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A44277	Apokalypsis anastaseōs The resurrection revealed, or, The dawnings of the day-star about to rise and radiate a visible incomparable glory far beyond any since the creation upon the universal church on earth for a thousand yeers yet to come, before the ultimate day of the general judgement to the raising of the Jewes, and ruine of all antichristian and secular powers, that do not love the members of Christ, submit to his laws and advance his interest in this design : digested into seven bookes with a synopsis of the whole treatise and two tables, 1 of scriptures, 2 of things, opened in this treatise / by Dr. Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1653 (1653)	Wing H2560; ESTC R4259	649,757	646

day and grant him mercy in the sight of this man For I was the Kings Cup-bearer § 1 THese words we see are spoken by Nehemiah to God in prayer He plants the footing thereof upon Gods promise quoted out of Deut. 30. v. 1. to 10. discussed but now Sect. 7. viz. That though God should for their sinne scatter the whole Nation of the Jewes consisting intirely of twelve Tribes for in that mighty body they were when Moses wrote that of Deuteronomy and disperse them among al● the Nations and cast them out unto the utmost part of Heaven yet that God had promised hee would gather them from thence and would bring them into the place that hee had chosen to place his name there § 2 So that this great Saint Nehemiah layes the great foundation of his faith in prayer for the restoring of the Jewes upon that promise of God delivered by Moses wherein his supplication is an exact directory-application how we should understand that place of Moses as a thing not fulfilled to this day § 3 Nehemiah looks beyond the deliverance from the Babylonish Captivity set on foot by Cyrus and beyond the returne of the Two Tribes As whiles he was in the Babylonish Captivity for so many yeers his soule lived by faith on this promise that he and the rest of his brethren of the two Tribes should be delivered so now that the Two Tribes are returned he still urgeth that promise to perfect the whole worke in what of the latitude and extent thereof it was yet unfulfilled Nehemiah should seem was cleer in that sense of perfecting the returne of the whole twelve Tribes and to have a better settlement in their owne land then this Embryon of imperfection in the present state of Two Tribes returned did represent and according to that sense his faith is strong and his prayer fervent § 4 In all which Nehemiah was very right we our selves being judges For as the threat was of the twelve Tribes in one entire body Deut. 28. and pressed Chap. 29. So the promise Chap. 30. is to them all and touching all Captivities as it is cleerly held forth in severall expressions both in Deut. 30 and in this first of Nehemiah of scattering them among the Gentiles or among all the Nations or of casting them out to the utmost part or end of Heaven and of gathering them thence and fetching them thence For if the Jewes in any of the Captivities that were to follow Moses his words either Philistian Syrian Egyptian or Babylonian should sticke fast and never be delivered Moses his promise and Nehemiahs faith and prayer should come all to nothing And if God deliver some of them from all these Captivities and not all of them from all and from any other that should follow after or continue beyond the fore-named Captivities Nehemiahs faith hope and prayer should not be answered nor his desires satisfied though wrought in him by the extraordinary working of the Spirit of God § 5 But Nehemiah is confident upon this promise that his faith hope and desires in this prayer shall be fulfilled and therefore is he so fervent in urging the said promise now after the two Tribes had been returned out of Babylon at least these twelve yeers for their return was about the 3514 yeer from the Creation And Nehemiahs journey to Hierusalem which he began with his prayer was not till Anno mundi 3527. The good man had in his eye not onely the building of the walls of Hierusalem which was but a small matter in comparison but the returne of the Ten Tribes also which had been carried away afore into Captivity into Assyria and still continued when Nehemiah prayed in that Captivity in Halah and Habor by the River Gozan Cities of the MEDES 2 Kings 18.9 c. For there still they are in Nehemiahs time as appears by the Genealogies of them of the Two Tribes that returned Ezra 2. Nehem. 8. Among whom the Pedigree of the Ten Tribes is not found § 6 Indeed the Two Tribes in the greatest part were returned as an earnest or first fruits of the returne of the rest and for assurance of Christs coming of Judah where God continued them till that was done Christ was born for time and place c. according to the Prophets But this is short of gathering the twelve Tribes from among all Nations and from the utmost end of Heaven The Two Tribes were brought from Babylon to Jerusalem which they say are distant the one from the other about six hundred miles But what is this in comparison of Media and Persia towards the North and North-East of the world the length or ends of Heaven being counted from the North pole to the South or what is this to the gathering of them and since of the Two Tribes also in the greatest part scattered among all Nations as Rab. Ben. Israel and our experience do shew to fetch them from thence § 7 Therefore we conclude as Nehemiah prayed beleeved and hoped so we to this day see that Moses his