Priesthood that It may be known They shall all come forth in Spirit Life and Substance in that Last and most perfect State Else They must never be Fulfill'd For after all the Rationalia or Reasonable Accounts that Learned men have Endeavour'd upon the Levitical Laws and Types The Apostle to the Hebrews c. 8. 5. c. 9. 9 10. c. 10. 1. as was most due when He writ to them Gives us the True one That they are Shaddows and Samples of Heavenly Things Images and not the very Presential Image of Good Things to Come till the Great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Adjustment of All Things In that Heavenly City and Countrey therefore when It Comes down from Heaven All These Things are to be Entirely Absolutely and Ultimately Fulfill'd and presented by Themselves It was therefore Necessary even Those very Types and Manners of speaking Taken from All those Foremention'd Things so well known to the Jews should be made use of in the Description of such a State as by so many Irrefragable Arguments must be the New Jerusalem-State being too High for the present World and yet not Abstracted Spiritual and High as the State of God All in All And thus our Saviour hath Declar'd He Came not to Dissolve the Law and the Prophets Mat. 5. 18. but to Fulfill Them and as it were Pointing to the Time by comparing this with Mat. 24. 3. 35. when They should be so Fulfill'd viz. at the New Heavens and the New Earth He says Till Heaven and Earth shall pass away meaning those which now are One Jot shall in no wise pass from the Law till All be Fulfill d Then Christ will to the utmost Fulfill All even to one Jota And Thus must that so Solemn Divine Asseveration Jer. 33. 29. c. be made Good concerning the Levitical Priesthood to wit in that Spiritual Priesthood of the whole Israel of God Jews and Gentiles serving God and the Lamb Day and Night that is always in his Temple in the perpetual Priesthood Cloath'd in Fine Linnen White and Clean or in Robes made White in the Blood of the Lamb which is the Righteousness of the Saints in that State seeing his Face and having his Name in their Foreheads Rev. c. 7. c. 19. Otherwise The Apostle is Irreconcileable with the Prophet when He Declares Heb. 7. 11 12. a change of the Levitical Priesthood into that Melchizedeckian Priesthood Begun at the Resurrection of Christ but not Appearing till the Kingdom of Christ in its Glory For though I freely Acknowledge All These Things had their Beginning Spirituality of Fulfilling them at our Lords Resurrection Yet as I have said the Holy of Holies that was then Annointed hath been yet Reserv'd in Heaven and was by Reason of the Apostasie Measur'd and shut up and not seen till the Seventh Trumpet nor shall It Come down from and with God and the Lamb till It shall be pronounc'd of the City the New Jerusalem Jehovah Shammah The Lord is There or the Lord God and the Lamb are the Temple of that City And This is the State of the perfect Redemption Expiation and Attonement of Jesus Christ as the End or Consummation of all the Levitical Law or Frame and the Righteousness of it Rom. 10. 4. Appearing in Glory when All Sin is Blotted out to Perfection and when is the Great Reconciliation of All to God and to One Another in Heaven and Earth In Him even in Him And All shall according to that Petition in the Prayer of the Kingdom be both Fully Forgiven and also Plenarily Forgive which now is Done in Great Infirmity only Colos 1. 20. Mat. 6. 12. 14. 15. In all which lyes the Spirituality and Truth of all the Levitical Priesthood Sacrifices Temple c. which are therefore so Fitly made use of here to Represent that State and therefore All Saints are the Spiritual Levitical Priesthood Worshiping God and Christ as his Priests in his Redemption 4. These Types are Fitted to express the Highest Holiness and Separation to God from all Impurity or Semblance of Alienation from Him This shall be in that New Jerusalem State and therefore It is express'd in the Language proper to the Holiness and Purification of the Sanctuary As these This is the Law of the House The Limit thereof upon the Top of the Mountain shall be round about the most Holy Behold this is the Law of the House The Holiness is as it were Guarded round about with a Law It is