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A25221	The beloved city, or, The saints reign on earth a thovsand yeares asserted and illustrated from LXV places of Holy Scripture, besides the judgement of holy learned men both at home and abroad, and also reason it selfe : likewise XXXV objections against this truth are here answered / written in Latine by Ioan Henr. Alstedius ... ; faithfully Englished, with some occasionall notes and the judgement herein ... of some of our owne famous divines.; Diatribe de mille annis apocalyptis. English	Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638.; Burton, William, 1575-1645.	1643 (1643)	Wing A2924; ESTC R19975	88,201	114

interpretation o● these thousan● y●ares permitting to the Revelation it's divine authority they ceased from their attempt which could by no meanes be freed from the censure of impiety Conceive thus them that the Seaventh Trumpet with the whole space of those thousand yeares and other predictions belonging thereto doth set forth that great day of judgement so much spoken of by the ancient Church as also by Christ and his Apostles and is not the short space of a few houres as commonly it is beleives but according to the manner of the H●brewes using a day for a time the continued intervall of many yeares and circums●ribed with two resurrections as with two set or limitted t●rmes I say that this day shall bee begun first with the part●cul●r and t●mely judgement of Antichrist and oth●r ene●ies of the Church then remaining alive with the glorious appearance of our Lord Christ in flames of fire and that at length after the Kingdome of a thousand yeares granted to his holy Spouse the New Ierusal●m here on earth and others that shall afterward be borne this great day now drawing to an end shall bee finish●d aft●r the letting loose of Satan and u●ter destruction of the Churches e●emies with the generall resurrection and judgement of all the dead which being performed the wicked shall be thrust downe i●to Hell to bee torm●nted eternally and the Saints translated into Heaven to live with Christ there for ever This indeed is the Time of the anger of God upon the Nations and avenging the cause of them who dyed for Christ for which after the blast of the seaventh Trumpet chapter ele●enth the El●ers give thankes with triumph because therein God was to g●ve a reward to his servants the Prophets and Saints and to them that feared his ●ame small and great and would destroy th●m who destroy the earth This is that day of judgement and destruction of wicked men of which Peter 2. Ep. 3.8 having spoken pr●sently addes But beloved be not ignorant of this one thing for before I shewed it was called a day that one day is with the Lord as a thousand yeares and a thousand yeares as one day In which very day the Apostle with his brethren and kinsfolk the Iewes to whom he writeth doth expect a new fashion of things to happen of which hee saith Presen●ly BVT WEE EXPECT A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH according to his Promise where in dwelleth righteousnes Take notice according to his promise Now where was this promise to be found of a new Heaven and new Earth seeing Iohn had not yet had this Revelation but Esaya 65.17 and 66.22 which promise whosoever shall reade I should wonder if he think that it is to be accomplished anywhere else but vpon Earth This is also that Kingdome which is ioyned with Christs appearance heere on Earth to Iudge the world of which Paul to Timothy 2. Ep. 4 1. I charge thee before god and the lord Iesus Christ 〈◊〉 shall Iudge the quicke and the dead at his APPEARING and HIS KINGDOME For after the last and Vniuersall Resurrection the same Paul being witnesse 1. Cor. 15.24 Christ having destroyed the last enemy death shall deliver up the Kingdome to the Father that he himselfe may be subiect to him that put all things vnder him so little can he be said to enter upon a new kingdome The Kingdome therefore which neither was before the App●arance of the Lord neither shall be after the last Resurrection must necessarily be concluded to be batweene them both This is the kingdom of the son of man which Dan. saw the times of the Antichristian HORNE being finished or the times of the Gentiles Luke 21.24 being accomplished who shall appeare in the clouds when power and glory and the Kingdome shall be given to him that all people nations and languages may serve him for when as the Angel streight expoundeth it the Kingdom and Dominion and greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole heaven mark it well shall be given to the people of the Sai●ts of the most high For neither as I sayd before shall this Kingdome be after the last Resurrection seeing then the Sonne of man shall not enter upon a Kingdome but as Paul saith he must lay it downe and deliver to his Father Now that the same kingdome is spoken of by Daniel and Iohn may from hence be evinced First because both Kingdom● begin with the ruine of the fourth or Roman Beast that of Daniel when the Beast under the last command of the Horne which had eyes was slaine and