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A04166	Christs ansvver vnto Iohns question: or, An introduction to the knowledge of Iesus Christ, and him crucified Deliuered in certaine sermons in the famous towne of New-castle vpon Tine. By Thomas Iackson, Dr. of Diuinitie, vicar of Saint Nicolas Church there, and fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford.	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1625 (1625)	STC 14306; ESTC S107447	127,240	218

was shortly to come For about some twelue yeeres after Herod erects the Temple a-new and made it euen for externall pompe and ornament more beautifull and glorious than Salomons Temple had beene that the King of glory and Prince of peace for whose entertainement though vnwitting to Herod it was erected might come vnto it and fill it with glory And within eighteene yeeres after Herod began this worke Hee was presented in it and acknowledged by Simeon to be the light of the Gentiles one desired of all the Nations and the glory of his people Israel 60. The best Commentary vpon the late-cited passage of the Prophet Haggai is a passage parallel vnto it in the Prophet Malachy I will shake all Nations saith Haggai chap. 2. vers 7. and the desire of all Nations shall come Who or what this desire of all Nations should be is not so expresly auouched by this Prophet but that some good Christians of later yeeres haue questioned whether this place were literally meant of Christs comming to the second Temple or whether the glory with which Haggai fore-telleth the House of God should be filled were the glory of the Sonne of God incarnate To preuent this captious Criticisme or to satisfie the cauill which carnall mindes might pretend for it the Prophet Malachy determines the quality of the Person and the place vnto which he was to come Behold I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before mee and the Lord whom yee seeke shall suddenly come to his Temple euen the messenger of the Couenant whom ye delight in behold he shall come saith the Lord of Hosts Mal. 3. 1. But though his comming were to bee sudden was it therefore to haue no certaine prognosticke or was it sudden only vnto such as neglected the presages of peace or other signes of the time foretold by the Prophet Haggai v. 7. I will shake all Nations c. And in this place will I giue peace saith the Lord of Hosts vers 9 There is no motion in this inferiour world but tends to rest and the more vehement the motion is so it be not vnnaturall and destructiue the more pleasant is the rest which terminates it This experiment in the course of nature is the ground of the Propheticall Embleme That vnusual shaking of Sea and Land that extraordinary commotion of all Nations mustred to that terrible sea-fight betweene Augustus Caesar and Anthony and to the rest of the Roman Ciuill warres a little before was but a prognosticke preamble to that happy and vnspeakeable peace which the Prophet fore-told the Lord would giue in his Temple at Ierusalē This was that peace of God which passeth humā vnderstanding which was to be diffused throughout the Nations when the Son of righteousnes did arise whose beames are cloathed with Saluation as the Sun-beames are with light Some glimpse or flashes of this glorious peace which was to issue out of Ierusalem the vision and fountaine of peace Rome had by reflex as the moone at the full hath its light from the Sun But as no man within that hemisphere wherein the Moone shines in her full strength looketh after the Sunne that giues the light so few or none much delighted with the glory and splendour of Rome being then at full did much looke after the Sunne of Righteousnesse whose approach though in an opposite Hemisphere the generall peace proclaimed at Rome by the shutting of Ianus his Temple did as certainely prognosticate as the day-starre doth the Sunnes arising Of this vniuersall peace that generall taxe mentioned by Saint Luke chap. 2. ver 1. was one speciall consequent Now this taxe was first decreed by Augustus in Spaine within three or foure yeeres after the battel of Actium And for this reason it is that the Church of Spaine did anciently begin their computation of yeeres not from our Sauiours birth as wee doe but from the date of Augustus his Decree for the vniuersall taxe first enacted in Spaine though not put in execution till our Sauiours birth about some 26. yeeres after So that of his birth as well the earth-quake in Iudaea as the generall wars and the vniuersall peace which ensued were infallible presages vnto all such as duely compared the Signes of the time with the Prophets