be part of the Restitution which God will then effect as we hope in due place farther to manifest from this Text. But for the clearer discovery of what hath been said let us a little look back again to the beginning of this Chapter where it is said this Holy Man had the Visions of the New Heavens and the New Earth which as to their time was not after the last Judgment as was said neither is there placed before it that usual expression in this Book when things which follow are spoken of After this I saw as chap. 18.1 chap. 19.1 but are 1000 years before it as is very evident neither is it any New making of the Material frame of them but they will be Prophetical Heavens and Earth as was said suitable to that Kingdome wherein Christ will reign with his raised Saints as the wood witnesseth of which Kingdom these are to be considered as the integral parts for never came such a King into the world before that must not only have all Nations to do him service and the Heathen to be given to him for his Inheritance and the utmost parts of the Earth for his possession but when he comes all the Elohim Angels or Gods must Worship him yea all knees in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth must then bow and be subject to him owning him to be Lord but he must also then have those New Heavens and New Earth then made for him and his Spouse As Satan had his Mystical Heavens before when the Pagans worshipped Sun Moon and Stars Their Mercury Jupiter Mars Apollo with the multitudes of their Heathenish false Deities And hence it was under Christs spiritual Kingdome of the Stone that there was in the primitive times a great Battel in Heaven betwixt Michael and his Angels and the Dragon and his Angels Rev. 12. but the issue thereof was that the Dragon was cast down from his Heaven to the Earth And as God very remarkably by the Ministry of the Prophet Jeromiah caused it to be proclaimed before the Captivity of Babylon chap. 10.11 and that verse is only written as Mr. Mede well observes in the Caldean Language whither that People was shortly after to be led Captives The Gods said he that made not the Heavens nor the Earth even they shall perish from the Earth and from under these Heavens and accordingly chap. 25. God sent by him a Cup of Wrath to be drunk by those many Nations that owned such Gods And afterwards neither Bell nor Merodach of the Caldeans could save themselves or their Worshippers from their Enemies nor the Graecian Monsters and multitudes of feigned Gods and Goddesses could deliver themselves or those that served them and when Pagan Rome had ingrossed the Idol Gods of all Nations which they subdued they were at Christs first coming struck dumb and ceased to deliver their Oracles as formerly and after by Constantine the Dragon was cast out of his Heaven to the Earth and likewise that Beast that rose out of the Earth afterwards with all his Paganized Christianity of Popish Idolatry will shortly also find Jeremiahs Proclamation true That such Idol Gods shall perish from the Earth and from under these Heavens for not only all such supposed Heathen Gods but all Pagano-Christian Idols also will be then totally and finally casheired for ever out of the World Psal 97.7 Esa 2. And such like Heavens were ascribed in Scripture to Kingdoms and States according to many Oriental Notions as Mr. Mede observed who reckoned what was Superiour in their States were their Heavens as Monarchs and Governours and what was Inferiour their Earth But these New Heavens and New Earth being of an Heavenly Excellency not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Opinions or Customs of the vain World but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to Truth are to be taken for what God hath promised then and as his Word sets them forth the Heaven of Angels will come with Christ then to wait upon him and to worship him and Christ coming personally with them then will make it an Heaven indeed and then also he brings all his Saints that sleep in Jesus with him so that there will also be then an Heaven of Saints also as he speaketh at the Whores Destruction chap. 18.20 Rejoyce thou Heaven ye Apostles and Prophets and even that Mystical Heaven the New Jerusalem shall then come from God out of Heaven as is explained v. 2. which is called the Bride the Lambs Wife ver 9. and for her also with the Lamb be made then also the New Earth wherein will dwell Righteousness 2 Pet. 3. when not only the Tabernacle of God will be with men as ver 3. but her Officers shall be Peace and her Exactors Righteousness Esa 60.17 and all that happiness in that time of refreshment from the presence of the Lord Acts 3. and as follows ver 4. that God will not only wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death nor crying nor pain but Christ will personally dwell with them in that Tabernacle wherein he was before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only for a little while made lower than the Angels as we said but then he will be exalted far above all Principalities and Powers and every Name c. and continue to dwell with them and be their God and they shall be his people and for the assured making of these Integral parts of Chtists said Kingdome viz. the New Heavens and the New Earth is Gods great glorious and gracious undertaking at that time set forth in this text and he that sate upon the Throne said Behold I make all things new c. Now having thus prepared the way by removing these former difficulties and opening the context we shall by