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A82585	The two olive trees: or, The Lords two anointed ones, which alwayes stand before Him, the ruler of the whole earth, Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names of [brace] two witnesses, two olive trees, two candlesticks, two prophets. [brace] And shewing what they are in their own true nature, differing from all the new fancied ones, and in what manner they alwayes prophesie. How they are said to finish their testimony. How they were to be killed by the Beast, and when. How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great citie, dead and unburied. And when the spirit of life from God should enter into them, and they stand upon their feet again. And what great things should follow after the same to the end, and thence for ever. Published according to order.	I. E.	1645 (1645)	Wing E13; Thomason E270_1; ESTC R212360	37,813	48

thee and thy false prophets those two hundred thousand thousand Clergymen that wrought miracles before thee and cast yee both alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone according as it is written Rev. 19. And then shall his two Witnesses prophecie in their full strength more publickly and freely then yet they doe and his Church come fully forth of the wildernesse that her modest countenance her holy and heavenly conversation may be more clearly seen then yet is or hath been for these many hundred yeares past Ver. 14. The second woe is gone and behold the third woe will come quickly IN Chap. 8. mention is made of three woes that were to come upon the world and be within the time of the sounding of the three last of the 7 Trumpets which the 7 Angels were to sound v. 13. where John saith And I beheld and heard an Angel flying through the middest of heaven saying with a lowd voyce Woe woe woe to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voyces of the Trumpets of the three Angels which are yet to sound The first of these three woes being that of Arianisme before mentioned which is described in Chap. 9. from ver 1. to ver 11. and is said to continue five months ver 5. meaning in the propheticall understanding months of years which according to the Hebrews account who had thirty dayes to every month and twelve months to every year doe containe the just number of an hundred and fifty years which was the time of the Arian persecution and prevailing of that heresie as Histories doe plainly report This and no other thing can rightly be taken for the first Woe neither may the persons or workers thereof be thought to bee Saracens Arabians Mahometans as some name them and would have them nor any other heathen powers or people without the outer Court or Pale of the Church but Christians by profession and such as had great place and power in the outward state of the Church wherby to worke their mischievous Woe in stinging and poisoning the inhabitants of the earth with their hellish smoky blasphemous doctrine and to persecute the Saints of God that opposed the same The holy Ghost having from the first verse of this ninth chapter to the eleventh verse made a full description of this first Woe it being the least of the three and no more again to bee mentioned saith here ver 12. One woe is past And because each of the other two would be farre greater he saith And behold as requiring all men to hearken and take speciall notice of it two woes more come hereafter And then presently following saith ver 13. And the sixth Angel sounded c. From which to the end of the Chapter in a very brief and generall manner is foreshewed not onely the frightfull uglinesse and monstrous deformed shapes of the creatures that should work this second Woe and cause that abominable mystery of iniquity to overspread the earth and how great the number of their Army of Horsmen should be but also with what Devillish weapons of hellish fire smoke and brimstone issuing forth of their mouthes and tailes they should effect it to the slaying of the the third part of men Which strangely deformed great Army are not nor may bee thought to bee that of the Turkes which have invaded and doe now possesse a part of Europe as some conceive and publish Nay but they are Christians also by profession as were the authors of the first woe even the whole race and generation of the great Antichrist of Rome and legions of his false prophets These are the true authors and workers of this second Woe who now began to shew themselves in their fashion when the sixth Angel began to sound v. 13 14. And so in respect of that first Woe of Arianisme which began with the sounding of the fifth Angels Trumpet and continued five months This of Antichrist which was to begin with the sounding of the sixth Angels Trumpet and to continue fourty and two months is in Chap. 11.4 called The second Woe Which woe although it was to be and is more particularly and much more exactly and largely discovered in Chapters 13. and 14. and Chap. 17. and 18. and 19. yet because it is here in Chap. 11. in a generall manner fully revealed the Lord to whom all things past and to come are present saith vers 14. The second woe is gone And because the third woe is to