Woman alone without man the Mighty One to save which God hath laid help on for that purpose Psal 89.19 Thirdly for the Place not in the highest Heavens for that time during the Judgment of the Great Day but in the world until Christs Kingly Office and Business fore-prophesied of in the Word be there sulfilled in destroying or removing the causes of evil in the world viz. wicked men and Devils out of it with their evil effects by sin namely the curse bodage corruption emnity brought upon the Creatures therein under which both men and other Creatures have long 〈…〉 do groan and accomplished all that promised good appoâ—ved for that time and state in the parts of that great restauration and renovation respecting both the raised Saints and those in the â—â—â—ural life according to Predictions and promised Mercies belonging to both sorts then c. which are all most surely confirmed Doctrines to be true and faithful by him that is said to sit upon the Throne in this Text and all as belonging to the Davidical Kingdom of Christ into the possession whereof the raised Saints are brought by the first blessed bodily Resurrection as their Inlet thereinto Secondly This may inform Christians first of the Divine excellencie of this Book 2. Of the incomparable usefulness thereof in those many great respects of the Saints great concernments in that time and state leading them into and securing also unto them their eternal happiness in the highest Heavens upon the compleating thereof and thirdly thereupon of the great Reasons they have to stir them up to the frequent reading diligent study and profitable improvement of the matters set before them by God and Christ therein First the excellencie thereof appears from the Author of it and the manner of delivering it for the benefit and information of the Christian Church God the Father gives it to the Son and he to the beloved Apostle John when he was in the Spirit on the Lords Day in time of his banishment for the word of God and the Testimony of Jesus to be sent unto the Churches being also for that end sent and signified by his Angel Chap. 1.1 Secondly It was given with wonderful great solemnity in respect of things then to come to the end of the world Chap. 4. and 5. God the Father as sitting upon his Throne the Church represented by the 24 Elders and four living Wights about him representing all faithful Christians and Church-guides with whom is the Lamb and the seven Spirits ever present and when none could be found in Heaven or earth worthy to look into that Book or open the Seals thereof it was given to the Lamb to open and fulfil who by his infinite wisdom and perfect power hath and doth and in due time will both perfectly open and fulfil the same in the set order for the accomplishment thereof which will bring unexpressible rejoycing and praise by Angels Saints and all Creatures in their capacities thereupon c. Chap. 5.10 to the end Thirdly The matter is profound and contains highly profitable Mysteries the form is very excellent in a wonderful Divine contrivance as in some small measure we have pointed out as we have in Mercy received c. Secondly for the usefulness it gives encouragement in the worst times of sufferings from many memorandums of Christs Kingdom for the suffering Saints and of the New Jerusalem-state observable in all these times as in our 7th Argum. of the Word written is shewed Secondly Useful in opening the hidden Mystical part of the Gospel and the great Subjects of the last things respecting the first and second said Resurrection of the bodies of just and unjust in their orders and of the first and second Acts of the Judgment of the great Day contained in general in Enochs Vision or Prophesie and in many things explained by Christ and his Apostles but in many other could not be understood without this Book therefore called the Book of Revelation with an Emphasis as the whole holy Scriptures called the Bible and the name of Christ is added to it being the Revelation that only could be made by Jesus Christ the Son of God the eternal word but as manifest in the flesh therefore much is to be looked for from it not to be attained by any other Writings nor many things in the Holy Bible understood aright without the explications of this most Divine Book c. And therefore in the third place hence may all serious and found Christians see what great Reasons there are for them to use all careful endeavours to understand the weighty matters held out and revealed therein they are not secret things forbidden as some in the Old times when men might not look into the Ark of Gods Testament nor things shut up and sealed as many of Daniels Mysteries that were reserved for Christ thus to open in the times of the end or Gospel-times but they are of things whereunto a blessing is annexed to the due reading and search into them and therefore the beloved Apostle is commanded contrarily not to seal them Chap. 22.10 This Book with Daniels Prophetical Visions the hidden part whereof this in good measure is a Divine explication viz. during the Revelation said suffering-times to the 19th Chapter and they are both together given to regulate all Chronologie in the world for 2300 years and more to the end of this sacred Book without which little truth in all times since in that respect could have been found or discerned by all humane Authors so that all Prophetical Chronologie by the Revelation of God the Spirit is given in them both for so long a time viz. from the Captivity of Babylon to the end of the world even as Moses had