Woman and being only of the Woman implyed he should also be the Son of God and then likewise put Enmity between the Serpent and the Woman and his Seed and her Seed Gen. 3 15. which said Promised Seed should in due time be manifest indeed to be the Son of God Mighty to Save who should both break the Serpents Head of Policie and Power in the said 6000 years and then obtain the lost Dominion of the World and Creatures by Mans Fall for himself and his said Saints or Spiritual Seed at the end thereof Heb. 2.6 7. Heb. 2.5 8. Rev. 21.5 4. Christ upon the said Declared Grace of the Father through himself undertakes as the Goel or Redeemer to carry on that work in 6000 years until his Sabbatisme of Rest for himself and his Saints then should come 2 Thes 1.7 Hebrews 4.9 N. B. This most comprehensive Divinity being grounded upon Holy Scripture must needs be the best Divinity 1. As being suitable to Gods said Decrees 2. Revealed and Promised to the Fathers 3. Confirmed and Explained by all the Holy Prophets 4. Witnessed to by Christ in the Gospels and the Apostles in all their Writings 5. Divinely Unlocked by Christs Revelation and all this Taught all along in the said 6000 Years by the same Glorious Spirit of the Infinitely Wise God and so far also now carryed on by Christ almost to the Seventh Millennium Therefore Let all sorts of Persons without a Divine Warrant beware of Cutting Christs said Work of Redemption shorter than Gods Word hath made it and doth declare it to be c. But more of some of these afterwards 1. That these said times of Gods said Eternal Designes to be carryed on by Christ are manifest by his Word to be done in 6000 Years in reference to his own and his Saints Injoyments in the Seventh which may fitly be called Gods and Christs Divine Millenniarisme And this may be Manifest 1. From the Explication of the Lord the Spirit in his own sacred Word who doth himself make such a resemblance of the times of Christs said Redemption to the dayes of the Worlds Creation Heb. 3 4 ch and of the Typical Rest in Canaan under Joshua's conduct to Christs said Divine Rest of which see pag. 3. of Introduct 2. The holy Scripture as the ground of that Resemblance Testified by Moses Psal 90.4 That 10 0 years with God or Christ was but as yesterday in the Old Testament and St. Peter in the New urgeth it as a great point to be known by all Christians 2 Pet. 3.8 And Christ very exactly determines the said Sabbatism suitable to such other dayes to be 1000 years Rev. 20. six times over c. see much more p. 3 4 c. 3. By Gods frequent expression of Mercy to be shewed to 1000 Generations which appears to be meant in the 7000 years of the Worlds continuance as three Lives are reckoned to be 21 years taking in the Promised Mercies of the seventh as in our Key is explained in respect of the middle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or state of things pag. 3. 4. By Moses his Chronology revealed for times past 2400 years or more and until Solomons Temple built 3000 and at the Captivity of Babylon saith Bishop Vsher 3450 years then Daniels great Calender of 2300 years until Christs 1000 years make up in all 6750 years to the little space of Satan loosed Also that apt Computation of Bucolcerus to like purpose page 3. 5. From Christ first Revealed Gen 3.15 to be necessarily in the fulness of time God manifest in the Flesh in 4000 years as saith Bishop Vsher and his Session and Intercession in Heaven until the end of the sixth Millen and his glorious Reign on Earth 1000 years which makes up the same Account 'till Satans loosing c. page 3. 6. From the Resemblances of Davids and Solomons Kingdome and Temple about 3000 years Typifying Christs Kingdome and himself the Antitype in all respects at 6000 years when the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb will be the Temple of the City for twice so long continuance as their Kingdomes or the Temple remained before in the World Also their Tribe and People being carried Captive for sin about the middle of 7000 years of the worlds continuance points out the different state of them when God according to his Covenant shall take away their sin Rom. 11. when the Devil and the worlds last Gog and Magog shall not reach them but themselves shall perish by that attempt ch 20. 8 9. page 4. 7. In the Golden Rings of all Sabbath Circulations The seventh Millenium is the Diamond viz. of Annual Monethly and Daily Sabbaths which last and longest chiefly points it out as Heb. 3 4. but the Jubelie after the seven times seven seems to relate to Eternity after the seventh Millennium shall be compleated And whereas it may be Objected that the sixth Millennium will so want above 200 years Answ 1. Christ speaks of shortning evil times for the Elects sake he may specially mean it of that time 2. The first Ages may be in some part unknown to Men though Moses set down the Ages of the first Fathers he doth not assert that to be a perfect Chronicle and for Cainans age there is difficulty Luke 3. which is not mentioned Mat. 3. nor Gen. 10.24 Also the end of the world is set forth by an indeffinite little space of Satan loosed but since the Spirit of God resembles the first 6000 years to the six dayes of the Creation he knows how to make up the Account though Men cannot and Christ hath strongly asserted the Sabbatisme of 1000 years which is suitable to the six before it page 3. 