come very soon after and it being the greatest of all he saith again And behold calling unto as it were and requiring all men to hearken and consider of it saying And behold the third woe will come meaning the great day of the Lords comming in his glory to judge the world which will bee a day of terror unto all those inhabitants of the earth that repented not of their sinnes and sorceries and murders c. that beleeved not in him and of the greatest woe to them that ever came For all the woes as they are woes doe belong to the ungodly and are so called in respect of them not of the just neither will the day of the Lords coming in glory be a day of terror or woe to them but rather on the clean contrary the day of their greatest joy the day which they looked for And that they his chosen and faithfull should know and understand upon certainty that this great day of the Lord shall not tarry long but come soon after the desolation of Antichrist he addeth this word quickly And behold the third woe will come quickly Which very thing the Lord also confirmed before in another place by the like word immediatly Matth. 24. where hee having spoken of the tyrannous reign of the selfe-same Antichrist and his false prophets verse 23 24. saith Immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes shall the Sunne be darkned and the Moon shall not give her light and the Starres shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be shaken and then shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of Man in heaven and then shall all the Tribes of the earth mourne and they shall see the Sonne of man comming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and he shall send his Angels with a great found of a Trumpet c verse 29.13.31 And as concerning the length of the time that is to bee between the end of Antichrist and the day of the Lords comming in glory intended by the word quickly and the word immediatly The Prophet Daniel speaking likewise of the reigne of the same Antichrist and number of his dayes as also of the end of the world which is to be at the day of the Lords comming declareth it plainly to contain fourty and five yeares according to the Chaldees account Dan. 12. his words being these And from the time that the daily Sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination that maketh desolate set up there

the body untill the resurrection of the body and then so to rise with it and be named for both For one corrupt opinion or point of false doctrine brings alwayes more of the like nature with it But I leave this to their consideration and come again to the Text to see what it further saith Ver. 16. And the four and twenty Elders which sate on their seats in the sight of God fell on their faces and adoring God said Wee thank thee Lord God omnipotent which art which wast and which shalt come because thou hast received thy great power and brightnesse NOw the seventh Angel having sounded the great and last Trumpet the Lord being come in his glory and the Kingdomes of this world made his who is to reign for ever and ever world without end Hereupon the four and twenty Elders which are Moses and the Prophets as the four Beasts mentioned in Chap. 4.9 are the four Evangelists fall down on their faces before the throne of God adoring him for that his judgements against Antichrist and his worshippers which they by the seven-fold Spirit of Majesty given them of God spake of and denounced from time to time against them were now justified upon them And the everlasting Kingdome of the Lord their God whose dominion reacheth from Sea to Sea from the River to the ends of the earth is now set up for evermore according to all that he had foreshewed them and by the same Spirit spoken by them Hereupon they falling down and adoring the justification of God break forth into praises and thanksgiviving saying We thank thee Lord God omnipotent which art which wast and which shalt come because thou hast received thy great power and brightnesse c. Ver. 17. And the Gentiles were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead to be judged and to render reward to thy servants the Prophets Saints to them that fear thy Name little and great and to destroy them that have corrupted the earth ANd notwithstanding the rage fury of those great Monarchs of the world that like wild Boares of the Forest that rose up against the Lord and against his people and Citie Ierusalem and of those Beasts of the field which said against the Lord and his anointed Let us break their bonds asunder and cast their cords from us And of all those Antichristian powers of so long continuance that have with the rest to fill up their measure rejected the Lord and trode his truth to the ground and made the holy Citie of his Saints as a street to trample upon And of all that innumerable multitude of Gog and Magog which that old Serpent the Devill and Satan shall at last gather together with their mighty men and chiefe Captaines against this great day of the Lord bringing them down and compassing the camp of his Saints about and the beloved Citie intending to destroy root out and take the prey and spoyle of all These all who are