To him that overcommeth will I grant to sit with me in my Throne even as I overcame and am set with my father in his Throne Revel. 3.21 In this Throne Christ is to reigne under God the Father as his King according as hee said to David I will settle him in my house and in my Kingdome for ever c. 1 Chro. 17. It is Gods Kingdome then And the Lord God calleth this Sonne of David his annoynted one his Sonne his King and the hill whereon he shall sit to reigne his hill as in Psal. 2. where he saith not withstanding all those heathen and people Kings and Rulers that tooke couâ—sell against him and against his Anoynted that said Let us breake their hands asunder and cast their cords from us yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion And the King shall receive of God the Father that which he bid â—im aske saying aske of mee and I will give â—hee the heâ—thâ—n for thine inheritance and the uttermost ends of the earth for thy possession thou shalt breake them with a rod of yron and dash them in peeces like a potters vessell verse 8.9 Which power also the King will give to the Children of Sion as he promised saying And hee that overcommeth and keepeth my words uâ—to the end to him will I give power over the Nations and hee shall rule them with a rod of yron and as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers even as I have received of my father Revel. 2.16.17 And it shall be fulfilled which David his father foretold of him saying He shall iudge the poore of the people hee shall save the children of the needyâ— and shall breake in peeces the oppressor they shall feare thee as long as the Sun and Moone endureth throughout all generations hee shall come downe like raine upon the mowen grasse like showeâ—s that water the earth In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the moone endureth he shall have dominion also from Sea to Sea and from the river to the ends of tâ—e earth thâ—y that dwell in the wildernesse shall bow before him and the enemie shall licke the dust The Kings of Tarshish and of the Isles shall bring presents the Kinsts of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts yea all Kings shall fall downe before him all nations shall serve him Psal. 72. And the children of Sion shall be joyfull in their King and the Lord wil take pleasure in his people will bewtifie the meeke with salvation as he also said The high praises of God shall â—ee in their mouthes and a two edged sword in their hands to exâ—cute vengance upon the heathen and punishment upon the people to binde their Kings in chaines and their Nobles with fetâ—ers of yron to execute upon them the iudgement written this honour have all the Saints Psal. 149. And it shall now be fulfilled alâ—o which is written O clap your hands O yee people shout unto God with the voyce of triumph for the Lord most high is terrible he is a great King over al the earth he hath subdued the people under us the Nations under our feet hee shall chuse our inheritance for us the excellencie of Iacob whom hee lovâ—d God 〈◊〉 gone up with a shout the Lord with the sound of a Trump sing prayses unto our God sing praises sing prayses unto our King sing praises for God is the King over all the earth sing ye praises with understanding God reigneth over the heathen God sitteth upon the Throne of his holinesse the Princes of the people are gathered even the people of the God of Abraham for the shields of the earth belong unto God he is greatly exalted Psal. 47. And great shall the Lord bee in this day and greatly shall hee bee praysed in the citie of our God in the mountaine of his holinesse Bewtifull for situation the ioy of the whole earth is mount Sion in the sides of the North the Citie of the great King God is knâ—wne in her pallaces for a refuge for lâ—â— the Kings were assembled they passed by together they saâ— it and so they marviled they were troubled and they hasted away feare tooke hold upon them there and paines as of a woman in travill So terrible to the wicked of this world shall mount Sion be in the day of her glory and so great an astonishment to all those that formerly oppressed her who although they shall not enter in through the gates of the Citie to see or understand of her felicity joyes within or anyway partake of her pleasures yet they shall understand of her power and see with feare and greife her brightnesse and glory without It is for the Princes of the people of the God of Abraham to enter in through the gates into the Citie and for their Kings to come and bring theiâ— glory and riches into it as it is written Esay 60 11. Revel. 21.24 And they shall say As we have heard so have wee seeâ—e in the citie of the Lord of hosts in the Citie of our God God will establish it for ever Selah Psal. 48.8 The holy Citie the new Hierusalem which had beene so long withdrawne from the earth because it was not by reason of the wickednesse and pollutions thereof meete to receive hir being Gods eternall Tabernacle when Christ her Lord and King shall have purged the earth and heavens of all their pollutions and vaine corrupt workers of men that are therein as he will doe in the great day of his comming according as his Apostle Peter witnesseth saying But the the day of the Lord will come as a theefe in the night in the which the heavens shall passe away with a great noyse and the elements shall melt with fervent heate and the earth also and the workes thâ—t are therein shall be burnt up 2 Pet. 3.10 And as the Apostle Iohn also saith And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate thereon from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them Revel. 20.11 These things being done and that there shall bee new heavens and a new earth as the Lord also promised Esay 65.17 according to 2 Pet. 3.13 and as it was foreshewed unto the beloved Disciple who saith And I saw a new heaven and a new earth c. Revel. 21.1 Then shall that holy City come down from heaven as he saith And I saw the holy City the new Hierusalem comming downe from God out of heaven perpared as a Bride adorned for her husband ver. 2. For pollutions and curses may not abide where the Throne of God and of the Lambe is nor where this holy citie shall stand as it is said And there shall bee no more Curse but the Throne of God and of the Lambe shall be in it and his servants shall serve him Revel. 22.3 Neither is this world being
