assisted by the Spirit of God and in Vnion with Divine Nature And yet still it is The Seed of the Woman God having chosen the Weakest Sex to overcome his Strongest Enemies and the most Foolish to destroy the Wisdome of the Wise and Subtili Serpent Who did First assail the Woman as the Weaker Vessel and is Vanquished by the Womans Seed And though in All this work we owe very much to the Love of the Son of God who Loved Our Nature and built us a Synagogue was the Blessed Seed of the Woman Yet the Root of the Matter is the Love of the Father And of His Person it is said in special God is Love Even God the Father and hath shewed That Love in sending his Son and the Sons Great Work is still to express the Love of the Father who sent him And God so Loved the World that He Gave His Only Son and none can come To the Son but whom the Father Draweth And although All the Saints in All the Bible use to address themselves very much to the Son in their Vsual Convers and Prayers As the 45th and 102 d. Psal is Cited in Heb. 1. and so the Canticles and Spouse in the Revelation and All the Vials of Odors or Praiers of Saints were To the Lamb yet in This the Apostle doth especially bow To the Father that He would Vouchsafe to shew them the Love of his Son Passing Knowledge That they might be filled with All the Fulnesse of God And although it be a Great Work of the Gospel to perswade us that Christ was the Son of God and a Great Man Thought All our Shakings came From not being Rooted in This yet there is also a very Great stress in This That he is The Son of Man and The Promised Seed of the Woman And the same Ap. that of All things bids his Son Remember This that Christ of the Seed of David was raised up according to his Gospel In another place hath summed up All in This. When the fulness of the Time was come God sent Forth His Son made of a Woman made Vnder the Law that We might receive the Adoption of Sons And so the Son of God is sent To make the Sons of Men become the Sons of God But for this also it Became him and was requisite and Necessary that he should be also the Son of Man and Seed of the Woman Made of a Woman Which was the Best and only Way To Bring in Everlasting Righteousness To Satisfie God and to Sanctifie Man For by This Vnion of Natures and All things consequent He comes to be Charged with Our Sins and we with His Righteousness being made Partakers of His Divine Nature as He of Our Humane And Then As Our Acts are Imputed unto Him So are His to Vs having the same Spirit by which He did them Else they be not Ours For if God had come and Acted in us as an Angel or a Dove Those Acts In us had not been Ours Except their Principle were made One with Vs and We One with Him For which God hath so Vnited himself unto Christ that He is become the Head of the Body And His Vnion to our Natures is the Root of Ours unto His Spirit And Till This be wrought In us we do not Act but are Acted by Some Other Not by an Inward Principle of Life and Motion This being the Great thing Our Saviour Prayed For in All that should believe on him that they All might come to be One in Him and Perfect in One. And Not only they In Him but He In them and abide in Them as another Chap. And so he concludeth his Solemn Prayer With Repeating That particular so much insisted on before And I In them By which we are not only His Brethren and Sisters But as Himself said His Mother also When He is Made Known and Formed In us Christ In you the Hope of Glory But I must onely Glance at This which is so Fully treated elsewhere And as God hath pleased to Manifest himself In Our Nature so he hath also Filled it with That which is Infinite so that it cannot hold it in but is even Forced to Vent it and Longeth to be Drawn and Sucked more then ever Anv Womans Brest As Elihu said I am full of the Spirit of God and I must utter it And our Saviour saith O How am Istraitned Till it be accomplished As a sweet Perfume or Oyntment in ones hand the more it be Pressed the more it Floweth out And when the Brest is Full the Mother calls for Any Child the Son of a Stranger If her Own be not Ready to Suck And This Great Advantage we have Gotten by Gods putting His Own Infinite Nature into Our Finite That it must flow Out to