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A86120	Christs kingdome on earth, opened according to the scriptures. Herein is examined, what Mr. Th. Brightman, D. J. Alstede, Mr. I. Mede, Mr. H. Archer, The glympse of Sions glory, and such as concurre in opinion with them, hold concerning the thousand years of the saints reign with Christ, and of Satans binding: herein also their arguments are answered. Imprimatur; Ia. Cranford. Feb. 12. 1644.	Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing H1217; Thomason E278_1; ESTC R200009	77,855	95

CHRISTS KINGDOME ON EARTH Opened according to the Scriptures Herein is examined What Mr. Th. Brightman Dr. J. Alstede Mr. I. Mede Mr. H. Archer The Glympse of Sions Glory and such as concurre in opinion with them hold concerning the thousand years of the Saints Reign with Christ And of Satans binding Herein also their Arguments are answered Imprimatur Ia. Cranford Feb. 12. 1644. LONDON Printed by Ric. Cotes for Stephen Bowtell and are to bee sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible in Popes-head Alley 1645. Christian Reader DIvers are the Causes of Error in Religion Many there are who will not rest content with necessary and saving truths others are misled by Enthy siasms and their own private spirit some erre by reason of the weaknesse of their judgments and not attending to them that can better informe them but above all what Christ said to the Jews was and ever will bee true men erre not knowing the Scriptures Admit will some say what you affirme to bee most true in the generall temper of the now d sordered world you may not lay these imputations on such whom you undertake to answer they were men learned moderate cautelous well-studied in Scriptures It is granted but the best may erre and therefore let us search the Scriptures as did the Bereans and try whether side in these points maintain the truth Dr. Alstede was a man of vast comprehension but had many Irons in the fire Mr. Brightman I leave to Dr. Coopers judgement who sayes that pretending to give us a Revelation of the Revelation hee hath set forth an Obscuration thereof Mr. Mede was my worthy and learned friend but not to bee preferred before truth Mr. Archer was held to bee a pious and good Christian if hee bee not the Author of the Book in his name let him beare the blame that fathered it upon him who should bee the penman of the Glympse I know not With none of these deale I farther then they are ingaged in this dispute What I cite out of Dr. Alstede is from the English Edition more parable now then the Latin What I crave of you good Reader is this that you would read without prejudice examine each matter throughly and judge impartially Yours in all Christian Offices of love to be commanded T. HAYNE The Contents of this Treatise Chap. I. WHether Christs Kingdom on Earth bee yet begun or not The Question sttated The Affirmative proved Page 1. Chap. II. The chiefe and common Argument produced against my Tenent answered and confuted p. 4. Chap. III. The answer to many Objections of the Divines who endeavour to prove that Christs famous Kingdom is not yet begun p. 9. Chap. IV. Mr. Th. Brightmans judgment of the Times in Daniel and the Apocalyps particularly examined and refuted p 34. Chap. V. Dr. J. Alsteds and Mr. H. Archers and others account and Arguments about the same Times propounded and refuted p. 38. Chap. VI The Arguments and authorities from the Rabbins urged by Mr. Mede on Rev. 20. answered p. 54. Chap. VII Objections out of Rev. 21. and 22. cleared by other Scriptures and answered p. 66. Chap. VIII Whether the binding of Satan for a thousand years Rev. 20. be already past The question stated p. 71. Chap. IX The famous and notable binding of Satan Rev. 20. is already past p. 72. Chap. X. Objections answered whereby it will further appear that the eminent binding of Satan is already past p. 74. Some faults escaped are thus to be amended PAge 9. Line 10. read as is p. 121. 16. r. of Gods p. 15 1. 13. r. crucif●e him p. 16. 〈◊〉 thousand years p. 23. 1. 5. r. any whosoever p. 25. 1. 15. r. a peace which p. 31. 〈◊〉 ass●ctions p. 43. 1. 29. r. a time p. 44. 1. 25. r. ●xtie dayes p. 47. 1. 1. r. Dan. 7.8 is not Antichrist p. 48. 1. 29. r. dayes and nine●e p. 49. 1. 36. that is uphold p. 54. 〈…〉 p. 55. 1. 28. r. ●ude 14. p. 53.1.12 r. did and will p. 64. 1. last r. Coch notes on p. 66 1.● r. is 〈◊〉 p. 70. 1. 27. r. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} p. 75 ● ● r. up in the p. 77. 1. 16. r. twe●ft-twentieth and 1. 