Woman alone without man the Mighty One to save which God hath laid help on for that purpose Psal 89.19 Thirdly for the Place not in the highest Heavens for that time during the Judgment of the Great Day but in the world until Christs Kingly Office and Business fore-prophesied of in the Word be there sulfilled in destroying or removing the causes of evil in the world viz. wicked men and Devils out of it with their evil effects by sin namely the curse bodage corruption emnity brought upon the Creatures therein under which both men and other Creatures have long 〈…〉 do groan and accomplished all that promised good appoâ—ved for that time and state in the parts of that great restauration and renovation respecting both the raised Saints and those in the â—â—â—ural life according to Predictions and promised Mercies belonging to both sorts then c. which are all most surely confirmed Doctrines to be true and faithful by him that is said to sit upon the Throne in this Text and all as belonging to the Davidical Kingdom of Christ into the possession whereof the raised Saints are brought by the first blessed bodily Resurrection as their Inlet thereinto Secondly This may inform Christians first of the Divine excellencie of this Book 2. Of the incomparable usefulness thereof in those many great respects of the Saints great concernments in that time and state leading them into and securing also unto them their eternal happiness in the highest Heavens upon the compleating thereof and thirdly thereupon of the great Reasons they have to stir them up to the frequent reading diligent study and profitable improvement of the matters set before them by God and Christ therein First the excellencie thereof appears from the Author of it and the manner of delivering it for the benefit and information of the Christian Church God the Father gives it to the Son and he to the beloved Apostle John when he was in the Spirit on the Lords Day in time of his banishment for the word of God and the Testimony of Jesus to be sent unto the Churches being also for that end sent and signified by his Angel Chap. 1.1 Secondly It was given with wonderful great solemnity in respect of things then to come to the end of the world Chap. 4. and 5. God the Father as sitting upon his Throne the Church represented by the 24 Elders and four living Wights about him representing all faithful Christians and Church-guides with whom is the Lamb and the seven Spirits ever present and when none could be found in Heaven or earth worthy to look into that Book or open the Seals thereof it was given to the Lamb to open and fulfil who by his infinite wisdom and perfect power hath and doth and in due time will both perfectly open and fulfil the same in the set order for the accomplishment thereof which will bring unexpressible rejoycing and praise by Angels Saints and all Creatures in their capacities thereupon c. Chap. 5.10 to the end Thirdly The matter is profound and contains highly profitable Mysteries the form is very excellent in a wonderful Divine contrivance as in some small measure we have pointed out as we have in Mercy received c. Secondly for the usefulness it gives encouragement in the worst times of sufferings from many memorandums of Christs Kingdom for the suffering Saints and of the New Jerusalem-state observable in all these times as in our 7th Argum. of the Word written is shewed Secondly Useful in opening the hidden Mystical part of the Gospel and the great Subjects of the last things respecting the first and second said Resurrection of the bodies of just and unjust in their orders and of the first and second Acts of the Judgment of the great Day contained in general in Enochs Vision or Prophesie and in many things explained by Christ and his Apostles but in many other could not be understood without this Book therefore called the Book of Revelation with an Emphasis as the whole holy Scriptures called the Bible and the name of Christ is added to it being the Revelation that only could be made by Jesus Christ the Son of God the eternal word but as manifest in the flesh therefore much is to be looked for from it not to be attained by any other Writings nor many things in the Holy Bible understood aright without the explications of this most Divine Book c. And therefore in the third place hence may all serious and found Christians see what great Reasons there are for them to use all careful endeavours to understand the weighty matters held out and revealed therein they are not secret things forbidden as some in the Old times when men might not look into the Ark of Gods Testament nor things shut up and sealed as many of Daniels Mysteries that were reserved for Christ thus to open in the times of the end or Gospel-times but they are of things whereunto a blessing is annexed to the due reading and search into them and therefore the beloved Apostle is commanded contrarily not to seal them Chap. 22.10 This Book with Daniels Prophetical Visions the hidden part whereof this in good measure is a Divine explication viz. during the Revelation said suffering-times to the 19th Chapter and they are both together given to regulate all Chronologie in the world for 2300 years and more to the end of this sacred Book without which little truth in all times since in that respect could have been found or discerned by all humane Authors so that all Prophetical Chronologie by the Revelation of God the Spirit is given in them both for so long a time viz. from the Captivity of Babylon to the end of the world even as Moses had likewise received his Divinely revealed Chronelogy of all times past to and in his own time for the space about 2490 years when there was nothing but Tradition to have supplied that want which was after in the Books of Joshua Judges Kings and Chronicles contiued upon record until the said Prophetical Chronology of Daniel and Revelation took place which have been since Divinely carried on and so will be as was said unto the end of the world and because Moses and many of those that followed had likewise as the Apostle Peter teaches distinct Prophesies of those last times in the Book of Revelation therefore God in wonderful wisdom faithfulness and goodness hath in that last Table of of the happy times of Christs Church in the world revealed unto us those sure foundations of such unspeakable goodness then to be performed and accomplished not otherwise to be known or believed in many respects which are the peculiar excellencies belonging to and benesits accrewing to the Christian Church by this so Divine Book and are not these great engagements to the study of the same In this Divine Book we have the revelation in a latitude of the end of two special great Mysteries viz. the end of the great Mystery
bring all the Saints with him to raise their dead bodies that they may reign with him the 1000 years how are the rest of the dead said not to live again till the 1000 years are ended ver 5. are not some of those called the rest of the dead Saints at least I say some of them Answ All Saints that died in the suffering times before Christs coming he then brings with him to raise them to reign with him but such Saints as live or die afterwards seem not to be in that rank or capacity but at last when Christ descends with a shout and the voice of an Archangel will in a moment be rapt to meet him and be changed with all other Saints raised before 1 Cor. 15.51 52. it is twice there asserted by the Apostle and we shall all be changed and the wicked then to be raised after them at the last Trump seem to be some of those called before the rest of the dead that lived not again till the 1000 years are finished and the former raised suffering Saints are many ways distinguished in Scriptures from the other Saints First they are expresly termed all such as slept in Jesus before that his coming when the new Jerusalem comes down from God out of Heaven c. 1 Thes 4.14 Secondly they are distinguished by their sufferings for Christ in the former suffering times upon which account they must reign with him as was said Thirdly the Scripture describes them by the meek that have a promise to inherit the earth and delight themselves in the abundance of peace Psal 37. which yet is not fulfilled but our Saviour saith shall be Matth. 