Ease its self as we may speak Being so Vastly Great beyond the Humane Nature that it cannot be contained in it but As the Great Ocean in a Little Shell Still Flowing Vp and Flowing Out Whereas If he had sent the Son only as God or the Holy Ghost They might have so Contained or Detained the Godhead that we might have seen it no more then in the very Father But now God is Manifest in Flesh which can not hold What it hath Too Great for the narrow cover We may add also that our Saviour himself said It is a more Blessed thing to Give then to Receive So that Himself was not So Blessed by Receiving All the fulness of the Godhead As he was and still is by Giving it Out And If we knew the Gift of God and Happiness to Give And Who it was that said it To us We would aske and He would Give us a Fountain of Living Water flowing out to God and Men about us For In our Fathers House is Bread Enough and to Spare and in our Brothers Heart enough to spare of Water Wine and Milk still Running out and crying Come Every One that thirsteth Come yea Come and Drink and Drink Abundatly My Friends This is the Good will of Him that dwelt in the Bush That ever Flamed but was not Consumed For by this Vnion in our Saviour the Divine Fire is cooled so in Humane Water the Piller in the Cloud that it is both Safe and Sutable and Pleasing to us Whereas else it had devoured us For Our God is a Consuming Fire And when All the People saw it They ran away and cryed O Let not God speak thus any more but let Him speak by Thee and We will hear And then he answered They have Rightly Spoken This was my Intent in All my Thundering but to make them see their Need of such a Mediator And now Therefore I will Raise up a Prophet From among their Brothren Like unto Thee And this is 4 times repeated in Deut. with the 3. and 7. of the Acts. And in every place it is still observed that the Prophet must be a Brother From among thy Brethren And the Scripture puts a
360 Hours and before 366 the midnight of their 16th day when it was to be Heaved up After 365 Hours As Enoch was After he had lived 365 years as dayes of a year and begat his Son at 65 as dayes to Pentecost and the next came at 187 as dayes of their year To Atonement and between the Equinoctials as before And from Enochs Translation the following thing◠〈◊〉 the Bible may be found in Consâ—â—… to the dayes hours of the Jewish year and Sections of the Pentateuch which are 669 as the years between Enoch and the Flood were 669. The Ark was begun at Noahs 480 as the Temple at 480 from Egypt and the Great Day of Unleavened Bread began at Hour 480 but of the World 1536 and Hour 1536 began the Pentecost which they say continued through the 70th day Which began at Hour 1656 as the Flood in the year 1656 And its first 40 dayes Rain may be Types of the first 40 years of the second Ark in the Wilderness before it came to rest at Shiloh in as many years after the first Ark began as there are Hours in 40 Dayes which are 960. And the first Pentecost in Canaan was as many years after Enoch as there were Hours in the Jewish year to Pentecost or its Preparation And from the first Pentecost in Canaan To the Times of Jeroboam and the Caldean Sack or Desolation by Antiochus or by the Romans and divers others were as many Years as Hours between the Pentecost and Dayes on which those Desolations happened And if we may not guess at things to come by what is past in all the World and Works of God in all ages yet we may say that 1666 After Christ is as many years After their first Pentecost in Canaan or first coming to it as there were Hours from Pentecost to the feast of Tabernacles that is 3120 for they entered Canaan 1455 years before Christ and 1665 more do make 3120 as Hours in 130 dayes from Pentecost to the feast of Tabernacles Or if any please to reckon from some latter Pentecost As That in Acts 2. we may find it As many years from Egypt and their coming thence as there were Hours in the Jewish year to Pentecost or its Preparation And 1666 will be as many years After that Pentecost in Acts 2. as there were Hours from Pentecost to their Great Dooms day against their Entring into Rest and of Burning both Temples on the 9th or 10th of the 5th Mon. But the Author rather thinketh