Children of Rachel which signifies a Sheep Who died also at Bethlehem Ephrata or very neer where Christ was Born And at His Birth was heard Rachel mourning and weeping with expressions neer akin to Hell and its Gnashings As we read in Matthew and the Prophet Jeremy As the English use the word Rakell And it may be marked How she Died As her Father and her Husband judged her for Having and keeping Idols O that man would consider How Great and Powerful His Words also might be If he could learn the 39 Psalm with the three Sons of Ishmael Misma Massa Dâ—ma And it may be Christ also may allude to Rachels Children which he calleth Sheep and sets them at his Right Hand as Benjamin the Son of the Right Hand in comparison of Leahs or the Left hands Children Or of Esaus that is Goats For Seir or as the Saxon English sound it Sire is a Goat and very neer a Satyre in Heb or a Devil But may there be no Mystery in That of Jacobs Crossing his hands upon the sons of Joseph also or Rachel before he died and That Benjamin was so often cut off As his Mother wept because they were not but they must come in again and she shall have Comsort in the latter daies as we read Jer. 31. As if the First should come to be Last or Lost in comparison of Those that were Dead or Lost or at the Left hand but now found again and made the First For All their shame or Losses they have Double O thou Prisoner of Hope I now declare it to thee How a Lamb was offered every Morning and Evening Doubled also upon the Sabbath As it were a Sacrifice for the Lambs or Sheep we touched before And How a Goat at the New Moon or every Great Change of the World which they called Olam also as the Hidden or the Hiding Time As also the Hebrew Kesse as the English Kiss was the Suns Embracing the Moon or Covering her with his Robes and Throne of Glory which they also called Kisse And a Goat was offered so for a Publique Sin Offering at Every New Moon which the Jews called also Chodesh akin to Kodesh Holy or New As also the Month following the New Moon And at All the Three Great solemn Feasts at which All the Males were to appear under pain of Cutting off Which we may call a great Arcanum of their Civil Government also For by This they did not only meet and Feast as a badg of greatest Peace or Union and Communion but also They must then appear to All Suits or Actions which might else fall Heavy enough on the Sheriff of each Tribe or County But as the feast of Tabernacles was the Greatest of the Three so it had more solemn Attendants A peculiar feast of Trumpets especially at the years of Release and Jubilies which now began at That end of the year and the great Day of Expiation or Atoning or Covering as the word Capher or Cover signifies And the Jews Tradition is that Then the very next Night or thereabout the great God beginneth to sit in Judgement on all the dead of that year Which they therefore attend with great watchings and Fastings with other solemnities But more to our present purpose are the Goats offered on That day Double or Treble to the sin offering or Goats of any day of the year before That One of them also the Scape Goat was not onely carried out without the Camp as the great sin offering for the people whose blood was carried into the holy place as we see in Aarons great Failor at his Sons Burning beside the Epistle to the Hebrews but it was also carried out and sent by a Fit Messenger a great way off into the Wildernesse to go as far as He would abroad into All the World So that he might visit All Goats in All Countries For he was let loose to all the Wilderness and all the World And now it will be no great wonder that All Nations are so solemnly called and invited to the following feast of Tabernacles represented by all the Fruits of the earth Then gathered in and that under a great penalty of botches of Aegypt or of wanting Rain or Water also Unto which our aviour plainly alludeth in his standing out on the last and Great day of that Greatest Feast and crying while thy ran with joy to fetch Waters from their Siloam or Well of Salvation as the Prophet Esay speaketh O every one that Thirsteth Come unto the Waters and He that believeth on me as the Scripture saith shall have such rain from Heaven and such Water that out of his belly shall flow Rivers of Living Water Which he spake of the spirit not yet given till He was glorified and so received Gifts for Rebbels also and to Draw All men Shall we now wonder that more Rams and Goats and Bullocks were accepted on his Holy Altar 't is his own expression of Nebaioth or Edom also in This Month or Moon then in any or it may be All of All the Year besides Which we may see even filling an whole long Chapter and from Gods own Mouth in Numbers O that we could number it and so we shall in Gods due Time and ours also Let his People say Amen It is Finished and Done Amen Hallelujah Is there not a strange Twisting of Bullocks Rams and Goats together As in the Tabernacle it self with Rams skins dyed Red and Goats hair As they all met once in the Ark as an Emblem of our Bodies also and its Three Regions and beasts in it as the Church That I say nothing of the five sorts of Trees also to cover their Booths or Tabernacles to be compared with Esay 41. and 60. and Nehemiah 8. After Babylon as also Ezechiels New Temple and Sabbaths were to be kept in the Christian Church yea in the New Jerusalem or after Their Babylon also Is it not strange to the Jews that of the Seventh Months feast of which also in Solomons Time the Seventh day is described by Seven words in one verse And all the seven end in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their M final or Mystical Letter of which we spake but now And though I do not say they may note the 40 Sevenights or Weeks of Life as we spake before yet with St. Paul I say Christ came out in the Fulnesse of Time or in His seventh also or in the seventh Month or to fulfil That Feast also to be yet fulfilled O how Long How Soon at the End of the Year But when shall That be fulfilled which our Blessed Iesus of Natsareth the Branch also did but Begin to say and do of This Feast also of Palm Branches which we touched before in Tamar Though he cryed on the Crosse It is finished as the Scripture saith a Thing was fulfilled Or indeed there may be Several fulfillings according to the several Ages which must All be run through and that perhaps also by Sevens As we
〈◊〉 in Daniel and the Caldean Rams also Ramming their Walls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Many places besides the 51 of Jeremy O I will Ride them down Oridem as Lambs for slaughter and as Rams with He Goats Which yet may be Greater Goodnesse then we are aware As in answer to That Prayer Jeremy 12. 3. Prepare or Separate or Sanctify and Make them Holy As Lambs for Sacrifice And God calleth those very Babylonian Rams or He Goats His Holy Ones or Sanctified Esay 13. To be compared with That of our Saviour Whom the Father hath Sanctified and sent into the World And again For This Cause I sanctifie my self That They also may be Holy But of These again in Clearing our Prophet Daniel And he Lift up Both Hands but First his Right Hand which is Jamin as from Iam the South Sea Or rather Teman the South is The which is Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jamin or the Right Hand Which as God sate on the Mercy seat in the Holy place was Southward And his Face Eastward Whence as Bowing to his Face They Bowed Westward alwaies in their Comings to the Temple and their solemn Worship As Christ also t is said Bowed Westward on the Cross which indeed was on the West-side of the City As looking to the western Gentiles which have since found the fruit of his Looks and gracious Bows and Tears also But it is not so clear How his Face was placed on the Cross which yet we may Touch again However It is certain in Ezechiel God complaineth of some Elders Bowing to the East with their Backs to him And so putting To his Nose That I may hardly Name though plainer in the Text then as some read it the Branch or somewhat of that word or near it to Their Nose or Mine And so they are Bowing to Shames 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Num 670. But Hezechia turned to the Wall Others to the East But the Right Hand Iamin will number and prefer from the Hebrew Mana to Number Divide and Prefer also As we find plainly in This very Prophet Daniel 1. 10. 11. of a Prince Preferred And again in Mene Mene Tekel of which we may speak again And Thus we see Right Hand persons still preferred and so Blessed more than Others at the Left As Solomon did place his Mother Bathsheba the Daughter of Seven and of the Oath also at his Right Hand And Jesus made a Prince and set at his Fathers Right Hand and yet but as the Nasi with Ab din the Father of judgement in the Sanedrin Where Sitting at the Right Hand of the Throne or Chief Speakers Chair did not speak him above the Speaker or President but onely Next him and above the Rest who sate about in an Ovall form As All things come from a kind of Egg. Even Man himself from Eggs in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bestim Bestes Bullocks to be added to That before of The Beast and 666 or 700 so near the number of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also And That Ovall sitting of the Sanedrin with Their Scribes or Watchers also and officers in the Middle as the 4 Orders of Priests and Levites within the Camp of Israel May be compared with the Throne described in the Revelation with its Elders Round about and the 4 Officers in the Midst also As before we found the 4 Watches and Watchers also among the 12 and 24 Hours of Day and Night As we have 4 High Teeth between the other 24 in both Jawes or Hemispheres of That Heaven also with their Shenim Shining and Shinnim also in Hebrew And from Those 4 Watchers from having Light with them called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who or where is Light the 4 quarters or corners are called spirits in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Winds a Spirit being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tender 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Most extended Matter or Water in Heb. Mater Mother of All. And to That Form also of their Sanedrin with the Father of judgement their usuall expression Christ himself may allude in His Description of the Last or Great Judgement with His Right Hand Jamin dividing and Preferring also As we touched before in Benjamin the son of the Right Hand Who was also of Rachel a Sheep in Hebrew preferred before Leah Laeva the Left Hand and also before All the Goats or Seirs of Esau the Grandsire or Goat of All other Goats of which again anon And This Right Hand blessing or Preferring before the Left hand was observed much by all the Jewes in their Coming into the Temple Court which was called Aezra Help a Present Help in Time of Need. There could be No case they say That might not be Helped There Yea and That also to Them that must stand afar off as our Saviour oft alludeth to Their Custome and but Look over the Rails of Hell or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that kept them off Nay there were others could not come to Touch that Helper but Behind it weeping as the Sinfull Woman came to our Saviour And in Mourning They used to go on the Left side of the walks in Those Courts and Then the Priests and People also did not ask the Matter Why they Mourned which might often be very secret but as Eli to Hanna when he knew She Mourned without asking why Lifted up Hands and Eyes Crying He that Dwelleth Here Give thee Peace or send thee Help according to thy Need. An Expression we found in the Law before of Lending or Giving to a Poor man in Want according to his Need How Great soever He Filleth the Hungry and will Satiate Every empty soul. Nay in some kind of Cutting off or Excommunication you might see the Mourners go softly as Ahab did on the Left hand of the Court and Then the Other Blesing Thus He that dwelleth Here Reconcile thee and Thy Church or VVitness-meetings also To which That may allude How God is in Christ Reconciling the VVorld to himself As He is reconciled Their usuall Capher or Cover and Coffer as before whence it may be the old Saxon English Capher when they met in VValking Though some sound it Gapher or Gaffer As the Jews also called the Elders who admitted or Ordained Fellows in their Colledges or other Meetings by the Name of Chaver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also found in Chavron or Chebron That famous Fellowship of which we may speak more anon And of Laying Hands for Ordination Yea and though the Common people might not come near the Holy place on pain of death yet in Case of extraordinary Danger That-seemeth Dispenced with in Those that ran to the horns of the Altar as we are taught also in the Epistle to the Hebrews As Joab and others did And in such a case they were hardly ever stopped but rather helped as Those yet adaies that run away for some great guilt Or Those that
read it As The Lord is in his Holy Place let All Flesh be Silent and again Let All the Earth be Silent before him Let my Prayer be directed as Incense and the Lifting up of my Hands as the Evening Minha of which again And In Thy Name I will Lift up my Hands And in His Name Every Knee must bow Which with Christians was As Lifting up Hands with the Jews Who in praying Stood and seldom Kneeled or fell upon their Faces or much Bowed except very Creat and Good or as they speak Righteous men But generally they Stood Praying and Lifting up their Hands And so Paul also biddeth though himself Kneeled on the sands and Christ Kneeled and fell flat in his Agony I will that men pray Every where or in All Places Lifting up Pure Hands as in the Prophets Pure Incense or Holy hands without wrath and doubting Yea and Christ also lifted up his eyes to Heaven as he bid us sav Our Father in Heaven though he said and knew the Father was in Him And yet when he lifted up his hand to swear that it might appear he owned none greater than himself he sware by himself that every knee should bow to Him And yet as the Apostle saith this also must be to the glory of God the Father which is Reason enough for granting all we can ask For only For Thine is the Kingdom Power and Glory Thus in our Prophet Daniel Lifting up of hands was a figure of Swearing And so in that of Amalech a Branch of Esau by a Concubine because his Hand against the Lords Kiss or Throne or covering of the Moon the Lords hand on his Throne for War with Amalech from Age to Age Middor Dor 448 reaching to David And blotting I will blot out the memorial of Amalech from under Heaven Yet but Under heaven O how cautious and how gracious God is in his lifting up his heavy hand David was as keen against Amalech as any we finde remembring how Saul was cut off and that by an Amalekite for sparing Amalech Nor could David rest till he had cut off Amalech though we find Reliques of them in Hezekiahs time and yet the great end of all this against Amalech also is That they may seek the Pace of the Lord and that they may know that thou JEHOVAH art most High over all the earth As we read of Amalech also in Psalm 83 which may Comment on all those heavy Prayers against Edom and Moab and Amalech and all Gods Enemies also not to destroy them for Ever as some think putting men in little letters The Text is plain enough That They may seek and that They may know c. So God lifted up his Hand in the Wilderness to swear in his Zeal t is often cited what Not that they should not rest But If they enter into My rest How cautious Yet I may add That as there was a Second Moneth for such as could not keep the Mood and Tense of the right Passover and for such The Lord be merciful though they be not according to the strictnes of the Sanctuary as good Hezekiah prayed and the Lord heard and accepted and Healed So there was also a Second Sabbath and a Third and yet an Olam or a New Moon Yea and after all the Changes of That year there was a Sabbatical year also and a Jubile when All must rest and come again into the possessions of their Fathers Yea and the very standing still of Joshvahs Sun and moon and over Gibeon also might intimate a Rest of Heaven for some that had not kept a Rest or Sabbath on Earth And if That were just so many Sabbaths of years from the Creation as there were Dayes in their Solar or Lunar year Or just so many Jubilies from the Creation as there be Weeks in a year it may be some little Help to fix Chronology which may be considered again And That summ of the Law and Gospel too the 20th of Ezekiel sheweth us How and Why God made the Sabbaths for Man and not Man for the Sabbath As Christ himself glosseth on Those words Moreover and above all the Law and Statutes also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and Them That they might know that I the Lord am still sanctifying Them For it is a Participle Present noting a continued Act. And again in the same Chapter That you may know that I am the Lord your God And There also he often speaketh of Lifting up his Hand to swear against them and of That very Oath of not bringing them into Canaan but addeth many times Neverthelefs my Eye spared them and his Heart is better than his Eye from destroying them nor did I make an end of them c. Yea and after All their own and Childrens Blaspheming of Him That is the Word yet the sum of his Threatnings is that He would bring them into the Wilderness of the People and There I will speak kindly to them in Hoseah But Heer Plead with them as I pleaded with their Fathers in the Wildernesse And I will cause you to passe under the Rod and bring you into the Bond of the Covenant or Masoroth thereof And then follow some of the sweetest promises in all the Bible for True Gospel Repentance and Remission of Sins And This after they had forfeited that Good Land of Rest and God took the Forfeiture awhile and drove them out As Adam out of Paradice But Then followed Them with Both Hands lifted up to Blesse them When he went about to swear against them He lifted up but One Hand and That also was pulled back again But to Blesse them he Lifted up Both Hands As Christ also in Healing and Blessing All about him in severall places to be added to Act. 3. 26. And the Priests came Out of the Temple Lifting up Both Hands and opening their fingers as the Holy Windows Blessed Those might not come In. To which also the Psalmist may allude in That The Lord Blesse thee Out of Zion and send thee Help Out of his Holy Place Out of it though thou be not In it but As Jonah said I am Cut off yet I will Look towards his Holy Place As Solomon also Prayed for Those that should so look towards it As we find also Our Prophet Daniel Looking towards it from a Great Distance And That Saying Send thee Help Out As it plainly intimates They were not There but Out at Distance So it may also allude to the usuall name they gave the Temple Court from Ezra Help As Eben-Ezer And there was No Case so Bad They say But There might Help be Had. And so They called it Help As a Present Help in Time of Need. There was One thing more We must observe in Lifting up of Hands and That is Numbering In the very Name of Right Hand Jamin It shall Number Order and Prefer And as right-Right-Hand Blessings were the Greatest So were their right-Right-Hand Numbers At her Right Hand Length of Dayes As Riches and Honours at her Left Which was called Smol as English Small in Comparison of the Right Hand Numbers
