ΠΡΟΔΡΟΜΟΣ OR THE FORE-RUNNER OF The Peaceable Consideration of Christs Peaceful Kingdom upon Earth Abridged made useful for those that have the former and those that have them not ALSO Containing many necessary matters often since referred unto in the following parts of the wole work and briefly pointing out such things as are elsewhere more fully explained with some Additions and Amendments Unto which are Annexed divers things most useful of those contained in the Irenicon and also directing where the substance of the rest is to be found in the other parcels printed since the year 1666. when many hundreds of all the first four parts were burnt or lost which may supply the want of them as are particularly set down in the end of this Prodromus Mal. 4.5 Behold I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. Mat. 17.11 Jesus answered and said unto them Elias truly shall first come and restore all things but I say unto you Elias is come already and they knew him not c. Post funestam Gogi Magogi cladem i.e. Papae Turcae Ez. 38.39 Describitur Nova Hierusalem cui nomen Jehovah Shamma Dominus Ibid. c. 48. ad finem By W. Sherwin Minister of the Gospel London Re-printed in the Year 1674. TO THE READER Christian Reader BE pleased to observe with me that the subject of mystical Prophesis respecting the seven Millenniums or a thousand Generations of the World may fitly thus be described viz. To be Gods appointed space of time divinely couched in his word for the accomplishing of his own great design for his own infinite glory concerning his Son Jesus Christ as Mediator and all those that he hath given him in the world and for the carrying on of his work of Redemption in his 3 great offices of Prophet Priest and King for his Vniversal true Church in the said time of his Mediatorshop until the happy restitution of all things shall be compleated in the world by him both for his Saints and all inferiour Creatures in their capacity as in reference to things which will mostly be seen being temporal until those eternal things shall be obtained which eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor entred into the heart of man to conceive both for men and Angels for ever more In which way Gods most wonderful and most gracious design towards all those blessed intelligible creatures for his own glory according to his word will gradually be discovered and fully at last obtained by them for all eternity And this which was first declared in the word will be last accomplished in the world until from their temporal being they all pass to the confines of eternity To which purpose take notice 1. That what was briefly declared Gen. 3.15 by God the Father Son and Holy Ghost at mans fall is the foundation and short comprisal of all future revealed mercy That the Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head and with Psal 110.1 Rev. 19.11 20.4.8 9 10. 2. That in Gods Covenant with Noah for all flesh Gen. 8 9. for the earths continuance not only as a stage to act all future mercies to men and other creatures upon during the said space but by its fruitfulness to be for an accommodation to them but chiefly in that world which is to come Joel 3. 3. By Noahs Prophesie God sets forth the lineal discent of such as for the future should chiefly be given to Christ Gen. 9.25 26 27. viz. Jews according to the Covenants and Promises after made to their Fathers and Gentils by their first and second calls c. 4. God afterwards accordingly made Covenants with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and for their seed and though the natural seed of Abraham forfeited their Typical Canaan by breaking their Covenant Mich. 2.10 yet faithful Abraham through his one divine seed Christ hath obtained for all his spiritual seed that City spoken of Heb. 11.39.40 5. Gods mercy was after set forth to David as by a Kingdome first also forfeited by his natural race to the casting down of Davids Tabernacle by the Babylonish Captivity thereby making way for the long interim or interruption of Davids said Kingdome for the 2300 years of the four Gentil Monarchies but by his divine seed Christ Gods Covenant is renewed with David for his spiritual seed 2 Sam. 7. who shall partake of the sure mercies of Davids Kingdome Ezekiel 55.3 with and by Christ in his Mediatory or Davidical Kingdome Revelation 20.4 3.21 when will also be restored to the Saints a Paradise in that world to come instead of that lost by the first Adam on earth when there will be new heavens and new earth and the old will not be remembred c. When the New Jerusalem state shall be set up for all Abrahams faithful seed Heb. 11.10 16. and all Israel shall be saved upon their union with the Gentils of