〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: THE WORLD TO COME, Heb. 25. OR, The Doctrine of the Kingdom of GOD and his CHRIST, to come on Earth, Rev. 11.15. which shall shortly be over all Nations.  
Tendered in the meantime out of faith in his own Soul, and love towards all Men, 

First, In the Principles or Foundations thereof, in four parts.  
Secondly, In the Practicals or Improvements of it on several Texts, as is more particularly specified in the next leaf.    
By W. S. Minister of the Gospel, whose faith thereof is supported [besides many others] by the Twelve special ensuing Foundations, as by so many Divine Gradations of Gods Revealing Confirming and Completing the same in its due time. [Here also set down for the good of all men.]— As being 

I. Promised by God the Father, Gen 3.15. The Seed of the Woman, etc. Psal. 110.1. 1 Cor. 15.25. See Treat on Gen. 3.  
II. Prophesied of by Enoch in the old world, Judas 14, 15.  
III. Foretold by Jacob in the New World, Gen 49.1. with 10, 11, 12 in Judah's Blessing.  
IU. Wonderfully manifested by Balaam's the Sorcerers Parable, Numb. 24.17, 18, 19 and when, vers. 23, 24.  
V Typified by two partial Types in the Old World, viz. by Enoch and Noah, the Types of the first and second state thereof.  
VI Typified also in the New World by three pairs of partial Types; the first of Abraham and Melchisedeck, the second of Moses and Joshua, the third of David and Solomon: The three first of the Kingdom of the Stone, Dan. 2.34. The three last of the Kingdom of the Mountain; As more fully appears in the following Explication, page 9, etc.  
VII. Confirmed also both to David and Solomon by a Divine Charter, very eminently illustrated a Sam. 7.8. to the end.  
VIII. Proved by a sevenfold Evidence in the Irenicon, with its Adjuncts formerly, by many sorts of Arguments, etc.  
IX. Twice also strongly ratified to Daniel: First by Revelation only, after Nebuchadnezzar's dream, in the two states thereof, viz. of the Stone, Chap. 2.34. and of the Mountain, vers. 35. Secondly, By both Vision and Revelation, where after the four Beasts Dan. 7. was showed to him when Christ shall receive his Davidical Kingdom, (vers. 14.) over all Nations.  
X. Applied by our Saviour himself to the Son of Man's Kingdom, Matth. 13.4. His coming in his Kingdom, Matth. 16.28. Ca●led the Kingdom of God, Luc. 21.31.  
XI. Explained by St. Paul at ●he destruction of the Man o● Sin, 2 Thess 2.8. And Saints Rest, 2 Thess. 1.7. Appearance and Kingdom, 2 Tim. 4.1.  
XII. By Revelation m●st 〈…〉 to the beloved Apostle John. Chap. 19.11. and Chap. 20, 21, ●2. 〈…〉 explained page 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc.]    
LON●●● 〈…〉 the year 1671.   

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Here Reader observe as to the first Part of the general Title-page,— That according to the reference before,  
FIrst the said Doctrine is proved— In the Principles or Foundations of it, contained in the foresaid four parts, which are these following:  
First, The Prodromos or Forerunner, consisting of seventeen Thesis of D vinity, leading in the said Doctrine, pag. 9, 10, 11, 12. and of some useful occasional Letters and Papers there set down, whereunto reference is afterwards often fitly made in the ensuing parts.  
The second is the Irenicon, or the peaceable consideration of Christ's peaceful Kingdom on Earth to come, chief proving from Scripture, and many sorts of Arguments, that such a Kingdom and state of things shall be in the world, upon a sevenfold foundation, set down in the beginning thereof. Whereunto is added an Appendix of the first blessed Resurrection of the Just, Rev. 20.6, to be in the time of Christ's said Reign with his Saints on Earth.  
The third is entitled, The Parallel of the Prophetical Visions of Daniel, for aftertimes, and of the Revelation of Jesus Christ; respecting and unfolding the matters of the same times, very briefly and divinely couched before in Daniel's said Visions, to be shut up and sealed unto the time of the end, i. e. until Christ came, who afterwards by his so wonderful giving the Book of Revelation to the Evangelist St. John, opened and unsealed them, and gave them a special command not to seal them any longer, Rev. 22.10. Which said Parallel was the fourth thing propounded to be considered in this subject, in the second page of the Irenicon, and afterwards, as an Additional thereof, was annexed to it, to make up that part of the said Irenicon, as containing the main ground thereof, both from that greatly beloved Prophet Daniel in the Old Testament, and the beloved Disciple John in the New: To prepare for which Parallel (being of so very great concernment in the said Doctrine) first there is set down an abridgement of the chief Prophetical Visions of Daniel, wherein are comprised the times, fates, and successions of the four Mettle. Kindgoms or Monarchies, Dan 2. and of the four Beasts, Dan. 7. in substance the same; yet each being not only a strong confirmation, but also an enlargement, and in some things an explication of the other, as in both the summary of Daniel, and in the Parallel is to be observed. Also a like Abridgement of the Revelation, was to such purpose before set down, Chap. 5. pag. 26, 27, 28. of the Irenicen, to be compared with the Letter to Mr. Cal. May 20. 1664 pag. 22, 23, etc. of the Prodromos: and last of all, to such parpose thereto is prefixed the Scheme of the whole Book of the Revelation, and a summary of Daniel's Visions, further to make the way more plain to so useful a part as the Parallel may prove to such as with these or the like helps may further and more fully (by God's goodness) improve it hereafter, as there is great reason and divine engagement for Christians so to do, Rev 1.3. & 22.10.  
Fourthly, The last part consisting chief of 3● useful Observations to understand mystical Prophecies, with answers to sundry Objections made by some persons against these Doctrines, which being of ●●●●ddle nature, subservient to both the said Principles and Pract calls, they are now conjoined with the latter: And unto the said Principles is presixed in the stead thereof, The Word written, or eight convineing Arguments for these Truths, set in the first place, before the Prodromos or Forerunner, as containing a short Abridgement of much Divine Truth of this nature, etc.  
And Secondly, The said Doctrine is improved to many good purposes in the Practicals.  
The first whereof is the Treatise upon Gen. 3.15. The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpent's head. The Abridgement of which, as the first part of the Everlasting Gospel, with the Treatise also, are presixed before the rest.  
The second part of which everlasting Gospel being the second Practical piece, given by God the Son and the Holy Ghost, is contained in a Tract upon Rev. 22.20. Behold I come quickly: Amen: Even so come, Lord Jesus. Setting forth the different names, times, natures and purposes of Christ's second coming at the beginning of the thousand years, Rev. 19.11. And of his descending from Heaven at the sounding of the last Trump, at the general Rapture and Change of all the Saints, when the little space of Satan's losing is ended, and the last Gog and Magog destroyed by fire from God out of Heaven, after the thousand years, when he shall come to sit on the great white Throne, and Heaven and Earth shall flee away before his face, and no place be found for them, Rev. 20.11. And all wicked men shall be raised to be judged, and the irrevocable Sentence in God's order shall be passed upon Good and Bad to all Eternity. Unto which are adjoined nine Uses of the same Doctrine.  
The third practical piece is on Jer. 3.17. At that time Jerusalem shall be called the Throne of the Lord, and all Nations shall come to the Name of the Lord at Jerusalem: Which is now placed after the aforesaid Observations and Answers to Objections, as being the Topstone of this Doctrinal Edifice, and which will reach at length to the highest Heavens.  
And now, Prudent Christian Reader, I hope thou wilt indulge me in some matters thy just excuse; for though some are clear and evident from sundry Texts of holy Scripture, yet others are only probable, and some but merely conjectural (as was fore-advertised, Prodrom. pag 44.) and consequently the grounds thereof are suitably either evident, probable, or conjectural only: Whence it will be imprudence and unequal judging, to reject many evident truths of this nature, because of some other mistaken conjectures: But having long since set to sail in such a vast and rough sloating Ocean, wherein it was to be expected (notwithstanding any hoped advantage) I was like to be much tossed with various winds and tempests, before I could look to atrive at the Cape of good Hope: and being also to travel far in a much untraced Wilderness, or which was worse, to fall into such Mazes and Meanders wherein many have lost themselves; yet since that such a Wilderness was my way to come to the promised Land; though the Cloud by day, and the Pillar of Fire by night, did not always appear to go before me; yet I may not say but that I have in a gracious manner many times found their guidance: But yet have met with many Amalakites, Moabites, and Ammonites, to hinder my passage thither; besides the Sons of Anak, and also the stinging fiery Serpents, which caused me often to look up to the true Brazen Serpent, for my needful cure: Whereupon I have by comfortable experience found, That Creature Obstructions have sometimes proved to me God's Instructions; and some men's hindrances have often (to them unwittingly) produced God's help for me, who by remarkable Providences hath many times turned great seeming difficulties to real useful advantages: Otherwise I could not have hoped so far by faith to have seen the New Jerusalem's Beauty and Blessedness on Earth, (as they Heb. 11. and as now through the mercy and goodness of my God, is here offered to thy view: [To which haply much may be added, if God give opportunity, by Explications or Discourses] Wherein I hope I myself, with the many ten thousands and ten times ten thousands of saithful Christians shall attain a long lasting habitation as appointed of God, In that time The Tabernacle of God shall be with men upon Earth Rev. 21. etc. where we shall all behold Christ's glory, which the Father hath given him, and he to them, by his last Will and Testament, John 17.24. when the said Lamb shall be the Light of that City. To which I groundedly by faith say, Amen. For confirmation whereof, for others benefit, I desire still to be by all good means subservient,  
Septemb. 11. 1671. W. S.   

