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
to the Pâ—rch And from Alexanders Death to the Death of the Great Antiochus 135 years and Then to the Birth of Christ 187. As from Epiphanes To the Baptism Or From Nicanors Death To the Death of Christ which was from Alexanders Death or Taking Babylon As many years As there be Or they Reckoned Days in a year And Thus the 500 Cubits from the Eastern Gate to the Western might denote So many years From the First Temple Founded To the 2 d and From the 2 d to the 3 d by Herod Or at least To the Times of Herod and Copâ—nius a Great Roman Governour in Judea Friend to Herod in the Western Gate of Coponius As Mark Antony in the Tower of Antonia And we cannot doubt the Time of Nicanors Death or of Antiochus in the Machabes which tell us Judas heard the Romans had beaten Antiochus and Philip and Perseus the Last King of Macedon which is clear enough from a Great Eclips about the Last Battle in so many That tell us also that Afterwards Popilius went From Aemilius To Antiochus Who had not else been so Easily Charmed in a Circle with a Riding Rod. In That Rage as Daniel foretold he leaveth Egypt and prophanes the City and the Temple in the year 145 and dyeth After Judaâ— Cleansed it in 148. And Nâ—â—anor followed in 151 or 2300 days As Antiochus dyed 1290 Days After the City Profaned At Olymp. 153. Soon after the Last Battle with Persâ—us And Nicanor was Slain in the 7th year After or about Olympid 155 and 188 years more come to Olympiad 202 and we all agree that Christ Dyed Before the 203 d Olympiad And before the year of Christ 1100 the Christians took Antioch Which might mind them of Antiochus and Him that made the Jews Free Denezons of Antioch as they were when the Christians First in Antioch as Josephus and soon After Antioch They Took Jerusalem 1260 years after Antiochus As a Type of the New Jerusalem 1260 years After Antichrist Shadowed by Antiochus In 30 more or 1290 From Antiochus They had Gotten Tyre also and Caesarea and at length Ascalon and Gaza So that in 45 years the Christians were Lords of Canaan As the Jews in 45 After Egypt As Daniels 45 between 1290 and 1335. Till Almerich joyned with the Turks and against his Faith Invaded Egypt and at length his Posterity lost the Kingdom To Saladine of Egypt And although there were more Titular Kings of Jerusalem yet they did Little One being a Leper and another Depozed for Laziness And the War diverted Thence Against the Albigenses And Jerusalem was Sackt again about 135 years After the Christians had it And again After the Sicilian Vespers and before the First Roman Jubilie the Rise of Ottoman 1300. The Porch and House and Oracle were 70 Cubits As the Dedication 70 Days from the First of Tabernacles and the 3 d Days Minha was as 70 Hours And to Measure All the Bible Times by 70 years The 7th Man Enoch was Translateed 7 years After 7 times 70 Doubled at 987. Abrahams Birth or Terahs 70 was not Twice 7 lesse then 28 as Enoch 14 70. And The Promise to Abraham 7 lesse then 29 times 70. David was Jesses 7th Son and from Abraham 14 His 70 years was just the 14th 70 from Abrahams Birth 75. 430. 475 in all 980. And from Daids Death To the Captivity 6 times 70 and 70 more To Their Return From the City Sackt To Ezra Twice 70 and 7 times 70 more or Daniels Weeks To our Saviours Death And so there was between the 2 d of Darius Nothus where some place the 2 d Temple To the City Sackt by Titus in the 70th year of Christ And as we saw All Changes by 3 in 6 or 9 in the Watches So is 1260 found to be 3 times 6 or twice 9 times 70. the Great Age in the Ps that saith The Days of our years are 70 years As if Every year were 70. The 70 Cubits of the Temple Floor were Higher then the First Gate Shushan by 22 Cubits and 22 times 70 years are but 45 more then Christs Birth was after the Tabernacle Reared 45 years before it came to Shiloh The Altar 22 Cubits from the Porch and from the Gate of Nicanor also 22. As 22 Letters and 22 Hours at the Dayly Minha 22 Days of the 1st and 7th month for Dismissing and Blessing the People Solomons Altar 20 Cubits square or 400 by 10 in height 4000 As the Cubits of Ezechiels Waters are 4000. As 4000 years of the World to Christ or the Great Pentecost in Act. 2 d. As the First Fruits of the Spirit Or from Noahs Ark To these Times and a few years farther The Porch 10 and 120 as before 1200. As the Hours between the Passover and Pentecest And so the Temple 60 long by 20 Broad 1200 But the 2 d Temple 60 by 60 3600. As the years from the Promise Till 1670 or 1675. The Holy Courts in length 333 Cubits As Hours to the Passover and Days of Hamans Lots To Purim and years from the Ark at Zion To the Sack of Samaria Or Seige of Jerusalem by Senacherib Or from the 1st Temple to Manasses carryed Captive Or from Solomon to Josiah and 333 more to Alexanders coming to the Temple much about 333 before our Saviour To these Holy Courts They did go up by Steps of 7 Cubits in Ezek. and Josephus from the Court of the Gentiles who were to Tread these Holy Courts 333 by 7 or 666 by 3 and an half or 2331 years And Daniels Vision of 2300 was 31 years after the Chaldean Sack in the 19th of Nebuchadnezar Who reigned 43 or 44 and Evilmerodack 2 as Berosus in Josephus and Daniel had his Vision in the 3 d of Belshazzar Son to Nebuchadnezar or at least his Nephew and Born before the Captivity As in Baruchs Epistles Where are also divers parts of Daniels Prayer And the 5 Steps up to the Womens Court of 135 do make 675 the very years from Daniels Captivity to the City Sackt by Titus 666 from the Chaldean Sack which held them but 60 years As the 60 Cubits of the Golden Image in Daniel And 60 by 6 in Bredth is 360 As Days in a year or years from Their Return to Antiochus And this Image is Father to that of 666. As the Talents of Gold to Solomen and Sons to Adonikam in Ezra 666. 15 Steps for the 15 Psalms of Degrees do make the Inward Court of 187 to be 2705. As years from the 1st Temple to These Times and the Outer Court of 135 at the Gate of Nicanor 2025. And 2025 years do come from Nicanor There with Alexander Till 1695 which may be very Signall For the Little Horn from Alex. also For if That or the 2 d Woe be the House of Ottoman with Horses Spitting Fire or Gunpowder Their Hower-glass may be Out at 1695 or sooner being a Year and a Month and a Day and an Hour from 1300 the
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
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
360 Hours and before 366 the midnight of their 16th day when it was to be Heaved up After 365 Hours As Enoch was After he had lived 365 years as dayes of a year and begat his Son at 65 as dayes to Pentecost and the next came at 187 as dayes of their year To Atonement and between the Equinoctials as before And from Enochs Translation the following thing◠〈◊〉 the Bible may be found in Consâ—â—… to the dayes hours of the Jewish year and Sections of the Pentateuch which are 669 as the years between Enoch and the Flood were 669. The Ark was begun at Noahs 480 as the Temple at 480 from Egypt and the Great Day of Unleavened Bread began at Hour 480 but of the World 1536 and Hour 1536 began the Pentecost which they say continued through the 70th day Which began at Hour 1656 as the Flood in the year 1656 And its first 40 dayes Rain may be Types of the first 40 years of the second Ark in the Wilderness before it came to rest at Shiloh in as many years after the first Ark began as there are Hours in 40 Dayes which are 960. And the first Pentecost in Canaan was as many years after Enoch as there were Hours in the Jewish year to Pentecost or its Preparation And from the first Pentecost in Canaan To the Times of Jeroboam and the Caldean Sack or Desolation by Antiochus or by the Romans and divers others were as many Years as Hours between the Pentecost and Dayes on which those Desolations happened And if we may not guess at things to come by what is past in all the World and Works of God in all ages yet