which from the possession of Canaan the whole world mostly consists concerning which particulars I shall refer you to the intent perusal of our last Treatise on Rev. 10.5 as guiding to the scope and drift of such first so divinely declared and last in the world to be fulfilled grace which we all ought to be very diligent and active to obtain W. S. THE PRODROMUS 1. THis previous intimation I conceive may be of good use that these Abridgments of the Prodromus and Irenicon may not only be an helpful introduction to serious enquirers into the mystical part of the Gospel of Christ respecting that world to come but may together with those latter printed principles serve both for a commentary as well as a confirmation of the sum and substance thereof in the two folded leaves and other parts therein quoted which is also illustrated by the practical parts on Rev. 20.5 Gen. 3.15 Jer. 3.17 Rev. 22.20 but may be also as a directing table to find such things as are after supplyed in the latter parcels and relate unto them upon divers accounts And in the Irenicon will be shewed how the first intended method chap. 1. which was many ways first interrupted after the degrees observed c. 2. Instead of those Prodromal texts to page 5. formerly being after spoken of in our latter Parcels we here direct to consider well the nature and use of our several books contained in the first leaf of the General Title page or twelve foundations of faith the knowledg whereof may much advantage many and to our account after the Key where many other useful directions are also included and to the Key it self whereby much previous matter against mens mistakes is tendred Assert 1. page 2. and very useful and necessary informations of many sorts not observed by many others are also observable as that Daniels short hints of the subject matter of the Revel were shut up till the time of the end but opened since though mystically divinely by Christ himself in the book of Revel
holy Catholick Church upon earth that we are to believe or hope for and the excellent Communion of Saints that we are in this world to expect And likewise that we are now especially by our prayers to labour to promote as God of old directed his people when their time of deliverance from Babylon drew on Jer. 39. Then said he they shall call on me and I will answer c. And when Daniel by Books understood the mind of God therein he set himself by fasting and prayer to seek for and help forward if it might be the accomplishment of such revealed Grace So now also that new Babel is abundantly revealed to God's People to be shortly to be thrown down and the New-Jerusalem much more abundantly revealed in Scripture shortly thereupon to be set up The Faith and Prayer of God's People ought in their sphear to seek to promote it and I observe the Dutch Notes though by men of different Judgments yet in the Preface of the nine last Chapters of Ezakiels Prophecy apply what is there said to some wonderful Glory of a Jerusalem to come of which the former restoring of the Jews from old Babylon was but a Type Besides I observe many Psalms and many passages in many other Psalms more than I read in Mr. Archers Book to tend so this way that otherwise as such prophetical-Scriptures besides seem not to have any probable fulfilling but according to Revelation Interpretation as I may call it which I must acknowledge I never did nor ever was like rightly and groundedly to have understood but according to the tenour of that blessed book And as Israels coming out of Egypt tended to the actual giving of them after forty years space the possession of Canaan of old so God's Peoples coming out of the spiritual Egyptian Antichristian bondage now approaching tends to bring all God's true Israel into the New-Jerusalem that comes down from Heaven Rev. 20. and is it not a main drift of the most if not of all the petitions in the Lord's Prayer to this purpose for when hath Gods Name been so comperably hallowed in Earth as it is in Heaven as then it will be both by Men and Angels in all he is made known by to his People When will his Kingdom come with such power to any suitableness in Earth as it is and will be in Heaven but when the Kingdoms of this World are the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ Rev. 11.15 And likewise when at the same time Rev. 19. God's People shall so rejoyce when the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth because as it followeth in the next verse his Bride hath made her self ready And consequently when will the Will of God be done in Earth as it is by the blessed Aegels in Heaven but when his Subjects are of most obeddient hearts and loyal spirits as they will be under suh a prevalent