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A59938	A plain and evident discovery of the two personal comings of Christ one at the beginning of his thousand years reign, Rev. 20, 4, with his holy and blessed raised saints in the Now [sic] Jerusalem, come down from God out of heaven, Rev. 21, the other after the little space when the thousand years are ended, &c. : whereunto are added many profitable applications of the same doctrine for all sorts of persons.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1670 (1670)	Wing S3408; ESTC R38237	52,178	52

in Mr. Mede's Answer to Dr. Twisse's second Letter See Zech. 12.10 11. with Rev. 1.7 Isa 66.8 Isa 60. with many other Texts of Scripture 2dly Another sort of subjects then will be Converted Heathen Gentiles then to come in Isa 60.5 6 c. Isa 19. who shall be then Christ's Inheritance and the utmost parts of the Earth his Possession as Psal 2.8 which the Apostle reckons the greatest riches of the Gentiles Rom. 11.12 If the casting off the Jews was the riches of the Gentiles how much more their fulness And afterwards v. 25. he reveals it as a Mystery to humble us Gentiles in the mean time that blindness was in part happened to the Jews until a first fulness of the Gentiles was come in which our Saviour expresseth by the fulfilling of the times of the Gentiles Luke 21.24 for so long was the Jews calamity and miserable Captivity to endure from Jerusalems destruction as is evident from the context 3dly Christ's chief and best Subjects or Assessors and Deputies then in that his Kingdom will be the blessed raised Saints in the New Jerusalem come down from God Rev. 21.2 who is said to be the Maker and Builder of that City Heb. 11.10 16. which are they our Saviour saith that are counted worthy of that World and the Resurrection of the Just called there also the Children of the Resurrection Luk. 20.35 36. even in that habitable World as the Apostle calls it Heb. 2.5 And at that time when God brings his Son again into the World Heb. 1.6 Where those which God gave him before shall see his own Glory given him as Mediator by the Father as a manifestation of his eternal love to him who he knew would perfectly fulfill that Office and therefore in his last Testament-Will he bequeatheth it to them in the presence of his Father and his Disciples saying John 17.24 Father I will that they c. Observe well both the words and the context they are very weighty all full to this purpose that those raised Saints shall there be where Christ is in his own Kingdom as Dan. 7. there beholding his Glory and many other Texts to the like purpose Consider in the Books wherein many other excellent and sweet points of Christian Doctrine to serious spirits may be observable bordering upon these which to such may by God's Grace be exceeding available to promote Grace and Piety and that from a great advantage above what usually hath been taught or is yet expected by most Christians namely from the weighty consideration of the happiness of the whole man both in soul and body together and that upon Earth where those Saints were formerly despised and suffered when their enemies shall not live in body Isa 26.14 but they shall live with Christ in a triumphant state of Glory Rev. 20.4 5. and that above a thousand years sooner than is ordinarily expected and this happy estate will be a sure entrance into the possession of eternal blessedness in the highest Heavens Men use too greatly to prize and very dearly purchase many times with the loss of their precious souls their earthly falsly supposed perpetuities and when they have done all know not that they or their heirs shall possess I will not say enjoy them for a thousand dayes on Earth but suppose a lawful acquired purchase and left ordinarily with the greatest hope of blessing by a Godly Parent to a gracious Christian Posterity yet how soon do successions many times here degenerate and in some few hundreds of years how are Estates and Nations turned up-side down as sacred and other Histories abundantly evidence and the best mens best estate is here full of evil as well as good bitter sweets at the best yea they and every man in his best estate is altogether vanity Psal 39. And doth Christ by his own peculiar teaching and his evidence must needs be best assure his faithful Servants he hath procured and appointed unto them not a small pittance but a Kingdom and one that cannot be shaken not for a life here or a few successions but for a thousand years on Earth free not only from outward enemies but in the judgment of the best Christians from far worse scil from Sin and Satan with all their retinue Shame Sorrow Death Hell with all that black Regiment that guards them c. On the other hand What bruitish madness do wise men reckon such to be possessed with that cast away a great Estate with the casting of a Dye or by any other sinful earthly frenzy but what is it for any worldly vanity with a curse hereunto entailed and sometimes pursuing it close at the heels to cast away a sure Christian