his body given to the burning flame that in th●Revelation when the Beast and false Prophet that wicked Horne is Dani●l having mouth and eyes like a head were taken and both cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone Secondly from the same sitting in judgement which went before both for that one place is borrowed from the other and both ente●d the same thing will appeare from the comparing of the descriptions of both DAN. Cap. VII APOC. XX 4 Ver. 9. I beheld till the Thrones were placed For so it must be rendred with the Vulgar LXX and Theodor and so {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is used of a Throne in the Targum on Ier. 1.15 And I saw Thrones Ver. 10. And judgement was set That is Judges as in the great Sanbedrim or Councell of the Jewes according to the manner of which this whole description is fitted And they sate upon them Ver. 22. And judgement was given to the Saints of the most High That is Power to Judge whence is that of Paul The just shall judge the Earth And judgement was given unto them And the Saints possessed the Kingdome That is with the Sonne of man who came in the clouds of Heaven And the Saints lived reigned with Christ a thousand yeares Moreover I would advise the Reader of this whatsoever wholesome truth almost is delivered by the Iewes or by our Saviour in the Gospel or anywhere in the new Testament by the Apostles concerning the day of the Great Iudgement is taken out of this vision of Daniel namely the Judgement which shall be by fire Christs comming in the Cloudes of Heaven his comming in the glory of his Father with a multitude of Angels the judging of the world by him with his Saints the abolishing of Antichrist by the glorious appearance of his comming c. So that they goe about to take away a pillar of our Evangelicall faith who neglecting this ancient tradition of the Church goe about to carry this Prophecy another way Lastly to make an end This is that most great Kingdome which as Daniel interprets it was shewed to Nebuchadnezzar in that representative Statue of the foure Kingdomes Not that of the STONE which the succession of the IV Monarchies yet remaining was cut out of the Mountaine for this is the

here to be understood Coming down from Heaven to wit The third Heaven or the Heaven of the blessed Who had the Key of the bottomlesse pit that is Who had received power from God to open and shut up Hell We must not therefore by the Key of the bottomlesse pit understand any inward light or knowledge kindled by some famous Doctor of the Church by whose help the Scripture may be the more enlightned or the profound skill in Divinity of such a one And a great chain in his hand The great power of binding and tying up the enemy is here understood This chain therefore is falsly expounded concerning the Divine Writings of some Angel or Teacher of the Church whose coherence like a chain may be such that they may bring Heaven and Earth together and draw the hearts of the believers up unto God 2. And he caught as if he had laid hands on him The Dragon That monstrous virulent and violent enemy of Christ and Christians That old Sorpent Who by his winding and subtle kinde of Oratory in the beginning of the world seduced our first parents and who yet keeps his old skin Who is the Devill That Slanderer and Sophister that mis-interpreter of all the good sayings and deeds as well of God and Christ as holy Angels and men And Satan The adversary and everlasting enemy of God Christ and the Church And bound him By hindering his wicked enterprises and attemps A thousand yeers Solar and usuall years 3. And he threw him into the bottomlesse pit that is With mighty power he restrained the malignity of Satan thrusting him down into Hell And * shut him up as if he should say He laid him not onely fast in prison but also shut up the prison upon him with him in it And set a seal upn hiom Here are four acts of the Angel the first bindes Satan then cast him being bound into the bottomlesse pit then he shuts up the pit and sets a seal upon it being shut up That he might not seduce to wit Partly by Idolatry Superstition and the power of lyes partly by bringing War upon the Church Any more As he had formerly done The Nations {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The Nations ●oth Jews and Gentiles This word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in Scripture properly signifies the Gentiles as they were opposed to the Jews But that in this place the signification of this word is extended it doth hence appear The power of the devill is so fast bound he can no more seduce either Jews or Gentiles for the space of those thousand yeers Therefore this word is to be taken in a more large signification So that the Conversion of the Jews is described also implicitely in these words Till the thousand yeers were fulfilled to wit Untill the whole course of the Churches hapyinesse here on earth were finished And after that he must be loosed For these thousand yeers being ended the Devill by the just Judgement of God shall again recover his power and indeed a farre