wilful sinners Of the patience of Christ to a man turning into a Beast and how he deviseth Devises to prevent it or recover him How he fulfilled the Ceremonial Law also and how he was in all the Sacrifices as a Lamb for the Lambs and as a Goat for the Goats Of Benjamin the Son of the right hand with other Children of Rachel a sheep in Hebrew at his right Hand and of the Children of Leah or others at the Left Hand where also of Seir a Goat and of the Goats offered at the New Moons solemn Feasts c. and of the Rams of Ishmael accepted on the Holy Alter Of Gods face in Scripture toward the East and of Bowing to the East and of his Right Hand to the South and Left to the North and of Northern Judgments turned to Mercies and Blessings and of great and good things to come out of the North in the Latter times of the World as from Babylon at the return from Captivity How Christ came in the fulness of time Of Seven Ten the full Rich Numbers of their Powers Compounds for Ages Ever or eternity which yet in Scripture oft hath such or such an End or Revolution in such or such Generations How Christ came out in several Ages and Persons of Note in the Bible to do the Great things of Gods Power Wisdome and Goodness for Man To Man and in Man through all the Times and Seasons of the Scripture and in special the Times of the Witnesses In Heaven the Father and the Word Dabar Bar Bara Creating Heaven and Earth where also the Spirit of the Messiah as the old Jews call it on Gen. 1. 2. Mooving on the Waters an other Witness and parting them by A Dam and Adam of Adama dryed Red Earth akin to Dam in Hebrew Bload the other Witness John 5. and Acts 17. Of one Blood he made all Nations of men and determined the Times appointed and bounds of their Habitations which in parting the sons of Adam he bounded according to the Number of the Sons of Israel Deu. 32. which were 12. and to be measured by the 12 Hours of Day and Night Shadowed on the Tabernacle by the Cloud Pillar of Fire for Light that Beginning of the Creation and works of God and in its outer Court by the Laver of Water and Blood on the Alter of Witness as That called Ed a Witness by the waters also of Jordan where afterward the Baptist heard or saw all the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth to which he bare Record or was made a witness also as divers other in several Ages And All the 7 Washings or Sprinklings of Blood or Water so often required in the Law to represent the 7 Nights and 7 Dayes of the Week As the 7 Lamps in the inner Court or Holy Place as the visible Heavens with its Planets about the Sun in the midst as the greatest Lamp was in the middle of the other 6 or 3 on either side by the 12 Cakes of Shewbread changed every 7th or Sabbath day and made of 24 Omers out of 24 Seahs as the Jewes 24th of Leviticus for the 24 hours of Day and Night Made by the Sun mooving 2 of His Diameters the Moon 24 of Hers in each diurnal motion of 24 Hours parted into 4 great Watches as the 24 Elders in the Revelation had also 4 watchers with 6 wings a piece as in the Prophets And in the Temple also there were 24 courses of Priests and of Levites 24 of Porters and 24 of Singers and 24 courses of Standers or men of the Station representing all the People or 12 Tribes as in the 12 Cakes of 24 as 12 Sons of Jacob or 12 Hours of Light came after the 12 hours of Darkness or 12 Sons of Ishmael or Esau for the 24. Elders And as God gave 24 things to the Priests so they gave 24 to him in their dayly Minha of 12 Rouls at morning and 12 also at Evening And the Seventh in Hours also is very Signal as in Days and Moneths and years by the great Rest and Turn of Sun and Moon as Water and Blood also in the Sea and bodies of Animals after every six hours with Them and All that accounted Lilith that is Night the first Wife to Adam and do call her Eve or Even to the Day As it is to them that are about the Aequator and to All at either Aequinox when Time seemeth to begin And beginning at Sun-set as the Jewes and many other Nations did the First six Hours brought down the Sun to the Midnight Nadir and six more brought it up to the Morning Horizon and six more to the Noon or Zenith and six more to Setting again So that every seventh Hour made a Pauz and Turn And Sabbath is Both in Hebrew As if the watchers stood at the four Corners of Earth or quarters of the Heaven which are called Winds and Spirits also in the Scripture alluding perhaps to the four watching Spirits or Angels to Turn the Sun and Moon or Hour-glass of Waters or Clepsydra in the Seas c. After every six Hours of Day and Night the walks of the Sun and Moon but shadows of the good things within the Vaile or 3d Heaven where the 2 Cherubins of Glory shadowed the Mercy Seat or Heavenly Throne over the Earth or Ark of the Testimony also or Witnes with its 2 Tables or Testaments also For the 2d Covenant as in 29 of Deuteronomy was both Law and Gospel also written in the Ark of the Heart of Christ and all his Members after the first Tables of Stone were broken and disanulled being never put in the Ark or in our Hearts For know you not that your Bodies are the Temple of God As Paul speaketh to the Gentiles also Where our Heads as the Heavens above with two Eyes or Cherubins of Glory The Mercy seat or Throne of God and his Rainbow as in all the Scriptures like our Eye And our Heart Or Altar of Incense As the Earth beneath in the middle Court or 2d Region with its Pericardium of Water and Blood in the Pleura with twelve Ribs on either side and seven distinct from the other Nothi As also the seven Rackets of the neck with its spirit or spinal marrow from the Cerebellum As the Brain hath also seven spirits or pair of Nerves with Animal spirits Veyles and Ventricles which are shadowed in the Lower Regions both of the Earth below in the Heart and Waters under the Earth in our Bowels where the Duodenum and Ilea with all the Rest are but shadowes of things above As of the Laver or Molten sea or great Ocean with its Ebbings and flowings as the Earning of our Bowels and the Altar of Burnt-offerings in our Stomack with its heat or fire never quenched and the seven Planets with the Firmament of the Midrif parting between the Bowels or Waters under it and those above it as high as the Brain
It shall be so Amen For the whol Earth also must Rest and keep its Sabboth And not only the Land of Israel which was but as the First Fruits of the Earth and That had such a strict Command of observing Sabbatical Years that they must stay so many yeers in Babylon as the Land should have kept Sabboths by the Law while They were in it As we may find in that remarkable Discourse of God on Mount Sinai in the 25 26. of Leviticus which I have somtimes thought not only the Epitome of the whole Law but the Foundation of the Gospel also to be very often considered Yea and the Wilderness shall be as Lebanon and Carmel Yea Every Tree of the Forest shall clap hands and sing and rejoyce in praising God As we read in many places of the Psalms and Prophets Yea and the Gospel must be preached to every Creature under Heaven and the whole Creation longeth and travelleth for it is now made subject to Bondage but in Hope for it shall be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God For God is able even of stones to raise up sons to Abraham Whose seed must be as the Dust and more than all the stones of the Earth And we also can dayly Turn Plants and Beasts yea and Pearls and other stones also into our own selves and our spirits so as that they give us also a New spirit and refresh and joy our souls yea and the Heart of God also as Jotham saith in That remarkable Parable of the Trees choosing them a King How much easier is it for an Infinite God to Turn All these into himself and his own Image by his Spirit making All things New as they All came out first from him and must All return to him For of him and from him and To him are All things From the Throne of God and his Lamb when His Kingdom comes shall issue out Waters of Life Yea to the Sea also even the Dead Sea and they shall bring Healing with them And where ever the Waters come there shall be Life and Healing For the very Leaves of the Trees on the Banks of those Waters shall serve for Healing os the Nations even of the Gentile Nations And the VVilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the Desert shall rejoyce and blossom as the Rose It shall rejoyce abundantly with joy and singing The Glory of Lebanon shall be given to it The Excellency of Carmell and Sharon They shall see the glory of the Lord and the Excellency of our God Yea All the Earth shall Rest and Rejoyce and be full of the Glory of God as Waters fill up the Sea And Then the Lord shall be called the God of All the Earth and the Possessor of Earth as well as Heaven Which was the phrase used by Melchizedeck in blessing Abraham when he had pursued the four Monarchs or four Monarchies to Dan even to Judgment and brought back the Captivity of Sodom also of which we read in several places Although Sodom was so accursed and made a Perpetual Desolation that it is a Type of Hell or of the worst Judgments in all the Bible Yet even Sodom must return again and her Daughters And when our Lord Jesus Exulted in spirit as he saith Abraham did to see his Day he said I bless thee Father Lord of Heaven and Earth even of the Earth also as of Heaven as alluding to that Blessing of Melchizedecks at the return of Sodoms Captivity And the Revelation tells us that when the seventh Angel sounded there was great Voyces or Joy in Heaven saying The Kingdoms of this world are become the Lords and His Christs and he shall reign for ever and ever And the twenty four Elders blessed God that yet at length he had taken to him his great Power and reigned and the Nations were Angry and thy Wrath is come and the time of the Dead that they should be Judged and that thou shouldest Reward Thy Saints c. and shouldest destroy them which destroy the Earth And Then the Temple of God was opened in Heaven c. Where before the twenty four Elders and the four Watchers also had blessed the Lamb that They should come even out of Heaven to Reign upon the Earth even upon the Earth As if the Earth should be the Centre also to All the Glory of God and that it should be more and greater on the Earth than it is in Heaven And yet it may be remembred that from the very first sin of Adam in Paradice the Earth was the Great that I say not the Only Object of the Curse of God The Serpent it self was not Absolutely Cursed but above all Cattel and above every Beast of the field And when the Earth shall be New moulded yet Dust shall be the Serpents meat as we read Esay 65. Adam must labor and sweat the Woman must be in subjection and bring forth in pain but not a word of Cursing them For God had loved them and Blessed them Yea and they shall be Blessed But the Ground is Cursed for Mans sake and in sorrow must he eat thereof All the daies of his life Yea it shall bring forth thorns and thistles and when Nothing else comes after Dews and Rain of Heaven It is nigh unto Cursing as we read in the Epistle to the Hebrews And when the Cursed Earth had also drunk up the blood of Righteous Abel every word of our Savior is Remarkable Then Cain the Murderer as every One is that Hateth his brother was also Cursed from the Earth but not from Heaven that we read and yet a Sacrifice was provided and laid at his door for sin that he may have Dominion over it Though I shall not here dispute the Jews Tradition that Cain also was saved Or that the Earth it self was cursed as a Type of our Heart or somwhat in us more spiritual than our fleshly Heart which is a Metathesis of Earth as in Hebrew of Babel which is Lebab the Heart turned backward And an Heart turned back from God is but Babel Confusion As the Earth which the Lord cursed Bringing forth nothing but Thorns and Thistles yet its Conception is greatly multiplied and its sorrow But I must not here shew How our Body represents the whole World with its three Regions of Heaven above in our Head and the Earth below in our Heart with its Pericardium of Waters compassed with the Lungs as the Air separate by the Firmament of the Midriff from the Heaven above in the Head and the Waters under the Earth in the Bowels which in Heb are expressed by the same word with the Waves of the Sea whose Rowlings and Ebbings and flowings are much akin to the motion and yearnings of our Bowels And in Scripture the off-spring of our Bowels is compared to the Sand of the Sea and the gravel thereof As the Hebrew words for the Thoughts of
signifies his Moon As if it meant to teach us How all Changings and Numbrings are between the Earth and the Moon which as English Money is from Numbring and Changing as Man also the Great Changer and the Money Changer also But take heed he be not whipped out of the Temple by our Saviour Though by a scourge of smal Cords So that the Moon and the Earth are but the Two Round Glasses of the Klepsydra the Weather Glass or Hour Glass And as One Fills the other Empties Whence the Tyde is Highest Fullest Just as the Moon comes to the Zenith or Highest Point of Heaven over such or such a Place And As she goes down again the Earth goes up and drops its Tide back again And why our Seas and Brains and Reins or Rains are fullest just at Emptiest Moon we call it Full will be no great wonder Except haply we should imagine the Sun and the Earth are indeed the Two Globes of the Hour Glass or Clepsydra and the Moon the little Rundle or the Firmament between them Which seems more proper much to the Earth between Sun and Moon And yet some with great appearance of Reason make the Sun it self the Centre of All the Planets And the Moon whirling about the Earth Which we may touch again And to This of Moon and Waters Above the Firmament Dropping Through to make All Time I might add the English Name of Showr as if it were So Hour or See Hour But This also is Hebrew For with them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are Shoures and Watches or VVatchers also And their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a VVatcher a Porter and a Gate is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which watcheth or Gards as the sound also Though I may add that the VVatches were more usually spoken of Nights as in the 90. Psalm and elsewhere As Hours of Day Which is Ha our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light And Thence Hour As also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shew and See And so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be He that shews the VVatch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And by This time we need not wonder that in Hebrew Jom should be Day and Jam Sea which is Now also in Latine As Olim Then both to Come and Past also Like the Hebrew Olam Jamim Daies and Jammim Seas And All these but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Waters Only in the gathering of Waters which God called Jam or Jammim Seas there is a repeating or adding or multiplying M the proper Letter sound and Character of Humming Waters and multitudes of Peoples also who are but Waters added together Or Many Waters As the Beast rising in Many Waters or Multitudes of People which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Am and Ammon in Hebrew and Ammi my People as Jam a Sea But in English I am is a word of Being and very Rightly too For we are All but Water Nay a Drop of VVater And All Nations are but a little Drop of the Bucket or VVell whence they are Drawn or Dropped As Moab my Fathers Water And to Create in Heb is but to Bear or make Bare a little change of Beer a Fountain or VVell still Bearing out As we see in Beer Lahairoi and in Beershebang the VVell of Seven too as well as of the Oath And so Bar a Son and also to Bar out And the Saxon English Bearns are Children or Free Persons or Barons As our Saviour also alludeth in That of Tribute by strangers and not of Children or Sons or Barin in his Language that is Barons or Free born Bearns As in another place he calleth them Children of the Kingdom that is Free Barons of Heaven or the Church I might add that Bourn is a River also or Brook Which is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebrew Or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Jaar a month and Year and River also For our Time is Drops of Water Flowing As we see also in the English Ye are or Year and we are or were and Jam as the Latin Jam for present and He is or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All are Heb. and Time is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sea or Imum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And all these parts of Time are akin to Seeing In Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whence are and were and ye are and Jare or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Hour and Our and Your But Persons in a Continual flux of Daies Jam and Years Ye are We are and Were and Your But the white sands running in the Hour Glass Or as God expresseth it but as the Little Dust in the Ballance Which yet is an Higher Pedigree than we may think For the Heavens in Heb are but the least and lightest Dusts that Phrase is Hebrew also from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Thresh or as Solomon the Highest part of the Dust of the Earth Which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Skie or See High From a word to Shake into Dust or Moats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Atomes by Metathesis As a Damm between the two VVaters stood the Earth More stable and more firm also perhaps than the Firmament it self For It that is the visible Heavens must pass away like a scrowl of Parchment before the fire And They must be no more as Job speaketh VVhen Man awaketh that is Kaets as To the Resurrection or the End of the world or as Corn in Summer as we spake before But the Earth shall abide and Endure for Ever As That which God called Erets I will accept or be pleased and delight in it and in them that shall come out of Heaven to Raign on the Earth Even As the Rain comes out of Heaven and Returns not Empty As the Rivers come from the Sea and go thither again So the Rain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Yarn or Rivers of Heaven Go and Come As in our Bodies also between our Heb Rin and Brains and Reins and Yearnings c. while our Heart or Earth is in the Centre or Middle of our Bodies as the Lower Sun which by its Fire and Heat and Clickins makes our Pulses Times and Circulations through our whole Bodies Yet if any will derive Erets against that Etimology we shewed in Ezekiel from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Run It is sutable to Water also or the Water Hour Glass Or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Pouder It may suit with That we spake of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Skie or Dust of Heaven As if Those also must Turn Tables with us or be Turned under us When the Dust of Abrahams Seed and the Sand or Gravel of His Sea also shall be made the Stars of Heaven yea of the Heaven of Heavens Thus then the Earth came that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Rose up as a Dam between the Waters in