promise urged by Nehemiah is not the one halfe fulfilled But it shall The Saints prayers and hopes are not lost though sometimes long sown ere they come up The Apostles prayer for the conversion of the Gentile Kings and Nations Act. 4. was answered in Constantine the Great his time though three hundred yeers after And the prayers of the Saints under the Altar Rev. 6. shall be answered though now since above one thousand and five hundred yeers they are not fulfilled SECT X. Wherein severall places of the Psalmes put together into a method according to their aspect towards our maine Position are taken into consideration for the confirmation thereof There are three maine Heads of our Position most pathetically and emphatically prophesied and promised in the Psalmes 1 The UNIVERSAL power of Christ both conversive and coercive over the whole WORLD and correlatively the UNIVERSAL subjection of all the WORLD to Christ either by consent or constraint 2 The JUST TIME of fulfilling this 3 That when this is done the Saints are to INJOY a Sabbatisme on earth § 1 TOuching the first we have many passages of severall Psalmes which partly in their owne nature and partly by the Apostles quotations explications and applications are so curiously wreathed together that in that posture wee shall consider them 1 ¶ The second Psalm with a touch of the eighth is the leader which because it is so familiar to most Readers I shall not need to write it out but onely quote it according as occasion requires It is all along in matter and stile notably accommodated to our worke in hand It is spoken to Jewes and Gentiles v. 1 2. and v. 8. and in those lines it is carried by the Apostles through their times to those in after-Generations Act. 4.24 The occasion whereof was that the Jewish Commonwealth and Government then being mixt with the Roman power so that both of them joyntly concurring

characterism of the Roman State for the times following the abrogation of the religion viz. Gentilisme of their Ancienters and the bringing in Christianisme by Constantine the Great and his Successors By occasion whereof single-life contrary to the ancient institutes of the Romans begins to be preferred afore marriage and to glory in its priviledges * Vid. Sozom. l. 1. c. 9. Euseb de vit Constan l. 4. c. 26. But with all unto the worship of that onely true God to whom they had ingaged themselves with sacred Christian Initiations taken up in Baptism they super-induced new petty-puppet-gods and Idols whom they worshipped not onely in the same Temple but at the same Altar § 7 Vers 38. Mr. M. renders thus For together with GOD * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Similem praefixi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 usum habes Ezr. 15. Lev. 16.21 Num 9.15 ●e shall honour Mahuzzim in his seate I say with GOD whom his Ancienters acknowledged not he shall honour THEM with gold and silver and precious stones and desireable things For saith M. these are they whom the holy Spirit cals Mahuzzim that is Defenders or itular-Deities with which sort of titles of deceased Saints and Angels the Romans worship them as their Patrons Protectors and Mediators between God and men * Vide inquit M.M. commen ●●cas●ad 6 Tub. p. 114 115. For the confirmation of which signification I speake of it maketh that the Septuagint renders 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Psalmes fives times by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Defender as with a Buckler and the Vulgar latine so often by protectorem a protector videsis loca § 8 Verse 39. And according to Mr. M. translations he shall make fortifications common to Mahuzzim and THE STRANGE GOD whom acknowledging he shall aboundantly honour and shall make them the fortifications or Mahuzzim to rule over many and shall divide the land for a reward Where saith Mr. M. are understood either the Temples of the Mahuzzim to be dedicated in common to GOD whom he had chosen having nulled the religion of his Ancesters and to Mahuzzim juxta formulam N. or N. whose reliques are wont there to be placed so that indeed it may be the same with that which went afore he shall honour Mahuzzim in his seate that is in the seat of God which his fore-fathers acknowledged not or perhaps the Images are so called in which their Deities are visibly set up as cloathed with coates of Maile or armour of defence For indeed with the same or the like similitudes or Images with which the Roman represented his petty-puppet gods and Mahuzzim he would likewise represent the zealous or jealous God of Israel whom he had chosen to himselfe to worship And moreover these Temples or Images of his Mahuzzim or if you had rather those Mahuzzims themselves he shall make to bear rule over many and shall divide unto them the Land for a patrimony and territory A known thing § 7 Moreover because it addes as a thing of great moment to the interpretation of this prophesie I would not have it escape the observation of the reader That even as by the Jewes who had the onely true GOD of their Fathers the Gods of the Nations were accounted and called strange Gods So on the contrary by the Romans who were the worshippers of false Deities from the very beginning of that Nation the true God was accounted and called the strange God and indeed only and solely HE For as much as Leo the Great hath it in one of his Sermons when Rome did domineer almost over all Nations she served or adored the errors of all Nations and seemed to assume to her selfe great religion because it refused no