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A90621	Chiliasto-mastix. Or, The prophecies in the Old and Nevv Testament concerning the kingdome of our savior Iesus Christ. Vindicated from the misinterpretationes of the millenaries and specially of Mr. Maton in his book called Israels redemption, / by Alexander Petrie Minister of the Scots Kirk at Roterdame. The epistle shevves the ground and pedigree of the mistake. To shew the originale of an errour is a convincing of it.	Petrie, Alexander, 1594?-1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing P1878; Thomason E24_17; ESTC R7754	63,328	79

and terrible day of he Lord shall doe at the accomplishment of this prophecie Ans Wher the darknesse of the Sun and so i● may be understood of the Moone is used properly it is not put only for a signe of an eminent and imminent destruction as it is manifest Luk. 23 45. which wes a testimonie from heaven of Christs innocencie for conviction of the murtherers and c. 21.25 the signes in the Sun and Moone and in the Starres and the distresse of nationes upon the earth with perplexitie and the roaring of the Sea and waves ar all to be understood properly as signes before the great and terrible daye of the Lord. So what is promised in the 28 and 29 verses of the second ch of Ioel wes truely albeit not altogeder fulfilled in the dayes of Peter even howbeit the wordes of the 30 and 31 verses be properly understood and not wholly fulfilled till the time immediatly preceding the last coming of Christ Inst 2 The chief and most remarkable effect of the Spirit in the Apostles at this tyme wes the gift of tounges of which the prophet makes no mention Ans 1 If this exception wer true it wold prove that the Apostle citeth the wordes inpertinently and the Iewes micht have challenged him of babling and so these authoures fight against the Apostle and the Spirit of God who hes registred this argumentation of the Apostle as good and valide 2 the chieff and most remarkable work of the Spirit at that tyme wes a sound from heaven as of a michty rushing wind which filled all the house and there appeared unto them cloven tounges lyk as of fire and it sate upon each of them and they wer all silled with the holy Ghost and this wes noised abroad Wherby it is evident that the Apostle speakes especially not only of the effect which is their speaking in strange languages bot of the cause the powring doun of the Spirit of which Ioel speakes expressely and therfor Peter citeth the wordes pertinently Inst 3 as the prophet reveled so Peter repeates this powring out of the Spirit as a contemporarie event with the wonders which shal be shewne in the heavens and in the earth before the great and terrible day of the Lord come which day can no way be referred to the first coming of Christ when he came to save sinners and not to destroy them for then it must been an antecedent of his birth and not a subsequent of his death Ans 1 Ioel sayth not that the powring of the Spirit shall not be till the great and terrible day of the Lord come bot he shewes so many thinges preceding the coming of our Saviour nether may we think that all these thinges shal be fulfilled in the same juncture of tyme if all be accomplished even in several tymes the prophecie abides true 2 That day or tyme wes terrible for it is written Act. 2.6 the multitude came togeder and wer confounded or troubled in mynd because that everie man heard them in his oun language and they wer all amazed and mervelled and v. 22 a man approved among yow by miracles wonders and signes Wherby it is manifest that even to the sicht of these Iewes that tyme of Christs coming wes terrible albeit his second coming shal be more terrible in regard of the general destruction which shal be on all nationes not for opposing themselves against the Jewes as they imagine bot for their not acknowledging God and not obeying the Gospell of our Lord Iesus 2 Thess 1.8 Inst 4 And to put it out of dout that Gods bringing doun the heathen into the valley of Iehosaphat is meant only of this gathering them togeder to a battle and consequently of a judgement on the living and not on the dead to put this out of dout I say the prophet makes it to be a concomitant of the Iewes returne from their captivitie Ans That these wordes ar not meaned of the temporall Monarchie after Christs coming it may be learned by the parallel text in that same page wher it is sayd And for my own part I am persuaded that this great armie here spoken of is the verie same that shal be gathered together to the battle of the great