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A79823	Theopolis, or the city of God new Jerusalem, in opposition to the city of the nations great Babylon; comprehending the blessing and benefit of Christs Kingdom, in the thousand years reign before his personal coming and appearing, after the total ruine of the beast, and his kingdom. In a coment upon the 10th. and 21st. chapters of the revelations. With an additional answer to these two material questions: 1. Whether the thousand years reign is not already past, as Brightman, and others affirm. 2. Whether the natural Jew is not most concerned in the latter day promises prophecies, especially in the pulling down Babylon, and building of Zion, as Maton, and others assert	Danvers, Henry, d. 1687.	1672 (1672)	Wing C4357; Wing D231; ESTC R229614	117,233	260

his own Blood And hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father to him be Glory and Dominion for ever and ever Daniel 7.17 These great Beasts which are four are four Kings which shall arise out of the Earth viz. the four Monarchies as interpreted Chap. 2.18 But the Saints of the most high shall take the Kingdom and possess the Kingdom for ever 2● And judgment was given to the Saints of the most high 26. And the judgment shall sit and they shall take away his Dominion to consume and destroy it to the end 27. And the Kingdom and Dominion and the greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most high whose Kingdom is an Everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him Which is the very same spoken of Dan 2.44 and in the days of these Kings viz four Monarchs typed out by the Image the God of Heaven shall set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed and the Kingdom shall not be left to other people but it shall break in pieces and consume all these Kingdoms and it shall stand for ever Psal 110 2. The Lord shall send the Rod of thy strength viz. his Septer or Ensign of Rule and Dignity out of Zion the new Testament Church Rule thou in the midst of thine Enemies Mica 4.8 And thou O Tower of the Flock the strong hold of the Daughter of Zion unto thee shall it come even the first Dominion the Kingdom shall come to the Daughter of Jerusalem Rev. 2.26 27. And he that overcometh and keepeth my Works unto the end to him will I give power over the Nations and he shall rule them with a Rod of Iron as the Vessels of a Potter shall they be broken to pieces even as I have received of my Father and I will give him the Morning Star Which glorious reign is held forth to us in the particulars following viz. First In the Great Extent Secondly in the Glorious Administration which is first in dispensing Laws 2ly Administring judgment both punishing the Evil and rewarding the Good to the encrease of 1. Peace 2. Plenty and 3. Protection Sixthly the great conversions both of Jews and Gentiles Seventhly the encrease of holiness Eighthly Freedom from sorrow Ninthly Restauration of the Creature First The extent of this Kingdom is no less than the bounds of the Beasts and Dragons Territories even the whole Earth Rev. 16.14 No less than the limits of the four preceding Monarchies as Dan. 7.27 And the Kingdom and Dominion and the greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most high whose Kingdom is an Everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him So Dan. 2.34 35. The Universality whereof is confirmed also by these following Scriptures Isa 60.11 Thy Gates shall be open continually they shall not be shut day nor night that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles and that their Kings may be brought 12. For the Nation and Kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish Yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted Isa 2.2 And it shall come to pass in the last deays that the Mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the Mountains and shall be exalted above the Hills and all Nations shall flow thereunto Agreeable to the first promise to Abram Gen. 12.3 And I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee and in thee shall all the Families of the Earth be blessed Ratified also by an Oath Gen. 22.16 17 18. By my self have I sworn saith the Lord that in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the Stars of Heaven and as the sand which is upon the Sea Shore And thy seed shall possess the Gate of his Enemies And in thy seed shall all the Nations of the Earth be blessed Rev. 11.15 And the seventh Angel sounded and there were great voices in Heaven saying The Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever So Psal 2.8 Psal 29.10 Isa 19.23 25. The glorious Administration consists First in dispensing the Righteous Laws of the Lord in opposition to the Laws of the Nations the Statutes of Omri the Lord alone