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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90621	Chiliasto-mastix. Or, The prophecies in the Old and Nevv Testament concerning the kingdome of our savior Iesus Christ. Vindicated from the misinterpretationes of the millenaries and specially of Mr. Maton in his book called Israels redemption, / by Alexander Petrie Minister of the Scots Kirk at Roterdame. The epistle shevves the ground and pedigree of the mistake. To shew the originale of an errour is a convincing of it.	Petrie, Alexander, 1594?-1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing P1878; Thomason E24_17; ESTC R7754	63,328	79

and terrible day of he Lord shall doe at the accomplishment of this prophecie Ans Wher the darknesse of the Sun and so i● may be understood of the Moone is used properly it is not put only for a signe of an eminent and imminent destruction as it is manifest Luk. 23 45. which wes a testimonie from heaven of Christs innocencie for conviction of the murtherers and c. 21.25 the signes in the Sun and Moone and in the Starres and the distresse of nationes upon the earth with perplexitie and the roaring of the Sea and waves ar all to be understood properly as signes before the great and terrible daye of the Lord. So what is promised in the 28 and 29 verses of the second ch of Ioel wes truely albeit not altogeder fulfilled in the dayes of Peter even howbeit the wordes of the 30 and 31 verses be properly understood and not wholly fulfilled till the time immediatly preceding the last coming of Christ Inst 2 The chief and most remarkable effect of the Spirit in the Apostles at this tyme wes the gift of tounges of which the prophet makes no mention Ans 1 If this exception wer true it wold prove that the Apostle citeth the wordes inpertinently and the Iewes micht have challenged him of babling and so these authoures fight against the Apostle and the Spirit of God who hes registred this argumentation of the Apostle as good and valide 2 the chieff and most remarkable work of the Spirit at that tyme wes a sound from heaven as of a michty rushing wind which filled all the house and there appeared unto them cloven tounges lyk as of fire and it sate upon each of them and they wer all silled with the holy Ghost and this wes noised abroad Wherby it is evident that the Apostle speakes especially not only of the effect which is their speaking in strange languages bot of the cause the powring doun of the Spirit of which Ioel speakes expressely and therfor Peter citeth the wordes pertinently Inst 3 as the prophet reveled so Peter repeates this powring out of the Spirit as a contemporarie event with the wonders which shal be shewne in the heavens and in the earth before the great and terrible day of the Lord come which day can no way be referred to the first coming of Christ when he came to save sinners and not to destroy them for then it must been an antecedent of his birth and not a subsequent of his death Ans 1 Ioel sayth not that the powring of the Spirit shall not be till the great and terrible day of the Lord come bot he shewes so many thinges preceding the coming of our Saviour nether may we think that all these thinges shal be fulfilled in the same juncture of tyme if all be accomplished even in several tymes the prophecie abides true 2 That day or tyme wes terrible for it is written Act. 2.6 the multitude came togeder and wer confounded or troubled in mynd because that everie man heard them in his oun language and they wer all amazed and mervelled and v. 22 a man approved among yow by miracles wonders and signes Wherby it is manifest that even to the sicht of these Iewes that tyme of Christs coming wes terrible albeit his second coming shal be more terrible in regard of the general destruction which shal be on all nationes not for opposing themselves against the Jewes as they imagine bot for their not acknowledging God and not obeying the Gospell of our Lord Iesus 2 Thess 1.8 Inst 4 And to put it out of dout that Gods bringing doun the heathen into the valley of Iehosaphat is meant only of this gathering them togeder to a battle and consequently of a judgement on the living and not on the dead to put this out of dout I say the prophet makes it to be a concomitant of the Iewes returne from their captivitie Ans That these wordes ar not meaned of the temporall Monarchie after Christs coming it may be learned by the parallel text in that same page wher it is sayd And for my own part I am persuaded that this great armie here spoken