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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

or Dragon and his two companions the Beast and the false-Prophet Day and night Continually without intermission For ever and ever A description of all Eternity 11. And I saw a great white Throne By this Throne a cloud is understood and being termed a great Throne the Universall judgement is figured out and being also called a white one Truth Equity and Justice are thereby signified And one sitting thereon Namely Christ God and Man Now he is said to be seen to sit there that hereby we may be taught That he is prepared and ready to passe judgement From whose face Being both most ref●lgent and full of austherity The Earth and Heaven fled away That is the fashion of this world passed away and was consumed with fire which went before this Judge and the Creatures the Inhabitants of earth and heaven did all tremble at the sight of him And there was found no place for him By reason of the resplenden●y and Majesty of the Judge which no creature could endure without being changed into some other state and condition Therefore there shall be an Universall change of the whole world in that Judgement day 12. And I saw the dead That is Those who had been dead but were now raised and restored unto life Small and great A Dichotomy or division naturally to be understood in regard of quantity morally in regard of quality or dignity So that all must be placed before the Tribunall of Christ Standing before God As expecting his definitive sentence And the Books were opened Books not devised or written by any other then by every one in his own private conscience dictated according to his severall thoughts words and deeds These Books therefore thus written have hitherto been reserved shut up and not taken notice of as it were in some private closet or place of account But now they are opened so that they may be plainly read by every particular man And another book was opened That onely book written by God himself Which is the book of Life That is The secret and hidden Decree of God concerning our Election which there shall in publike be exhibited and made manifest Now it is called The book of Life because therein God hath as it were set down the names of them who through his grace and favour shall become heirs of eternall life Compare Luke 10.20 And the dead were judged A definitive sentence passing upon all acquitting some and condemning others Out of those things which were written in the Book To wit In the books of mens consciences Now these books shall be opened after a severall manner For the books of the Consciences of godly men shall not be so opened that their sinnes shall rise up in judgement against them for in this respect they are still sealed up but they shall be so opened that they may read indeed their sinnes there many and g●eat ones but so as they are covered by Christ and the power of them more and more weakened by the Spirit of Christ through repentance and the study of good works Therefore the godly shall reade in their conscience the justice of Christ covering their sinnes and through him bringing forth good works But the condition of the ungodly shall be farre otherwise For they shall read in their consciences their sinnes not pardoned by Christ According to their works Which shall give testimony either of their faith in Christ or else of their impiety and unbeleef 13. And. T●ansitively for After that that is After the sentence of the Judge now passed and published The sea gave up her dead that were in it B●ing drowned or devoured of fi●nes And death That is The Fire Aire and Beast of the Earth and Fowls yeelded up their dead which had not been bu●yed And Hell That is The Grave In these words then is contained partly a description of the generall Resurrection partly a distribution of the bodies of them that were dead into three sorts One of them that were drowned in the Sea Another of those which were not drowned in the Sea but being dead had no buriall as being brought to ashes either by the fire or aire or else devoured by beasts of the earth or by flying fowls A third sort of those who were laid in their graves Gave up their dead By the command and appointment of God Which were in them The very same and not others the same in number And they were judged every man Not any one being excepted According to their works So that no man shall have cause to complain of any injury done unto him 14. And death And for But adversatively Death that is some and indeed most of the dead but not buryed And Hell The Grave which is here put for them that were buryed therein And again not all the buryed are here to be understood but some and indeed most Now by Death and Hell may be understood men deserving both Were cast into the lake of fire That is made subject and slaves to eternall damnation so that the Saints for the time to come need not stand in any danger or fear of them Which is the second Death Or Eternall This Relative Which may either be referred to the word Lake or else may be taken collectively In the former acception the Lake is called the second death that is a signe or Symbol of the second or eternall death In the latter the judgement of condemnation committed to execution is called the second death Now this is called the second death