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A88952	Israel's redemption or the propheticall history of our Saviours kingdome on earth; that is, of the church Catholicke, and triumphant. With a discourse of Gog and Magog, or The battle of the great day of God almightie. / By Robert Maton minister and Mr of Arts, and sometimes commoner of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Maton, Robert, 1607-1653?	1642 (1642)	Wing M1294; Thomason E1148_1; ESTC R208573	106,177	152

2. cap. 16. p. 410. reasons which Wendelinus in the 19. chap. and 2. Section of his naturall Contemplations at the 391. pag. brings to the contrary will give abundant satisfaction For first the Apostle doth apparently distinguish the Jewes from the Gentiles by the word Israel when he saith that blindnesse is in part happened to Israel untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in And therefore I much doubt whether he would in the very next line by the same word indifferently comprehend both Jewes and Gentiles especially seeing the Israel that is to be saved must needes have relation to the Israel that was before said to be in blindnesse And then too what is become of the mystery here spoken of if the words And so all Israel shall be saved should not signifie such a conversion of the Jewes as must follow the vocation of the Gentiles for that some particular Jewes were at that time to be gathered to the Church they knew before seeing many such were then amongst them some of which did first conveigh the Gospell to them And therfore in my judgement those Divines deale most sincerely with the Text who acknowledging the literall sense thereof doe send us to that of Isaiah in his 66. chap. at the 8. ver as to a plaine proofe of this opinion who saith he hath heard such a thing who hath seene such things shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day (l) Zech. 3. v. 9. or shall a Nation be borne at once for as soone as Zion travailed she brought forth her children Where the wonderfull and unheard of conversion of a whole Nation at once such as never happened to any Nation of the Gentiles together with the expresse mention of Zion and the evidence of the following verses should me thinks be motive enough to make any impartiall Reader understand this Prophecy of the Jewes which yet implyes not so much a returne of the whole Nation to their Country as to their God and therefore could not be fulfilled by the returne of a part of them from Babylon at which time too the Kingdome of God that is the true worship of God the meanes by which that Kingdome is obtained was amongst them onely but hath since according to our Saviours Prophecy in the 21. chap. of Matth. at the 43. ver beene taken from them and shall againe according to this be suddenly and extraordinarily restored into them as Joel also before intimated by the plentifull distribution of Gods Spirit in the last dayes 2. That the surviving and subjected Gentiles shall gladly embrace the knowledge and sea●e of God with the Jewes You have hitherto heard of the deliverance and happinesse of the Jewes only I shall now acquaint you with their partakers which shall be such as are left of the Nations that are then to be destroyed as you may see in the fore-quoted chap. of Isai at the 15. and 19. verses Behold the Lord will come with fire and with his Charets like a whirlewind to render his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire for by (m) Ezek. 39. v. 4 5 6 c. Mal. 4. v. 1. Psal 50 v. 3 2 Thess 1.1.7 8. c. fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh and the slaine of the Lord shall be many And I will set a signe among them and I will send those that escape of them unto the Nations to Tarshish Pul and Lud that draw the bow to Tuball and Javan to the Isles afarre off that have not heard my fame neither have seene my glory and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles And they shall bring all your Brethren for an offering (n) Isa 18. v. 7. unto the Lord out of all Nations upon Horses and in Charets and in Litters and upon Mules and upon swift beastes to my holy mountaine Jerusalem saith the Lord as the children of Israel bring an offering in a cleane vessell into the House of the Lord. And I will also take of them for Priests and for Levites saith the Lord. For as the new Heavens and the new Earth which I will make to wit at the judgement of the dead when this Heaven and Earth shall passe away as it is in the 20. of the Rev. at the 11. ver and in the 21. at the 1. ver as these shall remaine before me saith the Lord so shall your seed and your name remaine to wit after the foresaid returne from their captivity And it shall come to passe that from one New Moone to another and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to (o) Psal 68 u. 29.31 Psal 100. v. 1.2 4. worship before me saith the Lord and they shall goe forth and looke upon the carkeises of the men that have transgressed against me for their worme shall not dye neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh And in his 60. chap. at the 9. ver and the 61. at the 4. ver They shall (p) I●a 53. v. 12. build the old wastes they shall raise up the former desolations and they shall repaire the waste Cities the desolations of many generations And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks and the sonnes of the alient shall be your Plough-men and your Vine-dressers But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord Men shall call you the Ministers of your God ye shall eate the riches of the Gentiles and in their glory shall you boast your selves For your shame you shall have double and for confusion they shall rejoyce in their portion therefore in their Land they shall possesse the double everlasting joy shall be unto them Surely the Isles shall waite for me and the Ships of Tarshish first to bring my Sonnes from farre their silver and their gold with them unto the name of the Lord thy God and to the Holy One of Israel because he hath glorifyed thee And the Sonnes of Strangers shall build up thy wals and their Kings shall minister unto thee For in my wrath I smote thee but in my favour have I had mercy on thee Therefore thy gates shall be open continually they shall not be shut day nor night that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles and that their Kings may be brought For the (q) Ier. 12. v. 14 15 16 17. Nation and Kingdome that will not serve thee shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted The sonnes also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves downe at the soles of thy feete and they shall call thee the City of the Lord the Zion of the Holy One of Israel Whereas thou hast beene forsaken and hated so that no man went thorow thee I will make thee an eternall excellency a joy of many generations Thou shalt also sucke the milke of the Gentiles and shalt sucke

the Cities of the (h) Num. 23. v. 9. Deut. 32. v. 43. Ps 95. v. 5. Luke 12. v. 30. Rev. 2. v. 29 ch 11. v. 18. ch 16. v. 19. Nations which are no where called by such names Secondly we finde in the 11. chap. of the Apocalypse that Jerusalem is intitled the holy City in a prophecy which concernes the very time of its desolation this present time wherein it is (i) Luke 21 v. 24. trodden under foote of the Gentiles And much rather then may it be call'd the beloved City in a prophecy which concernes the time of its exaltation the time wherein it shall become the royall City of Christ and the Saints in his Kingdome Thirdly Jerusalem is by ancient Geographers termed the Navell or Center of the habitable earth Yea it is said in the fifth of Ezek. at the 5. vers This is Jerusalem I have set it in the midst of the Nations and Countries round about her And where but neere the midst of the earth can that City be which the Nations of the foure quarters of the earth shall beset Fourthly and lastly In a prophecy which contemporates with this and such prophecies doe best expound each other it is thus written Out of Zion shall go forth the Law and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem and therefore by the Beloved City here Jerusalem must needs be understood Now the foresaid prophecy is delivered by Isaiah in the beginning of the second chap. and by Micah at the entrance of the 4. chap. And as the title and superscription in Isaiah doth infallibly prove the literall interpretation of the prophecy So doth the subject thereof the impossibility of its accomplishment untill the things foreshewne here by Saint John shall come to passe to wit untill the shutting up of Satan a thousand yeeres and the living and reigning of the Saints with Christ all that time For seeing Satan is to bee bound up for no other end but this That he may not deceive the Nations and seeing that when he must be loosed againe he shall presently deceive the Nations it necessarily followes that no other time but the time of Satans imprisonment can concurre with that pious and peaceable condition of the world which Isaiah speakes of heare his words It shall come to passe in the last dayes saith he that the mountaine of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountaines and shall be exalted above the hils and all Nations shall flow unto it And many people shall goe and say Come yee and let us goe up to the (ii) Ezek. 43. v. 12. mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his wayes and we will walke in his paths for out of Sion shall goe forth the Law and the Word of the Lord from Ierusalem And be shall judge among the Nations and shall rebuke many people and they shall beate their swords into ploughshares and their speares into pruning bookes Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation neither shall they learne warre any more And is not this the time then of which it is said in the 10. of the Revel at the 7. ver That in it the mystery of God shall be finished as hee hath declared by his servants the Prophets And is not this the Rest also which Saint Paul in the 4. of the Heb. at the 9. vers concludes to be yet remaining to