28. r. hst p. 85.1.3 blot out so CHRISTS KINGDOME on Earth opened according to the SCRIPTURES Chap. I. Whether Christs Kingdome be yet begunne or not The Question stated The affirmative proved THat we may rightly set downe the state of the Question and cleerely deliver the truth concerning Christs Kingdome frequently mentioned in Scripture wee must know That God is omnipotent the fountaine and originall of all power and dominion That his kingdome is ever lasting and throughout all ages Psal. 145.13 That his Throne is in heaven Psal. 105.19 And that he rules not in Jacob onely but even to the ends of the world Selab Psal. 59.13 We must also observe concerning Jesus Christ That by him the world was made Joh. 1.3 That whatsoever the Father doth the same doth the Sonne also Joh. 5.19 And that the Throne of the Son of God our Saviour is for ever and ever Heb. 1.8 So that in regard of the Soveraigne power and dominion of Christ it is undoubtedly true that at all times hee rules hath an absolute Kingdome in the World and doth whatsoever pleaseth him Psal. 135.6 The rules and Laws of this Kingdome are delivered to Gods people in the Scripture and Christ according thereunto continues the administration thereof on Earth untill at the end of the World hee comes againe to the last judgement and then hee delivers up this his Kingdome as a faithfull Governour of the same to his Father 1 Cor. 15.24 And ever afterward sits in the Throne of his Father Rev. 3.21 that is in Heaven which is Gods Throne Mat. 5.34 Acts 7.49 Of this extent is Christs Kingdome yet in regard that God hath sometimes permitted Satan and wicked men in extraordinary manner to domineere and exercise their worldly and ungodly power And that at other times hee hath made his owne Soveraignty by remarkable mercies and judgments in more especiall manner to appeare God and Christ upon this more glorious expression of their over-ruling might are then especially said to have a Kingdome and to Reigne because in such times their glory and Majesty doth more manifestly shew it self Exod. 15.18.1 Sam. 12.12 Obad. 21. Apoc. 12.10 and elswhere Indeed the World were its eye-sight cleare might well discern Gods power to bee above all in many lesse matters but especially When hee removes some Kings and sets up others Dan. 2.21 4.14 VVhen Babels eminent Monarchy was pull'd down by the Medes and Persians Esa. 13.17 The Medes and Persians Might queld by the Grecians Dan. 7.7 21. The Grecian Domi●ion broken and divided between the foure chiefe Captaines of Alexander Dan. 11.4 And then againe subdivided by two of Alexanders Captaines the one in the South the other in the North of Judea

and Earth given him Mat. ●8 18 A Kingdome which lasteth for ever Luke 1.33 And this Kingdome he had at or neare his ascension at which time and a thousand and some hundreth yeares after the Roman Kingdome stood and as some affirme yet stands Therefore the Roman Kingdome is not the fourth Kingdom in Daniel Argum. 2. The fourth Kingdome in Daniel is to bee destroyed before Christs Kingdome to which all Nations and not the Jews onely are to submit Dan. 7.14 not before a Kingdome of a thousand yeares as some conceit yet to come begins But the Roman Kingdome was not destroyed before Christs Kingdom began to which all Nations were to submit for it began about the time when Christ sent to all Nations to obey what hee commanded Ma● 28.20 At which time and thence to this present the Roman Kingdome continues Therefore the Roman Kingdome is not Daniels fourth Kingdome Argum. 3. If the fourth Beast Dan. 7. expresses the Roman Kingdom then the Beast Rev. 13.1 to the 11. sets forth the very same Kingdome and not one like thereunto For most Exposisitors hold and that aright that that Beast Rev. 13.1 sets forth the Roman Kingdom But the Beast Rev. 13.8 to the 11 verse expresses not the very same bnt a like Kingdome to the foure Kingdomes Dan. 7. Therefore the fourth Beast Dan. 7. expresses not the Roman Kingdom That the Beast Rev. 13.1 to 11. expresses not the very same but a like Kingdome to the foure Kingdomes Dan. 7. I thus prove The chiefe mysticall and figurative termes in the Revelation having reference to something in the Old Testament expresso some new matter like the Old and not the same with the Old But the Beast Rev. 13.1 hath in the figurative and mysticall termes thereof reference to the Old Testament namely to the foure Beasts Dan. 7. Therefore that Beast Rev. 13.1 expresses not the very same but a like Kingdome to those foure in Dan. 7. What ●asfirmed of the chiefe mysticall and figurative termes in the Revelation is evident For Egypt Babylon the New Jerusalem the Wildernesse Paradise Manna and other the like termes expresse new matters like the old and not the same And that there is a manifest reference of that Beast Rev. 13.1 to the foure beasts Dan. 7. is most manifest For In Dan. 7. The 1. Beast is a Lion 2. A Beare 3. A Leopard 4. A Beast with ten horns The Beast Rev. 13.1 Hath 1. A mouth like a Lion 2. Feet like a Beare 3. A body like a Leopard 4. It hath ten hornes And as the foure Beasts Dan. 7. have seven Heads The Lion one the Bear one the Leopard foure and the fourth Beast one So the Beast Rev. 13.1 Hath seven Heads Thus the reference is most evident Answ. To this Argument is answered Bee it granted that Christs providentiall Kingdome over all things and his spirituall Kingdome over his Church were administred by him when hee lived upon earth yea even from the beginning of the world and shall continue unto the worlds end Yet his Monarchicall Kingdome in which hee shall govern and raigne as earthly Monarchs have done universally over the world is not yet begun Mr. Archer Replicat Christ in his Kingdome above mentioned is the most absolute King and Monarch that ever was is or shall bee and you much debase and vilify him and his Kingdome in comparing it and counting it inferiour to earthly Monarchies and Kingdoms For they rose out of the Sea or Earth Dan. 7.3 17. Rev. 13.1 11. But Christs Kingdome is set up by the God of Heaven and is often called the Kingdome of Heaven in the Gospel Christ is the Lord from Heaven 1 Cor. 15.43 and therefore is above all Joh. 3.31 The kingdoms of other States were destroyed Dan. 2.44 But Christs kingdome is everlasting and can never bee destroyed Dan. 7.27 Other great kingdomes of the world ruled over one hundred twenty seven Provinces or the like But Christ is to have all Nations to serve him Psal. 72.11 Even the uttermost parts of the Earth for his possession Psalme 2.8 In all things Christ hath the preheminence And therefore Christ at the time mentioned was a more absolute Monarch then any King ever was is or shall bee and had a lawfull authority to give out his commission for all Nations to be taught to observe his commands Mat. 28.20 But to come close up to the Point Thus I argue Argum. 1. When Herod Pila●e and the Jewish Rulers rose up against Jesus Christ God set him up to bee his King on Mount Sion his holy Mountaine and gave him so eminent a Kingdome that to it all Kings Judges and people must submit or else bee crusht with an iron Scepter Psal. 2. Act. 4.26 27. Pnt Herod Pilate and the Jews rulers rose up against Jesus Christ one thousand five hundred and moe yeares agon This is undeniable Therefore God set up Christ his King on Sion his holy mountaine and gave him a Knigdome so eminent as above one thousand five hundred and moe yeares agon What ever men conceive W●e must to the Law and testimony to the sacred authority of Scripture and seeing wee have good ground thence so to doe wee may and doe averre that notwithstanding worldly potentates not subtle reasonings onely but mighty oppositions also aganst Christ God set him up King on mount Sion and laughed to scorn the vain and frustrate designes of his Adversaries agents for and friends of Rome the then most potent Kingdome on Earth So that it must bee granted that Christs Kingdom then set up was more powerfull then Romes which to this very day never could though assisted by the Gates of Hell either by might or policy prevaile against Christs Kingdome Argum. 2. Christ in St. Johns time was the Prince of the Kings of the Earth Rev. 1.5 had all things given him by his Father Luke 10.22 All power in Heaven and Earth Mat. 28.18 before his ascension so that hee was the head of the Church his body and in place farre above all principality power and Domination and every title and name that is named not in this world onely but in the world to come Ephes. 1.21 22. Therefore at Christs being here on earth or neere unto that time he had an absolute and boundlesse Soveraignty farre above all Monarchs and Kings that heretofore lived or ever shall hereafter For though many of them had very large Dominions and great prosperity both in Peace and Warre and subdued and vassalled many other Kings to their Scepters yet none of them had all power in heaven and earth committed into their hands by God They were not capable of such honour nor fit to be intrusted with so great a charge Chap. III. The Answer to many Objections of sever all Divines who would provetha Christs famous Kingdome is not yet begun T Is sufficiently above proved that Christs emin●nt Kingdome was long since begun yet against this truth as against

