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<HEAD>Of the Two la&s;t things, <HI>viz.</HI> Re&s;urrections and Judgments at la&s;t Revealed by Chri&s;t him&s;elf, as being needful Points of Doctrine re&s;pecting the la&s;t times of this World; &s;et forth by <HI>Que&s;tion</HI> and <HI>An&s;wer,</HI> for the more ea&s;ie Apprehen&s;ion and more &s;trong Confirmation of tho&s;e great Divine Truths before Chri&s;ts Revelation, darkly &s;et down in Holy Scrip|ture as the Tract following manifie&s;ts, to be added to all Chri|&s;tian Catechi&s;mes that have them not. <HI>Anno Dom. 1682.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> ARe the Re&s;urrection of the Saints at Chri&s;ts appearance in the Clouds, and the Re&s;urrection of the Wicked at the la&s;t Trumpet, 2. Di|&s;tinct Re&s;urrections of the dead Bodies of Men?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> They are 2. di&s;tinct Re&s;urrections of the dead Bodies of Men.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> How are they Di&s;tingui&s;hed?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1. By the Per&s;ons ri&s;eing, namely of the ju&s;t and unju&s;t. 2. By the di&s;tinct ends thereof, <HI>viz.</HI> to Life, or to Condemnation. 3. By the di&s;tinct times of the fir&s;t and la&s;t Re&s;urrection, &s;et forth by Chri&s;t him&s;elf at 1000 years di|&s;tance in that his ab&s;olute Divine Determination of them, <HI>Rev,</HI> 20.5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> is ve|ry ob&s;ervable in our Appendix to our Schems, 6 times repeated, thrice ab&s;olutely, 1000 years, and thrice relatively tho&s;e, tho&s;e, tho&s;e, 1000 years re&s;pecting 3 par|ticulars of Satans binding, of the Saints Reigning, and of the Happine&s;s of their State all the &s;aid 1000 years.</P>
<P>Which he 2. proves by Scripture Prophe&s;ie, of the promi&s;ed mercies to the faithful Forefathers and to their Spritual &s;eed through Chri&s;t in the inteim of the &s;aid 1000 years, betwixt both (as in our Pro&s;cheme) eternally decreed, and then to be performed.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> What Foundation are there of that great Comprehen&s;ive mercies of Chri&s;t Kingdom on the Earth, which the Scripture teaches &s;hall be at his appearance, when he &s;hall Judge Quick and Dead. 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.1.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Fir&s;t, God declares at mans fall, that Chri&s;t the promi&s;ed Seed &s;hould breake the Serpents head, <HI>Gen.</HI> 3.15. and then at his 2. coming making his Foes his Foot&s;tool, &s;hould then obtain the head&s;hip him&s;elf, and become (as was Decreed) Gods King upon his holy Hill of <HI>Sion.</HI> 2. <HI>Balaam</HI> in his Prophe&s;ie foretold that his Scepter &s;hould come from <HI>I&s;rael, Numb.</HI> 24. 3ly. <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;et forth the time when, <HI>viz.</HI> at the end of the <HI>Roman</HI> Monarchy, when the fir&s;t Judgment is &s;et to de&s;troy the Bea&s;t, and to give his Body to the burning Flame. <HI>Dan</HI> 7.11.13, 14. 4ly. his Kingdom was Typified in <HI>Davids,</HI> of whom he came according to the Fle&s;h: But 5. it is many ways explained by Chri&s;t him&s;elf, in the Book of <HI>Revelation,</HI> but chiefly <HI>Ch.</HI> 20. Of this Kingdom we have &s;et down 12. Foundations, from the beginning of <HI>Gene&s;is,</HI> to the end of the Book of <HI>Revelation,</HI> in our Tract of the Doctrine of Chri&s;ts Kingdom, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> What Foundation was there for the great, holy, and beloved New <HI>Jeru|&s;ale<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">;</HI> that comes down from God, out of Heaven with Chri&s;t, to be then the Bride the Lambs Wife, being the Spirits of ju&s;t men-made perfect, to receive their Bodies in their Paradi&s;ian re&s;tored Sate, to be on Earth the 1000 years.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> It was &s;o far revealed to <HI>Abraham, J&s;aac,</HI> and <HI>Jacob</HI> with the promi&s;e of <HI>Canaan</HI> in the time of that renewed State, that they are &s;aid to &s;ee the promi&s;e afar off, <HI>viz.</HI> at the Re&s;urrection of the ju&s;t, when all promi&s;ed mercies to the Fathers in Chri&s;t were to be accompli&s;hed, and particularly <HI>Abraham, Heb.</HI> 11. is &s;aid to look for a City that hath Foundations who&s;e Maker and Builder is God, &s;uch as that City will then be, and <HI>ver.</HI> 16 God (&s;aith the Apo&s;tle) hath prepared for them a
