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.

That the [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] the power our Saviour speakes of Matth. 28.18. was given to him as man, and not as God, (for so he had it from all eternity) interpreters agree. And what though all power in heaven and on earth was then given to Christ as man? What doth this make against my words, which affirme that Christ as man shall after the judgement of the dead, after all things are subdued unto him, surrender againe this power, (as having no further use of it,) and in the new Jerusalem, (not reigne as man, but) be himselfe subject to the Father? Or what doth it make a∣gainst Christs 1000 yeares reigne on earth, that he had then all power in heaven and on earth given unto him? unlesse it will follow from hence, that if he had been to reigne visibly on earth, he might, and would have done it at that time. But certainely this will not follow, for though our Saviour had then all power given him, yet he was toexercise it, to doe all that was to be done by it, in that order and manner which God had appoin∣ted

it to be done, and no otherwise. And therefore as we ac∣knowledge, that God had from all eternity the same power of creation, which in the beginning of this world, he first of all put into act and exercise; so we acknowledge likewise, that Christ hath now that power by which he shall reigne visibly on earth; although he cannot put it into act untill he descend to take the Kingdom••s of this world unto himselfe. Thus we finde that he had power to lay downe his life, and power to take it againe, before ••e did eith••••, John 10.18. And that all judgement, even the judgement of the great day, was committed unto him at his first comming John 5.22. And thus it appeares, that a••l your an∣swers to the consequences by which we have proved our Savi∣ours visible reigne on earth, are of no consequence at all.