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The day-dawning and the day-star arising to the dispersed of Judah & Israel wherein is briefly handled their call and Christs second coming, whose day is neer at hand / by Tho. Collier.
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Collier, Thomas.
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THE Day-Dawning And the DAY-STAR Arising to the Dispersed of JUDAH ISRAEL Wherein is briefly handled Their CALL AND CHRISTS Second coming whose day is neer at hand By THO. COLLIER LONDON Printed by H. Hills for T. Brewster at the three Bibles neer the West end of Pauls 1655. 〈…〉 It may seem strange that I at such a distance from you and not of your nation should trouble my self so much about your estate being a people now despicable in the worlds eyes scattered and dispersed among the nations and upon a rational account unlikely to be a people beloved for the Fathers sake and that shall be honoured of God when the nations shall fall before you and confess you a people sought out and saved and not forsaken but I have had several prevailing arguments in mine own heart which have occasioned me to present you with this Epistle and I intreat and beseech you for the Lords sake and for the love of the truth that you do read this Epistle and ponder it well in your hearts desiring the God of Grace to give you an understanding in the truth herein presented to you for with much bowels of tenderness and love have I written to you the reasons moving me thereunto are these 1. That cleer discovery God hath given me by his Spirit from the Word of truth of his intention to do you good and that although you have been a long time rejected and scattered for your own sake yet you are beloved and shall be gathered for the Fathers sake Secondly being thus instructed in the truth of your calling it lay much as a duty upon my heart and I am confident from the Lord to write unto you that I might perform my duty to you in my generation leaving the blessing to the Lord. Thirdly Likewise being assured that the time of your gathering is at hand Fourthly knowing likewise that your fullness will be the time of the deliverance of all believing Gentiles now dispersed and trampled under foot for their Lords sake for he was given to be a light to the Gentiles and the glory of his people Israel Fifthly and last I finde it to be the desire of Manasseh Ben Israel in his book titled The hope of Israel in his Epistle to the Reader That if any to whom his book came had any thing worthy of posterity that they would give him notice of it I have not here presented you with any thing of History or outward learning but have indeavored according to the grace received in the plain evidence and demonstration of the Spirit and power of truth to present you with such things as may through the blessing of God tend to your eternal good The first principle of truth I have to present you with is that the true and promised Messiah was according to the counsel of God to suffer death for the redemption of sinners and this I shall clear unto you by convincing grounds from the Scriptures Moses and the Prophets whom you know and own and my earnest desire for you at the throne of grace is that the God of grace may give you an understanding in the knowledge of this truth This I shall confirm unto you from three grounds 1. Promises 2. Types 3. Prophesies First Is that Promise of grace Gen. 3. 15. I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and hers it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel This promise hath a special relation to the Messiah and clearly presents us with his suffering that by his death he should break the Serpents head viz. the head of Satan though he himself were bruised though he suffered in the flesh yet he should overcome in suffering I do not deny but that this hath been and is accomplished in all that truely know the Lord Satan sin and evil men oppose but the seed of the woman hath and will bruise the head of all in and for his people though he himself was appointed to be bruised by the Serpents seed to this agreeth Isa 53. 5. He was bruised for our iniquitiès c. Secondly see it clearly and fully presented in types and shaddows first the Paschal Lambe or Passeover mentioned Exod. 12. was a lively representation of the crucifying of the Lamb of God the Messiah who was to come and by his blood to make attonement and peace for sinners that as the children of Israel were then made partakers of a deliverance out of Egypt by that means the killing of a Lamb eating the flesh and sprinkling the door-post with the blood c. so must the Messiah give his life and blood for the redemption of his people out of spiritual Egypt darkness oppression both of Jews and Gentiles 2. All the sacrifices offerings by the Priests commanded in the law of Moses were clear types and representations of the sufferings of the Messiah the offering of Lambs Rams Bullocks c. to be sin-offerings burnt-offerings and peace-offerings c. all presentations of Christ the Messiah in English the anointed who was to be the alone peace and sin-offering for his people the Priest was to offer sacrifice for sin as is exprest at large Levit. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 9 Chapters and Chap. 16. 34. they were to make an attonement once a yeer both for themselves and the people All these offerings could not do away sin but as it had a relation to the true offering he that was to offer himself once for all that he might by one offering for ever perfect them that were by him sanctified this truth you shall see when the Lord taketh away the veil that is spread over your faces that clearly under all these offerings is represented the offering up of the true Messiah once for all c. 3. This truth is likewise clearly prophesied that he that runs may read There is scarce any prophet of God but did foresee and foretell of this truth the sufferings of the Messiah Moses the servant of the Lord and great prophet and type of the anointed as you may see Dcut. 18. 15. he by the inspiration of the Lord presents him much as hath been minded In his suffering estate the prophet David likewise in Psal 22. presents him a sufferer particularly in vers 16. They peirced my hands and my feet a clear prophesie of the Messiah I beseech you weigh it in your hearts David was never peirced in his hands and feet See likewise the prophet Isaiah chap. 53. throughout describing the Messiah that he was wounded and bruised rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with griefs and that God laid upon him the iniquity of us all And Zach. 12. 10. They shall look upon him whom they have peirced all which confirms the truth that the Messiah which you look for was to come forth first in his humiliation in contempt in suffering c. SECT II. THe second principle of truth that I have to
