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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

on with this that I have now presented before you So that temporall and spirituall deliverances are here conjoyned in one and the same Prophesie to which in the first verse of the next Chapter he annexeth the glory of the Church of Jewes and Gentiles conjuctively of which in the next Section Now this present place the Apostle Rom. 11.25 26 27 referres unto the great call of the Jews upon the coming in of the fulnesse of the Gentiles both making one glorious Church which the Apostle speaks of as a thing to come to passe after his time His words are that ye may see how fully they answer to those of the Prophet Blindnesse in part is happened to Israel untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles come in and so ALL ISRAEL shall be saved as it is written THERE SHALL COME OUT OF SION THE DELIVERER and SHALL TURNE AWAY UNGODLINESSE FROM JACOB FOR THIS IS MY COVENANT UNTO THEM VVHEN I SHALL TAKE AVVAY THEIR SINNES § 2 Now this was never yet fulfilled as we plainly see by the forlorne state of the Jewes both temporall and spirituall to this day And therefore this Scripture is yet to be fulfilled and that afore the ultimate judgement which is utterly inconsistent with this Prophesie SECT XXIII THe fourteenth place in Isaiah is in Chapter 60 the very next Chapter the summe wherof our last Translators have meetly given us in saying that the Chapter is concerning the glory of the Church of the Jews converted to Christ in the accession and addition of the Gentiles The passages of most concernment to our point are § 1 Vers 1. Arise shine for thy light is come and the Lord is upon THEE v. 2. Darknesse shall cover the EARTH and grosse darknesse the PEOPLE but the Lord shall arise unto THEE and his glory shall bee seen upon THEE vers 3. And the GENTILES shall come to thy light and Kings to the brightnesse of thy rising v. 4. Thy sonnes shall come from farre and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side v. 5. And thine heart shall be inlarged because the abundance of the Sea shall be converted unto thee and the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee v. 6. They of Midian and Sheba shall come they shall bring gold and incense and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord. v. 7. All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee the Rammes of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee c. and I will glorifie the house of my glory v. 8.9 Who are these that flye as a cloud and as doves to their windows Surely the ISLES that wait for thee v. 10. The sonnes of the strangers shall build up thy wals and THEIR KINGS shall minister UNTO THEE v. 11.12 Thy gates SHALL BEE OPEN DAY and NIGHT that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles and that THEIR KINGS may be brought For the NATION and KINGDOME that will not serve thee SHALL PERISH v. 14. The sonnes of them that afflicted thee shal come BENDING unto thee and all that despised thee shal BOW THEMSELVES DOWN at the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee THE CITY OF THE LORD the ZION OF THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL v. 15. Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated I will make thee an ETERNAL EXCELLENCY a JOY OF MANY NATIONS v. 16. Thou shalt also suck the milke of the GENTILES and the breasts of KINGS v. 17. For brasse I will bring gold for iron silver c. and I wil make thy OFFICERS PEACE and thy EXACTORS RIGHTEOUSNESSE v. 18. Violence shal be NO MORE heard in thy Land but thou shalt call thy wals SALVATION c. v. 19. THE SUNNE shal be no more THY LIGHT by day neither for brightnesse shal the MOON GIVE LIGHT unto thee BUT THE LORD SHALL BE THY EVERLASTING LIGHT and thy God thy glory v. 20. Thy Sunne shal no more go down neither shal thy Moon withdraw it selfe for THE LORD shal be thy EVERLASTING LIGHT and the daies of thy MOURNING SHALL BE ENDED v. 21. Thy PEOPLE also shal be RIGHTEOUS and they shal inherit the Land FOR EVER i. e. none after them v. 22. the close of all I the Lord wil hasten it IN HIS TIME § 2 Now I put the question to all the Learned and Libraries in the world when was ever any such estate of the Church since the Jewes going into captivity in Babylon If any are so heavy headed as falling fast asleep shall dream that all these passages concerne not a visible glorious estate of the Church on earth or that these all are already spiritually fulfilled let such know that they would be hard put to it so to expound this Chap. congruously and to tell us the time and manner and make all handsomely hang together And therefore St. John a surer Commentator having prophesied in Rev. 20. v. 4. compared with Rev. 5.10 of the Saints reigning with Christ on earth and in the 21 Ch. having given us his vision of a New EARTH and of New Jerusalem coming downe FROM heaven with many more passages of the future glory of the Church on earth of which abundantly afore severall times he goes on in that 21 Chapter to apply many of the passages of this sixtieth of Isa to that future glorious estate of the Church on earth yet to come after the fall of Antichrist which is not as wee see yet performed For example The third verse of this sixtieth of Isaiah but now presented afore your eyes is exactly so applyed Rev. 21. v. 24. And the Nations of them that are saved shal walk in the light of it that is the light of the glory of God and the Lamb as it is in the former verse and the Kings of the earth doe bring their glory and honour into it So that in the 11. and 12. verses of this sixtieth of Isaiah as you see it afore is likewise applied to that future glorious state of the Church on earth afore the ultimate judgement Rev. 21. v. 25 26. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day for there shal be no night there And they shal bring the glory and honour of the Nations into it So the 19. v. of this sixtieth of Isaiah is in like manner applyed in Rev. 21. v. 23. And the City had no need of the Sun neither of the MOON TO SHINE IN IT Mark to shine in it intimating that though those Planets continue in being yet there shall be no need of their shining for the glory of God doth lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof The same is to be seen in the application of the 20 v. of this sixtieth of Isaiah in Rev. 21. v. 3 4. Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he wil dwel with them c. and God himselfe shal be with them c. And shal wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shal be no more death neither sorrow nor

in this fourth Chapter doth yet remaine and to the people of God A Sabbatisme signifies a rest upon a seventh most likely as Jude also hints ver 14. in the seventh and last Age of the world and its remaining signifieth it is yet to be fulfilled and to all the people of God that is both Jewes and Gentiles And further to explaine this Sabbatisme the Apostle mindes them that they had injoyed a Sabbatisme every seventh day which was a rest principally upon account of immediatnesse to their bodies though with it a spirituall rest out of which weekly seventh was formed their Pette-Jubile of the seventh yeares rest and their Great Jubile of the seven times seven yeares viz. beginning at the end of the forty ninth yeare and their yet longer rest in Canaan which also was a kinde of Sabbatisme for they divided the Land of Canaan in the * So Bucholcerus in his Ind. Chronolog fiftieth Jubile from the Creation Anno mundi 2500. which was a Jubile of Jubiles and when they returned out of Babylon where they had been seventy yeares it was about the seventieth Jubile from the Creation Now saith the Apostle to the Hebrewes in effect thus You must have a Sabbatisme a Sabatticall rest that must meetly correspond with those former rests of the seventh day and of that in Canaan and of the Sevenths therein enjoyed and so to be a corporall rest and on earth as the others were You have had the seventh dayes rest ever since the Creation as God on the first seventh having finished his Workes rested and you have had your sevenths of rest in Canaan First your seventh yeare then secondly your Jubilean seven-seventh Thirdly your seventieth Jubilean of seven sevens and yet there is another Sabbatisme or Septenary rest still remaining Now what Sabbatisme Septenary or seventh of rest can we finde out beside those aforesaid but the seventh thousand of yeares that is the last thousand yeares of the world before the ultimate generall Judgement This the Rabbins R. Ketina R. David Kimchi R. Schelomo c. assert with one consent grounding themselves upon the Scriptures their words in summe are these As every seventh yeare is a yeare of release so the seventh thousand of yeares of the world is the time of the release of the world according to the ninety second Psalme ver 1. or Title c. A Psalme for the Sabbath Day c. And Psalme 90. ver 4. A thousand yeares in thy sight are but as yesterday And ver 15. Make us glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted us and the yeares wherein we have seene evil And indeed since their desolation destroying their Temple then the City and at last making their daily Sacrifice to cease unto the time of Rabbi David Kimchi Rabbi Mosche Kimchi Rabbi Schimschon Rabbenu Mosche Rabbi Mosche Ben-Tafon R. Meir R. Menahem R. Schem-Toff R. Izhac R. Mordechai Rabbenu Ascher that wrote upon the Talmud Rabbi Aharon Rabbenu Jaaiof and severall others is about a thousand yeares What these Rabbies say of this Sabbatisme see after upon Isa 2. And to settle the Jewes more fully in their expectation of this Sabbatisme the Apostle calls them off from their former Sabbatismes both the lesser of weekes and of the greater in Canaan according to the Prophet Micha chap. 2. ver 10. which was in Hezekiahs time being a time of great prosperity in Canaan Micha 1.1 Arise yee and depart for this is not your rest because marke the reason it is polluted c. which intimates that Micha as well as Paul in their Prophesies looked at the rest that shall be unpolluted as it is said Revel 21. in the new earth shall be no uncleane thing For sutable to the Prophet Micha our Apostle in this fourth to the Hebrewes ver 10. saith That in the great Sabbatisme on earth we shall cease from our worke as God did from his In words it is in the past time but in the intent and meaning it is in future as if he should say When any man hath entred into his rest or shall have entred into his rest Pareus saith the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is in the Aorist put for at least the present but the connexion of the context both before behind is