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A86120	Christs kingdome on earth, opened according to the scriptures. Herein is examined, what Mr. Th. Brightman, D. J. Alstede, Mr. I. Mede, Mr. H. Archer, The glympse of Sions glory, and such as concurre in opinion with them, hold concerning the thousand years of the saints reign with Christ, and of Satans binding: herein also their arguments are answered. Imprimatur; Ia. Cranford. Feb. 12. 1644.	Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing H1217; Thomason E278_1; ESTC R200009	77,855	95

began in the year four hundred and six T is true that about this time Constantine left Rome and made Constantinople his royall Seat but the Bishop and Church of Rome did not then so apostate and degenerate from what they had been that grosse popery and Antichristianism may bee laid to their charg Constantine who erected Churches placed new Bishops in them countenanced other good Bishops already placed so held his Imperiall autority and Vicegerency under Christ that the Bishop of Rome never in his time exalted himself above the royall Scepter or challenged an universall autority over all Churches There were fault● in Churches and errours in Bishops and teachers before Constantines time and in it But wee see by Christs judgment upon the seven Churches in Asia Rev. 2. and 3. that some faults and errours do not presently unchurch a people as rank Popery and Antichristianism doe Eleventhly If the ten Kings received their kingdom Apoc. 17.12 and imployed their power in oppressing the Church together with the beast namely the persecuting Emperours then they received that their power from the C●sars long before the year four hundred and six And if it bee meant of receiving their power from the Popes it is manifest that they submitted not their necks nor took their Scepters from the Popes untill many years after four hundred and six namely untill about the year of Christ one thousand and odde Herein therefore Mr. Archers ground-work fails him Twelfthly How can the year one thousand two hundred and sixty bee attributed to the Pope alone Suppose so many years given to the warring Beast Rev. 13.4 5. that is the Emperours which make the sixth head and the● ruled in Saint Johns time I finde nor the like time ascribed to the beast with two horns or to any particular type whereby the Popes alone are expressed Mr. Brightman holds the beast Rev. 13.1 not to bee the Emperours or civill State of Rome but the Popes because the Imperiall State was risen before St. Johns time and Christ shewed to Saint John matters onely which were to bee don after the giving of those visions Rev. 4.1 To this I Answer Christ did shew St. John matters which for the most part were to bee don after the Vision Rev. 4. But hee shewed him also first some things absolutely don and past as namely five of the heads of the Beast seen by John were faln and gon Rev. 17.11 Christ appeared to him as a Lamb that had been stain Rev. 5.6 This was don long before that vision And secondly some things shewed to John were formerly in part fulfilled and were yet more and more to bee fufillled in and after his time As these God doubtlesse before sat gloriously upon his Throne as hee is said to sit Rev. 4.2 The Elders namely John himself and the other Apostles and the whole Church of God before Johns Visions ascribed praise honour glory c. to the Lamb as they doe Rev. 4. 5. The New Jerusalem spoken of Rev. 21.10 was before Mother of the beleeving Galatians and other Christians Gal. 4.26 Heb. 12.22 I might instance in diverse other the like passages Observe this well or els Mr. Brightman will by a false fire mislead you in diverse other matters Thirteenthly Mr. Archer and some others though they decline the grosse millenary opinion of one thonsand years victory pleasure Joviality yet in ascribing to their refined thousand years plenty of all things without sin and making the Martyrs raised from death partakers thereof c. palpably as I conceive mistake For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink nor which is consequent other matters lesse necessary And to what end should the bodies of the Martyrs and Saints raised up immortall and glorified such they are described to bee 1 Cor. 15. live again on earth to make use of such poor accommodations and not rather enjoy glory and immortality in heaven for which the resurrection fits them as it did Christ risen from the dead and ascending into heaven Fourteenthly See how they jar and differ in their judgment Mr. Brightman to the summe three hundred and sixty in Julians time addes the one thousand two hundred and ninty in Dan. 12.11 and the forty five years more there in verse 12. and saies that the Turks power will bee extinct in the yeare one thousand six hundred ninty five to which summs those numbers doe amount Mr. A●cher from three hundred sixty six and the other summes saies that in the year one thousand seven hundred the thousand years begin Dr. Alstede to the year ninty six in which saith hee Jerusalem fell addes the same one thousand two hundred and ninty and one thousand