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A39212	The great day at the dore and he cometh with clouds that shall judge the quick and the dead, and reigne on the earth with all his saints, not for a thousand yeares in this corrupt and sinfull world, as some coruptly conceive and teach, nay, but for a thousand and a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand thousands of yeares, even for ever and ever, eternally in the world to come ... proved clearly by the word of God ...	Eachard, John, 17th cent.	1648 (1648)	Wing E49; ESTC R149	28,197	34

19 20 21. These though professing the name of the true God and of the Lord Jesus Christ his Word and Sacraments and themselves to be his Church yet being possest with unclean Spirits of Devils should by another more secret way than the Dragon used deceive a great part of the world And having changed times and lawes and power and judgement being given unto them for a time and times and half a time should consume the Saints of the most High kill them behead them for those causes mentioned Rev. 13. 5 6 7. 14. 12 13. 17. 6. 20. 4. where the souls of them they should behead are shewed according to that of the pale Horse on which Death sate and Hell followed Rev. 6. 8. whereupon Iohn seeth also the soules of them that they should kill for the word of God c. vers. 9 10 11. and to that of the second Woe upon the sounding of the sixth Angel chap. 9. 13. and chap. 11. where they are said to tread the holy Citie under foot fourty and two months vers. 2. Every place agreeing to that in Dan. 7. 25. speaking in order of one and the same things the Dragon or Pagan Empire first tyranizeth the Beast or Horn that had eyes succeeds him in his throne the Saints are slain for the word of God and not worshipping the Beast the great day of the Lord followeth in every place Now concerning the soules of them that during the reigne of the Beast should be beheaded for not worshiping the Beast c. I request you unto whom I present all these things wel to consider Iohn doth not say And I saw the souls that were beheaded as if such a thing could be Neither doth he say I saw the bodies that were beheaded they lived reigned with Christ a thousand yeares as the Millinaries would seem to expound him or turn the words conceiving that Iohn nameth the Soule for the Body and would have a resurrection of the body to be meant and it to be the first resurrection Iohn speakes of which is not so for the words are plain And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded c. And they that is to say their souls liv●d and ●eigned with Christ c. not their bodies that were beheaded but their souls onely Neither may the soule be named for the body in the resurrection of the body as to rise from the dead with it or for it or for both because it is a meere falshood and a contrad●ctory thing Iohn might as well and as truly have said I s●w the s●uls that were beheaded and so have named the soule for the beheading of the body as for the resurrection of it if it had been a thing sensible or true but he saith and that sensibly and truly And I saw the souls of them c. When those bodies of Saints which slept arose Matth. 27. 52 53. it is not said their souls arose but their bodies onely And although in some other cases while the soule and the body liveth together the soule being the principall part of man may be named for both as Gen. 46. All the souls of the House of Iacob wch came into Egypt were threesoore t●n yet in this case it cannot be so except they will make the soule to dye or be ●lain with the body and so lye dead in the grave with it that it may rise with it as some of them have been bold to say and some to publish contrary to many cleare testimonies of Scripture and to the words of Christ Iohn 11. 25. I am the resurrection and the life he that beleeveth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and beleeveth in me shall never dye By which words it is evident that whosoever is once quickned and made alive again in soule by faith in Christ from that spirituall death which it being once alive in Adam was brought unto by the fall and his own sinnes this soule shall never dye more he is passed from death to life as Christ saith Iohn 5. 24 25. and Christ will raise his body up at the last day according to his word Iohn 6. 4. It is true that the soules of the unregenerate reprobates which were never quickned and made alive again by faith from that death they had by the fall and their own sinnes their bodies dying their soules remain spiritually dead in some low place of darknesse where evill spirits are untill the last day when both body and soule shall come forth and live to undergoe the second death So then when Iohn saith And I saw the soules of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Iesus c. and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand yeares he meaneth their soules and not their bodies and by a thousand yeares all the time of the Dragons being bound and the Beasts reigne and thei● bodies suffering for the word of God c. even to the loosing of the Dragon and end of the world according also to that in Rev. 6. where the soules under the Altar cryed saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth And white robes were given unto every one of them and it w●s said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season untill their fellow-servants and their brethren which should be killed 〈◊〉 they were should be fulfilled vers. 9 10 11. which must needs be understood from the beginning of the Beasts reigne when they first began to suffer for those causes unto the end of the world because their brethren that should be killed as they were would not be fulfilled till then and all the Saints are in one kind or other killed for Christs sake as it is written For thy sake O Lord are we slain all the day long and counted as sheep to the slaughter And because this resurrection of the soule is effected here while the soule is in the body by the Word and Spirit of God as Iohn well knew according to that which Christ had said Iohn 5. 21 24 25. and 11 4 5 6. and to that of Paul Ephes. 2. 1 4 5 6. Col. 2. 12 13. Col. 3. 1 2. 2 Cor. 4. 16. Ephes. 4. 23. Titus 3. 5. and other places and was also in those dayes well known to the Saints in consideration whereof Iohn saith This is the first Resurrection The first implying plainly that it is the very fi●st in which every Saint hath his part and therefore he saith again to the comfort of them all in their afflictions here Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first res●rrection on such the second death hath no power but they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand yeares even till Christ shall come in his glory and avenge their blood and raise their bodies and receive them body and

