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A86120	Christs kingdome on earth, opened according to the scriptures. Herein is examined, what Mr. Th. Brightman, D. J. Alstede, Mr. I. Mede, Mr. H. Archer, The glympse of Sions glory, and such as concurre in opinion with them, hold concerning the thousand years of the saints reign with Christ, and of Satans binding: herein also their arguments are answered. Imprimatur; Ia. Cranford. Feb. 12. 1644.	Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing H1217; Thomason E278_1; ESTC R200009	77,855	95

Dan. 11. Who battered one another untill they bad no more strength then the two lea● of the image part of iron part of clay Dan. 2.41 42. But so dull is man of understanding that in these Kingdomes earthly sple●dor and glory obvious to the eye is admired and Cyrus and Alexanders great prowesse highly extold but Gods indulging and advancing their Empires though very discernible by an attentive and heedfull minde is passed over and unregarded But in this very case God hath not left himself without witnesse but tels us both how Josuab was famous through the World for his victories Josh. 6.27 The Heathen people could mark that And tels how also it was God who sought for Israel Iosh. 10.42 This many could not so well observe Scripture also declares how Babel the glory of Kingdomes doth fall by the Medes Es. 13 17. and how also it was the hand of God that overthrew the might of that Kingdome Esa. 14.22 Suppose the world negligent to observe Gods power and goodnesse in these and the like passages can it possibly be so blind so regardlesse when the Sonne of God was incarnate come to undoe the works of the Devill shewed his power by many miracles and wrought mans salvation and divulged the same to all people VVee must needs see what is so often iterated that then the Kingdome of God was at band yea was come to the people then living and that whosoever submitted thereunto was a subject of that Kingdome 'T is true that Satan in those times brag'd that all the Kingdomer in the World were his owne and it is evident that hee had long domineered among the Heathen and usurped power over the Jews and vassalled them in great part to his pleasure Yet by Christs casting out Devils out of many persons possessed by his conquest over Satan at his death by his giving his Disciples power to tread on Serpents and Scorpions and power over the enemy it clearely appeares that the kingdome power and glory as the Church confesses Rev. 4. 5. is truly his and that hee is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev 19.16 The wise men were by God directed to esteem Christ a King though found in a manger Pilate adjudging to death the Lord of life yet resolutely gave him his due stile and Christ himselfe denyed not but witnessed the truth that hee was a King and born so to be Iob. 18.37 This Kingdome Christ began to expresse and make known while hee lived here on earth VVe can not but confesse it when wee consider that hee commanded windes waves diseases devils that hee conquered death and aseended to his Throne in heaven and yet hath his Throne of power in his Church Apoc. 5.6 and hath been is and will bee with the Apostles and their Successors alwayes even to the end of the world Mat. 28.20 Hee is said Apoc. 6. To bee crowned as a King and on a white horse to ride forth conquering and to conquer And therefore the great and famous Kingdome of Christ that mentioned in Dan. 2.44 Dan. 7.13 Psal. 2. hath already long since begun now is and ever will continue and is not as most Jews and some Christians too sarre herein consenting to that deceived Nation affirm hereafter to take its beginning much lesse is it to bee a Kingdome of a thousand years continuance and no more That Christs Kingdom is long since begun thus I punctually prove by these Arguments Argument 1. The destruction of Jerusalem and its Sanctuary was acted a thousand and some hundred yeares agon about the yeare of Christ 73. But Jesus Christ was to bee the Messias or annointed Prince before the desir●ction of Jerusalem and its Sanctuary Dan. 9.25 26. Therefore Jesus Christ was the Messias or annointed Prince a thousand and some hundreth yeares agon And is not now to begin that Kingdome Argum. 2. Princes upon or presently after their being declared to be annointed Princes begin their Kingdome Scripture and common experience confirm this But it was declared that Jesus Christ was the Messias the annointed Prince before the end of the seventy weeks Dan. 9.24 25 26. which no Expositor extends further then the destruction of Jerusalem and that was one thousand five hundred yeares agon Therefore Jesus Christ began his Kingdome before the end of the seventy weeks one thousand five hundred yeares agon and is not now to begin it Argum. 