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A59938	A plain and evident discovery of the two personal comings of Christ one at the beginning of his thousand years reign, Rev. 20, 4, with his holy and blessed raised saints in the Now [sic] Jerusalem, come down from God out of heaven, Rev. 21, the other after the little space when the thousand years are ended, &c. : whereunto are added many profitable applications of the same doctrine for all sorts of persons.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1670 (1670)	Wing S3408; ESTC R38237	52,178	52

of which God said Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Psal 2.7 applyed largely by St. Paul to Christ's Resurrection Acts 13.33 34 35 36 37. with other Scriptures of which saith he again Rom. 1.4 he was declared to be the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead And being so glorified by his Father he also glorified him by setting up the preaching of the Gospel and give Salvation thereby v. 2 3 4. when all power being given to him in Heaven and in Earth as he said Mat. 28.18 he then mainly improves the same in commissionating and fitting and sending his Disciples to be his Apostles to preach the Gospel as in the Prayer is to be observed afterwards and Mat. 28.19 20. Go preach the Gospel to all Nations and Mark 15. Go preach the Gospel to every creature and also glorified his Father many wayes in the forty days after his Resurrection but especially he is said then to speak to his Disciples of the things that concerned the Kingdom of God Acts 3.3 4 5. whereupon seemed that question of the same Kingdom then to be moved by them c. The next step was his Prayer for his Ascension into Heaven v. 5. to be glorified with that Glory which he had before in the Bosom of his Father before the world was when he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but thenceforward should as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God-man in one person sit at the right-hand of the Father in his Caelestial Glory which he had with the Father before the world was and then v. 6 7 8. having declared divers things respecting his Disciples what he had done towards them and what effect was found in them c. he proceeds in v. 9 11. to make his Prayer for his Disciples after to be his Apostles being in the world when he was ascended that his Father would keep them from that evil world as he had done for them to that time v. 12. having shewed their joynt interest ver 10. and shews the end why he spake these things suitable to their present state v. 13 14. and shewing what Persecution they were to look for but how they should be preserved c. he proceeds to limit his Prayer for his Disciples v. 15. not that they should be taken out of the world but that they should be kept from the evil And since they were not of that world v. 16. he prayes further in v. 17. to have them sanctified by the Word of God's Truth and giving them their Mission v. 18. he shews the end of his sanctifying himself was for their sanctification by that means v. 19. So having done with what concerned his Disciples to be sent as Apostles into the world and in them for all faithful Messengers of the Gospel that were to succeed he then proceeds v. 20. to pray for all truly faithful and believing souls through their Word as he speaks even from that time of their Mission to his Coming again as may many wayes appear by what follows from ver 20. to 25. wherein all such faithful persons should be equally concerned shewing that the end and drift of all their believing through their Word or of any of his Messengers was that they might all be one as the Father was in him and he in the Father that they might be one as the Father and the Son were one v. 21 22. that is that they should be as the Bride the Lamb's Wife is one with her Head in the New Jerusalem come down from God out of Heaven Rev. 21. and so made perfect in one v. 23. at Christ's second coming or his coming again into the world as Heb. 1.6 when that good world to come shall believe that the Father hath sent him yea and know it too in an especial manner as he adds and repeats in part the same thing v. 21 23. having shewed in v. 22. that he had given them the same Glory that the Father had given him in his Kingdom Dan. 7.14 15. and for that end that they might be one as was said before as he and the Father are one who loved them as he had loved him And v. 24. he further declares his own last Will and Testament in that particular respecting the enjoyment of that happiness with himself in the said Kingdom which his Father had given him as Mediator as a reward in time for that work finished in the time of that his Office which the Faithful should enjoy with him in the time of that said good World to come when they should be where he should be and behold to their happiness the Glory then given him by his Father from his love to him as his obedient Son and faithful Servant before the foundation of the world and in the two last verses concludes with some special consolations