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A86981	Chiliasto-mastix redivivus, sive Homesus enervatus. A confutation of the millenarian [sic] opinion, plainly demonstrating that Christ will not reign visibly and personally on earth with the saints for a thousand yeers either before the day of judgement, in the day of judgement, or after it: where you also have many texts of scripture vindicated from the vain glosses of one Dr. Homes, a great Millenarian [sic], and all of his cavils (of any consequence) refelled and answered. With a word to our Fifth Monarch-Men, whose dangerous practises of late, clearly shew that this opinion leads to schisme, and sedition in church and state. / By Tho Hall B.D. and pastor of Kingsnorton.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing H428; Thomason E1654_2; Thomason E2135_2; ESTC R208344	36,388	116

Kingdom to his Father then he is inferior to his Father and his Kingdom is not everlasting and by consequence the Deity of Christ is over thrown Answ. This doth not follow for though Christ do resigne his Mediatory and Dispensatory Kingdom so that he rules not by external Organs and Instruments yet he Raigns still as God in his Essential Kingdom with his Father for his Kingdom is eternal Isay 9. 7. 2. Obj. They cavil thus He that is subject to his Father is inferiour to him but Christ is so ergo Answ. Christ must be considered according to his twofold nature viz. his Humanity and his Deity As he is God so he is Gods equal Phil. 2 6. as man so he tells us the Father is greater then he John 14. 28. As he is God so all Creatures are subject to him but as he is our Mediator so he is subject to his Father together with his Mystical body the Church Not as if he were not subject to his Father before but because then he shall in the sight of men and Angels publickly deliver up the Kingdom and so declare his subjection more openly for then things in Scripture are said to be when they are publickly manifested to be Psal. 2. 7. Now let us see what Dr. Homes his Aquiline eyes can spy in this Text for this 1000. yeers Raigne on earth 1. His first profound Observation from hence is this That after the Ultimate day of Judgement Christ shall have no Kingdom nor Power but how doth he prove this Why from 1 Cor. 15. 28. and how else Why the same again and again usque ad ravim till he dote again like a Cuckow Eandem cantilenum canit he tells you the same story over and over that he might boast and say He is now become a Fool in Folio Onely he desires you to observe according to his wonted Elegancy That 't is a Hath put all things in subjection Mark saith he 't is the time past 2. Shall be subdued mark again 'T is the Future time With such Learned Observations as if he were reading a Lecture to some School-boyes is the Drs. Folio stuft 2. The Drs. Observation hath two parts 1. That there shall be two dayes of Judgement and therefore he tells you here of an ultimate day of judgment But how doth he prove it Why {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Dr. Homes says it ergo 't is true 2. Christ hath no Kingdom and Power How whence that I pray you Why the Dr. tells you 't is after the ultimate day of Judgement New Light indeed if the Dr. vent this ignorantly he 's to be pittied if willfully to be punisht that goes about to deceive people in the Fundamentals of Religion But how doth he proves this Why by a witless worthless reason p. 89. viz. Christ must have his Kingdom before the ultimate day of Judgement or else he 'l have no Kingdom Why so For then 't is the Fathers Kingdom As if the Father and the Son though they be two persons yet were not one God and the Father had a Kingdom without the Son Quest But what saith the Text Answ. Why Then comes the end c. Every word a Dagger Quot verba tot verber a and stabs the Drs. cause at the heart 1. The Apostle tells us Then comes the end viz. of the world i. e immediately after the Resurrection He doth not say then comes the Reign of Christ for a thousand yeers on earth But then comes the end of the World 2. When he shall deliver up the Kingdom viz. his Mediatory not his absolute Kingdom And therefore the Drs. Logick is very faulty in arguing from a particular to a general ergo because Christ hath no Oeconomical Kingdom ergo he hath no Kingdom Non sequitur ergo because one Dr. is Episcopal ergo all are Episcopal Or because one Dr. observes the times ergo all do so Is but sorry Logick 3. The Apostle tells us Christ must Raigne in his Mediatory K●ngdom till the last enemy which is death be destroyed but this will not be till the day of Judgement