Day of Trying the Paschal Lambs or Preparation of the Passover To the Pentecost Or from the day of Aarons Death and of burning the City and Temple To the Day of Creation or Dedication of the second Temple and of Jerusalem in Nehemiahs Time and to the Feast of Trumpets in the seventh Month which was for Release and Tabernacles were 1260 1290 or 1335 Hours And from the City Taken on the 9th of the 4th Month to the Feast of Tabernacles were 2300 Hours as between the Suns Apogeum and the Equinox And their great Release was in 2300 Dayes As their Release of Hirelings or their three years Tythes and Offerings with the Solemn Confessions of Deut. 26. came out in 1260 or 1335 Dayes So Davids New Jerusalem was gotten from the Jebusites who Trod it down as their name in Heb And the Ark was fixed in Zion and the Temple built in 1260 1290 or at most in 1335 years from the first Desolation of the Flood And Nehemiahs New Jerusalem was finished and dedicated at 1260 hours that is the morning of the 53 d day from its beginning but 1335 hours from his coming thither as Nehem. 2. 11. 6. 15. and in so many years from Jacobs service in Syria Typing Israel in Assyria or from Josephs Bonds in Egypt or Israels coming and Dying there And the great Dedication and Restitution after Antiochus Nicanor was so many Dayes as in Daniel After the City Prophaned and so many years After Egypt and the Golden Calf which was 1335 years before the Maccabees which were 1290 years After the Ark at Shiloh or 1260 years After their first Bondage to the K. of Mesopotamia as a Type of Babylon and 1260 years Before the Christians got Jerusalem and Reigned in it about 1100 of Christ All which were but Types and Shadows of the New Jerusalem to come in those degrees of 1260 1290 or 1335 years After the Abominable Desolation made by Antichrist who was Typed out by Antiochus Which was to come upon the Christian Church as the Assyrian was to fill the breadth of the Land of Emanuel When the Romans had finished their war against Jerusalem in Titus Adrian and Julian After the ten first Christian Persecutions Which lasted as many years as there were Hours in ten Dayes As the Revelation saith they should have Tribulation for Ten Dayes which have Hours 240. and there were so many Years from the first Persecution which began with the Jewish War in 65 or 66 of Christ Till Constantine And the Times of Julian were as slaying of the Paschal Lambs which were Tyed up on the tenth day ending at Hour 240 and slain on the fourteenth at Hour 333 As Julian was 333 years After Christ and Romes deadly Wound was After Jerusalem sack'd 333 years As Hamans Lots or Purim from the Preparation of the Passover 333 dayes 333 was a signal Number to the Jews both for Hours to the Passover and Dayes to Purim and Cubits in the Holy Courts and to Others also As Plutarch observes in Fabius finding Secrets in the Sybils not to be uttered and vowing 333 Sesterces and 333 Denaries Deucalions Flood Phaetons Flames and the first Judgement in Areopagu much about 333 years before the Sack of Troy about 333 before Lycurgus end who renewed the Olympick Games 333 years after Hercules That we speak not of Messenia desolate about 333 years in Aelian 333 is half 666 and 333 Dayes are 12 Times 666 Hours which are the Monthly Change of the Sun and Moon and thence the Great Number of Change to the World and in Years also As it was to Carthage in Paterculus and Rome with Jerusalem and other places here discussed And to clear this way of reckoning Years by Hours of the Jewish Year the Author shews the Rise and Use of Hours with diverse Nations long before they be specifyed in Polibius or Plutarch who yet can tell us the first Hour of Romulus and the Great account of Hours among the Jews whose Year is a Model of time in All Ages So that the old Patriarchs and all the great things of Scripture were in Harmony to the Dayes and Hours of the Jewish Year and to the Site and Motions of the Heavenly Bodies As Hours are made by the Moon moving 24 of her Diameters in 24 Hours and the Earths Diameter 24 times in the Suns which may be distant from the Earth twice 666 Radij As the Moon 66 and Canaans Longitude is 65 or 66 in Ptolomy And as the first Heavenly body is above the Earth 65 of its Radij and the first Fruits of Earth were at 65 Hours of Creation in the 3 d Day which was the first of Herbs and Animals so the Feast of the First fruits was the 65th Day of the Year and in the 3 d Month As the Tabernacles twice 65 or 130 Dayes After Pentecost Adam was about 130 Hours of Creation and Seth at 130 years as many reckon Abraham was After Terah 130 years in which time the Equinox Changeth a whole Day as 12 Hours in 65 Years Enos was born at 235 Years of the World and the Paschal Lambs were Tyed up and