likewise received his Divinely revealed Chronelogy of all times past to and in his own time for the space about 2490 years when there was nothing but Tradition to have supplied that want which was after in the Books of Joshua Judges Kings and Chronicles contiued upon record until the said Prophetical Chronology of Daniel and Revelation took place which have been since Divinely carried on and so will be as was said unto the end of the world and because Moses and many of those that followed had likewise as the Apostle Peter teaches distinct Prophesies of those last times in the Book of Revelation therefore God in wonderful wisdom faithfulness and goodness hath in that last Table of of the happy times of Christs Church in the world revealed unto us those sure foundations of such unspeakable goodness then to be performed and accomplished not otherwise to be known or believed in many respects which are the peculiar excellencies belonging to and benesits accrewing to the Christian Church by this so Divine Book and are not these great engagements to the study of the same In this Divine Book we have the revelation in a latitude of the end of two special great Mysteries viz. the end of the great Mystery
third and last most effectual taking away of Sacrifice most probably in Julian the Apostate Emperors time by a remarkable hand of God about 365 years after Christs birth unto which 1335 years being added makes up 1700 viz. all the times of Revelation prophesie to Ch 20. which the former 2300 Dan. 8. also wholly contain but what darkness there hath been from Julians said time and before is hard to resolve by reason of like confusions before and since and what errors may be in our vulgar account may not easily be found four years Bishop Vsher observes to be lost in it happily more since it was as is acknowledged 500 years after Christs birth before it came in common use Thirdly The Turks said day and hour and month and year Rev. 9. or his 396 years are not so exact as that we can certainly resolve whether the Ottoman family obtained the full power some few years before or some few years after 1300 who having the latest Epocha of all the rest by much should therefore seem more easie to be resolved but for the like reasons still some darkness remains therein but counting his 396 years back as was before said may so bring us nearest probably to his truest Epocha The said Beasts rising at one hour with the said ten crowned Horns Rev. 17.9 12. being as we said in times of great confusions likewise when the Empire in the West was so broken by the Barbarous Nations that the Writers of such affairs then or after must needs speak of them more uncertainly a latitude therefore of conjecture must needs in reason be allowed especially besides former considerations that that one hour Rev. 12. may be an opportune season as was said and not a Prophetical hour when the stories of such are differently penned for such times and things as often they are c. but Divine wisdom from the Scripture such as in Daniels said Numbers with 〈◊〉 Pauls Doctrine seem to be for that purpose the Divine directions as the Holy Spirit informs us is needful as such true wisdom to direct us in an especial manner in these above all the rest viz. to discover both the Beasts beginning and ending which we may only expect to find in a convenient latitude but not to be exact therein which God is pleased to keep only in his own power as Acts 1.6 yet it is Christians duty to inquire after them and much light and benefit comes to themselves and others by so doing c. and if by his said date of his ending number about 1700 we count his 42 months backward upon the former ground and considerations our conjecture may be so made most fitly as we conceive of his Epocha and the said Womans c. to be about 430 but the exact time we cannot thereby know and so the Period of both haply may be about 20 years hence in a fit latitude from An. Dom. 1675. upon all former said considerations whereunto succeed the happy times of renovation there spoken of in this Text yet Chapt. 18. and 19. declare the burning of the Whore to be some small time before the last ruine of the Beast which in Chapt. 16. is for his preparation probably upon this account to the Armageddon battle by his three unclean spirits like frogs as we shewed croaking in the Courts of Kings Vse of Exhortation We shall not here be large in the improvement of this Subject because of what we have formerly done upon Doctrines of this nature in our former Treatises only we shall add some brief admonition and exhortation to all such as the Name of Christ is called upon that upon this weighty account that the great changes of the world are so many ways manifest to be near approaching first that as the Prophet Esai Chapt. 