of the Tabernacle had but Two only Visible and yet a third Included The Spirit in the Blood at the Altar and Water in the Laver as the Piller in the Cloud And the 2 daily Witnesses in the Morning and Evening Sacrifice As the Minha with Perfume at the Altar of Incense With the Loaves of Shewbread and the Lamps As Spirits before the Throne or the Ark and Mercy Seat with the two Cherubins of Glory Like our two eyes in our Face and 2 ears in our Head and the Spirit within the Wheels As in our Heart with 2 Auricles as 2 Loabs of the Lungs and Two yet Lower called Testes or somewhat of Witnesse in divers Languages As putting the Hand under the Thigh in solemn Witnessing As the Great World also hath its several Pairs of Witnesses in Earth and Water Fire and Ayr and yet much Higher and Brighter as the Eyes of Heaven called also the Faithful Witnesses in the Ps the Sun and the Moon Which were as Dead or Hidden Asleep in their Causes as the Schooles speak for 3 dayes and an Half Or Till the Morning of the 4th Day of Creation when they first appeared And at Every New Creation or at bringing up a New Heaven and a New Earth The Witnesses of That Generation may lye hid and be as Dead For 3 Dayes and an Half Till a voyce come from Heaven saying Come up Hither As at first Let there be Lights in Heaven and it was so Darknesse As the First Beast or Dragon Draco Dark and Tenebrae the Dragon of the Evening in Hebrew where also Eeve or Eeph is Darknesse a Beast or Serpent as in english Evet and the Jews tell us that Adams Wife was Lilis First or Night and Then Eeve which is also Night as in english Eeve and Evening Day and Night being as Man and Woman Husband and Wife As the Womb of the Morning in the Bible This Dragon fighteth with the Two Faithful Witnesses the Sun and Moon Which are weekly Hidden 3 dayes and half or 7 nights in a week as at first 3 dayes and half together And when These Witnesses meet with the Crossing Serpent in Heaven or the Ecliptick with its Nodes of Dragons Head and Dragons Tail They be Eclipsed which may hold 3 Hours and Half as at the Passion And the Moons monthly Hidings are about 3 dayes and half as Emblems of the Worlds and Churches Changes and her Absence From the Sun and shinings are about 3 weeks and Half And for 666 in This Beasts Fighting with Those Witnesses we found 6 hours or Great VVatches Turning the Tides as Sun and Moon at the Cardinal Points and making up 666 and its lower Root 25 the First hour that Ever Turned Light into Darkness And as many make the Moons Apogeum 65 or 66 of the Earths Radâ—i So do some make the Suns Radius 65 times Greater then the Earths or his Apogeum Twice 666 as we saw before And all made his daily Motion about a Degree and some made That about 666 Furlongs as Ricciolus from Posidonius in Cleomedes Where also the Moons Periodick Month is 27 dayes and half Which in others is 27 â…“ but in Martiaw Cap. 27 days 16 hours but 2 lesse then 666 which is also very near the Month for Anomaly and Latitude As often For Appearance Though Vncertain And the Suns Monthly Rotation now agreed is from 26 dayes as the Caroline Tables To 29 half and the mean is 27. ¾ Which is just 666 hours As Apelles or Scheinar and Galileus When they found One of the Semicircles to be 13 dayes and 20 hours and an half Which doubled maketh 27 dayes and 17 hours but One lesse then 666. 12 such Months are 333 dayes and 24 666 and 666 Moons about 54 years As 54 Sections of the Law in 669 Little Ones And that the 7 Churches also may shadow out Successive Times as the 7 dayes of the week and 7 months of the Jewish year and 7 years To Release I do the rather believe From the Glanâ—es on Successive Times As Paradise and Tree of Life in the first Church the Flood or Egyptian Death in the 2 d. The VVhite Stone and Manna from Aegypt in the 3 d. And Breaking the 7 Nations by Jâ—suah To the Times of Elijah slaying the Prophets of Baal and Jesabel the Type of the Great Whore in the 4th and to the Coming of Christ in the 5th and the New Jerusalem in the 6 t and General Judgement in the very Name of Laodicea With All things New again as the 3 last Chap. of that Blessed Revelation which doth Blessits Readers From our Blessed Jesus who received it to Give Or that he might shew it To his Servants Or beginning at Christ or at That Revelation to John The name of Ephesus may hint Declining Times of the Primitive Church As at Adams Fall in Paradise There Named Smyrna may signifie Beaten Myrrh As in the Christian Persecutions and Antichristian Jesabel Till the Morning Star arise before the Sun of Righteousness shadowed in Elijah at Jesabel and so to the coming of Christ and the New Jerusalem The Poets say the Great Io wandring came to Ioppa built before the Flood in Mela with Solinus Thence to Egypt and there had a Son from whom came Belus Father to Egyptus and Danaus with Agenor Who returning to Joppa begat Cadmus Phoenix and Europâ— that played with a white Bull Till he swam away with her to Creet and There she had Minos and other Judges in Hell From whom they bring K. Erithrus and the Lycians As Cilicians from Cilix an other Brother to Cadmus Who being sent to seek his Sister came so near as Greece and there was bid to build a City Where he saw a Beast Lye down and Thence Baeotia with Thebes in Greece and Egypt also from Thebeth Noahs Ark and Beasts And though he killed the Serpent he became a Serpent with his Wife and Children very Miserable One being Mother to Acteon Turned into a Stag and Torn by his own Dogs for seeing Diana Bathing Two others destroying themselves and Children The 4th Burnt by Jupiter Thundring as with Juno But catching his Bacchus from her and Hiding him in the Hollow of his Thigh Their Brother wanders up and down till at length One of his Ravisheth a Child of Pelops who had maintained him But Then Prayed for Vengeance Till Oedipus killeth his own Father and marrieth his own Mother knowing neither Till some secret Characters discover it And then for shame and grief They hide a while till all the Family destroy themselves or one another But a Child comes out at length called Tisamenus Or Revenged And His are glad to leave the Country and to wander To an Iland That had Risen out of the Sea and was called Thera The Beast And thence came Battus As Batten and Batein to Play the Beast with His Cyrenians in the Acts. And our Saviour bids us not Battologise as Battus did This may
For What in one place is a Brothers Ox or Asse In another is an Enemies and His that Hateth us and yet His Laden straying Asse must be Pitied and Helped Wilt thou Cease to Help him Or to leave thy Business for him as the Margent of our Bible Thou shalt surely Leave it to joyn with him and help him Exod. 23. 15. And although our Souls be as the Wild Asses Colts yet we may plead This Law also with our Saviour Though they be the Asses of his Enemies and them that Hate him Yet in straying or being Laden He will keep This Law and surely Joyn to Help them And to This he might allude when he sent his Disciples to loose the Asse Tyed in the Broad way where 2 wayes met and then came Meek and Lowly As the King of Zion upon an Asse the Foal of an Asse And the paralel place in Deut. speaking of a Brothers or a Strangers Ox or Asse by That Occasion giveth a General Rule of All things that are Lost In like manner shalt thou do with his Asse and so shalt thou do with his Rayment and with All Lost things Thou mayest not Hide thy self A very sweet Law and much to be pressed on our Saviour when we fear our Souls Most Lost As they may be most in them that are Least sensible Doth he not say he came to seek and Saâ—e That which is Lost And so he clearly expresseth it diverse times In the Last Sheep Lost Groat and the Great Joy in Heaven at Finding Any lost Sinner And This is written in his Heart also both to the Lost Image of his Father and our Lost Souls and the Law saith Thou Mayest not plainly Mayest not Hide thyself from That which is Lâ—st And How doth God complain against the Evill Shephards that did not strengthen the Weak or heal the Sick oâ— bind up the Broken or bring home that which was Driven away or seck out That which was Lost But I will search and seek them out and I will bind up that which is Broken and I will strengthen that which is sick and I will bring home That which was Driven away and I will seek out that which is lost and I will set One Shepard over them which our Saviour also Took upon him for His Duty And Other sheep I have and them also I must bring in And whoever These were How many so ever or How few yet He plainly owneth Men as Sheep before Conversion In their Natural State of Wrath as wel as others And so Peter also speaketh of some before Conversion that they were As sheep going astray but Then returning to the Great Shepard of the Flock And Esay saith We Alâ— strayed As Lost sheep and the Lord made our Inicuities to meet upon Him And in divers Psalmes Al Nations and People of the Earth are Called in because they are His People and the sheep of his Flock and the sheep of His Hâ—nds And As a Sinner in a state of Sin may be a sheep so a wicked man is a Brother and Owned so in the Law that saith The Judge shall beat the Wicked Man deserving stripes and yet but 40 Least Thy Brother Though a Wicked man be Vile in Thine Eyes And Christ himself may allude to This when he speaketh of Many stripes to him that knew his Masters Will and yet but 40. For he is a Brother And the Great Law of Redemption Is but a Branch of Loving God and our Neighbour and of Seeking All that is Lost or ready to be Lost from God and His Vnder Tenants For you are Mine saith the Lord and Your Land is Mine You shall not sell or pawn or Alienate your selves or your land from me for Ever But There shall be a Redemption Either the Person himself or his next Kinsman that can shall Redeem him and his land Is there Any Kinsman Nearer then Christ that Can Redeem us Doth not This Law lie upon him also Dotb God indeed take care of Oxen Asses Bodies Lands and Houses of Clay And did he not take care of our Souls the Souls which He hath made as