day of God Almichtie by the thrie uncleane spirites lyk frogges which St Iohn sawe come out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the mouth of the false prophet Rev. 16.13 If he be persuaded that this is the same battle he micht lykwise be persuaded that the text of Ioel 3. is not after the coming of Christ nor immediatly at his coming for that battle is in the tyme of the sixt vial after which followes another vial and tyme of trouble mentlioned in the rest of that ch of the Revel And here by the way we observe that the renouned Authour of Clavis Apocaliptica is mistaken in his seventh Synchronisme wherin he sayth that the powring furth of the seven viales is contemporarie with the end of the Beast and Babylon for albeit it be sayd c. 15.2 that they who had gotten the victorie over the Beast sang the song of Moses it followes not that the Beast wes then destroyed nether albeit the first and fift and last viales be powred on the Beast followeth it that they wer not powred till the last tyme of the destruction of the Beast Seing the Saintes in heaven and on earth too may rejoyce for their particulare victorie over the Beast as yet reigning and the viales may be powred on the Beast at several times even some of them on the Beast in the hight of her pride to the end that men may have warninges of the judgementes of God on the Beast in her greatest pompe And the rather may we judge so that we find such aggriement in the principal termes of the seven Trumpets and seven viales the second Trumpet with the second vial the thrid Trumpet with the thrid vial the fourth Trumpet with the fourth vial the sixt Trumpet with the sixt vial and the seventh Trumpet with the seventh vial Now seing the first Trumpet is of the same tyme with the beginning of the Beast as he sayth Synchron 1 par 2. the first vial must be of that same tyme also and all the other Synchronismes and expositiones of textes that ar grounded on that seventh Synchronisme of the first part ar wrong Which I mark because these late Millenaries have been moved by the appearance of these Synchronismes to embrace this opinions 2 We may be persuaded that the gathering of the nationes Joel 3.2 is not to be understood of a batle after the coming or at the coming of Christ if we consider the wordes of the first verse For behold in these dayes and in that tyme c. He kniteth this ch with the preceding and shewes the contentes of both to be at the same time which is not any particulare yeer or age bot comprehendes the whole deliverance of Israel or people of

Chiliasto-mastix Or THE PROPHECIES IN THE OLD AND NEVV TESTAMENT CONCERNING THE KINGDOME OF OUR SAVIOUR IESVS CHRIST Vindicated from the misinterpretationes of the Millenaries and specially of Mr. Maton in his book called Israels redemption By ALEXANDER PETRIE Minister of the Scots Kirk at Roterdame The epistle shevves the ground and pedigree of the mistake To shew the original of an errour is a convincing of it AT ROTERDAME Printed by Isaak VVaesbergen at the signe of Fame on the Steiger 1644. To the VVorthie and his beloved the Scotes and Englishes of the Scots congregation at Roterdame AlexanderPetrie wisheth constancie in the faith which wes once delivered SOme prophecies speak plainly of CHRIST and can not be understood of another Esa 9.6 Vnto us a child is borne unto us a sone is given his name shal be called Wonderfull c. Some ar typical or delivered with coveres of thinges signifying Christ his offices and benefites And of these some ar spoken of the type or thing signifying and can be understood only of the thing signified and some ar true both of the type and of Christ ether in the same or in a different maner that is some ar true of both in a proper sense some ar true of both in a tropical or figurative sense and some ar true of the one properly and of the other figuratively All these sortes ar manifest in sundrie prophecies here I touch one for all 2 Sam. 7.12 When thy dayes be fulfilled and thou shall sleep with thy fathers sayth the Lord unto David I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy bowelles I will establish his kingdome This wes true in the persone of Solomon and of Christ too properly V. 13 He shall build an house for my name This wes true of Solomon in the proper acceptation of the word house figuratively of Christ who sayd Mat. 16.18 Upon this rock will I build my Church It followes I will establish the throne of his kingdome for ever This wes not true of Solomon in respect of his persone for he died nether of his posteritie from whom Iacob