about the Square Though the East Only or Mainly were called Solomons Porch Of Stones of 20 cubits Long with Pillars on Pillars Arched with a great Vault under As the whole way to Olivet That no Grave might defile them at the Red Cow or other ocasions And by this Length of all the Temple Courts together from East to West as the Daily Course of Heaven or Earth is from East to West So they came into the Temple so from Captivity Why may not God shew us how to measure Times also of that Temple and of That to come the New Jerusalem yet more then we now believe Seeing it is clear their Cubit was so like a Day with its 24 Digits and by consequence a year also As we found Dayes for Years in divers places besides the Prophets Of Solomons 400 Rimmons we have spoken before and how Janus-like they looked Two waies And if That great â—iatriba Chronologica Johannis Marshami doe evince Ezekiels 390 Years were but the Temples Age or Aera to His Captivity Then it should stand in all but just 400 Years to its last in Zedekiah For the 400 Pomgranates and 400 cubits also both in Solomons Porch and in every side of His Outer court about his Temple as we saw before But we are now looking Forward on the Times followlng that Temple and the 70 years captivity from Babylon or Shushan As we saw the Jewes express it And How Solomon called his spouse from North to south and from East to West in Shelomith and Lehana we saw before We might add Jonah from Assyria For so His Dove is called and Susanna also As alluding both to Susanna freed by Daniel and to the Jewes Return from Shushan As they name the first Gate of the Temple May I add that Jonah which we found in Hoseah also is in Hebrew Letters but 71 As the very year of their return from That Assyrian captivity Which Jonah also might Typifie as well as our Saviours Rising from the Dead And Solomons Jonathi my Jonah my Dove maketh 476. As there were just so many years before him from Aegypt and after him to Their Return from Babylon and Building This 2d Temple in Darius Hystasp Or from the End of his Buildings to their First Return in the 1st of Cyrus And if we look Forward there may be just 476 Years from the City finished in Nehemiah to our saviours Death or Baptism As 490 from Ezras Coming to his Death And if Xerxes should prove to be Queen Esters Husband as so many thought there may be Thence 476 Years to our saviours Birth And for That of Ester also and Susanna at Sbushan there may be a mistery in it as the very Name imports from Satar to Hide Whence Nister Mister Mistress Ester As we saw before And Solomons spouse is also in Ester or in Seter the secret place so near 666 the Number of Years between the two great Sacks of Jerusalem And the Hebrew letters of Susanna as in the Canticles also make up the very same Number that is in Ester so near the English Easter or our Saviours Passover which did fulfil so many great Mysteries But we may have clearer Arguments Yea and it may be from the Temple Measures also The Outer court of the Hill was 500 cubits square and so we may begin at any Gate As that of Huldah So they called it as remembring the Prophetess in good Josiahs Time so near the Captivity who also was Buried in Jerusalem as never Any but the House of David And it may be from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we saw before for Time or Age of the World and a very learned man readeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As if Heither Common and and now Holy Ground begins But we shall rather begin from Shushan an Emblem of the Royal City of the Persian Prince that freed them whose Pedigree may be cleared from Aeschilus the Poet of those Times From Shushan to Coponius the opposite Gate 500 Cubits As there were just 500 Years between Herod and Cyrus ending their Captivity at Babylon by Tygris Distant from His Shushan just 210 Furlongs in Herod with Diod As This was just 210 Years from the Babylonian Era of Nabouassar or it may be Salmanassar who Sacked Samaria as another had done Galilee which was Then made Gentile or of the Gentiles much about 210 Years before This of Cyrus Taking Babylon As it was also taken by Alexander much about 210 Years after this of Cyrus which was just 500 Years before the year in which Herod took Jerusasalem when Canidius Gallus was Consul with Agrippa In Olympic 740 and of Rome 716. And of Nabonassar 711. 