〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, OR THE SAINTS FIRST REVEALED AND COVENANTED MERCIES, Shortly Approaching. As being the Main Scope of Revelation-Prophesie; Opened and Resolved by Christ's Divine Key of Prophecy, in the four last Chapters thereof. In exceeding much Mercy lately Discovered to the Weak and Unworthy Penman of the ensuing Work, and especially by the help of the more late and very Useful Key and Covenants, An. Dom. 71. with Parallels of Dan. and Rev. more directly leading us to the last said great Discoveries, Explained in our last Books. And for the better Improvement of them all, here is prefixed a summary of the Clearest and most Abundant Scripture-evidence of that Blessed State of the World to come. In Reference to a Scheme or short Prospective View of the Whole, from God's Word.  
By W. Sherwin, Minister of the Gospel.  
LONDON, Printed in the Year 1676.   

The Introduction to our Scheme or short Prospective View of the most strong and clear evidence of the blessed state of the 1000 Years, Rev. 20. as is manifest in our late Works. Showing;  
1. THat such a state shall be in the World in the seventh Millen.  
2. What that state is declared to be from the Word of God.  
3. Showing in a fit Latitude the time when, or the near approach of that said state.  
4. How, or by what means it shall be set up.  
5. Unto these we shall add somewhat of the Usefulness of that excellent gracious Discovery thereof, chief from Parallelling Dan. and Rev. both in connexion of Matters and Times, as leading us to the fourth Gentile Monarchy, wherein God's Kingdom of the Stone, Dan. 2.44. was to be set up, An. Dom. 34. for 1666. years from Christ's Ascension to his Descending again to break all adverse Kingdoms and Dominions, until itself become a Mountain, v. 34, 41. about An. Dom. 1700. with the allowance of Bishop Ushers four years lost or more, and so probable to be sooner.  
Concerning the first, three things are here to be done, first to prove (as in the method, Iren. Chap. 1. the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, namely) to show that such a Sat or Kingdom shall be: which is abundantly proved in our said work; first from the seven Foundations in our Irenic., mentioned in the beginning thereof. ●dly, From the other seven Convincing Arguments [besides that Third] in the Word Written: all which are of very large comprehensiveness; and if duly weighed, will be found to be of very great force: And all our Parallels of Danniel and Revelation do also very greatly establish these Truths; all which we refer to the Judicious and Impartial Readers perusal: together with the Twelve Foundations of our Faith thereof, proved all along from Gen. 3.15. to the end of the Revelation: which Faith was also much form by our 31 Useful Observations to understand Mystical Prophecies? and by the short Assertions, and useful and needful Distinctions in our Key: To the due consideration of all which, we advise the serious reading of our Account of the whole Work, first more generally of the subject, p. 1, 2. and 2dly, of the Nature, Use and Order of the Parts of the said Work, in page. 2, 3, 4. with the two first leaves of the General Title Page, or of the said Twelve Foundations, and in the two first leaves of the last Book on Rev. 21.5. showing what parts serve for Explication, what for Confirmation, and what for Illustration, and Application, etc. page 1, 2, 3, 4.  
2dly, To show this said state shall be in the World, which is sufficiently done by our 15 well approved Reasons by the Learned in those Studies (to which many more may be added.) See our New Jerusalem on Jer. 3.17. page 9, 10, 11, 12.  

Of the most Certain, Infallible, and Unresistable farther Evidences.  
ANd now from God's gracious late Discovery to us that the said blessed state will be the fulfilling of his declared and Covenanted Mercies then in the said seventh Millen. unto the Fathers themselves, and to their spiritual seed through and with that their own Divine Seed Christ, Gal. 3. and 2 Sam. 7.16 to the end, as in our two last Books on Rev. 20.5. and Rev. 21.5. is largely explained, which Christ's said Revelation Key Divinely opens, and which we endeavour here to the best advantage we can in a business of this nature to communicate, so briefly, to all faithful Christians herein concerned; and for all others who may be such, by setting before all men, yet more strong, clear, and  evidences from the word of God concerning the said Mercies, as eternally decreed by God, & after carried on in the said Covenants & Prophecies of the Old Testament, & witnessed to through the New, to manifest how in the said 7th Milen. as Christ by his Revel also hath infallibly resolved us, that all shall answerably be done (as in good part was showed) in our Picture of Christ's most Divine Key, p. 63. of the Resur. which I doubt not but will farther make the evidences thereof so strong, clear, and , and (as I verily believe) of so great weight, as greater cannot be had to prove any Truth, (nor need to be expected for these) and greater than for any other Truth in the whole book of God, this containing the sum of all, namely, Christ's great work of Redemption, as the work so eternally appointed by the Father to be so carried on by him in the time of his Mediatorship in the first six Millen. (as by and by we doubt not to prove) to redeem the souls, bodies, persons, outward conditions of his Saints and servants then from the Power and Tyranny of their Enemies: & the World & Creatures in that state from the Corruption, Curse, Bondage Enmity in it since the Fall of Man, as in Restit. p 45, 46, 37, etc. Whereupon we must lay down this needful Caution by the way; viz. That we must distinguish the said General work of Redemption, from that Spiritually Powerful work of Reconciliation for his Saints at Christ's first coming, according to the warrant of the holy Scripture, 2 Cor. 5.19. God was in Christ reconciling us unto himself, and now by his word of Reconciliation. Rom. 5.10. When Enemies, we were reconciled to Grd by the death of his Son: and Eph. 2.16. That he might reconcile both Jew and Gentile in one body by the Cross, etc. Christ by his death so making an Atonement in his blood by his own oblation of himself once for all his people, and thereby laid the sure foundation at his first coming, for his powerful and glorious carrying on of all the parts and degrees of the other (as being made the Father's Commissioner) during his Kingdom of the Stone (whilst he sits upon his Father's Throne) at that glorious delivery of the Book with 7 Seals Rev. 5. to him the Lamb, with seven Horns, and seven Eyes, to open, and execute the Contents thereof, unto chap 19 until his second coming at the end of the said 1666. years when he will sit upon his own Throne, Rev. 3.21. for we cannot ascribe enough to that soul astonishing wonder, of Gods so free and gracious giving his only Son so to die for such sinners to reconcile them to himself, yea God was in Christ so reconciling them (as saith the Apostle) to himself; nor of Christ's Love and Compassion, so to reconcile them to God the Father by his own bloodshedding, all which were also carried on by the powerful and glorious operation of the Lord the Spirit both for Christ, at first overshaddowing the blessed Virgin at his holy Conception, and having by the eternal spirit offered himself to God without spot, Heb. 9.24. & at last by his Resurrection, declaring him with power by the Spirit of Sanctification to be the Son of G●d, Rom. 1.4. and by his working in his Saints at all times: which said work of Reconciliation was to be the sure and necessary foundation of all the following parts of the said General Work of Redemption from Man's Fall to the end, taken in the greatest extent, as it was Gods said eternal Design by Christ so to carry on the said Work in the said time, which we shall here endeavour to set before the eyes and understandings of all such serious Christians for their exceeding great Consolation and satisfaction (if duly pondered and improved) which will farther appear (as we said) by the said eternal Decrees, Covenants and Prophecies in the Old Testament, and the Witnessings of Christ and his Apostles in the New; but all most strongly determined by Christ's own most Divine Revelation But because the first 6000 years appear to be also appointed by him for the carrying on of his Design for that state in the seventh Millennium, and therefore to run parallel with the said decreed great work of the Redemption of the World, viz. both of Men and Creatures, (as we said) we shall upon this third Particular, respecting Christ's carrying it on in the fix first Millenniums to the seventh, consider, what proof and evidence we find from the word of God for the same, which may double the strength of the said farther remaining Proofs which we are to proceed to speak of; therefore we shall first manifest the reality thereof from Scripture warrant, before we proceed to the other proofs thereof, (which will include much also of the condition of that said state from first to last) first the Holy Ghost excellently expoundeth them by his resembling of them to the six days of Creation, before God rested the seventh day, and to the Type of the Israelites rest in Canaan under Joshua's conduct, signifying thereby, that after 6000 years should be Christ's Sabbatisme of rest from such his great work of Redemption: as the spirit of God explains both, Heb. 3, and 4 ch. which our Saviour likewise confirmeth by his most sure Revelation interpretation thereof, and none like it.  