Tryed at 235 Hours of the Jewish year and the Great Cycle of the Moon called the Golden Number is of 235 Months For which Here is an easier way to reckon the Moons Motions and the Suns Cycle with the Dayes of the Week in any year of Christ or of the Julian Period Kainan was born at 325 years of the World and 325 Hours of their year came to the Morning Sacrifice of the Passover slain at Hour 333 just half 666 and Kainans Birth was 666 Years before Enochs Translation or twice 666 before the Flood Mahalael as many years After Kainan as there were Hours to the Evening Sacrifice of the third Day As the First Fruit Omer heaved up on the 3 d Day After the Passover He was born 1260 as Kainan 1332 before the Flood and dyed in the year of the World 1290. Jared the 6 from Adam was born 135 and lived 187 years After Kainan and the Morning Sacrifice of the 6th Day of the World and of the Month and Year and so of the First fruit Omer from the Tying of the Paschal Lambs was at Hour 135 and the Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day for Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath was at hour 187. As from Pentecost to the Great Hosanna there were Dayes 135 and to the Great Atonement Dayes 187 As between the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox 187 and in the Pentateuch 187 Chapters As the Cubits of the Inward Court of Israel were 187 and the Outer 135 which being added to 130 makes 365 As Dayes in a year or Veins in our Body or Negative Precepts in the Law And Kainan was twice 365 before Noah 365 before Jareds End As Mahalaels was before the Flood and the Flood before Abrahams Call if born at his Fathers 70 As Hours of the Jewish year to the First fruit Omer Reaped After
K. eating Grass as an Ox and of the Ram or Medes and Persians in Dan. and the Goat for the Grecian Monarchy The Fowls Chased by Abraham may note the Romans famous for Ravens in the Punick Warr and Eagles as in Daniel and our Saviour As the Babylonians were for Doves in their Ensigns and letters about Doves necks As fly from the Dove of the North and as a Trembling Dove or Jonah from Assyria Which also worshipped the Dove as That which kept Semyramis or Semyrian Kept by the Dove And Abrahams Vision had All Beasts and Birds for sacrifice And Divers Nations learned such a way of Covenants and Lustration Cutting a Bullock as in Jeremy with a Ram and Goat also in Greece And the Macednians bowed To the Goats Hans in Justine and Plutarchs Pyrrhus And the Heifer of 3 years old may denote 1080 years as Dayes of 3 years and Clakins of their Hours As years from Abraham To the Fall of the first Monarchy and Rising of the 2 d. at the 7th year of Joash or in Amaziâ—h Or of Rome and Nibonassar with the Greek Olympiads in Vzziah 3 times 3 years are 3240 Dayes or years From Babel Built To the Christians Taking Jâ—rusalem Or from the Covenant made with Abraham or the Birth of Isaak To Ottoman and the first Roman Jubilie So also From Mâ—ses To These Dayes Abraham saw his Seed should be gotten out by many Plagues As Sara was Recovered Thence by Plaguing Pharaohs House and at Sun-set the very season of their coming out as Gen. 15. 17. Deut. 16. 6. They were called up at Midnight after the Passover but got not out of Aegypt till the next Sun-set at Hour 360. bringing up the Full Mâ—on as Dayes 360 the Full year and That was Afterwards the season of the First Fruit Omers Reaping Which was Heaved up As They were and Christ was to be And so they carried up the Bones of Joseph and the Patriarchs as Acts 7. From Ramases they came to Succoth Tabernacles and Then to Etham in the 3 d station As our Saviour said I Walk to day and tomorrow and the 3 d day I shall be Perfect As David also Then I shall be Perfect Which is Faham in Heb. There they saw the Glory of God in his Cloud and Piller Promised to every Cotage on mount Zion and to All her Churches which are therefore many in Esw 4. This might be Minba time of the 3 d Day from Aegypt or at Hour 430. As it was year 430. They Past the Red Sea upon the 21st of that Month the Last and Great Day of Unleavened Bread wch began at hour 480. As the Temple at year 480. and was Dedicated in the 7th month Ethanim and Tabernacles as alluding both To Succoth and Eâ—ham The Red Sea in Heb might be called Red from the Great Trade for Mimum and Vermilion at a Port of it in very ancient Authors or from Erythrus that ruled in the Ilands where Edom never was Though once his borders reach to Fzion-geber on that Sea But Israel did Compass Edoms Land and might not tread upon it which was so remote from This Sea that the Prophets say His Cry should reach unto it at his Fall But Edom is a Glutton as Adam in the Orientall tongues whence Eâ—o and Eat in many Languages And though Edon may be Red