where then is the Drs. thousand yeers 4. Then Christ hath no power What more folly yet Cannot Christ lay down his Mediary Kingdom but he must loose his power with it Cannot he change the manner of Administration but he must cease to be a King Is he not God and Man still Is he not King and Head of his Church still Is he not as High and Mighty as ever And is it not he that even in the Text puts down all power by his divine Almighty power How then comes it to pass that Christ hath no power as the Dr. blasphemously at least very ignorantly affirms 5. He tells us of the Saints living on earth for a thousand yeers without Ordinances Answ. This is as true as the rest But the Dr. doth very ill to harden Atheistical Sectaries in such conceits For 't is not to be expected whilst the Saints live on earth that they should live without or above Ordinances In Heaven indeed when the Saints shall enjoy God immediately they shall not need them for God will be all in all as 't is in the Text but that is not in this world but at the end of the world Then comes the end viz. immediately after the Resurrection as the context shews when the Saints shall be received to bliss then God will be all in all immediately and not till then Obj. Revel. 21. 22. 'T is said of the New Jerusalem i. e of the glorious estate of the Church neer the end of the world that there shall be no Temple there Answ. These words yea and the whole chapter may be considered two wayes 1. Literally and properly for the Churches glory in Heaven for there 't is that all tears shall be wiped from our eyes there shall be no Sun or Moon no Temple there we shall not need Preaching Sacraments Ordinances for God will be all in all To expect an immediate enjoyment of God in this world without Ordinances is a Satanical delusion True in the Church Triumphant Prophesies shall cease 1 Cor. 13. 8. But in the Church militant we must not despise Prophesying and Preaching of the word To expound this chapter Literally of any Church either in Heaven or Earth will not hold for there is no Gold Silver Precious Stones Rivers c. in Heaven 2. If we consider the words Allusively and Allegorically for the a glorious estate of the Church upon earth after the calling of the Iews then there shall be no Temple there q. d. the Worship of God shall be more Pure Spiritual and Heavenly then ever before So that the words must not be taken simply for then they would contradict other places of Scripture which tell us that the Church on earth will always have need of the Ministery both to convert such as are not yet converted

Chiliasto-mastix redivivus Sive Homesus enervatus A confutation of the MILLENARIAN OPINION Plainly demonstrating that Christ will not Reign Visibly and Personally on earth with the Saints for a thousand yeers either before the day of Judgement in the day of Judgement or after it Where you also have many Texts of Scripture Vindicated from the vain Glosses of one Dr. Homes a great Millenarian and all his Cavils of any consequence refelled and answered With a word to our Fifth Monarch-men whose dangerous practises of late clearly shew that this opinion leads to Schisme and Sedition in Church and State By Tho. Hall B. D. and Pastor of Kingsnorton Jonah 2. 8. They that wait on lying Vanities forsake their own mercy John 18. 36. My Kingdom is not of this world LONDON Printed for John Starkey at the Miter at the West end of Pauls 1697. TO THE CANDID READER HAving finisht my Exposition on 2 Tim. 3. by way of Supplement to Mr. Barlow when I came to the 2 Tim. 4. 1. I perceived that Dr. Homes was tampering with it forcing it to plead his Millenarian cause upon this I encountred him and have Vindicated the Text from the Vain Glosses which he put upon it Afterwards perusing his whole book I found it so jejune and empty and his proofs so grosly wrested and impertinent that I conceived it might be time well spent to Vindicate the Text which he abuseth especially such as have any seeming weight in them as to his purpose which here thou hast now presented to thy view I thought it good to give it thee single by it self and the rather that such as cannot buy the Exposition of those two Chapters yet may have this little Antidote at hand against this Epidemical error which spreads so strangely and hath already brought forth the malignant fruit of Schisme in the Church and Sedition in the State to the hazarding of both as appears in that Seditious Declaration of the Fifth Monarch men who cry down Magistracy and Ministery as that Beast so do these Bruits call them which hindreth the coming of their King Jesus The Apostle tells us of some that despise Government and among the the rest he gives them this Character 2 Pet. 2. 