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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47560	A glimpse of Sions glory, or, The churches beautie specified published for the good and benefit of all those whose hearts are raised up in the expectation of the glorious liberties of the saints.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Glover, Jose, fl. 1641.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.; Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1641 (1641)	Wing K711; ESTC R8454	21,933	42

A GLIMPSE OF SIONS GLORY OR THE CHURCHES BEAUTIE specified Published for the Good and Benefit of all those whose Hearts are raised up in the expectation of the glorious Liberties of the SAINTS PSAL. 87.3 Glorious Things are spoken of Thee O thou Citie of GOD ESAY 40.10.11 Behold the LORD shall come with might against the strong ones and his arme shall rule for him c. LONDON Printed for WILLIAM LARNAR and are to be sold at his Shop at the Signe of the golden Anchor neere PAULS-Chaine MDCXLI THE EPISTLE TO THE READER CHristian Reader thou hast here presented to thy view a small Tract the matter whereof is weighty and of concernment to all that are the professed Subjects of Iesus Christ It is a thing of sad consequence to consider how we have beene kept under blindnesse and darknesse although not totally yet in a great measure in regard of such truths as doe immediately strike at Antichrist and his false power As namely this great Truth CHRIST the King of his Church and that Christ hath given this Power to his Church not to a Hierarchy neither to a Nationall Presbytery but to a company of Saints in a Congregationall way Now these truths strike directly at Antichrist and therefore kept and quell'd downe as errours And so by reason of this obscurity we being halfe blind such bright truths seeme strange to us and goe under many aspersions and calumnies as carnall erroneous absurd and the like And truely we have beene so accustomed to the yoke that we seeme to beat down freedome with casting up a thousand surmises dreaming of strange Consequents Nay there is a generation of of Men in these times some or most of them seeming to plead for Christ are as inveterate against the one true Way of Jesus Christ as if it would be the bondage of Rehoboam succeeding the light oppression of Solomon whereas it will prove to bee a Haven to our tedious stormes and a period to many distractions READER give over thy wonted censuring of mens Labours and learne to be more wise lay aside all prejudiciall thoughts concerning this Tract and weigh it in the Ballance of the Sanctuary comparing it with the Word if it will hold out there then embrace it and make use of it for thy comfort Indeed it may be beneficiall to thee divers wayes First by this thou mayst learne to prize Jesus Christ more what was that among other things that made Christ so beloved and excellent in the eyes of his Spouse His head was of Gold Now what is this Head of Gold but that excellent Government that is upon his shoulder Secondly it will administer comfort to thee in regard of the former yokes of which there are hopes they will bee broken off at least in the accomplishing of these Truths Nay the day is now dawning wherein Sions Peace and Comforts shall bee fulfilled Iesus Christ set up the sole and great King of his Church Thirdly it will teach you to make that use of it that the Apostle Peter doth of the like Truths What manner of Persons ought we to be The use of it is divers beyond my reach or weake Iudgement to prescribe and indeed my commendation of it doth but darken it I being so far below the matter and the Author But thy experience may make up that of which I fall short So commending Thee both in the use of this and any thing else that beares the stamp and Image of truth upon it to the teaching of that Spirit that is the Author of all Truth in the hearts of Beleevers to be taught by it I leave thee in the perusing of this small Treatise hoping thou wilt reape some good by it Farewell Thine in the Lord Jesus to command W. K. A GLIMPSE OF SIONS GLORY OR THE CHURCHES BEAUTIE specified REVEL. 19. VERSE 6. And I heard as it were the voice of a great Multitude and as the voice of many Waters and as the voice of mighty Thundrings saying HALLELVIAH for the LORD GOD Omnipotent reigneth AT the powring forth of the first Viall there was a Voice saying BABYLON is fallen it is fallen at the powring forth of the sixth Iohn heares a voice as the voice of many Waters and as the voice of Thundrings saying Hallelujah the Lord God omnipotent reigneth immediately following the other Babylons falling is Sions raising Babylons destruction is Ierusalems salvation The fourth Viall was powred upon the Sunne which is yet doing namely upon the Emperour and that House of Austria and will be till that House be destroyed The heat of that makes the seat of the Beast hot and prepares it unto the fire that it is appointed unto God is beginning the powring forth of the fifth Viall namely upon the Throne of the Beast upon Babylon this is the worke that is in hand as soone as ever this is done that Antichrist is downe Babylon fallen then comes in Jesus Christ reigning gloriously then comes in this Hallelujah the Lord God omnipotent reigneth Let Christ live and Barrabas die was the last speech of Tremellius Let Babylon fall let Ierusalem rise and Christ reigne in his glory this is the voice of all the Saints this day and will continue to their last Voyce It is the work of the day to cry downe Babylon that it may fall more and more and it is the worke of the day to give God no rest till he sets up Ierusalem as the praise of the whole World Bl●ssed is he that dasheth the Brats of Babylon against the stones Blessed is hee that hath any hand in pulling downe Babylon and beautifull likewise are the feet of them that bring glad tidings unto Ierusalem unto Zion saying The Lord God omnipotent reigneth This is the work of this Exercise to shew unto you how upon the destruction of Babylon Christ shall reigne gloriously and how we are to further it The words then read unto you they are you see an Halleluiah But what is that to the day of a Fast Is an Halleluiah sutable to a Fast Hallelujah is Praise ye the Lord the worke of a Fast is a mourning worke and yet this Hallelujah is sutable to this day of Fast 1. Sutable First our mourning is to be Evangelicall and therefore to have comfort mixed with it Secondly because our mourning is a preparation to and hastning of this Hallelujah Thirdly because we are by faith to speake of things as if they were done therefore now to shew you what is to be done and what wee are to looke upon as if it were done this day Hallelujah is sutable for that Yea further a day of Humiliation is a day of Reconciliation too as well as a day of Humiliation and the great fruit of our Reconciliation with God is the setting up of the Kingdome of his Sonne Yea we read of the Churrh of the Iewes that in their returning from the Captivity God did lead them by weeping 31. Ier. 9. The Argument of deliverance

