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A88952	Israel's redemption or the propheticall history of our Saviours kingdome on earth; that is, of the church Catholicke, and triumphant. With a discourse of Gog and Magog, or The battle of the great day of God almightie. / By Robert Maton minister and Mr of Arts, and sometimes commoner of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Maton, Robert, 1607-1653?	1642 (1642)	Wing M1294; Thomason E1148_1; ESTC R208573	106,177	152

Records as they challenge no lesse then beleefe to what I have written from them that equall these Scriptures with the Canonicall and are indeed altogether incompatible with a Jewish Antichrist so they manifest also to the whole world that I have uttered no yesterdayes doctrine no deformed issue of a private and distempered Spirit hatcht in a corner and nurst in a conventicle studyed in a closet or cloister and preacht onely in a chamber or covent but such things as accompany (r) Heb. 6. v. 9. Salvation Such words as every free Christian every uncaptived conscience will plainely perceive and publikely confesse to be the (s) Act. 26. v. 25. words of sobernesse and Truth Even her words (e) Prov. 1. v. 20. c. whose wont it is to utter t her voyce in the streetes in the chiefe place of concourse in the opening of the gates and in the City saying How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fooles hate knowledge Let old Tobit speake for the rest I beleeve that our Brethren shall lye scattered in the earth from that good land and Jerusalem shall be desolate and the house of God in it shall be burned and shall be desolate for a time And that againe God will have mercy on them and bring them againe into the land where they shall build a Temple but not like to the first untill the time of that age be fulfilled and afterwards they shall turne from all places of their captivity and build up Jerusalem gloriously and the House of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building (v) Act. 3. v 19 20 21. as the u Prophets have spoken thereof And all Nations shall turne and feare the Lord God truely and shall bury their (w) Is 2. v. 20. Idols So shall all Nations praise the Lord and his people shall confesse God and the Lord shall exalt his people and all those that love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoyce shewing mercy to our brethren Gloria Deo Vita Regi Pax Regno Glory to God on high on earth increase To the Kings age and to the Kingdome peace FINIS GOG AND MAGOG OR THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTIE By ROBERT MATON Minister and Mr of Arts and sometimes Commoner of Wadham Colledge in OXFORD Hab. 2. v. 3. The vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speake and not lie though it tarry wait for it because it will surely come it will not tarry LONDON Printed by R. Cotes for Daniel Frere and are to be sold at his shop in little Britaine at the signe of the red Bull. 1642. DEUT. 32. v. 2.36.43 The Lord shall judge his people and repent himselfe for his servants when he seeth that their power is gone and there is none shut up or left Rejoyce O yee Nations with his people for he will avenge the blood of his servants and will render vengeance to his adversaries and will he mercifull to his land and to his people Jerem. 10. v. 11.10 The (b) Isa 2.20 Zeph. 3.11 gods that have not made the heavens and the earth even they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens But the Lord is the true God he is the living God and an everlasting King at his wrath the (c) Isa 2.19 21. Rev. 6.15 16 17. earth shall tremble and the Nations shall not be able to abide his indignation Isaiah 14. v. 24. c. The Lord of Hosts hath sworne saying surely as I thought so shall it come to passe and as I purposed it shall stand That I will breake the Assyrian in my land and upon my mountaines tread him under foot then (d) Isa 10.24 25 26 27. shall his yoke depart from off them and his burden from off their shoulders This is the purpose that is purposed upon the (e) Eze. 38 39. Ioel. ch 3. Micah 4.12 13. Zeph. 3.5 Zek. 12.14 whole earth and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the Nations For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed and who shall disannull it and his hand is stretched out and who shall turne it backe Isaiah 30. v. 27 c. Behold the Name of the Lord commeth from farre burning with his anger and the burden therereof is heavie his lips are full of indignation and his tongue as a devouring fire And his breath as an over-flowing streame shall reach to the middest of the necke to sift the Nations with the sieve of vanitie and there shall be a bridle in the jawes of the people causing them to erre Ye shall have a song