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A88952	Israel's redemption or the propheticall history of our Saviours kingdome on earth; that is, of the church Catholicke, and triumphant. With a discourse of Gog and Magog, or The battle of the great day of God almightie. / By Robert Maton minister and Mr of Arts, and sometimes commoner of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Maton, Robert, 1607-1653?	1642 (1642)	Wing M1294; Thomason E1148_1; ESTC R208573	106,177	152

Kingdomes round about being for the most part taken away by meanes whereof the Kings of the East that is the Christian Kings and professors of the truth whom God shall stirre up against her in these parts shall have a notable advantage to bring her to ruine And the ground of all this is that in the 17. chap. of the Rev. at the 16. vers where 't is said that the ten hornes which are ten Kings who were for a time to give their Kingdome unto the Beast with whom in one houre they received power as Kings shall hate the whore and make her desolate and naked and eate her flesh and burne her with fire But unlesse the abettors of this interpretation will deny that the seven vials do containe seven distinct plagues which are successively to begin at the powring out of their particular vials and not before and this were to contradict the Holy Ghost who hath left upon record seven severall descriptions of seven different plagues unlesse they will do this I say they can never prove the decay of the Popes revenues to be the meaning of the drying up of Euphrates For seeing that the abatement of the Antichristian profits must needs be an act of equall standing with the reformation of the Church under the Protestant Princes and that the beginning and continuance of that work is ascribed by the foresaid Expositors to all the former vials and surely if this be the time of the vials experience tels us that the reformation of religion pertaines to most of them I say seeing these things are so it necessarily followes that the drying up of Euphrates in this sense cannot possibly be the proper event of the sixt vial where onely it is mentioned but must be a thing common to al or most of the first six vials the consummation and perfection whereof is to be referred to the sixth vial and the beginning and augmentation to the rest Neither is it more likely that by the Kings of the East are meant the ten Kings which shall hate the whore and make her desolate for First at the destruction of that mighty army which is to be gathered against the Kings of the East the Kings that shall take part with the Beast and false Prophet shall be slaine as it is foretold in the 19. chap. of the Rev. at the 18. vers but when the ten Kings who are to hate the whore shall burne her with fire the Kings that shall then take part with her shall not perish in battell for 't is said that they shall bewai●e her and lament for her when they see the sm●ake of her burning Rev. 17. at the 9. and 10. verses which words also do further shew that this destruction of Rome cannot be that which is to concurre with the over throw of the great army at the effusion of the seventh viall because this is to be by fire but that by an earthquake exprest in the 16. chap. at the 19. vers and represented here in the 18. chap. at the 21. vers by an Angel casting a great milstone into the sea and saying Thus with violence shall that great City Babylon be throwne down and shall be found no more at all Againe at Romes destruction by fire the Kings of the earth shall bewaile Her because her glory is departed But at Romes downefall by an earthquake they shall bewaile themselves because the (l) Rev. 6.14 15 16 17. c. 16. v. 18 19 20 21. Luk. 23.30 Isa 2.19 20 21. great day of the Lambs wrath is come They shall then I say have no regard of the losse of worldly honour or possessions but shall even wish that they might enjoy the finall judgement of that great City that with it they might be found no more at all for what else is to be understood by their calling to the Mountaines to fall on them and to the Rockes to hide them Secondly seeing the ten Kings shall hate the whore and make her desolate and naked and eate her flesh and burne her with fire It followes First that this expedition is to be made by these kings against the false Prophet and not by him against them Secondly that this desolation shall be wrought by the ordinary power of men And Thirdly that it shall rather be a destruction of Rome and the Popes temporalties than of the Pope or Papacie it selfe But the expedition spoken of under the sixth vial is to be made by the Beast false Prophet against the Kings of the East not by these against them their perdition shal be personal final proceeding immediately from Christ himself For they shall be taken and cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone and the remmant shall be slaine Rev. 19. at the 20. and 21. ver And what is an utter perdition what an everlasting destruction if to be cast into hell be not and to whom is this (m) Joh. 5.27 power committed but to Christ onely Thirdly if the successe of the ten Kings against the false Prophet belongs to any vial it must be