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Eclectical chiliasm, or, A discourse concerning the state of things from the beginning of the Millennium to the end of the world
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T. F., 17th cent.
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the House of the God of Jacob Intimating the reception of the Gospel by a great part of mankind and the continuance of the rest of the World in the state of Heathenism And now the wonder of this Invasion ceases For 't is easy to imagine the Camp of the Saints encompassed by an army of Infidels excited or provoked thereto by the Devil But there is some difficulty in conceiving how this army should be drawn together from so remote and distant places of the World For the Nations of which it is composed are said to be in the four Quarters of the Earth But it hath been observed by a learned Man that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in many places of the New Testament hath a Critical signification and does peculiarly refer to the Land of Judea And in this notion it is here to be understood as signifying not the whole World but that Part or Portion of it which by God was given to the Posterity of Abraham and which is here distinguished by a new Name the Camp of the Saints in allusion to their incamping in the Wilderness And then the Nations in the four Quarters or corners of the Land will be some people seated in the Countries not far distant from Judea whom we may easily conceive entring into a Confederacy against the Jews and uniting their forces for the destruction of these Saints of the most High And thus the greatest difficulties relating to this vision are removed And the plain meaning and signification of it appears to be the Invasion of Judea by some of the neighbouring Nations Which event if it were foretold by the Prophets there can be no reason to question or doubt of the truth of this Exposition Now concerning this Invasion there are several Prophecies but the most remarkable and express is that in Ezekiel between which and this vision there is an exact and admirable agreement Ezekiel's Prophecy Chap. 30. In the latter days thou viz. Gog shalt come into the Land that is brought back from the Sword and is gathered out of many People against the Mountains of Israel Invasurus montes Israelis Junius ver 8. Thou shalt ascend and come like a Storm thou shalt be like a Cloud to cover the Land thou and all thy Bands and many People with thee ver 9. And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the Land of Israel saith the Lord God that my Fury shall come up in my Face And I will plead against him with Pestilence and with Blood and I will Rain upon him and his Bands and upon the many People that are with him an overflowing Rain and great Hail-stones Fire and Brimstone vers 18 22. St. John's Vision Rev. 20. And when the Thousand Years are expired Satan shall be loosed out of his Prison ver 7. And shall go out to deceive the Nations Gog and Magog to gather them together to Battel the number of whom is as the Sand of the Sea verse 8. And they went up and compassed about the Camp of the Saints and the beloved City vers 9. And Fire came down from God out of Heaven devoured them vers 9. And whereas it is objected that Gog in Ezekiel comes out of the North parts vers 15. whereas God and Magog in the Revelation are said to be Nations which are in the four Quarters of the Earth this seeming difference admits of an easy Solution For although Gog with the People of Magog came out of the North parts yet the rest of the people of which his army consists come from other parts Some from Persia some from Ethiopia and Lybia and others from the North Quarters of the lesser Asia viz. Gomer and Togarmah vers 5 6. So that here are several Nations in Confederacy against the Jews and these lying against the four Corners of their Land But whereas God and Magog are chief in this Expedition therefore they only are mentioned by St. John And for the same Reason the judgment of God against this Army is in Ezekiel denounced particularly against Gog. So that here is no difference but a most exact harmony and consent between the Prophet and the Divine But there is a farther Correspondence as to the time of this Invasion very remarkable and which abundantly confirms my Interpretation This in the Revelation is about a Thousand years after the Jews Conversion and repossession of their native Land And that in Ezekiel succeeds the Restauration of the Jewish Nation and their Subjection to Christ For in the seven and thirtieth Chapter is foretold the Return of the whole House of Israel vers 11 12. The Reunion of the two Kingdoms after this Return vers 21 22. And the perpetual government of David or Christ over them vers 25. And then follows in the next Chapter the Prophecy of Gogs invading the people of Israel in the latter days or towards the End of the World Chap. 38. 