Kallath a Spouse and somwhat else also in Hebrew or in English calling our Kall about our Belly by such a name Shall I add also How often God commands his people to abstain from or take heed of Kelaim Though the word be hard enough and never used that I now remember but in Moses Laws and once or Twice in Esay or Solomon complaining of a foolish people that entangled themselves in Kelaim which some translate the Stocks As Solomon speaks of a Fool hasting to the Stocks till a Dart strike through his Liver Or his Reins be consumed among many Witnesses as if he would allude to all the Hebrew words we are now speaking of Prov. 5. 11 14. 7 22 23. It is cleer enough that Kelaim signifies some Mixed seed and that not only in Grains but Beasts also as it is plainly seen in Leviticus 19. And This also makes the very Number of the Beast 666. as it is with the usual Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned Backward Is it not also the very number of the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is not only as the Latine Renes or the English Reins which yet keep course enough with the Moon in our Brain and in Heaven too And taught David every Night as the Heavens in the 19. Psalm and they may teach us every Day also which in Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is just 666. As the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also the Reins of our Brains How neer is the sound to Reins and Rains also as we saw before in Showrs even our very Secret Thoughts or Fancies which should be covered as other Secrets in Nature Which are akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or our Shame in Hebrew or the most privy Secrets whence the Latine Clam And Olam also may signifie Their Iniquity their Folly their Yoak their Shame or Hidden Secrets As also Sodam in Heb is not only the City Sodam of which also the Revelation But also their Secret As Jacob speaks of his cruel Sons Let not my soul be in their secret in Heb Be Sodam Where the very word in Numbers according to the old Mazorites in 666. Let me add also that the word Beast in Hebrew Letters is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also Shame and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my Shame as being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our seat or in Natibus as the Jews also use that word As the English also in a Phrase not to be spoken And the Number of it is 700. And that Beast or Bosht or shame is the Idol which God doth so often complain of in the Prophets As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their Bush and Shame That I say nothing of That part which the Jews call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Fools or Beasts Orion But to return to Numbers It may be like enough that every such Revolution may bring up some Great Change as in the Moon seeing also many if not All the 7th and 10th Persons or Generations in Scripture had some very signal Characters As Enoch the 7th from Adam Noah the 10 th As Abraham was the 10th from Noah and Moses the 7th from Abraham and David the second 7th or 14th as we found in the very number of his Name and Years also Though it be somtimes written by 24 as he was from Noah As the 24th hour of the New Day beginning from Noah that is Rest as at first from the Rest of Night or Nihat Heb. And perhaps David did not make but finde all things about the Priests or Tabernacle setled by 24. Which from the Jews also we may learn to be the Number of Things given to the Priests by God Some of which themselves only might eat Others their Children also and others were common to their very slaves or sons of their Handmaids if born in the Priests Houses or bought with his Money So that it was a saying common enough among the Jews That the Priests Boyes and slaves had more right to Holy Meats than All the Men of Israel Which may be considered by them that deny the Sacrament to the Children of Professors in the visible Church as Children born in the Priests Family or sons of persons Bought or Redeemed which might eat the Holy things that might not be eaten by a man of Judah though Hired to work in the Priests Family Noah is said to be Perfect in his Generations for he saw Two Worlds or Generations coming up at the beginning of the seventh great Week as we may call it or as many years from the Creation as the seventh Week is Hours We see what a change there was in His Time by the Flood in the second Thousand Years As the Waters were Divided in the second Day of Creation What it might Typifie out also in These Daies we touched before Jaacob is said also to be Perfect which some read a Plain man but it is as of Noah before a Perfect man Which hath made me consider whither Jacob might not be the Close of His Generation as Noah of His and David of His who saw the Times or Periods of the Kingdoms or World about him as we read in the close of the first of Cronicles Which the Jews call Words of Dayes Which we may understand Hereafter David also brought up a New Jerusalem and a New World as a New Heaven and a New Earth and bound up Satan or Saul for 1000 Years as we also touched before in Saul or Paul And Elijah also and Elisha with Jehosaphat the Lord Judging Though a good while before Zedekiah the Lords Justice or the General Judgment As Laodicea after Philadelphia the New Jerusalem And Jehoram the High Lord both in Israel and Judah When also Moab and Edom freed themselves from the Yoak of Jaacob as his Father promised in his Blessing Esau so much and so oft supplanted by his brother Jacob though God own him as a Plain man without Guile And among divers other things we read no where but in Esdras of the Roman Empire and Christ also who citeth divens things of that Book we are There also told that Esaus Heel was the End of the World and Jacobs Hand on that heel the beginning of another And as Jaacob was a Perfect man in his Generation one of a Thousand as Solomon speaketh After Elihu in Job So his Children are the True Israelites indeed in whom there is No Guile As our Saviour speaketh of Nathaniel And They are Sons of Light in opposition to the Sons of Esau or Ishmael as sons of Darkness As the 12 hours of Night were before the 12 Hours of Day or Children of Light But there is yet more in it For although All the sons of Jacob were beloved before Fsaus in the Type yet among Jacobs also there was a Joseph and a Benjamin Son of the Right hand and Those were
not that Watches and Catches also might come from the Hebrew Chatsa Which in This sence is akin to their Kaets to Watch or wake out of sleep which is also applied to God himself the Great Watchman of Israel And what if the Watchers singing Holy Holy Holy at every Watch might allude to the Three Hours in Each of them as well as to the 3 Persons in the Blessed Trinity Though some ancient Copies square the 3 also and make it 9 times Holy Holy Holy c. And seeing All things Here below were but shadows of somwhat above and shewed also in the Mount Why may not That Half Hours Rest or-silence in Heaven of which we read in the Revelation be As the Sabbath to Half Hours There being 7 Halves in 3 and an Half As we found before a Sabbath both in Rest and Turning in every 7 Hours and Daies and Months and Years also Or it may be the Cardinal Watches were distinguished by their Songs as the Temple Waits or Trumpets as David may allude by Rising at Midnight to sing Praises c. As the Others by Rest or silence Which we see cleer enough in 2 of them at the Morning and Evening Incense while the People stood without Praying in silence till the Priest came out and blessed them As we read in That of the Baptists Father strucken Silent also And in all the Jews upon Those places we touched before in the Psalms and Prophets The Lord is in his Holy Place Let all the Earth be Silent and the Lord is Risen Let All flesh keep Silence before him And I charge you that you awake not my Love till He please And as Every seventh Day was Holy from the first Creation As we see by divers things in the Flood and many Scriptures So was Every seventh Honr as we saw before distinct or Holy from the Six before it bringing in some Great change of Midnight or Morning or Noon or Evening whence All Time did first begin And from That First beginning of Time there were Three Daies and an half or 4 Evenings and Three Mornings before the Sun and Moon were seen in the Firmament Which they were not till the fourth Day of Creation as we read in the first of Genesis So That for the whole 3 Daies and an half before That fourth Day those 2 Witnesses of Heaven lay Dead as it were or Asleep in their Causes as the Schools use to speak And at the End of Those 3 Daies and an Half there was a voyce saying Come up hither and Be you placed in Heaven As my 2 Faithful Witnesses So long as These Heavens and This Earth shall Endure And when These are to pass away and be renewed Then also 2 other Witnesses that correspond to These shall lie as Dead or asleep 3 daies and an half As These did at first till a voyce place Them also in Heaven Crying Come up Hither And Then shall be such a spiritual Earthquake As at first a Temporal that made the Rivers break out and the Hills rise up or Valleys sink down of which we read in the 104 Psalm and other Scriptures We cannot wonder that Daniels 3 Times and an Half should bid us look to That or Those set in Heaven to make Times and Seasons or Moeds also And in Hours That Number may Expresse the Duration of an Eclipse As in the Gospels we read of Darknesse from the sixth Hour to the ninth and Then it passed off by Degrees with divers Cries of which again And in Dayes besides the three First before the Sun it may be the Proper Time of the Moons Hiding under the Beams of the Sun as Hours might be under his Body and so long the Sun may be Hidden by Eclipse Or the Moon rather And three Weeks and an Half make up the Time of Distance or Absence of Moon from the Suns Rayes Or her Liberty till she come under Them again and so draw nigh to a Change And it may be added that Three Weeks and an half bring us quite through 24 dayes as the 24 hours of each day to the very morning of the 25th which may be considerable for other things besides the square root of 666. And in Years Our Daniel speaketh of causing the Daily Sacrifice and Minha to Cease in the midst of a Week Which is generally taken for three years and an half that is half a week of years in which onr Saviour preached publiquely and Then by his Own Great offering of Himself Once made put an End in right to All other Sacrifice and Offerings Though they were in Fact continued till the Temple was also beaten down about 40 years after our Saviours Death And That very War Endured just Three Years and an Half But three Moeds and an Half in Daniel may speak Months as well as Hours or Dayes or Weeks or Yeares Though in All and Each of them there may be some Correspondence as we touched before And when the Lights an Hebrew word from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were made at sirst they were for Dayes and Years and Moeds which are therefore properly Neither Dayes nor Years but distinct from Both. And as Dayes and Years in Scripture are generally ascribed to the Sun So are Moeds to the Moon As he appointed the Moon for Moeds and the Sun knoweth his Bowing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or his going Down in that Great Comment on the whole Creation if rightly translated which we Cited but now the 104. Psalm And the very next verse hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Iob and Solomon for Goats as alluding also to the Solemn Goat-offering at every Olam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Hiding of the Moon which so made the Moeds How also Mans Seasons or Moeds are made by the Moon in Him as in Heaven we may see by comparing the third and twelfth Chapters of Ecclesiastes with other places of Solomon and David speaking of his Months and Hidden Times or Allamim or Allamuth As Paul also speaketh of our Life Hidden with Christ in God of which we read in Other places besides many verses of the 89 Psalm as in Hebrew And if we should render the Hebrew Moad or Mognadh by Monach as in Almonack we might easily shew their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be made of N. C. As the figure may hint and more the Number 70 being made of 50 and 20. the number of their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 begins a word or syllable the English sound it much by Cn. Gn or Kn. But when it ends by nc nk or ng And if we consider Three Months in Generall They are to the Year as Three Hours to the Day or Night a Watch or Season as we call it of Winter Summer Spring or Autumn Which are All it seems Some how in every Day also As the very words of God to Noah may seem to intimate saying not only that there should be
of Iohn lead us plainly to the Feast of Tabernacles and its Evening Songs and joy for Drawing of Water as the Jewes expresse it in their Talmud Adding also That He that never saw That Drawing of Water never saw Ioy in all his Life for more could hardly be expressed on earth then was expressed There And themselves confess it was to shew the Pouring out of the Spirit on All flesh in the Latter Daies which we saw beginning at Pentecost As the fiâ—st Drops of the Former Rain was followed by the great showrs of the Latter Rain After That Feast to prepare the Earth for the Wheat Then to be sown As Barley in the Spring Yea the Prophet Zechary tels us that the very Fast of the 7th Month How solemn and How strictly commanded should be Turned into Ioy and Gladnesse and Solemn Feasting And Then Many peoples plurall and Inhabiters of many Cities Yea the Rabble as the word soundeth shall Goe and say Come and let us Go speedily to seek the faee of God the Lord of Hosts and the Lambs Bride and the Spirit also will say I will Go also Yea Many People and strong Nations shall come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem Yea and Damascus it self shall become his quiet Rest his Menu hath when the Eyn of Men or Mankind shall be to the Lord as All the Tribes of Israel And He that remaineth shall be for our God Yea as a Governor in Judah And then are Both Comings of Christ described as before in the second Chapter First on an Ass the Foal of an Ass of which before on the Fourth Command â—nd other places of the Law And then he shall speak peace to the Heathen and have Dominion srom the River to the Ends of the Earth And to Them afar off in the Sea Which we touched before in America And yet Farther And As sor Thee also by the Blood of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy Prisoners out of the Pit where there is no Water Turne ye to the strong hold O Prisoners of Hope even to day do I declare that I will render Double to Thee And then follows the Conquest of Turk or Greece c. And Then the Lightning from the East So shall his coming be we must touch it again in our Discourse of Barak the word here used And Then the Feast of Trumpets in the Seventh Month and so of the Year of Release at the solemnity of Tabernacles As Moses expresseth it And the Jews bring it as High as Isaacs Release for the Ram and Thence they blow with Rams Horns the Jobelin alluding also to the Turnings and overturning of Jericho that is His Moon before the Sun of Josuah Then follow the Songs and other solemn shoutings of That Feast of Tabernacles of which also Lament 2. 7. and it may be Psalm 74. 3 4. Where Perpetual Desolations shall be Ended And the Chapter concludeth How Great is his Goodness How Great his Beauty Corn shall make the young men speak or sinq and New Wine the Maids A sure Character of That Feast at the Great Vintage of which also before in that chapter and the next and 12th also And in That day I will make the Governors of Judah like a Torch in a sheaf another Character of Harvest And the Lord shall save the Tabernacles of Judah first another Character that David or Jerusalem do not glory or exalt themselves against Judah And I will pour on the House of David and Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and Supplication and they shall look upon me It is Jesus who speaketh This and All whom they have Pierced Of which also St John in his Gospel and yet again how often in the Revelation And we may touch Megiddon again in our Paralels of Kings and Judges And in that day there shall be a Fountain opened for Uncleanness And I will 〈◊〉 off the Names of Idols And then again of Both Comings of the Man that is Gods Fellow And of that Great Feast of Tabernacles which himself also cited or remembred on the Last and Great day of That Feast as we spake before And again in Hosea Great shall be the day of Jesreel it signifies the Seed of God But I will first take away her Corn and Wine and Oyl in the Moads or Seasons thereof and will cause her Mirth to cease her Sabbaths Moons and solemn Moads But I will allure her into the Wilderness and There I will speak comfortably to her And I will give her Vineyards and the Valley of Achor for a Door of Hope How Gracious and she shall sing There as in the Daies of her youth when she came out of Egypt and dwelt in Tabernacles as we read in That Prophet also And in That Day thou shalt call me Ishi my Man and Husband and shalt call me no more Baali my Lord or Master for I will take away the Name of Baalim or Lords out of her mouth and they shall be No more remembred by Their Name And I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and This the Corn and Wine and Oyl and All shal hear Jesreel But the children of Israel shall abide many daies without a King and without a Prince and without a Sacrifice But afterwards they shall return and seek their Lord and their God and David their King and shall fear the Lord and his Goodness in the latter daies or End of the Year And as That greatest Feast of Tabernacles was at the End of the year so was their Greatest Meal at the End of the Day Whence we read of the Lambs Supper and the Lords Supper rather than Dinner which with Them was slight and little or nothing else but a Break fast As the Ravens brought the Prophet Flesh at the Morning and Flesh at the Evening Yea and God also had a Lamb at the Morning and another at Evening And Blessed is the Land whose Princes are Noble Offering Tamid before Break fast and Minha before Supper As the old Targum and other Jewish Writers on That of Solomon And although there were 12 kinds of Minha Yet That in Evening and Time thereof alone was called The Minha Being offered at the End or Evening of the Dayes As we read in Abels Minha or â—ains in Gen. 4. being just at the Time of the Evening Incense the Ketureth As Abrahams Evening Marriage if we may so call it of Keturah brought him More sons then his Morning Marriage of Sara Let my Prayer come like Ketureth and the lifting up of my Hands As the Evening Minha And the Priests of Baal cryed till Minha Then and not till Then God shewed himself by the Prophet Elijah Who was Then As the Evening Star Though in the Revelation compared to the Morning Star scattering the dark Clouds and Nightbirds of Jesabels time as we saw before in the Fourth Church And Then Elijah Treadeth Carmel or Cramel the Vintage of God which from Esay 63 and
he was the near Ancestor of Selah or Siloah Rising up 35 years after his Father Arphaxad and 3 and an Half also The great Reconciler of the Sun and Moons Motions more perhaps than 19 or any other Number Half 70 5 times 7 And next to 6 times 6 perhaps the just Age of our Saviour at his Death In Hours it brings us to the Light of the 2d Morning 36 As 360 Dayes bring up the second Year I will love them freely Though before he had said From my House I will drive them Agarsem As Hagar from Abraham and I will not add to Love them Oseph As minding Joseph sold to the Stocks c. All their Saras are Sorerim Sorry Sirs As the English Proverb to this day They shall be Nodding and Noddies Among the Gentiles Gogim perhaps of Gog and Magog also Both in England and other Northern Countries As we finde in Heathen writers But return O Israel to the Lord thy God Even yet Thy God! As Jeremy 3. and many other places And the great Complaint in Zephany is that the Polluted and Rebellious City would not trust in the Lord Nor draw near to Her God As Manasseh but a Type of their Return though They thought themselves Forgotten as that name may intimate after All his sins Yet Bowed to His God and his Fathers God who Heard him Take words and say Take away All Iniquity Not Ours onely but All. O let the Iniquity of the Wicked wicked also come to an end And He was Heard in what he prayed Receive us graciously This Tob mindes me of Tobiah the Lords Goodness There are strange things in that Book and of These Dayes perhaps in the true Hebrew Copy I will be as a Dew to Israel yet the great complaint and punishment was That His Goodness and Mercy was but a Dew He shall flourish as the Lilly Or as Shushan of which before and in Ester 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 661. Or as Susanna Recovered by Daniel from the Elders as Shushan by Ester and Mordecai There is another Mistress also First His Roots under Ground and out of sight like Lebanon Then his little young Suckers Yonikothau as Younger is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 66. 588. His Glory or Beauty or Head Hodo As India How like to Judea Hodi in Ester also And in English Hoddy is joyful and glad As the Olive-Tree and his Reak as Lebanon Jasuâ—u Joseve Betsillo And again His memorial as the Wine of Lebanon From me is All thy Fruit found See Esay 26. 19 20. and Psalm 107. 40 41 42 43 and 91. and 37. 34. with the close of This Prophet Hoseah In the Prophet Joel we have a Form of Prayer prescribed before the Spirit be poured out as There also promised And Esay 32. My Land shall be desolate for ever c. Till the Spirit shall be Poured from on High And then the Wilderness shall be a fruitful Field and That which is Now fruitful shall be accounted but as a Wilderness And Then you shall sing as in the Night of the solemn Moed Chap. 30. to be added to that before of the Feast of Tabernacles And Chap. 59. They shall fear the Name of the Lord from the VVest and his Glory from the Sun-Rising when the Enemy shall come in like a Flood to end That Generation Then even Then the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard against him And the Redeemer or Goel and Kinsman shall come to Zion or out of Zion and shal Turn away Ungodliness from Jacob. As St Paul renders the words in Rom. 11. applying it to the Fulness of the Gentiles as the Resurrection from the Dead when All Israel shall be saved For This is my Covenant with them when I shall take away their sins My Spirit upon thee my words which I have put in thy mouth for the word which I Covenanted with you in your coming out of Aegypt and My Spirit is still standing in you Fear yee not Hag. 2 They shall not depart from Thy mouth or from the mouth of Thy seed or from the mouth of Thy sâ—eds seed saith the Lord from now and for Ever And though they Rebelled and Vexed his Holy Spirit so that he turned to be their Enemy and fought against them yet he remembred the dayes of Old Moses and his people saying VVhere is He that brought them up out of the sea with the Shepherd of his Fock and where is He that put his Holy Spirit within him And again The Spirit of the Lord caused him to Rest c Chap. 63. And then followeth a most sweet and pathetical Prayer for the time of their Captivity to be Paraleld with that in Joel 2. And Then the Lord will be jealous for his Land or for his Earth and will pity his People Yea the Lord will answer and say Behold c. And fear not O Land Be not Tyred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be glad and Rejoyce For the Lord hath been Great to Doe or to work Great things Be not afraid ye Beasts of the Field Be Glad then O children of Zion and Rejoyce in the Lord your God He hath given you the Former Rain for Righteousnesse and He will bring the showre also the gushing waters as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may sound in English the former Teaching Rain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and That also which filleth up the straw or the stalk 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in the first Month or beginning of the year which was also the End of the year before And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the Name of the Lord your God that hath been so Marvellous for you and my People shall never be ashamed And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the Lord your God and none else and my People shall never be ashamed And it shal come to pass Afterward Afterward I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh c. And I will shew Wonders in the Heavens and in the Earth the Sun shall be turned into Darknesse and the Moon into Blood and may not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the Great and Terible Day of the Lord come and it shall come to passe that whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord Iesus as is plain by This cited in Rom. 10 shall be saved or delivered As Paul at Melita which in Greek may be Care but in Hebrew Cure and Deliverance For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be Deliverance Here is also Pelitah which we had before in Paltiel as the Lord hath said and in the Remnant whom the Lord shall call And Peter by these words proveth that This was only begun in Act. 2. and that the same spirit of which They had Then the First fruits as Paul also speaketh was promised to Them and Their Children and to All to All that are afar off even All the Lord shall
