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A47560	A glimpse of Sions glory, or, The churches beautie specified published for the good and benefit of all those whose hearts are raised up in the expectation of the glorious liberties of the saints.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Glover, Jose, fl. 1641.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.; Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1641 (1641)	Wing K711; ESTC R8454	21,933	42

presence of Iesus Christ and of God shall be exceeding glorious in the Church then the name of it shall be called IEHOVAH SHAMMAH The Lord is there They shall follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth they shall see the King in his beauty and glory And such a presence of Christ will be there as it is questionable whether there shall be need of Ordinances at least in that way that now there is And therefore some interpret that place so They shall be all taught of God and shall not need to teach one another And so that place 2. Peter 1.19 We have also a moresure Word of promise wherevnto ye doe well that ye take heed untill the Day dawne and the Day-starre arise in your hearts Now the Morning-Starre the Holy Ghost applies to them Revel. 2.28 That is such a glorious presence of Christ as shall so instruct them as if they had not need to take heed to the Word of Prophesie And in Revelat. 21. They shall need no Temple nor Sunne nor Moone for the Lamb is the Temple and the light thereof the presence of Christ shall bee there and supply all kind of Ordinances And Revel. 7. Christ sayes Hee will lead them to the Fountaine of living Waters all the Ordinances Here are but the streames and Conduits then they shall be led to the Fountaine Though we dare not affirme that there shal be no Ordinances yet is there some probability at least thus far in comparison there shall be such a presence of Christ there as therr shall not be that need of Ordinances In the tenth place There shall bee the addition of Martyrs and many of the Worthies of God that have lived in former Times shall rise againe If you read the 7th Revel. and 21th Revel. you cannot but be convinced of this That those that have suffered Martyrdome under Antichrist shall have the glory of that time and Daniel shall come up and stand in his lot and as he so many of the Worthies of God in former times and this shall add to the Glory of that time The eleventh is this There shall be most blessed Union of all the Churches of the World The envy of Ephraim and of Iudah shall be taken away Isaiah 11. There shall be one King and one Name Zach. 14.9 Wee all professe one Lord but give him divers Names but then there shall be one Lord and his name one Zeph. 3.9 They shall serve the Lord with one Consent with one Shoulder it is in the Originall And if you read that Chapter you may see what Reference it hath to a more glorious Time than the returning of the Iewes from the Captivity Dissentions in any one Congregation are evill and for one Church to dissent from another is a grievous evill Blessed will the Time be when all dissentions shall bee taken away and when there shall bee a perfect Union of all and not any distinction of Calvinists or Lutherans or the like but all shall come and serve God and be called by one Name The twelfth is the Resurrection of the Creatures of the World and so in that regard there shall be abundance of outward Glory and Prosperity That place in the 8th of the Romans The Creature groanes under the Burthen that it is in that it may be delivered into the Adoption of the Sonnes of God When the fulnesse of the glory of the Adoption of the Sonnes of God shall come the Creatures shall be delivered to them The whole World is purchased by Christ and purchased for the Saints that is Christs ayme All is yours sayes the Apostle the whole World and therefore Revel. 21.7 it is said The Saints shall inherit all things You see that the Saints have but little now in the World now they are the poorest and the meanest of all but then when the Adoption of the Sonnes of God shall come in the fulnesse of it the World shall be theirs for the World is purchased for them by Iesus Christ Not onely Heaven shall be your Kingdome but this World bodily And so that place 2 Pet. 3.10 where it is said The Heavens shall passe away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent Heat the Apostle speakes as if it were the Day of Judgement But there is one passage whereby we may gather that the Apostle onely meanes a mighty change that shall be before the day of Judgement verse 13. We according to his promise look for new Heavens and new Earth Where hath God promised a new Heaven and a new Earth I know no place in Scripture that I can referre this place unto but Isaiah 65.15 which is apparant to be meant of the Church Now the Apostle speakes of these Times when there shall be a mighty change in the World then shall be fulfilled that Promise There shall be new Heavens and a new Earth We can find no such promise but in Isaiah and that