Apostle which saith For the Priesthood being changed there is also a necessity of the change of the Law From whence we see that both Law and Priesthood is done away by Christ so those that do uphold it by paying or receiving of Tythes deny Christ crucified and misery will be their portion Secondly Arg. 2 if Tythes or a Tenth was a type of the first fruits of the Converts of the Seed of Abraham to Christ in the primitive time then those that pay Tythes and such as receive Tythes deny the vertue of Christs death and the work of the Spirit in the primitive time But Tythes or the Tenth was a type of the first fruits of the converts of the Seed of Abrahnm which was to be given to Christ by his death and by the work of the Spirit Ergo they that pay or receive Tithes deny Christ Crucisied and the work of his Spirit That which will be questioned is the minor how I can prove that Tithes or a Tenth were a type of a Tenth that was to be converted from amongst the Jews as a first fruits to God and the Lamb and that the converts of Israel are the Anti-type of Tithes Esa 6.8 9 10 11 12 13. and that they are called a Tenth see the Prophet Esaiah will prove it in these words Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send and who will go for us Then I said here am I send me And he said go and tell this people hear ye indeed and understand not and see ye indeed but perceive not Make the heart of this people fat and make their ears heavy least they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and convert and be healed Then said I Lord how long And he answered until the Cities be wasted without Inhabitant and the houses without man and the land be utterly desolate and the Lord have removed men far away and there be a great for saking in the midst of the land But yet in it mark that shall be a Tenth and it shall return and it shall be eaten as Teyl tree and an Oak whose substance is in it when they cast their leaves so the Holy seed shall be the substance thereof From these words we may see that although God did intend to harden Israel and cast them off for their sins yet there was to be a small number one amongst ten that was to be a Holy people and return to the Lord and be eaten that is to be received as a first fruit to Him and the Lamb I could say much to this but I pass minding this discourse was but a digression from the matter in hand And whereas you ask me What command women have to eat the Paschal Lamb or the Lords Supper under the Gospel Answer That the women were to eat the Passover is very evident being part of the Family and of the Congregation of Israel and not onely so but in most places where there is mention made of men as touching gifts to be bestowed on them the women are included as you have granted from the word Anthropos and that word is not only used in the Corinths but also to the Ephesians in the * A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or homo which is a woman as well as a man fourth chapter and in the eight vers and at several other places and that there is a plain precept for women to receive the Lords Supper is plain from the Text in the first of the Corinths 11 28. according to the true signification of the word and your own grant And so I am come to your last Argument as touching Infants Baptism Ephes 2 3. the which I draw from the Ephesians in these words and were by nature the children of wrath as well as others the Baptisers say you say the Text calleth them children of Wrath onely who walked in sinful and evil courses but I answer say you that that exposition giveth the Text the lye To which I answer and say you are much mistaken in what you say for nature is that which leadeth from sin not to sin those that are not lead by it and do not obey it it will plead guilty and lay them under wrath and that it leadeth from sin and not to sin see Rom. 1.26 2.14 1 Cor. 11.14 Gal 4.8 But because I have answered this Text once and again in my former Treatise I shall be brief at present and say that nature in its region as I may say is pure although it teacheth not the Mysteries of the Gospel yet it is able to teach men to live purely according to the Law as saith the Apostle The Gentiles that have not the Law do by nature the things contained in the Law these are a Law to themselves c. From whence you may see nature leadeth from sin to do things that are Holy Just and Good and not to do that which is evil but if persons that have no other Law to guide as the Ephesians had not before conversion and yet sin against it that will lay them under wrath and so it came to pass that the Apostle saith they by nature were the children of wrath as well as others and so briefly thus as a man is a Malefactor by the Law of a Nation when he hath broken the Law so were these Ephesians by nature having transgressed against it the children of wrath that is nature convicted them and lay them under wrath and this is the meaning of the Text as you may see also more at large in my Dagons Down-fal Again Where you say I father Infants Baptism upon Pope Innocent the third the which say you was an errour because it was long in practice before him To which I answer although it might possibly be practised before yet it was not enjoyned as practise but let it be Pope Innocent or Cyprius or who it will that brought that practice and established it to be sure it was not by Christ nor his Apostles but I might say as Paul saith in another case a point of your own hath confessed it And in the last place you tell me of the antiquity of this practice of Infants Baptism and withal you say He that is wise will drink near the fountain head Answer I have also read what men have said for and against the antiquity of that practise but I finde Christ and the Apostles to be the very best Authors And whereas you say It was practised near the primitive time the which is near the fountain head Answer It argueth the truth of the practise of it never the more for being near the Apostles time unless you could prove it to be practised by the Apostles for we are not ignorant of this one thing that there was false doctrines crope in to the true Church in the primitive time and therefore likely it was that false doctrine should be broached in the world and
for the Mâ—untains shall depart and the Hâ—llâ— be removed but my kindnesse shall not depart 〈…〉 â—hee neither shall the Covenant 〈◊〉 Jer 〈◊〉 22 23 24 2â— peace be removed saith the Lord that hath me cyon th 〈◊〉 turn again O Virgin Israel turn again 〈…〉 Corts and I will cause the Captivity of 〈…〉 Captivity of Israel to return and I will build them 〈…〉 first Jer◠〈◊〉 For 〈◊〉 set mine eyes upon them for good and will 〈◊〉 theâ— again to this Land and I 〈…〉 do 〈◊〉 and I will plant then 〈…〉 nor throw them doâ—nany 〈…〉 〈…〉 of Israel ye shall shoot 〈…〉 your fruit to say people Israel 〈…〉 For behold I am for 〈…〉 be alled and sown 〈…〉 the jouse of Isreal 〈…〉 be inhibited and the 〈…〉 upon you man 〈…〉 and bring fruit and I will 〈…〉 and I will do better unto you than at your beginning and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Thus faith the Lord of Hosts in those dayes it shall come to passe Zach. 8.22 23 that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the Nations even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying we will go with you for we have heard that God is with you And it shall come to passe in the last daies Isa 2.2 3 4 5 that the Mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the monntains and many people shall go and say come ye and let us go up to the Mountian of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob Mich. 4.1 2 3 4. and he will teach us of his wayes for the Law shall go forth of Zion and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem For Zions sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalems sake will I not rest untill the righteousnesse thereof go forth as brightnesse and the salvation as a lamp that burneth Is 62.1 2 3 4 The Gentiles shall see thy righteousnesse and all Kings thy glory and thou shalt be called a new name which the mouth of the Lord shall name Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord and a royal Diadem in the hand of thy God Thou shalt be no more termed forsaken Isa 51.3 neither shall thy Land be termed desolate any more but thou shalt be called Hephzibah and thy Land Beulah Isa 35.10 Chap. 51.11 for the Lord delighteth in thee For the Lord will comfort Zion and he will comfort all her wast places and he will make her wildernesse like Eden and her desâ—rt like the garden of the Lord joy and gladnesse shall be found therein thanksgiving and the voice of melody For the Ransomed of the Lord shall come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads They shall obtain joy and gladdesse and sighing and sorrow shall flee away Zeph. 3.19 For he will gather them out of all places where they have been driven and get them fame in every place where they have been put to shame and for their shame they shall have double and for their confusion they shall rejoyce in their portion Isa 61.7 For in their Land double everlasting joy shall be upon them and they shall be put into a place of their own and move no more neither shall the wicked afflict them as aforetime But the sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and shall call thee the City of the Lord the Zion of the holy one of Israel Isa 60.14 Ver. 18 21. 