GODS Prerogative Power Made known divers wayes in the Old and New Testament ALSO The Prerogative Power of the Lord Christ And what he will do in the dayes of his Kingly Office In Destroying his Enemies And Exalting his Saints Very usefull for these Times By him that loveth both Truth and Peace NOAH BANKS LONDON Printed by R. B. and are to be sold at the West end of Pauls 1650. To the truely Honorable in Christ Major General HARRISON Honored Sir KNowing that you are one that wait for the appearing of the Lord Christ in his Kingly glory and are willing to hear news of the good Land though it be by a weak poor instrument for out of the mouths of babes and sucklings God will declare his praise I have made bold to communicat a few lines to your godly and grave consideration what I do believe God is doing in this last Age of the World Surely God is answering all the prayers that have been powred out by the Saints at the Throne of Grace against Antichrist for this many hundred years and he is now going in an eminent manner to require the bloud of the Saints that hath been spilt by that man of sin and his adherents now the Lord is revenging the bloud of the Saints that cry under the Altar now those that have made war with the Lamb the Lamb shall overcome them for he and he onely is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called chosen faithful Antichrist hath bin drunken with the bloud of the Saints now he must have bloud to drink for he is worthy now have we great cause to bless God who hath taken to himself great power and doth reign and hath destroyed them that hath destroyed the earth now is the Lord humbling great men the loftiness of man shall be bowed down and the haughtiness of man shall be made low and the Lord alone exalted in that day now hath the Lord Christ appeared in the Majesty of his strength in his Armies he hath scattered the proud in the imaginations of their hearts he hath pulled down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an Oven and all the proud yea all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and the day cometh that shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hosts and it shall leave neither root nor branch and he shall tread them down and they shall be as ashes under the soles of your feet Now many Nations are gathered against thee that say let her be defiled and let our eyes look upon Sion but they know not the thoughts of the Lord neither understand they his Counsel he shall gather them as Sheaves into the floores Arise and thrash O daughter of Sion for I will make thy horn iron and thy hoofs brass and thou shalt beat in pieces many people God doth and will do great things by weak instruments thy feet shall tread them down even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy Zech. 12. 8. and God hath made good his word of late in that day shall the Lord defend the Inhabitants of Ierusalem he that is feeble amongst them shall be as David and the house of David shall be as God as the Angel of the Lord before them God is now stayning the glory of all flesh now is the little Stone that was cut out of the Mountain without hands smiting the Image on the feet that was of iron and clay and breaks them in pieces then was the iron and the clay and the brass and the silver and the gold and all the Empires of the earth broken in pieces together and became like the chaff of the Summer flower and the wind carried them away and the place was no more found And the Stone that smot the Image became a great Mountain and filled the whole earth the Lord Christ will break them with a Rod of Iron and dash them in pieces like Potters vessels yea the Kings of the earth that will not submit to him He will strike through Kings in the day of his wrath he will shake all Nations yea not only earth but also Heaven and these promises Prophecies many more is the Lord Christ now making good by his Prerogative Power and hath not God begun this work in this Common-wealth hath not God delivered us out of Egypt by a mighty hand and God hath broken the rod of oppressors as in the day of Midean and I do beleeve the work that God hath begun in England shall go on till he hath made all his enemies his footstool and that great block that lyeth in the way and hinders the peace of many good men that the Witnesses are not slain I do believe for my part that the Witnesses are slain in this Iland I take the Witnesses to be those that have suffered under Antichrist for fourty and two months Rev 11. 2. as Antichrist came in gradually so shall his tyrannical power be taken away gradually First because when Christ begins he will make an end Babylons ruine is like a mighty milstone thrown in the Sea it shall never be found again he will goe Rev. 18. 21. on till Rome bee destroyed Secondly because in the time of Antichrists reign the Witnesses must be clothed in sackcloth but now Rev. 11. 