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The land of promise and the covenant thereof explained by certaine questions and propositions propounded to those that teach a deliverance of the Iewes out of all countries to the land of Canaan : and from their long continued blindnesse to the faith of Christ : and a glorious estate in the land for a thousand years : and also to those that teach a personall comming of Christ and a resurrection of the just to live and raigne with Christ a thousand yeares before the resurrection of the uniust and end of the world : of which there bee severall sorts, who are commonlyl called millinaries : by which doctrine of each of these the true intent of sundry places of Scripture of great importance to the church and people of Godm [sic] is uch [sic] obscured which being rightly understood and taught acording to their true and playne meaning would be greatly to the edification and comfort of Gods chosen, especially now in these last dayes wherein the accomplishment of all things which God hath spoken, draweth so nigh.
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sound of a Trumpet and they shall gather his Elect together from the foure Windesâ— c. and then saith to his faithfull ones When these things begin to come to passe then looke up and lift up your heads for your redemâ—tion draweth nigh Then know that the Kingdome of God is nigh at hand Mat. 24. Luke 21.30.31 This is the redemtion which all the faithfull looked for even that deliverance of the whole house and Seede of Israel out of all Countries whereof the Prohets had spoken And here we see by what meanes the Lord will gather them and bring them together in that day even by his holy Angels whom he will send forth with a great sound of a Trumpetâ— They shall gather his elect together from the foure Winds as well they of the tenne Tribes of Israell and of the Gentiles also as them of Iudah and Beniamine he will leave none of them any more there he will open their graves and bring them up out of their graves and place them in their owne land where their fathers had dwelt and they shall know that the Lord had not onely spoken it but that he hath now performed it according as Ezekiel prophesied Ezek. â—7 They being now delivered from the hands of their enemies shall serve the Lord without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the daies of their life according to the prophesie of Zacherias Luke 1. And as David in his Psalme of the Covenant saith unto the people of Israell O give thankes unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever and say yee save us O God of our salvation and gather us together and deliver us from the heathen that we may give thankes to thy holy name and glory in thy praise 1 Chro. 16.34.35 And now upon this great redemption shall the Kingdome bee restrored to Israell which the Apostles so desired to know the time of that which Christ commended to his little flocke to comfort them in the time of their affliction saying feare not little flocke for it is you fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdome Luke 12.32 And of which he saith againe And I appoint unto you a Kingdome as the father hath appointed unto me that ye may eate and drinke at my table in my Kingdome and sit on Throne iudging the twelve Tribes of Israel Luke 22.29 30. meaning the ungodly of all the Tribes And whereof he spake also unto the unbeleeving Iewes and all other Hippocrite and workers of iniquitie to their shame in their condemnation saying When ye shall see Abraham Isaack and Iacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdome of God and your selves cast out Luke 13.27 where is to bee noted that the ungodly shall see the righteous in the Kingdome of God when themselves are cast out This is the Kingdome which God had prepared for his chosen from the foundation of the world to bee inherited now at this time when Christ shall come in his glory to judge the quicke and the dead as himselfe also further declareth saying And when the Sonne of man shall come in his glory and all his holy Angels with him then shall he sit in the Throne of his glory and before him shall bee gaâ—hered all Nations and hee shall separate them as a Shepheard doth his sheepe from the goates and he shall set the sheepe on his right hand and the goats at the left then shall the King say unto them on his right hand come ye blessed of my father inherite the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world For I was an hungry and ye gave mee meate I was athirst and ye gave me drinke I was a stranger and ye tâ—oke me in naked and ye cloathed me I was sicke and ye came unto me I was in prison and ye visited me c. And unto them on his left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire c. In which happie sentence to them that shall stand on Christs right hand at this day of Iudgement Christ in foretelling us of it doth give us to understand as a faire fore-admonition to us all what manner of persons they are and must be found to be in respect of workes that shall inherit this Kingdome And hereby also wee may perceive what it is to make us friends with the goods of this world called the Mammon of unrighteousnâ—sse because men love them so much setting their hearts upon them and by many unrighteously gotten And who the friends are that can will receive us into everlasting habitation even Christ himselfe and God his father also So that whosoever shall receive one of those little ones that beleeveth in Christ in Christs name receiveth Christ he that receiveth Christ receveth God the Father that sent him for so he hath said he that shall give a cup of cold water to one of the least of Christs brethren because he belongeth to Christ he shall not lose his reward because Christ counteth it as done to him self he wil stand his friend when the great day time of nâ—ede shall come and all frienâ—s else will faile him These bee the workes of Abraham which doe shew the faith of Abraham and of Abrahams children that shall inherit the kingdome And when Christ shall so come in his glory and shall sit in the Throne of his glory and be possest of his Kingdome which God the father had appointed unto him as he said Luk. 22.20 for the possession of his Kingdome and his appearing in glory to Iudge the quicke and the dead or both together as Saint Paul saith 2 Tim. 4.1 and the Saints possâ—ssing the Kingdome also dependeth upon his and beginneth as from his and by him is continued This Throne and kingdome of Christ I say is not to cease or be taken from him nor he from it God will settle him therein according as hee said and sware to his father David long beforre saying But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdome for ever and his throne shall be established for evermore 1 Chro. 17.14 And againe My Covenant will I not breake nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lipps Once have I sworne by my holinesse that I will not lie unto David his seede shall endure for ever and his Throne as the Sunne before me it shall bee established for ever as the Moone and as a faithfull witnesse in heaven Psal. 89.34 36. Christ is not to come to sit and passe sentence of Iudgement onely and so to depart away as some thinke but he is to continue to raigne upon his thrown in this kingdome for everâ— according also as in another Psal. it saith Thy Throe O God is for ever and ever a Septer of righteousnesse is the Septer of thy Kingdome Psal. 45.6 as also Heb. 1.8 And of this throne and Kingdome of Christ and the endlesnes thereof spake the Angel
