though before hand as often it gives the Sum before hand Ezr. 7.1 Ez. 6.14 or together It affirms the Temple finish'd by the Commandment of the God of Israel as the supreme going forth of the Word and by the Commandment of Cyrus Darias and Artaxerxes Kings of Persia the Subordinate and Humane which was the perfect fulfilling of Dans Prophecy of the Commandment and the Word going forth And then is particularly recited Ataxerxes his Decree Posit 28 It appears further that by Artaxerxes in his Seventh Year the Word went forth because by the same Artaxerxes in his Twentieth Year Nehem. 2.7 when there went forth a Commission by Letters in some Resemblance of the Word going forth It is expresly directed on the building the Walls and Gates which in Dans Prophecy is a Note of the Seven first Weeks in their Course which assures the VVord was Gone forth and the Weeks began before that and therefore necessarily Gone forth at the last Word in the Seventh Year Posit 29 From the VVord then Going forth first by Cyrus to its going on still forth further by Darius and its Complete being Gone forth by Artaxerxes in his Seventh Year must be a Considerable space and by the Examination of the After parts of these principal and collatteral Lines together with other Symbolisms of Scripture on which great weight is oft hung It may be known to be Seventy Five Years and so by being lay'd to the Principal must be a Collatteral Line Line Coll. 2. From the VVord thus Completely Gone forth is drawn the second Supporting or Collatteral Line of Seventy prophetical Weeks till the solemn Promulgation of the Everlasting Covenant and the Sealing up Vision and Prophecy Dan. 9.24 viz. that great Prophecy of Chriâ—â—s Kingdom by Daniel Posit 30 This line of Time is divided into three Parts And is agreed to be 490 Years in the whole by All Expositors v. 25. Nehem. 1. c. 1. The Seventy VVeeks to which the Building of the wall is to be apply'd as its Character Which Seven immediately followed the Word gone forth as before Asserted for Restoring Jerusalem of which the Temple was the Principal part 2. Sixty Two VVeeks to which is to be apply'd Time of Trouble or in Straits viz. in the Jews low and Tributary State to other Princes among which Troubles by Daniel's Prophecy Antiochus his Tyranny was peculiarly remark'd These lasted till the Messiah publickly appear'd not a Prince but a publick Leader Guide and Prophet in his publick Ministry As the Hebrew Nagith imports 3. One Week of all highest Confirmations of the Everlasting Covenant in the First Half Week by Messiah Himself Mat. 4.17 at the end of which Half or in the midst of that Week Messiah was cut off sometime after the sixty two Weeks viz. three Years and a Half and by the Sacrifice of Himself and his Resurrection and Ascension after it caused typical Sacrifice and Oblation to cease a much different thing from taking away the Daily Sacrifice and so left the Confirmation of the same Covenant to his Apostles by the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven which three Years and half of the last Half Week Run out and the Gospel not accepted by the Body of the Jews Acts 8.1 They were Rejected to Desolations till the End or near the Glorious Kingdom of Christ although these Desolations are not set out in the Revelation as not becomming the Apocalyptical Glory of Israelitism and of the New Jerusalem the Types all along of Christ's Kingdom first in its Purity then in its Glory throughout the Revelation Coll. Line 3. Immediately after the End of the last Half Week follows the Third Collatteral line of four hundred Years of the Time of the Book Sealed in Daniel's Prophecy and seen in the Hand of Him on the Throne Sealed with seven Seals in Revelation Rev. c. 5.1 â— 6. â— 7. â— 10. And when six of those Seals were open'd before the seventh open'd a second Sealing viz. of the 144000 enter'd to carry on the Sealing further immediately after the Apparance of the Christian Empire then a Third Sealing followed viz of the Thunders at the time of the Reformation that so Daniel's Sealing might reach the End Posit 31 The Connexion of this line with the former is thus made certain Daniel's last Half Week must immediately run on from the end of the Former Half Week in Confirmation of the Covenant when Sacrifice and Oblation was made to Cease by the Death Resurrection Ascension