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A79823	Theopolis, or the city of God new Jerusalem, in opposition to the city of the nations great Babylon; comprehending the blessing and benefit of Christs Kingdom, in the thousand years reign before his personal coming and appearing, after the total ruine of the beast, and his kingdom. In a coment upon the 10th. and 21st. chapters of the revelations. With an additional answer to these two material questions: 1. Whether the thousand years reign is not already past, as Brightman, and others affirm. 2. Whether the natural Jew is not most concerned in the latter day promises prophecies, especially in the pulling down Babylon, and building of Zion, as Maton, and others assert	Danvers, Henry, d. 1687.	1672 (1672)	Wing C4357; Wing D231; ESTC R229614	117,233	260

in the Arabias c. that was called the Land of Promise the Land of Rest was typical and fleshly and belonged therefore to the old Covenant and is done away and no more to be expected by the seed of Promise the Israelites the Believers though it is not denyed but that the natural Jew may according to the Letter become a Nation and dwell even in that Territory again because they now enter into and must yet enjoy another Rest Heb. 4.3 with that promised Land typt out the Believer whether Jew or Gentile being esteemed the only chosen Generation Holy Nation peculiar people in the world that either are or ever shall be 1 Pet. 2.9 therefore whether for any to assert any Doctrines to make the Verge or Bounds of any Countrey upon Earth to be now in the Gospel days to be set apart for holy Ground and entred and possessed in chief and by way of difference and distinction by any of the seed is not to keep up Moses and out Christ and to tye up Christs Kingdom to a particular Region that is to be over the whole World unbounded unlimited Fifthly That Priest-hood under the Law to which belonged the Temple Service Altar Sacrifices was typical and done away by Christ for as the Apostle reasons that Priest-hood being done away and changed and brought into another Tribe there remains of necessity a change of the Law viz. of all the appurtenances thereto Therefore is the Believer the Royal Priest-hood under Christ the high Priest 1 Pet. 2.5.9 Heb. 8.1 they are the Temple Tabernacle the Mount Zion Eph. 2.19 20 21 22. Heb. 3.6 c. Their Prayers Praises Alms Bodies Spirits are the Sacrifices that in this new Testament-ministration are to be only offered as the acceptable services upon that Altar whereof they have no right to eat that serve at the Carnal Tabernacle Heb. 13.11 Therefore whether to bring in any other Seed Tribe City Nation Priest-hood then what is established by Christ in the new Testament is not to bring in Moses again and to rebuild that partition Wall that Christ Jesus by his death pulled down is not to harden the poor Jews in their enmity and superstition and to cast a stumbling Block before the Gentile believer to the bringing back again into bondage 2. Rule THat the new Testament Church and ministtion are by the Prophets frequently repsented under the names terms state and condition that the old Testament Church was known by and found in As Jews Israelites and the seed of Abraham Jacob Jerusalem mount Zion c. Therefore doth our last new Testament Prophet in holding forth the condition of the Church so deliver himself in such phrases and terms alluding in all to the old Testament Church that we might the better understand and comprehend what the prophets under like terms and Phrases hold out concerning it as the Learned Mead Bernard and others have at large observed and whereof you may read something in the 8 and 9th foregoing pages in the beginning of this Book and to which I refer you And therefore do they most excellently unfold the fourth Chapter of Rev. by comparing it with ●he 2 of Numbers the 7th Chapter holding out ●he new Testament Church the sealed ones un●er the Jewish Names Tribes and Phraises Therefore whether for any to take these things 〈◊〉 the Letter when the mistery is intended to ●●ke them in the Figure Type Allegory when the Antitype is meant will not be to invert the sence and introduce great confusion meni legis est lex not the bare words but the meaning of the Law is the Law 3. Rule THat the Israelites after their Captivity had a return and were in conjunction with the Jews under one head David their Prince to the fulfilling of many of the Prophets and that as well in a Literal as a Misterial sence As First under Hezekiah especially in the keeping of that Passover whereto many of the Tribe came viz. Ephraim Ashar Manasseh Issacher Zebulon that it is said had escaped out of the hands of the Kings of Assyria came up to Hierusalem to keep the Passover and to pay their Tithes offerings and first-fruits 2 Chron. 