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A79823 Theopolis, or the city of God new Jerusalem, in opposition to the city of the nations great Babylon; comprehending the blessing and benefit of Christs Kingdom, in the thousand years reign before his personal coming and appearing, after the total ruine of the beast, and his kingdom. In a coment upon the 10th. and 21st. chapters of the revelations. With an additional answer to these two material questions: 1. Whether the thousand years reign is not already past, as Brightman, and others affirm. 2. Whether the natural Jew is not most concerned in the latter day promises prophecies, especially in the pulling down Babylon, and building of Zion, as Maton, and others assert Danvers, Henry, d. 1687. 1672 (1672) Wing C4357; Wing D231; ESTC R229614 117,233 260

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no That one and the same space of time is hereby intended is manifest as Pareus well observes Because in verse 2. and 6. the thousand years are without an Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But four times afterwards with an Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these thousand years emphatically As if he should say Satans imprisonment shall continue a thousand years and during these thousand years the Martyrs shall live and reign with Christ and afterwards he shall be loosed The parts to which this number is applied are so cemented together as Cause and Effect distinction and opposition that they very much strengthen and prove that just account of a thousand years viz. Satan is bound a thousand years that he should not deceive the Nations till the same thousand years be fulfilled Then the Saints lived and reigned a thousand years with Christ that same thousand years But the rest of the dead lived not again untill these thousand years were finished whilst the holy ones as their happiness made Priests of God and of Christ Reign with Christ a thousand years And as to the third when these thousand years begin and end we have this general account That it is the space of time that is bounded with two Wars that of the great Battle of God Almighty before it begins And that of the Battle of Gog and Magog after it is ended being a time of ease peace and rest as before A space of time that hath the Beasts destruction and judgment the Dragons overthrow binding and imprisonment going before and the dragons release and final doom and judgment going after A space of time containing the sounding of the seventh Rev. 11.15 Trumpet the new Jerusalem the Bride of the Lamb 21 ●● the new Heavens and the new Earth the Palme-bearing multitude out of all Nations Tribes People and Tongues Rev. 7.9 till the War and judgment of Gog personal coming of Christ dissolution of Heaven and Earth general Resurrection and judgment A space of time bounded with two Resurrections viz. the mistical or figurative Resurrection of the Church out of her death and slaughter called the first Resurrection and the Corporeal Resurrection at the lest day And with two deaths viz. that mistical death of the Rest of the Dead viz. the wicked that live not all the thousand years and the Eternal death which will be their doom after the thousand years with two Lifes the mistical of the Church in the thousand years and the Eternal Life and Glory to be their portion at Christs personal coming after the thousand years And with two judgments that of the Beast and False-prophet with their followers before and that of the Dragon and his followers with all the wicked after But when particularly as to precise time these thousand years shall begin is yet a secret the Lamb hath not discovered contained in the sealed Book all being as yet at a loss as to the certain Epocha of the Apocalyptick numbers either as to the forty two Months or 1260 days or years of the Beasts Reign or the Churches entring the Wilderness which God in his due time will discover Of the living of the Martyrs or first Resurrection And I saw the Souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and the Word of God and which had not worshiped the beast neither his Image neither had received his Mark upon their fore-heads or in their hands And they lived c. IN the interpretation of this mistry of the living of the Martyrs Writers and Commentators much differ some judging this to be a Corporeal Resurrection others and they not a few conceive it to be a spiritual Resurrection a renewing and reviving of Soul the effect of Christs Spirit upon the heart of Believers and faithful Witnesses and a leaving others to a state of sin and death But it is humbly conceived the mind of the Spirit here it is a mistical Resurrection or civil life they are said to live as most consonant to Truth sound Reason and the scope of the place They lived Living and dying in Scripture is variously taken sometimes litterally for the natural spirit or Eternal life and death sometimes figuratively for a civil or mistical life and death consisting either in a freedom from misery and di●●ress in this life the lying under which is called death Isa 52.2 Isa 26.19 Luke 2.34 2. Chron. 