to whom it belonged and my servant David shall be their King for ever Moreover saith the Lord I will make a Covenant of peace with them it shall be an everlasting covenant with them and I will place them and multiply them and I will set my Sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore my Tabernacle also shall be with them yea I will be their God and they shall be my people And the hâ—aâ—hen shall know that I the Lord doe sanctifie Israel when my Sanctuary shall bee in the midst of them for evermore Ezek. 37. This is that Country and Citie which the holy Fathers sought mentioned in Heb. 11. This is the place whereof God spake to David where he said Also I will ordaine a place for my people Israel and will plant them and they shall dwell in their place and shall be moved no more neither shall the children of wickednesse wast them any more as at the beginning c. 1 Chron. 17.9 This is that purchased possession untill the redemption wherof the faithfull are Sealed with the holy Spirit of promise the earnest of that their inheritance spoken of by Saint Paul Ephe. 1.13 14. This is that Eternall Tabernacle which God is the builder of and not man spoken of in Heb. 8.2 and 9.11 which Christ hath purchased with his owne blood for our Eternall inheritance as in verse 12. This is the place which Christ spake of to his Disciples when he said I goe to prepare a place for you Iohn 14. And this is that Building of God not made with hands eternall in the heavens spoken of 2 Cor. 5.1 This is that inheritance incorruptable undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for us who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to bee revealed in the last time spoken of in 1 Pet. 3 4 5 6. the times of restitution of all things whereof he spake in Acts 3. for then it is to bee revealed from heaven as Iohn foresaw Revel. 21. when all things shall be new This is the Kingdome which cannot be shaken spoken of in Heb. 12.27 28. This is that Citie of which he saith for here we have no continuing city but we seeke one to come Heb. 13.14 And this is the glory which Saint Paul saith the children and heires of God that suffer with Christ shall receive as joynt heires together with him for the manifestation whereof the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth and untill which the whole creation travelleth together in paine as in Rom. 8.17 18 19 20 21 22 23. And this is the rest which is said to remaine unto the people of God spoken of in Hebâ— 4. where hee exhorteth saying Let us therefore labour to enter into that rest leâ—t c. verse 9.10.11 Now all these promises and testimonies being of one and the same eternall inheritance as doth plainely appeare and that it belongeth to all the faithfull as is also manifest and being so acomplished as before is declared Then Abraham Isaac and Iacob and all the holy Fathers before them and their children and their childrens children after them to the thousand generations even all their seede to this worlds end for there shall be no increasing of children any way afterwards shall inherit according to the promise the Land of Canaan which God gave unto the Fathers that good Land which he espied for them the glory of all lands as the Scriptures title it And not that Land onely but every habitable part of the world besides yet that land principally as the glory of all the rest There the Fathers sojourned in expectation thereof upon the promise There by faith they tooke order and gave charge to have their bones laid expecting their resurrection to that end Thither their children were brought from their servitude in Egypt to possesse it typically There God revealed his counsells and testimonies by his servants the Prophets There was the Temporall typicall Hierusalem There was Davidâ— Throne There was Iesus Christ the true king and heire of all things borne There he suffered and underwent the shame from thence he ascended into Heaven and to the same place he shall come againe as it is written And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives which is before Hierusalem c. Zech. 14.4 And there shall his Throne be upon the holy hill of Sion according to Psal. 2. For although his Kingdome and dominion shall reach throughout all the World from Sea to Sea and from the river to the ends of the earth as it is said where also his Saints shall inherit and raigne yet there shall be his Throne and his glory most eminent even there where he suffered the reproach and that shall all his enemies in that day see and know For God will get his servants praise and fame in every land where they had been put to shame according as he said Zeph. 3.19 And all the Seed and children of the promise since the beginning of the world the true Israel of God shall now be a nation before the Lord for ever and be Kings and Preists unto God and shall raigne on the Earth as the twenty foure Elders declared and being all of them the Children of God and of the new Hierusalem redeemed by the blood of the Lambe The Lambe wil now among all the rest of his promises and gifts performe this also in Rev. 3. Where he saith Him that overcomeâ—h will I make a pillar in the house of my God and he shall goe no more out I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the City of my God The new Hierusalem which cometh downe out of Heaven from my God and my new name ver. 12. Where we see also as in Rev. 21. that it is to come downe out of Heaven I aske now If these things be so as hath beene declared or no if they be truly so then I aske where ye will have ground for your doctrine of a thousand yeares glorious Church of the Iewes in the Land of Canaan or of any other that ye will have rise from the dead before the end of this world or what have ye to object against that which hath beenâ— said If ye object and say heere is not in all this a word spoken of heaven that the Saints after the resurrection of the body and end of this world shall ascend with Christ and Christ with them to live and raigne there in the presence of God and with all his holy Angels for ever I confesse I have not spoken a word to that purpose and the reason is because I find not a word in all the holy Scriptures that saith it and what they speake not I am not bound in this case to beleive though I deny them not heaven God may take up of them into heaven as he did Paul if he so please though he hath not said it That the Saints shall