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A59926	Chronoi apykatastaseōz panton, or, The times of restitution of all things with their neer approach upon the ruine of the beast : manifest by two tracts on Rev. 20.5 & Rev. 21.5 containing the main scope of all Revelation prophecie ... : which said two last tracts may fitly be entituled An alarm to this present world ... / by William Sherwin.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1675 (1675)	Wing S3397; ESTC R25752	75,445	87

us the world will then be dissolved chap. 20.11 all Creatures destroyed or removed the Saints rapt in a moment to meet Christ before and all be changed and thenceforth ever to be with him the Lord the Devil cast into the Lake of Fire and wicked men sent into Hell c. What use can be then of the New Heavens and New Earth after the great day of Judgment But these Heavens will not be the making a new frame of the material Heavens when the old are passed away as after may be shewed but will be Prophetical Heavens grounded upon Gods Word both for the Nature Times and Use of them when as follows there will be no Sea viz. such an unsteady state of things as the seven headed and ten horned Beast rose out of when the Barbarous Nations had broken the Western Empire in pieces to make way for the ten Crowned Horns or such Waters as the Whore sate on ever since unsteady rolling Wayes No such Mystical Sea will have room then in that Kingdom of Christ and his Saints that cannot be moved or shaken Heb. 12.9 as the frustrating of Satans attempt with his last Gog and Magog will certainly manifest But the New Heavens will be those Heavenly Creatures coming with Christ when he removes his Court from Heaven into this World for the time of his great day of Judgment which were formerly the Inhabitants thereof in which sence our Saviour upon the Whoren destruction calls upon the Heaven of Saints to rejoyce Rev. 18.20 Rejoyce over her thou Heaven then to manifest what Heaven he meant he adds and ye Apostles and Prophets which shall be Inhabitants of the New Jerusalem chap. 21. v. 2. So also the Heaven of Angels that comes th●n with Christ to attend on him in his Davidical Kingdome when the Tabernacle of God will be with men And where Christ will then be there Heaven must needs be And there will also then be such a Prophetical New Earth too wherein will dwell Righteousness as the Apostle Peter speaks 1 Pet. 3. for a King shall then Rule in Righteousness as the Prophet speaks and Princes in Judgment Esa 30.1 among the Nations of them that shall then be saved their Rulers shall be Peace and their Exactors Righteousness Esa 60.17 which will be the stability of Christs Throne then and such Heavens and Earth appear to be the Object of this Holy Apostles Vision ver 1. and the 2d verse confirmes the same I John saw the Holy City descending c. as we may have occasion afterwards more fully to shew and the Tabernacle of God is then said to be with men and he to dwell with them viz. for that said 1000 years reign in his personal presence in that body which God gave him Heb. 10.5 which was typified by the Tabernacle of old wherein the then acceptable services of God were performed and that body whereby at Christs death all acceptable Sacrifice for sin was wholly fulfilled to which purpose is that expression of this holy Evangelist John 1.14 of Christs living but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little while here lower than the Angels as Heb. 2. that he Tabernacled amongst us as the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do properly signifie Now that Tabernacle of his body in the Type and Antitype being perfected in glory at the Fathers right hand in this said state and time personally comes in the Clouds of Heaven in his own glory and of the Fathers and of all his holy Angels and that is the blessed Tabernacle there said to be with men c. as we have many wayes proved namely that that coming will be personal his appearance to the Jews personal his feet standing on Mount Olivet personally his bringing his Saints with him his personal act his command to slay his Enemies before him personally his raising the said Saints his peculiar personal act his sitting on Davids Throne as the Son of David personally and the many great things wherein he will be admired of his Saints then in all his said great day of Judgment will be all personal 2 Thes 1.10 Se farther Assert 7. of our Key for his Personal Appearance and Reign A second Question may be Why the Reign of Christ in his Davidical Kingdome with his raised Saints being the last promised to the Posterity of Shem Abraham and David is here the first spoken of as performed in the 1000 years Answ It is the chief thing promised to Christ as the Son of David And the Promise of Canaan made to Abraham and his spiritual Seed before wherein the Holy City Jerusalem is said to be prepared for the Fore-fathers was also contained therein as Heb. 11.16 and hence the state of his people in Canaan did by degrees grow up into a Kingdome as the Scripture manifests as the main thing intended for after the Promise to Abraham both he Isaac and Jacob were Pilgrims and Strangers in the world a long time and their natural race long after in bondage in Aegypt 400 years in their Wilderness condition and when they possessed Canaan they were under many oppressors above 400 years in the times of the Judges but at last they grew up into a Kingdome in Davids and Solomons time c. but when their Posterity had forfeited both Land and City c. they have since remained in bondage all the times of the Gentiles Monarchies almost 2300 years and so must probably do till Davids Tabernacle as the Apostle James speaks from Amos 9.11 shall be raised up again for Christ with his raised Sts. at the times of Restitut of all things that therefore being the last chief thing promised and the rest seem to make up the glory happiness thereof it is therefore here first spoken of again in the table of the good times So that where God left off before in fulfilling Antient Promises to the Fathers for the sins of their natural Race in that chief Mercy of the Kingdome there likewise he here in revealing his Restauration for the comfort of their spiritual Race begins with again in that said glorious Kingdome of Christ to come in both which respects it being the chief thing promised and also shortly now to be performed for Christ and his Saints it may appear very meet and congruous that it should here be set in the Table of these good times in the first place as the measure of all the rest that follow which do all but make up the happiness of that Kingdome as Christ reckoned his Sufferers and two Witnesses chief in the bad times Rev. 11. which times also are chiefly measured by the 1260 dayes of years during their Prophesying in Sackcloth So in the Renovation God seems to begin chap. 20. where in their natural Race by reason of their sins he had left and in chap. 21 and 22. proceeds backward to speak of the rest and lastly of the Paradise of God the first lost and last to be restored by Christ the second