we may say that 1666 After Christ is as many years After their first Pentecost in Canaan or first coming to it as there were Hours from Pentecost to the feast of Tabernacles that is 3120 for they entered Canaan 1455 years before Christ and 1665 more do make 3120 as Hours in 130 dayes from Pentecost to the feast of Tabernacles Or if any please to reckon from some latter Pentecost As That in Acts 2. we may find it As many years from Egypt and their coming thence as there were Hours in the Jewish year to Pentecost or its Preparation And 1666 will be as many years After that Pentecost in Acts 2. as there were Hours from Pentecost to their Great Dooms day against their Entring into Rest and of Burning both Temples on the 9th or 10th of the 5th Mon. But the Author rather thinketh that already past and fulfilled in the Roman Sack of Jerusalem and Burning the last Temple which was as many years After their first Pentecost in Canaan as That Day is Hours from the first Hour of Pentecost and as many years before these times of Christ as there are Hours from their Dooms day To the Feast of Tabernacles which can be but 1600 After 69 of Christ And the Revelations shew the Feast of Tabernacles or Gods Tabernacle with men After the great Harvest and Vintage also which ran out from the City Sacked or Troden in That Vintage 1600 Furlongs as Apoc. 14. And although Furlongs may seem to represent Months or other times as well as Years as there are much about 1600 Months in the Jewish Wars till Adrian raced the City yet they are most proper for years of which there are many instances As Cubits are most proper for Dayes of 24 Hours as They had 24 Digits So the Cubits of the Ark do make the very years of the Ark Driven by the Flood out of the Dragons mouth from 1250 to 1335. As the years between the first and the second Ark at Zion and Davids New Jerusalem with the first Temple Or from Jacobs Service Josephs Bonds or Israels Bondage unto Nehemiahs New Jerusalem Or from Egypt and the Golden Calf and Tabernacle To the Great Dedication in the Maccabees Or from That Desolation by Antiochus To the Christians Reigning in Jerusalem Or from Julian in Jerusalem and from Romes Deadly Wound or Sack till about 1666 now coming Yet as Prophetick dayes may be years so may Cubits also in lesser bodies as the Tabernacle Where the open Court was a hundred Cubits and the Tabernacle closed 3000 which are but 20 less then the Hours between Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles As if the very Cubits of the Tabernacle might denote the years from It Flitting in the Wilderness to the Feast of Tabernacles coming And as the Arks Cubits might note the Churches years driven by the Flood and filled with Beasts rather than men and Trodden by them so the very Cubits of the Beasts skins about the Tabernacles might denote how long those Beasts should press the Church or hold it in Or how long it should be under Veils and Coverings Seeing God himself did after use the Ram and Goat whose Skins and Hair did cover the Tabernacle for Emblems of some of those Monarchies which were all shewed to Abraham and even named in the four Kings he conquered before he met Melchizedeck a Type of Christ at his second coming and in his great Vision when he saw the Time of their coming out of Egypt and those four Monarchies with all the kinds of Birds and Beasts appointed for sacrifice And the Cubits in the Temple and its Courts may represent the years to Christ and other great Periods of Time in the Bible As is here at large discussed And for fixing Times Abrahams birth which hath so divided all Cronologers between his Fathers 70 years and 130 is by these accounts fixed 2000 years before Châ—â—â—â— As 2000 Cubits in the Tabernacle before the most holy Place and 2000 Cubits between the Camp and the Ark and 2000 Cubits in their Sabbath dayes Journey and 2000 Cubits in the Suburbs of their holy Cities And Those 2000 years are parted by 75 before his Call or coming into Canaan as 75 Sons and Nephews of Noah 75 Souls of Jacobs going into Egypt 75 Ancestours of Christ in Luke 75 Dayes from the City Sackt to the Day of Dedication of the second Temple and of Nehemiahs Jerusalem and from the Day of Atonement To the Dedication by the Maccabees and from the Fast for the first Captivity in the 9th Month to the Feast of Purim and 75 Cubits from the Outer Gate to the holy Courts about the Temple And 75 is the Difference between 1260 and 1335 in Daniel and the Revelation And 430 years from Abrahams Entring into Canaan and their Going out of Egypt and receiving the Law Which was 1495 years before our Saviour As the very Number of the Hebrew Alphabet by which God wrote the Law is just 1495 and so parted as the years from Egypt By 9 Unites making 45 As years to the Ark at Shiloh and 9 Decimals making 450 As years to the Ark at Zion 45 years before the Temple finished which was 1000 years before our Saviour As their Centenaries K R S T or Christ do make 1000 or at most 1005. As
4 in breadth do make 1320. And so many days do make 44 months and beginning at Nisan they end at the 9th month of the 4th year which had the Great Feast of Dedication for the Temple freed from the Rams or Goats hair of Antiochus Or beginning in Tizri as in Civils They bring up All the 3 years Tithes and Offerings with the First Fruits and First born and both Solemn Confessions and Doxologies of Deut. 26. At the Pentecost of the 4th year Which was 1320 days After the Passover of the 4th year before it As 1335 days After the Feast of Trumpets or the Trumpet of Release As 1335 Hours After the first Hour of the day of Trvall And so many years come from the Tabernacle Reared To the Great Dedication in the Machabes Death of Antiochus or Nicanor As we may find at the Temple Gate Nicanor If the 3 Outer Coverings are equall of 330 by 4 in each They make 3960 Cubits 40 short of Ezechiels 4000 As the 40 years After Christ to the City Sacked And to our Saviours First Acting in the Temple there are just 3960 years of the World in Scaliger and Those that follow him And from the Flood so many years come out about 1666 now coming and so do the 2 Utter Coverings from Jeroboams Flood As a Type of that to Fill the Breadth of Thy Land O Emanuel which come out at 1666. The Badgers Skins as uppermost may be Largest And 1335 as in Daniel But 1320 come from Christs Being in the Temple or the Temples End To the Templers End in one day and the Popes Flying to Avignion At the shaking Times of Ottoman and the Imperial States Protesting against the Popes Right in Electing Emperours And from the Great Apostacy in Julians days They come to the Times in which we live But we come to the Temple Measures And if Josephus rightly place the 2 d Walls on the first Pillars called Solomons Walks or Porches in our Saviours Time They were 500 Cubits every side As the Sept. Vulgarlat read Ezech. 42. not 500 Kanes as others So that All the Sides of the Square did make 2000. As the Levites Suburbs the Distance of the Ark and the Sabbath days Journey and the Square Cubits in the Tabernacle before the Oracle And the years from Abraham to our Saviour 2000. We shall begin As They Entred with the Sun from East to West and so from Haran at first and from Moab Over Jordan and from Babylon and Persia With its Royall Shushan on the first Eastern Gate of the 2 d Temple called Shushan 80 Cubits to the Rising of the Womens Court. As 80 days before the Woman came Thither of a Woman Child As Zion of her Daughter in Mic. 4. The Man-childe was not Born till her Last Throwes as themselves express on Es 66. As 80 Hours of Creation before the Moon and Sun did meet For they were not seen till the 4th Morning And 80 years From Shushan and Cyrus to Ezra Seperating the strange Women and making This Womens Court called Aezra from Ezra Help and so they Blessed as the Ps taught them when the Women or the Mourners took the Left hand Walk as others did the Right The Lord Bless thee out of Zion and send thee Help Out of his Holy Place though thou may not come in it But only look towards it As Jonah did when he was cast out of His Holy Place or Presence The 80th year from Cyrus Taking Babylon As he is called K. of Babylon in Ezra 5. And Thence he gave the Temple Vessels falleth within the 80th Olymp or the 8th of Artaxerxes Long and just 490 years before the Last of Olymp 202 d. Agreed for our Saviours Passion by the Great Earth-make and the strange Eclips in Phlegon and many others The 13 First Cubits in the Gate-house as Ezech. 