5.5 Meek Moses Abraham Jacob David yea Christ himself and all his Martyrs so killed as was said Rev. 6.10 11. as meek Lambs were led to the slaughter c. who neither inherited the earth but were pilgrims and strangers in it nor much less delighted themselves in the abundance of peace therein c. But as for all other Saints that shall live in the following peaceable happy times and all that die before the last Trump and that live then shall enjoy the benefit of that promise who were not numbered with the former sufferers in the suffering times but yet as the Seed of Shem and Japhet or of Abrahams or Davids spiritual Seed at least if not of their natural race also as many of the converted Jews and Israelites will then be shall all enjoy their proper portion by promise and Covenant whence the Apostle seems to call redemption of the Saints bodies especially Gentiles the receiving of the Adoption even the redemption of their bodies viz. by the first said Resurrection Rom. 8.23 and such as these that shall die in those future happy peaceable times the same Apostle seems to intend by those dead in Christ that shall rise first 1 Thes 4. though in a general sense it is true likewise of those that rise at the said first Resurrection but I conceive the particular intent of that Text respects the later sort of the Saints last raised at the general rapture and change at the last Trump Object But are not the Resurrections of good and bad joyned together both in Old and New Testament and both are said to arise to Judgment as that noted Text Dan. 12.2 3. where some are said to awake to life and some to shame and everlasting contempt and our Saviour also joyns them both John 5.29 They that have done good shall come forth of the Grave to the resurrection of life and they that have done evil to the resurrection of Damnation Answ As for Dan. 12. that seems particularly to respect the restauration of Israel as appears by the end of the former Chapter concerning Gogs the Turks destruction spoken of also Ezek 38 39. who then shall come to his end none shall help him when Daniels people shall be delivered Chap. 12.1 and ver 2. it is only said many shall then awake viz. out of the dust of their dispersion and bondage like the dry bones Ezek. 37. but not said all which should have been said if all good and bad were to be raised as at a general Resurrection as some use to speak and whereas that Text speaks of turning many to righteousness which will not be done at any general Resurrection but is to be done at such Civil Resurrection of Jews and Israelites to own a Righteousness of Justification by faith in Christ which they did not before and the wise that are there said to do it are in the Original said to be Teachers which cannot be supposed to do any such thing for any upon such general Resurrection when all time of Grace will be past from the death of all that were not converted before for as the tree falls so it will lie c. But if it were granted that this Text and that of John 5. and many other-like Texts did comprise both first and second Resurrection to the first and second acts of both said Judgments of the great day as Jude was directed by the Spirit of God to style it and our Saviour in a general sense speaks there of both for ver 27. he saith the Father had given him Authority to execute Judgment because he is the Son of man and as the Father gave him the Son to have life in himself to raise the dead in sin spiritually ver 26. so he had power also hereafter to raise both good and bad out of the graves bodily to Judgment For answer whereunto and many like passages in Scripture we are to consider that many such Texts deliver only some general truths of the whole Doctrine delivered in this Book by our Saviour more fully and particularly concerning both the said Resurrections and Judgments with what is to be known of matters to intervene betwixt both which are always to be referred to such future explications of them as the holy Spirit hath from time to time given forth to any of Christs servants to make further known for the Doctrines of these last things have been made known but by degrees Of the first Resurrection Esai 26. spake darkly shewing the Heathen Tyrants that oppressed the Jews were dead they should not live they were deceased they should not rise ver 14. but Gods Saints should live and with his dead body they should arise ver 19. which with other Texts in our Treatise on Rev. 20.5 could not be understood without Christs Revelation of the first bodily Resurrection of the Sts. there decyphered in many particulars at what time to what ends how long before the rest of the dead as was shewed and so for Judgment after God had at the fall declared the Seed of the woman so to be true man and only of the woman and not of the man and so was to be necessarily the Son of God that is God to be manifest in the flesh which is the first part of that great Mystery which was 4000 years in
carrying on to lay the sure foundation of breaking the Serpents head at his first coming that by the Judgment of the great Day he might break it 1. eminently at the first and 2. totally and finally at the last Judgment the next antient Prophesie for removing the power of Satan c. was given to Enoch in the old World recorded by Jude ver 13 14. concerning Christs coming to Judgment which hath direct reference to Daniels Vision of the first Session of Judgment at the destruction of the Beast Dan. 7. which our Saviour confirms and explains in part Rev. 11.18 and Rev. 19. but Daniel speaks not there of the last general Judgment that is left for Christ to do Rev. 20.11 to the end 1000 years and more after the former and hence as Daniel of the said first act had said The Judgment was set and 2dly the books were opened and the Apostle Paul who had much of these mysteries revealed to him tells us 3. Christ would judge the quick viz. temporal destruction and 4. the dead Saints with reward as was shewed so saith the Apostle Christ will judg the quick dead at his appearance Kingdom in 2 Tim. 4.1 and all these four marks of that part of Judgment are the proper Characters of the Judgments of the said great Day which belong also to the last Judgment above 1000 years after Daniels as Rev. 20.11 to the end after the last Gog and Magog shall be destroyed and here we finde not any of these marks of that Judgment at any other time when the Old World or Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed though these are both in some respects made patterns of the other by our Saviour Luke 17. Sodom and Gomorrah probably of the first when many terrible Judgments will finde out many sorts of wicked men c. and the other a pattern of the general destruction of the world by fire as the other was by a Deluge of Water Jerusalems first and second destructions are also patterns and the Pagan-Idolators and Persecutors destruction which is set forth like a day of Judgment Rev. 6.12 to the end and so in that large description of the desolation of the Churches enemies Esai 34. throughout the whole Chapter but in none of these or any other do we finde these four Characters peculiar to the Judgments of the said great Day but only in Dan. 7. and Rev. 20. we read of many excellent points Christ informed such as lived in the visible Church or such as have to do with his Servants there as by him that had not the Wedding garment Matth. 22.11 shewing that nothing will serve Professors but being by faith invested with his righteousness and by three Parables together Matth. 