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A59383	Olbia, the new i[s]land lately discovered with its religion and rites of worship, laws, customs, and government, characters and language : with education of their children in their sciences, arts and manufactures with other things remarkable / by a Christian pilgrim, driven by tempest from Civita Vecchia, or some other parts about Rome, through the straits, into the Atlantick Ocean ; the first part, from the original.	Sadler, John, 1615-1674.	1660 (1660)	Wing S278; ESTC R9276	335,173	410

then he will dispence with loving our Neighbour yea but shewing pitty to his Oxe or Ass fallen into a pit And as if God would measure all our Love to himself by our loving our poor Neighbour St. John saith Let a man never talk of loving God whom he never saw if he do not love his Brother whom he hath seen and if he do but see him in want and shut up his bowels though his wants be not wept or worded out but only Seen How doth the love of God dwell in such a man as we found also in Esay when thou Seest the naked that thou cover him Which hath sometimes been very sweet to me when I had no words or tears to expresse my miseries to Christ or was sensible enough of any of my wants Yet I have often spoken to him from that place and others in the Psalmes or Job or Lamentations Crying See my affliction though I do not see it or am afflicted for it as I should or would Yet do thou See my miseries Even when I see them not and let thy tender eye affect thy tender heart for the Love of God dwelleth in thee Do not therefore shut up thy bowels when thou seest my want though I do not see it or am not affected with it Give me Eye salve that I may see And thou hast promised an holy Spirit to Convince the world of sinne Righteousnesse and Judgement Withhold not Good whilst it is in the God of thy hand to do it Why then wilt thou send me away saying Come again to morrow when it is in the power of thy hand to do me good For thou hast All power in Heaven and Earth Thou art the Wisdome of God and the Power of God And a Brother is born for a day of Adversity And there may be also the greatest ●ffering where there is but little sorrow yea and the greatest sorrow where the least Exp●ession either in tears or words A piercing look with an eye fixed on Christ in a promise as one able to help and made for it and why then do we doubt of his Will may be a better Prayer than a great many words or tears They are little Griefs that speak or are spoken Great ones are stupid or at least silent So also are Praises They may be best when they attend God in Silence As the Jews also teach us on those passages of the Psalms My soul is silent before thee and Praise waiteth on thee in silence for so it is And Silence is commanded us all not only in those places which bid our words be Few as Solomon and our Saviour also But when God ariseth and doth manifest himself out of his Temple or in his Holy place as his Presence Chamber we are especially commanded to be Silent before him as we read in the last words both of the second of Habakkuk and the second of Zechary And there is not only an Evil but a Good Day also when All prudent men will hold their Peace as we read in another Prophet But it is yet sweter than many words or any can express to consider that if Christ did neither love Us nor Himself nor his Father as he surely doth Yet his very Duty to Him and that Law which bids him Love the Lord his God with all his heart and soul and minde b●ddeth him do it also With all his Might And so also to propagate his love to All he can by all means he may Yea and to work while it is Day and to do whatever is in his hand to do with all his might least the night cometh on him also and there be no more working or Councel in the place whether we are all going Is it indeed enough for Him in himself and his own person to have no other God or other wayes of worship than are Right and set by God and not to bear his Name in vain who yet beareth it more upon him both in words and Actions than all men living Except he also propagate this Love of God his waies of worship and his Name his True Name which is his Nature all he can or may and he may quicken whom he will with all his Might to all his Children Servants Neighbours Subjects and Relations under him and in his Povver and they are All. May I indeed suffer any Servant or any other though I may bear vvith children vvhile they are children and vvith Naturals or Ideots alas vve are All so to Him all our lives May I suffer any man within my power or Family to worship a false God or the True God in a False manner or to take his Name in vain while I can help it Is He not Lord of All the Family both in Heaven and Earth Are we not All in his hand and under his power who hath All Power in Heaven Earth and hath All things delivered to him of his Father Can we wonder now why he so often promiseth to manifest the Name of God that All may know it from the greatest to the least Yea and his Enemies also It being so usuall in Ezekiel and other Prophets to close up all his Threatnings with this You shall all know me or I will bring you to Know my Name Which is also the great end