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A59926	Chronoi apykatastaseōz panton, or, The times of restitution of all things with their neer approach upon the ruine of the beast : manifest by two tracts on Rev. 20.5 & Rev. 21.5 containing the main scope of all Revelation prophecie ... : which said two last tracts may fitly be entituled An alarm to this present world ... / by William Sherwin.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1675 (1675)	Wing S3397; ESTC R25752	75,445	87

the Book given unto the Lamb. We might be 〈◊〉 in many particular Promises to this purpose respecting the 〈◊〉 in that time with many excellenties respecting tha● 〈◊〉 as we have specially shewed how concerning Christs Dividid a Kingdom and people then God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began as is manifest by the third of our 8 Conving Arguments in the Word written And the great designe of the All knowing and All working God in giving such Prophesies to his Church from the beginning concerning such great things to be fulfilled at the end of the world in that said Great Day of Judgment appears to be made manifest by such Divine Chronology first set down by Moses and other Penmen thereof before the Captivities of Israel and Judah but after that are in their discoveries chiefly carried on by those Mystical Prophesies of those two beloved Servants of God and Christ the Prophet Daniel and the Apostle John but chiefly by the last to whom these hidden secrets of God respecting those times wore particularly as we shewed commisted to open Danichs sealed Mysteries to Ch. 19. and from thence to the end the most antient Predictions and Promises c. when God would raise unto David that righteous Branch that King that shall reign and prosper and execute Judgment and Justice in the earth in whose days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely Jer. 23.5 6. when they shall have the Mercies promised to their Forefathers performed to them as Zechary is taught Divinely to sing out and in such a manner he would grant unto them that being delivered from the hand of their enemies they might serve God without fear of them in righteousness and true holiness all the days of then lives Luke 1.7 c. which will be the stability of all the happiness of that state when that New Kingdom of Israel will be restored the Tabernacle of David that was fullen new raised up again for that said righteous Branch which God then said he would then raise unto David for whom with his Bride God will then make New Heavens and a new earth in that new world to come wherein shall be that New great holy and beloved Jerusalem that City that hath foundations whose Maker and Builder is God for those new Inhabitants that came from God out of Heaven and came with Christ to receive their spiritual bodies at the first blessed Resurrection of the Saints where also will be the New Paradise of God Also the converted Jews and Israelites shall then enjoy their New Jerusalem also built upon its own heaps when strangers shall build her Walls as the Prophet foretels upon the return of the Shulamite who instead of Fathers shall have Children whom she may make Princes in all the earth being the Seed then which the Lord hath blessed Esai 61.9 then shall be her new guides and watchmen upon her Walls probably the new raised Saints that shall not hold their peace day nor night new dispensations new peace plenty security new priviledges new pleasures delights in heavenly visions comunion discoveries in the revelation of such things as are appointed then to be known in the restitution of all things promised then to be done as in the forenamed particulars we before set down and the times of these things are chiefly made known in their fit latitudes by Revelation-prophesie for when we read of the coming of Christ at his appearance and Kingdom the times thereof are so set forth as was shewed by Revelation-prophesie We read of the Saints first bodily Resurrection but the time thereof is only deciphered by Revelation Prophesie we heard of raising Davids Tabernacle which was fallen but the time is only pointed out by Revelation prophesie and that the Saints shall receive their sure mercies of David Esa 55.3 but when can only be resolved by Revelation prophesie we read of Gods setting up the Kingdom of the Stone that should destroy all others and it self become a Mountain filling the whole earth but the times and order of his carrying on these great works by Jesus Christ is in the fittest proportion made known to the Church by Revelation-prophesie The Lord said to Davids Lord Sit at my right hand until I make thy foes thy footstool which he hath long expected Heb. 10.13 and the Heavens must receive him till the times of the Restitution of all things but the best resolution of both is to be had from Revelation-prophesie Glorious things are spoken saith the Psalmist of the City of God of the new the holy the great the beloved Jerusalem but what and when and where and for whom we are chiefly informed from Revelation-prophesie We read of the ruine of Gog and Magog the Churches greatest enemies before that City Jehovah Shammah shall be set up but when it shall be we chiefly learn from Daniel and Revelation-prophesie Object But did not Christ reprehend his Disciples Acts 1.6 for inquiring the time of his Kingdom c. Ans Though this and such like hath been sufficiently answered yet know it is only whilst God keeps such things in his own power and in the next Verse he said But ye shall be indued with power which was done about ten days after at the Feast of Pentecost and all that wrote after speak something thereof but chiefly the beloved John And though Christ as man then said he knew not the day and hour of his coming which none now pretend to yet in a fit latitude Christ hath revealed the near approach thereof with many things to be done before very useful for the Church to know and wherein all Saints are greatly concerned which are great mercies in many respects to be known and believed in these later days for which there is great cause of thanksgiving but no reason of cavilling with our mercies or the goodness of the Author of them Thus for the Doctrinal part of this Text wherein we have considered this most gracious Divine Declaration of the set time of such its performance with the glorious illustrations and confirmations thereof and shewed from Scripture wherein it doth consist and the many decipherings of the times of the renovation of all things with Scripture evidences accordingly referring thereunto both manifesting the thing and shewing in a latitude the near approach thereof We shall now by Gods gracious assistance endeavour to make some pertinent improvement thereof 1. We may hence be informed of the many mistakes that have been both of this Text and the Context thereof as respecting the matter time and place thereof the matter not the making new these visible Heavens and earth but the Prophetical Heavens and earth as we have shewed For the time not after the last Resurrection and Judgment but in the interim betwixt the first and last wherein the anciently declared and promised mercies are to be performed to the faithful Fathers and their spiritual Seed through the Promised Seed of the

