a manner saving onely not faithless nor hopeless but for outward appearance of means very poor and mean He after had men but such as could in appearance yield him little comfort afford him little relief we hear not of their Money nor Arms yea it appears they were men in debt and in decayed conditions how should they live They fled to him in a Wilderness where should they have Arms And had they had them what skill were they like to have to use them Wha interest could such have in men that were considerable saving suâ—â— as might cause them to pursue them for their debts or for leaving their Masters service as Saul affirmed which must make Dav d's first estate appear to be the be â—nning of a very pitiful Principality So when the usurping god of this present world and that most tyrannous Prince of the power of the Air was by Christ to be thrown down from his Regency after his so long and maniâ—old rebellion against his Creator and Gods anointed King which he had decreed mangre all the vain opposition of Mon and Devils should sit upon h s holy Hill of Sion Psal 2. vet he comes into the world in the form of a Servant was born of a Mother a Virgin but in a present mean condition though inwardly glorious in holiness and grace though lineally descended from the Loyns of King David yet that was a thing little then observed or regarded by most at that time a Carpenter being her Husband and the reputed Father of Christ our Saviour as little acknowledged 't is probable to be the Son of God Therefore Christ being in our weak nature in such a low condition the world was uncapable of discerning or conceiving how he should be able to overcome that old Beelzebub the Prince of the Devils with all his Principalities and powers of spiritual wickednesses in high places 3. When the envy and malice of Saul was grown so great against David that by force or fraud by policy or treachery or by any means possible to rid David out of his way by his Daughter by his Servants by the Philistines his Javelins his Son Jonathan or by Doeg and other bad Instruments of Saul's Court or whoever was David's Enemy was thereupon to be owned as Saul's Friend Yet God ever preserved David from all his attempts by strange and unlikely ways and means as the sacred Story therein declares So as soon as Christ appears in the World Satan from a Divine Oracle of Christs birth at Bethlehem the City of David tempts Herod upon that acâ—ount to seek to take away his life then as was noted stirs up many slightings of his Person Parentage Kindred and Countrey then when he appeared more publick sets upon him in hunger to tempt God from ambition of a world to worship the Devil c. But still Christ overcame that strong man armed being stronger than he when he appeared the weakest 4. As David by such weak and unlikely instruments overcame or frustrated Saul assaults So Christ by poor Fishermen subdued the World to the obedience of the Gospel thereby making them Fishers of men and himself to be owned as the Saviour of mankind by those they were sent unto conquering and to conquer in the first Seal Rev. 6. and so through the following Seals till Constantines coming about anno 320 all that time where n Michael sought with his Angels against the Dragon and his Angels who prevailed not Rev. 12 7 8. when those poor persecuted Christians then converted to the faâ—thâ—â— Christ â—hat are storâ—ed to be strongly then encouraged by the Doctrine of reigning with Christ the thousand years suffered with such unshaken saith and constant patience and gloriously overcame that most devillish cruelty and tyranny of their bloody Persecutors in the Ten first Paganish Persecutions till the Dragon was cast out of his Heaven to the Earth Since which time he could not by such persecuting turn Christians into Pagans he hath attempted by iving his Seat Power and Authority to the Beast to Paganize Christianity it self and under many devised pretexts of Piety and Devotion by means of his said Substitute in his seat and authority to act in detestable hypocr sie in such horrid wickednesses against God and man that cannot appear in their true colours without some Vail of Hypocrisie cast over them Whence it was anciently observed since that time Sub nomine Christi militant contra Christum and after when in a more intense degree tha was apparent complaint thereof was made not without just cause In nomine Domini incipit omne malum which how manifold it is and by what cunning Contrivance with paganish Cruelty carried on would require a large volumn but even fitly to set down in what large volumâ—s it is already done And yet Christ by his poor Saints sufferings and his despised Sackcloth-Witnesses prophesying hath and doth and will overcome more and more both Dragon and Bâ—â—st and false â—rophet also by whom the other was revived after his former deadly wound unto their last destruction come and both are sent unto their own pâ—aâ—â— when Christ will most eminently make his Foes his Footstool and the Kingom of the Stone be changed into the Kingdom of the Mountain in the next partial Type with this of David to be now considered And that is in Solomon David's natural Seed derived immediately from his Loyns as promised to David named by God owned by him in a gracious