we hope to shew and therefore these Revelations of all such last things are not to be explained by other Scriptures that speak not of such things but all others that either speak in general of them or not explicitly of many of the said particulars are in those respects to be explained by our Saviours Revelation whose wisdom is infallible his truth unerring being the saithful and true witness and all such his Revelations are utmost resolutions in the case and sure foundations therein to rest upon and the rather because of the Divine charge to the contrary with the terrible penalty annexed unto these Doctrines which is very evident doth respect the same especially Chap. 22.18.19 concerning willing at least or much more willful adding to or taking away any thing from the Prophesie of this Book which ought not slightly to be overlooked besides many other considerations which might be added that of 1 Cor. 15. ver 23. as the Revelation explains it Christ was the first fruits of the Saints Resurrection above 1600 years before his coming at Antichrists destruction when the suffering Sts. shall rise which he brings with him ita deinde as saith the Apostle then cometh the end as in Rev. 20.1000 years after and more and a reason is added all Christs enemies must first be put under his feet viz. first Ezekiels Gog Magog Turk Pope as we shewed and all taken then out of Christs Kingdom that offend and 1000 years after when the last Gog and Magog Rev 20. shall be destroyed and the Devil that seduced them cast into the lake of fire then will the last enemy death also be destroyed but in the interim all the said thousand years saith the Apostle he must reign till that last enemy death be also destroyed after which he will deliver up his Davidical Kingdom to the Father as was said ver 24. but at ver 51 52. he declares certain mysteries not known before concerning the general sudden rapture and change at the last Trump and last Resurrection which suit with Revelation order also though those mysteries and Christs last descending with a shout at the same time 1 Thes 4. seem to be only revealed to the Apostle Paul yet the distinction of Christs bringing his said Saints with him at his next coming 1 Thes 3.13 and 4.14 and his sudden rapping them up above 1000 years after to meet him in the Air when he descends with the said Trump of God v. 16. at the coming of the Lord as it is also called ver 15. from which time they shall ever be with the Lord which was not true from the former as by Revel 20. is manifest which is also another evident ground of distinguishing the same and by the Revelation-order so to be explained which is not to be understood according to any mens apprehensions of other Scriptures but other Scriptures to be explained by that in all such matters as God hath given unto Christ in that most Divine Book to resolve his Church of in such particulars therein held out and as for that of Peter 2.3 upon which some mistaken apprehensions of some seem to have put some difficulties by the help of the Revel may easily be resolved if we consider he speaks both of the Scoffers of the last times and to faithful Christians likewise and suits considerations useful for both to the Scoffers he offers the consideration of the day of the Lord that is the great day of Judgment wherein is the morning Judgment contained when Christ is said to come as a thief at the end of the 6th Vial Rev. 16.15 about the Armageddon battle as here he is said also to come as a thief in the night then will be the consuming of the body of the Beast by fire Dan. 7. and ver 10. a fiery stream issued from the Ancient of days at that Judgment but this seems by our Saviour besides other considerations to be a partial destruction chiefly falling upon wicked men compared Luk. 17. to Sodoms and Gomorrahs destruction that will find out such where they are But then the deluge of fire and the passing away of the Heavens as Rev. 20.11 both which by Revelation-Prophesie are manifest to be above 1000 years after the Armageddon-battle when the Beast and salse Prophet were taken and said to be cast into the lake of fire burning with Brimstone Rev. 19.20 but both these burnings the first partial the second general and ultimate are contained in the day of the Lord or the Judgment of the Great Day as Christs Revelation also teacheth without which this Text with many others could not be soundly resolved for his bringing in the exception of the New Heavens and New Earth v. 13. that is on the Saints part to comfort them against the Scoffers in these bad times not that they will be after the last destruction of the World but that there was such an happy state coming on wherein they were interessed though both at the beginning and ending of the day of the Lord such fiery Vengeance was in store for such wicked Scoffers hardned by Gods long sufferance in these last Days which the Apostle prophetically spake of and this Exposition from the warrant of this Divine Book given particularly for many such purposes and therefore stiled the Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him to shew unto his Servants c. is more satisfying to my Conscience than all the differing apprehensions of men whatsoever concerning the same Quest And whereas it may be questioned by some whether these Interpretations being mysterious be according to the intent of the Writers of those or the like said portions of Scriptures Answ That is not so much to be respected as that they be according to the