England’s Great Millenarian Masterpiece: Nathanael Homes’s Monumental Defence of Christ’s Thousand-Year Kingdom (1653)

HOMES, Nathanael. [Apokalypsis anastaseōs]. The resurrection revealed: or The dawning of the day-star, about to rise and radiate a visible incomparable glory...London: Robert Ibbitson, and to be sold by Thomas Pierrepont, MDCLIII. [1653]

290mm x 200mm

[12], 563, [7] pp.
Binding
Bound in later full 19th century calf with raised bands and red label to spine.

Condition
Text pages are very clean with only minor marks and generally a fresh, bright and near fine copy.

First edition of Homes’s principal work and one of the most substantial and influential English millenarian treatises of the Interregnum.

This is one of the major English chiliastic / millenarian treatises of the Interregnum, arguing for a literal Thousand-Year Reign of Christ on earth before the Last Judgement. Within it, Homes predicts the restoration and conversion of the Jews, the overthrow of Antichrist and secular powers, and the visible reign of Christ with the saints.

It belongs in the apocalyptic culture of the 1640s–50s (alongside Mede, Brightman, Joseph Mede’s followers, Fifth Monarchists, etc.), and was controversial even in its own day.

Author
Nathanael Homes (1599–1678) was a prominent Puritan divine and millenarian theologian of the English Interregnum. Educated at Oxford, he served as chaplain to Charles I before aligning with the Parliamentary cause and later becoming preacher at St Mary Stayning, London. Homes was widely respected for his learning and preaching, though regarded as doctrinally radical for his prophetic views. His writings focused on eschatology, the resurrection, and the coming reign of Christ, and he became one of the leading English exponents of premillennial theology. The Resurrection Revealed (1653) is his most ambitious and influential work, a massive folio exposition of the literal thousand-year kingdom and the restoration of Israel before the Last Judgement.

References
Wing H2560; ESTC R4259; USTC 3068316.

Institutional Copies
Only 3 recorded copies in US libraries (Huntington, Boston Public Library, Keller Library).