three hundred thirty five and affirms that the thousand years Apoc. 20 end in the year two thousand six hundred ninty four which Mr. Brightman ends about the year one thousand three hundred Mr. Archer to the year four hundred and six when saith hee the Papacy began addes the one thousand two hundred and sixty Apoc. 11.3 and 12.6 And tels us that the Papacy falls in the year one thousand six hundred sixty six Mr. Brightman from the same summes and an addition of years for the heads cure which Apoo. 13 was wounded which cure some others that think themselves Surgeons not inferior to him little thought of makes the Pope-doms fall to bee in the year one thousand six hundred eighty six See his Comment on Apoc. 13.5 Hereby it appears what liberty is taken to dispose of these Propheticall accounts of time rather according to humane fancy then clear evidence of Scripture whence their opinions become different and leave us more uncertain and unresolved then when wee consulted them except wee will confide and relie more on mens persons then on their proofs and arguments In opinions thus disagreeing it necessarily follows that some of them bee faulty and t is not improbable their grounds beeing so sandy and weak that all of them may bee false What Reasons I have here alledged to disprove them I humbly submit to the censure of such as are judicious in these matters Chap. VI The Arguments and autorities from the Rabbins brought by Mr. Mede on Rev. 20. answered MR. John Mede on Rev. 20. produceth diverse reasons for his opinion about the thousand years And thus first hee argues Gorists kingdom is joyned with his appearance to judge the quick and the dead 2 Tim. 4.1 But at Christs last appearing to judg the quick and the dead he is so sarre from beginn●ing a new kingdom that bee delivers up the kingdom to his Father That kingdom therefore which neither shall bee before the appearance of the Lord nor after the last resurrection is necessarily between them And this kingdom is said to bee for one thousand years Rev. 20. Answ. Saint Paul sayes not that Christs Kingdom was not before his appearing to judg the quick and the dead and Mr. Mede himself grants That Christ long before had a crown given

and authority thereby to bind or to loose to acquit or condemn in his name Mat. 16.19 By this means they had a greater power then Earthly Judges who passe judgment onely upon mens bodies liberty and goods But Christ gave the Apostles power to remit and retain sins Joh. 20.23 and tels them that what they hind or loose on earth is bound and loosed in Heaven Mat. 18.18 The Apostles and their successors were good and faithfull Judges and indued with wisdom directing them to kisse the Son Psal. 2. and were not like Pilate and Herod and other Judges who opposed him Thirdly the Apostles for I will not deny them any their just titles were {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} rulers under Christ Acts 15.22 For Christ is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Ruler Mat. 2.6 and hath his rule and authority as hee is the great Governour above all feeding his people Israel expressed by this title Hence I suppose the Apostles to bee called Princes in all lands or all the Earth Psal. 45.16 for Christ sent them to all Nations They had their attendants who ministred unto and were directed by them These seeing and imitating the courses taken by the Apostles 1 Cor. 4.17 did work the work of God as the Apostles had done 1 Cor. 16.10 What is said of Paul and Barnabas and others Acts. 15.12 was true also of Peter James Matthias Silas Apollos and the rest they all had rule and authority given them by Christ according to their places And what authority Timothy and Titus had wee read in the Epistles wri● unto them The witnesses of Jesus Christ and of his Word who did not worship the Beast nor his image neither took his mark in their foreheads nor in their hands they lived and reigned with Christ and sat on the Thrones spoken of Rev. 20.4 and ordered matters in the Christian Church acccording to the direction of Christ the great ruler of the Church Object Before the famous thousand years and the great and terrible day of Christs conquering his enemies and setting up his kingdom Elias must come Mal. 4.5 and restore all things Mat. 17.11 Now Elias is not yet come nor are all things restored nor could the time of Christs incarnation and preaching bee termed a terrible day for it was a most joyfull day Alsted 54. Therefore Christs kingdom is not yet begun Answ. First Christ who had no guile found in his mouth tels the Disciples plainly That Elias was come before him Mat. 17.12 that is John Baptist in the spirit of Elias The Disciples conceived aright that Christ affirmed the Baptist to bee Elias Why then should any doubt of this truth Dr. Alsted might well have seen a figurative speech here as elswhere hee doth when a new State of the old Babels and Edoms spirit is termed Babel and Edom page 44. 