manner appearing to him twice making him large offers giving him unparallel'd Gifts of Wisdom and Knowledge eminent Grace transcendent worldly Glory Dignity Riches and Revenues on the face of the earth admired far and near most famous for building the most glorious Temple or House of God and other Houses and in writing excellent Books of holy Scripture and many other Books But that he was but a Type of David's blessed Seed to come in the Kingdom of the Mountain may appear by his so sad declining for a time towards his elder years yet aâ—ter through grace returned But that he was his Type his Name denotes his Office his Works his Wisdom his Peace his Glory Wealth and Dignity his Religion his executing of Judgment his Peoples Peace Plenty Security under him c. whilst he walkeâ— wisely and stood upright do abundantly declare And in regard we are to consider the great Charâ—er of David and Solomon's Kingdom in the next place we shall here adde no more but come to our next foundation VII Seventhly Which is the seventh as being confirmed both to David and Solomon by a Divine Charter very eminently illustrated 2 Sam. 7.8 to the end in that most gracious Message that God sent by Nathan upon occasion of David's secret intent and purpose to build God an House for which he made great provision which though it was not in particular accepted for some reasons afterwards specifâ—â—d in the sequel yet God so approved of his pious affections of love â—o his
fore-tells ships shall come from the coasts of Chittim which Mr. Mede evidently shews to be meant of the Roman Navy coming from Italy and are so applied in the order of accomdlishment by Daniel Chap. 11.30 and then declares what the Romans shall do viz. They shall afflict Ashur and shall afflict Eber which they have long done but since they were to be the last Oppressor of the Jews he further adds And he also shall perish for ever or shall go into perdition as is otherwise expressed by the holy Ghost Rev. 17 8. that is the Roman Monarchies being the last shall utterly be ruined when Christ shall destroy the man of sin when all wicked and tyrannous Dominion shall utterly cease and the Kingdom of the Stone shall becom a great Mountain filling the whole Earth when that Star and that Scepter and that Dominion he spake of before verse 17 19. which are often in Scripture afterwards spoken of shall continue for ever viz. to the end of the world These things are obvious I shall not therefore here insist further on them V. Fifthly Typified first by one pair of partial Types in the Old World secondly by three partial pairs in the New First the said pair of partial Types in the Old World are Enoch's ascending shewing the bginning of the Kingdâ—m of the Stone at Christs ascention into Heaven Dan. 2 34. And Noah's saving his by the Ark shews how Christ at the general Rapture of all Saints as the true Ark will save them when all wicked men shall perish at the finishing of the Kingdom of the Mountain Dan. 2 33. First Enoch was a Type of Christ in his walking with God who as the Apostle saith Heb. 11.5 before his Translation had this Testimony That he pleased God and therefore was translated that he should not see death in a wonderful manner Body and Soul in a way unknown to man into an ever-blessed and happy condition Even as Christ having fulfilled the work God gave him to do on earth and fulfilled all the wills of his heavenly Father in the Body which he gave to him Heb. 10.5 7 8 9. who therefore had this Testimony from the Father That he was his beloved Son in whom he was well pleased Matth. 3.17 and after all things were done in order by him to the last finishing of the work of Redemption and the witnessing of his Resurrection from the dead to his Apostles and other faithful Witnesses thereof he then ascended visibly into Heaven in the sight of his Disciples Acts 19. Luke 24.51 which was his eminent beginning of the Kingdom of the Stone which is the first state thereof when he so triumphed gloriously over all the spiritual Powers of Darkness as the Apostle teacheth Col. 2.15 so leading Captivity captive to give his Kingly Divine Gists unto men Secondly Noah also that Preacher of Righteousness as he is stiled Heb. 11. may be added unto Enoch being another partial Type of Christ Kingdom in the second state of it or the Kingdom of the Mountain who by faith saith the Apostle Heb 11. performed that Princely or Kingly service to make the Ark in the sight of that wicked Generation in the Old World that after perished by the Flood thereby to save himself and all his Relations that entred with him into it So Christ who shall be called saith the Prophet Jeremiah Chap. 23 by his Church The Lord our Righteousness and hath long sent abroad the Preachers of his Righteousness into the wicked World who regardeth it not when the time of their perishing at last shall inevitably come upon them by a deluge of fire as it did on the old world by water He will himself become at that time the true Ark prepared for all his true Members united spiritually unto him at the general Rapture or Change of all the Saints when the wicked remaining on Earth shall all perish at the worlds lost destruction by fire where all the other shall abide with Christ in the greatest safety