c. by whom both the Elect Angels were confirmed in grace and glory and the sins of the Saints should through all times be purged away by himself for the good of whom he hath ever since made his Elect Angels Ministring Spirits having from Eternity given them by his said Covenant unto Christ Therefore the Spirit of God evidently so explains Psalm 8.4 in that excellent Epistle to the Hebrews chap. 2 6 7 8. speaking by allusion there to the first Adam but in both texts Christ is said to be the Son of Man which the first Adam was not but only by Creation the Son of God Luke 3. the last And this Son of Man Christ is he that was for a little season in the world made lower than the Angels but after Crowned with Glory and Honour who for the suffering of death as the Apostle speaks Heb. 1.3 sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high and hath all things as he goes on v. 8. put in subjection under his feet viz. Decretively and Declaratively not actually as all shall then be so the holy Apostle speaks there we do not yet see all things put under him v. 8. and now in some sort or sence the world is the Saints as 1 Cor. 3.22 but then it shall be not only as Christ now providentially orders all for their good therein but then it shall also be theirs in possession too at the said times of the Restitution of all things as our Saviour resolves in that world to come Rev. 21.5.7 Consider well as to this Head our Divine Theses in pag. 3 4 5 6 c. of our first Irenic and Abridg. p. 7 8 c. all though short yet of great weight 4. Gods word witnesseth that by an Eeternal Decree he hath appointed to set his King Christ upon his holy Hill of Sion Psal 2. according to his last Covenant with David for his sure Mercies respecting Christs Universal and perpetual Kingdome that he promised to him for ever 2 Sam 7.16 to the end that after all the vain attempts in the world to the contrary v. 1 2 3 which have ever been in acting since the Fall that Enmity was put by Gods Justice between the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent Gen. 3.15 and will be to that very time when he shall come with his Saints to take possession of it which I doubt not but this Generation will shortly see and what a time of trouble will then be 'till Christs said coming ends it Dan 12.1 Rev. 16.18 experience will soon manifest but notwithstanding all that hath been is now in acting or shall be until then yet saith God I have set my King Christ the great King of the New Jerusalem as he stiles himself Mat 5.35 upon my holy Hill of Sion when also upon his asking as he did John 17.20 he will give him the Heathen for his Inheritance and the uttermost part of the Earth for his Possession and when he will make him his First-borne and so Heir to the Kingdome higher than the Kings of the Earth Psal 89.27 and Prince of the Kings of the Earth Rev. 1.5 and therefore when he destroyes the Beast and false Prophet at the Armageddon Battel his Name shall be written upon his Vesture and upon his Thigh whose Name also is called the Word of God v. 13. yea he had a name written that no man knows but he himself v. 12. but yet v. 16. his Name is so written King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 19.11 c. whereupon he with his raised Saints shall Reign upon Earth 1000 years Rev. 20.4 6. which will be Gods said setting of his King Christ upon his holy Hill of Sion and his possessing of his said Davidical Kingdome for ever 2 Sam. 7. which from our 12 Foundations of our Faith hereof is abundantly evident with others Hence also it is very observable Acts 15.16 17. that the Holy Spirit upon the Apostle James his speaking of the raising Davids Tabernacle which the Prophet Am. shews ch 9.11 the last shall be so that the people shall never more thenceforward be pulled up out of their own Land as also is said 2 Sam. 7 and to be when the fulness of the Gentiles shall come in as Rom. 11. which he stiles all the Heathen that are called by my name to which text of Amos S. James having spoken of the Gentils first call which was in part as he said by his mouth v. 7. he then adds after that I will returne which words are not in Amos 9. but Gods Spirit taught him so to explain them and build up his Tabernacle also and as declaring it not to belong to that first call of the Gentiles but as Amos saith when all the Heathen shall be called by his name and thereupon adds that great general Divine Truth here to be especially applyed to the raising of Davids Tabernacle v. 18. known unto God saith he are all his works from the beginning of the world as if he would thereby teach Gods people that it was Gods eternal designe then to raise Davids said Tabernacle in Christ according to his Covenant with David viz. for his House his Throne and Kingdome for ever as 2 Sam. 7. and that all the works of God in the world since tend to fulfil that which is his great designe in that time in the world namely for Christ to