of is the verie same that shal be gathered together to the battle of the great day of God Almichtie by the thrie uncleane spirites lyk frogges which St Iohn sawe come out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the mouth of the false prophet Rev. 16.13 If he be persuaded that this is the same battle he micht lykwise be persuaded that the text of Ioel 3. is not after the coming of Christ nor immediatly at his coming for that battle is in the tyme of the sixt vial after which followes another vial and tyme of trouble mentlioned in the rest of that ch of the Revel And here by the way we observe that the renouned Authour of Clavis Apocaliptica is mistaken in his seventh Synchronisme wherin he sayth that the powring furth of the seven viales is contemporarie with the end of the Beast and Babylon for albeit it be sayd c. 15.2 that they who had gotten the victorie over the Beast sang the song of Moses it followes not that the Beast wes then destroyed nether albeit the first and fift and last viales be powred on the Beast followeth it that they wer not powred till the last tyme of the destruction of the Beast Seing the Saintes in heaven and on earth too may rejoyce for their particulare victorie over the Beast as yet reigning and the viales may be powred on the Beast at several times even some of them on the Beast in the hight of her pride to the end that men may have warninges of the judgementes of God on the Beast in her greatest pompe And the rather may we judge so that we find such aggriement in the principal termes of the seven Trumpets and seven viales the second Trumpet with the second vial the thrid Trumpet with the thrid vial the fourth Trumpet with the fourth vial the sixt Trumpet with the sixt vial and the seventh Trumpet with the seventh vial Now seing the first Trumpet is of the same tyme with the beginning of the Beast as he sayth Synchron 1 par 2. the first vial must be of that same tyme also and all the other Synchronismes and expositiones of textes that ar grounded on that seventh Synchronisme of the first part ar wrong Which I mark because these late Millenaries have been moved by the appearance of these Synchronismes to embrace this opinions 2 We may be persuaded that the gathering of the nationes Joel 3.2 is not to be understood of a batle after the coming or at the coming of Christ if we consider the wordes of the first verse For behold in these dayes and in that tyme c. He kniteth this ch with the preceding and shewes the contentes of both to be at the same time which is not any particulare yeer or age bot comprehendes the whole deliverance of Israel or people of

marg The wordes in Act. 15.14 upon which the prophecie of Amos is inferred ar taken by Do. Mayer to be meaned of the song of old Simeon and not of the speach of Simon Peter Ans Is ther not a difference twixt Symeon and Simon Iames nameth Symeon and not Simon wherfor not without reasoun it may be thoucht that he meaned old Symeon especially seing Luke is the writer of both bookes and if the wordes of Symeon doe heerunto aggrie more than the wordes of Peter who should dout that Iames spak of him Wherfor consider the wordes of old Symeon Luk. 2.30 It is sayd of him not only that he wes a just man and devote waiting for the cousolation of Israel and the holy Ghost wes upon him bot lyke wise It was reveled unto him by the holy Ghost that he should not see death before he had seene the Lords Christ and he came by the Spirit into the temple All which particulares serve verie much to purchase credite unto his testimonie who sayth My eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people a licht to lichten the gentiles and the glorie of thy people of Israel We may see that he declares there the fulfilling at that time of the prophecie Esa 49.6 And he sayd Is it a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Iacob and to restore the preserved of Israel I will also give thee for a licht unto the gentiles that thou mayst be my salvation unto the endes of the earth and c. 52.9 Break forth into joy sing together yee wast places of Ierusalem for the Lord hes conforted his people he hes redeemed Ierusalem the Lord hes made bare his holy arme in the eyes of all nationes and all the endes of the earth shall see the salvation of our God To the same purpose is c. 60.1.3 19 and c. 62.1.2.11 Wher we see the faithfull ar bidden rejoice at the coming of Christ and so did Symeon when he sawe him Christ is called the salvation of the Lord and Symeon speaking unto God sayth of Christ My