25. First that the foolish Virgins were shut out for want of true faith and grace though they were formal Professors and his own Servants whether Ministers Magistrates or other Christians in the Church to whom the Talents were delivered to improve when he went into a far Country viz. to Heaven as he expounds it Luke 19. when one failed he was condemned and in that 3d which is more general but yet restrained to the visible Church likewise or such as had to do with his Servants whom in their afflictions or persecutions they should have fed clothed visited which he looks as done to himself but for the want of this all such will be condemned And alas alas how few consider any such proceeding of Christ in Judgment that are deeply in such case concerned men are in these days far short of the love compassion and zeal of the Primitive Christians who sold their possessions Acts 4.37 But to omit many passages to like purposes as some to be condemned by the Law some without the Law by their own Conscience some by the Gospel c. but above all Christ hath in the said Revelation made many great points known not known before of the said Judgment of the Great day as that there is a second act or general Judgment to be celebrated by Christ as well as that Daniel had the Vision of and he had before confirmed and shews what distance of time shall be betwixt them viz. above 1000 years and what things are to intervene betwixt them in the 1000 years and how the last shall be brought on by Gods raining fire from Heaven upon the last attempt of the last Gog and Magog and at his sitting on the Throne Heaven and Earth should be dissolved and the Earth the Sea and the Grave shall give up their dead that they shall be judged by their several distinct books the elect out of the Book of life and the Devil first be cast into the lake of fire where the Beast and false Prophet were cast before 1000 years and more and so should death and hell afterward which in such respects seems to shew their utter end in the world as in Chap. 17.11 but more to them that are capable of more these by Christ are Divinely delivered of the said Judgment no where in Scripture so made known before and so of both Resurrections after Esay and David then Daniel had much mystically shewed him in Vision that they sat on Thrones set for them and Judgment or power of judging was given then to the Saints but that the suffering Saints should come at that time with Christ coming in the Clouds of Heaven and be raised by Christ to reign with him 1000 years before the raising of the rest of the dead good or bad and that all the promised mercies should then be fulfilled to them none could reveal these but Christ who had this Book with seven Seals given to him by the Father in such a glorious manner when none else in Heaven or earth was found worthy to open it or look into it or much less to fulfil the contents of it but only the Lamb that had as it were been slain and lived again but will then appear to be the Lion of the Tribe of Judah the Root of David as well as the Branch the Father only reserved these things to be made known by his Son the Wisdom of the Father the Eternal Word in the bosom of the Father and therefore these his Divine Oracles concerning all such last things are chiefly to be attended to as Gods and Christs utmost infallible resolution of all such things as were not so fully and particularly explained concerning Resurrections or Judgment of all sorts before or what is to be fulfilled upon the foundations of the Prophets in the interim of the 1000 years betwixt both the Apostle Paul who was rapt into the third Heaven reveals many things of the Resurrection shews some Mysteries of that the Judgment 1 Cor. 15 1 Thes 4. and elsewhere but much thereof cannot from thence be rightly expounded without Christs said Revel ch 20. which therefore seems in these respects much more clearly and distinctly delivered than any of that Book before or after as
revealed I believe they did not for first it is probable they would then with the said things have given the Interpretation of them if they had then known them And secondly the Holy Spirit of Christ would not have given particular Revelations to open and explain the particular meanings if they had not been necessary so to have been revealed in respect of the hidden parts of them and especially that God the Father in a glorious wonderful manner Rev. 5. should so give that most Divine Book to his beloved Son the Lamb so to reveal them as he hath done without which the Church had been in the dark in regard of many excelent points of Heavenly Doctrines now only knowable by the help and use of the said Book especially in what concerns the main Scope of all Revelation-Prophesie which is therefore highly to be esteemed and diligently to be studied by all wise and good Christians for the right understanding of the darkest portions of Scripture which are not rightly discovered by any other means but by these Divine Oracles of Jesus Christ and let it henceforth stand as an irrefragable Rule amongst all sound Christians that all those Texts of holy Scriptures concerning those last things viz. Resurrections and Judgment are to be explained by Christs Revelation and not the Revelation by them From the former said sure Rule and the many foundations formerly laid down in the whole work these Divine Conclusions or Christian Doctrines will evidently follow First That Christs Davidical Kingdom on earth will begin with the first act or session of the Judgment of the Great Day above 1000 years before the Last Judgment Esa 9. Luke 1.32 with Dan. 7. Rev. 11. and 19.6 9 11 to the end 2. That at the first said Session the quick namely the Beast fals Prophet with other great and small enemies then living will be judged by temporal destruction from the earth Dan. 7. Ezek 38.39 Dan. 11.45 Matth. 13.41 And the deceased Saints will then also be judged with a Judgment of reward or recompense at their holy and blessed bodily Resurrection when they shall rise to reign with Christ who will then so Judge both quick and dead at his appearing and Kingdom Dan. 7. Rev. 11.18 2 Tim. 4.1 Thirdly Christ will reign with his said raised Saints on earth in his said Kingdom all that same 1000 years wherein as he hath both strongly and emphatically taught us that Satan shall be bound from deceiving the Nations any more until the said 1000 years shall be sulfilled See Treatise on Rev. 21.5 page 37 38. and page 8. of this Fourthly The said 1000 years space to be so fulfilled beginning from the first said Session or Matutinum Judicium as Mr. Mede speaks or a greater than he Psal 49.14 and a greater than them both Luke 19.18 19. Rev. 2.26 before the little space of Satans loosing again is that interim before the last Judgment wherein shall be the performance of Gods most antient promised Mercies and Covenants to the faithful Forefathers and to their spiritual Seed viz. the then raised Saints and others then converted through their Divine promised Seed Christ by whom they shall all then have their sure Mercies of David Esa 55.3 and as the Lambs wife then inherit all things with him Rev. 21.7 Fifthly The New Jerusalem state the Marriage of the Lamb the Paradise of God with the pure River and Tree of Life therein and the Nations of them that are then saved walking in the light of the said great holy and beloved New Jerusalem wherein consists the New Heavens and new earth when God will make all things new as in this Text are the contemporaries of the said happy times and state in the said 1000 years and will make up that happiness in the said Davidical Kingdom of Christ both to the said Saints then raised and to the then converted Jews and Gentiles in the natural life when also the two second great calls of them both will be accomplished Deut. 32.43 Rom. 15.10 that Jews and Gentiles will rejoyce together Sixthly Satans last most wicked attempt with his last Gog Magog against the said holy City and the Camp of the Saints after the said 1000 years are ended will occasion fire from Heaven to consume them and probably the earth and the works upon it c. and thereupon also the destruction of the last enemy death when all the Saints both raised before and then living or lying in the grave to free them as is probable from the destruction with wicked men then shall be rapt up together and all be changed in a moment or twinkling of an eye to meet Christ in the Air c. when also all the wicked shall be raised at the last Trump to the last general Judgment and final sentence c. upon whose sitting upon the great white Throne will be the utter dissolution of the whole created world as Rev. 20.11 c. And these I believe are upon the many said accounts from holy Scripture the Divine truths of Jesus Christ not contradicting any thing taught in Gods Word before but only explaining many things formerly darkly yet Divinely couched therein and especially things respecting the said first and second