therefore said at the Beginning and end of the verse c. 43. v. 12. This is the Law of the House Behold This is the Law of the House to be Most Holy All the Whoredoms of Impure Worship and of the Carcasses of the Kings in their Idolatrous Impositions are utterly Remov'd The House is to be Cleans'd and Reconcil'd and the Altar purified Seven days The Priests to Consecrate themselves and their Persons and Garments are by no means to be defil'd None but the Inviolate Sons of Zadok are accepted to draw nigh The Worshippers are to go straight forward in their Worship and Service and not to Return even as the Angels in their Service c. 45. throughout c. 46. 9. with c. 1. 12. The Glory of God comes therefore into the Temple and takes it up for the Residence of his Throne and of the Soles of his Feet for ever and promises and even undertakes It shall be no more defil'd c. 43. 2. 7. Now seeing There never hath been any Temple State on Earth that hath not been defil'd as we must needs be convinc'd if we look back on all History of Scripture or its Proâ—â—etic History It must needs be that this Temple is that New Jerusalem State wherein God and the Lamb are the Temple coming down from Heaven into a State as in Heaven and upon Earth Now as God and the Lamb cannot be Tempted of Evil So they are a Temple not possible to be Defiled so that it is Security unspeakably High that this Temple cannot be Defiled that God and the Lamb are the Temple And therefore in that Prayer of the Kingdom we pray Thy Name be Sanctified as in Heaven and upon Earth even by such a presence as to be the Temple of his Servants even as his Kingdom comes so as in Heaven and upon Earth and His Will is so Done 5. The Types of this Vision present after the manner of David and the Princes of His House a Single Prince And as Zadok was firm to David and Solomon in the Priestly Office so the Sons of Zadok are here preferr'd in the Priesthood The Worship of the Prince is Appointed His Place of worship His going to it and Returning and all in the East where the Glory of the Lord had made its Entrance His Portion of the Holy Land is Assign'd Him which cannot be Alienated but only to his Sons All these Types Answering the Sollemn Oath of God so often Repeated to David and particularly Jerem. 33. 20. 21. and
Mistakes spring from the same Root We are Afraid of a Kingdom of Christ that should make an Impression on the present State of our Carnal Grandieur and Enjoyment of this World and therefore desire All Things should Run in that Channel till Death and Final Judgment and the State of Eternity Temporal Princes and States-men would not have any change in their Poweâ— and Politicks and are Angry Christ should 〈…〉 told to Take to Him His Great Power and to Reign Ecclesiastical Grandees would have their Jurisdiction their Regiment their Canons their Dignities and Revenues Remain in the order wherein They now Stand And so the same Temper Runs down to the lowest of Both of each sort And thus we even as They Tread such Paths as that not Knowing the Voices of the Prophets Acts 13. 27. though we Read them as They did often Fulfill them in Condemning Him or His Kingdom For the Glory of this Kingdom and World to come whereof we now speak is so plainly declar'd and yet we are so Averse to it that It is Hard to know whether Theirs or Ours is the Greater Blindness Only Blessed be God the Error is not so damnable in our Case as in Theirs In the mean time We Pray for and Profess to desire better Things Even such as the Prophets have Foretold But what Hopes can there be of such a Betterness without a Higher Oeconomy or Administration from Heaven when the fairest Appearances that ever have yet been upon Earth have been Blasted Faded and Wither'd as a Flower in the Field when It hath most spread its Glory Even This is a Demonstration beyond denial that either there is a Despair of any better State or else some Great Prophesies must be Fulfill d according to the High Eloquence of Scripture concerning a Restitution of All Things by the Second Adam from the Time of the Fall of the First Adam and a Spirit pour'd out from on High Suitable to it Oh that therefore by this and other Concurrent Discourses I might however unworthy be Instrumental to perswade That