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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59935	Iero-metropolis, or, The holy, the great, the beloved new Jerusalem shortly to come down from God out of heaven : being the work of Gods own hands ... / by William Sherwin ...	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1670 (1670)	Wing S3405; ESTC R34224	30,582	34

whose name is above every name for as those in heaven do it so shall those in earth and under the earth in their due time do it Phil. 2.9 10. and so in such a glorious condition will those new Heavens and new Earth then be that his Name will be sanctifyed his Kingdom will be come and his Will then be done on earth as it was before in heaven For Christ when he was upon earth taught not his Servants to pray all along to his coming for those things which shall never be and God hath not made so many promises and given forth so many prophesies of such things as never will be performed and fulfilled But then will be that great Sabbatisme of such holy refreshment from the presence of the Lord and rest which remains saith the Apostle for the people of God Heb. 4 9. when those promised mercies to the Fathers shall be fulfilled on earth that his people may serve him without fear of their enemies in holiness and righteousness before him all the dayes of their Life Luke 1.73 74. and as Rev. 22.3 now these promised mercies were to Abraham Isaac and Jacob not yet fulfilled but seen a far off Heb. 11.13 c. There are also sure mercies of David not yet fully accomplished 1 Sam. 7.15 16 c. that his House and his Kingdom should be estab●ished for ever before him and his Throne shall be established for ever which he there largely by Faith applyed and by grateful acknowledgement praised God for as if it had been performed and then Job and Esay will find the effect and fruit of their own Faith Job 14. Esa 46. and Daniel shall then obtain his promised Lot with all the holy Prophets and faithful servants of God in those times Oh how should our Faith be exercised in these things that with faithful Abraham we may rejoyce aforehand at the day of Christs visible Dominion as he did both at that and his Incarnation Heb. 11.13 c. And so we should proceed to a second Use of thankfulness for such great mercies now manifest to the Church of Christ from his Word and chiefly from him the faithful and true witness but because we have been somwhat large to that purpose upon a like occasion towards the end of a former Treatise on Gen. 3.15 we here wave that and only touch upon some hints of further improvement by way of admonition and exhortation and so leave them to be enlarged by Christians in their private meditations c. Vse 2. For admonition to two sorts of persons First to such as own these Doctrines of Christs Kingdom of visible power to come c. so much the more to be careful to make sure their interest first in Christs spiritual Kingdom of grace here in this present life and state of things before they look or hope for any part in his Kingd of visible power on earth at his coming or in Gods eternal Kingdom of glory ensuing upon it for grace and Gods spirit here is the earnest and evidence of all blessedness hereafter only Wise Virgins will be admitted into the Bride-chamber when the Bridegroom comes and such only will he receive to himself to make them inheritors of everlasting blessedness in the Kingdom of his Father for though all divine Scripture truth is written for our learning as the Apostle Paul teacheth yet all divine knowledge not being duly improved will aggravate the sin and misery of all formal professors thereof both in the whole of Christian religion or in any remarkable branch thereof much more if such knowledge be perverted contrarie to the holy just and good laws of Christs Kingdom of grace that teacheth his people to deny ungodly and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously Godly in this present world Tit. 2.11 12. But for such as own these Doctrines are indeed faithful servants and subjects of their great Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to look upon all Doctrine respecting Christs Kingdom on earth as a great ingagement unto duty and thankfulness not only in word and outward profession but most especially to endeavour to manifest it in heart and conversation buth before himself and in the sight of men and that they may so labour the more to act thankfulness by walking so much the more Christianly and obediently to his Laws seeing by such Doctrine a greater engagement is laid upon them thereunto for as their expectations are greater than otherwise they could be from the evidence they have of their interest in Christs glorious Kingdom of power on earth to come by the redemption of their bodies and the union of them to their souls in that blessed condition appointed to the faithful in their order besides what others shall enjoy who then remain in their natural life that upon that account they study and labour to be more ready and forward to do such acceptable service for Christ as he assignes them unto though unpleasing to flesh and blood because it will be acceptable unto him and he requires it of them and it will be found no loss as some misapprehend but occasion of great rejoycing for those spirits of just men made perfect to be brought with Christ at his appearance and his Kingdom 2 Tim. 4.1 to attain to that desired Union with their bodies there to behold Christs glorie c. in that blessed condition above a thousand years sooner than the last resurrection as was manifest by that great exultation of the Representatives Rev. 5.10 as an addition to their spiritual joy and praise to the Lamb And say they