of Christ and sending down the Holy Spirit Because the Character of whole Week is Confirmation of the Covenant Accordingly the Apostles immediately proceeded to Confirm the Covenant as appears in the Sacred Posit 32 History of the Acts of the Acts of the Apostles Answerably hereunto as the period of the first half week and the beginning of the last half week Posit 33 the Lords day of the Resurrection and sending the holy spirit is fixed as the Apocalyptical Epoch when the first Seal is opened in the Apostles solemn promulgation of the Covenant of Salvation that was begun to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed by them that heard him Heb. 2.3 God also bearing them witness by Miracles c. With the first Seal all the rest are conjoyn'd and opened in an orderly succession and course of Posit 34 Time and make by things themselves applyed to the principal Line of 2300 Evens Morns a third Collateral Line though not given in express numbers Before the last half week of the last Line ended this following Line of the Seals running 400 Posit 35 years beyond the three years and half of the last half week is adopted and engrafted into the former Line of the weeks by uniting the last half week in the common symbol of these seven Seals so closely succeeding in a course of Time with the sealing Vision at Christs Death This Line must continue till the following Line of the 1260 Prophetical days or years joyn it Posit 36 at the beginning of the Trumpets This Line is by several notes of Time in the course of the Seals and by the notes of Time determining Posit 37 the beginning of the 1260 days Rev. 6.5.6 assur'd to be 404 from the Epoch of the Lords day of the Resurrection and Ascention And that remarkable symbol of the Ballances in the Hand of that so known Just Prince Alexander Severus in the third Seal determines the half time at his Death 202 years from the Resurrection to the vulgar Ann. Dom. 235 by the Agreement of undoubted Humane History Next follows as it does the solemn Oath in Daniel so the second sealing which entred with the first Trumpet into its force in the Revelation Time Times half a Time Collat. lin 4. concurrent with the six first Trumpets within the continent of which lye the 1260 days of the Woman the Church in the Wilderness the Witnesses in Sackcloth and slain three days
so joyned and seeing the 45 are nearest the State of Blessedness what can they be supposed to have to do with them but as in Execution of Vengeance to their Removal Posit 46 Agreeably in the Revelation the Vials that are plac'd just before the Apocalyptical End must have to do with the Great City with the Dragon as giving his power to the Beast and being Worshipped with Him Rev. 16. with the Beast with the False Prophet with the Gentiles whose Idolatry and Tyranny was represented before in the Revelation as demeriting so great an Execution of Judgment And they must also be in Vindication of the Witnesses in Sackcloath and slain of the Woman in the Wilderness and of the 144000 Sealed and so must look back as far as they Posit 47 Lay back from these 45 Days Daniel's thirty days making the 1260 Days concurrent with the time times and half a time to be 1290 Days and They must have a closer Relation to the 1260 Days and to the taking away the Daily Service c. then the last 45 days had as being so much nearer to them and at farther distance from the Blessed End But yet being removed out of them and nearer to Blessedness as not being the 1260 but 1290 Days They may be well suppos'd loud in Remonstrances and Prayers against all the former Idolatry and Tyranny of taking away c. and with greater Victoriousness than formerly Agreeably in the Revelation the Voices that are plac'd just before the Vials are full of such Remonstrances Posit 48 and Prayers and produce the Vials and are executed by the 144000 who were sealed at the beginning of the 1260 days and by those Instructed by them when They stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion and therefore These Voices look back more wiftly on the 144000 Sealed before the 1260 days began and more fully shew their Concatenation with them Rev. 14.1 but yet they are not so Advanced towards the Glorious State as the 45 the Temple and Ark of the Testimony not being Opened till the Vials Prepared Revel 15. Lay the Distinction made betwixt scattering the Holy