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A85549	A true reformation and perfect restitution, argued by Silvanus and Hymeneus; where in the true Church of Christ is briefly discovered here in this life in her estate of regeneration, as also her persecution in the life to come, as it hath been foretold by all the holy prophets and Apostles, which have been since the world began. / By J.G. a friend to the truth and Church of God.	Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.	1643 (1643)	Wing G1595; Thomason E55_10; ESTC R212817	46,091	47

And the Iudgement of the enemie follows And the Devill that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and Brimston where the beast and the false Prophets are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever And so the holy Ghost goes on in the description of the generall ●udgement by describing first the Iudge himself in these words And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate on it from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away and there was found no more place for them And so proceeds to describe them that are judged And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened That is all those meanes were manifested and those severall ways by which the Gospell and way of salvation had been preached to them whether they had the Scriptures or the Creatures or only the more secret dictates of conscience all which preached the word of grace and although it prove a Savour of death to some yet to others a Savour of life by every of those books as it followeth And another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were writen in the books according to their works c. There needs no Paraphrase the Scripture is so clear to prove the thing intended Hym. It doth appear to me that the Millenaries opinion hath no ground in the Scriptures they alleadge yet I must tell you plainly in my judgement the Resurrection is past already proved by your self in your description of the first Resurrection Silv. That was an old error which S. Paul condemns in his 2 Epistle to Timothy where he taxes one of your name saying their word doth fret as doth a gangrene of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus who concerning the truth have erred saying the Resurrection is past already and overthrow the faith of some Hym. Shew me how that doctrine may be said to overthrow the Faith Silv. This doctrine is the Religion of Homo-novus or of the new-man falsely so called in plaine termes the Familists doctrine who turne the whole Faith of our Lord Iesus Christ into an allegory affirming Christ to be a quality saying righteousnesse is Christ and sin is Antichrist teaching that all the Articles of the Creed are fulfilled in every one of their illuminated ones and that now they themselves are dead and buried raised and ascended set at the right hand of the Father descend and come and judge the world the quick and the dead that they are the holy Catholique Church that they only are the forgiven people and have the Communalty of the Saints and enjoy life everlasting infinitely succeeding one another in this coedified condition affirming also that God is cohominified with them and so this estate and condition even this present evill world to continue for ever saying that as we come from God so againe we return to God at our death affirming no other Resurrection then from that sinfull estate to be illuminated in which illumination they say they are conceived of the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary c. Hym. You know the Apostle speaking of two seeds of Abraham one born of Hagar the bond woman the other of Sarah the free woman and he saith that by them another thing was meant Silv. As at the first I told you that Christians when they speak they ought to speak as the word of God that is according to the meaning of the Scriptures for though Saint Paul say the two seeds are an allegory in regard of the two Covenants that either stood in the one thereby the child of death the other the child of life Yet he doth not as you do make them nothing but an allegory turning the person of our Lord Iesus Christ into a quality and the person of Antichrist into sin which is no substance but a privation of good take heed of this Hymeneus for it calls to my mind the Apostles words who saith that such doctrine to the soul is as dangerous and destructive as a gangrene is to the body which is inevitably destructive for nothing can prevent the saving of the next member but the death the cutting off of that which is but infected Hym. I am sure if I be mistaken in my opinion yet that which you have delivered in other respects concerning the short time of this worlds continuance crosses most Ministers opinions both in new England and here too Silv. What is that which they teach that I have said doth oppose their Tenents Hym. They almost all with one consent hold the nationall calling of the Iews and that there shall be a great and glorious estate of the Church both of Iews and Gentils alleadging all the Prophets that speak of the deliverance of Syon from all her Captivities and bring the Jews into their own Land out of all Countries whither they have been disperst and scattered Silv. What Scriptures do they bring to prove that the Nation of the Iews shall be called and brought out of every Countrey into their own Land Hym. The 11 Rom. in these words I would not Brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery lest you should be wise in your own conceits that blindnesse in part is hapned to Israel untill the fulnesse of the Gentils be come in And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written c. Silv. In these verses there is not one word of the Nationall calling of the Iews but shews that the Apostle declared to the believing Romans a Mystery to take off their vaine boasting of themselves who thought that God had forsaken the seed of Abraham wholly and therefore he secretly reproves them and saith It was but a part of the seed that was hardned or blinded as in the seventh verse he clearly distinguisheth between the Elect part and the rest what then Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for but the Election hath obteined it and the rest were blinded or hardned and in this verse he saith They shall be hardned untill the fulnesse of the Gentils be come in that is for ever Agreeing with the Prophet l●t their eyes be darkned and bow down their backs alwayes thus God putting no diff●rence between the Iews and the Gentils extends his free grace to both for the calling of the full number of his Elect in all the world and so all Israel shall be saved that is the whole house even every one f●reknown and chosen of God shall be c●lled sanctified and saved both Iews and Gentils throughout the world and this word saved hath respect unto the estate of perfection in the world to come according to the Prophet Esays words Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation he shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end That is all Gods Elect wheresoever of all kindreds tongues nations and people Hym. In this Scripture it doth not appeare there is any