276 from Seleucus Nicanor in Babylon of which the Maccabâ—s and from Their Rule upon Nicanor slain after Epiphanes Cxi the Measuring Line of which before and This being out The Scepter departed as a sign of Shilo's Coming Gen. 49. And though the length of the Outer Court between Shushan and Coponius were but 500 Cubits As 500 Years from its first founding to Herods Taking Jerusalem Yet if we measure all the steps to the Porch Floor 22 Cubits Higher that Shushan as we saw before We may come to the very Year of This in Herod Who having lost his great Mark Antony whose Name remained in Antonia the great Tower at the Temples North-west from the great Battel at Actium he was now to make new Friends with Augustus to whom he consecrated his New Samaria by the name of Sebaste or Augusta about his 14th year and Then begins his great Cesarea in his 16th Year and in his 17th meets Augustus coming to those parts And that the Jews might tell no Tales or to atone the blood of their Great Sanedrin whom he had slain All but the President Hillel and Vice-President Shammai the onely man that plainly Voted against him before he was King for killing Ezekias c. He promiseth to build the Temple New and so he did in 7 or 8 years space as many years before our Saviours Birth and so we come to Coponius who was General of the Horse when Cyrenius was Governour of Syria as we may learn from Josephus and afterwards Coponius was also Governour of Judea in our Saviours Time And the Gate Coponius stood in the place of Solomons Causey or Shalleketh as a Pledge of that Gracious Promise Esay 6. 13. to be still fulfilled to them Entering Shushan the first 14 Cubits through the Gate and Pillars as the first 14 Dayes of the first Month to the Passover or 2d Sabbath and the first 14 Dayes of a Woman in Childe-bed of a Daughter as the Jewish Church was now Delivered of the Daughter of Sion Brought them to Solomons Porch And so the first 14 years from Shushan brought up the Prophets Haggai and Zechary with a Decree ere long from Darius Hystasp to build the Temple on Cyrus Words but Solomons Works as we may finde in Josephus adding the City also to Cyrus Graunt
10 Cleds or Clades or 3 Moeds and an Half as 70 is 3 score and an Half But 3 of those Dors or Generations being 3 times Thrice 70 or 9 times 70 and an half make just 665. And Dorothenu Our Generations in Hebr. letters may make 666 670 676. And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Word so often used by God For your Generations makes 4 above 1260 which is 10 Moeds and an Half As in the Revelation also 1260 for a Time and Times and Half which is Moed Moeds and Half a Moed in Daniel And His 1335 is but 3 more than Twice 666 or 4 times 333 As the 14th Day ended in 336 Hours 3 more than 333 the Evening Sacrifice or slaying of the Passover And the Temple Witnesses lay as slain by Antiochus 3 years and then Recovered by Iudas Macchabeus in the 148 year of Seleucus Nicanor the very same Month the Temple was polluted 3 years before 1 Macc. 1. 54. 4. 51. That was Twice 666 from Egypt or 1332 years and the Clensing 1335 Which was also 1290 years from Their setling in Canaan as Iosh. 14. 10. which was in the 46th or 47th from Egypt As Noah went into the Ark on the 46th or 47th Day of the Year And if we There fix the Pentecost which was not till they were in Canaan as Levit. 23 25. There may yet be Greater Harmony For as the years before This setling in Canaan may be as Hours from the beginning of the Year to the Day of Pentecost so all the years following This in Canaan may be reckoned as Hours After the Pentecost the 65th Day of the Year and Therfore about the 5th of the 3d Month. 430 more come up to Solomon 470 to Ieroboam As 470 Hours from the beginning of the Day of Pentecost end about the 23d or 24th Day of the 3d Month when the Jewes Fast to this Day for Ieroboams stopping all the First-Fruits of Israel from Ierusalem 430 more to the City Taken by Nebuchadnezzar ending as Hours about the 9th of the 4th Month the very Day when it was broken up As we read in divers places of the Kings and Ieremy 39 and 52. 430 more which make up Daniels 1290 to the Times of Epiphanes for which They Fast also in the latter end of the 4th Month as also for Moses breaking the First Tables at their Golden Image in the Wilderness which themselves account as a Type or cause of the Babylonian Image oppressing them or That Abomination of Desolation as the Macchabees call it of Antiochus that mighty Type of Antichrist Or of any other since On them and the Israel of God And yet again 222 more added to 1290 make 1512 the number of Hours in 63 Dayes between the Day of Pentecost and the 10th of the 5th Month. That Fatal Day when Amalek Canaan destroyed them to Hormah the Curss upon that Heavy Doom of Not Entring into Rest And for the first Temple Burnt by the Chaldeans Jer. 55. 12. and the Second also by the Romans on the very same Day of the 5th Month. The 65th from the Day of Pentecost as This the 65th Day of the year and its Morning Sacrifice was in Hour 1526 from Pentecost As the second Temple Burnt 1526 years from their setling in Canaan 1512 years After Enoch On the 18th of the same 5th Month they Fast for the Lamps put out in Ahaz time and for them that defamed the Good Land on the 17th of the 6th Month but All the first half of the 7th is little else but Fasts as the first half of the 7th Day was Darkness and the latter half was Light and Joyful Feastings ending all that years sorrow and their scatterings which Damel makes the Measure of All things foretold in Him As Chap. 12. 