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A59942 Prodromos, or, The fore-runner of the peaceable consideration of Christs peaceful kingdom upon earth also containing many necessary matters ... : unto which are annexed divers things most useful ... / by W. Sherwin ... Sherwin, William, 1607-1687? 1674 (1674) Wing S3410; ESTC R34235 38,476 42

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innumerable company of all People Nations and Languages having Palms in their hands he seems to understand of the flourishing state of the Church when the Jews shall be called and he hath many considerable Testimonies to that purpose in sundry places of his Book but yet he doth not observe these of both companies are set forth to be clothed in white which is after as likewise before the cloathing of the inhabitants of the New Jerusalem that comes down from God and makes this 144000 c. 7. the other 144000 c. 14. the same though they arise from several parts as we shewed besides many disserences But that their cloathing in white is the badge of the Jerusalem-Inhabitants consider how the fundamental Promise made to Christ as Mediator first to Adam and Eve then to Abraham and Sarah after to David tend all this way to advance such a Kingdom of the Mediator Christ Jesus upon Earth First after that Gods everlasting Gospel preached by himself when man had forfeited his dominion before-promised chap. 1.26 and after could have no right to that nor other benefits but through the promised-Seed See how this is ascribed to Christ as his peculiar right belonging to him in Psal 8. And see how the Apostle Heb. 2. expounds it so and that with referring it unto that world to come ver 5 6 c. in which world those white ons shall have their share namely in their reigning with Christ upon Earth Having suffered with him must reign with him there as their Captain the King of the New-Jerusalem See this farther in the personal Promise to Abraham first and his Seed Not seeds as of many but unto Thy Seed As saith the Apostle of one viz. Christ concerning the Land of Canaan who yet personally possessed not a foot as the Scripture phrase is save what he purchased for a Burying place with money to shew his part of that Inheritance and faithful posterities part was to be had after the Resurection and their bones as Josephs took and have kept possession thereof ever since and will do till they be raised to live upon it again And so after again the said Promise was renewed to Isaac the type of Christ the Seed of the Woman in a supernatural way though Abrahams likewise And to Jacob that was Israel for prevailing with God having seen the Vision of God before And therefore the Apostle saith of them both They were Heirs with Abraham of the same Promise to whom it was said Gen. 17.8 I will give unto thee and thy Seed after thee The first right is his own which is held only by Faith while he lived and therefore the actual possession yet remains to be enjoyed Vide Gen. 26.3 to Isaac Gen. 35.3 the like to Jacob and to all three Abraham Isaac and Jacob together Exod. 6.4 8. Deut. 11.21 30.20 and so to Isaac and ●acob who possessed it no more than Abraham in their lives therefore Gal. 3.16 with Heb. 11.9 10. they sojourned in that Land of Promise as Strangers dwelling in Tabernacles with those Heirs with him of the same Promise v. 17. shews the drift of this Promise was to be fulfilled in Christ the promised Seed to possess the Land and the rest by and with him Let these Scriptures and their contexts be well weighed with Heb. 11.9 10. for what these Promises did refer to is evident ver 10 namely the Jerusalem coming down from Heaven whose maker and builder is God and vers last he hath provided for them a City again ver 14. They sought a Country not Mesoptamia but a better Country ver 16. and for which God is not ashamed to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a City To this purpose he tells Moses Exod. 3.14 that that should be his Memorial throughout all Generations that he is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and upon this Foundation are those many promises in Moses and in the following Prophets that God would reduce their posterity after all their dispersion to possess that Land as in Deut. 30. to ver 11. and many other places too many here to rehearse and in Vision revealed the same to Daniel chap. 7. both how and when all should be fulfilled when the Kingdom should be given to the Saints of the most High which is yet more clear and manifest by Christ himself Rev. 20. which is the same which this Author misapplyed c. 11.15 When the Kingdoms of the World are become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ that is in another manner than at the first revealing of Antichrist as he understands it yet gloriously eminently visibly when he hath taken unto himself his Great Power and Reigned having begun wonderfully to subdue his enemies under his feet at the destruction of Antichrist And this is the drift of our Saviours argument against the Saduces as Mr. Mede makes evident on Mat. 22. Mark 12. that God was the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob thefore they shall live again to inherit the Premise of the Covenant to possess the Land of Canaan I do but here briefly hint a few things out of multitudes to the like purpose Vide the Irenicon And here from the whole Book of Revelation I may offer this one thing observable namely That all sorts of faithful Christians in their several Ages and Conditions have their special encouragement held out in something referring to the New Jerusalem on Earth though many overlook them or at least they have not been revealed to them for men in this case are like Hagar till God opened her eyes in a special manner she saw not the Well of Water before her so no sort seem to discern these things till in some remarkable way they be made manifest to them First The seven Churches of Asia in the first Vision have each their Promises made in reference to the State of the New Jerusalem upon Earth Secondly The Representatives of the whole true Church viz. the four Beasts and four and twenty Elders Rev. 5.10 in particular praise for and rejoyce in their reign upon Earth to come which by faith they see aforehand and more especially that seems to be the encouragement to the Sufferers under the five first Seals and as was said seemed so to be applyed by them Afterwards the sealed ones in the East chap. 7. under the Wo Trumpets as Rev. 9.4 they have the New Jerusalem habit upon them as they shall be there happy and celebrate Gods praise and so do the innumerable company of the Nations after them chap. 7. as is evident in the last part of that Chapter Again The four Angels are stayed from their blowing the four first Trumpets which fell for the most part upon the Western Empire until the Angel chap. 8.3 4 5. probably the Angel of the Covenant had made intercession for the faithful Christians under those four first Trumpets with much Incense with the Prayers of the Saints there