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<P>Chilia&s;to-ma&s;tix redivivus, Sive Home&s;us enervatus. A confutation of the MILLENARIAN OPINION, Plainly demon&s;trating that Chri&s;t will not Reign Vi&s;ibly and Per&s;onally on earth with the Saints for a thou&s;and yeers ei|ther before the day of Judgement, in the day of Judgement, or after it: Where you al&s;o have many Texts of Scripture Vin|dicated from the vain Glo&s;&s;es of one Dr. <HI>Homes,</HI> a great <HI>Millenarian,</HI> and all his Cavils (of any con&s;equence) refelled and an&s;wered. With a word to our <HI>Fifth Monarch-men,</HI> who&s;e dangerous pra|cti&s;es of late, clearly &s;hew that this opinion leads to Schi&s;me, and Sedition in Church and State. By <HI>Tho. Hall, B. D.</HI> and Pa&s;tor of <HI>King&s;norton.</HI></P>
<BIBL>Jonah 2. 8.</BIBL>
<Q>They that wait on lying <HI>Vanities</HI> for&s;ake their own mercy..</Q>
<BIBL>John 18. 36.</BIBL>
<Q>

My Kingdom is not of this world.</Q>
<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>John Starkey,</HI> at the <HI>Miter,</HI> at the We&s;t end of <HI>Pauls,</HI> 1697.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE CANDID READER.</HEAD>
<P>HAving fini&s;ht my Expo|&s;ition on <HI>2 Tim. 3.</HI> by way of Supplement to <HI>Mr. Barlow,</HI> when I came to the <HI>2 Tim. 4. 1.</HI> I perceived that Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> was tampering with it, forcing it to plead his <HI>Millena|rian</HI> cau&s;e; upon this I encoun|tred him, and have Vindicated the Text from the Vain Glo&s;&s;es which he put upon it. Afterwards
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peru&s;ing his whole book, I found it &s;o jejune and empty, and his proofs &s;o gro&s;ly wre&s;ted, and impertinent, that I conceived it might be time well &s;pent to Vindicate the Text which he abu&s;eth, e&s;pecially &s;uch as have any &s;eeming weight in them (as to his purpo&s;e) which here thou hast now pre&s;ented to thy view. I thought it good to give it thee &s;ingle by it &s;elf, and the rather that &s;uch as cannot buy the Expo&s;ition of tho&s;e two Chapters, yet may have this little Antidote at hand again&s;t this Epidemical error which &s;preads &s;o &s;trangely, and hath already brought forth the malignant fruit of Schi&s;me in the Church, and Sedition in the State, to the hazarding of both; as appears in that Sediti|ous Declaration of the Fifth Mo|narch men, who cry down Magi|&s;tracy and Mini&s;tery as that <HI>Bea&s;t</HI>
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(&s;o do the&s;e Bruits call them) which hindreth the coming of their King Je&s;us.</P>
<P>The Apo&s;tle tells us of &s;ome that de&s;pi&s;e Government, and a|mong the the re&s;t he gives them this Character <HI>(2 Pet. 2. 10.)</HI> that they are &s;elf-conceived per|&s;ons, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> &s;ibi placentes &amp; proprio ad|dicti judicio.</NOTE>&s;uch as love to &s;ing their own &s;ong, and to get a name they'l go a &s;train of their own be|yond the Ordinary, even to the contradicting and out-facing of the clearest evidence of Scripture and Rea&s;on; they are &s;o wedded to their own Fancies that they think every thing makes for them, and every one pleads their cau&s;e; Scri|ptures, Fathers, A&s;tronomers, Sybils, Poets, Turks, Talmuds, Targums, &amp;c. and this is Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> his ca&s;e, as the en&s;uing Treati&s;e will &s;hew: where you have the Que&s;tion debated Pole|mically
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<GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Nega|tive &amp; Po&s;itive. 1.</HI> I &s;hew the Weakne&s;s and Invalidity of the Drs. The&s;is and his proofs. <HI>2.</HI> I have &s;et down the Truth in an Antithe&s;is, proving it by Scri|pture and Rea&s;on, with as much brevity as may be. And herein I &s;hall be directly oppo&s;ite to the Doctor, for I have u&s;ed all means to contract my &s;elf, and have compacted as much matter in as little a compa&s;s as po&s;sibly I could; whereas he doth <HI>de Indu&s;tria</HI> u&s;e all meanes to &s;wel his book into a Folio, and therefore he hath put a great part of it into La|tin and Engli&s;h, for the credit of the Cau&s;e, <HI>that all the world may &s;ee he Lyes in Folio:</HI> in the mean time forgetting the Pro|verb, <GAP DESC="foreign">, that a great book (e&s;pecially when &s;tuft with &s;uch a cramb <HI>bis co|cta,</HI>
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as the Doctor hath &s;tuft his book withall, is a great burden, e&s;pecially to an Ingenious Rea|der, who delights in Laconick brevity, and mu&s;t have much in a little.</P>
<P>Neither can this di&s;plea&s;e any &s;ober man, if I in the Spirit of Love and Meekne&s;s (tendring the good of the Land of my Na|tivity) publi&s;h a Tract in Octa|vo, in defence of the Ancient common received Truths of Gods Church; &s;ince Doctor <HI>Homes</HI> hath publi&s;ht a Treati&s;e in Folio again&s;t them. He mu&s;t be a man of &s;ingular patience that can en|dure to read over the Doctors book, his proofs are &s;o imperti|nent and ridiculous, that the bare rehear&s;al of mo&s;t of them is confutation &s;ufficient. Surely &s;hould the Doctor write a <HI>Foli|um Plau&s;trale,</HI> a Volumn big
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enough to load a Cart, yet if he bring no better proofs to main|tain his Tenet, then I have yet &s;een, I Que&s;tion who wil believe him?</P>
<P>For my own particular, in this thing, I have done nothing out of any &s;pirit of oppo&s;ition to the Per&s;on, or parts of any, nay I could heartily wi&s;h that the Do|ctor had &s;pent his <HI>Operam &amp; Oleum,</HI> his Time and Talents, on &s;ome better Subject, which might have furthered his Ac|count in the Day of the Lord, when we mu&s;t all give an Ac|count of our Steward&s;hips; and not to have fed mens fancies with lying Vanities, and that in a time when the World &s;urfets with them already. I find the Builders of this <HI>Babel</HI> &s;trange|ly divided among&s;t them&s;elves, both about the Place, where this
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Raign &s;hall be, whether in Hea|ven, or on Earth, whether in <HI>Ieru&s;alem&punc;</HI> or in the whole World?</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> About the Per&s;ons, whe|ther the Martyrs only &s;hall Raign this thou&s;and yeers, or whether all the Saints &s;hall not Raign with them, or whether there &s;hall be no wicked ones mixt among&s;t them?</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3.</HI> About the manner of their Raign, whether it &s;hall be in carnal delight, or &s;piritual, or both?</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4.</HI> That they may be &s;ure to di&s;agree in all the principal points they differ in the time, when this Raign &s;hall begin; &s;ome &s;ay, before the day of judgment; others &s;ay, in the day of judgement,
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others &s;ay, after it. Scarce any of the Chilia&s;ts but hath his pe|culiar conceits in the&s;e points. Truth is but one, errour is ma|nifold.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> Whereas &s;ome may think this a &s;mal and harmle&s;s errour, not worth confuting.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> I an&s;wer, <HI>1.</HI> As no &s;in &s;imply con&s;idered in it &s;elf is little, becau&s;e there is no little God that we &s;in again&s;t, &s;o no er|rour in it &s;elf is litile, becau&s;e 'tis again&s;t the &s;ame glorious and infinite Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> As little &s;ins, &s;o little er|rours (like little wedges) make way for greater; and he that makes <NOTE PLACE="marg">Qui minima &s;perint, paula|tim decidit. <HI>Aug.</HI></NOTE>no con&s;cience of little errours, wil (when a Temptation comes) make no con&s;cience of greater.</P>
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<HI>3.</HI> This Tenet is not &s;o harm|le&s;s and &s;mal as &s;ome imagine. Is that a &s;mal matter which over|throws the fundamentals of Reli|gion? making two bodily di&s;tinct Re&s;urrections, two dayes of judg|ment, three A&s;centions and De|&s;centions of Chri&s;t? Is that a harmle&s;s opinion which breeds Se|curity, Sen&s;uality, Anarchy? Is that a harmle&s;s opinion which overthrows Ordinances, Magi&s;tra|cy, Mini&s;tery? Is that a little er|rour which perverts the Creed, and wre&s;ts the Lords Prayer, wracking that Peti ion, Thy King|dom come, to a de&s;ire of the coming of their <HI>Millenarian</HI> Kingdom: when the Kingdom we pray for in the Lords Prayer. <HI>1.</HI> 'Tis the Fa|thers Kingdom, and Secondly, 'Tis purely Spiritual: when theirs is the Sons Kingdom (as them|&s;elves confe&s;s) and is mixt, being
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partly &s;piritual, and partly con&s;i&s;t|ing of corporal delights.</P>
<P>'Tis my judgement, that if the&s;e Opinioni&s;ts be a little longer tole|rated, they wil <HI>Practically</HI> con|vince tho&s;e of the danger of this Tenets who wil not <HI>Nationally</HI> beleeve it. That the Peace and Pro&s;perity of this Church and State may be pre&s;erved, that the Lord at la&s;t would bring us, not to a Millenarian, Utopian, Imagi|nary, Terre&s;trial Kingdom; but to a Real, Caele&s;tial and Everla&s;t|ing Kingdom, is and &s;hall be the Prayer, of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thy Servant in Chri&s;t, for Chri&s;t and His King|dom&punc; THO: HALL.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A TREATISE again&s;t the MILLENARIES.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen I con&s;idered how &s;trangely this opinion of the <HI>Mil|lenaries</HI> &s;pread and got ground every where, to the great di&s;turbance of Magi&s;tracy and Mini&s;tery, of Church and State; I conceived that I might do very good &s;er|vice to undeceive people in this particular. Thereupon (having but lightly touched the point before) I fell more clo&s;ely to &s;tudy it, and finding that Dr&punc; <HI>Homes</HI> his Book in Folio was u|niver&s;ally cried up (by &s;uch as
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were tickled with this fancy) as the <HI>Chilia&s;torum Achilles,</HI> the one and onely Book in this kind; I took &s;ome pains to read his Book more exactly.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t confe&s;s I have read Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> his book in Folio <HI>u&s;|que ad nau&s;eam,</HI> till I was a weary of it, yea I do &s;eriou&s;ly profe&s;s that I am more fully convinced of the vanity of that fancy &s;ince I read the Drs. Book, then ever I was before; I may &s;ay of it as 'twas &s;aid of Dr. <HI>Heylins</HI> Book in defence of St. <HI>George,</HI> &s;ome doubted whe|ther ever there were &s;uch a St. but &s;ince they read this book they believe there never was &s;uch a Saint in being; &s;o &s;ome have doubted whether there might not be a Per&s;onal Reign of Chri&s;t on earth, but &s;ince they have read Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> his Book they are fully &s;atisfied
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that there is no &s;uch thing. 'Tis <NOTE PLACE="marg">One &s;aid of a Verbal Dr. that he &s;pake no|thing in as ma|ny Languages as ever he heard one. V. Mr. <HI>Ley</HI> Sunday a Sabbath cap. 8. p. 57.</NOTE>true, the Dr. hath &s;aid more for it then any man I know (for whereas others lye in Quarto, his in Folio) but how little to the purpo&s;e I come now briefly to examine. True, there is none that ever yet I &s;aw which hath an&s;wered the Dr. as judging his Book (I &s;uppo&s;e) unworthy of an an&s;wer&punc; yet &s;ince 'tis &s;o high|ly cried up as an invincible piece by the Favourers of that <HI>Tenet,</HI> (for when they can &s;ay nothing, they &s;end us to Dr. <HI>Homes.)</HI> I &s;hall therefore 1. &s;hew them how he &s;tates the Que&s;tion.</P>
<P N="2">2. How he proves it.</P>
<P N="3">3. I &s;hall an&s;wer his mo&s;t material proofs. And fourthly for brevity &s;ake, I &s;hall refer them to &s;uch as clear any Text more fully.</P>
<P>The Doctors <HI>Tenet</HI> upon &s;earch (for he hath not &s;tated the
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Que&s;tion Methodically and Schola&s;tickly as he &s;hould have done) I find to be this, <HI>viz.</HI> That all the Saints departed &s;hal Ri&s;e and Reign with Chri&s;t a thou&s;and yeers on earth (but the wicked &s;hall not <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Behold two Re&s;urrections! whereof one is Home&s;tical, it ri&s;eth out of the Drs. fancy.</NOTE>Ri&s;e till the end of the thou&s;and yeers) in a wonderful, both <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Spirits are not very vi&s;ible, nor do they u&s;e to eat and drink.</NOTE>vi&s;ible, yet &s;piritual glorious manner, drink|ing Wine, eating Dainties, and enjoying all the lawful <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">This will plea&s;e a Turk well.</NOTE>plea|&s;ures which all the Creatures then redeemed from their an|cient &s;lavery can afford. All this &s;hall be before the time of the <NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">It &s;eems there are two dayes of judgement.</NOTE>ultimate and general Re&s;ur|rection and day of Judgement; Then &s;hall the Jews be rai&s;ed, and all Antichri&s;tian and <NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Good news for Levellers, and fifth Mo|narch men.</NOTE>&s;e|cular powers that do not love the members of Chri&s;t, &s;ubmit unto his Laws and advance his intere&s;t in this de&s;ign, be ruin|ed. Then &s;hall the Saints on
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<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">In Heaven he &s;hould &s;ay.</NOTE> earth be Sin-le&s;s, Sorrow|le&s;s, Temptation-le&s;s, Death|le&s;s; having a confluence of all comforts, a perfection of all qualities, and <NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Surely this Reign is not yet begun.</NOTE>union among&s;t them&s;elves on earth. Then &s;hall there be no Magi&s;trats, no coer|cive <NOTE PLACE="marg">Oh happy Le|yelling-age! oh golden licenti|ous times.</NOTE>Superiorities, no Church Cen&s;ures, no Fears, Wants, Weakne&s;&s;es, De&s;ertions or La|bours, &amp;c.</P>
<P>All this happine&s;s (&s;aith Dr. <HI>Homes)</HI> you mu&s;t expect on earth; but take heed you be not &s;o unhappy as to believe it, lea&s;t you be deluded by it&punc; for Dr. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Al&s;teed</HI> for the <HI>Millen.</HI> p. 79. Engli&s;h.</NOTE><HI>Al&s;teed</HI> can tell Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> that Godly men for the whole &s;pace of tho&s;e thou&s;and yeers (except|ing <HI>Martyrs)</HI> &s;hall be &s;ubject both to &s;in and death&punc; and &s;hall have the wicked intermixt with them. <HI>Habemus confitentum re|um.</HI> One of the&s;e Doctors mu&s;t needs be in an error, I leave
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them to reconcile them&s;elves, whil&s;t I go on.</P>
<P>Here you &s;ee is much &s;aid, but how is it proved? Why, the Dr. proves is very Lear|nedly.</P>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg">See what rotten Pillars he hath to uphold his tottering build|ings.</NOTE> 1. By Heathens, l. 4. c. 2.</P>
<P N="2">2. By Mahumetans, l. 4. c. 3.</P>
<P N="3">3. By the Jewi&s;h Rabbins (l. 4. c. 4.) he hath pickt it out of their <HI>Taxgum's</HI> and their <HI>Talmuds,</HI> &amp; the Turks <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Flectere &s;i ne|que &s;eperos A|cheronta&punc; move|bo.</NOTE><HI>Alcoran,</HI> yet <HI>Wil|liam Burton</HI> (the Tran&s;lator of <HI>Al&s;teed)</HI> takes upon him to prove it out of <HI>Tieho Brahe,</HI> who <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Lactant. Instit. l.</HI> 7. proves this Prophe&s;ie&punc; by <HI>Virgils</HI> Ver&s;es, and tells us that the Poets fables of the golden age &s;hall now come to pa&s;s: forgetting that <HI>Miranda ca|nunt, &s;ed non credenda Poetae.</HI></NOTE>tells you of a fiery Trigon, which progno&s;ticats great peace to the world to come: yea the <HI>Sibils</HI> prophe&s;ies are brought for proof of this point; and the Apochrypha 2 <HI>E&s;d.</HI> 13. 39. 40. yea and <HI>Al&s;teed</HI> tells us of <HI>Phae|nomena</HI> or Apparitions in the Heavens, which portend (I know not what) &s;trange and
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extraordinary things.</P>
<Q><L>Qui amant ip&s;i &s;ibi &s;omnia fin|gunt.</L></Q>
<P>When men be enamoured with an opinion, then they dream that every thing makes for them, though it be never &s;o much again&s;t them. How Hea|thens, Mahumetans, and Rab|bins, (which abound with lyes and fables) &s;hould come to the knowledge of &s;uch a Spiritual, Sinle&s;s, Sanctified and Glori|ous Kingdom, is a Paradox to me.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;Hae manus Trojam erigent?</L>
<L>Nullas habet &s;pes Troja &s;i tales habet. </L></Q>
<BIBL>Sen. Trag.</BIBL>