30. So that there was great joy in Hierusalem for since the time of Solomon there was not the like in Hierusalem 20. The separation between Israel and Judah having continued during all the Kings in Israel for the space of 250 years Secondly In the days of Iosiah a thousand years after who in his eighth year reformed all the Tribes breaking down Altars Groves Images taking away all the abominations out of all the Countreys that pertain to the children of Israel and made all that were present in Israel to serve even to serve the Lord their God And all his dayes they departed not from following the Lord God of their Fathers 2 Chron. 34.4 5 6. And kept such a Passover that there was none like to it kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the Prophet neither did all the Kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept and the Priests and the Levites and all Judah and Israel that were present and the Inhabitants of Hierusalem Thirdly In Zerubabells time under him When by the Proclamation of Cyrus whom the spirit of the Lord stirred up all the Jews or Israelites within his Territories the 130 Provinces including the place where Israel was carried all Assyria had liberty to return which was in these words That whosoever was amongst them of all his People let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judeah to build the house of the Lord And whosoever remaineth of any place where he sojourneth let the men of his place help him with Silver and with Gold and with Goods c. And who accordingly came up by degrees and did under one Prince in their own Land partake of their Legal rights and priviledges together Fourthly In the Apostles dayes it is said Acts 26.7 Unto which promise or 12 Tribes instantly serving God day and night hope to come and Iames directs his Epistle to the 12 Tribes and Peter 1 Pet. 1. To them also by all which is it not manifest that whatever the received opinion has been that since Israels captivity they were never heard of that there was a return in Hezekiahs time of many of the Tribes and in Iosiahs time a hundred years after many more of them inhabiting their own Land under one King and in Zerubabells and the Machabees time afterwards all of Davids Line as Math. 1. and Luke the 3. And in the Apostles time there were Jews devout men of every Nation under Heaven dwelling at Hierusalem and the 12 Tribes were then known as Paul Iames and Peter discovers Fifthly Mistically did the believing Jews and Israelites whereof there were great numbers gather under David their King the Lord Jesus in conjunction with the believing Gentile in his new Testament Rule Government and Soveraignty which in express Terms is said by the

divided into four and twenty courses whose duty and priviledge is held forth in Deut. 33.10 Levit. 10.11 Numb 16.9 Thirdly Judaical of the Tribe of Judah of which Melchizedek the Type Gen. 14.18 Hebr. 7.1 And Jesus Christ the Antetype our great High-Priest Heb. 3.1.4.14 And under him the Spiritual Royal Priesthood Exod. 19 6. Rev 1.6 2 Pet 2.5 9. Importing separation and consecration to God and a nearness and constant communion with him Numb 16.9 Ordering in special the affairs of his Church being appointed and anointed thereto Now as in the Kingdom of Israel the Type of Christ's Kingdom there was an anointed Priesthood a Ministry to manage the affairs of the Church and an anointed Kingship or Magistracy to govern and manage the State So Hath Antichrist in his ●surpations in Imitation of them the Type and as if they were this Kingdom of Christ the Antitype pretended not onely to the Kingship but the Priesthood to the Ministry as well as the Magistracy to the Government of the Church as well as the state putting their Holy Oyl upon the one and the other as most Holy and Sacred things Dedicated to the service of Christ in both Which nevertheless their glorious entitling themselves to such his peculiar service he is pleased as to foretell this horrid blasphemous usurpation so to renounce it with great detestation calling their Magistracy an unclean filthy blasphemous bloody Beast that comes not from him but out of the bottomless Pit and must go into Perdition and the other their Ministry or Priesthood a vile filthy Idolatrous Strumpet that must for her lewd Whoredoms Drunkenness and Witchcrafts have her flesh torn off and burnt with fire But his faithful Saints and Servants that will neither bow the Knee to the one nor the other as being Blasphemous Idolatrous Usurpers not only to the opposing but outing Christs Ministry and Magistracy shall be found in this his Kingdom during this thousand years to administer in both these blessed Ordinances being received in Truth Power and Purity to the advantage of his name and Glory viz. as anointed Kings to manage the Affairs of State as Rulers and Magistrates under Christ the King