Governour Appointed by the Grecian Emperour looks very Fathally upon that Supremacy as if it were the Appearance of that Idolatrous Supremacy sacred Prophesie calls Bestianism and makes immediately to succeed the Christian Empire expir'd in the West though at first It was not viz. in open Appearance but now began to appear The Smoke of the Bottomless Pit open'd by the Fallen Star and unawares to him the Locusts Posit 7 coming out of that Smoke look too like the False Christianity Idolatry Superstitions v. 2. False Hell of Purgatory enforc'd by Anathemaes Excommunications Curses Darkning the Knowledge of Christ the Sun of Righteousness and the whole Ayr of the Christian Profession And yet had the Smoke not been armed afterwards with the Flames of Nebuchadnezzars Furnace of Persecution compelling to worship the Beast and his Image All had been but Smoke but such a Smoke as might well give Advantage to the False Prophetism the Locusts were poyson'd with to be receiv'd in the World It is most evident about the time of the Worship of Images being setled by general use and established Posit 8 by the second Council of Nice these Locusts of Saracens did more fiercely annoy the Antichristian Christian World viz. After the years 725 and 787. After or out of the Cessation of the Saracens grew up the Turkish or Othoman Power upon the Posit 10 World as a second Woe when the Saracens Locusts like by Five and Five Prophetical Months c. 9.12 13 c. and Five suppose of Intermission coming on and going off had lasted 435 years or from A. D. 622 to A. D. 1057 when the Turkish Power began its play About this time many Servants of God must needs be suppos'd in the depth of Popery to grone Posit 11 under it v. 13. and when the publick daily Worship was taken away to worship privately within the Temple at the Altar of Incense and to cry to Heaven for Relief and so from the four Horns of the Golden Altar the Voice came That the first Rising of the Turks was from near the River of Euphrates is so universally agreed as Posit 12 to turn our Thoughts upon the Four Angels loosed that were there bound c. 9. v. 14 who from Four united into One in the Othoman Family according to History The Great number of Horsemen in the Turkish Armies the lively Symbols of Great Guns and Posit 13 sulphurean Powder just in use at the taking Constantinople their poysonous Tayls of False Prophetism v. 15 16 17 18. v. 20 21. their Prophetical Day Month Year making 395 years from their Rising to the Taking Constantinople the Third part of Men the same Figure used for Imperial Rome before but the killing or extinction of the Empire in the East differing from the darkning it wholly in the West till the Papal Supremacy inlightning it anew and the Impenitency of the rest of Men of the Western Antichristian World after the Judgment of the Eastern or Graecian Antichristians are all so pregnant and agreeable Images of the Turks placing themselves in the Empire of the East as not easily to be refused especially adding the admirable Landscaph of the Reformation Cap. 10. The whole Tract of Mahometan Time from 622 to 1453 before the Reformation running paralel Psit 14 with the most entire Papal Domination shews it a Judgment level'd against that very Domination c. 9. v. 4. with v. 20 v. 21. and set up by God in scorn of that False Christianity to which it bears in so many things an opposite Resemblance one Arm'd False Prophet against another one unreasonable senseless Religion against another viz. Mahometanism against Antichristianism One full of the Worship Angels Saints Images the other in the Zeal of One God denying Jesus Christ. The Forty two Months of Western Empire being reserv'd to the Supremacy of the Beast and his Ten Posit 15 Kings the force of Killing fell on the Eastern Empire necessarily c. 17 all along and on the enslav'd Greek Antichristians who being guilty of the high Pretensions to the same Papal Supremacy in John Patriark of Constantinople challenging it and of its being given by their Emperor to Rome and who by their second Councel of Nice establish'd the Idolatry upon Saints and Images are justly made Hostages to Divine Vengeance till the Execution of Judgment on the Western Antichrist There being to the Turkish Angels an Hour above the Day Month and Year signifying a design'd Posit 16 set Time may very fitly embleme the continuance of their Power and ravage on the World c. 9. v. 15 till near the Fall of the Tenth of the Great City c. and the Glorious Ascension of the Witnesses out of their slain Condition dropping as Elisha their Mantle of Sack-cloth Posit 17 But yet to understand the Turkish Times there must be an exact observation of Prophecy and its measures viz. from their loosing from Euphrates and motion over Countries throughout their Day â—â—n 11.41 â—â— 43. â—ev 9.18 â— 11.13 14. â—an 11. â— 42. â—ev 16.12 Month and Year till their attaining the top of the Constantinopolitan City and Empire From that time till near the Fall of the Tenth of the Great City Rome the Woe by them was to continue A gradual Fall before that must necessarily be supposed signified in Daniel by Tidings out of the East and North but together with that Fall their Constantinopolitan Empire and Woe must cease and but with that Then by the drying up the River Euphrates at the sixth Vial is intimated their subsisting in their first Euphratean Bounds And from thence spreading as far as they can upon the Glorious Mountains of Judea they are dryed up under the Symbol of the Euphratean Waters that at the Conversion of Israel the way of those Kings of the East may be prepared and in the Battel of Armageddon they come to their End and none shall be able to help them c. Dan. 11. v. 43. with Rev. 16. v. 16 17. Posit 18 We have therefore greatest Reason to pray for and Congratulate the Turkish Falls both as of so Great an Abaddon and Apollyon and also as It is a Pawn and Pledge to us of the Fall of that Diametrical Enemy of the Kingdom of Christ the Antichrist and his Antichristian Church or City to such a Degree that the Kingdoms of the World shall be proclaimed to be the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ. For the Truth of God will certainly hasten the one with the other Posit 19 We have Great Reason to hope a Great Enfranchisement and Conversion of the Eastern Christians and of those Churches at the same Time however Antichristianiz'd now Posit 20 It is also most hopeful The Great Victories granted to the Army of the Christian Name however Antichristianiz'd Rev. 11.14 with c. 17.16 will move the rest of the Ten Kings who have till that time given their Kingdom and Power to the Beast to hate the Whore to
