Licenses and Dispensations and others of the Popes Peculiers If the Arch-bishop judge it meet But After Times did help the Crown by giving it leave To make its Bishops by a Patent As Edward the 6 t had made a preaching Sheriff or many such things with Collations and receiving Resignations To most Spiritual Cures About 666 from Antiochus This Land came to have 7 Heads or Kingdoms as Rome and at Gogmagog Leap or other Hill about it a Dragon was seen or thought so Great and Worthy that it Sirnamed a Great King Vtherpendragon And its Image was Consecrate and Dedicate in a Great Cathedral and from Thence became the Royal Standard That I speak not of the Dragon slain by One on Horse back Or any other Beast or Image of a Beast slain by the sword and yet reviving and admired or adored by All that were not written in the Lambs Book of Life before the Foundation of the World Which must be opened and must Judge both Great and small who have no Book of Works to Judge them And the Dragon pursued the Woman flying to the Wildernesse As Hagar did and is in Bondage with her seed To This day as Gal. 4. and made war with her seed The first Creature Animal was the Dragon we read it Whales in Gen 1. 21. Created in the Waters coupled with Dragons as Esay 27. Ezech. 29. and so in Job and divers places And Behemoth is next the first on Earth as the Dragon in the Seas It is Plural as Dragons in Heb. As many Femimine Beasts Or Mother of All the Beasts As Wisdom is of All her Children and yet she also is Plural in Heb. As Behemoth Which David applieth to himself in the 73 Psalm And I am Behemoth with thee I am that Behemoth more bruitish then a Beast or Behemoth Those 2 Ruled Till Adam came up and had a Commission which he did not Execute And yet we do not find All the Beasts put under him and the Serpent was more subtle then the Beasts But Noahs Patent is a Promise also Your dread shall be on every Beast that Conquer'd Adam and upon All Fishes of the Sea or Dragons Into your Hands they are Delivered Thou hast kept the Good wine untill Now. The Dragon is Prince of Darkness as it walks in Darkness while the Beasts are Couching and the shortest night of Darkness in Iudea was of 10 Hours or Horns as of 7 Heads or Dayes in a week And if their shortest Day or Night be as 1000 years as Psal 90. and 91. of the Dragon and Beasts Then is Every Hour as 100 years And so the Dragon and Beast must Reign about 1330 years As They Reigned 133 Hours before Adam was Created And if the whole Day and Night be As 1000 Then the Longest time of Darkness in the Bible Meridian is but 666 or 2 thirds of 1000 As one third of 2000. But if their Little Watches also be 1000 as the Psalm hinteth Then is Every Hour 333. And so Platoes third part of an hour may be 111. which is also the number of Kaveh the Common Heb word for a Measuring Line And Thus 666 may be paralel to the 6 Hours Turns of Tide and Sun and Moon at the Cardinal points of Heaven As before And the Jewes parted all their hours into as many Clakins as days in 3 years 1080. and each of them by as many more as their Sanhedrin or Noahs Nephews or their Families in Egypt Or our Saviours Ancestors in Luke Or years of Abrahams coming to Canaan and 75 is the difference between 1260 1335. but 3 more then Twice 666. And for Hours in the Revelation The 2 d Church must suffer Tribulation for 10 Dayes Which have Hours 240. And the 10 First Persecutions lasted just 240 years From 65 or 66 of Christ when the Jewish War began Till Constantine at 306. And the Southern Martyrs of the 10th Perseâ—ution are 144000 in Eusebius and others As the Lamb before the Sabbath had 144000 Clakins before it As First Fruits of Time and the Lamb for the Sabbath And if Constantine did close the 10 first daâ—es as the P Lambs were Tyed and Tryed in the first 10th day of the year and That be in the 2 d. Ch. Then the 3 d which stood when Antipas was slain and yet stumbled at the block of Balaam and the Nicolaitans must be with Constantine or at his Times When poyson sowed in the Ch. as was written in the Lateran at His Donation to the Pope was swallowed by the Clergy which began to Prophecy for Hire as Baalam the peoples Belly or their Bell as the Priests of Bell and the Dragon in Dan. Apoc. And Nicolas is one above the Laity or proper to the Clergy And Austin Euseb Clem. and Epiphan may shew us That which God abhorred in the Nicolaits was somewhat besides Eating things to Idols and Fornication Demeaning themselves As Diotrephes a Priest of Iupiter or Belus and mixing Heathen Rites or Iewish which began in Peters Time with Christian Worship Of which God is more Iealous then of other Gods As an Husband is only Jealous of Her that continues a Wife but with an Whorish dress or forehead As the Lord Complains