possibly contain each particular Joh 21.25 And Christ healed not all diseased people but any whatsoever that came unto him or sought by others for cure nor did the light of the Gospel by Christ brought in benefit each particular person For it is presently there added That the world knew him not that his own knew him not So then the meaning of these speeches here urged must be limited according to other Scriptures That is all shall be saved by Christ and all have eternall life whosoever believe in him Joh. 3.15 16. Whosoever heare Christs commands and obey them Mat 7.24 this limitation is warranted Joh 6.45 where first it is said They shall bee all taught of God there is the generall fully expressed but presently the restriction follows {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} every one that heares and learns of the Father comes to mee Those are onely such as the Father gives unto Christ verse 37. So then the sense of the texts produced is that an elect company out of all parts of the world both of Israel and every Nation and tongue shall be saved all that adore Christ as their Saviour shall bee blessed in him This is in good part accomplished already and shall still more and more by Gods mercy and good Christians industry bee effected Let no man conceive that hereby an evasion and shift is made to elude truth The course of Scripture is cleare that there will bee tares among the wheat fishes good and bad in the net of the Church that l●● a remnant of the Jews shall bee saved Hence it is that Rev 21. 22. When into the New Ierusalem through the twelve gates they that are written in the Lambs book enter without this City yet in this world Archer p 22. are dogs inchanters murtherers idolaters and such as love and make lies Mr: Archer therefore very much mistakes who holds that in Christs kingdom all things in the world shall bee as perfectly subject to him as to Adam in his innocency pag 5. And elswhere seems to say that then all people shall bee holy pag 25. Thus hee over-lashes Therefore I marvaile not that elswhere hee contradicts himself and sayes That the armies of the wicked onely shal be destroyed by Christ in the beginning of his Kingdom as Egypts armies at the red Sea and that in the thousand yeares there shall bee left some wicked fearing else that there would bee no ungodly persons in after times for a seed whence the warriers of Gog should spring The Glimps runs the like course and sayes that in Christs kingdom all dissention shall bee taken away and all men shall come and serve God and hee called by one name so that no one Church shall dissent from another p 28. where speeches in Scripture tending to this sense occur wee must warily understand them The learned Mr: Mede said very well that shall often denotes actum solitum aut debitum not whatishall doubtlesse bee done but what is wont on ought to bee done So Exod 30.29 All that come to the Altar shall bee that is ought to bee holy And Ier 18.18 The Priests lips shall that is ought to preserve knowledg And Rom 14.11 Every knee shall bow to Christ that is ought to doe it for so it is expressed Phil 2.10 God hath highly exalted Christ that every knew should bow to him But this counsell of God many have rejected against themselves and many now and hereafter will neglect Or else every knee shall bow to Christ may thus bee expounded Every one shall either willingly obey Christ and serve him or when Christ hath subdued all the Churches enemies and brings them all to judgment at the last day they shall yeeld to him and acknowledge him to bee Lord of Lords and King of Kings Obj. It is promised that Jerusalem shall bee a quiet habitation Esa 33.20 That the people shall break their Swords into plow shares and their speares into pruning books Esal 2. That Jerusalem shall bee again inhabited in Jerusalem and that then God will defend Jerusalem and destroy all Nations that come against it Zach. 12.6 that there shall bee no more destruction but Jerusalem shall bee safely inhabited Zach. 14.11 Many the like Texts are produced by Dr. Alsted and some others And these promises say they have not yet been fulfilled but shall in their due time be fulfilled and therefore in the thousand yeers yet to come Answ. Dr. Alsted in pag. 52. sayes very well that Zachary speaks not of the old Jerusalem which