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
An APPENDIX TO A DISCOURSE OF INDICTIONS And to a Newly Publish'd Discourse OF THE JUBILEE OF THE Kingdom of Christ Approaching at the next following Vernal Equinox in our Vulgar Account 1701. Proposed to the most Learned in Scripture History Chronology or Arithmetick and Accountancy for deep Consideration THE Prophetick Line of Time from the Death of Solomon to the glorious Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ which I have for several Years last past established upon the greatest Reasons of Scripture Prophecy and its Chronology with the fairest Agreement of Universal History and Chronology is now confirm'd to me by the Indictional Frame or Fifteens of Years of which it is composed that doth demonstrate it to be one and the same entire Line th◠given at several Times in several Cantons or Parts and that it was so constituted by the Divine Spirit that we might know it to be one Line And that by the Laws of Indiction we may know where the Distributions Begin and End That even as by the Historical and Prophetical Assignations of them we have one view of them so by Indictions we may have even Arithmetical Demonstration of their Bounds The Line it self I present in the very Letter of Scripture in plain open view  Years Ezekiel's Visional bearing the Iniquity Ezek. 4. 4. 5 of the House of Israel on his left side a Day for a Year 390 Ezekiel's Turning on his Right-side immediately after the 390 Days accomplished and bearing the Iniquity of the House of Judah forty Days v. 6. 8. without turning from one side to another to confuse one time with another and Bands Layd on him to that purpose by God 40 The long Line beginning with the Persian Monarchy given therefore visionally by the River Ulai in the Palace of Shushan in the Province of Elam All Persian of 2300 Evs-morns according to the Prophetick Standard a Day for a Year During the time of the Sanctuary Trodden under Foot until the cleansing or Justification of it 2300 The distribution of this long Line of 2300 Evs Morns into its several Parts 1. The Time supposed of the Word 's going forth to Restore Judah and Jerusalem after the Seventy years of the Babylonish Captivity and in all appearance ending with the Forty Years of bearing Judah's Sin and beginning just before the Seventy Weeks which commence from the time of the Word 's going forth which took up a valuable Space Dan. 9. 25. For it was by the Commandment and according to the Decree of Cyrus Darius Artaxerxes and whose Decrees are written by Ezra Ezr. 6. 14. This space is by great Scripture and Chronologick Reasons and now by Indictions shall be demonstrated to be 75 The Time of the seventy Weeks Forty nine of which join with the time of the Word 's going forth to restore and make an 124 Years with the Building the Wall by Artaxerxes His Letter on that Account Nehem. 2. c. of which Nehemiah gives the History Sixty two of the Weeks run to the publick Appearance of the Messiah Dan. 9. During his more retir'd Life 'till his appearance as a Prince and Leader at the one Week of his Publick Ministry v. 25. Confirming the Covenant and sealing it by his Death v. 27. in the half or middle of the Week then for the other half Week committing it to his Apostles with the Spirit poured out Revel 6. 1. Represented by Christ's opening the First Seal going out Conquering and to Conquer According to the Prophets Standard 490 From the End of the Weeks to the Beginning of the little Horns Dan. 7. 25. Time Times and half Time made out by great Scriptural and Historical Arguments and Indictionally demonstrated The Time of the Seals Open'd The 400 The Time of the Time Times and half Time of the little Horns c. 12.7 wearing scattering the Saints of the most High and of the Church in the Wilderness Rev. 11. 3. c. 12. 6 14. the Witnesses Prophecy in Sackcloth with which concur the Gentiles Rev. 11. 1. c. 13. 5. and the Beasts 42 Moons 1260 The Additional time of Thirty or two Indictions added to the Times and half of 1260 making 1290 under the Character of Time From the taking away the daly Sacrifice 30 The Addition of Forty Five or Three Indictions to 1290 making 1335 reaches to the Blessed state of the Kingdom of the Resurrection when Daniel shall stand in his Lot of the New Jerusalem which cannot be without the Resurrection 45 Now as it is most certain by Account that these Sums laid together make 2730  Indict So it is most certain even to Arithmetick Demonstration they arise by Indictions or Fifteens 182 That the Divine Spirit hath put an Honour upon the Number Fifteen in chusing it for the Day of the so solemn Feast of Tabernacles which he made a great Type of his Kingdom as appears by the most awful reading the Law on an indicted Time in it in the Year of Release Deut. 31. 