Resurrection but the rest of the dead that is say they the wicked as by the first Resurrection we are to understand the righteous so by the rest of the dead the wicked which lived not againe till the thousand years were finished Silv. The Scriptures they alleadge do not prove their conclusion and we trye it thus the Apostles words to the Thessalonians do clearly prove the generall Resurrection both of them that are out of Christ and of them that are in Christ in the great day of the Lords coming and that we which shall continue living till that time shall not prevent t●em that sleep and this the same Apostle sneweth to the Corinthians behold I shew you a Mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed that is though all should not be alike dead and buried yet their change shall be all alike that is to say as our Lord speaketh they that have done good to the Resurrection of life and they that have done evill to the resurrection of damnation and both shall come forth or be raised And whereas the Apostle saith the dead in Christ shall arrise first he there sheweth the order of the Resurrection as in another place he saith as in Adam all dye so in Christ shall all be made alive but every man in his own order Christ the first fruits in that he speaks of our Lords resurrection that at this time was past afterwards they that are Christs that is they that are dead in Christ and the time when is at his comming and the reason why he doth not nominate the wicked by name aswell as the righteous neither to the Thessalonians nor to the Corinthians as our Saviour Christ doth to the Iows is because they are to rise to their condemnation and therefore not worth the naming yet to the former the terme of distinction the dead in Christ shall arise first strongly proves the dead out of Christ shall rise next and in the latter even so in Christ all shall be made alive comprehends good and bad And for their second ground they lived and raigned with Christ a thousand years and as it follows this is the first Resurrection The Apostle speaks of the spirituall Resurrection through regeneration from sin as Saint Paul speaks to the Ephesians Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light agreeing with that in the Colossians if ye then be risen with Christ c. And this first and second Resurrection our Saviour proves plainly as this faithfull witnesse testifieth in his Evangelists Verily verily I say unto you hee that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life And againe verily verily I say unto you the houre is comming and now is when the dead shall heare the voice of the Sonne of God and they that heare it shall live here he proves the first Resurrection by Faith and be your self judge if in the next words he doth not p●ove the generall Resurrection Marvell not at this for the houre is coming he doth not say and now is as before but saith in which all that are in the graves shall heare his voice and shall come forth c. And by this word all here as before is plainly proved good and bad And for the thousand years of Sathans binding for any man to think it to be a time of peace plentie outward glory and felicity in this world I think him to be more blind than Bartimeus who saw men walk like trees because the text it self declares such wicked men to sit in seates even in the whole time of his binding as should persecute the Saints even to death because they would not receive the mark of the Beast in their hands nor in their foreheads and though for their wickednesse they are not worthy to be named as another Apostle describes the same Antichristian power in the same manner then shall that wicked be revealed not giving him the name of Angel man no● beast because exceeding the worst of all sorts againe even him saith the Apostle whose comming is after the working of Sathan with all power and signes and lying wonders this evill power and subtill wonderfull lyes he gives his person no name but him just as Saint John speaks as if they spake by one spirit though two voices as they did indeed and I saw Thrones and them that sate upon them and Iudgement was give unto them the difference is only this Saint Paul speaks in the singular Saint Iohn in the plurall number and both one for the succession of wicked ungodly men for a thousand two hundred and sixty years of domineering over killing and oppressing the Saints they all in the totall summe make but one Antichrist one that is the man of sin the sonne of perdition Hym. Good Friend me thinks this must verily be the meaning of the place but that which they much talke of is the binding of Sathan thereby affirming that all wickednesse and wicked men shall be restrained by the censure of the true Church Silv. If they rightly did know the condition of Sathan in his loosed or his estate of liberty both before and after the time of his being bound then they would plainly see there is no such thing as they conclude from it He was loose and at large before in the Roman Ethnick estate when the Divell raised the primitive persecution against Christ and all that profest him so that it was present death for any man to professe the Faith of Iesus Christ as appears by the wofull sad stories of the ten first persecutions in which storme and great persecution the Devill is the Generall in the heart of the heathen Emperors for which respect the holy Ghost calls him the great red Dragon thereby declaring his great cruell and unmercifulnesse in killing and destroying all that did acknowledge Christ and professe the Faith and this appears plainly in the Scriptures no sooner was the Lord ascended but his servants for teaching in his name were beaten whipped and imprisonned as Peter and Iohn at Ierusalem Paul and Barnabas at Lystra Iames killed by the sword and Stephen martyred without any mercy and so it continued for many years in all manner of sufferings as cruell mockings scourgings bonds and imprisonments some stoned some sawen asunder with sawes their flesh torne to pieces others slaine with the sword with wilde beasts and burnt to death so implacable was the Divell when he was at liberty that no tongue can expresse his crueltie and as the battel was strange and wondrous so was the victory more strange and glorious for verity overcame crueltie by suffering as it is written and they overcame him by the bloud of the lambe and by the words of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death and when the Dragon saw that he was throwen down into the earth