POSITIONS Containing a Full Account of a Scripture-Line of Time in the whole and from Joynt to Joynt together with a Judgment according to Scripture Prophecy on the present Turkish Affairs I Here present in as much plainness and shortness as I could contrive it into this Scripture Line of Time upon these Great Considerations 1. There is not a Greater or more sensible Argument for the Being of God than his declaring the course of Times and their Events before-hand in so even and settled a Continuation nor more Enforcive of practical Piety then when we see Times are not hidden from the Almighty 2. There is no stronger Conviction of the whole Antichristian Imposture than that Table of Time Scripture hath given of his so long Domination and Tyranny and Ruine at last and especially when now so near 3. There cannot be a more seasonable kind of Instruction for the present Time in which we are so near so wonderful'd chanâ—â— of the World as within Ten years of the Proclamation of Christ's Kingdom nâ—â— in a Seditious or Rebellious way but the most Heavenly Orderly and Regular by Princes and Sovereigns themselves That therefore we may 1 Chron. 12.32 as the children of Issachar comming to make David King at Hebron judiciously and as knowing the Times and what Israel ought to do so prepare our selves for the Kingdom of the Root of David the Bright Morning-Star and may not as the Pharisees be charg'd with Hypocrisy for not discerning the Signs of the Times I present this short Table of Times to become as familiar to every one as the most known principles in these following Positions THere is a Line of Time drawn by Scripture from that Point It calls The Beginning Posit 1 Genes 1.1 to that Point It calls The End Dan. 12. ult and oft elsewhere This Line of Time is not drawn in one entire continued Line of 5000 or 6000 Posit 2 years at length and together but in several Parcel Lines and those of unequal length This Line is not drawn industriously or in a Formal show of such a Line But it is with Divine Posit 3 Art occasionally Extended and Applied to the things measur'd by its parcel Lines and so in Longer or Shorter of those Parcel Lines according to those occasions The Joynts of those Parcel Lines are such as lye most visibly close One to Another and have Posit 4 least need of Conjecture or Inference to Derive or Assure the Connexion of each Parcel Line with the Precedent or subsequent Parcel Lines The Beginning and End of this Line are Two Points that bound the Intermedious Space Posit 5 The first Point is that First and Perfect Sabbatism of the World at the First Inviolate Creaation Posit 6 which was its Stasis or the First State given it by God And It is inclusive of the space to that Grand Oracle The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents Head Within which Space the first Parents Fell and in them their Posterity But what Space that was Scripture hath thought fit to conceal as to any positive definition of it viz. when our First Parents Fell. The last Point is That Sabatism of the Creation Restor'd or made New sacred Scripture styles the Posit 7 Apocatastasis or the Restitution of All things in counter distinction to its Fore-nam'd State and the Fall from it and so it is the Point of Revolution And it is the Thousand Years after which is a short Interval of the Serpent loosed of Gog and Magog and the Laodicean state of the Church On which last Interval-Scripture hath thrown a veil of secrecy also giving us no Account what space of Time it is within this also lies the final Judgment Posit 8 The Line of Time that comes first to be enquired of is that which lyes between the Two Points of the first and the last Sabatism Posit 9 The Parcel Lines of this whole Line are neither conceal'd nor so dogmatically given but that they require Investigation Discussion Debate and Computation by way of Argument to settle and ascertain them Psit 10 By such Elaborate search into the Word of God They may be determin'd to be in Express or number'd Numbers Five Thousand seven Hundred and Fifty nine Years with some small Latitude of more or less in some very small difference Posit 11 Yet is this no Derogation from the Truth of our Saviour's Assertion or seeming Prohibition of enquiry into these Things Acts. 1.7 viz. It is not for you to know c. such an Enquiry as that Answer was given to being hasty and curious and not according to the Order of Divine Revelation in its own Time and Method or according to the Order of search into such Revelation already given by diligent Endeavour to compare Scripture with Scripture with earnest Prayer to be guided into the right Understanding thereof Posit 12 The Line of Scripture-Time is either Historical and applied to Things that were already past when that Line was subtended to them Or it is prophetical and applyed to Things that were to come to pass when that Line was drawn out for and applied to them or that are yet remaining to come to pass and to be fulfilled before the End Posit 13 That we may find out this whole Line we must lay together these Historical and Prophetical Parcel-Lines and by casting the Account How many of the Fore-recited number are past we may know how many remain to come and what year we are upon Line 1 There is evidently a Line of Sixteen hundred Fifty six years made up of Lineoles or little Lines of each Patriarhs Age before his Teknogony or Begetting Genes 6. and this Line reaches to the Self-same day of the Flood Line 2 There is a second Parcel Line evident as the Former of four Hundred twenty seven or eight Years by a second Roll of Patriarchs before their Begetting each succeeding Patriarch from the Line 3 Flood to the Terahs Death Genes 10. and Abrahams sojourning and the series of Promises beginning to him immediately at Terahs Death Line 4 From thence to the going out of Egypt there is a Line of four hundred thirty years eight hundred fifty eight years from the self same day of the Flood to the self same day of the going out of Egypt 1 King 6.1 1 Kings 11.47 From the going out of Egypt is carried on the same kind of express Line in four hundred eighty years to Solomons first beginning the Temple and reductively thirty six years from thence to Solomons Death Thus far the Line is purely Historical Line 5 In a Line partly Historical partly Prophetical runs a Course of three hundred ninety years to the very self same day of Ezekiels Vision of the New Jerusalem Ezek. 4.5.6 Ezek. 40.1 and from the self same day of the going out of Egypt to the self same day of that Vision Given nine hundred and six years Line 6 With these three hundred and ninety