1. exhorted sinful men in his time that they would cease to do evil and learn to do well And therefore 2ly to labour to be good that they may be fit both to do good accepably receive good infallibly Let all prophane wicked carnal worldly and unregendrate men be hence admonished to forsake their evil licentious and ungodly practises let them from the ruionous state of this wicked world be think themselves what precipices of destruction they walk upon from whence they are every moment in danger to fall into an irrecoverable ruine and if they should not otherwise be cut off yet who knows how suddenly the great Changes of the world may come upon them let them well weigh for times past what good they have gotten in the ways of sin whereby they have long happly provoked God already and for which much guilt lies upon their Souls and Consciences and for which they are liable to the heavy wrath and Judgments of God continually to seize upon them besides as we said all wickedness will shortly have an end and what good can the sinful profits pleasures or honours of the world do them if they had the longest continuance that this world can afford them I say sinful profits pleasures or honour if either sinfully obtained or not rightly used or wickedly abused to evil purposes as for the most part they are by such persons But secondly it is not enough for such to cease to do evil which yet will be hard for them to do for so long as they are evil Trees they will bring forth evil fruits and must needs be nigh to cursing whose end is to be burned as Gods word plainly 〈…〉 also learn to do well and that speedily too lest the evil 〈◊〉 come upon them unawares which cannot be far 〈…〉 Changes in the world although they be not 〈…〉 before from which they can have no security 〈…〉 their sinful ways have rather much reason continually to expect for indignation and wrath saith the Apostle tribulation and anguish shall be upon every Soul of man that doth evil Rom. 2.8 9. And therefore in the third place that they may rightly learn these two Lessons to cease to do evil and learn to do well they must add the third viz. labour earnestly to be good that they may do good and consequently be made capable to receive good they must be made good Trees that they may bring forth good fruit they must get Faith and Grace and become new Creatures else all will come to no effect men may out of some fear of wrath be sometime in a pang and so be restrained from some evil practises and be also forced to do some good works materially good but they will neither continue in well-doing nor can they do any such good works as are acceptable unto God if they be not converted unto him from their sins and be reconciled to him by faith in Jesus Christ Object But Faith and Grace are Gods gifts it will be said and they cannot of themselves obtain teem It is true they are so but such should now especially now even now in these last and worst times know if they have them nor and be
former only in this said Key of Christ's we have the last promised mercy of Christ's Kingdom as the Son of David First set down as being the chief thing which all the rest serve to make to make up into the possession whereof the Resurrection of all his Saints which he brings with him as his Spouse or new Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven Rev. 21.9 is the Inlet as we noted to bring them into a capacity to partake of in such restitution of all things so speaking first of that restoring the Kingdom to Israel as Acts 1.6 or raising up Davids Tabernacle Acts 15. and then speaking of the said new Jerusalem Chap. 21. which contains the Marriage of the Lamb spoken of Chap. 19.7 wherein will also be that Paradise of God in that state and the pure River and Tree of Life Chap. 22. and all these in the times of the new Heavens and new Earth when God will as in this Text make all things new Quest But here a Question may arise which it may be requisite to resolve at present viz. If the said Resurrection be such an Inlet to the said Saints to enjoy the happiness of that state why are only the Martyrs that suffered death for Christ here said to live and reign with him the 1000 years as some have conceived Ans It is true that Ch. 20.4 speaks only of two sorts of Revelation-Martyrs as was answered to the cry of those Souls under the Altar Rev. 6.10 to whom it was said that they should rest till their fellow-servants and brethren should be killed the Souls are there said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of such as were before beheaded under the red Dragon in the Pagan Persecutions of the Sts. but those that were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fellow-servants Brethren after to be killed were such as suffer'd since under the Beast as Ch. 20.4 describes them of which though very many suffered death yet not all neither are they only Martyrs of Christ that suffer death actually but all such as have had a willingness and resolution of mind to suffer for Christ if called to it are reckoned by him for Martyrs and though others have suffered in a less degree than death yet are also to be counted such We know Ishmael's mocking of Isaac is called Persecution by the Apostle and all the Saints have suffered one way or other for God and Christ for which cause they are all to be esteemed Martyr as they have been sufferers under the Beast or under any other Persecutors in any times before that all suffering Sts. deceased before the time of the Beast shall also rise at the first said Resurrect of the just when both the Martyrs blood will be avenged as Deut. 33.42 43. and they all rewarded as may from these following considerations be made to appear 1. Because when Christ comes he will come with all such his said Saints whether they have actually suffered death for him or othertherwise as the Apostle speaks expresly 1 Thes 3.13 with Zech. 14.5 He comes with all his Saints And again saith he All that then sleep in Jesus will God bring with him 1 Thes 4.14 namely to raise their bodies from the dead the Scripture then is clear for the resurrection of all then Secondly That parallel Text Rev. 11.18 that respects the time and occasion of judging the Saints viz. with a Judgment of reward or recompence at Christs appearance makes a full enumeration of all sorts to be then