3. The shortness of the sixth Millen may seem so to be more suitable to the sixth day in the end whereof Satan seduced Eve and she her Husband God in the cool of the day Summons Arraigns and Sentenceth all the three Offenders and casts Adam and Eve out of Paradise as is most probable which would require some considerable time see more to this purpose in p 4 c. and we know not but the little said space being a like evil time may be allotted to make up the 6000 year page 3. 4. Of all considerable Computations of Times in Holy Scripture I find none so exact and certain as that 2300 years Daniel 8 given by Palmoni the secret Numberer See our many Reasons for it in our Summary on Daniel upon that said Number which is the complete measure of the four Gentile Monarchies and Jews Bondage now both almost expired from the Captivity of Babylon to Christs appearance by which both Daniels other Numbers are measured 1. That of his 70 Weeks or 490 Years from the twentieth year of Artaxerxes Longimanus Anno Mundi 3550 reaching to the end of the halfe Week after Christ by his D at h had finished Transgression and by his Resurrection had brought in everlasting Righteousness Dan. 9.24 at
Dan. 11.45 12 and will also bind Satan and shut him up in the bottomless pit for 1000 years taking away out of Christs Kingdom the evils brought into the world by sin viz. the Curse the Enmity Bondage and Corruption with all that offends Mat. 13.41 at the making of the New Heavens and the New Earth for his Saints and Angels then at those times of Restitution of all things Rev. 21.5 as is manifest by Scripture to be done then for Christ personally with his Saints as in our Restit largly is manifest for Christ might as easily have put down Satan from being any longer the God of this present evil world and Prince by Usurpation of the power of the Air when he wrought his spiritual conquest over him and all the powers of Darkness Col. 2.15 at his first comeing as soon as he had reconciled the Saints to God by the blood of his Cross had not the Father most wisely and holily for his own great glory and his Sons and his said Saints great glory and happiness in that world wherein they had suffered before set down the order and time for the carrying on of that his great Design in the world for the said Reign of Christ with his Saints as the greatest thing as was said then to be obtained and enjoyed in that world to come by Christ and all his said suffering Saints together who having before there suffered with him should also then reign with him 2 Tim. 2.12 as he set forth in that book with 7 Seals given so gloriously to the Lamb Rev. 5. to open and execute as the Fathers Commissioner in their due order and time until about the end of 1700 years from Christs Birth But that then he should be his King upon his holy Hill of Sion sitting on the Throne of his Father David as he had promised and not until that time c. But 2. The Spirit of God manifests that in his first said gracious Declaration Gen. 3.15 was also contained the restoring of the Dominion over the Creatures which includes the Kingdom of Christ Rev. 20. and all that belongs to it in the two following chap. as being the positive end and purpose of Christs first undertaking of that his said great work of Redemption to be fulfilled at the time of the Restitution of all things and then to be personally enjoyed by himself and his Saints when God will wonderfully make all things new for them Rev. 21.5 when the suffering Saints fulness shall be then come in and that same Lambs Wife hath made her self ready as Rev. 19.7 And in that sense he evidently explains Psal 4.6 7. by Heb. 2.6 7 8. shewing the Son of Man there unto whom all things shall be surely at last subjected to be Christ the second Adam not the first Adam who was not the Son of any man but only the Son of God by Creation Luke 3. ult and teacheth that under the feet of Christ the second Adam all things were to be put in subjection again at the said time as was by God fore-determined and appointed though we do not yet see all things subject to him viz. in the present state of things as the Apostle speaks v. 8. although for the suffering of Death God had before Crowned him with glory and honour upon his becomeing lower than the Angels for a little time whilst he by his death had wrought reconciliation for his said Saints But as to the restoring of the said lost Dominion by the first Adams Fall which is also still usurped by Satans continuing the Prince of the power of the Air and by his wicked retinue of evil men Devils that will not be fulfilled until the beginning of Christs great day of Judgment when all his said Foes will be made his footstool and when the Kingdoms of the world shall actually become the Kingdoms of God and of his Christ and when he shall personally possess them as being then given to him for his actual possession of them Ps 2 8. 