Interest in such a Kingdom as Christ's is sure to be on earth so glorious so satisfying as every condition of the faithful after death is satisfying fully so secure every way blessed in what they enjoy at that period and in what they know they shall enjoy to all eternity For as evil men are made to know all the degrees of their cursed estate both of soul and body likewise to come to their exceeding horror from the very moment of their death when their Conscience being let loose is their accuser witness judge executioner and continual tormentor so godly men appear to know from the very moment of their departure hence every happy condition they are to pass through to eternity therefore of this state said the representatives Rev. 5.10 almost one thousand six hundred years ago we shall reign upon earth so that on the one hand upon this said great advantage Christians may be urged by the Apostles argument a fortiori more strongly as the good is so great and near approaching wherefore Beloved brethren since these things are so what manner of men ought we to be in all holy manner of conversation c. And on the other hand in respect of evil men a fortiori they will not only lose such happiness which they wil not now believe but they will presently know they have lost it and that it will from thenceforth be irrecoverable and which ever will make them miserable they will find they were taken hence in wrath from the tenders of mercy which they had shal never have tenders thereof again made before Christ's second coming or at his coming nor after the last resurrection so that whether thus taken away in particular-displeasure or in the common destruction of the wicked they will throughly know each miserable estate which shall abode them privatively positively as well their poenam damni as poenam sensus as well what they have irreparably lost as what in every estate to eternity will be inflicted upon them Qu. But here by the way is one great Question How will this Doctrine be proved for many great and learned men do not assent to it Answ Whether any Doctrine that is founded evidently and strongly on Gods Word is owned by learned men or eminent men in the

again upon Earth which he speaks of twice v. 15 17. as being in a very different condition from those that are dead then and in the thousand years and to be first raised when all wicked men are to be raised Where note he saith not We shall rise first then as he did of the other state we that are alive and remain but the dead in Christ and that they with all such as were in the natural life on Earth who should have a momentany change then instead of a death and also that all those that were before raised in the thousand years should all at once be rapt up to meet Christ in the air and altogether be thenceforth ever with the Lord who had for a little time before absented himself from them And that the Apostle in this Epistle speaks both of his second and third coming may thus further be made to appear chap. 3.13 he speaks of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with All his Saints and again chap. 4.14 he saith also them also that sleep in Jesus shall God bring with him he brings them with him at his next appearance to take their bodies in the first Resurrection Rev. 20.6 but at his third coming they are not said to be brought with him but rapt up to meet him in the air when he is descended from Heaven Before he had left them a little season but afterwards they shall be ever with the Lord. To which purpose Enoch prophesied of old of his first coming Jude 14.8 Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints that is when the New Jerusalem which is above and called by the Apostle The Mother of us all Gal. 4.26 shall come down from God out of Heaven at his second coming at the time of the restitution of all things Acts 3.20 21. Rev. 21. being prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband when he will make all things new and the Tabernacle of God shall be with men v. 2 3 5. when the souls beheaded for the testimony of Jesus shall live and reign with Christ the thousand years Rev. 20.4 and when he will begin that judgment Rev. 11.18 to reward his servants the Prophets and his Saints and all that fear his Name both small and great and when the four Beasts or rather living wights and the twenty four Elders Rev. 5.10 shall actually enjoy that which they foresaw in Vision above one thousand five hundred years before that they should reign upon earth for he is not said to bring them with him at his third coming but to take them up to him to meet him in the air by a sudden resurrection and momentany change and rapture who before in great part lived again and remained upon Earth or in the World until that time and yet he saith that they should not prevent those that were then asleep and also shews that though Christ had left them for a season before yet from thence-forward they should all ever be with the Lord. And for his second coming the Scripture is very full and clear at the destruction of