Mistakes spring from the same Root We are Afraid of a Kingdom of Christ that should make an Impression on the present State of our Carnal Grandieur and Enjoyment of this World and therefore desire All Things should Run in that Channel till Death and Final Judgment and the State of Eternity Temporal Princes and States-men would not have any change in their Poweâ— and Politicks and are Angry Christ should 〈…〉 told to Take to Him His Great Power and to Reign Ecclesiastical Grandees would have their Jurisdiction their Regiment their Canons their Dignities and Revenues Remain in the order wherein They now Stand And so the same Temper Runs down to the lowest of Both of each sort And thus we even as They Tread such Paths as that not Knowing the Voices of the Prophets Acts 13. 27. though we Read them as They did often Fulfill them in Condemning Him or His Kingdom For the Glory of this Kingdom and World to come whereof we now speak is so plainly declar'd and yet we are so Averse to it that It is Hard to know whether Theirs or Ours is the Greater Blindness Only Blessed be God the Error is not so damnable in our Case as in Theirs In the mean time We Pray for and Profess to desire better Things Even such as the Prophets have Foretold But what Hopes can there be of such a Betterness without a Higher Oeconomy or Administration from Heaven when the fairest Appearances that ever have yet been upon Earth have been Blasted Faded and Wither'd as a Flower in the Field when It hath most spread its Glory Even This is a Demonstration beyond denial that either there is a Despair of any better State or else some Great Prophesies must be Fulfill d according to the High Eloquence of Scripture concerning a Restitution of All Things by the Second Adam from the Time of the Fall of the First Adam and a Spirit pour'd out from on High Suitable to it Oh that therefore by this and other Concurrent Discourses I might however unworthy be Instrumental to perswade That we might with One Consent Give our selves by Books to Understand when the 1260 Years which God will have Accomplish'd for the Desolations of his Sanctury shall come to an End And that we would Set our our Faces to the Lord to Seek by Supplication Fasting and Ashes as the True Witnesses of Christ that They may come to an End Even if it may be sooner then 1697. And I am most assur'd that at that Time at least we shall prevail and the Tabernacle of Testimony and the Ark of the Testament shall Begin to be seen by us in the Temple open'd in Heaven and It will be Filling with the Smoak of Divine Purification by the Spirit of Jugdment and of Burning just before the Glory of the Lord Returning to it For the Time given for the Bringing Ezekiel's Vision into Effect must be at Hand and the New Jerusalem shall come down as the Lord hath spoken Amen 〈…〉 Aâ—justment of the Lords Prayer to thâ— Vision Oâ—R Father which art in Heaven whom yet the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Hallowed be thy Nâ—â—e Bow thy 1 Kings 8. 27. Heavens come down and place the Glory of thy Name in thy self and the Lamb the Temple of thy Holy City the New Jerusalem Filling Heaven and Earth with it Thy Kingdom Rev. 21. 22. come Thy Will be done as in Heaven and on Earth Let thy Throne be Established in the New Heaven above Reaching Ezek. 43. 7. down to the New Earth the place of the Soles of thy Zach. 14. 20. Feet So that an entire Obedience may be Rendred to Thee even Holiness to JEHOVAH throughout Give us this day our Ezek. 41. 22. daily Bread and Forgive us our Trespasses as we Forgive them that Trespass against us Fix then the Table before the Lord of John 6. 33. the Super-substantial Bread the Lamb united with the Rich Ezek. 44. 25. Perfumes of his Intercession Arising from the Seven Times Purified Altar of his whole Burnt Offering of Himself once Heb. 13. 10. for All By which is made an Universal Reconciliation of All Things in Heaven and Earth in Him even in Him Colos 1. 20. Lead us not into Temptation But Deliver us from Evil And this Thy dwelling place we shall no more defile by our Whoredoms Ezek. 43. 7. 8. and Abominations by the Carcasses of our Kings by our Posts Thresholds Or the Uncircumcision of our Heart c. 44. 7. c. 45. 9. and Flesh Nor any more Violence Curse or Death Heard of in the Holy City of our Melchizedec the Serpent and his Rev. 20. 1. Ezek. 41. 18. c. Rev 19. 6. 1 Cor. 15. 28. Rev. 21. 6. Seed being Seal'd up in the Abyss For Thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory The Cherubims and Palm-Bearing Company shall sing Everlasting Hallelujahs The Lord God Omnipotent Reigns For Ever and Ever In a Kingdom deliver'd up to God and the Father throughout Eternity of Ages Amen So be it and So it shall be So It shall be done The Humble Proposal to the Reader I Have already published however at several Times as I could a Scheme of the whole Scripture Line of Time and Prophecy as a Preface to the Work and with it a Compare of the First State of Things that may be call'd the Stasis at the First Sabboth with the Restitution which the Apostle calls Aâ—â— Catastasis or Re-Enstating Them at the Grand Sabbatism and so proceeded by the Patriarchal Line down to Abraham and from Him to the Going out of Egypt And then beginning at Cyrus have drawn the Line to the Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ I have also strengthen'd the Fixing the Line of Time from Cyrus to that Kingdom by Full discourse on the Visions of the Four Monarchies in Nebuchadnezzars Image c. 2. and the Four Beasts c. 7. and shewn How the Revelation Falls in with and more Fully â—narchy in a Treâ—â—â—se call'd The Kingdom of 〈…〉 Time accordin◠〈◊〉 those Four Monarchies I have also prov'd 〈…〉 â—narchy to be the Roman Pagan Empire and then the Papacy with a short â—â—â—â—â—thesis of the 〈…〉 Empire in both That and Another discourse call'd Gods Command to come out of Babylon I have now published Ezekiels Vision of the Temple and City in the â—â—and design of it the New Jerusalem and shown the several States of the Churches of God and of Jesus Christ till this Temple and City come down in the New Jerusalem are Commensurate to the whole Time of the Four Monarchies and give Dates to the Line of Time ever since first in that entire Line of 2300 Evens Morns after Forty Years from this Vision given to the New Jerusalem and in several Parcel Collatteral Lines and by Name of Daniel's 70 Week and 1335 Days And also herein Joyn'd a discourse on the Reformation the Rising of the Witnesses at 97 when shall be the Great