40. 11. may represent the First Light coming up at 13 Hours of Creation and the 13 Days of their year before the Passover and the first 13 weeks in the year between the Solstice and the Tropick As the 13 months of the year and the 13 years between the Temple Founded and Finished or at least Revived in the 2 d of Darius in the 65 t Olympiad And the 65 Cubits before the Holy Courts As 65 Hours to the Noon of the 3 d Day and the 65 Days in the Jewish year as before and 65 years between the 2 d of Darius in the 65 t Olympiad and the 7th or 8th of Artax When Ezra came up at Olympiad 80 and 80 years After Zerubbabel from about 80 Degrees of Longitude To Jerusalem at 65. As the first Fruits of Emanuel in Esay 7 were 65 years before Jerusalem was freed from Those 2 Kingdoms and our Emanuel 65 years before the Christian Persecutions and the Roman Times Shadowed in the Cuthites contending with Nehemiah Who came after Ezra full 11 years and so there were 11 Cubits in the first Verge of the Holy Courts they called Heb Between The Hill and the Help As Heaven After Hell with its Staires and Latices As the Canticles allude in the Gentiles or Unclean Vnder the Staires and behind the Latices Then came the Womens Court and Ezra's Great Work was To Seperate the Women As their Ruine came by Women Esay 3 d and 32 d with Ezra and Nehemiah just 135 Cubits Long and in the Talmud Square As 135 Hours of Creation before Any Woman Or To the First Morning of Adam and From Tying up the Lambs to Heaving up the First Omer were 135 Hours As 135 Days between the Pentecost and Palms or Great Hozannah Closing the Tabernacles And 135 years To the Great Era of the Greeks and Jews Great Friend Nicanor And 135 more to Antiochus and their Great Enemy Nicanor As the Gate Nicanor At this Womans Court 135 Cubits from Hell and the Death of Nicanor on the 13th of Adar 135 Dayes After the Day of Solemn Covenant both of Men and Women in This Womens Court At the close of the Tabernacles Nehemiah 8 and 9. As 135 years before from the First Temple Founded to Joash who Repaired it From the Gate of Nicanor The Inward Court of Israel and the Priests In length 187 Cubits that is 135 and 52 for Nehemiahs Days As Weeks in a year and 187 Hours came to the Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day For Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath And 187 Days To the Great Atonement As Autumnal Equinox 187 Days After the Vernal And the Great Feast in Ester was 187 days And the Pentatcuch 187 Chapters And 187 years From the 2 d Temple Begun or Finished To Alexanders Reign or Coming To it Or Taking Babylon and Dying at it much about 11 years before the First Nicanor As there were 11 Cubits From the Gentiles Court To That of Nicanor and 11 more from the Gate of Nicanor To the Levits Railes and Ducans parting Israel and the Priests As Twice 11 Before the Altar Twice 11
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
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
2300 years And from Jehojackims Captivity Till about 1680 of Christ As from the Chaldean Sack To 1691 or there about 2300 years And to clear our way by Daies and Howers of the Jewish year Pliny saith The First consent of Nations was in Letters and the 3 d in Hours Which are first in Daniel at Bab. Whence the Grecians had the Pole and Gnomon with 12 parts of the Day in Herodotus And of Hours the Magi speak to Seleucus Founding Seleucia in Appian And Semiramis Column was of 24 to above 144. As Hours of a Day and a week Lâ—â—edaemon had a Sun-Dyall from Thales or one of His Scholers as old as Cyrus And Plato speaks of Dayly Prayer in a Temple for about the 3 d part of an Hour And Homers Works were parted in Pisistratus by 24. As Hours of the Day and Letters of the Alphabet Which made the Famous Charm in Zonâ—ras that cost so many lives As Names had such or such Letters Time was first parted they say about Phoroneus whom they call the First Man Whence the Forum Pharos and perhaps the name of Pharoh came His Neece or Sister â—… was the Great Isis or Isa Woman Wife and Sara Great in Aegypt much about the time of Isis Gathering up the 24 pieces of Osyris the Sun and Moon with 24 Hours From Hâ—oâ— the Light Or their Horus Son to Osyris or Mizraim the Son of Ham or Hammon and the 12th from Adam As was Chush in Susiana and Javan in Jonia Whence 12 Ancient Gods as Agamemnons Sacrifice 12 Signs 12 months 12 Digits of Sun and Moon with 12 Hours of Day and Night As Egypt had them parted by the Urine of their Cynocephalus or other Living Hour-Glass So the Jews Chaldeans Grecians Romans All Nations Julians Hymns speak As if Plato learned Numbers From Heaven Which a Great Man expounds by the Moons moving 12 Degrees a Day But if her Hourly Motion be Equal to her Diameter or Seldom less then 47 to 48 As Albategnus Then As Day and Night by the Sun Moving 2 Diameters So Hours are made by the Moon moving 24 of Hers To 2 of the Suns And This became the Common Proportion to the Sun and Moon of Metalls Gold and Silver And if Ptolomies Lansbergius Observations be True the Suns Diameter is 24 times Bigger then the Earths Or else the Square of This is 24 times in the Great Circles Area So that Hours may come From Those Proportions of the Sun or Earth About the Sun As Job saith God Sealed up the Sun that it cannot Rise and Turneth the Earth about And yet the Sun may have especial Times of Standing still or Solstice As in Josuah Or of Turning at the Tropick in Hezekiah So the Tropicks are about 24 Degrees from the Aequator As the Polar Circles From the Pole And the Winds in Vitruvius 24. As in Mâ—nilius 12. And Aristotle names Eleven But in Charlemagn They were almost Thrice as many The Ancients Moulded All by 12 or 24. The Great Amphiction Counsel of 12 Counties with double Votes or 24 As Aeschines The Eleutherolacones 24 Towns As the Jonians 12 in Greece and 12 in Asia So the Achaeans 12 Cities and 24 persons in their Councel at Highest When Dieus pressed 24 might be delivered up They quitted place and fled to the Romans Who had 12 and 24 in Vulturs Augurs Fasces Flamens Tables of their Laws and other things from the 12 Tribes of the Old Tuscans or Grecians akin to the Jews in Machabes with 12 Gods Trying Mars As 12 Men Orestes and Others in Areopagus And 12 Labours of Hercules As the Sun in 12 Signes and 12 Hours Rome was Built 24 years After the First Olymp. and had 24 Gates 24 Parishes 24 Cardinals 24 Articles And How they parted their Aes and Estats As their Dayes by 12 is observed by Galen in a Place worth Reading Brittain had 24 Flamens with their Watchers and as many Bishops by 12 and 12. As in the Popes Letters to Austine And the Laws permitted Mariage and required Oaths of Fealty at 12 years age with Juries of 12. and 24 Aldermen Moses saith God Parted out the Heavens to the Nations and They parted them by 12 or 24. And again When he Parted the Sons of Adam he set their Bâ—unds As the Sons of Israel which were 12. As 12 Light Hours After 12 Dark As the Elder Brothers For Time began with Evening before Morning As in Divers Nations And is counted by Nights As Sevenights and Fortnights with English who are Hebrews Calling Night Even to the Day As First it was and so is still about the Equator Their Span had 12 Digits and the Cubit 24. As 240 Gress or 400 Cubits made the Furlong and 24 Furlongs an Hours way they called â—ech Whence our League or Leash of 3 Miles Esay saith God Spanned out the Heavens which were