bodily Resurrections and the proceedings of the Judgment of the great day of the Lord at above a 1000 years distance with the performance of the promised mercies in the interim as was said And thus have I given an account of my faith as respecting these things for which I bless and magnifie the glorious Name of God the Father Son and Holy Spirit three Persons and one true and everliving God and I do believe that all Saints will do the same here or hereafter Amen And thus for the Questions concerning the first Resurrection as being the Inlet to the Sts. that Christ brings with him when he comes into the happy said approaching state 1000 years before the said rest of the dead shall live again and that answers to sundry portions of Scripture that are by some otherwise expounded but are only to be understood by the help of the most Divine Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ as we have shewed And now before we proceed to speak particularly of the words or matters of this Text of the Renovation of all things which are to make up the happiness of Christs said Reign with his Saints upon the said first Resurrection we shall consider the preceding and following context thereof with its dependencie to remove some other seeming difficulties which for the greater evidence we shall endeavour to do by Answering some other Questions and resolving some doubts upon weighty reasons concerning the same Quest 1. Are not the New Heavens and the New earth the renovation of all things the New Jerusalem and Paradise of God c. Ch. 21.22 to be after the last Judgment wch is set down before them in Ch. 20.11 Answ Although the last Judgment is there placed in the
half a time contemporating therein with the twofold Beasts 42 months chap. 13 raised out of the Sea and Earth in those fluctuating times of the said Barbarous Nations as also with the Witnesses 1260 dayes 〈◊〉 â—ears till the seven Angels have poured out their Vials to destroy the Beast likewise chap. 15 16. concerning which matters there is an explication chap. 17. executed chap 18 19. when the last head is ruined of that Ecclesiastick state also unto both which Schemes of both Civil and Ecclesiastick state the same Table of the bad times hath reference and links them so together as Contemporaries But besides the said Series or order of the first said Table in the Divine contrivance thereof referring to the said double Scheme of the times thereof beginning with the Regular state of the Church that was as was said chap. 11.1 these things are farther to be observed from chap. 1.19 first concerning the things the beloved Apostle John had then seen viz. how Christ in all those times walketh in the midst of the Candlesticks the Churches and holds the stars the true Ministers thereof in his right hand chap. 1. and 2dly the things that then were concerning the then present seven Churches of Asia chap. 2.3 which are also conceived to adumbrate or shaddow out seven Intervals contained in the said first Table of the suffering times and 3dly the things to be hereafter which are Epittomied in some sort before the 24 Elders and 4 living Wites in chap. 4 and 5. first in chap 4. is set the Prologlue and Chorus of all that Tragy-Comody as Mr. Mede speaks and in the 5th is representzed the glorions manner of the Father's delivering this Book to his Son the Lamb that had been as it were slain and lived again to reveal and fulfil the contents thereof with a glimps of the ishue of the times of the said first Table of Revelation Prophesie when the Representative say they shall Reign upon Earth ver 10. whereupon Angels Saints and all Creatures in their kindes shall adore and magnifie the Lamb as worthy to receive Power and Riches and Wisdome and Strength ver 8. to the end and in chap. 7. we have the Sealing of the 144000 spiritually in the East under the Tyranny of the Saracens and Turks as chap. 9.4 in the times of the two first Woe Trumpets from about Anno Dom. 600. to about 1700 for we must conjecture in a Latitude perhaps of about a decad under or over the said times by reason of some defects in Chronologie and in ch 14. wherein with the same times of the Beasts said 42 months the true Church had her 144000 Spiritually Sealed also and preserved in the West All which with the Angels warnings there following Christ hath now almost accomplished in this so excellent a contrivance of this Divine Book in all these respects And therefore Faithful Christians need not much trouble themselves as to the remaining Prophesies of this Book in respect of the suffering times save only they must watch and keep the Garments of Justification and holy conversation as Christ warnes ch 16.15 when the Whore or Babylons end draws neer as chap. 18. and chap. 14. only after is to be expected the gathering to the Armageddon Battel chap. 19. before which some good time I conceive will be the falling of the tenth part of the City wherein the 7000 names of men as in the Original are foretold to be slain to the strange affrightment probably by some Divine appearance of that remnant that are thereupon said to give glory to the God of Heaven chap. 11. v. 13. by acknowledging his hand therein to such I would commend St. Peters counsel Acts 17.18 19 c. Brethren I wot that through ignorance ye did it as did also your Rulers c. who were the Leaders and Guiders of the rest as hath been usual at least by the Engineers of such evil contrivance who are skilful to draw into them more innocent persons c. Repent ye therefore c. and the rather because the remnant when affrighted v. 13. hopefully shall so do for the thing is to be done upon a great Earthquake or Commotion of Nations when the last finishing Witnesses decyphered from ver 6. to ver 13. did begin to ascend upon their hearing of the great Voice viz. of a person eminent in publick Authority saying come up hither in the Plateia or street of the City where they were before civilly killed in the second war of the Beast of which Mr. Mede conceived there was only one resembled to Jerusalem in Judea many ways where our Lord was Crucified rose again and ascended c. being then a tenth Province or tenth part of the Dition of that great City c. of which many things may appear considerably evident if the said Plateia prove to be the said tenth part of the City which in its final falling off from Rome shall utterly cast out of it all Romish Idolatry Superstitions and Errours c. which for many Reasons may seem more probably and whereof an account may probably be after given And not the falling of the City Rome it self as some have conjectured because it is but a tenth part now of what it was in the Heathen Emperours time as Mr. Mede from Lipsius declares which latter more probable by some computations may seem to be about a dozen years after this falling or more upon which the gathering to the Armageddon Battel may be expected for Romes ruine is like highly to provoke the Beast and false Prophet to that Battel though to their own ruine Rev. 19.20 although they will not believe it which is the means to bring it on them But upon the falling of the tenth part here the said 2d Woe or sixth Trumpet is said to be ended ver 14. under which Mr. Mede most probably placeth most of the Vials during the Turks 396 years who is usually reckoned the 2d Woe and if this falling of the tenth part of the City was meant by the 5th Vial upon the Throne of the Beast as some have conceived whereby seems more probably to be pointed out that antient Apocryphal Episcopacie as the Mystical Throne of the Beast upon which he hath sitten to kill Christs Witnesses from first to last viz. in respect of the old pretended Jus Divinum thereof as being more suitable to the mysteriousness of the Vials and to experience as the 4th was upon his Universality whereby all Popish Prelacie with many Errours depending thereon have been pretendedly supported all along which seemed much to be shaken by that 5th Vial and neer to falling c. upon advantage whereof the Pope afterwards as Bishop of Rome it being the chief City hath since most falsely pretended to be Peters Successor who yet from Scripture is manifest never to have been Bishop there and Christs Vicar general on Earth though Christ promised he would never be non-resident from his Church there but present with them to