also yet improbable to name That Sea which reached unto India in very many Authors From This Sea they came to Sur or Sure on the 22 d day and in 3 days more To Marah Bitter and Rebellion much about Hour 666 or noon of the 28th day At Elim 12 Fountains and 70 Psalms Which grow by Bowing as their Heb name Tamar As she that grew Fruitful in her old age As Psalm 92 the Righteous flourish as Tamar in the Hezrons of God They bear much fruit in Old age as Tamar did before Aegypt to encourage them And Malachy saith Judah loveth the Daughter of a strange God as a Cananite in Genesis wherefore God will cut off Er and Oneh in One day David might remember That of Tamar and Hezcon when he read how the women Blessed his Grand-mother saying Let thy House be As Tamars seed To Judah A strange Emblem of the Church by the seed of the Father while she tarried for Shelah Shilâ—h From Elim To Sin on the 15th of the 2 d month as from Aegypt on the 15th of the first and There they Sin again by murmuring Till the Manna came upon the 3 d day after the Time for the 2 d Passover As the First Fruit Omer on the 3 d day After the first Passover And the Law was at the Time of â—entecost The Golden Calf was in the 4th month Then they fast for Breaking the Tables And the Caldees broke up the City on the 9th of the 4th month In the 5th month They Fast again for the Heavy Doom of not Entering into Rest Which they reckon the Day of Both Temples Burnt Or Doomsday In the 6 â— they Fast again for the Judgements on the Evil Spies And the 7th began with Trumpets yet they Fast again upon the 3 d for Ishmacl But the 10th is the Great Fast for Adams Fall as is thought when the Sun declined and Day shortned Till the Flood And thence increased again and at their leaving Aegypt the Sun was in Aries Horned as the Aegyptian Hammon at the Vernal Equinex And Moses promised that God would make their Days As the Days of Heaven Which Increased till the Height and Heat of the Sun and sin and wrath which are all in the Hebr Hamma brought a flood of fire upon their City and Temple about the Height of the Summer Sun And at That Tropick Their Sun Turned again as in Amos 8. And at Hezekiahs sicknesse and our Saviourâ— Death and Declined as their Dayes shortned as Isalm 102 Till the Autumnal Equinox and Great Renewing of the year or Restitution of All things Acts 3 d. At the Great Release and Feast of Tabernacles which we seek and Expect They Entred Canaan on the 10th of the first month As Ezech. saw the New Jerusalem upon the 10th of the 1st month the very day for setting apart the Paschal Lambs It s Noon is hour 234 as before in Enos and the Golden Number And it was 234 years after Jacobs Death We may begin the Great year we discusse At This Entering Canaan or Their Leaving Aegypt Or the first Rearing of the Tabernacle on the first Day of the year On which the Earth appeared Dry to Noah and Hezekiah began to Cleanse the Temple as Ezekiel is Commanded and Ezra began to come from Babylon the first day of the year Flee out of Bobylon make hast and look not back least you partake of her Plagues and Remember Lots Wife But Ezra came not to Jerusalem till the first of the 5 â— the Annual Fast for the Death of Aaron whom Ezra was to supply and with Nehemiah To repair the City Burnt in
the Beast also 42 months And yet they do not seem to end together Except we grant him More then his Reigning Time of 42 Months From his Deadly Wound For he lives and prospers so at the End of 1260 Days that he killeth the 2 Witnesses and They lye Dead 3 dayes and an half which may be 3 years and an half or somewhat more then 3 dayes or 75 Hours and 1335 are 75 more then 1260. And at Rising of the Witnesses the 10th part only of the City fell whether it be the Great City following which Reigned over the Kings of the Earth Or the Holy City Before yet called Sodom where the Lord was slain As in the Prophets And the 10th of that City may allude To Neehmiahs Time When the Tenths of All the people were chosen out by lot to dwell in Ierusalem so that All that City was but as the Tenth of Israel And the Tenth in Esay 6 and other places seems a Type of Gods Elect Or else there may be somewhat more in it For the First Fruits are The Elect whose Heb name is akin to That of First Fruits As we touch on Davids Micol and Baburim in another place But Tenths are proper most to the Iewish Church And when the Fruits of All the Earth come in as All Kingdoms At the Rising of the Witnesses It is no great wonder That Tenths should Fall With All the Ceremonious Pendants To the Iewish Levites And the very word for Dragon is in Hebrew Tan or Tannin and Levitan akin to Levi Tan or Ten And the Levites crying Ten Ten which is Give Give as the Horsleach Else I will Take it with This Fleshook by Force And Levitan may be Levi the Dragon or Cruel Levi. As Their Father Iacob said Adding also But my soul shall not be in their Secret or in Sodam As the word is There and maketh just 666 alluding unto Lots flying out of Sodom to Zoar. As Moab of Lot is bidden in Esay 16. As to mind the Heifer of 3 years old in Gen. 15. Moses told the Levites they were a stiff Rebellious Generation Deut. 31. 