term _Millenarian_ upon me; which, though for what I have writ, I need not owne, yet I will not disclaime; they are not Names that affright me, but reall falsities. The term _Chiliast_, as it congregates the many odde, and false opinions of them of old, I explode; though to beleeve those thousand yeares in _Apoc._ 20. to be yet unfulfilled, that, I willingly owne. To put that sense upon them, as that they imply the thousand yeares of eternity, I can thinke little lesse of it then to be a contradiction. Againe, if the thousand yeares be the eternity in Heaven, what meanes that in ver. 3. _Till the thousand yeares be fulfilled, and after that he must be loosed for a little season_; I pray, what little season is that that is after eternity? neither doth Christs _comming suddenly in the night as a theife_, hinder, but that when he doth come, he may stay a thousand yeares. But whether that time be _ante_, _in_, or _post diem judicii_, is not my taske to determine, or maintaine. As for what you adde in the Post-script, not to looke for a fifth Monarchy, because Christ reignes now. I answer, that though he reignes _de jure_, yet not _de facto_; for expresly in Scripture the Devill is called κοσμοκράτωρ he is the grand Tyrant, and great Usurper, and the whole world κεῖται ἐν πὁ πονηρῶ yet I am farre from denying to Christ a Kingdome now in being, _sc._ Spirituall, and Invisible, but I looke for a visible one to come. In the close (as also at the beginning) you are pleased to desire my acquaintance; but Sir, I look not upon my self as a Star of so considerable a magnitude, as to present my selfe to your eyes; but if I might be so happy as to be capable to serve you really, none should be more desirous of it (both as you are a Gentleman of Learning, by which you have obliged the publick; and also a Member of that House which I so much honour) than Sir, Novemb. 5. 1650. _Your most humble Servant_ M. W. SIR: