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A40469	A packet of nevves, yea, true faithful news, of Israels and Judahs call and the manner, place, and time of Christs coming and reign in glory among his saints upon the earth. As also, Judahs past, with Englands present miseries parallel'd; with sundry other particulars, very profitable and necessary for Christians of all degrees, to know the mysteries of God. Collected out of the Scriptures this 22. of the 11th moneth (corruptly called January) 1647. for the benefit of all, but chiefly for such, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, err in vision, and stumble in judgement. By James Frese merchant.	Freize, James.	1651 (1651)	Wing F2197DA; ESTC R221227	56,100	71

of love Christ Jesus according to the commandment of Jesus Christ who hath called us unto his Kingdom and Glory even the glory which he had with the father before the world was when he shall come in his glory For the time of this his glorious appearing is at hand to the eternall comfort and unexpressible joy of all the Saints of God but to the unsupportable horror dread and eternall confusion of all the dead men of this world or men of death Children of death hell and darkness called Sathan For God hath made all things for himself even the wicked for the day of wrath Evill Darkness judgement Death eternal to whom it is not given to know the truth nor the mysteries of his Kingdom of glory and joyes eternal to be there enjoyed by the Saints for ever And know this also that whatsoever things were written afore time were written for our learning that wee through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope of eternal life and Glory in the world to come Therefore pray that the light or spirit that is in you may not be of the darkness but of the true light Christ Jesus which inlighteneth every man unto Salvation whom God his God hath anoynted with the oyle of gladness above his fellowes even aboue all Spirits that so by that sacred Primary spirit of truth and light Christ Jesus whom God the father hath appointed heire of all things by whom also he made the world and who by him the father was sent in the flesh to be a light to us gentiles but shall be the glory yea a King of eternall glory to his people Israel ye may be inabled to hear his voyce and to be raised from the dead at his appearing in glory with all his saints But the rest of the dead shall not rise or live for they only that are his possessed by his spirit of life shall hear his voyce verily verily I say unto you the hour is coming when the dead shall hear the voyce of the son of God and they that hear his voyce shall live But they that hear not his voyce being the children of death shall still remaine in the bonds of death and hell for they are dead they shall not rise yea they shall not live at the resurrection of the just they shall not awake nor be raised out of their graves till the thousand years of rest and glory be fulfilled but they shall be gathered into one pit and shut up in the prison of the grave and after the thousand years or many days shall they be visited For the dead in Christ shall rise first even they that are Christs at his coming for thy dead men Christ Jesus shal live with my body shall they rise yea they which shall be accounted worthy of the worldtand tha resurrection from the dead are or shall be equall to the Angels of light and are the children of God being the children of the resurrection Christ Jesus who is the resurection and the life neither can they dy any more death hath no more dominion over them O therefore love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth the faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the constant doer be of good courage therefore for he shall strengthen your hearts all ye that trust in the Lord Now if this plain demonstration of the truth of Christs glorious personal reigne on the earth among his Saints in the land of Glory which God the Father hath ordained before the world unto our glorie that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God be still hid it is hid to them whose mindes are blinded by the God of this world the Divell that they should not see nor apprehend the excellency of the eternal Glorious being ordained of God for us before the world was even eternal life and glory unexpressible in the land of the living But God doth reveale them to his poor servants by his spirit for the spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God that we might know the excellency and become partakers of the Majestie and unexpressible glory of Christ in the glorious world to come at the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the King of eternall life Light and Glory seen of all his Prophets who hath built an everlasting foundation with men and shall continue with their Seed And who also is by God the Father given for a covenant to the people to establish the earth even he the beloved who is ascended to his Father and our Father to his God and our God for thus saith the Lord I am Alpha and Omega which is which was and is to come The Almighty him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the City of my God the new Jerusalem which cometh down out of heaven from my God Hear therefore O Israel or Elect the Lord thy God is one Lord For to us the Saints there is but one God even the Father of whom are all things even spirit of light and spirits of darkness and we in him and one Lord Je●us Christ by whom are all things formed and made into externall vi●ible shape and being and we