parted by 12 As Their Span. And David Saith Thou hast made my Dayes as a Palm or Tap of 24. as Barley Corns which being soonest ripe was Measure to their Measures An Heb word akin to That they use for Thoughts and Hayrs As the English say a Thought more or lesse and To an Hayr or Hayrs bredth and Cutting Hayr is as old as Hours in Pliny And from Barly Corns To Digits and Inches 12 Inches a Foot As 24 the Rule or Regle Foot in Heb 24 Foot the Perch as Stafford and 24 of Hen. 8. in the Exchequer 24 Blancks a Perit 20 Perits a Droit 24 Droits a Mite and 20 Mites a Grain 24 Grains a Penny and 20 Pennies an Ounce of 24 Scruples and 12 Ounces a Pound But the Hebrew Pound 1200 Gerahs 120 Drams of 60 grains or 60 Sheckles Whence the English Skales 6 Obbols made the Attick 12 the Heb Dram and 24 their Shekle and their Selang as the English Shilling or 12 d. and 24 Aldermen 3000 Shekels made the Talent which was still 6000 Drams But Double to the Grecian So that an Attick Talent of Gold as the Sun to the Jewish Moon of 360 l. As Days in their year And if Paul of Times at Areopagus do allude to That of Moses Then are Times also parted as the Sons of Israel by 12. Jacobs hand on Esau's heel in Ezdras the beginning of a New World As One of the 12 the Jewes record for Doubling the Old as they speak He was from Noah the 12th and Born 12 years after the Death of Arphaxad the 12th from Adam As we saw Chush Mizraim and Javan And as Eber or Ever had Jerâ—ah the Moon with 12 Brethren as 12 Months or 12 Hours of Night in Hazar Maveth So Jacob 12 Sons of Light as Ishmael 12 of Darkness And at all Great Changes of the World we see a signal 12. or 24. As Sodoms 12 years Bondage as hours of Darkness Before the Light with Ab. Who had the Seal and Promise of Isaak at 24 Or 99 from 75. His Eldest Nephews Ishmaels 12 As Esaus before Jacobs
From Aegypt 12 Tribes 12 Fountains 12 Stones in Jordan 12 more at Gilgali and at Eball God Appointed 12 Princes and Then 12 Parâ—ers to Divide the Land And who made me a Judge or a Divider David was the 12th from Jacob and the 24th from Noah Then a Giant had 24 Digits And his Last Battle with Abner Father of Light destroyed 12 on either side with 360 for Dayes and Hours also To make a New World at His New Jerusalem And Time Passed away Vpon Him and All Kingdoms As 1 Cron. 29 30 As Time Passeth away at the 7th Trumpet before the New Jerusalem And for Watches of 3 Hours Samuel spake to Saul of 3 Dayes 3 Men 3 Kids and 3 Loaves David had 3 Brethren with Saul who had 3 Sons Slain together hid himself 3 Dayes and then bowed 3 times to Jonathan and had 3 Sons of Serviah with 3 other Worthies 3 years of Famine and 3 Dayes of Pestilence which he Chose before 3 Months War or 3 years Dearth Absalon was banished 3 years and had 3 Sons and 3 Darts in his Heart Elijah Stretched on the Child 3 times and bid them pour water thrice on his Altar Which had 12 Stones and 12 Barrels of Water And Elisha ploughed with 12 Yoak of Oxen and himself with the 12th Ezra from Ahava the 12th Day with 12 Priests and 12 Levites offering 12 Bullocks and 12 Goats at Jerusalem Nehemiah's Time had 12 Elders and 12 Levites keeping Watches in Reading Singing Praising and Praying Whence haply Watching to Pray And comparing him with Zech. we may find 12 Gates in his New Jerusalem on the 24th of the 6th Month As His Covenant on the 24th of the 7th As Daniels Great Vision was the 24th of the first Zechs the 24th of the 10 h Haggies the 24th of the 6 t and 24th of the 9th From this Day I will Bless you As the 2 d Temple was Founded on the 24th and afterwards clensed on the 25th of the 9th in Hagâ—y and Machabes Our Saviour wiâ—h the Doctors at 12 years had 12 Disciples 12 Baskets and 7 Loaves for 7 Dayes and 12 Hours and healed an issue of 12 and Raised one of 12 years Which may allude To the 12 hours of Darkness As the 12 years of Sodoms Bondage which may be Types of 12 Prophetick years before His Coming To fulfill That of Ab. and Melchizedeck Blessing him by the Most High God Possessor of Earth as of Heaven before As our Saviour when he exulted in Spirit and the 24 Elders or Presidents of All the 24 Hours At the Trumpet of the 7th Month in Rev. 11. For Every month began with Trumpets But the Feast of Trumpets did begin the 7th For Atonement Release and Tabernacles The Jews Holy things in 12 and 24. The Common Title of their Bibles is The 24. And the First hath 12 Great Sections As the last 12 Little Prophets And the Priests had 24 things from God and offered 24 or 12 Cakes in 24 halves Dayly And the Shew-bread was in 12 of 24 Omers As 24 Leviticus 12 Holy Garments had 12 Pretious Stones in Ouches Kâ—hath 24 Cities Or Levi Twice 24. As the Little Sections of Genesis The Temple Courts 24 Cubits high and either walk had 24 Pillers of 12 Cubits round As the Brazen Sea had 12 Oxen and Both Temples As Ezekiels 12 Little Chambers on either side As Day and Night had 12 hours apiece Their Last Altar 24 Cubits As they took Ezech 43 of 12 and 12. Though some of 12 by 12 or 144 As the Walls of the New Jerusalem With 12 Gates 12 Pearls 12 Fruits The Woman in the Sun with the Moon and 12 Stars As Josephs Dream of Sun and Moon and 12 Stars All the Standers or their Representatives As the Priests and Levits with Nethinims Singers Porters or Watchers at 24 places in 24 Courses by David from Noah the 24th The Camp and Levits Under 4 Standards as the 4 Watches And our Saviour walked on the Sea at the 4th Watch. As the Roman Times had 4 Watches both of Day and Night in Censorinus First about Camillus Time we find their Hours in Livy Watches in their Ancient Laws and Histories As Scipio came to Trebia the 4th Watch. Hanibal for Tarentum at the 4th Watch. Antiochus fled To Sardis by Midnight and to Apamea by the 4th Watch. Crassus jested at Dejotarus Building in the 4th Watch or 11th Hour of his Life The Little Watches had but 3 Hours a piece Though some contend for 4 and a Middle Watch in Judges As our Saviours Twelve Hours parted at the 3 d and 6 t and 9th And so the Watchers which is Daniels word Cryed Holy Holy Holy Thrice As 3 Hours in a Watch. But Antient Copies have it 9 times the square of 3 and both were Sacred to Others also For their 3 Graces and 9 Muses And as 1 and 2 make 3 and 3 more 6 or twice 3 So the Sum of These 3 differs from the next 3 by 9. and the 3 d 3 maketh 24. As the 3 d from it 42 which is 24 Turned 24 and 42 make 66. As the 7th 3 60. and the 8th 69. For the Summes differ All by 9. And They are Up and down or forward and backward the Same figures 0. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. As in this Table 1. 2. 3. = 06. 4. 5. 6. = 15. 7. 8. 9. = 24. 10. 11. 12. = 33. 13. 14. 15. = 42. 16. 17. 18. = 51. 19. 20. 21. = 60. And supposing Numbers to be Lines As there are but 4 Simple Chords as 4 Watches So but 8 Simple Arks As the parts of Day and Night are Arks in Heaven And as 4 is the First of All Sonares as its Name in Heb. So is 8 of Cubes which may All be Resolved by 8 As Sonares by 4. And as 4 and 8 make 12 which is 3 times 4 So 3 times 8 make 24 As Hours in All the Watches Arks of Heaven Which are All easily parted by 3 which is to Slice in Hebr. As Each Ark is made of 3 differing lesser Arks or Sides of a Triangle Which may also be represented by 3 Points As a Chord by 2. And if we find the Proper sound of All these Characters and give them Proper Names We may express All Persons Things and Motions with their Moods and Times In an Easy way of Speaking and Writing With an Alphabet of Natures plainest Characters As Points for Spirits and Vowels Chords for the 4 Liquids and Simple Bodies As Archs for Mixt or Mâ—â—es which may be made Aspirate Or Animate by a Point or Spirit in them and of Things also To be Known by Characters expressed by Proper Sounds But to the Jewish Watches As the Less had 3 Hours apiece so the Greater 6. and so the Greatest Harmonies are made by Halves and Quarters to their Wholes As Eights and Fifts and Thirds in Musick And As Day or Night had 4 of 3 a piece So Both together 4 of 6 apiece