7. And his 9th saith Desolations shall be determined at the End of That War whose very first Crisis lasted till That season of the year in the 7th Month we are now Seeking Shall we view a Map of All in the 39 40 41 52 Chapters of Jeremiah First The City Broken up on the 9th of the 4th Month about 860 Hours after Pentecost As That 860 years from Their First Pentecost in Canaan Then the Temple Burnt on the 10th of the 5th Month As a Type of the 2d Temple Burnt by the Romans on the same Day of the same Month and same Course of Joyarib 666 years after Or 1526 years from That Pentecost in Canaan As 1526 Hours from Pentecost to the Morning Sacrifice of the 10th Day of the 6th Month. In which also they Fast for Aaron's Death a Type of our Saviour Dying before That Temple Burnt Then the Great and Rich and Mighty men were All carried Captive and the Vineyards and Olives c. Left to the Poor As promised Zeph. 3. Ezek. 34. Levit. 26. with Ex. 23. adding that What the Poor left the Beasts should eat Then the Witnesses slain First Gedaliah a Type of Christ the Great Lord and Then the 70 Elders those solemn Witnesses in Mourning and their Hair shorn c. And at Mispa the Watch of Witnesse to Jacob and his two Wives as we saw before And slain by the 10 Great Captains as the 10 Horns of Ishmael the Beast as the Angel called him Pere first mocking Isaac and now slaying him in a Name-sake and of the Seed Royal. And Then the Witnesses Rising again Or All the Captives recovered by Johanan the Lord's Grace or Gracious And at Gibeon where the Sun stood still for a new Heaven in Joshuah and a new Earth and Age in David yet but Types of more when God shall do his Work his strange Work as at Gibeon Isa. 28. Thence they go to Egypt as Christ when Herod slew the Children For Out of Egypt God alwayes called his Son And the Prophets and Revelation speak of their last Return as both from Babylon and Egypt And for the Times also besides the great and only Fast prescribed on the 10th of the 7th Month They Fast on the 7th for the Golden Image of the Beast They made as Psalm 106. a Type of the Beast slaying the Witnesses and on the 3d for Gedaliah slain in the seventh Month as Jer. 41 and the other 70 on the 2d Day after And 1290 Hours from the Temple Burnt on the 10th of the 5th Month 53 dayes and 18 hours come up to this Time which may be compared with Daniels 1290 dayes or years or 1260 in the Revelation written about 30 years After the Temple and City Burnt by the Romans As Daniel's Great Prophecy of 2300 days was just 30 or 31 years after the City sacked by Babylon Whose Times are All but 3 times 666 and an half or 2331 years and so but just 2300 from the 31st year of that account which was in the 3d of Belshazzar as we read in Dan. 8. to be compared with Baruch whence much of Daniels Prayer in the 9th expounding Levit. 26 as an absolute Promise of
Repentance and Returning from Captivity c. One of Those 666 years or hours from the City broken up by the Babylonians on the 9th of the 4th And the Temple Burnt on the 10th of the 5th To the Second Temple Burnt by the Romans on the same Day of the same Month in the Year of Christ 70 or 71. And though we do not know the just Hour of that Day It seemeth very early so that some assign it to the 9th as that Decree They should not enter into Canaan and 1526 Hours As Years from the First Pentecost came to the Morning Sacrifice of the 64th Day ending in 1536 Hours as it beginneth in 1512. And the First Pentecost in the 46 or 47 from Egypt was but 1512 from Enoch Then 860 more to the First And 666 to the Second Temple Burnt make just 1526 hours or years from that First Pentecost or 1572 from Egypt and 36 after the Great Pentecost Act. 2. which we found 1536 from Egypt 1290 more in Hours come about the very day of the 7th Month Fasting for Gedeliah slain by Ishmael As so many years of Christ bring up the Ottoman Family which the Jews call Ishmael as Hagarens in the East As many Great Motions and Earth-quakes in the West besides the Sicilian Vespers and the first great Jubilee setled by Boniface the 8th with the Christians driven out of Judea and the Jews out of England c. And so many years from Jerusalems sack brought up the Golden Bull of Charles the 4th with the Great Order of Jesuites besides That so many call Nocticidium Tigur And 1572 That famous Year in France and other Nations may thus close the 10th of the 7th Month being but just 240 the hours of ten dayes more than 1332 being