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
no evil against your Neighbour as before in that and the former Chapter All these 10th or Fasting Dayes might be Hinted in the 10th of the first Month when the Thick Darknesse began of 3 Dayes and a Half as the Poets long night of 3 Nights together when the Paschal Lamb was Tyed up and prepared to be slain in Hour 333 just Half 666 or the Evening of the 14th Day which ended in Hour 336. And 337 the next Hour or first of the 15th which was a sad Night to All the first born in Aegipt is just the Number of Seol the Hebrew Word for Death and Hell or the Grave All typed out in Aegipt as Leviathan also with the Dragon in the Sea Giving power to the Beast or Image of the Beast as Psalms 74 106. Comming first from Babylon to Aegypt and thence to the Wilderness and thence to the Calves at Dan and Bethel whence back again to Babylon and There it became an Image of 60 cubits High and 6 in breadth till at length it came to be 666 which is here Discoursed 360 or 6 times 60 Hours come just to Sun set of the 15th Day when Israel was driven out and pursued so on the 3d day they say that on the 4th morning 3 Dayes and Half from the Passeover the Aegyptians are drowned as Job 34. 20. and 26. 12. adding the crooked Serpent in the next Verse and Israel cometh up from the Red sea that great Type of the Last Witnesse or Blood of all the Witnesses singing the Song of Moses and the LAMB in Hour 420 which is 3 and an Half of 120 or Moed in Hebrew made of 3 times 40 4 times 30 6 times 20 10 times 12 or 12 times 10 and 3 times 420 make 1260 in the Revelation alluding to This of Egypt and the Wildernesse in Divers places being but 30 years after Daniel's 1290 beginning at the sack of Jerusalem that is 3 times 430. As a Memorial of these 3 dayes and Half they have 3 more days of Thirst and then come to Marah that is Bitternesse Healed by a Tree And then they find 12 Fountains for 12 Tribes 12 Apostles answering to the 12 Hours of Light and 70 Palms as 70 Elders and 70 souls of Jacob in Egypt shadowed by the Palm-trees in the Temple-Courts as Tamar in Hezron as the Hebrew may intimate This 21st Day began at 480 Hours As the Temple began 480 years from Egypt so that its Feast of Dedication in the 7th month of Tabernacles answered to the Great Feast of Unleavened-Bread or Last of the Passover week in the 21st Day of the Month. By this Thread the Author goeth through All the years from Egypt Whose Dark times might be shadowed in the Philistins and others oppressing Israel Freed by Samson that is the Little Sun setting as many years from Egypt as their year had dayes Saul might be born 337 years from their Entring Canaan as the numher of his Name And Elies 40 years might answer Aarons 40 from Egypt where he was chosen to be Priest as God told Eli 1 Sam. â—27 40 more for Saul and Samuel as Act. 13. bring us to David that is Love Conquering Saul or binding him up for 1000 years when the 12 hours of day and night ran through each other at Gibeon with 360 Dayes of the Year then ending to begin a New Year a New Heaven and a New Earth as a New Jerusalem which David Took from the Jebusites who Trod it down as the name in Hebrew intimates 444 years from Egypt that is 2 Thirds of 666. When David had also reigned at Abrahams Hebron 7 years and 6 months being the 7th son of Jessi My Essence in Gods Language and from Abraham the 14th as from Noah the 24th or last Hour of That day setling the Temple Courses by 24 as his Name in Hebrew may be 24 and 14 as from Abraham he was the 14th Generation Matth. 1. And Davids 70 years an Age or Generation Psal. 90 is the 14th 70 from Abrahams Birth Who received the Promise and came from Haran at 75 Gen. 12 and before their coming out of Egypt just 430 years as Exod. 12 and Then 480 to the Temple in Solomons 4th 1 King 6. So that David dyed in 476 from Egypt and from Abraham's Birth 980 years which is just 14 times 70. 6 times 70 more carry them to Babylon and 7 times 70 bring them home again in the 10th Jubilee from David 490 but from Abrahams Birth the 30th Jubilee 3 times 490 that is 1470 which is the 3d 7th 70 or 21 times 70. And from the First Temple to the Second in the 2d of Darius Hystasp were 70 years Or to Ezra's going up in the 7th of Artaxerxes Long Twice 70 and 7 times 70 more as in Daniels Weeks or 490 years which are 10 more Jubilees bring us to our Saviors Death and Resurrection on the 3d Day as the Barley sheaf or first of First-sruits was heaved up the 3d day after the Passover And his sending down the First-fruits of the Spirit in the Pentecost Acts 2d 1537 years from Egypt as the Day of Pentecost the 65th of the year or 50th from the morrow after the Passover on the 14th began in Hour 1537. As also the First of the Great Moed for Mans Repentance of 120 years began in 1537 of the World and of Noah 480 As the Temple was 480 from the Law And Thus between the Two Great Sacks of Jerusalem and of Both Temples by the Caldeans and the Romans are just 666 years 666 being the Number of Change to the World and in special to Jerusalem which was as the Sun to his Moon as Jericho may signifie being made of 6 the first number of Turn and Change in the Sun and Moon or Heaven and Earth and the Great Ocean or Waters under the Earth And 6 is the First Midnight and 4 times 6 end the first Day and Light was first Turned into Darkness in Hour 25 the least square Root of 666 the Great Number of Darknesse or Change in all its principal parts As we saw in 55 CXI 222 the 10th Midnight or Number of Jerecho 333 the slaying of the Passover 444 in the 19th and 555 the first Watch of the 24th Night as the Last Hour of that Day and 666 comes just to the Sun Darkned by the Moon under his Rays 666 Hours the Middle of the 28th Day or the 3d sixt Hour of the 4th seventh Day which is just 29 Days and 12 Hours the Middle point of Sun and Moons Conjunction allowing 42 Hours for the Moons Hiding the number of Cled or Clade in Hebr the Lowest Age or Hour of Darkness or Temptation being the 24th part of 1008 as the Jewes Clakins were 1080. But Half 84 Hours which are in 3 days and a half the longest stay of the Moon in the Suns Rays in slowest motion Which is very different both in Sun and Moon and so are their Diameters yet so proportional to
And Moadim the Months or Moments of the Witnesses Which in Heaven may be Sun and Moon But As on Earth Josuah and Caleb Jerusalem and Jericho Moses and Aaron Elijah and Elisha Or many other things or persons Which through divers Types or Shadows in Light and Darknesse Day and Night Summer and Winter Man and Woman with many other things which we hinted before in the Temple and the Land of Promise and the Body of Man and the Ark and Tabernacle of Witness also at length All come to be resolved into the Times of Christ and his Church or Churches his Two Witnesses The Dove and the young Pidgeon As Adam had his Lilith they say and then his Eve or Evening that is Lilith also Drest in Night-cloathes And Abraham had his Hagar and Sara and Ketura Jacob his Rachel and Leah David his Abigail and Ahinoam carried captive from Ziglag As Dead Three dayes and an half All which may be Types or shadows of the Church and the World the Jew and the Gentile under such and such Changes of the Moon as it were with Eclipses also or whatever else God please to shew us in his Baths 3 Seas in Heaven above the Earth beneath and waters under the Earth also Which yet may be but As New-moon and Full or Shegell and Sheleg of which again with other forms and motions of those Heavenly bodies which are All measured on Earth plainer then perhaps we think by such and such Moeds Times of Witnessing or Witnesses Which may be Houres or Dayes or Weeks or Moneths or Years or Sabbaths in Dayes in Years in Jubilees and what else we find of Time in Scripture wch is generally very much measured by Three an half As If we take it for Hours it may shew us how long the Moon or the Earth may be kept from the Light of the Sun which we call an Eclipse But a Shadow of that Dark Horror which our Savior and his Church in him felt upon the Cross. We find it in Heathen Records also another Help to fix Chronology And His Eli Eli as in Greek speaketh somwhat of the Sun also For God is a Shield and Sun also He will give both Grace and Glory Blessed are They that Trust in Him Though they go through Baca Bokim weeping and pass from one Hell to another for the Phrase is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hil Hel or Chel by which the Gentiles and Unclean were kept from the Temple So that they may not enter Moriahs Temple Yet they shall see God in Zion Give ear O God of poor flying trembling halting Jacob Look upon the Face of thy Messiah in his Pangs on the Cross. That Psalm as the 15th and 24th is of This Feast of Tabernacles And beginneth O! How Amiable are thy Tabernacles O! How Jedidoth alluding both to David and Solomon Jedidiah Keeping This Feast in such Glory as should be touched again in Samuel Kings and Chronicles The unclean Sparrow are not many sold for a farthing the Swallow Black but Comely O ye Daughters of Jerusalem the very Swallow but in Summer She may make her Nest and lay her Young ones in thy very Altans both of Sacrifice and Incense also O thou God of many feminine Hoasts 499. My God and my King This leads us to the Harvest also For we saw before that Our Savior never called himself a King Till the End of the World which he calleth Harvest And the Son of man shall send His Angels They are the Reapers and till that Time he calleth them Holy Angels and his Fathers Angels Now his own Angels and They shall gather out of His Kingdom All things that offend and Those that Do Iniquity And then the King shall say to Them at his Right Hand A Phrase often used in the Psalms At Thy Right Hand the Queen doth stand in Gold of Ophyr And Look at the Right Hand and see for so is the Text Resuge faileth me And at Thy Right Hand are Pleasures for Evermore And yet That very Psalm sheweth that He was not afraid of His Worst or Left Hand neither No more than she or They that begged to sit at his Left Hand also And so David is Placed There Is it because He was Father to our Saviour the Branch and Root of David and of Jessi my Essence that he placeth himself at the Left Hand and Châ—ist at His Right Hand Mimini Bimini Limini Even as Legatus a Latere is sent a Limine And when Satan is set at Judas Right Hand to accuse him as at Josuahs Right Hand also to Resist him with the Heaviest Curses in the Bible He concludeth Christ shall stand at the Right Hand also to save the Poor at His Left Hand from Him that would judg or condemn his Soul his precious Soul Fury is not in me But if he wil set thorns against me I will eonsume them Or let him lay hold of my strength to make peace And He also shall make Peace with me Esay 27 4 5. And the next Psalm crieth My Judgment shall come from Thy Face Thine Ein will behold or consider Equities which to Justice in Scripture often is As The Chancery to Rigour of Law O shew the Wonders of thy tender Mercies in the Plural O thou saving those that Trust or hope in thy Mercy From or Before them that raise themselves or are raised at Thy Right Hand That which followeth will reach our Times also It should be considered with its Misteries A word There used for Secrets and All the Scriptures speaking of Jemini my Right Hand both in Saul and Shimei Cursing David and Both again in Mordecay from Shimei Kish and Jemini As we read in Ester the Mistriss of so many Great Misteries written in the Revelation and upon the Old Crown or Myter yet to be seen perhaps in Rome as at This day And as Mister is a plain Hebrew word for Hidden as Olam or a Mystery So Mistris Hester also with their usual Article as Hadam That Adam and so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 maketh beyond dispute exactly 666. of which again when we find The Mysterious Woman sitting on the Beast in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 703 in the Wilderness where first the Woman was Hidden Alma Mater for a Time and Times and Half a Time as in our Prophet Daniel also The very next Psalm of deliverance from All his Enemies and Saul or Sheol also both Grave and Hell so oft repeated crieth The Pangs of Death and Kables of Sheol caught me But verse 35 The Shield of Jesus and Thy Jemine shall uphold me And thy Gentleness shall make me Great As Psal. 45. Ride on prosperously because of Truth and Meekness or Gentleness of Righteousness And thy Jemine shall teach thee wonders For Ever and Aed Thy Throne O God and yet This God hath a Father and a God For God Even thy God hath made thee Messiah and hath given thee His Spirit