reign in the renewed state thereof with his Saints in it where they had all been before so Conteamed Persecuted and Oppressed by the black Prince of this present evil world and by ungodly men also called the children thereof namely of this present evil world And thus we may see in all these particulars Gods eternal decrees are confirmed and explained by Christ as they shall take place in that state in those times accordingly of which much more will be manifest from the Divine exactness the comprehensive usefulness and the certain determination of Christ in his said Key which is chiefly the spirit of Prophesie and the Testimony of Jesus as he had before spoken by his spirit in his Prophets Rev. 19.10 The next evidence of the said sate in the said times is from the most ancient Declarations Promises and Covenants in his word unto the Fathers as the next revealed grounds of the same The first was Gods own Declaration upon Mans Fall That the seed of the Woman should break the Serpents head and because he was to be only the seed of the Woman and not of the man therefore was necessarily to be the Son of God as he was manifest to be in the in 4000 years after by the breaking of the Serpents head by degrees in respect both of his head of Policie and Power at last he should so make way for his own sovereignty and the Dominion over the Creatures at last to be restored to him as largely is to be seen in our Treatise on Gen. 3.15 so that in
21.5 in the beginning of both our last books and shall by Gods gracious assistance do in some other of the Epistles but especially as a pattern of all the rest in the Epistle to the Hebrews to manifest that Revelation Interpretation of all such said Parts of Scripture is the best and most sure Interpretation of them 5. It is manifest from the many Parallels in the Books of Daniel and the Revelation and of the admirable connexion of both First of the matters and things and secondly of their times or the Series and order of them both First from their many Parallels as 1. The manner of writing them both Rev. 1.19 first of the things which both of them had seen 2. of the things then in their own time as we observed in our Summary of Daniel pag. 3 4 5 c. And 3dly of the things that shall be afterwards c. where many things are set down suiting to one another and though Daniel set forth more generally and briefly all the four Monarchies chap. 2. and chap. 7. yet at the end of them in both chapters he shews the state of things to be in the 1000 years at the end of chap. 2. he sets down the beginning of the Kingdome of the Stone at v. 44 c. about Christs Ascention to continue for 1666 years which should break the Iron Roman Monarchy in that time and it self become a Mountain filling the whole Earth v. 35. when the time of the ten Kings ch 7. and the little Hornes time time and halfe a time viz. of the Beast or Antichrist haply the Turk also for there are many Resemblances of both c. shall be extinct and therefore in that ioyenth chapter he speaks of the first act of the Judgment of the great day to give the body of the Beast to the burning flame when he had also the Vision of Christs comeing in the Clouds to receive his universal and perpetual Kingdome in the world next after the Beasts Date of a time times and half a time are out explained by 42 moneths and 1260 dayes in Rev. 11. briefly in passing over the Persian v. 1 2. and running through much of the Grecian Monarchy in ch 11. to v. 36 he comes to the Roman at its height in Christs time and after in the primative Persecutions v. 36. and to the Popes v. 37 38 39. and so by the Saracens in that time of the end v. 40. and the Turks v. 40. that King of the North of whom as the second Woe-trumpet he proceeds to speak v. 41 42 43 44. to his end 45. about Christs appearance and so ch 12. setting forth the time of Christs appearance and Kingdome he gives farther explications of the times of the Beast v. 5 6 7. and those before it verse 4. and in reference to Christs said comeing ch 10. he had a Vision aforehand of his glorious person and so had St. John ch 1. and as the man in white Linnen ch 12. as the great High-priest declares the time viz. of that last Gentile Monarchy should be no longer than Christs appearance so Christ the same person swears the like Rev. 10 at the sounding of the seventh Trumpet which is the very same time see more in our Parallels of the Roman and Christs Monarchy from both Books And he that is able to make these and the like Parallels understandingly by Gods Mercy may soon prove very judicious in matters respecting the said happy state of the 1000 years so excellently set down by Christ farther to explain these last things in the 4 last ch of the Revel And 2dly there is a wonderful connexion of the Misterious times of Daniel with those of the Revelation succeeding them first the great Calender of 2300 years in ch 8. of Daniel misteriously given by Palmoni or the