Christs personall reigne on earth, one thousand yeares with his saints the manner, beginning, and continuation of his reigne clearly proved by many plain texts of Scripture, and the chiefe objections against it fully answered, explaining the 20 Revelations and all other Scripture-prophecies that treat of it : containing a full reply to Mr. Alexander Petrie ... who wrote against ... Israels redemption / by Robert Maton.

The third rule.

It is usuall in the Scriptures, to name the type, [ 3] and understand the thing signified by the type. And therefore as it is said Heb. 6.2. Christ is the Minister of the Sanctuary, and of the true Tabernacle, that is, of that which truly was signified by the Tabernacle: so he may be said the true David, and his Throne the true Throne of David, and his King∣dom the true Jerusalem, and the true Sion.

Answer.

We acknowledge that in the Scriptures, the signe is sometimes taken for the thing signified; and the thing signified some times for the signe. But yet we know too, that such figurative expressions are easily discerned from those which are plainly and properly delivered. And therefore we cannot acknowledge, that the Throne of David and Jerusalem or Sion, are figuratively to be understood, of the Throne of God, and of Heaven, or of the Church, seeing the Spirit of God doth no where intimate unto us, such a sense of them, but alwaies the contrary.