though before hand as often it gives the Sum before hand Ezr. 7.1 Ez. 6.14 or together It affirms the Temple finish'd by the Commandment of the God of Israel as the supreme going forth of the Word and by the Commandment of Cyrus Darias and Artaxerxes Kings of Persia the Subordinate and Humane which was the perfect fulfilling of Dans Prophecy of the Commandment and the Word going forth And then is particularly recited Ataxerxes his Decree Posit 28 It appears further that by Artaxerxes in his Seventh Year the Word went forth because by the same Artaxerxes in his Twentieth Year Nehem. 2.7 when there went forth a Commission by Letters in some Resemblance of the Word going forth It is expresly directed on the building the Walls and Gates which in Dans Prophecy is a Note of the Seven first Weeks in their Course which assures the VVord was Gone forth and the Weeks began before that and therefore necessarily Gone forth at the last Word in the Seventh Year Posit 29 From the VVord then Going forth first by Cyrus to its going on still forth further by Darius and its Complete being Gone forth by Artaxerxes in his Seventh Year must be a Considerable space and by the Examination of the After parts of these principal and collatteral Lines together with other Symbolisms of Scripture on which great weight is oft hung It may be known to be Seventy Five Years and so by being lay'd to the Principal must be a Collatteral Line Line Coll. 2. From the VVord thus Completely Gone forth is drawn the second Supporting or Collatteral Line of Seventy prophetical Weeks till the solemn Promulgation of the Everlasting Covenant and the Sealing up Vision and Prophecy Dan. 9.24 viz. that great Prophecy of Chriâ—â—s Kingdom by Daniel Posit 30 This line of Time is divided into three Parts And is agreed to be 490 Years in the whole by All Expositors v. 25. Nehem. 1. c. 1. The Seventy VVeeks to which the Building of the wall is to be apply'd as its Character Which Seven immediately followed the Word gone forth as before Asserted for Restoring Jerusalem of which the Temple was the Principal part 2. Sixty Two VVeeks to which is to be apply'd Time of Trouble or in Straits viz. in the Jews low and Tributary State to other Princes among which Troubles by Daniel's Prophecy Antiochus his Tyranny was peculiarly remark'd These lasted till the Messiah publickly appear'd not a Prince but a publick Leader Guide and Prophet in his publick Ministry As the Hebrew Nagith imports 3. One Week of all highest Confirmations of the Everlasting Covenant in the First Half Week by Messiah Himself Mat. 4.17 at the end of which Half or in the midst of that Week Messiah was cut off sometime after the sixty two Weeks viz. three Years and a Half and by the Sacrifice of Himself and his Resurrection and Ascension after it caused typical Sacrifice and Oblation to cease a much different thing from taking away the Daily Sacrifice and so left the Confirmation of the same Covenant to his Apostles by the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven which three Years and half of the last Half Week Run out and the Gospel not accepted by the Body of the Jews Acts 8.1 They were Rejected to Desolations till the End or near the Glorious Kingdom of Christ although these Desolations are not set out in the Revelation as not becomming the Apocalyptical Glory of Israelitism and of the New Jerusalem the Types all along of Christ's Kingdom first in its Purity then in its Glory throughout the Revelation Coll. Line 3. Immediately after the End of the last Half Week follows the Third Collatteral line of four hundred Years of the Time of the Book Sealed in Daniel's Prophecy and seen in the Hand of Him on the Throne Sealed with seven Seals in Revelation Rev. c. 5.1 â— 6. â— 7. â— 10. And when six of those Seals were open'd before the seventh open'd a second Sealing viz. of the 144000 enter'd to carry on the Sealing further immediately after the Apparance of the Christian Empire then a Third Sealing followed viz of the Thunders at the time of the Reformation that so Daniel's Sealing might reach the End Posit 31 The Connexion of this line with the former is thus made certain Daniel's last Half Week must immediately run on from the end of the Former Half Week in Confirmation of the Covenant when Sacrifice and Oblation was made to Cease by the Death Resurrection Ascension of Christ and sending down the Holy Spirit Because the Character of whole Week is Confirmation of the Covenant Accordingly the Apostles immediately proceeded to Confirm the Covenant as appears in the Sacred Posit 32 History of the Acts of the Acts of the Apostles Answerably hereunto as the period of the first half week and the beginning of the last half week Posit 33 the Lords day of the Resurrection and sending the holy spirit is fixed as the Apocalyptical Epoch when the first Seal is opened in the Apostles solemn promulgation of the Covenant of Salvation that was begun to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed by them that heard him Heb. 2.3 God also bearing them witness by Miracles c. With the first Seal all the rest are conjoyn'd and opened in an orderly succession and course of Posit 34 Time and make by things themselves applyed to the principal Line of 2300 Evens Morns a third Collateral Line though not given in express numbers Before the last half week of the last Line ended this following Line of the Seals running 400 Posit 35 years beyond the three years and half of the last half week is adopted and engrafted into the former Line of the weeks by uniting the last half week in the common symbol of these seven