or asleep in their Causes as the Schools express And This being First in the Kind is Measure to All that follow Both in Weeks which have 3 and an Half or 7 Halves of Light in Dayes and as much Darkness in their Nights and in Months the Moon or the Earth may be Eclipsed 3 Hours and an Half or be Hidden in the Rayes of the Sun 3 Dayes and an Half Which Changes of the Moon may represent the Changes of the World also And at every New Creation the Witnesses to be Hidden as Dead for 3 Days and an Half or about the 10th part of the Time of That Month or Age or World and Then Rise with such an Earthquake as we read in Psalm 104 and Rev. 11. 13. and Then the voyce from Heaven Come up Hither is but as the Word at first Creation Let there be Lights in the Firmament As Witnesses c. And the New Moons or Changes were solemn Moeds as appointed by the Sanedrin and not under 2 or 3 Witnesses deposing that they had seen the New Moon Who were therefore Feasted and Encouraged to Watch for it as Holy Job may allude in That All my appointed Time I will Wait Till my Change Come If the New Moon were seen before Noon That was the First of the Month but if not till After Noon the Next Day was accounted First by Their Rule who also tell us that at first the Moon was equal to the Sun but in contest God made her blush and hide her face so long that Adam saw her not till the Afternoon of the 6th Day And to bring it neerer yet to the Revelation The Moon Crossing the Ecliptick in the Zodiack that Crooked Serpent meets a Dragon as they call those Nodes of Dragons Head and Tayl ready to Catch the Woman in Travel or her Child by Eclipses in which the Moon or Earth is Darkned So that Darkness may shadow the Dragon or the Beast of the Bottomless pit or that Abyss we read in Gen. 1. the measure of the Rest. This slayeth the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth and bindeth up our Eyes and other Witnesses also both in our Bodies and the Temple or Tabernacle of Witness also Where all the Witnesses were measured by them in Heaven and their Goings and Comings and by 3 and an Half or 7 Halves and 7 as in the Lamps There being no less Number or other made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers but 7 and those that come of 7. and Seven in Heb notes Fulness and Rest and Turning as in Sabbath as in every 7th Hour of the Sun and Moons Motion And 7 Dayes also make the Moons Quarters and 14 Change her whole Face and bring her up to Those at the Poles also Where she is Hidden Half her Monthly Course and so is the Sun Half his Year Returning in the 7th Month As to All the World in One of the Equinoctials And so ln the Temple As in slaying the Lambs and offering all the Witnesses there might be found Daily 3 or 4 Hours So they ceased also 7 Hours from the Morning Sacrifice to the Evening Minha and Then 14 to the next Morning As Their Longest Night was but 7 minutes more than 14 Hours as the Moons Returns and Fulls in somewhat more then 14 Dayes and yet they made or counted Their Night Even to the Day as the English still call it whose Languages Phrases and Idioms are neer akin to the Hebrew as this Discourse sheweth in very many Instances And as 7 is made of 2 Threes and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half So All Their sprinklings of Blood in their Daily Sacrifice were by 7 or 3 and an Half on their Great Altar made with 3 Corners and an Half being Cut to bring it All into Benjamine and their Incense Altar and divers other things by 2 or 3 Cubits and an Half and the 7 Lamps in the Candlestick branched by 3 and an Half on either side And their Musick with 3 sorts of Instruments besides their breath or spirit and 3 kinds of Blasts with Quavering between 2 plain Songs as singing Catches or Chatses or it may be Watches Some of which had Musick to part them as our Waites and others Silence as the Revelation Silence for Half an Hour while the Incense was offering and the People stood without in silent Meditation or Prayer And as 7 is the Lowest Number made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers so is 14 the next of 3 times 4 and an Half for 3 times 3 and an Half is a Fraction of 10½ As 7 is made of 3 and 4 or 3 times 2 and an Half So is 14 of 3 with 4 and 2. 3 being as the Father of All Numbers and 2 the Mother Great with Child in 4 which is its Square and the First Square as its name and form in Hebrew and the measure to All other squares which may be All Resolved by 4 as Cubes by 8. Here discoursing the Scripture Numbers of 7 and 14 the Author finds them All measured by the Times and Changes made by the Sun upon the Moon or Earth in every 7th Hour 7th Day 7th Month and 7th Year which was also Sabatical as the Seven 7th a Jubilee And the Months so fixed that whether we begin the Year about the Vernal Equinox as the Jewes did after their Coming out of Egipt or at the Autumnal as probably before yet still the 7th Month also will be Holy One of them for the Passover on the 14th Day and the Other for the Tabernacles from the 14th And Both had a solemn Moed of 3 Dayes and an Half for the Witnesses before the Feast As the Paschal Lamb was Tyed up from the 10th to the 14th and so the Daily Lambs were kept and searched and prepared before they might be Offered And Though Sackcloth and Ashes might go off at the Close of the 10th of the 7th Month the Great Day of Attonement yet Their Tradition of Gods Sitting to Judge All Dying That Year made them All as Tyed up in Fasting and Prayer till the Eve of Tabernacles which was As the Resurrection in the Morning Light freeing our Eyes and All the other Witnesses from their Chains of Darkness And he bringeth His Judgment also to Light every Morning Though the wicked will not see it As the Scripture speaketh And the Sun and Moons returns to Them in 14 Hours at Longest Night and in 14 Dayes of the Moon to Them at the Poles and for Changing her own Face and the Earth and Tides may be Measures to all the Great Things in the Temple and other places Done on the 14th Hour or Day or Year in Scripture Where also many Persons or Places as Witnesses lying Dead or as Dead and lost for 3 and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half or 3 times 4 and an Half whlch is 14. As Abrahams Tenents and Sodom recovered in the 14th Year and Then as lost for 3 Dayes and
Lords Threatnings and This in particular used to Adam Dying thou shalt die or Thou shalt surely die The very Words spoken to Adam and the worst of All that was Threatned to Him When I say to the Wicked as I did once to my dearly beloved Adam in Innocence Thou shalt surely die Yet if he Turn and Thou must warn him of those very words that he may Turn and Repent and Then he shall surely live he shall not die Which is several times repeated notwithstanding that Doom Thou shalt surely Die. Which in general God hath here interpreted when ever he so speaketh or shall so speak for it is the Infinite Mood or Manner of speaking In my saying or when ever I do say or shall say Dying thou shalt Dië or Thou shalt surely Die Yet it is not nor may be taken as any Absolute Doom but a conditional Threatning Which in case of Repentance shall never come to Sentence and much less to Execution And yet it was to a Wicked Man as Wicked O Thou wicked Man and so to one in a much worse condition and more desperate than Adam was when it was so pronounced to him in Paradice And upon This Occasion also God Comments on that Clause in the second Command of visiting the Fathers sins upon the Children which the Jews judged not Equal and expressed by their usual Proverb The Fathers have Eaten the sowr Grapes and the Childrens Teeth are set on Edge Which he confutes at large in the 18 of Ezekiel and sweareth it shall not be used any more Which is to be compared with That most sweet Chapter the 31. of Jerem. Where also That Evil Proverb is commanded and promised Down with such a sweet and gracious Context both before and after it as can never be too much considered And the Lords Discourse against That Proverb may be a good Comment on that passage in the second Command of visiting Iniquities of the Fathers on the Children But on Those that go on in their Fathers Iniquities And Then also the Children never Die for the Fathers sin They may be visited or chastened But They shall not Die for their Fathers sin No not for their Great Father Adams Which is a very comfortable thing and much to be considered by All and in special with relation to Infants that die without Actual sin having not sinned after the similitude of Adams Transgression But the Lord hath here promised the Children shall not die for or Bear the Fathers sin Nor indeed was That Expressed to Adam or for ought appeareth was intended that His Children should Die for His sin Nay rather God hath expressly declared the contrary that They shall not And yet Death came in by sin and passed over All seeing All have sinned and came short of the Glory of God And yet They do not Die and sure Then not Eternally for their Fathers sin Which may be compared with That of our Savior touching the man born blind and yet neither for His Own sin or his Fathers but that the Glory of God might be seen in his blindness And yet the Fathers Iniquity for That is the Phrase May be visited upon the Children and are the Visitations of God Smal things But yet why should we despair of the Goodness of God even in his visitation seeing Himself also hath chosen such a Phrase that with God and man speaketh kindness And a Love visit rather than any Hatred And if we rightly understand Gods heart in All we would long for his visits though he should come but to chide or to chasten us and we should value the very lowest and the meanest of his visits at a very great rate Sure it is not a little thing to be visited by a great Man How much more by a good Man which if we understood and saw the person they represent to us and the Embassage they still come about we should cry as Elizabeth to the Virgin Mary How is it that the Mother Brother Sister of my Lord vouchsafeth thus to visit me for every one that is His and doth His Fathers will is his Mother Brother Sister as himself speaketh And have not many Thus entertained Angels How much more is it then for God and Jesus Christ to come and visit such poor Worms as we are For What is Man that thou shouldest so magnifie him even so magnifie him and that thou shouldest set thy heart upon him and That Thou shouldest Visit him every morning and Try him every moment Yea as if David would lead us up to the very Visits made by God to Adams Children after the Fall he expresseth it Thus Lord what is Enos that thou shouldest remember him and the Son of Adam that thou shouldest visit him For he very well knew it a great condescention in God and happiness to Man that God should come to visit him For his Visitations sustain our spirits and preserve us alive I need not tel you what the Jews say of Sampsons visiting his Wife with a Kid or Abrahams visiting of Hagar in the Wilderness a Type of what is on her and her Children to this day as St. Paul speaketh Or what is promised to all the Kings and great men in the Terrible Pit that after many daies they should be visited as we read in Esay to be compared also with Zech. 9. 11 12. Yea even when his Visit is to chasten us it is an Honor and an Happiness My Son despise not thou the Chastening of the Lord neither be thou weary of His Correction for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as a Father doth a Son of his delight Behold Happy is the man whom the Lord correcteth Therefore despise not thou the chastising of the Almighty For be maketh sore and bindeth up He woundeth and his hands make whole Which in That very Book also is more largely repeated by Elihu in the person of Christ as his Name imports He is my God who sheweth Gods designs in afflicting of Man yea and Then when he visiteth in Anger though he know it not in great Extremity a very considerable Expression whether we take it of God or of Job who was taught that all Gods Angry visits were for Good of man to shew him his Way and to hide Pride from him and to recover him from his sins and sorrows also Which is confirmed also by the Psalmist in divers places Especially after he hath so solemnly called Invited and Wooed all Nations and People of the Earth to come in and bow to God because of his Goodness and marvelous Kindness to the children of men from the 95. onward Shewing also that Afflictions and the Lords visits even unto Fools the worst of men is to make them cry to God and stir up his Pities and Compassions that never fail and to make his tender bowels yearn over them so that he will hear them in their trouble and will save them out of their distress He will send his Word and heal them and
It shall be so Amen For the whol Earth also must Rest and keep its Sabboth And not only the Land of Israel which was but as the First Fruits of the Earth and That had such a strict Command of observing Sabbatical Years that they must stay so many yeers in Babylon as the Land should have kept Sabboths by the Law while They were in it As we may find in that remarkable Discourse of God on Mount Sinai in the 25 26. of Leviticus which I have somtimes thought not only the Epitome of the whole Law but the Foundation of the Gospel also to be very often considered Yea and the Wilderness shall be as Lebanon and Carmel Yea Every Tree of the Forest shall clap hands and sing and rejoyce in praising God As we read in many places of the Psalms and Prophets Yea and the Gospel must be preached to every Creature under Heaven and the whole Creation longeth and travelleth for it is now made subject to Bondage but in Hope for it shall be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God For God is able even of stones to raise up sons to Abraham Whose seed must be as the Dust and more than all the stones of the Earth And we also can dayly Turn Plants and Beasts yea and Pearls and other stones also into our own selves and our spirits so as that they give us also a New spirit and refresh and joy our souls yea and the Heart of God also as Jotham saith in That remarkable Parable of the Trees choosing them a King How much easier is it for an Infinite God to Turn All these into himself and his own Image by his Spirit making All things New as they All came out first from him and must All return to him For of him and from him and To him are All things From the Throne of God and his Lamb when His Kingdom comes shall issue out Waters of Life Yea to the Sea also even the Dead Sea and they shall bring Healing with them And where ever the Waters come there shall be Life and Healing For the very Leaves of the Trees on the Banks of those Waters shall serve for Healing os the Nations even of the Gentile Nations And the VVilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the Desert shall rejoyce and blossom as the Rose It shall rejoyce abundantly with joy and singing The Glory of Lebanon shall be given to it The Excellency of Carmell and Sharon They shall see the glory of the Lord and the Excellency of our God Yea All the Earth shall Rest and Rejoyce and be full of the Glory of God as Waters fill up the Sea And Then the Lord shall be called the God of All the Earth and the Possessor of Earth as well as Heaven Which was the phrase used by Melchizedeck in blessing Abraham when he had pursued the four Monarchs or four Monarchies to Dan even to Judgment and brought back the Captivity of Sodom also of which we read in several places Although Sodom was so accursed and made a Perpetual Desolation that it is a Type of Hell or of the worst Judgments in all the Bible Yet even Sodom must return again and her Daughters And when our Lord Jesus Exulted in spirit as he saith Abraham did to see his Day he said I bless thee Father Lord of Heaven and Earth even of the Earth also as of Heaven as alluding to that Blessing of Melchizedecks at the return of Sodoms Captivity And the Revelation tells us that when the seventh Angel sounded there was great Voyces or Joy in Heaven saying The Kingdoms of this world are become the Lords and His Christs and he shall reign for ever and ever And the twenty four Elders blessed God that yet at length he had taken to him his great Power and reigned and the Nations were Angry and thy Wrath is come and the time of the Dead that they should be Judged and that thou shouldest Reward Thy Saints c. and shouldest destroy them which destroy the Earth And Then the Temple of God was opened in Heaven c. Where before the twenty four Elders and the four Watchers also had blessed the Lamb that They should come even out of Heaven to Reign upon the Earth even upon the Earth As if the Earth should be the Centre also to All the Glory of God and that it should be more and greater on the Earth than it is in Heaven And yet it may be remembred that from the very first sin of Adam in Paradice the Earth was the Great that I say not the Only Object of the Curse of God The Serpent it self was not Absolutely Cursed but above all Cattel and above every Beast of the field And when the Earth shall be New moulded yet Dust shall be the Serpents meat as we read Esay 65. Adam must labor and sweat the Woman must be in subjection and bring forth in pain but not a word of Cursing them For God had loved them and Blessed them Yea and they shall be Blessed But the Ground is Cursed for Mans sake and in sorrow must he eat thereof All the daies of his life Yea it shall bring forth thorns and thistles and when Nothing else comes after Dews and Rain of Heaven It is nigh unto Cursing as we read in the Epistle to the Hebrews And when the Cursed Earth had also drunk up the blood of Righteous Abel every word of our Savior is Remarkable Then Cain the Murderer as every One is that Hateth his brother was also Cursed from the Earth but not from Heaven that we read and yet a Sacrifice was provided and laid at his door for sin that he may have Dominion over it Though I shall not here dispute the Jews Tradition that Cain also was saved Or that the Earth it self was cursed as a Type of our Heart or somwhat in us more spiritual than our fleshly Heart which is a Metathesis of Earth as in Hebrew of Babel which is Lebab the Heart turned backward And an Heart turned back from God is but Babel Confusion As the Earth which the Lord cursed Bringing forth nothing but Thorns and Thistles yet its Conception is greatly multiplied and its sorrow But I must not here shew How our Body represents the whole World with its three Regions of Heaven above in our Head and the Earth below in our Heart with its Pericardium of Waters compassed with the Lungs as the Air separate by the Firmament of the Midriff from the Heaven above in the Head and the Waters under the Earth in the Bowels which in Heb are expressed by the same word with the Waves of the Sea whose Rowlings and Ebbings and flowings are much akin to the motion and yearnings of our Bowels And in Scripture the off-spring of our Bowels is compared to the Sand of the Sea and the gravel thereof As the Hebrew words for the Thoughts of
