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A86099	The rise, growth, and fall of Antichrist together with the reign of Christ. by Edw. Haughton minister.	Haughton, Edward, 17th cent.	1652 (1652)	Wing H1151; Thomason E1286_1; ESTC R9637	101,184	219

as to the end of the World an eternal excellency i. e. an excellency while the World stands according to Dans. 2.44 In the dayes of these Kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to other people but shall stand for ever Dan 7.14 His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed But you le say how can this be reconciled with that Rev. 20.7 8 9. When the thousand shall be expired Satan shall be loosed out of prison and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to battell the number of whom is as the sand of the Sea And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the Saints about and the beloved City hoping to make an end of them at once that the world might be troubled with them no more Where is the glorious Kingdom of Christ at this time shall it not be even broken and lost I answer 1. 'T is nowhere said Christs Reign in the height of its excellencie and utmost amplitude or extent of it should be everlasting we do not anywhere read that 2. A people Christ will have all the Saints will be his and be they never so few he may truly be said to rule in and over the kingdome of the Saints Earthly and worldly kingdoms may but none of the Spiritual kingdome made up of Saints ever was or ever will be taken from him 3. Thought the Devil turned loose deceive the nations in the four quarters of the earth yet I do believe Christ will hold his own in the nation of the Jewes Isa 60.20 21 Thy sun shall no more go down neither shall thy moon withdraw herself for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light and the dayes of thy mourning shall be ended Thy people shall be all righteous generally righteous they shall inherit the land for ever Isa 59.20 21. The Redeemer shall come to Sion and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob saith the Lord as for me this is my covenant with them my Spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of them mouth of thy seeds seed saith the Lord from henceforth even for ever To convince you that this place is properly alleaged for this purpose see Rom. 11. where all confesse the Apostle purposely sets himselfe to treat concerning the calling of the Jews v. 25. sayes he Blindnesse in part is happened to Israel untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in and so all Israel shall be saved as it is written Isa 59.20 There shall come out of Sion the Diliverer and shall turn away ungodlinesse from Jacob. And sayes God when I shall make this good unto them I will bind my self to them by covenant that my Spirit which I shall put upon them my word which I shall put into their hearts and mouth shall not depart from them nor from their seed nor from their seeds seed while the world stands I say surely the people of the Jewes when once they are brought in to Christ again they 'l not forsake him any more for ever which will be enough to make Christ a visible kingdome upon earth And when all the powers and policies of the world are united in this designed of compassing and so destroying the holy City Christ will not suffer his Scepter to be wrested out of his hand nor the visibility of his kingdome and dominion to faile and therefore fire comes down from God out of heaven and destroys them Rev. 20.9 whereupon the glory of this Church and Kingdome will revive and flourish again and thus his dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not passe away and his Kingdome that which shall not be destroyed When we speak of the great and glorious Rule and Kingdome of Christ over the generality of nations peoples and languages as here we do of this we say only it shall last a long time it shall continue a thousand years it shall be the joy of many generations You see the Point I doubt not to say it is a sure and impregnable truth viz. Vpon the breaking to peeces of the Church to Rome the Lord Christ will reign and King it so so gloriously as he never did in the world before Vse 1. For application thus But little cause have all Gods people to let their hearts be sadded when they see the famous Governments and Grandeour of this World broken to peeces and laid in the dust Did they rightly understand their true interest it would no more trouble them then the pulling down of an old rotten smoaky cottage doth any man that a strong stately house may be set up for him in its room It God throw down the powers the greatnesse of the kingdoms of men it is that he may bring in the place thereof the power and greatnesse of the kingdom of his Son T is storied when the War began in Germany ann 1619. that a great Brasse-image of S. Peter that had Tu es Petrus super te adificabo ecclesiam meam engraven upon it standing in S. Peters Church at Rome a great and massie sone fell down upon it and so shattered it to peeces that not any word or syllable of that sentences was legible but only these Aedificabo Ecclesiam meam I will build may Church Certainly out of these Wars that are now on foot as I touched in the close of the last point out of the ruines and ashes that shall be made he will bring forth the most glorious Kingdom and frame of Government that ever the World saw Carnal Reason may say 't is pitty that such persons such families such constitutions should be shaken to pieces but I speak to those who profess to live by a principle above Carnal Reason above flesh and blood to you that profess your selves born of God Members of Christ Subjects of his Kingdom that profess 't is your everlasting joy to see the Crown set upon the head of Jesus Christ T is a hard Riddle to me that it should at all go to your hearts to see great but barren Mountains cast into the Sea that so the way may be made plain for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and for his Kingdom Vse 2. The second thus It were to be wished that every one would set themselves upon the stretch to hasten to bring on this Kingdom Set up that Kingdom in thy self which comes not with observation as our Saviour speaks that Kingdom which consists in righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 Let Christ his Truth and Worship rule in thee and over thee Lay down thy self thy name thy estate thy All at the