here described as they are also in Psa 2. by the name of Gentiles And the Gentiles were angry c. are now to endure the wrath judgment of him who with justice judgeth The great day of his wrath being come and the time of the dead to be judged Now the Lord for whose glory this day is made will render unto every man justly and truly according to their works and wayes wherein their hearts have walked and delighted First to his Servants his Prophets his Saints and Martyrs that through faith and patience have overcome their just reward which for his name and promise sake is right and due unto them And next unto all those heathen Gentiles and people of all nations kindreds of the earth under what name and of what profession of religion soever they passe Jewes Catholiques Protestants or other whose hearts are hard unrepentant and unbeleeving who by their evill deeds have corrupted the earth their just reward also and recompence which to their workes and wayes is rightly due unto them For so much doe the words conclude in saying And to render reward unto thy servants the Prophets Saints and to them that feare thy Name little and great and to destroy them that have corrupted the earth And hereby it is also manifest that at the same very time when the last trumpet shall sound and the Lord shall come in his glory the dead both good and bad shall be raised and judged without any distance of yeares or dayes between the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised as Paul saith And although the salvation of the just and sufferings of the ungodly shall continue for a thousand yea and ten thousand times ten thousand thousands of yeares even for everlasting as the Scriptures declare yet the judgment and sentence passing will require no longer time in the hands of the Lord then one day as the Scriptures alwayes expresse it And that we should know for certain that this day will come at the same time when Satan with his Armies of Gog and Magog shall be upon Christendome compassing the Camp of the Saints about and fire shall come downe from God out of heaven and devoure them The holy Ghost in Rev. 20.9 10 11 12 c. doth plainly declare it And to the end that we should take notice thereof hee saith chap. 21.6 It is done I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end c. And in chap. 16. upon the same comming down of the Kings of the earth and of the whole world unto the judgement of the great day it followeth vers 17. It is done And in Ezek. 39. upon the same destruction of Gog and Magog it followeth also verse 8. Behold it is come and it is done saith the Lord. This is the day whereof I have spoken Which day will be the last day of this world spoken of by Martha Luke 11.24 and whereof Christ saith But of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angelt of heaven but my Father only Matth. 24. For although the Lord hath revealed and men may know the yeare yet the day and hour can no man know And as in this last day this present world shall end so in it shal the world to come and the kingdome of Christ and his Saints begin as it is also declared Matth. 25.31 32 33 c. 2 Tim. 4.1 And then shall be the restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy Prophets that have been since the world began as it is also written Acts 3.20.21 There shall bee new heavens and a new earth and Jerusalem shall be made a praise in the earth And great shall bee the difference between the estate of this world to come which shall be in subjection to Christ and wherein he shall reigne and righteousnesse shall dwell for ever world without end and the now present world wherein the heathen and Pagan Monarchs and Antichrists reigne and iniquity beareth rule and dwelleth And for any to teach or perswade the Christian State now present as some in their Sermons and Printed bookes have done and doe that the Kingdome of Christ and his Saints whereof the Prophets have spoken shall be in this present world for a thousand yeares before the last day is to teach and perswade to a Doctrine against Christ and not for him whose Kingdome is not of this world which is not nor will be being corrupt subject unto him Antichrist and his Clergie of false prophets that have taken upon them as much as ever did any the name of the onely true Church of Christ in the world have been as a great Monarch in this present world for a thousand yeares past already and let them take it for their portion of happinesse But let no true Christian Ministers state or people bee of such a mind to teach such doctrine or looke for such a thing here againe But rather flie the glory and shadow of this world and look for the eternall Kingdome in the world to come ready to bee revealed when Christ shall come at the last day which I verily beleeve upon the grounds before mentioned many thousands now living shall live to see And so I rest their Christian friend wishing them all true happinesse grace and truth and peace in Christ Amen Now having here a little space let mee put a question or two more to the Millenaries As first if when God shall have created new Heavens and a new Earth Jerusalem a rejoycing and her people a joy there shall be no more