son of God The Son of Man The Man in whom the fulness of the Godhead dwels bodily he that is in the Father and the Father in him he is the Temple and Sanctuary and no other like the old Temple or new formed Church-Governments under the Gospel in this City for the Lord God Almighty Rev. 21.22 Ezek. 37.22 24 25. 34.23 24 30. and the Lamb are the Temple of it and he the Son of David shall sit on the Throne and be the mighty King and Governour among them and Christ also coming with his Saints those that in Spirit are now in Heaven the Jerusalem that is now above these shall come with their Lord and Master down from Heaven and receiving their Bodies glorified the great City the Holy Jerusalem descending out of Heaven from God having the Glory of God upon her Of which it is said I saw the holy City Rev. 21.2 3. new Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband And I heard a great voice out of Heaven saying The Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them their God Thus we have it cleerly opened so that these Saints this spiritual Seed Dan. 7.14 27. Ezek. 48.35 See Part 2. chap. 18. shall be Princes among the people and sit upon Thrones with Christ raign with him And all the Kingdoms under the whole heavens shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High and all nations shall serve him and the name of the City shall be from that day The Lord is there Thus will God be with them their God and they shall be his people Thus owned by him III. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them Jer. 31.34 saith the Lord. To know the Lord is both to understand and know That he is Jehovah and that he is infinite in Wisdom Power Goodness c. and to know that is acknowledge Jer. 9 24. Joh. 17.3 love and adore him as the Lord as he doth discover himself such a one in and by his Son Christ and thus to know the Lord every Man except Jesus the Son of God that hath lived or doth live upon this Earth in their several Ages have needed and do need to be taught this knowledge and it is the part of every Man Exod. 18.16 Deut. 4.34 39. 6.11 7.9 Joh 5 27. 11.16 1 Chron. 28.9 according to his understanding and Faith to teach and receive teaching from his Brother saying Know the Lord. But because in respect of some this is confest of all I forbear further proof onely because some conceit established Believers past this need since Christ came I shall consider the place alledged for it which is 1 Joh. 2.20 27. Ye have an unction from the holy One and ye know all things The anoynting which ye have received of him abideth in you and you need not that any man teach you but as that anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is noâ—ly and even as it hath taught you you shall abide in him This place being a sweet needful instructing Truth crosseth nothing here foresaid for the Apostle speaks here of a first fruits of that promised spiritually dispensed Jer. 31.34 Heb. 8.6 10.1 Joh. 5.20 Rom. 8.22 23 24 25. Heb. 11. 13 40. Heb. 11.1 and not of the Harvest as a pears in his former after-Discourse for as he that receiveth Christ receiveth all things with him but still according to his receiving either by spiritual discerning and believing or by open sight and enjoyment so he that knoweth Christ knoweth all things but still according to the manner of his knowing either through a Glass dimly by Faith or else in open view seeing as he is seen Paul confesseth the first to be now in this life but the later 1 Cor. 13.12 1 Joh. 3.1 2. at the time we are speaking of and so this Apostle confesseth the former to be now but the later not to be enjoyed till the time of the visible appearance of Christ And so he saith not Ye need not that any Man teach you saying Know the Lord for that anoynting teacheth you of all things but that he saith is Ye need not that any man teach you 1 Joh. 2.27 but as that anoynting teacheth you of all things c. that is as the Spirit in the Testimony of Christ in that Doctrine of Christ in which he hath helped you to believe in Christ and by that Doctrine teacheth you of all things do ye