it self besides all the waters about the Earth of the Heart Or its Ayre of the Lungs whose Inspiration and Respiration as the Hearts Diastole and Systole may be shadows of Air and Light Drawn in or Covered with Darkness Cassach in English and Hebrew and again spread out in Day as Psal. 104 and divers others Scriptures allude But All are Measured by the Pulses of our Hearts and in our Temples called Times and Tempora in many Languages Being as the Commune meetings of the Two Hemisphers of our Jawes with their Hours or in Hebrew Years of 24 Teeth and 4 High Watchers which so Many Called Doggs Every Region hath its Witnesses As the Head hath its 2 Eyes as the Sun and Moon in the Heavens above between 2 Ears or Years As the Heart hath also 2 Aurtcles as the 2 Poles by which it hangs in the Ayre of the Lungs and the Lowest Region hath its 2 Witnesses also Called Testes or somewhat of Witness in so many Languages As also their Solemne Covenants were made by putting the Hand under the Thigh And so also the 2 Tables of Witness in the Ark of the Testimony or Witness And the Witness Bread of Faces and the whole Tabernacle of Witness with its Courts of Witness and Altars of Witness with the Morning and Evening Sacrifice and Sack and Minha Meat and Drink Offerings with Incense or in Hebrew Keturah coming after Sara As at first There were 2 Witnesses to the Great Word or Promise that although the Serpent might nibble the Heels of Messiah as Psalm 89. 51. Yet the Seed of the Woman in the Revelation also should Break the Serpents Head Cut off in a Type before Abrahams Testes or Witnesses At His Covenant about Beersâ—eba As Davids was with Bathsheba the Daughter of Seaven and of the Oath also As God in Levit. 26. I will send the Beast among you and I will punish you in Sheba or Seven But yet I will remember my Covenant with Abraham or my Sheba at Beersheba As also Zachariah the Lords Remembrance alludeth to his own Name and his Wives Elisabeth Gods Oath and Rest also as some sound the Word Luke 1. 72 73. And This Covenant with our Father Abraham and Sure Mercies of David are made Good to the Lowest Least Believer and He that is Weak shall be as David and receive his sure Holy things as Esay 53 with Acts 2d and 13. Rom. 4 and Galat. 3d. And All as sure in all things and as surely Witnessed As the Everlasting Covenant of God with Noah at Arrarat the Bar of Curss and Error Terror and Trembling or Wandering When God smelt a sweet savour of Rest as the Moon a Reak of Night as Jerach Reak Nihat may allude and the Psalms As the Moon a Faithful Witness in Heaven He said in his Heart I will no more smite Any Flesh for so it may be rendered As I have done But Day and Night c. shall be as long as the Earth endures Or in All the Dayes of the Earth And I will Curss the Earth no more But Bless it and accept and delight in it so as himself giveth the Etymology of Erets in Ezekiel 20. 40 That the Saints or Angels in Heaven give Thanks to the Lamb that they shall come from Thence to Reign upon the Earth as if the Earth as the Weaker Vessel should have more abundant Honour and be Centre to the Greatest Glory of God when the Curtains of Heaven shall be drawn or the Canopy rent as the Vail before the Most Holy Place For the Heavens must be no more but pass away and be rowled up as Parchment before the Fire but the Earth Endureth for Ever Though yet to be Changed and renewed so that it shall be a New Earth as a New Heaven And When This is like to be is One Great Part of this Discourse Concluding that As Time began with Night before Day or Evening before Morning so with Winter before Summer Or in Tisry the Seventh Month as the Jewes render Beresith as the Hebrew Letters in the first word of Genesis So it is very probable the New Creation or the New Heaven and the New Earth shall be when the Year that began at Nisan when they came from Egypt shall come to Tisry or the 7th Month and Great Feast of Tabernacles Or Ingathering of all the Fruits of the Earth at the Close of Harvest and Vintage at the End of the Year as the Scriptures speak When also we may Expect the Latter Rain or Great Showres of That Holy Spirit whereof we saw the Former Rain or Lesser Showers or Droppings in the First Fruits of the Spirit at the Time of First Fruits or Pentecost in Acts 2d In the mean time there are Witnesses fixed As at Mispa the Watch and Gilead the Rouls or Stones of Witness That Laban and Haran Wrath and Care and Fear shall pass away As Wrath in Hebrew is somewhat Passing away but shall not pass over Those Witnesses for Hurt to Jacob or his Relations though his Wages be Changed as often as the Moon or Lebana from Laban and he be rouled between Hamath and Haran the Heat of the Sun and Cold of the Moon or its Wandrings Yet Those Changings and the Moon shall pass away but Everlasting Kindness shall not pass away And God will also Watch at Mispa that neither Leah nor Rachel be Wronged Who were also Witnesses to This Covenant and though but Daughters of Laban Yet they may be Mothers to Both Churches of the Jewes from Leah and the Gentiles also from Rachel so often called the Barren Woman and the younger Sister or our Little Sister in the Canticles alluding to This of Laban in Lebana Lebano and Lebanon and Gilead with the Goats of Seir or Esau and Mahanaim with other things in This Discourse And Ephraim from Rachel must be scattered among the Nations till he bring in and be The Fulness of the Gentiles As Jacob said to Joseph and Then All Israel also as well as Judah shall be saved as we read in Rom. 11. How long This Woman shall be subject to the Course and Changes of the Moon and when she shal have the Moon at her feet and when be freed from it as other Women in their Jubilee of 49 is Here more fully Discoursed And the Times of Gods With-drawing or Hiding and Returning to Israel or the World as the Sun to the Moon or the Earth And of the Times of Prophesying and Ceasing or slaying of the Witnesses Which though Divers in several Ages yet are All measured by the Times of the Sun to the Moon or Both to the Earth with Their Goings and Comings Hidings or Changes of the Faithful Witnesses in Heaven Which are still much measured by 3 and an Half As at first Creation which did Bare or Bear out somewhat Hidden before The Sun and Moon did not appear till the 4th Morning and the Jewes assign the 3d Hour Till which they lay as Dead
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
may be from News brought by Pigeons As in Those Countries To This day And Jonah signifies a Dove sent to Nineveh as Israel to Assyria and Babylon When All or any of These were Burnt Offerings or Sin Offerings for the whole Church or Priest They were All the Lords consumed by Fire as pledges that the persons offending were guilty of cutting off or perishing for their sins But in particular Sin Offerings or Trespass which were greater guilt and Shame as the Heb sounds the Priest had His and in Peace-Offerings the Offerer had also His part to eat besides the Blood poured out and the Fat and Inwards consumed by Fire to the Lord. Which might not only be a Token of Their Peace with God as the Apostle speaks but also that God accepted and pardoned Those who were represented by such Offerings Gods receiving or eating them as himself expresseth it seemed an Emblem of his Turning them and their natures into His As we dayly do to all we eat and wel digest Or that Christ who was Typed out in All of them was made All to All or for All. As Not only a Lamb for the Lambs in the dayly Sacrifice in which God had his Bread and flesh at morning and Bread and flesh at Evening as he allowed to Elijah and other persons But a Goat also for the Goats At the change of the Moon and the solemn Feasts especially the Feast of Atonement About the end of the Year or Fulness of Times as the Apostle speaketh which we shall consider a little more distinctly As there is a measure of Syncerity which the Scripture calls Integrity Perfection or Fulness of Heart as Calebs Heart filled after God and Sardis Works were not filled up before God And the Lord answered Abimelech Thou didst it in the Perfection of thy Heart which yet is not Absolute Perfection So there are such or such periods of Time which the Scripture reckons Perfect and calleth Fulness of Time or some kind of Eternity which yet are not such Absolutely but to man So Long or so uncertain or Hidden as the word intimates which is used for Ever or Eternity Seeing God hath so Hidden some Times and Seasons in his own Breast that the Son himself saith He knew them not Which yet some interpret as That saying I pray not for the World as if he said I do not now speak or manifest My knowing owning or praying for them till its proper season And there were such seasons also or Revelation of Times and Seasons as appeareth in the Revelation And Blessed is He that Readeth That Book Which is cleerer perhaps for the great things of Doctrine Worship and Discipline also than every eye seeth at one or two readings And may we not say with Job Seeing Times are not Hidden from the Almighty why do They that know Him not see his Daies or Times also For That is the sence in the Original rather than as some read or comma the words Thus VVhy do they that know him not see his daies As the Schools make Motion to begin from Rest as in Heb Resit or Rest is the Beginning of Creation and all Motion So the Jews and other old Nations did begin to reckon Time which is the Measure of Motion from Night in Heb Nihat Rest which is as proper to Night as Motion is to Day As our Saviour also speaketh I must work O happy necessity while it is Day for the Night cometh when No man can work And again Walk in the Light and are there not Twelve hours in the Day And so many also they made in the Night Observing perhaps that the Moons mean Motion was her own Diameter Twelve times to the Suns moving One of His and so twenty four for his two breadths of Day and Nights Motion round the Heavens which is also the proportion which the Ancients made and kept between their Sun and Moon in Metals Gold and Silver But on the Twelve sons of Darkness as of Ishmael or Esau and the Twelve sons of Israel which are called Children of Light We glaunced before in the twenty four Elders and the Watches or Watchers also As in our Bodies are twelve Ribs on the one side and twelve on the other with such and such distinctions and Vertebres And in either Jaw or Pallat like the two Hemispheres of Day and Night There are twelve Teeth with their Watchers also which some call Dogs And the common meetings of our Jaws and signal Pulses are in many Languages called Times or Tempora the Temples As the Jews also called Teeth by a word next akin to Years and our Ears are neer our Temples growing up as Time and Years did after the Creation Changing All things by chewing and devouring them as Time and Saturn did with the Poets and so Turning them into our own Natures And the very Name of Year as of Teeth also in Heb intimates Changing and its Numeral Letters make up Three hundred fifty five As there were Daies in their Lunar Year and Three hundred sixty in the Plural Regimen as in their Solar Years as we touched before at the great Change of Time in the last Battel between David and the House of Saul And Their word for Year hath a double Plural both Feminine and Masculine as their Years were Lunar and Solar And such periods of Exact meeting of Sun and Moon after such Courses and Motions make up such or such a Fulness of Time or Perfection which in Scripture Language may be called an Age or Ay or Ever or the like Phrase by which they express the World also which is usual in many languages As where some read He hath set the World in our Heart it is Eternity or the same VVord which is so Rendred in very many places And though it may be hard to determine what the Scripture meaneth by Fulnesse of Time or Times which is so spoken about our Saviour Time especially as if it were the end of one World and beginning of another Or the end of that which was to answer to the first Night of Creation or the Time before the Sun appeared in the World and the beginning of Light or Day as we may often read in the new Testament yet for some little Essay towards it we may remember that the Hebrew word for Seven or Sevang as some sound it the English Saxon being much Hebrew is very neer a kin to That which signifieth Fulnes and their word for Ten is also Riches which turned backwards maketh their Rash or wrech or Rich or Rushing wicked and unquiet man and by a little changing of places the same letters make a Goat and a Devil also to which there may be frequent allusions in Scripture which we may touch again Shall I add that All the Words I now remember in all the Bible to expresse such a Fulnesse or perfection of Time as is stiled Age or Ay or Ever or Eternity in their very numeral Letters if no more
〈◊〉 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
not that Watches and Catches also might come from the Hebrew Chatsa Which in This sence is akin to their Kaets to Watch or wake out of sleep which is also applied to God himself the Great Watchman of Israel And what if the Watchers singing Holy Holy Holy at every Watch might allude to the Three Hours in Each of them as well as to the 3 Persons in the Blessed Trinity Though some ancient Copies square the 3 also and make it 9 times Holy Holy Holy c. And seeing All things Here below were but shadows of somwhat above and shewed also in the Mount Why may not That Half Hours Rest or-silence in Heaven of which we read in the Revelation be As the Sabbath to Half Hours There being 7 Halves in 3 and an Half As we found before a Sabbath both in Rest and Turning in every 7 Hours and Daies and Months and Years also Or it may be the Cardinal Watches were distinguished by their Songs as the Temple Waits or Trumpets as David may allude by Rising at Midnight to sing Praises c. As the Others by Rest or silence Which we see cleer enough in 2 of them at the Morning and Evening Incense while the People stood without Praying in silence till the Priest came out and blessed them As we read in That of the Baptists Father strucken Silent also And in all the Jews upon Those places we touched before in the Psalms and Prophets The Lord is in his Holy Place Let all the Earth be Silent and the Lord is Risen Let All flesh keep Silence before him And I charge you that you awake not my Love till He please And as Every seventh Day was Holy from the first Creation As we see by divers things in the Flood and many Scriptures So was Every seventh Honr as we saw before distinct or Holy from the Six before it bringing in some Great change of Midnight or Morning or Noon or Evening whence All Time did first begin And from That First beginning of Time there were Three Daies and an half or 4 Evenings and Three Mornings before the Sun and Moon were seen in the Firmament Which they were not till the fourth Day of Creation as we read in the first of Genesis So That for the whole 3 Daies and an half before That fourth Day those 2 Witnesses of Heaven lay Dead as it were or Asleep in their Causes as the Schools use to speak And at the End of Those 3 Daies and an Half there was a voyce saying Come up hither and Be you placed in Heaven As my 2 Faithful Witnesses So long as These Heavens and This Earth shall Endure And when These are to pass away and be renewed Then also 2 other Witnesses that correspond to These shall lie as Dead or asleep 3 daies and an half As These did at first till a voyce place Them also in Heaven Crying Come up Hither And Then shall be such a spiritual Earthquake As at first a Temporal that made the Rivers break out and the Hills rise up or Valleys sink down of which we read in the 104 Psalm and other Scriptures We cannot wonder that Daniels 3 Times and an Half should bid us look to That or Those set in Heaven to make Times and Seasons or Moeds also And in Hours That Number may Expresse the Duration of an Eclipse As in the Gospels we read of Darknesse from the sixth Hour to the ninth and Then it passed off by Degrees with divers Cries of which again And in Dayes besides the three First before the Sun it may be the Proper Time of the Moons Hiding under the Beams of the Sun as Hours might be under his Body and so long the Sun may be Hidden by Eclipse Or the Moon rather And