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A79823	Theopolis, or the city of God new Jerusalem, in opposition to the city of the nations great Babylon; comprehending the blessing and benefit of Christs Kingdom, in the thousand years reign before his personal coming and appearing, after the total ruine of the beast, and his kingdom. In a coment upon the 10th. and 21st. chapters of the revelations. With an additional answer to these two material questions: 1. Whether the thousand years reign is not already past, as Brightman, and others affirm. 2. Whether the natural Jew is not most concerned in the latter day promises prophecies, especially in the pulling down Babylon, and building of Zion, as Maton, and others assert	Danvers, Henry, d. 1687.	1672 (1672)	Wing C4357; Wing D231; ESTC R229614	117,233	260

and having on the white Robes the pure fine Linnen which is interpreted to be the righteousness of the Saints in allusion to the linnen Ephod of old do stand at the Altar with much incense in the Golden Censer offering it with the Prayers of all Saints Rev. 8.34 and so serve him day and night in his Temple Rev. 7.15 And this to fulfil what Christ himself affirmed to the Woman of Samaria John 4.23 24. That the hour was coming and then was that the true Worshippers should worship the Father in Spirit and Truth and that he sought to worship him and that in opposition to their going up to this or the other Consecrated and Dedicated place of worship as Samaria or Jerusalem Holding out hereby the truth purity and spirituality of Gospel worship that by the Lords Ministry according to his own order and appointment shall now be performed that will make it like the figure of Heaven it self as before The quit contrary is true concerning Babylon for there is a Temple to be seen in her yea and such a Temple too that is afte● the old pattern which is as great a demonstration as any of her Apostate state and that she is old Ierusalem not new the Harlot and not the Bride for have you not there the Cathedral that is just built after the figure and pattern of the Temple with the Porch the Holy and most holy Place with solemn dedication and consecration to Divine worship with all the holy ground it stands upon and is surrounded with and richly adorned with gold and silver and precious stone having also its holy Water Oyl Incense and rich Perfumes Lamps Tapors Candelsticks and Instruments of Musick c. And is their not a Priesthood belonging thereto after the pattern of Aaron to serve at the Altar for have you not a Higst-priest the Pope and chief Priests the Cardinals Bishops Deans Abbots as well as an inferiour Priest-hood like the Levits consisting of several orders and ranks distinguished by their names and Vestments as Parsons Vicars Curates Cannons petty Cannons Bural Deans Choristers Musitians singing Nuns Monks and Fryers of diverse Orders Votaries unnumerable who serve at this Alter day and night and have their tenths first Fruits Oblations to support and maintain the same with their Jubiles new Moons Feasts Fasts and Saints days and a hundred Heathenish additions and inventions to make this their Temple compleat Babylonish and for none of which is their the least sylable in Christs Gospel concerning his new Testament Temple and service Fully demonstrating and fulfilling what the Apostle Paul foretold 2 Thess 2. Concerning this mystery of iniquity and man of sin that shall thus sit in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God who by his thus changing times and Laws Dan. 7.25 Esa 24.5 shall oppose and exalte himself above all that is called God and worshipped And who hereby is truely said Rev. 13.6 To open his mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven and to tread the Holy City under his feet Rev. 11.2 Of the Kings of the Earth that bring their glory to it And the Kings of the Earth do bring their glory and honour into it 21.24 AS it was in old Ierusalem the Type in Solomons day when it was said 2 Chron. 9 23.24 That all the Kings of the Earth sought his presence and brought every man his present Vessels of Silver and Vessels of Gold and Raiment Harness and Spices Horses Mules a rate year by year So must it be in the new Ierusalem there shall be a coming up of the Kings of the Earth with their glory and honour which are to be understood either such Kings or Rulers that are converted to the faith that being instructed become wise do kiss the son Serving the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Ps 2.11.12 Whilst others are broken to pieces in their opposition or of such that being holy and gracious are made Rulers and Governors for only such that are men of Truth and fear God are to be intrusted therewith And these Kings in the Text that come in to the City can be understood no other for we cannot suppose any wicked unconverted persons have their admission because it is said Rev. 21.27 That in no wise there shall enter into it any thing that defileth or that worketh Abomination or that maketh a lye or that are not written in the Lambs Book of Life And in such a sence that these following Scriptures be fulfilled viz. Beeause of thy Temple which is in Jerusalem shall Kings bring presents to thee the Kings of Tarshish and of the Isles shall bring presents to thee the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall Offer gifts yea all Kings shall fall down before him and all