Deborah Barak and Samuel judged Israel though it will be in more holy manner And so it 's said Have thou authority over ten Cities Be thou Ruler over five Cities and I will make thee Ruler over many things And so likewise for the Governed here is also great diversity of degrees the twelve Tribes of Israel that are surviving at his coming for him to settle in their Inheritance and those of the Nations joyned to them and all the People by the Law going forth of Sion converted to them These are the chief Isa 19.21 22-25 66.29.24 Amos 9 12-15 Zech. 2 6-13 Heb. 4 3-10 Rev. 21.24 Isa 61.5 6. 60. Rev. 21.27 Zech. 14 16-19 Rev. 20.8 9. and as natural Subjects and free Denizens have their recourse to the City to worship and keep a perpetual sabbath and sing Hallelujahs to the Lord and the residue of the Nations shall be Servants and serviceable unto them who if as the Law comes out of Sion to them they do not convert and turn to come and worship they shall not enter the City but receive such punishment as shall witness displeasure and they at last be found of that number that will be destroyed Such the degrees both of Rulers and Subjects in this Kingdom and therefore rightly called Davidical 5. The prosperity beauty and flourishing happiness of this Kingdom is exceeding great and glorious I will only name a little and quote some Scriptures 1. There shall be no sorrow grief pain or crying Isa 14.3 51. 11. Jer. 3.12 13 14. Psal 121.5 6 7 8. Isa 25.8 Rev. 7.15 21.4 nor any thing to cause or occasion it no violence oppression or hurtful Creature no sickness affliction or death no pollution in Earth or Air but all fulness of satisfying in every thing that is good for them 2. They shall all know the Lord Jer. 31.33 34. 32.38 39 40. Ezek. 11.19 20. 36.26 27 and the Law of God shall be in their Heart and they shall have one Heart and one Way to love and fear the Lord for their good for ever 3. They shall not one envy another for any difference in degrees but each rejoyce in others preferment as his own Zech. 3.11 Psa 106.4 5. Isa 11.13 and 29 22 24. 4. Zech. 3.9 13. They shall all speak Truth sincerely both to God and to one another for he will then give and turn to them a pure lip 5. Psa 72.16 Isa 11.6 7 8 9. 2.4 Mic. 4.3 4 5. 5.5 Zeth 6.12 13. Righteousness and Peace shall stream among them in abundance Isa 32.17 18. and 11.4 and 60.17 and 66.12 Jer. 33.6 Psal 72.7 and with this abundance of plenty and all Creatures at peace with one another and all Men so as they shall learn war no more but sit quietly under their Vines and Fig-Trees and in quiet Habitations and for these things we may yet see farther Isa 49 18-23 and 60. and 65.12 to the end In this day Zech. 12.8 Zech. 12.9 Rev. 20.8 9. he that is feeble among them shall be as David and the House of David as God as the Angel of the Lord before them and as at the beginning of the Kingdom he destroyed all the Enemies that would not serve them so toward the end of the Davidical Regiment for of the Kingdom is no end he will destroy all that rise up against them And so I proceed to the last considerable about this Kingdom 6. Isa 54.9 10. Jer. 31.35 36. 33.25 The duration of the Kingdom it self is for ever and ever hath no end as is oft said but for this manner of administration in this Davidical Regiment or Kingdom as in the Kingdom there is such a Monarchy and such degrees of Rulers and ruled we may consider how long that shall continue and that shall be as long as day and night and the course of the Sun and Moon endures Rev. 21.23 25. Isa 30.26 Psa 8.3 4. Psa 72.7 17. Rev. 20.5 6. for though there be no night in the City and it have no need of the Sun yet will there be day and night and the Sun and the Moon keep their course with seven-fold more glorious splendor and useful to the Inhabitants of the Earth also and so it is said In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the Moon end ureth his Name shall be for ever his Name shall continue as long as the Sun and men shall be blessed in him c. It is evident this manner of raigning shall be for a thousand yeers which if taken indefinitely may be a long time if taken strictly as some for weighty reasons conceive it to be yet if as some conceive the measure of the Sanctuary to be double to the common measure we may so conceive it to be a longer thousand than in our ordinary account And surely he that in his love of compassion shortneth the dawes of tribulation may in his love of delight lengthen those dayes of rejoycing raigning but I will neither dispute nor determine it but onely say as it is testified and I believe it shall be a thousand yeers at the least the time of Christ as Man and his Saints with him absolute and cleer raigning and so if minded a long time the complaint of the Prophet in the behalf of the Church was The people of thy holiness possessed but a little while Isa 63.18 19. that possession they fore-had in the times of David Solomon Rehoboam Abiam Asa Hezekiah Josiah c. but a little while our adversaries have trodden down thy Sanctuary c. and the