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A86981	Chiliasto-mastix redivivus, sive Homesus enervatus. A confutation of the millenarian [sic] opinion, plainly demonstrating that Christ will not reign visibly and personally on earth with the saints for a thousand yeers either before the day of judgement, in the day of judgement, or after it: where you also have many texts of scripture vindicated from the vain glosses of one Dr. Homes, a great Millenarian [sic], and all of his cavils (of any consequence) refelled and answered. With a word to our Fifth Monarch-Men, whose dangerous practises of late, clearly shew that this opinion leads to schisme, and sedition in church and state. / By Tho Hall B.D. and pastor of Kingsnorton.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing H428; Thomason E1654_2; Thomason E2135_2; ESTC R208344	36,388	116

{non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and thing in controversie is whether Christ shall personally Reigne on earth with the Saints for a thousand yeers Now insteed of bringing places to prove this he brings Texts to prove the calling of the Jews which no body doubts of or that Christ shall come in the flesh or that he shall come to Judge the world which no sober men once question Quest But hath the Dr. no other places to help him at a dead lift Answ. O yes he hath two strong holds in his own conceit and therefore when he is at a loss hither he runs for shelter to as much purpose as Colliar that black Sectary runs to 1 Cor. 14. and 1 Pet. 4. 10. to prove the lawfulness of Lay mens preaching which yet he recites twenty times over in his Pamphlet as the Dr. doth these two Texts the a 1 Cor. 15. 24. to 29. and Revel. 20. 4. 5. 6. when these two Texts are cleared all the Drs. building lies in the dust for these are the two primary Pillars which seem to uphold this point and two of the hardest Texts in all the Bible I shall therefore take some pains to unfold them and shall sift them to the bran that if it be possible we may not lose one grain of truth To begin with the first 1 Cor. 15. 24. c. Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God even the Father when he shall have put down all Rule and all Authority and Power c. This Text is one of those {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which are hard to be understood which Arians Arminians Anabaptists and Millenaries have wrested to their own destruction The Millenaries fondly gather from hence That the Church shall enjoy such a flourishing time on earth that they shall have no enemies no sin no sorrow no Rulers or Powers to molest us Whereas the Apostles drift is onely this he had before proved by many irrefragable Arguments the Resurrection of the body but some might desire to know in what condition the world should be after the Resurrection whether they should not need Magistrates and Ministers then No saith the Apostle we shall not need them Why so For then comes the end viz. of the world of which end Christ speaks Matth. 24. 3. 14. and the Apostle 1 Pet. 4. 7. Magistracy then shal cease and the Ministry shall cease the Churches Warfare shall cease for her enemies shall then be totally destroyed and she shall enjoy perfect and immediate communion with God in Heaven who will be all in all to her so that she shal have no need of Sun Moon or Stars for the Lord himself will be her light Quest But what will Christ then do Answ. He will do two things 1. He will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father Q. D. He will Raign no longer as now he Raigns for now he Raignes in the midst of enemies now he Rules mediately by Magistrates by Ministers by Ordinances and by supplies of the Spirit But then viz. at the end of the world before the day of Judgment and not after as some would have it this present manner of administration shall cease Christ will govern no more by Officers but that Power and Kingdom which he hath received from his Father he having finisht the work which he gave him to do surrenders it up unto him again that so God may be a All in all and we may enjoy him no longer in the use of meanes but immediately in full degrees of glory Ob. But if Christ deliver up the Kingdom to his Father then he will have no Kingdom as Dr. Homes affirms and therefore lest he should lack one the Dr. hath framed one in his Utopian brain that shall last him a thousand yeers on earth Curasti probè Answ. Could the Dr. but have distinguisht he might have saved that labour Christ hath a double Kingdon 1 A Natural and Essential Kingdom due to Christ as he is God coessential and coequal with his father and this Christ possesseth with his Father and the Spirit for ever 2 Christ hath an Oeconomical and Ministerial Dispensatory Kingdom as he is Mediator between God and Man and this Kingdom which he hath received from his Father he shall surrender up again unto his Father after he hath subdued sin and death and put all his enimies under his feet Not that upon this surrender he ceaseth to be a King for when he hath delivered up this his Mediatory Kingdom yet is he a King still his Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom it hath no end Dan. 2. 