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
or asleep in their Causes as the Schools express And This being First in the Kind is Measure to All that follow Both in Weeks which have 3 and an Half or 7 Halves of Light in Dayes and as much Darkness in their Nights and in Months the Moon or the Earth may be Eclipsed 3 Hours and an Half or be Hidden in the Rayes of the Sun 3 Dayes and an Half Which Changes of the Moon may represent the Changes of the World also And at every New Creation the Witnesses to be Hidden as Dead for 3 Days and an Half or about the 10th part of the Time of That Month or Age or World and Then Rise with such an Earthquake as we read in Psalm 104 and Rev. 11. 13. and Then the voyce from Heaven Come up Hither is but as the Word at first Creation Let there be Lights in the Firmament As Witnesses c. And the New Moons or Changes were solemn Moeds as appointed by the Sanedrin and not under 2 or 3 Witnesses deposing that they had seen the New Moon Who were therefore Feasted and Encouraged to Watch for it as Holy Job may allude in That All my appointed Time I will Wait Till my Change Come If the New Moon were seen before Noon That was the First of the Month but if not till After Noon the Next Day was accounted First by Their Rule who also tell us that at first the Moon was equal to the Sun but in contest God made her blush and hide her face so long that Adam saw her not till the Afternoon of the 6th Day And to bring it neerer yet to the Revelation The Moon Crossing the Ecliptick in the Zodiack that Crooked Serpent meets a Dragon as they call those Nodes of Dragons Head and Tayl ready to Catch the Woman in Travel or her Child by Eclipses in which the Moon or Earth is Darkned So that Darkness may shadow the Dragon or the Beast of the Bottomless pit or that Abyss we read in Gen. 1. the measure of the Rest. This slayeth the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth and bindeth up our Eyes and other Witnesses also both in our Bodies and the Temple or Tabernacle of Witness also Where all the Witnesses were measured by them in Heaven and their Goings and Comings and by 3 and an Half or 7 Halves and 7 as in the Lamps There being no less Number or other made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers but 7 and those that come of 7. and Seven in Heb notes Fulness and Rest and Turning as in Sabbath as in every 7th Hour of the Sun and Moons Motion And 7 Dayes also make the Moons Quarters and 14 Change her whole Face and bring her up to Those at the Poles also Where she is Hidden Half her Monthly Course and so is the Sun Half his Year Returning in the 7th Month As to All the World in One of the Equinoctials And so ln the Temple As in slaying the Lambs and offering all the Witnesses there might be found Daily 3 or 4 Hours So they ceased also 7 Hours from the Morning Sacrifice to the Evening Minha and Then 14 to the next Morning As Their Longest Night was but 7 minutes more than 14 Hours as the Moons Returns and Fulls in somewhat more then 14 Dayes and yet they made or counted Their Night Even to the Day as the English still call it whose Languages Phrases and Idioms are neer akin to the Hebrew as this Discourse sheweth in very many Instances And as 7 is made of 2 Threes and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half So All Their sprinklings of Blood in their Daily Sacrifice were by 7 or 3 and an Half on their Great Altar made with 3 Corners and an Half being Cut to bring it All into Benjamine and their Incense Altar and divers other things by 2 or 3 Cubits and an Half and the 7 Lamps in the Candlestick branched by 3 and an Half on either side And their Musick with 3 sorts of Instruments besides their breath or spirit and 3 kinds of Blasts with Quavering between 2 plain Songs as singing Catches or Chatses or it may be Watches Some of which had Musick to part them as our Waites and others Silence as the Revelation Silence for Half an Hour while the Incense was offering and the People stood without in silent Meditation or Prayer And as 7 is the Lowest Number made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers so is 14 the next of 3 times 4 and an Half for 3 times 3 and an Half is a Fraction of 10½ As 7 is made of 3 and 4 or 3 times 2 and an Half So is 14 of 3 with 4 and 2. 3 being as the Father of All Numbers and 2 the Mother Great with Child in 4 which is its Square and the First Square as its name and form in Hebrew and the measure to All other squares which may be All Resolved by 4 as Cubes by 8. Here discoursing the Scripture Numbers of 7 and 14 the Author finds them All measured by the Times and Changes made by the Sun upon the Moon or Earth in every 7th Hour 7th Day 7th Month and 7th Year which was also Sabatical as the Seven 7th a Jubilee And the Months so fixed that whether we begin the Year about the Vernal Equinox as the Jewes did after their Coming out of Egipt or at the Autumnal as probably before yet still the 7th Month also will be Holy One of them for the Passover on the 14th Day and the Other for the Tabernacles from the 14th And Both had a solemn Moed of 3 Dayes and an Half for the Witnesses before the Feast As the Paschal Lamb was Tyed up from the 10th to the 14th and so the Daily Lambs were kept and searched and prepared before they might be Offered And Though Sackcloth and Ashes might go off at the Close of the 10th of the 7th Month the Great Day of Attonement yet Their Tradition of Gods Sitting to Judge All Dying That Year made them All as Tyed up in Fasting and Prayer till the Eve of Tabernacles which was As the Resurrection in the Morning Light freeing our Eyes and All the other Witnesses from their Chains of Darkness And he bringeth His Judgment also to Light every Morning Though the wicked will not see it As the Scripture speaketh And the Sun and Moons returns to Them in 14 Hours at Longest Night and in 14 Dayes of the Moon to Them at the Poles and for Changing her own Face and the Earth and Tides may be Measures to all the Great Things in the Temple and other places Done on the 14th Hour or Day or Year in Scripture Where also many Persons or Places as Witnesses lying Dead or as Dead and lost for 3 and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half or 3 times 4 and an Half whlch is 14. As Abrahams Tenents and Sodom recovered in the 14th Year and Then as lost for 3 Dayes and
unto all the Lord should call For it was then but the Feast of Pentecost or fiftieth Day of first Fruits and that but of Barley O but now we wait and hope and expect the Feast of Tabernacles also and the latter Rain as the former little drops even the greatest Feast of Tabernacles which all Nations also must keep with Israel when they shall joy as at Harvest even at the end of full Harvest when all the fruits of the Earth shall be gathered in and all Nations also shall come flowing in as the fruits of all the Earth in that solemn Feast Which was acted also in a Type as we may say of somwhat to come when in the last and great day of the many Feasts of that great Feast of all the Feast of Tabernacles Christ stood out and cryed as the Gospel saith O every one that thirsteth come unto the Waters and he that believeth on me as the Scripture saith out of his belly shall flow Rivers of Living Water as alluding both to their custom of drawing and powring out Waters from Siloam with joy from the wells of Salvation and also to the most remarkable place in Zech where all Nations are invited to that Feast that they might have Water and the Rain of Heaven And it may be he that can rightly count the time between the Feast of Pentecost and Tabernacles may guess also when that latter Rain or fuller powring out of the Spirit shall be Which in general was in the seventh Month yet by another reckoning at the end of the yeer as the seventh Day was the end of the week Even as Gods appearings and Angels also were generally towards the end of the day or about the evening Sacrifice which is one of many Reasons why I think the Lords Supper was and now should also be at Supper or at Evening rather then Morning And to all yet said to perswade us in our prayers to direct our hearts and words to Christ and to God only as he is in Christ as of old in the Tabernacle between the Cherubims of Glory over-shadowing the Mercy Seat covering the Ark I may add That Prayer is a Dialogue between our Soul and God indited by the Spirit of Christ which differeth from the Spirit of God as being That cloathed with flesh and actually united to a Humane Spirit which the Spirit of God as God or of the Father as such is not Which distinction it may be St. John observeth by the Holy Ghost in Heaven One with the Word and Father and by the Spirit on Earth or in the fleshly Members of Christ. Now as Christ in the daies of his flesh did offer up strong sighs and groans and tears and prayers yea and himself also by his eternal Spirit unto him that was able to save him and was heard in all he feared or prayed So doth he now by the same Spirit in the hearts or flesh of his Members which are here on Earth Yet so as all those Members give up their Spirit to their Head As the Elders also in the Revelation present their Vials full of Prayers of Saints to the Lamb and he as the great Angel of the Covenant mingles them with his dayly Incense in his Temple and presents them all even all the Prayers of all Saints to his God and his Father and their Father in and through him They all being indeed but his own sighs and groans or motions of his own Spirit in his Members That we may yet more cleerly understand