3. No good and lawfull King sends out his commands and requires them to bee obeyed before hee hath begun his Kingdome But Christ sent out his commands and required obedience to them at his being here upon Earth one thousand five hundred yeares agon Mat. 28.20 Therefore his Kingdome then began and is not hereafter to begin Chap. II. The chiefe and common Argument produced against my Tenent answered and confuted AGainst the Tenent above confirmed this Objection is commonly made Christ comes not to that his Kingdome in Daniel untill the fourth Kingdome in that propbesie bee destroyed Dan. 7.11 13.14 27. But the fourth Kingdome in Daniel is that of the Romans which is yet in being Therefore that Kingdome of Christ is not yet begun Answ. In speech of foure great Kingdomes without reference to Daniels prophe●ie the Babylonian Kingdome is the first the Medes and Persians make the second the Grecians is the third and the Romans is rightly counted the fourth But if question bee about the foure great Kingdomes in Daniel Alexander the Great and his foure chiefe Captaines who after his death were made Kings of severall Nations and were more famous then the rest are the third Kingdome in Daniel Afterward Sele●cus Nicator King of Syri● and Ptolomie Lagides King of Egypt and their posterity became potent for a long time above all other Kings They being two and endeavouring by marriage to agree in one and by their frequent dissentions much molesting the Jews whose Country did lie between Syria and Egypt make the fourth Kingdome in Daniel expressed by the two legs of iron with feet part of iron part of clay and by the fourth beast Dan. 7. which was more savage and cruell to the Jews then the three former Kingdomes That the Kings of Syria and Egypt are the fourth Kingdome in Daniel is averred and su●hciently proved by these learned skilfull and most diligent searchers into the sacred Text Namely Fr. Junius Im. Tremelius H. Broughton Robert Rollocke Am. Polanus And. Willet Is Genius Joh. Borelius Joh. Scharpius Joh. Woolebius Mr. Diodate and some others That their judgement is sound and good and that the Romans bee not the fourth Kingdome in Daniel I thus prove Argument 1. The fourth Kingdome in Daniel was to be destroyed before God gave Christ the great and most eminent and everlasting Kingdome and Dominion Dan. 7.11 13 14 27. But the Romane Kingdome was not destroyed before God gave Christ the great most eminent and everlasting Kingdome and Dominion mentioned Dan. 7. For Christ had all power in Heaven

Christ is the chief men are his members and partake with him their head in both Sometimes the frame of the like expressions is different As thus Cornelius beleeved with his whole house Act. 10.2 even here Cornelius is the chief so had hee been had it been said The whole houshold beleeved with him And what can there bee more in this speech Wee work together with Christ 1 Cor. 3.4 then in this Christ works together with us Mar. 16.2 Christ is the chief in both Let us not gull our selves with niceties and wrest that from Texts which was never intended Wee suffer wee co-worke with Christ and both these wee doe on earth but may not hence conclude that Christ comes down to us personally and visibly for that purpose So neither can wee conclude Christs visible and personall presense on earth because it is said that we on Earth shall reign with him Dr. Alstede who hath laboured most earnestly in his proofs about this point of the thousand years never makes any conclusion for Christs visible and personall comming down again to earth Hee was a better Logician then to conceit that such an inference could bee wrought from these words Apoc. 20. The Glimps is unresolved pag. 13. Mr. Cotton denies it p. 4. Mr. Mede most modestly and ingenuously as in his other writings so in his Comment on the Apocalyps lashes not out so far but keeps to generall termes Onely Mr. Archer is bold as to wrest some other Scriptures so here and to make Christ visibly come from and return to Heaven according to his fancy rather then any text well understood Repl. Bee it so that Dr. Alstede sayes not that Christ shall visibly and personally reign on earth as Mr. Archer doth yet bee asserts the resurrection of the Martyrs who are to reign with Christ to bee demonstrated {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as clear Apoc. 20.4 as if our eyes saw it p. 8. But the Martyrs are not yet risen from their graves therefore the Saints and Christs eminent Kingdom is not yet past The speech cannot bee of the Martyrs rising from sin but from their graves For 't is mentioned after speech of their beheading Therefore it cannot be meant of a rising from sin in this life Answ. 1. Let it bee observed that the Thrones were set Apoc. 20. and 1. That wee mostly agree in this that the Apostles and other godly persons are those that sit on the Thrones 2. It is also confessed