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A43282 Seder olam, or, The order, series or succession of all the ages, periods, and times of the whole world is theologically, philosophically and chronologically explicated and stated also the hypothesis of the pre-existency and revolution of humane souls together with the thousand years reign of Christ on earth ... : to which is also annexed some explanatory questions of the book of the Revelations ... : and an appendix containing some translated out of Latin by J. Clark, M.D., upon the leave of F.M., Baron of Helmont.; Seder olam. English Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.; Clark, J., M.D. 1694 (1694) Wing H1394; ESTC R235336 106,660 246

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this City as the Roundness and Orbicular Form of the Earth d●notes its voluble and unconstant State and Condition together with Mortals that dwell therein Quest. 115. Will not certain other Holy Souls descend into Bodies in the Millennium who Lived not before on Earth in the preceding Ages of the World Quest. 116. Wi●l not the Rate or Proportion of the Holy City compared to the whole Earth be as 52 is to 12 assigning to each De●ree of the Terrestrial Globe above 60 Miles and under 61 which is the Proportion that one Week bears to a whol● Year Moreover doth not the whol● Age of this World from the Beginning to the End seem like a Week And doth it not seem worth a Sober and Modest Inquiry what Mystery may be couched u●der the Similitude of these two Proportions Quest. 117. Shall those who Inhabit this City need the use of Meats and Drinks Or what shall be their Food Shall it not be such Food as Adam Eat in the Earthly Paradise before the Fall Quest. 118. Are not those words of Revel 21.23 And the City shall not stand in need of the Light of the Sun nor of the Moon to be understood according to the Letter For although the Sun Moon and Stars shall then Shine and Impart their Vertues and Influences to other Animals or living Creatures yet the Saints of the first Resurrection shall not seem to stand in need of their Light or Vertue FINIS AN APPENDIX CONTAINING Some Emendations and Explanations of divers Passages in the two foregoi●g Treatises out of the Autho●'s Original Manuscripts and Papers Friendly Reader IT was thought fit to let thee know that the following Emendations Corrections and Explanations are according to the mind of the Author as appeareth out of another Copy of his Manuscript and his other Papers that have been faithfully preserved it is therefore probable that the Author himself upon his second Thoughts which are commonly the more solid hath himself corrected divers things in these Treatises which ought not to be charged upon him as any blame but rather in so doing to deserve praise But it is most certain that divers considerable Mistakes have crept into the printed Copies bo●h Latin and English by the unskilfulness and in advertency of the Transcribers through whose Hands the Original Copy hath come The which Original Cop● I can assu●e thee Reader I have seen in a Latin Manuscript many years ago but who the Author is is not easie to judge For divers reasons best known to himself he thought it not convenient to make his Name known to the World as many worthy Authors of B●oks have concea●ed their Names The Reader is ●urther to be advertised that some words in this printed English Copy here corrected are the Errors of the Press incident to all Books It must needs be confessed that many things in these Treatises especially in the former will seem strange and surprizing to many because of their cressing the common Notions and Sentiments generally received both in Philosophy and Divinit● so called But what-ever Truth or Untruth may be in these things that may seem to many most incredible it is the Readers wisdom not to be hasty to judge so as to conclude ●or or against without mature Judgment and a good Understanding as Plato called by some the Divine Philosopher well said Non est sapientis de obscuris de●erminare i. e. It is not a wise Man's part to determine of things obscure or unclear to his Understanding The Authors Modesty and Discretion is to be commended ●ho for the most part profes●eth but to handle these things Historically or Hypothetically not Dogma●ically nor Positively his design being as it manifestly appeareth to give some hints of the Mystick Learning of the Iew● and of other Christian Mystick Writers to ordinary and vulgar Scholars that had not heard of such things so much perhaps as by Fame and also to such sincere Christians as have a real Divine Hunger and Thirst begot in them after a greater degree of the Living Knowledge of God and of Christ and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God so far as they are traceable in the Holy Scriptures as God shall be pleas'd to work by his Holy Spirit to give the Understanding of them For tho' the Iews in great part are blinded especially as concerning the true Messiah yet in many things it is acknowledged by Pious Christian Writers that their ancient Mystick Learning containeth many things not only very agreeable to Christian Doctrine but very conducing to help us to understand many places of Scripture in the New Testament as well as in the Old And if sincere Christian Professors did but well understand the great Advantage and Help that the Iewish M●stick Learning with which this Author seemeth to have been in good measure acquainted doth afford to convince the Iews of the Truth of Christianity so as to enable and furnish them to right them with their own W●apons they wou'd be more willing to read with an Impartial Mind such Books as would help them in such ●ort of Learning few of which sort as yet if any are extant in the English Language The second Treatise added unto the first was done by the same Author It is hoped that it will be favourably received and entertain'd by the Reader the rather that it is proposed only by way of Qu●ry● yet so far explanatory as in many things at lest it may by the blessing of God be made serviceable to the better understanding many things in the Book of the Re●elations further than what they have formerly known by the help of other Commentaries The Emendations and Explicati●ns in the first Treatise follow PAge 10. ad fin the Explication The Author is not so to be understood as if because he hath an Allegorical Sence of Christ's Flesh and Blood Allegorically and Figuratively so understood as the Scripture aboundeth with such allegories and figurative Speeches as Water Wine Milk Honey Oyl Marrow and Fatness that therefore he did not sincerely believe that Christ's outward Flesh was real Flesh and his Blood real Blood which he gave for the Life of the World the which Body and Blood of Christ tho' it is not to be received by the Mouth as Papists say yet spiritually by Faith it is fed upon by all sincere Christians And in this sence to eat Christ's Flesh and to drink his Blood is sincerely to believe that Christ gave His Body of Flesh to be broken for u● and His Blood to be shed for us for the Remission of Sin by which sincere Faith whereof Christ is the Work●r we partake o● the Life and Spirit of ●hrist that is the Soul 's immediate Nourishm●nt Page 16. ad med Expl. Let none misconstrue the Author because he only expresly nameth G●d and Ch●ist to be the Author and Original of the Creation as if he did not understand the Holy Ghost who is one and the same God with the Father and the Son
several orders of Scholars and Students called by the name of Monks and Friars which were received and believed on by the ignorant Multitude as so many divine Oracles Moreover also the Locus●● that ascended out of the Bottomless Pit seem to belong to this Interval of time of which hereafter in its proper place Now these two last Intervals to wit the third and the fourth seem to have a very near relation and affinity one to another in respect of Ignorance Blindness Idolatry Superstition and many other abominable Evils Yet the fourth Interval was not so destitute of good Men nor so full of Ignorance and Darkness as the third for in the fourth Interval God raised up some Eminent and famous Men as were Bernardus Clarevallensis and Malachias also the Waldenses and Albigenses with whom do agree those of the Church of Thyatira Moreover also in this very Interval began the Turkish Empire when their Captains or Calaphi were constituted Emperors over them who were miraculously strong in many parts of the World and the first of these was Ottoman * Ottoman about the year 1297. about the year 1297. Quest. 35. What are those effects or events that happen when the fifth Seal is opened and what may be principally understood by them are they not the Souls of such as were slain for the word of God and the Testimony which they bore whom Iohn saw under the Altar meaning the Souls of all that were slain for their firm and constant Profession of the true Faith from the beginning of the World to the time of the fifth Interval viz. unto the year of Christ●s Resurrection 333 And why did they desire of God so earnestly that he would revenge their Blood upon the Dwellers on Earth Was it because the Justice of God is as well glorified in revenging as his Mercy is in pitying and forgiving and was it not also because they knew that the time when the Blood of the Righteous that were slain should be revenged upon the Ungodly was to be joyned with that time in which all the Righteous were to receive an hundred fold Reward which Christ promised them in the first Resurrection when they should be restored and raised to Life again Now why it should stand with God's Justice to revenge the Blood of those that were slain for many Ages past not only three or four Generations as in Deut. but more than an hundred Generations ago upon the Inhabitants of the Earth who are not as yet born or in being upon the Earth is a question that demands a clear Explanation Quest. 