himself speaketh more Pretious then the World beside And This Redemption of Persons and Lands is but a shadow of Redeeming Souls and a â—ledge or Earnest hereof As we may see plainly by comparing Lev. 25 and 26. As the sum of the Law and Gospel also Which After Dreadful Threatnings Concludeth sweetly in the 44. vers Yet nevertheless For All This or That I will not cast them away neither will I abhor them to destroy them Vtterly or Break my Covenant with them Which is often pressed on God in the Psalms and Prophets Forsake me not Vtterly And Hast thou Vtterly rejected Zion And be not our Souls as Little our own and as Much the Lords as the Jews Bodies Lands and Houses were Yet These might not be Sold or Alicnate for Ever But There must be a Redemption Because they are the Lords and He will not part with His Right and careth he not that we sell our Selves to Sin or Sathan for Ever and hath he not provided a Redemption in This Case also and shall not the Lawful even the Lawful Captive be delivered Even when a Man hath Sold himself for nought as God expresseth And If none Either would or Could Redeem them Yet were All to go out at the Jubile Which was also but a Type of Christ our Great Redeemer and our Jubile Yea and in the mean time They must not be Ruled with Rigour which is often forbidden and complained of in the Pastors and Rulers in Ezekiel that They Ruled with Force and Rigour Which was so contrary to the Rule of God and Christ Who was told his People should be Free in the Day of his Power By the Beauties of Holinesse And he told his Disciples he had All Power in Heaven and Earth and Therefore They should Teach But not Compel or Command with Rigour Not as Lords over Gods Inheritance but Ensamples to the Flock And so our Ancestors told Austine in This Island That Religion Ought to be Free and not Compelled or Forced and the Apostles left it so and the Laws also To That Time As we read in Bede And Alfreds Will declares his subjects Free as his own Thoughts and following Kings were sworn to the Saxon Laws and Customs of our Ancestors And how much God was against Ruling with Rigour we may see by his forbidding to deliver up Any Slave that had run away from his Master which may be a great encouragement to run to Christ for the Law forbids him to deliver us back to Sin or Sathan or any hard Master And when God threatned Hard Masters unto Aegypt as they had been to Israel yet in That oppression he declareth they should Cry and be would hear for he is Gracious and would send a Saviour and a Great One and He shall Deliver Them and They shall Come to be a third with Israel and Assyria
Methuselah To Abraham Or from Noah To Mâ—ses and Aaron From the Flood To the Ark in Zion or the Temple As from Joseph and Jacob To Nehemiah Or from Egypt and the Wilderness To the Dedication by the Machabees And Thence to the Christians Getting Jerusalem As from Gideons Ephâ—d To our Saviour and from the Romans First Taking Jerusalem To the Popes Decretals and Councel of Lateran For Transubstant In the Time of Innocent the 3 d Excommunicating the Emperour As From Christ To the Sicilian Vesters Or the First Roman Jubilie with the Second Wo. or House of Ottoman As from the Sack of Ierusalem or Revel written To the 2 d Roman Iubilie Or To the Golden Bull and order of Iesuans or Iesuats As From the 10 Persecutions ending in Constantine To the Great Change at Queen Elizabeth And From Iulians Time To the Persans Taking Babylon and to K. Charles in England and Free Religion in France And although there were Great Defections in the Christian Churches before Iulian Yet Then was the Great Apâ—stacy which seemeth Pointed out To the Thessalonians And the Last Oracles said that Christian Religion should Stand but a Great Year Which came out in Iulians Time about 365. And Thence the Roman Empire did begin its Mortal Wound As first by the Gauls about 365 of the City Built And whatever else the Revelation Beast may be vet we must All agree To That last verse of the 17th Chapter And the Wâ—man which thousawest is That Great City which Reigneth over the Kings of the Earth Which certainly was Rome in some State or Other That we say nothing of Mysterium written in the Popes old Frontal In Constantine the Empire Trembled In the Western Legions drawing off to New Rome with 7 Hills also but not 7 Kings or Governments And a Kingdom Divided cannot stand The Church did Creep again a little After Julian But with standing stools and Forms of some that did pretend to Teach it first to Go with a strange Chaos of Jewish Rites or Heathen And the Tares of the Envious one grew up Till They could not be Rooted out but with Danger to the Wheat also First in Lent only Till Easter which Crucified all the Body of Christ Marriage is Forbidden And at Laodicea the signal place in the 3 d of Revelation Then at Other Times and Then To the Clergy at All Times in Siricius When the name of Catbolique came up with the Golden Law for Lent about 380. Then Canonical Hours about 390 A very signal Number both to Jewes and Gentiles for the Last Olympiad and the First Vse of Mass with the head of John the Baptist and Then the Bones of Samuel and ere long of Stephen and Nicodemus Brought into Europe The Empire shakes upon Contest of the Emperor and Stilico by whom Alaciâ—us was Beaten Yet so countenanced That he sacketh Rome From That Deadly Wound 1260 years come out about 1666 Or somewhat sooner At the End of the Three Great Years and half or 3500 years of Esaus Strugling with Jacob. Which Esdras makes the End of the Old World and Beginning of a New And all the Bible maketh Them the Great Types of Election and Reprobation or of Children of Light and Darkness The first Dragon or Beast of the Bottomless pit with 7 Heads and 10 Horns or 10 Hours for 7 dayes of the week And the shortest Night had 10 Hours And as the Light might Rise in 7 hours so the Sun might Rise in 10. And Those 2 Numbers of 7 and 10 were Sacred to others also As in Justine Curtius Arrianus and others of the Persians and Alexanders Weeks before the Roman in the Attick Nights or Genial Days and Saturnals And as the Revelation hath its 4 Watchers and 24 Elders for the 24 hours So the 7 Spirits For the 7 days of the week which return in a Circle As the Months of Nisan and Tizri Which were Sevenths to each other and had â—easts alike As 7 equal Circles in a Ring of 6 and one in the Centre as 6 Tones and 2 Halvs in and an Eight or Diapason 7 being the only Number of 3 Wholes and a Half The Jews Law had 7 Heads to Noah 10 Horns to Moses with 666 Sections or at most 669. And its Heb name is akin to Thorus or Taurus a Beast wch in Hebr leters maketh just 666. And None might buy or sell among them or be Denisons that did not submit to the 7 Heads of Noahs Laws 7 Things were left by Moses for the Poor 7 Sabbaths 2 in Tabernacles one in Pentecost and 2 at Pass and 7 Passovers in Script besides Atonement and the weekly Sabbath Which 2 last forbad All work the other 5 but Servile only 7 Servitudes in the Iudges 7 Liquors in Moses Song 7 Lamps and 7 Spirits on the Messiah Esay 11 As 7 Spirits before the Throne or 7 Eyes or 7 Planets in Heaven and 7 Metals in Earth seven pair of Nerves and 7 Principal parts in the Bowels So they had 7 Elders or Deacons in their Churches or Synagogues wch must be of 10 at least As usually a Paschal Lamb was for 10 Recorded and so the Romans could reckon them at the Last Passover And at 10 they brought their Children to Fast and other points of the Law and their Lowest Consistories were at places of 10 Families As the Saxon Decennars or Tithings And the Romans had their signal Tithings and 10 Circuits in their Provinces 10 Kingdoms as Horns on the Last Head of the Beast Which may be the Great Spirit of the World with 7 Heads and 10 Horns As God also pleased to manifest himself in 10 Laws and 7 Spirits for 7 Days of the week and One of Them had also a Deadly Wound as it was the Jewish Sabbath but Got up again and yet so changed That it was as an Eight Day and yet but One of the 7 As the 7 or 8 Heads in Revel But there is a Man can be our peace when the Assyrian Overflows us When he shall Tread in our Palaces Then we shall raise against him 7 Shephards and 8 Principal Men. Yea and the Spirit of the Lord shall set up a Standard against him The Revelation doth require a Volume by it self Now Only the Holy City Trodden down As David Got it from the Tredding Jebusites and Nehemiah from the Cuthites and Machabeus from Antiochus And Jerusalem shall be Trodden down of the Gentiles Till the Times af the Gentiles be fulfilled Or as Paul Until the Fulness of the Gentiles And Then All Israel shall he saved or Redeemed For the Time of your Redemption draweth Nigh The 42 Months are 1260 Dayes as 5 months of the First Wo are 150 days As the 5 first months of the Flood quite hiding the Earth in Water as the Baptists Mother was Hidden 5 months and in the 6 t the Angel came to the Virgin And at 30 Dayes apiece 42 Months are 1260 Dayes As the Dayes of the Woman and