minds of the Inditer of them who taught all his Messengers and Amanuenses to write and deliver what was Divine and sacred truth whether he gave them full Interpretations of them at the same time or not sometimes it is evident he did not as when Daniel was denied the knowledge of the times of the end therefore he said I heard but I understood not Dan. 12. and the Disciples could not understand the fulfilling of the Prophesie of Hosea Ch. 1. of the calling of the Gentiles then till by Vision to Peter and and gifts of the Spirit and the like he had resolved them and it seems probable that neither Moses in his Song for Posterity Deut. 32. or threatnings in order Lev. 26. or in penning Jacobs Prophefie or Balaams Parable as they all respected the last times did so understand them so whether the Apostle Paul or Peter in those things being guided by the Spirit of Christ to write concerning matters directly respecting the last times did know the particular meaning of them in those respects as they are explained since by the Book of Revelation I must ingeniously acknowledge that in things which were so by the same Spirit of Christ further in due time to be
of all things saith the Apostle Peter Acts 3.19 20 21. for they all contemporate 4. To assure us of the beginning then also of that said happy state of Christs Church chap. 11.18 19 19.6 7. for when Christ comes in the Clouds he brings all his Saints with him who probably may have that honour to execute that wrath in part upon those Enemies who shall then also in that Judgment receive their reward Dan. 7.13 14. ver 22. Rev. 11.18 to teach all Gods people then to lift up their heads as our Saviour directs Luke 21.28.31 because their Redemption is neer and that Kingdome of God also and though there will be then great shakings of the Enemies out of the world as Numb 25. Es 2.17 18 19. yet God will send his Angels then to gather his Elect from the four corners of the Earth Mat. 24.3 and two shall be then in the field the one shall be taken the other left v. 40 c. To the third Question we Answer That these generals of Christs Kingdome are explained in the following Chapters after Antichrists ruine to shew the first eminent act of power Christ will manifest when he begins to reign will be to remove that great offender out of the way who hath so long obstructed the happy communion of God and Christ with all the Saints which they shall enjoy upon his removal when the said Marriage of the Lamb takes place and Gods antient people are turned to him as was said 2. Because that is the eminent breaking of the Serpents head by the first Judgment revealed to Enoch seen in Vision by Daniel Dan. 7. explained and confirmed and to be fulfilled by Christ Rev. 11.18 chap. 19. as may farther after appear c. which first Judgment of the wicked quick is that removens prâ—hibens removing the hinderance and therefore seems first necessary to be done to make way for that said happy ensuing state as Mat 13.41 42. and is an eminent breaking of the Serpents head as the destroying the last Enemy Death will be the total and final breaking thereof The next Question is What is meant ver 9. by that they are said to be blessed that are called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb 2. Why the Apostle John is commanded to write it 3. Why the Angel adds as he testifiedth These are the true sayings of God 4. Why the Angel resisting his attempt to worship him enjoyns him to worship God as in chap. 22.9 5. Why he tells him he is his fellow Servant and of his Brethren the Prophets chap. 22. and here adds That have the Testimony of Jesus and then adds Worship God giving this reason For the Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophesie To resolve the first Question these three things are to be considered First What is meant by the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. 2. What is their Calling to it 3. How they are said to be blessed that are called to it and these we desire a little to explain though but in our passage because they have been misapplyed formerly 1. The Marriage Supper of the Lamb is the ensuing destruction of the Beast and the like wicked Enemies shortly after the Whore chap. 18. for which the many said Halelujahs were sung when in such a terrible powerful and glorious manner Christ comes to destroy them with his heavenly Armies and his Garments dipt in blood and takes the Beast and false Prophet and casts them into the fiery lake for ever and that is denoted by the great Voice of the Angel standing in the Sun to call all the Fowls to the same Supper ver 18. who also were filled with their flesh ver last who were slain with the Sword of Christs mouth that is according to his Word who is therefore said in Righteousness to Judge and make War ver 11. and then to judge because it will be the first act of his Judgment as chap. 11.18 2. This sense may farther appear from other like expressions in Scripture of a Sacrifice God will make of his Enemies or a Supper or Feast as here so Esa 346. a great part of that c. and v. 4. is applyed to the destruction of those Pagan Persecutors Rev. 6. the like also Jer. 46.10 Gods day of Vengeance is called a Sacrifice But most pertinent is that of Gogs the Turks destruction at or about the same time Ezek. 39.17 18 19 c. yea and of Magog likewife the Pope v. 6. briefly there mentioned because it was to be farther explained in the New Testament as the Jews Enemy the Turk is largly in the Old see our 4th Obser of both which those hints of Reasons seem considerable besides many others both in Ezek. Dan. and the Book of Revelation 1. Because the Turk is stiled Gog in the Land of Magog ver 1. that is in the Roman Empire a great part whereof he should subdue unto himself 2. This is farther manifest in that he is designed by God to be the great Ruiner of that Empire to revenge upon it the blood of the Saints shed before under the Red Dragon being acknowledged by many to be the 2d Woe or 6th Trumpet falling chiefly on the Eastern Empire 3. He is a greater Ruiner of it than the Saracens before him who did but push at it and got scarce half so much as he hath since over-flowed in it by his multitudes Dan. 11.40 41 42 c. 4. Magog v. 6. is described to be in the Isles as the Jews reckoned all remote from their own continent to live in the Isles 5. God saith there he will send fire on Magog which will also be the means of the Beasts destruction Dan. 7.9 10. when his body will be given to the burning flame 6. As was hinted what was spoken largly of Gog the Jews enemy that holds their Land also from them in the Old Testament is left for Christ largly to explain of the ruine of Magog the Pope the great Enemy of Christians in the New Testament who hath all his 42 months trampled the holy City under foot till then 7. Both are said to be in the latter or postremity of dayes Ezek. 38.8 16. with the Revelation and both to be ruined about the Jews Conversion to be as we shewed in the latter dayes Jer. 23.20 and Jer. 30.24 for at Christs appearance the Jews will be delivered Dan. 12.1 and the man of Sin will be destroyed at the appearance of Christs coming 2 Thes 2.8 2. They are called to it namely to that Marriage Supper who have the word of God for their sure ground of coming to it for Christ will then slay such with the sword of his mouth which is the Judgment written when all predictions of the Beasts destruction shall take effect 2. When by his providence he remarkably points out that work to be done by them the Angel is said then to stand in the Sun to call all the Fowls to that Supper which seems to note
be part of the Restitution which God will then effect as we hope in due place farther to manifest from this Text. But for the clearer discovery of what hath been said let us a little look back again to the beginning of this Chapter where it is said this Holy Man had the Visions of the New Heavens and the New Earth which as to their time was not after the last Judgment as was said neither is there placed before it that usual expression in this Book when things which follow are spoken of After this I saw as chap. 18.1 chap. 19.1 but are 1000 years before it as is very evident neither is it any New making of the Material frame of them but they will be Prophetical Heavens and Earth as was said suitable to that Kingdome wherein Christ will reign with his raised Saints as the wood witnesseth of which Kingdom these are to be considered as the integral parts for never came such a King into the world before that must not only have all Nations to do him service and the Heathen to be given to him for his Inheritance and the utmost parts of the Earth for his possession but when he comes all the Elohim Angels or Gods must Worship him yea all knees in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth must then bow and be subject to him owning him to be Lord but he must also then have those New Heavens and New Earth then made for him and his Spouse As Satan had his Mystical Heavens before when the Pagans worshipped Sun Moon and Stars Their Mercury Jupiter Mars Apollo with the multitudes of their Heathenish false Deities And hence it was under Christs spiritual Kingdome of the Stone that there was in the primitive times a great Battel in Heaven betwixt Michael and his Angels and the Dragon and his Angels Rev. 12. but the issue thereof was that the Dragon was cast down from his Heaven to the Earth And as God very remarkably by the Ministry of the Prophet Jeromiah caused it to be proclaimed before the Captivity of Babylon chap. 10.11 and that verse is only written as Mr. Mede well observes in the Caldean Language whither that People was shortly after to be led Captives The Gods said he that made not the Heavens nor the Earth even they shall perish from the Earth and from under these Heavens and accordingly chap. 25. God sent by him a Cup of Wrath to be drunk by those many Nations that owned such Gods And afterwards neither Bell nor Merodach of the Caldeans could save themselves or their Worshippers from their Enemies nor the Graecian Monsters and multitudes of feigned Gods and Goddesses could deliver themselves or those that served them and when Pagan Rome had ingrossed the Idol Gods of all Nations which they subdued they were at Christs first coming struck dumb and ceased to deliver their Oracles as formerly and after by Constantine the Dragon was cast out of his Heaven to the Earth and likewise that Beast that rose out of the Earth afterwards with all his Paganized Christianity of Popish Idolatry will shortly also find Jeremiahs Proclamation true That such Idol Gods shall perish from the Earth and from under these Heavens for not only all such supposed Heathen Gods but all Pagano-Christian Idols also will be then totally and finally casheired for ever out of the World Psal 97.7 Esa 2. And such like Heavens were ascribed in Scripture to Kingdoms and States according to many Oriental Notions as Mr. Mede observed who reckoned what was Superiour