is meant of the Church and therefore it is probable the Apostle meanes that Lactantius sayes When the Thousand yeeres come the World shall bring forth Fruite alone and the Rocke shall distill Dew and no Creature shall live upon Prey the Dog shall not hunt the Child shall not be afraid of the Serpent making the place of Isaiah which we understand metaphorically to be understood literally Of the Wolfe and the Lambs living together and the Child playing upon the Hole of the Cockatrice And all the Prayers that ever we put up for the Church will be answered and the blessing of all will come upon the Churches Heere we have some degree of Blessing But the Blessing of all the prayers of the Prophets and Apostles will come upon it In Isay They were to cry to God and give him no rest till he made Ierusalem the praise of the whole World that is till God did bring this Time and Ierusalem hath not bin so lifted up All these prayers that have not given God rest all this while shall be answered and Ierusalem shall be advanced Lastly Those glorious Titles that the Church of God hath in the old Testament will be made up to the full and that is a Resultance from all the Former There are many glorious Titles of the Church of God in the old Testament Now the estate of the Church in the old Testament was but Typicall typifying the estate of the Gospel I shall name some of them and when those come to be fulfilled it will be glorious First the Lords Portion Deut. 32.9 Secondly his Pleasant Portion Ierem. 12.10 Thirdly his Inheritance Isaiah 19.25 All People are the Worke of his Hands But his Church is his Inheritance Fourthly the dearely Beloved of his Soule Ierem. 12.7 Fiftly Gods Treasure and Peculiar Treasure Exod. 19.5 Sixtly His Glory Isaiah 46.13 Seventhly The House of Gods glory Isaiah 60.7 Eightly A Crowne of Glory Isaiah 62.3 Ninthly A Royall Diademe in the same place Tenthly The glory of God Ierem. 3.17 Againe The Throne of his

would permit Antichrist to rise and to Rule for a long time and he had many things to bring out the Kingdome of Antichrist to worke for his Glory therefore God hath left this Truth to be so darke the setting up of Christ in his Kingly Office Thirdly because God would exercise the Faith and other Graces of his Spirit in his Children that they might beleeve in and love Jesus Christ for his spirituall Beauty though there appeares nothing but spirituall Beauty though no outward Beauty no outward Kingdome doth appeare but he be as a spirituall King only It was a great and a glorious Worke in those three wise Men that came to Christ that offered Frankincense and Gold and Myrrhe to Christ when he was in a Cratch in a Manger and so for Gods people now to beleeve in him now to love now to reioyce in him to offer all to him now his Kingdome is darkned now he doth appeare so meane as he is this is a glorious worke of Faith and we should labour much to exercise this worke of ●aith in looking vpon this spirituall Beauty that is in Christ and satisfying our Soules in that that so we may not be offended at the darkning of Christs Kingdome outwardly And the lesse Christ doth reigne outwardly in the world the lesse glorious his Kingdome doth appeare outwardly the more let us labour to bring our hearts under his spirituall Reigne The more others say We will not have this man reigne over vs the more let our Soules subiect themselves to him and say Christ is our KING and let him reigne for ever over us yea let us labour to symphathize with Jesus Christ in the darkning of his glory and of his Kingdome IESVS CHRIST though he the glory of his Father the Brightnesse of his Glory the Character and graven Forme or the Image of his Father yet is he contented to have his glory darkned Who are we that we must have Glory in this world and outward excellencies when Christ is willing to be without them Let us be willing to goe like the Witnesses clothed in Sackcloth till Christ comes to reigne There are white shining garments prepared but that time is not yet though it wil not be long The Bridegroom yet seems to be absent and therefore it is fit for the Spouse to goe low and mean in the mourning weeds as a Widdow the trimming of the Bride in her outward glory may come hereafter when Christ shall come in glory into the World And Lastly the Kingdom of Christ is darkned for a while outwardly and therefore it should teach us to blesse God so much the more for that Opportunitie that we have of setting vp Christ as King amongst us For yet the Voyce is not heard much That the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth abroad in the World though lately some noise we have heard But blessed be God in our Congregations amongst us we may heare That the Lord GOD Omnipotent reigneth It is through our wretched wickednesse if his Kingly Power be not fully set up amongst us in all his Ordinances And that we should have an opportunity to set up his Kingly Power amongst us heere while it is so much opposed and so little knowne in the world it is a great mercy And let us take heed of