reigning of Christ When my daily Bread this day any day be so comfortably and confidently prayed for and expected as when the particular promises of the greatest confluences of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings are to be fulfilled in their proper season to their best purposes c. When may we with such comfort and confidence pray for forgivieness of our Trespasses this day any day as when our hearts shall witness with us we least allow our sins When shall we be so assured of our own pardon as when our spirits are most free and clear in pardoning others in case they offend against us When can we so confidently pray to be delivered from the evil one and evil works with the consequents thereof this day any day as when Satan shall be known to be bound Rev. 20.3 and many great temptations removed and a very great measure of Grace attained and neer Communion with Christ enjoyed in this World Yea and will not the following enforcements of Prayer set down by our Saviour be then most clearly aplicable when the Kingdom is most manifestly Gods and the Power both to obtain it at his own time and pleasure and so likewise to retain it appears clearly his and consequently all Glory as his due shall be rendred unto him to all eternity Amen Amen And for the Martyrs and Saints to be raised at the entrance of Christ on this his Kingdom to have their part in the New Jerusalem I had the like thoughts before to what I find in other Authors That they should be in a state such as Christ was in after his own Resurection while he was not acssended to his Father but when I consider the many Prophesies of all those great things in the Old Testament so confirmed in the New and especially applyed in the Revelation to the New Jerusalem not only by allusion but by application of the Spirit of God and Christ himself in a special manner Rev. 10.7 as he declared to his Servants the Prophets And at that time reward is to be given to his Servanis the Prophets Rev. 11.18 and to his Saints and to them that fear his Name both great and small as it follows in the same Scripture And it is of main weight in this point that when the Chorus was set about the Throne Rev. 4.1 2 3. c. when Saint John was to receive the visions of that Book there is a Glorious appearance of God described and the Rainbow round about the throne as doing all to his Church through the Covenant of Grace through the Blood of Christ his only begotten Son and the seven Lamps burning before the Throne deciphering the seven Spirits or the Holy Ghost with his Gifts and Graces as Rev. 1.4 more clearly in Rev. 5. there is a Book in the hand of him that sat upon the Throne which none was found worthy to open but the Lamb that had been as it were slain having seven Horns and seven Eyes vers 6. which occasioned the four living Wights and twenty four Elders to sing a new Song and afterwards fall down and worship but the top of rejoyceing for all that was in the Book and after all that should be done and suffered by and for and in Christs Church which they represented in that vision it was this which was the great enforcement of their joy while the World was to continue And say they vers 10. we shall reign upon Earth And that Subject of such their reign there after all their labours and sufferings of the Saints as their time of refreshment Acts. 3.19 and Sabbatism or rest Heb. 4. is largely treated of in sundry Particulars in the 19 20 21 22. the four last Chapters of the Book of the Revelations and that those things therein contained must necessarily be understood of the state of God's Church upon earth according to the series and order of the Book in the last times and therefore were never yet accomplished take into serious consideration the brief abridgment of Reasons and Testimonies following to that purpose 1. The New Jerusalem is said to come down
ended Isa 60.19.20 Her Joy everlasting Isa 61.7 For ever shall her Land be inhabited Isa 60.21 Zech. 14.11 For to the Lord is she married Isa 62.4 who sweareth by his right Hand and the Arm of his Strength to give her no more over to her Enemies Isa 62.8 As that day the Lord shall be King over all the Earth and in that day shall there be one Lord and his Name one Zech. 14 9. Thus we see what glorious Promises are made to the New Jerusalem when the Promises of the New Heavens and the New Earth shall be accomplished with many other of the like nature whence it may appear how strongly pre-possession of prejudice against an Opinion of Doctrine may carry grave and otherwise judicious men away from the Way of Truth sometime upon one advantage or other as by Prescription by Multitudes of wise learned or even good men If they try not all things to hold that