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The day-dawning and the day-star arising to the dispersed of Judah & Israel wherein is briefly handled their call and Christs second coming, whose day is neer at hand / by Tho. Collier.
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Collier, Thomas.
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present unto you is That that Jesus which was crucified by your forefathers at Jerusalem without the gate was and is the true Messiah and this is that principle of truth you have to this day rejected and my earnest desire is that you would read these lines with patience and weigh well the truth herein presented with much tenderness and love unto you and in this I shall present you with many new Testament-Scriptures useful being compared with the old be willing to read and compare them together before you judge And Oh that you would be moâ—e in searching after the knowledge of the truth of Gods grace held forth in the new Testament and if the Lord work upon your hearts I should commend principally unto you the Epistle to the Hebrews which especially concerns you and may through the blessing of the Lord be of much use unto you I desire to mind you of one thing by the way before I come to the confirmation of the truth asserted viz. that the true and promised Messiah was according to the Scripture to have his day and time of humiliation as hath been already proved and then his glory Isa 9. 6. first a childe a son and then a King and the government must be upon his shoulders c. Chap. 53. throughout till the last ver he is presented in his suffering estate and in the last vers in his reign Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoile with the strong To this agrees that of Christ Luk. 24. 25 26. Oh fools and slow of heart to believe that which the prophets have written ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory 1 Pet. 1. 10 11 12. the suffering part as in relation to himself in his own person he hath passed through and is entered into glory Act. 1. 9 1â— Though while the Church is under suffering yet as he is considered one with his Church the time of his humiliation is not over till all the members are glorified with him Now that this is the true Messiah that suffered at Jerusalem will appear if you consider 1. That in him was fulfilled all the legall types that did represent him in his sufferings he it was that is the true Pascal Lamb or rather the Lamb represented in the Passeover Exod. 12. The Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world Joh. 1. 29. 36. the true passeover that was sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5. 7. that whosoever believeth in him all their iniquities shall be passed over John 3 16. And he was the substance of all those sacrifices and offerings in the law of Moses those sin-offerings burnt offerings heave-offerings and wave-offerings they all lead to him were fulfilled in him those sacrifices served to the purifying of the flesh suitable to the covenant that then you wer under but they never purified the conscience from dead works to serve the living God in spirit and in truth no otherwise then as it had relation to Christ the true sacrifice Christ being become an high Priest of good things to come Heb. 9. 13 14. For if the blood of Bulls and Goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God Purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God As the high Priest then entered once a yeer into the most holy place offering sacrifice for himself and the people Exod. 30. 10. Levit. 16 2. with Heb. 9 7. So is Jesus Christ become a high Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building neither by the blood of Goats and Calves but by his own blood he entered once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption Heb. 9. 11 12. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands which are figures of the true but into heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us c. Heb. 9. 24 25 26. so that what was figured out in the sacrifices priesthood temple and tabernacle Christ is the substance of all fully and compleatly answers them and fulfills them and ends them all so that he is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes Rom. 10. 4. By all which it appears that he is the true and promised Messiah because that in him is fully answered all the figures and shadows of the old Testament It will farther appear that this is the true Messiah if you consider how fully in him is answered all the prophesies and promises of him in the old Testament in relation to his humiliation and in him shall be fulfilled all the promises of his glory but every thing in its order that God hath set it 1. For his humiliation see what the Prophet David personating Christ as it might be very well for sometimes Christ is called David Ezek. 39. 24 25. and the promise made with David and his seed hath a speciall relation to Christ Psal 89. from the 19. to the 39. vers see Psal 22. the prophet personating Christ in his sufferings you may clearly see Christ answering those things or all those things fully answered in him in way of complaint ver 6. I a worm and no man this was the condition of Christ vers 7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn so it was fulfilled in Jesus Mat 27. 29 30 31. and when they had plated a crown of thornes in reproach they put it on his head and a reed in his right hand and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him and said Haile King of the Jews c. Again Psal 22. 8. he trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him See this made good Mat. 27. 43. when he was upon the Cross in the height of his sufferings for the sins of others then his enemies tauntingly fulfilled the Scripture and said He trusted in God let him deliver him now if he will have him c. So again Psal 22. 16. For dogs have compassed me the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me they have peirced my hands and my feet and this was fulfilled in him as is clearly imployed in John 20. 24 25. and Thomas one of the Twelve said c. Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails c. I will not believe Again Psal 22. 17. they part my garments among them and cast lots upon or for my vesture and this was fulfilled in Christ See Mat. 27. 35. Joh. 19. 23 24. Again in Isaiah Chap 7. 14. the Lord by the prophet Ahaz refusing to ask a signe gives him a signe Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call his name Emmanuel this
