A Scripture-Line OF TIME Drawn in Brief From the Lapsed Creation to the Restitutution of all Things Discours'd at large upon the 2300 Ev. Morn Dan. 8. 14. And their Collateral Lines From CYRVS to the Kingdom of CHRIST in the New Jerusalem By T Beverley Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the 1335 Dayes viz. the Last of the 2300. Dan. 12. 12. We are not of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Apostasie to Perdition but of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Apostolick Faith to the saving of the Soul Heb. 10. 39. Printed according to a Calendar 1684. ERRATA THE Errors in this Impression are either small by change of a Letter mispointings sometimes want of Points or of a Parenthesis which it is hop'd the considering Reader will easily over-rule by the sence The more notorious are thus to be corrected before the reading the Book p. 5. l. 6. before the end for 230 r. 2300. l. 4. before the end for as r. was p. 12. l. 23. for shape r. scope p. 20. l. 17. for Revelational r. 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Grandiloquence p. 163. l. 11. remove the Colon after Smyrna to after camein p. 175. l. 20. blot the Figures after with In the Preface p. 4. l. 10. after Discourses r. without p. 4. l. 11. after compar'd r. with THE PREFACE TO Those who desire to Hear and Vnderstand the Words of Scripture Prophecy My very Honoured Friends THE Scripture Line of Time which I affirm is that which rises from the excellent State of All Things at Creation when followed an immediate Deordination flowing from the Apostasie and Fall of Man through the Serpents Temptation But by the interposal of the Promised Seed of the Woman That State was borne up from utter Ruine and sinking and a Prospect given of a Restitution of all Things by a new Creation when the Serpents Head should be bruis'd Now of this Restitution all the holy Prophets have been speaking since the Worlds Beginning and they have led along the Course of things to it in the Exaltation of Him whose Name is the Word of God the Alpha and Omega of the written Word till He appears encircled with many Crowns Revel 19. At which That old Serpent the Devil and Sathan is laid hold upon chain'd and seal'd up within his proper Abyss or Bottomless Pit and the New Creation is establish'd in the Kingdom of this Many-Crown'd King Which Kingdom can never be broken nor leaves a possibility of any Succession to it self But it is deliver'd up into the Hand of the Father from which it is receiv'd before which Delivery or Resignation shall be the perfect and final Contusion of the Serpents Head Himself and all his Off-spring not written in the Book of Life being cast with Death and Hell into the Lake of Fire which is the second Death Rev. 20. This blessed State therefore is not a single Sabbath but a Sabbatism of a thousand years that remains to the People of God conjoyn'd inseparably with the Sabbatism of Eternity even as the seventh day Sabbath of the Creation was connected with united in and immediately succeeded by the Christian first day Sabbath or Our Lords Day at his Resurrection This Line of Time I then avow is drawn from that former Sabbath of the First Creation to the Sabbatism of the New Creation as from Point to Point without Ostentation or formal Profession of such a Line yet so that it is all along and especially the Commissures and Joynts of the parcel and particular Lines are ennobled with some illustrious Symbols of the down fall of Sathans Kingdom and of the Glory of the Kingdom of the Seed or of the Teknogony of the Woman as may be abundantly made good in all Instances At what I have aim'd and for what end in the calculation of this Line I have prepared a full Discourse may be seen by the Calendar annexed to this Preface what I have perform'd may be seen hereafter if God permit the Publication of that Preparation upon the whole Line At this Time I have only presented my Endeavours upon that grand Prophetick Line of Daniels 2300 Evenings Mornings which is by the admirable contrivance of the Divine Wisdom given first entire and so preserv'd as not to be under any such Prejudice from the formidable variation of Copies as the Ages of the Patriarks are and then the parcel or collateral Lines either in number'd Numbers or as I hope will appear on very good Proof rise exactly adequate to the 2300 so that the whole and the Parts demonstrate and assure one another besides I vouch those undoubted and indisputable Lines delineated in the Calendar as far as to Cyrus indisputable I do not mean so much when they began or how much Time they comprehend For so I know there are many Doubts through Difference of Copies or otherwise but in this indisputable that Holy Writ hath taken care there should be an Account of Time so far And this I vouch as an Argument That he who begun a Line from the Creation continued it to Cyrus and defin'd by seventy weeks the space from the word going forth to the Messiah hath every where fill'd it up and continued it to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ seeing he as easily commands Time future by Prophecy as Time past by History and I do find both are certain and definite to that preciseness as to be twice once in History once in Prophecy said to be the self same day viz. the coming out of Egypt Exod. 12. 40. and the Vision of the New Jerusalem Ezek. 40. 1. And that very Charactarism of Ezekiels 390 and 40 days lying on his two sides I look upon as an especial contrivance of the Holy Spirit to mediate between the Historical and Prophetick Pares of Time that being part Historick viz. to the Time of the Siege especially and more or less so to that Vision of the New Jerusalem and of very great Symbolical Importance also concerning the state of the Twelve Tribes till the Times of the Gentiles that entred in Nebuchadnezzars Universal Monarchy were fulfill'd of all which with the answer of all Doubts