And Moadim the Months or Moments of the Witnesses Which in Heaven may be Sun and Moon But As on Earth Josuah and Caleb Jerusalem and Jericho Moses and Aaron Elijah and Elisha Or many other things or persons Which through divers Types or Shadows in Light and Darknesse Day and Night Summer and Winter Man and Woman with many other things which we hinted before in the Temple and the Land of Promise and the Body of Man and the Ark and Tabernacle of Witness also at length All come to be resolved into the Times of Christ and his Church or Churches his Two Witnesses The Dove and the young Pidgeon As Adam had his Lilith they say and then his Eve or Evening that is Lilith also Drest in Night-cloathes And Abraham had his Hagar and Sara and Ketura Jacob his Rachel and Leah David his Abigail and Ahinoam carried captive from Ziglag As Dead Three dayes and an half All which may be Types or shadows of the Church and the World the Jew and the Gentile under such and such Changes of the Moon as it were with Eclipses also or whatever else God please to shew us in his Baths 3 Seas in Heaven above the Earth beneath and waters under the Earth also Which yet may be but As New-moon and Full or Shegell and Sheleg of which again with other forms and motions of those Heavenly bodies which are All measured on Earth plainer then perhaps we think by such and such Moeds Times of Witnessing or Witnesses Which may be Houres or Dayes or Weeks or Moneths or Years or Sabbaths in Dayes in Years in Jubilees and what else we find of Time in Scripture wch is generally very much measured by Three an half As If we take it for Hours it may shew us how long the Moon or the Earth may be kept from the Light of the Sun which we call an Eclipse But a Shadow of that Dark Horror which our Savior and his Church in him felt upon the Cross. We find it in Heathen Records also another Help to fix Chronology And His Eli Eli as in Greek speaketh somwhat of the Sun also For God is a Shield and Sun also He will give both Grace and Glory Blessed are They that Trust in Him Though they go through Baca Bokim weeping and pass from one Hell to another for the Phrase is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hil Hel or Chel by which the Gentiles and Unclean were kept from the Temple So that they may not enter Moriahs Temple Yet they shall see God in Zion Give ear O God of poor flying trembling halting Jacob Look upon the Face of thy Messiah in his Pangs on the Cross. That Psalm as the 15th and 24th is of This Feast of Tabernacles And beginneth O! How Amiable are thy Tabernacles O! How Jedidoth alluding both to David and Solomon Jedidiah Keeping This Feast in such Glory as should be touched again in Samuel Kings and Chronicles The unclean Sparrow are not many sold for a farthing the Swallow Black but Comely O ye Daughters of Jerusalem the very Swallow but in Summer She may make her Nest and lay her Young ones in thy very Altans both of Sacrifice and Incense also O thou God of many feminine Hoasts 499. My God and my King This leads us to the Harvest also For we saw before that Our Savior never called himself a King Till the End of the World which he calleth Harvest And the Son of man shall send His Angels They are the Reapers and till that Time he calleth them Holy Angels and his Fathers Angels Now his own Angels and They shall gather out of His Kingdom All things that offend and Those that Do Iniquity And then the King shall say to Them at his Right Hand A Phrase often used in the Psalms At Thy Right Hand the Queen doth stand in Gold of Ophyr And Look at the Right Hand and see for so is the Text Resuge faileth me And at Thy Right Hand are Pleasures for Evermore And yet That very Psalm sheweth that He was not afraid of His Worst or Left Hand neither No more than she or They that begged to sit at his Left Hand also And so David is Placed There Is it because He was Father to our Saviour the Branch and Root of David and of Jessi my Essence that he placeth himself at the Left Hand and Châ—ist at His Right Hand Mimini Bimini Limini Even as Legatus a Latere is sent a Limine And when Satan is set at Judas Right Hand to accuse him as at Josuahs Right Hand also to Resist him with the Heaviest Curses in the Bible He concludeth Christ shall stand at the Right Hand also to save the Poor at His Left Hand from Him that would judg or condemn his Soul his precious Soul Fury is not in me But if he wil set thorns against me I will eonsume them Or let him lay hold of my strength to make peace And He also shall make Peace with me Esay 27 4 5. And the next Psalm crieth My Judgment shall come from Thy Face Thine Ein will behold or consider Equities which to Justice in Scripture often is As The Chancery to Rigour of Law O shew the Wonders of thy tender Mercies in the Plural O thou saving those that Trust or hope in thy Mercy From or Before them that raise themselves or are raised at Thy Right Hand That which followeth will reach our Times also It should be considered with its Misteries A word There used for Secrets and All the Scriptures speaking of Jemini my Right Hand both in Saul and Shimei Cursing David and Both again in Mordecay from Shimei Kish and Jemini As we read in Ester the Mistriss of so many Great Misteries written in the Revelation and upon the Old Crown or Myter yet to be seen perhaps in Rome as at This day And as Mister is a plain Hebrew word for Hidden as Olam or a Mystery So Mistris Hester also with their usual Article as Hadam That Adam and so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 maketh beyond dispute exactly 666. of which again when we find The Mysterious Woman sitting on the Beast in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 703 in the Wilderness where first the Woman was Hidden Alma Mater for a Time and Times and Half a Time as in our Prophet Daniel also The very next Psalm of deliverance from All his Enemies and Saul or Sheol also both Grave and Hell so oft repeated crieth The Pangs of Death and Kables of Sheol caught me But verse 35 The Shield of Jesus and Thy Jemine shall uphold me And thy Gentleness shall make me Great As Psal. 45. Ride on prosperously because of Truth and Meekness or Gentleness of Righteousness And thy Jemine shall teach thee wonders For Ever and Aed Thy Throne O God and yet This God hath a Father and a God For God Even thy God hath made thee Messiah and hath given thee His Spirit
wilful sinners Of the patience of Christ to a man turning into a Beast and how he deviseth Devises to prevent it or recover him How he fulfilled the Ceremonial Law also and how he was in all the Sacrifices as a Lamb for the Lambs and as a Goat for the Goats Of Benjamin the Son of the right hand with other Children of Rachel a sheep in Hebrew at his right Hand and of the Children of Leah or others at the Left Hand where also of Seir a Goat and of the Goats offered at the New Moons solemn Feasts c. and of the Rams of Ishmael accepted on the Holy Alter Of Gods face in Scripture toward the East and of Bowing to the East and of his Right Hand to the South and Left to the North and of Northern Judgments turned to Mercies and Blessings and of great and good things to come out of the North in the Latter times of the World as from Babylon at the return from Captivity How Christ came in the fulness of time Of Seven Ten the full Rich Numbers of their Powers Compounds for Ages Ever or eternity which yet in Scripture oft hath such or such an End or Revolution in such or such Generations How Christ came out in several Ages and Persons of Note in the Bible to do the Great things of Gods Power Wisdome and Goodness for Man To Man and in Man through all the Times and Seasons of the Scripture and in special the Times of the Witnesses In Heaven the Father and the Word Dabar Bar Bara Creating Heaven and Earth where also the Spirit of the Messiah as the old Jews call it on Gen. 1. 2. Mooving on the Waters an other Witness and parting them by A Dam and Adam of Adama dryed Red Earth akin to Dam in Hebrew Bload the other Witness John 5. and Acts 17. Of one Blood he made all Nations of men and determined the Times appointed and bounds of their Habitations which in parting the sons of Adam he bounded according to the Number of the Sons of Israel Deu. 32. which were 12. and to be measured by the 12 Hours of Day and Night Shadowed on the Tabernacle by the Cloud Pillar of Fire for Light that Beginning of the Creation and works of God and in its outer Court by the Laver of Water and Blood on the Alter of Witness as That called Ed a Witness by the waters also of Jordan where afterward the Baptist heard or saw all the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth to which he bare Record or was made a witness also as divers other in several Ages And All the 7 Washings or Sprinklings of Blood or Water so often required in the Law to represent the 7 Nights and 7 Dayes of the Week As the 7 Lamps in the inner Court or Holy Place as the visible Heavens with its Planets about the Sun in the midst as the greatest Lamp was in the middle of the other 6 or 3 on either side by the 12 Cakes of Shewbread changed every 7th or Sabbath day and made of 24 Omers out of 24 Seahs as the Jewes 24th of Leviticus for the 24 hours of Day and Night Made by the Sun mooving 2 of His Diameters the Moon 24 of Hers in each diurnal motion of 24 Hours parted into 4 great Watches as the 24 Elders in the Revelation had also 4 watchers with 6 wings a piece as in the Prophets And in the Temple also there were 24 courses of Priests and of Levites 24 of Porters and 24 of Singers and 24 courses of Standers or men of the Station representing all the People or 12 Tribes as in the 12 Cakes of 24 as 12 Sons of Jacob or 12 Hours of Light came after the 12 hours of Darkness or 12 Sons of Ishmael or Esau for the 24. Elders And as God gave 24 things to the Priests so they gave 24 to him in their dayly Minha of 12 Rouls at morning and 12 also at Evening And the Seventh in Hours also is very Signal as in Days and Moneths and years by the great Rest and Turn of Sun and Moon as Water and Blood also in the Sea and bodies of Animals after every six hours with Them and All that accounted Lilith that is Night the first Wife to Adam and do call her Eve or Even to the Day As it is to them that are about the Aequator and to All at either Aequinox when Time seemeth to begin And beginning at Sun-set as the Jewes and many other Nations did the First six Hours brought down the Sun to the Midnight Nadir and six more brought it up to the Morning Horizon and six more to the Noon or Zenith and six more to Setting again So that every seventh Hour made a Pauz and Turn And Sabbath is Both in Hebrew As if the watchers stood at the four Corners of Earth or quarters of the Heaven which are called Winds and Spirits also in the Scripture alluding perhaps to the four watching Spirits or Angels to Turn the Sun and Moon or Hour-glass of Waters or Clepsydra in the Seas c. After every six Hours of Day and Night the walks of the Sun and Moon but shadows of the good things within the Vaile or 3d Heaven where the 2 Cherubins of Glory shadowed the Mercy Seat or Heavenly Throne over the Earth or Ark of the Testimony also or Witnes with its 2 Tables or Testaments also For the 2d Covenant as in 29 of Deuteronomy was both Law and Gospel also written in the Ark of the Heart of Christ and all his Members after the first Tables of Stone were broken and disanulled being never put in the Ark or in our Hearts For know you not that your Bodies are the Temple of God As Paul speaketh to the Gentiles also Where our Heads as the Heavens above with two Eyes or Cherubins of Glory The Mercy seat or Throne of God and his Rainbow as in all the Scriptures like our Eye And our Heart Or Altar of Incense As the Earth beneath in the middle Court or 2d Region with its Pericardium of Water and Blood in the Pleura with twelve Ribs on either side and seven distinct from the other Nothi As also the seven Rackets of the neck with its spirit or spinal marrow from the Cerebellum As the Brain hath also seven spirits or pair of Nerves with Animal spirits Veyles and Ventricles which are shadowed in the Lower Regions both of the Earth below in the Heart and Waters under the Earth in our Bowels where the Duodenum and Ilea with all the Rest are but shadowes of things above As of the Laver or Molten sea or great Ocean with its Ebbings and flowings as the Earning of our Bowels and the Altar of Burnt-offerings in our Stomack with its heat or fire never quenched and the seven Planets with the Firmament of the Midrif parting between the Bowels or Waters under it and those above it as high as the Brain
in case of Pure Chance Meadling and for no stroak or stabbing or any other kind of That now called Man-slaughter which I doubt may lie very heavily upon some Nations might have Refuge to the Cities of Refuge and be There preserved by the Judges in the Gates from the Kinsman or Avenger of Blood Till the Death of Him that represented our great High Priest And the 3 Cities of Refuge on the Right side of Jordan were Higher than the 3 on the Left which were also out of Canaan the Land of Rest. But we saw before How Jacob Crossed his Hands in Blessing the Sons of Joseph who lift up his Fathers hand to remove it but could not and afterwards put his Hand upon his Fathers Eyes which we may consider again With Eglon the Calf or Beast destroyed by Ehud a man of Benjamin or of the Right Hand but Turned Left handed and Sodom also set at Judahs Right Hana when her Captivity is Turned in Ezekiel Though she be There also called the Younger sister As Ephraim was the Younger Brother and yet as most or all younger Children in all the Bible to be preferred before the Elder And God owneth it also saying in the Prophets Ephraim is my First Born And so the Lost son also among the Millions of Ephraim who must make the Fulness of the Gentiles must have the Best Robe and the Fatted Calf and be Preferred before his Elder Brother In a word the First shall be Last and the Last First and you know not what you ask when you speak of sitting at his Right Hand or his Left Shall I add that although the Right Hand was generally Best with the Jews Yet with the Romans directly contrary in This also the Left hand Thunders and other Auguries were judged Better than at Right Hand Was it because Their Left hand was neerest or opposite to Heavens Right Hand or God giving them all their Blessings Or shall we say that After the Temple God himself seemed to Turn his Face Westward As Christ on the Cross and so That was now at his Right Hand which before at his Left and That Now before him which was formerly behind him It is True we read That Expression of Gods Turning But in the 80 Psalm and many other places it speaketh His Turning of Us. Yet in a Right sence As we cannot Love Him till He Love us so we cannot Turn To Him Till he Turn To Us or be Turned As the Phrase is of the Great Mystery of God in Christ Turning himself Toward us and us to Him Reconciled to us Did the ancient Christians also that prayed Towards the East do it in opposition to the Jews still Bowing to the West as we touched before Or Believing God or Christ on the Cross was now Turned quite contrary to the Posture He was in before Or supposing Christ the Mercy Seat of the Divine Presence to be still over the Mount of Olives where he went up into Heaven and There sitteth at the Right Hand of God till All his Enemies are made his Foot-stool But if This were All That Posture or Bowing Eastward becometh None but Those only which are in the Western Corner of the World For They that are more Eastern than Jerusalem must on that account Turn Westward and the Southern Christians Northward and the Northern Southward O but when shall we come to believe and know that Our Blessed Savior is In us as his great Prayer and Promise was As his Father is in Him and yet when Here on Earth he lifted up his Eyes and Hands to Heaven as his Fathers chiefest Residence And so we also Even Then when it shall please God to reveal Him in us As in Paul and to make him In us the Hope or Evidence of Glory All the Elders bowed to the Lamb with all their Vials full of Odours which are the Prayers of Saints as we read in That Blessed Book which Blesseth All that Read and understand it But in our little Body we have Hot and Cold Moist and Dry Muscles pulling up and down drawing in and out and yet All Those All other contrarieties make excellent Harmony So in His great Body the Church of his First Born and the World also much greater contrarieties than we can well express are reconciled and accepted also by Him who hath purposed in himself to Reconcile All things Even All things To Himself in and by and Through our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and by the Blood of his Cross. Who is God over All Blessed for Ever Amen And to All that are called to be Saints or in Any place for it will be in All places call upon Jesus of Nazareth Their Lord and Ours I am bold to say because God hath said it and written it also Let Him that standeth Take heed lest he fall And there is No Temptation on you to you but what is common to man But God is Faithful who will not suffer you to be Tempted above your ability but with the Temptation will also make a way to escape that you may not run away but be able to Bear it However God may bear it from you or bear it with you and upon you Wherefore my Dearly Beloved flee from Idolatry I speak as to wise men Judg what I say And How comes in This Wherefore unless the Temptations to Idolatry be of All the Greatest and most dangerous And of All Idolatries That of our own Fancy or vain Imagination that is Image-making of our own Hearts more dangerous and more provoking God to Jealousie than All other Idols As we touched before in the second Command But who art Thou O man that judgest another or settest at naught Thy Brother If in any thing we differ God shall reveal This also Yet a little while and we must stand before His Throne who said This is my Commandement and yet again My New Commandement that you Love One another and Take Heed you fall not out by the way and by This shall all men know you are my Disciples if you love one another And it must be also Even as He hath loved us And by This we have boldness and confidence to pray and hope and believe he heareth us and loveth us when we love one another And to Brotherly kindness Add Love And that your Love abound and increase to One another and to All men To All men Yea and Honor All men And the Time is coming and already come he said that ye shall worship the Father neither at This Mountain nor at Jerusalem but in every place True Worshipers shall Worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth For the Father Seeketh such to worship him and such he will Finde O Thou that Hearest Prayer unto Thee shall All Flesh come and to Thee shall the Vow be performed Praise waiteth for Thee O God who dost both possess and inherit All the Praises of Israel in silence For so the Phrase speaketh and so the Jews
