thoushalt Love thy Neighbour As thy Self I am the Lord. Doth it not lie on our Saviour also Not to Avenge or bear any grudge against his People or the Children of his People May not This Include the Children of his Servant Noah the Thousand Generations of Him that Loved God and Served him with an Vpright heart which God himself owned for a Perfect heart To Noah David Job and Abimelech also As the Words in Hebrew Gen. 20. 5 6. And it is not only said that God did Covenant with a Thousand Generations But also Commanded it for a Thousand Generations As Ps 105. 8. And the Law is plain Thou mayest not bear a Grudge against the Children of thy People Thou shalt not Retain For So is the Word and often used against Retaining Anger So directly Opposite to Gods Retaining mercy Which he maketh so Great a part of his Name to Moses and with such an Emphasis that Moses left it Noted with a very Great Letter in the word of Keeping Mercy As the Jews yet observe it in Exod. 34. and again in Numb 14. They have another Great Letter in That Let the Power of My Lord be Great as thou hast spoken And Gods Keeping Mercy is the Tenor of the Song in all the Scripture And by Davids Last Words Some were set to sing it still and keep it up in the Peoples hearts And when they did agree in This the Glory of God appeared and some strange Return of Prayer 1 Chron. 16. 41. and 23 24. with 2 Chron. 5. 13. and 20 21 22. And there is scarce Any thing more Clear in all the Bible then that he will not Retain his Anger and much less For Ever Seeing he bids us not Let the Sun go down upon our Wrath. And himself gave us an example of it at the Fall and Afterwards the Cursed person must not Hang beyond Sunset As in Moses and Joshuah The Case of Saules Nephewes Hanged up before the Lord was Extraordinary and seemeth branded with Rispaes Goodness in Watching them which occasioned David to bury them with the bones of Saul and his Sons Hanged also And It is Giveing place to Sathan or Closing with the Devil To Reserve Anger but for One Evening As Ephes 4. and Wrath doth Rest or Lodge for a Night in the Bosome of Fools And Wrath is an Hebrew word implying somewhat to pass away or passing As Come my People Hide thee a little moment Till my Wrath be Past And the Great Cause of Gods taking up such a Lasting War with Esau and Amalech a Branch of Eâ—au was for that he Forgot the Brotherly Covenant or Kindness to his Brother Jacob and Let his Anger Tear perpetually and cast off pity and Kept his Wrath for Ever As in Amos and Ezek. 35. Yet Edoms Widows and Fatherless Children are called in to God in Jer. 49. And so the Law of War requireth in Deut. 20. Which is much to be pressed on Christ If thou Go to war thou shalt first offer Peace and if Peace be Rejected yet thou must Preserve the Women and Children So that In Judgment thou must still remember Mercy And wilt thou not yet say My Father the guide of my Youth Will be reserve his Anger for Ever will he keep it to the End as Jer. 3. And again Return O Back-sliding Israel saith the Lord. I will not cause my Anger to fall upon you For I am Merciful saith the Lord And I will not Keep Anger for Ever And in Lam. It is good for a man to wait and hope for the Salvation of God For He will not cast off for ever but though he cause grief yet he will have compassion according to the Multitude of his Mercies For he doth not afflict from his Heart or Grieve the Children of Men. And in the Psalms The Lord is Merciful and Gracious slow to Anger and plenteous in Mercy he will not alwayes Chide Nor will he keep his Anger for Ever And the 30th Psal Give thanks at the Remembrance of his Holiness Because or For his Wrath Endureth but a Moment As if During Lasting wrath could not consist with Holyness and least of All in God whose â—ure and Holy eyes Turn away from All that causeth Wrath or may prolong it and Therefore he blotteth out Iniquity For his Own Names sake Because he cannot endure to see it And he bids us Put him in mind of This Word and Plead it with him that we may be Justified Esay 43. And This Holynesse of God is Divers times made the Great Object of our Praise Or Reason Why we should Praise the Lord. Who might be Feared for his Power or Wisdom but Praised Only for his Holiness which is Godness in divers places Psal 22. 30. 97. 99 100. 