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A86120	Christs kingdome on earth, opened according to the scriptures. Herein is examined, what Mr. Th. Brightman, D. J. Alstede, Mr. I. Mede, Mr. H. Archer, The glympse of Sions glory, and such as concurre in opinion with them, hold concerning the thousand years of the saints reign with Christ, and of Satans binding: herein also their arguments are answered. Imprimatur; Ia. Cranford. Feb. 12. 1644.	Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing H1217; Thomason E278_1; ESTC R200009	77,855	95

The Lord reignes for ever and ever Exod. 15.18 When hee smote the Philistins with Emeroids and kept them under in Samuels time no King leading forth the Israelites Armies 't is also said that God is their King 1 Sam. 8.7 and 12.12 When the fury of buls dogs lions Vnicorns prevailed not over Christ so that hee conquered all power opposit unto him David sung The Kingdom is the Lords Psal. 22.28 When David himself overcame the enemies of his kingdom which was a type of Christs 't is said The Lord reigneth 1 Chron. 16.31 When Satan is conquered by Michael then it is proclaimed That the Kingdom is the Lords Rev. 12.10 When Christ judges and plagues Rome hee is stiled King of Kings Rev. 19.16 When at the day of judgment all his enemies are wholly cast down under his feet and lie at his mercy and disposure to bee judged then 't is said That the kingdoms of this world are our Lords even Christs Rev. 11.15 Hee that was first stiled Prince of the Kings of the Earth Rev. 1.5 then plainly at last appears so to bee what the wicked out of their pride would not before assent unto then they shall to their shame and confusion confesse and finde most true This I touched before and now have cleared fully and past denyall Object God hath promised to put on his armour Esa. 59.17 to make his sword drunk with the blood of the slain to make a great slaughter in Edom and Bozra Esa. 54.14 To powre out his indignation on the armies of the wicked to fat his sword with blood Esa. 34.2 To feed his enemies with their own flesh and to make them drink their own blood to contend with them that contend with his people Esa. 25.25 26. That wars moved against his Church shall not prosper Esa 54.17 That hee will wound Kings in his wrath and fill all with dead bodies and destroy the heads over divers Countries Psal. 110. and slay the wicked Esa 11.4 that is some eminent opposer of Christ That hee will make a City to bee an heap and a strong City a ruin Esa 25.1 And bring down them that dwell on high Esa 26.5 That when the Nations are ripe for the Harvest hee will fill the Winepresse of his wrath Joel 3.9 That hee will destroy all the Nations that come against Jerusalem● Zach. 14.11 These things are to bee fulfilled when God reigns in Sion and expresse the Churches happinesse and the wickeds misery not yet fulfilled Answ. From these Texts may bee inferred First that as the old Jerusalem was cruelly assaulted so shall the New ● for in it Christians suffer great tribulation Rev. 7.14 The Dragon wars with the Womans seed Rev 12.17 The ten-horned beast blasphemes Gods Tabernacle and the Saints in it wars with them overcomes them Rev 13.6.7 kils many of them Rev 6.11 And Secondly Though God suffer his Church by the enemies thereof somtimes to bee thus used yet hee being armed and riding on his white horse goes on conquering and to conquer at his good pleasure and sends the riders on the red pale and black horses to punish the great men of the earth and their retinue so that they hide themselves in caves and dens Rev 6. These things saith Mr. Mede were don within four hundred years after Christs birth After this Christ powres Vials of wrath on the Churches adversaries Rev 16. Hee makes Babel fall casts the beast and false Prophet into the lake of fire and slayes their remnant Rev 19. Hee slayes Gog and his Armies Rev. 20. Thus hee destroyss them that destroyed the earth Rev 11.18 The wicked may domineer for a time yet shall bee not onely in the four hundred years after Christ but oftentimes afterward foiled and in the end the victory shall be on the Saints party who are the inhabitants of the New Jerusalem They it they live are the Lords and if they die they change a pilgrims and militant state here into a glorious and perpetually setled estate hereafter Besides they leave on earth a faithfull ●uccession of Inhabitants of the new and spirituall Jerusalem against whom the Gates of hell cannot prevail whence it is that this Jerusalem cannot be destroyed and that all which maliciously oppose it shall b●e vanquished and subdued as all Nations were who fought against the old Jerusalem Thirdly that God not delighting in mens destruction le ts the wicked eat the wickeds flesh and drink each others blood Hee pulled down Aram and the neigbouring Nations by Babel Babel by Persia the Persians by Alexander King of Greece and his chief Captains the Greeks the posterity of Seleucus and Ptolomy by the Romans the chief Roman rulers {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by mutuall conflicts among themselves and by the Goths and Vandals others and at the last day will utterly destroy and abolish that wicked State with the brightnesse of his comming 2 Thess. 