upon that and other the Visions of Ezekiel relating to Time I have at large treated in that afore promis'd Discourse only I cannot omit the Prophetical Cypher of Time translated from the 40 Days for forty years in the Wilderness is here solemnly given with its Key as of perpetual Scripture use from thence I can with great Truth and Sincerity make Protestation It was no part of my Design to enter a Dispute with any Perswasion of Christians but only to pursue the Line of Time as it reaches that illustrious Sabbatism for which I find Eminent Persons of all Perswasions have very great Favour But doing this I could not avoid but that the Antichristian Apostacy as seated in the City that in the Time of the Revelation given and its Prince are so fathally enwrap'd in all parts of Prophecy that they must be every where attack'd yet I have taken care to do it only in the Terms and Phrases of Prophecy and as the necessary Explication of it and its Times enforc'd Notwithstanding I had no such Intention I find no Discourses upon or against that Apostasie in any degree comparable either in clearness or assurance if disjoyn'd from Prophecy as when conjoyn'd with it either for determination of Theological Doctrinal Controversies or Differences in History or Chronology as when such corrupt Doctrines superstitious Innovations in Christian Worship Usages and Usurpations in Christian Discipline entred the World and at what rate of Detestation they ought to be Had All these are more certainly and more briefly resolv'd when Prophecy hath the umpirage for little Intimations either deriv'd from Grounds of Scripture or Reason or from History and General Opinion when Prophecy inclines with them or supposes things agreeably with them will weigh against vast Volumes on the other side with which Prophecy propends not Thus I am much more assur'd by observing what is after fully discours'd from Prophecy concerning Image-worship however palliated that it is that so much detested Idolatry forbidden in the second Commandment then from all Rational Discourses with Prophecy however grounded on Scripture but not compar'd without Prophecy for a fuller Interpretation of it I am much more assur'd in what Class of Religions and Churches that Religion and Church is to be repos'd that on such Terms calls it self Catholick by laying them into the Prophetical Scales then by the most considerable Moments of Discourse without Prophecy I know better when a Church-Supremacy entred by the Prophetical Era joyn'd with that however it may be by any controverted Agreement of History that Phocas gave it Anno 606 then I can know by some very learned Tracts concerning it I better understand of what small avail that Distinction betwixt the Court and the Church of c. in Vogue with some great Names can be by offering it to the Prophetical Test then by any other way of Exploration although I look upon the Distinction as a Confession extorted by Divine Judgment upon both from Prophets of their own that that Court is the Court of the Beast and that he ought to have such a Court that the Prophecy might be fulfill'd And what a Church it is I learn from the Prophetical System of the Churches of which I have given a brief survey though it does not so expresly concern Time yet as most admirably illustrating as well as concurring with other Prophetical Iconisms and Characters of Time And to every part I have added Brief Remarques directing to that Faith and Patience of the Saints to that keeping the Commands of God and the Testimony of Jesus which are the use of all the Discourse that at that Glorious Resurrection It may be said of us Here are they that have so done Revel 14. 12. Thus I have given Account of what is now drawn in full and whole and what only in little in short Calendary Proportions which I intend if God please to give in more proper Dimensions as also to make compleat concerning the Churches concerning the Voices and Vials concerning the thousand years what is rather in Perspective then in just Figures of Discourse I have only to add that notwithstanding speaking or writing the Word of God I must obey the heavenly Visions throughout yet as that teaches me I yield all the Regards Deferences of Honour and esteem due to the Character Learning Vertue general Profession of Christianity that I can render to every Person and much more to Princes and all in Authority however of a Communion I could for this Prophesies sake most earnestly pray and even offer my Life in the Service they might not be of But