thence an infant of dayes nor an old man that hath not filled his dayes as the Prophet Esay saith Esa 65.20 Then I ask how there can thence an infant or child of dayes or an old man die as they will have it in their Millenary estate Again if the resurrection of the ungodly shall not bee till the thousand years kingdome of Christ which the Millenaries make to be the day of judgement shall be expired as they teach Then I ask what time they will have for that great multitude of ungodly not risen from the dead to be judged and who they mean Christ shall be all that time of a thousand yeares a judging Or how hee can judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and kingdome as Paul saith if the dead be not all raised at his appearing and kingdome and brought before him to be judged or why he should need a thousand yeares or dayes time of pawsing in judgement or more then one true naturall day though there shall be a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand yeares of execution and suffering yea yeares and dayes and nights everlastingly as it is written Matth. 25. and sundry other places FINIS

THE TWO OLIVE TREES OR The Lords two Anointed ones which alwayes stand before Him the Ruler of the whole Earth Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names Of Two Witnesses Two Olive Trees Two Candlesticks Two Prophets And shewing What they are in their owne true nature differing from all the new fancied ones and in what manner they alwayes prophesie How they are said to finish their testimony How they were to be killed by the Beast and when How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great Citie dead and unburied And when the Spirit of life from God should enter into them and they stand upon their feet again And what great things should follow after the same to the end and thence for ever Published according to Order LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons 1645. To the Christian Reader ALthough there are many opinions at this day on foot concerning the two Witnesses of God described in Zach. 4. by the names of two Olive Trees and the two anointed ones which stand before the Ruler of the earth as also by the names of two Candlestickes and two Prophets Rev. 11. and much questionings and doubts made about them who and what they should be c. And that therefore I may seem too bold especially among men so learned and wise and in so great and difficult a cause as this is to speak or publish what I have heard or may seem to understand yet seeing things to be as they are I suppose I may with leave venture to doe it I confesse the matter hath already long before this time very truly been unfolded by some whose shooes I am not worthy to beare if we could see it but that wee are so naturally blind concerning the truth and given to seek out new inventions of our own and such as may seeme best to suit with the present times and affections of the people and withall serve to make for our temporall advantages which we are to repent of as being very great evils That which I shall doe herein is onely this to expresse some things a little more plainly to the plainer sort of Christians like my selfe to remove some objections and cleare some doubts After which I hope it will not remain to the meek humble in heart a matter altogether so obscure and unknowne what the two Olive Trees the Lords two Witnesses his anointed ones are in their own true nature differing from all the new invented ones which some would have us to entertain for them or besides them I request the Christian Reader therefore to excuse my boldnesse herein seeing it is his good that I seek as well as my owne desiring that we may all escape the errors and evils of the times and be led by the Spirit of truth into all truth and so Walke in the same to the praise of God and our owne salvation which is now neere at hand to be revealed So I rest His Christan friend I. E. Imprimatur Iohn Downam THE TWO OLIVE TREES OR The Lords two anointed Ones Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names Of Two Witnesses Two Olive Trees Two Candlesticks Two Prophets REV. 11. vers 1. And there was given me a Reed like unto a Rod and the Angel that stood by me said Rise and measure the Temple of God and the Altar and them that worship therein BEfore the Lord begins to describe his two Witnesses 〈◊〉 requireth his servant Iohn to take a survey of his Church of Saints the spirituall house of God consisting of living stones built on the chiefe Corner Stone Jesus Christ they being the holy Priesthood who offer up spirituall Sacrifices acceptable to God by him which hee signifieth by the Temple of Jerusalem and the Altar of Incense that was in the same whereinto the Priests onely might enter through the vaile to sacrifice and adore These onely are they that the Lord will have to bee measured and taken notice of as being his part and portion his Tabernacle wherein he will dwell Vers 2. But the Court which is without the Temple cast out and measure not for it is given to the Gentiles and the holy Citie shall they tread under foot fourty and two months BY the outer Court of the Temple which John is bidden to