which is good which was mine own late Error in this particular or at least want of defecation of appendant Errors cunnigly by Satan affixed on this Truth as we observed in antient and modern seducements not distinguishing between the Depravation and Corruption of that Truth and Truth it self which in its Original was pure and untainted as in other cases many times when the corrupt super-additions of men have long prevailed to mingle themselves with anciently untainted Truths which when men can learn to view with unprejudiced minds and adhere to with uninteressed Affections will soon appear to them in their native excellency But for the said New-Jerusalem the more I observe many places of Scripture not only in the New Testament and Revelations but in the Psalms the Prophets and even the Historical Parts the more I am minded thereof from time to time And besides Psal 2. 8. 96 98 99. which one mentions especially I have taken notice of sundry others since God hath opened my eyes as he did Hagers of old to see these refreshing Waters of Comfort as Psal 89. 50. and divers passages in others which seemed to tend that way as Psal 146.5 6 7 8 9 10. 148.11 12 13 14. 149. throughout and those nine last Chapters of Ezekiel 〈◊〉 the Dutch Bible reckons like Daniels to be Revelations of the old Testament which set forth things to be accomplished in the New though they seem not to own the Opinion yet sometimes again lay grounds of it The second and seventh of Daniel speak much of Christs Kingdom and many other places too largely here to rehearse The Spirit of God seems to me to have spoken so largely thereof and in many specialties likewise to these purposes and the things themselvs seem so to approach as evidently may appear from the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ th best Expositor of the meaning of his own Prophetical Spirit that it much concerns all Gods People diligently to search and examine all such Truths as he hath set down there for our now seasonable Instruction and Consolation being sunk down near to the very dregs of the Worlds evil Times And as our Saviour on Earth directed to search the Sciptures for Salvation so now being in Heaven he directs his people to search them in this for consolation And as then he said In Moses the Prophets and the Psalms as it is written of me for the former so for this he not only points out Moses the Prophets and the Psalms in the old Testament but hath likewise taught the Apostles the Evangelists with many other persons divinely inspired in the New Testament to give witness to these things and lastly by his own wonderful gracious divine Vide the Irenicon or Peaceable Consideration of Christ's Kingdome c. though mystical Revelation to the beloved St. John wherein very much is held out concerning his own Kingdom and the New Jerusalem and as it was when by the Ministry of Christ and his Apostles the Doctrine of the Resurrection had been more cleared than in former times yet afterwards the Apostle Paul shews a farther Mystery concerning the same 1 Cor. 15. We must saith he all be changed though not all dye so many things are still Mysterious to us concerning both the New Jerusalem and the Resurrection though concerning both our Saviour in his Revelation hath last super-added greater farther Discoveries in both than any were before at least in evidence and clearness Yet how are the Eyes of very many withheld from discerning these things and in great part it is like to be so to all save to them to whom it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God which he uses to do as Christ himself informeth us to Babes and Sucklings when they are hid from the Wise and Prudent Mat. 11.25 and therefore to be humbly and faithfully sought And though the Apostle Paul concerning the Jews general Conversion had discoursed largly in the ninth tenth and eleventh Chapters of the Epistle to the Romans yet still he reckons that Doctrine mystical v. 25 c. Let all such therefore as are of truly Christian Spirits wait upon God as by other means so by faithful and earnest Prayer to the true Teacher of his own Mysteries as may appear requisite in a matter of so great importance concerning all Gods faithful People who seem to have their peculiar interest therein Rev. 3.21 and 20.4 5. and 10.18 which is incomparably greater and better for that thousand years than all the Crowns and Scepters and Kingdoms of the World not improved in Christs service in the mean time This part of a Letter of May 20 1664. to Mr. Cal of the order of the times of the Seals Trumpets and Vials perused with that Abridgment of the Seal-Prophesie with the large Note page 26 27 28 29. of the Irenicon with the following Paper of two