25. 27. And it was a Levites Concubine that plaid the Whore at Bethlem Till at length she was filled and divided into 12. As the 10 and 2 Tribes scattered all about Till there were not left 666 Reliques of Benjamin And yet he Had the Ruler Saul and He cut his Oxen As the Levites Concubine and then the Temple came in Little Benjamin The Lord must dwell between His shoulders And the Altar had a corner cut that so it might be all in Benjamin To Devour the Prey in the morning sacrifice and to gnaw the Bones in the Evening As Jacob first and Then the Prophets do allude And the Jews observe the Levites were but 22000 to Teach their 22 Letters for neglecting That They were carried Captive in their 22 d Generation As the Priests cut off by Saul Before Davids New Jerusalem And Solomon Put off Abiathar also the Relique of the Priests And Nehemiah chased a Son of the High Priest allied to Samballat And when Solomon came to Dedicate his Temple which perhaps the Priests expected But As soon As all the people did agree to Blesse the Lord and sing For he is Good Because a mighty word As if He were not Good But That His Mercy doth Endure for Ever Then the Glory of God came Down and Filled the Temple so that the very Best of All the Priests could not Enter or Durst not So that Solomon was fain to Pray will God Indeed Indeed come Dwell in Clay and Blesse the People Which by Gods Command was most Peculier to the Sons of Aaron and Solomon was neither Priest nor Levite But of Judah whence our Lord did spring And he cut off 22000 Beasts in One Day which Themselves compare to the 22000 Levites Adding also that Pompey slew 22000 about the Temple and was Beaten after it by Caesars 22000 To as many more in Pompeys Army As 22000 in That of Apolonius in the Machabes And when Joash came up in the 7th year and did desire the Levites to Repair the Temple or to help it forward They Pretended but 't is said They Hastned it not And again in Twice 7 years The Priests had not Repaired the House as 2 Kings 12. with 2 Cron. 24. as 12 and 24 in all Temple matters And at length They consent to Receive no more money nor to Repair the House which was therefore Put out as the Vineyard To Other persons That did work and do it Faithfully without Priests and Levites Which might be a Type of somewhat in our Saviours Times and Farther And though we read of First Fruits still Even in Ezechiels New Ierusalem Yet of Tithes very Seldom or never that I find in all the Bible of the Gostel Times but of the Pharisees Boast of Paying Tithes and Tithing Mint or Any-seed But the Tenth might also Note The Tribute Paid to Kings over them Which Samuel fixed by the Tenth of All they had or Got. And when the Romans Took the Didragm or half shekle For Redemption of Souls As in Matthew with Josephus They had Tithes also The Common Tribute to Hercules with other Demigods And so the 10th days of all or divers months were mourning fasting Dayes as we saw before And thus the Fall of the Tenth of the City Whither it be Jerusalem or Rome or Any Other or All Others For it may be in All Successively may speak the Fall of All Their Tolls and Tributes Tythes and Offerings or whatever else was Appendant to the Levitical Policy or mearly Jewish Or Legal Bonds or Bondage And They that defend Those things should be sure They come not to confess They have Acted As Jews but were not As in several of the Churches Which were much Distinct Although so near in One Lydian Asian Province That they might have soon made One National Church if That had been the Only way and All their Angels might have laid their Faults upon One High Arch Angel But Ezechiels New Altar rejecteth all the Old Levites that stayed with Israel and Chooseth the House of Zadoch the Righteous as Solomon took him for Abiathar And Ezechiel 45 determines All Tribute to their King also with a strikt Command upon the Prince To Take away his Exactions on his People whose Exactors must be Peace And One of 200 Lambs with a 60th part of Corn or 100 part of Oyle is Fixed for the Tribute But How Long These Tenths or other Tolls may last I know not any Text determines clearer Then the 14th of the Revelation Bringing us To the Feast of Tabernacles in the following Chapters After Harvest and Vintage As Exod. 23. 16 and 34. 22. Deut. 16. 13. As the Ark came Home From 7 Months Wandring as 7 years Release and Rested in the Field of Josuah some Type of Jesus when the Jews were At Their Wheat or Last Harvest Before the Showers fell that were