44. and 7. 14. 27. Micah 4. 7. Luke 1. 33. Heb. 1. 8. John 17. 5. 1 Pet. 1. 11. Revel. 11. 15. Christ hath no Kingdom that is but of a thousand yeers continuance the Scripture plainly tells us that his Kingdom is a everlasting So that this delivering up of Christs dispensatory Kingdom is not a renouncing of his power but a changing of the present manner of administration 't is not simply a ceasing to Reigne but a ceasing to Reigne in that Mediatory manner as formerly He is still the Head and King of his Spouse onely he will not now govern her as formerly with Ordinance and Discipline for the Church then will have no more need of them being glorified and fully freed from sin and Satan Then shall Father Son and Holy Ghost in Unity of Essence and Glory begin to Raigne immediately over his Church in a new manner viz. by himself without the use of Angels men or any helps of natural or spiritual life 2. The Apostle tells us when Christ will deliver up this Kingdom viz. when he shall have put down all Rule and all Power and Authority These must now cease Christ will no longer exercise his Power and Government by others So that the words may be taken two wayes 1. Largely for the putting down of all Authority i. e. all lawfull powers and Governours which were ordeined by God for the good of the world Though Angels shal stil remain yet the Church now will have no need of them 2. Restrictively for the subduing of all these adversary Powers and Potentats which oppose the Kingdom of Christ The context seemes to carry it this way v. 25. 26 though the former sense may not be excluded for the words are general All Rule and all Authority be it good or bad The Church will then have no need of good ones and bad ones shall no longer molest her for the time of her warfare is accomplisht 3. The Apostle having told us what shall be the future condition of Christ Kingdom now he tells us what shall be the condition of Christ himself V. 28. When all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son himself also be subject to him that put all things under him Hence the Arrians subtilly cavil thus Obj. If Christ deliver up the

'T is the Fathers Kingdom and Secondly 'T is purely Spiritual when theirs is the Sons Kingdom as themselves confess and is mixt being partly spiritual and partly consisting of corporal delights 'T is my judgement that if these Opinionists be a little longer tolerated they wil Practically convince those of the danger of this Tenets who wil not Nationally beleeve it That the Peace and Prosperity of this Church and State may be preserved that the Lord at last would bring us not to a Millenarian Utopian Imaginary Terrestrial Kingdom but to a Real Caelestial and Everlasting Kingdom is and shall be the Prayer of Thy Servant in Christ for Christ and His Kingdom THO: HALL A TREATISE against the MILLENARIES WHen I considered how strangely this opinion of the Millenaries spread and got ground every where to the great disturbance of Magistracy and Ministery of Church and State I conceived that I might do very good service to undeceive people in this particular Thereupon having but lightly touched the point before I fell more closely to study it and finding that Dr Homes his Book in Folio was universally cried up by such as were tickled with this fancy as the Chiliastorum Achilles the one and onely Book in this kind I took some pains to read his Book more exactly I must confess I have read Dr. Homes his book in Folio usque ad nauseam till I was a weary of it yea I do seriously profess that I am more fully convinced of the vanity of that fancy since I read the Drs. Book then ever I was before I may say of it as 't was said of Dr. Heylins Book in defence of St. George some doubted whether ever there were such a St. but since they read this book they believe there never was such a Saint in being so some have doubted whether there might not be a Personal Reign of Christ on earth but since they have read Dr. Homes his Book they are fully satisfied that there is no such thing 'T is true the Dr. hath said more for it then any man I know for whereas others lye in Quarto his in Folio but how little to the purpose I come now briefly to examine True there is none that ever yet I saw which hath answered the Dr. as judging his Book I suppose unworthy of an answer yet since 't is so highly cried up as an invincible piece by the Favourers of that Tenet for when they can say nothing they send us to Dr. Homes I shall therefore 1. shew them how he states the Question 2. How he proves it 3. I shall answer his most material proofs And fourthly for brevity sake I shall refer them to such as clear any Text more fully The Doctors Tenet upon search for he hath not stated the Question Methodically and Scholastickly as he should have done I find to be this viz. That all the Saints departed shal Rise and Reign with Christ a thousand yeers on earth but