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 thy people also shall be all righteous they shall inherit the Land for ever and thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a peaceable habitation Isa 66.10 11 12 13. rejoyce you with Jerusalem and be glad with her all ye that love her rejoice for joy with her all ye that mourn for her that ye may suck and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation that ye may milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her glory for thus saith the Lord behold I will extend peace to her like a river and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream then shall ye suck ye shall be born upon her sides and dandled upon her knees as one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you Chap. 65.18 Isa 30.19 and you shall be comforted in Ierusalem For behold I create Ierusalem a rejoycing and her people a joy for the people shall dwell in Zion at Ierusalem thou shalt weep no more He will be very gratious to thee at the voice of thy cry when he shall hear it he will answer thee Psal 102.13 14 15 16. For the Lord shall arise and have mercy upon Zion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come so the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord and all the Kings of the earth thy glory When the Lord shall build up Zion Ver. 21 22. he shall appear in his glory when the people are gathered together and the Kingdomes to serve the Lord to declare the name of the Lord in Zion and his praises in Ierusalem Look upon Zion the City of our solemnity thine eyes shall see Ierusalem a peaceable habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down Isa 33.20 21 22 24. But there the glorious Lord will be to them a place of broad rivers And the inhabitants shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquities the Lord hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies and the sons of strangers shall no more drink thy wine for which thou hast laboured but they that have gathered it shall eat it and praise the Lord and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the Courts of my holinesse Isa 62.8 9 10 11 12. Go through go through the gates prepare ye the way of the Lord cast up cast up the high-way gather out the stones lift up a standard for the people Behold the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world say ye to the daughter of Zion behold thy salvation cometh behold his reward is with him and his work before him And they shall call them the holy people Ezek. 34.12 13 28. the redeemed of the Lord and thou shalt be called sought out a City not forsaken As the Shepheard seeketh out his flock in the day when he is amongst his sheep that are scattered so will I seek out my sheep and deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day and I
subject which is Whether children be the subjects that Christ appointed to be Baptised yea or nay and that they are is affirmed by you First because you say there was but out Covenant since the fall which in the substance was Christ although in respect of several administrations called Covenants as bâ—ing several waies administred as under the Law by Circumcision under the Gospel by Beptism To which I answer and say that such as do affirm there is but one Covenant know not what they say nor whereof they do affirm but I shall shew that the Scriptures do reach us that there is two Covenants two kinds of blood to confirm their administrations and the first Covenant as in respect of enjoyment was God gave a temporal land viz Canaan to Abraham as you may see Genes 17.8 the which he and his seed should have enjoyed for ever had they not sinned as you may see in these words and I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou art a stranger all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession and I will be their God and that Canaan was that which was called and accounted the Covenant although Circumcision was called the Covenant as in respect of the administration of it so was the Law from mount Sinai called the Covenant but you shall see that the land of Canaan and the blessings therein was that which was the Covenant it self Exod. 6.4 5. And I have also established my Covenant with them viz. Israel to give them the land of Canaan the land of their Pilgrimage wherein they were strangers and I have heard the groaning also of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage and have remembred my Covenant and I will bring you into the land concerning which I did swear to give it to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob and I will give it to you for an heritage Levit 26.9 I am the Lord. Hence you may see that Canaan was the Covenant together with such like blessings as namely multiplying of them not onely in the increase of their bodies but also of the fruits of the earth and he gave also unto them his Laws and Statutes Levit. 18.5 that if they kept them they should live long in the land yet these things did but appertain to the flesh and if they did see a future enjoyment it was by Faith in another viz. the new Covenant Gal. 3.12 for the Law was not of Faith but the man that kept it should live in it that is in such enjoyments as it brought the which was no other but that of the fleshly blessings Gal. 3.19 20. and this Covenant had a mediator the which was Moses and it had administration and the blood of Bulls Heb. 9.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13. and Goats to dedicate it of which I shall not speak in particular at present and thus I have found one Covenant namely an earthly blessing And now I shall pass to look out a second Covenant I doubt not but I shall finde out a far better Covenant than that which hath been spoken of although that Covenant was such a Covenant that no people had the like blessings namely to have a land flowing with Milk and Honey and great increase that it was the praise of the whole earth But to shew what is that better Covenant established upon better promises and as the first Covenant was an earthly one even the earthly land of Canaan with the blessings appertaining thereunto so the new or better Covenant is the Heavenly land of Canaan that is established on better promises so that although Israel brake that Covenant or the conditions of that Covenant so that they were cast out yet it will not be so in the time when we are put into the possession of this New-Covenant or the thing Covenanted we do already enjoy it by Faith although we have not a foots breadth in the present possession of it as the Land of Canaan was given to Abraham for his Seed when he or they had not one foots breadth in it in present possession but after they diâ—enjoy it they were cast out of it again but this Covenant is established on better promises that is when we come to the enjoyment of the thing covenanted Revel 3.12 namely the heavenly Canaan or inheritance we shall go no more out but shall have the Name of God written in our fore-heads and that there is a New Covenant and that it is a Covenant of Heaven and an Eternal Inheritance and that the blood of Christ dedicateth it and that he also is the Mediator of it and that it hath spiritual administrations as the first had carnal and that there is two Covenants not called so in respect of the administrations of them but in respect of the Covenants themselves read these Scriptures in the room of many more that may be cited Heb 8.6 chap 9.11 14.15 1 Pet. 1.3 4.2 Cor 4.8.9 Heb 9.23 chap. 12.17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. Col. 1.5 Heb. 10.34 Gal. 4.24 compared with Heb. 12.22 and Revel 3.12 and chap. 21.2 There is two Covenants proved one of an earthly land of Canaan for a floshly seed and the other of an Heavenly land of Canaan for a spiritual seed For these Scriptures you may see that there is two Covenants as before said and