this let us first consider how Christ prayed to his Father and then how the Christian prayeth unto Christ or to his Father through Christ. As the Apostle saith God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself so in a right sence I may say God was in Christ Praying or speaking to himself even as our Soul communes with it self or as a man communes with his own Heart a Phrase we find in the Psalms or other places of Scripture and we may use it to illustrate This. For which also I may cite that notable passage of our Saviour which I somtime look upon as one of the Keys to open and discover the rich but hidden Cabinet of the Mysterious Scripture where he doth so plainly tell us that he never said one word of himself and yet he said all that was ever said by God for he is the only Word and Mouth of God and in the Prophet Esay he tells us plainly that he said all that was ever spoken and yet now he tells us that he never spake one word of that is From Himself or of his own but of and from his Father and what He said yea and As He spake it unto Him so he repeated it Being as it seems but Gods Holy Echo to repeat those Words and only Those his Father speaketh of himself and in himself and to himself As if Christ also compared with God were such an Infant that he could not speak one sentence word sillable or letter but as God sounded it before him and In him and To him and so He only Ecchoed back some little part it may be as the latter end or loudest part of that Infinite Discourse the Father had and hath to Him from all Eternity to al Eternity Thus when God saith in and to Christ My Son Give me thy Heart Christ then as it were ruminating or repeating in himself what the Father saith He Ecchoes back Give me Thy Heart And so it sounds as a Prayer To Bow down He cries Bow down To Seek my Face Seek my Face And at length his Spirit cries in his Members also Thy Face I will seek Lord Hide not thy Face from me So that the Head only properly speaketh in Prayer but His Members draw also by the spirit of the Head resting and sighing In Them Thus we have seen a tender Mother or a Father Teaching their children to speak and do and go by speaking To them in them as it were and going bowing kissing their hand and Doing All before them and as much as they can in them That they would have them to Do and say Bow down They say and kiss your Hand and say I am your servant or the like by doing and by saying what they mean their child should do or say And then he stammers after them and after many Essaies comes at length to stumble on that gesture posture carriage word or work the Parents have been often Teaching Him or speaking In him For one may speak his heart out to a child or other person who will never learn and Do till he have the Fathers or the Teachers spirit or his meaning and his Meen by accent gesture or some other way rather than by word only impressed on him So that we see our children and such as are acquainted with our spirit can discern and understand our minde by becks or nods or looks or otherwise somtimes without words and somtimes directly against our words and quite
deliver them from their destructions They even They also shall praise the Lord for his Goodness and for his wonderful Works to the Children of men Which is divers times repeated in one Psalm and that also by way of Prophesie or Promise and not only by Wishing as some now translate it Though the very Wishes of the Spirit of God writing the Scripture and it 's O that all the Lords People were Prophets and O that they would hearken and had Ears to hear or hearts to do as they say And O that they would consider and Turn and O that they would confess to God or acknowledg God or praise and bless God And Let All flesh praise him and every thing that hath breath praise the Lord and the like Sighs and Groans Wishes and Prayers of the good Spirit of God in the hearts of his People especially those that wrot the Scriptures are indeed both Prophesies and Promises or very strong convincing Arguments that such things so wished prayed and desired shall be granted to men and performed in them and in all the Earth also Even as Christs setting all his People to pray that our Fathers Kingdom might come and his Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Even in The Heaven or Heaven of Heavens is a very strong argument and great assurance with Evidence that It shall be so Even in Earth as it is in Heaven Yea and it is very usual in Scripture first for the Spirit to express its sighs and groans and ardent desires and longings for a thing and afterwards we read it prophesied and promised It shall be so First it cries Let All the Earth be full of thy Glory and then afterwards It shal be All full of my Glory First Let all thy Works praise thee and Then They shall All praise thee Let All Nations see thy Glory and Then All Nations and Every Eye shall see the Glory yea and the Salvation of God The Skies shall powr down Righteousness and the Earth shall open and they shall bring forth Salvation for the Lord hath created and commanded it He hath willed it and his people will it also For Concerning his Sons and his Daughters They will Ask him but concerning the Works of his Hands even All the works of his Hands They may and will and shall as they are bid command him And shall do the same works yea and Greater also than ever Christ did Then on Earth For he did but begin but Begin to do and Teach as we read in the beginning of the Acts and hath left All to be finished by his Servants after him who for This is gone to the Father and set down at his Right Hand and so hath Power or must and shall have Power over All the Works of his Hands And hath he received All that Power in Heaven Earth for Destruction or for Edification I trust verily for Edification and not for Destruction As S. Paul spake of His. So it is and much more and better much I hope in JesusChrist seeing that he can heal us if he will as the poor Lepar said and can quicken whom he will as himself saith why should we doubt his Will seeing with us it is one of the lowest steps of Grace and Goodnesse to be Willing to be Good and Graceful Yea and as Good and full of Grace as we can be and have any Power to be Why may we not hope it so in Christs Will also Is it Lesse and Narrower or Worse and Weaker then his Power Is his Heart Narrow as Mine is And his Bowels straitned also Or his Eye Evil and his Heart Envious also That he will not give or do or cannot abide to see the Good he might both See and Do and Give and Work very easily in us by that Power he hath received and the Gifts he had for Rebels also I have sometimes thought it might be better much and more Ingenuous farr to think our Saviour Weak or quite unable to do what he would then wilful or unwilling to do what he can for Good The one doth but make him Weak as a man the other Evil Envious or Malicious as a Wicked Man or Devil Or an Hypocrite that makes a great shew of Grace and good in his Face as the Heb Canaph or Knave is one that hath Grace which in Heb is Can ap-pearing But not in his Heart Or one that can but will not be Gracious Or makes a shew of Good without an Heart to it or a will to be so Good as easily he might if he would Especially when I plainly see Christ founding his Calls and Invitations of the Gospel on this very Botom and Foundation That he hath All Power given him by his Father and All things So in Saint Matthew All things are delivered to me of my Father Come unto me All ye that Labour and are heavy Laden I will givey ou Rest. Come Learn of me for I am Meek and Lowly even as Good in Heart as in Head or Arm or any Power whatever And you shall find Rest to your Souls And again at his Resurrection and before his Ascention All Power is Given me both in Heaven and Earth Therefore go Preach Do not fight or force though I have All Power and you shall have it also for I will be with you to the end of the World And therefore Preach And so also before he Cured a Poor Man that was borne by others and had no Tongue or Heart that we read to speak for himself Or it may be Faith to believe or expect it for it is said Christ seeing Their Faith not His but Theirs he said Son be of Good Chear Thy sins be forgiven thee and moved with Compassion also Healed him as divers also that were onely in his Sight though they said nothing for themselves and he never denyed any for themselves or others and This was That he might shew the Son of man had Power even power on Earth also to forgive sins And hath he lesse Power in Heaven Or lesse Heart to use it Seeing he is Exalted and set at the Right Hand of God and so hath Power over all his handy Works and made a Prince and Saviour for this very end and purpose that he may Give Repentance and Remission of sins to All that Ask and Wrestle for it as the Seed of true Seekers and that Brood of Travelers as Jacob who by seeking so and wrestling did become a Prince with God and Thence was called Israel And the Lord delighteth to call himself The God of Israel Though it might make him blush more then any Name or all the Names in all the Bible were not his Heart rather better then his Strength and Power was For every time he calls himself the God of Israel he remembers How a Poor Weak Frail Halting Man Overcame him at his own Weapons For he set upon him and was overcome and could not go he would not let him go till