14th year or 2 d 7th And when I bring back Thy Captivity then I will bring back Sodom also thy sister and Samaria As the 2 wives of David at Ziglag or of Jacob who served twice 7 years and Then had Joseph who was bound as long and Then Foretold the 7 years Famine After 7 of Plenty The Ark was a Captive To the Philistines 7 years and Then was brought home at Wheat Harvest or at the Tabs And Ester was taken into the Royal House in the 10th month of the 7th year And David was Persecuted 7 years or Reigned 7 years and an half at Hebron before he got Jerusalem From the Jebusites who Trod it down as their name in Hebr Till He Took it As a Type of the New Jerusalem And then he made the Solemn Feast to All the People and dismissed All with Bread and Wine and flesh Although it be not called the Feast of Tabernacles As Solomons Dedication was In the 7th Month and Dayes of Tabs with his Solemn Feast After 7 years and 6 Months of his Temple As a Type of that to come in 7 Prophetick years and 6 Months After Which end about the year of Christ 1700. But Davids 7 years and half about 1666. And Nehemiah kept the Feast of Tabernacles and Release As it had not been From Josuahs Time As Neh. 8. 17. And to Clear this by the Numbers in Daniel and the Revelation 1260 or 1290 and 1335 are Dayes or Years As Hâ—urs of signal Fasts Feasts in the Jewish year As first They Fast on the 10th of the 1â—t For Mâ—riams Death and of the 2 d for Elies and his Sons with the Ark Taken Shadowing the Church As the P. Lambs Tyed up and Tryed on the 10th Which we call The Day of Tryal slain on the 14th in Hour of that year 333. As there were 333 Dayes of Hamans Lots From the 13th of the 1st To the 13 of the 12th which was also the Annual Feast for Nicanor slain as Haman at Purim the 14th and 15th of the 12th and there were 333 Dayes between the Day of Tryal and the 13th of the 12th month called Adar Pentecost the 65 t of the year and 65 more To the Great Doom of not Entring into Rest and Burning Both Temples the 9 or 10 of the 5th we call it Dooms Day Which was 65 before Tabs As the Palms or Hozanna was 65 before the Feast of Dedication on the 25 of the 9. As the Fast on the 10 of the 7 was 65 before the Desolation on the 15 of the 9. As the Fast for the Seige on the 10 of the 10 was 65 before the Last of Purim Thus the Passeover was 52 Dayes Before Pentecost the 52 d After Pass As the Fast for Jeroboams Sins was 50 Dayes before Doomsday the 52 d before the Feast of Trumpets And Nehems New Jerusalem was finished in 52 Dayes as weeks of a year or 1260 Hours which are Dayes 52. ½ As 1290 Hours come up to Noon of 54 Dayes Signal To the Jews For Reading the Law in 54 Sections As the City was Burnt 54 Dayes before the Feast of Trumpets And their annuall Fast for Aarons Death was 54 Dayes before the 24 or 25 of the 6 month For Creation in the Talmud and the 2 d Temple in Hag As for Finishing the City in Nâ—h 6. 15. But he was at Jerusalem 3 dayes before he began to work and so 54 or 55 Dayes which make 1290 or 1335 Hours As the Feast of Trumpets was so many Hours After the Day before the City Fired in the last of Kings As Pentecost was 1335 Hours After the first of the Day of Tryal which was 1290 Hours before the Preparation to Pentecost which was 1260 Hours from the Preparation to the Passover which was the first of Hamans Lots and Plots against the Jews As Ester 3. 12. 1260 Dayes are 3 years and 6 Months Ending at the 7th For Release of Hirelings Deut. 18. Esay 16. Or beginning the year in the 7th month As it did in Civils They come out in the 1st month or 1st Pass As 1290 Days in the 2 d month or 2 d Passover And brought up the 3. years Tithes and Offerings with One of the Solemn Confessions and Doxologies in Deut. 26. And the other came with the First Born and First Fruits of Wheat in the 3 d. Month about the Pentecost Which was 1335 Dayes From the said year so beginning in the 7th Month As 1335 Hours From the 1st Hour of the Day of Tryal But 1260 Hours From the Preparation to the Pass-over And for Years The Ark was at Zion in 1260 and the Temple was 1290 Or 1335 From the First Desolation of the Flood As Nehems New Jerus about 1260 from Jacob or 1290 from Joseph in Aegypt or 1335 from Jacobs Flight To Laban As the Dedication in the Macabs was just 1335 from Aegypt or the Golden Calf and 1290 from Their Setling in Canaan or 1260 From their First Bondage of 7 or 8 years To Mesopotamia Typing These 7. Prophetick years as 70. years in Babylon and 70 more To Nehemiahs Times And just 1260 years before the Christians Took Jerusalem A Type of the New Jer. to come And for Dayes also The City was Profaned by Antiocbus but 1260 Days or 3 years and half The Temple was clensed by Judas and Antiochus Dead in 1290 Dayes Azotus Taken and All cleared in 1335. As the Machabes and Jacob Cap. But Eupator got the Tower of Zion and Nicanor Swore to Burn the Temple So that All was not Fully Cleansed Till He was slain in 2300 Dayes from the First Profanation As in Dan. 8. 