Priesthood that It may be known They shall all come forth in Spirit Life and Substance in that Last and most perfect State Else They must never be Fulfill'd For after all the Rationalia or Reasonable Accounts that Learned men have Endeavour'd upon the Levitical Laws and Types The Apostle to the Hebrews c. 8. 5. c. 9. 9 10. c. 10. 1. as was most due when He writ to them Gives us the True one That they are Shaddows and Samples of Heavenly Things Images and not the very Presential Image of Good Things to Come till the Great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Adjustment of All Things In that Heavenly City and Countrey therefore when It Comes down from Heaven All These Things are to be Entirely Absolutely and Ultimately Fulfill'd and presented by Themselves It was therefore Necessary even Those very Types and Manners of speaking Taken from All those Foremention'd Things so well known to the Jews should be made use of in the Description of such a State as by so many Irrefragable Arguments must be the New Jerusalem-State being too High for the present World and yet not Abstracted Spiritual and High as the State of God All in All And thus our Saviour hath Declar'd He Came not to Dissolve the Law and the Prophets Mat. 5. 18. but to Fulfill Them and as it were Pointing to the Time by comparing this with Mat. 24. 3. 35. when They should be so Fulfill'd viz. at the New Heavens and the New Earth He says Till Heaven and Earth shall pass away meaning those which now are One Jot shall in no wise pass from the Law till All be Fulfill d Then Christ will to the utmost Fulfill All even to one Jota And Thus must that so Solemn Divine Asseveration Jer. 33. 29. c. be made Good concerning the Levitical Priesthood to wit in that Spiritual Priesthood of the whole Israel of God Jews and Gentiles serving God and the Lamb Day and Night that is always in his Temple in the perpetual Priesthood Cloath'd in Fine Linnen White and Clean or in Robes made White in the Blood of the Lamb which is the Righteousness of the Saints in that State seeing his Face and having his Name in their Foreheads Rev. c. 7. c. 19. Otherwise The Apostle is Irreconcileable with the Prophet when He Declares Heb. 7. 11 12. a change of the Levitical Priesthood into that Melchizedeckian Priesthood Begun at the Resurrection of Christ but not Appearing till the Kingdom of Christ in its Glory For though I freely Acknowledge All These Things had their Beginning Spirituality of Fulfilling them at our Lords Resurrection Yet as I have said the Holy of Holies that was then Annointed hath been yet Reserv'd in Heaven and was by Reason of the Apostasie Measur'd and shut up and not seen till the Seventh Trumpet nor shall It Come down from and with God and the Lamb till It shall be pronounc'd of the City the New Jerusalem Jehovah Shammah The Lord is There or the Lord God and the Lamb are the Temple of that City And This is the State of the perfect Redemption Expiation and Attonement of Jesus Christ as the End or Consummation of all the Levitical Law or Frame and the Righteousness of it Rom. 10. 4. Appearing in Glory when All Sin is Blotted out to Perfection and when is the Great Reconciliation of All to God and to One Another in Heaven and Earth In Him even in Him And All shall according to that Petition in the Prayer of the Kingdom be both Fully Forgiven and also Plenarily Forgive which now is Done in Great Infirmity only Colos 1. 20. Mat. 6. 12. 14. 15. In all which lyes the Spirituality and Truth of all the Levitical Priesthood Sacrifices Temple c. which are therefore so Fitly made use of here to Represent that State and therefore All Saints are the Spiritual Levitical Priesthood Worshiping God and Christ as his Priests in his Redemption 4. These Types are Fitted to express the Highest Holiness and Separation to God from all Impurity or Semblance of Alienation from Him This shall be in that New Jerusalem State and therefore It is express'd in the Language proper to the Holiness and Purification of the Sanctuary As these This is the Law of the House The Limit thereof upon the Top of the Mountain shall be round about the most Holy Behold this is the Law of the House The Holiness is as it were Guarded round about with a Law It is therefore said at the Beginning and end of the verse c. 43. v. 12. This is the Law of the House Behold This is the Law of the House to be Most Holy All the Whoredoms of Impure Worship and of the Carcasses of the Kings in their Idolatrous Impositions are utterly Remov'd The House is to be Cleans'd and Reconcil'd and the Altar purified Seven days The Priests to Consecrate themselves and their Persons and Garments are by no means to be defil'd None but the Inviolate Sons of Zadok are accepted to draw nigh The Worshippers are to go straight forward in their Worship and Service and not to Return even as the Angels in their Service c. 45. throughout c. 46. 9. with c. 1. 12. The Glory of God comes therefore into the Temple and takes it up for the Residence of his Throne and of the Soles of his Feet for ever and promises and even undertakes It shall be no more defil'd c. 43. 2. 7. Now seeing There never hath been any Temple State on Earth that hath not been defil'd as we must needs be convinc'd if we look back on all History of Scripture or its Proâ—â—etic History It must needs be that this Temple is that New Jerusalem State wherein God and the Lamb are the Temple coming down from Heaven into a State as in Heaven and upon Earth Now as God and the Lamb cannot be Tempted of Evil So they are a Temple not possible to be Defiled so that it is Security unspeakably High that this Temple cannot be Defiled that God and the Lamb are the Temple And therefore in that Prayer of the Kingdom we pray Thy Name be Sanctified as in Heaven and upon Earth even by such a presence as to be the Temple of his Servants even as his Kingdom comes so as in Heaven and upon Earth and His Will is so Done 5. The Types of this Vision present after the manner of David and the Princes of His House a Single Prince And as Zadok was firm to David and Solomon in the Priestly Office so the Sons of Zadok are here preferr'd in the Priesthood The Worship of the Prince is Appointed His Place of worship His going to it and Returning and all in the East where the Glory of the Lord had made its Entrance His Portion of the Holy Land is Assign'd Him which cannot be Alienated but only to his Sons All these Types Answering the Sollemn Oath of God so often Repeated to David and particularly Jerem. 33. 20. 21. and