Flood was such a Baptism to the Earth also As helped to wash away its Curss and Then God said in his Heart I will no more Or I will not yet add or go on to Curss the Earth for mans sake For or although all the mouldings of his heart be evil continually Which was the great reason brought for the Flood and yet now against it and the Curse or its continuance So gracious was God seeing the Flood also did not change mans heart but still left it as bad as it found it he resolved another Course and that he would Overcome Man with Kindness For it it was not only the Heathen Poet that told us Love would Conquer All Nor the Apostle only that Love covereth a multitude of sins but Solomon expressly saith Love covereth or shall cover as the Original expresseth All Transgressions Which St. Paul also Comments on Love beareth All believeth All hopeth All endureth All. Which was seen before in Davids that is Loves perfect Victory over All his Enemies Yea and Saul also which is the Grave and Hell to which David also alludeth perhaps in That very Psalm Crying the Kables of Hell laid hold of me Kable Seol I shall not digress Here to shew How the Flood it self was a Blessing also to the Earth and a Type of a greater Blessing to come When the skies shall pour down Righteousness and the Earth also shall bring forth Salvation When we shall receive the great showrs and the Latter Rain of the Spirit as we have received the Former little drops and first fruits of it hinted in divers places of Scripture For the whole Earth also must be full of the Knowledg of God as the Waters fill up the Sea and did once cover the Earth yea once and again But the Spirit also moved on the Waters and formed out the Heaven and the Earth so also it shall bring forth a new Heaven and a new Earth in which Righteousness shall dwell And in the Revelation the Earth also holped the woman and drunk up the Flood cast out of the Dragons mouth May it not also be about 1656 from Christs Resurrection or the New Creation as the Flood was so long after the Old Creation And That very Earth which God so cursed even This Cursed Earth must become the Blessed of the Lord. Yea so much his Darling That he resolveth to make it the very Centre of All his Glory and to fill it so with his glorious presence that the very Saints or Angels in Heaven rejoyced in the Revelation that they should come out of Heaven to reign upon the Earth Which is many times also hinted in the Psalms and All the Prophets to be compared with that most remarkable Discourse of God with Moses on Mount Sinai of the Lands enjoying her Sabboth of Rest in Leviticus And the very Song of Moses which is as the Bass to All following Prophesies concludeth with This He will be gracious to his Land as to his People or he will Cover or Atone or Expiate his Land Yea the very word by which God named the Earth which is one of the few things God Himself named and would not leave to Adams Naming as he did other things is such a word as might be also rendered I will delight or be pleased as if Here he meant to take his pleasure and delight rather than in All the Heavens Which must pass away as a Scroul of Parchment before the fire and They shall be no more being only as a Canopy or Curtains now to hide the Glory of God which must ere long fill the Earth which therefore shall Endure for ever and be never moved though renewed and filled both with Righteousness and Peace And God will come to keep his Sabboth of Rest and will delight on Earth and take his pleasure Here and Here also accept his People as himself seemeth sweetly to allude to the very Name Erets by which he named the Earth in the 40. verse of the 20. chapter of Ezekiel Where also This allusion is more sweet and fuller much in the Original than other Languages can well express Berets sam eretsem And in the 34. of the same Prophet he saith I will make them and the places about my Hill a Blessing I will cause the showr to come in his season there shall be showers of Blessing And the Tree of the field shall yield her fruit and the Earth even the whole Earth shall then yield her Increase Which we also read in the 67. 96 97 98 99. and divers other Psalms and in the second of Hosea and divers other Prophets And this Land of Canaan more Accursed than the whole Earth besides while it was held by those accursed Nations so devoted to destruction came to be the Pleasant Land the Holy Land the place of Gods Delight and Residence on which his Eyes and Heart were fixed All the Year And This also but as the First fruits of the Earth For it must All be Full of the glory of God And All Nations must worship him and All Kingdoms must be His. So it is prayed and promised in many places of Scripture Let All the Earth fear the Lord let all the Inhabitants of the World Reverence him For he looketh on them and fashioneth their hearts alike and his Eyes are on them that fear him and Hope in his Mercy All his Works are done in Truth He loveth Righteousness and Judgment All the Earth is full of his Goodness And the next Psalm is Davids Heart or Christs when driven out from Abimeleck the King my Father or the Father of the King he Changed his Habit c. And among other sweet Expressions That may be One When the Face of God is against the wicked to cut them off from Earth They Cry for so is the Original and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their Trouble And again All the Ends of the World shall remember and Turn unto the Lord. And All Nations and Kindreds shall worship him Yea All Kings shall fall down before him and All Nations shall serve him For he shall deliver the Needy when he Cryeth the Poor also and Him that hath no Helper And again All Nations which thou hast made shall come and Worship before thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name And the reason is in the same Psalm For the Lord is Good and ready to forgive and plenteous in Mercy to all that call upon him O sing unto the Lord a New Song which is cited also in the Revelation Sing unto the Lord All the Earth Fear before him All the Earth Say among the Heathen the Lord Reigneth and the whole World shall be Established that it thall not be moved Let the Heavens rejoyce and let the Earth be glad Let the Sea Dance and Rowl with All the Fulness thereof which hereafter we may understand Let the Field be Joyful and All in it Yea Then shall all the Trees of the Wood rejoyce before the
Such Seasons and Changes VVhile the Earth endures but also that All Dayes of the Earth should be Those Seasons or such Seasons As the words in Hebrew may be read and we find it so by daily Experience that every Day hath its Seasons and its quarters As the year also And the Half Month added to the Three brings us through the second sabbath of Weeks or 14 Weeks As before we found Abrahams Tenents and Others in Sodom freed from the four Monarchs or Monarchies in the 14 year And our Teeth in Each Jaw are 3 times 4 with 2. Watchers But yet more especially These Three Months and an half bring us from the Pentecost and Sack of Ierusalem That Great New Moon or Change beginning the Month following That Feast of Pentecost as we hinted before to the very Time of that Last and Great Feast of Tabernacles At the fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month and so just 3 Months and an half after the month of Pentecost which was followed by such a visible Change of their Moon or Olam when the Romans fired their City and so made That Full Moon And That also much about the middle of September answering so much to their Seventh Month and Feast of Tabernacles At which Time also their Release and Liberty must begin again as Thereabout it Ended And that their Coming in again with the Fulness of the Gentiles also promised to Ephraim as we saw before was to answer that Full Moon of the Full Month that is the Seventh and Great Feast of all the Feast of Tabernacles Or In gathering All the Fruits of the Earth may be cleer not only from the very Reason and Nature of That Feast and Season but also from many places of Scripture which do so compare them together As the 102 Psalm made as a Form of Prayer for Him that is Afflicted with his soul overwhelmed and pouring out his sighing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the Lord Jesus As we find it cited in the first to the Hebrews I am withered as Grass cut down for Hay in Summer but He shall come down upon the mown Grass in Psal. 72. But Thou wilt arise and have mercy on Zion For the Moed is come the Time and the Moed also And Psal. 75. I will judg Equities when I receive or come to the Moed The very same word used here in Daniel and in many Scriptures for that Great solemnity of Tabernacles which of all the Three Moads was the Moad of Moads Or the most solemn and Greatest of All. And then presently the Psalm addeth So or Then the heathen shall also fear thy Name and All Kings of the earth thy Glory as before in the 72 and divers other Psalms When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appear in his Glory He will regard the prayer of the Destitute or Naked and will not despise it As our Saviours Dying Words on the Crosse Ps. 22. 24. This shall be written for the Generation to come for he looked down from the height of his sanctuary to behold the earth and hear the sighing of the Prisoners and to loose the sons of Death When the Peoples in the Plural are Gathered together as at that Feast of Tabernacles and the Kingdoms also to serve the Lord. That which followeth of shortning his Dayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may allude to Katsyr Summer and Harvest Or the years End When the Dayes Shorten and their Tradition is that Adam quickly found the Sun declining and the Dayes Shortning Which They should consider that beleeve Him and the World Created at the Vernall Equinox So the 126 Psalm In the Lords Turning the Captivity of Zion we are or were like Dreamers Turn again our Captivity O Lord as the streams in the South we touched it before They that sow in Tears shall reap in Joy He that went Weeping and bearing precious Seed shall come with singing bringing his sheaves Which is plainly of Harvest and the Joy of Harvest which we find also in the Prophet Esay coupled with breaking his yoke and staffe of his shoulder and Rod of his Oppressor As in the day of Midian so famous for the Barley Cake of Gideon as alluding to the First Fruits and the Lamps in Earthen Pitchers of which also Saint Paul to the Corinthians And it ended at Succoth or Tabernacles which were Taught by Gideon Yet Plainer in Hoseah There is an Harvest set for thee O Judah when I bring back the Captivity of my People And again I the Lord thy God from Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in Tabernacles As in the Solemn Feast or Moed of which also before What will you do in the Solemn Day of Moed Or That Solemn Feast which is also the Solemn Day or Solemn Feast in Deut. 16 15. 31. 10. Ps. 81. 3. Lament 2. 7. with divers other places And in Zephany I will gather them that Moan it is Heb The Solemn Moed And at That Time I will get them Fame and Praise in Every Land where they have been shamed and at That Time I will bring and gather you and I will make you a Name and a Praise among all people of the Earth when I turn back your Captivity before your Eyen saith the Lord. And the Last of Zechary telleth us that All nations that fought against Jerusalem shall go up to worship the King the Lord of Hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles And again the punishment of Egypt and All Nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles And in that Day On the Bells of the Horses shall be Holinesse to the Lord yea every Pot in Jerusalrm and Jndah shall be Holinesse to the Lord of Hosts and there shall be no more Cananite in the House of the Lord of Hosts The Heb Canange may be Saxon Change Cunning or Koning And in That Day there shall be One Lord and his Name One and the Lord shall be King over all the Earth and in That Day Living Waters shall go out from Ierusalem and Half of them to the Dead Sea or that of Sodom also plain enough in the Text and Ezechiel both the 16. and 47. and in Ioel also Even of that Great Day of Iudgement in the Valley of Iehosaphat which yet was the valley of Blessing or Beraca Crying Put you in the sickle for the Harvest is Ripe Yea and the Vintage also for the Presse is Full. Which we read again in the Revelation where it runs out also by the space of 1600 surlongs which we compared before with Dayes and Years to be added perhaps to the Time of Saint Iohns writing about the 60th year after the Ascention And after All he Seeth the pure River of Life with Trees bearing Fruit every Month whose very leaves were to Heal the Nations And there shall be no more Curse of which before in Iericho And whosocver will let him take the Water of Life Freely Which being compared with our Saviours words in the 7th
alluding to the Christian Sabbath and so forward the Priests shall make the Oles and Salems and I will accept you saith the Lord God Then comes up the Prince the Prince Above All the Priests And He may Sit and He may Enter only where the Lord did Enter And the great complaint is of Strangers Polluting the House with Blood and Fatt See also Chap. 34. 16 17 20 25 28. And the Levites that ministred before their Idols They must stand at distance and must not come near to execute the Priests Office or the Holy Place But his Hand is lifted up that they shall bear their shame and their Abominations But the sons of Zadock the Righteous that kept the charge of his Sanctuary when Israel went astray and Jeroboam made his Priests of the lowest Common-People and turned the solemn Moed of the Seventh Month of Tabernaclâ—s to an Hagging Feast of the 8th Month and set up Two Calves for Aarons One They shall stand before me As the Standers or standing Men in the Present Tense though Dan. 11. 2. may seem Future but it is Prophetick Language and They shall Offer the Fat and the Blood And They shall keep or watch my Watch. And They shall teach my People between the Holy and Prophane and cause them to discern between the Clean and Uuclean How gracious a Promise And in Judgements They shall judge according to My Judgement And shall keep My Lawes and My Statutes In all My Moads And shall Sanctifie My Sabbaths Sure at least Christian Sabbaths if not even in the New Jerusalem As also Nehemiah and Ezra very zealous for Sabbaths after the return from Babilon to the Type of New Jerusalem after the Babilon of the Revelation And to the strangers also of all Nations Esay proposeth the Sabbath as the great Seal or Character of the Covenant by which they should come to Delight in God How sweet a Promise and To Ride on All the High Places which so many stumbled at And To possess the Inheritance of Jacob Even Jacob Whose Blessings were Above all the Blessings of his Ancestors Compare Esay 56 and 58. And ye stall give them No Possession in Israel I am Their Possession Their Inheritance But they shall eat the Minha and the Sin and Trespass-Offerings and the Cream of Israel or Cherem shall be Theirs And the First or Resit of All the Biccurim First-fruits of All. And every Heave-Offering of all your Heavings or of all your Romings For it comes from Rom to Heave or Ramp or Rome As Nahor by his Concubine Reuma begat Pride and Slaughter Oppression and Tax a strange Beast Gen. 22. 23. And as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the great Heave Offering is just 666. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1676. And the Resit of your Heresis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1770 You shall Give to cause a Blessing to Rest upon thy House which will else Return away If The Son of Peace be not in it The word here used is Tittenu or Tithtenu As before we noted in the great Command of Giving to the Levites Though I say not from Tenu Tithtenu may come both English Tithe and Ten and other Nethinims or Gifts as Christ calleth them to the Altar Which they called Korbans As Offerings to God Whereas they were but Gifts and must be Left upon the very Altar till the poorest Brother had forgiven his Trespassers A sweet word to be pressed also with Reverence on Christ Himself our Great Brother Who said You Tithe Mint akin to Mind and Cumin but neglect the Greater things of the Law also Faith and Love As a Proverb to the Jews also In Nehemy the people Sanctified to Levi and He to Aaron paying Tithes But at the Rising of the two Witnesses the Tenth of that City fell We need not Go to Rome It may be the Tenth or Tithes of Jerusalem In that very Chapter called the Holy City Yet the Great City is Sodome also as Esay 1. c. and Egypt where also Our Lord was Crucified and where also the Witnesses must lye dead three Dayes and Half Which may be Compared with That Tenth or Tithe in Esay 6. 13. That famous Chapter cited in the six first Books of the New Testament For the Jewes Rejection and Return again by the Holy Seed in them called the Tenth as Uzziah was to Zedekiah as alluding to the Tithes and first Fruits Which will Then be as it were Rejected and Fall When All the Fruits of the Earth shall be Gathered in at the Great Harvest Or Ingathering of which before at the Feast of Tabernacles Beginning at the latter end of That 11th Chapter at the Seventh Trumpet in the Full 7th Month When All the Kingdomes of this World shall become the Kingdomes of our Lord and his Christ who shall Then Reign When All his Enemies are made his Footstool and They Destroyed that Destroyed the Earth And Then and not Till Then the Temple of God is opened in Heaven and the Hall of Moed with the Ark of his Testament or Witnesse shall appear and God shall place his Tabernacle among men As That Chapter with the 21. 22. It may be added also that Ezechiel hath a solemn Feast of Tabernacles with its Bullocks and Rams and Goats for Sin-Offerings which he putteth before Burnt-Offerings or Minha which is here an Epha where before not Half so much And 6 for One before in Oles on Sabbaths and New Moons But not a word that I finde of any Feast of Pentecost Which was Over and fulfilled Then As we saw before in Acts the 2d But the Feast of Tabernacles yet to come which is one of many Arguments that perswade me Ezechiel speaketh of Times After that Second of Acts. Then he brought me through the Entry into the Holy Chamber for the Priests looking Northward as Those of Zadock did as we see in divers places And in the very first Tabernacle as Here also the Northern side is accounted the Best Or Highest Or First As the South is called by God himself the Second side Whence also I will go up to the Hill of God To the side of the North. And in the Psalms On the sides of the North or Sion North to Moriah more perhaps than Modern Maps make it And the Priest in Offering the Ole was commanded to the North-side of the Altar And yet as in Ezechiel also the North was at Gods Left Hand and South at his Right For it is said That Here also the Face of the Holy Place was still towards the East as before which should be considered by All those good Christians though never so Old that press for Bowing towards the East Which if it may be Lawful in Ezekiels Temple yet I dare not press And behold there was a Place in the two sides towards the West-Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1232. or 1242. For the Mazorites note a Jod wanting Then by the four Corners of the utter Court
first Day from Babylon But at Ahava fasteth and chooseth his 12 Apostles or Elders on the 12th of the first going Thence to Jerusalem on the first of the 5th Month and stayed 3 Days and Then to the Great Feast of Tabernacles in the 7th Month. As also in Cyrus at the 7th Month they came as One Man and kept the Feast of Tabernacles as it was Written But the Temple was not founded Ezra the 3d much less come to that End or Motsa of which Ezra 8. 9. and 10. with Neh. 8. 9. 10. which may also lead us from the 7th Month to the 10th in Ester and in Maccabes also for the great Dedication which our Saviour himself pleased to Honour with his Presence in Iohn though not required by God but by the Jewish Church As also That of Purim which they keep with great Solemnities to this day I have not yet said that These great things done in the Womens Court might be but shadows of That yet to be Done by Them also when he shall pour his Spirit on their Daughters and Handmaids also and They shall Prophecy And God shall give a Word and great shall be the Feminine Preachers And so he cries Receive the Law of thy Mother That I say nothing of Miriam Deborah Sampsons Mother or Lemuels Hannah and Anna with Elizabeth and our Saviours Mother with Priscilla Lois Eunice and the Brittish Claudia in a better Calender than Martial with other Women Prophets or Writers of Scripture From the Middle Gate Leading into the Womens Court 135 Cubits to the Gate of Nicanor and 135 years from Nehemiahs coming up in the 20th of Artaxerxes To Seleucus Nicanor the Jewes friend and His Greek Era so much used in the Maccabes And if you please to turn again as they often did in this Court 135 Years more bring us to That Little Horn or Great Type of Antichrist or Antikeimenos Antiochus Epiphanes from 137 of That Era to 145 he confirmed the Covenant as the Learned Diatribe for That Week or for 2300 Natural Days But Then Prophaned the Temple for 1290 Days although there be not so many from the 15th of the 9th of 145 to the 25th of the same Month 148 when it was clensed as we read 1 Mach. 1. and 4. Yet the Weeks may be just 62 to his coming up if we grant them to begin 70 Years before Cyrus in 140 Nabonassar and Epiphanes in 573 7 more for the next week make 580 and 3 Years more and as many Days as from the 17th of the 4th Month in which they fast for the first Temple to the 25th of the 9th Month in which they Feast for the 2d clensed by Judas Machabeus make up near half another Week in the year 444 after the first Temple which may make it the more considerable because it is 2 Thirds of 666 of which again But if Ezekiels 390 Days of the last siege of Jerusalem from the 15th of the 3d Month to the 9th of the 4th in the next and last year of Zedekiah as the Great Primate of Learning and Religion hath observed were as Types of those 390 Years from the great Schism to the Temples End Why may not these also in Antiochus be Types of Years in Antichrist and All Defiling of the Temple to its clensing Seeing Daniel himself is bid to shut or Seal them up being for many Dayes or Years to come as that Phrase of Dayes is in many places we saw before Even Then when the Angel speaks of Evening and Morning the usual Character of Natural Dayes Which we may consider again But first we may note That as first This Gate of Nicanor might remember the first Nicanor their Friend so it might not forget Nicanor their Enemy slain Here as Some or near Jerusalem As 1 Machah 7. by the same Judas about the End of the 64th Week from the Captivity Or 151 of Selâ—ucus soon after Antiochus And from this Last Nicanor Then slain to Herods Samaria finished or Caesarea Or the Temple begun may be just 135 Years As from Epiphanes first to Herods first 135 Years As 135 Cubits from the Middle-Gate to Nicanor From which Gate of Nicanor began the next Court of Israel and the Priests being 187 Cubits as there were 187 Years between That Nicanor slain and our Saviours Baptism Or Pontius Pilate that put him to Death As also from the Death of Antiochus the Great Dan. 11. 19 to our Saviours Birth 187 Years And if we look on Hours as Years The first 7 Hours make the first Rest and Turn of the Sun from the Nadir towards the Morning Horison and 7 Days make the Sabbaths Rest and the first 7 Days of a Woman before her Son Circumcised The first 14 Hours come up to the Morning Sacrifice when it was appointed and their longest Night was 14 Hours the Hiding Resting Slaying Sleeping of the Witnesses And 14 Days brought up the Passover The first 40th Hour is the 2d Morning Tamid or their Breakfast As 40 Days the Womans first coming to the Sanctuary after a Son As their 40 Years before Canaan were for a Son the first-born Son For Out of Aegypt have I called my Son my First-born 49 Hours begin the Third nights Rest as 49 the Jubile 65 Come up to the Third Days Noon or Dinner as the 65th Day is the Pentecost 72 Hours closed the 3d Day as 72 their Sanedrin 80 Hours the 4th Morning Watch and 84 Sun-Rising as the 4th Day from Creation brought up Sun and Moon as the two Witnesses of Heaven measure to All other Witnesses on Earth 120 the number of Moed in Hebrew letters the Hours in 5 Days before Man and Woman Created If about the Tamid Hour of the 6th Morning it might be in Hour 135 As the Men and Womens Court 135 Cubits 144 Hours the square of 12 close the 6th Day and begin the 7th or the Sabbath and their Clakins or Jewish Minutes of 144000 as the First-fruits of Time to God and His Lamb shadowed by the Lamb of the Sabbath distinct from the Daily Tamid 240 Hours close the 10th Day And from Aegypt the Pascal Lamb was Tyed up from the 10th Day of the Month as 3 Daies and Half before he was slain in Hour 333 the Evening Minha of the 14th Day Ending in 336 Hours But they went not out of Aegypt till the close of the next or 15th Day at Sunset which was Hour 360 as Daies in their Year And so Years from This Exodus out of Aegypt are reckoned as Hours from the beginning of their Year to the Passover Pentecost Tabernacles and All their Feasts 1200 Hours in 50 Dayes between the Passover and Pentecost Whose Morning was in 1548 Hour of the Year And so the Great Pentecost Acts 2d might be 1547 or 48 Years from Aegypt If there were 70 Years between the first Temple and Cyrus taking Babylon in 210 of Nabonassar That is 480 from Aegypt to the Temple in Solomons 4th 1 Kin. 6.