10. that they are self-conceived persons such as love to sing their own song and to get a name they 'l go a strain of their own beyond the Ordinary even to the contradicting and out-facing of the clearest evidence of Scripture and Reason they are so wedded to their own Fancies that they think every thing makes for them and every one pleads their cause Scriptures Fathers Astronomers Sybils Poets Turks Talmuds Targums c. and this is Dr. Homes his case as the ensuing Treatise will shew where you have the Question debated Polemically {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Negative Positive 1. I shew the Weakness and Invalidity of the Drs. Thesis and his proofs 2. I have set down the Truth in an Antithesis proving it by Scripture and Reason with as much brevity as may be And herein I shall be directly opposite to the Doctor for I have used all means to contract my self and have compacted as much matter in as little a compass as possibly I could whereas he doth de Industria use all meanes to swel his book into a Folio and therefore he hath put a great part of it into Latin and English for the credit of the Cause that all the world may see he Lyes in Folio in the mean time forgetting the Proverb {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that a great book especially when stuft with such a cramb bis cocta as the Doctor hath stuft his book withall is a great burden especially to an Ingenious Reader who delights in Laconick brevity and must have much in a little Neither can this displease any sober man if I in the Spirit of Love and Meekness tendring the good of the Land of my Nativity publish a Tract in Octavo in defence of the Ancient common received Truths of Gods Church since Doctor Homes hath publisht a Treatise in Folio against them He must be a man of singular patience that can endure to read over the Doctors book his proofs are so impertinent and ridiculous that the bare rehearsal of most of them is confutation sufficient Surely should the Doctor write a Folium Plaustrale a Volumn big enough to load a Cart yet if he bring no better proofs to maintain his Tenet then I have yet seen I Question who wil believe him For my own particular in this thing I have done nothing out of any spirit of opposition to the Person or parts of any nay I could heartily wish that the Doctor had spent his Operam Oleum his Time and Talents on some better Subject which might have furthered his Account in the Day of the Lord when we must all give an Account of our Stewardships and not to have fed mens fancies with lying Vanities and that in a time when the World surfets with them already I find the Builders of this Babel strangely divided amongst themselves both about the Place where this Raign shall be whether in Heaven or on Earth whether in Ierusalem or in the whole World 2. About the Persons whether the Martyrs only shall Raign this thousand yeers or whether all the Saints shall not Raign with them or whether there shall be no wicked ones mixt amongst them 3. About the manner of their Raign whether it shall be in carnal delight or spiritual or both 4. That they may be sure to disagree in all the principal points they differ in the time when this Raign shall begin some say before the day of judgment others say in the day of judgement others say after it Scarce any of the Chiliasts but hath his peculiar conceits in these points Truth is but one errour is manifold Obj. Whereas some may think this a smal and harmless errour not worth confuting Answ. I answer 1. As no sin simply considered in it self is little because there is no little God that we sin against so no errour in it self is litile because 't is against the same glorious and infinite Majesty 2. As little sins so little errours like little wedges make way for greater and he that makes no conscience of little errours wil when a Temptation comes make no conscience of greater 3. This Tenet is not so harmless and smal as some imagine Is that a smal matter which overthrows the fundamentals of Religion making two bodily distinct Resurrections two dayes of judgment three Ascentions and Descentions of Christ Is that a harmless opinion which breeds Security Sensuality Anarchy Is that a harmless opinion which overthrows Ordinances Magistracy Ministery Is that a little errour which perverts the Creed and wrests the Lords Prayer wracking that Petition Thy Kingdom come to a desire of the coming of their Millenarian Kingdom when the Kingdom we pray for in the Lords Prayer 1.