Gods assistance proceed to consider the Text it self both in respect of the words and sence thereof which is a farther step and degree of that most excellent Vision given to this beloved Apostle and saith he he that sat upon the Throne said behold I make all things New In which words we have a most excellent declaration of the compleating of Christs outward visible work of Redemption in the world with its Illustration and Confirmation the Declaration is of the happy Renovation of all things in that very determined point of time and occurrence of affairs which the Series and order of this Vision leads to I make that is I now make when the great Enemies are destroyed and Christs Davidical Kingdom is to take place and the Saints raised even in that state of things I make all things New for Christs unalterable order of these things is a doctrinal Foundation as was said and this most Divine Declaration is first Illustrated from the person that spake the words and undertakes the work whole speaking then will be doing as at first so said the Psalmist He spake the word and they were made he commanded and they were created so when the
us the world will then be dissolved chap. 20.11 all Creatures destroyed or removed the Saints rapt in a moment to meet Christ before and all be changed and thenceforth ever to be with him the Lord the Devil cast into the Lake of Fire and wicked men sent into Hell c. What use can be then of the New Heavens and New Earth after the great day of Judgment But these Heavens will not be the making a new frame of the material Heavens when the old are passed away as after may be shewed but will be Prophetical Heavens grounded upon Gods Word both for the Nature Times and Use of them when as follows there will be no Sea viz. such an unsteady state of things as the seven headed and ten horned Beast rose out of when the Barbarous Nations had broken the Western Empire in pieces to make way for the ten Crowned Horns or such Waters as the Whore sate on ever since unsteady rolling Wayes No such Mystical Sea will have room then in that Kingdom of Christ and his Saints that cannot be moved or shaken Heb. 12.9 as the frustrating of Satans attempt with his last Gog and Magog will certainly manifest But the New Heavens will be those Heavenly Creatures coming with Christ when he removes his Court from Heaven into this World for the time of his great day of Judgment which were formerly the Inhabitants thereof in which sence our Saviour upon the Whoren destruction calls upon the Heaven of Saints to rejoyce Rev. 18.20 Rejoyce over her thou Heaven then to manifest what Heaven he meant he adds and ye Apostles and Prophets which shall be Inhabitants of the New Jerusalem chap. 21. v. 2. So also the Heaven of Angels that comes thâ—n with Christ to attend on him in his Davidical Kingdome when the Tabernacle of God will be with men And where Christ will then be there Heaven must needs be And there will also then be such a Prophetical New Earth too wherein will dwell Righteousness as the Apostle Peter speaks 1 Pet. 3. for a King shall then Rule in Righteousness as the Prophet speaks and Princes in Judgment Esa 30.1 among the Nations of them that shall then be saved their Rulers shall be Peace and their Exactors Righteousness Esa 60.17 which will be the stability of Christs Throne then and such Heavens and Earth appear to be the Object of this Holy Apostles Vision ver 1. and the 2d verse confirmes the same I John saw the Holy City descending c. as we may have occasion afterwards more fully to shew and the Tabernacle of God is then said to be with men and he to dwell with them viz. for that said 1000 years reign in his personal presence in that body which God gave him Heb. 10.5 which was typified by the Tabernacle of old wherein the then acceptable services of God were performed and that body whereby at Christs death all acceptable Sacrifice for sin was wholly fulfilled to which purpose is that expression of this holy Evangelist John 1.14 of Christs living but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little while here lower than the Angels as Heb. 2. that he Tabernacled amongst us as the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do properly signifie Now that Tabernacle of his body in the Type and Antitype being perfected in glory at the Fathers right hand in this said state and time personally comes in the Clouds of Heaven in his own glory and of the Fathers and of all his holy Angels and that is the blessed Tabernacle there said to be with men c. as we have many wayes proved namely that that coming will be personal his appearance to the Jews personal his feet standing on Mount Olivet personally his bringing his Saints with him his personal act his command to slay his Enemies before him personally his raising the said Saints his peculiar personal act his sitting on Davids Throne as the Son of David personally and the many great things wherein he will be admired of his Saints then in all his said great day of Judgment will be all personal 2 Thes 1.10 Se farther Assert 7. of our Key for his Personal Appearance and Reign A second Question may be Why the Reign of Christ in his Davidical Kingdome with his raised Saints being the last promised to the Posterity of Shem Abraham and David is here the first spoken of as performed in the 1000 years Answ It is the chief thing promised to Christ as the Son of David And the Promise of Canaan made to Abraham and his spiritual Seed before wherein the Holy City Jerusalem is said to be