<P>If <HI>Millenaries</HI> have no better Prophe&s;ies then the&s;e, no won|der if their Fabrick totter.</P>
<P>The Dr. therefore &s;u&s;pecting
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the&s;e goes farther to the Greek and Latin Fathers, &amp; to Modern writers. The Drs. Quotations I &s;hall an&s;wer as the Dr. doth Dr. <HI>Prideaux</HI> his Argument <HI>Te&s;timo|nio Humano.</HI> His Argument (&s;aith he) from meer Authorities of men is incon&s;iderable and not worth an&s;wering. Mo&s;t true of Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> his Argument in this kind, and whereas the Dr. pleads Antiquity, Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> &s;hall an&s;wer Dr. <HI>H.</HI> out of <HI>Ter|tullian, Antiquitas &s;ine Veritate vetu&s;tas est erroris.</HI> Antiquity without Verity is of no Validity. See how &s;martly Mr. <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">In his Arrow again&s;t &s;epara|tion (an elabo|rate piece) p. 340.</NOTE><HI>John Paget (Schi&s;maticorum ille malle|us)</HI> reproves Mr. <HI>Ain&s;worth</HI> for his &s;o frequent alledging of <HI>Tal|mudick</HI> and <HI>Rabbinical</HI> te&s;timo|nies. <HI>'Tis an offen&s;ive thing</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>&s;o abundantly to alledge &s;uch Authors for our guids unto the My&s;teries of Religion, as do a|bound</HI>
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<HI>with innumerable dotages, Pre&s;umptions and vain Traditi|ons, lying Vi&s;ions, fained Mira|cles, prodigious and mon&s;trous Fables; &s;uch are the Thalmudi&s;ts and Cabali&s;ts, there is almost no work nor Word of God which they do not defile with their Ele&s;ies.</HI> And then goeth on in giving many in&s;tances to the end of the book: yet the&s;e are one of Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> his Pillars.</P>
<P>Q. But doth the Dr. bring no Scripture for what he holds?</P>
<P>A. O yes, he cites Scripture in abundance; what Heretick is there, that hath not his <HI>Verbum Domini</HI> for what he holds? Even the Devil him&s;elf when he di&s;puted with our Saviour had his <HI>Scriptum e&s;t,</HI> he cited Scripture though corruptly.</P>
<P>The Dr. cites 51. proofs out of the Old Te&s;tament, almo&s;t all borrowed from Doctor
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<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">His Treati&s;e for the <HI>Mille|naries.</HI> p. 38. to 56. where he cites 65. Texts for this opini|on.</NOTE> <HI>Al&s;teed,</HI> or Dr. <HI>Gouge</HI> his Treati&s;e of the calling of the Jews, p. 9. to 83. I &s;hall &s;et them down in order as the Dr. re|cites them, the bare rehear&s;all will be confutation to the mo&s;t of them: for either they pro|phe&s;ie of Chri&s;ts fir&s;t coming in the fle&s;h. 2. Or of the Jews de|liverance from Babyloni&s;h cap|tivity. 3. Or of the calling of the Jews when there &s;hall be a &s;piritual re&s;tauration of the Church, or the like.</P>
<P>To prove that Chri&s;t &s;hall reign with the Saints on earth a thou&s;and yeers, the Dr. Quotes.</P>
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<ITEM>1. <HI>Gen.</HI> 1. 26, 27, 28. collated with <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 8.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Gen.</HI> 12. 1, 2, 3, 6. and 17. 1. to 9.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Gen.</HI> 18. 78. and 22. 15, 16.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>Gen.</HI> 26. 4.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>Gen.</HI> 48. 19. and 49. 26.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. <HI>Balaams</HI> Prophe&s;ie <HI>Numb.</HI> 24.</ITEM>
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7. <HI>Deut.</HI> 30. 1. to 10.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. <HI>Deut.</HI> 32. 15. to 19.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. <HI>Neh.</HI> 1&punc; 8.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 8. and 110. yea the whole Book of P&s;alms in Three Heads.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 2. 1. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 9. 6.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>13.</HI> I&s;ay <HI>11.</HI> per totum.</ITEM>
<ITEM><NOTE PLACE="marg">Behold a well growen Or|chard, and a Nur&s;ery of Truth! &s;aith Mr. <HI>Sterry.</HI></NOTE> 14. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 14. 1. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>15. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 24. 23.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>16.</HI> I&s;ay <HI>25&punc;</HI> per totum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>17. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 33. 20. 21&punc;</ITEM>
<ITEM>18. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 34. 1. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>19. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 45. 14. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>20.</HI> I&s;ay <HI>49.</HI> per totum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>21. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 54. 11. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>22. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 59.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>23.</HI> I&s;ay <HI>60.</HI> per totum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>24. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 63. 1. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>25. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 65. 17. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>26. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 66. 5. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>27. <HI>Jer.</HI> 16. 14, 15. collat. with 23. 3.</ITEM>
<ITEM>28. <HI>Jer.</HI> 30. &amp; 31.</ITEM>
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29. <HI>Jer.</HI> 32. 37.</ITEM>
<ITEM>30. <HI>Jer.</HI> 50. 17.</ITEM>
<ITEM>31. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 28. 24&punc; 25, 26.</ITEM>
<ITEM>32. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 34. 11. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>33. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 37. <HI>total.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>34. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 37. <HI>total.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>35. <HI>Dan.</HI> 2. 31. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>36. <HI>Dan.</HI> 7. <HI>total.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>37. <HI>Dan.</HI> 11. &amp; 12.</ITEM>
<ITEM>38. <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 1. 10. 11.</ITEM>
<ITEM>39. <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 3. 4. 5.</ITEM>
<ITEM>40. <HI>Joel</HI> 2. 28. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>41. <HI>Joel</HI> 3. 1. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>42. <HI>Amos</HI> 9. 11. collated with <HI>Obad&punc;</HI> 17.</ITEM>
<ITEM>43. <HI>Micah</HI> 4. <HI>total.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>44. <HI>Zoph.</HI> 3. 9. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>45. <HI>Zach.</HI> 2. 6. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>46. <HI>Zach.</HI> 6. 12.</ITEM>
<ITEM>47. <HI>Zach.</HI> 8. 20. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>48. <HI>Zach.</HI> 10. 3. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>49. <HI>Zach.</HI> 12. <HI>total.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>50. <HI>Zach.</HI> 14. 3. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>51. <HI>Mal.</HI> 4. <HI>total.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>If you count the&s;e proofs,
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they are many; but if you &s;eri|ou&s;ly <NOTE PLACE="marg">Si numeres, multd; Si pon|deres, pauca.</NOTE>weigh them, you will not find one to the purpo&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> Though none of the&s;e Scriptures apart prove the point, yet &s;ayes the Dr. lay them all together, and then they'l do it.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Lay them and 51. more &s;uch proofs together (for 'tis ea&s;ie gathering proofs to prove Chri&s;ts Incarnation, the <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Though this al&s;o is contro|verted by the Learned <HI>V. Pa|raeum in Rom.</HI> 11. 25. <HI>Dub.</HI> 18. in <HI>Pryn</HI> in his Demurrer again&s;t the Jews admi&s;&s;ion into <HI>England.</HI></NOTE>calling of the Jews, I&s;raels deliverance from Babyloni&s;h captivity, and the Spiritual Glo|ry of Go&s;pel-times) and they will never &s;atisfie any &s;ober Reader as to the proof of this point; I mu&s;t confe&s;s I &s;eldom &s;mile at my Study, yet when I ob&s;erved the Drs, Learned-non|&s;en&s;e, and his gro&s;s <HI>non-&s;equi|tors,</HI> I could not forbear: and let any Ingenious Reader take any one of the&s;e 51. proofs a|part, or altogether (as the Dr.
<PB N="14" REF="14">
directs him) and put but ergo Chri&s;t &s;hall Reign with the Saints on earth a 1000. years, and he cannot forbear &s;miling at lea&s;t, to &s;ee how the Drs. proofs hang together like ropes of &s;and, and come as neer toge|ther as St. <HI>Germans</HI> lips which were nine miles a&s;under. The Drs. Arguments for the <HI>Mille|nary</HI> fancy, are like the Papi&s;ts for the Popes Supremacy. E. g. <HI>Peter</HI> healed the &s;ick with his <NOTE PLACE="marg">See more in <HI>Willets Sy|nop&s;. Tetra&s;tyl. Pillar</HI> 3. p. 1296. fol.</NOTE>&s;hadow, ergo he was head of the Church. <HI>Pauls</HI> calls him <HI>Cephas,</HI> ergo he was chief of the Apo&s;tles; Chri&s;t bid him put up his &s;word, ergo the Pope hath right to both &s;words. Or like the <HI>Quakers</HI> con&s;equences; fle&s;h and blood &s;hall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, ergo there &s;hall be no Re&s;urrection. The Saints &s;hall judge the world here, ergo there &s;hall be no
<PB N="15" REF="14">
other&punc; Judgment. (this is <HI>Nay|lers</HI> Logick.)</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> The Scripture holds forth that the la&s;t dayes &s;hall be glorious dayes, ergo Chri&s;t &s;hall then Reigne per&s;onally on earth a thou&s;and yeers.</P>
<P><HI>Sol.</HI> It follows not, for all|though the la&s;t dayes &s;hall be glorious in re&s;pect of the great light of the Go&s;pel, and the glorious Priviledges and Liber|ty which the Church &s;hall then enjoy, yet in re&s;pect of the abu&s;e of that Liberty and tho&s;e Privi|ledges, &s;o the la&s;t dayes will be Perilous times, <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">See more in my Comment. on that Text.</NOTE>2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 1. True, in Go&s;pel times the bounds of the Church &s;hall be enlarged, Antichri&s;ts King|dom &s;hall decrea&s;e, and Chri&s;ts Kingdom will increa&s;e, the mountain of the Lord &s;hall be exalted in the top of the moun|tains, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;ay.</HI> 2. 2.</NOTE>and the Churches Privi|ledges
<PB N="16" REF="15">
will be advanced: but that ever the Church &s;hould come to that height of happine&s;s <HI>on earth,</HI> as to be free from trou|bles internal and external, and to Raign with Chri&s;t here for a thou&s;and yeers in a &s;in-le&s;s, &s;or|row-le&s;s, temptation-le&s;s con|dition (as <HI>D. H.)</HI> phra&s;eth it; is a meer dream, and hath no ground in Scripture.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> Though many of the&s;e 51 proofs may be impertinent, yet &s;ome may be pertinent.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> I &s;hall therefore call out the mo&s;t pertinent, for the bare reading of mo&s;t of tho&s;e Texts, is confutation &s;ufficient. The fir&s;t great place is <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 8. compared with <HI>Gene&s;is</HI> 2. 26, 27, 28. which &s;peaks of <HI>Adams</HI> dominion over the Creature in the &s;tate of innocency; but the 8. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> &s;peaks directly, litte|rally and properly of Chri&s;t the
<PB N="17" REF="15">
&s;econd <HI>Adam</HI> if we will believe the Apo&s;tle <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">See 6 Rea&s;. to prove that <HI>A|dam</HI> is not the man here meant. In Dr. <HI>Gouge</HI> his comment. on that place p. 154.</NOTE><HI>Heb&punc;</HI> 2. 6, 7, 8. So that the Drs. collating of the&s;e places is invalid&punc; 'Tis true what is here &s;poken of Chri&s;t is proper to the Saints by vertue of their union with Chri&s;t, the dignities belonging to Chri&s;t the head, appertain to his my|&s;tical body the Church, which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s called Chri&s;t, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12. 12. All is theirs, becau&s;e they are Chri&s;ts. Now what do <HI>Millena|ries</HI> gather hence? Why 'tis this, that &s;ince Chri&s;t is thus ex|alted, and the Saints in him to have dominion over the crea|tures, &amp;c. <HI>Ergo,</HI> they &s;hall reign with Chri&s;t a thou&s;and years on earth. Who &s;ees not the vanity of &s;uch Logick?</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">So Dr. <HI>Tho. Goodwin</HI> in his Ser. on <HI>E|phe&s;.</HI> 1. 21, 22. &s;tiled, the to come.</NOTE> <HI>Obj. Heb.</HI> 2. 5. The Apo&s;tle &s;peaks of a world to come, <HI>ergo</HI> he &s;peaks of this thou&s;and yeers raign to come.</P>
<P><PB N="18" REF="16">
<HI>An&s;w.</HI> What a &s;ad thing is to father our vain fancies on the Prophets and Apo&s;ties, and to make them &s;peak what never &s;o much as came into their <NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;ia Dei or|bis futurus. q&punc;in eae futuri e|rant novi ho|mines, nova lex novus Rex&punc; nova Sacramenta, no|vum Chri&s;ti regnum, non temporale &s;ed Spirituale per fidem &amp; grati|am qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ous in|choamus re|gnum caeleste. <HI>Ribera.</HI></NOTE>thoughts. By the world to come is meant the Church of Chri&s;t under the Go&s;pel, which is cal|led the world to come; 1. In relation to the Church that li|ved before and under the Law, who longed to &s;ee this world, <HI>John</HI> 8. 56. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 10, 11. 2. Becau&s;e of the re&s;tauration of all things by Chri&s;t begun al|ready, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 17. and &s;hall be fini&s;ht hereafter at the Re&s;urre|ction, <NOTE PLACE="marg">This new world of the Go&s;pel began wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">h Chri&s;t fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t coming in the fle&s;h, and its ac|compli&s;hment is at the l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t day. See M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Baylys.</HI> Di&s;&s;wa&s;. 11. p. 246.</NOTE>which is called the time of the re&s;titution of all things&punc; <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">phe&s;.</HI> 1. 10. <HI>Q. D.</HI> O ye He|brews you are the beginning of th s world to come, and of this new Chri&s;tian age, God hath made you &s;ubject not to Angels, but to Chri&s;t; wherefore you
<PB N="19" REF="16">
mu&s;t not obey them, or <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> or the Ceremonial Law, but you mu&s;t now obey Chri&s;t your Head and King; for in &s;ubmitting to him, and taking him upon his own terms, you become Lords of all, and have intere&s;t in all that Chri&s;t hath. Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> then is mi&s;erably out, when he affirms (p. 134.) that this 8. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> was never ful|filled to the Saints &s;ince <HI>Adams</HI> fall. They were never thus crowned with glory and ho|nour, their enemies were never thus &s;tilled, they could never yet &s;ing this 8. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> as a prai&s;e for things done, but onely in hope it &s;hall be done. What gro&s;s ignorance (to &s;ay no more) is here! Are not the Saints already Crowned in Chri&s;t? Doth not the Spou&s;e partake of the glory of her Hu&s;|band? Do not they Triumph in
<PB N="20" REF="17">
Chri&s;t over Death and Hell, and Sin and Satan, and all their enemies? <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 33. <HI>ad finem.</HI> How then are the&s;e things not done? This Dr. &s;hould clear Texts, and he doth all he can to darken them, and wre&s;t them to maintain his dreams: in&s;omuch that he confe&s;&s;eth that &s;ome of his proofs &s;eem to &s;ome men to &s;ay little to his purpo&s;e. Had he &s;aid all his proofs, he had &s;po|ken but truth.</P>
<P N="2">2. Another grand proof is <HI>E|zek.</HI> 37. (I pa&s;s by many of his proofs as Ridiculous, not Pon|derous; though the Dr. is plea|&s;ed oft times to tell us how weighty they be) In this chap|ter we find I&s;rael lying in Baby|loni&s;h captivity, like dry bones without any hope or likelyhood of deliverance; yet the Lord promi&s;eth by his Almighty Power to bring them out of it.
