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A85438	A sermon of the fifth monarchy. Proving by invincible arguments, that the saints shall have a kingdom here on earth, which is yet to come, after the fourth monarchy is destroy'd by the sword of the saints, the followers of the lamb. / Preached by Mr. Tho. Goodwin, on Rev. 5. 9, 10. By which it will appear, that it is for the same truth (that formerly was so much contended for) that some of the people of God suffer at this day. Published for the truths sake.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1256; Thomason E812_9; ESTC R207633	19,861	35

accompany that Church or Mountain the riches of the Nations shall be brought into it Kings shall bow down their heads unto it and lick the dust of their feet c. Where saith he were these and the like prophecies ever fulfilled if not in the Church of Rome And for my own part I must acknowledge that let any one read such prophecies as these are and give me an answer how or when they either are or can be fulfilled unless this be granted for a truth That after all is done there is kingdom to be given unto the Saints upon the Earth When you come to deal with the Jews you shall finde that they alwaies knew and expected and do now know and expect a kingdom to come for them in the end The Apostles themselves seemed to have such thoughts for in Act. 1. 6 7. when Christ was about to ascend into Heaven they ask'd him Lord wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel Christ you see doth not deny that there was a kingdom to come for them onely he saith It is not for you to know the times and the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power Plainly intimating that there was a time and a season which God had for it which he reserveth in his own power And the Apostle Peter when he comes to deal with the Jews and preach the Messiah to them in Act. 3. knowing that their great mistake lay in looking that the Messiah should even from the first come to them as a glorious Monarch and restore to them the kingdom and not come meek and lowly as he did riding upon an Ass he deals with them according to their own Principles onely removeth their mistake Repent ye saith he vers 19. and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refershing shall come from the presence of the Lord and he shall send Iesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the heaven must receive until the times of the restitution of all things The very word which the Disciples used in Acts 1. Wilt thou not restore say they which God hath spoke by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began You Iews saith he expect a restitution but here is your mistake this Jesus must first be preached and he must go into Heaven and the Heaven must receive him till that time of restitution cometh and then he will at least manifest himself unto you He that wrote that little book called The Voyage into the Levant he saith That he had often occasion to converse with the Iews whom he generally found to be in expectation of their Messiah and when he told them of these kinde of notions that were up and down this Kingdom and other places of Europe concerning a Kingdom that God would give unto his Saints here upon the Earth after the calling of the Jews and that their Messiah would manifest himself unto them even according to their own expectations he saith They were infinitely taken with the hearing of it It suiteth with all their Notions and with their Expectations and with all the Interpretations the Rabbins have given of those Scriptures And consider one thing more All sorts almost out of all quarters of the world though they run several waies yet they fall all into this Notion As now for instance Those that are for the Restoration of Churches to their first purity they conclude for this reigning for a thousand yeers and that the Saints shall have thrones given them c. There is a time coming say they after Antichrist is down when there will be a resurrection of Churches to their first purity and glory in which there shall be onely Saints without mixture of others And so they interpret that place in Rev. 20 5 6. This is the first resurrection blessed and holy is he that hath his part in the first resurrection And say they Until then all Churches will be but as dead things the great resurrection is reserved till that time Others that are for the coming of Christ in Spirit as the language of some is they say this also That towards the end of the World Jesus Christ will break forth to his people with a great deal of glory and splendor so as never before The very Jesuites themselves have been so much convinced that such things are to be in the later daies that some of them have written a book of the fifth Monarchy onely indeed they do apply and appropriate it unto themselves and call that kingdom which they say shall be in those daies Regnum Jesuiticum The scope I have in saying this is to shew you that although men run several waies in their explication and expectation of this time the Jews going one way the Papists another and those amongst our selves several waies yet as it is an Argument and a strong one That there is a God and that the Notion of a Deity is stamped in the Spirits of men because all Nations have pitched upon worshipping of some God although their error hath been to worship the false so the variety of waies that men have run and the expectations that men are in of such a time coming as I speak of it argueth still for the substance that there is some such thing although one mistake and another mistakes and perhaps none can distinctly tell what is to come This I am certain of that the Primitive Christians did abundantly comfort themselves with this Notion and the consideration of it And here you see the Saints had it in their eye at the very first when Christ took the Government of the World upon him as that which should be the close of his Kingdom We say they shall reign on the earth there is a Kingdom reserved for our Generation speaking as I said in the language of the Communion of Saints And there is all the reason in the World for it besides what I have mentioned out of the Scriptures for First The Saints that have been opprest here in this World it is a righteous thing with God to give that Generation rest and that they should have their turn after all Kingdomes are dissolved that what Adam lost should be restored to them again Secondly That all those promises which my brethren have had an accomplishment but in an indirect way as that which Christ which the Psalms also mention The meek shall inherit the earth That all the prayers that have been put up as That thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven That Abraham and his seed should be heirs of the world That there shall be a new heaven and a new earth in which righteousness dwelleth which saith Peter we look for and that promise if you look in Isa 65. I am sure you will finde to be made to men on earth for he saith plainly They shall build houses and inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of

