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<P> THE <HI>Day-Dawning,</HI> And the DAY-STAR Ari&s;ing to the Di&s;per&s;ed of JUDAH &amp; ISRAEL.</P>
<P>Wherein is briefly handled Their CALL, AND CHRISTS Second coming, who&s;e day is neer at hand.</P>
<P>By THO. COLLIER.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>H. Hills</HI> for <HI>T. Brewster,</HI> at the three Bibles, neer the We&s;t end of <HI>Pauls,</HI> 1655.</P>
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<P>It may &s;eem &s;trange, that I, at &s;uch a di&s;tance from you, and not of your nation, &s;hould trouble my &s;elf &s;o much about your e&s;tate, being a people now de&s;picable in the worlds eyes, &s;cattered and di&s;|per&s;ed among the nations; and upon a rational account unlikely to be a people beloved for the Fa|thers &s;ake, and that &s;hall be ho|noured of God when the nations &s;hall fall before you, and confe&s;s you a people &s;ought out and &s;av|ed, and not for&s;aken: but I have had &s;everal prevailing arguments in mine own heart, which have occa&s;ioned me to pre&s;ent you with this Epi&s;tle, and I intreat and be&s;eech you for the Lords &s;ake, and for the love of the truth, that you do read this Epi&s;tle, and ponder it well in your hearts, de|&s;iring the God of Grace to give you an under&s;tanding in the truth herein pre&s;ented to you,
<PB N="3" REF="4"> for with much bowels of tender|ne&s;s and love, have I written to you: the rea&s;ons moving me thereunto are the&s;e.</P>
<P N="1">1. That cleer di&s;covery God hath given me by his Spirit from the Word of truth of his inten|tion to do you good; and that although you have been a long time rejected and &s;cattered for your own &s;ake, yet you are be|loved, and &s;hall be gathered for the Fathers &s;ake.</P>
<P>Secondly, being thus in&s;tructed in the truth of your calling, it lay much as a duty upon my heart (and I am confident from the Lord) to write unto you; that I might perform my duty to you in my generation, leaving the ble&s;&s;ing to the Lord.</P>
<P>Thirdly, Likewi&s;e being a&s;&s;u|red that the time of your gathe|ring is at hand.</P>
<P>Fourthly, knowing likewi&s;e
<PB N="4" REF="5"> that your fullne&s;s will be the time of the deliverance of all believing Gentiles, now di&s;per&s;ed and trampled under foot for their Lords &s;ake; for he was given to be a light to the Gentiles, and the glory of his people I&s;rael.</P>
<P>Fifthly and la&s;t, I finde it to be the de&s;ire of <HI>Mana&s;&s;eh Ben I&s;rael,</HI> in his book titled, <HI>The hope of I&s;rael,</HI> in his Epi&s;tle to the Reader, That if any to whom his book came, had any thing worthy of po&s;terity, that they would give him notice of it. I have not here pre&s;ented you with any thing of Hi&s;tory or outward learning, but have in|deavored, according to the grace received, in the plain evidence and demon&s;tration of the Spirit and power of truth, to pre&s;ent you with &s;uch things, as may, through the ble&s;&s;ing of God, tend to your eternal good.</P>
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<P> The fir&s;t principle of truth I have to pre&s;ent you with, is, that the true and promi&s;ed <HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> was, according to the coun&s;el of God, to &s;uffer death for the re|demption of &s;inners; and this I &s;hall clear unto you, by convin|cing grounds from the Scriptures, <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and the Prophets, whom you know and own; and my ear|ne&s;t de&s;ire for you at the throne of grace, is, that the God of grace may give you an under&s;tanding in the knowledge of this truth. This I &s;hall confirm unto you from three grounds. 1. Promi&s;es, 2. Types, 3. Prophe&s;ies.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Is that Promi&s;e of grace, <HI>Gen.</HI> 3. 15. <HI>I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy &s;eed and hers; it &s;hall brui&s;e thy head, and thou &s;halt brui&s;e his heel.</HI> This promi&s;e hath a &s;pecial relati|on to the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah,</HI> and clearly pre|&s;ents us with his &s;uffering, that
<PB N="6" REF="6"> by his death he &s;hould break the Serpents head <HI>(viz.)</HI> the head of Satan; though he him&s;elf were brui&s;ed, though he &s;uffered in the fle&s;h, yet he &s;hould overcome in &s;uffering. I do not deny, but that this hath been and is accompli&s;h|ed in all that truely know the Lord: Satan, &s;in, and evil men oppo&s;e, but the &s;eed of the wo|man hath and will brui&s;e the head of all, in and for his people, though he him&s;elf was appointed to be brui&s;ed by the Serpents &s;eed, to this agreeth <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 53. 5. <HI>He was brui&s;ed for our iniquiti&egrave;s,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Secondly, &s;ee it clearly and ful|ly pre&s;ented in types and &s;had|dows; fir&s;t the Pa&s;chal Lambe or Pa&s;&s;eover, mentioned <HI>Exod.</HI> 12. was a lively repre&s;entation of the crucifying of the Lamb of God, the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> who was to come, and by his blood to make attonement and peace for &s;inners, that as the
<PB N="7" REF="6"> children of I&s;rael were then made partakers of a deliverance out of <HI>Egypt,</HI> by that means the killing of a Lamb, eating the fle&s;h, and &s;prinkling the door-po&s;t with the blood, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;o mu&s;t the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> give his life and blood for the re|demption of his people (out of &s;piritual <HI>Egypt,</HI> darkne&s;s &amp; oppre&s;|&s;ion) both of Jews and Gentiles.</P>
<P N="2">2. All the &s;acrifices &amp; offerings by the Prie&s;ts commanded in the law of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> were clear types and repre&s;entations of the &s;ufferings of the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah;</HI> the offering of Lambs, &amp; Rams, &amp; Bullocks; <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to be &s;in-offerings, burnt-offer|ings and peace-offerings, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> all pre&s;entations of Chri&s;t the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah,</HI> in Engli&s;h the anointed, who was to be the alone peace and &s;in|offering for his people; the Prie&s;t was to offer &s;acrifice for &s;in, as is expre&s;t at large, <HI>Levit.</HI> 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 Chapters, and Chap. 16. 34.
<PB N="8" REF="7"> they were to make an attonement once a yeer, both for them&s;elves and the people. All the&s;e offer|ings could not do away &s;in, but as it had a relation to the true offer|ing, he that was to offer him&s;elf once for all, that he might by one offering for ever perfect them that were by him &s;anctified: this truth you &s;hall &s;ee when the Lord ta|keth away the veil that is &s;pread over your faces, that clearly un|der all the&s;e offerings is repre&s;en|ted the offering up of the true <HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> once for all, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. This truth is likewi&s;e clear|ly prophe&s;ied, that he that runs may read. There is &s;carce any prophet of God, but did fore&s;ee and foretell of this truth, the &s;uf|ferings of the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah. Mo&s;es</HI> the &s;ervant of the Lord, and great prophet and type of the anointed, as you may &s;ee <HI>Dcut.</HI> 18. 15. he by the in&s;piration of the Lord, pre|&s;ents
<PB N="9" REF="7"> him much as hath been minded In his &s;uffering e&s;tate; the prophet <HI>David</HI> likewi&s;e in <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 22. pre&s;ents him a &s;ufferer, particularly in <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 16. <HI>They peirced my hands and my feet:</HI> a clear pro|phe&s;ie of the <HI>Me&s;siah.</HI> I be&s;eech you weigh it in your hearts, <HI>David</HI> was never peirced in his hands and feet. See likewi&s;e the pro|phet <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> chap. 53. throughout, de&s;cribing the <HI>Me&s;siah,</HI> that he was wounded and brui&s;ed, rejected of men, a man of &s;orrows, and ac|quainted with griefs, and that God laid upon him the iniquity of us all. And <HI>Zach.</HI> 12. 10. <HI>They &s;hall look upon him whom they have peirced:</HI> all which confirms the truth, that the <HI>Me&s;siah,</HI> which you look for, was to come forth, fir&s;t in his humiliation, in contempt, in &s;uffer|ing, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<P>THe &s;econd principle of truth that I have to pre&s;ent unto you, is, That that Je&s;us which was crucified by your forefathers at Jeru&s;alem, without the gate, was and is the true <HI>Me&s;siah,</HI> and this is that principle of truth, you have to this day rejected; and my earne&s;t de&s;ire is, that you would read the&s;e lines with pati|ence, and weigh well the truth herein pre&s;ented with much ten|derne&s;s and love unto you; and in this I &s;hall pre&s;ent you with many new Te&s;tament-Scriptures, u&s;eful being compared with the old, be willing to read and com|pare them together before you judge. And, Oh that you would be mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e in &s;earching after the knowledge of the truth of Gods
<PB N="11" REF="8"> grace, held forth in the new Te&s;ta|ment, and if the Lord work upon your hearts, I &s;hould commend principally unto you the Epi|&s;tle to the <HI>Hebrews,</HI> which e&s;pecial|ly concerns you, and may through the ble&s;&s;ing of the Lord be of much u&s;e unto you.</P>
<P>I de&s;ire to mind you of one thing by the way, before I come to the confirmation of the truth a&s;&s;erted, <HI>viz.</HI> that the true and promi&s;ed <HI>Me&s;siah,</HI> was, according to the Scripture, to have his day and time of humiliation, as hath been already proved, and then his glory, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 9. 6. fir&s;t a childe, a &s;on, and then a King, and the govern|ment mu&s;t be upon his &s;houlders, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Chap. 53. throughout till the la&s;t ver. he is pre&s;ented in his &s;uf|fering e&s;tate; and in the la&s;t ver&s;. in his reign: <HI>Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he &s;hall divide the &s;poile with the strong.</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="9"> To this agrees that of Chri&s;t, <HI>Luk.</HI> 24. 25, 26. <HI>Oh fools and &s;low of heart to believe that which the prophets have written, ought not Christ to have &s;uffered the&s;e things, and to en|ter into his glory?</HI> 1 Pet. 1. 10, 11, 12. the &s;uffering part, as in relation to him&s;elf in his own per&s;on, he hath pa&s;&s;ed through, and is entered in|to glory, <HI>Act.</HI> 1. 9, 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">. Though while the Church is under &s;uffering, yet as he is con&s;idered one with his Church, the time of his humili|ation is not over till all the mem|bers are glorified with him.</P>
<P>Now that this is the true Me&s;&s;i|ah that &s;uffered at <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> will appear, if you con&s;ider, 1. That in him was fulfilled all the legall types that did repre&s;ent him in his &s;ufferings&punc; he it was that is the true Pa&s;cal Lamb, or rather the Lamb repre&s;ented in the Pa&s;&s;e|over, <HI>Exod.</HI> 12. The Lamb of God that taketh away the &s;ins of the
<PB N="13" REF="9"> world, <HI>Joh.</HI> 1. 29. 36. the true pa&s;&s;e|over that was &s;acrificed for us, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 7. that who&s;oever believeth in him, all their iniquities &s;hall be pa&s;&s;ed over, <HI>John</HI> 3 16.</P>
<P>And he was the &s;ub&s;tance of all tho&s;e &s;acrifices and offerings in the law of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> tho&s;e &s;in-offer|ings, burnt offerings, heave-of|ferings, and wave-offerings, they all lead to him, were fulfilled in him; tho&s;e &s;acrifices &s;erved to the purifying of the fle&s;h, &s;uitable to the covenant that then you wer under, but they never purified the con&s;cience from dead works, to &s;erve the living God in &s;pirit and in truth, no otherwi&s;e then as it had relation to Chri&s;t the true &s;acrifice, Chri&s;t being become an high Prie&s;t of good things to come, <HI>Heb.</HI> 9. 13, 14. For if the blood of Bulls and Goats, and the a&s;hes of an heifer, &s;prinkling the unclean, &s;anctifieth to the purifying
<PB N="14" REF="10"> of the fle&s;h; How much more &s;hall the blood of Chri&s;t, who through the eternal Spirit of|fered him&s;elf without &s;pot to God, Purge your con&s;ciences from dead works to &s;erve the li|ving God? As the high Prie&s;t then entered once a yeer into the mo&s;t holy place, offering &s;acrifice for him&s;elf and the people, <HI>Exod.</HI> 30. 10. <HI>Levit.</HI> 16 2. with <HI>Heb.</HI> 9&punc; 7. So is Je&s;us Chri&s;t become a high Prie&s;t of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect taber|nacle, not made with hands, that is to &s;ay, not of this building, nei|ther by the blood of Goats and Calves, but by his own blood he entered once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redem|ption, <HI>Heb.</HI> 9. 11, 12. For Chri&s;t is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are figures of the true, but into hea|ven it &s;elf, now to appear in the