People and accomplishing to scatter to the Posit 49 Time and Times and to the Half Time and seeing the scattering must needs be first and longest and the Accomplishing must needs be last and shortest Dan. 12.7 we have Reason to make a Distinction betwixt the time times and Half Time and to lay the longest scattering to the time and times and the Accomplishing to the Halftime and so to find somewhat of the last Efforts to scatter but yet cut off Accomplished or finished and so the Holy People the daily Service lifting up themselves and the Desolating Abomination casting out Agreeably in the Revelation when we find the Time Times and Half Times Expounded into Posit 50 1260 Days and three days and a half we have Reason to lay that breaking out of Divine Power and Truth in the Voice of the Roaring Lyon Rev. c. 11. c. 10. the Thunders uttering their Voices to the Morning of the Half time and the Half day and to the last 180 of of the 1260 days and though there may be the last Efforts and a Comprizing of the Tyranny in some parts of the Reformed Churches as given in three days and a half yet that it can be neither Universal nor long Lay the Oath in Daniel ushering in the Time Times Half a time that so solemnly resolves They Posit 51 shall be to the Oath in the Revelation that Time shall be no more viz. after the Half Time that the Oaths may not contradict one another but that in the days of the Seventh Angel when he shall sound All shall be Finished and we see Reason why the last 45 and 30 making 1335 should be deem'd Joynted more particularly into the last 180 Days of the half time then into the 1080 of the time and times because their is so great an Affinity betwixt the Reformation and the further Preparations to Christ's Kingdom as there is a greater nearness in Time to the End As a further Assurance of the close Connexion of the 180 Days of the half time and the 30 and Posit 52 45 making 1260 to be 1335 There is a common Character though of several Distinctions Dan. 12.10 Rev. 16. extended upon them All at that declaring the Words Sealed Many shall be purified and made white by the Reformation and yet tryed in a Furnace of Martyrdom The Wise shall Vnderstand by the Voices and Vials and come out as God's People from among the Wicked but the Wicked will all along do wickedly and not Vnderstand but more especially they shew it in the time of the Vials when they Repented not but Blasphaem'd It is no wonder then to behold Antichristian Confidence Obstinacy and Obdurateness Consider yet Daniel's complaint that He understood not and that Declarations of the Words closed Posit 53 and Sealed till the End and agreeably the Thunders Sealed v. 9. and the Book bitter in the Prophets Belly in the Revelation Rev. 10.9 and we see the reason why the Half time is made most of a piece with the time and times the 180 with the 1080 Days viz. because the power of the holy People remain'd still scatter'd in great part the daily Sacrifice not Restor'd nor the Abomination of Desolation fully Remov'd the Beast and his City yet Regnant the Witnesses in Sackcloth the Woman in the wilderness and the 144000 Sealed and not on Mount Zion And so we see them still the Half time of the 1260 Days being not expir'd by Ten and therefore the Reformation is not Perfect as it shall be at that end of them when the Thunders are unsealed in the Voices The time and times must needs be the continued Time of All these Evils of Antichrist during Posit 54 which the Book of the Kingdom was Sealed and they must run back to the time of the second Sealing after the seven Seals Opened and the Oath There should be time times Half time which was the second stop of Christ's Kingdom in his Servants viz. the 144000 Sealed under the Gentiles and the Bestian Tyranny c. Hereby we may understand the whole Time of Sealing its signification and the Cessation of it Posit 55 The Book Sealed is the Book of Daniel's Prophecy of Christ's Kingdom The Times of Seaâ—ing were when that Kingdom had Right to Appear and was Seal'd up in reserve for Future Time 1. At the Resurrection and Annointing with the Holy Spirit on the Apocalyptical Lord's Day Daniel was then bidden according to his former Vision to seal Prophecy at the Annointing the most Holy and to seal it to the time of the End Accordingly the Book is seen Sealed in the Hand of Him on the Throne And it was given to Christ to open Gradually to his Kingdom Dan. 9. â—2 4 And so the Course of time next to the 70 Weeks runs on in the Opening the seven Seals