greater For a short time The kingdom of Satan shall not fulfill a thousand years but shall remain onely for a small time 4. And I saw Thrones Then I saw a Judiciall Processe prepared And they sate upon them that is Christ and his holy Angels And Iudgement was given unto th●m The power of Judgement was given by God as well to Christ as to the chief Judge as to the Angels as it were his Assessors Compare Mat. 25.31 And the souls I saw as well the Judges Christ and his Angels as also them that were to be judged that is To be absolved or freed in this Judgement And in this place souls are put for men Of them that were beheaded that is Of them that were slain by any kinde of torment And it is a description of the Martyrs For the testimony of Iesus Whereby they witnessed concerning Christ that he was the onely Iesus that is The onely Saviour both by merit and efficacy And for the Word of God that is The holy Scripture which they had learned to be the onely rule both of faith and life And which had not worshipped the B●ast that is The Second Beast of which mention is in the 13 and 19 chapters which had arrogated to it self the divine Honours of Christ Nor his Image that is Those Kings and Princes which are the Image of the Beast that is which represent the Beast in their likenesse of doctrine and life Compare Revel. 13. v. 14. And had not received his mark in their foreheads By mark in this place is to be understood some characteristicall note or distinguishing signe or token which they are said to bear in their foreheads who publikely professe themselves to be addicted to such or such a master or leader Or in their hands that is In their actions Rites and Ceremonies In these words therefore is contained a concealed antithesis or opposition whereby the Martyrs are declared contrary to the slaves and servants of the Beast concerning whom there is former mention chap. 13. ●● 14 15 16. that they worshipped the image of the Beast and received his mark on their right hand or on their foreheads From which words it is manifest that the Martyrs are here described by the distinction of their sufferings and doings And they lived that is They lived again as may be gathered from the fifth verse But the rest of the dead lived not again So formerly Revel. 2.8 Who was dead {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and is alive for hath lived again Here then is described the singular reward which the Martyrs have received for their sufferings and extraordinary performances And reign●d As being appointed here on earth Governours of the Church having now gained it 's most welcome Halcyonia or dayes of calmnesse With Christ Who all this while shall raign visibly in heaven invisibly upon earth his visible Kingdom being resigned to the Martyrs For those thousand yeers Of whi●h in the former verse For that the thousand yeers of Satans binding and of the Kingdom of the holy Martyrs with Christ are the same and not distinct or divers the Article {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} four times repeated in the 3 4 5 6 7 verses doth sufficiently declare and the term of time appointed for the loosing of Satan doth fully evince It is a forced Interpretation therefore that some do make taking the thousand yeers in the 4 and 6 verses tropically by a Synecdoche for Eternity in the other verses namely 3 5 7 according to the letter But the rest of the dead As well the godly as the ungodly * Lived not again that is Were not made partakers of that happinesse and prerogative whereby a number of some of the faithfull shall rise before the Universall and last Resurrection and shall reign with Christ here upon earth Vntill those

is mean't of the faith in Christ without which no man's heart is cleansed The tenth place is Deut. 32. to the 44. verse Here from the first verse to the 40. divers passages occurre concerning the Conversion of the Iews as Heurnius doth learnedly expound them Then from the 40. verse to the 44. is the prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles For the Apostle Rom. 15.10 alleageth the first part of the 43. verse to this purpose Now here it is prophesied of the destruction of the enemies of the Church and of the spilling of their bloud in fight Which destruction hath not happened yet as is plain by this Syllogisme If the Destruction here prophesied of by Moses agrees with that which is prophesied of Revel. 19. vers. 20.21 it hath not yet happened out but is to come But the Antecedent is true Therefore also the Consequent The Assumption is made good by the comparing of these two places And here it shall not be amisse in brief to call into our memory how many d●structions of the enemies of the Church after the Babylonian captivity we meet withall in the Prophets And they are in number three The first Destruction is of the enemies of the Church of the Iews in the time of the Maccabees Dan. 11.34 35. The second Destruction is of the enemies of the Church of the Gentiles Dan. 11.34 35. Revel. 19. vers. 20 21. The third Destruction is of the enemies of the Church of both Gentiles and Iews a little before the end of the world Revel. 