clearly for the future For in ver 9. it is there remaineth yet a rest and in the eleventh verse Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest 1. Lest any man fail of it Now for our owne workes sinnes are most properly our owne workes because saith Pareus they are done by us and not approved of God so that then we Sabbatismum eum agere incipimus quando apeccatis cessamus that is then we doe act this Sabbatisme when we cease from sin which the Prophet well confirmes Isa 58.13 and chap. 65.2 where he calls sins and sinning a doing or finding our OWNE pleasure a doing our OWNE wayes a speaking our OWNE words a watching after our OWNE thoughts For sins are not as bodily labours or afflictions either commanded of God or commended of God or intended for the service and glory of God Now when we shall enter into the rest we speake of in the new earth we cease from these our owne workes of sinning for into that state no uncleane thing shall enter Revel 21. therefore we though Beleevers are not yet entred into Pauls Sabbatisme because we doe not yet totally cease from those our workes 5 ¶ Object But it seemes by the third verse of this fourth Chapter to the Hebrewes that a Spirituall rest is understood in this Chapter and such as into which every Beleever at his first beleeving doth presently enter for saith the Apostle there We which have beleeved doe enter into his rest To this Pareus saith well Answ Nondum ingressi sumus sed ingredimur ut suit versu tertio Par. in 4. ad Heb. ver 10. we have not yet entred into his rest but we doe as ver 3. meaning the future we shall for so immediatly followes the proofe of a rest yet remaining into which all Beleevers shall enter and therefore Theophylact renders it in the future so also the old Latine from whence Learned men conceive that so it was in the ancient Greek Copy according to which that Latine Translation was made and the Arabian Translation is in the future and so is Hutters Hebrew Translation It is true that by faith we presently enter into the rest of Justification of our persons Rom. 5.1 and into the rest of expectation or hope of possession of glory Rom. 5. ver 2. But all this will not serve to take in all the sence of the Apostle in this of Heb. 4.3 because immediatly in that very third verse the Apostle falls upon a proofe of a rest touching which the Hebrewes were not yet satified and setled in their mindes though of ultimate glory they doubted not I say of a rest yet remaining and to them that doe

as often as I can deliver my selfe from the prejudice of singularity and save my labour in doing things well done to my hands I shall here also put learned Mr. Huet and Mr. Mede in the Van and after them to my power I shall bring up the Reare For they have well cleared as I conceive many things and corrected some versions punctations and obscurities of both these chapters which had need enough afore any solid inferences can thence bee safely made As for any thing considerable in the eighth chapter to our matter in hand it may be touched occasionally as we go on with these and other Scriptures § 2 The whole eleventh chapter saith Mr. Huet concerns the state of the Jewes under the three last humane Monarchies viz. the Persian Grecian and Roman The twelfth containes the Jewes deliverance the first mention of the Romans is in the thirtieth verse of the eleventh chaper For the ships of Chittim alias Kittim shall come against him therefore he shall be grieved and returne and have indignation against the holy Covenant so shall he doe he shall returne and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy Covenant Which v. Mr. Huet paraphrastically readeth thus For the Navy of the Romans shall come against him Antiochus Epiphanes alias Epimanes being rather furious then fair for fear of whom he shal be forced to retire from Egypt and by the way shall execute his fury upon the Jewes the refractory Jewes assisting him For saith Mr. Huet in his exposition of this thirtieth verse whereas the Romans aide sent under the conduct of Popilius are called ships of Kittim alias Chittim it is for that originally they came of Kittim who was one of the Sons of Javan Gen. 10.4 from whom not onely some parts of Grecia but all Italy did originally spring Ancient Records declaring how Latinus transported the Citians from the Greekish Islands into Italy The which is the rather probable all antiquity concluding the Italians originally to spring from Graecia And ships of Kittim are here mentioned rather then people of Kittim 1. For that the arrivall of the ships onely in the Haven of Alexandria drove Antiochus from Egypt without any other hostility the Souldiers being never landed 2. For that the history of the Roman greatnesse beginning from these times the Lord would have his people at once discerne the rise and ruin of their last and great oppressor which he doth by citing Balaams unwitting prophesie Numb 24.24 That the SHIPS of KITTIM should afflict ASSUR translating it into a province and also should afflict HEBER the JEWES sacking their City and scattering their people on the face of the earth and yet in the end shall perish for ever the Ancient of dayes casting this fourth Monster into the streames of fire and restoring the dominion to his owne people So that the wise-hearted Jewes might know that when the Romans came against Antiochus