The fourth rule.
[ 4] As Christ is said to be the Lambe of God shine from the beginning
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.
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- 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.
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- Maton, Robert, 1607-1653?
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- London :: Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock,
- 1652.
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- Petrie, Alexander, -- 1594?-1662. -- Chiliasto-mastix.
- Second Advent.
- Millennium.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50278.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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of the world, Rev. 13.8. not only in the decree of God, but by vertue and efficacy, seeing by vertue of his blood (at that time to be shed) were Adam and Abel reconciled unto God, and delivered from the power of Satan: So Christ's Kingdom began then: for in Christ, Adam, Abel, and we are one body and members of the same Kingdom, howbeit in ex∣tent and largenesse it did most flourish and appeare since the Incarnation, in which respect it is said to begin at or after his incarnation.
Answer.
It is true that the Gospel of Christ (which he calls the Kingdom of God, Mat. 21. verse 43.) began in Adam, to whom it was first preacht, and by whom it was first embraced; but it is not true, that it did flourish more at Christ's incarnation, then it did when all the Tribes were in the land together, and undivided, as in the times of Samuel, David, and Solomon. Nor that it did begin a∣gaine, when after Christ's ascension it was spread amongst the Gentiles: for that was onely a translating of it from the Jewes to the Gentiles, as our Saviour witnesseth Mat. 21. verse 43. The King∣dom of God shalbe taken from you, and given to a Nation bringing forth the fruites thereof. And therefore this is your bare affirmation, not onely besides, but against the expresse word of God.