53. Secondly the word Nora in Mal. 4. signifies not a day terrible to affright but a day with all diligent and reverend care to bee looked unto Such a day was it when Christ appeared in the flesh and published the Gospel Acts 2.20 a day of much comfort and joy and therefore Joel 2.31 it is called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a glorious day and Nora elswhere is rendred by {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} glorious Deut. 20,21 The Lord did for Israel great and glorious things for such they were to Israel at their comming out of Egypt And hence it is that Joreh Elohim is rendred one that fears God Job 1.1 and that Joseph using the same word saith I fear God Gen. 42.18 not that God was terrible to him but that hee had a filiall and religious fear of the divine Majesty And thirdly if you would know how Iohn Baptist restored all things First tell us how all men beleeved that John Baptist was a Prophet in very deed Mark 11. and how all men hon●●red Christ Luke 4.15 And if you answer not your selves wee will assay to find you an answer It must needs bee that all in these and the like places admits some restriction and concerning Iohns performance wee find that all things which he spake of Christ were true Joh. 10.41 That hee told the Publicans and Souldiers and other people their duties Luke 3.12 That the Pharisees and Sadduces and all Ierusalem and the Region round about Iordan were baptized by him Mat. 3.5 His doctrine was repentance for remission of sins and hee prepared the way for Christ by whom all flesh should see the salvation of God Luke 3.3 4 5. and many other matters he preached Now I am assured that no man will conceive that all things absolutely were to bee restored by him● for then what need would there bee of one greater then hee to come after him It is enough that hee taught such doctrine as set all matters in order according to Gods will for the approach of Christ the Saviour of mankind But 't is replied Saint Augustine and others say That Elias indeed shall come and restore all things that is confirm the Saints vexed with antichrists persecutions So that Malachies prophecy being once fulfilled in Iohn Baptist yet may a second time hereafter bee fulfilled in some worthy instrument of God Alsted p. 54. Answ I acknowledge Saint Augustine to bee in his time an excellent and bright shining light in Gods Church so other Fathers But I beleeve Christs exposition of Malachi to bee undoubtedly true namely that Iohn Baptist was that Elias spoken of by the last Prophet in the Old Testament and to have appeared in the very porch of the New Testament and that Malachies prophecy was by him perfectly fulfilled Yet because Gods dealings are often alike I say that God who sent Enoch to the Church of old declining Noah to the old World Elias to Israel Iohn Baptist to the Iews become wicked may also send some eminent person or persons to the world neare the end there of who shall give warning of Gods comming to his own people and servants in mercy to his enemies in judgment before the last day Object It is promised That all the ends of the Earth shall bee saved and every knee bow to Christ Esa. 45.22 23. and every tongue confesse unto him Rom 14.11 Phil 2.10 That all Israel shall bee saved Rom 11.26 Mic 2.12 But this hath not yet been performed there was never yet an universall conversion of all Nations nor of all Israel therefore Christs kingdom in which this is to bee fulfilled is not yet come or begun Alsted 89. Arch 11. 28. Glimps 28. Answ The word all in many places of Scripture cannot as was above said bee extended to every particular but must be warily limited It is said that Christ healed every disease Mat 4.23 that hee is a light to every man that is born Job 1.9 That Saint Lukes Gospel was written of all things which Christ had done Acts 1.1 whereas so short a book could not

Gods and they but sojourners with him Vers 23. That they might observe how God blessed them when they in the seventh yeare labored not and that it was hee that gave the encrease when they did labour and so depend on his goodnesse to them It served also to bring them to the seventh seven and so come to the Jubilee the famous year of rest So they might rather conclude that the world should stand but this also would bee but a sandy foundation fortie nine thousand years and then have a great Jubilee and rest in which the last Trumpet should sound as in the Jubilee year the Jews Trumpets were wont to doe Obj. The ancient Jews understood Esa. 2.11 and 17. of the great day of judgement where it is said and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day The later Iews speak something to the same purpose and thence they say that the Lord shall be King over all the earth Answ. In Esay 2. is an excellent prophecie of the preaching of the Gospel and of the calling of the Gentiles by the Word going out from Sion and Ierusalem This was fulfilled when God set up Christ his King on mount Sion as I proved above Peruse the Chapter ballance each passage and particle thereof and try whether there bee any the least warrant for a day of judgment of a thousand years continuance It is true that when the Gospel began to bee taught Christ was by all true beleevers exalted