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A27621	The pattern of the divine temple, sanstuary [sic], and city of the New Jerusalem measured according to Ezekiels last and greatest vision, chap. 40 to the end ... : designed as a preface to two late treatises, viz. The prophetic history of the Reformation, and The grand apocalyptick vision of the witnesses, rising and ascending ... / by Tho. Beverley ...	Beverley, Thomas.; Beverley, Thomas. Prophetical history of the Reformation.; Beverley, Thomas. Grand apocalyptick vision of the witnesses slain.	1690 (1690)	Wing B2167; ESTC R4196	30,253	36

may be Ashamed of our present even our Best as a Low and Defiled State is the Humble and Earnest Prayer of My most Revered Your most Unworthy but Faithful Servant in the Prophesies of Jesus Christ T. Beverley THE PREFACE FOR as much as I have Labour'd to the utmost Yet not I but the Grace of God with me in the search what and what manner of Time The Holy Spirit that was in the Prophets of old did signifie in Setting out the Excellent Majesty and Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ in his Kingdom This Great Vision of Ezekiel did in my own Thoughts Vpbraid me that I had made no Attempt of Enquiry at the Divine Oracle Concerning it I Resolv'd by the same Grace therefore to Consider so Stupendious a Model of Divine Truth And I Can in some Humble degree Speak it That I have Found in it like the waters of the Sanctuary the Accesses of Divine Illumination Rising Higher and Higher and Becoming a River Overflowing my Thoughts with Vnexpressible Sweetness and Satisfaction And though I very Freely Acknowledge There is in it an Infinite and unsearchable wisdom as a Boundless River that Cannot be pass'd by any Humane understanding Or as the Hiding of the Divine Power in a Light that no Man Can Approach Yet Beams of Light Coming out of his Hand I have Found to Instruct and direct Let no Man therefore I Humbly Beseech Blame this Freedom of my Ministration in this Dark Scripture Seeing This Vision of Ezekiel as All other Prophetical Scriptures are Scripture in the Reverentiallest Confession of All and therefore are Commanded to be Search'd And These are They which Testifie of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ These are as other Scripture if duly open'd and Apply'd Profitable for Correction Reproof Instruction in the ways of Righteousness It is Witnessed particularly of this Vision That It is to be Shown and is herein Profitable to Excite a Shame of our Iniquities That it is our Duty to Measure this Pattern And as the Apostle Peter Assures us No Prophecy of Scripture is of any Private but Publick Interpretation That All the Servants of God do well in giving Heed to it as the only Light in such a Mid-night Confusion as we are yet in under the Apostacy till that Morning Star of the Rising Witnesses and this Open'd Temple dawn in upon us For as All such Prophecy was Given by the Vniversal Publick Holy Spirit So It leads to the Publick Universal Glory of God and of the Lamb in the Salvation of his Church Further I am very well Assur'd As the Revelation is Taken out of the Prophet Daniel so far as Concerns the Sufferings of the Church of Christ under the Pagan Emperors and then under the Ten Kings Popes and other the Antichristian Hierarchy So unto the very Temple and Throne State in Ezekiel is Daniels Prophecy Adjusted in the Four Monarchies as to the Throne And in the Evens Morns and other Notes of Time as to the Accomplishing the Desolations of and Cleansing the Temple or Sanctuary and Final Judgment on the Last Desolator Antichrist and shewing how Long And so the Temple Representation Rev. c. 4. c. 5. The Throne of God and of the Lamb the Seven Lamps the Rainbow the Holy Angels the Elders the Living Creatures and Every Creature in Heaven and Earth Applauding and making Acclamation to God and to the Lamb It is Taken out of this Vision of Ezekiel And all Times Dated accordingly by what Befell this Temple And whereas It should have Immediately Appear'd in Glory at the Lords Resurrection and God and the Lamb have Come down to be the Temple of Saints There was only an Annointing of it in Heaven As The Sanctuary was Annointed by Moses when prepar'd to be set up of which Annointing of the Holy of Holies Daniel Prophesied c. 9. 24. together with Vision Seal'd or Staid There was yet all along Some Proportion of a Counter point on Earth in Giving the Spirit The Symbols of which are as if Taken out Ezek. c. 47. 