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.

How, you say, he shewes no Argument for his purpose, but gives a buze for reconciling the 26. ver. with chap. 60. ver. 19. And doe you

speake this in good earnest? I pray then tell us, when the light of the Moone shall be as the light of the Sunne: and when the light of the Sunne shall be seven fold, as the light of seven dayes; if it shall not be fulfill'd at the time of our Saviours reigne on earth. For as yet it hath not been thus, and after the last resurrection it cannot be, because then the day and night shall come to an end, as it is Job. 26. ver. 10. because then these Heavens in which the Sunne, Moone, and Starres are set shall passe away, shall be no more found, as it is, Rev. 20. ver. 11. and Job. 14. ver. 12. And therefore it must needs be thus at the restoring of the Kingdome to Israel, or as the Prophet here expresseth it, in the Day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound, and so here is not onely [a buze] but such an argument too for our pur∣pose, as you knew better how to avoyde, then answer, how to conceale, then to reconcile with your opinion: (and yet if you like not the buze you speake of, I can give you another buze, for per∣haps that text in the 60. ch. may be thus understood, to wit, that the cloud which chap. 4. the Lord hath promised to create upon every dwelling place of mount Sion, shall both defend it from the heat of the Sunne, and be it selfe a light unto it by day, and that the shi∣ning of the flaming fire, which he will create, shall be in stead of the brightnesse of the Moone unto it by night) But [all my travell in the reconciling of the 26. verse of this chapter, with the 19. ver. of the 60. chap. might have been spar'd, you say, if I had considered, that Isa. chap. 30. had a particular warning for the Jewes in his owne time, and so repeating the severall heads of the chap. you conclude, all which were accomplisht in the Prophets owne time, as we may finde in chap. 37.] And what doe wee finde there? doe we finde that the threatning against the Jewes, chap. 30. for their confidence upon Egypt, and their contempt of Gods word, was fulfill'd in Senna∣cheribs threatning to come up against Hezekiah? no, but the con∣trary, that Sennacherib was disappointed of his purpose by Heze∣kiahs prayer unto the Lord. Doe we finde then that the destructi∣on of the Assyrian which is foretold in the 30. chap. was fulfill'd in that slaughter of an hundred and fourscore and five thousand of Sennacherib's Army mention'd chap. 37? no, for that slaughter was an extraordinary Judgement of God by an Angel sent in the night to destroy them: but the destruction spoken of in the 30

chap. was to be in more then one place, and to be performed with Tabrets and Harpes: and in battles of shaking, as the 32. verse doth declare. Doe wee finde then that the mercies of God foretold in the midst of the 30. chap.—for the people shall dwell at Sion in Jeru∣salem, thou shalt weepe no more.—And there shall be upon every high mountaine, and upon every high hill rivers, and streames of water—Moreover the light of the Moone shall be as the light of the Sun, &c. Doe we finde it recorded in the 37. ch. that these things were fulfill'd in the Prophets dayes? no, wee finde not a word there touching ought of all this Prophecie; and therefore the 37. chap. is onely a Chronicle of that which passed betwixt Hezekiah and Sennacherib; and no Register of the accomplishment of what is foretold in the 30. chap. and consequently Mr. Petrie in affirming this, of pur∣pose to shift off the invincible evidence of that which wee have al∣ledged out of the 30. chap. for the restauration of the creatures, hath shewed himselfe a teacher fit for none, but such as the Pro∣phet mentions, chap. 30. ver. 10. who said unto the Prophets, Prophe∣cie not unto us right things; speake unto us smooth things, prophecy de∣ceits.