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.

M^r. Petrie's Answer.

It was not prophecied of the Jews onely: for it is plaine, that Hosea speakes of the Israelites, as well vs of the Jews: and generally the Apostle speaks Rom. 10.12. there is no difference between the Jew and the Greeke: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. So that albeit the Prophet was sent personally unto the Israelites, yet his words were no lesse true and meaned of the Gentiles, who then were not the people of God, but now through Christ are the people of God? for whosoever shall call upon the Name of God shall be saved.

Reply.

I have here cal'd the ten Tribes Jews in opposition to the Gen∣tiles, and you say that [this was not prophecied of the Jews onely, for it is plaine that Hosea speaks of the Israelites, as well as of the Jews] A wild exception, for are not these Israelites, Jews? certainly Israelites and Jewes, are the proper names of that Nation. And though af∣ter the division of the Tribes, Israel and Judah were often used to distinguish the two Tribes from the ten, and the ten from the two; yet the word [Jews] was never thus us'd. For by this Name all the Tribes are cal'd in the History of Hester, and in many other places, and in that instance that you bring out of the Rom. chap. 10. ver 12.

the word [Jew] is taken indifinitely for any Jew. And wherefore it it that you urge these words of the Apostle? doe you think that it proves the name [Jew] to be indifferently taken for a Jew or a Gen∣tile? surely these words shew, that the beleeving Gentile is as ac∣ceptable to the Lord as the beleeving Jew: and that there is no∣thing in the Jew which can move God to bestow grace on him, father then on the Gentile, as the following words con••••••me: but they shew not that God takes a faithfull Jew for a faithfull Greeke, nor a faithfull Greeke for a faithfull Jew. And therefore you can∣not conclude from hence [that albeit the prophet was sent perso∣nally unto the Israelites, yet his words were no lesse true and meaned of the Gentiles] for though through Christ all beleevers are the people of God, yet through Christ a beleever of one Nation, is not made a beleever of another Nation: & though every one that (confi∣dently) cals upon the name of the Lord shall be saved; yet every one that cals on the name of the Lord shall not thereby become a Jew. And how can you take Israelite; for Gentiles, who are of different Nati∣ons from them; and yet will not take Israelites for Jews, which is a Name belonging equally to all the Tribes? But you herein con∣demne S^t Paul, who sometimes calls himselfe a Jew, and sometimes an Israelite; and could he be both, if these Names doe not equally belong to the same Nation?