36. Wherefore was it said to those Souls that they should rest viz. under the Altar and was not that Altar Christ until the number of their Brethren yet to be slain should be fulfilled And doth not this fifth Interval signifi● that there shall come a time of much and grea● T●ibulation to the Servants and People of God and that many shall be put to Death within this Interval in a manner during the whole space from the year of Christ's Resurrection 1333 to the year 1666 or from the year of his Nativity 1366 to the year 1700. And hath not this happen'd so in reference to the time past of this Interval And is it probable that near the same number of good Christians were slain by the Papists Turks from the year 1366 to this present day viz. from the days of Iohn Wickliff as were heretofore slain from Christ's Resurrection to the aforesaid term of years 1366 And whereas there yet remain some odd years of the said Interval to be fulfilled some think 18 others 16 and again other some 14 viz. from the year 1366 to the true year of Christ's Nativity 1700 whether or no we are not yet to expect more Tribulations and Persecutions will come upon the Servants of God till the said year 1700 Qu●st 37. But the fifth Interval being expired whose end draws nigh may we not expect the true Church will enjoy some serene Interval and time of Rest and Tranquility until the la●t and greatest but shortest Pe●secution under the seventh Head of the Beast not as yet fully to be accomplish'd till about the year 1774 Quest. 38. What are those effects or events which must be fulfilled in the World whe● the sixth Seal is opened that great Earth●quake the Sun darkned the Moon turn'● like Blood the Stars falling from Heaven● the Heavens rolled up like a Scroll th● Mountains and Islands passing away D● not all these things clearly signifie the en● and downfall of every Unjust Ungodly and Tyrannical Government and Domini●on whatsoever that so at last the Kingdom● of Holiness and Righteousness may be se● up and established and God and his Chri●● rule and govern by the holy Ghost in th● Hearts of Men in every Nation of th● World And is not this thing plainly signi●●ed by Iohn him self in his following words And will not the time of this Interval unde● the opening of the sixth Seal contain th● common space of 333 Y. fro● the year of Christ's Resur●●●ction 1666● to * From the year 1666 to the year 2000. the year 203● wherein God will fully r●●venge the Blood of his Servants that we●● slain and are now in Heaven above upo● the Dwellers on Earth and so the Praye● and Petitions of the Souls that cried unde● the Altar in the former Interval will be a●●swered But some re●err the I●terval of t●● sixth Seal to Constan●ine's time and this the● do without any Authority for it appe●● by many weighty Reasons and Circumstances that the sixth Seal was not as yet opened in the World neither was the Interval of this Seal begun CHAP. VI. QUest 39. Do not those other events and effects which will be produc'd at the opening of the sixth Seal plainly demonstrate that the sixth Seal will reach even to the 1000 Years Sabbath of the World What are the 144000 which were sealed in their Foreheads from every Tribe of the Children of Israel Are they not the first Fruits of the Saints who attain the first Resurrection from the Dead in the future Millennium and finally are not the 144000 the same with those mentioned in the 14th Chapter Moreover are they not really Israelites as to their Race or Stock 12000 being taken from every Tribe of Israel altho' many other of the Israelitish Race together with many other of the Servants of God shall hereafter receive the same Reward and Felicity of the ●irst Resurrection And again What is that great Multitude of all Nations Tongues and People which no Man could number standing before the Throne and the ●amb which were cloath'd in white Garments and bore Palms in their Hands Are they not all the Saints raised to Life again within the sixth Interval not only those who lived in the preceding Intervals since Christ's Resurrection but even all that have ever lived since the beginning of the World who came out of great Tribulation which they suffered in their