the one an earthly Covenant or a Covenant of earthly enjoyments and the other is a Covenant of Heavenly enjoyments and both these made with Abraham as you may read Gen. 12.3 compared with Gal. 3.8 with Heb. 11.8 9 10. comp wit 16. and that Covenant of Canaan was made Gen. 15.18 and established Gen. 17 7. and called to remembrance Exod 6 4 5. and put them in possession as you may see in the book of Joshua And having proved that there is two Covenants I have answered all as touching that which is written in your fifth page to the 13 line But because you affirm whether our children shall be debarred from the priviledge which the children of the Jewes did enjoy in Circumcision and whether Circumcision yea or nay was a priviledge To which I answer and first I say That Circumcision was a priviledge that without it the children of Israel might not be admitted to live in Canaan nor enjoy those earthly priviledges for no uncircumcised person must come there and this priviledge also they had thereby to be taught the fear of God by their being in such a plice where the fear of God was to be learned the which beleevers children now do enjoy without the heavy yoak of Circumcision or without being Baptised you may see this clearly discoursed if you read my book entituled Dagons Down-fall and so I shall pass to that federate holiness which you speak of 1 Cor. 7. Beleevers children are federately Holy say you and therefore are to be received by Baptism into Christs
he did deliver them although he had said he would deliver them no more as you may read in the 32. and 33. verse of the 12. Chapter And thus for want of knowledge not ignorance in the Scriptures you may see how the eyes of your understanding are darkened so as you cannot see as it were at noon day Moreover take notice that the same Prophet Hosea whom you would if you could have proved your matter namely that Israel shall not return again fully proveth what I have affirmed as you may read in his Prophecy in these words Hos 13.9 ch 14.1 2 3 4 5 6. O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self but in me is thine help O Israel return to the Lord thy God for thou hast faln by thine iniquities I will heal their back-slidings and love them freely for mine anger is turned away from him I will be as the Jew to Israel he shall grow as the lillie and cast forth his roots as Lebanon his branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the Olive tree and his smell as Lebanon From whence we may see that the very same Prophet doth prophecy of Gods love to Israel and their prosperous estate after their return although you say he will love them no more But whether we may believe you or the Prophet I leave the Reader to judge because your speech is opposite one to another and so passe to the second thing which is to prove that the Lord is so far from retaining wrath and hating Israel for ever that he loveth them with an everlasting love viz. that people that came from the loins of Abraham Isaac and Jacob as will appear from the words of the Prophet Jeremiah saying The Lord hath appeared unto me of old Jer 31.3 4. saying Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving kindness will I draw thee again I will build thee and thou shalt be built O Virgin of Israel thou shalt again be adorned with thy Taâ—rets and go forth in the dance of them that make merry c. Thus we see the Lords love to Israel proved to be everlasting so that what you say is found lighter than vanity And I so shall pasle to the third thing which is that Israel shall return out of their captivity into their own Land and also shall answer your grand Objection or beat down your strong hold cited by you Ezek. 16.55 in these words When thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former Page 30. estate and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate which is supposed not to be But first to prove that Israel shall return into their own land as aforesaid and that you may see it clear see what is spoken by the moâ—â—hes of the holy Prophets Jer. 33.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. saying I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return and I will build them as at the first I wil cleanse them of all their iniquitiâ—â— and thus saith the Lord again there shall be heard in this place which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beâ—st even in the Cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalâ—m which are desolate the voice of joy and the voice of gladnesss the voice of the BRIDEGROOM and the voice of the BRIDE the voice of them that shall say praise ye the Lord of host for the Lord is good for his mercy endureth for ever and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise unto the house of the Lord for I will cause to return the captives of the Land as at the first saith the Lord Behold the day cometh saith the Lord that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of ISRAEL and to house of JVDAH in those daies and at that time will I cause the BRANCHES OF RIGHTEOVSNES to grow up unto DAVID and he shall EXECVTE JVDGEMENT AND RIGHTEOVSNES in the Land in those dayes shall JVDAH be saved and JERVSALEM There is a glorious return of Israel to their own Land proved at large from those Scriptures with several oâ—kers which are also mentioned dwell safely and this is his Name by which he shall be called the LORD OVR RIGHTEOVSNES for this saith the LORD DAVID shall never want A MAN to sit upon the THRONE of the HOVSE OF ISRAEL moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah saying Considerest thou not what this people have spoken saying the two FAMILIES which the LORD hath CHOSEN he hath even cast them off thus they have despised my people that they should be no more a Nation before me thus saith the Lord if my Covenant be not with day and night and if I have not appointed the Ordinances of heaven and earth then will I cast away the seed of Jacob for I will cause them to return and have mercy upon them And that this respects the last return is very plain First because it speaks of both Families returning namely Israel meaning the ten Tribes and Judah meaning the Zionnites or the daughters of Zion And secondly because it speaks of Christ executing judgement in the Land as doth appear from the word the LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNES and that the place is mean Jerusalem in the letter Jer. 3 25 is plain from the thirteenth verse of the three and twentieth Chapâ—er of Jeremiah which saith That the places about Jerusalem and in the Cities of Judah shâ—ll the flocks passe again and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the Throne of the LORD and all the Nations shall be gathered unto it to the name of the LORD to JERVSALEM neither shall they walk any more after the imigâ—nation of their evill hearts the which yet now they do mark that in those daies the house of Iudah shall walk with the house of Israel but yet they have not mark that and they shall come together out of the Land of the north to the Land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers Ezek. 37 21. and I will make them a Nation in the Land upon the mountains of Israel and one King shall be unto them all and they shall be no more two Nations neither shall they divide into two Kingdomes any more at all neither shall they defile themselves with their Idols any more at all and David viz. Christ my Servant shall be King over them according to the words of the Angel to Mary which saith For he shall be great and be called the Son of the most highest Luke 1.31 38 and the Lord God shall give unto HIM THE THRONE of his FATHER DAVID and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdome there shall be no end for behold in those daies and in that time will I bring the captives of Judah and Jerusalem
