Seed of the Righteous shall then literally and lineally be blessed yea blessedness shall then it seems be intailed upon them succeshvely to them their Seed and Seeds Seed for ever as is very remarkably let down at the great Restauration of Israel in Ezek. 37. when Christ there called by David's name as his Type and Progenitor who by a lineal deâ—cenâ— from him shall then obtain the long-before-promised Right of David's Kingdom and sit upon the Throne of David his Father as the Angel told the blessed Virgin Luc. 1.32 both Kingdoms of Israel and Judah being for ever then to be again united into one under him that then the very Land given unto Jacob his Servant out of whose Loyns immediately the Heads of all the Twelve â—ribes of Israel were derived and therefore it is further added that Land where their Fathers dwelt that they also shall dwell therein and then add a perpetuity of successive inheritance which onely he who is the absolute Proprietor and every way able to make it good and to make nullities of mens perpetuities as oft as he pleaseth He I say then tells them fully at this period when David's Kingdom shall then be so fully restored to Christ upon the old everlasting Covenant made to their fore-fathers which carries all promised mercies with it that they their Children and their Childrens Children shall dwell in the said promised Land for ever ver 25 c. And this may further appear by the improvement of Gods promise by Abraham's saith Heb. 11. who though he over-look'd no dram of promised mercy to any of his Seed even in temporal respects yet his faith as the Apostle teaches wrought upon the main that one promised Seed Christ as he is called Gal. 3.16 in whom particularly all Nations of the Earth should be blessed which at the said time will be most fully and really accomplished in whom he foresaw with the others there named the fulfilling of those promises was then afar off and that by vertue of such divine and spiritual grace all temporal good must be advanced and enjoyed Yet his faith fixed so upon that sure Foundation of all blessings really good which will be so derived to and preserved for all such his said blessâ—d Seed then that there will be a wonderful uninterrupted blessedness at that time continued to them In seeing the accomplishment whereof a great measure of Abraham's happiness through Christ will then actually consist when he shall eminently be Heir of the World actually by a blessed fruition thereof for a long season above 1000 years who as the Apostle speaketh Rom. 4.13 was in his life time but Heir thereof by faith onely which yet he was then sure should not be frustrated Much inlargement might be added to this effect if it were requisite and many Divine Reaâ—ons given from the Covenant to Abraham and Promises repeated to his Seed as spiritually so invested with all the temporal blessings of the Mediatâ—â—rs Kingdom when God and Christ are so often said to dwell with them and to set his Tabernacle among them which will carry along with it both the removâ—l of evils conferring all suitable good for that state We shall onely name a few more Promises belonging to the same state as Isa 61. which whole Chapter is a lonâ— and large prediction and promâ—e made to that then-blessed Race for their Fathers saâ—es as â—s noted by the Apostle Rom. 11. yea there also by way of distinction from the Gentiles he saith vers 9. to make it more evident of what generation of men he spake Their Seed shall be known among the Gentiles and their Off-spring among the People but for what shall they be so known It follows All that see them shall acknowledge them that they are the Seed which the Lord hath blessed The old intailed Covenant from Abraham Isaac and Jacob will then be found of force and Gods truth and faithfulness then acknowledgâ—d wherefore the Apostle there relates that promise Isa 59.20 When the Deliverer shall come out of Sion and shall turn away ungedâ—iness from Jacob Rom. 11.26 So that all Israel then saith he shall be saved and v. 27 he adds the reason thereof For this saith he is my Covenant with them when I shall take away their sins So it is the covenanted Mercy of God to that people which is of so large extent that when as a Foundation-mercy therein he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob and so take away their sins for onely Godlâ—ness hath the promise of this life and also of the world to come in that he is such a Deâ—iverer that he will first work such spiritual deliverance in them the other also upon that his said coming will follow unto the utmost extent also for all promised temporal mercies in the same Covenant contained even as a shadow will follow the substance of the spiritual And a like Promise of the same state of Gods Israel is given Isa 66.22 speaking of the New Heavens and the New Earth which shall then be and â—eâ—â—ain before him which he spake also of creating Chap. 65.17 even for that said blessed condition so of their posterities perpetuity in thâ—t happy estate while that world continues So saith he shall your Seed and your Name remaine when wicked men shall be destroyed aforehand and their careales shall then most probâ—bly at the Armâ—ggedon Battel aâ— by the Context appears be an abhorring to all flesh vers uit So thâ—t by what hath been said it may appear That though the Rest which