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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59937	Oukoumenē melloōsa, the world to come, Heb. 2, 5, or, The doctrine of the Kingdom of God and his Christ to come on earth ... tendred in the mean-time out of faith in his own soul and love towards all men ... / by W.S. ...	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1671 (1671)	Wing S3407; ESTC R30641	36,208	42

news thereof from God and accordingly improve it as follows 1. For vers 18. In the first place David retires himself into the alone presence of his most gracious God and in a most humble manaer acknowledgeth before him his wonderful mercy and goodness to himself and his House both past and present Who am I saith he O Lord God! And what is my House that thou hast brought me hitherto 2. In vers 19. He sets it forth for the time to come further observing and explaining the long continuance thereof not to himself alone but to his House upon a most true and certain perpetuity upon the best security in an unparalled manner for his words are weighty saying And yet this was a small thing in thy sight O Lord God but thou hast spoken also of thy Servants House for a great while to come viz. whise time shall continue which he revolves again with a holy admiration And is this the manner of Man OLORD GOD 3. In vers 20. he declares that he was at a loss for verbal expressions of due thankfulness for his mercies but tenders his inlarged heart to Gods view saying And what can David say more unto thee For thou Lord God knowest thy Servant 4. In vers 21. he illustrates in his wayof gratitude the truth of Gods promise the reeness of his mercy to him with the greatness thereof in all respects in all those great things which were still illustrated by their present manifestation of them unto him To make saith he thy Servant to know them 5. In vers 22 23 24. he farther illustrates with his own Gods wonderful glorious and rich mercy to his people of Israel first for time past magnifying the greatness of the unparallelled mercy of God to them extolling him above all gods and as the onely true God and that he had proved himself so by his works recorded in his word or related by his people vers 22. Wherefore thou art great O Lord and there is none like thee c. And vers 23. He sets forth the great honour he had procured to his people of Israel by signs and wonders for them c. whom he redeemed out of Egypt that in them he might be glorified above the heathen gods c. And in vers 24. He gratefully rehearseth his now-confirmed mercy to his people of Israel for perpetuity and his Covenant renewed with them to be their God as with Abraham Gen. 17.7 8. so now to them by the Messiah the Son of David much after the ame tenure of words even as this Message is much the same with that recorded in 1 Chron. 17 7 8 9 c. 6. Now as to vers 25. David had made his graceful acknowledgement of so transcendent a mercy to Himself his People and House so now he proceeds further to improve it by frith and prayer vers 25 26. And first joyntly for Himself and his House vers 25. Now O Lord establish thy word for ever concerning thy Servant and concerning his House and do as thou hast said And then vers 26. He adjoyns Gods Covenant with his people of Israel to be their God for ever with his continued prayer for his House as before 〈…〉 ●omited so in Gods presence implored by prayer upon that ground for believing the Promise he poureth out his Prayer 7. In vers 27. He sets down the particular reason of this present exercise of his faith and prayer namely Gods present so grations Revelation of his said wonderful mercy to him For saith he thou O Lord God hast revealed to thy Servant saying I will build thee an House therefore hath thy Servant ●ound in his heart to pray this Prayer unto thee In vers 28 he ruminates upon the former grounds of his faith viz. First that this Promise was from that God that was the great and most glorious God of Israel and secondly from the truth of all his words found experimentally to be true and at present applies both to his part●cular promise then made to himself Thou saith he art that God and thy words be true 9. In the last verse he improveth his special saith in reference to the said s●ecial promise to Him●el● and his House by a twofold Amen or so be it as I may term them twice running again over the same the one seeming to refer as before to Christs said Davidical Kingdom of the thousand years That God would bless his Servants House that it may continue for ever before God and the other to eternity That it might be blessed with his blessing for ever Or else for further inlargement of his prayer That it might not onely continue before him but be blessed also with his Blessing for ever And thus by so grateful acknowledgement manifested by special faith and fervent prayer this humble holy kingly Prophet improved Gods so great and marvellous mercy by the Prophet Nathan revealed to himself for his House and People of Israel for ever Amen VIII Ei●hthly Christian Readers If you shall reckon with me the eight said Ty●es in the Old and New World as the Fifth Foundation o● Faith and this from Ezekiel to be the Eighth the number will be ●●e same an● the strength much greater For as the other two greater Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah foretold Israel's and Judah's Captivi●y as also d●d some of the smaller and by the same Prophets did God also for the ●om●●rt of the faithful Jews foretel their great Rest●uration for Is●●ah is large concerning the New Jerusalem chap. 60. applised by the holy Ghost to the New Jerusalem Rev. 21. And as Jeremiah hath many threatnings of Judgment and Captivity so he hath many Promises of wonderful mercies not onely concerning their Reduction from Bab●l●n but of many more ●ar excelling them particularly That Jerusal●m shall be the Throne of the Lord Chap. 3.17 See our Tract on that Text c So al●o Ezekiel that was set as a sign in in his Person had many signs in his Ministry appointed by God on special occasions yea very much of his Prophecy was symbolical fraught with Divine Hieroglyphicks with sacred Figures and Types not onely as to Judah and Jerusalem's sad Calamities then further and further prevailing c. but more especially Ezekiel from Chap 36 1 2 3 c. to the end of that Book is in many Prophecies Visions Explications large decipherings so full concerning Israel's and Judah's mercies at their last great Restauration that both Daniel and Christ in his Revelation apply improve and explain many things in Ezekiel very remarkably so extraordinary glorious were many of Ezektel's Revelations as in Chap. 1. 10 much to be parallelled with Rev. 4 setting forth a like glorious and gracious manifestation of God unto his Church through Jesus Christ and by h●s holy Spirit set forth by Resemblances of such Appearances like Fire Precious Stones Rain-Bow Wheels Cherubims Living W●ghts and the like and the New Jerusalem in the nine last Chapters of Ezekiel which

