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A88148	A sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons: at Margarets Westminster, upon the 26. day of August 1645. being the day of their solemne monethly fast. / By John Lightfoot, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1645 (1645)	Wing L2068; Thomason E298_14; ESTC R200237	25,560	36

such an opinion as this could bee so swallowed downe and entertained as I saw it was I say such an opinion as this That when Antichrist is destroyed the Jewes shall bee called their calling shall bee home to the land of Canaan for let mee take up all the shreds of this opinion that I find scattered in the writings of the abetters of it that Christ shall have a glorious reigne here upon earth that himselfe shall personally and visibly dwell here among his Saints that this glorious time shall last a thousand yeares that Satan all this while shall bee bound so that there shall not bee the least disturbance or trouble in the Church but all prosperity and Sunshine That these thousand yeares are that that is called the day of judgement that this day of judgement of a thousand yeares long shall begin with a bodily resurrection of the martyrs onely and shall conclude with the resurrection of all the dead and the beginning of these thousand yeares is conceived by some to bee but about one and twenty yeares off Thus the exposition of this place according to that opinion I shall not trouble nor tire your patience with the examination of the truth of these particulars I shall onely lay before you six groundlesse and mistaken principles as I conceive from whence I apprehend this exposition and opinion to have risen and referre them to your owne censure and judgement three from this Chapter that is before us and three from other places in the Scripture First the maintainers of this opinion seeme not to have taken proper and serious notice of one phrase in this Chapter which the holy Ghost hath twice mentioned that it might bee be sure to bee taken notice of and that is that Satan is bound for a thousand yeares that hee should not deceive the nations for so it is expressed in plaine tearmes in the third verse upon his binding so is it hinted and intimated in the eighth verse upon his loosing now this opinion of the Millenaries speakes much of Satans binding so that there shall be no persecution nor offensivenesse in the glorious Church they dreame of but all peace and happinesse and tranquillitie and glory whereas this prophesie speakes of no such matter It speakes not a word of Satans binding that hee should not persecute the Church but it speakes of Satans binding that hee should not deceive the nations And how vast a difference there is betwixt persecuting and deceiving and betwixt the Church and the nations may bee referred to any one to judge And the missing to observe pressely this phrase and this difference is to misse of the very key that letteth in to the understanding of this prophecy Secondly as this doubled phrase is little observed so another doubled one is much observed but as much misinterpreted and that is of the first resurrection of which there is mention in the fifth and the sixth verses For though they will not deny the Apocalyptick to speake in borrowed phrases and figurative speeches all along his booke hither yet here they will have him to speake nakedly and literally without any such borrowing and to meane the very bodily rising of the martyrs from the dead whereas in all this Chapter there is not one word of their bodies arising but of their soules living nor one word of their living on earth but of their raigning with Christ Thirdly they conceive that the very method and place of this Chapter in which it lies doth inferre their glosse and interpretation for that mention being made of the ruine of Antichrist in the next Chapters before and of Christs Kingdome for these 1000. yeares so immediatly after in this they thinke it must not bee denyed that these 1000. yeares must not bee begun till Antichrist bee ruined whereas the method of the Evangelist if it bee pressely followed will appeare of a cleane differing scope For as Moses in the booke of Exodus hath three times described the fabrick and fashion of the Jewish Tabernacle in the patterne in the making and in the setting up and hath made a fourth summary of all the materialls that went to the making of it though they were named in the other Even so hath the Evangelish done by the description of the Christian Church in this booke From the beginning of the fourth Chapter to the end of the eleventh hee hath described its state and persecution but the persecutor not named From the beginning of the twelfth Chapter to the end of the nineteenth hee hath described its state and persecution and pointed the persecutor out in this Chapter hee summes up in briefe what hee had spoken in the two other parts at large and in the two Chapters following hee sets his Tabernacle up in her perfection and describes the Church in her holinesse and communion and participation of Christ It is not proper for this time and place to insist upon the proofe and confirmation of this to bee the Evangeliffs meaning and method which might clearly bee done I referre it to your owne thoughts and consideration And as the parties that wee are dealing withall doe thus mistake and misconstrue upon this Chapter so doe they also upon other places of the Scripture For fourthly they hold that Rome is the fourth beast or monarchy or kingdome in Daniel and because that Daniel hath told in his second and seventh Chapters that after the destruction of the fourth beast or kingdome Christs glorious kingdome shall bee set up they therefore imagine that this kingdome of Christ is yet to come and yet shall not come till Antichrist shall bee destroyed which they hold to bee a part of the fourth monarchy whereas to let passe divers other reasons which might sufficiently prove the contrary Daniel himselfe in his seventh Chapter at the eleventh and twelfth Verses does show most plainely that it is impossible that the fourth beast should meane the Romans for hee there telleth expressely that even when the fourth beast was slaine and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame the rest of the beasts had indeed their dominion taken away but yet their lives were prolonged Now what signe of life shall bee to bee found of the other three Monarchies when Antichrist shall bee destroyed it is utterly unimaginable to apprehend Fiftly and which is much agreeable to the former they conceive that Daniel prophecieth of Antichrist of whom hee speaketh not one word nor treateth of any particular times or stories of the Gospel but onely holdeth out that gerall prophecy which all the Prophets did with one consent of the calling of the Gentiles and of Christs glorious kingdome among them in the Gospell For it is a groundworke necessary to bee laid by him that will make any thing of the booke of Daniel and of the Revelation That where Daniel endeth John beginneth and goeth no further back and where John beginneth Daniel endeth and goeth no further forward For Daniel sheweth the state