we might with One Consent Give our selves by Books to Understand when the 1260 Years which God will have Accomplish'd for the Desolations of his Sanctury shall come to an End And that we would Set our our Faces to the Lord to Seek by Supplication Fasting and Ashes as the True Witnesses of Christ that They may come to an End Even if it may be sooner then 1697. And I am most assur'd that at that Time at least we shall prevail and the Tabernacle of Testimony and the Ark of the Testament shall Begin to be seen by us in the Temple open'd in Heaven and It will be Filling with the Smoak of Divine Purification by the Spirit of Jugdment and of Burning just before the Glory of the Lord Returning to it For the Time given for the Bringing Ezekiel's Vision into Effect must be at Hand and the New Jerusalem shall come down as the Lord hath spoken Amen 〈…〉 Aâ—justment of the Lords Prayer to thâ— Vision Oâ—R Father which art in Heaven whom yet the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Hallowed be thy Nâ—â—e Bow thy 1 Kings 8. 27. Heavens come down and place the Glory of thy Name in thy self and the Lamb the Temple of thy Holy City the New Jerusalem Filling Heaven and Earth with it Thy Kingdom Rev. 21. 22. come Thy Will be done as in Heaven and on Earth Let thy Throne be Established in the New Heaven above Reaching Ezek. 43. 7. down to the New Earth the place of the Soles of thy Zach. 14. 20. Feet So that an entire Obedience may be Rendred to Thee even Holiness to JEHOVAH throughout Give us this day our Ezek. 41. 22. daily Bread and Forgive us our Trespasses as we Forgive them that Trespass against us Fix then the Table before the Lord of John 6. 33. the Super-substantial Bread the Lamb united with the Rich Ezek. 44. 25. Perfumes of his Intercession Arising from the Seven Times Purified Altar of his whole Burnt Offering of Himself once Heb. 13. 10. for All By which is made an Universal Reconciliation of All Things in Heaven and Earth in Him even in Him Colos 1. 20. Lead us not into Temptation But Deliver us from Evil And this Thy dwelling place we shall no more defile by our Whoredoms Ezek. 43. 7. 8. and Abominations by the Carcasses of our Kings by our Posts Thresholds Or the Uncircumcision of our Heart c. 44. 7. c. 45. 9. and Flesh Nor any more Violence Curse or Death Heard of in the Holy City of our Melchizedec the Serpent and his Rev. 20. 1. Ezek. 41. 18. c. Rev 19. 6. 1 Cor. 15. 28. Rev. 21. 6. Seed being Seal'd up in the Abyss For Thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory The Cherubims and Palm-Bearing Company shall sing Everlasting Hallelujahs The Lord God Omnipotent Reigns For Ever and Ever In a Kingdom deliver'd up to God and the Father throughout Eternity of Ages Amen So be it and So it shall be So It shall be done The Humble Proposal to the Reader I Have already published however at several Times as I could a Scheme of the whole Scripture Line of Time and Prophecy as a Preface to the Work and with it a Compare of the First State of Things that may be call'd the Stasis at the First Sabboth with the Restitution which the Apostle calls Aâ—â— Catastasis or Re-Enstating Them at the Grand Sabbatism and so proceeded by the Patriarchal Line down to Abraham and from Him to the Going out of Egypt And then beginning at Cyrus have drawn the Line to the Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ I have also strengthen'd the Fixing the Line of Time from Cyrus to that Kingdom by Full discourse on the Visions of the Four Monarchies in Nebuchadnezzars Image c. 2. and the Four Beasts c. 7. and shewn How the Revelation Falls in with and more Fully â—narchy in a Treâ—â—â—se call'd The Kingdom of 〈…〉 Time accordin◠〈◊〉 those Four Monarchies I have also prov'd 〈…〉 â—narchy to be the Roman Pagan Empire and then the Papacy with a short â—â—â—â—â—thesis of the 〈…〉 Empire in both That and Another discourse call'd Gods Command to come out of Babylon I have now published Ezekiels Vision of the Temple and City in the â—â—and design of it the New Jerusalem and shown the several States of the Churches of God and of Jesus Christ till this Temple and City come down in the New Jerusalem are Commensurate to the whole Time of the Four Monarchies and give Dates to the Line of Time ever since first in that entire Line of 2300 Evens Morns after Forty Years from this Vision given to the New Jerusalem and in several Parcel Collatteral Lines and by Name of Daniel's 70 Week and 1335 Days And also herein Joyn'd a discourse on the Reformation the Rising of the Witnesses at 97 when shall be the Great