wilful sinners Of the patience of Christ to a man turning into a Beast and how he deviseth Devises to prevent it or recover him How he fulfilled the Ceremonial Law also and how he was in all the Sacrifices as a Lamb for the Lambs and as a Goat for the Goats Of Benjamin the Son of the right hand with other Children of Rachel a sheep in Hebrew at his right Hand and of the Children of Leah or others at the Left Hand where also of Seir a Goat and of the Goats offered at the New Moons solemn Feasts c. and of the Rams of Ishmael accepted on the Holy Alter Of Gods face in Scripture toward the East and of Bowing to the East and of his Right Hand to the South and Left to the North and of Northern Judgments turned to Mercies and Blessings and of great and good things to come out of the North in the Latter times of the World as from Babylon at the return from Captivity How Christ came in the fulness of time Of Seven Ten the full Rich Numbers of their Powers Compounds for Ages Ever or eternity which yet in Scripture oft hath such or such an End or Revolution in such or such Generations How Christ came out in several Ages and Persons of Note in the Bible to do the Great things of Gods Power Wisdome and Goodness for Man To Man and in Man through all the Times and Seasons of the Scripture and in special the Times of the Witnesses In Heaven the Father and the Word Dabar Bar Bara Creating Heaven and Earth where also the Spirit of the Messiah as the old Jews call it on Gen. 1. 2. Mooving on the Waters an other Witness and parting them by A Dam and Adam of Adama dryed Red Earth akin to Dam in Hebrew Bload the other Witness John 5. and Acts 17. Of one Blood he made all Nations of men and determined the Times appointed and bounds of their Habitations which in parting the sons of Adam he bounded according to the Number of the Sons of Israel Deu. 32. which were 12. and to be measured by the 12 Hours of Day and Night Shadowed on the Tabernacle by the Cloud Pillar of Fire for Light that Beginning of the Creation and works of God and in its outer Court by the Laver of Water and Blood on the Alter of Witness as That called Ed a Witness by the waters also of Jordan where afterward the Baptist heard or saw all the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth to which he bare Record or was made a witness also as divers other in several Ages And All the 7 Washings or Sprinklings of Blood or Water so often required in the Law to represent the 7 Nights and 7 Dayes of the Week As the 7 Lamps in the inner Court or Holy Place as the visible Heavens with its Planets about the Sun in the midst as the greatest Lamp was in the middle of the other 6 or 3 on either side by the 12 Cakes of Shewbread changed every 7th or Sabbath day and made of 24 Omers out of 24 Seahs as the Jewes 24th of Leviticus for the 24 hours of Day and Night Made by the Sun mooving 2 of His Diameters the Moon 24 of Hers in each diurnal motion of 24 Hours parted into 4 great Watches as the 24 Elders in the Revelation had also 4 watchers with 6 wings a piece as in the Prophets And in the Temple also there were 24 courses of Priests and of Levites 24 of Porters and 24 of Singers and 24 courses of Standers or men of the Station representing all the People or 12 Tribes as in the 12 Cakes of 24 as 12 Sons of Jacob or 12 Hours of Light came after the 12 hours of Darkness or 12 Sons of Ishmael or Esau for the 24. Elders And as God gave 24 things to the Priests so they gave 24 to him in their dayly Minha of 12 Rouls at morning and 12 also at Evening And the Seventh in Hours also is very Signal as in Days and Moneths and years by the great Rest and Turn of Sun and Moon as Water and Blood also in the Sea and bodies of Animals after every six hours with Them and All that accounted Lilith that is Night the first Wife to Adam and do call her Eve or Even to the Day As it is to them that are about the Aequator and to All at either Aequinox when Time seemeth to begin And beginning at Sun-set as the Jewes and many other Nations did the First six Hours brought down the Sun to the Midnight Nadir and six more brought it up to the Morning Horizon and six more to the Noon or Zenith and six more to Setting again So that every seventh Hour made a Pauz and Turn And Sabbath is Both in Hebrew As if the watchers stood at the four Corners of Earth or quarters of the Heaven which are called Winds and Spirits also in the Scripture alluding perhaps to the four watching Spirits or Angels to Turn the Sun and Moon or Hour-glass of Waters or Clepsydra in the Seas c. After every six Hours of Day and Night the walks of the Sun and Moon but shadows of the good things within the Vaile or 3d Heaven where the 2 Cherubins of Glory shadowed the Mercy Seat or Heavenly Throne over the Earth or Ark of the Testimony also or Witnes with its 2 Tables or Testaments also For the 2d Covenant as in 29 of Deuteronomy was both Law and Gospel also written in the Ark of the Heart of Christ and all his Members after the first Tables of Stone were broken and disanulled being never put in the Ark or in our Hearts For know you not that your Bodies are the Temple of God As Paul speaketh to the Gentiles also Where our Heads as the Heavens above with two Eyes or Cherubins of Glory The Mercy seat or Throne of God and his Rainbow as in all the Scriptures like our Eye And our Heart Or Altar of Incense As the Earth beneath in the middle Court or 2d Region with its Pericardium of Water and Blood in the Pleura with twelve Ribs on either side and seven distinct from the other Nothi As also the seven Rackets of the neck with its spirit or spinal marrow from the Cerebellum As the Brain hath also seven spirits or pair of Nerves with Animal spirits Veyles and Ventricles which are shadowed in the Lower Regions both of the Earth below in the Heart and Waters under the Earth in our Bowels where the Duodenum and Ilea with all the Rest are but shadowes of things above As of the Laver or Molten sea or great Ocean with its Ebbings and flowings as the Earning of our Bowels and the Altar of Burnt-offerings in our Stomack with its heat or fire never quenched and the seven Planets with the Firmament of the Midrif parting between the Bowels or Waters under it and those above it as high as the Brain
fulness of Christ. And concludes that Epistle Peace be to the Brethren and Love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ Grace be with All them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity Amen So to the Philippians every where Especially in that famous place of Bowing in the Name of Jesus paralel to that of the Psalm Early will I seek thee and ever will I bless thee and lift up my hands as here bow the knee in thy Name when I pray I will pray in thy Name and confesse to the glory of God which Christ challengeth to himself in the Prophet Isaiah and at conclusion The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen And in the Epistle to the Colossions For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell and having made Peace by the blood of his cross by him to reconcile All things unto Himself by Him whether they be things in Earth or things in Heaven Which to the Ephesians is according to the good pleasure of his will which he had purposed in himself that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather All into One in Christ All things in Heaven or Earth even in him And to the Thessalonians Now God Himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way to you and the Lord make you to increase and abound in Love to One another and to all men even as we to you that he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God And again That the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and ye in Him according to the Grace of our God and the Lord Iesus Christ. And again Now our Lord Iesus Christ himself and God even our Father which hath loved us for the Father is Love and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace comfort your hearts and stablish you in every good word and work And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and patience of Christ. Now we command you brethren in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ that you withdraw from every brother walking disorderly yet count him not an enemy but admonish him as a brother Now the God of Peace himself give you Peace alwayes by all means The Lord be with you All. The salutation of Paul with mine own hand which is the token in every Epistle so I write The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all Amen And it may also be observed that what we read be with you might be read is with you and so it is not onely a prayer but a promise and assurance that the grace of Christ is with All calling on Christ and so believing on him for how can they call on him on whom they believe not And Timothy This is a faithful saying and worthy of All Acceâ—ation as much or more then all the Mazoreth or Kabâ— that Christ Jesus came into the World to save sinners of whom I am chief Now unto the King Immortal Eternal Invisible the onely wise God which Jude also calleth Our Saviour speaking in the language of this very Text be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen Which he subjoyns on this Great Cause I obtained Mercy that in me first Iesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering for a patern to them even to all them that should hereafter believe on him to Eternal life So that Christ did not mainly mind Paul in shewing him that patience and kindnesse but did it to Him that he might be a patern unto others even unto all others that should ever after believe even to all Eternity And to the same Timothy he writeth Flee also fleshly lusts but follow Righteousness Faith Charity Peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart And concludes the Lord Iesus Christ be with thy spirit Grace be with you Amen The great businesse of St. Peters Epistle is to presse forward in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and so he concludes Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ to him be glory both now and for ever Amen Which also runs very much through the whole Epistle The Revelation of Jesus Christ wch God gave to him to shew to his servants is ful of prayers praises blessings of and from and to the same Jesus Who so plainly calling himself the first and the last which is and was and is to come the great Iehovah Lord God Almighty leads us plainly to the paralel places in the Prophet Isaiah where he saith the same of himself adding also that there is no other God or indeed no other True Being besides himself Representing himself in several species or Idea's For Plato was not the first that taught there was but One which yet was All. And yet again in the same chapter of that Prophet he saith Lo here I am and His spirit hath sent me even the Lord God and His Spirit though I am God and there is none besides me or none else but I and in me and One with me as the Root and every Branch is One with the Vine And in the same Prophet It is this One True God the First and the last and so All True Being which yet is sent by God and anointed by his Spirit and so the Messias or-Jesus Christ which plainly sweareth by Himself and therefore hath no greater that every knee shall bow or pray to Him and every tongue shall confess to Him which the Apostle citeth in that noted place of praying in the Name of Jesus and confessing to the glory of God even the Father also And may we add or may we not add what Christ of himself said If God be glorified in Him or in Them will not God also glorifie Him or Them with Himself Yea he will shortly do it nay he hath already done it before any other can glorifie Him for who can give him first or lend to him that it may be paid again To this also we might refer those passages of holding fast his Name and not denying his Name and confessing his Name as he will also confesse their names before his Father and the holy Angels both in the Gospels and Revelation and the call and Counsel of Christ as also the Fathers Drawing being that we come to Christ and learn of Him and buy of Him and open to Him that is still knocking to come in till his locks be wet with dew and his spirit be not onely abused but dispised and blasphemed argue much our speaking praying to him as well as hearing him who indeed is the end of the Fathers Teachings and Drawings so that he that hath heard and learned of the Father cometh wil come to Jesus Christ and converseth with him as a man with his friend whom he most loveth and honoureth also And the Angels of Heaven for they are all bid to worship him as we
read in the Psalmes and Epistle to the Hebrews with the four Watches or Watchers and the four and twenty Elders of which again when we shew all measures borrowed from the twelve hours of darknesse or the twelve sons of Ishmael and the twelve sons of Light or of Israel they all fall down and Worship Praying and singing Praises to the Lamb also even as cloathed with flesh as well as to him that sat on the Throne which yet was Christ also as is clear from many passages but Christ in more Majesty and Glory of the Deity then onely as a Lamb slain For it was the Lamb exalted and set down in Glory even in his Fathers Throne As of old the 24. courses of Priests and of Levites and of Porters or Watchers or Singers and other Officers so ordered by David who was also the 24th from Noah as the number of his Name in Hebrew and the 14th from Abraham as also his Name when written without a jod as frequently it is and signifieth love and a Fathers Brother or a very neer kindsman so in the Revelation those 24. Elders did fall down in Adoration to the Lamb even to the Lamb that was slain they had Harps it s said and golden Vials full of Odours which are the praiers of Saints Which may intimate that as our great High Priest over all the Houshold in Heaven and Earth The great Angel of the Covenant offers up his own Incence with the Prayers of all Saints to his Father So these Intercessors also to the Lamb even the Elders of Churches offer up their Churches yea and other Saints Prayers to the Lamb. For the whole Bride and the Spirit acting the Bride also do not onely converse with Christ as her Husband but Worship him also as Her Lord as Sarah called Abraham and she is so commanded in the Psalmes both to Kisse him and to Worship him And she so practiseth in the Canticles and the Revelation also crying to the last come even come and so come Even come Lord Iesus come quickly It may also be easie to shew very many if not most or all of the Prayers and praises in the Psalmes are plainly directed to Christ and many commands and encouragements to call upon him there also As He arken unto my cry my King and my God for unto Thee will I Pray my voice shall thou hear in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayers to Thee and will look up And again they that know Thy Name will trust in Thee for Thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seek Thee And again Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble Thou wilt prepare their heart and thou wilt cause their ear to hear And again Blessed be my Rock and blessed be the God of my Rock and my Saviour clense me from my secret sins and keep me that presumptuous sins prevail not over me and let the words of my Mouth and the Meditations of my Heart be acceptable in Thy sight O Lord my Rock and my Redeemer And again Thy Throne O God is for ever and ever and ride on prosperously because of Truth and Meeknesse of Righteousnesse And to the Spouse of Christ He is thy Lord Worship thou him And again Be still and know that I am God Clap hands all People sing unto God with Triumph He shall speak the people under us He shall chuse our Inheritance for us even the Excellency of Jacob whom he loved and his blessing prevailed over all the blessings of his Ancestors And again gather my Saints together and I will speak and then declares the forme of the great Judgement both to the good and evil And concludes call upon me in the day of thy trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me plainly spoken by Christ and repeated by the Psalmist afterwards Saying In the day of my trouble I will call upon Thee for Thou wilt answer me And in an other Psalm Thou calledst in trouble and I did deliver thee and answered thee in the secret place of Thunder And what time I am afraid I will trust in Thee And again Trust in him at all times ye People and power out your Souls before him And again Praise waiteth in silence for thee And to thee shall the Vow be performed O thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come Iniquity prevaileth over me but thou hast made Atonement for our transgressions O our Jesus or our Salvation The hope of the ends of the Earth and them that are a far off in the Seas And again my lips shall ever praise Thee and and in thy Name will I lift up my hands when I pray And again Thou hast ascended up on High Thou hast led Captivity Captive Thou hast received gifts for men even for the Rebbels also that God may dwell among them And thy God hath commanded thy strength Strengthen O God that thou hast wrought c. And again In the day of my trouble I will call upon Thee for Thou wilt answer me and Thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in Mercy to all that call upon Thee Or as St. Paul to the Romans Lord of All and Rich unto all that call upon him plainly spoken of Christ. As that also of the Lord speaking unto my Lord Sit at my right hand c. And then the Psalmist speaketh to him the Lord at Thy hand shall smite through Thy enemies and Thy people shall be a willing people in the day of thy power and the Lord hath sworn and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever cited so remarkably in the New Testament by the Apostles and by Christ also asking the Jews who it was there or how David called him Lord. And the 102. Psalm being entituled a prayer of one afflicted when his soul is overwhelmed in him and poureth out his sighing before the Lord is plainly spoken to Christ as we see by divers verses cited in the Epistle to the Hebrews as spoken to Him and proving Him to be the Son of God and so are many other like passages cited in the New Testament and applyed to Christ. As also the context will shew speaking somewhat that belongeth properly to Christ and not to God but as he is in Christ and the Humane Nature and so he hath eyes ears heart and hands and passions also and affections which are else improperly given to God or supposed to be in him and so he descends to earth ascends on high Returning also to judge the World Which is oft spoken by David to Him he calleth Lord and King and Judge of All. But the Father judgeth no man but hath committed alâ— judgement to the Son and authority also to execute judgement because he is the son of man And often doth the Psalmist speak to a Lord or King or Judge as Job also saying I will make supplication to my Judge and my Redeemer liveth a phrase also frequently
All in the Epistle to the Hebrews with so many repetitions as God spake it several times to Joshua That which destroyed Israel was observing the Laws of Omry or other Kings among them and leaving the Law of God which was so good and just and wise that all Nations also should say they were a wise people that had such a Law Which indeed made them the people of God and so owned by him so long as they accepted and owned his Law for their Rule And he never cast them off till they chose a stranger for their King and a New Law to govern them Yea the great badg of Antichrist which we should hate may be to place himself above the Law and think to change the Law which God hath promised to magnifie among all Nations And although it be exceeding sweet to see and know that he was made under the Suffering part of the Law In all its heavy Threatnings and its Curses also so that all the Waves of God and all his Billows rowled over him and all his Arrows did stick fast in Him and in Job David Heman Jonah but as Types of Christ and partakers of his Spirit and acting some part of his Sufferings and when God had so powred out his Anger his Soul rested his Spirit was quiet and he will be no more angry as he often speaketh as an angry person that hath vented his heat and is quiet So was he in Christ when he had born his Wrath the Fathers Soul Rested in him and his Spirit is quiet so that he can be no more angry But we may come to him as the Psalmist Lord Thou hast turned from the fierceness of thine anger and hast put away all thy wrath even All thy Wrath in Christ Why then should it lie on us thy poor Worms O Turn us therefore as thou hast turned thy self and Reconcile us also seeing Thou art Reconciled and art in Christ also Reconciling the World to thy self and not imputing sin Yet because this hath occasioned so many disputes How far and for Whom or How many he so bare the Curses of the Law I shall therefore Now rather consider the Doing part of the Law and what it required of Man to Man as well as to God There being no doubt at all that I know but that he was made under this to All and for All the Law required it So that now look what ever was required of man either to God or to man Christ was surely made and put himself under all that as his Duty to God also whose Law lay upon him and was written in his Heart also as his Pleasure Honor Joy Delight and Happiness as to be made and kept in the Image of God Though also the Suffering part would soon be cleerer to us if we did consider That the Infinite God could have no other fit and full Object of his Infinite Power and Justice or could shew the strength of his Almighty Arm the Power of his Wrath or its heavy weight in no other But himself only or his own Match and his Fellow which surely no meer finite Beeing was or could be If we therefore may imagine God could be any more Angry in Time then he was from all Eternity before the fall or sin of any Creature which sure he could not be in himself but to manifestation and as he maketh us afraid we judg him Angry Or that he had a mind or saw it requisite to shew his mighty Strength and Justice with the Power of his wrath to the uttermost yet sure he would not chuse a little Worm to shew it on or such as are much less than the dust of the Ballance or a drop of a Bucket even nothing less than nothing When he had his full Match and Fellow which his Sword might challenge when it most would wake and shew it self in all its sharpness hardness with all power and strength of that mighty Arm that held and drew and brandished that flaming Sword Which therefore none have cause to fear or strength to feel as Christ but such only as are high and strong and stout to think themselves Gods fellows or his match and so challenge him As He or she that sits as God even in the Throne of God and Temple who must therefore look to feel the Sword of God and all that take that Character which All will take whose names are not written in the Lambs Book of Life even before the Foundation of the World And yet These also shall not feel the Sword of his Hand or Arm as Christ felt it but only the Sword of his Mouth a bright two edged blessed Sword which shall scatter and pierce them so that as the Psalms and Prophets speak in several places He will speak them under him for so the Phrase is and may be so translated rather than he shall destroy or subdue them under him or under us Which Phrase of Speaking them under him even then when they have most cause to expect destruction makes me remember a notable place in the 3. of Zephany Which the Jews also have marked as one of the most especial places in all the Scripture having in one verse every letter of their Alphabet and those also that are only final as they call them with other things observable Which it may be also bids us often read and meditate upon it as One of the most notable descriptions of the mind and purpose of God even in his greatest Judgments or in that we use to call the great or last Judgment Which perhaps is There also hinted While he speaketh Thus Therefore wait upon me saith the Lord to the Day of my Rising up to Eternity which some read to the Prey for my Judgment is to gather the Nations that I may assemble the Kingdoms to powr upon them my Indignation all my fierce Anger for by the fire of my Jealousie All the Earth shall be devoured For though it seem a strange For Then I will turn to the Peoples it is plural in the Original a pure Lip or Language Is not this a Blessed Speaking of them under him That all of them may call upon the Name of the Lord with one consent or with one shoulder Or one Sechem For That is the word in the Hebrew Text being the very same with His Name that circumcised himself and All the men of his City Sechem for the Love of Dinah which also signifies Judgment and may perhaps lead us to the great or last Judgment which may circumcise more men than may be is expected and be a sore surprize or ravishment to those that think to ravish it Which should also be compared with the Judgment on Sechem in Judges But I will come rather to the plain things of the Gospel cleerly comprehended in the Doing Part of the Law Which I am therefore made to study that I may see not only my Duty to God or man but Christs Duty unto me a poor Worm sprauling
deliver them from their destructions They even They also shall praise the Lord for his Goodness and for his wonderful Works to the Children of men Which is divers times repeated in one Psalm and that also by way of Prophesie or Promise and not only by Wishing as some now translate it Though the very Wishes of the Spirit of God writing the Scripture and it 's O that all the Lords People were Prophets and O that they would hearken and had Ears to hear or hearts to do as they say And O that they would consider and Turn and O that they would confess to God or acknowledg God or praise and bless God And Let All flesh praise him and every thing that hath breath praise the Lord and the like Sighs and Groans Wishes and Prayers of the good Spirit of God in the hearts of his People especially those that wrot the Scriptures are indeed both Prophesies and Promises or very strong convincing Arguments that such things so wished prayed and desired shall be granted to men and performed in them and in all the Earth also Even as Christs setting all his People to pray that our Fathers Kingdom might come and his Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Even in The Heaven or Heaven of Heavens is a very strong argument and great assurance with Evidence that It shall be so Even in Earth as it is in Heaven Yea and it is very usual in Scripture first for the Spirit to express its sighs and groans and ardent desires and longings for a thing and afterwards we read it prophesied and promised It shall be so First it cries Let All the Earth be full of thy Glory and then afterwards It shal be All full of my Glory First Let all thy Works praise thee and Then They shall All praise thee Let All Nations see thy Glory and Then All Nations and Every Eye shall see the Glory yea and the Salvation of God The Skies shall powr down Righteousness and the Earth shall open and they shall bring forth Salvation for the Lord hath created and commanded it He hath willed it and his people will it also For Concerning his Sons and his Daughters They will Ask him but concerning the Works of his Hands even All the works of his Hands They may and will and shall as they are bid command him And shall do the same works yea and Greater also than ever Christ did Then on Earth For he did but begin but Begin to do and Teach as we read in the beginning of the Acts and hath left All to be finished by his Servants after him who for This is gone to the Father and set down at his Right Hand and so hath Power or must and shall have Power over All the Works of his Hands And hath he received All that Power in Heaven Earth for Destruction or for Edification I trust verily for Edification and not for Destruction As S. Paul spake of His. So it is and much more and better much I hope in JesusChrist seeing that he can heal us if he will as the poor Lepar said and can quicken whom he will as himself saith why should we doubt his Will seeing with us it is one of the lowest steps of Grace and Goodnesse to be Willing to be Good and Graceful Yea and as Good and full of Grace as we can be and have any Power to be Why may we not hope it so in Christs Will also Is it Lesse and Narrower or Worse and Weaker then his Power Is his Heart Narrow as Mine is And his Bowels straitned also Or his Eye Evil and his Heart Envious also That he will not give or do or cannot abide to see the Good he might both See and Do and Give and Work very easily in us by that Power he hath received and the Gifts he had for Rebels also I have sometimes thought it might be better much and more Ingenuous farr to think our Saviour Weak or quite unable to do what he would then wilful or unwilling to do what he can for Good The one doth but make him Weak as a man the other Evil Envious or Malicious as a Wicked Man or Devil Or an Hypocrite that makes a great shew of Grace and good in his Face as the Heb Canaph or Knave is one that hath Grace which in Heb is Can ap-pearing But not in his Heart Or one that can but will not be Gracious Or makes a shew of Good without an Heart to it or a will to be so Good as easily he might if he would Especially when I plainly see Christ founding his Calls and Invitations of the Gospel on this very Botom and Foundation That he hath All Power given him by his Father and All things So in Saint Matthew All things are delivered to me of my Father Come unto me All ye that Labour and are heavy Laden I will givey ou Rest. Come Learn of me for I am Meek and Lowly even as Good in Heart as in Head or Arm or any Power whatever And you shall find Rest to your Souls And again at his Resurrection and before his Ascention All Power is Given me both in Heaven and Earth Therefore go Preach Do not fight or force though I have All Power and you shall have it also for I will be with you to the end of the World And therefore Preach And so also before he Cured a Poor Man that was borne by others and had no Tongue or Heart that we read to speak for himself Or it may be Faith to believe or expect it for it is said Christ seeing Their Faith not His but Theirs he said Son be of Good Chear Thy sins be forgiven thee and moved with Compassion also Healed him as divers also that were onely in his Sight though they said nothing for themselves and he never denyed any for themselves or others and This was That he might shew the Son of man had Power even power on Earth also to forgive sins And hath he lesse Power in Heaven Or lesse Heart to use it Seeing he is Exalted and set at the Right Hand of God and so hath Power over all his handy Works and made a Prince and Saviour for this very end and purpose that he may Give Repentance and Remission of sins to All that Ask and Wrestle for it as the Seed of true Seekers and that Brood of Travelers as Jacob who by seeking so and wrestling did become a Prince with God and Thence was called Israel And the Lord delighteth to call himself The God of Israel Though it might make him blush more then any Name or all the Names in all the Bible were not his Heart rather better then his Strength and Power was For every time he calls himself the God of Israel he remembers How a Poor Weak Frail Halting Man Overcame him at his own Weapons For he set upon him and was overcome and could not go he would not let him go till
one as thou Father art in me and I in Thee that they also may be One in us And for this also I pray and make it my dying request That the World even the whole World may beleeve that thou hast sent me As now my Disciples do and are happy by it For it is Life eternall to know thee the only true God and whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ. Yea I have yet one thing more to desire for the World even for the World also though I did not so pray for them in the beginning of my Prayer And the glory that thou gavest me I have given them that they may be One as we are One and that the World may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me And again I have declared thy Name and I will declare it that the Love wherewith thou lovest me may be in them and I in them Plainly intimating that All that come to Know his Name which he will ever declare shall come to Love God being Loved of him with the same love he loved Christ. To whom he gave many great Revelations not for himself as he said when the voyce came from heaven I have glorified my Name and will glorifie it again But that He might shew them to his Children and so great is his goodnesse to his Servants also Thus his Father Abraham was called the Friend of God because he knew his mind to which also Christ alludeth it may be more then once and was made his Privy Councellor For how or why should I hide from Abraham the thing or any thing I do seeing that Abraham shall surely become a Great and mighty Nation All the Nations of the Earth shal be blessed in him For I know him that he will command his Children and his Houshold after him his Houshold after him for he took his Enocks or his Catechised men to pursue the four Kings And they shall keep the Way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgement that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him Which was to be a Blessing to All Nations yea and to All Families and by consequence Housholds of the Earth Which is perfectly fulfilled in Christ that Blessed Seed whose seed also must be as the sand on the Sea shore yea and as the Dust of the Earth for multitude for I saw a multitude which none could number in the Revelation and as the stars also through All the Heavens for Glory And yet these are only the First Born or those that turn others to Righteousnesse Being Kings and Priests to God and his Father But there are others also that shall be as the Firmament though not so bright as the Starrs For so we read in the last of Daniel and of Starrs also there is great difference and severall Magnitudes as St. Paul tells us in the 15. to the Corinthians As his Master also said In my Fathers House are many and it may be very different Mansions Every one also of that Blessed Seed and of the first Born hath the Blessing of Abraham and is a Child of the Promise as Isaac was and is so made Blessing unto All Nations and Families of the Earth and hath the Sure Mercies of David also as we touched before to Him and his Seed after Him Which may be hinted also in the close of the second Commandment For what is there said Of Gods shewing mercy unto thousands is plainly meant of Thousand Generations as appeareth by the opposition of three or four Generations before in the same Commandement And in the 7. of Deutronomy it is so expressed Know therefore that the Lord thy God he is God the faithful God Which keepeth Covenant and Mercy also which is hence remembred by Daniell and Nehemiah wiâ—h them that love him and keep his Commandments even to a Thousand Generations Which also plainly sheweth that the words of the second Commandement are not to be restrained to those only that actually love God and walk in his Commandements themselves But to their Seed also even to a Thousand Generations And in the name of Goodnesse proclaimed to Moses this of Keeping Mercy for Thousands is written with a very Great and unusuall Letter as to intimate some unexpressible Greatnesse of Goodnesse as the Jews will teach us And those which are not the Seed of Abraham may yet be within the thousand Generations of Noah who was also a Perfect man in his Generations and very dearly beloved and Blessed by God who also blessed his Sonns and made an everlasting Covenant with them And his mercy is to a thousand Generations yea to All Generations as the Psalmes expresse it from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and their Childrens Children Whereas on the other side when he would expresse his great Jealoufie and visiting the Fathers Iniquity upon their Children it is but for three or four Generations VVhich is so far from such a Threatning as may be taken by some that it is very great Goodnesse That the worst of Gods Visitations here threatned shall be only for three or four Generations was so proclaimed by God when he caused all his Goodnesse to passe before Moses who also repeated this on God as a promise when he interceeded for Israel at their making the Calf which sure he would not have then pressed if he had not taken it for a great peece of Goodnesse as it was the last in that great Proclamation and God useth to reserve his Best for the last And when Moses heard it he made hast to worship as if he had now seen the very worst of God to be Very Good and much better then he knew before Though it was a good Report he had long had of Gods Goodnesse but not half or it may be the thousand part of that which will be known When he shall come to be Admired by All that Beleeve Yea and That also of Not holding guiltless or not Quitting the Guilty speaketh Goodness also and was in his Name of Goodness Proclaimed to Moses and so taken by Him and repeated and pressed on God as an argument for Pardoning and sparing the poore People when the Calf was made And God answered I have Pardoned according to thy Word And truly All the earth shall be filled with the Glory of the Lord or with the Salvation of God as we have found by comparing two Psalms together and the 40 of Esay with the Evangelist câ—ing it which is a very Sweet and Gracious Promise By which we may clearly see that the worst of those Expressions did not mean Eternall Punishment but only such a Visitation for some few Generations as might very well stand with Pardoning So that the persons so Visited should not be destroyed for the Lord visits not to destroy but to save but yet Chastened and Corrected in measure and not wholly left unpunished As we find the very same Phrase used by God
our Hearts do also signifie the sprouts of the Earth That Earth which the Lord Cursed But Noah found grace with God which may allude to his Name being the very same Letters which in Heb signify Grace He is called the eighth Preacher of Righteousnesse being the eighth from Enos When it is said Men began to Preach or Proclaim the Name of the Lord. The same phrase with Gods Proclaiming his own Name to Moses Though it be often used also for Calling on his Name As in the 80. and 79. Psalm Pour out thy Wrath upon the Kingdoms or Families that call not on Thy Name Till they seek Thy Name O Lord as we read in the 83d which may be added for calling on Christ and Praying to Him For among other Arguments There why he should not be Angry for ever or remember their Ancestors sins He cryeth Help us O God Our Saviour or our Jesus for the glory of Thy Name and Deliver us and Purge away or atone and expiate our sins for Thy Names sake VVhich as in the 65 Psalm and many other places is a sure Character of Christ in his Priestly Office being a Phrase so proper to the Priest in making Expiation for sin and the Mercy Seat and great Day of Atonement is from that VVord through all the Law of Moses And if I should so paraphrase the Words that Noah was the eighth from Enos who began to Preach Jesus Or to own him so as to call upon his Name I might not onely shew many Scriptures alluding though we now render them by Man and the Son of Man Where in Heb it is Enos or the Son of Adam But I might also bring great Arguments to prove Jehovah there used to be most proper to Christ Or the great Angel Jehovah as he is called in Zech. as alluding to the Angel so often speaking to Moses and giving the Law at Sinai out of the Burning Bush and Sinai is my Bush or my Thorns or my Sin or my Hatred as it is written or at least sounded in the Heb. And That Angel speaking to Moses when he was first made to turn aside and say he would consider that great thing a Bush Burning and yet not consuming as Christ also was plainly telleth him He was the God of his Fathers and appeared to them as t is said the Word of the Lord appeared to Abraham and the old Chaldee Paraphrase useth it very often where we read the Lord Though it was onely by his Name of Elshadday or God Almighty which we found the Object of Abrahams Faith but not yet as Jehovah speaking his Will also with his Power Ehje asher Ehje I will be what I will or can be Which now God would be in Christ delivering them out of Aegypt which in Heb is Misery as he speaks in the Law calling himself Jehovah the Lord thy God And This Name also may seem to be foretold to our Grand-mother Eve and that He should come from Her and she could not hold it in her Name being Chave which may also signifie a Tatler and as soon as Kain was born she cries I have kuned or kinned the Man Jehovah See the same Idiome particles and accents in Ezech. 4. 1. But as Seth was Set the Saxon English is very much Hebrew and a kin to Abraham in the room of Righteous Abel whom Kain slew So there was a Righteous Man also to rise up and be set in the room of Kain the Murderer and Brother Hater Which might be hinted perhaps when Kain named his Son Enoch sounding alike to Enos the very same name with the Blessed Patriarch Enoch That is the Chatechist or Catechumenus As is touched also in Abrahams taking out his Enochs or his Catechised servants against the four great Monarchies And Enoch was a great Type of Christ Walking with God and was not because God took him but before his Translation he had this Testimony that he Pleased God Living also 365. years as there be Dayes in a year And so long also did Christ remain in the Purity of the Primitive Church as the Oracle answered That Christian Religion should remain but One Great or Prophetick year and then came up That Grand Apostacy so much spoken of and ushered in by Him that through all ages since is Called The Apostate For Julian was about 365 years after Christ of which we may discourse again in an other Season When Enoch was Taken away and Seth Dead Noah is Born So Gracious is God in raising up other Comforters as our Saviour speaketh when it is expedient that some be taken from us Who is to be set in the room of Kain and his issue called the Children of Men in opposition to the Sons of Enos Named the Sons of God as some will have it Then began Men to be called by the Name of God All Kains Issue was washed off by the Floud so that all men now are the Children of Seth as we read in Scripture as well as Children of Noah And as we see the Justice of God in washing away the Sons of Cursed Kain so we may see the goodnesse of God in bringing us all since from Blessed Noah while also our sins as the Sons of Kain are washed off by the Blessed Flood of Baptism by Water and the Spirit Which must move on those Waters also as at first on the great Waters till it bring forth a New Heaven and a New Earth in which Righteousness shall dwell I do not Here stay to compare Noahs Ark with Peters Sheet having all kind of beasts Unclean and Clean which He must slay and eat and Turn into himself and his own spirit And from This he is Taught at length to call No Man Common or Unclean Seeing All are together and may be alike as they were in the sheet and in the Ark Resembling Christ with Rest also as the Name of Noah signifies Which was therefore given him because He shall give us Rest or Comfort in our Toyl because of the Earth which the Lord hath Cursed To which also the Prophet Micah may allude This Man shall be Our Peace whon the Assyrian Overflows our Land For so also Esay Prophesied that Assyria should rise up as a Flood and overflow the breadth of the Land of Emanuel as Antichrist the Church of Christ. see also Jer. 47. 2. But Christ shall give us Rest as himself also promiseth when he calleth all that are laden and that Labour as alluding to That of Noah I will give you Rest and again you shall find Rest to your Souls And the flood so Baptised Noah that God blessed Him and his Sons also which was more then we read done to Adams Children Yea Noah had a greater blessing then Adam had as may be shewed in divers Particulars and an Everlasting Covenant so established with Him and his Seed also that it is made the Pattern of all Covenants with Israel or any other as we may find in divers places And the
Lord. For he Cometh He Cometh to Judg the World The Lord Reigneth let the Earth rejoyce and let the many Isles be glad The Heavens declare his Righteousness and all the People see his Glory Which in the next Psalm is All the ends of the Earth have seen the Salvation of God As in Luke also All flesh shall see the salvation of God Which in Esay is Thus The Glory of God shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together And in the same Prophet Sing O Heavens for the Lord hath done it Shout O lower parts of the Earth break forth into singing ye Mountains O Forrest and every Tree therein And again Look unto me and be saved All the ends of the Earth For I am God and there is None else I have sworn by my self for there is No Greater that to me every Knee shall bow and every Tongue shall swear and pray and praise and confess to the Glory of God and my Father who said Ask of me and I will give thee the utmost ends of the Earth And while our Saviour lived on Earth he travelled to Aegypt and to other places about the Holy Land As taking possession of them Blessing them also by his blessed presence For the time was coming yea and Then come when not only at That or other Mountains of that Holy Land but in All places men should Worship God in Spirit and in Truth For the Father Seeketh such to worship him Yea and Those Lands also that had so afflicted and oppressed the People of God in all Ages even Aegypt and Assyria must come to sharers with the Land of Israel it self in the greatest Blessings For in that day shall Israel be a Third and but a Third with Aegypt and Assyria even a Blessing in the midst of the Earth whom the Lord of Hosts himself shall bless saying Blessed be Aegypt my People and Assyria the work of my hands as we read in the Prophet Esay to be compared with other places And the Reason given in the very Law of Redemption speaketh This because the Land was Gods Land and they were but Gods Tenants in it though in the Best and freest Fee for it was given to Abraham and his seed for Ever who was Heir of the World as the Apostle speaks And yet So that they must still acknowledg God to be their Lord Paramount their Grand Landlord And They might never give or sell or aliene no nor forfeit it which is very comfortable but so that it still must and should and shall be Redeemed again by the Tenant himself or his Kinsman Or however which was still to be observed it must go out Free wholly Free at the great Year of Jubilee of which more ere long And the Reason was This Because the Land was Gods Land and He would still retain his Right to it and in it and would still dispose it as he pleased whatever the present Tenant did And doth not the same Reason hold for All the Earth Yea did it not hold from the very first Fall of Adam and Man-kind in him Was not Then also the Earth even the whole Earth the same Landlords Had he not as much Right to it as to This Land of Canaan Would he so easily quit his Right in it Though Man a weak and vain and foolish Creature made a Forfeiture of His Possession or His Right shall it not then be as it was divers times with this Land of Canaan that when he shall have purged out the filth thereof by the spirit of Judgment and of Burning That which remaineth shall be Holy And why may it not be Thus also with our bodies and our flesh which hath so long been As the accursed Earth Yea as Babylon it self an Habitation of unclean spirits and a Cage of all unclean birds Why may it not also become the blessed Land of Promise and the Land of Rest Yea the Holy Place and Temple of the Lord of all the Earth Which is a Phrase very much to be marked As a name in which the Lord himself seemeth to glory being also the same Lord that is stiled the God of the Spirits of All flesh Which may be the Foundation of That Prayer and That Promise also that All flesh may and shall be brought to praise and bless the Lord as also that All the Earth must be full of the Glory of God For the place of his very Feet must be Glorious And what Glory Then will be upon This Earth when the Curtains or Canopy of the Heavens shall be drawn and the Glory of God shall appear and will the Earth as his chiefest Residence Will he not Then Give the Greatest Honour to the Weaker Vessel and the more abundant honor to the most uncomly parts or That which lacked most before It might be added also that the very City Jerusalem was not only Accursed as the rest but longer than other parts of the Land Trodden down by the accursed Jebusites which had their very name from Tredding down as the Revelation also seemeth to allude and These Jebusites grew up to be so Odious that before he conquered them 't is said His Soul even Davids Soul that is Love it self Hated them Even Them who possessed That very Fort which was afterwards his Darling and the dearly beloved of his Soul Yea That which God Chose-above all the Gates or Cities of Judah Yet in it self besides its accursed possessors it was but a dry barren Rock and so called Zion Drought or a Dry barren place And Morijah also where the Temple stood was but the Threshing place of one of these accursed Jebusites though as a Liberal Prince to David himself And though in Hebrew it may signifie the Lords Teaching yet others bring it up to Myrrh or Bitterness and in Greek it signifieth Foolishness to which also the Apostle may allude in several places And by This time I may conclude this Discourse of Turning accursed places or unholy into Blessed and Holy with That solemn saying of our Saviour The last shall be first and the first last Which he repeated so that I often think it might intimate a greater Mystery than I am yet sensible of As if All the Course of Gods Providence were as a Wheel in constant Motion pulling down the high Spoaks and bringing up the low ones Which Moses also long before described in his Psalm of Nature Grace and Glory Thou turnest man about as grinding him with the upper and the lower Milstone of Grief and Pain to clay or dust and Then thou sayest Return again Again ye Sons of Man Return again O Lord How long and let it repent thee concerning thy servants That is Make them Turn and Repent as we find it plain enough in the 80. Psalm and divers other places that Gods Effects In Man are expressed as His Affections To Man O satisfie us with thy Free Grace in the morning when our Night of pain and sorrow is past For Though sorrow