alone and preferred above all the high looks and loftiness of men many idolatrous and superstitious persons then turned to Christ and cast away their silver and golden Idols as there it is foretold And if any unbeleevers saw not then Christs glory they were justly to bee blamed His glory was then such and hath so continued that the gates of hell could never prevaile against it It is true that many worldly Potentates then strove to exalt themselves above Christ and were highly exalted by others saying Who is like this our Lord who can war with him But Christ in due time did manifest that these brags were vain and foolish Because Christ by overthrowing them will shew his might to bee far above them and that all their forces are inconsiderable And at the day of judgment when all quick and dead shall stand before him all both small and great shall see and consesse him alone to bee exalted But neither in Esay 2. nor in the whole prophecie is there any ground for two resurrections and a day of judgment between them of a thousand years continuance Obj. The Rabbins think the title of Psal. 92. L●jom ●ass●abat for the day of the Sabbath to bee the argument of the Psalme and to be understood of the Sabbath of a thousand years Answ. Wee find the Rabbins often extravagant in their opinions therefore their bare affertion cannot bee a sufficient warrant unto us they say that Psal. 92 is for the day that shall bee all rest On Talm. Sanedr Ch. 11. and adde that a thousand years in Gods sight are but as yesterday from Psal. 90.4 Wee must attend more why they thus speak then that they thus speak and try what they say against their assertion thus I argue First if the title of the Psalm import that it was onely for the Sabbath of the thousand years that is then to bee used as the title Libnei Korch implies a Psalm to bee used and sung by the sons of Kore● how is it that some Rabbins say that it was sung by Adam in the evening before the Sabbath after the promise made to him and others say it was sung in the Sanctuary by the Levits Secondly If the title bee so expounded that Lejom Hassh meane concerning the Sabbath as the objection intimates by making this title the Argument of the Psalm this cannot bee For the Psalm intreats not of the thousand years of Christs reign making it such as some now doe Yea it speaks of Gods being the most high and the King exalted above all not for a thousand years but for evermore and touches matters usuall in the gracious course of Gods governing the world and his goodnesse to man in the same Thirdly What day is all rest none I think on this earth Here the Church is militant The dead that die in the Lord rest from their labours Revel. 14.13 The time of all rest is in heaven onely 4. The speech of a thousand years being but as yesterday in Psalm 90. hath no more reference to the title of this Psalm then Harp and Harrow have each to other Fiftly The 90 Psalm speaks of mans birth his flourishing his decay If hee live threescore and ten or eightie years as men did in Moses in Davids in our times his dayes seeme as soon past as a thought To it they are compared If man could live a thousand years as Adam almost did these in Gods sight are but as yesterday as a watch in the night that are past What are they to God that is eternall Sixtly what reason hath any one to refer the words of a thousand years being as yesterday more to the seventh thousand years then to the fourth sift or sixt thousand years of the world Obj. Wee desire the conversion of the Iews and is it not the easiest way to deale with them for the same end not to wrest plain Prophecies which pertain to the last and glorious comming of Christ to his first comming So that wee hold the main truth and prove to them that Iesus of Nazaret was the true Messias and that they ought not to expect any other Answ. Here Mr. Mede answers himself saying That a Christian must consent no further to the Jews then his profession rightly I suppose grounded on Gods truth will give him leave The rule is good Now let us try what things hee holds to belong to the second comming of Christ not to his first as others affirme First Instance in Mr. M●de in Revel. 1.7 it is said That Jesus Christ who bath washed us from our sins by his blood comes in the clouds of heaven and every eye shall see him even they that have crucified him and all Tribes of the earth hall mourn before him These passages are verified onely at Christs last and glorious comming Answ. The mourning of all kinreds of the earth in regard of their sins for whose expiation Christ was crucified is foretold Matth. 24.30 and Luke 21.27 where it is also said that hee comes with power and great glory {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} with or upon the elouds of heaven that is say the Rabbins the Angels Coch-Nathon Sanedr pag. 370. answerable to Jude 14. Where God comes with thousands of his holy ones This was fulfilled before that generation passed Mat. 24.34 Luke 21.32 Some that heard Christ preach are told that they should not taste death untill they saw the kingdom of God come with power Matth.