hath not his Verbum Domini for what he holds Even the Devil himself when he disputed with our Saviour had his Scriptum est he cited Scripture though corruptly The Dr. cites 51. proofs out of the Old Testament almost all borrowed from Doctor a Alsteed or Dr. Gouge his Treatise of the calling of the Jews p. 9. to 83. I shall set them down in order as the Dr. recites them the bare rehearsall will be confutation to the most of them for either they prophesie of Christs first coming in the flesh 2. Or of the Jews deliverance from Babylonish captivity 3. Or of the calling of the Jews when there shall be a spiritual restauration of the Church or the like To prove that Christ shall reign with the Saints on earth a thousand yeers the Dr. Quotes 1. Gen. 1. 26 27 28. collated with Psal. 8. 2. Gen. 12. 1 2 3 6. and 17. 1. to 9. 3. Gen. 18. 78. and 22. 15 16. 4. Gen. 26. 4. 5. Gen. 48. 19. and 49. 26. 6. Balaams Prophesie Numb. 24. 7. Deut. 30. 1. to 10. 8. Deut. 32. 15. to 19. 9. Neh. 1 8. 10. Psal. 8. and 110. yea the whole Book of Psalms in Three Heads 11. Isay 2. 1. c. 12. Isay 9. 6. 13. Isay 11. per totum 14. Isay 14. 1. c. 15. Isay 24. 23. 16. Isay 25 per totum 17. Isay 33. 20. 21 18. Isay 34. 1. c. 19. Isay 45. 14. c. 20. Isay 49. per totum 21. Isay 54. 11. c. 22. Isay 59. 23. Isay 60. per totum 24. Isay 63. 1. c. 25. Isay 65. 17. c. 26. Isay 66. 5. c. 27. Jer. 16. 14 15. collat. with 23. 3. 28. Jer. 30. 31. 29. Jer. 32. 37. 30. Jer. 50. 17. 31. Ezek. 28. 24 25 26. 32. Ezek. 34. 11. c. 33. Ezek. 37. total 34. Ezek. 37. total 35. Dan. 2. 31. c. 36. Dan. 7. total 37. Dan. 11. 12. 38. Hos. 1. 10. 11. 39. Hos. 3. 4. 5. 40. Joel 2. 28. c. 41. Joel 3. 1. c. 42. Amos 9. 11. collated with Obad 17. 43. Micah 4. total 44. Zoph 3. 9. c. 45. Zach. 2. 6. c. 46. Zach. 6. 12. 47. Zach. 8. 20. c. 48. Zach. 10. 3. c. 49. Zach. 12. total 50. Zach. 14. 3. c. 51. Mal. 4. total If you count these proofs they are many but if you seriously weigh them you will not find one to the purpose Obj. Though none of these Scriptures apart prove the point yet sayes the Dr. lay them all together and then they 'l do it Answ. Lay them and 51. more such proofs together for 't is easie gathering proofs to prove Christs Incarnation the a calling of the Jews Israels deliverance from Babylonish captivity and the Spiritual Glory of Gospel-times and they will never satisfie any sober Reader as to the proof of this point I must confess I seldom smile at my Study yet when I observed the Drs Learned-nonsense and his gross non-sequitors I could not forbear and let any Ingenious Reader take any one of these 51. proofs apart or altogether as the Dr. directs him and put but ergo Christ shall Reign with the Saints on earth a 1000. years and he cannot forbear smiling at least to see how the Drs. proofs hang together like ropes of sand and come as neer together as St. Germans lips which were nine miles asunder The Drs. Arguments for the Millenary fancy are like the Papists for the Popes Supremacy E. g. Peter healed the sick with his shadow ergo he was head of the Church Pauls calls him Cephas ergo he was chief of the Apostles Christ bid him put up his sword ergo the Pope hath right to both swords Or like the Quakers consequences flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven ergo there shall be no Resurrection The Saints shall judge the world here ergo there shall be no other Judgment this is Naylers Logick Obj. The Scripture holds forth that the last dayes shall be glorious dayes ergo Christ shall then Reigne personally on earth a thousand yeers Sol. It follows not for allthough the last dayes shall be glorious in respect of the great light of the Gospel and the glorious Priviledges and Liberty which the Church shall then enjoy yet in respect of the abuse of that Liberty and those Priviledges so the last dayes will be Perilous times a 2 Tim. 3. 