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The saints inheritance after the day of ivdgement. Being also an answer to certaine scruples of late delivered, and others printed, expecially in that book intituled, The personall reigne of Christ upon earth. By T. B.
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T. B.
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1643
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Wing B203; Thomason E59_4; ESTC R3205
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chaines in Jobs time and could not touch his goods nor children nor his body but as he had commission from God and the devill desired to intice Ahab to goe and fall at Ramoth Gilead and told the Lord how but he could not doe it till the 2 Chron. 18. 20 21. Lord said Goe and do so and so in the times of the Gospel they besought Christ that they might goe into the herd of Swine but could not till Christ said unto them Goe but yet in this time he did not cease to compasse Mal. 8. 31 32. 1 Pet. 5. 8. the earth but goeth up and downe like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devoure and his chaine is long and his commission large to doe much hurt but that God who is able to bring good out of evill and all things worke together for good to them that love God as in Jobs case 2 Sam. 16. 12. Jam. 5. 11. And as the malice of Josephs brethren wrought for his good but when Christ came into the world the devils knew that he would Rom. 8. 28 Gen. 50. 20. chaine them up from their purpose a thousand yeares which would be a great torment unto them therefore when they saw Jesus they fell downe before him and with a loud voyce said Thou Sonne of God most high I beseech Luke 8. 28 29. 31. thee torment me not But he commanded the uncleane spirit to come out And they besought him that he would not command them to goe into the deepe meaning this bondage for a thousand yeares Christ comes and disarmes the strong Mat. 12. 29 Luke 11 21 22. Col. 2. 14 15 man and bindes him and then spoyles his goods upon the Crosse hee spoyled Principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in it the Son of God was made manifest to destroy the workes of the devill then saith Christ after this I am he that was dead 1 Joh. 3. 8. and am alive and behold I live for evermore and have the keyes of hell and death Then he laid hold on the Dragon that old Serpent which is the Devill and Revel 1. 18 Revel 20. 1 2 3. Satan and bound him from his purpose a thousand yeares he having the keyes of the bottomlesse pit cast him in and shut him up and set a seale upon him that he should not deceive the Nations any more till the thousand yeares should bee fulfilled and after that he must bee loosed a little season Here Christ did not bind the devill from going up and downe as a roaring Lyon seeking whom hee may devoure and his commission did reach 1 Pet. 5. 8. to doe much hurt in this thousand yeares to single persons but the Devils purpose was to set up the man of sinne that mystery of iniquity that sonne of perdition the Antichrist in his Throne and full authority this hee knew would make great spoyles in the Church of Christ and the mystery of iniquity did already worke and Diotrephes loveth to have the preheminence 3 Joh. 9. 10 he prates against the ministers of Christ with malicious words and would not receive them and forbad others that would and cast them out of the Church Here you see how busie the devill is with this instrument to set up Antichrist because he aimes not so much at single persons as the ruine of nations from which he is bound a thousand yeares I grant that he raised great persecutions and sowed the tares of heresies that did much mischiefe and occasioned great warres and made great spoyles in the Church yet this did not content him for he knew that Antichrist was for to come having great knowledge in the prophesies of Daniel which made him stirre so Dan 7. 20 21. much and caused his wicked instruments to bring in one patch of Popery after another and would not rest till hee had him in his throne which was about a thousand yeares before hee was in his full ruffe to doe that mischiefe to the Church of God that the Devill expected hee should Now when this thousand yeares was ended there was a starre fell from heaven unto the earth and to him was given the key of the bittomlesse pit Revel 9. 1 2 3 4 5. and he opened the bottomlesse pit and there arose the smoake of the pit as the smoake of a great furnace and the Sunne and the ayre was darkened by the smoake of the pit and there came out of the smoake Locusts upon the earth and unto them was given power as the Scorpions of the earth have power and it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grasse of the earth nor any greene thing nor any tree but onely those men which have not the seale of God in their foreheads and to them was commanded that they should not kill them but that they should bee tormented or vexed five moneths and that their paine should bee as the torment of a Scorpion when he stingeth and striketh a man Here you see the bottomlesse pit that was shut and the devill that was bound a thousand yeares now the pit is opened and the devils loosed yet not to doe what they list but according to the commission granted to them Francis Junius in his Annotations upon this place saith by this star is meant some Angel glistering with glory as a starre from heaven it may be Christ who by princely authority hath the Keyes of Hell Chap. 1. 18. or some other inferiour Angel who hath the same key permitted unto him and occupieth it ministerially or by office of his ministry the key was given to the starre for those powers of wickednesse are thrust 2 Pet. 2. 4. Jude 6. Revel 20. 3 downe into hell and bound with chaines of darkenesse and are there kept unto damnation unlesse God for a time doe let them loose by the bottomlesse pit he meaneth the deepest darknesse of hell and the smoake of the hellish and infernall spirits all darke and dackning all things in heaven and in earth the spirituall darkenesses are the causes of all disorder and confusion for the devill sent these darkenesses into his kingdome that he might at once with one impression overthrow all things and pervert if it were possible the elect themselves by this light both active as the Sunne and passive as the ayre which is lightned by the Sunne is taken away and this is that which goeth before the spirits a description of the malignant spirits invading the world taken from their nature and power from their nature for they are like unto Loâ—usts in quicknesse subtlenesse hurtfulnesse and in number and for their power they are like the Scorpians of the earth who have a secret power to doe hurt yet although these devils be let loose and their commission is inlarged yet still they are bounded by the counsell of God because they hurt not all men but onely the reprobate vers 4. neither had
