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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Maton, Robert, 1607-1653?
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London :: Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock,
1652.
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Petrie, Alexander, -- 1594?-1662. -- Chiliasto-mastix.
Second Advent.
Millennium.
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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 1, 2024.

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Reply.

That which shall be given up is not past as yet, you say; true, and that which shall be ginne, is not come as yet. But surely, it is false to say that we acknowledge Christs Kingdome shall not be given

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up altogether: that we acknowledge I say, that Christ as man, as the Sonne of David, shall not then cease to reigne, when the generations of men, over which he must reigne, shall cease. And this earth on which he must reigne, shall passe away. In a word, when at the last resurrection he shall take the elect with him, in∣to eternall glory and delight, and turne the reprobate from him into endlesse horrour and contempt. For we know that the A∣postle, in 1 Cor. 15.24.28. teacheth otherwise, saying, Then commeth the end, when he shall have delivered up the Kingdome to God even the Father, &c. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Sonne also himselfe be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be allin all.

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