<PB N="2" REF="2">City, and it is gloriou&s;ly de&s;cribed by Chri&s;t, then to come down from God out of Heaven, <HI>Rev.</HI> 21. of which that given to their natural race was but a Type, and but eonditionally, and was forfeited by their Sin, and de&s;troyed at their Babyle|ni&s;h Captivity 2300 years before the &s;etting up of this glorious New <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> in the world.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> What other ble&s;&s;edne&s;s belongs to that time and &s;tate?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> To this ble&s;&s;edne&s;s will be added the Annexing thereunto the Nations of them that are then &s;aved, walking in the light of that great holy and beloved New <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> all the &s;aid 1000 years, as our Saviour teacheth out of the Pro|phe&s;ie of <HI>E&s;ay. Rev.</HI> 21.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> What further addition will be to that ble&s;&s;edne&s;s?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Then al&s;o will be the times of the Re&s;titurion of all things which the A|po&s;tle <HI>Peter</HI> teacheth, <HI>Acts</HI> 3.19, 20. were &s;poken of by the mouth of all the holy Prophets &s;ince the world began, when God will make all things New, <HI>Rev.</HI> 21.5, as we have &s;hewed in a Treat&s;e upon that Text, when the Cur&s;e, Bondage, en|mitie and corruption brought in by Sin and Satan, before &s;hall be aboli&s;hed with that which will compleat the happine&s;s of that time and &s;tate: That the Tabernacle of God in Chri&s;ts humanity will then al&s;o be with men, and he will dwell with them that &s;aid 1000 years.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> Will there be two per&s;onal comings of Chri&s;t to Judgment at the two &s;aid bodily Re&s;urrections, a 1000 years di&s;tant one from another?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Yes,</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> How are they di&s;tingui&s;hed in Scripture?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> The former is called his 2. coming, or as <HI>Heb.</HI> 1.6. when God will bring again his fir&s;t begotten Son into the world, which the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul</HI> (who was rapt up in|to the 3. Heavens) u&s;ufally calls his appearance, becau&s;e he will then only appear in the Clouds or with Clouds to mortal Eyes, (ordinarily) that they in the natural life with the Converted <HI>Jews, Rev.</HI> 1.7. may &s;o behold him, who&s;e brightne&s;s of glory could not otherwi&s;e de indured by their Natural Eyes; and this is adjoyned with many of tho&s;e Excellencies that &s;hall then take place, as his Judging Quick and Dead, (as was &s;hewed) at his appearance, and his Kingdom which will then be|gin, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.1. again at that glorious appearance of him the great God and our Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t, will be the ble&s;&s;ed hope that he teacheth the Saints to wait for, <HI>Titus</HI> 2.13. now that ble&s;&s;ed hope is the hope of <HI>J&s;rael,</HI> when all promi&s;ed mercies to the Fathers will take place at the fir&s;t Re&s;urrection which he &s;o clearely explaines, <HI>Acts</HI> 26.6, 7, 8 unto which hope (&s;aith he) our 12 Tribes in&s;tantly &s;erving God day and night hope to come, and then expo&s;tulates with them &s;aying: Why &s;hould it be thought a thing incredible that God &s;hould rai&s;e the dead? He al&s;o teacheth 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2.8. that by this appearance Antichri&s;t &s;hall be de&s;troyed, as was more fully &s;et forth, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7. that then the Judgment was &s;et at the &s;aid fir&s;t Act thereof; and the Books were opened becau&s;e of the great words the Horn &s;pake, and in the I&s;hue the Body of the Bea&s;t was given to the burning Flame, he is al&s;o &s;aid to come at his appearance with all his Saints. 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 3. and la&s;t 4.14. when all the Angels &s;hall al&s;o wor&s;hip him, <HI>Heb.</HI> 1.6. as was foretold, <HI>P&s;.</HI> 97. al&s;o at his appearance the Saints with the Apo&s;tles &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;s their re&s;t. 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 1.7. e|ven that re&s;t that remains for the people of God. <HI>Heb.</HI> 4.9. which will be the Sab|bati&s;me of the worlds being: But his la&s;t de&s;cending with a Shout, and the voice of an Arch-Angel and the Trump of God which St. <HI>Saul</HI> calls the la&s;t Trump when he &s;heweth tho&s;e Mi&s;teries of the momentany rapture and general change of all the Saints together &s;hall be. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.51, 52. at the end, that is as Chri&s;t Theacheth, 1000 years after his Second coming: For before that time all the Saints could not be rapt at once together, &s;ince multitudes of them had not being before nor thence forward be ever with the Lord, &s;ince his la&s;t coming was not until then, [and the&s;e 2 per&s;onal comings we have further &s;et forth in 11 or 12 di&s;tinctions of them according to the holy Scripture, in Page 1. of the Re&s;urrection upon <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> 20.5.]</P>
