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A59933	Exanastasis, or, The saints rising out of the heap or mass of dead bodies contained in the globe of the earth and sea ... Rev. 20. 5 hereunto, by way of preface, is here prefixed the comprisal of the substance of our former parcels ... / by William Sherwin ...	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1674 (1674)	Wing S3401; ESTC R34222	79,342	95

Creatures upon the Earth to make them fruitful Gen. 8 9. whereby the world continues with its fruitfulness ever fince by Seed time and harvest as the great Stage for all Gods future actings in Mercies or Judgements which his word testifieth have cheifly their fulfillings in the said 1000 years after which time it must continue the little space of Satans loosing And as the world will so long be the Stage for such actings of God until the New Heavens and the New Earth shall cease so its fruitfulness was to be the accommodation for all such purposes but especially the Earth in those times must power out its plenty in abundance for the Churches-accommodation in that State then saith the 67th Psal The Earth shall yeild her increase of those times c. so Joel 3.18 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Mountains shall drop down with new Wine and the Hills shall flow with Milk see more in our Key of Noahs Covenant And as the Saints grace and Gods goodness in the Earths fruitfulness will be inlarged after it s so many thousand years bearing Fruit before so it will be much more fruitful in those last times of its being yet in its renewed condition whence also the praises of the Saints will be inlarged and their rejoycings also in such fulfillings of such promised Mercies c. 3. For his prophesie when aftor the sin of that cursed Cham occasioned by the hainous offence of his Father Noah for the best Saints have need of their Saviour yet when he through grace was awakened by Repentance from his drunkenness God manifests his grace by him in a like wonderful manner not only to Shem at present entitling him to himself to be the Lord his God But also foreshews his purposed mercy to come to the Gentiles the posterity of Japhet and accordingly his word gives witness to a twofold call which they were after to have to dwell in the Tents of Shem as Gen. 9.27 the first was foretold by Hos ch 1.10.23 and applied by the Apostle Paul Rom. 9.25 26. upon the rejection of the Jews after Christs first coming Acts. 13. which was the riches of the Gentiles saith the same Apostle ch 11. which time of grace continues to the Gentiles to Christs 2 d coming when upon the great Restauration of the Jews and Israelites the Gentiles will have their 2 d call when their great fulness will come in which was foretold also by Moses in his excellent song for pesterity Deut. 32.43 Rejoyce ye Gentiles with his people applyed also by the same Apostle Rom. 15. when Christ being the Minister of Circumsion as he there stiles him v. 8. for the truth of God to confirm the Promises made unto the fore fathers as he there plainly tells us with several other Prophesies there which shall also be thenfulfilled in the said 1000 years And will not the Saints then be greatly affected in seeing the accomplishment of such a mercy and greatly praise God for it when his glorious grace will shine out so abundantly to them therein c. In the third Millen or 1000 Years WHen Lot about the year of the world 2440. had upon worldly allurements chosen Sodom and after thereupon was captivated by his Enemies but delivered by faithful Abraham God sent Melchiscdeck to bless him who had the Promises as a Type of Christs prevailing perpetual Priesthoed to be of his order to whom he then paid Tythes of all as the payment of all due honor will be rendred unto Christ by all his Saints in the said 100 years and by all Creatures also Rev 5. but especially by all those whose great High Priest he shall then appear to be and probably will by a presential intercession appear to be then for such as shall be in the natural life viz. a Priest upon the Throne as Zach. 6.13 and also the raised Saints security then and for ever And as this Melchisedeck Priest of the most high God was also King of Salem so also Christ will then be the great King of the New Jerusalem Mat. 5.35 all the said 1000 years And as Abraham was blessed by Melchisedeck after the slaughter of those Kings so Abraham and his faithful Seed will appear really blessed when Christ maketh his own and their Enemies his footstool so the Saints will then find the mercies derived to them from many currents of long conveyances and still more matter to them of praise and rejoycing c. When Abraham that righteous man as by Esay he is called was sent on his foot by Gods Divine Call Gen. 12. about the year of the World 2460. God was gracioufly pleased to make free Promises and Covenants seven distinct times to and with Abrahans as they are particularly set down in our Key and after him to Isaack and Jacob successively to give the Promised Land of Canaan personally to themselves which Promise the Apostle declares Heb. 11. they