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The catechism of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in the thousand years shewing by scripure that the great articles of the redemption, the resurrection, the mystery of the saints not dying but chang'd, the judgment, the delivery up of the kingdom to God all in all cannot be explained at full dimensions without it.
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Beverley, Thomas.
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and his Kingdom are Joyn'd 2 Tim. 4. 1. He shall Judge the Quick and the Dead at his Kingdom and at his Appearance Q. Give a proof of the Kingdom at his Resurrection A. The Apostle plainly declares it For he says Every one shall Rise in his own Order Christ the First Fruits and They which are Christs at his Coming And without Any other Mention of his Kingdom He says He must Reign till he hath put All his Enemies under his Feet Now when did this Reigning Begin but at his Coming Or where did the Apostle Give any Intimation of his Reigning but at his Coming according to all the Fore-mentioned Scriptures And when He Comes and Descends and no Longer Sits at the Right Hand of God Then God first makes his Enemies his Footstool not when he Sits but when He Comes and then He Begins to Reign and He Reigns Till all his Enemies are his Footstool And when He Descends and Comes and Reigns The Dead in Christ Rise and then He Brings Them with Him His Kingdom and the Resurrection of his Saints Begin together Q. What Place then hath the Day of Judgment A. The Day of Judgment is the same with the Kingdom of Christ and with the Resurrection All Begin Continue and End Together with this Difference The Judiciary Sentence is at the Beginning Rev. 19 last and at the End c. 20. 13. 14. 15. and between a Righteous and Holy Government which Government the Scripture often calls Judgment Psal 72. 4. And All Men whether They Rise to Life or to Condemnation are before and as it were about the Tribunal or Judgment Seat which is also the Throne of Christ and Receiving according to what They have done in the Body whether it be Good or Evil during the whole space of the Resurrection Kingdom and Judgment of Christ 2 Cor. 5. 10. Q. How long then does the Kingdom of Christ the Appearance in the Resurrection and the Day of Judgment last A. The Grand and the most Definitive Time in which Christ shall Reign with his Saints is while Sathan is bound and That is a Thousand Years And the Apostle Peter having named the Day of Judgment Immediately as it were Adjures Christians not to be Ignorant that One day as if He should say That One Day of Judgment is with the Lord as a Thousand Years and the several viz. Six Thousand Years before it but as each one day so making that Day of Judgment a Sabbatical Day or Sabbatism Rev. 20. v. 2. to 8. 2 Pet. 3. 8. Q. But seeing as hath been said The Living Remaining Saints have a State in this Kingdam of Christ in the New Earth even as the Saints dead in Christ have in the New Heavens How can so long a space as of the Thousand Years consist with the Apostles Doctrine 1 Cor. 15. 52. that speaks as of a close Connexion betwixt the Dead being Rais'd and the Wee of the Saints being Chang'd For saith He Behold I shew you a Mystery We shall not All dye but we shall All be chang'd in a moment in the Twinckling of an Eye at the last Trumpet For the Trumpet shall sound and the Dead shall be Rais'd Incorruptible and we shall be chang'd All as it were in one moment A. The Apostle shews the suddenness and Immediate effect of the Power of Christ in both Raising the Dead and Changing the Living but the so close Connexion betwixt the Raising and the Changing does not thence Follow For within the Time of John's Seventh and last Trumpet when the Kingdom of Christ Begins its Succession and which contains all from that Kingdom of Christ so beginning and its being Deliver'd up The Dead shall be Rais'd and the Living chang'd but at several distances of Time Forthe Apostle says the Dead in the Third person shall be â—aâ—â—'d To shew the Wee of Saints of the first person are of a different State and order of Time in being Chang'd from the Dead in Christ that shall be Rais'd Q. But it does not seem that this change of persons can bear the weight of so Great a point of doctrine A. I allow it if there were not that Great Consenting Scripture 1 Thess 4. 