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<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> What proof is there of the fir&s;t Act of Judgment at Chri&s;ts appearance, or the fir&s;t Re&s;urrection and what will then be done?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> It is excellently &s;et forth in the Song of Prai&s;e by the 24 Elders, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11. <HI>ver.</HI> 18.19. that God had thus judged not only to de&s;troy them that de&s;toryed the Earth that is chiefly the Turk and Pope with Temperal de&s;truction (the &s;ame for time with <HI>Dan.</HI> 7. at the end of the <HI>Roman</HI> Monarchie,) but al&s;o to reward his Ser|vants the Prophets and his Saints, but all that fear his Name both &s;mall and great, for (&s;o &s;aith Chri&s;t,) when he cometh then his reward is with him, <HI>viz.</HI> for all his Saints both rai&s;ed and then living. <HI>Rev.</HI> 22.12.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> What will be done at the la&s;t Act of Judgment, after the la&s;t <HI>Gog</HI> and <HI>Ma|gog</HI> are de&s;troyed by fire from Heaven. <HI>Rev.</HI> 20.7.8. after the 1000 years are ended.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> At the la&s;t Triump when the general momaintany Rapture and change of all Saints &s;hall be at once, to meet the Lord in the Air, thenceforth ever to be with him, the Wicked &s;hall be rai&s;ed to the la&s;t Judgment, to receive the Sentence of Condemnation, to be ever &s;eperated from him unto everla&s;ting Torments in Hell with the Devil and his Angels, (as Chri&s;t him&s;elf hath taught us.)</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> What other decypherings doth the holy Scripture give to the time and and State of the &s;aid 1000 years?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Sometime it is called the world to come, even an habitable world (as the word <GAP DESC="foreign"> denotes,) as the world before the Flood was called the old world, and this pre&s;ent Evil world &s;ubject to Satan, &s;tiled (by U&s;urpation) the God of this world <GAP DESC="foreign"> So that world to come, <HI>Heb.</HI> 2.5. which will begin when God brings his Son again, or the Second time into the world (for <GAP DESC="foreign"> are to be taken adver&s;atively not copulatively as tran&s;lated, and <GAP DESC="foreign"> is of future &s;ignification, when he &s;hall again bring his Son, <HI>&amp;.</HI>) as foretold, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 97. Again our Saviour Chri&s;t, <HI>Luke</HI> 20.35. &s;ets it forth by that world of the Re&s;urrection of the ju&s;t, which are the Children of God, and called there by him&s;elf the Children of the Re&s;urrection, who (he &s;aith) &s;hall be counted worthy of that world as en|rolled for it, as the word denotes. Al&s;o it is the time of the Re&s;titution of all things, and of the New Heavens and New Earth, &s;poken of by all the holy Pro|phets &s;ince the world began. <HI>Acts</HI> 3.19, 20. And therefore is no new or &s;trange Doctrine as many are apt to conceive of it, but is now &s;eriou&s;ly to be con&s;idered and embraced, when it is near approaching at the end of the 2300 years of the <HI>Jews</HI> Bondage at Chri&s;ts &s;aid appearance; which is, and ought to be accounted great matter of Con&s;olation to Chri&s;ts afflicted and per&s;ecuted Church and People in the&s;e la&s;t Days of Satans, and Antichri&s;ts U&s;urpation and Tyranny; when Chri&s;t is &s;hortly coming to put an end to them, even when the <HI>Matutina re&s;urrectio</HI> and <HI>Judicium,</HI> be|ing, when the ju&s;t &s;hall have <HI>Domination</HI> in the morning as &s;aith the P&s;almi&s;t, <HI>P&s;.</HI> 49.</P>
<P><HI>Quefi.</HI> What Evidence doth the holy Scripture afford of the <HI>Jews</HI> deliverance, and the fir&s;t bodily Re&s;urrection to be at Chri&s;ts appearance.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Fir&s;t of the <HI>Jews</HI> deliverance, <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;aith expre&s;ly <HI>Chap.</HI> 12.2. at the &s;tanding up of <HI>Michael</HI> their Prince <HI>Daniels</HI> People &s;hall be delivered, when the <HI>Turk</HI> that &s;ought their ruin comes to his end, and none could help him in the <HI>Chap.</HI> be|fore. Secondly, from the frame and order of Scriptures re&s;pecting that People, for both <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> at their Death &s;everely threatened them, if they revolted from from their Covenant, (which they &s;oon did) foretelling their long and &s;ore and mo&s;t mi&s;erable Bondage, as al&s;o do tho&s;e prophetical threatnings, <HI>Deut.</HI> 28. <HI>Levi.</HI> 26. and that prophetical Song of <HI>Mo&s;es, Deut.</HI> 32. accordingly <HI>J&s;rael</HI> was led Cap|tive into <HI>A&s;&s;yria,</HI> and <HI>Judah</HI> into <HI>Caldea,</HI> when all the 12. Tribes were in Bondage, but even then God revealed to <HI>Dan.</HI> fir&s;t by <HI>Nehuchad-nezzars</HI> Image, and by the Vi&s;ion of the 4 Bea&s;ts to him&s;elf, that the <HI>Gentiles</HI> &s;hould have the Dominion all the times of the&s;e 4 Monarchies until Chri&s;ts appearance, or <HI>Michaels</HI> &s;aid &s;tanding up, as <HI>Chap.</HI> 12.2. And to <HI>Ezek.</HI> al&s;o was then &s;hewed upon the tak|ing the Crown and Diadem from the la&s;t King of <HI>Judah Zedekah;</HI> God would bring 3 great Overturnings by <HI>Babylon, Greece,</HI> and <HI>Rome,</HI> until he came who&s;e right it is. (as <HI>Dan</HI> 7.13, 14.) and God &s;aid then he would give it him, <HI>viz.</HI> Chri&s;t. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 21.26, 27.</P>