2. The first Mercy to Shems Race the Jews Gen. 9.26 having then present interest in Gods favour tended as Baalam prophetically spake to point out the lineage of Christ who when he had reconciled his Saints by the blood of his Cross at his first comeing should at his second comeing be such Gods King at that same time whose Scepter was to arise out of Israel as Numb 24.17 which v 19. is particularly applyed to Christ then out of Jacob said he shall come he that shall have Dominion mainly that in the said 1000 year carryed on after by all the Prophets Gospels and all the Apostles Writings and most Divinely so explained by Christ in the Revelation Hence also saith the Prophet Isa ch 55.3 That the spiritual Seed of that Divine Seed of the Woman Christ shall with him have those sure mercies of David that is by all the said Scripture explication c. they all most certainly shall then reign with him personally in his said Kingdom which is the very meaning of Gods making David a sure House so that his House Throne and Kingdom shall continue for ever to the worlds end 2 Sam. 7. viz. in Christ his Divine Seed as also in many other Scriptures though in respect of Davids natural Race it was not so as he speaks 2 Sam. 23.5 yet as a type for a long time his natural Race also prospered into a Kingdom as Ezekiel 16.13 4. As all Promises to Abraham and his whole Seed were chiefly to and by that his one Divine Seed Christ as Gal. 3. so also more especially to all his spiritual Seed then See their many distinctions Resurrect p. 10 11. and likewise to Isaac Jacob and David and to all their Spiritual Seed at the same time and though the natural race of them all had for a time in Canaan a Typical Conditional Temporal Changable interest which by sin they all successively lost Mich. 2.10 yet Abraham Isaac and Jacob looked for that City and heavenly Countrey a far off viz. of a heavenly nature whose Maker and Builder is God Heb. 11.16.40 for themselves and all their spiritual Seed at the first Resurrection as by our paper of the Jews Conversion is largely evident pag. 5 6. Jacob also Prophesied of Judah's Dominion Gen. 49. which was the Type of Christs who was to descend from Judah who is therefore in that state stiled the Lion of the Tribe of Judah Rev. 5. which Dominion of his and his Saints shall not be forfeited nor pass to other people as Daniel speaks when he shall cease to sit on his Fathers Throne and come to sit on his own Throne in the said 1000 years with his Saints Rev. 3.21 as the Son of David for ever viz. while the world remains 2 Sam. 7. When will really be the sure Mercies of David as was said for himself and all his spiritual Seed which are so many wayes distinguished from the natural as ought to be well
confirmed from the particulars under the next head of Arguments drawn from the many actions or great things the Scripture speaks of to be then done peculiarly by himself and at that time 4. Therefore to proceed to those acts peculiar to Christ then to be done by him The first is he will bring his Saints with him then as Zach. 14.5 he will come and all the Saints with him confirmed by St. Paul he will come at his appearance with all his Saints 1 Thess 3. ult and 4.14 them also that sleep in Jesus will God then bring with him and therefore the Bride the Lambs Wife is ready when the Halelujahs are sung Rev. 19 7. which is expounded Rev. 21.9.10 to be the New Jerusalem then come down from God out of Heaven or the spirits of just men before made perfect Heb. 12. coming with Christ to receive their spiritual bodies in their order whereby they are made capable of the happy Vision of Christs Person and of the many parts of the happiness of that Jerusalem state the Mansion for that time which Christ went to prepare for them in special Joh. 14.1 2. as his own Revelation resolves us but whether it will after be translated with them when the created Heavens and Earth shall be dissolved Rev. 20.11 we find nothing to resolve us but that an infinite and eternal happiness will follow the end of that great day of Judgment upon their final sentence of Absolution and Approbation is there and in many other Scriptures manifest where God hath prepared it for them for ever c. And as he will then bring all his suffering Saints from Abel to that time he cometh to that Judgement with him So 2. He will raise their Bodies to make them capable of the happiness of that state as one great end of his bringing them then with him and being such a Mercy as is founded upon all the Covenants and promised