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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39212	The great day at the dore and he cometh with clouds that shall judge the quick and the dead, and reigne on the earth with all his saints, not for a thousand yeares in this corrupt and sinfull world, as some coruptly conceive and teach, nay, but for a thousand and a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand thousands of yeares, even for ever and ever, eternally in the world to come ... proved clearly by the word of God ...	Eachard, John, 17th cent.	1648 (1648)	Wing E49; ESTC R149	28,197	34

and shall more clearly and fully after the full end of those abominable dayes as the Scripture declares The Lord having now in this last age of the world a great number of his elect to call and sanctifie his last fruits being now to be all gathered in for which cause also peace is to be in Christendome the most part of those fourty five years according to Ezek. 38. 8 11 12. and Dan. 12. 12. Even untill Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and with those foule spirits of Devils go forth unto the Kings of the Earth and of the whole world to deceive them and the nations of the foure quarters of the earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to battell whose number is as the sands of the Sea innumerable and shall compasse the Camp of the Saints about and the beloved Citie for a litle season untill fire shall down from God out of heaven and devoure them as it is written Ezek. 38. 3 4 5 6 7 8. Ezek. 39. 2. Rev 16. 4. Rev. 20. 7 8 9. And then in the time of this battell will be that great earth-quake spoken of Rev. 6. 12. Rev. 16. 18. that great sh●king in the Land of Israel foretold by Ezek. 38. 18 19 20. that of which it is said Yet once more will I shake not the earth onely but also heaven testified Heh. 12. 26. from the words of the prophet Hag. 2. 6 7. Then shall the Sunne be darkned and become black as Sackcloth of haire the Moon shall lose her light and also become as blood the Starres shall fall from heaven to the earth and the powers of heaven shall be shaken as it is written Esay 34. 4 5. Ioel 2. 30 31. Ioel 3. 14 15 16. Matth. 24. 29. Rev. 6. 12 13. 14. All which things being figuratively intended according to that in Rev. 8 12. and Rev. 12. 1. fulfilled long agoe So that by the Sunne we are to understand the Gospel of Christ and the l●ght thereof and by the Moon the earth and the i●habitants of it whose light of f●ith and 〈◊〉 depen● on the light of the Gospel as the light of the naturall Moone doth on the light of the Sunne and by the Starres those in the Church of God as are in place as st●rrs and lights to the world some of which b●●ng faithfull sh●ll ●e 〈◊〉 and fall to the earth for the witnesse of Christ and his truth l●ke unto that third p●r● of the starres in the primitive time whom the Dragon with his taile drew downe and cast to the earth Rev. 12. And others being unfaithfull like untimely Figges shall fall away from Christ and his Gospel to Mahumatisms and other heathenish Apostasie and wickednesse And by the powers of heauen th outward estate of the Church and all meanes of salvation to the world The number of Gods elect being accomplished the limited day of grace will be ended and there shall be time no longer no time nor place for any man more to turn unto God by repentance and reconciled unto him by faith in Christ He that is unjust let him be unjust still and he which is filthy let him be filt●y still and he that is righteous let him be righteous still and ●e that is holy let him be holy still This will be the case at this time as the Lord hath spoken Rev. 10. 7. Rev. 22. 11. Where he also saith And behold I come quickly c. vers. 12 13. The Armies of Gog will now spread themselves upon the breadth of the Land throughout the Lords mountains as it is said Ezek. 38. 8 9. And there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel and the troubles for the time will be great But the Lord God he having respect to his faithfull in defence of ●hem and for his own holy name glory sake will call for a Sword agai●st them throughout all his mountains every man● Sword shall be against his brother and the Lord will plead against them with pestilence and with blood and will rain upon Gog and upon all his Bands and the many people with him an over flowing rain and great hailstones fire and brimstone and they shall fall upon the mountaines of Israel and bee devoured as it is written Ezek. 38. 21 22. Ezek. 39. 3 4 5. Rev. 16. 24. Rev. 20. 4. So the moon will be turned into blood The Lord will now bathe his sword in heaven as he hath said Esay 34. 