Re-Reformation I have Lastly published the Prophetical Song of Solomon from the Kingdom of David the Type to the Kingdom of the Great David the Antitipe Shewing its Stupendious Configurations with all Prophecy There now Remains to fill up the Line of Time from the Going out of Egypt to the Building the Temple and so to Solomon's Death and from thence to the Restoring that Temple by Cyrus and therein to Solve the Difficulties of the 480 Years in the History 1 Kings 6. 1. and the 450 Acts 13. 20. and to Clear that the 390 Days and 40 Days of Ezekiel's lying on his side continue the Line from Solomon's Death and the One Kingdom of Israel Becoming Two to the Restoration by Cyrus And upon all this I Find it necessary in an entire Discourse to clear by plain Positive Doctrinal Scripture in compare with Prophetical that There is such a Kingdom of Christ as of the 1090 Years New Heaven above and the New Earth below that Begins with a Judgment by the Vials and ends in the Casting the Last Enemies the Devil Hell and Death into the Lake and between Those is a Thousand Years Kingdom of Visible Glory of Christ and his Saints after the manner of his Transfiguration above and after the manner of Adam in Paradise below and Full of Holy Spirituality and Enjoyment of the Redemption of Christ Free from all Cerinthian or Millenarian Heresie and shining in that Divine Oeconomy or Preparational Glory until the Kingdom is deliver'd up to God and the Father All in All. And Lastly To shew that the Lords Prayer the Sacraments of Baptism and of the Lords Supper even as I have shown the Sabbaths of the Old and New Testament have their Continuance and their Great use as the only Ceremonials of the New Testament in Typing out that Great Kingdom Upon all this I Humbly Propose to every Reader that is Favourable hereunto and of Ability to Assist me by Contributions for Thirty Sheets more to compleat the Work at a Penny a sheet and a Seventh Book to Six Subscribers or as they please in further Assistances to be Given either to my self or to Mr. Salusbury at the Rising Sun in Cornhill And the Press shall be daily going on to Finish the Work And with Faith Hope and Prayer Let us if we Love the Kingdom and Appearance of Christ Humbly and Earnestly wait for the Great Revolution I Affirm of the Kingdom of Christ at 1697 to enter into its Succession and 75 Years after viz. 1772 to begin in the 1000 Years Appearance in Glory Month 11. Day 29. 1689 90. The Pattern of the Divine Temple Sanctuary and City of the New Jerusalem Measur'd according to Ezekiels Last and Greatest Vision c. 40. c. 41. c. to the End AT a day of a most Certain and exact Date when Jerusalem and its Temple lay in Ruins God shews in Vision to Ezekiel not a Model nor a Direction to any persons to Build according to it but a Building in Actual Being and therefore a Building made without Hands 2 Cor. 5. 1 Revel 21 10. Heb. 10. 11. 16. whose Builder and Maker God is Eternal in the Heavens from whence It is to come down in the New Heaven and the New Earth viz. a Temple a City that hath Foundations and a Countrey Lying about it the principal State of which is Heavenly but to shine down to the New Earth from the New Heaven Rev. 21. 24. The Preparation to the Vision 1. The Date is above the Exactness of any Record viz. By the Year of Captivity It is first dated and thereby it is Joyn'd with the Thirtieth Year in the Beginning of Ezekiel's c. 1. 1. Prophecy which being set alone without any other note of Time can in no fair Construction be any other Thirtieth Year but from the Last Jubilee according to General Jewish Style of Time and that being the Fifth year of Jehoiachins Captivity and the present year of the Vision being the Twenty Fifth year of that Captivity It shews it to be the Fiftieth c. 40. 1. year and so the year of Jubilee Fitly to Represent the Great Jubilee of the World that shall be in this Vision Accomplish'd It was on the Tenth day of the Month Answering the day of the first Institution of the Passeover when also will be the Exod. 12. 