and security above all worldly dangers sufferings or changes even when the Heavens and Earth shall be dissolved for ever VI. Sixthly Again also typified by three pairs of partial Types in the New world First of the Kingdom of the Stone First In Abraham towards the first times of the new world Secondly In Moses his Conduct from Egypt and in the Wilderness afterwards Thirdly In David's Conquest and Kingdom which God set up and gave him Secondly of the Kingdom of the Mountain First In Melthisedeck King of Salem that is King of Peace Secondly In Joshua's Conduct of Gods People into the promised Land Thirdly In Solomon's peaceful Kingdom the immediate Seed of David's Loyns First In the New world God said a new foundation with Abraham of Christs Kingdom in his free Covenant with him to be his God and the God of his Seed which the Apostle saith was one namely Christ Gal. 3.16 and by no other way was Abraham capable of that mercy that God should become his God Indeed God both promised and bestowed many Benefits and Priviledges upon Abraham's Isaac's and Jacob's natural Seed upon the renewing or repeating of the substance of that Covenant but all upon that Foundation-Truth wherein their Souls were divinely illuminated that the Son of God should become the Son of Abraham in a wonderful divine manner and so by him in a spiritual way of grace such his Children by faith should become the Sons of God and both he and they by such a way of faith and grace should inherit all the promises as the Spirit of God revealed and parposed so to fulfil them And therefore the Apostle Heb. 11. doth remarkably shew how Abraham Isaaâ— Jacob and Sarah by such illuminat on of their Souls saw afar off by faith the promises to be fulfilled in Christs Kingdom and at the Resurrection of the Just when Abraham shall be heir of the world actuaily which he was but onely by faith whilst he lived in the world as he also teacheth Rem 4.13 and â—nely from that ground all Gods Servants are interessed in any â—â—mpora Promises or Blessings And in such time of his living but 〈◊〉 Abraham was a great conquerour of his Enemies when he dâ—â—vered his Brother Lot and his house and those with him from there Kings that carried them Captives So Christ whilst he is fulfilling the Covenant mâ—de with the Faithful he is a great Conquerour and delivereth all his Prethren whose flesh he took from their nature and gives them his Spirit from his own Divine Nature which makâ—s them neâ—â—ly related to him and dearly beloved of him and in whose behalf and for whose deliverance he did not onely venture himself as Abraham did for Lot and his but actually suffered death to deliver them from their spiritual bondage and erernal misery The other of this first pair of partial Types in the first times of the New World is Melchisedeck who is not improbably conceived to be Shem the
eldest Son of Noah who both of them lived in both the Old and the New Worlds by both holding out unto us the Eternity of God the Father and the Son from whom the Worlds deliverance was fully in time to be accomplished But Melchisedeck as also Abraham was both a Priest and King even as Abraham who seemed not onely to be a King by his said Conquest but a Priestâ—n offering his Son Isaac whom saith the Apostle he received again from death in a figure and was then appointed really to offer the Ram in the Bush in his stead and was also said in some sence to be a Prophet to pray for Abimelech Gen 20.7 Also Melchisedeck was Priest of the most high God without Father and without Mother then known in Abraham's days typifying the eternal Priesthood of Christ after his order Heb. 7. and also King of Salem that is King of Peace typifying also thereby Christ the great King of the New Jerusalem to come from God out of Heaven as he stile himself Matth. 5. which as the Son and Heir of Abraham doth also according to Gods Covenant belong unto him and sion it it is very observable that Christs Office and Title to his Kingdom is contâ—aally confirmed and renewed in all the renewed Promises and Types made by God to and by the faithful foreFathers successively as also Melchisedeck is here expresly said to be King of Salem an evident Type of Christ the great King of Jerusalem as was said who doth and will bless his People with all desirable peace as Melchisedeck blessed Abraham returning with the spoiâ—s from the slaughter of the said Kings as Christ will also more fully confirm to them when all his and their Foes are made his footstool Secondly Christs Kingdom in the said two-sold state of it was evidently deciphered in Moses his Conduct of Israel out of Egypt and in the Wilderness and then by Joshua's Conduct into Canaan But Christ to answer both doth not onely spiritually by his Death Resurrection and Ascertion deliver his Israel and leave them then in their Wilderness condition but as the true Joshua also or JESVS will save them from all evil and from all their enemies Luc. 1. and bring them into possession of the heavenly Canaan as it is stiled Heb. 3. being the City whose Builder and Maker is God prepared for the faithful fore-fathers Heb. 11. And first for Moses who was then stiled King in Jesurun as to Christs Ch rches first staâ—e during the Kingdom of the Stone set up by