defects in Mr. Durhams book of Scotland may to observant Readers give much light to the book of Revelation and the Scheme of that whole book and Summarie of Daniel before the Parallels after drawn up when many hundred of both the other were burnt Anno 1666. serves for the like use but with somefarther advantages therein observable c. THe first six of the seven Seals are the first Times after the giving of the Revelation to St. John toward the end of the first Century or first hundred of years after Christs coming in the Flesh the which said six Seals reached to the time wherin Constantine the Great threw down the Heathenish Idolarry 〈◊〉 Romane Empire about the year 320. after Christ they are set â—ow Rev. 6. But out of the seventh Seal proceeded the Seven Trumpets whereof the six first contain all the ensuing time of the Roman Empire both Christian and Antichristian and the seventh Trumpet will begin at the ruine of Antichrist Vide Paper of Decemb. 7. 1664. where divers Reasons are given for it and continue as some conceive to be the last day of Judgment or
probably at the Jews Conversion in the former part thereof when that nation will be born in a day Isa 66.8 and the marriage of the Lamb will be v. 7. Then in v. 11 c. is set forth the glorious coming of Christ to destroy the said enemies to the end of the ch when he will eminently make his foes his footstool as Psal 110.1 at the Armageddon Battel p. 7. The 4th Prophesie Rev. 11.13 14. to the end concerns the ruine of the Roman Empire the time whereof shall be no more as saith that Angel of the Covenant probably ch 10. when the 7th Angel begins to sound and Christs visible Dominion is then to take place c. See the Divine Thesis ch 2. p. 3. of the Irenicon November 3. 1663. This part of a Letter to a Friend Nov. 3. 63. now ten years past I had given order to leave out of the Abridgment but upon perusal thereof the 7th of April 74. I find it so considerable many ways being a Summary of my knowledg then of these Doctrines that I now order it to be re-printed and I would have all sorts take notice that all I have written since except my last great Discovery of the Scope of Revelation Prophesie on ch 20.5 and some other late Discoveries and Distinctions in our Key and that late Summary occasioned by my late Noble Learned Judicious good Friend Sir Robert Morai in the 2 folded leaves and the latter part of the Divine Theses from the 11 12th to the end with the addition now following them I say all others written since tend chiefly to the confirmation and explication of the same truth of the mystical part of the Gospel of Christ both in respect of those Principles and Practicals as in the first leaf of the 12 Foundations of Faith and for both purposes also I commend to them the due consideration of our 31 Observations useful for understanding mystical Prophesies with answers to objections both after the Tract on Rev. 22.20 in the 4th part AS for the New Jerusalem since the Bar viz. how Christ could personally make intercession in Heaven and yet personally reign on earth at the same time which occasioned my opinion of a mystical reign c. was taken away whereby I have formerly conceived it to be an Article of Faith which the Scripture expressly declared viz. That the Heavens must contain Christs Person till his coming the second time to Judgment my meaning was to the last Judgment having not then understood his coming in the clouds of heaven at his appearance and Kingdome to judge quick and dead at the first Resurrection of the Saints 1000 years before the rest of the dead to be the beginning of his great day of Judgment I have I say found much since in Scripture but especially in the book of the Revelation to tend to a coming of Christ as the great Monarch to set up his glorious Kingdom upon the putting down all worldly Powers that stood in opposition to him 1 Cor. 15. when he will begin to judge the quick and dead Rev. 11.17 18. I have lately perused Mr. Archers Book of Christ's Personal Reign and though in all things therein I am not satisfied yet I cannot find solid reason in many things to dissent and in other things it seemeth convincing and doubtless in his time he was a very discerning Christian and I had of late before I read that or any other of the like nature since my most earnest search into mystical Prophecies of the latter times the same apprehensions of divers passages in Scripture which I find to agree with his Book as the applying what our Saviour promised to his Disciples when he came to his Kingdom which I find will be in the Thousand years Rev. 20.4 promised to the New-Jerusalem Inhabitants Rev. 3.21 that then they should sit on twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel And that of our Saviour Luke 21.24 that Jerusalem should be trodden under foot till the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled but to be raised up again then And when he wept over Jerusalem he said They namely the People of the Jews should not see him henceforth till they said Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord Mat. 23. ult denoting that then they should see him And that promise Zach. 12.10 to the end which is in a way of mercy foreshewing how upon their conversion they should mourn in humble contrition and look to him at his appearing when that Nation shall be born in a day Isa 66.8 which judicious Expositors apply to the expressions Rev. 1.7 Behold he comeh with Clouds and every eye shall see him and they also that pierced him that is the People of the Jews that after their imprecation on themselves and on their children shall be accomplished will as the Apostle Paul speaks Rom. 11. appear to be beleved for their Fathers sake when those times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord Act. 3.19 and then all Israel shall be saved both of Jew and Gentile And though many grave Divines for a long time interpreted all that hath been spoken to this purpose for the most part to a spiritual sense yet the things that some hold out to the contrary 〈…〉 answered so that if this Opinion or rather matter of Faith â—e but freed from those evil additions that the subtilty of Satan in the Primitive times thrust upon it as if it should be a Kingdom of sensual pleasure for before thse misrepresentations or false aspersions rather as Mr. Mede notes it was very antient And freed likewise from that bold presumption and scandalous wickedness of our latter times for any under pretence of Christs Kingdom given to the Saints to go about by the Sword or any other unlawful means to divest Magistrates and Governors of their Offices to take that Kingdom before Christ give it to them to whom it will belong as being appointed to them by his Father in his own time namely at Christs appearing Here consider that Christ saith he came not to destroy the Law and Paul saith he established the Law and this is necessary to vindicate this Doctrine from scandal and to warn well-meaning persons that they think not upon seeming-fair pretences of good to attemp to do evil God having revealed that he will set up that Kingdom himself and that only in his own oppointed time On the other side saith our Saviour He that breaketh the least Commandment and teacheth men so shall be the least that is none in the Kingdom of Heaven as he answered the Mother of Zebedees Children Mat. 20.23 It shall be given to them for whom it is appointed by my Father appointed as well for the time when as the persons to whom These and the like errors being removed from it I think it may have an hnorable and comfortable place in matter of true Christian Faith as containing the best times of the most
from God chap. 21.2 and not to ascend up or be taken up unto God as the Church Tryumphant at the last day shall be 1 Thes 4.17 Christ will take the Church up to himself John 14.3 it shall not come down after the last Judgment to remain here 2. I conceive the New Jerusalem that comes down from God will he a kind of Tryumphant Church confisting of the raised Saints though in the thousand years it be not fully glorified yet perfectly sanctified and saved Rev. 20. knowing in due season they shall be so glorified as 1 John 3.2 3. But all others of the faithful in the natural life shall walk in the light of that Jerusalem the Mother of us all Gal. 4. Rev. 21.24 and accordingly the several Texts lelating to either are to be distinguished The Church is said to be prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband vers 2. Now the Church Tryumphant for all the Elect gathered together is not a Bride prepared but a wife in marriage fully accomplished 3. Because it is called a Tabernacle a removing state and God also said to be with men and to dwell as in a Tabernacle with them but concerning the Church Tryumphant in Heaven the manner of speaking is to say It is with God 4. Because the Holy Ghost so strongly confirms this renovation of all things avouching it again and again vers 1.5 commanding to write and affirming the words to be faithful and true which needed not in so generally approved believed truth touching the state of the Church Tryumphant 5. Because John is made to ascend on high to see this new City below him descending out of Heaven from God 6. Because it is said to be measured and that with the measure of a man v. 16 17. which sheweth it to be the Church on Earth which is only measurable and to be measured c. 11.1 Zach. 1.16 but not the Tryumphant in Heaven 7. Because here is said That Nations shall walk in the light of it and Kings of the Earth shall bring their glory and honour to it vers 23 24. yea the glory and honour of the Nations too v. 26. But none can bring earthly glory and honour for of such he speaketh in Heaven above to becautifie it withall 8. This seemeth not unreasonable though somthing in the Letter carry our thoughts to a state of full perfection chap. 21.4 22.3 4 5. because the like speeches have been used by the Holy Prophets aforetime to set out the graceful and peaceful state of the Church Isa 65.17 18 19 25. 