THE PATTERN OF THE Divine Temple Sanstuary and City of the New Jerusalem Measured according to Ezekiels Last and Greatest Vision Chap. 40. to the End Each Temple shall be seen opened 〈…〉 the Days of the Seventh Trumpet at the End of the 1260 Days of the Apostasie 1697. That there may be a Daily Preparation in Conformity to it until It Comes down from Heaven at the End of the 2300 〈…〉 Dan. 8. 4. and 〈◊〉 the 1335 Days â—â—n 12. 12. at 1772. Assigned as a Preface to Two late Treatises viz. The PROPHETIC HISTORY of the Reformation till the Great Re-Reformation And the Grand Apocalyptick Vision of the Witnesses 〈◊〉 and Ascending which shall Contemporate with this Temple open 〈◊〉 Heaven at the â—men 1697. Ezek. 40. 4. and c. 43. 10. 〈◊〉 of Man see with Thy Eyes Hear with thy Ears 〈…〉 Thy Heart on all that I shall show Thee 〈…〉 of Man 〈◊〉 the House to the 〈◊〉 of Israel 〈…〉 be 〈◊〉 of their 〈◊〉 and let them measure the Pattern By Tho. Beuerley a most Humble Reader in the Prophesies of Jesus Christ Printed and are to be Sold by John Salusbury at the Rising Sun in Cornhill To the Archbishop of Canterbury To the Bishops of London Asaph Salisbury Worcester Chichester To Dr. Tillotson Dr. Sharp Dr. Tennison Dr. Kidder Dr. Goodman Dr. Fowler Dr. Burnet Master of the Charter-house Dr. Woodroff Dr. Cressener Mr. Baxter Dr. Bates Mr. How Mr. Cole Mr. Mede My much Revered I Most Humbly and in a deep sense of my own Vnwortâ—iness yet Take upon my self to be a Minister of Jesus Christ to Recommend to you the most Profâ—und and Serious Setting your Hearts to Measure to the utmost we can Attain this Pattern of Ezekiels Temple and Throne And that You would to that End beg of God the Use of the Reed of much more value then Pastoral Staves Crosiers or the much disputed Power of the Keys till He comes whose Right indeed the Keys are with the Golden Reed which is the Measure of the Full Stature of the Mystical Man Jesus Christ that is the Angel of the Covenant even Jehovah in our Nature whom we seek coming by Himself into Himself the Temple and Throne In this Pattern undoubtedly lie Hid the Treasures of the many ways Variated wisdom of God till It be shown by the Church to Principalities and Powers All Dates therefore of Time are Given as I shew by this Temple in its various States till at the Ascension of Christ It was Rear'd and Anointed as Appears in that Vision Rev. c. 4. c. 5. But as the Apostle speaks in a like case It is in Heaven and there Reserv'd But a Counter part is Given on Earth in such proportions as Infinite Wisdom hath Thought fit In as much as He permitted and Swore to permit an Apostasie or Mystery of Iniquity to have Time Times and Half a Time and to Work Early in order to it There are therefore Four Living Creatures Revel 6. sent as it were out of this Temple with their Voices Come and see this Temple and Throne in the Gospel Frame The First had only the High Great Note of Thunder in the First Preaching of the Apostles While in that Time the Mighty Man of War the Lord is his Name went forth Conquering and to Conquer Then Things Flatted Yet while the Living Creatures were in Motion the Apostolic Ministery was yet Continuing Till at the Beginning of the Fourth Seal the Last Voice was Given out And They ceas'd just at the Death of Alexander Severus Who as a Renownedly Just Prince was ordained by God to be in his Just Ballances a Symbol of the Half Time of the Church Pure or at the Equipoiz of it Purity according to Ezek. 46. v. 9. c. From that Time It Declin'd yet so that there were Emissions from the Temple in Heaven not yet shut and Appearances from it the Apostasie not being entred But at the First Trumpet the Apostasie of 1260 Days or Years entred Then that Temple was Measur'd and shut c. 11. 1. and the Court without cast to the Gentiles to be Trodden under Foot This lasts till the Seventh Trumpet and is not expir'd by Seven Times or Years viz. till 97. From that Time All Church States shall Return more and more to the Apostolical First State The Temple in Heaven being Open'd and the Ark of Testament and Tabernacle of Testimony more and more also seen Till the Voice comes out of this Temple in the Seventh Vial IT IS DONE or All Prophecy is Fulfill'd in Vengeance on the Defilers and Desolators of the Sanctuary especially That Last and Great one the Antichristian Papacy And then a Voice from the Throne It is done in this Temple Throne and City coming down from Heaven in the New Jerusalem Rev. 27. 6. Our duty is therefore in the mean Time to come as near as we can to the Pattern as it were in our Inward Secret Temple worship viz. of every ones Private Judgment For a High open One of Uniformity we cannot yet Attain whatever we may Think And to See that we do All according to it by keeping Close to all that is Written without Least Additionals seeing All Shades are Taken from Heavenly Things Themselves Who then can Appoint them but He who Alone hath the Proto-Type We ought also with all the Love Condescension Forbearance of one Another in our Dissents to be Assistant one to Another While the Temple is yet shut and we in a Dark Place as to a Publick though not a Private Glory And not to fall out and wrong one Another because we see not yet as in that Opened Temple we shall and are All Brethren now moving to it To you therefore who seem to me to be Pillars and of whom I have Great Confidence You shall be Pillars in that Temple and shall go out no more Having in some Measure observ'd your Doctrine manner of Life Purpose Faith Long-Suffering Charity Patience by your Sermons or Writings or more particular Knowledge of some of You To You I first present This as it were Affixing Prophecy as of old to the Pillars of the Temple to make it most notable And have made bold to Represent as in a Figure in you thus Join'd however seemingly distant the High union that ought to be now and shall be of All such e're long in the Churches of Christ And I Hope You will not and I Beseech You do not Slight these Toings as Fancies For I Rest upon the very Testimony of Jesus Christ which you know is the Spirit of Prophecy and I Trust that God hath enabled me my only Province to Transferr from Scripture to Scripture and to Lay All together by Words and Symbols of the Holy Spirit which in such a Chain did never yield to a Phantasm especially Agreeing so with All History Now that God would make to You and to all His Churches this discourse a Shewing of the Pattern Bless'd by Himself That we