4 5 6. The land shall be soakt with blood and the dust thereof made fat with fatnesse Hee will call every feathered fowle and every beast of the field and say Assemble your selves and come gather your selves together on every side to my slaughter that I do sacrifice for you even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel that ye may eat flesh and drink blood Ye shall eat the flesh of the Mighty and drink the blood of the Princes of the earth of Rammes and of Lambs and of great goats of Bullocks all of them fathings of Bashan and ye shall eat fat till ye he full and drink blood till ye be drunken of my sacrisice which I have sacrificed for you Thus shall ye be filled at my table with Horses with Chariots with mighty men and with all men of war saith the Lord God Ezek. 39. ●0 18 19 20. according to Esay before mentioned who thereupon sayth For it is the day of the Lords vengeance and the yeare of recompence for the con●roversie of Sion Esay 34. 4 5 6. 7 8. As also chap. 63. 4. For the day of vengeance is in my heart and the yeare of my redeemed is come For as the Dragon or Romans compassing Ierusalem about was as Ch●ist fore-told his faithfull the very last and infallible signe of the desolation thereof so this of the Dragons compassing the Camp of the Saints and beloved City with his Armies of Gog and Magog and their destruction by fire from heaven will bee the last and most certain signe of the end of this world and of the coming of Chr●st in his Kingdome And therefore Ezekiel as well as Esay thereupon faith Behold it is come and it is done saith the Lord this is the day whereof I have spoken Ezek. 39. 8. And Rev. 16. upon the very same when the seventh Angell had powred out his viall into the aire there came a great voyce out of the Temple of heaven from the Throne saying It is done And Rev. 21. after the same destruction of Gog and Magog And he that sate upon the Throne said Behold I make all things new and he said unto me It is done I am Alpha and Omega c. verse 5 6. Let all sorts of Millinaries consider of these things and know that there is not so much as one hundred yeares time to come of this world before the end for any Kingdome Lordship or State soever And let them see their error and great mistake of the Scriptures

in the last time as Peter saith 1 Pet. 1. 5. and that within the veil spoken of Heb. 6. 19. whereinto the forerunner Jesus Christ is for us entred And for the words of Paul 1 Thess. 4. 17. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the aire and so shall we be ever with the Lord If the Apostle had said the Lord would come to meet us in the aire there might have been some reason for us to think as many neverthelesse doe that he meant to take us up into heaven from whence he came But his words being We shall be caught up to meet him doe plainly imply that he cometh unto us to the earth which is his inheritance and to some one place therein which no doubt will be as the Prophet sait● The mount of Olives from whence he did ascend neare unto Mount Sion where Davids Throne was and his is to be according as God said notwithstanding all his opposites yet have I set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion And because his elect wil be then at his coming as they are now dispersed over all the earth and he being one person who can be but in one place at once and coming from heaven he will send his Angles as he hath said who shall take them up out of all places to meet him in the aire and so they shall be ever with him in his Kingdome which at his appearing shall be manifested as it is written Neither is there a word in all the Sc●iptures that speaks of Christs ascending up with his Saints into the heavens where he now is after his coming and the resurrection of their bodies nor that promiseth the same for their habitation But that they shall inherit the earth and dwell therein for ever there are many words and promises in many places of Scripture where this is exprest as Psalm 25. 13. Psalm 37. Mat. 5. 5 Heb. 11. 8. Rom. 4. 13. and sundry other And whatsoever things are said to be prepared and reserved in heaven for the Saints or promised as rewards unto them as Christ saith Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evill against you falsly for my sake Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven c. Matth. 5. and other places All those great rewards and things that no eye hath seen will Christ bring with him as it is written Esay 40. 10. and 62. 11. Rev. 22. 12. And as concerning Gods creation of the Heavens and the Earth that God should destroy the same or turn all unto a Chaos again as some imagine the Scriptures no where speake to any such purpose but the clean contrary often That he hath established it and will so that it shall never be moved as 1 Chron. 16. 30. Psal. 78. 69. Psal. 93. 1. Psal. 104. 5. Psal. 144. 5 6. Esay 45. 