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The parable of the ten virgins in its peculiar relation to the coming and glorious kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ opened according to the analogy of the whole parable, and of Scripture in general, and practically applied for exercising all the churches to holy watchfulness ... : with an apology for the hope of the kingdom of Christ appearing within this appriaching year 1697 ... presented to the notice and examination of the arch-bishops and bishops now in Parliament assembled / by T. Beverley.
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Beverley, Thomas.
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Things Moses therefore must be most careful that he did not make Any Thing but according to the Pattern And so Heb. 9. 9. Which was a Figure saith he speaking of the Old Oeconomy and Frame of Things under Moses for the time then present c. Which stood only in Meats and Drinks and such Things until the Time of Reformation They were for the Time present So we Translate But the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greek signifies a Time pressing urging and an Insisting Season and as I may say against the Glory of the Kingdom of Christ And indeed so are All the Times from the very Fall of Adam to the Kingdom of Christ Times that press and crowd against the Kingdom of Christ For if this Time present were but at an End that lies as a Bar and hinderance in the way the Kingdom of Christ would immediately break out As when that Time shall come of which the Angel Rev. 10. sware Time shall be no more when once it comes to that Time shall be no more A better State of Things shall come in The Kingdom of Christ shall immediately come in as soon as God hath removed the present Time the Time now pressing against it The Kingdom of Christ will flow in a main As when the Flood-Gates are drawn up when that which is as the Bar in the way is taken away immediately like a great Torrent the Kingdom of Christ will come in When time shall be no more that is such a time as hitherto hath press'd against that Kingdom tho' in the mean Time It is made Subordinate and leads to it But that is a note rather by the way The Thing that I chiefly intend is that all things in the Old Testament were but Figures and Types of things that were to come I shall therefore give you a Brief Compare For I will be as short in it as posssibly I can You shall find that one Great Branch of the Religion of Moses or the Worship of God in the Old Testament and according to the Law of Moses one great Branch of it was the holding of so many Feasts in a Year to the Lord. The 23d of Leviticus does give us a Description of all those Feasts And I shall as I say in Brief compare them First There was the Feast of every Week which was the Sabbath the Jewish Sabbath the Seventh Day And so the Seventh Year and the Seven Seventh Year that is which made up a Seven of Seven Weeks of Years All this there was observ'd in the Time of the Law There is that which we now call the Lords Day It was then the Seventh Day of the Week the Jewish Sabbath That was a Weekly Revolution and then every Seventh Year was a Sabbatical Year And then after Seven Sevens of Years there was the Jubilee every Fiftieth Year Now all this was a Figure of that Great Sabbatism that remains to the People of God So the Seventh both Day and Year and the Seventh of Seven Years the Seventh of Seven Weeks or Weeks of Years that is after every Forty nine Years which is Seven Sevens you know the Fiftieth Year was a Year of Jubilee and Holy to the Lord A Feast of Jubilee of Great Freedom of Great Redemption of Great setting free both the Persons and Estates of Men and all was to represent what the Apostle speaks of Heb. 4. 9. There remaineth c. He went through all kind of Rests that were under the Law and ver 9. Yet beyond all There remaineth a Sabbatism a Great Sabbatising to the People of God So that this is the Great Sabbatism that shall be held to God It shall be in these Thousand Years That 's the State of perfect Sabbatism wherein Persons shall not speak their own Words think their own Thoughts nor do their own Actions but shall be the Servants of God and of Christ with His Name upon their Foreheads Consider therefore this Expression of the Apostle ver 9. indeed we Translate it which is Great Pity that it should be so Disadvantageously Translated There remains a Rest so we say But the Margin being sensible as it were that They did wrong in calling it only a Rest gives the Higher Style of keeping a Sabbath not only such a Sabbath as the Jews kept nor such a Sabbath as Christians keep but beyond all this there Remains the Blessed Festival of a Sabbath in which we shall be free from all the Cumber both of Worldly Business and also of Corruption and Misery and Unhappiness This shall be the Great Sabbatism of the Great Nuptials of Jesus Christ the Great Nuptials of the Lamb. 2. In the second place There was the Great Feast of Passeover which was upon the Deliverance from the Bondage of Egypt I will not spend any time to particularize it you shall find there was the Feast of Passeover of which we read abundantly in Exod. 12. And after the Passeover was slain there was the Offering of the first fruits I 'll give you a Brief Account of all according to the New Testament There is to be the Highest Passeover of that Festival that is A full Table of the Redemption of Jesus Christ A feasting on the Pascal Lamb the Redemption of our Lord Jesus Christ For Christ our Passeover is sacrificed for us as the Apostle speaks And in the Evangelist when Christ had ordain'd the Supper of the Lord even after the ordaining of it This Passeover shall be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God As he said of that Fruit of the Vine He would drink it new with them in the Kingdom of the Father So he saith in the Evangelist Luke This Passeover shall be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God That is When we shall have the full Enjoyment of Jesus Christ in his Redemption For then the Paschal Lamb shall be set out to us in the Fullness of its Effect in the Fullness and Greatness of His Redemption As He gave Himself a Lamb without Spot Sacrificed to God for us That is the Great Sense of our Saviour in those Words This Passeover shall be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God 3. Thirdly For the Feast of the First Fruits You know In two Regards we may say That it is a Feast of the first Fruits or the Sheaf offered both in regard of Christ and also in regard of our selves In regard of Christ It is said in the 1 Cor. 15. 23. Christ the First Fruits and they that are Christ's at his Coming Every Man in his own Order Christ the First Fruits and they that are Christ's at his Coming Then shall that Blessed First Fruits Jesus Christ the First-born of every Creature The First Begotten from the Dead He shall come forth in Glory of His Kingdom and in the Glory of His Appearance It is a Feast of the First Fruits because then Christ who is the first Fruits comes forth in all His Glory and in all His Blessedness And that it is the Feast
