Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called a Citie of truth the mountaine of the Lord of hoasts the holy mountaine but now I will not bee unto the residue of this people as in the former dayes saith the Lord for the seede shall be prosperous the vine shall give her fruit and the ground shall give her increase and the heavens shall give their dew and I will cause the Zach 3. 3. â—… 12. remnant of this people to possesse all these things I will bring them and they shall dwell in the middest of Jerusalem and they shall bee my people and I will be their God in truth and righteousnesse The Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flocke of his people for they shall bee as the stones of a crowne lifted up as an ensigne upon his land In that day Zach. 9. 16. shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David and the house of David shall be as Zach. 12. 8 9. God as the Angell of the Lord before him And in that day I will destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem and the Lord shall bee King over all the earth in that day there shall be one Lord and his name one and men shall dwell in it and there shall be no more utter destruction but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited And the Lord shall raigne over them in Zach. 14. 9. 11. Micah 4. 7 8. mount Zion from henceforth even for ever and thou O Tower of the flock the strong hold of the daughter of Sion unto thee shall it come even the first dominion in that day shall the branch of the Lord bee beautifull and glorious and the fruit of the earth shall bee excellent and comely for them that are escaped in Israel and it shall come to passe that he that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughter of Zion shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the middest thereof by the spirit of judgement and Isay 4. 3 4 5 6 7. by the spirit of burning and the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion and upon her assemblies a cloud and a smoake by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defence and there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heate and for a place of refuge and for a covert from storme and from raine In the valley of Jehosaphat the Lord will sit to judge the heathen round about for the day of the Lord is neare the Sunne and the Moone shall Joel 3. 12. 14 15. 20 21. bee darkened and the starres shall withdraw their shining but Judah shal ldwell for ever and Jerusalem from generation to generation for I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed for the Lord dwelleth in Zion then shall the light of the Moone bee as the light of the Sunne and the light of the Sunne shall be seven fold as the light of seven dayes in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people and healeth Isay 30. 26. the stroake of their wound The Lord most high is terrible hee is a great King over all the earth he shall subdue the people under us and the nations under our feet he shall chuse our inheritance for us the excellency of Jacob whom he loved God is gone up with a shout the Lord with the sound of a Trumpet Sing praises to our God sing praises sing praises to our King sing praises for God is the King of all the earth sing praises Psa 47. with understanding God reigneth over the heathen God sitteth upon the Throne of his Holinesse In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindnesse wil I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer for as the waters of Noah I have sworne shall no more go over the earth so have Isay 54. 9 10 c. I sworne that I would not be wroth with thee nor rebuke thee behold the mountaines shall depart and the hills be removed but my kindnesse shall not depart from thee neither shall the covenant of my peace bee removed saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee O thou afflicted tossed with tempests and not comforted behold I will lay thy stones with faire colours and lay the foundations with saphires and windowes of agates and thy gates of carbuncles and all thy borders of pleasant stones and all thy children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of thy children in righteousnesse shalt thou be established thou shalt be far from oppression for thou shalt not feare and from terrour for it shall not come unto thee and whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement thou shalt condemne this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousnesse is of me saith the Lord Great is the Lord and greatly to bee praysed in the Citie of our God in the mountaine of his holinesse beautifull for situation Psal 48. 1 2. the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion God is knowne in her palaces Vers 3. 8. 11 12 13 14. for a refuge as we have heard so have we seene in the Citie of the Lord of Hoast in the Citie of our God God will establish it for ever Selah Let mount Zion rejoyce let the daughters of Judah be glad because of thy judgements walke about Zion goe round abour her and tell the towers thereof marke well her Bulwarkes for this God is our God for ever and ever these things are mixed together concerning the calling of the Jewes to their Jerusalem and the comming downe of Jerusalem out of heaven that it is hard to distinguish them yet many of these things cannot be fulfilled before the restitution of all things for Christ must bee in heaven till then so that these things must be fulfilled afterward againe at the day of judgement Christ shall come from heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thess 1. 7 10. when he shall come to bee glorified in his Saints for behold the Lord commeth with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgement upon all Jude 14 15 but if Christ and his Saints should come and live here a thousand yeares before 1 Thess 3. 13. how could it be said he and all the Saints shall come downe from heaven at that day but you see that to be true And wee which are alive and remaine here shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord
before the day of judgement when the wicked shall have as great authority and riches as they neither can it properly be said that the Saints shall reigne in heaven for there is none to bee subject unto them then it remaines that the Saints after the day of judgement shall reigne here on earth Revel 5. 10 when they shall shine as the Sunne in the Firmament Matth 13. 43. and be as glorious in the fight of God as he was at the first all the creatures restored to their first persection then they will yeeld to man all that obedience that is due unto him and then shall man be honoured in the earth by the creatures as their Lord and King and wonderfull happy among the Angels in heaven being of their nature in his soule and in his body also being made of the same elements with other creatures here below then the Angels shall continue in heaven and these creatures shall continue here and men shall have bodies so full of agility to ascend up to heaven and to walke in the ayre as to goe upon the ground and the glory of the soule shall bee the wonderfull perfection of Gods Image in all the faculties of it then shall wee know both the secrets of heaven and earth then shall our memories will and affections bee after an unconceivable manner made conformable unto God yea we shall have both in our soules and bodies rivers of joyes and pleasure for evermore Psal 16. 11. Revel 21 7 Esay 66. 22. then shall the Saints inherit all things and the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remaine before mee saith the Lord and so shall your seed and your name remaine then shall wee bee Luk. 20. 35. 36. equall to the Angels being children of the resurrection and counted worthy to obtaine that world and we shall be as Kings and Priests and wee shall reigne on the earth Revel 5. 10. and all the creatures here will yeeld subjection to us as to their Lord and King and we shall be as Priests to offer the sacrifice of praise to the Lord and give him all the glory And if any shall yet say these times shall be before the end of the world because in the eighth Psalme it is said thou hast crowned man with glory and honour and thou madest him to have dominion over the workes of thy hands and hast put all things under his feet and then names all the creatures here below I answer David here magnifies the Lord for that great glory and honour that was put upon man at the first in Paradise when he had dominion over Psal 8. 6. all things under the heavens for this is spoken in the time past Thou madest him have dominion and thou hast put all things under his feet but Heb. 2. 8. if we speake of the new world we see not yet all things put under him And whereas some hold that the soules of men departed shall returne againe and their bodies shall be raised and united to them and they shall live here againe before the day of judgement a thousand yeares but I demand Revel 20. 4 with what bodies shall they rise if it be sowne a corrupted body shall it not rise in incorruption if it bee sowne a naturall body shall 1 Cor. 15. 43 44. it not rise a spirituall body they must rise with such a body as Christ did But when the disciples saw him they were terrified and affrighted Luk. 23. 37 Act. 10. 40. 41. and supposed that they had seene a spirit and as for wicked men they never saw his body at all after his resurrection him God raised up the third day and shewed him openly not to all the people but unto witnesses chosen before of God even to us who did eate and drinke with him after hee Luk. 24. 31. 51. John 20. 17. Mich 〈◊〉 10. arose from the dead and when hee was with them as soone as they knew him he vanished out of their sight this strangenesse was betweene his spirituall and their corporall bodies this is not your rest because it is polluted he charged Mary that she should not touch him then what communion can be betwixt them when some must not touch him and others were affrighted at the sight of him and as soone as they knew him hee vanished away because the world is polluted then it cannot bee that spirituall and corporall bodies should live together and though he eate and dranke with them after his Resurrection yet we must not thinke it was for necessity or through the perill of hunger but onely for delight and to shew them that Luk. 24 3◠40. he had a reall body as before with flesh and bones onely it was made immortall and everlasting never to dye more nor to suffer any perill more And whereas it is said That the soules of them that were beheaded for the witnesse Revel 20. 