Adam in that state in the world 2. And for the bringing on of this Kingdome of Christ the Son of David with his raised Saints God hath ever since the fall of that Tabernacle overturned all the Gentiles States and Kingdoms successively in their orders as in Nebuchadnezzars Image Dan. 2. and Daniels Visions of the four Beasts destroying each other Dan. 7. was signified and will still do so till the God of Heaven set up this Kingdom as the top of these Mercies that should never be destroyed but as the Kingdome of the Stone should destroy all others in the world till it became a Mountain filling the whole Earth which Christ hath now almost fulfilled and which will be that state thereof in the 1000 years of the reign of Christ with his Raised Saints for which the said Restitution of all things will be accomplished which was spiritually and powerfully begun at Christs first coming upon his Resurrection and Asoention when he led Captivity Captive tryumphing gloriously over all the powers of Darkness Col. 3.15 and though ever since the Prince of the power of the Aire that ruleth effectually in the Children of Disobedience hath prevailed in all the suffering times under the Dragon and Beast now almost for 1700 years to bring on Persecutions and Sufferings of the Saints who notwithstanding by Christs Divine and Powerful Grace have been carryed on to suffer with him or for him yet in that state approaching he will not only free them from all such Miseries and Evils now in the world through Sin but bring them into that happy state of Reigning in the world with himself as his Spouse that with him shall then in her it all things with their sure Mercies of David in this Univer salo and perpetual Kingdome in the world in reserence unto which the Renovation of all things will then be made by God himself as in the Text. The third Question But how doth it appear that such a coming and Kingdome of Christ shall be above 1000 years in the world before the last general Judgment when he will descend with a shout c. 1 Thes 4.16 Answ It will most manifestly appear not only from our Saviours Table of the good times which we spake of but now and from the litteral sense of the 1000 years which we spake sufficiently of pag. 38. of the Saints bodily Resurrection which is constantly granted by all sound Expositors to be litterally so understood neither is it other vise taken in the Beasts 42 months nor are the Prophetical dayes of the two Witnesses Rev. 11. or Sons of Oyl Zech. 4. standing before the Lord of the whole Earth ver 14. to which that Prophesie seems chiefly to have reference c. understood otherwise than for 1260 dayes of years and there is much less reason to pervert Christs words of his own and his said Saints Reign from their litteral sense when he most plainly saith they are 1000 years and where are any numbers of years in Scripture to be found but for that individual number they are set for the lives of all Antients Patriarks and Fathers the times of Judges Reigns of Kings continuance of States are set down by their peculiar number of years without which nothing could be resolved of and in ch 20. as Mr. Mede observed that Christ set down things more plainly there than in all that book before because men have been averse to think so of these last parts there have come up many mistaken conceits of anticipating Satans binding in the primative times of Persecution the Saints reigning under their greatest sufferings but not in the sence here intended which will also be performed and the taking the New Jerusulem state for the Kingdom of Heaven and the New Heavens and New Earth to be after the last Judgment and the like which being resolved by the Scripture Foundations to which this part of the Revel hath particular referonce they will upon due consideration appear very evidently to belong to this set time of the 1000 years us by our 15 Reasons why they shall be in the world may also be manifest and by our first Convincing Arg. of 36 Particulars to be according to Scripture before in after the said 1000 years and by our many distinctions of Christs appearance or coming at Antichrists destruction and of his descending above 1000 years after with a shout and the voice of an Arch-angel and the Trump of God at the Saints General Rapture and Resurrection of the wicked peruse them seriously they have Scripture warrant c. And as Mr. Mede observed it to be the usual Errour of the Jews to confound the first and second coming of Christ overlooking the Humility of the first which was not often before clearly distinguished except by Daniel and in some few places so Christians do much in these times over look the Mercy of the Jews at Christs second coming little regarding Christs irrefragable resolutions of many things of the last times which were given to him alone by the Father to instruct his Church in yea though they be founded upon many other parts of Scripture and refer unseasonably to what concerns both Jews and all promised Mercies to the raised Saints to the times of the last General Judgment above 1000 years most evidently after their set times Object But many Learned men have conceived that gloriouss City decyphered Rev. 21. and the Paradise of God to be the Kingdome of Glory in the highest Heavens Answ Besides our former said approved Reasons that it will be in the World the Apostle Paul Gal. 4. calls that the Jerusalem that is now above the Mother of all Saints being the peculiar Mansion at present of all the Spirits of Just men made perfect where they remain in happy Security Peace and Blessedness in their present state expecting the time of the said first Resurrection of their bodies which when Christ comes and brings them with him to raise and unite their Spiritual Bodies with them will be the Jerusalem here said then to come down from God out of Heaven which glorious place and City is prepared by God for the Fathers then and all such as the Apostle teacheth Heb. 11.16 40. that without us shall not be made perfect or perfect in one as our Saviour prayed John 17. which are called the Lambs Wife of the solemnity of whose Marriage the Kingly Prophet David foretold Psal 45. when that Bride instead of Fathers shall then have Children whom she may make Princes in all Lands and as Solomon in his most excellent Song in the book of Canticles divinely illustrateth it of the return of the Shulamite and the like which will be the fulfilling of the Covenant to Abraham and his Spiritual Seed by that one Divine Seed Christ in that state and time and for the Paradise of God annexed to that state which Christ will then restore instead of that lost before in the world by the first Adam it will
period of this present State shall come God will as by speaking a word of Command make all things new 2. Again in respect of the excellency of his person he is here said to be he that sate upon the Throne who is Hieroglyphically and gloriously described in chap. 4. as God made known in his Church as on a Throne for in Judah is God known and his Name is great in Israel at Salem is his Tabernacle and his dwelling place in Zion Psal 78.1 and he is known to them in the face of Jesus Christ in all his glorious Attributes Nature and Persons as revealed in the Word 2 Cor. 4.4 6. as here compassed with the Rain-bow the Token of the Covenant made with Noah through Christ for all Creatures to the end of the world c. and also hath 7 Lamps burning before the Throne which are the 7 Spirits of God or the Holy Ghost chap. 1.4 and about the Throne 24. Seats for the 24 Elders and within the Throne 4 living Wights full of eyes within continually saying Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come So that there God is set forth as very gloriously made known in his Church to be three in Persons one in Essence to be ever so worshipped and glorified by them before and since for his great and good work of Creation ver 11. For as at first he Created the world by Jesus Christ Eph. 3.9 the Holy Spirit moving upon the face of the Waters Gen. 1.2 so he hath and doth and will redeem and fully work his Renovation of the world by the Lamb that was slain and hath since lived again and the book with 7 Seals is delivered to him to open and execute the Contents thereof as in chap. 5. by the power and effectual working of the Holy Ghost one God with the Father and the Son and proceeding from the Father and the Son So the 24 Elders and the 4. Beasts or living Wights worshipped him at the Whores Destruction as sitting on the Throne chap. 19.4 c. and in the end of chap. 4. 