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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62256	[N]ews of a new world from the word and works of God compared together evidencing that the times of the man of sin are legally determin[ed] and by the same right the days of the S[o]n of Man are alre[ady] commenced : being some account of eight sermons delivered at a lecture in London : whereto for further evidence are added two small tracts, the one touching the times of Gog & Magog, the other touching the 3 last vials / by J.S.	J. S.	1676 (1676)	Wing S77; ESTC R31797	131,955	209

as Mr. Brightman hath demonstrated out of Onuphirius For Constantin began his raign Ann. 304. reigned 31 years Constantius after him raigned 24 years next succeeded Julian who raigned only a year and some few months which all put together making but 56 years from Constantines coming to the Empire pitch our Epocha just in 360. to which add Daniels first number of 1290 and it comes up in 1650. and the second number containing 45 prophetical days more comes up in 1695 which is 22 years to come having cleard thi● of the time when this enemy is to appear I come to a 3d character in Ezekiel which is that this enemy and his action is such as upon which the other bordering enemies of the Church have their eye and great expectation rejovcing much in it so we reade Ezek. 38.13 Sheba and Dedan and the Marchants of Tarshish with all the young Lyons thereof shall say unto thee i. e. to Gog art thou come to take a spoile hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey to carry away silver and gold to take away catile and goods to take a great spoile the phrase imports a pleasure and secret tickling thy self to see this enemy up they clap him on the back they set him on and give him their cursed benediction in the work thus much for the characters I come next to the effect and the designe thereof Gods designe is one thing and the Dragons is another the Dragons designe is to retrive and bring back the Church that is upon her escape and well advanced to bring her back into his power and clutches again into a worse condition then before and to keep her for over there and to prevent her new Jerusalem estate so neer at hand which though impossible yet this mad spirit not believing what he cannot but believe will be trying though he be sure to pay dearly for it at last but Gods designe is only a tryal upon his people for most holy and glorious ends set before us we may judge of the degree to which God may suffer this tryal to proceed God hath a 3 fold end in this scene 1. To bring the last and utmost tryal upon the faith of his people 2. By this tryal to make them conformable to Christ to rid them of themselves and those mixtures which made them miscarry in former works 3. To take occasion by the discovery of the enmity of this last enemy to rid the Church of this and all her enemies forementioned The first of these particulars shews the tryal is to be great general as indeed all the rest import the same but yet it is not to lay waste the Church but to purify her in prosecuting this head I shall first shew in what harmony this counsel and dealing of God with his Church and publick interest is with h●s inward and particular administration towards particular souls and with his out ward administration all along towards particular times and ages of the Church that have gone before v. 1. there is not a saint that hath a course of any time in this world after his conversion but hath experience in a little model of all these ways of God towards his Church in general hath the red Dragon standing before him to devour him as soon as borne into Christ hath his wildernesse state of temptation by the beast with all manner of baits and snares to draw him off from his profession and prevent his arrival at the haven of a glorious assurance and rest in God during which time he enjoys in despite of all his enemies a raign with Christ answering the 1000 years raign and after this when he is ready to enter the port of glory at death or of joyful assurance in this life putting in a fort a period to his militant state he is set upon by Satan in an unusual manner as a Dragon with fiery rage to destroy him and his hope I shall instance in some particulars who yet were types and figures of the publick inter est Jacob was loved with a peculiar choice-love the blessing was designed for him he no sooner had it but he is driven to fly with it to Padan-aram where he was a stranger to his fathers house for 20 years but at his return which is the thing that comes home to our purpose Esau like the Dragon comes against him with 400 men then in what a conflict is he with God this is the Antimask before the blessing which he then received from God So also Job who was set forth as a pattern of patience you have heard saith the Apostle of the patience of Job and the end that God made with him typifying and prefiguring the end God will make with all his he was a man fearing God and eschewing evil all his days but the state of prosperity was to be dissolved and a Phoenix must rise out of the ashes of it and see how the heavens are set about him with clouds Satan let loose upon him begirts him in his substance servants children wife and his own body and last of all in his friends who instead of comforters prove tormentors So also David he was from his first anointing for the kingdom tryed and exercised with the envy and jealousy of Saul but at last so put to it that he said in his haste all men were lyers even Samuel and all and concluded he should one day perish by the hand of Saul he faigned himself mad put himself into the service of Achish king of Gath a Philistine enemy to Israel a sad disguise discovering at what an under David was in his spirit these were publick types of the Church their sufferings of the sufferings of Christ their glory of the glory that was to follow and see in all these how the Devil plays the Dragon at last take a more particular view of it in Job from his own mouth chap. 29. and chap. 30. where after a flourishing estate largly and elegantly set forth by himself chap. 29. which was a little model of the Saints 1000 years raign with Christ see what a map of misery he is made chap. 30. the song and by word of the rabble but especially from v. 15. to v. 24. wherein as in the sufferings of our Lord Jesus God himself seems to take part with his enemies And not to instance in any more the Apostle Peter speaks of this last shock as being common to all the Saints both to the collective body and the particular members and therefore adviseth us not to think it strange concerning the fiery tryal as if he pointed to this red fiery dragon as though some strange thing happened unto us 1 Pet. 4.12 for it is not to destroy their faith but only to try it as he had acquainted them Chap. 1.7 and so our Saviour secures Peter and in him secures all that are built on that rock that Peter was Simon Satan hath desired to winnow thee bnt I have prayed that