Seals so closely succeeding in a course of Time with the sealing Vision at Christs Death This Line must continue till the following Line of the 1260 Prophetical days or years joyn it Posit 36 at the beginning of the Trumpets This Line is by several notes of Time in the course of the Seals and by the notes of Time determining Posit 37 the beginning of the 1260 days Rev. 6.5.6 assur'd to be 404 from the Epoch of the Lords day of the Resurrection and Ascention And that remarkable symbol of the Ballances in the Hand of that so known Just Prince Alexander Severus in the third Seal determines the half time at his Death 202 years from the Resurrection to the vulgar Ann. Dom. 235 by the Agreement of undoubted Humane History Next follows as it does the solemn Oath in Daniel so the second sealing which entred with the first Trumpet into its force in the Revelation Time Times half a Time Collat. lin 4. concurrent with the six first Trumpets within the continent of which lye the 1260 days of the Woman the Church in the Wilderness the Witnesses in Sackcloth and slain three days
and a half and is the same thing with the power of the holy People scattered in Daniel Rev. 7.1 2.8.1.11.3 c. 12.6 the Gentiles treading the Sanctuary under foot by means whereof the daily service is taken away forty two months into which months are enterwoven the beasts forty two months in the Worship of whom and of the Image made to him the abomination that maketh desolute is set up c. 11.2 c. 13.5 And the Line in the twice 42 Months so interlock'd one with another are equal with the days and a common Line with them being to be strictly accounted by not Lunar but Solar Time and so falling one into another equal 1260 days This most remarkable many-character'd though but Collatteral line hath first a Distinction of Posit 38 Time at large and of Season or inward Time according to the necessary Explication of our Lord 's three days in the Grave that is a part of each It hath also a plain division into three parts And being the most notorious stop of Christ's Kingdom under the Forgery of it It is thus often remark'd c. 11.9 1. Time or the first Time Beginning Ann. Dom. 437 and running through the first 360 Years with which the Gentiles began their 42 Months within 38 Years of which after their beginning the Beast at the Cessation of the Western Roman Empire was Born into his 42 Months beginning c. 8.10 viz. at A.D. 475 in which the Gentiles Months are merg'd and drown'd as one and the same from that Time at A.D. 606 When the Bishop of Rome Fell as a Star from Heaven to enlighten Rome on the Earth at the Supremacy given him by Phocas and arose to the Honour of having Himself and the Image made to Him worshipp'd at his 666 Number A. D. 725 and was fully settled in his Imperial Beastian Power at the End of this first time 797 c. 13. v. 15. v. 17 18. All procur'd and mannag'd by the other Beast or Antichristian Hierarchy with their Gentiles 2. The two Times wherein the Beast and his Bestians were pursued by the two Woe Trumpets during the former of the two times by the Mahometan Saracens during the latter of the two times by the Mahometan Turks by whom the Grecian Empire was extinguish'd 1453. c. 9. But yet the Beast and his Worshippers Repented not notwithstanding so great Judgments to the very end of these two Times Ending Ann. Dom. 1517. The Third Division is styl'd the Half time in the Morning of which after 1517 aforesaid the Bestian Kingdom was terribly shaken by the Reformation the Witnesses about A. D. 1527 being called Protestants or professed Witnesses But in the after parts of this Half time It resettled it â—elf in a partial Dominion and hath been of late and now with more Appearance of Success c. 10.1 c. endeavouring to remount it self into an entire Dominion and may if God please Epitomize or give in short the Resemblance of its Former Antichristianism and Tyranny but shall certainly have its Papal Garments cut off at the middle and the Beard of its False Prophetism half Shaven at its Half time ending to their Everlasting Disgrace never to be repair'd This will be about the Year 1697 ere the Instant Century take End Posit 39 The Turkish Empire or Woe shall pass away immediately after the decemprincipality or Tenth of the Great City which hath so long Reign'd over the Kings of the Earth is fallen as it shall do at that time c. 11.14 c. Collat. lin 5. And however the Mahometan Greatness have trembled of late to shew how easily God can bring it down in his own time yet it cannot Roll to the Earth till Beastianism first does so The Fifth Collatteral Line is the thirty Years of the Voices which immediately follow on the 1260 Days ending with the sixth Trumpet For as soon as the sixth Trumpet shall cease the seventh shall sound and those great Voices shall be heard as from Heaven which shall proceed each in their Order as they are describ'd Rev. 14. And this Line is so joynted into the former of the 1260 days that it cannot be sundered the 1260 being made 1290 Dan. 12.11 Ending A. D. 1727. Collat. lin 6. The last and finishing Collatteral Line is the 45 Years of the Vials poured out which Vials are Represented as filled up with the Wrath of God gathered by the Prevalency of the last Voice for treading the Winepress Rev. 14.18 c. And this is indented so with 1260 days as not to be divided the whole being given as one entire Line of 1335 days or years Dan. 12.12 Ending A. D. 1727. Posit 40 This last Line of 1335 y. and its backward Conjunction with the former Line of 404 y. by Daniel's command to seal and shut up the Book in the beginning of it and by the Sealing the 144000 in the Revelation in the end of it may be even demonstrated by a close compare of the two Prophecies one with another Dan. 12.4 Rev. c. 6. c. 7. c. 8. and a Retrograde Juxta-position or laying each part backward one to another from the End to that Sealing the 144000 and from thence to the sealed Book Posit 41 For compare Daniel's End and the New Jerusalem the great End of the Revelation and we shall find how exactly they agree Dan. 12. Rev. c. 16. c. 21. c. 20. Daniel's End is a Resurrection of some to everlasting Life of some to shame and everlasting Contempt The End of the Revelation is remarked with Two It is done It is done One of the Destruction of Posit 42 Enemies the other of the Glorious state of the Martyrs and Servants of Christ under the name of a Resurrection Ezek. 42. v. 22. Daniel's End hath its peculiar Lots one of which is assigned to him John's End hath a New Posit 43 Jerusalem the Capital City of the Land of Promise and a Royal Priest-hood to both which the Notion of Lots is in Sacred Writ so Appropriate Posit 44 Blessed together with Daniel in his Lot shall All Those Be who love the Appearance of Christ wait for and come to it viz. into the Enjoyment of it And Blessed and Holy is He saith the Revelation who hath his part in the First Resurrection Dan. 12 13. with Revel 20.6 Posit 45 From Daniel's End lay back the 45 Days that make the 1290 Days to be 1335 and They must of necessity run back with an intimate Reference and Relation into the 1290 and all parts of them because they so closely unite with them as not to be accounted 45 Days without them but with them 45 making 1335 and yet they must be distinct because the 1290 were so many before them So these last 45 Days must have to do with the taking away the Daily Service with the setting up the Abomination that maketh desolate with the scattering the Power of the Holy People which things are doing during the 1335 Days
so joyned and seeing the 45 are nearest the State of Blessedness what can they be supposed to have to do with them but as in Execution of Vengeance to their Removal Posit 46 Agreeably in the Revelation the Vials that are plac'd just before the Apocalyptical End must have to do with the Great City with the Dragon as giving his power to the Beast and being Worshipped with Him Rev. 16. with the Beast with the False Prophet with the Gentiles whose Idolatry and Tyranny was represented before in the Revelation as demeriting so great an Execution of Judgment And they must also be in Vindication of the Witnesses in Sackcloath and slain of the Woman in the Wilderness and of the 144000 Sealed and so must look back as far as they Posit 47 Lay back from these 45 Days Daniel's thirty days making the 1260 Days concurrent with the time times and half a time to be 1290 Days and They must have a closer Relation to the 1260 Days and to the taking away the Daily Service c. then the last 45 days had as being so much nearer to them and at farther distance from the Blessed End But yet being removed out of them and nearer to Blessedness as not being the 1260 but 1290 Days They may be well suppos'd loud in Remonstrances and Prayers against all the former Idolatry and Tyranny of taking away c. and with greater Victoriousness than formerly Agreeably in the Revelation the Voices that are plac'd just before the Vials are full of such Remonstrances Posit 48 and Prayers and produce the Vials and are executed by the 144000 who were sealed at the beginning of the 1260 days and by those Instructed by them when They stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion and therefore These Voices look back more wiftly on the 144000 Sealed before the 1260 days began and more fully shew their Concatenation with them Rev. 14.1 but yet they are not so Advanced towards the Glorious State as the 45 the Temple and Ark of the Testimony not being Opened till the Vials Prepared Revel 15. Lay the Distinction made betwixt scattering the Holy People and accomplishing to scatter to the Posit 49 Time and Times and to the Half Time and seeing the scattering must needs be first and longest and the Accomplishing must needs be last and shortest Dan. 12.7 we have Reason to make a Distinction betwixt the time times and Half Time and to lay the longest scattering to the time and times and the Accomplishing to the Halftime and so to find somewhat of the last Efforts to scatter but yet cut off Accomplished or finished and so the Holy People the daily Service lifting up themselves and the Desolating Abomination casting out Agreeably in the Revelation when we find the Time Times and Half Times Expounded into Posit 50 1260 Days and three days and a half we have Reason to lay that breaking out of Divine Power and Truth in the Voice of the Roaring Lyon Rev. c. 11. c. 10. the Thunders uttering their Voices to the Morning of the Half time and the Half day and to the last 180 of of the 1260 days and though there may be the last Efforts and a Comprizing of the Tyranny in some parts of the Reformed Churches as given in three days and a half yet that it can be neither Universal nor long Lay the Oath in Daniel ushering in the Time Times Half a time that so solemnly resolves They Posit 51 shall be to the Oath in the Revelation that Time shall be no more viz. after the Half Time that the Oaths may not contradict one another but that in the days of the Seventh Angel when he shall sound All shall be Finished and we see Reason why the last 45 and 30 making 1335 should be deem'd Joynted more particularly into the last 180 Days of the half time then into the 1080 of the time and times because their is so great an Affinity betwixt the Reformation and the further Preparations to Christ's Kingdom as there is a greater nearness in Time to the End As a further Assurance of the close Connexion of the 180 Days of the half time and the 30 and Posit 52 45 making 1260 to be 1335 There is a common Character though of several Distinctions Dan. 12.10 Rev. 16. extended upon them All at that declaring the Words Sealed Many shall be purified and made white by the Reformation and yet tryed in a Furnace of Martyrdom The Wise shall Vnderstand by the Voices and Vials and come out as God's People from among the Wicked but the Wicked will all along do wickedly and not Vnderstand but more especially they shew it in the time of the Vials when they Repented not but Blasphaem'd It is no wonder then to behold Antichristian Confidence Obstinacy and Obdurateness Consider yet Daniel's complaint that He understood not and that Declarations of the Words closed Posit 53 and Sealed till the End and agreeably the Thunders Sealed v. 9. and the Book bitter in the Prophets Belly in the Revelation Rev. 10.9 and we see the reason why the Half time is made most of a piece with the time and times the 180 with the 1080 Days viz. because the power of the holy People remain'd still scatter'd in great part the daily Sacrifice not Restor'd nor the Abomination of Desolation