A true REFORMATION, AND PERFECT restitution, Argued by Silvanus and Hymeneus;  
Where in the true Church of Christ is briefly discovered here in this life in her estate of regeneration, as also her perfection in the life to come, As it hath been foretold by all the holy Prophets and Apostles, which have been since the world began.  
By J. G. a Friend to the truth and Church of God.  
fear not little Flock, it is your father's pleasure to give you the Kingdom,  
For now is our Salvation nearer than when we believed.  
LONDON, Printed by T. B. and are to be sold by S. B. in Cornhill, 1643.   

TO THE church OF CHRIST IN ENGLAND.  
Faithful and beloved,  
I The unworthyest of ten thousand of you have presumed to speak while you all were silent of this Subject, and have made bold with your honourable and spiritual conditions to make a brief description of you, the Lord's people, who are all of you the Children of wisdom, and so taught of God, that your own God terms you the wise that shall understand, the keepers of his truth, his remembrancers, the people in whose heart is his Law, to whom it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. I entreat you all fellow sufferers, truly noble and honourable Christians, that how much the nearer our salvation approacheth, so much the more let our joint prayers and praises be to our God, the lamb that sitteth upon the Throne, let us not cease, nor give him no rest till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth; and if I have failed in negotiating your great affairs, let our garment of love cover it: and your wise and grave reproof, or admonitions shall be as balm to cure my weakness; so the God of truth, multiply the comforts of it in us all, in the clear demonstration of the spirit with power, that as we are the Children of Abraham by Faith, so we may do the works of our Father Abraham, for which your Brother J. G. shall ever pray with you, and for you to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever,  
Amen.   

A True Reformation, and perfect Restitution argued by Silvanus and Hymeneus.  Silvanus. 
OLD Friend Hymeneus, how hath it been with you a long time, I hear seven years a go you were in new England?  Hymeneus: 
I thank you Sir, that you would acknowledge your long unseen, although longer known Friend, for I think it is near twice seven years since I last spoke with you.  Silv. 
What news in new England? I hear you are there at a hard-ship, both for soul and body, provision for back and belly, food and clothes very scarce, and Religion which should be as both to the soul, is so lost, that, that which seemed unity in the truth, is turned to dissension, the ground of error and falsehood, which custom the Church of Christ hath not, which is the Church of God.  Hym. 
Friend, you may hear more than is true, yet I say, the superfluity of this world is not always expedient, and for Religion it is requisite that there should be difference amongst us that the approved may be manifest.  Silv. 
I see you have not forgotten your former custom frequently to allege Scripture-phrase, but I perceive also you have not learned the Apostles rule perfectly, which saith, if any man speak, let him speak as the Oracles of God, that is, the true meaning of it, for all that were in the Church of Corinth, were not of the Church.  Hym. 
I hope I have done the same in what I have said.  Silv. 
I spoke before of the truth and of the children thereof, which admit of no dissension, and you speak of the Church of Corinth, in which were some, which were Sectaries, and not the children of the truth, and though they were amongst them, yet they were not of them, but were false Apostles and wicked inordinate persons.  Hym. 
I pray, express your meaning to me more fully.  Silv. 
My meaning is that Christians should still intend by their speaking the same meaning which the holy Ghost doth, in the terms he useth, for one and the same term, sometimes is to be understood in a special sense, sometimes in a general, as by Jew, sometimes the same word intends the inward Jew, sometimes the outward, so of Religion and of the Church, vain Religion as well as pure Religion, the Synagogue of Satan as well as the true Church of God.  Hym. 
These distinctions under one, and the same name are very profitable without doubt in the reading the Scriptures.  Silv. 
I pray you Friend, tell me what matter, and what manner you have for the constitution of your Churches in new England.  Hym. 
The matter are a company of believers; the manner or form is this, we from amongst ourselves choose a pastor; the pastor and we being entered into a mutual Covenant, the one to be faithful in teaching and feeding, the other in hearing and obeying according to Christ's ordinance; by this reciprocal bond, we become one Congregation or body, as the head and members are one, and so the pastor and people together choose other Church Officers, as Elders and Deacons.  Silv. 
I understand you thus, that this is your first way you take to give your Church the being or name of a Church, but what way do you take to increase this Church, or ad unto it, for the Scripture saith, there were daily added to the Church such as should be saved.  Hym. 
Our custom is that we admit none to be Members of our Church, but such as cannot give an account of their conversion, and that they do renounce all other congregations as Members to them; and doth make themselves by covenant that is by a solemn vow, calling God to witness that they join themselves to us to be our Members only, and so to no other Church but to walk with us according to Christ's Ordinance; and though some of other congregations may come in Communion in the Ordinance of the word yet we account them no Members.  Silv. 
And this is all you believe that the Scripture expresses, tending to the making and being of a true Church.  Hym. 
I profess unto you, I know no other.  Silv. 
You now grow old, and therefore it should not be with you as it is with such as are Novicees in Religion, wherefore take heed of fair speeches and holy pretences, for there is nothing so common in the world as that which is like the truth, & yet not the truth the name of the Church and pure spouse, and yet upon examination doth prove Strumpets and harlots; for Christ's Church his sanctuary, his true Tabernacle, is that, which he her Lord pitcheth or buildeth & not man: & therefore that we may try the truth of your Church, pray show me how you prove it by Scripture; and first where it is proved, that the people of every particular Church are to call and choose their Pastor.  Hym. 
In the sixth chapter of the Acts; it is thus written, wherefore Brethren look ye out from among yourselves, seven men of honest report, full of the holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; where it appears to us, the Apostles gave the believers for ever power to choose their own Ministers.  Silv. 
There is not one word in the Text that proves your conclusion; that the people of every particular Church are to call their Pastor, but this it proves, that the Apostles times were wholly taken up in prayer and preaching, in regard the Disciples were so exceedingly multiplied, that they could not have time touching the matter of receiving and distribution towards the necessity of the Saints, by reason of which there arose murmurings of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily Administration. So that there was a necessity that Deacons should be appointed for that business, who were commended by the people and confirmed by the Apostles; and this is the whole scope of that Scripture.  Hym. 
But what say you to that, Act. 1. 23. they appointed two, that is, the people presented them to the Apostles.  Silv. 
This place shows that the Apostles and Disciples being together in one place to the number of 120 persons; Saint Peter took occasion to speak to the Congregation of the prophecies of Judas treason, and of the judgement that did befall him, and also how the Prophet foretold that another should be chosen in his place to his office of an Apostle; wherefore saith he, of these men that have accompanied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out amongst us, must one be ordained to be witness with us of his Resurrection; and they appointed two, that is the Apostles with the rest thought none so fit as Barsabas and Mathias, but which of these two they could not determine of, so they cast lots and it fell on Mathias, and he, by the whole Church, was reckoned amongst the twelve, this is all that place intends, and not the least part of your intention proved by it.  Hym. 
Now I will set you a place of Scripture that shall not only prove the custom and manner of our Church, but the matter also as before I have related to you, and that is the description of the Church of Antioch, which will prove all that I have said to you. Act. 14. 22. 23.  Silv. 
Wheresoever Paul and Barnabas came they confirmed the souls of the Disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the Faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God, he doth not here by this confirmation and exhortation enter into a reciprocal covenant with the believers as you spoke of to stand in a pastoral covenant with them as the head and Members, for what one Apostle did, they did both, and the words are in the plural number, they, and indeed they taught them so effectually that they strengthened them and built them up to a further increase and degree in the truth.  
And as it follows they ordained them Elders in every Church, that is, these Apostles did ordain, not the Disciples, so that this Text is clear against your distinction both for the matter and form you spoke of, for as these Christians had received the truth before Barnabas came to them at the first, so they did abide in the comfortable profession of it till Barnabas brought Paul with him, and then they two ordained them Elders in every Church, that is preachers, and not the people as you affirm.  Hym. 
Good Friend Silvanus I have another Scripture which I pray consider you of, and then I hope you will be of my mind, that is Act. 11. 19 20. 21. 22. 23. you shall see there that in the 19 20. and 21. verses, there is mention made of believers and that the Gentiles had received the Faith: then in the 22. and 23. vers. Barnabas from amongst these believers gathers a Church after he had descended from Jerusalem to Antioch by the Apostles Commission, and to me the words prove both the matter and form of our Church who when he came & had seen the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord; to me it is plain that with purpose of heart to cleave unto the Lord, is the covenant the people enter into with their Pastor, and Barnabas his rejoicing to see their grace from God and his rejoicing in it, his continuing to exhort them, and to this Church much people was added as in the 24. verse.  Silv. 
I have often observed old friend, that there is none so easily deceived as those that would willingly be deceived, for if you would not willingly be ignorant the reading of the text would better inform you, for there is not one word in all those verses you have read, proves what you say, the truth is this that the persecution that arose about Stephen was the occasion that many disciples were scattered and dispersed amongst the Gentiles, and by the witness they bare to Christ, many believed, as many Greeks at Antioch; tidings whereof came to the Church at Jerusalem, who sent Barnabas thither, and when he came to them found the report so true that it rejoiced his heart, and his doctrine was of that power and authority that he furthered the grace begun, and begun it where it it was not, for he was a good man and full of the holy Ghost and of Faith, that his exhortations wrought so through their hearts that it prevailed with the thought and purposes thereof to cleave to the Lord so full is the phrase, as if he had gained the whole heart to the Lord, and besides he added much people unto the Lord saith the text, and then departed to Tarsus to seek Saul, so there is not the least show for your opinion, for when he had found him he brought him to Antioch, and doubtless for the love of them that walked in the truth, it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves with the Church and taught much people, but not all this while made any such covenant nor membership as you suppose, (that is to say) to become Members to that Church only, and no other. Therefore now Hymeneus, I must tell you plain, by that you as yet know not the true Church, and being ignorant of that, I fear you know not what belongs to a true Christian. And for that which you fancy to be the Church upon Scripture ground, there is not one Scripture rightly understood by you. And if your foundation fail you, your whole building cannot stand.  Hym. 
My good friend Silvanus, I pray let me hear your description of the true Church.  Silv. 
By the name of the Church of Christ in Scripture we are to understand, God's faithful peculiar, chosen and regenerate people, such and such only as are born of the holy Ghost; and that I may the better describe and manifest the true Church, the whole body, building or house, I will first declare the making parts and true nature of every particular living stone and member, of which, and which only the whole frame or fabric consisteth. Now to the making of any part thereof and so of every part, 3 things are considerable and required; that is to say, the spirit, water and blood, whereof the first is the worker, the two last the work, or matter or making parts of every living stone of the Church itself. Of these three terms the first is literal, by which we are to understand the finger of God, the spirit which proceeds from the Father and the son: the other two are metaphorical, by which other things are meant, namely repentance and remission of sins, as it is written, Except a man be borne again from above of water and the holy Ghost he cannot see the Kingdom of God.  Hym. 
I pray Sir express yourself unto me concerning the two metaphorical terms.  Silv. 