or other things But smell and smile and similis may come from their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To which That may allude when Isaac smiled at the smell of his Sons Garments and Blessed Him But as English small may come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So may the Latine Semel While they reckoned All small Numbers Once on their Left Hand Fingers and Joynts As so many Places for Unites Tenths and Hundreds Greater Numbers had their places at the Right Hand Whence also they began to Write As if That also might allude to the sound of Right in English Coming as All other motions from the Right Hand to the Left But As Christ Lifted up Both his Hands in Blessing his People especially at the Sun-setting or Evening of the World which we may touch again See Luke 4. 40. and 13. 13. and 24. 39. 40. 50. So Here in Daniel the Man in Linnen Lifted up Both his Hands in Swearing and Numbering These Numbers Yet when the Time to be Numbred grew Less as it was in the Revelation Then the Angel Onely Lift up One of his Hands to Swear and Number it And Sware by Him that Liveth for Ever The Revelation addeth to This of Daniel and Made the Heaven and Earth and Seas or Waters under the Earth As all the three Regions we noted before in our Bodies also And the Angel preaching the Everlasting Gospel in the Revelation putteth so great an Emphasis on That of Fountains of Waters also besides all the sea As if it were One great Demonstration of an Insinite Power in the Living God to create a Fountain or Fountains of Living Water Of which also to Hagar at Beerlahairoi where Isaak also first met his wife although it were Ishmaels well Our Saviour discourseth sweetly to the Woman of Samaria Adding also If thou knewest the Gift of God and who it is that speaketh to thee and he speaketh calleth wooeth weepeth over Us also Thou wouldst Ask and He would give Thee a Fountain of Living Waters ever flowing to Eternal Life For so he saith his Waters were It mindes me of the Psalmists saying Who is still Turning for it is a present and continued Act of Turning The very Flint that great Magazine of Nature into a Fountain of Waters He that can do it hath perhaps Dame Natures Key to One of her richest Cabinets And it may be I may tell you it is Doable He that understands the vertue of This Vegetive Water will not wonder the next words should be Not unto us Not unto us but to Thy Name be All the Glory Shall I add also that Jeremy saith Can All the Gods of the Gentiles give us Rain Which is Mater in Heb. As the Mother to the Works of Nature For a Time Times and Half So it is rendred generally But Moed the word here used and so also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Revelation is Season rather then Time Some certain fixed or appointed season from a word to Fix or appoint some solemn Meeting or the like appointment And it may be we can hardly render it Better then by the usual Grammer Phrase of Mood and Tense of Acting all the great Works of God Whose Seasons are so reserved in his Own Breast as Christ hinteth that Mans Labour is Great under the Sun because he knoweth not his Seasons or the Moeds for All Actions As we read in Salomons discourse of Time and Seasons yet much more to be considered For some little Essay towards This Through the supply of the Spirit of Jesus upon the Hearts and Prayers of His Children and Servants For who is sufficient for it Let us remember what was said of Fulness and Rest and Turn or Sabbath in the Number Seven And how Scripture and Nature also Teacheth us to part all wholes as much as may be into Halves as we touched before in Diapasons and other Chords of Musick And this Three and an Half is but just Half that Sacred Number of Seven The Word rendred Half is fron Chatsa to cut into parts more or less So that their Chatsa Slosh is to Cut and Slash into Three parts as Jacob and David at Mahanaim Gideon and Abimelech at Sechem And the Grecian Kingdom in Daniel was cut or broken into Four parts where yet the same Verb is used But the Nown commonly speaketh Half from Halaph to change as if their great changes were by Halving things So The Heavens are Halved but Thou changest not Where also the Psalmist saith O take me not away in the midst of my dayes Or Half thereof as it saith The wicked do not fill up Half their Daies And in many other Scriptures we read of Half in the very same word here used in Daniel for Half a Time or Half a Mood That there be but 7 whole Notes in a Diapason though it be called an Eight yet as the Last Head in the Revelation such an Eight as is One of the Seven also is observed by all who make their different Cliffs or Keys or Moods or Scales in Musick by their different placing That Half Note which they still find in every four Notes and call a Fa Flat or Falling to a sharp or Full. Till we have some other opportunity to discuss the Reason of This in Nature we may remember what was touched before of the Number Four which is the first of all square Numbers and so the Measure of all the Rest which are All made and resolved by 4 as Cubes by 8 which hath a Name in Hebrew akin to squaring This may be some reason why Nature hath placed a Pauze before it Or between the sacred Number of Three which are All simple Numbers and Four the First compound or square Number Thus also in the very First Numbers we have yet found in Nature the 12 Hours of Night are So parted into 4 Threes or Watches The whole being first Halved as we spake before in our Discourse of 6 and 7 which maketh That the Scripture often oalleth Midnight of which First at the Last great Plague of Egypt at Midnight to be compared with That in Job 34. 20. After he had said If he draw in his breath All flesh expireth which we touched before And again Each Half was Halved into Watches which began at Night as the Laments tell us theGospel hath the 4th Watch of the Night whatever the Jews speak of 3 So that after Every 3 Hours came the Watch or Chatsa with such a signal pauze and difference as Chimes or Changes now in some places between the Watches Which seem Then of 3 Hours apiece As each of the 4 sides of that Great and square City had also 3 Gates If we may so again reflect on the Hebrew Shaars whence it may be the English Shâ—re and Shears and Shire also I add
Tophet and Gehinnon it self must come in to be Holy as Jerusalem A Gracious Promise in Jeremy 31. The Gatehouse 12 Cubits As Ezekiels also a Reed of 6 Cubits without and 6 within the Gate in the 6th of the 40th Chap. And now we are come to That which in our Saviours time also was called Solomons Porch We found it Square 400 Cubits every side a Double Walk of 30 Cubits Broad and covered with 3 Rows of white Marble Pillars of 24 Cubits And the South or Right Hand walk was Treble with 4 Rows of Pillers which Josephus calleth the Royal Stoe or stateliest Walk the Sun yet ever saw Round about This Square were Benches against the Wall which the Jews call as the English Seats or Stayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All This Hill or Mountain of the House they called also the First Temple or the Outer Temple where our Saviour found the sellers of Doves or other things and Court of the Gentileâ— From This Hill They came into Hell or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for so they called the next Partition of 11 Cubits broad though some make it but 10 and the Porch 11 But All agree behinde the Temple on the West there were 11 Cubits however you will call them The Wall about This Hell they called Sorg or Surge or Scurge a common Wall was Home To this they went up by 14 steps as Josephus or 12 as the Talmud Half Cubits At every Gate against the other Gates were Pillars bidding strangers keep their distance at their Peril As if Hell were onely for Children of the Kingdom Yet it had but low Walls of 3 Cubits with Latices for Children also to look thorow As the Canticles He looked through the Lattess from behinde Our Wall and cryed O my Dove that art in the Clefts of That Rock and in the secret of those Stairs And 5 steps more led out of Hell to the first Help or the New Court of which before The Outer Court in Ezekiel 46. In either corner a little Court of 40 Cubits long from East to West and 30 broad The Northeast or Left Hand was for Priests with blemishes who were yet clothed in White while others in Blaek not of the Right Line and wormed the wood their brethren kindled and for That might eat the Holy things with their Fairest Wholest Brother The Northwest for the Leapers Shaving and Bathing till he might be presented in the next Gate leading to Israels Court and the Priests The Southwest for Wine and Oyl at Minha And the Southeast for the Nazarite who might shave his Hair in any place as Paul at Cenchrea but must Burn it Here under the Boylers of Salems as before upon Ezek. 46 Except his Vow were not out and then it came not Hither though he might shave it every 30 Daies As Absalon did once a year although they call him a Sampson Nazarite which in This of not shaving was more than a Perpetual Nazarite This was the Womens Court who yet might go with a Sacrifice into the Inward Court of â—srael A perfect square of 135 Cubits euery way Here was the great Meeting where also the King or chief Magistrate read the Law as commanded Deut. 31. 10. with Dancing also at the Tabernacles both of men and women Till some lightness ocasioned Galleries on all sides but the East which was next the Temple And in These the women were above the men Which is the Jewes custom in their Synagogues where the women sate apart but looked down through Latteses Here were the 12 Korban Chests 11 for free-Will Offerings and others But the 12th for the yearly Tribute or half Shekle which begat the Money-changers which our Saviour overturned and their Gain was a 12th also Some add a 13th Chest for the Last Years Dutyes There were Korban Chambers also in divers places and for Silent Righteousness or such as was not Seen but Done for maintenance of Poor c. To which Matth. 6. 1. may allude Here it was our Saviour Sate and saw the Widows Mites For in the Court of Israel none might Sit but Kings of Davids House As is rightly observed by Doctor Lightfoot in his Learned and Excellent Discourses on This and many other subjects And with Him a Mite weighed Half a Barley-corn the same with a Perut of which before and 8 Peruts made their Issar two Issars a Pond two Ponds a Gerah 16 Barley-corns 6 of Those made their Penny 24 their Shilling 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And to This at length they brought their Shekle which yet God fixed at 20 Gerahs in Moses and Ezekiel several Times From the Womens Court 15 steps in a Semicircle For the 15. Psalms of Degrees sung Here in the great Feast of Tabernacles bring us up to the Middle Gate with other Names but commonly Nicanor a devout Iew or the first Syrian King their great Friend or an Enemy slain at That Gate as some or near Jerusalem as others and 1 Machab. 7. In This Gate the Women were Purified with Lepers also and Here they drank the Bitter water and did All required of Israel before the Lord. For Here the Priests might stand in their own Court and reach to the Leapers Thumbs and Toes and Those that might not yet enter the Court of Israel within This Gate which as themselves confess opened of it self though others speak it of the Womens Gate of Corinthian Brass 40 Years before the Temple was burnt by the Romans As to let out the Divine Presence or his service which had 10 Flittings they say from one place to another as their Sanedrin also from that 40th year had 10 several places or changes and from These 40 Years also the Skarlet Threed of which before never turned White on the Scape-Goat which themselves owned for a sad Omen that their sins were not forgiven Their Highest Sanedrin in Gazit over Hell but joyning to the south of this court were chofen from the Sanedrins of 23 which were onely in Towns of 120 persons of quality fit for Magistrates as Those of 3 were for 10 such as we saw before whereof the Lowest 23 for Jerusalem sate in the Gate Shushan and the Higher in This Gate of Nicanor Unto which they brought Appeals from That of Shushan as from All Lower courts to Shushan and Here not Determined They went to the Highest Sanhedrin in Gazit Where yet none might sit that were very Old least too Morose or had No children For they thought a Man could hardly be meek enough to be a Judge in such a court till himself had Children Psalm 103. 13. The Length of this court from East to West was 187 cubits and its breadth as the Womens just 135 equally parted by 3 Gates as Josephus and the New Jerusalem had 3 Gates on a side at the South and North but Nicanor onely at the East and None at the West as we saw before One of the South Gates was called the Water-gate as Ezekiels Waters also flowed
it self besides all the waters about the Earth of the Heart Or its Ayre of the Lungs whose Inspiration and Respiration as the Hearts Diastole and Systole may be shadows of Air and Light Drawn in or Covered with Darkness Cassach in English and Hebrew and again spread out in Day as Psal. 104 and divers others Scriptures allude But All are Measured by the Pulses of our Hearts and in our Temples called Times and Tempora in many Languages Being as the Commune meetings of the Two Hemisphers of our Jawes with their Hours or in Hebrew Years of 24 Teeth and 4 High Watchers which so Many Called Doggs Every Region hath its Witnesses As the Head hath its 2 Eyes as the Sun and Moon in the Heavens above between 2 Ears or Years As the Heart hath also 2 Aurtcles as the 2 Poles by which it hangs in the Ayre of the Lungs and the Lowest Region hath its 2 Witnesses also Called Testes or somewhat of Witness in so many Languages As also their Solemne Covenants were made by putting the Hand under the Thigh And so also the 2 Tables of Witness in the Ark of the Testimony or Witness And the Witness Bread of Faces and the whole Tabernacle of Witness with its Courts of Witness and Altars of Witness with the Morning and Evening Sacrifice and Sack and Minha Meat and Drink Offerings with Incense or in Hebrew Keturah coming after Sara As at first There were 2 Witnesses to the Great Word or Promise that although the Serpent might nibble the Heels of Messiah as Psalm 89. 51. Yet the Seed of the Woman in the Revelation also should Break the Serpents Head Cut off in a Type before Abrahams Testes or Witnesses At His Covenant about Beersâ—eba As Davids was with Bathsheba the Daughter of Seaven and of the Oath also As God in Levit. 26. I will send the Beast among you and I will punish you in Sheba or Seven But yet I will remember my Covenant with Abraham or my Sheba at Beersheba As also Zachariah the Lords Remembrance alludeth to his own Name and his Wives Elisabeth Gods Oath and Rest also as some sound the Word Luke 1. 72 73. And This Covenant with our Father Abraham and Sure Mercies of David are made Good to the Lowest Least Believer and He that is Weak shall be as David and receive his sure Holy things as Esay 53 with Acts 2d and 13. Rom. 4 and Galat. 3d. And All as sure in all things and as surely Witnessed As the Everlasting Covenant of God with Noah at Arrarat the Bar of Curss and Error Terror and Trembling or Wandering When God smelt a sweet savour of Rest as the Moon a Reak of Night as Jerach Reak Nihat may allude and the Psalms As the Moon a Faithful Witness in Heaven He said in his Heart I will no more smite Any Flesh for so it may be rendered As I have done But Day and Night c. shall be as long as the Earth endures Or in All the Dayes of the Earth And I will Curss the Earth no more But Bless it and accept and delight in it so as himself giveth the Etymology of Erets in Ezekiel 20. 40 That the Saints or Angels in Heaven give Thanks to the Lamb that they shall come from Thence to Reign upon the Earth as if the Earth as the Weaker Vessel should have more abundant Honour and be Centre to the Greatest Glory of God when the Curtains of Heaven shall be drawn or the Canopy rent as the Vail before the Most Holy Place For the Heavens must be no more but pass away and be rowled up as Parchment before the Fire but the Earth Endureth for Ever Though yet to be Changed and renewed so that it shall be a New Earth as a New Heaven And When This is like to be is One Great Part of this Discourse Concluding that As Time began with Night before Day or Evening before Morning so with Winter before Summer Or in Tisry the Seventh Month as the Jewes render Beresith as the Hebrew Letters in the first word of Genesis So it is very probable the New Creation or the New Heaven and the New Earth shall be when the Year that began at Nisan when they came from Egypt shall come to Tisry or the 7th Month and Great Feast of Tabernacles Or Ingathering of all the Fruits of the Earth at the Close of Harvest and Vintage at the End of the Year as the Scriptures speak When also we may Expect the Latter Rain or Great Showres of That Holy Spirit whereof we saw the Former Rain or Lesser Showers or Droppings in the First Fruits of the Spirit at the Time of First Fruits or Pentecost in Acts 2d In the mean time there are Witnesses fixed As at Mispa the Watch and Gilead the Rouls or Stones of Witness That Laban and Haran Wrath and Care and Fear shall pass away As Wrath in Hebrew is somewhat Passing away but shall not pass over Those Witnesses for Hurt to Jacob or his Relations though his Wages be Changed as often as the Moon or Lebana from Laban and he be rouled between Hamath and Haran the Heat of the Sun and Cold of the Moon or its Wandrings Yet Those Changings and the Moon shall pass away but Everlasting Kindness shall not pass away And God will also Watch at Mispa that neither Leah nor Rachel be Wronged Who were also Witnesses to This Covenant and though but Daughters of Laban Yet they may be Mothers to Both Churches of the Jewes from Leah and the Gentiles also from Rachel so often called the Barren Woman and the younger Sister or our Little Sister in the Canticles alluding to This of Laban in Lebana Lebano and Lebanon and Gilead with the Goats of Seir or Esau and Mahanaim with other things in This Discourse And Ephraim from Rachel must be scattered among the Nations till he bring in and be The Fulness of the Gentiles As Jacob said to Joseph and Then All Israel also as well as Judah shall be saved as we read in Rom. 11. How long This Woman shall be subject to the Course and Changes of the Moon and when she shal have the Moon at her feet and when be freed from it as other Women in their Jubilee of 49 is Here more fully Discoursed And the Times of Gods With-drawing or Hiding and Returning to Israel or the World as the Sun to the Moon or the Earth And of the Times of Prophesying and Ceasing or slaying of the Witnesses Which though Divers in several Ages yet are All measured by the Times of the Sun to the Moon or Both to the Earth with Their Goings and Comings Hidings or Changes of the Faithful Witnesses in Heaven Which are still much measured by 3 and an Half As at first Creation which did Bare or Bear out somewhat Hidden before The Sun and Moon did not appear till the 4th Morning and the Jewes assign the 3d Hour Till which they lay as Dead