as in the night when an holy solemnity is kept and gladnesse of heart as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountaine of the Lord to the mighty one of Israel And the Lord shall cause his glorious voyce to be heard and shall shew the lighting downe of his arme with the indignation of his anger and with the flame of a devouring fire with scattering and tempest and hailestones For through the voyce of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten downe which smote with a rod. And in every place where the grounded staffe shall passe which the Lord shall lay upon him it shall be with tabrets and harpes and in battels of shaking will hee fight with it For Tophet is ordained of old yea for the King it is prepared he hath made it deepe and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord like a streame of brimstone doth kindle it GOG AND MAGOG OR THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTIE EZEK 38.2 Sonne of man set thy face against Gog the land of Magog the chiefe Prince of Meshech and Tuball and prophesie against him c. THat we may the better know what enemies are meant by Gog and Magog in the 20. chap. of the Rev. it will not be amisse first Vers 8. to examine who are meant by Gog and Magog in the 38 and 39. chap. of Ezekiel And this can no way be so well found out as by comparing Ezekiels prophesie with other Prophesies For albeit this of Ezekiel be in forme and manner of expression somewhat different from others and in matter much more copious than others that being delivered here plainly fully and together which is in some but obscurely glanc't at and in others revealed but in part or at most by parcels as we say that is some part in one place and some in another yet that Ezekiel goes not alone in the subject of this Revelation it is evident by the Querie made by God himselfe in the very same Prophesie Thus saith the Lord God Art thou hee of whom I have spoken in (a) Hab. 2.3 old time by my servants the Prophets of Israel which prophesied in those dayes many yeares that I would bring thee against them chapter the

among them I the Lord have spoken it and in his 37. chap. at the 24. vers David my servant shall be King over them and they shall have one Shepheard and they shall also walke in my judgements and observe my statutes and doe them and they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant wherein your Fathers have dwelt and they shall dwell therein even they and their children and their childrens children for ever and my servant David shall be their Prince for ever And in the 9. chap. of Isaiah at the 6. vers Vnto us a child is borne unto us a Sonne is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderfull Counseller the Mighty God the Everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end Vpon the Thron of David and upon his Kingdome to order it and to establish it with judgement and with justice from henceforth even for ever the zeale of the Lord of Hosts will performe this And in the 52. chap. at the 13. vers Behold my servant shall deale prudently he shall be (g) Ps 1●8 v. 22.23 24 c. exalted and extolled and be very high As many were (h) Luke 2. v. 34.35 astonied at thee his visage to wit at the time of his suffering was so marred more then any man and his forme more then the sonnes of men so to wit at his next appearing shall he sprinkle many Nations the Kings shall shut their mouthes at him for that which had not beene told them shall they see and that which they had not heard shall they consider And in the 4. chap. of Micah at the 6. vers In that day saith the Lord will I assemble her that halteth and I will gather her that is driven out and her that I have afflicted and I will make her that halted a remnant and her that was cast (i) Rom. 11. v. 12.15.32 off a strong Nation and the Lord shall reigne over them in Mount Zion from henceforth even for ever And in the 72. Psal at the 6. vers He shall come downe like raine upon the mowen grasse as showers that water the earth In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the Moone endureth He 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 his enemies shall licke the dust The Kings of Tarshish and of the Iles shall bring presents the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts Yea all Kings shall fall (k) Isa 45. v. 22.23 Phil. 2. v. 10 downe before him (l) Ps 22. v. 27 28. Rev. 14. v. 6 7. ch 15. v. 4 all Nations shall praise him And in the 102. Psal at the 13. vers Thone shalt arise and have mercie upon Zion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof So the Heathen shall feare the name of the Lord and all the Kings of the earth thy glory When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appeare in his glory