to the fift and not to the sixt to the fift I say which is to be powred out on the very seat of the Beast for what is the seat of the beast but the great City which in Saint Johns dayes (n) Rev. 17.3.18 raigned over the Kings of the earth and what is that great City but (o) Vers 5. Babylon the great the Mother of harlots and abominations of the earth and consequently the whore whom the ten Kings shall burne with fire Fourthly and lastly it is much to be doubted that the ten Kings shall help make up that great army which is to be gathered against the Kings of the East For First it being apparent that they cannot be Kings of the East how can they be excluded from being a part of the Kings of the earth and of the whole world for though there be not expresse mention of the ten Kings at the gathering together of the great Army yet there is expresse mention of perswading the assisting kings to battell by such a cursed and detestable course as would be altogether needlesse if they were to be such Kings with whom the authority and friendship of the Beast and false Prophet should be able to prevaile Secondly it is said that these ten Kings shall make warre with the Lambe and the Lambe shall overcome them for he is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings Rev. the 17. at the 14. ver and how can these words be referred to any other warre but that which is spoken of in the 19. chap. of the Rev. where it is foretold ver 14.16.19 that the Army of the Beast and false Prophet is to be overcome by our Saviour himselfe when he shall be revealed from heaven when he shall mightily and visibly manifest himselfe to be Lord of Lords and King of Kings in (p) Isa 66. v. 15 16. 2 Thes 1. v. 8.10

flaming fine taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ when he shall come to be glorifyed in his Saints and to be admired in all them that beleeve in that Day For seeing the beast to whom these Kings were to give their strength was to (q) Rev. 13 v. 12. exercise all the power of the first beast before him and that it was given to the first beast (r) ch 13. v. 7. to make warre with the Saints and to overcome them it necessarily followes that the warre which these Kings were to make while they should agree to give their Kingdomes unto the beast was likewise to be with the Saints whom they should overcome not with the Lamb who should overcome them Neither wil it suffice against the force of this argument to say that they who fight with the Saints doe fight with the Lamb that they who overcome the Saints by the Sword are yet over come by them through faith for the first beast did as much fight against the Lamb in this sense as these Kings was as much overcome by the Saints in this sense as they who yet is neither said to warre with the Lambe nor to be overcome by the Saints And sure I am it is recorded in the 7. chap. of Dan. that he beheld the presumptuous horne of the fourth beast exhibited to him in a dreame making warre with the Saints not the Lambe and prevailing against them Vntill the ancient of Dayes did sit and the time came that the Saints possessed the Kingdome And whether that horne be all one with the beast and false Prophet in the Rev. and so is to prolong his dominion his persecuting power in wearing out the Saints who were to be (s) Dan. 7. v. 25. given into his hand even untill the time of the (t) Rom. 8. v. 19.21 manifestation and glorious Liberty of the Sonnes of God spoken of by Saint Paul as a thing earnestly expected by the (v) cha 8. v. 19. Creature even the (w) ch 8. v. 22. whole creation let the (x) Dan. 7. v. 11. Apoc. 19. v. 20 21. Analogy of their destruction and the (y) Dan. 7. v. 11.18.22 26 27. Rev. 19. v. 11 12 c. expiration of the fourth beast the Roman Empire at the accomplishment thereof Let these things I say together with the interpretation of the vision made to (z) ch 7. v. 23 24 c. Daniel and the parallell observed by Master (a) Comment Ap●c par 2. p. 279 280. Meade betwixt the Thrones Judgement and Kingdome of the Saints revealed in both prophecies determine the matter Thirdly the state of the world at our Saviours appearing shall be as it was in the dayes of Noah both for security and profanenesse for When the Sonne of man commeth shall he finde faith on t●e Earth saith Christ Luke the 18. at the 8. ver which is a plaine proofe that there shall not be whole Kingdomes and armies of faithfull Christians but onely here and there (b) Luk. 17. v. 34 35 36 one Neither doth this saying contradict the * Ob. If there shall be at Christs comming such scarsenesse of faith it is not l●kely that there shall be such a multitude of beleeving Jewes conversion of the Jewes Sol. Pareus giveth this solution that although there shall be in the end of the world a multitude of beleeving Jewes yet their number shall be but small in respect of the unbeleeving Gentiles To this Solution this further may be added that the failing of faith which Christ prophesieth of must be specially he should have said onely understood of the Gentiles where Christ had beene preached and beleeved upon that even there where it was more likely that faith should have beene none shall be found for when the