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.

Thirdly, [ 91] not to contemne or revile the Jewes, a fault too com∣mon in the Christian world: and that partly, because we are

unmindfull as well of the Olive from whence we were taken, as of that into which we are graffed, whose root beares us, and not we the root, and partly, because we misapply the infallible promises of God, by which he hath so freely, and so feelingly: so often, and so openly declared, that he will again graffe them in. For if we were cut out of the Olive tree, which is wild by nature, and were graffed contrary to nature into a good Olive tree, bow much more shall they which be naturall branches, be graffed into their owne Olive tree? Rom. 11.24.

Mr. Petrie's Answer.

Whether serveth more for to move us to love the Jewes, to know that the Jewes and Gentiles are one in Christ, whensoever they shall be converted: or to thinke, that the Jewes shall not be converted, till Christ come againe, and then they shall be Lords over the Gentiles a 1000 yeares? The former doctrine presently throweth downe the parti∣tion wall, and this opinion still holdeth it up, at least for a 1000 yeares.

Reply.

This Query as it doth in it selfe containe an apparent untruth, so it is grounded on a misreport of our Tenet. For first it makes us to thinke, that there shall be no Jewes converted, untill the whole Nation be converted; whereas we hold the partiall, and (as I may so call it,) typicall conversion of them, the conversion of them, I say, in their first fruites, with you; and the generall and contemporating conversion of them, the conversion of them in the whole lump, against you. Onely we say, that the partiall and successive conversion, their conversion in some particular per∣sons and families, hath since the Apostles dayes been very thinne and rare. Secondly, you make us to thinke, that the Jewes shall not be converted till Christ comes, when as we hold, that they shall be converted before his comming, and be wholly freed from the opposition of the Gentiles, at and by his comming; at the judgement which shall light on the world when he descends to dustroy the Army in Armageddon. And thirdly, you make us to thinke, that there shall be no spirituall union betwixt the Jewes and Gentiles in the time of the thousand yeares reigne, whereas there is not to be a full and perfect union betwixt them, in their acknowledgement and worship of the true God till then, and in that time. As our Saviours prophecy John 10.16. and Zech. 14.16.

&c. and Isai. 2.2, 3, 4. and many other doe witnesse. And though the Gentiles shall then be tributaries to the Jewes, yet they shall be much more happy in this subjection, wherein they shall have Christ for their King, and the glorified Saints for their chiefe governours under him, then ever they were in their former li∣berty; which for the most part they so much abused to the pro∣vocation of Gods everlasting wrath against them. Even as now you account that Jew which is become the Lords free-man, which savingly embraceth the truth of the Gospell, much more happy in his captivity under, and subjection to the Gentiles; then if he were Lord of the whole earth, and withall a stranger from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and being with∣out God in the world. These are your misreports, and as for your Query it selfe, it is false to imagine; that the knowledge of the conversion of a few Jewes, can move us to a greater love to∣wards them, then the knowledge of the conversion of the whole Nation can. And what love soever you may grant to be due to them, in your dispute of it: we may well thinke, that you make shew of little towards them in your actions, as these words pag. 65. [Let Jewes follow Jewish fables, &c.] doe manifest. In which there neither appeares any symptome of your desire of their con∣version, nor of your love towards them, or us.