word as they infer from the text but what say you to the words of the Prophet Ezechiel 34. 14. And I will bring them out from the people and gather them from the Countrys and will bring them to their own Land and feed them upon the mountaines of Israel by the Rivers and in all the inhabited places of the Countrey As also the Prophet Ieremy 33 and 26. For I will cause their captivity to returne and have mercy on them Silv. It greives me to see the Ignorance and yet boldnesse of many Ministers amongst us who erre for want of reading the Scriptures for the very literall expression might teach them better then to tell us that from these two testimonies is declared the calling of the Iews from their dispersed and scattered estate to the belief of the Gospell in this last age of the world For both these Prophets writ within few years one of another Ieremy a little before Ezechiel and both of the Babylonish Captivity and of their returne againe into their own Land which according to the word of the Lord was performed above two thousand yeares ago for their returne was in the days of Ezra the Scribe some years after the Prophet Daniels death And if you read the second chapter you cited with a searching affection you shall find the Prophets both of them speaks of also the deliverance of Sion the whole house of Israel from all their Captivities Therefore will I save my flock they shall be no more a prey I will judge between cattel and Cattel and I will set up one shepheard over them and he shall feed them even my servant David he shall feed them and he shall be their shepheard and I will be their God and my servant David a Prince amongst them In those days Iudah shall be saved and Ierusalem shall dwell safely and this is the name wherewith he shall be called the Lord our righteousnesse But this deliverance we will more largely open hereafter Hym. Master Cotton in new England doth much preach of these things of the calling of the Iews and of the flourishing estate of the Church of the Gentils and sence I came to London I heard a preacher say if the two last Chapters of Esay were not to be understood of the glorious estate of the Church before the comming of the Lord to Judgement I do not know saith he what is meant by chose Scriptures Silv. By what he saith I believe he doth not understand what is meant by those Script for the Proph. words are these Behold I create new Heavens a new Earth the former shall not be remembred nor come into mind but be thou glad rejoyce for ever in that which I creat for behold I creat Ierusalem a rejoyceing and her people a joy And I will rejoyce in Ierusalem and joy in my people and the voyce of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voyce of crying and there shall be no more thence an infant of days c. In which the Prophet speaks as clearly to my understanding as words can expresse it of the world to come after the Resurrection the salvation that brings Gods chosen people Jerusalem from above into the same perfection againe which by sin we lost and fell from in the day of our transgression and this agrees with Saint Peters and Saint Johns exposition the two most excellent and beloved Disciples and Apostles Saint Peter speaks directly of the end of this world the dissolution of this present Heaven and Earth in these words But the Heavens and the Earth which are now that is now present by the same word are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of Iudgement and perdition of ungodly men And so proceeds to other arguments and proves that the Earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up and the Heavens and the Elements shall be dissolved concludes with notwithstanding or neverthelesse we according to his promise look for new Heavens and a new Earth in which dwelleth righteousnesse First the time when these things shall be fulfilled is twice spoken to be in the day of the Lord which throughout the Scriptures notes unto us the day of Iudgement as the time of his second comming Secondly the manner how it shall be when righteousnesse shall dwell in the Earth which must needs be understood of the world to come for in this world righteousnesse is a Pilgrim a stranger and a sojourner and Saint Iohn transcends in his expressions of it after the generall Iudgement in order after the Resurrection of just and unjust saying And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away and there was no more sea and I Iohn saw the holy City new Ierusalem comming down from God out of Heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and I heard a great voyce out of Heaven saying behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God and God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying nor shall there be any more paine for the former things are passed away The former things are the corruptible things and the things that shall take place are the new created things of God which are all good for nothing can proceed from him but what is very good the words are so plaine that they need no exposition The other proof they do bring to prove their mistaken opinion are these words As one whom his Mother comforteth so will I comfort you and you shall be comforted in Ierusalem and when you see this your hearts shall rejoyce and your bones shall flourish like an herb and the hand of the Lord shall be known towards his servants and his indignation towards his enemies for by fire and by sword will the Lord plead with all flesh And the slaine of the Lord shal be many for any man to think that the Prophet in these words speaks of any time of the Churchs sufferings in this life doth as much as if he should tell me it was his own foolish conceit and that he did not at all search the Scriptures no● labour in the word and doctrine for Saint Paul to the Thessalonians to me doth directly comment upon this place of the Prophet saying it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Iesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospell of our Lord Iesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and