10. Adorning it with Paradisiac Appearance in the most goodly Boughs and by the Prophetick Representation of the state of the Kingdom of Christ under the keeping that Feast Zech. 14. 16. and the Misery of those who are shut for ever out of that Kingdom in their not keeping it and the peculiar mention of it in the Vision of Ezekiel's glorious Temple Ezek. 45. 25. But that he hath chosen it in this Line of Time is the Business now in hand and to be made out beyond Contradiction for the whole Twenty seven hundred thirty is all composed of Fifteens Some peculiar Parts of it are given in such Numbers as Fall into Fifteens of themselves as 390 1260 1290 1335 each of which deserve great Consideration The Three hundred Ninety as the First Part of the Line of Time hath this peculiar Remark That as it is the First Part so it gives Measure and Frame to the whole For as it is perfectly compos'd of Indictions So it is most observable Three Hundred Ninety multiplyed by the Number Seven of which Scripture makes so great Use in all Things and in all Prophecy both on Accounts of Mercy of Grace and of punishment for Iniquity Levit. 26. I say the First Three Hundred Ninety multiplied by Seven makes up the whole Prophetical Line of Twenty seven Hundred Thirty and so casts all into Indictions or Fifteens as any one moderately skill'd in Accountancy will easily find In the Thirteen hundred thirty five the End and shutting up of the whole Line in the Fulness of all Times There is as I may humbly express a Care and Diligence and even an Industry of the Divine Spirit to compose it into Indictions or Fifteens For in the twelve hundred and sixty as the whole is all Indiction so each Division is according to indicted Time Time or one Time 36◠Years Two Times or one Time doubl'd 720 Years One time halv'd or 180 Y. each is perfect Indictional and so the Hebrew first gave it its Style
of a Fifteen that though they divide Time doe not divide the Indiction from itself each of which will now be seen The most stately Pillars of Event distinguishing Time in the Line I look upon to be 1. The Time of the Last Week of the 70 viz. The lofty Boundary of Time which the Christian Era of Account hath kept known and sure and Extoll'd by the Style of the Fulness of Time in Scripture the Publick Apostolate of the High-Priest and Apostle of our Profession here on Earth his Death Resurrection Ascension and giving his Spirit in the Ministry of the Apostles during the opening the First Seal within the last Week going out on his White Horse of Gospel-state Conquering and to Conquer Rev. 6.1 2. The Roman Empire becoming Christian under Constantine a very magnificent Pillar of time before mention'd for the sake of Indictions brought into publick Knowledge and Use soon after 3. The middle part of the Time between the first Insults of the Barbarous Nations upon the Empire and the very subjugating of it For at that time about the middle Point viz. Four hundred Thirty Seven of Vulgar Account then the Gentile 42 Moons entred and the 1260 Days of the Witnesses Sackcloth begin and therefore Great 4. The Western Roman Empire and the Imperial Exaltation of Rome ceasing and the Papacy entring with its 42 Moons with which the Gentiles 42 Moons Colesce and together make a Parallel Line with the 1260 Days This is a great and Cardinal Event of Time 5. The Mahometan Imposture and Tyranny and Hegira beginning with the Saracenick Five Months of Torment and five Months of Hurting Men and five Months of Intervals Revel 9. v. 5 10. Fairly allowable in its Intermissions or declining State and so given as it were Indictionally with which admirably agrees the Duration of their Tyranny as made out by the Reverend and Learned Annotator on the Revelations to be 435. And then the Hour Day Month Year of the Ootoman Empire perfectly Mahometan also endures a Judgment on the Anti Christian Papal state while it lasts 6. The Papal Supremacy made an Image to the Roman Imperial Power by the other Beast the Roman Hierarchy when it came to its Number Its Command of Image-worship and Interdiction of those who would not Worship It s Anathematizing upon Emperors on that account Ratify'd by that Second