Theopolis, or the city of God new Jerusalem, in opposition to the city of the nations great Babylon; comprehending the blessing and benefit of Christs Kingdom, in the thousand years reign before his personal coming and appearing, after the total ruine of the beast, and his kingdom. In a coment upon the 10th. and 21st. chapters of the revelations. With an additional answer to these two material questions: 1. Whether the thousand years reign is not already past, as Brightman, and others affirm. 2. Whether the natural Jew is not most concerned in the latter day promises prophecies, especially in the pulling down Babylon, and building of Zion, as Maton, and others assert

Of the rest of the Dead that lived not. But the rest of the Dead lived not again till the thousand years were finished.

IN the understanding of this death of the wicked, interpreters as much differ, as they do about the living of the Saints. Some suppose a Corporeal death that is here intended; intimating that whilst the Saints and Martyrs are raised, to live and Reign with Christ, the bodies of the wicked shall not be raised, but are to lye in their Graves, all the thousand years.

And others suppose it a spiritual death, a death in sin, an unconverted, unregenerated state, that the wicked will be found in during all the thou∣sand years.

But it is humbly conceived there is the same good ground t'understand this as the former living of the Saints, viz. in a metaphorical sense: As that living of the Saints is to be taken to be a civil life;

so this death of the wicked is to be understood a civil death, being the direct Antithesis to the former, and so indeed no other then a confir∣mation, and illustration of that happy state of the Saints; for as when the Beast and Dragon and their worshipers lived, viz. were found in the full exercise of power, Rule and Authority in the world, the Saints then civilly dyed, being not only put out of all capacity of that kind, but made lyable to all manner of natural deaths and distress for opposing their usurpations, and refusing their Idolatrous worship; so when the Saints come to take their turns to live in power and authority, then shall all the Beasts and Dragons worshipers and followers, take their turns in a state of death too, not only thrust from all Rule and Authori∣ty, but rendred lyable to give an account with their lives and liberties for all their cruelties and murders, during their tyrannous usurpations: When they must have retaliation, and be filled in the Cup, they have filled to others, and be re∣warded as they have rewarded the Saints, during their reign and rage. For how much she hath glorified her self and lived deliciously, so much torment and soorrw she must have.

Object. But why called the rest of the Dead that lived not again?

This also is a proper Character of the false Church, holding out their present posture and

condition, sometimes termed Earth-dwellers, Beast-worshipers and Wonderers, Babylon, Whore, a Glorious Queen, City of the Nations, and here according to their dethroned, slaughter∣ed, imprisoned, captivated state, The Dead that lived not.

But why the Rest of the Dead, so read, as Pa∣reus, after the manner of the Greek, the Gene∣tive for the Nomnative, the rest of the dead for the rest being dead: so Rev. 9.20. rest of the men, that is, other men. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 being o∣ther, as Eph. 6.10. 1 Cor. 7:29. 1 Tim. 4.13, 20. The Saints that were dead, that would not worship formerly in the Dragons and Beasts life and reign are now alive: But the other men that worshiped Beast and Dragon, enter now a state of Death and Judgment, who are judged to death all the thousand years, no more to Rule or Reign either in Civils, Militaries, or Ecclesiasticks (for, or under the Beast) during that time, then they permited the Saints to exercise any such So∣veraignty for, and in the behalf of Christ, during their day; for as one goes up, the other goes down. They are not to live again till the thou∣sand years be finished, implying that when the Dragon is loosed, there will then be a Military power and jurisdiction at least, that they may live to, again in opposition unto Christ and the Saints, in their encompassing the Camp of the Saints, and beloved City, which their said raised state makes good, and confirms the former interpre∣pretation,

that their death is mistically and figu∣ratively to be understood of a civil, and not litte∣rally of a Corporeal death; for if the dead men must not live again till the thousand years be ex∣pired, and then must be raised out of their Graves, and in that Resurrection-state appear in that Mi∣litary posture, is such an absurdity, that I pre∣sume none will own: Wicked men being not raised to make opposition against Christ and his Saints, but to appear to judgment, being the Resurrection (to them) of Damnation, as to the raised Saints of Life and Salvation.