because the bodies and souls of the damned do in very deed dye twice For the body dyeth both when it is separated from the soul and also when being again joyned to the body it is seperated from God And the soul dyeth both when in this life it separateth it self from God by sinne and when after this life it is separated from God by everlasting punishment Lastly This punishment is called Death because it taketh away the life of grace and glory with which if the life of nature be compared it is rather to be called death then life 15. And whosoever was not found And for For a copulative particle for a declarative Finding is here applyed to God by an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or by attributing of humane actions passions and affections to the unlimited power and unsearchable operations of the Deity Written in the book of Life Both in the former book as well through the love and election of God as in the latter by faith hope and charity Was cast into the lake of fire Through the just judgement of God and by his own default 2. A Logicall-Theologicall Analysis This Chapter is divided into five parts I. THe Description of the Angel Vers. 1. II. The Effects or operations of the Angel that is what the Angel did In part of the 1. Verse 2.3 III. The happy estate of the Church which followed upon what the Angel had effected In part of the 2 3 4 5

been Indeed Satan was bound at that time but not in that manner and measure as he shall be bound for the thousand years Again by Nations in the place quoted we must understand not the Gentiles onely but also the Iews who truely are yet seduced as also the Indians Turks and others XI Object Is from Revel. 20.1 Where it is said That the Angel which bound Satan came down from Heaven By this Angel therefore we must understand Christ who came down from Heaven Ioh 3.13 Hence we may conclude That these thousand years began about the time of Christs Birth For at that time the Grae●es ceased from given Answers Whereupon Apollo being enquired of by Augustus Caesar answered thus Me puer Ebraeus Divos Deus ipse gubernans Codere sede juber tristemque redire sub Orcum Ergo dehine aris tacitus discedito nostris The Hebrew Child himself a God that rules the gods Bids me give place and back unto sad Hell return Silent therefore depart from hence mine Altars leave See the devill himself confesseth That he is bound from this time Answ. 1. As in the former Visions good Angels were the executioners of Gods Judgements so it is likely that a created Angel was used also in this Vision 2. Christ in the 3 of Iohn is said to have come down from Heaven that is To have assumed the humane Nature But the Angel in this place who hath the key of the bottomlesse pit came down from Heaven by a locall motion that he might binde the Devill for a thousand years after the downfall of Antichrist 3. It is true the devill was bound at the time of the Nativity of Christ but not after that manner as is here declared Look before in the Analysis For there are many measures and degrees whereby the devill is bound XII Object Is this This Interpretation concerning the Resurrection of the Martyrs seems to oppose the Article of our Faith I beleeve the Resurrection of the flesh For so a double Resurressiion of the flesh is maintained contrary to the Apostolique Faith Answ. That Article speaketh of the finall and universall Resurrection which shall be in the last day and in which all the dead shall rise again Now this Resurrection is not contradicted or denyed by the Resurrection of the Martyrs which is to go before it no more then by the Resurrection of the Saints who rose again when Christ breathed forth his Spirit hanging upon the Crosse Matth. 27.50 51 52. XIII Object Is taken out of Revel. 20.6 Where all and only they are proclaimed blessed and freed from the second death who have their part in the first Resurrection Whence it follows That either there shall be no Resurrection after the first or that none in the second Resurrection shall be blessed both which are absurd Answ. 1. Nay the latter is onely absurd being granted from the antecedent or foregoing 2. The antecedent is false neither is it in the Text For it is not said there They onely are happy Now that they are in particulars said to be blessed that is in respect of their Prerogative in that they are blessed above others of the faithfull as being to reigne 1000 years with Christ before the last day And this is intended by the word Holy being added whereby is signified that they should be separated from the other faithfull believers and set aside for this happinesse in that they are to rise again to reign with Christ before them 3. Thirdly this blessednesse consists of three parts the first of which being considered apart suits also with the other believers But as it is joyned with the other two parts it cannot be expressed but of the Martyrs only as it will appear to any one that will examine the Context of the 6 verse XIV Object Is taken out of Revel. 