that these were beheaded or otherwise killed for their testimony to the Gospel both these were fulfilled in the Apostles and other the Saints life time So say I was also their Judging the world by Gods word preached as the word preached by Christ judged it Joh 12.28 Moreover secondly it follows not that because their deaths and martyrdoms were spoken of first Rev. 20.4 that the speech afterward of their rising again must be meant of their rising from death and from the grave and not from sin For after speech of their martyrdom it is said of them that they worshipped not the Beast nor his image nor received his mark as advancers of the Beasts kingdom with reference to their life time but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is here so to bee rendred lived and reigned with Christ that is as advancers of his kingdom and partakers thereof and that in their life times also Mark the context well and of this there will bee no doubt Mr. Cotton pag. 20 l. pen grants that even now there is a resurrection of many pretious souls and that they reign with Christ in their hearts and families as much as in them lies So the Apostles and all good Christians rose from the death of sin as Christ from the grave Col. 3.1 and on earth sought things above and in Heaven where Christ is they lived with Christ as Henoch walked with God Gen. 5.22 they reigned in this life through and with lesus Christ from whom they received abundance of grace Rom. 5.17 And thirdly I answer that this reigning with Christ is an expression like others denoting the excellent priviledges of Christians and the great honours which Christ confers on them As namely Christ treads Satan under his feet true Christians also tread on him Rom. 16.20 Christ rules the Nations with a rod of iron Christians also doe the same Rev. 2.27 Out of Christs mouth went at we edged sword Rev. 1.16 The word of God in the Ministers mouth is a two edged sword Heb. 4.12 Christ treads on the aspe the lion and dragon Psal. 91.13 Christs Apostles tread on serpents and scorpions and nothing shall hurt them Luke 10.14 Christ inherits the earth Psalm 2.8 So doe good Christians Mat. 5.5 Psalm 37.9.11 Esa. 60.21 As Christ hath a kingdom here on earth Psalm 2.6 Rev 19.16 So the Saints are made Kings unto God not Kings over men as David and shall reign on the Earth Rev. 5.10 Thus as is the heavenly man such are they that are heavenly 1 Cor. 15.48 49. True Christians are the body of Christ hee is their head 1 Cor. 12.27 Col 1.18 As they partake of sufferings like his so they have their share of honours which Christ enjoyes of his fulnesse they receive in their measure as by the particulars here mentioned and some other the like doth clearly appear The speech of reigning with Christ may not bee stretched further Repl. Sitting on Thrones and having judgment given to the Saints imports a far other matter then you conceive Beleevers shall rule the world as Kings and discipline mens soules as Priests Christ will depute the Saints Governours upon Earth Arch. p. 23. The wicked shall bee ruled with a rod of iron and bee Tributaries to the Saints as the Gibeonites to the Israelites Arch p 22. The first part of Christs kingdom shall bee ruled by them For they shall sit on Thrones c. Mat. 19.28 At last Christ will bee visibly on the Throne and constantly there sit and judg Id. 23. p. Answ. Nothing here spoken doth prove the Saints to bee Kings in any other manner then I have above declared They who continued with Christ in his tentations that is were tryed by as●lictions as hee was they that followed him in the regeneration that is rose from sin as hee from death sit upon twelve Thrones and judg the twelve Tribes of Israel as the Presbyters Rev. 4.4 sit upon Thrones and preach the Gospel to the twelve Tribes as Peter a Presbyter 1 Pet. 5.1 did And to them Christ appoints a Kingdom as his Father appointed to him that as they partake of the benefits of his kingdom so doe all the Saints converted by their and their successors sermons Mat. 19.28 Luke 22.28 29. Rev. 5.9 10. And secondly concerning the Saints judging others wee know that it belongs to the office of a judg to bind or to loose to acquit or condemn which power that the Apostles might exercise Christ gave them the keyes