prepared for the Fore-fathers was also contained therein as Heb. 11.16 and hence the state of his people in Canaan did by degrees grow up into a Kingdome as the Scripture manifests as the main thing intended for after the Promise to Abraham both he Isaac and Jacob were Pilgrims and Strangers in the world a long time and their natural race long after in bondage in Aegypt 400 years in their Wilderness condition and when they possessed Canaan they were under many oppressors above 400 years in the times of the Judges but at last they grew up into a Kingdome in Davids and Solomons time c. but when their Posterity had forfeited both Land and City c. they have since remained in bondage all the times of the Gentiles Monarchies almost 2300 years and so must probably do till Davids Tabernacle as the Apostle James speaks from Amos 9.11 shall be raised up again for Christ with his raised Sts. at the times of Restitut of all things that therefore being the last chief thing promised and the rest seem to make up the glory happiness thereof it is therefore here first spoken of again in the table of the good times So that where God left off before in fulfilling Antient Promises to the Fathers for the sins of their natural Race in that chief Mercy of the Kingdome there likewise he here in revealing his Restauration for the comfort of their spiritual Race begins with again in that said glorious Kingdome of Christ to come in both which respects it being the chief thing promised and also shortly now to be performed for Christ and his Saints it may appear very meet and congruous that it should here be set in the Table of these good times in the first place as the measure of all the rest that follow which do all but make up the happiness of that Kingdome as Christ reckoned his Sufferers and two Witnesses chief in the bad times Rev. 11. which times also are chiefly measured by the 1260 dayes of years during their Prophesying in Sackcloth So in the Renovation God seems to begin chap. 20. where in their natural Race by reason of their sins he had left and in chap. 21 and 22. proceeds backward to speak of the rest and lastly of the Paradise of God the first lost and last to be restored by Christ the second
them at those times of restitution of all things Acts 3. viz. upon Christ the Lamb and his Bride then which I conceive is taken for both sorts of Saints both then raised and in the natural life though then in their proper different states yet by gracious dispensation will probably be both of one Communion which we are taught to believe according to Gods Word sutable to that of Christ and his Disciples forty days after he rose from the dead Secondly The Positive part is included in the same declaration Gen. 13.15 after explained by many gradual Promises and Covenants We shall begin with the last at first in this Divine Key of our Saviours viz. the Kingdom promised to David and his Seed for ever which is the main thing here spoken of that Christ with his Saints should enjoy in that state comprehending all the rest which all the other tend unto and are to be conferred with it before the enjoyment of which the raised Saints have their spiritual bodies then whereby they are put into a capacity to enjoy all the happiness of that time and state and the Jews Israelites and Gentiles shall be converted and united into one sheepfold c. This Kingdom was foretold by Jacob Gen. 49. and by Balaam Numb 24. and often prophesied of by David confirmed in Nathan's Message seen in Vision by Daniel at what time Christ should receive it over all Nations under the whole Heavens Dan. 7.27 with many other confirmations by the Prophets and declared by Christ that it was his Fathers pleasure to give it to his little little flock Luke 12.32 that they suffering with Christ should reign with him which in the 1000 years they are said to do Rev. 20.4 of which more is said in our twelve foundations of the faith thereof and in the Word written and elsewhere from Scripture-Authority For this great King are the New Heavens and earth to be made without such a mystical moveable Sea out of which the Beast arose in the times of the Barbarous Nations Cmmotions the Whore hath sitten upon those many troubled waters ever since but this Kingdom that Christ with his Saints shall receive is such as cannot be shaken or moved Heb. 12.28 this said Kingdom is the first and main thing here spoken of by Christ though the last promised to David and his Divine spiritual Seed which the Apostles expected should be restored Acts 1.6 and will be at that time of the raising up of Davids Tabernacle which had been fallen in his natural Race 2300 years probably before Acts 15.16 Amos 9.11 The next thing belonging to this Kingdom for which the integral parts thereof the New Heavens and the New Earth are then to be be made as Rev. 21.1 is that which is contained in the Covenant to Abraham and his Seed respecting the promised Land as the Mother City thereof typified by that Jerusalem of old which is now in bondage with her Children Gal. 4. And is now above till the time of the descending of it from God out of Heaven when Christ comes in the Clouds of Heaven and brings all his Saints with him till the Marriage of the Lamb spoken of Rev. 19. and 21. which is called the great and holy and beloved Jerusalem that City with foundations that Abraham expected and is said to be prepared for the forefathers and all the faithful since Heb. 11.16.40 whose Maker and Builder is God which appears to be in great part the New Heavens