being the Law-giver Mica 4.2 And many Nations shall come and say Come and let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord and to the House of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for the Law shall go forth of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem Therefore it is said Isa 51.4 Hearken unto me my people and give ear unto me Oh my Nation for a Law shall proceed from me and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people 5. My Righteousness is near my Salvation is gone forth and mine Arms shall judge the people the Isles shall wait upon me and upon mine Arm shall they trust Therefore verse the 7th Hearken to me ye that know Right the People in whose heart is my Law Fear not the reproach of men c. Isa 42.2 He shall not fail nor be discouraged till he have set judgment in the Land and the Isles shall wait for his Law Verse 21 The Lord is well pleased for his Righteousness sake He will magnifie the Law and make it Honourable And further as a precept for the day Mal. 4.4 Remember ye the Law of Moses my Servant which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel with the Statutes and Judgments Ezek. 44.23 24. Secondly In Administring Justice and Judgment and Righteousness to the encrease of Peace and plenty and protection the blessings of good Government Isa 1.26 And I will restore thy Judges as at the first and the Councellors as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness the faithful City Ps 72.7 In his days shall the Righteous flourish and abundance of Peace so long as the Moon endureth Verse the 2. of that Psal He shall judge thy people with Righteousness and thy poor with Judgment Verse 11. All Kings stall fall down before him all Nations shall serve him 12. For he shall deliver the needy when he cryeth the poor also and him that hath no helper 13. He shall spare the poor and needy and save the Souls of the needy 14. He shall redeem their Soul from deceit and violence c. Isa 60.17 18. I will also make thy Officers peace and thine exacters Righteousness 18. Violence shall no more be heard in thy Land wasting and destruction within thy Borders But thou shalt call thy walls Salvation and thy Gates praise 21. Thy people also shall be all Righteous they shall inherit thy Land for ever the branch of my planting the work of my hands

as at Mount Perizim or as in the Vally of Gibeon Or Secondly sometimes in an ordinary way by confounding dispiriting dividing them ingaging them one against the othet as Isa 19.2.14 Jer. 51.46 More especially by raising spiriting and ingaging his own people in the service to the fulfilling of divers promises and prophesies as Gen. 22.17 Psal 110.2 Psal 76. Jer. 51.19 to the 25. Obad. 21. Zach. 13.14.12.3 Mal. 4.4 Rev. 17.14.18.4.19.14 And the fore is the spirit promised to be poured out in the latter day to this as one end Isa 28.6.10.27 Zach. 12.6 Isa 32.15 16. And as Satan inspires and influences his Instruments in an invisible spiritual manner so the Lord Jesus directs guides governs and spirits his Saints and followers And his special presence as of old to accompany his in such great service Joshuah 5.13 14 15. Numb 10.35 36.14.42 Exod. 33.15 Psal 68.1 Isa 51.9 10 11. Mica 2.12 13.7.15 Zeph. 3.8 And why should it be thought more strange to have the work of God in the hands of his Saints in binding and keeping under their Enemies to be represented by an Angel dealing with a Dragon then to have the work in the hand of Constantine against the Pagan Roman power in the behalf of the Man-child the type hereof to be represented by a contest betwixt Michael and the Dragon It being said that Michael and his Angels fought and the Dragon and his Angels when Constantine and his followers in the behalf of Christ fought with and overcame Maxentius and his Heathen crew though both of them influenced no doubt by both the heads and principals as it may be also concluded in this place This contemporizeth with the witnesses rising and Earth-quake Vials out of the Temple the Lambs war and the retaliating of Babilon Of Heaven BY Heaven properly is to be understood either the out-spread Firmament which God called Heaven Gen. 1.8 wherein are the Birds of Heaven Mat. 13.32 the Winds of Heaven Dan. 4.12 the Clouds Rain and Dew of Heaven Or the starry Heaven Gen. 1.17 Or that Heaven of heavens the third Heaven the place of Gods principal Seat Mat. 16.9 2 Cor. 12.2 Figuratively sometimes for the heights and places above us sometimes God himself Luke 20.21 I have sin'd against Heaven Sometimes the Church is called the Kingdom of Heaven and often so represented in this Book Sometimes for Rule Dignity and Soveraignty in the world the place of the Rulers or the Gods Rev. 12.11 States and Kingdoms in the World political are as Mr. Mead observes upon