1. Dan. 12. 1. Matt. 24. 21. Rev. 3. 10. Greatest Passeover of Deliverance from the Great Trouble Tribulation and Temptation which shall come on all the Reprobate Earth but the Saints shall be privilegd'd from it It was in the Beginning of the Year or Spring on which the Greatest Acts of God are Recorded and which God Eâ—od 12. 1. made the Head of the Sacred Year It was in the Fourteenth year after the City was 〈…〉 To shew it was in the deep Desolation of the Temple and City of Jerusalem and Land of Israel as the Season of Mercy For when his Servants are the lowest Then in the Mount the Lord will be seen Gen. 22. 14. with Ez. 40. 2. Lastly It was the Self Same Day and thereby the Time is Gen. 2. 1. c. 7. 11. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 7. 8. Knit to the self same day of the Creation and First Sabboth To the self same day of the Flood when the World that then was Perish'd by Water Answerably the Heavens and Earth that now are are Treasur'd up for Fire Even for the day when this very Vision shall come into high effect All Great Epochs 2. The Theatre of the Vision is the City Jerusalem that then lay in Ruin and the Land of Israel under Desolation whether the Prophet Ezekiel was carried by a Divine Haâ—d in the Visions of God Agreeable to so Great Visions of God as will be when this Jerusalem comes down from Heaven 3. This wonderful Measurer whose Appearance was as Brass as the Feet of Jesus Christ are Represented in the Prophecy of Daniel and in the Revelation This Measurer is parallel to the wonderful Numberer call'd Palmoni in the Margin of the Bible Dan. 8. 13. Knitting both Visions 4. There is a Charge upon Ezekiel obliging all his Powers of Attention and Observation Son of Man see with thy Eyes Hear with thy Ears and set thy Heart upon All that I shew thee c. 40. v. 4. which Charge is renewed c. 44. 5. shewing how weighty and how sublime a State this Temple-Communion with God shall be 5. There is a Charge upon Ezekiel to shew to the House of Israel All that He saw c. 40. v. 40. and then c. 43. 10. to shew them the House that They may be Asham'd of their Iniquities and let Them saith the Lord Measure the Pattern And if They are Asham'd shew them All the Forms Laws and Ordinances c. of the House Now this I look upon as chiefly Prophetical of the Time when the Temple shall be Open'd in Heaven And it shall Tend to the Great Purification of the Churches of
Exod. 27. 1. and from Solomon's which was Twenty Cubits square as too much 2 Chron. 4. 1. And why was this but to shew the True Attonement for the whole Israel of God Jews and Gentiles in its Symbolical Twelve Tribes is Jesus Christ declared to be so in the Doctrine of the New Testament established by the Apostolical Twelve And the Spiritual Levitical Priesthood concerning which God Lift up his Hand Jerem. 33. 19. c. is diffus'd through all Saints who shall be Priests of God and Christ in Robes wash'd in his Blood and daily Rejoycing in his Sacrifice and Altar most Holy And Other Tribe of Levi scatter'd through this whole Israel as that of old in Type Gen. 49. 7. and so Bless'd by Moses Deut. 33. 17. The New Testament Acknowledges none So Great is that mistake of calling the Elders Pastors and Doctors of the Gospel so of which the Gospel says nothing but the Contrary nor hath It come into its Mind And of the other Altar c. 41. 22. It is expresly said This is the Table before the Lord Leading us to that Great Supper of the Kingdom call'd the Lords Table wherein we shew forth the Lords 1 Cor. 11. 26. death till He come when we shall Eat and Drink at his Table in his Kingdom in that Passeover Fulfill d and that Fruit of the Vine New in the Kingdom the Father as the Ancient of Days hath given to the Son and to the Saints of the most High Dan. 7. v. 9. 13. 27. Matt. 26. 29. Luke 22. 