of Kings and as anointed Priests shall under Christ their High-Priest manage his pure Worship and Govern the Affairs of the Church as his Elders and Ministers which in happy conjunction makes up this Blessed and Glorious state of Christs Rule in this his Kingdom Of the second Death On such the second death had no power THis is another Priviledge of the Saints in this happy Estate that they shall not be lyable to the second death By second death in the Letter is to be understood Hell-fire the place of the damned as interpreted Rev. 21.9 But Mistically and Metaphorically taken for utter ruine destruction and perdition As for instance it is said in Rev. 19.20 that the Beast and False-prophet were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with Brimstone which must Metaphorically be understood because as before explained Page 2 by Beast and False-prophet we are not to understand two persons but states viz. the Magistracy and Ministry of Antichrist who being vanquished in the great Battle are now as utterly extinguished and put into perdition never ony more to do mischief as if two persons were cast into Hell fire which gives light to Dan. 7 11. Rev. 17.8 Rev. 18.8 So also Rev. 20.10 It is said the Devil or Dragon that deceived them was cast into the lake of Fire and Brimstone where the Beast and False-prophet are c. which admits the same mistical signification viz. that now the Dragonical or Heathenish power as explained to be Page 2. that was only bound in times past for a season is after the Gog-Magog destruction as utterly ruined raised and destroyed as the Beast and false prophet the Antechristian stare before Yea and as the Devil himself will be when he is cast into the lake at the last day now never more to work mischief in the world And again the Worshippers of the Beast whose names are not in the Lambs book the Beast and Dragon being thus in utter perdition are now to share with the principals in utter ruine and destruction Rev. 14.10 11 13.8.17.8 compared with the 20.15 And lastly it is said that Death and Hell or the Grave are cast into the lake of Fire which is the secon● Death Rev. 20.14 viz. Now after the general Judgment there is to be no more Death Death is swallowed up in Victory a full confirmation of the former Of the Dragons Release And when the Thousand years are expired Satan shall be loosed out of his Prison UPon the expiration of the thousand years it seems Hell is to break loose again the Conquered and subdued Heathen Nations and their Authority that during that space have by the Righteous Laws and Soveraign Authority of Christ been as so many imprisoned fettered Captives yea as so many civil dead men kept down and under subjection whereby universal peace and quiet hath been managed and maintained all the world throughout do now by Gods permission and the Devils inspiration and sedition again perk up for him and in a rebellious manner standing upon their feet again do break off their subjection and Allegeance from Christs Rule and Authority and by combination and confederacy make head against him and engaging under their old Captain general the Devil do rally from the four quarters of the Earth an huge and numberless Host like to the Sand of the Sea which mighty gathering is called here by the spirit Gog and M●gog with design by besieging and compassing the Camp of the Saints and beloved City to raze and destroy the Soveraign Power and Authority of Christ that he hath so long managed by the hands of his Saints in this World upon the breadth of the Earth even as the Syrian Host the Prophet in Dothan The Assyrian Jerusalem the Sodomites Lot 2 Kings 6.14 15. 2 Kings 25.1 Of Gog and Magog ANd shall go out to deceive the Nations which are in the four quarters of the Earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to Battel This is the Name the Holy Spirit is pleased to give this great and last enemy of the Church upon the Earth which for your better understanding take the pithy exposition given by Mr. Mead. It is saith he to be observed that the Revelation is a Book of the Future estate of the Christian Church set forth by Resemblances and Parables borrowed from the condition of affairs of the Jewish Church under the old Testament in which the Worship of the true God flourished alone the rest of the Nations serving Idols universally Hence therefore that Egypt Babylon in the Revelations are not the Babylon and Egypt of the Israelites but the enemies of the Church of the Gentiles like that Babylon and Egypt being Types and Figures of these In like manner Gog and Magog in the Revelation are not the Gog in Ezekiel