Right Hand Length of Dayes As Riches and Honours at her Left Which was called Smol as English Small in Comparison of the Right Hand Numbers or other things But smell and smile and similis may come from their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To which That may allude when Isaac smiled at the smell of his Sons Garments and Blessed Him But as English small may come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So may the Latine Semel While they reckoned All small Numbers Once on their Left Hand Fingers and Joynts As so many Places for Unites Tenths and Hundreds Greater Numbers had their places at the Right Hand Whence also they began to Write As if That also might allude to the sound of Right in English Coming as All other motions from the Right Hand to the Left But As Christ Lifted up Both his Hands in Blessing his People especially at the Sun-setting or Evening of the World which we may touch again See Luke 4. 40. and 13. 13. and 24. 39. 40. 50. So Here in Daniel the Man in Linnen Lifted up Both his Hands in Swearing and Numbering These Numbers Yet when the Time to be Numbred grew Less as it was in the Revelation Then the Angel Onely Lift up One of his Hands to Swear and Number it And Sware by Him that Liveth for Ever The Revelation addeth to This of Daniel and Made the Heaven and Earth and Seas or Waters under the Earth As all the three Regions we noted before in our Bodies also And the Angel preaching the Everlasting Gospel in the Revelation putteth so great an Emphasis on That of Fountains of Waters also besides all the sea As if it were One great Demonstration of an Insinite Power in the Living God to create a Fountain or Fountains of Living Water Of which also to Hagar at Beerlahairoi where Isaak also first met his wife although it were Ishmaels well Our Saviour discourseth sweetly to the Woman of Samaria Adding also If thou knewest the Gift of God and who it is that speaketh to thee and he speaketh calleth wooeth weepeth over Us also Thou wouldst Ask and He would give Thee a Fountain of Living Waters ever flowing to Eternal Life For so he saith his Waters were It mindes me of the Psalmists saying Who is still Turning for it is a present and continued Act of Turning The very Flint that great Magazine of Nature into a Fountain of Waters He that can do it hath perhaps Dame Natures Key to One of her richest Cabinets And it may be I may tell you it is Doable He that understands the vertue of This Vegetive Water will not wonder the next words should be Not unto us Not unto us but to Thy Name be All the Glory Shall I add also that Jeremy saith Can All the Gods of the Gentiles give us Rain Which is Mater in Heb. As the Mother to the Works of Nature For a Time Times and Half So it is rendred generally But Moed the word here used and so also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Revelation is Season rather then Time Some certain fixed or appointed season from a word to Fix or appoint some solemn Meeting or the like appointment And it may be we can hardly render it Better then by the usual Grammer Phrase of Mood and Tense of Acting all the great Works of God Whose Seasons are so reserved in his Own Breast as Christ hinteth that Mans Labour is Great under the Sun because he knoweth not his Seasons or the Moeds for All Actions As we read in Salomons discourse of Time and Seasons yet much more to be considered For some little Essay towards This Through the supply of the Spirit of Jesus upon the Hearts and Prayers of His Children and Servants For who is sufficient for it Let us remember what was said of Fulness and Rest and Turn or Sabbath in the Number Seven And how Scripture and Nature also Teacheth us to part all wholes as much as may be into Halves as we touched before in Diapasons and other Chords of Musick And this Three and an Half is but just Half that Sacred Number of Seven The Word rendred Half is fron Chatsa to cut into parts more or less So that their Chatsa Slosh is to Cut and Slash into Three parts as Jacob and David at Mahanaim Gideon and Abimelech at Sechem And the Grecian Kingdom in Daniel was cut or broken into Four parts where yet the same Verb is used But the Nown commonly speaketh Half from Halaph to change as if their great changes were by Halving things So The Heavens are Halved but Thou changest not Where also the Psalmist saith O take me not away in the midst of my dayes Or Half thereof as it saith The wicked do not fill up Half their Daies And in many other Scriptures we read of Half in the very same word here used in Daniel for Half a Time or Half a Mood That there be but 7 whole Notes in a Diapason though it be called an Eight yet as the Last Head in the Revelation such an Eight as is One of the Seven also is observed by all who make their different Cliffs or Keys or Moods or Scales in Musick by their different placing That Half Note which they still find in every four Notes and call a Fa Flat or Falling to a sharp or Full. Till we have some other opportunity to discuss the Reason of This in Nature we may remember what was touched before of the Number Four which is the first of all square Numbers and so the Measure of all the Rest which are All made and resolved by 4 as Cubes by 8 which hath a Name in Hebrew akin to squaring This may be some reason why Nature hath placed a Pauze before it Or between the sacred Number of Three which are All simple Numbers and Four the First compound or square Number Thus also in the very First Numbers we have yet found in Nature the 12 Hours of Night are So parted into 4 Threes or Watches The whole being first Halved as we spake before in our Discourse of 6 and 7 which maketh That the Scripture often oalleth Midnight of which First at the Last great Plague of Egypt at Midnight to be compared with That in Job 34. 20. After he had said If he draw in his breath All flesh expireth which we touched before And again Each Half was Halved into Watches which began at Night as the Laments tell us theGospel hath the 4th Watch of the Night whatever the Jews speak of 3 So that after Every 3 Hours came the Watch or Chatsa with such a signal pauze and difference as Chimes or Changes now in some places between the Watches Which seem Then of 3 Hours apiece As each of the 4 sides of that Great and square City had also 3 Gates If we may so again reflect on the Hebrew Shaars whence it may be the English Shâ—re and Shears and Shire also I add
my Name even to the Ten Tribes of Israel and I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my Name even for my Name which now he fights against And when Ananias came he laid his hands upon him saying Brother Saul the Lord even Jesus who appeared to thee in the way hath sent me that thou mayest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost Adding also as Saint Paul observeth to the chief Captain and people of Ierusalem The God of our fathers hath chosen thee that thou shouldest know his Will and see that just One and hear the voice of his mouth for thou shalt be his witnesse unto all men And now why tarriest thou Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins for even those that were baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire like the Apostles at Pentecost yet were to be baptized with water also as we see in the History of Cornelius calling on the Name of the Lord. And that it was the Lord Jesus on whose Name he bad Paul pray and that he prayed to him is very plain by that which Paul himself addeth to those words Arise and call upon the Name of the Lord And while I prayed in the Temple I fell in a Trance and saw him saying to me Hast and get thee out of Ierusalem for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me And I said Lord they know that I imprisoned and beat in every Synagogue those that believed on thee And when the blood of thy Martyr Stephen was shed I also was standing by and consenting to his death and kept the raiment of them that slew him And he said unto me Depart for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles As before Unto my people Israel Which may be one among other divers other Reasons why I may think the Ten Tribes scattered among them were then also called Gentiles yea and that they might be even some of those Gentiles while they were to be called Loammi and Loruhama though afterwards the very same people were to be called Ammi and the people of God as an Emblem also that the world should come to be the Lords Ammi and Ruhama from Loammi Loruhama Israel being but the first fruits of the world as we may clear anon And there are many things which makes me a little suspect that some Gentile Nations as they seem may be some of the Ten Tribes or at least the posterity of Abraham by Keturah or by Ishmael if not by Isaak also through Esau especially the old Saxons and those Northern people whose very Lawes Customs and Language savour so much of the Hebrew in very many things and words besides their common use of A and The for Articles with very many Monosillables and words written with ch gh gn cn or kn th dh wh wr. fr. And many others plainly Hebrew sounds In another place also Paul giving an account of this matter to Agrippa the King saith I verily thought I ought to do many things contrary to the Name of Jesus of Nazareth which I did also having received authority from the chief Priests and I punished them in every Synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme styling himself also a Blasphemer And being exceeding mad against them c. But being strucken down and hearing a voice speaking I said Who are thou Lord And he said I am Jesus whom thou persecutest But arise and stand upon thy feet for I have appeared to thee for this purpose to make thee a Minister and a Martyr both of these things which thou hast seen and those in which I wil appear unto thee Delivering thee from the people of the Jews and from the Gentiles unto whom now I send thee To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive forgivenesse of sins and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith which is in me Which I cite so largely because I take it for the best compendium of the Gospel and a true Ministers Commission that I remember And that phrase of Faith in me not only on me but in me seemeth not by chance but so considerable that Saint Paul often useth it in divers places especially to the Galatians where he calleth it Faith of Christ or Christs faith as if he would say He lived and was saved by faith indeed but that which was in Christ rather then in himself or Christs faith rather then His as if Christ by believing for he was justified by faith also in a true sense did not only carry out himself but all his Members also from the Grave and Death and Hell to life and glory And to summe up all I have or should deliver of Pauls observing prayers unto Jesus Christ 't is said in the Ninth of the Acts That when he Preached Christ in the Synagogues that he is the Son of God all that heard him were amazed and said Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this Name and came hither that he might bring them bound to the chief Priests So that it is clear it was in Pauls account the great Badge of a Christian and the distinguishing Character of Christian profession And it is worth observing How he useth that Name and what a stresse he put upon it all along his life and writings Having obtained help of God saith he I continue witnessing to small and great saying no other things then what Moses and the Prophets said that Christ should suffer and should be the first the very first that should rise from the Dead though others might be raised before him and should shew light unto the People and to the Gentiles Which also he cites to the Jews in that most remarkable Sermon at Anioch Acts the Thirteenth of the sure mercies or holy things of David promised to every one that thirsteth and cometh to the waters and many other particulars concluding with their turning to the Gentiles as the Lord commanded saying I have set thee to be a Light to the Gentiles and for salvation to the utmost ends of the earth And the Psalm addeth To them also that are afar off in the seas and America in the Hebrew may signifie a People afar off though I believe that Phrase in the Psalms may mean some farther or mere lost or miserable then the poor Americans So old Simeon said Christ was to be a Light to lighten the Gentiles first to lighten the Gentiles and then to be the glory also to Israel his people Israel Whence People often opposed to the Gentiles And another Simeon at the great Council Acts 15. saith God put no difference between them and us purifying their hearts by faith But we believe saith he that through the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they Here Paul learned or might learn his Character or proper mark he giveth them of his genuine Epistles The Grace of our Lord
Flood was such a Baptism to the Earth also As helped to wash away its Curss and Then God said in his Heart I will no more Or I will not yet add or go on to Curss the Earth for mans sake For or although all the mouldings of his heart be evil continually Which was the great reason brought for the Flood and yet now against it and the Curse or its continuance So gracious was God seeing the Flood also did not change mans heart but still left it as bad as it found it he resolved another Course and that he would Overcome Man with Kindness For it it was not only the Heathen Poet that told us Love would Conquer All Nor the Apostle only that Love covereth a multitude of sins but Solomon expressly saith Love covereth or shall cover as the Original expresseth All Transgressions Which St. Paul also Comments on Love beareth All believeth All hopeth All endureth All. Which was seen before in Davids that is Loves perfect Victory over All his Enemies Yea and Saul also which is the Grave and Hell to which David also alludeth perhaps in That very Psalm Crying the Kables of Hell laid hold of me Kable Seol I shall not digress Here to shew How the Flood it self was a Blessing also to the Earth and a Type of a greater Blessing to come When the skies shall pour down Righteousness and the Earth also shall bring forth Salvation When we shall receive the great showrs and the Latter Rain of the Spirit as we have received the Former little drops and first fruits of it hinted in divers places of Scripture For the whole Earth also must be full of the Knowledg of God as the Waters fill up the Sea and did once cover the Earth yea once and again But the Spirit also moved on the Waters and formed out the Heaven and the Earth so also it shall bring forth a new Heaven and a new Earth in which Righteousness shall dwell And in the Revelation the Earth also holped the woman and drunk up the Flood cast out of the Dragons mouth May it not also be about 1656 from Christs Resurrection or the New Creation as the Flood was so long after the Old Creation And That very Earth which God so cursed even This Cursed Earth must become the Blessed of the Lord. Yea so much his Darling That he resolveth to make it the very Centre of All his Glory and to fill it so with his glorious presence that the very Saints or Angels in Heaven rejoyced in the Revelation that they should come out of Heaven to reign upon the Earth Which is many times also hinted in the Psalms and All the Prophets to be compared with that most remarkable Discourse of God with Moses on Mount Sinai of the Lands enjoying her Sabboth of Rest in Leviticus And the very Song of Moses which is as the Bass to All following Prophesies concludeth with This He will be gracious to his Land as to his People or he will Cover or Atone or Expiate his Land Yea the very word by which God named the Earth which is one of the few things God Himself named and would not leave to Adams Naming as he did other things is such a word as might be also rendered I will delight or be pleased as if Here he meant to take his pleasure and delight rather than in All the Heavens Which must pass away as a Scroul of Parchment before the fire and They shall be no more being only as a Canopy or Curtains now to hide the Glory of God which must ere long fill the Earth which therefore shall Endure for ever and be never moved though renewed and filled both with Righteousness and Peace And God will come to keep his Sabboth of Rest and will delight on Earth and take his pleasure Here and Here also accept his People as himself seemeth sweetly to allude to the very Name Erets by which he named the Earth in the 40. verse of the 20. chapter of Ezekiel Where also This allusion is more sweet and fuller much in the Original than other Languages can well express Berets sam eretsem And in the 34. of the same Prophet he saith I will make them and the places about my Hill a Blessing I will cause the showr to come in his season there shall be showers of Blessing And the Tree of the field shall yield her fruit and the Earth even the whole Earth shall then yield her Increase Which we also read in the 67. 