That I shall willingly do, and give you their definition in their due place. For the first, which is repentance, the Lord in the working thereof, unhardens the heart that naturally by sin is obdurate, hard, flat and quite contrary and disobedient to God and his will, which graciously God of his meet and alone goodness by a kind of heavenly power, softens and makes it pliable and inclinable to God and his will. And the word of God compares this humble broken bruised contrite heart to ploughed ground, to soft and tender flesh, and to water, and such like, setting forth by all these comparisons the true nature and condition thereof.  
That as flesh differs from a stone; barren, fallow, weedy ground from that which is broken up and ploughed; and as the pliableness and softness of water differs from the hardness of a diamond, so a broader and greater difference is there between this penitent heart and that it was before, for that which was pleasant & delightful is now become nothing but grief & sorrow of heart, that which before was chiefly fought after is now most abhorred. As formerly its joy and gladness was in such sinful ways as carried him from God, now he uncessantly seeketh, prayeth, desireth and longeth after every way and means whereby he may be brought to God, to be refreshed with his favour, which by his sins and transgressions he hath lost; and never did any hunted and chased ha●t pant more after the water brooks, than this soul doth thirst and desire the favour and grace of God in Christ.  
No undone man, no wounded man, no diseased man, no deadly sick man, no man in bondage and thraldom so miserable and wretched in a natural sense as this penitent man in his own apprehension in a spiritual and godly sense.  
Therefore it is said of John the Baptist the great and powerful preacher and worker of repentance, that he should prepare the way of the Lord, that is, make a people ready for the Lord to heal and cure, and in working the preparation, he bruised the reed, he caused the flax to smoke, he turned the hearts of the Fathers to the children, the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, he humbled and brought low the high and lofty, the rough, ridged, and untoward he made gentle and smooth, the crooked and perverse hearted, he bent, bowed, and made straight, he made the rich poor, the well sick, the whole broken, in a word, all these terms do but set out and declare his great and heavenly work of repentance which he wrought in the hearts of men.  
According as it was prophesied of him, that he should go in the power and spirit of Elias and as the angel said to Zacharias his Father, And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord his God.  
Yea, the whole life of this holy Prophet and every hour thereof preached repentance, for he chose the desert place in the wilderness to dwell in before the stately City Jerusalem: And hunger and thirst before dainty fare, wine or strong drink, and sackcloth rather than soft raiment, his Garment was haircloth and his Girdle a leather skin. Neither boiled nor roast was his food but what he found unbought or uncared for; his meat was locust and wild honey. His life and Doctrine being thus one and the same, and both so wonderfully powerful and effectual, that all Jerusalem, Judea, and the Region about Jordan went out to see and hear him, the like Prophet being never heard nor seen before.  
And he preached unto them repentance for the remission of sins, for so powerful was his ministry in working repentance in their hearts, that the holy Ghost saith of them, they were baptised of him in Jordan confessing their sins. An apt and plain figure or resemblance is the baptism of water, of that of repentance, for repentance it is the preparation of the way of the Lord, the sign or badge of it is the baptism with water, and so Saint Mark doth plainly preach, John did baptize in the wilderness, there's the signification; and preached the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, there's the substance, which heavenly gift repentance he calls the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, by which he proves clearly, that the beginning of our new birth or regeneration, is the beginning of the new covenant of life and salvation; herein agreeing with all the Prophets, who speaking of the new covenant, still begin with the unhardning the heart, taking away the stony heart and giving an heart of flesh.  Hym. 
You have been large in the description of repentance, and I desire to hear your definition of it, as you promised.  Silv. 
The supernatural grace and first part of unregeneration may be thus defined, that it is the work & gift of God by which the heart is turned from all the pleasures and delights in sin, into great grief and unspeakable sorrow for them, with humble confession and acknowledgement of all its sins, expressive an unsatisfied desire of pardon and forgiveness, and to be received into the love and favour of God through Jesus Christ.  Hym. 
You called to me to prove the description I made of the Church, I pray therefore prove this to me.  Silv. 
It is well desired, this definition of repentance and every part of it is fully set forth in the prodigal son, who once was so full of affection to sinful pleasures that he rejoiced in it, but God working repentance in him now is become forlorn and miserable in his own apprehension, and seeing his rash rebellion and unadvised sinfulness against God his most bountiful and loving Father, Creator, and preserver, in utter dislike of himself and all his doings sorrowfully resolves; And in the second place returns to his Father, by which is set forth the displeasure and dislike he now takes against all his sins which have been the cause of all his misery and God's dishonour, being conscious thereof dislikes, forsakes, leaves them and goes from them, plainly and clearly declaring his returning unto God in his heart, Manifested in the third place by his penitent confession with ardency of affection in these words, I will say unto my Father. I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son, Every word declaring the true and real sensibleness of his own guiltiness, confessing with detestation in the strength of his request, like the penitent Publicain smiting his woeful breast with his guilty hand in a rueful manner, as a man lost and undone; in the fourth and last place, see his unsatisfied desire of pardon and forgiveness, of mercy, peace and reconciliation, Make me as one of thy hired servants, which words for the matter and manner found of nothing but violence, and admit of no answer, no satisfaction in the world but of grace and favour, to be admitted and received, though into the least, the lowest office of all, even into the office of a servant.  
Thus all the Prophets and Apostles, as doth their Lord also, describe repentance, and the penitent, by the poor, the broken hearted, the lost, the sinners, the unrighteous, because these only are so truly in their own eyes and in the gift or work of God called repentance, or the preparation of God, happy man is he that heareth and obeyeth, for God hath sworn he shall not perish.  Him 
I must now confess you have both described and defined repentance; but yet methinks you ascribe too much to it, to say whosoever repents shall not perish.  Silv. 
I tell you the truth as it is written, Ezechiel 18. 28. because he that considereth and returneth away from all his transgressions he shall surely live, he shall not die: And so saith our Lord, Except you repent you shall all likewise perish.  Hym. 
I pray let me hear you declare the other metaphorical term which setteth forth the second part of regeneration as you said.  Silv. 
The second part of our new birth before called remission of sins hath divers terms and expressions in Scripture; sometimes it is said to be the baptism of fire, the baptism of the holy Ghost, the blood of Christ shed abroad in our hearts, sometimes called the blessing, the life, the voice or promise of God, the ministry of the Lord, of John the Baptist whose shoe latchet the servant said, he was not worthy to untie; this Lord of the prepared way in working this ●econd and more special work of the holy Ghost preached; that is, giveth remission of sins to the penitent, sanctifieth those which John had prepared, bound up that which he had broken, healed that which he had bruised, perfecting the smoke into a light flame, fulfilling what was written of him, being anointed for that purpose, namely to preach glad tidings unto the poor, to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the Captives and to enlarge such as were bounden, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and to comfort all that mourn, to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, oil of joy for sorrowing, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord that he might be glorified; and this was the work of the Lord of the whole world, who as he was greater than this servant his foregoer, so his ministration exceeded, and good reason, for it was of a more higher and more excellent nature, Even as healing exceeds breaking, liberty, captivity, the spirit of gladness that of heaviness, a rich and plenteous estate, that which is low and miserable, in the working and effecting hereof the holy Ghost applies the blood of Christ, to that fore broken and bruised spirit, which is the only healing plaster unto salvation and blessed life; for this is the word so much spoken of in the Scripture which cures and heals the wounded spirit, that neither herb nor plaster can possibly do, the word speaking peace by Jesus Christ, which began after the baptism which John preached; thereby engraving or writing in that Table of flesh the everlasting love and favour of God, never again to be razed or blotted out, so purging, purifying and sanctifying the prepared heart by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ the heavenly fire of l●ve, so refining it, that it exceeds the purest triedst gold beyond all comparison. And this effect of the holy Ghost, the Scripture also calleth the spirit of his son, the spirit of adoption by which we call Abba Father. And this is that new covenant which God made with Adam and Abraham and all his spiritual seed: that life that Moses had and taught to others, that everlasting Law and statute of grace and favour for ever, as it is written, whom he loveth once he loveth to the end, that is everlastingly; for his sure mercies and love are written, even written in the prepared heart, that God will be their God and they his people, for ever more still testifying that this was he that was once dead but now liveth, was lost but now is found, from which work and testimony of the holy Ghost in the heart, ariseth such an assurance to the man so sanctified, that he is so sure, his sins are forgien him, and that God's favour and love is given to him, as he is su●e his Lord who wholly bought and freely gave his mercy to him was once dead, than raised, and now liveth for ever, never to die again; this is the love of God shed abroad in his heart, the Garment dipped in the blood of the lamb, the answer of a good conscience to his good and gracious God, that as was his Father Abraham, so is be fully persuaded, and in truth of Faith, with Saint Paul can say, I am persuaded that neither death nor life, principalities, nor powers, things present, nor things to come, nor height nor depth, ●or any other creature whatsoever shall be able to separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus my Lord; And this is the birth and baptism of fire, the blessing and accomplishment of the birth, the life and generation of God's children, as that holy King singeth saying, Blessed is the man whose sins are covered, and whose God is the Lord Jehovah.  Hym. 
Surely this must be the description of true justifying Faith, yet I pray make a definition of it.  Silv. 
This is the peculiar Faith, the Faith of Abraham, that which justifieth a sinner, and by which the justified liveth, as the Prophet speaketh, and may be thus defined, that it is a gift of God's spirit, whereby a concrite tender broken heart is given assuredly to believe that all his sins are forgiven him, and that he is reconciled to God in everlasting love and favour, through the precious blood of Jesus Christ that hath bought and purchased it for him, Which Faith is clearly declared and fully proved in every part in the prodigal's acceptance when he was received from death to life; the compassion of his Father was the only ground of the penitents forgiveness, and he assured him of his love and favour by falling on his neck and kissing him, such kisses of love as there is none to be compared to them as appears by the multiplied following favours, by clothing him with his own best robe, by putting a ring on his hand, and shoes on h●s feet; ye●, what is this all? but to be clothed with the complete and perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ, and what more certain assurance then to eat Christ's flesh and to drink his blood, this was the fatted calf, the lamb without spot, who is the only food to eternal life, and on whom whosoever eateth and believeth, cannot but rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.  Hym. 
But is all justifying Faith an assurance?  Silv. 
Yes, it is a full assurance for as much as it is witnessed to our spirits by God's spirit; and an assurance cannot be so true from any witness as from the spirit of God that bears witness with our spirits (saith the Apostle) that we are the sons of God and so to the Hebrews he exhorteth in these words: Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of Faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water: That which makes the heart true or good is the breaking it by repentance, and the purifying it by Faith; which Faith ariseth from the blood of Christ shed abroad in the heart expressed by sprinkling, and the same Apostle beareth witness, that Abraham believing the promise, was fully persuaded, Ro. 4.  Hym. 
But what say you of the Church of Christ which was our first discourse?  Silv. 
The regenerated man before declared is the matter of the true Church. Of these precious living stones is built God's spiritual house, and of this heavenly nature is the whole building, being all begotten from above of water and the holy Ghost. As Saint Peter speaketh of these new born babes, and calls them Stones, and so he calls their Lord also to whom coming as to a living stone; disallowed indeed of men but chosen of God and precious, use also (saith he) as lively Stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ▪ And this is the same Apostle which our Lord spoke to, when he said, thou art Peter or a Stone, and upon this Rock will I build my Church, and the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. In which Scripture our Lord acknowledgeth himself confessed by Peter to be but the chief foundation and cornerstone, and the whole building to consist of such spiritual living stones as Saint Peter was.  Hym. 
