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The catechism of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in the thousand years shewing by scripure that the great articles of the redemption, the resurrection, the mystery of the saints not dying but chang'd, the judgment, the delivery up of the kingdom to God all in all cannot be explained at full dimensions without it.
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Beverley, Thomas.
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Kingdom of Christ preparing to Cleanse his Sanctuary for his Kingdom 1772 So we must be in the 2218 Even Morn Q. Why then did not the Papacy wholly Fall at the Reformation A. That there might be as punctual a performance of the Full Time of the Three Times and a Half to the Papacy as could consist with the Kingdom of Christ to which some Appearance was at that Time due Q. Can the Reformation then be perfect A. No For the Thunders that open'd to it were Seal'd and There are They of the Synagogue of Sathan that stay the Glory of it till the Philadelphian State come And then even They shall worship at Philadelphia's Feet Rev. 3. 9. c. 10. 4. Q. When shall that be A. At the very same Time when the Popacy falls For They of the Synagogue stand by that Title and then Bow For Christ makes them by Grace so to Worship that is to Bow Q. How can such a Computation consist with No One Knowing of that Day and Hour not the Angels nor the Son but the Father only Mark 13. 32. A. God is said therefore as on purpose to Give the Revelation to Jesus Christ to shew to his Servants what before was only in the Father's Cognizance And then Blessed is He that Reads or Expounds and They who Hear or understand what is so Reveal'd by God to Christ. Revel 1. 1. 3. Q. But Christ further says Watch for you Know not the Day nor the Hour when your Lord cometh Mark 13. 35. A. That Watch is a Spiritual Watch without which tho' a Man Knew the day or Hour never so precisely Yet He would not Know the day and Hour of his Lords coming but It would be to Him as of a Theif in the Night and as a man dics in that Watch or the neglect of it So Christ comes upon Him tho' many Hundred Years after Death if It were not such a Watch the Apostle had discharg'd the Thessalonians of it by Adjuring them not to expect the day of Christ till after the Apostasie and in Them all Christians after till that Apostasie expire 2 Thess 2. 1. Q. Are the Thousand Years of Christ's Kingdom Litterally or Mystically to be understood A. They are both ways to be understood Litterally Adding so many Years to the Time Allotted to the Visible Creation till All be Deliver'd up to God Himself Mystically as a Thousand Years are a Cube of Time signifying the perfection of Time which none of the Patriarchs after Adams Fall could Attain how near soever They came to it Gen. 5. Q. Is it no Impeachment to the Kingdom of Christ never ending that Sathan is loos'd at the end of the 1000 Years and Deceives the Nations to a new Attempt A. No For It only gives Just occasion to Christ to magnifie his Power Judiciary Authority Justice and the Final Putting down All Rule and Power and Subduing the Last Enemies the Devil the Dead and Death and Hell And having Quickly drawn up all the Living Saints to his Own Throne first according to 1 Cor. 15. 24. 51. 1 Thess 4. 17. Rev. c. 3. 21. Rev. 20. and so Giving up the Kingdom every way perfectly prepar'd to God All in All the Glory of having Faithfully managed and happily Atcheiv'd All Things is for ever due to Him John 17. 24. Q. Are the Worship and Ordinances of the New Testament any way Prefigurative of this Kingdom of Christ A. Very Fully For the Gospel is the Gospel and word of this Kingdom The Prayer we stile The Lords Prayer is the Prayer of this Kingdom Taught to all his Disciples The Lords Day is the Type and Pledge of that Sabbatism Baptism is the Figure of being Sav'd 1 Pet. 3. 21. from that Deluge of Fire The Lords Supper is the shewing forth his Death till He Come 1 Cor. 11. 26. Then that Passover is fullfill'd and that Fruit of the Vine drunk New Luc. 22. 16. 18. Nor can any of the Old Testament Types Prophecies and Promises be Fully Drawn out but in that Kingdom and Appearance So that in Summ it is the Everlasting Gospel God hath always been Gospelizing throughout the Old and New Testament Rev. 10. 