2300 Dayes are 6 years and as many Dayes As From the 15 of the 9th Month when the Temple was Profaned To the 13 of the 12th For Nicanor slain As Haman before And 2300 Hours come to the Evening Sacrifice of the 96 Day in which Time the Sun cometh from the Vernal Equinex To his Highest Apogeum As From the City Taken by the Caldees on the 9th of the 4th month To the Great Feast of Tabernacles on the 15 of the Seventh And in Lunar Months 2300 days are 6 years and 6 Months Coming to the Great Day of Creation or Finishing the 2 d Temple and Nehems New Jerus the 25 of the 6 Month. Or To the Beginning of the 7th with its Feast of Trumpets and Solemn Release and Feast of Tabernacles kept by Nehemiah So that 2300 Dayes are a Piece of the Law of Release which was a part of the 4th Command For the Lords Sabbath Which may be the Sum of All the Second Table As we saw before And From the Blood of Righteous Abell or First Bondage of the Church of God To the Coming out of Aegypt Or From the Great Declension of the Church In Jareds Time as his Name imports To Davids Zion Or from Enochs Birth To Solomon or from Enochs Translation To Josiah Or from the Flood To our Saviour there were much about
restrained in Harvest As 1 Sam. 6. and 12. 17. and 2 Sam. 21. 10. And Those Showers might hint the Waters of the Spirit To be Poured out at the Joy of of Harvest As the Waters of Bethlehem David Longed for at Harvest Time as 2 Sam. 23. And Samson came to visit his wife in Wheat Harvest and Then Burnt the Philistines Corn. And we may compare Psalm 126. 129. Esay 9. and 12th and 18 With That of Jeremy The Harvest is Past and yet we are not Saved As we hoped by the Types But Is there no Balm in Gilead or the Witness Meetings As of old for Iacob at Gilead and Mispa Samuel also Cryed at a Mispa The Lord is Witness And They Answered Witness And again the Harvest is come and Time of Thressing Babylon Which yet is made Too Narrow by Confining it to One any One City or People in the World It was the Head of All Oppression and Confusion As it signifies And yet it is Too much in my Heart And Babell is Lebab the Heart in Hebrew Turned Backward or Distracted and Confused As Solomom saith Gods work is much to make men see They are but Beasts to themselves Shehem Behema Hemma Lahem and the World is in their Heart and Madness also while we Live and After That we Dye But O Iudah He hath set an Harvest for thee When I return the Captivity of my People Hos 6. 11. And at the Valley of Iehosaphat or Beraca Put in the Sickle For the Harvest is Ripe get you down and Hither Cause Thy Mighty Ones to come For the Wine-Press is Full and the Fat 's Overflow For Their Wickedness is Great And so the Great Doom and Feast of Tabernacles in Zech. To which our Saviour may allude in the Last and Great Day of Tabernacles and the Mighty Ones or Angels to come down At That Day in Ioel and Zech. For They must Ascend first and Then Descend on the Son of Man As the Great Angel in the 14th of the Revelation or the Son of Man Who bid them Let the Tares alone with the Wheat Till the Angel Reapers Came at the Harvest or End of the World And as This Harvest and Vintage began with the Jews and House of God As in the Prophets Gospels and Epistles So it is All measured From That City Sackt and Prest As Grapes in a Winepress As in divers places So that our Saviour makes the Ruin of that City a Shadow of the Great Judgment And the Blood As Moses Song The Blood of Grapes came up to the Bridles of the Horses Tredding it as in the 2 d Woe and it flowed out From the City Trod and Pressed 1600 Furlongs And if Cubits be proper for Days Then Furlongs are proper for Years And so we may find them in Many Places and Cities Built and Sackt or Changed at a signal Number of Furlongs or Miles in their own Buildings or Distance to some others so or so Related to them As the Olbian Tables and Characters And though the Furlong be with some 400 Cubits as before and a year have Fewer Days yet They could not take a Round Number as they call it Nearer To Their Greatest year which had a full Month of 30 Days beyond the Common year As often They were forced to allow When either Floods or Frost did hinder coming To the Passover which God dispensed in Case of Sickness and of Iourney Or the Vernal Equinox were After That which should be the Passover Or their Barly were not Ripe enough For Heaving up the First Fruit Omer Then the Jewish year had near 400 Days And