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A54655	A commentary, or, An exposition with notes on the five first chapters of the Revelation of Jesvs Christ by Charles Phelpes.	Phelpes, Charles.	1678 (1678)	Wing P1976; ESTC R20562	778,103	824

39. No the promotion of these holy Ones was not of themselves or of man but he who is the Prince of the Kings of the Earth Rev. 1. 5 6. whose name is King of kings Rev. 17. 14. and 19. 12 16. thus advanced them It was he whom they religiously worship that raised up these poor ones out of the dust and lifted up these needy ones out of the dunghil that he might set them with Princes with the Princes of his people Psal 113. 7 8. 1 Sam. 2. 8. and therefore he is higher than they and hath in all things the pre-eminence Col. 1. 18. Psal 89. 26 27. for without all contradiction the less is blessed and exalted of the better Heb. 7. 7. and none need to be offended at their dignity for their honour and kingdom is not from hence John 18. 36. no say they but thou the great God and our Saviour hast made us unto our God Kings c. Now he conferred this honour upon them and made them Kings 1. By a birth from himself who is the everlasting Father and begetter of Kings Isa 9. 6 7. These are the children whom God hath given him Heb. 2. 13. And if children then Heirs Heirs of God and joynt-heirs with Christ Rom. 8. 17. they are born of the right seed of the seed of the kingdom in a spiritual consideration 2 King 11. 1. and 25. 25. even of the Gospel the Word and Gospel of the Kingdom Luk. 10. 9 11. Matth. 4. 23. and 13. 19-38 and chap. 24. 24. and so are Heirs of the Kingdom Jam. 2. 5. they are born of water and the spirit of the free and immense love of God to the world of mankind as it is manifested by the spirit in lifting up the Son of man in the Gospel in which birth they are delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of Gods deer Son John 3. 3 5 7-16 with Col. 1. 13. they are born of incorruptible seed to an incorruptible inheritance 1 Pet. 1. 3 5. with ver 23. This is the fundamental and first thing requisite to their being made and in which they are made Kings namely being born of seed-royal As in this world none are Heirs to an Hereditary Kingdom but such as are so by birth whatever excellent endowments and accomplishments soever they have and how beautiful amiable or well-deserving soever they are or appear to be yet if they be not of the seed-royal they must not inherit but it would be an heinous iniquity in them to aspire to the Kingdom and though persons be or appear to be never so mean crooked deformed c. yet if they be born of the right seed they are Kings by Inheritance so it is here those who are Kings in a spiritual and heavenly consideration are such as are born not of bloods not of the law of works not of mens doctrins or traditions but of the love of God manifested in Christ and made known in the Gospel as preached by Christ and his holy Apostles 1 Pet. 1. 23-25 with 1 Joh. 4. 7 8-10 14. Joh. 1. 12 13. For what saith the Scripture Cast out the bond woman and her son for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman So then brethren we are not children of the bond-woman but of the free Gal. 4. 30. 31. 2. He hath washt them from their sins in his own blood without which they can have no inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God Rev. 1. 5 6. Gal. 5. 19-21 Eph. 5. 5 6. 1 Cor. 6. 9-11 Or as here they say Thou hast redeemed us unto God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation and hast made us unto our God Kings c. Without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Therefore he is redeeming them and hath redeemed from the Earth and from among men and from all iniquity and purisying them unto himself peculiar ones zealous of good works Rev. 14. 3 4. and 21. 27. He is saving them with the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he sheds on them abundantly thorow Jesus Christ That being justified by his grace they might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life Tit. 3. 5-7 Heb. 12. 14. Mat. 19. 29 3. He is anointing them with holy oyl even with his holy Spirit with the spirit of wisdom and revelation with the spirit of grace and supplication with the spirit of adoption and child-like boldness and is sealing them herewith and giving his spirit to them as an earnest of the inheritance Ephes 1. 13 14. and 4. 30. As David was anointed King some considerable time before he reigned so now these have received an unction from the holy one while they are under sufferings and persecution and before the time of their reigning comes 1 Sam. 16. 12 13. with 2 Sam. 2. 4. and 3. 1. and Chap. 5. 1 5. 2 Cor. 1. 21 22. He is anointing them with the same oyl of gladness wherewith God hath anointed him whose throne is for ever and ever though as to the degree he is anointed therewith above his fellows as he hath highly deserved to be Heb. 1. 8 9. 1 Joh. 2. 20-27 Psal 105. 15. Act. 11. 26. 4. He is clothing them by faith with the garments of salvation and covering them with the robe of righteousness Isa 61. 10. and with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ to the praise and glory of God Phil. 1. 11. with the fruit of the spirit to wit love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance that they may inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5. 22 23. with ver 19-21 Eph. 5. 9. And if these things be in them and abound they make them that they shall neither be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledg of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ But so an entrance shall be ministred unto them abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1. 4-8-11 Mat. 5 5-9 5. And thus prepared and fitted he appoints unto them a Kingdom as his Father hath appointed unto him That they may eat and drink at his table in his Kingdom and sit on Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel Luk. 22. 28-30 Mat. 25. 34-40 and Chap. 19. 28 29. and they are by faith and in hope receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved Heb. 12. 26-28 And though they are as sorrowful yet always rejoicing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing and yet possessing all things 2 Cor. 6. 10. Jam. 2. 5. And Priests He hath also made them spiritual Priests even such as are redeemed unto God by the blood of the Lamb out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation In former times the typical Priests were not of every people and nation but only of the people of Israel nor of every kindred or tribe of that Nation but only of the