Joshuâ— brought Israel into was by them polluted as was said Muâ— yet he was a I 〈…〉 them of their great Messiah when he shall come to them the second time without sin unto salvation Heb. 9 â—â—t turning away ungodliness from Jacoh as was said so beginning his Kingdom of the Mountain Dan. 2.35 and the New Jerusalem state Rev. 21. which is that other Rest which David spake of mentioned Heb 4.7 8. which is that Sabbatism or Rest remaining for the people of God vers 9. called by the Apostle Paul Rest with us when our Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed 2 Thess 1.7 and all this again at his appearance and his Kingdom 2 Tim. 4.1 wherein the fulness and great evidence of holy Scripture appears to these purposes and that upon most sure soundations if duly considered See Sir Rich. Finch his book setting forth very largely those Promises belonging to that ancient People of God There are many other things observable in the Parallel of Moses with Christ and some others in Joshua's which I shall here also set down as follows First Moses was ordained of God to be a Deliverer of his People So was Christ the great Redeemer of all Gods Chosen c. Secondly When Moses was new born he was in danger of his life by the Edict of Pharach King of Egypt So Christ when new born was in danger of his life by the Command of Herod a strange King and
fore-tells ships shall come from the coasts of Chittim which Mr. Mede evidently shews to be meant of the Roman Navy coming from Italy and are so applied in the order of accomdlishment by Daniel Chap. 11.30 and then declares what the Romans shall do viz. They shall afflict Ashur and shall afflict Eber which they have long done but since they were to be the last Oppressor of the Jews he further adds And he also shall perish for ever or shall go into perdition as is otherwise expressed by the holy Ghost Rev. 17 8. that is the Roman Monarchies being the last shall utterly be ruined when Christ shall destroy the man of sin when all wicked and tyrannous Dominion shall utterly cease and the Kingdom of the Stone shall becom a great Mountain filling the whole Earth when that Star and that Scepter and that Dominion he spake of before verse 17 19. which are often in Scripture afterwards spoken of shall continue for ever viz. to the end of the world These things are obvious I shall not therefore here insist further on them V. Fifthly Typified first by one pair of partial Types in the Old World secondly by three partial pairs in the New First the said pair of partial Types in the Old World are Enoch's ascending shewing the bginning of the Kingdâ—m of the Stone at Christs ascention into Heaven Dan. 2 34. And Noah's saving his by the Ark shews how Christ at the general Rapture of all Saints as the true Ark will save them when all wicked men shall perish at the finishing of the Kingdom of the Mountain Dan. 2 33. First Enoch was a Type of Christ in his walking with God who as the Apostle saith Heb. 11.5 before his Translation had this Testimony That he pleased God and therefore was translated that he should not see death in a wonderful manner Body and Soul in a way unknown to man into an ever-blessed and happy condition Even as Christ having fulfilled the work God gave him to do on earth and fulfilled all the wills of his heavenly Father in the Body which he gave to him Heb. 10.5 7 8 9. who therefore had this Testimony from the Father That he was his beloved Son in whom he was well pleased Matth. 3.17 and after all things were done in order by him to the last finishing of the work of Redemption and the witnessing of his Resurrection from the dead to his Apostles and other faithful Witnesses thereof he then ascended visibly into Heaven in the sight of his Disciples Acts 19. Luke 24.51 which was his eminent beginning of the Kingdom of the Stone which is the first state thereof when he so triumphed gloriously over all the spiritual Powers of Darkness as the Apostle teacheth Col. 2.15 so leading Captivity captive to give his Kingly Divine Gists unto men Secondly Noah also that Preacher of Righteousness as he is stiled Heb. 11. may be added unto Enoch being another partial Type of Christ Kingdom in the second state of it or the Kingdom of the Mountain who by faith saith the Apostle Heb 11. performed that Princely or Kingly service to make the Ark in the sight of that wicked Generation in the Old World that after perished by the Flood thereby to save himself and all his Relations that entred with him into it So Christ who shall be called saith the Prophet Jeremiah Chap. 23 by his Church The Lord our Righteousness and hath long sent abroad the Preachers of his Righteousness into the wicked World who regardeth it not when the time of their perishing at last shall inevitably come upon them by a deluge of fire as it did on the old world by water He will himself become at that time the true Ark prepared for all his true Members united spiritually unto him at the general Rapture or Change of all the Saints when the wicked remaining on Earth shall all perish at the worlds lost destruction by fire where all the other shall abide with Christ in the greatest safety and security above all worldly dangers sufferings or changes even when the Heavens and Earth shall be dissolved for ever VI. Sixthly Again also typified by three pairs of partial