sent to Hell to keep the Pope and Popish Emperour company Here it may be noted that the foes of the Church that profess not the name of Christ as the Heathen and Turkish Emperour are in this Book compared to Dragons and Serpents and to the Devil himself so the Popes and Popish Emperours who profess Christianity are eompared to wild Beasts And Mr. Mead in his Comment upon the Rev. Chap. 12.3 4. A wonder or representation of Rome Heathen whose marks are every where seven heads and ten horns seven heads indeed as well for the seven hills upon which the City was built as also for the seven sorts of Governours who were successively to Govern that City The ten horns for the ten Kingdoms which were to arise in the time of the last head to which they were to grow Which interpretation is not mine but the Angels Chap. 17. In the mean time another Character of the Roman Emperour is added to these Whereas it is said He drew the third part of the Stars of Heaven with his Tail and did cast them to the Earth that is he subjected the third part of the Princes and Rulers of the World to his Empire For even so much viz the third part of the known world in John's age the dominion of Rome did comprehend within its Limits Add here Bernard upon Rev. 12.3 p. 208. This is expounded to be the old Serpent the Devil and Satan vers 9. by an allusion to Gen. 3. but yet so understanding him as hereby be understood also the special ministry of his fury viz. the Heathen persecuting Emperours of Rome For this prophesie ● of things to be done here on Earth by men Also the Woman noteth out a company here in this world and so must the Dragon note out in like sort such here as be her Adversaries Again the description of this Dragon cannot agree properly to the Devil himself but is indeed the Arms of Rome when it was Heathen and had Heathen Emperours ruling there who worshiped the Devil 1 Cor. 10.20 and were led by him as all the wicked be Eph. 2.2 He persecuting Christians for the very name of Christ so as the battle was against Christ Jesus himself No marvel then that they be called the Dragon that is the Devil who is put for his Instruments Chap. 2.10 As here his Instruments for him Of the Dragons taking or apprehending ANd he laid hold or took A Metaphor borrowed from the seizing of a Prisoner at war and so improved here It is said in the former Chapter he was fought with and vanquished and in this Chapter laid hold off or taken implying a compleat conquest for when a chief General after Battle is taken the business is over Which holds out no less than the absolute victory that Christ and his followers have obtained in pleading his kingly right to the Governments of this world over the Beastly and Dragonical powers of this world who have usurpt and a long time posses'd the same and having not only subdued but absolutely dismissed cashier'd and damned the Antichristian state in both parts of it both Civil and Ecclesiastical even to that degree that they shall never appear to do mischief any more no more than two wicked wretches that are cast alive into Hell fire can ever expect to come forth to act villany any more in this world so now also is the Heathen Pagan state so vanquish'd and brought down and as much out of a capacity to do any more mischief for the season intended then a Baffled Conquered enemy that is apprehended and taken prisoner And that such a season shall be wherein Christ Jesus who hath right to the worlds Government not only by gift purchase covenant and inheritance must yet plead and obtain the same by war and conquest also appears in part from these following Seriptures Numb 24.8 He shall eat up the Nations his Enemies He shall break their bones and pierce them through with his arrows 9. He couched he lay down as a Lyon Who shall raise him up Isa 41.2 Who raised up the righteous man from the East called him to his foot gave the Nations before him and made him rule over Kings He gave them as the dust to his Sword and driven Stubble to his Bow Speaking of Abraham Gen. 14. in his subduing the four Kings Types of the four Monarchies Who hath wrought and done it calling the Generations from the beginning I the Lord the first viz. he that was with Abraham in the Type in the beginning at the first and with the last I am he will also in the conclusion be with the seed of Abraham in the same work in subduing and taking their Antitypes the four Monarches eyes themselves Isa 42.13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man He shall stir up jealousie like a man of War He shall cry yea roar He shall prevail against his Enemies 14. I have a long time holden my peace I have been still and refrained my self Now will I cry like a Travelling Woman I will destroy and devour at once 15. I will make wast Mountains and Hills and dry up all their Herbs and I will make the Rivers Islands and I will dry up the Pools c. Haggai 2.22 And I will overthrow the Throne of Kingdoms and will destroy the strength of the Kingdoms of the Heathon and I will overthrow the Chariots and those that