It shall be so Amen For the whol Earth also must Rest and keep its Sabboth And not only the Land of Israel which was but as the First Fruits of the Earth and That had such a strict Command of observing Sabbatical Years that they must stay so many yeers in Babylon as the Land should have kept Sabboths by the Law while They were in it As we may find in that remarkable Discourse of God on Mount Sinai in the 25 26. of Leviticus which I have somtimes thought not only the Epitome of the whole Law but the Foundation of the Gospel also to be very often considered Yea and the Wilderness shall be as Lebanon and Carmel Yea Every Tree of the Forest shall clap hands and sing and rejoyce in praising God As we read in many places of the Psalms and Prophets Yea and the Gospel must be preached to every Creature under Heaven and the whole Creation longeth and travelleth for it is now made subject to Bondage but in Hope for it shall be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God For God is able even of stones to raise up sons to Abraham Whose seed must be as the Dust and more than all the stones of the Earth And we also can dayly Turn Plants and Beasts yea and Pearls and other stones also into our own selves and our spirits so as that they give us also a New spirit and refresh and joy our souls yea and the Heart of God also as Jotham saith in That remarkable Parable of the Trees choosing them a King How much easier is it for an Infinite God to Turn All these into himself and his own Image by his Spirit making All things New as they All came out first from him and must All return to him For of him and from him and To him are All things From the Throne of God and his Lamb when His Kingdom comes shall issue out Waters of Life Yea to the Sea also even the Dead Sea and they shall bring Healing with them And where ever the Waters come there shall be Life and Healing For the very Leaves of the Trees on the Banks of those Waters shall serve for Healing os the Nations even of the Gentile Nations And the VVilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the Desert shall rejoyce and blossom as the Rose It shall rejoyce abundantly with joy and singing The Glory of Lebanon shall be given to it The Excellency of Carmell and Sharon They shall see the glory of the Lord and the Excellency of our God Yea All the Earth shall Rest and Rejoyce and be full of the Glory of God as Waters fill up the Sea And Then the Lord shall be called the God of All the Earth and the Possessor of Earth as well as Heaven Which was the phrase used by Melchizedeck in blessing Abraham when he had pursued the four Monarchs or four Monarchies to Dan even to Judgment and brought back the Captivity of Sodom also of which we read in several places Although Sodom was so accursed and made a Perpetual Desolation that it is a Type of Hell or of the worst Judgments in all the Bible Yet even Sodom must return again and her Daughters And when our Lord Jesus Exulted in spirit as he saith Abraham did to see his Day he said I bless thee Father Lord of Heaven and Earth even of the Earth also as of Heaven as alluding to that Blessing of Melchizedecks at the return of Sodoms Captivity And the Revelation tells us that when the seventh Angel sounded there was great Voyces or Joy in Heaven saying The Kingdoms of this world are become the Lords and His Christs and he shall reign for ever and ever And the twenty four Elders blessed God that yet at length he had taken to him his great Power and reigned and the Nations were Angry and thy Wrath is come and the time of the Dead that they should be Judged and that thou shouldest Reward Thy Saints c. and shouldest destroy them which destroy the Earth And Then the Temple of God was opened in Heaven c. Where before the twenty four Elders and the four Watchers also had blessed the Lamb that They should come even out of Heaven to Reign upon the Earth even upon the Earth As if the Earth should be the Centre also to All the Glory of God and that it should be more and greater on the Earth than it is in Heaven And yet it may be remembred that from the very first sin of Adam in Paradice the Earth was the Great that I say not the Only Object of the Curse of God The Serpent it self was not Absolutely Cursed but above all Cattel and above every Beast of the field And when the Earth shall be New moulded yet Dust shall be the Serpents meat as we read Esay 65. Adam must labor and sweat the Woman must be in subjection and bring forth in pain but not a word of Cursing them For God had loved them and Blessed them Yea and they shall be Blessed But the Ground is Cursed for Mans sake and in sorrow must he eat thereof All the daies of his life Yea it shall bring forth thorns and thistles and when Nothing else comes after Dews and Rain of Heaven It is nigh unto Cursing as we read in the Epistle to the Hebrews And when the Cursed Earth had also drunk up the blood of Righteous Abel every word of our Savior is Remarkable Then Cain the Murderer as every One is that Hateth his brother was also Cursed from the Earth but not from Heaven that we read and yet a Sacrifice was provided and laid at his door for sin that he may have Dominion over it Though I shall not here dispute the Jews Tradition that Cain also was saved Or that the Earth it self was cursed as a Type of our Heart or somwhat in us more spiritual than our fleshly Heart which is a Metathesis of Earth as in Hebrew of Babel which is Lebab the Heart turned backward And an Heart turned back from God is but Babel Confusion As the Earth which the Lord cursed Bringing forth nothing but Thorns and Thistles yet its Conception is greatly multiplied and its sorrow But I must not here shew How our Body represents the whole World with its three Regions of Heaven above in our Head and the Earth below in our Heart with its Pericardium of Waters compassed with the Lungs as the Air separate by the Firmament of the Midriff from the Heaven above in the Head and the Waters under the Earth in the Bowels which in Heb are expressed by the same word with the Waves of the Sea whose Rowlings and Ebbings and flowings are much akin to the motion and yearnings of our Bowels And in Scripture the off-spring of our Bowels is compared to the Sand of the Sea and the gravel thereof As the Hebrew words for the Thoughts of
our Hearts do also signifie the sprouts of the Earth That Earth which the Lord Cursed But Noah found grace with God which may allude to his Name being the very same Letters which in Heb signify Grace He is called the eighth Preacher of Righteousnesse being the eighth from Enos When it is said Men began to Preach or Proclaim the Name of the Lord. The same phrase with Gods Proclaiming his own Name to Moses Though it be often used also for Calling on his Name As in the 80. and 79. Psalm Pour out thy Wrath upon the Kingdoms or Families that call not on Thy Name Till they seek Thy Name O Lord as we read in the 83d which may be added for calling on Christ and Praying to Him For among other Arguments There why he should not be Angry for ever or remember their Ancestors sins He cryeth Help us O God Our Saviour or our Jesus for the glory of Thy Name and Deliver us and Purge away or atone and expiate our sins for Thy Names sake VVhich as in the 65 Psalm and many other places is a sure Character of Christ in his Priestly Office being a Phrase so proper to the Priest in making Expiation for sin and the Mercy Seat and great Day of Atonement is from that VVord through all the Law of Moses And if I should so paraphrase the Words that Noah was the eighth from Enos who began to Preach Jesus Or to own him so as to call upon his Name I might not onely shew many Scriptures alluding though we now render them by Man and the Son of Man Where in Heb it is Enos or the Son of Adam But I might also bring great Arguments to prove Jehovah there used to be most proper to Christ Or the great Angel Jehovah as he is called in Zech. as alluding to the Angel so often speaking to Moses and giving the Law at Sinai out of the Burning Bush and Sinai is my Bush or my Thorns or my Sin or my Hatred as it is written or at least sounded in the Heb. And That Angel speaking to Moses when he was first made to turn aside and say he would consider that great thing a Bush Burning and yet not consuming as Christ also was plainly telleth him He was the God of his Fathers and appeared to them as t is said the Word of the Lord appeared to Abraham and the old Chaldee Paraphrase useth it very often where we read the Lord Though it was onely by his Name of Elshadday or God Almighty which we found the Object of Abrahams Faith but not yet as Jehovah speaking his Will also with his Power Ehje asher Ehje I will be what I will or can be Which now God would be in Christ delivering them out of Aegypt which in Heb is Misery as he speaks in the Law calling himself Jehovah the Lord thy God And This Name also may seem to be foretold to our Grand-mother Eve and that He should come from Her and she could not hold it in her Name being Chave which may also signifie a Tatler and as soon as Kain was born she cries I have kuned or kinned the Man Jehovah See the same Idiome particles and accents in Ezech. 4. 