Of the XII forenamed Foundations of the said Doctrine, in the second part of the general Title-page believed:— As being,  
I. FIrst promised by God the Father, Gen. 3.15. as the most eminent breaking of the Serpents [Satan's] Head, both natural, (as I may say) and politic, of his Craft and Dominion, when all his former Babylonish Designs shall be defeated and utterly destroyed; which was, saith the Apostle John, 1 Epist. 3.8. one end of Christ's coming into the world, to destroy the works of the Devil; which in an especial manner will most evidently and powerfully be done, when Christ comes from the right hand of the Father, whither (as that Nobleman in the Gospel, Luke 19) he went at his ascension into Heaven, te receive his Kingdom, and to return, as he himself speaketh; to wit, when he will so come, and in such wonderful manner make his foes his footstool; until which said time he will continue there, according to that Divine Oracle so frequently mentioned and improved in the New Testament, Psal. 110.1, etc. Sat thou on my right hand until I make thy foes thy sootstool: Where, as the Apostle saith, he sits still, expecting till his foes are made his footstool, Heb. 10.13. which at Christ's said coming in the Clouds will most certainly and powerfully be accomplished above 1000 years before the last Resurrection and General Judgement, as is most orderly set down in that divine and glorious Revelation to St. John, Chap. 19 11. & Chap. 20. to v. 11. when he will cause his most proud and mighty foes to hid themselves again in the holes of the Rocks, as in some measure in Constantine's ruining of the Paganish Powers, Rev. 6.15.16, 17, was terribly fulfilled: but at the last ruin of the most abominably tyrannous Kingdom of the Beast and false Prophet, at the appearance of Christ's said Coming and Kingdom will much more terribly by himself be accomplished, 1 Thes. 2.8. 2 Tim 4.1. As then the Prophet Isaiah twice of those times confirms the terror of it, Chap 2. verse 19, 21. That the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of man shall be made low, and the Lord alone be exalted in that day, when he wid utterly abolish Idols, that they may go into the holes of the Rocks, and into the caves of the Earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his Majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the Earth: And the forcible efficacy of this his Prophecy he again further illustrates and confirms verse 20, 21. Yet observe though he saith there, He will shake terribly the Earth, twice; yet he saith not that then he will utterly destroy the world, which neither will be till the said 1000 years, and little space of Satan's losing, be afterwards fulfilled, as Rev. 20.8, 9, 10, etc. But then the Lord, as the Psalmist speaks, will send the Rod of his strength out of Zion, and he shall then rule in the midst of his Enemies, Psal. 110.6, etc. and smite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Head, not Heads (as translated) of divers Countries, viz. the Pope or Turk, (or both, as making in several respects the whole Antichrist of the latter times) but much more upon the said Text Gen. 3.15. may be observed to the same purpose in the Treatise thereupon.  
II. Secondly, Prophesied of by Enoch in the Old World, Judas 14, 15. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints, to execute Judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungedly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their ungodly speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. Where observe how general he declares this Judgement shall be in the issue of it; and then how throughly he will discover ungodly men, though now they hid themselves in the Crowd, and for a time towards godly men shift off and excuse and hid their ungodliness, yet than Christ will convince themselves which were the concealers and hiders; and not some few only, or many, but all of them; and not of few, or only some sorts or numbers of their deeds, but of all their ungodly deeds; nor only of the substance of them, but of all the circumstances and aggravations of them, as ungodlily committed by them; and not only of their deeds, but of their words also, yea of their most secret thoughts subservient to both; for they shall be convinced of them, which conviction will reach the most secret workings of their spirits; and both and all in the most large extent, whatever hath been done or spoken against him, that is Christ, whereby men's sins are most heinously aggravated many ways, though they little at present consider it; but in Christ's execution of Judgement upon all in his own order, manner and time, they must know all these.  
This excellent Prophecy seems to have been handed in a wonderful way of gracious divine Providence from Enoch to the Apostle Judas, by whose hand Christ's spirit hath made it to become holy Scripture. And it is no marvel that God should so preserve that Prophecy of the last times and things, since he would, for the warning of all, have all his Prophet's witness thereto, as his Spirit in the Apostle Peter manifested Acts 3.20, 21. As (saith he) he spoke by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began; He would not have even the old wicked world without such an eminent warning: nor such as godly Enoch then to be without the comfort of that Deliverer of his people then to come, to recompense their sufferings for him with a suitable happiness with him afterwards, as the Apostle Paul declareth, 2 Tim. 2.12. for his said coming then is to both those purposes, wherein the same Spirit could enlighten such as Enoch then, as he did Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Sarah, afterwards, who by their faith saw those Promises afar off, while they lived on earth, which they believed to see accomplished in their due time, Heb. 11.13. viz. which will be at the said coming of the Lord with ten thousand of his Saints, and at the Resurrection of the Just (as Isa. 26.14, 19) which as it will be the year of the Lords recompense to take vengeance on the wicked (quick) by a sudden destruction to send them to hell; so also of recompense to the godly, to whom they will be times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, and of the restitution of all things, for their real good and comfort in all that God hath before promised or revealed to such purpose, Act. 3.19, 20, 21. though particular Saints have not or may not in many things attain to the knowledge of them, nor (haply) any one shall in many things more till the fruition of them: Even as the most knowing before Christ's coming, knew not of many things done at that his coming, as of the Star, the Shepherds, of Herod's trouble at his birth, nor the earthquake, darkness, the cleaving of the Veil of the Temple, or dead Saints rising at his death, etc. (besides the many things which happened in his life) although much more of these last times since our Saviour ascended (as he said a little before it, Acts 1.8 ●is now revealed of his second coming, as also was before in the Old Testament concerning the same, than at any time was of his first, as is easily to be observed, etc.  
III. Thirdly, Foretold by Jacob in the New World, Gen. 49. who verse 1. speaketh of things to be in the latter or postremity of days; which is especially applicable to what he ●aith afterwards, vers 10, 11, 12. in his Prophecy of Judah, to which Tribe is therein ascribed the pre-eminence with plenty and peace (as is therein manifest) chief to be enjoyed after Shilo's coming, to whom the gathering of the people should be, but most especially in their greatest gatherings, when Jews and Gentiles shall rejoice together (most eminently) as Deut. 32.43. is by Moses also foretold to be in the latter or postremity of days; of which times also our Saviour saith, There shall be one sheepfold under himself that one Shepherd of them both, John 10.16.  
IU. Fourthly, Wonderfully and graciously manifested by Balaam's Parable, not being an holy Prophet, as others Acts 3.21. but a Sorcerer, hired by Balaak King of Moah to curse God's People, who turned his attempting of the worst of Curse into the choicest of Blessings to them; giving him thereby to know, That there was no enchantment against Jacob, neither any divination against Israel: for Satan cannot hurt those whom God undertakes to preserve, as Numb. 23.20, 22. But when he had further tried his Enchantments, Chap. 24, he is further in special forced to pronounce greater blessings for them. vers. 6, 7, 8, 9 saying, How goodly are thy Tents, O Jacob, and thy Tabernacles, O Israel! But being further urged by Balaak, he shows what that People should do against his People in the latter days; and then vers. 17. falls upon the coming of the Messiah far off, saying, I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not nigh: There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite all the Corners of Moab, and destroy all the Children of Sheth, and Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his Enemies, and Israel also shall do valiantly: And verse 19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have Dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth in the City, etc. But after all, he comes to the last terrible times, verse 23, 24. saying, Alas who shall live when God doth this! And vers. 24. he foretelleth ships shall come from the coasts of Chittim; which Mr. Mede evidently shows to be meant of the Roman Navy coming from Italy, and are so applied in the order of accomdlishment by Daniel, Chap. 11.30. and then declares what the Romans shall do, viz. They shall afflict Ashur, and shall afflict Eber, which they have long done; but since they were to be the last Oppressor of the Jews, he further adds, And he also shall perish for ever, or shall go into perdition, as is otherwise expressed by the holy Ghost, Rev. 17 8. that is, the Roman Monarchies being the last, shall utterly be ruined when Christ shall destroy the man of sin, when all wicked and tyrannous Dominion shall utterly cease, and the Kingdom of the Stone shall become a great Mountain filling the whole Earth; when that Star, and that Sceptre, and that Dominion he spoke of before, verse 17, 19 which are often in Scripture afterwards spoken of, shall continue for ever, viz. to the end of the world. These things are obvious, I shall not therefore here insist further on them.  
V. Fifthly, Typified first by one pair of partial Types in the Old World, secondly by three partial pairs in the New.  
First the said pair of partial Types in the Old World, are 

Enoch's ascending, showing the beginning of the Kingdom of the Stone, at Christ's ascension into Heaven, Dan. 2 34. And  
Noah's saving his by the Ark, shows how Christ at the general Rapture of all Saints, as the true Ark will save them, when all wicked men shall perish at the finishing of the Kingdom of the Mountain, Dan. 2 33.    
First, Enoch was a Type of Christ in his walking with God, who (as the Apostle saith, Heb. 11.5.) before his Translation had this Testimony, That he pleased God, and therefore was translated that he should not see death, in a wonderful manner, Body and Soul, in a way unknown to man, into an ever-blessed and happy condition: Even as Christ having fulfilled the work God gave him to do on earth, and fulfilled all the wills of his heavenly Father, in the Body which he gave to him, Heb. 10.5, 7, 8, 9 who therefore had this Testimony from the Father, That he was his beloved Son, in whom he was well pleased, Matth. 3.17. and after all things were done in order by him, to the last finishing of the work of Redemption, and the witnessing of his Resurrection from the dead to his Apostles, and other faithful Witnesses thereof, he then ascended visibly into Heaven, in the sight of his Disciples, Acts 19 Luke 24.51. which was his eminent beginning of the Kingdom of the Stone, which is the first state thereof; when he so triumphed gloriously over all the spiritual Powers of Darkness, as the Apostle teacheth, Col. 2.15 so leading Captivity captive, to give his Kingly Divine Gists unto men.  
Secondly, Noah also, that Preacher of Righteousness, as he is styled Heb. 11. may be added unto Enoch, being another partial Type of Christ; Kingdom in the second state of it, or the Kingdom of the Mountain; who by faith (saith the Apostle Heb 11.) performed that Princely or Kingly service, to make the Ark in the sight of that wicked Generation in the Old World, that after perished by the Flood, thereby to save himself and all his Relations that entered with him into it: So Christ, who shall be called (saith the Prophet Jeremiah, Chap. 23) by his Church, The Lord our Righteousness, and hath long sent abroad the Preachers of his Righteousness into the wicked World, who regardeth it not: when the time of their perishing at last shall inevitably come upon them by a deluge of fire, as it did on the old world by water: He will himself become at that time the true Ark prepared for all his true Members united spiritually unto him, at the general Rapture or Change of all the Saints, when the wicked remaining on Earth shall all perish at the world's lost destruction by fire, where all the other shall abide with Christ, in the greatest safety and security, above all worldly dangers sufferings, or changes, even when the Heavens and Earth shall be dissolved for ever.  
VI Sixthly, Again also typified by three pairs of partial Types in the New world. 

First of the Kingdom of the Stone, 

First, In Abraham, towards the first times of the new world.  
Secondly, In Moses his Conduct from Egypt, and in the Wilderness afterwards.  
Thirdly, In David's Conquest and Kingdom which God set up and gave him.    
Secondly of the Kingdom of the Mountain, 

First, In Melthisedeck King of Salem, that is, King of Peace.  
Secondly, In Joshua's Conduct of God's People into the promised Land.  
Thirdly, In Solomon's peaceful Kingdom, the immediate Seed of David's Loins.      