prediction Thus much of those particular Prophesies on which Iohns faith before he receiued this answere from our Sauiour was grounded Vnto which a little is to be added concerning the peculiar signes of the time which did accompany our Sauiours baptisme 61. It was a perpetuall Law vnto the Israelites that as euery seuenth day was a day of rest vnto themselues so euery seuenth yeere should be a yeere of rest vnto the ground It was not in that yeere to bee tilled Now at the end of euery seuenth yeere of Sabbaths or rest that is after 49. yeeres ended they were to haue the yeere of Iubile The yeere wherein Iohn began to baptize and performe his ministery was the seuenth Sabbaticall yeere a yeere most obseruable by the Law but this Law concerning the yeeres of Sabbaths or of rest as the moderne Iewes themselues confesse was but slenderly or not at all obserued by their forefathers after their returne from Babylon And for this sinne amongst others they haue had for a long time no Land of their owne wherein to obserue it The time of the yeere wherein Iohn begun to enter vpon his office or ministery as some Chronologers rightly gather was in the beginning of September In the beginning of which Moneth as you may reade Leuitic 23. they were to obserue the feasts of Trumpets by which Ceremony the other solemne feasts in the same moneth as the feast of the Atonement and the feast of Tabernacles were proclaimed Whether the Iewes after their returne from Captiuity did obserue this solemnity or neglect it as they had done the yeeres of Sabbaths I well know not and much it skilleth not It sufficeth vs to obserue that the mystery fore-signified by the ceremony or solemnity which the Law commanded was duely obserued and fulfilled by Iohn for he in the beginning of this moneth began to lift vp his voice like a Trumpet in the wildernesse as the Herauld or Ambassadour of that God whom in all their solemne Feasts especially in these of the seuenth moneth the Iewes did seeke and whom they now might both haue seene and felt vnlesse they had beene worse than blind vnlesse they had winckt with their eyes and wilfully bereft themselues of their senses Now to awake them out of this slumber the same God whom they sought being depriued of this his Herauld or Cryer by Herods cruelty proclaimed himselfe as you may reade in the fore-cited place Ioh. 7. 37. to be that God or Fountaine of Life whereto Iohn by his baptisme did direct them In the last day that great day of the Feast to wit the Feast of Tabernacles in which feast Iohns baptisme was most famous Iesus

returned before hee preached the acceptable yeere of the LORD in Nazareth cannot so easily be gathered from the circumstances of the Euangelist but as all Interpreters I thinke agree this Answer was giuen within the compasse of that yeere wherein our Sauiour was baptized Now this was the last Legall Iubile which this people were to enioy and the first beginning of the Euangelicall Iubile which was to continue here on earth vntill the Worlds end to bee fully accomplished in the World to come So that this great mystery of our eternall Rest and Ioy in heauen had first a shaddow in the Law to wit the Legall Iubile Secondly a Picture in the Prophet Isay or in the History of Hezekias and his miraculous deliuery from the Assynians Thirdly a liue body in the Gospell or dayes of the Messias euery-way answerable to the picture drawne by the Prophet The first conception of this liue body or Euangelicall Iubile was from the day of our Sauiours Baptisme and the birth of it from the deliuery of our Sauiours Sermon vpon the Mount Fourthly the accomplishment ful growth or perfection of this liue body is to be expected onely in the life to come where our Ioy our Rest and Peace shall be for measure boundlesse and for terme endlesse Now according to these seuerall degrees of shaddow of picture of life and growth one and the same Scripture euen according to its natiue and literall sense may be often verified and fulfilled All the former Prophesies likewise concerning the planting of the Wildernesse with pleasant Trees though actually fulfilled according to the importance of the parabolicall or Emblematicall sense in that yeere of Iubile which Iesus of Nazareth did proclaime shall not bee finally accomplished vntill the beginning of that Iubile which shall ha●e no end Thus much is specified Isay 60. vers 20 21 22. Thy S●●ne shall no more goe downe neyther shall thy Moone with-draw it selfe for the Lord shall bee thine euerlasting light and the dayes of thy mourning shall be ended Thy people shall bee all righteous they shall inherit the Land