16. CHAP. VI. Of the general judgment and end of the World THE last vision is that of the general Judgment which is the concluding Scene and ends with the Conflagration of the World And I saw a great White Throne and him that sat on it from whose face the Earth and the Heaven fled away and there was found no place for them And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the Books were opened and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life and the Dead were judged out of those things which were Written in the Books according to their works And the Sea gave up the Dead which were in it and Death and Hell delivered up the Dead which were in them And they were judged every Man according to his works And Death and Hell were cast into the lake of fire this is the second Death And whosoever was not found Written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of Fire Rev 20. 11 12 13 14 15. What St. John here saith of the dead standing before the Throne of God and their being judged according to their works needs not much explication The right of judging belongs to none but God nor is any besides a God qualified for so mighty a performance But we are assured from Scripture that this judgment shall be administred by God Incarnate in the Person of Jesus Christ who is ordained the Judge of quick and Dead Act 10. 42. For the Father judgeth no Man but hath committed all judgment to the Son and that for this reason as Our Saviour himself tells us because he is the Son of Man that is truly and really Man as well as God John 5. 27. For of the three Persons in the Blessed Trinity the Son only is personally united to Human nature And therefore being God-man is the most proper Judge of Men who must be judged in their Bodies The consequents of this judgment are not so clear and obvious For as for the casting Death and Hell into the lake
the same kind the means and instrument of their Torment will not be Fire And so this opinion of a burning World falls to the ground The fire therefore at the day of judgment is not intended chiefly for the punishment of ungodly Men though they as I said before will suffer by it but for the destruction or dissolution of the World to which God will then put an end and reduce it to its Primitive Chaos And this dark space out of which the Earth and Heaven are fled away I suppose to be that Blackness of Darkness mentioned by St. Peter and St. Jude and which is said to be reserved for the Damned For thus of the Angels that kept not their first estate but left their own habitation St. Jude saith vers 6. that God hath reserved them for everlasting Chains or to be bound in everlasting Chains under Darkness at the Judgment of the great Day Vid. Piscator in Loc. Mede Disc 4. And the fate of ungodly Men is the same for to them is likewise reserved the blackness of darkness for ever vers 13. And in this melancholy State of Darkness and Horror the Devil and his Angels and all whose Names are not found written in the Book of Life shall be tormented and endure greater Miseries than the mildest fears and jealousies of the most guilty minds can imagine Nisi in hisce talibus liberius paulo sentiendi imo errandi venia concedatur ad profunda illa latentia veritatis adyta via nunquam patefacta fuerit Mede FINIS General Titles of Books Printed for Charles Brome GEographical Dictionary Fol. L'Estrange's Divine Offices Fol. Bishop Wilkins Real Character Fol. Religious Conference between a Minister and Parishioner 4to Satan disrob'd from his Disguise of Light 4to Case of the Quakers relating to Oaths Blomes History of the Bible with Cutts 4to L'Estrange and Browns Erasmus Colloquies 8vo Colberts last Will and Testament 8vo Fundamental Charter of Presbytery 8vo Sir Charles Cottons Planters Manual 8vo Complete Gamester 8vo Scoffer Scoft 8vo Virgils Travistie 8vo Wonders of the Peake 8vo Centum Fabulae The best Cutts in Octavo for Common Prayers Earbery against Deism 8vo Desdiers City and Republick of Venice translated out of French by Fra. Terne Gent. 8vo St. Evremonts Case of the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine 8vo Scholars Guide from the Accidence to the University 8vo Essay of Love and Marriage 12mo Stitcht 6 d. Portuguese Asia in 3 Vol. 8vo Dr. Popes Select Novels 8vo Bishop Sprats Sermons 8vo Plain Dealing Poulterer Stit. 8vo 6 d. Fords short Catechism Bish Wilkins Nat. Religion 8vo Anatomy of the Elder Tree 12mo Reformed Monastery or the Love of Jesus 12mo Seven Love Letters from a Nun to a Cavalier Sir P. Medows Wars of Denmark 12. Crums of Comfort 24. Godly Mans Companion 24. Guide to Heaven 24. Guide of a Christian 24. Rule of Life 24. All the Pieces of the Author of the Snake in the Grass Bish Kens Exposition on the Church Catechism or the Practice of Divine Love 8 vo Bish Kens Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of Winchester College and all other Devout Christians Bish Kens Sermon at the Funeral of the Lady Mary All L'Estranges Tracts 4 to Bromes Horace in English 8 vo Bromes Songs 8 vo Dr. Combers Works Dr. Combers Catechism Christian Education of Children according to the Maxims of the sacred Scripture and the Introductions of the Fathers of the Church 8 vo