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.

Reply.

Having spent your store and your stomack so vainly, that any one may perceive your wilfull mistake, you are forc't in the close, to shift it off with this pitifull excuse: [but it may be that this ex∣clamation was mape against the conjecture of Cornelius à Lapide; then he should distinguish the persons.] How? it may be? and he should distinguish the persons? Surely there is no other Commentatour spoken of; and almost a whole page is spent to shew, that he is out in his exposition of the Prophecies of Zech. which I have re∣hearst, and so contrary to the true meaning of the Prophecie, which I have alledg'd out of Zeph. that he interprets, the pou∣ring out of Gods fierce anger on the Nations: of his great mercy in sending the Gospel to be preach't unto them: upon which ground∣lesse exposition, I have inferr'd the words you are so much offen∣ded with. And it may be you had more reason to be so, then you will be knowne of, however (in stead of confirming that ex∣position, which perhaps you may too much favour) you take oc∣casion to tell us how conscionably you dispence the word of God. And may we believe you? what made you then so scornfully to call that remnant of the Jewes, whose temporall prosperity the Prophets have so frequently foretold, [a carnall people?] when as God himselfe saith of them: I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and I will reveale unto them abundance of peace and truth: and againe, I will put my feare into their hearts, that they shall not depart from me: and the remnant of Israel shall not doe iniquity, nor speake lies, &c. Yea, the regeneration of their persons, is almost as often foretold, as the restauration of their Land, their deliverance from captivity, or their Lord-ship over other Nations. And when you call them [carnall] whom

God so oft calls spirituall, yea, spirituall in a farre greater mea∣sure then we Gentiles are, doe you not put evill for good, darknesse for light, and bitter for sweet? And to what purpose doe you tell us [that some have liv'd more happily in the midst of Scythia, then many have done in Judea?] Doth this prove that these Prophecies shall not be historically fulfill'd? or that when they are fulfill'd, the Jewes shall not live so happily in Judea, as the Nations shall in o∣ther Countries? And it is to as much purpose, that you tell us out of the 11. ch. of John at the 31. ver. that Caiaphas prophecied, that Christ should die for the Jewes, and not for them onely, but that he should gather together in one the children of God, that were scattered abroad through the world, for doth any one de∣ny this? or doth this prove, that the Prophecies touching the Jewes, are not to be understood of the Jewes? doubtlesse it doth rather prove, that they can be no otherwise understood, see∣ing the Jewes cannot be made partakers of the benefits of Christs death, till they be call'd out of the darknesse of unbeliefe (in which they have liv'd so many hundred yeares) into the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, by the effectuall working of Gods Spirit in them, as the Prophets have said.