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.

You should here have told us, whether the bodies of the Saints shall not reigne with Christ as well as their soules; in stead whereof you tell us, [that their soules dye not, and that when Christ cames, their bodies shall be made alive, and both bodies and soules shall be with him for ever.] I dare say this answer was never learned in any approved schoole: and I beleeve indeed, that this Querie did put you to a stand. For if you should have denyed, that the bodies of the Saints must reigne as well as their soules, you could thew no reason for it. And if you should have granted it, you had herein denyed your owne Tenet, to wit, that the Saints do now reigne, because while they are in this life, they suffer in their bo∣dies all manner of distresse, they are hungry, thirsty, naked, scour∣ged, buffered, banished, tormented; and when their soules de∣part out of this life, their bodies are left behind to moulder into dust. So that neither while they are in the body, nor when they are out of the body, are their bodies in a condition agreeable to a regall estate; to the quiet, free, honourable, powerfull, and de∣lightsome

estate of Kings; of such as rule over others. Yea it is in regard of their bodily afflictions onely, that they are here of all men most miserable: and the spirituall conquest of their souls, is indeed the principall occasion of mens tyrannizing over their bodies, and of their conquering and destroying the life thereof.