fully Remov'd the Beast and his City yet Regnant the Witnesses in Sackcloth the Woman in the wilderness and the 144000 Sealed and not on Mount Zion And so we see them still the Half time of the 1260 Days being not expir'd by Ten and therefore the Reformation is not Perfect as it shall be at that end of them when the Thunders are unsealed in the Voices The time and times must needs be the continued Time of All these Evils of Antichrist during Posit 54 which the Book of the Kingdom was Sealed and they must run back to the time of the second Sealing after the seven Seals Opened and the Oath There should be time times Half time which was the second stop of Christ's Kingdom in his Servants viz. the 144000 Sealed under the Gentiles and the Bestian Tyranny c. Hereby we may understand the whole Time of Sealing its signification and the Cessation of it Posit 55 The Book Sealed is the Book of Daniel's Prophecy of Christ's Kingdom The Times of Seaâ—ing were when that Kingdom had Right to Appear and was Seal'd up in reserve for Future Time 1. At the Resurrection and Annointing with the Holy Spirit on the Apocalyptical Lord's Day Daniel was then bidden according to his former Vision to seal Prophecy at the Annointing the most Holy and to seal it to the time of the End Accordingly the Book is seen Sealed in the Hand of Him on the Throne And it was given to Christ to open Gradually to his Kingdom Dan. 9. â—2 4 And so the Course of time next to the 70 Weeks runs on in the Opening the seven Seals
during the Purity of the Apostolick Doctrine the Character of which is Many shall run to and fro and Knowledge be increas'd by those Voices Come and See or some proportionable Voice and It lasted 404 Years from the Resurrection 2. The Kingdom of our God Rev. 12.10 and Power of his Christ Appearing in the Christian Empire It was enquired with Hope It was near How long to the end of these wonders Christ's Swearing time c. was the second Sealing in the 144000 Rev. 8.9 the force of which Sealâ—ng entred first in the First Trumpet when the western Empire was storm'd by every Blast of the four First Trumpets which all History agrees was about 404 Years from the Resurrection and is by Daniel's Line of 2300 Ev. Morn determin'd so as before Here was a View given of the State of the New Jerusalem for which the 144000 Witnesses were Sealed 3. At the Half time then was again an Appearance of Chrst's Kingdom in the Reformation the Book was opened in Christ's hand but yet the words are declar'd closed and the Book Sealed because It was seal'd to the time of the End c. 7. c. 8. which was not yet The Sealing was therefore Affirm'd and Averr'd and Daniel could not Vnderstand the Thunders were Sealed and the Book Hid in the Bowels of John and the Kingdom still stay'd the Reformation not perfected Posit 56 But here Daniel was discharged from his Office of Sealing on which Account He is bidden to Go his way For after this Sealing the Thunders All should be opening in the Voices and Vials and no more Sealing and he hath also his Quteâ—us or Discharge to his his Rest by Death from the whole Office of Prophecy Dan. 12.9 signifying He Prophecied for Future times and that He had given a Full Account from his own time of Future times and had attain'd the Final Blessed End and the Assurance of his own Happiness and Reward in it v. 13. even his Lot in the Kingdom of Christ the Resurrection and Restitution of All Things which is the End throughout his Prophecy agreeable with the Revelation which also declares the Sealing at an End when that Blessed State was revealed Revel 22.10 Posit 57 We are now in the twenty two hundredth and fifteenth Year of Danielâ—s 2300 v. Morn within ten Years of that great Revolution of the Kingdoms of this world becomming the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ of the witnesses coming out of Sackcloth and Ascending the Tenth of the Great City Falling and the Turkish woe passing away And within Eighty five Years of the Blessed End or the Glory of that Kingdom it self which is the End of the 2300 Evenings and Mornings Posit 58 This defining of times to the Coming of Christ by the Word of God and in the â—ight of that bears no opposition to that Saying of our Lord Mar. 13.32 Of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man not the Angels not the Son but the Father only For our Saviour's Word to Know of speaks Authoritative Cognizance and Determination and the Divine Order of the Revelation given by God the Father to Christ to shew to his Servants c. Before which given Daniel could not be Expounded nor this Time known and so the hasty Curiosity of the Apostles to know the Coming of Christ and of the End of this State of the World or Course of it was curb'd and restrained onely as those Things were not yet Reveal'd Next Follows Sabbatical Time Intersabbatical Time being expir'd Posit 59 The Thousand Years called the End are an exact Cube of Time and being neither more nor less are the very Perfection of whole Time less than which is the Defect and Imperfection and more is the Excursion Extravagancy and Superfluity of Time So that this Cube is the Just state of the Glory of Christ's Kingdom and was never attained before or after in time and are both litterally so much Time and also the Symboll of Times Perfection Posit 60 The Thousand Years of Christ's Kingdom are not therefore called the End as if they were One single Period set to Time but because they are One even level space of Time giving End to the hard Toyl and dying Labour of Intersabbatical Time and are therefore called the Sabbatism of the People of God and are admirably set out to us in the Prayer of Moses for the Thousand Years Psal 90. in the Great and Perfect Security which attends Psal 91. and by the Song or Psalm composed for this Sabbath psal 92. and a Course and Order of Psalms Celebrating the Kingdom of Christ in those that Follow Posit 61 The Expiration of a Thousand Years is not the Expiration of the Kingdom of Christ but the Expiration of the Time Rev. 20. in which Satan was bound so that He could not deceive the Nations during that space the Expiration of that Time in which the Saints so Reign with Christ that there is no Appearance of an Enemy nor any Appearance of the Churches growing Luke-warm toward an Apostacy