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A40900 Art thou a ruler in Israel and knowest not these things? Viz. The great errour in that which is called the Apostles creed And the reall truth of Jesus Christ his glorious conquering personall reigne on Earth, over the Devill, sin and death for one thousand yeares. With mans salvation by the free grace and favour of God and Jesus Christ. Laid open by him who heartily desires the manifestation of all the truths of God, and of Jesus Christ. And the utter excirpation of all the errours of men. William Farmer, Gent. Farmer, William. 1648 (1648) Wing F445A; ESTC R222651 20,610 26

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promises yea and amen I will confirme the promises of God by the works of God thus God within the first sixe Evenings and Mornings in the beginning made and created the whole mortality even all the works and creatures and when he had done he looked on the whole and behold all was very good And therefore God adds to his sixe dayes of labour one day or a sanctified holy day of rest from all labour but when man by the temptation of that old Serpent the Devill and Sathan had disobeyed the Commandement of God Then God cursed the whole mortall workes and creatures for mans transgression with giving the Devill power over them all And so thereby became the whole mortall works and creatures corrupted and that made God say That it repented him that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at the heart Because that man by sinne had corrupted and made all that evill in one or two houres by expostulating with and yeelding to the Devill That God himselfe was sixe days making very good and because the Devill had power given him over the whole mortall works and creatures as a just judgement for mortall mans sin therefore during that time of the Devils power the Devill is called the God or chiefe prince of this world the Prince of darkenesse and the Prince that ruleth in the ayre The Devill is not for ever to reign as God of this world Prince of the aire and Prince of the darknesse of this world but shall be curbed at a time by God appointed as the Devill himselfe confesseth saying to Jesus Christ Art thou come to torment us before the time As if the Devill should have said Jesus Christ why dost thou command our power out of mortall man knowing that the time of our power over mortality is not yet to be taken away therefore if thou wilt not suffer us to be in man give us leave to goe into yonder heard of swine And because the Devill is not alwayes to have power over mortality but by the power of Christ is to have his power taken off of mortality by Jesus Christ his comming downe from heaven and to dwell with men on earth for a thousand yeares to deliver the whole mortall works and creatures of God on earth under heaven from the whole Principalities and powers of the Devill for and during that thousand years according to promise doth Peter say to these unbelieving scoffers but Beloved be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years Therfore as the Lord was 6 days making the whole mortality very good and man by his finne did provoke God to curse the same with giving the Devil power over the whole Man must also labour under the power of the Devil with the whole mortality for 6000. years Therfore doth Peter say that in the latter days or towards the end of the 6000. years Near to that coming of Christ there shal be impatient unbelieving scoffers that shall say where is the promise or the fulfilling of the promise of his comming unto whom Peter saith Be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years with man or man cannot accomplish that under six thousand years that God did in six dayes ev●n his working will And as God did adde a seventh day of holy rest unto his six dayes of labour so man was from the beginning to celebrate every seventh day a holy day of rest from labour in remembrance of the sure promise of Christ his comming to deliver man and the whole mortality as Paul saith the creature shall be delivered from the tyrannical power of the Devill for a thousand years into the glorious liberty of the Sonnes of God even for that thousand yeares in which John saw a new heaven and a new earth and the holy City new Jerusalem comming down from God out of Heaven with a great voyce out of heaven saying Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people because the Devill in or during that time shall have nothing to doe with them and God himselfe shall be with them and be their God Therefore faith John Blessed and holy is hee that hath part in the first resurrection because on such the second death hath no power but they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand yeares according to the promise of God to Jesus Christ Sit thou at my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy foote-stoole Even the Devil and all his power and wicked instruments who are the enemies of Jesus Christ and his members and so taking the six dayes of Gods accompt in which hee made the whole mortality and according to Peters accompt sixe thousand years of Mans misery under the power of the Devill by reason of sinne and taking the seventh day of Gods accompt in which he with all the works of his hands rested and kept a holy day unto himselfe and accompt a thousand years deliverance from the power of the Devill sin and death in which God again will with man keep on earth a holy Sabboth or rest then and thereby are the promises of Christ his comming by Peter confirmed by the workes of God under Gods accompt of seven dayes in the beginning but Peter for more certainty of this truth notwithstanding those impatient unbelieving scoffers questioning the same in the behalfe of himselfe and all the believing members of Jesus Christ of the promises of God in Christ saith Neverthelesse we according to his that is Gods promise looke for a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse Unto such saith Peter Beloved seeing that yee looke for such things be diligent that ye may be found in peace without spot blamelesse because they that shall enjoy such things saith Peter Are a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy nation a peculiar people Being made so by the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ Secondly the comming of Christ is manifested by the glory of God as the Text saith If Christ had not risen from the dead then had Christ dyed in vaine So likewise may it be said if Christ be perfect God as well as perfect man who for man tooke upon him the nature of man by which on earth he was by his perfect obedience to redeeme man from that power of the Devill which the Devill gained over man by mans disobedience it stands with the glory of God for Christ God on earth to triumph over the Devill and all his power on earth as well as to suffer under the Devill and all his power on earth Jesus Christ as he was a mortall man it was a glory to him to suffer for sinners who himselfe sinned not as the Text saith The just suffered for the unjust But if Jesus Christ as he is God should