1. True in Gospel times the bounds of the Church shall be enlarged Antichrists Kingdom shall decrease and Christs Kingdom will increase the mountain of the Lord shall be exalted in the top of the mountains and the Churches Priviledges will be advanced but that ever the Church should come to that height of happiness on earth as to be free from troubles internal and external and to Raign with Christ here for a thousand yeers in a sin-less sorrow-less temptation-less condition as D. H. phraseth it is a meer dream and hath no ground in Scripture Obj. Though many of these 51 proofs may be impertinent yet some may be pertinent Answ. I shall therefore call out the most pertinent for the bare reading of most of those Texts is confutation sufficient The first great place is Psal. 8. compared with Genesis 2. 26 27 28. which speaks of Adams dominion over the Creature in the state of innocency but the 8. Psal. speaks directly litterally and properly of Christ the second Adam if we will believe the Apostle a Heb 2. 6 7 8. So that the Drs. collating of these places is invalid 'T is true what is here spoken of Christ is proper to the Saints by vertue of their union with Christ the dignities belonging to Christ the head appertain to his mystical body the Church which ●s called Christ 1 Cor. 12. 12. All is theirs because they are Christs Now what do Millenaries gather hence Why 't is this that since Christ is thus exalted and the Saints in him to have dominion over the creatures c. Ergo they shall reign with Christ a thousand years on earth Who sees not the vanity of such Logick Obj. Heb. 2. 5. The Apostle speaks of a world to come ergo he speaks of this thousand yeers raign to come Answ. What a sad thing is to father our vain fancies on the Prophets and Aposties and to make them speak what never so much as came into their thoughts By the world to come is meant the Church of Christ under the Gospel which is called the world to come 1. In relation to the Church that lived before and under the Law who longed to see this world John 8. 56. 1 Pet. 1. 10 11. 2. Because of the restauration of all things by Christ begun already 2 Cor. 5. 17. and shall be finisht hereafter at the Resurrection which is called the time of the restitution of all things ●phes 1. 10. Q. D. O ye Hebrews

the enemies of Gods Church which are in all the Regions of the Earth both Scythians Turks and unbelieving Christians and shall gather them to battle against the Church of Christ Here we see the people of God are in a worse condition then they were before now it cannot be imagined that Christ should come down for a thousand yeers amongst us and then leave us in a worse condition then he found us and after the Church had been sinless and sorrowless as Dr. Homes affirms then that it should be again deceived by Satan and besieged by his Instruments who can believe this So that this Text makes much against the Millenarian opinion I shall therefore shut up all with this Argument That Exposition of a Text which contradicts the whole current of Scripture is contrary to all Analogy of Faith to the Scope of the Text to Piety of Life to the comfort of the Saints and to the concurrent Judgment of Gods Church that Exposition is not right But such is the Millenarian Exposition of this Text as will appear in the following Arguments ergo Let us now sum up all and then we shall easily see the folly of these mens arguing from this Mystical Text 1. St. John speaks of the Saints living with Christ ergo 't is a corporal living 2. He speaks of their raigning with Christ ergo 't is a corporal and visible raigning 3. He mentions a Resurrection ergo t is a corporal Resurrection 4. He speaks of the first Resurrection ergo there shall be two bodily Resurrections 5. The Saints shall Reign a thousand yeers on earth ergo it shall be the same numerical Saints and not a succession of Holy men in their several ages Est fallacia consequentis The very repetition of those things is confutation sufficient Against the Doctors Thesis I shall set down this Antithesis THat Christ shall not Reign personally with the Saints or Martyrs here on earth for a thousand yeers neither before the Day of Judgement in the Day of Judgement nor after it If ever there be such a Raigne it must be in one of those times But 't is in neither 1. It cannot be before the Day of Iudgement for these reasons 1. Because the last dayes will be perilous not pleasant dayes a 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3. they will be full of security sensuality and iniquity insomuch that when Christ comes he shall scarce find any faith on earth Luke 18. 