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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25221	The beloved city, or, The saints reign on earth a thovsand yeares asserted and illustrated from LXV places of Holy Scripture, besides the judgement of holy learned men both at home and abroad, and also reason it selfe : likewise XXXV objections against this truth are here answered / written in Latine by Ioan Henr. Alstedius ... ; faithfully Englished, with some occasionall notes and the judgement herein ... of some of our owne famous divines.; Diatribe de mille annis apocalyptis. English	Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638.; Burton, William, 1575-1645.	1643 (1643)	Wing A2924; ESTC R19975	88,201	114

THE BELOVED CITY OR THE SAINTS REIGN ON EARTH A THOVSAND YEARES Asserted and Illustrated from LXV places of Holy Scripture Besides the judgement of Holy Learned men both at home and abroad and also Reason it selfe Likewise XXXV Objections against this Truth are here answered Written in Latine by Ioan. Henr. Alstedius Professor of the University of Herborne Faithfully Englished With some occasionall Notes And the Judgement herein not onely of Tycho Brabe and Carol ●●●●ltus but also of some of our owne famous Divines Si aqua strangulat quid insuper bibendum est M. Antonin. Imp. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Lib. 4. Sect. 17. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Could he say of Athens Thou louely City of Cec●ops And shalt not thou say of the CHVRCH OF CHRIST Thou Lovely City of GOD Apoc. xx 9. LONDON Printed in the yeare of the last expectation of the SAINTS M.DC.XLIII To the Right VVorshipfull Sir Iohn Cordwell Knight and Alderman Master of the Company of the Mercers Mr. Lybbe Chapman Surveyor Captaine Thomas Chambrelan Mr. George Burrish Wardens And to the Worshipfull the Assistants and Communalty of the same Antient and flourishing Society of MERCERS in the Famous City of London RIGHT WORSHIPFVL MY ordinary employment being of late for some time interrupted and the usuall course of my studies not so much diverted as quite stopt by the late generall and miserable distractions of the Kingdome and especially of the place I live in I bethought my selfe of some meanes whereby I might mitigate my apprehension of the miseries issuing from these present distempers When I thinke God so directing it this Treatise with some others of the same nature came to my hands The Author is of as generall repute among us for learning as any late Writer we have received from beyond the Seas these many yeares and the Worke is an Explanation of the xx Chapter of the Revelation The Subject thereof is The assertion of the Glorious Kingdome of Christ here on earth a matter no doubt of great comfort and consolation to the Church of God And as I am not ignorant that Apocalypticall Discourses in generall are liable to many censures and that this Divine Prophecy it selfe is as yet a sealed book in so much that the great Calvin was forced to acknowledge if the reportes wrong him not that he knew not what so difficult and obscure a Writer as the Author thereof meant so I am sure this part thereof hath beene subject to most divers and contrary interpretations that what Hierome saith of the whole may well be said of this passage thereof So many words so many mysteries Yet receiving my selfe much satisfaction and se●lednesse of mind from this exposition thereof I thought that Gods people also might reape some benefit and fruit thereby And this is the maine cause that I have made it publique Now that I have inscribed it onto Your Names I have deal● but right and 〈◊〉 therein For owing the first groundes and foundation of my studies to Your large bounty and benevolence I must acknowledge the first fruites thereof communicated abroad and indeed I ever intended them so whatsoever they had been to be Yours by ● due claime and challenge of them The Persians in whose Schooles gratitude was taught as Letters and Arts in ours whose * Laws punished the contrary almost as deepe as wee doe Homicide had an Order in their * Colledges which were for the education of them whose service was appointed for the King that after their greatest promotions and abilities in publick attendance they were to acknowledge all as received from the Classis of their first institution My naturall propension to thankfulnesse makes me confesse I owe all that I am in good letters I best know how little that is to the foundation I laid thereof in Your excellent Seminary of learning and to your extraordinary favour and encouragement to good studies and endeavours I pray God lead You alwaies along by the hand in all Your affaires and occasions I am Your very respectfull servant to be commanded William Burton To those who shall light upon this Booke TO prefix a word or two by way of preface may concerne thee Reader perhaps as well as my selfe That I might not therefore be censured for the onely idle person in these busie times in which GOD in Mercy looke upon us every man either with his Sword or Pen strives to make the noise and tumult greater I have thrust out this booke into the publique in the generall crowd of those many but with expectation of a better blessing I hope from God then some of them can looke for And although I am not ignorant that there are a generation of men in the world 〈…〉 alabaster ●●guent is plenns putere videtur a 〈…〉 having t●eir understanding corrupted by their fancy can relish and judge aright of nothing yet so arrogant and self-conceited that they 〈…〉 exterminate all learning and kno 〈…〉 ●●●eth not just with their owne 〈…〉 humours with farre more super 〈…〉 Plato ejected Homer out of his Common-wealth Sed quid suibus cum amaracino They love the mi●e best Notwithstanding all this I say the generall welcome and long entertainment which the other learned workes of this same Authour have had in our Schooles as well as in those beyond the Seas where he professed with admirable applause seemed to me not to deny this piece an endenizing or freedome from some hands of a better note Yet perhaps if thou hadst any acquaintance with me thou wouldst wonder to see a subject of this nature to come forth into the light of learned men by my meanes and assistance True it is I have under my command some Discourses I will not say of greater consequence but I dare say that cost me greater labour and longer enquiry to which these times doe deny a propitious birth And having lost almost my employment for the time through the present distractions and my bookes and I being in a manner quite severed from one another I thought I could doe nothing better by way of l●ffning my apprehension of these publique calamities which Gods justice and our owne unthankfulnesse by repining at his Mercies have brought upon us I had no intent hereby to impose upon any one or abuse mens beliefe by forcing their assent to an Heresie condemned in the Church as some would perswade us so many ages agoe Yet I know well enough that nothing pleaseth the fancy and feedeth the humour of this age so much as novelties men no lesse inquiring now after new Doctrines and opinions then of old the Athenians did after new Deities {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} must I say to these I took not this paines for them Neither indeed do I my selfe goe about to assert or maintaine any un-grounded Doctrine knowing well that opinion that Holy Disease how great soever her admires and a betters are