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A84078	An olive-leaf: or, Some peaceable considerations to the Christian meeting at Christs-Church in London, Munday, Jan. 9. 1653. Also, the reign of Christ, and the saints with him, on earth, a thousand yeers, one day, and the day at hand. By William Erbery.	Erbery, William, 1604-1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing E3236; Thomason E726_5; Thomason E729_10; ESTC R206777	7,448	12

An Olive-leaf OR Some Peaceable CONSIDERATIONS To the CHRISTIAN MEETING at Christs-Church in London Munday Jan. 9. 1653. ALSO The Reign of CHRIST and the SAINTS with him On Earth A Thousand yeers One day and the day at hand By William Erbery And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem and the battle-bow shall be cut off and he will speak peace to the heathen and his dominion shall be from sea to sea and from the river even to the ends of the earth Zach. 9.10 Imprinted at London by J. Cottrel 1654. For Mr. Rogers Mr. Powel and the rest of the good People of Christ-Church Christian Friends I Am forced in Spirit to speak though in much affliction and fear to offend either to hurt the weak or harden the strong 'T is a mercy to you and a Mystery of Providence to bring you from Black-Fryers to Christs-Church for as the face of blackness hath lately appeared on your fellowships so some have lookt though I do not on your actings as Jesuitical and a Fryerly-Spirit in your publique speakings against the present Powers for as Luther himself never declaimed against the Pope as a secular Prince but as a spiritual Lord so the people of God ever since have been silent in their sufferings under Civil Governments though Church-Governors have fallen even by this their medling with State-matters and muttering abroad things they know not For as the Prophet saith Your own breath as fire shall devour you Isa 33.11 So Church-rulers being fired by their approaching fall fell by their own breath the Bishops or Prelates whom nothing could throw down but their own protesting against the House of Lords acting in their absence were cast and caught in a Premunire against the King Thus the Presbyters were judged for complying with the Scots and preaching against the English Parliament This some Independent Pastors also opposed in their publique teachings before therefore their own Parliament was dissolved and another Power is risen which because they see not in the Lord therefore they speak against it and so their own breath has devoured them God is my witness I speak not to divide brethren nor to disfavour any Saints with the State nor yet to fawn on the highest in Power but that you and I may retire into the inner World and not dwell in the outward Court which is given to the Gentiles nor to expect the reigne of the Saints with Christ in outward glory and Government Rev. 11.2 17 18. 'T was much upon my spirit then to reply to what I heard from you both at Christs-Church but I would not trouble your publique meeting Mr. Rogers spake from Jer. 42.20 Ye dissembled in your hearts when ye sent me unto the Lord your God saying Pray for us c. This he interpreted as the dissembling of some in Power to aske the prayers of the Prophets and people of God in their troubles who now act contrary to their own professed purposes of no personal rule and contrary to their promises of Remonstrated Liberty to all This seemed a smart reflection but let me answer a word not for Men but for the Lord in them nor yet against Man but for the Lord in you my Brethren First It was on my heart to ask you Are you the Prophets of the Lord as Jeremiah was or are ye Ministers of the Gospel as Paul c Secondly Do you speak of the People of God as confined to your own gathered Churches or the People of God scattered in the Nation Thirdly Were your thoughts theirs or were they all taken up with you in the Parliament lately dissolved Fourthly Did not the People of God in general pray or waite for not what was to be set up as a Crown on the head of a particular party or sect but what might with God arise for the good of the Saints and Nation in common Fifthly Not to make comparisons or parties again is not th● appearance of God as glorious in the 7000 Saints scattered and secret in Israel as those in gathered Churches though the Prophet knows not nor ownes all the hidden ones of the Lord 1 King 19 18. Sixthly Not to offend Mr. Rogers did he speak by a Prophetick or an Apostolique Spirit were his last Proposals to the Parliament or now to the Lord Protector suitable to a Gospel-State which he professeth I am sure his former Proposals for way of Government were meerly legal and far below that glory the Saints are waiting for in themselves and to the nation also Zach. 12.7 8. Seventhly Let me aske Is it according to the order of the Gospel for Ministers of Christ to meddle with Civil Government seeing his Kingdome is not of this World Joh. 18.36 Luk. 22. 