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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90621	Chiliasto-mastix. Or, The prophecies in the Old and Nevv Testament concerning the kingdome of our savior Iesus Christ. Vindicated from the misinterpretationes of the millenaries and specially of Mr. Maton in his book called Israels redemption, / by Alexander Petrie Minister of the Scots Kirk at Roterdame. The epistle shevves the ground and pedigree of the mistake. To shew the originale of an errour is a convincing of it.	Petrie, Alexander, 1594?-1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing P1878; Thomason E24_17; ESTC R7754	63,328	79

unles we understand the doughter of Sion spiritually And therfor this exposition not aggrieing with the text all that followes upon it hes no ground in this text 3. it is sayd v. 3 Then the remnant of his brethren shall returne unto the children of Israel here the children of Israel ar distinguished from his brethren and the brethren ar sayd to returne which is a plain interpretation that the prophet there speakes not of the Iewish monarchie bot that the gentiles shall adjoyne themselves unto the Church of God as they be called the brethren of Christ Heb. 2.11.12 Pag. 7. And this the next verse does confirme Which telleth us that at the tyme of this returne he that is the Judge of Israel before spoken of shall stand and feed or rule in the strenth of the Lord his God and they that is the Iewes shall abide for now that is at this coming of our Saviour he shal bee not as when he took our nature upon him of no forme nor comelinesse a man despised and rejected of men bot he shal be great unto the endes of the earth that is over all the world c. Ans 1. he is the ruler of Israel mentioned v. 2. and not the Iudge mentioned v. 1.2 They at not the Jewes bot rather the brethren of whose returne he spake in the wordes immediatly preceding 3 Nou signifyeth not the tyme of Christs second coming bot the time of the abiding or of the Christianes constant persevering in the faith and in this sense is our Saviour great over all the world seing all the gentiles prayse him and all people doe laude him as it is written Rom. 15.10.11 bot at his second coming men shall not built a throne to him bot he shall judge the quick and the dead 2 Tim. 4.1 Pag. ead Another prophecie much lyk unto this Amo. 9.8.9.10.11 Nou although this prophecie took effect on the ten tribes at their transportation yet who is able to mantain that it wes fulfilled on the other two for not the house of Ioseph nor the house of Iudah only bot the house of Iacob wholy is here spoken of and why els is the tabernacle of David afterwards exprest as a prime agent in the restauration if it wer not before included as a succeeding patient in the dispersion of Israel who then I say is able to mantaine that this prophecie wes fulfilled on Iudah and Beniamin untill their overthrow by the Romane emperout Vespasian ever since which time they also remain forsaken scattered and dispised captives yea who dares affirme it when God hes sayd that at their returne from this universal captivitie he will so plant 〈◊〉 in their land that they shall no more be pulled out of it which yet should not be true if it had been spoken of any deliverance before our Saviours coming to suffer Ans It is alyk ground for such a kingdome 1 how can it be denied that the house of Iudah wes destroyed when their kinges and people wer caried out of their land 2 how can the tabernacle of David be called a prime agent in the restauration it is sayd I will raise up the tabernacle of David and not The tabernacle of David shal raise up it is a patient and not an agent and none denyeth that it is included in the dispersion of Israel and therfor that part of the prophecie wes fulfilled even before the overthrow by the Romane Emperoure and so before that overthrowe wes it restored againe and afterwards also wer they scattered Bot that promise of restauration is not of the house of Judah bot of the people of Israel v. 14 and who these be we have a sufficient interpreter Act. 11.16 wher the Apostle James expones these wordes of the enlarging Christs kingdome by the calling of the gentiles which wes begun at that tyme by the preaching of the Apostle And Ro. Stephanus in his notes on this text of Amos sayth Almost all the Hebrewes doe consent that this is meant of the tyme of Messias and especially of the calling of the gentiles and by bodilie houses and benefites the prophet understandes spirituall and these who ar begotten unto this lively hope ar keeped most savely throgh faith unto salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 so that the gates of hell shal not prevail against them Mat. 16.18 Wheras it is asked Who dares affirme it Z●charias hes not spared to affirme it Luk. 1.68 saying Blissed be the Lord God of Israel for he hes visited and redeemed his people and hes raised up an horne of salvation in the house of David his servant as he spak by the mouth of his holy prophetes c. Dare any Millenarie contradict this testimonie And here for understanding this and such other prophecies I adde these undouted rules 1 The land of Canaan wes a type of the kingdom of Christ and so wes Ierusalem and Sion and because these wer types of this kingdome so glorious thinges wer spoken of them Ps 46.4.5 and 48.1.2 and 87.1.2.3.5 Which textes ar more savelye understood of Christs kingdome than of that earthly Ierusalem and Sion yea verie hardly can they be understood of them 2 As the priestes wer types of Christ in respect of his priestly office so wer the kinges of his kingly and therfor as the kinges wer anointed so Christ is called David Eze. 34.23 which is exponed Ioh. 10.11 and wes typifyed by Solomon Ps 45. And he is sayd to site on the throne of David and not of Nebuchadnezar or of any other because ●h●ir kingdomes wer cursed kingdomes and wer not established on richteousnesse and knowledge of the true God as Davids throne wes and for this cause when he is sayd to site on the throne of David it is not to be understood that he hade or shall have the same earthly throne of David bot that wh●ch wes typified so Mat. 2. he is called a Nazarite not that he did use their rites and customes for he drank wine and they did not bot because he wes typifyed by the Nazarite Samson for he slewe more by his death than by his lyf and wes severed from all sin and pollution 3 It is usual in the Scriptures to name the type and understand the thing signifyed by the type And therfor as it is sayd Heb. 8.2 Christ is a Minister of the sanctuarie and of the true Tabernacle that is of that which truely wes signified by the Tabernacle so he may be sayd the true David and his throne the true throne of David and his kingdom the true Jerusalem and the true Sion 4 As Christ is sayd to be the lambe of God slaine from the beginning of the world Revel 13.8 not only in the decrie of God bot by vertue and efficacie seing by vertue of his blood at that tyme to be shed wer Adam and Abel reconciled unto God and delivered from the power of Satan So Christs kingdome began then for in Christ Adam Abel and we ar one bodie and members