96 97 98 99. and divers other Psalms and in the second of Hosea and divers other Prophets And this Land of Canaan more Accursed than the whole Earth besides while it was held by those accursed Nations so devoted to destruction came to be the Pleasant Land the Holy Land the place of Gods Delight and Residence on which his Eyes and Heart were fixed All the Year And This also but as the First fruits of the Earth For it must All be Full of the glory of God And All Nations must worship him and All Kingdoms must be His. So it is prayed and promised in many places of Scripture Let All the Earth fear the Lord let all the Inhabitants of the World Reverence him For he looketh on them and fashioneth their hearts alike and his Eyes are on them that fear him and Hope in his Mercy All his Works are done in Truth He loveth Righteousness and Judgment All the Earth is full of his Goodness And the next Psalm is Davids Heart or Christs when driven out from Abimeleck the King my Father or the Father of the King he Changed his Habit c. And among other sweet Expressions That may be One When the Face of God is against the wicked to cut them off from Earth They Cry for so is the Original and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their Trouble And again All the Ends of the World shall remember and Turn unto the Lord. And All Nations and Kindreds shall worship him Yea All Kings shall fall down before him and All Nations shall serve him For he shall deliver the Needy when he Cryeth the Poor also and Him that hath no Helper And again All Nations which thou hast made shall come and Worship before thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name And the reason is in the same Psalm For the Lord is Good and ready to forgive and plenteous in Mercy to all that call upon him O sing unto the Lord a New Song which is cited also in the Revelation Sing unto the Lord All the Earth Fear before him All the Earth Say among the Heathen the Lord Reigneth and the whole World shall be Established that it thall not be moved Let the Heavens rejoyce and let the Earth be glad Let the Sea Dance and Rowl with All the Fulness thereof which hereafter we may understand Let the Field be Joyful and All in it Yea Then shall all the Trees of the Wood rejoyce before the
Children of Rachel which signifies a Sheep Who died also at Bethlehem Ephrata or very neer where Christ was Born And at His Birth was heard Rachel mourning and weeping with expressions neer akin to Hell and its Gnashings As we read in Matthew and the Prophet Jeremy As the English use the word Rakell And it may be marked How she Died As her Father and her Husband judged her for Having and keeping Idols O that man would consider How Great and Powerful His Words also might be If he could learn the 39 Psalm with the three Sons of Ishmael Misma Massa Dâ—ma And it may be Christ also may allude to Rachels Children which he calleth Sheep and sets them at his Right Hand as Benjamin the Son of the Right Hand in comparison of Leahs or the Left hands Children Or of Esaus that is Goats For Seir or as the Saxon English sound it Sire is a Goat and very neer a Satyre in Heb or a Devil But may there be no Mystery in That of Jacobs Crossing his hands upon the sons of Joseph also or Rachel before he died and That Benjamin was so often cut off As his Mother wept because they were not but they must come in again and she shall have Comsort in the latter daies as we read Jer. 31. As if the First should come to be Last or Lost in comparison of Those that were Dead or Lost or at the Left hand but now found again and made the First For All their shame or Losses they have Double O thou Prisoner of Hope I now declare it to thee How a Lamb was offered every Morning and Evening Doubled also upon the Sabbath As it were a Sacrifice for the Lambs or Sheep we touched before And How a Goat at the New Moon or every Great Change of the World which they called Olam also as the Hidden or the Hiding Time As also the Hebrew Kesse as the English Kiss was the Suns Embracing the Moon or Covering her with his Robes and Throne of Glory which they also called Kisse And a Goat was offered so for a Publique Sin Offering at Every New Moon which the Jews called also Chodesh akin to Kodesh Holy or New As also the Month following the New Moon And at All the Three Great solemn Feasts at which All the Males were to appear under pain of Cutting off Which we may call a great Arcanum of their Civil Government also For by This they did not only meet and Feast as a badg of greatest Peace or Union and Communion but also They must then appear to All Suits or Actions which might else fall Heavy enough on the Sheriff of each Tribe or County But as the feast of Tabernacles was the Greatest of the Three so it had more solemn Attendants A peculiar feast of Trumpets especially at the years of Release and Jubilies which now began at That end of the year and the great Day of Expiation or Atoning or Covering as the word Capher or Cover signifies And the Jews Tradition is that Then the very next Night or thereabout the great God beginneth to sit in Judgement on all the dead of that year Which they therefore attend with great watchings and Fastings with other solemnities But more to our present purpose are the Goats offered on That day Double or Treble to the sin offering or Goats of any day of the year before That One of them also the Scape Goat was not onely carried out without the Camp as the great sin offering for the people whose blood was carried into the holy place as we see in Aarons great Failor at his Sons Burning beside the Epistle to the Hebrews but it was also carried out and sent by a Fit Messenger a great way off into the Wildernesse to go as far as He would abroad into All the World So that he might visit All Goats in All Countries For he was let loose to all the Wilderness and all the World And now it will be no great wonder that All Nations are so solemnly called and invited to the following feast of Tabernacles represented by all the Fruits of the earth Then gathered in and that under a great penalty of botches of Aegypt or of wanting Rain or Water also Unto which our aviour plainly alludeth in his standing out on the last and Great day of that Greatest Feast and crying while thy ran with joy to fetch Waters from their Siloam or Well of Salvation as the Prophet Esay speaketh O every one that Thirsteth Come unto the Waters and He that believeth on me as the Scripture saith shall have such rain from Heaven and such Water that out of his belly shall flow Rivers of Living Water Which he spake of the spirit not yet given till He was glorified and so received Gifts for Rebbels also and to Draw All men Shall we now wonder that more Rams and Goats and Bullocks were accepted on his Holy Altar 't is his own expression of Nebaioth or Edom also in This Month or Moon then in any or it may be All of All the Year besides Which we may see even filling an whole long Chapter and from Gods own Mouth in Numbers O that we could number it and so we shall in Gods due Time and ours also Let his People say Amen It is Finished and Done Amen Hallelujah Is there not a strange Twisting of Bullocks Rams and Goats together As in the Tabernacle it self with Rams skins dyed Red and Goats hair As they all met once in the Ark as an Emblem of our Bodies also and its Three Regions and beasts in it as the Church That I say nothing of the five sorts of Trees also to cover their Booths or Tabernacles to be compared with Esay 41. and 60. and Nehemiah 8. After Babylon as also Ezechiels New Temple and Sabbaths were to be kept in the Christian Church yea in the New Jerusalem or after Their Babylon also Is it not strange to the Jews that of the Seventh Months feast of which also in Solomons Time the Seventh day is described by Seven words in one verse And all the seven end in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their M final or Mystical Letter of which we spake but now And though I do not say they may note the 40 Sevenights or Weeks of Life as we spake before yet with St. Paul I say Christ came out in the Fulnesse of Time or in His seventh also or in the seventh Month or to fulfil That Feast also to be yet fulfilled O how Long How Soon at the End of the Year But when shall That be fulfilled which our Blessed Iesus of Natsareth the Branch also did but Begin to say and do of This Feast also of Palm Branches which we touched before in Tamar Though he cryed on the Crosse It is finished as the Scripture saith a Thing was fulfilled Or indeed there may be Several fulfillings according to the several Ages which must All be run through and that perhaps also by Sevens As we
shall Deliver the Needy Crying or from Crying the Poor also and Him that hath No Helper The very Phrase Here in Daniel and 2 King 14. 26. from Deut. 32. 36. For The Mountains shall bring Peace and the little Hills with Righteousness They shall fear thee with the Sun which is the Arms or God of the Persian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who of old also Worshiped the Sun and before the Moon the Banner and the Emblem of the Turk That Age of Ages Dor Dorim it minds me of the old famous Dores Dorians Peopling All or Many of Those Countries The Righteous shall flourish in His Daies and abundance of Peace untill there be No more Moon Or any such Changings The Kings of Tarshish or the Sea and the Eyelands Eijim and Tsijim or the doleful Creatures in Esay 13. All the Kings of Seba in Arabia and the Queens of Sheba Meroe shall cringe to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with Evening Sacrifice For That they especially called Minha the Phrase here used which may lead us to the Evening of the World As God and Angels much appeared through all the Bible in the Cool of the Day or Evening Sacrifice both in Old and New Testament the ninth hour or Time of Prayer or of Finding as the Hebrew Morning hath its Name from Seeking 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Once he came at the Morning Sacrifice to the three Kings against Moab the Fathers Waters and he brought Waters but they seemed Blood Which yet might represent His coming both by Water and by Blood This might be for Red bloody Edom who was at These Bloody Waters and in Esay 63 As the Waters for Moab For so the Psalm we now cite speaketh He shall come down as Rain upon the mowen Grass and though it be cut down it shall return again and flourish through the sent of Waters as Job speaketh and as the milions of innumerable drops as the Millions of Ephraim Dust or Ashes with Water flourishing by Water As Hoseah may allude to Josephs fruitful Boughs in his Fathers Blessings with his Right Hand giving length of dayes as his left hand also Riches and Honour So good it is to be at His Hand For they be blessed that may stand in his presence and may see his wisdom though but for One day It will be better then 1000 years in any other place Or may come behind him weeping as Paltiel after Mical till Abner said return again Which is an History that will make us all weep for joy t is possible when we shall understand it At the same time Michael shall stand up that Great Prince for the Children of thy people It may lead us to the sweet place we spake of in Levit. 19. Thou shalt not avenge thy self or reserve thine anger against the Children of thy People but thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self Which he is comming to fulfil in the Time here specified in Daniel At the same time which before is called the Time of the End and in the verse before he shall come to his End And five times this Chapter speaketh of End and the End In Heb. Kets or Kats and Katsa is Half Dimidium Plus Toto the whole of any thing or its Perfection Being also as we noted in Tom Perfect in numbers just 1000. Unto which also 666 is that sweet Chord in Musick which they call a Fift next to a Diapason 2 thirds as neer as may be in whole numbers The Hebrew word may also speak waking as hinting a Resurrection and Summer which was the End of their year beginning with Winter as before All time began with Night before Day And that their Year ended at or about the great Feast of Tabernables is cleer enough from many Scriptures And that also beside Exod. 23. 16. or Deut. 31. 10. And the very word Harvest which they call Katsyr may be Kats Yeer or Yeers End Or if you will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the End of the Flood or of Jaar Which was not only a Month with them and especial time of Noahs Flood But also Flood in general and often used for a River So that Jordan it self is but Jeor Dan the River of Dan a City neer its Fountain And Abraham pursued the Four Monarchs to Dan and brought back the Captivity of Sodom from Dan which is also Judgment and may hint that Great Judgment at the Katsyr Harvest or the End of Yeer or of Jaar that is a Month or Yeer or Flood also For it may be added that the Floods were dried up and the Rain of Heaven restrained at their Harvest As we may find hinted in divers places besides 1 Sam. 12. 17. and 2. 21. 10. But there may yet be somwhat more in it For As the Spirit is moving or Hatching it being a participle Present in the Hebrew noting a continued Act upon the VVaters of the first Creation So it is also still Dividing Them below from Them Above the Firmament which is also called by a Name of VVaters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VVhere are VVaters And our Time is Dropping of VVaters from the Top of the Weather-glass or Clepsydra to the Bottom And when All is Run out the Hour Glass is Turned and a New Hour or Day or Month or Yeer or Age begins which you may call a New Generation or if you will a New World We glanced at This before when Elijah parted the Waters of Jordane As before also the same Waters were parted and from Adam also As we read in Josuah 3. 16. Where we are told that Jordan fills all its Banks in Harvest Time as alluding to That we spake before And that the VVaters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numbers 665 Coming down from above Rose up in a great Heap or Bottle or such a Motion as the English call a Nod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which came Far also From Adam as some read from the Jews marginal Keri But in the Text it is In Adam the VVatcher though some read it the City being the same word used by Daniel in his Discourse of 7 Times On Nebuchadnezzar driven out or poured out by the Watcher And again the VVatchers in the same Daniel Of which yet we may speak again As we hinted before also How the Watchers stood at the quarters of Heaven or Corners of the Earth as it were to Turn the Glass still when it is Run As also the great Waters Ebbing and Flowing six Hours apiece in the Great Ocean and Then Turned again at the Seventh which speaketh Both Rest and Turning Which is also noted in Joshua First the VVaters stood 't is said and Then they Rose or were Turned up by the Watcher And Those Running down to the Sea of the Plain or the Evening another pretty allusion were cut off or Curted which is Hebrew and Perfected so that All the People 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in numerals 670 passed over before or over against Jericho Which as We touched before