that already past and fulfilled in the Roman Sack of Jerusalem and Burning the last Temple which was as many years After their first Pentecost in Canaan as That Day is Hours from the first Hour of Pentecost and as many years before these times of Christ as there are Hours from their Dooms day To the Feast of Tabernacles which can be but 1600 After 69 of Christ And the Revelations shew the Feast of Tabernacles or Gods Tabernacle with men After the great Harvest and Vintage also which ran out from the City Sacked or Troden in That Vintage 1600 Furlongs as Apoc. 14. And although Furlongs may seem to represent Months or other times as well as Years as there are much about 1600 Months in the Jewish Wars till Adrian raced the City yet they are most proper for years of which there are many instances As Cubits are most proper for Dayes of 24 Hours as They had 24 Digits So the Cubits of the Ark do make the very years of the Ark Driven by the Flood out of the Dragons mouth from 1250 to 1335. As the years between the first and the second Ark at Zion and Davids New Jerusalem with the first Temple Or from Jacobs Service Josephs Bonds or Israels Bondage unto Nehemiahs New Jerusalem Or from Egypt and the Golden Calf and Tabernacle To the Great Dedication in the Maccabees Or from That Desolation by Antiochus To the Christians Reigning in Jerusalem Or from Julian in Jerusalem and from Romes Deadly Wound or Sack till about 1666 now coming Yet as Prophetick dayes may be years so may Cubits also in lesser bodies as the Tabernacle Where the open Court was a hundred Cubits and the Tabernacle closed 3000 which are but 20 less then the Hours between Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles As if the very Cubits of the Tabernacle might denote the years from It Flitting in the Wilderness to the Feast of Tabernacles coming And as the Arks Cubits might note the Churches years driven by the Flood and filled with Beasts rather than men and Trodden by them so the very Cubits of the Beasts skins about the Tabernacles might denote how long those Beasts should press the Church or hold it in Or how long it should be under Veils and Coverings Seeing God himself did after use the Ram and Goat whose Skins and Hair did cover the Tabernacle for Emblems of some of those Monarchies which were all shewed to Abraham and even named in the four Kings he conquered before he met Melchizedeck a Type of Christ at his second coming and in his great Vision when he saw the Time of their coming out of Egypt and those four Monarchies with all the kinds of Birds and Beasts appointed for sacrifice And the Cubits in the Temple and its Courts may represent the years to Christ and other great Periods of Time in the Bible As is here at large discussed And for fixing Times Abrahams birth which hath so divided all Cronologers between his Fathers 70 years and 130 is by these accounts fixed 2000 years before Châ—â—â—â— As 2000 Cubits in the Tabernacle before the most holy Place and 2000 Cubits between the Camp and the Ark and 2000 Cubits in their Sabbath dayes Journey and 2000 Cubits in the Suburbs of their holy Cities And Those 2000 years are parted by 75 before his Call or coming into Canaan as 75 Sons and Nephews of Noah 75 Souls of Jacobs going into Egypt 75 Ancestours of Christ in Luke 75 Dayes from the City Sackt to the Day of Dedication of the second Temple and of Nehemiahs Jerusalem and from the Day of Atonement To the Dedication by the Maccabees and from the Fast for the first Captivity in the 9th Month to the Feast of Purim and 75 Cubits from the Outer Gate to the holy Courts about the Temple And 75 is the Difference between 1260 and 1335 in Daniel and the Revelation And 430 years from Abrahams Entring into Canaan and their Going out of Egypt and receiving the Law Which was 1495 years before our Saviour As the very Number of the Hebrew Alphabet by which God wrote the Law is just 1495 and so parted as the years from Egypt By 9 Unites making 45 As years to the Ark at Shiloh and 9 Decimals making 450 As years to the Ark at Zion 45 years before the Temple finished which was 1000 years before our Saviour As their Centenaries K R S T or Christ do make 1000 or at most 1005. As