5. though this last was upon assurance of the fulfilling of all Revelation Prophesie But in the Text he that sits upon the Throne with a Rainbow about it and seven Lamps burning before it saith Behold I make all things new c. Thus then Almighty God Three in Persons and One in Essence so manifest in his Church that so Created the World and also by his Son and Holy Spirit carrieth on his work of Redemption and full Renovation of the World who maketh known this Divine Declaration thereof by his Servant John for the use of his Church in these latter times to be fulfilled most certainly as will after appear in the neer approaching times of the Restitution of all things the next Illustration of it is that usual note of Attention and Observation Behold but here to be more highly considered as a notation of Admiration Adoration Behold Admire the wonderful Mercy herein contained adore him in the Divine excellency thereof the like is done in many like Notations set forth by God respecting his wonderful work begun and by degrees carried on and to be perfected by his Son Jesus Christ as first especially in laying his great Foundation in Sion Esa 28.16 Behold I lay in Sion a chief Corner Stone Elect and Precious as saith the Apostle 1 Pet. 2.6 which the said Prophet sets forth with a great deal of Illustration in the Heberew c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and aptly rendred by Arias Montanus Ecce ego fundo in Sion Lapidem Lapidem munitionis anguli preciosi fundamenti fundati c. Behold I found in Sion a Stone a Stone of defence of a precious corner of a foundation founded and to be adored and admired likewise therein The like of the Womans Seed promised without Man Behold a Virgin shall bear a Son Esa 7.14 and yet a Virgin when she hath a Son but such a Son as should be God as well as Man who should be called Immanuel God with us here was likewise matter of Admiration and Adoration that he that was the Eternal Father as well as the Prince of Peace of the increase of whose Kingdome upon the Throne of David there shall be no end should yet in such a time be born of a Virgin c. Esa 9. The like by the Angel is used to the Shepheards at the birth of that said Virgins Son Luke 2.10 11. Behold I bring you tidings of great joy which shall be to all people c. So when God will make the New World for his said Son Behold I make c. and the season of this work is the Alpha and Omega of this book of Revelation to be observed and admired and desired too by the Saints chap. 1.7 Behold he cometh with Clouds at the Jews Conversion who are there said to have pierced him which I conceive will not only be in mercy to the Jews as Zech. 12.10 but all Kindreds also of the Earth shall wail because of him penitently also when he then comes the second time without sin to Salvation because the Heathen shall be given then to him for an Inheritance and the utmost parts of the Earth for his possession and they shall also then serve him Dan. 7.27 and as the Prophet saith in those times ten men shall take hold of the skirt of a Jew Zech. 8.32 to joyn themselves to them in the service of the God of Israel and the great shakings and dessolations in the world when the glorious Majesty of Christ shall then appear as Esa 2.17 19. so shaking terribly the Earth probably may much prepare all the Kindreds of the Earth that remain then so to wail with Contrition that they have not known Christ before and then so wailingly mourn after him therefore is added by the Holy Spirit Even so Amen to both Rev. 1.7 N. B. to teach us ever after to pray for the fulfilling of these so strongly promised Mercies then which is therefore the chief drift of that Petition Thy Kingdome come that also then Gods Will may be done in Earth as it is now in Heaven for which in that state there is great ground to believe and so his Name will be hallowed then as now in Heaven which is the great end of all Prayer And then he cometh also with reward for his Saints as chap. 22.12 11.18 The way to love Christs appearance as the Apostle Paul perswades all sound Christians is to know the happy advantages that all such shall have thereby at that time when God will make all things New that pertain to Christs Davidical Kingdome as here c. The next thing considerable respecting this comfortable Declaration of God is the Confirmation of it 1. by commanding the Holy man to record it for the comfort of his Church Write saith he 2. He gives a twofold ground of such Confirmation or Record of it first in
Saints being as it is described a perfect Cube of 1500 miles in length breadth and heighh fitted for the motion and benefit of their spiritual bodies yet said then to have foundations because then they will have their bodies who needed no foundations when they were Jerusalem above only the spirits of just men made perfect Gal. 4.2 and for the other in the natural life they shall lengthen their cords strengthen their stakes Esa 54.2 God hath prepared fit places for both who fully knows the number of them all Now many things in Scripture are said to be prepared by God or Christ that will not have their peculiar existence at present till the times come So our Saviour went to prepare the beloved great Jerusalem for his Disciples John 14.1 2 3. where they shall behold this his glory which his Father hath given him John 17.24 and this is the City prepared for the Forefathers Heb. 11.16 and for us v. 40. so saith Christ inherit the Kingdom prepared for you Matth. 25.34 and the eternal happiness which eye hath not seen ear hath not heard which God hath prepared 1 Cor. 2.9 and on the contrary Hell torment is prepared for the wicked Matth. 25.41 and Tophet is prepared of old for the King Esa 30.33 probably meant of the great Assyrian which will at that time be destroyed viz. the Turk called the Assyrian Mich. 5.5 when the Assyrian shall come into our Land that is possessing the Assyrians Kingdom then now all these so said to be prepared shall have their existence certainly in their times and it seemeth probable that this last Tophet with the River of Brimstone Esa 30. will be out of the matter of the earth dissolved at last c. which will yet make for the happiness of the Saints that they have not only escaped all such sufferings but shall inherit such wonderful manifold and everlasting happiness And now we come Fourthly to the last great Priviledge of the said New Jerusalem state and the said Kingdom of Christ with his Saints namely the Paradise of God then likewise to be restored instead of that which was first lost by the fall of the first Adam last mentioned in this Divine Key or bunch of Keys of our Saviour of which though from the fall intended yet we hear nothing particularly of it until our Saviour by his death had purchased it and then promised it to the penitent Thief upon the Cross with him This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise whither Christs Soul then went to take possession of it for all his Saints before he said the Angels are said to carry Lazarus into Abrahams bosome but the Apostle Paul explains it afterwards to be the third Heaven and Paradise where then it was but after when the New Jerusalem comes down with Christ from God out of Heaven that Paradise of God is described to belong to that Holy City where is the Tree of Life which yieldeth fruits every Month and whose Leaves are for the healing of the Nations with the pure River flowing from the Throne of God and of the Lamb Rev. 22. which are Divine expressions of the happiness of the Saints then spoken in resemblance unto the first Paradise and to the living waters spoken of by Christ John 7.37 38. which all the Saints shall in that state enjoy And so we have given a touch of these several parts of Gods Renovation of all things at that time of the restitution of all things spoken of by the Apostle Peter Acts 3.21 But one thing more the Scripture speaks of to belong to the same