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A26659 The church triumphant, or, A comfortable treatise of the amplitude and largeness of the kingdom of Christ wherein is proved by Scriptures and reason, that the number of the damned is inferiour to that of the elect / by Joseph Alford ... Alford, Joseph. 1649 (1649) Wing A921; ESTC R22399 57,799 139

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them to the preconsolation of the Gentiles For I would not Brethren that ye should be ignorant of this mystery lest you should be wise in your own concei●● that blindeness in part is happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in and so all Israel shall be saved as it is written There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. For this is my co●enant with them when I shall take away their sins Which words in the original are somewhat different but it seems the Apostle followed the translation of the Septuagint in which translation the words are not so much considered as the sense These things also Mos●s Jeremiah and Ezechiel do promise to the Israelites that he will gather them out of all Nations and from the ends of the earth that he will cleanse them with pure water and purge them from all their iniquities and give them a new heart and a new spirit C. To the other things I readily assent but I do not sufficiently understand what is meant by the Deliverer M. I will shew you my Caelius This place is diversly expounded but the words of the Apostle are plain enough for when he saith he shall come it is liquid he speaketh of somewhat yet to come and when he saith the Deliverer shall come whom can you suppose to be meant but Jesus Christ the onely Saviour and Redeemer of mankind especially when he addeth out of Sion that is out of the very Nation of the Jews to whom this Prophecie doth belong But because some Holy and great man was to be sent from God for the instauration of a collapsed Church and the replantation of an extinguished Religion this doth not at all seem different from the custom of God For when things are even despaired of and grown desperate he then useth as the Prophet Malachie speaks to raise up some Elias before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord and he shall turn the heart of the Fathers to the Children and the heart of the Children to their Fathers that is he will congregate and convert the hearts of those Children to the Messiah whose Fathers have worshipped him in Spirit And that this should be performed by Elias was the opinion of Orig n Theodoret Chrysostom and Austin also which they confirm by that saying of our Saviour When Elias comes he shall restore all things Howsoever in my judgement Paul in that place means none other but Christ Jesus C. But was not Christ already come when Paul wrote wherefore then doth he say he shall come What coming doth he describe his first appearing to suffer death for us or his last coming to judgement M. Paul in his second Epistle to the Thessalonians when he purposeth to describe unto us by whom Antichrist should be revealed and by what weapons he should be overcome after that for a time he had proudly advanced himself against Christ under the name of Christ he thus writeth Then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming In which words four things are declared unto us That Antichrist shall be detected by whom he shall be brought to destruction by what weapons and lastly that the Lord himself shall come in Person against this enemy shall subdue him and scatter all his forces this shall be the means of that accomplishment Whatsoever is made manifest was first hidden and whatsoever is brought to light is made manifest Antichrist for a long time hath lyen hid like a wolf in sheeps cloathing and still had been unmanifested had not the appearance of Christ begun to reveal him by whose coming again also he shall be utterly overthrown But in the mean time it behoves us to fight manfully under Christ our King and leader against this adversary and all his adherents and least we should faint or be discouraged St. John assureth us he shall be delivered into our hands And the Lamb shall overcome them for he is Lord of Lords and King of kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful But with what weapons with those wherewith men go out to battel No but with the Spirit of his mouth and the brightness of his coming C. I apprehend you with the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God that is with arguments taken out of the Doctrine of the Scriptures which he shall never be able to answer M. I deny not but the adversaries of Christ may be fought withall and brought to destruction by other weapons but Paul telleth us that Antichrist shall be put to flight by the Spirit of his mouth to exaggerate the power of Christ who is able to vanquish his enemies by the breath of his nostrels For his Spirit as the Prophet Isaiah saith is an over flowing stream he is also a consuming fire and Christ Jesus is the brightness of this fire at whose appearance the enemies vanish as the night and darkness is dispersed by the approch of the sun Now if the tyranny of Antichrist must be abolished by the Spirit of the mouth of our Saviour before his last coming to judgement which St. John foretelleth saying And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast these shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and shall burn her with fire That the Gospel may be preached in all the Kingdoms of the earth another coming of Christ must yet be enquired after and this is that coming by which he hath begun to restore the preaching of the Gospel to enlighten the understandings of them that sate in darkness to confirm them by his Spirit We know well under how much blindness and ignorance the whole world in former ages hath been kept contiguous almost to the very times of the Apostles For as soon as their embassage was ended the ravenous wolves begun to enter into the fold of Christ as Paul saith not sparing the flock Thus by degrees the true Christ was taken out of the world and a supposititious Christ laid in his room in the holy place the Temple of God established in faith not founded upon any material basis In which temple he sitteth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all de●eaveableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved For they who shut their ears that they may not hear the truth it is no wonder that they delight in lies And when salvation is promised to them that believe the truth they that delight in lies may justly fear damnatiō C. If I understand you rightly you intimate that as the absence of the Gospel doth signifie the absence