Heb Adama Whence Adam and our Grand Dame or Damm or Parent in many languages from Adam formed out of Earth or Ground that is go run and round as in grinding As Erets also from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but such Earth as was so dryed or baked and made Red and called Adama As English made and Mead it into Mud and Mad is but Dam Blood Turned backward or Mead which is both a Meddow and Red liquor from the Hony Comb suph akin to soph or English sop and that also to Tohu Thou and Tough and Dough and Bohu Bough Bow or Bow which is Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to go Down As we see in the Suns Bowing as the Phrase is in Scripture which is read his going down And so Bohu Tohu was That which went down lowest or Bowing Bo tehom or Bottom of the yarn or Waters became Tough Dough. As bread unbaked And at length Dryed as God speaketh was a Damm between the Waters a Meadow and Mead or Red Water As in Hebrew also Dam is blood and Red as all Waters grow by standing and baking in the Sun As Bread also in an Oven or a Tann as the Jews speak and Mud is so also in English as Mead or Made by That also the Jews call Debora the speaker and the Doer also which devoureth all but turneth all to sweetnesse And so brings it from its bour or nest or pit and bore thereof as English speak who also grace that little Miracle of being with the very name of being calling it Bee and Dor. Of which again it may be in the Deboraes we find in Scripture This digression also will be pardoned I hope when we shall see Daniel himself alluding also to this Flux of Time or Rivers of Waters or Drops which are yet as little ages which is Dor and Dorim And as if the English Dore must be a kin here also as we noted of shaar a shoar Gate of an House or Has 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Asia the House or Church of the Lord Their Daleth or Deleth is a kin to their Deleph Drop or Delve or Dive or Deep and profound as Delphik Oracles Whither it be neerer to the Hebrew and English Dale for a Valley or Brook as the Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both to Draw and lift up as also Tall and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or to Dall Little Poor Broken in Heb. as in English also Deal Dole we say not but Hasten to Daniels End and Rivers of Pleasure in Eden which is Time in Him also who was like to measure Times and Seasons for Judgement also being the Man of Desires or Delights or Affections also As he is often called And yet they did not hurt his Judgement who was Daniel my Judgement of God or God my Judgment or Judging me At the same Time shall stand up Michael who is as God and yet Man That great mixed Seed and yet contrary to Chelaim as we touched in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Great Sir who is in a present and continued Act still standing up or interceding for the Children of thy People As the Standers or Men of the Station which were chosen and sent by the Tribes to represent them dayly when they were to lay on hands or make confession or for other Service And there was or shall be a Sore Yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Time Such as never was since there was a Nation to That Time Doth it not point at the Destruction of Jerusalem shortly after Christs Birth or Resurrection and standing up Seeing in the Prophets God saith he would deal with That People in That sore hardness as he never did or would to Any other And Christ saith in Matthew Then shall be Great Tribulation Such as was not from the beginning of the World to That Time No Nor Ever shall be Or as Mark expresseth it Such affliction as was not from the beginning of the Creation which God Created unto that time Neither shall be Which may be Comfort to all the World besides Yea in respect of the Great Judgment also Seeing Christ hath assured us it shall not be so Bad or Sore as That of Jerusalem And How then can Daniel speak of a further Time when he saith There shall be a Time of such Trouble as never was till That Time And Is the Resurrection which he speaketh of Such only as was at or about That Time also When we read of some Raised from the Dead also about our Saviours Death who yet is called the First fruits of them that slept and the First that Rose from the Dead However If the Olam or Everlasting there spoken of in Daniel for Honor or Dishonor Droan Be absolute Eternity How comes he then to add some longer Time to it when he speaks of the Wise and Their Ever To which he addeth an Ad Or Somwhat That is Hard to render but by Ever and somwhat Added or as some for Ever and Ever Which is also spoken of the Earth or other things not Eternal or for an absolute Ever as we shewed before But Thou Daniel stum or shut up the words and seal them till the Time of the End or Kets As before Jakitsu They shall awake from sleep and Sleep in Heb hath the same Letters with a Year 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numerals 355. or in Plural reg 360. As Moses may allude in the 90 Psalm 1000 Years in thy eyes but As a Day cut off or Circumcised Yesterday when passed and as a Watch by Night Thou streamest them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They shall be asleep in the morning Chatsyr as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Evening as Circumcised The Dayes of our Years in them are 70 Years We may consider it again Many shall flow together As Waters in a Floud And Knowledg that great Dea shall multiply Even As the Floud or As Waters fill up the Sea as we read in the Prophets often compared to Waters and Gods Teachings to the Rain of Heaven As Solomon also Praying for Rain cryeth And Teach them also the Good way they should walk Or as Esay Thou shalt be as a Garden water'd Every moment and a Water-spring whose waters shall not lye and God shall Guide thee continually which I chuse for my Portion and let all my Friends say Amen And in other places besides That sweet and elegant allusion Esay 28. 9. 10. Eth mi jore Dea veeth mi jabin smua Gemule mechalab Attiki misshadajim Ki Tsav latsav Tsav latsav Kav la kav Kav la kav Zeeir som Zeeir som. I add not that the Maschilin wise men spoken of so much in Daniel are hinted to be such as think themselves least Masculine and most Scallins that is Fools 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So bruitish am I More than Any Man Nor Understanding As a Man And I Daniel saw
Two Other that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 How neer is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Here to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Years which a little changed is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Women and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Men. As if Years were but Men and Women or For Them Yea and All visible Being Centers in Them and Their Ages Beings is Aged Men. So that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Being and Beings are but aged Men. In numerals 610. 620. 660. 666. 670. But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be 600 Then they are 1220. 1230. 1260. And the Two Here in Daniel seem to be There as Two Witnesses to this great Matter One of them on This Lip or sip 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be spit and One on That Lip of the River And he said to the man cloathed in Linnen his description is like the Revelation from above the Waters or Daies of the flowing Year or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To How long is the End of these wonders Mathai Kets afloat and the sound of Mathew There makes me remember our Savior in Mathew speaking of the End and Enduring to the End that they may be saved And when the Gospel is preached as a VVitness a Witness to All Nations Then and not till then the End shall come And presently citeth the Prophet Daniel in the very next words to that End Coming for the Abomination of desolation And then addeth Learn a Parable of the Fig-tree when you see it have Leaves it should be considered with the Fig-tree Cursed because it had but Leaves You say Summer is neer as alluding to Kets both End and Summer Even so when you see those signs of the Son of Mans Coming c. Know that It which in Luke is the Kingdom of God is neer even at the very doors Amen I say This or That Generation shall not Pass till All these things are fulfilled He bringeth his Judgment to Light Every Morning but the wicked will not see it And then addeth that most solemn saying Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away And in the same Matthew 5. 18. Till Heaven and Earth pass away Not a Tittle shall pass away till All be fulfilled of the Law Not one Jota VVhich the old Jews also tell us was the least Letter in their Alphabet And their very Talmud citeth a great complaint against Solomon before the Throne of God for cutting off a Little Jod out of the Law VVhich should be considered by those that believe the Samaritan Characters for the old Hebrew In whose Alphabet there is more Learning and VVisdom than a Volume can well express VVhich may be Touched in a Discourse of Characters and Language If the Prayers of the Lords People shall help to bring it forth But These are the Daies of Vengeance that All things written may be fulfilled And where are they written plainer than in Daniel whom He citeth Adding also That Jerusalem must be trodden down by the Gentiles as apocalypse 11. Till the Times of the Gentiles be fulfilled Or the Fulness of the Gentiles Rom. 11. from Jacob to Joseph speaking of the Millions of Ephraim as Moses also with Hosea and others concluding that His Seed shall be the Fulness of the Gentiles To be compared with that in Jeremy with other Prophets of Rachels Children Coming in and flowing together in the Latter Daies so strangely that she also the Barren Woman shall not only sing for Joy but Admire and Rapt with wonder shall cry out Who hath given me All These Children or whence do they come to me Being yet lost among the Gentiles Till Their Fulness comes and then Even the very same Night as out of Aegypt they shall come and know and shew their Enemies also that Abraham and His Seed was and must be Heir of the World also And must Rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and possess where ever the sole of their foot trod from Lebanon the Mount of Frankincense or Moon to Kassiah Mount Cassius It s Kasing or its Corners And from Euphrates that great River of Eden which in Daniel is Time to be measured in Shin aar Teeth and Years of the Watch or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even to the Evening or VVest Sea All which Track of Land was divided by Jordan the River of Dan and Judgment Making first the upper VVaters of Marom As those in our Head where our Judgment also as in Heaven above And then the Earth below Kinnerath the Harp and Heart also which it is like And Lastly the Sea of Sodam their Secrets or their Bowels and the VVaters under their Earth also Returning as VVaters in the South till under the Earth also they may come again as our blood and all is circuled at Phiel Gods Mouth and Paniah the Lords Face Where the famous Statue of the Syrophenician kneeling to Christ If for her Daughter an Emblem of the Returning of Sodom and her Daughters Of which we read in Ezech. 16. from Gen. 14. And of Melchizedeck There also through Grace one may have more to say but we hasten now to Daniels End and Numbers And I heard the Man cloathed with Linnen Bad and Baddim Bed and Bedding lieing and lying from above the Daies or Waters of the River Jear Year And jaraem May it hint also jeare Rome The Years of Rome also which was Then to sack that Holy City of which the Prophet speaketh And as the Jews tell us Aegypt or other Enemies may be in Rahab So I know not why Rome also may not be in the Hebrew Rum or Rom or High and Hight so much spoken against in all the Bible As Ramim also in Job 21. 22. And in Davids Triumph over All his Enenemies and Sheol too Both in the Psalms and Samuel also Saying From Rome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he took me and Drew me as Moses so the word soundeth from a Rabble of Waters He delivered me from 77 or 70 times 7 Enemies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stronger than I. And again Thou wilt save the Poor people Am ani But thine Ein an Hebrew word against the High Ramim Thou wilt Fell or shuffle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them Down And in our Saviors Swan-like Song or Pangs upon the Cross Psal. 22. 21. Deliver my soul from the sword my Darling or my only One from the Paw of the Dog Save me from the Mouth of the Lyon Arie and from the Horns of the Ramim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some read it Unicorns as if These also had many Horns But why not the Ramim Romans or if you will Their Rams also that Rammed down Jerusalem May not They also be hinted in Arie or Aries in the Verse before And why not English Ram as Hebr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seeing also the Scriptures allude to the Medo-Persian Rams of Elam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Esay But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
End of Jehojachim or in Jehojachin but 3 Months after was Ezekiels and That he so often calleth Our Captivity And after 70 years God promised to visit Them with Jechoniah in the 29th As in the 24th of Jeremy they are called the Good Figs in comparison of Zedekiahs Captives Eleven years After And as Assyria was brought on Israel and Babylon on Judah like the Waters of the Great Flood So they must be Dryed up I will Dry up her Sea and make her Springs Dry Which was to the very Letter fulfilled by Cyrus Turning away their great River and cutting it out into as many Streams as Dayes in the year and so he brought in his Army when and where they little expected it in a time of great Feasting and jollity as we read in Heathen Authors And so also the same 51 Chapter of Jeremy by that meek and quiet Prince we saw before sent this Heavy Doom to Babylon In their Heat or Humming jollity I will set ashite in Hebrew on their Feastings I will make them Drunk So it is first said Pharaoh Hardned his own heart and then that God hardned it and so here God will make them Drunk that They may Dance and sleep a perpetual sleep and not Wake saith the Lord. So in the 39th Verse and so again in the 57. I will make her Princes Drunken and her wise men her wise men her Captains and her Rulers and her Mighty men and They shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not Wake saith the King whose Name is the Lord of Hosts Which we see fulfilled sadly in the 5th of Daniel When the Mans Fingers writing on the Wall made their King all those Drunken Feasters quake and tremble so that the Kings Countenance or Brightness was changed and his Thoughts pierced him so that the joynts of his Loyns were loosed and his Knees smote him and themselves also that should have been otherwise imployed than in drinking Healths or Carousing Prayses to the gods of Gold and Silver as the words may intimate But how sudden or in English Hebrew Phrase How soon That Evening came with it s most sad Catastrophe Thou Fool This night They shall take away thy Glory and thy soul also Thy precious and Immortal soul And then whose will All these things be As our blessed Saviour speaketh as alluding not only to the History of Nabal that is a Fool when his Heart dyed in him and became like a stone in his Drunkenness But also to This in Daniel and That also of Nebuchadnezar an Empty Pitcher sealed or His Prophecy as of a Treasure They shall take away thy soul and They shall Drive thee out from men and They shall make thee eat grass as an Ox alluding to the Psalmists Image of a Beast eating grass as an Ox. Adam lost the Image of God and became as a Beast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in or with his wife hearkning to her after the Serpent who was Head of all the Beasts had possessed her or as it were filled her with His Spawn which she got by Hearing and Believing That Beast whence from Isha she becometh Chavah the Beast yea the Mother to All Animals and Beasts This was at Eden both Pleasure and Time in Shinaar the Teeth and Years of the Watch of Time in Babylon Thence it came with Abraham also through Haran that is Wrath to Canaan and Aegypt and Back again to the Wilderness and There it came out in the Image of a Beast eating grass as an Ox as the Psalmist saith And then it was set up in Dan that is judgement as Dinah before and Bethel also the House of God And He that built Jericho came out of Bethel the House of God For Antichrist must sit As God in the Temple of God At length It goes to Babylon whence it first came and So the Prophet Zechary seeth First Isha So the Woman was before she fell and then Eve or Lilith as before or a woman in an Epha or Eva with an heavy Risk of wickedness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 carryed by two women also with the wings of a Stork Piety and seeming Holiness Alluding plainly to the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Stork and Holiness also yet such as may be the greatest Wickedness or as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also the very Root of All Uncleanness or Fornication And those two Women with the Storks wings carry it between Earth which Here is set Before Heaven into the Land of Shinaar whence it first came And there it becometh Mother of All Fornication as Revelation 17 5. And there it was settled on her Base Vehunnicha shame al Mekunnatha And the Angel added This is their Ein or likeness or Image or Type of that Image of the Woman Beast which must be in all the Earth also For All the world Worship the Beast which was First and Last at Babylon Being come to Babylon It is again as before in the Wilderness turned into the Image of a Beast eating Grass as an Ox. First the King of Babylon maketh an Image of 60 High and 6 in Breadth 360 as Dayes in their Year till at length it comes to be 666 and sets it up in the Plain of Dura That Age or Generation As it will be in every Dor or During of every Generation Till Babylon it self perish like this Talent of Lead Kiccar is both a Plain and a Talent or as a Milstone in the great Deep And so did the Prophet Jeremy bid that Meek and Quiet Prince Seraiah to say O Lord thou hast spoken against this Place This Babylon to cut it off that none remain either Man or Beast but that it shall be desolate for ever as in Esay 13 also So that now we onely say it was near That City they now call Bagdad but cannot tell where but in old Rubbish and ruines found at many Miles distance And when thou hast made an end of Reading this Book Thou shalt binde a stone about it and cast it into the midst of Euphrates and thou shalt say Thus shall Babylon sinck and shall not Rise c. The Text to very much in the Revelation But when the King of Babylon had made an Image and set it up to be Worshipped De Te narratur fabula Then Himself is turned into the Image of a Beast Eating Grass as an Ox. And they shall Drive thee out from among men and they shall make thee eat Grass as an Ox They Even the Watchers as Himself said he heard the voice of the Watchers and the Holy Ones saying Let his Heart be changed from a Mans and let a Beasts Heart be given him and 7 Times pass over him till he know the Most High called afterwards the Heavens as the Jewes speak at This Day Ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men and giveth it to whom he will and setteth up over it the Basest even the Basest of men As a Vile Person reigned in the same Daniel and a Base Kingdom in Ezekiel Yea