by him by whom he the Father made the world that is decreed what this present world of darkness should be and what the glory of the world to come should be For known unto God the father or determined are all his works by in and from the or this sacred beginning Christ Jesus Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge for the Councell of peace shall be between them both even between Father and Son of the most high God the light of Israel and his holy one or beloved one by whom he hath given unto us eternal life and this life is in his son and when he shall appear the second time unto salvation we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and live ever in his sight even in the presence of his son Christ Jesus the true God and eternall life who is over all God blessed for ever of the Father For our life or eternal being is hid with Christ in God the Farher but when Christ which is our life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in his glory For He that is Elect and his name writen in the book of life or secret decree of the most high God the Father shall ever abide under the shaddow and guidance of the almighty Lord the ordained God of Salvation Christ Jesus and to whom belong the Issues of death he being the ordained resurrection and the life of eternall rest and glory to the Creature for he is gone up to prepare a

Destruction or for the Destroyer two shall be in a bed the one shall be taken away and the other lef● to Destruction two shall be grinding at a Mill the one shall be taken away and the other left to Destruction or for the Destroyer SECT. XIIII THe Disciples then asked him where all this should be or whither all these should be gathered together He answered where the body is or Christ shall appear thither wil the eagles or elect be gathered together even to Mount Zion For they shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward saying come let us joyn our selves unto the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall never be forgetten and arise let us goe up to Zion unto the Lord out God and say O Lord save thy people the Remnant of Israel Yea many people and strong Nations shall come To the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem At the same time will the Lord be The God of all the Families of Israel and they shall be his people In Zion his dwelling place the holy Mountaine SECT. XV ANd for a further proof of the time of this his glorious Coming Compare Daniel's vis●on which he had in Babylon about the seventh yeer of his Captivity which was about six hundred forty three yeers before Christ's Nativity with the expressions of our Saviour Christ in the aforesaid place of Matth. 24. and y●u shall find them to agree together in the number of years And I heard on● Saint say to the Wond●rful Nu●berer of Secrets Christ which spake How long shall be t●e vision concerning the Transgression of making Desolate And he said unt● me Un●o two thousand three hundred days Then shall the Sanctuary or holy land be clensed For af●er two days will he the Lord Revive us and raise us up and we shall live in his sight Which two days I understand to be these two la●t days under the gospel which days Christ hath promised ●o shorten for the Elects sake and will as I finde and beleeve be shortned answerable to the first two days of this world which was destroyed by water being at 1657. yeers of age For so our God shal come and shal not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very temp●stuous round about him saith David when he shall come down upon the Mountains of Zion as Rain upon the Morning grass for there God hath commanded the blessi●g to man even life in Glory f●r evermore SECT. XVI ANd in that very place where the first Adam was created and transgressed there did the second Adam Christ Jesus make full satisfaction for that Transgression in Paradice and there the old Serpent Sathan bruised his heel and there shall he break his head when he shall be there placed by his Father As King of Eternal Glory in the lot of his Inheritance where he the Lord shall Reigne with all his Saints gloriously for ever and ever And I heard a voyce saying Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he the Lord will dwell with them and then shall all the Kings of the Earth praise and sing in the waies of the Lord When they shall hear the words of his mo●th Then the praises of God shall be in their mouths and a two Edged Sword in their hands Terrible as an Army with banners as it were the company of two Armies Israel and Judah to execute vengeance ●pon the heathen to bind their Kings with chains and their robles with f●tters of Iron to execute upon them the judgement written● This honour have all his S●ints Then shall they Inherit the Earth and delight themselves in the aboundance of peace and then their Inheritance shall be for ever For know ye not that the Saints shall judge the world for then judgement shall be given to the Saints and the saints shall then possess the Kingdom for it is their Fathers pleasure to give them the Kingdom for his is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever and the Saints shall possess the Kingdom of Glory for ever even for ever and ever There where God hath commanded or ordained for man the blessing Even life in Glory for evermore Therefore let the Children of Zion be joyfull in their King the Lord of life Christ Jesus who shall also judge the dead men of this world of Darkness In the valie● of Iehosaphat And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and the dead were