diver● others are many things objected But the Sun retaines its light how many clouds soever bee interposed Wee will punctually examine any thing that is worthy of Answen Object If Christ had about the time of his Ascension● so absolute a Soveraignty at is affirmed how is it ●that many Nations in those times many afterwards many at this very day have not or doe not yet yeeld obedience to him Many Tyrans many Hereticks have risen up against his Dominion and Laws Answ. Those were no impeachment to Christs absolute Soverdig●ty The wickednesse of Sons takes not away the fatherhood and authority of Parents that is over them nor doth a debauched Servants ill carriage argue his exemption from the Mastership he is subject unto David was and continued King though 〈…〉 and Sauls house though Absalon his own Son●e though Shebah a Benjamite and many of Israel rose up against and submi●ted 〈…〉 his Scepter So Christ sits an absolute King on his Throne bee the people of the world never so unquiet erroneous rebellious Hee rides on a crowned King conquering his enemies more then ever David did and still to conquer Rev. 6.2 And If any escape their due deserved punishment in this life they must appeare at the great day of accounts hereafter and shall then smart for all their miscarriages Object Judge wee of Christs Kingdome by what wee finde in sacred writ and otherwise concerning him When he●came into the world Hee was a man of sorrow hee was in the forme of a Servant rather a worm then a man had no beauty in him that bee should bee desired In all this what Royalty What sign of Majesty Glimps 11. Answ. VVee are not to judge of matters according to their outward appearance or mens est●em but according to their true worth and excellency Christ it his incarnation humility but whatsoever hee then appeared hee was indeed the fairest of ten thousand Cant. 5.10 Fairer then the Children of men Psal. 45.2 and was God and man and exalted by his Father above every name that is named Object Hee had a Reed put into his hand in stead of a Scepter was bowed to in scorue his Lordship and Dominion was much darkned and appeared not to the world his Crown and dignity were hid in a monnet b●e was little knowne by the Name of God Omnipotent ●or shewed himself● to bee Lord of Lords and King of Kings Glimps p. 9. Answ. 1. If Christ was abused and scorned the greater was the peoples sinne and his patience the more eminent The more indignity hee su●ed the greater did his love appeare to wards us and his merit more prevaile for us Such an Objection as this might of old have been expected out of the mouth of a Pharisee or now from an unhappy Son of the Sy●agogue A child of wisdome cannot but know that Christ by his by his 〈◊〉 curing ●ll disedses by bpening the eyes of the blind so born by giving hearing to the deas by raising the dead by rising himself from death notwithstanding Satans and wicked wretches malice against him shewed himselfe to bee the Sonne of God to bee God equil● and one with the Father and to have a power above all ●ings and Potentates that ever ruled My works saith he testif●e of mea Object No● onely himselfe but his Disciples and Followers also were injured and mu●thered by the bloody minded Jewish Rulers and Rem●n Dop●ties yea● his Subjects were but a company of poore distressed forlorne people wandring up and down destitute of all comforts Glimps p. 9. Answ. If Christ himself suffered a shamefull death surely hee had done all things well and deserved it not but hee came into the world to die for us and for our redemption hee died and overcame death and all adverse power If his Apostler their successours and mu●titudes of Christians were injured and persecuted by the authority of Heathen Emperours and many of them put to death and savagely butchered yet dying for and in the Lord and in a good cause they were so sary● from being for●orne or miserable that they are pro●onced blessed and happy Mat. 5. Rev. 14. Christ by dying for them 〈…〉 of death So that their deaths were comfortable to themselves and advantageous to the Gospel and Christs Kingdome thereby was more and more propagated They were of that number which overcame the Devill and his instruments by the bloud of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and that loved 〈◊〉 their lives unto the death Rev. 12.11 Object Christ hath not yet ruled as earthly Monarchs did universally over the known and esteemed World nor hath be had Soveraignty over all the Earth in a visible and worldly manner for splendor riches peace c. whatsoever is not sinfull Hee hath not subdued all the neighbouring Nations as David had done The fa● on earth Psal. 22.29 that is great men for outward estate bowed not unto him Archer if the booke bee his p. 3.6 Answ. If Christ did not rule as the Earthly Monarchs for visible splendour glory c. the reason is easily given Solomon who excelled in abundance of all outward and royall accoutrements found all to bee but vanity of vanity and vexation of spirit If the wise●t of all Kings esteemed them so upon his owne just triall and experience much more did Christ know their worthlesnesse and emptinesse His Kingdom served to furnish his Subjects with matters an hundred fold better in this life and in the world to come with endlesse happinesse VVhereas all that those earthly Monarchs possessed was but as the beauty of a lilly which soon fades and on the morrow is cast