Nations shall serve him the Kings shall see and arise and Princes shall worship because of the Lord c. The Kings shall come to thy Light and Princes to the brightness of thy rising the Kings shall see thy Righteousness and all Kings thy Glory All the Kings of the Earth shall praise thee O Lord when they hear the words of thy mouth yea they shall sing in the ways of the Lord for great is the glory of the Lord Ps 68.29 Es 49.22 23. Ps 72.10 11 12. Isa 47.6 7.60.2 3 4 5.62.2 Psa 138.44 It is true Babylon indeed hath had the Kings of the Earth bringing glory and honour into her whereby she hath gloryfied her self at that monstrous rate saying therefore she shall sit as a Queen and see no sorrow the ten Kings having to fulfil Gods words given their Power Strength and Kingdom to her Rev. 17.4.17 ●ut what Kings are they not such Kings as are before mentioned but such as being made drunk with the Whores Cup commit leudness and fornication with her Rev. 18.9 But yet thus much for her comfort let her know that the day is hastning when the Nations that have supported her shall fall off from her and the ten Kingdoms that by their Power or Horns have born her up shall by their Horns also push her down yea they shall hate the Whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire when those other words of Prophecy shall be fulfilled The delicates that thy soul lusted after thou shalt find them no more at all and Babylon the glory of Kingdoms shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah Isa 13.19 20. And God will be avenged of thee and will not meet thee as a man Isa 47.1 When all that knew thee amongst the people shall be astonished at thee thou shalt be a terrour and never shalt thou be any more Eze 28.12 to 20. And when thou art spoyled what wilt thou do though thou cloathest thy self with Crimson though thou deckest thee with Ornaments of Gold though thou paintest thy face with painting in vain shalt thou make thy self fair

no That one and the same space of time is hereby intended is manifest as Pareus well observes Because in verse 2. and 6. the thousand years are without an Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But four times afterwards with an Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these thousand years emphatically As if he should say Satans imprisonment shall continue a thousand years and during these thousand years the Martyrs shall live and reign with Christ and afterwards he shall be loosed The parts to which this number is applied are so cemented together as Cause and Effect distinction and opposition that they very much strengthen and prove that just account of a thousand years viz. Satan is bound a thousand years that he should not deceive the Nations till the same thousand years be fulfilled Then the Saints lived and reigned a thousand years with Christ that same thousand years But the rest of the dead lived not again untill these thousand years were finished whilst the holy ones as their happiness made Priests of God and of Christ Reign with Christ a thousand years And as to the third when these thousand years begin and end we have this general account That it is the space of time that is bounded with two Wars that of the great Battle of God Almighty before it begins And that of the Battle of Gog and Magog after it is ended being a time of ease peace and rest as before A space of time that hath the Beasts destruction and judgment the Dragons overthrow binding and imprisonment going before and the dragons release and final doom and judgment going after A space of time containing the sounding of the seventh Rev. 11.15 Trumpet the new Jerusalem the Bride of the Lamb 21 ●● the new Heavens and the new Earth the Palme-bearing multitude out of all Nations Tribes People and Tongues Rev. 7.9 till the War and judgment of Gog personal coming of Christ dissolution of Heaven and Earth general Resurrection and judgment A space of time bounded with two Resurrections viz. the mistical or figurative Resurrection of the Church out of her death and slaughter called the first Resurrection and the Corporeal Resurrection at the lest day And with two deaths viz. that mistical death of the Rest of the Dead viz. the wicked that live not all the thousand years and the Eternal death which will be their doom after the thousand years with two Lifes the mistical of the Church in the thousand years and the Eternal Life and Glory to be their portion at Christs personal coming after the thousand years And with two judgments that of the Beast and False-prophet with their followers before and that of the Dragon and his followers with all the wicked after But when particularly as to precise time these thousand years shall begin is yet a secret the Lamb hath not discovered contained in the sealed Book all being as yet at a loss as to the certain Epocha of the Apocalyptick numbers either as to the forty two Months or 1260 days or years of the Beasts Reign or the Churches entring the Wilderness which God in his due time will discover Of the living of the Martyrs or first Resurrection And I saw the Souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and the Word of God and which had not worshiped the beast neither his Image neither had received his Mark upon their fore-heads or in their hands And they lived c. IN the interpretation of this mistry of the living of the Martyrs Writers and Commentators