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A59938	A plain and evident discovery of the two personal comings of Christ one at the beginning of his thousand years reign, Rev. 20, 4, with his holy and blessed raised saints in the Now [sic] Jerusalem, come down from God out of heaven, Rev. 21, the other after the little space when the thousand years are ended, &c. : whereunto are added many profitable applications of the same doctrine for all sorts of persons.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1670 (1670)	Wing S3408; ESTC R38237	52,178	52

and I doubt not will be owned more and more I am well assured are of so high concernment both for the glory of God and our Lord Jesus Christ and for the edification and comfort of his People in the last times that I shall be ready by his Grace upon all fitting occasions to warn all such as truly fear God to take heed either of slighting or rejecting of them for though they are of that nature that God hath in his most wise counsel reserved to be more especially known for his true Churches benefit in these last dayes when his ancient People the Jews are shortly to be converted unto Christ their Saviour as the Apostle Paul saith Rom. 11. and all Israel shall be saved that even as the Mystery of the Gentiles Conversion was hidden to the Jews and even for a time to the Apostles themselves when it was to take place until by Miracles Word Spirit and Visions they were powerfully taught to acknowledge it So theirs is like in great part to be hid to the Gentiles And as Antichrist was to come to be revealed to reign to be consumed with the breath of Christ's mouth uttered by his Witnesses but all to be fulfilled in a great Mystery all along to the most in the World saving unto some few persons and places unto whom by degrees God in special wayes of mercy hath been pleased from time to time to manifest these things and yet I say but by degrees for the accomplishment of God's Mysteries have in all times been very wonderful and above mens reach ordinarily to discover And as the Apostle Paul was greatly honoured and imployed by the Jewish Rulers and learned Rabbies of his time whilst he persecuted the Christian Faith yet when afterward he preached that Gospel of Christ crucified and that unto the Gentiles was as much by those Jews persecuted and opposed himself and by all of their way so in a degree may it be expected of such as God manifesteth such things unto as he will accomplish in the end of the dayes as Daniel's phrase is which shall appear to be against the interest of men in the world or above the ordinary strain of the times that many though not all will slight and oppose them even until God fulfils them and such their slighting and opposing is like to be as to the Jews of old the occasion of such his fulfilling of them Dan. 12.10 But then many such will they nill they must give glory to God as Rev. 11.13 for so it pleaseth God usually to hide great things from the wise and prudent and to reveal them unto babes Luke 20.21 But to prevent and remove prejudices First then Let all serious Christian Spirits take notice that in those two first Books I have endeavoured to vindicate the true Doctrine of Christ's Kingdom on Earth to come from those unjust aspersions of Disloyalty to Kings and Magistrates as most opposit thereunto which though haply it hath been unpleasing to some yet otherwise I had not therein so approved my self unto God satisfied mine own conscience done right to many sorts of men nor to the Doctrine which I have been taught as I said before and this may three times be seen in the said Books in the first pag. 15. somewhat largely and pag. 41 42. reckoning such delusions among Satans Vials on Christ's Kingdom and in the second Book in the Preface of it towards the end of the second leaf c. Secondly Let all such observe that those things which as I believe I have by God's special guidance published are for the substance nothing but the true Scriptural explications of the old Articles of the Faith as Learned-men had before manifested from the best Antiquity and owned in great part in the most pure Primitive-times But yet upon a better ground for us are now to be owned from the most pure and infallible Word of Truth that more sure Word of Prophecy as 2 Pet. 1.19 whereunto all Christians are bound to take heed For as we profess to believe that Jesus Christ will come from the right hand of the Father to judge the quick and the dead and likewise to believe the Resurrection of the Just and the Life of the World to come as the Nicene Creed according to Heb. 2.5 And how these things shall be fulfilled our Saviour who best knew hath himself instructed his Church together with the time when in some good measure as Rev. 11.18 at his glorious