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A27634 The universal Christian doctrine of the Day of Judgment applied to the doctrine of the thousand years kingdom of Christ (herein guided by Mr. Baxter's Reply) to vindicate it from all objections ... / by Thomas Beverley ... Beverley, Thomas. 1691 (1691) Wing B2186; ESTC R5659 45,032 44

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seen in Speculo Divinitatis in that Infinite Mirrour of the Divine Nature And herein I Relye on the very Words of Scripture that cannot be over-rul'd And seeing God hath been pleas'd to make the Humane Nature of Christ and the Union of his Saints to himself Unchangeable as himself So far am I from supposing a Fall from that State the Exaltation of them to Closest Approximation to that Glory to Eternity that was from Eternity is the Cessation of Oeconomy and the perfect Eternal State wherein the Saints are Equal to Angels and need them not for their Enjoyment but as All meet in God On the contrary though Devils and Lost Spirits have all the Sense and Action Agreeable to their Lost State Yet it is not such kind of Hostile Action as now They are Exercis'd in but are in as perfect a State of Suffering as and above All we can conceive and so for ever and in the most Unchangeable Misery And whereas a Political Conception of the Eternal King his Laws and Subjects seems to Require Another State or order then this I Assert Yet as from Eternity Supreme Dominion was Essential to God even as Mercy Goodness Truth before any Subjects capable to Exercise them upon So to Eternity without any such Administration as according to Political Laws we Apprehend and have known here But who can sail in this Infinite Ocean now without the having All Thought and Understanding Lost in that Infinity But this is certain God is a King Eternal as well as Immortal Invisible and the Only Wise God To Him therefore be Glory be for ever And in All this I most humbly Acknowledge Jesus Christ God and Man the Mediator even the Mediator of this union to Eternity But the very Nature of a Mediator is not that he should be Our utmost Objective Rest but that as All Scripture speaks He should Bring us to God even God All in All by several Degrees the Highest of which is his own Kingdom and at last to the most Immediate union in and by Himself which is the Kingdom of Eternity And thus I have endeavour'd to make plain that the Kingdom of Christ as in the Judgment Given to Him as the Son of Man enstated in a World to come of New Heavens and a New Earth does not Last for ever but is as in our Law a Lease for a Year to put into Possession that the Eternal Inheritance may vest in us I come in the Last place to Clear my Hypothesis in these Great Points from the Supposition that there may be other Worlds besides the World present that is now near 6000 Years old and that World to come of the Kingdom of Christ whereof I Speak and then the whole deliver'd up to God All in All either as Angels and Saints in Glorious Bodies in union to Him or as Lost ●pirits and Spirits in Bodies so Subdued quite below under his Kingdom in the Lake as to be Eternally separated from him Now I Briefly Argue against any other Worlds Reason 1. Because the Scripture in All it says Stints our Thoughts and Imaginations in this variety of Worlds Rising and Repullulating as it were out of the First World that we Read of the Creation of Gen. 1. An Extent of Thought beyond this Brings us under a Vertigo a Giddiness of Apprehension that we know not where we are and Inclines to Scepticism a doubt of All Things and if we do not stop to Atheistick Su●pitions Running out of the Assurance of the Truth of All Religion and of Christianity Reas 2. Because Scripture Represents the Angels and Saints of both the Saved and of the Lost as so many and those in such a variety Angels never sinning but Elect and Confirm'd in Original Holiness Angels Falling and never Recover'd M●n Created in Original Purity Falling and a number very vast in it self Recover'd some dying but vindicated from Death by the Resurrection Others in the Kingdom of Christ that though they might fall and die viz. the living remaining are yet secur'd by the Mediator and the Lost of Mankind Fallen from their First Estate and not Recover'd notwithstanding the Grace of the Mediator Scripture Every-where also Magnifies the Riches and Fullness the Variety of the Creation as declaring to the utmost the Glory of God that He thinks fit to Reveal in such away especially as it shall be in Christ's World to Come Now the Infinite Riches of the Divine Being shewing it self in so Great an Explication of its own so Variegated Wisdom Ephes 3. 