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.

Mr. Petrie's Answer.

These texts may prove something against your fellow Mr. Archer, who thinks that Christ after he hath put the Jewes in possessionof their Monarchy, shall ascend againe into the heavens, and the Jewes in the meane time shall reigne till his third comming: But they prove nothing against us, who hold that Christ reigneth on the true Throne of David.

Reply.

This answer is a double confession of the truth you oppose; for first in saying [That these texts prove something against Mr. Ar∣cher, who thinks that Christ after he hath put the Jewes in possessionof their Monarchy shall ascend againe into the heavens,] you plainely acknowledge, that they prove his abode amongst them to go∣verne their restored Kingdome. And consequently, that you your selfe are in an errour, in denying the restauration of their Kingdome, as well as Mr. Archer was in denying Christs perso∣nall and immediate government of it. And secondly, in saying, [That they prove nothing against you, who hold that Christ reigneth on the true Throne of David.] You acknowledge likewise, that these prophecies doe prove, that our Saviour was to reigne on the true Throne of David: and consequently, that (seeing he hath not yet,) he shall hereafter reigne over the whole Nation

of the Jewes in their owne d 1.1 land, The Throne of Israel, on which David reigned being the true Throne of David, and no other. But to say, that Christ now reigneth on the true Throne of David, is to affirme, that he is now reigning over the Jewes in the Land of Judea: and what can be further from truth then this?

Notes

• d 1.1

  Ier. 33.15, 16, 17.