Council of Nice It s deposing Emperors and taking upon it self a Right of disposing Crowns and Kingdoms all which bear a great Relation to the Indictional Time in its two times at 1157 and unto 1517 tho' not proper here to insist upon 7. The very stately Pillar of the Reformation the most to be Celebrated Partition of the Beasts or Papacy's First rising Time and his two Times of Strength and full Potentacy and his half Time of Declination from 1517 Are each and all exactly Indictional and the Last by a Recent Agreement of History found at 1517. That which we now expect is that greatest Glory of Indictional Time the finishing of Wonders or of the Mystery by the Angel of the Seventh Trumpet at the End of the three Years and half from the 1260 ending at 1697 and those three Years and a half to End at the next following Vernal Equinox of the Year in Vulgar Account 1700 or 1701. That which remains now is to shew how by the Rules and Laws of Indictions in a whole Line constituted of Indictions or Fifteens of Years We may find what Number or propoportion of Years is to be determin'd to those two Parts of the Line viz. First From the Forty Years of Bearing the Sin of Judah to the beginning of the 70 Weeks or of the 490 Years which was the time of the Words going forth Secondly What proportion of Time or Number of Years we may fix upon from those Seventy Weeks ending or the Last Week That so lofty Pyramid of Time to that so grand Indictional Time of the 13â—35 Years by which we may exactly know at what time and in what Year of Vulgar Account it began The First of these I affirm to be 75. The Second 400. The whole we have to work upon are 1005 Years perfectly Indictional viz. 40 75 490 400 To this great purpose I would lay down these self-evident Rules and Laws of Indiction which I thus apply 1. That seeing the Line consists of Twenty seven-hundred and thirty Years and 182 Indictions there can be no Number added not so much as an Unit or taken away even in those Parts of the Line not given in Number much less in those given in Number for as Room cannot be spared for more so there can be no Vacuum or Emptiness in such a Line strictly given 2. Whatever is given in Indiction by the Divine Spirit must rest in Indiction and not be stirred out of it because the Spirit of Prophecy hath canoniz'd it so the 390 and the 1335 cannot help any portion of this Line not given in Indiction Rule 3. When the whole Frame is perfectly Indictional and yet there are several Portions not in themselves Fram'd into Indictions those Parts must Borrow and Lend out of and to another That they may be all Indictional for though each Portion as it is given in such a Number and so consider'd cannot be chang'd yet when the whole Line is consider'd as such a whole Entire Line composed of several Parts and all Indictional One Indiction or Fifteen succeeds another without regard to each particular Number but respects the whole as Indictional Thus the Forty of bearing Israel's Sin is not given by even Fifteens but wants Five Though then as a Portion of time so given it cannot be more then Forty yet as in the Indictional Frame it goes to the next Portion the Time of the Words going forth and borrows Five of that That Portion accounted as I affirm it should be at 75 having lent Five wants them for it self as Indictional it therefore goes on to the 490 of the Weeks and borrows five of them The Four hundred ninety of the weeks in the Indictional Frame then becomes but 485 by lending Five to the former Portion but that Number having Five still supernumerary to Indiction it offers those Five to the 400 following the Weeks which receive them so all becomes Indictional to perfection And this hath nothing strange but what is found in all Numbers in a progrediency Four Fives may be accounted as each a distinct Number and as together making Twenty Consider'd as Five each stay in themselvs Consider'd as making up Twenty they flow in single Units one after another into Twenty so in this Indictional Line Numbers may be consider'd as limited to themselves or flowing on Indictionally into such a number of Indictions Thus Forty and Four hundred ninety are Numbers limited to themselves as such Numbers but in an Indictional Frame they freely take and give according to the Law of Indictions and the whole Line is as beautifully conjoin'd as