the vile that their last oppressor was at the doores who yet should perish for ever But first Antiochus must finish his Scene who is yet in this vision upon the stage of power acting his fury against the Jewes of which a touch in the former verse now followes more in v. 31. And Arms shall stand on his part they shal pollute the sanctuary of strength and shal take away the daily sacrifice and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate Which Mr. Huet thus paraphrastically readeth Wherein that is as afore in executing his fury on the Jews having other power to assist him he shal defile the holy Temple and trample under the strong holds of Sion and shal destroy the Ordinance of Gods daily worship placing in the Temple an abominable Idoll causing desolation where it comes Upon which he comments thus In the which attempts against Jerusalem besides his confederates among the Jewes he had other forreigne Captaines assisting herein who indeed were the speciall actors of these Tragedies as Philippus Andronicus Apollonius 2 Machab. 5.22 23 24. men of insatiable cruelties who having taken the Fort of Sion they fortifyed it against the Jewes and committed miserable massacres without either respect of Sex or age 1 Machab. 1.35 also polluting the Temple First By the blood of Innocents slaine before the Altar Which being a sanctuary of refuge from blood was polluted by the effusion of it 1 Machab. 1. ver 37 39. compare 2 Chron. 23.14 Secondly By their presence in the Temple who were strangers to God and his Religion Acts 21.28 Thirdly By medling with holy things and touching the consecrated places and vessels Fourthly by disannulling the ordinances of Gods daily Worship interdicting the holy Assemblies of the Temple 1 Maccab. 1.45 and commanded the Jewes to sacrifice in every City vers 51. And lastly placing the abominable Idoll Jupiter Olympius in the Temple and his sacrifice on the Altar of the Lord ver 54. called there the abomination of desolation Abomination by a propheticall phrase Jer. 32.34 Idolatry being most abominable to God Jer. 1.13 And of desolation because Idolatry brings desolation upon the good Jewes in grief on their spirits upon the bad that fel to Idolatry in plagues upon the land In these sore desolations and destructions by madde Antiochus a great triall of mens hearts appeared as it followes in verse 32. And such as doe wickedly against the Covenant shall be corrupt by flatteries but the people that doe know their God shall be strong and doe exploits Which Mr. Huet in his way of paraphrase renders thus In which tryals many of the Jewes shall be corrupted by faire speeches to deny their religion but such as are faithfull with God shall gather courage and cleave to their religion Whereof in his Commentary he gives us a briefe account Diverse Jewes saith hee revolted from the faith and joyned with him against their brethren as Menelaus who was guide to Antiochus in robbing the Temple and was more outragious against his Brethren then the very Gentiles themselves 2 Macca 5. ver 15. and ver 23. Jason who entred the City with a thousand Souldiers and made havocke of his Country-men Also Alcimus who contrary to his Oath betrayed his brethren and aided Bacchides 1 Maccab. 7.5.16 besides multitudes of inferiour ranke In the 33. and 34. verses followes the event And they that understand among the people shall instruct many yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame by captivity and by spoile many dayes Now when they shall fall they shall be holpen with a little helpe but many shall cleave to them with flatteries Which paraphrase-wise M.H. renders thus Yea such of them as have the knowledge of the law shall instruct and incourage their brethren in these sufferings yet many of them shal suffer the sword fire bondage and spoile for many daies Yet in this distresse this shall be holpen by the courage of some zealous of religion yet among them many of false and treacherous hearts shall be joyned Which in his

holinesse and the HOUSE OF JACOB shal possess their possessions And the HOUSE OF JACOB shall be a 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 they of the South shall possesse the mount of Esau and they of the plaine the Philistims and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of SAMARIA and Benjamin shall possess Gilead And the Captivity of this Host of the children of ISRAEL shall possess that of the Canaanites even unto Zarephath and the captivity of JERUSALEM which is in Sepharad shall possess the Cities of the South And Saviours shall come upon mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau and the Kingdomes shall be the Lords In which words we have such a character of the future happy state of the Church on earth harmoniously and beautifully wreathed and inter-woven of Jewes and Gentiles converted unto Christ as yet never was but still lies upon the engagement of Gods infallible truth to be fulfilled For on the Gentiles part here expressed under so many names they are not all to be destroyed but possessed with a mixed cohabitation of Jews according to the aforesaid place of Amos with which is our present collation this of Obadiah that there shall bee a REMNANT of Edom and a REMNANT for so the grammer of the word carries it of all the Heathen among whom and by whom the name of God shall be called