be more than Hivites that is Serpents flying from Joshua Though the Times agree with the Poets Penulus and other Remains of Hebrew Pillers or some flying from Canaan And their Brother Phoenix is the Great Man in Phaenicia Father to another Belus whence Sicheus Pigmaleon and the Famous Dido As perhaps also to the Red Sea or Phaeniciax that is Red and a kin to Erythrâ—â— Phinâ—us and Cepheus with his Daughter Saved from the Dragon by Perseus With Wings also For flying from These Dragons or Serpents and a Flood from the Dragons Mouth And the Phaenix Rising out of her Ashes and Odors may be an emblem of Him and Them that were by Death to Conquer Death and live beyond the Phaenix Which yet liveth 660 or 666 years The Jews give it 1000 as the only bird that did not taste the Forbidden Fruit As they speak on that of Job I shall dye in my Nest as the Phaenix In Herodotus or others though the Romans knew it not till after Christ or 66 of Augustus 666 from Josiah 1666 from the Flood or 5 times 666 from Creation Slain by a King of Egypt or Sodom where our Lord was slain When Jacob cursed Levies Cruelty He said Let not my Soul be in their Secret or in Sodam which in Hebrew is just 666. And Cheleem that makes them Men the Number of a Man 665. And God doth much forbid Chelaim their Mixing Seeds As they are caught in Chelaim which some translate the Stocks in Isa 42. And Chelaim is Michael Turned almost Backward Myster or Mystery an Hebrew word As Sithrah and Hester Hidden Making 666 As Thorus or Taurus in Hebrew 666 and so is Satur 666 Secret or Full and ready to vomit As he speaketh at his Making All things New In Laodicea As at drinking on the Cross It is finished Which was from Egypt as many years as there were Hours in the year before Pentecost or its Prep and from the first Pentecost in Canaan as many years as That was after Enoch And as Moses Face shining might represent our Saviours shining with Moses in the Transfig So might His Long stay in the Mount denote ours Saviours stay in Heaven while the Chief Levite or False Prophet makes a Golden Calf or Image of the Beast as Psalm 106. with Revelat. â—3 And Moses Last Coming from the Mount to make the Tabernacle at the Feast of Tabernacles might denote our Saviours Last coming to the Feast of Tabernacles yet to come And as 40 dayes Rain in the Flood did shew us so many years between the first Ark and the 2 d at Shilch As there be Hours in 40 dayes So there were as many years between the 2 d Ark and 2 d Temple As Hours in Moses 40 Dayes 960. And Moses Breaking the first Tables at his first 40 dayes might note their Breaking of the Law and their City Broken by the Caldees in the same month and season when he brake the Tables And the Renewing of Those by God might shadow both Their Renewall by Joshua Zorobbabel Ezra and Nehemiah And the Law renewed and written in our Hearts As put in the Ark and Mercy-Seat by our Saviour and His Making All things New As at the Tabernacles in the Revelation And the Feast of Tabernacles was After the Day of Pentecost or giving the Law to Moses 130 Dayes or 3120 Hours As there are 3120 years from Moses To 1666. which is from Christ As many years as from Creation to the Church Restored After the Flood As If His saying The Dayes of the Son of Man shall be as the Dayes of Noah did intimate as many years from his speaking That To his Coming There described As there were Years to Noahs Flood Which was at the first Hour of the 70th Day of the World Or at 1656 years As 1656 Hours come to the 70th Day ending at 1680 Hours And then He should come again before 1680 or at most about 1690. which is from His speaking As many years as the Flood was from Creation And his saying No man knew the Day and Hour of the End of the World may teach us to measure Times by Dayes and Hours also Which may be now better known since the Revelation And although there may be Hints of his Coming To the Great Feast of Tabernacles As he came and shewed himself In the Last and Great Day of Tabernacles John 7. yet i◠〈◊〉 be said that No man knoweth the End of the World with its Day or Hour For though there must be a New Heaven and a New Earth yet All the Works of God and in special The Earth shall abide for ever But the Meek shall inherit the Earth and Righteousness shall dwell in it Righteousness and Peace Wait on the Lord and he shall exalt thee To inherit the Earth And When the Wicked are cut off Thou shalt see it So that a man shall say Verily there is a Reward for the Righteous Verily there is a God that Judgeth in the Earth FINIS
CHRIST Under the Law WITH The Times of the Gospel AND Fullness thereof LONDON Printed in the Year 1664. ERRATA Page 30. line 15. for years read months p. 33. l. 19. 24 Aldermen Add In divers Cities as it was long in London p. 3. l. 12. in the 2 d Colume and 24 Aldermen to be left out p. 40. l. 1. for Luminations r. Lâ—â—ations p. 44. l. 16. Colume 2 d for the Red Sea r Reed Sea l. 17 18. for Mimum r. Minium l. 39. for Psalms r. Palms p. 59. l. 9. Col. 2. for 2705 r. 2805 without the Parenthesis p. 62. l. 7. Col. 2. Add And their Longest Night was above 13 Hours As the first Night of Creation was till the 13th Hour p. 69. Parag. 3. That of Cubits in some Copies to be left out or amended by the 2 d Paragraph of the 59th page In the Preface p. 6. l. 25. Col. â— for Tabernacles read Tabernacle The PREFACE and SCOPE THis Discourse was written more large and it may be less confused but the Authors distance from the Press and little time to correct it with so many numbers and other occasions prevailed to contract and croud it out as he could being only for private Friends and such as can excuse both matter and manner The first is to express some little part of the unexpressable Goodness of God and Love of Christ which passeth knowledge and to help shed it abroad into our hearts that it may mould us into love to God and all men Have we not all One Father Hath not One God created us Why do we then deal treacherously every man against his brother by prophaning the Covenant of our Fathers And our Saviour did not only bid them all say Our Father but repeated it and pressed it on the multitude that they had All One Father in Heaven and One Master or Teacher even Christ which is twice repeated in Mat. 23. And as Love was his last and great Command on Earth so his first Complaint out of Heaven was of some that had lost their first Love And may he not complain that we have lost All Love which is not only waxen cold but even Dead and quite put out by Lust or Love of the World and Cares thereof which himself said would Choak the good Seed And what Hope is left or means to recover us but in himself Made under the Law of Love to God and Man also So that it is written in his heart to Love his God and his Neighbour As himself To propagate the Name and Love of God with All his Might and to bring his Children Servants and the Strangers in his Gate to Rest the Rest of God as is required in the fourth Command And seeing he bid it be written as a True Saying of God that He would make All Things New the Author doth believe it though he doth not yet see it And he thought it worth enquiring When That great Change is to come into the minds of Men to mould them into Love of God and One another And finding the Psalm for the Afflicted to tell us that God will appear in his Glory when he buildeth up Zion and when the Peoples are Gathered and the Kingdoms to serve the Lord he searched what the Law or the Prophets say of such a Gathering And he found that Moses Dying Charge on Joshuah with succeeded Kings of Israel which he hopes may come to Christ at length was to gather All Israel and their Strangers also and to Read the Law to them All that they may Hear and Learn and fear the Lord and his Goodness in the Latter Dayes At the end of Seven years in the Solemnity of the year of Release in the Feast of Tabernacles which they call the Feast of In Gathering And although this was acted every 7th year in some measure yet seeing God himself doth sometimes use a Day for a Year or a year for as many years as it hath Dayes he began to consider whether it might not be So in This also that the Sabbatical years of Release might intimate their Release from all their Scatterings and Bondage at the Close of seven Prophetick years or in 2555 years which are seven times 365. And first he found that so many years After the Fall did bring Israel to rest in Canaan and so many more did bring the Christians to reign in Jerusalem and that from their First Scatterings out of Canaan in Jorams time when they were first led Captive so many years came out about 1666 now coming and from following scatterings after Joram so many years are out about 1690 and that Daniels greatest number of 2300 dayes or years is then also finished from the time of his Captivity And for beginning those Prophetick years about the time of Joram there are many reasons besides their first scattering out of Canaan Then For it was a very Great Change of the World or as the Jews express it a New World which they believed to be seven or eight times renewed As the old Tuscans also in Plutarchs Sylla and that every such New World was foreshewn by Great Prodigies in Heaven and Earth yea and Divers times by signal Tydes or Turnings and Parting 's of Waters as the great Clepsydra So at the first Creation and again at the Flood and again at passing the Red-Sea and at entring Canaan When Jordan was divided As again by Elijahs Mantle At His Ascension a little before Joram which was followed by their first Captivity As their Last followed our Saviours Ascension shadowed by Elijahs The Assyrian Empire was Then shaken and broken as Israel by Syria and Judah by the Philistines Arabians and Edom which Then first revolted and broke Jacobs Yoak as was foretold by Isaac and rested not till it forced Ahaz to hire Assyria which destroyed Israel about the time of Romulus who might be shadowed by Rummili or Remaliah that in the mask or vizor of Religion Ravished 683 Virgins or 783 as it was 683 years before the Romans first Ravished the Virgin of Zion and 783 before they crucified Christ From that time the Prophets began to threaten Edom by which the Jews say they meant Rome as in that Map of Hell in Isa 34. directed against Edom and the Raemim or Romim v. 7. And as Judahs breach and cutting off might be Typed by Athaliahs cutting off the Royal Seed as Joram had cut off his brethren so might those seven Great years of Scattering and Return be Typed in the seven years of Famine and Wandring of the Widow who then Returned and found the K. talking with Gehazi freed it seems from his Leprosy And by the seven years of Joash Hiding and then coming up and repairing the Temple and by many other seven years which are here touched In this search of Times it is found that 1260 or 1290 and 1335 which are the Great Numbers in Dan. and the Revel may be Years and Dayes and Hours of Jewish years As from the