all mens apprehensions by paralleling the words used here at the beginning of Christs reception of the government of the world and the words expressed at the later end viz. in Chap. 20. when Christ had thus accomplished the decrees contained in the book I say Me-thinks thus much should be conspicuous to all mens understandings That there is some eminent kingdom for the Saints after all when the enemies of Christ the Beast and the false Prophet and Satan himself is overthrown when the decrees of this book are accomplished when the time of this Prophecie is run out that then I say there is an eminent kingdom for the Saints to have on the earth Thus much I say me-thinks should be evident to any mans understanding It is that which in the beginning these say will be the end of Christs kingdom here it is that which they comfort themselves withal and it is that which in order followeth Christs accomplishing the decrees of his Father and the ruine and destruction of his enemies There have been those that have made this to be already fulfilled namely That there hath been a time wherein the Saints in heaven that were killed in the Primitive times had a great deal of honour put upon them for a thousand yeers and the Saints on earth had a great deal of peace which they compute to be from the time of Theodosius the Emperour till the persecution arose afresh by the Pope and the Antichristian party and they reckon it to be about a thousand yeers But it is evident that that is not the meaning For the time of this Raign here spoken of must be after the Beast is destroyed for in the 19 Chapter vers 20. it is said The Beast was taken and cast into the lake and then follows in the 20 Chapter their raigning with Christ a thousand yeers And likewise all the Vials mentioned in the Chapters before were first to be poured out upon him and therefore it cannot be during the Popes raign And then again it cannot be during that time neither because it is said that the devil is bound up that he should deceive the nations no more Now during the raign of the Beast Satan never deceived the nations more then then so Chap. 13. 13. He deceiveth them that dwell on the earth Never did he deceive men more both with Idolatry and Superstition never was there raised more Wars and Persecutions against the Saints then during the raign and time of Popery The Saints indeed have had a great deal of honour put upon them by the Papists in Canonizing of them and the like but alas it was all but a false honour it is not the honour and priviledge that the raigning with Christ a thousand yeers gives them neither would they have so rejoyced in it when Christ first took upon him to be king not rejoyce I say in that glory and honour which the Popish world gave them during those times of Popery no We shall raign on earth say they this was it which was the ground of their rejoycing and which they had then in their eye Therefore as this was not begun when these Saints here in the 5 Chap. first spake it so neither shall it begin until the Beast and the false Prophet be destroyed You must first see the accomplishment of those great things that are written in this Book concerning Antichrist and his Kingdom which will be the close of the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and then follows that which you have in the 20 Chap. the 4 5. and 6. vers The next Question will be What persons he speaks this of when he saith We shall reign on the Earth Clearly of those that are redeemed unto God by the blood of the Lamb Christ Jesus out of every Kindred and Tongue and People and Nation But the great Querie will be whether they speak this of themselves personally or whether they speak it of all the Saints successively that is not onely we now but all the Saints in many ages to come shall be persecuted and opprest as we were by Heathenish Rome so they shall be under Antichristian Rome for in Rome is found the blood of all the Saints therefore I do not so much fear any Protestant-persecution yet in the end though we now by our blood lay the foundation and do but sow to it yet there is a crop to come up one day of a Kingdom which Jesus Christ hath undertaken to bring into this world which his Saints shall have You may very well interpret it so and certainly for my part I take it to be that which was their aim And the language of the Scripture doth import as much We shall not all die saith Paul but we shall be changed Did Paul think to live until the day of Judgement No yet he speaks in the person of We and the Christians then might have said the like and yet those persons all died He meaneth therefore the whole Community and Fellowship of the Saints whom the Apostle Peter in 1 Pet. 2. 9. calleth a Generation and a Nation and therefore now as a Nation that knows that one day they shall prevail and have a Kingdom as the Jews think though they suppose it many yeers to come and do not think that they themselves shall enjoy it yet speaking in the language of their Nation and Generation may say We shall one day be the top of Nations and have these and these Priviledges that is Not we that now live but all of this Nation this Generation this Kindred as they are called also And thus it hath a passable and a fair interpretation We shall reign on earth So that the plain Doctrine or Observation is but this That there is in the end a Kingdom to come here for the Saints that after all the Kingdoms of the World have had their time and their date by which the Saints have all along been opprest and injured there is even on earth a Kingdom to be given unto them when all Nations shall be converted unto God and the Saints in them be the prevailing party in the World The Scripture seems to run much this way The first man that I finde of an Englishman that distinctly fell into this Notion was a man of much holiness and piety Mr. Wood. now with God I 'll tell you the occasion that led him into these thoughts as he himself in a manuscript I have lying by me expresseth it I went saith he to recollect all the promises that are in the whole Book of God made unto the Saints beginning at Genesis and so going along throughout all the old Testament not dreaming of any such notion as this is I found no check at all in my thoughts until I came to read some of the Prophecies in Isaiah which professedly speak of the times of the Gospel which speak such great high and glorious things of spiritual enjoyments of God with outward peace