by him to a journey when he meets with great storms and danger of death by shipwrack or otherwise For the Lord met Moses in the Inn and sought to slay him in his way to Aegypt though he sent him thither on so great an errand Noah brought rest to the World through the Floud and many tossings in great Waters And we might have lost some of the sweetest portions of the Gospel but for such storms by Sea In one of them Christ is in the Ship but asleep and they wake him crying Carest thou not that we perish And he soon took care and rebuked the winds though blaming their unbelief and fear with amazement which is Peters phrase to the Daughters of our good Mother Sara and he might learn it from our Saviour in their storms and fears with such amazement which is a phrase used several times in the Gospel But doth God take care of bodies Will he not be more careful of our souls and pity them more If we would cry and wake him also when he seems asleep about or in us and among us and say to him Master carest thou not that our souls perish Even those precious and Immortal souls which thou seemest to value above the whole World saying What shall a man give in exchange for his soul It is said Our blood shall be precious in thy eyes and shall not our Souls be more precious O we of little faith At another time Our Saviour did not onely send away his Disciples but constrained them to go in a ship when they might have gone another way But they would have sent away the poor people supperlesse from him and when he had supped them He sends away his Hard Disciples to be tossed in the Sea while he blessed the poor people In the fourth watch of the night he shews himself God is nearer us in a storm then we believe or Expect and he saw them tossed some pretty while it seems but would not help them or appear till the last watch and then they are more afraid and cryed out supposing it to be an evil spirit So easily may we mistake the kindnesse of God and think him to be the Devil to devour us even then when he comes in goodnesse to save us But he first rebuketh their fears and saith It is I be not afraid And when Peter would venture out beyond his strength and ready to sink cryed Save me I perish He is moved with compassion and immediately stretcheth out his hand and catcheth him the very phrase used to the Hebrews He caught not the nature of Angels but he caught the seed of Abraham He suddenly reached out his hand and caught as we snatch a thing perishing in fire or water So he caught Peter As he would do us also if in our fears and sinking we would so cry out to Him Help Lord I perish How quickly did he bring him into the Ship and it with them all safe in a calme to their wished Haven O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and wonderful kindnesse to the sons of men as the Psalmist repeats it several times in the 107. Psalm Such goodnesse and wonderful kindnesse did the Lord shew to Paul also in that stormy voyage to Rome wherein yet he did not onely preserve Him safe but all his fellow passengers also as he told him in a night vision saying Fear not Paul thou must be brought to Cesar and lo God hath given thee all them which sail with thee And when he came to Rome he expounded and testified the Kingdom of God perswading them of Jesus both out of the Law of Moses and out of the Prophets And for two years dwelt in an hired house receiving All that came to him Preaching the Kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence As we read in the Acts. That he also taught them to pray to Jesus Christ is plain enough from the stresse he putteth on it in his Epistle to those very Romanes in the tenth chapter Where to believing with the heart he joyns also confession with the mouth and explaineth it by praying to him For it is written Whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved For the same Lord over All is Rich unto All that call upon him But how shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed And the first Epistle to the Corinthians is directed to the Church of God at Corinth to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints with All that in every place call upon the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours And concludes thus The Salutation of me Paul with my own hand If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you my love be with you all in Christ Jesus Amen Which belongeth to every one that in any place calleth on Jesus Christ. And to All us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are All things and we by him as he speaketh in the same Epistle And the second Epistle concludeth with the Grace of Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you All. As that Epistle so all his Epistles generally begin with Grace and Peace and some add Mercy also from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ who as the Epistle to the Galathians addeth gave Himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil World according to the will of God and our Father and I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the Grace of Christ. And concludes that Epistle From henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus Brethren the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit Amen And to the Ephesians among many other remarkable passages of Jesus Christ he prayes that Christ may dwell in their hearts by Faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that ye may be filled with all the fulnesse of God Namely by him in whom All fulnesse dwelleth Yea all the fulness of the Godhead And therefore He that desireth Him and prayeth to Him prayeth to the whole fulnesse of the Godhead and desireth it And in the same Epistle He that descended is now ascended far above all Heavens that he might fill All things and gave gifts c. for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the
siner Loaves at Pentecost were but the first fruits of all the Increase of the Earth which was not gathered All in till the end of all the Harvest and Vintage also about the great Feast of Tabernacles at the End of the yeer Which yet is called on the New account from Exodus the Seventh Month. Which also made every Seventh Month Holy As also every Seventh Year was especially the seventh Seventh as we shall find in the Jubilee and every seventh Week or every seventh Day or Sabboth and perhaps every seventh Hour also in each Day As we see it makes a great Turn in the Sun and Moon beginning our reckoning from Sun-set as the Jews and many other Nations did which we see Dayly attended also with a constant Ebbing and flowing of the Sea six Hours apiece in the great Ocean as we may discourse more largely in the place of Times and Seasons I might add also that although the Curse that was due enough to Man fell on the Earth in general our common Mother crying to us as Rebecca did to her son Jaacob Thy Curse be upon me my son yet there have been several places which in several Ages have been especially under this Curse and yet none of them lay so under it but that they grew up to be Blessed again Yea it may be the more Blessed because they were once so Cursed For it was not only Micha's Mother that blessed her son in the name of the Lord because she had cursed so before but even God himself doth so earnestly Remember One that he hath spoken against as himself saith to Ephraim that his Bowels do the more yern over him and it may be blesseth them more because they were formerly cursed That is under Sorrow as we find the Curse of God so rendered in the Lamentations Give them O Lord thy Curse even Sorrow on their heart And our first Parents had sorrow and sweat and pain for their portion when the Curse fel on the Earth bearing Bryars and Thorns Thistles and Nettles to express this Curse or Wrath of God as the very name of a Nettle in Hebrew may import If there be any place in all the Law more under the Curse than the Land of Canaan it seemeth to be Idumea one of the Neighbor Countries which is expressly called the People of my Curse and threatned to Perpetual desolations when the whol Earth shall rejoyce Edom must mourn and be so cursed also that it is the very Type of Hell as may plainly appear by reading the 34. of Esay It being also the Land of Him or them that God so Hated as was toucht before And yet I know not one word in all the Curse of Edom that we do not also find Inflicted and not only Threatned on Jaacob and Israel Whom God himself saith he had given or devoted to the Curse by that very phrase which is used in that place where Edom is called the People of my Curse And what more frequent than Jerusalem it self to be a Scorn Reproach and Curse yea a Curse to all Nations Yea â—nd Perpetual Desolations never to be Built again or more Inhabited And yet we find That Ever or Eternity run out at the end of seventy years Captivity in which not only the Threatnings but Curse also was accomplished and powred out as we find in that remarkable Prayer left us in the 9. of Daniel to be compared with That of the Apostle Wrath is come upon them to the uttermost and Then it is a Blessed Land again and a Blessed People and a Blessing also to the World and Nations round about For It shall come to pass that As you were a Curse to the Heathen round about so shall you be a Blessing as we read in Zechary yea and a Blessing to All Nations as the Promise is in Malachy and divers other Prophets who doth not only shew them a way how from a Curse they should come to be Blessed and a Blessing also to All Nations But in the very close of that Prophet and so of the whole Law God himself provideth a Cure for the Earth also Lest he should come and smite the Earth with a Curse Even the Earth which was That which God had Cursed so much more than Adam Yet Elijah must come lest That very Cursed Earth should be smitten with the Curse And as the Jews repeat That verse of Elijahs Coming after the last verse lest the Scripture should end in Curse so it seemeth God also meant to repeat His Coming Or to send him or his spirit Twice Or before the latter Coming of Christ as before the Former There being also Two daies of the Lord There spoken of One is called Great and so was his first Coming and the other Dreadful or Terrible which seems the Epithet of his latter Coming much rather than his former And it may be marked that after John the Baptist was dead even at our Saviors coming from his Transfiguration which was such a Type of his second Coming and Kingdom He Then promiseth that Elijah Shall first Come and Shall restore All things Which is a Proverb with the Jews to this day and was also the constant Belief and Expectation of the Primitive Church of Christians as may be shewed by a full Jury of Ancient Fathers of the Christian Church And as John the Baptists Time was called the Day-spring from on High So it may be Elijahs second Coming also before the second coming of Christ is hinted in all those Scriptures which speak of a Morning Star to appear before the Sun of Righteousness which is also the phrase used by the same Prophet Malachy who promiseth the coming of Elijah And the Revelation plainly promiseth That Morning Star in the dark time of Jesabel and in Jesabels time Elijah slew her Prophets and the Prophets of Baal and so made that great change both in Church and State that in the Revel may be hinted by a Power to break the Nations Though That phrase reach up as High as Josuab breaking the seven Nations As the Manna in the Church before may intimate their passing through the Wilderness towards Canaan And that phrase of Breaking the Nations being coupled with that Promise of Elijahs coming under the Notion of the Bright Morning Star may put us in mind of a speech of God himself to Job Hast thou considered the Day-star or the Day-spring which I have made to shake the wicked out of the Earth They shall be turned as wax to the seal c. And when the wicked are cut off Thou shalt see those Promises fulfilled that the Meek shall inherit the Earth As we read in the Psalms and in our Saviours Blessings also and the Revelation addeth to That Blessing that there shall be no more Curse No more Curse For the very Leaves of the Trees about the Waters of Life shall heal the Nations And those Waters flow out round about Even to the Dead Sea or Lake of Sodom for even
Kallath a Spouse and somwhat else also in Hebrew or in English calling our Kall about our Belly by such a name Shall I add also How often God commands his people to abstain from or take heed of Kelaim Though the word be hard enough and never used that I now remember but in Moses Laws and once or Twice in Esay or Solomon complaining of a foolish people that entangled themselves in Kelaim which some translate the Stocks As Solomon speaks of a Fool hasting to the Stocks till a Dart strike through his Liver Or his Reins be consumed among many Witnesses as if he would allude to all the Hebrew words we are now speaking of Prov. 5. 11 14. 7 22 23. It is cleer enough that Kelaim signifies some Mixed seed and that not only in Grains but Beasts also as it is plainly seen in Leviticus 19. And This also makes the very Number of the Beast 666. as it is with the usual Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned Backward Is it not also the very number of the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is not only as the Latine Renes or the English Reins which yet keep course enough with the Moon in our Brain and in Heaven too And taught David every Night as the Heavens in the 19. Psalm and they may teach us every Day also which in Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is just 666. As the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also the Reins of our Brains How neer is the sound to Reins and Rains also as we saw before in Showrs even our very Secret Thoughts or Fancies which should be covered as other Secrets in Nature Which are akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or our Shame in Hebrew or the most privy Secrets whence the Latine Clam And Olam also may signifie Their Iniquity their Folly their Yoak their Shame or Hidden Secrets As also Sodam in Heb is not only the City Sodam of which also the Revelation But also their Secret As Jacob speaks of his cruel Sons Let not my soul be in their secret in Heb Be Sodam Where the very word in Numbers according to the old Mazorites in 666. Let me add also that the word Beast in Hebrew Letters is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also Shame and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my Shame as being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our seat or in Natibus as the Jews also use that word As the English also in a Phrase not to be spoken And the Number of it is 700. And that Beast or Bosht or shame is the Idol which God doth so often complain of in the Prophets As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their Bush and Shame That I say nothing of That part which the Jews call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Fools or Beasts Orion But to return to Numbers It may be like enough that every such Revolution may bring up some Great Change as in the Moon seeing also many if not All the 7th and 10th Persons or Generations in Scripture had some very signal Characters As Enoch the 7th from Adam Noah the 10 th As Abraham was the 10th from Noah and Moses the 7th from Abraham and David the second 7th or 14th as we found in the very number of his Name and Years also Though it be somtimes written by 24 as he was from Noah As the 24th hour of the New Day beginning from Noah that is Rest as at first from the Rest of Night or Nihat Heb. And perhaps David did not make but finde all things about the Priests or Tabernacle setled by 24. Which from the Jews also we may learn to be the Number of Things given to the Priests by God Some of which themselves only might eat Others their Children also and others were common to their very slaves or sons of their Handmaids if born in the Priests Houses or bought with his Money So that it was a saying common enough among the Jews That the Priests Boyes and slaves had more right to Holy Meats than All the Men of Israel Which may be considered by them that deny the Sacrament to the Children of Professors in the visible Church as Children born in the Priests Family or sons of persons Bought or Redeemed which might eat the Holy things that might not be eaten by a man of Judah though Hired to work in the Priests Family Noah is said to be Perfect in his Generations for he saw Two Worlds or Generations coming up at the beginning of the seventh great Week as we may call it or as many years from the Creation as the seventh Week is Hours We see what a change there was in His Time by the Flood in the second Thousand Years As the Waters were Divided in the second Day of Creation What it might Typifie out also in These Daies we touched before Jaacob is said also to be Perfect which some read a Plain man but it is as of Noah before a Perfect man Which hath made me consider whither Jacob might not be the Close of His Generation as Noah of His and David of His who saw the Times or Periods of the Kingdoms or World about him as we read in the close of the first of Cronicles Which the Jews call Words of Dayes Which we may understand Hereafter David also brought up a New Jerusalem and a New World as a New Heaven and a New Earth and bound up Satan or Saul for 1000 Years as we also touched before in Saul or Paul And Elijah also and Elisha with Jehosaphat the Lord Judging Though a good while before Zedekiah the Lords Justice or the General Judgment As Laodicea after Philadelphia the New Jerusalem And Jehoram the High Lord both in Israel and Judah When also Moab and Edom freed themselves from the Yoak of Jaacob as his Father promised in his Blessing Esau so much and so oft supplanted by his brother Jacob though God own him as a Plain man without Guile And among divers other things we read no where but in Esdras of the Roman Empire and Christ also who citeth divens things of that Book we are There also told that Esaus Heel was the End of the World and Jacobs Hand on that heel the beginning of another And as Jaacob was a Perfect man in his Generation one of a Thousand as Solomon speaketh After Elihu in Job So his Children are the True Israelites indeed in whom there is No Guile As our Saviour speaketh of Nathaniel And They are Sons of Light in opposition to the Sons of Esau or Ishmael as sons of Darkness As the 12 hours of Night were before the 12 Hours of Day or Children of Light But there is yet more in it For although All the sons of Jacob were beloved before Fsaus in the Type yet among Jacobs also there was a Joseph and a Benjamin Son of the Right hand and Those were