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
and Firing the 2 d Temple on the Day of their Heavy Doom and of Firing the First Temple Which was but a Type or Shadow of the 2 d Fired much about 666 years After the first and about 1536 years After their Entring Canaan As Pentecost was 1536 Hours of the year and the 9th of the 5 t month 1536 Hours Af-the first Hour and the 10th 1536 Hours After the Last Hour of Pentecost Upon the 3 d of the 7th they Fast again for Gedaliah and the 70 slain by Ishmael A plain Type of the Turk or Saracen whom They call Ishmael who Took Jerusalem from the Christians on the very 2 d Day of That 7th month in Bapt. Grammay and others As they Fast the 3 d. The 15th of That 7th month must begin the Great Feast of Tabernacles and it can be but 1600 Hours After the Day of Doom or Burning of the Temples and it Therefore must be within 1600 years if an Hour be As a year After the City Sacked in 69 or 70 of Christ As the Blood of the Vintage before the Tabernacles in the Revel ran out 1600 furlongs from the City which was then Sacked And if it were Burnt in the very morning of the 9th Day of the 5 t month yet Tabs must come at 1669 or 1670. And it seemeth to begin sooner As the Sack was rather on the 10th then 9th and so nearer To the Tabernacles For they say it was the very same Day and same Course as the old Hâ—b Ode on which the First Temple was Burnt and That was the 10th Day As Jer 52. 12. Though the City Burnt 2 or 3 days before as 2 Kings 25. And suppose it were the very First Hour of the 9th day yet there can be but 22 days of the 5 t month and 30 days of the 6 â— and 15 more to the Close of the first of Tabernacles When they first began their Dancing and Joy of Pouring out Waters Though the King did not begin to Read the Law Till Afterwards As the Law Commanded it At the Close of the year and Feast of Tabernacles As our Saviour did not appear at That Feast in John 7. Till the Latter End In the Last and Great Day of the Feast He stood and Cryed O Every One that Thirsteth 22 and 30 and 15 Dayes are 67 which are Hours 1608 and by This account the day of Tabernacles must begin 12 Hours or Years before 1678 which is just 1666. If we rightly account it by the Hours of the Jewish Years We may Confirm This by all the Cubits Shekles and other things in the Bible As first the Verses and Sections of the Pentateuch in the Mazoreth Genesâ—s hath 12 Great Sections as the year 12 months and 50 Chapters as the Lunar year hath 50 weeks as 50 Days between the Passover and Pentecost and 1534 verses As the year had Hours To the evening sacrifice before the Pentecost and as the World had years To the first Command and model of the Church in Noahs Arke as we saw before 120 years before the Flood Exodus hath 11 Sections As the year had 11 months After That in which they came out and 40 Chapters As 40 years between the Exodus and Canaan and 1209 Verses As hours from the Passover at which they came out To the morning of Pentecost and so many years there were from the Ark to Jephta or from the Flood To David Or from Josephs Death To Ezra or Nehemiah Leviticus hath 10 Great Sections as of Tenâ—hs for Priests and Levits And the Law was Given at Pentecost 10 months before the End of the year and 52 smaller As Pentecost was the 52 d day from the Passover and Nehemiahs New Jâ—rusalem in 52 days as weeks of a Solar year and 859 Verses or twice 430. As years from the Flood to the Maâ—riage of Isaak Or From the Promise To the Law and from Thence to David or from entring Canaan To Solomon or from the Ark at Shiloh to the Temple or from Thence To the Captivity and 430 more To the Machabes Numbers hath also 10 Great Sections as 10 days to the Tryal of the P Lambs 10 weeks To the Close of Pentecost or 10 months To the Great Dedication in the Machabes with 66 little Sections which they call Sethume Secret with the flittings of the Ark and Camp Through the Wildernesse its Heb name in 1288 verses as years of the Church in the Wildernesse As in Daniel 1290. And so many Hours bring up 54 days As from the day of Tryal to Pentecost or Preparation To it And from Pentecost To the day of Aarons Death and Thence To the Great day of Creation or of the 2 d Temple and the New Jerusalem in Hag. and Neh. who began the 54 Law Lectures for 54 days Deuteronomie hath 1055 verses as Hours from the first Omer Heaved unto Pentecost or years from Abrahams Father To David or from David To our Saviour or from our Saviours Death and the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d To the Christians Reigning in Canaan All the Chapters of the Pentateuch are 187 As Hours To the Ev. sic of the 8th day for Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath and as dayes To Atonement and between the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox of years again in the Temple Courts All its little Sections are 669 as Hours To the Ev. Sac. of the 28 h or 4th 7th day the last of the month of weeks as years from Enochs Translation To the Flood 669. All its verses 5945 As years to the Preparation To the Great Sabbath of 7000 years In which also the Suns Apogeum cometh about To the same point it had at first Shall we come to the Numbers in the Heb. Alphabet when God did first write the Law as it is in Exodus he left out Teth the first letter of their Only word for Good As hinting that He gave them Laws at first Not Good as in Ezckiel Afterwards he repeated it as in Deut with Teth added and a special Emphasis upon the word of Good That it may be Good or well with Thee and Thy Children c. And the 9 first Letters of that Alphabet wch end in Teth are Units and do make 45 as years from the Law To the Ark at Shiloh or Caleb at Hebron Jos 14. The 9 next letters are Decimals and make 450. as years from the Law To the Ark at Zion and the first New Jerusalem when David came from Hebron Or from Calebs being there or the Ark at Shiloh To the Temple finished The 4 last are Centenaries making K. R. S. T or Christ and 1000. As years from the Temple finished To Christ who was from the latter end of Moses 1460 years As in the Great Aeâ—yptian Sotâ— or Julian Cycle before But from Aegypt and the Law He was just 1495 years as the Number of the Hebr Alphabet by which God wrot the Law at Horch where Moses was about 1495 years after Enoch and 1495 years before
And Though 600 was a Common Number As 600 Danits Sacking Lâ—â—hish and the Guard of Saul Or David was 600 As the Reliques of Benjamin Cum Sexeentis aliis in a Proverb yet It might hint out Times also As from Abel to Enoch From Jared to Noah From Noah to the Flood From the Flood to Jacobs Death From Jacob to David and thence almost 600 To the 2 d Temple Finished Which stood 600 years As it had 600 Pillers in Jâ—sephus and the First Temple Targets of 600. David had 600 Men to follow him but recoverd his Wives and others of Ziglag by 400 As it was 400 years from entring into Canaan And the Temple Pillers had 400 Pomgranats with so many Granes perhaps as Hours in a Year For the Poets Proserpina did tast 7 Granes as the Moon was 7 Hours below the Horizon And the Pomgranat is the Badg of Canaan in the Hand of Jupiter Cossins They are Rimmons in Heb. as the 400 Benjamites at Rimmon And Solomons Rimmons in the Canticles and on his Pillers may denote years from Boaz or Jachin in the 24 Courses of the 24th of Cron. to another Jachin with Eliashiâ— As the First was whose Names do signifie God will bring Back and build up and Establish And Those Pillers stood 400 years As the Square of his Altar was 400 Cubits And so some reckon his Walks about the Temple Courts a Furlong or 400 Cubits And to come to the Bible Cubits Noahs Ark was 300 Cubits long and 50 broad And Noah lived 300 and 50 from the Flood As also 300 and 50 to Abraham at Terahs 130. But Cubits are for days of 24 Digits in 2 Spans with Jews and Others As the Great Egyptian King had his Sepulcher Circled with a Ring