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.

Israel's Redemption.

Neither were Judah and Israel, then in the Land together. [ 66]

Mr. Petrie's Answer.

There is neither Jew nor Greeke, neither bond nor free, neither male nor female, but we are allone in Christ Jesus: and if ye be Christs, then are ye Abrahams seed, and heires according to the promise, Gal. 3.28.

Reply.

In the 23 chap. of Jer. we reade this prophecy, Behold the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David, a righteous Branch, and a King shall reigne and prosper, and shall execute judgement and justice on the earth. In his dayes, Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his name, whereby he shall be saved. The Lord our righteousnesse. In which words there are these particu∣lars foretold: first, that Christ should be borne of the seede of David, I will raise unto David, a righteous Branch. Secondly, that he should reigne, And a King shall reigne and prosper. Thirdly, how he should reigne; to wit, civilly, as other Kings: which is set forth, first, by the quality of his administration, And shall ex∣ecute judgement and justice. Secondly, by the place where he should doe it, On the earth Thirdly, by the people amongst whom, the Jewes, the Tribes of Judah and Israel. And fourthly, by the time when, to wit, when the Jewes should be redeemed out of captivity and set••ed in their land: When Judah shall be sa∣ved, and Israel shall dwell safely. Now of all these particulars, there is but one already accomplisht, which is that touching our Savi∣ours incar••ation: and the rest remaine to be fulfilled at his next appearing. Amongst which, I have alledged onely the last; to prove that our Saviours reigning here foreshewed, was not fulfil∣led

at his first appearing, to wit, because Israel was not then in the land with Indah. To which you give no other answer but this, [There is neither Jew nor Greeke, neither bond nor free, nor male, nor female, but we are all one in Christ Jesus: and if we be Christs, then are we Abrahams seed, and heires according to the promise.] And what then? doth this make the prophecies of God of none ef∣fect? may the reader conclude from hence. Therefore Iudah and Israel shall not dwell safely in the land together, nor Christ be sent to reigne over them on the Throne of David? Surely he may as well conclude, Therefore amongst Christians, there are no men, nor women: no masters, nor servants: no Iewes, nor Gentiles. But the Apostles words will countenance no such con∣tradictory inferences: for his meaning is, That grace doth con∣joyne and assimulate those whom naturall and civill respects doe difference and div de. For they that have put on Christ, are not distinguisht in him, (he saith) as they are in the world, by nation, sexe, and condition, but they are all one. They are one in deno∣mination and title, being all Christians; they are one in ranke and society, being all of one mysticall body; they are one peo∣ple, being all Abrahams seed, and they have one inheritance, be∣ing fellow-heires according to the promise. And what though the beleeving Gentile be one in Christ with the beleeving Iew? was he not so before Christs incarnation, as well as since? was he not Abrahams seed before as well as since? was he not heire according to the promise before as well as since? What hinders then but that the Iewes may (notwithstanding this spirituall uni∣on and fellowship with the beleeving Gentiles,) be (as heretofore, so) at their generall conversion againe advanced above all other Nations by many not onely outward favours and priviledges but by a greater measure of inward gifts and abilities also?