by him to a journey when he meets with great storms and danger of death by shipwrack or otherwise For the Lord met Moses in the Inn and sought to slay him in his way to Aegypt though he sent him thither on so great an errand Noah brought rest to the World through the Floud and many tossings in great Waters And we might have lost some of the sweetest portions of the Gospel but for such storms by Sea In one of them Christ is in the Ship but asleep and they wake him crying Carest thou not that we perish And he soon took care and rebuked the winds though blaming their unbelief and fear with amazement which is Peters phrase to the Daughters of our good Mother Sara and he might learn it from our Saviour in their storms and fears with such amazement which is a phrase used several times in the Gospel But doth God take care of bodies Will he not be more careful of our souls and pity them more If we would cry and wake him also when he seems asleep about or in us and among us and say to him Master carest thou not that our souls perish Even those precious and Immortal souls which thou seemest to value above the whole World saying What shall a man give in exchange for his soul It is said Our blood shall be precious in thy eyes and shall not our Souls be more precious O we of little faith At another time Our Saviour did not onely send away his Disciples but constrained them to go in a ship when they might have gone another way But they would have sent away the poor people supperlesse from him and when he had supped them He sends away his Hard Disciples to be tossed in the Sea while he blessed the poor people In the fourth watch of the night he shews himself God is nearer us in a storm then we believe or Expect and he saw them tossed some pretty while it seems but would not help them or appear till the last watch and then they are more afraid and cryed out supposing it to be an evil spirit So easily may we mistake the kindnesse of God and think him to be the Devil to devour us even then when he comes in goodnesse to save us But he first rebuketh their fears and saith It is I be not afraid And when Peter would venture out beyond his strength and ready to sink cryed Save me I perish He is moved with compassion and immediately stretcheth out his hand and catcheth him the very phrase used to the Hebrews He caught not the nature of Angels but he caught the seed of Abraham He suddenly reached out his hand and caught as we snatch a thing perishing in fire or water So he caught Peter As he would do us also if in our fears and sinking we would so cry out to Him Help Lord I perish How quickly did he bring him into the Ship and it with them all safe in a calme to their wished Haven O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and wonderful kindnesse to the sons of men as the Psalmist repeats it several times in the 107. Psalm Such goodnesse and wonderful kindnesse did the Lord shew to Paul also in that stormy voyage to Rome wherein yet he did not onely preserve Him safe but all his fellow passengers also as he told him in a night vision saying Fear not Paul thou must be brought to Cesar and lo God hath given thee all them which sail with thee And when he came to Rome he expounded and testified the Kingdom of God perswading them of Jesus both out of the Law of Moses and out of the Prophets And for two years dwelt in an hired house receiving All that came to him Preaching the Kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence As we read in the Acts. That he also taught them to pray to Jesus Christ is plain enough from the stresse he putteth on it in his Epistle to those very Romanes in the tenth chapter Where to believing with the heart he joyns also confession with the mouth and explaineth it by praying to him For it is written Whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved For the same Lord over All is Rich unto All that call upon him But how shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed And the first Epistle to the Corinthians is directed to the Church of God at Corinth to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints with All that in every place call upon the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours And concludes thus The Salutation of me Paul with my own hand If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you my love be with you all in Christ Jesus Amen Which belongeth to every one that in any place calleth on Jesus Christ. And to All us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are All things and we by him as he speaketh in the same Epistle And the second Epistle concludeth with the Grace of Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you All. As that Epistle so all his Epistles generally begin with Grace and Peace and some add Mercy also from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ who as the Epistle to the Galathians addeth gave Himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil World according to the will of God and our Father and I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the Grace of Christ. And concludes that Epistle From henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus Brethren the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit Amen And to the Ephesians among many other remarkable passages of Jesus Christ he prayes that Christ may dwell in their hearts by Faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that ye may be filled with all the fulnesse of God Namely by him in whom All fulnesse dwelleth Yea all the fulness of the Godhead And therefore He that desireth Him and prayeth to Him prayeth to the whole fulnesse of the Godhead and desireth it And in the same Epistle He that descended is now ascended far above all Heavens that he might fill All things and gave gifts c. for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the
read in the Psalmes and Epistle to the Hebrews with the four Watches or Watchers and the four and twenty Elders of which again when we shew all measures borrowed from the twelve hours of darknesse or the twelve sons of Ishmael and the twelve sons of Light or of Israel they all fall down and Worship Praying and singing Praises to the Lamb also even as cloathed with flesh as well as to him that sat on the Throne which yet was Christ also as is clear from many passages but Christ in more Majesty and Glory of the Deity then onely as a Lamb slain For it was the Lamb exalted and set down in Glory even in his Fathers Throne As of old the 24. courses of Priests and of Levites and of Porters or Watchers or Singers and other Officers so ordered by David who was also the 24th from Noah as the number of his Name in Hebrew and the 14th from Abraham as also his Name when written without a jod as frequently it is and signifieth love and a Fathers Brother or a very neer kindsman so in the Revelation those 24. Elders did fall down in Adoration to the Lamb even to the Lamb that was slain they had Harps it s said and golden Vials full of Odours which are the praiers of Saints Which may intimate that as our great High Priest over all the Houshold in Heaven and Earth The great Angel of the Covenant offers up his own Incence with the Prayers of all Saints to his Father So these Intercessors also to the Lamb even the Elders of Churches offer up their Churches yea and other Saints Prayers to the Lamb. For the whole Bride and the Spirit acting the Bride also do not onely converse with Christ as her Husband but Worship him also as Her Lord as Sarah called Abraham and she is so commanded in the Psalmes both to Kisse him and to Worship him And she so practiseth in the Canticles and the Revelation also crying to the last come even come and so come Even come Lord Iesus come quickly It may also be easie to shew very many if not most or all of the Prayers and praises in the Psalmes are plainly directed to Christ and many commands and encouragements to call upon him there also As He arken unto my cry my King and my God for unto Thee will I Pray my voice shall thou hear in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayers to Thee and will look up And again they that know Thy Name will trust in Thee for Thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seek Thee And again Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble Thou wilt prepare their heart and thou wilt cause their ear to hear And again Blessed be my Rock and blessed be the God of my Rock and my Saviour clense me from my secret sins and keep me that presumptuous sins prevail not over me and let the words of my Mouth and the Meditations of my Heart be acceptable in Thy sight O Lord my Rock and my Redeemer And again Thy Throne O God is for ever and ever and ride on prosperously because of Truth and Meeknesse of Righteousnesse And to the Spouse of Christ He is thy Lord Worship thou him And again Be still and know that I am God Clap hands all People sing unto God with Triumph He shall speak the people under us He shall chuse our Inheritance for us even the Excellency of Jacob whom he loved and his blessing prevailed over all the blessings of his Ancestors And again gather my Saints together and I will speak and then declares the forme of the great Judgement both to the good and evil And concludes call upon me in the day of thy trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me plainly spoken by Christ and repeated by the Psalmist afterwards Saying In the day of my trouble I will call upon Thee for Thou wilt answer me And in an other Psalm Thou calledst in trouble and I did deliver thee and answered thee in the secret place of Thunder And what time I am afraid I will trust in Thee And again Trust in him at all times ye People and power out your Souls before him And again Praise waiteth in silence for thee And to thee shall the Vow be performed O thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come Iniquity prevaileth over me but thou hast made Atonement for our transgressions O our Jesus or our Salvation The hope of the ends of the Earth and them that are a far off in the Seas And again my lips shall ever praise Thee and and in thy Name will I lift up my hands when I pray And again Thou hast ascended up on High Thou hast led Captivity Captive Thou hast received gifts for men even for the Rebbels also that God may dwell among them And thy God hath commanded thy strength Strengthen O God that thou hast wrought c. And again In the day of my trouble I will call upon Thee for Thou wilt answer me and Thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in Mercy to all that call upon Thee Or as St. Paul to the Romans Lord of All and Rich unto all that call upon him plainly spoken of Christ. As that also of the Lord speaking unto my Lord Sit at my right hand c. And then the Psalmist speaketh to him the Lord at Thy hand shall smite through Thy enemies and Thy people shall be a willing people in the day of thy power and the Lord hath sworn and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever cited so remarkably in the New Testament by the Apostles and by Christ also asking the Jews who it was there or how David called him Lord. And the 102. Psalm being entituled a prayer of one afflicted when his soul is overwhelmed in him and poureth out his sighing before the Lord is plainly spoken to Christ as we see by divers verses cited in the Epistle to the Hebrews as spoken to Him and proving Him to be the Son of God and so are many other like passages cited in the New Testament and applyed to Christ. As also the context will shew speaking somewhat that belongeth properly to Christ and not to God but as he is in Christ and the Humane Nature and so he hath eyes ears heart and hands and passions also and affections which are else improperly given to God or supposed to be in him and so he descends to earth ascends on high Returning also to judge the World Which is oft spoken by David to Him he calleth Lord and King and Judge of All. But the Father judgeth no man but hath committed alâ— judgement to the Son and authority also to execute judgement because he is the son of man And often doth the Psalmist speak to a Lord or King or Judge as Job also saying I will make supplication to my Judge and my Redeemer liveth a phrase also frequently
severall times in the Prophets and twice in Jeremy of his own dearest Children whom he saith he will not Cut off or destroy but only chasten visit or Correct in measure but not Hold Guiltless or acquit them wholly The very same Phrase used in the Third Commandement and in the Name of God Proclaimed in Exodus and Numbers 14. And the very same Phrase is used by Job of himself divers times although we may be sure he did not beleeve God had cut him off for ever or would never acquit him or hold him Guiltlesse though he so speak of himself But it is such a phrase as the Prophet Esays Therefore forgive them not which yet is no worse or more then we find commended and commanded also by Solomon to a tender Father who is bid to chasten his Son and not to spaâ—e him or forgive or acquit or Hold him Guiltless For they are much the same Phrases Yet I may ad to make us fear the Goodnesse of God rather then All his Wrath He that taketh the Good Name of God this gracious God in vain or he that so Turneth it into wantonness is the most guilty Person in All the Bible that I know or most in danger not to be quit or held Guiltless as we find hinted in severall places from the third Commandement Except haply we may also say the most Guilty Person in the World whom God will least acquit or hold guiltlesse is Jesus Christ In whom the Curses also are Yea and Amen or fulfilled rather more then the Promises For in These he joynes his Children who are Co-heirs in All the Promises and Purposes of God But in bearing the Threatnings and Curses He is more alone then in All the Promises He treads the Winepress of Gods Wrath alone and of the People there is none with Him He alone can bear it He alone need fear it All the Billows of the Almighty rowled upon Christ and All his Arrows stuck in his Heart and drunk up his Spirit more then All the world besides All else being little weak nothing lighter then vanity Compared with Him that was Gods Fellow and his Match Who thought it no Robbery to be Equall with God who therefore laid his stroaks upon H m who was only able to bear them with our guilt So that in a right sence He is the most guilty Person as Bearing Gods most Holy Name more then All the World besides And bearing all our guilt for bearing at in vain And as the third Commandement hath its not Acquitting So the second hath it's Jealousie and visiting the Fathers sinn upon the Children As if this were most proper to the false or Superstitious wayes of Worshipping the true God rather then to the having other Gods forbidden in the first As if God also were Jealous of none but such as were Marryed to him and had chosen him for their Husband But now wandred out in strange wayes of Worship which provokes his Jealousie and makes him visit more it may be then any other sinnes If it had been an Enemy I could easily bear it O but my Friend and my Familiar in my Bosome as the Lord may speak when his own Spouse dresseth her selfe in an Whorâ—sh Habit as it were inticing Strangers Which the Lord abhorreth more it may be then the grossest Idolatry of those that are Strangers Which is not so grievous as the Provocation of his Sonns and Daughters as Caesar also cryed What and thou my Sonn Brutus or his nerest Relations which perhaps also may be more properly called Haters of God in Hebrew Sone much akin to the Saxon English Name of Sonn rather then Strangers who have not knowledge enough to Love or Hate Him in a proper sence as those that by not walking in the light and love they have received come at length to be so guilty and full of slavish fear that they turn downright Rebbels and such Sonns as God commanded should be brought out to the Judges to be stoned for Rebellion Which is very neer perhaps if not the very sin against the Holy Ghost Or that presumptuous wickednesse which David so prayed against remembring that there was No Sacrifice for presumptuous Sinners but as the Epistle to the Hebrews speaketh A certain fearfull looking for of judgement and fiery indignation to devour the Rebbels As the Jews also had the Cutting off and the Hand of Heaven yea and that also they called the Rebels stroake But of All Images forbidden in the second Commandement as so much moving God to Iealousie Those which are most common and most dangerous as little taken notice of being most Spirituall or most Divelish are the Images we are so prone to make and mould of God by that within us which is therefore rightly called Imagination and the proper forge of Images which yet may reach farther higher and more inward then our sences or that which the Schooles call Imagination Worse much then Images made by hands which we are so long in Moulding and Carving that we blâ—sh to worship That we have sweat so much about and warmed our selves with part of But a deceived Heart makes us eate the very Excrements and ashes of those Images or Image-makers And as the great thing which brought the Flood was the evil Imagination of mans Heart continually So it is the great promise in many places of Scripture that his people should no more walk after the Imagination or the Image making or the Idols of their own foolish Hearts And it is the great Judgement and Punishment of those that when they knew God did not glorifie him as God nor were thankfull that they should become vain in their Imaginations or in Image making and their foolish hearts so darkened as to change the Glory of God into an Image or an Idol of their own fancies the most dangerous Idolatry And thus indeed they change the Image and glory of God in themselves to the Image of a Beast eating grass as Nebuchadnezar and it may be This is some emblem of worshipping the Beast or receiving that character which the Revelation saith All the World should do but those only whose names were written in the Lambs book of Life before the foundation of the World And That Beast or sensual beastly spirit may be more common than is thought And when man was made in the Image of God He was to Rule over all the Beasts or Beastly natures or spirits But now losing the Image of God and of man also he taketh the Image of a Beast and of The Beast so much spoken of in the Revelation But as Love was the foundation of the very Law also springing out of the Heart of God which is Love However it may now gender unto Bondage yet it rose from Love So it speaketh Love to the very worst of men as Saint Paul affirmeth till their Rebellion make them Outlaws and put them out of the Protection of that good Law which is given to them all saying to