<PB N="15" REF="10"> pre&s;ence of God for us, <HI>&amp;c. Heb.</HI> 9. 24, 25, 26. &s;o that what was figu|red out in the &s;acrifices, prie&s;t|hood, temple and tabernacle, Chri&s;t is the &s;ub&s;tance of all, fully and compleatly an&s;wers them, and fulfills them, and ends them all; &s;o that he is the end of the law for righteou&s;ne&s;s to every one that believes, <HI>Rom.</HI> 10. 4. By all which it appears that he is the true and promi&s;ed Me&s;&s;iah, be|cau&s;e that in him is fully an&s;wer|ed all the figures and &s;hadows of the old Te&s;tament.</P>
<P>It will farther appear that this is the true Me&s;&s;iah, if you con&s;ider how fully in him is an&s;wered all the prophe&s;ies and promi&s;es of him in the old Te&s;tament in rela|tion to his humiliation; and in him &s;hall be fulfilled all the pro|mi&s;es of his glory, but every thing in its order that God hath &s;et it. 1. For his humiliation, &s;ee what
<PB N="16" REF="11"> the Prophet <HI>David</HI> per&s;onating Chri&s;t, as it might be very well (for &s;ometimes Chri&s;t is called <HI>David, Ezek.</HI> 39. 24, 25. and the promi&s;e made with <HI>David</HI> and his &s;eed, hath a &s;peciall relation to Chri&s;t, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 89. from the 19. to the 39. ver&s;.) &s;ee <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 22. the prophet per|&s;onating Chri&s;t in his &s;ufferings, you may clearly &s;ee Chri&s;t an|&s;wering tho&s;e things, or all tho&s;e things fully an&s;wered in him: in way of complaint, <HI>ver.</HI> 6. I a worm and no man, this was the condi|tion of Chri&s;t, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 7. All they that &s;ee me, laugh me to &s;corn; &s;o it was fulfilled in Je&s;us, <HI>Mat,</HI> 27. 29, 30 31. and when they had plated a crown of thornes (in reproach) they put it on his head and a reed in his right hand, and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him and &s;aid, <HI>Haile King of the Jews,</HI> &amp;c. Again, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 22. 8. he tru&s;t|ed in the Lord, that he would de|liver
<PB N="17" REF="11"> him, let him deliver him, &s;eeing he delighted in him. See this made good <HI>Mat.</HI> 27. 43. when he was upon the Cro&s;s in the height of his &s;ufferings for the &s;ins of others, then his enemies taun|tingly fulfilled the Scripture, and &s;aid, He tru&s;ted in God, let him deliver him now if he will have him, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> So again <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 22. 16. For dogs have compa&s;&s;ed me, the a&s;|&s;embly of the wicked have enclo|&s;ed me; they have peirced my hands and my feet: and this was fulfilled in him, as is clearly im|ployed in <HI>John</HI> 20. 24, 25. and <HI>Tho|mas</HI> one of the Twelve &s;aid, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Except I &s;hall &s;ee in his hands the print of the nails, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> I will not believe. Again, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 22. 17. they part my garments among them, and ca&s;t lots upon (or for) my ve|&s;ture, and this was fulfilled in Chri&s;t. See <HI>Mat.</HI> 27. 35. <HI>Joh.</HI> 19. 23, 24. Again in <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> Chap: 7.
<PB N="18" REF="12"> 14. the Lord by the prophet <HI>(Ahaz</HI> refu&s;ing to ask a &s;igne) gives him a &s;igne: <HI>Behold a virgin &s;hall con|ceive and bear a Son, and &s;hall call his name Emmanuel:</HI> this cannot be rightly intended or under&s;tood but of Chri&s;t the true Me&s;&s;iah. For fir&s;t, never a virgin conceived a child in the ordinary cour&s;e of nature. And &s;econdly, his name Immanuel, <HI>viz.</HI> God with us; could not properly be given to any but the Son of God, nor ever was there a virgin that bear a Son, but <HI>Mary</HI> the mother of <HI>Je&s;us,</HI> or any one, be&s;ides him truly called Im|manuel, that is, God with us, and with his, believing in him, by his &s;pirit and grace, &amp; &s;hall be with his in glory, <HI>Mat.</HI> 23. <HI>Luk.</HI> 1. 26, &amp;c. here in is the my&s;tery of Gods wi&s;dom &amp; grace to men; that as by a woma~ &s;in and condemnation came fir&s;t into the world; &s;o by a Son born of a woman, a virgin, &s;alvation
<PB N="19" REF="12"> is come into the world.</P>
<P>As his conception and birth was according to the Scripture of a virgin, &s;o the place of his birth was according to prophe&s;ies ex|actly fulfilled, <HI>viz.</HI> in <HI>Bethlehem, Mic.</HI> 5. 2. with <HI>Mat.</HI> 2. 1, 5. and for this rea&s;on it was that <HI>Herod</HI> com|manded all the males in <HI>Bethlehem,</HI> and the coa&s;ts thereof from two yeers old and under to be &s;lain, that &s;o he might make &s;ure to &s;lay Je&s;us, <HI>Mat.</HI> 2. 16. and this makes way for the fulfilling of another prophe&s;ie, <HI>Jer.</HI> 31. 15. with <HI>Mat.</HI> 2. 17, 18. Then was fulfilled that which was &s;poken by <HI>Jeremiah</HI> the prophet, &s;aying, In <HI>Ramah</HI> was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping, and great mourning, <HI>Rachel</HI> weeping for her children and would not be comforted, be|cau&s;e they were not: though I do not que&s;tion but that there may be much in this prophe&s;ie relating
<PB N="20" REF="13"> to the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed e&s;tate of I&s;rael, and afterward a prophe&s;ie of their return. But it was likewi&s;e ful|filled in this al&s;o, for <HI>Benjamin</HI> came of <HI>Rachel, Gen.</HI> 35. 18. and <HI>Ramah</HI> was one part of <HI>Benjamins</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, <HI>Nehe.</HI> 11. 33. and the fulfilling of this Scripture made way for the fulfilling of another prophe&s;ie, <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> at the command of God flying with Je&s;us into <HI>E|gypt</HI> to &s;ave his life from <HI>Herod,</HI> made way for the fulfilling of that prophe&s;ie, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 11. 1. Out of <HI>Egypt</HI> have I called my Son, <HI>Mat.</HI> 2. 15. he was there, <HI>viz.</HI> in <HI>Egypt,</HI> until the death of <HI>Herod,</HI> that it might be fulfilled which was &s;poken of the Lord by the prophet, &s;aying, out of <HI>Egypt</HI> have I called my Son. Its true, there might be &s;omething in it relating to your coming out of <HI>Egypt</HI> by the hand of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> but prophe&s;ies are of a large extent, and the mo&s;t precious my&s;tery is
<PB N="21" REF="13"> hid from our eyes, if the Lord open not our under&s;tanding.</P>
<P>His life was a life of &s;uffering a&s;&s;oon as he came into the world, his life was &s;ought after, and af|terwards he was the reproach of men, accounted a friend to Publi|cans and &s;inners, a bla&s;phemer, one that ca&s;t out divels through <HI>Belzebub</HI> the Prince of divels, <HI>Mat.</HI> 12. 24. <HI>John</HI> 10. 33. and &s;o in him was fulfilled that prophe&s;ie, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 8. 18. with <HI>Heb.</HI> 2. 13. Behold I and the children which the Lord hath given me, are for &s;ignes and won|ders in I&s;rael. He came to his own, and his own received him not, and &s;o that prophe&s;ie was ful|filled, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 53. 1. Who hath believ|ed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? and that prophe&s;ie <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 6. 9. Go tell this people, hear ye in hearing, but under&s;tand not, and &s;ee in deed, but perceive not. Make
<PB N="22" REF="14"> the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and &s;hut their eys le&s;t they hear with their ears, and &s;ee with their eyes, and under&s;tand with their hearts, and be converted, and I &s;hould heal them. And hath not this been your condition many yeers? and hath not there been a for&s;aking in the land upon this account, and the Lord hath removed you far a|way? but there is a tenth which &s;hall return, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> See <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 11, 12, 13.</P>
<P>And in him was fulfilled that prophe&s;ie <HI>Zach.</HI> 9. 9. Rejoyce great|ly, O daughter of <HI>Zion,</HI> &s;hout O daughter of <HI>Jeru&s;alem:</HI> Behold thy King cometh to thee, he is ju&s;t, ha|ving &s;alvation, lowly, and riding upon an A&s;s, and upon a Colt, the fole of an A&s;s. This was fulfilled in him, <HI>Mat.</HI> 21. 5. to the 10. this was done that it might be fulfilled which was &s;poken by the Prophet
<PB N="23" REF="14"> &s;aying Behold thy King cometh unto thee meekly, &s;itting upon an A&s;s, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Note, this was an act of Chri&s;t to be performed in his hu|miliation he mu&s;t come lowly, meekly riding upon an A&s;s; this is not to be expected in his glory, then he &s;hall come in power and great glory. Who will abide the day of his coming? and who will &s;tand when he appeareth? <HI>Mal.</HI> 3. 2. But fir&s;t he mu&s;t come meekly and humbly; and yet riding in this meek e&s;tate; wherein was a re&s;emblance of his glory; the great multitudes that went before and followed after him cryed, &s;ay|ing Ho&s;anna to the Son of <HI>David,</HI> ble&s;&s;ed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Ho&s;anna in the highe&s;t, <HI>Mat.</HI> 21. 9. if there was &s;o much glory appeared in his meek|ne&s;s in his humiliation, how will he appear glorious when he &s;hall appear in his power, when
<PB N="24" REF="15"> the &s;ong of Saints &s;hall be, the Lord God omnipotent reign|eth.</P>
<P>With what clearne&s;s was that prophe&s;ie fulfilled in all the cir|cum&s;tances of it? <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 52. 14 &amp; cha. 53. throughout, Cha. 52. 14. as many were a&s;toni&s;hed at thee, his vi&s;age was &s;o marred more than any mans, and his form more than the &s;ons of men. Was not this ful|filled when your fathers cryed out crucifie him, crucifie him, give us not this man but <HI>Barabbas? Mat.</HI> 27. 20, 21. Je&s;us was &s;o marred in their eyes, that they preferred <HI>Barabbas</HI> a thief and a murderer before him, <HI>Act.</HI> 3. 14, 15. thus was he a man of &s;orrows and acquainted with griefs, de&s;pi&s;ed &amp; rejected of men, and not e&s;teemed&punc; Chap. 53. 3. Oh was not this prophe&s;ie fulfilled to the life in Je&s;us? <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 4, 5. Surely he hath born our griefs, and carry|ed our &s;orrows, yet we did e|&s;teem
<PB N="25" REF="15"> him &s;triken, &s;mitten of God and afflicted; but he was wound|ed for our tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, he was brui&s;ed for our iniquities; the cha&s;ti&s;ement of our peace was up|on him, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> the rea&s;on was in <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 6. Becau&s;e that all we like &s;heep have gone a&s;tray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all, and he bare our &s;ins on his own body on the cro&s;s, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 24. In him was fulfilled that &s;aying of the Prophet <HI>Micah</HI> 5. 1. They &s;hall &s;mite the Judge of I&s;rael with the rod upon the cheek, <HI>Mat.</HI> 27. 30. They &s;pit up|on him, and took the reed and &s;mote him on the head, and &s;o ful|filled that Scripture, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 50. 6. I gave my back to the &s;miters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair, I hid not my face from &s;hame and &s;piting.</P>
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<P> Thus was he numbered among tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 53. 12. accoun|ted wor&s;e than <HI>Barabbas</HI> cruci|fied between two thieves, <HI>Mark</HI> 15. 27, 28. and the Scripture was fulfilled. In all which he fulfilled that &s;aying <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 53. 7. he was op|pre&s;&s;ed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a Lamb to the &s;laugh|ter, and as a &s;heep before her &s;hearer is dumb, &s;o opened he not his mouth, with <HI>Mat.</HI> 26. 62, 63. And thus in &s;ilence for the &s;ins of men he &s;uffered death, even the &s;hame|ful death of the Cro&s;s: and that Scripture was fulfilled, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 53. 8. He was cut off out of the land of the living for the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of my people was he cut off, and ver&s;e 9. he made his grave with the wicked, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and ver&s;. 12. he pour|ed out his &s;oul to the death, and he was numbered with the tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ors for he bear the &s;ins of ma|ny.