his first coming Dan. 2.34 In respect of which though Moses as the Apostle Paul speaketh was faithful in all Gods House Heb. 3.2 yet but as a Servant and Mâ—nister of the Lord the Antitype for he made or gave no Laws then of his own to Gods people but what he received from God for them nor executed Judgment in extraordinary cases but by Gods direction as in the gathering sticks on the Sabbath day But Christ was as a Son when he came in his own House Heb. 5.6 whose House his People are What Gospel Moses taught Israel or set before them then was but in the â—ype till the tâ—me of Reformation Heb 9.10 till Christ put an end to aâ—l typical worship Buâ— Moses could not bring them to the promised Rest that he left for Josâ—ua to perform So all the life and substance of all Moses â—ypes and Ceremonâ—s was onely to be sound in Christ He the true and onely Son of God carrâ—ed â—ll those things to their full and perfect end who will be the true peace and rest of his People in the Land of the Living as that World to come Heb. 2 5. is most properly so stiled where Abraham Isaac and Jacob must then live again with all the Faithful in their order and time But that latter stare of Christs said Mediators Kingdom on Earth as we noted was further typified in part by Joshua though in the better part under whose Condâ—ct Israel obtained their promised Inheritance of Canaan wherein Moses carre shâ—rt but be brought them inâ—o the possession of it Which Rest was after poâ—â—uâ—ed by them as saith the Prophet Mich. 2.10 which caused by degrees the utter expulsion of that People from it Yet as the Apostle proveth Heb 49. There remaiâ—s still a Sabbatism or Rest for the People of God with whom one day is as a thousand years and a theusand years as one day as the Apostle Peter informs us 2 Pet. 3.9 and through the said true Jeshuâ— or JESVS this Rest remairs to the People of God upon w câ— â—s on all former Sabbaths the Word and Works of God usually were appointed to be considered in them as he was always pâ—eased in â—he six â—oregoing Millenniums to give occasion and command so tâ—at long contiâ—ned Sabbatism or holy Rest of his people from sin and sorrow will be a time to contemplate on the Word and Works of God when their great hinderers viz. evil men and Devils will be removed ouâ— of their way and all requisite helps from God Men and 〈◊〉 will be afforded them for that long continued Sabbatism of that 〈◊〉 thousand years whence Men and Angels too will be more fitted for perpetual Hallelujahs in Heaven afterwards by so much more than they could have been from all that was possible to be learned by them to such purpose by all they had seen or known or heard before as I don't not but might largely be made manifest through all the six thou and years of the worlds being before Which Sabbatism may be thereupon sitly stiled Gods highest School to train up his Children of the highest form for their best employment of their most eminent and inlarged praising of God through their most happy Eternity thence to ensue In which Rest or Sabbatism Christ will infeoff his People and give them possession thereof with himself even as the Father hath appointed such a Kingdom unto him so he will appoint it unto them as Luc. 22.29 not as a Substitute onely or Type like Jeshua to give them their Lots therein but as Lord of the Inheritance and by his own Gift and not as to such as may cast away or spoil or lose their said Inheritance but as to such as shall there find a sure Rest and Dwelling Place from which neither inward nor outward spiritual or temporal Adversaries shall expel them so certainly blessed shall they be then that partake of that first blessed Resurrection Rev. 20.6 when they shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like Angels of God in Heaven as our Saviour speaks of those Children of the Resurrection Matth. 22.30 in that and many other respects and such of the Saints as live in the animal Life then under the Protection of Christ the great King will be as safe as his Disciples were of whom he said Of those which thou gavest me have I lost none John 17. Yea more his Word seems in many places to hold out that the
Name blaspheâ—ed amongst 〈◊〉 Paganish and Barbarous Nations that know him not And on the other part by their many Craâ—ts and Cruelâ— to 〈…〉 and persecute poor ignoran Souls or others thaâ— fall into their Nets or by their tyrannous Practices the mysterious in quity whereof will be revealed when their Inquisitors shall come to be anatomized whereby they have earnestly laboured to force them to yield to their evil designs Yea how have they violently for many hundreds of years past killed the Saints How many most barbarous massacres and bloody persecutions have they acted in against those meek Lambs of that now alive yet once was slain Lamb of God Christ Jesus who shortly to their terror shall appear to be the Lion of the Tribe of Judah Rev. 5.5 when they have filled up their measure which they have ever been doing from the time the great red Dragon gave unto that multi-form'd Beast his Seat with great power and authority to act therein for his forty two months Rev. 13.1 6 7. which he hath accordingly improved as both History and Experience hath abundantly though sadly discovered