9. c. to the Apostles in an Apostolical Ministry Appearing During the Service of the Four Living Creatures which Reach'd Just to the Death of Alexander Severus at the Third Seal And so Long the Ballances and Weights of the Sanctuary were Just and Bore up against the Apostacy or Mistery of Iniquity then working From that Time there was a Declination Yet after Constantine the Elders and Living Creatures Appear under the Sixth Seal but as it were indirectly and with a Glance only on the present State of the Church viz. Only in a Prophecy of the New Jerusalem or Describing it So that in the Seventh Seale There was a Retyring to the Altar of Incense and the Daily Sacrifice was Taking away And then the Temple was shut up and the Court without Trodden under Foot of the Gentiles viz. Just at the First Trumpet And so It Continues a Shut Temple and no Appearance of the Elders or Living Creatures nor the Temple Opened till the Days of the Seventh Trumpet But then It shall be seen more and more and so onward to the Coming down of God and the Lamb to be the Temple of the New Jerusalem Rev. c. 8. c. 9. c. 10. c. 11. till v. 15. It is therefore no Wonder that there are not more Vniversal and Close Researches of Holy and Learned Men and by a Concert of Endeavors to Spring the Mines and Break up the Depths of Prophecy to Cultivate Till and Plough up the Fallow Ground of Prophetical Scripture that Conventions and Convocations are more yet Taken up about the Fescues of Ceremonies then about Eekiels and Johns Reeds to measure the Temple of God in the New Jerusalem Touching which if Any Sober Heathen on Moral Philosophers Judgment might be Taken whether it were not Even Ridiculous when such Great Scripture Prophesies are before us that there are such Disputes about Rituals I am sure They must Give it very Dishonourably to the present Christian Even Reformed Churches Whosoever of Them areso Meanly Engaged when so much Greater Things Stand by Them under the Disregard of not being with utmost Diligence Inquired into But certainly As The Jews Although at Herods Summons They Determin'd aright the Place but never took Care to Inquire Diligently and Accurately the Time of Messiahs being Born Fell into the Great and Ruinous mistake of Rejecting Him Even so The not Stating the Kingdom of Christ and the Time of it may be the Cause of a Grevious Slumber upon the Churches of Christ as Matt. 25. 1. The Jews Great Scandal against Jesus Christ Lay here They Expected a Pompous Messiah and an External Glory without Regard in the First place to the Spirituality of his Kingdom We pretend on the other side to be altogether for the Spirituality of his Kingdom and to have no Regard to the Visible Glory of it But we Glory in Transferring all such Expectations to the Eternal State in Heaven But indeed Both

themselves Dan. c. 2. c. 7. The Sanctuary cleans'd or Justified not till at the same Time viz. at the end of 2300 Evenings Mornings c. 8. 14. Nor Daniel and so all the Saints standing * At the first 75 of which It was Restored by Cyrus at 490. after Annointed Revel 4. at 400. after Seal'd and shut up c. 11. 1. at 1260. after Open'd in Heaven c. 11. at 30. after more fully open'd c. 15. 5. at 45 after comes down out of Heaven from God into the New Heaven and the New Earth the New Heaven as the Throne of God especially describ'd Rev. 21. the New Earth as the place of the Soles of his Feet in this Vision of Ezekiel in their Lots of this Great Blessedness till the end of 1335 Days which are also the End of the 2300 Evenings Morning c. 12. 12. 13. Argum. 4. Because there are such Extraordinaries in this Vision as can fit no State that hath ever yet been in the World and therefore must have an exceeding High and Heavenly State as the Princes Inheritance sufficient to give to his Sons for ever c. 46. 16. 17. with John 8. 35. 36. And so the Princes omnipresent Conduct though Himself in the East yet in the midst of those who went Southward and Northward c. 46. 8. c. the miraculous Waters and Trees and the universal Life the City 18000 Measures each Measure of 18000 Cubits at least too big for this State of the World and an Inheritance great enough for all Israelites and Strangers when such Great Sholes of People and all in a State of Life Represented by Fishes shall be in such an Abundance and Perpetuity of Life c. 47. 9. And yet a Lake of Miry Places not Heal'd as the Dead and the Lake Rev. 20. 5. 10. Argum. 5. Because this Throne and Sanctuary being for ever can never have any other end but that of the Kingdom deliver'd up to God and to the Father at the Time of the White Throne which is not an end but a perfection into an Absolute Etern●ty and all Defilement for ever separated into the Lake 1 Cor. 15. 