16. And to shew the Spirituality of this State The Altar of Incense and the Table viz. of the Shew Bread Become One For I see no Reason to think as some Interpreters do that that v. 22. c. 41. consists of Two Things viz. The Declaration of the Altars Measures and then a Declaration to Ezekiel as by the by That near the Altar is the Table before the Lord But rather herein is this Great Mystery The Melchizedekian Priesthood brings forth the Super-substantial Bread of the Kingdom and with it the Power of the Endless Liv'd Intercession signified by Incense and Interpreted to be the Melchizedekian Priesthood of Christ Heb. 7. throughout with Revel 8. 2. So that They Became both one Correspon 8. The Jews have an undoubted Priority and the Gentiles an Engrafting and are even 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Body together a whole Israel one Temple Ephes 2. 21. c. 3. 6. Rom. 11. 17. 26. The first is so plain that the Vision is made up wholly of it So that I am fully convinc'd No Spiritual Mystical Evangelical sense can Satisfie it There must be therefore a Reception a Reduction of the Twelve Tribes which He Knows how to Gather and sift for who can Summon Them from Aâ—â—s 9. 9. and as it were by the Four Winds So that as their Reduction shall be like the Sifting of the Resurrection for Every mans Own Body and Life from the Dead to Themselves Of which we have that Illustrous Vision Ezek. c. 37. 1. c. So It shall be to the Gentile Churches Engrafted into that Olive that is the Jews Own the Time of the First Resurrection Even to All the Dead in Christ whom God will bring with Him And to the Saints who shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tâ—e Living The Remaining 1. Thess 4. 15. 17. There shall be such Issues of Living waters as are after to be declar'd Now as to the Latter part viz. the Gentiles Engrafting though indeed there are only Silent mentions of the Gentiles by the Strangers Sojourning among Them having the same Interest by Lot that They Had Yet It is because the Vision is Given in Jewish Types and Language But the Gospel declaring Jews and Gentiles are All One Body One Temple One New Man in the Stature of the Fulness of Christ One Olive Tree with its Natural and Engrafted Branches It is made Certain The Twelve Tribes with the Sojourners are the whole Israel of God c. 47. 22. In as much then as the Apostle Rom. 11. v. 12. hath declar'd a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Ecclips under which the Jews lye to this day and that there is also a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a Full ORB'D LIGHT to which They are to Arise And that by Esa 60 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 25. Speaking of the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Full Orb'd Light of the Gentile Church The Apostle did privatly Foretell an Ecclipse by the Apostacy under which That Gentile Church was to Fall and then Ballanc'd the order of Each Churches Time We may thus understand it First the Gentile Church is to Come out of its Eclipse and Apostacy to its Full Orb'd Light when as our Saviour says The Gentiles Times shall be Fullfil'd Luc. 21. 24. Then Judah first of the Two and Israel of the Ten Tribes shall be Receiv'd both When This is perfected Then shall be the First Resurrection or as the Apostle Calls it Life from the Dead v. 15. For as the Jews could not be made perfest according to this Vision without the Gentiles which They not enduring became Enemies for their sakes So that their Casting away was the Riches v. 25. with â—2 of the World Even so the Gentiles becoming the prime Church of Christ could not be made perfect without them God therefore cast the Gentile Church into Martyrdoms under the Pagan Empire for 400 Years of the Seals then under an Apostasie of 1260 Years under the Antichrist not yet expir'd And when the Gentile Church is so far prepar'd by Sufferings It must come to that Full Orb But because it cannot be Fully perfect without the Twelve Tribes They must be Receiv'd that Both may be together perfected according to this Vision and as the Apostle v. 15. says by the Gentile Churches Mercy or Glory that must by promise be after the 1260 Days Joyn'd with the 400 Years of the Seals so long the Souls under the Alone slain by Paganism must Rest till the Rest slain by Antichristianism should be Fulfill'd according to Revel 6. 11. Then the Jews obtain Mercy v. 31. and must be Receiv'd that All may be Glorified together On which Mysterious Ordination the Apostle cries out Oh the Depth v. 33. So we see this Vision cannot be Accomplish'd till the Full Orb'd Light of the Twelve Tribes together with the Gentile Church Both which are yet under Eclipse till the 1260 End And then Preparation shall be daily made for the after Glory at the 1335 Days ending by the Everlasting Gospel Freach'd to all Tongues c. or to all the Gentiles And the Twelve Tribes shall then be also Receiv'd and the Veil or Eclispe Remov'd It is very Remarkable therefore though at the Resurrection of Christ Revel c. 4. c. 5. there was a Representation of the Apostolâ— Church of both Jews and Gentiles in the Living Creatures It was as in Heaven and after shut up there during