respecting his Disciples as follows ver 25 26. to the end of the chapter Thus divinely hath our blessed Saviour according to his infinite Wisdom couched the order of these glorious Mysteries in his making and leaving this most excellent Prophetical and declarative Prayer of his before his departure out of the World recorded by his beloved Apostle St. John for the information and consolation of his poor and little little Flock to whom with himself it was his Father's pleasure to give that Kingdom with himself on Earth Rev. 20.4 Rev. 5.10 And the advancement of that state is the great drift of our Lord's Prayer recorded also by two Evangelists namely that God's Name may be hallowed See Irenicon p. 30. and his Kingdom come and consequently his Will be doen in Earth then as in Heaven before for which purpose as God's People should alwayes endeavour faithfully so they have abundant ground to believe from the Word it will be so done in the time when the Devil will be shut up in the bottomless-pit from seducing the Nations for a thousand years space Rev. 20. The blessed and holy Saints shall come with Christ to take their bodies in their own order The glorious Angels shall come and worship him and do their service to him in the world Heb. 1.6 And all the creatures in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth shall bow the knee and be subject unto him Phil. 2. and all things be made new by him Rev. 21.5 all which since his Word declareth most surely shall be performed 21. Observ That the perfect Dominion over the Creatures which was part of the Image of God upon Man in his innocency will be restored again unto him the holy Scriptures make evident which the Apostle Paul saith The whole Creation groans for to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God Rom. 8. and this David prophetically foreshews will be done in Christ Ps 8. where he saith God had visited him the Son of man and made him for a little time as both the word in the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

be ended See them at large in the Plain Discovery after the Parallels At the first Christ removes the hinderers and opposers of his reigning in the World towards whom God had shewed long Patience all the time of Christs sitting at his right hand and his faithful Servants patience had been all along exercised by them Yet notwithstanding by their Faith and Patience all along that Kingdom of Patience now almost at an end have inherited the Promises hitherto and still shall do through the thousand years But Psal 110. at the end of Christs sitting at Gods right hand in Heaven he will begin to make his foes his foot-stool by destroying the first Gog and Magog the Turk and Pope by a complication of Judgments Ezek. 38 39. Rev. 19.11 16.18 Dan. 12.1 with Dan. 11.45 And binding Satan Rev. 20.1 2 3. See Observ 3. Then God will set his King upon his holy hill of Sion Psal 2. and so perform the sure mercies to David for ever and that before himself for all which it is plainly recorded as is to be well observed 2 Sam. 7. in a great part of that Chapter See Observ 21. And then he will make every knee to bow to him in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth Phil. 2. Having given him a Name above every Name c. For then those in Heaven Angels and Saints come with him into the World when God shall bring his Son the second time into it as Heb. 1.6 which was prophesied of by David Psal 97. throughout and many other Scriptures Vide Irenicon from pag. 42 to pag. 88. And then all such as sleep in Jesus will God bring with him 1 Thess 4.14 See Obser 21. And he will then bodily begin to reward his Servants the Prophets and his Saints c. Rev. 11.18 by that blessed first Resurrection Rev. 20.6 and probably as they were eminent in grace or sufferings or both so much the sooner And in Earth the Jews will then become upon a miraculous Call and Conversion a very zealous and blessed People being beloved for their Fathers sake Rom. 11. See Observ 15. The heathen Gentiles will earnestly then seek Christs face and favour and even make use then of the Jews interterest to procure Christs favour Isa 6. Isa 19. c. The very inferiour creatures then will be freed from their bondage of co●uption Rom. 8. For there shall be no wicked men that shall then dare to abuse them or tyrannize over them as formerly See Observ 21. yea even such wicked men as will then be spared proving hypocrites as is probable will themselves be made slaves then as diverse Scriptures seem to speak For as sin brought alwayes with it a Spiritual slavery before so it is like always remarkably to add an outward visible slavery to all evil men in the world then But those Creatures will be matter of Gods praise to the Saints c. Christ will then delegate the power and management of that his Kingdom to the Saints for him Dan. 7.18 22 27. even that Kingdom he received of the Father and which he gave to them as he speaks and that they may rule for him v. 27. First to the first raised Saints and then to other eminent Saints