1. But as Seth was Set the Saxon English is very much Hebrew and a kin to Abraham in the room of Righteous Abel whom Kain slew So there was a Righteous Man also to rise up and be set in the room of Kain the Murderer and Brother Hater Which might be hinted perhaps when Kain named his Son Enoch sounding alike to Enos the very same name with the Blessed Patriarch Enoch That is the Chatechist or Catechumenus As is touched also in Abrahams taking out his Enochs or his Catechised servants against the four great Monarchies And Enoch was a great Type of Christ Walking with God and was not because God took him but before his Translation he had this Testimony that he Pleased God Living also 365. years as there be Dayes in a year And so long also did Christ remain in the Purity of the Primitive Church as the Oracle answered That Christian Religion should remain but One Great or Prophetick year and then came up That Grand Apostacy so much spoken of and ushered in by Him that through all ages since is Called The Apostate For Julian was about 365 years after Christ of which we may discourse again in an other Season When Enoch was Taken away and Seth Dead Noah is Born So Gracious is God in raising up other Comforters as our Saviour speaketh when it is expedient that some be taken from us Who is to be set in the room of Kain and his issue called the Children of Men in opposition to the Sons of Enos Named the Sons of God as some will have it Then began Men to be called by the Name of God All Kains Issue was washed off by the Floud so that all men now are the Children of Seth as we read in Scripture as well as Children of Noah And as we see the Justice of God in washing away the Sons of Cursed Kain so we may see the goodnesse of God in bringing us all since from Blessed Noah while also our sins as the Sons of Kain are washed off by the Blessed Flood of Baptism by Water and the Spirit Which must move on those Waters also as at first on the great Waters till it bring forth a New Heaven and a New Earth in which Righteousness shall dwell I do not Here stay to compare Noahs Ark with Peters Sheet having all kind of beasts Unclean and Clean which He must slay and eat and Turn into himself and his own spirit And from This he is Taught at length to call No Man Common or Unclean Seeing All are together and may be alike as they were in the sheet and in the Ark Resembling Christ with Rest also as the Name of Noah signifies Which was therefore given him because He shall give us Rest or Comfort in our Toyl because of the Earth which the Lord hath Cursed To which also the Prophet Micah may allude This Man shall be Our Peace whon the Assyrian Overflows our Land For so also Esay Prophesied that Assyria should rise up as a Flood and overflow the breadth of the Land of Emanuel as Antichrist the Church of Christ. see also Jer. 47. 2. But Christ shall give us Rest as himself also promiseth when he calleth all that are laden and that Labour as alluding to That of Noah I will give you Rest and again you shall find Rest to your Souls And the flood so Baptised Noah that God blessed Him and his Sons also which was more then we read done to Adams Children Yea Noah had a greater blessing then Adam had as may be shewed in divers Particulars and an Everlasting Covenant so established with Him and his Seed also that it is made the Pattern of all Covenants with Israel or any other as we may find in divers places And the
VVisdom it might ocasion us to think how neer Sophia or Sophos which was the great word with them that called it and their wise man a Die for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned backwards also is still the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comes to that very number of 666. Which we find also in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as his Name may be written who was so notorious in the VVest with Mahomet in the East about the year 666. And although I cannot deny but Ireneus scholar to St. John or his scholar found That number in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as others also in Romijith and divers other VVords or Names yet Some interpret That Phrase of the Number of a man as if it were a mans reckoning or to be counted onely by Him who of all the Creatures can onely so Number Numbers As if man an Hebrew word also came from Mana to Number And Manath or month is reckoning and 490. As if That Solemn Number of 7 Sevenights as we read in Daniels VVeeks were some way That which in Gods reckoning was The Number or the Manath or Month and it may be some way in every month also And in Hebrew manim or minae Pounds or mans or if you will men are 700 as mani number 100. And when Jacob complained that Laban had changed his wages so many times it is manim in Hebrew as the English also use many and for many also they use some which is Hebrew also as we found before in sum a sum or end of number and in numerals 666. as in Latine also Sexcenti for Many Shall I add also that as money or Monie is plainly an Hebrew word for Numbring as with English so also Zemanins which is Times or seasons as the word soundeth for every thing as Solomon speaketh is but 7 added to 700. That is monim or numbring or reckoning by seven as if all seasons were made up of the number Seven And as the Hebrew Sum is a kin to the Latine Sum and Turned backward is their Mus as Sumus also turned backward is still Sumus as if all our being and our summing also were but mus a mouse and all our musing also which is English and many other languages so also both sums are very neer to the Greek soma by which they expresse our body And it may be some will so render That phrase in the Revelation For it is the Number of a man as if it were not onely of mans numbring or of mans reaching or bearing or using as in Scripture often the Rods of a man and the Cords of a man and the pen of a man and the words of a man and the way of a man and the son of man and Children of men and to speak or walk as a man and Temptations of a man or common unto men But also some special Thing in mans body just of that Number And what if it should be That which makes him a man and yet so much and so oft to degenerate into a Beast For as man in the Image of God he was above all beasts and made to Rule them all with all his lusts and beastly Passions as we shewed before from Gods own words and great consult at mans Creation But lust conceiving brought forth sin and sin complete or grown up to be of age brought forth Death as we read in St. James and in Peter also that fleshly lusts Fight against the spirit and that it is very dangerous for any that have once escaped the pollution of the world which came in by lust to return with the Dog to his vomit or the sow to wallowing in the mire in a word to degenerate into a beast or beastly nature VVhich is very much by lust and that which causeth lust in our Bodies and Minds VVhich indeed is a strange kinde of Beast rising out of the sea or our lower Region or VVaters under our Heart or Earth Where also we found the 7 fleshly heads or Planets answering also to the 7 above and in our Brains also the heavens above or the waters above the Heavens as we shewed before where we glaunced at the Serpent also or Hydra a strange beast with 7 heads and 10 horns VVhich are somewayes in the worlds both great and little also which they call the Microcosm and in all its Regions also and in All Generations Most of All perhaps in That or Those which may be called the very Principles of All or every Generation What in our Bodies answered to the Two Faithful Witnesses in Heaven was hinted before May I now add that as Shemesh the Sun in Hebrew where yet it is Feminine is neer akin to somwhat we may scarcely Name at least As the Rabbines often use that word So is Jerach which is Moon and Masculine akin to That which the Scripture makes so much the Instrument of Generation the Thigh or Jareck whence the English Jerk or Yerk to strike upon the Thigh As we read also in Scripture And if the Latine Thorus were but written in Hebrew or Syriack might it not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which would also be Taurus a Beast And either of those words is just 666. And How neer is Ferus as in Greek also Beastly or Fierce to that Name or Number also May I not add that Shimshon or Samson or Hercules in Greek stories signifies the Little Sun crossing the Crossing Serpent of the Zodiack and its 12 Signs as the Labors of Hercules where also the Hydra or the Dragon or Beast and Serpent with 7 Heads and that it may be 666 or 700 in its numeral Letters also Or How Samson Dallyed with Dallilah till he was overcome by Lust also that cut off his Hairs as the Rayes of the Sun and at length put out his Eyes or the Two Witnesses in one Region which have Two also in other places called Testes or Witnesses by Many Nations And they bring Fire also from our Heavens and do strange wonders in us All. But they must be Put out before That Great Change will come which is so generally expected at 666. Which He may understand perhaps that knows why Christ himself did no Miracles till at a Wedding also he could say Woman what have I to do with thee and Then she said to the servants Do whatever He bids you So that Christ himself Did no Miracle Till his Mother bid it also If one should ask a Jew what maketh Men to be Men He might answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their VVeapons or their Vessels what they mean by those expressions one may easily know that understandeth Pauls discourse to the Corinthians about Marriage and keeping their Vessels clean or Holy or separate As David also spake to Ahimelech in number 665 or 666. And so also is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Heb. Vessels Yea and the Reins also or very neer akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and That to Kalla or