rewarded of Old Testament Saints or sufferers as well as of the New yea of all Saints in that capacity as sufferers and Prophets as well as Apostles and even all that fear Gods Name both sinall and great shall then have their peculiar reward though in the natural life then which I conceive is meant of the last sort of all such as are said to fear Gods Name So saith Christ then Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give to every one according to his works But all deceased Saints are then made capable of their proper reward in that state they rise into by the first bodily Resurrection viz. to reign with Christ the 1000 years in his Davidical Kingdom Thirdly In Chapter 21.2 When the new Jerusalem comes down from God out of Heaven which v. 9. is called the Lambs wife as containing all the Spirits of just men made perfect upon that Resurrection to be united to their own bodies to inhabite that City which God himself then makes for them when that great Voice saith Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them c. Now that Jerusalem will contain all those raised Saints which had died before and it will be the general priviledg of them all which God had given to Christ that they shall behold his glory which his Father hath given him in his said Kingdom John 17.24 Fourthly All Saints that have lived in suffering times as all times have been and will be from Abels death to the Saints said Resurrection who as they have suffered with or for Christ from the world and Devil so all such sufferers saith the Apostle shall then reign with him 2 Tim. 2.12 and they must all first rise bodily before they can be capable of reigning with him in that state or of enjoying the promised mercies belonging thereunto Fifthly All the 24 Elders and the four living Wights which represent the whole Church of Christ Rulers and People exult aforehand Revel 5.10 that in the issue of Revelation-prophesie they shall reign upon earth who acknowledge themselves to be such as Christ hath redeemed by his blood out of every kindred tongue and people and Nation who shall have their part with Christ in the sure mercies of David according to the promise Esa 55.3 which they must be made capable of by the said first Resurrection Sixthly All Christs overcomers since the Revelation-prophesie began to take place in all that is said there shortly to be done that is in the due order of times to be accomplished they are all encouraged by something belonging to the Jerusalem state which only by the said Resurrection they attain to their shares as is particularly manifest in our seventh convincing Argument in the Word written now all faithful Christians are Overcomers though they suffer not death as those said Martyrs Rev. 6.9 10 11. but only by lesser tryals Seventhly Christ who is appointed by the Father then to be heir of all things promiseth in special to each Overcomer without exception that he shall also inherit all things with him v. 7. which priviledg belongs to all Saints as the Spouse of Christ or Lambs wife and therefore belongs to them as Saints to which purpose saith St. Paul If children then heirs and joynt-heirs wich Christ which without the Resurrection they cannot enjoy no more than the separate Spirits of good men enjoy them now Quest If Christ to the said purpose
Saints being as it is described a perfect Cube of 1500 miles in length breadth and heighh fitted for the motion and benefit of their spiritual bodies yet said then to have foundations because then they will have their bodies who needed no foundations when they were Jerusalem above only the spirits of just men made perfect Gal. 4.2 and for the other in the natural life they shall lengthen their cords strengthen their stakes Esa 54.2 God hath prepared fit places for both who fully knows the number of them all Now many things in Scripture are said to be prepared by God or Christ that will not have their peculiar existence at present till the times come So our Saviour went to prepare the beloved great Jerusalem for his Disciples John 14.1 2 3. where they shall behold this his glory which his Father hath given him John 17.24 and this is the City prepared for the Forefathers Heb. 11.16 and for us v. 40. so saith Christ inherit the Kingdom prepared for you Matth. 25.34 and the eternal happiness which eye hath not seen ear hath not heard which God hath prepared 1 Cor. 2.9 and on the contrary Hell torment is prepared for the wicked Matth. 25.41 and Tophet is prepared of old for the King Esa 30.33 probably meant of the great Assyrian which will at that time be destroyed viz. the Turk called the Assyrian Mich. 5.5 when the Assyrian shall come into our Land that is possessing the Assyrians Kingdom then now all these so said to be prepared shall have their existence certainly in their times and it seemeth probable that this last Tophet with the River of Brimstone Esa 30. will be out of the matter of the earth dissolved at last c. which will yet make for the happiness of the Saints that they have not only escaped all such sufferings but shall inherit such wonderful manifold and everlasting happiness And now we come Fourthly to the last great Priviledge of the said New Jerusalem state and the said Kingdom of Christ with his Saints namely the Paradise of God then likewise to be restored instead of that which was first lost by the fall of the first Adam last mentioned in this Divine Key or bunch of Keys of our Saviour of which though from the fall intended yet we hear nothing particularly of it until our Saviour by his death