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<P>This large time is al&s;o exactly computed in a mi&s;terious manner by <HI>Palmoni,</HI> or Chri&s;t the &s;ecret Number to be 2300 years, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.14. (See the rea&s;ons on that <HI>ver</HI> in our Summarie of <HI>Dan.</HI>) the period of which great mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ical Number appears to be the period of all other con&s;iderable Numbers in <HI>Dan.</HI> and Revelation to be at Chri&s;ts appearance al&s;o, when with the <HI>Jews</HI> and <HI>I&s;ralites</HI> great Re&s;tauration concurs the fir&s;t Re&s;urrection of the ju&s;t, the Davidical Kingdom of Chri&s;t, the De&s;truction of the man of Sin, 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2. and of the <HI>Turk</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 38. and 39 <HI>ver.</HI> 8.9 in that great Te&s;timony of God him&s;elf, [Behold it is come and it is done &s;aith the Lord God; this is the day wherof I have &s;poken.] Which Divine mark there, (it is done) is &s;et, <HI>Rev.</HI> 16.7. and <HI>Rev.</HI> 21.6. to &s;hew the Popes de&s;truction at the 6t Vials ending, and the concidence of the times of Re&s;titution coming on: So al&s;o the mi&s;tical, 1666 from Chri&s;ts A&s;cen&s;ion about 34 years from his Birth, pointing out the end of the Bea&s;t, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13. all agreeing in the &s;ame period, as al&s;o <HI>Daniels</HI> happy times with his own &s;tanding up in his lot then with <HI>Job, David</HI> and all Saints at 1235 years from <HI>Julian</HI> the Apo&s;tates 365, (probably) when God la&s;t wonder|fully took away Sacrifice. See our Appendix after our Scheme, Pag. 8, 9, 10, 11.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> Why are but 3 overturnings mentioned by <HI>Ezek.</HI> in all the 4 &s;aid Monar|chies.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> It is probable becau&s;e none was to be in the <HI>Per&s;ian,</HI> but contrarily God would then reduce the 2 Tribes to fulfil his promi&s;ed mercies to <HI>Judah</HI> by <HI>Cyrus,</HI> and ac|comple&s;hed his good purpo&s;e in &s;ending the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> at the end of <HI>Daniels</HI> Weeks, by tht Ble&s;&s;ed effects of who&s;e Death, Re&s;urrection, and A&s;cen&s;ion, &s;hould an end be put to the Guilt of Believers tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, when the Power and Puni&s;hment thereof by everla&s;ting Righteou&s;ne&s;s is brought to them, are taken away, <HI>&amp;c. Dan.</HI> 9. ac|cording to the time long before foretold by <HI>Jacob, Gen.</HI> 40. of <HI>Shiloes</HI> or Chri&s;ts fir&s;t com|ing, from which in the times of Revelation Prophe&s;ie, many things were to be accom|pli&s;hed for about 1600 years, until his Second coming; ending the la&s;t Gentil Monarchy, and the bringing in of Chri&s;ts mo&s;t Divine and glorious Kingdom and Monarchy, who then will be manife&s;t to be the King of Kings, and Prince of the Kings of the Farth, <HI>Rev.</HI> 1.5. who&s;e Name is wonderful Coun&s;eller, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> then &s;itting upon the Throne of <HI>David</HI> as <HI>E&s;.</HI> 9.6.7.</P>
<P>Hence St. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;o remarkably enjoyneth all Chri&s;tians, to wait for the Ble&s;|&s;ed hope and glorious appearance of the great God, and our Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t. <HI>Tit.</HI> 2.13. (which we mentioned before.) Now that ble&s;&s;ed hope is the hope of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> or Redemption of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> at Chri&s;ts Second coming, and the fir&s;t &s;aid Re&s;urrection, when the promi&s;ed mercies to the Fathers &s;hall e&s;pecially take place; which the Apo&s;tle evi|dently explains, <HI>Acts</HI> 26.6, 7, 8. of the Re&s;urrection of the Dead then to be ac|compli&s;hed; read and ob&s;erve his Words well.</P>
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<HEAD>An admonition to all. 1. <HI>For the u&s;e of all faithful Chri&s;tians, who&s;e Duty in general is to own, believe, improve, and promote in their Stations all the Divine Doctrins of the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t.</HI> 2. <HI>For others to &s;eek earne&s;tly for true Repentance towards God, and true Faith in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, that they may receive the Inheritance among them that are Sanctified.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd 1. Let it be well ob&s;erved by all &s;uch, that the very expre&s;s and &s;trong Evidence &s;et down by Chri&s;t him&s;elf. <HI>Rev.</HI> 20.5. <HI>viz.</HI> of the fir&s;t ble&s;&s;ed bodily Re&s;narecti|on of the Saints, to be 1000 years before the re&s;t of the dead is beyond all denial, to all &s;ober rational men upon many accounts (as may by the following Treati&s;e upon that Text be &s;ufficiently manife&s;t,) and therefore the contrary, long prevailling but groundle&s;s mi&s;take and Errour, <HI>viz.</HI> that there will be but one only general Re&s;ur|rection at once both of good and bad, (expre&s;ly contrary to our Saviours Divine Doctrine thereof) and otherwi&s;e al&s;o, not only without but contrary to Scripture warrant, mu&s;t needs be both a groundle&s;s and dangerous errour, tending to exclude all other Divine Doctrines of Chri&s;t, in his own Revelation that re&s;pect the world to come. <HI>Heb.</HI> 2.5. or the glorious and ble&s;&s;ed State of his own Mediatory or Davidi|cal