of the Psalmists sharp and bitter prayers against All the enemies of God which we find mustered up together in the 83. Psalm That they may seek thy Name O Lord and that they may know that Thou whose name is Jehovah art the most high God over all the Earth which was also the great end of that great work on Nebuchadnezar And the same Psalms tell us also that when men come or are brought to Know the name of God they will trust in it And there also Christ often promiseth He will declare his Name to his Brethren and as if they were too few to the great Congregation also And how great that Congregation is or shall be I cannot tell When also he came to dye he acknowledgeth this for the great work he had to do in the World I have finished thy work I have manifested thy Name unto the men thou gavest me out of the world And as if this were not yet enough towards the end of that prayer he prayeth for More this being the Covenant Ask of me and I will give thee All Nations and Peoples and persons even the utmost ends of the Earth and those also afarr off in the Seas And is his heart so narrow that he will not Ask when he might have us All and all things for asking Ask then heartily that thou maist receive seek us All heartily and thou shalt find us All Knock heartily at the door of our hearts and by virtue of the promise and Covenant of God they shall be opened to thee Neither pray I for these alone which thou hast yet given me shall●at ●at any t●me hereafter beleeve on me through their word That they All may be

every one of them I am the Lord thy God and upon this Rock I will build my whole Law and therefore thou shalt have no other God or make to thy self any Images c. For I am a jealous God which yet I could not be if I did not Love thee dearly as a spouse Or else I should not much care whither thou goest or what thou doest But for my great and spouse-like Love which maketh me so jealouse over thee But this very jealousy causeth such visiting as is most like to recover us again from all our w●oorish wanderings from the God of Love and the Guide of our youth And so intended by God to recover them so visited as we may clearly see by Elihues discourse unto Job and the Psalmist in the 107 th and many other Psalms to be compared with the 3 d. of Jeremy and the 2 d. of Hoseah with the first and second of Zechariah with divers other Scriptures And our great comfort is that all the Law also lay on Christ as much or more than any of us or all of us And besides his love to his own flesh and nature or to himself or his Father His very Duty to Him by this Law requires him so to love his God with all his Might also as to propagate his love to all he may and to manifest his Name and Worship with the true way and means thereof That is as the 72 d. Psalm expresseth to redeem our souls from all deceipt and violence or as Ezekiel hath it in the Laws of the New Temple to order a sacrifice for every one that erreth or is simple And the Psalmist saith He hath received gifts for Rebels also that the Lord may dwell among them Yea and to cast down all our vain Imaginations as Saint Paul expresseth it And though we strangely degenerate into very Beasts or to the worst of Beasts or worse than Beasts Yet the very same Law which biddeth us and Christ also to Love a Neighbour biddeth also to love a Stranger and an Enemie Yea and the very Oxe and Asse of an Enemie so as to help it under a Burthen or straying out of the way And is not our heart as Ishmael was foretold to be the wilde Asses Colt on which no man can sit till Christ send his Apostles as in the Gospel who finde it bound and tyed in a broad place where two waies met and They loose our Asses Colte and bring it to Christ who then rideth on it O daughter of Zion Meek and Lowly on an Asse the foal of an Asse And may we not find All this in the very fourth Commandement where every Man and so Jesus Christ also is bid to remember to keep the sabboth so that not only his Children but his servants and his Cattle and the Stranger in his Gate may Rest and keep that Rest of God That they may Rest as well as Thou as it is repeated in Deuteronomy And in the 23. of Exodus it is that thine Oxe and thy Ass may Rest and the Son of thy Handmaid to which the Psalmist may allude several times calling himself the Son of thy Handmaid And that the stranger also may be Refreshed The very same Phrase and word that is used by God of himself and his own Kest and Refreshing on That Sabbath day in the 31. of Exodus And our Saviour maketh the helping of an Oxe or Ass and their Loosing and leading to the Water to be a special work or duty of the Sabbath daies Rest. Which we may compare with that of the Prophet Esay He led them gently as an Horse in the Wilderness or as a Beast is led down a Valley or to a Brook So his spirit caused them to Rest. And in the Proverbs Agur saith I am more bruitish than any Man and the Psalmist so Bruitish was I yea Behemoth with thee as alluding to Behemoth in Job and That some render Congregation of thy People in several Psalms is Beasts or Thy Beasts As under Those Banners of four Beasts or Animals of which we read in Ezekiel and the Revelation Yea Solomon saith the great