Now that these prophecies doe concerne the reigne of Christ alone I thinke no man doubts and that they are already fulfilled it cannot bee proved For neither did Christ at his first comming sit on Davids Throne nor any other of Davids linage or of that Tribe or of the other Tribes for the Scepter was then departed from Judah and a Law-giver from betweene his feete Neither were Judah and Israel then in the land together neither was the Temple then destroyed but afterwards and therefore the things here spoken of are all to be accomplished at his second comming and that not in Heaven but on earth On earth I say and in (m) Is 33. v. 20. ch 50. v. 1 2 3 9 10. Jerusalem (n) Ps 122. v. 5. Davids Throne was For his feete shall stand in that day to wit when he comes to receive his appointed Kingdome on the Mount of Olives which is before Ierusalem on the East from which Mount also he ascended and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst therof toward the East toward the West there shal be a very great valley and halfe the Mountaine shall remove toward the North and halfe of it toward the South And ye shal flee to the valley of the Mountains for the valley of the Mountaines shall reach unto Azal yea ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the dayes of Uzziah K. of Judah And the Lord my God shall (o) Iude v. 14 15. Rev. 19. v. 11 12 13 14 15 16. come all the Ss. with thee and it shal come to passe in that day that the light shall not be cleare nor dark but it shall be one day which shall be knowne to the Lord not day nor night but it shall come to passe that at evening time it shall be light And it shall be in that day that (p) Ps 46. v. 4. Ezek. 47. v. 1. c. Ioel 3. v. 8. living waters shall goe out from Jerusalem halfe of them toward the former sea and halfe of them toward the hinder sea in Summer and in Winter shall it be and the Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day shall there be one Lord and his Name one All the Land shall be turned as a plaine from Geba to Rimmon South of Jerusalem and it shall be lifted up and inhabited in her place from Benjamins gate unto the place of the first gate unto the corner gate and from the Tower of Hananiel unto the Kings Wine-presses and men shall dwell in it and there shall be no more utter destruction but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited Zech. the 14. at the 4. vers You see here that our Saviour comes not onely to conquer death which is the last enemy that he shall destroy and therefore not wholly to be destroyed till the last resurrection but also to take the Kingdomes of this world unto himselfe to put downe as Saint Paul hath said all the rule and all the authority and power of other Nations that there may be one Shepheard and one Sheepfold that the (q) Dan. 7. v. 27. Kingdome and Dominion and greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven may be possest by the people of the Saints of the most High That is as the former prophesies doe expound it by the people of (r) Ps 148. v. 14. Israel And this as I thinke is the time of which he spake these words Verily verily I say unto you (s) Iohn 1. v. 15. Hereafter shall yee see Heaven open and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the (t) Heb. 1. v. 6. Sonne of man For that this may be fulfilled it

Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad Psal 106. v. 4 5. Remember me O Lord with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation That I may see the (i) Ier. 32 v. 42. ch 33. v. 9. good of thy chosen that I may rejoyce in the gladnesse of thy Nation that I may glory with thine inheritance Micah 7. v. 14. c. Feed thy people with thy rod the flock of thine heritage which dwelleth solitarily in the wood in the midst of Carmel let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the dayes of old According to the dayes of thy comming out of the Land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things The Nations shall see and be confounded at their might they shall lay their hand upon their mouth their eares shall be deafe They shall licke the dust like a Serpent they shall move out of their (k) Isa 2. v. 19.20 Re● ● v. 19 holes like wormes of the earth they shall be afraid of the Lord our God and shall feare because of thee Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the (l) Isa 65. v. 9.15 Zeph. 3. v. 12 13. Rom. 11. v. 5 28. Remnant of his heritage he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy He will turne againe he will have compassion upon us he will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast all their sinnes into the depths of the Sea Thou wilt performe the truth to (m) Isa 65. v. 8. Rom. 11. v. 16.28 Jacob and the mercy to (m) Isa 65. v. 