<PB N="27" REF="16"> Thus have I given you a brief ta&s;t of this truth &s;o nece&s;&s;ary to be known in this day of grace, that Je&s;us Chri&s;t is the true promi&s;ed Me&s;&s;iah. The Lord give you an un|der&s;tanding in this precious truth, which in it &s;elf is &s;o full of clear|ne&s;s, that who&s;oever runs may read if the vail remain not &s;till untaken away.</P>
<P>I &s;hall add in the la&s;t place, that he according to the Scripture came of the tribe of <HI>Judah,</HI> and &s;o was the Son of <HI>David</HI> according to the fle&s;h; and in him were the pro|phe&s;ies fulfilled, <HI>Gen.</HI> 49. 10. The &s;cepter &s;hall not depart from <HI>Ju|dah,</HI> nor the law-giver from be|tween his feet till <HI>Shilo</HI> come, and to him &s;hall the gathering of the people be. And that prophe&s;ie <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 11. 1. And there &s;hall come forth a rod out of the &s;tem of <HI>Ie&s;&s;e;</HI> and a branch &s;hall grow out of his roots, with <HI>Act.</HI> 13. 22, 23. I have
<PB N="28" REF="17"> found <HI>David</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Ie&s;&s;e</HI> a man after mine own heart which &s;hall fulfill all my wil, of this mans &s;eed hath God according to his pro|mi&s;e rai&s;ed a Saviour Je&s;us, and this is proved both by <HI>Matthew,</HI> Chap. 1. and <HI>Luk.</HI> chap. 3. in their account of the genealogy of Chri&s;t both agree in their account that he was the Son of <HI>David,</HI> though probably there may &s;eem &s;ome &s;cruple, becau&s;e they reckon up|on a contrary line, yet I do believe there is much of the wi&s;dome of God in it: <HI>Matthew</HI> reckoning af|ter the genealogy of <HI>Io&s;eph,</HI> who was the &s;uppo&s;ed father of Chri&s;t, and <HI>Luke</HI> after the line of <HI>Mary</HI> the mother of Chri&s;t; &s;o that take it on which &s;ide you will, both came of <HI>David,</HI> and &s;o Chri&s;t was the &s;on of <HI>David,</HI> and the &s;on of <HI>Abraham,</HI> Mat. 1. 1. and &s;o he was acknowledged in his incarnation by all that had any convictions of
<PB N="29" REF="17"> heart upon them, <HI>Mat.</HI> 9. 27. The two blind men cryed, Thou &s;on of <HI>David</HI> have mercy on us, and the woman of Canaan, <HI>Chap.</HI> 15. 22. Cryed, &s;aying, have mercy on me, O Lord thou &s;on of <HI>David,</HI> and Chap. 21. 9. the multitude cryed out Ho&s;anna to the &s;on of <HI>David,</HI> &amp;c. Let this &s;uffice, he was the &s;on of <HI>David,</HI> he was made of the &s;eed of <HI>David</HI> according to the fle&s;h, and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spi|rit of holine&s;s, by the re&s;urrection from the dead, <HI>Rom.</HI> 1. 3. 4. For he did not only dy for our &s;ins, but he was al&s;o rai&s;ed again for our ju&s;ti|fication, according to the Scri|ptures, <HI>Rom.</HI> 4. 25. and &s;o that Scri|pture was fulfilled, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 16. 11. Thou wilt not &s;uffer thine holy one to &s;ee corruption. <HI>David</HI> &s;aw corruption, but this man &s;aw no corruption, being quickened and rai&s;ed by the Spirit, <HI>Mark.</HI> 16. 6.
<PB N="30" REF="18"> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15 and being ri&s;en, he is a&s;cended to the Father, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 20. 17. <HI>Act.</HI> 1. 9, 10. And the heavens mu&s;t receive him till the time of the re|&s;titution of all things, <HI>Act.</HI> 3. 21. Thus much &s;hall &s;uffice at pre&s;ent in confirmation of this truth, that that man Je&s;us who was crucified at Jeru&s;alem is the true and pro|mi&s;ed Me&s;&s;iah, though I might give many grounds more, as the wi&s;e men coming by a &s;tar from the Ea&s;t to Jeru&s;alem, &s;aying, where is he that is born King of the Jews? together with the many and great miracles which he did? as to turn water into wine? <HI>Ioh.</HI> 2. heal the &s;ick? open the eys of the blind? rai&s;e the dead? preach ed with authority, <HI>Mat.</HI> 7. 29. Ne|ver man &s;pake like this, by the confe&s;&s;ion of tho&s;e that were &s;ent to apprehend him, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 7. 46. Thus his works do witne&s;s that he was the &s;on of God, <HI>Iohn</HI> 36. and
<PB N="31" REF="18"> <HI>Iohn</HI> was a witne&s;s to him, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 1. 15. &amp; 5. 33. the father by his Spi|rit bare witne&s;s to him, <HI>Mat.</HI> 3. 17. with <HI>Ioh.</HI> 5. 37. all his di&s;ciples and &s;ervants were witne&s;&s;es to him in their cleaving to him, and bear|ing up of his name, though in a way of &s;uffering; the Sun being darkened in the day of his &s;ufferings, was an evident wit|ne&s;s that he was the Son of God, <HI>Mat.</HI> 27. 45. the rending of the veil of the temple, and rai&s;ing of the dead, and quaking of the earth, convincing witne&s;&s;es, <HI>Mat.</HI> 27. 51, &amp;c. that he was the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah.</HI></P>
<P>And finally, your being ca&s;t out of your own country among&s;t the nations, your City and temple de|&s;troyed, according to his word, <HI>Mat.</HI> 24. 2. for your rejecting of him according to that parable, <HI>Mat.</HI> 21. 33. 38. 41. This is the Son, come let us kill him, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Read that pa|rable, and con&s;ider all the&s;e, with
<PB N="32" REF="19"> many others that I could produce do confirm that Je&s;us is the Chri&s;t.</P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. III.</HEAD>
<P>THe third general truth I de&s;ire to pre&s;ent you with, is, that the rejecting of this Je&s;us hath been and is your &s;in, and that its your duty to own him, and to be|lieve in him. I &s;ay unto you as once the Me&s;&s;iah &s;aid unto your fathers, <HI>Iohn</HI> 8. 24. If ye believe not that I am he, you &s;hall dye in your &s;ins. There are &s;everal rea&s;ons why your fathers did, and you to this day do reject him.</P>
<P N="1">1. The meane&s;s of his condition in outward appearance. Oh you looked for him to come in glory, a King to deliver you from all your enemies. Oh you did not, you do not know the my&s;tery of his humiliation; it was hid from your eyes; it was hid from his
<PB N="33" REF="19"> own di&s;ciples, till after it was ac|compli&s;hed. Hence it is Chri&s;t &s;aith, <HI>Luk.</HI> 24. 25, 26. O fools and &s;low of heart to believe all that the prophets have &s;poken, ought not Chri&s;t to have &s;uffered the&s;e things&punc; and to enter into his glory? the meane&s;s of Chri&s;t was and is to this day a veil ca&s;t over your faces, by rea&s;on of which you did not, you do not know him.</P>
<P N="2">2. The meane&s;s of his followers, Oh they were too mean for &s;uch a pre&s;ence as was &s;uppo&s;ed would attend the true Me&s;&s;iah, hence it was (I will not &s;ay and yet is, your &s;elves be&s;t know) that the chief Prie&s;ts and Phari&s;ees &s;aid, have any of the rulers or of the Phari|&s;ees believed on him? <HI>Ioh.</HI> 7. 48. Oh con&s;ider that prophe&s;ie, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 8. 14, 15 He &s;hall be for a &s;anctuary, but for a &s;tone of &s;tubmling, and for a rock of offence to both the hou&s;es of I&s;rael, for a gin and for a
<PB N="34" REF="20"> &s;nare to the inhabitants of Jeru&s;a|lem, and many of them &s;hall fall and be &s;nared, and be taken; and hath not this been your condition, meerly upon this account of re|jecting Chri&s;t for his meane&s;s, and for the meane&s;s of his followers? upo~ this account it was that he was &s;et at naught of the builders, and yet is become the head &s;tone of the corner, not under&s;tanding the Scri|ptures which &s;pake of him, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 14. 32. That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people &s;hall betake them&s;elves unto it, <HI>Chap,</HI> 29. 19. the poor among men &s;hall rejoyce in the holy one of I&s;|rael.</P>
<P>Other rea&s;ons might be pre&s;en|ted, but not &s;o u&s;eful in this place. Oh therefore let it be your wi&s;|dom to imbrace him, and not to &s;tand it out with him any longer. I &s;ay the night is far &s;pent, and the day is at hand, Oh ki&s;s the Son
<PB N="35" REF="20"> le&s;t he be angry, and his wrath be kindled, but a little, ble&s;&s;ed are they that tru&s;t in him, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2. I &s;ay unto you as once <HI>Paul, Act.</HI> 13. 38, 39. be it known unto you, that through this man is preached un|to you, the forgivene&s;s of &s;ins, and by him all that believe are ju&s;tified from all things, from which they could not be ju&s;tified by the law of <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI> Oh do not contradict and bla&s;pheme any lon|ger; for he is &s;till good and graci|ous, the arms of his mercy are yet open to receive you; he is not yet ri&s;en up out of his holy habitation to take vengeance on his enemies; but he is yet complaining, as in <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 49. 4. Then I &s;aid, I have labor|ed in vain, I have &s;pent my &s;trength for nought and in vain; yet &s;urely my judgement is with the Lord, and my work is with my God: Behold Chri&s;t com|plaining for the rebellion of his
<PB N="36" REF="21"> nation, as if he had &s;pent his labor in vain, &s;uffered in vain, becau&s;e of their long rejecting of him; but &s;ee the an&s;wer of God unto him to comfort him in his &s;ad com|plaint, <HI>v.</HI> 6, 7. And he &s;aid, art thou ligher then that thou &s;houlde&s;t be my &s;ervant to rai&s;e up the tribes of <HI>Iacob,</HI> and to re&s;tore the re&s;tored of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> (and till <HI>I&s;rael</HI> doth re|ceive thee, and is gathered by thee, for thy comfort) I will give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou maye&s;t be my &s;alvation to the ends of the earth: thus &s;aith the Lord the redeemer of I&s;rael, I&s;rael &s;hall be redeemed with judgement, and her converts with righteou&s;ne&s;s. Oh therefore &s;tand it not out with the Lord any lon|ger, for if ye will not believe, ye &s;hall not be e&s;tabli&s;hed; the way by which God will work your de|liverance, will be your owning of the holy child Je&s;us, he it is that mu&s;t be your peace, and that by
