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A88952	Israel's redemption or the propheticall history of our Saviours kingdome on earth; that is, of the church Catholicke, and triumphant. With a discourse of Gog and Magog, or The battle of the great day of God almightie. / By Robert Maton minister and Mr of Arts, and sometimes commoner of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Maton, Robert, 1607-1653?	1642 (1642)	Wing M1294; Thomason E1148_1; ESTC R208573	106,177	152

among them I the Lord have spoken it and in his 37. chap. at the 24. vers David my servant shall be King over them and they shall have one Shepheard and they shall also walke in my judgements and observe my statutes and doe them and they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant wherein your Fathers have dwelt and they shall dwell therein even they and their children and their childrens children for ever and my servant David shall be their Prince for ever And in the 9. chap. of Isaiah at the 6. vers Vnto us a child is borne unto us a Sonne is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderfull Counseller the Mighty God the Everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end Vpon the Thron of David and upon his Kingdome to order it and to establish it with judgement and with justice from henceforth even for ever the zeale of the Lord of Hosts will performe this And in the 52. chap. at the 13. vers Behold my servant shall deale prudently he shall be (g) Ps 1●8 v. 22.23 24 c. exalted and extolled and be very high As many were (h) Luke 2. v. 34.35 astonied at thee his visage to wit at the time of his suffering was so marred more then any man and his forme more then the sonnes of men so to wit at his next appearing shall he sprinkle many Nations the Kings shall shut their mouthes at him for that which had not beene told them shall they see and that which they had not heard shall they consider And in the 4. chap. of Micah at the 6. vers In that day saith the Lord will I assemble her that halteth and I will gather her that is driven out and her that I have afflicted and I will make her that halted a remnant and her that was cast (i) Rom. 11. v. 12.15.32 off a strong Nation and the Lord shall reigne over them in Mount Zion from henceforth even for ever And in the 72. Psal at the 6. vers He shall come downe like raine upon the mowen grasse as showers that water the earth In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the Moone endureth He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth They that dwell in the Wildernesse shall bow before him and his enemies shall licke the dust The Kings of Tarshish and of the Iles shall bring presents the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts Yea all Kings shall fall (k) Isa 45. v. 22.23 Phil. 2. v. 10 downe before him (l) Ps 22. v. 27 28. Rev. 14. v. 6 7. ch 15. v. 4 all Nations shall praise him And in the 102. Psal at the 13. vers Thone shalt arise and have mercie upon Zion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof So the Heathen shall feare the name of the Lord and all the Kings of the earth thy glory When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appeare in his glory Now that these prophecies doe concerne the reigne of Christ alone I thinke no man doubts and that they are already fulfilled it cannot bee proved For neither did Christ at his first comming sit on Davids Throne nor any other of Davids linage or of that Tribe or of the other Tribes for the Scepter was then departed from Judah and a Law-giver from betweene his feete Neither were Judah and Israel then in the land together neither was the Temple then destroyed but afterwards and therefore the things here spoken of are all to be accomplished at his second comming and that not in Heaven but on earth On earth I say and in (m) Is 33. v. 20. ch 50. v. 1 2 3 9 10. Jerusalem (n) Ps 122. v. 5. Davids Throne was For his feete shall stand in that day to wit when he comes to receive his appointed Kingdome on the Mount of Olives which is before Ierusalem on the East from which Mount also he ascended and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst therof toward the East toward the West there shal be a very great valley and halfe the Mountaine shall remove toward the North and halfe of it toward the South And ye shal flee to the valley of the Mountains for the valley of the Mountaines shall reach unto Azal yea ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the dayes of Uzziah K. of Judah And the Lord my God shall (o) Iude v. 14 15. Rev. 19. v. 11 12 13 14 15 16. come all the Ss. with thee and it shal come to passe in that day that the light shall not be cleare nor dark but it shall be one day which shall be knowne to the Lord not day nor night but it shall come to passe that at evening time it shall be light And it shall be in that day that (p) Ps 46. v. 4. Ezek. 47. v. 1. c. Ioel 3. v. 8. living waters shall goe out from Jerusalem halfe of them toward the former sea and halfe of them toward the hinder sea in Summer and in Winter shall it be and the Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day shall there be one Lord and his