secret Numberer as it is opened v. 17. by him at the time of the end the Vision shall be and v. 19. in the last end of the indignation viz. against the Jews and v. 26. as a Key of both to be shut up for many dayes with many other Reasons in our Summary on that text which manifest it to be the measure of the times of the Gentiles Dominion and Israelites and Jews joynt Bondage which contains Daniels three Monarchies past and the Romans to Christ and thence by vulgar account 1700 years to Rev. 19 ch as in Restitut p. 26 27 28. until the ruine of the Beast and until Christs said Kingdome of the Mountain begins likewise in Daniels second Number of the 70 weeks from the execution of the Command in the 20th year of Artaxerxes Longimanns about Anno Mundi 3550. to build the City Jerusalem to Christs putting an end to sin by his death and bringing in everlasting Righteousness by his Resurrection and Ascention in the middle of Daniels last week making up 490 years when the God of Heaven set up the Kingdome of the Stone for its 1666 years and is also the period of Antichrists Date Rev. 13. ult to be found out by the Spirits Divine Wisdome in Daniel and St. Paul who saith the apperance of Christs comeing will destroy him 1 Thes 2.8 and this Number of Daniel proceeds iâ— connexion with the Revelation from Anno Dom. by vulgar account about 34. by adding the said Divine Number as I esteem it both wayes 1666. for the end of the Kingdome of the Stone then beginning that of the Mountain as v. 35. and also the end of the Beasts Date and so stands in connexion with Daniel in respect both of the former and latter times of Daniel and Revelation so suiting admirably each to other c. 3. For Daniels third Mistical Numbers connexion by a mark of taking away of Sacrifice and setting up the abomination of desolation chap. 12. to be found many hundred years after and yet when it comes after Adrians the Emperours driving the Jews from sacrificing about 130 years after Christ and Constantines about 312. that it so wonderfully should be ordered about 365 in Julian the Apostates time that by such an eminent hand of God as we shewed pag. 6. of Abridgm of Dan. of Parral p. 34. it should then be taken away ultimately as publick at least to which 365. by adding the before revealed to Daniel 1335. thence to the blessed times the said Revelation number of 1700 years to ch 20. is so by that wonderful connexion made up by both these beloved Servants of God and Christs so strange agreement in witnessing joyntly to both Divine books from the same Holy Spirit which is one admirable evidence of the said Truth witnessed by both And as to the excellent Divine Contrivance of the Book of Revelation in two Schemes to ch 19. as an explication of Daniels short Hints for the Times during 1666 years under the Kingdome of the Stone Dan. 2.24 from Christs Ascention to his descending again as pag. 26 27. of Restitut with other things observable in the order of it
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR THE SAINTS FIRST REVEALED AND COVENANTED MERCIES Shortly Approaching As being the Main Scope of Revelation-Prophesie Opened and Resolved by Christ's Divine Key of Prophesie in the four last Chapters thereof In exceeding much Mercy lately Discovered to the Weak and Unworthy Pen-man of the ensuing Work and especially by the help of the more late and very Useful Key and Covenants An. Dom. 71. with Parallels of Dan. and Rev. more directly leading us to the last said great Discoveries Explained in our last Books And for the better Improvement of them all here is prefixed a Summarie of the Clearest and most Aboundant Scripture-evidence of that Blessed State of the World to come In Reference to a Scheme or short Prospective View of the Whole from God's Word By W. Sherwin Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed in the Year 1676. The Introduction to our Scheme or short Prospective View of the most strong and clear evidence of the blessed state of the 1000 Years Rev. 20. as is manifest in our late Works Shewing 1. THat such a state shall be in the World in the seventh Millen 2. What that state is declared to be from the Word of God 3. Shewing in a fit Latitude the time when or the neer approach of that said state 4. How or by what means it shall be set up 5. Unto these we shall add somewhat of the Usefulness of that excellent gracious Discovery thereof chiefly from Parallelling Dan. and Rev. both in connexion of Matters and Times as leading us to the fourth Gentile Monarchie wherein Gods Kingdome of the Stone Dan. 2.44 was to be set up An. Dom. 34. for 1666. years from Christs Ascention to his Descending again to break all adverse Kingdomes and Dominions until it self become a Mountain v. 34 41. about An. Dom. 1700. with the allowance of Bishop Vshers four years lost or more and so probable to be sooner Concerning the first three things are here to be done first to prove as in the method