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A25221	The beloved city, or, The saints reign on earth a thovsand yeares asserted and illustrated from LXV places of Holy Scripture, besides the judgement of holy learned men both at home and abroad, and also reason it selfe : likewise XXXV objections against this truth are here answered / written in Latine by Ioan Henr. Alstedius ... ; faithfully Englished, with some occasionall notes and the judgement herein ... of some of our owne famous divines.; Diatribe de mille annis apocalyptis. English	Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638.; Burton, William, 1575-1645.	1643 (1643)	Wing A2924; ESTC R19975	88,201	114

fancy of yesterday muchlesse savouring of Popery have thought and published concerning this opinion Besides the irrefragable judgement of the Divine Tycho Brahe that singular ornament both of the Heavens and his owne Denmarke and with him the termination herein of Carolus Gallus omitted by Asted and not long agoe one of the States Professors of Divinity in their University of Leyden If thou finde any discrepancy in their resolutions about this matter perswade thy selfe that time and the holy Spirit will more and more enlighten the deepe mysteries of God● word and of its unspeakable goodnesse of the Saints of God will yet in these latter times make us all of one heart and one mind in Christ Iesu● That all we that doe conf●sse his holy Name may agree in the truth of his holy Word and live in unity and godly love which is the prayer of our Church In the meane time good Reader consider that it is as lawfull for men yea for good Christians themselves to differ in circumstances of opinions as it is requisite and seemely that they should grow up together like m fellow branches in matter of good correspondence and affection Farewell SCRIB LIMNOPOROPOLI Antiquorum Saxonum five Regiovici in Regni● X. ab V.L. Ad Jamissam Ptolomaei si non omnes depravati cod● In {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} quod Iohannes Loukinn LONDINI IV. Mater 39. Edw. R. 3. P. Elizabeth● Regina {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} SCHOLPUBL GR. LAT. LL. E. V. Regni sui III. To the Christian Reader THere are three things necessary for him who takes upon him to expound Prophecies published by the Holy Ghost And first truely the light and Grace of the holy Spirit is requisite For seeing that Prophecie proceedeth from the holy Spirit It is necessary that by the same also it should be expounded Next Apious and diligent reading of Prophecies and conferring them one with another much avayleth hereunto Lastly The fulfilling of any Prophecie and an experience in a manner thereof is as it were the Key with which it is unlockt and opened Wherefore that saying of Irenaeus is true Every Prophecy before it is fulfill'd is a Riddle But when it is fulfill'd it hath a plain exposition and understanding of it self These three things as in all holy Prophecies so in the Divine Revelation may be joyned together and namely in this piece thereof which now according to my Ability I am about to Illustrate and at this day too Wherein to the light of the Gospel there is added a great Catastrophe or Issue of many things foretold by God himself except indeed any one happily chance to be bewitched with a prejudicate opinion Let us set sail therefore in the Name of God and comfort the desolation of Germany with this pious meditation Revelation Chap. 20. ANd I saw an Angel come down from heaven having the Key of the bottomelesse pit and a great chain in his hand 2. And he laid hold on the Dragon that old Serpent which is the devill and Satan and bound him a thousand yeers 3. And cast him into the bottomlesse pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the Nations no more till the thousand yeers should be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed a little season 4. And I saw thrones and they sate upon them and judgement was given unto them And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Iesus and for the Word of God and which had not worshipped the beast neither his image neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand y●ers 5. But the rest of the dead lived not again untill the thousand yeers were finished This is the first resurrection 6. Bless●d and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power but th●y shall be Priests of God and of Chr●st and shall reign with him a thousand yeers 7. And wh●n the thousand yeers are expired Satan shall be loosed out of his prison 8. And shall goe out to deceive the Nations which are in the four quarters of the earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to battell the number of whom is as the sand of the Sea 9. And th●y went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the campe of the Saints about an●●he beloved Citie and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them 10. And the d●vill that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false Prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever 11. And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them 12. And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which is the Book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works 13. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works 14. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death 15. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire PROLEGOMENA OR THE PREFACE Concerning The Author and Subject of this Chapter and the Connexion thereof with the foregoing and following Chapters 1. Of the Author of this Chapter THe Principall Author of this Chapter is the same who is Author of the whole Book namely Iesus Christ who as a faithfull Steward of our Salvation received this Revelation from God the Father and sent the same by his Angel to Iohn the Evangelist Revel. 1.1 Wherefore the Principall Author is the Spirit of God the Minister or Messenger partly the Angel partly Iohn who Chap. 1.1 and 4. setteth down his name in generall but a little after in the ninth Verse restraining that generality He doth as it were with his finger point at it I John your brother and companion in the affliction and Kingdom and patience * which is in Jesus Christ was in the Island which is called Patmos The history which Eusebius relates tells us That Iohn the Evangelist and Apostlé was banished into the Island of Patmos by Domitian Whence it is collected that Iohn the Evangelist and Apostle was Gods Po●-man in the delivery of this Prophecy and hence That the Authority of this Book and so of this Chapter which we intend to expound is Divine Wherefore deservedly we most highly esteem of this Revelation as a part of Scripture which hath God for it's Author But especially this Prophecy ought in this respect to

the false Prophet who is the great Antichrist being thrust down a little before the beginning of the thousand yeers do endure their punishment There they shall be tormented day and night without intermission for ever and ever that is For all ages so that for the time to come they shall never scape forth again 11. I saw also a great cloud like a great white Throne and Christ the Son of GOD the Judge of the living and dead sitting thereon with great Majesty and prepared to give Judgement From before his face the Earth and the Heaven fled away and there was no place found for them For this earth and this heaven shall passe away at the coming of Christ and all things shall be made new 12. I saw also all the dead small and great standing before God and ready to hear the sentence of the Judge What happens then The books of mens Consciences are opened the counsells of all mortell men and the secrets of their hearts being brought to light Now lest the elect children of God should be disheartned every one by the particular survey of his own book or conscience behold another book is opened for them I mean the Book of Life in which according to the fatherly acceptance of God in Christ their names are written from everlasting These books being thus opened the d●ad are judged out of those things which are written in the books according to their works and that after such manner that the works of the Saints are judged out of the book of life which contains the books of their Consciences washed and cleansed with the Blood of Christ But the works of the ungodly are numbred and surveyed and so judged out of the books of their own consciences not cleansed from sins nor purged with the Blood of Christ 13. Hereupon then the Sea gave up its dead which had been concealed in the bosome thereof Death also and the Grave that is The fire ayr and the earth and indeed all the Elements d●livered up their dead which having received formerly they had partly consumed partly yet preserved They were therefore all judged and every one in particular none at all excepted and they were judged justly for the judgement was according to every ones works of which their consciences bare them record 14. And this being performed ungodly men Death and Hell that is Men deserving both were cast into that lake of fire that there for ever they might swallow up waters running with fire and there suffer the second death that is by dying the second death never to die 15. For whose name soever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into that lake of fire both by the just Judgement of God and by the heynousnesse of his own deservings V. The Questions arising in this Chapter THe chief Questions of this Chapter are these 1. Whether these thousand yeers severall times here mentioned are alwayes to be understood literally 2. Whether they be already finished 3. What year ought to be put for the beginning of them 4. What is to be understood by the first Resurrection 5. Who are to be understood by Gog and Magog 6. Whether the Martyrs with Christ shall reign here on Earth All which Questions I will bring into this one Whether there shall be any happinesse of the Church here upon earth before the last day and of what kinde it shall be This question I will handle somewhat more largely both by way of confutation and confirmation I will in the first place therefore by certain Classes or ranks of Arguments confirm the truth to be maintained herein After that I will confute the Objections of the adversary part I. The Confirmation of the Truth THere shall be three Classes or ranks of Arguments for the maintaining of this Truth which we comprehend in the following Thesis or Position The happy estate of the Church in this life shall consist of the Resurrection of the Martyrs and their kingdom here on earth of the freedome of the Church from the persecution of the enemies of the Gospel by an utter overthrow of them of a lasting peace which shall arise from thence of the encrease of the Church or the multitude of the believers by the conversion of the Iews and Nations not yet converted of the Reformation of Doctrine or a greater enlightment and life among all estates of men of the Majesty also and great glory of the Church and lastly of the sincere joy thereof Now this happinesse shall begin in that very year wherein it shall come to passe That the kingdom of that great Antichrist shall be destroyed and it shall last for a thousand years The truth hereof we will make good 1. Out of the Context and Coherence of this Chapter 2. Out of other sayings of the Scripture 3. Lastly by Arguments taken from reason and the consent and agreement of some holy and learned men The first Classis of Arguments From the Context of the Chapter we draw these Arguments THe first Argument is taken from the connexion of this Vision with the former which is described chap. 19. verse 19 20 21. For Iohn saith in the first verse of this Chapter And I saw that is Afterwards to wit After I had seen the Beast and the false Prophet cast into the Lake of fire Now lest any one should think that this casting of them in shall be in the end of the world Iohn doth presently adde and the rest were slain with the sword of him that sate on the horse and all the fowls were filled with their flesh From which words it is manifest That it is spoken here concerning the destruction of Antichrist and his followers which shall not happen in the last and Universall Judgement but shall be a particular Judgement by it self which is thus demonstrated The coming of Christ to the last Judgement shall at length happen after the Warre of Gog and Magog which is a distinct War from that which is described chap. 19. ver. 19. For the Warre of Gog shall be against the Saints having now enjoyed a long-lasting Peace But the Warre of Antichrist shall be against the Saints being now brought almost to nothing by some great persecution Again in this 20●h Chap. vers. 10. it is said That the Devill should be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone after the Warre of Gog where the Beast and the false prophet * WAS which words have a plain respect to those chap. 19. ver. 20. These both the Beast and the false prophet were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with Brimstone The second Argument is from the Connexion of this Vision with the following which is set down in the 21 Chapter For saith Iohn in the first verse thereof After that I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth that is The thousand yeers being finished the Warre of Gog and Magog being ended and the execution of the last Judgement of which in the

his aust●rity of life his suffering for the Truth and his preparing a way to reformation but how the Baptist restored all things he tells them not neither can those words as I conceive bee prop●rly u●derstood of him nor yet those of the Prophet Malachy that Elias the Prophet fo● the turning of the hearts of men each to other and all to God shal be sent before the comming of the great and dreadfull day of the Lord where by the day of the first comming of our Lord in the flesh cannot well be mea●t in as much as that was rath●r good and gracious then great and dreadfull It should seeme then that either Elias himself or some other great Heroical spui● matchable to him ●s yet to bee sent for the accomplishing of this gr●at businesse in the restoring of all things I am sure Alstedius a famous professour a●Herborne is of that opinion c. ut supra Thus Doctor Hakewill providentīae divinae ex●urius {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Doctor Twisse in his Preface to Mr. Medes Book intituled The Apostasie of the latter times THe beginning of my acquaintance with Master Mede was occasioned by a rumour spread of his opinion concerning the glorious kingdome of Christ here on earth which many hundred yeares agoe was cried downe as the errour of the Millenaries and i● seemed wondrous strange to us that such an opinion should after so many hundred yeares bee revived and that in so strange a manner as now we finde both amongst us and amongst out-landish Divines Neverthelesse my selfe being firmely set upon studies of another nature I had no great edge so much as to hearken to it much lesse to take it into consideration But