had purchased it and then promised it to the penitent Thief upon the Cross with him This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise whither Christs Soul then went to take possession of it for all his Saints before he said the Angels are said to carry Lazarus into Abrahams bosome but the Apostle Paul explains it afterwards to be the third Heaven and Paradise where then it was but after when the New Jerusalem comes down with Christ from God out of Heaven that Paradise of God is described to belong to that Holy City where is the Tree of Life which yieldeth fruits every Month and whose Leaves are for the healing of the Nations with the pure River flowing from the Throne of God and of the Lamb Rev. 22. which are Divine expressions of the happiness of the Saints then spoken in resemblance unto the first Paradise and to the living waters spoken of by Christ John 7.37 38. which all the Saints shall in that state enjoy And so we have given a touch of these several parts of Gods Renovation of all things at that time of the restitution of all things spoken of by the Apostle Peter Acts 3.21 But one thing more the Scripture speaks of to belong to the same renovation and that is the Dominion over the Creatures to be restored then also when God shall put all things in subjection under Christs feet Psa 8.4 and Heb. 2.8 together with the Creatures freedom from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God of which much in Scripture when the emnity shall be taken away from amongst them as was said when Christs rest shall be glorious ver 10. Now all these great Priviledges are founded upon the antient Promises and Covenants of God to the faithful Fathers and thus Divinely unlocked by this said Key of our blessed Saviour so graciously left for his Churches consolation in these latter days when the evil suffering times are almost at an end and that happy state of things for the Saints is near approaching as we hope many ways to manifest in considering what those times of renovaâ—ion or restitution are which is next to be considered And how should the evidence of these things stir up all Christians to believe and act as to secure their own interest in them and to cast off every weight that presseth down that might hinder them in running their Christian race to obtain the Crown with all such precious Jewels wherewith it is so richly adorned for these Scriptures for this happy state cannot be broken We proceed to the third Head namely to consider what are the the times or in what state or occurrence of affairs in the world God will work this renovation or restitution of all things Obj. But here an Objection must first be answered Doth not the Apostle Paul tell us the times of renovation are past 2 Cor. 5.17 If any man be in Christ he is become a new Creature old things are past away saith he Behold all things are become new in the very words of this Text. Answ The Holy Apostle speaks there of the great spiritual renovation of the Souls of the faithful the foundation whereof was laid at Christs first coming and which will be the real ground to all Saints of obtaining their shares in the great renovation which God will work for them in that state to come we speak of wherein all such shall have their part for if Christ had not by his Death Resurrection and Ascension then laid the happy foundation by leading captivity captive triumphing gloriously over the powers of darkness there could have been no obtaining of this other but since he hath this will necessarily in its order and time follow thereupon in that perfecting of the work of Redemption in the world Again old things were then by that means passed away and all things become new then comparatively in respect of what they were under the Old Testament before he actually came in our nature before Gospel Grace was dark and more rare less efficacious under many types shadows and Ceremonial observances and Old Testament dispensations under the New Testament is a new and better Covenant new and better Promises new and better Ordinances new and better Dispensations as might largely be set forth So then by his first coming was the chief foundation laid of all following renovation of the world to come then was indeed the inchoation and powerful beginning of all happy renovation and the foundation laid of all the other the hopes whereof will be but building upon the sand without that founding upon the Rock
our Saviour stiles them that shall then be counted worthy of that world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like the Angels of God be manifest to be the Children of God and shall not only be freed from all the evil formerly brought upon them by men shall be made or Devils but also shall by that blessed Resurrection be made capable of all promised good belonging to that state It is very observable how the Spirit of God guided the Apostle Peter to set forth many Divine Doctrines concerning those times in that excellent portion of Scripture Acts 3.19 20 21. first in that apt title he gives them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they are the times of the restitution of all things when God himself saith he will make all things new in this Text by putting them into their due order and frame Secondly they will be times of refreshing Thirdly that their sins will then be blotted out that is one great refreshing But fourthly a greater will be from the presence of the Lord when the Tabernacle of God will be with men and he shall dwell with them Fifthly that God hath spoken of these times