three Weeks and an Half make up the Time of Distance or Absence of Moon from the Suns Rayes Or her Liberty till she come under Them again and so draw nigh to a Change And it may be added that Three Weeks and an half bring us quite through 24 dayes as the 24 hours of each day to the very morning of the 25th which may be considerable for other things besides the square root of 666. And in Years Our Daniel speaketh of causing the Daily Sacrifice and Minha to Cease in the midst of a Week Which is generally taken for three years and an half that is half a week of years in which onr Saviour preached publiquely and Then by his Own Great offering of Himself Once made put an End in right to All other Sacrifice and Offerings Though they were in Fact continued till the Temple was also beaten down about 40 years after our Saviours Death And That very War Endured just Three Years and an Half But three Moeds and an Half in Daniel may speak Months as well as Hours or Dayes or Weeks or Yeares Though in All and Each of them there may be some Correspondence as we touched before And when the Lights an Hebrew word from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were made at sirst they were for Dayes and Years and Moeds which are therefore properly Neither Dayes nor Years but distinct from Both. And as Dayes and Years in Scripture are generally ascribed to the Sun So are Moeds to the Moon As he appointed the Moon for Moeds and the Sun knoweth his Bowing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or his going Down in that Great Comment on the whole Creation if rightly translated which we Cited but now the 104. Psalm And the very next verse hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Iob and Solomon for Goats as alluding also to the Solemn Goat-offering at every Olam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Hiding of the Moon which so made the Moeds How also Mans Seasons or Moeds are made by the Moon in Him as in Heaven we may see by comparing the third and twelfth Chapters of Ecclesiastes with other places of Solomon and David speaking of his Months and Hidden Times or Allamim or Allamuth As Paul also speaketh of our Life Hidden with Christ in God of which we read in Other places besides many verses of the 89 Psalm as in Hebrew And if we should render the Hebrew Moad or Mognadh by Monach as in Almonack we might easily shew their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be made of N. C. As the figure may hint and more the Number 70 being made of 50 and 20. the number of their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 begins a word or syllable the English sound it much by Cn. Gn or Kn. But when it ends by nc nk or ng And if we consider Three Months in Generall They are to the Year as Three Hours to the Day or Night a Watch or Season as we call it of Winter Summer Spring or Autumn Which are All it seems Some how in every Day also As the very words of God to Noah may seem to intimate saying not only that there should be
other places may lead us to That in the Revelation Running out 1600 Furlongs As before and putting his Face between his Knees which we may come to understand After seven Returns of his Servant A little Cloud ariseth Bigg enough to bring up another Flood to End That Generation perhaps As in Noahs Time And in Elijahs time we have Two Witnesses bringing Fire from Heaven Blood and Water also after a drought of three years and an half To be compared with That in the Revel and with Daniels Moed Moads and Half Generally through all the Scriptures As the Morning hath its name from Seeking 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So the Evening is the Time of Finding And of Sweetning as its name imports in Hebrew or Composing thoughts and Wrath which in Heb is Passing as at Evening For the Sun must not go down upon it nor any Token of Curss Hang up any longer than the Evening So that God himself and the Angels did generally appear in the Cool of the Day or Evening-Tide the Evening Sacrifice The Time of Prayer in the Acts but the Time of the Angel to Cornelius Daniel with others And it may be That Evening season may be called Moed also As to Pharaoh To morrow At Moed I will do it And Davids Pestilence did reign from Morning till Moed And if Moed here be the Time Appointed which was Three full dayes what need of fear of any longer punishment Or why was the Angels Sword still Naked till a Command to sheath it upon Davids Sacrifice at Moed or the Evening Minha the Dayes Moed So in Gods proclaiming his Moads with Sabbath which yet is often distinguished from the Moads comes the Daily Tamid and Minha Like the Two Witnesses in the Temple As the two Altars also Like That at Jerusalem and That also below Jordan as in the lowest Court by the Molten Sea which is also called Ed a Witness As our Eyes in our Head and the Eyes of Heaven also the Sun and Moon of which we must speak again The first Command I have yet observed for any such Ceremonial was for their Evening Lights or Incense As Time also began with Evening before Morning And so English also reckon by Nights as the Jewes rather than Mornings a Sevennight and a Fortnight There is scarce any other thing commanded but onely spoken And the Lord said to Moses Say This and Say That But for the Evening Lights or Incense or Minha They are commanded And So also for giving Cities to the Levites and Putting out Men and Women also that were Unclean by the Dead Issues and Leprosie Such a Command or Appointment in Hebr is called Moed for Place or Time or Meeting The Grave is called Beth Moed And Job complains as if God were cruel in not hearing Cryes or Cryers from Sheol or Moed to All Living As our Saviour also For to Him They All Live though they be Dead The Tabernacle almost ever called The Hall of Moed Most of all for that Great Moed of All the Moeds which were Three in the Year The Passeover at the Moed of Evening also which is Ereb as Eber Pass-out as well as Pass-over For they passed out at Suns-set as we read in Deut 16. 1. 6. And the Pentecost at Evening also to the Jewes But in the Morning at the Third Hour Act. 2. Most especially the Tabernacles at Evening That Solemnity of All Solemnities The Moed of All Moeds Yet a Type of That Greater Moed at the Evening of the World when God shall come and dwell with Man in Tabernacles As we read in the Revelation After the six Trumpets of the six former Monhs which still began with Trumpets were quite past yea and the Woes also were past for there were three months after Pentecost that had No Solemn Moed or any such Feast to Bless them but onely Fasts And when Those were Over also Then comes the Seventh Trumpet of the Full Month the Seventh First the Feast of Trumpets Then the Great Day of Atonement when the Jewes say God sits and judgeth All that Dye that Year May it be Hinted by the Seven last Plagues before the Seven Great Dayes of Tabernacles and then the Trumpet of the Jubile when The Tabernacle of God is with men as we read in several places From Levit. 26. and Ezek. 37. And God sball also perswade Japhet to dwell in Those Tabernacles of Sem that is the Name of God himself as Represent ing Him in whom God placed his Name for ever And he dwelt among us and will yet much more in Tabernacles in a Scene or Skeins as Englisk speak and Saint Johns Word intimates And Saint Lukes Phrase of Shepherds Watching their Flocks by night may hint That season of Tabernacles also when the Angels sang Glory to God on High and Peace on Earth with Good will to men or men of Good will For the Angels shall Ascend and Descend on the Sons of men when They also shall be of Good Will or a Willing People as the Chariots of Aminadab in the Day of His Power Or Chell or Hell or Hill For we read also of the Hill of Moed in the sides of the North of which we may speak again and of other places of Moed also And the very Cities of Refuge are called Meuds also as being so often solemnly Appointed by God by Moses by Josuah For the three Moads and Chatsa On That side of Jordan and on This. They began from Kadesh and ended in Kadesh From Kadesh Barnea the Holy Bar or Bound of Wandering by Beersheba to Hebron in the Hill of Judah Thence to Sechem in the Hill of Ephraim and Thence to Kadesh which Kadeshu They sanctified in Mount Nepthaly or Galile of the Gentiles The other three with the other Chatsa were on lower Ground It may be considered again As also That all the six were out of the 48 Cities given to the Levites As they had 48 Courses in the Temple 24 of Porters and 24 of Singers As the Standers also had 24 Courses and for Jerusalem 24000 they say as for Jericho 12000. And the Priests also had 24 Courses and 24 things given them by God who also received 24 things fâ—om them Daily In their 12 Cakes as also the Shew-breads were 12. broken into 24. 12 at Evening and 12 at Morning And there were 12 kindes of Minha But as These and all other Moads might be from Appointing so they may be called Moeds from Witnessing or Witnesses to all such Appointings which were All as English men express it very Happily Done with a Witness which in Hebrew is Ed as we saw in the Alter Ed and in Gileed the Heaps of Witness of which again So that indeed the Revelation speaking of the Witnesses for three Dayes and Half or for any other Three times and Half doth plainly allude to Daniels Moeds That is the proper Times of the Witnesses or Witnessing For as Moab iâ— from Ab a Father so Moed from Ed a Witnesse
hour maketh such change in the day night so doth every 7th day to the Moon the great Hebrew Moneh that is Reckoner of Time and every 7 Month to the Earth under the Poles or places that are most remote from the Sun who is hidden 6 moneths from them but returneth in the 7 and abideth 6 others with them and departeth again for 6 more and so goeth and cometh yearly as infinite wisedome hath appointed And though there be a visible Change in the Moon every 7 dayes which we call Quarters yet it is more signall in 14. made of 3 times 4 and an half as we see in Full Moones the Moeds of Passover and Tabernacles that I speak not of Pentecost as an Emblem of that great Change on the world when having served the 4 Monarchies Twelve great years as the 12 hours of Dark Night they shall be freed and lightned again in the 14. as we find in the 14 of Genesis But by Abrahams Parting his Enochs by Night As the Watches and as Jacob also parted His Troops And David His to recover his Wives and other Captives after 3 dayes and a Night and the two Spies of Jericho returned after 3 dayes and a Night And the Witnesses in the Revelation and of Heaven were not there till Three dayes and a night or on the 4th day from the Creation And as 14 dayes make such a change in the Moon so to the Earth also under the Poles the Moon goeth and cometh in 14 Dayes or half a Moneth as the Sun in half a year So that 2 Dayes in that Motion are as a Month. The Moon moving 12 of her own Diameters to the Suns moving One of his as we touched before in parting the Day and night into twelve hours apeece And as we find 666 hours in the Monthly Courses of the Moon so the word for 2 Dayes in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is as the Mazorites reckon just 666. And after 2 Dayes he will revive us of which again in Hoseah And such darknings or lightnings of the Moons face by the Sun or the Earths by the Moon in 14 dayes may shadow out somewhat of the 14 years we spake of but now which might also be carryed much farther For Jacob served 14 years for his 2 wives the other 6 for Cattle And Jerusalem was freed from the Assyrian trodden down in the Holy Mountain as we read in the 14. of Esay in the 14 year of Hezekiah who also broke the Serpent and called it Nehustan as a Type of Him that was to break the Serpents Head to which Esay may allude in severall places speaking of the Serpent and the Child daring to grasp the Serpent and to play upon his Hole or Den. Yet that 14 year of Hezekiah was full 7 years after the ten Tribes were Captive after 3 full years seige of Samaria beginning in the 7 of Hoseah which was the 4 of Hezekiah or 3 year and an half of his Raign to be compared also with the seige of Jerusalem and all it's blows in the last of Jeremiah And Ezekiel had his great Vision of the New Jerusalem in the 14 year after the old City was smitten and upon the 10th day of the first Moneth when the Paschall Lamb or Goat was to be set apart 3 dayes and an half before his Offering at the Passover on the 14 day at Evening I have yet spoken little of St. Matthews 14 Generations which I reserve for our Characters or of Pauls going up to Jerusalem and into the 3 Heaven in the 14 year or being freed from his terrible Tempest in his Sea-Voyage on the 14 day when on the 3 day they lightned the ship but lost the light of Sun and Starres many Dayes till the 14 Night Act. 27. 27. 33. I repeat not that touched before of the Common Hebrew Cubit of 6 Taps or 24 Digits and the sacred Cubit 7 Taps or 28 Digits As those that have fewest Teeth have 28 so that either Jaw hath 14 parted by two watchers which they call Doggs between 3 Fours As the Hebrew Zereth or Span was made of 3 Taps of 4 Digits apeece As the old Watches they say were 3 in the Night of 4 hours apeece although the Gospel as the Romans reckon 4 as of 3 hours apeece And the 4 sides of the Great City had 3 Shaars or Watches or Gates apeece And if the Sacred Cubit were 28 Digits How like is their Hand which is Jad and 14 to be half their Holy Cubit As That also which must be so revealed and stretched out as we often read to deliver his People in the 14th day at night or the 14 Great Year of which again As the Temple Witnesses were restored again in the 14 Hour after the Dark Night os the Bottomlesse Pit had put them out or slain them or at least made them to Cease as our eyes also to Rest in darknesse till the Day-star chased away the Nights Darknesse and brought it's Kets or End which is also the Waking or Resurrection as we found in Daniel to be compared with Job 38 Luke 1. 78. 79. 2. Pet. 1. 19. Reve. 2. 28. and divers other places From 14 we come to 21 the next number made of 3 and an half in whole Numbers 3 times 6 and 3. or 3 Sevens or 3 fourths half of 24. bringing us to the Evening Minha in every Day beginning still at Sun-set and to the Last Great Feast of Unleavened Bread after the Passeover and to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Great Hosanna of the Tabernacles the 21 Day of the Moneth as an Emblem of Their Liberty after the 20 Years Bondage under Laban again under Jabin and the Arks 20 Years so neer the Philistines That I say nothing of Solomons being 20 Years in building Gods House and his Own and his Feast was 14 Dayes in the 7. Month of Tabernacles Or of his 20 Cities given to Hiram or of 20. smitten by Jephta or of 20 peeces the price of Joseph as 30 of Christ or of the 20 Cubits of the Cursing Roule in Zachary or any other 20 in Scripture which we may touch in Characters As also the 6 times 20 that great Moed of God with man 120 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is just 120. Of which again and of All the Sevenths As 28 and 35 and 42 Half of three dayes and Half the first Chled or Childe of the Sun and Moon or Her Calends which may come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as Ides from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or her Cloud or Clade which is also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or her Hour of Temptation 42 being to 1000 the Great Day or to 1008 the Jewes Clakins in each hour as an Hour to a Day just the 12th part And 42 is 3 times 12 and an half or 3 times 14 or 6 times 7 a great Moed of the Witnesses In Hours besides the Sun and Moons meeting or Beam and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