and Threatens Desperate Sorrow unto Planting Strange Plants about His Altars which He so forbad and abhorred This Spread in the Church as Arianism did about the very first years of Constantine and Pope Marcelâ—us who Created Cardinals or Parish Priests To Bury the Dead and to Baptise Infants Which was presently followed with Albs and Corporals At the Altar and with Tapers and Candles in the Sun Shine as a Prologue To the Flames that followed and Compulsions to Religion which began about the Time of the first Iudictions which we may Translate by Impositions First commanded At the Councel of Nice Meletius the First Bishop that opposed and Degraded Arius did first deny Restoring Laymen Lapsed Though perhaps the fault was more in Churchmen which on Penance were Restored but with divers washings and some Jewish Rites The Donatists opposed with so much Zeal that some affrm They called themselves the Only True Church and Rebaptised The Cross was found they say about those Times and a Greater Cross in Arianism with the Great Contests for Easter Day which Toar the Seamless Coat of Christ the Souldiers Spared And though Paul the Eremite and Anthony resisted and began the Monkish Orders yet Those Times had also Sad Complaints of Gluttony among the very Clergy which were therefore called Priests of Bell. As Jesabel in the Revelation may allude to Jesuâ— and Bell. As the Prophets of Jesabel with Those of Baall or Bell in Jesabel And so we come to the Temples Tredding down or the Holy City by the Christian Antichristian Jebusites for 1260 Days or Years Which we found very signal in Hours and Days and Years As From the Birth of Cainan and Mabaleel To the Flood and Rising of the Church After it As from Enoch and
you lose Or at least your Crown And why will you Give your Glory to another It is the Glory of Man to Pass by Transgression and the Glory of God to Cover a Matter To be pressed much on Christ as Man and God also The Apostle Paul could not find a better Pattern or a better Argument then to beseech us by the Meekness and Gentleness of Christ And For This cause I Obtained Mercy that in me First Jesus Christ might shew forth All Long-suffering for a Pattern to them which should hereafter believe And the Jews deliver it as one of the First Traditions of Moses to the Elders and so downwards that they should make Disciples of the Law by Meekness being slow to speak as Moses was and slower to Wrath or Judging which we find also in Ieams Who tells us God Vpbraideth not but Giveth Freely Simply And if Any Man want wisdom he should ask it of God That Giveth Simply But let Patience have its Perfect Work that ye may be Entire Wanting Nothing And may we not Press it on Christ also and Plead it with him That His Patience also Have its Perfect Work And sure If All True Wisdom be Peaceful Gentle Easy to be Intreated full of Mercy and Good works It is much more So in him who hath All Treasures of Wisdom and Meekness also So that All Moses Meeknesse was but a Little branch or rivulet of His Great Root and Ocean of Wisdom and Meeknesse And yet Moses could say to Joshuah Enviest Thou for my Sake O that All the Lords People were Prophets and that God would put his Spirit on them and to God forgive I pray thee or else Blot me out of thy Book And was it not the Spirit of Christ that prayed so in Moses and Other Prophets of God so much Longing that All the Lords People were Prophets and that All Might Prosper and be Safe And was he not heard in What he prayed Is it not He that spake in Job and David and the Prophets and Apostles sighing O that Thou hadst Heard and O that Thou wouldest hear and Then Thy Righteousnesse should be as the Sea and thy Peace as the Great Rivers and my heart is Broken with Longing and mine eyes run down with Rivers of Tears because They keep not thy Holy law Give ye wings to Moab that it may flee away and be at rest Mine Heart Mourneth for it and shall sound as Pipes my Bowels yearn and I must weep and Water thee with Tears And Thus To Moab and Edom the Worst of Sinners and the most Threatned And would to God that All men were not only Almost but Altogether Christians and as I am but my bonds And I would you knew my Earnest Longing and Agony which I have to you and to Others even All and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh and who is afflicted and I burn not And the Lord make you to encrease and abound in Love towards one another and to All men to All men As we do towards you And I could wish my self Accursed for my Brethren in the flesh Was it Paul only that Said these things or Christ in Him and doth he not Then both Love and Pitty Men and Long For Their Good and Happinesse Doth he put Others only Upon it Will he bind Heavy Burthens of Desires on Others and not Touch