And 2dly, this is also done by God's Spirit comparing 1000 years to one day; as first from Psal. 90. where 1000 years with God are said to be as yesterday, which the Apostle Peter, 2 Epist. 3.8. sets forth with great Emphasis, and declares it to be a great point, which he would not have Christians ignorant of, that one day with the Lord, [Christ] (whose coming he there speaks of) is as 1000 years; and he puts it both ways, saying, and 1000 years as one day; viz. in reference to his said coming, to be at the end of the sixth Millennium; and our Saviour also most exactly determineth that Sabbatisme of the seventh Millennium accordingly, by 1000 years six times over, Rev. 20.2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. of which more afterwards, etc.  
3. Christ's carrying on that said work of Redemption for his Universal True Church, as that work which his Father gave him to do, in that respect, in his execution of his three great Offices in the time of his Mediatorship in the World, which was first in his eminent Prophetical Office in ●000 years to his first coming; and secondly in his eminent Priestly Office in the New Testament, in the next 2000 years, before the period of his eminent Kingly Office for his said Universal true Church will begin, in that following state in that world to come: (as is largely proved in our Treatise on Gen. 3.15)  
4. This also may appear from that frequent Promise of Gods showing mercy to 1000 Generations, that is, for the 7000 years of the world's continuance: (as we reckon in the middle state of things, three lives to be 21 years, as in page 6, and 7 of our Key is explained.)  
5. From Scripture Chronologie, first of Moses his 2400 years and more, revealed to him for time past, with what was in Joshua, Judges, Kings and Chronicles, which Bishop Usher, that very good man, and great Antiquary, computes at Solomon's Temple built 3000 years, and at the Jews Captivity at Babylon about An. Mund 3450 years, as daniel's Divine great Calendar, ch. 8. of 2300 years of their Bondage, under the four Gentile Monarchies declares, (as we shall farther by Divine Assistance manifest.) Which, with Christ's 1000 years, Rev. 20. make up 6750 years, besides the little space of Satan's losing, (not said what it will be.) To like purpose is the concinnity of Bucolcerus in our Table of Chronology in the beginning of our Irenicon, of his 50 Jubelies to Israel's coming out of Egypt, and to Babylon's Captivity 70 Jubelies, which is 3550 years, unto which, part of daniel's 2300 years till Christ, is to be added; and from thence he speaketh as aptly, saying, The seven Seals, and the seven Trumpets out of the seventh Seal, and the seventh Vial falling under the seventh Trumpet, brings us to the seventh Millinery, or great Sabbatisme of the Saints rest with Christ, (as it is called, Heb. 4.9)  
And as God eternally appointed Christ (as after may be showed) in that state to be Heir of all thing, Heb. 1.1, 2, 3. upon his carrying on his three great Works in the world in the 6000 years foregoing (for they also pass through the 6000 to the 7th, wherein he with his Saints shall enjoy the same, as we shall show) the first is his making the Worlds, that is, the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or his Providencial Management of the several states of things, 1. in the Old World, 2. in this present evil World, and 3dly in the world to come, Eph. 1.20. & Heb. 2.5. the word is, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, an habitable world to come. [For as for Christ's creating Heaven and Earth at first out of nothing, spoken of v. 10, 11, 12. that was his Transient act, but this his making the worlds as he carries on his said work of Redemption, through all the said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, against the God of this present evil world, and the Children of it both said, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, of this world, (as the Scripture deciphers them many times as 2 Cor. 4.4. and Luke 16.8.) such his making of them is his immanent, and so long continued act, so providentially disposing what is past, and will do so for what remains to be done, with the Father and by the operation of the Holy Spirit: and so 2dly, for his upholding of all things by the word of his power, etc. verse 3. through all those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or several states of thing; and 3dly by purging the sins of his Elect, 1. by his word and will revealed, 2 by his blood shed or to be shed, and 3dly, by his Spirit given, through all the said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Worlds, until from his Personal second coming to the Judgement of the great day he perfects the said work of Redemption, and by his carrying on of these 3 things in the first 6000 years, and that so his three fold most Just Title and Right may then manifestly arise, of his inheriting all things, vers. 2, 3. which (s●ith he) his Saints shall also then inherit with him, Rev. 21.7.  
But here some may object, that the sixth Millen. will so want above 200 years, etc.  
Answ. 1. Christ tells us of shortening evil times for the Elects sake: he may mean it of these, etc.  
2. The sixth Millen. in that respect seems more like the sixth day in the Creation; at the end of which (most probably) the Serpent Satan tempted Eve, she seduced Adam, and God in the cool of the day Summons, Arrains, and Sentenceth all the three said Offenders, and cast Adam and Eve out of Paradise: (all which would require some considerable time) and we know not but that he hath designed the little space of Satan's losing to make it up, being a bad state of things with them who shall act in that wicked attempt, which yet will not reach the Saints, but only make Christ a little work to perfect his said Redemption then, by destroying the Devil and wicked men at once, when he lastly delivers his Saints in the world, as in our six Conclusions is showed, page 17, 18. of Restitut. [also a German Doctor gives an account of much more than 200 years lost in several Computations which he mentions, and so the 6000 years should be much past; (but we insist not upon that) only acknowledging God is Sovereign Lord of all times and actings in them; and for such particularities we may not be curious, where he hath not revealed, but we see the Parallel of the sixth day, and sixth thousand year from Gods one is considerable, and (as was showed) we have Gods Spirits Guidance thereto, and Christ's Explication thereof before the little space we mentioned: and by all which it may appear there is Scripture ground for God's Millenniari me for the first 6000 years, as well as for Christ's on the seventh, etc. besides, God appointed Christ to be then Heir of all things; so the order, & manner, & means, with the times for the same: and those times arev ery punctually & exactly set forth by Christ himself. We shall now proceed to the further most  evidence of the said near approaching time and state.  
1. From God's eternal Decree manifested by his word in four particulars, all to take place in the same time and state; all which are also Divinely, Gloriously and Graciously resolved ultimately (that none may dare to contradict under a terrible Penalty, Rev. 22.18, 19) by Christ in his Book of Revelation, to belong to the same. The first is, his eternal Decree of appointing Christ then to be Heir of all things, Heb. 1.1, 2, 3. from his 3 fold said right which we but now mentioned, when the world to come, or last state of things in it shall take place; of which, more (if God will) in the instance of the Epistle to the Hebrews, when the Revelation also declares Christ shall have the Sovereignty and Dominion of the world given to him, as Dan. 7.13, 14. & Rev. 20. and all things shall be made new for him and his Saints, ch. 21.5. to become a fit Inheritance for him and them, as he promiseth, (as was said) Rev. 21.7. for which purpose, when St. James speaks of raising up David's Tabernacle, the Spirit of God directs him to set down that great Truth foreknown to God are all his works from the Foundation of the world] as if he would thereby show that the said raising of the Tabernacle of David was a matter [foreknown to God from Eteraity Acts 15.17. when Christ will arise and judge the Earth, that he may, (as the Psalmist speaketh) inherit all Nations, Psal. 82. ult.  