judged Then shall they The dead see him whom they have pierced and shall know that he is the Lord God dwelling in Zion his holy mountain For the wicked shall be shut up in the prison of the grave and after many days even the sabbattical thousand years rest in glory shall they be visited and in that day will the Lord punish Leviathan that piercing crooked Serpent the Dragon in the Sea or in the multitud e of Nations in this world and he shall be cast into the lake of fire and Brimstore where the Beast or Imperiall power and the False Prophet Mahomet are and shall be tormented for ever and ever SECT. XVII ANd this Judgement day of the dead shall be after Christ hath Reigned the thousand years or day of rest among the Saints Bodily yea in that very body which he hath carried up for that purpose and hath raised all the Elect out of their Graves From the dead or children of death and Hell called Sathan For Christ being the Resurrection and the life shall come down upon them that are his as the Rain upon the Mown grass For thus saith the Lord I will open your graves O my people and bring you into the Land of Israel then shall ye know that I am the Lord your God when I have opened your graves and put my spirit in you and ye shall live and I shall place you in your own land then shall ye know that I am the Lord that have performed it For those which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him For the councel of peace eternall life and glory shall be between them both even Father and Son and so shall they the Saints be ever with the Lord This shall be written for the Generations to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord In the Regen●r●tion or Resurrection when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his Glory Then will he make them even Israel and Judah one Nation in the holy land upon the Mountains of Israel the land of his Inheritance A Glorious high Throne is the Place or land of our Sanctuary from the beginning of the Creation of God for though all the earth be his yet Zion hath he chosen to be the place of his habitation for ever and will goe in and out before his people there even as

place for us and then both he and the father will come and make their abode with us for he is ascended to his father and our father to his God and our God untill his enemies be made his footstool by the father For as the Father hath life in himself so hath he given to the son to have the spirit of life in himself and hath given him Authority to execute Judgement also for the Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Son And as he liveth not of or by himself but by the father so do all the elect live by him the Christ and shall live for ever in glory with Christ and addresse all Glory and prayse unto the father by Christ Jesus in that world of glory which shall be without end For none can come to the Son except the father draw him that is as I conceive none but such as are predestinated by him to glory and their names written in the book of life having the fathers work or Spirit of truth and life in them by which they are drawn or alotted to Christ and given to him by the father Even that one God and Father of all who is above all and in all ●or saith Christ the father is greater then all therefore Greater then he who after God the father● likeness Power and Glory is by him created righteousness and trute holiness and being created or made perfect or perfection it self he thus became the author of eternall Salvation and glory to all them that believe and obey him or his will But Belzebub is created Darkness unrighteousness wick●dness evil vanity unholiness destruction or the destroyer hel and perdition and to him are given or allotted the reprobate men of this world of darkness orchildren of perdition and disobedience called vessells of dishonour who are predestinated by the father to dwell in a darke and a drie● land with the destroyer and all his angells or spirits of darkness for ever But the children of the world to come being vessells of honour life light and glory Christ are pr●destinated by the father to dwell in the land of righteousness life light and glory the inheritance and land of glory which the father hath alotted to the Prince of Glory light and life Christ Jesus and so is it called The lot of his inheritance where they shall walk before God the father and shall be led and guided in and by this sacred light of the living which is Christ the Lord who is now in us the hope of this glory to be enjoyed in the land of life or the living in due time where God the Father shall be exalted above the Heavens and his Glory Christ upon all the earth whom he hath made or ordained to be the head of all Principalities and powers in heavenly places even of all spirits of light and spirits of darkness Called of God the Father an high Priest being the ordained righteousness of God unto salvation Who by the Father is created after the power of an endles life and to save them that come to God the Father Therefoe is he stiled The God of salvation to whom belong the Issues from death Being the Ordained Resurrection and the life and the image or visible personall presence of the invisible and incomprehensible God the Father the first Created or born of every creature Who being the beginning hath in all things the preheminence for he is before al things for it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness of Power Maiestie and Glory dwell for all power is given unto him by the Father both in heaven and earth who hath predestinated to reconcile all things