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
the last Hour of the 14th Day it makes 1533 or 1535 the number of Wrath and Fury to be Passed over as Daniel 9. 16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aphek and Hamath words ominous enough to Israel beaten so often at Aphek and as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 5 times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 5 times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the Ark was taken and again when Saul was slain besides all else And though Solomon as a Type of Jesus conquered Wrath and Hamath as we saw before yet the King of Assyria gloried in it as His and conquered by Him Whence also he carried some to people Samaria though they brought the Wrath of God and Asima and Lions with them O Ariel And the King of Aegypt Chained a King of Judah in the Land of Hamath as the King of Babylon did binde and blinde Zedechiah in the Land of Hamath as we read in Jeromy And the Prophet Esay saith that God will set his Hand the 2d time to recover his people from Hamath also which in Zechary must be joyned to Damascus when it is Menucha made Meek and quiet as we saw before And though I may be out in Time as well as Place what if God shall shew us All these Hours to measure Years from Aegypt Onward Thus 480 to the Temple in Solomons 4th who Reigned 40. Thence Ezekiels 390 to the Temples End Thence 3 times 666 and an Half may bring us to the Great Tabernacles in the 7th Month or just to 1666 after the 2d Temple was destroyed And by This account there may be just 666 Years between the two great Changes of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and Romans as the two Changes of the Moon under Hamath the Heat and Raies or Rage of the Sun That is 70 and 66 and 490 and 40 from That Pentecost Act. 2. To the Roman Sack of Jerusalem just 70 Weeks after the 2d of Darius Nothus 106 or measuring 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Captivity as That Pentecost and Passion of our Saviour was 70 Weeks from Esraes Time in Artaxerxes 66 or what if 70 from the 2d of Darius Hystasp who restored the Temple in Haggaies Time ending its 70 Years and the Cities 70 as Cyrus first ended Ezekiels 70 at his taking of Babel which was the first and last as Lebab in our Body of Oppression and Confusion to the World or Church of God in most or All the Monarchies So to Nimrod Belus Belochus Nabonassar Nebuchadnezar Nabonidus Darius the Mede Cyrus the Persian Darius Hystasp by Zopyrus and Darius the last Pushed by the Goat at Granicum Thrown down at Issus and Trampled at Arbela near Charan as Daniel foretold of Alexander who got the Empire lost his Manners and his Life at Babylon As Seleucus after him the Root of the Seleucidae till the Romans also were poysoned by swallowing or gaping at Babylon which they could not swallow Being the Fatal bound of their Empire several times besides that shameful flur of Crassus at the foresaid Charan of Abraham and Laban as we saw before As a Parallel to Hamath which to Haran is as Rage to Wrath or as the Western Sun of the Afternoon to the Morning Sun of the East As Charan lies to Hamath and Both at Gods left Hand or North-ward And as Jonahs 40 Dayes might be 40 Years to Niniveh As Ezechiels 40 Daies to 40 Years of Judah so the 40 Dais of Christ on Earth to the 40 Years of Jerusalem after him as the 40 Years in the Wilderness to the 40 Daies of searching the Land Or to the first 40 Daies of Moses in the Mount As Christ 40 Years in Heaven after his 40 Daies and Then came down and brake the two Witnesses of the Law as Moses did the two Tables But as Types of two other to be Broken renued again as They were 480 Years from Aegypt to the Temple may answer both to 48 Hours in two Daies beginning also the 49th of 7 times 7 as the Jubilee and to the first 480 Hours of the Month and of the Year of 360 just the Time of Exodus so that it is much one to begin There or at the beginning of any Year and 480 Hours bring us to the 21 Day the last and Great Feast of Unleavened Bread And Solomons 14 Daies of Dedication may point at the Tamid of That 21st Day with its solemn Offerings in the of That Day 14th Hour The First 40 of the 480 bring us to Moses Death at the 4th Hour of the 2d Morning while he repeateth the Law and 2d Covenant in Deut. 29 and singeth his Swan-like song and Blessings Chap. 32 and 33. 41 Their Hour of Temptation Passing Jordan as the Red Sea at the Exodus and entring Canaan much as the Lamb was to be Tyed up on the 10th Day as we saw before in Jericho Yet 41 and 42 the Number of the 2d Days Noon Dines them with that Country Bread Six Hours or Years of War and Trouble bring them at length to quiet Rest in the Evening Minha of that Day ending in 48 and 49 as the Root of Sabattical Years and Jubilies the 10th part of 480. In That Night Josuah the Sun of That Day is taken from them He had stayed the Sun and was buried in Timnath Heres Image of the Sun as the Name speaketh And that Nights Darkness holdeth them 8 Hours more in 8 Years Bondage under the Blackmoor Cushan as akin to Cush of Ham the Father of Nimrod Lord of Babel as This of Mesopotamia where was Haran of Abraham Laban and Jacob their Ancestors So that Cushan seemed to call them back again into their first Bondage A Type of Assyria and Babylon that were to be their first and last Enemies For Rome never hurt them till infected with Babylon But I saw the Tents of Cushan in affliction and the Curtains of Midian Tremble As we read in Habacuk This Hour of Darkness as the other 5 of Moab Canaan Midian Ammon Philistines as the 6 Hours to the first Midnight or 6 Daies of the first Week before the Sabbath but as Parts of Their Daies who judged Israel and freed them from these 6 Hours of Darkness in 8 18 20 7 18 40 in all 100 and 11 the measuring Line or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we saw before for the 6th part of 666 the great Number of Darkness or Course of the Moon in absence distance or opposition to the Sun of Light And These 100 and 11 dark Hours being taken out of 444 from Aegypt to David in Abrahams Hebron leave 333 or half 666 which we may meet again Othniel with Achsa Both akin to Caleb is to shew both the Time and Wonders of God as the name may hint His 40 as Moses swallow up Cusans 8 Hours of Darkness and bring us about the first watch of the 5th Night And then Eglon the Calf of Moab an Heifer of three Years old Esay 15. 5. Jer. 48.
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
an Half And so Jacob served 7 Years and 7 for his 2 Wives and 6 for Cattel Then flyeth 3 Dayes and is pursued 7 to Gilead the Stones of Witness Joseph is also Born in the 14th year of his Fathers and Freed in the 14th Year of his Own Bondage and his 2 fellow Prisoners were freed on the 3d Day And so the 2 Searchers of Jericho lay hid or as lost for 3 Dayes and an Half And so Davids Wives and Friends of Ziglag And divers others besides our Saviours 3 Years and an Half Publick Preaching as Daniels Half Week and 3 Dayes and Half from the Passover 3 Hours and Half Anguish on the Cross As in the Grave 3 times 12 Hours and Half or about 40 or 42. And Paul was strucken Down and Blind till the 4th Day and in a great storm by Sea first 3 Dayes and Then they Lightned the Ship and was not fully freed till the 14th and so he went up to Jerusalem or to the 3d Heaven in the 14th year And Jerusalem was freed from the Assyrians in the 14th year of Hezekiah As Sodom or the World perhaps from the 4 Great Monarchies which are all shewed to Abraham in Visions in the 14th year as in the 14th of Genesis and also in the 15th we see the Turtle and the Pigeon as the 2 Witnesses preserved whole and unbroaken between the Heifer Ram and Goat and all of 3 years old Gods own Emblems of the 3 First Monarchies in the Prophets besides That Vision shewed All the kinds of Sacrifice and other things discoursed in This Book But especially the Passover which being the First 14th Day of the First Month of the First year of their Coming out of Egypt is to measure All that follow Which the Author therefore considereth in Hours of the year to the Passover and Thence to Pentecost and so onward to the 7th Month and its Feast of Trumpets Expiation and Tabernacles which was the Great Feast of the year and the Moed of all Moeds The Ingathering of All the Fruits of the Earth and Latter Rain of That which did but Drop in the First Fruits of Pentecost Time first beginning at Evening 12 Hours brought up Light for Darkness which returned again in the 25th Hour so that 25 is the Root of Darkness or That which first Turned Light into Darkness and the Next Number below the square Root of 666. 36 Hours come to the Morning of the 2d Day ending at 48. and 49 the Number of Middah in Hebrew Measure and the Number of Jubilee being 7 times 7 and the first of the 3d nights Rest. Whose Midnight is about 55 so neer the 12th part of 666. 60 The Morning and 70 the Evening Minha of the 3d Day Ending in 72 of 6 times 12 the Number of their Sanedrin 84 Hours or 3 Dayes and Half brought up the Sun of the 4th Day Measure to all the 3 and Half of all other Witnesses 96 come to the Evening of the Fift Day when Blood was first Created and its Morning Sacrifice is at Hour CXI the very Number of Kavh in Hebrew a Measuring Line and 6 of These is just 666. 120 the Hours of 5 whole Dayes Before Man was first Created is the very Number of Moed in Hebrew As 120 years was the Great Moed appointed by God for Men of the Old World 3 of these Moeds of 120 which is 3 times 40 make 360 as Dayes of their year and Half a Moed more 420 3 of which make 1260 in the Revelation which is also Ten Moeds making 1200 and an Half Moed 60 more 135 the 3d Hour of the 6th Day when Adam was Created Afterwards the Morning Sacrifice And about the Temple from That they called Hell or Chel to the Court of Israel were 135 Cubits as 135 Dayes from Pentecost to the Great Hosannah or the Last of Tabernacles 140 That is Twice 70 Hours shewed the Moon to Adam they say in the first Day of his Creation and he worshiped God who afterwards appointed That Hour for slaying of the Evening Sacrifice the Preparation to the Sabbath whose Lamb came up with 144000 Clakins of Time as the First-fruits to God and his Lamb There being just 144 Hours that is 12 times 12 before the Sabbath began and in 6000 Dayes 144000 Hours as the Number Sealed of all the 12 Tribes with the Holy Lamb on Mount Sion Revel 14. 155 The Noon of the Sabbath which was the measure to all Holy Things being the very Number of the Hebrew word for Kane which Ezekiel saith was 6 Cubits and an Hand as reaching into the Sabbath Day for every Cubit had 24 digits as the Day had 24 Hours The 10th Midnight is at Hour 222 the 3d part of 666 or the Number of Jerecho To which they also came on the 10th day of the first Month when they entred Canaan This is a solemn Fast with them for Miriams Death on the 10th of the first Month As Eli and his 2 Sons Dyed on the 10th of the 2d Month. When also the Ark was Taken by the Philistines After so many Hours of the year were past As there were Years between Egypt and the Taking of Jerusalem and Burning of the Temple by the Chaldeans on the 10th Day of the 5th Month. And the 2d Temple was also Burnt by the Romans on the 10th Day of the 5th Month or the same Day of the Month when in the Wilderness it was decreed They should not Enter into the Rest of God And This Day of the 5th Month might be as many Hours after Pentecost or before the Tabernacles As there were Hours before the Pentecost or Years before the Flood or After Egypt to the last sack of Jerusalem or Thence to their Coming in again with the Fulness of the Gentiles at the â—gathering of All the Fruits of the Earth in the Great Feast of the Tabernacles or the Latter Rain of That spirit of which the First Fruits were at Pentecost in Acts 2. which was so many Years After Egypt as the Day of Pentecost was Hours in the Year which is just after 1â—6 the Hours of 64 Dayes before the Day of Pentecost which was the 65th Day of the Year or 50th from the Morrow after the Passover on the 14th The 10th Day of the 7th Month was the only Fast appointed by God or the Great Day of Attonement to which they reckoned 187 Dayes of the year as there were 187 Cubits in the Court of the Priests and Clean men of Israel about the Temple The 10th Day of the 10th Month was their Fast for the Seig of Jerusalem in the 9th of Zedekiah to the 9th of the 4th Month of his Eleventh year but the Temple was not burnt till the 10th of the 5th Month as Jeremy 52. with Zech. 8. saying that the Fasts of the 4th and of the 5th and of the 7th and of the 10th Month also should be cheerful Feasts of Joy and Gladness therefore Love Truth and Peace and think