<PB N="21" REF="17">
What is this to the purpo&s;e?</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> But &s;ays the Dr. the chapt. &s;peaks of the calling of the Jews.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The whole chapt. doth not, but admit the latter part do prophe&s;ie that in Go&s;pel times Jews and Gentiles &s;hall be uni|ted &amp; make one vi&s;ible Church under Chri&s;t, and that he will be &s;piritually pre&s;ent with them in his Word and Ordinances; yet how will it follow, that be|cau&s;e the Jews &s;hall be called, <HI>ergo</HI> Chri&s;t &s;hall reigne with them per&s;onally on earth a thou&s;and yeers. I am even wea|ry of this &s;tuffe, and therefore &s;hall make ha&s;te.</P>
<P N="3">3. The next Text is <HI>Dan.</HI> 2. 31. to 36. and 7. 14. This Text had been plainer if the Dr. had never medled with it. He hath an excellent faculty in mang|ling Scripture.</P>
<P><PB N="22" REF="18">
<HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1. The&s;e places are very My&s;tical and Prophetical, and are oft times by Sectaries &s;trained beyond their &s;cope and meaning. 2. That this King|dom which <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;peaks of, can not be their Utopia and ima|ginary Kingdom, is plain from the Text it &s;elf, for it tells us that the Lord &s;hal &s;et up a King|dom, which &s;hall de&s;troy the Kingdoms of the earth, and <HI>this Kingdom &s;hall la&s;t for ever and ever.</HI> So that <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;peaks of Chri&s;ts Kingdom as everla&s;t|ing, but the&s;e mens Kingdom &s;hall la&s;t but a thou&s;and yeers, and therefore 'tis not this King|dom mentioned in <HI>Daniel.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">See more in Mr. <HI>Loves</HI> Ser. on <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 3. 4. p. 70. 71. and Mr. <HI>Bayly's</HI> Di&s;&s;wa|&s;ive, p. 248. 249&punc;</NOTE> <HI>Obj. Dan.</HI> 12. 2. Speak of the Re&s;urrection of all to judge|ment. See Mr. <HI>Bayly's</HI> an&s;wer to that Text in his Di&s;&s;wa&s;ive. 1. Part. p. 238. &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But hath the Dr. no
<PB N="23" REF="18">
New Te&s;tament proofs?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> O yes, he cites no le&s;s then 24. Texts, yet <HI>(Pace canti viri dixerim)</HI> not one to the purpo&s;e. 1. He cites <HI>John</HI> 19. 37. <HI>they &s;hall look on him whom th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">y have pierced; ergo,</HI> they &s;hall look on him with bodily eyes, and &s;hall reign with him a thou|&s;and yeers.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> Rev. <HI>1. 7.</HI> Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye &s;hall &s;ee him. Ergo, <HI>Chri&s;t &s;hall reign vi|&s;ibly on earth a thou&s;and yeers.</HI></P>
<P N="3"><HI>3.</HI> Matth. <HI>24. 30&punc;</HI> Then &s;hall appear the &s;ign of the Son of Man. ergo.</P>
<P N="4">4. 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2. 1. <HI>I be&s;eech you by the coming of Chri&s;t. ergo,</HI> Chri&s;t &s;hall come and reign a thou&s;and yeers.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Matth.</HI> 26. 29. <HI>I will not drink of the fruit of the Vine, till I drink it with you new in my Fa|thers Kingdom. Ergo,</HI> Chri&s;t &s;hall
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<NOTE PLACE="marg"><P><HI>Lactantius In|stit. l.</HI> 7. &s;peak|ing of this gol|den age, tells us that the Cliffs of the Moun|tains &s;hall &s;weat out honey, and the Springs and Rivers &s;hall flow with wine and milk.</P>
<P>This would be good news for <HI>Epicures.</HI></P></NOTE> raign with the Saints on earth a thou&s;and yeers, and they &s;hall drink wine together. This Text hath been often urged to me by the <HI>Millenaries,</HI> and therefore I &s;hall clear it. 1. By the King|dom of the Father is not here meant any Kingdom or Reign here on earth, but the King|dom of Heaven, as appears, <HI>Matth.</HI> 13. 43. <HI>Then &s;hall the Righteous &s;hine as the Sun in the Kingdom of the Father. (i. e.)</HI> in the Kingdom of Heaven; which is called the Fathers Kingdom.</P>
<P N="1">1. Becau&s;e there he more e&s;pe|cially manife&s;ts his glory.</P>
<P N="2">2. Becau&s;e the Pre&s;idency and chief Government of this Kingdom re&s;ts in him.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Kingdom which the <HI>Millenaries</HI> expect, is called Chri&s;ts Kingdom and not the Fathers, but the Kingdom here &s;poken of, is called the Fa|thers
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Kingdom, not Chri&s;ts.</P>
<P N="4">4. By wine here is not meant any corporal drinking, for glo|rified, &s;piritualized bodies which are made like unto Chri&s;ts glo|rious body, need no &s;uch low things as eating and drinking <NOTE PLACE="marg">Scriptura &s;olet <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="4 letters">o|rum &s;pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">itu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ia per corporalia <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> exprim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">|re, p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">r <HI>Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">a|ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;in.</HI></NOTE>are. But Metaphorically and My&s;tically it notes that &s;weet joy and eternal comfort which the Saints &s;hall have with Chri&s;t their Lord and Head in his Hea|venly Kingdom. This Cele&s;tial glory and happine&s;s Chri&s;ts cals New Wine <HI>(i. e.)</HI> Wine of ano|ther kind, Spiritual, Intellectual Wine. 2. Or New Wine, be|cau&s;e more Excellent, for &s;o the Hebrews are wont to call a thing that is Excellent, New; as <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 96. 1. and 98. 1. <HI>Sing a new Song, (i. e.)</HI> an Excellent &s;ong: &s;o <HI>Heb.</HI> 8. 8. 1 <HI>John</HI> 2. 7, 8.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> But did not Chri&s;t eat and drink with his Apo&s;tles af|ter
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his Re&s;urrection; and if &s;o, why may not the Saints al&s;o?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Suppo&s;e Chri&s;t did eat and drink with his Apo&s;tles, yet he did it not now more <HI>hu|mano &amp; con&s;ueto,</HI> &s;o as formerly <NOTE PLACE="marg">Bibit &amp; co|medit &s;ed obiter &amp; tant&ugrave;m ad probandum &s;e re&s;urrexi&s;&s;e. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lap.</NOTE>he had done. He did not now eat or drink for any bodily nouri&s;hment or refre&s;hment, ha|ving no need of meats or drinks, nor yet in a &s;ocial communion; onely for the confirming of the Faith of his Apo&s;tles in the cer|tainty of his Re&s;urrection, he &s;hewed them what he could do. This was not in him now any natural action, and therefore he over-looks it as a thing by the <HI>by,</HI> telling his Apo&s;tles that he would no more thus drink with them.</P>
<P>His other proofs are to very little purpo&s;e, as
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Math.</HI> 23. 38.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Luke</HI> 19. 11. to 28.</ITEM>
<ITEM><PB N="27" REF="20">
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Abundance of Old and New Te&s;tament proofs are brought for this Tenet by tho&s;e who little regard either Te&s;tament fur|ther then it &s;uits with their own fancies.</NOTE> <HI>Act.</HI> 3. 19. 20, 21.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Philip.</HI> 2. 9, 10.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Math.</HI> 24. 13.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Luke</HI> 1. 31, 32.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Luke</HI> 21. 24.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Luke</HI> 22. 28. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Acts</HI> 1. 6.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rom.</HI> 11. 25. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15. 21.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3. 15.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Revel.</HI> 2. 25. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Revel.</HI> 3. 21. &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rev.</HI> 5. 10.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Revel.</HI> 18. 19. &amp; 21.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3. 13.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>To all the&s;e proofs, put <HI>Ergo,</HI> The Saints &s;hall Reign on earth a thou&s;and yeers, and for|bear &s;miling if you can.</P>
<P>Indeed the Dr. from fir&s;t to la&s;t doth <HI>Petere Principium,</HI> he begs the Que&s;tion, and takes that for granted which he never proves. The <GAP DESC="foreign"> and thing in controver&s;ie is, whether
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Chri&s;t &s;hall per&s;onally Reigne on earth with the Saints for a thou&s;and yeers? Now in&s;teed of bringing places to prove this, he brings Texts to prove the calling of the Jews, which no body doubts of, or that Chri&s;t &s;hall come in the fle&s;h, or that he &s;hall come to Judge the world; which no &s;ober men once que&s;tion.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But hath the Dr. no other places to help him at a dead lift?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> O yes, he hath two &s;trong holds (in his own con|ceit) and therefore when he is at a lo&s;s, hither he runs for &s;hel|ter, to as much purpo&s;e as <HI>Col|liar</HI> (that black Sectary) runs to 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 14. and 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4. 10. to prove the lawfulne&s;s of <HI>Lay mens</HI> preaching, which yet he recites twenty times over in his Pam|phlet, as the Dr. doth the&s;e two
<PB N="29" REF="21">
Texts, the <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">This Text he cites four <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">es in two pages together, p. 94. 95. &s;uch weight he layes upon it.</NOTE>1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15. 24. to 29. and <HI>Revel.</HI> 20. 4. 5. 6. when the&s;e two Texts are cleared, all the Drs. building lies in the du&s;t, for the&s;e are the two pri|mary Pillars&punc; which &s;eem to up|hold this point, and two of the harde&s;t Texts in all the Bible: I &s;hall therefore take &s;ome pains to unfold them, and &s;hall &s;ift them to the bran, that if it be po&s;&s;ible we may not lo&s;e one grain of truth.</P>
<P><HI>To begin with the fir&s;t. 1</HI> Cor. <HI>15. 24.</HI> &amp;c. Then cometh the end when he &s;hall have delivered up the Kingdom to God even the Father, when he &s;hall have put down all Rule, and all Authority and Pow|er, &amp;c.</P>
<P>This Text is one of tho&s;e <GAP DESC="foreign">, which are hard to be under&s;tood; which <HI>Arians, Arminians, Anabapti&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Mil|lenaries</HI> have wre&s;ted to their
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own de&s;truction. The <HI>Millena|ries</HI> fondly gather from hence, That the Church &s;hall enjoy &s;uch a flouri&s;hing time on earth, that they &s;hall have no enemies, no &s;in, no &s;orrow, no Rulers or Powers to mole&s;t us. Whereas the Apo&s;tles drift is onely this; he had before proved by many irrefragable Arguments the Re|&s;urrection of the body, but &s;ome might de&s;ire to know in what condition the world &s;hould be after the Re&s;urrection; whether they &s;hould not need Magi&s;trates and Mini&s;ters then? No &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, we &s;hall not need them, Why &s;o? <HI>For then comes the end,</HI> viz. of the world (of which end Chri&s;t &s;peaks, <HI>Matth.</HI> 24. 3. 14. and the Apo&s;tle 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4. 7.) Magi&s;tracy then &s;hal cea&s;e, and the Mini&s;try &s;hall cea&s;e, the Churches Warfare &s;hall cea&s;e, for her enemies &s;hall then
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be totally de&s;troyed, and &s;he &s;hall enjoy perfect and imme|diate communion with God in Heaven, who will be all in all to her, &s;o that &s;he &s;hal have no need of Sun, Moon, or Stars, for the Lord him&s;elf will be her light.</P>
<P><HI>Quest.</HI> But what will Chri&s;t then do?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> He will do two things. 1. He will deliver up the King|dom to God the Father. <HI>Q. D.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Non regnabit per media in medio ho&s;tium ut nunc, &s;ed omnibus aboli|tis tenebit Im|perium imme|diatum &s;olus cum Patr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp; Spiritu Sanct<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> ut Deus. <HI>Paraeus.</HI></NOTE>He will Raign no longer as now he Raigns; for now he Raignes in the mid&s;t of enemies, now he Rules mediately by Magi|&s;trates, by Mini&s;ters, by Ordi|nances, and by &s;upplies of the Spirit. But then <HI>viz.</HI> at the end of the world, before the day of Judgment and not after (as &s;ome would have it) this pre|&s;ent manner of admini&s;tration &s;hall cea&s;e, Chri&s;t will govern no more by Officers, but that
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Power and Kingdom which he hath received from his Father, he (having fini&s;ht the work which he gave him to do) &s;ur|renders it up unto him again, that &s;o God may be <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">(i. e.) Ut ple|no imperio &s;uos gubernot &s;ine Ministerio cre|atur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rum. H&icirc;c nos &s;ervat me|diis&punc; ibi his non erit opus, q. Deus erit om|nia (i e) pro quo&punc; is medio con&s;ervatio&punc; is quo nunc uti|tur in hac vita vario. <HI>Aretius.</HI></NOTE>All in all, and we may enjoy him no longer in the u&s;e of meanes, but immediately in full degrees of glory.</P>
<P><HI>Ob.</HI> But if Chri&s;t deliver up the Kingdom to his Father, then he will have no Kingdom (as Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> affirms) and there|fore le&s;t he &s;hould lack one, the Dr. hath framed one (in his U|topian brain) that &s;hall la&s;t him a thou&s;and yeers on earth. <HI>Cu|ra&s;ti prob&egrave;!</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Could the Dr. but have di&s;tingui&s;ht, he might have &s;a|ved that labour. Chri&s;t hath a double Kingdon. <NOTE N="1" PLACE="marg">Regnum na|turale</NOTE>A Natural and E&s;&s;ential Kingdom, due to Chri&s;t as he is God coe&s;&s;ential
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and coequal with his father, and this Chri&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth with his Father and the Spirit for ever.</P>
<P><NOTE N="2" PLACE="marg">Regnum Oe|conomicum.</NOTE> Chri&s;t hath an Oeconomi|cal and Mini&s;terial Di&s;pen&s;ato|ry Kingdom, as he is Mediator between God and Man, and this Kingdom which he hath recei|ved from his Father, he &s;hall &s;urrender up again unto his Fa|ther, after he hath &s;ubdued &s;in and death, and put all his eni|mies <NOTE PLACE="marg">Dicitur Chri|stus tradere re|gnum Deo Pa|tri, non re&s;pe|ctu Divinitatis, it a enim re|gnum habet aeternum cum Patre. neque regnum Poten|tiae quod in om|nes creaturas habet, illud enim nunquam deficiet; &s;ed Regnum Gra|tiae in Eccle&s;ia. <HI>Baldwin</HI> in lo|cum.</NOTE>under his feet. Not that upon this &s;urrender he cea&s;eth to be a King, for when he hath delivered up this his Mediatory Kingdom, yet is he a King &s;till, his Kingdom is an everla&s;ting Kingdom, it hath no end. <HI>(Dan.</HI> 2. 44. and 7. 14. 27. <HI>Micah</HI> 4. 7. <HI>Luke</HI> 1. 33. <HI>Heb.</HI> 1. 8. <HI>John.</HI> 17. 5. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 11. <HI>Revel.</HI> 11. 15.) Chri&s;t hath no Kingdom that is but of a thou&s;and yeers conti|nuance, the Scripture plainly