abusing that opportunity we have for darkning the Kingly Power of Christ which we professe to set up Especially in these Times when there comes to be a Voyce though confusedly from the Multitude and some Kind of Voyce of Thunder from the Great ones But though it be darke for a while certainly he shall reigne and the Voyce will be glorious and distinct one Day Saying HALLELVIAH the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth He shall reigne first Personally secondly in his Saints First Personally we will not fully determine of the manner of his Personall Reigning but thus farre wee may see there is a Voice of great waters though not distinct but a Probability in his Person GOD and MAN he shall reigne vpon the Earth here in this World before that great and Solemne Day There are divers Scriptures that have somewhat of this in them we cannot give the distinct Voyce of those Scriptures but many of Gods Saints they do heare somthing and when a thing growes neerer and neerer God will reveale it more distinct Zachary 12.10 They shall looke upon him whom they have pierced and shall mourne for him as one mourneth for his only Sonne It is usually understood either of a spirituall looking by the eye of Faith or beholding Christ at the Day of Iudgment But why should we take it for a spirituall looking and looking at the day of Iudgment that place doth not hold out that is not the thing intended They shall mourne every one apart this is not like the setting forth of the mourning at the Day of Iudgement And take but this one Rule that all Texts are to be understood literally except they make against some other Scriptures or except the very Coherence and Dependance of the Scripture shewes it otherwise or it makes against the Analogy of Faith now there is nothing against this but it may bee so A second Scripture that seemes to hold out somewhat is that in the 26th of Mathew 29. I will not henceforth drinke of the Fruit of the Vine untill that Day when I drinke it new with you in my Fathers Kingdome It is true this is likewise interpreted in a mysticall sense but there is no reason why wee may not take it literally Not in the Kingdome of his Father in Heaven but in that Kingdome that hee shall come in here to drinke the Fruit of the Vine to have Communion with his Saints in this World 2. Thes. 2.8 Antichrist shall be destroyed by the brightnesse of Christs comming the brightnesse of his Personall comming And that place Revel. 20. where it is said The Saints shall reigne with him a Thousand years which cannot be meant reigning with him in Heaven It is made as a proper peculiar benefit unto such as had refused Antichrists Government especially to the Christian Church It is likely divers of the Prophets and Patriarchs may come in but especially it belongs to the Christian Church Now the reigning with Christ a thousand yeeres is not meant reigning with him in Heaven for after these thousand yeares there shall be many enemies raised against the Church GOG and MAGOG shall gather themselves together if it were meant of Heaven that could not be and therefore it must be meant of Iesus Christ comming and reigning heere gloriously for a Thousand yeares And although this may seeme to be strange yet heretofore it hath not beene accounted so it hath beene a Truth received in the Primitive Times Iustine Martyr that lived presently after IOHN he spake of this as a thing that all Christians acknowledged and likewise Lactantius hath such expressions in divers places of his Seventh Booke That there are glorious Times comming wherein

shall be plenty and fruitfulnesse in the Church yet First Rome must de burnt and Babylon first downe and brings the Sybills the Heathen Oracles for it and after a little Time there shall be stirring up of Enemies against them Thus farre they goe if they did not beleeve that Christ himselfe should come personally to reigne yet he shall with his Saints reigne in a Glorious Manner and the Church shal be so raised up in the world outwardly as to be aboue all the men of the World in outward Glory And there are many Scriptures full for that which we may be much more confident in then wee can be of the other There is a Time comming when there shall be this Halleluiah in the Church The Lord God omnipotent reigneth As in the 7. Dan. 17.18 The fower Beasts are the foure Monarchies and the last is the Roman Monarchy and that Babylon shal goe down together and immediatly upon that the Saints of the most high shall take the Kingdome and possesse the Kingdome for ever and ever at the 21.22 Ver. 27. Verse And the Greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven shall be given to the People of the Saints of the most high the Kingdome under Heaven is not the Kingdome of the World to come More apparant is that in the 12th of Dan. which is ordinarily interpreted of the day of Iudgment but surely this Text doth not aime at the Day of Iudgment principally but at a Time before First because many that sleepe shall awake not all but many Secondly he saies that they