3. God hath taken a way the sackcloth and many of the Saints doe see cause to put on the garment of reioycing and are wayting for the Bridegrooms coming Thirdly the Witnesses having lain three dayes and a halfe dead which is in conformity to Christs death they must stand on their feet againe as blessed bee God they now do in this Iland Fourthly when the Witnesses stand on their feet great feare shall fall on them that see them and are not the enemies of Christ and his people in great feare in these daies who can but see it Fiftly and are not many of the Saints of Christ raised up by the Spirit of God into a glorious admiration of God and into a safe condition out of the reach of the malice and power of their enemies and their enemies be hold them but they cannot hurt Rev. 13 6. Chap 12. 19. them Gods raising up his people is called heaven Sixtly the great Earthquake God hath made of late both in England Ireland and now of late in Scotland which I doe beleeve hath made the territories of Babylon to shake this is called a great Earthquake Rev. 11. 13. Seventhly I do beleeve this Commonwealth was the tenth part of mystical Babylon which now is falen and the powers both in Church and Commonwelth that did oppress the saints is taking away blessed be the Lord and is not the seventh Angel now going to sound and are there not great voices in heaven in the Churches of Christ which is called heaven saying the Kingdomes of the world are become the
he commanded Moses to goe to Pharaoh and tell him that the God of the Hebrews hath sent to him to let his people go but his answer was I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go Oh how unlikly a person was Moses a shepherd to go to so great a King in so strange a buisness how hardly would Moses be perswaded but when God said he would make his Power known by plagueing Pharaoh and the Egyptians and God said he would goe with him if God will goe with any Instruments they shall doe the work God was not tied to raise a great Army no he can make use of a Shepherd to doe the work and he can arme Lice and Flies and Frogs to pull down the pride of Pharaoh But oh how hard a matter was it for Israel to beleeve because Pharaoh did lay heavier burdens on them then before but after God had brought them out by a mighty hand oh what an untroden path did God lead them in they must goe thorow the Red Sea or else Pharaoh would make them bond slaves or destroy them now doth God make his Prerogative Power appeare above what Israel could beleeve by making a way for his people to goe thorow the Red Sea when the Egyptians following them were all drowned so all along throw the wildernesse forty years did God preserve them in a miraculous way they had bread and meat from Heaven and water out of a Rock and yet for all this how few of them did beleeve that God would bring them into Canaan and give them the Land of promise none but Ioshua and Caleb one great reason was because the walles of Iericho were so great and so high but you may see how God did blow them downe with Rams hornes How did Israel at the first hearing of their deliverance Reioyce and bow down their heads and worship God but after God had Exod. â— 13. made his Power known and brought them out of Egypt oh how did they murmur against Moses and Aaron and said they two took too much upon them but did not God destroy them and their carkasses fell in the Wildernesse for murmuring against Moses and Aaron So at the beginning of our Troubles oh how did our Ministers and People rejoyce and blesse God for raysing Instruments to bring them out of Bondage but now God having made his Power known by doing Wonders for us by them oh how doe now the same men murmur against the same Instruments and say they take too much upon them and fain would wee goe back again into Egypt but let these men take heed lest God sware in his wrath they shall never see the new Ierusalem but their children shall see the good Land which many godly men now see a far off Secondly how dark a way was that when Christ came at the first a Virgin should conceive a sonne oh the mighty power of God and love of this Lord and King of Heaven and Earth He must come in the form of a Carpenters sonne none would own him but poore Shepherds and Heathens and afterwards he took poore Fishermen to be his Disciples and a few woemen administred to him how did this blind the great Learned men of the Iewes but here you see how God delights to make his Prerogative Power known when he will doe his greatest works by the most unlikely Instruments but oh how sad a thing was it for them not to know in that their day the things that concerned their peace and not to have rejected their Saviour Oh let it not be sayd of England nor London that they doe slight or refuse the great Salvation that God hath done for us because the Instruments are not so great or so learned lest we be found