unto himself by Jesus Christ for the councell of peace is and shall be for ever between them both even between Father and Son Christ who of God the Father is made unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption For Christ hath not thus glorified himself but he the Father that said unto him thou art my Son this day have I begotten or created thee hath glorified him in whom he is well pleased and appointed him for the work of mercy and eternall being to the creature in light and glory and thus is he made by the Father heir apparent of all things in and by whom man is come and admitted to the knowledge of this great incomprehensible God the Father to salvation For the time was that the wotld by this sacred wisdom Christ kn●w not God the Father For in this God of salvation Christ Jesus dwelleth the fulness of the Godhead Father and holy spirit personally or bodily Who is the beginning Prince or head of and over all Principalities and Powers Being the blessed Prince and only ordained King and Lord and Immortality dwelling in the Incomprehensible light of God the Father that none can attain to the knowledge of whom no man did ever see nor can see For him hath God the Father sealed or determined for the work of mercy and glory to the Creature and in him he delighteth in whom the fullness of his power and spirit dwelleth Bodily or in and by whose personall presence the omnipotent power of God the Father and holy spirit of God is represented and manifested unto us in all fullness according to the creatures meted out or alotted Capacity Who is the beginning of the creation of God for in this sacred beginning the anoynted God of salvation God the Father created or decreed the heavens and the earth and by which sacred beginning all things were made into externall visible shape and being And God the Father who commanded the light of glory Christ to shine out or from the darkness B●lzebub hath now shined into our hearts the light even the knowledge of the Glory of God the Father in the face or by the personall visible apprehensive presence of Jesus Christ For this sacred light Christ hath no communion or agreement with darkness Beelzebub neither shall Iniquity Beelzebub possess the just but the wicked are or shall be full of evil or the spirit of Beelzebub And yet all things are of God the Father who hath reconciled us and all the elect of God in Christ unto himself by this sacred light Christ Jesus That we might be made Righteous to God in him according to the measure of the gift of Christ But there is not in every man that knowledge for before him there is no God created neither shall there be after him for he is the Lord the God of mercy and Salvation for God the Father hath given him for a covenant to the people for a light to the Gentiles For to us the elect in Christ there is but one God the Father of whom are all things created and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ the ordained God of salvation by whom are all things made

into an externall shape and being and we by him even by Jesus Christ the Son of the most high God the Father the Portion of Jacob or of the Elect the former and maker of all things for God the Father decreed the earth to be made by this his sacred power Established the world by this his sacred wisdom and stretched out the heaven by his sacred understanding the Lord of Hostes is his name the God of Israel the God of all flesh who hath made the ●arth the man and beast the portion of Iacob Christ is the former of all things the Lord of hosts is his name Thou art the Lord the God who didest choose Abraham Thou ledst them in the day by a cloud and in the night by a pillar of fire thou camest down upon mount Zion and spakest with them face to face For they saw him the God of Israel and the Lord even the God of Israel spake to Moses face to face as a man speaketh to his friend yea Iacob did see this God of Israel or of the elect face to face who testifieth of himself saying and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God even the God of Israel he is the God of Salvation he hath made us And the world was also made by him the Word of God And unto the God of Christ belong the Issues from death being the ordained resurrection and the life and so is he God over all blessed for ever Being the God of hope even to the elect the hope of glory in eternal life In the true Image of him that created him Christ the power of God the wisdom of God Righteousness and true holiness yea the beauty of Holiness and glorious in holiness Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance for they shall rejoyce for ever in the Lord God of their salvation happy are the people whose God is the Lord for he shall govern the nations upon the earth He shall say to the prisoners and them that are in darkness goe forth and shew your selves For God the Father his God hath anoynted him with the oyle of gladness eternal light life and glory above his sellowe seven above all spirits what ever For God the Father is the head of Christ even as man is the head of woman and hath ordained him to be the Prince of life The beginning the light the day the Person the Presence the face the Angel the Name the truth the goodness the power of God the Father unto Salvation the Prince of peace and love whose nature and property is even to have mercy to forgive and to preserve For he the Lord God is the preserver of Isracl yea the preserver of men The God of Salvation The Christ of God the Father for the worke of mercy and glory But darkness the divel is the Prince of death