design of God that is Christ who as Man also is the great Searcher of hearts is to Try us and to make us know we are but Beasts She hem Behema Hemma lahem And that the Stranger also may be Refreshed Which is but a piece of that great Law in the very same chapter of Loving our Neighbor Thou shalt also love a Stranger as thou lovest thy self And in several places it is added For thou wast a stranger and thou knowest the heart of a stranger in Aegypt And the word for stranger in the Heb. is so neer to Hagar as if God would put them in mind of that Bond-woman who was an Aegyptian also and as Paul saith Gendered unto Bondage with a spirit of Fear which is another signification of its Root also And Gods Love to Hagar and to her son Ishmael that is God will Hear as he will appear also in the Mount may shew the Heart of God and his Goodness more than all his Kindness to Abraham who was Kind and Thankful unto God also And among other reasons for our Loving strangers it is added that God loveth Strangers and in a special manner provideth for them And it hath been an especial argument used by good men in all ages of the Bible For we are strangers and Pilgrims And when we consider that the Sabboth day did Typifie some greater Rest may it not be hoped that at length we may hear the Lord of that Day also saying to his children and his servants and the Sons of his handmaids also and his Cattel and the stranger also within his gates Come enter into your Masters Rest seeing it is greater than can enter into you For this Commandement I have received of my good Father Do we not also read that the Owles and the Dragons and the Beasts of the field and every thing that hath breath yea and All his Works shall praise the Lord but his Saints shall Bless him Do we not find Sabbatical Years ●nd Jubilees provided for the Poor and Strangers that had no Harvest and for the Beasts of the field and for the Earth also that it might Rest the Rest of God and that every one might return to his own Inheritance and the possession of his Fathers and why not also of our Father Adam in Innocence and that All Debts and Debtors might be remitted which it may be is minded us dayly in the Lords Prayer not only in That Clause of Forgiving our Debtors which yet He doth also for it is He that speaketh in us who else dirst not say Forgive us as we forgive but also in That Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will be done on Earth as in the highest Heaven And He that set us All on Praying so knew very well that it should be so He hath willed it and his people will it also Let it be

And to All before of Those places Josuah called all Israel to Sechem and there made that solemn discourse in the 24th And to Shiloh also where Jacob placeth the Gathering of All the People and There he casteth 7 Lots for the 7 Tribes about the 7th Year as very probable from their entering Chanaan as the Root or it may be the Centre of All Sabbatical Years and Jubilies Which was also just 430 Years before Solomons Throne As This was just 430 Years before his Temples End in Zedekiah And Their comming from Aegypt was just 430 Years from the Promise to Abraham Here are 1290. As in Daniel With 45 also to make up 1335. And if that great Meeting at Shiloh should be some few Years after the 7th Year yet it may be just 430 Years before the Temple As the 7th Year was 430 before Solomons Reign As if their setting up the Tabernacle Then at Shiloh were to be a Type of the Temple Raised up just so long after it as the Promise to Abraham was before the Law or coming out of Aegypt Which was 480 Years before the Temple founded in the 4th of Solomon but not finished till the 7th after Was it so many Daies in Building as there will be Years before the House of God finished in the New Jerusalem Of which again The Feast of Dedication in the 7th Month of the 7th Year a Type of that great Feast of Tabernacles of which before And of the Last and great Day of Unleavened Bread on the 21st of the First Month beginning from 480 Hours As the Temple did 480 Years after Aegypt At this great Dedication 120 Priests sounded with Trumpets which were never more than 120 and when All agreed as One in singing He is Good He is Good and his Mercy dureth Ever Then the Glory of God came down and filled the House so that the Priests could not tarry and there was no need and Then Solomon bowed saying But will God indeed dwel on Earth See 2 Chron. 5. and the like at Jehosaphats Valley of Blessing 2 Chron. 20. 22. Next to 48 is 49 the Jubilee and ●om This great Feast of Dedication 490 Years bring us to the 2d Temple in the 2d Year of Darius Hystasp Or the close of the 70 Years Captivity of the City and Temple As the first of Cyrus taking Babylon ended the 70 Years of Ezekiels Captivity just 490 Years from Solomons comming to the Crown So that the Feast of Dedication is very near the Centre of Time from Aegypt and from Babylon to the 2d Temple which was just 490 Years after That which was but 2 or 3 less than 490 After Aegypt Taking out 70 Years of the City and Temple desolate there remain just 420 Years from That Dedication to the Temples end in Zedekiah Which was just 390 Years after Solomon who reigned 30 Years after the Dedication as the 30 Daies of That Month. 