cast out and not measure wee are to understand the common outward unregenerate Christians who especially after the dispersion of the true Spouse of Christ from her primitive viblsie estate should become many in number and attaine to great authority and power in the outward state of the Church and take upon them and assume unto themselves as if they were the very true Church and Spouse of Christ These who notwithstanding all this their outward profession and taking much upon them are but Gentiles in heart full of all uncleannesse and abominations resembled here by the outward Court of the Temple where the Brazen Altar was and whereinto all the people of Israel might enter and sacrifice are they whom the Lord commandeth to be cast out and forbiddeth to be measured or accounted of as being any part of his portion or inheritance And whereas these Gentiles are said to tread the holy Citie under foot fourty and two months is foreshewed that they should persecute kill and keep downe out of sight the true Spouse and her children who are here described by the name of the holy Citie because they are the Tabernacle and Sanctuary of God wherein hee will dwell for ever And that this they were to doe for the space of fourty and two months which are to be understood months of yeares taking every day of each month for a yeare according to Ezek. 4.6 Vers 3. And I will give to my two witnesses and they stall prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes clothed in sackcloth BY which words the Lord by his Angel gives to his servant Iohn and unto all his Church of Saints to understand that although those Gentiles unto whom the outward Court was to bee given should tread the holy City of Saints under foot so long as fourty and two months of yeares yet neverthelesse hee would so give unto his two Witnesses that they should prophesie all the while even every one of the dayes of those months which according to the account of the Hebrewes who had thirty dayes to every month and twelve months to every yeare do contain according as the Lord doth here also intend it a thousand two hundred and threescore years And sheweth also that their manner of prophesying should be as cloathed in Sack-cloth that is to say in mourning for so in the same kinde of habit they always prophesied although it would be now much more abundant by reason of the abundant cruelties of their enemies who should for their word and testimony sake persecute those that in the evidence of the Spirit and the teares of true repentance faith and patience testified the same against their Gentilisme hypocrisie and

ruling in their hearts is judged already So those dwellers on earth being tormented with their just and righteous sayings which the Saints and servants of God the true successors of the holy Apostles and Church of their time maintained against their ungodly superstitious filthy flesh-pleasing wayes And the beast hee being now risen up and seated in the Dragons Throne and there being nothing more tormenting or grievous unto him and his false prophets and those dwellers on earth then the true and righteous doctrines and prophecies of these two Prophets Gods anointed ones the light whereof being so contrary to their wayes and works Therfore as holding it their wisest surest way that they should torment them no longer they make battell against them and kill them And this they effected and brought to passe partly by belying their testimony giving most false and blasphemous expositions of their sayings making the world beleeve that so they meant and partly by suppressing those which stood to maintain their true intent and meaning and partly by keeping close their written words forbidding them to bee published or read in any of the tongues or languages of the Nations which were under the authority and power of the beast that the people should not come to the knowledge and understanding of them lest they should see and discover their false and deceitfull delusions So the beast and his false prophets by putting out the light and true intent of Gods two Witnesses which was and is their life they killed them Vers 8. And their carkasses shall remaine in the streets of the great Citie which is spiritually called Sodome and Egypt where also their Lord was crucified ONely their dead letter or bare text of their testimony they would retaine and keep as wee see they have done in their Cells Temples and streets of the Nations and Kingdomes where the beast is worshipped who with Rome their chiefe doe make up that great Citie which because of their spirituall whoredomes and hardnesse of heart are described by the names of Sodom and Egypt they answering in a spirituall manner unto them both And they are charged also with the crucifying of the Lord himselfe even as the Lord had charged the Scribes and Pharisees of his time with the blood of Abel because like as they imitated Cain in hardnesse of heart and wickednesse in their killing the Prophets as he did his brother So these imitating those of Jerusalem that crucified the Lord of life in their murdering his faithful Servants his Saints Martyrs are justly charged with crucifying the Lord they making