so the word for 2 years space is 800. If m be only 40 in Shenothaim And the Attick Fuclong had not so many Feet as the Roman by 24 or 25 and was no more then One did run in a Breath or 10 seconds As we must Breath about 360 times in an Hower As Dayes in a year And the Ancients measured a Degree by 666 Furlongs The Revelation was at Patmos a Greek Iland Somewhat before 100 of Christ or 60 from His Passion or 30 from the City Sack And we may remember All these years by That of the Good Ground bearing 30 60 or 100. And our Saviour hints somewhat in Furlongs When They had Rowed 30 Furlongs as Himself had lived 30 years They fell into a very Great Storm which might denote the City Storm and Sinking in the War that Rose 30 years After Him Who Walked on the Sea and Calmed the Storm Although They thought him an Evil Spirit As we use to do in All of other Judgments or Practise from us And his First Revelation of himself was at Emaus when they had walked 60 Furlongs As the Revelation was 60 years After his Death And the Roman War full 60 years After his Birth And 60 more To Adrian Rasing the City about 130 years or 1600 months as Furlongs The New Jerusalem is 12000 Furlongs And If they be Months it is but 1000 years as Chapter 20. But if Years and the Circuit be 12000 Then Every side of the Square is 3000. As the years from Shiloh To these Times or very near us As we saw at the Tabernacles 3000 Cubits And if the Temple Cubits be Days 30 by 30 make 3600 and by 20 72000 or 6000 years and the very Porch of 10 by 20 200 by 120 24000 of which before We saw how Ninive did Sack Samaria and Babylon Jerusalem at 666. And They were Distant from them 666 miles and the Least of them 444 Furlongs about As the Biggest 480. And Judah came From Them about 480 years After the Temple Built at 480 years from Egypt Which is also distant by 240 and some parts 480 miles As Haran was 430. And Abraham coming Thence was told of 430 years As Memphis was From the North of Canaan but from Old Babylon 960 As years From Egypt to their coming from Babylon And Babylon was 480 miles from Damascus As it came to be 480 Furlongs or 60 Miles about As one of its Castles 60 Furlongs and its Golden Image 60 Cubits And its River had a Wall of 360 Furlongs And Cyrus took it as Jeremy spake by 360 Sluces as Days in a year Which was also 240 year of Iphitus Olympicks or of Rome 216 or of Nabonassar 210. As His Tygris was 210 Furlongs from Cyrus Susan Which was also much about 210 Furlongs in Circuit As Cyrus Took Babylon 210 years before the Persians End in Alexander Taking Babylon 210 years After Cyrus As Cyrus 210 After Nabonassar and 10 years before his Son began The New Babylon in Egypt or was There with his Sister Meroe for Sheba Daniel speaketh of Cyrus 3 d year and Xenophen of 7 or 8 years Journeys and Ptolomies Canon of 9 years in Babylon The Head of All the Monarchs Nimrod Nabonassar Nebuchadnezzer Nabonidus Darius the Medâ— and Cyrus the Persian Darius Histasp Alexander Seleucus All. Till Rome also lost it self as Alexander did by Gaining
Babylon or Parts about it As Thera in Justine akin to Abraham And Cyrus Took Babylon about 1666 years After its first Building at 100 years After the Flood And Peleg was born 101 and His Name is Scattering as at Babel And to look Westward Creete is about 1600 Furlongs in length and 666 miles from Jerusalem Taken by Pompey As That by Metellus 66 years before our Saviour Eubaea So many Furlongs Round as Days in a Year And Athens Twice so many miles from Jerusalem Or from Canaan about 666. Rome was Built as many years After the First Olympiad As there be Hours in a Day and From the Flood as many years as Hours from Pentecost To the Doom of Both Temples A little before Hoseahs Captivity about 1666 from the Birth of Sem. As about so many Miles from the Tents of Sem or 1600 from Jerusalem And the Blood ran out from the City 1600 Furlongs And there was no place of Canaan so far from Jerusalem or Any of Ezypt much nearer But if it be for years from the First Christian Persecution and the Roman War at 65 1600 years are fully out at 1666. As at 1670 from the City Sackt Or 1695 from the Revelation About 95 by All the Antients but Epiphanius who placeth it sooner As before Thyatyra swallowed by Earthquake But it was soon Rebuilt again As by the Subscriptions of Divers Councels before Strabo and Ptolomy mention it with All the Rest But the Revelation hints an Hour of Darkness and Temptation which must come and Try the World immediately before the New Jerusalem of Those that Conquer in That Last Great assault As when the Foule Spirit was to be Cast out at our Saviours coming Down It Tore the Child most Sore and left him As Dead This Last and Great Hour of Temptation just before the New Jerusalem As Chap. 3. 