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A25221	The beloved city, or, The saints reign on earth a thovsand yeares asserted and illustrated from LXV places of Holy Scripture, besides the judgement of holy learned men both at home and abroad, and also reason it selfe : likewise XXXV objections against this truth are here answered / written in Latine by Ioan Henr. Alstedius ... ; faithfully Englished, with some occasionall notes and the judgement herein ... of some of our owne famous divines.; Diatribe de mille annis apocalyptis. English	Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638.; Burton, William, 1575-1645.	1643 (1643)	Wing A2924; ESTC R19975	88,201	114

thousand years shall be finished For they being ended Christ not long after shall come to Judgement which both the living and the dead must expect This is * that first Resurrection In which the Bodies of the Martyrs shall rise in the beginning of those thousand years We must not therefore understand in this place a Spirituall Resurrection by which we are said to rise out of the sleep and death of sinne For that Resurrection is common unto all good men and happeneth daily Wherefore thus we are to think concerning the Word Resurrection when we finde it mentioned in Scripture Resurrection is either of our Spirit Flesh * Particularly in the time of Elisha whose bones raised the the dead man which was thrown upon them Christ Who raised Lazarus and the daughter of the widow of Naim When divers rofe at his hanging upon the Crosse Matth. 27. Paul who raised a dead man to life The 1000. years And this is called the First Resurrection Universally which shall happen in the end of the World And this is the second Resurrection 6. Blessed With a speciall blessing and proper onely to the Martyrs And holy That is Out of singular favour set apart by God for the priviledge of this peculiar blessing Who hat'● part in that first Resurrection Who shall be in the number of the Martyrs who shall rise in this first Resurrection On him the second death shall have no power The second death is the casting away of the damned to eternall torments Compare the 14. verse with this Otherwise it is called Eternall death But they shall be Priests of God and Christ Not in that common respect whereby all the elect in this life are spirituall Priests who by the Spirit of Christ offer themselves up unto God But by a speciall prerogative whereby the Martyrs being raised from the dead shall obtain chief power in the Church as it were Priests of God and Christ as before these thousand yeares the Priests of Antichrist were cheif And they shall raign with him for a thousand years In the Church the profession of Christianity being no way hindred See Revel. 5.10 and the Questions following Therefore the peculiar happinesse of the Martyrs consisteth in the first Resurrection in their reign with Christ in their Priesthood in the same manner as we have described it 7. And when those thousand years shall be finished To wit of the happinesse of the Church and of a free and universall profession of Christianity Satan shall be loosed out of his prison That is he shall recover his power and liberty to attempt and seduce without restraint which power had lain asleep as it were and been buryed for the thousand years the Angel now giving him leave in whose hands it was according to the pleasure and command of God to binde and loose Satan 8. And he shall go forth That is out of his prison or place of his custody whereof in the foregoing verse namely Out of the bottomelesse pit where he was detained That he may seduce the Nations in the four corners of the earth That is Wicked men who shall heer and there remain in the World at the end of the thousand years These Satan shall seduce urging them to make warre against the Saints Gog and Magog That is those Nations which at that time Satan shall seduce and which at the end of those 1000. yeares shall by warre make an attempt against the Church and shall endeavour to destroy it as in old time Gog and Magog vexed the people of the Iews Therefore by Gog and Magog are heer to be understood all the professed enemies of the Church even as Gog that is the people of the Lesser Asia which environed Iudea on the North and Magog that is the Scythians which inhabited places situate on the South of Iudea were the professed enemies of the Iews Thus then we must understand it The Devill shall seduce the Nations in the four corners of the Earth the Nations I say which are endued with a spirit like that of Gog and Magog Read the 38. and 39. chapters of Ezekiel But you will say How can it be that those wicked men should reassume their power after these thousand years I answer This shall be brought to passe by the just judgement of God whereby not only the great Antichrist shall flourish again but also Pagan and barbarous people and other monsters of the same batch shall gain encrease And shall gather them together to battle Against the profession of Christ in generall that it being quite as it were thrust out of the world they may substitute in the room thereof Antichristianisme Barbarisme and unbelief Whose number shall