Antichrist from Dan. 7.14 when he shall come in the cl●●●● of Heaven and Rev. 1.7 Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and 2 Thess 2.8 he will then destroy the Man of Sin with the appearance of his Coming when he shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on those wicked men who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his Power and then also be glorified in his Saints and admired in all them that believe 2 Thess 1.8 9 10. And this is his appearance at his Kingdom when he will judge both quick dead as 1 Tim. 4.1 by destroying wicked men and rewarding the Righteous as Rev. 11.18 20.4 for then God begins to make his foes his footstool when having taken to himself his great Power he destroyes them that destroyed the Earth as follows in Rev. 11.18 and all this will be at or about the same time when Michael the great Prince that is the Messiah shall stand up to deliver his People Dan. 12.1 when such a time of trouble will be as never was since there was a Nation and such a great Earthquake also will be then at the pouring-out of the last Viol to finish the destruction of the Beast as never was since men were upon the Earth even till that time so mighty an Earthquake and so great Rev. 16. latter end and likewise Dan. 7.9 10 11. ver 26. for the Judgment is set to that end and the Books then opened as in ver 10. See many Texts that speak of this his second coming in the Irenicon pag. 42 43 44. and for his personal appearance which is the same second coming in the Forerunner p. 47 48. And for his third descending with a shout from heaven and the voyce of the Archangel and the Trump of God when the rest of the Saints that dyed in the thousand years shall be again raised as the other were in the thousand years that had reigned with Christ before upon earth before Satan seduced the last Gog and Magog See the Abridgm● on Daniels Visions there is above a thousand years space as was said from his second coming to that third when namely at his third coming he will sit upon that great white throne as Judg from whose face the Earth and Heavens will then slee away Rev. 20. after the last Gog and Magog shall be destroyed ver 11 12 to the end Also concerning this third coming seems St. Peter also to speak 2 Pet. 3.10 which words are spoken to the terrour of ungodly men termed there Scoffers at the promise of his coming whom that last coming doth specially concern and yet with the exceptive particle Nevertheless brings in the consolation for the Godly from the promise of the new Heavens and the new Earth which before in the thousand years they should enjoy with him v. 〈◊〉 Mr. Archer observes first his second coming from Mat. 25.30 〈◊〉 his third from ver 31. sutable to what St. Paul expresseth 1 Cor. 15. where he speaks of his first coming v. 23. saying Christ the first fruits afterwards 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they that are Christ's at his coming Then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he cometh the end where the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are used at a great distance for Christ the first fruits arose before the Saints at his next coming above 1600 years and then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 afterwards the end cometh above a thousand years after his said second coming and at his third when the last Session of the day of Judgment will be held and finished Where he further also v. 24. sets down what must be done at that third coming with what was done before that all along the thousand years from the

of which God said Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Psal 2.7 applyed largely by St. Paul to Christ's Resurrection Acts 13.33 34 35 36 37. with other Scriptures of which saith he again Rom. 1.4 he was declared to be the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead And being so glorified by his Father he also glorified him by setting up the preaching of the Gospel and give Salvation thereby v. 2 3 4. when all power being given to him in Heaven and in Earth as he said Mat. 28.18 he then mainly improves the same in commissionating and fitting and sending his Disciples to be his Apostles to preach the Gospel as in the Prayer is to be observed afterwards and Mat. 28.19 20. Go preach the Gospel to all Nations and Mark 15. Go preach the Gospel to every creature and also glorified his Father many wayes in the forty days after his Resurrection but especially he is said then to speak to his Disciples of the things that concerned the Kingdom of God Acts 3.3 4 5. whereupon seemed that question of the same Kingdom then to be moved by them c. The next step was his Prayer for his Ascension into Heaven v. 5. to be glorified with that Glory which he had before in the Bosom of his Father before the world was when he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but thenceforward should as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God-man in one person sit at the right-hand of the Father in his Caelestial Glory which he