Day of Trying the Paschal Lambs or Preparation of the Passover To the Pentecost Or from the day of Aarons Death and of burning the City and Temple To the Day of Creation or Dedication of the second Temple and of Jerusalem in Nehemiahs Time and to the Feast of Trumpets in the seventh Month which was for Release and Tabernacles were 1260 1290 or 1335 Hours And from the City Taken on the 9th of the 4th Month to the Feast of Tabernacles were 2300 Hours as between the Suns Apogeum and the Equinox And their great Release was in 2300 Dayes As their Release of Hirelings or their three years Tythes and Offerings with the Solemn Confessions of Deut. 26. came out in 1260 or 1335 Dayes So Davids New Jerusalem was gotten from the Jebusites who Trod it down as their name in Heb And the Ark was fixed in Zion and the Temple built in 1260 1290 or at most in 1335 years from the first Desolation of the Flood And Nehemiahs New Jerusalem was finished and dedicated at 1260 hours that is the morning of the 53 d day from its beginning but 1335 hours from his coming thither as Nehem. 2. 11. 6. 15. and in so many years from Jacobs service in Syria Typing Israel in Assyria or from Josephs Bonds in Egypt or Israels coming and Dying there And the great Dedication and Restitution after Antiochus Nicanor was so many Dayes as in Daniel After the City Prophaned and so many years After Egypt and the Golden Calf which was 1335 years before the Maccabees which were 1290 years After the Ark at Shiloh or 1260 years After their first Bondage to the K. of Mesopotamia as a Type of Babylon and 1260 years Before the Christians got Jerusalem and Reigned in it about 1100 of Christ All which were but Types and Shadows of the New Jerusalem to come in those degrees of 1260 1290 or 1335 years After the Abominable Desolation made by Antichrist who was Typed out by Antiochus Which was to come upon the Christian Church as the Assyrian was to fill the breadth of the Land of Emanuel When the Romans had finished their war against Jerusalem in Titus Adrian and Julian After the ten first Christian Persecutions Which lasted as many years as there were Hours in ten Dayes As the Revelation saith they should have Tribulation for Ten Dayes which have Hours 240. and there were so many Years from the first Persecution which began with the Jewish War in 65 or 66 of Christ Till Constantine And the Times of Julian were as slaying of the Paschal Lambs which were Tyed up on the tenth day ending at Hour 240 and slain on the fourteenth at Hour 333 As Julian was 333 years After Christ and Romes deadly Wound was After Jerusalem sack'd 333 years As Hamans Lots or Purim from the Preparation of the Passover 333 dayes 333 was a signal Number to the Jews both for Hours to the Passover and Dayes to Purim and Cubits in the Holy Courts and to Others also As Plutarch observes in Fabius finding Secrets in the Sybils not to be uttered and vowing 333 Sesterces and 333 Denaries Deucalions Flood Phaetons Flames and the first Judgement in Areopagu much about 333 years before the Sack of Troy about 333 before Lycurgus end who renewed the Olympick Games 333 years after Hercules That we speak not of Messenia desolate about 333 years in Aelian 333 is half 666 and 333 Dayes are 12 Times 666 Hours which are the Monthly Change of the Sun and Moon and thence the Great Number of Change to the World and in Years also As it was to Carthage in Paterculus and Rome with Jerusalem and other places here discussed And to clear this way of reckoning Years by Hours of the Jewish Year the Author shews the Rise and Use of Hours with diverse Nations long before they be specifyed in Polibius or Plutarch who yet can tell us the first Hour of Romulus and the Great account of Hours among the Jews whose Year is a Model of time in All Ages So that the old Patriarchs and all the great things of Scripture were in Harmony to the Dayes and Hours of the Jewish Year and to the Site and Motions of the Heavenly Bodies As Hours are made by the Moon moving 24 of her Diameters in 24 Hours and the Earths Diameter 24 times in the Suns which may be distant from the Earth twice 666 Radij As the Moon 66 and Canaans Longitude is 65 or 66 in Ptolomy And as the first Heavenly body is above the Earth 65 of its Radij and the first Fruits of Earth were at 65 Hours of Creation in the 3 d Day which was the first of Herbs and Animals so the Feast of the First fruits was the 65th Day of the Year and in the 3 d Month As the Tabernacles twice 65 or 130 Dayes After Pentecost Adam was about 130 Hours of Creation and Seth at 130 years as many reckon Abraham was After Terah 130 years in which time the Equinox Changeth a whole Day as 12 Hours in 65 Years Enos was born at 235 Years of the World and the Paschal Lambs were Tyed up and Tryed at 235 Hours of the Jewish year and the Great Cycle of the Moon called the Golden Number is of 235 Months For which Here is an easier way to reckon the Moons Motions and the Suns Cycle with the Dayes of the Week in any year of Christ or of the Julian Period Kainan was born at 325 years of the World and 325 Hours of their year came to the Morning Sacrifice of the Passover slain at Hour 333 just half 666 and Kainans Birth was 666 Years before Enochs Translation or twice 666 before the Flood Mahalael as many years After Kainan as there were Hours to the Evening Sacrifice of the third Day As the First Fruit Omer heaved up on the 3 d Day After the Passover He was born 1260 as Kainan 1332 before the Flood and dyed in the year of the World 1290. Jared the 6 from Adam was born 135 and lived 187 years After Kainan and the Morning Sacrifice of the 6th Day of the World and of the Month and Year and so of the First fruit Omer from the Tying of the Paschal Lambs was at Hour 135 and the Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day for Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath was at hour 187. As from Pentecost to the Great Hosanna there were Dayes 135 and to the Great Atonement Dayes 187 As between the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox 187 and in the Pentateuch 187 Chapters As the Cubits of the Inward Court of Israel were 187 and the Outer 135 which being added to 130 makes 365 As Dayes in a year or Veins in our Body or Negative Precepts in the Law And Kainan was twice 365 before Noah 365 before Jareds End As Mahalaels was before the Flood and the Flood before Abrahams Call if born at his Fathers 70 As Hours of the Jewish year to the First fruit Omer Reaped After
not Planted And if Sin come Vnder These Plants or Those Promises may we not hope it shall be Rooted out and quite destroyed As the Church is bid to Cry Take away All Iniquity Not onely Ours but All. and Let the Iniquity of the Wicked come to an end As it is Prayed and Therfore Promised in the Psalms and we are bid to cry for All Forgive Vs our Sins Yea and Christ Prayeth This In us and with us Therefore it shall be Granted for He sayeth Lord Forgive As I and These and All my Children Do forgive And we do not read God Cursed Adam or Eve but the Serpent Though he laid Pain and Travel on Eve with Labour Toyle and Sweat on Adam But of Noah it was said This Man shall give us Rest or Comfort in our work and Toyl because of the Earth which the Lord hath Cursed And when Noah built an Altar After the flood God smelt a savour of Rest as alluding to the Name of Noah Rest and said in his Heart his very Heart I will not again Curse the Ground Any more for Mans sake Which may speak it Cursed before for Mans sake or else For Mans sake I will bless it Now and Curse it no more And God Blessed Noah and his Sons which is not read of Adams Sons and did not only give him Leave to Rule the Creatures as before to Adam but a Larger Commission in the Beasts of the field which were not so put Vnder Adam and the Serpent was more subtile then All other Beasts and other Particulars which are now All put under Noah and delivered up into his Hands with a Promise also that his Dread should be upon them And That Promise is made Good in Christ In whom he makes a Covenant for us with the Beasts of the field when He hath Marryed Vs and saved us by the Lord Jehovah as the Prophet Hoze And Then the Earth also shall yeeld her increase and God even our God shall bless us and his saving light shall be Vpon All Nations As the Psalms in divers Places And our Saviour may allude to Those Promises to Noah and His name of Rest and Giving Rest from Labour when he calleth All That Labour and are heavy Laden Adding I will Give you Rest And again You shall find Rest to your Souls however it be to your Bodies That of the Rainbow we find in other Scriptures describing the Throne of God As by an Eye with its Rainbow and the Revelation Cloatheth Christ with the Rainbow As a Circle which himself can never break Which is also Round about the Throne that it may be Ever seen and Never out of Sight or Mind To witness the Everlasting Covenant with Noah and Mankind As afterward with Israel in the Prophets Esay and Jeremy And we All are In That Covenant made with Noah and it is no small Matter to be in Any One Covenant with God That of Slaying the Man-slayer may seem to put Every Man Vnder Coertion That cannot be dispenced with For if it be laid on All Mankind to slay the Blood shedder who can Exempt himself or others And is God indeed so careful for our Blood and is he not more for our Souls Is He so strict which Beasts and Men and every Mans Brother and is he not As strict with Satan or Any that devour our Souls And is not Christ in This also Seeing himself branded Cain for Hating his Brother or saying Am I my Brothers Keeper But God hath made Every Man his Brothers Keeper and our Saviour more then All. As Psal 72. He shall save the Soul of the Needy and Pretious shall their Blood be in his sight He shall Redeem their Souls from Deceit and Violence Men shall be Blessed in Him All Nations shall Call him Blessed The Blessed Seed for he speaketh not of Seeds as of Many but of One which is Christ to Bless All Nations and All Families or Every Family of the Earth As it is repeated both to Abraham and Jacob and the Psalmist saith God hath set him for Everlasting Blessings or Blessings for ever and to the Great Multitude in the Temple Courts The Apostle said God hath sent him to