was after his time demolished but of the New Jerusalem the Christian Church consisting of Gods people first in the old Jerusalem and thence all the world over So that the old Jerusalem needs not to bee rebuilt that wee may go to worship God therein For Jews and Gentiles converted in all Nations whatsoever have a fre● accesse to God in their own Countries where they dwell All families shall mourn for their sins as of old the Jews are said to due Zach. 12.11 Mat. 24.30 Even Egypt once so wicked Zach. 14.18 and Ashur once so tyrannicall Es. 19.23 shall worship God by such Rites as God appoints as Israel of old did in Jerusalem at the feast of Tabernacles Zach. 14.16 Midian and Shebab shall comes to Christ and Kedar and Nebaioth and Tharshish shall call on Gods name as the Jews used at their offerings and sacrifices Es. 60. Zach. 14.17.21 Other speeches in the Prophets like these are in the same manner to bee expounded It is here said these things shall bee done that is as above they should and ought to bee done These and all other Nations were by the Apostles to bee taught to doe what Christ commanded the gates of the new Ierusalem were opened to all people and Nations on each side of the City And many persons in all Nations were of old and shall still be called and redeemed Acts 2. Rev. 5.9 Satan could not hinder the Gospel from being propagated as I shall hereafter shew Secondly concerning the quiet and peace of the Christian Church though it have a place which passeth all understanding Phil. 4.7 yet even in the Kingdom of Christ there must bee a patience and suffering Rev. 1.9 The Saints have a blessed and quiet estate but yet they first were in and then came out of great tribulation Rev. 7.14 The witnesses were kild but revived and were taken up to Heaven Rev. 11. Gods servants cry but teares are wiped from their eyes They have sores but cured with the leaves of the Tree of life they thirst but are satisfyed with the waters of life they undergoe sorrow pain and death but these are the first things things that first they must suffer but such things as must passe away Rev. 21. and 22. The Church is tryed purged whited by affliction as Dr. Alstede pag. 7. Christ himself came from the crosse to the Crown and what befell the green tree the dry can not escape They that will

began in the year four hundred and six T is true that about this time Constantine left Rome and made Constantinople his royall Seat but the Bishop and Church of Rome did not then so apostate and degenerate from what they had been that grosse popery and Antichristianism may bee laid to their charg Constantine who erected Churches placed new Bishops in them countenanced other good Bishops already placed so held his Imperiall autority and Vicegerency under Christ that the Bishop of Rome never in his time exalted himself above the royall Scepter or challenged an universall autority over all Churches There were fault● in Churches and errours in Bishops and teachers before Constantines time and in it But wee see by Christs judgment upon the seven Churches in Asia Rev. 2. and 3. that some faults and errours do not presently unchurch a people as rank Popery and Antichristianism doe Eleventhly If the ten Kings received their kingdom Apoc. 17.12 and imployed their power in oppressing the Church together with the beast namely the persecuting Emperours then they received that their power from the C●sars long before the year four hundred and six And if it bee meant of receiving their power from the Popes it is manifest that they submitted not their necks nor took their Scepters from the Popes untill many years after four hundred and six namely untill about the year of Christ one thousand and odde Herein therefore Mr. Archers ground-work fails him Twelfthly How can the year one thousand two hundred and sixty bee attributed to the Pope alone Suppose so many years given to the warring Beast Rev. 13.4 5. that is the Emperours which make the sixth head and the● ruled in Saint Johns time I finde nor the like time ascribed to the beast with two horns or to any particular type whereby the Popes alone are expressed Mr. Brightman holds the beast Rev. 13.1 not to bee the Emperours or civill State of Rome but the Popes because the Imperiall State was risen before St. Johns time and Christ shewed to Saint John matters onely which were to bee don after the giving of those visions Rev. 4.1 To this I Answer Christ did shew St. John matters which for the most part were to bee don after the Vision Rev. 4. But hee shewed him also first some things absolutely don and past as namely five of the heads of the Beast seen by John were faln and gon Rev. 17.11 Christ appeared to him as a Lamb that had been stain Rev. 5.6 This was don long before that vision And secondly some things shewed to John were formerly in part fulfilled and were yet more and more to bee fufillled in and after his time As these God doubtlesse before sat gloriously upon his Throne as hee is said to sit Rev. 4.2 The Elders namely John himself and the other Apostles and the whole Church of God before Johns Visions ascribed praise honour glory c. to the Lamb as they doe Rev. 4. 