during the Purity of the Apostolick Doctrine the Character of which is Many shall run to and fro and Knowledge be increas'd by those Voices Come and See or some proportionable Voice and It lasted 404 Years from the Resurrection 2. The Kingdom of our God Rev. 12.10 and Power of his Christ Appearing in the Christian Empire It was enquired with Hope It was near How long to the end of these wonders Christ's Swearing time c. was the second Sealing in the 144000 Rev. 8.9 the force of which Sealâ—ng entred first in the First Trumpet when the western Empire was storm'd by every Blast of the four First Trumpets which all History agrees was about 404 Years from the Resurrection and is by Daniel's Line of 2300 Ev. Morn determin'd so as before Here was a View given of the State of the New Jerusalem for which the 144000 Witnesses were Sealed 3. At the Half time then was again an Appearance of Chrst's Kingdom in the Reformation the Book was opened in Christ's hand but yet the words are declar'd closed and the Book Sealed because It was seal'd to the time of the End c. 7. c. 8. which was not yet The Sealing was therefore Affirm'd and Averr'd and Daniel could not Vnderstand the Thunders were Sealed and the Book Hid in the Bowels of John and the Kingdom still stay'd the Reformation not perfected Posit 56 But here Daniel was discharged from his Office of Sealing on which Account He is bidden to Go his way For after this Sealing the Thunders All should be opening in the Voices and Vials and no more Sealing and he hath also his Quteâ—us or Discharge to his his Rest by Death from the whole Office of Prophecy Dan. 12.9 signifying He Prophecied for Future times and that He had given a Full Account from his own time of Future times and had attain'd the Final Blessed End and the Assurance of his own Happiness and Reward in it v. 13. even his Lot in the Kingdom of Christ the Resurrection and Restitution of All Things which is the End throughout his Prophecy agreeable with the Revelation which also declares the Sealing at an End when that Blessed State was revealed Revel 22.10 Posit 57 We are now in the twenty two hundredth and fifteenth Year of Danielâ—s 2300 v. Morn within ten Years of that great Revolution of the Kingdoms of this world becomming the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ of the witnesses coming out of Sackcloth and Ascending the Tenth of the Great City Falling and the Turkish woe passing away And within Eighty five Years of the Blessed End or the Glory of that Kingdom it self which is the End of the 2300 Evenings and Mornings Posit 58 This defining of times to the Coming of Christ by the Word of God and in the â—ight of that bears no opposition to that Saying of our Lord Mar. 13.32 Of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man not the Angels not the Son but the Father only For our Saviour's Word to Know of speaks Authoritative Cognizance and Determination and the Divine Order of the Revelation given by God the Father to Christ to shew to his Servants c. Before which given Daniel could not be Expounded nor this Time known and so the hasty Curiosity of the Apostles to know the Coming of Christ and of the End of this State of the World or Course of it was curb'd and restrained onely as those Things were not yet Reveal'd Next Follows Sabbatical Time Intersabbatical Time being expir'd Posit 59 The Thousand Years called the End are an exact Cube of Time and being neither more nor less are the very Perfection of whole Time less than which is the Defect and Imperfection and more is the Excursion Extravagancy and Superfluity of Time So that this Cube is the Just state of the Glory of Christ's Kingdom and was never attained before or after in time and are both litterally so much Time and also the Symboll of Times Perfection Posit 60 The Thousand Years of Christ's Kingdom are not therefore called the End as if they were One single Period set to Time but because they are One even level space of Time giving End to the hard Toyl and dying Labour of Intersabbatical Time and are therefore called the Sabbatism of the People of God and are admirably set out to us in the Prayer of Moses for the Thousand Years Psal 90. in the Great and