into the Oven Nor did Christ intend to conquer the world by force of Armes but in a more heavenly peaceable and glorious a manner Hee as a Learned man well saith sent forth his Apostles who though they were but a few mean men yet were they more victorious then the greatest Alexander and potent Caesars and conquered by the word of their testimony many opposite Kingdomes subdued many thousand spirits and consciences and that in a short time without shedding one drop of blood Secondly Though not many noble rich wise yet some of al these sorts were converted in the Primitive times as namely Joseph of Ar●mat●ea an honourable Counsellor some Saints in the tyrans Nero's house the Aethiopian Queens Chamberlaine such as came out of all Nations at Penteoost Acts 2. for mean men use not to be farre Travellers the generous Bereans and seing these became followers of Christ so doubtlesse did many others For Isaiah speakes often of Kings whose example draws a train of the best sort after them overcome by the brightnesse of the Gospel Besides the fat on earth men like the plants of God flourishing with the fatnesse of Gods grace Psal. 92.14 fed with the marrow and fatnesse of the Gospel Esa. 25.6 became members of Christs Kingdom Object At Christs possessing his Kingdome suppose it to bee about

was in Gods place and his Deputy to direct Aaron and the Israelites and David who was Gods shepheard to govern and feed the Jews did {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} perform the best service they could for the bringing the people in those times of the world under them to a more blessed estate in another world Replicat But when the people would have made Christ a King hee did not assent thereunto but went from among them Joh. 9. Answ. The people there out of a sudden apprehension of Christs power who miraculously fed many thousands with five barly loaves and two fishes were not fit instruments nor had a calling to fit them for conferring on Christ so great a dignity Scinditur incertum studia in contrariavulgus is a true and cleare verdict upon them as the schism Joh. 10.19 plainly shews they which to-day would make Christ a King will to morrow depose him if not they some others in a like but contrary heat upon some sleight distaste will doe it Their Hosanna one day their Crucifige soon after shew the mutability of their fancy Secondly had Christ accepted of the kingdom at these few Jews instance this might have been an occasion of a grievous combustion in that seditious and discontented people because the chief Rulers of the Jews consented not thereunto and had much people blindly led by them If the chiefe builders refused the head corner stone and said Wee will not have this man rule over us and further conspired saying Come this is the heire let us kill him Christ who well knew Gods law for the government of that people would not bee made King unlesse hee was orderly called thereunto by the chief Elders and Rulers of their Tribes Thirdly Christ did not deny or publikely gainsay his being made a King but perceiving their intention to take him and make him a king hee withdrew himself and thereby both avoided civill dissention to which that people were too too prone and continued also his humble course of life that as a Lamb hee might come to the slaughter and die for us Hee well knew the time appointed for his humiliation and waited his Fathers good pleasure for his exaltation Fourthly when hee was set as a king upon the holy hill of Sion his purpose was to propagate his kingdom by other courses then suited with these peoples plots and devises Their thoughts and wayes were not Christs thoughts and wayes For his mind was to demonstrate his glorious might and Sovereignty and his Infinite and all-seeing wisdome by means in the worlds eye and humane esteem most unlikely This in his good time he accordingly peformed Object The Saints are said Apoc. 20 to raign with Christ a thouand yeeres this is not yet fulfilled Therefore there shall be hereafter a thousand yeeres of Christs raign in which the Saints shall raign with him on earth For their raign with him in Heaven is everlasting Answ. Obsrve well that 't is no where said that Christs raign on kingdom is of a thousand yeares continuance His kingdom foretold Dan. 7.14 begun long since and continues for ever hee neyer reversed his command of teaching all Nations Ever since that edict people of all Nations and languages have been called to Christianity shewed their faith by their practise and sealed their Testimony such as have been called thereunto by their deaths Secondly for the space of a thousand years after Christs time many were called in severall Nrtions and in every part of that thousand yeeres many lived and raigned with Christ and the true doctrine of the Gospel was held in some good measure untill neare