up one generation with all the Heathen and wicked murderers and shedders of righteous blood in the world For which cause he saith And in her was found the blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slaine upon the earth Rev. 18.24 Ver. 9. And there shall of the Tribes and People and Gentiles see their dead bodies three dayes and a halfe and shall not suffer their Corps to be laid in Monuments ANd so those Nations and Kingdomes People and Gentiles under the name of Catholick Christians having the dead bodies or letter of Gods two Witnesses lying in their streets could and can yet handle and look upon them while those three dayes and a halfe the time times and halfe a time of the beasts reigne lasteth That is to say not as the beast and they of the Church of Rome expound it three naturall yeares and a halfe which they will have to be the time of the reigne of a great Antichrist of their imagining which they pretend is yet to come but 3 propheticall years a halfe that is so many years of years which according to the account of the Hebrews are 1260 years A long time for Gods two Testaments to lie dead among them and not suffered to be so read or heard as they maybe understood and laid up in the hearts of the people where they ought to have been laid and kept as in their true and naturall graves or tombs where they should have been buried not to be forgotten but to be kept in memoriall to the praise of God and salvation of his people Ver. 10. And the inhabitants of the earth shall bee glad over them and shall send gifts one to another because these two Prophets tormented them that dwell upon the earth NOw the beast his false prophets and all those worshippers of the beast here named because of their great number The Inhabitants of the earth they having attained their wills and prevailed over Gods two Witnesses and cast his truth to the ground as the Prophet Daniel also foretold are glad at their hearts and in triumph over them and for joy that they may now goe on quietly in setting up and adoring their own inventions They as one well observeth make themselves merry with bonfires vigils festivals processions and in token of their joy as the text saith send gifts one to another Kings Princes and people present and endow the beast and his Church with donations immunities possessions gold and silver offerings c. And the beast on the other side requites their love and devotion with Titles Bells Prayers Pardons Bulls and such like And the reason of this their wicked and ungodly rejoycing is because they had put out the eyes or light of Gods two Testaments which are here named two Prophets and before his two Witnesses and two Olive Trees and two Candlesticks vers 3 4. that their abominations filthinesses of their fornications might not be discovered and reproved by them as formerly had been which was so tormenting unto them and is and will be still to all such lovers and beleevers of lies whose hope and conversation and dwelling is here on earth as nothing can be more For so much doe the words imply in saying Because these two Prophets tormented them that dwell upon the earth Ver. 11. And after three dayes and a halfe the Spirit of life from God entred into them and they stood upon their feet and great feare fell upon all that saw them ANd after three dayes and a halfe that is to say after the time and times and halfe a time of the Beasts reigne spoken of in Dan. 7.25 12.7 and mentioned in Rev. 12.14 to be the time of the woman being nourished in the wildernesse And so taking a day in this place as a time is to bee taken in Dan. 7.25 Rev. 12.14 Then these three dayes and a halfe in a propheticall understanding are as the three times and a halfe are three yeares and a halfe of yeares And therefore not as they of Rome would have them three naturall yeares and a halfe which they make to bee the time of their expected two witnesses Enoch and Elias and their being killed and lying dead c. and of their Churches desolation and being in the wildernesse which they pretend they expect shall come to passe upon the rising of their Antichrist a Jew of

inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession Thou shalt breake them with a rod of iron and dash them in peeces like a Potters vessell Psal 2.7 8 9. And again In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the Moon endureth hee shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth they that dwell in the wildernesse shall bow before him and the enemy shall lick the dust c. Psal 72. And the Prophet Daniel declareth saying I saw in the night vision and behold one like unto the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the Ancient of dayes and they brought him neere before him And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people nations and languages should serve him His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not passaway and his Kingdome that which shall not be destroyed Dan. 7.13.14 Again he having spoken of the four Monarchs that in this world should usurp the kingdome saith But the Saints of the most High shall take the Kingdome and possesse the kingdome for ever even for ever and ever vers 