2.8 What befell Babylon Tyre Damascus of Aram Kir and Ar of Moab Dumah of Edom Zoan of Aegypt will at length befall Rome For among the wicked there is an eminent and superlative wicked State called the wicked one whom God will destroy Esa 11.4 and this is as Jonathan Ben Vzziel saith Armylus the Roman power saith Mr. Broughton by originall from Romulus the word denotes him with no greater change then Armathia is put for Ramath Nor can the Roman Beast fall alone the heads of divers Countries the ten Kings fall with him Rev 16.14 and their posterity turn to Christs side verse 16. Thus Christ brings them low that carry their heads full high he quels their power and demolishes their cities Fourthly Christ who hath and still doth plague his enemies observes the time of their sins being ripe for the harvest Rev. 14.15 and come to the full height and then makes them drink full cups out of the winepresse of his wrath Thus to conclude it is manifest that the New Jerusalem shall subsist and prevail and that the City which in Saint Johns time ruled over the Kings of the Earth and which would then have no King but Caesar and now would have the Pope above all Kings persisting in one and the same fin of making lawfull Princes her vassals shall still boe decaying and at last bee utterly destroyed But hence can not be concluded that the Christian Church shall enjoy on Earth such and so long felicity as Mr. Archer and some others plead for and it is probable that such prosperity would bring more damage to the Church then could affection The Churches experience hath usually found it so to doe and on good ground hath contented it self with some small measure of outward comforts sweetned with plenty and abundance of spirituall refreshments Repl. You take the term Ierusalem in a mysticall sense and decline the corporall and outward felicity of the Church with diverting us to spirituall blessings If thus you fly to Allegorizing texts and turning plain evidences for corporall matters to

and by the fourth Beast that had ten horns Chap. 7. Antiochus Epiphanes a King that rather desired to bee then could attain to bee great was one horn with the other nine horns Chap. 7. And thus hee is the little horn in both Chap. 7. and 8. Repl. But Antiochus cannot bee the little horn Dan. 7. because when the reign of the little horn ends the Son of man takes his kingdom over all Nations which Christ did not presently upon Antiochus death Mr. Brightman on Dan. Answ. Mark the Text and you shall finde that Christs Kingdom begins when not onely the little horns Dominion is taken away Dan. 7.26 But the body of the Beast hornlesse and harmlesse in great part after Antiochus is destroyed vers. 11. and the Dominion of such of his successours as ruled after him consumed unto the end Verse 26. Thus when the fourth Kingdom not all the kingdoms of the world as saith Mr. Brightman was quite ●ut down the famous kingdom of Heaven is set up by Christ the great King on mount Sion Psal. 2. Of this I spake above Object There bee foure Beasts Dan. 7.3 and 17. which denote soure Kingdom If you make the little horn to belong to the Greek Kingdom though it bee on the fourth Beast you make contrary to the Text but three kingdoms by making the third and fourth beasts to expresse the Greek kingdom Alexander was the first founder of that kingdom The Kingdom of Antiochus and the Kings of his line and of the Ptolemies and their race is ever in the Maccabees called the Kingdoms of the Greeks Therefore if you make the third and fourth Beasts to expresse the Greeks you make but three kingdoms where Daniel maketh four in plain terms Mr. Brightman Answ. There is first the Kingdom of the Greeks intire and whole in Alexander and his four chief Captains who for a while expected some of King Alexanders kindred or children to succeed him This kingdom beeing of short continuance is expressed by the brlly of the statue Dan. 2. and by the third beast Dan. 7. And secondly there is the Greek kingdom parted which was of longer durance and was fitly set forth by the legs and feet of the statue Dan. 2. and by the fourth beast having ten horns Dan. 7. Of which horns Antiochus Epiphanes is one That this Kingdom is counted distinct from Alexanders is evident Josephus antiq. 12.7 14. Where Josephus sayes as doth the Book of Maccabees That the Temple was cleansed in the hundred forty eight year of the Greeks kingdom which saith hee began of Seleucus Therefore the parted Greek Kingdom is by Josephus who seems to speak the Judgment of his Nation and those times counted a different Kingdom from Alexanders The Goat in Dan 8. shews how in some sort the third and fourth kingdoms are Greeks and the Leopard and beast with ten horns Dan. 7. shew how in Gods as well as in Josephus and other mens esteem they were two distinct kingdoms Object That little horne Dan. 8.8 is Antiochus but the Turke whose dominion begins in the year of Christ one thousand three hundred To him Daniel gives a time that is a hundred years two times two hundred years and halfe a time that is fiftie years Adde these three hundred and fiftie