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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39212	The great day at the dore and he cometh with clouds that shall judge the quick and the dead, and reigne on the earth with all his saints, not for a thousand yeares in this corrupt and sinfull world, as some coruptly conceive and teach, nay, but for a thousand and a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand thousands of yeares, even for ever and ever, eternally in the world to come ... proved clearly by the word of God ...	Eachard, John, 17th cent.	1648 (1648)	Wing E49; ESTC R149	28,197	34

19 20 21. These though professing the name of the true God and of the Lord Jesus Christ his Word and Sacraments and themselves to be his Church yet being possest with unclean Spirits of Devils should by another more secret way than the Dragon used deceive a great part of the world And having changed times and lawes and power and judgement being given unto them for a time and times and half a time should consume the Saints of the most High kill them behead them for those causes mentioned Rev. 13. 5 6 7. 14. 12 13. 17. 6. 20. 4. where the souls of them they should behead are shewed according to that of the pale Horse on which Death sate and Hell followed Rev. 6. 8. whereupon Iohn seeth also the soules of them that they should kill for the word of God c. vers. 9 10 11. and to that of the second Woe upon the sounding of the sixth Angel chap. 9. 13. and chap. 11. where they are said to tread the holy Citie under foot fourty and two months vers. 2. Every place agreeing to that in Dan. 7. 25. speaking in order of one and the same things the Dragon or Pagan Empire first tyranizeth the Beast or Horn that had eyes succeeds him in his throne the Saints are slain for the word of God and not worshipping the Beast the great day of the Lord followeth in every place Now concerning the soules of them that during the reigne of the Beast should be beheaded for not worshiping the Beast c. I request you unto whom I present all these things wel to consider Iohn doth not say And I saw the souls that were beheaded as if such a thing could be Neither doth he say I saw the bodies that were beheaded they lived reigned with Christ a thousand yeares as the Millinaries would seem to expound him or turn the words conceiving that Iohn nameth the Soule for the Body and would have a resurrection of the body to be meant and it to be the first resurrection Iohn speakes of which is not so for the words are plain And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded c. And they that is to say their souls liv●d and ●eigned with Christ c. not their bodies that were beheaded but their souls onely Neither may the soule be named for the body in the resurrection of the body as to rise from the dead with it or for it or for both because it is a meere falshood and a contrad●ctory thing Iohn might as well and as truly have said I s●w the s●uls that were beheaded and so have named the soule for the beheading of the body as for the resurrection of it if it had been a thing sensible or true but he saith and that sensibly and truly And I saw the souls of them c. When those bodies of Saints which slept arose Matth. 27. 52 53. it is not said their souls arose but their bodies onely And although in some other cases while the soule and the body liveth together the soule being the principall part of man may be named for both as Gen. 46. All the souls of the House of Iacob wch came into Egypt were threesoore t●n yet in this case it cannot be so except they will make the soule to dye or be ●lain with the body and so lye dead in the grave with it that it may rise with it as some of them have been bold to say and some to publish contrary to many cleare testimonies of Scripture and to the words of Christ Iohn 11. 25. I am the resurrection and the life he that beleeveth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and beleeveth in me shall never dye By which words it is evident that whosoever is once quickned and made alive again in soule by faith in Christ from that spirituall death which it being once alive in Adam was brought unto by the fall and his own sinnes this soule shall never dye more he is passed from death to life as Christ saith Iohn 5. 24 25. and Christ will raise his body up at the last day according to his word Iohn 6. 4. It is true that the soules of the unregenerate reprobates which were never quickned and made alive again by faith from that death they had by the fall and their own sinnes their bodies dying their soules remain spiritually dead in some low place of darknesse where evill spirits are untill the last day when both body and soule shall come forth and live to undergoe the second death So then when Iohn saith And I saw the soules of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Iesus c. and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand yeares he meaneth their soules and not their bodies and by a thousand yeares all the time of the Dragons being bound and the Beasts reigne and thei● bodies suffering for the word of God c. even to the loosing of the Dragon and end of the world according also to that in Rev. 6. where the soules under the Altar cryed saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth And white robes were given unto every one of them and it w●s said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season untill their fellow-servants and their brethren which should be killed 〈◊〉 they were should be fulfilled vers. 9 10 11. which must needs be understood from the beginning of the Beasts reigne when they first began to suffer for those causes unto the end of the world because their brethren that should be killed as they were would not be fulfilled till then and all the Saints are in one kind or other killed for Christs sake as it is written For thy sake O Lord are we slain all the day long and counted as sheep to the slaughter And because this resurrection of the soule is effected here while the soule is in the body by the Word and Spirit of God as Iohn well knew according to that which Christ had said Iohn 5. 