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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

his Ascension hee did not bring under all the earth and haughtinesse of people that is Kingly power that he alone might be exalted Esa. 2.11 17. Archer p. 22 c. Answ. Christ was the Stone Dan. 2.25 which did strike break and destroy the foure kingdomes there mentioned and was avenged of them for their pride and Idolatry which are the sinnes for which God threatens in Esay As God in his due time punished those foure Kingdomes so when Romes sins were come to ripenesse hee spared i● not For hee tooke peace from the earth and left the Roman forces to kill one another Rev. 6.4 And for being drunke with the blood of God people when her sinnes come in remembrance before God bee is fully to bee rewarded and at length to bee left desolate and burnt with fire Rev. 17. 18. How Christ at the comming to his Kingdome was and is exalted above all I have formerly declared how Christian Kings are his substitutes and nursing fathers of the Church See Esa. 49.23 60.3.11 c. Object Antichrist hath set up himself as Lord and God and prescribed Laws to the consciences of men so that Christ hath been cast out of his Throne and to this day hath raigned little outwardly The Devill himself in regard of multiplicity of Subjects is a greater King then hee For the greatest part of the world is beathen Antichristian or ●isked Glimps p. 9 10. Answ. Anitichrist hath indeed magnified himselfe as much as possibly hee could and attempted to throw Christ out of his Kingdome But Christs Throne abides firm for ever and ever Heb. 1.8 Antichrists Babel fals but of Christs Kingdome there shall bee no end B●ke 1.33 And though the Devill hath many moe Subjects then Christ if you account the faithfull alone to bee Christs Subjects and the rest the Devils yet if you judg aright you shall finde that Christ hath moe subjects then the Devill and that Christs power over all is greater then the Devils For even the Devill himselfe and all his Subjects as you call them are at Christs command and if they doe any good 't is by their true ●orde exciting them and evill neither can they nor the Devill their Lord by usurpation doe except Christ permit them Besides every faithfull Servant of God and subject of Christ is as deare to God as the apple of his eye is as David Zach. 12.8 worth tenthousand of the Devils Vassals If the least in the kingdom of Heaven bee greater then John Baptist how much more pretious to God is any true Christian then millions of Reprobates Object Kings have their royall Thrones their Palaces their Attendants they appeare many wayes both in these and other matters what and how great they are Now what I pray you was there in Christ formerly answerable to the glory power and Majesty of some mean Kings in the world in these times Answ. If you will further urge to a comparison between Christ and Earthly Kings I doubt not but that you will easily discern your misprision For what Kings palace and Throne on Earth is comparable to Christs which is in Heaven 1 King 9.27 Psal. 11.40 VVhat Kings Attendants and messengers like in fidelity agility strength and observance to the Spirits holy Angels who are at Christs command Kings have their potent and puissant Hosts but infinitely inferiour to Christs Hosts that is all Creatures in Heaven and Earth far unlike to the thousand thousands that minister unto Christ and ten thousand thousands that stand before him Dan. 7.10 God gives to Kings great Majesty and glory Dan. 5.18 But Christs glory is above all Principalities and powers and all names of created excellency and into his hands God hath given all things Ephes. 1.21 Job 13.3 16.15 Kings send their Edicts to the utmost parts of their Dominions but Christ to all parts of Heaven and Earth Kings command their Officers and have them responsable for their services but Kings themselves are Christs Vicegerents and must bee countable to him for all Christs laws are most heavenly most perfect far surpassing all humane inventions The honours that any one receives from his King are but mean and momentary in regard of the honours which God ● gives Kings can punish the bodies of their Subjects with prison and death but God can cast both their soules and bodies into the lake of fire and brimston Kings stand in need and make use of their Subjects help and advise but Christ nor needs nor will use his subjects counsel and will use though hee needs not their services VVhat should I say more Christ in all things doth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} not onely surpasse all that is in Kings but even all that can be spoken or conceived of them So great then is the glory and Majesty of Christ that the Moon may bee abashed and the Sun ashamed take the speech literally or else figuratively for Princes and such as they lend their light unto when Christ raigns on mount Sion and shews his power to bee above all created might whatsoever The Sun never saw any King doe such wonderfull workes as Christ here on Earth did effect If some subject bee ignorant of a Kings Majesty and eminency it is because his meannesse hath not accesse to the Court nor converse with such as can inform him but a good christian cannot but know Christs kingly glory and highnesse For though hee cannot approach that light and Majesty in which Christ now is yet may hee search the Scriptures which in excellent manner discover the same so far as it pleased the holy Spirit to describe them or is needfull for us to know Object But Christ himself saith My Kingdome is not of this World Therefore there was some power and royalty which was either denyed Christ or which hee would not take upon him Answ. A Kingdome may bee said to bee of this world in two respects First because the administration of it is by humane and worldly means and tends to worldly ends as namely to get a large extent of wordly Dominion a glorious name among men abundance of earthly matters and there is terminated In this sense not Christs but Alexanders and the Caesars kingdoms were of this world Secondly because it is so administred that Men conversing in this world may thereby take notice of Christ use the things of this world in an heavenly manner have on earth a conversation as it were in Heaven each man in his severall calling and place of worldly employment serve God and advance his kingdom of grace in this world and so submit themselves to Christs government here that they may bee heires of glory in a better world Such a kingdom Christ both had and hath in and over this world such a kingdom hee affirmed himself to bee born unto And as Christ governs this world and all things therein in ordine ad c●lestia with reference to the world to come so Moses who