much differ some judging this to be a Corporeal Resurrection others and they not a few conceive it to be a spiritual Resurrection a renewing and reviving of Soul the effect of Christs Spirit upon the heart of Believers and faithful Witnesses and a leaving others to a state of sin and death But it is humbly conceived the mind of the Spirit here it is a mistical Resurrection or civil life they are said to live as most consonant to Truth sound Reason and the scope of the place They lived Living and dying in Scripture is variously taken sometimes litterally for the natural spirit or Eternal life and death sometimes figuratively for a civil or mistical life and death consisting either in a freedom from misery and di●●ress in this life the lying under which is called death Isa 52.2 Isa 26.19 Luke 2.34 2. Chron. 19.10 And freedom therefrom into a prosperous state Resurrection and Life Resurrection Isa 52.2 1 Sam. 2.7 8. Isa 26.14.19 Rom. 11.19 Life Job 21.7 Psal 38.19 Hosea 6.2 The not freedom therefrom an unraised state Psal 140.10 Isa 2● 14 43.17 Amos 8.14 This therefore holds out under these terms of living or first Resurrection-state the beginning of the Churches glorious happy and peaceable condition whereof all the Prophets speak after her long sorrow and suffering her Enemios being now conquered and brought under alluding to the Corporeal Resurrection for as the Saints cannot enter into Glory and triumph till the bodies be raised out of the Dust and revived and Resurrection power passes upon them No more shall the Church enter into its promised Rest foretold to be enjoyed by her in this life till this mistical Resurrection or reviving passeth upon her before which under the Beasts Dominion they are but as so many slain and dead men Rev. 11.7 8 9 10.6.9 They are so in a natural sense because they worship not the Beast Rev. 13.15 Dan. 3.6 Being killed all the day long Rom. 8.36 viz. in purpose and decree and by sentence of the Antichristian Laws multitudes also feel●ng actually the force of them under the bloody Beast and Scarlet coloured Whore much-more in a civil sense thrust down from the exercise of all power dignity and Soveraignty in the behalf of Christ either in Civils or Ecclesiasticks So was it with Israel in Babylon in these respects as persons put into their Graves Ezek. 37.12 as so many dead men But now is the time come their Mortal deadly Enemies being brought down by an high hand that they shall not only have all the bloody Laws and Decrees reverst and cancelled and so be freed from all danger or damage that may come to their persons But be revived to a civil life and put now into a capacity to come into the exercise of power dignity and Soveraignty both in Church and State for as is the Death so the Resurrection Therefore is it said that when Israel were to come out of Babylon and restored to former priviledges in their own Land the Lord opened their Graves caused Bone to come to its Bone Sinew to its Sinew put a Spirit of Life into them set them upon their feet to their becoming an exceeding great Army whereby they came again to the exercise of their former Jurisdictions in Rule and Government among themselves And so a parrallel place to this Rev. 11.11 The Church having passed the State of Death Slain Slaughtered Witnesses during the Beasts reign and

general name therefore in a figure to the Church of God both under the Law and under the Gospel And which famous City as considered under the Law passed a threefold state all very significant viz. 1. Her pure and primitive state in the days of Solomon 2. Her ruined desolate state in the time of the Babylonish Captivity 3. Her renewed restored state after the return of the Captivity All which were eminently Typical to the Gospel Church First Because her pure and primitive state in the days of Christ and his Apostles answered that of Solomon wherein a City state was asserted Eph. 2.19 Heb. 12.22 A greater then Solomon being there Math 12.42 Secondly Because her Apostate and ruined state in the time of Antichrist wherein her City state was defaced and ruined trode under foot Rev. 11.2 answered that of the Babylonish Captivity Thirdly Her renewed and restored state here foretold and Prophecyed of is to answer that eminent and glorious restoration in the Type wherein the glory of that latter House excelled according to Prophecy the glory of the former Hag. 2.9 Therefore called New Jerusalem because in all respects she is made so in this her Renovation and held forth in all this beauty and splendour not only to answer the Type and to fulfill the words of the Prophets that under the terms of an illusterious beautiful City foretells the Churches order peace purity pollicy gifts grace and flourishing state in the latter day but also that she might confront and utterly confound her Antithesis that great City Babylon that as the Lady and Mistress of Kingdoms a well favoured Harlot has by her counterfit glory inchanted and bewitched the Nations called Great Because as Jerusalem in the Type bore sway over the Nations and had her Inhabitants all the World over and as great Babylon extended her Territories as well as her rule and authority all the world over so must this great City Jerusalem extend ●● her rule authority and influence all the ver become the joy of the whole Earth to whom the Kings of the Nations must bow and bring presents even all their honour and