in the natural life as his enemies which he came to destroy had ruled against him before which will be the just reason and cause of their ruine then Luke 19.27 The Covenant and Mercies to Abraham Isaac and Jacob promised and sworn to them personally and yet never personally performed in respect of their enjoying the Land of Canaan neither had their natural Seed that Land as it was made sure to that one seed Christ Gal. 3. for ever Deut. 30. and Deut. 11.21 and that as the dayes of heaven upon the earth c. See Observ 15. But it shall be then accordingly performed as it was promised and sworn As likewise the Oath to David in David's Seed and Saviour and Antitype to reign so long as the Sun and Moon shall endure See Irenicon pag. 77 to pag. 80. And Observ 21. So of the New Jerusalem called Jehova Shamma Ezek. 48. ult which is said to come down from God out of Heaven Rev. 21. where the Tabernacle of God is said to be with men See Observ 3. And the new Heavens and new Earth See Observ 22. later end with divers other Contemporaries for that thousand years as the Tree of Life and pure River See Iren. pag. 30. whereby the blessed gracious and glorious state of all things then are decyphred c. If these and the like points of Doctrine were enlarged upon and sitly placed in their due order of accomplishment as the holy Scriptures set them forth with such Rational and Scriptural Illustrations as are best suitable to their natures amongst themselves and in their sweet harmony with all other divine Truths there set down I doubt not but when once God shall give any sorts of men such Faith as to receive these things upon the divine authority of his Word they will appear both comfortable and excellent and prove forcible to such true Believers for increase of sanctification above what they received before and make to them as I have found by experience many parts of holy Scripture more clear and sweet and many wayes more useful than otherwise they can be to them whereas without these Doctrines I find I did not nor could ever have rightly understood or known them namely what such Texts of Scriptures respecting these and the like Doctrines do chiefly mean or drive at and I believe many others by degrees may find the like experience thereof in time But I am now many wayes restrained from enlarging therein and therefore only at present hint these things to believing Christians in such respects c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Glory's God all Glory 's due for aye To Him alone this Due let all his pay FINIS A brief representation of the Doctrine of Christs Kingdom of Power to come upon Earth together with an endeavour to remove unjust prejudices from it To prevent the great sin and danger of being ashamed of Christ and his Truth even that great Truth of his Kingdom Joh. 18.37 Before a sinful and an adulterous generation of both which we are warned Mat. 8.38 True Christian Friend c. THE great and precious Truths respecting Christ Jesus our Saviours glorious appearance to destroy Antichrist to convert the Body of the Jewish Nation to begin his glorious Reign with his raised Saints on Earth for a thousand years c. And all this probably shortly to be manifest in the World which God hath been graciously pleased to discover unto me a poor weak and an unworthy instrument in such remarkable wayes as he hath led me according to his Word and by the guidance and operation of his holy Spirit and hath so strongly evidenced to my own soul and which hath been by sundry learned men and judicious Christians acknowledged

and also the Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie lower than the Angels and crowned him with Glory and Worship making him to have dominion over the works of his hands and putting all things under his feet c. Which the Apostle applyes to Christ Heb. 2. and also saith he hath made him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little while as our Translation hath it in the margent likewise inferiour to the Angels and then speaketh of the same subjection of the creatures under him then afterwards to come and therefore ver 8. he saith we do not yet see all things put under him only we see Christ in his own person that for a little while was made lower than the Angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour But he again further teacheth Phil. 2.9 c. that God had given him a Name above every name that at the Name of JESUS every knee should bow or be subject of things in Heaven and things on Earth and things under the Earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father Which will not be done till he hath received his Kingdom and shall return as he himself speaketh Luke 19.12 15 and all these things can at no other time upon Scripture-ground be expected but at his said 2d coming when God shall bring again his Son into the world and say Let all the Angels of God worship him Heb. 1.6 and that was also foretold Psal 97.7 which whole Psalm beginning The Lord reigneth let the Earth rejoyce c. setteth forth prophetically