Iren. Chap. 1. the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 namely to shew that such a Sate or Kingdome shall be which is abundantly proved in our said work first from the seven Foundations in our Irenic mentioned in the beginning thereof â—dly From the other seven Convincing Arguments besides that Third in the Word Written all which are of very large comprehensiveness and if duly weighed will be found to be of very great force And all our Parallels of Danniel and Revelation do also very greatly establish these Truths all which we refer to the Judicious and Impartial Readers perusal together with the Twelve Foundations of our Faith thereof proved all along from Gen. 3.15 to the end of the Revelation which Faith was also much formed by our 31 Useful Observations to understand Mystical Prophesies and by the short Assertions and useful and needful Distinctions in our Key To the due consideration of all which we advise the serious reading of our Account of the whole Work first more generally of the subject p. 1 2. and 2dly of the Nature Use and Order of the Parts of the said Work in page 2 3 4. with the two first leaves of the General Title Page or of the said Twelve Foundations and in the two first leaves of the last Book on Rev. 21.5 shewing what parts serve for Explication what for Confirmation and what for Illustration and Application c. page 1 2 3 4. 2dly To shew this said state shall be in the World which is sufficiently done by our 15 well approved Reasons by the Learned in those Studies to which many more may be added See our New Jerusalem on Jer. 3.17 page 9 10 11 12. Of the most Certain Infallible and Vnresistable farther Evidences ANd now from Gods gracious late Discovery to us that the said blessed state will be the fulfilling of his declared and Covenanted Mercies then in the said seventh Millen unto the Fathers themselves and to their spiritual seed through and with that their own Divine Seed Christ Gal. 3. and 2 Sam. 7.16 to the end as in our two last Books on Rev. 20.5 and Rev. 21.5 is largely explained which Christs said Revelation Key Divinely opens and which we endeavour here to the best advantage we can in a business of this nature to communicate so briefly to all faithful Christians herein concerned and for all others who may be such by setting before all men yet more strong clear and irresistable evidences from the word of God concerning the said Mercies as eternally decreed by God after carryed on in the said Covenants Prophesies of the Old Testament witnessed to through the New to manifest how in the said 7th Milen as Christ by his Revel also hath infallibly resolved us that all shall answerably be done as in good part was shewed in our Picture of Christs most Divine Key p. 63. of the Resur which I doubt not but will farther make the evidences thereof so strong clear and irresistable and as I verily believe of so great weight as greater cannot be had to prove any Truth nor need to be expected for these and greater then for any other Truth in the whole book of God this containing the summ of all namely Christs great work of Redemption as the work so eternally appointed by the Father to be so carryed on by him in the time of his Mediatorship in the first six Millen as by and by we doubt not to prove to redeem the souls bodies persons outward conditions of his Saints and servants then from the Power and Tyranny of their Enemies the World Creatures in that state from the Corruption Curse Bondage Enmity in it since the Fall of Man as in Restit p 45 46 37 c. Whereupon we must lay down this needful Caution by the way viz. That we must distinguish the said General work of Redemption from that Spiritually Powerful work of Reconciliation for his Saints at Christs first coming according to the warrant of the holy Scripture 2 Cor. 5.19 God was in Christ reconciling us unto himself and now by his word of Reconciliation Rom. 5.10 When Enemies we were reconciled to Grd by the death of his Son and Eph. 2.16 That he might reconcile both Jew and Gentile in one body by the Cross c. Christ by his death so making an Attonement in his blood by his own oblation of himself once for all his people and thereby laid the sure foundation at his first coming for his powerful and glorious carrying on of all the parts and degrees of the other as being made the Fathers Commissioner during his Kingdome of the Stone whilest he sits upon his Fathers Throne at that glorious delivery of the Book with 7 Seals Rev. 5. to him the Lamb with seven Hornes and seven Eyes to open and execute the Contents thereof unto chap 19. until his second coming at the end of the said 1666. years when he will sit upon his own Throne Rev.