years to one thousand three hundred and by this it appears that the Turk declines in his power in the year one thousand six hundred and fiftie And Apocalyps 9.15 gives the Turk a year which according to the daies it contains is three hundred sixtie five years and a moneth which in the same sense is thirtie years These three hundred ninetie five years added to the one thousand three hundred years above amount to one thousand six hundred ninetie five Then shall the Turks dominion bee quite extinct Mr. Brightman on Dan. 12. Answ. If the fourth Beast Dan. 7. expresse the Roman State as Mr. Brightman holds how comes the Turke to be an horne of the same beast The Turks have had no joynt agreement and fellowship in their designes and attempts with the Romans against the true Church but rather most deadly hate the Roman Church as for other reasons so also because it allows of Images in Gods worship which the Turks from the expresse words of Exod. 20. abominate If one beast should expresse the Roman and Turkish dominions they should agree in singular amitie assistance mutuall defence and Law as did the Medes and Persians who are typed by one beast Or else they should by mutuall intermariages endeavour to make the like friendship though without successe as did the Seleucidans and Lagidans as the description of the fourth kingdom Dan. 2.43 expresses it Secondly Time times and half a time have a far different extent of time as I above shewed then Mr. Brightman would allow them Thirdly what I have said of these passages applying them to Antiochus will not by any one be easily disproved Fourthly The miseries expressed Dan. 12. do befall Daniels people Vers 1. that is the Iews before Christs time not the Christians vexed by the Turks after Christs time when there is neither Jew nor Gentile but all are one in Christ Wherefore Mr. Brightman here without any good ground talks of the Turks declining and fall Having cleared our way by removing the rubs and blocks which seemed to stop our passage let me now returne to make further exceptions against the accounts of Time in Dr. Alstede and others Thirdly Dr. Alstede Mr. Mede Mr. Archer and such as concur in opinion with them mistake in placing the thousand yeares of the Saints reigning with Christ the Churches puritie and happinesse in the fag end of the world and dregs of time which in all likelihood will bee worse and worse as was the old world in Noahs time and will now need sire as then water to purge it See a true glasse of the last times 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4 5. where their most wicked affections words deeds are set forth Fourth● Mr. Archer misses the marke and shoots extremely wide where hee makes Julian the Apostate the setter up of the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel This wretched Emperour doubtlesse aspired to the height of wickednesse but was prevented of this inglorious achievement both by Antiochus and Titus as I have already shewed Hee not onely came too late for the worke but could effect nothing hee desired and was so far from taking away the Jewish sacrifices which is one main thing Dan. 12.11 mentioned that hee attempted to set them up in contempt of Christians and Christ their master Fiftly Both Dr. Alstede and Mr. Archer and others of their opinion erre in multiplying one thousand two hundred dayes to the number of ●so many years T is true that dayes bee put for years Ezck. 4. but t is not consequent that in all other prophecies it should bee so Nor indeed in any can it bee so but where some circumstances require it or God plainly

began in the year four hundred and six T is true that about this time Constantine left Rome and made Constantinople his royall Seat but the Bishop and Church of Rome did not then so apostate and degenerate from what they had been that grosse popery and Antichristianism may bee laid to their charg Constantine who erected Churches placed new Bishops in them countenanced other good Bishops already placed so held his Imperiall autority and Vicegerency under Christ that the Bishop of Rome never in his time exalted himself above the royall Scepter or challenged an universall autority over all Churches There were fault● in Churches and errours in Bishops and teachers before Constantines time and in it But wee see by Christs judgment upon the seven Churches in Asia Rev. 2. and 3. that some faults and errours do not presently unchurch a people as rank Popery and Antichristianism doe Eleventhly If the ten Kings received their kingdom Apoc. 17.12 and imployed their power in oppressing the Church together with the beast namely the persecuting Emperours then they received that their power from the C●sars long before the year four hundred and six And if it bee meant of receiving their power from the Popes it is manifest that they submitted not their necks nor took their Scepters from the Popes untill many years after four hundred and six namely untill about the year of Christ one thousand and odde Herein therefore Mr. Archers ground-work fails him Twelfthly How can the year one thousand two hundred and sixty bee attributed to the Pope alone Suppose so many years given to