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The vvorld that now is; and the vvorld that is to come: or The first and second coming of Jesus Christ Wherein several prophecies not yet fulfilled are expounded. By Han. Knollys, a servant of Jesus Christ. Rev. I. 19.
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Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.
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a litlte while and HE that shall come will come and will not tarry Act. 1.11 This self same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven As Christ ascended into Heaven in his own Person so he shall lihewise descend from Heaven in his own Person Matth. 24.27 As the Lightning cometh out of the East and shineth unto the West so shall also the Coming of the SON of Man be so visible Rev. 1.7 Behold he cometh with Clouds and every Eye shall see him And 1 Thes 4.13 14 18. The LORD himself shall descend from Heaven c. To them that look for him he shall appear the Second Time without sin unto Salvation Now the principal things to be explained in this Branch or part of our general Position are three viz. 1. The Manner 2. The Time 3. The Ends of Christ's Coming First Touching the Manner of Christ's Second Personal Coming from Heaven it is testified Matth. 16.27 That the SON of Man shall come in the Glory of his Father The Glory of the Father is the highest and most heavenly Glory called the Excellent Glory 2 Pet. 1.16 17 18. When we made known unto you the Power and Coming of our LORD Jesus Christ For he received from God the Father honour and glory from the Excellent Glory which was but a glimpse of that Excellent Glory of the Father which Christ shall come in Attended with all his holy Angels and glorified Saints from Heaven and met in the Air by all the changed Saints then living on Earth Jude v. 14. Behold the LORD cometh with Ten Thousand of his Saints and ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of Angels saying with a loud voice Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and honour and glory Rev. 5.11 12. and 2 Thes 1 7-10 When the LORD Jesus Christ shall be Revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels At the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his Saints 1 Thes 3.16 1 Thes 4.17 18. Then we which are alive and remain unto the Coming of the Lord ver 5. shall be caught up together with them in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Read Luk. 21.17 Mark 13.16 Matth. 24.30 Secondly Touching the Time of Christ's Second Personal Coming from Heaven Though of that Day and that Hour when Christ shall come knoweth no man no not the Angels of Heaven nor the Son of Man but the Father only Mark 13.26 32. Yet there are some signs of Christ's Second Coming recorded in the Scripture of Truth whereby we may know that it is near even at the door The Disciples of Christ asked him What shall be the sign of his Coming Matth. 24.3 to whom Christ gave this for a sign ver 37 38 39. But as the Daies of Noe were so shall also the Coming of the Son of Man be And Luk. 17.28 29 30. Likewise also as it was in the Daies of Lot even thus shall it be in the Day when the Son of Man is revealed It will be so with the Men of this World as it was with the Men of the Old World which God destroyed with Water Then the wicked ones of that Generation were very ungodly Gen. 6.5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth c. And Christ told his Disciples Matth. 24.12 That Iniquity shall abound a little before his Second Coming vers 30. And it will be so with the Men and Women of these Cities as it was with those Citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah whose Cities were burned Another sign of Christ's Second Coming is a great Apostasie both in the Doctrine and Worship of the Gospel This sign of Christ's Second Coming the Apostle Paul foretold 2 Thes 2.1 2 3. Now we beseech you Brethren by the Coming of our LORD Jesus Christ Let not man deceive you for that DAY shall not come except there come a falling away first An Apostasie first from the Doctrine of the Gospel especially Faith and Love 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter daies some shall depart from the Faith c. And Christ saith Matth. 24.3 12. The Love of many shall wax cold before his Second Coming from Heaven vers 30. Some Teachers make the Law of the Ten Commandments a Doctrine of Faith in Christ affirming that those ten words are a Covenant of Grace Other Preachers make the Gospel of the Grace of God a Doctrine and Covenant of works teaching Justification by works and Salvation by works holding Free-will and falling away And many there are of whom the Apostle Peter prophesied 2 Pet. 2.1 2. False Teachers who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them c. And 2 Pet. 3.3 4. That there shall come in the last Daies Scoffers walking after their own lusts and saying Where is the Promise of his Coming c Insomuch that our Saviour said Luke 18.8 When the Son of Man cometh shall he find Faâ—th on Earth And many Professors will fall from their first Love as the Ephesians did Rev. 2.4 The Faith and Love of the Primitive Saints in the Churches of Christ continued and increased 2 Thes 1.1 2 3. Your Faith groweth exceedingly and the Love of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth But in these last Daies many depart from the Faith and many cool in their Spiritual Affections to Christ there are great decaies of Grace and many flourishing Professors experience great withering fading and decaying in their spiritual gifts and graces their backslidings are increased As the Apostasie in Doctrine so in Worship is a sign of the Last Daies and of the Second Coming of Christ The Apostle Paul foretold thereof 1 Thes 2.3 4. 2 Tim. 3.1 5. This know also that in the Last Daies Men shall be Lovers of their own selves c. more than Lovers of God having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof In those last Daies even a little before the Second Coming of Christ the Laodicean Churches will be lukewarm neither cold nor hot formal not fervent in spirit serving the Lord Rev. 3.15 16. And then the National Churches will be Papal Superstitious and Will-worshippers Col. 2.16 18-22 23. Which things have indeed a shew of Wisdom in Will-worship c. Then Mystery Babylon will say I sit a Queen c. Revel 18.7 8. Therefore shall her Plagues come in one day to wit the seven Vials of the last Plagues for in them is filled up the wrath of God Rev. 15.1 7. And then our Lord Jesus Christ will come in power and great glory and shall utterly destroy Antichrist 2 Thes 2.8 Whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his Coming When those Virgin-Professors who have highly pretended to be upon their watch waiting for the Coming of the
Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth Which Apostasie happened in the fourth Century as Ecclesiastical Historians tell us when the Church at Rome and other Churches their Bishops Presbyters and Members departed from the Faith and fell away from the sound Doctrine pure Worship and true Discipline of the Gospel And then the Apocalyptical Beast the Pope and the great Whore Mystery Babylon the Great that Mother of Harlots and the false Prophets those Roman croaking Frogs did begin to Rise who afterwards greatly increased in the ten European Kingdoms See my Book intituled Mystery-Babylon unvailed Printed 1679. But the last and greatest Apostasie noted in the holy Scripture of Truth is both in Faith and Manners by Men of corrupt Minds and carnal Principles having the Form of Godliness but denying the Power thereof 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4 5. This know also that in the last daies perillous times shall come For men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to Parents unthankful unholy without natura laffection Truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good Traitors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away The particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 1. This likewise or besides directs us to look back to the former Epistle ch 4. v. 1 2 3. before-mentioned to wit the Time of the first Apostasie In the latter daies v. 1. But here the Apostle speaks of the Time of the Last Apostasie v. 1. That in the last daies c. The great Inquiry now will be What Daies the Apostle meant here I answer My Opinion hereof is That by the Last Daies here we are to understand those three Prophetical Daies and an half of the 1260 Daies that Christ's two Witnesses shall prophesie in sackcloth Rev. 11.3 7-12 And I will give power unto my two Witnesses and they shall prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore days clothed in sackcloth And when they shall have finished their Testimony the Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless Pit shall make War against them and shall overcome them and kill them And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three daies and an half and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves And they that dwell upon the Earth shall rejoyce over them and make merry and shall send gifts one to another because these two Prophets tormented them that dwelt on the Earth And after three daies and an half the Spirit of Life from God entred into them And they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them Read my Exposition of the Eleventh chapter of the Revelation published 1679. These Daies of slaying the Witnesses are those last Daies and will be perillous Times For 1. The Roman Beast will make war against the Witnesses and overcome them and kill them Rev. 11.7 2. They will be perillous hard difficult dangerous grievous and troublesome Times or Daies because the Rights Liberties and Freedoms of the People will be infringed and taken from them and such temptations and snares will be laid whereby mens Liberties Lives and Estates shall be in great hazard and danger Mat. 24.21 Luk. 21.22 26 27. 3. These last Daies will be so full of amazing Distractions Disturbances and Tribulations that wise men shall be at their Wits end not knowing what to do nor what course to take for their own safety And many eminent Professors of Religion will fall off from their former Principles and Practice and be drawn aside to follow the pernicious waies of ungodly men and so fall in with the sins of those last Daies here mentioned 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lovers of their own selves Self-love is the Root of Apostasie both Political and Ecclesiastical When men of Name began to love themselves more than their most solemn Oaths Vows and Covenants more than Truth and Righteousness more than the good Laws of the Nation and the just Liberties and Rights of the People then began the last and greatest Political Apostasie And when men of Eminency for Religion began to love themselves more than the Waies and Worship of God more than the Churches and Saints of God more than Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God then began the Ecclesiastical Apostasie of those last Daies This is one Sign that Christ gave his Disciples of the Ending Time of this world Matth. 24.3 4 12. And as he sate upon the Mount of Olives the Disciples came unto him privately saying Tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world And Jesus answered and said unto them Take heed that no man deceive you And because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Covetous Danaeus in Loc. saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hic à Paulo dicitur qui sive aurum sive argentum sive agros sive quaslibet alias opes ardenter expetit vitiose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is often rendred studium pecuniae the desire of money And the love of money saith the Apostle 1 Tim. 6.10 is the root of all evil which whilst some have coveted after they have erred from the faith c. How much of the spirit of the world and of the things of this world is crept into the hearts of many Professors and Church-Members in these last Daies who consider not the Testimony of the Apostle against them 1 Joh. 2.15 If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him Covetousness is Idolatry Col. 3.5 Another Character of those Apostates of the last Daies is Pride 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Proud so are those covetous self-loving Professors and Church-Members in these evil Daies witness the Perriwigs and Petticoats of London Professors and Sermon hearers in this City Doth not even Nature it self teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him 1 Cor. 11.14 Yea it is a shame indeed for men professing Godliness to wear such long Perriwigs of Womens hair as some men do What an abomination is it unto the Lord to see an hoary Head covered with long hair that hath been cut off from a Whores Head when he is praying to God and worshipping the All-seeing God Heb. 4.13 All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do And doth