2. God's Word witnesseth that God made an eternal Covenant with Christ to give to him all his Elect in the said times to be redeemed by him, until he receive his Inheritance, and when the Heathen shall be given him for his Inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for his possession, Psal. 2. And so he declares Esa. 62.6. that he will give them for a Covenant of the people; which the Sep. very appositely and fitly renders [〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉] of my Generation; not of Bloods, or the will of the flesh, or the will of Man; but born of God, as John 1.13. and born of the Spirit, John 3.5, 6. and of this Covenant the Holy Ghost gives an excellent explication, Isa. 59 ult. As for me, this my Covenant with them (saith the Lord) my spirit which is upon thee, [Christ] and my words which I have put in thy mouth, (which includes all his Ordinances grounded upon his Word) nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed: and again he adds, [saith the Lord] (for this Scripture is full of Emphasis) from henceforth even for ever: I do here only briefly touch upon these great things, referring what remains to future Discourses (if God will) and all those so Heavenborn Creatures, given by Covenant to Christ from Eternity, the Apostle, Rom. 8.17. declares, (where also he speaks of other matters respecting that state of the 1000 years, verse 19, 20, 21, etc.) that they shall be Heirs, and joint Heirs with Christ; and they are also so explained to be the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven, called there, The Bride, the Lamb's Wife, Rev. 21.2, 9 which will be the Spirits of just men made perfect, which before that time were in the Jerusalem above, Gal. 4. but then coming with Christ at his appearance and Kingdom, are called the Bride the Lamb's Wife, at the Saints first bodily Resurrection, Rev. 20.4, 5. when as our Saviour prayed, John 17.23. they will be then made perfect in one, and behold his glory, etc. verse 24.  
3. God's word witnesseth that God by his said Eternal Decree, appointed the Creation of the World for Christ and his said Saints, to be possessed by them in the said seventh Millennium; for although he made Angels and Men at first in the perfection of their Natures, yet he was not then pleased to engage his Almighty Arm to uphold them in that state: wherefore, foreseeing they would fall, he carries on thereupon his everlastitg design through Christ for his Saints to his own greatest Glory, etc. by whom both the Elect Angels were confirmed in grace and glory; and the sins of the Saints should through all times be purged away by himself; for the good of whom he hath ever since made his Elect Angels Ministering Spirits, having from Eternity given them by his said Covenant unto Christ: Therefore the Spirit of God evidently so explains Psalm 8.4. in that excellent Epistle to the Hebrews, chap. 2, 6, 7, 8. speaking by allusion there to the first Adam: but in both texts Christ is said to be the Son of Man, which the first Adam was not but only by Creation the Son of God, Luke 3. the last. And this Son of Man [Christ] is he that was for a little season in the world made lower than the Angels, but after Crowned with Glory and Honour; who for the suffering of death, (as the Apostle speaks, Heb. 1.3.) sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; and hath all things (as he goes on, v. 8.) put in subjection under his feet; viz. Decretively and Declaratively, not actually (as all shall then be) & so the holy Apostle speaks there [we do not yet see all things put under him, v. 8.] and now in some sort or sense the world is the Saints, as 1 Cor. 3.22. but than it shall be [not only as Christ now providentially order all for their good therein] but than it shall also be theirs in possession too, at the said times of the Restitution of all things (as our Saviour resolves in that world to come, Rev. 21.5.7.) Consider well as to this Head, our Divine Theses, in pag. 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. of our first Irenic. and Abridg. p. 7, 8, etc. all (though short) yet of great weight.  
4. God's word witnesseth that by an Eeternal Decree he hath appointed to set his King Christ upon his holy Hill of Zion, Psal 2. according to his last Covenant with David for his sure Mercies respecting Christ's Universal and perpetual Kingdom that he promised to him for ever, 2 Sam 7.16. to the end; & that after all the vain attempts in the world to the contrary, v. 1, 2, 3, which have ever been in acting since the Fall, that Enmity was put by God's Justice between the seed of the Woman, and the seed of the Serpent, Gen. 3.15. and will be to that very time when he shall come with his Saints to take possession of it, which I doubt not but this Generation will shortly see; and what a time of trouble will then be, till Christ's said coming ends it, Dan 12.1. Rev. 16.18. experience will soon manifest; but notwithstanding all that hath been, is now in acting, or shall be, until then: yet saith God, I have set my King [Christ, the great King of the New Jerusalem, as he styles himself, Mat 5.35.] upon my holy Hill of Zion; when also upon his ask (as he did John 17.20.) he will give him the Heathen for his Inheritance, and the uttermost part of the Earth for his Possession; and when he will make him his Firstborn (and so Heir to the Kingdom) higher than the Kings of the Earth, Psal. 89.27. and Prince of the Kings of the Earth, Rev. 1.5. and therefore when he destroys the Beast and false Prophet at the Armageddon Battle, his Name shall be written upon his Vesture, and upon his Thigh; whose Name also is called the Word of God, v. 13. yea, he had a name written that no man knows but he himself, v. 12. but yet, v. 16. his Name is so written King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, Rev. 19.11, etc. whereupon he with his raised Saints shall Reign upon Earth 1000 years, Rev. 20.4, 6. which will be Gods said setting of his King Christ upon his holy Hill of Zion, and his possessing of his said Davidical Kingdom for ever, 2 Sam. 7. which from our 12 Foundations of our Faith hereof is abundantly evident with others.  
Hence also it is very observable, Acts 15.16, 17. that the Holy Spirit upon the Apostle James his speaking of the raising David's Tabernacle, which the Prophet Am. shows, ch. 9.11. the last shall be so that the people shall never more thenceforward be pulled up out of their own Land (as also is said 2 Sam. 7) and to be when the fullness of the Gentiles shall come in, as Rom. 11. which he styles all the Heathen that are called by my name, to which text of Amos S. James having spoken of the Gentiles first call, which was in part (as he said by his mouth, v. 7. he than adds, after that I will return, [which words are not in Amos 9 but God's Spirit taught him so to explain them] and build up his Tabernacle also; and as declaring it not to belong to that first call of the Gentiles, but as Amos saith when all the Heathen shall be called by his name; and thereupon adds that great general Divine Truth, here to be especially applied to the raising of David's Tabernacle, v. 18. known unto God, saith he, are all his works from the beginning of the world, as if he would thereby teach God's people that it was Gods eternal design then to raise David's said Tabernacle in Christ according to his Covenant with David, viz. for his House, his Throne, and Kingdom for ever, as 2 Sam. 7. and that all the works of God in the world since tend to fulfil that which is his great design in that time in the world; namely, for Christ to reign in the renewed state thereof with his Saints in it, where they had all been before so Conteamed, Persecuted, and Oppressed by the black Prince of this present evil world, and by ungodly men also called the children thereof; namely of this present evil world. And thus we may see in all these particulars, Gods eternal decrees are confirmed and explained by Christ as, they shall take place in that state in those times accordingly, of which much more will be manifest from the Divine exactness, the comprehensive usefulness, and the certain determination of Christ in his said Key, which is chief the spirit of Prophecy, and the Testimony of Jesus, as he had before spoken by his spirit in his Prophets, Rev. 19.10.  
The next evidence of the said sat in the said times, is from the most ancient Declarations, Promises, and Covenants in his word unto the Fathers, as the next revealed grounds of the same. The first was Gods own Declaration upon Man's Fall, That the seed of the Woman should break the Serpent's head; and because he was to be only the seed of the Woman, and not of the man, therefore was necessarily to be the Son of God, as he was manifest to be in the in 4000 years after, & by the breaking of the Serpent's head by degrees, in respect both of his head of Policy and Power, at last he should so make way for his own sovereignty, and the Dominion over the Creatures, at last to be restored to him, as largely is to be seen in our Treatise on Gen. 3.15. so that in that first Declaration we may observe, first, how all evil shall by him be taken out of the world, viz. by Christ's destroying the works of the Devil, as St John speaks, and that both in his Designs and actings by all his wicked Instruments in the old world, and ever since in the new world, especially in his designs of his three Babel's, as in ch. 5. of our Iren. all to come to utter confusioon at his 2d coming, (having laid the firm foundation thereof by his death at his first coming) by bringing in again at last oneness of Language, peaceable and good Gvernment, and vindicated his Gospel Truth from Mystical Babylon's pollutions: but more especially he will break his head of power by his great day of Judgement eminently at the first act thereof, Rev. 19.20. and totally, and finally at the last, v. 11.  