for●euer the Branch of my planting the works of my hands that I may bee glorified A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it in his time This last verse though partly fulfilled in the conuersion of whole Nations by our Sauiours Apostles and Disciples made Citizens of the new Ierusalem descending from Heauen at our Sauiours Baptisme shall not be accomplished vntill these Trees of Righteousnesse be transplanted into the Heauen of Heauens and set there by the Tree of Life Then shall the least sprig that hath been truely ingraffed into the stock of Iacob the meanest ●●●ne of Abraham by faith become more fruitfull in himselfe than Abraham was in his posterity and a greater King and Lord of more than Dauid or Salomon in their prime Thus much is included in that saying of our Sauiour Marke 10. vers 29 30. There is no man that hath left house or Brethren or Sisters or Father or Mother or Wife or Children or Lands for my sake and the Gospels but hee shall receiue an hundred fold now in this time houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions and in the world to come eternall life If the least of them that forsake all for Christs sake grow in this life into an hundred how great or strong a Nation euery small one that is not in this life offended in him shall after this life ended become is vnexpressable But we beleeue our Sauiour that the least and smallest of such as forsake all for him and the Gospell shall haue life eternall And wee beleeue Gods Word that life eternall is more than tenne thousand liues temporall though a thousand liues of a mans own be much more worth than a million of other mens liues whereof we might hope to be Lords and Disposers 80. That other Prophesie likewise before mentioned Isay 35. vers 4. though literally verified at Gods first comming into the World to be made man and then punctually fulfilled when IESVS of Nazareth GOD and MAN came to Iohns Baptisme is to be finally accomplished when the same Iesus shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead Then shall hee manifest himselfe to be God the Auenger and God the Recompencer by pronouncing that Sentence from which there shall be no appeale Come yee blessed of my Father possesse the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Depart from me yee cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the Deuill and his Angels The former part of this Sentence shall proceed from him as hee is God the Rewarder of all such as diligently seeke him The latter part of this Sentence Goe yee cursed c. proceedeth from him as hee is God the Auenger In that accomplishment of dayes which shall vtterly abolish all night and not before shal that other part of the same Prophesie Isay 35. vers 5 6. bee likewise finally accomplished Then the eyes of the blinde shall be opened and the eares of the deafe shall bee vnstopped c. The eyes of many blinde were opened at the time when this Answer was giuen yet not the eyes of all the blinde men then liuing which were not offended in Him but onely the eyes of all the blinde throughout Iudea and neighbour-Regions that came vnto him without offence At his second comming the eyes of all that after perpetuall darkenesse haue beene finally shut vp by death shall bee opened to see the glory of God so opened to see it without offence as they shall neuer be shut againe neuer bee depriued of this beautifull vision In that day shall all the halt and lame that haue not bin offended in him e●●n such as neuer enioyed the vse of limbes from their cōming out of the wombe vnto their going vnto their gra●e become more strong agile than the Hart and m●re swift and nimble than the Roe Then shall the eares and tongues of all that haue beene borne deafe and dumbe be so vnstopped and vnloosed as vpon the first opening they shall bee enabled to hold consort with the Quire of Angels to descant vpon those hidden mysteries and Prophetique Songs about whose literall sense or plaine Grammaticall meaning there hath beene much discord amongst greatest Criticks and amongst Schoole-men continuall iarres This is all which I haue at this time to say concerning the three particular Branches proposed in the beginning of the second generall Obseruation which was thus What satisfactiō this answer of our Sauior The blinde receiue their sight c. could giue to Iohn or his Disciples or to any that doubted whether Iesus of Nazareth was He that was to come Somewhat more is to be said concerning the Conclusion Blessed is he whosoeuer shall not be offended in mee MATTH 11. VERS 6. Blessed is hee whosoeuer shall not be offended in mee THe vniuersality