had with the Father before the world was and then v. 6 7 8. having declared divers things respecting his Disciples what he had done towards them and what effect was found in them c. he proceeds in v. 9 11. to make his Prayer for his Disciples after to be his Apostles being in the world when he was ascended that his Father would keep them from that evil world as he had done for them to that time v. 12. having shewed their joynt interest ver 10. and shews the end why he spake these things suitable to their present state v. 13 14. and shewing what Persecution they were to look for but how they should be preserved c. he proceeds to limit his Prayer for his Disciples v. 15. not that they should be taken out of the world but that they should be kept from the evil And since they were not of that world v. 16. he prayes further in v. 17. to have them sanctified by the Word of God's Truth and giving them their Mission v. 18. he shews the end of his sanctifying himself was for their sanctification by that means v. 19. So having done with what concerned his Disciples to be sent as Apostles into the world and in them for all faithful Messengers of the Gospel that were to succeed he then proceeds v. 20. to pray for all truly faithful and believing souls through their Word as he speaks even from that time of their Mission to his Coming again as may many wayes appear by what follows from ver 20. to 25. wherein all such faithful persons should be equally concerned shewing that the end and drift of all their believing through their Word or of any of his Messengers was that they might all be one as the Father was in him and he in the Father that they might be one as the Father and the Son were one v. 21 22. that is that they should be as the Bride the Lamb's Wife is one with her Head in the New Jerusalem come down from God out of Heaven Rev. 21. and so made perfect in one v. 23. at Christ's second coming or his coming again into the world as Heb. 1.6 when that good world to come shall believe that the Father hath sent him yea and know it too in an especial manner as he adds and repeats in part the same thing v. 21 23. having shewed in v. 22. that he had given them the same Glory that the Father had given him in his Kingdom Dan. 7.14 15. and for that end that they might be one as was said before as he and the Father are one who loved them as he had loved him And v. 24. he further declares his own last Will and Testament in that particular respecting the enjoyment of that happiness with himself in the said Kingdom which his Father had given him as Mediator as a reward in time for that work finished in the time of that his Office which the Faithful should enjoy with him in the time of that said good World to come when they should be where he should be and behold to their happiness the Glory then given him by his Father from his love to him as his obedient Son and faithful Servant before the foundation of the world and in the two last verses concludes with some special consolations respecting his Disciples as follows ver 25 26. to the end of the chapter Thus divinely hath our blessed Saviour according to his infinite Wisdom couched the order of these glorious Mysteries in his making and leaving this most excellent Prophetical and declarative Prayer of his before his departure out of the World recorded by his beloved Apostle St. John for the information and consolation of his poor and little little Flock to whom with himself it was his Father's pleasure to give that Kingdom with himself on Earth Rev. 20.4 Rev. 5.10 And the advancement of that state is the great drift of our Lord's Prayer recorded also by two Evangelists namely that God's Name may be hallowed See Irenicon p. 30. and his Kingdom come and consequently his Will be doen in Earth then as in Heaven before for which purpose as God's People should alwayes endeavour faithfully so they have abundant ground to believe from the Word it will be so done in the time when the Devil will be shut up in the bottomless-pit from seducing the Nations for a thousand years space Rev. 20. The blessed and holy Saints shall come with Christ to take their bodies in their own order The glorious Angels shall come and worship him and do their service to him in the world Heb. 1.6 And all the creatures in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth shall bow the knee and be subject unto him Phil. 2. and all things be made new by him Rev. 21.5 all which since his Word declareth most surely shall be performed 21. Observ That the perfect Dominion over the Creatures which was part of the Image of God upon Man in his innocency will be restored again unto him the holy Scriptures make evident which the Apostle Paul saith The whole Creation groans for to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God Rom. 8. and this David prophetically foreshews will be done in Christ Ps 8. where he saith God had visited him the Son of man and made him for a little time as both the word in the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