The next prophecy shall be that of Joel, who mentions the very fignes, which our Saviour said should be the immediate fore-runners of the Jewes Redemption. And it shall come to passe afterwards (saith he in his 2. chap. at the 28 ver.) that I will powre out my spirit up∣on all flesh, and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecy, your old men shall dreame dreames, and your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants, and upon the handmaids in those dayes will I powre out my spirit, and I will shew wonders in the Heavens, and in the earth blood, and fire, and pillars of smoake: the s 1.1 Sun shall be turned into darkenesse, and the Moone into blood before the * 1.2 great and terrible t 1.3 Day of the Lord come. And it shall come to passe that whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in Mount Zion, and in Hierusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call. And in the 3. chap. at the 1. ver. Behold in those daies, and in that time, when I shall bring againe the captivity of Judah and Hierusalem, I will also gather all Nations, and will bring them downe into the valley of Jehosaphat (which in the 14.
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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"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 16, 2024.
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verse is called the valley of decision) and will plead with them there for my people, and for my heritage Israel whom they have scattered among the Nations, and parted my Land. And at the 15. verse, againe. The Sun and the Moone shall be darkened, and the starres shall withdraw their shining, the Lord also shall roare out of Zion, and utter his voyce from Jerusalem, and the u 1.4 Heavens, and the earth shall shake, but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the sirength of the children of Israel.
The Apastle Peter not onely makes use of these words, but expones them, and shewes the accomplishment of them in some degree; (as it is said in the sixth rule before) for Act. 2.16. he saith. This is that which was spoken by the Prophet Ioel, And it shall come to passe in the last daies &c. And verse, 22. Ye men of Israel heare these words, Jesus of Nazareth a man approved of God among you by miracles, wonders and signes, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye your selves know.
The Apostle repeats, but expounds not the Prophets words, and consequently shewes not the accomplishment of ought that the Prophet affirms shall be done. All that he shewes is this, That the thing which then happened to the Apostles, was the worke of the same spirit which Joel spake of: but he saith not, that it was the same worke. The same spirit indeed was then powred out, but it was not the same powring out of the spirit. And for want of distinguishing betwixt the effusion of the same spirit, and the same effusion of the spirit; you affirme, that those things which the Prophet saies the spirit shall doe not long before the Lord's second comming, were then done at his first comming. And the reason you bring from St. Peters words, Act. 2. verse 22. to shew, that the prophecy of Joel was then fulfild in part, is a very strange one. For the Prophet shewes what others shall doe through the extraordinary inspiration of the Spirit, before the Day of the Lord comes; and the words you have alledg'd doe shew, what works Christ himselfe did, when he was come.
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s 1.1
Isa. 24. v. 23. Mat. 24. v. 29. Rev. 6. v. 12.
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* 1.2
Great not onely in regard of the strangenesse and dreadful∣nes of events, of things then to come to passe, but great also in regard of the long continuance and tract of time, which God in his revelations hereafter to be fulfild, doth by the word [Day] as well without this epither as with it, frequently import.
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t 1.3
Bezk. 39.8. Mal. 4.5. sude, 6. Rev. 16.14.
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u 1.4
Isa. 2.19. &c. Ezek. 38.19.20. Hag. 2.22. Mat. 24.29. Rev. 16.18. ch. 6.13.14.