5. The New Jerusalem spoken of Rev. 21.10 was before Mother of the beleeving Galatians and other Christians Gal. 4.26 Heb. 12.22 I might instance in diverse other the like passages Observe this well or els Mr. Brightman will by a false fire mislead you in diverse other matters Thirteenthly Mr. Archer and some others though they decline the grosse millenary opinion of one thonsand years victory pleasure Joviality yet in ascribing to their refined thousand years plenty of all things without sin and making the Martyrs raised from death partakers thereof c. palpably as I conceive mistake For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink nor which is consequent other matters lesse necessary And to what end should the bodies of the Martyrs and Saints raised up immortall and glorified such they are described to bee 1 Cor. 15. live again on earth to make use of such poor accommodations and not rather enjoy glory and immortality in heaven for which the resurrection fits them as it did Christ risen from the dead and ascending into heaven Fourteenthly See how they jar and differ in their judgment Mr. Brightman to the summe three hundred and sixty in Julians time addes the one thousand two hundred and ninty in Dan. 12.11 and the forty five years more there in verse 12. and saies that the Turks power will bee extinct in the yeare one thousand six hundred ninty five to which summs those numbers doe amount Mr. A●cher from three hundred sixty six and the other summes saies that in the year one thousand seven hundred the thousand years begin Dr. Alstede to the year ninty six in which saith hee Jerusalem fell addes the same one thousand two hundred and ninty and one thousand three hundred thirty five and affirms that the thousand years Apoc. 20 end in the year two thousand six hundred ninty four which Mr. Brightman ends about the year one thousand three hundred Mr. Archer to the year four hundred and six when saith hee the Papacy began addes the one thousand two hundred and sixty Apoc. 11.3 and 12.6 And tels us that the Papacy falls in the year one thousand six hundred sixty six Mr. Brightman from the same summes and an addition of years for the heads cure which Apoo. 13 was wounded which cure some others that think themselves Surgeons not inferior to him little thought of makes the Pope-doms fall to bee in the year one thousand six hundred eighty six See his Comment on Apoc. 13.5 Hereby it appears what liberty is taken to dispose of these Propheticall accounts of time rather according to humane fancy then clear evidence of Scripture whence their opinions become different and leave us more uncertain and unresolved then when wee consulted them except wee will confide and relie more on mens persons then on their proofs and arguments In opinions thus disagreeing it necessarily follows that some of them bee faulty and t is not improbable their grounds beeing so sandy and weak that all of them may bee false What Reasons I have here alledged to disprove them I humbly submit to the censure of such as are judicious in these matters Chap. VI The Arguments and autorities from the Rabbins brought by Mr. Mede on Rev. 20. answered MR. John Mede on Rev. 20. produceth diverse reasons for his opinion about the thousand years And thus first hee argues Gorists kingdom is joyned with his appearance to judge the quick and the dead 2 Tim. 4.1 But at Christs last appearing to judg the quick and the dead he is so sarre from beginn●ing a new kingdom that bee delivers up the kingdom to his Father That kingdom therefore which neither shall bee before the appearance of the Lord nor after the last resurrection is necessarily between them And this kingdom is said to bee for one thousand years Rev. 20. Answ. Saint Paul sayes not that Christs Kingdom was not before his appearing to judg the quick and the dead and Mr. Mede himself grants That Christ long before had a crown given