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.

Mr. Petrie's Answer.

1. This subterfuge will not serve, for he saith in the preceding page, that the Prophecie, Hosea 1. is meant of the Jewes; and if that be true (which I have proved to be false) it is not meant of the Israelites.

2. The Apostle verse 24. is speaking expressely of the Faithfull, not of the Jewes onely, but also of the Gentiles, and hither to be useth that te∣stimony of Hosea.

3. Of the Gentiles doth he expone the same testimonies in other texts, where he is not speaking of election, nor of the freenesse thereof, as 2. Cor. 6.16.

Reply.

1. In the preceding page I have said, that the Prophecie Hos. 1. is mea•••• onely of the Jewes, [and if that be true, say you, it is not meant of the Israelites.] O rare criticisme! O profound sub••letie! Jewes are not Israelites, and Israelites are not Jewes. But surely if it be meant of the one it must needs be meant of the other: for they are both the names of the same people, and the Apostle calls them by both in the 9. chap. of the Rom. ver. 4. and 24. Yea, they are indifferently us••d one for the other in the last part of your former Answer, for [as the Israelites by Idolatry became like unto the Gen∣tiles; so, say you, the Gentiles receiving the Gospel are Jewes.] So readie are you to censure that for an errour in another, which you allow for a truth, when spoken by your selfe.

2. 'Tis true that the Apostle speakes expressely of the Jewes and Gentiles, in the 24. verse, but it is not true (that hitherto he useth the

testimony of Hosea,) for the 24. ver. hath relation onely to the pre∣ceding verse, and not to that which followeth, so that it is as if the Apostle had said, And that he might make knowne the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, even on us (as on a part of them) which he had afore prepared unto glory, and hath now called, not of the Jewes onely, but also of the Gentiles. For the 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24. verses are brought in by way of digression, to satisfie such as might from the discourse of the freenesse of Gods election, be readie to dispute against his Justice: and at the 25. v. he returnes againe to confirme this Doctrine, partly by other Scriptures in Hosea, and Isaiah, which shew Gods eternall purpose, in passing by some, and receiving others of the Israelites: and partly, by Gods receiving the Gentiles even in the time of his passing by the Israelites, as the 30, 31, 32, and 33. verses doe manifest.

3. You said before, that the words alledg'd in the 2 Cor. 6. chap. at the 16. ver. I will dwell in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people, were taken out of Ezek. chap. 37. ver. 27. and are they now taken out of Hosea too? but what is it that you will not say, to make a shew of answering, and to puzzle the unlear∣ned Reader? for the Apostle neither mentions Ezek. nor Hos. and tis most likely that he tooke these words out of the 26. chap. of Levit. at the 13. ver. (as I have said) and he makes no other use of them, but to shew that the faithfull Corinthians were be∣come Gods people, and therefore should no longer yoke them∣selves with the servants of Belial, either in the observance of their Idolatrous Feasts and pastimes, or in any extraordinary familia∣rity.