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The land of promise and the covenant thereof explained by certaine questions and propositions propounded to those that teach a deliverance of the Iewes out of all countries to the land of Canaan : and from their long continued blindnesse to the faith of Christ : and a glorious estate in the land for a thousand years : and also to those that teach a personall comming of Christ and a resurrection of the just to live and raigne with Christ a thousand yeares before the resurrection of the uniust and end of the world : of which there bee severall sorts, who are commonlyl called millinaries : by which doctrine of each of these the true intent of sundry places of Scripture of great importance to the church and people of Godm [sic] is uch [sic] obscured which being rightly understood and taught acording to their true and playne meaning would be greatly to the edification and comfort of Gods chosen, especially now in these last dayes wherein the accomplishment of all things which God hath spoken, draweth so nigh.
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15.16.18 Were not a Typicall signeâ— or token of that to come before spoken of by which Abraham as well as his seed after him was given to know of a certaine that he himselfe should inherit it in the perfectionâ— according to his motion and request that he mâ—de unto God immediâ—tely upon the promise that God made unto him of the land in Gâ—n 15.7 saâ—ing â—ord God whereby shall I know thâ—t I shall inheâ—iâ— iâ— ver. 8. And the Lord said unto him take me an Heifer of three yeares old c. Although it were then 400. yeares to come before his naturall Children who were to goe into a strange country and be afflicted there should be brought to the land to possesse it so Typically and that he must dye before that day as the Lord had shewed him For Abraham now â—nderstood that God had so appointed that neither he nor any of the Patriarches Prophets Apostles or Saints whatsoever should be made perfect in the promises before or without other nor till all the seed were accomplished and brought in according as the Apostle declared in Rom. 4. Before mentioned and as he testifieth againe in Heb. 11. Where he saith of the Fathers then past These all dyed in faith not having received the promises But having seene them a far off and were perswaded of them and confessed that they were Strangers and Pilgrimes on Earth ver. 13. And also he having mentioned the rest of the Holy Fathers and Prophets and other of the faithfull their faith also their distresses and sufferings faith These all having obtained a good report through faith received not the Promises God having provided some better thing for us that they without us shâ—â—ld not be made perfect Ver. 39.40 They might not be made perfect without the children which is farre better for us then if they had neither may the Câ—ildren without them which is no harme to us but a better thing for them also then if we should Gods dealing and ordering all things is right and just without all exception They are all of them to receive the perfection of the promises together And unto this doe the wordes of Christ agree where he saith Many shall come from the East and from the West and from the North and from the Southâ— and shall sit downe with Abraham Isaackâ—and Iacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdome of God and the children of the Kingdome shall be cast out into utter darknesse there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Mat. 8.11.12 Luk. 13.28.29 And againe and other sheepe I have which are not of this fold them also must I bring and they shall heare my voice and there shall be one fold and one Shepheard Ioh. 10. In which places Christ plainly sheweth that all the elect Gentils whom Christ calleth other sheepe that he had besides them of the Iewes fold These he must bring they having heard his voyce from all the foure quarters of the Earth and sit downe together with all the holy Fathers and Prophets and all the rest of the elect Iewes in the Kingdome of God Where there shall be one fold and one Sheapheard one King and one people and the Children of the Kingdome all those unbeleiving Iewes which have still erred in their hearts shall be cast out c. So then If all these things be so how are we to understand the Prophets that have foretold of a deliverance of the children and seed of Israel from all countries wheresoever they are scattered to their owne land the land which God gave to their Fathers wherein their Fathers had dwelt c. as in Ier. 16.14.15 Ier. 23.8 Ezek. 37.11.12.13.14 Ezek. 39.26.27.28 And other places What deliverance and possession of the Land of promise may this be but the same that was promised the Fathers and they looked for agreeing with all the promises and Scriptures before mentioned and must needs be the substance and perfection of that which was performed by Moses and Ioshuah being the Tipe of this which is to be performed be Iesus Christ the true deliverer and the Children and seed of Israel there spoken of are all Gods elect both of Iews and Gentils as the Prophet Ezekial doth plainly declare they with all the holy Fathers Ezek. 37.24.25.26 c. And this doth Zacharias the father of Iohn the Baptist declare in his propheticall song saying Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raised up an horne of salvation for us in the house of his Servant David as he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets since the world began that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us to performe the mercy promised our Fathers to remember his holy Covenant The oath which he sware to our father Abraham that he would grant unto us that we being delivered from the hand of our enemies might serve him without feare in holynesse and righteousnesse before him all the dayes of our life c. Luk. 1.68.69 Where this holy Servant of God sheweth plainly that all whatsoever the Holy Fathers looked for which God sware he would grant and give unto them and their seed to save and deliver them from their enemies and from the hand of all that hated them to serve him without feare in holinesse c. Was to be brought to passe by Christ whom he knew was now soone after the birth of Iohn to be borne according to all that the Prophets had spoken since the world began which great deliverance from their enemies and from all the haters of them is not yet fulfilled as they have all hitherto knowne and doe yet know still by experience But that it shall bee they duely expect according to all that the Prophets have spoken And according to that of Zecharias and all the rest before doth the Apostle Peter give testimonie speaking to the Iewes of Christ also the true deliverer whom they had crucified and was now ascended into Heaven saying vnto them Repent ye therefore and bee converted that your sinnes may bee blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord And hee shall send Iesus Christ which before was Preached unto you whom the Heavens must receive untill the times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began Acts 3.20 21. So that this great redemption and restitution of all things wherof all the holy Prophets have spoken as with one mouth agreeing with the Fathers and all the rest of the holy Servants of God is not to bee till Christ shall come in his glory Which Christ himselfe doth most fully confirme where hee having foreshewed the signes of his comming and end of the world saith And they shall see the Sonne of man come in the clouds of Heavenâ— with power and great glory and he shall send his Angels with a great
