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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

and authority thereby to bind or to loose to acquit or condemn in his name Mat. 16.19 By this means they had a greater power then Earthly Judges who passe judgment onely upon mens bodies liberty and goods But Christ gave the Apostles power to remit and retain sins Joh. 20.23 and tels them that what they hind or loose on earth is bound and loosed in Heaven Mat. 18.18 The Apostles and their successors were good and faithfull Judges and indued with wisdom directing them to kisse the Son Psal. 2. and were not like Pilate and Herod and other Judges who opposed him Thirdly the Apostles for I will not deny them any their just titles were {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} rulers under Christ Acts 15.22 For Christ is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Ruler Mat. 2.6 and hath his rule and authority as hee is the great Governour above all feeding his people Israel expressed by this title Hence I suppose the Apostles to bee called Princes in all lands or all the Earth Psal. 45.16 for Christ sent them to all Nations They had their attendants who ministred unto and were directed by them These seeing and imitating the courses taken by the Apostles 1 Cor. 4.17 did work the work of God as the Apostles had done 1 Cor. 16.10 What is said of Paul and Barnabas and others Acts. 15.12 was true also of Peter James Matthias Silas Apollos and the rest they all had rule and authority given them by Christ according to their places And what authority Timothy and Titus had wee read in the Epistles wri● unto them The witnesses of Jesus Christ and of his Word who did not worship the Beast nor his image neither took his mark in their foreheads nor in their hands they lived and reigned with Christ and sat on the Thrones spoken of Rev. 20.4 and ordered matters in the Christian Church acccording to the direction of Christ the great ruler of the Church Object Before the famous thousand years and the great and terrible day of Christs conquering his enemies and setting up his kingdom Elias must come Mal. 4.5 and restore all things Mat. 17.11 Now Elias is not yet come nor are all things restored nor could the time of Christs incarnation and preaching bee termed a terrible day for it was a most joyfull day Alsted 54. Therefore Christs kingdom is not yet begun Answ. First Christ who had no guile found in his mouth tels the Disciples plainly That Elias was come before him Mat. 17.12 that is John Baptist in the spirit of Elias The Disciples conceived aright that Christ affirmed the Baptist to bee Elias Why then should any doubt of this truth Dr. Alsted might well have seen a figurative speech here as elswhere hee doth when a new State of the old Babels and Edoms spirit is termed Babel and Edom page 44. 53. Secondly the word Nora in Mal. 4. signifies not a day terrible to affright but a day with all diligent and reverend care to bee looked unto Such a day was it when Christ appeared in the flesh and published the Gospel Acts 2.20 a day of much comfort and joy and therefore Joel 2.31 it is called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a glorious day and Nora elswhere is rendred by {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} glorious Deut. 20,21 The Lord did for Israel great and glorious things for such they were to Israel at their comming out of Egypt And hence it is that Joreh Elohim is rendred one that fears God Job 1.1 and that Joseph using the same word saith I fear God Gen. 42.18 not that God was terrible to him but that hee had a filiall and religious fear of the divine Majesty And thirdly if you would know how Iohn Baptist restored all things First tell us how all men beleeved that John Baptist was a Prophet in very deed Mark 11. and how all men hon●●red Christ Luke 4.15 And if you answer not your selves wee will assay to find you an answer It must needs bee that all in these and the like places admits some restriction and concerning Iohns performance wee find that all things which he spake of Christ were true Joh. 10.41 That hee told the Publicans and Souldiers and other people their duties Luke 3.12 That the Pharisees and Sadduces and all Ierusalem and the Region round about Iordan were baptized by him Mat. 3.5 His doctrine was repentance for remission of sins and hee prepared the way for Christ by whom all flesh should see the salvation of God Luke 3.3 4 5. and many other matters he preached Now I am assured that no man will conceive that all things absolutely were to bee restored by him● for then what need would there bee of one greater then hee to come after him It is enough that hee taught such doctrine as set all matters in order according to Gods will for the approach of Christ the Saviour of mankind But 't is replied Saint Augustine and others say That Elias indeed shall come and restore all things that is confirm the Saints vexed with antichrists persecutions So that Malachies prophecy being once fulfilled in Iohn Baptist yet may a second time hereafter bee fulfilled in some worthy instrument of God Alsted p. 54. Answ I acknowledge Saint Augustine to bee in his time an excellent and bright shining light in Gods Church so other Fathers But I beleeve Christs exposition of Malachi to bee undoubtedly true namely that Iohn Baptist was that Elias spoken of by the last Prophet in the Old Testament and to have appeared in the very porch of the New Testament and that Malachies prophecy was by him perfectly fulfilled Yet because Gods dealings are often alike I say that God who sent Enoch to the Church of old declining Noah to the old World Elias to Israel Iohn Baptist to the Iews become wicked may also send some eminent person or persons to the world neare the end there of who shall give warning of Gods comming to his own people and servants in mercy to his enemies in judgment before the last day Object It is promised That all the ends of the Earth shall bee saved and every knee bow to Christ Esa. 45.22 23. and every tongue confesse unto him Rom 14.11 Phil 2.10 That all Israel shall bee saved Rom 11.26 Mic 2.12 But this hath not yet been performed there was never yet an universall conversion of all Nations nor of all Israel therefore Christs kingdom in which this is to bee fulfilled is not yet come or begun Alsted 89. Arch 11. 28. Glimps 28. Answ The word all in many places of Scripture cannot as was above said bee extended to every particular but must be warily limited It is said that Christ healed every disease Mat 4.23 that hee is a light to every man that is born Job 1.9 That Saint Lukes Gospel was written of all things which Christ had done Acts 1.1 whereas so short a book could not