appearing both beginning to judge the quick then by destroying of them that destroyed the Earth i.e. Antichrist and his Accomplices with the appearance of his coming as 2 Thess 2.8 and 2dly by giving reward unto his Servants the Prophets and unto his Saints and to all that fear his Name both small and great which is then to be done in the Resurrection of the Just as is further explained Rev. 20.4 5 6. when also begins the Reign of the Saints with Christ on Earth the said thousand years while Satan also shall be bound as ver 1 2 3. during which time our Saviour shews that the Apostles shall sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel Mat. 19.28 concerning which Period he more fully explains himself Luke 22.29 I appoint unto you a Kingdom as my Father hath appointed unto me where his Throne must be distinct from his Fathers where he sate on his right hand in Heaven as Rev. 3.21 is clearly explained which Kingdom appointed to him by his Father the Apostle shews 1 Cor. 15.24 at the end the same shall be delivered again to his Father when ends the said Kingdom that the Father had appointed to him with his Saints on Earth which began at his beginning to judge the quick and the dead at his first appearing as was shewed which continued all the said thousand years and the finishing of the Judgment of the Just and Wicked concerning which there are so abundant and evident proofs in Scripture that when Antichristian prejudices shall once be removed even that spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh as 1 John 4.3 which such do not in the Apostles sense that acknowledg not the fulfilling of all Christ's Offices in their seasons as the Scripture holds them out till his Mediatorship be consummate which the spirit of Antichrist hath all along opposed c. Then I say I confidently believe those glorious Truths will evidently be manifest and received in the true Church of Christ Thirdly Now for the Subjects of that Kingdom of Christ on Earth that we may give a little further taste of the Doctrine thereof before we proceed to the removal of the prejudices against it They will be first the Body of the Nation of the Jews c. for the most part miraculously converted upon Christ's glorious appearance and probably his speaking to them as in that pattern of St. Paul's Conversion and of many Jews about three hundred years after Christ as

true Grace in our hearts may shine forth in our lives the best adornings for the coming of our Lord that so we may be counted worthy to escape all those things and be able to stand before him the Son of man Luke 21.36 being so adorned to meet our spiritual Bridegroom Mat. 25.13 so waiting for and expecting the Adoption even the redemption of our bodies Rom. 8.23 in that day of Redemption when he cometh as Luk. 21.28 Mat. 24.33 being then counted worthy of that world even the world to come Heb. 2.5 and of the resurrection of the dead being the children of the resurrection Luk. 20.35 Yea let us as the Apostle exhorteth hasten unto the coming of the Lord 2 Pet. 3.12 casting off every weight that presseth down Heb. 12.1 and so all such as are risen with Christ from the dead though they sleep in Jesus will God bring with him 1 Thess 3.13 4.14 Sixtly Let the due consideration of this second coming of Christ make us long for it and love it which will be an Argument of our blessedness by it 2 Tim. 4.8 for there is laid up a Crown of Righteousness for all such as love his appearing It is the time of the redemption of all God's Israel from their Enemies and from the hands of all that hate them that they may serve him without fear in righteousness and holiness all the dayes of their lives Luk. 1.74 Rev. 22.3 It is the end and attainment of the faith and prayers of God's People according to the mercy promised frequently to the forefathers and recorded in the Word that as our Saviour taught us to pray that Gods Name should be hallowed his Kingdom come his Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven so it will from his said appearance be accordingly fulfilled by Angels and Men on Earth then as before in Heaven so it will be such a state as will be much admired and so to be longed after loved where above all his Servants shall behold Christs glory which his Father hath given him on Earth Iohn 17.24 Seventhly Let all faithful Christians hence be chearful and free-hearted in giving to Christ's Disciples so making them friends of the Mammon of iniquity that they may receive them into everlasting habitations Luke 16.9 that which is so disposed of is laid up in the best and safest treasury in the whole world yea more it is put into the best hand and for the best improvement that it is possible to make of earthly treasure Christ takes it as done to himself and undertakes