17 18. Onely the corrupt and evill estate of all things with the curse which our sinnes have caused shall bee r●moved in which respect the whole creation is said to groan and the creature to be delivered from the bondage of corruption as Rom. 8. So the Heavens and Earth that now are shall passe away and no place any more be sound for them as it is written Esay 65 16 17. 2 Pet. 3. 10. Rev. 20. 11. and 21. 1. And all this shall be done in the very same day wherein Christ shall come as Peter saith and as Iohn also testifieth saying And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate on it from whose face the Earth and the Heavens fled away and there was found no place for them They are to flye away at his coming For corruption and evill may not abide where the Throne of God and of the Lamb shall be nor where his holy City shal appeare and therefore Iohn saith I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth and the former were passed away c. It were a very unreasonable thing unbeseeming us once to think that God should make this excellent frame and wonderfull worke of the world the Heavens Sunne Moon and Starres the Earth plants all other creatures to destroy the same This were to make God weak like unto man that builds and pulls down again because it is not to his minde Neither are we to conceive that God doth alter his purpose in any thing but what he first determined shall stand God created not the world for the time or state before the flood that old world which perished nor for this corrupt on● that now is as if it had been the utmost end he had respect unto therein Nay but we are to know it was for that which is to come where God onely shall be exalted in that day above all and his anoynted one Jesus Christ be under him King over all the earth and his redeemed an holy Nation and a Kingdome of Priests before him for ever world without end as it is written Esay 2. 11. 17. Psalm 2 6 7 8 9. Psalm 72. 8. Dan. 7. 14. Exod 19. 5 6. Ier. 31. 36 37. Ier. 33. 20 21 c. Esay 45. 17 18 19. 1 Pet. 2. 9. Rev. 5. 10. and sundry other places The Millinaries wi●l have marrying and giving in marriage infants of dayes waxing old and people to dye in their Christian Monarch But the Scriptures absolutely deny such things to be in that world where the Kingdome of Christ is to be with his Saints after the resurrection of their bodies when God shall have created new Heavens and a new Earth and Ierusalem a rejoycing c. as he saith There shall not be thence an infant of dayes nor an old man that hath not filled his dayes c. Esay 65. And Christ also more fully confirmeth it saying The children of this world marry and are given in marriage but they which shall be counted worthy of that world and of the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage neither can they dye any more c. Luke 20. 34 35 36. And the Apostle Paul saith to the faithful Behold I shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last Trump for the Trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortall must put o● immortallity c. 1 Cor. 15. 51 52 53. c. By all which testimonies it is plain that in the world to come after the resurrection of the Saints there shall be no more marrying nor any more children of dayes nor old men whose dayes are not filled nor any mortallity or dying All these things which were before in the former worlds shall now cease and be no more The childe of what dayes soever he was before few or many shall

resurrection Blessed and ●oly is he that hath part in the first Resurrection on such the 〈◊〉 death hath no power But they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand yeares All these words doe the Millinaries take as spoken to their purpose which I request ye beloved of the Lord well to consider ANd first this how Iohn could with any sense or truth say And I saw thrones and they sate upon them c. and mean by They as the Millinaries expound him the s●uls of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Iesus c. which were shewed him afterward Or why Iohn if he had so meant would not then rather have said first And I sa● the souls of them that were beheaded c. and then have said after this And I saw 〈◊〉 they 〈◊〉 upon them c. but that he had respect unto some other person● whom he had seen and spoken of before and who may they 〈◊〉 thought to be but the Beast and the false Prophet and those Kings of the 〈◊〉 that gathered themselves together against him that sate upon the white Ho●se and against his Army Chap. 1● For they 〈…〉 and had power and great authority and judgement given ●nto them and they beheaded the Saints for those causes mentioned as by Chap. 13. 1 2 15. 14. 12 13 14 appeareth according to Dan. 7. 