falsity From this mind proceeded that of the Philosophers when Paul preached the Gospell at Athens * Act. 17 18. He seems say they to be a setter forth or declarer of STRANGE GODS And to the same purpose tended that inscription † Ibid. ver 23. alleadged by the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 TO THE UNKNOWNE AND STRANGE GOD ** The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strange is not in our ordinary Greek copies But Mr. Mede reads according to the Greek Scholia whose words are these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ΘΕΟΙΣ ΑΣΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΕγΡΩΜΠΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΒγΗΣ ΘΕΩ ΑΙΝΩΣΤΩ ΚΑΙ ΞΕΝΩ That is The whole inscription of the Altar is this To the Gods of ASIA and of EUROPE and of LIBYA To the UNKNOWNE AND STRANGE GOD. Beza also mentions the same reciting Philippida his History with Pausanias in Atticis And Hieron in Tit. 1. What say you to this that Licinius about to enter into that criticall or deciding battle with Constantine doth expressely by name upbraid him That having violated his Fathers Institutes Ordinances or Customes had chosen to himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a certaine strange God to be worshipped by him But on the contrary he himselfe with his Army did worship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Fathers Gods which they had left him from their progenitors since their beginning *⁎* Vid. orat Licinii ad militapud Euseb l. 2. c. 5. De vitâ Constant●ni § 8 Verse 40. And or but in the time of the end as Mr. M. translates the King of the South shall invade or set upon him by War and the King of the North shall rush in upon him as a whirle-wind with charriots and horse-men and mighty ships and entering into the Countries hee shall overflow and passe through On which Mr. M. comments thus But saith he for so heinous a commixtion and against GOD impatient of a Corrivall and an Image he the Roman shall bee punished by the Saracens from the South rushing into his provinces and snatching away a very great part Then after by the Turkes a Northerne Nation who indeed should first assault the Saracens but having overthrowne their Empire shall so passe over their borders towards the Romans that they shall bring upon the Roman world a destruction that shall bee by far the most grievous and greatest that ever hath been heretofore or untill the finall destruction ☞ of them now at the doore enforce it to bee taken away Note here and in comparing the next verse viz. 41. the former part that the time of the end wherein those evills from the South and from the North shall lye and presse upon the Romans are fore-told to be the last period of the Roman State which is elsewhere defined within the course or current of a time and times and halfe a time in which that King should audaciously presume to practise so great a wickednesse against the GOD OF THE CHRISTIANS whose worship not long afore he had taken up For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at the time of the end is of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the latter times or of the Roman Kingdome when the King of the South i. e. the Saracen shall push at him and the King of the North i.

degenerating into pontificall From the fortieth verse to the end of the chapter it is described so far forth as it became first Saracenicall and then Turkish For the King of the South intends the Saracens who next to the Romans were the immediate oppressors of the Jewes which Saracens were described to be a people of the South 1. Because of their rise who arose out of Arabia which is Southward from Judea 2. Because of their seat who planted themselves in Egypt Alexandria being their Imperiall City of their Souldan which was also South from Judea The King of the North intends the Turke who next to the Saracens were the immediate oppressors of the Jewes the Turk winning from the Romans several Countries of their Empire These Turkes have the notation of a people of the North partly because they arose out of Scythia being the Natives thereof which was North from Judea partly because they possessed the Country of Syria which was North from Judea Of the Romans oppressing the Jewes we heard afore on Chapter 2. and Chapter 7. and hinted in this in verse 36. as instruments of Gods indignation Which held to the Apostles times and further as we shall hear more after The Turkes joyning with the Saracens beat the Romans out of Judea and severall other Countries adjacent but to no advantage of the Jew the Jewes hereby onely changing their oppressor but not their oppression into a deliverance as hath been touched afore upon the 40 and 41 verses in this chapter § 17 The deliverance of the Jewes from these oppressors 1. From the Roman Empire as Roman is hinted in verse 36. in those words till the indignation be accomplished for that that is determined shall be done that is the time of Gods wrath against the Jewes is but for a certain terme of yeares There must be a deliverance of the Jewes c. after the period of this misery as Daniel hath more abundantly declared in the former part of this his booke Their deliverance from the Roman last Monarchy so far as it was become Saraceno-Turkish is expressed verse 44 45. But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him therefore he shall goe forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away with many and although he shall plant the Tabernacle of his Palace between the Seas in the glorious