as Rev. 18.20 as we in part shewed before with the Heaven of the glorious Angels coming to attend on Christ when his Tabernacle of his bodily presence will be with men not for a little time as Heb. 2. at his first coming but he will dwell with them the space of the 1000 years Then will also be according to many Promises to the Saints in the natural life of all the Nations that shall then be saved the New Earth wherein will dwell righteousness when Christ that great King shall reign in righteousness and Princes shall rule in judgment Esa 32.1 whose Officers shall be peace and whose Exactors shall be righteousness Esa 60.17 when Christ sits upon the Throne of David to order it and to establish it with Judgment and with Justice from thencforth and for ever viz. unto the end of the world Esa 9.7 the Prophesies and Promises which respect that state of Gods peoples mercies benefits and Priviledges therein are exceeding great and manifold that would require a large Volume to explain them respecting Saints then in the natural life both in being greatly freed from the evils we now spoke of with the manifold enjoyments of good but especially in regard of their large measure of Grace then promised as in the New Covenant first made in their Book of Deuteronomy after the first Tables had been brok on remarkably set down Deut. 30. to ver 11. for circumcising the heart of that people and their Seed after all their great dispersions who shall be setled in their own Land then and remove no more as 2 Sam. 7. and Gods Sanctuary shall be with them for evermore Ezek. 37.28 when God will pour his Spirit on them generally Joel 3. as he did upon his Disciples and some few at his first coming and those expressions of the New Covenant Jer. 31.33 34. and 32.39 40. and Ezek. 36.25 26 27 c. do chiefly belong to that people and such as are united to them in the natural life in those times that shall then walk in the light of the said beloved Jerusalem Rev. 21. though we Gentiles have now our share in them through faith in some degree but they then in the times of Restitution much more by far and this will then be that special great foundation of all other temporal enjoyments as the strong entail that Christ will make them of all promised good And to all Saints in those times it is probable will arise that great enlargement of Joy for the inlarging Christs Kingdom with praise to God in Christ for it by the powerful operation of the Holy Spirit in that together with the inheriting of all promised mercies to themselves they will see and know then the great confluence of saved Souls then abundantly coming in upon the like foundations from the Word of God when all Nations shall see the salvation of the God of Israel and the Heathen shall be given to Christ God 's King then set upon his holy hill of Sion for his inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession Psalm 2. for if the Angels in Heaven rejoyce at one sinners conversion now how will both Angels and Saints then rejoyce when so many thousands and millions which will then be saved in the prolonging of Christs days when he shall see his numerous seed as promised to the Fathers and the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand Esa 53. and his City prepared will be large enough to contain all raised
Saints being as it is described a perfect Cube of 1500 miles in length breadth and heighh fitted for the motion and benefit of their spiritual bodies yet said then to have foundations because then they will have their bodies who needed no foundations when they were Jerusalem above only the spirits of just men made perfect Gal. 4.2 and for the other in the natural life they shall lengthen their cords strengthen their stakes Esa 54.2 God hath prepared fit places for both who fully knows the number of them all Now many things in Scripture are said to be prepared by God or Christ that will not have their peculiar existence at present till the times come So our Saviour went to prepare the beloved great Jerusalem for his Disciples John 14.1 2 3. where they shall behold this his glory which his Father hath given him John 17.24 and this is the City prepared for the Forefathers Heb. 11.16 and for us v. 40. so saith Christ inherit the Kingdom prepared for you Matth. 25.34 and the eternal happiness which eye hath not seen ear hath not heard which God hath prepared 1 Cor. 2.9 and on the contrary Hell torment is prepared for the wicked Matth. 25.41 and Tophet is prepared of old for the King Esa 30.33 probably meant of the great Assyrian which will at that time be destroyed viz. the Turk called the Assyrian Mich. 5.5 when the Assyrian shall come into our Land that is possessing the Assyrians Kingdom then now all these so said to be prepared shall have their existence certainly in their times and it seemeth probable that this last Tophet with the River of Brimstone Esa 30. will be out of the matter of the earth dissolved at last c. which will yet make for the happiness of the Saints that they have not only escaped all such sufferings but shall inherit such wonderful manifold and everlasting happiness And now we come Fourthly to the last great Priviledge of the said New Jerusalem state and the said Kingdom of Christ with his Saints namely the Paradise of God then likewise to be restored instead of that which was first lost by the fall of the first Adam last mentioned in this Divine Key or bunch of Keys of our Saviour of which though from the fall intended yet we hear nothing particularly of it until