would permit Antichrist to rise and to Rule for a long time and he had many things to bring out the Kingdome of Antichrist to worke for his Glory therefore God hath left this Truth to be so darke the setting up of Christ in his Kingly Office Thirdly because God would exercise the Faith and other Graces of his Spirit in his Children that they might beleeve in and love Jesus Christ for his spirituall Beauty though there appeares nothing but spirituall Beauty though no outward Beauty no outward Kingdome doth appeare but he be as a spirituall King only It was a great and a glorious Worke in those three wise Men that came to Christ that offered Frankincense and Gold and Myrrhe to Christ when he was in a Cratch in a Manger and so for Gods people now to beleeve in him now to love now to reioyce in him to offer all to him now his Kingdome is darkned now he doth appeare so meane as he is this is a glorious worke of Faith and we should labour much to exercise this worke of ●aith in looking vpon this spirituall Beauty that is in Christ and satisfying our Soules in that that so we may not be offended at the darkning of Christs Kingdome outwardly And the lesse Christ doth reigne outwardly in the world the lesse glorious his Kingdome doth appeare outwardly the more let us labour to bring our hearts under his spirituall Reigne The more others say We will not have this man reigne over vs the more let our Soules subiect themselves to him and say Christ is our KING and let him reigne for ever over us yea let us labour to symphathize with Jesus Christ in the darkning of his glory and of his Kingdome IESVS CHRIST though he the glory of his Father the Brightnesse of his Glory the Character and graven Forme or the Image of his Father yet is he contented to have his glory darkned Who are we that we must have Glory in this world and outward excellencies when Christ is willing to be without them Let us be willing to goe like the Witnesses clothed in Sackcloth till Christ comes to reigne There are white shining garments prepared but that time is not yet though it wil not be long The Bridegroom yet seems to be absent and therefore it is fit for the Spouse to goe low and mean in the mourning weeds as a Widdow the trimming of the Bride in her outward glory may come hereafter when Christ shall come in glory into the World And Lastly the Kingdom of Christ is darkned for a while outwardly and therefore it should teach us to blesse God so much the more for that Opportunitie that we have of setting vp Christ as King amongst us For yet the Voyce is not heard much That the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth abroad in the World though lately some noise we have heard But blessed be God in our Congregations amongst us we may heare That the Lord GOD Omnipotent reigneth It is through our wretched wickednesse if his Kingly Power be not fully set up amongst us in all his Ordinances And that we should have an opportunity to set up his Kingly Power amongst us heere while it is so much opposed and so little knowne in the world it is a great mercy And let us take heed of abusing that opportunity we have for darkning the Kingly Power of Christ which we professe to set up Especially in these Times when there comes to be a Voyce though confusedly from the Multitude and some Kind of Voyce of Thunder from the Great ones But though it be darke for a while certainly he shall reigne and the Voyce will be glorious and distinct one Day Saying HALLELVIAH the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth He shall reigne first Personally secondly in his Saints First Personally we will not fully determine of the manner of his Personall Reigning but thus farre wee may see there is a Voice of great waters though not distinct but a Probability in his Person GOD and MAN he shall reigne vpon the Earth here in this World before that great and Solemne Day There are divers Scriptures that have somewhat of this in them we cannot give the distinct Voyce of those Scriptures but many of Gods Saints they do heare somthing and when a thing growes neerer and neerer God will reveale it more distinct Zachary 12.10 They shall looke upon him whom they have pierced and shall mourne for him as one mourneth for his only Sonne It is usually understood either of a spirituall looking by the eye of Faith or beholding Christ at the Day of Iudgment But why should we take it for a spirituall looking and looking at the day of Iudgment that place doth not hold out that is not the thing intended They shall mourne every one apart this is not like the setting forth of the mourning at the Day of Iudgement And take but this one Rule that all Texts are to be understood literally except they make against some other Scriptures or except the very Coherence and Dependance of the Scripture shewes it otherwise or it makes against the Analogy of Faith now there is nothing against this but it may bee so A second Scripture that seemes to hold out somewhat is that in the 26th of Mathew 29. I will not henceforth drinke of the Fruit of the Vine untill that Day when I drinke it new with you in my Fathers Kingdome It is true this is likewise interpreted in a mysticall sense but there is no reason why wee may not take it literally Not in the Kingdome of his Father in Heaven but in that Kingdome that hee shall come in here to drinke the Fruit of the Vine to have Communion with his Saints in this World 2. Thes. 2.8 Antichrist shall be destroyed by the brightnesse of Christs comming the brightnesse of his Personall comming And that place Revel. 20. where it is said The Saints shall reigne with him a Thousand years which cannot be meant reigning with him in Heaven It is made as a proper peculiar benefit unto such as had refused Antichrists Government especially to the Christian Church It is likely divers of the Prophets and Patriarchs may come in but especially it belongs to the Christian Church Now the reigning with Christ a thousand yeeres is not meant reigning with him in Heaven for after these thousand yeares there shall be many enemies raised against the Church GOG and MAGOG shall gather themselves together if it were meant of Heaven that could not be and therefore it must be meant of Iesus Christ comming and reigning heere gloriously for a Thousand yeares And although this may seeme to be strange yet heretofore it hath not beene accounted so it hath beene a Truth received in the Primitive Times Iustine Martyr that lived presently after IOHN he spake of this as a thing that all Christians acknowledged and likewise Lactantius hath such expressions in divers places of his Seventh Booke That there are glorious Times comming wherein