and destruction the destroyer the hater of man the roaring Lyon the raging power evil wickedness the merciless enemy the unrighteousness the night The wrath of God the star of the morning or the star darkness separated from the morning star or bright star of righteousness light and glory Christ Jesus the anoynted God of salvation whom God the Father hath appointed heir of all things and by whom he made the worlds being the word and voice of God the Father the visible brigh●ness of his Fathers glory and his expresse Image in his person for he that hath seen him hath seen the Father or the Fathers power to salvation for he upholdeth all things by the sacred power Who is made heir of all things and hath obtained a more excellent name then all other spirits what ever for the name of the Father the Lord God Ichovah the God of salvation is in him Who said I will be to him a Father and he to me a Son yea this day have I begotten thee For before the naturall day was in being he was brought forth yea before the earth was formed For according to the Fathers decree The foundations of the earth were lay'd in or by this sacred beginning yea the heavens are the work of his hand For it pleased the Father for whom are all things and of whom are all things in bringing many Sons unto glory to make the Captain or Prince of their salvation Christ perfect glorious in holiness yea the beauty of holiness fearfull in praises doing wonders For he that sancti●ieth and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause he the Christ is not ashamed to call them brethren for of him and through him and to him are all things For he being the Resurrection and the life in him we live and move and have our being being created by God the Father in Christ Jesus who is the Beginning the day the life the light and glory Therefore are the Children of the light no more in bondage to darkness Hell and death the divel being redeemed by the light Jesus they are all become the Children of the light and Children of the day for God the Father hath not appointed or determined them unto or for wrath the divel but to obtaine or enjoy salvation in glory in and by Jesus Christ where we shall all live together with him who is the Christ of God the Father by whom all things were made to the glory of God the Father according to the eternal purpose of the Father which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord that so unto Principalities and powers of darkness in heavenly places might now be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God the Father Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named That is the spirits of life in all things named appointed and disposed of to their severall functions and conditions of being by him who after God is created in righteousness and true holiness by that one God and Father of all who is above all through all and in all and by whom is given or conferred on the elect grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ whose name is the Lord of Hostes the God of Israel or elect who shall be Glorious in the sight of God the Father and this his God shall be his strength and he shal be his servant to raise up the tribes of Iacob and to restore the preserved of Israel And to be a light to us Gentiles and the Fathers Instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth And by the Covenant to establish the earth that he may say to the Prisoners of death go forth and shew your selves when he shall put his spirit of life into them and the shall live For in the Lord Christ shall all the seed of Israel be Justified and shall glory for he shall be exalted and be very high For

before him there was no God created neither shall there be after him He is the Lord and besides him there is no Saviour For the Father is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ The Father is greater then all yea greater then he if we know these things happy are we for this is life eternal to know God the Father aright and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent whose being in the Father and the Father in him thought it no robbery to be one with him because the fulness of the Fathers spirit Power presence and Name God is in him and so the Father is glorified in the same Thus he and the Father are one because the Father acteth nothing for the worke of mercy and glory to the Creature but in and by Christ his beloved Son the ordained God of salvation life light and eternall glory the Lord God merciful and gracious the God of Israel For the most high incomprehensible God the Father is said to be the husbandman and the Lord God Christ Jesus the God of salvation is the true fruitful pleasant vine in whom God the Father delighteth and all the elect saints by calling are the branches of this sacred vine the Christ of God the Father For there is none so holy as the Lord neither is there any Rock like our God for God the Father hath blessed him for ever Therefore O Israel or elect fear this Glorious and fearful name The Lord the God Christ Jesus whose glory is great Dignity and Honour hath the Father laid upon him and hath made him most blessed for ever And through the favour of the most high God the Father he shall not be moved for Jehovah is the most high God for evermore Who governeth all things by his mercy Christ through and by whom all addresses must be made to the most high God the Father and by and with whom eternal life in glory is conferred on the creature and ther●fore is he stiled the way the truth and the life the glory of God For he that hath seen Christ the God o● salvation hath seen the personal visible active powerful presence of God the Father and holy Spirit yea the word and work of the Father the first begotten of every creature who hath Power given to him by the Father over all flesh that he should give eternall life in glory to as many as the Father hath given him And thus is he God over all blessed for ever or for eternall being in glory with his Saints the elect in whom or in whose personal visible presence the God-head dwelleth bodily even in him whom the Father sent into the world to save sinners as he himself saith that they may be one as we are even as thou O Father ar● in me and I in thee that they may be one in us as we are for we speak that which we know and testify that we have seen and ye receive not our testimony even the Father and Sons we will come and make our abode with him for man is become like one of us like the Image of God Christ for Christ is the Image of God the Father yea the spirit or Angell of his presence The face of God the Father the image person presence or likeness of the great Invisible God the Father who is the light that none can approch unto whom no man can see who only hath loved the Son as the Son loveth his Saints and hath ordained them to be partakers of his glory according to the predestinate decree of God his Father who created him Christ Wisdom counsell understanding strength L●ve mercy Righteousness yea he God the Father possessed him in the beginning of his way before his works had any being he was brought forth by the Father and was his delight rejoycing alwayes before him He is the Lord God of salvation and besides him there is no Saviour for he is the ordained life and peace to the elect saints that love him But all they that hate him love death Beelzebub Luci●er Sathan darkness the ordnaied God of Damnation called the destroyer but the God of the elect to Glory is the God of salvation even the Lord our righteousness the ordained God of salvation by the Father who hath crowned him with glory and honour and hath so decreed that he the Christ shall sit on his right hand of power until he make his enemies his foot-stool For thus saith God the Father the redeemer of Israel by Jesus Christ and his holy one or of this his holy one Jesus Art thou lighter then that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob or Judah and to restore the dissolutions of Israel to establish the earth for ever that thou mayest be my glorious Instrument of Salvation to the ends of the earth Even to confirm the promises made unto the Fathers for God the Father shall give unto him the throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever because God the Father his God hath anoynted or appointed him for that work of mercy and glory to the creature above all other spirits whatsoever yet this sacred servant is not greatet then his Master neither is he the ambassador that is sent by the Father greater then he that sent him and ordained him the l●fe therefore because he is life We the elect shall live also for ever with him in Glory for he shall bruise Sathan shortly under our feet for the Father hath put all things under our feet even all Principalities and powers in heavenly places therefore it is most clear and manifest that he the Father is excepted which ha●h put all things under him And when all things are subdued unto him then shall he himself also be subject unto God the Father that put all things under him and then shall wee know that he is in the Father and we in him and he in us for the Father is as the husbandman Christ is as the vine and the elect are the fruitful branches of that vine therefore let us wait for this his Son from heaven by whom he the Father hath called or Elected us unto his Kingdom of glory But that was not first which is spiritual or eternall but that which is naturall temporall or fading and as is the earth Adam such are they in the Fathers decree all that are earthly as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly or eternall and as we have born the image of the earthly or temporal Adam so shall the elect also bear the Image of the heavenly or spirituall Adam Christ which is eternall For as many as the Father hath given or alotted to Christ he hath lost none of them neither can they be lest because they are spirits of light decreed by the Father for glory who changeth not from his

A PACKET OF NEWES Yea True and Faithful News of ISRAELS and JUDAHS Call AND Of the Manner Place and Time of Christs Coming and reign in glory among his Saints upon the Earth As also Judahs Past with Englands Present Miseries Parallel'd With sundry other Particulars very profitable and necessary for Christians of all Degrees to know the Mysteries of God Collected out of the Scriptures this 22. of the 11th moneth corruptly called January 1647. for the benefit of all but chiefly for such who hold the Truth in Unrighteousness Err in Vision and stumble in Judgement By JAMES FRESE Merchant Ps. 96. 10. and 104. 5. Eccles. 1. 4. 1 Chron. 16. 30. The World shall be Established that it shall not be moved for ever Eze. 43. 7. Even the place of the soals of my feet where I will dwell for ever Zach. 2. 12. For the Lord shall inherite Iudah in the holy land and chuse Ierusalem again Ier. 31. 6. 8. And then shall they say Arise Let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God Zac. 8. 