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A59926	Chronoi apykatastaseōz panton, or, The times of restitution of all things with their neer approach upon the ruine of the beast : manifest by two tracts on Rev. 20.5 & Rev. 21.5 containing the main scope of all Revelation prophecie ... : which said two last tracts may fitly be entituled An alarm to this present world ... / by William Sherwin.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1675 (1675)	Wing S3397; ESTC R25752	75,445	87

third and last most effectual taking away of Sacrifice most probably in Julian the Apostate Emperors time by a remarkable hand of God about 365 years after Christs birth unto which 1335 years being added makes up 1700 viz. all the times of Revelation prophesie to Ch 20. which the former 2300 Dan. 8. also wholly contain but what darkness there hath been from Julians said time and before is hard to resolve by reason of like confusions before and since and what errors may be in our vulgar account may not easily be found four years Bishop Vsher observes to be lost in it happily more since it was as is acknowledged 500 years after Christs birth before it came in common use Thirdly The Turks said day and hour and month and year Rev. 9. or his 396 years are not so exact as that we can certainly resolve whether the Ottoman family obtained the full power some few years before or some few years after 1300 who having the latest Epocha of all the rest by much should therefore seem more easie to be resolved but for the like reasons still some darkness remains therein but counting his 396 years back as was before said may so bring us nearest probably to his truest Epocha The said Beasts rising at one hour with the said ten crowned Horns Rev. 17.9 12. being as we said in times of great confusions likewise when the Empire in the West was so broken by the Barbarous Nations that the Writers of such affairs then or after must needs speak of them more uncertainly a latitude therefore of conjecture must needs in reason be allowed especially besides former considerations that that one hour Rev. 12. may be an opportune season as was said and not a Prophetical hour when the stories of such are differently penned for such times and things as often they are c. but Divine wisdom from the Scripture such as in Daniels said Numbers with 〈◊〉 Pauls Doctrine seem to be for that purpose the Divine directions as the Holy Spirit informs us is needful as such true wisdom to direct us in an especial manner in these above all the rest viz. to discover both the Beasts beginning and ending which we may only expect to find in a convenient latitude but not to be exact therein which God is pleased to keep only in his own power as Acts 1.6 yet it is Christians duty to inquire after them and much light and benefit comes to themselves and others by so doing c. and if by his said date of his ending number about 1700 we count his 42 months backward upon the former ground and considerations our conjecture may be so made most fitly as we conceive of his Epocha and the said Womans c. to be about 430 but the exact time we cannot thereby know and so the Period of both haply may be about 20 years hence in a fit latitude from An. Dom. 1675. upon all former said considerations whereunto succeed the happy times of renovation there spoken of in this Text yet Chapt. 18. and 19. declare the burning of the Whore to be some small time before the last ruine of the Beast which in Chapt. 16. is for his preparation probably upon this account to the Armageddon battle by his three unclean spirits like frogs as we shewed croaking in the Courts of Kings Vse of Exhortation We shall not here be large in the improvement of this Subject because of what we have formerly done upon Doctrines of this nature in our former Treatises only we shall add some brief admonition and exhortation to all such as the Name of Christ is called upon that upon this weighty account that the great changes of the world are so many ways manifest to be near approaching first that as the Prophet Esai Chapt. 1. exhorted sinful men in his time that they would cease to do evil and learn to do well And therefore 2ly to labour to be good that they may be fit both to do good accepably receive good infallibly Let all prophane wicked carnal worldly and unregendrate men be hence admonished to forsake their evil licentious and ungodly practises let them from the ruionous state of this wicked world be think themselves what precipices of destruction they walk upon from whence they are every moment in danger to fall into an irrecoverable ruine and if they should not otherwise be cut off yet who knows how suddenly the great Changes of the world may come upon them let them well weigh for times past what good they have gotten in the ways of sin whereby they have long happly provoked God already and for which much guilt lies upon their Souls and Consciences and for which they are liable to the heavy wrath and Judgments of God continually to seize upon them besides as we said all wickedness will shortly have an end and what good can the sinful profits pleasures or honours of the world do them if they had the longest continuance that this world can afford them I say sinful profits pleasures or honour if either sinfully obtained or not rightly used or wickedly abused to evil purposes as for the most part they are by such persons But secondly it is not enough for such to cease to do evil which yet will be hard for them to do for so long as they are evil Trees they will bring forth evil fruits and must needs be nigh to cursing whose end is to be burned as Gods word plainly 〈…〉 also learn to do well and that speedily too lest the evil 〈◊〉 come upon them unawares which cannot be far 〈…〉 Changes in the world although they be not 〈…〉 before from which they can have no security 〈…〉 their sinful ways have rather much reason continually to expect for indignation and wrath saith the Apostle tribulation and anguish shall be upon every Soul of man that doth evil Rom. 2.8 9. And therefore in the third place that they may rightly learn these two Lessons to cease to do evil and learn to do well they must add the third viz. labour earnestly to be good that they may do good and consequently be made capable to receive good they must be made good Trees that they may bring forth good fruit they must get Faith and Grace and become new Creatures else all will come to no effect men may out of some fear of wrath be sometime in a pang and so be restrained from some evil practises and be also forced to do some good works materially good but they will neither continue in well-doing nor can they do any such good works as are acceptable unto God if they be not converted unto him from their sins and be reconciled to him by faith in Jesus Christ Object But Faith and Grace are Gods gifts it will be said and they cannot of themselves obtain teem It is true they are so but such should now especially now even now in these last and worst times know if they have them nor and be