ride in them and their Horses and their Riders shall come down every one by the Sword of his Brother Rev. 17.14 These shall make War with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called chosen and faithfull Rev. 19.13 c. And he was clothed in a Vesture dipt in blood and his name is called the Word of God And the Armies which are in Heaven followed him upon white Horses clothed in fine linnen white and clean And out of his Mouth goeth a Sharp Sword that with it he should smite the Nations And he shall rule them with a rod of Iron And he treadeth the Wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God And he hath on his Vesture and on his thigh written King of Kings and Lord of Lords So also Psalms 2.8 9 c. Dan. 2.44 45. Psal 45.3 4 5. Psal 66.3 c Psal 72. 9 10. Isa 24.19 20 21 22. Ezek. 21.26 27. Rev. 14.19 20. Isa 63.1 2 3 4 6. Which dispensation is no other than the pouring out the Vials Chap. 16. The Earth-quake Desolation and Slaughter that attends the Resurrection of the Witnesses Rev. 11. Typed out by Abrams Conquest of the four Kings as before the overturning of Pharaoh and his Host the subduing the thirty one Kings in Canaan by Joshuah in order to give rest to the people in the promised land the destruction of all Enemies by David in order to Solomons quiet and peaceable Reign And this work as in the

order which is to be at the sounding of the last trumpet The time of the living Saints change the time that is expres'd to be the last day which is the time of his coming and appearing which is the Judgment day But this a thousand years before all Eighthly Because if Corporeal and to be understood of Martyrs only then all the dead at the last day shall be raised to the second death contrary to John 5.24.6.39 40.44 54. Dan. 12.2 And they only as Martyrs Priests to God contrary to 1 Pet. 2.5 9. Rev. 1. ● Ninthly Because if this be understood to be the Resurrection of all the Saints who in that immortal and glorified state are to live and Reign the thousand years in and over the world it necessarily infers these strange absurdities First that glorified and unglorified mortal and immortal bodies must converse together for it necessarily follows if the Saints are raised then is Christ come in Glory and their vile bodies are made like to his glorified body and that Christ and the Saints and Angels in this glorified state converse with the men of the world Ruling Governing and Ordering them in the respective policies by Zions Laws and Edicts contrary to express Scripture 1 Tim. 6.16 Who only hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see viz. No mortal man no unglorified man for if Moses that had only a glimps of Gods back parts had such a Glory upon him that the Children of Israel could not converse with him without a vail And the Disciples were not able to stand before Christ in the Transfiguration nor Paul in the Vision how unable will wicked men be to stand before and converse with Christ who appears in transcendent Glory both in his own and the Fathers Glory the Glory of all the Holy Angels and Glory of all Saints as hereafter And it is expresly said that none can see God and live Exod. 33.20 It being impossible that any poor mortal finite Creature can see and stand before the glorious immortal and infinite Being without being consumed Secondly It holds out that some glorified and unglorified Saints shall at this time converse together viz. those that are raised from the dead with those that are then upon the Earth when the Scripture tells us 1 Cor. 15.51 52. that at the same instant that the dead Saints are raised the living Saints are changed at a Moment in the Twinkling of an Eye which must needs be so 1. Because when Christ comes he must have all the Saints come with him who are raised changed and glorified taken up in the Air to meet him and in that state are ever with him not one Saint being to be left behind 2. Because he then appears in flaming fire againt them that know him not nor obey his Gospel the day of Grace being then over and none to be converted after that And therefore are all the exhortations of making ready of getting Oyl in the Vessel and in the Lamp before he comes it being too late to do it after he cometh A third absurdity is that whereas Christ saith The last Enemy is Death here the raised Saints after death are to meet with another Enemy the Gog-Magog Army Tenthly This cannot be the Corporeal Resurrection because it is said expreslly that during this thousand years the new Jerusalem new Heaven and new Earth-state the Saints shall build plant Marry give in Marriage enjoy the works of their hands dispense Laws manage Governments in the world and be lyable to death and dessolution therein which is utterly inconsistent with the Resurrection-state Luke 20.34 The Children of this world marry and are