20.6 Whence it is gathered That the first Resurrection hath opposed to it the first death Therefore by the first Resurrection the second Life or living again of the soul from the death of sin by Faith and Repentance or in a word Regeneration is to be understood Certainly all and onely the truely regenerate are delivered from the second or eternall death and certainly obtain heavenly happinesse Whence it may be sufficiently proved That the first Resurrection is not particular or bodily Answ. The first Resurrection as it is spoken of in this place is not opposed to the first death of which there is here no mention but it is opposed to the second Resurrection as appears out of these words But the rest of the dead lived not again untill the thousand yeers were finished This is the first Resurrection XV Object Is this The first Resurrection is not a bodily Resurrection because if it be bodily it is not the first For the Resurrection of others namely of those Saints who rose again while Christ hung on the Crosse went before it Answ. That Resurrection of the Martyrs is called the first by way of Excellence by reason also of the multitude of them in respect of which that Resurrection of the Saints comes not within reckoning of by reason of the fewnesse For although many bodies of the Saints are said then to have risen yet in regard of the Martyrs they were but few as which came forth of the Graves onely which were neer unto Hierusalem XVI Object It is a usuall Axiome in the School of Divines That the first Resurrection is the living again of the Souls from the death of sin by faith and repentance which otherwise is called Regeneration and it is opposed to the first death which is a defection and a casting a way of the soul from God But the second Resurrection shall be the raising of the bodies to be united to the souls to eternall life to which the second death is opposed which shall be the casting a way of the damned to eternall torments Ans. Resurrection is tearmed to be the First ambiguously For either it is opposed to the first death and so it is spirituall and is proper to all believers or it is opposed to the second Resurrection and so it is corporeall and of the Martyrs onely XVII Object The thousand years of Satans binding contain an obscure mystery and hidden from us In vain therefore and too boldly we labour in so scrupulous an uniting thereof Ans. 1. There are many Mysteries in the Revelation which in successe of time receive light more and more 2. We dislike all boldnesse but we commend holy diligence and industry XVIII Object From the end of Satans binding the Epocha is to be collected of the thousand years in the Revelation Now the term of his binding expired in the year of Christ 1073. wherein * Gregory the 7 that devillish Juggler and Cozener possessing himself of the Popedome confounded Heaven and earth together and filling the Christian world with Wars and slaughters declared himself to be a singular instrument of Satan let loose from his bonds Hence

raised and the dark miste of lyes being dispelled Then shall Satan be bound for a thousand years which must be expired before he scatter new errours through the world and by them seduce the Nations This this is the imprisonment this is the liberty or setting free of Satan In the same place upon vers. 2. But when began Satan to be bound In the year 1517. when the witnesses were raised From that time ALL people generally have not drunk any new poyson of heresie which might weaken or overturn their faith In the same place To 1517. adde 1000. years So you shall make 2517. at which time Satan shall again draw the Nations into abominable heresies In this Exposition of Cotterius the thousand years are rightly urged according to the letter But his Epocha or beginning of his account is not well placed in the year 1517. For then began onely the praeludium or proeme of this Millenary Iohn Piscator in his Commentary on the Revelations The happynesse of the faithfull who shall live upon earth after the downfall of the Papacy is their security from the hostile invasions of the wicked for 1000 years In the same place The singular happynesse of the Martyrs of Christ who before these thousand years indured persecution is their Resurrection which shall be before the generall Resurrection and their reign in Heaven with Christ for a thousand years before the Resurrection of the rest In this Exposition the literall interpretation is rightly urged But that he sayes the Martyrs shall reign with Christ in Heaven for those thousand years cannot be proved out of the Text Nay the contrary may thence be proved because the Resurrection of the Martyrs is part of the happinesse of the Church here on Earth Again The Kingdom which is limited by a certain number of years cannot suite well with eternall life See also Revel. 5.10 where the Saints in Heaven among other things sing thus And we shall reign upon the Earth But moreover the same Iohn Piscator maintains this opinion of the thousand years in his German translation of the Bible and a little before his death he wrote a short Treatise Of the future happinesse of the Church in this life Out of which I have made use of many things which I have transcribed into this Meditation for that Treatise of his hath not as yet seen the light Many Writers of the former and this present Age have published many things concerning Elias the Artist who is to come Of the Lion of the North who is neer at hand Of a fourth Northern Monarchy Of a great Reformation Of the Conversion of the Jews and the like See Theophrastus Paracelsus Michael Sendivogius in his Treatise of Sulphur Stephanus Pannonius