Re-Reformation I have Lastly published the Prophetical Song of Solomon from the Kingdom of David the Type to the Kingdom of the Great David the Antitipe Shewing its Stupendious Configurations with all Prophecy There now Remains to fill up the Line of Time from the Going out of Egypt to the Building the Temple and so to Solomon's Death and from thence to the Restoring that Temple by Cyrus and therein to Solve the Difficulties of the 480 Years in the History 1 Kings 6. 1. and the 450 Acts 13. 20. and to Clear that the 390 Days and 40 Days of Ezekiel's lying on his side continue the Line from Solomon's Death and the One Kingdom of Israel Becoming Two to the Restoration by Cyrus And upon all this I Find it necessary in an entire Discourse to clear by plain Positive Doctrinal Scripture in compare with Prophetical that There is such a Kingdom of Christ as of the 1090 Years New Heaven above and the New Earth below that Begins with a Judgment by the Vials and ends in the Casting the Last Enemies the Devil Hell and Death into the Lake and between Those is a Thousand Years Kingdom of Visible Glory of Christ and his Saints after the manner of his Transfiguration above and after the manner of Adam in Paradise below and Full of Holy Spirituality and Enjoyment of the Redemption of Christ Free from all Cerinthian or Millenarian Heresie and shining in that Divine Oeconomy or Preparational Glory until the Kingdom is deliver'd up to God and the Father All in All. And Lastly To shew that the Lords Prayer the Sacraments of Baptism and of the Lords Supper even as I have shown the Sabbaths of the Old and New Testament have their Continuance and their Great use as the only Ceremonials of the New Testament in Typing out that Great Kingdom Upon all this I Humbly Propose to every Reader that is Favourable hereunto and of Ability to Assist me by Contributions for Thirty Sheets more to compleat the Work at a Penny a sheet and a Seventh Book to Six Subscribers or as they please in further Assistances to be Given either to my self or to Mr. Salusbury at the Rising Sun in Cornhill And the Press shall be daily going on to Finish the Work And with Faith Hope and Prayer Let us if we Love the Kingdom and Appearance of Christ Humbly and Earnestly wait for the Great Revolution I Affirm of the Kingdom of Christ at 1697 to enter into its Succession and 75 Years after viz. 1772 to begin in the 1000 Years Appearance in Glory Month 11. Day 29. 1689 90. The Pattern of the Divine Temple Sanctuary and City of the New Jerusalem Measur'd according to Ezekiels Last and Greatest Vision c. 40. c. 41. c. to the End AT a day of a most Certain and exact Date when Jerusalem and its Temple lay in Ruins God shews in Vision to Ezekiel not a Model nor a Direction to any persons to Build according to it but a Building in Actual Being and therefore a Building made without Hands 2 Cor. 5. 1 Revel 21 10. Heb. 10. 11. 16. whose Builder and Maker God is Eternal in the Heavens from whence It is to come down in the New Heaven and the New Earth viz. a Temple a City that hath Foundations and a Countrey Lying about it the principal State of which is Heavenly but to shine down to the New Earth from the New Heaven Rev. 21. 24. The Preparation to the Vision 1. The Date is above the Exactness of any Record viz. By the Year of Captivity It is first dated and thereby it is Joyn'd with the Thirtieth Year in the Beginning of Ezekiel's c. 1. 1. Prophecy which being set alone without any other note of Time can in no fair Construction be any other Thirtieth Year but from the Last Jubilee according to General Jewish Style of Time and that being the Fifth year of Jehoiachins Captivity and the present year of the Vision being the Twenty Fifth year of that Captivity It shews it to be the Fiftieth c. 40. 1. year and so the year of Jubilee Fitly to Represent the Great Jubilee of the World that shall be in this Vision Accomplish'd It was on the Tenth day of the Month Answering the day of the first Institution of the Passeover when also will be the Exod. 12. 1. Dan. 12. 1. Matt. 24. 21. Rev. 3. 10. Greatest Passeover of Deliverance from the Great Trouble Tribulation and Temptation which shall come on all the Reprobate Earth but the Saints shall be privilegd'd from it It was in the Beginning of the Year or Spring on which the Greatest Acts of God are Recorded and which God Eâ—od 12. 1. made the Head of the Sacred Year It was in the Fourteenth year after the City was 〈…〉 To shew it was in the deep Desolation of the Temple and City of Jerusalem and Land of Israel as the Season of Mercy For when his Servants are the lowest Then in the Mount the Lord will be seen Gen. 22. 14. with Ez. 40. 2. Lastly It was the Self Same Day and thereby the Time is Gen. 2. 1. c. 7. 11. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 7. 8. Knit to the self same day of the Creation and First Sabboth To the self same day of the Flood when the World that then was Perish'd by Water Answerably the Heavens and Earth that now are are Treasur'd up for Fire Even for the day when this very Vision shall come into high effect All Great Epochs 2. The Theatre of the Vision is the City Jerusalem that then lay in Ruin and the Land of Israel under Desolation whether the Prophet Ezekiel was carried by a Divine Haâ—d in the Visions of God Agreeable to so Great Visions of God as will be when this Jerusalem comes down from Heaven 3. This wonderful Measurer whose Appearance was as Brass as the Feet of Jesus Christ are Represented in the Prophecy of Daniel and in the Revelation This Measurer is parallel to the wonderful Numberer call'd Palmoni in the Margin of the Bible Dan. 8. 13. Knitting both Visions 4. There is a Charge upon Ezekiel obliging all his Powers of Attention and Observation Son of Man see with thy Eyes Hear with thy Ears and set thy Heart upon All that I shew thee c. 40. v. 4. which Charge is renewed c. 44. 5. shewing how weighty and how sublime a State this Temple-Communion with God shall be 5. There is a Charge upon Ezekiel to shew to the House of Israel All that He saw c. 40. v. 40. and then c. 43. 10. to shew them the House that They may be Asham'd of their Iniquities and let Them saith the Lord Measure the Pattern And if They are Asham'd shew them All the Forms Laws and Ordinances c. of the House Now this I look upon as chiefly Prophetical of the Time when the Temple shall be Open'd in Heaven And it shall Tend to the Great Purification of the Churches of