in their States were their Heavens as Monarchs and Governours and what was Inferiour their Earth But these New Heavens and New Earth being of an Heavenly Excellency not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Opinions or Customs of the vain World but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to Truth are to be taken for what God hath promised then and as his Word sets them forth the Heaven of Angels will come with Christ then to wait upon him and to worship him and Christ coming personally with them then will make it an Heaven indeed and then also he brings all his Saints that sleep in Jesus with him so that there will also be then an Heaven of Saints also as he speaketh at the Whores Destruction chap. 18.20 Rejoyce thou Heaven ye Apostles and Prophets and even that Mystical Heaven the New Jerusalem shall then come from God out of Heaven as is explained v. 2. which is called the Bride the Lambs Wife ver 9. and for her also with the Lamb be made then also the New Earth wherein will dwell Righteousness 2 Pet. 3. when not only the Tabernacle of God will be with men as ver 3. but her Officers shall be Peace and her Exactors Righteousness Esa 60.17 and all that happiness in that time of refreshment from the presence of the Lord Acts 3. and as follows ver 4. that God will not only wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death nor crying nor pain but Christ will personally dwell with them in that Tabernacle wherein he was before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only for a little while made lower than the Angels as we said but then he will be exalted far above all Principalities and Powers and every Name c. and continue to dwell with them and be their God and they shall be his people and for the assured making of these Integral parts of Chtists said Kingdome viz. the New Heavens and the New Earth is Gods great glorious and gracious undertaking at that time set forth in this text and he that sate upon the Throne said Behold I make all things new c. Now having thus prepared the way by removing these former difficulties and opening the context we shall by Gods assistance proceed to consider the Text it self both in respect of the words and sence thereof which is a farther step and degree of that most excellent Vision given to this beloved Apostle and saith he he that sat upon the Throne said behold I make all things New In which words we have a most excellent declaration of the compleating of Christs outward visible work of Redemption in the world with its Illustration and Confirmation the Declaration is of the happy Renovation of all things in that very determined point of time and occurrence of affairs which the Series and order of this Vision leads to I make that is I now make when the great Enemies are destroyed and Christs Davidical Kingdom is to take place and the Saints raised even in that state of things I make all things New for Christs unalterable order of these things is a doctrinal Foundation as was said and this most Divine Declaration is first Illustrated from the person that spake the words and undertakes the work whole speaking then will be doing as at first so said the Psalmist He spake the word and they were made he commanded and they were created so when the
Christ by faith wrought in believers Souls by the powerful operation of the Holy Ghost but these times of restitution of all things we speak of are quite another thing to be fulfilled for Christ and his Saints at his second coming which the first made way for when the outward visible total and final Redemption will be fulfilled as well as the inward for Satan remains still the God of the world and Prince of the Power of the Air and works effectually in the Children of disobedience 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which will not believe and he they both bring much suffering and persecutions upon the Saints but in the following renovation they will both be taken off so that the Servants of Christ shall then serve him in righteousness and true holiness before him without fear of their enemies all the days of their lives which is the mercy promised to the Fathers as Zacharias sweetly sings out Luke 1 72 74 75. for then the inward and spiritual work of Redemption will be much more perfected in the Saints as well as the outward and visible for the Saints And thus much for answer to that Objection Now to proceed to consider what these times are how set forth in Holy Scripture and how it doth appear that they are now near approaching for the resolution whereof we must chiefly make use of this most Divine Book of Revelation with some of Daniels Visions respecting the same times as they are by Christ more fully explained in their due series and order which is a matter of very great use in all the sufferings times of the Church to Chap. 19. but after of much advantage and benefit for the Church of God in those good and happy times to which our Saviours Divine Key of these things hath special reference and is graciously given by him to open the Mysteries of them for the great use and consolation of his people in these later days to which purpose we shall consider those principal Texts of Scripture that have their reference unto those latter days The first is that great declaration of God upon the Fall of man Gen. 3.15 which is the most comprehensive of all others both containing removal of evil conferring of good in the Restitution of all things upon which accounts Christ hath