<PB N="37" REF="21"> faith in his blood, for he hath gi|ven his life a ran&s;om for many to be te&s;tified in due time, and that prophe&s;ie <HI>Zach.</HI> 12. 10. &s;hall be ful|filled; they &s;hall look upon me whom they have pierced, and &s;hal mourn for him, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and he it is that was peirced by your fathers, and by your &s;elves too, in &s;o much as you have ju&s;tified your fathers in their &s;in, by your rejecting of him, and that opinion will prove but a fancy mentioned in <HI>Mena&s;&s;eh Ben I&s;rael,</HI> his book page 33. Sect. 26. that &s;ome of your wi&s;e men &s;ay, that there is Me&s;&s;iah the &s;on of <HI>Ephraim,</HI> and that he &s;hall dye in the la&s;t war of <HI>Gog</HI> and <HI>Magog,</HI> and do apply this Scripture to that, they &s;hall look upon me whom they have peirced, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> This cannot be for the&s;e rea&s;ons.</P>
<P N="1">1. There is never but one Me&s;|&s;iah &s;poken of in the Scriptures, <HI>Dan.</HI> 9. 25, 26. and that Me&s;&s;iah is
<PB N="38" REF="22"> the Son of <HI>David,</HI> and he was to be cut off, but not for him&s;elf but for men.</P>
<P>Second Rea&s;on, Becau&s;e the cuting off of the Me&s;&s;iah was to be after the building of the City <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> in their coming out of <HI>Babylon;</HI> and before the &s;econd de&s;truction by <HI>Titus,</HI> expre&s;&s;ed in the&s;e words, that from the going forth of the commandment to re|&s;tore and build <HI>Ieru&s;alem (viz.</HI> in coming forth of <HI>Babylon)</HI> unto Me&s;&s;iah the prince, &s;even weeks, that is &s;even times &s;eventy weeks, and the &s;eventy weeks is &s;eventy times &s;even weeks, which is all one in computation of time, then the Me&s;&s;iah was to be cut off, and after <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> de&s;troyed again by the people of the Prince that &s;hall come, for the <HI>Roman Monarchy</HI> was not then in being, but was to come &s;o that it cannot be &s;o under&s;tood that Me&s;&s;iah &s;hould be cut off in
<PB N="39" REF="22"> the la&s;t war of <HI>Gog,</HI> becau&s;e he was to be cut off before the de|&s;truction of <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> by the Ro|man power.</P>
<P N="3">3. It cannot be under&s;tood &s;o, becau&s;e that word in <HI>Zachariah,</HI> clears it &s;elf; he doth not &s;ay <HI>Gog</HI> &amp; <HI>Magog</HI> &s;hall look on him whom they have peirced; &s;o it mu&s;t be if he were to be &s;lain by <HI>Gog,</HI> but I will pour upon the hou&s;e of <HI>Da|vid,</HI> and upon the inhabitants of <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> the &s;pirit of Grace, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and they &s;hall look upon him whom they have peirced, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> he was peirced by you, and you it is that &s;hall look upon him and mourn, when the Lord doth pour out the &s;pirit of Grace upon you.</P>
<P N="4">4. It cannot be in the la&s;t war of <HI>Magog,</HI> for then &s;hall be no de|&s;truction to any but <HI>Gog</HI> him&s;elf, for there are two de&s;tructions to <HI>Gog,</HI> as in its place I &s;hall make it
<PB N="40" REF="23"> appear. Oh therefore be intreat|ed to &s;it down a little, and &s;adly con&s;ider your e&s;tate. If this be truth, which is undeniable, that the true Me&s;&s;iah was according to prophe&s;ies to &s;uffer, and all things &s;poken of by the prophets was fulfilled in him, and &s;o it appears that he was, and is indeed the Son of God, King of I&s;rael, Is it not high time for you to awake out of &s;leep? Doth not the Lord &s;ay by the Prophet, that there is a veil &amp; co|vering ca&s;t over all people&punc; <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 25. 7. And <HI>Paul</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3. that the cover|ing in the reading of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> law remaineth untaken away. When that is taken away, you &s;hall &s;ee him to be the &s;ub&s;tance, as hath been minded, of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> law, Prie&s;t &s;acrifice, attonement, prophet, and king, and to him you will &s;ubmit in all things; Do you believe the Prophets? I know you believe them: Oh then de&s;ire the Lord
<PB N="41" REF="23"> that you may under&s;tand them, that you may not remain in that e&s;tate, that Chri&s;t being come, you do not know him; it was want of knowledge that was the cau&s;e why your fathers crucified him, &s;o <HI>Paul</HI> &s;peaks, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2. 8. had they known, they would not have cru|cified the Lord of glory. Oh con|tinue not in that &s;in of ignorance and unbelief; I know you &s;hall not long. I do rejoyce in the hear|ing of your zeal again&s;t idolatry, Images &amp; Pictures; in your keep|ing clo&s;e to your own people in your marriages, by which you are pre&s;erved in your great expecta|tion of the Me&s;&s;iah: but Oh my &s;oul longs that you might know him in his humiliation, that &s;o you might &s;uffer with him, and for him, and reign with him, that you might know who it is you look for, one that hath &s;uffered and been tempted, that &s;o he
<PB N="42" REF="24"> might be your king in his humili|ation, a little, before he come in his glory. Oh it will be your joy and crown of rejoycing one day, if you have hearts to own him truly in his humiliation. Well, your duty is, and its that which the Lord calls you to, to repent and believe the Go&s;pel, to be bap|tized after believing, in the name of the Lord Je&s;us, wherein is re|pre&s;ented the wa&s;hing away of &s;in both in con&s;cience and conver&s;ati|on, through faith in his blood; its onely the duty of believers to be baptized; we own no national Church under the Go&s;pel (before the day of Chri&s;ts glorious ap|pearing) but who&s;oever liveth and believeth in him &s;hall be &s;aved; the nations delude them&s;elves with the form of godline&s;s with|out the power; Oh its the life and power of godline&s;s that will &s;tand us in&s;tead at the la&s;t: its
<PB N="43" REF="24"> your duty to own him in every part of his word and will, for God hath rai&s;ed him up a Pro|phet to you; and its your duty to hear him in all, <HI>Dcut.</HI> 18. 15. with <HI>Act.</HI> 3. 22, 23. <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> gives up all to him, if <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> were upon the earth he would willingly &s;ubmit him&s;elf to this prophet; therefore &s;tand it not out with him, remember that word of Chri&s;t, <HI>Luk.</HI> 19. 27. but tho&s;e mine enemies that would not that I &s;hould reign o|ver them, bring hither and &s;lay them before me. The Lord Je|&s;us in his glorious appearing will render vengeance to them that know him not, to them that obey him not, but will be admired in all tho&s;e that have believed in him: in that day, 2 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 1. 8. 9, 10. Oh therefore fear and tremble to &s;tand it out with him any longer, he is that &s;tone, that who&s;oever falls on him will be broken, but
<PB N="44" REF="25"> on whom&s;oever he &s;hall fall, he will break them to pieces: you have been &s;tumbling at him a long time.</P>
<P>Oh take heed le&s;t he fall on you, he is not onely a Lamb full of meekne&s;s, patience and forbear|ance, &s;lain for the &s;in of &s;inners, but he is the Lyon of the Tribe of <HI>Iudah,</HI> and when the Lyon roareth all the bea&s;ts of the Fore&s;t will then tremble, Oh then ble&s;&s;ed are all tho&s;e that put their tru&s;t in him.</P>
<P>To conclude this word, remem|ber I be&s;&s;ech you the&s;e three things.</P>
<P N="1">1. That without him there is no life, there is no other name gi|ven among men, whereby you may be &s;aved, but by the name of Je&s;us, <HI>viz.</HI> through faith in his blood.</P>
<P N="2">2. Con&s;ider the grievou&s;ne&s;s of your &s;in, in rejecting him &s;o long
<PB N="55" REF="25"> as you have, con&s;ider of that word of the Prophet, if it had been an enemy I could have born it, but it is thou O man my acquaintance, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 45. 13. it is his own, and they have not received him. Oh thats it will cau&s;e you to weep bitterly every family apart, <HI>Zach.</HI> 12. when you &s;hall come to look upon him whom you have peirced, and &s;hall mourn for him. Oh its that will break your hearts, when you &s;hall &s;ee and &s;ay, he that is our king hath been our reproach; we it is that have wounded and peirced him, we it is that have rejected him, and trampled him under our feet, and accounted the blood of the covenant an holy thing; yet know, that if the Lord make you &s;en&s;ible of your &s;in, he is gracious, he is yet a Lamb full of meekne&s;s, &amp; his blood &s;hall clean&s;e you from all your &s;ins; for the promi&s;e is to you as many as the Lord our God
<PB N="46" REF="26"> &s;hall call. For this cau&s;e he is the Mediator of the New Te&s;tament, that by means of death for the re|demption of the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions un|der the fir&s;t Te&s;tament, they which are called might receive the promi&s;e of eternal inheri|tance, <HI>Heb.</HI> 9. 15.</P>
<P N="3">3. Con&s;ider, that notwith&s;tand|ing your rejecting of him, yet he &s;hall be your King at la&s;t, and he it is that &s;hall be manife&s;t to be the Lord of lords, and King of kings, that one Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t who hath been &s;o much &s;et light by you, &s;ee <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 13. 10. I will be thy King, Where is any that may &s;ave thee in all thy Cities? and this leads me to the fourth particu|lar.</P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="section">
<PB N="47" REF="26">
<HEAD>SECT. IV.</HEAD>
<P>THe fourth particular that I &s;hall pre&s;ent you with, is that this Je&s;us &s;hall reign on earth and the twelve Tribes of I&s;rael &s;hall be gathered by him to their own land in peace.</P>
<P N="1">1. That this Je&s;us &s;hall have his kingdom and dominion here on earth manife&s;t among the &s;ons of men. Having had his day of hu|miliation among the &s;ons of men, He &s;hall have his day of glory on earth among the &s;ons of men, that as he hath been aba&s;ed in per|&s;on on earth, &s;o &s;hall he in per&s;on reign on earth. In the confirmation of this glorious truth, I &s;hall pre&s;ent you with many Scriptures both in the old and new Te&s;ta|ment, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2. throughout. Where the Lord hath &s;aid it, that not|with&s;tanding