7. Q. But if These Truths are of this Great Weight Can the Churches of the Saints be so unacquainted with Them A. Even as the Jewish Saints and the very Apostles were Ignorant of the Sacrifice Resurrection Ascention and Intercession of Christ so Fundamental Points till the Powring down the Spirit for Preaching the Gospel then Even so and much more may the Saints of Gospel Times even now till the Second Powring down the Spirit for the Preaching the Everlasting Gospel be and have been Ignorant of the Full Dimensions of the Redemption of Christ Fulfill'd in his Kingdom of the Glory of that Oeconomy to the Highest Glory of God the Father in his Creation and Love of Man of the Resurrection as such a visible Appearance of the Just and Vnjust for a Thousand Years the Dead in Christ Rising first Of the Mystery of the Saints Remaining and Living on Earth making up the Full Number of all Saints and not Dying but being Chang'd of the necessity according to this Oeconomy of the Infinitely Holy and Wise Being of such a Preparation for the Saints as Priests of God and Christ a Thousand Years to be Vnited to God All in All And notwithstanding this Ignorance They may be True Churches of Saints but the nearer the Time Approaches the Slowness of Heart to Know and Believe these Things will Argue a greater Lukewarmness for the Kingdom Glory and Coming of Christ and It hath been all along a dark Shade of the Apostasie upon the Churches Q. What Spirit are we then to be of with Relation to the coming of Christ in this his Kingdom A. Of the Vehement and even Passionate Spirit of the Bride which says Come Make hast my beloved to the Mountain of Spices Anointed for thy Kingdom with that Precious Oyntment that Antichrist now Counterfeits to his Death as the Great Prince Messiah the Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec and thy Saints as Kings and Priests with Thee in that Great Day of thy Nuptials in thy Kingdom Rev. 22. 17. Cantic 8. 14. Exod. 30. 33. Psal 110. 4. Rev. 20. 2. Q. You seem to have forgotten this Marriage so great an Emblem of the Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ in Scripture A. I Reserv'd it as the Best Wine for the Last For it is indeed most often so made use of in Holy Writing by Solomon in that most Prophetick Nuptial Song of his of the Kingdom by Esay c. 62. 5. by Christ often and He makes his Coming to be on purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the sake of the Wedding and not as we Translate from it Luc. 12. 36. By the Apostle Paul Calling it as the Kingdom is Call'd Mystery Ephes 5. 25. 32. By the Apostle John in the Prophecy of the Kingdom just Appearing Rev. 19. 7. c. 21. 2. c. 22. 17. And it Carries Great Argument and Instruciton Q. What is the Argument A. That the Kingdom which is this Wedding every where in Scripture is not yet For the Bridegroom is now Taken from us as Christ Foretold He would be Luc 5. 35. Nor can it be at the Kingdom Deliver'd up For the Second Adam of which the First Adam's and Eves Marriage was the Type who is the Bridegroom is then the Bridegroom no longer But He Unites Himself with the Bride to the Father All in All John 17. 21. c. Q. What is the Instruction A. In Three Things 1. That even the Wise Virgins not Bearing this New Wine in their Old Bottles slumber even as the Foolish though with Oyl in their Vessels Grace in their Hearts which the Foolish not Having were shut out Mat. 25. 1. c. And 2. That we ought to be in Fasting and Sackcloth as the Children of the Bride-Chamber all these Days of the Bridegrooms being Taken from us Luc 5. 35. 3. That we should Hearing with an Ear to Hear and Thirsting most Affectionately to the Bridegrooms Saying Behold I come Quickly Resound Even so come Lord Jesus That He may say to us in Grace Come Then Also and with me Drink the Water of Life Freely And that we may do Thus The Grace of the Lord Jesus be with us All. Amen Rev. 22. 17. to the End FINIS
THE CATECHISM OF THE KINGDOM OF OUR Lord Jesus Christ IN THE Thousand Years Shewing by Scripture That the Great Articles of the Redemption the Resurrection the Mystery of the Saints not Dying but Chang'd the Judgment the Delivery up of the Kingdom to God All in All cannot be Explain'd at Full Dimensions without it Luke 1. 4. That thou mayest know the Certainty of the Things wherein Thou hast been Catechized or Instructed London Printed for the Author 1690. To the Bishops Assembled in Parliament And to the Evangelical Episcopacy throughout the Protestant Acts 2â— 28. 1 Pet. 5. 2. Churches of Christ in these Nations Grace Mercy and Peace from God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ by the Eternal Spirit I Have heretofore Represented to you the Majesty and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ that shall Seven Times hence after the Expiration of the Apostasie now Ecclipsing it be Daily more and more Visible Till it shine out in perfect Glory This I have done according to the Sure Word of Prophecy which is of no private Interpretation but being Scripture must be search'd even as All other Scripture and so be as All other Scripture Profitable and it hath this Excellency above other Scripture That It particularly shines as a Light in a Dark place viz. In this Time of Eclipse or as the Pole-Star in the Night that we may know whereabout we are in Time and State Yet because the General Prepossession of Men Caring for none of these Things would not have Prophetic Scripture Search'd that I might make Acceptable this Great Truth every way I have now Represented it as It is Carv'd and Wreath'd into the whole Analogy of Faith the Great Articles and