Jewes shall be called faith shall waxe very faint and cold among the Gentiles Willet in his sixfold Comment upon the Epist to the Rom. Chap. 11. Quest 27. p. 511. at that time because the word Earth is figuratively put for the people of the Earth and by The People of the Earth all the Nations besides the (c) Num. 23 v. 9. Jewes are in the Scriptures usually understood So in the 28. of Deut. at the 10. ver we read All the peop●e of the earth shall see that thou art called by the Name of the Lord and they shall be afraid of thee in the 1 of the Kings the 8. Chap. at the 43. ver That all the people of the earth may know thy Name to feare thee as doe thy people Israel In the 2 of Chron. the 32. chap. at the 19. ver They spake against the God of Jerusalem as against the Gods of the people of the earth And in the 1 of Kings the 10. Chap. at the 24. ver All the earth sought to Solomon to heare his wisedome which God had put in his heart And they brought every man his present Where the word Earth alone is equivalent with the people of the earth in all the former instances and therefore seeing it doth as well by it selfe as together with its adjunct signifie the Nations of the Gentiles onely why should it not be so taken in our Saviours speech yea it must needes be so taken for as he said when the Son of Man commeth shall he find faith on the earth So he said also that as well of the Jews only as to the Jews only Behold (d) Mat. 23 v. 37 38 39 your house is left unto you desolate verily I say unto you ye shall not see me untill (e) Mar. 14. v. 62. Psal 118 v. 21 22 ● ye ●o●● 3● 16 the time come when ye shall say Blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord Luke the 13. at the 35. ver And shall we thinke that our Saviour would have given such a testimony of the Jewes unlesse he had knowne that they should be a penitent and converted people a people endued with the (f) Zech. 12 v. 10. Spirit of grace and supplication when they saw him next doubtlesse he would not And therefore this gratulatory acclamation doth no lesse set forth unto us the comfortable estate of the Jewes at Christs appearing then the former saying doth the desperate estate of the Gentiles at that time For Blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord are the very same words which with so much (g) Luk. 19. v. 37.38 alacrity and cheerfulnesse of minde were chanted out before our Saviour by his Disciples and those that met (h) Ioh. 12. v. 12.13 him when he was riding to Jerusalem to shew the City a glimpse of his royalty and can they ever then become the language of those that shall flye from his presence to hide themselves in caves and dens of the earth nay seeing they are to be resumed againe by the same people at the

38. at the 17. verse Not onely one Ezekiel then but other Prophets also besides him have foretold the same thing which Ezekiel here speakes of Yet passing by all the rest I will onely joyne the Prophecie of Joel in his 3. chap. with this of Ezekiel and so compare them both with that which is written in the 16. and 19. chap. of the Rev. And if it shall appeare that (b) Eccles 4.12 Ezekiel Joel and John do all foreshew one and the same battell then surely it will be no hard matter to say to what time and so to what army Ezekiels Gog and Magog hath reference Now the reasons which move mee to beleeve the concurrence of the foresaid Prophesies in their argument and contents and so in the time of their accomplishment are these First because they all speake of a more generall confederacy and combination of the Kings of the world then hath hitherto beene knowne in any age by meanes whereof there shall bee such a mighty army as was never yet gathered together in any place since there began to be warre on the earth Ezek. Chap. 38. Vers 4 5 6.9.15 Joel Ch. 3. Vers 2.9.11.14 Revel Chap. 16. Vers 14. Chap. 19. Vers 19. Secondly because they all say that the returning of the Jewes into their owne Land shall be the occasion of this warre-like assembly Ezekiel Chap. 38. Vers 8.16 Joel Chap. 3. Vers 1.2 Rev. 16.12 Thirdly because they all declare that the destruction of this great army shall be in the land of Judea Ezek. Chap. 39. Vers 4 5 11 12 15 17. Joel chap. 3. v. 2 12. Rev. chap. 16. vers 16. Fourthly because they all discover the same extraordinary effects which are to happen at the very instant of the armies overthrow Ezek. 38.19 20 22. Joel 3.15 16. Rev. 16.18 19 20 21. Fifthly because they all foreshew that as soone as this judgment is past over there shal ●nsue a most peaceable prosperous and pious estate to the Jewes in their owne land Ezek. chap. 39. vers 21 22 29. chap. 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48. Joel chap. 3. vers 17 18 20 21. Rev. 20.2 3 4 6. And sixthly seeing these Prophets go thus farre hand in hand it will not be altogether impertinent to mind you in the last place of two things more One is that the metaphor of the sickle and the winepresse is us'd in the description of no other overthrow but of this Isa chap. 63. v. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Joel ch 3. ver 13. Rev. 14. ver 10 19 20. ch 19. v. 15. The other is that though the bodies both of the Jewes and Gentiles yea of the good and bad have beene often left as meat for the fowles of heaven yet the fowles are no way summond to eate the flesh of men by way of proclamation which is a generall one too and so argues the visitation to be the greater but onely at the execution of this judgement Ezek. chap. 39. vers 17 18 19 20. Rev. chap. 19. vers 17 18. Now all that will be stucke at in this parallell is the obscurity on S. Johns part the explication whereof that the foresaid reasons might be all briefly and roundly delivered without any interruption I have reserv'd for this place And here the first Querie will have us shew Quest 1 By what warrant the Kings of the East can be taken for the Jewes as the second parallell imports they must be Answ TO which I answer that they may be so taken even by the warrant of God himselfe for in the 15. v. of the 11. c. of Isa the selfe-same miracle which Saint Iohn speakes of at the effusion of this sixt vial to wit the drying up of Euphrates is plainly foretold and that as a thing to be effected meerly for the Jewes sakes at their generall redemption which is there promised (c) vers 11 12 13. the words are these And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian Sea and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the (d) 2 Sam. 10.16 Ezra 4.17 20. ch 7. v. 21 25. Gen. 15.18 Deut. 1.7 ch 11. v. 24. Isa 7.20 River and smite it in the seven streames and make men goe over dry shod And there shall be an high way for the Remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria c. Therefore saith (e) Comment Apoc. part 2. p. 272. Mr Mead Euphrates is here understood who also referres his Reader to the like Prophesie in the 10. of Zech. at the 10. and 11. vers and to the Caldee Paraphrase upon it Having then so good a testimony as this unaccomplisht prophesie of Isaia is to justifie both the literall sense of Euphrates and the former opinion of the Kings of the East Object I marvell the more that so many learned Interpreters should so easily reject it unlesse which could not well be they had supported their owne allegoricall exposition by a clearer and stronger evidence It were strange saith (f) Dr Major pa. 475. of his exposit of the doubtfull texts of the catholike one that such a poore runnagate people as the Jewes should have the title of Kings of the East where they are the basest and of the least account Answ But surely not so strange as to heare such words from a grave Divine For from whence doth promotion come By whom do Kings reigne whose manner is it to call those things which be not as though they were What is he that pulleth downe one setteth up another And who hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and the (g) Deut. 7.6 7 8 17.18.19 Ps 105.11 12 13. Ps 113.7 Deut. 32.36 Isai 41.2 weake things of this world to confound the strong and base things and things which are despised yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are If God doth all this then well may the Jewes how meane soever now be called Kings in reference to that Day in which they shall be such in which they shall reigne as Kings over other nations and of the East too in reference to the place from which they shall first and in greatest number and strength returne For such Kings of the East as shall at that time be governours over those countries are necessarily comprehended amongst the Kings of the earth Rev. 16. and of the whole world mention'd in the 14. vers as associates and partakers with the Dragon Beast and false Prophet And therefore I conclude againe that this title may with farre more reason be attributed to the Jewes whose generall conversion even the foresaid (h) p. 510. of his Exp. on the cath epist Author doth confesse than to any of the Easterne Kings themselves and yet much rather to these than to the Christian Kings of the West whom most favourers of the mysticall exposition of Euphrates would have here to be understood For although in this

revealing of the same person let us rather say that as at Christs first comming they were proclaimed before him by most Jewes that were present to shew that he was their promised King so at his next appearing they shall be proclaimed before him by all that are present to shew that he is come into his promised (i) Mark 11 v. 10. Luk. 19. v. 11 15. ch 23. v. 42. 2 Tim. 4. v. 1 Kingdome Quest 2 A second Querie bids us looke How it can be proved that by Armageddon in the third Parallel some place in Judea is implyed Answ In Answer whereunto I alledge FIrst that for ought I perceive the copious resolution of the former doubt doth immoveably fasten the interpretation of the Kings of the East upon the Jewes onely And if this may passe for a currant truth I see not what argument can be brought which may induce us to mistrust that the place in which the Armies of the Kings of the earth and of the whole world shall meet and sit downe against them should be in any other Country but that whither the Jewes are to returne And whither both Ezekiel and Joel doe plainely shew that all the opposite Kings shall at once come up to battell Secondly I say that seeing the Holy Ghost hath here made choyce to name the place of these Kings randevouz by an Hebrew word rather then by a word of any other tongue therefore it is very probable that hereby is understood a part of that Countrey which whatsoever we account of it is the proper (k) Gen 48. v. 21. Levit. 