Types in the New world First of the Kingdom of the Stone First In Abraham towards the first times of the new world Secondly In Moses his Conduct from Egypt and in the Wilderness afterwards Thirdly In David's Conquest and Kingdom which God set up and gave him Secondly of the Kingdom of the Mountain First In Melthisedeck King of Salem that is King of Peace Secondly In Joshua's Conduct of Gods People into the promised Land Thirdly In Solomon's peaceful Kingdom the immediate Seed of David's Loyns First In the New world God said a new foundation with Abraham of Christs Kingdom in his free Covenant with him to be his God and the God of his Seed which the Apostle saith was one namely Christ Gal. 3.16 and by no other way was Abraham capable of that mercy that God should become his God Indeed God both promised and bestowed many Benefits and Priviledges upon Abraham's Isaac's and Jacob's natural Seed upon the renewing or repeating of the substance of that Covenant but all upon that Foundation-Truth wherein their Souls were divinely illuminated that the Son of God should become the Son of Abraham in a wonderful divine manner and so by him in a spiritual way of grace such his Children by faith should become the Sons of God and both he and they by such a way of faith and grace should inherit all the promises as the Spirit of God revealed and parposed so to fulfil them And therefore the Apostle Heb. 11. doth remarkably shew how Abraham Isaaâ— Jacob and Sarah by such illuminat on of their Souls saw afar off by faith the promises to be fulfilled in Christs Kingdom and at the Resurrection of the Just when Abraham shall be heir of the world actuaily which he was but onely by faith whilst he lived in the world as he also teacheth Rem 4.13 and â—nely from that ground all Gods Servants are interessed in any â—â—mpora Promises or Blessings And in such time of his living but 〈◊〉 Abraham was a great conquerour of his Enemies when he dâ—â—vered his Brother Lot and his house and those with him from there Kings that carried them Captives So Christ whilst he is fulfilling the Covenant mâ—de with the Faithful he is a great Conquerour and delivereth all his Prethren whose flesh he took from their nature and gives them his Spirit from his own Divine Nature which makâ—s them neâ—â—ly related to him and dearly beloved of him and in whose behalf and for whose deliverance he did not onely venture himself as Abraham did for Lot and his but actually suffered death to deliver them from their spiritual bondage and erernal misery The other of this first pair of partial Types in the first times of the New World is Melchisedeck who is not improbably conceived to be Shem the
is improved to many good purposes in the Practicals The first whereof is the Treatise upon Gen. 3.15 The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head The Abridgment of which as the first part of the Everlasting Gospel with the Treatise also are presixed before the rest The second part of which everlasting Gospel being the second Practical piece given by God the Son and the Holy Ghost is contained in a Tract upon Rev. 22.20 Behold I come quickly Amen Even so come Lord Jesus Setting forth the different names times natures and purposes of Christs second coming at the beginning of the thousand years Rev. 19.11 And of his descending from Heaven at the sounding of the last Trump at the general Rapture and Change of all the Saints when the little space of Satans losing is ended and the last Gog and Magog destroyed by fire from God out of Heaven after the thousand years when he shall come to sit on the great white Throne and Heaven and Earth shall flee away before his face and no place be found for them Rev. 20.11 And all wicked men shall be raised to be judged and the irrevocable Sentence in Gods order shall be passed upon Good and Bad to all Eternity Unto which are adjoyned nine Uses of the same Doctrine The third practical piece is on Jer. 3.17 At that time Jerusalem shall be called the Throne of the Lord and all Nations shall come to the Name of the Lord at Jerusalem Which is now placed after the aforesaid Observations and Answers to Objections as being the Topstone of this Doctrinal Edifice and which will reach at length to the highest Heavens And now Prudent Christian Reader I hope thou wilt indulge me in some matters thy just excuse for though some are clear and evident from sundry Texts of holy Scripture yet others are only probable and some but meerly conjectural as was fore-advertised Prodrom pag 44. and consequently the grounds thereof are suitably either evident probable or conjectural only Whence it will be imprudence and unequal judging to reject many evident truths of this nature because of some other mistaken conjectures But having long since set to sail in such a vast and rough sloating Ocean wherein it was to be expected notwithstanding any hoped advantage I was like to be much tossed with various winds and tempests before I could look to atrive at the Cape of good Hope and being also to travel far in a much untraced Wilderness or which was worse to fall into such Mazes and Meanders wherein many have lost themselves yet since that such a Wilderness was my way to come to the promised Land though the Cloud by day and the Pillar of Fire by night did not always appear to go before me yet I may not say