And 2dly, this in the next place God more generally made known to Enoch, as St. Judas records it, v. 13, 14. who was a Type of Christ's Ascension, having this Testimony, that he pleased God, as the Apostle witnesseth (as God was well pleased with Christ who having done all his wills, ascended into Heaven, and at his descending again gins the first act of his Judgement of his said great day, when the body of the Beast shall be given to the burning flame, Dan. 7. and the last act will totally and finally break h●s said head of power, which our Saviour teacheth shall be after the 1000 years of his Reign with his Sts. Rev. 20. when Satan shall be cast into the fiery lake, wherein the Beast had been 1000 years before.  
The 3d to whom God revealed those Mercies so long before was Noah, and that three ways; First, as saving his Family by an Ark, from that destruction with wicked men by the flood, as a Type of Christ's saving his Saints from the fires of God's wrath at both those acts of Judgement against men and Devils. And then 2dly, on the other hand for carrying on of Good for the Saints then, God in the second place made a Covenant with Noah for the Worlds and Creatures preserration, until those last times, and set the Rainbow in the clouds as a token thereof, and also for the fruitfulness thereof, for all their Accommodations till then; and that the greatest fruitfulness should be in that last state, as the Prophets afterwards both confirm and explain, as Joel 3. Ezek. 34. Amos 9.13.  
And in the 3d place, God gives a Prophecy to Noah, that his two Sons posterity, viz. the Jews descending from Shem, who obtained the first interest in God's favour then; and the Gentiles in their time descending from Japhet, should be persuaded by God to dwell in the Tents of Shem. viz. to be of the true Church, when the Jews were cast off, Acts 13 being the two stems, out of whose roots the Elect should (mostly) arise, until Christ's second coming (though (haply) many Proselytes might spring out of Cham's race since, as before the flood out of cain's) the former Call of the Gentiles, Hos. 10. is explained Rom. 9 and the joint Call of both to come, is explained, Rom. 15. when the Gentiles, with all Gods ancient people, shall rejoice together, as Deut. 32.43. but after that time all Nations and People shall see the salvation of the great God of Israel, when the Heathen (as was said) shall be given to Christ for his Inheritance, etc. and as Dan. 7.27. all the Kingdom and Dominion, and Greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven (N. B.) shall be given to the Saints of the most high with Christ, and all Dominion shall serve and obey him. And thus briefly of the said Predictions to the said three Fathers, Adam, Enoch and Noah, all extending to the said time and state, (as our Saviour hath likewise by his Revelation resolved us, etc.)  
Come we now to the Covenanted Mercies made by God to the following Fathers, and their spiritnal seed, for the Typical Canaan, and Mount Zion therein, etc. to enjoy the benefits thereof through their Divine seed Christ; [for there are many disterences betwixt them, and their natural races interest, which was but conditional, and so broken by them, as we set down in many distinctions, pag. 10, 11, 12. of Resurect.] but their spiritual Race with themselves will enjoy their sure interest in the renewed state thereof at the first Resurrection, (as in our Key of the Covenants with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David, of which many great things are there observable, pag. 6, 7, 8, etc. and all suiting to Christ's Revelation in the New Jerusalem state, and Kingdom of Christ, ch. 20, & 21, & 22. all holding forth the truth and faithfulness of God, as we more largely showed both in the Systeme of promised Mercies and Covenauts, and the Treatise following of Resur.  
First, Abraham the Father of the Faithful had a seven fold gradation of the said Promises and Covenants for the Land of Canaan, and the chief City in it for his natural seed in the Type, but as for his own interest, he looked for a City that was then a sar of, at the first Resur. (with his spiritual seed) that hath foundations, whose Maker and Builder is God, which God (saith the Apostle) had prepared for the Fathers, who Without us also shall not there be made perfect, Heb. 11.10, 16, 40. or perfect in one, John 17. in the New Jerusalem as the Lamb's Wife, Rev. 21.2, 9 for as Abraham saw Christ's day, first and last by Faith; so it is not to be doubted, but he saw that City of an Heavenly excellency, (though it will be in the world then, as our fifteen Reasons approved by the learned and judicious sufficiently manifest) and so the Covenanted Confirmations to the like purpose made unto Isaac and Jacob: as may particularly be seen in our said Key respecting all their three Covenants; for here we only briefly touch upon them, as affording us their strong evidence to these said Divine Truths.  
The last is God's Covenant with David as to his sure Mercies respecting his Kingdom, gloriously to be set up in Christ, when he shall return (as Luke 19) from his Father's right hand, ceasing then as Mediator, to sit upon his Father's Throne, Rev. 3.21. and coming to sit with his said Saints upon his own Throne then; for all these said Fathers natural Offspring were cast out of the Typical Canaan with a sore destruction for their great sins, Mic. 2.10. and David's natural Race ceased to succeed him over Israel and Judah, for the height of their wickedness, to the falling of his Tabernacle; for their long bondage of 2300 years, during the four Gentile Monarchies succeeding thereupon, (as God revealed to the greatly beloved Prophet Daniel) and after his Visions is also contained in St. John's the beloved Disciples book of Revelation, whenas the Prophet Amos speaks, ch. 9 and is explained by the Apostle James, Acts 15. that Davids Tabernacle at the end of the last Monarchy (now near approaching) shall (as was said) in Christ that Son of David be set up again, when the spiritual and Divine part of the last Covenant with David shall most surely be fulfilled, to the exceeding great glory amongst all his said Saints, of his Wisdom, Power, Justice and Truth against the Serpent and his seed; and of his Wisdom, Mercy, Goodness, Faithfulness and Truth to themselves, as in our Treatise of Resurrection is set forth. The like Testimony now of the almost experienced time God gave by his other Divine Contemporary Mystical Prophet Ezeekiel. ch. 21.26, 27. saying both of the fall of David's Tabernacle in the last of his Natural Race, I will overturn, overturn, overturn; & of the raising it up again as follows, etc. The fall is first redoubled there not only for certainty of its falling; as the four Monarchies were twice revealed, first to a Gentile, secondly to a Jew, etc. but it seems to be a farther confirmation of daniel's large measure of the suffering times of the Jews and Gentiles under the same four Monarchies, which by God's Spirit seems expressly to be declared in the next words, which declare the raising it up again; viz. [until he come, whose right it is, and I will give it him] which was meant evidently of his second coming; for he came the first time to suffer, not to reign: neither doth God give it to him, until his second coming, at the destruction of the Beast, Dan. 7.9, 13, 14. when the Tabernacle of David is to be raised up again in him. But this three fold overturning was to be fulfilled in that long interim of their bondage 2300 years, (as since hath been found by experience near to the end thereof.) The first overturn was by the Chaldeans, when the Jews were led Captive to Babylon; [But under the Medo-persians, God wonderfully reduced many of them by working the Spirit of Cyrus to it, to fulfil jacob's Prophesy of the coming of Shilo, and daniel's 70 weeks, to Christ's finishing transgression by his death, and bringing in everlasting righteousness by his Resurrection and Ascension, when God set up his Kingdom of the Stone (as was noted) yet secondly, under the Greek Monarchy their Land was saddly harrased and spoiled a long time, betwixt the two Wings or Branches thereof, Egypt and Syria lying on both sides of it, until the end of Antiochus Epiphanes his outrage, when the Roman (by Scripture account) began, under which their Land hath been again greatly overturned, and turned into a Province until those Ruiners of that Monarchy, viz. the Mahumitans, Saricens and Turks both harrased it and took it, and by degrees all the Eastern Empire also; so that the Jews have changed only their Oppressors, but not their Bondage, and still in the Land of Magog, or Roman Monarchy, wherein they are to continue in that part until that Monarchy, and their present Oppressor [the Turk] both perish (probably) together at Christ's said appearance and Kingdom: and thus through all that said time; that three fold overturning will be very probably fulfilled: and the Spirit of Christ hath in many things to come also witnessed by Ezekiel as well as Daniel (though the Series and order of them is chief from Daniel) But Ezekiel chap. 36. speaks of their Divine Grace as the foundation of all future Mercy: so Daniel 12.1, 2, 3. & ch. 37. of their Deliverance and Union: so Dan. 12.1. & chap. 38.39. he had the Vision of Gog and Magogs' destruction: so Dan. 7. & chap. 40. to the end of the Book: the Vision of the New Jerusalem, and the Temple upon the Enemies said ruin: so Daniel at that end of their days shall stand up in his Lot in that state.  