be a●●he Sand of the Sea So that it shall be a most compleatly furnished army whose like hath never been heretofore And Satan being con●ident in the strength of these forces shall hope thereby to swallow up the Church 9. And they went up on the breadth of the Earth So great an army shall be gathered together that no part of the earth shall be free from it All the ground shall be covered with Souldiers They shall come up that is they shall rely upon much force and ayde And here is an allusion to Gog and Magog the Type who being to besiege Ierusalem which was placed upon a hill were of necessity to ascend And th●y * encompassed it The allusion to the type still holds For the Church at that time shall be encompassed on every side with enemies as in old time Iudea was encompassed by Gog and Magog those fierce and barbarous people The campe of the Saints That is Wheresoever the true souldiers of Christ were making warre in their own stations And the beloved City The whole Church which is one City at that time scattered through the whole world And fire came down from God out of heaver and devoured them Some such thing verily shall happen as we read of Gen. 19. concerning Sodome and Gomorrha And as the first world perished with the deluge of water so Gog and Magog shall perish in ●●e end of the world by the destruction of fire 10. And the Devill that deceived th●● was cast Otherwise then in the third verse for here he is so cast that he shall not beloosed again thence for ever Into the lake of fire and brimstone This is a description of Hell Where the beast was That is The former Beast which is described in the 16. chapter v. 13. For that beast is distinguished from the false-Prophet who is the same with the latter beast And the false-Prophet Great Antichrist Apollyon the Babylonian whore who with his subtle wiles seduceth men perswading and pressing a counterfeit religion wholly seeking after the honours and riches of this world no otherwise then the false Prophets in the old Testament were wont to do Wherefore in a speciall manner Antichrist is called the false-Prophet And shall be tormented To wit they three The Devill

other reformation ought to be expected The Antecedent may be proved from hence because the Doctrine of the Fundamentalls of our Salvation is proposed so that it cannot be done more cleerly or with greater light Answ. The great Reformation which we declare shall come to passe shall concerne matter of Life as well as Doctrine As for matter of Doctrine the foundation thereof shall remain But as for those infinite contentions whereby the Body of Christ is torn in pieces an end shall be put unto them Again many places of Scripture whose expositions have hitherto troubled the most learned men shall more cleerly and better be understood As for matter of life what should I say The matter it selfe speaks loud enough that in the whole course of our lives as good and as great as we are we have little or no Divinity at all There is great need therefore of a Reformation XXXVI Object It was an ancient Distinction that the kingdome of God is either of Power Grace or Glery But this Distinction is taken away by this Millenary so much pleaded for because it cannot be referred either to the Kingdom of Grace or to the Kingdome of Glory Answ. It belongs to the Kingdome of Grace which doth consist of divers degrees Neither is this opinion any way prejudiced because in the former discourse I have sometimes made mention of glory and Majesty as part of the happinesse of this Millenary For this glory is only inchoative or in it's beginning and shall be broken off by the War of Gog and Magog But the Glory of the Life Eternall is perfect and never at all to be interrupted V. The Doctrines arising out of this Chapter 1. According to the Order of the Heads in the Catechisms I. THe XI and XII Articles of the Creed concerning the resurrection of the flesh as also concerning the last Iudgement and eternall life are treated of II. The first and third precepts of the Decalogue or Tenne Commandments are here illustrated in the 4 verse where mention is made of Godly Confessors who worshipped not the Image of the Beast III. The second and sixth Petitions of the Lords Prayer may be explained out of this Chapter 2. According to the Order of Common-places This Chapter makes mention of Gods Providence of Angels of Predestination of the Church and it 's enemies of Martyrdome of the Resurrection of the flesh of the last Iudgement of Life and Death Eternall 3. Doctrines out of the severall Verses Vers. 1. 1. God instructeth men sometimes and teacheth them extraordinarily by Visions as also by divine Extasies or Raptures 2. The Angels are ministring Spritis who receive their commands at God's hands 3. Good Angels are endowed with great power and strength Vers. 2. 1. Good Angels have power over evill Angels or Spirits 2. The Devill is stronge and crafty as being both a Dragon and a Serpent 3. The onely and continuall work of the Devill is to calumniate and falsly accuse both God and Man and to endeavour the hinderance of the Glory of the one and the Salvation of the other 4. The Militant Church hath severall and differing times here on earth namely both of oppression and refreshment after the divers degrees thereof according to the dispensation and good pleasure of God Vers. 3. 