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 first objection.

It is said, He shall assemble the out-casts of Israel, and the disper∣sed of Judah.

M^r Petrie's Answer.

The Gospel (which is Christs Standard) hath been preached unto them, Jam. 1.1. and so their assembling is into the bosome of the Church.

Reply.

And so you separate these words from the rest of the Prophe∣cie, and apply them to the calling of the Jewes at the first preach∣ing of the Gospel, of purpose to delude the Reader; for the Prophecie speakes of their returne into their owne Countrey, and not at all of the preaching of the Gospel unto them in other Countries, as any one may perceive. And yet although the Gos∣pel was in the first dayes thereof preach't to the Jewes scattered abroad, what effect had it amongst them? surely St. Paul Act. 13. ver. 45, 46. and in the 1 Thess. 2. ver. 14, 15, 16. doth testifie, that

such was their malice against the Apostles for preaching of it, that they laboured all they could, to raise up enemies against them, thereby to hinder the growth of the Gospel, not onely a∣mongst their owne Nation, but amongst the Gentiles also: so that even in this sense, Israel and Judah, the twelve Tribes are not yet assembled. And it is observable how palpably you here con∣tradict your former words, for here you expound Israel and Ju∣dah properly of the Iewes onely, as your quoting of the first chap. and first ver. of the Epistle of St. James doth shew, and yet in the second part of your Answer you tell us, that both the Prophet and St. Paul doe expound [his people] to be the Gentiles.