a friend in the country sometimes urged mee to write to an acquaintance in London and to enquire of Master Mede whether he were of the same opinion with Piscator and Alstedius concerning the first resurrection and the glorious kingdome of Christ And hereupon shortly after word was sent me that hee did agree with Piscator in this that some shall rise a thousand yeares before others but he differed from him in this that Piscator thought this reigne o●Christ should bee in heaven but I said Master Mede agree rather with Alstedius and conceive that the thousand yeares reigne of Christ shall bee on earth yet herein he differed from Alstedius that whereas Alstedius was of opinion that the thousand yeares reigne of Christ should be after the day of judgement Master Medes opinion was that it should be in et durante die judicij in and during the day of judgement which day of judgement should continue a thousand yeares beginning with the ruine of Antichrist and ending with the destr●ction of Gog and Magog When I heard this my spirit was stirred up in mee to lay aside for a while my ordinarie studies and to take this into consideration and I prayed Master Mede to give me leave to propose my reasons against this opinion of his And the truth is the improbability of it seemed very pregnant unto naturall reason and divers arguments that way offered themselvs which seemed to be of very diff●cult if at all possible solution and over and above it seemed very contradictious to divers plaine passages of holy Scripture Mr. Mede very readily entertained the motion and prescribed me a time after which he should bee at leisure for me and in a letter after this in his familiar manner asked me saying when come your Quaerios I accepted his courteous answer and sent up unto him first and last twelve arguments against that opinion of his and at the first I sent him with an answer devised by my selfe to nine of them for so I had promised him namely that I would bethinke my wits of what possibly might bee said in the solution of them according to the straight●esse of my invention leaving it to him to approve or correct or adde as he thought good And whereas I could devise nothing at all in answer to my tenth argument he sent me a large answer thereunto in three sides of a sheet of paper whereby I well perceived that my best arguments had been known to him and examined before I devised them After this I came acquainted with ma●y discourses upon the same argument one printed at Hanow in Germani de die novissimo of the last day a few onely were printed two copies and no more were brought into England Master Med bought them both and sent me one of them to copy it out which we did After this no lesse then seven manu-scripts were sent me from one Divine treating of this and other mysteries Now here I cannot but confesse my corruption for I received them by way of a bribe and indeed I was to doe him a favour and I dealt plainely with him and told him I would not sell my favours Gratis I would be well payed for them And therefore whereas I heard hee had strange n●●ions upon the Revelation and touching the mysteries of the first resurrection and Christs Kingdome I looked to bee fee'd with the communication of them with promise to returne them safely after I had suck't the hony out of them though he had never a whit the lesse for that such is the nature of spirituall commodities The good man sent me word that such bribs should never make me rich but I returned answer that they could make me the more rich then the enjoying of all the treasures of Ae●hopia and the hill Amara to boote And here I found rich mines inde●d even a●l the mysteries belonging to Christs glorious Kingdome set downe a part by wayd question and a solemne resolution thereon with proofes adjoyned out of the holy Scripture Since t●at I have met with divers choice pieces of the same argument some prosecuting a few parts thereof onely and others more So farre Doctor Twisse S●mi Pelagianorum bujus seculi acenimus inpugn●tor Master Mede of Cambridge Commena tionum Apocalypticarum Part. II. pag. 276. et seqq IDadeo proximi post Apostolo● c. This opinion was so approved by the Christians in the age next to the Apostles that Iusti●e Martyr doth witnesse that not onely himselfe but the Christian of that time in all respects Orthodox did with a joynt and unanimous consent beleive it Which opinion notwithstanding of the fi●st Christians afterward deformed with some additions or as I conceive amisse understood posterity did after an age or two reject Yet so farre did the heate of this contention encrease which deservedly you may wonder at and grieve for before it could be composed that they who could ●ot otherwise get free from the power of the adverse opinion established by the Revelati●n would rather call in question the authority of that divine Prophecy confirmed by all the schollers of the Apostles and their next successours and openly and boldly slight it then yeeld to this opinion till at length happening upon some other likely