420 Is 3 Moeds and an Half that is 3 times 120 and 60. As the 70 Years Captivity was 3 times 20 and an Half And 120 is 6 times 20 or 3 times 40. And the Great Moed for Man as we saw before The first of These 3 bring up Athaliah which signifies the Lords Time or Time for the Lord 120 Years from the Dedication There also beginneth Jehu in Israel which never so meets with Judah but in Rehoboam with Jeroboam And as Time devoureth All things so did Athaliah the Lords Time destroy All the Seed Royal. But Joash even He that despaireth is preserved and brought up again in the 7th Year by Jehosheba the Lords Oath or the Lords Seven Daughter of Joram the High Lord and Sister to Ahaziah the Lords Possession But it was Jehoiadah the Lords Knowledge that brought him out and made him King and restored the Worship of God And when He Died and Joash degenerates his son Zechariah the Lords Remembrance puts him in minde of his Duty but is stoned crying The Lord remember or requite it It seemeth the same with Him or His Type at least of whom our Saviour speaketh in Matth. 23. As slain between the Temple and the Altar or in the Court of the House of the Lord Though the People might not come to the Altar But the Prophet Zechary was also the son of Barachiah the Lord Blessed and Zechary the Baptists Father alludeth to his own Name and Elizabeths saying The Lord remembered his Oath c. Athaliahs 6 and Joash 40 and Amaziahs 14 make up 60 just Half another Moed of 120. for the Sack of Jerusalem by Joash of Israel breaking down 400 Cubits of the City Wall from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate To be added to All before of 400 with Josephus placing This in the 14th of Amaziah Now comes up the Prophet Jonah and the 2d Jeroboam who recovers Hamath and Damascus which must both be joyned in a meek and quiet spirit as we saw before And to make it yet more signal That Sack of Jerusalem may be just 666 Years from Aegypt and 600 Years from the same Ierusalem taken burnt by Judah in Judges 1. and 222 after David took it from the Jebusites 444 Years from Aegypt when he quitted Abrahams Hebron for Jerusalem 60 Years more the other Half Moed may bring us to Uzziahs Leprosie And that Israel might not insult They fall into confusions after Jeroboams 40 a 3d of 120 and had no King for divers years As we read in Hoseah the next Prophet to Jonah compare Hos. 3. 4. with the 10th and 3d. And 2 Kings 15. with Joel and Amos living in These Daies And then the Prophet Esay and Micha towards the Latter end of Uzziah That famous Time for the Olympiads and the Birth of Romulus who founded Rome with his Brother Remus Blood Much about Hezekiahs Birth and beginning of the 7th Olympiad And about 7 Years before the famous Era of Nabonassar in Babylon Uzziah the 10 King from David and the 10th before Zedekiah As a Type of that Tenth or Holy seed that should yet be in them and restore them As the Trees in the stately Causey of Shalleketh as we saw in Esay 6. But Israel had 10 Families to Rule over them Many are the Princes of a wicked People But the Witnesses were that He should not pass those Stones in Wrath Though he had changed his wages 10 Times And he will remember his Holy Covenant The other Half Moed comes near that great Change of Israels Moon after an hard siege about 3 Years and Half for slaying Those Witnesses also beginning in the 7th of Hosea the same Name with the Prophet and Ending about the 7th of Hezekiah Or 777 Years from Aegypt But Cxi as the measuring Line or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Amos saw above 666. And So the Flood came at Lamechs End who lived just 777 Years or 666 from Enochs Translation Whose 365 Years might be to measure All Years which have now with us 365 Dayes and 6 Hours

the Field as we read in Gen. 3. to be compared with the Revelation in divers places Which yet were not so subject to Adam though he had a Command rather than Power or Knowledge how to use it As to Noah who had All the Beasts delivered over by God into his Hand as Job was into Satans with Permission and Commission and a Promise also that God would keep them under with Fear renewed also in Hos. and other places Onely Spare their Blood that is their Soul as also God said of Job For a Goodman is merciful to the Soul of his very Beast as we read in Wise Solomon who yet saith He and We and All are Beasts So also was God and our Saviour merciful to his poor Beast Nebuchadnezar A great man and yet greater than we may imagine First a Man and So a little God and on Horsback a Cherub Covering Cherub As they Picture George on Horsback over the Dragon of great Worship among the old Saxons or English and He hovered so long till he received also the Dragons Power and seems to Conquer Him But O! by This Power He becomes a Serpent and bites the Horses Heel till his Rider fall Backward also Lebab turned into Babel and bow to the Beast But He that made Leviathan can cause his Sword his Great and sore and strong and long Sword to approach him And shall visit the Crossing Serpent and slay the Dragon in the great Deep And Behemoth also the Great Beast the Feminine