resurrection Blessed and ●oly is he that hath part in the first Resurrection on such the 〈◊〉 death hath no power But they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand yeares All these words doe the Millinaries take as spoken to their purpose which I request ye beloved of the Lord well to consider ANd first this how Iohn could with any sense or truth say And I saw thrones and they sate upon them c. and mean by They as the Millinaries expound him the s●uls of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Iesus c. which were shewed him afterward Or why Iohn if he had so meant would not then rather have said first And I sa● the souls of them that were beheaded c. and then have said after this And I saw 〈◊〉 they 〈◊〉 upon them c. but that he had respect unto some other person● whom he had seen and spoken of before and who may they 〈◊〉 thought to be but the Beast and the false Prophet and those Kings of the 〈◊〉 that gathered themselves together against him that sate upon the white Ho●se and against his Army Chap. 1● For they 〈…〉 and had power and great authority and judgement given ●nto them and they beheaded the Saints for those causes mentioned as by Chap. 13. 1 2 15. 14. 12 13 14 appeareth according to Dan. 7. 25. But because Iohn had seen another vision of binding the Dragon before this of the Thrones c. therefore that we may the more clearly understand these things we are to consider of the same in the first place as a thing going before Vers. 1 2 3. And I saw an Angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomlesse pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold on the Dragon that old Serpent which is the Devill and Satan and bound him a thousand yeares and cast him into the bottomlesse pit and shut him up and set a seale upon him that he should deceive the N●tions no more till the thousand yeares should be finished and after that he must be loosed a little season What is to be understood by this Dragon called here that old Serpent the Devill and Satan and what this binding of him should meane and what his deceit was wherewith he deceived the Nations before he was bound and when this binding of him should be are things not here exprest Neither is there any thing at all spoken or shewed that the Dragon did or should doe under that name or title of the Dragon during all the time of the Beasts reigne from the beginning of Chap. 13. unto this place except that of giving his power and his throne and great authority to the Beast chap. 13. 2. onely in chap. 12. his doings are at large declared and what was done to him There after Iohn had seen that great wonder in Heaven A woman cloth●d with Sunne and the Moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve Starres and gr●at with child crying and pained to be delivered he s●i●h And there appeared another wonder in heaven and behold a great red Dragon having seven heads and ten horns c. ve●se 3 4 5. This great red Dragon thus described with these h●ads and horns cannot be taken for the Devil Satan onely and alone conside●ed but must needs be understood of those Pagan Emperou●s of Rome in whom Satan dwelt and by whom he ruled and wrought all th●se w●cked workes there described This was he that so cruelly used that heavenly woman the Church and Spouse of Christ drawing down with 〈…〉 of De●fied Ces●rs a third part of the Starres of hea●●● with who●e D●ctrine she was crowned and in the light whereof she wa●k●d and cast them to the earth and that stood before the woman ready to devoure her child as soon as it was born even all the fi●st fruits of spirituall off spring that man child which her Lord promised should 〈◊〉 all Na●ions with a rod of Iron Rev. 2. 26 27. This was he that with tho●e his evill Angels forced the woman from her most eminent bright shining primitive estate and to betake herselfe unto those two wings which her Lord then gave her of his word of Truth and 〈◊〉 into the Wildernesse there to have some refreshing from the face of the Sespent and be sed of God a thousand two hundred and sixty dayes For then was that great warre in heaven Michael and his Angels fighting against the Dragon and the Dragon and his Angels against Michael For the Name and Gospel of Jesus Christ and worship of the true God that made heaven and earth by Michael and his Angels that is to say Christ and his Apostles and their faithfull followers And in opposition to the same with sword and fire by the Dragon and his Angels those bloody Cesars for their open profest Idolatry Paganisme and superstition ●triving by all wicked means to root out the Name of Christ and worship of the true God from the earth and so settle himselfe in his throne to be worshipped and adored for ever But they prevailed not as the Text saith neither was their place found any more in heaven Michael and his Angels overcame them by the word of their testimony and their patient suffering their most cruell murders and tortures And the great Dragon was cast out as there it saith ver. 9. where he is described even as he is here ch. 20. 2. by the names of that old Serpent the Devil Satan which deceiveth the whole world c. his deceit being that of his Paganisine before mentioned and now was the time for Michael that Archangel Jesus Christ he having overcome the Dragon and cast him down to lay hold on him and binde him that he should so deceive the Nations no more nor so universally pursue the blood of the Saints slaughtering all that professed the Name of Jesus Christ as he had done for a thousand yeares space at the least during all the time of the Beasts reigne that was to succeed him whilst the true Church and Spouse of Christ should remain in the Wildernesse close and hidden as it were out of his fight till afterward that she should be seen abroad again with her graces shining and he loosed for a little season out of his prison This was he which Paul spake of that untill he was th●s taken out of the way letted the 〈◊〉 of Sin to be revealed 2 Thess. 2. 7 8. that Beast which Iohn saw rise out of the Sea Rev. 13. 1. All these things confidered and understood who now can be thought to be they that sate upon the thrones which Iohn saw after he had seen the Dragon bound Revel. 20. but the Beast and the false Prophet his Clergy and those ten hornes that had crowns on them who received power as Kings one houre with the Beast mentioned chap. 13. 1. 11. and 17. 12. and 19.