be as plainely made to Abraham Isaack and Iacobâ— their owne persons as it is unto their seed and to all the seed as well as to a part or any one of them and that they of the many nations the faithfull Gentâ—les are of the same seed as well as the faithfull Iewes and heires of the promise together with them according as all the forementioned Scriptures do plainely declare so plainâ—ly as I suppose no man will denie Then I aske whâ—refore or for what cause they should not all receive the same and not any one or part be excluded seeing God is faithfull that promiseth God did covenant also with Abraham to be his God and the God of his seed and this hee established in no plaineâ— or suâ—er manâ—er then he did to give them the land for an everlasting possession as in the same place Gen. 17.7 8. appeareth but if God should faile either Abraham oâ— any of his seed in this respect how did he then keepe his covenant even so of the other Therefore as God will not faile either Abraham or any of his seed to be their God neither will he faile to give them the land of Canaan and all the world besides for an everlasting possession The fourth question Fourthly I aske if the true intent of the promise in the forementioned places be not of an eternall estate in the world to come after the resurrection of the body and end of this world That Abraham Isaak and Iacob and all their seed shall then inherit I say not the land of Canaan only although principally as the Throne and City of the great King but all the earth even to the utmost ends and bounds thereof according to Psal. 37. and Mat. 5. Where it is promised that the meeke shall inherit the earth And as the twenty foure Elders sing in their new song unto the Lamb Christ Iesus saying Thou art worthy to take the booke and to open the Seales thereof for thou wast slaine hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred tongue people nation hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall raigne on the earth Revel. 3.10.11 And who may these redeemed ones out of every kindred tongue people nation that shall raigne on the eaâ—th be but those of the many nations the faithfull Iewes and the faithfull Gentiles which God made Abraham a Father of and Saint Paul saith are heires with Abraham of the world And the promise that the meeke shall inherit the earth doth belong to every meek man as well as to any one of them and so to be fulfilled but it was never so yet in this world Abraham Isaack and Iacob the Fathers of those meeke unto whom the Land of Canaan was promised for an inheritance dyed and inherited not a foote Therefore that God may be found â—â—ue of his word they must all of them inherit it in the the resurrection because here it is otherwise neither is it said they doe inherit or raigne but they shall neither when God promised the land of Canaan unto Abraham and to his seed the earth the world to inherit as in the forementioned places did he meane this present as it is now polluted neither were they so to looke for it as the Prophet Micha saith to them of his time Arise yee and depart â—or this is not your rest because it is polluted It shall destroy you even with a sore destruction Mich. 2.10 But God spake and intended it of the world to come when all things should be new holy and heavenly and so did the Fathers understand and expect it And this doth the Apostle Paul proove from their owne words when they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth saying And they that say such things declare plainely that they seeke a Countrey And truely saith he if they had beene mindfull of the Countrie from whence they came out they might have had oppertunitie to have returned but now they desire a better Country that is an heavenly Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a City Heb. 1â— 13.14.15.16 In which words the Apostle doubtlesse hath respeâ—t to the promise in Gen. 17.7.8 Where God did establish his covenant with Abrahâ—m to be his God and the God of his seed and to give them the land and so understood both to be of like certainty and continuance and such as are heavenly and eternall And that there was also a Citie having foundations whose builder and maker is God which they looked for upon the promise and that therefore God was not ashamed to be called their God For Abraham well understood it was not for a corruptable countrey or a mooveable Citie in a transitory world as now this is that God called him out of the land of Vr to give him and his seed to inherit but for an uncorruptable unmooveable eternall in a better world and so much doe the very words of the promise expresse in that it saith for an everlasting covenant for an everlasting possession for no corruptable things are everlasting neither are these promises such as shall either vanish or faile And upon the ground of this covenant did Christ himselfe proove the resurrection from the dead against the Saduces knowing it to be most sufficient for the purpose saying Now that the dead are raised even Moyses sheweth at the Bush where he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaack and the God of Iacob they being now dead when Moyses thus spake which the Sadduces knew and therefore Christ saith unto them God is not the God of the dead but of the living Luk. 20.37.38 Prooving hereby that Abraham Isaak and Iacob must rise againe from the dead and live to inherit the countrey and Citie promised that God may be found true of his word and declare himselfe to be their God for everlasting according to his covenant Gen. 17. Ezod. 3.6 And that it shall be a heavenly eternall estate in the world to come the Lord also manifesteth in his answeâ—e to the Carnall objection of those Saduces a litle before where he saith The children of this world marry are given in marriâ—ge but they that shall be counted worthy of that world and the resurrection from the dead neithâ—r marry nor are given in marriage neither can they dye any more for they are equall unto the Angels and are the children of God being the Children of the resurrection Luk 20.35.36 Where the Lord sheweth plainly that the world to come which the holy Fathers and their seed shall inherit at the resurrection will be such a world as none of the ungodly shall be counted worthy to inherit any part thereof as they doe most parts of this world And to this covenant also had David respect in his Psal where he exhorteth the people of Israell saying Seeke the Lord and his strength seeke his