34. Gen. 15. 9. cometh up to minde them of their Golden Calf while Moses was in the Mount as many Daies from the Law as now perhaps he had been Years in Heaven And Eglon was destroyed by Josuah 10 34. But about the Evening Minha of the 6th Day Ehud helpeth them and Shamgar so that they Rest from That Moed all the 6th and 7th or Sabbath Day Which may be observed also in all the Sabbaths of those Daies or Years which we are now measuring by Hours of the first Month. Othniels 40 Ehud and Shamgars 80 make up 120 Years the Great Moed for Man as we saw before And 120 Hours make 5 Daies which added to Moses and Josuahs 2 Daies bring us quite through the Sabbath or 7th Day into the 8th And Then Jabin Instructeth or Teacheth them to understand as the word may intimate akin to the Hebrew Phrase we saw before to Correct and Instruct As the men of Succoth were Taught with Briers made to Know Judg. 8. 16. and Jabins 20 bring us about the Morning watch of the 9th Day And Then Awake Awake Deborah Awake Awake As there were 4 Hours to the Morning Utter a Song Arise Arise O Morning Star or Bright and Light Barak Lead Captivity Captive Let All thine Enemies fall O Lord as Saul with Lightning But his Lovers be like the Sun in his brightness For This Barak was also the son of Abinoam the Fatbers Brightness or Beauty As we saw before in glancing on That song in Judges 5. Barak and Deborahs 40 made them Rest till about the end of the 10th Day And Then the Lamb is prepared for the Passover As being Then tyed up by Midian oppressing them And now comes out Gideons Fleece as alluding to That Lamb and his Lamps also in Earthen Pitchers as St Paul remembers and the Barley Cake rouling in a Dream at the Middle Watch or soon after Midnight For the 7 Hours or Years of Midian came to Midnight and an Hour after And Then Gidion as a little Kid Rising by night to destroy Baal Lord of Darkness is Jerubbaal and the Watchman of Israel for That morning and offers the 2d Bullock yet akin to Eglon that Calf and his 40 giveth them Rest till the 11th Daies Evening There is more to be spoken of the Times of Sibboleth and Shibboleth and of Abimelech or King Father and of Sechem and Dinah Judgement and Jotham the Orphan If indeed you dealt kindely with my Father for he did deliver you Then c. But Quis talia Abimelech dwelt at Aruma from Rome to Roam and Ramp in Hebrew letters 254 which may be the very year of his Coming up though others make it about 260. And so with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 added as Verse 31 it will be near 666 when he slew his 70 Brethren of which again His 3 and Tola's 23 and Jairs 22 make up just 48 as 48 Hours of two Daies more which bring us to the 14th Day or 2d Sabbath It had a very sad Night to paralel the Time when Angry Pharaoh said to Moses Get thee from me see my Face no more but Dye So God himself frowned on Israel in that Night of Darkness under Ammon son to Lot the Veyle as we saw before saying Go and and see my Face no more Or Go and cry to the gods which you have Chosen Let Them deliver you in the time of your Tribulation For you have forsaken me and Feared other gods of whom I said You shall not Fear them as it is often pressed and given for the great Reason of their final Captivity 2 Kings 17. from Judges 6. 10. and 10. Therefore I will deliver you no more As in Hosea I will no more have mercy on you and you shall be no more My People Loammi and Loruhamah and I will be no more your God As bad or worse I think them That I do not yet Pray for the World Of which so much before But the Children of Israel said unto the Lord as Job saith it is still meet to say I have sinned I will bear the Rod till he turn and have pity on me For He will will Turn again and have pity on us and Who is a God as Thou art that is Micha Do unto us what seemeth good in thine own eyes If he will he can bring me back and shew me his Arck also and the New Jerusalem but if not and that he have no pleasure in me which yet is worse much worse than Brown bread and my own Tears for Water Here I am by his Grace I will not worship the Golden Image or of the Beast slain with the sword but his Deadly wound was Healed and the World all worshipped but Those in the Lambs Book of Life Let him do what seemeth good in his own eyes Father if it be possible it is possible Save me from this hour of Temptation But However let Thy will which is Holy still and wiser and better also for me than my own will Let Thy will be done and not mine in My Earth as in thy Heaven So we Chatter as a Crane or a Swallow when we cannot mourn as a Dove even Then when we reckon at Morning He will break all our Bones And they put away the strange gods from in and among them and served the Lord And his soul was grieved sor the Misery of Israel It shortned his very Spirit and Breath as in us when we would sigh and cannot O! how is our Heart Burnt as bound and straitned in us O! How am I straitned till it be Accomplished we saw it before Then Ammon encamped in Gilead thestones of Witness and Israel at Mispa the Watch they prayed and also set the Watch and we shall come to Mahanaim For we are already at the times when Jacob said The Lord Help me and watch over me and Laban also God is my Witness and These also for there be Witnesses in Heaven and They are All One as on Earth they agree in One And to what But That Haran or Wrath shall pass away but never Pass over these Stones of Witness to do me Hurt and that I never pass These Witnesses to grieve thy Spirit or to wrong thy Daughters Though thou hast changed my wages 10 or 12 times as often as the Moon or Lebana Now Jephta was a Mighty Valiant man but the son of a common woman which they call an Harlot though the greatest Norman Princes came from Arlott the Mother to That English word And Boaz also that mighty man of whom before in Ruth the Jewes count him Ibsan the Judge was son to Rahab the Harlot as she is called but the mother of Christ in David so that it is almost impossible there should be 580 Years from Aegypt to Solomon or Solomons Temple As that great man will have it from Acts 13 with other Arguments And God perswaded Japhet or his Anagram and Names-sake Jephta to dwell in the Tabernacles of Sem and to
God promiseth to bring back the Captivity of Ammon as of Sodom also in Ezechiel and of Moab in the latter dayes or Time of Messiah as the Jews use to expound that Phrase of the latter Dayes And in the Tenth Generation They also may enter into the Church of God though it was threatned They should Never enter And as David was the fourteenth Generation and the fourteenth seventy Years from Abraham so was Boas the Tenth or eleventh who married Ruth a Moabite who might be the Tenth from Lot who by a former Man of Iudah was Daughter to Naomy Beauty Wife to Elimelech who had two Sons Mahlon weaknesse and Chilion consumption or perfection or Espousal who had Orpha stiffneckednesse who left her Mother The other Ruth who choosing her Mothers people and God is led to a field of Boaz and is bid stick close to his Maidens O tell me where thou feedest and restest at Noon for why should I stray and at length is bid to lie at his feet and say Thou art my Kinsman as Solomon bids us say to Wisdome Thou art my Sister And Christ is both Iachin and Boaz the Wisdom and Strength of God and so very near a kin to Elimelech my God the King see the third of Esay compared with the 7 8 17. 22. of the 23. chap. and see the Women of Moab and Ammon married to Kings of Israel and Judah And David in his straits carried his Parents to the King of Moab saying Let my Father and Mother be with you till I know what God will do for me Or as Esay Let my Out-casts dwell with Thee Moab be thou a Covert to them And in Mercy shall the Throne be established as we found before in the Psalms and Proverbs and he shall sit upon it in Truth in the Tabernacle of David judging and seeking judgement and Hasting Righteousnesse And my Heart shall Cry for Moab O the Tender Heart of God! Let his Fugitives flee to Zoar. As his Father Lot did from Sodom to Zoar which seemeth therefore to have stood in Moab on the East of Iordan and not on the West as the Tables place it And again send ye the Lamb to the Ruler of the People to the mount of the Daughter of Zion as alluding to the King of Moabs paying Lambs for Tribute to the King of Israel But about Ahabs Death Moab and Edom also brake their yoak and freed themselves from Iaacob under Iehoram the high Lord in the dayes of Elisha or God Iesus as the Name implies who had a double portion of the Spirit of Elijah the Lord my God And shall a Man be able to give a Double portion of his Spirit and That at his Parting and going away and shall not He that hath the Residue of the spirit in opposition to shear Baser the Residue of the Flesh which is so many times in Scripture Language for near Kindred or He that hath the Spirit without Limits or not by measure shall not He be able and willing also to give His Holy Spirit unto all that ask it and a Double Portion unto All his First Born Who saw and yet see him ascending and cry to him my Father my Father the Charriot of Israel and the Horsemen thereof And it may be That remarkable promise of the Spirit unto all that ask it may allude to This very History of Elijah giving his Spirit to Elisha crying my Father my Father As in Luke it is not as some read it your Heavenly Father But Your Father who is Out of Heaven or came out of Heaven And he took the Mantle of Elijah and smote the Waters saying as we may now say Here indeed is the Mantle of Elijah O but Where is the Lord God and the Spirit of Elijah and the Waters parted Hither and Thither Though I do not yet say when they so parted as before at Josuahs coming over Jordan there began an Other Generation or a New Age of the World As at first dividing the Waters by the Firmament of Heaven with