136. with the former places in the Cronicles And Micah saith He will not Retain his Anger for Ever because he Delighteth in Mercy And in Esay I will not contend for Ever neither will I be Alwayes Wrath For the Spirit should fail before me and the Souls which I have made A Great Argument for Mercy Thy hands have made me and fashioned me Forsake not the Work of thy Own Hands And Hast Thou not poured me out as Milk And Curdled me as Cheese and Thou wilt have desire to the works of thy own hands And in our Greatest Sufferings we are bid to commit the Keeping of our Souls our Souls to God in Well doing As to a Faithfull Creator and a Faithful preserver also O Thou Preserver of Men What shall I do to thee I have Sinned but why Wilt thou not Pardon my Transgressions and Take away mine Iniquities Wilt thou not seek me in the morning And all these may comment on That Law of Love in Leviticus Thou shalt not avenge or Retain against the Children of thy People But Thou shalt Love thy Neighbour as thy self As plainly shewing that Any Retaining Anger is not consistent with the Good Law of God or Love of our Neighbour And lest we should mistake the Phrase of Neighbour and Brother used here the very same Chapter requireth to love a Stranger As ones self the 19. of Levit. 34. and the 25. doth also make a stranger as a Brother Saving If Thy Brother wax poor thou shalt relieve him though a Stranger or a Sojourner And to other Arguments for Strangers as that They were Strangers in Egypt and must know the Heart of a Stranger It is added also that God Loveth Strangers And the Hebrews are bidden not to Forget to entertain Strangers because some have so Entertained Angels unawares And yet One of the hardest words of our Saviour is I know you not or you are Strangers Though himself observeth the Law of strangers saying I was a stranger and you took Me not in as Job saith the Stranger did not Lodge without his Doors And in the Good Samaritan the phrase of Neighbour or Brother is plainly made to reach a Stranger and an Enemy And so in the Law also
Solomons Songs were 1005 and his Parables 3000 as many make the years of the World to his Temple finished And many that differ in That agree in This that they came out of Egypt 1495 full years before Christ born So that his first year was as many years from Egypt as there came men from Babylon To Jerusalem with Ezra just 1496 as they are numbred in Ezra 8. Or in a round number 1500 As the Spices in the Holy Oyl a Mighty Type of Christ were just 1500 Shekels And Shekles also may shadow Years in divers Scriptures here cited And by these accounts Nimrods Babel may be 666 years before the Golden Calf or Image of the Beast as in the Psalm at coming out of Egypt which was 666 years before Jerusalem was sacked by Joash and twice 666 before the Desolation by Antiochus and so 1335 years as in Daniel before the Temple cleansed by the Maccabees which was 1260 years before the Christians reigned in Jerusalem about 1100 of Christ which was 2555 or 7 Prophetick years from the Jews entring Canaan which was 1455 before our Saviour and by Codoman with those that follow him 2555 years After the Fall which others make 2555 before Canaans Partition Which they entered on the 10th of the 1st Month for the Paschal Lambs whose noon was Hour 234 as it was 234 years after Jacobs Death in Egypt and the number of Jericho to which they passed is 234 As Ramases is just 430 As they came thence at 430 years from the Promise and Succoth that is Tabernacles just 480 As the Tabernacle was 480 years before the Temple and their third station Etham may be the number of years from the Temple finished to Christ which were very few more then 1000. And Etham in Hebrew Letters maketh but 1001. And from Etham where they saw the Glory of God in the Cloud Pillar an emblem of Christ they turned back into Egypt and were carried through the Red-Sea and the Wilderness as Types of all the Sufferings of Christ and his Members And many other instances of Time couched in Hebrew Leters may perswade us that it was more than chance that made so many Harmonies and wrote the Law with an Alphabet that makes as many Unites which both Jews and Christians all agree as there were years from the Law so written to Christ With such consort of the Dayes and Hours of their year As Genesis hath 12 Sections as their year had 12 Months and 50 Chapters as 12 Moons have 50 Weeks and their 50 dayes between the Passover and Pentecost and 1534 Verses as Hours of their year To the Evening Sacrifice before the Pentecost or years of the World before Noahs Ark which is measured Here by its Cubits As also the Tabernacle and the first and second Temple And so may Ezekiels also in consort to the Jewish year and Times of the Bible to be measured by it And as the Holy Garments