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tells us that his Kingdom is <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>V D. Reynolds in P&s;al.</HI> 110. 1. p. 7. and p. 78, 79.</NOTE>everla&s;ting. So that this delivering up of Chri&s;ts di&s;pen|&s;atory Kingdom is not a renoun|cing <NOTE PLACE="marg">Non &s;eparantur Pater &amp; Fili|us, regnat Pa|ter in Filio, regnabit Filius in Patre. Qua|lit as tant&ugrave;m regni mutabi|tur. <HI>Mu&s;cul.</HI></NOTE>of his power, but a chang|ing of the pre&s;ent manner of ad|mini&s;tration; 'tis not &s;imply a cea&s;ing to Reigne, but a cea|&s;ing to Reigne in that Media|tory manner as formerly. He is &s;till the Head and King of his Spou&s;e, onely he will not now govern her as formerly with Ordinance and Di&s;cipline, for the Church then will have no more need of them, being glo|rified and fully freed from &s;in and Satan. Then&punc; &s;hall Father, Son, and Holy Gho&s;t in Unity of E&s;&s;ence and Glory, begin to Raigne immediately over his Church in a new manner, <HI>viz.</HI> by him&s;elf without the u&s;e of Angels, men, or any helps of natural or &s;piritual life.</P>
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2. The Apo&s;tle tells us when Chri&s;t will deliver up this King|dom, <HI>viz.</HI> when he &s;hall have put down all Rule, and all Pow|er and Authority. The&s;e mu&s;t now cea&s;e, Chri&s;t will no lon|ger exerci&s;e his Power and Go|vernment by others. So that the words may be taken two wayes. 1. <HI>Largely,</HI> for the put|ting down of all Authority <HI>(i. e.)</HI> all lawfull powers and Gover|nours which were ordeined by God for the good of the world. Though Angels &s;hal &s;til remain, yet the Church now will have no need of them.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Re&s;trictively,</HI> for the &s;ub|duing of all the&s;e adver&s;ary Powers and Potentats which oppo&s;e the Kingdom of Chri&s;t. The context &s;eemes to carry it this way, v. 25. 26&punc; though the former &s;en&s;e may not be exclu|ded, for the words are gene|ral,
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<HI>All Rule, and all Authority be it good or bad.</HI> The Church will then have no need of good ones; and bad ones &s;hall no longer mole&s;t her, for the time of her warfare is accompli&s;ht.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Apo&s;tle having told us what &s;hall be the future con|dition of Chri&s;t Kingdom, now he tells us what &s;hall be the con|dition of Chri&s;t him&s;elf, V. 28. <HI>When all things &s;hall be &s;ubdued unto him, then &s;hall the Son him|&s;elf al&s;o be &s;ubject to him that put all things under him.</HI> Hence the <HI>Arrians</HI> &s;ubtilly cavil thus.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> If Chri&s;t deliver up the Kingdom to his Father, then he is inferior to his Father, and his Kingdom is not everla&s;ting, and by con&s;equence the Deity of Chri&s;t is over thrown.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Est fellacia &agrave; dicto &s;ecundum quid ad dictum &s;impliciter.</NOTE> <HI>An&s;w.</HI> This doth not follow, for though Chri&s;t do re&s;igne his Mediatory and Di&s;pen&s;atory
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Kingdom, &s;o that he rules not <NOTE PLACE="marg">Christus enim dicitur tra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">itu|rus regnum Pa|tri non &s;impli|citer, &s;ed <GAP DESC="foreign"> &amp; re|&s;pectu formae administratio|nis.</NOTE>by external Organs and In&s;tru|ments, yet he Raigns &s;till as God in his E&s;&s;ential Kingdom with his Father, for his King|dom is eternal, <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 9. 7.</P>
<P>2. <HI>Obj.</HI> They cavil thus. He that is &s;ubject to his Father is inferi|our to him, but Chri&s;t is &s;o, <HI>ergo.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Chri&s;t mu&s;t be con&s;i|dered according to his twofold nature, <HI>viz.</HI> his Humanity and his Deity. As he is God, &s;o he is Gods equal, <HI>Phil.</HI> 2&punc; 6. as man, &s;o he tells us the Father is greater then he, <HI>John</HI> 14. 28. As he is God, &s;o all Creatures are &s;ubject to him; but as he is our Mediator, &s;o he is &s;ubject to <NOTE PLACE="marg">Subjicitur Pa|tri non abdica|tione naturae aut Potentiae divinae, &s;ed de|po&s;itione officii Mediatoris &amp; Legationis commi&s;&s;ae. <HI>Paraeus.</HI></NOTE>his Father together with his My|&s;tical body the Church. Not as if he were not &s;ubject to his Fa|ther before, but becau&s;e then he &s;hall in the &s;ight of men and Angels publickly deliver up the
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Kingdom, and &s;o declare his &s;ubjection more openly: for then things in Scripture are &s;aid to be, when they are publickly manife&s;ted to be, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2. 7.</P>
<P>Now let us &s;ee what Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> his Aquiline eyes can &s;py in this Text for this 1000. yeers Raigne on earth.</P>
<P N="1">1. His fir&s;t profound Ob&s;er|vation from hence is this. <HI>That after the Ultimate day of Judge|ment Chri&s;t &s;hall have no King|dom nor Power,</HI> but how doth he prove this? Why, from 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15. 28. and how el&s;e? Why the &s;ame again and again <HI>u&s;que ad ravim</HI> till he dote again; like a <HI>Cuckow, Eandem cantile|num canit,</HI> he tells you the &s;ame &s;tory over and over, that he might boa&s;t and &s;ay, <HI>He is now become a Fool in Folio.</HI> Onely he de&s;ires you to ob&s;erve accord|ing to his wonted Elegancy,
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That 'tis <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pag. 166.</NOTE><HI>Hath put all things in &s;ubjection.</HI> Mark (&s;aith he) 'tis the time pa&s;t. 2. <HI>Shall be</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">I mention the&s;e things the ra|ther that they may &s;ee their folly, who have cryed up this book as unan|&s;werable.</NOTE>&s;ubdued, mark again, 'Tis the <HI>Future time.</HI> With &s;uch Learned Ob&s;ervations (as if he were reading a Lecture to &s;ome School-boyes) is the Drs. Fo|lio &s;tuft.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Drs. Ob&s;ervation hath two parts. 1. That there &s;hall be two dayes of Judge|ment, and therefore he tells you here of an ultimate day of judg|ment. But how doth he prove it? Why <GAP DESC="foreign">, Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> &s;ays it, <HI>ergo,</HI> 'tis true. 2. <HI>Chri&s;t hath no Kingdom and Power.</HI> How? whence that I pray you? Why, the Dr. tells you 'tis after the ultimate day of Judgement. New Light indeed! if the Dr. vent this ignorantly, he's to be pittied; if willfully to be pu|ni&s;ht, that goes about to deceive
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people in the Fundamentals of Religion.</P>
<P>But how doth he proves this? Why, by a witle&s;s, worthle&s;s rea&s;on (p. 89.) <HI>viz.</HI> Chri&s;t mu&s;t have his Kingdom before the ultimate day of Judgement, or el&s;e he'l have no Kingdom: Why &s;o? For then 'tis the Fa|thers Kingdom. As if the Fa|ther and the Son (though they be two per&s;ons) yet were not one God, and the Father had a Kingdom without the Son.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But what &s;aith the Text?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Why, <HI>Then comes the end,</HI> &amp;c. Every word a Dagger <HI>(Quot verba, tot verber a)</HI> and &s;tabs the Drs. cau&s;e at the heart.</P>
<P N="1">1. The Apo&s;tle tells us, <HI>Then comes the end</HI> viz. <HI>of the world, (i. e,)</HI> immediately after the Re|&s;urrection. He doth not &s;ay then comes the Reign of Chri&s;t
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for a thou&s;and yeers on earth, But, <HI>then comes the end of the World.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. When he &s;hall deliver up the Kingdom, <HI>viz.</HI> his Media|tory, not his ab&s;olute Kingdom. And therefore the Drs. Logick is very faulty in arguing from a <NOTE PLACE="marg">A particular<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> ad univer&s;ale non val<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">t con|&s;equentia.</NOTE>particular to a general, <HI>ergo,</HI> be|cau&s;e Chri&s;t hath no Oecono|mical Kingdom, <HI>ergo,</HI> he hath no Kingdom. <HI>Non &s;equitur, er|go,</HI> becau&s;e one Dr. is Epi&s;copal, <HI>ergo,</HI> all are Epi&s;copal. Or be|cau&s;e one Dr. ob&s;erves the times, <HI>ergo,</HI> all do &s;o. Is but &s;orry Logick.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Apo&s;tle tells us, Chri&s;t mu&s;t Raigne in his Mediatory K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ngdom till the la&s;t enemy (which is death) be de&s;troyed; but this will not be till the day of Judgement, where then is the Drs. thou&s;and yeers?</P>
<P N="4">4. Then Chri&s;t hath no pow|er.
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What more folly yet? Can|not Chri&s;t lay down his Media|ry Kingdom, but he mu&s;t loo&s;e his power with it? Cannot he change the manner of Admini|&s;tration, but he mu&s;t cea&s;e to be a King? Is he not God and Man &s;till? Is he not King and Head of his Church &s;till? Is he not as High and Mighty as ever? <HI>And is it not he that even in the Text puts down all power, by his divine Almighty power?</HI> How then comes it to pa&s;s that Chri&s;t hath no power, as the Dr. bla&s;|phemou&s;ly, at lea&s;t very igno|rantly affirms?</P>
<P N="5">5. He tells us of the Saints li|ving on earth for a thou&s;and yeers without Ordinances.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> This is as true as the re&s;t. But the Dr. doth very ill to harden <HI>Atheistical</HI> Sectaries in &s;uch conceits. For 'tis not to be expected whil&s;t the Saints
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live on earth that they &s;hould live without, or above Ordinan|ces. In Heaven indeed when the Saints &s;hall enjoy God im|mediately they &s;hall not need them, for God will be all in all, (as 'tis in the Text) but that is not in this world, but at the end of the world. Then comes the end, <HI>viz.</HI> immediately after the Re&s;urrection, as the context &s;hews) when the Saints &s;hall be received to bli&s;s, then God will be all in all immediately, and not till then.</P>
<P><HI>Obj. Revel.</HI> 21. 22. 'Tis &s;aid of the New Jeru&s;alem <HI>(i. e)</HI> of the glorious e&s;tate of the Church neer the end of the world, <HI>that there &s;hall be no Tem|ple there.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> The&s;e words, yea, and the whole chapter may be con&s;i|dered two wayes. 1. Literally and properly for the Churches
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glory in Heaven, for there 'tis that all tears &s;hall be wiped from our eyes, there &s;hall be no Sun or Moon, no Temple there, we &s;hall not need Preaching, Sacraments, Ordinances, for God will be all in all. To ex|pect an immediate enjoyment of God in this world without Ordinances is a Satanical delu|&s;ion. True, in the Church Tri|umphant Prophe&s;ies &s;hall cea&s;e, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13. 8. But in the Church militant we mu&s;t not de&s;pi&s;e Prophe&s;ying 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, &amp;c. in Heaven.</P>
<P N="2">2. If we con&s;ider the words Allu&s;ively and Allegorically, for the <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mr. <HI>Bright|man,</HI> M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Forbes,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Stevens</HI> go this way.</NOTE>glorious e&s;tate of the Church upon earth, after the
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calling of the Iews, then there &s;hall be no Temple there. <HI>q. d.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Locus hic Spi|ritual<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ter est intelligendus (ut aliqui vo|lunt) pro pul|chritudine &amp; dignitate Ec|cle&s;iae; vel, ut plurimi inter|pretantur, pro gloria caele&s;tis man&s;ionis, ubi nec Sol nec Luna, nec Tem|plnm erit. <HI>Walaeus Loc. com. p. 558.</HI></NOTE>the Wor&s;hip of God &s;hall be more Pure, Spiritual and Hea|venly then ever before. So that the words mu&s;t not be taken &s;imply, for then they would contradict other places of Scrip|ture, which tell us that the Church on earth will always have need of the Mini&s;tery, both to convert &s;uch as are not yet converted, and to confirm &s;uch as are converte <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 4. 11, 12. 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 12. <HI>Matt.</HI> 28. 20. 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 3. 2. <HI>Rom.</HI> 10. 14, 15. <HI>Jer.</HI> 3. 15. the be&s;t know but in part, and have need of teach|ing here.</P>
<P>But 2. The words mu&s;t be taken comparatively, as tho&s;e places are <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">See more in the L rge An|notat. of the Bible.</NOTE><HI>Jer.</HI> 31. 34. and 1 <HI>John</HI> 2. 17. they &s;hall no more teach every man his neigbour, <HI>(i. e)</HI> God will &s;o abundantly
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power out the gifts and graces of his Spirit in tho&s;e dayes, that there &s;hall be almo&s;t as much difference between tho&s;e that lived under the Law, and tho&s;e that live under the Go&s;pel, as there is between tho&s;e that need a Teacher, and tho&s;e that have no Teacher. Now the mo&s;t Commentators do expound this chapter of the Kingdom of Glory; yet if any &s;hall take them in this &s;econd &s;en&s;e, there is no danger.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But hath the Dr. no other Texts to uphold his opi|nion?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Yes, he builds much on 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4. 1. <HI>I charge thee before God, and the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who &s;hall judge the quick and the dead at his appearance and his Kingdom.</HI> I mu&s;t confe&s;s this deep-&s;ighted Dr. hath better eyes then mu&s;t men, I know if
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he can &s;py his <HI>Millenarian</HI> King|dom here. But the Dr. is wi&s;e, (in his own conceit) and thus he begins.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">V. D. Homes. <HI>p. 95.</HI></NOTE> The Kingdom of Chri&s;t here mentioned, cannot be referred to his pa&s;t government of the Church.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Very true, who ever que&s;tioned it that was well in his wits? Yet lea&s;t this Dr. &s;hould be mad without rea&s;on, he gives you a School-boyes rea&s;on to confirm it, <HI>viz.</HI> be|cau&s;e 'tis in the Future Ten&s;e, &s;hall come to judgement: and &s;o he doth frequently in his Book, bid you ob&s;erve, 'tis do, did, have, had, &s;hall or will (as if he were teaching School-boyes) and then tells you (out of the <HI>Rabbins</HI> of a time when the univer&s;e &s;hall be red with the blood of the &s;lain, and the hills white with the fat of their migh|ty
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men. But the&s;e things the Dr. Learnedly ob&s;erves, are not yet fulfilled [nor ever will be without a grand Hyperbole] with &s;uch Learned Nothings is the Drs. Book &s;tuft.</P>