inherit the earth and dwell therein for ever there are a hâ—ndred words in the Scriptures of God to prove as ye may see by that whicâ— is written And when Christ cometh in his glory his holy Angels shall come with him and God himself will dwell with his people and they shall be his Tabernacle as hath beene declared And this I say yet further that if you can breake Gods covenant with the day and his covenant with the night and that there should not be day and night in their seasons If ye can remoove the Sunne the Moone and the Starres out of their places and from their order and put an end to the dayes of Heaven then ye may breake and put an end to the things before declared otherwise they shall stand and not faile for ever as the Lord hath said Ier. 31.35.36.37 Ier. 33.20.21 Neither shall these ordinances ever depart from before the face of the Lord What were it that all these excellent promises and sayings in Scripture should onely intend a thousand or two thousand yeares glorious Church of the Iewes or of any other to be in the time of this world and then to cease and how many absurdites would follow too many to relate The Iewes had almost two thousand yeares time in their troublesome Typical estate and there hath beene neere one thousand six hundred yeares since wherein all that glory hath beene troden downe and the people disperst as well the Saints that were then in the land as the other one whom the wrath of God which was written is ceased upon And will ye have this glorious estate that hath beene so many thousand yeares spoken of and looked for of all the faithfull upon Gods promises since the beginning to last but for a thousand yeares or two as some would have it and to concerne only and belong to a remnant of Iewes remaining discended of the most viperous generation of them that ever were as Christ himselfe chargeth them such as were to fill up the measure of their Fathers wickednesse and that these should be all of them generally called and saved this is beyond all sound aprehention and besides all Scriptures of truth such a calling and such a saving was never knowne to be of the best dissent naturall that ever was nor was ever knowen to be the manner of Gods dealing and procâ—eding in any age with any people whatsoever But to chuse out from among them and their Children here one and there one as Abell leaving Cain Isaack leaving Ishmael Iacob leaving Esaw and so in all times both with Iewes and Gentiles seldome many of one mans Children and lesse times all like as is hoped was with Iacobs sonnes but as it is writen Though the Children of Israel be as the sand of the Sea a remnant shall be saved for God will finish the worke as Saint Paul saith and cut it short in righteousnesse because a short worke will the Lord make upon the earth and as he saith againe from Esay Excâ—pt the Lord â—f Sabbath had lefâ— us a seed wee had beene as Sodome and beene made like unto Gomorrah Rom. 9. And as Christ himselfe saith for shewing how it would be to the worlds end Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth â—nto life and few there be that finde it Mat. 7.14 If ye say the Scriptures speake much of the Iewes calling and especially Saint Paule in Rom. 11. My answere is it seemeth to doe so but there is a great mistaking of the Apostles wordes and meaning by many for he speaketh onely of a remnant of elect Iewes and chiefely of those in his owne time which the Christian Romanes had their eye upon Marvelling that so few of so great and religious a nation did beleive the Gospell of Christ and confest him which was the occasion of the Apostles writing unto them in this manner to informe them as concerning the reason thereof and proveth unto them by former experience and testimonies of the Prophets that they were alwayes but few in comparrison of the great number of obstinate ones that did beleeve in their â—earts to salvation as in Chap. 9. from the testimonie of Esaiah and in this Chap. by that in the time of Eliahs And so all his arguments are to prove that God did never cast away his elect people of Israel Nor would but that they should all come in according as many of them did especially in those dayes for then they had the most excellent meanes that ever they had or shall have while the world stands which because the Rulers and greatest number of them did so wilfully reject filling up the measure of their Fathers sinnes who persecuted and killeâ— the Prophets and they now Christ himselfe was therefore to be taken from them and the wrath of God to cease upon them to the uttermost according as Moyses had foretold long beâ—ore Deut 28. from the 15. verse to the end of the Chap. And as Christ himself pronounceth sayingâ—For these be the dayes of vengance that all things that are written might be fulfilled But woe be to them that are with child and to them that give suck in those dayes for there shall be great distresse in the land and wrath upon this people and they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led captive into all Nationâ— and Ierusalem shall be trodden downe of the Gentilâ—s till the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled Luk. 21.22.23.24 As also Saint Paul testifieth Thesalo And the time being now come that the Gentiles should heare the word of the Gospell that Gods elect among them which by Gods appointment were now in these latter dayes to be many in number might bee brought inâ— So long as untill the times of the course of the Gospel among the Gentiles for the bringing in of all Gods Elect of them be accomplished Hierusalem is to be troden downe of the wicked unbeleeving Gentiles And so long also shall blindnesse continue upon the generation of those vipers that Christ spake to that they may fill up their measure as they did the measure of their fathers according as they said his blood bee upon us and upon our children These are that part of Israel of whom Saint Paul saith Blindnesse in part is hapned to Israel untill the fulâ—esse of the Gentiles be come in the fulnesse of Gods Elect Gentiles for so he meaneth so the words themselves doe expresse And these are those other sheepe of whom Christ spake in Iohn 10. which being brought in there shall be one fould and one Shepheard one Nation and one King for ever And all the blinded Iewes and Gentiles also that have reiected the grace of God in Christ shall see these sheep of the Gentiles that come from the East and the West and North and South sit with Abraham Isaack and Iacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdome of God and themselves cast out as