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The universal Christian doctrine of the Day of Judgment applied to the doctrine of the thousand years kingdom of Christ (herein guided by Mr. Baxter's Reply) to vindicate it from all objections ... / by Thomas Beverley ...
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Beverley, Thomas.
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Saints of the First Resurrection as a peculiar Recompense for the many Terrors and Debasements Death Brings with it The Saints therefore Living and Remaining who Dye not nor shall suffer the Dishonour Pain the Terror of dying are upon the Ballance of Things for the Glory of God and Christ in this Oeconomy not till the 1000 Years are ended and They Caught up invested with this Glory and are therefore said till then only to be Partakers of the First Resurrection They have therefore Bodies Chaâ—g'd into the most excellent Paradisiac State as Adam had before sin and probably as much excelling as the First Adam is excell'd by the Second And though they for many great Resons Beget an Off-spring to the Mediator and Eat and Drink as Adam should have done and All this in the Holiest Purest manner such excellent Bodies can be Exalted into and though They do not Immediately put on Incoeruption and Iwmortality till they are Caught up Yet They in event can no more dye nor fall away then the Saints above All which Answers many Objections concerning them And It Redounds Infinitely to the Glory of the Redeemer and of the Second Aâ—am above the First that in a possibility of dying as to the Nature of Things They who might as Adam dye and Fall Yet secur'd by the Mediaâ—or They shall not dye nor Fall but They shall be Caught up and put on Incorruption and Immoâ—tality And when Death and Sin are thus every way subdued in the Saints of the First Resurrection vindicated out of their Hands and in the Saints chang'd preserv'd from their Sting even under a possibility Then are They both Swallowed up in Victory by Christ Appearing thus every way a perfect Redeemer on which Account as one Reason All is thus ordered Then â—s Death and Sin and Hell with all its Dead and Sathan the Prince of All Thrown into the Lake and the Triumphal Song sung the Effect of which endures throughout All Eternity 3. The Saints of Christ principally the Martyrs and Sufferers and the Contemn'd Abused Persecuted and Beheaded for the Word of God and the Testimony which They Held with All who have Resisted the Impurity and Corruptions of the World shall Appear in Glory sown in Weakness but Rais'd in Power Sown in Dishonour Rais'd in Glory Bearing the Image of the Heavenly Adam the Quickning Spirit the Lord not only in Heaven but from Heaven as in a Kingdom lower then the highest Heaven Sitting on Thrones and Judgment is Given to Them for the 1000 Years 4. For this Glory of Christ the Redeemer and of his Redemption and of his Saints There is a Glory of the Renewed Restored Creation in the visible Heavens and all their Influences Purified and Purg d and so made new and the Earth Renewed in the same manner that the Saints of the First Resurrection may Appear as a Firmament and shine as the Stars Dan. 12. even as the Sun Matth. 13. 43. upon the New Earth and have a prospect of Beauty and Purity And the Saints on Earth * Call'd Nations of the Saved All as Kings of the Earth Revel 21 24 25. may Walk in this Light of the New Jerusalem above and Bring their Glory to it in looking upon their Communion with it as their Highest Glory and so the whole Creation may be deliver'd from the Bondage of Corruption into the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God for which it now Groans in its present Slavery and with earnestness Waits Even as in all Mankind There is an Appetite Implanted by Creation to See and Enjoy a due Time in the Glory of Gods Creation freâ— from the Curse and Adorn'd with the Blessings of it This we see how strongly it now works in the Holiest Men and Women however in Regard This is not the Place nor State nor Time it be mix d with much Corruption and as the Apostle calls it Lust in a World to which God s Heart cannot be and therefore He often chastises with Great Severity the over eager desires in any of his Sts. of Any Thing here But then there shall be such a State that the Lord Himself shall Rejoyce in his Works with all his Saints Triumphing in the Works of his Hands when there shalâ— be an Apocatastasis a Restitution of All Things without which the Second Adam would not be as perfect a Restorer as the First Adam was a Desolator But I Assert and shall after prove the Flying away of this New Heaven and Earth and that therefore this Oâ—conomy lasts but a 1000 Years as the Sabbatism of the Glâ—â—y of Creation 5. There must be a State Bearing some Proportâ—on to all the promises made to Abraham and his Seed of a City and a Country and of Nations and a Postâ—rity as the Stars of Heaven as the Dust of the Earth Gen. 13. 