the place much answerable to the condition of the world natural and accordingly represented in Scripture for as the world natural consists of Heaven and Earth and in the Heaven Sun Moon Stars so in each State and Kingdom by Nobility and Laity and Diversity of Orders and degrees in Rule and Government there is the semblance of them which interpretation Dr. Twist highly applauds convincing saith he the Reader of the sense and meaning of the Text which is delivered by him even to admiration wherein he excels greatly in his Preface upon the Key of the Revelations And therefore it is familiarly express'd in Scripture when great desolations happen to a State or Kingdom in subversion of their Rule and Government that the Sun is darkened Moon eclipsed Stars fall from Heaven As Isa 13.10 Vpon Babilons threatned destruction Ezek 32.7 Vpon Aegypts desolation And so the Catastrophe that befalls the Kings and great men of the Earth under tho sixth seal Rev. 6.12 13 14. set forth by like Metaphors by Sun being darkned Moon becoming blood Stars of Heaven falling to the Earth Heaven departing as a Scroll and Mountains removing out of their places Which I take to be the true meaning of Heaven here viz. the seat of authority that the Church was now ascended to after the Victory obtained against her Enemies who now by her Rulers that come forth in Christs name by the righteous Laws which are the cords and Chains of Christs Kingdom and by the visible power and authority in their hand bind and chain up their Enemies new Heavens Isa 65. importing the same Of the Dragons Binding Imprisoning shutting up sealing And bound him and cast him into the botiomless pit and Shut him up and set a Seal upon him that he should deceive the Nations no more THis Binding Casting into Prison shuting up and sealing are all terms of securing as Dan. 6.16 17. Mat. 27.64 65 66. And are Metaphorical expressions taken from the Nature of restraining and safe keeping some notorious desperate Villane from doing of mischief As when some cruel murderous desperate wretch is taken they use to fetter him with heavy Chains cast him into the Dungeon lock the door fast upon him not only to preserve the peace and quiet but to see him forth-coming to the Law day Which here holds out not only an absolute Conquest and subduing of Enemies as before but as much quiet and peace to the Church of God by this their close imprisonment and restraint as the neighbourhood may expect safety and quiet when the murderous Thiefs and Robbers are in Irons in the Dungeon or as the Lamb may enjoy freedom and ease while the Foxes Wolves and Dogs are in Chains As the good Dutchess said to the bloody Gardiner looking out of his prison in Edward the sixt his days that it was well for the Lambs when the Foxes were in Chains For such a righteous Rule by the Laws and Government of Christ shall take place that shall be as Chains Bonds and Cords to all the wicked tyrants and oppressors that they shall have no more liberty and power to domineer and exercise their wonted cruelty over the Saints then as so many men in Fetters and Chains And that such a state of ease peace quiet and rest is to be the portion of the Church after all their trouble disturbance and vexation they have met with from the bloody tyrants and beastly oppressours by this eminent restraint that is to be put upon them appears from the following Scriptures Isa 10 9 10. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy Mountain for the Earth shall be full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Seas 10. And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse which shall stand for an Ensign of the people to it shall the Gentiles seek and his REST shall be glorious Isa 32.17 And the work of Righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever 18. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in sure dwellings and in quiet resting places Isa 60.17 18. I will also make thy Officers peace and thy Exactors righteousness Violence shall be no more heard in thy Land wasting and destruction within thy Borders but thou shalt call thy Walls Salvation and thy Gates praise 21. Thy people shall be all righteous Isa 2.3 4. Out of Zion shall go forth the