the end of the thousand yeeres at which time there was a declining Mr. Fox Mart. Pres. pag. 5. Then matters grew worse and worse Fox p. 215 vol. 1. Sylvester a Sorcerer about that time held the Popes Chair And Hildebrand soon after appeared to rule not by Gods but by Satans spirit Id. pag. 237. So that soon after these wicked beginnings error and superstition spread very much in the Churches proceedings Quest When then did the thousand years of the Saints raigning with Christ end Tell us the time punctually Answ. As wee cannot design the very year and day of the beginning of Christs famous kingdom Gods setting him up King upon the hill of Sion nor doe wee hold it necessary but onely in generall aver with Scripture that it was begun in Christs life time on Earth So for the end of the thousand yeares of the Saints raigning with Christ wee will not point out the very yeare and day ● but wee say that about a thousand yeers after Christs time Satan being loosed did with the full height of his malice infuse into the Pope and his instruments Pride error and other impieties insomuch that by the Popes power and craft conjoyned the Nations in al the kingdoms of this western part of the world in great measure yeelded to the Popes supreme authority over all Kings to his pretended infallible determinations to many superstitious observances and were led blind fold into a multitude of false and currunt doctrines In this grand Apostasie Christ had faith full servants who saw Romes declining from truth and growth to an height of wickednesse These as the rest of the Saints formerly continued to inhabit the holy City the new Jerusalem though they were assaulted with bloudy and most violent persecution and were extremely oppressed and tyrannized over untill Luthers time Object The Saints are said to reign with Christ the thousand yeares in which Satan is bound Rev. 20. Their reigning with Christ imports more then when it is said that Christ reigns in or with them This their reigning with Christ hath never yet been performed For Christ hath never yet visibly and personally come again to the Earth that they might reign with him as the words import And therefore hereafter he must so come and they reign with him Archer Answ. 1. There is nothing spoken Apoc. 20. which may assure us or indeed give us any the least warrant of Christs personall and visible comming again to reign here on earth If such a matter had been it might much better have been concluded from this Lo I am with you always to the worlds end Mat●ult Or from Christs walking amidst the golden Candlesticks Rev. 1. that is the Churches of God That hee then did perform and in the same manner which is there meant he will ever do it to the last day These speeches and the like put together would soonerafford which indeed they do not a personall presence of Christ still on earth then any speech Apoc. 20. And 2. where t is said The Saints reign with Christ on earth how can that be more emphaticall and imply more then this Wee shall suffer with Christ Rom 8.19 No man ever hence inferred that Christ must again come down from Heaven that wee may suffer with him In both speeches of reigning with and suffering with Christ

Gods and they but sojourners with him Vers 23. That they might observe how God blessed them when they in the seventh yeare labored not and that it was hee that gave the encrease when they did labour and so depend on his goodnesse to them It served also to bring them to the seventh seven and so come to the Jubilee the famous year of rest So they might rather conclude that the world should stand but this also would bee but a sandy foundation fortie nine thousand years and then have a great Jubilee and rest in which the last Trumpet should sound as in the Jubilee year the Jews Trumpets were wont to doe Obj. The ancient Jews understood Esa. 2.11 and 17. of the great day of judgement where it is said and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day The later Iews speak something to the same purpose and thence they say that the Lord shall be King over all the earth Answ. In Esay 2. is an excellent prophecie of the preaching of the Gospel and of the calling of the Gentiles by the Word going out from Sion and Ierusalem This was fulfilled when God set up Christ his King on mount Sion as I proved above Peruse the Chapter ballance each passage and particle thereof and try whether there bee any the least warrant for a day of judgment of a thousand years continuance It is true that when the Gospel began to bee taught Christ was by all true beleevers exalted alone and preferred above all the high looks and loftiness of men many idolatrous and superstitious persons then turned to Christ and cast away their silver and golden Idols as there it is foretold And if any unbeleevers saw not then Christs glory they were justly