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A40762	A sober inquiry, or, Christs reign with his saints a thousand years, modestly asserted from Scripture together with the answer of most of those ordinary objections which are usually urged to the contrary.	I. F.	1660 (1660)	Wing F26; ESTC R5515	86,615	187

hence Chrysostom upon the place saith Aute impios resurgent justi ut sint primi in resurrectione non tantum dignitate sed tempore the just shall rise before the wicked that they may be first in the resurrection not onely in dignity but in time Now if the dead in Christ shall rise first when shall the wicked rise but in a second resurrection And if the resurrection St. Paul speaks of be the resurrection of the body why is not the resurrection St. John speaks of the resurrection of the body two And Paul tells us plainly 1 Cor. 15.23 to 26. that there is an exact order in the resurrection and that the order is thus first Christ the first fruits and Captain of our Salvation leads the way and is the first in order The second order is of those that are Christs of the godly at his coming And the third order is of all the rest of the●● world when the end comes But I shall leave off to enumerate any further scripture proofs for the thing seems to me ever submitting my self to better judgements and plainer proofs exceeding clear and plain Object Yet when all this is done methinks I hear some say it is a novelty surely if it were true it would have been made known and been believed before now Solut. To this I answer I confess the apprehension of novelty is a great prejudice to this truth and I freely confess that that kept me off a long time from closing in with it but this is but an apprehension not a reality for If Christ himself and his Apostles and the Prophets and the Christian Jews both before Christ and since and the Primitive Gentile Christians were of this opinion then I hope it is no novelty but all these were of this opinion Ergo it is no novelty See Medes Diatrib p. 4. that all they were of this opinion is partly cleared in this small tract and partly might further but that I am resolved it shall not swell and other more learned men have done it I confess for the one thousand years Regnum Christi reign of Christ to be silent under the regnum Antichristi it is not at all to be marvelled at greater far had been the marvel if they who slew the Martyrs had owned in the least the Martyrs reign Can any man I pray you rationally conceiv Antichrist and his followers to be persons likely to own the reign of Christ and his followers When all the world wondred after the beast Rev. 13.3 4 C●e the Pope and his party that beastly power and faction and worshipped the Beast and cry him upas a non such saying who is like him who is able to make war with him as they did for one thousand two hundred sixty years which time alass is not yet out as the sad face of Christendom at this day witnesses I say then for Christs reign and Kingdom to be decryed yea almost thrust out of acknowledgement who can at all wonder And yet for all this so far is the opinion from novelty this Millennium hath been fully owned before yea and partly under the very reign of Anti-christ That it was generally owned before besides what hath been already said I have here out of many instances which might easily be produced onely made choice of one more because it bears so full witnesse to what I have in hand that it may be instar omnium instead of all others That great Counsel of Nice called by Constantine the Great besides their definition of faith and Canons Ecclesiastical set forth certain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is forms of Ecclesiastical Doctrine some of these are recorded by Gelasius Gyzicenus in his Historia actorum concilii Niceni Amongst these there is this formula for the doctrine of the state of the resurrection the which that I may do them no wrong I shall here give in their own words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which in English for th●● by most is best understood runs thu● The World is made worse by * By sin the knowledge of good and evil foreknowledge for God foresaw that man would sin Therefore we expect New Heavens and a New Earth according to the holy Scriptures when the Apparition and Kingdom of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ shall shine forth And then as Daniel saith shall the Saints of the most High take the Kingdom And there shall be a pure holy Land a Land of the living and not of the dead which David foreseeing by the eye of faith cries I beleeve to see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the li●ine A Land of the meek and humble For bless d●saith he i. e. Christ are the meek for they shall inherit the earth And the P●ophet and the feet of the Meek and Humble shall tread it Judg by this notwithstanding fifty years opposition how p●●verful the Ch●●iastical party yet was at the 〈◊〉 of and in that Councel That this hath been owned even under the reign of Antichrist appears amongst many other instances that might be given by that Catechisin set forth in King Edwards time and by him Authorised May 20. in the last year of his Reign where the two siest Petitions of the Lords Prayer are explicated in this manner The Dialogue is between the Magister and Auditor Upon these words sanctificetur nomen tu●m Auditor secundo loco petimus ut adveniat regnum ejus Adbuc enim non videmus res omnes Christo esse subjectas n●n videmus ut lapis de monte abscissus sit sine opere humano qui contrivit in nihil rede●it statuan descriptam a Daniele Vt Petra sola qui est Christus occupet obtineat totius mundi imperium à Patre concessum Adbuc Antichristus non est occisus quò fi● ut nos desiderem●s precemur ut id tandem aliquando contingat impleatur utque solus Christus regnet cum suis sanct is secundum divinas premissiones utque vivat dominetur in mundo juxta sancti Evangelii decreta non autem juxta Traditiones leges hominum voluntatem Tyrannorum munde M. Faxit Deus ut regnum ejus adveniat quam ●itissimè That is in the second place we beg that his Kingdom may come for as yet we do not see all things to be subjected to Christ we do not see that the stone is cut out of the mountain without hands which bruiseth and brings to nothing the Image described by Daniel that the Rock alone which is Christ may occupie and obtain the Empire of the whole world granted him by his father As yet Antichrist is not slain whence it comes to pass that we desire and pray that that once at last may happen and be fulfilled that Christ alone may reign with his Saints according to his divine promises And that he may live and govern in the world according to the decrees of the holy Gospel and not after the