mountaine yet he shall come to his end and none shall helpe him That is the Jews rising up in the bordering Countries lying East and North from Judea thereby become the object of the Turkish fury in their owne land The application of these rumours from the East are ill applyed to Antiochus disquieted about the Parthian warres And as ill are the reports of the commotions from the North applyed to Judas Maccabaeus his prevailing as Mr. Huet hath learnedly demonstrated But that they plainly signifie the rising of the Jewes as aforesaid thereby provoking the Turke severall arguments speak strongly ¶ 1. This propheticall booke of Daniel hath constantly kept in all the Chapters preceding viz. chap. 2. chap. 7. chap. 8. chap. 9. and chap. 10. wherein hath been mentioned the misery of the Jews under the foure Monarchies of the world I say hath constantly kept this method to annex a close concerning the delivery of the Jewes it being the scope of this whole Book to set forth the Trage-Comedy of the Jewish state the Ante-Scene or prelude to be sad to the Jewes glad to their enemies but the Catastrophe and turn of the stage and state of things as glad to the Jewes sad to their enemies the Jewes deliverance arising out of their enemies ruine The Holy Ghost well minding the sad captivity of the Jewes at the time of this prophesie and therefore had dear need upon any mention of their oppressions and continuance of them of some comfort at least to bee presently added Now unlesse this comfort of their deliverance bee here hinted this method is quite broken off ¶ 2. Daniel holds this method in the 12. chapter For mentioning the Jewes troubles the first verse hinting them againe in the third verse he spends the rest of the chapter in discovering their deliverance This therefore being the method of the holy Spirit in the mouth of Daniel from first to last in this prophesie it is altogether most improbable that it should bee omitted in the eleventh chapter ¶ 3. The conversion of the Jewes is prophesied expressely to come from the East Revel 16.12 in mentioning the drying up of the great river Euphrates that the way of the Kings of the EAST might be prepared ¶ 4. It is observed that at this day the Jewes are especially conversant in those Eastern parts neare Judea hankering after Canaan for the sake of whose residence there the Arabian parts thereabouts viz. Ammon Edom Moab c. are spared by speciall divine providence as is intimated afore v. 41. ¶ 5. The enemy himselfe for the prevention if he might of the returne of the Jewes into their owne land pitched ver 45. the Tabernacle of his palace in Judea therefore there and thereabouts especially shall be the insurrection of the Iewes § 18 But notwithstanding all the power and prudence of the Turkish enemy he shall vers 45. come to his end by the said rising of the Iewes to re-possesse themselves of Iudea § 19 For * Our Translators render it And. But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is oft and must of necessity be rendred For as we gave instances afore and most congruously to the sence is here so rendred at that time saith Daniel chap. 12. vers 1. shall Michael stand up the great Prince who standeth for the children of thy people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation even to that same time And at that time thy people shall be delivered By which words considered in their substance and dependence we may perceive the necessity of our opening so much of the eleventh chapter as hath been presented to you For the whole of that and this put together clearly amounts to thus much in expresse termes that at the end of the fourth Monarchy Christ most fitly called Michael which signifies who is as God stands up to deliver the Jewes called the children of Daniels people or Nation and that as well from their civill bondage as from their spirituall Now this cannot be at the ultimate generall judgement For first Then are the Iewes no more delivered then any other people of other nations who were beleevers Which were but a small priviledge to the JEWES as to them in peculiar And a small comfort to them now in captivity that their full deliverance from captivities under Tyrants should not be till the last day of the generall Judgement 2. Nor can the Jewes then be so delivered unlesse they be first grafted in againe by faith as the Apostle speakes Rom. 11. the last judgement being a destruction not a deliverance of

at first created being at length RENOVATED or made new it shall put on a face that shall be far more pleasant and beautiful All which is understood of a stare and time on earth afore the ultimate judgement For the next Question following in that Catechisme is concerning that Q. Deinde autem quid superest But after that what remaines A. Ultimum generale judicium the ultimate and general judgement for Christ shall come c. ¶ 2 Touching certaine parts and circumstantials of our opinion as that there shall be yet afore the ultimate end of the world a glorious time of the universal call of the Jews was the judgement of Chrysostome Orat. de vocat Judaecorum Paragraph 7. Hilary Austin Ambrose and Jerome whom for that Dr. Prideaux quotes and consents with them * And touching the coming of Elijah before the next coming of Christ was the general opinion of the Fathers as Dr. Iohn Alsted quotes and asserts ¶ 3 Of later Writers touching parcels of our opinion wee might quote many 1 Wendelinus in his natural Contemplations 2 Hieron Zanchius on Hof 3. 3 Functius his Chronologie 4 Rivetus on Hos 3. 