8. Matth. 24. 37 38. wickedness will most abound towards the end of the world 2. If the Church of Christ on earth be a mixt Society consisting of good and bad to the end of the world then it cannot subsist for a thousand yeers only of good men But the Churh of Christ on earth to the end of the world is a mixt society consisting of tares and wheat good and bad a Gog and Magog to molest the Saints to the end of the world Matth. 13. 40. Rev. 20. 7 8. 2. If Christ remain in heaven till the day of judgement then he cannot reign corporally a thousand years on earth before that day But the antecedent is true and therefore the consequent Acts 3. 21. John 14. 3. Whom the heaven must contain till the time that all things be restored i. e. until the time of his coming to judgment when he shall appear again for the full consummation of the glory of his elect and perfect accomplishment of his Kingdom then all shall be repaired which sin hath disordered and the creature be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God Rom. 8. 21. 't is from heaven and not from earth saith our Creed that Christ shall come to judge the quick and the dead 3. If Gods Church whilst in this world must look for afflictions tentations persecutions then this imaginary reign without sin or sorrow cannot be expected here But Gods Church whilst on earth must look for afflictions tentations and persecutions here 2 Tim. 3. 12. All Christs disciples must take up their cross daylie though they be righteous yet must they look for many troubles Psal. 34. 19. Acts 14. 22. 4. Christs kingdom is not of this world John 18. 36. And therefore when the Iews would have made him a King he conveighed himself from amongst them John 6. 15. His Kingdom in this world is spiritual not carnal 't is without any worldly pomp neither doth it consist in meat drink or marriage Matth. 22. 30. 1 Cor. 6. 13. Rom. 14. 17. A wo is denounced against those that have their carnal delights and their portion of pleasures here Luke 6. 25. Iames 5. 5. 5. That tenet which is contrary to the judgement of all the Churches of Christ ought to be suspected by us for the judgement and practise of the Churches of God ought to have great weight with us as you may see 1 Cor. 11. 16. 22. and we should fear to offend them 1 Cor. 10. 22. especially by broaching such tenets as are contrary to the analogie of faith as this is true Churches may err but not so soon as a particular person two are better then one and in the multitude of counsellors there is safety Solitary birds are birds of prey Affectation of singularity is the high way to heresie it savours of pride for a particular person to broach new tenets which are directly contrary to the old received Truths of the Churches of Christ 6. Ab absurdo many absurdities follow this fancy I shall produce twelve 1. It derogates much from the honour of Christ for him who is head of his Church and hath all power given to him to come down from heaven the place of happiness where all is in subjection to him to come live in a corner of the earth in the new Ierusalem of the Millenaries inventing 't is a debafing of Christ The wiser sort of Millenaries fore-seeing this folly labour to avoid it by de●ying in a sort any personal reigne of Christ on earth yea Dr Homes boggles at it and therefore he comes in with his peradventure Christ will appear to the Saints at the beginning and ending of this thousand years But how doth the Doctor prove this Why Ipse dixit Dr Homes says so Ergo 't is so Christ must come go ascend and descend as Doctor Homes would have him 2. As there is no necessity of such a reigne on Christs part so neither on the Saints part they are Denizens of heaven their birth is from above and thither they aspire the Church ascends out of this wilderness like pillars of smoke Paul though a martyr yet desires to be dissolved and to be with Christ in heaven he knew nothing of this 1000. years reigne on earth Phil. 1 23. and 3. 20. and tells us that he looks for a dwelling in heaven and not on earth 2 Cor. 5. 1. 6. and that when Christ appears they shall appear with him in eternal glory Colos. 3. 4.