Veils and Curtains were woven with six Threds of Silk or Linnen called Shesh which is 6 with a Thred of Gold as the Sun with the other six Metals or the Sunday with other six dayes of the week so was all Ezekiels measured by a Reed of six Cubits and a Palm at least which may lead us to the Morning of the Sabbath or 7th day of the Week if we reckon Dayes by Cubits And the Outer Court had seven steps as the Week had seven Dayes but the Inward Court had 8 steps and the Christian Sabbath was their 8th day The Gates or Doors were 10 Cubits broad and 13 Cubits high Their shortest Dayes and Nights were 10 Hours long their longer 13 or 14 and there were 13 dayes of their year before the Passover but the Paschal Lambs were separated on the 10th day And at the 10th year their Children came under the Law for some things and others at 13 which is signal among the Eastern Nations for Ishmaels Circumcision at that age The Gate-houses 25 Cubits broad and 50 long The Levites entred at 25 and served till 50 years old Being for the First-born As the first fruits had 50 Dayes between the Passover and the Pentecost and so the breadth of the Ark was 50 Cubits As the Suburbs of the Sanctuary and divers other things in Ezekiel The Porch and holy Places as in Solomons Temple All the House with its Walls 100 Cubites As each of the Courts And so was the Court of the Tabernacle But in Ezekiel three times repeated as the Length of Noahs Ark was 300 Cubits and its Height was 30 Cubits as the Length of the Tabernacle and the Height of the Temple As their Months had 30 dayes And if Ezekiels Reed do represent a Week 25000 in the length of its holy Portion make about 480 years As between the Tabernacle Raised and the Temple or at most 490 As in Daniels Weeks Of which more in another place With Paralels between the Kings of the North and South till Rome devoured all and so became the King that should exalt and magnifie himself above every god as Dan. 11. 36. But towards the end the King of the South or Saracen shall push at him and the King of the North or Turk shall come against him as a Whirwind and shall overflow and shall enter the glorious Land of Israel and shall conquer many Countries in Asia and Africa but shall not prevail against the Children of Lot or of Edom where the Turk is glad to Guard his Caravans and pay some kind of Homage or Tribute to those Little Great Arabians But the East or Persia with the North or Tartary with the Muscovites or other Northern Princes shall Trouble him sore and though he shall come out with a great Army and with greater Fury then before yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him And his Palace is placed between the Seas rightly called The Port and between the Holy Mountains which all Ages placed in Thrace or some Northern parts of Macedonia But the Bible in the Holy Land Which was to be conquered by Saracens and Turks or Ishmael as the Jews still call them And we do not only read of Ishmael mocking Isaac till he was driven out to Those Arabian Deserts where the Saracens arose but the Prophet Jeremy shews us a Map of this in Ishmaels cutting off the Remnant of Israel in the 7th Month and in that very season when those Ishmaelites did take Jerusalem upon the 2 d or 3 d day of the 7th Month on which the Jews still fast for Ishmaels slaying Gedaliah c. as Jerem 41. But Ishmael also was chased away as before by Johanan the Grace of God which at length shall be the Great Conqueror As it is written In thy Maesty Ride on Prosperously because of Truth and Meekness of Righteousness For Mercy and Truth preserve the King and his Throne is especially Kept up by Mercy Psal 45. 5. Prov. 20. 28. THat God Loved Adam so that he could not
Even a Blessing in the midst of the Land Whom the Lord shall Bless saying Blessed be Aegypt my People Which was gotten by some Cruel Lord Oppressing them For the Lord shall smite and he will Heal. As Esay 19. And though Christ be also a King yet even so also He was Vnder the Law and Made Vnder it For the great Law of the King was This that even when he sat upon the Throne of his Kingdom he should write out the Law and read it All his dayes that so he might be sure to keep it and not exalt himself above his Brethren but Prolong his Kingom in the Midst or heart of his Subjects And it is a Great Character of Antichrist to think himself Above the Law or to attempt to Change the Times and Laws As in Dan. 7. 