and will do so more and more to his power which is the heavy spiritual Judgment of that man of Sin and therefore more heavy because so senceless of it even until his time shall be no longer Rev. 10.6 7. as the Angel probably Christ forewarns that strange Creature and when it will be And doth not the height of those prodigious impieties and prevailing abominations too too conspicuous in that whole Antichristian Body and every Limb thereof in the sight of all observant persons and people appear evidently to hasten the destruction thereof together with that said Beast who as Daniel also foresaw should be then slain and his body given to the burning flame chap 7 11. Of which Prophesie and Vision this glorious appearance made by Christ of his next coming chap. 19 11. is a clear comment and decyphered completion shortly to take place as we have reason to expect and also to be fully accomplished accordingly And then likewise together with Babilons ruine will happily hasten the raising up of Sion And upon Antichrists destruction will certainly succeed Christs said so wonderful exaltation in in the world in that his Divine and Kingly visible Glory and Majesty then to be manifest namely to be the Prince of the Kings of the earth as Rev. 1.5 though formerly rejected by such many times and that in the sight of men angels and all creatures Rev. 5.9 10 11 12 13. who shall then bow the knee and acknowledge him to be the Lord Phil. 2.9 for which at present the whole creation most heâ—vily groaneth Rom. 8.22 23. When that blessâ—d new Jerusalem state shall appear which then will be replenished with its holy and happy new raised Inhabitants with all that blessed communion of doubly saved Saints and holy Angels in such great and innumerable multitudes which said Angels as in heaven before they were wont to rejoyce in sinners conversion and even to be serviceable therein so will they then much more rejoyce in such happy communion of such multitudes of saved Saints Jews and Gentiles then to come in and of the perfectly holy communion of the before deceased Saints but then invested happily with their new raised bodies by the same power of Christ whereby then he will perfectly subdue all things in their due order unto himself as the Apostle Paul instructs us Phil. 3. ult Then shall they be Isangeloi as our Saviour speaks like to the Angels of God before in heaven when the said Hiero-metropolis or holy mother City as the Prophet Esay foretold will arise and shine because her light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon her ch 60. ver 1. as in those large and various descriptons of the manifold excellency of that City both in former and following chapters are set down as also in many other portions of holy Scripture may be observed Some of which are applied Rev. 21. to that City particularly as we noted whereby the Spirit God teacheth us evidently their proper meaning and literal sence riz respecting the happy estate of that great and holy New Jerusalem whose beauty and glory and blessedness on earth would require a large volumn aptly to display in what from Scripture grounds might to that purpose be evidenced respecting the same and yet many things more than what now we can attain to may be groundedly expected For that time when the Temple of God shall be opened in heaven and men shall see in his Temple the Ark of his Testament Rev. 11.19 and the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of one day shall be sevenfold as the light of seven daies as is foretold thereof Es 30.26 many mysteries of Christ and his Religion of his works of Creation Redemption and Providence and many mysteries now in the varieties of the creatures many wayes till then little understood as is probable when the Lord shall be unto that City her everlasting light and her God her glory Isa 60.19 And the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea Hab. 2 14. It will then be a filling of the Earth with knowledge and that of the glory of the Lord and in such measure as shall be to the uttermost capacity of it as the Sea ready to overflow where it hath any passage and would cover every place with its waters so in that time there will be a knowledge of all then knowable as we may say Besides those Excellencies set down to be before in and after the thousand years of Christs said Reign as in our first convincing Argument in the Word Written are to be seen concerning which a Body of Divinity respecting that world might usefully be written from Scripture warrant from all which as from an excellent School reserved for the highest form of those than so excellent God glorifying Creatures raised Saints and Angels with others when all things by Christ shall then be made new as Rev. 21 5. I doubt not but abundant matter of everlasting praâ—se will strong y for that state enforce the same yet with the greatest willâ—ngness and complacency upon all such or the like advantager Whereupon these afterwards everlasting Hallelujahs will most amply and perpetually be sung to the Trin-Une Deity of Father Son and holy Ghost eternally most blessed holy and glorious by men and Angels as was said for ever and ever Amen To Glory's God all Glory 's due for aye To him alone this Due let all such pay AMEN FINIS