There is therefore a small Spong of Time after in which Satan is loosed the Nations under the Name of Gog and Magog ascend against the Beloved City the Fervor of the Church here below Cools into a Lukewarmness but none of these Things have a Course For they are immediately Posit 62 surpriz'd with the Final Judgment which last Judgment is also the Throne Rev. 20.3 v. 7. c. c. 3.14 c. c. 3.21 c. 20.11 and Kingdom of Christ The Coming of Christ at the beginning of the Thousand Years is the First of the Days of the Son of Man which we Translate Onely ONE a day that cannot be mistaken nor hasten'd any more than the Day of Judgment in the general notion of it and so can no way be dangerous to the Governments of the World For who can make the Lightning to lighten from under one End of the Posit 63 Heaven and to shine to under the other End of it but He that shall come at that Day and do so Luc. 17. â—2 v. 24. At the First of the days of the Son of Man is the subduing of All Enemies and Chaining up Satan that his Kingdom may have absolute Peace and no Disturbance but that He may Reign over Posit 64 the World to Come of which we now speak as the Second Adam in a Full dominion over All. Re. 20.1 v. At the Completory or Full last Judgment is the utter Eradication of All Enemies and shutting Posit 65 up Satan and all his Seed Sin Death and Hell in their own Lake v. 14.15 1 Cor. 15.26 And this is the Last of the Days of the Son of Man There is a full Agreement betwixt the First and Last of the days of the Son Man in the determination Posit 66 of the Good and Bad to their Unchangeable state Rev. 20.5.6 so that the Last is a filling up and perfecting the First
upon all that have been here below upon Earth during the Thousand Years and a Ratification of whatever was done on the first of the Days of the Son of Man on those who were then Judged to Reign with Christ or Condemned to the Lake What the space of the Spong of Time or of the Last of the Days of the Son of Man viz. of Satan Posit 67 loosed c. and of Final Judgment will be Scripture hath no where declared nor is it given in the Revelation God gave to Jesus Christ so that it is a Time hitherto Reserv'd in the Fathers Power Yet it is most certain It shall Fill up whatever space is allowed by God to Time or any of its Posit 68 Millenaries Till All be Received into Eternity This Kingdom of Christ from the First to the very Last moment of the Last of the Days of the Son Posit 69 of Man is the Kingdom Throne and Reign of Christ not divided but distinguish'd from the Kingdom of God and the Father and from Christ's sitting on the Right Hand of God on his Throne Rev. 3 21. For This is his Own Throne Christ's Sitting therefore on the Right Hand of God untill He makes his Foes his Foot-stool is the Posit 70 Glory to which Christ was advanced at his Resurrection and Ascension till the Time comes that God shall give him immediate Absolute Authority that He as the Son of Man should Himself visibly and by the Power given Him by the Father bring All Things under Him When Christ first Sate down on the Right Hand of the Majesty on High and was Crowned with Glory Posit 71 and Honour The Apostle expresly says We see not yet All Things put under Him Heb. 2.8 9. but we see him Crown'd c. plainly signifying That the Kingdom of the Second Adam Lord of the World to come of which He spake was not yet Come For then All Things together and at once were to be put under Him that nothing could be left that was not put under Him It must be therefore the State of Christ in Heaven at the Right Hand of God while His Kingdom is delay'd or Sealed during most eminently Time Times Half a Time while He suffers the Antichristian Forgery on his Kingdom This distinct Kingdom and Reign is that which Christ delivers up to the Father Which delivery Posit 72 is the Last Final End of All Things or the End of this End viz. of the Kingdom of Christ Heb. 2.13 Rev 6.8 Mat. 25.41 when the last Enemy Death is subdued by being shut up with Satan who had the Power of Death and with Hell that follows Death and the Wicked Men of his Fellowship into their own Lake Thus the Kingdom of Christ is a Kingdom not left to other People but Consumes All and stands Posit 73 it self for Ever and is peculiar to the renewed humane nature of all the Saints in the second Adam Heb. 2. v. 6. with v. 11. For into Eternity This Kingdom is deliver'd up that God may be All in All. Christ's delivery up of the Kingdom or Gods being All in All cannot be understood of the absolute Posit 74 Cessation of the Mediatory Kingdom of Jesus Christ God-Man much less of the Eternal Word But Posit 75 it is the State of the Glory of Christ the Mediator and of his Saints with Him in the Glory that Christ had with the Father before the World was when there was no such Frame of Heaven and Earth and of the Changes of them but one smooth unwrinkled Heb. 2.11 John 17.24 unfurrowed Main of Eternity and into which All Things now Return Throughout which Eternity All Gloy Praise Love Service and Obedience shall be to the Father the Word in our Nature and the Holy Spirit from Glorfied Angels and Saints for Ever and Ever Amen and Amen POSITIONS Giving a Judgment according to the Prophecy of the Revelation upon the State of the Turkish Empire in relation to its Continuance or Fall and in compare with the Continuance or Fall of the Papacy whether of these two shall first be by way fuller Explanation and Assurance of the Line of Time in that Remarkable Joynt the Time Times and Half Time or the 1260 Days of the Witnesses in Sack-cloth And upon Occasion of the late wonderful sinck of the Turkish Affairs and the seeming rise of the Papal yet with a very undoubted Prediction of the Fall of both within ten years and of the Papacy first of the Two if duly understood and limited Posit 1 IT cannot but be acknowledg'd by all men of Reason much more of Christian Reason that the Mahometan Power hath been a very Great Instance of the Sathanick Kingdom in the World Rev. 9.11 and that the King of it may be justly Intitled the Angel of the Bottomless Pit Abaddon and Apollyon signifying destruction Enmity to humane Nature and peculiar Contrariety to Christian Religion wherein the Salvation of Men every way consists Posit 2 All this appears in the detestable Folly of its