<P N="2">2. He tells us how Chri&s;t &s;hall have no Kingdom, and of two dayes of judgement, of a particular day at the beginning of the thou&s;and yeers, when Chri&s;t &s;hall appear to reward the living and dead Saints, and to de&s;troy the then living incor|rigible wicked man: this is but the Praeludium, after (&s;aith the Dr. comes the ultimate judge|ment, Chri&s;t all that while (&s;aith he) being bu&s;ied in exe|cuting the fir&s;t Sentence of Iu|dicature. Here is much &s;aid&punc; but how is it proved? Why, from 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4. 1. he would make all this appear from the word <HI>Appear.</HI> Chri&s;t &s;hall judge the
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quick and the dead at his <HI>Ap|pearing. Ergo,</HI> he &s;hall have two dayes of judgement wherein to appear. 2. He tells us that from the particular to the general day of Judgement &s;hall be a thou|&s;and yeers. But how doth he prove this? Why, from <HI>Matth.</HI> 25. <HI>Come ye ble&s;&s;ed of my Father inherit the Kingdom, (i. e.)</HI> on earth where you &s;hall Reigne with Chri&s;t a thou&s;and yeers.</P>
<P>How el&s;e doth he prove it? why, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11. 15. 17, 18. where the Church rejoyceth in the de|&s;truction of bloody per&s;ecutors, (for the de&s;truction of <HI>Rome</HI> it &s;elf follows. chapt. 18. and of Antichri&s;t chapt. 19. Now &s;ee the Drs. Illogical Logick. Be|cau&s;e the Church rejoyceth in the enlargement of Chri&s;ts Kingdom, and the downfall of his enemies, <HI>ergo,</HI> Chri&s;t &s;hall Raigne with the Saints on
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earth a thou&s;and yeers.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> The Apo&s;tle &s;ets Chri&s;ts appearing fir&s;t, and his King|dom&punc; after, therefore, this, his Kingdom is not to begin till his appearing.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 'Tis ignorant and weake arguing from the pla|cing of words in Scripture, for that is oft times placed fir&s;t, which in order of Nature is la&s;t. <HI>ergo. Mark.</HI> 1. 4. Repentance is put before faith, <HI>Mark.</HI> 1. 4. and glory before grace, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 3.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, he tells us how Chri&s;t is gone into a far country, and that he mu&s;t be a fifth Monarch, and for this he quotes, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2. 38, 39, 40. 45. and 7. 13, 14. we read of 4. Monarchies in <HI>Daniel,</HI> viz. the <HI>A&s;syrian, Per&s;ian, Grae|cian,</HI> and <HI>Roman</HI> Monarchies; but our <HI>fifth Monarch men expect King Je&s;us to be a fifth Monarch, who &s;hall de&s;troy all Magi&s;trates</HI>
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<HI>and Mini&s;ters, that he and the Saints may Reigne on earth alone.</HI> I &s;ee now whence our fifth Mo|narch men have their New|light, <HI>viz.</HI> from this Tenet of the <HI>Millenaries,</HI> which opens a gap to Anarchy and confu&s;ion, for under this pretence <HI>Liber|tines</HI> may ari&s;e and kill Magi|&s;trates, Mini&s;ters, and all the ungodly, <HI>(i. e)</HI> all &s;ave them|&s;elves, and their own party, that they may Reigne alone in the earth; of this God hath given us a remarkable in&s;tance of late in tho&s;e fifth Monarch men, who are now in pri&s;on. To make way for this their imaginary Kingdom, they give out in their Pamphlet called <HI>the Standard, That the Bea&s;t and the fal&s;e Pro|phet, (i. e.)</HI> Magi&s;trates and Mi|ni&s;ters, and all earthly Govern|ments mu&s;t be de&s;troyed by the hands of the Saints, and that all
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yoaks upon the inward and out|ward man mu&s;t be de&s;troyed, becau&s;e of the anoynting, &s;ince the Saints are the Lords Free|man: yea, they tell us that the Wicked, Bloody, Antichri&s;tian Magi&s;tracy, Mini&s;tery, Lawy|ers, &amp;c. mu&s;t be de&s;troyed. They be their own words, where we &s;ee 'tis not Magi|&s;trates and Mini&s;ters, but Ma|gi&s;tracy and Mini&s;tery, the very Office it &s;elf which the&s;e men &s;trike at, and that with a pro|found, &amp;c. which how far it may extend, to what Per&s;ons, Places, Callings, and Officers, let others judge.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But when &s;hall this de&s;truction be?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> They tell you it mu&s;t be at the time of the re&s;titution of all things, <HI>(i. e)</HI> when Chri&s;t &s;hall reigne a thou&s;and yeers; and to make way for that day
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Magi&s;trates and Mini&s;ters mu&s;t be de&s;troyed. Now the better to effect this, they animate men to &s;editions, and proclaim a Jubilee and yeer of Liberty from Tythes and Taxes and Impri&s;onment, after: <Q REND="margQuotes">have at Rents, and Debts, and a com|munity of all things.</Q> Yea, the better to incourage men to come in to them (like their ma|&s;ter the Devil) they make large promi&s;es (but &s;orry performan|ces) of Health, Wealth, Peace, Protection; yea, they invite you to a Royal Fea&s;t, where you &s;hall have no wor&s;e fare then the fle&s;h of Kings, Cap|tains and mighty men. Yea they tell you this Kingdom of theirs &s;hall break in pieces all other Kingdoms, and eat out all the Monarchies and Glory of the world. Yea, <HI>Rogers,</HI> one of the Speakers in <HI>London,</HI> to this fifth
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Monarch crue, Preacht it open|ly, that the cau&s;e of the&s;e fifth Monarch men was good, but they did not time it well; how|ever they would not de&s;i&s;t till they had the Tyrants head from his &s;houlders, and more words to the like purpo&s;e. This I had from an hone&s;t and under&s;tand|ing ear-witne&s;s in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Haec opinio fa|natica potius Magistratuum edictis &amp; armis, qu&agrave;m Argu|mentis est refu|tanda. <HI>Walaeus.</HI> Loc. com. <HI>p. 538.</HI></NOTE> 'Tis time the Magi&s;trate &s;hould awake, and re&s;train the&s;e Babel-builders, lea&s;t they bring not only confu&s;ion on them&s;elves, but al&s;o on them that tolerate them.</P>
<P>As for that Text in 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4. 1. 'tis &s;o plain that any man, except &s;uch as are wilfully blind, and are wedded to their fancies (like the Donati&s;ts, <HI>Quod volumus Sanctum e&s;t,</HI> all is holy that they hold, be it never &s;o unholy) may &s;ee that it &s;peaks not of any coming of Chri&s;t to raigne on
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earth, but of his coming to judge the quick and the dead in great power and glory. And we &s;hall oft find in Scripture that the appearing of Chri&s;t in glo|ry, and his coming to judgment are joyned together, as being one and the &s;elf &s;ame thing at the &s;ame time. <HI>Matth.</HI> 24. 30. 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4. 8. <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 3. 4. So that this appearance of Chri&s;t in his Kingdom is nothing el&s;s but a more full and clear manife&s;tati|on of his glory when he &s;hall come to judge the world. We read but of two &s;ignal comings of Chri&s;t, <HI>viz.</HI> one in the fle&s;h, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 16. and his &s;econd ap|pearing to judgement, <HI>Heb.</HI> 9. 28. <HI>He &s;hall appear the &s;econd time for the &s;alvation of his Elect.</HI> But if Chri&s;t &s;hould come to Raigne a thou&s;and yeers, then it &s;hould have been &s;aid, he will come the third time for your
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&s;alvation. But the Scripture ne|ver mentions but two comings of Chri&s;t corporally, <HI>viz.</HI> once to merit &s;alvation, and at the la&s;t day to perfect it for ever.</P>
<P>Thus we have &s;een the Drs. vanity. We have a &s;aying, as the Fool thinks, &s;o the Bell clinks. As Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> thinks, &s;o the Scripture clinks. Doth he read of an appearance of Chri&s;t? Oh 'tis his appearance to reigne a thou&s;and yeers: Doth he read of a Kingdom? Oh 'tis an earthly, vi&s;ible Kingdom, &amp;c.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Haec ip&s;i&s;&s;ima &s;edes e&s;t hujus controver&s;iae &egrave; qu&acirc; prim&ugrave;m <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rta e&s;t. Wendelin.</NOTE> The la&s;t and chiefe&s;t place which this <HI>Millenarian</HI> Dr. cites, is <HI>Revel.</HI> 20. 1. to 7. <HI>And I &s;aw the &s;ouls of them that were behead|ed for the witne&s;s of Je&s;us, and they lived and raigned with Chri&s;t a thou&s;and yeers; but the re&s;t of the dead lived not again till the thou&s;and yeers were fini&s;hed, this is the fir&s;t Re&s;urrection.</HI> This
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Text is the ma&s;ter prop in this building, overthrow this and you overthrow all. Vindicate this Text from their vain glo&s;|&s;es, and you vindicate all. There is no Text that &s;eemingly &s;peaks more for them; yet up|on due &s;earch we &s;hall find that the Text hath much again&s;t them. 'Tis true, the Dr. the better to in&s;inuate him&s;elf and make way for this his beloved Tenet, highly extols the 20. chapter of the <HI>Revelations,</HI> cal|ling it a Golden Key to unlock the Bible [we had need of a better hand then the Drs. to turn it.] e&s;pecially the Old Te&s;ta|ment. 'Tis true, one place of Scripture helps to illu&s;trate a|nother, but how this 20. of the <HI>Revelation</HI> &s;hould be &s;uch a Key as to make us under&s;tand the whole Bible the better, &amp; e&s;pe|cially the Old Te&s;tament &s;hews
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plainly that the Dr. is led (as his whole book &s;hews him to be) by Fancy, and not by judgment. Yet the Dr. having &s;ome skill (as it &s;eems) in the Mathema|ticks, tells us that he will pitch the foot of his Compa&s;s on <HI>Re|vel.</HI> 20. and &s;o draw a right cir|cle about it (as if he meant to conjure us into his opinion. I have but little skill in the Ma|thematicks, yet I &s;hall endea|vour to get the Dr. out of his circle, and doubt not but to make it appear to any unpreju|diced Reader, that his <HI>Clavis</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vald&egrave; lubrica e&s;t Tropica Lo|cutio ad in|certum dogma &s;tabilendum. <HI>D. Prideaux.</HI> Locus omnium totius Scriptu|rae Propheticae abstru&s;i&s;&s;imus, maximeque ad|mirandus. <HI>Mede.</HI></NOTE><HI>aurea</HI> (as to his intent and pur|po&s;e) <HI>e&s;t plan&egrave; plumbea.</HI></P>
<P>The Dr. is hard put to it, when his be&s;t refuge is an allegorical, mi&s;tical Text, one of the darke&s;t &amp; difficulte&s;t Texts in all the Bi|ble, containing in it almo&s;t as many My&s;teries, as Words; and hath almo&s;t as many interpreta|tions,
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as there be Interpreters. 1. Therefore I &s;hall forgive you the plain and genuin &s;en&s;e of the place.</P>
<P N="2">2. I &s;hall &s;hew you the vanity of the Drs. glo&s;&s;es, and how incon&s;i&s;tent they be with the very letter and meaning of the Text.</P>
<P><Q><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="V."> And I &s;aw an Angel come down from Heaven, &amp;c. q. d.</Q> Whereas I <HI>John</HI> in my former Vi&s;ion had &s;een the <HI>Dragon</HI> per|&s;ecuting the Church under the Tyrannical rule of the Heathen Emperors, now I &s;aw an <HI>(a)</HI> An|gel <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vidi Chri&s;tum Angeli &s;pecie de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> coelo de&s;cen|dentem ut Sa|tanam ligaret (i. e.) ut opera Diaboli de&s;tru|eret, praecipu&egrave; Idolomaniam &amp; cultus Dia|bolicas. <HI>Paraeus.</HI></NOTE>come down from Heaven, having power and commi&s;&s;ion from God to chain up and im|pri&s;on the <HI>Dragon</HI> that old Ser|pent the Devil, and to re&s;train his power for the &s;pace of a thou&s;and yeers after <HI>Con&s;tan|tines</HI> re&s;toring Peace to the Church; which Angel did re|&s;train
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him from his open rage and &s;laughtering of the Saints, (as he had done before by the Heathen Emperours) and from his prevalent &s;educing and de|ceiving of the Nations by his Sorceries and Oracles, until the thou&s;and yeers be fini&s;ht; for then he mu&s;t be let loo&s;e for a <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><P>Comparative|ly, for Popery &s;tood not in its heigth above 500. yeers, and then vani&s;ht graduelly. So Chri&s;t is &s;aid to come quick|ly (comparati|vely) yet 'tis 1600. yeers ago &s;ince.</P>
<P><HI>Rev.</HI> 22. 20.</P></NOTE> &s;hort time, for &s;ome further exerci&s;e of Gods children, and the harding of the wicked.</P>
<P>Ver&s;. 4. And now I &s;aw &s;uch Glory and Maje&s;ty put upon the Faithful, in the time that Satan was &s;hut up, as that they &s;ate upon Thrones, and the power of Judgement was com|mitted to them, to manage the affaires of Gods Church, and to execute due cen&s;ures upon offenders. And I &s;aw tho&s;e Faithful and Holy Martyrs which were ready to lay down their lives for the Te&s;timony of
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Je&s;us and his Go&s;pel; and ab|horred the Idolatry of the times; the&s;e lived and reigned <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><P>They were not the &s;ame individual per|&s;ons that had formerly been &s;lain, no more then the dead Apo&s;tatizing Chri&s;tians can be thought to live again nu|merically after the end of the thou&s;and yeers, when they are &s;aid to be revi|ved. V. 5. But 'tis meant only of a &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of &s;uch as tho&s;e were. The Church being con&s;idered as a Tran&s;ient bo|dy, &s;uch as a River which al|ways runs in a &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of parts, one follo|wing the other in a perpetual motion and mutation.</P>
<P>D. Hammon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"></P></NOTE> &s;ucce&s;&s;ively with Chri&s;t in a &s;piritual, &s;anctified and comfor|table e&s;tate here upon earth all this time of the thou&s;and yeers of Satans re&s;traint. In which time &s;ome truth remained in the Churches as touching the main points of Chri&s;tian Doctrine.</P>
<P>Ver&s;. 5. But the re&s;t which lay dead in their &s;ins did not at all recover this &s;piritual life, nor attain to the &s;aving knowledge of the truth, nor did they wit|ne&s;s again&s;t Antichri&s;t. This which we now &s;peak off, <HI>viz.</HI> the abandoning of the corrupti|ons of the times, and attaining to the &s;aving knowledge of the Truth, is the fir&s;t Re&s;urre|ction.</P>
<P>Ver&s;. 6. Ble&s;&s;ed and Holy is he that hath part in it, for on
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&s;uch the &s;econd death which is eternal de&s;truction &s;hall have no power. But they &s;hall be wholly con&s;ecrated to the &s;er|vice of God and his Chri&s;t, and &s;hall <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Regnabant cum Chri&s;to &s;ed non dicit re|gnabunt in ter|ra nec terreno more, im&ograve; ani|marum &s;ol&ugrave;m meminit, &amp; earum &s;olarum beatitudinem prae<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">icat. <HI>Walaeus.</HI></NOTE>reign with him here on earth <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">So the wit|ne&s;&s;es that were &s;lain are &s;aid to live again, not in their own per&s;ons, but in their Succe&s;|&s;ors, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11. 11. as John Bapti&s;t came in the Spirit of Elijah.</NOTE>&s;ucce&s;&s;ively in their &s;everal ages for the &s;pace of a thou&s;and yeers, when they &s;hall rejoyce in God, and in the peace of a good con&s;cience, while&s;t the re&s;t of the world lyes in &s;pi|ritual &s;lavery and mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>V. 7. 8. But when the&s;e thou|&s;and yeers are expired, Satan &s;hall be let loo&s;e again, and &s;uf|fered to rai&s;e great troubles in the Church, rai&s;ing up &s;ecret and open enemies to mole&s;t it; as he did about the yeer 1000. after Chri&s;t (as the Hi&s;tories of tho&s;e times do te&s;tifie) when Pope <HI>Sylve&s;ter</HI> the 2. aro&s;e, who gave his &s;oul to the Devil for the Popedom, and not long