saw a far off by Faith and died not having received the same wherefore as he also shewed they did not in their lives seek to possess it but as men expecting to have the said Promise of God made good unto themselves at the Resurrection of the just they bought burying places there to have their bodies interred as also Josephs bones after were untill they should all rise again then to possess it in the renewed state thereof for they looked for an heavenly countrey such as then that state will be excellently fitted then by God for that their condition At first also the said Promise was made to all Abrahams Seed natural and spiritual through that one Divine feed Christ as the Apostle teacheth to spring in time from Abrahams Loins according to the flesh Gal. 3.16 by whom also all the spitual seed by faith should obtain their lot in that blessed state by Promise v. 29. concerning which two sorts the Scripture sets forth many differences The natural Seed was to inherit the Promised Land after Abrahams Isaacks and Jacobs death 430 years after the Promise was first made but the spiritual will be joint heirs not only with Abraham but also with Christ in the said renewed state when he shall sit upon his own Throne as the Son of David The former were to be in Bondage long after the Promise the spiritual are made free indeed by Christ the Son of God so soon as they are made the Sons of God by Adoption and Grace besides what will after appear they shall be when Christ shall appear 1 Joh. 3.2 The former were compared to the dust of the earth for multitude Gen. 13.16 but the spiritual Seed was compared to the Stars of Heaven not only for multitude but excellency Gen. 15.5 explained by the Apostle Pom. 4.17 18. and Gal. 3. the whole Chapter The natural Seed entered into a Covenant with God in their own strength and brake it but as for the other God makes a new Covenant with them and undertakes the keeping

I conceive spoken sufficiently to this purpose before I shall therefore here adde no more Now for Application We shall onely endeavour to give some breif hints thereof referring their inlargements to future opportunity if God be pleased to afford it for I cannot speak largby the Press c. 1. Vse of Inform. This may inform all Preachers of the Gospel and all wise and faithful Christians that desire to be well and surely guided in these great things of God respecting the said first Resurrection of what concernment it is to labour well to understand First the curious work of this Key given by Jesus Christ since he ascended unto the Father And Secondly the right Use and Improvement of it The curious work in it is that it is Divinely fitted for all ancient Prophesie and indeed for all Prophesie respecting the general good of Gods faithful Servants throughout all the Bible and of all times throughout the being of the World all setting forth the necessity of the Saints said Resurrection so revealed by our Saviour as we shewed c. And the excellent Improvement and Use thereof is to shew their special and peculiar interest as well as the general in all the revealed promised Mercies and Covenants in the whole Book of God viz. How or under what capacity any such special Mercy is derived to them and made effectual to their Souls in such or such a Dispensation of Grace to them particularly which hath not efficatiously reached to many others at least as yet but in Charity and thankfulness to endeavour truely that it may do so also if it may be and according to their understanding well the curious work of the said Key and the due improvement thereof All judicious Christians may find from thence an excellent sure guidance I say again an excellent sure guidance by divine assistance to judge of the true intent and meaning of all Prophetick Scripture all hangs upon that one Hindge of such said breaking the Serpent Satan head viz. both his head of Craft and Dominion and all drive to the same end of Restauration of men and Creatures in the World as in the several branches of such revealed Mercies may appear if they be rightly considered and all to be accomplished by the said promised Seed within the time of his Mediatorship Before those things shall be enjoyed that Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard nor entered into the Heart of man to conceive which will be in the highest Heavens afterwards Whereas these mercies in the interim will be much of another nature whilest Christ is redeeming and restoring Men and other Creatures from the bondage of Corruption unto that glorious liberty of the Sons of God And though there be many particular and special Prophesies many times yet they are in their drift and subserviency to be reduced thereunto and therefore the allegorizing of any sorts of Prophesies that have a direct tendencie to any branch of such reavealed ancient Promises and Covenants must needs be erroneous upon whatsoever fair pretenses such sense or senses are put upon them by any man or men whatsoever And therefore if we look unto what God declared in general to Adam and Eve and for their Spiritual off-Spring through Christ that said Divine Seed of the Woman about 4000 years after to come in the Flesh Both in respect of the evil to be removed and the good to be obtained answerable to those divers times and divers ways after declared Mercies acording to the good pleasure of God to the fore Fathers Or consider aright the Covenant which God made with Noah that Type of Christ for the preservation of the renewed Earth as the Stage whereupon God would act in all future Mercies to be known and performed in their due time and order to the end of the World and thereupon the Mercies then to his people were said to be as the Waters of Noah unto God himself that was sure and infallible and by that Covenant both all Creatures with men have their usual preservation and Provision by Seed time and Harvest c. and their greatest fruitfulness is especially reserved for those last times when the Serpents head shall be broken both eminently at Christs coming from the right hand of the Father at the begining or when his shall sully destroy all his Churches Enemies with death the last after the said thousand years Or consider the blessings of Shem and his Race to Abraham and thence especially to all Israel the twelve Tribes and so in Christs lineage and forward or the Predictions of the Calls of Japhets posterity the Gentiles since by holy Scripture explained and applied Or as Jews and Gentiles both united under that one King Christ Jesus which is that Son of David that shall sit on Davids Throne so long as the Sun and Moon shall endure according to Davids sure mercies promised respecting his said Kingdom and all other Saints interest therein through Christ for to them also belongs the sure Mercies of David Esa 55.3 whereby they are also secured for Eternity for such shall not be hurt by the second death as rise then to Reign with Christ in that Kingdom which onely will continue to the finishing of his Mediatorship but then is by him to be given up to the Father 1 Cor. 15. And is that that must be during the Worlds continuance as appears by our fifteen Reasons in the New Jerusalem pag. 9 10. when under him the said Saints glorious King Head and Husband who prayed in that sence before his death that they should be so made perfect in one as his Bride or mystical Body and willed they should behold his glory then Joh. 17.21 23 24. when there will 〈…〉 very gracious and happy performance of all such promised mercies in the 〈…〉 to the capacity of the Persons or Creatures that are to be so blened preserved or restored So that they attend to this Issue that Christ may be manifest in the world before all sorts of Creatures to be as perfect yea a much more perfect yea an infinitely more perfect Restorer and Redeemer than the Devil was or could be a dessolator and destroyer as all those said predictions in their several times and kinds with their subsequent Scripture Confirmations and explication sufficiently restifie being all opened by and accommodated unto this Divine Key of the Son of God the Wisdom of the Father by whom the worlds were made viz. the Old World the New world and the World to come shall be Heb. 1.3 with Rev. 21.5 who hath and doth and will till then uphold all things by his Divine Power as well as he hath Redeemed us by his Blood who shall then accordingly inherit all things answerably to this his said threefold right assigned by the Father unto him in his said Kingdom and by him to his suffering Saints Rev. 21.7 in the time of his said Mediatorship or of his Davidical Kindom and said New Jerusalem state upon which accounts the

ordered as becometh Christians and then with the Spirit and Bride say come and let him that heareth say come and let him that is a thirst come and whosoever will not linger and be lost let him now whilst it is called to day take the water of life freely chap. 22.17 For he that testifieth these things saith surely I come quickly It is Verbum Diei in die suo a word in its due season for it appears to be in its due order of accomplishment and the Links of the Revelatian Chain have been passing by above 1600 years the last Link draws neer to which Christs Kingdom will immediately succeed Come in poor Sinners get an interest therein and then you will be safe I pitty you all that prize it not I pray God give you enlightned understandings and sanctified affections now the world is vanishing with all her Vanities together suppose it should continue twenty or thirty years longer yet how soon may you die in your sins or be cut off in Gods wrathful displeasure in a moment whether you be secret sinners though nothing is secret to or hid from Gods all seeing eye or open sinners to him all things are naked and open with whom you have to do or if you be great sinners none are so great but the least stroak of his displeasure will shatter them in pieces or small sinners though none that is not a Saint can be a small sinner in the sight of God though comparatively in the sight of men he may and such as have committed great sins upon their Faith and Repentance may be pardoned as soon as the least But you that are great sinners and would fain