Successors after the Resurrection The Third 1000 will Rise to the Loins in the First Days of the Seventh Trumpet when this Temple shall be Open'd in Heaven But the Fourth Thousand in the Milennial State or in this Vision Accomplish'd in the Kingdoâ— of Christ There will be a River Running down from Above throughout the New Earth beneath a River of Life to Bathe and Swim in and that cannot be pass'd over nor Transcended in any Temple State For It is an Ocean Correspond 12. The Spring of All this State is the Glory of God coming into his Temple c. 43. 1. And the perfection of it is JEHOVAH is THERE as in perpetual Residence of his Throne c. 48. last and of the Soles of his Feet Yea so that He becomes Himself with the Lamb the Temple of this City as hath been said Well therefore might All parts of the Temple be Embellish'd with Cherubims attending the Divine Presence And as attending the Lamb They had the Face of a Man on one side Worshipping Emmanuel God in our Nature and of a Young Lyon on the other in Homage to the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah The Temple was also Adorn'd with Palm Trees Representing the Innumerable Palm Bearing Company of Saints c. 41. 19. c. Revel 7. 9. I have now presented the General Table of this Vision in Agreement in the Chief and Main Importances of it with the New Jerusalem It now Remains that I draw up some Conclusions giving the Scripture Rationality of the whole Conclusion 1. Although this State be so Great and Excellent a State that It can never have an End Impos'd upon it or that it can expire of it self Yet it is by the Apostles express Doctrine 1 Cor. 15. 24. to be Deliver'd up Even this Temple and this Kingdom of Christ As the Father is in it It shall be Resum'd And as the Son is in it It shall be Resign'd or Deliverd up by the Son with his Saints For as from Heaven It comes down for the Glory of God and Christ so thither It shall be drawn and Resign'd up Now All this speaks it to be in order to a Higher End There must be therefore some Ultimate State and Perfection to which even this Temple and Throne are as the Apostle styles it an Oeconomy or Dispensation of the Fullness of all Former Times In order to this All former Dispensations were and are as to their next even Supreme end and the very Complement of Them So This is in order to a further â—xaltation of it self that does not indeed give it End but comprehend it and into which It is deliver'd up And this is that God may be All in All and that the Son and his Saints may be Subject Or as our Great Mediator expresses it John 17. 21. 22. 23. That They viz. All the Saints of Christ may be One as Thou Father art in me and I in Thee That They also may be One in us And the Glory which Thou gaâ—est Me I have Given Them That They may be in one Even as we are One I in Them and Thou iâ— me that They may be made Perfect in One This being the Supreme End It gives Law to the Noblest means and even to That which is to All others an End viz. to this Grand Oeconomy and wherein All Oeconomies are Sum'd up Conclus 2. There never was Any Temple-state Either High Enough or Secure Enough for this Vnion of the Saints with God All in All till this Temple-State wherein God and the Lamb are the Temple be Brought down Herein therefore the Highest Perfection of the Redemption of Christ is Enjoy'd There are therefore Robes washed in â—is Blood There is a Continual Participation of the Altar of his Sacrifice His Intercession and Himself as the SHEW BREAD of Life is as an Altar of Incense and the Table before the Lord There is the Annoynting of All Things by the pouring out of his Spirit making his Servants Kings as well as Priests And All the Heavenly Things of this State are Purified that is Purchased and Consecrated by that Better Sacrifice of Jesus Christ in his Blood Heb. 9. 