the wicked shall not a Rise till the end of the thousand yeers in a wonderful both b visible yet spiritual glorious manner drinking Wine eating Dainties and enjoying all the lawful c pleasures which all the Creatures then redeemed from their ancient slavery can afford All this shall be before the time of the d ultimate and general Resurrection and day of Judgement Then shall the Jews be raised and all Antichristian and e secular powers that do not love the members of Christ submit unto his Laws and advance his interest in this design be ruined Then shall the Saints on f earth be Sin-less Sorrowless Temptation-less Deathless having a confluence of all comforts a perfection of all qualities and g union amongst themselves on earth Then shall there be no Magistrats no coercive Superiorities no Church Censures no Fears Wants Weaknesses Desertions or Labours c. All this happiness saith Dr. Homes you must expect on earth but take heed you be not so unhappy as to believe it least you be deluded by it for Dr. Alsteed can tell Dr. Homes that Godly men for the whole space of those thousand yeers excepting Martyrs shall be subject both to sin and death and shall have the wicked intermixt with them Habemus confitentum reum One of these Doctors must needs be in an error I leave them to reconcile themselves whilst I go on Here you see is much said but how is it proved Why the Dr. proves is very Learnedly 1. By Heathens l. 4. c. 2. 2. By Mahumetans l. 4. c. 3. 3. By the Jewish Rabbins l. 4. c. 4. he hath pickt it out of their Taxgum's and their Talmuds the Turks a Alcoran yet William Burton the Translator of Alsteed takes upon him to prove it out of Tieho Brahe who tells you of a fiery Trigon which prognosticats great peace to the world to come yea the Sibils prophesies are brought for proof of this point and the Apochrypha 2 Esd. 13. 39. 40. yea and Alsteed tells us of Phaenomena or Apparitions in the Heavens which portend I know not what strange and extraordinary things Qui amant ipsi sibi somnia fingunt When men be enamoured with an opinion then they dream that every thing makes for them though it be never so much against them How Heathens Mahumetans and Rabbins which abound with lyes and fables should come to the knowledge of such a Spiritual Sinless Sanctified and Glorious Kingdom is a Paradox to me Hae manus Trojam erigent Nullas habet spes Troja si tales habet Sen. Trag. If Millenaries have no better Prophesies then these no wonder if their Fabrick totter The Dr. therefore suspecting these goes farther to the Greek and Latin Fathers to Modern writers The Drs. Quotations I shall answer as the Dr. doth Dr. Prideaux his Argument Testimonio Humano His Argument saith he from meer Authorities of men is inconsiderable and not worth answering Most true of Dr. Homes his Argument in this kind and whereas the Dr. pleads Antiquity Dr. Homes shall answer Dr. H. out of Tertullian Antiquitas sine Veritate vetustas est erroris Antiquity without Verity is of no Validity See how smartly Mr. a John Paget Schismaticorum ille malleus reproves Mr. Ainsworth for his so frequent alledging of Talmudick and Rabbinical testimonies 'T is an offensive thing saith he so abundantly to alledge such Authors for our guids unto the Mysteries of Religion as do abound with innumerable dotages Presumptions and vain Traditions lying Visions fained Miracles prodigious and monstrous Fables such are the Thalmudists and Cabalists there is almost no work nor Word of God which they do not defile with their Elesies And then goeth on in giving many instances to the end of the book yet these are one of Dr. Homes his Pillars Q. But doth the Dr. bring no Scripture for what he holds A. O yes he cites Scripture in abundance what Heretick is there that

Kingdom to his Father then he is inferior to his Father and his Kingdom is not everlasting and by consequence the Deity of Christ is over thrown Answ. This doth not follow for though Christ do resigne his Mediatory and Dispensatory Kingdom so that he rules not by external Organs and Instruments yet he Raigns still as God in his Essential Kingdom with his Father for his Kingdom is eternal Isay 9. 7. 2. Obj. They cavil thus He that is subject to his Father is inferiour to him but Christ is so ergo Answ. Christ must be considered according to his twofold nature viz. his Humanity and his Deity As he is God so he is Gods equal Phil. 2 6. as man so he tells us the Father is greater then he John 14. 28. As he is God so all Creatures are subject to him but as he is our Mediator so he is subject to his Father together with his Mystical body the Church Not as if he were not subject to his Father before but because then he shall in the sight of men and Angels publickly deliver up the Kingdom and so declare his subjection more openly for then things in Scripture are said to be when they are publickly manifested to be Psal. 2. 7. Now let us see what Dr. Homes his Aquiline eyes can spy in this Text for this 1000. yeers Raigne on earth 1. His first profound Observation from hence is this That after the Ultimate day of Judgement Christ shall have no Kingdom nor Power but how doth he prove this Why from 1 Cor. 15. 