of 365 Cubits as Days in a year And as the month had 30 days and then the Moon is Hid as the First Light was hid in 30 Hours So the Ark had 30 Cubits Height And so 300 Cubits Long may be 300 months which by 50 Broad do make 1250 years of 30 days to a month Or if All had not full 30 days they may be 1260. Or if we must allow another Cubit closing up the Ark at Top as some reckon it they may come up to 1290 or 1335. And so the Cubits of the Ark may represent the years it should be Driven by the Flood out of the Dragons mouth and be filled with Beasts rather then men and be Trodden by them And if Abraham was born at Terahs 70 then 1250 or 1260 years of the 1st Ark brought up the 2 d to Zion and 1290 the Temple But if Abraham was born at 130 then the Temple was 1335 from the Flood which was 350 years before Terahs 130. And 350 with 75 430 and 480 do make up just 1335. As from Jacobs Flight or Service Till Nehemiahs New Jerusal or from the Golden Calf or Image of the Beast in the Psalm To the Great Dedication in the Machabes And the Sons of Both Elams in Ezra and Nehemiah were 1254. but 6 less then 1260 or 6 more then the Hours of 52 Days of Nehemiahs New Jerus As years from Israel in Egypt And whether Abrahams Birth was at 70 or 130 yet it may be just 2000 years before our Saviour As 2000 Cubits in the Levites City Suburbs and 2000 Cubits from the Camp to the Ark and 2000 Cubits in their Sabbath Days Journey As their Comments on Ruth and Josua And Cubits might come to represent years As days are years in the Prophets and the word for days is also for years and so may Cubits also Though the Ark had Bulk enough to shew them in their proper use The Tabernacles Length as the Arks Height 30 by 10 in breadth 300 as the Arks Length and by 10 in Height 3000. that is 2000 as the Levites Cities Arks Distance and Sabbaths Journey in the 1st Holy place and 1000 in the Oracle Parted by a Veile of 10 by 10 or 100 As the First 100 years of Christs Body Rent as the Vaile at his Passion in the 1st Tearing of Christians and Jews also From the City Sacked To the Revelation or the Vaile Removed and Ark appearing as Revel 11. 19. 1000 Cubits in the Oracle may hint the 1000 years of Christ in Rev. 20. As there were 1000 years between the Temple and his Birth Or from the Rev. Time unto the Christians taking Jerusalem As a Type of the New Jerusalem The Tabernacles Court as Ezekiels 100 being added to the former 3000 They make 3100. as years from Abrahams Birth to the Christians Taking Jerusalem or from this Tabernacle at Shiloh To the Times in which we live And the Cubits of the Court before the Tabernacle as the years to Shiloh 45. 100 by 50 broad are 5000 As the Greatest Church in the Acts and 5000 fed at once by Christ as the Tabernacles Court by 100 and 50. As 5000 years from Adam or Abel To the Christians at Jerusalem Or from Enoch To These Present Times Each side 100 by 5 in height 500. As Each Side of the Temple Court and so we may part the 2000 years from Abraham to Christ by 500 To the Tabernacle and 500 more To the First Temple finished with All its Courts as 1 King 7. Where also the House of Lebanon is As this Tabernacle 30 50 100 500 To the 2 d Temple and 500 more to our Saviour The Inward Curtains of 28 Cubits as the month of Weeks but the outward 30 As the Ark Tabernacle and Temple As their months of 30 days And so they say Moses left his first Song in 30 lines his 2 d in 70. These may shew How long the Church should be in Veyls or Skins of Beasts To hold it in and Press it down As the Ark before 10 Inward Curtains by 28 280 and by 4 in breadth 1120. and As they may be years After Christ To the Christians Reigning in Jerusalem So they may be years Before and perhaps During the First Monarchy For the 2 d and 3 d are Here in their proper Skins of Rams and Goats as in Daniel and the Romans in the Badger Or in Heb. Tax Tachs or Tahash Of the Same Name with one from the Concubine Reuma Ruma Roma Gen. 22. 24. And from Enoch To Jacoh were as many years as Cubits in the Inward Curtains 1120. And from Jacobs Birth or Abrahams Death To the Tabernacle were as many years as Cubits in its Outer Curtains 330. that is 11 by 30. As there were also 330 years from the Tabernacle to Sampson Or from the Ark at Shiloh To its Taking by the Philistins And 330 Hours of the year come just to Noon of the Passover and 330 days from Passover to Purim The 50 Tacks and Loops of the Curtains may hint the 50 days and Nights between the Passover and Pentecost as 50 Weeks in the Lunar years or 50 years before the Solemn Meetings at Shiloh or Sechem where they were All Tackt together 330 by
Licenses and Dispensations and others of the Popes Peculiers If the Arch-bishop judge it meet But After Times did help the Crown by giving it leave To make its Bishops by a Patent As Edward the 6 t had made a preaching Sheriff or many such things with Collations and receiving Resignations To most Spiritual Cures About 666 from Antiochus This Land came to have 7 Heads or Kingdoms as Rome and at Gogmagog Leap or other Hill about it a Dragon was seen or thought so Great and Worthy that it Sirnamed a Great King Vtherpendragon And its Image was Consecrate and Dedicate in a Great Cathedral and from Thence became the Royal Standard That I speak not of the Dragon slain by One on Horse back Or any other Beast or Image of a Beast slain by the sword and yet reviving and admired or adored by All that were not written in the Lambs Book of Life before the Foundation of the World Which must be opened and must Judge both Great and small who have no Book of Works to Judge them And the Dragon pursued the Woman flying to the Wildernesse As Hagar did and is in Bondage with her seed To This day as Gal. 4. and made war with her seed The first Creature Animal was the Dragon we read it Whales in Gen 1. 21. Created in the Waters coupled with Dragons as Esay 27. Ezech. 29. and so in Job and divers places And Behemoth is next the first on Earth as the Dragon in the Seas It is Plural as Dragons in Heb. As many Femimine Beasts Or Mother of All the Beasts As Wisdom is of All her Children and yet she also is Plural in Heb. As Behemoth Which David applieth to himself in the 73 Psalm And I am Behemoth with thee I am that Behemoth more bruitish then a Beast or Behemoth Those 2 Ruled Till Adam came up and had a Commission which he did not Execute And yet we do not find All the Beasts put under him and the Serpent was more subtle then the Beasts But Noahs Patent is a Promise also Your dread shall be on every Beast that Conquer'd Adam and upon All Fishes of the Sea or Dragons Into your Hands they are Delivered Thou hast kept the Good wine untill Now. The Dragon is Prince of Darkness as it walks in Darkness while the Beasts are Couching and the shortest night of Darkness in Iudea was of 10 Hours or Horns as of 7 Heads or Dayes in a week And if their shortest Day or Night be as 1000 years as Psal 90. and 91. of the Dragon and Beasts Then is Every Hour as 100 years And so the Dragon and Beast must Reign about 1330 years As They Reigned 133 Hours before Adam was Created And if the whole Day and Night be As 1000 Then the Longest time of Darkness in the Bible Meridian is but 666 or 2 thirds of 1000 As one third of 2000. But if their Little Watches also be 1000 as the Psalm hinteth Then is Every Hour 333. And so Platoes third part of an hour may be 111. which is also the number of Kaveh the Common Heb word for a Measuring Line And Thus 666 may be paralel to the 6 Hours Turns of Tide and Sun and Moon at the Cardinal points of Heaven As before And the Jewes parted all their hours into as many Clakins as days in 3 years 1080. and each of them by as many more as their Sanhedrin or Noahs Nephews or their Families in Egypt Or our Saviours Ancestors in Luke Or years of Abrahams coming to Canaan and 75 is the difference between 1260 1335. but 3 more then Twice 666. And for Hours in the Revelation The 2 d Church must suffer Tribulation for 10 Dayes