16. and as the Sand on the Sea shorâ— Innumerable that He may be a Father of many Nations and Heir of the World of all which Canaan and Jerulalem Gen. 2â— 17. and the People of Israel were but Types For this was a Heavenly Countrey and City as the Apostle tells us Heb. 11 and a Posterity of True and Sincere Believers How can this then be better explain'd then by the New Jerusalem coming down from Heaven and the Saints of the First Resurrection a Posterity as the Stars for whom he Knows how to make Room who hath done it for those vast Globes of Light and then by the New Earth and the Saints Living and Remaining on the New Earth who shall be as the Dust and as the Sand And He will make Room for Them who hath stretched out this Earth for them that walk upon it and wherein besides the much less Cumber of Paradisiac Bodies and the Abundant Sufficiency of the Paradisiac Earth and Purity of the Air and the Leaves of the Tree of Life for the Healing the Nations There is Provision for all Enjoyments of the Saints in those Bodies Besides all this There shall be no Sea to to take up Room Revel 21. 1. as there was not in the First Paradisiac Earth as hath been made out by that Truly Excellent Theorist Dr. Burnet Master of the Charter-House Giving Great Light to that Apocalyptical Text and Receiving Great Proof from it And herein for his sake who God over All Blessed for ever came of Them and for the Believed Father's sakes and according to all the Images and Language of Poophecy The Spiritual Natural Israel shall have a Preeminence and for which They shall certainly be call'd though it will Remain a Mystery until the set Time of the Gentiles Fullness be come But in the mean Time for their sakes the Nâ—w Heaven and New Earth is call'd New Jerusalem and so many Apocalyptical Figures are derived from Them leading to that New Jerusalem 6. There shall be a plain sensible and visible State of the Wicked in Dishonour and Contempt in the View of All For all the
Christians exhorted to Take heed of falling from their own Firmament or Firmation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 17. That They may shine as that Firmament Dan 12. 3. 4. Their Wresting of Scriptures to their own Perdition Universally more Particularly the Prophecies for their own Papal Kingdom and against the Kingdom of Christ And that Discourse of the Apostle Paul 2 Thes 2. They Writhe wholly from Themselves which would They have Observed it and ask'd as Judas their Type Is it I It would have Answered Them as Christ did Him Thou sayest This is a Great Brand by which the Son of Perdition with all his Adherents may be known whose Character is as the Judasses of the Christian Church Son of Perdition and Two Times Going into Perdition Compare John 17. 12. 2 Thess 2 13. Revel 17. v. 8. v. 11. These Remarks upon the Apostle Peter's Prophecy as I style it I have been larger upon to shew I am Conscious of no Recoyl of Mind concerning it and though some Things may seem wiredrawn yet the Manner and Symmetry of Prophecy the Great Rule of its Interpretation will Justifie me Argum. 4. I do indeed so Rely upon the Prophecy Revel 20. Concerning the Thousand Years that if I had only that Scripture I should think it sufficient although it be but One and although it be Propheick Because I find the Letter so Express as that the Thousand Years are no less than Six several Times Named And I Observe the Apostle's Discourse upon Melchisedech so Weighty so Large with so severe a Reproof of the Unteachableness of Christians concerning it Heb. c 5. â—0 c. 6 1. with Reâ—erence to it throughout c 7. All of it to be Suspended upon One single Oracle and that Prophetick also Psal 110. 4. The Lord hath Sworn and will not Repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedech Referring to a small Historick Memoir Genes 14 18. 