them at those times of restitution of all things Acts 3. viz. upon Christ the Lamb and his Bride then which I conceive is taken for both sorts of Saints both then raised and in the natural life though then in their proper different states yet by gracious dispensation will probably be both of one Communion which we are taught to believe according to Gods Word sutable to that of Christ and his Disciples forty days after he rose from the dead Secondly The Positive part is included in the same declaration Gen. 13.15 after explained by many gradual Promises and Covenants We shall begin with the last at first in this Divine Key of our Saviours viz. the Kingdom promised to David and his Seed for ever which is the main thing here spoken of that Christ with his Saints should enjoy in that state comprehending all the rest which all the other tend unto and are to be conferred with it before the enjoyment of which the raised Saints have their spiritual bodies then whereby they are put into a capacity to enjoy all the happiness of that time and state and the Jews Israelites and Gentiles shall be converted and united into one sheepfold c. This Kingdom was foretold by Jacob Gen. 49. and by Balaam Numb 24. and often prophesied of by David confirmed in Nathan's Message seen in Vision by Daniel at what time Christ should receive it over all Nations under the whole Heavens Dan. 7.27 with many other confirmations by the Prophets and declared by Christ that it was his Fathers pleasure to give it to his little little flock Luke 12.32 that they suffering with Christ should reign with him which in the 1000 years they are said to do Rev. 20.4 of which more is said in our twelve foundations of the faith thereof and in the Word written and elsewhere from Scripture-Authority For this great King are the New Heavens and earth to be made without such a mystical moveable Sea out of which the Beast arose in the times of the Barbarous Nations Cmmotions the Whore hath sitten upon those many troubled waters ever since but this Kingdom that Christ with his Saints shall receive is such as cannot be shaken or moved Heb. 12.28 this said Kingdom is the first and main thing here spoken of by Christ though the last promised to David and his Divine spiritual Seed which the Apostles expected should be restored Acts 1.6 and will be at that time of the raising up of Davids Tabernacle which had been fallen in his natural Race 2300 years probably before Acts 15.16 Amos 9.11 The next thing belonging to this Kingdom for which the integral parts thereof the New Heavens and the New Earth are then to be be made as Rev. 21.1 is that which is contained in the Covenant to Abraham and his Seed respecting the promised Land as the Mother City thereof typified by that Jerusalem of old which is now in bondage with her Children Gal. 4. And is now above till the time of the descending of it from God out of Heaven when Christ comes in the Clouds of Heaven and brings all his Saints with him till the Marriage of the Lamb spoken of Rev. 19. and 21. which is called the great and holy and beloved Jerusalem that City with foundations that Abraham expected and is said to be prepared for the forefathers and all the faithful since Heb. 11.16.40 whose Maker and Builder is God which appears to be in great part the New Heavens as Rev. 18.20 as we in part shewed before with the Heaven of the glorious Angels coming to attend on Christ when his Tabernacle of his bodily presence will be with men not for a little time as Heb. 2. at his first coming but he will dwell with them the space of the 1000 years Then will also be according to many Promises to the Saints in the natural life of all the Nations that shall then be saved the New Earth wherein will dwell righteousness when Christ that great King shall reign in righteousness and Princes shall rule in judgment Esa 32.1 whose Officers shall be peace and whose Exactors shall be righteousness Esa 60.17 when Christ sits upon the Throne of David to order it and to establish it with Judgment and with Justice from thencforth and for ever viz. unto the end of the world Esa 9.7 the Prophesies and Promises which respect that state of Gods peoples mercies benefits and Priviledges therein are exceeding great and manifold that would require a large Volume to explain them respecting Saints then in the natural life both in being greatly freed from the evils we now spoke of with the manifold enjoyments of good but especially in regard of their large measure of Grace then promised as in the New Covenant first made in their Book of Deuteronomy after the first Tables had been brok on remarkably set down Deut. 30. to ver 11. for circumcising the heart of that people and their Seed after all their great dispersions who shall be setled in their own Land then and remove no more as 2 Sam. 7. and Gods Sanctuary shall be with them for evermore Ezek. 37.28 when God will pour his Spirit on them generally Joel 3. as he did upon his Disciples and some few at his first coming and those expressions of the New Covenant Jer. 31.33 34. and 32.39 40. and Ezek. 36.25 26 27 c. do chiefly belong to that people and such as are united to them in the natural life in those times that shall then walk in the light of the said beloved Jerusalem Rev. 21. though we Gentiles have now our share in them through faith in some degree but they then in the times of Restitution much more by far and this will then be that special great foundation of all other temporal enjoyments as the strong entail that Christ will make them of all promised good And to all Saints in those times it is probable will arise that great enlargement of Joy for the inlarging Christs Kingdom with praise to God in Christ for it by the powerful operation of the Holy Spirit in that together with the inheriting of all promised mercies to themselves they will see and know then the great confluence of saved Souls then abundantly coming in upon the like foundations from the Word of God when all Nations shall see the salvation of the God of Israel and the Heathen shall be given to Christ God 's King then set upon his holy hill of Sion for his inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession Psalm 2. for if the Angels in Heaven rejoyce at one sinners conversion now how will both Angels and Saints then rejoyce when so many thousands and millions which will then be saved in the prolonging of Christs days when he shall see his numerous seed as promised to the Fathers and the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand Esa 53. and his City prepared will be large enough to contain all raised