the people of God Surely in my conceit if the Rest promised to that people the people of Israel were not to be enjoyed in the (k) Isa 8. v. 8. Land whither Joshua led them then the Apostle went a wrong way to worke The first resurrection the thousand yeeres reigne of the Saints on earth more fully examined● confirmed when he endeavoured to prove a Rest yet remaining to them because Ioshua gave them none For no man can once imagine that by bringing them into Canaan he either did or could bring them to that Rest which was never to be had there And thus much may suffice in answer to the Querie it selfe But to make good what hath been said against all contradiction we must take into our consideration the thousand yeares reigne of the Saints as it is founded upon the spirituall interpretation of the first resurrection And because some Scriptures urged against the opposite Tenet are the onely props of this exposition I shall by the way propose a saying upon which the maine confidence of the Antimillinarians doth rely it being taken by them to be altogether inconsistent with a double resurrection of the dead and consequently with the literall sense of the first resurrection The words are in the 5. chap. of Saint John at the 28. vers and runne thus The houre is comming in which all that are in the graves shall beare his voyce and shall come forth They that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evill unto the resurrection of damnation I must confesse if touching the matter in question we had no light but from this present text or that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were of a simple signification onely the place alleadged might passe for an undoubted proofe of a single resurrection a resurrection of all mens bodies at one time But as we know that there are many passages in the Apostolicall writings which make more for us then this doth against us and which ought therefore rather to be the measure of this then this of them so we know also that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is of large use even in the Scripture it selfe For though it properly signifies that artificiall part of time which is called an houre as Matth. the 20. at the 6. vers Yet sometimes it is metonymically taken for a dangerous time as John the 12. at the 27. vers and sometimes synecdochically contracted to a moment as Luke the 12. at the 12. vers or lengthened to a day as Marke the 6. at the 35. vers or stretcht out to moneths yeares and ages and then it is usually interpreted by the word Time And there be nothing in this place of Saint Johns Gospel repugnant to such a translation nor in such a translation to the Millenarian assertion why should not we as well read The time is comming as others doe The houre For if the same word doth in the first (l) Phil. 4. v 5. James 5. v. 8. Ep. of Saint John the 2. chap. at the 18. vers comprehend all the time from our Saviours death unto his comming againe which amounts already to above one thousand and sixe hundred yeares much rather may it here include all the time from the beginning of our Saviours reigne unto the last judgement which is to be but a thousand and odde yeares and consequently this text may very well agree with a double resurrection and be thus ex ounded The time is comming in which that is

a Diapason of propheticall voyces doth beare me witnesse that besides the irreconciliable jarring of divine dictates this mystery cannot without the losse and denyall also of some most comfortable remarkable and if not now yet for future times (s) Rom. 11 v. 25.26 necessary truths be otherwise understood I shall as well for the (t) 1 Iohn 4. v. 1. Isa 8. v. 20. Acts 17. v. 11 liberty of mine owne beliefe as for the restraint of others unjust censures conclude with the words of our Church in the 20. Article where she determines That though the Church hath authority to judge in controversies of faith Yet it is not lawfull for the Church so to expound one place of Scripture that it may be repugnant to another And that although the Church be a witnesse and keeper of holy Writ yet beside or contrary to the same it ought not to enforce any thing to be beleeved for necessity of salvation Malachi 3. v. 6. I am the Lord I change not therefore ye sonnes of Jacob are not consumed Nahum 1. v. 2. c. God is jealous and the Lord revengeth the Lord revengeth and is furious the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storme and the clouds are the dust of his feete He rebuketh the Sea and maketh it dry and dryeth up all rivers Bashan languisheth and Carmel and the flower of Lebanon languisheth The mountaines quake at him and the hils melt and the earth is burnt at his presence yea the world and all that dwell therein Who can stand before his indignation and who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger his fury is powred out like fire and the rooks are throwne downe by him The Lord is good a strong hold in the day of trouble and he knoweth them that trust in him But with an over-running flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof and darknesse shall pursue his enemies What doe yee imagine against the Lord hee will make an utter end affliction shall not rise up the second time For while they bee solden together as thornes and while they are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry Obadiah v. 15. c. The day of the Lord is neare upon all the Heathen as thou hast done it shall be done unto thee thy reward shall returne upon thine own head For as ye have drunke upon my holy mountaine so shall all the Heathen drinke continually yea they shall drinke and they shall swallow downe and they shall be as though they had not beene But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance and there shall be holinesse and the house of Jacob shall possesse their possessions And the house of Jacob shall be fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble and they shall kindle in them and devoure them and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau for the Lord hath spoken it And they of the South shall possesse the Mount of Esau and they of the plaine the Philistines and they shall possesse the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria and Benjamin shall possesse Gilead And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possesse that of the Canaanites even unto Zarephath and the captivity of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad shall possesse the Cities of the South And Saviours shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau and the Kingdom shall be the Lords Habakkuk 3. v. 3. c. God came from Teman and the Holy One from Mount Paran his glo●y covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise And his brightnes was as the light he had horns comming out of his hand and there was the hiding of his power Before him went the Pestilence and burning coales went forth at his feete He stood and measured the earth he beheld and drove asunder the Nations and the everlasting mountaines were scattered the perpetuall hils did bow his wayes are everlasting I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction and the curtaines of the Land of Midian did tremble Was the Lord displeased against the rivers was thine anger against the rivers was thy wrath against the sea that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy charets of salvation Thy bow was made quite naked according to the oathes of the Tribes even thy Word Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers The mountains saw thee they trembled the overflowing of the water passed by the deep uttered his voyce and lift up his hands on high The Sunne and Moone stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrowes they went and at the shining of thy glittering speare Thou didst march thorow the Land in indignation thou didst thresh the heathen in anger Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people even for salvation with thine anointed thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked by discovering the foundation unto the necke Selah Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum If ought thou knowest that 's more true then this Shew 't Gentle Sir if not take mine as ' t is Jude ver 24.25 Now unto him that is able to keepe us from falling and and to present us faultlesse before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy To the onely wise God our Saviour be glory and majesty dominion and power now and ever Amen FINIS Errataes PAge 2. line 16. for of r. to p. 4. l. 1. by that r. that by p. 5. l. 12. for time r. times p. 6. l. 10. for Judges r. Judge l. 21. for vacation r. vocation p. 7. l. 31. for imperiall r. empyriall p. 10. l. 7. for And at r. And in p. 11. l. 25. the phrase is changed to wit No way put for by no meanes referred which seeing it is the same in sense may passe without noting p. 11. l. 25 for Is r. It remaines c. p. 14. l. 6 for of the beasts r. of all c. p. 17. the letter k is misplaced for it is put in the 7. line before these words yee are not my and it should have beene put in the 8 line before these yee are the sonnes c. p. 24. l. 5. for vers 17. r. vers 37. p. 37. l. 16. for to pray before the Lord of Hosts r. to pray before the Lord and to seeke the Lord of Hoasts p. 37. l. 33. for I know the r. I know that p. 38. l. last for turne r. returne p. 44. l. 12. for their happinesse r. their former happinesse p. 48. l. 2. pericitari r. periclitari Faults escaped in the Margent PAge 1. c for Iohn 2.2 r. 1 Iohn 2.2 p. 19. the letter o in the margent which should have beene put before these words in the text It is confest is left out p. 19. q Id. l. 7. c. 7. r. cap. 12. and in this margent quot Id. l. 9. c. 9. which should have beene referred to the word Dan. in the last line is wholly left out p. 21. for quoquo modo adversan r. adversant●● and in the second note for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 47. for fourthly the river r. fourthly in this City the river p. 20. s Cor. a tap in c. 3. for Hof r. Hos