I pray express in manner how they do become a Church?  Silv. 
The power of God as I have showed before, doth (by repentance) cut these stones out of the Quarry of this world, that is out of the estate of nature, and thereby cuts, squares and fits them for this building; and the power of God (by justification and acceptation) lays on these stones on the lively building, the spirit of God which proceeds from the Father and the son Cements and solders all together, by engrafting or jointing them with the blood of Christ, the love of God poured out on them all, and this is the holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, as the Creed confesseth: Agreeing with that of Saint Paul to the Corinthians, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God, and the Communion of the holy Ghost be with you: as also to the Colossians, The head from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered & knit together increaseth with the increase of God, this is Christ's body, his spouse, the lambs wife who though they be many grains, yet make but one loaf.  Hym. 
What authority and privilege hath this Church?  Silv. 
Great authority and many privileges in this present suffering estate of hers: for of these our Lord saith, if two of you shall agree in earth (as touching any thing they shall ask) it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven; And also where two or three are gathered together (saith our Lord) in my name, there am I in the midst of them; where (by name) he means his spirit, so that none can be so congregated but such as are led by the spirit of God, these have the privilege to be called the sons of God, even such as believe in his name, which were borne not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, these only are the house of the living God, the ground and pillar of truth; these are as it were God's privy counsel on earth, the Scripture styles them the keepers of his truth, and his dwelling place as say the Prophets. Though the heaven of heavens cannot contain me, yet will I dwell with him that is of a contrite spirit; & God dwelling with them teacheth them, and declareth his will, his mind and purposes to them, as he did to Noah, Abraham, and Moses: to these doth the Lord (that hath the key of David that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth) give the power and authority of the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, yea I say again that great power and authority, to bind and to lose, to remit and to retain sins, by a decree entailed on them till time shall be no more in these words, whose sins you 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 whose sins you do retain they are retained, this is the commission of the Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, who by his own words hath bound himself thus to be with them to the end of the world.  Hym. 
I pray tell me how may a man know this Church?  Silv. 
None can truly know this Church but they that are of her, for as they are spiritual themselves, so they are spiritually discerned as the Apostle saith, the spiritual men discern all things, even the deep things of God; Yet I will briefly declare some of her excellencies and some of her miseries by which she is manifested, for may a candle burn and not bewray her light? may the sun shine and not show his beauty? can a City built upon a hill hide her face from the passer by? or may a sacrifice salted convey his seasoning from the mouth of the taster, and if these creatures could forget their natures, yet cannot the true Saints in whose heart the eternal covenant of love is once engraven, forget to burn with like affection, first towards God, that first hath loved them with love of God, as the sap puts forth this fruit, as the Apostle saith: We love him because he hath loved us first. And none can love the Lord with all his heart, with all his strength and with all his soul, as Moses speaketh, but such only whose booken heart the love of God hath comforted, refreshed and healed.  
So also loveth he his neighbour as himself, he sorroweth, rejoiceth, lamenteth and is comforted, wanteth and aboundeth with him; as the Apostle saith, Who is weak, and I am not weak, who is offended and I burn not? remember them that are in bounds as bound with them, and them that suffer adversity as being ourselves also in the body; So saith Saint James, the wisdom that is from above that is the children of wisdom, of whom Jerusalem from above is Mother to all, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits; and Saint Paul saith, their fruit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, &c. They are filled with peace and joy in believing and it is given unto them not only to believe but to suffer for his sake, that is for the sake of their beloved Lord and Redeemer. I might be large in all these excellencies, but I know you can enlarge them in your mind Friend Hymeneus.  Hym. 
How can this excellent Church be miserable?  Silv. 
The Apostle answereth in these words: If in this life only we had hope, we were of all men the most miserable, so that the misery hath only respect to this life.  Hym. 
How can that be?  Silv. 
Paul and Barnabas makes it clear, saying, we must through much tribulation 〈…〉 the Kingdom of God▪ this suffering and tribulation was it that was the cause why our Lord in these words comforts his Church, fear not little flock it is your father's pleasure to give you the Kingdom; for none shall reign with Christ in the world to come, but he that suffers with him in this life.  
Now as it was in Abraham's Family between Ishmael and Isaac, so is it now between the outward and false Christian, and the inward and true, for then as he that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne by promise, so is it now, saith the Apostle, the Christians in name only which are overcast with a profession of Religion, clean in skin and not in heart, like the Pharisees, lay claim to be the true Church, and call her that is so indeed barren, forsaken and desolate, and cast her out with terms, let God be glorified and such like, when notwithstanding with hatred they beat her; so the Church cries out in one place, My mother's Children were angry with me when they were no more the true mother's Children then Ishmael's, which was not Sarah's but the bond-womans', neither were the Pharisees the children of the promise though Abraham's after the flesh, nor righteous although they justified themselves.  
This Jerusalem that is from below, the common Christians, I call them so because they are not capable but of common gifts, of which they may partake and perish, and except they repent so it wi●l be with them, yet notwithstanding these fi●l the world with voices of the Church of God, the cause of Christ, brag and boast of their righteousness, duties and performances, when notwithstanding they never yet knew what it is, that is the true worship of God, the acceptable sacrifice, they brag of their prayers, their fasts and their charity, and yet know nothing at all of either as they are the offerings and sacrifice of the truly faithful, but as the fat cattle the Prophet speaks of, push, gore and oppress the lean, so do these whole hearted, fair, rich, fat and full seeming comfortable Christians, contemn and despise, the humble, the low and emoty, although notwithstanding the Lord filleth the empty with good things, and sendeth the rich empty away. I could enlarge myself in this exceedingly, having felt their cruelty and oppression, as being slighted by them daily, and made as the dirt in the street under their feet by treading daily upon me, but as they are men for and of this world, so we will leave them to it, and proceed to show you how miserable the Saints are here in this life in regard of their own corruptions, the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and many times so captivates it, that they cry out, Oh wretched Men that we are who shall deliver us from this body of death? what is worse than a dead body amongst the living? and yet so and worse are the corruptions of God's people to their pure minds, vexed and grieved by them daily, as Righteous Lot in Sodom enclosed by them in a city whose buildings are transgressions, whose streets are ways of error, whose bulwarks are the strength of death, whose gates do lead to hell, which makes them to die daily, to be tormented daily, and cry daily to be delivered from sin and from the body thereof.  
Lastly, the misery of God's people is aggravated by the devil, for, so saith the Apostle, he goeth about like a roaring Lion, seeking whom he may devour; And so it is said, The devil shall cast many of you into prison, The righteous man Job had miserable experience of this adversary Misery in regard of the destruction of his wealth, misery in the loss of his health, and misery to his mind in regard of his wife and his children's death, besides the many temptations against his soul, and this the Apostle knew well which moves him to exhort the Corinthians on this wise, For I am jealous over you with Godly jealousy, for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a choice Virgin to Christ, for I fear lest by any means, as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.  Hym. 
You have clearly proved the miserable sufferings of the Church in all these particulars you promised, but is your meaning that the Church shall never be free in this life? I mean from misery and sufferings by men's persecution, and Satan's, their sworn enemies.  Silv. 
So long as there is any enemy, that is so long as death and sin reign, so long shall God's people suffer and undergo misery.  Hym. 
Then your meaning is to the end of the world.  Silv. 
You understand me truly.  Hym. 
How answer you this Scripture, And Satan was bound for a thousand years, and the Saints lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years, this is the first resurrection?  Silv. 
This error of the Millenaries is ancient, and as groundless in the text you allege, as many more new mistakes are, which were all forged in the devil's workhouse of lies, and that they may all be answered if truth will do it, by their turns they shall be tried and condemned.  Hym. 
The Millenaries first allege the words of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians, The dead in Christ shall arise first, (that is say they) there shall be a general Resurrection of all the Martyrs and righteous people a thousand years before the general Resurrection, and they shall have great plenty and riches, abounding in worldly felicilic and greatness, enjoying Christ's bodily presence in this corruptible earth, grounding their opinion on the twentyeth chapter of the Revelation, as I said before, where it is said, Satan shall be bound for a thousand years, and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years; this is the fi●st Resurrection, but the rest of the dead, that is say, they the wicked, as by the first Resurrection, we are to understand the righteous, so by the rest of the dead, the wicked, which lived not again till the thousand years were finished.  Silv. 
The Scriptures they allege do not prove their conclusion, and we try it thus, the Apostles words to the Thessalonians do clearly prove the general Resurrection, both of them that are out of Christ, and of them that are in Christ in the great day of the Lord's coming, and that we, which shall continue living till that time, shall not prevent t●em that sleep, and this the same Apostle sneweth to the Corinthians; behold I show you a Mystery, we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed, that is though all should not be alike dead and buried yet their change shall be all alike, that is to say, as our Lord speaketh, they that have done good to the Resurrection of life, and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation, and both shall come forth or be raised. And whereas the Apostle saith, the dead in Christ shall arrise first, he there showeth the order of the Resurrection, as in another place he saith, as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive, but every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits in that he speaks of our Lord's resurrection that at this time was past; afterwards they that are Christ's, that is, they that are dead in Christ, and the time, when, is at his coming, and the reason why he doth not nominate the wicked by name as well as the righteous, neither to the Thessalonians nor to the Corinthians, as our Saviour Christ doth to the jows, is because they are to rise to their condemnation, and therefore not worth the naming, yet to the former the term of distinction, the dead in Christ shall arise first, strongly proves the dead out of Christ shall rise next, and in the latter, even so in Christ all shall be made alive comprehends good and bad.  
And for their second ground, they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years, and as it follows this is the first Resurrection: The Apostle speaks of the spiritual Resurrection through regeneration from sin, as Saint Paul speaks to the Ephesians, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light, agreeing with that in the Colossians, if ye then be risen with Christ, &c. And this first and second Resurrection our Saviour proves plainly as this faithful witness testifieth in his Evangelists, Verily, verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on him, that sent me hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life; And again verily, verily I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God, and they that hear it shall live; here he proves the first Resurrection by Faith, and be yourself judge if in the next words he doth not, p●ove the general Resurrection; marvel not at this for the hour is coming, he doth not say, and now is, as before but saith in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth, &c. And by this word, all, here, as before is plainly proved good and bad.  
And for the thousand years of Satan's binding for any man to think it to be a time of peace, plenty, outward glory and felicity in this world, I think him to be more blind than Bartimeus who saw men walk like trees, because the text itself declares such wicked men to sit in seats even in the whole time of his binding as should persecute the Saints even to death because they would not receive the mark of the Beast in their hands nor in their foreheads, and though for their wickedness they are not worthy to be named, as another Apostle describes the same Antichristian power in the same manner, then shall that wicked be revealed, not giving him the name of Angel, man, no● beast, because exceeding the worst of all sorts; again even him saith the Apostle, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, this evil power and subtle wonderful lies, he gives his person no name but him, just, as Saint John speaks, as if they spoke by one spirit, though two voices, as they did indeed, and I saw Thrones and them that sat upon them, and judgement was give unto them, the difference is only this, Saint Paul speaks in the singular, Saint John in the plural number, and both one, for the succession of wicked ungodly men for a thousand two hundred and sixty years of domineering over, killing and oppressing the Saints, they all in the total sum make but one Antichrist, one, that is the man of sin, the son of perdition.  Hym. 