former only in this said Key of Christ's we have the last promised mercy of Christ's Kingdom as the Son of David First set down as being the chief thing which all the rest serve to make to make up into the possession whereof the Resurrection of all his Saints which he brings with him as his Spouse or new Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven Rev. 21.9 is the Inlet as we noted to bring them into a capacity to partake of in such restitution of all things so speaking first of that restoring the Kingdom to Israel as Acts 1.6 or raising up Davids Tabernacle Acts 15. and then speaking of the said new Jerusalem Chap. 21. which contains the Marriage of the Lamb spoken of Chap. 19.7 wherein will also be that Paradise of God in that state and the pure River and Tree of Life Chap. 22. and all these in the times of the new Heavens and new Earth when God will as in this Text make all things new Quest But here a Question may arise which it may be requisite to resolve at present viz. If the said Resurrection be such an Inlet to the said Saints to enjoy the happiness of that state why are only the Martyrs that suffered death for Christ here said to live and reign with him the 1000 years as some have conceived Ans It is true that Ch. 20.4 speaks only of two sorts of Revelation-Martyrs as was answered to the cry of those Souls under the Altar Rev. 6.10 to whom it was said that they should rest till their fellow-servants and brethren should be killed the Souls are there said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of such as were before beheaded under the red Dragon in the Pagan Persecutions of the Sts. but those that were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fellow-servants Brethren after to be killed were such as suffer'd since under the Beast as Ch. 20.4 describes them of which though very many suffered death yet not all neither are they only Martyrs of Christ that suffer death actually but all such as have had a willingness and resolution of mind to suffer for Christ if called to it are reckoned by him for Martyrs and though others have suffered in a less degree than death yet are also to be counted such We know Ishmael's mocking of Isaac is called Persecution by the Apostle and all the Saints have suffered one way or other for God and Christ for which cause they are all to be esteemed Martyr as they have been sufferers under the Beast or under any other Persecutors in any times before that all suffering Sts. deceased before the time of the Beast shall also rise at the first said Resurrect of the just when both the Martyrs blood will be avenged as Deut. 33.42 43. and they all rewarded as may from these following considerations be made to appear 1. Because when Christ comes he will come with all such his said Saints whether they have actually suffered death for him or othertherwise as the Apostle speaks expresly 1 Thes 3.13 with Zech. 14.5 He comes with all his Saints And again saith he All that then sleep in Jesus will God bring with him 1 Thes 4.14 namely to raise their bodies from the dead the Scripture then is clear for the resurrection of all then Secondly That parallel Text Rev. 11.18 that respects the time and occasion of judging the Saints viz. with a Judgment of reward or recompence at Christs appearance makes a full enumeration of all sorts to be then rewarded of Old Testament Saints or sufferers as well as of the New yea of all Saints in that capacity as sufferers and Prophets as well as Apostles and even all that fear Gods Name both sinall and great shall then have their peculiar reward though in the natural life then which I conceive is meant of the last sort of all such as are said to fear Gods Name So saith Christ then Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give to every one according to his works But all deceased Saints are then made capable of their proper reward in that state they rise into by the first bodily Resurrection viz. to reign with Christ the 1000 years in his Davidical Kingdom Thirdly In Chapter 21.2 When the new Jerusalem comes down from God out of Heaven which v. 9. is called the Lambs wife as containing all the Spirits of just men made perfect upon that Resurrection to be united to their own bodies to inhabite that City which God himself then makes for them when that great Voice saith Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them c. Now that Jerusalem will contain all those raised Saints which had died before and it will be the general priviledg of them all which God had given to Christ that they shall behold his glory which his Father hath given him in his said Kingdom John 17.24 Fourthly All Saints that have lived in suffering times as all times have been and will be from Abels death to the Saints said Resurrection who as they have suffered with or for Christ from the world and Devil so all such sufferers saith the Apostle shall then reign with him 2 Tim. 2.12 and they must all first rise bodily before they can be capable of reigning with him in that state or of enjoying the promised mercies belonging thereunto Fifthly All the 24 Elders and the four living Wights which represent the whole Church of Christ Rulers and People exult aforehand Revel 5.10 that in the issue of Revelation-prophesie they shall reign upon earth who acknowledge themselves to be such as Christ hath redeemed by his blood out of every kindred tongue and people and Nation who shall have their part with Christ in the sure mercies of David according to the promise Esa 55.3 which they must be made capable of by the said first Resurrection Sixthly All Christs overcomers since the Revelation-prophesie began to take place in all that is said there shortly to be done that is in the due order of times to be accomplished they are all encouraged by something belonging to the Jerusalem state which only by the said Resurrection they attain to their shares as is particularly manifest in our seventh convincing Argument in the Word written now all faithful Christians are Overcomers though they suffer not death as those said Martyrs Rev. 6.9 10 11. but only by lesser tryals Seventhly Christ who is appointed by the Father then to be heir of all things promiseth in special to each Overcomer without exception that he shall also inherit all things with him v. 7. which priviledg belongs to all Saints as the Spouse of Christ or Lambs wife and therefore belongs to them as Saints to which purpose saith St. Paul If children then heirs and joynt-heirs wich Christ which without the Resurrection they cannot enjoy no more than the separate Spirits of good men enjoy them now Quest If Christ to the said purpose