Religion the Cruelty of its Arms and the Barbarousness of its Tyranny Posit 3 The pressure of it so long upon the World and upon so great parts of it as on purpose to shew the universal Kingdom of Christ stopp'd must needs be acknowledg'd a horrible and dreadful Judgment of God upon the World v. 12. especially upon the Christian World which in regard of the Excellency of its Religion and the Promises to Christ our Lord of its spread with Glory upon the World hath much more Right to so vast a Monarchy and Empire and so may be justly call'd if distributed into the Saracenick and Turkish Mahometanes Two Woes Posit 4 It is most evident to All who are but a little seen in History that its Hegira or Date began A. D. 622. about sixteen years after Supremacy given to the Church and Bishop of Rome by Phocas and accepted by them notwithstanding the Remonstrance of a High Prophet of their own Gregory the Great that such Supremacy was Antichristianism but just before Posit 5 Mahomatanism a Hibris a Mungrel of Religions begotten with its Alcoran betwixt Mahomet the False Prophet Rev. 9.3 c. and Sergius a Monk and taking so deeply in an Age of Superstitions cannot but cast our Thoughts on the Locusts in the Revelation which came out of the Smoke of the Bottomless Pit and were such a Woe and Torment upon the World of men who had not the Seal of God on their Foreheads For immediately after the Armed Saracens drinking in the Poyson of the False Prophetism began their Range in which they tormented Mankind as with the venemous stroke of a Scorpion by their Stings in their Tayls The Bishop of Rome as a Star falling from the Firmament of the Gospel upon the Earth and inlightning Posit 6 Rome with New Supremacy when It had no other Light v. 1. c. 17.15 being ignoble under the Exarch of Ravenna a
make her desolate to burn her Flesh with Fire even that Woman who sits the Beast and that then the words of God will be so far fulfilled that they shall and will do it by the Time appointed of which every Victory over the Mahometan Powers is a fresh Pledge seeing that must be done ere the Mahometane Empire pass away from being the Woe as under which the Grecian Empire continues to this day extinct Posit 21 There is a Great Judgment remains at the Kingdom of Christ to that Rest of Men who repented not at the killing the Eastern third part of Men Rev. c. 9.20 with c. 19.21 and all along to that Judgment viz. when the Beast and False Prophet whom they serv'd are cast into the Lake They shall be killed with the Sword of him that Rides in Triumph to his Kingdom Posit 22 By the Year 1697 These Great Things shall be in motion the Tenth of the Great City then falling the Mahometan Woe passing away and the True Christianity Rising into Glory And they are described as most near and close together Posit 23 If there can be any mistake in this foregoing Account or that God is pleas'd to shorten this fag-end of time as the Turkish Fall seems to be even on the Wing yet being fully assur'd All must come to pass together although I fear they cannot be sooner then that 1697 Yet I heartily say as the Prophet Jeremy in a like Case Jer. 28.6 Dan. 9.1 2 3. v. 19. with Isa 62.7 Amen The Lord hasten it But with much more Confidence according to the 1260 Days that will be Accomplished in the Desolations of the Witnesses and the Woman his Church at that Time I desire my self and humbly and earnestly desire all the Servants of God that we may set our selves by Prayer and Supplication with Fasting and Sackcloth and Ashes that he would then Do and defer not to make his Church a Praise in the Earth Amen A POSTSCRIPT to the READER SEeing the Consequence of this Table of Time arm'd with its agreeable Events which I here present is so visibly and sensibly Great in the Demonstration of True Christianity against the Atheist the Pagan the Mahometan the Deist the Jew and the Antichristian as also full of Assurance against the I may almost call it superstitions Abstemiousness and Dread of search into Sacred Prophecy under the shew of Humility Modesty and avoidance of Curiosity Col. 2.23 I do most solemnly appeal to every Reader whether it can be charged with any such Absurdity as should make it Inconsistent with it self or such as offers violence to Scripture to Reason or to undoubted History For if It cannot Then as it is most evident there is such a Book as Scripture so It is as evident I here present a Table of Time grounded upon express places of it emboss'd with the most notorious Occurrences that have been in the World with Relation to the Church of God in every Age the proper Ornament of a Scripture Line of Time as closely dispos'd and organiz'd into its several Joynts as the humane Body it self is and that cannot be so much as Dislocated without violence And I challenge all the World to draw such another lest it be suspected a Creature of Fancy If then there is such a Table and so unchargable There cannot be a more sensible-Rational proof of Divine Beeing than the declaring things to come Isa 41.22 23. and of the Divinity of Jesus Christ who Himself gave the greater part of the Prophetick Line and in whom and in whose Glorious Kingdom the whole Centers I do therefore most loudly again appeal to and beseech every Reader if they see Reason to charge these Positions or any of them with any such Inconsistency or violence as must convince them of Folly or Falshood that I may either vindicate or Retract them If not that there may be a due waiting for and Expectation of those Grand Events yet to Come which I do with a full Confidence declare at this very Time when the Turkish Ruine seems to outstrip the Antichristian But he that ballances all Times and their Events will hasten both in their due Time Isa 34.16 and seeing they are determin'd together neither of them shall want its Mate And because I have already published a larger Discourse upon some parts of this Line of Time and an Adjustment of Solomons most Prophetick Song of Songs to so much of this Line as runs from Davids Time to the Glorious Kingdom of Christ and am endeavouring to publish the Full Discussion of those parts of the Line not discuss'd in the former Treatise I humbly beg the favourable Assistance towards the publication of All who have Favour for the Work and its Vndertaking T Beverley