18. And again And the Kingdome and dominion and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of Saints of the most High whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome and all dominions shall serve and obey him vers 27.28 This Kingdom of Christ and his Saints is to be after the foure Monarchs are ended as the Prophet doth plainly declare and that it being once set up shall continue much more time then they all it shall not passe away nor be destroyed but remain for ever even for ever and ever It is to have no end as the Angel Gabriel from heaven testified to Mary saying Feare not Mary for thou hast found favour with God and behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a Sonne and shalt call his name Jesus he shall be great and shall bee called the Sonne of the Highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his Father David and he shall reigne over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdome there shall be no end Luke 1.30 31 32 33. And according to all this spake the Lord before by the Prophet Nathan to David saying And it shall come to passe when thy dayes be expired that thou must goe to be with thy Fathers that I will raise up thy seed after thee which shall be of thy sonnes I will establish his kingdom he shall build me an House I will establish his throne for ever I will be his Father and he shall be my Sonne and I will not take my mercy away from him as I tooke it from him that was before thee but I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever and his throne shall be established for evermore 1 Chron. 17.11 12 13 14. And in another place the Lord God confirmeth it again saying Also I will make him my first born higher then the Kings of the earth my mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him his seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the dayes of heaven c. Psal 89.27 28 29. And again My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone forth of my lips Once have I sworn by my holinesse that I will not lie unto David his seed shall endure for ever and his throne as the Sun before me it shall he established for ever as the Moon and as a faithfull witnesse in heaven vers 34 35 36 37. And as one Apostle testifieth from another Psalm saying But unto the Sonne he saith Thy throne O God is for ever and ever a Scepter of righteousnesse is the Scepter of thy kingdome thou hast loved righteousnesse and hated iniquity therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyle of gladnesse above thy fellowes Heb. 1.8 9. Psal 45.6 Many more great and excellent things are spoken of this glorious kingdome of Christ and his Saints which as plainly appeareth by all these Scriptures is to have no end but is to endure for ever even for ever and ever world without end And shall be manifested when the 7th Angel soundeth the great and last trumpet even when Christ shall come in his glory and all his holy Angels with him and then shall he sit in the throne of his glory as himselfe saith Matth. 25. And so it is plain that it cannot bee understood of this world but must needs be of the world to come when all rule all authothority and power all enemies are subdued under Christs feet which in this world are not nor can be untill the end thereof as the Apostle yet further confirmeth saying For unto the Angels ha●h he not put in subjection the world to come whereof we speak Heb. 2.5 By which words he first sheweth plainly that all their doctrine of the Gospel tended to an estate of inheritance in a world to come not this present world and that it was not to be in subjection to the Angels But as he saith One in a certain place testifieth saying What is man that thou art mindfull of him or the Sonne of Man that thou visitest him thou madest him little lower then the Angels thou crownedst him with glory and honour thou didst set him over the workes of thy hands thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet c. ver 6 7. according to Psal 8.4 5 6 7 8 9. And then argueth saying For in that he put all in subjection under him he left nothing that is not put under him But now we see not all things put under him saith he But we see Jesus who was made a little lower th●n the Angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour that he by the grace of God might tast death for every man for it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing many sonnes unto glory to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings ver 8 9 10. Now is Jesus Christ crowned with glory and honour in the throne of God the Father at his right hand in the heavens where he is to fit and reigne with him untill he hath put all enemies under his feet as in Psal 110.1 Not onely all the Monarchs and powers of wickednesse but also all enemies besides and death which now hath dominion over the bodies of the Saints it being the last enemy as in another place he proveth saying For as in Adam all died even so in Christ shall all be made alive but every man in his own order Christ the first fruits then afterwards they that are Christs at his comming Then commeth the end saith he when he shall have delivered up the Kingdome to