and I will gather all Nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat and will please there for my people and for my heritage Israel whom they have scattered amongst the Nations behold I will raise them out of the place whether ye have sold them so shall ye know that I am the Lord dwelling in Zion my holy mountain then shall Jerusalem be holy The return of Judah and Israels captivity proved and there shall no stranger passe through her anymore mark that but Judah shall dwell for ever and Jerusalem from generation to generation for I will cleanse their bloud that I have not cleansed for the Lord dwelleth in Zion therefore shall the redeemed of the Lord return and come with singing to Zion and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and mourning shal flee away Thus we may see that Jerusalem is yet to be the praise of the whole earth and that Judah and Israel shall return and be glorious as in former time nay more glorious for the Kingdome shall be restored unto Israel and Christ shall be King over them not allegorically as some ignorantly conceit for there be multitudes of objections as to that opinion that cannot be answered but it shall be fulfilled in the letter of it But because I cannot inlarge my self upon this subject my desire is that the curteous Reader would peruse these ensuing Scriptures and do heartily desire the Lord to apply the right understanding of them to thy soul Read Ezekiel chap 37 38. 39. and Isa 11.12 and 65. and 66. read the 68. Psalm and Psal 102. and 122. read Jer. 30. and 31. read Joel chap. 2. and 3. read Zeph. 3. read Zach. 12. and 14. Mal. 3. these and many more Scriptures doth shew plainly that the people of Israel and Judah shall turn from their captivity into their own Land and also take notice that these Scriptures speak not of Judahs captivity viz. that of the seventy years and the like from which they have returned and yet for their sins are gone to captivity again but this is the return not onely of Judah but also of Israel viz. the ten Tribes the which never more shall go into captivity 2 Sâ—m 7.10 Isa 61. But In their own Land DOVBLE EVERLASTING FOR shall be upon them so shall they dwell in a place of their own and move no more neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them as beforetime for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Thus you see that Judah and Israel shall yet return to their own Land But say you It cannot be for Ezekiel plainly saith when I shall bring their captivity the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them when thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate then thou and thy daughters viz Judah shall return to your former estate From which Text you conclude that Sodom and her daughters shall never return and so consequently Judah and her daughters shall never return To which I answer and say that this Text seems to be your strong hold yet you shall see this Text will fight against you and therefore in the first place I shall shew who they are that are called the daughters of Sodom And secondly I shall prove that Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate and if so then you may blush for shame to say that Judah shall never return And so to the first which is to shew what people are called the daughters of Sodom the which we finde to be the Moabites and the Ammonites Gen. 19. for when the Lord overthrew the Cities of the plain there was none did escape save Lot and his wife and two daughters and as for his wife she was turned into a pillar of Salt so that of all the Cities of the plain which is Sodom primely and the adjacent Cities there was none left to bear the name of the daughters of Sodom but Lot and his two daughters And therefore Lots daughters consulted to make their father drunk that they might bear seed by him Gen. 19.31 for say they Our Father is old and there is no man in the earth to come into us after the manner of all the earth implying that the Lord had appointed in order to distinguish the Nations one from another that they should propagate onely with their own Nation therefore saith Lots daughters There is no man in the earth to come into us c. upon which we finde they made their father drunk with wine It is proved that Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate and they lay with him and the first born conceived and brought forth a son and called his name Moab the same is the father of the Moabites to this day and the younger bare a son also and called his name Ben-ammi the same is the father of the children of Amon to this day So that the Moabites and the Ammonites spring from the people of Sodom viz Lot and his daughters and are called the daughters of Sodom now the circumstance of the reasons of their captivity would be too large to discourse of onely we may take notice that the Prophet Amoâ— in short sheweth us the reason for you may mind the Lord did forbid Israel from doing Moab and Ammon any wrong when they passed by to destroy the Nations for as Ezekiel saith Ezek. 16. Deut. 29 19. they were brethren to Israel and therefore the Lord suffered Israel as aforesaid to do them no hurt yet notwithstanding the Lord gave them captive into the hands of their enemies from whence also they shall return Amos 1 13. as I shall shew you and the reason that Amos rendreth why God did give them into the hands of their enemies is because saith he For three transgressions of the children of Ammon Chp. 1.2 and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they have ript up the women with child of Gilead that they might enlarge their borders thus saith the Lord 2 King 3.26 27. for three transgressions and for four of Moab I will not turn away the punishment thereof because he burnt the bones of the King of Edom into lime The which cruel act is recorded in the second Book of Kings and also the reason of their captivity the Prophet Ieremiah speaks largely of But I shal come now in the second place to prove that they viz. the daughters of Sodom shall return out of captivity and that also the earth viz. the place of Sodom shall be restored and then I have fully proved the matter and that the place of Sodom shall be restored is clear because the whole Creation that was made subject to
return to their own Land onely the drying up of the River may be a little the precedent work as if time would give leave I would shew you and that the gathering of the dispersed of Israel and bringing them into their own Land will be fully effected under the sound of the seventh Trumpet which by the Prophet Isaiah is called the great Trumpet because under his sounding greater things will be effected than under any of the sounding of the other six Trumpets and therefore see what the prophet Isaiah saith Isa 27.12 13. which is as followeth And it shall come to passe in that day that the Lord will heat off from the channel of * Chap. 11.15 16. Rev. 16.12 the River to the stream of Aegypt called the tongue of the Aegyptian sea and ye shall be gathered one by one O ye children of Israel and it shall come to passe in that day that the GREAT TRVMPET shall be blown mark that and they shall come which are ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the out-cast of the land of Aegypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy mountain of Jerusalem And thus having shewed what the second thing will be that will be effected in the time of the sounding of the seventh TRUMPET I come now to shew what will be the third thing effected at that time which is The Kingdomes of this world shall become the Kingdom of Christ and he shall take his great power and Reign Rev. 11.17 Do you know what is meant in these Petitions in the Lords Prayer Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven surely if you did you would understand the Prophets a little better than you do So that Christ is yet to have a Kingdome in this world or that the Kingdoms of this world is to become the Kingdoms of the Lord Christ under the sounding of the seventh Trumpet as aforesaid Rev 11.15 for the proof hereof read the words of John which saith And the seventh Angel sounded and there was a GRAET voice in HEAVEN saying the KINGDOMES of this world are become the KINGDOMES of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever From hence we see that although Christ would not be King on earth before his suffering yet afterwards he is to receive a kingdome to himself even the kingdomes of this world and that he will take his great power and reign and then according to the words of the Psalmist Psal 22.27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord and all the kindreds of the Nations shall worship before thee for the kingdom is the Lords and he is the Governour amongst the Nations because of thy Temple at Jerusalem shall Kings bring presents unto thee Psal 68.29 and the kingdome and dominion and greatness of the kingdome under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most high Dan. 7.27 whose kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and all dominions shall serve and obey him and Saviours shall come upon mount Zion and judge the mount of Esau Obed 21. and the kingdome shall be the Lords for he that overcometh will I give power over the Nations Rev. 2.26.27 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron Psal 149.8 9. and binde the Kings in chains and their Nobles in fetters if iron to execute upon them the judgment written Rev. 5.10 this honour hath all the Saints praise ye the Lord. From hence we may see the Kingdomes of this world is to become the Kingdome of Christ and his Saints and they shall reign upon earth But you say Page 36. 