4 of Jesus and for the word of God and had not worshipped the beast they lived and raigned with Christ a thousand yeares This cannot be meant of a corporall death or of a bodily resurrection for the rest that were dead lived not againe Vers 5. 6. till the 1000. yeares were finished and yet in the first Resurrection who are as blessed and holy as the rest On them the second death hath no power and they being in the first resurrection and yet not raised in their bodies what is this but to rise from the death of sinne to the life of grace on such the second death hath no power and Christ answered the Sadduces that Abraham Isaac and Jacob are living for God is the God of the living and he is their Mat. 22. 32 John 5. 24. God he that is thus alive shall dye no more but is passed from death to life And againe the planting of the Gospell and increasing or spreading of the Church may very well be called a Resurrection because men were brought out of a state of death to a state of life and the growth of the Church was like to the rising of the waters of the sanctuary first to the Ezekiel 47. ankles then to the knees then to the loynes and to a river that could not be passed over so was the Resurrection of the Church at the first but twelve Acts 1. 15. 2. 41. 44 5 14. then a hundred and twenty then there was added three thousand then five thousand then multitudes both of men and women now he that hath part in this first resurrection on them the second death hath no power and whether they have this first Resurrection in the first thousand yeares after Christs ascension or in the second it matters not so they have it before the day of Judgement on them the second death hath no power But our controversie is about those that were slaine for the witnesse of Jesus and yet lived and reigned with Christ a
creatures rejoyce at the comming of Christ to Judgement Psal 96. 11 12 13. because then they shall be restored againe to their first perfection by these things I know that what God doth it shall be for ever Eccles 3. 14. Yet I am confident that in this world before the end of it here well bee glorious dayes for the Gospell shall be Preached in many nations together in the last dayes in the times of the Gospell being the third and last age of the World when the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountaines and exalted above the hills that is the Gospell shall Micah 4. 1 2 3. Isa 2. 2 3 4 prevaile against and above all mountaines and hills of opposition and all nations shall flow unto it and many nations shall goe and say come let us goe up to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob he will teach us of his wayes and we will walke in his paths for out of Zion shall goe forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem and he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people that is Christ by his Church and people will bridle and curbe and keepe under the power of the enemies but the next words cannot well be fulfilled in this world before the end that is when they shall beate their swords into Ploughshares and their speares into Pruning hookes and learne warres no Vers 4. 2 Cor. 10. 4. 2 Tim. 2. 2 3 4. Mat. 24 7 8 more for all the life of a Christian is but warfare and we must indure hardnesse as a good Souldier and we know by experience what warres hath beene this last age under the Gospell and so they shall continue for Kingdome shall be against Kingdome and there shall be warres and rumours of warres till the comming of Christ to Judgement but after that day when the Saints shall have all things restored to them in their first perfection Mat. 13. 41 42. and all things are taken out of his Kingdome that doe offend and that doe iniquity and are cast into the furnace of fire by the Angels at that day then I suppose the Saints shall dresse the gardens and prune the vineyards as Adam did in his innocency yet for pleasure and recreation not working as a toyle but for delight then shall this be fulfilled there shall be warres no more but in the most glorious times under the Gospell before the end of the world wee shall never be freed from warres as I said before but when Kingdome is against Kingdome and Nation against Mat. 24 6 7. 14. 29 30 36. Nation then shall the Gospell be Preached in all the world for a witnesse unto all Nations and then shall the end come and immediately after the tribulation shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of man in heaven yet the Judgement day knoweth no man nor Angell in heaven But it will be very glorious times when the hearts of Lions Tigers Wolyes Leopards and Cockatrices shall be taken from them and the hearts of Lambes and Children given to them so that they shall not hurt nor destroy in the Isa 11 6 7 8 9 10 11. mountaine of the Lord but the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters that cover the Sea then shall his rest be glorious when his wayes are knowne upon earth and his saving health is come into all Nations and some shall be redeemed out of every Nation every kindred tongue and people Other sheep he hath which are not yet of this fold them also I must bring and they shall heare his voyce and there shall be one fold and one shepherd yet all this in troublous times Dan. 9. 