25. and if God have put All men below Coertion of the Law Then who can Exempt them or set them Above it And perhaps there is nothing more Dangerous to Any Man then to presume or to pretend himself to be Above the Law which God hath set a bound to Kings it may be Rather then to Private Men whom others still will bound enough as Deut. 17. And the Great Law of a King is Mercy Rather then Any thing else For so Solomon saith Mercy and Truth preserve a King but his Throne is Established by Mercy By Mercy rather then Any thing else or before All other things As the words plainly imply And shall a Man Dye This Day Am I not King of Israel And we may press it much on Christ as the Great Law of a wise King to Preserve his Throne by Mercy that it do not Totter For of Him and His Throne it is especially said In Mercy shall the Throne be Established As Esay 16. In allusion to That of Solomon The Throne is Established by Mercy And the Psalms say His Throne is Everlasting because Mercy and Truth are Ever before it and above it and he fings of Mercy with his Greatest Judgements and Happy are They that Hear and Vnderstand That Joyful Sound For In Thy Righteousness Thy very Righteousness they shall be exalted All the day long or as another Psalm They shall rejoyce in All thy Righteous Judgements For If his tender Mercy be above All his Works Then sure Above his Judgements also which he calls his Strange Acts. But Mercy is his own Child For he is the Father of Mercies which are therefore One with Christ his Only Son and yet a little while and Mercy shall Triumph against or Over Judgement as we read in James And Christ also bids them Go and learn That I will have Mercy rather then Any Sacrifice And to him it was spoken Ride on Prosperously because of Truth and Meekness of Righteousness And He hath shewed thee O man what is Good and what the Lord Delighteth in To do Justice but in that Also To Love Mercy Or as Jeremy expresseth it To Exercise Loving Kindness and Judgement For in These I delight And in the next Chapter the Prophet prayeth For Gods Correction O the blessed Rods of the Covenant and with Judgement also but with such Judgement as the Chapter before still tempered with Mercy And Solomons Son lost the Kingdom of the 10 Tribes by not observeing his Fathers Good Rule of Establishing his Throne by Mercy neglecting the Wise Councel of the Old Men that told him his Way to get and keep the hearts of his Subjects was to be more Merciful then his Father Which we may Presse on Christ as the wisest Councel that he get and keep his Subjects Hearts by being More Mercifull then his Father yet hath shewed himself And yet our Saviour gives it As a sufficient Reason why the Father also should grant All that is asked of him because he is a Great and Glorious King And so he concludeth All his Prayer with no other For but This For thine is the Kingdom Power and Glory As if This alone were Cause enough why he should do All that is Asked And when Solomons Mother describeth the Law of Kindness in the Good Womans Tongue She gives her Son This Law of Kindness for his Heart Open thy mouth for the Dumb in the Case of All appointed to Destruction And again Open Thy Mouth Judge Righteously and Plead the Cause of the Poor and Needy So that while the King sits upon the Throne As Judge His own Heart and Bowels must be Advocates to Plead for All the Prisoners at the bar Yea for All that be Appointed for Death Even for the worst offenders who may not have Councel in some Cases and Places because indeed the Judges are to be their Counsel in All they can and that was Lemuels Councel to her Son and the Prophesie she taught him as for a Great King to come in the Last of Proverbs And Solomon gives it to his Son also If thou forbear to deliver them that are Drawn unto Death and Those that are ready to be Slain If thou sayest behold we know it not Doth not He that pâ—nders the Heart consider it and He that keeps Thy Soul even Thy Soul that hath so often deserved Death and Liveeth still but on the Free Grace of God! And the 102 Psal that is made For One Afflicted tells us that God looked down from the Height of his Sanctuary to Hear the Groaning of the Prisoners and to Loose Them that are Appointed unto Death And Were we not All Appointed to it And may we not Presse it on Christ to open his mouth and Plead for All Appointed unto Death And will not This shew his Intercession Larger then we do believe not only a King as Solomon was but a Priest also and so the Great Intercessor For the â—riests that were Men only were the Great Mediators and They had the Work of Expiation with a Wo if they did it not Yea and that with Tender Pitty and Compassion