and the persecutors of the Church of the Jewes from the building of Jerusalem by Cyrus to the destruction of it by Titus and hee goes no further And there where the beloved Prophet concludeth the beloved Disciple beginneth and taketh at him in this booke and sheweth the state and the persecutors of the Christian Church from the destruction of Jerusalem to the end of the world and revealeth a new Jerusalem comming downe from heaven when the old one on earth is destroyed and one persecuting monarchy and state of Rome equalling in mischiefe and cruelty against the Church all the foure that had gone before it Sixtly and lastly they hold that Antichrist shall bee destroyed before the Jewes shall bee called which is not onely not to be proved by any Scripture throughout all the Bible but easily to bee disproved both by Scripture and reason and it were no hard taske to shew if it were seasonable that the eleventh Chapter of this book by the killing of the two witnesses intendeth persecution against the two Churches Jewes and Gentiles when they shall bee knit together at the Jews calling Upon these six foundations is that opinion built which in it selfe is so exceeding strange and yet which is as strange is so exceedingly entertained I leave the ballances in your hands to weigh the weight or the lightnesse of them and now crave a little leave to present you with six other particulars on the other hand for the clearing and explaining of the Text before us First therefore by Satans deceiving of the nations from which hee is bound up in the Text that hee shall doe so no more is to be understood that blindnes and ignorance in which he kept the heathen for so many hundreds of yeares before the appearing of the Gospel deceiving them with strong delusions to beleeve lies especially with his two great cheats and cousenages that misled all the world Idols and Oracles And that this is the meaning of that phrase deceiving the nations may bee concluded upon not onely by the terme nations nor onely by the truth of the thing it selfe for that was the great deceiving of the world nor onely by the phrases of the Scripture that expresse the errors and delusion of the heathen but even by the very tenor and scope of this Chapter it selfe for it setteth downe the two great cousenings and deceivings of the world by the Devill the one under heathenisme before Christ bound him and the other by Antichristianisme when hee was let loose againe Secondly by the Angels binding the Devill in the Text is to bee understood Christs overthrowing the power of the Devill among the Heathen for I suppose it needlesse to prove that the Angell is Christ his casting down those strong holds of Satan Ignorance Idolatry and lying Oracles by the light and power of the Gospel preached among the Gentiles his bringing them home to the knowledge of the truth and his curbing of Satan that he should no more cousen the world with those delusions and heathenisme as hee had done Thirdly this change of the Heathens condition from the darknes of Ignorance to the knowledg of the truth from worshipping of Idols to the worshipping of the living God from seeking after lying Oracles to the studying of the holy Scriptures from the power of Satan to the glorious kingdome of the Lords deare Sonne this change I say out of that condition so sad and that condition in which they had laine above 2000. yeares was as their changing from death to life and as it were a resurrection from the dead And so is it called in the six and twentieth of Esay and the nineteenth Verse and most expressely by our Saviour in Iohn 5. 24 25. And this is that first resurrection that is spoken of in this prophecie in the fifth and sixth Verses and when the Jewes shall bee called which now lie in a condition much like to the old Heathens that shall bee as another resurrection for so it is also called Rom. 11. 15. Fourthly if I should make a chronologie of these 1000. yeares I should date the resurrection of the Gentiles and their calling in and Christs setting up his kingdome among them from the destruction of Ierusalem from which time Iohn also dateth his revelation For although the Gospel were preached to the Heathen abundantly before Jerusalem were destroyed and almost all the world was brought in to the knowledge of the Gospel and obedience of the faith before that time yet is the date of these things more especially from that because that then Judaisme was wholly ceased and Christianity onely set up the old people of the Lord cut off and the Gentiles chosen and taken into their stead And hence it is that so great things are spoken of the day of Ierusalems destruction in the Scripture as that it is called the great and terrible and notable day of the Lord Ioel 2. 31. Acts 2. 20. as if it were the day of judgment and the dissolution of the old world and our Saviour discourseth it and the end of the world so mixtly together that you cannot know them asunder they are so like Matth. 24. And to this purpose is the Masoretick note upon the first of Genesis and the second of good use which telleth us that the phrase Haarets tohu Vabohu The earth was without forme and voyd is never used againe in Scripture but once and that is in Ier. 4. 23. where the Prophet is speaking of Ierusalems destruction as if then the world were ended and returned to its Chaos againe For here it was that the old world of Mosaick rites the old heavens and the old earth of the Jewish Church and State ended and came to ruine and hence it was that the new heavens and the new earth the new world the new Ierusalem the new state of the world and the new Church of the Gospel began and then it is no wonder if this bee called the first resurrection Here properly began that which in Scripture is so renowned and called the kingdom of heaven that is Christs kingdome in the Gospel set up among the Gentiles when the earthly kingdome of Rites and Ceremonies among the Jewes the kingdome of hell in ignorance and Idolatry among the Gentiles was now finished and the kingdome everlasting of righteousnesse and holinesse set up And at this time it is that the thrones are said to bee set up in Dan. 7. and in the fourth Verse of this Chapter and as our Saviour expresseth it the Apostles sitting on twelve thrones judging the 12. Tribes of Israel that is the Apostolique doctrine judging and condemning that unbeleeving nation and shewing their rejection to bee most just because of their unbeleefe This period of time thus observed and taken notice of would helpe to facilitate and cleare many things in Scripture which for want of observing this do fall under misprison and misinterpretation as instance in that in Act. 2. 17. It shall come to