till the day of his appearing in glory that will be their uniting Jer. 23. 5 6. Ezek. 37. 22. Qu. Will the raising of the dead and the calling of the Iews to their fulness be at one time Answ To me it so appears those Scriptures considered 1 Cor. 15. 44 45. with Hos 13. 14. the prophet Hosea clearly prophesying the coming in of Israel and particularly the ten tribes the Apostle applieth it there to the resurrection of the dead c. Rom. 11. 15. what shall their coming in be but life from the dead that is if their rejecting was an occasion of so much mercy to the world What miracle of mercy at their receiving or coming in even the resurrection of the dead To this prophesie fully agreeth Isa 26. 19. speaking throughout that Chap. of the the glory of Jews thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise Awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust c. Quest If so how will those Scripture be reconciled that of Christ Mat. 22. 30. in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels of heaven and that of the propbets which seems to hold forth building of houses and plainting of vinyards and procreation of children c. Isa 65. 2. Answ Why may not both these stand together as a truth what if we should suppose that after the the coming of Christ and the raising the dead in him for they must be first raised 1 Cor. 15. and changing the believing Gentiles that raised and changed may be ever with the Lord that the Jews then brought in in their fulness may remain in a glorious estate Satan being shut up yet not changed and so the prophesies may be fulfilled concerning them and those that are raised and changed likewise and so much the the more because its evident that the resurrection and their coming in in fulness will be at one and the self same time And what if we should suppose according to the Scripture that the new Ierusalem spoken of Rev. 21. that must come down from God out of heaven be a material City now above according to Gal. 4. 26. Ierusalem which is above is the mother of us all it is above but it shall come down c. and what if we should suppose this new Jerusalem which is so full of excellency probably may be the place now where the Father doth most manifest his glory though the heaven of heavens cannot contain him and where Christ and the spirits of just men are Heb. 12. when it comes down from God out of heaven and the tabernacle of God is with men and that doth dwell among them I say that this City may be the head place of residence for Christ and the changed Saints and the twelve tribes to inhabit without the City according to Ezek. 48. which is the prophesie and discription of the same City and if so God may have a seed among them to be brought forth in the world in the time of the reign of Christ and if so they shall be all righteous Isa 60. 21. with chap. 59. 20 21. which is applyed by the Apostle to the calling of the Jews and coming in of the ten tribes Rom. 11. 26. Quest Shall this new heaven and new earth be before or after the destruction of the world by fire spoken of by Peter 2 Pet. 3. Answ I do believe that it will be before the dissolution my reasons are though Peter mentions the dissolution first yet never theless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth c. 1. Because that promise is clearly to the Jews and shall be made good to them when their redeemer doth come to take away their sin 2. Because that holds forth a destruction of the world by fire as once it was destroyed by water 3. Because after the dissolution and judgement the kingdom shall be given up to the Father and God shall be all 1 Cor. 15. Quest Will not Christs coming be the day of Iudgement Answ It will be the beginning of Judgement 1. The glorifying of his people 2. A great judgement and destruction to the world Ezek. 38. and 39. 3. He shall all that time with his Siants judge the world 4. At the end will be the final judgement Rev. 20. 11 12 13 14. Quest What shall be the condition of the world at that time Answ The men of the world shall on condition enjoy peace and plenty the condition will be they shall own and honour Christ and the Saints and come up to Ierusalem doing homage there and bring presents thither as an acknowledgment not for any need of it there but as Christ and the Saints have been at the feet of the world now shall the world be at their feet according to those Scriptures Ps 72. 9 10 11. Isa 60. 24. ch 66. 23. Zach. 14. 16. Rev. 3. 9. Chap. 27. 26. Quest If this be truth that Christ and the Saints shall reign on earth what advantage will it be to the Saints in the knowledge of it more than to believe his coming and kingdom at the end of time Ans It must needs minister consolation in the knowledge of the truth of things there is no truth of God but the knowledge of it ministers joy much more this about the kingdom and glory of Christ that the place of suffering shall be for a time the place of glory and liberty 2. It will keep us more to a constant expectation of his coming and not to put it far away as of necessity we must if we suppose a state of glory and liberty for the Church here on earth before his coming as almost all do expect when Paul onely mindes the Appostles to be first 2 Thess 2. 3. and that hath been and I believe is almost over and the day of his glory is at the doors 3. It will tend to the establishing of the Saints in the truth in opposition to all false wayes and false Christs knowing it to be their duty to wait upon him in his appointment untill the day of his appearing thereby manifesting not onely their owning of him by vertue of their being owned by him but also that they do indeed look for him for none durst to look for him indeed but those who upon a right account do serve him What advantage hath Satan had in our dayes for want of souls being principled in this truth one saith here another there is Christ and all because we turn his reign all into a mystery viz. in the Saints but hold right here and you shall be able to discover all false and Antichrists be they never so deceivable own Christ thy justification thy king to serve him according to the Scriptures the resurrection his personal coming and reign and look for it and thou shalt live above all those false notions that are in the world able to judge them all in the light of this truth 4. It will keep the Saints in peace and quiet in their mindes though under persecution till the time come the contrary an imaginary that the Saints shall reign makes them vex when things go not to their minds fills them with trouble and unquietness if not turbulency of spirit thinking now is the kingdom of Christ going up but if the Saints knew that their day must be a day of suffering till Christ come they would not trouble themselvs about the kingdoms of the world till that time come for all powers set up in the world before Christ come are but members of the fourth Monarch even the most righteous c. must be broken when he comes therefore let the Saints wait with patience for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh Amen FINIS