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after him &s;ucceeded Pope <HI>Hil|debrand</HI> (that brand of Hell) a|bout the yeer 1070. <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><P>Homo multo|rum nominum non boni nomi|nis.</P>
<P>Annus Mille|&s;imus praeci&s;&egrave; incidit in &s;ce|lerati illius <HI>Hildebrandi</HI> tempora, qui <HI>Gregorius 7.</HI> di|ctus e&s;t, Necro|mantae &amp; Ma|gi perditi&s;&s;imi; quo instrumento u&s;us e&s;t Diabo|lus cum &egrave; vin|culis e&s;&s;et &s;olu|tus ut &s;anctos atroci&s;&s;imis per|&s;ecutionibus, mundum ver&ograve; totum di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">idiis &amp; bellis <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ruen|ti&s;&s;imis dein|ceps infe&s;taret. <HI>Junius</HI> in Apo|calyp.</P></NOTE> <HI>alias</HI> Pope <HI>Gregory</HI> the 7. he was no|toriou&s;ly vile, a Mon&s;ter of men, a Socerer, and dealt with the divil, he was the fir&s;t that excommunicated the Empe|rour, and a&s;&s;umed to him&s;elf the power of placing and di&s;|placing the Emperour. He con|demned Mini&s;ters marriages, which yet St. <HI>Paul</HI> allowes off Now follows Tran&s;ub&s;tantiati|on, Sacrifices, Ceremonies, Jubi|lees, Indulgences and Idols in abundance. Now the Turk (that open and profe&s;t enemy of Chri&s;t comes in, and acts his part, de&s;troying many flouri|&s;hing Churches. 'Tis true, the Pope and Turk did mole&s;t the Church &s;ome ages pa&s;t, but they were re&s;trained, and they broke not forth in that out|ragious
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manner as now they did.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> The que&s;tion then will be, Whether the&s;e thou&s;and years of Chri&s;t's reign here mentioned, be yet to come, or be already pa&s;t?</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><P>Ego a Chri&s;ti incarnatione mille annos or|dine &s;implici&s;&s;i|mum e&s;&s;e duco.</P>
<P>That the&s;e 1000 years are already pa&s;t, M. <HI>Hayne</HI> hath &s;uf|ficiently proved in a &s;et Treati&s;e again&s;t the Mil|lenaries.</P></NOTE> <HI>An&s;w.</HI> They are already pa&s;t, for when Chri&s;t came into the world, he bound the &s;trong man, and made his Kingdom fall like lightning from heaven, before the preaching of his A|po&s;tles, which was &s;pread over all the world, <HI>Rom.</HI> 15. 19. <HI>Col.</HI> 1. 6. <HI>Acts</HI> 1. 8. Chri&s;t is that Angel that de&s;cended from heaven, who by his death de|&s;troyed him who had power o|ver death, and by his almighty power bound him; &s;o that he could not deceive the Nations as formerly: In&s;omuch that for the &s;pace of a thou&s;and years af|ter Chri&s;t's time, many were
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called and converted, many li|ved and reigned with Chri&s;t, and &s;ealed the Truth (which was held forth in &s;ome good mea&s;ure, until near the end of the thou&s;and years, about which time there began to be a decli|ning with their deare&s;t blood.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> You &s;hould tell us the expre&s;s day and year when tho&s;e thou&s;and years began, and when they ended.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 'Tis a vain curio&s;ity to de&s;ire &s;uch a thing; 'tis &s;uffi|cient that we make it out in ge|neral, that this reign began a|bout the time of Chri&s;t's incar|nation, when the Divel's Ora|cles were ca&s;t down, and him|&s;elf ca&s;t out by Chri&s;t, and the Go&s;pel was publi&s;h'd to the world, and ended about a thou|&s;and years after Chri&s;t. 'Tis true there is variety of opinions a|mong&s;t the learned touching
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this, but no contrariety; for all the Orthodox do unanimou&s;ly agree and conclude, that tho&s;e thou&s;and years are already pa&s;t and gone: Some begin the&s;e thou&s;and years at the de&s;tructi|on of the Temple, <HI>Anno</HI> 73. and then it ends in Pope <HI>Hildebrand,</HI> (&s;o <HI>Paraeus</HI> and Mr <HI>Dent)</HI> who came to the Popedom 1073. <NOTE PLACE="marg">See more in B. <HI>Halls</HI> Revel. un|revealed, p. 44, 45 &amp; D. <HI>Pri|deaux</HI> Lect. 13. pag. 202. &amp; Mr <HI>Hayne</HI> again&s;t the Millen pag. 86. &amp;c. D. <HI>Al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ted</HI> him|&s;elf confe&s;&s;eth that Satan was bound <HI>anno</HI> 70. but not in that manner and mea&s;ure as he &s;hall be bound for the 1000 years.</NOTE>Others begin it at the birth of Chri&s;t, and then it ends in Pope <HI>Sylvester</HI> a Sorcerer. 2. Others begin at <HI>Con&s;tantine, Anno</HI> 300. and end in <HI>Boniface</HI> the eighth, who is &s;aid to have entred like a Fox, reigned like a Lion, and died like a Dog. So that you &s;ee all agree that about 1000. years after Chri&s;t this reign be|gan, and now is pa&s;t: So &s;ays <HI>Marlirate; Chri&s;tus natus e&s;t (uti prohibent</HI> Beda, <HI>cum aliis) Anno a Mundo condito</HI> 5199. <HI>ro|&s;tabant igitur de &s;exto illi Mille|nario</HI>
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<HI>anni</HI> 801. <HI>at&abque; illos per Sy|necdochen hic dici mille annos in quibus Eccle&s;ia legato Satana, &s;ub Apo&s;tolicis viris &amp; &s;anctis Pa|tribus ad ju&s;tum promoverit in|crementum.</HI> So that this opini|on is grounded on a fal&s;e Hypo|the&s;is; for they &s;uppo&s;e tho&s;e thou&s;and years are yet to come, when 'tis clear they are already pa&s;t: &s;o that by this we &s;ee where we are to fetch the Epo|cha or beginning of this account of the thou&s;and years.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> But Chri&s;t never yet per&s;onally appeared on earth to reign with the Saints; nor was Satan ever yet &s;o bound, but that he &s;educed many from Chri&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> We have no promi&s;e of any per&s;onal appearing of Chri&s;t till he come to judgment <HI>Acts</HI> 3. 22.</P>
<P N="2">2. 'Tis true, Satan is never
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<NOTE PLACE="marg">Non tam arct&egrave; &amp; praeci&s;&egrave; li|gationem Sata|nae hic e&s;&s;e &s;u|mendam ac &s;i pro toto i&s;to ca|ptivitatis &s;uae millenario, nil potuit moliri aut tentare. Non &s;ic re&s;trin|git contextus, ubi v. <HI>3.</HI> ita tan|tum clauditur non ut nihil a|geret, vel nullo modo no eret, &s;ed non ut &s;edu|ceret amplius (&s;icut antea feci&s;&s;et) Gentes, i. e. Paganos &amp; Hostes Eccle&s;iae vel dementando Idololatriae &amp; prodigio&s;ae &s;uper&s;titionis phil|tris, vel irritando immi&s;&s;is aestris ut Tyranni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&egrave; vi aperta (&s;i|cut in decimis primis per&s;ecutionibus) exprimerent Eccle&s;iam. <HI>D. Paideaux.</HI></NOTE> &s;o bound, but that he doth, and will deceive many, and there|fore this binding mu&s;t not be under&s;tood <HI>ab&s;olutely,</HI> as if he &s;hould not hurt the Church at all; but <HI>re&s;trictively,</HI> to the cau&s;e expre&s;&s;ed in the Text <HI>(Rev.</HI> 20. 3.) <HI>So that he &s;hould not deceive the Nations with his Oracles and Delu&s;ions as formerly;</HI> but the Go&s;pel &s;hould &s;pread, and as it prevailed, &s;o Satan &s;hould be bound fa&s;ter and fa&s;ter.</P>
<P>The Millenaries will not have the&s;e thou&s;and years to be|gin till Antichri&s;t be totally de|&s;troyed, of whom St <HI>John</HI> had treated in the precedent cha|pter.</P>
<P>But 'tis more probable that
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Antichri&s;ts utter downfal will <NOTE PLACE="marg">Non &s;educet, <HI>viz.</HI> &s;eductione ill&acirc; public&acirc;at&abque; violent&acirc; qu&acirc; tentaverat &s;u|pra cap. <HI>12.</HI> &amp; quam po&s;t hos mille annos (Proh dolor!) in Christiano orbe potenti&s;&s;i|m&egrave; procuravit. <HI>Junius in loc.</HI></NOTE>not be till the la&s;t day, for then 'tis that the Bea&s;t and fal&s;e Pro|phet are ca&s;t into the Lake, <HI>Rev.</HI> 19. And Chri&s;t is &s;aid to de|&s;troy that &s;on of perdition with his glorious coming, <HI>viz.</HI> to judgement, 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2. 8,</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But when (&s;aith Dr. <HI>Homes)</HI> &s;hall this golden age be|gin?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> The Doctor here leaves you with a <HI>lubricus e&s;t hic locus,</HI> this is a tickli&s;h point; and therefore the better to avoid the carps of a <HI>Momus,</HI> and the cen|&s;ures of a <HI>Cato,</HI> and to &s;tave off blows (it &s;eems the Doctor was afraid his Plu&s;h might be cud|gell'd) he's re&s;olved to &s;helter him&s;elf under the &s;hield of &s;ome learned <HI>Achilles,</HI> telling you what they &s;ay, that if they err, you may cudgel them in&s;teed of him.</P>
<P><PB N="70" REF="42"><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>V.</HI> D. <HI>Homes, l.</HI> 7. <HI>c.</HI> 1, 2, 3, &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But what do the&s;e learned men &s;ay?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Why they write doubtfully, they cannot agree of the place of this reigne; one &s;ays it &s;hall be in heaven, ano|ther on earth, another in Jeru|&s;alem, a corner of the earth. 2. They differ about the per|&s;ons, whether the Martyrs on|ly &s;hall ri&s;e, or all the Saints. 3. They differ about the time when this Reigne &s;hall be, whe|ther Before the day of Judge|ment, In the day of Judgement, or After it; they are divided a|mong&s;t them&s;elves, yet the Dr. will tell you what &s;ome men &s;ay. 1. Some &s;ay the&s;e thou|&s;and year &s;hall begin 1617. &s;o <HI>Cotterius,</HI> then it would follow that Satan is now bound, which we have little rea&s;on to believe, if we con&s;ider the bla&s;phemies and here&s;ies that abound. 2. The
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Doctor tells you that in the year 1655. we mu&s;t expect the calling of the Jews, yea, and before their Call, the Fall of Antichri&s;t (p. 562) To this opi|nion you &s;ee the Doctor in|clines, his book was printed 1653. and he conceited that two yeers after both <HI>Rome</HI> &s;hould down, and the <HI>Jews</HI> be called, which is as true as all the re&s;t of his book. If I were worthy to be of the Drs. Coun&s;el, the next time that I Prophe&s;ied I would be &s;ure to &s;et the time far e|nough off, that &s;o people might laugh at me (as they have done at &s;ome others) when I were dead, and not whil&s;t I lived. And therefore others, a little wi&s;er then their fellows, tells us that it &s;hall begin about 27. yeers hence. Others &s;ay, about 41. yeers hence. Others about 83. yeers hence. <HI>Al&s;teed</HI> puts
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the beginning of the&s;e thou&s;and yeers to 1694. Others put it to the yeer 1859. about 200 yeers hence. But the Dr. thinks this time too long to be kept out of his Mahumetan Paradi&s;e, and therefore he will temper this, and &s;ome other accounts which remove their Periods &s;o far off, and this he doth by tampering with the Chronologers, telling <NOTE PLACE="marg">Pag. 562.</NOTE>you that 'tis conceived the computation from the Creation to this day, ordinarily received, is not right, but far longer then it ought to be. How true this is, I leave it to the Chronologers, and the Dr. to di&s;pute, whil&s;t I proceed to more profitable matter.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But before I proceed any further, will you have the Cream and Quinte&s;&s;ence, the Sinews and Mary&punc;bones of all Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> his Arguments (from
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the forecited places) in one De|mon&s;trative Syllogi&s;me?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Yes, by any means, the briefer, the better; for we have been tired out&punc; hitherto with his empty nothings. In brief the Drs. Argument is this, (p. 115.) <NOTE PLACE="marg">This is Dr. <HI>Al|&s;teeds</HI> Argu|ment, p. 37.</NOTE></P>
<P>Tho&s;e things which are pro|phe&s;ied in the Word of God and are not yet come to pa&s;&s;e, mu&s;t be fulfilled, [very true.] But the great <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">'Tis well if it be not &s;en&s;ual.</NOTE>&s;en&s;ible and vi&s;ible happine&s;s of the Church on earth, before the <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Lo, two days of Judgement&punc; So <HI>Matton</HI> makes Chri&s;t to appear twice to Judge the quick and the dead, viz. a former and in|choate Judge|ment when the Saints &s;hall ri&s;e to Raign with Chri&s;t. 2. The Ultimate day when all &s;hall ari&s;e.</NOTE>Ulti|mate Day of Iudgement is pro|phe&s;ied in the Word of God, which is the Old and New Te|&s;tament. [Very true,] <HI>ergo,</HI> it &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e; who ever denied it? But what is this to the point in hand? Or what Logick is this? Becau&s;e in the la&s;t dayes the <HI>Jews</HI> &s;hall be cal|led, and becau&s;e the Glorious
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Spiritual Priviledges of the Church &s;hall then be advanced. <HI>Ergo,</HI> Chri&s;t and the Saints a|lone &s;hall Raign on earth a thou|&s;and yeers. This is the Drs Lo|gick you &s;ee from fir&s;t to la&s;t.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><P>Theologia Sym|bolica non est argumentativa. <HI>Aquinas.</HI></P>
<P>See my Schools Guard. rule 17. <HI>Quot verba, tot mi&s;teria.</HI></P></NOTE> I come now to an&s;wer more punctually to <HI>Revel.</HI> 20. 4. 5&punc; &amp;c. 1. The Text is Allegori|cal, and &s;o is no fit ground to build Arguments upon. The book of the <HI>Revelation</HI> is the mo&s;t my&s;tical book in all the Bible, full of deep Allegories, and this Text is one of the dark|e&s;t and deepe&s;t in all the book. 'Tis Prophetical, and Prophe|&s;ies are be&s;t under&s;tood, when <NOTE PLACE="marg">Chilia&s;tae hanc prophetiam cor|rupt&egrave; ad lite|ram non ad a|nalogiam fidei intelligentes, Judaicam inde fabulam com|menti &s;unt. <HI>Paraeus.</HI></NOTE>fulfilled. Yet &s;uch is the folly of the Papi&s;ts and Anabapti&s;ts, that they take the Letter, and neglect the meaning of the Scripture; whereas the Scri|pture lyeth not in the Words and Letters, but in the &s;en&s;e and meaning.</P>
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2. The Raigning here meant is purely &s;piritual, and &s;o is the fir&s;t Re&s;urrection. St&punc; <HI>John</HI> &s;ays he &s;aw <HI>the Souls,</HI> and not the Bo|dies of the Martyrs Raigning with Chri&s;t. 2. He &s;aw the Souls, not of all the Saints, but only of tho&s;e that were behead|ed for the Te&s;timony of Chri&s;t. By beheading, by a <HI>Synecdoche,</HI> (&s;aith Dr. <HI>H.)</HI> all manner of per&s;ecution is meant. Now if you &s;tick to the Letter of the Text, none but Martyrs &s;hall <NOTE PLACE="marg">Martiribus da|ta e&s;t praeroga|tiva quaedam re&s;urrectionis, nec dilata est illorum gloria ad judicium u&s;|que univer&s;ale. <HI>Grotius</HI> in lo|cum.</NOTE>raigne this thou&s;and yeer (as <HI>Pi&s;cator Alsteed</HI> and <HI>Grotius</HI> af|firm, and if this be &s;o, then the Martyrs will be in a wor&s;e con|dition then ordinary Saints, for whil&s;t they are enjoying the beatifical Vi&s;ion of God in Heaven, the Martyrs mu&s;t be upon earth, feeding on the Quinte&s;&s;ence of the Creatures, drinking wine, for which Dr.