renovation and that is the Dominion over the Creatures to be restored then also when God shall put all things in subjection under Christs feet Psa 8.4 and Heb. 2.8 together with the Creatures freedom from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God of which much in Scripture when the emnity shall be taken away from amongst them as was said when Christs rest shall be glorious ver 10. Now all these great Priviledges are founded upon the antient Promises and Covenants of God to the faithful Fathers and thus Divinely unlocked by this said Key of our blessed Saviour so graciously left for his Churches consolation in these latter days when the evil suffering times are almost at an end and that happy state of things for the Saints is near approaching as we hope many ways to manifest in considering what those times of renovaâ—ion or restitution are which is next to be considered And how should the evidence of these things stir up all Christians to believe and act as to secure their own interest in them and to cast off every weight that presseth down that might hinder them in running their Christian race to obtain the Crown with all such precious Jewels wherewith it is so richly adorned for these Scriptures for this happy state cannot be broken We proceed to the third Head namely to consider what are the the times or in what state or occurrence of affairs in the world God will work this renovation or restitution of all things Obj. But here an Objection must first be answered Doth not the Apostle Paul tell us the times of renovation are past 2 Cor. 5.17 If any man be in Christ he is become a new Creature old things are past away saith he Behold all things are become new in the very words of this Text. Answ The Holy Apostle speaks there of the great spiritual renovation of the Souls of the faithful the foundation whereof was laid at Christs first coming and which will be the real ground to all Saints of obtaining their shares in the great renovation which God will work for them in that state to come we speak of wherein all such shall have their part for if Christ had not by his Death Resurrection and Ascension then laid the happy foundation by leading captivity captive triumphing gloriously over the powers of darkness there could have been no obtaining of this other but since he hath this will necessarily in its order and time follow thereupon in that perfecting of the work of Redemption in the world Again old things were then by that means passed away and all things become new then comparatively in respect of what they were under the Old Testament before he actually came in our nature before Gospel Grace was dark and more rare less efficacious under many types shadows and Ceremonial observances and Old Testament dispensations under the New Testament is a new and better Covenant new and better Promises new and better Ordinances new and better Dispensations as might largely be set forth So then by his first coming was the chief foundation laid of all following renovation of the world to come then was indeed the inchoation and powerful beginning of all happy renovation and the foundation laid of all the other the hopes whereof will be but building upon the sand without that founding upon the Rock
Emperor the Epoca whereof was about 365. or as Learned Bishop Vsher conceives 363. to which the said 1335. being added probably makes up the times of the great restauration of Jews and Israelites at Christs appearance when the Turk is destroyed Dan. 11.45 and Chap. 12.1 2. which is further explained by the 1700 years of Revelation-prophesie until that time viz. about 320 years under the six first Seals until Constantine the Great cast Satan from his Heaven to the earth by abandoning his Heathenish Idolatries of his Sun Moon and Stars worshipping his Jupiter Mars Mercury c. with the Pagan Worshippers and Promoters thereof unto which sueceeded the other Christian Emperors for their short space spoken of Rev. 17.10 viz. about 80 or 90 years till the Dragons flood about the Womans the true Churches entring into her wilderness condition and from thence under the four first Trumpets proceeding out of the seventh Seal when began the sealed Judgments of the Trumpets which carry on the ruine of the Roman Civil state for their Persecution of the Saints in the Primitive times which four first are conceived to take up about 200 years more wherein the barbarous Nations by degrees broke in many pieces the Western Roman Empire giving opportunity for the Crowning of the ten Horns turning the Provinces thereof into so many Kingdoms whose Power hath since been given to the Beast But for the 2 first woe Trumpets of the Locust Mahumetans first under the Saracens in the East from their beginning about An. Dom. 600. to the beginning of the Turkish Mahomitans in the Ottoman family about 1300 which was 700 more and the Turks day and hour and month and year since prevailing over the Easterm Empire which by computation are 396 years more altogether will make up the whole account of about 1700 years till the seventh Trumpet begin to sound when the Kingdoms of the world will become the Kingdoms of our God and of his Christ Rev. 11.15 And the same 1700 years of Revelation Prophesie may also be computed by the Table of the suffering times under the Dragon and the Beast as they were pointed out before from Rev. 11. to ver 13. viz. the regular Primitive times Chap. 11.1 contained about 320. when was the Battle betwixt Michael and the Dragon and their Angels Chap. 12. whereupon the Dragons flood was poured out but dried up by the earth at the womans entrance into her Wilderness-condition about 90 years when with her time times and half a time begins the Beast to trample under foot the holy City for his 42 months and also during the two witnesses time of 1260 days of years for all these 3 are contemporaries and end with the second Woe ver 14. when it is said the third Woe cometh quickly at the end of the last Gentile Monarchy the first of which Monarchies viz. the Caldean by Scripture is reckoned to continue 70 years the Mede or Persian computed in Chronologie about 230 years the Grecian about 280. until about 48 years before Christs birth saith Helvicus or according to our former Computations of them in our Parallel of the ruine of the Roman Empire in the Caldean 70 about 70 or 80 more in the Persian Monarchies to Daniels weeks which are 490 years more in all 640. to the end of the last week An. Dom. 5.38 years after Christs birth which last 38 years are to be deducted on our usual account in which Parallel consider well that conjecture of 1666. to the ruine of Antichrist from Christs ascension though as Bishop Vsher conceives we have lost therein four years c. See there also our four mystical numbers leading to the Jews deliverance Dan. 12.1 and the great Enemies ruine at the end of the 4 Monarchie all which have their periods about Ann. Dom. 1700. But as there were different conjectures 1. about eleven years or more as before said of the Jews deliverance from Babylon so should some like latitude be allowed to probable conjectures now Thus having set down a scantling of these times by which it may appear upon these and many other accounts that the times of the restitution of all things cannot be far off which should make all men be careful to prepare for them thereupon to be engaged the more to fight against their spiritual enemies the flesh the wold and the Devil and as Christ upon that account exhorts to exercise Christian watchfulness that their hearts be not overcharged with surfetting and drunkenness and cares of this life lest these times come upon them unawares Luke 21.34 35 36. and the rather because as he tells us they will come as a snare upon them that are in the whole earth See to this purpose the 9 Uses after the Tract on Rev. 22.20 Now as God created the world at first as the Apostle speaks by Jesus Christ the Spirit moving upon the face of the Waters Gen. 1.2 And as God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself 2 Cor. 5.12 and also upon Christs Resurrection from the dead whereby he was declared to be the Son of God with Power according to the Spirit of holiness Rom. 1.4 hath committed all power to Jesus Christ and accordingly