37. The Saints reign is to be understood spiritually as by prevailing with God in prayer and the like To which I answer and say it is as likely to be true as that the Kingdome of Syria is the fourth Monarchy or Kingdome but that it cannot be so understood is plain for as yet I never read that any one man governed or reigned over all Nations or reigned over them by his prayers although it might bring judgments on many places and people Jam. 5.17 as Elias did when he prayed and it rained not for the space of forty six months but what hurt did that do to Aegypt where it raineth not and did ever any one by his prayers binde his King or Nobles in fetters of iron but admit we might grant that there were an hundred did so yet it would not prove the matter but be too narrow unlesse you could prove every man in particular to do so for this honour shall every Stint have viz. to reign and the wicked to be as ashes under the soles of their feet there might be very much said to the confutation of this but I shall not play the coward to fight with that which is so decripped and not able to look truth or sound reason in the face but that Christ and his Saints shall reign together on earth is plain first because there is plain text of Scripture for it Rev. 21.1 2 3 4 5 6 7. as above written secondly the Tabernacle of God is to be with men mark that and the Lord Jesus is to descend Zach. 14.4 and his feet standing in that day upon the Mount of Olives Job 19.24 25 26 27. the confideration whereof did uphold Job in his troubles that he should see his Redeemer in the latter dayes upon the earth whom he should behold for himself and not another And wereas you say Page 38. Christ is gone to prepare a place for us and that we shall becaught up to meet him in the ayre and be ever with him To which I answer and say and first if we shall be caught up to meet him it argues plainly that he is coming to live or he with us otherwise we may not be properly said to meet him if he be not coming towards us Obj But if it should be said it is true The Lord will come to judgement possibly here on earth but not to reign here To which I answer and say If he do hold his judgement here that implies that he will reign here for he shall reign when he sits in judgement but we finde plainly in Scripture that there is a great work to do when Christ comes before he shall give the ultimate sentence in so much that the Apochalips saith it will be a thousand years if I should say that the new Jerusalem should for ever abide in the Land of Canaan The meek shal inherit the earth which â—s yet they do not and we ever remain in it you would not know how to disprove it for although the Text say that we shall be ever with the Lord yet it doth not say that we shall be ever in the ayre for although Christ shall be seen in the ayre with the Saints and Angels which
confusion of thy face therefore depart depart make hast to flee from out of her all ye that would save your souls alive in the great day of wrath for the Lord will be a sw ft witnesse against her and all that be found in her shall be partakers of her plagues so then England or the Church of England properly so called is tryed and found to be converted or turned from nothing because all sorts of sins are found in both her people and Priests that they have an historical knowledge of Christ and the Scriptures will not be denyed but that they are Christians by having the Christian faith wrought in their souls they may be ashamed to affirm but I might easily shew how these came to a verbal knowledge of the Gospel if we consider that Rome was once a true Church and also to this day do own Christ to be the Son of God and that he ought to be worshipped although they bring in their own traditions with part of the Gospel in Christs worship and hence by reason of Schism in the Church of Rome in and since Luthers time England somewhat differs from Rome and yet is from Rome as a Schismatick as you confessed saying You were in Rome or came through it And hence you have an historical knowledge of Christ and the Gospel by reason that the Apostle once planted the Gospel in Rome from whence you came And again whereas you say that Such Teachers as I was not then in being In answer to it I say be it known unto you I do not think my self worthy to loose their shoâ—e latchets as in reference to gifts which did at first plant the Gospel and make disciples in Nations yet they were my brethren and fellow labourers and that very Gospel Which they preached I do preach and contend for the truth thereof And whereas you say It is well if I were not born too soon I answer that I know full well that if you had the power my condition might be worse as in reference to the flesh than an untimely birth But thanks be given to our good God that hath not given us into the hands of the Wicked whose tender mercy is cruelty And thus I have examined your Book and answered it although I do acknowledge my time and â—nk and paper might have been to more profit if your Book had been fuller of weighty arguments but they being but trifles as for the greatest part of them hath caused me to tâ—â—fle away some time in speaking to that wilâ—h indeed hath not been worth an answer lest you should have said in your heart it is unanswerable Finally I cannot say and speak truely as from my conscience that your Book is like the fruit that groweth near the Asphaltite Lake which hath a lovely colour and yet without substance for I do assore you that to my best descerning there is neither lovely colour or substance contained in it but that I may not be judge in mine own cause I shall leave the Reader to judge what is said and so at present shall cease as to this and shall adde a brief word as touching Christs Kingdome to come or his Reign upon earth together with the glorious estate of Israels Return and the first dominions given to the daughters of Zion and this for the Curteous Readers sake that it may be as the clouds of the latter rain unto thee which may chear up thy heart and comfort thee in thy pilgrimage towards thy heavenly Canaan whereby thou mayest be alwayes waiting for Christ in his wayes that he at that day may cause thee to sit down and eat and drink at his Table in his Kingdome where thou shalt for ever remain in his presence and have fulnesse of joy and at his right hand have pleasures for evermore The cettainty of the Seed of Iacobs return to their own Land and the glorious Reign of Christ in Ierusalem discovered and proved THat the Jews shall return and enjoy their own Land and possesse the holy Mountain Jerusalem and the LORD JESVS to be their KING and have his THRONE there I have already briefly hinted at in my precedent discourse but because it is a very large subject I thought good further to enlarge my self upon it partly because of a rumour that was amongst some men as to â—hing my former Book as though I did deny what I had Written as touching Christs personal Râ—ign in Jerusalem and partly because that possibly I may make use of some Scriptures in this place that may be fastned upon the affections of some that may read it the which at yet they have not so well and duely weighed my method in this place shall not be to give you the exposition of Scripture but shal compare Scripture With Scripture and thereby shall leave them to give their own meaning and interpretation and this is Gods way to compare spirituals with spirituals although it be not unlawfull to give interpretations to or to paraphrase upon some text of Scripture But I pass this too and come to the matter and that is The Seed of Jacob viz. the Jeâ—s shall return to their own Land and possesse the glorious hâ—ly Mountain Jerusalem For Zach 8.7 8. Thus faith the Lord of hosts behold I will save my people from the East Countrey and from the West Countrey and I wil bring them and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem Ver. 13. And it shall come to passe that as ye were a curse amongst the Heathen Isa 43.5 O house of Judah and house of Israel so will I save you and ye shall be a blessing fear not for I am with thee Ver. 6. and will bring thy Seed from the East and gather thee from the West and I will say to the North give up and to the South keep not back bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth Psal 69 35 and 36. For God will save Zion and build the Cities of Judah that they may dwell there and have it in possession The seed also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his Name shall dwell therein for thy Maker is thy huâ—band the Lord of Host is his Name and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel the God of the whole earth shall 〈◊〉 be called for the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit and a wife of youth when thou waâ—â— refused saith thy God for a small moment have I forsaken thee but with everlasting mercy will I gather thee in a little wrath have I had my face from thee for a 〈◊〉 but with ever lasting kindnesse will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy Redeener for this is as the waters of 〈◊〉 unto me 〈…〉 9. for aâ—l I have scorn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth so have I sworn that would not be wrath with thee nor rebuke thee