nothing can be more effectual against Rebellion Sedition or any Irregularity towards Government and supream Power then the Right Vnderstanding of this Prophecy For while Holy Prophecy styles them Kings who yet give their Kingdoms to the Beast the plain Doctrinal and Preceptive part of Scripture obliges as to fear God so to Honour those whom It so styles Kings and then Prayers Supplications Intercessions giving of Thanks should be made for them and for all in Authority Nor is it possible any Pretence of setting up or advancing Christs Kingdom can justifie any Rebellions mutinous or seditious Commotions seeing hitherto It is most evident they have proceeded upon mistakes of Time And when ever that Kingdom shall Appear The manner of Appearance is mistaken also for it is not as from Earth but as from Heaven Heavenly Spiritual Pure Peaceable yet Efficacious and Almighty Regular Orderly conducted by lawful Sovereigns even those who till the Words of God are fulfill'd have so given their Power so that as well may the Doctrine of the Day of Judgment which no created Power can produce or oppose be made a pretence for Rebellion as the Doctrine and Prophecy of Christs Kingdom or be complain'd as dangerous to Government or destructive to Humane Society That therefore we may be Aright guided by this sure Word of Prophecy that shines as a Light in a dark place is my Grand Design in this publication even till it be wholly Unriddled and Unveil'd as it shall be when it Turns to the Lord just then Appearing however it be now Veil'd when it looks from Him as at a distance 2 Cor. 4. 3. v. 13. 16. from that Appearance and towards us for our Instruction and as inviting our Diligent search first and then our Expectation Prayer and earnest Desire for the Quick Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ especially now his Appearance grows so near And that we may be thus guided is also the most Humble and Incessant Prayer of My very Honoured Your most Faithful Servant in this Work Beverley If any Person either Friendly and from desire of further satisfaction in this Point or Unfriendly and from Prejudgment please to make any notice of it to me I doubt not by the Evidence of this Prophecy and the Gracious Assistance of the Spirit of it to satisfie their Doubts and remove their Prejudice upon fair Allowances
at an Hour this Splendid secure Symbolical Church thinks not of except the few undefiled Names and they of it that overcome who have Promises of greater Glory with Christ then this outward but this Church in its own Name hath the Honour to make a Line of Time from the Reformation to this Day and shall till that sudden coming of Christ upon it when such a State will be at an End There have been Societies of Christians that since the Reformation Arg. 10 have subsisted only upon the Principles of brotherly Love whose Door hath been attempted to be shut upon them as not allowed Churches of Christ or not in such a way of Worship who have had little outward strength who have yet kept the word of Christ and not denyed his Name in a strict adherence to his word only who have Enemies even of the Reformed who are relaps'd down to the same Pitch the Apostacy was at when styl'd the Synagogue of Sathan in the Church of Smyrna not receiving indeed the Beasts Number of 666. but too far link'd with the Corruptions of Antiquity after the Empire becoming Christian soon Antichristianis'd who though for the present at least seem irreconcileable with the Apostacy advanc'd to its Number yet have great Indignation against Philadelphia and its Members These shall at the Kingdom of Christ appearing come and worship at this Churches Feet and be forc'd to acknowledge Christ lov'd it whose Crown of Honour it is that it hath kept the Word of Christ's patience embrac'd the Purity of Christianity in a low and mean State and therefore the Glory the Kingdom the New Jerusalem shall crown it when the Hour of Temptation comes upon all the rest of the Earth and detects the Vanity of their Religion even of their false or defiled Christianity and the Church-state of those who have not overcome the Impurities of them who call'd themselves Churches Christians Reform'd and were not so but did lye This Church is not yet come to its proper space upon the Line of Time nor can do till the Witnesses rise out of their Sackcloth and the Kingdom of Christ be proclaim'd at the seventh Trumpet And how excellent a Type of all this is the Church Philadelphia There shall be a most perfect happy and glorious State Arg. 11 of the Church before the Resignation of the Kingdom to God and the Father during the thousand years the very first Recidivations from which shall be spew'd out of Christ's Mouth and the whole of Church-States drawn up into Eternity of which Loadicea is a clear Emblem viz. of the Recidivation and spewing out in that last State Now from All this it is most evident The Church of Ephesus may have place from the first preaching the Gospel till the cruel Persecution of Dioclesian into which last and most cruel One All the Christian Blood shed from the Resurrection sunk down as the Blood from Abel to Zacharias upon the Generation of the Jews in the Time of our Saviour and was requir'd of