to the Souls of Men. And Every High â—riest Taken from among men is ordained For men in things partaining to God that he may offer Gifts and Sacrifices For sins Who can have Compassion on the Ignorant and on them that are out of the Way For that he Himself is Compassed with Infirmity and by reason hereof He ought He ought to offer for sin As we read in the Hebr. and the Law also Which did not leave it to Aarons Choise and Pleasure to do it If he would and when he would but laid it on him and his Sons As their Great Duty to make Expiation for Sin and to Bear the Iniquity of All the Congregation and of All their Holy Things And to Heal the Lepers Or pronounce them Clean when Ever they Could And Wo unto them If they did it not And how Zealous was Moses himself the King of Jessuron in Interceding when he saw the Marks of Gods displeasure How did he fall on his Face and Bow his Heart by Fasting 40 daâ—es together how quickly did he bow for them
As the 4 Corners in 6 Sides of a Cube To be resolved by 6 also As by 8. Divids Solomons and Nehemiahs Day was Parted by 4 Parts And so the 4 Watchers had 6 wings apiece which made up 24. And so their Tap or Palm had 24 parts in 4 Digits of 6 apiece and their Cab had 24 in 4 Logs and 24 Logs made their Seah 3 Seahs their Bath or Epha 6 Hins or 10 Omers As 10 Ephas made their Hâ—mor or an Asses Load or Attick Corus Whose Dragm was 6 Obbols and their Cadus or Amphora 12 Congii Choes and the very number of Cad in Hebr is 24. The Temple Walls 24 in Hight to 6 Cubits breadth And of 4 Kinds of Death They had 6 For strangling and Thrice 6 for Stoning And in Sacrifice God took 6 Parts The Cheek and Breast and Shoulder For the Upper Regions and the Reins and Mâ—w for the Lower with The Midriff As the Firmament Between the Upper and the Lower Waters As Psal 148. Our Body the Little World Our Foot the 6â— part of our Hight As our Cubit the 4th Our Head the Heavens Abâ—ve with all its Sphears in Circles of the Cerebellum Our Jawes Open As the Horizon between the 2 Hemisphears And Jamb is akin to the Hebr Jom a Day as Jam Now and I am in the Present Tence Our Ears akin to Years and the Heb. Years akin to Teeth or Shinne Whence our Chin and Shin And the Fewest Teeth are 24 with 4 Watchers Higher then the Rest As 4 Sabbaths of the Month with 24 Dayes And Time is Kept in our Temple Pulses called Tempora Here also the 7 Spirits before the Throne As 7 Planets in our 7 Nerves As the 7 Lamps of the Candle-stick before the Oracle with its Cherubins of Glory Shadowing the Mercy-Seat As our Eyes with their Rain-bows the Throne of God and Christ in the little Pupill of our Eye they called Elshon or the Little Man of the Eyn As Taking in the Visible Species at that Pinhole of the Dark Closet And the Species may be Direct and not Reversed As Our Eyes see them But in One Eye at Once almost demonstrative Our Heart the Earth beneath with its Sphear of Waters in the Pericardium and of Ayr in the Lungs With a mutual Tide of Light and Darknesse in Respiration and the Hears Diastole Like the Altar of Incense before the Veile With 12 Cakes of Shew Bread Made of 24. As our Heart is Circled with 12 Ribs on either side and 7 of them Better then the rest and 24 Rackets of the Back as 7 Spondils in the Neck And the same Heb words are Thoughts of our Heart and Branches of a Tree which is also the Back-bone or Spinal Marrow and for Sprouts of the Earth Our Bowels The Waters under the Earth And their Name akin to the Waves of the Sea and their Off-spring As the Gravel thereof as Esay 48. and their Yearings or Yarnings As the Tides of the Sea With a Constant Circulation of Blood and All Humours for Intermitting â—eavours This Region hath our Stomach As the Fire Altar in the Lower Court and Laver. For the Priest came As our Saviour and Every Child by Water and by Blood and the Spirit in the Blood So that Here also were All the 3 Witnesses on Earth As those in Heaven And the 7 Metalls or Planets of the Lower Heaven In Our Spleen Liver Gall Saturn Jupiter Mars Above the Sun of our stom As Venus Mercury the Moon below it Bladder Reins and Testicles These Testes draw down Fire From our Heaven Also 6 Bowels One Duodenum or 12 Digits and the Ilia 12 Times as Long. Their many Folds and Yarnings are the Scripture shadow of Gods Manifold Bowels akin to the Womb also The Bowels are as Many Cubits as Hours and Watchers in a Day or Dayes in a Month. As in Theon long before the Italian of our Bodies Symmetry Mersennus Rules for Respiration and Others for our Pulses in an Hour may shew