afterwards gave him the Book with seven Seals Rev. 5. to open and execute the contents thereof to the end of the world and last Judgment So at the times of this New State God creates this New World for and gives it to his Son as a boon or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for doing all his Wills as was said of David and to his spiritual Seed with him as joynt-heirs thereof which will also be their sure Mercies of David Esai 55.3 and therefore it is said at his coming in the Clouds Dan. 7.13 14. there was given to him viz. by the Father Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all Nations People and Languages should serve him and therefore he also saith John 17.24 that the Glory he hath therein his Father hath given him and upon this great account also he bids his little flock not fear for it is his Fathers pleasure to give them the Kingdom and in reference unto both will all things then be made new for as God hath appointed him heir of all things so then he shall actually possess them as also ver 7. he promiseth to his overcomers that they shall inherit all things and the Apostle teacheth 2 Tim. 2.12 that those that suffer with him shall reign with him So that New State and Kingdom then is first and chiefly given to Christ which comprehends all the rest and is then prepared for Christ and those he then brings with him as his Spouse or Bride the Lambs Wife as her dowry at that great solemnity of the 1000 years And this the Fathers New Creation as it is deciphered Esai 65. will be a greater work than the first as the making of the spiritual New Creature is 2 Cor. 5.17 because here is a great incapacity in the world
Noah in our late Systeme preceding the Saints Resurrection 1. respecting Noah as a Type of Christs saving his as their true Ark at the overflowing de uge of the wicked worlds destruction at the beginning and end of the 1000 years Secondly in respect of that Covenant made with Noah for the worlds and Creatures preservation till those last times when the Scriptures also testifie the greatest fruitfulness also will be And thirdly in respect of his Prophesie Gen. 9. that the Posterity both of Shem the Jews and of Japhet the Gentiles as now we hinted should both in those times at both their second calls spoken of in Scripture Deut. 32.43 rejoyce together applied also Rom. 15. to those times with other Scriptures respecting the same c. The same times were pointed out by our four Computations of the Jews deliverance and the great enemies destruction out of Daniel and Revelation formerly explained in our Parallels The like may be observed from what we said before of the Tabernacle of God at the same time being with men and his dwelling with them c. ver 3 4. wherefore also the name of the City then seems to be called Jehovah Shamma the Lord is there Ezek. 48 last And at the same time the Sun is ashamed and the Moon confounded when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his Antients gloriously Esa 24.23 which all â—â—spect the same times The New Covenant upon the New giving of the Law after the first Tables were broken Deut. 30. to 11. especially respects Gods People the Jews in those times which seems to be the antient foundation in Moses writings of which divers like in the following Prophets are the confirmations and explications as Jer. 31.33 Ezek 36. more especially belonging to that people after their reduction from their great dispersions though applicable to all Abrahams spiritual Seed in the times of the Gentiles also Heb. 8.9 10 11. These times are also pointed out by the great solemnity of the Marriage of the Lamb with his Bride the 1000 years at the New Jerusalems coming down from God out of Heaven which great solemnity was prophesied of by the holy Kingly Prophet David Psal 45. when she shall have Sons whom she may make Princes in all Lands To which purpose is that excellent Song of Songs by Solomon as respecting the return of the Shulamite in the Book of the Canticles probably about the time the Bride is said to make her self ready Rev. 19.7 And Solomons peaceable Kingdom of old was but a Type of that peaceful and glorious Kingdom and state which Christ with his Saints at the said times of restitution of all things shall enjoy the 1000 years The Scepter and Dominion prophesied of by Balaam Numb 24. and according to Jocobs Prophesie placed in the Tribe of Judah said by him to be a Lyons whelp and the Ensigne thereof was also the Lyon accordingly Rev. 5. Christ is stiled the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah and in Ch. 22. stiles himself so when in those times he shall be as a strong Lyon to destroy his enemies Ps 110. who also is both the Root and Offspring of David Rev. 5. as will wonderfully 〈◊〉 manifest in the same times c. The first Adams casting out of Paradise compared with Christs Key for the restoring all the spiritual Seed to a Paradise in that State manifests it to be Gods designe from the beginning by that Goel or Deliverer promised to be at his second coming a more perfect Restorer of all things then than the Serpent Satan was or could be a corrupter or destroyer before it was called Abrahams bosom whether Christ said the Angels carried Lazarus his Soul but after by our Saviour was called Paradise at his death when he had purchased it and promised the Penitent Thief as we noted that he should be with him there that day and so the Apostle Paul said he was rapt up into the third Heaven or Paradise 2 Cor. 12. called after the Paradise of God in the world the 1000 years of Christs Reign with his Saints and so is coincident in the same times of the Restitution with the other The same times are also set forth by the world to come Heb. 2.5 and 1.6 as the general Deluge ended the Old World and began the New so the ruine of that last wicked Roman Monarchy in respect of each of those long God-provoking States therein viz. both Civil and Ecclesiastical with all the broken parts of the three former Monarchies Dan. 2. will end this world in the present state of things and Christs said 1000 years Reign in those times will begin that World to come and the Apostle Paul Ephes 1.21 uses the same distinction which by our Saviour had been laid down before when he taught that the sin against the Holy Ghost should neither be forgiven in this world nor in the world to come Matth. 12.32 which will begin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the Father brings the Son again into the world viz. the second time as both Ancients and even Papists understand it when all the Elohim Angels shall worship him as Psal 97. Likewise the 42 Stages in the Childrens of Israel their passing through the Wilderness to possess the Land of Canaan was a Type of the womans the Christ ans's Church passing in her wilderness condition in the times of the Beasts 42 Moneths to attain in the issue to the New Jerusalem state in the said times of the restitution of all things or that redemption of the purchased possession as it seems Ephes 1.14 The restoring the Dominion over the Creatures lost by the fall of the first Adam was foretold by David to be obtained by Christ the second Adam Psal 8.4 5 6. c. as is explained and so applied by the Author to the Hebrews Chap. 2.6 7 8. which is another part of the Restitution of all things in the said times as we shewed And the said Creatures freedom from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God Rom. 8.21 will be another ingredient to make up that blessed state and although the same holy man Heb. 2.7 did acknowledge that they did not then see all things in subjection unto him yet he declares in due time Phil. 2.9 10. That every knee of things in Heaven and Earth and under the earth shall bow and be subject unto that great King of the whole world And can it be conceived by rational men that these Divine truths are written in vain and that Christ when he takes to himself his great power shall not reign in these respects also unto the end of the world and have that honour reserved for him by Angels men and all Creatures in the world then It appears also to be the end and drift of all Revelation Prophesie by that general Doxologâ—â— Ch. 5.10 to the end by Angels men and all Creatures upon the fulfilling of the contents of