60.18 20. 25.8 60.21 and yet farther observe after those high expressions it is said chap. 22.6 These sayings are faithful and true the Lord God of the Holy Prophets who had spoken of old time sent his Angel to shew unto his Servant John the things which must shortly be done which words shortly be done seem alwayes in this Book to note the state of the Church on earth Now for testimonies in the next place Some such thing is promised to the Jews in the Books of the Prophets which seem not yet to be fulfilled but deferred till the seventh Trumpet be blown when the Mystery of God shall ye finished as hath been declared to his Servants the Prophets by which words it is clear that all things in the Prophets are not accomplished till this Book of the Revelations be fulfilled for the Prophets have formerly spoken of this Mystery to be finished under the seventh Trumpet Now that we may not wonder at the New Jerusalem here set forth look unto the prophesies of old and mark what by them the Lord did promise unto the Jews after their captivity 1. He tells them They shall be brought back again to Jerusalem and to inhabet Judea Zach. 8.7 8. 10.8 9. Isa 60.10 15. 62.10 And all Nations Isa 61.11 2. He will pour upon them the Spirit of Grace and Supplication and they shall look upon him whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him Zach. 12.10 14. 3. He will make them strong to overcome all their enemies and they shall inhabit Jerusalem again Zach. 12.6 and build the old wastes they shall raise up the former desolations and they shall repair the waste Cities and the desolations of many Generations Isa 61.4 58.12 and that by the help of strangers and their Kings Isa 62.10 4. Being so built where as it had been forsaken and hated so as no man went thorow it he will make it an eternal Excellency and a Joy of many Generations Isa 60.15 For 2. Violence shall no more be heard in the Land wasting nor destruction within the borders but her Walls shall be called Salvation and her Gates Praise Isa 60.18 The Sun shall be no more her light by day neither for brightness shall the Moon give light unto her Isa 60.19 20. 2dly All the people shall be righteous Isa 60.21 and no cananite there Zech. 14.21 3dly Her Officers shall be Officers of Peace and her Actors Righteousness Isa 60.17 4thly Her Watchmen shall never be silent Isa 62.6 neither shall her Vision ever be wanting Isa 59.21 But the false Prophet and the unclean spirit shall be cut off Zech. 13.2 So as by this glorious and graceful state she shall be called by a new name which the mouth of the Lord shall name Isa 62.2 that is Hephziba and the Land Beulah for the Lord would delight in her and marry her or Jehovah there shall be the name of the City Ezek 48.35 5thly Hereupon they shall be known among the Gentiles and People and all that see their Seed and Off-spring shall acknowledge them the Seed which the Lord hath blessed Isa 61.9 An holy People Redeemed of the Lord sought out and not forsaken Isa 62.12 6thly The Gentiles and their Kings shall see her Righteousness and Glory Isa 62.12 whereupon they shall come to her Isa 60.3 and that with earnest desire and high estimation of her Zech. 8.22 23. and be joyned to the Lord and become his People also with her Zech. 2.11 These Nations and Kings shall bring to her Sons and Daughters Isa 60.4 and 49.22 Enrich her mightily with abundance and precious things Isa 60.6 17. She shall eat the Riches of the Gentiles Isa 61.6 and suck the Milk of the Gentiles and the breasts of Kings Isa 60.16 who shall be her Nursing Fathers and Queens her nursing Mothers 〈◊〉 â—9 23 bringing her Presents and Gifts Isa 60.6 and 45.14 they shall fall down and make supplication Isa 45.14 they shall worship with their Faces to the Earth and lick the dust of her Feet Isa 49.23 Zech. 14.16 Strangers shall be her Servants Isa 61.5 Yea such as will not serve her shall be destroyed Isa 60.12 Zech. 14 17. She shall be a Crown of Glory in the hand of the Lord and a Royal Diadem in the hand of her God Isa 62.3 And this her excellency shall never be changed her days of mourning shall be