7 8 23. And then shall ten Men of all Nations take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying We will go with you for we have heard that God is with you LONDON Printed for Matthew Simmons 1651. To the RIGHT HONORABLE Most Truly NOBLE And VICTORIOUS HIS EXCELLENCY Oliver Cromwell Lord General of all the Forces raised in England and Ireland for Defence and Regainment of Englands Rights and Liberties MOst Noble and Victorious Sir whose Name by the Will of Divine Providence is become Englands Honor Her Enemies Terror and Europes Wonder For the Continuation Increase and Perfection whereof to the Glory of God your Countries happiness and Your own eternal Fame he most heartily and earnestly wisheth who in his greatest straits under the Iron yoke of Cruelties close restraint many yeers was sundry times made partaker of your truly Christian bounty to the preservation of his Life and Being and after many years Imprisonment of some breathings of Liberty For which in way of due thankfullness as ever in his heart abhorring the grand sin of Ingratitude he returns unto Your Excellency most humbly and hearty thanks and in assurance of the continuation of your most noble Paternal favour towards him he presumeth to shroud this ensuing treatise of the Personal Reign of Christ upon the earth under the wing of your Execllencies favorable Protection most humbly presenting the same unto your Excellencies view acceptance and most noble Boerean perusal The glimpse of which favour extended is the highest pitch of his ambition who in all true Christian humility to his God and fidelity in the band of love to his Country and your Excellencie Subcribes himself Most Noble Excellent and Right Honorable Your Honors most humble Servant to be commanded James Frese London the 19th of the 6th Moneth corruptly called August 1651. To all such true and faithful members of the Lord Jesus as walk close to the Sacred Truth by the rule of Righteousness and stand as firm as Nehemiah for the advance of the true honor of God in true judgement justice and mercy and the speedy restauration of the fundamental Laws Rights and Liberties of this their Native Countrey Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus I Here present unto your favorable view and Christian perusal this small Treatise containing some Collections of holy Scripture cleerly manifesting the Personal Reigne of the Lord Jesus among his Saints upon Earth in the Land of Israel it being the choisest Fruit of my Labors in the time of my close Imprisonment in the Tower-Chamber in the Fleet-Prison for the space of almost four yeers by Henry Hopkins Warden of the Fleet under locks and bolts to the apparent hazard of my life without any just cause by him shewed to this day for his so doing craving in all humility your favourable acceptance of these my Labors and a Berean perusal of them In the reading wherof the Lord Jesus grant unto you his sacred Spirit of Wisdom to be your Directer and Instructer bringing the Truth thereof home unto your souls that so your hearts being seasoned with the apprehension of the expressed joys and comforts contained in it you may live in expectation of the Lord Jesus his glorious Appearing with all Saints in the glory of God the Father and of the holy Angels and in his Kingdom and of the enjoyment of eternal life in glory with him and all the Saints within his holy habitation in the land of the living even in the lot of his Inheritance where he the Lord Christ shall reign for ever and ever even as he assuredly remaineth in expectation of the same who in all humility subscribes himself Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus Yours in all love and Christian Charity and his Countries Servant in all Fidelity during the short time of his continuance in this almost expired vanities world of misery James Frese London this 15th of the 10th moneth 1650. The Epistle To the Honest Impartial Reader COurteous Reader I do earnestly wish and heartily desire of the Lord that thy perusal of these few Collections of holy Scripture taken as a drop of water out of the vast Ocean of Gods Word and sent forth as a Lamb among censorious Wolves may be seasoned to thy soul by the Spirit of Truth that so the eyes of thy Understanding may thereby be inlightned to Gods glory and thine own souls eternal comfort and joy unexpressable in the glorious eternal world to come And for the better help and inlightning of thy Understanding in the profitable reading of this Treatise I do earnestly desire thee to note well these particulars following 1. That the ten Tribes a which fell from Rehoboam and made Jeroboam their King were then called The Kingdom of Israel whose Kingly Seat or City was Samaria And the other two Tribes under Rehoboams government were called the Kingdom of Judah and the People Jews whose Royal Seat was the Mount of the Lord God called b Zion adjoyning to the North side of Jerusalem The City of the great King * Christ Jesus 2. That all the ten Tribes of Israel were c carried away into captivity beyond the River of Aethiopia called Euphrates d by Shalmanazer King of Assyria in the days of King Hoshea into a far Country about eighteen moneths journey from the holy land of Palestina called in the Syriack Assareth but in the Hebrew Sinin three hundred twenty and six yeers before Judah was carryed captive into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon from whence Judah returned to their own Land again within seventy yeers But the ten Tribes called Israel as yet never returned to this day So that Israels captivity hath now continued about two thousand six hundred and twelve yeers Therefore will the Lord make Israel that was wholy cast out a mighty Nation but Judah or the Jews that returned and halted e