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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27582	An appendix to a discourse of indictions and to a newly publish'd discourse of the jubilee of the kingdom of Christ.	Beverley, Thomas.	1700 (1700)	Wing B2123; ESTC R24056	10,583	20

סועד And that the Prophetick Spirit might awaken us to know All is intentional when he makes an Addition to 1260. It is by two Indictions or Fifteens in 1290. When he makes an Addition to 1290 it is by Three Fifteens 1335. Whoever considers these Things can no more think This could be by Chance Then that Things argu'd from their Train Series and connexion in Creation and Providence to be the Products of an infinite Mind could be by Chance Could any one come after the Divine Spirit and find that in his Writings that he had not laid there Or could He lay them there and not know he laid them there himself and could He be suppos'd to lay them there but as a Depositum a Prophetical Treasure prepar'd for great Ends and Purpoposes As 1. That we might know beyond the power of Objection That this whole Line beginning at the Death of Solomon when Israel and Judah became two Houses or Kingdoms is one solid real and not imaginary one continued and Progredient and not divided tho' distinguish'd Line to the Blessed State It therefore begins in the Indictional 390 and so ends in 1335 so even curiously contrived into Indictions and the middle part compriz'd between both into the whole Indictional Frame tho' in various Numbers as is presently to be shewn The supreme Wisdom of the great Arithmetician or Wonderful Numberer as he is call'd Dan. 8. 13. see Margin there is seen in his Arithmetick Frame We cannot attain to its Persection for there is Wonder and Secresie in it But there is what we may apprehend by considering how and when that style of Time Indictions or Fifteens of Years came into Use Lustres or Account of Time by fives of Years had been long before but then these Fives triplicated or three joined together and call'd Indictions according to the very Hebrew Word before noted came into known and publick use at a peculiar Time when Providence knew Prophecy would have need of it And as Indictions are constituted of the Number Five which is the Number giving spring to all Parts of these Numbers and indeed of all the most Cardinal Numbers the whole Composure is most wonderful of Fives so join'd by Threes The Time then of Indictions coming into known and publick Use is that time agreed by all History when the Roman Empire from Pagan became Christian under Constantine memorializ'd The Great the First Christian Emperour Since which time it hath continued in use at Rome and in what is call'd the Empire to this day Now from its first entrance it had a time of settlement and of growing into a generally us'd Character of Time The Roman Papacy was preparing for its Supremacy and the Barbarous Nations that were to be the Kingdoms of the Ten Kings its Horns and who should give their Kingdom and Power to it were pressing into the Empire as into an Outer-Court of Christian Profession without the Power being so much declin'd and so began the 〈◊〉 two Moons af the Gentiles and the Witnesses beginning their 1260 Days of Prophecy cloathed with Sack-cloath both for the Ruine of the Empire as a Publick Calamity and for the Visible Beginnings of the Apostacy And just about the Time when Providence had prepar'd the so now universally known Language of Indictions or Fifteens of Years by which Time Times and Half Indicted Time might had Prophecy been understood have been certainly known to have Entered viz. Some time between the Gentiles Pressing in upon the Empire and their having settl'd into Kingdoms and the Papacy with them Thus the whole Line is setled upon its Frame of Indictions as in its general view but that we may more particularly and distinguishingly understand it and how to discern Times by these Indictions as under particular Distinctions of Time is what I would now present For as if there had been a Line of Indictions and yet no Distinctions in so long a Line we could have made by Indictions alone no Judgment of Time So if there had not been Indictions we could not have so exactly and assuringly Judg'd of the Bounds of Time according to those Distinctions in some Parts of the Line That we may therefore the better Judge hereof we must observe This Indictional Line though so wholly made up of Indictions or Fifteens as hath been shewn yet the Parts of it are variously given Some Parts in Indictions 390 1335 Some Parts in Numbers but not in Indictions 40 490 Some neither in Number nor in Indictions viz. The Time between Cyrus his Decree and the Weeks beginning The Time after the Weeks to the beginning of the 1335 Days And yet both fall in with the whole Line into Indictions And we may humbly conceive of the Reasons of all This. 1. It was necessary the First Time of bearing Israel's Sin or the First Three hundred Ninety Years in the Line should be given in perfect Indiction because it was to introduce the whole indictional Line and to give as it were the Soul of Indiction to it 2. It was as necessary the 1335 should be indictional not only as shutting up and consummating the indictional Line but more principally because that was the Course of Time God was pleased to give the Criterion or Knowledge of by Indictions and Providence had prepar'd according to Prophecy 3. The giving these two Parts of Time in Number viz. The Forty Days of bearing Judah's Sin was necessary that the Time of the Babylonish Captivity ending as a notable Pillar of Time might be plainly known But most necessary the Weeks to Messiah should be so precisely given That that lofty Pyramid of Time called the Fulness of Time might be prepared for before 't was erected and then stand firm to the End of Time and fulness of Times viz. All Times Gal. 4. 4. Ephes 1. 10. or the Kingdom of Christ But they are not given in Indictions even as the Time before the Weeks and after them not so much as in Number because Prophecy was Pleas'd so far to Veil it self That it might by close Search and Enquiry be understood and open'd to those only who through Desire separating themselves are stirr'd up by God to intermeddle with that Wisdom And withal this Fluency of the Line of Time from the End of the First 390 to the Beginning of the 1335 through the several successive Indictions and the several distinctive Divisions of the Line by its Titles of Event upon it as the words going forth the Weeks the Time of the Seals is yet by them kept united and conjoyn'd with it self while the same Indiction takes hold of one Part and of the other in each Distinction and will shew how according to the Laws of Indiction those Years that are not numbred are to be determined in their Numbers And even in the very Parts of the Line that are most under the guard of Indiction yet those most lofty Columns of Event distinguishing Time may fall in the middle of an Indiction or