twice 666 or two Changes of the Moon from the last Great Sack of Jerusalem by the Romans And if the 2d Change begun the 7th Month or 7th Trumpet Then 333 more come up to the Evening Sacrifice of the 14th Day or Preparation for the Feast of Tabernacles which begins the 15th Day of the same Month the great Time here Enquired As that Great Solemnity of Davids Dance before the Ark or Solomons Great Feast of Dedication of the First Temple and of the 2d also by Zorobabel and Nehemiah with Ezra but Types of This Great Return from Babylon that is All Oppression and Confusion called Babel in Hebrew and English also being but Lebab Our Heart in Hebrew Turned quite Backward And if the Turk coming up as Ishmael on the 3d of the said Month be to rule in Europe but 391 years as dayes in a Year and a Month and a Day and an Hour in Apoc. 9. 15. first hinting This Comparison of Years with Hours Those Hours make but 16 Days and 7 Hours ending in the 19th Day the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles which must darken both the Persian Sun and Turkish Moon also as may be hinted in Isa. 24 and Matth. 24. with Joel 2d and 3d. And the First of that Feast of Tabernacles or the 15th of the 7th Month is the 3d 65th As 3 Patriarchs born in 65 that is Eber of Arphaxad and Jared of Mahalaleel and Methusala of Enoch living 365 as dayes in a year So that from him we may begin the Great Year here measured by Hours or any other We found tbe Romans Burning the 2d Temple in the 70 or 71 year of Christ and on the 10th of the 5th Month the Hour we do not know Suppose the first or to be reckoned so or Evening Turning Light into Darkness in that Great Eclipse of the Jewish State And then the 24th or last Hour of that Day will be at the 95th of Christ which so many make the first year of the Revelation being about the end of Domitian 50 Dayes more or 1200 hours bring us quite through the 5th and 6th Months although Both of them should have 30 days As the Scripture Months in the Revelation where 42 Months have 1260 Dayes and other places besides the Flood of 365 Dayes So that 1200 added to 95 come to the Feast of Trumpets or to the 7th Trumpet beginning the 7th Month in 1295. 360 more in 15 Days come up to 1655 The first Day of Tabernacles Which may also be sooner if the Roman Sack were not Till the Morning of the 10th Day Or if each other Month had but 29 days as the Jews now reckon by Middle Motions However it may be Hereabout by all Accounts yet so that the first Day of Tabernacles must begin as all other with 12 hours of Night before Day And they Dance not till the Evening Minha or Incence closing the Evening Sacrifice with All its Songs and Waters from the Wells of Salvation as they called them from Isa. 12. So that if it began in 1654 we are yet but at Midnight and the Sun of This Day will not Rise till 1666 twice 666 and an half And we found 666 and all its principal parts very signal to Jerusalem Troden down by the Jebuzites 444 years after Aegypt Then Recovered by David Then again by Sesac K. of Aegypt in the 5th of Rehoboam which may be 444 years from Judahs Burning it in Judges 1. As That about 444 years from Sodoms flames After Abraham was met by the K. of Sodom and Melchizedech of Salem which must meet also at this Great Return both of Jerusalem and Sodom as we find in That to Abraham with Ezek. 16 and divers other Scriptures Here discoursed And That First Burning of Jerusalem in Judges might be as long After Their First Pentecost As the Last Burning of it was After the Last Great Pentecost in Act. 2. Then again by Joash in the 14th of Amaziah just 666 years from Egypt As Samaria much about 777. Then besieged by Senacherib in the 14th of Hezekiah 666 years before it was Taken again by Herod As by Pompey 666 years from the Assyrians first coming on Israel And the Temple sacked by Crassus slain at Abrahams Haran 666 years after Hezekiahs Death As by Antiochus 666 years from Joash sacking it 666 from Egypt and by the Babylonians just 666 before its Last Sack by the Romans To whom 666 is also very signal from the very Building of Rome coming up with Hezekiah Born of Ahaz but 12 years old which in page 149 is Two and 75 for 57 in This Sum printed These Times are also cleared by the Measures of Both Temples with Herods also and the Times of Nabonassar and of Rome through all the latter part of This Discourse from pag. 196. to 380. where This First Part endeth Which though now presented as One Continued Discourse was many and at severall times interrupted also by Questions and Objections with other matters interwoven which may come in the following Parts With Musick also sometimes heard at distance As Harpers or Melodious Voyces with Theorboes or other Instruments Some of the Hymns that could be Taken but abrupt and â—ost by Translation