Christ that Son of David be set up again when the spiritual and Divine part of the last Covenant with David shall most surely be fulfilled to the exceeding great glory amongst all his said Saints of his Wisdome Power Justice and Truth against the Serpent and his seed and of his Wisdome Mercy Goodness Faithfulness and Truth to themselves as in our Treatise of Resurrection is set forth The like Testimony now of the almost experienced time God gave by his other Divine Contemporary Mistical Prophet Ezeekiel ch 21.26 27. saying both of the fall of Davids Tabernacle in the last of his Natural Race I will overturn overturn overturn of the raising it up again as follows c. The fall is first redoubled there not only for certainty of its falling as the four Monarchies were twice revealed first to a Gentile secondly to a Jew c. but it seems to be a farther confirmation of Daniels large measure of the suffering times of the Jews and Gentiles under the same four Monarchies which by Gods Spirit seems expressly to be declared in the next words which declare the raising it up again viz. until he come whose right it is and I will give it him which was meant evidently of his second comeing for he came the first time to suffer not to reign neither doth God give it to him until his second coming at the destruction of the Beast Dan. 7.9 13 14. when the Tabernacle of David is to be raised up again in him But this three fold overturning was to be fulfilled in that long interim of their bondage 2300 years as since hath been found by experience neer to the end thereof The first overturn was by the Caldeans when the Jews were led Captive to Babylon But under the Medo-persians God wonderfully reduced many of them by working the Spirit of Cyrus to it to fulfil Jacobs Prophesie of the comeing of Shilo and Daniels 70 weeks to Christs finishing transgression by his death and bringing in everlasting righteousness by his Resurrection and Ascention when God set up his Kingdome of the Stone as was noted yet secondly under the Greek Monarchy their Land was saddly harrased and spoiled a long time betwixt the two Wings or Branches thereof Aegypt and Syria lying on both sides of it until the end of Antiochus Epiphanes his outrage when the Roman by Scripture account began under which their Land hath been again greatly overturned and turned into a Province until those Ruiners of that Monarchy viz. the Mahumitans Saricens and Turks both harrased it and took it and by degrees all the Eastern Empire also so that the Jews have changed only their Oppressors but not their Bondage and still in the Land of Magog or Roman Monarchy wherein they are to continue in that part until that Monarchy and their present Oppressor the Turk both perish probably together at Christs said appearance and Kingdom and thus through all that said time that three fold overturning will be very probably fulfilled and the Spirit of Christ hath in many things to come also witnessed by Ezekiel as well as Daniel though the Series and order of them is chiefly from Daniel But Ezekiel chap. 36. speaks of their Divine Grace as the foundation of all future Mercy so Daniel 12.1 2 3. ch 37. of their Deliverance and Union so Dan. 12.1 chap. 38.39 he had the Vision of Gog and Magogs destruction so Dan. 7. chap. 40. to the end of the Book the Vision of the New Jerusalem and the Temple upon the Enemies said ruine so Daniel at that end of their dayes shall stand up in his Lot in that state 3. It is manifest from Gods many explications of the said Predictions and promised Covenants and Mercies to the Fathers as they are afterwards confirmed and explained in the following Prophets all which are ultimately determined by the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the said state and time as respecting all such said Saints that shall then be raised by him to reign with him in his said Mediatory or Davidical Kingdome in the 1000 years and be in the New Jerusalem happy state then in the world at the times of the Restit of all things wherefore Christs said Revelation ought exceedingly to be regarded and believed besides other Reasons for the light it gives to all such Prophetical Scriptures for the manifold comprehensive usefulness of it c. And here we might proceed farther to shew how these Covenants were confirmed by the following Prophets which largely might be done had it not been set forth from Acts 3. as he spake by the mouth of all his holy Prophets in our Iren. ch 5 6 7 8. and in our 12 said Foundations with many other parts of our said work which is now by Divine disposal become a useful Comment upon our two last Treatises on Rev. 20.5 and Rev. 21.5 pag. 1 2 3 4. of Restitut Since Christs Spirit hath vouchsafed these great Discoveries to so weak unworthy an Instrument of late by the help of all our former Pieces especially of our more late useful Key and also our three first Convincing Arguments in the Word Written abundantly prove the same we need add no more c. and our Saviour Rev. 21. applyed divers Texts in Esa 60 c. to the time and state of the New Jerusalem as a pattern of many more c. 4. The fourth Scripture evidence is of the many passages in the Gospels and Acts