5 Peter Martyr in his Common Places Class 2. cap. 4. and cap. 16. 6 Pareus on Rom. 11. Explicat dubiorum Johannes de Comb is compend Totius Theolog. Lib. 7. cap. 13. Alphonsus Conradus Of Mantua in his Commentary on the Revelation doth superabound upon the main point I will give you but some few special touches in his Commentary on Rev. We may see saith he that diverse hold that between Christs comming in the flesh and comming in Majesty there is a middle comming of spiritual power and force to destroy the great Antichrist and to reforme the Church This comming they say shall be in the end of the sixth Millenary or thousand yeers of which comming they make Enoch and Elijah the fore-runners They say that Antichrist shall bee destroyed by their preaching and his Kingdome abolished After which down-fall peace shall be granted to the Church and Satan shall be bound so that hee shall not bee able to disturbe the tranquillity thereof Now this peace and happy progresse of the Church they say shall last for the whole seventh Millenary till the last time of her troubles by the persecution of the Nations Gog and Magog because of Satan who they say shall then bee at liberty stirring them up against the godly These words quoted by Dr. John Alsted in his Treatise of the thousand yeers inferres this From hence it appeares saith Alsled that our opinion concerning these thousand yeers is no new and unheard-of thing As for Alsonsus Conradus his owne opinion heare a little of that First in his Preface This one thing perhaps saith he may offend the eares of some because I seem to promise a more plentifull peace to the Church then that likenesse of the crosse will allow of in which in this world the Church must be made conformable to Christ its head But let them bethinke themselves that this is not so contrary to the Scripture that it should bee objected against mee or laid to my charge as fit to bee reckoned in the number of those which are termed either impious or absurd Especially when as I cannot perceive by what meanes that happinesse which John writes the Church shall injoy Satan being bound can be made good except wee acknowledge some rest of the Church her enemies being overthrowne which I thinke indeed ever happened as often as the enemies of Gods people have been removed out of the way Now because the enemy John tells us shall be removed is more dangerous then all that ever yet infested Gods people it ought not to seem strange to any one if hee being once overcome the Church injoy a more plentifull peace then usuall Secondly in his Comment on Rev. 20.1 God being about to bestow saith Alsonsus a more plentifull peace on his Church then heretofore it sufficeth not him to have removed out of the way the BEAST and those Kings of the earth with an horrible slaughter except also he restrain Satan the beginner of all these mischiefes so that he may not raise any more those usuall strifes among them Wherefore the Angel comes down from heaven who repressing the fury of Satan shutteth him up as long as he pleases not to have the Churches peace to bee taken away So hee shutteth him up for a thousand yeers i.e. for that whole time that he will not have the Churches peace disturbed So far Alsonsus 9 There is a touch also in Matthew Cotterius in his Contin demonstr●expos of the Revelat. on Chap. 20. of this thousand yeers of which we speake onely he begins his thousand yeers a hundred and odd yeers too soon At which time as Alsted well observes is but the Praeludium 10 Adde to these the words of John Piscator an Author of esteem common among us in his Comment on the Revelation The happinesse of the faithfull who shall live upon earth after the down-fall of the Papacy is their great security from the hostile invasions of the wicked for a thousand yeers The singular happinesse of the Martyrs of Christ who before those thousand yeers indured persecution is their resurrection which shall be before the general Resurrection And in a Treatise hee wrote afore his death of which Dr. John Alsted had the perusall the said Piscator wrote much more of this our point which the said Alsted transcribed as he confesseth into his Treatise of the thousand yeers Give me leave to borrow but a little more of your patience and I will give you much in few words Many Writers of the former and this present age have published many things concerning Elias the Artist who is to come of the Lyon of the North who is neer at hand Of a fourth Northern Monarchy Of a great Reformation Of the conversion of the Jews c. See Theophrastus Paracelsus Michael Sendivogius in his Treatise of Sulphur Stephanus Pannonius of the circle of the works and judgements of God where among other things he writes thus It shall come to passe that the pure Gospel shall bee preached to the Americans before the end of the World That nothing is more sure then that the reformation of the East and South drawing on some famous Emperour whose types were Constantine and Theodosius both entituled the Great shall openly shew himselfe and granting liberty of Religion to them who professe the name of the holy Trinity shall do some great matter in the world for the glory of God for the re-building up of the Church and for the down-fall of Antichrist The Eastern Christians fired with the zeal of Christ shall make their way into ASIA it s●●e and provoke the Jews to jealousie Rom. 11. And the spiritual baby●on shall be a prey to all Nations A resining of the Souldiers of God whereof is mention Zech. 13.8 9. i.e. Temptations and trials shall goe before this