glory Ps 72.8 9 10 11.15 Rev. 21.24 Called Holy 1. Because of that purity and holiness that through the powering out of the Holy Spirit upon her shall now abound in so much that upon the very Bells of the Horses and upon the Po●s in the Sanctuary shall then be Holiness Zach. 14.1 Held out by this golden state the City being all of pure transparent gold as well as the streets thereof of the same implying that the constitution thereof is not only so but the whole course of the conversation is the same also 2. Because of that exact keeping to holy rule and order in the faithful observation of the form of the House and the fashion thereof the Laws Statutes and Ordinances thereof the comings in thereof and the goings out thereof c. which being the law of the House upon the top of the Mountains the whole limit thereof shall be holy Ezek. 43.11 12. Rev. 22 14. 3. Because there is no unclean person or thing to enter or abide in it as Verse 8. and 27. Isa 35.8 9. Rev. 22.15 Zach 14.21 Joel 3.17 4. Because of the abiding of holy presence therein the Tabernacle of God being now with men who himself will dwell and walk with them 21.3 The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb is to be the Temple thereof and the Throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it 22.3 Babylon its true her opposite is represented to us as great and called the great City and reason good Because she is said to Reign over the Kings of the Earth Rev. 17.18 Yet is she not said to be holy but the quit contrary being the unclean filthy polluted and bloody City compared to Sodom and Egypt and apostate Jerusalem Rev. 11. Being the hold and receptacle not onely of every soul Spirit viz. Filthy locusts Rev. 9. Vnclean Frogs said to be the spirits of Devils Rev. 16.13 14. Z●im and Jim Esai 13.21 But the cage of every unclean and hateful Bird 18.2 viz. Owls and Satyrs and such like doleful Creatures Isa 13 21. Whose Inhabitants therefore we have set forth under eight Characters Rev. 21.8 viz. To be the fearful the unbelieving the abominable the Murderers the Whoremongers the Sorcerers the Idolaters and the Lyers Of the Cities descent from Heaven And descended out of Heaven from God THat the City or Church of God especially in this state did descend from Heaven may appear if we consider First That all her Members are Heaven-born viz. born of God born of the Spirit born from above John 3.7.1.13 begotten of his Will by the Word of Truth Jam. 1.18 and brought forth in Zion where it must be written that this and that man was born in her Psal 87.4 And therefore called Jerusalem from above the mother of us all Gal. 4.26 Secondly That all the Rules Orders Laws Governments are the Statute-Laws of Heaven her High-priest Proph●● and King coming from thence John 3.13.31 32 33. Heb. 1.1 Thirdly That her raising out of the dust her coming up out of the Grave the return of her Captivity the advancement to this pitch of Beauty and excellency is by the special ordering of Divine power and Providence from first to last and that in such an eminent and visible manner that as the Prophet saith It shall be seen known and understood that the hand of the Lord hath done it and the Holy one of Israel hath created it Fourthly That the Glory and special presence of the Lord hath descended from Heaven resting and remaining upon her The quite contrrry is true of that other opposite City Babylon who ascends with her Head and Governours from beneath even out of the Bottomless pit and therefore hath all her affairs transactions and concerns be managed by that wisdom which cometh from below which is Earthly Sensual Devilish Of the Glory of God upon her Having the Glory of God and her light was like unto a Stone most precious even like a Jasper Stone clear as Chrystal verse 11. THis is a further and fuller discovery that the Church is returned out of her Captivity because the Lord hath returned his Glory un●o her When she went into Captivity her Glory departed from her now she returns again she receives therewith her former Glory which begins upon the pouring out of the Vials Chap. 15.8 in allusion to Exod. 40.34 1 Kings 8.10 11. Thus it was in the type when Jerusalem went into Captivity under the King of Babylon it is said the Glory of God departed from them and went by degrees first out of the Temple to the Threshold of the house then off from the City then to the Mountain and so by degrees quite away Ezek. 10.4.18.11.22 23 c. But when their Captivity returned so did the Glory also and that in the same way it departed as Ezek. 40.1 2.3 4 5 6. In

and Glory and Blessing And then every Creature in Heaven and Earth is heard saying Blessing Honour Glory and Power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever To which the Church again Echoes by their representatives saying Amen and falling down and worshipping Him viz. the unity of the Godhead that liveth for ever and ever 6. You have also an evidence of this great truth out of the Mouths of the enemies themselves even Babylon that is to be destroyed Rev 6.15 16 17. And the Kings of the Earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief Captains and the mighty men and every Bond-man and every Free-man compare Rev. 19.18 said to the Mountains and Rocks fall upon us and hide us from the Face of the him that sits upon the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of wrath is come by way of unity