Blesse you by Turning Every one of you From your Iniquities God hath sent him on This Errand and hath put him Vnder this Law which is much to be pleaded with him And the 4th Command requireth him to Keep the Rest of God not only himself and his Sons and Daughters but his Men-Servants and Maid-Servants and Cattle and Stranger also in his Gate They must All be brought to Rest the Rest of God That thy Man-Servant and thy Maid-Servant may Rest as well as Thou That thine Ox and thine Asse may be refreshed And the Psalmist may allude to This as often as he Calls himself A Stranger with God or the Son of His Handmaid And This 4th Command may be found the Sum of All the 2 d. Table Which requireth Every Man and Christ also as a Man to Love his Neighbour as himself and to endeavour that Servants and Strangers also may be brought To the Rest of God and be Refreshed As well as We. And moulded into the Image of God For they All Groan for the Glorious Rest and Freedom of the Sons of God And the Beauty of That Image To be Formed in them will so recompence All the Labour of Christ that He will Never Repent it And He is so much in Love with That Image to be Formed in Vs that his Many years of Suffering and Service are but As a Few Dayes in his Eyes For the Rachel of his Love For he shall see the Travel of his Soul and shall be Fully Satisfied and be at Rest And the Sabbatical year of Rest was For the Earth also the Earth which the Lord Cursed Nor might they reap What grew of its Self For it is a year of Rest unto the Land and the Sabbath of the Land shall be meat for Thee and thy Maid and Hired Servant and for the Stranger that Sojourneth with thee and the Gleaning of every Harvest must be left for the Poor and Stranger As the 19th of Levit. Where we have also the Sum of All the Royal Law of Love As it lieth on Every Man as Man and so on Christ Also Thou shalt not Hate thy Brother in thy Heart Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy Neighbour and not suffer Sin upon him A blessed Law to be pressed much on Christ And the Sum of our Coven ant is To submit to his Teachings and Rebukes or Chastenings which are called the Rods of the Covenant Very pretious things And Thus he promised the Holy Spirit to Reprove the World And we should beg it much As David Cryes O Search and Try me If any Evil way be in Me and Lead me in the Way Everlasting All other wayes will quickly end As Thorns in a fire Thoushalt not Avenge or Bear any grudge against the Children of thy People But
and to Aaron cryeth Take Incence Put it on the Censor Go qâ—iâ—kly Make Atonement For there is Wrath Gone out the Plague is begun And this was but a Little Tâ—pe of Christ Vnder the Great Law of Satisfaction and Intercession For every High Priest is Ordained to offer Gifts and Sacrifices wherefore it is of Necessity that This man have somwhat to offer also It is of Necessity and He must offer for Sin And the 45 of Ezech gives the Law of Priest and Prince together It shall be the Princes Part or Duty to provide and Give Burnt-Offerings and Meat-Offerings and Drink-Offerings in the Feasts and Sabbath and in All Solomnities of the house of Israel and again He shall prepare the Sin-Offerings to make Reconciliation for the House of Israel So that When we want an Offering or know not How to offer it we Ought to go to Christ and tell him It is Now His Part to Give the Sacrifice and to Prepare it that it May be Rightly offered As God hath now laid it on Him As the Prince and King of His People There Described and Promised For All That Prophecy is a Clear Promise of some Gospel time or other And lest the Phrase of Israel might seem to limit it so as to exclude the Gentiles or Others In the very next verses God goes on and commands the Prophet that Vpon the Very first day of the first Month he should take a young Bullock and the Priest should put the blood upon the Posts of the House and upon the 4 Corners of the Altars settle and upon the Posts of the Gate of the Court For every one that Enters or comes near It yea and for them Afar off also For the words follow and so thou shalt de on the 7th day of the Month For Every one that Erreth and for Him that is simple Which the Hebrews Turneth To have coâ—passion on the Ignorant and him that is out of the Way And the next verses command the Passover on the 14th day and Then the Priest must prepare a Sin-Offering For All the People of the Land or of the Earth it is the same word And the Hebrews may allude to This also when it saith of Christ It behoveth him to be made like his Brethren in All things that he Might be a Merciful and Faithful High Priest To make Reconciliation for the Sins of the People as in Ezech. So ye shall Reconcile the House and in the same Chapter That by the Grace of God he might Tast Death for Every Man Or as the Angel Unto Daniel To finish Transgression and make an end of sin to make Reconciliation for Iniquity and to bring in Everlasting Righteousness Those commands are also given to Ezekiel The Son of Man whom God made a Watchman Over Israel A Mighty Type of Christ in Bearing the Sins of the People as God speaketh to him in his 40 and 390 Dayes And as That he speaketh of a Watcher or Bishop as the Phrase in all Greek Authors is may teach us To allow Humane Orders to be Divine Ordinances in such Cases as the Apostles also speak So it may also shew us the Duty of a Watcher and his Danger if he neglect his Duty Towards Any Man And who is sufficient for it But only Jesus Christ Thus Typed in Ezekiel both a Priest and Prophet or Seer and Watcher And thus at once we have the Law or Duty both of Prince and Priest and Prophet also For the Greatest must be Vnder the Law As well as others And when God Promised to Raise up the Great Prophet It was alwayes added He should be One of their Brethren and like unto Moses Who was more signally Vnder the Law then Any Man Living and the Meekest Man upon the Earth and the only Man as the Jews abserve that by the Lord himself is so often called My Servant Living and Dead also A great Type of Christ the Servant of the Lord as God himself often calls him Behold my Servant whom I have chosen my Beloved in whom my soul is well pleased I have put my Spirit upon him and He shall shew Judgement to the Gentiles and he shall not Strive or Cry A bruised Reed he shall not break nor quench the Smoaking Flax Vntill he bring forth Judgement unto Victory Then it shall be Led in Triumph by King Mercy King of Peace and Righteousness and In his Name the Gentiles Trust They Shall Trust As when the Root of Jesse shall be seen as formerly the Branch His Rest shall be Glorious And his own Law for Servants is that they give All Diligence and do All Heartily And Himself Maketh it the Great work of the Chiefest Servant to Give Others Food in Due Season and with Meeknesse For if He do but begin to smite his Fellow Servants yet he is to Rule them but if once he do begin to smite his Lord will come and cut him asunder Unto which it may be Paul alludeth when he saith The Servant of the Lord must not strike but be Gentle unto All. Apt to Teach Patient in Meeknesse instructing Those that Oppose themselves And Solomon saith that Wisdom doth and shall for so the Word is Stand and Call to the Simple ones and To the Scorners also How long will ye love Scorning Turn ye at my Reproof and I will poure out my Spirit on you Though you Have been Scorners Behold I stand at the Door and knock And again To you O men I call and my Voice is To the Sons of Man O ye Simple Understand Wisdom and ye Fools Be ye of an Vnderstanding Heart And again Who so is Simple Turn in Hither As the 45. of Ezec also And it was said to Christ both as a Teacher and a Ruler Ride on Prosperously because of Truth and Meckness And the next Psalms speak his Teaching and his Ruling Meekness He maketh Wars to cease to the Ends of the Earth Be still and know that I am God He shall speak the People Vnder us That is the word Used He shall choose our Inheritance for us the Excellency of Jacob whom he loved God is gone up with a shout Sing Praises to God Sing Praises Sing Praises to our King Sing Praises For God is King of all the Earth Sing Praise with Understanding According to thy Name O God so is thy Praise Vnto the End of the Earth Let Mount Zion rejovce and the Daughters of Judah be glad because of Thy Judgments And the reason is often added Because he is Holy The main or only Cause of Praising God And so the Prophet Esay For my Names sake I will refrain mine Anger For why should I give my Glory to another As Moses was fain to do to Joshuah For One passionate Speech and another must have my Crown if he be Meeker then I. For Meeknesse shall prevail with God and Man and shall Inherit the Earth also As our Saviour taught and Practised In Patience Possess your Souls which Else