them with his little finger Was it not His Spirit that saith in Job Did I not weep for Him that was in Trouble and was not my Soul Grieved for the Poor My Bowels boyled and rested not I went mourning without the Sun If I have dispised the Cause of my Man-Servant or Maid-Servant when they Contended with me the worst of All their Doings what shall I do when God riseth up and when he visiteth what shall I answer him Did not One fashion us in the Womb If I have eaten my Morsel alone If I have seen Any perish for want of clothing Or Any Poor without Covering If his loins have not blessed me And he were not warmed with my fleece If I have lift up my Hand against the Fatherless when I saw my Help wanting in the Gate Then let my arme be broken from the bone and fall from my shoulder If I rejoyced at the destruction of him that Hated me or lift up my self when Evil found him Was not All This but a little shadow of the Better larger Heart of Christ so far beyond the Heart of Job or Moses or David or Paul or Any other in the World And yet Here also we find a Tender Heart To All in Want and Misery So that Job stayed not for Tears or Intreaties but anothers Wants were Prayers Loud enough If I have seen Any Perish for want And till we come to see This also in the Heart of Christ We stagger and are still in fear and doubt of him While we think he measures out to us but as we do to Him and that we must begin to him before His Giving out to us or Seeking us And yet we see Gods Tenderness to Beasts that do not Pray at all but with Natural Voices Which his Pitty doth Interpret into Crying unto Him As Paul said to the Athenians Whom ye Ignorantly Worship Him I declare and so God to Job Who hath established Food to the Raven When his Young Ones Cry to God Yea and when They do not Cry but only Wander Lacking Food For he giveth Food to Every Living thing not For its Crying but Because his Mercy Endureth for ever And the Sparrows and the Swallows come and may or have leave to come and lay their eggs and Young Ones On his Altars O my King and my God! And Hezekiah did but Chatter as a Crane or as a Swallow and yet God heard him And so he promiseth in Exod. 22. If they do at All Cry to me I will surely Hear And the reason is added alittle after I will Hear For I am Gracious If they do at All Cry How much more when they Cry Mightily For He that heard Young Solomon in his sleep and in a Dream Only Will he not hear him Waking Yet it is not said that he Askt his Dream again when he awaked But the Lord Heard and Granted what he did but Ask in a Dream How much more in Sore Affliction Lo he Prayeth and he heareth All Afflicted and executeth Judgement for All that are Opressed as Psal 103. and He Heard Jehoahaz when he cryed Though he were a Wicked King and continued so in 2 Kings 23. And he saw Ahaz Going softly though a Wicked man And he seeth Affliction and it Cryeth Lowde in his ears And Hagar did Rightly call it the Well of Him that Saw her rather then Heard her or Any Prayers that we read of but her Misery And so it was in Aegypt I have seen I have seen their Misery and I have heard their sighs although they had as little heart to pray or speak to God as
that very month in which they came up Thither from Babylon And then he purged the people which was finished on the first day of the 2 d year From Babylon As the Tabernacle was Reared on the first of the 2 d year from Aegypt 1530 Hours of the year came to the Preparation Evening before the Pentecost beginning at Four 1536 As Noahs Ark began in year 1536. And so many years from Egypt come to the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. As is more discussed in The Nâ—w Island Where is most or All or more then All This Book And there can be but 66 more Days To the Great Dâ—om on the 9th or 10â—h of the 5â—h Month. For They assign it to both those days And it might be at Evening between them both 66 days have 1584 Hours and 48 more for the day Before and After make but 1632. So that the Great Dâ—om Cometh in 1632 Hours or Years After the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. Which was certainly before the End of the 34th of Christ Although we do not yet fix his Birth but That it may be 2 or 3 years before the Common Account And we Therefore use to say About such or such a year And by this account The Great Dâ—om will be About the year of Christ 1665 or at most 1666. Which is 1632 years After the Great Pentecost in His 34th or raâ—her 33 d Which is most generally agreed for the year of His Pâ—ssion and the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. But I rather look for the Feast of Tabernacles Which was As many Hours After the Burning of Both Temples As These were After Pentecost And I suppose the Burning of That City