it possible to reckon Times as Canaan did by the Flowings of Jordan Which had its 3 Regions and Seas also Merom the Vpper Waters As our Brain Above the Firmament And Kinsereth the Harp and Heart beneath And Sâ—dam Their Secrets in Heb. As the Greatest Secret in Nature and Grace also When we see the Return of Sodam and its Great Mysteries with Those of Ester The Misterious Daughter of Hades akin to the Moon and Myrtils and to Him among the Myrtils in the Bottom with the Grim Horses Speckled and white in Zechary Tides are Turned at 6 Hours in the Great Ocean As the Sun and Moon at the 4 Cardinal Points Distant 6 Hours apiece As the Trepicks 6 Months And the Solstices As the Poets make Proserpina 6 in Heaven 6 in Hell And 6 is the Number of Change and Motion As 7 of Rest And That For Earth As This for Heaven also For the Iâ—ws distinguish the Watches on Earth and Heaven by Differing time and themselves Dispute whether the Little Watches had 3 or 4 hours apiece And to end the quarrel They had Either or Neither at several seasons For the Little Watches of their shortest Day had but 2 hours and half and their Longest 3 and an half which was signal with Them also for daily sacrifice and for the Passeover at 3 hours and half from Noon As in the Talmud 3 and half is half 7 and their Service was at a 7th hour as the morning Sacrifice at the 2 d 7th or 14th hour and the Evening at the 3d 7th or 21st But the 9th Hour of the Day from Morning the Hour of Prayer and the Great Minha For although the Morning was for Seeking as its Heb Names imply yet Evening was for Finding God in all the Bible Who appeared at the Evening Sacrifice the Time of Feasting As the Marriage Supper and the Supper of the Lamb or the Passover with the Lords Supper As in Primitive Times much rather then at Dinner or in Morning Which was Mâ—urning Time and for Judgement as Evening for Mercy As if God would come and shew his Mercies more in the Close or Evening of the World then in the Morning which he chose for Iudgements So to Sodom Aegypt Corah Dathan and Abiram so to Israel also divers Times As at the Pestilence in David Who saith My Rebuke is in the Morning Chastened every Morning As the Scholler called up to School And in the Morning I will cut off the Wicked and in the Morning the Righteous shall have Dominion over them and when thou awakest Thou wilt despise their Image And hast thou considered the Morning Spring which I made to shake the wicked out of the Earth As the black Clouds by the Morning Light as Job 38. and Rev. 2. Esay saith The wicked shall not know the Morning of their Iudgement For the Bridegroom comes at Midnight and the Foolish Virgins Cry in the Morning Watch. As at the Red Sea Zephany saith He
the Beast also 42 months And yet they do not seem to end together Except we grant him More then his Reigning Time of 42 Months From his Deadly Wound For he lives and prospers so at the End of 1260 Days that he killeth the 2 Witnesses and They lye Dead 3 dayes and an half which may be 3 years and an half or somewhat more then 3 dayes or 75 Hours and 1335 are 75 more then 1260. And at Rising of the Witnesses the 10th part only of the City fell whether it be the Great City following which Reigned over the Kings of the Earth Or the Holy City Before yet called Sodom where the Lord was slain As in the Prophets And the 10th of that City may allude To Neehmiahs Time When the Tenths of All the people were chosen out by lot to dwell in Ierusalem so that All that City was but as the Tenth of Israel And the Tenth in Esay 6 and other places seems a Type of Gods Elect Or else there may be somewhat more in it For the First Fruits are The Elect whose Heb name is akin to That of First Fruits As we touch on Davids Micol and Baburim in another place But Tenths are proper most to the Iewish Church And when the Fruits of All the Earth come in as All Kingdoms At the Rising of the Witnesses It is no great wonder That Tenths should Fall With All the Ceremonious Pendants To the Iewish Levites And the very word for Dragon is in Hebrew Tan or Tannin and Levitan akin to Levi Tan or Ten And the Levites crying Ten Ten which is Give Give as the Horsleach Else I will Take it with This Fleshook by Force And Levitan may be Levi the Dragon or Cruel Levi. As Their Father Iacob said Adding also But my soul shall not be in their Secret or in Sodam As the word is There and maketh just 666 alluding unto Lots flying out of Sodom to Zoar. As Moab of Lot is bidden in Esay 16. As to mind the Heifer of 3 years old in Gen. 15. Moses told the Levites they were a stiff Rebellious Generation Deut. 31. 