Of the circle of the Works and Iudgements of God where among other things he writs thus Yet it shall come to passe that the pure Gospel of God shall be preached to the Americans before the end of the world Again Nothing is more sure then that the Reformation of the East and South drawing on some famous Emperour whose types Constantine and Theodosius both entitled Great were shall openly shew himself and granting liberty of Religion to them who professe the name of the Holy Trinity shall do some great matter in the world for the glory of God for the building up of the Church and for the downfall of Antichrist In the same place The Eastern Christians fired with the zeal of Christ shall make their way into Asia it self and provoke the Jews to jealousie Rom. 11. And the spirituall Babylon shall be a pray unto all Nations In the same place A refining of the Souldiers of God whereof there is mention Zach. 13.8 that is temptations and tryalls shall go before this Reformation that the light of God may arise out of the Crosse of Christ This Treatise was published in the year 1608. Iohn Dobricius also in the year 1612. did set forth a notable book entitled {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is The Interpreter of times wherein both out of the Holy Scripture and from the new Star which appeared in the year * DC.IV. and the great Conjunction of the Planets many things are discoursed of concerning the reformation and future happinesse of the Church Peter du Moulin in his French Book intituled Du Combat Christien that is The Chrictian Conflict pag. 256. This persecution is a cruell tempest which cannot last awayes Either it will take us out of the world or God will take it away from us Pag. 353. Every one hath but a short journey whereby he must come to God and the time is at hand that we must commit our bodies to the earth our Souls to God and to the Church peace and the blessing of God For it shall come to passe even in our times that God shall be glorified in the great Congregations Yea even in those places where are horrible ruines the Word of God shall ●ound forth and God shall afford us matter of praise and thanksgiving Pag. 450. After that God shall have shewn us his deliverances on earth he will also shew us his riches in Heaven A CONFUTATION Of the Objections I. Object IS taken out of Matth. 24.14 If after the Gospel preached in all the world the end of all things shall come that happinesse of the Church in this world shall not happen out between the end thereof and the preaching of the Gospel For the Gospel is already preached through the whole earth I answer 1. The Consequence is to be denyed for although this happynesse do come between yet it hinders not but that the end of the world should come after the Gospel preached over the whole earth Secondly The pro-syllogisme is to be denyed because the Gospel is not already preached over the whole earth II. Object Is taken from Matth. 24.29 30. If presently after the destruction of Hierusalem Christ shall come to Judgement then this happinesse of the Church shall not be before his coming to Judgement Answ. The matter it self speaks and experience witnesseth that this word Immediately or Presently is not here properly or simply to be understood but hyperbolically and according to what went before namely in relation to the foregoing Prophesie concerning the overthrow of the Iews which they were to receive by the destruction of Hierusalem So that this is the meaning that between this desolation of Hierusalem and the coming of Christ the Iews should receive no other overthrow III. Object Is out of the same Chapter vers. 37 38 39. If a little before the coming of Christ to Judgement the State and condition of the world shall be such as it was in the time of No●h before the Deluge and that such a state of things is to be seen at this day It may be hence gathered that such a condition of the Church as is here described shall not happen out before the coming of

it appears that those thousand years began in the year of Christ 73. Answ. Satan indeed in the year of Christ 1073 was let loose as he is alwayes to be conceived let loose when he troubles the Church But that letting him loose which shall be after the thousand years shall be farre of another sort For then Satan shall be loosed that he may stirre up the Nations to the Warre of Gog and Magog and indeed he shall be so let loose that he shall not long go on to destroy But now from the year of Christ 1073 to this present some whole Ages have passed XIX Object This Opinion little differeth from the errour of the Chiliasts or Millenaries which long ago hath been exploded for this reason Because after the downfall of Antichrist they feigned out of this very 20 Chap. a corporeall Resurrection of the Martyrs and Confessors and their reign with Christ for a thousand years Answ. The opinion of the Chiliasts ought not to have been exploded for this reason because it maintained a double Resurrection one in particular another Universall for truely in Christs time when he hung upon the Crosse there happened a particular Resurrection of the Saints The Resurrection of the Martyrs hath also a foundation upon this Text whereon also our judgement for their Kingdom of a thousand years is grounded 2. The Chiliasts erred in this respect in that they