First, In the New world God said a new foundation with Abraham of Christ's Kingdom, in his free Covenant with him, to be his God, and the God of his Seed, which the Apostle saith was one, namely Christ, Gal. 3.16. and by no other way was Abraham capable of that mercy, that God should become his God: Indeed God both promised and bestowed many Benefits and Privileges upon Abraham's, Isaac's, and Jacob's natural Seed, upon the renewing or repeating of the substance of that Covenant; but all upon that Foundation-Truth wherein their Souls were divinely illuminated, that the Son of God should become the Son of Abraham in a wonderful divine manner, and so by him in a spiritual way of grace, such his Children by faith should become the Sons of God; and both he and they by such a way of faith and grace, should inherit all the promises, as the Spirit of God revealed and parposed so to fulfil them: And therefore the Apostle Heb. 11. doth remarkably show how Abraham, Isaa●, Jacob, and Sarah, by such illuminat on of their Souls, saw afar off by faith the promises to be fulfilled in Christ's Kingdom, and at the Resurrection of the Just: when Abraham shall be heir of the world actuaily, which he was but only by faith whilst he lived in the world, as he also teacheth, Rem. 4.13. and only from that ground all God's Servants are interessed in any ●●mpora. Promises or Blessings. And in such time of his living but 〈◊〉 Abraham was a great conqueror of his Enemies, when he d●●vered his Brother Lot and his house, and those with him, from there Kings that carried them Captives. So Christ whilst he is fulfilling the Covenant m●de with the Faithful, he is a great Conqueror, and delivereth all his Prethrens, whose flesh he took, from their nature, and gives them his Spirit from his own Divine Nature, which mak●s them ne●●ly related to him, and dearly beloved of him, and in whose behalf and for whose deliverance he did not only venture himself, as Abraham did for Lot and his, but actually suffered death, to deliver them from their spiritual bondage and erernal misery.  
The other of this first pair of partial Types in the first times of the New World, is Melchisedeck, who is not improbably conceived to be Shem the eldest Son of Noah, who both of them lived in both the Old and the New Worlds; by both holding out unto us the Eternity of God the Father and the Son, from whom the World's deliverance was fully in time to be accomplished. But Melchisedeck, as also Abraham, was both a Priest and King; even as Abraham, who seemed not only to be a King by his said Conquest, but a Priest●n offering his Son Isaac, whom (saith the Apostle) he received again from death in a figure, and was then appointed really to offer the Ram in the Bush in his stead; and was also said in some sense to be a Prophet, to pray for Abimelech, Gen 20.7. Also Melchisedeck was Priest of the most high God, without Father and without Mother (then known in Abraham's days) typifying the eternal Priesthood of Christ after his order, Heb. 7. and also King of Salem, that is, King of Peace; typifying also thereby Christ the great King of the New Jerusalem, to come from God out of Heaven, (as he style, himself, Matth. 5.) which as the Son and Heir of Abraham, doth also according to God's Covenant belong unto him; and sion it, it is very observable, that Christ's Office and Title to his Kingdom is cont●aally confirmed and renewed in all the renewed Promises and Types made by God to and by the faithful forefather's successively; as also Melchisedeck is here expressly said to be King of Salem, an evident Type of Christ the great King of Jerusalem, (as was said) who doth and will bless his People with all desirable peace, as Melchisedeck blessed Abraham returning with the spoils from the slaughter of the said Kings; as Christ will also more fully confirm to them, when all his and their Foes are made his footstool.  
Secondly, Christ's Kingdom in the said twosold state of it, was evidently deciphered in Moses his Conduct of Israel out of Egypt, and in the Wilderness; and then by Joshua's Conduct into Canaan: But Christ, to answer both, doth not only spiritually, by his Death, Resurrection and Ascertion, deliver his Israel, and leave them then in their Wilderness condition; but as the true Joshua also, or JESUS, will save them from all evil, and from all their enemies, Luc. 1. and bring them into possession of the heavenly Canaan, as it is styled Heb. 3. being the City whose Builder and Maker is God, prepared for the faithful forefathers Heb. 11.  
And first for Moses, who was then styled King in Jesurun, as to Christ's Ch rches first sta●e, during the Kingdom of the Stone, set up by his first coming, Dan. 2.34. In respect of which, though Moses, as the Apostle Paul speaketh, was faithful in all God's House, Heb. 3.2. yet but as a Servant and Minister of the Lord, the Antitype; for he made or gave no Laws (then) of his own to God's people, but what he received from God for them; nor executed Judgement in extraordinary cases, but by God's direction as in the gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. But Christ was as a Son (when he came) in his own House, Heb. 5.6. whose House his People are: What Gospel Moses taught Israel, or set before them (then) was but in the ●ype, till the t●me of Reformation, Heb 9.10. till Christ put an end to a●l typical worship: Bu● Moses could not bring them to the promised Rest, that he left for Jos●ua to perform: So all the life and substance of all Moses ●ypes and Ceremonies was only to be sound in Christ; He the true and only Son of God, carried ●ll those things to their full and perfect end, who will be the true peace and rest of his People in the Land of the Living (as that World to come, Heb. 2 5. is most properly so styled) where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob must then live again, with all the Faithful in their order and time.  
But that latter stare of Christ's said Mediators Kingdom on Earth, as we noted, was further typified in part by Joshua, though in the better part, under whose Cond●ct Israel obtained their promised Inheritance of Canaan, wherein Moses car sh●rt; but be brought them in●o the possession of it: Which Rest was after po●●u●ed by them, as saith the Prophet, Mich. 2.10. which caused by degrees the utter expulsion of that People from it: Yet as the Apostle proveth Heb 49. There remains still a (Sabbatism, or) Rest for the People of God, with whom one day is as a thousand years, and a theusand years as one day (as the Apostle Peter informs us, 2 Pet. 3.9) and through the said true Jeshu● or JESUS, this Rest remairs to the People of God; upon w c●, ●s on all former Sabbaths, the Word and Works of God usually were appointed to be considered in them (as he was always pleased in ●he six foregoing Millenniums to give occasion and command) so t●at long contained Sabbatism or holy Rest of his people from sin and sorrow, will be a time to contemplate on the Word and Works of God, when their great hinderers, viz. evil men and Devils, will be removed ou● of their way, and all requisite helps from God, Men, and 〈◊〉, will be afforded them, for that long continued Sabbatism of that 〈◊〉 thousand years; whence Men and Angels too will be more fitted for perpetual Hallelujahs in Heaven afterwards, by so much more than they could have been from all that was possible to be learned by them to such purpose by all they had seen, or known or heard before; (as I don't not but might largely be made manifest through all the six thou (and years of the world's being before:) Which Sabbatism may be thereupon sitly styled God's highest School to train up his Children of the highest form for their best employment of their most eminent and enlarged praising of God through their most happy Eternity thence to ensue.  
In which Rest or Sabbatism Christ will infeoff his People, and give them possession thereof with himself; even as the Father hath appointed such a Kingdom unto him, so he will appoint it unto them, as Luc. 22.29. not as a Substitute only, or Type, like Jeshua, to give them their Lots therein; but as Lord of the Inheritance, and by his own Gift; and not as to such as may cast away, or spoil, or lose their said Inheritance; but as to such as shall there find a sure Rest and Dwelling Place, from which neither inward nor outward, spiritual or temporal Adversaries shall expel them: so certainly blessed shall they be then that partake of that first blessed Resurrection, Rev. 20.6. when they shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, like Angels of God in Heaven, as our Saviour speaks of those Children of the Resurrection, Matth. 22.30. in that and many other respects; and such of the Saints as live in the animal Life then under the Protection of Christ the great King, will be as safe as his Disciples were, of whom he said, Of those which thou gavest me, have I lost none, John 17. Yea more, his Word seems in many places to hold out that the Seed of the Righteous shall then literally and lineally be blessed; yea blessedness shall then (it seems) be entailed upon them succeshvely, to them, their Seed, and Seeds Seed for ever, as is very remarkably let down at the great Restauration of Israel in Ezek. 37. when Christ, there called by David's name, as his Type and Progenitor, who by a lineal de●cen● from him shall then obtain the long-before-promised Right of David's Kingdom, and sit upon the Throne of David his Father, as the Angel told the blessed Virgin, Luc. 1.32. both Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, being for ever then to be again united into one under him, that then the very Land given unto Jacob his Servant, out of whose Loins immediately the Heads of all the Twelve bribe's of Israel were derived; and therefore it is further added, that Land where their Fathers dwelled, that they also shall dwell therein; and then add a perpetuity of successive inheritance, which only he who is the absolute Proprietor, and every way able to make it good, and to make nullities of men's perpetuities as oft as he pleaseth, He (I say) then tells them fully at this period, when David's Kingdom shall then be so fully restored to Christ upon the old everlasting Covenant made to their forefathers, (which carries all promised mercies with it) that they, their Children, and their children's Children shall dwell in the said promised Land for ever, ver. 25, etc. And this may further appear by the improvement of God's promise by Abraham's saith Heb. 11. who (though he overlooked no dram of promised mercy to any of his Seed, even in temporal respects) yet his faith, as the Apostle teaches, wrought upon the main, that one promised Seed [Christ] as he is called Gal. 3.16. in whom particularly all Nations of the Earth should be blessed, which at the said time will be most fully and really accomplished, in whom he foresaw (with the others there named) the fulfilling of those promises was (then) afar off; and that by virtue of such divine and spiritual grace, all temporal good must be advanced and enjoyed: Yet his faith fixed so upon that sure Foundation of all blessings really good, which will be so derived to, and preserved for all such his said blessed Seed then, that there will be a wonderful uninterrupted blessedness at that time continued to them. In seeing the accomplishment whereof, a great measure of Abraham's happiness through Christ will (then) actually consist, when he shall eminently be Heir of the World actually, by a blessed fruition thereof for a long season above 1000 years, who as the Apostle speaketh Rom. 4.13. was in his life time but Heir thereof by faith only; which yet he was then sure should not be frustrated. Much enlargement might be added to this effect if it were requisite, and many Divine Reason's given from the Covenant to Abraham, and Promises repeated to his Seed as spiritually so invested with all the temporal blessings of the Mediators Kingdom, when God and Christ are so often said to dwell with them, and to set his Tabernacle among them, which will carry along with it both the remov●l of evils, & conferring all suitable good for that state. We shall only name a few more Promises belonging to the same state; as Isa. 61. which whole Chapter is a lon● and large prediction and prom●e made to that then-blessed Race, for their Father's sa●es, (as ●s noted by the Apostle Rom. 11.) yea there also by way of distinction from the Gentiles, he saith vers. 9 to make it more evident of what generation of men he spoke, Their Seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their Offspring among the People; but for what shall they be so known? It follows, All that see them shall acknowledge them that they are the Seed which the Lord hath blessed: The old entailed Covenant from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, will then be found of force, and God's truth and faithfulness then acknowledged; wherefore the Apostle there relates that promise, Isa. 59.20. When the Deliverer shall come out of Zion, and shall turn away unged●iness from Jacob, Rom. 11.26. So that all Israel then (saith he) shall be saved: and v. 27. he adds the reason thereof; For this (saith he) is my Covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins: So it is the covenanted Mercy of God to that people, which is of so large extent, that when as a Foundation-mercy therein, he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob, and so take away their sins (for only Godliness hath the promise of this life, and also of the world to come) in that he is such a Deliverer that he will first work such spiritual deliverance in them; the other also upon that his said coming, will follow unto the utmost extent also; for all promised temporal mercies in the same Covenant contained, even as a shadow will follow the substance of the spiritual. And a like Promise of the same state of God's Israel, is given Isa. 66.22. speaking of the New Heavens and the New Earth which shall then be and ●e●●ain before him, (which he spoke also of creating, Chap. 65.17. even for that said blessed condition) so of their posterities perpetuity in th●t happy estate, while that world continues: So saith he shall your Seed and your Name remain, when wicked men shall be destroyed aforehand, and their careales shall then most probably at the Arm●ggedon Battle, a● by the Context appears) be an abhorring to all flesh, vers. vit.  
