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The true news of the good new world shortly to come (Heb. 2. 5.) for all such as then shall be found real saints with the sudden end of all the enjoyments of this present evil world ...
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Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?
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Woman and being only of the Woman implyed he should also be the Son of God and then likewise put Enmity between the Serpent and the Woman and his Seed and her Seed Gen. 3 15. which said Promised Seed should in due time be manifest indeed to be the Son of God Mighty to Save who should both break the Serpents Head of Policie and Power in the said 6000 years and then obtain the lost Dominion of the World and Creatures by Mans Fall for himself and his said Saints or Spiritual Seed at the end thereof Heb. 2.6 7. Heb. 2.5 8. Rev. 21.5 4. Christ upon the said Declared Grace of the Father through himself undertakes as the Goel or Redeemer to carry on that work in 6000 years until his Sabbatisme of Rest for himself and his Saints then should come 2 Thes 1.7 Hebrews 4.9 N. B. This most comprehensive Divinity being grounded upon Holy Scripture must needs be the best Divinity 1. As being suitable to Gods said Decrees 2. Revealed and Promised to the Fathers 3. Confirmed and Explained by all the Holy Prophets 4. Witnessed to by Christ in the Gospels and the Apostles in all their Writings 5. Divinely Unlocked by Christs Revelation and all this Taught all along in the said 6000 Years by the same Glorious Spirit of the Infinitely Wise God and so far also now carryed on by Christ almost to the Seventh Millennium Therefore Let all sorts of Persons without a Divine Warrant beware of Cutting Christs said Work of Redemption shorter than Gods Word hath made it and doth declare it to be c. But more of some of these afterwards 1. That these said times of Gods said Eternal Designes to be carryed on by Christ are manifest by his Word to be done in 6000 Years in reference to his own and his Saints Injoyments in the Seventh which may fitly be called Gods and Christs Divine Millenniarisme And this may be Manifest 1. From the Explication of the Lord the Spirit in his own sacred Word who doth himself make such a resemblance of the times of Christs said Redemption to the dayes of the Worlds Creation Heb. 3 4 ch and of the Typical Rest in Canaan under Joshua's conduct to Christs said Divine Rest of which see pag. 3. of Introduct 2. The holy Scripture as the ground of that Resemblance Testified by Moses Psal 90.4 That 10 0 years with God or Christ was but as yesterday in the Old Testament and St. Peter in the New urgeth it as a great point to be known by all Christians 2 Pet. 3.8 And Christ very exactly determines the said Sabbatism suitable to such other dayes to be 1000 years Rev. 20. six times over c. see much more p. 3 4 c. 3. By Gods frequent expression of Mercy to be shewed to 1000 Generations which appears to be meant in the 7000 years of the Worlds continuance as three Lives are reckoned to be 21 years taking in the Promised Mercies of the seventh as in our Key is explained in respect of the middle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or state of things pag. 3. 4. By Moses his Chronology revealed for times past 2400 years or more and until Solomons Temple built 3000 and at the Captivity of Babylon saith Bishop Vsher 3450 years then Daniels great Calender of 2300 years until Christs 1000 years make up in all 6750 years to the little space of Satan loosed Also that apt Computation of Bucolcerus to like purpose page 3. 5. From Christ first Revealed Gen 3.15 to be necessarily in the fulness of time God manifest in the Flesh in 4000 years as saith Bishop Vsher and his Session and Intercession in Heaven until the end of the sixth Millen and his glorious Reign on Earth 1000 years which makes up the same Account 'till Satans loosing c. page 3. 6. From the Resemblances of Davids and Solomons Kingdome and Temple about 3000 years Typifying Christs Kingdome and himself the Antitype in all respects at 6000 years when the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb will be the Temple of the City for twice so long continuance as their Kingdomes or the Temple remained before in the World Also their Tribe and People being carried Captive for sin about the middle of 7000 years of the worlds continuance points out the different state of them when God according to his Covenant shall take away their sin Rom. 11. when the Devil and the worlds last Gog and Magog shall not reach them but themselves shall perish by that attempt ch 20. 8 9. page 4. 7. In the Golden Rings of all Sabbath Circulations The seventh Millenium is the Diamond viz. of Annual Monethly and Daily Sabbaths which last and longest chiefly points it out as Heb. 3 4. but the Jubelie after the seven times seven seems to relate to Eternity after the seventh Millennium shall be compleated And whereas it may be Objected that the sixth Millennium will so want above 200 years Answ 1. Christ speaks of shortning evil times for the Elects sake he may specially mean it of that time 2. The first Ages may be in some part unknown to Men though Moses set down the Ages of the first Fathers he doth not assert that to be a perfect Chronicle and for Cainans age there is difficulty Luke 3. which is not mentioned Mat. 3. nor Gen. 10.24 Also the end of the world is set forth by an indeffinite little space of Satan loosed but since the Spirit of God resembles the first 6000 years to the six dayes of the Creation he knows how to make up the Account though Men cannot and Christ hath strongly asserted the Sabbatisme of 1000 years which is suitable to the six before it page 3. 3. The shortness of the sixth Millen may seem so to be more suitable to the sixth day in the end whereof Satan seduced Eve and she her Husband God in the cool of the day Summons Arraigns and Sentenceth all the three Offenders and casts Adam and Eve out of Paradise as is most probable which would require some considerable time see more to this purpose in p 4 c. and we know not but the little said space being a like evil time may be allotted to make up the 6000 year page 3. 4. Of all considerable Computations of Times in Holy Scripture I find none so exact and certain as that 2300 years Daniel 8 given by Palmoni the secret Numberer See our many Reasons for it in our Summary on Daniel upon that said Number which is the complete measure of the four Gentile Monarchies and Jews Bondage now both almost expired from the Captivity of Babylon to Christs appearance by which both Daniels other Numbers are measured 1. That of his 70 Weeks or 490 Years from the twentieth year of Artaxerxes Longimanus Anno Mundi 3550 reaching to the end of the halfe Week after Christ by his D at h had finished Transgression and by his Resurrection had brought in everlasting Righteousness Dan. 9.24 at