siner Loaves at Pentecost were but the first fruits of all the Increase of the Earth which was not gathered All in till the end of all the Harvest and Vintage also about the great Feast of Tabernacles at the End of the yeer Which yet is called on the New account from Exodus the Seventh Month. Which also made every Seventh Month Holy As also every Seventh Year was especially the seventh Seventh as we shall find in the Jubilee and every seventh Week or every seventh Day or Sabboth and perhaps every seventh Hour also in each Day As we see it makes a great Turn in the Sun and Moon beginning our reckoning from Sun-set as the Jews and many other Nations did which we see Dayly attended also with a constant Ebbing and flowing of the Sea six Hours apiece in the great Ocean as we may discourse more largely in the place of Times and Seasons I might add also that although the Curse that was due enough to Man fell on the Earth in general our common Mother crying to us as Rebecca did to her son Jaacob Thy Curse be upon me my son yet there have been several places which in several Ages have been especially under this Curse and yet none of them lay so under it but that they grew up to be Blessed again Yea it may be the more Blessed because they were once so Cursed For it was not only Micha's Mother that blessed her son in the name of the Lord because she had cursed so before but even God himself doth so earnestly Remember One that he hath spoken against as himself saith to Ephraim that his Bowels do the more yern over him and it may be blesseth them more because they were formerly cursed That is under Sorrow as we find the Curse of God so rendered in the Lamentations Give them O Lord thy Curse even Sorrow on their heart And our first Parents had sorrow and sweat and pain for their portion when the Curse fel on the Earth bearing Bryars and Thorns Thistles and Nettles to express this Curse or Wrath of God as the very name of a Nettle in Hebrew may import If there be any place in all the Law more under the Curse than the Land of Canaan it seemeth to be Idumea one of the Neighbor Countries which is expressly called the People of my Curse and threatned to Perpetual desolations when the whol Earth shall rejoyce Edom must mourn and be so cursed also that it is the very Type of Hell as may plainly appear by reading the 34. of Esay It being also the Land of Him or them that God so Hated as was toucht before And yet I know not one word in all the Curse of Edom that we do not also find Inflicted and not only Threatned on Jaacob and Israel Whom God himself saith he had given or devoted to the Curse by that very phrase which is used in that place where Edom is called the People of my Curse And what more frequent than Jerusalem it self to be a Scorn Reproach and Curse yea a Curse to all Nations Yea â—nd Perpetual Desolations never to be Built again or more Inhabited And yet we find That Ever or Eternity run out at the end of seventy years Captivity in which not only the Threatnings but Curse also was accomplished and powred out as we find in that remarkable Prayer left us in the 9. of Daniel to be compared with That of the Apostle Wrath is come upon them to the uttermost and Then it is a Blessed Land again and a Blessed People and a Blessing also to the World and Nations round about For It shall come to pass that As you were a Curse to the Heathen round about so shall you be a Blessing as we read in Zechary yea and a Blessing to All Nations as the Promise is in Malachy and divers other Prophets who doth not only shew them a way how from a Curse they should come to be Blessed and a Blessing also to All Nations But in the very close of that Prophet and so of the whole Law God himself provideth a Cure for the Earth also Lest he should come and smite the Earth with a Curse Even the Earth which was That which God had Cursed so much more than Adam Yet Elijah must come lest That very Cursed Earth should be smitten with the Curse And as the Jews repeat That verse of Elijahs Coming after the last verse lest the Scripture should end in Curse so it seemeth God also meant to repeat His Coming Or to send him or his spirit Twice Or before the latter Coming of Christ as before the Former There being also Two daies of the Lord There spoken of One is called Great and so was his first Coming and the other Dreadful or Terrible which seems the Epithet of his latter Coming much rather than his former And it may be marked that after John the Baptist was dead even at our Saviors coming from his Transfiguration which was such a Type of his second Coming and Kingdom He Then promiseth that Elijah Shall first Come and Shall restore All things Which is a Proverb with the Jews to this day and was also the constant Belief and Expectation of the Primitive Church of Christians as may be shewed by a full Jury of Ancient Fathers of the Christian Church And as John the Baptists Time was called the Day-spring from on High So it may be Elijahs second Coming also before the second coming of Christ is hinted in all those Scriptures which speak of a Morning Star to appear before the Sun of Righteousness which is also the phrase used by the same Prophet Malachy who promiseth the coming of Elijah And the Revelation plainly promiseth That Morning Star in the dark time of Jesabel and in Jesabels time Elijah slew her Prophets and the Prophets of Baal and so made that great change both in Church and State that in the Revel may be hinted by a Power to break the Nations Though That phrase reach up as High as Josuab breaking the seven Nations As the Manna in the Church before may intimate their passing through the Wilderness towards Canaan And that phrase of Breaking the Nations being coupled with that Promise of Elijahs coming under the Notion of the Bright Morning Star may put us in mind of a speech of God himself to Job Hast thou considered the Day-star or the Day-spring which I have made to shake the wicked out of the Earth They shall be turned as wax to the seal c. And when the wicked are cut off Thou shalt see those Promises fulfilled that the Meek shall inherit the Earth As we read in the Psalms and in our Saviours Blessings also and the Revelation addeth to That Blessing that there shall be no more Curse No more Curse For the very Leaves of the Trees about the Waters of Life shall heal the Nations And those Waters flow out round about Even to the Dead Sea or Lake of Sodom for even
Her Captivity must return again as we saw in Abrahams History compared with Ezekiel and where ever those Waters came there was Life and Healing and no more curse It s possible also that the Time of This great change may be hinted in the fourteenth year or second Sabboth of Prophetical years as David also was the fourteenth from Abraham as the Number of his Name imports after the four great Monarchies had Lorded it Twelve whole years which may be also Prophetical years from Nimrod Or from Abrahams Time or Promise And as Israel got off their Curss and Gods goodnesse turned it into a Blessing as our evil sometimes turns our Blessings into Curses so doth his Goodnesse turn his Curses in Blessings whence it may be the very same Word in Hebrew signifieth both to Curse and to Blesse as we find in several places of Job and other Scriptures So did Edom also cast off his Yoak and his Curse also it seems and got a Blessing As we see in his Fathers Blessing and Prophecy Which was also hinted by his Brother when by wrestling he had got the Name of Israel a Prince with God and had prevailed also with men he useth his Power for Edification presently as the Apostle speaketh and not for Destruction And cometh out in the Power and Spirit of that God whom he had so conquered and doth not only carry a Blessing to his Brother Esaw and intreateth him but with an Holy violence forceth him to take it Receive the Blessing which I bring thee from God and he urged or forced him by pressing on him and he took it And we read how he cast off the Yoak of Israel even to this day at the time of Jehoshaphat or the Lords Judgement Yea he did not only cast off Israels Yoak but came to rule and reign over Israel himself at the comming of Christ. As we find in the Herods and Agrippa the King from the Seed of Edom hated cursed Esaw Which we may consider when we read of Gods Shining out from Seir Coming from Teman or appearing from Paran And the Prophet Esay cryeth Who is This that cometh from Edom with Dyed garments from Bozra I that speak Righteousnesse mighty to Save And his Red Garments may allude to Edom if it signifie Red as many will have it which may be rather a Glutton And though Balaam say the Star of Jacob or the Scepter of Israel shall smite the Corners of Moab and Destroy all the Children of Seth and Edom shall be a Possession to be compared with Obadiah yet the Prophet Amos speaketh of Edoms Possessing the Tabernacle of David when raised up As we may Translate the words cited also in the Acts where Edom also is coupled with Those that call upon or are called by the Name of the Lord. in Dan we read that Edom with Moab and Ammon shall escape out of the hand of the Destroyer which some make Antichrist or the Turck who to this day payes Tribute to those Arabs of Edom Moab and Ammon rather then Ruleth over them Yet as Babylon is threatned with perpetual Desolations because he laid the World wast and would not open his Prison Doors to let his Prisoners loose and send them home a-again which hath been very comfortable when I have applyed it to Christ in prayer So also the great Curse Threatned to Edom was because he forgot the Brotherly kindnesse and the Covenant that should have been between Him and his Brother Jacob and let his Wrath tear for ever Which hath also been sweet to my thoughts when I have applyed it to Christ and asked whither He also would put himself under the perpetual Curse of Edom by forgetting the Brotherly Kindnesse and Brotherly Covenant and by letting His wrath also Tear for Ever God forbid Next unto Cursed Edom Moab and Ammon may be well placed the Incestuous Children of Lot which signifieth a veil or cloth as God himself seemeth to allude when after Lot was Separate from Abraham for Israel must dwell alone God said Lift up now thy eyes and look c. And again in the Prophet Isa. I will take away the Veil or Lot for that is the Word in Hebrew from the face of all people Even in that Mountain where he will tread down Moab who was Son of that Lot twice named There in Heb. Of Moab and Ammon it is said they should never come into the Church of God one of the worst threatnings in all the Bible and the cause in Deut. and Neh. is because they met not their Brethren with Bread and Water and hired Balaam to curse them but God turned his curse into a blessing and so I hope he did This Curse also of Moab and Ammon For their Ever or Never is in another place limited by Ten Generations Seeing God himself hath expounded ever and never in the Case of Ammon and Moab by Ten Generations Why may not we Take it so in other places also Especially seeing it is often used where it cannot be meant of Eternity As the Servant bored in his ear must serve for ever which is but till the next Jubile as we may find in the twenty fifth of Leviticus and all the Jews on those places And Christ also tells us the Servant abides not in the House for Ever And how often is it said Jerusalem shall Ever be desolate and never be built again or Inhabited As we found in Idumeah And yet it was built again after the seventy Years Captivity and may be yet again after all This. As we find Ay was built again and inhabited in the return of Nehemiah the Lords Comfort or Repentance Though Josuah himself that mighty Type of Jesus had made it so signally Desolate and that for Ever also a Desolate heap for ever As the very Name may intimate in Hebrew Greek and divers other Languages As the Stones also placed by the same Josuah are called a Memorial for ever And so are the Rites of the Passover and the Shew-bread and Aarons Priest-hood Yea in the very Family of Phineas though it was soon changed nay the very Garments of the Priests are a Statute for ever And his Trimming the Lamps and Restraint of blood and fat also for ever and Circumcission is called an everlasting Covenant in their Flesh. And Samuel was presented at the Tabernacle to abide There for ever And David was chosen to be King over Israel for Ever and his Son Solomon saith I know that whatsoever God doth it shall be for Ever And I know not any Word or Phrase for Eternity in Scripture that is not applyed to Heaven and Earth or other things which pass away But Christs Words shall Never passe away And for Moab and Ammon As I live saith the Lord the God of Israel and the Common Rule is that Threatnings with an Oath are never reversed Surely Moab shall be as Sodom and Ammon as Gomorrah and Perpetual Desolation as we read in Zeph. And yet in Jeremy
That we read in the Revelat. of 12 drawn into 12 or squared And of 12 times 12000 or 144000 like the Clakins which the Jews find in 144 Hours called the First Fruits of the Earth as the Hours of the First Week were the First Fruits of Time or of the World before the Sabbath That also which the Revelation speaks of 666 as the number of the Beast which so many have believed to be an Epocha of some great Change in the World may be compared with the Changes of the Moon and several Months which both Ancient and Modern have observed And 666 Hours bring us to high Noon of the fourth Sabbath or 28 Day Which is the end of one Month and beginning of the Moons Changes and Months from Thence to the 700 Hour in the 30 Day Which I touch the rather because That is the Number of the very Letters in the Hebrew Olam which is both the World and also Ever or Eternity or the Hidden Time of the Worlds Duration or Great Change thereof which it may be still comes out in 666 Years or at most 700. As the Moons Changes are in so many Hours And I know not any Nation or Kingdom of the Earth as another Moon to the Moon that hath not felt great changes in That Revolution And the very Phrase of Olam or Hidden may perhaps lead us to the Moons Hiding in her Change whence she comes Alma which in Heb is a Virgin or an Hidden Beauty As in other Languages Alma Virgo Alma Mater and the like To be compared also with the Wonder in Heaven A Woman in the Sun with the Moon at her Feet Which we touched before Moses maketh 70 Years a Mans Age or His Fulness of Time or Millo And the Hebrew word to fill is 70 or 71. in Numbers And Davids 70. Years was the fourteenth 70. from Abrahams Birth who as the Jews say lived 58 Years with Noah which in Hebrew is 58. which should be considered by Those that make him born 60 Years after Tharahs 70. which yet is not determined by St. Stephen who saith not he went to Canaan the same Year but After his Father died Which yet the Samaritan Pentateuch maketh just 60 Years Sooner than our Hebrew Copies And as 70 Years in Moses reckoning make an Age So the Hebrew words for Age or Ay or Ever and Eternity in their very Numeral Letters are about 70 or some one or other of its powers Ad or Adg the great word they use for Ever or Eternity which preyeth on All and some render it somtime by Prey As in the most famous place Zeph. 3. 7. Where yet it may be also to Eternity Being of the great Judgment as we spake before Maketh 74 in Letters As the Mazorites reckon from Ezra as the Sound may mind us the Helper promised in Daniel as his very Name implies before Nehemiah the Lords Comforter who followed him presently As the Great Comforter the Great Helper Jesus Christ. Ad or Ed is also the word used for Witness or Testimony Testaments and to be compared with the Two Witnesses of which before for the Congregation also or the Church or Elders thereof the Sanhedrin which our Savior also named plain enough but we lose it as many other things by reading it Councel And They were the 70 Elders as they were usually called though they were 72 or 73 or 74. of which â—o oft in Scripture old and new that I speak not of the 70 Palms and 70 Sons of Gideon and of Ahab Or of the 70 Disciples or any other 70. The same word is often added also as the sound may intimate to Olam for a Greater expression of Ever or Eternity which by This also appeareth not to be Absolute For Then it could not be Added to or increased When as Olam it self hath also a Plural and is multiplied by many in the Letter M which is ever 40 and with jod 50 as they used to multiply by 10 and by 50 As we see in divers places But M final as they call it is 600 as we see in the Mazoreth and 600 was so usual to express a Great multitude that with the Romans also it became a Proverb Et Sexcentis aliis c. to be considered with 1666 also Which are all the Numbers which Their Alphabet did make MDCLXVI And as Ad addeth 4 to 70 So Netzach another Hebrew word for Eternity doubleth Ad and makes in Numerals 148 which is Twice 74. And Dor written fully in Heb. maketh 210 which is Thrice 70 the usual word for Age or Generation And especially repeated for Eternity also When yet Both Dors make but 420 Years or 60 of Daniels 70 Weeks or Sabbaths Which is also another great Ever Yea and That multiplied by Ever also For One 7 times 7 or 49 in the Jubilee is very often called Ever and for Ever as we saw before in the Servant for Ever and otherwise How much more when That Ever is also multiplied by 10 and made 490. Which may also be Hinted in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their proper word for Time and season which is English Yet 470 or 480 or 490 as it may be written And if Time and Times and Half a Time be to be reckoned Thus they may make a Number neer to 1666. But the usual word for Season and for such a solemn Time as Daniel calleth Time and Times is Moad from Ad or next akin to it Adding 46 to 74. which makes Thrice 40 or 120. a Number Famous in the Age of Moses and the old Worlds Season for Repentance And in Daniel himself who 〈◊〉 the chief of three Princes set to rule 120 Rulers who were Thus parted into Thrice 40. Which we found before the great Number for Temptation Punishment and other things that I say nothing of the 40 Weeks of the Child in the Womb or of the Time of Life divers times specified in Scripture To be considered with the Fulness of Time in which our Savior also came by Water as at first Creation when they flowed from the Womb of Eternity and by Blood also for the New Creation as All Children come to Birth in Their Months also And the affinity between our Life and a Beast in Hebrew and in Solomon may bid us think again and count the Number of the Beast also which is Man whose Life is Bruitish or a Beast as the Midwives told the King of Aegypt and that the Heb. Women were as Beasts needing No Midwife Some read it Lively And in general Life is unto Being but as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which it only differs in the Root And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the proper Character of Life as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Being as we may see in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and divers other Hebrew words Kedem is also used for Eternity Before as the
Children of Rachel which signifies a Sheep Who died also at Bethlehem Ephrata or very neer where Christ was Born And at His Birth was heard Rachel mourning and weeping with expressions neer akin to Hell and its Gnashings As we read in Matthew and the Prophet Jeremy As the English use the word Rakell And it may be marked How she Died As her Father and her Husband judged her for Having and keeping Idols O that man would consider How Great and Powerful His Words also might be If he could learn the 39 Psalm with the three Sons of Ishmael Misma Massa Dâ—ma And it may be Christ also may allude to Rachels Children which he calleth Sheep and sets them at his Right Hand as Benjamin the Son of the Right Hand in comparison of Leahs or the Left hands Children Or of Esaus that is Goats For Seir or as the Saxon English sound it Sire is a Goat and very neer a Satyre in Heb or a Devil But may there be no Mystery in That of Jacobs Crossing his hands upon the sons of Joseph also or Rachel before he died and That Benjamin was so often cut off As his Mother wept because they were not but they must come in again and she shall have Comsort in the latter daies as we read Jer. 31. As if the First should come to be Last or Lost in comparison of Those that were Dead or Lost or at the Left hand but now found again and made the First For All their shame or Losses they have Double O thou Prisoner of Hope I now declare it to thee How a Lamb was offered every Morning and Evening Doubled also upon the Sabbath As it were a Sacrifice for the Lambs or Sheep we touched before And How a Goat at the New Moon or every Great Change of the World which they called Olam also as the Hidden or the Hiding Time As also the Hebrew Kesse as the English Kiss was the Suns Embracing the Moon or Covering her with his Robes and Throne of Glory which they also called Kisse And a Goat was offered so for a Publique Sin Offering at Every New Moon which the Jews called also Chodesh akin to Kodesh Holy or New As also the Month following the New Moon And at All the Three Great solemn Feasts at which All the Males were to appear under pain of Cutting off Which we may call a great Arcanum of their Civil Government also For by This they did not only meet and Feast as a badg of greatest Peace or Union and Communion but also They must then appear to All Suits or Actions which might else fall Heavy enough on the Sheriff of each Tribe or County But as the feast of Tabernacles was the Greatest of the Three so it had more solemn Attendants A peculiar feast of Trumpets especially at the years of Release and Jubilies which now began at That end of the year and the great Day of Expiation or Atoning or Covering as the word Capher or Cover signifies And the Jews Tradition is that Then the very next Night or thereabout the great God beginneth to sit in Judgement on all the dead of that year Which they therefore attend with great watchings and Fastings with other solemnities But more to our present purpose are the Goats offered on That day Double or Treble to the sin offering or Goats of any day of the year before That One of them also the Scape Goat was not onely carried out without the Camp as the great sin offering for the people whose blood was carried into the holy place as we see in Aarons great Failor at his Sons Burning beside the Epistle to the Hebrews but it was also carried out and sent by a Fit Messenger a great way off into the Wildernesse to go as far as He would abroad into All the World So that he might visit All Goats in All Countries For he was let loose to all the Wilderness and all the World And now it will be no great wonder that All Nations are so solemnly called and invited to the following feast of Tabernacles represented by all the Fruits of the earth Then gathered in and that under a great penalty of botches of Aegypt or of wanting Rain or Water also Unto which our aviour plainly alludeth in his standing out on the last and Great day of that Greatest Feast and crying while thy ran with joy to fetch Waters from their Siloam or Well of Salvation as the Prophet Esay speaketh O every one that Thirsteth Come unto the Waters and He that believeth on me as the Scripture saith shall have such rain from Heaven and such Water that out of his belly shall flow Rivers of Living Water Which he spake of the spirit not yet given till He was glorified and so received Gifts for Rebbels also and to Draw All men Shall we now wonder that more Rams and Goats and Bullocks were accepted on his Holy Altar 't is his own expression of Nebaioth or Edom also in This Month or Moon then in any or it may be All of All the Year besides Which we may see even filling an whole long Chapter and from Gods own Mouth in Numbers O that we could number it and so we shall in Gods due Time and ours also Let his People say Amen It is Finished and Done Amen Hallelujah Is there not a strange Twisting of Bullocks Rams and Goats together As in the Tabernacle it self with Rams skins dyed Red and Goats hair As they all met once in the Ark as an Emblem of our Bodies also and its Three Regions and beasts in it as the Church That I say nothing of the five sorts of Trees also to cover their Booths or Tabernacles to be compared with Esay 41. and 60. and Nehemiah 8. After Babylon as also Ezechiels New Temple and Sabbaths were to be kept in the Christian Church yea in the New Jerusalem or after Their Babylon also Is it not strange to the Jews that of the Seventh Months feast of which also in Solomons Time the Seventh day is described by Seven words in one verse And all the seven end in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their M final or Mystical Letter of which we spake but now And though I do not say they may note the 40 Sevenights or Weeks of Life as we spake before yet with St. Paul I say Christ came out in the Fulnesse of Time or in His seventh also or in the seventh Month or to fulfil That Feast also to be yet fulfilled O how Long How Soon at the End of the Year But when shall That be fulfilled which our Blessed Iesus of Natsareth the Branch also did but Begin to say and do of This Feast also of Palm Branches which we touched before in Tamar Though he cryed on the Crosse It is finished as the Scripture saith a Thing was fulfilled Or indeed there may be Several fulfillings according to the several Ages which must All be run through and that perhaps also by Sevens As we
signifies his Moon As if it meant to teach us How all Changings and Numbrings are between the Earth and the Moon which as English Money is from Numbring and Changing as Man also the Great Changer and the Money Changer also But take heed he be not whipped out of the Temple by our Saviour Though by a scourge of smal Cords So that the Moon and the Earth are but the Two Round Glasses of the Klepsydra the Weather Glass or Hour Glass And as One Fills the other Empties Whence the Tyde is Highest Fullest Just as the Moon comes to the Zenith or Highest Point of Heaven over such or such a Place And As she goes down again the Earth goes up and drops its Tide back again And why our Seas and Brains and Reins or Rains are fullest just at Emptiest Moon we call it Full will be no great wonder Except haply we should imagine the Sun and the Earth are indeed the Two Globes of the Hour Glass or Clepsydra and the Moon the little Rundle or the Firmament between them Which seems more proper much to the Earth between Sun and Moon And yet some with great appearance of Reason make the Sun it self the Centre of All the Planets And the Moon whirling about the Earth Which we may touch again And to This of Moon and Waters Above the Firmament Dropping Through to make All Time I might add the English Name of Showr as if it were So Hour or See Hour But This also is Hebrew For with them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are Shoures and Watches or VVatchers also And their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a VVatcher a Porter and a Gate is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which watcheth or Gards as the sound also Though I may add that the VVatches were more usually spoken of Nights as in the 90. Psalm and elsewhere As Hours of Day Which is Ha our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light And Thence Hour As also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shew and See And so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be He that shews the VVatch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And by This time we need not wonder that in Hebrew Jom should be Day and Jam Sea which is Now also in Latine As Olim Then both to Come and Past also Like the Hebrew Olam Jamim Daies and Jammim Seas And All these but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Waters Only in the gathering of Waters which God called Jam or Jammim Seas there is a repeating or adding or multiplying M the proper Letter sound and Character of Humming Waters and multitudes of Peoples also who are but Waters added together Or Many Waters As the Beast rising in Many Waters or Multitudes of People which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Am and Ammon in Hebrew and Ammi my People as Jam a Sea But in English I am is a word of Being and very Rightly too For we are All but Water Nay a Drop of VVater And All Nations are but a little Drop of the Bucket or VVell whence they are Drawn or Dropped As Moab my Fathers Water And to Create in Heb is but to Bear or make Bare a little change of Beer a Fountain or VVell still Bearing out As we see in Beer Lahairoi and in Beershebang the VVell of Seven too as well as of the Oath And so Bar a Son and also to Bar out And the Saxon English Bearns are Children or Free Persons or Barons As our Saviour also alludeth in That of Tribute by strangers and not of Children or Sons or Barin in his Language that is Barons or Free born Bearns As in another place he calleth them Children of the Kingdom that is Free Barons of Heaven or the Church I might add that Bourn is a River also or Brook Which is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebrew Or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Jaar a month and Year and River also For our Time is Drops of Water Flowing As we see also in the English Ye are or Year and we are or were and Jam as the Latin Jam for present and He is or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All are Heb. and Time is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sea or Imum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And all these parts of Time are akin to Seeing In Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whence are and were and ye are and Jare or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Hour and Our and Your But Persons in a Continual flux of Daies Jam and Years Ye are We are and Were and Your But the white sands running in the Hour Glass Or as God expresseth it but as the Little Dust in the Ballance Which yet is an Higher Pedigree than we may think For the Heavens in Heb are but the least and lightest Dusts that Phrase is Hebrew also from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Thresh or as Solomon the Highest part of the Dust of the Earth Which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Skie or See High From a word to Shake into Dust or Moats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Atomes by Metathesis As a Damm between the two VVaters stood the Earth More stable and more firm also perhaps than the Firmament it self For It that is the visible Heavens must pass away like a scrowl of Parchment before the fire And They must be no more as Job speaketh VVhen Man awaketh that is Kaets as To the Resurrection or the End of the world or as Corn in Summer as we spake before But the Earth shall abide and Endure for Ever As That which God called Erets I will accept or be pleased and delight in it and in them that shall come out of Heaven to Raign on the Earth Even As the Rain comes out of Heaven and Returns not Empty As the Rivers come from the Sea and go thither again So the Rain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Yarn or Rivers of Heaven Go and Come As in our Bodies also between our Heb Rin and Brains and Reins and Yearnings c. while our Heart or Earth is in the Centre or Middle of our Bodies as the Lower Sun which by its Fire and Heat and Clickins makes our Pulses Times and Circulations through our whole Bodies Yet if any will derive Erets against that Etimology we shewed in Ezekiel from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Run It is sutable to Water also or the Water Hour Glass Or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Pouder It may suit with That we spake of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Skie or Dust of Heaven As if Those also must Turn Tables with us or be Turned under us When the Dust of Abrahams Seed and the Sand or Gravel of His Sea also shall be made the Stars of Heaven yea of the Heaven of Heavens Thus then the Earth came that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Rose up as a Dam between the Waters in