As the 4 Corners in 6 Sides of a Cube To be resolved by 6 also As by 8. Divids Solomons and Nehemiahs Day was Parted by 4 Parts And so the 4 Watchers had 6 wings apiece which made up 24. And so their Tap or Palm had 24 parts in 4 Digits of 6 apiece and their Cab had 24 in 4 Logs and 24 Logs made their Seah 3 Seahs their Bath or Epha 6 Hins or 10 Omers As 10 Ephas made their Hâ—mor or an Asses Load or Attick Corus Whose Dragm was 6 Obbols and their Cadus or Amphora 12 Congii Choes and the very number of Cad in Hebr is 24. The Temple Walls 24 in Hight to 6 Cubits breadth And of 4 Kinds of Death They had 6 For strangling and Thrice 6 for Stoning And in Sacrifice God took 6 Parts The Cheek and Breast and Shoulder For the Upper Regions and the Reins and Mâ—w for the Lower with The Midriff As the Firmament Between the Upper and the Lower Waters As Psal 148. Our Body the Little World Our Foot the 6â— part of our Hight As our Cubit the 4th Our Head the Heavens Abâ—ve with all its Sphears in Circles of the Cerebellum Our Jawes Open As the Horizon between the 2 Hemisphears And Jamb is akin to the Hebr Jom a Day as Jam Now and I am in the Present Tence Our Ears akin to Years and the Heb. Years akin to Teeth or Shinne Whence our Chin and Shin And the Fewest Teeth are 24 with 4 Watchers Higher then the Rest As 4 Sabbaths of the Month with 24 Dayes And Time is Kept in our Temple Pulses called Tempora Here also the 7 Spirits before the Throne As 7 Planets in our 7 Nerves As the 7 Lamps of the Candle-stick before the Oracle with its Cherubins of Glory Shadowing the Mercy-Seat As our Eyes with their Rain-bows the Throne of God and Christ in the little Pupill of our Eye they called Elshon or the Little Man of the Eyn As Taking in the Visible Species at that Pinhole of the Dark Closet And the Species may be Direct and not Reversed As Our Eyes see them But in One Eye at Once almost demonstrative Our Heart the Earth beneath with its Sphear of Waters in the Pericardium and of Ayr in the Lungs With a mutual Tide of Light and Darknesse in Respiration and the Hears Diastole Like the Altar of Incense before the Veile With 12 Cakes of Shew Bread Made of 24. As our Heart is Circled with 12 Ribs on either side and 7 of them Better then the rest and 24 Rackets of the Back as 7 Spondils in the Neck And the same Heb words are Thoughts of our Heart and Branches of a Tree which is also the Back-bone or Spinal Marrow and for Sprouts of the Earth Our Bowels The Waters under the Earth And their Name akin to the Waves of the Sea and their Off-spring As the Gravel thereof as Esay 48. and their Yearings or Yarnings As the Tides of the Sea With a Constant Circulation of Blood and All Humours for Intermitting â—eavours This Region hath our Stomach As the Fire Altar in the Lower Court and Laver. For the Priest came As our Saviour and Every Child by Water and by Blood and the Spirit in the Blood So that Here also were All the 3 Witnesses on Earth As those in Heaven And the 7 Metalls or Planets of the Lower Heaven In Our Spleen Liver Gall Saturn Jupiter Mars Above the Sun of our stom As Venus Mercury the Moon below it Bladder Reins and Testicles These Testes draw down Fire From our Heaven Also 6 Bowels One Duodenum or 12 Digits and the Ilia 12 Times as Long. Their many Folds and Yarnings are the Scripture shadow of Gods Manifold Bowels akin to the Womb also The Bowels are as Many Cubits as Hours and Watchers in a Day or Dayes in a Month. As in Theon long before the Italian of our Bodies Symmetry Mersennus Rules for Respiration and Others for our Pulses in an Hour may shew it possible to reckon Times as Canaan did by the Flowings of Jordan Which had its 3 Regions and Seas also Merom the Vpper Waters As our Brain Above the Firmament And Kinsereth the Harp and Heart beneath And Sâ—dam Their Secrets in Heb. As the Greatest Secret in Nature and Grace also When we see the Return of Sodam and its Great Mysteries with Those of Ester The Misterious Daughter of Hades akin to the Moon and Myrtils and to Him among the Myrtils in the Bottom with the Grim Horses Speckled and white in Zechary Tides are Turned at 6 Hours in the Great Ocean As the Sun and Moon at the 4 Cardinal Points Distant 6 Hours apiece As the Trepicks 6 Months And the Solstices As the Poets make Proserpina 6 in Heaven 6 in Hell And 6 is the Number of Change and Motion As 7 of Rest And That For Earth As This for Heaven also For the Iâ—ws distinguish the Watches on Earth and Heaven by Differing time and themselves Dispute whether the Little Watches had 3 or 4 hours apiece And to end the quarrel They had Either or Neither at several seasons For the Little Watches of their shortest Day had but 2 hours and half and their Longest 3 and an half which was signal with Them also for daily sacrifice and for the Passeover at 3 hours and half from Noon As in the Talmud 3 and half is half 7 and their Service was at a 7th hour as the morning Sacrifice at the 2 d 7th or 14th hour and the Evening at the 3d 7th or 21st But the 9th Hour of the Day from Morning the Hour of Prayer and the Great Minha For although the Morning was for Seeking as its Heb Names imply yet Evening was for Finding God in all the Bible Who appeared at the Evening Sacrifice the Time of Feasting As the Marriage Supper and the Supper of the Lamb or the Passover with the Lords Supper As in Primitive Times much rather then at Dinner or in Morning Which was Mâ—urning Time and for Judgement as Evening for Mercy As if God would come and shew his Mercies more in the Close or Evening of the World then in the Morning which he chose for Iudgements So to Sodom Aegypt Corah Dathan and Abiram so to Israel also divers Times As at the Pestilence in David Who saith My Rebuke is in the Morning Chastened every Morning As the Scholler called up to School And in the Morning I will cut off the Wicked and in the Morning the Righteous shall have Dominion over them and when thou awakest Thou wilt despise their Image And hast thou considered the Morning Spring which I made to shake the wicked out of the Earth As the black Clouds by the Morning Light as Job 38. and Rev. 2. Esay saith The wicked shall not know the Morning of their Iudgement For the Bridegroom comes at Midnight and the Foolish Virgins Cry in the Morning Watch. As at the Red Sea Zephany saith He
bringeth his Judgements to Light in the Morning And the Scripture calls for Judgeing in the Morning or before the Judges Head or Heart is Clouded As the Iews expound That saying of Solomon Wo to Thee O Land where Princes Eat in the Morning when they should be Praying or Judging Which may lead us up To the First Judgement Which they place at the 2 d Morning of Creation When the Lord did Judge his Own Acts of the Day before As Examine your selves in Bed and he still and That Judgement did Separate the Waters on the Right Hand and Left Sending some Down and Taking Others Up Above the Firmament As the First Emblems of Election and Reprobation As the Goats of Seir the Goat and Lambs of Rachel the Sheep as in Heb with Her Benjamin or Sâ—n of the Right Hand As Leah the Left But at the Passover the Goats were accepted as the Sheep and some at all New Moons and Solemn Eeasts for Sin-offerings But the First Judgement was about the 40th hour of Creation or 42. As That Number is For Judgements and Punishments in all the Bible As 40 Stripes and 40 Dayes and 40 years and 42 Months or 42 Mansions As 42 Children by the Bears of Elisha And 42 is 6 times 7 or 7 times 6 and so the Great Crisis of 6 and 7 which is Rest and Motion As Fine Twined Linnen called Six in Heb. Doubled on the Tabernacle Door or Turned Every 6 hours Turn the Sun and Moon at Cardinal Points or Quarters of Heaven called Spirits in Heb. As if Angels stood at the 4 Quarters of Heaven or 4 Corners of the Earth as 4 Watches and 4 Winds Turning the Hour Glass of Time Which is but a change and flux of Mite which is Motion or Mites or Moats in Heb. The Vppermost part of the Dust As Skie doth also signifie in that Language As if All the Tides of Time and the Ocean were but Turning an Hour-Glass of the Moon and Earth about the Guilt Rundle of the Sun And as One goes up it empties out the Moats or Sand or little Tinning atomes in Hebr To the Other So that When the Moon is highest the Earth is fullest or the Waters Highest in the Sea Or its Central Fire makes it like a Boyling Pot whose water leaves the bottom as the 64th of Esay with Iob and the Psalms 6 hours Turn the Sun and Moon and 4 times 6 Turn Light into Darknesse Which was first Done at the 25tâ— hour of Creation And 25 is the Lower Root of 666. That great number of Change and Motion to the Sun Moon World Church and All as anon 6 times 6 hours bring up the Sun of the 2 d Day and 10 times 6 the 3 d. Which Turneth downwards at the 65 t and 66 the signal Number in the Jewish year of 24 and 42. 6 times 6 is 36 and 10 times 36 or 360 Hours bring up the Full Moon and so many Dayes the Full Year To the Eastern Nations Aegypt added 5 Days and at length 6 Hours And this became the Julian year which Caesar had from Aegypt 1461 Aegyptian years of 365 Dayes make 1460 Julian Which they called the Great Cynick or Sothiack year As at the Doâ—-star This was just 200 more then 1260 which is 3 and an half 360. Months in the East had 30 dayes apiece and so we finde 150 Dayes in the 5 first Months of the Flood and 1260 Days in 42 months But they say that if the New Moon were seen in the 30th Day It was counted for the first of the Month following But of late the Jews go by Mean Motions and account 59 Dayes For 2 Months Short of the True Middle Motion by an Hour and about 29 minutes And though they found a way to reconcile their Lunar months To the Solar year we need it not For God hath bounded out our way by Dayes when Ever the year began For the first 14th Day was the Passover and 15th the Feast of Unleavened Bread for 7 Days more and 16th for the First fruit Omer and the 50th next was Pentecost And the Feast of Trumpets was the first Atonement the 10th and Tabernacles 15th of the 7th month of their year when Ever it began Which From Aegypt was about the New Moon next the Vernal Equinox which must be Past they say before the Passover But we need not dispute it Though it might be cleared by their best Authors and by Anatolius and Eusebius As of late by Petitus With the Roman Yoak they shunned so by Crucifying Christ They were forced To the Julian Form also Yet they kept their Feasts by Moons and made them Tables much like Ptolomies In other things they could admit the Julian year and the rather because the 6 odd Hours in single years did keep their Equinox at a Cardinal point or one of their Great Watches But others kept the 6 odd Hours Till they made a Day and so the 4th year was Bissextile from the 6 t Calends of March or 24th of February Doubled That the Dayes of the week or Feriae might keep their wonted letters in the Common Cycle And there is Greater Harmony by Julian years in 4. then seemeth to be known to them that first used it For as the 4th Watch of Creation brought up the First Light and the 4th Day the First Sun and the 4th Week the Moon to meet the Sun again so the 4th Year brings them to meet in the same Day of the Week and is not 2 minutes more or less then 14 dayes above the Jubilie of 49 Moons Which still return To the same Day of the Week And 8 years have 3 minutes more then a full month of Weeks above 98 Moons Or a day and half with 41 minutes less then 99. So that in 8 score years they want but one day and one Hower of meeting as before and in 1600 years but 10 days and 10 Howers So that meeting on the 11th of May and 10 Houers after noon in the First of Christ They met again in 1601 the First of May just at noon And parting the years of Christ by 4 and so the Julian Period After 9 or rejecting 9 The Remainder sheweth how long the year proposed is After a Bissextile And the Quotient sheweth that the Sun and Moon met so many fortnights from their former meeting As there be Vnits in that Quotient Which being added To the year proposed and All divided by 7 The Remainder is the Day of the Week for the First of May And by consequence for the 2 d of Octob. 3 d of Ap. and July 4th of Septemb and Decemb. 5th of June and 6th of March and Novemb. For the year proposed And for the first 8. 15. 22. and 29. of January following and so forward in the next year also But if nothing remain at this Division by 7 The first of May and every Day aforesaid is the 7th Day of the Week the Jewish Sabbath Thus we get the