Good Friend, methinks this must verily be the meaning of the place, but that which they much talk of is the binding of Satan thereby affirming that all wickedness and wicked men shall be restrained by the censure of the true Church.  Silv. 
If they rightly did know the condition of Satan in his loosed or his estate of liberty, both before and after the time of his being bound, than they would plainly see there is no such thing as they conclude from it. He was loose and at large before in the Roman ethnic estate, when the devil raised the primitive persecution against Christ and all that professed him, so that it was present death for any man to profess the Faith of Jesus Christ, as appears by the woeful sad stories of the ten first persecutions, in which storm and great persecution, the devil is the general in the heart of the heathen Emperors, for which respect the holy Ghost calls him the great red Dragon, thereby declaring his great cruel and unmercifulness in killing and destroying all that did acknowledge Christ and profess the Faith, and this appears plainly in the Scriptures, no sooner was the Lord ascended, but his servants for teaching in his name, were beaten, whipped and imprisoned, as Peter and John at Jerusalem, Paul and Barnabas at Lystra, James killed by the sword, and Stephen martyred without any mercy, and so it continued for many years in all manner of sufferings as cruel mockings, scourgings, bonds and imprisonments, some stoned, some sawen asunder with saws, their flesh torn to pieces, others slain with the sword, with wild beasts, and burnt to death: so implacable was the devil when he was at liberty that no tongue can express his cruelty, and as the battle was strange and wondrous, so was the victory more strange and glorious, for verity overcame cruelty, by suffering as it is written, and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the words of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death, and when the Dragon saw that he was thrown down into the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child, for although in those days, the blood of the Saints was the seed of the Church, and the more there died, the greater number were brought to live, yet the devil still continued his persecution by the hands of the Christian Emperors, for though they were Friends to the outward State and name of Christianity, yet they persecuted the inward grace and power of it, and from the primacy of the imperial Church of Rome, grew up the abominable supremacy of the Church thereof, and the devil then went into the false Prophets and began to play the Christian, and to distinguish between the Christian Emperors, and the government and rule of Antichrist the false Prophet; the holy Ghost saith, And I saw another beast coming up from the earth, and he had two horns like the lamb, but he spoke like the Dragon, by which the Apostle discovers the Mystery of iniquity whereby the devil would turn himself into the shape of an angel of light, and as Daniel saith by policy or deceit, prosper or prevail pretending Christ, the Church, the truth, and all the names and titles which belong to the true Spouse there in putting Christ's coat upon Jupiter's back, cunningly turning the worship of God into paganism; mark but the description, the holy Ghost makes o● his person, that in outward show is the very cognizance of the lamb, the Law and the gospel his own two horns, wherewith he doth save and kill, but the d●scription of his doctrine is the voice of the Dragon, that when they did open either to teach the Law, or preach the Gospe●l, they taught like the Priests of Jupiter, teaching and preaching to the children of the world, that they ought to worship the God of heaven as the dragon's Priests had taught their Fathers to worship the Gods of the Heathen, and by sycophantical Princely Priests, under colour of promoting the lamb's affairs should cunningly clap Jupiter's coat upon the lamb's back, and bestow all the ceremonies and rituals of Idolatry upon Christ, as in stead of their idolatrous bloody sacrifices, Antichrist must have their abominable mass, as the Heathen had Idolis, so Antichrist hath Images, and as their Temples were dedicated to their idols, so Antichrist must dedicate Churches to he Saints and she Saints, so that earthly minded men were so strongly seduced, that they verily thought the mystery of iniquity fore-spoken by Daniel to be pure and undefiled Christianity.  
In this respect only it is said, the devil is bound, that is all the time of Antichrists reign, which shall be 1260 years pretending Christianity and working by deceitful means, & yet all that receive not the mark of the beast in their hand or in their forehead, are killed, and slain by him.  Hym. 
But it follows in the Text, And after that he must be loosed a little season.  Silv. 
That is as our Saviour Christ saith, immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the Sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from Heaven, the powers of the Heaven shall be shaken.  
Where by the days of tribulation, he means the time in which the devil should work by the false Prophet, and in the expiration of those days he should come out of him as out of prison: as it is in the Revelation; And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out the mouth of the Dragon, and out of the mouth of the Beast, and out of the mouth of the false Prophet, for they are the spirits of the devils, working miracles which go forth unto the Kings of the earth and the whole world, to gather them to the battle of the great day of God Almighty.  
By the Kings of the East and the whole world is meant the Turks, and the devil entering into them doth thereby enlarge himself again into his former liberty, as in the heathen in setting himself in open hostility against Christ and the profession of his name, for so much is intimated, And the Sun shall be darkened: now if Christ be denied to be the light, that inlightneth every one that comes into the world, than all man kind, that is resembled by the moon, must lose their light, for she hath none other light but from the Sun, than the stars; that is, all ministers and professing Christians shall fall from their professing of Christianity that are not faithful indeed to believe in the false Prophet Mahomet, as the holy Ghost saith; Revelations 6, 12, 13. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal and lo there was a great earthquake, and the Sun became black as sackcloth of baire, and the moon became as blood, and the stars of Heaven fell unto the Earth: And in the next words expounds Saint Matthew, saying; Even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind; meaning by untimely figs untimely Christians, that is, such as are outward only, and in name amongst ministers and professors, and not inward, truly and spiritually, even all such as have not true grace shall fall off from Christ to receive the falsehood and abomination of mahoumism, and that this wicked enlargement of Satan in his cruel persecution and oppression of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ appears in this, that the Elect than shall cry day and night, and more certainly shall God hear his own Elect to avenge them, than the unjust judge, the importunate widow, nevertheless our Lord makes this question by reason of the great persecution that shall be in those days, When the son of man comes, shall he find Faith on the Earth? The consequence of the question is this, there will at my coming be scarce a faithful man found on the Earth, and that this last Enemy shall continue till the coming of the Lord to judgement; we need no other proof than Saint John's Testimony in Revelation 20. verse 7. and so to the end; And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison; And shall go out to deceive the nations that are in the four quarters of the Earth, that Gog and Magog fore-prophesied by Ezechiel the Prophet, and as it followeth, to gather them to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the Sea; Therein declaring the multitude of the Enemy, the Turk to whom there is none of the earth like for multitude, nor for power as followeth, And they went on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the Saints about, and the beloved City; By the Saints and the beloved City is meant the Elect of God called and sanctified, which Saint Matthew calls The shaking of the powers of Heaven.  
And when the devil by his last battle shall think to accomplish his envious ends, utterly to destroy Christ and all that are his, then shall Christ the Lord arise and scatter his enemies in these following words: And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them; And the judgement of the enemy follows: And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and Brimston, where the beast and the false Prophets are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. And so the holy Ghost goes on in the description of the general ●udgement by describing, first the judge himself in these words: And I saw a great white Throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face, the earth and the heavens fled away, and there was found no more place for them; And so proceeds to describe them that are judged: And I saw the dead, small and great stand before God, and the books were opened; That is, all those means were manifested, and those several ways, by which the gospel and way of salvation had been preached to them, whether they had the Scriptures or the Creatures, or only the more secret dictates of conscience, all which preached the word of grace, and although it prove a Savour of death to some, yet to others a Savour of life by every of those books as it followeth▪ And another book was opened which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works &c. There needs no Paraphrase, the Scripture is so clear to prove the thing intended.  Hym. 
It doth appear to me that the Millenaries opinion hath no ground in the Scriptures they allege, yet I must tell you plainly in my judgement the Resurrection is past already, & proved by yourself in your description of the first Resurrection.  Silv. 
That was an old error which S. Paul condemns in his 2 Epistle to Timothy, where he taxes one of your name, saying; their word doth fret as doth a gangrene of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus, who concerning the truth have erred, saying, the Resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.  Hym. 
Show me how that doctrine may be said to overthrow the Faith.  Silv. 
This doctrine is the Religion of Homo-novus or of the new-man falsely so called, in plain terms the Familists doctrine, who turn the whole Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ into an allegory, affirming Christ to be a quality, saying righteousness is Christ, and sin is Antichrist, teaching that all the Articles of the Creed are fulfilled in every one of their illuminated ones, and that now they themselves are dead and buried, raised and ascended, set at the right hand of the Father, descend, and come, and judge the world the quick and the dead, that they are the holy Catholic Church, that they only are the forgiven people and have the communality of the Saints, and enjoy life everlasting, infinitely succeeding one another in this coedified condition, affirming also that God is cohominified with them, and so this estate and condition, even this present evil world to continue for ever, saying that as we come from God, so again we return to God at our death, affirming no other Resurrection then from that sinful estate to be illuminated, in which illumination they say, they are conceived of the holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, &c.  Hym. 
You know the Apostle speaking of two seeds of Abraham, one born of Hagar the bond woman, the other of Sarah the free woman, and he saith that by them another thing was meant.  Silv. 
As at the first I told you, that Christians when they speak, they ought to speak as the word of God, that is according to the meaning of the Scriptures, for though Saint Paul say the two seeds are an allegory in regard of the two Covenants that either stood in, the one thereby the child of death, the other the child of life; Yet he doth not, as you do, make them nothing but an allegory, turning the person of our Lord Jesus Christ into a quality, and the person of Antichrist into sin, which is no substance but a privation of good; take heed of this Hymeneus for it calls to my mind the Apostles words, who saith, that such doctrine to the soul is as dangerous and destructive as a gangrene is to the body, which is inevitably destructive: for nothing can prevent the saving of the next member but the death, the cutting off of that which is but infected.  Hym. 
I am sure if I be mistaken in my opinion, yet that which you have delivered in other respects concerning the short time of this world's continuance crosses most Ministers opinions both in new England and here too.  Silv. 
What is that which they teach, that I have said, doth oppose their tenants?  Hym. 
They almost all with one consent hold the national calling of the Jews, and that there shall be a great and glorious estate of the Church both of Jews and gentiles, alleging all the Prophets that speak of the deliverance of Zion from all her Captivities, and bring the Jews into their own Land out of all Countries whither they have been dispersed and scattered.  Silv. 
What Scriptures do they bring to prove that the Nation of the Jews shall be called and brought out of every country into their own Land.  Hym. 
The 11 Rom. in these words: I would not Brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, &c.  Silv. 