3. It is manifest from Gods many explications of the said Predictions and promised Covenants and Mercies to the Fathers, as they are afterwards confirmed and explained in the following Prophets; all which are ultimately determined by the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the said state and time, as respecting all such said Saints that shall then be raised by him to reign with him in his said Mediatory or Davidical Kingdom in the 1000 years, and be in the New Jerusalem happy state then in the world, at the times of the Restit. of all things: wherefore Christ's said Revelation aught exceedingly to be regarded and believed, besides other Reasons for the light it gives to all such Prophetical Scriptures, & for the manifold comprehensive usefulness of it, etc. And here we might proceed farther to show how these Covenants were confirmed by the following Prophets which largely might be done, had it not been set forth from Acts 3. as he spoke by the mouth of all his holy Prophets, in our Iren. ch. 5, 6, 7, 8. and in our 12 said Foundations, with many other parts of our said work, which is now by Divine disposal become a useful Comment upon our two last Treatises on Rev. 20.5. and Rev. 21.5. pag. 1, 2, 3, 4. of Restitut. Since Christ's Spirit hath vouchsafed these great Discoveries to so weak & unworthy an Instrument of late, by the help of all our former Pieces, especially of our more late useful Key, and also our three first Convincing Arguments in the Word Written, abundantly prove the same, we need add no more, etc. and our Saviour, Rev. 21. applied divers Texts in Esa. 60, etc. to the time and state of the New Jerusalem, as a pattern of many more, etc.  
4. The fourth Scripture evidence is of the many passages in the Gospels, and Acts, and Epistles of the Apostles, which receive no full and sure explication, but by the help of Christ's said Revelation, which teacheth us also, that they have relation to all the former heads. 1. of God's eternal Decree in all the said Particulars. 2. To his declared or promised Mercies and Covenants afore named; or to the Prophet's Confirmations, Explications or Illustrations of the same, which all explaining their sense in the New Testaments; and also is very evidently the most excellent Divine Key of all such Prophecies referring to that said time and state, and even the Prophecy of Jacob, and the like, and the partial deliverance of the two Tribes wonderfully by Gods working Divinely upon the spirit of Cyrus to that end, and daniel's 70 Weeks of Years, all specially and immediately respecting the Messiah or Shiloes first coming. Yet since God's Kingdom of the Stone began, at or about his Ascension for 1666. years from that his spiritual powerful Victory over the Powers of Darkness then, Col. 15. until his said glorious, visible & powerful victory be obtained over all his great Enemies, making them then (at the end thereof) his footstool: so we may thence also see the drift of that great Foundation then laid for the Saints said Reconciliation to God, was to advance the glorious and blessed ends of Christ's second coming, when they shall reign with him, which we have already given instances of, from Luke 20.35, 36. explained in Resur. by Rev. 20.5. and of Acts 3.19, 20, 21. explained by Rev. 21.5. in the beginning of both our last books and shall by God's gracious assistance do in some other of the Epistles, but especially as a pattern of all the rest in the Epistle to the Hebrews, to manifest that Revelation Interpretation of all such said Parts of Scripture is the best and most sure Interpretation of them.  
5. It is manifest from the many Parallels in the Books of Daniel and the Revelation, and of the admirable connexion of both: First of the matters and things; and secondly of their times or the Series and order of them both. First from their many Parallels: as 1. The manner of writing them both, Rev. 1.19. first of the things which both of them had seen. 2. of the things then in their own time, as we observed in our Summary of Daniel, pag. 3, 4, 5, etc. And 3dly, of the things that shall be afterwards, etc. where many things are set down suiting to one another: and though Daniel set forth more generally and briefly all the four Monarchies, chap. 2. and chap. 7. yet at the end of them in both chapters, he shows the state of things to be in the 1000 years: at the end of chap. 2. he sets down the beginning of the Kingdom of the Stone at v. 44, etc. about Christ's Ascension, to continue for 1666 years, which should break the Iron Roman Monarchy in that time, and itself become a Mountain filling the whole Earth, v. 35. when the time of the ten Kings, ch. 7. and the little Horn's time, time, and half a time; viz. of the Beast or Antichrist, [haply the Turk also, for there are many Resemblances of both, etc.] shall be extinct, and therefore in that ioyenth chapter he speaks of the first act of the Judgement of the great day to give the body of the Beast to the burning flame: when he had also the Vision of Christ's coming in the Clouds to receive his universal and perpetual Kingdom in the world, next after the Beasts Date of a time, times, and half a time are out; explained by 42 months, and 1260 days in Rev. 11. & briefly in passing over the Persian, v. 1, 2. and running through much of the Grecian Monarchy in ch. 11. to v. 36, he comes to the Roman at its height in Christ's time, and after in the primative Persecutions, v. 36. and to the Popes, v. 37, 38, 39 and so by the Saracens in that time of the end, v. 40. and the Turks, v. 40. that King of the North, of whom as the second Woe-trumpet he proceeds to speak v. 41, 42, 43, 44. to his end 45. about Christ's appearance; and so ch. 12. setting forth the time of Christ's appearance and Kingdom, he gives farther explications of the times of the Beast v. 5, 6, 7. and those before it, verse 4. and in reference to Christ's said coming, ch. 10. he had a Vision aforehand of his glorious person, and so had St. John, ch. 1. and as the man in white Linen, ch. 12. as the great Highpriest declares the time, viz. of that last Gentile Monarchy should be no longer than Christ's appearance: so Christ the same person swears the like, Rev. 10 at the sounding of the seventh Trumpet, which is the very same time: see more in our Parallels of the Roman and Christ's Monarchy from both Books. And he that is able to make these and the like Parallels understandingly by Gods Mercy may soon prove very judicious in matters respecting the said happy state of the 1000 years, so excellently set down by Christ farther to explain these last things in the 4 last ch. of the Revel.  
