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Tidings of peace, or, Acure [sic] for the many evills that happen in the world about religion in a discourse of the new Jerusalem ...
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Beverley, Thomas.
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Behold I make all Things New Johns Revel the 21 cap. 5 verse This relates to the New Administration which I hereafter prove in those things that are changeable in this world And it came to passe that he went throughout Every Citty and Village preaching and shewing the Glad Tideings of the Kingdome of God and the Twelve were with him Luc. 8. verse 1. And Iesus went about all the Cittyes and Villages teaching in their Synagogues and Preaching the Doctrine of the Kingdome c. Mat. 9 cap. vers 35. Lo this was the Method Our Saviour tooke when on Earth And can the Disciples imitate a better Coppy then their Masters And t is certaine that Doctrine wil be best nourished and perserved by the way and Method it was first planted I Haue Set Watchmen uppon Thy Walls which shall never hold their Peace day nor night Isaiah 62. 6. Thy Watchmen shal Lift up the voice with the voice together shall they sing for they shall See Eye to Eye when The Lord shall bring againe Zion the 52 Cap. 8 vers And I will set Shepheards over them that shall feed them and they shall feare no more nor be dismayed neither shall they be lacking saith the Lord Jer. 23 4 Then againe God saith by his Proph Jer. 3 15 verse And I will gine you Pastours according to my heart which shall feed you with Knowledge and understanding The Pastours of this Administration which are to goe out of the City every month to heale the Nation seem to mee to be the Pastours here mentioned The Proph. Zac. the 14 8. saith thus And it shall be in that day that Liveing waters shall goe out from Jerusalem halfe of them towards the former Sea and halve of them towards the hinder Sea in summer and in winter shall it be Can any thing more plainely chalk out the Method of this new Administration then this Text The liueing waters are Preachers which are to goe out of this Citty in their courses Some one way and some another both in Summer and in Winter that is for ever to the worlds end for so long will Summer and in Winter last But as to these liueing waters these Evangelicall Preachers heare what the Prophet Ezek. in the 47 cap. beginning at the 6 verse Then he brought me and caused me ro returne to the brink of the River Now when I had returned Behold at the Banke of the River were very many Trees on the one side and on the other Then said he unto me These waters issue out toward the East Country and goe downe into the desert and goe into the Sea which being brought forth into the Sea the Waters shall be healed And it shall come to passe that every thing that Liveth that moveth whither soever the Rivers shall come shall live and there shall be a very great multitude of Fish because these Waters These Preachers shall come thither for they shall be healed and every thing shall liue where the River commeth And it shall come to Passe That the Fishers shall stand uppon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim There shall be a Place to spread forth Netts Their fish shall be according to their Kindes as the Fish of the Great Sea exceeding many But the myrie places therof and the marishes That is Private standing Churches that will not heare or admit of these Publick Preachers shall not be healed but giuen to Salt And by the Riuer on the banke thereof on this side and on that side shall grow all Trees for meate whose leafe shall not fade neither shall the Fruit thereof be consumed that is These Preachers shall not faile to make their constant monthly circuits out of their Citty it shell bring forth new fruit according to his Months because the waters issued out of the Sanctuary and the fruit thereof shall be for Meat and the leafe thereof for medicine Here The Gospell very propely is Typefied by a River and by waters which cleanse and purifies and heales all places and makes every thing fruit full wherever they goe Alsoe the Preachers are Typefied by Fishers and by Trees whose fruit serves both for food and Physick in further confirmation of which Heare what St. John sairh And he shewed me a pure River of water of life cleare as Christ all proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it and of either side the River was there the Tree of life which bare Twelve manner of Fruits and yeilded her fruit every Month and the leaves of the Trees were for the healing of the Nations This seemes to be plaine in all the Circumstances thereof And therefore I haue taken the Modell and delineation of the Citty there from But may be some may doubt whether The Throne of God be Jerusalem To which the Prophet Jerem will answer for me in the 3 cap 16 17 verses And it shall come to passe when ye be multiplyed and increased in the Land in those dayes saith the Lord they shall say no more The Arke of the Covenant of the Lord neither shall it come to mind neither shall they Remember it neither shall they Visite it neither shall that be done any more At that Time they shall call Jerusalen The Throne of the Lord and all the Nations shall by gathered unto