Name one All the Land shall be turned as a plaine from Geba to Rimmon South of Jerusalem and it shall be lifted up and inhabited in her place from Benjamins gate unto the place of the first gate unto the corner gate and from the Tower of Hananiel unto the Kings Wine-presses and men shall dwell in it and there shall be no more utter destruction but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited Zech. the 14. at the 4. vers You see here that our Saviour comes not onely to conquer death which is the last enemy that he shall destroy and therefore not wholly to be destroyed till the last resurrection but also to take the Kingdomes of this world unto himselfe to put downe as Saint Paul hath said all the rule and all the authority and power of other Nations that there may be one Shepheard and one Sheepfold that the (q) Dan. 7. v. 27. Kingdome and Dominion and greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven may be possest by the people of the Saints of the most High That is as the former prophesies doe expound it by the people of (r) Ps 148. v. 14. Israel And this as I thinke is the time of which he spake these words Verily verily I say unto you (s) Iohn 1. v. 15. Hereafter shall yee see Heaven open and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the (t) Heb. 1. v. 6. Sonne of man For that this may be fulfilled it

within the compasse whereof all that are in the graves shall heare his voyce and come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life when this time begins and they that have done evill unto the resurrection of damnation when this time shall end And surely seeing the same Apostle hath in the 20. chap. of the Revel plainely recorded this first and second resurrection I am perswaded that the repetition of the word here would have beene enough to have suggested unto our Adversaries this construction of the text had they as seriously sought the manifestation of the truth as they have done the advancement of their owne erroneous fancy But whilst they have wrested this place in the Gospel to make it seeme irreconciliable with the literall interpretation of that in the Rev. they have at once quite lost the true meaning of both places Ch. 20. v. 4.5.6 and chain'd up their understandings lest they should lanch out to descry the true latitude of a principall Article of Christian beliefe For had they beene willing to know so much 1 Cor. 15. v. 22. c. they might have found Saint Paul also thus voting for us As in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive But every man in his owne order Christ the first fruits afterwards they that are Christs at his comming Now as it is evident that the word Order doth imply a distance of time betwixt the rising of Christ and of those that are Christs so doubtlesse there being no intimation of the rising of any others at his comming besides those that are his it doth imply a distance of time too betwixt the resurrection of these and of those that are not his For the next words Then commeth the end have no relation to Christs comming but to his delivering up the Kingdome to God even the Father when once the last enemy shall be destroyed which is death whereby and not by Christs comming the last resurrection of the dead is intimated And betwixt the accomplishment of this judgement and the resurrection of those that are Christs at his comming and not before the one or after the other there is expresse mention of Christs putting downe all rule authority and power over the whole world and of his reigning Which last employment doth necessarily presuppose a time befitting the Majesty of so (m) Ps 48. v. 2. Ps 47. v. 2.3 Matth. 5. v 35. Luke 1. v. 32. great a King and consequently the Order holds as well betwixt the resurrection of those that are Christs and those that are not Christs as betwixt the resurrection of Christ himselfe and those that are Christs And this Apostle elsewhere speaking of the resurrection which is to concurre with our Saviours descension from heaven hath not a word of the rising of any but of them that are dead in Christ 1 Thes 4. v. 16. Whereby he closely shewes that the resurrection of those that are Christs at his comming is that first resurrection in which whosoever have part the second death hath no power on them Rev. 20. v. 6. but they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand yeares Which last words of Saint John doe no way thwart Saint Pauls in the verse following where he tels us that the Saints shall meete the Lord in the aire 1 Thes 4. v. 17. and so shall ever be with the Lord for the thousand yeares reigne is to be measured by the time of the Nations subjection to Christ and the Saints before their seduction againe by Satan and not by the time of the Saints abode with Christ which shall never have an end nor by the whole time of Christs and the Saints tarrying on this earth which besides the thousand yeares containes also that little season which is allotted for the falling away and destruction of the Nations before the last resurrection And so having shewne that the Antimillinarians can find no firme footing in the Scriptures to withstand the literall interpretation of the