we shall reign upon earth where they knew aforehand that they should personally enjoy in body and soul the blessed vision of Christ and all such happiness as is appointed for them in his visible Mediators Kingdom of power upon earth who will then be so admired of all his Saints as the Apostle Paul teacheth and glorifyed in them that believe 2 Thes 1.10 Vse 3. For Admonition to all real and faithful Christians that as yet own not these Doctrines of the Millennium which I confess till of late years I my self have often opposed as I shewed in the Irenicon to take heed and beware of slighting and over-looking so much divine truth as the fore-named and many other texts and portions of holy Scripture hold forth evidently concerning those things and to that end consider first some truths of that nature have been antiently received though the great Deceiver then stirred up some to cast unjust reproaches and false imputations upon the owners of them yea they have been owned both by antient Fathers and modern writers and the light and evidence of them is like to break forth more and more amongst faithful Christians as prejudices are removed and more Mysteries are accomplished and by Gods mercy greater discoveries made of what concerns his true Church and if diligent and impartial search were made of those Scriptures which concern these things but especially what Daniel

as formerly confessed by me c. (a) Ser Prodr p. 9 10 11 12. Dir. 2d and now to thy praise before thy Omni-present Divine Majesty and before Angels and Men I do here also again confess and declare thy great manifold and free mercy together with innumerable experiences thereof otherwise from my youth that in particular thou hast so manifested unto me through the riches of thy grace in Christ that glorious part of his Mediators Offices still to be fulfilled which as I have professed so still I esteem to be the greatest mercy since thy gifts of faith grace and thy holy spirit conferred upon me that I have been capable of receiving in this life And with humble thankfulness I especially acknowledge thy good hand towards me and upon me in the beginning carrying on and at last after some interruption yet again turned by thy hand to good advantage thou wert pleased to inable me to finish the four parts of the foundations of these truths divers years past and by degrees to proceed in those practicals after published And first that a little before the Cities sad conflagration thou wast pleased upon the said advantage as in other respects so especially to inable me then to compose that Piece on Rev. 22.20 from the ground of those b Iren. p. 41 42 c. distinctions of the Spiritual Visional Executive Representative Comings together with three Personal Comings of my Saviour all as I believe taught me remarkably with the due use of other means by thy Word and Spirit which last if it will be only in the c as Word written p. ult apprehension of Creatures yet I believe it is by thy Word said to be his descending with a shout and the Voice of an Arch-Angel and with the Trump of God above 1000 years after his second Personal coming as by that Scripture Evidence thou didst inable me then to set down And also that in that order of my Saviours execution of his three great Offices set down in some of my Theses written on a Lords-day morning not without the special motion and assistance of his Spirit as I conceive I was first inabled to set down that little observed yet very real and useful distinction of d These 11 12 13. of p. 10. of Prodro his general particular execution of them as a foundation of drawing up that Treatise afterwards on Gen. 3.15 to set forth by Scripture and experience how he hath doth and will accomplish them all c. And Lastly by convincing Arguments and other helps which thy Divine goodness hath ordered to be subservient that thou hast now been graciously pleased after many divertings for divers years past and to much advantage likewise of my work of what I my self formerly intended concerning the Tract on the New Jerusalem from Jer. 3.17 yet that after the ceasing almost in me any such intentions or hopes thereof thou hast remarkably again led me in wayes to fin sh thy own Work so much the more to thy own praise by how much my own weakness and unworthiness have rendered me unsuitable for such an undertaking had I not been both first prepared then set apart quickned assisted encouraged and carried on remarkably by thy Grace and good Spirit according to thy Word as I also really believe and which assured perswasion hath made me greatly unmoveable so far as I found thy Gracious hand leading me on therein that at last the Top-stone of that main Building is by this Tract on Jer. 3.17 now at last laid thereon c. So Father it seemed good to thee when thou hadst before hid many of these things from many Wise and Prudent and even in such things caused the foolish in the world to confound the wise for thou art all and alone so and all Creatures are nothing but by thee to thee therefore be all the praise from all thine for evermore for of thee and by thee and for thee are all things and Gracious Father let many of thine from this thy Work by my weak hand be daily the more inabled to render the same unto thee in regard of thy special goodness in these Divine Truths here set before them which is the main and just intendment thereof Amen and Amen by me and them for Evermore ERRATA In Prodr p. 9. Thes 4. add in the execution of the eternal Decrees In the Advertisement before the Irenic r. supernal for supernatural p. 100. r. Ideom for Idem In the Word written p. ult r. late 5t Monarchie men and after grave for great In the New Jerus p. 12. l. 35. r. most for not FINIS