will bring them out from the people Ezek. 28.24 25 26. and gather them from the Countryes and will bring them to their own Land and feed them upon the mountains of Israel And they shall be no more a prey to their enemies but they shall dwell safely and none shall make them afraid And there shall be no more a pricking bryer unto the house of Israel nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them that despised them and they shall dwell in their Land that I gave my servant Jacob Isa 12 1 2 3 4. and shall know that I am the Lord. And in that day thou shalt say O Lord I will praise thee though thou wast angry with me thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation For thy waste and thy desolate places and the Land of thy destuction shall even now be too narrow by reason of the Inhabitants and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away the children that thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other shall say again in thine ears the place is too strait for me Give place to me that I may dwell then shalt thou say in thine heart who hath begotten me these seeing I have lost my children Isa 49 19 20 21 22. and am desolate a captive and a removing to and fro and who hath brought up these behold I was left alone where have these been Thus saith the Lord God behold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles and lift up my Standard unto the people and they shall bring thy sons in their arms and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders Ver. 23. And Kings shall be thy nursing fathers and Queens shall be your nursing mothers they shall bow down to thee with their face to the ground and lick up the dust of thy feet and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Isa 6.10 11. And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls and their Kings shall minister unto thee for in my wrath I smote thee but in my favour have I had mercy on thee Ver. 12. therefore thy gates shall be opened continually and they shall not be shut day nor night that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles and that their Kings may be brought for the Nation or Kingdome that will not serve thee shall perish Let Mount Zion rejoyce Psal 48 11. let the daughters of Judah be glad because of thy judgements FOR in that day will I make the Governours or Judah like a hearth of fire round about the wood like a torch of fire in a sheaf and they shall devoure all the people round about on the right hand and on the left and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place even in Jerusalem The Lord also shall save the Tents of Judah first Zach. 12.6 to 15. that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the Inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnifie themselves against Judah And thou O Tower of the flock the strong Hold of the daughter of Zion unto thee shall come the first dominions In that day shall the Lord defend the Inhabitants of Jerusalem Mich. 4.8 and he that is feeble amongst them at that day shall be as David and the house of David shall be as God as the Angels of the Lord before them And it shall come to passe in that day that I will seek to destroy all the Nations that come up against Jerusalem And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplications and they shall look upon me whom they have peirced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his onely son and shall be in great bitternesse for him as one that is in bitternesse for his first born In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of HADADRIMMON in the valley of MEGIDDON Isa 5â— 20. And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written There shall come a Deliverer to Zion and shall turn away transgression from Jacob Rom. 11.26 O the depth of the riches both of wisdome and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgements Isa 64.4 and his wayes past finding out For since the beginning of the world men have not heard or perceived by the ear 1 Cor. 2.10 neither hath the eye seen O God besides thee what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for thee But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God Therefore unto God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit be ascribed glory and thanksgiving might majesty and dominâ—on by all that fear him small and great for ever and ever world without end Amen Thus having from these Scriptures and many more that might be mentioned together with these above written proved the first part of the assertion viz. That the Jews shall yet return and possesse their own Land and be a very glorious people and their scituation viz. Jerusalem a very glorious scituation Although all that hath been said may comparatively be called as the gleaning of the vintage For I know nothing which the Scriptures proves more plainly and yet this is hid from the most part of the prudent and learned men in our times but this is the fulfilling of the Scriptures which saith God hath hid it from the wise and prudent and revealed his wisdome even his hidden wisdome to babes and sucklings not that I say that God hath hid it from all that are prudent and learned men according to humane sciences for I do know some of them do understand the mystery of the kingdome although to the greatest part it is a parable but however the truth of God stands sure and is unchangeable for the Scriptures shall not fall to the ground but shall be fulfilled although heaven and earth passe a way Hence it came to passe that that all which was spoken of Christ to be fulfilled in the dates of his flesh was accomplished in the very letter of the Scriptures that the Scriptures might be fulfilled and so shall all those Scriptures that speak of his glory and reign and the Jews glory be fulfilled in their time For as the Scriptures spake of Christs being born at Bethlehem Mich. 5.2 Isa 7.14 Hos 11.1 Zach. 9.9 Isa 8.18 Mich. 5.1 Isa 5.6 Psal 69.21 Zach. 11 12 13. Psal 22 18. Num. 9 12. Exod. 12 46. Psal 34.7 Zich 12.10 it was so and as the Scriptures spake that a Virgin should conceive it also was so and as the Scriptures prophesied of calling his son out of Aegypt it was so and as he was prophesied to ride to Jerusalem upon an Asses Colt it was so and as it was prophesied that he
and his Disciples should be for signs and wonders in Israel it was so and as it was prophesied that the Jews should smite him on the cheek it was so and as it was prophesied that they would give him vineger to drink it was so and as it was prophesied that one should betray him for thirty pieces of silver by which the Potters field should be bought it was so and as it was prophesied that they should cast lots for his vesture it was so and that a bone of him should not be broken but that he should be peirced it was so done to him These and many such like things as touching Christ and also concerning Israels Captivity by the Bibylonians which was foretold by the Prophets was fulfilled in the letter multitudes of such like things as I could speak of but the time fails me which was fulfilled in the very letter Therefore let us believe that what the Prophets as touching Christs glorified condition in Jerusalem and Peter knew well what he said when he speaks of Christs Kingdome saying We have not followed cunning devised fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus but we were eye-witnesses of his glory and we have a more sure word of prophesie to which you do well if you give heed mark that knowing first that no prophesie of Scripture was of any private interpretation neither came it by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost Hence we see the Prophets words are of great weight and also take notice that all the Prophets bare witnesse to the truth of what I have asserted and this intervening