to whom it belonged and my servant David shall be their King for ever Moreover saith the Lord I will make a Covenant of peace with them it shall be an everlasting covenant with them and I will place them and multiply them and I will set my Sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore my Tabernacle also shall be with them yea I will be their God and they shall be my people And the hâ—aâ—hen shall know that I the Lord doe sanctifie Israel when my Sanctuary shall bee in the midst of them for evermore Ezek. 37. This is that Country and Citie which the holy Fathers sought mentioned in Heb. 11. This is the place whereof God spake to David where he said Also I will ordaine a place for my people Israel and will plant them and they shall dwell in their place and shall be moved no more neither shall the children of wickednesse wast them any more as at the beginning c. 1 Chron. 17.9 This is that purchased possession untill the redemption wherof the faithfull are Sealed with the holy Spirit of promise the earnest of that their inheritance spoken of by Saint Paul Ephe. 1.13 14. This is that Eternall Tabernacle which God is the builder of and not man spoken of in Heb. 8.2 and 9.11 which Christ hath purchased with his owne blood for our Eternall inheritance as in verse 12. This is the place which Christ spake of to his Disciples when he said I goe to prepare a place for you Iohn 14. And this is that Building of God not made with hands eternall in the heavens spoken of 2 Cor. 5.1 This is that inheritance incorruptable undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for us who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to bee revealed in the last time spoken of in 1 Pet. 3 4 5 6. the times of restitution of all things whereof he spake in Acts 3. for then it is to bee revealed from heaven as Iohn foresaw Revel. 21. when all things shall be new This is the Kingdome which cannot be shaken spoken of in Heb. 12.27 28. This is that Citie of which he saith for here we have no continuing city but we seeke one to come Heb. 13.14 And this is the glory which Saint Paul saith the children and heires of God that suffer with Christ shall receive as joynt heires together with him for the manifestation whereof the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth and untill which the whole creation travelleth together in paine as in Rom. 8.17 18 19 20 21 22 23. And this is the rest which is said to remaine unto the people of God spoken of in Hebâ— 4. where hee exhorteth saying Let us therefore labour to enter into that rest leâ—t c. verse 9.10.11 Now all these promises and testimonies being of one and the same eternall inheritance as doth plainely appeare and that it belongeth to all the faithfull as is also manifest and being so acomplished as before is declared Then Abraham Isaac and Iacob and all the holy Fathers before them and their children and their childrens children after them to the thousand generations even all their seede to this worlds end for there shall be no increasing of children any way afterwards shall inherit according to the promise the Land of Canaan which God gave unto the Fathers that good Land which he espied for them the glory of all lands as the Scriptures title it And not that Land onely but every habitable part of the world besides yet that land principally as the glory of all the rest There the Fathers sojourned in expectation thereof upon the promise There by faith they tooke order and gave charge to have their bones laid expecting their resurrection to that end Thither their children were brought from their servitude in Egypt to possesse it typically There God revealed his counsells and testimonies by his servants the Prophets There was the Temporall typicall Hierusalem There was Davidâ— Throne There was Iesus Christ the true king and heire of all things borne There he suffered and underwent the shame from thence he ascended into Heaven and to the same place he shall come againe as it is written And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives which is before Hierusalem c. Zech. 14.4 And there shall his Throne be upon the holy hill of Sion according to Psal. 2. For although his Kingdome and dominion shall reach throughout all the World from Sea to Sea and from the river to the ends of the earth as it is said where also his Saints shall inherit and raigne yet there shall be his Throne and his glory most eminent even there where he suffered the reproach and that shall all his enemies in that day see and know For God will get his servants praise and fame in every land where they had been put to shame according as he said Zeph. 3.19 And all the Seed and children of the promise since the beginning of the world the true Israel of God shall now be a nation before the Lord for ever and be Kings and Preists unto God and shall raigne on the Earth as the twenty foure Elders declared and being all of them the Children of God and of the new Hierusalem redeemed by the blood of the Lambe The Lambe wil now among all the rest of his promises and gifts performe this also in Rev. 3. Where he saith Him that overcomeâ—h will I make a pillar in the house of my God and he shall goe no more out I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the City of my God The new Hierusalem which cometh downe out of Heaven from my God and my new name ver. 12. Where we see also as in Rev. 21. that it is to come downe out of Heaven I aske now If these things be so as hath beene declared or no if they be truly so then I aske where ye will have ground for your doctrine of a thousand yeares glorious Church of the Iewes in the Land of Canaan or of any other that ye will have rise from the dead before the end of this world or what have ye to object against that which hath beenâ— said If ye object and say heere is not in all this a word spoken of heaven that the Saints after the resurrection of the body and end of this world shall ascend with Christ and Christ with them to live and raigne there in the presence of God and with all his holy Angels for ever I confesse I have not spoken a word to that purpose and the reason is because I find not a word in all the holy Scriptures that saith it and what they speake not I am not bound in this case to beleive though I deny them not heaven God may take up of them into heaven as he did Paul if he so please though he hath not said it That the Saints shall