the Waters above the Heavens of which in the Psalms and divers other places that I speak not of Esdras Ecclesasticus or Wisdom of Solomon And the Sons of the Prophets said the Spirit of Elijah resteth on Elisha and they bowed down or Worshipped him and afterwards he enlarged their Colledge and it may be their Spirit also The Hebrew Word Saul used in That History puts me in mind How Saul cut off the Lords Priests and How he fell and How the Jews say He was Recovered aand saved though I dare not say by the Mediation of Elias or Elisha Who they say must come and loose all knots or as our Saviour saith He must Restore All Things yea and that after John the Baptist was beheaded And some other words in That History put me also in mind How Elijah destroyed the false prophets of Baal and Jezabel and how Elisha did encourage and enlarge the True Prophets and at length by one of the young prophets annointeth Jehu which yet was given in charge to Elijah himself One of the best Texts I know for Deputations And Jehu destroyeth Jezabel who had not onely Destroyed and Corrupted the Lords Prophets and driven away Elijah and Elisha but had even quite stifled the very Spirit of Prophecy in the Seed of God as the Hebrew words Naboth in Jezreel may import Which may be compared with That of Jezabel opposed by the Bright morning Star breaking and scattering the Dark Clouds and bringing in the Morning and Our Rising and cloathing with White and fresh Linnen in fourth and fifth Churches and thâ—slaying of the two Witnesses with the Spirit of Prophecy in the Revelation And the sixth Church of Philadelphia or Brotherly Love is plainly the New Jerusalem as Christ himself expresseth in his Epistle to that Church before the General Iudgement of the People or Laodicea as the Word signifies Which may also be compared with the latter part of the eleventh and also the four last Chapters of the Revelation Where the great Judgement also is Described which the Prophets place in the Valley of Jehoshaphat whose very Name implies the Lords Judgement Which was also called the valley of Beraca or Blessing When they had troden down Moab and Ammon and Edom. Which we find also cited in the Prophets as foretelling somewhat yet to be done in the Revelation And had it not been for Jehoshaphat Elisha said he would not have seen the other two Kings met against Moab also saying Nay but hath God gathered these Kings and their people also together to Destroy them But as Jehoshaphat smarted sorely for joyning with Ahab and his Sons so They Got by His good Company In which we may see God pitying a Wicked man and Hearing his Cry and Prayer as most remarkably after he did the Prayer of Jehoahaz 2 Kings 13. 4 5 6. 23. How the Waters came at the morning Sacrifice and How he multiplyed the VViddows Oyl that was like to
did nor ever would do so Hardly to any in the World as to Israel As we read in Ezek. Daniel and from Christ himself in the Gospel And yet This was his darling people and the dearly beloved of his Soul a Type of Jesus Christ and All his Elect or first sruits or Blessed of the Lord that were to have a double portion as his first Born But it was both of shame and glory For even These Darlings and these dearly Beloved of his soul are often called the Forsaken Desolate Afflicted yea Hated Abhorred and Cursed Nay Cursed with a great and sore and heavy bitter Curse as we read in Malachy Where yet to That very People whom he so cursed He presently saith Yet Try me Prove me yet whether notwithstanding all this cursing you yet if you will but do that you may and shall by my Grace if you will and He also giveth to will you shall be Blessed and be Blessings also to your Neighbors and Relations yea and such Blessings that the very Windows of Heaven shall be opened and pour down-blessings on you Notwithstanding all the Curses you lay under So it was with Israel so it shall be For In every Every place Where you were put to shame you shall have Glory and you shall be a praise to All the Earth and where it was said Go you cursed and rejected Loammi and Loruhama on whom I will no more have mercy yet come again ye Blessed for you are my People and I will be your God And you shall be Blessed So it was with Israel and with Gibeon Yet it might be added that This very Gibeon was one of the Cities to which God forbid his People to offer Peace or to shew mercy or to save any living but commanded them utterly to destroy it and to save alive Nothing that breathed in it And so it was with all the Cities of the Amorites the Head of All those Canaanites or if you will the Tongue or Speakers of them All. The Zamzummims or great Thinkers were followed by Amorites great Talkers and their great Lord was Sihon King of Heshbon That is Meditation and Sighing Which are All conquered by Israel Which is also the more considerable because These were Excepted out of that general Law of War which was given to Israel and so to Christ also who was made under the whole Law and was forbidden to kill and commanded to save and keep alive as much or more than Any Being of the Seed of Abraham which was put under the Law More than All other Nations of the World besides So that it may be better for us that he took the Seed of Abraham than the Seed of Any other Man Now the General Law of War given them in Deuteronomy which they might not transgress being but a branch of the sixth Command was This That when ever they went against a City or a People except only those seven Nations which were so cursed by God and devoted to extream destruction They must first offer Peace For the Man and Men of God must be Gentle ready more to save than to kill or to harm Elijah called for Fire from Heaven as it must come on those that compass the Holy City for the Promise to Abraham was to Curse them that Cursed Him and fourty two children were devoured though I do not compare them with the fourty two months in the Revelation But Elisha was generally of another Spirit and especially called the Man of God To which the Apostle may allude or to meek Moses in That to Timothy The Man of God must be gentle But when the Disciples-asked If fire should come from Heaven as to Elijah Christ answered You know not what a sweet spirit you must have and be if you will be Christians or men of God and bearing the Image of God and Christ who was the Man of God more than All the World and gentle unto All even to the worst of Enemies and those that did oppose themselves taken in the snares of Satan and led captive by him at his will Yet even to them and to All the Man of God must be gentle And when he must come to fight against them as we see he threatens sorely in the Revelation but yet closeth sweetly I must come except they repent and yet again Repent lest I come against thee with the Sword of my mouth and whom I love I chasten and Behold I stand at the Door and Gate of the City which I fight against and first I knock and offer peace for so the Law of War commands And if it answer Peace and so His Ministers were sent to every House to offer Peace and Peace be to this House For They and He are sent to Bless us All by Turning us from our sins into the way of Peace and If the Son of Peace be There which the Law expresseth by an Answer of Peace and coming out to them as the Prophet Jeremy intreated Zedekiah to go out to the King of Babylon and to accept his terms of Peace And Then All in the House or City must be kept alive and may be put to Tribute But they may not be destroyed But if it will make no place with thee but will make warr against thee How much wilfulnesse is expressed in this slighting Peace and making War If they will do so thou shalt besiege it But yet so that thou cut not down so much as a Tree any one Tree that yieldeth fruit for mans Life or food to preserve Life And when the Lord shall deliver it into thy hands and thou must be content to stay till thou be clear and sure that God hath delivered it into thy hands Then thou maist destroy the Males but thou shalt preserve the women and the children and the cattel So that the very Cattel must not be slain or hurt These must be kept alive And still take heed thou do not so much as boil a Kid in his dams milk take heed of all and every kind of cruelty besides all superstitious customs of some Eastern Countries which we learn from some of the Karrait writers and thou must not take a bird with its young ones but must let the one or the other go free And thou must not kill the old and young in the same day no not for sacrifice as Jacob cried to God Why shall he smite the Mother and the Children both in one day This great Law of war was also punctually observed by God himself and our Lord Jesus towards the women and children of the Edomites which were hated and accursed people as any in the World as a Type of the greatest Reprobation and yet even to them when their males were to be destroyed or at least so threatned yet Let thy fatherless children come to me for I will preserve them alive as the Law commands and let thy widows trust in me Gods inviting Edoms Widdows and Children with promise to preserve them alive yea and
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