25. 27. And it was a Levites Concubine that plaid the Whore at Bethlem Till at length she was filled and divided into 12. As the 10 and 2 Tribes scattered all about Till there were not left 666 Reliques of Benjamin And yet he Had the Ruler Saul and He cut his Oxen As the Levites Concubine and then the Temple came in Little Benjamin The Lord must dwell between His shoulders And the Altar had a corner cut that so it might be all in Benjamin To Devour the Prey in the morning sacrifice and to gnaw the Bones in the Evening As Jacob first and Then the Prophets do allude And the Jews observe the Levites were but 22000 to Teach their 22 Letters for neglecting That They were carried Captive in their 22 d Generation As the Priests cut off by Saul Before Davids New Jerusalem And Solomon Put off Abiathar also the Relique of the Priests And Nehemiah chased a Son of the High Priest allied to Samballat And when Solomon came to Dedicate his Temple which perhaps the Priests expected But As soon As all the people did agree to Blesse the Lord and sing For he is Good Because a mighty word As if He were not Good But That His Mercy doth Endure for Ever Then the Glory of God came Down and Filled the Temple so that the very Best of All the Priests could not Enter or Durst not So that Solomon was fain to Pray will God Indeed Indeed come Dwell in Clay and Blesse the People Which by Gods Command was most Peculier to the Sons of Aaron and Solomon was neither Priest nor Levite But of Judah whence our Lord did spring And he cut off 22000 Beasts in One Day which Themselves compare to the 22000 Levites Adding also that Pompey slew 22000 about the Temple and was Beaten after it by Caesars 22000 To as many more in Pompeys Army As 22000 in That of Apolonius in the Machabes And when Joash came up in the 7th year and did desire the Levites to Repair the Temple or to help it forward They Pretended but 't is said They Hastned it not And again in Twice 7 years The Priests had not Repaired the House as 2 Kings 12. with 2 Cron. 24. as 12 and 24 in all Temple matters And at length They consent to Receive no more money nor to Repair the House which was therefore Put out as the Vineyard To Other persons That did work and do it Faithfully without Priests and Levites Which might be a Type of somewhat in our Saviours Times and Farther And though we read of First Fruits still Even in Ezechiels New Ierusalem Yet of Tithes very Seldom or never that I find in all the Bible of the Gostel Times but of the Pharisees Boast of Paying Tithes and Tithing Mint or Any-seed But the Tenth might also Note The Tribute Paid to Kings over them Which Samuel fixed by the Tenth of All they had or Got. And when the Romans Took the Didragm or half shekle For Redemption of Souls As in Matthew with Josephus They had Tithes also The Common Tribute to Hercules with other Demigods And so the 10th days of all or divers months were mourning fasting Dayes as we saw before And thus the Fall of the Tenth of the City Whither it be Jerusalem or Rome or Any Other or All Others For it may be in All Successively may speak the Fall of All Their Tolls and Tributes Tythes and Offerings or whatever else was Appendant to the Levitical Policy or mearly Jewish Or Legal Bonds or Bondage And They that defend Those things should be sure They come not to confess They have Acted As Jews but were not As in several of the Churches Which were much Distinct Although so near in One Lydian Asian Province That they might have soon made One National Church if That had been the Only way and All their Angels might have laid their Faults upon One High Arch Angel But Ezechiels New Altar rejecteth all the Old Levites that stayed with Israel and Chooseth the House of Zadoch the Righteous as Solomon took him for Abiathar And Ezechiel 45 determines All Tribute to their King also with a strikt Command upon the Prince To Take away his Exactions on his People whose Exactors must be Peace And One of 200 Lambs with a 60th part of Corn or 100 part of Oyle is Fixed for the Tribute But How Long These Tenths or other Tolls may last I know not any Text determines clearer Then the 14th of the Revelation Bringing us To the Feast of Tabernacles in the following Chapters After Harvest and Vintage As Exod. 23. 16 and 34. 22. Deut. 16. 13. As the Ark came Home From 7 Months Wandring as 7 years Release and Rested in the Field of Josuah some Type of Jesus when the Jews were At Their Wheat or Last Harvest Before the Showers fell that were