hear the Prayers of his Servants and bring all these things to their great Issue But now our Lord Jesus Christ hath given us an Account of this Luk. 18. 7 8. And shall not God avenge his own Elect which cry Day and Night unto him tho he bear long with them I tell you that he will avenge them speedily Nevertheless when the Son of Man cometh shall he find Faith on the Earth He will avenge them speedily tho he tarry long You may think those things Contradict one another To tarry long and yet to avenge them speedily Yet he will come and he will avenge As it was said concerning the Souls under the Altar Stay till the rest of your Brethren are filled up And then there shall be Vengeance indeed to the Enemy and a Recompence to his Servants And yet how little Faith concerning this even among the Servants of God! The last thing why you may think it very strange is this Because the Apostle said so long ago The Ends of the World were come I confess it may seem to give an Atheist some hold some advantage You know how many places of Scripture speak to this purpose 1 Cor. 10. 12. Saith the Apostle All these things happened unto them for Ensamples And they are Written for our Admonition upon whom the Ends of the World are come And saith the Apostle John This is the Last time and hereby we know it this is the last hour And these are the last Days All this is spoken and yet for all this the Kingdom of Christ hath not come And Sixteen Hundred Years and more are passed since these things have been spoken Now Indeed these things look very strange and might make Men think that there is no such thing as the Coming of Christ For tho the Apostles Preached it and they may say indeed Men that are Preachers may perswade Men so And indeed they say so But we see nothing coming to pass Did not the Apostle John speak of the last Day the last Hour and the last Time And the Apostle Peter of the very last of Times As the word is very Emphatical in the Greek And yet for all that it is not come To all this I would onely say these two things Or rather give you two places of Scripture how these things come to pass In the 2 Thes ch 2. v. 3. The Apostle tells us plainly there was such a Noise as I may so express it of the Doctrine of the Apostles concerning the last Times That all Christians then were upon the Expectation were upon the Gaze when that Coming of Christ should be Now saith the Apostle Let no Man deceive you by any means For that day shall not come except there come a falling away first Except there be an Apostacy in the Christian Church first That Day shall not come And therefore don't wonder tho it be called the last Time in regard of the Fullness of Time and Christ coming at it and because of the last of the four Monarchies Yet it is not so the last Time but that it must give Room to an Apostacy to come upon it And so in the Revelation as I have often spoken to you Chap. 11. And in the 12th and 13th Chapters There are to be Time Times and Half a Time A Thousand two Hundred and Sixty Days Fourty and two Months All which as I have said often to you make up Twelve Hundred and Sixty Years between the Preaching of the Gospel the Christian Empire and the coming of Jesus Christ And so I have spoken of the first thing why there may arise such thoughts upon this that the Kingdom of Christ is not come yet to this very Day I come now to the Second thing to give you very Great Reasons besides what I have intimated already to you Why Christ hath not yet come 1. The First Account I would give is That so very Agreeable Representation of the Time of the Duration of the Creation and of the Kingdom of Christ in Compare with it The Apostle Peter hath Given in his Second Epistle c. 3. 8. when he was speaking of the Coming of Christ and of the Long Delay of it at which Atheists took Advantage and Antichristian Scoffers to play upon it Saying Where is the Promise of his Coming The Apostle Resolves the Objection by pressing Earnestly on Christians not to be Ignorant of One Thing or not to let it lie Hid from them Viz. That One Day is with the Lord as a Thousand Years Referring to Each Day of the Creation Designed by God as a Type of a Thousand Years Duration of the Creation They being then Six before the Seventh then Sanctified and Blessed by God as a SABBATH the Type of the Grand Sabbath They pourtray Six Thousand Years Duration of the Creation before the Great Sabbatism of the Kingdom of Christ And that being Given under the Representation of a Thousand Years Revel 20. Yet those Thousand Years are in the Designation of God That One Day of the Lord That Illustrious Day That Day of Judgment The Great Day The Day if then Jesus Christ comes in the End of the Fourth Millenary or Thousand of Years as in the Fullness of Time And God hath Laid out Six Thousand for the Duration of the World until that Thousand Years Except what Shortning shall be for the Elects Sake in the End of the Sixth Millenary as the Fullness of Times or of All Time It is very Evident The Coming of the Bridegroom after His Death and Resurrection must be under the Delay of about Two Thousand Years as have now Already so near Run out Argum. 2. If there be such a Number of the Elect to be brought Home to God and to Christ And that They have lain scattered through these near Two Thousand Years and must be brought in before the Kingdom of Christ Then the Kingdom of Christ cannot be till they are Brought in But so the Apostle shews Heb. 4. 4 5 6 7 c. Some must Enter into Rest to the Last And of this the Apostle Peter speaks in the same Discourse as a Further Resolution of the Scoffers Question Where is the Promise of His Coming The Lord is not Slack concerning his Promise as some Men count Slackness but is Long-Suffering to us-ward Not willing that Any should perish but that All should come to Repentance Verse 9. That This hath in some General Latitude a Respect to All Men I would not Deny but that is the Lowest and Least Part of its Intention For so it hath not its Efficacy nor its Effect but take it with Relation to the Elect of God And so it hath Full Effect Not One Perishes but Every Single One comes to Repentance If therefore there is such a Number of Elect to be Brought Home to Repentance who shall have their Lot in the Kingdom of Christ at his Coming His Coming then must needs be Delayed till All the Children of the Bride-Chamber be Brought