from the first Creation might represent the twelve Months of the year and the twelve great years the World was to serve the four great Monarchies or watchers and watches of which Daniel also speaketh as of those that gave out the Decree agreed by the Watchers against Nebuchadnezar when he became the Beast As we There also read of the Image of the Beast to be compared with the Revelation of which which twelve years serving the four Monarchies as also the Restitution and Liberty in the second Sabbath or fourteenth Year we first read in the fourteenth of Genesis The Jews had also many other Divisions of Time and Particles they called Clakin As the English Saxons also in their Clackings or Clickings of their Clocks and Watches But we now mainly consider their twelve hours of Day and Night which so many other Nations also have still observed But in Scripture there is Half an hour and silence in Heaven about half an hour And those Twelve hours are most signally parted into six and six and each six halfed again into the little Watches of the Night also which in the Roman times and the New Testament were Four also as the great Watchers or Animals or Angels of the four Quarters of Heaven or Corners of the Earth Though some hints appeer also as if the Old Jews had first but three Watches in their Nights But Nature teacheth us to Halve and quarter things and Thence are made the sweet Chords in Musick For a string of twelve inches or any twelve parts maketh a Diapason to another of six equally strained and a Diapente Diatessaron Epitrite a Fifth a Fourth a Third to others of 3 and 4 and 8 or 9. which are the usual Chords of Harmony All These are in the 12. hours of Day and Night and it may be All measures used by the Hebrews Greeks and Romans or other Nations that we know All their Weights and Money also rising up by such Proportions as we are now seeing in the 12. hours of Day and Night As might be easily shewed by any that will compare the Twelves and parts thereof in the Roman Foot and Assis Pound and Ounces with the Palms and Digits Omers Kabs and Hins Baths or Ephas with other measures and Weights among the Jews and divers other Nations Measure is an Hebrew Word coming from That which in the skie an Heb word is shours which is Hebrew and in us Thoughts the shours of our Heavens and Brain the measure of all measures as the English use to say a Thought more or less or the Hairs of our Head as They speak also to an hairs breadth and on Earth Barly that Hairy Seed of all the quickest Sowen and Mowed and Moughed again in 2 months or lesse in hot Countries 6 Hairs breadths make a Barley breadth and 6 of these a doit or Digit 4 of which or 24 of Those made the Hebrew Tap or Hand Breadth and 12 Digits made their span or Hand stride which is Hebrew made of 12 Doights as the Common Foot of 12 Inches and their Common Day of 12 Hours To which it may be David alluded when he saith Thou hast made my Dayes as a span or Hand breadths And Esay of Christ Spanning out the Heavens parted as their common span or as â—oses expresseth it according to the number of the Children of Israel for to Those Bounds Paul addeth Times also in Areopagus Famous for Mars Tryed There by a Jury of 12. 24 Digits like the 24 Hours or 24 Elders and they had 24 Books in their Bible and it may be 24 Letters as many other Nations and the Finals are but as the VVatchers made the Cubit common with Them and all Nations Though some make their Sacred Cubit to be 7 Palms to be considered with the Sabbath and the 4 new Digits may be as the 4 Watches or Watchers added to the 24 Elders and the 28 Doights may be as 28 dayes of the lesser month and 4 Cubit are a Mans Height 6 Cubits or 144 Digits like the 144 hours of the 6 sirst Dayes made their common measuring Reed or Kane which is also Hebrew of which we read in divers places of Scripture And Goliath was 6 Cubits and a span 400 Cubits or 2400 Palms 600 Roman Feet 240 Gressus 120 Paces made the Greek stadium or furlong shorter then the Roman by 24 Foot or thereabout 1000 Cubits or 2000 spans 6000 Palms 24000 Digits made the Cribat of which we read at Rachels death neer Ephrata with other places of Scripture 2000 Cubits or 12000 Palms 48000 Digits made their Sabbath dayes Journey or distance from their Camp to the Tabernacle as we may find in several places 10000 Cubits or 240000 Digits make a Common League or an Hours way in Heb Leck a Leash of 3 Italian Miles of which each had 5000 Roman Feet 2000 Gressus and 1000 Pases so that 3 of them made 24 Roman Funlongs and about 1666 Heb. Reeds or Kanes VVhich may be considered with 666. and other numbers in Scripture 12 little spoons did make the Cyath Cup and 12 of them the Hebrew Log or 6 Eggs and 24 the â—hoenix which was the usual allowance for a Day which hath 24 hours 24 Eggs made the Hebrew Kab or 4 Logs equal to the Common Chaenix in the Revelation or a Cubick Palm 12 Logs made the Heb Hin of 72 Eggs and 24 Logs their Sea 3 of which made their Bath or Epha which was a Cubick Foot of 10 Omers but the tenth part of an Homor or Asses Burthen 24 Blanks make a Perit which is also Hebrew Part or Particle and Perute Prute is yet in use among the Eastern Coyns as English call a little pritty thing and 20 peruts make a Droit 24 Droits make a Mite 20 mites a Grain as coming from the Heb. Gerah 20 of which made their shekle which was their usual skale which is Hebrew weight of all weights or moneys Shilling is in Heb Selang which is yet used among their moneys 12 pence English 24 Grains make a penny 20 pennies an Ounce and 12 Ounces a pound Troy as the English speak or Brittans from Troy But the Antients had other weights also yet by 12 and 24. As 12 Grains made their Obbol 24 their scruple which is 20 now with some 3 scruples a dram and 8 drams an Ounce and 12 ounces a pound Which with the Romans was Aes or Assis. Which had still 12 parts Though often changed and lessened for great Reasons of State Yet when least of All it had still 12 particles which some also called Unces And of Unces 12 Made their Aes or Assis 120 their Denarius which was io Aera as the name imports or 4 Farthings which were Sestertii of which 1000 made their sestertium 24 made the Hebrew Gerah Grain or Groat io of which make a draehm and 2 drams which were 4 Attick or 20 Gerahs made their shekle half an Ounce 24 Shekles or 12 Ounces made
Kallath a Spouse and somwhat else also in Hebrew or in English calling our Kall about our Belly by such a name Shall I add also How often God commands his people to abstain from or take heed of Kelaim Though the word be hard enough and never used that I now remember but in Moses Laws and once or Twice in Esay or Solomon complaining of a foolish people that entangled themselves in Kelaim which some translate the Stocks As Solomon speaks of a Fool hasting to the Stocks till a Dart strike through his Liver Or his Reins be consumed among many Witnesses as if he would allude to all the Hebrew words we are now speaking of Prov. 5. 11 14. 7 22 23. It is cleer enough that Kelaim signifies some Mixed seed and that not only in Grains but Beasts also as it is plainly seen in Leviticus 19. And This also makes the very Number of the Beast 666. as it is with the usual Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned Backward Is it not also the very number of the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is not only as the Latine Renes or the English Reins which yet keep course enough with the Moon in our Brain and in Heaven too And taught David every Night as the Heavens in the 19. Psalm and they may teach us every Day also which in Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is just 666. As the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also the Reins of our Brains How neer is the sound to Reins and Rains also as we saw before in Showrs even our very Secret Thoughts or Fancies which should be covered as other Secrets in Nature Which are akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or our Shame in Hebrew or the most privy Secrets whence the Latine Clam And Olam also may signifie Their Iniquity their Folly their Yoak their Shame or Hidden Secrets As also Sodam in Heb is not only the City Sodam of which also the Revelation But also their Secret As Jacob speaks of his cruel Sons Let not my soul be in their secret in Heb Be Sodam Where the very word in Numbers according to the old Mazorites in 666. Let me add also that the word Beast in Hebrew Letters is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also Shame and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my Shame as being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our seat or in Natibus as the Jews also use that word As the English also in a Phrase not to be spoken And the Number of it is 700. And that Beast or Bosht or shame is the Idol which God doth so often complain of in the Prophets As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their Bush and Shame That I say nothing of That part which the Jews call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Fools or Beasts Orion But to return to Numbers It may be like enough that every such Revolution may bring up some Great Change as in the Moon seeing also many if not All the 7th and 10th Persons or Generations in Scripture had some very signal Characters As Enoch the 7th from Adam Noah the 10 th As Abraham was the 10th from Noah and Moses the 7th from Abraham and David the second 7th or 14th as we found in the very number of his Name and Years also Though it be somtimes written by 24 as he was from Noah As the 24th hour of the New Day beginning from Noah that is Rest as at first from the Rest of Night or Nihat Heb. And perhaps David did not make but finde all things about the Priests or Tabernacle setled by 24. Which from the Jews also we may learn to be the Number of Things given to the Priests by God Some of which themselves only might eat Others their Children also and others were common to their very slaves or sons of their Handmaids if born in the Priests Houses or bought with his Money So that it was a saying common enough among the Jews That the Priests Boyes and slaves had more right to Holy Meats than All the Men of Israel Which may be considered by them that deny the Sacrament to the Children of Professors in the visible Church as Children born in the Priests Family or sons of persons Bought or Redeemed which might eat the Holy things that might not be eaten by a man of Judah though Hired to work in the Priests Family Noah is said to be Perfect in his Generations for he saw Two Worlds or Generations coming up at the beginning of the seventh great Week as we may call it or as many years from the Creation as the seventh Week is Hours We see what a change there was in His Time by the Flood in the second Thousand Years As the Waters were Divided in the second Day of Creation What it might Typifie out also in These Daies we touched before Jaacob is said also to be Perfect which some read a Plain man but it is as of Noah before a Perfect man Which hath made me consider whither Jacob might not be the Close of His Generation as Noah of His and David of His who saw the Times or Periods of the Kingdoms or World about him as we read in the close of the first of Cronicles Which the Jews call Words of Dayes Which we may understand Hereafter David also brought up a New Jerusalem and a New World as a New Heaven and a New Earth and bound up Satan or Saul for 1000 Years as we also touched before in Saul or Paul And Elijah also and Elisha with Jehosaphat the Lord Judging Though a good while before Zedekiah the Lords Justice or the General Judgment As Laodicea after Philadelphia the New Jerusalem And Jehoram the High Lord both in Israel and Judah When also Moab and Edom freed themselves from the Yoak of Jaacob as his Father promised in his Blessing Esau so much and so oft supplanted by his brother Jacob though God own him as a Plain man without Guile And among divers other things we read no where but in Esdras of the Roman Empire and Christ also who citeth divens things of that Book we are There also told that Esaus Heel was the End of the World and Jacobs Hand on that heel the beginning of another And as Jaacob was a Perfect man in his Generation one of a Thousand as Solomon speaketh After Elihu in Job So his Children are the True Israelites indeed in whom there is No Guile As our Saviour speaketh of Nathaniel And They are Sons of Light in opposition to the Sons of Esau or Ishmael as sons of Darkness As the 12 hours of Night were before the 12 Hours of Day or Children of Light But there is yet more in it For although All the sons of Jacob were beloved before Fsaus in the Type yet among Jacobs also there was a Joseph and a Benjamin Son of the Right hand and Those were
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