Mercies we spake of before belonging to the Father and their spiritual Seed in the renewed state of the world appointed by the Father for him and them together as was shewed before whence farther evidences of his personal presence with them are very evident and cogent from Scripture if God work that Faith in men to believe them upon such Scripture grounds and it is only Christs peculiar personal work then to raise the Saints departed c. 3. When he comes in the Clouds then and converts the Jews they shall personally see him through the Clouds without which mortal eyes could not behold the brightness of his Glory at his appearance therefore often so called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his appearance and the appearance of his presence who will then be manifest to be the only Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords as the Apostle Paul divinely and fully teacheth 1 Tim. 6.14 15 16. and as Christ also in due order reveals largely Rev. 19. with many wonderful expressions of his Excellency then to be manifest but that the Jews that pierced him and every eye then capable shall see him the Clouds shall then wait upon him Rev. 1.7 it is set forth as a great wonder Behold he cometh with Clouds as the Holy Spirit therefore speaks and with an addition of even so Amen as being the time of fulfilling of promised Mercies to Jews and faithful Gentiles the spiritual Children of Abraham by Faith as the Apostle speaks Gal. 3.29 yea and they are said to be Christs seed too which he shall then see upon such prolonging of his days in the world then Isa 53. now when all those shall with their Eyes see him he must then necessarily be personally present and this is according to the main intent of Zach. 12.10 to the end of the Jews great Conversion for all Revelations from the sounding of the seventh Trumpet at Christs coming in the Clouds refer us to the Prophesies of the Old Testament who have this Key given to open all that follows there to the end that the Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophesie Rev. 19 10. for he there witnesseth nothing but what his own holy Spirit had taught in some measure before by his Prophets So Zach. 3.9 their iniquity shall be taken away in one day and Isa 6 8 9. c. that Nation shall be born in one day c which their Elias to be sent some time before as Mal. 4.1 to guide them in seeking their promised land then seems to prepare for towards the end of Daniels 1335 years c. 11 12. And 4. Likewise the fulfilling of that Prophesie Zach. 14. when his feet shall stand on Mount Olivet from whence he ascended upon which it is very probable he will again then descend with Clouds wonderfully causing it then to cleave asunder and cause the Valley to Azal sutable to what those two Angels said to the Apostles when he ascended Acts 1.11 and there is much in that whole Chapter of Zach. 1. to many of these purposes but we must in this business in hand briefly only point at many things of such nature and such wonderful works of Christ seem to prepare that so long hardned people the Jews for the wonder of Christs mercy to be then magnified towards them according to many great Prophesies as Ezek. 36 and 37. ch and as in our said Paper of their Conversion c. and his standing on Mount Olivet and its cleaving then also clearly prove him present 5. His Command to bring his great Enemies and slay them before him Luke 19. proveth his presence when it shall be done and that will be at the Judgment of the Beast Dan. 7. and upon or at the destruction of Gog the Turk Dan. 11.45 for ch 10.1 at that time stands up Michael the Prince of Daniels people when he tells him his people shall be delivered and when these Enemies perish 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is done at the last Vial Rev. 16.16 17. which fulfils that great Prophecy of Gogs and Magogs destruction Ezek. 39.8 at that great day which the Lord God there spake of as pag. 61 62. of Restit 6. The binding of Satan then and sealing him up in the bottomless pit Rev. 20. when he eminently breaks the Serpents head as Gen. 3.15 at the end of his sitting on his Fathers right hand when he will make his temporal or corporal enemies together with his spiritual eminently his footstool which is also an act suitable only to Christs Soveraignty then which he will exercise as the Father set down in the Book with 7 Seals for 1000 years and in the little space afterwards when also upon Satans last most wicked attempt of Rebellion against his Divine Soveraign Authority he and all his shall perish for ever c. 7. His dispensing of his Rewards to his Saints then will be his peculiar personal act as he speaketh expressly at his said personal comeing Rev. 22.12 Behold I come quickly and my Reward is with