26. v. 32 33 34 35. Ezek. 20. v. 42. ch 28. v. 25. ch 34. v. 13. ch 36. v. 12. ch 37. v. 12. Ioel. 3. v. 2. inheritance of that people whose language the Hebrew is Of whom some few doe yet all have and shall (l) Zeph. 3. v. 9. againe make use of it Thirdly and lastly I answer that in the latter part of the 19. Chap. of the Rev. it is manifestly foretold that the great Army which is to be gathered into Armageddon shall be destroyed by our Saviour himselfe at his comming now as it is altogether unlikely that our Saviour shall descend to any other Country or people but to that in which and of which he was borne and in which and amongst which he lived and dyed So in the 4. and 5. ver of the 14. Chap. of Zechariah it is not obscurely revealed that he shall descend to that very Mount from which he did (m) Act. 1. v. 12. ascend and from which he (n) Luk 19. v. 35 37. rode to Jerusalem when they proclaimed him King And consequently Armageddon is to be a place not onely in Jury but also neere unto Jerusalem Object And yet although the foresaid prophecies of Saint John and Zechar. doe expressely shew the comming of our Saviour to be at the time of a ba●tell and though the treading of the winepresse in the 14. Chap. of the Rev. doth plainely intimate as much (o) Rev 19. v. 15. Isa 63 v. 1 2 3 c And that no lesse perhaps is aymed at in the 1 to the Thess and the fourth Chapter where it is said That the Lord himselfe shall descend from Heaven with a (p) Exod. 32. v. 17. ● Sam. 17. v. 20.52 2 Chro. 13. v 15. Iob 39. v. 25. Shout c. the usuall token of armies entring into battell Notwithstanding all this evidence I say we are told (q) Doctor Maior on the cath ep p. 515. That when the great Day of the Lords descend shall come there is to be a generall security (r) Mat. 24. v. 38. c. Luk. 17. v. 26 c. Answ Eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage And not warring and fighting For if an end of these warres should be made by the Lords comming how should the faithfull have time here to rejoyce and to give thankes unto God for their greatest enemies overthrow But unto the Scripture proofe I answer That if the naturall and in some sort necessary actions of marrying and giving in marriage and of eating and drinking or of festivall eating and drinking which also is in it selfe commendable if the accustomed continuance and observation of such actions shall be a sufficient witnesse to convince the world of its unmindfulnesse and unbeliefe of our Saviours approach when as there shall be very considerable tokens and perhaps too Sicut in diebus Noah a downe right (s) 1 Pet. 3. v. 19 20. 2 Pet. 2. v. 5 warning thereof then much more shall the inhumane enterprises and mercilesse events of warring and fighting declare such a security Secondly I say that though our Saviour did instance onely in eating and drinking in marrying and giving in marriage yet it followes not from hence that there shall be no warring and fighting then For wofull experience teacheth us that all these foresaid actions are not onely at this day in the world together but in many particular Kingdomes thereof Neither hath such a generall peace been often heard of in which no Nations of the world have beene at oddes And thirdly I say that we are to consider what warre is to be at our Saviours appearing not a warre in which the enemies of the Lord shall fight one against another not a warre in which particular States and Kingdomes shall upon divers occasions bid defiance to each other but a warre in which the (t) Rev. 16. v. 13.14 Psal 118. v. 10 11 12. Isa 59. v. 16 17 c. ch 63 v 4.5.6 Mic. 4. v. 12 13. Dragon Beast and false Prophet the Kings of the earth and of the whole world shall be all confederate against the Jewes onely And as such a confederacy shall be a meanes of multiplying marriages and consequently of the more liberall and immoderate eating and drinking So such an unequall warre shall breed the stronger hopes in these Princes of obtaining their designes and consequently the greater security But when they shall say (u) 2 Thess 5. v. 3 Peace and safety when they shall say (w) Psa 83 v. 4. Come and let us cut them off from being a Nation that the Name of Israel may be no more had in remembrance then (x) Luk. 21. v. 35. sudden destruction shall come upon them as upon a woman in travaile and they shall not escape Then shall our (y) 2 Thes 1 v. 7.8 Lord Jesus be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels and in flaming fire take vengeance on them And their (z) Rev. 11 v. 15. Kingdomes shall become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ Next therefore to this Authours Querie I answer first that it is altogether contradictory to the foresaid Text of Scripture For if at our Saviours appearing men shall be found eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage out of a carnall security out of an opinion that That Day is either (a) 2 Pet. 3. v. 3.4