21 24 25. and 11 4 5 6. and to that of Paul Ephes. 2. 1 4 5 6. Col. 2. 12 13. Col. 3. 1 2. 2 Cor. 4. 16. Ephes. 4. 23. Titus 3. 5. and other places and was also in those dayes well known to the Saints in consideration whereof Iohn saith This is the first Resurrection The first implying plainly that it is the very fi●st in which every Saint hath his part and therefore he saith again to the comfort of them all in their afflictions here Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first res●rrection on such the second death hath no power but they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand yeares even till Christ shall come in his glory and avenge their blood and raise their bodies and receive them body and

and repent of the same and take heed of all such vain aspiring thoughts of greatnesse here of pride of covetousnesse and of all carnall and worldly de●ires and that they scorn not to bee admonished Let them be content with any low estate in this world and preferre godlinesse for their gain and not think much nor envy at it that they of Rome should have the priviledge and honour to bee the onely thousand yeares monarchy that ever was or shall bee in this world Nay but let them alone with it to have it for it is all the portion of happinesse they are ever like to have which will shortly cost them deare And ye that are the children of the promise and heires with Christ of the everlasting Kingdome to whom chiefly I present all these things Take heed also and remember the words of Christ Luke 21. where he having fore-told of the great troubles and signes that should goe before the day of his coming and end of the world exhorteth you saying And take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkennesse and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares vers. 24. Meaning by surfeiting and drunkennesse that of the soule with the wealth pride fulnesse pleasures profits and prmotions of this world which will assault you and are apt to entangle even your minds they being things pleasing corrupt nature of flesh and blood Nor on the other side with the cares of this life which doe much quench the Spirit and take off the affections of the minde from the love of Christ and his truth and from minding the heavenly and eternall things to come And therefore left that day should come upon you unawares the Lord fore-warneth you to take heed to your selves and giveth you a strong Reason to perswade you to it saying For as a snare shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth vers. 35. Meaning by All them that dwell c. all the ungodly reprobate people of the world whose soules are drunk with all those things their hopes their hearts delights and dwellings being there with them And therefore he exhorteth you again that are his pilgrimes and dwell not here saying Watch ye therefore and pray alwayes that yee may be counted worthy to escape all these things and to stand before the Son of Man vers. 35. And meaning by Wat●hing praying always always indeed in the spirit every houre of the day and watch of the night according as he had said before L●ke 18. 157 8. And as Paul saith Eph. 6. 18. 1 Th●ss 1. 5 7. 1 Pet. 4. 7. And be ye ware of those learned Authors of the Millinarie Doctrine who would make ye beleeve that the words and exhortations of Christ Luke 21. 9 34 35 36. and of the Apostles Hebr. 10. 23 24 25 35 37. Iam. 5. 7 8. 1 Pet. 4. 7. did concern the Christian Jews onely in that time and were to be understood of the coming of the Roman power against Ierusalem and end of the Jewes State fulfilled above 1500. yeares agoe but was then neere at hand to come judging it a senslesse thing to watch and pray in respect of the coming of Christ and end of the world so long before it should be A● in a Book intituled The Apostasie of the latter times pag. 88 89 90 91. By Ios●ph Mede approved by D. Twiss● Whereas it is very plain that Christ and the Apostles in all 〈◊〉 places speak of the coming of Christ in his glory and end of the world and have respect to the Christian Gentiles as well as to the Christian Jewes which those learned men ought to have known and that it was no senslesse thing nor without reason or cause to watch and pray in hope and expectation of the same especially considering that all the wise virgins in all ages and times did so watch and pray and though they being weak did some times slumber and sleep yet they had their lamps alwayes burning and oyle with them expecting with fervent desires in their heart the coming of their Lord the Bridegroome For they well understood by the word of the Lord that all those evill servants and foolish Virgins which say in their heart My Lord delayeth his coming and begin to smite their fellow-servants and to eat and drink with the drunken not caring to watch or pray in