23. Even Angels and Glorified Spirits of Just Men wait for their being made perfect in this State and Learn from Time to Time till then Then All the Treasures of wisdom and Gace shall â—e Open'd to the Rev. 20. 6. Priests of God and Christ a 1000 Years And They shall be therein Compleated for the unspeakable and Eternal Vnion with God All in All. This State is Begun here on Earth on which Account The Servants of Christ are now in Common And not the Elders Pastors and Doctors of the Gospel only Call'd the Royal Priest-hood 1 Pet. 53. to which Dr. Hammonds Notion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will Excellently Agree and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Portion and Lots of God according to the words the Holy Spirits wisdom Teacheth However we from the Ancients Humane Wisdom have Learn'd to speak Otherwise In them all alike is the Spiritual Tribe of Levi Perpetuated according to Jerem. 33. 21. 22. From this State Spirits Going to God are before the Throâ—e in white Robes of this same Priesthood Cloath'd and so prepar'd to be Invested with Glorious Bodies in this High Temple State and therein Consecrated for an Eternal Vnion with God All in All So the Sublime Purification of this State is according to the Divine Oeconomy absolutely necessary to that Eternal Vnion Conclus 3. This Temple â—tate is the Complement of all Prophâ—â—y For as All Things Times and Prâ—phecy have been some ways Prophetick of it Even Adam in Paradise was the Type 〈◊〉 who is Yet to come in it And the Two Last Voices of Proâ—â— Fullfil'd It is done It is done come out of this Temple Râ—â— 16. 17. and from the Throne of this Temple Revel 21. 6. as Râ—membring Ezekiel's Temple and Throne Even so All dates â—â— Time from the Beginning more especially from Daniel's 2â—0â— Evenings Mornings have been kept by it and determine in thâ—â— as the Apostle calls it the Fullness not of Time only as thâ—â— Time of Christs Incarnation and Death are call d Gal. 4. 4. bâ—â— the Fullness of Times that is All Times Ephes 1. 10. Anâ— further to shew in this of the New Jerusalem or Ezekiels Vâ—sion Fulfill'd All the Law and the Prophets are Fulfilld we may observe in that Grand Vision of the Gospel the Transâ—â—guration in the Mount which by the Apostle Peters express Exposition Ep. 2. c. 1. v. 16. c. was a Vision of the Power â—â— Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and wherein God the Father gaâ—â— Him Honour and Glory and by a Voice from that Excellent Gloâ—â— that shall come down into his Kingdom Establish'd Him â—â—preme saying This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleas'd Hear ye Him At the same Time Moses as Supreme Medâ—â—toâ— on Earth of the Jewish Law and all its Tabernacle of Testiâ—â—â—â— and its Types And Elias as that Prophet who was the Type â—â— that Vndying State Carried up immediately into Heaven â—â— Chariots of Fire and so the Chief of the Prophets Appear'd â—â— Him to shew this State was indeed the Full Complement of thâ—â— Prophetical Law and of all the Prophets Luke 9. 30. 35. Conclus 4. We should consider that this Temple is yet shut uâ— and not seen till the Days of the Seventh Trumpet because â—â— Days of the Apostasie are not yet expir'd Nothing therefore â—â— yet be as it ought according to the Pattern In the mâ—â— Time This is our duty to come as near to it as we can by oâ—â—ing nothing but according to the very Word of God For seeâ—â— All Things commanded by God are Patterns of Heavenly thâ—â—â—â— and the Temple in Heaven is not yet seen none can transgress â—â— much as by a Ceremony and be Innocent So nice and seveâ—â— is that Admonition for this very Reason See thou do All Things according to the Pattern shew'd thee in the Mount Heb. 8. 5. But within Seven Times or Years The 1260 shall end anâ— we shall see it that we may be Asham'd of our Corrupt â—â— present Low State And when we are Asham'd As Certainâ—â— then shall be the discoveries shall be clearer and clearer till â—â— and the Lamb be both our Temple and our Light FINIS