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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

and shall more clearly and fully after the full end of those abominable dayes as the Scripture declares The Lord having now in this last age of the world a great number of his elect to call and sanctifie his last fruits being now to be all gathered in for which cause also peace is to be in Christendome the most part of those fourty five years according to Ezek. 38. 8 11 12. and Dan. 12. 12. Even untill Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and with those foule spirits of Devils go forth unto the Kings of the Earth and of the whole world to deceive them and the nations of the foure quarters of the earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to battell whose number is as the sands of the Sea innumerable and shall compasse the Camp of the Saints about and the beloved Citie for a litle season untill fire shall down from God out of heaven and devoure them as it is written Ezek. 38. 3 4 5 6 7 8. Ezek. 39. 2. Rev 16. 4. Rev. 20. 7 8 9. And then in the time of this battell will be that great earth-quake spoken of Rev. 6. 12. Rev. 16. 18. that great sh●king in the Land of Israel foretold by Ezek. 38. 18 19 20. that of which it is said Yet once more will I shake not the earth onely but also heaven testified Heh. 12. 26. from the words of the prophet Hag. 2. 6 7. Then shall the Sunne be darkned and become black as Sackcloth of haire the Moon shall lose her light and also become as blood the Starres shall fall from heaven to the earth and the powers of heaven shall be shaken as it is written Esay 34. 4 5. Ioel 2. 30 31. Ioel 3. 14 15 16. Matth. 24. 29. Rev. 6. 12 13. 14. All which things being figuratively intended according to that in Rev. 8 12. and Rev. 12. 1. fulfilled long agoe So that by the Sunne we are to understand the Gospel of Christ and the l●ght thereof and by the Moon the earth and the i●habitants of it whose light of f●ith and 〈◊〉 depen● on the light of the Gospel as the light of the naturall Moone doth on the light of the Sunne and by the Starres those in the Church of God as are in place as st●rrs and lights to the world some of which b●●ng faithfull sh●ll ●e 〈◊〉 and fall to the earth for the witnesse of Christ and his truth l●ke unto that third p●r● of the starres in the primitive time whom the Dragon with his taile drew downe and cast to the earth Rev. 12. And others being unfaithfull like untimely Figges shall fall away from Christ and his Gospel to Mahumatisms and other heathenish Apostasie and wickednesse And by the powers of heauen th outward estate of the Church and all meanes of salvation to the world The number of Gods elect being accomplished the limited day of grace will be ended and there shall be time no longer no time nor place for any man more to turn unto God by repentance and reconciled unto him by faith in Christ He that is unjust let him be unjust still and he which is filthy let him be filt●y still and he that is righteous let him be righteous still and ●e that is holy let him be holy still This will be the case at this time as the Lord hath spoken Rev. 10. 7. Rev. 22. 11. Where he also saith And behold I come quickly c. vers. 12 13. The Armies of Gog will now spread themselves upon the breadth of the Land throughout the Lords mountains as it is said Ezek. 38. 8 9. And there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel and the troubles for the time will be great But the Lord God he having respect to his faithfull in defence of ●hem and for his own holy name glory sake will call for a Sword agai●st them throughout all his mountains every man● Sword shall be against his brother and the Lord will plead against them with pestilence and with blood and will rain upon Gog and upon all his Bands and the many people with him an over flowing rain and great hailstones fire and brimstone and they shall fall upon the mountaines of Israel and bee devoured as it is written Ezek. 38. 21 22. Ezek. 39. 3 4 5. Rev. 16. 24. Rev. 20. 4. So the moon will be turned into blood The Lord will now bathe his sword in heaven as he hath said Esay 34. 4 5 6. The land shall be soakt with blood and the dust thereof made fat with fatnesse Hee will call every feathered fowle and every beast of the field and say Assemble your selves and come gather your selves together on every side to my slaughter that I do sacrifice for you even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel that ye may eat flesh and drink blood Ye shall eat the flesh of the Mighty and drink the blood of the Princes of the earth of Rammes and of Lambs and of great goats of Bullocks all of them fathings of Bashan and ye shall eat fat till ye he full and drink blood till ye be drunken of my sacrisice which I have sacrificed for you Thus shall ye be filled at my table with Horses with Chariots with mighty men and with all men of war saith the Lord God Ezek. 39. ●0 18 19 20. according to Esay before mentioned who thereupon sayth For it is the day of the Lords vengeance and the yeare of recompence for the con●roversie of Sion Esay 34. 4 5 6. 7 8. As also chap. 63. 4. For the day of vengeance is in my heart and the yeare of my redeemed is come For as the Dragon or Romans compassing Ierusalem about was as Ch●ist fore-told his faithfull the very last and infallible signe of the desolation thereof so this of the Dragons compassing the Camp of the Saints and beloved City with his Armies of Gog and Magog and their destruction by fire from heaven will bee the last and most certain signe of the end of this world and of the coming of Chr●st in his Kingdome And therefore Ezekiel as well as Esay thereupon faith Behold it is come and it is done saith the Lord this is the day whereof I have spoken Ezek. 39. 8. And Rev. 16. upon the very same when the seventh Angell had powred out his viall into the aire there came a great voyce out of the Temple of heaven from the Throne saying It is done And Rev. 21. after the same destruction of Gog and Magog And he that sate upon the Throne said Behold I make all things new and he said unto me It is done I am Alpha and Omega c. verse 5 6. Let all sorts of Millinaries consider of these things and know that there is not so much as one hundred yeares time to come of this world before the end for any Kingdome Lordship or State soever And let them see their error and great mistake of the Scriptures