fighters against God Now seeing God hath made his Prerogative formerly known by doing his greatest works by the least and unlikeliest Instruments that all the glory may be given to him So also doth the word of God declare his Prerogative Power if you read the 32 of Deuteronomy from the 39 verse to the 44 there God saith I kill I make alive I wound and I heale and none can deliver out of my hands So in the first of Samuel the second chap in the 7 and 8 verses the Lord maketh poore and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up he rayseth the poore out of the dunghill to set them among Princes and maketh them to inherit the Thrones of Glory for the pillars of the Earth are the Lords and he hath set the world on them And in the 40 of Iob the 12 and 13 verses He looketh on every one that is proud and bringeth him low and treadeth down the wicked in their places and hideth them in the dust together and bindeth their faces in secret Divers wayes did God make his Prerogatvie Power appeare in the Old Testament First over Angels and Men in pulling down their pride The great Design God had in creating all things was his own Glory and amongst all his creatures he made Angels and Men to be the most glorious and endued them with many priviledges above all other creatures but still he reserved the Prerogative Power to himselfe If the Angels whom God had placed in an excellent condition who had Heaven for their habitation standing in the presence of God beholding his glory if they will not keep their first estate but will lift up themselves God will then make known his Power in destroying them and all their glory and throwing them down out of heaven into hell reserving them in everlasting chaines in utter darknesse unto the judgment of the great Day Iud. ver 6. And also Adam whom God created after his own image and placed him in Paradise and made him Lord over all his creatures here below when hee would exalt himselfe how soon did God destroy him and all his glory and his posterity and drove him out of Paradise and hee and all creatures became accursed if Cain will lord it over his brother Abel and shed his brothers blood God will make his Power known he shall bee accursed and a vagabond on the earth Gen. 4. 11. So if Pharaoh will deal proudly and say who is the Lord and by his power oppress Gods people with cruell bondage and will Exod. 5. 10. not let Israel go at Gods command God will make his Power appear in raysing an Army of Lice and Flies and Frogs to plague Pharaoh and if this will not humble him he hath a Red Sea wherein to drown him and all the malignant Egyptians that followed after Gods people Exod 14. 24. Also Nebuchadnezzar that proud King if hee lift up himselfe and say in the pride of his heart Is not this great Babylon that I have built by the might of my power and for the honour of my Majesty Here you see the pride of this vain man but while the words were in the Kings mouth God told him that the
Kingdom was departed from him and he was driven out from men he did eat grasse with the oxen Oh let all proud Kings know Dan. 4. 30. 31. that the great God hath a Prerogative Power over them he ruleth in the Kingdoms of men he giveth them to whom so ever he will Dan. 4. 17. So if Herod to whom God had given wisdome will harken to the applause of men God will suddenly abase him for the Text saith an Angell of God smot him because hee did not give the glory to God hee was eaten up with Wormes and hee died Acts 12. 23. By these Examples and many more wee may see the great Prerogative Power of God and how fearfull a thing it is to goe about to rob God of his Prerogative Power this sin hath always some Iudgment suddenly at the heeles of it God doth many times abase such proud men in this life for pride goeth before destruction Pro. 6. 18. and a high mind before the fall Secondly Then God maketh his Prerogative Power appear when God stops the natural course of his creatures as when God at the prayer of Ioshua made the Sun the Moon to stand Ioshua 10. 13. still and the Sun to go back ten Degrees and the fiery Oven not to burne the three Children and the Lyons not to destroy Dan. 4. 27. Exod. 14. 