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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

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

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 Wherein Righteousnesse and Peace Incorruption Immortality and Joy shall habit and dwell for evermore world without end Proved clearly by the Word of GOD Against all those Cabbilisticall Millinaries and Jew restorers for a thousand yeares Mysticall Familists and all other such like raisers of new lights out of the old pit of darknesse discovering their visions to be nothing else but meere conjectures fancies and lies DAN. 7. 13 14 15. I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of Man came with the Clouds of Heaven and came to the Antient of Dayes and they brought him neere before him And there was given him Dominion and Glory and a Kingdome that all People Nations and Languages should serve him His Dominion is an Everlasting Dominion which shall not passe away and his Kingdome that which shall not be destroyed Verse 27. And the Kingdome and Dominion and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the M●st High whose Kingdome is an Everlasting Kingdome and all Powers shall serve and obey him Printed at London by Matthew Simmons 1648. TO THE TRULY HONORABLE The Seed of Abraham Isaac and Iacob the Children and Heires of God and Ioynt-he●●es with Christ Of what People Nation or Tribe soever and in what degree of place High or Low Grace and Truth and Peace be multiplied HOnorable and beloved in the Lord That the●e is a 〈◊〉 Countrey and a Citie having Found●tion and a Kingdome that cannot be moved prepared for you he 〈◊〉 fully assused For it is most certain there being ●●thing more abundantly spoken of 〈◊〉 more clearly promised in all the Scriptures than the 〈◊〉 And that yee shall bee delivered from all your 〈◊〉 and troubles in all places wheresoever yee are 〈◊〉 and from all your mournings sorro●es paines 〈◊〉 teares graves dust and brought to inherit all those g●eat th●ngs promised with all the holy Fathers and their Ch●ldren and childrens children that have been before you and with Christ your Prince at his appearing and his Kingdome which will be now very speedily be ye a so 〈◊〉 assured And so look yee for him and for it And 〈◊〉 take heed that in the little mean time which is to be between this present hou●e and 〈◊〉 of his appe●ring no man deceive you by any way or meanes For as there hath been false Prophets and deceiving Spirit● in the world that 〈◊〉 deceived many as Christ fore-told they should So there are still many even 〈◊〉 with us 〈◊〉 ha●d as well as els● here that sh●ll and doe d●ce●ve And 〈…〉 Doctrine you 〈◊〉 heare of or read tending to the taking your minde off from 〈◊〉 hope and expectation of your eternall inheritance in the world to ●ome 〈…〉 same upon any thing that is or can be imagined to be here in this present 〈…〉 not unto it For all such Doctrine is of the Spirit of Satan and not of 〈…〉 glorious shew soever it makes And as touching the Doctrine of the ●illinaries Although it be 〈…〉 very next ensuing age after the Apostles the beloved Disciple of Christ having written the Revelation and sent it to the seven Churches of Asia they being not yet disp●rsed by the persecution of the Dragon the same opinion of a resurrection from the dead and glorious reigne of Christ with his Saints on Earth for a thousand yeares before the generall resurrection and end of the world was conceived taught and held up by many Christians then counted ●ound in the faith Orthodox as they speak Some of which being men of great note Tertullian Ereneus Iustine and others all grounding their opinion chiefly on this place of Scripture Rev. 20. 4 5 6. And that now the opinion ●aving lain dead for many hundred years is again revived and maintained by men of great esteem also ●or learning c. whose names for the credit of the opinion that it may carry the greater countenance and authority with it are by those that have published books of the same mentioned and described with high applause insomuch as the Doctrine is almost generally entertained both by Ministers and people and those especially that seem the most zealous who embrace it with great affection as a most excellent mystery of truth Although all this bee so yet neverthelesse it may possibly be And if one so farre inferior unto them in those great respects of learning and esteeme as there is no comparison may be so bold I then durst say they are all deceived and erre not understanding the Scriptures And this I doe not onely say but by the grace of God shall also make it plainly to appeare though not unto all men yet unto you that are the children of Wisdome whom the Kingdome doth concerne and who can best discerne and judge between truth and error And this is all I doe request of you that ye will be pleased to read and duly to consider the things I here present unto you and if ye shall finde that I speak not the words of truth and sobernesse let me then be reproved And so I submit my selfe unto your censure praying alwayes unto the Lord and desiring with my whole soule that his truth may prosper in the world and take place in the hearts of all his chosen people in these last dayes and that 〈◊〉 would give unto us all his holy Spirit of truth to teach us and lead us into all truth and to enable us to walk worthy of the same truth to the glory of his holy name and our owne comfort and peace of mind here and salvation hereafter in that world to come through Jes●s Christ our Prince and Saviour unto whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all praise and thanks for ever and ever Amen Your most unworthy Christian Brother I. E. Honored and Beloved THE things that I shall here in the first place present unto your confideration are the Scriptures whereon the Milli●aries doe ground their opinions before mentioned the first and chiefe being this REV. 20. 4 5 6. And I saw Thrones and they sate upon them and judgement wa● given 〈◊〉 them And I saw the souls of the● that were beheaded for the witnesse of Iesus and for the word of God and which had not worshipped the Beast ●ither his Image neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their h●●ds and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand yeares But the rest of the dead lived not again untill the thousand yeares were finis●●d This is the first