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A49697 Christ crucified, or, The doctrine of the Gospel asserted against Pelagian and Socinian errours revived under the notion of new lights : wherein also the original, occasion and progress of errours are set down : and admonitions directed both to them that stand fast in the faith and to those that are fallen from it : unto which are added three sermons ... / by Paul Lathom. Lathom, Paul. 1666 (1666) Wing L572; ESTC R25131 132,640 284

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the King Others say that there was some kinde of government though much shattered and broken till the time when the City was destroyed but granting this it is evident as I shewed before that the City was utterly destroyed and the people reduced into a Roman Colony and the very face of a Common-wealth utterly abolished amongst them well nigh 1600 years ago And therefore we may firmly conclude that the Messiah is long since come Fourthly 4 Argument I argue from the breaking and decay of the fourth Monarchy spoken of by Daniel the Prophet Nebuchadnezzar in his dream saw an Image whose Head was of gold the breast and arms of silver Dan. 2. the belly and thighs of brass the legs of iron the feet part of iron and part of clay In this Image were represented to the King the Governments that should be in the World The Head of gold did signifie the Babylonian or Assyrian Monarchy vers 38. which was a very glorious Kingdom after which succeeded the Kingdom of the Medes Persians when Cyrus the Persian overcame and slew Belshazzar the last of the Assyrian Kings this was also a great Kingdom but came as far short of the glory of the Assyrian Kingdom as silver comes short of the worth of Gold and it is compared to two Arms Ver. 39. because there were two Nations joyned the Medes and Persians After this arose a third Monarchy viz. of the Grecians when Alexander the great conquered Darius Ver. 39. the last King of the Persians this was the thigh of Brass After this it is said that a fourth Kingdom should arise Ver. 40. which should be a very strong Kingdom and therefore is compared to legs of Iron Now whereas the King saw that a Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands Ver. 44. should break to pieces all this Image and afterward grow to a great Mountain he saith that in the dayes of these Kings that is the Kings which should be of the fourth Monarchy The God of Heaven shall set up a Kingdom which never shall be destroyed and it shall break in pieces all those Kingdoms and consume them and it self shall stand up for ever This is understood of the Kingdom of the Messiah who is compared to a Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands Isa 28.16 Christ is called by the Prophet a Stone and he is said to be cut out without hands that is say some he was conceived in the womb of the blessed Virgin without the help of a man But others and perhaps more probably think this to belong to the Kingdom of the Messiah which should be set up or propagated not by the power and policy of man as other Kingdoms were but by the Almighty power of God alone This Kingdom of the Stone we see was to begin in the time of the fourth Monarchy Now what this fourth Monarchy was is variously interpreted but which interpretation soever we imbrace this Argument will be sufficiently cogent When Alexander the Great was dead Josephus Antiq. Sir Walt. Rawley his Dominions and Kingdoms fell into divers mens hands Antigonus was Lord of Asia Seleucus of Babylon and the bordering Nations Lysimachus had Hellespont Cassander Macedon and Ptolemy the son of Lagus held Egypt After a while these five Kingdoms were reduced into two viz. The Syrian Kingdom which was called the Kingdom of the Seleucidae and the Fgyptian Kingdom called the Kingdom of the Ptolemies and these some take to be the legs of Iron and the feet part of Iron part of Clay But according to this computation the fourth Monarchy was gone somewhat before the birth of Christ for Cleopatra who was the last Queen of Egypt was overcome by Octavius Caesar divers years before Christ was born Others say that this fourth Kingdom was the Roman Monarchy which had ten Toes that is so many Forms of Government Now in the time of this Monarchy Christ was born viz. in the days of Augustus Caesar It is an Observation of a Learned man that M. Legh ver 35. there is a two-fold Kingdom of the Messiah described first the Kingdom of the Stone and then the Kingdom of the Mountain The Stone shall first break in pieces the Gold the Silver the Brass the Iron and Clay and then grow up into a Mountain That is Jesus Christ when he shall come shall break in pieces all those 4 Monarchies and afterward his Kingdom shall fill all the Earth And so we know that while the Roman Kingdom stood in its strength the Kingdom of Christ was but small it was then the Kingdom of the Stone but afterward it became a Mountain the Doctrine of the Gospel then spread into all the world while the Roman Emperors flourished the most of them persecuted the servants of Christ and endeavoured to hinder the Promulgation of the Gospel but afterward when their power was cut short the Kingdom of Christ flourished The sum of the Argument is this There were four Monarchies to be erected by the God of Heaven in the world In the dayes of the fourth Monarchy Christ was to be born and his Kingdom set up Now whether we take this fourth Monarchy for the Successors of Alexander the Great or for the Romans both these are long since decayed and therefore surely the Messiah is come in the flesh Fifthly 5 Argu. I argue from the exspiring of the seventy weeks Dan. 9.24 to the end spoken of in Dan. 9.24 to the end of the Chapter which you may read at your leasure It is generally agreed upon that this is a Prophecy concerning the time of the birth of the Messiah and concerning his death and the end for which he was to die and the Text speaks plainly that these weeks were determined to finish transgression and to make an end of Sin and to maze reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness now this can be done by no other but by him that was the Saviour of the world Yea the name Messiah is twice mentioned so that undoubtedly this is a Prophesie concerning the coming of the Messiah Now as to what is meant by the Seventy weeks it is thus agreed upon that every day ●●es for a year so that seventy weeks are ●eventy times seven years that is 400 and 90 years and it is said Vers 25. that the beginning of these seventy weeks should be from the going forth of the Commandment to restore and build Jerusalem Now here lyes the great difficulty when this time was for the Jews had four several times Commandment to build the City and the Temple Ezra 1.1 2. The first was from Cyrus in the first year of his reign The second from Darius the son of Hystaspis after it had been some time hindred by Cambyses Ezra 6. The third was given to Ezra by Artaxerxes Longimanus Ezra 7.12 Neh. 2. The fourth last was given to Nehemiah who was Butler to