16. Daniel and the Red-Sea to stand like walls on both sides till Israel past over God hath the Prerogative Power over all his creatures if the Lord Christ command the Winds and the Seas they must obey him Thirdly God maketh his Power known when he maketh use of the weakest and basest of his creatures for to pull down the pride of man as he did to proud Pharaoh he did send Frogs Caterpillars and Lice and Flies to plague Pharaoh Exod. 9. and all Egypt and also if proud Herod will take the glory to himself which was due to God God will send his Angel to smite him and he shall be eaten up with Wormes Fourthly Then God maketh his Prerogative Power to appear when God makes use of the most unlikely instruments to do the greatest and most miraculous workes by as when God threw down the walls of Jericho with the blowing of Rams horns and the Lord Christ opened the eyes of one that was born blind with clay and spettle and Jonah must be delivered by being swallowed up of a great fish which was a very unlikely way but there is nothing too hard for God to do he hath a Prerogative Power to do what he will and by what means he will See the 6. Fifthly God maketh his mighty Power known when he leadeth people in untrodden paths as he did the people of Israel when he brought them out of Egypt they must go through the Red Sea and fourty years in the Wildernesse and through the waters of Jordane in all these wayes did God make his great Power appear so much the more so also many of the people of God in cases of necessities have gone in wayes that hath been contrary to the rule and revealed word as David did when he did eat the Shew bread which was lawfull for none but the Priest yet Christ said he was blamelesse so Phineas slew Zimry and Cosby he being the high Priest it was not his place to execute justice yet this act of his was well pleasing to God and turned away the wrath of God from the children of Israel and how did God reward him and all the rest that came after him Numb 25. 12. Sixthly The power of God appears when God doth many times his greatest workes by a few and they the most contemptible instruments Gideons Army was too many God would mould them till they came but to three hundred to overthrow the Hoast of the Midianites which were as Grasihoppers Iudges 7. 12. and as the sand of the Sea for number So God those out David to be King the most unlikely of all the sons of Jesse and he must fight with great Goliah that made all the Army of Israel to tremble whose spear was like a Weavers beam yet this David whom his brethren dispised he going in the name of the Lord killeth Goliah here was the power of God the more seen as when Jonathan and his Armor-bearer discomforted the whole Hoast of the Philistims so the Lord Christ chose poore Fisher-men to be his Disciples and leaving the learned Scribes and Pharisees thus God makes his power the more appear when he does do great workes by weak instruments and hath not God done wonderfull things of late by a poore small contemptible new-moddelled Army how hath God by them routed great Armies taken many strong Garrisons these last years it may be said what hath the Lord done by these despised instruments oh what a black cloud was risen in this poore land in Wales in Kent in Surry and that great Army of the Scots never to be forgotten and how did God by his poore instruments making them valiant bring down the pride and power of these bloudy men and surely if men were not blind they would see how God doth own this Army and if God own them let men take heed how they speak or act against them lest they be found fighters against God and God hath made his Prerogative power to appear by this Army that I am perswaded that many Generations to come shall have cause to blesse God for them and they having begun to throw down in this land the out-workes of Rome who knoweth if God will not so highly honour some of them that they may set up their Trophies on the walls of Rome Seventhly God hath made his Prerogative power appear in altering of the government of his Church five times already First God let down a Government to Adam Cain and Abel offered Sacrifice Secondly God let down a Patterne of Government to Moses as you may reade in Leviticus Thirdly God did let down a farther way to David and Solomon when the Temple was to be built Fourthly God let down to Ezra the second Temple the manner how it should be built and all things therein Fifthly The Lord Christ he comes and sets up the Gospel Government which hath continued this sixteen hundred years Now there is one more Government spoken of in the 21. Revel 2. that is the New Jerusalem that must come down from Heaven which will be a glorious time this we waite for which I beleeve will be the last Government on earth Eighthly So also the Lord hath made his Power appeare by changing the Government in the Common-wealth as first the Government was by Abraham the head of the Families secondly Moses a Prophet next Joshua who was a Warrier so Judges continued sometimes they were men sometimes they were women and thus it continued till Samuel's time and this was the most immediate Government of God But when Israel would have a King God told them