24. with Revel 20. 11. c. to the End I Have then Fix'd upon the General shades and Lines of this Vision and found by very Great Assurances that it presents a Supernatural State of Purity and Glory Reaching down from the Throne of God or the New Heaven to the New Earth the Place of the Soles of his Feet and in both a Temple State of the Highest Enjoyment of God I have also found by the Exquisiteness of the Date It is the Epoch or Head of Time from the Typical Jubilee at that Time to the Great Jubilee of the World the Kingdom of Christ and that within Two years of it God began the Calendar of Time from this Vision to that Kingdom at the end in Nebuchadnezzar's Image as I have elsewhere made out and Forty years after or at the end of the Forty Days for Years after this Vision wherein Ezekiel bare the Sin of Judah to the end of the Captivity God super-added a second Vision of the same Four Monarchies under the Emblem of Four Beasts Dan. 8. and that the space of those Monarchies might be more distinctly and certainly known He gave also within Two yerrs after 2300 Evens Morns Days also for Years to the Cleansing or as the Original is the Justifying this very Sa●ctuary and to the great Sabbatism of the New Creation and to the Kingdom of the Prince of Princes the Antichristian Desolator of the Sanctuary being Broken first without Hand Dan. 8. 25. which 2300 Evens Morns ending with the 1335 Days This Heavenly State is divided also by Lot Dan. 12. 12. 13. And now we are upon the 2200th and 18th of these Evenings Mornings There remain then but Seven to the Opening this Temple to be seen first in Heaven and but 75 beyond that to the coming down of the New Jerusalem All this being thus settled I come to Adjust the Substantial Spiritual meaning to the External Types of the Vision and to shew the High Rationality of the Correspondencies between the one and the other in answer to the second Question Correspondency 1. This Vision most Evidently and Illustriously presents the Highest Temple State or of the Tabernacle of God with Men A Temple and all the Forms Laws Ordinances and Measures of it runs through the Vision Now a Temple is a Place or Building wherein there is an Expectation of a divine presence or Gods coming down in a Communication of Himself to his Rational Creatures as at a distance from his Highest Glory and Presence and his being also pleas'd Graciously there to Receive their Tenders of Homage and service in Adorations and Praises This is the True notion of a Temple The very Highest Heaven is a Temple to the Angels and Glorified Spirits * He Humbles Himself Psal 113. 6. wherein God coming out of the Infinity of his own Glory and Being is pleas'd to hold Communion with them The whole lower World and Paradise especially was a Temple to Adam before his Fall And in Regard of the divine omnipresence Every place is a Temple and so He dwells not in Temples made with Hands but is Worshipped every where by Acts 17. 24. John 4. 21. 1 Kings 8. 27. them who Worship Him in Spirit and Truth For seeing the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Him how much less a Temple as Solomon the Builder of his Temple tells us God therefore very Tender of this Glory and the Fallen nature of Man most prone to violate it by Idolatry and Superstition There was no Temple or other place or indeed Form of Worship to be devoted to Him but by his own Appointment The first Appointment of place by God was the Tabernacle Exod. 25. 40. in the Wilderness the exact Measures and Pattern of which Gad gave to Moses and He was with Greatest Caution to observe it Solomon by the same Divine Pattern and Inspiration 1 Chron. 28. 11. Built the Temple It was after the Babylonish Desolation restor'd under Cyrus c. as near as might be to the old form c. All this was too Low and serv'd only as a Shaddow for the Time Being For it was too Low too often defiled and violated by Corruption within and Pagan Fury without It was Finally destroyed by the Romans yet it always remain'd a Type of the True Temple that is to be This Vision of Ezekiel joyn'd with that of John Revel 21. Give that True Temple wherein God and the Lamb will be the Temple and that Temple gives to the City the name Jehovah Shammah The Lord is there Here now is the Reason why there is in this Vision so much of a Temple Frame and Appearance To shew forth and foretell the State of the New Jerusalem wherein the Presence of God in Christ shall be most Free and Illustrious shewing his Love and Favour to his Servants and