Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

Tertullian, who wrote about A. D. 180, says it
was a custom of his times for Christians to pray
that they might have part in the first resurrection:
and Cyprian, who lived about A. D. 220, says that
Christians “had a thirst for martyrdom, that they
might obtain a better resurrection,” -- the martyrs
being raised at the commencement of the thousand
years.
The first of whom we have any account that
opposed this doctrine was Origen, in the middle of
the third century, who styled those who adhered to
it “the simpler sort of Christians.” Mosheim
assures us that the opinion “that Christ was to come
and reign a thousand years among men” had,
before the time of Origen, “met with no
opposition.”[56]
At the era of the Reformation this doctrine was
revived, and taught by Luther and Melancthon; it is
in the confession of Augsburg (A. D. 1530); was
the belief of Latimer, Cranmer, and Ridley; is in
the Articles of the Church (Ed. vi., A. D. 1552); is
not denied in the more prominent creeds and
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