but that I have in a gracious manner many times found their guidance But yet have met with many Amalakites Moabites and Ammonites to hinder my passage thither besides the Sons of Anak and also the stinging siery Serpents which caused me often to look up to the true Brazen Serpent for my needful cure VVhereupon I have by comfortable experience found That Creature Obstructions have sometimes proved to me Gods Instructions and some mens hindrances have often to them unwittingly produced Gods help for me who by remarkable Providences hath many times turned great seeming difficulties to real useful advantages Otherwise I could not have hoped so far by faith to have seen the New Jerusalem's Beauty and Blessedness on Earth as they Heb. 11. and as now through the mercy and goodness of my God is here offered to thy view To which haply much may be added if God give opportunity by Explications or Discourses VVherein I hope I my self with the many ten thousands and ten times ten thousands of saithful Christians shall attain a long lasting habitation as appointed of God In that time The Tabernacle of God shall be with men upon Earth Rev. 21. c. where we shall all behold Christs glory which the Father hath given him and he to them by his last VVill and Testament John 17.24 when the said Lamb shall be the Light of that City To which I groundedly by faith say Amen For confirmation whereof for others benefit I desire still to be by all good means subservient Septemb. 11. 1671. W. S. Of the XII fore-named Foundations of the said Doctrine in the second part of the general Title-page believed As being I. FIrst promised by God the Father Gen. 3.15 as the most eminent breaking of the Serpents Satans Head both natural as I may say and politick of his Craft and Dominion when all his former Babylonish Designs shall be defeated and utterly destroyed which was saith the Apostle John 1 Epist 3.8 one end of Christs coming into the world to destroy the works of the Devil which in an especial manner will most evidently and powerfully be done when Christ comes from the right hand of the Father whither as that Nobleman in the Gospel Luke 19. he went at his ascention into Heaven te receive his Kingdom and to return as he himself speaketh to wit when he will so come and in such wonderful manner make his foes his footstool until which said time he will continue there according to that Divine Oracle so frequently mentioned and improved in the New Testament Psal 110.1 c. Sit thou on my right hand until I make thy soes thy sootstool VVhere as the Apostle saith he sits still expecting till his foes are made his footstool Heb. 10.13 which at Christs said coming in the Clouds will most certainly and powerfully be accomplished above 1000 years before the last Resurrection and General Judgment as is most orderly set down in that divine and glorious Revelation to St. John Chap. 19 11. Chap. 20. to v. 11. when he will cause his most proud and mighty foes to hide themselves again in the holes of the Rocks as in some measure in Constantines ruining of the Paganish Powers Rev. 6.15.16 17 was terribly fulfilled but at the last ruine of the most abominably tyrannous Kingdom of the Beast and false Prophet at the appearance of Christs said Coming and Kingdom will much more terribly by himself be accomplished 1 Thes 2.8 2 Tim 4.1 As then the Prophet Isaiah twice of those times confirms the terrour of it Chap 2. verse 19 21. That the loftiness of man shall be bowed down and the haughtiness of man shall be made low and the Lord alone be exalted in that day when he wid utterly abolish Idols that they may go into the holes of the Rocks and into the caves of the Earth for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his Majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the Earth And the forcible efficacy of this his Prophecy he again further illustrates and confirms verse 20 21. Yet observe though he saith there He will shake terribly the Earth twice yet he saith not that then he will utterly destroy
Divine Majesty and Zeal for his Glory and Worship that thereupon he made to David the most blessed return of Love and Riches of Goodness to him and his House with the longest Entail wâ—th it and surest security of it that ever was made to any meer mortal man We may here observe first the said Message of God from vers 8. to 17. concerning Gods sure mercies to David in respect of his Kingdom People and House Secondly We may note David's improvement of each part of the Divine Message by Faith Prayer and thankful Acknowledgment from vers 17. to the end First In Gods Message vers 8. He directs the Prophet Nathan to make to David a rehearsal of mercies past namely How he exalted him from a low estate even from the Sheep-coat from following the Sheep to an excellent Dignity not onely to be a Ruler in ordinary way but that which added much to his exaltation and honour was he let him over his own People even over Israel chosen out of the whole World for his own Inheritance This special trust God committed to David to whom great Priviledges did belong and for whom great things formerly had been done by God upon whom his Name was called Secondly Vers 9. He minds him how he had been with him in a special manner in a way of grace to wit to be for him and against his Enemies and so effectually as to cut them all off in his own sight and that thereupon he had made him a great Name as the great Men that are upon the Earth Thirdly Vers 10. He sets down as in a Parenthesis a most wonderful mercy promised to his said People long after to take place and to be in fulfiâ—ling to the end of the world saying I will appoint a place not what he had done before or unto that time as afterwards is explained for my people Israel and I will plant them but how First that they may dwell in a place of their own for formerly they drove out others though but as Gods Instruments yet with many failings and then by their sins they forfeited their own interest therein Secondly He declares they should move no more which settlement then must needs be yet to come the same with Ezek. 37. and many other promises Thirdly The Children of wickedness should not in that Land which he promiseth afflict them any more which hath not hitherto been fulfilled formerly such Children of wickedness which in their dâ—sobedience to God they spared were in judgment made Thorns in their Sides and pricks in their Eyes to chastise them and other sone of wickedness by reason of their many provocations greatly from time to time before and till David's time afflicted them as before time in Egypt and in the Wilderness as the end of vers 10. seems to intend as before time And vers 11. in the beginning of it he adds another distinct time of the prevailing of such Sons of Wickedness over them And saith he as since the time that I commanded Judges to be over my people And that he might the better take notice of his own so good different state at present and from whence it came he shews to him again that he himself had caused him to rest from all his Enemies And in the end of vers 11. he appoints Nathan to deliver a further Message of wonderful grace concerning David's own House saying Also the Lord tells thee there was his insallible security that he will make thee a sure House which must needs be a sure House when God both tells him so and tells him he will make it so Greater certainty could not be Therefore rightly is this stiled The sure Mercies of David Vers 12. concerns Gods promise to be fulfilled after David's death concerning his Son Solomon as is applied by Solomon himself 1 Kings 2.24 The Lord saith he hath made me an House as he promised which promise follows in this 12th verse I will set up thy Seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy own bowels and I will establish his Kingdom which must be his immediate Seed Besides he was designed by God to build that House for Goâ— is Name which David purposed till God now declared his pleasure therein to him to the contrary which was accordingly executed as Solomon acknowledged as was noted before And vers 13. latter part God addes a wonderful mercy That Solomon the Type of Christ whose Kingdom in his days should be a Type of Christs Kingdom should build that House that should prefigure the Body of Christ till he came in the flesh and fulfilled all that was signified in and by that House and Priesthood exerciseâ— therein whereby it seems to be signified That that House which he built and the Services to be upheld in it should typifie to his People his glorious Person and work of Redemption to be wrought by him for them where the Ark of Gods gracious Presence with his People was at that time preserved Which Temple though afterwards it should be destroyed for their great sins and provocations and the Ark of Gods gracious presence be taken away from among them yet the Temple should afterward by the wonderful power and grace of God be again re-built as Isaiah fore-told and was as we reaâ— in Ezra and Nehemiah accordingly fulfilled by the former denoting the death of Christ bodily which he suffered for his Peoples sins and by the latter that divinely powerful and glorious Resurrection of Christ from that death of the Body Which said second Temple by the divine work of God upon the spirit of Cyrus being so rebuilt should so continue onely after repaired and adorned by Herod thenceforward many hundred years until all things were sully accomplished by him who was before so long time and many ways before-typâ—fied by it at the death of whose bâ—dy the Vail of that Temple actually was rent from top to bottom wherewith Moses vailed Gospel of Ceremonial Worship ceased and upon whose Resurrection and Aâ—cention the Gospel of the Son of Mans Kingdom was speedily and powerfully and evidently preached by the commissionated Embassadors of Christ through the whole world when also the Kingdom of the Stone fore-told in Daniel dâ—d begin oâ— the spiritual Throne and Kingdom of Christ was seâ— up and hath and is and will be powerfully upheld while Christ in the Gospel rideth o'n conquering and to conquer as he began under the â—â—st Seal till he eminently when he ceaseth to sit at his Fathers Right hand in Heaven Psal 110.1 shall make his foes his footstool and thenceforward gloriously and powerfully on David's and Solomon's Throne as here promised in the Kingdom of the Mountain to the worlds end and la Judgment Dan. 2 35. And so the great King of the New Jerusalem will undoubtedly succeed lineally from them both in whom the House and Throne of the Kingdoms of both shall be established for ever as in Psal 45. is largely illustrated with many excellencies belonging