9. c. to Principalities and Powers in Heavenly Places in and by the Church when it is carried through all Oeconomies especially that in the Fullness of Times wherein Angels Themselves shall be Recapitulated Ephes 1. 10. into the Eternal Kingdom is All Scripture Reveals and it carries our Thoughts not a Moment beyond but winds up all herein fo● that Search beyond it looks like the vain Puff and Swolness of a fleshly Mind as not being wise to Sobriety but above what is written And yet I know the Infinite Being and Wisdom and Power of God before some Holy and Good and so Zealous of the Glory of God may cause them to say Who knows what God will do Reas 3. Because it is not only unconceivable but directly against the Analogy of Scripture and Faith That there should be any Glory of Creatures Intellectual or Animal or according to the Mechanism and Frame of Heaven and Earth but what is All in Jesus Christ the eternal Word in our Nature Now how is it Conceivable either in Scripture or Reason He should be Related to Another or any more Worlds as to this wherein he was made Man the Son of Abraham the Son of David Can there be any more Sons of Abraham or of David Can the Eternal Word Assume any more or other Created Nature into Himself He must then see a World or Worlds wherein He hath no Interest as in that Personality wherein we Believe Him according to Scripture This would be a Diminution to his Glory Therefore this is to me a most Conclusive Argument against any Worlds before or after this Reas 4. I add the Manifestations of the Grace of God in Christ even the Riches of Glory on the Vessels of Mercy prepared to Glory and Honour and of his Wrath and Power on the Vessels of Wrath and unto Dishonour are to the Heighth as the Apostle shews Rom. 9 22. Any more then would speak the Imperfection of what hath been is and is to be which no way agrees with Scripture manifesting all to the utmost From whence I conclude such a Supposal of more Worlds cannot Rationally Barr the Hipothesis of such a Kingdom as God All in All. And thus I have endeavoured so to state that Kingdom of the 1000 Y. wherein not only his Enemies are in Fieri or about as they speak to be subdued but it shall be brought to that Consummation and Perfection which the Apostle speaks of and
about to Acquiesce and Settle in a State by Themselves on Earth which Christ by no means Allows nor Endures Here enters the Laodicean State of which because I have never at any Largeness published my Thoughts I would be more large when I have given these Pre-Cautions 1. That neither on my Judgment concerning Laodicea nor concerning Gog and Magog as the Captivated Dead or Condemn'd of the Thousand Years do I suspend the Weight of my principal Doctrine of the Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ but therein offer the best Light I am able to give in so dark Points in Agreement with my principal Doctrine and the Symmetry of Prophecy and Commend my Self therein to the Candor of the Wise and Sober without any occasion of Offence or Exasperation 2. That the strangeness of the Abatement of Fervours in the Living Saints or the Laodicean Church will be easily taken off by considering The Assurance of the best ●reated State depends upon the Degrees of Divine Confirmation which does not perfect it self into the very Nature of Vnchangeableness but in the Kingdom of the New Jerusalem Above and in the Kingdom of Glory Yet from hence no such Thing as a Falling from Grace in the Saints much less in the Kingdom of Christ though Below can be Fairly Collected For there is an unchangeable Love manifesting it self in the midst of We●kness till th● Saints are brought to the State of Incorruption and Immortality which is not but in the Kingdom of Christ Above where the Saints of the First Resurrection are and the Living Remaining are as I always Asserted Cau●ht up without the loss of any One and so Deliver'd up together into the Absolute Eternal Life of God All in All which States are by the Decree of God in their own Nat●re so Fram'd by Infinite Wisdom and Power in Conjunction with Infinite Love and Grace in Christ as Unchangeable as God himself For the Manifestation therefore of the Weakness of any State but of that Absolute Incorruption in the Kingdom of Christ Above and of Eternity for the Manifestation of the Power and Grace of Christ's bringing his Saints Below safe to these States through the possibility of Danger at the end of