19.10 And freedom therefrom into a prosperous state Resurrection and Life Resurrection Isa 52.2 1 Sam. 2.7 8. Isa 26.14.19 Rom. 11.19 Life Job 21.7 Psal 38.19 Hosea 6.2 The not freedom therefrom an unraised state Psal 140.10 Isa 2● 14 43.17 Amos 8.14 This therefore holds out under these terms of living or first Resurrection-state the beginning of the Churches glorious happy and peaceable condition whereof all the Prophets speak after her long sorrow and suffering her Enemios being now conquered and brought under alluding to the Corporeal Resurrection for as the Saints cannot enter into Glory and triumph till the bodies be raised out of the Dust and revived and Resurrection power passes upon them No more shall the Church enter into its promised Rest foretold to be enjoyed by her in this life till this mistical Resurrection or reviving passeth upon her before which under the Beasts Dominion they are but as so many slain and dead men Rev. 11.7 8 9 10.6.9 They are so in a natural sense because they worship not the Beast Rev. 13.15 Dan. 3.6 Being killed all the day long Rom. 8.36 viz. in purpose and decree and by sentence of the Antichristian Laws multitudes also feel●ng actually the force of them under the bloody Beast and Scarlet coloured Whore much-more in a civil sense thrust down from the exercise of all power dignity and Soveraignty in the behalf of Christ either in Civils or Ecclesiasticks So was it with Israel in Babylon in these respects as persons put into their Graves Ezek. 37.12 as so many dead men But now is the time come their Mortal deadly Enemies being brought down by an high hand that they shall not only have all the bloody Laws and Decrees reverst and cancelled and so be freed from all danger or damage that may come to their persons But be revived to a civil life and put now into a capacity to come into the exercise of power dignity and Soveraignty both in Church and State for as is the Death so the Resurrection Therefore is it said that when Israel were to come out of Babylon and restored to former priviledges in their own Land the Lord opened their Graves caused Bone to come to its Bone Sinew to its Sinew put a Spirit of Life into them set them upon their feet to their becoming an exceeding great Army whereby they came again to the exercise of their former Jurisdictions in Rule and Government among themselves And so a parrallel place to this Rev. 11.11 The Church having passed the State of Death Slain Slaughtered Witnesses during the Beasts reign and
Salvation Heb. 2.28 Acts 11 1. 1 Cor. 15.23 Thes 1.8 Secondly His spiritual coming is either when he comes by his spirit to convince call and convert a Soul as Eph. 3.17 1 Thes 2.13 Rev. 4.20 or to confirm seal and establish by his Spirit John 14 20. Acts 23.28 Eph. 1.13 Thirdly It is mistically considered either in his coming in the type in the shadowy and legal dispensations Acts 7. 1 Cor. 10. or in the Evangelical Antetype or Gospel dispensation Fourthly He cometh in his Providence either to redeem deliver and save his people Exod. 3.8 Lam. 18.8 Heb. 10.37 or to execute Vengeance in the destruction of his Enemies Isa 63. Luke 18. Hab. 2. Mal. 2. And it is the mind of wisdom that must rightly and duly apply each of these according to the scope drift and meaning of the holy spirit and not mistake the one for the other Secondly What are we to understand by Christs being with a people or a people with Christ can that be otherwise than personal for it is expresly said They Reigned with Christ Christ may be said to be with a person or people when he is so virtually by his spirit or spiritual presence or when he is so by his Word Rule Law or Precept Judah was said to rule with God Hosea 11.12 when they cleaved to Gods Word and Rule When Israel rejected the Government by Judges which was Gods Ordinance and Appointment for a King after the manner of the Nations they were said to reject God from being their King who vertually went in and out before them and sought their Battles for them 1 Sam. 8. And therefore said Jer. 8.19 Is not the Lord in Zion Is not her King in her why have they provoked me to anger with the graven Images Solomon was said to sit upon the Throne of the Lord. And Jehoshaphat in his charge to his Judges 2 Chron. 19.6 bids them take heed what they did for you judg not for man but for the Lord who he told them was with them in the judgment being called forth as verse 8. for the Judgment of the Lord and for controversies Christ is said therefore virtually and spiritually to dwell to rest to walk amongst his people 2 Cor. 6.16 Rev. 2.1 Isa 57.15 and they with him to live with them and they with him to suffer with them and they with him Psal 91.15 Acts 7.9 To dye be buried quickned raised with him Rom. 6.4 Col. 2.15 2 Tim. 2.12 To work with him 2 Cor 5.6.1 Sup with him and he with them Rev. 3. To war and fight together with him and he with them Rev. 17. Joshuah 5. To be Captain of the Host and General of the Army Rev. 19. When all is but virtually and spiritually so So Satan is said to be with his Servants Subjects acting and instructing when he is not personally nor visibly so Satan shall cast some of you into prison Rev. 2.10 Where Satan dwelt and Satans Seat and Throne was Rev. 2.13 When he was only so by his substitutes in his Authority not really and personally but virtually and mistically And so to Reign and Rule as God King'd it in Israel by his Word Law and Authority by his influence and spirit As the Dragons Rule is called the Devils because the Devil influences acts and spirits his principal Agents and Instruments though not personally present So may the Rule in the hands of the Saints be called Christs Kingdom or Soveraignty though he be only virtually not personally present It is no new thing so to take it in his mistical Kingdom in the Church where his Laws Statutes and Ordinances are dispensed in his name and by vertue of his spirit It was no new thing to have it so esteemed in Israel in the Typical Kingdom when the Law was his the Rulers by his choice and spiriting the policy his called therefore his Rule Government Soveraignty Throne Kingdom And why then should it be thought strange in the Antetype When his Law Rule Policy and Rulers called according to his qualifications and influenced by his spirit shall according to promise and Prophesie come forth again in the world why may they not as well be said to Reign with Christ as suffer with him If we suffer with him we shall Reign with him We do not think it any absurdity to say The King of Spain fights and Conquers in America and Rules and Reigns there though never personally present in that other world but only vertually so by his Commissions by his Laws Civil and Ecclesiastical that he hath transferred thither by his Officers and Vice Roys that he hath appointed in his name to Rule and Govern there Did not the Roman Senate of old Govern the world at Rome by their Laws and Edicts and Rulers of Provinces that they Commissioned and appointed But by this Reason you seem to exempt Christs person from any share of Rule or Soveraignty in any Kingdom here whereas it is expresly said He is to judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and Kingdom by which it is most manifest that at his appearing he hath a Kingdom and you owning that appearing to be personal what do you make that Kingdom to be And what share hath Christs person in it In answer whereto I conceive it necessary in the first place to give you the distinction of a five-fold Kingdom the Scripture takes notice of belonging to Christ viz. a Providential Spiritual Monarchical mistical or Davidical and Misphatical Kingdom and then I shall give you my understanding and conceptions of this Kingdom hinted at that he is to have at that his appearing And for a want of a right distinguishing herein proceds as I humbly apprehend all the mistaken notions and differences about the Kingdom of Christ treated of in these papers First Therefore understand there is a providential Kingdom which Christ hath and doth as God manage over all the world and that from the beginning Secondly A spiritual Kingdom which he doth and hath all along managed in the hearts of his people from the beginning of the world to this day Thirdly There is a mistical Kingdom or a Rule and Soveraignty that he as Lord and King hath exercised in the Church as well under the Law as under the Gospel Fourthly There is his Monarchical or Davidical Kingdom namely that dignity and Soveraignty that is in time according to promise and prophesie to take place in and over the Nations and to be managed by his Laws and Government by his spirit and vertual presence in his Servants and Substitutes Which hath been the special Subject of this discourse Fifthly There is that glorious Misphatical Kingdom viz. Soveraignty that Christ Jesus in person with all the Saints in their glorified bodies with him shall upon their general Resurrection and Judgment exercise here upon the Earth before all is given up into the Fathers hands which is further cleared to you in the several parts of it in the
general name therefore in a figure to the Church of God both under the Law and under the Gospel And which famous City as considered under the Law passed a threefold state all very significant viz. 1. Her pure and primitive state in the days of Solomon 2. Her ruined desolate state in the time of the Babylonish Captivity 3. Her renewed restored state after the return of the Captivity All which were eminently Typical to the Gospel Church First Because her pure and primitive state in the days of Christ and his Apostles answered that of Solomon wherein a City state was asserted Eph. 2.19 Heb. 12.22 A greater then Solomon being there Math 12.42 Secondly Because her Apostate and ruined state in the time of Antichrist wherein her City state was defaced and ruined trode under foot Rev. 11.2 answered that of the Babylonish Captivity Thirdly Her renewed and restored state here foretold and Prophecyed of is to answer that eminent and glorious restoration in the Type wherein the glory of that latter House excelled according to Prophecy the glory of the former Hag. 2.9 Therefore called New Jerusalem because in all respects she is made so in this her Renovation and held forth in all this beauty and splendour not only to answer the Type and to fulfill the words of the Prophets that under the terms of an illusterious beautiful City foretells the Churches order peace purity pollicy gifts grace and flourishing state in the latter day