me and so he judgeth his Saints with Reward ch 11.19 and this he will be doing all the 1000 years for them 8. His sitting on the Throne of his Father David Luke 1.32 Isa 9. not as he sits now on God the Fathers Throne but as distinct from it Rev 3.21 when he comes from his Fathers right hand to sit on his own Throne in the world as the Son of David and be manifest therein to be the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and all his manifold actings in righteousness and Judgment in the Earth of which are many and great Prophesies then upon his said Morning Judgment in all the 1â—00 years also prove his personal presence as the Branch or one out of the root of Jesse and yet though so the Son yet as God he was the root of David Rev. 5. But N. B. not as some mistake of his and his Saints being then as other Kings and men in the world but comeing as the great God Tit. 2.13 in his own and his Fathers and his Angels glory c. and in that Christalline Transparent Golden Wonderful Holy and Beloved New Jerusalem Rev. 21. 1500 miles high as well as 1500 miles long and broad a perfect Cube without allegorising of it or many other matters then and there for Gods Spirit hath not said it will be of such height in vain who best knows and being likewise the Maker and Builder of that City for the Fathers and all his Saints as Heb. 11.16.40 is able to make it both capacious enough and suitably glorious to the blessed holy raised Saints condition therein to behold Christs glory Joh. 17.24 their blessed Redeemer Head and Husband and when men begin to wait upon God more duly to seek to know these things from his Word as they are there held out in humility and uprightness he will doubtless give them a suitable Faith to believe more of such Divine Truths which is now a great duty though the Old Seducer labours by all means possible to perswade men to the contrary otherwise like Thomas they may not haply know them until they see them and haply for wilful neglect may then obtain a smaler portion in them c. But all the said promised mercies expounded by Christ as is manifest in our Scheme do refer to that time and state and will then have their due accomplishments though multitudes now shut their eyes against such light as by our six Conclusions is sufficiently evident pag. 17 18. of Restitut such glorious Revelations left by the Father to be made known by his Son alone after all ought earnestly to be sought into by all good means and highly prized when they are found The transparent matter of those Coelestial Spheres wherein those glorious lights above us shine unto the world is not by men discoverable what it is so neither is the matter of that glorious City prepared by God himself for that King of glory and his said Saints in that blessed state farther known then as we are informed from the holy Scriptures concerning the same and though the raised Saints and those then in the natural life will then be of one Communion yet their states otherwise seem to be pointed out much to differ as by Ezekiels New Jerusalem and St. Johns may appear the one for the Converred Jews with the Gentiles to walk in the light of the other Rev. 21.24 the other peculiar to the raised Saints And 9. From the Apostle Paul's expressions to the Thessalonians 2 Epist 1.10 there will be at Christs said comeing as he there tells them much occasion of glorifying him by his Saints and of his being admired then by all that believe as well for his Personal Excellencies as for all his said actions in those times which without his Personal Presence they would not have opportunity and occasion then to do The last Head of Arguments for such Christs Personal Presence then will be from the Relation he then stands in to his said Saints First he will be then the Saints visible Head and they his visible Members both to be present 2. At the Marriage of the Lamb he will be the Bridegroom and the Saints his visible Bride Rev. 21.9 now that Relation imports his personal appearance as well as hers 3. As the Husband he will long continue in that state with them and dwell with them the said 1000 years therefore upon the comeing of the said New Jerusalem viz. the Inhabitants metanimically down with him from God out of Heaven there the Holy Spirit declares That the Tabernacle of God viz. the body which he Tabernacled in before for a little time then will be with men so as to dwell with them that long season and therefore personally present 4. The joint interest that Christ and his said Saints will have in the happiness of that state as heirs and joint-heirs with him thereof which also prove his personal presence Rev. 21 7. 