Christ and to the Conversion of the Jews and that in the mean Time the very Apprehension and Consideration of so stupendious and wonderful Regularity and Exactness in the Temple State as is here given should exceeding perswade to Model our Religion and Worship of God and of Jesus Christ by the Clearest Closest and Exact-est Conformity to the Pattern of the Word of God The Vision it self follows which may be Comprehended in these following Great Particulars 1. There is the Frame of a Temple with its Holy of Holies outward Temple Altars Chambers Galleries Courts Places of Reception Strengthen'd and Adorn'd with its many Pillars Surrounded with its Strong and High Gates and Walls All upon Stable Foundations as is to be seen throughout the Vision with undeniable Allusions to the Temple at Jerusalem 2. Throughout this Frame there is an Admirable Exactness in measure by a Reed and a Line of Flax in the Hand of the Brazen Measurer and Numberer of number in so many Cubits Reeds Pillars c. as is to be seen throughout and of Weights particularly as to both Sacrifice and Administration of Justice c. 45. 10. And in the measure there is a Magnificence of a Cubit and an Hand Breadth of Great Cubits c. 40. 5. c. 41. 8. and a particular Regard to Four square c. 40. 47. c. 3. There are Sacrifices Solemn Feasts a Priesthood a Law about their Garments keeping their Heads Marriage c. and with a special preference to the Sons of Zadock as having preserv'd the Sacerdotal Integrity All these clearly relating to the Laws of the Levitical Priesthood c. 44. c. 4. In All Things the Law of the House and the Limit of the House is Round about most Holy Separating betwixt God's and Man's Posts and Wall Abominating the Whoredoms of Worship excluding the Vncircumcis'd in Heart and in Flesh c. 44. 6. c. 43. 8. 9. 10. c. 5. There is a single Prince mention'd who shall not who will not oppress with his peculiar Sacrifices and Worship his place and Avenue of worship his peculiar Portion of Land and whose part it shall be to Furnish the most Solemn Sacrifices c. 45. v. 7. 9. c. and there is also mention of Princes under Him who shall also be Just c. 45. v. 7. 9. 6. The Reed by the Hand Breadth of Cubits added to each Cubit becomes a Reed of Seven Ordinary Cubits and all being measur'd by it It Imprints a Sabbaticness on the whole Frame into which All is drawn up c. 40. 5. 7. There is in the Altar a plain Signature of the Israelitish Twelve c. 43. 16. and another Altar that is call'd the Table before the Lord c. 41. 22. 8. The Jews have an undoubted Priority and the Gentiles an Engrafting c. 47. 22. 9. There is a New division of the Land by Lot to both Jews and 〈…〉 â—7 22. 10 â—â—ere is besides the several Ascents to the Temple the place of Gods Throne and the Place of the Soles of his Feet c. 43. 7. 11. There are Stupendious Waters of Life Trees for Medicine and even a Catholick State of Life therein c. 47. 9. 10. 12. The Glory of God comes in and All Results into a Jehovah Shammah The Lord is there and dwells there for ever c. 43. 7. c. 48. ult And now upon this general Survey of the Vision we may very well Humbly say to God as They to Ezekiel c. 24. 19. Wilt Thou not be pleas'd to Tell us what These Things are to us Seeing These Things are written for our Instruction on whom the Ends of the World are come 1 Cor 10. 11. Two Great Questions arise hence 1. What Temple and City and Countrey these are that are here describ'd 2. If we can find These How can we adjust such descriptions to them There are Two Great Pretensions of Opinion concerning this Temple City and Countrey 1. That it should be the Description of the Temple and City Jerusalem and Countrey of Judah that were Restored by Cyrus Now whatever service that Restoration as a Type might perform to this Vision yet that It cannot be the Grand Scope of it may be thus Argued 1. There is no Reference to this Vision to the Measures of the Pattern to any of the Rules and Laws of it no particular Account of the Sons of Zadok among the Priests no Glory of God Returning to it no mention of the Vision by the Prophets Haggai Zechar Malach or by Ezra or Nehemiah in that Restoration as there is of the Prophet Jeremys of the seventy years Captivity by Dan. c. 9. 1. and by Ezra c. 1. 1. 2. Whereas this Temple was to be the Place of the Throne of God and of the Soles of his Feet for ever and to be polluted no more That Temple hath been long since defil'd * 〈◊〉 Antioâ—has and destroyed by the Abomination of Desolation by the Romans 3. There was no Ombrage of the Healing waters as flowing from the Sanctuary or Medicinal Trees 2. There is therefore much more Reason to suppose the coming of Christ into this Temple and drawing it up into the Spirituality of the Christian Temple Church and worship is designed by it till All the Receiv'd up into Gâ—â—ry Now however it is to be Acknowledg'd that the Christian Church was the Beginning of the Fulfilling of this Vision and the State of Eternal Glory be the Complement of it yet that there is a Glorious visible Appearance between those to be expected which hath not yet been I thus argue 1. Because at the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ before the Holy of Holies as it is styl'd Dan. 9. 24. was Annointed by the Giving the Spirit to the Christian Church Vision and Prophecy concerning the Glory of the Church and Kingdom of Christ was Seal'd So the Throne was seen only in Heaven Rev. c. 4. c. 5. The Temple in Heaven afterward was Seal'd and the Worshippers shut up for 1260 years and then the Temple open'd in the days of the Seventh Trumpet and more fully before the Vials Rev. c. 11. c. 15. But it was in Heaven still till the New Jerusalem came down And not only in Heaven for It must come down Argum. 2. Because after that opening the Temple in Heaven and the Divine Glory coming into it immediately as into the Tabernacle and Temple of old signified by the Smoak The New Jerusalem came down from God out of Heaven in a Glorious visible Appearance with many of the Signatures of this Vision upon it Rev. c. 1. 21. c. 22. Argum. 3. Because the self same day so exactly Dated and Recorded makes a Remarkable Epoch to some Great Time And that Time is the Time of Gods Throne so unmovably plac'd in his Temple and of the Sanctuary cleans'd Reconcil d and Justified and of his Servants being plac'd each in their Lots accordingly to Daniel as c. 12. 13. This Time of the Throne is assur'd to be not till after Four Monarchies had run out