prosperity As now to give you an instance or two Isa 2. from vers 3 and so on In the last dayes the mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares c. neither shall they learn war any more The like you have in Micah 4. the whole Chapter So in Isa 25. 6 7 8. when the vail shall be taken from off the hearts of the Jews as Paul interprets it in 2 Cor. 13. he tells you of the peace and glory that shall be in that nation and how the Lord will wipe away tears from off all faces and the rebuke of his people shall be taken away from off all the earth whereas before they should lie under all sorts of reproaches over all the World Likewise in Isa 60. 9 10 and so to the end you have promises of all sorts to this purpose how that the gates of the Church should be continually open they should not be shut day nor night that men saith he may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles and that their kings may be brought for the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish yea those nations shall be utterly wasted The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee The city of the Lord The Sion of the holy One of Israel Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated so that no man went thorow thee I will make thee an eternal excellency a joy of many generations Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles and shalt suck the brest of kings For brass I will bring gold and fortron I will bring silver and for wood brass and for stones iron Violence shall no more be heard in thy land wasting nor destruction within thy borders but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation and thy gates Praise The Sun shall be no more thy light by day c. Also in Isa 65. 16 17. He who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of the earth c. for behold I create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembred nor come into minde Behold I create Jerusalem a rejoycing and her people a joy and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voice of crying There shall be no more an infant of daies nor an old man that hath not filled his daies And they shall build houses and inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them c. So in Zech. 14. 9. The Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day there shall be one Lord and his Name one I cannot stand to single out those things in these Chapters and many others of the like kinde which are most emphetical you may do it when you read them Now saith he when I read these promises as likewise that in Dan. 7. that after all the four Monarchies whereof the remainder of the fourth standeth shall be destroyed the kingdom dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High When I found such promises saith he as these are I knew not what to think I wondred at it and was amazed Hereupon he saith he read some Commentators whom he found to expound them all of Heaven and the glory thereof set out in an allegorical way but yet this satisfied him not for it seemed evident to him that it was to be understood of a Kingdom here on the Earth for he perceived there was mention made of sinners and of men that die and the like and therefore reading other interpretations he found them apply it to Ordinances and and other Spiritual enjoyments of God with abundance of outward peace and prosperity Hence therefore he concluded that there must necessarily be a time in which these promises must be fulfilled and accomplished for the Saints have alwaies in all ages been more opprest under the Gospel then ever they were under the Law they have prophesied in sackcloath and have been the outcast and the reproach of all the Kingdoms and are so accounted even to this very day Daniel you know was a Court-like Prophet for he lived in the alteration of those great Monarchies the Assyrian to the Babylonian and the Babylonian to the Persian and God did reveal himself accordingly to him for you shall finde his prophecie spent most in describing the four Monarchies that should be in the world the description you shall finde specially set down in the 7 Chapter where having described the three first Monarchies he cometh at the 23 vers to the fourth the fourth Beast which he saith shall be the fourth Kingdom upon Earth which shall be divers from all Kingdoms and shall devour the whole Earth and shall tread it down and break it in pieces as the Roman Empire did the Reliques whereof remain in the Turk Pope to this day But after all these Beasts were ended I beheld saith he vers 11. even till the Beast was slain and his body destroyed and given unto the burning flame For in Rev 19. the Beast is taken and so there is an end of him And as for the other Beasts he saith They had their dominion taken away yet their lives were prolonged for a season But in the end and conclusion of all what saith he I saw one like the Son of man vers 13. and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people nations and languages should serve him his dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed And vers 27. The kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High The text you see is express that the Kingdom here spoken of is a Kingdom which the Saints shall have after the four Monarchies are destroyed which he saith shall be a kingdom not in heaven but under the whole heaven where there are People Nations and Languages men who shall continue in their several varieties which in Heaven they do not for there is neither Tongue nor Kindred nor Nation there Let me speak another thing to you Discoursing once with a Papist who defended as you know they do the truth of their Religion and the supremacy of the Roman Church he brought this Argument to me Read saith he the Prophets you shall finde some of them make mention of a Mountain that shall be set upon the top of all the Mountains to which all the people of God shall resort in a conspicuous manner that peace and outward prosperity shall attend and