Days of the Week for 2 years together and the Mean Synods and Luminations Which are Equall and may differ from the Visible by 14 Hours or as much as the Longest Day at Jerusalem The Great Sun Dyall To the World And for Eclipses also The Moons Latitude is much alike in 4 years and the Suns Anomaly returns in 4 years And 4 Julian years have just 1461 Days As the Great Egyptian Soth had 1461 years But if any choose another way of Epact The Arabick Lunar year is just 10 dayes and 21 hours less then the Solar of 365 dayes 5 hours and 48 minutes But the Common Julian Greater then 12 Moons by 10 dayes 10 hours 10 halfs and 10 minutes And the Lunar month about a day and half half hour and quarter more then a month of 4 Weeks And though the Lunar year is thus too long by 10 or 12 minutes yet it suits the Julian which is so much also too long So that the Equinox is changed from Evening to Morning in 65 years Which may be one of many reasons for the 65 days of the year in Canaan which Ptolomy placeth at 65 degrees of Longitude And a Great man did make the Suns Radius 64 or 65 times bigger then the Earths And many make the Moons Greatest or Mercuries Least distance to be 65 of the Earths Radij And the Suns Mean Distance 1288 and Greatest 1334 or 1335. As Longomâ—nt Which is but 2 more then twice 666 or 1332. or half 65 more then 20 times 65. And before the Flood 2 were born at 65 Good Enochs Father and Son One After it Eber at Arphaxads 65th Twice 65 is 130. and 130 Hours of Creation brought up Adam As 130 years Seth Set in Abels room As Tabernacles After Pentecost 130 days And in 130 years the Equinox changeth an whole day As 12 Howers in 65 years Seth at 130 and Enos in 235 which make 365 and Then they began to Proclaim the Nune of Jehovah as in Exod. 34. in a way of Churches And the Paschall Lambs to represent the Ch were set apart and Tryed on the 10th Day of the First month Whose Noon is Hour 234 235. And 235 Moons do make the common Cycle which they call the Golden Number of 19 years or Moons 235. Which bring the Synod To the Same Day again But He that useth the former Rule hath little want of other Cycles Enos at 235 and his Sonn at 325 which is 235 Turned and as 235 Hours Tyed up the P. Lambs So 325 came to the morning Sacrifice of the Passover So that These 2 represent the mourning Ch. of God which is still counted but as Sheep for slaughter As the name of Kainan may intimate As Kain and his Son Irad the Beast or Kine in our English Hebrew Kainan Mourning Mahalael Blessing God At his Fathers 70. Type of all the 70 through the Bible As 70 Hours To the Great Minha of the 3 d Day Which beginneth with the Jubilie of 49 Hours 7 by 7 Return and Rest Which are both in the Word Sabbath And the first 3 d day of Creation brought up the first Living things as Herbs Thy Dew is the Dew of Herbs and the Earth shall cast out her Dead and Thence it might be the day of Resurrection As for cleansing the Leper on the 3 d and 7th and Defiled by the Dead For After 2 dayes he will revive us and the 3 d will quicken us And the First Fruit Omer was Heaved up on the 3 d Day after the Pass-over As Christ Raised on the 3 d day and its Evening Sacrifice at 70 hours As Mahalael 70 years after Kainan One of them was Born 1260 years the other 1332 before the Flood One dyed in the year 1235 and the other 1290. the Times of the Mourning and Rejoycing Churches of God in all ages The First Fruit Omer on the 6th Day After the P. Lambs Tyed As Adam came up on the 6th Day of Creation And the Morning Sacrifice of the 6th Day was at Hour 135 As the Evening of the 8th For Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath was at Hour 187. And from Pentecost To the Great Hozanna Days 135. As 187 in all To the Great Atonement And 187 between the Vernall and Autumnall Equinox in Hipparchus and Ptolomy As 187 in the Great Feast of Asuerus in Ester and 187 Chapters in the Pentateuck And the Temple Courts 187 Cubits and 135. Mahalaels name in Heb is 136. and his Son Jared was born 135 and lived 187 After Kainan And as 70 Hâ—urs are signall in the 3 d Day and 70 Days in the 3 d month for Pent so 90 Hours for noon of the 4th Day which was first to the Sun at Creation and 90 days bring up the 4â—h month and 90 years brought up the 4th man Kainan At his Fathers 90. So the 8th Methusela begat Lamech at 187 and Lamech Noah at 182. which is twice 91. As 182 and 187 Hours are Morning and Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day for Rest or Noah Kainans Death from Lamechs Birth 361 as his Birth before Methusela 362 and twice 365 before Noah 365 before Jareds End And as Lamech lived 777 So Kainan was twice 666 before the Flood 669 After Enochs 365. As Mahalaels Death before the Flood 365. And so from the Flood or Arphaxads Birth To Abraham in Canaan 365. As the Jews reckon their Veines and Negative Precepts As Days in a year and Hours before the morning of the First Fruit Omer Which was 135 Hours after the day of Tryall Which began 1335 Hours before the Morning Sacrifice of Pentecost 1260 Hours after the Preparation to the â—assover or First of Hamans Lots And at Pentecost the Lambs and Great Peace-Offerings of the Church were Heaved up with the First Fruits of Wheat an Emblem of the Churches Rising in so many dayes or years As in Daniel and the Revelation And now seeing all these Harmonies to meet in Holy Enoch who was Heaved up as the First Fruit Omer After as many years as Hours To its Morning or Days in a year and begetting his Son at 65 as days to Pent and many other 65 in the Jewish year And the next came up at 187 as Days before Atonement and between the Vernall and Autumnalâ— Equinox We need not doubt to begin our Great Jewish year at Enoch and to go forward To all the Feasts and Fasts of their year Till at length we come To the Greatest Feast of Tabernacles and Release which we are seeking Though it be not easie to fix the season of Creation which is not agreed in the Talmud but some place it At the Great Day of the 2 d Temple and the New Jerusalem in the latter end of the 6th month And they have a kinde of Tradition as if Adam found his First Days shortning and the Sun Declining As the Psalm for one afflicted cryeth Thou hast shortned my Days and I am like a shadow that Declineth As Adam At his Fall Which
K. eating Grass as an Ox and of the Ram or Medes and Persians in Dan. and the Goat for the Grecian Monarchy The Fowls Chased by Abraham may note the Romans famous for Ravens in the Punick Warr and Eagles as in Daniel and our Saviour As the Babylonians were for Doves in their Ensigns and letters about Doves necks As fly from the Dove of the North and as a Trembling Dove or Jonah from Assyria Which also worshipped the Dove as That which kept Semyramis or Semyrian Kept by the Dove And Abrahams Vision had All Beasts and Birds for sacrifice And Divers Nations learned such a way of Covenants and Lustration Cutting a Bullock as in Jeremy with a Ram and Goat also in Greece And the Macednians bowed To the Goats Hans in Justine and Plutarchs Pyrrhus And the Heifer of 3 years old may denote 1080 years as Dayes of 3 years and Clakins of their Hours As years from Abraham To the Fall of the first Monarchy and Rising of the 2 d. at the 7th year of Joash or in Amaziâ—h Or of Rome and Nibonassar with the Greek Olympiads in Vzziah 3 times 3 years are 3240 Dayes or years From Babel Built To the Christians Taking Jâ—rusalem Or from the Covenant made with Abraham or the Birth of Isaak To Ottoman and the first Roman Jubilie So also From Mâ—ses To These Dayes Abraham saw his Seed should be gotten out by many Plagues As Sara was Recovered Thence by Plaguing Pharaohs House and at Sun-set the very season of their coming out as Gen. 15. 17. Deut. 16. 