it to the Name of the Lord to Jerusalem As to the Fountaine I haue put in the middle to giue source to the Rivers See what the Prophet Zach. saith the 13 cap. verse 1. In that Day shall there be a Fountaine opened to the House of Dauid for sin and for uncleanesse And and a Fountaine shall come Forth of The House of the Lord and shall water the Valley of Shittim Ioell 3 18 and Our Saviour saith in St Ino. the 4 Cap. 14 verse Whosoever shall drinke of the Water that I shall giue him shall never thirst But the Water that I shall give him shall be in him a Well of water springing up into everlasting life The Watet which Christ will give is the Water of the Gospell out of this Holy Fountaine this holy Citty And see how by the Prophet Isaiah he inviteth all to these waters in the 55 cap. 1 vers Ho Every one that thirsteth come ye to the Waters and he that hath no mony come ye buy and eat yea come by wine and milke without money and without price Many haue paid very deare for a draught of these Waters But old things are passed away and all things are become New These Evangelicall Preachers shall goe from Towne to Towne and from Citty to Citty and are to offer these Waters of the Gospell Gratis inviteing all to come and drink and will not in the least be chargeable to any one being sufficiently provided for from their Citty with all things necessary for their Function and voyage If any man Thirst let him come unto me and drink saith our
ground First the Man of Sin would tumble from his Throne like Dagon before the Ark And how Happy and easy would the Princes of Christendom find themselves when rid of all his Ecclesiasticall pretensions They and their Kingdomes haue tomuch Suffered by his greevous yoke and unjust usurpations I need not Quote old storyes Wee haue a certaine King at present struggling in the Ecclesiastical Net But this OEconomie would absolutely free them for ever from all the Scourgeing of the Ecclesiasticall whip And wee should heare no more of Popes Kicking downe of Emperours Crownes Thundering out Curses forbidding the Subject to pay his Homage to his Lawfull Prince All the Doleful noise of Persecution would be no more heard of in the World All sects and partyes would speedily vanish And wee should haue no more Flying for Religion from one Country to another the Protestants from France or Papists from England No Kingdom or Country turned upside downe by Religious Men contending to get or keep their partyes in and to turne others out of the Government For these preachers being Sufficiently provided for in thir respectiue Cittyes all Temptation of acting irregularly would be taken away And by this meanes Temporalls would be absolutely Seperated from Spiritualls A thing much hitherto wished for but never yet effected And wee should heare no more of Kings imprisoning Bishops or of Bishops dethroneing Kings nor of this or that Party being upper or under in the Government For these Spirituall preachers should haue nothing to do in any Government Nor should Princes or Temporall Power haue anything to doe in spiritualls for this has beene the occasion of many Evills in the World and has corrupted the purity of the Christian doctrine And a certaine King hath said so long as it was in his power so choose Bishops he could haue what Gospell he pleased Therefore these spirituall Men in respectiue their Cittyes as in another place I haue said are to be chosen by Lot as was Matthias And hereby God as is most Iust and fit will choose his owne Ministers and Servants and then no doubt but wee shall haue the Stream to run pure And these Streams comeing out from this Holy Citty every Month how will they coole and refresh each Nation there will be no dry or barren Corners therein But all things will liue and all places be Green and flourishing where these liueing waters come At present by the unhappynesse of the presenr Administration many are the Darke Corners of the World where the Light of the Gospell shines not and no provision is made for Preachers But These Gospell Angells these Rayes of the Sun will illuminate all the Darke Corners of Each Land so that The Earth will be full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea No dry or barren corners will want watering by these ever Flowing Fountaines And no Dark corners want the Rayes of these glorious and evershinning Ligbts But Iam not able to describe all the advantages of this most Excellent OEconomie but must send you to the Prophets who doe it very largely and pathetically These things wee Suppose will come to passe to make up the fulnesse of the Gentiles which St. Paul speakes of But then as to the Iewes may I speake in the Termes of the Angell in the 12 vers of the 1 cap. of Zacha. who when the men had brought in their Report That all the Gentiles were Still and at Rest said O Lord of Hosts how long wilt thou not haue mercy on Jerusalem c. Without all doubt God will Remember his promises made to the Jewes by the mouth of all his Prophets and will bring them and Establish them in their Owne Land Where they will build also a Citty holy to the Lord out which will flow Liueing Waters vizt. Peachers halfe of them toward the Former Sea and halfe of them toward the hinder Sea both in Summer and in Winter as both the Proph Zach a