the Thousand Years for the Greater ●onquest over Satan Sin and Death And lastly for the shewing the Necessity of putting an End to all Church-State on Earth without such a Glory of the New Jerusalem coming down upon it which Infinite Wisdom for the Glory of God All in All had Determin'd to be only a Thousand Years On all these Accounts there is a Permission of the Appearance of the Danger but it was no sooner given Leave to Appear but there was immediately a Catching up of the Prey as it were out of the Mouth of the Lion and with Violence pulling out of the Fire every One of the Saints below and without the Loss of One. In all which I desire to be Clearly Justly and Candidly Understood 3. There is less Wonder that the Wicked Captiv'd and bound under Condemnation and the Glory of the Kingdom of Christ for the Thousand Years shining just in their Faces should break out into that Outrage of Gog and Magog For thus as Dead all that Time not in the Sense of Suffering and Torment but of any Spirit for Action against the Kingdom of Christ They lay bound and Fetter'd It is no wonder then that upon the withdrawing of the Glories of that Kingdom Satan and that Gog and Magog break out into that Attempt upon these Accounts 1. All the Conviction and Punishment the Divels have been under these Thousand Years and of the Damned throughout Eternity does not according to the Judgment of all Divines upon Scripture at all abate their Wickedness and Rage against God but in what-ever they find their Chain loose and allowing Liberty They take it This then will be the Case of Satan Gog and Magog at the end of the Thousand Years They find the Chains of the Kingdom of Christ loose about Them so They Stir They Move thus 2. There is no doubt Satan is the Name of the Highest Dominion Power and Influence of Wickedness in Scripture He therefore being particularly loosed at the end of the Thousand Years mightily Agitates and Enflames to the Highest the Highly dispos'd Spirits of the Gog and Magog full of Rage and Hatred of the Kingdom of Christ the Loss and Torture of which They will have Endur'd a Thousand Years besides the undoubted Foresight of the Lake for ever And not able so strongly Chain'd to have mov'd against it upon a Loosening of Satan and a Power of Action as it were of some Liveliness by the Thousand Years Glory Retiring They are under Satan's Energy call'd Deception because of its Folly and Falsenses how Powerful soever That they Gather and Compass the Holy City 3. The Wisdom Justice Glory and Power of God and Christ in a Supream manner permitting Order also and over-rule this Effort 1. That there might be a full Display of the Wickedness and Irreconcilable Spirits of Satan and this lost Gog and Magog of the Condemned and of their Fittedness for the Wrath of Christ's Coming Down not as a Second Conflagration of the New Heaven and Earth which by a milder Exffection Fly away when Christ Delivers up the Kingdom but on Satan and his Hosts only Fire comes down as it were Hell from Heaven upon Them shutting them up for ever in the Lake where there shall be an utter Impossibility of Satan being Loosed of Gog and Magog Feeling any such Life or Action or Gathering in Battel for ever 2. When therefore all the Numbers Strength utmost Efforts of Rage and Spirit in Satan and all his Legions and Hosts are thus at the Heighth there is then this Supream Manifestation of the Glory and Pow●r of God against these Armies whose Number is as the Sand on the Sea That the Grace Love and Mercy of God 〈…〉 ●hrist in the R●s●●e o● th● 〈…〉 Castle Camp or Strong Citadel of his Saints in the New Earth the New Jerusalem below the Beloved City might be seen at last in this Illustrious and Glorious Deliverance and Rescue It is therefore call'd a Battel even as the Second Part of that Great Battel of the Day of God Almighty at Armageddon And now the Victory is Compleat and Irrecoverable by the Catargesis or Casting into the Lake th●t after a Full and Absolute Judgment immediately followed And of this Battel even as of that of Armageddon All the Great Battels Deliverances and Victories as of Moses over Amalek Joshua and David Psal 18. Asa Hezekiah Constantine Theododosius his Last against Eugenius and Argobastes were Types 4. By way of Recollection and for further Preparation concerning the Church of Laodicea let us consider the Six-fold Repetition of the Thousand Years Rev. 20. and how they are Assign'd which will add Certainty and Lustre to both the Thousand Years and the Hipothesis or Frame of Doctrine built upon them 1. They