Principles of the Doctrine of Christ according to the most Instructive Scriptures viz. the Redemption the Resurrection the Eternal Judgment the Saints not Dying but Chang'd the Delivery up of the Kingdom to God All in All which cannot be without the Kingdom of Christ Explain'd at full Dimensions Now I call the Following Treaty hereof a Catechism as an Intimation of the Plain manner of Handling for the benefit of All and of the necessity of Consideration and Repeated Application of our Minds to it and also to shew The Kingdom of Christ though it yet lye Hid in its Roots the Fore-nam'd Articles is still a Fundamental Truth and so though Catechism may seem below your Orb yet This of the Kingdom of Christ even as All Catecheticall Truths deserves the Gravest and most Awful Judgments to Try and Recommend Them I do Acknowledge my self the unworthiest of the Servants of Christ in the most Abased Circumstances and lay my self at the Feet of the Church of Christ with most Penitential Confessions and Acknowledgments Yet I must be Bold in our God to say He hath been pleased to Reveal to me of an Infant Understanding in Compare and the Chief of Sinners what He hath not so fully Reveal'd to the more Holy and Prudent Even so Father For so It seemed Good in thy sight I most Humbly therefore Beseech and do even Adjure you by the Coming of our Lord Jesus and by our Gathering together to Him in the General Assembly of his Kingdom That You would either shew by Scripture These Things cannot be so or Receive this Ministery as the Oracles of God and Testify your Regard to it that now makes in your Ears the cry of the Bridegrooms Coming in his Kingdom That none of us may be among the Slumbring though Wise Virgins much less among the Foolish And You to whom This Address will first Come ought to be the more Watchful because the Worldly Splendor of Your Sphere not so well Agrees with the present Ecclipse of Christian Glory with the Tribulation and Patience of the Kingdom of Christ and that Sackcloth and Fasting state for the Bride-grooms Absence You should then surmount that Disagreement by more Eminent Services to this Kingdom least There should seem Any Surrogation in the Reformation to the Feet of Clay the Papacy the Cardinalism the Roman Hicrarchy who as the most Diametral opposites to the Kingdom of Christ Receive the First Stroke of the Stone Cut out of the Mountains without Hands and so You Receive the Dishonour of any part in their Fall at least of Lukewarmness for that Glory of Christ Or least as They by a False Glory as if 't were the Glory of Christ Glittering in this worldly Glory Rob the True Light and are Effaced by that True Light Appearing or its Epiphany You should at all share in that Effacement That we may be therefore All Guided by the Father of Lights with whom is no Variation nor Shaddow of Turning to Try the Spirit of this Doctrine and not to Call the Light of it Darkness but to Come perfectly out of the present Ecclips to Go on to Perfection in the Doctrine of Christ is and shall be the most zealous Prayer of Your most Humble most Affectionate Servant in the Gospel of the Kingdom Tho. Beverley The General PREFACE To all Christians I Know it will be said with Plausibleness against this Following Catechism We had rather Preach and Hear of the Plain Safe Fundamental Points of Faith and Repentance of the Resurrection of the Dead and of Eternal Judgment in the Ordinary way of Discourse The Old Wine we have Tasted is Better We will not as it were Ask a Sign and Tempt God in Isay c. 7. seeking to understand Prophecies and Mysteries But is it not enough for you to weary Men but will ye weary my God also who hath given you Prophecy to search it and the Strong meat of Scripture and not only the Milk as to Children unskillfull in the word of Righteousness He hath commanded you to leave not by way of Forsaking the Word of the Beginning of Christ but to Go on to perfection not dishonourably staying in Foundations without a Superstructure He hath given you the Example of steddy Resolution herein This we Heb. c. 5. 11. c. 6. 1. will do if God permit He hath in a Figure Represented to you the Primitive Christian Church not doing thus though it was so plentiful a Partaker of mighty effusions of * Wonderful Gifts the Holy Spirit had a Liberal Taste of the Good word of God They Tasted of the * Miracles mighty Powers of the World to come viz The Kingdom of Christ Yet through Resting in Principles not Loving Truth not Going on to Perfection They Dwindled away and fell into the Antichristian Apostacy and came to Crucify in that Spiritual Sodom and Egypt even Rome Call'd Catholick Church now where also Our Lord was Crucified viz. under its Dominion the Son of God afresh in his Witnesses and have put him to an open Shame And through the Impossibility of Repentance as such an Antichristian Church as we see Rev. 16. 9. It cannot be Renewed But under all the Droppings of the Reformation upon it it is a Ground over-grown with