had foretold that the scepter should departe at the coming of Shiloh Gen. 49.10 but of Christ it is true for his throne is established for ever and ever Heb. 1.8 v. 14. I will be his father and he shal be my sone This is true of Solomon in respect of adoption and of Christ in respect of eternal generation Fiftly it is sayd there If he commite iniquitie I will chasten him with the rode of man but my mercie shall not departe from him as I took it from Saul This is true of Solomon and not of Christ who wes free of sin unlesse we underst and his members or their sines imputed unto him V. 16 Thy house and thy kingdome shal be established for ever before thee thy throne shal be established for ever This can not be understood of David or Solomons house or kingdome as experience proves now for the space of 1600 yeers and more but of Christs house and kingdome which shall never faile By this one passage it is manifest 1. how miserable ignorance it is to expone all the prophecies after one and the same maner or in a proper sense only 2. that the Euangelistes and Apostles exponing these prophecies in a spiritual and figurative sense doe not wreste them even albeit these have been fulfilled some way before but according to the intendment of the Spirit they bring them unto CHRIST who is the end of the lawe and scope of the Prophetes So the promises of deliverance from Babel hade their own accomplishment in the dayes of Ezra and Nehemia but that wes not all the meaning of these prophecies which wer in another maner and more fully performed by Christ for this cause it is sayd Col. 1.12 Giving thankes unto the Father who hes made us meet to be partarkers of the inheritance of the Saintes in licht who hes delivered us from the power of darknes and hes translated us into the kingdome of his deare Sone in whom we have redemption through his blood and Rev. 5.9 thou hast redeemed us unto God by thy blood out of everie kinred and people and natione There is our Redeemer more glorious than Ezra or any other there is our inheritance and kingdome better than Ierusalem and there is a redemption from all nationes Now when these prophecies ar fulfilled once in respect of the type and againe in a more transcendente maner by Christ If we denie what God hes done we ar false and ungrate and if we expect them to be fulfilled yet again in the type it wer a worse returning than that of the Galatianes c. 4.9 that wes unto the types of his priestly and this unto the types of his kingly office and Christ is become of none effect unto such The elect Iewes did not rest upon the Mosaical types but all the Prophetes gave witnesse unto Christ that through his name whoseever believes in him shall receive remission of fines Act. 10.43 they believed that through the grace of the Lord Iesus Christ they should be saved even as wee Act. 15.11 in this faith they all died Heb. 11.13 I say This faith because as faith is one in respect of the object Eph. 4.5 so the Apostle declares our faith by the exemple of the antientes Neither did they rest on the promises as only earthly but they desired a better countrie that is heavenly Heb. 11.16 and when they wer tortured they wold not accept deliverance from their tormentes that they micht obtain a better resurrection v. 35. Wes that an earthly hope no they believed the redemption of their soules by the Messias Psal 34.22 that he wes to be wounded for their transgressiones and bruised for their iniquities and the chastisement of their peace wes to be upon Him and that they wer to be healed by His stripes Esa 53.5 And Symeon waiting for the consolation of Israel when he sawe Him blessed God and sayd Lord now let thy servant departe in peace for my eyes have seenethy salvation Luk. 2.29 He craves not longer lyf to reigne with Christ on earth but wes content to departe having seen the salvation of God the licht of the gentiles and glorie of Israel And neverthelesse many Iewes sought richteousnesse by the workes of the Lawe and not by faith Rom. 9.32 and they looked upon the promises with a bodily ey only as if the Messias wer to erect an earthly Monarchie at Ierusalem and looking thorow these spectacles they could not think that Iesus Christ is the Messias and so they stumbled at his worldly basenesse being miscaried in their braines they could not see His spiritual power and benefites After their miserable exemple others acknowledging Iesus Christ to be the promised Messias and not considering the difference of the promises have not attained fully unto the trueth of them and so have erred in mistaking