themselves Dan. c. 2. c. 7. The Sanctuary cleans'd or Justified not till at the same Time viz. at the end of 2300 Evenings Mornings c. 8. 14. Nor Daniel and so all the Saints standing * At the first 75 of which It was Restored by Cyrus at 490. after Annointed Revel 4. at 400. after Seal'd and shut up c. 11. 1. at 1260. after Open'd in Heaven c. 11. at 30. after more fully open'd c. 15. 5. at 45 after comes down out of Heaven from God into the New Heaven and the New Earth the New Heaven as the Throne of God especially describ'd Rev. 21. the New Earth as the place of the Soles of his Feet in this Vision of Ezekiel in their Lots of this Great Blessedness till the end of 1335 Days which are also the End of the 2300 Evenings Morning c. 12. 12. 13. Argum. 4. Because there are such Extraordinaries in this Vision as can fit no State that hath ever yet been in the World and therefore must have an exceeding High and Heavenly State as the Princes Inheritance sufficient to give to his Sons for ever c. 46. 16. 17. with John 8. 35. 36. And so the Princes omnipresent Conduct though Himself in the East yet in the midst of those who went Southward and Northward c. 46. 8. c. the miraculous Waters and Trees and the universal Life the City 18000 Measures each Measure of 18000 Cubits at least too big for this State of the World and an Inheritance great enough for all Israelites and Strangers when such Great Sholes of People and all in a State of Life Represented by Fishes shall be in such an Abundance and Perpetuity of Life c. 47. 9. And yet a Lake of Miry Places not Heal'd as the Dead and the Lake Rev. 20. 5. 10. Argum. 5. Because this Throne and Sanctuary being for ever can never have any other end but that of the Kingdom deliver'd up to God and to the Father at the Time of the White Throne which is not an end but a perfection into an Absolute Eternâ—ty and all Defilement for ever separated into the Lake 1 Cor. 15. 24. with Revel 20. 11. c. to the End I Have then Fix'd upon the General shades and Lines of this Vision and found by very Great Assurances that it presents a Supernatural State of Purity and Glory Reaching down from the Throne of God or the New Heaven to the New Earth the Place of the Soles of his Feet and in both a Temple State of the Highest Enjoyment of God I have also found by the Exquisiteness of the Date It is the Epoch or Head of Time from the Typical Jubilee at that Time to the Great Jubilee of the World the Kingdom of Christ and that within Two years of it God began the Calendar of Time from this Vision to that Kingdom at the end in Nebuchadnezzar's Image as I have elsewhere made out and Forty years after or at the end of the Forty Days for Years after this Vision wherein Ezekiel bare the Sin of Judah to the end of the Captivity God super-added a second Vision of the same Four Monarchies under the Emblem of Four Beasts Dan. 8. and that the space of those Monarchies might be more distinctly and certainly known He gave also within Two yerrs after 2300 Evens Morns Days also for Years to the Cleansing or as the Original is the Justifying this very Saâ—ctuary and to the great Sabbatism of the New Creation and to the Kingdom of the Prince of Princes the Antichristian Desolator of the Sanctuary being Broken first without Hand Dan. 8. 25. which 2300 Evens Morns ending with the 1335 Days This Heavenly State is divided also by Lot Dan. 12. 12. 13. And now we are upon the 2200th and 18th of these Evenings Mornings There remain then but Seven to the Opening this Temple to be seen first in Heaven and but 75 beyond that to the coming down of the New Jerusalem All this being thus settled I come to Adjust the Substantial Spiritual meaning to the External Types of the Vision and to shew the High Rationality of the Correspondencies between the one and the other in answer to the second Question Correspondency 1. This Vision most Evidently and Illustriously presents the Highest Temple State or of the Tabernacle of God with Men A Temple and all the Forms Laws Ordinances and Measures of it runs through the Vision Now a Temple is a Place or Building wherein there is an Expectation of a divine presence or Gods coming down in a Communication of Himself to his Rational Creatures as at a distance from his Highest Glory and Presence and his being also pleas'd Graciously there to Receive their Tenders of Homage and service in Adorations and Praises This is the True notion of a Temple The very Highest Heaven is a Temple to the Angels and Glorified Spirits * He Humbles Himself Psal 113. 6. wherein God coming out of the Infinity of his own Glory and Being is pleas'd to hold Communion with them The whole lower World and Paradise especially was a Temple to Adam before his Fall And in Regard of the divine omnipresence Every place is a Temple and so He dwells not in Temples made with Hands but is Worshipped every where by Acts 17. 24. John 4. 21. 1 Kings 8. 27. them who Worship Him in Spirit and Truth For seeing the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Him how much less a Temple as Solomon the Builder of his Temple tells us God therefore very Tender of this Glory and the Fallen nature of Man most prone to violate it by Idolatry and Superstition There was no Temple or other place or indeed Form of Worship to be devoted to Him but by his own Appointment The first Appointment of place by God was the Tabernacle Exod. 25. 40. in the Wilderness the exact Measures and Pattern of which Gad gave to Moses and He was with Greatest Caution to observe it Solomon by the same Divine Pattern and Inspiration 1 Chron. 28. 11. Built the Temple It was after the Babylonish Desolation restor'd under Cyrus c. as near as might be to the old form c. All this was too Low and serv'd only as a Shaddow for the Time Being For it was too Low too often defiled and violated by Corruption within and Pagan Fury without It was Finally destroyed by the Romans yet it always remain'd a Type of the True Temple that is to be This Vision of Ezekiel joyn'd with that of John Revel 21. Give that True Temple wherein God and the Lamb will be the Temple and that Temple gives to the City the name Jehovah Shammah The Lord is there Here now is the Reason why there is in this Vision so much of a Temple Frame and Appearance To shew forth and foretell the State of the New Jerusalem wherein the Presence of God in Christ shall be most Free and Illustrious shewing his Love and Favour to his Servants and
Receiving their Service Praises and Obebience His name shall be in their Foreheads and his Servants shall serve Him without any Violation or defilement shall this Temple be All hitherto hath been too Low too Dark too much polluted even when Purest since the Annointing the Christian Church in the days of the Apostles and will be till this Temple not far hence shall be seen in Heaven Then it will be daily Cleansing A Worldly Sanctuary hath been the Great opposite to this especially when not appointed by God Paganism and Antichristianism are the Abomination of Desolation to it The remains of the Synagogue of Sathan ever since the Reformation still keep it out of sight The most refined Churches are both too narrow and too obscure yet The many Contents and Paper Combates about Hierarchy Liturgies Ceremonies viz. what should be abated or alter'd are even Ridiculous Things before it But all such will Vanish like Smoak before that presence of God that will within short Time fill all Temple-State with another Smoak Even with the Glory of his presence ready to enter and with the Vengeance of his Temple upon all that have defiled it And then the Man whose Name is the Branch shall Build the Temple of the Lord and Bear forth the Glory of it Let us therefore be Ashamed of whatever Temple State seems now most desirable and Earnestly set our Hearts Prayers and Expectations to what is so much above it even to that which the Lord wil pitch and not Man and that God would cause his Face to shine on his Sanctuary which is yet Desolate for his own Name sake Correspond 2. As the Beauty and Grandieur of any Building and also its Security and Stability consists in the Justice Equality and Symmetry of all its Parts So to set out in this Frame a Divine both Stateliness Glory and that Firmness of a Kingdom that cannot be Shaken there is a Construction of all those Admirable Measures we find in this Vision And though They can no more be Found out to Perfection then the Almighty in his Works Job 11. 