first resurrection I proceed to what they say concerning the thousand yeeres reigne of the Saints And heare I finde them at oddes about the meaning of the words some taking them indefinitely for a long time to wit for all the time from the first going forth of the Gospel till Antichrists reigne Others definitely for a thousand yeares and no more for which acknowledgement we are beholding to the emphaticall affix the speciall article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in the compasse of five verses is foure times added to this number being never prefixt where the number or word otherwise implying a certaine time is to be taken in an unlimited sense Againe I finde these that agree upon a thousand yeares precisely very much disagreeing about the placing of them for one will have them begin at the Incarnation another at the Passion or Resurrection of our Saviour a third at the Preaching of Saint Paul a fourth at the destruction of Jerusalem and a fifth confuting all these will not have them beginne till the dayes of Constantine the great about the 300. yeare after Christ and some also not till Luthers time and yet all of them will have a part of Antichrists reigne included within the compasse of the thousand yeares reigne because some of them that are to reigne with Christ are particularly described by their not worshipping of the Beast And thus as the former sort of Antimillinarians doe grossely erre in placing Christs reign before Antichrists whereas a great part of them which should reigne with Christ were to suffer under Antichrist so doe these other Antimillinarians erre as much in confounding the time of Christs reign with the time of Antichrists reigne From whence it doth necessarily follow First that the Saints which are to reigne with Christ shall suffer in the time of Christs reigne Secondly that but a part of those which shall suffer under Antichrist are to reigne with Christ And Thirdly that some if not the most of them which shall be slaine by Antichrist are to suffer after Christs thousand yeares reigne All which is either beside or flat against the text For First it is flat against the text to affirme that any of the Saints which are to reigne with Christ shall suffer in the time of his reigne For we read That Satan is to be shut up that he may deceive the Nations no more till the thousand * Hujusinodi mille vel quinquaginta vel etiam centum annos a Christo nato nobis obtigisse quibus a seductione Satanae Gentes immunes ab ejusdem persecutione libera fuerit Ecclesia in terris bisce militans equidem at credam vix adduci possum Et de persecutione q●●dem res ita manifesta est ut non putem è sanis fore qui contradicat siquidem hanc ecclesiae militantis perpetuam fore sortem ipse Christus praedixit eventus a nato

men Who doubtlesse are not to be left that the evill Angels may fetch them for they shall be partakers with them of that judgement and therefore will be as unwilling to appeare before that barre as they Neither is it likely that they shall be left because the good Angels cannot at once assemble them to the place of Judgement and the Elect to meete the Lord in the Aire if these things were to be done at the same particular time And therefore as I suppose they shall be left either to perish in that generall destruction which shall come upon all Nations that fight against the Jewes whom our Saviour shall then redeeme Or to bee eye-witnesses of Gods wonders in all Countryes at that time For that by Christs judging the (g) Ps 2. v. 8. c. Ps 110. v. 2. c. Ps 149. v. 6. c. Isa 30. v. 25. ch 66. v. 15.16 Ver. 8.9 quick and the dead mentioned in the 2. to Tim. and the 4. chap. cannot be meant the last and compleat but rather a former and inchoate judgement of ungodly men it appeares out of the 20. of the Rev. where it is shewne that the Saints enemies shall be all slaine before the last resurrection And we cannot say that these which are to be left shall be a part of that army there spoken of because that Gog and Magog is to be destoyed at the end of our Saviours reigne that is immediately before the last resurrection whereas these shall be alive at the time of that generall distresse which shall light on the world at his entrance into that appointed Kingdome as the gathering together of the elect who are to reigne with him doth declare And this conjecture Isa in his 27. chap. at the 12. vers doth sufficiently confirme For the great sound of the Trumpet before spoken of in Saint Matth. as a warning for the gathering together of the elect is there said to be a warning also of the Jewes returne the words are these It shall come to passe in that day that the Lord shall beat off from the channell of the river unto the streame of Egypt and yee shall be gathered one by one O yee children of Israel and it shall come to passe in that day that the (h) Isa 18. v. 3. Zech. 9. v. 14. great Trumpet shall be blowne and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the out-casts in the land of Egypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy Mount at Jerusalem And thus being thorowly satisfied by this cloud of witnesses the double jury of Prophets and Apostles with