more saw him that is invisible Thus a Christian may in this life by faith see take comfort in and rejoyce most heartily in the glorious estate of the life to come and as wee use to say have an heaven upon earth whence it is that the Church on earth is called Heaven Of which hereafter I shall speak Secondly the comforts joyes blessings of Gods people in this life are exceeding abundant his gifts {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} unutterable 2 Cor. 9.15 their rejoycing for the same is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} unexpressible 1 Pet. 1.8 They have peace {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that passes all understanding Phil. 4.7 If they lose wife children brothers lands or the like they receive in this life {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} things an hundred fold better Mat. 19.29 And if Paul count all things dung in comparison of Jesus Christ and the enjoying of him the old Jerusalems richly beautified Temple the resplendent Jewels in the new Jerusalems walls and gates composure the gold transparent as glasse with which the streets are paved the Cry stall rivers the fruitfull trees with which the City is furnished and adorned cannot fully and to the life set forth the wonderfull glory of Gods Church in this life Let what can bee said of the Kings daughter Christs Spouse of the Churches excellency from outward matters Psal. 45. in the Song of songs and elswhere this addition S● is all glorious within surpasses all So there is an ward beauty a spirituall glory superadded to the outward excellency of the Church that goes beyond the highest strains that can by words bee uttered Let but the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ the enjoyment of his favour the comforts of the holy Ghost which in this life must bee gotten by them that hope to enjoy his presence in the other world bee put into the ballance against all worldly matters to whose lustre allusion is so often made in these two Chapters they are of more weight and greater worth then all such outward things Wherefore the lofty and stately expressions in these Chapters cannot be denyed to belong to the Christian Church of which Christ is the light from his being here on earth untill he give up his government of the same at the last day and take up with him his servants to those heavenly mansions which he hath prepared for them Chap. VIII whether the binding of Satan for a thousand yeers bee already past The Question stated THE Angels which in the beginning of the world fell from their happy condition were east down into Tartarus and were there reserved in everlasting chains under darknesse to the judgment of the great day Jude 6. Therefore they are at all times so bound that they cannot work any mischief to man without especiall commission from God who gives them liberty and looses their chain so far onely as to him seems good This sometimes God doth and that either for triall of the godly as in Jobs case or for to humble them as when Paul was buffeted by Satans Messenger 2 Cor. 12.7 Or for punishment of the wicked as when Ahab bent to believe false Prophets was deceived by a lying Spirit 1 Kings 22. or upon some other the like cases Of this restraint and loosing of Satan the question is not Scripture informs us further First of an eminent and notable binding up of Satan for a thousand years after Christs time in the Abysse or bottomlesse pit wherein hee is so fast sealed up that hee cannot deceive the Nations Secondly of an eminent and manifest loosing him after the thousand yeers are ended After which time hee works much mischief against Gods people and draws the Nations in all coasts of the world into combustions of war The controversie here is whether this notable binding up of Satan bee already past or yet to come This I am now to discusse Chap. IX The famous and notable binding up of Satan is already past and is not yet to come THis position I thus prove Arg. 1. The famous kingdom of Christ and Christians and this notable binding up of Satan for a thousand years begin both together Dr. J. Alstede Mr. J. Mede Mr. Archer The Glimpse joyntly hold this undeniable But the famous Kingdome of Christ and Christians began moe years then one thousand five hundred agon as I have above proved Therefore the notable binding up of Satan began one thousand five hundred years agon and therefore is past long before our time Arg. 2. Hee that did in eminent manner by the Spirit and finger of God cast out devils and did {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} annul and undo the works of the devill and spoyled him of his power did first eminently bind Satan Matth. 12.29 Luk 11.20 c. But Christ at his being on earth above one thousand five hundred years agon did in eminent manner by the Spirit and finger of God cast out devils and annull and undo the works of Satan and spoyle him of his power Therefore Christ then bound Satan as above in an eminent manner Of Christs casting out of devils is often mention made in the Gospels as Luk 11.10 and elsewhere and this hee did in such manner that all man were astonied thereat Matth. 9.33 Mark 1.27 and never saw it in the like manner That Christ did annull and undoe the works of the devill and take from him his power is manifest The devill was the Prince of darknesse Christ was the light of the world Joh. 1.9 The devill blinded the minds of unbeleevers Christ commanded light to shine out of darknesse and gave the Nations knowledg of himself and the Gospel 2 Cor. 4.4 The devill caught men in his snares Christ by bringing men to repentance and faith freed them from those snares 2 Tim. 2.26 Zacheus of a Publican and sinner and lost man was by Christ made a son of Abraham Luk 19. So were other the like converts The Ephesians were children of wrath as other Gentiles and walked according to the Prince that rules in the ayre or darknesse but Christ inlightned the eyes of their understanding quickned them by grace saved them through faith Ephes. 1.2 The devill drew men at first into sin and thereby brought as other calamities so death on mankind but Christ by his death destroyed him that had the power of death that is the devill Heb. 2.14 and tooke away the sting of death 1 Cor. 15.55 So that Satan did but bruise Christs heele Christ crushed Satans head Thus Christ did overpower and conquer Satan in those primitive times as the Texts cited shew Arg. 3. Christ hath already become the head of all principalitie and power and spoyled them and made a shew openly and triumphed over them Coloss. 2.10 and 15. and being raised from death sate on Gods right hand and was above all principalities and powers and dominions and had all things subject to him and under