before the day of judgement when the wicked shall have as great authority and riches as they neither can it properly be said that the Saints shall reigne in heaven for there is none to bee subject unto them then it remaines that the Saints after the day of judgement shall reigne here on earth Revel 5. 10 when they shall shine as the Sunne in the Firmament Matth 13. 43. and be as glorious in the fight of God as he was at the first all the creatures restored to their first persection then they will yeeld to man all that obedience that is due unto him and then shall man be honoured in the earth by the creatures as their Lord and King and wonderfull happy among the Angels in heaven being of their nature in his soule and in his body also being made of the same elements with other creatures here below then the Angels shall continue in heaven and these creatures shall continue here and men shall have bodies so full of agility to ascend up to heaven and to walke in the ayre as to goe upon the ground and the glory of the soule shall bee the wonderfull perfection of Gods Image in all the faculties of it then shall wee know both the secrets of heaven and earth then shall our memories will and affections bee after an unconceivable manner made conformable unto God yea we shall have both in our soules and bodies rivers of joyes and pleasure for evermore Psal 16. 11. Revel 21 7 Esay 66. 22. then shall the Saints inherit all things and the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remaine before mee saith the Lord and so shall your seed and your name remaine then shall wee bee Luk. 20. 35. 36. equall to the Angels being children of the resurrection and counted worthy to obtaine that world and we shall be as Kings and Priests and wee shall reigne on the earth Revel 5. 10. and all the creatures here will yeeld subjection to us as to their Lord and King and we shall be as Priests to offer the sacrifice of praise to the Lord and give him all the glory And if any shall yet say these times shall be before the end of the world because in the eighth Psalme it is said thou hast crowned man with glory and honour and thou madest him to have dominion over the workes of thy hands and hast put all things under his feet and then names all the creatures here below I answer David here magnifies the Lord for that great glory and honour that was put upon man at the first in Paradise when he had dominion over Psal 8. 6. all things under the heavens for this is spoken in the time past Thou madest him have dominion and thou hast put all things under his feet but Heb. 2. 8. if we speake of the new world we see not yet all things put under him And whereas some hold that the soules of men departed shall returne againe and their bodies shall be raised and united to them and they shall live here againe before the day of judgement a thousand yeares but I demand Revel 20. 4 with what bodies shall they rise if it be sowne a corrupted body shall it not rise in incorruption if it bee sowne a naturall body shall 1 Cor. 15. 43 44. it not rise a spirituall body they must rise with such a body as Christ did But when the disciples saw him they were terrified and affrighted Luk. 23. 37 Act. 10. 40. 41. and supposed that they had seene a spirit and as for wicked men they never saw his body at all after his resurrection him God raised up the third day and shewed him openly not to all the people but unto witnesses chosen before of God even to us who did eate and drinke with him after hee Luk. 24. 31. 51. John 20. 17. Mich 〈◊〉 10. arose from the dead and when hee was with them as soone as they knew him he vanished out of their sight this strangenesse was betweene his spirituall and their corporall bodies this is not your rest because it is polluted he charged Mary that she should not touch him then what communion can be betwixt them when some must not touch him and others were affrighted at the sight of him and as soone as they knew him hee vanished away because the world is polluted then it cannot bee that spirituall and corporall bodies should live together and though he eate and dranke with them after his Resurrection yet we must not thinke it was for necessity or through the perill of hunger but onely for delight and to shew them that Luk. 24 3◠40. he had a reall body as before with flesh and bones onely it was made immortall and everlasting never to dye more nor to suffer any perill more And whereas it is said That the soules of them that were beheaded for the witnesse Revel 20. 4 of Jesus and for the word of God and had not worshipped the beast they lived and raigned with Christ a thousand yeares This cannot be meant of a corporall death or of a bodily resurrection for the rest that were dead lived not againe Vers 5. 6. till the 1000. yeares were finished and yet in the first Resurrection who are as blessed and holy as the rest On them the second death hath no power and they being in the first resurrection and yet not raised in their bodies what is this but to rise from the death of sinne to the life of grace on such the second death hath no power and Christ answered the Sadduces that Abraham Isaac and Jacob are living for God is the God of the living and he is their Mat. 22. 32 John 5. 24. God he that is thus alive shall dye no more but is passed from death to life And againe the planting of the Gospell and increasing or spreading of the Church may very well be called a Resurrection because men were brought out of a state of death to a state of life and the growth of the Church was like to the rising of the waters of the sanctuary first to the Ezekiel 47. ankles then to the knees then to the loynes and to a river that could not be passed over so was the Resurrection of the Church at the first but twelve Acts 1. 15. 2. 41. 44 5 14. then a hundred and twenty then there was added three thousand then five thousand then multitudes both of men and women now he that hath part in this first resurrection on them the second death hath no power and whether they have this first Resurrection in the first thousand yeares after Christs ascension or in the second it matters not so they have it before the day of Judgement on them the second death hath no power But our controversie is about those that were slaine for the witnesse of Jesus and yet lived and reigned with Christ a