given in marriage 35. But they which shall be accounted worthy to'btain that world and the Resurrection from the Dead neither marry nor are given in marriage neither can they dye any more for they are equal to the Angels and are the childeren of God being the Children of the Resurrection the dispensing of Laws managing worldly policies and affairs being as utterly inconsistent with this state also Secondly Neither can this living or rising again intend the Spiritual Resurrection viz. the rising from the death of sin to the life of Grace the converted changed state though that will abundantly be manifested herein both amongst Jews and Gentiles by the preaching of the Gospel 1. Because it is supposed it speaks of the Church that were converted lived a spiritual life 2. Neither was this a life their Enemies could take from them for in this sense they lived all the time of the Beasts and the Dragons rage and rule and in this respect might be said to live most when most lyable to outward death and distresses Thirdly neither can this be the Eternal Life of Glory Because this speaks of a state that precedes that a thousand years Therefore lastly it will follow that if it be neither the Corporeal Spiritual nor Eternal Life that is here meant to which the Saints are raised then must it be the mistical or civil life to which the Prophets give witness as before And the rather so because of that mistical and civil death that all Saints are lyable to and lye under during Antichrists reign because they refuse to worship the Beast or his Image or receive his Mark and Number c. As also bcause the whole Church and all Saints do at this time partake of this life because it is said in the next verse that the rest or others lived not viz. those that did worship the Beast the Character of the Antichristian Church they lived not this thousand years viz. this mistical life But are now to take their turns in the Vally of the shadow of death lyable now to the Prison-state and Gibbet to give an account for all their cruelties and murders to be kill'd all the day long to be fill'd in the Cup they have fill'd and as being thrust in the pit and bound kept from all Rule Dignity and Authority Object But why must the Church be included under these terms or characters of Souls beheaded and that would not worship the Beast Answ Because it may more emphatically and significantly held forth the state they are raised from and raised to Various are the names and Characters the Church is represented by in this Book and yet all suitable to their present posture and station viz. In her primitive purity and lusture a Woman clothed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet and upon her head a Crown of Twelve Stars In her persecuted afflicted state under the Dragon or Rome Heathen Souls under the Altar Rev. 6.9 10. Slain for the Word of God and Testimony they held and so here Souls of the beheaded Rev. 20. In her contests with the Dragon Rev. 12.2 A woman with Child cryed travelling in birth and pained to be delivered Under the Beast tyranny and persecution Rev. 12. A Woman flying into the Wilderness

in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth but they who are written in the Lambs book of Life 22.27 The free Denizens of this Glorious Citie are only such that are of a noble Stock of a heavenly Birth and descent born from above the true Jsaacks the sons of Abraham by the free woman who as they are Believers are the only children of promise Gal. 3.16.29 who as the called chosen and faithful are said to have laid Christ and his Apostles and Prophets in the Foundation of their Faith Hope and Practice Eph 2.19 20. and characterized to be the Redeemed from the Earth and amongst men that are not defiled with women in whose mouth there is no gui●e that are the Marked Sealed number shall have their fathers name in their foreheads viz. are in a visible profession and Practise of those truths that have his name upon upon them and therefore said to be keepers of his Commandments to have the testimony of Jesus to be servants of the Lamb and followers of him where ever he goes and that are separates and Non conformists to Babylon refusing the Mark Name and Number of the Beasts though without it they can neither buy nor sell and that are overcomers by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of their Testimony not loving their Lives unto death There they are said to be put into the City Records even in the Lambs Book of Life and the having right to the Tree of Life do enter in through the Gate of the City Whereas contrarywise the Inhabitants of the other City are said to have their descent from beneath being of their Father the Devil whose works they do having their Fathers name in their foreheads and right hands who are Earth-dwellers that worship adore and admire the