Which have Hours 240. And the 10 First Persecutions lasted just 240 years From 65 or 66 of Christ when the Jewish War began Till Constantine at 306. And the Southern Martyrs of the 10th Perseâ—ution are 144000 in Eusebius and others As the Lamb before the Sabbath had 144000 Clakins before it As First Fruits of Time and the Lamb for the Sabbath And if Constantine did close the 10 first daâ—es as the P Lambs were Tyed and Tryed in the first 10th day of the year and That be in the 2 d. Ch. Then the 3 d which stood when Antipas was slain and yet stumbled at the block of Balaam and the Nicolaitans must be with Constantine or at his Times When poyson sowed in the Ch. as was written in the Lateran at His Donation to the Pope was swallowed by the Clergy which began to Prophecy for Hire as Baalam the peoples Belly or their Bell as the Priests of Bell and the Dragon in Dan. Apoc. And Nicolas is one above the Laity or proper to the Clergy And Austin Euseb Clem. and Epiphan may shew us That which God abhorred in the Nicolaits was somewhat besides Eating things to Idols and Fornication Demeaning themselves As Diotrephes a Priest of Iupiter or Belus and mixing Heathen Rites or Iewish which began in Peters Time with Christian Worship Of which God is more Iealous then of other Gods As an Husband is only Jealous of Her that continues a Wife but with an Whorish dress or forehead As the Lord Complains and Threatens Desperate Sorrow unto Planting Strange Plants about His Altars which He so forbad and abhorred This Spread in the Church as Arianism did about the very first years of Constantine and Pope Marcelâ—us who Created Cardinals or Parish Priests To Bury the Dead and to Baptise Infants Which was presently followed with Albs and Corporals At the Altar and with Tapers and Candles in the Sun Shine as a Prologue To the Flames that followed and Compulsions to Religion which began about the Time of the first Iudictions which we may Translate by Impositions First commanded At the Councel of Nice Meletius the First Bishop that opposed and Degraded Arius did first deny Restoring Laymen Lapsed Though perhaps the fault was more in Churchmen which on Penance were Restored but with divers washings and some Jewish Rites The Donatists opposed with so much Zeal that some affrm They called themselves the Only True Church and Rebaptised The Cross was found they say about those Times and a Greater Cross in Arianism with the Great Contests for Easter Day which Toar the Seamless Coat of Christ the Souldiers Spared And though Paul the Eremite and Anthony resisted and began the Monkish Orders yet Those Times had also Sad Complaints of Gluttony among the very Clergy which were therefore called Priests of Bell. As Jesabel in the Revelation may allude to Jesuâ— and Bell. As the Prophets of Jesabel with Those of Baall or Bell in Jesabel And so we come to the Temples Tredding down or the Holy City by the Christian Antichristian Jebusites for 1260 Days or Years Which we found very signal in Hours and Days and Years As From the Birth of Cainan and Mabaleel To the Flood and Rising of the Church After it As from Enoch and
Methuselah To Abraham Or from Noah To Mâ—ses and Aaron From the Flood To the Ark in Zion or the Temple As from Joseph and Jacob To Nehemiah Or from Egypt and the Wilderness To the Dedication by the Machabees And Thence to the Christians Getting Jerusalem As from Gideons Ephâ—d To our Saviour and from the Romans First Taking Jerusalem To the Popes Decretals and Councel of Lateran For Transubstant In the Time of Innocent the 3 d Excommunicating the Emperour As From Christ To the Sicilian Vesters Or the First Roman Jubilie with the Second Wo. or House of Ottoman As from the Sack of Ierusalem or Revel written To the 2 d Roman Iubilie Or To the Golden Bull and order of Iesuans or Iesuats As From the 10 Persecutions ending in Constantine To the Great Change at Queen Elizabeth And From Iulians Time To the Persans Taking Babylon and to K. Charles in England and Free Religion in France And although there were Great Defections in the Christian Churches before Iulian Yet Then was the Great Apâ—stacy which seemeth Pointed out To the Thessalonians And the Last Oracles said that Christian Religion should Stand but a Great Year Which came out in Iulians Time about 365. And Thence the Roman Empire did begin its Mortal Wound As first by the Gauls about 365 of the City Built And whatever else the Revelation Beast may be vet we must All agree To That last verse of the 17th Chapter And the Wâ—man which thousawest is That Great City which Reigneth over the Kings of the Earth Which certainly was Rome in some State or Other That we say nothing of Mysterium written in the Popes old Frontal In Constantine the Empire Trembled In the Western Legions drawing off to New Rome with 7 Hills also but not 7 Kings or Governments And a Kingdom Divided cannot stand The Church did Creep again a little After Julian But with standing stools and Forms of some that did pretend to Teach it first to Go with a strange Chaos of Jewish Rites or Heathen And the Tares of the Envious one grew up Till They could not be Rooted out but with Danger to the Wheat also First in Lent only Till Easter which Crucified all the Body of Christ Marriage is Forbidden And at Laodicea the signal place in the 3 d of Revelation Then at Other Times and Then To the Clergy at All Times in Siricius When the name of Catbolique came up with the Golden Law for Lent about 380. Then Canonical Hours about 390 A very signal Number both to Jewes and Gentiles for the Last Olympiad and the First Vse of Mass with the head of John the Baptist and Then the Bones of Samuel and ere long of Stephen and Nicodemus Brought into Europe The Empire shakes upon Contest of the Emperor and Stilico by whom Alaciâ—us was Beaten Yet so countenanced That he sacketh Rome From That Deadly Wound 1260 years come out about 1666 Or somewhat sooner At the End of the Three Great Years and half or 3500 years of Esaus Strugling with Jacob. Which Esdras makes the End of the Old World and Beginning of a New And all the Bible maketh Them the Great Types of Election and Reprobation or of Children of Light and Darkness The first Dragon or Beast of the Bottomless pit with 7 Heads and 10 Horns or 10 Hours for 7 dayes of the week And the shortest Night had 10 Hours And as the Light might Rise in 7 hours so the Sun might Rise in 10. And Those 2 Numbers of 7 and 10 were Sacred to others also As in Justine Curtius Arrianus and others of the Persians and Alexanders Weeks before the Roman in the Attick Nights or Genial Days and Saturnals And as the Revelation hath its 4 Watchers and 24 Elders for the 24 hours So the 7 Spirits For the 7 days of the week which return in a Circle As the Months of Nisan and Tizri Which were Sevenths to each other and had â—easts alike As 7 equal Circles in a Ring of 6 and one in the Centre as 6 Tones and 2 Halvs in and an Eight or Diapason 7 being the only Number of 3 Wholes and a Half The Jews Law had 7 Heads to Noah 10 Horns to Moses with 666 Sections or at most 669. And its Heb name is akin to Thorus or Taurus a Beast wch in Hebr leters maketh just 666. And None might buy or sell among them or be Denisons that did not submit to the 7 Heads of Noahs Laws 7 Things were left by Moses for the Poor 7 Sabbaths 2 in Tabernacles one in Pentecost and 2 at Pass and 7 Passovers in Script besides Atonement and the weekly Sabbath Which 2 last forbad All work the other 5 but Servile only 7 Servitudes in the Iudges 7 Liquors in Moses Song 7 Lamps and 7 Spirits on the Messiah Esay 11 As 7 Spirits before the Throne or 7 Eyes or 7 Planets in Heaven and 7 Metals in Earth seven pair of Nerves and 7 Principal parts in the Bowels So they had 7 Elders or Deacons in their Churches or Synagogues wch must be of 10 at least As usually a Paschal Lamb was for 10 Recorded and so the Romans could reckon them at the Last Passover And at 10 they brought their Children to Fast and other points