respect of his coming nor to have oyle or light in their lamps and so live and die will be so found in that day of the Bridegroomes comming and shall then be shut out from ent●ing into the Bride chamber for ever Therefore ye that are the Lords faithfull and wise Servants and of the wise virgins watch ye and pray alwayes in the Spirit as Christ and his Apostles have exhorted you and in meeknesse doe ye minister unto your fellow-servants in the House good things whatsoever those evill servants and foolish virgins say or doe And take ye heed also of those who would make ye beleeve that the Bridegroome Jesus Christ is already come and fitteth now in the Throne of his glory judging the quick and the dead That the resurrection of the Body spoken of 1 Corinth 115● and other places the perfection the salvation the glory and all whatsoever the Scriptures have spoken concerning Christ and his Kingdome and reign with all his Saints are now at this present time in a secret mysticall manner fulfilled turning all Scriptures into allegories and making Jesus Christ a mysticall thing and all persons names matters and things therein spoken of and written to have my-sticall meanings which they undertake to declare in a kind of Philosophicall way And is well pleasing to those wandring professors that could never yet learn to repent of their sins unto God and de●ire mercy through faith in Christ like the similitude of the lost Sonne and poore publican but having turned from one opinion and form of Religion to another and now at last meeting with this readily entertaine it and especially such men as are most delighted with their Philosophy tending so much to liberty and such wanton women as like to fulfill their carnall pleasures of which sort the most are that embrace the doctrine as experience proveth And strong reason ariseth from their doctrine that it should be so For if Christ be already come in his glory c. And that the resurrection of the body is now while men live and that when they dye they return into their first principles and so remain for ever as they were before they knew they had a Being as they say Then well may they eat and drink and take their pleasure for who knoweth of any felicity or pain he had before Therefore take heed hearken not unto them but know yee and beleeve it assuredly that the Lord Jesus Christ shall come personally and truly and be seen in his glory with all his Saints as hee was by Peter Iames and Iohn with Moses and Elias in the holy mount And the bodies of the Saints shall be truly raised and changed as before is proved by cleare Scriptures And be ye ware also of those that shall offer to perswade you that the Scriptures which we have in our native language is not nor do declare unto us the word or minde of God but that we must looks for some new Apostles endued with such miraculous gifts as Peter and the other Apostles once had to be sent from God to instruct us and to plant new Churches Or that another Elias must come and restore all things before we can know the truth or see a true Church Beleeve them not but know yee that if it were true that some places of Scripture should be by the ●ranslators or by the Copier mistaken or mistranslated yet could not that make the word or mind of God in the same places unpossible to bee understood especially by those servants of God which have that unction from the holy O●e whe●eof the Apostle I●hn speaketh and which Chris● promised should be with them to the end of the world or if it could yet doth it not therefore darken or deprive them of the understanding of all or any of the rest N●y the grace and wisdome the Divine power and majesty of the Scriptures as they are in our nativ● Language proveth the same to bee the word of God declaring hi● mind and will unto us And as for miracles to confirm it there is no need because that hath been done sufficiently already Neither is there such necessity of new Apostles or of another Elias or of one to come from the dead to instruct the people Nay but as Christ said once in way of admonition to such persons of the Jewes They have Moses and the Prophets let them heare them c. So now we have Moses and the Prophets as well as they yea more we have Christ and his Apostles and we have the Elias also that was to come even Iohn the Baptist insomuch as we have his and their words their testimonies and examples And Christ himselfe prayed for those that should beleeve in him through their word Iohn 17. And if we will not heare nor be perswaded by them to repent and beleeve neither will we if new ones or some of them should come and preach anew unto us And as concerning the Church or House of God the Apostle Paul declareth unto us plainly that it is and hath been ever since his time built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone There are no new builders to be looked for to lay a new foundation And the living stones of this House are those wise Virgins that have their lamps alwayes burning waiting and attending the comming of their Lord the Bridegroome whose great Day is so neere a● the Dore And so unto your sensure who are the children of the Bride-chamber I refer all these things And the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all Amen And if any man shall conceive that I have herein been to bold let him consider what one saith We having the same Spirit of Faith according as it is written I have beleeved and therefore have I spoken We also beleeve and therefore speak FINIS