<PB N="5" REF="3">Kingdom. But the owning of that di&s;tinct Doctrine of Chri&s;t, of the 2 bodily Re&s;urrections at 1000 years di&s;tance, is &s;o expre&s;s from Chri&s;ts own words, that with them the Interin betwixt both of the 1000 years is a great and &s;ure Foundation of many other Divine Truths foretold by his Spirit of Prophe&s;ie, manife&s;ting the &s;aid fir&s;t bodily Re&s;urrection to be the nece&s;&s;ary inlet for the rai&s;ed Saints, whereby they become capable of the manifold great happine&s;s; which without their &s;piritual Bo|dies they could not then enjoy, nor otherwi&s;e &s;o eminently &s;erve him as is &s;aid <HI>Chap.</HI> 2.3. that his &s;ervants &s;hall &s;erve him, where the Throne of God and of the Lamb &s;hall then be in tho&s;e many particulars &s;o revealed and determined, for the &s;ub&s;tance of them by Chri&s;t him&s;elf, upon the Foundations of the Prophets &s;peaking, <HI>Chap.</HI> 10. of &s;uch things to come on from the 7th Trumpet: When the mi&s;tery of God &s;hould be fini&s;hed, [as he &s;pake by his Servants the Prophets] which were part of his own Purcha&s;e at his fir&s;t coming, and in his Divine Book revealed and undertaken to con|fer upon his Saints at his Second coming. And what though &s;o clear Di&s;coveries of the&s;e Divine Mi&s;teries have not been &s;o Evidently made in mo&s;t of Antichri&s;ts Date now near to an end, as hath been in the&s;e latter Days, or in tho&s;e next to the Apo&s;tles times as learned Mr. <HI>Mede</HI> ob&s;erved. That Antichri&s;tiani&s;me &s;hould then ob&s;trct them to the end, that great Enemie might for his time appear and pa&s;s to his period, which time of &s;uch Darkne&s;s and Ignorance God &s;eemed then to wink at, but &s;ince in our times he hath given &s;uch great Di&s;coveries of them, it is therefore a duty incumbent upon all good Chri&s;tians now to receive, improve, and promote them in their places, as was very ob&s;ervable in that very Learned and Reverend Dr. <HI>Twi&s;&s;e</HI> in his latter days, though he was Prolocutor before, of that Learned A&s;&s;embly mo&s;tly of contrary Opinion. Yet was credibly reported, that above what light he had received in them, by inter|cour&s;e with Mr. <HI>Mede,</HI> (as their Printed Letters manife&s;t) it afterwards &s;o wrought upon his mind and affections, that in them he was much enlivened and rai&s;ed towards his end in the embracing and due e&s;timation of them.</P>
<P>And al&s;o that worthily, much Reverend and Renownedly, learned and Religious Bi&s;hop <HI>U&s;her,</HI> upon that little intercour&s;e he had, likewi&s;e with Mr. <HI>Mede,</HI> acknow|ledged much of that Nature al&s;o, and doubtle&s;s by degrees would have done more if further advantage thereof had been afforded to him: And for my unworthy &s;elf who formerly oppo&s;ed Chri&s;ts &s;aid Per&s;onal Reign; yet &s;ince by &s;pecial mercie, having obtain|ed many gracious Di&s;coveries have &s;ince &s;pecially &s;trongly confirmd that as after our Scheme may be &s;een, and many other things of that Natute, publi&s;hed in my Book for the benefit of others, into who&s;e hands they may come. So that it mu&s;t needs be griev|ous unto me, be&s;ides other weighty con&s;iderations re&s;pecting God or Men or their own &s;elves, to hear not only ordinary Per&s;ons, but even many Mini&s;ters for want of &s;uch Divine Di&s;coveries received and prized by them, (as the &s;aid fir&s;t Re&s;urrection taught by Chri&s;t is) to hear them preach in publick though mo&s;t erroneou&s;ly, that it is nothing el&s;e but Spiritual Regeneration. And al&s;o that Chri&s;ts &s;aid Kingdom of the 1000 years &s;hortly to come on Earth, is no other then his providential Kingdom which he ever had as God in the World. To deny his Reign then to be per&s;onal though &s;ufficiently confirmed, (as we now &s;aid) whereby he will be much more glo|rious then the Sun in the glorious &s;tate of the world to come. And to call the New <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> coming down from God at Chri&s;ts Second coming: The Kingdom of Hea|ven which is then &s;aid evedently <HI>Rev.</HI> 21.9. to be the Bride the Lambs Wife: When the Tabernacle of God (in Chri&s;ts Per&s;on) will be with Men, and he dweil with them and be their God, and they his People in the great Solemnity of the Marriage of the Lamb probably all the &s;aid 1000 years: Yea and &s;ome to reject all tho&s;e Di|vine Doctrins of Chri&s;t in the &s;aid 1000 years, wherein the Nations al&s;o of them that are &s;aved &s;hall walk in the light of the great, holy, and beloved New <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and that of all People under the whole Heaven, as <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.27. when in that glorious and gra|ciou prolonging of Chri&s;ts days then upon Earth he &s;hall &s;o abundantly &s;ee his Seed, when the will of the Lord &s;hall mo&s;t pro&s;per in his hands as foretold, <HI>E&s;.</HI> 63. when the greate&s;t Harve&s;t of the Saints is to come in, and all Nations &s;ee the Salvation of the God of <HI>I&s;rael:</HI> How great a &s;in then again&s;t God and Chri&s;t the Saints rai&s;ed