it therefore here Smyrna began to compleat the Churches Sufferings in being faithful unto Death and receiv'd the Crown of Life in the Symbol of Constantine's Christian Empire and so down to Theodosius the Great all which Time the Church continued pure although it began to be check'd by a Synagogue of Sathan Thus these two Churches contemporiz'd with the Seals Pergamus and Thyatyra ran along with the six first Trumpets under the Apostasie and Bestian Tyranny till in the latter part of the sixth Trumpet Thyatyra eluctated into the Reformation then several of the reform'd Churches settled into the Sardian state and draw the Line of Time with the last 180 of the 1260 Years in Conjunction with Thyatyra still existent tho' not intitled any longer to bear this Line and with Philadelphia not yet come to bear the Line of Time which last shall bear the last 75 Years from the Witnesses Rising and the Kingdom of Christ proclaim'd till the New Jerusalem and its thousand Years settle upon it and that new Cube of Time begin at the End of which the Laodicean Church no sooner begins but ends and an Amen is set to all Time by Eternity receiving it All which makes apparent There is no Inconsistency but a high Condecency in these seven representative Churches bearing a Line of Time contemporary with all Apocalyptical Time which ought to be shewn Hereby we see The Excellency of the Christian Church Remark and of our Union with it and Freedom from Schism depends not upon the Greatness the Antiquity the Primitiveness of Churches but upon the Divine Apostolickness of the Doctrine Worship Rules of Holy Life truly Christian Discipline wherein we unite with them The overcoming that evil of leaving the first Love that Christ had against the very first Church of Ephesus not made diminutive as in Pergamus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 small or few things Thyatyra was more as to the Excellency of true Christianity than being of that Church The not mingling with the Synagogue of Sathan in the Church of Smyrna gave the Inculpableness and Honour to it and its Members The not being of the Apostate Church when it call'd its self Catholick in Pergamus and Thyatyra but keeping to the Truth of the Gospel constituted the true Church when the Proselites and Disciples of that Apostacy were the Proselites and Disciples of Balaam and the Children of Jezebel The few undefiled Names and Overcomers in Sardis tho' a Reform'd Church were of greater Estimation with Christ than the whole Church besides some of whose rigid Zealots of its Splendour and Power Uniformity of Rites it is to be fear'd made the Synagogue of Sathan and Philadelphia tho' of little outward Power or Splendour yet holding fast the Word of Christ and not denying his Name and keeping the Word of Christ's Patience is preferr'd much before it and honour'd with the New Jerusalem from which Blessed State Laodicea abating and growing cool All Church-states in this World are so distasted by Christ that He spews them out of his Mouth and receives only the Overcomers to his Throne and his whole Church into Eternity SECT X. Of the Third Line of Time in the Grand Line of 2300 Even Morn or of the Seven Seals from the Resurrection shewing it extends to a space of 400 Years Apoc. Cap. 4. cap. 5. cap. 6. cap. 7. cap. 8. I Have now finish'd the first Real and General Line of Time that runs from Stem to Stern from the Beginning to the End of Apocalyptical Time I come now to the second giving of the same Lines which is not uniform and entire as the former of the Churches but made up not only of various Parts as that was of seven Churches but of various Representations of each part as Seals Trumpets Voices and Vials and each of these comprehends its following Order viz. the Seals the Trumpets the Voices the Vials under the Seventh of each former as hath been already clear'd
The Contents of this Treatise are given in Tables annexed to each Part. 1 Part Before the Apostacy in 10 Sections 2 Part During the Apostacy to the last End in 16 Sections A CALENDER OF THE Whole Time contained in Scripture ennobled with the Events of each Part of Time distinguish'd by the true Year of the World according to Scripture the Years before Christ till the Incarnation then the Year of Christ and of the Resurrection to all which is applied the Julian Period  Year of the World Year before Christ Year of the Resur Julian Period TO the perfect Creation and first Sabbatism 1 3987  764 765 To the Flood containing the History of Abel and the Patriarks of the first Roll of the Gyants the Translation of Enoch the seventh from Adam The Ark prepar'd by Noah an Eighth and the Destruction of the old World 1656 2331  2420 To Terah's Death containing the History of Shem or Melchisedeck as he is after known to be with the Patriarks of the 2 d. Roll Of Babel the space of 427 Years 2083 1904  2847 To the going out of Egypt containing the History of the sojourning of Abraham and his Seed of the Promises of Sodom and the â—gyptian Bondage and Deliverance the space of 430 Years 2513 1474  3277 To the building of the Temple begun containing the setting up of the Tabernacle of Testimony the Conquest of Canaan the Time of the Judges of David the space of 480 Years 2993 994  3757 To Solomon's Death containing the Building of the Temple and his illustrious Reign his Fall and Repentance 36 Years 3029 958  3793 To Ezekiel's Vision of the New Jerusalem containing the History of the Kings of Judah the History of the Defection of the ten Tribes and their Kings of the two great Witnesses Elijah and Elisha the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple the Captivity by Nebuchadnezzar the space of 390 Years 3419 568  4183 To the End of the Captivity containing the Continuance of the Captivity Nebuchadnezzar's Victory over Egypt Ezek. 29. 