shall Deliver the Needy Crying or from Crying the Poor also and Him that hath No Helper The very Phrase Here in Daniel and 2 King 14. 26. from Deut. 32. 36. For The Mountains shall bring Peace and the little Hills with Righteousness They shall fear thee with the Sun which is the Arms or God of the Persian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who of old also Worshiped the Sun and before the Moon the Banner and the Emblem of the Turk That Age of Ages Dor Dorim it minds me of the old famous Dores Dorians Peopling All or Many of Those Countries The Righteous shall flourish in His Daies and abundance of Peace untill there be No more Moon Or any such Changings The Kings of Tarshish or the Sea and the Eyelands Eijim and Tsijim or the doleful Creatures in Esay 13. All the Kings of Seba in Arabia and the Queens of Sheba Meroe shall cringe to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with Evening Sacrifice For That they especially called Minha the Phrase here used which may lead us to the Evening of the World As God and Angels much appeared through all the Bible in the Cool of the Day or Evening Sacrifice both in Old and New Testament the ninth hour or Time of Prayer or of Finding as the Hebrew Morning hath its Name from Seeking 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Once he came at the Morning Sacrifice to the three Kings against Moab the Fathers Waters and he brought Waters but they seemed Blood Which yet might represent His coming both by Water and by Blood This might be for Red bloody Edom who was at These Bloody Waters and in Esay 63 As the Waters for Moab For so the Psalm we now cite speaketh He shall come down as Rain upon the mowen Grass and though it be cut down it shall return again and flourish through the sent of Waters as Job speaketh and as the milions of innumerable drops as the Millions of Ephraim Dust or Ashes with Water flourishing by Water As Hoseah may allude to Josephs fruitful Boughs in his Fathers Blessings with his Right Hand giving length of dayes as his left hand also Riches and Honour So good it is to be at His Hand For they be blessed that may stand in his presence and may see his wisdom though but for One day It will be better then 1000 years in any other place Or may come behind him weeping as Paltiel after Mical till Abner said return again Which is an History that will make us all weep for joy t is possible when we shall understand it At the same time Michael shall stand up that Great Prince for the Children of thy people It may lead us to the sweet place we spake of in Levit. 19. Thou shalt not avenge thy self or reserve thine anger against the Children of thy People but thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self Which he is comming to fulfil in the Time here specified in Daniel At the same time which before is called the Time of the End and in the verse before he shall come to his End And five times this Chapter speaketh of End and the End In Heb. Kets or Kats and Katsa is Half Dimidium Plus Toto the whole of any thing or its Perfection Being also as we noted in Tom Perfect in numbers just 1000. Unto which also 666 is that sweet Chord in Musick which they call a Fift next to a Diapason 2 thirds as neer as may be in whole numbers The Hebrew word may also speak waking as hinting a Resurrection and Summer which was the End of their year beginning with Winter as before All time began with Night before Day And that their Year ended at or about the great Feast of Tabernables is cleer enough from many Scriptures And that also beside Exod. 23. 16. or Deut. 31. 10. And the very word Harvest which they call Katsyr may be Kats Yeer or Yeers End Or if you will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the End of the Flood or of Jaar Which was not only a Month with them and especial time of Noahs Flood But also Flood in general and often used for a River So that Jordan it self is but Jeor Dan the River of Dan a City neer its Fountain And Abraham pursued the Four Monarchs to Dan and brought back the Captivity of Sodom from Dan which is also Judgment and may hint that Great Judgment at the Katsyr Harvest or the End of Yeer or of Jaar that is a Month or Yeer or Flood also For it may be added that the Floods were dried up and the Rain of Heaven restrained at their Harvest As we may find hinted in divers places besides 1 Sam. 12. 17. and 2. 21. 10. But there may yet be somwhat more in it For As the Spirit is moving or Hatching it being a participle Present in the Hebrew noting a continued Act upon the VVaters of the first Creation So it is also still Dividing Them below from Them Above the Firmament which is also called by a Name of VVaters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VVhere are VVaters And our Time is Dropping of VVaters from the Top of the Weather-glass or Clepsydra to the Bottom And when All is Run out the Hour Glass is Turned and a New Hour or Day or Month or Yeer or Age begins which you may call a New Generation or if you will a New World We glanced at This before when Elijah parted the Waters of Jordane As before also the same Waters were parted and from Adam also As we read in Josuah 3. 16. Where we are told that Jordan fills all its Banks in Harvest Time as alluding to That we spake before And that the VVaters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numbers 665 Coming down from above Rose up in a great Heap or Bottle or such a Motion as the English call a Nod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which came Far also From Adam as some read from the Jews marginal Keri But in the Text it is In Adam the VVatcher though some read it the City being the same word used by Daniel in his Discourse of 7 Times On Nebuchadnezzar driven out or poured out by the Watcher And again the VVatchers in the same Daniel Of which yet we may speak again As we hinted before also How the Watchers stood at the quarters of Heaven or Corners of the Earth as it were to Turn the Glass still when it is Run As also the great Waters Ebbing and Flowing six Hours apiece in the Great Ocean and Then Turned again at the Seventh which speaketh Both Rest and Turning Which is also noted in Joshua First the VVaters stood 't is said and Then they Rose or were Turned up by the Watcher And Those Running down to the Sea of the Plain or the Evening another pretty allusion were cut off or Curted which is Hebrew and Perfected so that All the People 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in numerals 670 passed over before or over against Jericho Which as We touched before
〈◊〉 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
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
Seriah was also Menuah from Noah Rest a Meek and Quiet Prince As Christ speaketh of Moses and of Himself Rejoyce O Zion For thy Prince is Meek and Lowly which with God is of Great Price and Value As Saint Peter speaketh Who yet struck down Ananias and Saphira But this Boanerges must become a Barnabas Ye know not what spirit You must be And Barnabas Took Saul and knit him to the Church of Christ who sent him back to Tarsus his Native Countrey As Israel to Babylon the Hole or Pit whence they were taken and called And then was Great Peace and Comfort of the Holy Ghost for Jerusalem it self was scattered through All Judea and Samaria and Galilee of the Gentiles also the three Regions of Heaven and Earth and the little World also as we have touched divers times And Then Peter also must come down to Lydia as alluding to Lud with Tarsis and Ludi and Lydia Saint Pauls Convert of Thiatire Divine Tyre or the Sacrificer For Her Hire also must be Holinesse to God and Sarran Tyrian or Sharon of which before with Carmel For That also must blesse Him and Hermon the Cursed Hill And Tabor the very Navel of the Belly or the Lower VVaters Here must Christ be Transfigured an Emblem of this Kingdom and Then must cast out the Foul Spirit which so Mastered All his Apostles Till Himself came down and found the people in a very hot dispute with his Apostles about a Devil they could not master And yet at his going up He had given them Power over All Unclean spirits But This was Beelzebub it seems the Prince of Devils with his Legions Every one 6000 and 666 also If a great Author besides Hesychius do not deceive us A strange spirit with Three Epithites in Three Evangelists As if Cerberus with his Tripple Throat The Devil in the VVorld Or Utmost Court and Antichrist in the Church or Temple But the Old Man in our Heart There the Dragon Then the Beast and the Image of the Beast and the False Prophet also directly opposite to God and Man who was made to Rule the Beast with the Image of God in Man or God-Man and the True Prophet the Holy Ghost See Ja. 3. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 3. Rom. 8. 