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B08800 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. Collier, Thomas. 1655 (1655) Wing C5275A; ESTC R176590 27,142 96

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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 mo●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 1● 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
even so amen But who will abide the day of his coming and who will stand when he appeareth Mal. 3. and this I desire to minde you by the way that as at or in the beginning work of your deliverance You must come in by weeping cross not onely in the sight and sense of your sin Jer. 5. 4. Looking on him whom you have peirced and mourning for him Zach. 12. but likewise in relation to the great trouble you are like to meet with also from the world that as you have been scattered among the nations and Israel hath been kept in obscurity so the nations will rage in your gathering together and then will be the first war of Gog and Magog mentioned in Ezek. 38. and 39. and it will go hard with you for a time see Zach. 14. 1 2. to this that agreeth Rev. 16. 12. when the River Euphrates is dryed up that the way of the kings of the earth may be prepared vers 13 14. on their appearance three unclean spirits like frogs went out of the mouth of the dragon the beast and the false prophets which are the spirits of devils working miracles which go forth to the kings of the earth and to the whole world to gather them together to the battel of the great day of God almighty that is the great battel of Gog and Magog mentioned before called the great battel of God almighty because it is that great battle appointed of God where he will destroy both his and your enemies And in this great distress by reason of the nations fury called Gog and Magog then shall Michael the great prince of his people stand up for your deliverance Dan. 12. 1. Then will the Lord send a fire upon Magog and he shall know that there is a God in Israel and the Lord will make his holy name known in the midst of his people Israel and he will not let them pollute his holy name any more c. Ezek. 39. 6 7. And then shall that prophesie be fulfilled Isa 2. and Micah 4. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more onely after the glorious reign of Christ and his Saints Satan shall be loosed for a little season Rev. 20. and shall gather together Gog and Magog that is those that were left of the nations in the first destruction Ezek. 39. 2 and they shal compass the campe of the Saints about the beloved City fire shall come down from God and destroy them this shall be the last encamping together of Gog and the last destruction and final judgement in this day of glory shall all believing Gentiles be gathered in with you for he is given as well to be a light to the Gentiles as to be the glory of the people Israel Isa 49. 6. Thus have I in tenderness and faithfulness both to the Lord and you discharged this as my duty in commending these few lines unto you the Lord grant that it may finde acceptance with you Here are many prayers presented for you at the throne of grace by those who clearly see and believe Gods intention of good to you for my self I trust my heart is so much set at liberty towards you that I could not onely prostrate my pen and prayers for your good but my person likewise if I saw a clear call from the Lord to serve you In a word to conclude I do believe that you have some of those remembrancers in this nation spoken of Isa 62. 6 7. That will give the Lord no rest till he have made Ierusalem a praise in the earth which is the earnest and daily prayer of him who is both yours and the truths servant as far as he may though unworthy T. C. THE POSTSCRIPT MY Friends to whose hands this Epistle may come The estate of the Jews having been a long time sad and indeed as once the Gentiles were and all unbelieving Gentiles are without Christ in the world and so without hope in themselves as in relation to the true Messiah the Lord having given me some apprehension concerning his purpose both of grace and glory towards them I could not with good conscience altogether hold my peace at this time without writing these preceding lines unto them it being translated into French that being a language that they are exercised in and so sent unto them the work being done the issue I leave to the Lord who I know doth usually honour himself in working by weak means and being desired by some friends I have likewise got it printed in English thereby not onely to provoke others who perhaps may be more inlarged in this work toward those poor dark despised people but likewise that all whose hearts are truely Zion-ward may be instant with the Lord in prayer for them and so much the more because their coming in will be to us life from the dead and their fulness will be our glory Oh therefore let all be warned not to be wise in their own conceit and know that blindness is happened to Israel but in part but that till the fulness of the Gentiles is come in and then Israel shall be saved I have a few words my brethren and friends to present you farther with concerning the reign of Christ and that is that he shall have a kingdom upon the earth and shall reign with his people upon the earth manifesting his power and glory amongst them and over the world But before I proceed any further I shall answer one objection that is some may say It was not long since that your self was against this principle c. Answ It s true in part I was being much informed in the truth of the reign of Christ but judging it to be a glorious reign in the spirits of his people over the world and this is the apprehension of many precious sons of Zion at this day but the Lord opening the seals by degrees unto his people he gives them to see farther into the mystery of his will concerning his kingdom and as light shines in their darkness doth flye away I could not but judge it my duty to give some hints concerning my farther apprehension of the kingdom of Christ in which I shall be very brief That his kingdom shall be manifest on earth will appear from these ensuing grounds 1. It was and is the great design of the Father to exalt the Son here on earth before the sons of men this was his design before he made the world and ever since all things hath doth and will concur to the bringing about of this great design therefore he at first made the world by him and for him Eph. 4. 9. Col. 2. 16. Joh. 1. 1. afterwards man being faln and the curse come in upon the whole creation Gen. 3. God did by him and for him recover the world again Col. 1. 20. that so he might have a selected people to himself that might enjoy his grace and glory Col. 1.