In these verses there is not one word of the national calling of the Jews, but shows that the Apostle declared to the believing Romans a Mystery to take off their vain boasting of themselves, who thought that God had forsaken the seed of Abraham wholly, and therefore he secretly reproves them and saith, It was but a part of the seed that was hardened or blinded, as in the seventh verse he clearly distinguisheth between the Elect part and the rest: what then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for, but the Election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded or hardened, and in this verse he saith, They shall be hardened, until the fullness of the gentiles be come in, that is for ever; Agreeing with the Prophet, let their eyes be darkened, and bow down their backs always; thus God putting no diff●rence between the Jews and the gentiles extends his free grace to both for the calling of the full number of his Elect in all the world; and so all Israel shall be saved, that is the whole house, even every one f●reknown and chosen of God shall be c●lled, sanctified, and saved both Jews and gentiles throughout the world, and this word saved, hath respect unto the estate of perfection in the world to come, according to the Prophet Esay's words, Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation he shall not be ashamed nor confounded, world without end; That is all God's Elect wheresoever, of all kindreds, tongues, nations and people.  Hym. 
In this Scripture it doth not appear there is any word as they infer from the text, but what say you to the words of the Prophet Ezechiel 34. 14. And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own Land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the Rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country; As also the Prophet Jeremy 33, and 26. For I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.  Silv. 
It grieves me to see the Ignorance, and yet boldness of many Ministers amongst us, who err for want of reading the Scriptures, for the very literal expression might teach them better than to tell us that from these two testimonies is declared the calling of the Jews from their dispersed and scattered estate to the belief of the gospel in this last age of the world.  
For both these Prophets writ within few years one of another, Jeremy a little before Ezechiel and both of the Babylonish Captivity, and of their return again into their own Land, which according to the word of the Lord was performed above two thousand years ago, for their return was in the days of Ezra the Scribe some years after the Prophet Daniels death.  
And if you read the second chapter you cited with a searching affection you shall find the Prophets both of them speaks of also the deliverance of Zion, the whole house of Israel from all their Captivities; Therefore will I save my flock, they shall be no more a prey, I will judge between cattle and cattle, and I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them even my servant David he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd, and I will be their God, and my servant David a Prince amongst them. In those days Judah shall be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely, and this is the name wherewith he shall be called the Lord our righteousness: But this deliverance we will more largely open hereafter.  Hym. 
Master Cotton in new England doth much preach of these things of the calling of the Jews and of the flourishing estate of the Church of the gentiles, and sense I came to London I heard a preacher say, if the two last Chapters of Esay were not to be understood of the glorious estate of the Church before the coming of the Lord to Judgement, I do not know (saith he) what is meant by chose Scriptures.  Silv. 
By what he saith, I believe he doth not understand what is meant by those Script. for the Proph. words are these, Behold I create new Heavens & a new Earth, & the former shall not be remembered nor come into mind, but be thou glad & rejoice for ever in that which I create, for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying, and there shall be no more thence an infant of days, &c. In which the Prophet speaks as clearly (to my understanding) as words can express it of the world to come after the Resurrection, the salvation, that brings God's chosen people Jerusalem from above into the same perfection again, which by sin we lost and fell from, in the day of our transgression▪ and this agrees with Saint Peter's and Saint John's exposition, the two most excellent and beloved Disciples and Apostles; Saint Peter speaks directly of the end of this world, the dissolution of this present Heaven and Earth, in these words: But the Heavens and the Earth which are now, that is now present, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgement, and perdition of ungodly men; And so proceeds to other arguments, and proves that the Earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burnt up, and the Heavens and the Elements shall be dissolved, concludes with notwithstanding or nevertheless, we according to his promise look for new Heavens and a new Earth in which dwelleth righteousness; First, the time when these things shall be fulfilled is twice spoken to be in the day of the Lord which throughout the Scriptures notes unto us the day of judgement, as the time of his second coming; Secondly, the manner how it shall be when righteousness shall dwell in the Earth, which must needs be understood of the world to come, for in this world righteousness is a Pilgrim, a stranger, and a sojourner; and Saint John transcends in his expressions of it after the general judgement, in order after the Resurrection of just and unjust, saying; And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth, for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away, and there was no more sea, and I John saw the holy City new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, and I heard a great voice out of Heaven, saying, behold the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.  
The former things are the corruptible things, and the things that shall take place are the new created things of God which are all good, for nothing can proceed from him but what is very good, the words are so plain that they need no exposition.  
The other proof, they do bring to prove their mistaken opinion, are these words, As one whom his Mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem, and when you see this, your hearts shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb, and the hand of the Lord shall be known towards his servants, and his indignation towards his enemies, for by fire and by sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: And the slain of the Lord shall be many, for any man to think that the Prophet in these words speaks of any time of the churches sufferings in this life, doth as much as if he should tell me, it was his own foolish conceit, and that he did not at all search the Scriptures, no● labour in the word and doctrine, for Saint Paul to the Thessalonians to me doth directly comment upon this place of the Prophet saying, it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you, and to you who are troubled, rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction, from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power, when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints, and to be admired in all them that believe, And further note, that Prophet names the place where God's people shall be comforted, and he saith, it shall be in Jerusalem, that is in new Jerusalem.  Hym. 
I confess it appears to me, the Scriptures are not rightly understood by them for you have answered them fully, but many of them have told me it is Master Brightman's opinion, and I am sure it is Master Cotton's.  Silv. 
Master Brightman is very corrupt and so is Master Cot●on much to be blamed as I have read him in a Sermon preached in the west-country, and in an exposition of his, on the Canticles, I remember the Text of his Sermon was in 1 Chron. 17. & 9 And I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant th●m and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more neither shall the Children of wickedness, waste them any more as at the beginning.  
This Scripture speaks directly of the Resurrection as our Saviour saith, Let both grow together until the harvest, &c. Then shall the oppressor and Children of wickedness be separated and ●ot before, not till then shall spoiling and wasting cease, the fat cattle and the lean, the sheep and the goats shall not be separated so long as this world lasteth, and the Prophet David forespoke of the Resurrection in this place, and not of any temporal Translation as Master Co●ton expou●ds it, and for that Treatise upon the Canticles, he speaks often of the calling the Jews, ●ut proves nothing so, as uncertain words I give no credit to them.  Hym. 
Is it not true, that many Ministers preach that the Govern●ment of the Church of England is Popish and Antichristian?  Silv. 
No, for I have heard Master Callamy say in his prayer, that he thanked God that the evils in our Church were not a national sin, that is, as I understood him, that the Statutes and Ordinances of this Nation were free from those superstitions and corruptions that were brought in by such corrupt men as were in chief and hi●h places heretofore amongst us.  Hym. 
Then you justify the Church of England ever since the reformation in King Edward's days.  Silv. 
I do affirm that those Laws which were then made and since confirmed did wholly free us, and break asunder the Antichristian yoke and bondage of their abominable Doctrines, and though England were before one of the ten horns of the beast: That is a Kingdom that maintained the abomination of desolation, and supported the whore that sat upon the waters; that is, did rule over peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues, yet than it pleased God that his faithful people, the Martyrs, did prevail against the filthy fornications of the whore, the lies and false Doctrine of their Kingly Priests, and the Kingdom might then truly be said to fall off from Rome, and so still hath continued an opposer and hater, and not a maintainer.  Hym. 
I remember you spoke thus long ago, but within this twenty years, things have been worse with you than before.  Silv. 
Corrupt men endeavoured to bring in many innovations, but that is no more to the Christian profession established by Law in the Church of England, then rust to pure mettle, soil to a clean garment, or dust in God's temple, which scouring, brushing and sweeping will do away, so that the truth shall seem more glorious.  Hym. 
But what do you think of the Church of England in comparison of the Church of Scotland, Low-countries, France, Germany, and other reformed Churches?  Silv. 
I am sure I have had either conference with, or reading of the most religious professors in Europe, and truly of all both national or nominal, I have found none in all respects so free from superstition, nor so sound in Doctrine as the Ch●rch of England, I mean as it stands by acts and ordination of Parliament, not but that some things may be altered, but I would Christians had wisdom to pray for, and wait on our King and that great council which our good God hath guided already to prescribe such a form as I know none extant like it, that they that have done so much, may in their wisdoms do the rest, and we to further it by obeying and praying.  Hym. 
I have often heard you speak of the short time that this world shall last, and that here is to be expected no such reformation nor deliverance as many have conceived, I pray let us hear your Judgement of the Scriptures in this particular.  Silv. 
The Scriptures indeed are plentiful, fluent and large in their Testimony and witness of the world to come, the glory, felicity, and perfection of that world without end, a world endless, a world deathless, a world sinless, a world curselesse, a world harmless, in which there shall be nothing but holiness, godliness, thankfulness, and righteousness, and joyfulness with the Saints, their captivity shall be ended, then shall the great deliverance and salvation come to Zion when God shall put away all her sins; Therefore thus saith the Lord to his dear daughter and her little children, refrain thy voice from weeping and thy eyes from tears, for thy work shall be reward●d, saith the Lord, and all that devour thee shall be devoured and all thy adversaries every one of them shall go into captivity, and they that spoiled thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey: And I will (saith the Lord) undo all that have afflicted thee, and I will restore health unto thee, and I will hea●e thee of all thy wou●d●, saith the Lord, because they called thee an ●ut cast, saying, this is Zion wh●m no man seeketh, the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all those that despised thee, shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee the City of the Lord, the Zion of the holy one of Israel. Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated so that no man went through thee▪ I will make thee (saith the Lord) an eternal excellency, then shall be the time of zions ●eliverance, which the devil nor man's wickedness ca● no more prevent, than they can prevent the spring when the Sun by its operation causes the ●arth to put it forth.  Hym. 
This is the thing I have a great desire to hear, having had formerly some speech with you about it.  Silv. 
That I may the morefully describe the unspeakable glory of Christ the Lord, and the Church his spouse, I will observe this Order, the time, when this Kingdom, heavenly country, City with foundations, the inheritance of the Saints, the purchased possession, the glory, the eternal life, the Master's joy, the promised Land, the perfection, the resurrection, the deliverance, the restauration, and abundance more of such names the holy Ghost gives to the Church, the new Jerusalem, the lambs wife, the time when I say the Scriptures that foretell of, shall be fulfilled.  
Secondly, the place where it shall be inj●yed; Thirdly, who shall be the King in this glorious Kingdom; And lastly, what are the subjects and inheritors thereof.  Hym. 
The names that the Scriptures give unto the eternal estate are very many and excellent, and your method very good, therefore I pray proceed.  Silv. 