25. The children of Israel shall returne and seeke the Lord their God and David Psal 67 2. Rev. 5. 9. Joh. 10. 16. Hos 3. 5. their King and shall feare the Lord and his goodnesses in the latter dayes Zions righteousnesse shall goe forth as brightnesse and the salvation therof as a lampe that burneth and the Gentiles shall see thy righteousnesse and all Kings thy glory and thou shalt be called by a new name which the Isa 62. 1 2 3. mouth of the Lord shall name thou shalt also be a crowne of glory in the Lord a Royall Diadem in the hand of thy God Arise shine for the light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee for darknesse shall cover Isa 60. 1 2 3 4 5. the earth grosse darknes the people but the Lord shall rise upon thee his glory shall be seen upon thee the gentiles shall come to thy light Kings to the brightnes of thy rising thy sonnes shall come from farre thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side then shalt thou see and flow together and thy heart shall feare and bee enlarged because the abundance of the Sea shall be converted unto thee and the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee surely these will be glorious times when Jewes and Gentiles so well accord to serve the Lord and this shall bee before the end and I Rev. 31. 13. 18 19. hope it is neare at hand that Antichrist shall downe this Kingdome being the tenth part of the great City which now is falling off and the rest will soone molder away and the Kingdomes of the world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and the Temple of God was opened in heaven and there was seene in his Temple the Arke of his Testament the Nations were angry then what makes the Nations so angry with us how quiet have the Nations been these hundred yeares till now the tenth part of the City fell and the Temple is opened and the Arke and the Testimony are seene that is Christ and the saving doctrines of election and free grace are clearely laid open this makes the Nations angry but we hope in this great Earthquake all the superstition and Idolatry of Antichrist will tumble downe and many of those gracious promises shall be fulfilled But as the destruction of Jerusalem and the destruction of the world foretold in the Gospell are so infolded together that it is hard to distinguish one from the other because that in many things they doe so agree Mat. 24. yet in some things they may be knowne so the restauration of Jerusalem or the calling of the Jewes doth so agree with that restauration of all things to the first perfection and the comming downe of that Jerusalem out of heaven Rev. 21. 2. that it is hard to distinguish the one from the other yet in some things they may be knowne I will here name some places of the Scripture which I suppose the promises are so mixed that they neither can be applyed before nor after but partly before and partly after it is said judgment shall dwell in the Wildernesse
thousand yeares but as I said before this cannot be meant of a corporall death or bodily resurrection but it must be understood mystically that they were slaine in their outward livelihood both in their name and estate saith David I was as a dead man out of mind in the esteeme of the world and yet at the same time reigne over satan and their owne corruptions Or if any were slaine in the first thousand yeares yet God left not himselfe without witnesse but the more they afflicted them the more they multiplyed Acts 14 17 Exod. 2. 12 Rev. 11. and grew as Israel did in the bondage of Aegypt and some of the witnesses that were slaine are said to lye in the streetes and not suffered to be buryed and after three dayes and a halfe the Spirit of life came into them and they stood upon their feete these things have beene clearely shewed of late to be understood mystically And againe can we thinke that some of them that are dead their soules shall return some shall not to live here a thousand yeares and their bodies raised and not all shall some rise a thousand yeares before others doth not Christ say they shall all rise in one houre Marvell not at this for the houre commeth in which all that are John 5. 28 29. in the graves shall heare his voyce and shall come forth they that have done good to the resurrection of life and they that have done evill to the resurrection of damnation 1 Cor. 15. 52. And doth not Paul say In a moment in the twinckling of an eye at the last trump for the trump shall sound and the dead shall be raised Then I conclude this argument that if the bodies of all shall rise together in one houre in a moment in the twinkling of an eye but it is said all they that are in the graves not some of them and in a moment not a thousand yeares distance of some from the rest that shall rise from the dead And whereas some affirme that in this thousand yeares the Church or Kingdome of Christ shall be all righteous all Saints under the King of Saints and no hypocrites nor excommunicate persons and the wicked Revel 15. shall be as slaves to them in that day and the Saints shall be as Lords in the earth and shall neither marry nor be given in marriage and the Apostles shall come and rule this Kingdome I answer these things some are false and some are true but mis-applyed those that are true are to be fulfilled after the day of Judgement and not in this corrupted world as when the people shall be all righteous they shall inherit the Land not onely a thousand yeares but for ever in the Isa 60. 