Christ is the chief men are his members and partake with him their head in both Sometimes the frame of the like expressions is different As thus Cornelius beleeved with his whole house Act. 10.2 even here Cornelius is the chief so had hee been had it been said The whole houshold beleeved with him And what can there bee more in this speech Wee work together with Christ 1 Cor. 3.4 then in this Christ works together with us Mar. 16.2 Christ is the chief in both Let us not gull our selves with niceties and wrest that from Texts which was never intended Wee suffer wee co-worke with Christ and both these wee doe on earth but may not hence conclude that Christ comes down to us personally and visibly for that purpose So neither can wee conclude Christs visible and personall presense on earth because it is said that we on Earth shall reign with him Dr. Alstede who hath laboured most earnestly in his proofs about this point of the thousand years never makes any conclusion for Christs visible and personall comming down again to earth Hee was a better Logician then to conceit that such an inference could bee wrought from these words Apoc. 20. The Glimps is unresolved pag. 13. Mr. Cotton denies it p. 4. Mr. Mede most modestly and ingenuously as in his other writings so in his Comment on the Apocalyps lashes not out so far but keeps to generall termes Onely Mr. Archer is bold as to wrest some other Scriptures so here and to make Christ visibly come from and return to Heaven according to his fancy rather then any text well understood Repl. Bee it so that Dr. Alstede sayes not that Christ shall visibly and personally reign on earth as Mr. Archer doth yet bee asserts the resurrection of the Martyrs who are to reign with Christ to bee demonstrated {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as clear Apoc. 20.4 as if our eyes saw it p. 8. But the Martyrs are not yet risen from their graves therefore the Saints and Christs eminent Kingdom is not yet past The speech cannot bee of the Martyrs rising from sin but from their graves For 't is mentioned after speech of their beheading Therefore it cannot be meant of a rising from sin in this life Answ. 1. Let it bee observed that the Thrones were set Apoc. 20. and 1. That wee mostly agree in this that the Apostles and other godly persons are those that sit on the Thrones 2. It is also confessed that these were beheaded or otherwise killed for their testimony to the Gospel both these were fulfilled in the Apostles and other the Saints life time So say I was also their Judging the world by Gods word preached as the word preached by Christ judged it Joh 12.28 Moreover secondly it follows not that because their deaths and martyrdoms were spoken of first Rev. 20.4 that the speech afterward of their rising again must be meant of their rising from death and from the grave and not from sin For after speech of their martyrdom it is said of them that they worshipped not the Beast nor his image nor received his mark as advancers of the Beasts kingdom with reference to their life time but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is here so to bee rendred lived and reigned with Christ that is as advancers of his kingdom and partakers thereof and that in their life times also Mark the context well and of this there will bee no doubt Mr. Cotton pag. 20 l. pen grants that even now there is a resurrection of many pretious souls and that they reign with Christ in their hearts and families as much as in them lies So the Apostles and all good Christians rose from the death of sin as Christ from the grave Col. 3.1 and on earth sought things above and in Heaven where Christ is they lived with Christ as Henoch walked with God Gen. 5.22 they reigned in this life through and with lesus Christ from whom they received abundance of grace Rom. 5.17 And thirdly I answer that this reigning with Christ is an expression like others denoting the excellent priviledges of Christians and the great honours which Christ confers on them As namely Christ treads Satan under his feet true Christians also tread on him Rom. 16.20 Christ rules the Nations with a rod of iron Christians also doe the same Rev. 2.27 Out of Christs mouth went at we edged sword Rev. 1.16 The word of God in the Ministers mouth is a two edged sword Heb. 4.12 Christ treads on the aspe the lion and dragon Psal. 91.13 Christs Apostles tread on serpents and scorpions and nothing shall hurt them Luke 10.14 Christ inherits the earth Psalm 2.8 So doe good Christians Mat. 5.5 Psalm 37.9.11 Esa. 60.21 As Christ hath a kingdom here on earth Psalm 2.6 Rev 19.16 So the Saints are made Kings unto God not Kings over men as David and shall reign on the Earth Rev. 5.10 Thus as is the heavenly man such are they that are heavenly 1 Cor. 15.48 49. True Christians are the body of Christ hee is their head 1 Cor. 12.27 Col 1.18 As they partake of sufferings like his so they have their share of honours which Christ enjoyes of his fulnesse they receive in their measure as by the particulars here mentioned and some other the like doth clearly appear The speech of reigning with Christ may not bee stretched further Repl. Sitting on Thrones and having judgment given to the Saints imports a far other matter then you conceive Beleevers shall rule the world as Kings and discipline mens soules as Priests Christ will depute the Saints Governours upon Earth Arch. p. 23. The wicked shall bee ruled with a rod of iron and bee Tributaries to the Saints as the Gibeonites to the Israelites Arch p 22. The first part of Christs kingdom shall bee ruled by them For they shall sit on Thrones c. Mat. 19.28 At last Christ will bee visibly on the Throne and constantly there sit and judg Id. 23. p. Answ. Nothing here spoken doth prove the Saints to bee Kings in any other manner then I have above declared They who continued with Christ in his tentations that is were tryed by as●lictions as hee was they that followed him in the regeneration that is rose from sin as hee from death sit upon twelve Thrones and judg the twelve Tribes of Israel as the Presbyters Rev. 4.4 sit upon Thrones and preach the Gospel to the twelve Tribes as Peter a Presbyter 1 Pet. 5.1 did And to them Christ appoints a Kingdom as his Father appointed to him that as they partake of the benefits of his kingdom so doe all the Saints converted by their and their successors sermons Mat. 19.28 Luke 22.28 29. Rev. 5.9 10. And secondly concerning the Saints judging others wee know that it belongs to the office of a judg to bind or to loose to acquit or condemn which power that the Apostles might exercise Christ gave them the keyes