if each Part had been given in Indiction even as the 1005 in the whole But the great Doubt still remains what Proof from Indictions may be given That the time of the Words going forth before the Weeks was 75 for if that be prov'd then it undeniably follows the Time after the Weeks must be 400 and no more and so what Proof can be given the time after the Weeks was 400 for the Time if that be prov'd before the Weeks must be 75. the whole Line requiring there be neither more nor less and the Thousand five of these Portions of Time are even as Indiction requires the same And this further is absolutely necessary to be known to fix the Time viz. when the Twelve hundred sixty of the Witnesses Sackcloth began and where we now are in Time To fix this I therefore consider these further Rules of Indiction That there be no more taken or given from one Joint of the Line to the other then just makes up the Indiction now in the Rule of Proportion I have given there is no more then just Five making the First Forty five which it wanted to make up three Indictions the seventy five I settle upon before the Weeks receive back the five they lent viz. Five from the 490 of the Weeks making them just Five Indictions The 490 of the Weeks having Ten supernumerary to Thirty two Indictions and having lent five to the Time before the Weeks lends also five to the Time after the Weeks making them 405 and Twenty seven Indictions Thus there is as little taken as the very nature of Indictions will bear Whatever is added to or taken from any Partition of Time must be added to or taken from the Beginning and End of each Portion For so this Law of Indictions requires as the Forty have added to their End taken from the Beginning of the Four hundred ninety of the Weeks The Four hundred after the Weeks have Five taken from the End of the Weeks set before their their Beginning for thus only Indictions and Portions of Time will bear and not to be Intruded upon in their intimate Parts 3. That which exceedingly gives Beauty to this Frame is That all is by three Lustres or Fives gathered up into one Indiction Although therefore there might be other Numbers then 75 and 400 and other transposes from one to the other Yet it is even Arithmetical Evidence there could be no other Fixation so Curious Beautiful Symmetrall and agreeable to an Indictional Line as this And it is not to be pass'd by That these 75 as Five Indictions are Symmetrally agreeable to the Seventy Five or the Five Indictions that Run beyond the 1260 to 133â— at the End of the 2300 So the same Number Begins and Ends that long Line 4. There is yet one Assurance more from the Indictional Frame that fills up the measure shaken together pressed down and running over And it is that the Forty two Moons of the Beast enter at that so Recorded Time of the Roman Western Empire ceasing in Vulgar Account 476 and according to the Golden Number of Adequation of Lunar Time to Solar broght in so long ago by Meton Lunar Time bears the proportion of 1222 Years to 1260. There must therefore have run out from 475 Those 1222 Years at 97 ending and they being to be join'd to the Thirty Eight Years of the 1260 before them and to the Moons of the Gentiles All making up the Time Times and half Time or whole 1260 Days There is Room for no more then 400 Years the time of the Seals open'd from that so often mention'd lofty Pyramid of Time the last of the Seventy VVeeks ending 37 Years from the Christian Era or Incarnation so generallly known and accounted by And if there be Room for no more then 400 there must be 75 and no more between the 40 of bearing the Iniquity of the House of Judah and the 490 of the Weeks according to the Prophetical Line given And thus God hath been pleas'd to give such an Assurance to this stating of the Line of Time as is deferr'd to the Julian Period found by Scaliger and so Approved of for its certainty The adjustment of Solar Lunar Time and Indiction one to another Now seeing all this leads so demonstratively to Ninety seven elaps'd and that Scripture cannot be broken or dissolv'd As hath been made out It must needs be That there must be a Reserve of Time in the secret Counsels of Prophecy of the Three Years and half so remarkably given Revel 11. And that have their Place in the First three Years and half of the 30 beyond 1260 viz. in the 1290 which 3 Y. and half shall Expire at the next Springs Equation of Day and N. I humbly therefore present this so Full Representation that I could not nor durst Conceal That when God had upon the several Arguments from Prophetick Images join'd with Scripture and general Chronology and History been pleas'd to