and Epistles of the Apostles which receive no full and sure explication but by the help of Christs said Revelation which teacheth us also that they have relation to all the former heads 1. of Gods eternal Decree in all the said Particulars 2. To his declared or promised Mercies and Covenants afore named or to the Prophets Confirmations Explications or Illustrations of the same which all explaining their sence in the New Testaments and also is very evidently the most excellent Divine Key of all such Prophesies referring to that said time and state and even the Prophesie of Jacob and the like and the partial deliverance of the two Tribes wonderfully by Gods working Divinely upon the spirit of Cyrus to that end and Daniels 70 Weeks of Years all specially and immediately respecting the Messias or Shiloe's first comeing Yet since Gods Kingdome of the Stone began at or about his Ascention for 1666. years from that his spiritual powerful Victory over the Powers of Darkness then Col. 15. until his said glorious visible powerful victory be obtained over all his great Enemies making them then at the end thereof his footstool so we may thence also see the drift of that great Foundation then laid for the Saints said Reconciliation to God was to advance the glorious and blessed ends of Christs second comeing when they shall reign with him which we have already given instances of from Luke 20.35 36. explained in Resur by Rev. 20.5 and of Acts 3.19 20 21. explained by Rev.
all these may be observed in our Scheme of Revelation and Summary of Daniel in one sheet of excellent use if well perused and frequently But for the matter of the four last chapters briefly handled Dan. 2. and Dan. 7. after the fourth Monarchy our Saviour explains Divinely many things as referring to the other Prophets from first to last chiefly respecting the said antient Predictions Covenants with wonderful exactness which the latter Prophets and New Testament confirm as they are so explained by Christs said Revelation Yet many allusions to other Prophets are made in that whole book to the Old Testament Dispensations both of the Camp of Israel in their Wilderness condion and when the Temple was built and to Rulers the 24 Elders and to Church Guides the four Beasts full of Eyes Rev. 4. to Ezekiels Vision ch 1. 10. and Es 6. to Zacharies two Olive Trees ch 4. the Witnesses Rev. 11. c. wherein we may note the passing of the handle of Christs Key as we may fitly call it by Promises and Incouragements as in our seventh Convincing Argument to their times of fulfilling in the 1000 years as the Souls beheaded and their fellow Servants and Brethren Rev. 6.9 10 c. are raised to Reign ch 20.4 6. which is a very weighty and useful consideration therein We only by the Abridgments mentioned in our Account p. 3. passed per Saltum as we said pag. 3. of Resur unto the twentieth ch referring Christians for the former part to ch 19. now almost fulfilled to Mr. Medes Commentary and Clavis chiefly but the Observation of Decem. 7. 1664. in the Prodr on Mr. Durhams book do explain many things from ch 5. to the end but note here that as Daniels twelfth ch is a Key to that Book so Rev. 17. to the times of the Beasts 1660 years as in our useful Observations where that and many other excellent matters respecting both books are set down Observ 7 8 9 10 11. next after the Tract upon Rev. 22.20 Thus we see the Holy Spirit so many wayes joyns Daniel and the Revolation both in times and things as was shewed in both Books through the 2300 years of the four said Gentile Monarchies from the falling of Davids said Tabernacle which points Unto us this consolation that God will be mindful of that covenant when the time comes as also of all the former whose Period is the same and their mercie in substance will be the same and it is no wonder it should be so long before that peoples reducement since their Sin was so great at first but especially at their last and longest and sorest Captivity when they had killed the Lord of life with so great a curse upon themselves and their Children Upon all which said confirmations and evidences Gods Design in Christs redemtion was at his first coming to be manifest to be the son of God in the flesh and to have a body given him Heb 10.5 as in both respects foretold by the Prophets when as God-man he by dying laid the foundation of all future good Reconciling both Jews and Gentles by his death Rom. 5.10 and meriting the salvation of all his Saints souls about An. Mun. 4000. but towards the end of the Sixth millennium at his 2d coming he shall powerfully destroy his great Visible enemies and bind Satan the 1000. years and raise the Saints bodies from the grave freeing the persons and outward conditions of his people and the the world and Creatures in it from the bondage of Corruptions as largly is explained Restit p. 44. 45. 