So th●t by what hath been said, it may appear, That though the Rest which Joshu● brought Israel into, was by them polluted, as was said Mu● yet he was a I 〈…〉 them of their great Messiah, when he shall come to them the second time without sin unto salvation, Heb. 9 ●●t turning away ungodliness from Jacoh, (as was said) so beginning his Kingdom of the Mountain, Dan. 2.35. and the New Jerusalem state, Rev. 21. which is that other Rest which David spoke of, mentioned Heb 4.7, 8. which is that Sabbatism or Rest remaining for the people of God, verse 9 called by the Apostle Paul, Rest with us, when our Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed, 2 Thess 1.7. and all this again at his appearance and his Kingdom, 2 Tim. 4.1. wherein the fullness and great evidence of holy Scripture appears to these purposes, and that upon most sure soundations, if duly considered. See Sir Rich. Finch his book, setting forth very largely those Promises belonging to that ancient People of God.  
There are many other things observable in the Parallel of Moses with Christ, and some others in Joshua's, which I shall here also set down as follows.  
First Moses was ordained of God to be a Deliverer of his People; So was Christ the great Redeemer of all Gods Chosen, etc.  
Secondly, When Moses was new born, he was in danger of his life by the Edict of Pharach King of Egypt: So Christ when new born, was in danger of his life by the Command of Herod a strange King, and forced to flee into Egypt.  
Thirdly, As Moses was wonderfully preserved, and so by a gracious Providence nobly trained up to be fitted for his Office; so was Christ divinely preserved from his danger, and fitted for his increasing in wisdom and stature, saith the Evangelist, and favour with God and man, Luc 2.52.  
Fourthly, When Moses was grown up, and his Brethren were in great bondage, he sought to deliver them; but they rejected and betrayed him, but owned him not for their Deliverer: So Christ coming in the fullness of time, was not received by his own people, John 1. but they took counsel against him, to reject and betray him; and actually killed the Lord of Life, who came to deliver them from Death.  
Fifthly, When Moses was thereupon removed into a far Country, there he had Jethro, Prince or Priest of On., a loving and wise Father, having taken his Daughter a stranger to Wi●●● So Christ after the Jews rejection and betraying of him, went in●● a far Co●●●●ey, as he speaketh. Luc. 19 to sit at the Right Hand of his leavenly Father; and upon his own people's rejecting of him as their God or Red●emet, Acts 13. he esp●useth to himself the strangers of the Gentiles to be his Church or Spouse, during his former people's estrangement from him.  
Sixthly, But when the fullness of time was come, that God would m●ke Moses his People's Deliverer, he divinely, greivosly and wonderfully reveals himself to him, sends him on that his Errand, furnisheth him with divine power, conrage, gifts, assistance, and above all guides him by his own counsel in the management of all, how and what course he should steer, or means he should use, what particular miracles he should work from time to time, and shows him what success or want of success he should have; and so Moses did all by God's appointment in that whole work of bringing his People the Children of Israel out of Egypt; in which work afterwards in the Wilderness he was Gods faithful servant in all his House, Heb. 2. in all the time he led them in the Wilderness: So when the time was come that the Father by his Spirit had declared in his Prophets that his Son should be the Deliveter of his People, and as he h●d likewise typified and many ways man●fested to them, he accordingly undertook that work, with that fullness of wisdom, grace, and of his Spirit and power, from the Father, and had the falness of his love so always coutinued unto him, that he de●ied him nothing he asked, yea he had ever fully manifested his whole pleasure to him; and in him and by him all things were accordingly fulfilled to deliver his People from their sins being the bondage of their spiritual Pharaoh and w●rse than Egyptian bondage; and w●ll come as the great Messiah of his ancient People in special, and wonderfully save those that are beloyed for their Father's sake, with a greater deliverance from the Land of the North, than the former from Egypt was, Jer. 23.7, 8. spiritually, temporally, eternally, etc. So Jer. 3 14 18 also Isa 53.10. & 66 14, 15. Ezek. 37. the weole chapter, etc. which deliverance now hasteneth, etc.  
Seventhly, What under Moses ministration Israel came short of obtaining, under Joshua's Conduct, the other Type of Christ, they soon after enjoyed; but yet only as the Lieutenant (as I may say) of that Grand Captain of the Lords Host, that appeared to him, Josh 5.13, 14, 15. from whom then he received his particular order for the besieging of Jericho, with encouragement therein, etc. And who by God's divine ordering of his Lots, afterwards assigned to every Tribe their portion, called in Scripture, The Lot of their Inheritance: So it is from Christ the grand Captain of his People's salvation, not from any strength, works, or worth of their own in any respect, that they obtain any mercy or favour from God: But through the grace, power, and merit of their true Joshua or JESUS, always both able and willing, and ever remains present in readiness to conduct them through their Wilderness condition in this World, even when they are at the greatest stand, and who can in the most unlikely manner, and by the most contemptible means (as by Rams-Horn Trumpets he destroyed high-walled Jericho) confound or destroy the greatest Enemy's of his People, (as he is now consuming the great Beast and false Prophet by the prophesying of his despised fackcloth-Witnesses, Rev. 11. 1● hes. 28) and will in his appointed time bring his Pilgrims into possession of their happy promised Rest that remains to them and all the faithful forefathers into the City prepared for them, with other Saints, of which God is the Maker and Builder himself, Heb. 11.10 as in manifold promises he hath through many Ages in his word declared; when likewise will begin his Kingdom of the Mountain, which shall fill the whole Earth, when all Nations shall serve and obey him, Dan. 7.27, etc. with many other holy Scripture-Testimonies, which might here be added if it were needful.  
Proceed we then to the third pair of partial Types in the N●w World, viz. Of David's Kingdom raised by God from a low beginning, to become great, like the great men of the Earth, as God speaketh of it, 2 Sam 7. though as a man that shed much blood, in a warring condition, till God gave him peace in the end, etc. And of Solomon's Kingdom, that peaceful Prince, when his Subjects were said to sit under their own Vines, and under their own Fig. Trees; though by the cloudy darkness of both their falls, they were manifest to be only Types of their most perfect Antitype.  
And first of the first of them, namely of David's Kingdom set up by God; wherein Christ was typified in these respects:  
1. As David was low and mean at first; I took thee (saith God to him) from the Sheepsold 2 Sam. 7 8. So Christ at his first appearing in the world's view, taking our nature, was little regarded of them, called commonly, The Son of Joseph and Mary, and afterwards disgracefully. The Galilean, from which Country they expected no good to come, and another while reputed him the Carpenter's Son; and even his own Kindred believed not on him; though especially amongst them, both before his birth, at his birth, and afterwards, glorious and radiant Beams of Divine Majesly wonderfully shone out in him, whereby God evidently manifested, and wrote as it were with a sun beam of Light as was also plainly told) That that Child before promised and prophesied so often to come, was his own and only Son.  
2. After David's Kingdom began, there was at first no outward probability appearing to stand against King Saul; saving that Saul was rejected, and David was by God's appointment anointed by Samuel for the Kingdom: But otherwise, in outward respects, Saul was in possession, had the present command of all his Subjects, and of all they had in the world outwardly; but David forced to flee for his life, manless, monyless, helpless in a manner, saving only not faithless nor hopeless; but for outward appearance of means very poor and mean. He after had men, but such as could in appearance yield him little comfort, afford him little relief; we hear not of their Money nor Arms; yea, it appears they were men in debt, and in decayed conditions, how should they live? They fled to him in a Wilderness, where should they have Arms? And had they had them, what skill were they like to have to use them? Wha interest could such have in men that were considerable, saving su●● as might cause them to pursue them for their debts or for leaving their Master's service (as Saul affirmed) which must make David's first estate appear to be the be ●nning of a very pitiful Principality. So when the usurping god of this present world, and that most tyrannous Prince of the power of the Air, was by Christ to be thrown down from his Regency, after his so long and mani●old rebellion against his Creator; and God's anointed King which he had decreed (mangre all the vain opposition of Mon and Devils) should sit upon his holy Hill of Zion Psal. 2. vet he comes into the world in the form of a Servant, was born of a Mother a Virgin, but in a present mean condition, though inwardly glorious in holiness and grace, though lineally descended from the Loins of King David, yet that was a thing little then observed or regarded by most at that time; a Carpenter being her Husband, and the reputed Father of Christ our Saviour, as little acknowledged, 'tis probable, to be the Son of God: Therefore Christ being in our weak nature, in such a low condition, the world was uncapable of discerning or conceiving how he should be able to overcome that old Beelzebub, the Prince of the Devils, with all his Principalities, and powers of spiritual wickednesses in high places.  
3. When the envy and malice of Saul was grown so great against David, that by force or fraud, by policy or treachery, or by any means possible to rid David out of his way, by his Daughter, by his Servants, by the Philistines, his Javelins, his Son Jonathan; or by Doeg, and other bad Instruments of Saul's Court; or whoever was David's Enemy, was thereupon to be owned as Saul's Friend: Yet God ever preserved David from all his attempts, by strange and unlikely ways and means, as the sacred Story therein declares. So as soon as Christ appears in the World, Satan from a Divine Oracle of Christ's birth at Bethlehem the City of David, tempts Herod upon that accounted to seek to take away his life then, as was noted, stirs up many slight of his Person, Parentage, Kindred and Country; then when he appeared more public, sets upon him in hunger to tempt God; from ambition of a world, to worship the Devil, etc. But still Christ overcame that strong man armed, being stronger than he, when he appeared the weakest.  