ever since proceeded in the execution of all his three great Offices of the great Prophet Priest and King for his Universal true Church as the work his Father gave him to do until he make his great enemies his footstool eminently by destroying of wicked men that destroyed the earth and binding of Satan so to still the enemy and the avenger and finally at his casting him into the Lake of fire as was shewed from Holy Scripture when he will be utterly stilled for by reason of prevailing sin he brought the old world to suffer the Vengeance of the Deluge by Waters and Sodom and Gomorrah to be consumed with fire and brimstone from Heaven and even Gods people to be led captive by the Assyrians and Caldeans with all other miseries befalling for sin before and since Christ stilled him in good measure at his first coming when he was struck dumb and his Oracles put to silence and more stilled him under the sixth Seal when he was cast down from his Regencie of Heathenish Idolatry in his Heavens under the Pagan-Rulers unto the earth whereupon in his great wrath he betook him to his last designe of setting up the twofold Beast to continue till the said great stilling of him in the 1000 years also that great Oracle of God Psal 110.1 much spoken of in the New Testament hath also direct relation unto the said times when Christ shall cease to sit at his Fathers right hand in Heaven and his enemies as was said be made his footstool till which times saith the Apostle Peter also Acts 3.31 the Heavens must receive Christ viz. till these times of restitution of all things deciphered in the Text by him that sits upon the Throne when his Church will be refreshed with Christs presence and the Tabernacle of God then be with men and he dwell with them that space of the 1000 years c. in the third verse of this Chapter till which times the Apostle saith Heb. 10.13 Christ sits there expecting till his foes be made his footstool when Turk and Pope who stand in the way to hinder Christs said Kingdom shall be destroyed Unto these times also relates that great promise made by God unto Abraham upon that great act of his faith and obedience in sacrificing his Son Isaac Gen. 22. that his seed should possess the Gates of his Enemies though it was partially and typically performed in subduing such as would have stopped their passage or hindred their possession of the promised Land above 400 years after when the iniquities of the Amorites were arrived to their fulness but the great possessiou will be given to the Divine Seed Christ at his second coming and by him to all the spiritual seed and that so as never to be cast out again as 2 Sam. 7. when they shall remove no more from it as also many other Scriptures manifest Then also shall be performed from the beginning of revenges upon the Whore of Babylon and the great vengeance upon the enemy Antichrist fore prophesied by Moses in that excellent Song for Posterity Deut. 32.41.42 when God will whet his glittering sword and make his arrows drunk in blood that Jews and Gentiles may rejoyce together as Rom. 15. then also will be fulfilled that great Promise Esa 51.20 21 22 c. respecting those times also made upon occasion of the destruction of old Babylon the Type of this and much of Jeremies Prophesie there is by the Spirit of God applied in the Revelations to mystical Babylons destruction but we read not of Gods peoples being then Gods Battle-Axe and Weapons of War then c. for they came home then by Gods working powerfully upon the Spirit of Cyrus and they were ever low upon that reduction but when they shall be again restored all that great prevalencie over all enemies will take place fully for they as saith the Prophet Malachy shall then be as ashes under the soles of their feet Chap. 4.3 and all Nations that will not then be subject to the beloved great and holy Jerusalem shall be destroyed Esa 60.12 And when the same Prophet Esay chap. 26.19 shews that Gods Saints shall rise at the first bodily Resurrection explained by our Saviour Luke 20.35 36. and Rev. 20.5 Esay declares the contrary of such as tyrannized over Gods Church before ver 14. they saith he are dead they shall not live then they are deceased they shall not rise then c. for the enemies shall be so taken away for ever from the Land of the living that they shall ever after be uncapable of good with the Saints in the world and to all eternity when those Children of the Resurrection as
much resistance much depravation much disorder opposition in men and Devils in all the Creatures in it saving that God hath given Christ Power and Authority by degrees aforehand to take it away for which end our Saviour in this excellent Book besides other Scriptures hath much therein set forth the usefulness of Preaching the Crown as well as the Cross though that in the first place but this as a motive to take up the Cross which was formerly of great prevalencie as is storied of the Primitive sufferers that desired Martyrdom that they might reign with Christ in that his Kingdom on earth surely they had much greater faith of these things than is usually found in our days when that world is neer approaching and in this whole Book something is propounded to all the Sufferers in their several times respecting the Jerusalem-state as to the Asian Churches to the Sealed ones Chap. 7. c. for their encouragements as we have shewed in our seventh Convincing Argum. pag. 28 29. But we proceed to some other remarkable portions of Scripture that one way or other point