Amethyst 21 And the twelve gates were twelve Pearls every several gate was of one Pearl and the street of the City was pure gold as it were transparent glasse 22 And I saw no Temple therein for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it 23 And the City had no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof 24 And the Nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it and the Kings of the Earth do bring their glory and honour into it 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day for there shall be no night there 26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie but they which are written in the Lambs Book of life CHAP. XXII Vers 1.2 3 4 5. And he shewed mea pure River of water of life clear as crystall prodeeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it and of either side of the River was there the Tree of Life which bare twelve manner of fruits and yeelded her fruit every Moneth and the leaves of the Tree were for the healing of the Nations 3. And there shall be no more curse but the Throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and his servants shall serve him 4. And they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads 5 And there shall be no night there and they need no Candle neither light of the Sun for the Lord God giveth them light and they shall Reign for ever and ever The City of God or Kingdom of Christ in the thousand Years Reign further asserted from the 21th and part of the 22th of the Revelations THis portion of Scripture viz. the 21. Chap. to the 6. verse of the 22 doth very elegantly hold forth the happy and Glorious condition of the Church in the thousand years upon her deliverance from her Enemies by their just ruine and destruction wherein the Angel gives John a larger and fuller discovery of that blessed state whereof he had given him some hints and glimpses in the foregoing Chapter so that what he called an enthroning verse 4. and a City state verse 9. he here declares to be no less than a new World a new Heaven and a new Earth Babylons old World her old Heavens and Earth viz. Sun Moon Stars Sea being burnt up and consumed and no other than the taking place of the New Jerusalem that holy and beloved City after the ruine and destruction of that filthy and bloody City or the coming forth of the Spouse the Lambs wife in all her beatiful array prepared for her Husband after the desolation ruine and destruction of that beastly filthy Strumpet that gaudy painted Harlot For you will find it naturally linkt to the foregoing story of the thousand Years and belonging to the State of Grace before the Judgement and not because it is put down after the Vision of the Judgement therefore it must so in order be reckoned and then consequently to belong to the State of Glory as most Interpreters judge For you will find nothing more frequent in this Book then to give brief hints of things in one Chapter and then to prosecute them more fully in the next several occurrences of after dates intervening and coming betwixt As for instance that passage in the eleventh Chapter where he mentions first the slaughter of the witnesses by the Beast then of the Witnesses Resurrection enemies Destruction and Christ's Kingdom yet afterwards in the 13th Chapter returns again to the Beast and gives an account of his rise and rage which must not therefore be supposed to be a Beast rising up after Christ's Kingdom takes place because it is mentioned after it but a further and larger account of that Beast that he had but briefly hinted at before in the eleventh Chapter And that we are not mistaken herein Let first the Prophet himself from whom the Prophecy is fetcht about these new Heavens and new Earth and new Jerusalem which are both one be the Judge For you will find the time when he foretells such a state to take place is not to be in a state of immortality and glory but in this World short of the Resurrection and Judgement because he saith in the 21 22 23. Verses of that 65. Isa It must be in a time when Building Planting and Procreating will be proper which cannot possibly be in the State of Glory and Immortality as our Saviour himself hath over ruled Luke 20.34 35. And Secondly Let it be considered that this new Jerusalem or beloved City was in the thousand Years otherwise why should it be said upon the expiring thereof in the 9th Verse of the 20th that the Gog-Magog Army encompassed the Camp of the Saints and the beloved City And Thirdly Consider that the Church is called here the Spouse the Lambs wife only prepared and made ready for her Husband and not following the Allegory yet in that full enjoyment and fruition which the state of glory brings her to And Fourthly It may be considered that in this state God is said to Tabernacle and dwell with Men which discovers it to be a state of grace here and not in that state when they shall always be with God in the state of glory And that we are not alone herein you have Mr. Forbs upon the 21. Rev. delivering himself thus viz. All the dispensation of God towards this City being committed to the Lamb the Mediatour bespeaks it to be accomplished in this World because in the World to come he gives up the Kingdom to God that he may be all in all 1 Cor. 15.28 And further That nothing is here so magnifickly spoke which the Prophets before have not almost in the same terms uttered of the