<PB N="48" REF="27"> the heathen rage, and the people imagin a vain thing, for they imagine that Chri&s;t &s;hall not reign, which is a vain thing, vain imaginations, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> yet ver&s;e 6. Have I &s;et my King upon the holy hill of <HI>Sion.</HI> And ver&s;e 8. He &s;hall have the heathen given him for his inheritance, and the uttermo&s;t parts of the earth for his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion; &amp; what &s;hall he do with them? he &s;hall break them with a rod of iron, and da&s;h them in pieces like a potters ve&s;&s;el. This is a clear prophe&s;ie of the reign of Chri&s;t the anointed. I have &s;et mine anointed upon <HI>Zion</HI> the hill of my holine&s;s; and all the rage of men on earth &s;hall not hinder it, or prevent God in his great de|&s;igne of the exaltation of the man Je&s;us; to this fully agreeth that glorious prophe&s;ie, <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 72. throughout though it may be &s;up|po&s;ed, that the Prophet in this
<PB N="49" REF="27"> P&s;alm intendeth <HI>Solomon,</HI> which I do not altogether deny, yet he in|tendeth <HI>Solomon</HI> no otherwi&s;e than as he was a type of Chri&s;t, but in the Me&s;&s;iah, the man Je&s;us, &s;hall this prophe&s;ie be truly and fully made good in the day of his glory, ver&s;. 2. He &s;hall judge thy people with righteou&s;ne&s;s and thy poor with judgement, ver&s;. 4. He &s;hall judge the poor of the people, and &s;hall &s;ave the children of the needy and &s;hall break in pieces the op|pre&s;&s;or, ver&s;. 5. they &s;hall fear thee &s;o long as the Sun and Moon en|dureth throughout all generati|ons. This was never made good in <HI>Solomon,</HI> nor in any man el&s;e, but it &s;hall be in Chri&s;t, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7. 27. all dominions &s;hall &s;erve and obey him; but to return, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 7. in his dayes the righteous &s;hall flouri&s;h, and abundance of peace, till there be no Moon, ver&s;. 8. he &s;hall have dominion al&s;o from &s;ea to &s;ea, and from
<PB N="50" REF="28"> the river unto the ends of the earth, and &s;o to the 17. ver&s;e are many glorious prophe&s;ies of his kingdom, and his name &s;hall be for ever; he &s;hall be a &s;on to con|tinue his fathers name for ever; and men &s;hall be ble&s;&s;ed in him, all nations &s;hall call him ble&s;&s;ed, Ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord God of I&s;rael, who onely doth won|derous things&punc; and ble&s;&s;ed be his glorious name for ever; and let the whole earth be filled with his glory, Amen, Amen. So likewi&s;e in <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 82. 8. after the de&s;cription of Magi&s;trates, what they &s;hould be, and what they &s;hould do, de|fend the poor and fatherle&s;s, do ju&s;tice to the afflicted and needy, rid them out of the hand of the wicked, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and then what they did judge, unju&s;tly, and accept the per&s;ons of the wicked, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> the Prophet &s;eeing no ju&s;tice to be done by men, what ever
<PB N="51" REF="28"> they &s;hould be, or whatever they pretend to be, even as Gods up|on earth, pretending to do ju&s;tly, yet nothing le&s;s: he looks further, even to the righteous branch. A|ri&s;e O God, judge the earth, for thou &s;halt inherit all nations; this is that &s;hould be the faith, prayers, and con&s;olation of the Saints a|mid&s;t all the troubles of the world and inju&s;tice and unfaithfulne&s;s of men, that the righteous Lord lo|veth righteou&s;ne&s;s, and his coun|tenance doth behold the upright, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 11. 7. and that he will take to him&s;elf his great power, and will reign, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11. 17. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 11. 1. there &s;hall come forth a rod out of the &s;tem of <HI>Je&s;&s;e,</HI> and a branch &s;hall grow out of his roots, that is Je|&s;us Chri&s;t the Son of <HI>David, Act.</HI> 13. 23. and he &s;hall be filled by the father, through the Spirit of the Father, withal accompli&s;h|ments for &s;o great a work, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 1,
<PB N="52" REF="29"> 2, 3. and then with righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;hall he judge the poor, and re|prove with equity for the meek of the earth, and he &s;hall &s;mite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips &s;hall he &s;lay the wicked&punc; <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 4. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 32. 1, 2. Behold a King &s;hall reign in righteou&s;ne&s;s, and Princes &s;hall rule in judgement, and man &s;hall be a hiding place, even the man Chri&s;t Je&s;us, whom the Lord hath made &s;trong for him&s;elf, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 80. 17. and by whom he will rule the nations; its true, this prophe&s;ie hath been, is, and &s;hall be made good in a me&s;ure, even in the day of his humiliation, he hath been and is a King, and a hiding place to all that truely believe in him, but it &s;hall be much more fulfilled in the day of his exal|tation, when every knee &s;hall bow to him, and every tongue &s;hall confe&s;s him to the glory of God
<PB N="53" REF="29"> the Father, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 45. 23. <HI>Phil.</HI> 2. 11. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 42. 1, 2, 3, 4. Where you have, 1. A de&s;cription of Chri&s;t in his humiliation.</P>
<P N="1">1. What he is to his Father, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 1. His &s;ervant, his elect, one in whom his &s;oul delight|eth, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. His humility and patience in his &s;uffering. He &s;hall not cry nor cau&s;e his voice to be heard in the &s;treet.</P>
<P N="3">3. His meekne&s;s and harmle&s;|ne&s;s. A brui&s;ed reed &s;hall he not break, the &s;moaking flax &s;hall he not quench.</P>
<P>Yet 4. He &s;hall bring forth judgement into truth. He &s;hall bring forth judgement in the earth, the I&s;les &s;hall wait for his law; all the di&s;couragements &s;hall not hinder him, the greatne&s;s of his &s;ufferings and the long time of his being rejected by his own nation, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;hall not hinder him, but he
<PB N="54" REF="30"> &s;hall bring forth judgement into victory, and e&s;tabli&s;h <HI>Jeru&s;a|lem</HI> a prai&s;e in the earth, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 62. 7. <HI>Jer.</HI> 22. 5, 6. <HI>Chap.</HI> 33. 15. Behold the dayes come &s;aith the Lord, that I will rai&s;e unto <HI>David</HI> a righ|teous branch, and a King &s;hall reign and pro&s;per, and execute judgement and ju&s;tice in the earth <HI>&amp;c.</HI> this is the King promi|&s;ed in <HI>Ezek.</HI> 37. 25. and my &s;ervant <HI>David</HI> &s;hall be their Prince for e|ver; this is the fifth Monarchy mentioned <HI>Dan</HI> 2. or the little &s;tone cut out of the mountain without hands, that &s;hall break in pieces all that have gone before it, and &s;hall be the la&s;t government in the world, for he &s;hall not leave the government to another people as all the re&s;t have done and &s;hall do, <HI>v.</HI> 44, 45. this is the kingdom and glory of the antient of days, &s;poken of <HI>Dan.</HI> 7. 9, 10. &amp; 26, 27. this is that <HI>Michael</HI> Dan. 12. 1. that
<PB N="55" REF="30"> &s;hall &s;tand up, a great prince which &s;tandeth for the children of thy people, and the Lord &s;hall be King over all the earth; in that day there &s;hall be one Lord, and his name &s;hall be one, <HI>Zach.</HI> 14. 9. See this glorious truth preciou&s;ly held forth likewi&s;e in the New Te&s;tament, <HI>Phil.</HI> 2. from <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 6. to the 12. where the Apo&s;tle, fir&s;t de&s;cribes him in his humiliation, and then in his exaltation, that God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name above every name, that at the name of Je&s;us <HI>(viz.</HI> his kingly authority) every knee &s;hould bow, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and this is it the Apo&s;tle mindes in the E|pi&s;tle to the <HI>Hebrews</HI> Chap. 2. ap|plying that which is written con|cerning Chri&s;t in <HI>P&s;a.</HI> 8. Thou ha&s;t put all things in &s;ubjection under his feet, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 8. but now we &s;ee not yet all things put under him; but althings in this world &s;hall be put
<PB N="57" REF="31"> under him, and he &s;hall reign till all his enemies are made his foot-&s;tool, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 110. 1. <HI>Mat.</HI> 22. 44. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15. 25. <HI>Heb.</HI> 1. 13. this is likewi&s;e preciou&s;ly minded, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11. 15. the kingdoms of this world are be|come the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Chri&s;t, and he &s;hall reign for ever; and this is the thou&s;and yeers reign &s;poken of <HI>Rev.</HI> 20. 4. Thus much &s;hall &s;uffice as in clearing the truth of the reign of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. The place where he &s;hall manife&s;t his glory, in his kingdom, and that is at <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> in the land of <HI>Canaan,</HI> that land which the Lord cho&s;e for him&s;elf, a habitati|on for his name and people, the place and City of his holine&s;s, e|ven the mount <HI>Zion;</HI> that place where our Lord &s;uffered his &s;hame and reproach, &s;hall he ma|nife&s;t his glory: the Lord &s;hall reign in <HI>(I&s;a.</HI> 24. 23.) mount <HI>Zion,</HI>
<PB N="56" REF="31"> in <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and there &s;hall be glory before his ancients, <HI>Joel</HI> 3. 12. Let the heathen be awakened and come up to the vally of <HI>Jeho&s;a|phat,</HI> for there will I &s;it to judge all the heathen round about, there will the Lord &s;it and judge of the heathen, and there will the Lord govern his people, <HI>Zach.</HI> 2. 12. and the Lord &s;hall inherit <HI>Judah,</HI> his portion in the holy Land, and &s;hall chu&s;e <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> again; let all fle&s;h therefore be &s;ilent before the Lord when he ari&s;eth up out of the habitation of his holi|ne&s;s.</P>
