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 told us even now, [That Christ reigneth on the true Throne of David.] And you tell us here, [That he sits on the right hand of the Throne of Maj sty in heaven, which was typified by the Throne of David.] And doth he reigne then on both these Thrones at once? on the true Throne of David, (the type) and on the Throne of God, (the antitype,) too? But I pray, what scripture doth teach you to call the Throne of David, a type of the Throne of God? Surely if this were so, Christ must needes have reigned on the Throne of his Father David, before he could have been ex∣alted to the right hand of the Throne of Majesty on high. Be∣cause the possession of the typicall Throne, must needes proceede the possession of the typified Throne. This therefore is an un∣warrantable conceit: and we know that these prophecies speake onely of his reigning on the Throne of his Father David, and not of his reigning on the Tarone of God. And if by the Throne of David which is promised to Christ, is meant the Throne of God; what then is meant by the Throne of the House of Israel, which is promised to him, Jer. 33.17? Is not this all one with the Throne of David? if it be, then by the Throne of David cannot be meant the Throne o•• God: unlesse you will say, that by the Throne of Israel, the Throne of God is meant also. And if the Throne of Israel be not meant of the Throne of David, then tell us what it is; and why you take it to be all one with the Throne of Da∣vid, pag 26. where you alledge this text of Jeremiah, to shew

that the promises of the Priesthood, and of the Kingdome, are conjoyned and mixed after the same straine. And tell us too what is meant by the Kingdome of David, upon which Christs govern∣ment is said to be, as well as upon the Throne of David, Isai. 9.7. And besides, what reason can you alledge, wherefore we should not as well take that part of these prophecies in a proper sense, which speakes of our Saviours reigning on the Throne of David; as that part which speakes of his being borne of the seede of Da∣vid, the one being revealed unto us in as plaine termes as the other?