28. and how else Why the same again and again usque ad ravim till he dote again like a Cuckow Eandem cantilenum canit he tells you the same story over and over that he might boast and say He is now become a Fool in Folio Onely he desires you to observe according to his wonted Elegancy That 't is a Hath put all things in subjection Mark saith he 't is the time past 2. Shall be subdued mark again 'T is the Future time With such Learned Observations as if he were reading a Lecture to some School-boyes is the Drs. Folio stuft 2. The Drs. Observation hath two parts 1. That there shall be two dayes of Judgement and therefore he tells you here of an ultimate day of judgment But how doth he prove it Why {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Dr. Homes says it ergo 't is true 2. Christ hath no Kingdom and Power How whence that I pray you Why the Dr. tells you 't is after the ultimate day of Judgement New Light indeed if the Dr. vent this ignorantly he 's to be pittied if willfully to be punisht that goes about to deceive people in the Fundamentals of Religion But how doth he proves this Why by a witless worthless reason p. 89. viz. Christ must have his Kingdom before the ultimate day of Judgement or else he 'l have no Kingdom Why so For then 't is the Fathers Kingdom As if the Father and the Son though they be two persons yet were not one God and the Father had a Kingdom without the Son Quest But what saith the Text Answ. Why Then comes the end c. Every word a Dagger Quot verba tot verber a and stabs the Drs. cause at the heart 1. The Apostle tells us Then comes the end viz. of the world i. e immediately after the Resurrection He doth not say then comes the Reign of Christ for a thousand yeers on earth But then comes the end of the World 2. When he shall deliver up the Kingdom viz. his Mediatory not his absolute Kingdom And therefore the Drs. Logick is very faulty in arguing from a particular to a general ergo because Christ hath no Oeconomical Kingdom ergo he hath no Kingdom Non sequitur ergo because one Dr. is Episcopal ergo all are Episcopal Or because one Dr. observes the times ergo all do so Is but sorry Logick 3. The Apostle tells us Christ must Raigne in his Mediatory K●ngdom till the last enemy which is death be destroyed but this will not be till the day of Judgement where then is the Drs. thousand yeers 4. Then Christ hath no power What more folly yet Cannot Christ lay down his Mediary Kingdom but he must loose his power with it Cannot he change the manner of Administration but he must cease to be a King Is he not God and Man still Is he not King and Head of his Church still Is he not as High and Mighty as ever And is it not he that even in the Text puts down all power by his divine Almighty power How then comes it to pass that Christ hath no power as the Dr. blasphemously at least very ignorantly affirms 5. He tells us of the Saints living on earth for a thousand yeers without Ordinances Answ. This is as true as the rest But the Dr. doth very ill to harden Atheistical Sectaries in such conceits For 't is not to be expected whilst the Saints live on earth that they should live without or above Ordinances In Heaven indeed when the Saints shall enjoy God immediately they shall not need them for God will be all in all as 't is in the Text but that is not in this world but at the end of the world Then comes the end viz. immediately after the Resurrection as the context shews when the Saints shall be received to bliss then God will be all in all immediately and not till then Obj. Revel. 21. 22. 'T is said of the New Jerusalem i. e of the glorious estate of the Church neer the end of the world that there shall be no Temple there Answ. These words yea and the whole chapter may be considered two wayes 1. Literally and properly for the Churches glory in Heaven for there 't is that all tears shall be wiped from our eyes there shall be no Sun or Moon no Temple there we shall not need Preaching Sacraments Ordinances for God will be all in all To expect an immediate enjoyment of God in this world without Ordinances is a Satanical delusion True in the Church Triumphant Prophesies shall cease 1 Cor. 13. 8. But in the Church militant we must not despise Prophesying and Preaching of the word To expound this chapter Literally of any Church either in Heaven or Earth will not hold for there is no Gold Silver Precious Stones Rivers c. in Heaven 2. If we consider the words Allusively and Allegorically for the a glorious estate of the Church upon earth after the calling of the Iews then there shall be no Temple there q. d. the Worship of God shall be more Pure Spiritual and Heavenly then ever before So that the words must not be taken simply for then they would contradict other places of Scripture which tell us that the Church on earth will always have need of the Ministery both to convert such as are not yet converted