1. The Devill is bound and tyed up by the reines of God's Providence 2. The Devill is the author of the generall seduction of mankinde 3. Warres shall cease for a thousand years 4. The Warre which shall begin after these thousand yeers shall not last long Vers. 4. 1. Christ is a Iudge appointed by God to whom the holy Angels are joyned as Assessors or inferiour Iudges 2. The Professors of the Gospel are hated in the sight of the world 3. Constancy is required in the Profession of the Truth 4. They are Idolators who worship Antichrist and follow his doctrine 5 The Martyrs shall reign with Christ for a thousand years in the Militant Church Vers. 5. 1. The generall resurrection shall be in the end of the world 2. The first resurrection and particular of the Martyrs is the proeme unto the second or universall resurrection Vers. 6. 1. As the children of God in this life have one above another prerogatives of gifts works and sufferings so shall they also have prerogatives of blessings both in this life and in that also which shall be hereafter 2. The common happpnesse of the godly among other things consists in this that the second death hath no power over them 3. We must certainly resolve that there is a second or eternall Death 4. Though all Christians are Kings and Priests yet in a mor● speciall manner the Martyrs raised at the beginning of these thousand years shall be Kings and Priests in the Militant Church Vers. 7. 1. The happynesse of the Church which shall continue for the●●thousand years must not be confounded with● or mistaken for the happynesse of life eternall 2. Satan can do nothing except by Gods leave he be let loose out of his prison 3. God alone can restrain Satan as if he had him shut up in some prison Vers. 8. 1. Satan when soever he gains power playes over his old pranks again 2. Satan is delighted with the shedding of mans bloud especially of the Godly and therefore useth to seduce and entice men to Warre 3. Whatsoever is said in the Old Testament of Gog and Magog is to be understood partly literally partly typically 4. The Enemies of the Church are in number many Vers. 9. 1. Men seduced by the Devill set slip no occasion so watchfull herein they are of persecuting the Godly 2. The Chur●h is the beloved City of God 3. It is the duty of Christians continually to be exercised in Christ's warfare 4. God executes wonderfull judgements against the enemies of his Church Vers. 10. 1. The Devill and his Instruments are cast into Hell and shall be tormented there for ever 2. Eternity is nothing else then a continuation of Age to Age for ever 3. Hell is a place full of horrour Vers. 11. 1. The M●jesty of Christ coming to Iudgement shall be very great 2. Heaven and Earth in the day of the last Judgement shall passe away in respect of the fashion of this world Vers. 12. and 13. 1. The last resurrection shall be universall 2. Men in the last Judgement shall be judged according to their works 3. The Conscience of a man is like a book in which all his thoughts words and deeds are as it were set down 4. The book of life or Predestination shall be opened in the last Judgement for then shall it appear plainly who are the Elect and who the reprobate who have truely beleeved in Christ who hypocritically who have truely worshipped God who according to appearance onely 5. The last Judgement shall be universall infallible and just Vniversall because it shall be of the dead and living of great and small Infallible because God is all-knowing and hath

and troubled Verse 7 8 9 10. 3. Is concerning the throne of Christ the Judge Vers. 11. 4. Is concerning the Vniversall Judgement and the processe thereof Verse 12 13 14 15. IV. The Paraphrase of the Chapter THe condition and estate of the Militant Church being laid open unto me from the yeer of Christ 94 together with the temptations and assaults wherewith it was shaken the labours wherewith it was afflicted the deliverances whereby it was freed the Victory whereby it was ennobled but specially and last of all the fall of Babylon being foretold and declared 1. I saw in my extasie a good Angel the Minister of the Judgements of God such as I had seen in my former Visions Him I say I saw coming down from the heaven of the blessed who had by God entrusted to him the key of the bottomlesse pit of hell that according to the appointment of God he might shut and open it also a great chain in his hand wherewith he might binde some powerfull enemy 2. This Angel laid hold of the Dragon that infernall old Serpent who from the beginning vomited forth his poyson upon man-kinde and deceived them with his winding Sophismes who is both the Devill slandering God before men and on the other side men before God who is also Satan the adversary of God and men of Nature in generall and of the Church This Deceiver being found and apprehended in his Sophistry and Tyranny the good Angel bound with his chain and that for a thousand Solar years and commonly used in the