the repayment both more incomparably than worldly treasure is worth and for unspeakably longer continuance than any worldly treasure could be kept 2dly Be sitted for acts of self-denial when Christ calls to it for he will be above all our interests or relations as there is the greatest reason Mat. 10.37 it is the condition of Christ's Disciples Mat. 16.24 Luke 9.23 Mar. 8.34 and such as in so doing forsake any thing make Christ their debtor who is their best paymaster and in the best season probably in his Kingdom in this time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the word may seem to note an hundred fold in both these Texts Mark 10.30 Luke 18.30 though otherwise many times in this life likewise but it is most sure if they suffer with him in his Kingdom of Patience on Earth they man reign with him in his glorious Kingdom of Power on Earth in the New Jerusalem Jehovah Shamma the Lord is there Ezek. 40. ult and when the Tabernacle of God is with men Rev. 21.3 and he will dwell with them and wipe away all tears from their eyes And 3dly to be couragious and resolute in suffering for him when called to this And what are any or all the sufferings of men to the sufferings of God becoming man that he might suffer to satisfie Divine Justice to procure infinite Mercy for such as should otherwise have endured infinite and eternal Misery this our Saviour requires in the forenamed places Mat. 16.24 Luke 9.23 Mark 8.34 Eightly Let the terrible things of both those comings engage Godly men to labour to be counted worthy to escape such things and to be able to stand before the Son of man by improving all such Christs and his Spirits counsels Luke 21.36 as ye have heard in sundry particulars And let the consideration of them fray wicked men from their sins even the greatest as well as the meanest and to learn to kiss the Son Psa 2 ult lest he be angry and they perish in the way And if they will not believe these things let them hence know assuredly they will feel the misery of them as the Jews of old did after Christ's first coming upon their neglecting or despising his warnings Again As for ungo●ly men of any of the former sorts that refuse to make any such good use of these terrors of the Lord let them hence also take notice and know that when they shall think themselves most secure in their sins a sudden destruction will then come upon them as pains on a woman in travel and they shall not escape It is true I know and I find by daily experience that these terrors of the Lord and Doctrines of mortification are unpleasing and unacceptable to most sorts of men but they must ●e pressed upon them as wholsom and necessary Physick is by parents upon their children to save their lives so on these to save such mens souls if God may give them repentance but if not they will be the more inexcusable in that they have not perished without warning and such seasonable warnings may help to free Gods Ministers from the heavy guilt of the blood of souls Now therefore let all carnal worldly ignorant prophane wicked and u● believing persons And all sinfully engaged enemies to the Truth Cause Glory Worship and Servants of God or against any or all sorts of persons engaged to stand up for Gods and Christs sake that so they might promote irreligion and false religion with prophaneness or to endeavour to suppress true Religion and the power of Religion by opposition and hatred of true Piety and Holiness Oh let such seriously and throughly consider in the most retired closets of heir hearts and consciences what a dreadful appearance without repentance and reformation will the coming of the Lord be unto all such O let them consider what fools they will then be with millions of witnesses that for trifles sading Vanities for nothing for worse than nothing for the matter and cause of horrour and anguish with everlasting wo and misery in that they have despised rejected their own mercy that happiness that Christ hath purchased by an infinite price and was provided for his servants by the most wife holy glorious and infinitely gracious God for all truly penitent and believing souls and tendered and bestowed on them by the sanctifying Spirit of Wisdom Grace and Truth but such in the mean