Her Captivity must return again as we saw in Abrahams History compared with Ezekiel and where ever those Waters came there was Life and Healing and no more curse It s possible also that the Time of This great change may be hinted in the fourteenth year or second Sabboth of Prophetical years as David also was the fourteenth from Abraham as the Number of his Name imports after the four great Monarchies had Lorded it Twelve whole years which may be also Prophetical years from Nimrod Or from Abrahams Time or Promise And as Israel got off their Curss and Gods goodnesse turned it into a Blessing as our evil sometimes turns our Blessings into Curses so doth his Goodnesse turn his Curses in Blessings whence it may be the very same Word in Hebrew signifieth both to Curse and to Blesse as we find in several places of Job and other Scriptures So did Edom also cast off his Yoak and his Curse also it seems and got a Blessing As we see in his Fathers Blessing and Prophecy Which was also hinted by his Brother when by wrestling he had got the Name of Israel a Prince with God and had prevailed also with men he useth his Power for Edification presently as the Apostle speaketh and not for Destruction And cometh out in the Power and Spirit of that God whom he had so conquered and doth not only carry a Blessing to his Brother Esaw and intreateth him but with an Holy violence forceth him to take it Receive the Blessing which I bring thee from God and he urged or forced him by pressing on him and he took it And we read how he cast off the Yoak of Israel even to this day at the time of Jehoshaphat or the Lords Judgement Yea he did not only cast off Israels Yoak but came to rule and reign over Israel himself at the comming of Christ. As we find in the Herods and Agrippa the King from the Seed of Edom hated cursed Esaw Which we may consider when we read of Gods Shining out from Seir Coming from Teman or appearing from Paran And the Prophet Esay cryeth Who is This that cometh from Edom with Dyed garments from Bozra I that speak Righteousnesse mighty to Save And his Red Garments may allude to Edom if it signifie Red as many will have it which may be rather a Glutton And though Balaam say the Star of Jacob or the Scepter of Israel shall smite the Corners of Moab and Destroy all the Children of Seth and Edom shall be a Possession to be compared with Obadiah yet the Prophet Amos speaketh of Edoms Possessing the Tabernacle of David when raised up As we may Translate the words cited also in the Acts where Edom also is coupled with Those that call upon or are called by the Name of the Lord. in Dan we read that Edom with Moab and Ammon shall escape out of the hand of the Destroyer which some make Antichrist or the Turck who to this day payes Tribute to those Arabs of Edom Moab and Ammon rather then Ruleth over them Yet as Babylon is threatned with perpetual Desolations because he laid the World wast and would not open his Prison Doors to let his Prisoners loose and send them home a-again which hath been very comfortable when I have applyed it to Christ in prayer So also the great Curse Threatned to Edom was because he forgot the Brotherly kindnesse and the Covenant that should have been between Him and his Brother Jacob and let his Wrath tear for ever Which hath also been sweet to my thoughts when I have applyed it to Christ and asked whither He also would put himself under the perpetual Curse of Edom by forgetting the Brotherly Kindnesse and Brotherly Covenant and by letting His wrath also Tear for Ever God forbid Next unto Cursed Edom Moab and Ammon may be well placed the Incestuous Children of Lot which signifieth a veil or cloth as God himself seemeth to allude when after Lot was Separate from Abraham for Israel must dwell alone God said Lift up now thy eyes and look c. And again in the Prophet Isa. I will take away the Veil or Lot for that is the Word in Hebrew from the face of all people Even in that Mountain where he will tread down Moab who was Son of that Lot twice named There in Heb. Of Moab and Ammon it is said they should never come into the Church of God one of the worst threatnings in all the Bible and the cause in Deut. and Neh. is because they met not their Brethren with Bread and Water and hired Balaam to curse them but God turned his curse into a blessing and so I hope he did This Curse also of Moab and Ammon For their Ever or Never is in another place limited by Ten Generations Seeing God himself hath expounded ever and never in the Case of Ammon and Moab by Ten Generations Why may not we Take it so in other places also Especially seeing it is often used where it cannot be meant of Eternity As the Servant bored in his ear must serve for ever which is but till the next Jubile as we may find in the twenty fifth of Leviticus and all the Jews on those places And Christ also tells us the Servant abides not in the House for Ever And how often is it said Jerusalem shall Ever be desolate and never be built again or Inhabited As we found in Idumeah And yet it was built again after the seventy Years Captivity and may be yet again after all This. As we find Ay was built again and inhabited in the return of Nehemiah the Lords Comfort or Repentance Though Josuah himself that mighty Type of Jesus had made it so signally Desolate and that for Ever also a Desolate heap for ever As the very Name may intimate in Hebrew Greek and divers other Languages As the Stones also placed by the same Josuah are called a Memorial for ever And so are the Rites of the Passover and the Shew-bread and Aarons Priest-hood Yea in the very Family of Phineas though it was soon changed nay the very Garments of the Priests are a Statute for ever And his Trimming the Lamps and Restraint of blood and fat also for ever and Circumcission is called an everlasting Covenant in their Flesh. And Samuel was presented at the Tabernacle to abide There for ever And David was chosen to be King over Israel for Ever and his Son Solomon saith I know that whatsoever God doth it shall be for Ever And I know not any Word or Phrase for Eternity in Scripture that is not applyed to Heaven and Earth or other things which pass away But Christs Words shall Never passe away And for Moab and Ammon As I live saith the Lord the God of Israel and the Common Rule is that Threatnings with an Oath are never reversed Surely Moab shall be as Sodom and Ammon as Gomorrah and Perpetual Desolation as we read in Zeph. And yet in Jeremy
men who must be Honoured and Loved also as the Image of God our Father And the Greater Honour must be Given to the Weaker Vessel even as God also hath given it to That which might seem the most uncomely Which is an Argument that may be well pressed on Christ not only to bear with them that are weak but to give them the more Honour as the Weaker Vessel And those commands yea and Prayers also that we love and honour all men speak more of the unspeakable love of Christ who is the Root of this Spirit in All then can be Here exptessed by many Words The sixth Command Thou shalt not kill or thou shalt do All thou mayest to preserve thy own Life and thy Neighbours lyeth also on our blessed Saviour as the Text commented by many Scriptures Being by his Death to bring in Life and Immortality and to destroy Him who had the Power of Death the Devil and to redeem them who through fear of Death were all their life time subject unto Bondage Even as that pretious Psalm foretells He shall save the Children of the Needy and shall break in pieces the Oppressor He shall spare the Poor and Needy and shall save the souls of the Needy He shall Redeem their soul frrm Deceit and Violence from force and fraud and pretious shall their Blood be in his sight He shall Live and shall be tender of his Neighbours Life and how much more of his Neighbours Soul which himself hath said is so exceeding pretious and unvaluable From whence come Wars and Contentions Come they not from our lusts within us but the Wisdom from on high and sure then more as it is on high is Pure and then peaceful for without Peace and Holiness No man shall ever see God Gentle and easie to be entreated For the man of God must be gentle towards All men even those that oppose themselves being in the snares of Sathan and led Captive at his will A very sweet place when it is applyed to Christ also who is the great and good and best Man of God and therefore must be gentle unto All. No striker no quareler but gentle unto All. The man of God must not strive or fight Which also puts me in mind of That prophecyed of him He shall not strive nor Cry or braul in the streets the bruised reed he shall not break nor quench the smoaking flax till he bring out Judgement to victory over all Lusts and Pride Passions and Contentions Seeing This is the great Rule given us in the Psalms and new Testament also that he that loves Life and would see long dayes as Christ ever shall must refrain from strife and guile must follow peace and persue it and who will harm you in so doing when Himself also said next to the Pure in Heart Blessed are the Peacemakers which is much to be applyed in our Prayers unto him for They shall be called the Children of God as if himself also came to enjoy That Glorious Title of the Son of God by being so Peaceful and the Great Peace-maker To which also I may add Davids Blessing of Abigael and her Councel saying that when himself should rest from all his Enemies and Troubles it should be no Grief of Heart to him or offence that he had spared his Enemies also and had not shed their blood All This or much more lyeth in the sixth Command and from Thence is branched out in divers Laws in Exodus and other books of Scripture which all lie upon Christ made under the Law as much or more then any man to Man also as well as unto God his Father And we lose very much of the sweetnesse of the Gospel by not pressing the Law Yea the whole Law upon Christ that he may still keep it to us also as to God his Father seing it is vain to talk of Loving God if he do not also Love his poor Neighbour And who his Neighbour is we may see by divers places of the Law and Gospel compared especially in those which are branches of these great commands for loving our Neighbour as our self He that smiteth a man that he dye shall be surely put to death As of old to Noah the great Father of us all and so the very Law of Nations or Nature He that sheddeth Mans blood by Man his blood shall be shed for in the Image of God he created Man And that Image is still so continued and preserved by Christ who is the Head of every Man that the same Apostle calleth Man not onely the Image but glory of God If a man smite his servant or his maid with a rod that he dye under his hand he shall be surely avenged Which should keep a man in aw even to All under him For the Man of God must be gentle towards all c. If an Ox and by Consequence any other Beast or offensive Creature be wont to push with his Horn and it be told his Owner and He do not keep him in the Beast killing a man or woman shall be stoned and his Owner also shall be Put to death Which may be sweetly applyed to Christ who is the great Owner and Master of Sathan and all other pushing Horns of which if we complain as wont to Push and goar us or our Children is he not bound to keep him in and set us at rest from Him that pusheth at us Which may be hinted also in the Psalms where we find some complaining of pushing Horns as in the Prophets also and of the tearing Lion and Bear and the power of the Dog or other Beasts of Prey which the great Owner and Master must keep in upon Complaint that they were wont to push yesterday and the day before If a man dig a pit or do but Open a Pit digged by some other and do not cover it again so that an Ox or Ass fall into it he shall surely make it good How much sorer punishment if a man or his Child fall into it and perish which we may haply come One day to presse upon Christ also least he suffer us to fall into a Pit of his own digging or opening or any other Ye shall not afflict any Widow or fatherlesse Children for if thou afflict them in any Wise and they cry at all or do but begin to cry to me I will hear and surely hear their cry and my wrath shall be hot and I will kill you with the sword and your wives shall be widows and your Children Fatherlesse The word used in Heb for an Orphan is Jathom He shall be made perfect as well as He is wanting And the whole History of Jotham the Orphan of Gideon should be often read in These and all Times and the rather because That of Arma Gedeon in the Revelation may perhaps lead us to Gedeon As that of Sechem to Dina or Judgement as we touched before If thouâ—end mony to any of my people who are They the Poor that
include Seven or Ten or some of their Powers expressing Fulness or Riches It would be almost endlesse to shew how many Things and Motions in our Bodies do consist or depend on some of these numbers of Seven or Ten which is visible in our very Fingers and Toes with their Nails or Horns to be compared with the Ten Horns in Daniel or the Revelation That I say nothing of the Ten Horns of the Law or the Ten Sephiroth of which the Jews speak so much in allusion to That of Horns or Rayes comming round about the Lawgiver As the Antients formed Moses also like the Sun in his Rayes of Glory I must not speak of the Seven Hours Dayes Weeks Months and Years the Antients observed in Conception and forming the Embryons Features and its several Ages and Changes with ebbing and flowing coming and going of Hair and Nails and Teeth and many other things by Seven Which is also the number of the True Ribs on each side as they distinguish them and of the Vertebres or Rackets of our Necks as also they parted or paired out our Nerves by Sevens As if in our Brain also or the spinal marrow were the Beast out of the Sea or the Old Serpent or Hydra with Seven Heads also And as the Chymists find seven Metals in the bowels of the Earth below answering to the seven Planets above the seal being stamped quite through the Wax or Wafer as the Jews observe so that all the signatures are also seen below which were made above so also we have our spleen and Liver and Gall and Reins and Bladder and other Members as Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus and other Planets with their Armor-bearers also round the Sun as in our bowels about the stomack or great Centre of Sun-like heat and fire in That Lowest Region As the very utmost Court of the Temple had its Molten Sea like the Ocean or Waters under the Earth with its ebbings and flowings like the rowlings and yearnings of our Bowels and the Altar of burnt offerings burning and devouring all And the middle Court or Temple had the Altar of Incence and the seven Lamps and the twelve Cakes As our middle Region or Breast hath its Heart or Altar of Incence also compassed with its pericardium or purss of Water and the Air of the Lungs with the twelve Ribs or sphers or signs of Heaven Seperate with a Veil or Firmament also from our Head or Heavens above or Waters above the Firmament where are the first Ideahs or Originals of All below that I say nothing of the Mercy Seat of our Eye and its Rainbow representing the Throne of God in the Holy of Holies as we find it described in divers places of Scripture Is there not also some resemblance between the Northern parts of the Earth and the Brain or Head As if the North were made to Rule as may be hinted in divers Scriptures for Preferment cometh not from the East or West or South And from North the man comes that Headeth Kingdoms in the Prophets and their likenesse to our Lungs also may be considered with their Winds and Colds Other parts are as Neck Shoulders Breast and Arms. The Midland Sea as the Midriff or it may be part of the Pericardium about the Heart or Africa and Libiah signifies the Lords Heart As the form is And America the back-parts or the People a far off The Great Sea below the continent as the Waters under the Earth or our Bowels and their Rowlings and yearnings the Chambers of the South and as Waters returning in the South Terra del fuogo the Hips and Nova Guinea Loins Mael strom the Nose or Mouth How by Eating all things we turn them into our own Natures and spirits as a shadow how all things return To God as they come From him we touched before and may I add that Christ gave his own flesh and blood to be eaten by us and to be ours and us and the twelve Tribes were presented in the twelve Cakes of shewbread changed every Sabboth day as to be eaten by God or the Priest and so to be turned into His Nature as the Scripture also may intimate in other places besides our Saviours discourse with Laodicea in the Revelation And some make Shaddai to be All devouring and our God is a consuming fire We might happily measure times and seasons in the great World and changes there of much better then we now do If we knew the exact Times of Circulation of our blood and other humors of our bodies and how long the Chylus stayeth in the stomack or any other Receptacle before it be separate and circuled for assimilation What time in the Duodenum there is somewhat in the very name Jejunum Colon or Ilia Which we should consider often as the shadow that I say not measure of the ebbing and flowing of the Sea That I say nothing of the Infinite Bowels of God which are hinted out in Scripture by the many folds of our Ilia six or seven times longer then Man Nothing also of the Caecum which may speak somewhat Hidden as the Hebrew word for the World or Age or Ay and Ever Nor do I say the very Excrements return again in Grass and Hearbs which feed us with the Beasts we eat Shall we come to the measures of Time which is also the measure of Motion in the Heavens The two faithful Witnesses as the Scriptures intimate like our Eyes in our Heads or Heaven above and some other things below which so many Nations call by the name of Witnesses to be compared with Scripture also making such solemn Oaths by putting the Hand under the Thigh the Sun and Moon were set in the Heavens not onely for Dayes and Years but for Times and seasons Which are all made by Their motions through an Oblique Zodiack That crooked or that crossing serpent which in Hebrew hath almost the very same Letters and Numbers with the word for Year For Shanah is a Metathesis of Nahash the Serpent and the Ammonite which may be compared with Sampson the little Sun and Hercules And as Time began with Night before Day so it may be Winter was before Summer as Seed time before Harvest as the Scripture may intimate in divers places Evening and Morning are for sowing Seed and so the former and the latter Rains and the Harvest and Vintage have their seasons The Latter Works of God are ever the Better and his last Wine is best and he will ever shew himself better and better till all Time be perfected into Eternity and God be all in All. How the Antients might part their Day and Night into twelve hours a piece we shew before It may be compared with That of Moses When the most high separated the Sons of Adam and as St Paul expresseth it determined their Times appointed and bounds of their Habitation He did it according to the Number of the Sons of Israel And Thus the first twelve hours of Time