<P N="3">3. In this day of the reign of Chri&s;t, will he gather together the di&s;per&s;ed of <HI>Judah</HI> and <HI>I&s;rael</HI> into their own Land; that al|though for their &s;ins they have been put far away for along time; yet they &s;hall be gathered, for the Lord hath redeemed <HI>Jacob,</HI> and ran&s;omed him from him that was
<PB N="58" REF="32"> too &s;trong for him, therfore they &s;hall come and &s;ing in the hight of <HI>Zion,</HI> and &s;hall flow together to the goodne&s;s of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and their &s;oul &s;hall be as a wa|tered garden, and they &s;hall not &s;ee &s;orrow any more, <HI>Ier.</HI> 31. 11, 12, the Lord will gather them out of all places whither they have been driven and they &s;hall come with weeping and &s;upplication, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 8. 9. that is, they &s;hall come in with the &s;en&s;e of the &s;in that hath been the cau&s;e of their being put far away, they &s;hall look up|on him whom they have peirced, and &s;hall mourn for him, <HI>Zach.</HI> 12. Fir&s;t he will gather <HI>Iudah</HI> and <HI>Ben|jamin,</HI> and let them have &s;ome &s;ight of his grace, <HI>Zach.</HI> 12. 7. the Lord al&s;o will &s;ave the tents of <HI>Iu|dah</HI> fir&s;t, and pour fir&s;t upon them the Spirit of Grace and of &s;uppli|cation, that the glory of the
<PB N="59" REF="32"> hou&s;e of <HI>David,</HI> and the inhabi|tants of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> do not magnifie them&s;elves again&s;t Judah; that which I under&s;tand in it, is, that becau&s;e <HI>Iudah</HI> and <HI>Benjamin</HI> had their hands e&s;pecially in the cru|cifying of their King.</P>
<P>The Lord will fir&s;t, to &s;hew that he is gracious, &s;ave <HI>Iudah</HI> fir&s;t, called the tents of <HI>Iudah,</HI> becau&s;e the two tribes known by that name, live as it were in tents, not &s;o po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of any Nation as to call it their own.</P>
<P>And &s;econdly, he will &s;ave the tents of <HI>Iudah</HI> fir&s;t, thar the glory of the hou&s;e of <HI>David,</HI> and the glory of the inhabitants of <HI>Ieru&s;a|lem,</HI> do not magnifie again&s;t <HI>Iudah,</HI> not but that <HI>Iudah</HI> is the hou&s;e of <HI>David,</HI> but the glory of it will be the coming in of the ten tribes &s;o long lo&s;t, that will be the glory of the hou&s;e of <HI>David,</HI> that is of Chri&s;t, but the tents of <HI>Iudah</HI> mu&s;t
<PB N="60" REF="33"> be fir&s;t, that the ten tribes may not magnifie again&s;t them, be|cau&s;e they had a hand in the cruci|fying of their king, they it were that &s;aid, this is the heir, come let us kill him, but <HI>I&s;rael</HI> was igno|rant of this.</P>
<P>Therefore to prevent <HI>I&s;raels</HI> magnifying again&s;t <HI>Iudah,</HI> the Lord will &s;ave the Tents of <HI>Iudah</HI> fir&s;t: behold the riches of his grace, and kindne&s;s to men: this is one prevailing thing that hath at this time drawn forth my heart and pen in writing to you.</P>
<P>And &s;econdly, He will &s;ave the ten tribes and bring them to their own land, who have been for a long time driven far away, yet not &s;o properly &s;aid to dwel in tents as <HI>Iudah,</HI> becau&s;e I do believe that they are not onely in being, but that there are great and &s;trong na|tions of them; as for the many
<PB N="61" REF="33"> places mentioned by <HI>Mena&s;&s;eh Ben I&s;rael,</HI> of their habitation, I am not &s;o curious about it, it is enough to me to know that they are, and that they &s;hall return when their day is come. I do give much cre|dit to that mentioned by you in 2 <HI>E&s;dra</HI> 13. their being pa&s;&s;ed through the River <HI>Euphrates</HI> into a &s;trange land, where never man|kind dwelt, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and that there they &s;hall remain till the latter day, and then the Lord will work &s;igns for them, and return them the &s;ame way, and will drie up the river again for them to pa&s;&s;e through; and to this agreeth that prophe&s;ie in <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 11. 11. when the Lord &s;hall &s;et his hand the &s;e|cond time to recover the remnant that are left from <HI>A&s;&s;yria,</HI> &amp;c. then <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 15. the Lord &s;hall utterly de|&s;troy the tongue of the <HI>Egyptian</HI> &s;ea, and with his mighty wind &s;hall he &s;hake his hand over the ri|ver,
<PB N="62" REF="34"> and &s;hall &s;mite it in the &s;even &s;treams, and make men go over in &s;hoos, and <HI>v.</HI> 16. there &s;hall be a high way for them that are left from <HI>A&s;&s;yria,</HI> &amp;c. that is the ten Tribes that was carried away cap|tive by <HI>Salmanazer</HI> king of <HI>A&s;&s;yria,</HI> where <HI>Euphrates</HI> is called the <HI>Egyp|tian</HI> &s;ea, in way of allu&s;ion, be|cau&s;e it &s;hall be like, as it was to I&s;rael in the day that he came up out of the land of <HI>Egypt,</HI> ver&s;. 16. to this agreeth that in <HI>Zach.</HI> 10. 11. and he &s;hall pa&s;s through the &s;ea with affliction, and &s;hall &s;mite the waves in the &s;ea, and all the deeps of the river &s;hall drie up, and the pride of <HI>A&s;&s;yria</HI> &s;hall be brought down (becau&s;e <HI>A&s;&s;yria</HI> carried them away) and the Scepter of <HI>Egypt</HI> &s;hall depart: now the rea&s;on why <HI>Egypt</HI> is &s;o much &s;poken of and the return from <HI>Egypt.</HI> I do judge is, becau&s;e there was a remnant that was not carryed
<PB N="63" REF="34"> captive into <HI>Baylon,</HI> but went into <HI>Egypt,</HI> Jer. 43. 5, 6, 7. and I have not read of their return, but its pro|bable, that they might be driven away into &s;ome ob&s;cure place, and &s;hall undoubtedly return at the time appointed. But to return, to this agreeth that in <HI>Rev.</HI> 16. 12. And the &s;ixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river <HI>Eu|phrates,</HI> and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the Ea&s;t might be pre|pared. Doubtle&s;s the ten Tribes are in all this time of their being in the unknown parts of the world grown into many kingdoms and great people, and their com|ing in through the river <HI>Eu|phrates</HI> will be a great amazement to the world; thus &s;hall both <HI>Iu|dah</HI> and <HI>I&s;rael</HI> be gathered to their own country under Chri&s;t the head of his Church&punc; and that prophe&s;ie &s;hall be fulfilled, <HI>Ezek.</HI>
<PB N="46" REF="35"> 37. 16. <HI>Iudah</HI> and <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> &s;hall be both writen on one &s;tick, and &s;hall become one, and &s;hall have one king, even <HI>David</HI> (that is Chri&s;t) &s;hall be their prince for ever, and he &s;hall make a covenant of peace for them, and they &s;hall be no more two; the envy of <HI>Ephraim</HI> &s;hall depart, and the adver&s;aries of <HI>Iudah</HI> &s;hall be cut off, <HI>Ephraim</HI> &s;hall not envy <HI>Iudah,</HI> nor <HI>Iudah</HI> &s;hal not vex <HI>Ephraim,</HI> I&s;a. 11. 13. this is that which the Lord hath &s;aid, that though thy brui&s;e be incu|rable, and thy wound grievous, yet the Lord will re&s;tore health, and will heal thee of thy wounds, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Jer. 30. thus &s;hall <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> be inhabited again in her own place, even in <HI>Ieru&s;alem, Zach.</HI> 12. 6. I &s;hall &s;ay no more to this at pre&s;ent, beeau&s;e I finde <HI>Mana&s;&s;eh Ben I&s;rael</HI> &s;o full of clearne&s;s in this part of the truth, and I do perceive by his lines your earne&s;t
<PB N="65" REF="35"> expectation of the accompli&s;h|ment of this great &s;alvation by the <HI>Me&s;siah,</HI> which is indeed my joy; but Oh that your &s;ouls did know him and believe in him, who will appear for your joy; and as for the time, I dare not pitch upon it, becau&s;e I believe, as is mentioned in the hope of I&s;rael, the Lord hath re&s;erved it to him&s;elf. So Chri&s;t an&s;wered his di&s;ciples, Of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels of heaven, but my fa|ther, <HI>Mat.</HI> 24. 36. and when his di&s;|ciples a&s;ked him after his re&s;ur|rection, if he would at this time re&s;tore the kingdom to <HI>I&s;rael:</HI> He an&s;wered them, it is not for you to know the times and &s;ea&s;ons which the father hath kept in his own power, <HI>Act.</HI> 1. 6, 7. yet I do believe, and have very much confidence, that the time is at hand; and it is yet but a little while, and he that &s;hall come will come, and will not
<PB N="66" REF="36"> tarry, even &s;o amen. But who will abide the day of his coming, and who will &s;tand when he ap|peareth? <HI>Mal.</HI> 3. and this I de&s;ire to minde you by the way, that as at or in the beginning work of your deliverance, You mu&s;t come in by weeping cro&s;s, not onely in the &s;ight and &s;en&s;e of your &s;in, <HI>Jer.</HI> 5. 4. Looking on him whom you have peirced, and mourning for him, <HI>Zach.</HI> 12. but likewi&s;e in relation to the great trouble you are like to meet with al&s;o from the world, that as you have been &s;cattered a|mong the nations, and <HI>I&s;rael</HI> hath been kept in ob&s;curity, &s;o the na|tions will rage in your gathering together, and then will be the fir&s;t war of <HI>Gog</HI> and <HI>Magog,</HI> mention|ed in <HI>Ezek.</HI> 38. and 39. and it will go hard with you for a time, &s;ee <HI>Zach.</HI> 14. 1, 2. to this that agreeth, <HI>Rev.</HI> 16. 12. when the River <HI>Eu|phrates</HI> is dryed up, that the way of
<PB N="67" REF="36"> the kings of the earth may be pre|pared, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 13, 14. on their ap|pearance, three unclean &s;pirits like frogs went out of the mouth of the dragon, the bea&s;t and the fal&s;e prophets, which are the &s;pirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth to the kings of the earth, and to the whole world to gather them together to the battel of the great day of God almighty; that is the great battel of <HI>Gog</HI> and <HI>Ma|gog</HI> mentioned before, called the great battel of God almighty, be|cau&s;e it is that great battle ap|pointed of God, where he will de&s;troy both his and your ene|mies.</P>
<P>And in this great di&s;tre&s;s, by rea&s;on of the nations fury, called <HI>Gog</HI> and <HI>Magog,</HI> then &s;hall <HI>Michael</HI> the great prince of his people, &s;tand up for your deliverance, <HI>Dan.</HI> 12. 1. Then will the Lord &s;end a fire upon <HI>Magog,</HI> and he &s;hall