<PB N="6" REF="4">then, and the Nations then to be &s;aved likewi&s;e mu&s;t the denying of the&s;e excellent Divine truths needs be? Yea, and &s;ome to reject the thou&s;and years them&s;elves though the number of the thou&s;and years is laid down by our Saviour, as the mo&s;t exact, &s;trong, and unparallelled Determination of a time to come, that is to be found in the whole World: and indeed fit only for the All-knowing and Almighty and ble&s;&s;ed God, &s;o to &s;et down aforehand, who can both fully make it good; and who many thou&s;and years before hath revealed, that he will accompli&s;h that State, with &s;uch things as he hath revealed &s;hall be fulfilled in them. Yet my own Ears have heard one in publick &s;ay, frivolou&s;ly and and unworthily of them, That he knew not whether there were 1000 2000, or 10000, with other Scriptures by him perverted, re&s;pecting the &s;ame; whereunto may be annexed, the Anti&s;criptural error of &s;uch as place the times of re&s;titution of all things after the worlds de&s;truction, of which God &s;aith, <HI>Behold I make all things new, viz.</HI> Vi&s;ibly at Chri&s;ts &s;econd coming, (as we have have &s;hewed upon <HI>Rev.</HI> 21.5.) as the Apo&s;tle teacheth, he hath done Spi|ritually at his fir&s;t coming, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. &s;o laying the foundation for the other; with many other gro&s;s errors of that kind, e&s;pecially of &s;uch as reckon the&s;e Divine and Havenly Doctrines: taught by Chri&s;t him&s;elf (neer to Bla&s;phemy) to be no better than Carnal Opinions (as I have heard delivered in publick al&s;o) But I am not willing to rake any further into this Dunghil, only I mention thus much here for the&s;e good purpo&s;es. Fir&s;t, to caution others for the time to come, again&s;t the&s;e or the like mi|&s;takes and errors: And &s;econdly, to admoni&s;h all, e&s;peciall Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;|pel, to &s;earch duly into, and to own, improve, and promote, &s;uch precious truths of that part of the Go&s;pel te&s;pecting Chri&s;ts &s;econd coming, containing &s;uch happy in|tere&s;t of all Saints in them; and not to with&s;tand &s;uch great things founded on the Prophets, as the Son of God, who&s;e Te&s;timony of them is &s;aid al&s;o to be the Spi|rit of Prophe&s;ie. <HI>Rev.</HI> 19 10, and left for the &s;pecial Con&s;olation of his Church in the&s;e latter and darker days of Antichri&s;t, when as the Prophet &s;peaks (probably of the times of &s;ome of the Vials) it &s;eems to be not Day nor Night, but withal for their comfort they &s;hould know in the Evening time it &s;hall be light, <HI>Zac.</HI> 14.7. And thirdiy, that Chri&s;tians might lay to heart and con&s;ider, what a great provocation it mu&s;t needs now be unto Almighty God, that &s;uch Divine truths he in &s;o great mer|cy and goodne&s;s hath in the&s;e re&s;pects, &s;o &s;et before &s;uch as call them&s;elves his peo|ple, yea, and his portion too, yet &s;hould be no better entertained by them; and that the exceeding glorious excellency of Chri&s;t him&s;elf, the ble&s;&s;ed Mediator, &s;hortly to be manife&s;t to be the Prince of the Kings of the Earth, <HI>Rev.</HI> 1.3. Should not only be neglected, but &s;o re&s;i&s;ted in the World; which I really believe is a &s;pecial cau&s;e and rea&s;on (together with other heart and life Provocations among&s;t the&s;e Chri&s;tians in the&s;e dark days, too obvious to be di&s;cerned) why God is &s;till plea&s;ed to &s;uffer &s;uch pre&s;&s;ures to lye &s;o long and heavily upon &s;o many (partly in Doctrin) reformed Chri&s;tian Prote&s;tant Churches, in that &s;uch light is withholden from mo&s;t Chri&s;ti|ans among&s;t them that di&s;covers their deliverance approraching, and the comfort thereof unto them, and &s;o excellently di&s;plays the glory of their great Redeemer, who&s;e glorious appearance will cau&s;e them to lift up their heads with joy, yea, e|ven when by the &s;igns thereof they &s;hall but di&s;cern them to be near; which the receiving &s;uch Doctrines ar the&s;e which Chri&s;t hath di&s;covered for their u&s;e, in that &s;acred and mo&s;t Diivine Book of <HI>Revelation,</HI> may much ha&s;ten for the exceeding great con&s;olation of all &s;oithful Souls. </P>
<CLOSER><HI>Amen.</HI>
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<HEAD>Some &s;ea&s;onable Revelation di&s;coveries re&s;pecting the&s;e our times, e&s;pecially of the &s;even la&s;t Plagues or Vials, with the contemporatie, the <HI>2</HI> Witne&s;&s;es, and with the <HI>10th</HI> part of the Cities falling, <HI>Rev. 11. &amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat we may the better di&s;cern the pouring out of the fifth Vial and part of the &s;ixt now pa&s;&s;ing with other occurrants re&s;pecting the times lately pa&s;t or pre&s;ent, or &s;hortly to come, we &s;hall here &s;et down &s;ome hints of the four preceed|ing