discourse I thought good to adde to that end that the courteous Reader might take notice that what the Prophets had foretold was and is to be fulfilled in the letter of the Scriptures unlesse they are proverbs or parables or the like and therefore I shall desire thee to read them the more diligently and distinctly they want not an interpretor but are very plain to him that hath any discerning spirit onely take notice of this that whereas the Prophet Ezekiel speaks of David he means the Son of David viz. Christ which is to sit upon his Throne for ever as the discourse of the Chapter will clearly shew as possibly I may give an hint of it in the marginal â—oat and these few things premised I come to the second part of the assertion which is That Christ shall Reign in Jerusalem And in order to the making of it appear to be truth I shall shew you that the Prophets have foretold it viz. that the Lord shall make Ierusalem or Zion at or in Jerusalem his seat and reign there before whom Kings shall fall down and shall worship before him therefore mark well the words of the Lord spoken by the mouth of his holy Prophets Psal 2.6 Zach. 2.10 11 12 13. which saith Yet have I set my King upon his holy hill of Zion Sing and rejoyce O Daughter of Zion for lo I will come and dwell in the midst of thee saith the Lord And many Nations shall be joyned unto the Lord in that day and shall be my people and I will dwell in the midst of thee Isa 31.4,5 6. and thou shalt know that the Lord of Host hath sent me unto thee And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy Land Jer. 13.7 and shall chuse Jerusalem again Be silent O all flesh before the Lord Isa 24.23 for he is raised up out of his holy habitation So will the Lord of Hosts defend Jerusalem and in defending of it he will deliver it Ezek. 34.23 24. Then shall the Sun be ashamed and the Moon confounded when the Lord of Hosts shall Reign in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem David being prophesied to be a Shepherd and Prince in Jerusalem and so to remain for ever is to be understood Christ before his Ancients gloriously At that time they shall call Jerusalem the THRONE of the Lord and all the Nations shall be gathered unto it to the name of the Lord to Jerusalem neither shall they walk any more after the imaginations of their evill heart And I will set up one Shepheard over them and he shall feed them even my Servant David he shall feed them and he shall be their Shepheard And I the Lord will be their God and my Servant David viz. Christ a Prince a-amongst them I the Lord have spoken it Behold I will take the children of Israel from amongst the heathen whither they be gone Ezek. 37.21 10 29. and I will gather them on every side and will bring them into their own Land And I will make them a Nation in the Land upon the mountains of Israel and one King shall be King to them all and they shall be no more two Nations neither shall they be devided into two Kingdomes any more at all Neither shall they defile themselves with any of their transgressions but I will cleanse them so shall they be my people and I will be their God And David my servant viz. Christ shall be King over them It cannot be meant that David in the letter shall be their Prince for ever but Christ that is called the Son of David and is to sit upon his Throne for ever and they shall have one Shepheard and they also shall walk in my judgements and observe my statutes and do them And they shall dwell in the Land that I gave to Jacob my servant and they shall dwell therein even they and their children and their childrens children for ever and my servant David viz. Christ shall be their Prince for ever Moreover I will make a Covenant of peace with them and it shall be an everlasting Covenant and I will place them and multiply them and will set my Sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore My Tabernacle also shall be with them and I will be their God and they shall be my people The heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctifie Israel when my Sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore Rev. 21.3 4. And I heard a great voice from heaven saying the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself will be their God And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Rev. 5.9 10. And they sung a new song saying thou art worthy to take the Book and lose the seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy bloud out of every kindred tongue and Nation And hath made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall reign on the earth Behold the dayes come saith the Lord that I will perform that good thing that I promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah In those daies and at that time will I cause a
Branch of righteousnesse to grow unto David and he shall execute judgement and righteousnesse in the Land Jer. 33.14 15 16 17. In those daies shall Iudah be saved and Israel dwell safely and this is his name whereby he shall be called the Lord our righteousnesse For thus saith the Lord David shall never want a man to sit upon the Throne of the house of Israel For the Lord shall roar oâ—t of Zion and utter his voice from Ierusalem and the heavens and the earth shall shake but the Lord will be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion my holy moutain then shall Ierusalem be holy Joel 3.16 17 18 19 20 21 and there shall no stranger passe through it any more But Iudah shall dwell forever and Ierusalem from generation to generâ—tion For I will cleanse their bloud which I have not cleansed for the Lord dwelleth in Zion For the Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it I will abundantly blesse her provision I will satisfie her poor with bread I will cloath her Priests with salvation and her Saints shall shout aloud for joy Psal 132.13 14 15 16 17 18. There will I make the horn of David to bud I will ordain a lamb for mine anointed His enemies shall be cloathed with shame but upon himself shall his Crown flourish in that day it shall be said to Ierusalem fear not and unto Zion let not thy hands be slack the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty he will save he will rejoyce over thee with joy Zeph 3.14 15 16 17 18 19. Sing O daughter of Zion shout O Israel be glad and rejoyce with all thy heart O daughter of Ierusalem The Lord hath taken away thy judgements he hath cast out thine enemies the King of Israel even the Lord is in the midst of thee thou shalt not see evill any more But the captives of the host of the children of Israel shall possesse that of the Canaanites even to Zarephath and the captivity of Ierusalem which is in Sepharad shall possesse the Cities of the South And Saviours shall come upon Mount Zion Obed 18.19 20 21 to judge the Mount of Esau and the Kingdomes shall be the Lords Again the word or the Lord of Host came unto me saying Thus saith the Lord of Hosts I am jealous for Zion with a great jealousie and I was jealous for her with great fury Zach. 8.1 2 3 4. thus saith the Lord I am returned unto Zion and will dwell in the midst of Ierusalem and Ierusalem shall be called a City of truth and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts the holy mountain And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives which is bâ—fore Ierusalem and the Lord thy God shall come and all his Saints with him for Enoch also the seventh from Adam Enoch prophecied of Christ kingdom Judg 14 Zach 14.4 5 9. prophecied of these things saying behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints And the Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day shall there be one Lord and his name one Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the TIMES of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord for he will send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the heavens must receive untill the TIMES of restitution of all things which God Acts 3.19 Rom. 2.16 Acts 17.31 2 Tim. 4.1 hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began For he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousnesse by that man Christ Iesus at his appearance and Kingdome Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tydings that publisheth peace O Judah keep thy solemn Feasts perform thy vows Nah. 1.15 for the wicked shall no more passe through thee he is utterly cut off For thus saith the Lord of Hosts yet once is it a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry-land And I will shake all Nations Hag. 2.6 7 8 9. Isa 61.1 2 3 Rev. 15.8.29 to 35. Psal 48.8 9. Psal 68. from Isa 66.6 Ezek. 41.14.15.20 21 23 25. and the desire