6. But How long Ever since there was a Childe In the VVaters Above As the Crossing Serpent which we shewed before in Shemes Samson and his 12 Labors also through the Zodiak full of Beasts Aries Taurus Cancer Leo worse In the Earth Below Even in Paradise The Serpent the most subtile Beast and Head of all Beasts Turning Isha into Eva 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Before whom Adam only conversed with Lilith the Nights Darkness and Dreams which the Jewes call the Mother of Hobgoblins and make a white Circle with Chuts Lilith Out Night In the Waters Below Leviathan and Tannin the Dragon in the Great Depth or Bottomless-pit as Esay 27. with Iob of Behemoth Leviathan and the Revelation But He shall be cast out of Earth also as first he was out of Heaven Whence he fell like Lightning Though That but as a Prophecy before Apoc 11 and 12. Which brings up the Kingdom of Christ with Casting out Satan As Christ also said If I by the finger of God Cast out Beelzebub Then know the Kingdom of God is very near you But you must say Let it Come on Earth as it is in Heaven Where yet Satan came among the Angels to accuse and resist the Brethren as we may find in Job with Dan. Zech. But at our Saviours coming from the Mount All the three Foul Spirits shall be cast out Yet they may Tear us first and leave us as Dead But for Three dayes and Half and Then Come up hither And the Father said with Tears Lord I believe Help thou my Unbelief Being told that All things even All things are possible to Him that Believeth The same Works Yea and greater Works For I go to my Father And a Grain of True Faith can remove This Mountain also where I was transfigured while Peter would have built three Tabernacles Howbeit This strange and strong and last kinde of Devils go not out but by Fasting and Prayer Yet They had Oyl and so raised the Sick and laying on of Hands Cast out Devils For it was and still is and will be and appear a very Mighty Name of Jesus of Nazareth And Peter at length coming to Japho the old Town of Japhet Who began it before the Flood as hinted in Heathen Authors Having first healed Aeneas Aeneas And after eight years By the same Name by which Himself and Iohn had cured the Cripple at the 9th Hour the Time of Prayer As to Cornelius also the first fruits of the Gentiles He findeth Tabitha Dorcas a Doe of a Goat which in Hebrew and Syriac is also Saphira 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Raiseth Her also from the Dead A greater work perhaps than curing a Daughter of Abraham whom Satan had Bound Lo and Behold these 18 Years And another with the Bloody Flux of which before for 12 years And a Third Talitha 12 years old Here are three Twelves and an Half And a man at the Pool of Bethesda the House of Chesed Tender Mercy 38 Years Here are three Twelves and two also for a Cheâ—si Which I note the rather because it was first shewed Abraham in a Map that his Friends and Tenants of Promise and Sodom also must serve the four Monarchs 12 Years And not be delivered till the second after the 12. or second Sabbath which is the 14th Year as Assyrians broken in the 14th year of Ezekiah as the 14th of Genesis And the 14 Teeth of either Jawe may represent Years also as we shewed before from Shinim Teeth and Shenim Years Where we touched the Turtle and the Pigeon as the two little Witnesses preserved undivided which is their only way of safety between the Divided Heifer and the Ram and Goat also and All of Three years old And Then the Fiery Furnas and Great Horror But at Evening or Sun-setting God speaketh to him in a Vision which he saw not till he had said to the King of Sodom Thou shalt never make me Rich. And After Those words God came in a Vision and said Fear not Abraham for c. And they brought him to an Upper Chamber it is oft spoken of and should be marked where the women were and shewed the Coats of Dorcas For she also loved us and helped to build us a Tabernacle As we touched before in the Curtains or Coverings of Goats-hair and Badgers-skins But He put the Women All out O Woman what have I to do with Thee And Touch me not for I am not yet Ascended Which he had learned also from Him that so Acted before Him and James and John which were His three VVitnesses generally Who put them All out and cryed Talitha Kumi May it not be Rise up the Third Day or Year or Moed As They
Jerusalem shall be as David and every one that Thirsteth receiveth His Everlasting Covenant and His sure mercies or his Holy Things in all things Ordered and sure His seed shall endure for ever His Throne As the Sun before him It shall be established for ever as the Moon as a faithful Witness in Heaven Selah Then follows the Laying or slaying of those faithful Witnesses But How long wilt Thou O Lord be Hidden Here is the Great Nister as the Jewes call the 3d Person As Hidden or Mister as the English or Mistery we touched before and Lanetsach And Cheled the word here used with others leading us to Adam and Abel Then to Enoch and Elijah When we shall resolve that Dying Eclipse on the Cross in Hours and Dayes and Months and Years As we shall be enabled by Him whom to acknowledge on all Occasions is our Happiness and Glory What is the Proper Age of the Moon its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when called Jareach may not be easie to determine We found her before in her Casing sucking the Sun as a Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 till her Heat as That in the Earth and our Heart also the Cause of all motions and clicking Pulses make her first Reak and then Boyl as a seething Pot or a Boyling Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seath Seeth as the Greek 〈◊〉 Spirit boyling up as enflamed by Heat within And so the Moon and Sea also may flow as we touched before to be compared with Esay 64 1. 2. Psal. 147. 18. In Numbers Jareach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 makes 218. Which in Hours is but 2 or 3 more then Three times Three Dayes Or if you will Three Nights because the Moon is to Rule the Night And all the Nights of the week make but 3 whole Dayes of 24 Hours and an Half before the Sun of the Sabbath Riseth As the Lamb of the Sabbath Day with his 144000 Virgins following the Lamb of the Sabbath as the Jewes Clakins of the 144 Hours of the six Dayes before the Sabbath as the first Fruits to God and the Lamb of which before Of Dayes and Months and Years in Characters To 3 times 3 Dayes each 3 is 72 Hours adding6 Hours more we are brought to Midnight of the 10th Night before the 10th Day the time of Jerecho In Hours 222. the 3d part of 666. And Jerichos Walls mightr each to Heaven or at least to the Moon as it signifies Though we have not yet compared its Trumpets with them in the Revelation Or the Last Plagues of God and the Last Woe When it is past No more Curse But as we saw in Jericho though Cursed as Gibeon also yet built again by Hiel the Living High God from Bethel the House of God in the Dayes of Ahab Brother and Father also As we saw before If we go forward to reckon the Age of the Moon and the World together we may remember that although the Jews Night were in Winter about 7 minutes more than 14 Hours long yet they alwayes made or accounted it Even to their Day and so it was There and elsewhere at the Equinox in which they agree the World was Created Let us a little compare it with the first Month in which they came out of Aegypt When the first Night of Time was past as the Cubits first Span of 3 Taps or Watches of 4 Hours apeece or 4 of 3 12 Hours brought up That great Change of Light for Darkness It is made of 3 the Father of all Numbers and Ab in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 3 on 4 the Mother as 7 is 3 with 4 which we found the first square Number or Compound as 3 are all Simples The 2d 12 Honrs were All Children of Light which we called the sons of Israel as the former 12 were sons of Darkness or 12 sons of Ishmael the First-born of Abram the High Father The 25th Hour brought in the next great Change of Darkness for Light and is the nearest Root of 666 the Course of the Moon that Eve of Night as the Sun is the Adam of Day with his 12 also as Apostles the Root of 144. 35 and 36 Brought in the Second Change of Light for Darkness As 350 and 360 Dayes bring up the 2d Year both Solar and Lunar which is as the Day Dawning in the 35th Hour before Full Light in the 36th which is 3 times 12. And the Half being also added maketh 42 which brings up Noon or perfect Light of the 2d Day Which is ended by 12 drawn into 4 the first square Number bringing up the 3d Nights Rest and great Change beginning with 49 or 7 times 7 as the Jubilee and Hebrew Midda Measure of measures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 49. 60 Hours bring up the Morning of the 3d Day and 66 its Noon and 70 is the Hour of its Evening Minha had it been appointed to be compared with the Pentecost and Return from the 70 Years Captivity and many other 70 in Scripture It coming so up in the 3d Day which is also ended with 72 Hours as the 72 Elders of the Sanedrin 6 times 12. 84 Hours bring up the Sun of the 4th Day and frees the Moon from the Sun as we saw before So that Both those Witnesses might Then be seen in Heaven Where One or Both had yet lay hid till the 4th Day or after 3 Dayes and Half which is the Night of the 4th the Moed of these Heavenly Witnesses to measure all other And as the Sun of Righteousness did not appear till the 4th Great Day of the World so perhaps he came in That very Hour of the 1000 years which answereth to the 4th Dayes Minha or some other signal season that may tell us both his Setting and Rising again when we shall consider all his Moeds also of 3 Years and Half 3 Dayes and Half yea and 3 Hours and Half great Eclips on the Cross of which in Characters as God shall help us with the Prayers of his people who must help the Lord against the Mighty Powers of Darkness that He may bring out his Marvellous Light which is Dawning among us 96 Hours end the 4th Day And 7 times 96 are but 6 more than 666. Whos 's 6th part is III. in Hebrew letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Measuring Line we touched in Kav la Kav Sav la Sav. And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also just 96 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 106 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 100 and 11. 120 Hours 10 times 12 bring up the 6th Day in which man was Created and when he had fallen and God grieved or Repented or resolved to change him because he had made him on Earth and not kept him in Heaven He said My Spirit shall not be a Don or Dun to Man for Olam 140 or 700 in their Erring who is Flesh. But his Dayes have been or shall be 120 Year as