All in the Epistle to the Hebrews with so many repetitions as God spake it several times to Joshua That which destroyed Israel was observing the Laws of Omry or other Kings among them and leaving the Law of God which was so good and just and wise that all Nations also should say they were a wise people that had such a Law Which indeed made them the people of God and so owned by him so long as they accepted and owned his Law for their Rule And he never cast them off till they chose a stranger for their King and a New Law to govern them Yea the great badg of Antichrist which we should hate may be to place himself above the Law and think to change the Law which God hath promised to magnifie among all Nations And although it be exceeding sweet to see and know that he was made under the Suffering part of the Law In all its heavy Threatnings and its Curses also so that all the Waves of God and all his Billows rowled over him and all his Arrows did stick fast in Him and in Job David Heman Jonah but as Types of Christ and partakers of his Spirit and acting some part of his Sufferings and when God had so powred out his Anger his Soul rested his Spirit was quiet and he will be no more angry as he often speaketh as an angry person that hath vented his heat and is quiet So was he in Christ when he had born his Wrath the Fathers Soul Rested in him and his Spirit is quiet so that he can be no more angry But we may come to him as the Psalmist Lord Thou hast turned from the fierceness of thine anger and hast put away all thy wrath even All thy Wrath in Christ Why then should it lie on us thy poor Worms O Turn us therefore as thou hast turned thy self and Reconcile us also seeing Thou art Reconciled and art in Christ also Reconciling the World to thy self and not imputing sin Yet because this hath occasioned so many disputes How far and for Whom or How many he so bare the Curses of the Law I shall therefore Now rather consider the Doing part of the Law and what it required of Man to Man as well as to God There being no doubt at all that I know but that he was made under this to All and for All the Law required it So that now look what ever was required of man either to God or to man Christ was surely made and put himself under all that as his Duty to God also whose Law lay upon him and was written in his Heart also as his Pleasure Honor Joy Delight and Happiness as to be made and kept in the Image of God Though also the Suffering part would soon be cleerer to us if we did consider That the Infinite God could have no other fit and full Object of his Infinite Power and Justice or could shew the strength of his Almighty Arm the Power of his Wrath or its heavy weight in no other But himself only or his own Match and his Fellow which surely no meer finite Beeing was or could be If we therefore may imagine God could be any more Angry in Time then he was from all Eternity before the fall or sin of any Creature which sure he could not be in himself but to manifestation and as he maketh us afraid we judg him Angry Or that he had a mind or saw it requisite to shew his mighty Strength and Justice with the Power of his wrath to the uttermost yet sure he would not chuse a little Worm to shew it on or such as are much less than the dust of the Ballance or a drop of a Bucket even nothing less than nothing When he had his full Match and Fellow which his Sword might challenge when it most would wake and shew it self in all its sharpness hardness with all power and strength of that mighty Arm that held and drew and brandished that flaming Sword Which therefore none have cause to fear or strength to feel as Christ but such only as are high and strong and stout to think themselves Gods fellows or his match and so challenge him As He or she that sits as God even in the Throne of God and Temple who must therefore look to feel the Sword of God and all that take that Character which All will take whose names are not written in the Lambs Book of Life even before the Foundation of the World And yet These also shall not feel the Sword of his Hand or Arm as Christ felt it but only the Sword of his Mouth a bright two edged blessed Sword which shall scatter and pierce them so that as the Psalms and Prophets speak in several places He will speak them under him for so the Phrase is and may be so translated rather than he shall destroy or subdue them under him or under us Which Phrase of Speaking them under him even then when they have most cause to expect destruction makes me remember a notable place in the 3. of Zephany Which the Jews also have marked as one of the most especial places in all the Scripture having in one verse every letter of their Alphabet and those also that are only final as they call them with other things observable Which it may be also bids