Throne of his Kingdom should Write out the Law and read it and keep it All his dayes that he might not exalt himself above his Brethren but might so prolong his Kingdom So When he was Brought In Great Solemnity to sit upon the White Throne of his Kingdom in the Revelation He biddeth it be Written As a most True Saying of God Behold I make All things New A very sweet and Precious Promise Which we ought to plead and press when ever we finde our Hearts Old or the Old man stirring or abiding in us And it may mind us of That strict Injunction on their coming to enjoy their Promised Land to Break down All Idols Groves and Temples with High Places and Images and what ever was or might be any meane or Inclination to Idolatry or Superstition So that They might follow none of the Old manners of the Land before them In Worship of Their Gods or of the True God in their manner For the Lord declares himself As Strict or more in Manner of his Worship then in Matter Or as Jealous in the Matter of the 2d Command or more then in the First Which hath not That note of Jealousie which the 2d hath And yet This also springeth from Love Being as the Apostle expresseth it a Godly Jealousie Least having Espoused us to one husband We should wander to the flocks of his Corrivals And for This also we are bid to call Wisdom our Sister that she may preserve us from the deceiving flattering Spirit And Christ hath also undertaken All This to God and Man also So to Declare the True and Right way of worshipping the Only True God that There shall be No more Idol or Superstition As in Esay the 2d And the Idols he shall Vtterly Destroy Which is also Promised as well as commanded in the first and second Commandement For so the Words in Hebrew are promissive in the Future rather then Imperative Thou shalt not have Or Worship Any Other God Or me in any other way then I prescribe And so the Psalm repeateth it Open Thy Mouth wide and I Will fill Thee O that thou wouldest Hearken And Thou shalt have no strange God We are come to Christs Peculiars and his Proper Work As Heyr of the World As the Seed of Ab. and the 2d Adam As the First was in the Image of God and Therefore made to Rule Let us make man in our Image and after our Likeness and let Them have Dominion As if This did only follow That And though the Prophets call it the Kingdom of God and Matthew the Kingdom of Heaven Yet it is a Kingdom on Earth And so the Psalms and Daniel plain enough For God doth Reign in Heaven still and so he will upon Earth but In and By and Through a man And therefore he hath Given Christ All Judgment Because he is the Son of Man For God will Judge us by our Peers And He hath Given Earth to Men. And though the Baptist and our Saviour and Apostles preached that the Kingdom was at Hand or Coming Yet it was not Come And Christ doth never call himself a King Till his 2d coming Then the Son of Man shall send His Angels which before he calls his Fathers Angels and the Holy Angels to gather out of His Kingdom And the King shall say Come ye Blessed and the King shall say Go ye Cursed And he had a Tast of This Kingdom at his Transfig As he said Some shall not tast of Death Till they see the Son of man coming in His Kingdom And from That Time Forth he spake of That Kingdom As beginning In them But when They looked that it should appear he hinted first that he must take a Long Journey to receive his Kingdom and after a Long time come again And at length he plainly told them that the Kingdom was offered Them To Thee O Daughter of Zion shall the Kingdom come the First Dominion But should Then be Taken From Them and be Given To A Nation some peculiar Nation as in Moses and the Romans which should bring forth Its Fruits When They should be scattered and Trodden down by the Gentiles and not a Stone left upon a Stone in all Their Glorious Temple And when They asked the Signs of Those things and of His coming and of the End of the World He gave them Signs of the 2 first and confesseth the Last was Hidden But addeth When you see These Signs of the Son of man coming Lift up your Heads with Joy O Jews For your Redemption commeth or Return and Then the Kingdom of God is Coming at the very door Till then he bid us say Thy Kingdom Come and Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven And that it meant a Kingdom on Earth also we may learn in the Church Chatechisms of Edward 6th with Notes on the Lords Prayer and Creed of the Catholique Church and Communion of Saints And yet His Kingdom is Spirituall To command the Spirits of men and other Spirits For If I by the Spirit of God which was Then as the Little Finger cast out Evill Spirits know that the Kingdom of God is among you And now is Salvation and the Kingdom of our God and of Christ Come For the Accuser of our Brethren is cast out And for a Type of This also Coming from Transfig he cast out the Foul Spirit which his Ministers could not And yet he left them Power Over All Vnclean Spirits But they met with one they could not Tame 3 Evangelists agree in One but give it 3 Epithets As if Sathan also must have His Trinity The Dragon Beast and False Prophet In the World In the Temple and our Heart also The Man of Sin The Old Adam with the Serpent and Eve or False Prophet in Paradice But All must out when he commeth to Walk in his Garden At the Cool or Evening of the World As he came From the Holy Mount as Peter calls it speaking of his Power and Coming which they joyn with his Kingdom As Paul to Tim. And when he came from the Holy Mount the People left Contest and Run and Salute him As All Kingdoms shall at his Coming From the Mount Where he now is But Receiving his Kingdom And the Psal For the Afflicted tells us When the Lord shall Build up Zion he shall appear in his Glory When the Peoples are Gathered together and the Kingdoms to serve the Lord. But may we hope to finde when this shall be In the Great and Good things of the Bible With the Meek and quiet Spirit of Christ and Prayers of his People For it searcheth All things Yea the Baths and Hidden things of God And in them of Old it searched Times also And so it may do now in the Gospel-Times Our Saviour Called all the People Only Twice To shew what makes a Christian what Free Moses Twice or Thrice To hear the Law To Consecrate the Levits by Their Hands in Ordinatiâ—n
To Kall in Hiphill make 75. As in Hophal and Niphal 45 and 450 As the Vnits and Decimals in their Alphabet and in Hithpael 3645. As from Creation To Nehemiahs New Jerusalem If it were As Scaliger puts it in Artax Mem. Or To Babylon Taken by Alexander or Seleucus and the Greek Era in the Machabes Or from Abrahams Birth To the year of Christ 1645. The Formatives of their first Present Benoni do make 1451. As the Decimals and Centenaries of their Alphabet Or years from the latter end of Enoch To the Law Or Thence to Augustus and Herod Or from the Ark at Shiloh To our Saviour The Letters of their Greatest Future Legal or Imperative may make 1691 a signal Number from Christ and their Future Evangelical or Promissory From 1245 in Kall and 1400 in Niphal which make 2645 As in Pyel To above 3400 as in Hithpael From their Bonds in Egypt Till about These very Times or 1670. And to Come to Shekles and Talents Cubits and Furlongs Shekle in Heb is 430 and as Abraham was told His Seed must serve 400 years He paid 400 Shekles for his Burying place at Hebron much about 400 years before Caleb got it 400 years before David at the same Hebron with its Dâ—uble Cave or Machpela And tho our Saviour taxed some that Painted Sepulchers or were such yet it may be hoped that Ere long He also may come as Nehemiah did to visit his Fathers Sepulchers and Tombs of his Fathers Image also Who promiseth to make His Tredding Glorious and that Earth shall not only be Eâ—ets I will accept it as himself alludes Ezech. 20. 40. but Beulah or Hephzibah My Darling in her As the Queens Name in Hezechiahs time The Holy Oyle in Exodus of Myrrh and Cassia 1000 Calamus and Cynaâ—non 500 As about 1500 years Before Christ the spirit of That pretious Oyntment As in the Psalms and Canticles and Gospels The Gold about the Tabernacle was 730 Shekles As years from Eber above 29 Talents As the Lunar Month is divers Hours above 29 Days And the Arabians Who knew the Moon and gave it in their Ensignes have a Cycle of 29 or 30 years which may be more Considered The Silver 100 Talents As the Tab. Court and length of the Temples Walls was 100 Cubits and the Brass 700 which together make 800 As the Tab was 