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A39212	The great day at the dore and he cometh with clouds that shall judge the quick and the dead, and reigne on the earth with all his saints, not for a thousand yeares in this corrupt and sinfull world, as some coruptly conceive and teach, nay, but for a thousand and a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand thousands of yeares, even for ever and ever, eternally in the world to come ... proved clearly by the word of God ...	Eachard, John, 17th cent.	1648 (1648)	Wing E49; ESTC R149	28,197	34

them that are sleep as to receive a●y glory before them but the d●ad in Christ shall ri●e first and th●● they that are alive shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord c. as in ver. 17. he declareth And so they would understand him 1 Cor. 15. The first fruits is Christ then afterwards they that are Christs at his coming to intend a resurrection of those that are not Christs a thousand years after as Christ the first f●ui●s was a thousand years and more before whereas the words spoken there conc●rn● not them at all they are not fruits neither is death to be counted an enemy in respect of them but of those that are Christs unto whom death will then be swallowed up in victory although they shall then bee raised also as Christ saith The houre is coming wherein all that are in the grave● shall heare his voyce and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evill unto the resurrection of condemnation Iohn 5. The h●●re cometh saith he he saith not the day nor the thousand yeares but the houre for no doubt in the same houre that the Lords voyce goeth forth it shall be done The Trumpet shall sound the d●ad shall be raised and we shall be changed in ● moment But there is yet one thing more which hath been a long time held as an Article of faith that notonely at first drew them o● to the opinion but doth still hold them fast to it the thing is this That Christ at the end of the world after the generall resurrection and judgement shall ascend with all his Saints into heaven and there remain and dwell for ever and the creation of the Heavens and the Earth passe away and be no more as is commonly beleeved by the multitude and they judge to be true which if it be then of necessity the glorious Kingdome of Christ with his Saints so much spoken of in Scripture to he on earth and not yet fulfilled must be before the end of the world and then at the end thereof cease as they say The Scriptures they alledge for proofe are Iohn 14. 2 3. 2 Cor. 5. 1. 1 Pet. 3. 4 5 6. Heb. 6. 19 20. 1 Thess. 4. 17. This likewise I request ye to consider not so much the common opinion of the multitude or judgement of the Millinaries which proves nothing as the Scriptures they alledge for their opinions which ought duly to bee weighed And first the words of Christ In my Fathers House are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I goe to prepare a place for you and if I goe and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto my selfe that where I am there ye may be also Christ doth not say nor mean here that he would goe and prepare his Fathers house or the many mansions that are therein for them as some think but a place as he saith which no doubt is that whereof God spake before unto David saying Also I will prepare a place for my people Israel and will plant them and they shall dwell in their place and shall be m●v●d no more c. 1 Chron. 17. 9. Where he promised likewise to establish the Kingdome and Throne of Christ for evermore vers. 11 12 13 14. Neither doth Christ say I will come again and receive you up into heaven to the Throne of God from whence I shall come but unto my selfe that where I am there ye may be also And Christ is then to be in his Kingdome which the Father hath appointed unto him in the world to come where all things shall be in subjection unto him when there shall be new heavens and a new earth as the Prophet Esay testifieth and Peter also and as Iohn foresaw with the new Ierusalem coming down from God out of Heaven even that heavenly Countrey and Citie having foundations which all the holy Fathers thers looked for And this is the place which Christ went to prepare for them and for all their children and wherein when he cometh and receiveth them unto himselfe they shall be with him and he will be with them and God himselfe also and will dwell with them and they shall be his people and he will be their God as he hath said Rev. 21. And concerning the words of Paul 2 Cor. 5. 1. For we know that if our earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an House not made with hands eternall in the Heavens Here the Apostle speaketh of our bodies which hee calleth 〈◊〉 earthly House of this Tabernacle and before chap. 4. our outward man if this be dissolved we have a building of God c. By which he declareth plainly that as wee beleeve the resurrection of our bodies at the last day so we are to know they shall not be then earthly naturall vile corrupt mortall weak dishonorable without glory as now they are but they both the dead that are risen and the living being changed shall be heavenly spirituall incorruptible immortall powerfull honorable glorious for so he had testified before 1 Cor. 15. And in another place again saying For our conversation is in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour the Lord Lord Iesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body c. Phil. 3. 20 21. And that this building of God or House is not temporall or fading but eternall and not lying now in the grave nor being anywhere now in earth in respect of this glorious change of cloathing but in Heaven from whence it is to come as he saith v. 2. For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with our House which is from Heaven c. And he calleth it a building of God an house not made with hands as having respect unto the day of the Lord that great day of the generall assembly of them all his first born so cloathed and adorned when they shall manifestly appeare to be that true and heavenly Tabernacle spoken of Heb. 8. 2. and 9. 11. that holy Citie the New Ierusalem which Iohn saw coming downe from God ou● of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband such a glorious change shal there be of the bodies of the Saints at the resurrection And as touching the words of Peter Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time this inheritance incorruptible c. is the same spoken of before reserved in heaven ready to be revealed from thence