The time of the church's deliverance to the estate of perfection is at the end of this world, when he that ascended, shall descend, as saith the Scripture, whom the heavens must contain and receive until the restitution of all things forespoken by all the holy Prophets, hath been since the world began, which things therefore the world might not be ignorant of, which are testified by so many witnesses; for so saith the spirit, every one that have spoke, have spoke of these things, but the cause of men's ignorance in this as in many other truths of God, is in regard people do not labour with God to understand and know the Scriptures, for although every one (for the most part) hath a Bible, yet generally they are as ignorant of the intent and meaning of the Scriptures as he that never saw the written word of God at all, but no more by way of digression. And that the time of the Lord's glorious Kingdom and the church's deliverance shall be at the end of this world is clear by our saviour's own words in parable, The harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the Angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burnt in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this world, the son of man shall send forth his Angels and they shall gather out of his Kingdom all things that do offend and them which do i●iquity, as also in that Scripture where the question is made by the servants to the householder, whether the tares the envious man sowed amongst the good seed should be plucked up, the Master answers, nay, let them both grow together until harvest, and showeth what shall be done then both with the wheat and with the tares, saying at his glorious coming shall be gathered before him all nations, and he shall sever the Sheep from the goats &c. Then the King shall say to them on his right hand comeye ●lessed inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the wo●ld, and to this agreeth the angel's words to Daniel; Go thou thy ways Daniel, at the end of the days shall the end be, and thou shall stand up in t●y lot; meaning thou shalt then be raised to shine as the brightness of the Fi●mament amongst them that have turned many to God, even to shine as the Stars for ever and ever; There is none in all the world but the Child of God, the heirs of salvation have the benefit of the Prophet Jeremy's exhortation in these words, Ier. 31. Refrain thy voice from weeping and thine eyes from tears for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord, and they shall come again from the Land of the Enemy; there is the return from captivity of the natural Israel, and there is hope in thy end (saith the Lord) that thy Children shall come again to their own border, there is the deliverance of the spiritual Is●ael at their Resurrection, as the patriarchs have expressed their hope, as is more clearly proved in the next particular, the place where the bride shall for ever enjoy her bridegroom, the King of glory his gloriou● Kingdom, which the holy Ghost calleth the earth in these wor●s, Behold the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: And so saith our Lord, Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth; Their inheritance is their recompense, then and not before shall the earth be filled with the knowledge of God, as the waters cover the Seas, which must needs be understood of the new earth promised and to come, such an earth as the Lord shall make when he will make all things new, for the contrary is most true now, here in this old cursed earth, that ignorance fills this earth as the waters cover the Seas.  Hym. 
This is not understood in these days; for I never heard these Scriptures so applied before.  Silv. 
To make it more plain, we will first cite the testimonies of the Prophets, our Lords and his Apostles, and then I will show you how plainly and clearly the heirs of the promise have particularly declared her hope and confidence in it. Job had the true knowledge and comfort of it which ravished him, and made him thus to cry out as if he were out of himself: Oh, that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book, that they were graven with an Iron Pen in a Rock for ever, for I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see, for myself and my eyes shall behold, and not another. In which he clearly expresses that the place of his blessedness after the resurrection shall be in the earth where his Saviour shall stand, that is, shall rule and reign for ever.  
David a man after God's own heart excels in this Faith and hope, what man is he that feareth the Lord? (saith he) him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose, his soul shall lodge in goodness, and his seed shall inherit the earth: And again, Let all the earth fear the Lord, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him, for evil doers shall be cut off, but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth, and though it be but a little while, and the wicked shall not be, saith he, and his place shall not be found, yet the meek shall inherit the earth, and delight themselves in the abundance of peace, for such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth, and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off; And so he singeth Psa. 48. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the City of our God, in the mountain of his holiness, beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is mount Zion: And also in another place, The Heaven, even the Heavens are the Lords, but the earth hath he given to the Children of men; So testifieth the Prophet Esay, saying, Thus saith the Lord, that created the Heavens, God himself that formed the earth and made it, he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited, I said not, saith the Lord, to the seed of Jacob seek you me in vain, I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right, And the same Prophet makes proclamation; Behold (saith he) I create new Heavens, and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered nor come into mind, and as the new Heavens and new earth, (which I shall make) shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain; Which clearly shows the intent of the promise to the patriarchs, and so accordingly they understood it, as shall be proved hereafter; The Apostles Peter and John both testify to this truth without question, as before I have briefly showed, and that it may be out of question here, what Saint John saith of the Testimony of the four and twenty Elders, praising and lauding the lamb their Lord, and they sang a new song, saying, that art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us unto God by thy blood out of every k●ndred, and tongue, and people, and ●ati●n, and hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests▪ and we shall reign on the earth, Which Scripture without explanation is a full answer unto all such thoughts that concern this inheriting the earth, may be in ●his life in a Mystery; all which agrees with ●ur Lord's words to the Apostles at his parting from them, let not your hearts be troubled &c. In my fathers house are many mansions, and I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go an prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself, that whe●e I am there you may be also. Now our Lord is gone into Heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father, where he is preparing the blessed and glorious estate for us, as the Apostle Peter saith, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and und●filed; and that fadeth not away, reserved in the heaven for us who are kept by the power of God through Faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time, of which last time and revelation of the glory, S. John speaks, where ●e saith, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea; In that he saw no more sea, he declareth that the great oppressors of God's Church consisting of heathen as open enemies, or Christians, as secret and cunning enemies shall all cease, there shall be none to hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain saith the Lord.  
And S. John goes on and declares the place where the Lord shall be with his at his return, and I John saw the holy City new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepa●ed as a bride adorned for her husban●, And I heard a great voice ●ur of heaven saying, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them▪ and th●y shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God; and so goes on in describing the perfection of that condition, tha● there shall be no more death▪ sorrow, crying, and pain▪ and as it follows after, no more curse; This is the glorious condition of Christ coming again to his own people according to his promise, and that he will abide with them forever in the new things which he shall create, & that it may appear unquestionable that the Saints shall inherit the earth after the Resurrection, hear God's promises to the patriarchs and their understanding of, and ho●● and expectation in them; and first we will begin with Abraham, where it is said and the Lord appeared unto Abraham, and said, unto thy seed will ● give this Land; and again, I will give unto thee & thy seed after thee, the Land wherein thou art a stranger, all the Land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God. No●e here that the Lord promiseth the possession of the Land to Abraham himself, to his own person, as well as to all, and every one of his spiritual seed, and so witnesseth the Author to the Hebrews, saying, That Abraham was called to go into a place which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance, mark it is, said he, that is himself not others for him as some unwarily have affirmed in these last times, and 〈◊〉 this sense ●nly Saint Paul calls Abraham the heir of the w●rld, by promise and grace included in God's promise above, and I will give unto thee &c.  
So the the Lord Almighty engages himself to Isaac that he would perform the oath that he swore unto his Father Abraham, saying unto thee and thy seed will I give all these Countries, and God appeared to Jacob his chosen at Lusse in the Land of Canaan, saith to him, the Land whereon thou liest to thee will I giv● it, and to thy seed; and their seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the South, and in thee and thy seed shall all the families of the earth be ●…essed.  Hym. 
Most Christians understand that ●h●se promises were fulfilled by Joshua when he divided the Land of cannon by lot ●or a possession to the Tribe of Israel.  Silv. 
But had our Ministers and Christians read and laboured to understand the Scriptures they would have been of the Apostles mind who affirms and clearly showeth that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the faithful and holy servants of God, ever understood thereby the everlasting inheritance and possession to them and their seed for ever, when they in their own persons that never enjoyed it, yet shall inherit it, for the holy Ghost saith by the testimony of faithful Stephen the Martyr; That Abraham had no inheritance in Canaan, no, not so much as to set his foot on, yet he (that is God) promised that he would give it him for a possession and to all his spiritual seed, which the aforesaid Apostle to the Hebrews in the eleventh Chapter, proves beyond all exception to be the heavenly country: and the temporal Canaan no other or further, neither in promise nor possession of the following seeds, nor otherwise (I say) then that it was a special representation, a type figure and shadow, preaching and teaching unto them, the spiritual, heavenly, holy, new and everlasting Land, wherefore thus saith the Apostle▪ These all died in Faith not having received the promises, but having seen them a far of: and were pe●swaded of them and embraced them: and confessed that they were strangers and Pilgrims on the earth, for they which say such things declare plai●ly that they seek a country, and truly had they been mindful of that Country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned but now they desire a better country, that is a heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a City, which City new Jerusalem is that before spoken of, even that new and heavenly City that comes with our Lord at his descension to the earth, where, and in which he will dwell for ever.  Hym. 
I did not think the Scriptures had been so plain for this matter as now I see them: I pray now proceed to the third particular, the King of this new and heavenly world.  Silv. 
The King of Zion is her Saviour, and the Scriptures call him the King of Glory, and that title that was written on his cross in his humiliation, in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, that is the title of his Crown and Dignity in his Exaltation, This is the King of the Jews; And as himself saith, for this end was I born▪ and for this end came I into the world; and so testifies the angel unto the Virgin Mary, and tells her that her son Jesus should be great, and called of all, the son of the Highest, and the Lord shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David, and he shall reign over the house of Israel for ever, and of his Kingdom there shall be no end.  
Thus that great favourer and much beloved of God, the Prophet Daniel, speaking by the holy Ghost of Jesus the Lord, he calleth him the son of God, and in the spirit of prophecy saith, that there was given him Dominion and Glory, and a Kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should fear him, his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion which shall not pass away, and his Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. The same Prophet in another place saith, In the days of these Kings (meaning the great oppressors of the earth) from the beginning of the world to the end: In their days, as before I told you of the Kings of the East and the whole world. For although there be many differing powers, as of gold and silver, &c. yet they all make but one enemy, one adversary, as it is said of Rome, in her shall be found the blood of all the Saints and Prophets, and of all that were slain upon the earth. It is so said, because all persecutors make but one generation; and it follows, and in the days of these Kings shall the God of heaven set up a Kingdom, which shall never be destroyed, and the Kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.  
For David saith, though the heathen rage, and the wicked people imagine vain things, yet saith the Lord, I have set my King upon my holy hill of Zion, who shall speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore disp●easure, his Dominions is from Sea to Sea▪ from the River to the ends of the earth, they that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him saith the Prophet, and his enemies shall lick the dust.  
How full doth Almighty God prove this himself, it's more clear than the Sun in its full light, In these words thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee, ask of me and I will give thee the Heathen for thy inheritance, the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession, thou shalt rule them with a rod of Iron, and break them to pieces like a potter's vessel; Thus reasoneth the Apostle for unto the Angels he hath not put into subjection the world to come whereof we speak, but unto the son he saith, Thy Throne, oh God is for ever and ever, a sceptre of righteousness is the Scepte● of thy Kingdom, thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet, and of that subjection more hereafter. And thus speaketh another of the Prophets, the Lord is King for ever and ever, and again the Lord sitteth King for ever, for the Lord most high is terrible, and he is a great King over all the earth.  