And 2dly, there is a wonderful connexion of the Mysterious times of Daniel, with those of the Revelation succeeding them, first the great Calendar of 2300 years in ch. 8. of Daniel, misteriously given by Palmoni, or the secret Numberer, as it is opened v. 17. by him, at the time of the end the Vision shall be, and v. 19 in the last end of the indignation, viz. against the Jews; and v. 26. as a Key of both, to be shut up for many days, with many other Reasons in our Summary on that text, which manifest it to be the measure of the times of the Gentiles Dominion, and Israelites and Jews joint Bondage, which contains daniel's three Monarchies past, and the Romans to Christ, and thence by vulgar account 1700 years to Rev. 19 ch. as in Restitut. p. 26, 27, 28. until the ruin of the Beast, and until Christ's said Kingdom of the Mountain gins; likewise, in daniel's second Number of the 70 weeks, from the execution of the Command, in the 20th year of Artaxerxes Longimanns, about Anno Mundi 3550. to build the City Jerusalem, to Christ's putting an end to sin by his death, and bringing in everlasting Righteousness by his Resurrection and Ascension, in the middle of daniel's last week, making up 490 years, when the God of Heaven set up the Kingdom of the Stone for its 1666 years, and is also the period of Antichrists Date, Rev. 13. ult. to be found out by the Spirits Divine Wisdom in Daniel and St. Paul, who saith the appearance of Christ's coming will destroy him, 1 Thes. 2.8. and this Number of Daniel proceeds i● connexion with the Revelation, from Anno Dom. by vulgar account, about 34. by adding the said Divine Number (as I esteem it) both ways, 1666. for the end of the Kingdom of the Stone, than beginning that of the Mountain, as v. 35. and also the end of the Beasts Date, and so stands in connexion with Daniel in respect both of the former and latter times of Daniel and Revelation, so suiting admirably each to other, etc.  
3. For daniel's third Mystical Number's connexion by a mark [of taking away of Sacrifice, and setting up the abomination of desolation, chap. 12.] to be found many hundred years after; and yet when it comes after Adrian's the Emperor's driving the Jews from sacrificing about 130 years after Christ, and Constantine's about 312. that it so wonderfully should be ordered about 365 in Julian the Apostates time, that by such an eminent hand of God, as we shown. pag. 6. of Abridgm. of Dan. & of Parral. p. 34. it should then be taken away ultimately (as public at least) to which 365. by adding the before revealed to Daniel 1335. (thence to the blessed times) the said Revelation number of 1700 years, to ch. 20. is so by that wonderful connexion made up by both these beloved Servants of God and Christ's so strange agreement in witnessing jointly to both Divine books from the same Holy Spirit, which is one admirable evidence of the said Truth witnessed by both.  
And as to the excellent Divine Contrivance of the Book of Revelation in two Schemes, to ch. 19 as an explication of daniel's short Hints for the Times; during 1666 years, under the Kingdom of the Stone, Dan. 2.24. from Christ's Ascension to his descending again, as pag. 26, 27. of Restitut. with other things observable in the order of it: all these may be observed in our Scheme of Revelation, and Summary of Daniel in one sheet, of excellent use, (if well perused, and frequently.) But for the matter of the four last chapters briefly handled, Dan. 2. and Dan. 7. after the fourth Monarchy our Saviour explains Divinely many things as referring to the other Prophets, from first to last, chief respecting the said ancient Predictions & Covenants with wonderful exactness, which the latter Prophets, and New Testament confirm, as they are so explained by Christ's said Revelation.  
Yet many allusions to other Prophets are made in that whole book to the Old Testament Dispensations, both of the Camp of Israel in their Wilderness condion, and when the Temple was built, and to Rulers the 24 Elders; and to Church Guides, the four Beasts full of Eyes, Rev. 4. & to Ezekiel's Vision, ch. 1. & 10. and Es. 6. to Zacharies two Olive Trees, ch. 4. the Witnesses, Rev. 11. etc. wherein we may note the passing of the handle of Christ's Key (as we may fitly call it) by Promises and Encouragements (as in our seventh Convincing Argument) to their times of fulfilling in the 1000 years: as the Souls beheaded, and their fellow Servants and Brethren, Rev. 6.9, 10, etc. are raised to Reign, ch. 20.4, 6. which is a very weighty and useful consideration therein. We only by the Abridgements [mentioned in our Account, p. 3.] passed per Saltum (as we said pag. 3. of Resur.) unto the twentieth ch. referring Christians for the former part to ch. 19 (now almost fulfilled) to Mr. Medes Commentary, and Clavis chief: but the Observation of Decem. 7. 1664. in the Prodr. on Mr. durham's book do explain many things from ch. 5. to the end: but note here, that as daniel's twelfth ch. is a Key to that Book, so Rev. 17. to the times of the Beasts 1660 years, as in our useful Observations, where that and many other excellent matters respecting both books are set down, Observ. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. next after the Tract upon Rev. 22.20. Thus we see the Holy Spirit so many ways joins Daniel and the Revolation both in times and things (as was showed) in both Books through the 2300 years of the four said Gentile Monarchies from the falling of David's said Tabernacle, which points Unto us this consolation that God will be mindful of that covenant when the time comes: as also of all the former whose Period is the same and their mercy in substance will be the same: and it is no wonder it should be so long before that people's reducement, since their Sin was so great at first, but especially at their last and longest and sorest Captivity when they had killed the Lord of life with so great a curse upon themselves and their Children.  
Upon all which said confirmations and evidences Gods Design in Christ's redemption was at his first coming to be manifest to be the son of God in the flesh, and to have a body given him Heb 10.5. as in both respects foretold by the Prophets, when as God-man he by dying laid the foundation of all future good, Reconciling both Jews and Gentles by his death: Rom. 5.10. and meriting the salvation of all his Saints souls, about An. Mun. 4000 but towards the end of the Sixth millennium at his 2d coming he shall powerfully destroy his great Visible enemies and bind Satan the 1000 years and raise the Saints bodies from the grave freeing the persons and outward conditions of his people, and the the world and Creatures in it from the bondage of Corruptions as largely is explained Restit. p. 44. 45. 46. etc. and in the 4. last ch. we shall here only farther observe Christ's curious exactness that speaking of the beasts destruction at the time of his eminent breaking of the Serpent's head at the first act of the Judgement, he only saith these are the true say of God c. 19.9. but when he speaks of the promised mercies to the Fathers (twice) to be then fulfilled, he saith, ch. 21.5. and chap 22.6. these words are both faithful and true.  
And also for the times in respect of the when he sets the mark 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, it is done, at the renovation of all things, ch. 21.6. which before he had set, Chap. 16, 17. by a like great Voice from the Throne to show their coincidence at the same time, saying, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, it is done, as from Ezek. 39.8. is remarkably explained. [N. B.] page 61, 62. of Restitut.  
And for the quandiù how long it shall continue, Christ set it down in an unparallelled manner, six times over to be 1000 years; & 3 of them absolutely 1000 years, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and then three times relatively, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, those, those, those thousand years, Rev. 20. First, of Satan's binding, v. 2, 3. 2dly, of the Saints first bodily Resurrection and Reign with Christ in the world, v. 4, 5. 3dly, of the happy condition in that state. 1. They are blessed. 2. holy, as the reason of that blessedness. 3. Their security thereupon, they shall not be hurt of the second death. 4. Their great Privilege, than they shall be Priests of God and of Christ. 5. In their supreme Authority with Christ, than they reigned with Christ 1000 years. In such a wonderful glorious manner hath our Saviour determined the said time and state, which is the Divine Millenniarism of Christ so exactly and curiously set before us by his Scriptures of Truth.  
And lastly, by the comprehensive usefulness of this book, it refers to all parts all Holy Scriptures; for first, Christ explains the last times of the four Gentile Monarchies, mystically contained in Daniel, as we shown from the beginning of the Kingdom of the Stone, to the end thereof, at ch. 19 whose Chronology begin when David's Tabernacle fell for the Sins of his natural Race; and those said Gentile Kingdoms reach through the 2300 years of their continuance, to the raising of David's Tabernacle in Christ, as the Son of David's Reign with his Saints, New. David's Covenant for his said Kingdom (which that state of Israel was then grown up unto) carries us back to the former Promises and Covenants to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, respecting the renewed state of the Land, and the New Jerusalem belonging to their Spiritual Seed, and Noah's Type of the Ark, sets forth the safety of the Saints in the end of the world, by Christ their true Ark; the Covenant for all Creatures signified by the Rainbow, assures the world's continuance, and the accommodations of its fruitfulness, and that chief for those times (as following Prophets teach us) his Prophecy of Shems and Japhets' Posterity, set forth of what Raze mostly (besides Proselytes haply all along) should rise, as the Prophets after explain in both their double great Calls; and how the Messiah from Adam, Enoch, Noah, and all the rest should lineally descend, who should restore his Saints with himself, to a much more glorious and happy Paradise of God in that said state and Kingdom of Christ than the first Adam had, when he was the only Monarch of the world.  