<PB N="7" REF="4">Vials. The fir&s;t whereof is &s;aid to be poured out upon the Earth of the Bea&s;t, <HI>Rev.</HI> 16.2. appeared to be when he was manife&s;ted unto the Church, to be the Great Antichri&s;t, that before &s;tood firm (in appearance) upon a &s;uppo&s;ed and pretended <HI>jus Divinum,</HI> and was counted Chri&s;ts Vicar General, and Saint <HI>Peters</HI> Succe&s;&s;or in the Sea of <HI>Rome,</HI> though mo&s;t fa&s;ly (as Mr. <HI>Ed. Deering</HI> hath made evident) which fir&s;t Vial was poured out by our <HI>Wickliff</HI> and others which &s;o &s;haked his Earth and Foundation that he &s;tood upon, that thereupon he had a noy&s;ome and grievous fore fell upon his followers: which cau&s;eed them to be ever &s;ince, &s;uch Per&s;ecutors of all &s;uch as Hercticks, as they call them, becau&s;e their Earth or Foundation is &s;o removed by them, and having a noy&s;omfore upon them.</P>
<P>The &s;econd Vial &s;eemed to be poured upon the Seas of the Bea&s;t, when <HI>Luther</HI> &s;o divulged his Divine Doctrines of the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t, and wrote &s;o vigorou&s;ly a|gain&s;t many Popi&s;h errours, that the truth, by his means was &s;pread largely in <HI>Germany,</HI> and many other Countries, and &s;o took place, that Popi&s;h delu&s;ions and errors, which prevailed before among&s;t them, were thereupon ca&s;t off, and the Popes power great|ly dimini&s;hed in tho&s;e places, and all his Spiritual delu&s;ions among&s;t them became like the blood of a dead man, having no Life, or Spirits left in them; and this was al&s;o wonderful in the&s;e two fir&s;t pourers forth of the &s;aid Vials, after their great pre|valency again&s;t the man of Sin, and his great endeavours to de&s;troy them &s;ucce&s;&s;ively; yet &s;uch was Gods care over them, after all a&s;&s;aults, that they both died peaceably in their Beds, notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>The third Vial, &s;aith Mr. <HI>Mede</HI> was poured out upon the Rivers and Fountains of the Bea&s;t, whereby his poy&s;onous Waters were carried and conveyed to the &s;everal parts of the World; to wit, by tho&s;e his Emi&s;&s;aries, the Prie&s;ts, Friers and Je&s;uits, the promoters of his wicked Doctrines, by the re&s;traint of penal Laws, to take away their lives, as was made again&s;t them in Queen <HI>Elizabeths</HI> Raign, and el&s;ewhere al|&s;o re&s;trained in other places, the Ju&s;tice, of which proceeding to give them blood to drink as they were worthy is &s;o greatly celebrated with prai&s;e to God, <HI>v.</HI> 5.6.7.</P>
<P>The fourth Mr. <HI>Mede</HI> conceives al&s;o to be poured upon the Sun in the Popes Orb, <HI>viz.</HI> On the <HI>German</HI> Empire, or hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria,</HI> by that illu&s;trious <HI>Gu&s;tauus A|dolphus</HI> King of <HI>Sweden</HI> and others over-ruuning &s;uddenly about 200 Miles in their warrs (as was conceived) and though it &s;till remains; yet both then and &s;ince have been much weakened by the <HI>Turk</HI> about new <HI>Hau&s;el,</HI> and the <HI>French</HI> Wars &s;ince, for it is to be ob&s;erved, that no Vial utterly de&s;troys but the la&s;t, they only bring the Pope|dome into a Con&s;umption; yet upon &s;uch &s;corching they have accordingly bla&s;phe|med Gods name, and will not acknowledge his hand, and therefore do not repent to give him glory. But the fourth Vial is al&s;o conceived to be the ca&s;ting off the Popes Univer&s;ality, which before was as his &s;hining Sun that hath darkned his Orb greatly: which appears very probable to be meant thereby.</P>
<P>The fifth Vial Mr. <HI>Cotton</HI> mo&s;t probably conceived al&s;o to be poured out upon the Popes My&s;tical Throne, to wit, upon Prelacy, or Hierarchical Epi&s;copacy held by the Papi&s;ts and their party to be <HI>(jure Divino)</HI> whence al&s;o Archbi&s;hops, Pattiarchs, and Popes act al&s;o <HI>(jure Divino)</HI> as &s;itting upon a Throne: As for what Mr. <HI>Mede</HI> con|ceived of <HI>Rome</HI> as a tenth part of what it was formerly &s;eems too litteral compared with the other Vials; neither was the time of <HI>Rooms</HI> ruin to be expected &s;o &s;oon as the fifth Vial, and al&s;o the fall of the tenth part of the great City is quite another thing in others account &s;hortly to be among&s;t us, towards the end of the great Earth-quake (probably) at the fini&s;hing of the A&s;cention of the la&s;t fini&s;hing Wit|ne&s;s, who&s;e Killing Mr. <HI>Mede</HI> him&s;elf conceived would be about the fifth Vial, in the <HI>Plateia civitatis</HI> where the fall of that tenth Part or Province of the &s;aid great Ci|ty, is probably by divers expected to be, and as a Key for the place, where the la&s;t fini&s;hing &s;ackcloth Witne&s;s &s;hould be &s;lain, it is de&s;cribed to be [<HI>where our Lord was crucified, Rev.</HI> 11.8.] as being the Stage of Gods emminent actings, in pouring out the fifth Vial, upon that my&s;tical Throne of the Bea&s;ts, <HI>viz. jus Divinum prelaticum</HI> pretended to for &s;etting up their humane in&s;titutions, and impo&s;ing them more than Gods Divine appointments (as that Hierarchie not long before Chri&s;ts death did in