eyes have seen thy salvation the Messiah is called a licht unto the gentiles into all the endes of the earth and Symeon sayth Which thow hast prepared before the face of all people a licht to lichten the gentiles Christ is called the glorie of Sion and Ierusalem and Symeon sayth Christ is the glorie of thy people of Israel And so by the testimonie of old Symeon which is approved and registred by the Spirit of God these and the lyke prophecies should not be restricted unto the second coming bot wer in part fulfilled at the first coming of Christ and therfor also all that followes in that long tailed note is a frivolous discourse as we may see by the unanimons consent in the true worship of God betwixt the Iewes and other nationes in the same 15 chapter of the actes wher the Iewes and gentiles conueen in the general synode howbeit the ods continowe twixt the obstinate both Iewes and gentiles on the one part and the seed of Abraham believers both the Iewes and gentiles on the other both in their opinion and practise of religious dueties Inst It can not be bot that the wordes after this in the prophecie being applied to the foresayd visiting of the gentiles by the preaching of the Gospell must needs conclude that the excraordinarte restauration of the Iewes forshewn by the Prophet wes to follow the calling of the gentiles then begun by the Apostles Ans The Prophet Amos in that chap. before the v. 11. speakes not of the calling of the gentiles and the Apostle cites the same wordes of v. 11. for the calling of the gentiles nether hes the Prophet these wordes after this but in these dayes and howbeit the Apostle cite them so yet they must be understood of the order of thinges mentioned by the Prophet which is a restauration after the destruction of Israel and not a Monarchie of the Iewes after the calling of the gentiles Wherby it is manifest that in this note is a twofold errour one inserting the wordes in the prophecie which ar not in it another in misinterpreting the wordes of the Apostle Inst. 2. God could not at that tyme be sayd to returne unto the gentiles whom he had bot then received no nor to the Iewes whom he had then and not till then quite forsaken Ans This is meer cavilling Before the calling of the gentiles wes not God averse from them and they from him and therfor when he looked graciously upon them he is truely sayd to returne unto them Again in the wordes of Amos immediatly preceding we see that the Lord wes offended with Israel and when he sent the salvation of God and glorie of Israel among them it may be al 's truely sayd that he returned unto them Thridly it is often in this note repeted that he had quite forsaken the Iewes bot the Apostle can not suffer this phrase Rom. 11.1 Hes God cast away his people God forbid for I also am an Israelite c. bot more of this purpose heerafter Inst. 3. And yet ther want not some who by the wordes all Israel Rom. 11. understand only the church of the gentiles to which some of the Iewes should be united Ans All this section feightes aganst vaine imaginationes for as it is sayd by all Israel we understand not the gentiles only but the seed of the promise that is the faithfull Iewes and others in all nationes As for that prophecie of Esa 66.8 wes it not fulfilled truely albert not fully when the believing church travelled and brou●ht furth so great multitudes in one day as may be called a nation as 3000 and 5000 converted in a day Act. 2.41 and 4.4 and the people with one accorde gave heed unto these thinges which Philip spak and they who all had given themselves unto Simon Magus from the least to the greatest believed and wer baptized both men and women c. 8.6 and c. 19.17.18 this wes knowen unto all the Iewes and Greekes dwelling at Ephesus and fear fell on them all and the name of the Lord Iesus wes magnified and many believed and v. 20. so 〈◊〉 grew the word of God and prevailed not only at Ephesus bot almost thorow out all Asia v. 10 and 26 besides many other passages and other great and miraculous conversiones wherof we read in Ecclesiasticall Histories So that what wes a wonderment unto Esaie or the faithfull in his time Who hes heard such a thing hes been truely done many a day before these our dayes The evidence wherof mee thinkes should be motive en●ugh to make any partiall or unpartiail Reader understand that prophecie generally and so much the rather that by this Authour 's own confession pag. 33. it implieth not so much the returne of the whol nation to their countrie as to their God It is certane it wes in