〈◊〉 in Daniel and the Caldean Rams also Ramming their Walls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Many places besides the 51 of Jeremy O I will Ride them down Oridem as Lambs for slaughter and as Rams with He Goats Which yet may be Greater Goodnesse then we are aware As in answer to That Prayer Jeremy 12. 3. Prepare or Separate or Sanctify and Make them Holy As Lambs for Sacrifice And God calleth those very Babylonian Rams or He Goats His Holy Ones or Sanctified Esay 13. To be compared with That of our Saviour Whom the Father hath Sanctified and sent into the World And again For This Cause I sanctifie my self That They also may be Holy But of These again in Clearing our Prophet Daniel And he Lift up Both Hands but First his Right Hand which is Jamin as from Iam the South Sea Or rather Teman the South is The which is Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jamin or the Right Hand Which as God sate on the Mercy seat in the Holy place was Southward And his Face Eastward Whence as Bowing to his Face They Bowed Westward alwaies in their Comings to the Temple and their solemn Worship As Christ also t is said Bowed Westward on the Cross which indeed was on the West-side of the City As looking to the western Gentiles which have since found the fruit of his Looks and gracious Bows and Tears also But it is not so clear How his Face was placed on the Cross which yet we may Touch again However It is certain in Ezechiel God complaineth of some Elders Bowing to the East with their Backs to him And so putting To his Nose That I may hardly Name though plainer in the Text then as some read it the Branch or somewhat of that word or near it to Their Nose or Mine And so they are Bowing to Shames 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Num 670. But Hezechia turned to the Wall Others to the East But the Right Hand Iamin will number and prefer from the Hebrew Mana to Number Divide and Prefer also As we find plainly in This very Prophet Daniel 1. 10. 11. of a Prince Preferred And again in Mene Mene Tekel of which we may speak again And Thus we see Right Hand persons still preferred and so Blessed more than Others at the Left As Solomon did place his Mother Bathsheba the Daughter of Seven and of the Oath also at his Right Hand And Jesus made a Prince and set at his Fathers Right Hand and yet but as the Nasi with Ab din the Father of judgement in the Sanedrin Where Sitting at the Right Hand of the Throne or Chief Speakers Chair did not speak him above the Speaker or President but onely Next him and above the Rest who sate about in an Ovall form As All things come from a kind of Egg. Even Man himself from Eggs in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bestim Bestes Bullocks to be added to That before of The Beast and 666 or 700 so near the number of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also And That Ovall sitting of the Sanedrin with Their Scribes or Watchers also and officers in the Middle as the 4 Orders of Priests and Levites within the Camp of Israel May be compared with the Throne described in the Revelation with its Elders Round about and the 4 Officers in the Midst also As before we found the 4 Watches and Watchers also among the 12 and 24 Hours of Day and Night As we have 4 High Teeth between the other 24 in both Jawes or Hemispheres of That Heaven also with their Shenim Shining and Shinnim also in Hebrew And from Those 4 Watchers from having Light with them called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who or where is Light the 4 quarters or corners are called spirits in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Winds a Spirit being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tender 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Most extended Matter or Water in Heb. Mater Mother of All. And to That Form also of their Sanedrin with the Father of judgement their usuall expression Christ himself may allude in His Description of the Last or Great Judgement with His Right Hand Jamin dividing and Preferring also As we touched before in Benjamin the son of the Right Hand Who was also of Rachel a Sheep in Hebrew preferred before Leah Laeva the Left Hand and also before All the Goats or Seirs of Esau the Grandsire or Goat of All other Goats of which again anon And This Right Hand blessing or Preferring before the Left hand was observed much by all the Jewes in their Coming into the Temple Court which was called Aezra Help a Present Help in Time of Need. There could be No case they say That might not be Helped There Yea and That also to Them that must stand afar off as our Saviour oft alludeth to Their Custome and but Look over the Rails of Hell or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that kept them off Nay there were others could not come to Touch that Helper but Behind it weeping as the Sinfull Woman came to our Saviour And in Mourning They used to go on the Left side of the walks in Those Courts and Then the Priests and People also did not ask the Matter Why they Mourned which might often be very secret but as Eli to Hanna when he knew She Mourned without asking why Lifted up Hands and Eyes Crying He that Dwelleth Here Give thee Peace or send thee Help according to thy Need. An Expression we found in the Law before of Lending or Giving to a Poor man in Want according to his Need How Great soever He Filleth the Hungry and will Satiate Every empty soul. Nay in some kind of Cutting off or Excommunication you might see the Mourners go softly as Ahab did on the Left hand of the Court and Then the Other Blesing Thus He that dwelleth Here Reconcile thee and Thy Church or VVitness-meetings also To which That may allude How God is in Christ Reconciling the VVorld to himself As He is reconciled Their usuall Capher or Cover and Coffer as before whence it may be the old Saxon English Capher when they met in VValking Though some sound it Gapher or Gaffer As the Jews also called the Elders who admitted or Ordained Fellows in their Colledges or other Meetings by the Name of Chaver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also found in Chavron or Chebron That famous Fellowship of which we may speak more anon And of Laying Hands for Ordination Yea and though the Common people might not come near the Holy place on pain of death yet in Case of extraordinary Danger That-seemeth Dispenced with in Those that ran to the horns of the Altar as we are taught also in the Epistle to the Hebrews As Joab and others did And in such a case they were hardly ever stopped but rather helped as Those yet adaies that run away for some great guilt Or Those that
Such Seasons and Changes VVhile the Earth endures but also that All Dayes of the Earth should be Those Seasons or such Seasons As the words in Hebrew may be read and we find it so by daily Experience that every Day hath its Seasons and its quarters As the year also And the Half Month added to the Three brings us through the second sabbath of Weeks or 14 Weeks As before we found Abrahams Tenents and Others in Sodom freed from the four Monarchs or Monarchies in the 14 year And our Teeth in Each Jaw are 3 times 4 with 2. Watchers But yet more especially These Three Months and an half bring us from the Pentecost and Sack of Ierusalem That Great New Moon or Change beginning the Month following That Feast of Pentecost as we hinted before to the very Time of that Last and Great Feast of Tabernacles At the fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month and so just 3 Months and an half after the month of Pentecost which was followed by such a visible Change of their Moon or Olam when the Romans fired their City and so made That Full Moon And That also much about the middle of September answering so much to their Seventh Month and Feast of Tabernacles At which Time also their Release and Liberty must begin again as Thereabout it Ended And that their Coming in again with the Fulness of the Gentiles also promised to Ephraim as we saw before was to answer that Full Moon of the Full Month that is the Seventh and Great Feast of all the Feast of Tabernacles Or In gathering All the Fruits of the Earth may be cleer not only from the very Reason and Nature of That Feast and Season but also from many places of Scripture which do so compare them together As the 102 Psalm made as a Form of Prayer for Him that is Afflicted with his soul overwhelmed and pouring out his sighing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the Lord Jesus As we find it cited in the first to the Hebrews I am withered as Grass cut down for Hay in Summer but He shall come down upon the mown Grass in Psal. 72. But Thou wilt arise and have mercy on Zion For the Moed is come the Time and the Moed also And Psal. 75. I will judg Equities when I receive or come to the Moed The very same word used here in Daniel and in many Scriptures for that Great solemnity of Tabernacles which of all the Three Moads was the Moad of Moads Or the most solemn and Greatest of All. And then presently the Psalm addeth So or Then the heathen shall also fear thy Name and All Kings of the earth thy Glory as before in the 72 and divers other Psalms When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appear in his Glory He will regard the prayer of the Destitute or Naked and will not despise it As our Saviours Dying Words on the Crosse Ps. 22. 24. This shall be written for the Generation to come for he looked down from the height of his sanctuary to behold the earth and hear the sighing of the Prisoners and to loose the sons of Death When the Peoples in the Plural are Gathered together as at that Feast of Tabernacles and the Kingdoms also to serve the Lord. That which followeth of shortning his Dayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may allude to Katsyr Summer and Harvest Or the years End When the Dayes Shorten and their Tradition is that Adam quickly found the Sun declining and the Dayes Shortning Which They should consider that beleeve Him and the World Created at the Vernall Equinox So the 126 Psalm In the Lords Turning the Captivity of Zion we are or were like Dreamers Turn again our Captivity O Lord as the streams in the South we touched it before They that sow in Tears shall reap in Joy He that went Weeping and bearing precious Seed shall come with singing bringing his sheaves Which is plainly of Harvest and the Joy of Harvest which we find also in the Prophet Esay coupled with breaking his yoke and staffe of his shoulder and Rod of his Oppressor As in the day of Midian so famous for the Barley Cake of Gideon as alluding to the First Fruits and the Lamps in Earthen Pitchers of which also Saint Paul to the Corinthians And it ended at Succoth or Tabernacles which were Taught by Gideon Yet Plainer in Hoseah There is an Harvest set for thee O Judah when I bring back the Captivity of my People And again I the Lord thy God from Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in Tabernacles As in the Solemn Feast or Moed of which also before What will you do in the Solemn Day of Moed Or That Solemn Feast which is also the Solemn Day or Solemn Feast in Deut. 16 15. 31. 10. Ps. 81. 3. Lament 2. 7. with divers other places And in Zephany I will gather them that Moan it is Heb The Solemn Moed And at That Time I will get them Fame and Praise in Every Land where they have been shamed and at That Time I will bring and gather you and I will make you a Name and a Praise among all people of the Earth when I turn back your Captivity before your Eyen saith the Lord. And the Last of Zechary telleth us that All nations that fought against Jerusalem shall go up to worship the King the Lord of Hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles And again the punishment of Egypt and All Nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles And in that Day On the Bells of the Horses shall be Holinesse to the Lord yea every Pot in Jerusalrm and Jndah shall be Holinesse to the Lord of Hosts and there shall be no more Cananite in the House of the Lord of Hosts The Heb Canange may be Saxon Change Cunning or Koning And in That Day there shall be One Lord and his Name One and the Lord shall be King over all the Earth and in That Day Living Waters shall go out from Ierusalem and Half of them to the Dead Sea or that of Sodom also plain enough in the Text and Ezechiel both the 16. and 47. and in Ioel also Even of that Great Day of Iudgement in the Valley of Iehosaphat which yet was the valley of Blessing or Beraca Crying Put you in the sickle for the Harvest is Ripe Yea and the Vintage also for the Presse is Full. Which we read again in the Revelation where it runs out also by the space of 1600 surlongs which we compared before with Dayes and Years to be added perhaps to the Time of Saint Iohns writing about the 60th year after the Ascention And after All he Seeth the pure River of Life with Trees bearing Fruit every Month whose very leaves were to Heal the Nations And there shall be no more Curse of which before in Iericho And whosocver will let him take the Water of Life Freely Which being compared with our Saviours words in the 7th
Seriah was also Menuah from Noah Rest a Meek and Quiet Prince As Christ speaketh of Moses and of Himself Rejoyce O Zion For thy Prince is Meek and Lowly which with God is of Great Price and Value As Saint Peter speaketh Who yet struck down Ananias and Saphira But this Boanerges must become a Barnabas Ye know not what spirit You must be And Barnabas Took Saul and knit him to the Church of Christ who sent him back to Tarsus his Native Countrey As Israel to Babylon the Hole or Pit whence they were taken and called And then was Great Peace and Comfort of the Holy Ghost for Jerusalem it self was scattered through All Judea and Samaria and Galilee of the Gentiles also the three Regions of Heaven and Earth and the little World also as we have touched divers times And Then Peter also must come down to Lydia as alluding to Lud with Tarsis and Ludi and Lydia Saint Pauls Convert of Thiatire Divine Tyre or the Sacrificer For Her Hire also must be Holinesse to God and Sarran Tyrian or Sharon of which before with Carmel For That also must blesse Him and Hermon the Cursed Hill And Tabor the very Navel of the Belly or the Lower VVaters Here must Christ be Transfigured an Emblem of this Kingdom and Then must cast out the Foul Spirit which so Mastered All his Apostles Till Himself came down and found the people in a very hot dispute with his Apostles about a Devil they could not master And yet at his going up He had given them Power over All Unclean spirits But This was Beelzebub it seems the Prince of Devils with his Legions Every one 6000 and 666 also If a great Author besides Hesychius do not deceive us A strange spirit with Three Epithites in Three Evangelists As if Cerberus with his Tripple Throat The Devil in the VVorld Or Utmost Court and Antichrist in the Church or Temple But the Old Man in our Heart There the Dragon Then the Beast and the Image of the Beast and the False Prophet also directly opposite to God and Man who was made to Rule the Beast with the Image of God in Man or God-Man and the True Prophet the Holy Ghost See Ja. 3. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 3. Rom. 8. 