thy faith fail not Luk. 22.31 neither did Jacobs faith fail him in that night of his conflict Gen. 32.25 nor Jobs while he could make such a glorious confession chap. 19.23.27 neither did Davids faith fail him though it was shaken and seemed to fail when he said I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul 1 Sam. 27.1 yet we read afterwards he encouraged himself in the Lord his God 1. Sam. 30.6 it is said the powers of heaven shall be shaken and so may faith be shaken but shall not fail Gog Magog shall compass the camp of the Saints on every side so that which way soever they look there is nothing but danger and sear this will make all things fail but faith as David saith my heart and flesh faileth but God is the strength of my heart it will put even faith if self to it and drive it into God where properly it is to dwell How great this tryal is like to be may be guessed from these considerations 1. That it is the last and dying effect of the Dragons cause therefore his rage is great saith the text knowing he hath but a short time after which he hath no more that he can do 2. He acts from desperation and though he cannot hope to prevail yet he will set his life as dear as he can and make it as costly and bloudy a victory to the Church as God will suffer him for no other bounds will be set to bloody rage then the restraint God lays upon him who in his holy counsel permits him to go as far as may be with the safety of the cause and interest and the faith of the Church which is to be a full tryal of it and of their patience that it may have it's perfect work and that the glory of that tryal may be the greater as we may see in Job the Devil had full scope to all manner tryals his life only excepted so the Church shall live and that is all till this tryal is over therefore the Lord sets this bound Esay 57.56 Lest the spirit fail before me and in another place lest the righteous put forth their hand to iniquity Psa 125.3 they shall almost come to it but there it shall stop A second end of god in this tryal is to bring upon the Church Christs mistical body that needful qualification and preparation for glory that God wrote upon Christ the head to make them conformable to him according to the law of his eternal counsel Rom. 8.29 for even Christ was made perfect by sufferings being crucified through weakness or for the weakness of that state he was in in the flesh which could not work out redemption for us without it's passing away and the Apostle tells us all after that law and example that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God this mistical death therefore is to rid us of our selves and those foul mixtures which made our former works miscarry and prove abortive as the snake pressing between sharp tones or rocks puts off her old skin and renews as the Eagle by casting her bill so God useth the ministry of Satan himself in these sharp tryals to help us off with the old man for it is a new race of Christians or Christians new formed regenerated spirited that are fit for the new Jerusalem and all this would not do to fit us for converse with Christ and that heavenly company if the Lord did not put to his own hand at last in that change in a moment in the twinckling of an eye but these tribulations help that is the 2d end The third is that the Lord may take occasion by this fresh and bleeding discovery of the serpent and his parties enmity to destroy them and deliver the Church from them for ever they have given occasion and provocation enough all along and God hath rapt them for it but deferr'd his anger till this time giving the Church support mean while as not having finished his work on Mount Sion and so former provocations slept and were forgotten but for the glory of Gods righteousnesse and to make his justice the more conspicuous he permits them this laft opportunity to shew themselves which they do to the full that God may take them in the fact while they are reaking hot in their rage against the Church that all the world may see for what it is he destroys them and how he favours the Church which the world could not well read in former dispensations they were so intermingled but now the vision shall be so plain that he may run that reads it this is the account which the Lord himself gives of this dispensation Zeph. 3.8 therefore wait ye upon me faith the Lord till I rise up to the prey for my determination is to gather the nations that I may assemble the kingdoms to pour upon them my indignation even all my fierce anger and Ier. 51.39 In their beat I will make their feasts and I will make them drunken that they may rejoyce and sleep a perpetual sleep and not awake saith the Lord God will give them all the scope their hearts can desire power multitudes to excecute their will and no power with the Church and then will God triumph over them as in the day of Iehosaphat and the day of Gideon call'd the day of Midian and the day of battel Zach. 14.3 Esa 10.26 Mich. 4.11.12.13 There are many other holy and gracious ends the Lord hath in this dispensation might be instanced as to commend the following rest and glory therefore the Lord continues to take his people just off a troublesom and tempest uous sea into it that they may have the fuller and more perfect rellish of it which to intimate to us seems to be consulted in that manner of phrase in Peter where he speaks of the spirit his testifying in the prophets beforehand of the suffering of Christ and the glory that should follow as much as to intimate that the sufferings are ordain'd among other and great ends as a foil to the glory But I hasten to the conclusion of this discourse there is one point I would speak more fully to and that is to give in fuller evidence and satisfaction that the times of the 5th trumpet are not to be ranged so high as interpreters commonly carry them but to belong to the times of Satan loosed which having slipt the proper place to bring it in I shall therefore add it at the close of this discourse and therewith shall also offer a paper which I drew some months since whereby the main subject of this discourse may receive some further light in the mean space I shall speak a word as to the aplication of the precedent discourse to the times and to the particular concern of the people of God in these times 1. As to the times the designe of this short discourse hath been to give or get some light to discern the times and