and Ezek mention And Palestine being placed in the midst of the Earth as some Writers affirme And Jerusalem built in the midst of Palestine And a Jerusalem or Holy Citty built in the midst of Each Kingdome How will every thing answer one another Ye Admirers of order Ye Sons of Uniformity Where can there be greater order and Uniformity then in such an OEconomie What a glorious Harmony will there be betwixt These Holy and chast Sisters Jerusalem in Palestine being the first borne How Glorious will the Spouse of Christ be in such Dayes Let us be glad and Rejoyce and giue honour to him For the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made herselfe ready I dare not affirme with what particular presence and manner God will Honour these Cittyes But it is said that the Lamb will be the Light there of And what if God should Honour these Cittyes of the Gentiles with the same honour with which he honoured the Tabernacle and Temple of the Jewes Who can tell Great are his mercyes to his unworthy creatures In our Dayly Prayers Wee beg of God that his Kingdom may come and that his will may be done on Earth as it is in Heaven But I pray you tell me was there ever a Kingdome without Cittyes will a Few Houses make a Kingdom God has Houses in the Earth t is true but as yet has no Cittyes Therefore if wee would haue his Kingdome come Wee must build him Cittyes And when in Each Kingdom he has a Citty built they all together will make him here on Earth a Kingdom or at Leastwise by their influence make the whole Earth his Kingdom And so our Prayers of thy Kingdome come will be fullfilled both in a Literal and in a spirituall Sence And as Other Kings of the Earth amongst all their Cities do choose one for the Royall seat of their Kingdome so God will choose Jerusalem and put his Throne there and make it as it were the Head of this spirituall Kingdome The Prophet Ierem. saith at that Time they shall call Jerusalem The Throne of the Lord And all Nations shall be gathered unto it And the Proph. Mica. saith in the 4 cap. 8 verse And thou O Tower of Flock c. unto Thee shall it come even the First Dominion The Kingdom shall come to the Daughter of Jerusalem Here it is said that shee shall haue the First Dominion And that the Kingdom which we haue so often begg'd for shall come to her Wee know t is the Custome on Earth that the Eldest Son or daughter shall Inherite the Crowne Now God has here a spirituall Kingdom And these Cittyes or Severall Churches are his daughters But Jerusalem is the Eldest Now to which of the Daughters should the Kingdome come God here answers To Thee as the Eldest shall it come even the First Dominion the Kingdom shall come to the Daughter of Jerusalem But These Words the First Dominion may admit of a double construction First they may imply that all these Cityes sisters or Daughters are to haue Dominion But that the Holy Citty built at Jerusalem as the First and Eldest Daughter shall haue The First or principall Dominion or they may signifie that all these Sisters as Gods Daughters may haue a right to the Dominion and the Kingdome But that the Citty at Jerusalem as eldest Daughter shall haue the Dominion first And the others afterward Successively Whether of these are the more genuine I leave to the more Judicous to determine But for the Reasons formerly mentioned I think not that the Nature of this Dominion is Imperiall or that the Lady at Jerusalem should as a Queen Exercize an absolute command ouer the Rest But I rather thinke that the nature of it relates more to order than command And that shee shall haue a Priority of order and preheminence of Respect due to her on acco tt of being Eldest Sister and as enjoying more particular honours and favours from God I must confesse I have found this Little Booke in the inditeing or eating of it as Sweet as hony I hope that no one hereafter will make it bitter in my Belly For I have wrote Nothing but for what I have alleadged the Word of God and Great probabillity The Apostle saith there are different Administrations but one Lord. The Lord is King of the Universe And Christ is the Head Administrator and can Governe his Family after what method and manner he pleases What therefore if he first order an Altar then a Tabernacle then a Temple and then a Citty And then at Last bring us to Heaven the New Jerusalem it selfe The Prophet David saith They shall passe from strength to strength untill they come to God in Sion Heaven it selfe without a Type To which Place God of his infinite mercy bring us all through the merits of Jesus Christ Amen Postscript The Julian and Gregorian Account of Time are both vitious and puts the world in no small confusion I would therefore humbly propose that they both may be regulated by an exact calculation It will not onely be the greatest honour but also the greatest Proffet and advantage to that King or Prince Who shall undertake so Honourable a Task Since therefore all things are to be come New And the Angell saith that Time shall be no more which I understand to be the Time of the old Administation as also of the Old Vitious calculation I hope that this Proposition will also be considered that with the New Administration wee may haue a New account of Time That wee may write Anno domi Anno ab Urbe conditâ