19 20 21. These though professing the name of the true God and of the Lord Jesus Christ his Word and Sacraments and themselves to be his Church yet being possest with unclean Spirits of Devils should by another more secret way than the Dragon used deceive a great part of the world And having changed times and lawes and power and judgement being given unto them for a time and times and half a time should consume the Saints of the most High kill them behead them for those causes mentioned Rev. 13. 5 6 7. 14. 12 13. 17. 6. 20. 4. where the souls of them they should behead are shewed according to that of the pale Horse on which Death sate and Hell followed Rev. 6. 8. whereupon Iohn seeth also the soules of them that they should kill for the word of God c. vers. 9 10 11. and to that of the second Woe upon the sounding of the sixth Angel chap. 9. 13. and chap. 11. where they are said to tread the holy Citie under foot fourty and two months vers. 2. Every place agreeing to that in Dan. 7. 25. speaking in order of one and the same things the Dragon or Pagan Empire first tyranizeth the Beast or Horn that had eyes succeeds him in his throne the Saints are slain for the word of God and not worshipping the Beast the great day of the Lord followeth in every place Now concerning the soules of them that during the reigne of the Beast should be beheaded for not worshiping the Beast c. I request you unto whom I present all these things wel to consider Iohn doth not say And I saw the souls that were beheaded as if such a thing could be Neither doth he say I saw the bodies that were beheaded they lived reigned with Christ a thousand yeares as the Millinaries would seem to expound him or turn the words conceiving that Iohn nameth the Soule for the Body and would have a resurrection of the body to be meant and it to be the first resurrection Iohn speakes of which is not so for the words are plain And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded c. And they that is to say their souls liv●d and ●eigned with Christ c. not their bodies that were beheaded but their souls onely Neither may the soule be named for the body in the resurrection of the body as to rise from the dead with it or for it or for both because it is a meere falshood and a contrad●ctory thing Iohn might as well and as truly have said I s●w the s●uls that were beheaded and so have named the soule for the beheading of the body as for the resurrection of it if it had been a thing sensible or true but he saith and that sensibly and truly And I saw the souls of them c. When those bodies of Saints which slept arose Matth. 27. 52 53. it is not said their souls arose but their bodies onely And although in some other cases while the soule and the body liveth together the soule being the principall part of man may be named for both as Gen. 46. All the souls of the House of Iacob wch came into Egypt were threesoore t●n yet in this case it cannot be so except they will make the soule to dye or be ●lain with the body and so lye dead in the grave with it that it may rise with it as some of them have been bold to say and some to publish contrary to many cleare testimonies of Scripture and to the words of Christ Iohn 11. 25. I am the resurrection and the life he that beleeveth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and beleeveth in me shall never dye By which words it is evident that whosoever is once quickned and made alive again in soule by faith in Christ from that spirituall death which it being once alive in Adam was brought unto by the fall and his own sinnes this soule shall never dye more he is passed from death to life as Christ saith Iohn 5. 24 25. and Christ will raise his body up at the last day according to his word Iohn 6. 4. It is true that the soules of the unregenerate reprobates which were never quickned and made alive again by faith from that death they had by the fall and their own sinnes their bodies dying their soules remain spiritually dead in some low place of darknesse where evill spirits are untill the last day when both body and soule shall come forth and live to undergoe the second death So then when Iohn saith And I saw the soules of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Iesus c. and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand yeares he meaneth their soules and not their bodies and by a thousand yeares all the time of the Dragons being bound and the Beasts reigne and thei● bodies suffering for the word of God c. even to the loosing of the Dragon and end of the world according also to that in Rev. 6. where the soules under the Altar cryed saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth And white robes were given unto every one of them and it w●s said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season untill their fellow-servants and their brethren which should be killed 〈◊〉 they were should be fulfilled vers. 9 10 11. which must needs be understood from the beginning of the Beasts reigne when they first began to suffer for those causes unto the end of the world because their brethren that should be killed as they were would not be fulfilled till then and all the Saints are in one kind or other killed for Christs sake as it is written For thy sake O Lord are we slain all the day long and counted as sheep to the slaughter And because this resurrection of the soule is effected here while the soule is in the body by the Word and Spirit of God as Iohn well knew according to that which Christ had said Iohn 5. 21 24 25. and 11 4 5 6. and to that of Paul Ephes. 2. 1 4 5 6. Col. 2. 12 13. Col. 3. 1 2. 2 Cor. 4. 16. Ephes. 4. 23. Titus 3. 5. and other places and was also in those dayes well known to the Saints in consideration whereof Iohn saith This is the first Resurrection The first implying plainly that it is the very fi●st in which every Saint hath his part and therefore he saith again to the comfort of them all in their afflictions here Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first res●rrection 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 even till Christ shall come in his glory and avenge their blood and raise their bodies and receive them body and