generall course of life 3. Neither was it enough for him to binde him but moreover he cast him being bound and threw him headlong into the bottomlesse pit and being thrown down thither he shut him up and being shut up he sealed the Cover of the bottomlesse pit lest breaking forth by any means he might seduce partly to Idolatry partly to the persecution of the Church any more as he had done before the Nations as well Jews as Gentiles untill the thousand yeers are finished For afterwards he must God so appointing it be Ie● loose out of his prison for a short time which God hath limitted and which shall not befor a thousand yeers as the time of his binding and his being shut up was 4. A joyfull Catastrophe or issue shall follow this Tragedy of the Dragon For I saw Thrones set in order and and Christ with his holy Angels sate upon them For unto these power was given to judge partly by giving and executing sentence partly by approving thereof I saw also the souls of them who were beheaded and tormented with innumerable kinds of punishments not indeed for their own offences but for the testimony which they gave concerning Christ the Son of God and onely Advocate of the Church and for the Word of God which they had boldly maintained against the corruptions of men and who had not worshipped that second Beast which I made mention of that I saw it before nor the image of that Beast which is two-fold both in respect of doctrine and life neither had received his mark in their foreheads publikely making shew and witnessing by their words that they belonged to the family of the Beast Lastly they had not so much 〈◊〉 received this mark in their hands expressing the same either in their life manners or actions Such at these lived their bodies being raised again and restored to life Neither did they only live again but also reigned in the Church freed now from Persecutions with Christ that King of kings for a thousand years 5. But the rest of the dead as well the godly who before these 1000 yeers received not the Crown of Martyrdom as the ungodly lived not again till the thousand yeers were finished And this is the first Resurrection due onely to them as a ●rerogative who above others have glorified the Lord Christ in their bodies nothing terrified with the threats curses and torments of men 6. These Martyrs therefore who have their part in the first Resurrection are deservedly esteemed happy above others as also peculiarly separated and set aside by God for the receiving of such a reward For the second death shall have no power over them By reason that though they live the second time here upon earth yet they shall no more by any sin engage themselves so that they need to fear any danger of an eternall death For they shall be here upon earth Priests of God and of Christ not of this world and they shall reigne with Christ not as the kings of the Nations but in the Majesty of the Spirit for these thousand yeers 7. Now when these thousand yeers sh●●● be fulfilled the happinesse of the Church shall on the sudden begin to fail here on earth For Satan in an instant shall be ●et loose out of his prison in which he was most carefully kept for those thousand yeers 8. But being thus set at liberty he shall not rest so but shall return to his old game and so he shall go forth that he may the more freely seduce the Nations which are in the four corners of the earth towards the East and towards the West towards the North and the South Now he shall not onely by heresies of all kindes lead on the blinde world to Apostasie or falling away from the faith but also he shall behave himself as a Captain or Leader to bring on a grievous Persecution upon the Church stirring and raising up against it Gog and Magog the sworn enemies thereof and of God himself such as were of old those people who under these names were bitter enemies to the Iews And having thus stirred them up he shall gather them together to Batte●● farre more cruell and bloody then hath been from the beginning of the world For men shall enter into this Battell barbarous in their monstrous cruelty and monstrous cruell in their barbarousnesse whose number shall be as the sand of the Sea 9. Wherefore these vast forces under the conduct of Satan shall come upon the earth and shall cover the breadth thereof with their multitudes And straightway they shall encompasse the Camp of the Saints wheresoever it shall be and with their utmost diligence and devices shall endeavour quite to deface the Church that beloved City of God But however in the very midst of this their rage and fury being greater then that either of the Cyclops or Giants on a sudden a fire shall come down from Heaven God himself sending forth lightnings and flashings of fire upon them and shooting out his Arrows against them This fire shall devour those his innumerable enemies like stubble 10. But neither shall their Leader the Devill who conducted and seduced them carry it away so without his due punishment for opposing the Church of God by the seduced Nations For he shall be cast into the Lake of fire and brimstone that is into hell it self where his companions the first beast and