promise of God to them by the same Prophet is As the dayes of a tree Isu 65.22 which is the longest of all vegetable Creatures so the dayes of my people which can be no less than as the Tree in durance abideth longer than the Grass Herb or Corn so his people shall longer enjoy their Land and this manner of raigning then any other Monarch or Nation hath done theirs and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands And this is also cleer Rev. 9.6 10.6 7. That Time shall continue so long as theseventh Angel with his seventh Trumpet soundeth and no longer And it appears by comparing Rev. 11.11 12 13 14. with chap. 19. throughout That the reviving of the Witnesses and the appearance of Christ and the Resurrection of the Just and the Destruction of the Beast and the false Prophet are before the sounding of the seventh Angel And in his beginning to sound the worldly Powers and Dominions are taken down and the Devil bound and shut up and the Thrones set And what time these things take I dare not say but some time sure and then they sit upon Thrones and the whole mystery of God is opened and then and not before then begins the thousand yeers of their raigning and judging Mar. 25 31-46 And when
Saints be joyful in glory c. Psal 149.5 6 7 8 9. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth or throat and a two-edged sword in their hand to execute vengeance upon the Heathen and punishments upon the people to binde their Kings in chains and their Nobles with fetters of iron to execute upon them the judgement written This honour have all his Saints Hallelujah Mal. 4.3 For in that Day they shall tread down the wicked and they shall be as ashes under the soles of their Feet and so in the great straight to give the great Overthrow to the Enemies at the Day of the Lord 's coming it is said Zach. 14.1 2-6 Rev. 19 11-21 2 Pet. 3.5 6 7 8-10 The Lord my God shall come and all the Saints with thee And so the Armies in Heaven follow him to the taking of the Beast and the false Prophet and casting them into the Lake of Eire and slaying the Remnant with the Sword c. when also the Earth with the Works that are therein shall be burn'd up and destroyed as the old World was with Water And this being done the next work is 3. To restore all things so said Peter Act. 3.19 20. When the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord and he shall send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you And so as in the beginning of the first Creation the whole business is first set forth in general Gen. 1 chap. and then the things done in the same time more particularly set forth and explicated chap. 2 and 3 So here in the dissolution of the Old and compleating of the New Creation the things done are in general related Rev. 19 and 20 chap. and then more particularly opened Rev. 21.7 5. chap. 21 and 22. And so Iohn saith He saw a new Heaven and a new Earth c. And the Lord saith Behold I make all things new c. And again These words are true and faithful And so the Believers when that great Overthrow is given to the wicked 2 Pet. 3.12 13. do look for a new Heaven and new Earth according to his promise for so when he cuts off the wicked Isa 65.12 15 17. he hath promised to create new Heaven and a new Earth c. And this is assured to be in that Day of the Manifestation of the Sons of God that the Creature even the whole Creation shall be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption into the glorious Liberty of the Children of God who shall then enjoy the Adoption Rom. 8.19 20 21 22. Heb. 2.5 6. with Psal 8.4 5 6 7 8. Rom. 4.13 Heb. 11.16 Isa 58.12 the Redemption of the Body which they now wait for This the World to come whereof we speak this the World to come of which Abraham shall be an Heir this the Country he and our Fathers waited for and then shall inherit so as Christ in this respect also is the Restorer of paths to dwell in And having thus renewed the Heaven and the Earth the next work which is done in compleating this is cleerly shewn 4. Rev. 11.18 Luk. 14.14 Joh. 14.3 2 Tim. 2.12 Rev. 1.5 5.10 Luk. 22.28 29 30. Mat. 19.28 29. To take unto him his great Power and Raign and so to give rewards to his Servants the Prophets and to the Saints and to them that fear his Name small and great and so to receive to himself all that have formerly believed on him lived to him and suffered with him that they may raign with him yea eat and drink at his Table in his Kingdom and sit on Thrones c. In which Raign and Kingdom of Christ with his Saints when he comes and takes it divers things are