4. As David by such weak and unlikely instruments overcame or frustrated Saul, assaults: So Christ by poor Fishermen subdued the World to the obedience of the Gospel, thereby making them Fishers of men, and himself to be owned as the Saviour of mankind, by those they were sent unto, conquering and to conquer in the first Seal, Rev. 6. and so through the following Seals till Constantine's coming, about anno 320 all that time where n Michael sought with his Angels against the Dragon and his Angels, who prevailed not, Rev. 12 7 8. when those poor persecuted Christians then converted to the fa●th●● Christ (●hat are stor●ed to be strongly then encouraged by the Doctrine of reigning with Christ the thousand years) suffered with such unshaken saith and constant patience, and gloriously overcame that most devilish cruelty and tyranny of their bloody Persecutors in the Ten first Paganish Persecutions, till the Dragon was cast out of his Heaven to the Earth: Since which time he could not by such persecuting turn Christians into Pagans, he hath attempted by iving his Seat, Power, and Authority to the Beast, to Paganize Christianity itself, and under many devised pretexts of Piety and Devotion by means of his said Substitute in his seat and authority, to act in detestable hypocr sie, in such horrid wickednesses against God and man, that cannot appear in their true colours without some Veil of Hypocrisy cast over them Whence it was anciently observed since that time, Sub nomine Christi militant contra Christum; and after, when in a more intense degree than was apparent, complaint thereof was made, not without just cause, In nomine Domini incipit omne malum: which how manifold it is, and by what cunning Contrivance, with paganish Cruelty carried on, would require a large volumn but even fitly to set down in what large volumes it is already done. And yet Christ by his poor Saints sufferings, and his despised Sackcloth-Witnesses prophesying hath and doth, and will overcome more and more both Dragon, and B●●st, and false prophet also, by whom the other was revived after his former deadly wound, unto their last destruction come, and both are sent unto their own p●a●●, when Christ will most eminently make his Foes his Footstool, and the Kingom of the Stone be changed into the Kingdom of the Mountain, in the next partial Type, with this of David, to be now considered.  
And that is in Solomon, David's natural Seed, derived immediately from his Loins, as promised to David, named by God, owned by him in a gracious manner, appearing to him twice, making him large offers, giving him unparallelled Gifts of Wisdom and Knowledge, eminent Grace, transcendent worldly Glory, Dignity, Riches and Revenues, on the face of the earth; admired far and near, most famous for building the most glorious Temple or House of God, and other Houses, and in writing excellent Books of holy Scripture, and many other Books: But that he was but a Type of David's blessed Seed to come in the Kingdom of the Mountain, may appear by his so sad declining for a time towards his elder years; yet a●ter, through grace, returned. But that he was his Type, his Name denotes, his Office, his Works, his Wisdom, his Peace, his Glory, Wealth, and Dignity, his Religion, his executing of Judgement, his People's Peace, Plenty, Security, under him, etc. whilst he walke● wisely, and stood upright, do abundantly declare. And in regard we are to consider the great Char●er of David and Solomon's Kingdom, in the next place, we shall here add no more, but come to our next foundation.  
VII. Seventhly, Which is the seventh, as being confirmed both to David and Solomon by a Divine Charter, very eminently illustrated 2 Sam. 7.8. to the end, in that most gracious Message that God sent by Nathan, upon occasion of David's secret intent and purpose to build God an House, for which he made great provision; which though it was not in particular accepted, for some reasons afterwards specified in the sequel, yet God so approved of his pious affections of love ●o his Divine Majesty, and Zeal for his Glory and Worship, that thereupon he made to David the most blessed return of Love, and Riches of Goodness to him and his House, with the longest Entail w●th it, and surest security of it, that ever was made to any mere mortal man: We may here observe, first the said Message of God, from vers. 8. to 17. concerning Gods sure mercies to David, in respect of his Kingdom, People, and House: Secondly. We may note David's improvement of each part of the Divine Message by Faith, Prayer, and thankful Acknowledgement, from vers. 17. to the end.  
First, In God's Message, vers. 8. He directs the Prophet Nathan to make to David a rehearsal of mercies past; namely, How he exalted him from a low estate, even from the Sheep-coat, from following the Sheep, to an excellent Dignity; not only to be a Ruler in ordinary way, but that which added much to his exaltation and honour, was, he let him over his own People, even over Israel, chosen out of the whole World for his own Inheritance: This special trust God committed to David, to whom great Privileges did belong, and for whom great things formerly had been done by God, upon whom his Name was called.  
Secondly, Vers. 9 He minds him how he had been with him in a special manner in a way of grace, to wit, to be for him, and against his Enemies; and so effectually as to cut them all off in his own sight, and that thereupon he had made him a great Name, as the great Men that are upon the Earth.  
Thirdly, Vers. 10. He sets down (as in a Parenthesis) a most wonderful mercy promised to his said People, long after to take place, and to be in fulfilling to the end of the world: saying, I will appoint a place (not what he had done before, or unto that time (as afterwards is explained) for my people Israel, and I will plant them; but how? First that they may dwell in a place of their own, (for formerly they drove out others, though but as God's Instruments, yet with many failings, and then by their sins they forfeited their own interest therein:) Secondly, He declares they should move no more; which settlement then must needs be yet to come, the same with Ezek. 37. and many other promises: Thirdly, The Children of wickedness should not, in that Land which he promiseth, afflict them any more, (which hath not hitherto been fulfilled) formerly such Children of wickedness, which in their disobedience to God they spared, were in judgement made Thorns in their Sides, and pricks in their Eyes, to chastise them; and other soon of wickedness, by reason of their many provocations, greatly from time to time, before and till David's time, afflicted them, as before time in Egypt, and in the Wilderness, as the end of vers. 10. seems to intent,— as before time.  
And vers. 11. in the beginning of it, he adds another distinct time of the prevailing of such Sons of Wickedness over them: And (saith he) as since the time that I commanded Judges to be over my people: And that he might the better take notice of his own so good different state at present, and from whence it came, he shows to him again that he himself had caused him to rest from all his Enemies.  
And in the end of vers. 11. he appoints Nathan to deliver a further Message of wonderful grace concerning David's own House; saying, Also the Lord tells thee [there was his insallible security] that he will make thee a sure House; which must needs be a sure House, when God both tells him so, and tells him he will make it so: Greater certainty could not be; Therefore rightly is this styled, The sure Mercies of David.  
Vers. 12. concerns Gods promise to be fulfilled after David's death, concerning his Son Solomon, as is applied by Solomon himself, 1 Kings 2.24. The Lord (saith he) hath made me an House, as he promised; which promise follows in this 12th verse, I will set up thy Seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy own bowels; and I will establish his Kingdom: which must be his immediate Seed. Besides, he was designed by God to build that House for Go● is Name which David purposed, till God now declared his pleasure therein to him, to the contrary, which was accordingly executed, as Solomon acknowledged, as was noted before.  
And vers. 13. latter part, God adds a wonderful mercy, That Solomon the Type of Christ, whose Kingdom in his days should be a Type of Christ's Kingdom, should build that House that should prefigure the Body of Christ; till he came in the flesh and fulfilled all that was signified in and by that House and Priesthood exercise● therein, whereby it seems to be signified, That that House which he built, and the Services to be upheld in it, should typify to his People his glorious Person and work of Redemption to be wrought by him for them, where the Ark of God's gracious Presence with his People was at that time preserved: Which Temple, though afterwards it should be destroyed for their great sins and provocations, and the Ark of God's gracious presence be taken away from among them; yet the Temple should afterward by the wonderful power and grace of God be again rebuilt, as Isaiah foretell, and was (as we rea● in Ezra and Nehemiah) accordingly fulfilled: by the former denoting the death of Christ bodily, which he suffered for his People's sins; and by the latter, that divinely powerful and glorious Resurrection of Christ from that death of the Body. Which said second Temple, by the divine work of God upon the spirit of Cyrus, being so rebuilt, should so continue (only after repaired and adorned by Herod) thenceforward many hundred years, until all things were sully accomplished by him who was before so long time, and many ways before-typ●fied by it; at the death of whose b●dy, the Veil of that Temple actually was rend from top to bottom, wherewith Moses veiled Gospel of Ceremonial Worship ceased, and upon whose Resurrection and Ascension the Gospel of the Son of Man's Kingdom was speedily, and powerfully, and evidently preached by the commissionated Ambassadors of Christ through the whole world; when also the Kingdom of the Stone foretell in Daniel d●d begin, o● the spiritual Throne and Kingdom of Christ was se● up, and hath, and is, and will be powerfully upheld, while Christ in the Gospel rideth o'n conquering and to conquer, as he began under the ●●st Seal, till he eminently, when he ceaseth to sit at his Father's Right hand in Heaven, Psal. 110.1. shall make his foes his footstool; and thenceforward gloriously and powerfully on David's and Solomon's Throne (as here promised) in the Kingdom of the Mountain, to the world's end and la Judgement, Dan. 2 35. And so the great King of the New Jerusalem, will undoubtedly succeed lineally from them both, in whom the House and Throne of the Kingdoms of both shall be established for ever, as in Psal 45. is largely illustrated with many excellencies belonging to the glorious state of the Messiah's Kingdom with his Saints, his Spouse styled the King's Daughter, and gloriously there described and enfeoffed with her Dowry, very divinely in a great part of that Psalm.  
But vers. 14, 15. In regard God fore-knew Solomon would greatly fall by his own heinous sins, which would deserve great Judgements; even as the great Messiah was first to suffer and satisfy for Solomon, before the visible glory of his Kingdom should shine forth, and for all penitent and truly believing persons; and that therefore God foreshews how he would fatherly chastise Solomon, but not take his mercy from him, as he took it from Saul, (which is a very evident proof that Solomon was saved) and secondly typifying therein that Christ should be saved in his suffering for man's sin, and overcome death by dying, in regard that Christ should personally come in the flesh to that end, which was signified by that House which was to remain then in its use; and that till then, those services to be performed in that house did the note that work of Redemption of his people which he was to accomplish at that his coming, whereby full Reconciliation should be made with God for them, and then that said House, and the services therein performed, were thereupon to cease: Therefore in vers. 16. the last of Gods said Message to David by Nathan, he twice confirms the perpetuity of the said Mercy, not only to ratify the sureness thereof, as is usual in holy Scripture, as in the four Mettle-Kingdoms, Dan 2. and 7. and the four Beasts, but it seems in vers. 16. he first through the said Reconciliation made when he put an end to the services of the said House, whereby the influence of all promised mercies to the Saints reached in all Ages to them, sets down there over and over for David's comfort, this that concerned Christ's Davidical Kingdom of the thousand years' Reign with the Saints, that it should be BEFORE DAVID; that is, at the blessed and holy Resurrection of the Just, Rev. 20.6. when David and Daniel shall stand up in their Lots,; though there was a Resemblance of it, as some observe, in that Solomon was in the Throne before David died: Yet this promise is of transcendent excellency above that matter; neither did that state last for ever, i. e. to the world's end, which is so many times insisted upon, both from God's Riches of Mercy towards David, and David's une pressible gratitude (as he said vers. 20) due unto God: Wherefore he speaks in such a full comprehensive manner, vers. 16. Thy House and thy Kingdom shall be established for ever BEFORE THEE: and again. Thy Throne shall be established for ever; which is only possible in Christ, and in him is necessary, according to that prophecy Isa. 9.7. That of the increase of his Government there should be no end, upon the Throne of David, to order it and to establish it with judgement and with justice from henceforth even for ever: And the reason hereof is very remarkable: The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this; his Truth, his Faithfulness will n●t lie unto David, for whom he hath this sure mercy to perform, to raise up his Tabernacle which was fallen, as Acts 1.5. is explained: and as the Angel told the blessed Virg●n. Luc. 1.23, 3.3. The Lord shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David: The Scripture is so full in this point, that if men's eyes be not sh●t, it is obvious to be seen. And thus much of God's message by Nathan.  