and conjunction and who shall be able to stand 6. That as Christ God was King Lord and Law-giver of old unto his Church and People ruling and governing them upon that Throne in all things respecting both Ecclesiastical Civil and Military affairs So is he in all those respects upon his Throne here who after he hath as Lord of Lords and King of Kings judged the great Whore and subdued the Beast Rev. 19. And destroy them that have destroyed the Earth Rev. 11.18 Will then in a more visible way take to himself his great power and Reign Rev. 11.17 When that voice shall come out of the Throne praise our God all ye his Servants and ye that fear his name both small and great and when the Eccho shall be with a joynt consent with great acclamation Alleluja for the Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth let us be glad and rejoyce and give honour to him Rev. 19.5 6 7. And when gathering round about his Throne they shall fall down upon their faces and worship him ascribing Salvation Glory Blessing Wisdom Power and Might unto him Rev. 7.9 10 11 12 To the fulfilling such blessed Prophecies as these viz. Isai 33.22 The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King he shall save us c. Luke 1.32 33. And he shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David and he shall Reign over the House of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end Isai 9.6 And the Government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellour to the Mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace of the encrease his Government and Peace there shall be no end upon the Throne of David and upon his Kingdom to order it and to establish it from hence forth even for ever the Zeal of the Lord of Host shall perform this that as David of old Ruled the natural Seed so will our David govern all the Spiritual Seed And not only so but the Kingdoms of this World must become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall Reign for ever and ever Rev. 11.15 When the whole Universe will submit to his Scripture and as the desire of Nations that his Government be imbraced Hag. 2.7 And when all Creatures with universal consent shall ascribe Blessing Honour Glory and Power to him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever Rev. 5.13 When all Kings ●●all bow before him and all Nations shall serve him Ps 72. When at his name every knee shall bow and every Tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father Phil. 2.10 Secondly You have the other Throne on which the Lord was said to sit of old hinted at here also viz. that Throne on which the Judge or Elder of old sat wherein the Lord was said more ordinarily to sit and it was called the Throne of the Lord. And not improperly 1. Because the Lords Ordinance of Magistracy was managed thereon 2. Because the Lords Law was to be the rule thereof 3. Because the Judgement thereon given was said to be the Lords 4. Because the Lords Servants men of truth and such as feared his name were only to be intrusted therewith 5. Because the Lords special presence was intayled thereto concerning which you have a particular and brief account in that most excellent charge that good Jehoshaphat give his Judges 2 Chron. 19. respecting the Duty Dignity and Law of the Throne worthy to be written in letters of gold upon every Throne of Judicature Where he chargeth them after this manner viz. Take heed saith he what ye do for ye judge not for men but for the Lord who is with you in Judgement Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts and he charged them saying thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully and with a perfect heart and what cause soever shall come to you of your Brethren between blood and blood between Law and Commandment Statutes and Judgements ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the Lord and so wrath come upon you and upon your brethren this do and ye shall not trespass deal couragiously and the Lord shall be with the good And to which may be added that of the Apostle Rom. 13. Holding out the great end of the Thrones erecting viz. for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well And which Throne of Judgement is here also intended and included and on which the Lord will sit in this his day to the making his Crown to flourish For the Text saith when that Throne of the Lord and of the Lamb shall be in it that his Servants shall serve him viz his Saints and people shall be subservient to him in this great ministration of managing the Throne viz. they are especially to ascend the Thrones and Judgements as Rev. 20.4 And I saw Thrones and they sat upon them and Judgemene was given unto them c. And in 4.4 And round about the Throne were twenty four Seats or Thrones and upon the Seats I saw twenty four Elders sitting clothed in white Raiment and they had on their heads Crowns of Gold being as Rev. 5.10 Made by Christ Kings and Priest viz. Royal Priesthood l. p. 2. 9. To Reign with and for Christ and as his substitutes in his Name and fear to his praise by his Law through his Spirit with his presence are they to execute the judgement of Truth in continual subjection and subordination to him and therefore are said 4.10 to cast their Crowns at his Feet before his Throne ascribing the Honour Glory and Power to him Whereby that Sovereign Ordinance of Magistracy that was ordained for the blessing and benefit of