17. where the Apostle puts the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or afterwards betwixt the Saints dead in Christ at the Coming of Christ Rising first and the Living Chang'd or which is the same Caught up that He had put betwixt the Resurrection of Christ and his Saints Rising at his Coming which hath made as great a distance as 1700 Years already For saith the Apostle the Lord Himself shall descend with a shout with the Voice of the Arch Angel with the Trumpet of God and the Dead in Christ shall Rise First Then we which are Alive and Remain shall be caught up viz. without Dying Now the word which is here Translated Then was 1 Cor. 15. 27. Translated Afterward and may therefore very well allow the distance of above a 1000 Years in one as in the other which distance the Translators knowing betwixt Christ's Resurrection and of his Saints at his Coming Translated Afterwards a word of distance in our English But not understanding so well that distance betwixt the Raising and Changing the Saints they render the same word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thess 4. 17. Then which signifies often with us the same moment but this varies not the Truth of Things and of Scripture Q. How is the State of the Kingdom of Christ bounded at the Period or End of it A. By the Saints Living and Remaining being Caught up to Christ in the Air by the Subduing the last Enemy Death and by the Delivering up the Kingdom to God All in All So that the Coming of Christ and his Appearance in and at his Kingdom the Dead in Christ Rising His Saints the Wee left Living and the Judiciary sentence on his Enemies to be his Footstool at the beginning and these Great Pillars at the end bound at each Point this Greatest Oeconomy of the Fulness of Times and not only distinguish but exalt it far above all other Time And herewith Admirably Agrees the whole State of Things in the last Trumpet of the Prophecy of the Revelation wherein we have several Expressions of the Kingdom of Christ or his Taking to Him his Great Power and Reigning The Heavens open to Him with his many Crowns and the Title or Name on his Vesture and on his Thigh King of Kings Lord of Lords His Reigning and his Throne in the New Jerusalem The Time of the Dead being Judg'd and Rewards Given to All that Fear'd his Name Great and Small and the destroying them that destroy'd the Earth A voice Commands to write the Blessedness of All the Dead in the Lord and their Sabbatism Yea from henceforth or Immediately Christ with a Crown and on a White Cloud Giving down it Dew as the Dew of Herbs that the Earth may disclose its dead c. and Reaps his
THE CATECHISM OF THE KINGDOM OF OUR Lord Jesus Christ IN THE Thousand Years Shewing by Scripture That the Great Articles of the Redemption the Resurrection the Mystery of the Saints not Dying but Chang'd the Judgment the Delivery up of the Kingdom to God All in All cannot be Explain'd at Full Dimensions without it Luke 1. 4. That thou mayest know the Certainty of the Things wherein Thou hast been Catechized or Instructed London Printed for the Author 1690. To the Bishops Assembled in Parliament And to the Evangelical Episcopacy throughout the Protestant Acts 2â— 28. 1 Pet. 5. 2. Churches of Christ in these Nations Grace Mercy and Peace from God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ by the Eternal Spirit I Have heretofore Represented to you the Majesty and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ that shall Seven Times hence after the Expiration of the Apostasie now Ecclipsing it be Daily more and more Visible Till it shine out in perfect Glory This I have done according to the Sure Word of Prophecy which is of no private Interpretation but being Scripture must be search'd even as All other Scripture and so be as All other Scripture Profitable and it hath this Excellency above other Scripture That It particularly shines as a Light in a Dark place viz. In this Time of Eclipse or as the Pole-Star in the Night that we may know whereabout we are in Time and State Yet because the General Prepossession of Men Caring for none of these Things would not have Prophetic Scripture Search'd that I might make Acceptable this Great Truth every way I have now Represented it as It is Carv'd and Wreath'd into the whole Analogy of Faith the Great Articles and Principles of the Doctrine of Christ according to the most Instructive Scriptures viz. the Redemption the Resurrection the Eternal Judgment the Saints not Dying but Chang'd the Delivery up of the Kingdom to God All in All which cannot be without the Kingdom of Christ Explain'd at full Dimensions Now I call the Following Treaty hereof a Catechism as an Intimation of the Plain manner of Handling for the benefit