they had not onely rejected Samuel but God that he should not rule over them but then God changed the Government upon the request of the people and God bid Samuel go and anoint them a King but God bid Samuel tell them the manner of the Kings that should Reigne over them how they would make slaves of them and take away their estates from them and hath not many Kings done so did not Ahab take Naboths vineyard and much of this hath been done in our dayes then God gave them a King which was Saul but did Saul and his 1 Sam. 14. 14 15 23. sons governe Israel long No God shewed his Prerogative when Saul would not obey the command of God but would fulfill his own will God rejected him and his posterity for being King and set up David his servant in his place and many times did God throw down Kings as he did Ahab and set up others in their stead but when Israel and their Kings begun to sin with a high hand against God and would not repent then God gave them and their King into the hand of the Heathen whom they would be like in having a King as you may read Sam. 8. 5. then was Israel brought under the Babylonish Monarchy Four Monarchies have been already first the Babylonish Monarchy secondly the Persian thirdly the Grecian fourthly the Roman all which Monarchies were shown to Daniel in the dream Now the last which is the fifth which is said to be a Little stone cut out of the Mountaine without hands as you may read Dan. 2. 34 36. Now begun the Prerogative Power of the Lord Christ for it is said He smote the Image on the feet that were made of Iron and Clay and brought to nothing all the other Monarchies as you may read ver 35. and it became a great mountaine and filled the whole earth this is a stone cut out without hands a Kingdom set up by the God of Heaven some divine work and all the Kingdoms and States that were first and last shall be swallowed up under this Kingdom of Christ as appears Dan. 7. 14. There was given to him Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all Nations and Languages shall serve him his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion that shall not passe away and his Kingdom shall not be destroyed Gods Prerogative Power made known in the New Testament and in these last ages of the World THus having spoken something of the Prerogative power of God in the former ages now much might be said of the Power of the Lord Christ in these last ages of the world In the first ages Christ did wonderfully and gloriously make known his Prophetical Office visibly and externally in the world by all the Prophets as Isaiah David Daniel and all the rest of the Prophets so also he was held forth typically in the Cloud in the Pillar of fire in the Rock in the brazen Serpent in the Arke and Tabernacle and in the Temple and all the Sacrifices and the High Priests the Scape Goate all these did hold forth the Prophetical Office of Christ in those dayes of his Prophecy very gloriously to all those that understood the Prophecies Abraham rejoyced to see the dayes of Christ and Daniel longed to understand the vision and oh that men would more study to understand the Old Testament wherein they might see what God would do in all ages In the second age of the world was the Priestly Office of Christ made known visibly externally and gloriously in the world to the amazement both of men and Angels and Devils God testifies of him Math. 3. 17. this is my beloved son whom I promised should come in the fulness of time to brake the Serpents head also the Angels spake glorious things of a Saviour that was born Luke 2. 10. so the wise men they came from far to see this great High Priest and the Apostles were witnesses of all Christ did in the administration of his Priestly Office the Devils confest him and Soldiers and Christ himself was crucified openly on the Crosse all these do declare that in the second age of the world the Lord Christ did openly in the sight of men and Devils fullfil all Promises concerning his Priestly Office and all the Saints must ever since fill up the measure of the sufferings of Christ openly for conformity to Christ this sixteen hundred years The Lord Christ having finished his two Offices a Prophet and a Priest now he shall come as King and we have great ground to believe it as you may read hereafter that the Lord Christ is coming to set up his Prerogative power for now God the Father hath given to his Son all power both in Heaven and earth Matth. 28. 18. now of his enemies that would not have him rule over them he saith bring them and slay them before me now God will give his Son the Heathen for his inheritance and the utmost part of the earth for his possession Psa 2. 8. the Lord Christ hath hitherto been but a suffering and a persecuted King a scoft and a despised King by the Kings of the world but now he will be Lord and King of the whole earth Zach. 14. 9. Now the Lord Christ a sumes to himself a new form different from the form of a servant he is now coming to set up his Prerogative Kingly power to shew to his Saints and to his enemies the great design he is doing in the world this coming of Christ will be very sweet and comfortable to his Saints but terrible to his enemies with an iron rod in his hand and he shall dash them in pieces like Pottets vessels and he shall have his Garments dipt in bloud Rev. 19. 