upon And on the Jewes part both the Kingdome of Judah now as Judah and Benjamin are called 1 King 11.13 and ch 12.20 because of the mixture of their territories as the Geneva notes well give the reason and also the Kingdome of Israel must bee here understood as sharers in the spirituall salvation and outward happinesse here so laboriously inculcated else why doth the Prophet use one while such comprehensions in words as the house of Jacob and that twise and the house of Joseph Another while such distinctions and discriminations in terms as the captivity of the host of the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL and the captivity of JERUSALEM plainly enough setting forth the two Tribes the ten Tribes and generally the learned agree that both are here understood though severally they fix the footing of their interpretations Oecolampadius saith on ver 20. Duplices facit captivitates c. that is the Prophet makes two captivities For he gives to Israel the space towards the North and then he gives to them that were of Jerusalem that is to the Tribe of Judah and Benjamin that tract which is towards Egypt Mercer hath it over and over that in the 19. verse of this Obadiah is touched the State of Judah and in the 20 verse the State of Israel Hierom saith the house of Jacob signifies Judah and the house of Joseph the ten Tribes And Ephraim the son of Joseph out of which Tribe was the Regality of Samaria intimates that the two Kingdoms were to be again coupled or re-united for the devastation of the Edomites that is as t is generally agreed among the learned both Jewes and Christians those that are incorrigible Antichristian enemies of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus And then that which is added in the close as the corenis of this glorious internal and externall salvation of all these to be saved that Saviours in the plurall shall come upon mount Zion to judge the enemies and the Kingdome shall be the Lords is of that strength and torrent that it bears downe afore it all limitations of the meaning to their return from Babylon or the incarnation of THE SAVIOUR CHRIST whose then was the Kingdome in kind no otherwise then it was formerly when he ruled the world by his power and his Church by his Word and Spirit whereas this close THE Kingdome shall be the Lords must intend that it shall be answerable to the description from the seventeenth verse downward viz. a most holy Kingdome and withall a most visible outwardly large and glorious Kingdome and that on earth all corporall incurable Antichristian enemies sensibly falling before it Which is not only my opinion and sence of these words Mercer presents to us Ex Lyr. commenting on this Prophet thus much Odium Esau in Jacob in semine perseveravit c. that is the hatred of Esau against Iacob continued in the very seed therefore the overthrow of them is foretold Isa 21.34 Ier. 49. Ezek. 35. Amos 1. Mal. 1. This Prophet doth excellently handle and is wholly in this That as Christ is the Son of Abraham and of Israel and that after the flesh and therefore all indued with the spirit are his Brethren and belong to the seed of Abraham and of Israel so all false brethren that is ANTICHRISTS and Hypocrites belong to the seed of Esau Unto these agrees and suites whatsoever thou here readest against the Edomites Obadiahs Prophecy is smal in bulk great in sence comprehending many things in a few words He prophesieth in the behalfe of Israel against Edom prophesying the subversion of the Edomites and the GLORY of the true Israel the Church of Christ and that he alone shall reigne He saith that on mount Sion shall be deliverance and salvation which are more perfectly fulfilled according to the letter in the Church collected of all the faithfull then in mount Zion because the state of mount Zion continued but for a time but the Church abides for ever which shall be wee are confident more eminently famous in the very land of Israel when Israel in the LAST TIME SHAL RECEIVE CHRIST And their possessing their possessions or that they shall possess those that possessed them as he renders it shall he saith come to passe with illustrious glory after the LAST CONVERSION OF ISRAEL It is some-how fulfilled daily in the Elect overcoming their enemies with invincible patience But it is to be fulfilled more sublimely and gloriously in the judgement when the wicked shal openly before all be judged of the Elect. In speciall the house of Joseph is named albeit it is contained under the house of Iacob least for their worshipping of Calves and their long captivity it should be deemed as rejected Ioseph and Ephraim of which Tribe was Ieroboam are the ten Tribes whose captivity say the Hebrewes is not yet discharged But as it is said in the end of the Prophet Amos in the LAST TIME ISRAEL SHALL BE CONVERTED There are they which by Esau understand the Gentiles and by Israel the faithfull whom I contradict not There were of the Tribe of Iudah and Benjamin among the Apostles But who of the Tribe of Ephraim and Ioseph were among them is uncertaine But they on whom this Prophesie must be fulfilled must be of all Israel converted and the house of Iacob shall be a fire Who can deny this yet to bee fulfilled hereafter Apparently it shall be fulfilled when the world shall be judged For t is impossible that this should be fulfilled seeing as