be ended See them at large in the Plain Discovery after the Parallels At the first Christ removes the hinderers and opposers of his reigning in the World towards whom God had shewed long Patience all the time of Christs sitting at his right hand and his faithful Servants patience had been all along exercised by them Yet notwithstanding by their Faith and Patience all along that Kingdom of Patience now almost at an end have inherited the Promises hitherto and still shall do through the thousand years But Psal 110. at the end of Christs sitting at Gods right hand in Heaven he will begin to make his foes his foot-stool by destroying the first Gog and Magog the Turk and Pope by a complication of Judgments Ezek. 38 39. Rev. 19.11 16.18 Dan. 12.1 with Dan. 11.45 And binding Satan Rev. 20.1 2 3. See Observ 3. Then God will set his King upon his holy hill of Sion Psal 2. and so perform the sure mercies to David for ever and that before himself for all which it is plainly recorded as is to be well observed 2 Sam. 7. in a great part of that Chapter See Observ 21. And then he will make every knee to bow to him in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth Phil. 2. Having given him a Name above every Name c. For then those in Heaven Angels and Saints come with him into the World when God shall bring his Son the second time into it as Heb. 1.6 which was prophesied of by David Psal 97. throughout and many other Scriptures Vide Irenicon from pag. 42 to pag. 88. And then all such as sleep in Jesus will God bring with him 1 Thess 4.14 See Obser 21. And he will then bodily begin to reward his Servants the Prophets and his Saints c. Rev. 11.18 by that blessed first Resurrection Rev. 20.6 and probably as they were eminent in grace or sufferings or both so much the sooner And in Earth the Jews will then become upon a miraculous Call and Conversion a very zealous and blessed People being beloved for their Fathers sake Rom. 11. See Observ 15. The heathen Gentiles will earnestly then seek Christs face and favour and even make use then of the Jews interterest to procure Christs favour Isa 6. Isa 19. c. The very inferiour creatures then will be freed from their bondage of co●uption Rom. 8. For there shall be no wicked men that shall then dare to abuse them or tyrannize over them as formerly See Observ 21. yea even such wicked men as will then be spared proving hypocrites as is probable will themselves be made slaves then as diverse Scriptures seem to speak For as sin brought alwayes with it a Spiritual slavery before so it is like always remarkably to add an outward visible slavery to all evil men in the world then But those Creatures will be matter of Gods praise to the Saints c. Christ will then delegate the power and management of that his Kingdom to the Saints for him Dan. 7.18 22 27. even that Kingdom he received of the Father and which he gave to them as he speaks and that they may rule for him v. 27. First to the first raised Saints and then to other eminent Saints in the natural life as his enemies which he came to destroy had ruled against him before which will be the just reason and cause of their ruine then Luke 19.27 The Covenant and Mercies to Abraham Isaac and Jacob promised and sworn to them personally and yet never personally performed in respect of their enjoying the Land of Canaan neither had their natural Seed that Land as it was made sure to that one seed Christ Gal. 3. for ever Deut. 30. and Deut. 11.21 and that as the dayes of heaven upon the earth c. See Observ 15. But it shall be then accordingly performed as it was promised and sworn As likewise the Oath to David in David's Seed and Saviour and Antitype to reign so long as the Sun and Moon shall endure See Irenicon pag. 77 to pag. 80. And Observ 21. So of the New Jerusalem called Jehova Shamma Ezek. 48. ult which is said to come down from God out of Heaven Rev. 21. where the Tabernacle of God is said to be with men See Observ 3. And the new Heavens and new Earth See Observ 22. later end with divers other Contemporaries for that thousand years as the Tree of Life and pure River See Iren. pag. 30. whereby the blessed gracious and glorious state of all things then are decyphred c. If these and the like points of Doctrine were enlarged upon and sitly placed in their due order of accomplishment as the holy Scriptures set them forth with such Rational and Scriptural Illustrations as are best suitable to their natures amongst themselves and in their sweet harmony with all other divine Truths there set down I doubt not but when once God shall give any sorts of men such Faith as to receive these things upon the divine authority of his Word they will appear both comfortable and excellent and prove forcible to such true Believers for increase of sanctification above what they received before and make to them as I have found by experience many parts of holy Scripture more clear and sweet and many wayes more useful than otherwise they can be to them whereas without these Doctrines I find I did not nor could ever have rightly understood or known them namely what such Texts of Scriptures respecting these and the like Doctrines do chiefly mean or drive at and I believe many others by degrees may find the like experience thereof in time But I am now many wayes restrained from enlarging therein