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<HI>H.</HI> cites <HI>Matth.</HI> 26. 29. yea the Dr. tells us he doth not &s;ee any grand inconveniency that would follow, if he &s;hould affirm (but that he dares not, el&s;s he hath a good mind to it, as the dog hath to the Mutton, but that he fears the cudgel) that men &s;hould be|get <NOTE PLACE="marg">Cum ratione in&s;anit. <HI>Ter.</HI></NOTE>children at that time. His Rea&s;on is, (for he is not mad without Rea&s;on) <HI>Adam</HI> might <NOTE PLACE="marg">Quid aliud est hoc ni&s;i <GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp; incunda po|tius qu&agrave;m vera loqui? <HI>Pag. 470.</HI></NOTE>once have done it without &s;in or carnality of mind, and the A|po&s;tle (&s;aith he) implies that our State then <HI>Heb.</HI> 2. &s;hall be as innocent as <HI>Adams</HI> was: and then that promi&s;e &s;hall be full|filled. <HI>Matth.</HI> 19. 29. he that hath for&s;aken Father, Mother, Wife, &amp;c. &s;hall have a hundred|&s;old. To the like purpo&s;e &s;peaks Mr. <HI>Burroughs</HI> <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pag. 185.</NOTE><HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 1. 11. <HI>Lect.</HI> 7. he tells us that in that glorious time, there will be building of hou&s;es and inhabi|ting
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them, planting of Viney|ards, and eating the fruits of them. But the Scripture is clear again&s;t this, it tels us that the Kingdom of God is within us, &amp; that it con&s;i&s;ts not in meat or drink&punc; <HI>Rom.</HI> 14. 17. that in the Re&s;urrection there &s;hall be no carnal, but &s;piritual delights on|ly. <HI>Matth.</HI> 22. 30. In the Re|&s;urrection they marry not, but are as the Angels of God. Chri&s;ts Kingdom comes not to us with exnernal pompe, or worldly ob&s;ervation. <HI>Luke</HI> 17. 20. but 'tis &s;piritual, and is maintained by &s;piritual delights.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Text doth not &s;ay that Chri&s;t &s;hall come down to them on earth, for the Saints may and do R&punc;aign with Chri&s;t already on earth, though he be now in Heaven. As we are &s;aid to &s;uffer with Chri&s;t though he be in Heaven and we on Earth&punc;
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<HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 17. So we are &s;aid to Raign with him. Hence belee|vers are called Kings, becau&s;e even now they raign with him in in a &s;piritual manner, <HI>Revel.</HI> 1. 6. and 5. 10. and the Church is now called the Kingdom of Heaven, <HI>Matth&punc;</HI> 13. 47. and 5. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Regnaturus e&s;t per verbum in Sanctis, &amp; Spi|ritus Sancti internum du|ctum, non in <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> &s;ed in cordibus Sanctorum. Nec &s;omnianda e&s;t alia Marty|rum Re&s;urre|ctio ante ulti|mum judicium quam in &s;uc|ce&s;&s;oribus &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">emine Spiri|tuali. <HI>D. Prideaux.</HI></NOTE>19. 25. So that the Text doth not &s;peak of earth or any earth|ly raigne, but <HI>they &s;hall be with Chri&s;t, (i. e.)</HI> they &s;hall be free from their former per&s;ecutions, as living now under Chri&s;t, not under Antichri&s;t&punc; ri&s;ing from &s;in to newne&s;s of life.</P>
<P N="4">4. This fir&s;t Re&s;urrection is not a bodily, but a &s;piritual Re|&s;urrection of the &s;oul from the death of &s;in to the Life of Grace. The Text clears it, for of &s;uch the &s;econd death hath no pow|er. As the &s;econd death is not corporal but &s;piritual, &s;o is the Re&s;urrection: El&s;e this ab&s;ur|dity
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would follow that we <NOTE PLACE="marg">Prima Re&s;ur|rectio e&s;t incho|ata Sanctifica|tio. <HI>Paraeus.</HI> Dicitur Pri|ma, q. debet|praecedere Re&s;urrectio|nem &s;ecundam, qu ae erit re&s;ur|rectio corporum ad gloriam. <HI>Idem.</HI></NOTE>&s;hould have two bodily re&s;urre|ctions, <HI>viz.</HI> one of the Saints to raigne a thou&s;and yeers be|fore the Day of Judgement, and another of the wicked at the Day of the General Judgement. Bnt the Scripture makes but one Re&s;urrection of good and bad, of Martyrs as well as others, <HI>Matth.</HI> 25. 31. and 24. 15. <HI>John</HI> 5. 28. 29&punc; Holy <HI>Job</HI> knew nothing of &s;uch a raign or ri|&s;ing, <HI>Job</HI> 19. 25. he tells us of his Re&s;urrection onely at the la&s;t day; and <HI>Paul</HI> tels us of the ri&s;ing of all in the twinckling of an eye to Jugdment. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15. 22. 41. 52. and that the Saints &s;hall be caught up &s;uddenly in the ayr to meet Chri&s;t, and be <HI>for ever</HI> with him, 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 4. 16. and <HI>Daniel</HI> joynes the Re&s;urre|ction of all, and the day of judgement together, <HI>Dan.</HI> 12&punc; 2.
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So doth <HI>John, Revel.</HI> 20. 12.</P>
<P N="5">5. If none but perfect Saints &s;hal reign with Chri&s;t this thou|&s;and yeers, (as Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> &s;aith) and no wicked men &s;hal be mixt with them (as the <HI>Millenaries</HI> af|firm) the Dr. may do well in his next book in Folio, (printed at his own charge) to tell us from whence that per&s;ecuting <HI>Gog,</HI> and <HI>Magog (i. e.)</HI> tho&s;e open and &s;ecret enemies of Gods Church &s;hall ari&s;e, which &s;hall make &s;uch havock of the Church of God? <HI>Revel&punc;</HI> 20. 7, 8, 9. when the thou&s;and yeers are exquired Satan &s;hall then be loo&s;ed (&s;aith the Text) out of pri&s;on, and &s;hall go out and deceive the Na|tions which are in the 4. Quar|ters of the Earth, <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Magog accipio pro Turcica Ty|rannide &amp; a|perto hoste. Gog e&s;t Pontificia carnificina, &amp; opertus hostis. <HI>Aretius.</HI></NOTE><HI>Gog</HI> and <HI>Magog,</HI> to gather them again&s;t the beloved City. <HI>q. d.</HI> Satan &s;hall then be &s;uffered to rai&s;e great troubles and tumults in
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the world, and &s;hall &s;tir up all the enemies of Gods Church which are in all the Regions of the Earth, both <HI>Scythians, Turks,</HI> and unbelieving Chri&s;tians, and &s;hall gather them to battle a|gain&s;t the Church of Chri&s;t. Here we &s;ee the people of God are in a wor&s;e condition then they were before, now it can|not be imagined that Chri&s;t &s;hould come down for a thou|&s;and yeers among&s;t us, and then leave us in a wor&s;e conditi|on then he found us; and after the Church had been &s;inle&s;s and &s;orrowle&s;s (as Dr. <HI>Homes</HI> af|firms) then that it &s;hould be again deceived by Satan, and <NOTE PLACE="marg">See more in <HI>B. Hals Reve|lat. Unrev.</HI> p. 145.</NOTE>be&s;ieged by his In&s;truments, who can believe this? So that this Text makes much again&s;t the <HI>Millenarian</HI> opinion. I &s;hall therefore &s;hut up all with this Argument: That Expo&s;ition
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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 con|current Judgment of Gods Church; that Expo&s;ition is not right. But &s;uch is the <HI>Millenari|an</HI> Expo&s;ition of this Text, (as will appear in the following Ar|guments) <HI>ergo.</HI></P>
<P>Let us now &s;um up all, and then we &s;hall ea&s;ily &s;ee the folly of the&s;e mens arguing from this My&s;tical Text. 1. St. <HI>John</HI> &s;peaks of the Saints living with Chri&s;t, <HI>ergo,</HI> 'tis a corporal li|ving.</P>
<P N="2">2. He &s;peaks of their raign|ing with Chri&s;t; <HI>ergo,</HI> 'tis a cor|poral and vi&s;ible raigning.</P>
<P N="3">3. He mentions a Re&s;urrecti|on, <HI>ergo,</HI> &punc;tis a corporal Re&s;urre|ction.</P>
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4. He &s;peaks of the fir&s;t Re|&s;urrection, <HI>ergo,</HI> there &s;hall be two bodily Re&s;urrections.</P>
<P N="5">5. The Saints &s;hall Reign a thou&s;and yeers on earth. <HI>ergo,</HI> it &s;hall be the &s;ame numerical Saints, and not a &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of Holy men in their &s;everal ages. <HI>E&s;t fallacia con&s;equentis.</HI> The ve|ry repetition of tho&s;e things is confutation &s;ufficient.</P>
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<HEAD>Again&s;t the Doctors The&s;is I &s;hall &s;et down this Antithe|&s;is.</HEAD>
<P>THat Chri&s;t &s;hall not Reign per&s;onally with the Saints or Martyrs here on earth for a thou&s;and yeers, neither be|fore the Day of Judgement, in the Day of Judgement, nor af|ter it. If ever there be &s;uch a Raigne, it mu&s;t be in one of tho&s;e times. But 'tis in neither.</P>
<P N="1">1. It cannot be before the Day of Iudgement for the&s;e rea&s;ons. 1. Becau&s;e the la&s;t dayes will be perilous, not plea|&s;ant dayes, <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">See more in my Comment. on that Text.</NOTE>2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 1, 2, 3. they will be full of &s;ecurity, &s;en|&s;uality and iniquity, in&s;omuch that when Chri&s;t comes he &s;hall
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&s;carce find any faith on earth, <HI>Luke</HI> 18. 8. <HI>Matth.</HI> 24. 37, 38. wickedne&s;s will mo&s;t abound towards the end of the world.</P>
<P N="2">2. If the Church of Chri&s;t on earth be a mixt Society con|&s;i&s;ting of good and bad to the end of the world, then it cannot &s;ub&s;i&s;t for a thou&s;and yeers on|ly of good men. But the Churh of Chri&s;t on earth to the end of the world, is a mixt &s;ociety con|&s;i&s;ting of tares and wheat, good and bad, a <HI>Gog</HI> and <HI>Magog</HI> to mole&s;t the Saints to the end of the world, <HI>Matth.</HI> 13. 40. <HI>Rev.</HI> 20. 7, 8.</P>
<P N="2">2. If Chri&s;t remain in hea|ven till the day of judgement, then he cannot reign corporally a thou&s;and years on earth be|fore that day: But the antece|dent is true, and therefore the con&s;equent, <HI>Acts</HI> 3. 21. <HI>John</HI> 14. 3. Whom the heaven mu&s;t
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<NOTE PLACE="marg">U&s;&abque; in diem judicii, quo De|us hominem la|p&s;um in pecca|tum, aerumnas &amp; mortem, Deo, Gloriae, &amp; immortali|tate re&s;tituet a Lap.</NOTE> contain till the time that all things be re&s;tored; <HI>i. e.</HI> until the time of his coming to judg|ment, when he &s;hall appear a|gain for the full con&s;ummation of the glory of his elect, and perfect accompli&s;hment of his Kingdom; then all &s;hall be re|paired which &s;in hath di&s;order|ed, and the creature be deliver|ed from the bondage of corru|ption, into the glorious liberty of the &s;ons of God, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 21. 'tis from heaven, and not from earth (&s;aith our Creed, that Chri&s;t &s;hall come to judge the quick and the dead.</P>
<P N="3">3. If Gods Church (whil&s;t in this world) mu&s;t look for afflictions, tentations, per&s;ecu|tions; then this imaginary reign without &s;in or &s;orrow cannot be expected here. But Gods Church (whil&s;t on earth) mu&s;t look for afflictions, tentations,
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and per&s;ecutions here, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">See my ob&s;erva|tions on that Text.</NOTE>3. 12. All Chri&s;ts di&s;ciples mu&s;t take up their cro&s;s daylie, though they be righteous, yet mu&s;t they look for many trou|bles, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 34. 19. <HI>Acts</HI> 14. 22.</P>
<P N="4">4. Chri&s;ts kingdom is not of this world, <HI>John</HI> 18. 36. And therefore when the Iews would have made him a King, he con|veighed him&s;elf from among&s;t them, <HI>John</HI> 6. 15. His King|dom in this world is &s;piritual, not carnal; 'tis without any worldly pomp, neither doth it con&s;i&s;t in meat, drink, or mar|riage, <HI>Matth.</HI> 22. 30. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6. 13. <HI>Rom.</HI> 14. 17. A wo is de|nounced again&s;t tho&s;e that have their carnal delights, and their portion of plea&s;ures here, <HI>Luke</HI> 6. 25. <HI>Iames</HI> 5. 5.</P>
<P N="5">5. That tenet which is con|trary to the judgement of all the Churches of Chri&s;t, ought to be
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&s;u&s;pected by us; for the judge|ment and practi&s;e of the Chur|ches of God ought to have great weight with us, as you may &s;ee 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 16. 22. and we &s;hould fear to offend them, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10. 22. e&s;pecially by broaching &s;uch tenets as are contrary to the analogie of faith, as this is: true Churches may err, but not &s;o &s;oon as a particular per&s;on; two are bet|ter then one, and in the multi|tude of coun&s;ellors there is &s;afe|ty: Solitary birds are birds of prey: Affectation of &s;ingulari|ty is the high way to here&s;ie: it &s;avours of pride for a particular per&s;on to broach new tenets; which are directly contrary to the old received Truths of the Churches of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="6">6. <HI>Ab ab&s;urdo,</HI> many ab&s;ur|dities follow this fancy, I &s;hall produce twelve.</P>
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1. It derogates much from the honour of Chri&s;t; for him who is head of his Church, and hath all power given to him, to come down from heaven, the place of happine&s;s, where all is in &s;ubjection to him, to come live in a corner of the earth, in the new Ieru&s;alem of the Mil|lenaries inventing; 'tis a deba|fing of Chri&s;t. The wi&s;er &s;ort of Millenaries fore-&s;eeing this folly, labour to avoid it, by de|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ying (in a &s;ort) any per&s;onal reigne of Chri&s;t on earth; yea Dr <HI>Homes</HI> boggles at it, and therefore he comes in with his <HI>peradventure</HI> Chri&s;t will appear to the Saints at the beginning and ending of this thou&s;and <NOTE PLACE="marg">What an high pre&s;umption is it in fle&s;h and blood to &s;end the Son of God from heaven to earth, and from earth to heaven, upon an er|rand of their own making? B. <HI>Hall.</HI></NOTE>years. But how doth the Doctor prove this? Why, <HI>Ip&s;e dixit,</HI> D^r <HI>Homes</HI> &s;ays &s;o; <HI>Ergo</HI> 'tis &s;o.