for seven yeers to feed among the beasts of the field the Angel that comes down and gives the command for it saith This matter is not by me alone but it is by the decree of all the watchers that is of all the angels and by the word of the holy ones they all concur in it And thus Junius interprets that place I added likewise for the strengthening of this a third Scripture Revel 6. 9 10. where the souls under the altar newly slain having their souls severed from their bodies under that great and last persecution under Dioclesian for to those times doth that cry refer they cry for vengeance upon their blood Not onely doth their blood cry as Abel's is said to do from the beginning of the world but their souls are said to cry The Papists that they may bring in the doctrine of the invocation of Saints departed which is that great doctrine of devils or of Daemons rather which the Apostle foretold should be brought up in the world and is the greatest idolatry that ever was upon earth they teach that the souls in heaven do there know all things here below in the glass of the Trinity and of the Godhead And our Divines that they may wholly take away that Argument for invocation of Saints from the Papists many of them have denied that there is any knowledge at all of the things that are done here belowe But my brethren there is no connexion between their knowledge of the great affairs of this world and having an influence into them and their invocation none at all For First no man is able to affirm that they know all particular things here and yet me-thinketh no man should deny but that they have knowledge by the Angels that are continually messengers from heaven to earth of the great things that are done here There is joy thorowout all heaven when a soul is converted And in Rev. 18. 20. when Rome is destroyed as there will be joy thorowout the whole earth so there will be joy thorowout the heavens also when that City is ruined in which is found the blood of all the Apostles and of all the Martyrs and Saints slain by the power and authority of that City for so God hath ordered it from the Primitive times to this day then saith he Rejoyce over her thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets for God hath avenged you on her I say there is no connexion between those two That because they may be supposed to know some of the great affairs of the world that therefore they must be invocated Invocation therefore is upon these grounds denied by our Divines and justly too For First it is certain and cannot be denied that the Angels do know the things of this world for they attend there as ministring spirits continually which the other do not and yet because they know them it is no argument at all that therefore we may invocate Angels or pray unto them to pray for us If a man were sure that an Angel were by him and now attending on him as I am certain there are Angels attending the Saints for they are their great guard in all places especially in the Churches in their publike Worship yet he hath no warrant at all to desire that Angel to pray for him God hath not appointed such a way of communion between us and him Secondly we have no warrant to believe that the Saints in heaven do hear us when we pray unto them to pray for us and least of all to think that one Saint should be able to hear a thousand nay ten thousand Saints on earth at one time it is the greatest absurdity in the world to imagine it and yet how many suitors hath that one virgine Mary The Saints departed may be supposed to have a great interest and priviledge and participation with Jesus Christ and a great honour communicated to them for the managing of the great affairs of this world and yet there is no consequence nay the clean contrary that therefore we should invocate them because that no man can be assured nay it is certain they do not hear the prayers of any much less can they hear the prayers of so many which is the dotage of the Church of Rome But lastly it is flat Idolatry and that for this reason Because that Christ being ascended into heaven is constituted and appointed a Mediator there and therefore for any to pray to the Saints in heaven to pray for them is to have another Mediator before Christs face whereas he alone hath took on him that office for There is one mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus And so now I pass from the Explication of those words and come to the third thing which I take it is more eminently aimed at in the text and in these words We shall raign on earth I shall open what I conceive to be the meaning of these words exceeding briefly not intending to make a Subject of any thing in this Chapter For when I first took it in hand I onely purposed to run cursorily over it First then it is evident that there must be some great eminent advancement yet to come as the consequent of Christs being King which these Saints here had in their eye This I shall open to you by degrees For first if you mark it upon Christ's taking the book which was his undertaking to be King of the world they fall out into this Outcry of praise and rejoycing We shall raign on earth This is the fruit this is the issue this is the conclusion of Christ's having taken the kingdom and undertaking to be King And it must needs too be some great and eminent thing which must have an eminent and conspicuous accomplishment for it is that thing which is next in their thoughts They over-look all priviledges else and do pitch upon this and parallel it with Redemption For if you mark it their song of praise runs but upon these two things Thou hast redeemed us with thy blood and hast made us kings and we shall raign on earth Secondly it is some eminent thing to be fulfilled at an eminent time to come For mark the difference Thou hast made us kings say they thou hast given us that title and that honour at the present but we SHALL raign speaking of it as of a thing yet to come They are kings and they do raign in that respect by prayer but yet they raign in sackcloth yea but we SHALL raign say they Now that you may the better understand how it is to come and when it is to come for otherwise in all other respects the Saints are Kings in all ages but I say that there is a peculiar time in which it is to be accomplished which they have now in their eye To make this clear to you do but consider the natural contexture of what now followeth in this discourse They utter this you see in the beginning