signifies his Moon As if it meant to teach us How all Changings and Numbrings are between the Earth and the Moon which as English Money is from Numbring and Changing as Man also the Great Changer and the Money Changer also But take heed he be not whipped out of the Temple by our Saviour Though by a scourge of smal Cords So that the Moon and the Earth are but the Two Round Glasses of the Klepsydra the Weather Glass or Hour Glass And as One Fills the other Empties Whence the Tyde is Highest Fullest Just as the Moon comes to the Zenith or Highest Point of Heaven over such or such a Place And As she goes down again the Earth goes up and drops its Tide back again And why our Seas and Brains and Reins or Rains are fullest just at Emptiest Moon we call it Full will be no great wonder Except haply we should imagine the Sun and the Earth are indeed the Two Globes of the Hour Glass or Clepsydra and the Moon the little Rundle or the Firmament between them Which seems more proper much to the Earth between Sun and Moon And yet some with great appearance of Reason make the Sun it self the Centre of All the Planets And the Moon whirling about the Earth Which we may touch again And to This of Moon and Waters Above the Firmament Dropping Through to make All Time I might add the English Name of Showr as if it were So Hour or See Hour But This also is Hebrew For with them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are Shoures and Watches or VVatchers also And their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a VVatcher a Porter and a Gate is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which watcheth or Gards as the sound also Though I may add that the VVatches were more usually spoken of Nights as in the 90. Psalm and elsewhere As Hours of Day Which is Ha our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light And Thence Hour As also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shew and See And so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be He that shews the VVatch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And by This time we need not wonder that in Hebrew Jom should be Day and Jam Sea which is Now also in Latine As Olim Then both to Come and Past also Like the Hebrew Olam Jamim Daies and Jammim Seas And All these but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Waters Only in the gathering of Waters which God called Jam or Jammim Seas there is a repeating or adding or multiplying M the proper Letter sound and Character of Humming Waters and multitudes of Peoples also who are but Waters added together Or Many Waters As the Beast rising in Many Waters or Multitudes of People which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Am and Ammon in Hebrew and Ammi my People as Jam a Sea But in English I am is a word of Being and very Rightly too For we are All but Water Nay a Drop of VVater And All Nations are but a little Drop of the Bucket or VVell whence they are Drawn or Dropped As Moab my Fathers Water And to Create in Heb is but to Bear or make Bare a little change of Beer a Fountain or VVell still Bearing out As we see in Beer Lahairoi and in Beershebang the VVell of Seven too as well as of the Oath And so Bar a Son and also to Bar out And the Saxon English Bearns are Children or Free Persons or Barons As our Saviour also alludeth in That of Tribute by strangers and not of Children or Sons or Barin in his Language that is Barons or Free born Bearns As in another place he calleth them Children of the Kingdom that is Free Barons of Heaven or the Church I might add that Bourn is a River also or Brook Which is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebrew Or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Jaar a month and Year and River also For our Time is Drops of Water Flowing As we see also in the English Ye are or Year and we are or were and Jam as the Latin Jam for present and He is or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All are Heb. and Time is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sea or Imum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And all these parts of Time are akin to Seeing In Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whence are and were and ye are and Jare or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Hour and Our and Your But Persons in a Continual flux of Daies Jam and Years Ye are We are and Were and Your But the white sands running in the Hour Glass Or as God expresseth it but as the Little Dust in the Ballance Which yet is an Higher Pedigree than we may think For the Heavens in Heb are but the least and lightest Dusts that Phrase is Hebrew also from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Thresh or as Solomon the Highest part of the Dust of the Earth Which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Skie or See High From a word to Shake into Dust or Moats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Atomes by Metathesis As a Damm between the two VVaters stood the Earth More stable and more firm also perhaps than the Firmament it self For It that is the visible Heavens must pass away like a scrowl of Parchment before the fire And They must be no more as Job speaketh VVhen Man awaketh that is Kaets as To the Resurrection or the End of the world or as Corn in Summer as we spake before But the Earth shall abide and Endure for Ever As That which God called Erets I will accept or be pleased and delight in it and in them that shall come out of Heaven to Raign on the Earth Even As the Rain comes out of Heaven and Returns not Empty As the Rivers come from the Sea and go thither again So the Rain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Yarn or Rivers of Heaven Go and Come As in our Bodies also between our Heb Rin and Brains and Reins and Yearnings c. while our Heart or Earth is in the Centre or Middle of our Bodies as the Lower Sun which by its Fire and Heat and Clickins makes our Pulses Times and Circulations through our whole Bodies Yet if any will derive Erets against that Etimology we shewed in Ezekiel from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Run It is sutable to Water also or the Water Hour Glass Or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Pouder It may suit with That we spake of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Skie or Dust of Heaven As if Those also must Turn Tables with us or be Turned under us When the Dust of Abrahams Seed and the Sand or Gravel of His Sea also shall be made the Stars of Heaven yea of the Heaven of Heavens Thus then the Earth came that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Rose up as a Dam between the Waters in
English also speak as the Hebrew Year for Years as there were 120 Hours before the Day of His Creation which we may consider again when Christ himself shall grow up to be a Perfect Man in the Evening of the 6th Day before the Great Sabbath of which again The Hebrew words for 120 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be just 666 if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be but 40 and if it be 600 Then they make 1226 and with Vau 1232 which wants 100 to make 1332 which is just Twice 666. How near to Daniels 1335 as the other to 1260 in the Revelation 120 Then is Gods great Moed for Man And Moed in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is just 120. 3 Times 120 is 360 3 and an Half 420 and three times 420 are just 1260. And 10 Moads 1200 which may be in Moadim which truly seemeth more than Two Moads as Slashim and other Plural Numbers are 10 fold to their Singulars 140 Hours Twice 70 come up to the Evening Minha of the 6th Day when Man was Created and prepared for the Sabbath following as our Saviour also Rested in the Grave after his Evening Sacrifice and Minha on the Cross. And 144 Hours Twice 72 bring in that Sabbath or 7th Day beginning as the Christian also seemeth to begin where the other ended in the Evening 150 the Sabbath Midnight 156 The Morning 166 The Hour of That Dayes Evening Minha 180 Hours bring up the Morning of the 8th Day 10 times better then the Noon of the First Day which was the 18th Hour 190 That Evening Minha which generally began about the Ninth Hour of each Day Which is therefore called The Hour of Prayer as we saw before in the Cripple healed at the Beautiful Gate and Cornelius also by the same Peter 214 The Evening Minha of the 9th Day 222 The 10th Midnight or Jerecho of which before being the 3d part of 666. Which may therefore be 3 times worse as 3 times bigger then Jerecho was to its Two Spies or Witnesses that were hid by the Woman 3 Dayes and an Half As we saw before As also the 10th Midnight might be 10 times as Dark or worse then the first Night was For we are now come in Hours to the Time of Hiding Slaying or at least Laying the Witnesses Being the Black Dark Dayes of Aegypts Darkness for 3 Dayes and an Half with the 3 last Woes or Plagues in the Revelation before Israels coming out of Aegypt Or if Those dayes of thick Darkness to be felt were begun before This which seemeth very little if at all yet sure they might be Types or at least Warnings to Israel who had Then Light while their Enemies were in the Dark As if to intimate that all the Darkness of the Worst Dayes or Hours of Darkness as our Saviour speaketh should fall on Aegyptians onely the black sons of Ham as before and not at all on Israel Though to These also it was a Great Hour of Temptation As we may see when we come to their going out of Aegypt Now also the Pascal Lamb or Goat must be Tyed up as one of the two Witnesses to be slain on the 14th Evening but set apart and separate or sanctified the Phrase we saw before on the Evening of the 10th Day or beginning of the 11th Day As 3 days and Half before its slaying 240 Hours end the 10th Day and begin the 11th whose Morning is 252. 260 It s Evening Minha 264 brings up the 12th Evening 276 Its Morning 285 It s Minha 288 Bring up the 13th Evening and 300 its Morning 310 The Hour of Minha 324 Bring up the next Morning the 14th Day 3â—3 the 9th Hour of That Day or the Evening Minha when the Two Lambs or Witnesses are slain the Daily Tamid and the Passover which might be a Goat or a Lamb. We are now to look up a while on the Moon the Counter as the Hebrew Mone That Faithful witness in Heaven She was White before from 3 Dayes and Half or 84 hours and Lebana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 87 3 hours and 3 Dayes and an Half But Now she is White as Snow on Hermon which is Sheleg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 333. She ligs or lies in in White as in Childbed and she Lights which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Ligg is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Legit. As Lectus and Electus As Two in a Bed the One Elect the other Left to Lig and lie Or left to the Left hand And Sheleg Turned is Gelesh Glass and Ice in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Shegel the Bedded Wife as before Each is 333. Let the Full Moon then be Sheleg and the New Moon Shegel As the Queen at the Suns Right Hand or South or below him as we saw That Phrase Or as Jericho stood to Jerusalem this had 24000 Standers that 12000 Or as Sodom and the Molten Sea in the Temple In Gold of Ophir Ke Tem As Perfect just 1000 or As Teaming which is Hebrew bringing perfect ones and Twins in Hebrew Teomim As Esau and Jacob were Twins and Perfect also in their Generation as we touched before with Jacobs Hand on Esaus Heel in Ezdras Ophir also may hint her Fruit and fraught which are Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Free and Bear as before in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For Ophir is I will be or make fruitful as well as Gold of Peru or rather Zeilan as the Great Peleg sheweth And Solomons Gold from Ophir made up 666 Talents As the Cours of the Moon in 666 Hours Or the Golden Image in Dura 6 in breadth and 60 in Height of which before And though the Sun be as Gold and the Moon as silver with Chymists Yet This silver Sheling is also Shegel or Shekle in Gold of Ophir As in Hebrew the word for Sun is Feminine or Commune and the Moon is Masculine Shall she also as Sara begat Isaac that Sun of Laughter when she is freed from her Monthly Courses or Changes Then be As the Sun and the Sun seven fold Brighter Shall she Then be as Perfect Gold Ketem Ophir Or as He that is Perfect as our Saviour speaketh Or as the Canticles Clear as the Sun to be compared with the 4th and 60th of Esau where also Thy Sun spoken to the Church Vers. 20 may be just As the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 660. But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be 500 Then is Thy Moon in the same Verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 718. But 52 Hours Or Weeks of the Year more than 666 the Number of the Beast in the Revelation And of the sons of Adonikam my Lord cometh or Riseth at the Return from Babylon a Type of That to come As we see in Ezra 2. 13. the Children of Adonikam 666. And as 333 Hours bring us to the 14th Evening or Minha Passover So 336 to the
will come as the Latter Rain before the Former O but what shall I do to thee O Ephraim What O Judah Your Goodness or Mercy as a Cloud as a morning Dew Passing away Therefore or because I have â—ewed them â—y the Prophets and slain them by the words of my mouth That as the Latine Vt thy judgements might be Light going forth as at first Creation or in the Morning For I desired Mercy Chesed and not Sacrifice and the knowledge of God before Burnt-Offerings Though They passed the Covenant As Adam There they Cloathed or dissembled against me But in the Close He hath set an Harvest for Thee O Judah in my Turning the Captivity of my people Which we saw before in the Moed of Tabernacles In the next Chapter Ephraim is as Jonah going to Nineveh or Assyria But I will spread my Net 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my Rest As on That Whale Vomiting Jonah after 3 dayes and bring them down as the Fowls of Heaven Orydem Asyrem as alluding to Assyria By which I will Chasten them according to the Report of their Witnesses or Congregaton of Witness As alluding to the Law and their constant Custome That when any one was chastened There were Judges and Witnesses standing by to reckon and report and record the number of strips That they might not exceed 40 How great soever the fault was He that had Many Stripes might have but 40 Least Thy Brother Yet Thy Brother Though but now a wicked man Left thy Brother should be Vile in thy eyes As we saw before Bot woe unto them Though I have or will Redeeme them Yet they speak lies against me Or as Moses song They are Lying Children forgetting their Father that first made them and then also Redeemed them saying Surely They are Children that will Lye no more I will hearken for he will speak peace That they may no more return to folly O Lord I have waited for thy salvation I bound or instructed and at the same time I strengthned their Armes or Strong Sowers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But they Plotted Wrong to me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as alluding to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used before for Binding up contrary to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Yoak a Beast and make it Tame as a Lamb which is also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also Money as stamped with it or exchanged for it As of old Pecunia from Pecus They returned from Assyria or Babylon But not to the High it may be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They are like a Deceitful Bow Their Princes shall fall by the sword For the Rage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 677 of their Tongue Psal. 12. 73 8. And that we cited from Daniel 11. 36. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Till the Rage end for the Determined must be done Then the Trumpet for Alarm and the Roman Eagles As our Saviour also Comments on it Except it be the Caldeans as Types of some other And the very sound of Samariahs Eagle or Calf as we touched in Eglon may allude to those Eagles coming against them Yea and against the Temple also where the Golden Eagle was a sad Omen And they shall say to the Mountains Cover us and to the Hills Fall upon us To be compared with That in the Gospel and Revelation But how shall I give thee up O Ephraim O Israel How shall I give thre up As Admah How shall I put thee as Zeboim My Heart is Turned quite Turned on me My Repentings are kindled together I will not execute the â—ierceness of my Anger I will not return to destroy Ephraim for I am God and not Man the Holy One in the midst of Thee And I will not become a Bear 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a Bruit Beast Cruel and Devouring And yet They shall run as Lacquies after the Lord and he shall shew or shout as a Lyon Arie we touched it too much already in Aries Then shall the sons be afraid or run as an Heard yea and carking care or charge may be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 flying to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As Zippora the Bird or the Goat or Saphira with Moses from Aegypt and as Jonah from Assyria I will House them again in their own Houses saith the Lord. I will make them sit or Turn them again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1329. How near to Daniels 1335 or Twice 666 Is Judah also One of the Faithful Witnesses in the next Verse and Then Jacobs Birth and Life and Travels and Weeping and Wrestling at Mahanaim And of Succoth Moed of Tabernacles as before with Labans service and Lebana and Aegypt again They shall be as a Cloud and a morning Dew Their sin and their Punishment and as Moats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Grain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And as smoak Ashan as the English Ashes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yet I am the Lord thy God from Aegypt And thou shalt know no God besides me For there is no Saviour besides me made under all those Commands also From the Hand of Seol Grave and Hell as St Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will redeem them From Death I will ransom them As Goel the Kinsman that had Right and Command of Redemption as we saw before And Gole is also an English word as Goal I will be thy Plague O Death to devour or speak down as before in the Psalms O Seol I will be â—hy Cut off or most Deadly destruction Being promised to Break the serpents Head to loose all his knots and to destroy his works and Him that had the Power of Death which is the Devill Apoc. 20. 14. Repentance shall be Hidden from me Issater 670. with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it makes 1328 we touched it in Hester As God himself in Moses song Esterah where also the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is final as before to make Hester just 666 and again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the same song It shall be a Mistery to you a Promise rather than a Threatning As Paul also going to cite This place of Hosea saith Behold I shew you a Mistery or The Great Mistery With â—hee the Orphan shall be made Perfect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall finde most tâ—nder Compassions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not only the Womb or Bowels but Their own Spirit also I will heal their Backslidings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1342. and with 1348. I will Heal leads us to Arphaâ—sad I will loose or dissolve as the Destroyer But also I will Heal As Shaddai the Almighty I will be as Good as Great or Powerful And that for my Names sake The son of Sem the great Name They that know it shall finde Rest or Noah Sem they say was the great Melchisedeck the King of Righteousness and Peace which is Salem But sure
call of which we have also a most sure Character in our Hearing and Attending to Him and Calling on the mighty Name of Iesus of Nazareth as we cleared before out of 1 Cor. 1. Rom. 10. and many other Scriptures And That This was to reach much beyond That Pentecost Act. 2. may be cleared from our Saviour speaking of the sack of Ierusalem and their Great afflictions divers years after That Pentecost and then saith he immediately after the Tribulation of those dayes and in Mark After that Tribulation in those dayes which in Luke are called the Times of the Gentiles Treading down Jerusalem the Holy City in the Revelation 42 Months and Then shall the Sun be darkned and the Moon not give her Light and the Stars shall fall from Heaven and the Powers of Heaven shall be shaken and Then shal appear the Sign of the Son of man in Heaven and Then shall all the Tribes of the Earth mourn and they shall see the Son of man coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory Which is also in Mark and Luke though Both omit the Sign of him in the Clouds who addeth also for the Jewes and not onely for the Apostles When These things begin begin to come to pass Then look up and Lift up your Heads for your Redemption draweth Nigh Even in That Generation As summer when the Figg-tree blossometh And those signes There given by our blessed Saviour more by giving tâ—an receiving are in the Prophet Zechary with Hâ—ggai and Malachy after Babylon and especially in Thâ—t place of Joel with That very Pouring out of the Holy Spirit which was therefore not fulfilled in Acts 2d but onely begun before that Tribulation and Horror there spoken of with signs in Sun and Moon and Blood and Fire and Pillars of smoak For Behold In Those Dayes and in That Time I will bring back the Captivity of Judah and Jerusalem and I will gather all Nations into the Valley os Jehosaphat Thither cause thy mighty Ones to come down O Lord. Amen Let the Heathen be Wakened for it is Kets both the End and the Waking or Resurrection as we saw before and com up into the Valley of Jehosaphat For there will I sit to judge All the Heathen round about as before in that very Valley as we found at Engedi and Beraca Put you in the sickle for the Harvest is Ripe and the Press is Full c. As in Christ of the Harvest added to That of his Coming and the Revelation also of the Vintage for 1600 Furlongs And now the Sun and Moon shall be darkned and the Stars withdraw their Light and Heavens shake c. Twice repeated in this Prophet and twice in Haggai as also the Author to the Hebrews Again and yet Again I will shake as at Jerusalem pulled down and again at its setting up again And so the Prophet Esay 14 and 24 as 24 of Matthew After all the Powers of Earth shaken and the Kings of the Earth upon the Earth who yet shall be visited even in the Pit also as Zedekiah was in Babylon Blinde Until I visit him saith the Lord in Jeremiah 32. with 27 and 29. And in the 24th They were carryed thither for their good Even as the Gibeonites were Cursed by Josuah that great Type of Jesus but for their Good also though to draw Water for the House of God yet to be There and Nethinims And so here also in Esay They shall be shut up in Prison in the Pit but after many dayes they shall be visited and Then the Moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his Ancients Glorioufly As those glorious songs in the two next Chapters and the 27th is of the Binding of Satan Leviathan the Dragon or the Crossing Serpent As the Primitive Church did generally understand it Which may reach the Powers of Heaven or the Zodiack which must also be shaken with its Beasts also when the Sun and Moon or two Witnesses are put out or slain for 3 dayes and Half as ever when there hath been a new World or a new Heaven And Solomon speaketh as if more were still to follow than had gone before to the Beth Moed We might Track it up to Moses also as most things in all the Prophets Then will the Lord be jealous for his Land his Land and pity his People which Joel hath from Moses Song That is Gods given to Moses and Joshua more solemnly perhaps than the Law it self in the Tab. He will be jealous for them and moove them to jealousie and Then he will be merciful to His Land his Land even cursed Adama As in Joel also and to His People But when They are shut up and none left to help them as was rightly observed by the Prophet Jonah 2 Kin. 14. as we saw before in Daniel and Psalm 72. And lest This might seem less Durable because from the flitting Tab we may finde it also among the secret Councels of God hinted to Moses at his private retirement in one of his Three 40 dayes as he lived Three 40 years on Mount Sinai Though now placed in Leviticus 26. which may be the sum of the Law and the Gospel also Yea and the Fata Imperii or Their Changes also as of the Moon in Heaven I will set my Tâ—bernacle among you and my soul shall not abhor you which St Paul applyeth also to the Gentile Corinthians and I will walk among you as if the Ark did straiten him as a Childe in a Cradle or in swathing bands and I will be your God! I will be so Yea and I will stretch out my Hands and feet among you as one that swimmeth But if you will not Hearken and will not O! How much wilfulness is still expressed in it And if you will despise my Statutes chaâ—ged on David himself And your soul abhor my judgements so that you break my Covenant Not a word of Threat till sin came up so High as could hardly be worse one would think And Then I will appoint over you Terrour Consumption and burning Agues to consume the Eyes our great occasions of sin and cause sorrow of Heart which the Lamentation calleth the Curse of God And I will set my Face when they had set Their Heart against you and they that Hate you shall Reign over you And if you will not yet for All this Hearken unto me O! how Tender Then I will add to Teach or Chasten you Seven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And if you will walk with me at adventure Keri and will not hearken to me I will yet add stroke or plague Seven And I will send the wilde Beast of Tooth or Teeth as the Syriac in the Revelation who shal destroy the Tame Beasts and the Children also As Molock did in His fiery Claws and Babel in his fiery Furnace And because they bare the Tabernacle of Molock instead
a Chate and two Lambs also for the onely Salems of the whole Corgregation which were most Holy to be waved up with the two Cakes or Biccurim Which the Jewes also may teach us to be 7 Taps long was it the Sacred Cubit and 4 broad and 4 high As to represent a Month of 4 Sevens in that 26th of Levit. If one of these Sevens be 372 as in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and bring us just to the 16th Morning of the Wave-sheaf of Barley which was just 372 Hours Why may not the other 3 bring us to the Pentecost Or 50th Day after that Feast of Barley 3 Times 372 make 1116. which are just 84 less then 1200 the number of Hours in 50 Dayes that make up the Pentecost from That Barley sheaf And 84 in Hours make up just 3 Dayes and an Half for the Slaying or Laying of the Witnesses as we found in the Sun and Moon Hid in the Suns Beams or Hamma 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 53 or 93 till she be first Malta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just 84 and then Lebana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 87 in three Hours more and Melit or Melita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 89 and 94 and Malcha Melcha Milcha 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 95 and Sach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 98. And so forward to Sheleg and Shegel as we saw before I add not That the Hebrew words for that we saw but now in Levit. 26 You shall be given up into the Hand of the Enemy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 either with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or without it make but 3 more or 3 less than 1488 which are just 4 times 372 the number of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4 times repeated in that Chapter for their Chastisments But we may yet have a more sure Key for That and all other Prophetick numbers In the mean time we may remember that 222 Hours the 3d part of 666 brought us to the 10th Midnight before Jericho And in Josua 4 19 we read that they came out of Jordan to Gilgal the East border of Jericho just upon the 10th Day of the First Month and the number of Jericho is the Hour of Noon in that 10th Day The Pascal Lamb or Goat began to be Tyed up or separate 3 Dayes and Half for the Passover on the 14. As Pauls Tempest went off in the 14th Day and Then he came to Melitah or Malta which hath also been Deliverance against the Turks many a time As Sodom was delivered by Abraham in the 14th Year and Jacob served Laban for his two Daughters 14 Years and Jerusalem was freed from the Assyrians in the 14th Year of Hezekiah and Ezekiel saw his New Jerusalem in the 14th Year after the Citie was smitten and in the 10th Day of the first Month just as the Lamb was to be Tied up And Daniel had his great Vision of which we have spoken on the 14th Day after That Lamb so tied up but not slain till the 14th Day about the Evening Minha or the 333d Hour just Half of 666. But they came out of Rameses on the 15th Day Numb 33. 3. and at Sunset Deut. 16. 6. just 360 Hours of the Month. As if now they were to begin a New Year of 360 Dayes 10 times as good as the 2d Dayes Light Rising up 36 Hours from the Beginning The Morning after was fixed for Heaving up the Barley-sheaf as Emblem of their Rising out of Aegypt and our Lords Lifting up on the Cross and Rising also from the Grave on the 3d Morning after his Death as the Sheaf was the 3d Morning after the Passover slain In Hesekiahs time they began to clense the Temple polluted by Ahaz on the first Day of the first Month but they passed not the Porch till the 8th Day nor the House till the 16th Day the Time of this Barley-sheaf which was one of the Reasons why they could not keep the Passover on the 14th of the First Month as commanded on pain of Cutting Off. But Hesekiah rose early and called the Rulers of the Citie and All laid their hands on 7 Goats for a Chate and the Priests killed them and with their Blood made atonement on the Altar for All Israel as the King commanded And the King and his Princes and all the Congregation made an Act of Parliament for the Passover on the 14th of the 2d Month and then Hesekiah prayed The good Lord Pardon c though not according to the Purity of the Sanctuary or Lawes thereof And the Lord hearkened to Hesekiah and Healed the people And the King spake comfortably to the Levites and they kept the first 7 Dayes as in the first Month and the whole Assembly took Counsel to keep other 7 Dayes and they did so with great gladness as the like was not since Solomons 14 Dayes also And the Priests the Levites rose and blessed the people and their voice was heard and the Praier came up to his Holy Habitation unto Heaven Pentecost the 50th Day from the Sheaf of the 16th as in Levitieus But in Deuteronomy from the Sickle which was the Day before and that so strictly maintained against the Zadduces as the Jewes may teach us that from Thence They cryed Thrice On this Sabbath Sabbath Sabbath or the morrow after the Passover slain the 14th Evening with this Sickle sickle sickle as we saw before as a beginning to the 50 Dayes of Pentecost Deut. 16. 9. When thou put test in the Sickle In 50 full Dayes there are 1200 Hours to be compared with 12000 of a Tribe The First-fruits to God and the Lamb in the Revelation And Moadim are just 1200 if Moed be 120 as we saw before and Moadim be 10 Moads as it may be For the Hebrew Duall is for Two and their Plural for 3 at least as we saw in Elohim and Plural numbers are generally 10 fold to their Singulars as we saw 10 a Congregation As the least plural Regimen is made with Jod that is 10 and Im may be 50 or 610 and through all the Bible we see numberings by 10 and by 50 and the least Captain of 10 As also the English yet observe in their old good Tithings and Tithing men with Headboroughs and Constables of Hundreds The 7 Weeks were but 49 Daies as a foundation for Daniels 7 Weeks of 490 Years of which again And though the Pentecost were the 50th yet the Biccurim or first Fruits of the Spirit Acts 2d came on the 3d Hour of that 50th Day So that we may begin the 50 Daies or 1200 Hours before the Barley sheaf And sure it must be 12 Hours at least before that Morning else we shall disturb the course of Nature which began Time as God doth All with the Worst first as Evening before Morning and probably with Winter before Summer That is Sowing time before Harvest whose last end ended the whole Year and began another If 1200 be added to 333 the Minha Passover or to 335 or 6