and from divers other Scriptures such all such Saints shall then reign who died in the Lord or in the ●aith of Christ before they so reign for if all the Saints shall reign as we have seen then such as are or shall be absent from the body and present with the Lord shall not be cut off for their parts or from their expectation but this honour shall all his Saints have Psal 149. As we may also shew under the last particular here propounded So it is in this place said not only by the four living Creatures to wit that part of the Church of Christ on earth see notes on Chap. 4. 6. but also by the four and twenty Elders the spirits of just men made perfect as we have shewed see notes on Chap. 4. ver 4. We shall reign c. And if by the twenty four Elders we are to understand the spirits of just men made perfect as I make no doubt of it at all then the consideration of the persons that shall so reign doth undeniably evince and demonstrate that all the Saints not only the surviving of Christs body but such also as have fallen asleep in Christ shall be the subjects of this Kingdom on earth and shall reign thereon in due season Indeed a learned man Dr. H. from this very Scripture we are speaking to concludes that by the four and twenty Elders also are meant such as were then in mortal bodies and so alive in this world because it is said by them also We shall reign on the earth To which I say 1. Hereby he gives us to understand that had it not been for this place only or mainly he had otherwise thought of them and might have concluded as surely he should have done that by the Elders are meant the spirits of just men made perfect He was as it appears in a strait between two and what to conclude concerning the Elders he wot not but now this place or rather his perverting and misunderstanding of it caused him thus to speak By this it is evident that the Saints here are the Christian people upon earth and not the Saints which reign in Heaven 2. But how comes he to conclude so from hence Thus first He with the Church as he calls it concludes that the Reign of Christ and his Saints upon the earth a thousand years gloriously is an Heresie and those that believe and teach it are Hereticks and then it is no marvel that he should endeavour though weakly and slenderly enough to pervert and corrupt the Scriptures speaking hereof and to conclude right or wrong that the Saints here spoken of and all of them were such as then were alive in mortal bodies The vanity and falseness whereof and his mistakes therein we have I conceive in some good measure detected and discovered and shall have further occasion so to do Yea that those that have fallen asleep in Christ and so are not in mortal bodies shall reign on the earth appears evidently by other Scriptures also so our Lord saith He that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end of his life doubtless to him will I give power over the nations c. He will give him such power after he hath kept Christs works unto the end and future thereto Rev. 2. 26 27. with vers 10. Mat. 10. 23. and Chap. 24. 13. see notes on Rev. 2. vers 26. And again To him that overcometh will I grant to ●it with me in my throne This blessedness of reigning with Christ is there also assured and promised as future and consequential to overcoming After they have done the will of God they shall inherit the promises Heb. 10. 36 37. see the notes before on Rev. 3. 21. Thus again the Apostle John saith I saw to wit in vision the souls of them that were beheaded actually slain and put to death for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and not them only but them also which had no● worshipped the Beast neither his Image neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and reigned c. Rev. 20. 4. What can be spoken more plainly to this purpose to shew unto us that such as are now dead unto us though they live unto God shall then reign c But here again that oft referred unto learned man Dr. H. though he rightly acknowledgeth and confesseth that they that were beheaded were such as actually laid down and parted with their lives for Christ yet tells us that what follows is not affirmed or to be understood of those individual persons that were so beheaded but rather of a succession of such as they were But in answer to that we may say 1. He speaks without book in so saying for them that were beheaded appear evidently and without controversie to be the subjects of that which is after affirmed viz. they lived and reigned c. Nor is there any intimation of any individual persons to be there meant but such as were formerly beheaded c. And truly such marring of the construction of the words of the sacred Scriptures by such learned men and perverting and wresting the plain sayings thereof are of very dangerous consequence and render in vain and insignificant the Pen of the holy Scribes as Jer. 8. 8 9. and lead men to have their fear towards God taught by their precepts and traditions Isa 29. 11-14 2. Whereas the said Dr. tells us that it is not said they that were beheaded c. revived but only they lived and therefore the same individual persons that were beheaded are not the subjects of that afterwards affirmed I say 1. Then if it had been said they that were beheaded c. revived he might have concluded this Davidical reign was no Heresie And therefore 2. We further say thereto and desire it may be minded and considered 1. That lived may be as much as and the same with revived Thus when the Widows son was dead Elijah prayed and said O Lord my God I pray thee let this childs soul come into him again And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah and the soul of the child came into him and he revived And Elijah said unto his mother See thy son liveth to wit reviveth 1 King 17. 17-23 see also Rev. 1. 18. with Rom. 14. 9. Luk. 24. 5. with John 10. 17. Nay 2. We further say this in answer that lived in Rev. 20. 4 5. signifieth and must needs signifie revived and that will appear if we consider 1. They lived by and after a Resurrection as is there signified 2. So much is undeniably intimated in Rev. 20. 5. the rest of the dead lived not again or revived not till the thousand years were finished intimating to us plainly and evidently that they that were beheaded c. ver 4. lived to wit lived again or revived but the rest of the dead lived not again till after the thousand years which they also then did even