25. Eightly Did ever the Ministers of the Gospel speak against Principalities and Powers though as bad as Nero Rom. 13.1 2. c. 1 Tim. 2.2 Titus 3.1 2. 1 Pet. 2.13 14. Ninthly Doth Civil Government concern the glory of the Gospel is Monarchy in a King any more against the reigne of Christ then Aristocracy in a Parliament is not the State of Holland and Commonwealth of Venice as much for Antichrist as the King of France or Spaine Isa 19.11 13 compared Tenthly Will not Christ when he comes to reigne put down all Authority power and Rule not onely Monarchical Authority but Aristocratical Power and Democratick Rule not that Rulers shall not be over Men but God alone will appear to be King over All. Psal 72.11 Eleventhly When God shall be all in all there shall be but one King in all the Earth and his name one Zach. 14.9 then the names of Presbyter Independant and Anabaptist shall cease in the Church yea the names of Cavaleer Roundhead and Romanist shall be no more heard in the Commonwealth Twelfthly Is it not for peace to satisfie all interests and to sement the divided Spirits of the Nation that all Englishmen should become as one when none shall be received before other You say that the worst of men speak well of the present Government and is it not well and a fair way for peace and love As for my deer Countryman Mr. Powels preaching I could not but cleave to his peaceable spirit at the end of his Sermon perswading his brethren to meddle no more with Civil matters but to speak of spiritual glories which he held forth in the Reigne of Christ and the Saints with him on Earth But because me thought my Brothers conceits were too carnal and earthly of this heavenly mystery and besides he gave me leave to object I shall in meekness and fear give a reason of the hope that is in me concerning this First 'T is plain that Christ is a mystery which he and I do not yet cleerly know nor can manifest unto men having not the manifestation of the Spirit given to the Apostles and primitive Churches Eph. 2.5 Col. 1.27 Secondly Christ in us the hope of glory being that

mystery of God not to be finished till the seventh Trumpet blow What can he or I say to this unless we have heard the sound thereof Rev. 10.7 Thirdly Though he speak with considence yet can I but in much confusion declare that as Christ in the flesh was none other but the mighty God even the Father glory manifest in flesh so Christ in the Spirit or Christ in us is God manifest in our flesh as in his Isa 9.6 Joh. 14.9.10 20. ver Fourthly Christ in us the hope of glory is this to me that the Glory he had with God before the world though vailed in his flesh while living yet after that his pure flesh was sacrificed and slaine unto God by death was fully revealed in the Resurrection and he raised to glory was this in truth even God raised and his glory fully revealed in him Psal 68.1 18. 1 Pet. 1.20 21. Fifthly Christ was raised a spiritual body and though nothing but flesh appeared to his Disciples not able to behold his glory yet that he was a spiritual and glorious body indeed appeares by this that our bodies shall be spiritual also in the mystery of the Resurrection much more was his body spiritual when raised 1 Cor. 15.44 51. Sixthly Therefore Christ in us is called the Hope of Glory because God being in our flesh as in his we have hereby hope to be raised up in the same glory or heavenly Image and to attain to the Resurrection of the dead that God even the Father may fully appeare in our flesh as in him raised from death that God may be all in all Phil. 3.10 11 12 14. Joh. 17.22 24. Sevently As the Captain of our salvation was made perfect by suffering and Christ through suffering entered into Glory so in the fellowship of his sufferings in our flesh we come to the power of his Resurrection and appearance of that glory in us Heb. 2.10 Heb. 5.8.9 Eighthly Therefore as the Apostle saith If the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised up Jesus from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies so saith he again Alwaies bearing in our bodies the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life of Jesus may be manifest in our mortal flesh Rom. 8.11 2 Cor. 4.10 11. Ninthly This shews that as the Spirit of Jesus or power of God in our flesh is still slaying and crucifying it that we dye dayly so the raising and quickning of our mortal bodies is when the life of Jesus appeares not onely after death but even in our mortal flesh while we live or while our flesh is mortal Yet as Christs life when raised was onely in the Father so shall ours be in the Resurrection though we live in the flesh our life shall be in the Father alone Joh. 14.20 Tenthly As Christ when raised began to reign God exalting him at his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour and to give forth the Spirit on the Saints so the Saints reign with Christ must needs be in the Spirit also Acts 5.31 2 Tim. 2.12 Eleventhly 'T is no earthly Government or wordly glory is promised to the Saints but as in the blood of the Lamb they overcome