Now from vers. 17. to the end of the Chapter, we have David's most grateful acceptance of the said Message, and very pious improvement of it by ●aith, prayer, acknowledgement and thankfulness, and well might he do so, seeing he so well understood, and so fully believed every branch by the teaching of God's Spirit, and every particular therein contained, viz. That he should have a Kingdom, and such a Kingdom confirmed to him, and not to him alone, but to him and his People of Israel, and for them with his Seed; and not to his notural Seed only, ●s such, coming out of his own Bowels, but as typical of a Seed and Kingdom divine and be●venly, to be given in a wonderful manner, and as he saith vers. 19 for a long time to come, and upon such security from God himself, who undertook to do it himself, with the greatest assurance imaginable, yea above all imagination or capacity of features, in such a way, under such Types, in such order, time and manifold miraculousness, that i● all men and all Creatures should join all their Skill and Power, Wealth. Strength, and Interests, to confer a Kingdom upon a Person, by right of Covenants, Purchase, Charter, Prowess, Policy, Prudence, Conquest, Merit, or whatever they could contrive or procure to such intent, it would be but nullity instead of security, compared with this, and not worthy even to be named in the same day with it: Yea mens Kingdoms on the contrary, the greater they are, are therefore many times the more uncertain and tottering. Whereas this, in the greatest extent, should be the most stable, being founded in Righteousness, which is the habitation or stability of Christ's Throne, Psal. 97.2. whilst the greatest combination of men and creatures to uphold by any means Kingdoms and States in unrighteousness against God and his People, do thereby the sooner bring them to their periods, and by such means ofttimes more certain ruin befalls them, as in Nebuchadnezars great Monarchy, whether we look upon him personally, as that great Tree then flourishing, Dan 4. but suddenly cut down, under whose Branches all Creatures (then) sheltered themselves; or lineally, which ended in his Granchild Belshazzar, Dan. 5. as that Kingdom was then the Head of Gold, in respect of the other Mettle-Kingdoms succeeding it, even so it was but of short continuance for that reason, Dan. 5.20, 21, 22, 23. for some of the said short continuance: But such a title, and of so long continuance, yea such a secure perpetaity God passeth over by his Divine Charter to David his Seed and People here, of that his most excellent Kingdom in the world (that though in some sense it should be interrupted for a time) yet should certainly stand good in due time to th●m, when all merely worldly Monarchies shall be worn out, yet that should remain for ever, as often was repeated, even to the world's end; the like assurance was never made before David's time, never since, of any Kingdom in the world, nor ever will be, when that universal visible Dominion shall hereafter begin to take place in the world, (as it was said of it, Dan. 2.28) it never shall be destroyed in the world, but be translated into, or perfected in celestial Glory: And therefore it is no marvel that holy David from such Divine Illumination, and from such suitable strength of faith, doth answerably (as we hinted) receive with humble acceptation and enlarged thanksulness and acknowledgement, that blessed news thereof from God, and accordingly improve it as follows.  
1. For vers. 18. In the first place David retires himself into the alone presence of his most gracious God, and in a most humble manaer acknowledgeth before him his wonderful mercy and goodness to himself and his House, both past and present: Who am I (saith he) O Lord God And what is my House, that thou hast brought me hitherto!  
2. In vers. 19 He sets it forth for the time to come, further observing and explaining the long continuance thereof, not to himself alone, but to his House, upon a most true and certain perpetuity, upon the best security, in an unparalled manner; (for his words are weighty) saying, And yet this was a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God, but thou hast spoken also of thy Servants House for a great while to come, viz. whise time shall continue, which he revolves again with a holy admiration, — And is this the manner of Man, OLORD GOD!  
3. In vers. 20. he declares that he was at a loss for verbal expressions of due thankfulness for his mercies, but tenders his enlarged heart to God's view, saying, And what can David say more unto thee? For thou, Lord God, knowest thy Servant.  
4. In vers. 21. he illustrates, in his wayof gratitude, the truth of God's promise, the reeness of his mercy to him, with the greatness thereof in all respects, in all those great things which were still illustrated by their present manifestation of them unto him:— To make (saith he) thy Servant to know them.  
5. In vers. 22, 23, 24. he farther illustrates with his own, God's wonderful glorious and rich mercy to his people of Israel; first for time past, magnifying the greatness of the unparallelled mercy of God to them, extolling him above all gods, and as the only true God, and that he had proved himself so by his works, recorded in his word, or related by his people, vers. 22. Wherefore thou art great, O Lord, and there is none like thee, etc.  
And vers. 23. He sets forth the great honour he had procured to his people of Israel, by signs and wonders for them, etc. whom he redeemed out of Egypt, that in them he might be glorified above the heathen gods, etc.  
And in vers. 24. He gratefully rehearseth his now-confirmed mercy to his people of Israel for perpetuity, and his Covenant renewed with them to be their God; as with Abraham. Gen. 17.7, 8. so now to them by the Messiah the Son of David, much after the ame tenure of words; even as this Message is much the same with that recorded in 1 Chron. 17 7, 8, 9, etc.  
6. Now as to vers. 25. David had made his graceful acknowledgement of so transcendent a mercy to Himself, his People, and House; so now he proceeds further to improve it by frith and prayer, vers. 25, 26. And first jointly for Himself and his House, vers. 25. Now O Lord, establish thy word for ever concerning thy Servant, and concerning his House, and do as thou hast said.  
And then vers. 26. He adjoins God's Covenant with his people of Israel, to be their God for ever, with his continued prayer for his House, as before 〈…〉 vomited so in God's presence implored by prayer upon that ground, for believing the Promise, he poureth out his Prayer.  
7. In vers. 27. He sets down the particular reason of this present exercise of his faith and prayer, namely, God's present so grations Revelation of his said wonderful mercy to him: For (saith he) thou, O Lord God, hast revealed to thy Servant, saying, I will build thee an House; therefore hath thy Servant ●ound in his heart to pray this Prayer unto thee.  
In vers. 28 he ruminates upon the former grounds of his faith, viz. First that this Promise was from that God that was the great and most glorious God of Israel; and secondly from the truth of all his words, found experimentally to be true; and at present applies both to his particular promise then made to himself: Thou (saith he) art that God, and thy words be true.  
9 In the last verse he improveth his special saith in reference to the said special promise to Himself and his House, by a twofold Amen, or so be it, (as I may term them) twice running again over the same: the one seeming to refer (as before) to Christ's said Davidical Kingdom of the thousand years, That God would bless his Servants House, that it may continue for ever before God: and the other to eternity, That it might be blessed with his blessing for ever: Or else for further enlargement of his prayer, That it might not only continue before him, but be blessed also with his Blessing for ever.  
And thus by so grateful acknowledgement manifested by special faith and fervent prayer, this humble, holy, kingly Prophet improved Gods so great and marvellous mercy, by the Prophet Nathan revealed to himself, for his House and People of Israel for ever. Amen.  
VIII. Eighthly, Christian Readers, If you shall reckon with me the eight said Ty●es in the Old and New World, as the Fifth Foundation o● Faith, and this from Ezekiel to be the Eighth, the number will be ●●e same, an● the strength much greater: For as the other two greater Prophets, Isaiah and Jeremiah foretold Israel's and Judah's Captivity, as also d●d some of the smaller; and by the same Prophets did God also, for the ●om●●rt of the faithful Jews, foretell their great Restauration: for Is●●ah is large concerning the New Jerusalem, chap. 60. applised by the holy Ghost to the New Jerusalem, Rev. 21. And as Jeremiah hath many threaten of Judgement and Captivity, so he hath many Promises of wonderful mercies, not only concerning their Reduction from Bab●l●n, but of many more ●ar excelling them, particularly, That Jerusal●m shall be the Throne of the Lord Chap. 3.17. [See our Tract on that Text &c] So al●o Ezekiel that was set as a sign in in his Person had many signs in his Ministry appointed by God on special occasions; yea very much of his Prophecy was symbolical, fraught with Divine Hieroglyphics, with sacred Figures and Types, not only as to Judah and Jerusalem's sad Calamities, then further and further prevailing, etc. but more especially Ezekiel, from Chap 36, 1, 2, 3, etc. to the end of that Book, is in many Prophecies, Visions, Explications, large decipherings, so full concerning Israel's and Judah's mercies at their last great Restauration, that both Daniel and Christ in his Revelation apply, improve, and explain many things in Ezekiel very remarkably; so extraordinary glorious were many of Ezektel's Revelations, as in Chap. 1. & 10, much to be parallelled with Rev. 4 setting forth a like glorious and gracious manifestation of God unto his Church through Jesus Christ, and by h●s holy Spirit, set forth by Resemblances of such Appearances, like Fire, Precious Stones, Rainbow, Wheels, Cherubims, Living Wights, and the like; and the New Jerusalem in the nine last Chapters of Ezekiel, which Learned Men have styled formerly the Revelation of the O●d Testament: and indeed it appears to be a Revelation of the Promises of former Prophets, and of some of his own Predictions concerning the happy estate of Israel and Judah to come, when the Tabernacle of God will be with men, Rev. 21. and the City which he had described shall really be Jehavah Shamma, because the Lord our Saviour will be personally there: And as many differences are observable in that foretold by Ezekiel for the comfort of the Jews, and that by the Apostle John respecting especially the Gentiles that were beheaded for the Name of Jesus, and resisted Antichrist, etc. And hence Ezekiel speaks as to a people in that state, under such dispensations as the Jews were used to; but the other is eminently more gloriously described I conceive for some Reasons, as in regard that part of Christ's Subjects and Servants that eminently th●n will serve him, as Rev. 22.3, being in't he natural life, first Jews, then G●n●●les converted (being the Nations of those that are saved) will wa● in the light of the other Jerusalem, Rev. 21. that came from God out of Heaven, by a Metovymie of the subject being the Spirits of just men made perfect which Christ r●ngs 〈◊〉 him at his second coming, and upon the taking their Bodies, they become Inhab tants of the Jerusalem whose Maker and Builder is God, Heb 11.10. prepared for the forefathers, and all that without us shall not be ma●e perfect●● 40. or perfect in one, as our Saviour prayed, John 17.23. when they shall behold Christ's glory, v. 24 See ●ract on Jer. 3.17. & other parcels, etc. And Daniel declares in a set order of Prophecy, first more generally, in Chap. 2. and Chap. 7. and after more particularly in Chap. 8. v. 13. to 20. with v. 26. and chap. 10. as in Rev. 1. Christ's resemblance, and chap. 11. much of the Roman Kingdom, from v. 36, as Mr. Med accurately and evidently explains: and chap. 12 v. 5 6, 7. the same in substance with Rev. 10. and Daniel's Lot notes the first Resurrection, Rev. 20.6. and to the same purpose Ezektel (chap. 36.) foretells largely the happy estate of the Jews then, to whom the Gentiles will flow in, being both in the natural life, and shows the sure foundation of that mercy, vers. 25, 26, 27. viz. Gods sprinkling clean water upon them, and giving them a new heart, and putting his Spirit into them: in the next Vision, chap. 37 the said Promises are confirmed by two visions and explications plainly and distinctly set down by God himself, as in our Word written, pag. 10.11. In the next Vision he shows how Gog their great Oppressor shall be destroyed, who is aptly there described to the life, and said to come in the latter days twice, Ezek. 38.8, 16. & chap. 39 and from theace to the end of that Book deciphers in reference to the Jews their happy estate in the Davidical Kingdom of Christ, who being that Jehovah, will personally be there, as we shown before upon many considerations, etc. So that Ezekiel's evidence being rightly understood, as in many of those may appear, compared with like portions of Scripture, his Testimony may well be applied as a very strong Foundation of Faith, bearing its weight with all the rest.  