and therefore only at present hint these things to believing Christians in such respects c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Glory's God all Glory 's due for aye To Him alone this Due let all his pay FINIS A brief representation of the Doctrine of Christs Kingdom of Power to come upon Earth together with an endeavour to remove unjust prejudices from it To prevent the great sin and danger of being ashamed of Christ and his Truth even that great Truth of his Kingdom Joh. 18.37 Before a sinful and an adulterous generation of both which we are warned Mat. 8.38 True Christian Friend c. THE great and precious Truths respecting Christ Jesus our Saviours glorious appearance to destroy Antichrist to convert the Body of the Jewish Nation to begin his glorious Reign with his raised Saints on Earth for a thousand years c. And all this probably shortly to be manifest in the World which God hath been graciously pleased to discover unto me a poor weak and an unworthy instrument in such remarkable wayes as he hath led me according to his Word and by the guidance and operation of his holy Spirit and hath so strongly evidenced to my own soul and which hath been by sundry learned men and judicious Christians acknowledged

many of them had such faylings or given such offence as occasion others to stumble or they are so mean in esteem as not much to be regarded c. Answ Though perhaps some have been such yet not all there are very ancient as well as modern Witnesses thereof and in most times some and good and eminent men too as well as meaner persons if men would impartially enquire and much I doubt not might be fairly answered to particular exceptions if things were duely weighed but it hath been usual to take up any vain pretences against what is really good but the rule of old was non quis sed quid Our Saviour hath two cautions in hearing take heed what and take heed how but he reserveth to himself liberty to send his messages by any sort of men As we must not have his Faith with respect of persons so not receive or own it in respect of persons but as founded upon the Scriptures of Truth How oft hath the looking asquint upon Gods Messengers upon some appearing or pretended occasion of disrespect or other proved a sad judgement unto many to whom they have come and who have been sent by him in great turnings of times that have not been assaulted in some kind respecting their persons Those rebels of old excited one another to smite the Prophet with the tongue that they might not give heed to any of his words Jer. 18.18 However notwithstanding the worst that can be pretended against mens persons men may consider that Gold that is found but in dunghills ordraughts if by the touch-stone it be approved to be Gold deserveth to be laid up when washed from the soil upon it as well as that which had been kept closely before in the Treasury or Cabinet Wisdom will be justified of her Children in all her Oracles for this reason because they are her Oracles Gods Servants here are to have their grain of allowance but the vain World useth to preoccupate the judgment of the Saints unjustly by harsh censures and hard speeches as Antichrist hath done their reign to come by wicked Idolatry Object But these Doctrines c. shake the foundation of worldly interest and enjoyments for if Christs glorious appearance will be so terrible and work such desolations and changes and that its approach is nigh what will become of Possessors treasures and their owners Answ Good to the good and evil to the evil Rev. 11.18 and therefore God seems to cause such seasonable Truths to be known and published in these last dayes to loosen mens hearts from the world and especially from their wickedness and as Daniel counselled Nebuchadnezzar when he was to be driven from his most stately Palace to feed among the Beasts Dan. 4.27 Let men break off their sins by righteousness and their iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor viz. Gods poor c. and like to our Saviours wise Steward let them make themselves friends with the Mammon of iniquity whilest time serveth that they may receive them into their houses when they are out of their stewardships even those houses and mansions which our Saviour went to prepare for his little little flock in his Kingdom and at his return will give them possession of them with himself But here to be short Let sober and serious Christians further consider that God hath not said so very much of these things in his Word to no purpose but every truth contained in his Word is useful in its season to his Church working as all holy Scriptures do Sanctification in his People besides take notice that mystical Truths may now from the Word be expected to be revealed in great measure when that point of time is hastening to us wherein the Mystery of God will be finished Rev. 10.7 And according to Mark 13.32 which Text many stumble at Christ saith that as man he knew not the day and hour of the last times at least not strictly taken yet even then he being such a person in whom the Godhead dwelled bodily as Col. 2.9 did then to his Disciples make known much of these things Matth. 