<PB N="8" REF="5"><HI>Juden,</HI> whereby civil cen&s;ures were to be executed, making way for the civil death of the &s;aid Witne&s;&s;es, of which much might be &s;aid an&s;werably, &dagger; though good men formerly in that capacity, were then content with their <HI>jure humane</HI> from men and end eavoured to &s;erve Chri&s;t, in writing again&s;t Popi&s;h errours, and in promoting Godline&s;s, or were &s;ufferers for the truth, as Bi&s;hop <HI>Jewel,</HI> Bi&s;hop <HI>Hooper,</HI> Bi&s;hop <HI>Latimer,</HI> Bi|&s;hop <HI>Morton,</HI> Bi&s;hop <HI>Babington,</HI> Bi&s;hop <HI>Davenant,</HI> &amp;c. But in &s;ucceeding times, when after about 17 years voiding of Parliaments, Bi&s;hop <HI>Laud,</HI> and Bi&s;hop <HI>Wren,</HI> with other of their Party in carrying on &s;uch Popi&s;h De&s;igns in two Kingdoms at once, (as would then apparently have ruined them&s;elves) did bring in Alters and many al|terations in Doctrines and Practi&s;es to promote Popery, and therewith a new Book of Cannons with an Oath, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> To e&s;tabli&s;h their pretended <HI>jus Divinum</HI> upon their Brethrens Con&s;ciences: then God by a Parliament fitted for that work in Forty two, &s;eemed to pour out his Fifth Vial in that <HI>Plateia civitatis</HI> (many <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ays like to <HI>Judea</HI>) upon the &s;aid Prelacy as tke mi&s;tical Throne of the Bea&s;t that made the whole Antichri&s;tian Kingdom full of Darkne&s;s, and cau&s;ed them to gnaw their Tongues for pain and Bla&s;phem the God of Heaven, overlooking both his Word and Hand therein; imputing all to Mens Sins and Rebellion, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And re|pented not of their deeds, but only being thereby revengfully carried on to kill the &s;aid Witne&s;&s;es fully, after about 18 years &s;pace of their own Suffering; to contrive and prepare for their la&s;t great Slaughter, when <HI>Viis</HI> and <HI>Modis</HI> they could after obtain in advantage to accompli&s;h the &s;ame. Which in 18 years more &s;eems to be ac|compli&s;hed from 60, (as particularly might be recounted) and therein to accom|pli&s;h what that Prophe&s;ie <HI>Rev.</HI> 11. from <HI>ver.</HI> 6. foretold, concerning the &s;aid fini&s;hing Witne&s;&s;es in the <HI>Plateia civitatis</HI> (as in an other Paper we have manife&s;ted to the beginning of the falling of the Tenth part of the great City in that &s;aid <HI>Plateia</HI> or Tenth Province al&s;o, which &s;eemed to begin an 78. upon the wonderful do&s;covery, defeat, and many &s;trange di&s;appointments of that de&s;peratly wicked late Plot, by the watchful and mo&s;t gracious providence of the great Watchman of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> which De&s;ign though &s;till endeavoured to be carried on by many wicked Polices, Lyes, Slanders, and mo&s;t Helli&s;h Sham-Plots, which is the manife&s;t depth of Devilli&s;me, and height of Sa|tanical Wickedne&s;s, &s;o hainou&s;ly to pervert that Sacred Ordinance of appealing to God, (as if he had for&s;aken the Earth) as thereby to act in &s;uch cruel. abominable, and dete&s;table De&s;igns to take away the Lives of Innocent Men; and even to aban|don the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t: All which their pacthings and daubings with &s;uch un|tempered Morter notwith&s;tanding, God will doubtle&s;s cau&s;e the Walls of their City the &s;ooner to moulder away, and at onee ere long like tho&s;e of <HI>Jerice</HI> to fall down flat, when it &s;hall be truly &s;aid, <GAP DESC="foreign">, that that Tenth part of the City, <HI>viz.</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Plateia</HI> &s;poken of before is actually fallen, to wit, all Po|pi&s;h Intere&s;t hope and expectation therein is vanqui&s;hed; even by tho&s;e means whereby the Enemies endeavoured to e&s;tabli&s;h them, and thereupon is to follow the &s;laying of tho&s;e 7000 Names of Men; when Gods hand will appear terrible to the great affrightment of that remnant that will then give glory to the God of Heaven, <HI>ver.</HI> 13. at the end of the Second Woe, when that &s;udden and &s;trong work of the Lord in judging the great Whore, in undertaking to put it into the hearts and hands of the Kings of the Parth to burn her with Fire, probably under the Sixth Vial, wherein may further be effected the drying up of the Popes mi&s;tical Buphrates of the <HI>Ger|man</HI> Empire, or the litteral Euphrates for the pa&s;&s;age of the Kings of the <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> to &s;eek their Land, or both, (which I rather expect) while the three unclean Spirits like Frogs are croaking in the Courts of Kings, to gather them to the Battle of the great day of God Almighty, <HI>ver.</HI> 16. after de&s;cribed <HI>c.</HI> 19. when will al&s;o be executed the Seventh Vial upon the Air of the Bea&s;t; when the Prince of the Power of the Air will probably al&s;o be bound, as <HI>Rev.</HI> 20. for 1000 years, until the fini&s;hing, whereof he &s;hall not deceive the Nations any more. All which may &s;hortly be compleated before they are expected by mo&s;t Men.</P>
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