IX. Ninthly, Twice strongly ratified to Daniel two ways: 

First, By Viou only, Dan. 2. upon Gods revealing to him the Exposition of Nebuchadnezzar's Dream, viz. That after the four Mettle Kingdoms were passed, there should succeed the twofold state of Christ the Sonof man's Kingdom; namely, 

1. The Kingdom of the Stone, vers. 4.  
2. The Kingdom of the Mouat●in, vers. 35.    
Secondly, Both by Vision and Revelation, Chap. 7. 

1. By Vision of four Beasts, or four Kings, as v. 17. ruining each other, before the Kingdom of the Son of man should take place, at his coming in the Clouds of Heaven, when Dominion over all Nations shall be given to him, to the world's end, vers 13, 14.  
2. By Revelation, from vers. 16, to the end of the Chapter, especially vers. 17. the four Beasts are said to be four Kings, and vers. 27. and as Luc. 22.29. they shall be made his Delegates, yet so as all shall obey him.      
Both Daniel's said Revelations and the several Visions either seen or recorded by him concerning Christ's Davidical Kingdom, are not only consonant to former Prophecies and Types thereof; and especially with God's gracious Message by Nathan, lately insisted upon from 2 Sam. 7. but also with all the particular Branches following to be considered in their order and nature, which manifest more and more this said so divine and glorious Scripture-Truth respecting the said Kingdom, which is the main subject of our third part, viz. the Parallel with its appendants, as thereby may be seen and considered, being of very great use rightly to understand much of holy Scripture etc. Therefore we shall here say no more thereof, but refer the Reader thereunto; only admonishing him against two learned Errors, [for learned men's authority hath been much pleaded for them, and hath long upheld them] First of such as will have the Book of Revelation to begin where Daniel ends, as if both those Books were a continuation of the same History, etc. Secondly, Of such as make the Selucidae and Lagidae, which were but the broken parts of the Greek-Kingdom, to be the fourth Monarchy in Daniel; which the Spirit of God recko ●eth no further than Antiochus Epiphanes, who was repulsed by the Roman Navies appearance before Alexandria, which Mr. Mede manlfests to be those Ships of Chittim, foretell by Balaam, Numb. 24.24. and fulfilled then, as Dan. 11.30. Unto which two, a third late mistake may be added, of them that would make the Book of Revelations to be an History of things much past when given, and not a Prophecy of things to come to the end of the world: Whereas contrary to all three, the Book of Revelation is merely a divine mystical Comment or Exposition of that hidden part of Daniel, then shut up and ●ealed up t●ll the time of the end, as we shown in our preface to the Parallel, and elsewhere. So that the right understanding of Revelation-Prophecy must necessarily be shut out thereby to all such as retain any of tho●e mi●s-opinions. See for this also the contrary Judgement and Reasons of many learned men in our fifth convincing Argument in the Word Written.  
X. Tenthly, Applied often by our Saviour in the Gospel, to the Kingdom of the Son of man, Matth. 13 41. and the Son of man's coming in his Kingdom, Matth. 16.28. And, It is your Father's good pleasure to give you a Kingdom, Luc. 12.32. Again, Now is my Kingdom not from hence, John 18.37. And, I have appointed unto you a Kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; which is the same which Daniel in vision saw him coming to receive, Dan 7.13, 14. and was promised before to him, as the Son of David, 2 Sam. 7. which was also styled by Christ, The Kingdom of God, that was foretold by him should draw near at hand when Israel's great Redemption (so often spoken of in the Prophets) shall be accomplished, and upon the beholding the signs thereof, he bids the Jews lift up their heads, because their Redemption then draws near, (as is very evident from Luc. 21.31.) of which our Saviour spoke in a Parable, Luc. 21.11, 12 24 27. the time whereof is explained in the order of accomplishment, Rev. 11.15. as is easily discernible to such as are acquainted with the Series of that Book; which said Davidical Kingdom of the Son of man shall begin in the world, as Daniel declares, Chap. 7.13, 14. at his coming in the Clouds of Heaven, which Christ himself also further illustrates, showing it shall be with his own Glory, and of the Fathers, and of his holy Angels, Luc. 9 2●. when ten thousand times ten thousand shall minister to him, and stand before him, Dan. 7.10. when the Judgement is set to destroy the ●●ast, and give his Body to the burning ●l●me, vers. 11. All which Tex●s 〈◊〉 holy Scripture will be fulfilled above a thousand years before the Resurrection of wicked men to the general Judgement, as is most evident from the series and order of things set down ●oth by Daniel, and more fully explained in the Book of Revelation especially in the twentieth Chapter the most clear Table of these last times and order of things to be done in them, for which purpose also consider the foresaid Parallel.  
XI. Eleventhly, Being also so Expounded by the Apostle Paul, and others of the Apostles; concerning which Doctrine, fi●st the Apostle Paul delivereth many things by way of explication thereof, we shall touch upon some of them briefly.  
First, When he comforts the troubled Saints, that they shall have Rest with him and other Apostles and Sairts, whilst Christ will ●e●der tribulation to such as troubled them, ●e s●●s down that time to be when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed with his mighty Angels, in ●laming 〈…〉 taking vengeance on them that know not God, and they not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, etc. 2 Thes. 1.7, 8 9 and in Chap 2.8. 〈…〉 further from Dan. 7. that Mother-Text, (as M●. Mede 〈…〉) of all such Scriptures in the New Testament, That Christ will particularly destroy that man of 〈◊〉 the same appearance of 〈◊〉 coming or presence, when the body of the s ame Beast, a● w●s sai● shall be ●●ven to the burning ●l●me, as Dan. 7.11. which ●e al●o ●art●●r d●c●●●●reth by his Appearance and Kingdom, 2 Tim 4.1. as also was by Daniel seen in vision, etc.  
Again, He further informs us strongly, That Christ must reig● till he hath put all his Enemies under his ●eet, 1 Cor. 15.25. Now when he most eminently gins to do this, ●is said Reign gins, for ti●l ●h●n he sits at the Father's right hand, yea and sits there expecting til● th●● time come, (as the same Apostle manifestly declares, Heb 10.12, 13.) and at that time the Beast is expressly said to be cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone, after the language of that most acred Prophecy. And to make his Exposition yet more clear and forcible, he further teacheth, That the last Enemy that shall be destroyed in the said Reign of Christ, shall be Death; viz. Bodily Death, that separates Soul and Body; not the death of Soul and Body, for that thereupon will begin most to reign, and to reign over the Damned eternally: but the other, namely the death of the Body, shall be destroyed and cast into the lake burning with fire and brimstone, that is, in its capacity, and after the language of Cod's Spirit in that Book, the very being of it, as the general Destroyer of humane Nature in this life, will be taken away, when no such matter will remain for it to work upon; when all Saints are rapt up to meet Christ in the air in a moment, and wicked men stand in their state to be judged, the present being of Humane Nature, separable of Soul and Body, will be utterly abolished: Now this said destruction of bodily Death, that last Enemy, will not be effected till above a thousand years after the coming of the Son of man in the Clouds of Heaven, as was said, and after the said casting of the Beast and false Prophet into the said lake burning with brimstone, as is very evident from Rev. 19.20. compared with the order of the said Table of the Times, in Chap. 20. to vers. 14. where Death and Hell are also said to be cast into the lake of fire, that is, Death and the Grave in the said sense, have no more use, or matter to work upon, and by consequence no more being in the world. And whoso faithfully and seriously endeavours rightly to weigh and consider these things without partiality or prepossession (which at first may seem an hard thing for some sorts of men to perform) yet upon such endeavour, with humble seeking unto God for direction in these truths, and faithful and patiented waiting upon him in the use of pertinent means, I doubt not but in Gods good time they may be well satisfied from h●s Word and good Spirit of Grace in the reality and truth of the substance of them: for which purpose I conceive it not needful here to say more for information or conviction (which is mainly my business) and for particular application hereof, it will be obvious to all knowing and pious Christians, which I am forced to leave to themselves at present, for brevity-sake, (publishing by Press having long been to me a difficult task) and when a Doctrinal Foundation in this case is once surely laid, application of these, with some points of such nature, will in some respect, be made à fortiori, as from an additional consideration, but yet a very weighty and moving consideration (i● particularities therein to be considered in their several kinds and natures, be duly improved by Scripture-guidance) and the holy Spirit of God's gracious assistance, the infallible means of being rightly guided into all needful profitable Divine Truth, as all holy Scripture-truths' are, and these in particular (though too much overlooked and slighted by some) though the great things of God, and an excellent and glorious part of the Gospel of Christ, a rich and long inheritance of the Saints, yea (as we noted) the highest form of God-glorifying Creatures (then) viz. Saints and Angels, to fit them wonderfully above all other means in the preceding six thousand years, to glorify him more excellently for ever and ever. We shall but even mention some like evidences from the other Apostles, Peter, James and John, the Witnesses at Christ's Transfiguration, who then jointly saw that representation of Christ's glory at his coming in his Kingdom, (for he calls that his coming in that sense, Matth. 16.28. Mark 9.1.) when those eminent glorified Saints and Prophets, Moses and Elias, appeared talking with him: First, Peter sets forth the beginning of that state by the Restitution of all things, and the times of refreshment from the presence of the Lord, Acts 3.19 20, 21. and as witnessed by all the holy Prophets of God since the World began. And the Apostle James styles it from the Prophet Amos 9.11. The raising of the Tabernacle of David that was fallen down, with some explication of the said Prophecy, Acts 15.16, 17. Also the Evangelist John makes a telation of Christ's Kingdom n●t being of this world, proving it not so to be, in regard his Servants did not fight that he should not then be delivered to the Jews; Now therefore (saith he) my Kingdom is not from hence, John 8.36, 37. I might add Jude's old Tradition, turned by him into sacred Scripture, v. 13, 14. but that was spoken of before particularly.  