considerable as expresly declared and affirmed in the Scripture as about the place of his raigning and the place of his Throne and the extent and manner and prosperity and duration of his Kingdom CHAP. 18. Of the things considerable about the Kingdom of Christ THat mentioned in the Scripture about the Kingdom of Christ is 1. The place of his Kingdom and Raign it shall be upon the Earth the Earth being renewed This is plainly intimated in Heb. 2.5 6 7 8. compared with Psal 8.4 6 7 8 9. and affirmed both of him and his Saints upon the making of the new Heaven and the new Earth I Iohn saw the holy City Rev. 21.1 2. new Ierusalem coming down from God out of Heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband Is not this the Spirits of Just Men made perfect receiving their Bodies raised immortal Heb. 12.22 23 24. Gal. 4.26 1 Cor. 15.51 52 53 54. 1 Thes 4.15 16 17. glorious powerful and spiritual and the living Saints in the same moment of their Resurrection changed and made like them and so both together ascending and meeting the Lord in the Air or Heaven and so coming down with him as is foreshewn And that we may rightly understand the meaning of the Vision declared he farther saith Rev. 21.3 4 5 6 7. Zach. 14.9 Psal 72.8 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying Behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and so on Yea the Raign of Christ is expresly affirmed That it shall be on Earth and the Raign of the Saints with him that it shall be on Earth also so they confess Thou hast made us unto our God Rev. 5.10 Psal 37.9 10 11. Kings and Priests and we shall raign on the earth And so it is said When the wicked are cut off and shall not be then the meek that wait on the Lord in these dayes of his patience shall inher it the earth and delight themselves in the abundance of peace But this will still more appear in the Points following and so I will proceed to them 2. The place of the Throne it shall be Ierusalem the great and Holy City in the midst of Canaan in which Abraham walked and sojourned as a Stranger though then renewed and enlarged Jer. 3.17 and so it is said At that tune they shall call Ierusalem the Throne of the Lord And all Nations shall be gathered unto it Isa 24.23 to the Name of the Lord to Jerusalem c. The Lord of Hosts shall raign in Mount Sion and in Jerusalem and before his ancients gloriously Isa 33.17 20 21 And again Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty c. Look upon Sion the City of our solemnities Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation a tabernacle that shall not be taken down c. There the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams c. Oh Jerusalem the holy City Isa 52.1 henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean Rev. 21.10 11-27 Isa 2.3 Mic. 4.2 Isa 62.7 Ezck. 38.35 Psal 122.5 Mat. 19.28 according to that Rev.
21.27 Then the Law shall go forth of Sion and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem then shall Jerusalem be the praise of the Earth and the Name of the City shall be from that Day The Lord is there yea in Jerusalem are set the Thrones for Judgement the Thrones of the House of David there shall the twelve Apostles sit on twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel all being but the Throne of Christ who overcoming through sufferings is now set on the right Hand of God and so set with his Father on his Father's Throne And when he comes to take his own Throne Luk. 1.32 Rev. 3.21 Rev. 22.14.19 Gen. 13 14-17 Heb. 11.9 1 Chron. 16.16 17 18. Psal 105.8 9 10 11. Isa 14.2 Zech. 12.6 14.10 Isa 61.7 the Throne of his Father David that God will give unto him he promiseth likewise to him that overcometh to grant to sit with him on his Throne so that all such shall have their part in this holy City Jerusalem which Jerusalem shall be in the Land of Canaan in which Abraham sojourned and where David though a sojourner also yet raigned there shall Ierusalem be and be again inhabited and resorted to even in her own place So as for the shame they have undergone c. they shall rejoyce in their portion therefore in their own Land they shall possess the double and everlasting joyshall be upon them 3. The extent and largeness of this Kingdom Dominion and Raigning it shall be over all Nations over the whole Earth Zech. 14.9 and so it is said And the Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day there shall be one Lord and his Name one And Psal 72.8 9 10 11. he shall have dominion from Sea to Sea and from the River to the ends of the earth They that dwell