the corrupt lives of Christians into the great Apostacy or Antichristianism Then the Dragon gave the Pope his Seat his Keys his Power and great Authority and the Text says the bottomless pit was opened yea kept open for the smoak of that hellish furnace ascended daily and darkned the sun and aire and so continued to do above a thousand years T is strange to me that the Devil should be shut up and Hell open Therefore I am satisfied this Prophesie of binding Satan will be fulfilled after the great Battel of God almighty and not till then Christ hath shortened his Chain given him many a curb and check within this hundred years and will so yet more and more but bound shut up sealed up he will not be till after the Beast and false Prophet are taken and destroyed but then he will and shall deceive the Nations no more till the thousand years are past In your Iron Mills a fire there might be but were the bellows taken away certainly not so great so violent a burning by an hundred fold The Devils that continually day and night haunt wait upon us are the great bellows of mens lusts whereby such a world of flaming iniquity is amongst us but when Christ shall come and take away these bellows and lock them up the fire of mens corruptions must needs be exceedingly abated not only of men regenerate but also of men unregenerate I dare say were it not for the devil and his Angels we should not run into so many sins and exorbitancies in a year as now we do in a moneth Upon the destroying of Heathenism Satan was cast down to the Earth Rev. 12. but upon the pulling down of Pope and Popery he with all his Regiments shall be cast into hell a trap door let fall upon him sealed up and so shall not come forth to provoke men to impieties against God for a long time 2. The second cause of the exceeding great excellencie that shall be in the Subjects of this Kingdome is the abundance of Grace that will come down from heaven upon them The 72 Psalm is chiefly if not wholly spent upon this Kingdome of Christ v. 6. Ye read thus He shall come down like rain upon the mowen grasse as showers that water the earth Zach. 12.10 I have before sufficiently cleared it this and the following Chapter speak directly to the time and businesse I am upon I will poure upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication the grace of Faith they shall look upon me whom they have pierced the grace of Repentance they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his onely son and shall be in bitternesse for him Observe the expression 't is not I will sprinkle grace upon them but I will poure grace upon them the grace of faith the grace of repentance in which are comprehended all other graces God will then poure out his Spirit upon them abundantly Chap. 13.1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David viz the two Tribes and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem viz. the ten Tribes for sinne and for uncleannesse We have but small Rivulets they 'll have the Fountain of the blood of Christ opened flowing full stream upon them As I have said before if these two Prophesies were fulfilled in the dayes of primitive Christians much more will they be fulfilled in the great and glorious day of Christs kingdom Take one Text more Rev. 21 10 11. He shewed me that great City the holy Ierusalem descending out of heaven from God having the glory of God and her light was like unto a stone most precious even like a Iasper-stone cleare as Chrystal Which expressions resolved into their true and native sense must needs be this The abundance of precious and glorious graces God will will then send down out of heaven upon his people 3. The third and last cause may be made up thus The pains and vigilancy of Pastors over their Flocks which will be very great the Ordinances falling more immediatly then ever in the Power Majesty Authority of God upon their hearts the quick and smart acting of Discipline which then will be and that spirit of watchfulness that every man will have over himself and his neighbour also every Saint in that day will be not only his own but his brothers keeper and stirrer up to the thing that 's good Jer. 50.4 5. In those dayes and in that time saith the Lord the children of Israel shall come they and the children of Judah together going and weeping they shall go and seek the Lord their God saying Come let us joyn our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten But the least part of this Prophesie was fulfilled upon their return out of Babylon it chiefly points at a time when Israel and Iudah all the twelve Tribes shall come together to seek the Lord and when they shall joyn themselves to God in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten they renewed their Covenant upon their return out of Babylon but that hath been long since forgotten but when they shall be called again then their Covenant with God will be perpetual indeed from generation to generation and never be forgotten more but that which I aym at in this Scripture lies in these words Come let us their zeal will mightily provoke one another you have yet a more pregnant place for it Zich 8.20 21. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts it shall come to pass that there shall come people and the inhabitants of many Cities and the inhabitants of one City shall go to another saying let us go speedily to pray before the Lord and to seek the Lord of Hosts I will go also That it speaks how the pulse of Saints will beat one towards another upon the calling of the Jews the two last verses sufficiently clear it to any indifferent and intelligent Reader So then to give you briefly the summe of what I have said upon this branch of the Kingdom Satan the bellows that blew mens lusts into such flames shall be taken from amongst them whereby their natural corruptions shall lie very still in them Next God will send down Grace abundantly into their hearts and nature which will search out and exceedingly prevail against the lusts that are in men though they lie hid never so close Heb. 4.12 13. And lastly there will be Pastors Ordinances Discipline and keeping Centinel one over another by all which means their Gifts their Graces and goodness will be raised to a more abundant height then otherwise they would or could have been I tell you there will be gallant times for grace and holiness such as the world was never acquainted with before Eigthly his reign will be wonderful for the peace that shall accompany it when once the great Battle of God Almighty is fought and past Christ will then appear to the