of Iohn lead us plainly to the Feast of Tabernacles and its Evening Songs and joy for Drawing of Water as the Jewes expresse it in their Talmud Adding also That He that never saw That Drawing of Water never saw Ioy in all his Life for more could hardly be expressed on earth then was expressed There And themselves confess it was to shew the Pouring out of the Spirit on All flesh in the Latter Daies which we saw beginning at Pentecost As the fiâ—st Drops of the Former Rain was followed by the great showrs of the Latter Rain After That Feast to prepare the Earth for the Wheat Then to be sown As Barley in the Spring Yea the Prophet Zechary tels us that the very Fast of the 7th Month How solemn and How strictly commanded should be Turned into Ioy and Gladnesse and Solemn Feasting And Then Many peoples plurall and Inhabiters of many Cities Yea the Rabble as the word soundeth shall Goe and say Come and let us Go speedily to seek the faee of God the Lord of Hosts and the Lambs Bride and the Spirit also will say I will Go also Yea Many People and strong Nations shall come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem Yea and Damascus it self shall become his quiet Rest his Menu hath when the Eyn of Men or Mankind shall be to the Lord as All the Tribes of Israel And He that remaineth shall be for our God Yea as a Governor in Judah And then are Both Comings of Christ described as before in the second Chapter First on an Ass the Foal of an Ass of which before on the Fourth Command â—nd other places of the Law And then he shall speak peace to the Heathen and have Dominion srom the River to the Ends of the Earth And to Them afar off in the Sea Which we touched before in America And yet Farther And As sor Thee also by the Blood of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy Prisoners out of the Pit where there is no Water Turne ye to the strong hold O Prisoners of Hope even to day do I declare that I will render Double to Thee And then follows the Conquest of Turk or Greece c. And Then the Lightning from the East So shall his coming be we must touch it again in our Discourse of Barak the word here used And Then the Feast of Trumpets in the Seventh Month and so of the Year of Release at the solemnity of Tabernacles As Moses expresseth it And the Jews bring it as High as Isaacs Release for the Ram and Thence they blow with Rams Horns the Jobelin alluding also to the Turnings and overturning of Jericho that is His Moon before the Sun of Josuah Then follow the Songs and other solemn shoutings of That Feast of Tabernacles of which also Lament 2. 7. and it may be Psalm 74. 3 4. Where Perpetual Desolations shall be Ended And the Chapter concludeth How Great is his Goodness How Great his Beauty Corn shall make the young men speak or sinq and New Wine the Maids A sure Character of That Feast at the Great Vintage of which also before in that chapter and the next and 12th also And in That day I will make the Governors of Judah like a Torch in a sheaf another Character of Harvest And the Lord shall save the Tabernacles of Judah first another Character that David or Jerusalem do not glory or exalt themselves against Judah And I will pour on the House of David and Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and Supplication and they shall look upon me It is Jesus who speaketh This and All whom they have Pierced Of which also St John in his Gospel and yet again how often in the Revelation And we may touch Megiddon again in our Paralels of Kings and Judges And in that day there shall be a Fountain opened for Uncleanness And I will 〈◊〉 off the Names of Idols And then again of Both Comings of the Man that is Gods Fellow And of that Great Feast of Tabernacles which himself also cited or remembred on the Last and Great day of That Feast as we spake before And again in Hosea Great shall be the day of Jesreel it signifies the Seed of God But I will first take away her Corn and Wine and Oyl in the Moads or Seasons thereof and will cause her Mirth to cease her Sabbaths Moons and solemn Moads But I will allure her into the Wilderness and There I will speak comfortably to her And I will give her Vineyards and the Valley of Achor for a Door of Hope How Gracious and she shall sing There as in the Daies of her youth when she came out of Egypt and dwelt in Tabernacles as we read in That Prophet also And in That Day thou shalt call me Ishi my Man and Husband and shalt call me no more Baali my Lord or Master for I will take away the Name of Baalim or Lords out of her mouth and they shall be No more remembred by Their Name And I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and This the Corn and Wine and Oyl and All shal hear Jesreel But the children of Israel shall abide many daies without a King and without a Prince and without a Sacrifice But afterwards they shall return and seek their Lord and their God and David their King and shall fear the Lord and his Goodness in the latter daies or End of the Year And as That greatest Feast of Tabernacles was at the End of the year so was their Greatest Meal at the End of the Day Whence we read of the Lambs Supper and the Lords Supper rather than Dinner which with Them was slight and little or nothing else but a Break fast As the Ravens brought the Prophet Flesh at the Morning and Flesh at the Evening Yea and God also had a Lamb at the Morning and another at Evening And Blessed is the Land whose Princes are Noble Offering Tamid before Break fast and Minha before Supper As the old Targum and other Jewish Writers on That of Solomon And although there were 12 kinds of Minha Yet That in Evening and Time thereof alone was called The Minha Being offered at the End or Evening of the Dayes As we read in Abels Minha or â—ains in Gen. 4. being just at the Time of the Evening Incense the Ketureth As Abrahams Evening Marriage if we may so call it of Keturah brought him More sons then his Morning Marriage of Sara Let my Prayer come like Ketureth and the lifting up of my Hands As the Evening Minha And the Priests of Baal cryed till Minha Then and not till Then God shewed himself by the Prophet Elijah Who was Then As the Evening Star Though in the Revelation compared to the Morning Star scattering the dark Clouds and Nightbirds of Jesabels time as we saw before in the Fourth Church And Then Elijah Treadeth Carmel or Cramel the Vintage of God which from Esay 63 and
Above thy Gaffers or Teachers and Elders who Ordained thee As we touched before in Chaver and Chebron and hath annointed thee with the Oyl of Shushon I cite it the rather because it is not only To the most excellent Majesty which we read in this Psalm and in Daniel and several times in Luke and the Acts but a Song of Jedidoth also as the 84 and Both are to the Bald Cold Frozen Crackt and Croaking Sons of Korah Cursed and swallowed up into the Pit and yet His sons became the Sweet Singers of Israel as we shewed before in Asaph Heman or Jeduthon and the Genealogy of Samuel And also upon Sushanim Which may Bring us to Shushan and to the Gate of Shushan also leading to the Temple from the Mystery and History of Hester And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in lowest reckoning is 700 But as the Mazorites 1260. of which again in Daniel and the Revelation Mor Myrrh and Moriah Aaloth Aloes and Tabernacles Kassiah Mount Cassius or the End and Corner of the Land of Promise Kings Daughters be Kirotheca for either Hand But at thy Right Hand thy Bedded Wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 333 just half to 666. As the Full Moon is Half to the Change Or the New Moon Half to the Full which is made in 333. hours As the whole Course of the Moon from the Sun Thither again in 666 Hours Her stay under the Rayes on both sides May be 3 Dayes and an half Under the Sun or Shadow of the Earth between her and the Sun Three hours and an half the Duration of that Eclipse which operates as many Months or Years As it was Hours they say and Her Wandering alone from the Sun Three Weeks and an Half But of Months and Years we must speak again and of All Prophetick Numbers in Scripture in a Private Character If God please to enable But why is she called Shegell Even as Alma whence Olam she was Hidden Vailed yea and Captive or Gaoled also Rouled and Tumbled So is the Moon so is Israel and so Shegell But Now She is to Rejoyce with Ioy unexpressable and Glorious because She Loveth One She hath not yet seen or can see being in Light Inaccessible All this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was Led Captive Gaoled Veiled Unveiled and Shorn also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glib Glich Lick and Like 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Smile Simile Sembled or Dissembled as the English Guile and Guild and Gilded also and Gul'd and Gulled and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exult and Rejoyce or Glee and Glee'd Glad And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Roule and be Tumbled as Gallile of the Gentiles and Gilgal where he rouled away the shame of Israel Also the Wheel or Orb or Sphere of the Sun or Moon or Heaven And the Skull of our Head which we often compared to Heaven as we see in Golgotha the place of a Skull in our Saviours Crucifying And Heaps of Sand and Waves of the Sea and Roulings of our bowels Which we compared with the Sea and the sprouts of the Earth with the Thoughts of our Heart As we found in the Bible and Volumes thereof which the Jewes also call Gillajon and Megilla Especially the Five Volumes or Rolls As they call the Little five peeces which they joyn to the five Fifths of the Law Or Pentateuch the Canticles a Comment on This 45th Psalm and Ecclesiastes the Great Turner and Rowler Ruth also with Lamentations but especially the Megillath Ester which I have seen presented by them in a very curious Roule and Dresse as a Great Present These five Rouls have All the Rowlings Vailings and Revealings or Revellings and Rejoycings of the Church and World also the Body of Christ. Shadowed in Heaven by the Sun and Moon in the Temple by the Tamid and Minha Or the Two Alters Courts Testaments Churches of God Jew and Gentile Rachel and Leah And in our Bodies also with our Eyes and Ears of our Head where our Tongue also St Iames unruly Beast the Tatler or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Beast also And somewhat Lower As before And yet again Thus the Suns Chast Casing of the Moon is called in Hebrew Kisse or Kese which the English sound as Cheese and Cheesle is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebrew Geeven as Heaven Hie-even and the Latine Caseus may be Hebrew As the Moons Casing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numbers 80 81 85. As in three Dayes and Half are hours seven times twelve or twelve times seven the Full Number of Rest just 84. As in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cased a kin to their Chesed or Chasid most Tender Mercy and Gracious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 72 6 times 12. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 82. As coming from Chas or Case to Cover spare and Trust Ed which is Ever Witnesse Cloud in Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as English Hide and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both a kin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As Hanna and Anna of Penuel as she with Peninnah a Widow of 84 after 7 years marriage lived chastly at the Temple day and night As the Cloud in and upon the Tabernacle whence Covering Sin as a Cloud Which may be also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 42. the just Half of 84 as if onely 3 Nights and an half 3 times 12 and 6. which is just 6 times Seven And although the whole Time of the Moons Casing or Covering under the light of the Sun which in other Planets they call Combustion may be 3 whole Dayes and an half or 84 Hours Yet seeing Night is the Moons Walk or Rule rather then the Day and that 12 Hours are so clearly signal both in Day and Night one might believe This Cled or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 42 Hours may be the 3 Moeds and an Half or 3 times 12 and 6. As a Measure to All the Rest. But we may begin much Higher Yet in whole Numbers there is none till 7 that is made of any 3 numbers and an half As 3 times 2 and 1. we find it no lower but in fractions as 3 and an half But in whole Numbers 7 is the first so made of 3 and an Half Which is therefore Measure to all the Rest. As the Schools rightly taught us of every First in its kinde which is Min in Heb. from Mana to number Mani and Mina And it may be there is no Number possible to be made of any 3 numbers and an Half But onely Seven and Those which are made of 7. which may haply lead us into the Powers of Numbers more then we yet believe In a word That Number can be made of none but Even Numbers els in Halving we must fall to Fractions What shall we say then Are Odd Numbers for Heaven As the very Poets taught us Numero Deus Impare Gaudet Being the onely simple Numbers as was
touched before in 3 And Even Numbers for Earth And 7 the first Number in which Heaven and Earth do meet and are Reconciled And the first made of any Three whole Numbers and an Half The next is 14 for 10 and an half is a Fraction As famous for the Passover to Israel as 7 for the Sabboth To Israel I say for when they did not enter His Rest and keep His Sabbath or first seventh as they should have done in great kindnesse he prepared or sanctified the next Sabbath for Them Or the fourteenth day of the first Moneth for their Passover And for their Vnclean or Travellers which God did own and encourage as in Strangers a second Passover on the fourteenth day of the second Moneth But in the New Jerusalem or That described in Ezekiel 45 The Sanctuary is cleansed and the Posts of the House and Gates of the Court also with the Corners of the Alters Settle are sprinkled with Blood On the very first Day of the first Moneth So quick will he be in Cleansing his House And Then on the very first Seventh Day of the first Moneth a Sacrifice is ordered and offered for All and every One that Erreth As also Heb. 5. 2. And least This might leave out Any He addeth also For Him whoever that is Simple or Seduced 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Even as English use the word Pity and a Piteous simple Creature which is just 490. as in Daniels Weeks from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both in Greek and Hebrew to lead one in or from ones Path and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in Greek also the great Seducer Which I may not English Though a kin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both full and foul and fool as well as folly and folium Faba sed abstinendum est a fabis and to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yea and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also Though it be often used in a good sence as to pun or pound or ponder ones path as Caleb was of Jephunne much a kin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fane and faine and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What ever Time This in Ezekiel may intimate It seems to lessen the great work of Aarons Family and sets up the King or Nasi Is it not the time of Melchisedech who he saith shall no more oppress the people Yet They shall All be His and for Him and but an Offering for him And upon him it shall be to order or offer All the Oles or whole offerings and Minhaes and Sack also the Drink offerings In the Haggings or feasting dayes and New Moons and Sabbaths In All the Moeds of the House of Israel He shall Doe cum vitulo faciam the sins and sin offerings and the Minha and the Ole and Solemn Salems in the Ever of the House of Israel As if Jerusalem it self were but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jeru Salem They shall see peace When the first stone was laid they cryed Grace grace But now Peace also Grace and Peace Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and Peace of God that passeth All Passovers and all Pentecosts also with All understanding shall preserve and keep your hearts first and then your Minds also Through Christ Jesus and no wonder Then the next words be Finally my brethren Yet a little while and it shall be Eternally my Brethren For Your Fathers good pleasure is to give you a Kingdom And you shall See Eye to Eye Grace and Peace also He hath willed it and through His Grace We will it also Say Amen and say it Boldly Yet with Reverence Kiss him also but with Reverence Concerning his Sons and his Daughters Ask him They are All Princes and you must but Ask of Them or for Them But concerning the VVorks of his Hands you may Command Be of good cheer He calleth you And stayeth for you Unaware I am carried Back by the Hand to the Number 14. For just so many are in the Hebrew word for Hand which is Jad It shall Cast and It shall Bless As in Juda. The same letters and numbers are in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Day Sufficient for the Day is the Bread and Good and Evil thereof And Shadai who is still Sufficient And how near akin Jad is to Jah 14 to 15 we may come to know when we also see how near the Lamb or the Goat of the 14th Evening was to the Lamb also of the 15th Morning And both and All to the Holy Lamb of God that beareth away the Sin of the Lambs the World This was yet at Bethabara the House of Wrath and beyond Jordan but also the House of That which must Pass Over yea and Pass away which is Wrath in Hebrew Before the sun go down and the Cursed Hanged Ones must then be down also The next Day and next and third He came also But I knew him not but had read in Esay that the Spirit must Rest upon him As a Dove or Master of the Wing on a Branch or Natsar But Now I saw and bear Record Here is is One Witness and when He was Taken off Then Christ followed for His three Dayes and an Half also of which we ought to speak again and then comes Stephan the Crown to the Conqueror and then Paul a Witness with a Witness or a Martyr But after Three Dayes being as Dead or Blinde and then recovered by Ananias the Lords Grace But where is Poor Saphira We may finde Her also And thy Eyes from Tears for there is Hope in the latter End And yet All this while but Saul 1000 years after David and Ananias sent to the house of Judas also to seek Saul as we saw before and Saul of Tarsus a City Built by Lascivious Sardanapalus or by others in pursuit of Io Turned to a Beast they say and now a Beast must be recovered As the sound may hint As Tauros And Mount Taurus Thereabout began to all the East which from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Syriac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just 666. As Tyrus Tyras Thrace Threscos how near to Japhets Tiras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who shal be perswaded yet to dwell in the Tabernacles of Sem in this Feast of Tabernacles But Paul is now at Damsack Blood-sucking or sacking Damascus Though it had suckt the Blood of Righteous Abel as they say There slain yet It had also an Eliezer my God Helping and a King anointed by Elisha God Jesus For Damascus also must be Menuha as we saw before And the Prince that carryed the Heavy Doom to Babilon it self was Seriah the Lords Sir and Servant Son of Neriah the Lords Light Son of Maasiah the Lords Trust and Refuge And he went with Zedekiah the Lords Justice to Babel which is Lebab our Heart Turned Backward in the Fourth year or after Three years and an Half And this