5. More especially their Reigning with him on earth then as the most comprehensive Mercy of all the rest which all the other tend to make up as the prospering into a Kingdom was to the Natural Race in the Type Ezek. 16.13 and hence this Kingdom and Reign of the Saints with Christ is so often mentioned in the Revelation For then the Kings Daughter that is all glorious within wh se Garments are said to be of wrought Gold shall enter into the Kings Palace Psal 45. who shall make of her Children Princes in all Lands some as Christ said over two or five or ten Cities Luke 19. and all such offices and Relations speak his personal presence in that state when once these everlasting Gates shall begin to stand open for the King of Glory to enter in Psal 24. And thus much at present briefly of Christs said personal Comeing and Reign in the 1000 years as proved abundantly from all the fore named Considerations Now the Second thing viz. That they shall be about 20 years hence from this 76 or rather 80 which we desire to give farther satisfaction in according to what we find in the Word of God and from such Divine Grounds as are according thereunto upon which our Belief thereof is founded are these ensuing 1. In general we find all Prophetick Scripture is almost fulfilled neer to Christs appearance as in particulars may hereafter appear 2. More especially because Daniel's 2300 years given by Palmoni or the secret Numberer ch 8. which many ways are manifest 1. To be the most certain Number or Measure of the years of the Jews Bondage and of the Gentiles Dominion through all their four Monarchies And 2. The Measure of both his other Numbers in connexion with the Revelation Numbers joyntly which admirably terminate in the same Period with it at Christ's said appearance when in all those respects that Number will be fulfilled as follows For the First That it is the Measure of the Jews Bondage and of the Gentiles Dominion is proved largely from the
were so many milder blasts of Gods wrath for the Dragons or Heathen Emperours Persecutions of the Saints before as is very probable for about 200 years to about An. Dom. 600. or after from which time the two following more terrible VVoe-Trumpets of the Saracens and Turks ch 9. have for above 1000. years more proceeded to execute the more terrible wrath of God upon the Eastern Roman Empire until at the end of the second VVoe or at the beginning of the seventh Trumpet or third VVoe the whole Empire according to Balaams Prophesie Numb 24.24 shall perish for ever or as St. John expresseth the same thing Rev. 17.12 shall go into perdition then So 2. For the true Churches regular state measured Rev. 11.1 until the Beasts time when she was said to have the Moon under her feet and in respect of her suffering state until then and for that little time under Constantine and Theodosius reigns c. after which by Heresies her sufferings returned as by the Dragons flood c. until about 420. or more when it appears the said Beasts 42. moneths for his treading under foot the holy City began with the said two Sack-cloth VVitnesses 1260. dayes of years and the said VVomans VVilderness state all to end before the VVhore of Babylons burning and a little as appears before the said Beasts last destruction at the Armageddon Battle Rev. 16. said to be the great day of God Almighty from Ezek. 39.8 and to be executed as Rev. 18. 19 ch And do not these mystical discoveries now also concur with those more noted marks of our Saviour that iniquity should abound and the love of many should wax cold and do not St Peters Atheistical scoffers at true Religion in these times plainly shew themselves and doth not the prevalency of Profaneness and of the abominable wickedness of the soul and unclean spirit also sadly appear in these dayes and openly and shamelessly manifest themselves whose great endeavour hath been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the latter times 1 Tim. 4.1 to set up the name of Christ against the Doctrine of Christ as respecting the judgment So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in these last dayes 2 Tim 3.1 by a form of his Religion to obstruct the power thereof in the VVitnesses of it as respecting the affections and by such a twâ—-fold Antichristianisme to promote by degrees any even the worst of evils Rev. 13.17 Esa 66.5 from all which evidences and the like all serious and judicious persons may easily upon due consideration discern that our said belief of the neer approach of Christs said appearance hath many Divine Foundations laid by the Spirit of God in holy Scripture to rest it self upon in all such wayes of Discovery as the most wise and gracious God hath been pleased in some latitude to make known to us although neither the day nor hour nor yet the moneth or year can by man be determined I might have added want of Faith of these things as in Assert 10. of our Key Hence let all vain Worldly Prophane and Unregenerate Persons be admonished speedily to seek the Lords Face by true Conversion unto him by Faith and Repentance before that little space be spent c. 2. Let all real Saints act first more earnestly in studying Unity in all that is truly good avoiding unnecessary Dividing Principles and Practises 3. Be much in the exercise of sincere piety in the sight of the heart searching God and labour to promote it in others c. 4. Be more earnestly exercised in Charitable