7. then the Laws and Measures of Creation in the Hanging the Earth by Poize upon Nothing then the Bounds of the House Job 26. 28. 37. 38. c. Psal 147. 4. of Light the Weights for the Winds the Ballance of the Clouds without which they Rage into Storms and Tempests as we see then the Measure of the Dust of the Earth the Decree of the Rain Thunder Sea and Waters then the Number and Names of the Stars the Conduct of Arcturus and Orion The Infinite Vnderstanding can alone do the One and the Other Yet still They are all Admirable and when the Reason of them is expos'd in Glory to Angels and Saints in this Temple-State of the New Jerusalem in the Stupendious Holiness Purity of Spiritual Worship and Enjoyment of God Then the Morning Stars shall Sing together and the Sons of God shall shout for Joy Job 38. 7. And as Number Weight and Measure are so Essentially necessary to All the Great Things that are perform'd in the World as to Astronomy Observation of the Heavens and their Course Geometry Architecture Statics Navigation Survey Experimental Philosophy and to all Commerce and Traffick and even mutual Cohabitation of Mankind So under these Measures in this Vision are shaded the Sublimity of the Divine Communion with his Saints and Servants and of Angels and Saints one with Another and those Lines of Communication signified by Jacobs Ladder Gen. 28. 12. between the New Heaven and the New Earth and all that Abundance of Peace Joy Riches Even Happiness Blessedness in the most Just Order and Equality to Full Satisfaction and Enjoyment and yet so that there are Arch-Angels Eph. 1. last Col. 1. 16. 1 Cor. 15. 41. Rev. 22. 3. and Angels Thrones Principalities and Powers and one Star Excelling Another in Glory and the Lord God and the Lamb on the Throne And as All the Wisdom of Creation in Number Weight and Measure are Transfer'd into the Fear of God and Departure from Evil into the Righteous and wise Government of the World Jobs Description of and search after Wisdom c. 28. Issues at the last into that Divine Decree upon Man The Fear of the Lord That is Wisdom and to Depart from Evil That is Vnderstanding And as Solomons Practical Wisdom Justice Judgment and every Good Path is the same by which Kings Prov. 8. 5. c. 3. 19. with c. 8. 23. Reign and Princes Decree Justice By which Judges Rule and all the Nobles of the Earth are led the same also by which the Lord Founded the Heavens and Established the Earth Flowing from even the Eternal Wisdom Jesus Christ who sets up this Infinite Frame And as this Wisdom since the Fall of Man is as it were new Founded a New Creation in that Height Depth Breadth Length of the Love of God in Jesus Christ which passeth Knowledge and being Filled or Compleated into all the Fulness of God according to the Fullest Dimensions created Nature is capable of which Dimensions every Saint is to comprehend or Take with all Ephes 3. 18. Rev. 21. 16. Saints So this City and Temple Result into that City and Temple-State measured with the Apostles Johns Golden Reed wherein the Height and Depth the Breadth and Length are equal as the Moralists 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All is Four Square and every Saint in the perfect Cubical Four square State of Holiness And as All those Foundations Walls Gates Courts Buildings by their exact measure in this Vision must needs have an unexceptionable Firmitude and Stability So they Represent â—eb 12. 27. 28. that Kingdom that shall never be shaken the City that hath Foundations whose Builder and Maker God is and every Saint is a Pillar in this Temple-State that shall Go out c. 13. 14. â— Cor. 15. 24. c. no more Rev. 3. 1â— All this State City Temple therefore is 24. c. continuing and never Ends Till It is Deliver'd up whole and Entire to God All in All. Correspond 3. A Third Correspondency between the Types of this Vision and the New Jerusalem State is That all the Types of this Vision and the New Jerusalem State That all the Types Laws and Ordinances of the Mosaic Law Tabernacle Temple and Priesthood and also of the Land of Canan call'd the Holy Land and all the Predictions Figures and Promises in all the Prophets since the World Began are herein to have their Complement and Perfection For seeing the Truth of God Requires that every such Foretelling Type as well as Express Oracle or Pronunciation should be justly Fulfill'd when once Given and that this New Jerusalem-State is the last IT IS DONE of all These It is most Just and Agreeable that this Vision which is an Old Testament Representation of that New Jerusalem-State should be Cloath'd and Attyr'd in so many of the Types Laws Measures of the Levitical Temple and
Successors after the Resurrection The Third 1000 will Rise to the Loins in the First Days of the Seventh Trumpet when this Temple shall be Open'd in Heaven But the Fourth Thousand in the Milennial State or in this Vision Accomplish'd in the Kingdoâ— of Christ There will be a River Running down from Above throughout the New Earth beneath a River of Life to Bathe and Swim in and that cannot be pass'd over nor Transcended in any Temple State For It is an Ocean Correspond 12. The Spring of All this State is the Glory of God coming into his Temple c. 43. 1. And the perfection of it is JEHOVAH is THERE as in perpetual Residence of his Throne c. 48. last and of the Soles of his Feet Yea so that He becomes Himself with the Lamb the Temple of this City as hath been said Well therefore might All parts of the Temple be Embellish'd with Cherubims attending the Divine Presence And as attending the Lamb They had the Face of a Man on one side Worshipping Emmanuel God in our Nature and of a Young Lyon on the other in Homage to the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah The Temple was also Adorn'd with Palm Trees Representing the Innumerable Palm Bearing Company of Saints c. 41. 