c. so by that blood shed forth in them they are redeemed from among men and reigne to God Rev. 12.11 Twelfthly Therefore 't is said Rev. 5.10 He hath made us to our God Kings and Priests and we shall reigne on the Earth that is thou the Lamb slain in us v. 6. and by thy blood v. 9. For as we are made Kings to our God not over men so we must be Priests too sacrificing and slaying not men but all that is self in us unto God for the good of men and not our own Therefore in the reign of the Saints with Christ a thousand yeers they are made Priests of God and of Christ Rev. 20.6 Whether Christ shall come to reign personally in flesh and how I know not but that he shall come in flesh again as you said I question if it be not far from that spiritual appearance promised Zech. 14.5.9 1. For if it be now a Spiritual body what 's the fleshly one you speak shall appear 2. If he come again on earth in flesh how can he appear to all the Saints at once for the coming of the Son of man shall be as lightning shining from east to west Matth. 24.27 3. A fleshly body can be but circumscriptively in one place at once therefore to meet with all the Saints then on earth Christ must move swifter then the sun here and there not onely from East to West but everywhere North and South 4. What his spiritual body is I may shew you with God another time and how in all places and persons though it appear not as yet 5. How Jesus came in like manner to the disciples as they saw him go into heaven Acts 1.11 was told you in the Call to the Churches the Letter to Mr. Vavasor Powel 6. For those men of Galilee as is there said should see him that is they while living for after death when he comes the last day as they say he will be come down before they can see him coming therefore they cannot see him coming down in the same manner as he was taken up into heaven he being come down as I said before to raise them 1 Thes 4.16 17. 7. Again After a little while ye shall not see me in flesh and after a little while ye shall see me in spirit therefore the sight of him was spiritual for his fleshly appearance that men expect at the last day was not a little but a long time to come Joh. 16.19 8. Lastly I will not leave you comfortless or Orphans I will come unto you Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more but ye see me How Because I live ye shall live also That is when that spirit or power of God in me shall appear in you ye though living in the flesh shall see your life in the Father alone for in that day ye shall know that I am in the Father and you in me and I in you Joh. 14.18 19 20. Sir you had three distinctions of the Reign of Christ I 'll tell you a fourth from your own 1. Providential over the Nations 2. Spiritual over the Church 3. Monarchical over the Church and Nations together Zach. 14.8.9 11. compared But this Monarchical Government of Christ and the Saints of the most High with him will not be in Wordly Government and glory but when God shall staine the pride of all glory and bring to contempt all the honourable of the Earth when God shall confound or cloud all Worldly Government and gross darkness shall cover the people then shall the Saints of the most high arise or shine and raign in glory Compare these Scriptures Isa 60.1 2. and see what confusion in Isa 24.1 to 22. in that confusion of

heavenly lights and earthly hoasts of the high ones the Lord of hosts shall raign in Mount Zion before his ancients gloriously v. 23. So Dan. 7. when the Lord comes the Thrones are cast down v. 9. for his Throne is the fiery flame and his Wheels as burning fire a fiery stream issueth and comes forth from before him v. 10. Oh this fiery appearance of God in the Saints will frighten and cause to fall all the proud ones or Powers of the earth and that King especially who comes after the ten Kings who is diverse from the first and who shall subdue three Kings or Kingdomes even he who shall speak great words against the most High in his Saints and shall weare out the Saints of the most High v. 25. The Saints of the most High are not those who are falsly accused as living above Ordinances for they are far below them but those who live above earthly things in the Lord alone These are said not to be wasted and worried by the last King but he shall wear them out wear out their Spirits in waiting for that righteousness which appeares not for that Truth and peace pity tenderness mercy justice and goodness waited for in good men when they come to reigne but all this will be in the reigne of Christ when God alone shall reign in Men. Psal 72.1 2 3 4 12 13. But these two things I observe from Daniel First that the greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most high v. 27. not that the Saints of the most high shall be in outward Government and regal Authority as other Princes have been but when the greatest and most glorious Kingdoms and Commonwealths shall be so shaken and torn and tatter'd so divided and dasht in pieces that no man will take up