to bee blamed His glory was then such and hath so continued that the gates of hell could never prevaile against it It is true that many worldly Potentates then strove to exalt themselves above Christ and were highly exalted by others saying Who is like this our Lord who can war with him But Christ in due time did manifest that these brags were vain and foolish Because Christ by overthrowing them will shew his might to bee far above them and that all their forces are inconsiderable And at the day of judgment when all quick and dead shall stand before him all both small and great shall see and consesse him alone to bee exalted But neither in Esay 2. nor in the whole prophecie is there any ground for two resurrections and a day of judgment between them of a thousand years continuance Obj. The Rabbins think the title of Psal. 92. L●jom ●ass●abat for the day of the Sabbath to bee the argument of the Psalme and to be understood of the Sabbath of a thousand years Answ. Wee find the Rabbins often extravagant in their opinions therefore their bare affertion cannot bee a sufficient warrant unto us they say that Psal. 92 is for the day that shall bee all rest On Talm. Sanedr Ch. 11. and adde that a thousand years in Gods sight are but as yesterday from Psal. 90.4 Wee must attend more why they thus speak then that they thus speak and try what they say against their assertion thus I argue First if the title of the Psalm import that it was onely for the Sabbath of the thousand years that is then to bee used as the title Libnei Korch implies a Psalm to bee used and sung by the sons of Kore● how is it that some Rabbins say that it was sung by Adam in the evening before the Sabbath after the promise made to him and others say it was sung in the Sanctuary by the Levits Secondly If the title bee so expounded that Lejom Hassh meane concerning the Sabbath as the objection intimates by making this title the Argument of the Psalm this cannot bee For the Psalm intreats not of the thousand years of Christs reign making it such as some now doe Yea it speaks of Gods being the most high and the King exalted above all not for a thousand years but for evermore and touches matters usuall in the gracious course of Gods governing the world and his goodnesse to man in the same Thirdly What day is all rest none I think on this earth Here the Church is militant The dead that die in the Lord rest from their labours Revel. 14.13 The time of all rest is in heaven onely 4. The speech of a thousand years being but as yesterday in Psalm 90. hath no more reference to the title of this Psalm then Harp and Harrow have each to other Fiftly The 90 Psalm speaks of mans birth his flourishing his decay If hee live threescore and ten or eightie years as men did in Moses in Davids in our times his dayes seeme as soon past as a thought To it they are compared If man could live a thousand years as Adam almost did these in Gods sight are but as yesterday as a watch in the night that are past What are they to God that is eternall Sixtly what reason hath any one to refer the words of a thousand years being as yesterday more to the seventh thousand years then to the fourth sift or sixt thousand years of the world Obj. Wee desire the conversion of the Iews and is it not the easiest way to deale with them for the same end not to wrest plain Prophecies which pertain to the last and glorious comming of Christ to his first comming So that wee hold the main truth and prove to them that Iesus of Nazaret was the true Messias and that they ought not to expect any other Answ. Here Mr. Mede answers himself saying That a Christian must consent no further to the Jews then his profession rightly I suppose grounded on Gods truth will give him leave The rule is good Now let us try what things hee holds to belong to the second comming of Christ not to his first as others affirme First Instance in Mr. M●de in Revel. 1.7 it is said That Jesus Christ who bath washed us from our sins by his blood comes in the clouds of heaven and every eye shall see him even they that have crucified him and all Tribes of the earth hall mourn before him These passages are verified onely at Christs last and glorious comming Answ. The mourning of all kinreds of the earth in regard of their sins for whose expiation Christ was crucified is foretold Matth. 24.30 and Luke 21.27 where it is also said that hee comes with power and great glory {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} with or upon the elouds of heaven that is say the Rabbins the Angels Coch-Nathon Sanedr pag. 370. answerable to Jude 14. Where God comes with thousands of his holy ones This was fulfilled before that generation passed Mat. 24.34 Luke 21.32 Some that heard Christ preach are told that they should not taste death untill they saw the kingdom of God come with power Matth.