works 1. For the good of the souls 2. For the good of the bodies and persons of all sorts and condit ons of men And 5. Labour to exercise very great moderation in all worldly and temporal now fading things And Lastly Let all men be admonished not to deceive themselves or others with a groundless expectation of such an excellent and happy spiritual Church-state and times before that world to come at Christs said appearance save what may sometime be upon the finishing the Ascention of the slain Witnesses But until that new state begin we spake of the obstinacy of the Jews and prophane Apostacy of the Gentiles are like in the general to obstruct such said Expectations until at Christs second comeing they be powerfully and graciously removed according to the many ancient Promises and Prophesies But all judicious persons may hence observe upon many evident Foundations laid down briefly in our Introduct with this Appendix to it how all the said Curious work in Christs Divine Key doth admirably inform us in these three things viz. in the quo the quando the quandiu all respecting that time and state the first the quo two wayes 1. As to the predictions of what is then to take place privatively for the removing of evils And 2. Positively as to the performance of promised mercies to the Fathers c. 2. For the quando when they shall begin as by this Appendix is many wayes manifest namely at the Beasts and Gogs last ruine Ezek. 39.8 and at the last Vial for then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is done when Satan is to be bound and Christ will begin to reign with his Saints at the Renovation of all things Rev. 21.5 in his Mediatory or Davidical Kingdom for that 1000. years of which largly Restit p. 61 62. And 3. For the quandiu especially observe how Divinely and wonderfully exact Christs Determination thereof is as was shewed for 1000. years most plainly for years in Scripture are alwayes litterally taken though moneths and weeks and dayes were in this book before used often Prophetically the whole number of 1000. is never used but for it self as Pareus observes and both of them are here three times applyed both positively and relatively First positively to Satans binding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a thousand years and then Relatively 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those thousand years v. 2 3. 2. So to the suffering Saints Resurrection they reigned with Christ 1000 years but the rest of the dead lived not until those thousand years were ended v. 4 5. 3. So again to illustrate the happiness of that their estate for that long time 1. They are said to be Blessed 2. Holy 3. Secured 4. Highly honoured to be Priests to God and Christ 5. Invested with Sovereign Authority and that with Christ all that while Satan is bound v 6 7. These Scripture Truths are so wonderfully illustrated and Authorised by God the Father Christ and the Holy Spirit as no other part of the Gospel is and how men will henceforward to whom these things are represented be able to answer their not owning of them with the Truths annexed to them as in our six Conclusions Restit p. 17 18 19. I know not God grant they may duly weigh the same aforehand and render the due glory to Christ for these Divine Truths respecting the Gospel of his said Kingdom and the glorious excellencies and happiness thereof for his said suffering Saints shortly to take place Amen HEnce two of his Majesties very considerable Questions may strongly be resolved namely 1. That the Roman Monarchy viz. the Feet and Toes thereof in the two-fold Beast the Papacy will end about 20 years hence at Christs Appearance c. And 2. That it appears from Daniels Numbers That at the end of his 70 Weeks ch 9. the Kingdom of the Stone begins about Christs Ascention when he Triumphed Spiritually to continue 1666. years to the same period with the said 2300. Dan. 8. and with divers others said Numbers when Christs visible and glorious Triumph will be in the world over all his great Enemies therein by making them his footstool To the third material Question we shall add That all the time from Christs first comeing to his second is set forth by the last times in sacred Scripture not only as was then said in reference to that usual expresion in the Old Testament ב×חרית-×”×™×ž×™× in the latter or postremity of days as Jacobs applying it to Shiloe's coming Gen 49. Jeremies to the Jews Conversion at his second comeing c. 30. ult and so often also to many things in the interim betwixt both and the like is observable of Daniels בעת קצ in the time of the end which is the same with the times of the Gospel as Dan. 11.36 37 38 39 40. and Dan. 12.4 9. which times Christ in the Revelation divides into these three of the Dragon or Heathen Emperours 2. Of the two-fold Beast or Papacy and 3. Of his own Kingdom in the World the 1000 years c. In page 16. line 4. of Introduct read Priestly not Prophetical FINIS