Found me on this very Scripture Line of Time as appears by the Treatise Entituled the Scripture Calendar of Prophetick Time Publish'd 1684. About an Indiction past at 1699. He should be pleas'd to shew me then such a Frame from Indictions or Fifteens of Years of which it is so undeniable his Word makes so great Account even Arithmetically demonstrative That it is even to my Admiration and Astoment And I desire it should be wholly to the Glory and Praise of his Grace and for the exciting Faith Hope Prayer And I most freely submit it to the severest Examination that is Scripturally Rational I am most assured Except very Letter of Scripture only Nothing depending on Argument can be more Firmly proved And I find such an inward Assurance That if God should call me to it I hope I should through the Blood of the Lamb and the word of his Testimony Overcome even to the not loving of my Life to the Death on Account of it Nor could I rejoice to survive it if a Failure could possibly be suppos'd but most humbly beg with submission to the Divine Will that he would grant me so much more of Life as to see Ezekiels Ha-Galgal that great Revolution of his Kingdom That it might be cryed in my hearing Oh wheele c. 10. 13. And because what I have now Written is the very highest I can hope should be reveal'd in this great Point I have added this Publication as an Appendix to a Treatise Entituled Indiction or accounting by Fifteens the Great Style of Prophetick Time Publish'd 99. and to another Entituled The Good Hope through Grace The Jubilee of the Kingdom of Christ shall come on the Popish Jubilee Published this 1700. And have nothing now to do but with the Spirit and the Bride restlesly Day and Night to say Come in the great Preparations to thy Kingdom at the next Spring-time of thy Resurrection viz. the Cessation of Anti-Christian Persecution the Down-fall of Antichrist the rising of the Witnesses c. Making it the Beginning of the sacred Year Anew and then in thy Kingdom it self And oh that all Saints would Joyn in the Harmony Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly The END ERRATA P. 9. l. 7. for twenty two Moons put Forty two Moons The Postscript in supply of a Preface to the Reader AS it is truly said Knowledge and Learning have no Enemy but Ignorance so Re search into the more retired Parts of Knowledge hath no Eâ—emy but Prejudice and a loathness either through the wait of Leisure or vigour of Thoughts or too great a â—ove of Easiness and a walking on in a beaten or plain â—râ—ck and a Choice to staâ— in Principle and the Beginnings of the Doctrine of Christ And when Men have chosen this they seek a Justification from some Appearances 〈◊〉 Scripture and Reason But â—till Anâ— can make it appear There are some Prophecies and Numeralls of them which we are forbidden to enquire or as I know they affect to express themselves to pry into Tâ—â—y can never perswade Any to whom God hath given Minds that have Understanding to surcease their Diligence therein And as to the present Indictional Frame presented they have but one â—f these two things to do 1. To deny that these Numbers are found in the Scriptures of Truth Or that there is a mistake in the casting them up Neither of which I am sure can be attempted by any in their Vnderstanding And as it is supremely to be acknowledged to the Divine Being that the very Excellency of that Being proves it self So This very Line I have hâ—re offerr'd proves it self in its kind And therefore That Ninety seuen is passed off without so great Effecs as were expected We must either acquiese in God's Reserving the Three Days and half viz. Three Years and half as a Time of Delay to make his Infraction and Breach on the Line given us known to us because of our unsuitable Frame to so great a Glory as his Kingdom 's Opening or we may suppose there may be a Mistake in our Vulgar Computation from the Christian Era of the Incarnation But the Râ—formation so monumentally entring according to it 1517 at the just half-Half-Time according to Indiction so exactly forbids that Thought Or Lastly We must suppose there were Disposes of Providence in this lâ—st Ninety seven wherein the Seeds of great Changes are laid up though they do not appear yet visible to our Sense or Observation The Fiâ—st â—s the Best I therefore beg this One Favour of the Candid Christian Reader Close Application and Consideration under Divine Illumination LONDON Printed for W. and J. Marshall in Newgate and Grace-Church-street 1700.