of all Nations shall come and I will fill this house with glory saith the Lord of Hosts And the glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former saith the Lord of Hosts and in this place will I give peace saith the Lord of Hosts Behold I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before me And the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his Temple even the messenger of the Covenant whom ye delight in Behold he shall come saith the Lord of Hosts But who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appears For he is like a refiners fire and like fullers soap And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he shall purge the sons of Levi Mal 3.1 2 3 4. and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousnesâ—e Then shall the offerings of Iudah and Ierusalem be pleasant unto the Lord as in the dayes of old and as in former years and I will be as the dew unto Israel he shall grow as the lilly and cast forth his root as Lebanon his branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the Olive tree and his smell as Lebanon They that dwell under his shadow shall return Hos 14.5 6 7 8. they shall revive as the corn and grow as the vine the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon Ephraim shall say what have I to do any more with Idols Isa 55.11 12. who is wise and he shall understand these things For they shall be led forth with joy and the mountains shall break forth before them into singing And at that day will I raise up the Tabernacle of David Amos 9. from 11. to 16. that is fallen and close up the breaches thereof And I will raise up his ruines and will build it as in the dayes of old Balaams prophecy to Balack as touching the estate of Israel in the latter dayes Numb 24. from 14 to 20. That they may possesse the remnant of Edom. And I will plant them upon their own Land And there shall come a Star out of Jacob and a Srepter shall rise out of Israel and shall smite the corners of Moab and destroy the children of Seth and Edom shall be a possession Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies and Israel shall do valiantly Out of Iacob shall come he that shall have dominion
Lord most high is terrible he is a King over all the earth he shall subdue the people under us and the Nations under our feet He shall choose our inheritance for us Psal 47. from 1 to 10 Psa 93.2 3 Ps 99.1 2 3 the excellency of Iacob Selah God is gone up with a shout the Lord with a sound of a trumpet sing praise to God sing praise sing praise unto oâ—r King sing praise For God is the King of all the earth God reigns over the heathen God sitteth upon the Throne of his holinesse The Princes of the people are gathered together even the people of the God of Abraham for the shields of the earth belongeth unto God Rev 19. from 5 to 12 he is greatly exalted And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thundrings Rev 20.6 7 saying Allelujah For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth let us be glad and rejoyce and give honour to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made her self ready And to her was granted that she should be arayed in fine linnen 1 Cor 6.2 1 Tim 2.11 12 and he said unto me write Blessed are they that are called to the marriage Supper of the Lamb And he said unto me these are the true sayings of God And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Jâ—sus and for the Word of God and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years John 1.51 Know ye not that the Saints shall judge the world for is is a faithfull saying if we suffer with him Heb 1.14 we shall also reign with him Verily verliy I say unto you hereafter you shall see heaven open and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man Heb 2.5 6 7 For they are all ministring spirits sent forth to minister to them who shall be heirs of salvation For not unto the Angels hath he put into subjection the world to come whereof we speak Rev 21.7 but in a certain place saith What is man that thou shouldst be mindfull of him for thou hast crowned him with glory and put all things under him although we yet see not all things put under him But he that overcometh shall inherit all things Dan 1.31 Verse 44 and I will be their God and they shall be my people For the stone that is cut out of the mounatin without hands shall smite the Image and make it like the chaff of the summer threshing floor and the stone shall become a great mountain and fill the whole earth And at that time the Saints shall possesse the Kingdom for ever Hosâ— 3.4 5 The children of Israel shall abide many dayes without a King and without a prince and without a sacrifice and afterwards shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God and David their King and shall fear the Lord and his goodnesse in the latter dayes Isa 11. from 1 to 13 And in that day there shall be a root of Iâ—sse which shall stand up an ensign to the people And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tong of the Aegyptian sea and with his mighty winds shall he shake his hand over the river and shall smite it in the seven streams and make men go over dry-shod Isa 66 And there shall be an high way for the remnant of his peoâ—le which shall be left from Assyria like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt Ezek 39 28 29 And he shall bring them into their own land and feed them with judgement upon the mountains of Israel For he will rejoyce in Jerusalem and joy in his people Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God Isa 32.1 2 that caused them to be led into captivity amongst the heathen But I have gathered them into their own land Joel 2 32 and have left none of them any more there neither will I hide my face any more from them And a King shall reign in righteousnesse Rev. 11 15 and Prâ—nces decree judgement For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance And there was a great voice in heaven saying the KING-DOMES of this WORLD are become the KINGDOMS of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever From these Scriptures it doth plainly appear that the Jews shall yet return to their town of unwalled villages and repair their former desolations And also that Christ shall have his Tabernacle with them and be their KING in the midst of them according to the Scriptures and reign over the house of David where his Saints shall be as Saviours upon Mount Zion and enjoy the Kingdom according to Gods good pleasure Wherefore seeing we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for he that shall come will come and will not tarry even so Amen come Lord Jesus come quickly the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be multiplied unto all such as wait for his appearance and Kingdome in sinâ—erity and truth FINIS ERRATA PAge 3 l 3 read benevolous p 5 l 30 r City for eighty l 37 reither p 11 l 2 r prayers p 16 r Heb. 9.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 13. r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 21 l 27 r ask for affirm p 28 l 20 r Acts for Exod. p 29 l ul r new for communion p 35 l 8 r you draw p 36 l 10 r Poet p 38 mend the margin r there was not a state of Immortality in Paradice equivalent with that which was brought to light no more to be subject to corruption p 46 l 17 r to fear death for did fear death p 47 l 14 r Christ owned Church p 52 l ult r many made sinners p 58 mend the margin noter Mal. 1.11.12 p 55 l 1 r despised p 65 l 32 r no man to do p 76 l 13 r moulded for marred p 77 l 6 r tender p 78 l 2 r can for cannot p 80 l 15 r tender also in line ult r tender p 82 l 17 r condition for transgression p 83 men the margin note r preterperfectâ—n e for preterimperfâ—ctience p 86 l ult r be kin p 87 l 13 r visited for rejected p 88 l 3 r reach for wrath p 89 l 22 r there justice left him and there mercy found him to bring him again from the dead p 90 l 6 r threatened for here ended p 92 in the margin r Indifferently p 93 l 4 r threatened for there opened p 95 l 18 r tender l 2â— r premised p 96 l 10 r I suppâ—se for I passe p 99 l 11 r dolefull for doubtful p 100 l 12 r Abraham for Adam l 19 r gave for you In the same p r Eâ—omitâ—s for Adamics p 112 l 3 r to whom p 119 l 32 r translated for calculated p 123 l 20 r mared for made p 127 apply 26 v. of the 9th ch to the Romans to the remnant of Israel p 132 l 24 r bride for bridegrom p 133 l 2 r in a dispute l 11 r depend p 131 l 13 r not troubâ—ed p 137 l 15 r Diotrephes for Elias l 26 r Rulers for unless p 141 l 20 r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 168 l 5 r stain for strain p 174 l 8 r Joshua for Hosea