20.4 The eleventh place is Nehem. 1.8 9. Here the promise of God Deut. 30.3 4. a little before explained is repeated and is applyed to the bringing back of the two tribes from the Babylonian captivity which was a type of the deliverance of them all which is yet to come For God promised the twelve Tribes that he would gather them together whither soever they were scattered among divers Nations although they were driven to the utmost part of Heaven that is into the most remote Countreys Which cannot be interpreted of the Babylonian captivity alone For neither then were all the Tribes brought back neither was their bringing back from the remotest Lands The twelfth place is Psal. 22.27 28. All the ends of the earth shall remember and be converted unto the Lord And all the kindreds of the Nations shall bow down themselves before him Compare Psal. 86.9 All Nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy name So Psal. 117.1 O praise the Lord all ye Nations praise him all ye people Let us search through the Monuments of Hictories and then let us examine whether this hath been or no We shall finde indeed in some new found Lands detested in ours and our fathers memory that the works of the Conversion of the Nations hath had some beginning and small progresse But in many parts of the East to this day we shall finde so little progresse that not so much as a beginning thereof will anywhere yet appear The thirteenth place is the whole 97. Psalm This Psalm containeth a Prophesie of the Kingdom of Christ in his Church of the New Testament as may be gathered out of the 7. verse the latter part of which the Apostle Heb. 1.6 alleageth concerning Christ Again Many Islands are bid to rejoyce which cannot be accommodated to the Church of the Old Testament Whence by the word Sion verse 8. the Church of the New Testament is to be understood as almost every where in Isaiah Moreover in the 6. verse it is said All the pe●ple see his glory Lastly the judgements of God upon his enemies and the Ioy of the Chur●h which both are here described have not as yet been accomplish●d The fourteenth place is Psal. 110. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike thorow Kings in the day of his wrath He shall judge among the h●athen he shall fill the places with dead bodies He shall wound the head over many Countries That these things are not yet come to passe will appear to any one that will take into his consideration History and Experience But that is especially to be taken notice of which he speaks concerning the Head over many Countreys For without dou●t it is to be understood concerning that Great Antichrist whom many Countries acknowledge for the HEAD of the Church The fifteenth place is Isai. 2.1 2 3 4. Here is mention made of the last times and four things are prophesied of which then shall happen out 1. The Mountain of God shall be placed on the top of the Mountains 2. All Nations shall flow in unto it 3. The Law shall come out of Sion 4. They shall beat their Swords into Plough-shares c. Nation shall not lift up a sword against Nation c. Of these the first and the third are fulfilled The second will be brought to passe more and more every day The fourth is not yet accomplished as experience hath hitherto taught us and doth yet teach us The 16. place is Isai. 11.10 11 12. Two things are here prophesied of 1. The Conversion of the Gentiles a little after the first coming of Christ by the preaching of the Gospel Verse the tenth For it shall come to passe at that time of the coming of Christ of whom is the foregoing Prophesie from the beginning of the Chapter hitherto that the Nations shall seek unto the roote of Jesse 2. The Conversion of the Iews and Gentiles together Verse 11 12. See H●urnius upon this place Compare this Prophesie with the sixteenth Verse of this Chapter and with the following twelfth Chapter The 17 place is Isai. 24.23 Where there is foretold that the Lord shall reign gloriously in the mount of Sion and in the City of Ierusalem and in that manner That the Moon and Sun shall be covered with shame at this glory of the Kingdom of God in his Church so great shall be the glory and splendor thereof Now this so great glory hath not as yet been seen either in the Church of the Old or New Testament Therefore in it 's due time it shall be seen The 18 place is Isai. 25. from the 1 to the 13 verse Here is contained a Prophesie concerning the Church of the New Testament as it appears by the comparing of the 8 verse with Rev. 7.17 and chap. 21.4 as also by comparing the 2 verse and the 1● with Revel. 16.19 c. and chap. 18. ver. 2.10.18.19 Now here it is prophesied concerning the deliverance of the Church from the persecution of enemies ver. 3 4 5. concerning the destruction of the enemies thereof vers. 10 11. and namely the destruction of the City of Rome ver. 2 and 12. Lastly concerning the joy of the Church being now delivered from them that persecuted her vers. 1.6 7 8 9. And here you must take notice That by Moab or the Moabites the enemies of the Church of the New Testament are