13. his face is like lightening but lovely to his Saints it shineth as the Sun Rev. 1. 16. this great power of the Lord Christ is known by his names and titles given him he is called King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 19. 16. King of Nations Ier. 10. 7. King of Saints a great King Mal. 1. 14. all creatures are at his command the host of Heaven attend him mighty to save the Phil. 1. 9. Lord shall go forth like a Giant he shall stir up courage like a man of war Isa 42. 13. a Wonderful Counseller Isa 9. 6. his name is above all names every knee shall bow to him his Right hand shall doe terrible things make waste Mountains and Hils he is that Little Stone cut out of the Mountayn withour hands that shall break in peeces the Gold Silver Brasse and Iron and Clay Dan. 2. all former Monarchicall Goverments and he shall take to himselfe great Power and Rule he shall be King of the whol Earth and there shall bee given to him Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all Peeple Nations and Languages shall serve him Dan. 7. 14 When will the Lord Christ take to him this great Power and reign as King First when
carry them away and this Stone shall become a great mountain and fill the whole earth Dan. 2. 35. Be incouraged O ye valiant Commanders and Souldiers and subjects of Christ you that have sought the Lords Battels glory and boast in your great General the Lord Christ he is a man of war mighty to save a Giant refreshed with wine a Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah he hath a rod of Iron in his hands he will strike through Kings in the day of his wrath he shall judge among the Nations he shall fill the places with dead bodies the Sword of the Lord is filled with blood for it is the day of the Lords vengeance he will have his garments dipt in blood Isa 34. and the souls of the Heavens shall eat the flesh of Kings and of mighty men Rev. 19. 18. Woe to all the Kings of the earth that oppose the Lord Christ when he comes to reign for the pride of man shall be abased and the Lord alone exalted in that day Isa 2. 10. 11. he will pull down the Cedars the mighty men the greatest of his enemies and may we not think that God is going to throw down Antichrist now in England is not this one of the out-works of Rome you know when Souldiers are against a City they first storm the Out-works now I say brave valiant Commanders and Souldiers of the Lord Christ you that have begun to pull down the Out-works of Rome go on and fight stoutly for your General the Lord Christ you shall see him do more wonders for you and who knoweth but you may be counted worthy to be chosen and saithful to set up your Trophies of triumph on the Walls of Rome which will ere long be done Also the Lord Christ will make his power known in treading Satan under his feet principalities and powers must be subject unto him when Christ reigns Satan must be bound up And I saw an Angel come down from Heaven having the Key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold on the Dragon that old Serpent which is the Devil and he was bound up a thousand years Rev. 20. 1 2 3 10. When we see that devillish malice in men against God and his Saints is taken away then shall the Lyon and the Lamb ly down together they shall not hurt in my holy Mountain then shall we beat our swords into pruning hooks Isaiah 2. 4. We have spoken of Christs Prerogative power in the destroying of his enemies and making them his footstool but after this dark night of trouble will the Son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings when he hath troden the wicked and they shall beas ashes under the soals of his feet Mal. 4. 2 3. Oh the happy times that then will be thine eyes shall see the King in his glory Isa 33. 17. he shall be King of the whole earth Zach. 14. 9. Mal. 1. 14. Isa 59. 19. his Kingdom shall last for ever Isa 59. 19. Dan. 7. 14. that is to the end of the world and then shall he resign up the Kingdom to his Father Luke 1. 3. and God shall be all in all 1 Cor. 15. First Under this glorious Kingly Government of the Lord Christ his great Power shall appear in teaching his Saints abundance of knowledg shall be in the earth for the earth shall be fill'd with the knowledg of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea and it must needs Isa 11. 9. be so for thy Children shall be all taught of the Lord Isa 54. 13. In the last days of the Kingly Government of Christ God will powre out his spirit upon all flesh and their sons and their daughters shall Prophecy many shall run too and fro and knowledg shall encrease That City had no Ioel 2. 28. Dan. 12. 