think your selves out of Gods reach and upon worldly advantages seem to bid defiance unto God saying as they let him hasten his work that we may see it or you that think with the Fool in the Gospel you have enough for many years or you have great Interests great Alliances great Relations great Honour Wealth Authority power to execute your will and pleasure and what not if you came well by them then there is more reason you should serve God and honour him with them the more they are all Talents and you must be accountable for every one of them have you fed clothed visited Christ in his Disciples if not go ye cursed Mat. 25. but if you came ill by them and use them contrary to his will the greater Vengeance hangs over your head for that reason without Repentance Yet to conclude there is yet a time of Grace and Mercy to be had for you great sinners if you will improve it aright before it be quite past be wise therefore at last now now now whilst it is called to day be not hardned any longer by the deceitfulness of Sin then may your Souls safely and comfortably joyn with Christs Spouse in her hearty Amen for the Bridgrooms coming saying with her also verse 20. even so Come Lord Jesus Come quickly Amen Last Vse Lastly for Exhortation to Thankfulness to all that shall have part in this said blessed Resurrection of the just upon this particular account now more especially in these times That Christ Jesus hath not only given this excellent Divine Key to his Church opening the many great benefits of those ancient mercies reserved to be accomplished in the said thousand years and also so fitly agreeing with the Doctrine of the said blessed Resurrection of the Saints with all the concomitants thereof But now in these times is so graciously pleased to discover and vouchsafe unto us the comfortable Use and Benefit thereof by Faith upon such excellent Divine antient most sure Foundations as those before set down and also by holy Scriptures so explained and carried on to those intents in the said times and that the said blessed Resurrection should be the inlet to all former Saints to those happy enjoyments then for their Souls and Bodies in such a blessed Communion many wayes as the said Saints shall then attain unto The abundant strong evidence whereof is not only sufficient if duly weighed to stop the Mouths of gainsayers but to convince all soundly rational men that Gods great Provision for the marriage of the Bride and the Lamb at the time so by his word declared and published will not be in vain and lost for God is not like men to change or be deceived in or frustrated of his end But what Thankfulness in these respects do all such true Christians owe to the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ that from all such said Foundations he hath wrought Faith in their Souls to foresee with faithful Abraham Christs day to come by Faith and receive such comfort in so happy news of such manifold approaching mercy wherein they have such particular interest and concernment and all this so strongly founded upon evidences throughout the whole Scripture so clearly explained by Christ and by the Holy Spirit to be words faithful and true three times over and delivered for their use by his Servant John Besides the many renewed particular promises since set down with sundry explications of them both in Old and New Testament which do evidently lead us to the use and benefit of this said divine Key so given by Christ Jesus to his Church for such excellent purposes how should the approaching reign of Christ with his said Sts. in the world in that time of the new Heavens and new Earth fill such beleiving Christians Souls with praise thanksgiving when a double advantage will redound unto them first that the great last Enemies of Christ and his Church will be removed and taken away that so long have obstructed her joy and peace but that the Church of Christ shall also enjoy the end of her hope from all the said Foundations and promised Mercies then to be performed in the foresaid state to be upon the said blessed first Resurrection of the said Saints And what stronger evidence than from that first most large comprehensive Foundation given by God himself Gen 3.15 which about 3000 years after had such a particular explication of Christs carrying on the same upon his Ascention after his actual laying the Foundation of his Churches Redemption by his sufferings at his first coming which should so eminently be carried on by making his Foes his Footstool at his second when he shall come from the right hand of the Father to judge the quick and the dead at the same time of his appearance and Kingdom according to that antient divine Oracle so often repeated illustrated and explained in the New Testament The Lord said unto my Lord sit thou on my right Hand till I make thy Foes thy Footstool Psal 110.1 viz. at that said time as many Scriptures teach 2 Thess 2.8 2 Tim. 4.1 Rev. 19. also consider Ezek. 38. and 39. Dan. 11.45 of the Turk with many others both respecting the ruine of Pope and Turk the first Gog and Magog before the said thousand