in the wilderness shall how before him and his enemies shall lick the dust The Kings of Tarshish and the Isles shall bring presents the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts yea all Kings shall fall down before him all Nations shall serve him And so in Vision seen Dan. 7.14 27. And there was given him Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all People Nations and Languages shall serve him his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion and the Kingdom and Dominion and greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions or Rulers shall serve and obey him Rev. 2.26 And so the Promise And he that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end to him will I give power over the Nations and he shall rule them c. even as I received of my Father Again Do you not know that the Saints shall judge the world 1 Cor. 6.2 4. The manner of this Kingdom in the beginning of it and till Christ deliver up the Kingdom to the Father it shall be Davidical his Regiment Providential among Men hath from the beginning been and till his next coming will be by wordly Governours which by a Divine power he raiseth up and putteth down and changeth by means and Instruments as and when it pleaseth him His Spiritual Regiment is and hath been and will be till his coming again by his Holy Spirit in and with his Word of Grace in the Hearts and Consciences of his Saints on Earth which is also so far Divine that he makes them Partakers of the Divine Nature though not all Raigners but sufferers in this world But his own Personal Regiment as Man and Son of David shall be Davidical though exceeding that of David as Truth is in all things and ever exceeding the Types in which also are some dissimilitudes as hath been foreshewn yet ever fulness in the Truth to answer all that by similitudes was typed or figured And so 1. Jesus Christ shall have the Kingdom of his Father David 1 King 8.18 19 20. 2 Sam. 7.12 16. Psal 132. 11-18 sit thereon and rule that House and Kingdom suitable to and excelling that said of and by Solomon the Type in which shall be fulfilled that promised 2 Sam. 7. according to his Oath mentioned Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy Throne c. and according to that prophesied I will raise unto David a righteous Branch and a King shall raign and prosper Jer. 23.5 6. and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth In his dayes Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and this is the Name whereby he shall be called Jehovah our Righteousness And this 〈…〉 this is 〈…〉 or Jer. 33.14 15 16 17. For 〈…〉 on the Throne of the House of Hyael And â—o by another 〈◊〉 phet In 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 be established and he shall sit 〈…〉 Isa 16.5 Isa 9.6 7. yea more 〈…〉 Counsellor The Mighty 〈…〉 Prince of peace of the 〈…〉 of David to order it c. And this 〈…〉 Apostle and by the Angel Act 20.30 31. Lub 1.32 Act. 〈…〉 13.36 37. 3.19 20 21. 〈…〉 to him the 〈…〉 not in the 〈…〉 raise the 〈…〉 sit on 〈…〉 Throne of David 〈…〉 in the 〈…〉 and Affairs of Men 〈…〉 shall the 〈◊〉 be and so and in that 〈…〉 2. In the Kingdom of David 2 Eam 8.18 1 Chron. 27.23 〈…〉 33 34. 〈◊〉 8.1 29.6 Isa 61.5 14.1 2. there ws both Rulâ—â—â— Subjects and 〈…〉 of degrees in both 〈…〉 also 〈…〉 some also of 〈…〉 over his substance for Land and Cattel and others for 〈◊〉 Affairs of the Kingdom even so in this Kingdom of 〈◊〉 The Inhabâ—â—â—â— of the twelve Tribes of 〈…〉 all parts of 〈…〉 own I and 〈…〉 Mat. 22.30 Mar. 12.25 Luk. 20.35 36. Rev. 5.10 1.6 1.10 2 Tim. 4.8 for ordering and Catrol 〈◊〉 such-like 〈…〉 Men but the Children of the Resuâ—â—â—â— on that are the compleat spiritually born Sons of God 〈…〉 shall be the chief these neither marry nor are given in 〈◊〉 riagâ—â— but are as the Angels of God these for the 〈…〉 of the Kingdom 〈◊〉 chiefest 〈…〉 King and 〈…〉 that shall 〈…〉 and to upon Thrones 〈◊〉 him 1 Cor. 15.41 42. Mat. 20.23 Mar. 10.40 〈◊〉 17.5 6. 〈◊〉 105 9-14 Heb. 11.10 c. and have the Growns of Kighteousness and Life 〈◊〉 among these 〈◊〉 there will be degrees one excelling anoâ—â—â—â— It is ordered for some 〈◊〉 on his right Hand and 〈…〉 his left 〈…〉 shall have the 〈…〉 King so he a Prince among them Dan. 12.13 Hag. 2.23 Mat. 19.28 Rev. 2.26 1 Cor. 6.2 Luk. 19.17 19. Mat. 25.21 23. Ezek. 34.23 24 and 37.24 25. Daniel shall then stand up in his Lot Zerubbabel shall be there as a Signet c. The Apostles shall there sit on twelve Thrones c. The victorious Saints shall sit with him on his Throne ruling the Nations All the Saints judging the World as Sampson