Beast and are in Subjection to his false prophets and particularly are deciphered To be the Unbelievers the Abominable the Murderers the Whoremongers Idolaters Lyers whereby the City becomes as before the hold of every foul spirit and Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird Witnesss their Theaters and houses of debauchery to provoke lust and uncleanness the innumerable company of Stews and Brothel-houses that bring so great a Revenue to the support of the Catholick Sea who are therefore said as Dogs Whoremongers and Sorcerers to be without the City Rev. 22.15 And who must in no wise enter therein Rev. 21.22 Of the Tree and Water of Life And he shewed me a pure River of Water of Life clear as Crystal proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb and in the midst of the street of it and of either side of the River there was the Tree of Life which bore twelve manner of Fruits and yielded her Fruit every Month and the Leaves of the Tree were for healing of the Nations Rev. 22.1 2. HAving shewed us the City her Fashion Glory Inhabitants comes in the next place to discover her Provision and Maintenance whereby her Life Comfort and Refreshing is preserved and mantained 1. This water of Life so pure and clear proceeding out of the Throne is no other than the Graces of the Spirit that floweth from the Throne of Mercy and Grace as Zach. 13.1.14.8 Ezek. 16.9 John 3.5 Tit. 5.35 And which is freely tendred and held forth in the Gospel Rev. 22.19 Isa 55.1 and which the Church doth ever had but more plentifully shall enjoy in this latter day of Glory Isa 44 3.35.7 Joel 2.8 John 7.38 with Isa 41.17 18. Ezek. 36.25 26. Called the water of Life because it reviveth from the death of sin Ezek. 47.9 2. Because all spiritual quickning is in it Psal 46.4 Iohn 7.37 It is the spirit that quickneth 3. From the healing vertue that is in it Ezek. 47.9 4. Because they dye no more that drink it Iohn 4.10 14. The Tree of Life is no other than the Lord Jesus with his Blessings and Benefits wherein he alludes to the Tree of Life that was placed in the midst of the Garden of God Gen. 2.9 who is the Tree of Life as well as the Water and Fountain of Life and the Bread of Life which is for shade Cant. 2.3 Hos 14.5 6 7. for Food Ezek. 47.12 Hos 14.8 Cant. 2.13 Ezek. 36.30 for Physick and Medicine the Leaves whereof having a healing property in them as Ezek. 47.12 But of that Food that Babylon affords her Inhabitants may it not truly he said of it as Deut. 32.32 33. That their Vine is as the Vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorah their Grapes are the Grapes of Gall their Clusters are bitter their Wine is the poison of Dragons and the cruel Venom of Aspes And that they hatch Cockatrice Eggs and weave the Spiders web he that eateth of their Eggs dyeth c. Isa 59.5 of whose dainties eat you not for poison is in their Cup and death in their pot Of there being no Temple in it And I saw no Temple therein for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it verse 22. THe Temple of old was the place of Gods worship that stood in the City of God which was curiously built by cunning Artificers of Wood and Stone and richly adorned with Gold and precious stone and to which worldly Sanctuary belonged a Priest-hood viz a High-priest Chief-priests and inferiour priests or Levites whereof divers Ranks and Courses and distinguished by different habits wayting at the Altar and attending the Mosaical Service and Ceremony both day and night and maintained by Tenths first-Fruits and Oblations c. besides the Nazarites and Votaries which was typical of the true Tabernacle that was made with hands even the New Testament Temple viz. the mistical body of Christ the Church so called in the Gospel as the Apostle witnesseth 1 Cor. 16.17 2 Cor. 6.16 What Agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols for year the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people compared Rev. 21.3 and Heb. 3.5 6. whose house are ye built by Christ the master-builder and which as the spiritual house 1 Pet. 2.4 5 6. is built of living stones and hath belonging to it the Golden Altar spiritual incense and sacrifices a spiritual priest-hood with a great High-priest that lives for ever after the order of Melchisadeck so that in the New Testament day there is no other Temple to be seen but such as Christ and his mistical body makes no such Temple that was to be built after Moses pattern in the Old Testament day for the Vail of that Temple being rent the Altar service sacrifice and Priest-hood Law it self being altered and changed Heb. 7.12 to make way for the new Temple Altar Law-service sacrifice Priesthood the old is no more to be seen but all the Divine worship and service to be performed in the new ●emple where the Priests the sons of Levi Mal. 3.3 being purified