us often read and meditate upon it as One of the most notable descriptions of the mind and purpose of God even in his greatest Judgments or in that we use to call the great or last Judgment Which perhaps is There also hinted While he speaketh Thus Therefore wait upon me saith the Lord to the Day of my Rising up to Eternity which some read to the Prey for my Judgment is to gather the Nations that I may assemble the Kingdoms to powr upon them my Indignation all my fierce Anger for by the fire of my Jealousie All the Earth shall be devoured For though it seem a strange For Then I will turn to the Peoples it is plural in the Original a pure Lip or Language Is not this a Blessed Speaking of them under him That all of them may call upon the Name of the Lord with one consent or with one shoulder Or one Sechem For That is the word in the Hebrew Text being the very same with His Name that circumcised himself and All the men of his City Sechem for the Love of Dinah which also signifies Judgment and may perhaps lead us to the great or last Judgment which may circumcise more men than may be is expected and be a sore surprize or ravishment to those that think to ravish it Which should also be compared with the Judgment on Sechem in Judges But I will come rather to the plain things of the Gospel cleerly comprehended in the Doing Part of the Law Which I am therefore made to study that I may see not only my Duty to God or man but Christs Duty unto me a poor Worm sprauling
may continue all night yet Joy shall come in the morning and we shall be glad and rejoyce all day Make us glad according to the daies wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil and although I might not see thy Face when I prayed to see thy Glory yet let Thy Work at length appear unto thy Servants and Thy Glory also to our Children when we are dead And let the Beauty also of the Lord our God be on us All and establish Thou the Work of our hands to us yea the Work of our hands do Thou establish it And will he not Then also establish the work of his own hands Which is so often brought as a Reason why the Earth must stand and abide for ever Seeing All the Works of God are perfect and must abide for ever Yea and he hath set the World also or Eternity as the word is often rendered in the Heart of every man And though it may be for a while the Glory of God to hide some things Yet it is not only Lawful but our glory and the Glory of the greatest largest Kingly heart like Solomon to searth it out and to search him out For in God there is No Mole or shadow of Deformity Nor will he envy that All Flesh should see his glorious face together Nay our Saviour promiseth that Nothing Shall be Hid no not in God himself I hope but shall be revealed And every New Revelation of God to All Eternity will be to Jesus Christ as That we now read but to shew it to his Children and his Servants Which have also received a spirit not only to know and discern the things of God as the spirit of man doth the things of a man and to know the things that are freely given us of God but also to search out the Depths or Baths of God Who still speaketh perhaps to them All as to the Prophet Jeremy Ask of me and I will yet shew thee great and wonderful things which thou knowest not For such a God we have so Infinite that still he is a Fountain flowing up still flowing over and a little drop of that infinite Ocean can stretch out our narrow souls still wider and yet wider to receive more and yet more and still more to Eternity till we are wider than the very Heavens For our Saviour and our Head is gone up Over All Heavens still spinning out the spring of his Watch which was wound up Here on Earth while He was straitned and made perfect by suffering that he may now-fill All things and bring us All up to his own Ballance of Eternal Glory Even to the fulness of that stature which each Member is to have in His Great Body Which is the Fulness of Him which filleth All in All. This also of Turning Cursed things or places into Blessed might be yet more cleered from Jericho which was the first Fruits of all the I and of Chanaan And as all first Fruits it was so sacred that all were cursed that but touched it And yet the Vallie of Achan or Achor that is the Troubler afterwards is made a Door of Hope in the great day of Iezreel the Seed of God Yet so accursed it was by prophesie that He that should but attempt to build it again was solemnly Cursed by Iosuah the great Type of Jesus Yet in the Reign of Achab the Brother and the Father as the Name implies the guilty Man of the Kings of Israel there riseth up one Hiell the Living God and ventures to rebuild this Cursed City Yet we read of nothing els of harm to him but onely that he laid its groundwork in his Eldest Son and finished it in his Youngest which