Perfect Security which attends Psal 91. and by the Song or Psalm composed for this Sabbath psal 92. and a Course and Order of Psalms Celebrating the Kingdom of Christ in those that Follow Posit 61 The Expiration of a Thousand Years is not the Expiration of the Kingdom of Christ but the Expiration of the Time Rev. 20. in which Satan was bound so that He could not deceive the Nations during that space the Expiration of that Time in which the Saints so Reign with Christ that there is no Appearance of an Enemy nor any Appearance of the Churches growing Luke-warm toward an Apostacy There is therefore a small Spong of Time after in which Satan is loosed the Nations under the Name of Gog and Magog ascend against the Beloved City the Fervor of the Church here below Cools into a Lukewarmness but none of these Things have a Course For they are immediately Posit 62 surpriz'd with the Final Judgment which last Judgment is also the Throne Rev. 20.3 v. 7. c. c. 3.14 c. c. 3.21 c. 20.11 and Kingdom of Christ The Coming of Christ at the beginning of the Thousand Years is the First of the Days of the Son of Man which we Translate Onely ONE a day that cannot be mistaken nor hasten'd any more than the Day of Judgment in the general notion of it and so can no way be dangerous to the Governments of the World For who can make the Lightning to lighten from under one End of the Posit 63 Heaven and to shine to under the other End of it but He that shall come at that Day and do so Luc. 17. â—2 v. 24. At the First of the days of the Son of Man is the subduing of All Enemies and Chaining up Satan that his Kingdom may have absolute Peace and no Disturbance but that He may Reign over Posit 64 the World to Come of which we now speak as the Second Adam in a Full dominion over All. Re. 20.1 v. At the Completory or Full last Judgment is the utter Eradication of All Enemies and shutting Posit 65 up Satan and all his Seed Sin Death and Hell in their own Lake v. 14.15 1 Cor. 15.26 And this is the Last of the Days of the Son of Man There is a full Agreement betwixt the First and Last of the days of the Son Man in the determination Posit 66 of the Good and Bad to their Unchangeable state Rev. 20.5.6 so that the Last is a filling up and perfecting the First
and a half and is the same thing with the power of the holy People scattered in Daniel Rev. 7.1 2.8.1.11.3 c. 12.6 the Gentiles treading the Sanctuary under foot by means whereof the daily service is taken away forty two months into which months are enterwoven the beasts forty two months in the Worship of whom and of the Image made to him the abomination that maketh desolute is set up c. 11.2 c. 13.5 And the Line in the twice 42 Months so interlock'd one with another are equal with the days and a common Line with them being to be strictly accounted by not Lunar but Solar Time and so falling one into another equal 1260 days This most remarkable many-character'd though but Collatteral line hath first a Distinction of Posit 38 Time at large and of Season or inward Time according to the necessary Explication of our Lord 's three days in the Grave that is a part of each It hath also a plain division into three parts And being the most notorious stop of Christ's Kingdom under the Forgery of it It is thus often remark'd c. 11.9 1. Time or the first Time Beginning Ann. Dom. 437 and running through the first 360 Years with which the Gentiles began their 42 Months within 38 Years of which after their beginning the Beast at the Cessation of the Western Roman Empire was Born into his 42 Months beginning c. 8.10 viz. at A.D. 475 in which the Gentiles Months are merg'd and drown'd as one and the same from that Time at A.D. 606 When the Bishop of Rome Fell as a Star from Heaven to enlighten Rome on the Earth at the Supremacy given him by Phocas and arose to the Honour of having Himself and the Image made to Him worshipp'd at his 666 Number A. D. 725 and was fully settled in his Imperial Beastian Power at the End of this first time 797 c. 13. v. 15. v. 17 18. All procur'd and mannag'd by the other Beast or Antichristian Hierarchy with their Gentiles 2. The two Times wherein the Beast and his Bestians were pursued by the two Woe Trumpets during the former of the two times by the Mahometan Saracens during the latter of the two times by the Mahometan Turks by whom the Grecian Empire was