800 years from Noahs Ark or Tebeth 802. If Abraham were at Terahs 70. The Silver Shekles 1775. As years from Enochs Birth To the Tabernacle Or from Noahs Birth To Samuel and the Ark Taken by the Philistins Or from the Flood To the 2 d Temple Or from Ebers Birth To Ezra or Nehemiah Or from Abraham To Antiochus the Great Or from the the Promise To the Dedication Or from Jacobs Death To Pompeys Taking Jerusalem Or from Ishmaels Death before Ebers and Jacobs Ladder To our Saviour Or from His First Dwelling in our Tabernacle To his Latter Coming to the Great Feast of Tabernacles now Coming And their Proverb is They know not Joy that have not seen the Joy of Waters in the Tabernacles Which themselves also make an Emblem of the Latter Greater showers of the Spirit in Moses song and Solomons Prayer with Esay 55 and other Scriptures As the last of Zech. For Waters on All that Come To the Feast of Tabernacles And All Nations are invited To it And the Jews will Entertain Strangers at that Feast in their Booths at This Day As Hebrews 13. And our Saviour seemeth to allude To their Customes and Singing Esay 12. As they Drew Waters with Joy from the Wells of Siloah And as He Then appeared after long Hiding himself and came To the Feast of Tabernables so it may be Probable He told his Disciples that His 2 d Coming should Fullfil That Last and Greatest Feast of Tabernacles As his Death fullfilled the Passover and His Rising The First Fruit Omer or Barley Sheaf And the First Fruits of Wheat at the First Fruits of the Spirit in Acts the 2 d. So his next Coming in Glory should be As to the Great Day of Tabernacles For when Peter saw him in his Glory on the Holy Mount He cryed Let us make Tabernacles As if That were only proper for the Joy of Tabernacles And the Revel sings Now is the Tabernacle of God with men And He shall wipe away all Tears And Then He that sate on the Throne said Behold I make All New And he said Write For These words are True and Faithfull Adding also It is Finished And to Him that is athirst I will give of the Fountain of Living Waters As alluding both to Beerlaharoi and to what he said and They did at the Tabernacles in John 7 And at his last Thirst on the Cross when Drinking Vineger he Cryed It is Finished The Psalmist saith His People shall be a Free and Willing People as Aminadab in the Day of His Power By the Beauties of Holiness And He shall drink and lift up his head c. And Aminadab offered 10 of Gold and 70 Silver As 10 Days to Tryall and 70 closing Pentecost which they make as other Great Feasts of 7 days and 130 as Days from Pentecost To Tabernacles Each Princes Shekles were 210 As they reckoned years of Israel in Egypt All their Gold was 120 as years of Moses Life And All their Silver Shekles were as the Brass about the Tabernacle 2400. For their 24 Courses and 24 Hours of the Day or 2400 days and years To the Great Release As from Abell or Seth to the Tabernacle Or from the Temple repaired by Joash and cleansed by Hezekiah To These Days The Redemption Shekles For the First Born were 1365 but 30 more then Daniels Number of 1335. As his 1290 is 30 more then 1260 in the Revelation written about 30 years After the Roman Sack 1260 years before Christ was the Famous Time of Gideon and His Ephod Or First Idols of Israel of 1700 Shekels of earings As it was 1700 years After Enoch And Gideons 300 Men might note 300 years from the Death of Josephs Brethren and the Birth of Moses in Egypt Achans Shekles were 250 as the years from Israel first in Egypt To their Entring Canaan But the 50 Gold were as 600 Silver and so All his Shekles may be 800. As years from the Flood to the Exodus Or from Achan To the first Captivity to Babylon which might be Typed in His Babilonish Garment As its Golden Image in his wedge of Gold Goliahs Armour was 5600 Shekles As the years they were to press the Bodies or Souls of Gods People or to Rowle over them As the Name imports From Cain or Tubal Cain the 1st Vulcan to These Times David gave to Ornan 50 Shekles of Silver For the Thressing Place on which he built the Altar Then 600 Shekles of Gold For All the Hill of Moriah the Lords Teaching or Wisdom in Heb But in Greek Foolishness as Paul where Isaak was bound and the Temple Built