our Saviour by his death had purchased it and then promised it to the penitent Thief upon the Cross with him This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise whither Christs Soul then went to take possession of it for all his Saints before he said the Angels are said to carry Lazarus into Abrahams bosome but the Apostle Paul explains it afterwards to be the third Heaven and Paradise where then it was but after when the New Jerusalem comes down with Christ from God out of Heaven that Paradise of God is described to belong to that Holy City where is the Tree of Life which yieldeth fruits every Month and whose Leaves are for the healing of the Nations with the pure River flowing from the Throne of God and of the Lamb Rev. 22. which are Divine expressions of the happiness of the Saints then spoken in resemblance unto the first Paradise and to the living waters spoken of by Christ John 7.37 38. which all the Saints shall in that state enjoy And so we have given a touch of these several parts of Gods Renovation of all things at that time of the restitution of all things spoken of by the Apostle Peter Acts 3.21 But one thing more the Scripture speaks of to belong to the same renovation and that is the Dominion over the Creatures to be restored then also when God shall put all things in subjection under Christs feet Psa 8.4 and Heb. 2.8 together with the Creatures freedom from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God of which much in Scripture when the emnity shall be taken away from amongst them as was said when Christs rest shall be glorious ver 10. Now all these great Priviledges are founded upon the antient Promises and Covenants of God to the faithful Fathers and thus Divinely unlocked by this said Key of our blessed Saviour so graciously left for his Churches consolation in these latter days when the evil suffering times are almost at an end and that happy state of things for the Saints is near approaching as we hope many ways to manifest in considering what those times of renovaâ—ion or restitution are which is next to be considered And how should the evidence of these things stir up all Christians to believe and act as to secure their own interest in them and to cast off every weight that presseth down that might hinder them in running their Christian race to obtain the Crown with all such precious Jewels wherewith it is so richly adorned for these Scriptures for this happy state cannot be broken We proceed to the third Head namely to consider what are the the times or in what state or occurrence of affairs in the world God will work this renovation or restitution of all things Obj. But here an Objection must first be answered Doth not the Apostle Paul tell us the times of renovation are past 2 Cor. 5.17 If any man be in Christ he is become a new Creature old things are past away saith he Behold all things are become new in the very words of this Text. Answ The Holy Apostle speaks there of the great spiritual renovation of the Souls of the faithful the foundation whereof was laid at Christs first coming and which will be the real ground to all Saints of obtaining their shares in the great renovation which God will work for them in that state to come we speak of wherein all such shall have their part for if Christ had not by his Death Resurrection and Ascension then laid the happy foundation by leading captivity captive triumphing gloriously over the powers of darkness there could have been no obtaining of this other but since he hath this will necessarily in its order and time follow thereupon in that perfecting of the work of Redemption in the world Again old things were then by that means passed away and all things become new then comparatively in respect of what they were under the Old Testament before he actually came in our nature before Gospel Grace was dark and more rare less efficacious under many types shadows and Ceremonial observances and Old Testament dispensations under the New Testament is a new and better Covenant new and better Promises new and better Ordinances new and better Dispensations as might largely be set forth So then by his first coming was the chief foundation laid of all following renovation of the world to come then was indeed the inchoation and powerful beginning of all happy renovation and the foundation laid of all the other the hopes whereof will be but building upon the sand without that founding upon the Rock
Noah in our late Systeme preceding the Saints Resurrection 1. respecting Noah as a Type of Christs saving his as their true Ark at the overflowing de uge of the wicked worlds destruction at the beginning and end of the 1000 years Secondly in respect of that Covenant made with Noah for the worlds and Creatures preservation till those last times when the Scriptures also testifie the greatest fruitfulness also will be And thirdly in respect of his Prophesie Gen. 9. that the Posterity both of Shem the Jews and of Japhet the Gentiles as now we hinted should both in those times at both their second calls spoken of in Scripture Deut. 32.43 rejoyce together applied also Rom. 15. to those times with other Scriptures respecting the same c. The same times were pointed out by our four Computations of the Jews deliverance and the great enemies destruction out of Daniel and Revelation formerly explained in our Parallels The like may be observed from what we said before of the Tabernacle of God at the same time being with men and his dwelling with them c. ver 3 4. wherefore also the name of the City then seems to be called Jehovah Shamma the Lord is there Ezek. 48 last And at the same time the Sun is ashamed and the Moon confounded when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his Antients gloriously Esa 24.23 which all â—â—spect the same times The New Covenant upon the New giving of the Law after the first Tables were broken Deut. 30. to 11. especially respects Gods People the Jews in those times which seems to be the antient foundation in Moses writings of which divers like in the following Prophets are the confirmations and explications as Jer. 31.33 Ezek 36. more especially belonging to that people after their reduction from their great dispersions though applicable to all Abrahams spiritual Seed in the times of the Gentiles also Heb. 8.9 10 11. These times are also pointed out by the great solemnity of the Marriage of the Lamb with his Bride the 1000 years at the New Jerusalems coming down from God out of Heaven which great solemnity was prophesied of by the holy Kingly Prophet David Psal 45. when she shall have Sons whom she may make Princes in all Lands To which purpose is that excellent Song of Songs by Solomon as respecting the return of the Shulamite in the Book of the Canticles probably about the time the Bride is said to make her self ready Rev. 19.7 And Solomons peaceable Kingdom of old was but a Type of that peaceful and glorious Kingdom and state which Christ with his Saints at the said times of restitution of all things shall enjoy the 1000 years The Scepter and Dominion prophesied of by Balaam Numb 24. and according to Jocobs Prophesie placed in the Tribe of Judah said by him to be a Lyons whelp and the Ensigne thereof was also the Lyon accordingly Rev. 5. Christ is stiled the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah and in Ch. 22. stiles himself so when in those times he shall be as a strong Lyon to destroy his enemies Ps 110. who also is both the Root and Offspring of David Rev. 5. as will wonderfully 〈◊〉 manifest in the same times c. The first Adams casting out of Paradise compared with Christs Key for the restoring all the spiritual Seed to a Paradise in that State manifests it to be Gods designe from the beginning by that Goel or Deliverer promised to be at his second coming a more perfect Restorer of all things then than the Serpent Satan was or could be a corrupter or destroyer before it was called Abrahams bosom whether Christ said the Angels carried Lazarus his Soul but after by our Saviour was called Paradise at his death when he had purchased it and promised the Penitent Thief as we noted that he should be with him there that day and so the Apostle Paul said he was rapt up into the third Heaven or Paradise 2 Cor. 12. called after the Paradise of God in the world the 1000 years of Christs Reign with his Saints and so is coincident in the same times of the Restitution with the other The same times are also set forth by the world to come Heb. 2.5 and 1.6 as the general Deluge ended the Old World and began the New so the ruine of that last wicked Roman Monarchy in respect of each of those long God-provoking States therein viz. both Civil and Ecclesiastical with all the broken parts of the three former Monarchies Dan. 2. will end this world in the present state of things and Christs said 1000 years Reign in those times will begin that World to come and the Apostle Paul Ephes 1.21 uses the same distinction which by our Saviour had been laid down before when he taught that the sin against the Holy Ghost should neither be forgiven in this world nor in the world to come Matth. 12.32 which will begin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the Father brings the Son again into the world viz. the second time as both Ancients and even Papists understand it when all the Elohim Angels shall worship him as Psal 97. Likewise the 42 Stages in the Childrens of Israel their passing through the Wilderness to possess the Land of Canaan was a Type of the womans the Christ ans's Church passing in her wilderness condition in the times of the Beasts 42 Moneths to attain in the issue to the New Jerusalem state in the said times of the restitution of all things or that redemption of the purchased possession as it seems Ephes 1.14 The restoring the Dominion over the Creatures lost by the fall of the first Adam was foretold by David to be obtained by Christ the second Adam Psal 8.4 5 6. c. as is explained and so applied by the Author to the Hebrews Chap. 2.6 7 8. which is another part of the Restitution of all things in the said times as we shewed And the said Creatures freedom from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God Rom. 8.21 will be another ingredient to make up that blessed state and although the same holy man Heb. 2.7 did acknowledge that they did not then see all things in subjection unto him yet he declares in due time Phil. 2.9 10. That every knee of things in Heaven and Earth and under the earth shall bow and be subject unto that great King of the whole world And can it be conceived by rational men that these Divine truths are written in vain and that Christ when he takes to himself his great power shall not reign in these respects also unto the end of the world and have that honour reserved for him by Angels men and all Creatures in the world then It appears also to be the end and drift of all Revelation Prophesie by that general Doxologâ—â— Ch. 5.10 to the end by Angels men and all Creatures upon the fulfilling of the contents of