which I finde the doctrine of my Text to be encompast I here give over the pursuit of these meditations and commend to as many as wish well to themselves and to Zion these instructions following First to praise God for his abundant mercie who through the fall of the Jewes hath brought salvation unto us Gentiles that together with them we might partake of the roote and fatnesse of their Olive tree Secondly to beware of unbeliefe which was the cause that the Jewes were broken off from their Olive And if God spared not the naturall branches much lesse will he spare us if by faith we continue not in his goodnesse Thirdly not to contemne or revile the Jewes a fault too common in the Christian world and that partly because we are unmindfull as well of the Olive from whence we were taken as of that into which we are graffed whose root bears us not we the root And partly because we misapply the infallible promises of God by which he hath so freely and so feelingly so often and so openly declared that he will againe graffe them in For if we were cut out of the Olive tree which is wild by nature and were graffed contrary to nature into a good Olive tree how much more shall they which be the naturall branches be graffed into their owne Olive tree Rom. the 11. at the 24. vers And lastly earnestly to beseech God that hee would speedily put into execution the means which he hath appointed for their conversion that he would even in these our dayes bring this mystery to light by powring on his people the spirit of grace and supplications whereby they may beleeve and repent Zech. 12. v. 10. For their happinesse will both increase and consummate ours so also the Apostle * If the fall of them c. Observe here what Jewes are said to occasion the riches of the Gentiles Not those that beleeved when the Apostle wrote this although many of them were the first instruments of the Gentiles conversion and much lesse they that have beleeved since that time for these as they come farre sho t of the others both in number and qualifications so they may be said rather to have taken of us then given unto us to have inherited the riches of the Gospel with us but not increased them Not the first beleevers therefore nor such which hitherto have so slowly and thinly followed them but the stiffe-necked and stubborne Jewes who slew Christ who martyr'd and persecuted his Disciples They are here said to be the reconciling of the wo●●d and the riches of the Gentiles and that because their fall and casting away mov'd God so soone to visit us with the tydings of Salvation And ●●●●fulnesse the receiving of them it must be that shall perfect us the re●●●●●ng of them I say which were then cast away but how not in ●●●ir owne persons for it is impossible that the same men should fall and not fall should be cast away and not cast away but in their posterity and that not in part and by fits but wholly and at once for the Apostle speakes not of particular men and families but of all the Tribes of the whole Nation And indeed what but a generall conversion of the Jewes can bring such felicity to the Gentiles as shall not onely parallell but exceed the blessings which we have already received by their unbeliefe If the fall of them be the riches of the world and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles how much more their fulnesse And againe If the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead Rom. 11. vers the 12. and 15. Now to our Lord Jesus Christ who is both the light of the Gentiles and the glory of his people Israel who is the faithfull witnesse and the first begotten of the dead and the Prince of the Kings of the earth Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sinnes in his owne bloud and made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen Amen Psal 14. v. 7. Psal 53. v. 6. O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Sion when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people

the time or after the time of the thousand yeares reigne but before it and consequently not a part but all of them are to be with Christ when he doth reigne Thirdly and lastly it is point blank against the text to hold that any of them which shall be slaine by Antichrist are to suffer after Christs thousand yeares reigne For although it is said that the Saints shall be compassed about by the Nations which Satan shall deceive when the thousand yeares are fulfilled yet there is no mention of the death of any of the Saints but onely of an extraordinary and sudden destruction of their enemies And so it is plaine that these Antimillinarian consequences doe all crosse the text And of the same colour and sutable unto their fancy of the thousand yeares reigne is the application of Gog and Magog in the 20. of the Rev. to the Pope and the Turke both as some or to the Turke onely as others of them interpret it For we read not that Gog and Magog are to make warre asunder in severall parts of the world as the Pope and Turke doe Nor that their warre is to be a long continued warre in which many battels are to be fought and new supplies raised one after another to maintaine it as it is in the Popes and Turkes wars Neither doe