25. But because Iohn had seen another vision of binding the Dragon before this of the Thrones c. therefore that we may the more clearly understand these things we are to consider of the same in the first place as a thing going before Vers. 1 2 3. And I saw an Angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomlesse pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold on the Dragon that old Serpent which is the Devill and Satan and bound him a thousand yeares and cast him into the bottomlesse pit and shut him up and set a seale upon him that he should deceive the N●tions no more till the thousand yeares should be finished and after that he must be loosed a little season What is to be understood by this Dragon called here that old Serpent the Devill and Satan and what this binding of him should meane and what his deceit was wherewith he deceived the Nations before he was bound and when this binding of him should be are things not here exprest Neither is there any thing at all spoken or shewed that the Dragon did or should doe under that name or title of the Dragon during all the time of the Beasts reigne from the beginning of Chap. 13. unto this place except that of giving his power and his throne and great authority to the Beast chap. 13. 2. onely in chap. 12. his doings are at large declared and what was done to him There after Iohn had seen that great wonder in Heaven A woman cloth●d with Sunne and the Moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve Starres and gr●at with child crying and pained to be delivered he s●i●h And there appeared another wonder in heaven and behold a great red Dragon having seven heads and ten horns c. ve●se 3 4 5. This great red Dragon thus described with these h●ads and horns cannot be taken for the Devil Satan onely and alone conside●ed but must needs be understood of those Pagan Emperou●s of Rome in whom Satan dwelt and by whom he ruled and wrought all th●se w●cked workes there described This was he that so cruelly used that heavenly woman the Church and Spouse of Christ drawing down with 〈…〉 of De●fied Ces●rs a third part of the Starres of hea●●● with who●e D●ctrine she was crowned and in the light whereof she wa●k●d and cast them to the earth and that stood before the woman ready to devoure her child as soon as it was born even all the fi●st fruits of spirituall off spring that man child which her Lord promised should 〈◊〉 all Na●ions with a rod of Iron Rev. 2. 26 27. This was he that with tho●e his evill Angels forced the woman from her most eminent bright shining primitive estate and to betake herselfe unto those two wings which her Lord then gave her of his word of Truth and 〈◊〉 into the Wildernesse there to have some refreshing from the face of the Sespent and be sed of God a thousand two hundred and sixty dayes For then was that great warre in heaven Michael and his Angels fighting against the Dragon and the Dragon and his Angels against Michael For the Name and Gospel of Jesus Christ and worship of the true God that made heaven and earth by Michael and his Angels that is to say Christ and his Apostles and their faithfull followers And in opposition to the same with sword and fire by the Dragon and his Angels those bloody Cesars for their open profest Idolatry Paganisme and superstition ●triving by all wicked means to root out the Name of Christ and worship of the true God from the earth and so settle himselfe in his throne to be worshipped and adored for ever But they prevailed not as the Text saith neither was their place found any more in heaven Michael and his Angels overcame them by the word of their testimony and their patient suffering their most cruell murders and tortures And the great Dragon was cast out as there it saith ver. 9. where he is described even as he is here ch. 20. 2. by the names of that old Serpent the Devil Satan which deceiveth the whole world c. his deceit being that of his Paganisine before mentioned and now was the time for Michael that Archangel Jesus Christ he having overcome the Dragon and cast him down to lay hold on him and binde him that he should so deceive the Nations no more nor so universally pursue the blood of the Saints slaughtering all that professed the Name of Jesus Christ as he had done for a thousand yeares space at the least during all the time of the Beasts reigne that was to succeed him whilst the true Church and Spouse of Christ should remain in the Wildernesse close and hidden as it were out of his fight till afterward that she should be seen abroad again with her graces shining and he loosed for a little season out of his prison This was he which Paul spake of that untill he was th●s taken out of the way letted the 〈◊〉 of Sin to be revealed 2 Thess. 2. 7 8. that Beast which Iohn saw rise out of the Sea Rev. 13. 1. All these things confidered and understood who now can be thought to be they that sate upon the thrones which Iohn saw after he had seen the Dragon bound Revel. 20. but the Beast and the false Prophet his Clergy and those ten hornes that had crowns on them who received power as Kings one houre with the Beast mentioned chap. 13. 1. 11. and 17. 12. and 19.