but also that she might confront and utterly confound her Antithesis that great City Babylon that as the Lady and Mistress of Kingdoms a well favoured Harlot has by her counterfit glory inchanted and bewitched the Nations called Great Because as Jerusalem in the Type bore sway over the Nations and had her Inhabitants all the World over and as great Babylon extended her Territories as well as her rule and authority all the world over so must this great City Jerusalem extend ●● her rule authority and influence all the ver become the joy of the whole Earth to whom the Kings of the Nations must bow and bring presents even all their honour and glory Ps 72.8 9 10 11.15 Rev. 21.24 Called Holy 1. Because of that purity and holiness that through the powering out of the Holy Spirit upon her shall now abound in so much that upon the very Bells of the Horses and upon the Po●s in the Sanctuary shall then be Holiness Zach. 14.1 Held out by this golden state the City being all of pure transparent gold as well as the streets thereof of the same implying that the constitution thereof is not only so but the whole course of the conversation is the same also 2. Because of that exact keeping to holy rule and order in the faithful observation of the form of the House and the fashion thereof the Laws Statutes and Ordinances thereof the comings in thereof and the goings out thereof c. which being the law of the House upon the top of the Mountains the whole limit thereof shall be holy Ezek. 43.11 12. Rev. 22 14. 3. Because there is no unclean person or thing to enter or abide in it as Verse 8. and 27. Isa 35.8 9. Rev. 22.15 Zach 14.21 Joel 3.17 4. Because of the abiding of holy presence therein the Tabernacle of God being now with men who himself will dwell and walk with them 21.3 The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb is to be the Temple thereof and the Throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it 22.3 Babylon its true her opposite is represented to us as great and called the great City and reason good Because she is said to Reign over the Kings of the Earth Rev. 17.18 Yet is she not said to be holy but the quit contrary being the unclean filthy polluted and bloody City compared to Sodom and Egypt and apostate Jerusalem Rev. 11. Being the hold and receptacle not onely of every soul Spirit viz. Filthy locusts Rev. 9. Vnclean Frogs said to be the spirits of Devils Rev. 16.13 14. Z●im and Jim Esai 13.21 But the cage of every unclean and hateful Bird 18.2 viz. Owls and Satyrs and such like doleful Creatures Isa 13 21. Whose Inhabitants therefore we have set forth under eight Characters Rev. 21.8 viz. To be the fearful the unbelieving the abominable the Murderers the Whoremongers the Sorcerers the Idolaters and the Lyers Of the Cities descent from Heaven And descended out of Heaven from God THat the City or Church of God especially in this state did descend from Heaven may appear if we consider First That all her Members are Heaven-born viz. born of God born of the Spirit born from above John 3.7.1.13 begotten of his Will by the Word of Truth Jam. 1.18 and brought forth in Zion where it must be written that this and that man was born in her Psal 87.4 And therefore called Jerusalem from above the mother of us all Gal. 4.26 Secondly That all the Rules Orders Laws Governments are the Statute-Laws of Heaven her High-priest Proph●● and King coming from thence John 3.13.31 32 33. Heb. 1.1 Thirdly That her raising out of the dust her coming up out of the Grave the return of her Captivity the advancement to this pitch of Beauty and excellency is by the special ordering of Divine power and Providence from first to last and that in such an eminent and visible manner that as the Prophet saith It shall be seen known and understood that the hand of the Lord hath done it and the Holy one of Israel hath created it Fourthly That the Glory and special presence of the Lord hath descended from Heaven resting and remaining upon her The quite contrrry is true of that other opposite City Babylon who ascends with her Head and Governours from beneath even out of the Bottomless pit and therefore hath all her affairs transactions and concerns be managed by that wisdom which cometh from below which is Earthly Sensual Devilish Of the Glory of God upon her Having the Glory of God and her light was like unto a Stone most precious even like a Jasper Stone clear as Chrystal verse 11. THis is a further and fuller discovery that the Church is returned out of her Captivity because the Lord hath returned his Glory un●o her When she went into Captivity her Glory departed from her now she returns again she receives therewith her former Glory which begins upon the pouring out of the Vials Chap. 15.8 in allusion to Exod. 40.34 1 Kings 8.10 11. Thus it was in the type when Jerusalem went into Captivity under the King of Babylon it is said the Glory of God departed from them and went by degrees first out of the Temple to the Threshold of the house then off from the City then to the Mountain and so by degrees quite away Ezek. 10.4.18.11.22 23 c. But when their Captivity returned so did the Glory also and that in the same way it departed as Ezek. 40.1 2.3 4 5 6. In