And again, sing praises with understanding, for God is the King of all the earth, for all Kings shall fall down before him, all nations shall serve him, so long as the Sun and moon endureth, Oh worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness fear before him, all the earth say amongst the heathen that the Lord reigneth, the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved, he shall judge the people righteously, and govern the nations on the earth. These Scriptures are so plain, they need no exposition, therefore let the Heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad, ●et the sea roar and the fullness thereof, let the field be joyful and all that therein is, than shall the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord, and the reason the holy Ghost giveth in these words following, for he cometh, for he cometh, that is the Lord cometh to judge the earth, he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth, Oh sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvelous things, his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory▪ for its the Lord that sitteth upon the throne of his holiness, it is the Lord that reigneth over the heathen; And another (saith the Lord) shall be King over all the earth, and in that day shall there be one Lord and his name one: And the Apostle calls him the everlasting King Jesus, who is the faithful witness and first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the Kings of the earth, who alone is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings thus one & all the messengers of salvation say unto Zion, thy God reigneth, and the same language the Lord himself speaketh; Thus saith the King of Ia●ob, the Lord, the King of Israel, who is thy redeemer, even the Lord of hosts, I am the first and I am the last, and besides me there is no God; and a● another time he saith, all power is given unto me of my Father both in Heaven and earth; great and special things do the Scriptures declare of this Kingdom, of its power and glory of which our Saviour acquainted his servants. Within these forty days, speaking to them of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God, which made them so desirous of the enjoyment and possession of it, that before his descending from them, their general request was unto him in these words, wilt thou at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel, just like the Mother of the two sons of Zebedee in the behalf of her Children, Lord, saith she out of a true affection of that perfection she desired; that her two sons might sit, the one at his right hand, the other at his left in his Kingdom, and truly now may we say, for thine is the Kingdom power and glory, for now we see it is the Lords only, and if all what hath been said will not satisfy, we have God's own oath for it, saying, by the mouth of the Prophet, I have sworn by myself, and the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear; and the Apostle affirms it from the Prophet, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father; I will add one place more, which proves all that hath been said of the time, the place, and the King, and that is showed in the days of the voice of the seventh Angel, when it shall begin to sound, there shall be time no more, the mystery of God shall be finished; there's the end of the world, the time; and the voice he sounded saith, the Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever; there's the place and the King both as he hath declared to his servants the Prophets.  Hym. 
To me the consent and harmony of the Scriptures thus applied, give great satisfaction and is very comfortable; I pray Friend, make good your promise in the other particulars.  Silv. 
The next thing I promised, was to consider what the Scriptures declare concerning the Subjects of this glorious King and Kingdom, for the Prophet saith, the Lord shall build up Zion when he shall appear in his glory; by Zion we are to understand God's faithful people, and by building them up a restoring of them to an estate of perfection according to his promise. Now because the Subjects of the world to come in a general respect is the whole creation, for so intimateth the Apostle, not only we, saith he, but every creature also waiteth for the glorious Liberty of the sons of God; therefore we will consider them in their order; and first for the Angels to prove they shall be subject, it is written, and let all the Angels of God worship him; Angels, saith the Apostle, they are ministering spirits sent forth, &c. that is Subjects or Servants, and the reprobate Angels, they are included in the general dimensions of the Prophets and Apostles before mentioned. Now in the next order of creatures we will consider mankind; first, the Saints, than the wicked.  
And that the Saints shall fear and serve their Lord the King, is clear by that Oath which he swore unto our Father Abraham, witnessed by Zacharias the Priest, that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear in righteousness and holiness, before him all the days of our lives: and these (of all other) the Prophet David calls the most free faithful and loyalst Subjects in these and other words: O come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our maker, for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture: and again, Praise ye the Lord, sing unto the Lord a new song and his praise in the Congregation of Saints, let Israel rejoice in him that made him, let the Children of Zion be j●yfull in their King; for the Lord taketh pleasure in his people, he will beautify the meek with salvation, let the Saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud upon their beds. And Saint John he joins in the Angels with all the Saints, saying, And I beheld and heard the voice of many Angels round about the Throne, and the holy Beasts and Elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the lamb that is slain to receive power and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing, and the four Beasts said Amen▪ and the four and twenty Elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever; so David calls upon the house of Israel, the house of Aaron, and the house of Levy: ye, that fear the Lord, bless the Lord, blessed be the Lord out of Zion which dwelleth at Jerusalem, praise ye the Lord.  
I find four things in Scripture that do set forth and declare the excellency of the glorious estate of the Saints in light; first, by a chaste spouse for purity and beauty; Secondly to a goodly City, for glory and safety; Thirdly, to a high Court of commission for authority, wisdom, and judgement; and fourthly, to a curious planted garden for pleasure and delight, and all these are subject and subordinate to their King, and that the Saints in their glorified estate, are set forth by a bride or chaste Virgin, is plain, full and admirably described in Scripture, the Prophet Esay is very elegant, in this, speaking of the church's glorification, saith, thou shalt also be a Crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal Diadem in the hand of thy God, thou shalt no more be termed forsaken, neither shall thy Land be any more termed desolate, but thou shalt be c●ll●d, my delight is in her, and thy Land married, for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy Land shall be married, for as a young man marrieth a Virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee, and as the Bridegroom rejoiceth over the Bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee Isa. 62. So the Apostle speaks to the Corinthians, that his ministry, his labour and Godly jealousy over them, was to present them a chaste Virgin unto Christ, and they that sung before the throne as it were a new song which no man could learn but the hundred & forty, and four thousand which were redeemed from the Earth, these are they which were not defiled with women faith the holy Ghost for they are Virgins, and so also this holy Apostle saith, And I John saw the holy City, new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as ● Bride adorneá for her husband: So also she is called the lamb's wife; and again, Let us rejoice and be glad, and give honour to him for the Marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready: And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white; for the fine linen is the righteousness of the Saints; in the time of her temptation and sufferings she was the King's daughter, and all glorious within; but now in her exaltation and nuptials she is also all glorious without, excelling in ornament and perfection; and in that she is the lamb's wife, she hath right & interest in all his glory, that is, honourable above all Lords and Kings, being their Lord and King; for she is flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone. And as her chastity and purity excels, so doth her beauty, so that the Lord her Bridegroom calls her the the fairest among women, glorious as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the Su●ne. My beloved, saith the Church, spoke and said unto me, Rise up my Love and fair one, and come away, for lo the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear in the earth, the time of the singing of Birds is come, the fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the Vines with the tender Grapes give a good smell: Arise my love, my fair one, and come away: which place shows plainly these speeches of love and beauty are spoken to, and of the Church in her perfection and restauration, and what speeches can exceed for love and beauty these expressions?  
Secondly, the eternal glory of God's people is set forth under the name of a City; And so saith that holy Prophet, Glorious things are spoken of thee, O thou City of God; yea even as a City stately builded, gloriously ordered, impregnably fenced, prudently governed, soundly and fully taught and instructed, safely kept and watched, the beauty and lustre of whose building astonishes and amazes all that pass by which consider and behold it: For thus saith the Lord, look upon Zion, the City of our Solemnit●es, thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down, not one of the starks thereof shall be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken; and the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquities: And I will, saith the Lord, make thy Officers peace, and thy exactions righteousness; Violence shall be no more heard in thy Land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy Walls salvation, and thy Gates praise: And be you glad, saith the Lord, and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy; and I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in thee, nor the voice of crying, for from henceforth shall no more come into thee, the uncircumcized nor the unclean; none shall enter into this City but such only, which are both in heart and in flesh circumcised, as the Prophet Ezeck saith: And the holy Citizens of this heavenly city, the Sun shall no more burn them by day, nor the Moon by night, they shall neither suffer hunger nor weeping, nor sin, nor die more, saith the Lord: wherefore awake, awake saith the Prophet, put on thy strength, O Zion, puton thy beautiful garment, O Jerusalem, the holy City: This is the City of the great King, wherefore arise and shine; for the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee: For thus saith the Lord, I will extend peace unto thee like a River, and the glory of the Gentiles as a flowing stream: As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem: This is Zion whom the Lord hath chosen, he the Lord hath desired her for his habitation, this is my rest for ever, saith the Lord, here will I dwell. The glory and safety of this city is so amply set forth by the Apostle, when he saw her in a vision, where he saith: And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great City, the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, and her light was like unto a stone most precious, and describes the great City in her glorious building, her walls great and high, having twelve Gates kept by twelve Angels, and that she had twelve foundations, so precious for the matter of it, that it exceeds pure gold, and all precious stones and pearls, magnificent for form, the length, the breadth, and the height of it equal; upon the twelve foundations were written the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb, the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof, the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it, and there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, &c. Here is both the glory and safety of this happy City described; this is the City that God prepared for the Patriarchs, the City with foundations before showed, which all the faithful expected and looked for, whose builder and maker is God: And upon one and all the Citizens of this City I will write upon him saith the Lord, the name of my God, and the name of the City of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down &c. And these faithful Subjects of God the holy Ghost calls by the name of the City itself, speaking of the evil reign and time of Antichrist: And they shall saith he tread the holy City under foot forty and two months; but when those days of the city's desolation shall be ended, than she shall have a Commission under the great seal of heaven, to tread her enemies under her foot, for so faith the Apostle, The Saints shall judge the world. And now we are come to the third particular, The commission of power and authority that the Saints shall have with their Saviour, which the Scriptures do largely declare. And thus the Lord saith to prove it, He that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my Throne: There is the commission and authority too, even as I have overcome, and am set with my Father in his Throne: and so promiseth our Lord to his Apostles, and assures it with an asseveration, Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed me in the regeneration, when the son of man shall sit in the Throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve Thrones, judging the twelve Tribes of Israel: and what in this he said unto them, he said unto all. And this the Prophet David well knew, when he sung this song, Jerusalem is build as a City that is compact together, whither the Tribes go up, The Tribes of the Lord unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord, for there are set Thrones of judgement, the Thrones of the house of David. And so in another place, Let the Saints be joyful in glory, let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hands, to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishment upon the people, to bind their Kings with chains, and their Nobles with fetters of Iron, to execute upon them the judgement written: This honour have all the Saints, praise ye the Lord. And thus saith the Lord to the Church of Thiatira, To him that overcometh, and keepeth my word to the end, to him will I give power over the Nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of Iron: As the vessels of a Potter shall they be broken to shivers, even as I received of my Father. So likewise doth he speak to the Angel of Philadelphia, Behold I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not, but do lie; Behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and they shall know that I have loved thee; So speaketh Solomon in his Proverbs, the prudent are crowned with knowledge, the evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous, then shall it be most true in the world to come, as hereafter shall be showed: So the Lord by the Prophet Jeremiah, speaking of Israel, The rod of the Lord's inheritance saith, thou art my battle Axe and Weapons of war, for with thee will I break in pieces the Nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms, and with thee will I destroy old and young, and with thee will I break in pieces the Chariot and his rider: And I will render unto Babylon, and to all the Inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion, in your sight saith the Lord: And when thine eyes shall see this, thine heart shall rejoice, as I have showed before; Sing O daughter of Zion, shout O Israel, be glad and rejoice with all thy heart O daughter of Jerusalem, for the Lord hath taken away thy judgements, and hath cast out thy enemy: the King of Israel is in the midst of thee: thou wast humbled, but now thou art exalted; thou wast oppressed, but now thou art delivered, thou wast judged, but now thou art freed; thou wast of low degree, but now thou art raised: Jerusalem is set up the praise and judge of the whole earth.  
According to this speaketh the Prophet Micah to the Church concerning her deliverance from sufferings to reigning: Behold at that time, saith the Lord, I will undo all that afflict thee, and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out: and I will get them praise and fame in every Land where they have been put to shame: At that time will I bring you again, in the time that I gather you, and I will make you a name and a praise amongst all people of the earth when I turn back your captivity befo●e your eyes, saith the Lord.  Hym. 
I am much beholding to you for this excellent discovery of God's servants condition in the world to come; I pray declare to me the fourth particular you promised.  Silv. 