present unto you is That that Jesus which was crucified by your forefathers at Jerusalem without the gate was and is the true Messiah and this is that principle of truth you have to this day rejected and my earnest desire is that you would read these lines with patience and weigh well the truth herein presented with much tenderness and love unto you and in this I shall present you with many new Testament-Scriptures useful being compared with the old be willing to read and compare them together before you judge And Oh that you would be moâ—e in searching after the knowledge of the truth of Gods grace held forth in the new Testament and if the Lord work upon your hearts I should commend principally unto you the Epistle to the Hebrews which especially concerns you and may through the blessing of the Lord be of much use unto you I desire to mind you of one thing by the way before I come to the confirmation of the truth asserted viz. that the true and promised Messiah was according to the Scripture to have his day and time of humiliation as hath been already proved and then his glory Isa 9. 6. first a childe a son and then a King and the government must be upon his shoulders c. Chap. 53. throughout till the last ver he is presented in his suffering estate and in the last vers in his reign Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoile with the strong To this agrees that of Christ Luk. 24. 25 26. Oh fools and slow of heart to believe that which the prophets have written ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory 1 Pet. 1. 10 11 12. the suffering part as in relation to himself in his own person he hath passed through and is entered into glory Act. 1. 9 1â— Though while the Church is under suffering yet as he is considered one with his Church the time of his humiliation is not over till all the members are glorified with him Now that this is the true Messiah that suffered at Jerusalem will appear if you consider 1. That in him was fulfilled all the legall types that did represent him in his sufferings he it was that is the true Pascal Lamb or rather the Lamb represented in the Passeover Exod. 12. The Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world Joh. 1. 29. 36. the true passeover that was sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5. 7. that whosoever believeth in him all their iniquities shall be passed over John 3 16. And he was the substance of all those sacrifices and offerings in the law of Moses those sin-offerings burnt offerings heave-offerings and wave-offerings they all lead to him were fulfilled in him those sacrifices served to the purifying of the flesh suitable to the covenant that then you wer under but they never purified the conscience from dead works to serve the living God in spirit and in truth no otherwise then as it had relation to Christ the true sacrifice Christ being become an high Priest of good things to come Heb. 9. 13 14. For if the blood of Bulls and Goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God Purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God As the high Priest then entered once a yeer into the most holy place offering sacrifice for himself and the people Exod. 30. 10. Levit. 16 2. with Heb. 9 7. So is Jesus Christ become a high Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building neither by the blood of Goats and Calves but by his own blood he entered once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption Heb. 9. 11 12. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands which are figures of the true but into heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us c. Heb. 9. 24 25 26. so that what was figured out in the sacrifices priesthood temple and tabernacle Christ is the substance of all fully and compleatly answers them and fulfills them and ends them all so that he is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes Rom. 10. 4. By all which it appears that he is the true and promised Messiah because that in him is fully answered all the figures and shadows of the old Testament It will farther appear that this is the true Messiah if you consider how fully in him is answered all the prophesies and promises of him in the old Testament in relation to his humiliation and in him shall be fulfilled all the promises of his glory but every thing in its order that God hath set it 1. For his humiliation see what the Prophet David personating Christ as it might be very well for sometimes Christ is called David Ezek. 39. 24 25. and the promise made with David and his seed hath a speciall relation to Christ Psal 89. from the 19. to the 39. vers see Psal 22. the prophet personating Christ in his sufferings you may clearly see Christ answering those things or all those things fully answered in him in way of complaint ver 6. I a worm and no man this was the condition of Christ vers 7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn so it was fulfilled in Jesus Mat 27. 29 30 31. and when they had plated a crown of thornes in reproach they put it on his head and a reed in his right hand and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him and said Haile King of the Jews c. Again Psal 22. 8. he trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him See this made good Mat. 27. 43. when he was upon the Cross in the height of his sufferings for the sins of others then his enemies tauntingly fulfilled the Scripture and said He trusted in God let him deliver him now if he will have him c. So again Psal 22. 16. For dogs have compassed me the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me they have peirced my hands and my feet and this was fulfilled in him as is clearly imployed in John 20. 24 25. and Thomas one of the Twelve said c. Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails c. I will not believe Again Psal 22. 17. they part my garments among them and cast lots upon or for my vesture and this was fulfilled in Christ See Mat. 27. 35. Joh. 19. 23 24. Again in Isaiah Chap 7. 14. the Lord by the prophet Ahaz refusing to ask a signe gives him a signe Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call his name Emmanuel this