17. and Babylon's Fall the space of 40 Years 3459 528  4223 From Cyrus to the Sanctuary cleans'd and to the King of fierce Countenance and understanding dark Sentences broken without hand a Line of 2300 Evenings and Mornings or 2300 Years with its collateral Lines which now follow being also inclusive of the Daily Sacrifice taken away     From the Words first going forth by Cyrus to its compleat being gone forth by Darius Hystaspis and ultimately at Artaxerxes Longimanus's seventh year the space of 75 Years 3534 453  4298 From thence to the Incarnation containing Antiochus's Tyranny and other Troubles the space of 453 Years 3987 1 Yea. of Christ  4751 To the Resurrection containing the Birth private Life publick Ministry and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ to his Resurrection 33 Years 4020 33 1 4784 To Alexander Severus's Death the ballance of Time between the Resurrection and the Apostacy containing the History of the Universal Preaching of the Gospel the space of 202 Years 4222 235 202 4986 To the Apostacy or the beginning of the 1260 Days * Or Time Times Half TIme containing a Vindication of the Gospel by the most rational Apologies constant Sufferings of Christians till the Christian Empire and then the Christian Empire till the taking away the Daily or pure publick Worship the space of 202 Years 4424 437 404 5108 To the End of the first time and Beginning of the second or first of the two Times during the Fall of the Western Empire containing the rising of the Beast at 475 his Fall as a Star from Heaven at 606 his manly Age at 666 from his Conception Anno Domini 59 to that manly Age 725 of the space of 360 Years 4784 797 764 5468 To the End of the second Time or first of the two Times and the Beginning of the third Time containing the Range of the Mahometan Locusts or Saraoens and the Beasts Promotion to a settled Age or of Consistency the space of 360 Years more 5144 1157 1124 5828 To the End of the third or second of the two Times to the Half-time containing the Cavalcade of the Turkish Horse-men and the Beasts declining Age the space of 360 Years more 5504 1517 1484 6188 To the End of the Half-time or to the seventh Trumpet containing the State of the Reformation and since to the Expectation of the Witnesses Rising about 1697 ten Years hence the space of 180 Years 5684 1697 1664 6368 To the End of the last Seventy Five Years of the seventh Trumpet containing the seven Voices and the seven Vials and ending in It is done It is done at 1772. 5759 1772 1739 6443 After this follows new Time or the SABBATISM of the Creation viz. The cubical thousand Years of the glorious Kingdom of Christ     AN EXPLICATION OF Daniel's Grand Line of Time or of his 2300 Evenings and Mornings as given in his four last Chapters In these following Sections SECT I. Of the Vision of the Daily taken away and therein of the 2300 Ev. Morn or the Vision call'd the Vision of the Ev. Morn in general On Dan. chap. 8. THE Vision of the 2300 Evenings and Mornings dates most exactly and precisely the Time from the very Beginning of the Persian Monarchy or the First of Cyrus to the cleansing of the Sanctuary at the new Jerusalem and the breaking of Antichrist without hand or by the stone cut out of the Mountains without hand at the Kingdom of Christ Dan. 8. 14. 25. The order of the former Visions duely consider'd gives great light to this For first there is in the course of Ezekiels Visions a long allotment of Time till the New Jerusalem and a peculiar Sanction of the prophetical Cypher of Time or of a Day for a Year Ezek. 4. 6. That gives full scope aed room to those Monarchies to run their Time as in the Image and the four Beasts in Daniel's two precedent Visions 〈◊〉 2. c. 7. The former of those two or the Vision of the Image gives only a general Appearance of so many Monarchies or Kingdoms or rather of a Monarchy universal shifting from one People and their Kingdom to another and all adverse to the Kingdom of Christ for that could not appear while they were in Play From hence arises such a Line of Time as necessarily is requir'd for four Monarchies to display themselves but because they may be shorter or longer in their duration they give no certain measures only as that there is no History of Action elder than Moses's of the Creation appearing in the World it is an Argument of weight against the World's Eternity so on the other side the daily matter of History arising from many other Kings and Kingdoms and particularly of the Romans assure us the Kingdom of Christ is not yet come because while that lasts the grand foretold Kingdom of Christ cannot