me and so he judgeth his Saints with Reward ch 11.19 and this he will be doing all the 1000 years for them 8. His sitting on the Throne of his Father David Luke 1.32 Isa 9. not as he sits now on God the Fathers Throne but as distinct from it Rev 3.21 when he comes from his Fathers right hand to sit on his own Throne in the world as the Son of David and be manifest therein to be the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and all his manifold actings in righteousness and Judgment in the Earth of which are many and great Prophesies then upon his said Morning Judgment in all the 1â—00 years also prove his personal presence as the Branch or one out of the root of Jesse and yet though so the Son yet as God he was the root of David Rev. 5. But N. B. not as some mistake of his and his Saints being then as other Kings and men in the world but comeing as the great God Tit. 2.13 in his own and his Fathers and his Angels glory c. and in that Christalline Transparent Golden Wonderful Holy and Beloved New Jerusalem Rev. 21. 1500 miles high as well as 1500 miles long and broad a perfect Cube without allegorising of it or many other matters then and there for Gods Spirit hath not said it will be of such height in vain who best knows and being likewise the Maker and Builder of that City for the Fathers and all his Saints as Heb. 11.16.40 is able to make it both capacious enough and suitably glorious to the blessed holy raised Saints condition therein to behold Christs glory Joh. 17.24 their blessed Redeemer Head and Husband and when men begin to wait upon God more duly to seek to know these things from his Word as they are there held out in humility and uprightness he will doubtless give them a suitable Faith to believe more of such Divine Truths which is now a great duty though the Old Seducer labours by all means possible to perswade men to the contrary otherwise like Thomas they may not haply know them until they see them and haply for wilful neglect may then obtain a smaler portion in them c. But all the said promised mercies expounded by Christ as is manifest in our Scheme do refer to that time and state and will then have their due accomplishments though multitudes now shut their eyes against such light as by our six Conclusions is sufficiently evident pag. 17 18. of Restitut such glorious Revelations left by the Father to be made known by his Son alone after all ought earnestly to be sought into by all good means and highly prized when they are found The transparent matter of those Coelestial Spheres wherein those glorious lights above us shine unto the world is not by men discoverable what it is so neither is the matter of that glorious City prepared by God himself for that King of glory and his said Saints in that blessed state farther known then as we are informed from the holy Scriptures concerning the same and though the raised Saints and those then in the natural life will then be of one Communion yet their states otherwise seem to be pointed out much to differ as by Ezekiels New Jerusalem and St. Johns may appear the one for the Converred Jews with the Gentiles to walk in the light of the other Rev. 21.24 the other peculiar to the raised Saints And 9. From the Apostle Paul's expressions to the Thessalonians 2 Epist 1.10 there will be at Christs said comeing as he there tells them much occasion of glorifying him by his Saints and of his being admired then by all that believe as well for his Personal Excellencies as for all his said actions in those times which without his Personal Presence they would not have opportunity and occasion then to do The last Head of Arguments for such Christs Personal Presence then will be from the Relation he then stands in to his said Saints First he will be then the Saints visible Head and they his visible Members both to be present 2. At the Marriage of the Lamb he will be the Bridegroom and the Saints his visible Bride Rev. 21.9 now that Relation imports his personal appearance as well as hers 3. As the Husband he will long continue in that state with them and dwell with them the said 1000 years therefore upon the comeing of the said New Jerusalem viz. the Inhabitants metanimically down with him from God out of Heaven there the Holy Spirit declares That the Tabernacle of God viz. the body which he Tabernacled in before for a little time then will be with men so as to dwell with them that long season and therefore personally present 4. The joint interest that Christ and his said Saints will have in the happiness of that state as heirs and joint-heirs with him thereof which also prove his personal presence Rev. 21 7. 5. More especially their Reigning with him on earth then as the most comprehensive Mercy of all the rest which all the other tend to make up as the prospering into a Kingdom was to the Natural Race in the Type Ezek. 16.13 and hence this Kingdom and Reign of the Saints with Christ is so often mentioned in the Revelation For then the Kings Daughter that is all glorious within wh se Garments are said to be of wrought Gold shall enter into the Kings Palace Psal 45. who shall make of her Children Princes in all Lands some as Christ said over two or five or ten Cities Luke 19. and all such offices and Relations speak his personal presence in that state when once these everlasting Gates shall begin to stand open for the King of Glory to enter in Psal 24. And thus much at present briefly of Christs said personal Comeing and Reign in the 1000 years as proved abundantly from all the fore named Considerations Now the Second thing viz. That they shall be about 20 years hence from this 76 or rather 80 which we desire to give farther satisfaction in according to what we find in the Word of God and from such Divine Grounds as are according thereunto upon which our Belief thereof is founded are these ensuing 1. In general we find all Prophetick Scripture is almost fulfilled neer to Christs appearance as in particulars may hereafter appear 2. More especially because Daniel's 2300 years given by Palmoni or the secret Numberer ch 8. which many ways are manifest 1. To be the most certain Number or Measure of the years of the Jews Bondage and of the Gentiles Dominion through all their four Monarchies And 2. The Measure of both his other Numbers in connexion with the Revelation Numbers joyntly which admirably terminate in the same Period with it at Christ's said appearance when in all those respects that Number will be fulfilled as follows For the First That it is the Measure of the Jews Bondage and of the Gentiles Dominion is proved largely from the