out these times unto us To which purpose we may in a special manner observe that peculiar mark in the the curious Divine contrivance of Revelation-prophesie twice set down therein at the pouring out of the last Vial Chap. 16 17. upon the Air of the Beast probably taking away or binding the Prince of the Power of the Air. Then came a great voice out of the Temple of Heaven from the Throne saying it is done which appears also to be at the time of the sounding of the seventh Trumpet when the Kingdoms of the world become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ Rev. 11.15 which shews their coincidence about the same time and likewise that this great work of Gods renovation concurs in truth with both for the binding of Satan and the Reign of Christ with his raised Saints are fully contemporaries So it is added in the words next following this Text as being here again spoken by him that sat upon the Throne And he said unto me It is done which declares the same time that Satan is bound and Christ reigns this great work will be effected and therefore is another evidence that all things contained in Chap. 21. and 22. belong to the time and state of the said 1000 years of Christs Reign with his raised Saints in his said Davidical Kingdom upon earth But the Question here may be moved What is that that then will be done Ans In General many great enemies and workers of iniquity shall be destroyed but more especially it seems to have respect unto that great Divine Oracle fore-named The Lord said unto my Lord sit thou on my right hand until I make thy foes thy footstool Psal 110.1 at which time likewise Christ receives his Kingdom for his enemies ruine is the beginning of Christs Reign so that in respect of both God himself saith It is done viz. what he himself had promised unto David's Lord before and this time and day seems to be set forth very emphatically upon occasion of the destruction of Gog the Turk then likewise and there also the Holy Ghost seems to use the same Watch-word for the time thereof as here was at the Beasts ruine and that with a great deal of Divine illustration Behold it is come and it is done saith the Lord God this is the day whereof I have spoken Ezek. 39.8 the said Text appears to be of great weight N. B. Quest But how doth it appear that the Turk shall then also be destroyed Answ By Daniels last great Vision Chap. 10.11.12 in Chap. 11. having spoken something briefly of the Persian and more of the Greek Monarchy he comes to the Roman ver 36. and of the Roman Antichrist ver 37 38 39. and then he proceeds to speak of the two Ruiners of the Roman Monarchy viz. the two Woe-trumpets Rev. 9. that is the Saracens and Turkish Mahumitans the first stiled the King of the South the last the King of the North whose History is set down as almost accomplished ver 41 42 43 44 45. as Mr. Mede judiciously applied it except the last his setting his Tabernacle of his Palace in the Holy Land when he comes to his end and none shall help him and then immediately follows then stood up Michael the Prince of Daniels people and in that troublous time delivers them at his appearance probably when his feet shall stand upon Mount Olivet Zec. 14. and that mourning be Zec. 12.10 and ruine of both the first Gog and Magog as well as the last is prophesied very neer together c. And this mark of destruction of both It is done c. seems the more to be observed besides divers others both in Ezech. 38. and 39. and in the Revel because as the Apostle shews Heb. 10.13 Christ had sitten to that time above 1600 years expecting till such his foes should be made his footstool Therefore how fitly is it by God himself so punctually declared both to the Jews and Gentiles that he is not unmindful of his promise to his Son Jesus Christ but as he promised so at that set time It is done as if he should say my Beloved Son hath many hundred years sitten at my right hand expecting this particular season for my fulfilling such my promise to him and now that time is come and it is done this is the day whereof I have spoken Hence also the Holy Spirit directed the Apostle Peter to assert the same thing for time The Heavens must receive him saith he till the times of the restitution of things Acts 3.21 as we shewed formerly more fully and remarkably And since Christ hath left the Book of the Revelation to open Daniels before shut up and sealed Mysteries until the times of the end whilst the Roman Monarchy should continue after God had set up the Kingdom of the Stone from Christs first coming in the 19 first Chapters of that Divine Book unto his second coming Chap. 20. and hath also given the remainder of that Book as a Divine Key or Bunch of Keys to open also the Mysteries of the most ancient promised Mercies and Covenants to the Fathers as we have shewed which are to have their completing from his said second coming in that state of the 1000 years and those times of the restitution of all things in my Text. What pity is it that such matters of so great concernment to all Saints now near approaching are no more considered or understood or duly prized or improved and now indeed is the proper and seasonable time to publish them and make them known when Gods wonderful Grace and Goodness therein w th his Truth Faithfulness in the performance of them shall shortly be beheld with admiration and adoration as in the Text Behold I c. Another remarkable deciphering of these times is the finishing of the Mystery of God when the seventh Angel begins