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Chri&s;t mu&s;t come &amp; go, a&s;cend and de&s;cend, as Doctor <HI>Homes</HI> would have him.</P>
<P N="2">2. As there is no nece&s;&s;ity of &s;uch a reigne on Chri&s;ts part, &s;o neither on the Saints part; they are Denizens of heaven, their birth is from above, and thither they a&s;pire; the Church a&s;cends out of this wilderne&s;s like pil|lars of &s;moke. <HI>Paul</HI> (though a martyr) yet de&s;ires to be di&s;&s;ol|ved, and to be with Chri&s;t in heaven (he knew nothing of this 1000. years reigne on earth) <HI>Phil.</HI> 1 23. and 3. 20. and tells us that he looks for a dwelling in heaven, and not on earth, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 1. 6. and that when Chri&s;t appears, they &s;hall ap|pear with him in eternal glory, <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 3. 4. One hour in heaven will be better then all the plea|&s;ures of earth, and if the &s;ight of Chri&s;ts tran&s;figuration in the
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mount made <HI>Peter</HI> and <HI>Iohn</HI> to forget wives, children, meat, drink, hou&s;es, and all, de&s;iring to re&s;t there; how much more will the &s;ight of Chri&s;t in per|fect glory ravi&s;h our hearts with far greater joy then any we can have on earth, unle&s;s God &s;hould leave heaven to come dwell on earth, which we have not the lea&s;t ground to believe.</P>
<P N="2">2. What good or comfort can acrew to the Saints by com|ing from Heaven to reign a thou&s;and years on earth? Is not the glory of Heaven better then all the delights on Earth?</P>
<P N="3">3. Or what &s;hould glorified Saints do in this new world, af|ter they are come from Heaven? How &s;hould &s;piritualized bo|dies delight in earthly plea&s;ures? The Apo&s;tle tells us that our bodies at the Re&s;urrection &s;hall be incorruptible, immortall,
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&s;piritual, powerfull and glori|ous like to Chri&s;ts body, <HI>Philip.</HI> 3. <HI>ult.</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15. 42. Now &s;uch bodies cannot live a natural, low, &s;en&s;ual life, in eating, drink|ing, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Nugae hae &s;unt ver&egrave; Mahume|ticae, &s;iquidem Regunm Chri|&s;ti non e&s;t e&s;ca, potus, &amp;c.</NOTE>marrying, <HI>Matth.</HI> 22. 30. The&s;e things may plea&s;e a Turk and adorn his Paradi&s;e, but the thoughts of &s;uch things are loath&s;ome to a glorified Saint, who hath enjoyed immediate communion with Chri&s;t in glory.</P>
<P>And tho&s;e that confine this their &s;uppo&s;ed Priviledge to the Martyrs, do here by put them into a wor&s;e condition then the ordinary Saints; for whil&s;t the&s;e are beholding the face of God in glory, tho&s;e mu&s;t be brought down to earth to eat and drink, build hou&s;es and plant Vineyards, &amp;c. Thus you &s;ee there is no nece&s;&s;ity nor comfort in fancying &s;uch a raign.</P>
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2. Then the day of judge|ment might be known if Chri&s;t &s;hould come and raign on earth ju&s;t a thou&s;and yeers in a vi&s;ible manner before the day of judg|ment, then that day thou&s;and yeers (after this raign begins) would be the day of judgment. But the Scripture expre&s;ly tells us, that of that day knoweth no man, <HI>Mark</HI> 13. 32. and Chri&s;t will come as a thief in the night, when men lea&s;t expect him, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3. 10. A late writer tells us that <HI>Rome</HI> &s;hall fall 1666. and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Romae ruin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"></NOTE>the world &s;hall have and end 45. yeers after. If this be true, where then is the thou&s;and yeers raign?</P>
<P N="3">3. It opens a gap to Anarchy, Sedition and Murder, for un|der this pretence Libertines may ari&s;e and kill Magi&s;trates and Mini&s;ters, and all the ungodly <HI>(i. e.)</HI> all but them&s;elve and their
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party, that they may raign a|lone in the Earth. D. <HI>Homes</HI> tells us that all &s;ecular powers, which love not the members of Chri&s;t, &s;hall then be de&s;troyed. And with him the late fifth Monarch men concur&punc;</P>
<P N="4">4. This fancy makes 3. com|ings of Chri&s;t, but we read but of two in all the Scripture. 1 His coming in the fle&s;h in a &s;tate of Humiliation. 2. His coming to judgment in a &s;tate of Glorifi|cation, <HI>Matth.</HI> 25. 31. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15. 22. 1 <HI>The&s;sal.</HI> 4. 16. 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4&punc; 1. <HI>Revel.</HI> 1. 7. We read of his appearing a &s;econd, but ne|ver of a third time, <HI>Heb.</HI> 9. 28.</P>
<P N="5">5. It makes two bodily Re|&s;urrections, one of the godly to raign with Chri&s;t a thou&s;and yeers, and another of the un|godly at the end of tho&s;e thou|&s;and yeers. But the Scripture expre&s;ly joynes the Re&s;urrecti|on
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of the good and bad toge|ther, <HI>Dan.</HI> 12. 2. <HI>John</HI> 5. 28. <HI>Acts</HI> 24. 15. <HI>Rev.</HI> 20. 12. <HI>John</HI> 6. 39.</P>
<P N="6">6. It makes Chri&s;t to have 3. A&s;centions, when the Scrip|ture never mentions but two, <HI>viz.</HI> 40&punc; dayes after his Re&s;ur|rection, and the other after the General Judgement of the World.</P>
<P N="7">7. It makes a double day of judgement, the one inchoate, a thou&s;and yeers before the other; and the other the Ulti|mate and General Day of Iudg|ment&punc;</P>
<P N="8">8. Whereas the Scripture makes mans age upon earth to be three&s;core yeers and ten, the&s;e have enlarged the date, they tell us of &s;ome that &s;hall live a thou&s;and yeers on earth.</P>
<P N="9">9. It makes the ruine of An|tichri&s;t to be a thou&s;and yeers
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or more before the Day of judgement, when the Scrip|ture joins them together, 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2. 8. <HI>Revel.</HI> 20. 8, 9, 10.</P>
<P N="10">10. It makes the Church triumphant when Chri&s;t comes, contrary to the tenour of the Scripture, <HI>Matth.</HI> 37, 38. 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 1.</P>
<P N="11">11. 'Tis a means to breed &s;e|curity in men when they &s;hall hear that 'tis yet above a thou|&s;and yeers to the Day of Iudg|ment; whereas the Learned conceive the end of the world to be much nearer. And the A|po&s;tles thought 'twas not far off in their time.</P>
<P N="12">12. Then the Saints and Martyrs &s;hould have their re|ward on earth, but the Scrip|ture tells us expre&s;ly that their reward is great in Heaven, not on Earth, <HI>Matth.</HI> 5. 10. 2 <HI>Cor&punc;</HI> 5. 1. 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4. 8. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI>
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1&punc; 4. and <HI>Paul</HI> (a Martyr) look|ed <NOTE PLACE="marg">If any li&s;t to &s;ee more ab&s;urdi|ties, let him peru&s;e that ela|borate Treati&s;e of <HI>B. Hall</HI> his <HI>Revelation Unrevealed.</HI> Sect. 12. p. 109&punc; to 188.</NOTE>for his reward there, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4. 8. 18. Thus you &s;ee if you grant the Devil but one ab&s;ur|dity, how many he'l infer upon you, the Devil de&s;ires but a lit|tle at fir&s;t, he de&s;ires you would but ta&s;t of his broath, for then he'l quickly bring you to eat of his beef. Count no error &s;mall; many thought this <HI>Millinarian</HI> opinion to be a very harmle&s;s one, yet we &s;ee what Carnality, Here&s;ie, Sedition and Schi&s;me it hath brought forth in Church and State.</P>
<P><HI>Obj&punc;</HI> If the Raign of Chri&s;t on earth be not before the day of judgment, <HI>yet it may be in, and during, the day of judgment.</HI> So &s;aith Mr. <HI>Mede,</HI> this 1000. years raign, &s;hall be <HI>In &amp; durante die Judicii:</HI> to this opinion D. <HI>Tho. Goodwin</HI> inclines, in his New World to come, p. 37.</P>
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<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chimaera chi|maeri&s;&s;ima.</NOTE> <HI>An&s;w.</HI> That the day of judge|ment &s;hall la&s;t a 1000. yeers, is <HI>grat is dictum,</HI> 'tis &s;aid, but it can never be proved; 'tis a very bold and groundle&s;s a&s;&s;ertion.</P>
<P><HI>The Text which the</HI> Millena|ries <HI>bring to prove this, is 2</HI> Pet. <HI>3. 8.</HI> one day with the Lord is&punc; AS a thou&s;and yeers, and a thou&s;and yeers is AS one day.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> What is here to prove their A&s;&s;ertion? I &s;ee very weak grounds will &s;atisfie &s;ome men to uphold what plea&s;eth their fancy. The meaning of the A|po&s;tle is no more but this, whereas &s;ome &s;coft at Chri&s;ts delay, and thought that he would never come to judge|ment, the Apo&s;tle tells them they had no rea&s;on &s;o to do; for <NOTE PLACE="marg">Numerus certus &amp; rotundus ponitur pro in|certo &amp; infi|nito.</NOTE>one day with the Lord is <HI>As</HI> a thou&s;and yeers, and a thou&s;and yeers <HI>As</HI> one day. God mea|&s;ures not time as we do, what
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&s;eems long to us, is &s;hort to him, <HI>Job.</HI> 10. 5. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 90. 4. He doth not &s;imply &s;ay one day is a thou&s;and yeers, but is <HI>As</HI> a thou|&s;and yeers, 'tis onely a compari|&s;on, <HI>q. d.</HI> although a thou&s;and yeers &s;eem a long time to you, (and &s;o the world &s;eems to have continued long) yet 'tis not &s;o with the Lord, to whom all time is &s;hort, and with whom ten thou&s;and yeers are but as ye&s;terday when compared with his eternity.</P>
<P N="3">3. Dr. <HI>Al&s;teed</HI> with his New|light goes further then all the re&s;t, and tells in that this thou|&s;and yeers raign &s;hall be <HI>After</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Figmentum Chilia&s;ticum.</NOTE>the day of judgement. This is like the re&s;t, hath no foundati|on, but neer fancy, and is dire|ctly contrary to the Tenour of Scripture, which expre&s;ly tells us that at that day of judegment every man &s;hall receive his final
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&s;entence, and everla&s;ting doom of, <HI>Come ye ble&s;&s;ed,</HI> and <HI>Go ye cur|&s;ed:</HI> So &s;aith Mr <HI>Mede,</HI> after the da y of judgement all is fini&s;ht, the wicked are &s;ent to hell, and the Saints inherit glory.</P>
<P>As for our &s;elves, let us aban|don <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Vid.</HI> Grotius <HI>in Apocal.</HI> 20. 4.</NOTE>and dete&s;t this Jewi&s;h Rab|binical fancy, and Cerinthian Fable, look upon it as an old error new vamped, or an old harlot new painted. Men have &s;trained their wits of late to &s;et a new glo&s;s upon it, but all in vain; bring it to the fire of Gods word, and all their painting va|ni&s;heth, and their old wrinkled ab&s;urdities are pre&s;ently di&s;cer|ned.</P>
<P>What we &s;ay of vitious, is al&s;o true of erroneous per&s;ons, The Scholars oft-times exceed their ma&s;ters: <HI>Arminius</HI> his followers out-went him, and our late Millenaries and fifth
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Monarch men have exceeded their predece&s;&s;ors in here&s;ies and bla&s;phemies: Such carnal fle&s;h-plea&s;ing conceits, breed carnal practi&s;es. 'Tis well ob|&s;erved by a learned man, <HI>That</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">D. <HI>Owen</HI> in his &s;erm. on <HI>Dan.</HI> 7. 15. pag. 13, 14.</NOTE><HI>tho&s;e who degenerate from the &s;pi|rituality of the rule of Chri&s;t, and delight therein, have degenerated into carnal apprehen&s;ions of the glory and beauty of it, &s;uch have for the mo&s;t part been given up to carnal actings, &s;uitable to &s;uch ap|prehen&s;ions, and have been &s;o da|zled with gazing after temporal glory, that the Kingdom which comes not by ob&s;ervation, hath been vile in their eyes:</HI> &s;o he. As the gro&s;s and carnal Millenaries are led by their lu&s;ts, &s;o 'tis ob&s;er|ved, that the mo&s;t &s;piritual of that way have their errors. Our natures are very apt in times of pro&s;perity, to think our moun|tain &s;o &s;trong, that it will never
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be moved. In Epi&s;copal times, when &s;uch men pro&s;pered and carried the day, they began to &s;ing, <HI>Datur bodie Eccle&s;ia trium|phans;</HI> but pre&s;ently after, they found they were mi&s;taken, for it was <HI>Eccle&s;ia militans.</HI> In a fair day we are apt to think the clouds are gone to bed, and we &s;hall &s;ee them again no more; when experience tells us, the hotter the gleam is, the &s;ooner the &s;torm comes; even the A|po&s;tles when they had but a lit|tle re&s;t, began to dream of &s;ome &s;uch earthly Reigne; and there|fore they ask Chri&s;t whether he would not now re&s;tore the Kingdom to <HI>I&s;rael? Acts</HI> 1. 6, 7. But let not us &s;o dream of reigning here, that we mi&s;s of reigning hereafter, but in our greate&s;t peace and pro&s;perity, let's remember the days of ad|ver&s;ity, for they may be many.
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Let's get our part in the fir&s;t re|&s;urrection, let Chri&s;t reigne in us, and over us; let him &s;ubdue our lu&s;ts, and &s;et up his King|dom in our hearts here, and then we &s;hall reigne with him for e|ver.</P>
<P>'Tis the fault of many, they are &s;o taken up with the thoughts of reigning here with Chri&s;t, that they forget they mu&s;t &s;hortly be judged by him: They &s;tudy prophe&s;ies more then precepts, and enquire more after future events; then their pre&s;ent duty. But let no man de|ceive you with vain words, nor beguile you with empty, new notions, but enquire for the good old way of Truth and Holine&s;s, and walk therein, &s;o &s;hall you find re&s;t for your &s;ouls. <HI>Jer.</HI> 6. 16.</P>
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If any de&s;ire further &s;atisfa|ction, he may peru&s;e M. <HI>Petry,</HI> M. <HI>Hayne,</HI> D. <HI>Prideaux Lect.</HI> 13. and <HI>Fa&s;ciculus, cap.</HI> 7. <HI>q.</HI> 4. Mr <HI>Bayly</HI>'s <HI>Di&s;swa&s;ive,</HI> 1. <HI>p. c.</HI> 11. Mr <HI>Love, Ser.</HI> 5. on <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 3, 4. <HI>Ro&s;s</HI> his <HI>View of all Religions, Sect.</HI> 12. <HI>Q.</HI> 8. <HI>p.</HI> 370. <HI>Edit.</HI> 2. and above all, B. <HI>Hall</HI>'s little Tract, called <HI>The Revelation un|revealed.</HI></P>
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