that are wise shall shine as the Brightnesse of the Firmament Whereas the Glory that shall be put upon the Saints in Heaven shall be as the Sunne Though this Glory be great it is inferiour to that which shall be The Third Reason is that Daniel must shut up these Words and seale up this Book as a great Secret That there should be a Resurrection at the last Day a reward of happinesse to the righteous and of Misery to the Wicked is no great Secret but this that was revealed to Daniel was a great Secret But Daniel might say if the Booke be shut up how shall the Truth come to bee knowne Many shall runne to and fro and take paines in finding it out and at last this Truth shall come to be found out and Knowledge shall be increased And certainely it is the Antichristian yoke that doth hide this Truth Men dare not whisper of any truth but of such as are held in the Church of Rome But when there comes to be liberty of Churches and that men may freely search into this truth knowledge will be increased The fourth Reason is because in the last verse there seemes to be a Promise euen to Daniel that hee should have his share and part in this glory Was it such a matter that Daniel in the resurrection should have his lot and that he should stand up at the Day of Iudgment No! but that he should haue his Lot in that Resurrection was a great Priviledge Againe for Christs Reigning with the Saints take two Places in the Psalmes Psalme 49.14 The Vpright shall haue Dominion ouer them in the Morning there is a Time they shall haue Dominion though now they have a Night a morning shall come that the Vpright shall have Dominion Psalme 149.5 and so on Let his Saints be ioyfull in Glory c. and a two Edged Sword in their hands To execute Vengeance upon the Heathen and punishments upon the People c. What shall we make of these Scriptures Indeed if we be put upon Allegoricall senses we may put off any Scripture but if we take them literally why should we not And the Promise that is made to them that overcome Revel. 12. the latter end of it Hee that overcommeth and keepeth my words to him will I give Power over the Nations and he shall rule them with a Rod of Iron and as the Vessels of a Potter they shall be broken to shivers What shall we make of this except the Saints shall reigne and there shall be a glorious Reigne of Christ with the Saints and so that place of the Saints reigning and judging the World some interpret it of the Day of Judgement but these Scriptures seeme to have an apparancie to be before and therfore Christ is said to make them Kings and Priests unto GOD spiritually though not every one properly Kings over others yet so as to have Power and Dominion in the World and therefore where it is said in the Gospell that righteous men desired to see those things that you see and did not in the 10th of Luke it is said Kings desired to see those things that you see and have not seene them so that Christ shall reigne together with his Saints And that there shall be such a reigne of Christ and this Hallelujah appeares by many Arguments as take this one drawne from Scripture If there be many Prophesies and Promises in Scripture that are not yet fulfilled and the fulfilling whereof will bring the Church into a more glorious condition then ever it was yet in the World then there is a glorious Time a comming Now there are such Scriptures wherein are such glorious things promised to be fulfilled to the Church as yet never were fulfilled And that wee know not what to make of unlesse there be a truth in this 24. Isay 23. Then the Moone shall be confounded and the Sunne shall be ashamed when the Lord of Hoasts shall reigne in Mount Zion and in Ierusalem When was this that there was such a reigne of Christ in Mount Zion as that the Moone was confounded and the Sun ashamed Certainly this cannot be understood of their returne from their Captivity for the People of the Iewes were under Contempt after their Deliverance from Captivity and came not to such a Glory as this and were under a kind of Captivity and met with such oppositions that they were as long building the Temple as they were in Captivity seventy yeeres But some that were in Captivity saw both the first the second Temple how could this be if it were so long The Foundation they might see but not see it finished And in Ahasuerus time they were in Captivity as that had not God wrought mightily they had all beene cut off by a wicked Haman Therefore they were not so glorious Isaiah 33.20 Look upon Zion the City of our Solemnities Thine eies shall see Ierusalem a quiet Habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken downe This Text neither hath not bin fulfilled hitherto but must remaine Isay 54.11 Oh thou afflicted tossed with Tempests and not comforted Behold J will lay thy Stones with faire Colours and thy Foundations with Saphires c. When Antichrist shall fall down and the Iewes called and this Halleluia sung The Lord God omnipotent reigneth then this Promise may be made good Isay 60. if you read the whole Chapter there are