regard that the words were true as antiently delivered by the God of Truth that cannot lye or deceive or be deceived but secondly they are likewise faithful grounded upon many gracious promises and Covenants as we hope farther to manifest Come we now to consider the main thing declared that God at such a time or state of things occurring in the world makes all things new being Emphatically called by the Apostle Peter The times of Restitution of all things which Renovation of all things is three wayes considerable first Negatively what it is not Secondly Privatively in respect of what God will then remove or take away Thirdly Positively in respect of what God will do in the performance of that great and gracious work 1. Negatively in respect of what he will not do it doth not imply that God will then bring a total destruction upon the Created World by destroying it and the Creatures in it with wicked men then to be destroyed out of it and other Creatures to be placed in a New world which we have no Scripture grounds for but for the contrary for that is to be done at Christs sitting upon the great white Throne at the dissolution of all things Rev. 20.11 above 1000 years after neither in reason can it be conceived for what use Creatures should serve when good and bad men were removed before out of it c. 2. Privatively by Gods removing and taking away many evil things out of the world which have been brought into it since he first in 7 days Created finished his great and good work of Creation by Satan Sin and wicked men such as the Curse Corruption Bondage and Enmity of the Creatures since abiding in it in an eminent degree with the causes thereof by destroying many wicked men out of the Earth Rev. 11.18 and binding Satan for the 1000 years in the bottomless pit that he deceive not the Nations any more till that 1000 years shall be finished therefore I say with the causes thereof for sublata causa tollitur effectus and contrarily to bring the world into a capacity to be made better and to be put into a New and better frame than when they prevailed in it he will then also eminently remove and take away those many evils caused and brought into the world by them first the curse brought in by them will then be taken away for saith Christ there shall then be no more curse Rev. 21.3 the earth which was cursed by these means upon the Fall shall be eminently restored unto its native fruitfulness peculiar to that time and state Ezek. 34.26 27. There shall then be showers of blessing upon it and the trees of the field shall yield her fruit and the Earth shall yield her increase and with that fruitfulness they shall then have safety and peace for they shall be safe in their Land and shall know that I am the Lord being delivered from their Enemies as there follows c. So also Ezek. 36.8 Ye Mountain of Israel ye shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people of Israel and ver 11. I will multiply upon you man and beast and they shall increase and bring fruit and ver 29 I will call for the Corne and increase it and lay no famine upon you c. yea their Land shall become for fruitfulness like the Garden of Eden ver 35. and Joel 3.18 The Mountains shall drop down with New Wine and the Hills shall flow with Milk which are high expressions of the fruitfulness of those times also Hos 2.21 In that day will I hear saith the Lord I will hear the Heavens and the they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyle and they shall hear Jezreel Again the Enmity of men and other creatures will then be also removed which have prevailed in the world from the fall first among men there hath been since the fall Murther Slaughter Blood shed prevailing and so will still untill those times amongst them but then Nation shall no more rise against Nation neither shall they learn War any more yea they shall beat their Swords into Plowshares and their Spears into Pruning hooks Esa 2.4 and Hos 2.18 I will break the Bow and the Sword and the Battel out of the Earth and will make them to lie down in safety and for the peaceableness of other Creatures which not only Allegorically as some understand the Promises to that purpose but they will litterally be performed when that Savage Cruelty in their corrupt natures since the fall will then be taken away that the Wolfe shall dwell with the Lamb as the Prophet Esa speaks chap. 11.6 and the Leopard shall lie down with the Kid c. and they shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy Mountain and Esa 65.25 The Wolfe and the Lamb shall feed together and the Lyon shall eat straw like the Bullock c. So the hurtful influence of the Heavens and the distempers of the 4 Elements and the noxious qualities of the Creatures will be then wonderfully refined that the Heavens as God promiseth may hear the earth and they hear the Corn and Wine and Oyl c. And the Inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not then say I am sick when the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity Esai 33.24 The Creatures which since the Fall have been held under the bondage of corruption under which the whole Creation still groaneth shall as the Apostle teacheth Rom. 8.21 in that state be delivered from it and that also into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God The bodies of all Saints saving some few as Enoch Moses Elias have lien rotting in the Grave and so will till then but they shall all in that time and state receive the Adoption Rom. 8.21 the faithful Gentiles then receiving that with all benefits belonging to them as the spiritual Seed of Abraham Gal. 3.29 as well as to his faithful natural Seed both Jews and Israelites which he explains in the next words even the redemption of our bodies N.B. which as was shewed before will be the inlet to all those Saints into the happiness of that time and state c. And thus briefly of Gods removing the said evils or the like with the causes thereof When Christ the Universal King of Kings and Prince of the Kings of the earth Rev. 19. and Rev. 1.5 will not only rescue the great and excellent building of the World out of the power of the Prince of the Air but repair the ruines and desolations he and his retinue of wicked men and Devils have wrought in it and reduce it for himself and his Spouse the Saints into a far better condition than ever it was in before which will be by Gods said removal of the said evils then when he makes all things new Thirdly this renovation is to be considered Positively in respect of Gods conferring good upon