by his holy Prophets And sixthly by all his holy Prophets since the world began as we have shewed largely concerning the Kingdom of Christ in the said 12 foundations of the faith thereof and in the Iren and much may be done respecting the Jews and all Gods peoples Priviledges and Mercies belonging to those times which we have or shall farther speak of so that wherever we may find the holy Prophets have spoken any thing tending to break the Serpents head by the promised Seed of the woman his head of Policie or his head of Power which shall in the issue chiefly and fully be performed by him in his execution of the Judgment of the Great Day which was preached to the Old World by Enoch hath been since the great Tradition through alltimes till the Apostle Jude recorded it in his Epistle stiling it as the Spirit of God then taught him the Judgment of the Great Day which since by our Saviour in this most excellent Divine Book is explained to have a first Act or the Matutinum Judicium according to what was long before revealed to Daniel Chap. 7. confirmed also by himself Revel 11.18 and Rev. 19. later end at the ruine of the Beast and false Prophet But the other Act of the Great Day hath fince been by the Father only left to be made known by Christ himself to explain and confirm most fully for the use of his Church concerning the last finishing Act of the said Great Day of Judgment or the Vespertinum Judicium thereof without which his Church had been much in the dark in respect of such great Points of the Doctrine thereof delivered by himself in this most excellent Book which he hath so strongly clearly and exactly done beyond all Parallel in that Divine Table respecting the 1000 years of which and the little space following his Doctrines of the last Act are the boundary as we shewed before and was needful to be explained as being included in Enoch's said Vision or Prophesie thereof which said 1000 years include all those promised Mercies most antiently laid down in the Word of God respecting the Saints in those times either privitively in respect of the evils to be removed or positively in respect of good things to be obtained by them in the particulars beforesaid so unlocked by our Saviours said Divine Key or rather Bunch of Keys as they may be called unlocking the several Cabinets wherein the said Mercies are contained And on the other hand whatsoever of these Mercies for good we find the Prophets have spoken of as to be obtained by Gods people in those times upon any such notion respecting them they are by the Apostle Peter's rule so to be understood with respect thereunto and the words of my Text are a sure Key to open the meaning of them Now since from the fall of the first Adam the Dominion lost by him hath been usurped by the Prince of the Power of the Air that hath all along ever since effectually worked in the Children of disobedience and will not according to the word be fully taken away from him and his Vassels the evil Powers in the world till those two said Acts of Judgment be finished by the said promised Seed the Son of God and since likewise the Word of God gives so manifold evidence of the said promised Seed the Son of God his so taking to himself his great Power and Reigning which Kingdom of David was the highest mercy promised formerly to the Fathers as a Type and from whom Christs Title hath ever since been strongly confirmed and that for the sins of Davids Posterity and people his Tabernacle fell at the Babylonian Captivity so as not to be raised till the time of the Anti-type of Davids said Kingdom come when the Tabernacle of David is said again to be raised as Amos 9.11 so expounded by the Apostle James Acts 15.16 let us from the fall thereof consider what discoveries of the seasons of the raising thereof we can find from the Word of God which are these said times of the restitution of all things spoken of by the Apostle Peter and the renovation of all things spoken of in the Text by God himself Now from the falling of Davids seid Kingdom in the Type to the raising of Christs Davidical Kingdom in the Anti-type we have as Mr. Mede observes a two-fold Calendar in Daniel leading thereunto the great Calendar passeth through all the times of the four Gentile Monarchies set forth by four Mettle Kingdoms Chap. 2. in Nebuchadnezzars Image which he saw and the same again revealed to Daniel by four Beasts destroying each other Chap. 7. so that by these two testimonies both to Jews Gentiles it might be in due time manifest what was there fore-shewed shall in due time ensue both for Christs Kingdom of the Stone or Kingdom of Patience from Christs ascension being that which God set up then Dan. 2.44 to his coming again in which time it should Divinely and powerfully destroy all other Kingdoms at which said second coming it should become the Kingdom of the Mountain or Kingdom of Power filling the whole earth upon Christs taking possession of it Dan. 7.13 14. and there seems to be an exact Table of the times of this great Calendar Chap. 8. of 2300 years and that upon that account ver 17 19. as almost is now by experience explained with the series of Revelation-Prophesie in the 1700 years therein contained the reasons thereof we have set down in our summary of Daniels Visions and for the lesser Calender of the 70 Weeks of years Dan. 9 viz. 490 years the Key of the Times whereof appears to be the 1335 years after the full taking away of Sacrifice Chap. 12. and the setting up of the abomination of desolation most remarkably done by Julian the Apostate