6. But How long Ever since there was a Childe In the VVaters Above As the Crossing Serpent which we shewed before in Shemes Samson and his 12 Labors also through the Zodiak full of Beasts Aries Taurus Cancer Leo worse In the Earth Below Even in Paradise The Serpent the most subtile Beast and Head of all Beasts Turning Isha into Eva 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Before whom Adam only conversed with Lilith the Nights Darkness and Dreams which the Jewes call the Mother of Hobgoblins and make a white Circle with Chuts Lilith Out Night In the Waters Below Leviathan and Tannin the Dragon in the Great Depth or Bottomless-pit as Esay 27. with Iob of Behemoth Leviathan and the Revelation But He shall be cast out of Earth also as first he was out of Heaven Whence he fell like Lightning Though That but as a Prophecy before Apoc 11 and 12. Which brings up the Kingdom of Christ with Casting out Satan As Christ also said If I by the finger of God Cast out Beelzebub Then know the Kingdom of God is very near you But you must say Let it Come on Earth as it is in Heaven Where yet Satan came among the Angels to accuse and resist the Brethren as we may find in Job with Dan. Zech. But at our Saviours coming from the Mount All the three Foul Spirits shall be cast out Yet they may Tear us first and leave us as Dead But for Three dayes and Half and Then Come up hither And the Father said with Tears Lord I believe Help thou my Unbelief Being told that All things even All things are possible to Him that Believeth The same Works Yea and greater Works For I go to my Father And a Grain of True Faith can remove This Mountain also where I was transfigured while Peter would have built three Tabernacles Howbeit This strange and strong and last kinde of Devils go not out but by Fasting and Prayer Yet They had Oyl and so raised the Sick and laying on of Hands Cast out Devils For it was and still is and will be and appear a very Mighty Name of Jesus of Nazareth And Peter at length coming to Japho the old Town of Japhet Who began it before the Flood as hinted in Heathen Authors Having first healed Aeneas Aeneas And after eight years By the same Name by which Himself and Iohn had cured the Cripple at the 9th Hour the Time of Prayer As to Cornelius also the first fruits of the Gentiles He findeth Tabitha Dorcas a Doe of a Goat which in Hebrew and Syriac is also Saphira 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Raiseth Her also from the Dead A greater work perhaps than curing a Daughter of Abraham whom Satan had Bound Lo and Behold these 18 Years And another with the Bloody Flux of which before for 12 years And a Third Talitha 12 years old Here are three Twelves and an Half And a man at the Pool of Bethesda the House of Chesed Tender Mercy 38 Years Here are three Twelves and two also for a Cheâ—si Which I note the rather because it was first shewed Abraham in a Map that his Friends and Tenants of Promise and Sodom also must serve the four Monarchs 12 Years And not be delivered till the second after the 12. or second Sabbath which is the 14th Year as Assyrians broken in the 14th year of Ezekiah as the 14th of Genesis And the 14 Teeth of either Jawe may represent Years also as we shewed before from Shinim Teeth and Shenim Years Where we touched the Turtle and the Pigeon as the two little Witnesses preserved undivided which is their only way of safety between the Divided Heifer and the Ram and Goat also and All of Three years old And Then the Fiery Furnas and Great Horror But at Evening or Sun-setting God speaketh to him in a Vision which he saw not till he had said to the King of Sodom Thou shalt never make me Rich. And After Those words God came in a Vision and said Fear not Abraham for c. And they brought him to an Upper Chamber it is oft spoken of and should be marked where the women were and shewed the Coats of Dorcas For she also loved us and helped to build us a Tabernacle As we touched before in the Curtains or Coverings of Goats-hair and Badgers-skins But He put the Women All out O Woman what have I to do with Thee And Touch me not for I am not yet Ascended Which he had learned also from Him that so Acted before Him and James and John which were His three VVitnesses generally Who put them All out and cryed Talitha Kumi May it not be Rise up the Third Day or Year or Moed As They
In each a Court with Chimneys or Incense-Places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Keturah 715 or 721 Of 40 long and 30 broad 1200. And there was a Tower 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 round each of the four and Boylers under the Towers or Tires Attires 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 630. But the Courts 100 long and 50 broad as the old Tab. to be compared with the 5000 fed by Christ as after by Peter rancked by 100 and by 50. The front Eastward as of Old the Waters from under the Eastern Threshold to the Right hand that is Southward from the Altar And he brought me out the Track 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Northern Shaar or Shoar or Gate brought me round the Track without to the outward Gate the Track looking Before or Eastward and behold Waters running out from the Right side And in the Mans going forward with a Line in his hand he measured 1000 in or with a Cubit and he brought me through the Waters Waters of the Ankles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 191. or 751. and he measured 1000 and brought me through the waters Waters Knees 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 272. 832. As alluding to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fishponds as Acts 2. and Blessings And he measured 1000 and brought me through Waters of the Loines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 540 1100. And he measured 1000 a River which I could not passe over for the Waters were Gay High or swelling Waters of Soaking Sacking or Swimming 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a River which shall not be passed over And he said These Waters going out to the Eastern Roule and they go down upon the Plain or Arabia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And they bow to the Sea and going out at the Sea the Waters are healed And again They shall Bow to the Sea and there shall be aboundance of Fish and every thing shall live where the River cometh And Fishers shall stand upon it Fishing from Ein to Ein As they shall see Ein to Ein or themselves in my Eyen And these Fishers or Eins shall be to Shoot or Shut out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Harms or Charms or Armes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Curses or Nets for such Fishers of Men and Souls from the Dead Sea of Sodom also And that it is the Dead Sea of Sodom is clear by comparing it with the Great Sea uers 10. and by the places here named En Eglaim of the two Calves of Aarons Cow as the Jews speak that first Calved Eglon the little Calve and at length the Great Eagles that sucked or sacked the Carkas when it 's Spirit was Drawn out to Pella or Piell the Mouth of God But they were bid to say Take away All iniquity Receive us Graciously and we will offer the Calves of our Lips Engedi The Famous Valley where Moab Ammon and Goats of Seir gathered against Jehosaphat the Lords Judgement But the Valley of Jehosaphat in the 4th day is called Beraca the Vale of Blessing as we read in the 20. of the 2. of the 2. of Chron. to be compared with the 3. of Joel It signifies the Fountain of the Goat or Kid as the English render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the place where Saul saught David among the Rocks of the Goats But he was safe in a Sheeps Coat and Thence made the 57. Psalm And Mical saved his Life by an Image with Goats or Goats-Hair And the Spouses Locks are as Flocks of Goats more than once as alluding to the Hebrew Seirs both Locks of Hair and Flocks of Goats as Seirits of Esau. She is not afraid of his Left hand under her head She is bid to feed her Kids 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Engedi sindeth Copher Some read it Camphire But it may allude to the Goats of the great Day of Attonement which is also Copher to Cover All Transgressions as Solomon speaks of Love And Noahs Ark was made of Gopher and covered with Copher And the very Mercy-Seat was called Caphoreth and the Veile by turning it Parocheth whence perhaps Parochie Pariche Parish And the very Lake of Sodom is famous for Copher The Prophet Joel closeth his Discourse of Judgement in the Valley of Jehosaphat with the Sun and Moon or two Witnesses being darkned and the Lords Roaring and shaking Heaven and Earth as in Amos and Haggai and then the holy Jerusalem where no strangers in Zachary Cananites shall abide or passe through her more And than the Mountains shall drop New Wine the Vintage and Feast of Tabs and the Hills Milk and the Rivers of Judah shall flow as in Harvest Jos. 3. 15. And a Fountain from the Lords House shall reach through Jordan and the Dead Sea to Sittim That notorious Vale of Peor where their Lust destroyed 24000 as the 24 Hours of the Day and brought up a new Race of Witnesses both in Priests and Princes For the old ones were hanged up before the Lord and an everlasting Priesthood and Covenant of Peace setled on Phineas for turning away the wrath of God by his Zeale in slaying Zimri and Cosbi Lies Treason For Had Zimri Peace who slew his Master But Sittim also must be Healed by the Holy Waters And it helped also to build a Synagoge or an Ark made of Sittim Wood. And the Sittah Tree must come to see and know and consider that the Holy One of Israel hath Created it as Esay 41. In Zechary Those Holy Waters are parted East and West to both the Seas The great One in the West and the Dead Sea of Sodom in the East Which yet was before the Face of God as the Temple stood And the Fire and Brimstone as the Lake of Soodm in the Revelation were before the Throne of God and his Lamb. As the Molten Sea in the Temple But it is said also there shall be no more Sea as no more Curse but as a Sea of Glasse Harping which may allude to the Sea of Cinereth the Harp which is severall times in the Revelation and the New Jerusalem as Pure Glasse The last Resolution of Bodies And He that can makeit rightly Malleable or can Manage the true Asbeston or live on Hearbs need not much soft Rayment But the Hie-places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Bushes Vitches or Witches Bitches or Beasts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and such as shall not be Healed shall be given for Salt For every one shall be Salted with Fire and every Fire Offering in the Law must be salted with Salt Have salt in your selves and let your speech be savoury seasoned with salt and peace one with another And he caused me to turn How Gracious to the Lip of the River May it not be Daniels River of Time also where we have both the Heels of Messiah as David speaketh as alluding to Gen. 3. 15. and to Jacob named from the Heel and the Ancles also the words used for the Ends of the earth with the
with odd Minutes Preter propter And as He was the 7th from Adam as Moses the 7th from Abraham the 10th from Noah the 10th from Adam So he was born in the 7th Hundred or 3d 7th Year of that Hundred or 621 or 22 Year of the World Now is Israel become Loammi and Loruhamah Not my People and I will not have mercy on them Yea and God called to contend with Fire But Amos prayed O Lord God Cease I beseech thee As before spare and forgive by whom shall Iacob Rise for he is very small And God repented of the Evil and said It shall not be And yet when God had called the Fire to devour It must devour and so it did But what Even the Great Deep or Abyss which was the great thing to be feared and the Spirit of God also to kindle the Fire but in devouring the Deep or the Devourer it also devoured a Part of Israel as the words may hint Amos 7. 4. And the word Clack which we often saw before for a Click Clack Clakin of Time as in a Clock And from a part of Time it is also used for a part of other things and may hint to us How Time and All else below may perish by Fire Devouring the great Deep or Abyss of Waters the same word used Gen. 1. 2. when there shall be No more Sea As in the Revelation or Fishes Zeph. 1. 8. but a Sea of Glass with Harpers as on Cinnereth we saw before Amos also saw a Tenth reserved for Israel 5. 3. to Help her up Though his doleful Ditty was The Virgin is fallen and shall Rise no more Nafela lo Tosiph Kum Bethulath Israel Which the Iewes say should have been in the Psalm of Praise 145. which gives Title to the Book of Psalms in Hebrew Praises and there wants the Letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But when David was bringing it out they say the Spirit stopt and said The Lord upholdeth All that Fall and Raiseth All that are Bowed down As that Psalm We have now but One Moed more to the 70 Years Captivity in Ioachin As if God would now give Iudah that Moed of 120 Years for Repentance as he gave it to the Old World before the Flood Ahaz had hired Assyria that sharp Rasor to shave off Rezin and Syria but he came to the Neck and Throat also And because This people refuse the Waters of Siloah that run softly and rejoyce in Rezin and the son of Remaliah the Lords Height Now therefore behold the Lord Bringeth on them the waters of that great Flood the King of Assyria and all his Glory who shall overflow and reach to the Neck and with his stretching Wings fill the breadth of thy Land O Emanuel a Type of Antichrist to fill the Church or Emanuels Land As the Wings of the Cherubins filled the Breadth of the Oracle As Ezekiel also speaketh of a Covering Cherub and Annointed also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 388 so near His 390 Or as the English George on Horsback a Covering Cherub and from Those parts also where yet they shew his Castle or the Reliques of the Dragon which from Thence might come to the Saxon standard or from the Dragon seen in Heaven also as so many great Historians speak besides the Dragon in the Revelation so long before Merlins Dragon Hezekiahs Revolt from this King of Assyria hired by his Father Ahaz is called Rebellion 2 Kin. 18. 7. And it cost him Dear besides That humble Confession Verse 14 with All his own and the Temples Tresures So little did God ever countenance Rebellion Yet when Assyria becommeth Insolent and sendeth Rayling Rabshakeh from Lachish that Mother of Idolatry the Lord rebuketh him while Hezekiah spreads the Rayling Letter having also sent to the Prophet Esay It is a Day of Trouble of Rebuke and Blasphemy the Children c. Now therefore lift up thy Prayer for the Remnant left after the 10 Tribes who first parted themselves from David with Sheba c. before God ever parted them In the Mount God will be seen Iehovah Jireh And the Decree was that Assyria must be troden down in the Holy Mountain And That also but a Type of what God meant to do in All the Earth as we read in Esay 14 24 c. So that it may reach through All the Times of the Witnesses also Till That Fire came down on Them that compass the Holy City As now the Destroying Angel came down on the Assyrians round about Ierusalem A story famous enough in Iosephus Berosus Herodotus with divers others How This great Deliverance was in the 14th year of zekiah As Abraham freed his friends and Sodom also in the 14 year and Joreph was freed in the 14th year being then 30 years old when he stood before Pharaoh but 17 when he was sold as Gen. 37. 2. 41. 46. we saw before With many other things of 14 being the 2d Number made of 3 whole Numbers and an half as 7 is the first The next Half Moed may carry Menasseh to Babilon As a Type of Judahs Captivity and Return also As Manasseh returned and Zedekiah was visited in Babylon it self and Jeconia freed and advanced above All the Princes with him And How after All his horrid sins Menasseh judged himself and Bowed greatly praying to His God! O the mans confidence and to his Fathers God a Blessed thing to have a Fathers God! and How he heard and Bowed down to Hear we saw before And though God brought him to his Throne again as also Nebuchadnezar Yet the Blood he shed is often brought as a great Cause of the following Captivity Yea and That also although Josiah was so good a King and made so great a Reformation Yet God sent him even Him This Message My Wrath shal be poured out on This Place and shal not be quenched Yet it was so quenched that from This also a poor soul may learn how to interpret All Gods Frownings and Threatnings on it So also the Prophet Zephany concludeth his most terrible Threatnings in the time of Josiah I will gather them that sorrow for the solemn Moed c. I will undo them that afflict thee As to Abram They that Curse Thee shal be Cursed I will save Her that Halteth and Gather Her that was driven out and I will get them Praise and Fame in every Land where they are put to shame For I will make you a Name and a Praise among All people of the Earth Their Last 40 years as the 40 from Christ or his Baptism to their End beginning with Jeremy in Josiahs 13 or his solemn Covenant and Passover a while after run out with Ezekiels 390 for All Israel from the great Schism in Jeroboam As their sister Sodoms Flames were 390 years from the Great Flood 365 hefore the Promise 370 as in Salem before Melchisedeck met Abraham 372 as in Sheba before his â—nant at Beersheba The 70 years Captivity beginning with Daniel at the