46. c. and in the 4. last ch we shall here only farther observe Christs curious exactness that speaking of the beasts destruction at the time of his eminent breaking of the Serpents head at the first act of the Judgment he only saith these are the true sayings of God c. 19.9 but when he speaks of the promised mercies to the Fathers twice to be then fulfilled he saith ch 21.5 and chap 22.6 these words are both faithfull and true And also for the times in respect of the when he sets the mark 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is done at the renovation of all things ch 21.6 which before he had set Chap. 16 17. by a like great Voice from the Throne to shew their coincidence at the same time saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is done as from Ezek. 39.8 is remarkably explained N. B. page 61 62. of Restitut And for the quandiù how long it shall continue Christ set it down in an unparallell'd manner six times over to be 1000 years 3 of them absolutely 1000 years 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and then three times relatively 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those those those thousand years Rev. 20. First of Satans binding v. 2 3. 2dly of the Saints first bodily Resurrection and Reign with Christ in the world v. 4 5. 3dly of the happy condition in that state 1. They are blessed 2. holy as the reason of that blessedness 3. Their security thereupon they shall not be hurt of the second death 4. Their great Priviledge then they shall be Priests of God and of Christ 5. In their supream Authority with Christ then they reigned with Christ 1000 years In such a wonderful glorious manner hath our Saviour determined the said time and state which is the Divine Millenniarism of Christ so exactly and curiously set before us by his Scriptures of Truth And lastly by the comprehensive usefulness of this book it refers to all parts all Holy Scriptures for first Christ explains the last times of the four Gentile Monarchies mistically contained in Daniel as we shewed from the beginning of the Kingdome of the Stone to the end thereof at ch 19. whose Chronology begin when Davids Tabernacle fell for the Sins of his natural Race and those said Gentile Kingdomes reach through the 2300 years of their continuance to the raising of Davids Tabernacle in Christ as the Son of Davids Reign with his Saints New Davids Covenant for his said Kingdome which that state of Israel was then grown up unto carries us back to the former Promises and Covenants to Abraham Isaac and Jacob respecting the renewed state of the Land and the New Jerusalem belonging to their Spiritual Seed and Noahs Type of the Ark sets forth the safety of the Saints in the end of the world by Christ their true Ark the Covenant for all Creatures signified by the Rainbow assures the worlds continuance and the accommodations of its fruitfulness and that chiefly for those times as following Prophets teach us his Prophesie of Shems and Japhets Posterity set forth of what Race mostly besides Proselites haply all along should rise as the Prophets after explain in both their double great Calls and how the Messiah from Adam Enoch Noah and all the rest should lineally descend who should restore his Saints with himself to a much more glorious and happy Paradise of God in that said state
and Kingdome of Christ than the first Adam had when he was the only Monarch of the world Yea this most Divine Book will carry us higher than the Creation or beginning of time to Gods eternal Purpose in the four said particulars all explained and confirmed in Christs Revelation Key By the help of this we may judge of the several Prophesies from the Fountains of them revealed in the Word of God as they relate to the Revealed and Promised Mercies in their particular drift as what relates to Adams what to Noahs to Abrahams Isaacs and Jacobs for their Land and what to Davids as to his sure Kingdome c. and upon these Discoveries of Gods so giving them title to that state from the said sure Promises Covenants they will then sing their Halelujahs upon such accounts which the Revelation teacheth both us and them as in our Saints Resurrection largly Thus we may evidently see that what God designed to be performed in the four particulars to be found in the 7th Millennium as Christs Revelation manifests he carryed on in the first times by revealed Predictions and Covenants to the Fathers and their Spiritual Seed through Christ which are also explained and confirmed by the following Prophets all which are witâ—ssed to by the Gospels and Acts and Epistles of the holy Apostles but lastly wonderfully exactly and most excellently explained and illustrated by Christs Revelation and what greater or stronger evidence of these Divine Truths can be conceived or desired Now for the second head what that state is declared to be from the word of God for farther we may determine nothing which we have so largely considered in the times of Restitution of all things both as to removing