6. They were called up at Midnight after the Passover but got not out of Aegypt till the next Sun-set at Hour 360. bringing up the Full Mâ—on as Dayes 360 the Full year and That was Afterwards the season of the First Fruit Omers Reaping Which was Heaved up As They were and Christ was to be And so they carried up the Bones of Joseph and the Patriarchs as Acts 7. From Ramases they came to Succoth Tabernacles and Then to Etham in the 3 d station As our Saviour said I Walk to day and tomorrow and the 3 d day I shall be Perfect As David also Then I shall be Perfect Which is Faham in Heb. There they saw the Glory of God in his Cloud and Piller Promised to every Cotage on mount Zion and to All her Churches which are therefore many in Esw 4. This might be Minba time of the 3 d Day from Aegypt or at Hour 430. As it was year 430. They Past the Red Sea upon the 21st of that Month the Last and Great Day of Unleavened Bread wch began at hour 480. As the Temple at year 480. and was Dedicated in the 7th month Ethanim and Tabernacles as alluding both To Succoth and Eâ—ham The Red Sea in Heb might be called Red from the Great Trade for Mimum and Vermilion at a Port of it in very ancient Authors or from Erythrus that ruled in the Ilands where Edom never was Though once his borders reach to Fzion-geber on that Sea But Israel did Compass Edoms Land and might not tread upon it which was so remote from This Sea that the Prophets say His Cry should reach unto it at his Fall But Edom is a Glutton as Adam in the Orientall tongues whence Eâ—o and Eat in many Languages And though Edon may be Red also yet improbable to name That Sea which reached unto India in very many Authors From This Sea they came to Sur or Sure on the 22 d day and in 3 days more To Marah Bitter and Rebellion much about Hour 666 or noon of the 28th day At Elim 12 Fountains and 70 Psalms Which grow by Bowing as their Heb name Tamar As she that grew Fruitful in her old age As Psalm 92 the Righteous flourish as Tamar in the Hezrons of God They bear much fruit in Old age as Tamar did before Aegypt to encourage them And Malachy saith Judah loveth the Daughter of a strange God as a Cananite in Genesis wherefore God will cut off Er and Oneh in One day David might remember That of Tamar and Hezcon when he read how the women Blessed his Grand-mother saying Let thy House be As Tamars seed To Judah A strange Emblem of the Church by the seed of the Father while she tarried for Shelah Shilâ—h From Elim To Sin on the 15th of the 2 d month as from Aegypt on the 15th of the first and There they Sin again by murmuring Till the Manna came upon the 3 d day after the Time for the 2 d Passover As the First Fruit Omer on the 3 d day After the first Passover And the Law was at the Time of â—entecost The Golden Calf was in the 4th month Then they fast for Breaking the Tables And the Caldees broke up the City on the 9th of the 4th month In the 5th month They Fast again for the Heavy Doom of not Entering into Rest Which they reckon the Day of Both Temples Burnt Or Doomsday In the 6 â— they Fast again for the Judgements on the Evil Spies And the 7th began with Trumpets yet they Fast again upon the 3 d for Ishmacl But the 10th is the Great Fast for Adams Fall as is thought when the Sun declined and Day shortned Till the Flood And thence increased again and at their leaving Aegypt the Sun was in Aries Horned as the Aegyptian Hammon at the Vernal Equinex And Moses promised that God would make their Days As the Days of Heaven Which Increased till the Height and Heat of the Sun and sin and wrath which are all in the Hebr Hamma brought a flood of fire upon their City and Temple about the Height of the Summer Sun And at That Tropick Their Sun Turned again as in Amos 8. And at Hezekiahs sicknesse and our Saviourâ— Death and Declined as their Dayes shortned as Isalm 102 Till the Autumnal Equinox and Great Renewing of the year or Restitution of All things Acts 3 d. At the Great Release and Feast of Tabernacles which we seek and Expect They Entred Canaan on the 10th of the first month As Ezech. saw the New Jerusalem upon the 10th of the 1st month the very day for setting apart the Paschal Lambs It s Noon is hour 234 as before in Enos and the Golden Number And it was 234 years after Jacobs Death We may begin the Great year we discusse At This Entering Canaan or Their Leaving Aegypt Or the first Rearing of the Tabernacle on the first Day of the year On which the Earth appeared Dry to Noah and Hezekiah began to Cleanse the Temple as Ezekiel is Commanded and Ezra began to come from Babylon the first day of the year Flee out of Bobylon make hast and look not back least you partake of her Plagues and Remember Lots Wife But Ezra came not to Jerusalem till the first of the 5 â— the Annual Fast for the Death of Aaron whom Ezra was to supply and with Nehemiah To repair the City Burnt in
the Beast also 42 months And yet they do not seem to end together Except we grant him More then his Reigning Time of 42 Months From his Deadly Wound For he lives and prospers so at the End of 1260 Days that he killeth the 2 Witnesses and They lye Dead 3 dayes and an half which may be 3 years and an half or somewhat more then 3 dayes or 75 Hours and 1335 are 75 more then 1260. And at Rising of the Witnesses the 10th part only of the City fell whether it be the Great City following which Reigned over the Kings of the Earth Or the Holy City Before yet called Sodom where the Lord was slain As in the Prophets And the 10th of that City may allude To Neehmiahs Time When the Tenths of All the people were chosen out by lot to dwell in Ierusalem so that All that City was but as the Tenth of Israel And the Tenth in Esay 6 and other places seems a Type of Gods Elect Or else there may be somewhat more in it For the First Fruits are The Elect whose Heb name is akin to That of First Fruits As we touch on Davids Micol and Baburim in another place But Tenths are proper most to the Iewish Church And when the Fruits of All the Earth come in as All Kingdoms At the Rising of the Witnesses It is no great wonder That Tenths should Fall With All the Ceremonious Pendants To the Iewish Levites And the very word for Dragon is in Hebrew Tan or Tannin and Levitan akin to Levi Tan or Ten And the Levites crying Ten Ten which is Give Give as the Horsleach Else I will Take it with This Fleshook by Force And Levitan may be Levi the Dragon or Cruel Levi. As Their Father Iacob said Adding also But my soul shall not be in their Secret or in Sodam As the word is There and maketh just 666 alluding unto Lots flying out of Sodom to Zoar. As Moab of Lot is bidden in Esay 16. As to mind the Heifer of 3 years old in Gen. 15. Moses told the Levites they were a stiff Rebellious Generation Deut. 31. 25. 27. And it was a Levites Concubine that plaid the Whore at Bethlem Till at length she was filled and divided into 12. As the 10 and 2 Tribes scattered all about Till there were not left 666 Reliques of Benjamin And yet he Had the Ruler Saul and He cut his Oxen As the Levites Concubine and then the Temple came in Little Benjamin The Lord must dwell between His shoulders And the Altar had a corner cut that so it might be all in Benjamin To Devour the Prey in the morning sacrifice and to gnaw the Bones in the Evening As Jacob first and Then the Prophets do allude And the Jews observe the Levites were but 22000 to Teach their 22 Letters for neglecting That They were carried Captive in their 22 d Generation As the Priests cut off by Saul Before Davids New Jerusalem And Solomon Put off Abiathar also the Relique of the Priests And Nehemiah chased a Son of the High Priest allied to Samballat And when Solomon came to Dedicate his Temple which perhaps the Priests expected But As soon As all the people did agree to Blesse the Lord and sing For he is Good Because a mighty word As if He were not Good But That His Mercy doth Endure for Ever Then the Glory of God came Down and Filled the Temple so that the very Best of All the Priests could not Enter or Durst not So that Solomon was fain to Pray will God Indeed Indeed come Dwell in Clay and Blesse the People Which by Gods Command was most Peculier to the Sons of Aaron and Solomon was neither Priest nor Levite But of Judah whence our Lord did spring And he cut off 22000 Beasts in One Day which Themselves compare to the 22000 Levites Adding also that Pompey slew 22000 about the Temple and was Beaten after it by Caesars 22000 To as many more in Pompeys Army As 22000 in That of Apolonius in the Machabes And when Joash came up in the 7th year and did desire the Levites to Repair the Temple or to help it forward They Pretended but 't is said They Hastned it not And again in Twice 7 years The Priests had not Repaired the House as 2 Kings 12. with 2 Cron. 24. as 12 and 24 in all Temple matters And at length They consent to Receive no more money nor to Repair the House which was therefore Put out as the Vineyard To Other persons That did work and do it Faithfully without Priests and Levites Which might be a Type of somewhat in our Saviours Times and Farther And though we read of First Fruits still Even in Ezechiels New Ierusalem Yet of Tithes very Seldom or never that I find in all the Bible of the Gostel Times but of the Pharisees Boast of Paying Tithes and Tithing Mint or Any-seed But the Tenth might also Note The Tribute Paid to Kings over them Which Samuel fixed by the Tenth of All they had or Got. And when the Romans Took the Didragm or half shekle For Redemption of Souls As in Matthew with Josephus They had Tithes also The Common Tribute to Hercules with other Demigods And so the 10th days of all or divers months were mourning fasting Dayes as we saw before And thus the Fall of the Tenth of the City Whither it be Jerusalem or Rome or Any Other or All Others For it may be in All Successively may speak the Fall of All Their Tolls and Tributes Tythes and Offerings or whatever else was Appendant to the Levitical Policy or mearly Jewish Or Legal Bonds or Bondage And They that defend Those things should be sure They come not to confess They have Acted As Jews but were not As in several of the Churches Which were much Distinct Although so near in One Lydian Asian Province That they might have soon made One National Church if That had been the Only way and All their Angels might have laid their Faults upon One High Arch Angel But Ezechiels New Altar rejecteth all the Old Levites that stayed with Israel and Chooseth the House of Zadoch the Righteous as Solomon took him for Abiathar And Ezechiel 45 determines All Tribute to their King also with a strikt Command upon the Prince To Take away his Exactions on his People whose Exactors must be Peace And One of 200 Lambs with a 60th part of Corn or 100 part of Oyle is Fixed for the Tribute But How Long These Tenths or other Tolls may last I know not any Text determines clearer Then the 14th of the Revelation Bringing us To the Feast of Tabernacles in the following Chapters After Harvest and Vintage As Exod. 23. 16 and 34. 22. Deut. 16. 13. As the Ark came Home From 7 Months Wandring as 7 years Release and Rested in the Field of Josuah some Type of Jesus when the Jews were At Their Wheat or Last Harvest Before the Showers fell that were