Two Other that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 How neer is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Here to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Years which a little changed is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Women and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Men. As if Years were but Men and Women or For Them Yea and All visible Being Centers in Them and Their Ages Beings is Aged Men. So that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Being and Beings are but aged Men. In numerals 610. 620. 660. 666. 670. But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be 600 Then they are 1220. 1230. 1260. And the Two Here in Daniel seem to be There as Two Witnesses to this great Matter One of them on This Lip or sip 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be spit and One on That Lip of the River And he said to the man cloathed in Linnen his description is like the Revelation from above the Waters or Daies of the flowing Year or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To How long is the End of these wonders Mathai Kets afloat and the sound of Mathew There makes me remember our Savior in Mathew speaking of the End and Enduring to the End that they may be saved And when the Gospel is preached as a VVitness a Witness to All Nations Then and not till then the End shall come And presently citeth the Prophet Daniel in the very next words to that End Coming for the Abomination of desolation And then addeth Learn a Parable of the Fig-tree when you see it have Leaves it should be considered with the Fig-tree Cursed because it had but Leaves You say Summer is neer as alluding to Kets both End and Summer Even so when you see those signs of the Son of Mans Coming c. Know that It which in Luke is the Kingdom of God is neer even at the very doors Amen I say This or That Generation shall not Pass till All these things are fulfilled He bringeth his Judgment to Light Every Morning but the wicked will not see it And then addeth that most solemn saying Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away And in the same Matthew 5. 18. Till Heaven and Earth pass away Not a Tittle shall pass away till All be fulfilled of the Law Not one Jota VVhich the old Jews also tell us was the least Letter in their Alphabet And their very Talmud citeth a great complaint against Solomon before the Throne of God for cutting off a Little Jod out of the Law VVhich should be considered by those that believe the Samaritan Characters for the old Hebrew In whose Alphabet there is more Learning and VVisdom than a Volume can well express VVhich may be Touched in a Discourse of Characters and Language If the Prayers of the Lords People shall help to bring it forth But These are the Daies of Vengeance that All things written may be fulfilled And where are they written plainer than in Daniel whom He citeth Adding also That Jerusalem must be trodden down by the Gentiles as apocalypse 11. Till the Times of the Gentiles be fulfilled Or the Fulness of the Gentiles Rom. 11. from Jacob to Joseph speaking of the Millions of Ephraim as Moses also with Hosea and others concluding that His Seed shall be the Fulness of the Gentiles To be compared with that in Jeremy with other Prophets of Rachels Children Coming in and flowing together in the Latter Daies so strangely that she also the Barren Woman shall not only sing for Joy but Admire and Rapt with wonder shall cry out Who hath given me All These Children or whence do they come to me Being yet lost among the Gentiles Till Their Fulness comes and then Even the very same Night as out of Aegypt they shall come and know and shew their Enemies also that Abraham and His Seed was and must be Heir of the World also And must Rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and possess where ever the sole of their foot trod from Lebanon the Mount of Frankincense or Moon to Kassiah Mount Cassius It s Kasing or its Corners And from Euphrates that great River of Eden which in Daniel is Time to be measured in Shin aar Teeth and Years of the Watch or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even to the Evening or VVest Sea All which Track of Land was divided by Jordan the River of Dan and Judgment Making first the upper VVaters of Marom As those in our Head where our Judgment also as in Heaven above And then the Earth below Kinnerath the Harp and Heart also which it is like And Lastly the Sea of Sodam their Secrets or their Bowels and the VVaters under their Earth also Returning as VVaters in the South till under the Earth also they may come again as our blood and all is circuled at Phiel Gods Mouth and Paniah the Lords Face Where the famous Statue of the Syrophenician kneeling to Christ If for her Daughter an Emblem of the Returning of Sodom and her Daughters Of which we read in Ezech. 16. from Gen. 14. And of Melchizedeck There also through Grace one may have more to say but we hasten now to Daniels End and Numbers And I heard the Man cloathed with Linnen Bad and Baddim Bed and Bedding lieing and lying from above the Daies or Waters of the River Jear Year And jaraem May it hint also jeare Rome The Years of Rome also which was Then to sack that Holy City of which the Prophet speaketh And as the Jews tell us Aegypt or other Enemies may be in Rahab So I know not why Rome also may not be in the Hebrew Rum or Rom or High and Hight so much spoken against in all the Bible As Ramim also in Job 21. 22. And in Davids Triumph over All his Enenemies and Sheol too Both in the Psalms and Samuel also Saying From Rome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he took me and Drew me as Moses so the word soundeth from a Rabble of Waters He delivered me from 77 or 70 times 7 Enemies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stronger than I. And again Thou wilt save the Poor people Am ani But thine Ein an Hebrew word against the High Ramim Thou wilt Fell or shuffle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them Down And in our Saviors Swan-like Song or Pangs upon the Cross Psal. 22. 21. Deliver my soul from the sword my Darling or my only One from the Paw of the Dog Save me from the Mouth of the Lyon Arie and from the Horns of the Ramim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some read it Unicorns as if These also had many Horns But why not the Ramim Romans or if you will Their Rams also that Rammed down Jerusalem May not They also be hinted in Arie or Aries in the Verse before And why not English Ram as Hebr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seeing also the Scriptures allude to the Medo-Persian Rams of Elam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Esay But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
Seriah was also Menuah from Noah Rest a Meek and Quiet Prince As Christ speaketh of Moses and of Himself Rejoyce O Zion For thy Prince is Meek and Lowly which with God is of Great Price and Value As Saint Peter speaketh Who yet struck down Ananias and Saphira But this Boanerges must become a Barnabas Ye know not what spirit You must be And Barnabas Took Saul and knit him to the Church of Christ who sent him back to Tarsus his Native Countrey As Israel to Babylon the Hole or Pit whence they were taken and called And then was Great Peace and Comfort of the Holy Ghost for Jerusalem it self was scattered through All Judea and Samaria and Galilee of the Gentiles also the three Regions of Heaven and Earth and the little World also as we have touched divers times And Then Peter also must come down to Lydia as alluding to Lud with Tarsis and Ludi and Lydia Saint Pauls Convert of Thiatire Divine Tyre or the Sacrificer For Her Hire also must be Holinesse to God and Sarran Tyrian or Sharon of which before with Carmel For That also must blesse Him and Hermon the Cursed Hill And Tabor the very Navel of the Belly or the Lower VVaters Here must Christ be Transfigured an Emblem of this Kingdom and Then must cast out the Foul Spirit which so Mastered All his Apostles Till Himself came down and found the people in a very hot dispute with his Apostles about a Devil they could not master And yet at his going up He had given them Power over All Unclean spirits But This was Beelzebub it seems the Prince of Devils with his Legions Every one 6000 and 666 also If a great Author besides Hesychius do not deceive us A strange spirit with Three Epithites in Three Evangelists As if Cerberus with his Tripple Throat The Devil in the VVorld Or Utmost Court and Antichrist in the Church or Temple But the Old Man in our Heart There the Dragon Then the Beast and the Image of the Beast and the False Prophet also directly opposite to God and Man who was made to Rule the Beast with the Image of God in Man or God-Man and the True Prophet the Holy Ghost See Ja. 3. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 3. Rom. 8. 6. But How long Ever since there was a Childe In the VVaters Above As the Crossing Serpent which we shewed before in Shemes Samson and his 12 Labors also through the Zodiak full of Beasts Aries Taurus Cancer Leo worse In the Earth Below Even in Paradise The Serpent the most subtile Beast and Head of all Beasts Turning Isha into Eva 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Before whom Adam only conversed with Lilith the Nights Darkness and Dreams which the Jewes call the Mother of Hobgoblins and make a white Circle with Chuts Lilith Out Night In the Waters Below Leviathan and Tannin the Dragon in the Great Depth or Bottomless-pit as Esay 27. with Iob of Behemoth Leviathan and the Revelation But He shall be cast out of Earth also as first he was out of Heaven Whence he fell like Lightning Though That but as a Prophecy before Apoc 11 and 12. Which brings up the Kingdom of Christ with Casting out Satan As Christ also said If I by the finger of God Cast out Beelzebub Then know the Kingdom of God is very near you But you must say Let it Come on Earth as it is in Heaven Where yet Satan came among the Angels to accuse and resist the Brethren as we may find in Job with Dan. Zech. But at our Saviours coming from the Mount All the three Foul Spirits shall be cast out Yet they may Tear us first and leave us as Dead But for Three dayes and Half and Then Come up hither And the Father said with Tears Lord I believe Help thou my Unbelief Being told that All things even All things are possible to Him that Believeth The same Works Yea and greater Works For I go to my Father And a Grain of True Faith can remove This Mountain also where I was transfigured while Peter would have built three Tabernacles Howbeit This strange and strong and last kinde of Devils go not out but by Fasting and Prayer Yet They had Oyl and so raised the Sick and laying on of Hands Cast out Devils For it was and still is and will be and appear a very Mighty Name of Jesus of Nazareth And Peter at length coming to Japho the old Town of Japhet Who began it before the Flood as hinted in Heathen Authors Having first healed Aeneas Aeneas And after eight years By the same Name by which Himself and Iohn had cured the Cripple at the 9th Hour the Time of Prayer As to Cornelius also the first fruits of the Gentiles He findeth Tabitha Dorcas a Doe of a Goat which in Hebrew and Syriac is also Saphira 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Raiseth Her also from the Dead A greater work perhaps than curing a Daughter of Abraham whom Satan had Bound Lo and Behold these 18 Years And another with the Bloody Flux of which before for 12 years And a Third Talitha 12 years old Here are three Twelves and an Half And a man at the Pool of Bethesda the House of Chesed Tender Mercy 38 Years Here are three Twelves and two also for a Cheâ—si Which I note the rather because it was first shewed Abraham in a Map that his Friends and Tenants of Promise and Sodom also must serve the four Monarchs 12 Years And not be delivered till the second after the 12. or second Sabbath which is the 14th Year as Assyrians broken in the 14th year of Ezekiah as the 14th of Genesis And the 14 Teeth of either Jawe may represent Years also as we shewed before from Shinim Teeth and Shenim Years Where we touched the Turtle and the Pigeon as the two little Witnesses preserved undivided which is their only way of safety between the Divided Heifer and the Ram and Goat also and All of Three years old And Then the Fiery Furnas and Great Horror But at Evening or Sun-setting God speaketh to him in a Vision which he saw not till he had said to the King of Sodom Thou shalt never make me Rich. And After Those words God came in a Vision and said Fear not Abraham for c. And they brought him to an Upper Chamber it is oft spoken of and should be marked where the women were and shewed the Coats of Dorcas For she also loved us and helped to build us a Tabernacle As we touched before in the Curtains or Coverings of Goats-hair and Badgers-skins But He put the Women All out O Woman what have I to do with Thee And Touch me not for I am not yet Ascended Which he had learned also from Him that so Acted before Him and James and John which were His three VVitnesses generally Who put them All out and cryed Talitha Kumi May it not be Rise up the Third Day or Year or Moed As They
Knees and Loines also In my turning and behold on the Rivers Lip a Tree mighty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on this side and that And he said unto me these waters c. And upon the River shall come up on this side and that Every Tree for Food Are we not come to Eden as in Daniell also Where Time is called Eden whence perhaps the English Then His lease shall not fade as Ps. 1. and Jer. 17. nor fruit â—e consumed For the Righteous shall be green and flourish as Tamar in the Hezrons of God They shall bear in old Age as Tamar did for Judahs Kid after she had stayed long for Shela or till Shilo come We track it in Characters from Joshuah's fixing the Ark at Shilo till it was Captive at Gath Ekron and other places till David brought it in fear for Uzziahs Death to the house of Edom And his Servants also Obed Edom blessed by it or a Watcher and Singer to it Till at length it came to be setled in Zion which God chose before all other places of Judah and Jerusalem As many Psalms speaking of a Temple also before that of Moriah which must be made as Shilo But Zion shall endure for ever and in the latter dayes shall be exalted above All Mountains And All People shall flow to it as if it were below them All. It shall be new or first born or First fruits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 According to it's Moons or Months which are therefore to be considered For his waters from the Sanctuary they are still going And all his Fruits shall be for meat and leaves for Medicine and healing of the Nations also as the Revelation addeth The Chapter endeth with parting that holy Land among Strangers also Strangers All Strangers that would come and stay There till they had a Child and then themselves and Child and Children must have a Portion of Land also for a Possession that is little For an Inheritance also for ever as much or as well as the Children of Israel In our Fathers House is Bread enough and to spare and Land enough and many Mansions and it is a more Blessed thing to give than to receive Amen Halelujah And there shall be no more Curse But the Throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it And his servants shall serve him and delight themselves in God as Esay 58. and they shall see his face But O! His Heart How sweet How Gracious which no man ever did or can see But we may have the Mind of Christ and shall come to see eye to eye and know as we are Known And his Name shall be upon their foreheads And the Sons of Aaron shall put my Name upon the Children of Israel and I will Bless them Numb 6. And soon after they are called Men of name even Korahs Company Whence the Sweet Singers of Israel As the Sons of God and his Children And the Revelation speaketh of Names of Men and 7000 Names and Name of the Beast and his Character or Badge and Livery as of old on Servants who yet had a note above the Slaves Which may be distinguished in Scripture But without are Dogs and Sorcerers to be compared with Ezekiels Caves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Ditches or Witches or not healed and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a Lye As Cosbi slain by Phineas In the midst of the street and of either side of the River the Tree of Life as at first in Eden Pleasure and Time which Adam fell into by falling into pleasure and must be recovered by Sorrow Bearing 12 manner of Fruits or 12 Kinds in Hebrew Min. in Numbers 100. or 750. And Minim or Minnim 140. 150. 700. and 750. And yeilded fruit every Month 12 by 12 144. As his wall 144 Cubits And Ezekiels Altar is 12 by 12 144 Cubits But it 's settle 14 by 14. 3 times 4 and an half That signall number in All Times and first in Dayes and Hours as the measure to All other Measures As the Cubit made of two Zereths or Spans each of which had three Taps of four Digits apeece So that every Cubit had 24 Digits as the Day hath 24 hours And if the sacred Cubit had an Hand-breadth more of 4 Digits than it will be 28 Digits in all as made of two Hands or Jads and Jad is 14 as we saw before And although the Jews counted their Night alwayes Even as the English still call it Even and Evening to the Day Yet besides the neernesse of their longest Night to 14 hours in Winter they might ever have just 14 Hours between their Evening Minha and their Morning Tamid and 7 more from This to That again So that still 3 and an half which in whole numbers are not lesse than 7 and 14 made up the Moads of the Ceasing Resting Hiding or slaying of the Witnesses both in Heaven and Earth The Temple and it's Courts and Altars Sacrifice and Minha with the Two Lambs And in in our Bodies also where our eyes and ears or other witnesses are bound or laid asleep as Dead in our Sodom also where oùr Lord is slain for 3 and an half during the Raign of the Beast of Night and darknesse rising as smoak out of the Bottomlesse pit and slaying or at least Laying the Witnesses for 7 or 14 hours we speak of Dayes and Months and yeares anon and then commeth the End That is Kets and Chetsi my end or half and also the Waking or Rising and Resurrection as also the Summer following the cold night of the Year or 3 Months and an half of Winter And than cometh Harvest or Ketsir as before as Christ speaketh in the Gospel Amos 8. And did not All these meet in David That fulnesse of time also in his Generation He was the 7th Son of Jesse my Essence As if God should say in every 7 My essence shall appear David that is Love And David was also the 14 from Abraham as the 14 th 70 years And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 14. it may be also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4 and 4 or 8. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also a neer Kinsman as Love And again He was the 24 from Noah Rest and Love As they shall Rest in my Love and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 24. And being the 24 and last hour of that great Day he began another of 24 more and setled all the 24 Courses we have spoken of in the Temple But of All his Times and Turnings of his Hour-glasse Nods and Neods also that is Wandrings and Bottles of water in Characters as God shall give to the Prayers of his people so much wished and valued In the mean time we may remember what a Rest and turn and change we found every 7 hour in the Sun and Moons dayly motion from the Evening Horizon to the Nadir Rising Zenith setting again And as every 7
Charan may see the motion of the Moon in her double state of New and Full crossing the Ecliptick with North and South Latitude attending the Sun also in all his Declinations North and South As Their Journeyings were In all places the Spouse is Lebana so with Laban so at Lebanon so in Aegypt and so also in Arabia whose Frankincense was Lebona And Solomons spouse had the smell of Lebanon and Lebona As alluding to the Temple Ketoreth of which before or to Keturah married to Abraham about the Time of Rebecca's coming from Bethuel and Laban so that she was also Lebana And when the Manna fell they cryed Man or called it Man being like the Good or Goat seed of Laban As the words may sound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which yet some render As Coriander seed or Goid in Dioscorides and it was White Alban a Methathesis of Laban whose Goats also were White and streaked And that of Manna and the white Stone in the Revelation may perhaps allude to That white Good Seed or Saviour which they also called Man not knowing what it was and the Seed of Gad or God whom they also call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And in Esay they sacrificed to Gad whence some bring Godt and God and Guid and Good and Good Nese the Good â—le of Gades the old Elyzian Fields Hesperides or Fortunate Ilands And as Man is the great Reckener on Earth as we touched before from the Hebrew Mana to reckon so is the Moon in Heaven Mone Reckoning or the Counter And as she is called Lebana from VVhiteness so she is called Jareach As Reaking like Incense Lebona Which in the Temple was a VVitness as the Moon in Heaven to the Great Covenant which God made with Man and Mankinde in Noah when he offered Sacrifice at his coming out of the Ark and God smelt a sweet sauour of Rest which should be still remembred all the many times we read that Phrase and said in his Heart However his Face may seem to frown yet All the words of his Heart shall stand and he said in his Heart I will no more Curse the Earth for Adam For or although every would of his Heart be Wrong from his youth or before his youngers neither will I add to sâ—ite or Hack 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All Flesh or Any Flesh As Any Work in the 4th Command and divers other places As I have done c. And this Everlasting Covenant was made when he smelt that sweet savour of Rest which in Hebrew may sound The Moon a Reak of Night or Rest. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As if the Moons Intercessions betwee the Sun and the Earth might also represent the sweet Odours of the Church to Christ and of Christ to his Father who hath made That everlasting Govenant with man for His sweet Odour of Rest as sure as the Moon a faithful VVitness in Heaven as the Psalms express it speaking of the Covenant made with David and his Seed for Ever As before with Abraham and His Seed and with Noah and His Seed for Ever Which is made the measure of all other Covenants So that If This which God made with Noah for Day and Night or other seasons can be disannulled Then also may his Covenant with Israel As himself speaketh in the 33 of Jeremy And as Jareach may come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Reak so also from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the common word for Spirit as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the English Racket a Fan or Vane But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Vaine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yet a little while and God will pour out his Spirit on the Earth as the Sun doth on the Moon He will give us the Upper and the Lower Springs as before in Achsa The Precious things of the Sun and Precious things of the Moon of the Heaven above and the Deep Couching beneath And the good will of him that dwelt in the Bush And when he saw that Moses said I will now turn aside to see This great sight and that he turned aside to see He called to him c. It is This Moses speaketh so of Joseph whom his Father also blessed with the Blessings of Heaven above and the Deep below the Breasts and the Womb. And These on Him that was separate from his brethren see Prov. 18. 1. as in Heb. And they scorned him as they Thrust out Moses also saying Who made thee a Judge among us But God exalted him and so he did Joseph also Sophie the Dreamer And Lo this Dreamer cometh And his Dreams were Sun and Moon and a Crown of 12 Stars also Rachel was the Sheep but He the Shepherd and the Stone of Israel to be compared with Dan. 2. and other Scriptures comparing Christ to a Stone And may we not finde Three Tribes of Rachel in Canaan with an Half also beyond Jordan Or what if Rachels Two sons should also be Stones of VVitness As Jacob spake at Gilead parted also or measured by Three and an Half As we see they were and the Lord dwelling at their Shilo and Mispha Sechem and other Shoulders also While the very Temple it self or its Court was parted between the Tribes of Benjamin and Judah That I speak not of the Tabernacle settled so long at Gibeon and the Ark at Kiriath-jearim another City of the Gibeonites saved on the 3d or 4th day in Josh. 9. who yet were Cursed by Joshuah that is solemnly Devoted to God and His service As the Nethinims in all the Bible I have yet said nothing of the Candlestick in the Tem ple parting it self into three Branches with three Bowls and three Flowers and three Lamps on either side of the Great Lamp in the Midst as the Sun in the middle of the seven Planets which yet so inclined to the West that they commonly call it the Western Lamp still burning Day and Night And measuring Time by Three and an Half on each side or Seven in the Whole while the 12 Cakes of Shew-bread lay by and were changed also every Sabbath or 7th Day And the Incense offered at 7 and 14 as we shewed before With the other Altar without for the Tamid where the Fire was not quenched Day or Night And the Salt Frying as the Worm never Dying And the Spirit of God as the Ayre or Sulphure also which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 somwhat Divine as a River of Brimston Kindling it Yea and the Sea of Sodom also before the Throne as we touched before in the Molten Sea so placed in the Outward Court as the Lake of Sodom was to Jerusalem On the Right Hand South-East As we may read in several places How the Seas Lamps or other things came to be multiplyed by 10 in Solomons Time we may speak in Characters if God permit In the mean time let me add That He that believeth is Childe of the Promise with Isaac and Blessed with faithful Abraham Yea He that is weak in