of All and of the necessity of Consideration and Repeated Application of our Minds to it and also to shew The Kingdom of Christ though it yet lye Hid in its Roots the Fore-nam'd Articles is still a Fundamental Truth and so though Catechism may seem below your Orb yet This of the Kingdom of Christ even as All Catecheticall Truths deserves the Gravest and most Awful Judgments to Try and Recommend Them I do Acknowledge my self the unworthiest of the Servants of Christ in the most Abased Circumstances and lay my self at the Feet of the Church of Christ with most Penitential Confessions and Acknowledgments Yet I must be Bold in our God to say He hath been pleased to Reveal to me of an Infant Understanding in Compare and the Chief of Sinners what He hath not so fully Reveal'd to the more Holy and Prudent Even so Father For so It seemed Good in thy sight I most Humbly therefore Beseech and do even Adjure you by the Coming of our Lord Jesus and by our Gathering together to Him in the General Assembly of his Kingdom That You would either shew by Scripture These Things cannot be so or Receive this Ministery as the Oracles of God and Testify your Regard to it that now makes in your Ears the cry of the Bridegrooms Coming in his Kingdom That none of us may be among the Slumbring though Wise Virgins much less among the Foolish And You to whom This Address will first Come ought to be the more Watchful because the Worldly Splendor of Your Sphere not so well Agrees with the present Ecclipse of Christian Glory with the Tribulation and Patience of the Kingdom of Christ and that Sackcloth and Fasting state for the Bride-grooms Absence You should then surmount that Disagreement by more Eminent Services to this Kingdom least There should seem Any Surrogation in the Reformation to the Feet of Clay the Papacy the Cardinalism the Roman Hicrarchy who as the most Diametral opposites to the Kingdom of Christ Receive the First Stroke of the Stone Cut out of the Mountains without Hands and so You Receive the Dishonour of any part in their Fall at least of Lukewarmness for that Glory of Christ Or least as They by a False Glory as if 't were the Glory of Christ Glittering in this worldly Glory Rob the True Light and are Effaced by that True Light Appearing or its Epiphany You should at all share in that Effacement That we may be therefore All Guided by the Father of Lights with whom is no Variation nor Shaddow of Turning to Try the Spirit of this Doctrine and not to Call the Light of it Darkness but to Come perfectly out of the present Ecclips to Go on to Perfection in the Doctrine of Christ is and shall be the most zealous Prayer of Your most Humble most Affectionate Servant in the Gospel of the Kingdom Tho. Beverley The General PREFACE To all Christians I Know it will be said with Plausibleness against this Following Catechism We had rather Preach and Hear of the Plain Safe Fundamental Points of Faith and Repentance of the Resurrection of the Dead and of Eternal Judgment in the Ordinary way of Discourse The Old Wine we have Tasted is Better We will not as it were Ask a Sign and Tempt God in Isay c. 7. seeking to understand Prophecies and Mysteries But is it not enough for you to weary Men but will ye weary my God also who hath given you Prophecy to search it and the Strong meat of Scripture and not only the Milk as to Children unskillfull in the word of Righteousness He hath commanded you to leave not by way of Forsaking the Word of the Beginning of Christ but to Go on to perfection not dishonourably staying in Foundations without a Superstructure He hath given you the Example of steddy Resolution herein This we Heb. c. 5. 11. c. 6. 1. will do if God permit He hath in a Figure Represented to you the Primitive Christian Church not doing thus though it was so plentiful a Partaker of mighty effusions of * Wonderful Gifts the Holy Spirit had a Liberal Taste of the Good word of God They Tasted of the * Miracles mighty Powers of the World to come viz The Kingdom of Christ Yet through Resting in Principles not Loving Truth not Going on to Perfection They Dwindled away and fell into the Antichristian Apostacy and came to Crucify in that Spiritual Sodom and Egypt even Rome Call'd Catholick Church now where also Our Lord was Crucified viz. under its Dominion the Son of God afresh in his Witnesses and have put him to an open Shame And through the Impossibility of Repentance as such an Antichristian Church as we see Rev. 16. 9. It cannot be Renewed But under all the Droppings of the Reformation upon it it is a Ground over-grown with