Plural Beasts Mother of Beasts and Fornication even Great Babylon Of which in Job the Psalms Prophets and Revelation in divers places And All shall worship the Beast whose Names are not written in the Lambs Book of Life from the Foundation of the World For All Tongues and Nations and Kindreds are under his Power and the Dragons that gave Power to This Beast Are they not the same words that are spoken of Nebuchadnezar in the Prophet Jeremy Chap. 27 But He that leadeth Captive shall be led Captive and He that slayeth with the Sword shall be slain with the Sword Here is the Faith and patience of the Saints And He that will not open his Prison Doors or visit his Captives shall be Bound himself and not visited for a long season And He that maketh Others worship the Beast or Image of the Beast in Dura or any other Province of Babylon shall himself be Turned into a Beast and eat grass with an Ox. He would be a Beast he played and Acted the Beast the Roaring Tearing and Devouring Beast and He that Giveth every thing the desire of his Heart Gave that Beastly Man a Beastly Heart But How Long Holy and True Remember how short my Time is Why hast thou made All men so Vain Seven and but Seven Times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Then shall pass over Thee As if Here also God would intimate that All Time and Times and all their Ever also Pass and shall Pass quite away As we noted before in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also or Wrath For so the English sound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also by W as in With For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or many other words As Esay Cryeth Hide thy self a little moment till the Wrath be Passed Or as Jonathan said to David Hide thy self till my Fathers Wrath be over Till the Morning or to morrow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 much as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 666. For The sun must not go down on Wrath and if Sorrow last All Night Joy shall come with the Morning Sun But what are These 7 Times They are said to be Years But These are Masculine and Feminine Solar and Lunar Yea and as Shanah a Year in the Singular is very near akin to Nahash a Serpent as we noted So is Shanim Years but Nashim Women also by a Metathesis which yet I name not Aversa Venus as some of their Poets may Jeremy tells us that All Nations must serve Babel yea and Tongues also must Babble As at the Tower of Babel for 70 years As they tell us of 70 Nations that rose up at that Babbling And if Then the King of Babylon himself become a Man again and be restored to the lost Image of God from the Image of the Beast Is it not possible that All Tongues and Nations also may be restored with him But in That Gospel which I cited so much already Levit. 26. Our Saviour tells them that If they will not hearken unto Him but despise his Statutos as Nathan chargeth on David himself and their soul abhor his Judgements and quite Break his Covonant or be Uneircumcised He will Then Then What not till Then and All That Will not and Despise and Soul abhoring and All Covenant-breakings He will Then begin to consume their Eyes we touched it before in Sampson and cause sorrow of heart fair warnings and they shall sow their Seed in Vain And I will set my Face my Face but not my Heart against you And They that Hate you shall Reign over you And if you will not yet Hearken unto me I will punish you Seven as we saw before And if yet you will walk Keri c. I will yet Seven more And I will also send the Beast as alluding plainly to that in Gen. 3. Where the Serpent is more subtile 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used of Adam and Eve in the Verse before Then Any Beast of the Field the very Phrase here used in Leviticus But yet I will yet remember my Covenant as we saw before And there was much need of This Memory in God and His Remembrance of his Holy Covenant at this Time of Babylon And as Hezekiahs Queen was Hephzibah to which Esay 62. 4. may allude So his Mother was My Father Abi of Zechariah the Lords Remembrance slain it seems between the Porch and the Altar Though they Acted this again after our Saviour also in another Zechary of Baruch also as we may learn from Josephus And though Manassehs Name may hint that He forgot his Duty yet the Lord still Remembred his Covenant and his Promise to Remember it And although he had now cause enough given him by Ammon the people also to Despair of their Amendment which may be Hinted in Josiah the Lord Despairing Yet his Mother was Beloved Jedidah as Solomon was Jedidiah and Jedidoth we saw before in the Psalms and the Daughter of the Lords Eternity Adaiah And he gave Josiah 4 Sons First Johanan the Lord Gracious And then Jehojachim the Lord will Raise again And Zedekiah the Lords Justice Shallum Satisfied or Pacified As in another Zechary when the white Horses had gone out after the Black he said My Spirit is Quieted even towards the North or Babylon Haran Hamath and other Places or Persons also at my Left Hand which was Northwards as we saw before And then presently followes Go to them of the Captivity even of Cheled my Age or Cheled and Tobiah