in what a glorious manner Christ will come then to set up his glorious Kingdom both by destroying his Idolatrous Enemies and wonderfully delivering and exalting his People as is observable throughout the whole Psalm and this as to the time and order Christ succinctly explains Rev. 20.4 saying the Saints reigned with Christ a thousand years And accordingly thereunto are all the Promises of raising again the Tabernacle of David which was fallen Amos 9.11 Acts 15.16 and those for the perpetuity of Davids Kingdom to his seed so long as the Sun and Moon do endure See Irenicon p. 77 78 79. and the like are all to be interpreted which will be manifest when the Kingdom of the Stone Dan. 2.33 34. shall become a great Mountain filling the whole Earth And this is that Coming of the Son of man in his Kingdom spoken of by Christ Matth. 16.28 of which he soon after shewed a glymps unto his three Disciples Peter James and John at his Transfiguration Mark 9.1 Luke 9.27 Neither can these Texts be justly denied to be meant of such a Kingdom of Christ to come upon his coming again nor warrantably be interpreted in any other sense if the said Texts be seriously and duly considered 22. Obser I have observed only three great Earthquakes spoken of in all the series or order of the Book of Revelation And where the Spirit of God calls them great we may expect they will be great indeed For Earthquakes are often spoken of besides these great ones The first is upon the opening of the sixth Seal Rev. 6.12 when God by Constantine the Great overturned Satan's Paganish Kingdom when five or six several Caesars were so potent to oppose him See Fore runner p. 29. and cast down Satan from his Heaven of Heathenish Worship into the Earth Rev. 12.9 which was spoken of the same time which is described as a day of Judgment Rev. 6. to the Paganish Powers as indeed it was and there the Spirit of God sets down an Ecce before it and Lo saith he there was a great Earthquake The second is Rev. 11.13 at the ascension of the two Witnesses after their resurrection and then the holy Spirit tells us at the same hour there was a great Earthquake when the tenth part of the Dition of the City of Rome probably will quite fall from it See Fore runner p. 8. where the Witnesses are to rise again c. and this Earthquake we may daily expect But thirdly there is another great Earthquake afterwards spoken of to come which he further illustrates much above both the former and that will be at or about Antichrist's final destruction at the end of the sixth Viol and pouring-out of the seventh for the compleating of his ruine Rev. 16.17 18. and then the Spirit of God speaks with a great deal of emphasis of it saying v. 18. And there was a great Earthquake such as was not since Man was upon Earth so mighty an Earthquake and so great Which seems to be further described in the three following verses and seems to be at or about the same time of Michael's standing up to deliver Daniels People when such a time of trouble will be as never was since there was a Nation Dan. 12.1 and when St. Paul saith of Antichrist 2 Thess 2.8 Christ will destroy him with the appearance of his coming and happily of both Rev. 14. latter part of the chapter And then will not only the Earth be shaken but also the Heavens as saith the Prophet Hag. 2.6 7 21. Heb. 12.26 and as upon good reason from several Scriptures seems to be the main drift of them then to be fulfilled as Mal. 3.2 Rev. 11.16 Which shaking of the Earth probably may seem was first at that great Earthquake Rev. 6.12 when God by Constantine the Great overthrew Paganish Idolatry and may be again by the next great Earthquake now approaching Rev. 11.13 which will also begin to shake Antichristian Idolaters who are called in this Book the men of the Earth and the perfecting of that shaking is to be at that third and greatest Earthquake Rev. 16.18 when not only the Earth and evil men will be shaken but also the Heavens namely such Churches as will be then in a degree reformed Churches and thereupon will the new Heavens and new Earth ensue of both reformed Church and State in the whole World I conceive at the setting up of Christ's Kingdom on Earth Rev. 20.4 5.10 23. When the Prophet Moses denounceth threatnings against the twelve Tribes the Spirit of God seems to guide him divers times to set them down prophetically as including Prophecies in their order afterwards to be fulfilled as is observable Lev. 26. Deut. 28. 4.30 which he said expresly should be in the latter dayes and Deut. 32. from ver 1. to 44. See these Texts more fully in the Irenicon pag. 60 61. 24. Obser The heavy weight of God's wrath upon mankind next after the fall of the first Adam seems very observable through the first great Period of the World until the Flood for first good Abel the remotest type of Christ after Adam being slain by his brother Yet cursed Cain was then suffered to live to people the World which further appears that in those first ages of the World to the Flood few are recorded or hinted in Scripture to