19. c. Revel 7. 9. I have now presented the General Table of this Vision in Agreement in the Chief and Main Importances of it with the New Jerusalem It now Remains that I draw up some Conclusions giving the Scripture Rationality of the whole Conclusion 1. Although this State be so Great and Excellent a State that It can never have an End Impos'd upon it or that it can expire of it self Yet it is by the Apostles express Doctrine 1 Cor. 15. 24. to be Deliver'd up Even this Temple and this Kingdom of Christ As the Father is in it It shall be Resum'd And as the Son is in it It shall be Resign'd or Deliverd up by the Son with his Saints For as from Heaven It comes down for the Glory of God and Christ so thither It shall be drawn and Resign'd up Now All this speaks it to be in order to a Higher End There must be therefore some Ultimate State and Perfection to which even this Temple and Throne are as the Apostle styles it an Oeconomy or Dispensation of the Fullness of all Former Times In order to this All former Dispensations were and are as to their next even Supreme end and the very Complement of Them So This is in order to a further â—xaltation of it self that does not indeed give it End but comprehend it and into which It is deliver'd up And this is that God may be All in All and that the Son and his Saints may be Subject Or as our Great Mediator expresses it John 17. 21. 22. 23. That They viz. All the Saints of Christ may be One as Thou Father art in me and I in Thee That They also may be One in us And the Glory which Thou gaâ—est Me I have Given Them That They may be in one Even as we are One I in Them and Thou iâ— me that They may be made Perfect in One This being the Supreme End It gives Law to the Noblest means and even to That which is to All others an End viz. to this Grand Oeconomy and wherein All Oeconomies are Sum'd up Conclus 2. There never was Any Temple-state Either High Enough or Secure Enough for this Vnion of the Saints with God All in All till this Temple-State wherein God and the Lamb are the Temple be Brought down Herein therefore the Highest Perfection of the Redemption of Christ is Enjoy'd There are therefore Robes washed in â—is Blood There is a Continual Participation of the Altar of his Sacrifice His Intercession and Himself as the SHEW BREAD of Life is as an Altar of Incense and the Table before the Lord There is the Annoynting of All Things by the pouring out of his Spirit making his Servants Kings as well as Priests And All the Heavenly Things of this State are Purified that is Purchased and Consecrated by that Better Sacrifice of Jesus Christ in his Blood Heb. 9. 23. Even Angels and Glorified Spirits of Just Men wait for their being made perfect in this State and Learn from Time to Time till then Then All the Treasures of wisdom and Gace shall â—e Open'd to the Rev. 20. 6. Priests of God and Christ a 1000 Years And They shall be therein Compleated for the unspeakable and Eternal Vnion with God All in All. This State is Begun here on Earth on which Account The Servants of Christ are now in Common And not the Elders Pastors and Doctors of the Gospel only Call'd the Royal Priest-hood 1 Pet. 53. to which Dr. Hammonds Notion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will Excellently Agree and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Portion and Lots of God according to the words the Holy Spirits wisdom Teacheth However we from the Ancients Humane Wisdom have Learn'd to speak Otherwise In them all alike is the Spiritual Tribe of Levi Perpetuated according to Jerem. 33. 21. 22. From this State Spirits Going to God are before the Throâ—e in white Robes of this same Priesthood Cloath'd and so prepar'd to be Invested with Glorious Bodies in this High Temple State and therein Consecrated for an Eternal Vnion with God All in All So the Sublime Purification of this State is according to the Divine Oeconomy absolutely necessary to that Eternal Vnion Conclus 3. This Temple â—tate is the Complement of all Prophâ—â—y For as All Things Times and Prâ—phecy have been some ways Prophetick of it Even Adam in Paradise was the Type 〈◊〉 who is Yet to come in it And the Two Last Voices of Proâ—â— Fullfil'd It is done It is done come out of this Temple Râ—â— 16. 17. and from the Throne of this Temple Revel 21. 6. as Râ—membring Ezekiel's Temple and Throne Even so All dates â—â— Time from the Beginning more especially from Daniel's 2â—0â— Evenings Mornings have been kept by it and determine in thâ—â— as the Apostle calls it the Fullness not of Time only as thâ—â— Time of Christs Incarnation and Death are call d Gal. 4. 4. bâ—â— the Fullness of Times that is All Times Ephes 1. 10. Anâ— further to shew in this of the New Jerusalem or Ezekiels Vâ—sion Fulfill'd All the Law and the Prophets are Fulfilld we may observe in that Grand Vision of the Gospel the Transâ—â—guration in the Mount which by the Apostle Peters express Exposition Ep. 2. c. 1. v. 16. c. was a Vision of the Power â—â— Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and wherein God the Father gaâ—â— Him Honour and Glory and by a Voice from that Excellent Gloâ—â— that shall come down into his Kingdom Establish'd Him â—â—preme saying This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleas'd Hear ye Him At the same Time Moses as Supreme Medâ—â—toâ— on Earth of the Jewish Law and all its Tabernacle of Testiâ—â—â—â— and its Types And Elias as that Prophet who was the Type â—â— that Vndying State Carried up immediately into Heaven â—â— Chariots of Fire and so the Chief of the Prophets Appear'd â—â— Him to shew this State was indeed the Full Complement of thâ—â— Prophetical Law and of all the Prophets Luke 9. 30. 35. Conclus 4. We should consider that this Temple is yet shut uâ— and not seen till the Days of the Seventh Trumpet because â—â— Days of the Apostasie are not yet expir'd Nothing therefore â—â— yet be as it ought according to the Pattern In the mâ—â— Time This is our duty to come as near to it as we can by oâ—â—ing nothing but according to the very Word of God For seeâ—â— All Things commanded by God are Patterns of Heavenly thâ—â—â—â— and the Temple in Heaven is not yet seen none can transgress â—â— much as by a Ceremony and be Innocent So nice and seveâ—â— is that Admonition for this very Reason See thou do All Things according to the Pattern shew'd thee in the Mount Heb. 8. 5. But within Seven Times or Years The 1260 shall end anâ— we shall see it that we may be Asham'd of our Corrupt â—â— present Low State And when we are Asham'd As Certainâ—â— then shall be the discoveries shall be clearer and clearer till â—â— and the Lamb be both our Temple and our Light FINIS