extinguish'd 1453. c. 9. But yet the Beast and his Worshippers Repented not notwithstanding so great Judgments to the very end of these two Times Ending Ann. Dom. 1517. The Third Division is styl'd the Half time in the Morning of which after 1517 aforesaid the Bestian Kingdom was terribly shaken by the Reformation the Witnesses about A. D. 1527 being called Protestants or professed Witnesses But in the after parts of this Half time It resettled it â—elf in a partial Dominion and hath been of late and now with more Appearance of Success c. 10.1 c. endeavouring to remount it self into an entire Dominion and may if God please Epitomize or give in short the Resemblance of its Former Antichristianism and Tyranny but shall certainly have its Papal Garments cut off at the middle and the Beard of its False Prophetism half Shaven at its Half time ending to their Everlasting Disgrace never to be repair'd This will be about the Year 1697 ere the Instant Century take End Posit 39 The Turkish Empire or Woe shall pass away immediately after the decemprincipality or Tenth of the Great City which hath so long Reign'd over the Kings of the Earth is fallen as it shall do at that time c. 11.14 c. Collat. lin 5. And however the Mahometan Greatness have trembled of late to shew how easily God can bring it down in his own time yet it cannot Roll to the Earth till Beastianism first does so The Fifth Collatteral Line is the thirty Years of the Voices which immediately follow on the 1260 Days ending with the sixth Trumpet For as soon as the sixth Trumpet shall cease the seventh shall sound and those great Voices shall be heard as from Heaven which shall proceed each in their Order as they are describ'd Rev. 14. And this Line is so joynted into the former of the 1260 days that it cannot be sundered the 1260 being made 1290 Dan. 12.11 Ending A. D. 1727. Collat. lin 6. The last and finishing Collatteral Line is the 45 Years of the Vials poured out which Vials are Represented as filled up with the Wrath of God gathered by the Prevalency of the last Voice for treading the Winepress Rev. 14.18 c. And this is indented so with 1260 days as not to be divided the whole being given as one entire Line of 1335 days or years Dan. 12.12 Ending A. D. 1727. Posit 40 This last Line of 1335 y. and its backward Conjunction with the former Line of 404 y. by Daniel's command to seal and shut up the Book in the beginning of it and by the Sealing the 144000 in the Revelation in the end of it may be even demonstrated by a close compare of the two Prophecies one with another Dan. 12.4 Rev. c. 6. c. 7. c. 8. and a Retrograde Juxta-position or laying each part backward one to another from the End to that Sealing the 144000 and from thence to the sealed Book Posit 41 For compare Daniel's End and the New Jerusalem the great End of the Revelation and we shall find how exactly they agree Dan. 12. Rev. c. 16. c. 21. c. 20. Daniel's End is a Resurrection of some to everlasting Life of some to shame and everlasting Contempt The End of the Revelation is remarked with Two It is done It is done One of the Destruction of Posit 42 Enemies the other of the Glorious state of the Martyrs and Servants of Christ under the name of a Resurrection Ezek. 42. v. 22. Daniel's End hath its peculiar Lots one of which is assigned to him John's End hath a New Posit 43 Jerusalem the Capital City of the Land of Promise and a Royal Priest-hood to both which the Notion of Lots is in Sacred Writ so Appropriate Posit 44 Blessed together with Daniel in his Lot shall All Those Be who love the Appearance of Christ wait for and come to it viz. into the Enjoyment of it And Blessed and Holy is He saith the Revelation who hath his part in the First Resurrection Dan. 12 13. with Revel 20.6 Posit 45 From Daniel's End lay back the 45 Days that make the 1290 Days to be 1335 and They must of necessity run back with an intimate Reference and Relation into the 1290 and all parts of them because they so closely unite with them as not to be accounted 45 Days without them but with them 45 making 1335 and yet they must be distinct because the 1290 were so many before them So these last 45 Days must have to do with the taking away the Daily Service with the setting up the Abomination that maketh desolate with the scattering the Power of the Holy People which things are doing during the 1335 Days