we reade that onely one particular Empire or a few or many Nations are comprehended by these words but all the Nations even the Nations of the foure quarters of the earth who as they are speedily and at once to be drawne together against the Saints by the procurement of the Devill so they are even in a moment to be overthrowne by the power of God by sire sent downe from God out of Heaven And whereas the Antimillinarians would have this Gog and Magog to contemporate with the battell in Armageddon it cannot be For seeing the Beast and false Prophet are mentioned as partners with Satan in the gathering together of the army which is to be destroyed in Armageddon it is altogether unlikely that they should have been here left out and none but Satan spoken of if this Gog and Magog were to be understood of the same army And that which doth confirme this and which I would have all Antimillinarians to lay to heart is because the destruction of this Gog and Magog doth follow after that battell which is to be in Armageddon as well in the order of its execution as in the order of its Revelation For in the 10. vers of the 20. chap. of the Rev. it is said That the Devill which deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the Beast and false Prophet are that is are to be when Satan shall be cast in thither to them and consequently they are to be there before him Which should not be true if the destruction of this Gog and Magog and of the army in Armageddon were all one for then they should be cast in all together seeing the casting in of Satan at the destruction of this Gog and Magog is as expressely delivered as the casting in of the Beast and false Prophet is at the destruction of the army in Armageddon or if none should be cast in thither till the last judgement who were so likely to leade the way to the place of eternall torment as he for whom that burning lake was chiefely (p) Matth. 25. v. 41. prepared as he and his Angels I say who first fell irrecoverably themselves and shortly after drew man into sin also This then being undeniable that the Beast and false Prophet are to be in the lake of fire and brimstone before Satan shall be cast in thither who dares define that the time betwixt the casting in of the beast and false Prophet and the casting in of Satan shal be either more or lesse then that which the holy Ghost hath left upon record to wit the whole space of the Saints reigne and of the little season in which the Nations are againe to be seduced And consequently the first resurrection is to be literally understood The thousand years reigne is to be on earth And this Gog and Magog in the 20. of the Rev. is to be the multiplyed posterity of those that shall be left of the Nations at the beginning of the thousand yeares when the army of the beast and false Prophet and of the Kings of the earth and of the whole world who as the parallel declares are the Gog and Magog foretold by Ezekiel shall be destroyed in Armageddon And as this doth necessarily follow upon the foresaid text upon the casting of the beast and false Prophet into the lake of fire and brimstone so long before the casting in of Satan so it is intimated too in that at the time of the gathering together of this Gog and Magog there is no mention of any Kings nor allusion to any eminent person or persons that shall then beare any sway amongst the Nations to whom Satan may first and chiefely apply himselfe and of whom he may make such use in the gathering of them together as he shall doe of the Kings beast and false Prophet at the gathering of the first Gog and Magog And againe it is implyed in that it is said that Satan shall go out to deceive the Nations by which it appeares that all the time of his imprisonment they are not to be deceived and consequently they are neither to be ignorant nor negligent of their duty towards (q) Is 2. v. 1 2 3 4. Ch. 60. v. 12 14. Ch. 61. v. 4 5 6. Ch. 66. v. 19 20 23 24. Ch. 14. v. 1 2. Zech. 8. v. 20 21 22 23. God or man but to live peaceably and piously under the Saints Whereas the beast and false Prophet are alwayes to be deceived and to deceive and from the first houre of their rising to the time of their destruction to persecute and make spoyle of the Saints And thus I hope I have made it manifest that the three parallel'd prophecies doe all foreshew the same Great Day of God Almighty and consequently that the Nations which shall oppose the Jewes at their expected returne are to be the Gog and Magog prophecied of by Ezekiel And also that those which shall be left alive of the Nations when this first Gog and Magog is destroyed and which shall in their generations for a thousand yeares space together enjoy the happinesse of the Saints reigne that the last I say of their posterity shall be the Gog and Magog foretold in the 20. chap. of the Revelation And now seeing that in lanching into the depth of so great a mystery I have done but as my Saviour commands me Search the Scriptures Iohn 5. v. 39 for in them yee thinke yee have (r) Rev. 1. v. 3. eternall life and they are they which testifie of me And seeing that my conscience informed and confirmed by such an harmonious consent of Scriptures such