<PB N="68" REF="37"> know that there is a God in <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and the Lord will make his holy name known in the mid&s;t of his people <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and he will not let them pollute his holy name any more, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Ezek. 39. 6, 7.</P>
<P>And then &s;hall that prophe&s;ie be fulfilled, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 2. and <HI>Micah</HI> 4. Na|tion &s;hall not lift up &s;word again&s;t nation, neither &s;hall they learn war any more, onely after the glorious reign of Chri&s;t and his Saints, Sa|tan &s;hall be loo&s;ed for a little &s;ea|&s;on, <HI>Rev.</HI> 20. and &s;hall gather toge|ther <HI>Gog</HI> and <HI>Magog</HI> (that is tho&s;e that were left of the nations in the fir&s;t de&s;truction, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 39. 2) and they &s;hal compa&s;s the campe of the Saints about, &amp; the beloved City; &amp; fire &s;hall come down from God and de&s;troy them, this &s;hall be the la&s;t encamping together of <HI>Gog,</HI> and the la&s;t de&s;truction and final judgement; in this day of glory &s;hall all believing Gentiles be ga|thered
<PB N="69" REF="37"> in with you, for he is given as well to be a light to the Gen|tiles, as to be the glory of the peo|ple <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> I&s;a. 49. 6.</P>
<P>Thus have I in tenderne&s;s and faithfulne&s;s both to the Lord and you, di&s;charged this as my duty in commending the&s;e few lines unto you; the Lord grant that it may finde acceptance with you. Here are many prayers pre&s;ented for you at the throne of grace, by tho&s;e who clearly &s;ee and believe Gods intention of good to you; for my &s;elf I tru&s;t my heart is &s;o much &s;et at liberty towards you, that I could not onely pro&s;trate my pen and prayers for your good, but my per&s;on likewi&s;e, if I &s;aw a clear call from the Lord to &s;erve you.</P>
<P>In a word to conclude, I do believe that you have &s;ome of tho&s;e remembrancers, in this na|tion, &s;poken of <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 62. 6, 7. That
<PB N="70" REF="38"> will give the Lord no re&s;t till he have made <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> a prai&s;e in the earth; which is the earne&s;t and daily prayer of him who is both yours and the truths &s;ervant, as far as he may, though unwor|thy.</P>
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<PB N="71" REF="38">
<HEAD>THE POSTSCRIPT.</HEAD>
<P>MY Friends, to who&s;e hands this Epi&s;tle may come; The e&s;tate of the Jews having been a long time &s;ad, and indeed as once the Gentiles were, and all unbelieving Gentiles are, without Chri&s;t in the world, and &s;o without hope in them&s;elves, as in relation to the true Me&s;&s;iah, the Lord having given me &s;ome apprehen&s;ion concerning his pur|po&s;e both of grace and glory to|wards them, I could not with good con&s;cience altogether hold my peace at this time, without writing
<PB N="76" REF="39"> the&s;e preceding lines unto them; it being tran&s;lated into <HI>French</HI> (that being a language that they are exerci&s;ed in) and &s;o &s;ent unto them, the work being done, the i&s;&s;ue I leave to the Lord, who I know doth u&s;ually honour him|&s;elf in working by weak means; and being de&s;ired by &s;ome friends, I have likewi&s;e got it printed in <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> thereby not onely to pro|voke others, who perhaps may be more inlarged in this work to|ward tho&s;e poor dark de&s;pi&s;ed people, but likewi&s;e that all who&s;e hearts are (truely) Zion-ward, may be in&s;tant with the Lord in prayer for them, and &s;o much the more, becau&s;e their coming in will be to us life from the dead; and their fulne&s;s will be our glory. Oh therefore let all be warned, not to be wi&s;e in their own conceit, and know that blindne&s;s is happened to <HI>I&s;rael</HI> but in part, but that till
<PB N="77" REF="39"> the fulne&s;s of the Gentiles is come in, and then <HI>I&s;rael</HI> &s;hall be &s;a|ved.</P>
<P>I have a few words, my bre|thren and friends, to pre&s;ent you farther with, concerning the reign of Chri&s;t; and that is, that he &s;hall have a kingdom upon the earth, and &s;hall reign with his peo|ple upon the earth, manife&s;ting his power and glory among&s;t them, and over the world.</P>
<P>But before I proceed any fur|ther, I &s;hall an&s;wer one objection, that is, &s;ome may &s;ay, <HI>It was not long &s;ince that your &s;elf was against this principle,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Its true, in part I was, be|ing much informed in the truth of the reign of Chri&s;t, but judging it to be a glorious reign in the &s;pirits of his people over the world, and this is the apprehen&s;ion of many precious &s;ons of Zion at this day; but the Lord opening the &s;eals by
<PB N="74" REF="40"> degrees unto his people, he gives them to &s;ee farther into the my|&s;tery of his will concerning his kingdom, and as light &s;hines in, their darkne&s;s doth flye away: I could not but judge it my duty to give &s;ome hints concerning my farther apprehen&s;ion of the king|dom of Chri&s;t, in which I &s;hall be very brief.</P>
<P>That his kingdom &s;hall be ma|nife&s;t on earth, will appear from the&s;e en&s;uing grounds.</P>
<P N="1">1. It was and is the great de|&s;ign of the Father to exalt the Son here on earth before the &s;ons of men; this was his de&s;ign before he made the world, and ever &s;ince all things, hath, doth, and will concur to the bringing about of this great de&s;ign; therefore he at fir&s;t made the world by him and for him, <HI>Eph.</HI> 4. 9. <HI>Col.</HI> 2. 16. <HI>Joh.</HI> 1. 1. afterwards man being faln, and the cur&s;e come in upon the whole
<PB N="75" REF="40"> creation, <HI>Gen.</HI> 3. God did by him and for him recover the world a|gain, <HI>Col.</HI> 1. 20. that &s;o he might have a &s;elected people to him&s;elf, that might enjoy his grace and glory, <HI>Col.</HI> 1. 21. <HI>chap.</HI> 3. 4. His &s;uf|fering in the fle&s;h was a prepara|tive to this great glory, both for him&s;elf and people, it being the appointment of the Father, and there being no other way left or appointed by the Father for the redemption of the &s;ons of men, <HI>Luk.</HI> 24. 26. <HI>Phil.</HI> 2. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. <HI>Heb.</HI> 2. 10. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 20. he being a&s;cend|ed to the father, <HI>Joh.</HI> 20. 17. to re|ceive for him&s;elf a kingdom, and return, <HI>Luk.</HI> 19. 12. 15. and in the mean time by his Spirit in the Mi|ni&s;try of the Go&s;pel, he is gather|ing together of his people to him|&s;elf (among the Gentiles) that when he do appear, they may ap|pear with him in glory, <HI>Col.</HI> 3. 4. for to them that look for him, he will
<PB N="72" REF="41"> appear a &s;econd time without &s;in to &s;alvation, <HI>Heb.</HI> 9. 28. that God having made the world, and again redeemed it to a &s;tate of continu|ation by his Son and for him, and purcha&s;ed a people to him&s;elf out of the world. We may conclude that the Sons domi|nion &s;hall be over the world: &s;ee <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 72. throughout; and that all dominions &s;hall &s;erve and obey him.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="objection">
<HEAD><HI>Obj.</HI> So they do &s;erve him now, and he rules over them.</HEAD>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> True, they &s;erve the de|&s;ign of God now, but the king|dom of Chri&s;t is not of this world; but there is a time appointed when the kingdom of Chri&s;t &s;hall be vi&s;ibly manife&s;t, and the world &s;hall knowingly he &s;ubject to the Son, <HI>Rev.</HI> 5. 13.</P>
<P>Second ground is, that this truth is clearly held forth in the Scriptures; of truth, when our
<PB N="73" REF="41"> under&s;tandings are opened, we &s;hall &s;ee it. The fir&s;t Scripture I &s;hall pre&s;ent you with, as a foun|dation, is <HI>Act.</HI> 3. 27. Whom the heavens mu&s;t receive until the time of the re&s;titution of all things, which God hath &s;poken by the mouth of all his prophets &s;ince the world began, where we may note two things.</P>
<P N="1">1. That at the coming of Chri&s;t from heaven will be the re&s;tituti|on, not the di&s;&s;olution.</P>
<P>And &s;econdly, it is that re&s;titu|tion &s;poken of by the mouth of all the holy prophets.</P>
<P>Now it will be good to &s;earch into the prophets, and &s;ee what they have prophe&s;ied of, and we &s;hall find all agree in one, that Chri&s;t mu&s;t reign, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2. 6. 7. that his dominion &s;hall be from &s;ea to &s;ea, even to the ends of the earth, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 72. that he &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;s all na|tions, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 82. 8. that he &s;hall reign
<PB N="78" REF="42"> in mount <HI>Zion</HI> and in <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and before his ancients gloriou&s;ly, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 24. 23. that a king &s;hall reign in righteou&s;ne&s;s, and princes &s;hall rule in judgement, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 32. 1. that God will rai&s;e unto <HI>David</HI> a righ|teous branch, and a King &s;hall reign and pro&s;per, and execute judgement and ju&s;tice in the earth, <HI>Jer.</HI> 23. 5. and <HI>David</HI> my &s;ervant &s;hall be king over them, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and they &s;hall dwell in the land which I gave to <HI>Jacob</HI> my &s;ervant, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Ezek. 37. 24, 25. and all dominions &s;hall &s;erve and obey him, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7. 27. that the Lord &s;hall be King over all the earth, <HI>Zach.</HI> 14. 9.</P>
<P>The&s;e and many others I might produce to this purpo&s;e, and like|wi&s;e then will be the re&s;titution or re&s;toration of the whole creati|on; that Scripture will be fulfill|ed both in the letter as well as in &s;pirit, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 11. 6, 7&punc; 8, 9. <HI>chap.</HI> 65. 25. con&s;idered with <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 20, 21, 22.