Yea, this most Divine Book will carry us higher than the Creation or beginning of time to God's eternal Purpose in the four said particulars all explained and confirmed in Christ's Revelation Key.  
By the help of this we may judge of the several Prophecies from the Fountains of them, revealed in the Word of God, as they relate to the Revealed and Promised Mercies in their particular drift; as what relates to Adam's, what to Noah's, to Abraham's, isaac's and jacob's for their Land, and what to David's, as to his sure Kingdom, etc. and upon these Discoveries of Gods so giving them title to that state from the said sure Promises & Covenants they will then sing their hallelujahs upon such accounts, which, the Revelation teacheth both us and them; as in our Saint's Resurrection largely.  
Thus we may evidently see that what God designed to be performed in the four particulars to be found in the 7th Millennium, as Christ's Revelation manifests he carried on in the first times by revealed Predictions and Covenants to the Fathers, and their Spiritual Seed through Christ; which are also explained and confirmed by the following Prophets: all which are wit●ssed to by the Gospels, and Acts, and Epistles of the holy Apostles; but lastly, wonderfully, exactly, and most excellently explained and illustrated by Christ's Revelation: and what greater or stronger evidence of these Divine Truths can be conceived or desired.  
Now for the second head, what that state is declared to be from the word of God, (for farther we may determine nothing) which we have so largely considered in the times of Restitution of all things, both as to removing of Evils, and conferring of good upon the Saints first bodily Resurrection, which is their inlet into that happy state that we need here add no more, but that Christians should attentively peruse, for that reason both our said Books which plainly resolve the same.  
And for the third, to show in a fit latitude the time when, or the near approach of that state, it was the main drift of the said times of Restitution with their near approach from p. 53. to p. 71. upon Rev. 21.5. and again to the same purpose, from pag. 73. to pag. 77.  
Likewise for the fourth, how or by what means Christ's said Kingdom shall be set up; not by any worldly means, or any help of man, saving by Humiliation, Faith and Prayer, or the like, but only Divinely by the hand of God, only such as are only called by him, Rev 19 and Psalm, 149.9. who as he was said to set up the Kingdom of the Stone 1666 years before, Da. 2.44. which in that time hath and doth, and will in a Divine Spiritual way break, v. 34.35. & 44, 45. all the adverse power of the Mettle Kingdoms, which at Christ's appearance shall all become as the Chaff of the summer Threshing-flore; so God will then give all the Kingdoms of the World unto Christ, when he comes in the Clouds of Heaven, Dan. 7.13, 14. in the glory of the Father, and his own glory, and of all his holy Angels, and his Saints shall then behold Christ's glory in that said Kingdom which his Father hath given him, as he willed at his death, John 17.24. and tells his little little Flock that it is his Father's pleasure to give them the Kingdom, Luke 12.32.  
And lastly, for the manifold usefulness, exactness and excellency of Daniel and the Rvelation in cennexion together, both for their Subject, Matter, and Order of Times, being Divinely Delivered and ordered for such uses, (as we have showed) and especially in respect of Christ's said Key in the four last chapters of the Revelation, of which we have said so much in our last named Book, and in what we have here added to that purpose, to prove such a state shall be in the world in the seventh Millen. that it is not needful here to speak any thing more thereof. And for a farther example of all we have said, as to the usefulness thereof, for explication of Prophetical Scriptures, we shall (as we said) now proceed to show how usefully and surely Revelation Interpretation resolves all passages of that nature: We shall consider for a pattern, what we find thereof in that excellent and Divinely perfound Epistle of the Apostle to the Hebrews, who were a people specially concerned in that state.  
We come now to give an Instance of the great usefulness, & certain exactness of Revelation Interpretation of all the said Prophetic Scriptures, & of all such passages in the New Testament as have reference to any of them; and Christ's Revelation sometimes in connexion with daniel's Prophetic Visions, which appears to me to be an Ordinance of his own holy Spirit for that purpose, of which we doubt not but to give a good account, as God may give opportunity.  
But for this most excellent Epistle to the Hebrews, a people most concerned in that Renewed State of the 1000 years, the Apostle Paul (most probably) though to avoid their emulation then, conceals his name; yet being chief to write of Christ's Prophetical Office, then coming into its eminency, under the New Testament, writing to them, taketh occasion to insert much (as it were by the way) of Christ's eminent Kingly Office in the ensuing state; and Christ in his Revelation very Divinely opens all those, otherwise dark, and (by many much mistaken) passages, as also he doth many of his own speeches, in the Gospels that respect that time and state, as was easy for us to show (if occasion shall require;) and St. Paul in this Epistle evidently shows himself to be that person rapt up to Heaven to learn such Divine Mysteries in this Epistle.  
He gins to Mind them of their Privilege, with others succeeding, that God hath spoken to all such now, by his Son, whom he first sets before them by his glorious Titles of being the brightness of the Father's glory, and the express character of his person, and then what he should be in the issue of his proceed, as God had decreed both for the things, & times, and way, and means to fulfil them, he had appointed him eternally to be heir of all things in the world: it may be observed, that he might well be so, for he had made Heaven and Earth at first, v. 10, 11, 12. yea but that was but his transient act before the fall; but he hath three great immanent and long continued actings to pass through in his Mediatorship; [for still the Dominion of the world is usurped by the Prince of the Darkness of it] and so first faith the second Verse farther, he hath made the worlds, viz. the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the states, or several providential disposals; as we opened before: 1. Of the old World. 2. Of the new World. 3. Of the World to come, which he speaks of, ch. 2.5. as we shall also farther show by Divine Assistance: and also 2dly, he by the word of his power upholds all things through all those Worlds, viz. the said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or states of them; and lastly purgeth the sins of his Elect through them all (as was said before) and so v. 4. and all the chapter to the end, and throughout chapter the second, he magnifies Christ's Sonship by comparing him with the Angels, showing how far, and in how many respects the sacred Scripture sets up this Son of God above the Angels; he had said something before of his eternal glory for time past, but here he illustrates his Sonship for time present & to come: wherein we may observe from Scripture ground that distinction of the learned, of Christ's being eternally 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or the wisdom in the bosom of the Father, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the word revealed or manifested in the flesh to be the Son of God, in whose face (as being made flesh, and so God-man in one person (as saith our Apostle) all the Father's glory is manifest, 2 Cor. 3.6. & John 1.12, and so he is the Fathers only begotten Son at his conception, when the Holy Ghost overshadowed the blessed Virgin upon her Faith of the Angel's Message at his holy conception, Luke 1. and when the fame spirit of holiness with power raised him from the the Dead, Rom. ●. 