state of the Church here in Grace we will easily perceive that no such thing is here meant as whereto most part of interpreters have drawn it But even by this amassing together of all the goodly promises in the Prophets of the Churches graceful and peaceable state to let us see that all this time shall be the full performance never any more to be disturbed and so therein the Mystery of God to be finished nothing now resting to be either expected or wished but that the Lord Jesus come quickly And the Assembly in their Annotations upon Rev. 21.1 viz. As the Church is altered so must her dwelling it may be spoken of a Glorious Church on Earih and then the day of Judgment is set before it in the former Chap. That the downfall of the Enemies of Gods Church might be set down altogether and then the Churches felicity after the destruction of the Whore Beast Dragon and

Apostle Iames to be restoring the fallen Tabernacle of David Acts 15. And a fulfilling of that blessed prophecy of Amos and which is expected more amply to be fulfilled in the great Conversion and Conjunction of Jews and Gentiles that is foretold in the latter days Therefore whether for any to assert because the Prophets so often speak of a Conjunction of Israel and Iudah and a return into their own Land to the building City and Temple and injoyment of legal rites and ceremonies under one King that therefore those prophecies are to be yet fulfilled in the Letter is not an absolute mistake and such a sence that necessarily offers violence to the principles of the Gospel and not to be reconciled with the first Rule before mentioned and not onely hardens their deluded Jews in their expectation of a Temporary Messiah of whom they have had already so many Impostures but teaches the Gentile Believer to Judaize also of which there have been so many in these Latter dayes though in a mistical and Spiritual sence all those prophecies may admit of a larger and further Accomplishment as before and which with the consideration of what is fulfilled in the Letter as before may reconcile all 4. Rule THat the great Conversion of the Iews to Iesus Christ is not to be till the fulness of the Gentiles be come in Luke 21.24 Rom. 11 25 Mat. 23.38 Which fulness is not to be till Babylons fall and preaching the everlasting Gospel and the erecting of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ for they are contemporary and it is clear that the Gentile Saints who have born the heat of the day under Antichrist and who have kept the Commandments of God and testimony of Jesus must be the special instruments thereof not the Jews who have been such blasphemers of Christ and all by his appointments all that live But then will they so receive the Gospel that they will bless those that come in the name of the Lord Mat. 23.38 And so in those great conversions that will be effected in that day of the Lord amongst Jews and Gentiles all Israel viz. The whole body of the Elect the whole seed of Abraham spiritual shall be saved which is true only in that sence for all Israel in a natural sence shall not be saved as Wollebius well observes upon Rom. 11. FINIS Errata PAge 7. l. 24. r. Conviction p. 10. margent r. 1 John 2. l. 14. r. 2 Kings l. 15. Rev. 4 3. 11. p. 12. l. ult or p. 14. l. 12. for 39. 3. 6. p. 21. l. 10. r. as p. 23. l. 4. r. prophecie is p. 25. l. 27. r. Monarchies p. 26. l. 15. r. he l. ult r. Psal 72.9 10. p. 27. l. 11. r. promised p. 30. l. 8. r. we are to understand p. 31. l. 28. r. in order to the Whores p. 32. l. 23. r. Enemies will be brought to pass by p. 34. l. 1. r. Angels l. 5. r. their p. 36. l. 3. r. same p. 44. l. 7. r. 4. 6. l. 10. r. of the Dead p. 45● l. 21. r. 21. 1. 2. p. 48. l. 10. r. 26. p. 54. l. ult Rev. 1. for 9. r. 6. p. 58. l. 26. for held r. hold p. 59. l. 20. r. their p. 63. l. 6. r. a l. 21. r. Rev. 11.11 l. 22. r. 35. p. 66. l. 24. r. 60. p. 69. l. 10. r. 60. p. 72. l. 21. r. blessed p. 78. l. 20. r. its dignity p. 82. l. 14. r. wiser p. 83. l. 12. r. God p. 84. l. 10. after Throne r. the Heaven being his Throne p. 93. l. 28. r. 9. for Rev. 1.11 p. 127. l. 16. r. precede in the margent add years p. 130. l. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 4. r. ibid. p. 132. l. 5. r. Relation l. 19. r. three p. 139. r. thus the Lambs wife is one p. 140. l. 7. r. woman p. 143. l. 10. r. Exod. 25. p. 144 l. 3. r. begat us p. 147. l. 11. r. extend p. 149. l. 16. r. Prophet p. 150. l. 10. r. been p. 157. l. 18. r. 3. p. 168. l. 12. r. Bats l. 30. r. not defiled with women p. 182. l. 23. r. to him p. 184. l. 27. r. shout p. 186. r. Zelophebad l. 11. r. Israel p 190. r. 60. 35. 50. p. 197. l. 19. r. Rev. 4.4 p. 204. l. 3. r Doctrine p. 210. l. 2. r. 2. 13. l. 5. r. by p. 214. l. 17. dele not p. 215. l. 10. r. 6. p. 219. l. 3. 1. of p. 222. l. 13. r. had