the warring Beast Rev. 13.4 5. that is the Emperours which make the sixth head and the● ruled in Saint Johns time I finde nor the like time ascribed to the beast with two horns or to any particular type whereby the Popes alone are expressed Mr. Brightman holds the beast Rev. 13.1 not to bee the Emperours or civill State of Rome but the Popes because the Imperiall State was risen before St. Johns time and Christ shewed to Saint John matters onely which were to bee don after the giving of those visions Rev. 4.1 To this I Answer Christ did shew St. John matters which for the most part were to bee don after the Vision Rev. 4. But hee shewed him also first some things absolutely don and past as namely five of the heads of the Beast seen by John were faln and gon Rev. 17.11 Christ appeared to him as a Lamb that had been stain Rev. 5.6 This was don long before that vision And secondly some things shewed to John were formerly in part fulfilled and were yet more and more to bee fufillled in and after his time As these God doubtlesse before sat gloriously upon his Throne as hee is said to sit Rev. 4.2 The Elders namely John himself and the other Apostles and the whole Church of God before Johns Visions ascribed praise honour glory c. to the Lamb as they doe Rev. 4. 5. The New Jerusalem spoken of Rev. 21.10 was before Mother of the beleeving Galatians and other Christians Gal. 4.26 Heb. 12.22 I might instance in diverse other the like passages Observe this well or els Mr. Brightman will by a false fire mislead you in diverse other matters Thirteenthly Mr. Archer and some others though they decline the grosse millenary opinion of one thonsand years victory pleasure Joviality yet in ascribing to their refined thousand years plenty of all things without sin and making the Martyrs raised from death partakers thereof c. palpably as I conceive mistake For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink nor which is consequent other matters lesse necessary And to what end should the bodies of the Martyrs and Saints raised up immortall and glorified such they are described to bee 1 Cor. 15. live again on earth to make use of such poor accommodations and not rather enjoy glory and immortality in heaven for which the resurrection fits them as it did Christ risen from the dead and ascending into heaven Fourteenthly See how they jar and differ in their judgment Mr. Brightman to the summe three hundred and sixty in Julians time addes the one thousand two hundred and ninty in Dan. 12.11 and the forty five years more there in verse 12. and saies that the Turks power will bee extinct in the yeare one thousand six hundred ninty five to which summs those numbers doe amount Mr. A●cher from three hundred sixty six and the other summes saies that in the year one thousand seven hundred the thousand years begin Dr. Alstede to the year ninty six in which saith hee Jerusalem fell addes the same one thousand two hundred and ninty and one thousand three hundred thirty five and affirms that the thousand years Apoc. 20 end in the year two thousand six hundred ninty four which Mr. Brightman ends about the year one thousand three hundred Mr. Archer to the year four hundred and six when saith hee the Papacy began addes the one thousand two hundred and sixty Apoc. 11.3 and 12.6 And tels us that the Papacy falls in the year one thousand six hundred sixty six Mr. Brightman from the same summes and an addition of years for the heads cure which Apoo. 13 was wounded which cure some others that think themselves Surgeons not inferior to him little thought of makes the Pope-doms fall to bee in the year one thousand six hundred eighty six See his Comment on Apoc. 13.5 Hereby it appears what liberty is taken to dispose of these Propheticall accounts of time rather according to humane fancy then clear evidence of Scripture whence their opinions become different and leave us more uncertain and unresolved then when wee consulted them except wee will confide and relie more on mens persons then on their proofs and arguments In opinions thus disagreeing it necessarily follows that some of them bee faulty and t is not improbable their grounds beeing so sandy and weak that all of them may bee false What Reasons I have here alledged to disprove them I humbly submit to the censure of such as are judicious in these matters Chap. VI The Arguments and autorities from the Rabbins brought by Mr. Mede on Rev. 20. answered MR. John Mede on Rev. 20. produceth diverse reasons for his opinion about the thousand years And thus first hee argues Gorists kingdom is joyned with his appearance to judge the quick and the dead 2 Tim. 4.1 But at Christs last appearing to judg the quick and the dead he is so sarre from beginn●ing a new kingdom that bee delivers up the kingdom to his Father That kingdom therefore which neither shall bee before the appearance of the Lord nor after the last resurrection is necessarily between them And this kingdom is said to bee for one thousand years Rev. 20. Answ. Saint Paul sayes not that Christs Kingdom was not before his appearing to judg the quick and the dead and Mr. Mede himself grants That Christ long before had a crown given