<PB N="79" REF="42"> and then &s;hall tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ed pro|mi&s;es be made good to the Saints here on earth, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 37. 11. <HI>Mat.</HI> 5. 5. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 25. 8. and <HI>chap.</HI> 65. 13. <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and all this mu&s;t be done when Je&s;us Chri&s;t is &s;ent from heaven to manife&s;t his power to take to him&s;elf his great kingdom, and to reign; and this is likewi&s;e confir|med in the New Te&s;tament, the Nations and kingdoms of this world are become the Nations and kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Chri&s;t, and he &s;hall reign for ever and ever, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11. 15. This is the thou&s;and yeers &s;poken of in <HI>chap.</HI> 20, &amp;c.</P>
<P>A third ground I take from his &s;uffering, he fulfilled all that was prophe&s;ied of him concerning his &s;uffering, according to the very letter of the Scriptures, he hath &s;o fulfilled it, <HI>Act.</HI> 3. 18. and why &s;hould we think it incredible that he &s;hall even &s;o fulfill the Scripturs
<PB N="80" REF="43"> in his reign on earth? And why &s;hall we think it a high and glori|ous di&s;covery of grace for the Son to aba&s;e him&s;elf on earth in his humiliation, and think it too low a piece of &s;ervice for him to come and reign, to receive the due de|&s;ert (if I may &s;o &s;ay) of all his labour to manife&s;t his glory be|fore his Saints, and to &s;et his feet on the necks of his enemies? Why &s;hould we not think it to be a great degree of honour for the Lord who have &s;uffered on earth to re|ceive his glory on the earth. And why &s;hall we make an Alegory or my&s;tery of tho&s;e Scriptures that do foretell of his reign on earth, any more than of tho&s;e Scriptures that did foretell of his &s;ufferings, I do believe that it hath been the policy of Satan, and the weakne&s;s and pride of men, in turning Scri|pture into Alegories and my&s;te-&s;o much, that we had almo&s;t lo&s;t
<PB N="81" REF="43"> the truth; therefore let it &s;uffice, that as Chri&s;t and his people hath had their day of humiliation on the earth, &s;o they &s;hall have their exaltation on the earth, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2. 8. <HI>Rev.</HI> 2. 26, 27. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 149. 5, 6, 7, 8.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="objection">
<HEAD><HI>Obj.</HI> We do not que&s;tion but that the Saints &s;hall rule the earth, and that the power of Christ in them &s;hall &s;ubdue the Nations.</HEAD>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> And if the Saints, why not Chri&s;t their head with them? Can you afford the kingdoms of this world to the Saints, and not to Chri&s;t? I &s;ay that the Saints &s;hall never reign on earth till the Kingdom of Chri&s;t is come, till he is di&s;cended from heaven in power and great glory; as he hath &s;uffered before us, and for us, &s;o we, if we &s;uffer with him, &s;hall reign with him, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 17. When Chri&s;t comes to rule the nations then &s;hall the Saints reign with him.</P>
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<PB N="82" REF="44">
<HEAD><HI>Obj.</HI> Is it not &s;aid 1 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 4. 16, 17. that when the Lord &s;hall de&s;cend from heaven, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and that the dead in Christ &s;hall be rai&s;ed, and then we who remain and are alive &s;hall be caught up together with them in the clouds, and &s;o &s;hall ever be with the Lord?</HEAD>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1. That is to make good the Scripture which &s;aith, <HI>Zach.</HI> 14. 5. The Lord our God &s;hall come, and all the Saints with thee, and if they be not caught up to meet the Lord, he cannot bring them with him.</P>
<P>And &s;econdly, the Scripture do not &s;ay that they &s;hal abide above, but with the Lord, that is, they &s;hall come down with him, as <HI>Joel</HI> 3. 11.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> Do you &s;uppo&s;e that the Jews be called before that day?</HEAD>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> I do believe that there will be &s;omething done among&s;t them upon that account; and that
<PB N="83" REF="44"> there will be a great gathering to|gether of them at <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> be|fore that day, but their fulne&s;s will not be till the day of his appearing in glory, that will be their uniting, <HI>Jer.</HI> 23. 5, 6. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 37. 22.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Qu.</HI> Will the rai&s;ing of the dead, and the calling of the Iews to their fulne&s;s be at one time.</HEAD>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> To me it &s;o appears, tho&s;e Scriptures con&s;idered, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15. 44, 45. with <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 13. 14. the pro|phet <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> clearly prophe&s;ying the coming in of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and particu|larly the ten tribes; the Apo&s;tle applieth it there to the re&s;urrection of the dead, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Rom. 11. 15. what &s;hall their coming in be but life from the dead, that is, if their re|jecting was an occa&s;ion of &s;o much mercy to the world. What mi|racle of mercy at their receiving or coming in, even the re&s;urrecti|on of the dead. To this prophe|&s;ie fully agreeth <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 26. 19. &s;peak|ing
<PB N="84" REF="45"> throughout that Chap. of the the glory of Jews, thy dead men &s;hall live together with my dead body &s;hall they ari&s;e, Awake, and &s;ing ye that dwell in the du&s;t&punc; <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> If &s;o, how will tho&s;e Scri|pture be reconciled, that of Christ, <HI>Mat.</HI> 22. 30. in the re&s;urrection, they neither marry nor are given in mar|riage, but are as the angels of hea|ven, and that of the propbets which &s;eems to hold forth building of hou&s;es and plainting of vinyards and pro|creation of children, <HI>&amp;c. I&s;a.</HI> 65. 2.</HEAD>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Why may not both the&s;e &s;tand together as a truth? what if we &s;hould &s;uppo&s;e, that after the the coming of Chri&s;t&punc; and the rai|&s;ing the dead in him (for they mu&s;t be fir&s;t rai&s;ed, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.) and changing the believing Gentiles that rai&s;ed and changed, may be ever with the Lord, that the Jews then brought in in their fulne&s;s, may remain in a glorious e&s;tate
<PB N="85" REF="45"> (Satan being &s;hut up) yet not changed; and &s;o the prophe&s;ies may be fulfilled concerning them, and tho&s;e that are rai&s;ed and chan|ged likewi&s;e; and &s;o much the the more becau&s;e its evident that the re&s;urrection and their coming in in fulne&s;s will be at one and the &s;elf &s;ame time.</P>
<P>And what if we &s;hould &s;uppo&s;e according to the Scripture, that the new <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> &s;poken of <HI>Rev.</HI> 21. that mu&s;t come down from God out of heaven, be a material City now above according to <HI>Gal.</HI> 4. 26. <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> which is above is the mother of us all, it is above, but it &s;hall come down, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and what if we &s;hould &s;uppo&s;e this new Jeru&s;alem which is &s;o full of excellency (&amp; probably may be the place now where the Father doth mo&s;t manife&s;t his glory, though the heaven of heavens cannot con|tain him; and where Chri&s;t and
<PB N="86" REF="46"> the &s;pirits of ju&s;t men, are <HI>Heb.</HI> 12.) when it comes down from God out of heaven, and the ta|bernacle of God is with men, and that doth dwell among them. I &s;ay that this City may be the head place of re&s;idence for Chri&s;t and the changed Saints; and the twelve tribes to inhabit without the City, according to <HI>Ezek.</HI> 48. which is the prophe&s;ie and di&s;|cription of the &s;ame City; and if &s;o God may have a &s;eed among them to be brought forth in the world in the time of the reign of Chri&s;t, and if &s;o, they &s;hall be all righteous, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 60. 21. with <HI>chap.</HI> 59. 20, 21. which is applyed by the Apo&s;tle to the calling of the Jews, and coming in of the ten tribes, <HI>Rom.</HI> 11. 26.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> Shall this new heaven and new earth be before or after the de|&s;truction of the world by fire, &s;poken of by <HI>Peter,</HI> 2 Pet. 3.</HEAD>
<PB N="87" REF="46">
<P> <HI>An&s;w.</HI> I do believe that it will be before the di&s;&s;olution; my rea|&s;ons are (though <HI>Peter</HI> mentions the di&s;&s;olution fir&s;t, yet never thele&s;s we according to his pro|mi&s;e look for new heavens and a new earth, <HI>&amp;c.)</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Becau&s;e that promi&s;e is clear|ly to the Jews, and &s;hall be made good to them when their redeemer doth come to take away their &s;in.</P>
<P N="2">2. Becau&s;e that holds forth a de&s;truction of the world by fire, as once it was de&s;troyed by water.</P>
<P N="3">3. Becau&s;e after the di&s;&s;olution and judgement, the kingdom &s;hall be given up to the Father, and God &s;hall be all, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> Will not Christs coming be the day of Iudgement?</HEAD>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> It will be the beginning of Judgement. 1. The glorifying of his people. 2. A great judge|ment and de&s;truction to the world, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 38. and 39. 3. He &s;hall all
<PB N="88" REF="47"> that time with his Siants judge the world. 4. At the end will be the final judgement, <HI>Rev.</HI> 20. 11, 12, 13, 14.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> What &s;hall be the conditi|on of the world at that time?</HEAD>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> The men of the world &s;hall on condition enjoy peace and plenty, the condition will be they &s;hall own and honour Chri&s;t and the Saints, and come up to <HI>Ieru&s;a|lem,</HI> doing homage there, and bring pre&s;ents thither as an acknow|ledgment; not for any need of it there, but as Chri&s;t and the Saints have been at the feet of the world: now &s;hall the world be at their feet according to tho&s;e Scriptures, <HI>P&s;.</HI> 72. 9, 10, 11. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 60. 24. <HI>ch.</HI> 66. 23. <HI>Zach.</HI> 14. 16. <HI>Rev.</HI> 3. 9. <HI>Chap.</HI> 27. 26.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> If this be truth, that Chri&s;t and the Saints &s;hall reign on earth, what advantage will it be to the Saints in the knowledge of it more than to believe his coming and king|dom at the end of time.</HEAD>
<PB N="89" REF="47">
<P> <HI>An&s;.</HI> It mu&s;t needs mini&s;ter con&s;olation in the knowledge of the truth of things; there is no truth of God but the knowledge of it mini&s;ters joy, much more; this about the kingdom and glory of Chri&s;t, that the place of &s;uffer|ing &s;hall be for a time the place of glory and liberty.</P>
<P N="2">2. It will keep us more to a con&s;tant expectation of his coming and not to put it far away, as of nece&s;&s;ity we mu&s;t, if we &s;uppo&s;e a &s;tate of glory and liberty for the Church here on earth before his coming, as almo&s;t all do expect; when <HI>Paul</HI> onely mindes the Ap|po&s;tles to be fir&s;t, 2 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 2. 3. and that hath been, and I believe is al|mo&s;t over, and the day of his glo|ry is at the doors.</P>
<P N="3">3. It will tend to the e&s;tabli&s;h|ing of the Saints in the truth in oppo&s;ition to all fal&s;e wayes and fal&s;e Chri&s;ts, knowing it to be
<PB N="90" REF="48"> their duty to wait upon him in his appointment untill the day of his appearing, thereby manife&s;ting not onely their owning of him, by vertue of their being owned by him, but al&s;o that they do in|deed look for him, for none dur&s;t to look for him indeed, but tho&s;e who upon a right account do &s;erve him. What advantage hath Satan had in our dayes for want of &s;ouls being principled in this truth, one &s;aith here, another there is Chri&s;t, and all becau&s;e we turn his reign all into a my&s;tery, <HI>viz.</HI> in the Saints: but hold right here, and you &s;hall be able to di&s;cover all fal&s;e and Antichri&s;ts, be they ne|ver &s;o deceivable: own Chri&s;t thy ju&s;tification, thy king to &s;erve him according to the Scriptures, the re&s;urrection his per&s;onal com|ing and reign, and look for it, and thou &s;halt live above all tho&s;e fal&s;e notions that are in the world, able
<PB N="91" REF="48"> to judge them all, in the light of this truth.</P>
<P N="4">4. It will keep the Saints in peace and quiet in their mindes, though under per&s;ecution, till the time come, the contrary, an ima|ginary that the Saints &s;hall reign, makes them vex when things go not to their minds, fills them with trouble and unquietne&s;s, if not tur|bulency of &s;pirit, thinking now is the kingdom of Chri&s;t going up, but if the Saints knew that their day mu&s;t be a day of &s;uffering till Chri&s;t come, they would not trouble them&s;elvs about the king|doms of the world till that time come, for all powers &s;et up in the world before Chri&s;t come, are but members of the fourth Monarch, even the mo&s;t righteous, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> mu&s;t be broken when he comes, there|fore let the Saints wait with pati|ence, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. Amen.</P>
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