the world which neither will be till the said 1000 years and little space of Satans loosing be afterwards fulfilled as Rev. 20.8 9 10 c. But then the Lord as the Psalmist speaks will send the Rod of his strength out of Sion and he shall then rule in the midst of his Enemies Psal 110.6 c. and smite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Head not Heads as translated of divers Countreys viz. the Pope or Turk or both as making in several respects the whole Antichrist of the latter times but much more upon the said Text Gen. 3.15 may be observed to the same pourpose in the Treatise thereupon II. Secondly Prophesied of by Enoch in the Old VVorld Jude 14 15. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute Judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungedly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their ungodly speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him VVhere observe how general he declares this Judgment shall be in the issue of it and then how throughly he will discover ungodly men though now they hide themselves in the Crowd and for a time towards godly men shift off and excuse and hide their ungodliness yet then Christ will convince themselves which were the concealers and hiders and not some few only or many but all of them and not of few or only some sorts or numbers of their deeds but of all their ungodly deeds nor only of the substance of them but of all the circumstances and aggravations of them as ungodlily committed by them and not onely of their deeds but of their words also yea of their most secret thoughts subservient to both for they shall be convinced of them which conviction will reach the most secret workings of their spirits and both and all in the most large extent whatever hath been done or spoken against him that is Christ whereby mens sins are most hainously aggravated many ways though they little at present consider it but in Christs execution of Judgment upon all in his own order manner and time they must know all these This excellent Prophecy seems to have been handed in a wonderful way of gracious divine Providence from Enoch to the Apostle Jude by whose hand Christs spirit hath made it to become holy Scripture And it is no marvel that God should so preserve that Prophecy of the last times and things since he would for the warning of all have all his Prophets witness thereto as his Spirit in the Apostle Peter manifested Acts 3.20 21. As saith he he spake by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began He would not have even the old wicked world without such an eminent warning nor such as godly Enoch then to be without the comfort of that Deliverer of his people then to come to recompence their sufferings for him with a suitable happiness with him afterwards as the Apostle Paul declareth 2 Tim. 2.12 for his said coming then is to both those purposes wherein the same Spirit could enlighten such as Enoch then as he did Abraham Isaac Jacob and Sarah afterwards who by their faith saw those Promises afar off while they lived on earth which they believed to see accomplished in their due time Heb. 11.13 viz. which will be at the said coming of the Lord with ten thousand of his Saints and at the Resurrection of the Just as Isa 26.14 19 which as it will be the year of the Lords recompence to take vengeance on the wicked quick by a sudden destruction to send them to hell so also of recompence to the godly to whom they will be times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord and of the restitution of all things for their real good and comfort in all that God hath before promised or revealed to such purpose Act. 3.19 20 21. though particular Saints have not or may not in many things attain to the knowledge of them nor haply any one shall in many things more till the fruition of them Even as the most knowing before Christs coming knew not of many things done at that his coming as of the Star the Shepherds of Herod's trouble at his birth nor the earthquake darkness the cleaving of the Vail of the Temple or dead Saints rising at his death c. besides the many things which happened in his life although much more of these last times since our Saviour ascended as he said a little before it Acts 1.8 ●is now revealed of his second coming as also was before in the Old Testament concerning the same than at any time was of his first as is easily to be observed c. III. Thirdly Foretold by Jacob in the New World Gen. 49. who verse 1. speaketh of things to be in the latter or postremity of days which is especially applicable to what he ●aith afterwards vers 10 11 12. in his Prophecy of Judah to which Tribe is therein ascribed the preheminence with plenty and peace as is therein manifest chiefly to be enjoyed after Shilo's coming to whom the gathering of the people should be but most especially in their greatest gatherings when Jews and Gentiles shall rejoyce together most eminently as Deut. 32.43 is by Moses also foretold to be in the latter or postremity of days of which times also our Saviour saith There shall be one sheepfold under himself that one Shepherd of them both John 10.16 IV. Fourthly Wonderfully and graciously manifested by Balaam's Parable not being an holy Prophet as others Acts 3.21 but a Sorcerer hired by Balaak King of Moah to curse Gods People who turned his attempting of the worst of Cursings into the choicest of Blessings to them giving him thereby to know That there was no enchantment against Jacob neither any divination against Israel for Satan cannot hurt those whom God undertakes to preserve as Numb 23.20 22. But when he had further tried his Enchantments Chap. 24 he is further in special forced to pronounce greater blessings for them vers 6 7 8 9. saying How goodly are thy Tents O Jacob and thy Tabernacles O Israel But being further urged by Balaak he shews what that People should do against his People in the latter days and then vers 17. falls upon the coming of the Messiah far off saying I shall see him but not now I shall behold him but not nigh There shall come a Star out of Jacob and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel and shall smite all the Corners of Moab and destroy all the Children of Sheth and Edom shall be a possession Seir also shall be a possession for his Enemies and Israel also shall do valiently And verse 19. Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have Dominion and shall destroy him that remaineth in the City c. But after all he comes to the last terrible times verse 23 24. saying Alas who shall live when God doth this And vers 24. he