Tophet and Gehinnon it self must come in to be Holy as Jerusalem A Gracious Promise in Jeremy 31. The Gatehouse 12 Cubits As Ezekiels also a Reed of 6 Cubits without and 6 within the Gate in the 6th of the 40th Chap. And now we are come to That which in our Saviours time also was called Solomons Porch We found it Square 400 Cubits every side a Double Walk of 30 Cubits Broad and covered with 3 Rows of white Marble Pillars of 24 Cubits And the South or Right Hand walk was Treble with 4 Rows of Pillers which Josephus calleth the Royal Stoe or stateliest Walk the Sun yet ever saw Round about This Square were Benches against the Wall which the Jews call as the English Seats or Stayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All This Hill or Mountain of the House they called also the First Temple or the Outer Temple where our Saviour found the sellers of Doves or other things and Court of the Gentileâ— From This Hill They came into Hell or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for so they called the next Partition of 11 Cubits broad though some make it but 10 and the Porch 11 But All agree behinde the Temple on the West there were 11 Cubits however you will call them The Wall about This Hell they called Sorg or Surge or Scurge a common Wall was Home To this they went up by 14 steps as Josephus or 12 as the Talmud Half Cubits At every Gate against the other Gates were Pillars bidding strangers keep their distance at their Peril As if Hell were onely for Children of the Kingdom Yet it had but low Walls of 3 Cubits with Latices for Children also to look thorow As the Canticles He looked through the Lattess from behinde Our Wall and cryed O my Dove that art in the Clefts of That Rock and in the secret of those Stairs And 5 steps more led out of Hell to the first Help or the New Court of which before The Outer Court in Ezekiel 46. In either corner a little Court of 40 Cubits long from East to West and 30 broad The Northeast or Left Hand was for Priests with blemishes who were yet clothed in White while others in Blaek not of the Right Line and wormed the wood their brethren kindled and for That might eat the Holy things with their Fairest Wholest Brother The Northwest for the Leapers Shaving and Bathing till he might be presented in the next Gate leading to Israels Court and the Priests The Southwest for Wine and Oyl at Minha And the Southeast for the Nazarite who might shave his Hair in any place as Paul at Cenchrea but must Burn it Here under the Boylers of Salems as before upon Ezek. 46 Except his Vow were not out and then it came not Hither though he might shave it every 30 Daies As Absalon did once a year although they call him a Sampson Nazarite which in This of not shaving was more than a Perpetual Nazarite This was the Womens Court who yet might go with a Sacrifice into the Inward Court of â—srael A perfect square of 135 Cubits euery way Here was the great Meeting where also the King or chief Magistrate read the Law as commanded Deut. 31. 10. with Dancing also at the Tabernacles both of men and women Till some lightness ocasioned Galleries on all sides but the East which was next the Temple And in These the women were above the men Which is the Jewes custom in their Synagogues where the women sate apart but looked down through Latteses Here were the 12 Korban Chests 11 for free-Will Offerings and others But the 12th for the yearly Tribute or half Shekle which begat the Money-changers which our Saviour overturned and their Gain was a 12th also Some add a 13th Chest for the Last Years Dutyes There were Korban Chambers also in divers places and for Silent Righteousness or such as was not Seen but Done for maintenance of Poor c. To which Matth. 6. 1. may allude Here it was our Saviour Sate and saw the Widows Mites For in the Court of Israel none might Sit but Kings of Davids House As is rightly observed by Doctor Lightfoot in his Learned and Excellent Discourses on This and many other subjects And with Him a Mite weighed Half a Barley-corn the same with a Perut of which before and 8 Peruts made their Issar two Issars a Pond two Ponds a Gerah 16 Barley-corns 6 of Those made their Penny 24 their Shilling 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And to This at length they brought their Shekle which yet God fixed at 20 Gerahs in Moses and Ezekiel several Times From the Womens Court 15 steps in a Semicircle For the 15. Psalms of Degrees sung Here in the great Feast of Tabernacles bring us up to the Middle Gate with other Names but commonly Nicanor a devout Iew or the first Syrian King their great Friend or an Enemy slain at That Gate as some or near Jerusalem as others and 1 Machab. 7. In This Gate the Women were Purified with Lepers also and Here they drank the Bitter water and did All required of Israel before the Lord. For Here the Priests might stand in their own Court and reach to the Leapers Thumbs and Toes and Those that might not yet enter the Court of Israel within This Gate which as themselves confess opened of it self though others speak it of the Womens Gate of Corinthian Brass 40 Years before the Temple was burnt by the Romans As to let out the Divine Presence or his service which had 10 Flittings they say from one place to another as their Sanedrin also from that 40th year had 10 several places or changes and from These 40 Years also the Skarlet Threed of which before never turned White on the Scape-Goat which themselves owned for a sad Omen that their sins were not forgiven Their Highest Sanedrin in Gazit over Hell but joyning to the south of this court were chofen from the Sanedrins of 23 which were onely in Towns of 120 persons of quality fit for Magistrates as Those of 3 were for 10 such as we saw before whereof the Lowest 23 for Jerusalem sate in the Gate Shushan and the Higher in This Gate of Nicanor Unto which they brought Appeals from That of Shushan as from All Lower courts to Shushan and Here not Determined They went to the Highest Sanhedrin in Gazit Where yet none might sit that were very Old least too Morose or had No children For they thought a Man could hardly be meek enough to be a Judge in such a court till himself had Children Psalm 103. 13. The Length of this court from East to West was 187 cubits and its breadth as the Womens just 135 equally parted by 3 Gates as Josephus and the New Jerusalem had 3 Gates on a side at the South and North but Nicanor onely at the East and None at the West as we saw before One of the South Gates was called the Water-gate as Ezekiels Waters also flowed
from the Right Hand or South of the Altar in Benjamin the Highest of That Land they say whose Borders ever Go up in Josuah never Down and an other was the Gate of the Firstlings which may be of use ere long to determine its Place and Times also as God shalldirect us The 11 Outermost Cubits of This Inward court were Rayled in for the clean men of Israel Level with the Gate Nicanor The 11 next going up by one cubit and 3 half cubits where the Levites stood singing in their VVainscot Ducan on the Highest step were for the Priests who had no Bar from the Altar but a Row of Pillars Supporting the covering Moses Altar of Sittim-wood and its Plates and Grate of Brass 3 Cubits High and 5 square Solomons Brazen Altar 20 square and 10 High Ezekicls 12 by 12. Which yet they interpret a square of 24. As 12 from the middle to either side And so the Altar of the 2d Temple was Yet so that its bottom of a Cubit hight and bredth was a square of 32 Cubits Onely they cut off the Southeast Corner that All of it might be in Benjamin who was to be the Ravening Wolf on the Lambs But in the Morning to devour the Prey and in the Evening to Divide the spoil As we saw before in the Morning Seeking and the Evenings Finding As Job also In the morning Thou wilt Seek me O but Do it Heartily And in Hoseah They will seek me in the Morning From a Cubit Height where each side was 32 it Rose Up to 5 Cubits at 30 Bredth One more at 28 called its Circuit And One more at 26 brought up the Horns from a Cubit Base to a Cone bending outward at a Cubit Height and Thence One Cubit Higher brought it to 24. and so it was at the Top. Which from the Circuit Upward being 4 Cubits was called Gods Hill on Gods Lion Or Harel on Ariel as Ezek. 43. 15. But they went not up by those or any other steps which was forbidden even at the first giving the Law in Exod. 20 But by a slopeing kinde of Causey at the South side which they called by a Phrase somwhat near the English Cabesh but nearer to the Hebrew Lamh and to make Tame as a Lamb we saw it before As if God would intimate a Lamblike spirit was the best way to Tread on a Lion as they called That part of the Altar As the 91st Psalm Thou shalt tread upon the Lion and the Serpent The Young Lion and the Dragon shalt thou Trample under foot Because he hath set his Love upon me I will deliver him and I will set him on High because he hath known my Name Which I choose for my Portion rather than the World and desire my friends to begg it also Ezekiels Altar hath other particulars which deserve more notice as God shall give us opportunity And That also The whole Mountain and its limits round about shall be Most Holy as we saw before in Jeremiah reaching to Tophet also or the very Ashes of the Children burnt to Moloch in Gehinnon From the Altar to the Porch were 22 Cubits as the Porches Floor was Higher than the Floor of Shushan Gate by 22 Cubits that is Twice 11. And if the Altars Bosome as the Prophet calls it were Thrice Eleven the Court will be 7 times 11. or 77 to the Porch 12 Steps or half cubits high but whole cubits broad besides half paces every 3d step Led up the Priests and Down again from Thence to Bless the People after Incense as we saw before With the Migrepha between the Porch and Altar with the great Laver also as the Sea of Sodom still before the Lord at the Right Hand Southeast As Solomons molten Sea at the Southeast corner Of 3000 Baths or about 24000 Gallons which we may consider again although 2000 filled it up to the usual coks or Pipes at that distance as might best suit Their Bathings which could not be when the Sea was Full of 5 cubits Depth 1 Kings 7. 26. 2 Cron. 4. 5. The Porches Gate was 40 cubits High and 20 Broad without a Door being alwaies Open as a Type of That within that must be ever Open also As the Gates of New Jerusalem Esay 60. 11. Apoc. 21. 25. The Front was as Gold to the Eye with curious work Full 70 cubits High and 25 Broad The Bredth of This Open Gate was equal to the Inward Bredth of the whole Temple which was 20 cubits As before in Solomons which was Double to the Tabernacles Breadth But the whole Bredth was Treble to Solomons Inward House and Double to the whole with All its Side chambers And its Height Double also but in the Porch which in Solomons also was 120 cubits As Cyrus commission Lay its Foundations strong as we saw in Esay 60 Cubits High and 60 Cubits Broad So that Their weeping at These was not for quantities which Here were Greater but qualities and loss of the cloud and Holy Fire and Ark and Urim and the 5th perhaps yet Greater though the Jews made it less than the Holy Ghost The Spirit of Prophecy hinted they say in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is 5 wanting in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will be glorified and will Take pleasure in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hag. 1. 8. Where we may also finde the Etymology of Erets as we saw before Ezek. 20. 40. 30 side-chambers 6 cubits Broad and so were the 8 at the West End but There the Two Uppermost were longer than the other 6 but 12 long With 4 Out-doors on either side between the 5 Chambers of 5 cubits Height in 3 Stories with Enteries 7 or 8 cubits broad and Stairs to the 2d Story besides the great winding stair Case at the North-East corner to the Top of All and Bothside Galleries of 3 cubits before all the Chambers but the West End which had only their Entries and stairs of each story on either side But the Southside Galleries were called The Conduits As curiously laid from the Rock Etam or Nepthoah seeming the Highest place of that Land or the World Whence Water came to the Water-gate or Well at the Southside as Rivers turn in the South and Ezekiels waters in the South and Thence they came to the Great Laver c. So that Water could be brought up for Bathing or other uses to the Top of all the Gates and Buildings Which we may shortly understand without much charge and Cruelty to Horses The Length of All the Porch and House and Oracle within was 70. But the Walls about made 70 broad and 100 Long from East to West And so the Porch they say from South to North 100 cubits And the Height of Herods Temple was 100 As the Middle Isle of a Church between the Side-chambers As the Middle walk of this Royal Stoe we saw before was Double to the other two in Height of 50 cubits and above 30 Broad as both the other Walks
to These Courts or the Great Court in distinction from That of the Priests or men of Israel which yet with the lower part of the Altar also in Ezekiel is called by the same name of Azra or Aezra as we saw before when we called it Help and send thee Help from his Holy Place c. Which grew up to Comfort also in Nehemiah the Lords Comforter coming after Ezra the Little Helper as the great Comforter in the Gospel came after our Saviour the great Helper These Subburbs and the 5 steps through the next Wall to the Womens Court as the 12 Years and Half between Ezraes first coming and Nehemiahs for the Court of the Gentiles was All plain till they rose up into Chell by 14 steps as the 2d Passover answering to the other 14 Cubits through the Gate and Pillars of Shushan to Solomons Porâ—h And Nehemiahs great work was to perfect This Separation and from Women also that were left below while Those of Israel that were Purified came in to This Ezra of the Womens Court after their 80 Dayes and 12 Hours of the Night answering the 80 Cubits and 12 Steps as before And comparing Ezra and Nehemiah together it is clear enough that their great work was in This Womens Court where they read the Law as we found before in Deut and There the great Covenant-makers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 670 or 1230 with the Oath and Curse also against Unlawful Women the proper work of This Court and for the Sabbath Day although the Covert of the Sabbath or to Rest in while the King entered to worship or on other ocasions was above or before This And for the Chates or Goats to make Atonement for All Israel and for the Tenths as we saw before with First-fruits and How the People sanctified to Levi Levi to Aarons Sons and many other things But especially the solemn Feast of Tabernacles and Palm Branches with the great Hosanna Not onely as Types of That great Feast of Tabernacles we are seeking in the Times that are to answer These from Babylon the Last and great Babylon in the Revelation But also the Proper work of this Court of Women in which were the Psalms of Degrees the Great Hallel every day with Dancings and other Unexpressable Rejoycings at That great Feast of Pouring waters out as a Pledge of the Holy Ghost to be poured out on Men and Women Sons and Daughters also that might not go Higher than This Womens Court but on some special occasion for their Sacrifice As the Latter Rain in This 7th Month which yet was the First on other account as we saw before from places of the Law to be compared with Joel 2. 23. And as That perfect Cube the Oracle might note our Saviours Kingdom in the Perfect Cube of the New Jerusalem as in Revelation 21. 16. So might the Best Estate below it be shadowed here in this square Court of Men and Women together which was fittest for their greatest Meetings so capacious being a perfect Square of 135 Cubits And as before we saw the first and 2d Passover shadowed in the first and 2d 14 steps or Cubits distinct from the rest before or after them and the Pentecost also in the 66 cubits as That bringeth in the 66th Day of the year and then comes up the First-fruits of Holyness to God in the first Distinction from the Gentiles which they called Chell or Hell So here in This square of 135 Cubits may be represented those 135 Dayes from the Pentecost to the Great Hosanna at the Last and Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles For from the Pentecost which was ever the 65th Day of the Year and the Minha between the Evenings in the Scripture Language shutting up the 65th and beginning the 66th Day As 66 Hours come up to Noon or the 3d Days Dinner as 14 Hours brought up the first Days Breakfast There were still 113 Days to the Feast of Trumpets by a constant Rule we see in their Calendar published by Munster and others and then 10 more brought up the great Day of Atonement and Then 5 Days more began the Feast of Tabernacles and the 8th Day after was the great Hosanna for they sang Hosanna Daily all the Feast but now 7 times about as 7 times about Jericho the last and Great Day of the Feast of which John 7. 37. and John 9. 7. sendeth the Man born blinde to the Fountain Siloam from which Well of Salvation as Esay 12. they Drew Waters with Joy to pour them out with Singing and Dancing with Musick all the Night almost Ezcept the Nights before any Sabbath in that Feast or the 8th Day which was As a Sabbath We have yet said Little of the great Release the Solemnity of Release as Moses expresseth it Deut. 31. In the Feast of Tabernacles at the End of every 7th Year Which we refer to our Glances on the Mysteries of Ester the Hidden woman Daughter of Abihel the Father of Hell and Kill and Heal and Hill and Power also the near Kinsman to Hiel the Living God and Mordecay the Living One that was Dead or in Bitterness or seeming Rebellion of Shimei and Kish or Sheol of Jemini c. She was married to Ahasuerus our Brother and Root who also Hasted but with silence to be Poor to make us sure and Rich and reign with All his Provinces 12 times 10 and 7. As This was in the 10th of the 12 Months of the 7th Year of his Reign and being Then Married to his Jewish Spouse that had been in preparing 12 Months He made a Great Feast even Esters Feast to All his Princes and Servants also and Then he made a Release a Great Release to All his Provinces from India to Aethiopia and besides the Release or Forgiving Debts he gave Gifts also Gifts for Rebbels and they were according to the state and Glory of a great King But we are yet with Ezra and Nehemiah at the Feast of Tabernacles That end of the Law and the Temple also which began with a Tabernacle and will End with the Tabernacle of God with men keeping this great Feast of Tabernacles as we read in the Revelation And to make it up yet nearer to Daniels Motsa the End or Issue of the Temple Built or its Going out As Ezekiel was to shew them its Motsa Goings out as well as Going in 43. 11. The very Place where they used to gather Branches for the Tabernacles neer Kidron of which before was called Motsa the Spring or Goings out of the Waters or Willows also as we may learn from the Talmud it self of These very Tabernacles And that its Place at the Temple was This Womens Court as they call it of 135 Cubits as in Hours the Morning of the 6th Day when Man was Created as he fell they say on the 6th Day and so our Saviour born or crucified on the 6th Day But in Dayes it may be the Time of Ezraes coming Hither the