19 20 21. new world when the Sunne shall no more goe downe nor the Moone withdraw it selfe but the Lord shall be to them an everlasting light and thy God thy glory And so if the Saints of the most High shall take and possesse the Kingdome I answer After the day of Judgement so they shall not onely for a thousand yeares but for ever even for ever for his dominion Dan. 7. 18. 14 7. is an everlasting dominion when all people and Nations and languages shall serve him in it and to say that there shall be no Hypocrites in it I say so too in the new Jerusalem when it comes downe from heaven unto the earth but this will never be till the restitution of all things till the fire at the day of Judgement hath purged the earth and made it fit for so great a mercy wherein dwelleth righteousnesse but till that day of Judgement this cannot be For the Tares and the Wheate shall grow together untill the Harvest which is at the end of the world and the Angels are the Reapers and by them shall the Wheate bee brought into the Barne they shall gather the elect from the foure windes Mat. 24. 31. And they shall gather out of his Kingdome all things that offend and them Math. 13. 41 42. that doe iniquity and shall cast them into the furnace of fire but when the Angels are sent about this businesse they will finde them altogether minding earthly things as eating and drinking and marrying and mixed together Mat. 24 37 38. two in a bed the one taken and the other left two in the field and two grinding at the Mill the one taken and the other left Therefore when Christ comes to Judgement there shall be Hypocrites and they shall not be used as slaves but in the same bed at the same worke and recreation together And to say the Saints shall be Lords over the wicked this cannot be true neither here nor hereafter for before the end the wicked shall have as great a share of outward riches and honour as the Saints and many times greater and after the day of Judgement I shewed before that all things that offend and that doe iniquity shall be cast into the furnace of fire so that though it be true they shall be Lords and Kings it is not meant over wicked men but over the rest of the creatures this Adam had and lost it and Revel 5. 10 the second Adam hath restored it to us againe as I shewed before and to say that the Apostles shall rule this Kingdome when they are all Saints and the King of Saints present is not worth the answering for they shall be all Kings and Priests unto God and his Father Feare not little flocke it is your Rev. 1. 6 5 10. Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdome none shall rule but God alone for all rule and authority and power shall then be put downe Then shall Luke 12 32 1 Cor. 15. 24 28. Revel 20 1 2 3. God himselfe be all in all But they will object against all this cleare light that John saw an Angell come downe from heaven having the key of the bottomlesse pit and a great chaine in his hand and he laid hold on the Dragon that old serpent which is the devill and bound him a thousand yeares and cast him into the bottomlesse pit and shut him up and set a seale upon him that he should not deceive the Nations till the thousand yeares should be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed a little season This say they is to be understood of Christ binding the devill a thousand yeares after their soules are returned againe and their bodies raised and united to them then they say they shall live here a thousand yeares againe before the day of Judgement in great glory and happinesse I answer the devils were bound in chaines of darknesse as soone as they had sinned For God spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them downe to hell and delivered them into chaines of darknesse And if you aske me how long I 2 Pet 2. 4. Jude 6. Job 1. answer till the day of Judgement He was in
and righteousnesse remaine in the Isa 32. 16 17 18. fruitfull field the worke of righteousnesse shall bee peace and the effect of righteousnesse quietnesse and assurance for ever and my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation sure dwellings and quiet resting places again Isa 33. 5 6. the Lord is exalted for he dwelleth on high he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousnesse and wisedome and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and strength of salvation the feare of the Lord is his treasure But I suppose these precious promises are not to be fulfilled till after the day of Judgement for which the sinners in Sion are afraid fearefulnesse hath surprised the hypocrite they say who shall dwell with devouring fire who can dwell with everlasting burnings ver 14. the answer is made he that walketh righteously that speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the gaine of oppressions that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes and stoppeth his eares from hearing of blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing of evill he shall dwell on high his place of defence shall be the munition of Rockes bread shall be given him his waters shall be sure thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty they shall behold the Land that is very farre off vers 15 16 17. But where is this land which these promises are of looke unto Zion the City of of our solemnities thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation a Tabernacle that shall not bee taken downe nor one of the Stakes thereof shall ever be removed neither shall any of the coards thereof be broken and the inhabitant shall not say I am sicke the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity ver 20. and 24. These things cannot be fulfilled in this world for before the end all Churches are subject to sinne sicknesse and alteration and desolation But is this promise to the Jewes onely I answer No Come neare ye Nations to heare and hearken ye people let the earth heare and all that is therein the world and all things that Isa 34. 1. come forth of it here you see the extent of this promise is to all people and Nations and not onely so but to the earth and all creatures that come forth of it Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowle of the ayre and brought them unto Adam All Gen. 2. 19. these have suffered a long time for the sinne of man but here is a promise for them this is the ground of their hope and the earnest expectation Rom. 8. 19. of the creature this makes the heavens and the earth so glad and the Psal 96. 11. 12. 13. field and the trees of the wood to rejoyce when the Lord comes to judge the earth and the world he will then doe all creatures Justice But shall this promise be fullfiled before the day of Judgement I answer No for all the hoast of heaven shall be dissolved and the heavens shall be rouled together as a scroll and all their hoast shall fall downe as the leafe falleth off from the vine and as the falling figge from the figtree for it is the day of the Lords vengeance and the yeare of recompences for the controversie of Zion vers 4. 8. then shall the wildernesse and desart Isa 35 1. bee glad for them and the desart shall rejoyce and blossome as a rose it shall blossome abundantly and rejoyce even with joy and singing the glory Ver. 1 2. of Lebanon shall be given unto it the excellency of Carmel and Sharon they shall see the glory of the Lord and the excellency of our God this may very well be understood to be after the day of Judgement for your God will come with vengeance even God with recompence he will save you vers 4. Then in what manner shall this salvation bee I answer from all bodily infirmities there shall neither be blinde nor lame nor dumbe nor deafe v. 5 6. but this cannot be fulfilled in this world before the end till all the creatures are freed from the corruption that came in with sinne but that cannot be before the day of Judgement for if sinne were removed before the day of Judgement that day should never come for God will not judge and condemne men where no sinne is Againe they are not onely freed from infirmities but from danger without No Lyon shall be there nor any any ravenous beast shall be found there and then the great comfort and fellowship of the Saints none but the redeemed shall walke there the ransomed of the Lord of hoasts shall come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads they shall obtaine joy and gladnesse and sorrow and sighing stall flee away v. 9. 10. I suppose none will thinke to have these things fulfilled in this corrupted world before Acts 3. the restitution of all things to their first perfection at the last day Againe in those dayes and in that time saith the Lord the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none and the sinnes of Judah and they shall not be found for I will pardon them whom I reserve but this cannot be understood of Israel and Judah in this world but of them Jer. 50. 20. that are reserved for another yet I grant that single persons in respect of their justification are freed from sinne yet not in respect of sanctification it is there still although it doth not reigne in them but if wee take in all Israel and Judah it must be fulfilled after the day of judgement Againe he hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob nor seene perversenesse in Israel the Num. 3. 21. Lord his God is with him and the shout of a King among them that is God was with them by his Angel that went before them the Arke was a Exod. 23. 20. Micah 7. 18. signe of his presence and by successe and conquest over their enemies and God did passe by their sinnes and as the Apostle saith in the times of ignorance Acts 17. 30 God winked at them that is he did not so exactly marke their iniquities as to punish them but this is chiefly to bee understood after the Psal 130. 3. day of judgement then there shall be no sinne and Christ will live amongst them I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day which can bee Zach. 3. 9. no other but the judgement day againe sing and rejoyce O daughter of Zion for loe I come and I will dwell in the middest of thee saith the Lord and many nations shall bee joyned to the Lord in that day and shall be my people and I will dwell in the middest of thee and the Lord Zach. 2. 10 11 12. shall inherite Judah his portion and shall chuse Jerusalem againe thus saith the Lord I am returned unto Zion and I will dwell in the middest of