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
first Day from Babylon But at Ahava fasteth and chooseth his 12 Apostles or Elders on the 12th of the first going Thence to Jerusalem on the first of the 5th Month and stayed 3 Days and Then to the Great Feast of Tabernacles in the 7th Month. As also in Cyrus at the 7th Month they came as One Man and kept the Feast of Tabernacles as it was Written But the Temple was not founded Ezra the 3d much less come to that End or Motsa of which Ezra 8. 9. and 10. with Neh. 8. 9. 10. which may also lead us from the 7th Month to the 10th in Ester and in Maccabes also for the great Dedication which our Saviour himself pleased to Honour with his Presence in Iohn though not required by God but by the Jewish Church As also That of Purim which they keep with great Solemnities to this day I have not yet said that These great things done in the Womens Court might be but shadows of That yet to be Done by Them also when he shall pour his Spirit on their Daughters and Handmaids also and They shall Prophecy And God shall give a Word and great shall be the Feminine Preachers And so he cries Receive the Law of thy Mother That I say nothing of Miriam Deborah Sampsons Mother or Lemuels Hannah and Anna with Elizabeth and our Saviours Mother with Priscilla Lois Eunice and the Brittish Claudia in a better Calender than Martial with other Women Prophets or Writers of Scripture From the Middle Gate Leading into the Womens Court 135 Cubits to the Gate of Nicanor and 135 years from Nehemiahs coming up in the 20th of Artaxerxes To Seleucus Nicanor the Jewes friend and His Greek Era so much used in the Maccabes And if you please to turn again as they often did in this Court 135 Years more bring us to That Little Horn or Great Type of Antichrist or Antikeimenos Antiochus Epiphanes from 137 of That Era to 145 he confirmed the Covenant as the Learned Diatribe for That Week or for 2300 Natural Days But Then Prophaned the Temple for 1290 Days although there be not so many from the 15th of the 9th of 145 to the 25th of the same Month 148 when it was clensed as we read 1 Mach. 1. and 4. Yet the Weeks may be just 62 to his coming up if we grant them to begin 70 Years before Cyrus in 140 Nabonassar and Epiphanes in 573 7 more for the next week make 580 and 3 Years more and as many Days as from the 17th of the 4th Month in which they fast for the first Temple to the 25th of the 9th Month in which they Feast for the 2d clensed by Judas Machabeus make up near half another Week in the year 444 after the first Temple which may make it the more considerable because it is 2 Thirds of 666 of which again But if Ezekiels 390 Days of the last siege of Jerusalem from the 15th of the 3d Month to the 9th of the 4th in the next and last year of Zedekiah as the Great Primate of Learning and Religion hath observed were as Types of those 390 Years from the great Schism to the Temples End Why may not these also in Antiochus be Types of Years in Antichrist and All Defiling of the Temple to its clensing Seeing Daniel himself is bid to shut or Seal them up being for many Dayes or Years to come as that Phrase of Dayes is in many places we saw before Even Then when the Angel speaks of Evening and Morning the usual Character of Natural Dayes Which we may consider again But first we may note That as first This Gate of Nicanor might remember the first Nicanor their Friend so it might not forget Nicanor their Enemy slain Here as Some or near Jerusalem As 1 Machah 7. by the same Judas about the End of the 64th Week from the Captivity Or 151 of Selâ—ucus soon after Antiochus And from this Last Nicanor Then slain to Herods Samaria finished or Caesarea Or the Temple begun may be just 135 Years As from Epiphanes first to Herods first 135 Years As 135 Cubits from the Middle-Gate to Nicanor From which Gate of Nicanor began the next Court of Israel and the Priests being 187 Cubits as there were 187 Years between That Nicanor slain and our Saviours Baptism Or Pontius Pilate that put him to Death As also from the Death of Antiochus the Great Dan. 11. 19 to our Saviours Birth 187 Years And if we look on Hours as Years The first 7 Hours make the first Rest and Turn of the Sun from the Nadir towards the Morning Horison and 7 Days make the Sabbaths Rest and the first 7 Days of a Woman before her Son Circumcised The first 14 Hours come up to the Morning Sacrifice when it was appointed and their longest Night was 14 Hours the Hiding Resting Slaying Sleeping of the Witnesses And 14 Days brought up the Passover The first 40th Hour is the 2d Morning Tamid or their Breakfast As 40 Days the Womans first coming to the Sanctuary after a Son As their 40 Years before Canaan were for a Son the first-born Son For Out of Aegypt have I called my Son my First-born 49 Hours begin the Third nights Rest as 49 the Jubile 65 Come up to the Third Days Noon or Dinner as the 65th Day is the Pentecost 72 Hours closed the 3d Day as 72 their Sanedrin 80 Hours the 4th Morning Watch and 84 Sun-Rising as the 4th Day from Creation brought up Sun and Moon as the two Witnesses of Heaven measure to All other Witnesses on Earth 120 the number of Moed in Hebrew letters the Hours in 5 Days before Man and Woman Created If about the Tamid Hour of the 6th Morning it might be in Hour 135 As the Men and Womens Court 135 Cubits 144 Hours the square of 12 close the 6th Day and begin the 7th or the Sabbath and their Clakins or Jewish Minutes of 144000 as the First-fruits of Time to God and His Lamb shadowed by the Lamb of the Sabbath distinct from the Daily Tamid 240 Hours close the 10th Day And from Aegypt the Pascal Lamb was Tyed up from the 10th Day of the Month as 3 Daies and Half before he was slain in Hour 333 the Evening Minha of the 14th Day Ending in 336 Hours But they went not out of Aegypt till the close of the next or 15th Day at Sunset which was Hour 360 as Daies in their Year And so Years from This Exodus out of Aegypt are reckoned as Hours from the beginning of their Year to the Passover Pentecost Tabernacles and All their Feasts 1200 Hours in 50 Dayes between the Passover and Pentecost Whose Morning was in 1548 Hour of the Year And so the Great Pentecost Acts 2d might be 1547 or 48 Years from Aegypt If there were 70 Years between the first Temple and Cyrus taking Babylon in 210 of Nabonassar That is 480 from Aegypt to the Temple in Solomons 4th 1 Kin. 6.
two Witnesses we may finde to be measured by the Sun and Moons Times of 666. So that 3 of These and an half or 7 times 333 or 3 Months or Moeds and Half may bring us to the End of all the Numbers yet fixed in the Prophets and the Revelation And the rather also because we finde the Sun and Moons 333 and 666 so Signal in Jerusalem as the Sun to his Moon or Jeâ—icho As All the Fulls and Changes of the Moon in all the World also We saw before that Enoch lived just as many Years as there are Daies in a Year and that from Him 666 Years come very near the Flood and that there wanted but 3 times 3 of 4 times 333 which is 1665 in 1656 the Year of the Flood And from the Flood as many years as Enoch lived bring us to the Promise made to Abraham near about 3 Moeds of Gods fixing before the Flood for Three times 120 make 360 3 And an Half make 420 3 of these 1260 in the Revelation written 30 years after the Sack or begining of Daniels 1290 which is just 3 times 430 45 more make up Daniels 1335. The very Number of his Fellow-Witnesses or Princes in Hebrew letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1335 the Noble Princes As the Fruitful Branches as Jacob said to Joseph or coming from Perat or Euphrates found in Dan. 1. 3. and Ester 1. 3. and 6. 9. 1335 Are but 3 more than Twice 666 or 4 times 333 which come to the Evening Minha of the Passover but want 3 Hours which Daniel supplies to the End of the 14 th Day the Day of the Lords Passover and Passing away of Wrath as the 2d Sabbath also and 14 Days of the Woman for a Daughter and the Moon returneth to them at the Poles in 14 days And Paul was freed from his storm in the 14th day went up to Jerusalem or Heaven in the 14th Year And Abrams Lot and Sodom were freed in the 14th year and Joseph was Born in the 14th year of his Fathers and Freed in the 14th year of his Own Bondage As Jerusalem in the 14th year of Hezekiah And 1335 is 35 within the 14th Hundred Year Again 1335 is but 45 above 1290 that is 3 times 430. First from the Promise to their coming out of Aegypt 430 and 45 more to Calebs settling in Canaan with Josuah the two Witnesses as Jos. 14. 10. Twice more 430 or 860 making up 1335 bring us to the last Siege of Jerusalem in Zedekiah Now Daniel is a Captive bemoaning those Desolations as he often calleth them in Chap. 9. 2. 17. 18. Perpetual Desolations Psal. 73. 79. 80. Threatned as before Levit. 26 And now the Daily Sacrifice was taken away and the Place of his Sanctuary Thrown down which was not so or at least so much by Epiphanes who Polluted it but did not Throw it down as now it was by the Chaldeans and afterwards by the Romans So that Daniel speaketh of Both These great Desolations rather than that Little Short one by Antiochus who yet might be a Type of the great Antichrist or Antikeimenos who was to defile and profane the Temple Rather than cast it Down As First the Chaldeans did and Then the Romans or the Jewes themselves and their Factions While the Roman Eagles and Armies overflowed them also with a Wing of Abominations making desolate as Daniel and our Saviour speak of those Times And yet I suppose the Days of Antiochus might be Types or Shadows of the Years of this Desolation also Seeing besides the days specified in Daniel the word for He stamped on them the Stars of Heaven as the Dragon did against the Jewish Woman or Jacobs Wife with Josephs Crown of 12 Stars Apoc. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is above 1300 as his Numbers First 1290 and then 1335. Yea and 2300 Days in the 8th Chapter Though so many Natural days of Evening and Morning as the Phrase is Yet must be shut up or Sealed for Many Dayes or Years as we saw before This was in the Third year of Belshazzar and 31 years from Zedekiah For in 37th of Jeconiah Evilmerodach was King but reigned only Two years in Berosus So that the 3d of the next King Belshasher was but 31 years from Zedekiah Though 41 or 42 from Jeconiah Daniel is Then at Shushan where our Temple Courts and Numbers doe begin And There about the Midst of the sad Desolations both on Israel and Judah He heareth One Saint asking of Palmoni the Wonderful Numberer as the Wonderful Councellor Esay 9 How long the Vision of the Tamid and Transgression shaming or making desolate to give both the Sanctuary and the Hâ—st of Heaven before to be as Mire or Mirmas To this Question as perplext almost as That of the Temples End and the Worlds with our Saviours Coming Matth. 24 He said to Me not to Him that asked the question Ad Ereb Boker 648 Until or as long as Evening Morning 2300 and the Sanctuary shall be Clensed Beginning with This great Desolation of the 70 years Captivity in which He Then was and taking 31 years of that Captivity to the Time they were speaking out of 2331 the Number which we found before of the Holy Courts or 333 by 14 steps or 7 whole days or Cubits there remaineth just 2300. As another Argument we are not wholly out in pitching on That Number as the Temple measures lead us As if those Holy Courts must be Trodden Down as many years as there were steps so multiplyed on them Which answer also to the 7 Days of the Week And yet 2331 came short of 2400. As if all these Desolations should be shorter than the Hours of a Great Day if we allow 100 Years for every Hour which is not far from Moses reckoning Psal. 90. Where the Day as God also made it is distinct from Night or Watches by Night Yet if the whole Day be but 1000 years Then 2331 is as the Morning of the 3d Day in which he will revive them in Hoseah After Two dayes of which the Hebrew letters make 666 as we saw before in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The first 666 ended just in the End of their Temple and City by the Romans That is Twice 70 to Ezra in the 7th of Artaxerxes as we saw before and 7 times 70 Thence to our Saviours Death and Half 70 Thence to the year in which it was Sacked After a War of 3 Years and half as answering to the 3 years and half of Christs publick Preaching after his Baptism and his 3 Days and Half from his Passover to his Resurrection or 3 Hours and Half Eclips and Suffering upon the Cross As the 3 Days or Years and Half of the Witnesses in the Revelation which we found also shadowed in the 3 days and half of the two Witnesses hidden by Rahab or Those Recovered by Abraham or by David after Ziglag and other things before How the Flood came about 666 years after Enoch