XII. Twelfthly, Come we now to the twelfth and last Foundation of our Faith, named in our general Title-page, and that is from the most full and strongly evidenced Revelation, in that many ways most excellent part of the h●ly Scripture given by Christ to his beloved Disciple John, concerning the ending of the fourth Monarchy, at the Beasts destruction, Chap 18.11. to the end, and the beginning and continuance of Christ's Kingdom or Reign with his Saints succeeding it, Chap. 20.4. thereby very evidently explaining by his best authority what Daniel saw and said more darkly and briefly before, both of them being Gods beloved Witnesses of the same Divine Truth; but Christ's by his beloved Disciple John, is the true and infallible Comment of the other: Which said last Visions, Chap. 19.11. and Chap. 20, 21, 22, now are hastening in order of accomplishment (as we said) to take place, (as upon many considerations may appear probable) when that heavenly General of all God's Hosts (whose Name is, THE WORD OF GOD, (as he is there styled) JESUS CHRIST the Great Messiah and Deliverer of his People, THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, vers. 16. will then come the second time without sin unto salvation, Heb. 9 ult. for them: not only as in the Kingdom of the Stone, spiritually and divinely to save their Souls from the hands of their spiritual Enemies, which he fulfilled at his first coming, and hath improved and carried on ever since, in their suffering ●●ndition, and will do whilst that Kingdom of Patience shall en●ure; but when he will work an outwrad visible temporal salvation, with the spirit all, for all his people, from all their Enemies, to serve him without fear of them, in righteousness and holiness before him, all the days of their lives, Luc. 1.75. (which with the context hath been but in a small measure yet fulfilled, in the aptest sense, in comparison of what it will in several respects then be) for then will be the great Vintage or Heavest of Believers, which is to come in unto Christ in the said thousand years' reign, when Isa 53. chief shall (it seems) take place, that he shall see his seed and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand, in the prolonging of his days, even in all that time, as also he speaks Chap. 9.10. wherein he shall sit upon the Throne of David, and up-his Kingdom (mark that expression) to order it; that is, David's Kingdom: for what end? namely, in such a way as to establish it, namely, by Justice and Judgement: and the Psalmist excellently speaketh thereof particularly, Justice and Judgement shall be the habitation (or establishment, or stability) of thy Throne, Psal. 89.14. and especially Psal 97.2. which particularly sets down the beginning of Christ's Kingdom, so explained Heb. 1.8. for Kingdoms are so to be established, (saith the wi●●st Solemon, Prov. 16.12. The Throne is established by Righteousness, & 25 5.) the contrary whereunto being acted by the ten Kings that give their power to the Beast, with others at the last, will bring destruction both upon him and them together, Rev. 19.18, 19, 20. like as some of them before that time had bewailed the burning of the Whore of Babylon with their Alas, alas, Chap. 18.9 10 But Christ being that Great King that [with an ●●●e] is foretold shall eminently rule in Righteousness, Jer. 23.5, 6. Therefore he will so establish his Davidical Throne (as was said) in Righteousness and Judgement, the sure establishment thereof: For all their great temporal Promises then (as we shown before) shall appear to be founded upon their spiritual endowments of Grace, when God will circumcise their hearts, and the hearts of their Seed, Deut. 30. v. 1. to 11. because Israel then shall be a most holy people, therefore they shall be a most happy People; their Dominion then will be founded in grace; and thereby preserved also for ever, as God promised in that eminent Text 2 Sam. 7. and all their outward mercies will appear then to be derived to, and preserved for them and their Seed, from that spiritual Covenant with Abraham, and thorough that one Seed Christ, and from their interest therein, from whence the temporal will flow in unto them, according to their large measure of grace and sanctification. But at the fulfilling of that said Vision, Rev. 19.11. when that Great General with his holy and celestial Army shall overcome and utterly destroy the Beast and false Prophet, thereupon will ensue Satan's binding, and that securely, for 1000 years, that he may not deceive the Nations any more, till the said thousand years be fulfilled, etc. Chap. 20. which also will be contemporaneous with Christ's Reign with his Saints on earth, the same thousand years, which is Christ's Davidical Kingdom, of which God gave such assurance to David that it should continue for ever, to the end of the world in the said 2 Sam. 7. From which ground, with others all such as have but a small measure of David's faith thereof, may by the due reading, improving, and the right and serious considering of his security therein, (through God's mercy) be sufficiently satisfied in it. And in very deed, so much hath by many learned persons been written to this purpose, and preached upon this Text, Rev. 20.4, 5, etc. that I judge it needless to add any more here upon that account: Only observe how Daniel and the Revelation agree in our Parallel of the Ruin of the Roman Empire, (which is now hastening under the last head thereof) when Christ's said Reign will begin: Whose abominable wickedness, vailed under such hypocritical pretences of piety and charity, varnished over with a seeming colourable antiquity, propped up by the Popes so long falsified infallibility, under which and other false Vizards, whilst the said Pope with his Complices pretend most zeal for Christ's Religion and Souls Salvation, even than they really sighed most against the one, and really seek to destroy the other, (as woeful experience ●th long manifested) one the one part undermining the Truth, making void the Ordinances and Institutions of Christ, by adding to then, or taking from them, pollute his Worship, dishonour his Gospel, and cause his Religion to be reproached, and his Name blasphemed, amongst 〈◊〉 Paganish and Barbarous Nations, that know him not: And on the other part, by their many Cra●ts and Cruel● to 〈…〉 and persecute poor ignoran: Souls, or others tha● fall into their Nets, or by their tyrannous Practices, (the mysterious in quity whereof will be revealed when their Inquisitors shall come to be anatomised) whereby they have earnestly laboured to force them to yield to their evil designs; Yea how have they violently for many hundreds of years passed killed the Saints? How many most barbarous massacres and bloody persecutions have they acted in against those meek Lambs of that (now alive, yet once was) slain Lamb of God Christ Jesus, who shortly to their terror shall appear to be the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Rev. 5.5. when they have filled up their measure, which they have ever been doing from the time the great red Dragon gave unto that multi-formed Beast his Seat, with great power and authority to act therein for his forty two months, Rev. 13.1, 6 7. which he hath accordingly improved, as both History and Experience hath abundantly (though sadly) discovered; and will do so more and more to his power, (which is the heavy spiritual Judgement of that man of Sin, and therefore more heavy, because so senseless of it) even until his time shall be no longer, Rev. 10.6 7. as the Angel (probably Christ) forewarns that strange Creature, and when it will be: And doth not the height of those prodigious impieties and prevailing abominations too too conspicuous in that whole Antichristian Body, and every Limb thereof, in the sight of all observant persons and people appear evidently to hasten the destruction thereof, together with that said Beast, who as Daniel also foresaw should be then slain, and his body given to the burning flame, chap 7, 11. Of which Prophecy and Vision this glorious appearance made by Christ of his next coming, chap. 19 11. is a clear comment and deciphered completion shortly to take place (as we have reason to expect and also to be fully accomplished accordingly.  
And then likewise together with Babylon's ruin will happily hasten the raising up of Zion. And upon Antichrists destruction will certainly succeed Christ's said so wonderful exaltation in in the world, in that his Divine and Kingly visible Glory and Majesty then to be manifest, namely to be the Prince of the Kings of the earth (as Rev. 1.5. though formerly rejected by such many times) and that in the sight of men, angels, and all creatures, Rev. 5.9, 10, 11, 12, 13. who shall then bow the knee and acknowledge him to be the Lord, Phil. 2.9. for which at present the whole creation most heavily groaneth, Rom. 8.22, 23. When that blessed new Jerusalem state shall appear, which then will be replenished with its holy and happy new raised Inhabitants, with all that blessed communion of doubly saved Saints and holy Angels in such great and innumerable multitudes, which said Angels as in heaven before they were wont to rejoice in sinner's conversion, and even to be serviceable therein, so will they then much more rejoice in such happy communion of such multitudes of saved Saints, Jews and Gentiles then to come in, and of the perfectly holy communion of the before deceased Saints, but then invested (happily) with their new raised bodies by the same power of Christ, whereby then he will perfectly subdue all things (in their due order) unto himself (as the Apostle Paul instructs us, Phil. 3. ult.) Then shall they be Isangeloi, as our Saviour speaks, like to the Angels of God (before) in heaven, when the said Hiero-metropolis, or holy mother City, as the Prophet Esay foretold, will arise and shine because her light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon her, ch. 60. ver. 1. as in those large and various descriptons of the manifold excellency of that City, both in former and following chapters are set down, as also in many other portions of holy Scripture may be observed: Some of which are applied, Rev. 21. to that City particularly (as we noted) whereby the Spirit God teacheth us evidently their proper meaning and literal sense, ris. respecting the happy estate of that great and holy New Jerusalem, whose beauty and glory; and blessedness on earth would require a large volumn aptly to display, in what from Scripture grounds might to that purpose be evidenced, respecting the same, and yet many things more than what now we can attain to, may be groundedly expected. For that time when the Temple of God shall be opened in heaven, and men shall see in his Temple the Ark of his Testament, Rev. 11.19, and the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun, and the light of one day shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days, as is foretold thereof, Es. 30.26. many mysteries of Christ and his Religion, of his works of Creation, Redemption and Providence, and many mysteries now in the varieties of the creatures (many ways till then little understood as is probable) when the Lord shall be unto that City her everlasting light, and her God her glory, Isa. 60.19. And the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the Waters cover the Sea. Hab. 2 14. It will then be a filling of the Earth with knowledge, and that of the glory of the Lord, and in such measure as shall be to the uttermost capacity of it, as the Sea, ready to overflow where it hath any passage, and would cover every place with its waters; so in that time there will be a knowledge of all then knowable, as we may say. Besides those Excellencies set down to be before, in, and after the thousand years of Christ's said Reign (as in our first convincing Argument in the Word Written are to be seen) concerning which a Body of Divinity respecting that world might usefully be written from Scripture warrant, from all which as from an excellent School reserved for the highest form of those than so excellent God glorifying Creatures, raised Saints and Angels, with others, when all things by Christ shall then be made new, as Rev. 21 5. I doubt not but abundant matter of everlasting pra●se will strongly for that state enforce the same, yet with the greatest willingness and complacency, upon all such or the like advantager. Whereupon these afterwards everlasting Hallelujahs will most amply and perpetually be sung to the Trin-Une Deity of Father, Son, and holy Ghost, eternally most blessed holy and glorious, by men and Angels (as was said) for ever and ever. Amen.   
To Glory's God all Glory's due for aye:  
To him alone this Due let all such pay.  
AMEN.  
FINIS.