19 20. and that on purpose Contriv'd to be Dark and under a Veiâ— Yet the Apostle severely Reproves a Dulness of Hearing of it Whereas the Christians then might have said We Desire only plainer more undoubted Truths more genearlly Treated Principles and fundamental Points But the Apostle Silently Threatens the Danger of Ayostacy on not Going on to Perfection by grounding his so Earnest Exhortation to Go on upon that Danger of Apostacy without so Doing And indeed there is Great Reason to think a Prediction of the Great Antichristian Apostacy in the Bulk not to be Repented of not to be Renewed to Repentance according to Râ—vel 16. is lodg d in it and that That very Apostacy came in upon the Ignorance of and not Acquiescency in Christ's Melchisedechian Priesthood after the Power of an endless Life but setting up that Kingdom and Priesthood in Counterfeit For what is the Melchisedechian Priesthood of Christ but a Priesthood on a Throne Zech. 6. 13 And what is the Papacy but a Counterfeit of that a Priest on a Throne the False Propbecy Included also as the True is in the Priesthood of Christ And why was this Golden Calf Idolatry brought in by that false Aaron as his Vicar but to supply the Absence of Christ Gone up to the Mount and not knowing That it is Witnessed of him He liveth and is as Active for his Church and Saints Above as Below while on Earth so far as is necessary till he brings forth all his Saints Appearing also in the Glory of his Melchisedechiaâ— Priesthood as Kings and Priests also But to Return to the Prophecy Revel 20. I observe as I have already observed There is not only the Shell or Words but the Deep Reason of Things as All Prophecy and most particularly all the Lines of the Revelation before it Run into It and Center in it and All Require such a Kingdom of such a State of New Heavens and New Earth and of a Duration of Time that may speak Perfection to Accomplish Them And that Duration this Prophecy Declares to be a Thousand Years and then All to be Drawn up into Eternity and no otherwise to End Argum. 5. The Observation upon the Thousand Years I made heretofore in my Patriarchal Line p. 58. does much sway my Judgment still concerning the Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ viz. By the Recollection of each Patriarch's Life whol and together is most Pompously set out That none of these Holy Men Attain'd a Full Thousand Years of Life though some Life 's swell'd so much above Nine hundred as if they would mount to a Thousand yet it was said to Them Hitherto shall you come and no further for a Thousand in Sacred Record is a Number of Perfection that is not Allowed to any Years of Life in Adam's Apostate State but Reserv'd for the Restitution of the Second Adam and p. 165. As if the Thousand Years were a Tree of Life Guarded with Cherubims that none might Take of it Enoch had a particular Exemption of not Dying yet no One might be in a Visible State on Earth One Thousand Years wherein I am Confirm'd by Reading what Dr. Sherlock so Reverend so Learned so Considering and so far from what is call'd Fanaticism as every One knows hath written in his Excellent and Generally Acceptable Practical Discourse of Death p. 129 130. Wherein it is most Considerable that he Writes not as having Espous'd the Opinion of the Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ nor was Intentionally Writing upon it But so Discerning and Quick-sighted a Person was struck with its Beams of Light and Truth while he was upon another View And thus he Writes The longest Term of Humane Life after the Sentence of Death passed on Man was a Thousand Years And Comparing this Observation with that Promise of a Thousand Years Reign with Christ which is call'd the First Resurrection and is â—he Portion only of Martyrs and Confessors and pure and sincere Christians Revel 20. I have been apt to Conclude To live a Thousand Years is the Priviledge only of Immortal Creatures That if Adam had continued Innocent he should have liv'd no longer upon Earth but have been Translated to Heaven without Dying For this Thousand Years Reign of the Saints with Christ whatever that Signifies seems to be Intended as a Reparation of Death which They fall under by Adam's Sin But then these Thousand Years do not put an End to the Happiness of those Glorious Saints but they are Immortall Creatures And though this Reign with Christ continues but a Thousand Years Their Happiness shall have no End though the Scene may change and vary for over such the Second Death shall have no power Or else this Thousand Years Reign with Christ must signifie an Eternal and Vnchangeable Kingdom a Thousand Years being a certain Earnest of Immortality But there is an Unanswerable Objection against that Because we read of the Expiring of those Thousand Years and what shall come after them even the Final Judgment of all the World This is a Great