maintained an eternall life here on earth and in the City Hierusalem That this life should consist in the enjoyment and use of all bodily pleasures which should last only for a thousadd years And of their opinion they made this the foundation because that in the 20 chap. of Rev. there was mention made of a thousand years Let us hear * Augustine concerning them The Cerinthians devise also to themselves a thousand years after the Resurrection which shall be in an earthly kingdom of Christ according to the * carnall pleasures of the belly and their lust from whence also they are called Chiliasts So the Chiliasts But our opinion maintains not a thousand years of carnall pleasures but of Spirituall joyes Has omnes ubi mille rotam volvere per annos L●thaeum ad fluvium Deus evocat agmine magno Scilicet immemores sup●r● ut convexa revisant Rursus insipiant in corpora velle reverti But they urge The opinion of the Chiliasts in following times also hath been revived again in a new trim or dresse and this exposition of yours differs not a whit from it which they prove thus Alfonsus Conradus of Mantua whom severall times you have before alleadged writes thus upon the 20 of the Revel. But how are these thousand years to be interpreted shall they be said to be already past or yet to be expected Here you will not easily clear your self seeing the expositions of this place are wondrously divers and yet I make a question of it Whether any either of the ancient or latter expositors have ever touched the genuine and true meaning of the place In the first place indeed were the Chiliasts who Iudaizing and entertaining carnall conceits concerning divine matters did carnally also interpreted this place and say thus When six Millenaries or 1000 years shall be accomplished from the Creation of the world then Antichrist with all his forces that is the wicked and whosoever have obeyed his commands against Christ shall be destroyed Again say they For the whole 7th Millenary Christ with his elect shall reign here on earth in all tranquility and peace and without any affliction at all Satan in the mean while being bound in the bottomlesse pit that he might not any way disturb their peace Now the thousand years of peace and tranquility being accomplished Satan shall be let loose again before Christs coming to Iudgement and shall stirre up Gog and Magog against the Godly untill by the coming of Christ the Militia or strength of Satan shall be repressed and Satan shut up for ever into the bottomlesse pit But this Doctrine because it hath many absurdities is to be avoided by all Christians So Alfonsus in the place cited Hence it appears then That the exposition hitherto brought and maintained is nothing else but the opinion of the Chiliasts in another dressing or at least the errour of new Chiliasts Answ. 1. In this opinion that is to be approved of which hath foundation in the Scripture as these three things in it have 1. That Antichrist shall be destroyed before these thousand years 2. That the Church shall be for these thousand yeers free from persecutions 3. That after these thousand years the Warre of Gog and Magog shall begin 2. In the same opinion we dislike and disprove That it allows carnall security That it affirms that no ungodly men shall be remaining for those thousand years That it maintains that Christ shall reign visibly here on earth lastly That it doth precisely joyn this Millenary with the end of the sixth Millenary of the world which conceit is taken from the Traditions of the House or Family of Elias 3. He is not rashly to be accused of * Turcisme or Iudaisme who affirms any truth which a Turk or a Iew doth likewise maintain as for example That there is but one God * So in like manner he is not straightway a Chiliast who defends the truth of any thing which the Chiliasts also do rightly maintain out of Scripture For this they do not hold and teach as Chiliasts XX Object The Kingdom which Revel. 20.4 is granted to the Martyrs consists herein That their souls shall reign in Heaven with Christ For although the holy Martyrs and Confessors who poured out their lives and lost their fortunes under Tyrants and Antichrist for Christ's sake were judged by the world as miserable and wretched men yet the Spirit of God declares otherwise of them That they shall live and reign in happinesse with Christ in Heaven Answ. 1 This Resurrection is granted to the souls of the Martyrs Synochdochically or totally because their souls shall so farre rise or be restored that they shall again be united to their bodies For the dead bodies shall not rise again without their souls but every body again united to it's own soul And to the souls the rest of the dead are opposed of whom it is said That they lived not again till the thousand years were finished Therefore whereas it is said of the souls of the Martyrs That they should live it is to be understood of their Resurrection in their bodies resumed or taken to them again 2. This is proper to the other elect Saints as well as to the Martyrs That their souls should reigne with Christ in Heaben But in this place some prerogative is bestowed on the Martyrs which consists in this That in the beginning of the thousand years they shall rise again and reign with Christ 3. It is said This particular Kingdom shall continue for a thousand