Jerusalem shall be as David and every one that Thirsteth receiveth His Everlasting Covenant and His sure mercies or his Holy Things in all things Ordered and sure His seed shall endure for ever His Throne As the Sun before him It shall be established for ever as the Moon as a faithful Witness in Heaven Selah Then follows the Laying or slaying of those faithful Witnesses But How long wilt Thou O Lord be Hidden Here is the Great Nister as the Jewes call the 3d Person As Hidden or Mister as the English or Mistery we touched before and Lanetsach And Cheled the word here used with others leading us to Adam and Abel Then to Enoch and Elijah When we shall resolve that Dying Eclipse on the Cross in Hours and Dayes and Months and Years As we shall be enabled by Him whom to acknowledge on all Occasions is our Happiness and Glory What is the Proper Age of the Moon its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when called Jareach may not be easie to determine We found her before in her Casing sucking the Sun as a Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 till her Heat as That in the Earth and our Heart also the Cause of all motions and clicking Pulses make her first Reak and then Boyl as a seething Pot or a Boyling Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seath Seeth as the Greek 〈◊〉 Spirit boyling up as enflamed by Heat within And so the Moon and Sea also may flow as we touched before to be compared with Esay 64 1. 2. Psal. 147. 18. In Numbers Jareach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 makes 218. Which in Hours is but 2 or 3 more then Three times Three Dayes Or if you will Three Nights because the Moon is to Rule the Night And all the Nights of the week make but 3 whole Dayes of 24 Hours and an Half before the Sun of the Sabbath Riseth As the Lamb of the Sabbath Day with his 144000 Virgins following the Lamb of the Sabbath as the Jewes Clakins of the 144 Hours of the six Dayes before the Sabbath as the first Fruits to God and the Lamb of which before Of Dayes and Months and Years in Characters To 3 times 3 Dayes each 3 is 72 Hours adding6 Hours more we are brought to Midnight of the 10th Night before the 10th Day the time of Jerecho In Hours 222. the 3d part of 666. And Jerichos Walls mightr each to Heaven or at least to the Moon as it signifies Though we have not yet compared its Trumpets with them in the Revelation Or the Last Plagues of God and the Last Woe When it is past No more Curse But as we saw in Jericho though Cursed as Gibeon also yet built again by Hiel the Living High God from Bethel the House of God in the Dayes of Ahab Brother and Father also As we saw before If we go forward to reckon the Age of the Moon and the World together we may remember that although the Jews Night were in Winter about 7 minutes more than 14 Hours long yet they alwayes made or accounted it Even to their Day and so it was There and elsewhere at the Equinox in which they agree the World was Created Let us a little compare it with the first Month in which they came out of Aegypt When the first Night of Time was past as the Cubits first Span of 3 Taps or Watches of 4 Hours apeece or 4 of 3 12 Hours brought up That great Change of Light for Darkness It is made of 3 the Father of all Numbers and Ab in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 3 on 4 the Mother as 7 is 3 with 4 which we found the first square Number or Compound as 3 are all Simples The 2d 12 Honrs were All Children of Light which we called the sons of Israel as the former 12 were sons of Darkness or 12 sons of Ishmael the First-born of Abram the High Father The 25th Hour brought in the next great Change of Darkness for Light and is the nearest Root of 666 the Course of the Moon that Eve of Night as the Sun is the Adam of Day with his 12 also as Apostles the Root of 144. 35 and 36 Brought in the Second Change of Light for Darkness As 350 and 360 Dayes bring up the 2d Year both Solar and Lunar which is as the Day Dawning in the 35th Hour before Full Light in the 36th which is 3 times 12. And the Half being also added maketh 42 which brings up Noon or perfect Light of the 2d Day Which is ended by 12 drawn into 4 the first square Number bringing up the 3d Nights Rest and great Change beginning with 49 or 7 times 7 as the Jubilee and Hebrew Midda Measure of measures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 49. 60 Hours bring up the Morning of the 3d Day and 66 its Noon and 70 is the Hour of its Evening Minha had it been appointed to be compared with the Pentecost and Return from the 70 Years Captivity and many other 70 in Scripture It coming so up in the 3d Day which is also ended with 72 Hours as the 72 Elders of the Sanedrin 6 times 12. 84 Hours bring up the Sun of the 4th Day and frees the Moon from the Sun as we saw before So that Both those Witnesses might Then be seen in Heaven Where One or Both had yet lay hid till the 4th Day or after 3 Dayes and Half which is the Night of the 4th the Moed of these Heavenly Witnesses to measure all other And as the Sun of Righteousness did not appear till the 4th Great Day of the World so perhaps he came in That very Hour of the 1000 years which answereth to the 4th Dayes Minha or some other signal season that may tell us both his Setting and Rising again when we shall consider all his Moeds also of 3 Years and Half 3 Dayes and Half yea and 3 Hours and Half great Eclips on the Cross of which in Characters as God shall help us with the Prayers of his people who must help the Lord against the Mighty Powers of Darkness that He may bring out his Marvellous Light which is Dawning among us 96 Hours end the 4th Day And 7 times 96 are but 6 more than 666. Whos 's 6th part is III. in Hebrew letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Measuring Line we touched in Kav la Kav Sav la Sav. And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also just 96 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 106 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 100 and 11. 120 Hours 10 times 12 bring up the 6th Day in which man was Created and when he had fallen and God grieved or Repented or resolved to change him because he had made him on Earth and not kept him in Heaven He said My Spirit shall not be a Don or Dun to Man for Olam 140 or 700 in their Erring who is Flesh. But his Dayes have been or shall be 120 Year as
call of which we have also a most sure Character in our Hearing and Attending to Him and Calling on the mighty Name of Iesus of Nazareth as we cleared before out of 1 Cor. 1. Rom. 10. and many other Scriptures And That This was to reach much beyond That Pentecost Act. 2. may be cleared from our Saviour speaking of the sack of Ierusalem and their Great afflictions divers years after That Pentecost and then saith he immediately after the Tribulation of those dayes and in Mark After that Tribulation in those dayes which in Luke are called the Times of the Gentiles Treading down Jerusalem the Holy City in the Revelation 42 Months and Then shall the Sun be darkned and the Moon not give her Light and the Stars shall fall from Heaven and the Powers of Heaven shall be shaken and Then shal appear the Sign of the Son of man in Heaven and Then shall all the Tribes of the Earth mourn and they shall see the Son of man coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory Which is also in Mark and Luke though Both omit the Sign of him in the Clouds who addeth also for the Jewes and not onely for the Apostles When These things begin begin to come to pass Then look up and Lift up your Heads for your Redemption draweth Nigh Even in That Generation As summer when the Figg-tree blossometh And those signes There given by our blessed Saviour more by giving tâ—an receiving are in the Prophet Zechary with Hâ—ggai and Malachy after Babylon and especially in Thâ—t place of Joel with That very Pouring out of the Holy Spirit which was therefore not fulfilled in Acts 2d but onely begun before that Tribulation and Horror there spoken of with signs in Sun and Moon and Blood and Fire and Pillars of smoak For Behold In Those Dayes and in That Time I will bring back the Captivity of Judah and Jerusalem and I will gather all Nations into the Valley os Jehosaphat Thither cause thy mighty Ones to come down O Lord. Amen Let the Heathen be Wakened for it is Kets both the End and the Waking or Resurrection as we saw before and com up into the Valley of Jehosaphat For there will I sit to judge All the Heathen round about as before in that very Valley as we found at Engedi and Beraca Put you in the sickle for the Harvest is Ripe and the Press is Full c. As in Christ of the Harvest added to That of his Coming and the Revelation also of the Vintage for 1600 Furlongs And now the Sun and Moon shall be darkned and the Stars withdraw their Light and Heavens shake c. Twice repeated in this Prophet and twice in Haggai as also the Author to the Hebrews Again and yet Again I will shake as at Jerusalem pulled down and again at its setting up again And so the Prophet Esay 14 and 24 as 24 of Matthew After all the Powers of Earth shaken and the Kings of the Earth upon the Earth who yet shall be visited even in the Pit also as Zedekiah was in Babylon Blinde Until I visit him saith the Lord in Jeremiah 32. with 27 and 29. And in the 24th They were carryed thither for their good Even as the Gibeonites were Cursed by Josuah that great Type of Jesus but for their Good also though to draw Water for the House of God yet to be There and Nethinims And so here also in Esay They shall be shut up in Prison in the Pit but after many dayes they shall be visited and Then the Moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his Ancients Glorioufly As those glorious songs in the two next Chapters and the 27th is of the Binding of Satan Leviathan the Dragon or the Crossing Serpent As the Primitive Church did generally understand it Which may reach the Powers of Heaven or the Zodiack which must also be shaken with its Beasts also when the Sun and Moon or two Witnesses are put out or slain for 3 dayes and Half as ever when there hath been a new World or a new Heaven And Solomon speaketh as if more were still to follow than had gone before to the Beth Moed We might Track it up to Moses also as most things in all the Prophets Then will the Lord be jealous for his Land his Land and pity his People which Joel hath from Moses Song That is Gods given to Moses and Joshua more solemnly perhaps than the Law it self in the Tab. He will be jealous for them and moove them to jealousie and Then he will be merciful to His Land his Land even cursed Adama As in Joel also and to His People But when They are shut up and none left to help them as was rightly observed by the Prophet Jonah 2 Kin. 14. as we saw before in Daniel and Psalm 72. And lest This might seem less Durable because from the flitting Tab we may finde it also among the secret Councels of God hinted to Moses at his private retirement in one of his Three 40 dayes as he lived Three 40 years on Mount Sinai Though now placed in Leviticus 26. which may be the sum of the Law and the Gospel also Yea and the Fata Imperii or Their Changes also as of the Moon in Heaven I will set my Tâ—bernacle among you and my soul shall not abhor you which St Paul applyeth also to the Gentile Corinthians and I will walk among you as if the Ark did straiten him as a Childe in a Cradle or in swathing bands and I will be your God! I will be so Yea and I will stretch out my Hands and feet among you as one that swimmeth But if you will not Hearken and will not O! How much wilfulness is still expressed in it And if you will despise my Statutes chaâ—ged on David himself And your soul abhor my judgements so that you break my Covenant Not a word of Threat till sin came up so High as could hardly be worse one would think And Then I will appoint over you Terrour Consumption and burning Agues to consume the Eyes our great occasions of sin and cause sorrow of Heart which the Lamentation calleth the Curse of God And I will set my Face when they had set Their Heart against you and they that Hate you shall Reign over you And if you will not yet for All this Hearken unto me O! how Tender Then I will add to Teach or Chasten you Seven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And if you will walk with me at adventure Keri and will not hearken to me I will yet add stroke or plague Seven And I will send the wilde Beast of Tooth or Teeth as the Syriac in the Revelation who shal destroy the Tame Beasts and the Children also As Molock did in His fiery Claws and Babel in his fiery Furnace And because they bare the Tabernacle of Molock instead
34. Gen. 15. 9. cometh up to minde them of their Golden Calf while Moses was in the Mount as many Daies from the Law as now perhaps he had been Years in Heaven And Eglon was destroyed by Josuah 10 34. But about the Evening Minha of the 6th Day Ehud helpeth them and Shamgar so that they Rest from That Moed all the 6th and 7th or Sabbath Day Which may be observed also in all the Sabbaths of those Daies or Years which we are now measuring by Hours of the first Month. Othniels 40 Ehud and Shamgars 80 make up 120 Years the Great Moed for Man as we saw before And 120 Hours make 5 Daies which added to Moses and Josuahs 2 Daies bring us quite through the Sabbath or 7th Day into the 8th And Then Jabin Instructeth or Teacheth them to understand as the word may intimate akin to the Hebrew Phrase we saw before to Correct and Instruct As the men of Succoth were Taught with Briers made to Know Judg. 8. 16. and Jabins 20 bring us about the Morning watch of the 9th Day And Then Awake Awake Deborah Awake Awake As there were 4 Hours to the Morning Utter a Song Arise Arise O Morning Star or Bright and Light Barak Lead Captivity Captive Let All thine Enemies fall O Lord as Saul with Lightning But his Lovers be like the Sun in his brightness For This Barak was also the son of Abinoam the Fatbers Brightness or Beauty As we saw before in glancing on That song in Judges 5. Barak and Deborahs 40 made them Rest till about the end of the 10th Day And Then the Lamb is prepared for the Passover As being Then tyed up by Midian oppressing them And now comes out Gideons Fleece as alluding to That Lamb and his Lamps also in Earthen Pitchers as St Paul remembers and the Barley Cake rouling in a Dream at the Middle Watch or soon after Midnight For the 7 Hours or Years of Midian came to Midnight and an Hour after And Then Gidion as a little Kid Rising by night to destroy Baal Lord of Darkness is Jerubbaal and the Watchman of Israel for That morning and offers the 2d Bullock yet akin to Eglon that Calf and his 40 giveth them Rest till the 11th Daies Evening There is more to be spoken of the Times of Sibboleth and Shibboleth and of Abimelech or King Father and of Sechem and Dinah Judgement and Jotham the Orphan If indeed you dealt kindely with my Father for he did deliver you Then c. But Quis talia Abimelech dwelt at Aruma from Rome to Roam and Ramp in Hebrew letters 254 which may be the very year of his Coming up though others make it about 260. And so with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 added as Verse 31 it will be near 666 when he slew his 70 Brethren of which again His 3 and Tola's 23 and Jairs 22 make up just 48 as 48 Hours of two Daies more which bring us to the 14th Day or 2d Sabbath It had a very sad Night to paralel the Time when Angry Pharaoh said to Moses Get thee from me see my Face no more but Dye So God himself frowned on Israel in that Night of Darkness under Ammon son to Lot the Veyle as we saw before saying Go and and see my Face no more Or Go and cry to the gods which you have Chosen Let Them deliver you in the time of your Tribulation For you have forsaken me and Feared other gods of whom I said You shall not Fear them as it is often pressed and given for the great Reason of their final Captivity 2 Kings 17. from Judges 6. 10. and 10. Therefore I will deliver you no more As in Hosea I will no more have mercy on you and you shall be no more My People Loammi and Loruhamah and I will be no more your God As bad or worse I think them That I do not yet Pray for the World Of which so much before But the Children of Israel said unto the Lord as Job saith it is still meet to say I have sinned I will bear the Rod till he turn and have pity on me For He will will Turn again and have pity on us and Who is a God as Thou art that is Micha Do unto us what seemeth good in thine own eyes If he will he can bring me back and shew me his Arck also and the New Jerusalem but if not and that he have no pleasure in me which yet is worse much worse than Brown bread and my own Tears for Water Here I am by his Grace I will not worship the Golden Image or of the Beast slain with the sword but his Deadly wound was Healed and the World all worshipped but Those in the Lambs Book of Life Let him do what seemeth good in his own eyes Father if it be possible it is possible Save me from this hour of Temptation But However let Thy will which is Holy still and wiser and better also for me than my own will Let Thy will be done and not mine in My Earth as in thy Heaven So we Chatter as a Crane or a Swallow when we cannot mourn as a Dove even Then when we reckon at Morning He will break all our Bones And they put away the strange gods from in and among them and served the Lord And his soul was grieved sor the Misery of Israel It shortned his very Spirit and Breath as in us when we would sigh and cannot O! how is our Heart Burnt as bound and straitned in us O! How am I straitned till it be Accomplished we saw it before Then Ammon encamped in Gilead thestones of Witness and Israel at Mispa the Watch they prayed and also set the Watch and we shall come to Mahanaim For we are already at the times when Jacob said The Lord Help me and watch over me and Laban also God is my Witness and These also for there be Witnesses in Heaven and They are All One as on Earth they agree in One And to what But That Haran or Wrath shall pass away but never Pass over these Stones of Witness to do me Hurt and that I never pass These Witnesses to grieve thy Spirit or to wrong thy Daughters Though thou hast changed my wages 10 or 12 times as often as the Moon or Lebana Now Jephta was a Mighty Valiant man but the son of a common woman which they call an Harlot though the greatest Norman Princes came from Arlott the Mother to That English word And Boaz also that mighty man of whom before in Ruth the Jewes count him Ibsan the Judge was son to Rahab the Harlot as she is called but the mother of Christ in David so that it is almost impossible there should be 580 Years from Aegypt to Solomon or Solomons Temple As that great man will have it from Acts 13 with other Arguments And God perswaded Japhet or his Anagram and Names-sake Jephta to dwell in the Tabernacles of Sem and to
shave again his Head and Beard and Eye-brows and all his Hair Lev. 14. 9. and Then after Blood and Oyl upon his Ear and Thumb and Toe in All the Three Regions of the Great little World He was cleansed by the Priest O what work he had to do for the Poorest man that was Unclean and could not bring the offerings prescribed And for every House infected also Doth our God take care of Houses and of Clay that Cursed Adama The Hysop Cedar-wood and Scarlet to the Hebrews and Two Birds in Heb. nere akin to Goats One killed in Earth over Water as St Peter on Genesis and Psalms and 2d Command and the other a Scape Bird as the Scape Goat And the Plants and Trees and Fishes and Fowles and Earth and Water and All must Hear and serve Israel and Jezreel also near in Hebrew to the Leaper as the Seed of God! There was also an other shaving for the Nazarite when the Hair of his Separation is shaven as we read in Numb 6. immediately before the Solemn Blessing prescribed As if This had some relation to the Nazarite or Separate person after his coming in again And the very word in Jeremy 7 29 Nizrek may allude to the Law of the Nazarite But yet there was more Hope and Comfort in a Womans shaving than a Mans. For if Her Lord bid her shave off her Hair it might be a sign he meant to marry her For so the Law was If thou lead Captivity Captive as Christ hath done and see a Woman that thou lovest She shall shave her Head and pair her Nails or Goatishness Sipharnea We saw it in Saphira the Goat as also Seir is Hair and a Goat Yea the very Time may be There Hinted perhaps for God is Infinite How long Christ must stay for his poor Captive Spouse before he may be Married to her though she be prepared and adorned as Ester was in order for her going in to the King As the Lambs Bride in the Revelation cometh down from Heaven As if There All the Saints departed were but perfuming and preparing to be his Bride on Earth and Reign on Earth at the End of the Weeks How Long Thou shalt bring her Home to thine House and the souls under the Altar cryed How long Lord and she shall put off her Captive Weeds and shall remain in thine House and bewayle her Father and her Mother in their Enemies Land they shall confess their Fathers sins we saw it before A Full Month or Moon of Dayes And after That Thou mayst be her Husband And if afterwards she please thee not Thou mayst leave her to her own soul which is the great thing to be feared of a Backsliding heart from Christ But thou mayst not sell her because thou hast Humbled her Jacob also stayed with Laban before he asked his Daughter a full Month or Moon of Dayes Chodesh Jamim but in the Law of Deut. it is Jerach Jamim As also 2 Kings 15. 13. May we not also compare That in Jer. 2. Thy own wickedness shall instruct thee thy backslidings shall rebuke thee See and know that it is an evil and a bitter thing that thou dost forsake the Lord and yet more Thy God! For of old I broke thy Yoke and burst thy Bonds Ezek. 16. and Epistle of Baruck I planted thee a Noble Vine wholly a Right seed How Then art thou Degenerate And How canst thou say I am not Polluted A Wilde Ass as the Angel said to Hagar we are now There with Ishmael But God will Hear Taught in the VVilderness as Hagar was and snuffing up the VVinde or snuffing at the Spirit in the Lust of her own heart or soul the very word we saw in Deut. 21. 14. VVho can turn her All that seek her will not weary themselves to finde her Or rather Let them not faint or despair For in her Month Chodsha They shall finde her Then withhold thy Foot and Throat But thou saidst It is Desperate But can a Maid forget her Ornament and a Bride her Attire Yet My People My people have forgotten me Dayes without number But why do My people say We are Lords or have Power Radnu VVe will come no more to Thee But then follows the sweetest Chapter of the Bible to an Adulterous Spouse Yet turn again Yet Turn again Return return O Shulamith For I am Married to You c. Which at length melts her into Tears and sweet supplications In the close of the 3d Chapter and God answers in the 4th If a woman bear a son she was Unclean 7 Dayes as in her common separation not observing which cut off and spued out the very Heathens Levit. 18. Ezek. 18. Esay 30. 22. Lam. 1. 17. and her son not Circumcised till the 8th Day and Then she must remain 33 Daies as the Moon 333 Hours and then she may eat the Holy things and come into the Sanctuary with two Turtles or Pigeons if she could not bring a Lamb which made them so dear that the Sanedrin altered this Law it seems and our Saviour scourged the sellers of Doves also which were brought by his Poor Blessed Mother Who presented her self and Him also in the Temple at 40 dayes being the Sabbaths of his 40 Weeks in the Womb As at 40 Daies after his 40 Hours in the womb of the Grave He was presented to his Father in his Heavenly Temple 40 Years before the Sack of Jerusalem But for a Daughter the Woman was Unclean 14 Daies the 2d Sabbath and the Day of Passover and Then she must not enter the Sanctuary in 66 Daies Which is the very Number of Pentecost or Feast of first Fruits or 50th Day after the sheaf which was the 16th Day of the Year And as this was 66 Daies so the Moon returneth to the Sun in 666 Hours And when any Woman or the Church is freed from the Power or Rule of the Moon and her Changes or Courses at the Jubilee of 49 or 7 times 7 Then she need not fear That or any other separation in common course And if she should be sick so long as the Woman in the Gospel spending all her Substance yet she may be healed if she come behinde him and but touch the Hemb of his Garment It is all Perfumed with precious Ointments as we saw before from Psal. 133. Jephtas Daughter returned after Two Months bewailing her Bethulia which again in Judith and the Daughters of Israel went from Dayes to Dayes a Day for a year to lament the Daughter of Jephta 4 Daies in the year Jephta's 6 and Ibsans 7 Elans 10 and Abdons 8 bring us to the Sun of the 15th Day with some Healing in his wings also though but a little Sun as Samson may signifie with his 30 Companions as their Month had 30 Daies and 7 Daies also for the Week and Sabbath Both his Eyes or Witnesses put out He pulls down the House and more are slain by his Death than all his Life And there