〈◊〉 a watch in the night and what the Prophet Esay and the Apostle Paul saith of the whole time of all the Saints affl●ctions counting it but as a moment and all their afflictions but light in respect of the everlasting mercies and kindnes of the Lord and the exceeding and eternall weight of glory he hath prepared for them and they shall receive in the kingdome of Christ when he cometh in his glory and all his holy Angels with him and shall fit in the throne of his glory as he hath said which is never likened to a small moment or watch in the night or to yesterday as the time of their afflictions is nay what were his kingdome then The next chiefe place whereon they would ground their thousand yeares Monarch is 1 Cor. 15. 24 25 26. Then commeth the end when he shall have delivered up the Kingdome to God even the Father when hee shall have put down all rule all authority and power For he must reigne till he hath put all enemies under his feet the last enemy is Death c. These words of the Apostle they make great use of to their purpose conceiving that the Kingdome which Christ is to deliver up at the end of the world is his own Kingdome which he is to possesse at his second appearing concluding in their minds that there shall be a thousand yeares time between his appearing and the end of the world wherein he with his Saints is to reign and judge 〈…〉 the end of those yeares all the dead that were not raised at the beginning of them and that shall die within the time to be raised and he to deliver up his kingdome This in briefe is that which they conceive and conclude to be the meaning of the Apostle and so they argue from these words Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the Kingdome to God even the Father to prove the kingdome of Christ to be in this world for a thousand yeares and then to end often using the words and repeating them in their bookes saying For Christ is to deliver up his kingdome at the end of the world Here also I request ye to confider how they misunderstand the Apostle turning The Kingdome into His Kingdome whereas the word● are plain Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the Kingdome to God even the Father c. meaning by The Kingdome the high and supream Kingdome of God the Father where Christ is now fitting and reigning with him at his right hand in the heavens expecting till his enemies be made his foot-stoole Which Kingdome when he cometh from thence to judge the quicke and the dead and to reign in his own Kingdome hee is to deliver up and resigne unto God the Father Then are the Saints raised up the last enemy is destroyed the end is come as the Apostle saith Christ the first fruits then afterward they that are Christs at his coming then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the Kingdome to God even the Father when he shall have put down all Rule all Authority and Power All these are to be done at one time without any yeares or dayes between And so the Apostle argueth saying For he must reign till he hath put down all enemies under his feet the last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death c. proving by the words of David The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou at my right hand untill I make thy enemies thy Foot-stoole Psa. 110 That the Kingdome which Christ is to deliver up at his coming is the Kingdome wherein hee now reigneth in the throne of God the Father with him at his right hand in the Heavens expecting till his enemies be made his foot-stoole And therefore he saith For he must reign untill c. And to the same purpose hee proceedeth further and saith And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Sonne also himselfe be subject unto him that put down all things under him that God may be all in all declaring plainly that while Christ sitteth at the right hand of God in his throne reigning with him hee is not subject unto him as hee shall bee when God the Father shall have put down all things under him nor God all in all now as he shall bee then when he hath delivered up the supream Kingdome wholly unto God the Father which he is to doe at his coming to judge the quick and the dead and to reigne in his owne kingdome and sit upon the throne of his Father David for ever not in this world but in that to come which is to be subject unto him as the Apostle testifieth Heb. 2. 5 6 7 8 9. This is Christs Kingdome which God the Father hath appointed unto him wherein the Saints shall reigne with him as he said And I appoint unto you a kingdome as my Father hath appointed unto me that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdome and sit on Thrones c. Luke 22. 29 30. And again To him that overcometh will I grant to fit with me in my throne even as I overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne Rev. 3. 21. And so it is true that the Kingdome wherein Christ now reigneth with God the Father crowned with glory and honour is limited within the compasse of a certain time even untill the Father hath put down all things under him And it is true also that the living and reigning of the souls of the Saints in the first resurrection is limited within the compasse of the same time even till he cometh and shall bring them all with him and cloath them with spirituall and heavenly bodies to live and reign with him body and soule in his kingdome for ever Which kingdom of his he is never to resign nor deliver up neither is it to passe away nor be destroyed nor have an end as the Scriptures witnesse 1 Chron. 17. 11 1 29 13 4. Psal. 89. 36 37. Esay 9 6 7. Dan. 7. 13 14 16 17 18 27. Micha 4. 7 and sundry other places And as the Angel Gabriel testified unto Mary his mother saying He shall be great and shall be called the Sonne of the Highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of 〈◊〉 Father David and be shall reign over the House of Iacob for ever and of his kingdome there shall be no end Luke 1 32 33. according to Esay 9. 7. No end is beyond all limitation of time Another place which some of them alledge is 1 Thess. 4. 16. The dead in Christ shall rise first conceiving the Apostle to 〈◊〉 before the dead out of Christ shou●d rise which they would have to be a thousand yeares after whereas the Apostle in those words hath no respect unto them at all but unto the Saints that shall be alive and remain to the coming of the Lord as in vers. 15. these shall not prevent