Saints departed are in Heaven and they live with Christ in blisse though as I have before proved not in perfect blisse and they shall there continue till the day of Judgement at the beginning whereof the thousand years begin and not before 2. If we speak of the time during the day of Judgement we say that the souls of the Saints shall remove from Heaven as Christ himself shall and be united to their bodies and shall remain with Christ on Earth till the preat day of Judgement be ended which ends not till the thousand years be also ended 3. If we speak of the time after the day of Judg●ment ●●ended we say that the Saints shall remove from Earth to Heaven where they shall remain for ever with Christ Thus we see the reign of the Saints is at several times in both places Object 13 We read Exod. 34.30 That when Asron and all the children of Israel saw Moses behold the skin of his face shone end they were afraid to come nigh him Even so if the Saints should live again on the Earth with and in their glorified bodies we should do and be the like viz. affraid to come near them And so there could be no communion between their glorified bodies and ours Answ 1 Were not the bodies that the Angels had glorious bodies yet Abraham and Lot were not affraid to come nigh them Gen. 18.2 He ran to meet them So Gen. 19.2 2. Were not the bodies of Moses and Elias glorified bodies when they appeared to Christ on the Mount and yet the Disciples could endure their presence Matth. 17.4 3. Was not Christs body glorified after his Resurrection yet his Disciples could converse with him and he with them as the Evangelists declare Matth. 28. Marke 16. Luke 24. Iohn 20.21 All testifying the frequent appearing of Christ to his Discipler 4. As Moses put a veil over his face while he was talking with them so that his face did not offend them So the Saints can hide their glory is Christ did (a) Marke 16 12. Luk. 24.16 his resurrection so as that it shall not be offensive to the godly mortal saints And they can again manifest their glory at their pleasure so as it shall be a terror to the wicked Can we think that such a little filly creature as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nitedula or glow-worms shall at her pleasure withdraw or cause her pretty spark in the dark to glister and shall not those raised glorious Saints much more at their pleasure withdraw or cause their glory to appear as an occasion for either shall require Object 14 This opinion doth imply that in this visible Monarchy Christ shall change all worldly customs and pull down all kingly power and greatness how just soever and set up a new way of Government so as that there shall be no other Lords but as it is written Isai 2.11 and ver 17. And the loftinesse of man shall be bowed down and the haughtiness of men shall be made low and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day Ans 1 I hope this is not the cause why great ones are so loth to hear of this opinion for the counsel of God shall stand and every jod and tittle of his word be fulfilled whether we believe is and they receive it yea or no. 2. We read 1 John 5.19 that the whole world lyeth in wickedness and if Christ should change the custome of this wicked world and set up better in their room and place why should any godly man be against that It is enough for the wicked of the World Luke 19.14 to say we will not have this man to reign over us 3. And if Christ shall take the Kingdoms of the world into his own hands he doth no man wrong herein for God hath made him heire of all things Heb. 1.2 and he is King of Kings Rev. 19.10 Therefore all Kings and Princes of the world must be content to resign their Crowns and Scepters into his hand and lay them down at hie feet when he calls for them as the four and twenty Elders did Rev. 4.10 4. Whereas it is said Christ shall put down all kingly power and greatness it is false if they mean to exclude the Saints thereby for the Saints shall live and reign with him And they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reign a thousand years not in coordination with him but in subordination to him as the text implies Object 15 This opinion doth not only imply the Conversion which soz●e Divines have granted and beleived but which others have doubted the total reduction of the twelve tribes of Israel and Judah into their own Land again Answ Upon what grounds this can rationally be doubted I confess I see not For the Scripture seems to me very plain not only for their return or reduction in the general that it shall be so but also tells us many particulars about it 1. I say the Scripture tells us plainly in the general that it shall be so that they shall be brought into their own Land again For this see these Scriptures Isai 33.20 Look upon Zion the City of our solemnities thine eyes SHALL see Jerusalem a quiet habitation a tabernacle that shall not be taken down not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed neither shall any of the cores thereof be broken ver 17. thine eyes shall see the King viz. Christ in his beauty they shall behold the Land that is very far off v. ult And the inhabitant shall not say I am sick the people that ●w●l therein shall be forgiven their iniquity Jer. 31.27 28. Behold the days come saith the Lord that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast And it shall come to pass that like as I have watched over their to pluck up and to break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict so wil I watch over them to build and to plant saith the Lord. And I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah c. Read I pray you the rest and consider these expressions well I will thank any man to tell me and prove it when every jod and tittle of these and such like texts were since those Prophecies fulfilled If they have no● I am sure they shall for Christ the truth hath told me so Matt. 5.18 Verily I say unto you till Heaven and Earth passe one jot or one tittle shall in no wise passe from the Law till all be fulfilled But to go on see Ezek. 37.11 12. Then he said unto me son of man these bones are the whole house of Israel Behold they say our bones are dried and our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts Therefore Prophecy and say unto them this saith the Lord God behold O my people I will open your graves