In each a Court with Chimneys or Incense-Places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Keturah 715 or 721 Of 40 long and 30 broad 1200. And there was a Tower 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 round each of the four and Boylers under the Towers or Tires Attires 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 630. But the Courts 100 long and 50 broad as the old Tab. to be compared with the 5000 fed by Christ as after by Peter rancked by 100 and by 50. The front Eastward as of Old the Waters from under the Eastern Threshold to the Right hand that is Southward from the Altar And he brought me out the Track 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Northern Shaar or Shoar or Gate brought me round the Track without to the outward Gate the Track looking Before or Eastward and behold Waters running out from the Right side And in the Mans going forward with a Line in his hand he measured 1000 in or with a Cubit and he brought me through the Waters Waters of the Ankles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 191. or 751. and he measured 1000 and brought me through the waters Waters Knees 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 272. 832. As alluding to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fishponds as Acts 2. and Blessings And he measured 1000 and brought me through Waters of the Loines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 540 1100. And he measured 1000 a River which I could not passe over for the Waters were Gay High or swelling Waters of Soaking Sacking or Swimming 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a River which shall not be passed over And he said These Waters going out to the Eastern Roule and they go down upon the Plain or Arabia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And they bow to the Sea and going out at the Sea the Waters are healed And again They shall Bow to the Sea and there shall be aboundance of Fish and every thing shall live where the River cometh And Fishers shall stand upon it Fishing from Ein to Ein As they shall see Ein to Ein or themselves in my Eyen And these Fishers or Eins shall be to Shoot or Shut out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Harms or Charms or Armes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Curses or Nets for such Fishers of Men and Souls from the Dead Sea of Sodom also And that it is the Dead Sea of Sodom is clear by comparing it with the Great Sea uers 10. and by the places here named En Eglaim of the two Calves of Aarons Cow as the Jews speak that first Calved Eglon the little Calve and at length the Great Eagles that sucked or sacked the Carkas when it 's Spirit was Drawn out to Pella or Piell the Mouth of God But they were bid to say Take away All iniquity Receive us Graciously and we will offer the Calves of our Lips Engedi The Famous Valley where Moab Ammon and Goats of Seir gathered against Jehosaphat the Lords Judgement But the Valley of Jehosaphat in the 4th day is called Beraca the Vale of Blessing as we read in the 20. of the 2. of the 2. of Chron. to be compared with the 3. of Joel It signifies the Fountain of the Goat or Kid as the English render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the place where Saul saught David among the Rocks of the Goats But he was safe in a Sheeps Coat and Thence made the 57. Psalm And Mical saved his Life by an Image with Goats or Goats-Hair And the Spouses Locks are as Flocks of Goats more than once as alluding to the Hebrew Seirs both Locks of Hair and Flocks of Goats as Seirits of Esau. She is not afraid of his Left hand under her head She is bid to feed her Kids 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Engedi sindeth Copher Some read it Camphire But it may allude to the Goats of the great Day of Attonement which is also Copher to Cover All Transgressions as Solomon speaks of Love And Noahs Ark was made of Gopher and covered with Copher And the very Mercy-Seat was called Caphoreth and the Veile by turning it Parocheth whence perhaps Parochie Pariche Parish And the very Lake of Sodom is famous for Copher The Prophet Joel closeth his Discourse of Judgement in the Valley of Jehosaphat with the Sun and Moon or two Witnesses being darkned and the Lords Roaring and shaking Heaven and Earth as in Amos and Haggai and then the holy Jerusalem where no strangers in Zachary Cananites shall abide or passe through her more And than the Mountains shall drop New Wine the Vintage and Feast of Tabs and the Hills Milk and the Rivers of Judah shall flow as in Harvest Jos. 3. 15. And a Fountain from the Lords House shall reach through Jordan and the Dead Sea to Sittim That notorious Vale of Peor where their Lust destroyed 24000 as the 24 Hours of the Day and brought up a new Race of Witnesses both in Priests and Princes For the old ones were hanged up before the Lord and an everlasting Priesthood and Covenant of Peace setled on Phineas for turning away the wrath of God by his Zeale in slaying Zimri and Cosbi Lies Treason For Had Zimri Peace who slew his Master But Sittim also must be Healed by the Holy Waters And it helped also to build a Synagoge or an Ark made of Sittim Wood. And the Sittah Tree must come to see and know and consider that the Holy One of Israel hath Created it as Esay 41. In Zechary Those Holy Waters are parted East and West to both the Seas The great One in the West and the Dead Sea of Sodom in the East Which yet was before the Face of God as the Temple stood And the Fire and Brimstone as the Lake of Soodm in the Revelation were before the Throne of God and his Lamb. As the Molten Sea in the Temple But it is said also there shall be no more Sea as no more Curse but as a Sea of Glasse Harping which may allude to the Sea of Cinereth the Harp which is severall times in the Revelation and the New Jerusalem as Pure Glasse The last Resolution of Bodies And He that can makeit rightly Malleable or can Manage the true Asbeston or live on Hearbs need not much soft Rayment But the Hie-places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Bushes Vitches or Witches Bitches or Beasts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and such as shall not be Healed shall be given for Salt For every one shall be Salted with Fire and every Fire Offering in the Law must be salted with Salt Have salt in your selves and let your speech be savoury seasoned with salt and peace one with another And he caused me to turn How Gracious to the Lip of the River May it not be Daniels River of Time also where we have both the Heels of Messiah as David speaketh as alluding to Gen. 3. 15. and to Jacob named from the Heel and the Ancles also the words used for the Ends of the earth with the
English also speak as the Hebrew Year for Years as there were 120 Hours before the Day of His Creation which we may consider again when Christ himself shall grow up to be a Perfect Man in the Evening of the 6th Day before the Great Sabbath of which again The Hebrew words for 120 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be just 666 if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be but 40 and if it be 600 Then they make 1226 and with Vau 1232 which wants 100 to make 1332 which is just Twice 666. How near to Daniels 1335 as the other to 1260 in the Revelation 120 Then is Gods great Moed for Man And Moed in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is just 120. 3 Times 120 is 360 3 and an Half 420 and three times 420 are just 1260. And 10 Moads 1200 which may be in Moadim which truly seemeth more than Two Moads as Slashim and other Plural Numbers are 10 fold to their Singulars 140 Hours Twice 70 come up to the Evening Minha of the 6th Day when Man was Created and prepared for the Sabbath following as our Saviour also Rested in the Grave after his Evening Sacrifice and Minha on the Cross. And 144 Hours Twice 72 bring in that Sabbath or 7th Day beginning as the Christian also seemeth to begin where the other ended in the Evening 150 the Sabbath Midnight 156 The Morning 166 The Hour of That Dayes Evening Minha 180 Hours bring up the Morning of the 8th Day 10 times better then the Noon of the First Day which was the 18th Hour 190 That Evening Minha which generally began about the Ninth Hour of each Day Which is therefore called The Hour of Prayer as we saw before in the Cripple healed at the Beautiful Gate and Cornelius also by the same Peter 214 The Evening Minha of the 9th Day 222 The 10th Midnight or Jerecho of which before being the 3d part of 666. Which may therefore be 3 times worse as 3 times bigger then Jerecho was to its Two Spies or Witnesses that were hid by the Woman 3 Dayes and an Half As we saw before As also the 10th Midnight might be 10 times as Dark or worse then the first Night was For we are now come in Hours to the Time of Hiding Slaying or at least Laying the Witnesses Being the Black Dark Dayes of Aegypts Darkness for 3 Dayes and an Half with the 3 last Woes or Plagues in the Revelation before Israels coming out of Aegypt Or if Those dayes of thick Darkness to be felt were begun before This which seemeth very little if at all yet sure they might be Types or at least Warnings to Israel who had Then Light while their Enemies were in the Dark As if to intimate that all the Darkness of the Worst Dayes or Hours of Darkness as our Saviour speaketh should fall on Aegyptians onely the black sons of Ham as before and not at all on Israel Though to These also it was a Great Hour of Temptation As we may see when we come to their going out of Aegypt Now also the Pascal Lamb or Goat must be Tyed up as one of the two Witnesses to be slain on the 14th Evening but set apart and separate or sanctified the Phrase we saw before on the Evening of the 10th Day or beginning of the 11th Day As 3 days and Half before its slaying 240 Hours end the 10th Day and begin the 11th whose Morning is 252. 260 It s Evening Minha 264 brings up the 12th Evening 276 Its Morning 285 It s Minha 288 Bring up the 13th Evening and 300 its Morning 310 The Hour of Minha 324 Bring up the next Morning the 14th Day 3â—3 the 9th Hour of That Day or the Evening Minha when the Two Lambs or Witnesses are slain the Daily Tamid and the Passover which might be a Goat or a Lamb. We are now to look up a while on the Moon the Counter as the Hebrew Mone That Faithful witness in Heaven She was White before from 3 Dayes and Half or 84 hours and Lebana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 87 3 hours and 3 Dayes and an Half But Now she is White as Snow on Hermon which is Sheleg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 333. She ligs or lies in in White as in Childbed and she Lights which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Ligg is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Legit. As Lectus and Electus As Two in a Bed the One Elect the other Left to Lig and lie Or left to the Left hand And Sheleg Turned is Gelesh Glass and Ice in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Shegel the Bedded Wife as before Each is 333. Let the Full Moon then be Sheleg and the New Moon Shegel As the Queen at the Suns Right Hand or South or below him as we saw That Phrase Or as Jericho stood to Jerusalem this had 24000 Standers that 12000 Or as Sodom and the Molten Sea in the Temple In Gold of Ophir Ke Tem As Perfect just 1000 or As Teaming which is Hebrew bringing perfect ones and Twins in Hebrew Teomim As Esau and Jacob were Twins and Perfect also in their Generation as we touched before with Jacobs Hand on Esaus Heel in Ezdras Ophir also may hint her Fruit and fraught which are Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Free and Bear as before in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For Ophir is I will be or make fruitful as well as Gold of Peru or rather Zeilan as the Great Peleg sheweth And Solomons Gold from Ophir made up 666 Talents As the Cours of the Moon in 666 Hours Or the Golden Image in Dura 6 in breadth and 60 in Height of which before And though the Sun be as Gold and the Moon as silver with Chymists Yet This silver Sheling is also Shegel or Shekle in Gold of Ophir As in Hebrew the word for Sun is Feminine or Commune and the Moon is Masculine Shall she also as Sara begat Isaac that Sun of Laughter when she is freed from her Monthly Courses or Changes Then be As the Sun and the Sun seven fold Brighter Shall she Then be as Perfect Gold Ketem Ophir Or as He that is Perfect as our Saviour speaketh Or as the Canticles Clear as the Sun to be compared with the 4th and 60th of Esau where also Thy Sun spoken to the Church Vers. 20 may be just As the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 660. But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be 500 Then is Thy Moon in the same Verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 718. But 52 Hours Or Weeks of the Year more than 666 the Number of the Beast in the Revelation And of the sons of Adonikam my Lord cometh or Riseth at the Return from Babylon a Type of That to come As we see in Ezra 2. 13. the Children of Adonikam 666. And as 333 Hours bring us to the 14th Evening or Minha Passover So 336 to the
a Chate and two Lambs also for the onely Salems of the whole Corgregation which were most Holy to be waved up with the two Cakes or Biccurim Which the Jewes also may teach us to be 7 Taps long was it the Sacred Cubit and 4 broad and 4 high As to represent a Month of 4 Sevens in that 26th of Levit. If one of these Sevens be 372 as in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and bring us just to the 16th Morning of the Wave-sheaf of Barley which was just 372 Hours Why may not the other 3 bring us to the Pentecost Or 50th Day after that Feast of Barley 3 Times 372 make 1116. which are just 84 less then 1200 the number of Hours in 50 Dayes that make up the Pentecost from That Barley sheaf And 84 in Hours make up just 3 Dayes and an Half for the Slaying or Laying of the Witnesses as we found in the Sun and Moon Hid in the Suns Beams or Hamma 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 53 or 93 till she be first Malta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just 84 and then Lebana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 87 in three Hours more and Melit or Melita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 89 and 94 and Malcha Melcha Milcha 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 95 and Sach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 98. And so forward to Sheleg and Shegel as we saw before I add not That the Hebrew words for that we saw but now in Levit. 26 You shall be given up into the Hand of the Enemy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 either with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or without it make but 3 more or 3 less than 1488 which are just 4 times 372 the number of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4 times repeated in that Chapter for their Chastisments But we may yet have a more sure Key for That and all other Prophetick numbers In the mean time we may remember that 222 Hours the 3d part of 666 brought us to the 10th Midnight before Jericho And in Josua 4 19 we read that they came out of Jordan to Gilgal the East border of Jericho just upon the 10th Day of the First Month and the number of Jericho is the Hour of Noon in that 10th Day The Pascal Lamb or Goat began to be Tyed up or separate 3 Dayes and Half for the Passover on the 14. As Pauls Tempest went off in the 14th Day and Then he came to Melitah or Malta which hath also been Deliverance against the Turks many a time As Sodom was delivered by Abraham in the 14th Year and Jacob served Laban for his two Daughters 14 Years and Jerusalem was freed from the Assyrians in the 14th Year of Hezekiah and Ezekiel saw his New Jerusalem in the 14th Year after the Citie was smitten and in the 10th Day of the first Month just as the Lamb was to be Tied up And Daniel had his great Vision of which we have spoken on the 14th Day after That Lamb so tied up but not slain till the 14th Day about the Evening Minha or the 333d Hour just Half of 666. But they came out of Rameses on the 15th Day Numb 33. 3. and at Sunset Deut. 16. 6. just 360 Hours of the Month. As if now they were to begin a New Year of 360 Dayes 10 times as good as the 2d Dayes Light Rising up 36 Hours from the Beginning The Morning after was fixed for Heaving up the Barley-sheaf as Emblem of their Rising out of Aegypt and our Lords Lifting up on the Cross and Rising also from the Grave on the 3d Morning after his Death as the Sheaf was the 3d Morning after the Passover slain In Hesekiahs time they began to clense the Temple polluted by Ahaz on the first Day of the first Month but they passed not the Porch till the 8th Day nor the House till the 16th Day the Time of this Barley-sheaf which was one of the Reasons why they could not keep the Passover on the 14th of the First Month as commanded on pain of Cutting Off. But Hesekiah rose early and called the Rulers of the Citie and All laid their hands on 7 Goats for a Chate and the Priests killed them and with their Blood made atonement on the Altar for All Israel as the King commanded And the King and his Princes and all the Congregation made an Act of Parliament for the Passover on the 14th of the 2d Month and then Hesekiah prayed The good Lord Pardon c though not according to the Purity of the Sanctuary or Lawes thereof And the Lord hearkened to Hesekiah and Healed the people And the King spake comfortably to the Levites and they kept the first 7 Dayes as in the first Month and the whole Assembly took Counsel to keep other 7 Dayes and they did so with great gladness as the like was not since Solomons 14 Dayes also And the Priests the Levites rose and blessed the people and their voice was heard and the Praier came up to his Holy Habitation unto Heaven Pentecost the 50th Day from the Sheaf of the 16th as in Levitieus But in Deuteronomy from the Sickle which was the Day before and that so strictly maintained against the Zadduces as the Jewes may teach us that from Thence They cryed Thrice On this Sabbath Sabbath Sabbath or the morrow after the Passover slain the 14th Evening with this Sickle sickle sickle as we saw before as a beginning to the 50 Dayes of Pentecost Deut. 16. 9. When thou put test in the Sickle In 50 full Dayes there are 1200 Hours to be compared with 12000 of a Tribe The First-fruits to God and the Lamb in the Revelation And Moadim are just 1200 if Moed be 120 as we saw before and Moadim be 10 Moads as it may be For the Hebrew Duall is for Two and their Plural for 3 at least as we saw in Elohim and Plural numbers are generally 10 fold to their Singulars as we saw 10 a Congregation As the least plural Regimen is made with Jod that is 10 and Im may be 50 or 610 and through all the Bible we see numberings by 10 and by 50 and the least Captain of 10 As also the English yet observe in their old good Tithings and Tithing men with Headboroughs and Constables of Hundreds The 7 Weeks were but 49 Daies as a foundation for Daniels 7 Weeks of 490 Years of which again And though the Pentecost were the 50th yet the Biccurim or first Fruits of the Spirit Acts 2d came on the 3d Hour of that 50th Day So that we may begin the 50 Daies or 1200 Hours before the Barley sheaf And sure it must be 12 Hours at least before that Morning else we shall disturb the course of Nature which began Time as God doth All with the Worst first as Evening before Morning and probably with Winter before Summer That is Sowing time before Harvest whose last end ended the whole Year and began another If 1200 be added to 333 the Minha Passover or to 335 or 6