10 11 12 may be That which afterwards is called The Slaying of the Witnesses Or Tearing and Leaving Them As Dead And some long since described it a Civill Death rather then Natural Or so at least That they be not Buried If Dead but their Carkases lye in the Streets of the City As the Hasidim or Puritans the very word of the Psalm cited in that famous account of the Asideans slain against the Publick Faith that All the People said There is no Truth or Righteousnesse in These that have broken the Covenant and Oath themselves made oâ— Took As both Books of the Machabes and Josephus of Nicanors Time at Purim 333 days from the Passover As Ester is in Heb near 666. Which might also be shadowed in the P Lambs Tied up 3 Days and an Half from the 10th To the midst of the 14th And then slain 3 Hours and Half before the Paschal Supper and 3 Days before the Lambs of the Congregation were Raised or Heaved up with the First Fruit Omer on the 3 d Day As Christ was raised on the 3 d Day And so about the 7th Month also Before the Great Feast of Tabernacles The Jews assert a General Judgement on the Dead of the year before And As the Paschal Lambs were Tyed up in the first month So was Israel in the 7th To a Solemn Fast and Expiation by Blood also Upon the 10th of the 7th And although it were commanded but for One Day Yet They used Fasting much for 3 or 4 Days together as Preparation To the Feast of Tabernacles But They were not slain as the P Lambs and Christians of the Primitive Times but only Lay in Sackcloath and Ashes As Rev 11th Retired or Hidden and Useless To the World but in Fasting and Praying or the Last Act of Their Prophesie Which was hinted before in the Seed Royal slain by Athaliah with Naboth and his Sons in Jezerel which is Prophets or Prophesy in the Seed of God By Jezabel To which the Revelation doth allude But They shall Rise again As we saw before in Joash or the Man Despairing Raised in the year of Release As an Emblem of some Greater Thing to follow Though he Then also Repayred the House of God but slew Zechariah between the Porch and Altar As if Cutting off the Lords Remembrance Hinted All things New and Forgetting Old and all that is past in Esay with the Revelation The First Witnesses were Lambs at Beershebah the next at Mispa and Gilead the Stones of Witness For Jacob and his 2 Wives as Emblems of the 2 Churches of Jews and Gentiles As Davids 2 Wives led Captive from Ziglag and detained 3 days and Then recovered As the 2 Spies of Jericho were Hidden for 3 days and Esters Fast of 3 Days Which was also the Time of Isaaks being Dead in his Fathers eyes and of Egyptian Darkness and of Preparation for the Law and again for Entring Canaan and spying Jericho And for years also Elijah prayed till it rained not for 3 years and Half Samariahs Seige was 3 full years and the Jewish Wars 3 years and Half The Famine for Saul was 3 years and Davids Pestilence 3 days As of Jonas in the Whale And of Jesus in the Grave As Lazarus 3 days and part of the 4th And Paul had 3 days Darkness at Damascus and we read of the 3 d day of his Storm Which ended not Till the 14th Day As the 14th Day for Passover and 14th year in Gen. 14. And the Crises of Jerusalem in the 14th of Amaziah the 14th of Hezekiah And Paul went up to Jerusalem in the 14th year And the 14th Hour of the Day brought up the morning Sacrifice and 14th from the Morn Evening Sacrifice Which may be called the Daily Witnesses At the Tabernacle of Witnesse the Ark of the Testimony and Altar of Witnesse As in Iosuab Iudges Ps Vnto which the Tribes of the Lord go up unto the Testimony of Israel And the Congregation hath an Hebrew Name akin to Witnesse And God calleth them His Witnesses in divers places as in Esay 43. and 44. As the Cloud of Witnesses in Hebrews 12. Yet some special Persons are Especial Witnesses in several Ages As Moses and Aaron Caleb and Josuah Barak and Deborah Lightning and Thunder Elijah and Elisha Zorobabel and Joshuah Nehemiah and Ezra the Helper and the Lords Comforter as Types of Jesus and the Comforter As From Jesus Christ the Faithful Witnesse and again Who is the Amen the Faithful and True Witnesse As in Esay You are my Witnesses and He whom I have Chosen And the Witnesses in Revelation times are Divers As he saw the Souls of them beheaded for the Witnesse of Iesus And the Angel saith I am thy fellow Servant and of the Prophets who have the Witnesse of Iesus And again The Witnesse of Iesus is the Spirit of Prophecy and All that had That Spirit are Witnesses Yet in comparison of others They are very Few and therefore called Two As the Lowest Number which the Law required for Witnesse And there may be Two more especial in the Latter Times also As the Outer Court
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