of the Law and their Lowest Consistories were at places of 10 Families As the Saxon Decennars or Tithings And the Romans had their signal Tithings and 10 Circuits in their Provinces 10 Kingdoms as Horns on the Last Head of the Beast Which may be the Great Spirit of the World with 7 Heads and 10 Horns As God also pleased to manifest himself in 10 Laws and 7 Spirits for 7 Days of the week and One of Them had also a Deadly Wound as it was the Jewish Sabbath but Got up again and yet so changed That it was as an Eight Day and yet but One of the 7 As the 7 or 8 Heads in Revel But there is a Man can be our peace when the Assyrian Overflows us When he shall Tread in our Palaces Then we shall raise against him 7 Shephards and 8 Principal Men. Yea and the Spirit of the Lord shall set up a Standard against him The Revelation doth require a Volume by it self Now Only the Holy City Trodden down As David Got it from the Tredding Jebusites and Nehemiah from the Cuthites and Machabeus from Antiochus And Jerusalem shall be Trodden down of the Gentiles Till the Times af the Gentiles be fulfilled Or as Paul Until the Fulness of the Gentiles And Then All Israel shall he saved or Redeemed For the Time of your Redemption draweth Nigh The 42 Months are 1260 Dayes as 5 months of the First Wo are 150 days As the 5 first months of the Flood quite hiding the Earth in Water as the Baptists Mother was Hidden 5 months and in the 6 t the Angel came to the Virgin And at 30 Dayes apiece 42 Months are 1260 Dayes As the Dayes of the Woman and
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
CHRIST Under the Law WITH The Times of the Gospel AND Fullness thereof LONDON Printed in the Year 1664. ERRATA Page 30. line 15. for years read months p. 33. l. 19. 24 Aldermen Add In divers Cities as it was long in London p. 3. l. 12. in the 2 d Colume and 24 Aldermen to be left out p. 40. l. 1. for Luminations r. Lâ—â—ations p. 44. l. 16. Colume 2 d for the Red Sea r Reed Sea l. 17 18. for Mimum r. Minium l. 39. for Psalms r. Palms p. 59. l. 9. Col. 2. for 2705 r. 2805 without the Parenthesis p. 62. l. 7. Col. 2. Add And their Longest Night was above 13 Hours As the first Night of Creation was till the 13th Hour p. 69. Parag. 3. That of Cubits in some Copies to be left out or amended by the 2 d Paragraph of the 59th page In the Preface p. 6. l. 25. Col. â— for Tabernacles read Tabernacle The PREFACE and SCOPE THis Discourse was written more large and it may be less confused but the Authors distance from the Press and little time to correct it with so many numbers and other occasions prevailed to contract and croud it out as he could being only for private Friends and such as can excuse both matter and manner The first is to express some little part of the unexpressable Goodness of God and Love of Christ which passeth knowledge and to help shed it abroad into our hearts that it may mould us into love to God and all men Have we not all One Father Hath not One God created us Why do we then deal treacherously every man against his brother by prophaning the Covenant of our Fathers And our Saviour did not only bid them all say Our Father but repeated it and pressed it on the multitude that they had All One Father in Heaven and One Master or Teacher even Christ which is twice repeated in Mat. 23. And as Love was his last and great Command on Earth so his first Complaint out of Heaven was of some that had lost their first Love And may he not complain that we have lost All Love which is not only waxen cold but even Dead and quite put out by Lust or Love of the World and Cares thereof which himself said would Choak the good Seed And what Hope is left or means to recover us but in himself Made under the Law of Love to God and Man also So that it is written in his heart to Love his God and his Neighbour As himself To propagate the Name and Love of God with All his Might and to bring his Children Servants and the Strangers in his Gate to Rest the Rest of God as is required in the fourth Command And seeing he bid it be written as a True Saying of God that He would make All Things New the Author doth believe it though he doth not yet see it And he thought it worth enquiring When That great Change is to come into the minds of Men to mould them into Love of God and One another And finding the Psalm for the Afflicted to tell us that God will appear in his Glory when he buildeth up Zion and when the Peoples are Gathered and the Kingdoms to serve the Lord he searched what the Law or the Prophets say of such a Gathering And he found that Moses Dying Charge on Joshuah with succeeded Kings of Israel which he hopes may come to Christ at length was to gather All Israel and their Strangers also and to Read the Law to them All that they may Hear and Learn and fear the Lord and his Goodness in the Latter Dayes At the end of Seven years in the Solemnity of the year of Release in the Feast of Tabernacles which they call the Feast of In Gathering And although this was acted every 7th year in some measure yet seeing God himself doth sometimes use a Day for a Year or a year for as many years as it hath Dayes he began to consider whether it might not be So in This also that the Sabbatical years of Release might intimate their Release from all their Scatterings and Bondage at the Close of seven Prophetick years or in 2555 years which are seven times 365. And first he found that so many years After the Fall did bring Israel to rest in Canaan and so many more did bring the Christians to reign in Jerusalem and that from their First Scatterings out of Canaan in Jorams time when they were first led Captive so many years came out about 1666 now coming and from following scatterings after Joram so many years are out about 1690 and that Daniels greatest number of 2300 dayes or years is then also finished from the time of his Captivity And for beginning those Prophetick years about the time of Joram there are many reasons besides their first scattering out of Canaan Then For it was a very Great Change of the World or as the Jews express it a New World which they believed to be seven or eight times renewed As the old Tuscans also in Plutarchs Sylla and that every such New World was foreshewn by Great Prodigies in Heaven and Earth yea and Divers times by signal Tydes or Turnings and Parting 's of Waters as the great Clepsydra So at the first Creation and again at the Flood and again at passing the Red-Sea and at entring Canaan When Jordan was divided As again by Elijahs Mantle At His Ascension a little before Joram which was followed by their first Captivity As their Last followed our Saviours Ascension shadowed by Elijahs The Assyrian Empire was Then shaken and broken as Israel by Syria and Judah by the Philistines Arabians and Edom which Then first revolted and broke Jacobs Yoak as was foretold by Isaac and rested not till it forced Ahaz to hire Assyria which destroyed Israel about the time of Romulus who might be shadowed by Rummili or Remaliah that in the mask or vizor of Religion Ravished 683 Virgins or 783 as it was 683 years before the Romans first Ravished the Virgin of Zion and 783 before they crucified Christ From that time the Prophets began to threaten Edom by which the Jews say they meant Rome as in that Map of Hell in Isa 34. directed against Edom and the Raemim or Romim v. 7. And as Judahs breach and cutting off might be Typed by Athaliahs cutting off the Royal Seed as Joram had cut off his brethren so might those seven Great years of Scattering and Return be Typed in the seven years of Famine and Wandring of the Widow who then Returned and found the K. talking with Gehazi freed it seems from his Leprosy And by the seven years of Joash Hiding and then coming up and repairing the Temple and by many other seven years which are here touched In this search of Times it is found that 1260 or 1290 and 1335 which are the Great Numbers in Dan. and the Revel may be Years and Dayes and Hours of Jewish years As from the