How near to Love in Hebrew There they Fast and Pray and seek a way for Themselves and for their Little Ones For he was ashamed to ask of the King because he had spoken saying The Hand of our God is on All for Good that Seek him Davids dying words to Solomon but his Power and Wrath on All that for sake him We are now come to one of the hardest Knots of Time Daniels Weeks And though it may not be so easie to fix Their beginning Or their End as it is their Number of 490 that is 7 times 70 years Yet for an Essay as God shall enable us Esay saith of Cyrus He is my Shepherd and shall perform All my Pleasure Saying to Ierusalem Thou shalt be Built and to the Temple Thy Foundations only shall be laid And in 45. He shall Build My City and let go My Captives And Ezra 4. 12. Be it known unto the King that the Iewes are come from Thee to Ierusalem Building the Rebellious City c. And the King returned Cause the men to cease from Building the City Or that it be no more Built till farther Order So the work ceased till the 2d of Darius Then stood up Haggai saying Is it time for you to dwell in Cieled Houses and This House lie waste And again Verse 9. Ye run every man unto his own House This was the First of the 6th Month and Then They came and wrought in the 24th of that Month but so slowly that he spake again on the 21st of the Seventh Monrh the Last and Great Day of Tabernacles and again on the 24th of the 9th Month And now I pray consider from this Day and Upward from before a Stone was laid upon a Stone in the Temple of the Lord But consider now from This Day and Upward from the 24th of the 9th Month from the Day the Foundation of the Lords Temple was Laid c. By which it seems plain enough that They had leave to build the City and had Will enough to Build it and to Ciel their own Houses rather and much sooner than the Lords Which by Esayes words was onely to be Founded by Cyrus when Jerusalem should be Built And so Ezra found it plain enough and Nehemiah was told indeed that the Remnant of the Captivity were in great affliction and Reproach and that the Wall of Ierusalem was broken down and the Gates burnt with Fire Which yet may seem some Later matter then That Sack in Zedekiah which sure was known enough to Nehemiah That he needed not be told of That But now he heard some late or New affliction and Reproach upon the Remnant that had built the City up again after their Return And when Himself came up He did but onely Repair the Walls and set up the Gates And There also the men of Iericho repaired next to the Very High Priest Of so great repute was Iericho the cursed City even in Those dayes and Returning from Babylon also being as the Iewes say the 2d to Ierusalem Or as the Moon as it soundeth to the Sun Yea some observe that in the very Hebrew Letters of Ierusalem there only wanteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of All in Iericho and Salem its first Name It may not therefore be said but That Cyrus also gave forth a Word to Return and Build Ierusalem as we read in Daniels Weeks Which were given out to Him in the very first Year of Darius the Mede which seemeth also the First of Cyrus the Persian though not in Babylon and at the very beginning of his Prayer the Word went out as the Angel tells him Verse 23. with the very same Phrase in the 25th From the Going sorth of the Word to Return and Build Ierusalem But the Phrase Motsa doth not onely note the first Going out of a Word or Thing but a Continued Motion and going on or growing up or constant flowing As in a Spring of Water Esay 58. the growing up of the Grass Job 38. Or a Mine of silver or other Mettal Job 27. Or Sun-Rising and going forward Psal. 19. Or the East it self Psal. 75. And His going is prepared as the Morning we found in Hoseah And his Goings forth from Eternity the Dayes of Old in Micha Where we still read the same Phrase and in many other places So that Here also in Daniel we may not tye it up to the First word of Cyrus or any other to return or build but to the Whole Matter as Dabar signifies as well as a Word or Command or full Process and Progress of That Business with All its full Execution which is Motsa also the End Issue or finishing of a Matter as well as its first going out So that if the Word or Command of Cyrus were in Doing or delaying very many Years yet it was still so going forth and going up as the Sun from East to West And so Cyrus may signifie in the Persian or in Hebrew also being a Vessel of Fire as the sun is or at least seemeth And there is a famous Record of Cyrus seeing the Sun at his Beds Feet as Joseph and others perhaps have seen it as Bowing or coming towards And his Catching at it Thrice was Thrice 10 Years they said of his Reign And the Sun also was the Persian Armes or God And the Prophet brings him up from the East like the Suns Rayes upon the Temple and Jerusalem And though the Sun stood still for one whole Day in Josuah and went backward in Hezekiah So that some that had fixed Nabonasses Era in Babylon came to enquire of That VVonder 2 Chron. 32. 31. yet it went forward again and got ground perhaps by staying So did Cyrus also For Darius did but Build on Cyrus Foundation and the Decree of Cyrus So that it may be said of Him as of Zerubbabel His Hand began and His Hand finished And I will make thee a signet on my Hand also for I have Chosen thee As I threatned to Cast off thy Grand-Father Though a signet on my Right Hand How long this City or this Temple should be in Building by That Decree may be very hard to determine from the Scripture which yet must determine All great matters of Faith and Doctrine and other things also of great moment before we can much rest and be confident in them Which is One of many things I so much love in the Chain of Scripture Chronology by T. A. So industrious in clearing Scripture which I am loath to leave in This or any thing else in which we differ But for This also by Scripture That Israel and Judah those two VVitnesses were now slain or lay as Dead in That Captivity and that Judah returned but in Childe-bed and newly Delivered Is so clear from Mich. 4. 10. that it needeth little other proof And but of a Daughter the Daughter of Zion For the Man-childe was not yet Born Though before she Travelled her last Thraws she must bring forth a Man-childe
the Lords Goodness and Jedaiah the Lords Knowledge and of All These Make Crowns for Jeshuah and for Zorobabel also For He is bid to go to to the House of Josiah in the North or Hidden Secret of the Lord which is Zephaniah As alluding to the Prophet Zephaniah who was in the Dayes of Josiah as we saw before And now also the House of Josiah was in the Lords Zephaniah Secret Councels of the North or if you please in the Holy Spleen of God As our Spleen is at our Left side As Babylon and All of Spleen or Wrath is at the North or Left Hand of God which is also the Hidden Secret as the Hebrew word intimates And the Temple North Gate Tedi was named from Hiding as Hidden by Antonia or by the Hill Bezetha From This House of Josiah Hidden in the North came first Jeconiah through a Northern Gate of the Temple called Jeconiahs Gate and Then Zorobabel a Nephew of Josiah by Jehojachim who begat this Jechoniah the Cursed Man in Jeremy 22. They shall not lament for him saying Ah my Brother 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as we saw before As I live saith the Lord If Coniah were the Signet on my Right Hand yet would I pluck thee Thence to put him on his Left But Do not his Bowels begin to yearn already In that pathetical Question following Is this Coniah a Despised broaken Idol Is He a Vessel of no Pleasure Good for Nothing Why is he Driven out c. Hear O Earâ—h Earth Earth Not a word of Heaven What Write you For He must be written in the Dust as Jer. 17. 13. Or esteem and reckon you This Man Ariri as akin to Arur Cursed As Childless But yet he was not Childless As This very Text may shew us For it Asketh before Why is he cast out and his Seed also to a Land they know not And to put it out of Doubt the very Gospel tells us that After his carrying into Captivity He begat Zalathiel in the 1st Chron. 3. Shealtiel that is I Sought God the son of Jehojachin Assir or Bound As Psal. 146. The Lord Raiseth them that are bowed Down He openeth the blind Eyes as Christ was sent for these ends and He looseth the Prisoners Assyrim and so Here Assyr the Prisoner And his Name was Jehojachin the Lord will Establish both Jachim He will Raise and Jachin He will Establish And so we have Jachin a Prince as before Jachin a Priest Two Witnesses Jeshuah salvation or Jesus the son of Jozedek the Lords Justice so near akin to Jachin the Priest and Zerubbabel the stranger or Fan of Babel from Jachin the Prince also but in Bonds Assyr he Bowed and besought the Lord it seems as may be sweetly promised in Jeremy 22. 22. Compared with Ezek. 16 and 37. and so was freed also from his Bonds set above All the Princes with him So gracious is God in afflicting us as we saw before in Menasseh and many others So he calls this son of his bonds as Pauls Onesimus alluding also to That Is Jechoniah a Vessel of no profit Shealtiel I sought God As alluding also to Saul as if He were Here come up again who Dyed as we read 1 Chron. 10. because he would not seek God but Ob or the Devil Lisheol As alluding to His Name also as we saw before And that God heard Him also may be Hinted in His Sons Hosama which is He was Heard and Pedaiah the Lord Redeemed Who begot Shimei that Cursed David and Zerubbabel and Shelomith as we saw before on the Canticles By which and other things we may see Solomon had also a Prophetick spirit when he cryed Return Return O Shulomith Return Return And That of Mahanaim also from Padan may allude to Pedaiah Their Redemption And His Right Hand Pillar Jachin Yea and what If his 400 Pomgranates might look Forward also as well as Backward Seeing from His works finished There were very few years if any more than 400 to this Jachin we are now getting out And as we touch'd before in Jachins Tenth So also by Ezra 2. we mâ—y see there returned but a Tenth and scarce a Tenth of those that came from Aegypt Whence were above 600000 and Here not 60000 12 years old as in Esdras Though He reckons the very Servants and Handmaids also not a Pin must be lost of the whole Tabernacle and the Vessels in full tale Yea and the very Camels Mules Horses Asses and the very Hairs of your Head are All Numbred As remembring that we saw before in the 4th Command Thy Servant and thy Handmaid Yea and the Son of thy Handmaid often urged by David Thine Ishmael Thy Ass and thy Ox must Rest and be refreshed also or New Souled All their Sons and all the Congregation were but 360 as Dayes in their Year and 12 years old as Hours in the Day above 42000. As alluding to their 42 Mansions in the Wilderness as 42 Months in the Revelation and 42 Children by Elishas Bears To which God may allude in that of Hoseah I am God and not a Bear or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to devour you Yea I will give you 42000 from Babylon for Chose 42 Children devoured and the Years also or Women Eaten by the Cankers and the Locusts that had Hair as Women in the Prophet Joel and the Revelation Being returned to Jerusalem with 12 Elders Neh. 7. 7. as the 12 Hours of Day and Adonikam also My Lord Riseth or Commeth with 666 Sons as Ezra 2. 13. They set up the Altar in fear 3. 3. and Offered the Daily Tamid c. From the First Day of the 7th Month the Great Month we seek and kept the Tabernacle Feast before the Temple Founded in the 2d Month as Solomons in the 2d Year as Moses Tabernacle Raised Ex. 40. And Then they sung and sounded Trumpets with great Praises but others wept and yet God Accepted Both though there is a way He Best accepteth and That he will teach the Humble As in our Bodies Hot and Cold Dry and Moist Up and Down Draw in and Thrust out Yet All good Harmony So in Israel So in the Body of Christ. Even After Babylon also Some Weep and Pray when others Sing Praise and with Musickalso and yet Both I hope for a good End and from a good Heart and God accepteth our calling him Father As a Childe calling Dappo Though we know not why the Childe so calleth Him or whom it meaneth by its words perhaps but by its signs and looks or sighing somwhat else O the Heart and Kindeness of God our Father Do but go forward or if you cannot go forward Do but stand still quietly and you shall see the salvation of God O the Heart of God which cannot be seen but you shall see the Face of God But Do not fall out by the way Nor be Afraid with any Amazement Love will cast out Fear And Ezra called them Even All His Company to Ahava
from the Right Hand or South of the Altar in Benjamin the Highest of That Land they say whose Borders ever Go up in Josuah never Down and an other was the Gate of the Firstlings which may be of use ere long to determine its Place and Times also as God shalldirect us The 11 Outermost Cubits of This Inward court were Rayled in for the clean men of Israel Level with the Gate Nicanor The 11 next going up by one cubit and 3 half cubits where the Levites stood singing in their VVainscot Ducan on the Highest step were for the Priests who had no Bar from the Altar but a Row of Pillars Supporting the covering Moses Altar of Sittim-wood and its Plates and Grate of Brass 3 Cubits High and 5 square Solomons Brazen Altar 20 square and 10 High Ezekicls 12 by 12. Which yet they interpret a square of 24. As 12 from the middle to either side And so the Altar of the 2d Temple was Yet so that its bottom of a Cubit hight and bredth was a square of 32 Cubits Onely they cut off the Southeast Corner that All of it might be in Benjamin who was to be the Ravening Wolf on the Lambs But in the Morning to devour the Prey and in the Evening to Divide the spoil As we saw before in the Morning Seeking and the Evenings Finding As Job also In the morning Thou wilt Seek me O but Do it Heartily And in Hoseah They will seek me in the Morning From a Cubit Height where each side was 32 it Rose Up to 5 Cubits at 30 Bredth One more at 28 called its Circuit And One more at 26 brought up the Horns from a Cubit Base to a Cone bending outward at a Cubit Height and Thence One Cubit Higher brought it to 24. and so it was at the Top. Which from the Circuit Upward being 4 Cubits was called Gods Hill on Gods Lion Or Harel on Ariel as Ezek. 43. 15. But they went not up by those or any other steps which was forbidden even at the first giving the Law in Exod. 20 But by a slopeing kinde of Causey at the South side which they called by a Phrase somwhat near the English Cabesh but nearer to the Hebrew Lamh and to make Tame as a Lamb we saw it before As if God would intimate a Lamblike spirit was the best way to Tread on a Lion as they called That part of the Altar As the 91st Psalm Thou shalt tread upon the Lion and the Serpent The Young Lion and the Dragon shalt thou Trample under foot Because he hath set his Love upon me I will deliver him and I will set him on High because he hath known my Name Which I choose for my Portion rather than the World and desire my friends to begg it also Ezekiels Altar hath other particulars which deserve more notice as God shall give us opportunity And That also The whole Mountain and its limits round about shall be Most Holy as we saw before in Jeremiah reaching to Tophet also or the very Ashes of the Children burnt to Moloch in Gehinnon From the Altar to the Porch were 22 Cubits as the Porches Floor was Higher than the Floor of Shushan Gate by 22 Cubits that is Twice 11. And if the Altars Bosome as the Prophet calls it were Thrice Eleven the Court will be 7 times 11. or 77 to the Porch 12 Steps or half cubits high but whole cubits broad besides half paces every 3d step Led up the Priests and Down again from Thence to Bless the People after Incense as we saw before With the Migrepha between the Porch and Altar with the great Laver also as the Sea of Sodom still before the Lord at the Right Hand Southeast As Solomons molten Sea at the Southeast corner Of 3000 Baths or about 24000 Gallons which we may consider again although 2000 filled it up to the usual coks or Pipes at that distance as might best suit Their Bathings which could not be when the Sea was Full of 5 cubits Depth 1 Kings 7. 26. 2 Cron. 4. 5. The Porches Gate was 40 cubits High and 20 Broad without a Door being alwaies Open as a Type of That within that must be ever Open also As the Gates of New Jerusalem Esay 60. 11. Apoc. 21. 25. The Front was as Gold to the Eye with curious work Full 70 cubits High and 25 Broad The Bredth of This Open Gate was equal to the Inward Bredth of the whole Temple which was 20 cubits As before in Solomons which was Double to the Tabernacles Breadth But the whole Bredth was Treble to Solomons Inward House and Double to the whole with All its Side chambers And its Height Double also but in the Porch which in Solomons also was 120 cubits As Cyrus commission Lay its Foundations strong as we saw in Esay 60 Cubits High and 60 Cubits Broad So that Their weeping at These was not for quantities which Here were Greater but qualities and loss of the cloud and Holy Fire and Ark and Urim and the 5th perhaps yet Greater though the Jews made it less than the Holy Ghost The Spirit of Prophecy hinted they say in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is 5 wanting in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will be glorified and will Take pleasure in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hag. 1. 8. Where we may also finde the Etymology of Erets as we saw before Ezek. 20. 40. 30 side-chambers 6 cubits Broad and so were the 8 at the West End but There the Two Uppermost were longer than the other 6 but 12 long With 4 Out-doors on either side between the 5 Chambers of 5 cubits Height in 3 Stories with Enteries 7 or 8 cubits broad and Stairs to the 2d Story besides the great winding stair Case at the North-East corner to the Top of All and Bothside Galleries of 3 cubits before all the Chambers but the West End which had only their Entries and stairs of each story on either side But the Southside Galleries were called The Conduits As curiously laid from the Rock Etam or Nepthoah seeming the Highest place of that Land or the World Whence Water came to the Water-gate or Well at the Southside as Rivers turn in the South and Ezekiels waters in the South and Thence they came to the Great Laver c. So that Water could be brought up for Bathing or other uses to the Top of all the Gates and Buildings Which we may shortly understand without much charge and Cruelty to Horses The Length of All the Porch and House and Oracle within was 70. But the Walls about made 70 broad and 100 Long from East to West And so the Porch they say from South to North 100 cubits And the Height of Herods Temple was 100 As the Middle Isle of a Church between the Side-chambers As the Middle walk of this Royal Stoe we saw before was Double to the other two in Height of 50 cubits and above 30 Broad as both the other Walks