24. Luke 20 21. Mark 13. and in other places at least in some latitude although in a strict sense the day and hour of Christs comming may not be known to us by means of incompleat or broken years or some imperfection of Chronology or the like as God is pleased to over-rule c. So likewise when Christ tells his Disciples Acts 1.5 6. It is not for you to know the times and seasons then in the state they were in at present which the Father hath put in his own power Yet even then he tells them in the next vers of being endued with power from on high on Pentecost then near at hand when they were not only fitted for the work of the Ministry and to work Miracles but to know the great Mysteries of holy Scriptures and of Daniel in particular as was seen in Peter Acts 3.19 20 21. in James Acts 15.15 16 17. In St. Paul abundantly in his Epistles and even in Jude's short Epistle vers 14. But above all the beloved Disciple St. John is taught to unlock all the formerly shut up Mysteries of the greatly beloved Prophet Daniel even to those times and that by Christ himself in the whole Book of the Revelations thenceforward to be useful for his Churches successively for the time of the end for which they were reserved as is observable Dan. 8.17 19. Chap. 11.40 12.4 9. So that from that time they were unsealed by our Saviour and his holy Spirit who through all times of the Seals hath hitherto opened his Mysteries in their orders Rev. 6. Rev. 8. c. much of this nature might be added not only to remove the frivolous and erroneous conceits of many respecting these things whilest they little consider in what Glory and Majesty Christ will then come in the Clouds of Heaven or with Clouds as Rev. 1.7 accompanied with all his holy Angels And as Enoch long since prophesied Jude 14. with ten thousands of his Saints who shall then come with him 1 Thess 1. ult and 4.14 that he then uniting their Spirits to their Bodies may make them alive and remain against his last coming as verses 15 17. and may so make them capable to behold his glory in the New Jerusalem the thousand years John 17.4 with Rev. 20. In sum then Christian take notice of these representations of the points of Doctrine respecting Christs comings and Kingdom on earth First These Points as all other divine Truths are Uniform See this considered in many particulars in Obser 31. and bear an excellent harmony with themselves and all other true Doctrines and no wayes twharting or disagreeing in themselves or with any others which sound Christians own or profess as by comparing particulars will appear Secondly There is nothing new in them in substance being only fuller explications of divine Mysteries before more darkly couched yet contained in the Word of God Thirdly They will more and more be manifest to have no greater enemies than ignorance of Gods Divine Counsels revealed and sinful unbelief or prophaneness being of themselves sacred and sanctifying Truths which likewise is another evidence of their divine excellency Lastly That now they are in their due season especially made known by the especial grace of God to be published to and improved by his faithful People upon whom the ends of the World are coming And as for some misapprehensions of some good men to whom Mysteries of this nature are not yet discovered whence not only a strange slighting of these great things of God sometimes proceeds but likewise hard speeches both concerning the things and Christs own witnesses of them according to his Word who are therein to be pittied and prayed for with endeavours of information if God afford opportunity and shall be pleased to vouchsafe his blessing However all men herein are to be admonished that they offend not any such wayes against Christ more than they are aware of by contemning or speaking evil of those divine matters they understand not and therefore do not believe yet will be fulfilled in their season Amen FINIS Errata's formerly omitted though smaller faults be passed by IN the Forrunner pag. 10. before line 26. add of the eternal decrees p. 34. r. Rev. 13. in the marg In Irenicon p. ult Chron. Table l. 18. r. 410. In the Preface p. 3. l. 1. r. witnessings In the Advertisement l. 19. 1. supernal p. 84. l. 27. r. Pharisees not Disciples p. 100. l. 26. 1. Ideom p. 101. l. 39. r. special not spiritual p. 109. l. 6. r. thy In Parallel p. 36. l. 9. r. incheate Plain Discovery p. 1. l. 4. r. new