4. need of the Sun nor of the Moon to shine in it for the glory of the Lord did light it and the Lamb is the light thereof Oh how little hath been known of the Gospel and of the Kingly Government of Christ in former times and how abundantly doth it now spread but oh how glorious will the times be when Antichrist shall be destroyed and the Iews called then will all the fulness of these promises be accomplished Secondly Under this Kingly Government of the Lord Christ there shall be greater degrees of holiness among the Saints yea the beauty of holiness in Psa 110. 4. the new Ierusalem upon all the Vessels and upon the horse Bridles shall be holiness to the Lord and an high Zech. 14. 20. way shall be there and it shall be called the way of holiness Esay 35. 8. Revel 21. And I Iohn saw the holy City the new Ierusalem come down from God out of Heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband and all the stones of that City are precious stones which doth set forth that glorious Church under the Kingly Government of the Lord Christ Thirdly There shall abundance of peace and plenty be under the Government of the Lord Christ he will first be like David a man of war but after that be done then he will be like Solomon peace and plenty will be in those days when once Ioshua appears in his glory he will bring down the noise of strangers and the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low Isa 25. 5. the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bonding unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves at the soles of thy feet they shall call thee the City of the Lord the Sion of the holy One of Israel Isa 60. 14. for plenty for brass I will bring gold and for iron I will bring silver and for wood brass and for stones iron I will also make thy Officers be at peace and thine exactors righteousness verse 17. the Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb and the Leopard shall ly down with the Kid at the glorious times of peace in the days of Christs Kingly Government for he is the King of peace and the Prince of peace Isa 9. 6. he will create peace Isa 57. 19. truth and peace shall kiss one another under this Kings reign Fourthly under this peaceable reign of the Lord Christ there shall be a very fruitful time the New Ierusalem shall so encrease that it shall over-spread many Countreys and all Nations shall flow into it Isa 2. 2 then shall they come flocking as Doves to Windowes Isa 60. 8. his peeple shall be a willing peeple in the day of his power then shall the Kingdom of Heaven suffer violence Matth. 11. 12. Bashan was a fruitful Hill but Mount Sion far excells it the valeys shall be full of springs and crouded with Corn Esay 41. 18. they shall shoot for joy and sing the Church shall be as the garden of Eden as the garden of the Lord Esay 51. 3. this is a fruitful time above all others as you may reade Ezek. 34. 25. 26. Esay 49. Zech. 8. 5. from small beginnings it shall grow up into a Mountain and shall fill the whole earth Dan. 2. 34 35. then shall the Kingdoms and Dominions and greatness of the Kingdoms under the whole Heavens be given to the Saints of the most High Dan. 7. 27. Fifthly The last great act of the Lord Christ Power is in the duration of this glorious Church it shall last for ever as long as the world shall last as you may read Dan. 7. 27. his Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and of his Kingdom there shall be no end Dan. 2. 44. Luke 1. 33. Esay 54 8. Chap. 61. 7. and his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion which shall not pass away and of his Kingdom shall not be destroyed Dan. 7. 14. and the Saints of the most High shall take the Kingdom and possess the Kingdom for ever even for ever and ever Dan. 12. 3. Revel 22. 3. 2 Thess 4. 16. 17. Oh the happy and blessed times that will be under the Kingly Government of the Lord Christ when Antichrist shall be utterly destroyed and the Jews and fullness of the Gentles come in When Knowledg shall cover the earth as waters cover the Sea and holiness abound in men and a liberty of all Ordinances and peace and plenty that which the creatures now groan for Rom. 6. 22. the Lyon and the Lamb shall ly down together then we shall beat our swords into Plow shares and our spears into pruning hooks Isa 2. 4. and I will make the place of my feet glorious the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all those that despised thee shall bow themselves at the soles of thy feet Isa 60. 14. and the Kingdom and Dominion and the greatness of the Kingdoms under the whole Heavens shall be given to the Saints of the most High whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him Dan. 7. 27. Oh that the Lord would open our eyes to see the excellency and beauty of Christs Kingdom and pardon our too much neglect of searching the Scriptures concerning the glorious things of Sions beauty which will be ere long the joy of the whole earth the glory and praise of the whole world Isa 62. 7. Psa 48. 2. in spite of men and Devils and all the Powers in the world and of Hell it self Thy Kingdom come Amen Amen