of Evils and conferring of good upon the Saints first bodily Resurrection which is their inlet into that happy state that we need here add no more but that Christians should attentively peruse for that reason both our said Books which plainly resolve the same And for the third to shew in a fit latitude the time when or the neer approach of that state it was the main drift of the said times of Restitution with their neer approach from p. 53. to p. 71. upon Rev. 21.5 and again to the same purpose from pag. 73. to pag. 77. Likewise for the fourth how or by what means Christs said Kingdome shall be set up not by any worldly means or any help of man saving by Humiliation Faith and Prayer or the like but only Divinely by the hand of God only such as are only called by him Rev 19. and Psalm 149.9 who as he was said to set up the Kingdome of the Stone 1666 years before Da. 2.44 which in that time hath and doth and will in a Divine Spiritual way break v. 34.35 44 45. all the adverse power of the Mettle Kingdomes which at Christs appearance shall all become as the Chaffe of the summer Threshing-flore so God will then give all the Kingdoms of the World unto Christ when he comes in the Clouds of Heaven Dan. 7.13 14. in the glory of the Father and his own glory and of all his holy Angels and his Saints shall then behold Christs glory in that said Kingdome which his Father hath given him as he willed at his death John 17.24 and tells his little little Flock that it is his Fathers pleasure to give them the Kingdom Luke 12.32 And lastly for the manifold usefulness exactness and excellency of Daniel and the Rvelation in cennexion together both for their Subject Matter and Order of Times being Divinely Delivered and ordered for such uses as we have shewed and especially in respect of Christs said Key in the four last chapters of the Revelation of which we have said so much in our last named Book and in what we have here added to that purpose to prove such a state shall be in the world in the seventh Millen that it is not needful here to speak any thing more thereof And for a farther example of all we have said as to the usefulness thereof for explication of Prophetical Scriptures we shall as we said now proceed to show how usefully and surely Revelation Interpretation resolves all passages of that nature We shall consider for a pattern what we find thereof in that excellent and Divinely perfound Epistle of the Apostle to the Hebrews who were a people specially concerned in that state We come now to give an Instance of the great usefulness certain exactness of Revelation Interpretation of all the said Prophetick Scriptures of all such passages in the New Testament as have reference to any of them and Christs Revelation sometimes in connexion with Daniels Prophetick Visions which appears to me to be an Ordinance of his own holy Spirit for that purpose of which we doubt not but to give a good account as God may give opportunity But for this most excellent Epistle to the Hebrews a people most concerned in that Renewed State of the 1000 years the Apostle Paul most probably though to avoid their emulation then conceals his name yet being chiefly to write of Christs Prophetical Office then comeing into its eminency under the New Testament writing to them takes occasion to insert much as it were by the way of Christs eminent Kingly Office in the ensuing state and Christ in his Revelation very Divinely opens all those otherwise dark and by many much mistaken passages as also he doth many of his own speeches in the Gospels that respect that time and state as was easie for us to shew if occasion shall require and St. Paul in this Epistle evidently shews himself to be that person rapt up to Heaven to learn such Divine Mysteries in this Epistle He begins to Mind them of their Priviledge with others succeding that God hath spoken to all such now by his Son whom he first sets before them by his glorious Titles of being the brightness of the Fathers glory and the express character of his person and then what he should be in the ishue of his proceedings as God had decreed both for the things times and way and means to fulfil them he had appointed him eternally to be heir of all things in the world it may be observed that he might well be so for he had made Heaven and Earth at first v. 10 11 12. yea but that was but his transient act before the fall but he hath three great immanent and long continued actings to pass through in his Mediatorship for still the Dominion of the world is usurped by the Prince of the Darkness of it and so first faith the second Verse farther he hath made the worlds viz. the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the states or several providential disposals as we opened before 1. Of the old World 2. Of the new World 3. Of the World to come which he speaks of ch 2.5 as we shall also farther shew by Divine Assistance and also 2dly he by the word of