and Temple by the Romans within 40 years After the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d To be the Fiery Tryal or Dooms-day foretold in divers places Ezech. and other Prophets say God would deal Worse with Iâ—rael then with other Nations and our Saviour said the Dâ—om of That City should be Worse then Ever was or should be more Which yet Daniel seems to place At Their Riâ—ing again About the Great Feast of Tabernacles now coming Which will be a Fiery Trâ—al and a Day or Hour of Great and Sore and Quick Temptation As the Jews Tradition is that before their Feast of Tabernacles God doth sit in Judâ—emâ—nt on the Dead of That Year And so the use to Fast as some now to know Who Must Dye that Year by their Shadows or Ghosts as Job and the Psalms Which yet often call for all the World to leap and dance and sing at the Coming of Christ to Judge the World For Loe he Cometh He Cometh to Judge the World And His Throne is White And yet All run away and call to the Mountains to fall and Cover them As I shall do If He be not very Gracious Which I hope he will And the rather because he promiseth to gather All Tongues and Nations to see his Glory and When he Calleth all Nations and Kingdoms to receive his Doom in Zeph 3 d. He Promiseth the Holy Ghost and Fire with a Pure Language but to a Poor People that they may Alâ— serve him with one Consent or Sechem as before Which I wish and beg and long for more then Firing Any Place in all the world And for this Great Feast of Tabernacles we may proceed by Dayes and Hours of the Jewish year As we did before for Pentecost or the Great Doom Which was As many Dayes After Pentecost As Before Tabernacles And We may begin That Great Year At any Great and Noted Time Before or After Egypt But Rather Before For in Egypt They seem to be as the P Lambs Tyed up before the Passover They reckon Amram Born at 65 from Jacobs going Down As Pentecost was 65 t Day of the Year and 65 years more To Aaron Who dyed a little before the Great Doom in the 5 t month or 65 Dayes After Pentecost And about Aarons Birth they place the Cruel Edict of slaying the Male Children 84 years before their Coming out and 84 Hours are just 3 dayes and Half Or the Time between the Day of Tryall and the morning of the Passe-over which was Past before their Coming out As if the Wrath of God did Passe over them To the Aegyptians Before their Coming Thence At the day of the First Fruit Omer and they passed not the bounds of Egypt or the Sea Till about the Last Day of Unleavened Bread Which was 45 Days before Pentecost As 45 years before their setling in Canaan or Calebs Hebron in Josh 14. and 45 is half 90 the 4th of 360 and 90 Hours are just the Noon of the 4th Day And the 4th of Creation was the First of the Sun and Moon the 2 Faithful Witnesses in Heaven as the 89th Psalm From That 45th year After Egypt we may begin Their Pentecosts or from the first Sabattical year in Canaan As many years from Egypt As the Day of Pentecost is Dayes from That on which They came from Egypt And so many years After Enoch As there are Hours in the year To Pentecost or its Preparation Day which began at Hour 1512 and ended at 1536 as before For Enoch was 669 before the Flood which was 292 before Abraham or his Fathers 70 and 75 more To his Call or Coming to Canaan and 430 more To their Coming out of Egypt and 40 more to Canaan so that 6 more make up 1512 the first Hour of the Preparation To the Pentecost And if Abraham were Born After his Fathers 70 There may be as many years from Enoch To their Entering Canaan As there were Hours To the first or last of Pentecost beginning at 1536 and Ending in 1560. And to go forward From the First Pentecost in Canaan To the First Born stopped by Jeroboam were as many years As Hours from the first of Pentec To the Close of the 23 d Day of the 3 d month on which They still Fast for That of Jeroboam 456. Which is also the more remarkable because the Plots of Haman held against the Jews Till That very day of the 3 d month Est 8 9. And From Jeroboam To the Captivity there were as many years as Days in a year or Hours From That 23 d of the 3 d To the 9th of the 4th on which They Fast for the City Taken as in Kings and Jeremy Which was from the first of Pentecost as many Hours As years from the First Pentecost To that Captivity about 860. In the same month They Fast again for Breaking the Tables of the Law 430 years After the Promise and for Burning the Law by Antiochus 430 years from the City Taken and 430 Hours are about 17 Days and their Fast is on the 17th Day of that Month. In the 5 t Month They Fast for Aarons Death which was followed by Arad Taking them Captive and by Fiery Serpents Till the Brazen Serpent Healed Them As Christs Death was followed by the Roman Sack