16.28 Mark 9.1 and many of them might live untill what was shewed to St. John Rev. 6 by the horses and riders upon them was in some sort fulfilled The high Priest and his assistants might live to see the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God and come in or with the clouds of heaven Matth. 26.24 to punish the Jews and ruine Jerusalem as Henoch bid the old word behold God comming with thousands of his holy ones or Angels to destroy the old world Jud. 14. In the same manner the Son of man is set forth with a Crown on his head and a Sickle in his hand when bee comes to fill up the Wine-presse of his wrath Revel. 14.18 The mourning here spoken of was in part fulfilled Act. 2.37 in the Jews who seeing that is pondering in their minds how they had kild the Lord of glory as Peter there told them Were with griefe pricked at their hearts repented and beleeved in Christ Now what was done by them was and is in like manner done by all converts of all Nations whatsoever from Christs time to the worlds end Thus it appears that the passages above instanced in may bee said to bee done at the Gospels first progresse and yet must continually be done by all who become Christians in after times Instance of Mr. Mede The royall Kingdome of Christ who feeds the innumerable multitude that have palms in their hands Revel. 7.17 and Christs victory over the ten Kings vassals of the Beast Rev. 17.4 are better referred to Christs last glorious coming then to his first comming Answ The multitude with palms in their hands are converts of all nations kinreds tongues and people who praise God for their salvation Rev. 7.10.11 The like is done Revel. 5. where the redeemed out of all Nations acknowledge all power riches wisdom strength honour glory and praise to belong to Christ who sits crowned upon his throne This vision in Chap. 5. Mr. Mede himselfe holds to bee fulfilled in the beginning of the Apocalypticall times The Palm bearing multitude bee they in what time they shall continue the same course of ascribing all praise honour power c. to Christ sitting on his throne And Christ Revel. 17.14 conquering the ten Kings shews himself to bee Lord of Lords and King of Kings Now before the visions here mentioned Christ was exalted far above all principalities powers and dominations and every title and name that is named not in this world onely but in the world to come Ephes. 1.21.22 and in the very entrance of the Revelation in stiled the Prince of the Kings of the earth Revel. 1.5 Therefore the royall Kingdom and all power and honour c. begins to bee due to Christ at his first comming and must in all times afterward even to his second comming at the worlds end be ascribed unto him Instance The mariage of the Lamb Revel. 19.7 The New Jerusalem Revel. 21.9 The Lamb the light of the new Jerusalem Vers 23. are better applied to the last and glorious comming of Christ then wrested to his first comming Answ. To these Instances I purpose to answer in their due place where now I come to speak of divers passages in the two last Chapters of the Revelation Chap. VII Objections out of Revel. 21. 22. answered AMong learned expositers many controversies and doubts are moved about the two last Chapters of the Revelation I will briefly handle that which especially concerns the matter here to bee discussed Obj. Many most excellent and admirable promises are made unto Christians Apoc. 21. and 22. which must bee made good at one time or other Many of them have not yet been fulfilled therefore they are to bee fulfilled hereafter and that must bee either in the thousand years of the Churches prosperitie in which the Church and Saints of God shall reign with Christ before the end of the world or else in the world to come in heaven The promises are these of new heavens and new earth of a new Jerusalem of its being prepared and trimmed for Christ the bus band thereof of freedom from tears death sorrow pain of all things made new and many other the like Read the Chapters Answ. I grant that the promises in these two Chapters are for this life And thus by severall arguments I prove it First the new Jerusalem comes down from God out of heaven and is on earth if it were to bee in heaven then it should ascend from earth to heaven which it is not said to doe And this ascending to God befals not Gods servants both in body and soul● untill the last judgment bee past whereas in this life the Ephesians and other converts become fellow Citizens with the Saints Ephes. 2.19 And secondly there can bee no tears in heaven which need to bee wiped away from the Saints eyes Thirdly T is on earth that the Saints thirst Revel. 21.6 and there Christ refreshes them with the water of life Joh. 4.14 In heaven they thirst not but are fully satisfied with all joy and pleasures for evermore Psal. 16. Then fourthly the Nations that are saved Revel. 1.24 walk a phrase usuall for conversing in this life in the light of Christ who is the light of the world and glory of his people Israel Luk. 2.32 And t is on earth that Kings doe their service to God and bring their people to the New Jerusalem or the true Church On earth are civill distinctions of Kings and people of master and servant but in heaven a Lazarus is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in an Angelicall condition no lesse then a great Monarch all there rest from their labours Fiftly Christ who is the wisdom of the Father is the Tree of life Prov. 31.18 and 22. Rev. 22.2 and is the life of men in this world 1 Ioh. 5.20 As hee is the spirituall Manna so hee is the fruit of this tree every moneth fed upon by beleevers Sixtly The leaves of this tree serve to heale the Nations Rev. 22.2 Now in heaven there is no account kept by moneths nor are there any sores of the Saints to bee healed or that need cure The soules of all faithfull are purified by faith in this life Act. 15.9 And their bodies lie down and leave what was sinfull and corrupt in them in the dust of the grave and rising glorious and immortall ascend to heaven Thus by these Arguments it appears that the condition of Gods people in this life is in these two Chapters declared Secondly I will shew that many passages in these Chapters which seem to belong to the Saints state in heaven expresse their happy condition not onely in the thousand years from Christs time but in all the dayes of the Gospel to the worlds end and thus I prove it First Every one that is in Christ is a new creature and not onely so but all things are become new 2 Cor. 5.17 This is answerable to Apoc.