8. Rom. 11. v. 16.28 Abraham which thou hast sworne to our m Fathers from the dayes of old Isaiah 12. In that day thou shalt say O Lord I will praise thee though thou wast angry with me thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me Behold God is my salvation I will trust and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song he also is become my salvation Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the Wels of salvation And in that day shall yee say Praise the Lord call upon his Name declare his doings among the people make mention that his Name is exalted Sing unto the Lord for he hath done excellent things this is knowne in all the earth Cry out and shout thou inhabitant of Zion for great is the HOLY (n) Isa 55. v. 5. ch 60. v. 9.14 Luke 4. v. 34. Acts 2. v. 27 ch 3. v. 14. ONE of Israel in the midst of thee Isaiah 63. v. 15. c. Looke downe from Heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holinesse and of thy glory where is thy zeale and thy strength the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercy towards me are they restrained Doubtlesse thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel acknowledgeth us not thou O Lord art our Father our Redeemer thy Name is from everlasting O Lord why hast thou made us to erre from thy wayes and hardned our heart from thy feare returne for thy servants sake the Tribes of thine inheritance The people of thy holines have possessed it but a little while our Adversaries have trodden down thy Sanctuary O that thou wouldest rent the Heavens Ch. 64. v. 1. c. that thou wouldest come down that the mountains might flow downe at thy presence As when the melting fire burneth the fire causeth the waters to boyle to make thy Name knowne to thine Adversaries that the Nations may tremble at thy presence When thou diddest terrible things which wee looked not for thou camest downe the mountaines flowed downe at thy presence For since the beginning of the world (o) 1 Cor. 2 v. 9. men have not heard nor perceived by the eare neither hath the eye seene O God besides thee what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him Nunc fera mucro fames nunc (p) Rev. 6.8 mórsque fidelibus instat Quos manet haec merces gloria vita quies Warre wilde beasts want and death doe now besiege The sacred troopes whose future priviledge Is this to shine in glory and to raigne In peace with him who makes their death their (q) Phil. 1.21 gain The Testimonies of the Authors quoted in the margent of the 19. page ISraelitae non fuerunt liberati unquam à suâ terrenâ captivitate nec redierunt in patriam ut patet ex superioribus Hoc etiam historiae docent abducti enim ab Assur in Assyriam Mediam non leguntur ab eo fuisse dimissi Regno verò Assyriorum Babyloniis per Merodacum subjecto in captivitate itidèm permanserunt Babyloniis subjecti Cùm verò posteà Deioces qui primus apud Medos regiâ dignitate usus est ab Assyriorum Babyloniorúmque jugo Medos liberasset Israelitae multis de causis fuerunt è terris Medorum in ulteriores regiones nempè in Septentrionem quò omnis spes redeundi ad suos illis tolleretur expulsi quidem dispersi Quâ de re videatur Funcc comment lib. 1. pag. 23. Itaque videamus cùm Media Babylonia Assyria in manū pervenit Cyri regis factâ libertate omnibus Israelitis redeundi in patriam solos Jehudaeos Benjamin quae conjuncta erat cum Juda Levitas qui quoniàm noluerunt vitulis sacrificare expulsi à Jeroboamo redierunt Hierosolymam cum Judaeis se conjunxerunt ut est 2. Paralip 11. v. 13 14. ch 13. v. 9. rediisse ut est Ezra cap. 1. cap. 2. Nisi fuissent reliquae Tribus in ulteriores regiones dispersae illae potuissent quoque redire Tempore etiam quo natus est Dominus Samaria cum aliis terris Israelitarum occupata erat ab illis gentibus qui eò missi fuerant a rege Assur Israelitarum loco ut est 2. Reg. 17. Itaque videmus Israelitas nunquàm à captivitate terrenâ liberatos in patriam rediisse Hier. Zanch. Quaeritur ab interpretibus Nùm ex hâc prophetiâ certò colligatur decem tribus nunquàm ex captivitate rediisse quemadmodùm aliae duae post aliquot annos ex captivitate Babylonica redierunt Ratio dubitandi est quòd in hoc ipso cap. subditur Et cōgregabuntur filii Juda filii Israel paritèr c. Ezek. cap. 37. Sub Symbolo duorum lignorum in unum coeuntium vaticinatur Judam Israel conjungendos Jer. cap. 50. v. 4. apertè dicit Venient in tempore illo filii Israel ipsi filii Juda simul Ubi videtur certa spes restitutionis etiam decem tribubus fieri Nihilominus certum est Rempublicamillam decem tribuum nunquàm posteà coivisse eorum captivitatem dispersionem in populos perpetuam fuisse quod hic comminatur Deus nec solutam unquàm fuisse eorum captivitatem quod Josephus ipse Ant. Jud. lib. 11. cap. 5. agnoscit Dum scribit