a Crown in the Streets then judgement shall be given to the Saints they shall have a spirit of judgement to discern aright of Rule and Government and the Saints shall possess the Kingdom v. 22. that poor thing a Kingdom which no man would take up or be troubled with that the Saints shall take v. 18. and possess in peace living in God above all the powers of man above all confusions and changes and above all the trouble on earth v. 25. for Daniels cogitations were troubled and his countenance changed to thinke of those evils approaching in the last times unto men and mighty ones v. 28. The second thing I observe from Daniels words is this that the Kingdom there spoken of is an everlasting Kingdom v. 25. and the Saints shall possess the Kingdom for ever even for ever and ever v. 18. Hence I gather that the reigne of Christ and the Saints for a thousand years is a mystery Rev. 20.6 for his Kingdome is for ever and truely 't is marvailous to me that so many Saints should interpret the thousand years so carnally when themselves confess that all the Revelation besides is a mystery or spiritual secret Yet the thousand must needs be ten hundred yeers just But if one day with God be a thousand yeers and a thousand yeers as one day why may not the day of God called that one day be the thousand yeers Zach. 14.7 2 Pet. 3.8 Again as the dead in Christ rise first so the souls not of all the Saints but of some and not the bodies but the souls of those who are beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and which have not worshipped the beast neither his Image neither had received his marke upon their foreheads nor in their hands who conform not to any false Ministery nor Church nor corrupt thing These lived and reigned with Christ a thousand yeers What God hath taught me herein I may tell you another time onely now because the present Government is judged with so much dissembling and breach of Vowes Let me end with this brief Apology not for man as I said before but for the mighty God who hath appeared so gloriously in them and in former Parliaments and in Army too that he hath stained the pride of all glory and the glory of all flesh tumbling the earth upside down and tossing to and fro the Government thereof that nothing but confusion hath appeared what certainty then can be expected in such changes what order in confusion yea what Truth when God is making man a lye Isa 40.6 7 13 to 17. what Oaths of Allegiance what Covenants broken yet in both hands have been lifted up to Heaven by honest hearts what Protestations Remonstrances and Engagements are gone and vanished First we were all for the King then for none yet for King and Parliament we fought then for neither once we professed for the house of Lords but these were pesently laid aside then for the Commons onely and yet not for that but for a Parliament or Representative this dis-appeares also and now for King and Parliament again and yet for neither for all is nothing because God is all in all Isa 40.17 Oh cease ye from man whose hreath is in his nostrils for wherein is he accounted of and let the Lord alone be exalted whose day being upon every high Tower and upon every high thing to throw it down let all the people of God even the highest be humble lye low as may be lest they fall at last lower then any people or Princes Isa 2.6 to 22. And if it be possible that the people of God can be quiet and sit still in peace under their own Vine and Figtree waiting for the glorious appearance of the great God and Saviour in themselves that the Nations about may be brought in and saved at last and joyne to the Lord with them Zach. 2.10 11 Rev. 21.24 And seeing the Princes of Israel begin to appear and the people of God are in present power as 't was never before I hope they will hear what has been said by their brethren though carried forth with much zeal which being according to their knowledge and that knowledge the light of God in them and they led forth with that boldness and that forbearance appearing in the powers also and such peace and love still abiding in both tells me that these Wars and wranglings will shortly cease in the Nation in which God will so appear with power and glory that all the nations about shall be broken or brought in with us at last to the Government of Jesus That is when God alone shall reigne in Men and Men reigne in Righteousness and Righteousness arise in Truth then shall the Royal law and rule of Christ in love be followed That Men and Magistrates shall do to all as they would be done unto or rather do to Men as God would That 's the Reign of Christ and God in Men. Till then Remove the Diadem and take off the Crown this shall not be the same exalt him that is low abase him that is high I will overturn overturne overturne and it shall be no more until he come whose right it is and I will give it him Ezek. 21.26 27. He shall judge the Poor of the people he shall save the Children of the needy and breake in peices the Oppressor Psal 72.4 FINIS