4. Psal. 2. Acts 13. and so he is called his first begotten from the Dead, Rev. 1.5. for Scripture only speaks of his being the Son of God, only in reference to some Divine Manifestation to be made in time towards his humane nature, whereby God manifests and owns him to be his Son; as he was first eternally decreed, or Prophetically declared so to be, but no otherwise; and so at his Baptism, Matthew 3. and at his Transfiguration, Mat. 17. at his Ascension as he prayed, John 17. to have as the Father's Son his former glory, which he had etc. so when the Spirit led him into the Wilderness to be tempted of the Devil, he brought him to that trial, If thou be the Son of God, etc. Mat. 4. And at his Death God's power was so manifest towards him, that the very Centurion at that discouraging state strongly asserts it, Truly (saith he) this was the Son of God: And our Apostle here adds one more to come, which is the greatest, the most glorious, and gracious accomplishment of the end of all others before in the world: when he shall be brought again into that world to come [N. B.] which shall, as he there shows, not be subject to Angels, but to the Son of God: so gloriously then above all other times before, to manifest him to be the Son of God, ad his heir of all things, as appointed for that time and state, as his Firstborn, higher than the Kings of the Earth, Psalm 89.27. as we shall farther show, as Christ's Revelation Explication manifests from ch. 2.5. And our Apostle from v. 4. having laid down many glorious Testimonies of holy Scripture for that great Title of Son, v. 5. and of his coming to take his Kingdom at his second coming, v. 6. from Dan 7.13, 14. and of his Kingly Dignity, v. 8. when Angels are his Ministering Spirits, v. 7. but then at his said coming again, his Divine Throne which he shall then sit upon, as the Son of David will then gloriously manifest also that he is the Son of God, in that it will be to the end of the world, being then ordered by his Sceptre of Righteousness, as Esa. 9 as is explained v. 9 and the first Foundation he laid, for this Kingdom was his creating Heaven and Earth, v. 10. and as he made them, he will also dissolve them in his time, v. 11, 12. with Rev. 20.11. but in the last place, God's spirit directs him, v. 13. after his Divine manner, to point out the time of his said Inheritance and Kingdom before spoken of, v. 2, 6, 8. and that from that great Oracle, Ps. 110.1. (so often repeated in the New Testament) showing it will be at the end of his sitting there, which is at his second coming, or when he brings him again into the world, v. 6. and in ch. 10.13. until then (as he shows) he sits expecting the same till that time his foes shall be made his footstool; and ch. 2. after he had warned them of hearing God speaking by his Son, v. 1, 2, 3, 4. as he doth again towards the end of the Epistle, ch. 12.25. he proceeds to show the pre-eminence of Christ in the world to come, which is to begin then, when God shall bring his Son again into the world, as he proved before from Psal. 97. which Ps. foretells that time & state, and shows then will be the world he there speaks of, and tells them, it was not to be subject unto Angels, but must be to the Son of God, ch. 2. v. 5, 6, 7, etc. and to that purpose than adds a great Testimony from Psal. 8.4. excellently here explained, v. 6, 7, 8. where he teaches that the Creation at first (since defaced by man's fall, and Satan's Usurpation and wickedness of Men) which Christ had undertaken to rescue from his Tyranny for himself and those which the Father had given him; for which cause he was made for a little time lower than the Angels, and had made the purchase of the world anew, which after he was to possess; but first he must go to the high Court of Heaven to be gloriously put into possession in due time, and then to return (as Luke 19) to take his said Inheritance, Kingdom & possession, when it is made fit for him at the Renovation of all things, yea for him and his Saints in that time and state here spoken of, as the Apostle expressly saith, v. 8. we do not yet see all things put under him: but our Saviour's Revelation Key, in the four last chapters, gives an excellent account of that time, and God's way of performing them; and opens all those things (if men would humbly and conscientiously attend to it:) which I well (through Divine Grace still more and more find doth strongly resolve all such things above all that man can say to the contrary) and so as I am well, from his word and holy Spirit, assured, he will make good before long time pass: Now that this world to come is so be taken (besides what was before said) all fitly leading to it, as by God's Spirit so Divinely ordered: note farther, v 5. it is 1. styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, an habitable world: and 2dly, it is spoken of to be when God brings his Son again viz the second time into the world, v. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Adverb there is joined with the Verb, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 points it out to be a special distinct time and matter he speaks of, though also another proof of his Divine Sonship because then at his second coming all the Angels must Worship him, and it is as was Prophesied of before, Psal. 97.7. and of that state (which largely might be made thence to appear) the Verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, also is of future signification answerable to the time and state of that Prophecy, and some Fathers, and even some Papists have so understead that time, to be Christ's second coming; of which, much more might be said, but this is to me above all, I am sure Christ explains all these in this sense in the Revelation, as our two last books (if rightly understood) do manifest: I thought to have spoken of many things more in this Epistle so ordered by Christ's holy Spirit, as I find them to this purpose, as in ch 11. many things of the sufferers and Covenants to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and others; but we have spoken of them partly in our Key, p. 7, 8, 9, &c and in our said last Books: and of the Communion in the New Testament state then, ch. 12. which also we spoke of in the said Books, and more in our Tract on Jer. 3.17. and because we have but a short Introduction in hand to our intended short Scheme (if God will) we will be satisfied with thus much at present to our present purpose. The like exposition I have from Christ's Revelation, of what St. Paul saith of Christ's first coming, and the first Resurrection of the Saints, 1 Cor. 15. after he had risen above 1600 years before, as their first fruits, to sanctify and effect their Resurrection afterwards at his second coming, v. 23. and (〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deinde) intends 1000 years after (as Christ teacheth) shall be the end, which will be when he shall have put down all Rule and Authority and Power, that is chief (as Scripture witnesseth) ezekiel's Gog and Magog, and shut up Satan in the bottomless pit for 1000 years; and after that destroy the last Gog and Magog, Rev. 20.8, 9 and cast the Devil into the lake of Fire, and the last Enemy, Death, will be destroyed, with the Author of it, the first Soul Murderer, and sin the effect of his wickedness, and also the matter for death to work upon will be taken away, which are the destroying of death, (none remaining from thence in the world in the natural life) but after the said 1000 years shall be that Mystery of the general Rapture, which he speaks of, v. 51, 52. at the last Trump; at his descending with a shout (as also the same Apostle speaks) at his last coming (which I believe from the same warrant) he speaks of, 1 Thes. 4.15, 16, etc. as distinguishing his bringing with him all that sleep in Jesus, which he had called the appearance of Christ with all his Saints before, ch. 3. ult. from this last, when those dead in Christ (viz. all that departed in 1000 years before) shall rise first then, that is, before the wicked at the last Trump then: both which sorts are these our Saviour calls the rest of the dead that risen not till 1000 years after, or till the 1000 years were finished, v. 5. the first said Resurrection of the Saints is Rev. 20.4, 5. (as Christ there exactly distinguisheth both of them) and this may be observed by humble and conscientious seekers to be resolved: which Resolutions of these Texts I do upon good grounds believe shortly will be approved by Christ himself at his coming, and how matchless a Resolver that Revelation (so called) with a witness is, (and in some things with Daniel also) such as rightly seek by it as they ought, I doubt not but may more and more by their own Experience find, and in the interim (after all present gainsayings) yet with declared willingness to give a Christianlike account to all serious persons, etc.) I bless and magnify the holy name of God my heavenly Father in Christ my gracious & merciful Redeemer, & of the Lord the Spirit my Sanctifier & Teacher (to my great comfort and satisfaction) of these and many like Divine Truths (couched as he hath been pleased to lay them down in his holy Word) & for others I only here pray, saying, Blessed and Holy Trinity of Persons! in the Unity of the Divine Essence; open the eyes of thy faithful servants in these times, to understand the holy Scriptures respecting that said world to come, at Christ's second coming, as our blessed Saviour after his Resurrection opened his Disciples understandings, Luke 24.45. then to see the things before, and at his first coming, and especially respecting his Death and Resurrection, then newly passed, etc. Amen.  
We might here note hat strong confutation might be taken against Pelagian, Arminian, Popish & Socinian Errors, & many others; & excite all to get true Grace as the best security of all good; & to that end lay aside worldly & wicked projects in the world, and keep close to God in the use of all good means, and that Great Persons should kiss the Sun, etc. Psal. 2. but we are forced now only to hint thus much.  
FINIS.