I said that the state of perfection the Scriptures did well illustrate by a Garden for pleasure and delight, And in this the Prophet Isaiah is very fluent in speaking of the perfection of God's people & saith; for the Lord shall comfort Zion, he will comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden; and her desert like the Garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. And so in another place he saith, And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones; And thou shalt be like a watered Garden, and like a spring of water, whole waters fail not. So saith the wise King Solomon in the person of Christ; A Garden enclosed is my sister, my Spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed, thy plants are an Orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, Camphire, with Spikenard, Saffron, cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, with all the chief spices: Awake thou northwind, come thou South, blow upon my Garden, that the spices thereof may flow out: And the Church saith again, let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits: All which express nothing but pleasure and delight in reciprocal affection between Christ and his Church, the King saith the Lord dwelleth in the garden: and the Lord himself saith, I have chosen Zion to dwell in her. The beauty and excellency of this Church in her perfection was showed to Balaam in a vision: And made him thus fall into admiration: yea, how goodly are thy Tents oh Jacob, and thy Tabernacles O Israel; as the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the River side, as the trees of Ligna aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as the Cedar Trees by the waters. And there is a great deal of reason that the holy Ghost in the testimony of the Prophets should set forth the estate eternal, the estate of perfection by a pleasant Garden, for so God created it at first in that perfect condition in which it stood, where he gave his holy man Adam Dominion over all, over the Fish of the Sea, and over the fowl of the Ay●e, and over every living thing that moveth upon the Earth; And just so it shall be again in the Restauration, the second Adam the Lord from Heaven, shall have a never fading and a perpetual Dominion, as the Apostle speaks; for unto the Angels he hath not put in subjection the World to come, whereof we speak: But one in a certain place speaks, which is David, admiring what was prophesied of Christ's kingdom, breaks out in a Question (being amazed at the great Glory and Dominion prophesied of) and asked, What is man O God, that thou art so mindful of him, or the son of man, whom thou so visitest to give him Dominion over the work of thy Hands! Thou hast put all things in subjection under him: And this the Apostle understands the Prophet speaks of Christ and his kingdom.  
That holy Scribe Ezra, being largely showed the glorious estate of the church's Deliverance in the World to come, saith, For unto you is paradise opened, the Tree of Life is planted, the Time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is builded, and Rest is allowed; yea, a perfect goodness and wisdom. O happy are they that have thus the Lord to be their God, happy are the peohle that are in such a case: Arise, shake thyself from the dust, arise from trouble, and sit down in quiet; Oh Jerusalem enter into your Master's joy.  Him. 
Good friend, seeing the glory is so great of such as shall be saved which are willing and obey; and therefore eat the good things of the promised Land, what shall become of such as perish?  Silv. 
They that would not in their life time learn obedience by mercy shall be constrained after death by pain; its true that Hagar's generation the bond-womans' Children shall be cast out from inheriting with those that are free born of Sarah, for so directly speak the Scriptures by a doub●e witness, the Lord himself and one of his servants: Cast out this bondwoman and her Son for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir, with my free born son even my son Isaac; Where its plain and without all question that this generation shall not inherit, that is, shall not participate of the glory in the world to come, (whereof we speak) with Sarah's free born Children, but that they shall serve, and be subject to their King and his Saints for ever, and this appears plainly by Scripture, thus speaks Noah by the spirit of prophecy, Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren, and Canaan shall be Shem's servant, and again the Lord saith in another place, the elder shall serve the younger, and that the younger shall be Lord over his brethren, and then as all things shall be made new, so righteousness and judgement shall have the victory, and then shall Esay serve Jacob, Ishmael Isaac, and Cain Abel; and although in their former life time, they hated, persecuted, scorned, disdained, and killed them, even serving themselves of them whom they ought to have served, if truth had taken place; yet at the return of the Lord, as all his enemies shall be subdued to him and brought under his feet, these enemies amongst the rest shall be subjected: now the principal enemies to God, Christ his truth and his children are the devil, and these hard hearted, stifnecked rebels his Children, that as their Father, so are they implaceable and unreconcilable, and as he, so do they resist the holy Ghost, and will not have this man to reign over them, that is the Lord Christ; but they do and will break his bonds and cast his cords from them: and as they have always done, so they do now and will continue, (till he comes to reign in power and Majesty) profess themselves sworn enemies and adversaries to him and his; but when this world shall come to an end, and that world is come of which our Saviour saith, his Kingdom is of; then even shall he take, and slay before him all those his enemies, Slay them before me, saith the Lord, then shall the head wholly prevail and triumph over him that ever hath so exceedingly bruised, mortified and persecuted his heel, than he shall so subdue and break in sunder Satan and his Children, by his invincible power and regal authority, that he shall undo, frustrate, and make void Satan's whole plot and work; and the Scripture than shall be fulfilled which saith, and he, that is Christ, shall break his head, than the devil that hath deceived mankind ever since the world began, shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.  
Then there shall not be one knee amongst all the reprobate Angels and men, but shall bow, nor any tongue but shall confess (to the glory of God the Father) that Jesus Christ is both Lord and King, and although now they rage and take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, and invent lies and mischiefs against the Lord's truth and all his faithful servants, yet he that sitteth in the Heavens doth laugh at them, the Lord shall have them in derision, for the begotten of God the King of Zion, shall rule, govern and subdue those heathens, yea, he shall break them with a rod of Iron, saith the Prophet, and dash them to pieces like the vessel that the potter makes of clay, as was before mentioned, and as the Lord, so shall all that are his, have dominion over all the outcast, heathenish▪ hard hearted and unregenerate gentilish generation, for such names the Scripture gives them all, and therefore thus saith the Lord himself, he that overcometh and keepeth my words unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of Iron, &c. even as I received of my Father, that is, they shall execute the same power my Father hath given me; to this agreeth that Scripture which saith, All nations shall fea●e and obey him: And again, the Children of those that afflicted thee, shall be sold for slaves unto thee; And again, With thee will I break in pieces captains and Rulers, the old and young man and maid, Kings & subjects, none exempted of what language, sex, estate, or degree whatsoever: Finally, the last particular is, that the whole Creation, that is to prove all other Creatures besides men and Angels, they shall for ever serve, that is, magnify, set forth and further the glory of the great King and his Kingdom for ever without any opposition, cruelty, savageness or evil whatsoever, and therefore it's contained in Scriptures, that every creature that is in Heaven and on the earth and under the earth, and such as are in the Sea and all that are in them, heard I saying, saith Saint John, blessing honour, glory, and power be to him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the lamb for ever and ever; this proof is so general, as it takes in all places, Heaven and Hell, the whole Earth and the Sea, and all that are within them, are heard by the Apostle, to praise, honour & obey the Lamb, and this truth, the Prophet David declares excellently, where he saith, What is man that thou art so mindful of him, or the son of man that thou visitest him? thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, thou hast made him to have Dominion over the work of thy hand, thou hast put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, yea, & the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the Seas; which makes the Prophet cry out in admiration and wonder, O God our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Now the Apostle to the Hebrews declares this, that David spoke of Christ's Kingdom the world to come, as hath before been described, and therefore, saith he, for unto the Angels he hath not put in subjection the world to come, whereof I speak, but one in a certain place testified rehearsing the very words before repeated of the Prophet David, so that if any man say, the Prophet is not so to be understood, the Apostle himself makes answer and gives us an assurance so to believe, and this doctrine he preaches for truth without exception to the holy Romans, where he saith for the earnest expectation of the creature, waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God, and he gives the reason clear and plain, because saith he, the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious Liberty of the sons of God, for we know, saith he, speaking as if it were so well known to them, as certain, as their hoped for inheritance, that the whole creation, that is every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now, note how exact and elegant he is, he expounds the whole creation to be every creature, & that all these by a special instinct of nature are like a woman in travel that nothing in the world can prevent her bringing forth; & so it shall be with the whole creation in its restitution to its perfection, & lest it should not be clear enough, the Apostle goes on and in particular and apart speaks of the adopted of God, the heirs of the world to come, the inheritance of the salvation, saying, and not only they, but ourselves also, which have received the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit the redemption of our bodies; the words are so plain they need no exposition, proving the restauration of the whole creation as well as the Saints, which is further confirmed by that knowing Evangelist Saint Luke, who saith, And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you, whom the heavens must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began, which truth in times past was well known unto men, although now the world through ignorance understand it not, for the Lord saith by a holy Prophet; that his covenant with Sun and Moon, day and night is for ever, and again he saith he made not the Earth for nought, but to be inhabited, and he hath established it that it shall not be moved; and in another place speaking of the general restitution as Saint Paul doth, he saith with righteousness, shall he judge the poor, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked; and then from mankind goes on to other creatures, and saith, than shall the wolf dwell with the lamb, and the Leopard shall lie down with the Kid, and the calf and the young Lion, and the Fatling and a little Child shall lead them: and the Cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall lie down together, and the Lion shall eat straw like the Ox, and the sucking Child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned Child shall put his hand on the Cockatrises den, they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea; & in another place the same Prophet saith again, that the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the Lion shall eat straw like the Bullock, and dust shall be the serpent's meat; and again he saith, seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read, no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate, for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them, and the beast of the field, saith the Lord by the same Prophet, shall honour me: and again, Oh Zion break forth into singing, and let all the trees in the field rejoice and clap their hands, for in stead of the thorn shall come up the fig tree, and in stead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be unto the Lord for a name and for an everlasting signethat shall not be cut off; and another of the Lords' faithful ones, saith, moreover even the woods, and every sweet smelling tree shall over shadow Israel by the commandment of God, for God shall lead Israel with joy, with the light of his glory, even with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him.  Hym. 
That all Creatures shall be restored, methinks the Scriptures are plain and evident for, so that I cannot but acknowledge it is so; yet many objections also appear to me, some of the Scriptures you allege because such expressions are used which concern this present life, as the Calf, a Child, and Straw, as if there should be ploughing▪ and sowing, and increase, and multiplication of Creatures again.  Silv. 
As you say the Scriptures, in some particulars, do seem so to speak, both for fructification and sustentation; for the last our Lord speaks as if there might be such a thing, even as Adam had for his delight and pleasure to eat even in the time of his innocency in paradise, the fruit of all the trees in Eden, and excepted none but the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the words of our Lord are these, but I say unto you, I will not drink hence forth of this fruit of the vine, until I drink it new with you in my father's Kingdom: Note here this fruit of the vine, as distinguished from that which shall be new when the Kingdom of God comes, as Luke saith, as also that our Lord speaks further these words, & I appoint unto you a Kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me, that you may eat and drink at my Table in my Kingdom, and sit on Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel, and that there shall not be any more marrying or giving in marriage, by which I understand there shall be no further increase, but that man shall be as the Angels of God in Heaven in the resurrection; secret things belong unto God, and things revealed belong to us and our Children, and seeing the Scriptures have revealed so much, therefore break forth into joy, sing together ye wast places of Jerusalem, for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Zion, the Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God: thy faithfulness, Oh God, is unto all generations, thou hast established the earth and it abideth, they continue this day according to thy ordinance, for all are thy servants.  
Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy, for all nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgements are made manifest.  
FINIS.