we may consider again But notwithstanding all the Curss This Jericho in a very few years grew up to be a Blessed School of Prophets as we may gather from the History of Elijahs taking up into Heaven And to make the Cure yet perfecter the Citizens bemoan themselves before Elisha that the situation of their City was indeed pleasant but the Water Naught and the ground so that it caused to miscarry as some read the place And he said bring me a New Cruse and put salt therein and he went forth to the spring or very Fountain of the cursed Waters and cast in the salt and said Thus saith the Lord I have Healed these Waters there shall be Thence No more Death or Curss or Barrennesse So the Waters were Heald unto this day That Elisha the Prophet was in This also a great Type of Jesus Christ Healing the Earth and taking off the Curss thereof as he bore away the sins of the World I do believe the rather because I find Our Saviour thereabout so often with his Healing Wings also to so many That I say nothing of his famous Parable of the good Samaritan Journying towards Jericho Nor shall I now spend time to shew how all this is also shadowed out in the very Heavens by the frequent Changings of the Moon although the Name of Jericho might lead us to That also Or that as Jericho was the First fruits to the whole Land of Israel So was Israel also to the World As we might prove by many Scriptures besides That of Jeremy the 2. Where it is called the First Fruits unto God of All his Increase and All that eat it or in some other places all that touch it to destroy it are Offenders and be guilty So also is our Saviour himself called the First Fruits of the Resurrection Though but as the Barley Sheaf or Barley Cake of Gideon that was Heaved up before the Lord on the Third day after the Passover was slain as an Emblem of the Resurrection on the third day after his death And This is often called in Scripture as in Genesis Revelation and St. Johns Epistle and Gospel the Beginning of the Creation and the VVorks of God So here the Beginning of the First Fruits Which came after on the day of Pentecost when also we received the First Fruits of the Spirit in the 2 of Acts and those first Fruits were Loaves of fine Flowr and moulded together as a Type of the Elect as the very name of First Fruits in Hebrew may intimate or of Christ in All his Members together as before it was Christ in his own person who was the First First Fruits or Beginning os the First Fruits of the Resurrection and of all that slept And the same Apostle tells us also that if the Root be Holy the Branches are Holy and if the First fruits be Holy so is the whole Lump Which should be considered much with all those places that speak our Saviour and the whole Election of God to be as Israel to the whole World besides but as the First born with the double portion or the first fruits of the Earth as we may read in the Revelation and divers other places As the Barly Sheaf first and Then the
Zelophehads Daughters sued for their Fathers Inheritance also and had it adjudged by God himself Though their Father died for his sin or in his sin as we saw before may be compared with that Gratious Word in Moses and the Kings and Cronicles and Prophet Ezekiel That the Son shall not Bear much lesse Dye for the iniquity of the Father Though in other places God declare himself a Jealous God Visiting the iniquity of the Fathers on the Children to the third or fourth Generation But yet There also shewing mercy to a Thousand Generations for so it is expressed in another place to a Thousand Generations of Those that love him and keep his Commandements Which from Hence Runs through all the Bible and reacheth up to our Good Father Noah We being all within his Thousand Generations and so also within That Mercy which was sure to Him and His Seed for ever Or as it is There expressed for perpetual Generations and an everlasting Covenant with him and his Seed also For God blessed him and his sons also yea and they shall be Blessed and God made an Everlasting Covenant with them so that the Height of all the Covenants afterwards made with Israel was but This that it should be as sure and Everlasting as the Covenant with Noah as we read in the Prophets And Manasses notwithstanding all his many great sins scarce to be named Humbled himself or judged himself in prayer as the Phrase imports to the God of his Father and was Heard and accepted in the Beloved And as Manasseh was the Son of good Hezekiah so was he the Son of wicked Ahaz yet at two years old before his great wickednesse And we may find some of the best men coming from cursed parents As Samuel and the sweet Singers from Korah though it is said he went quick into the Pit and All the men that pertained to him yet his Sons were preserved so as to bring forth Samuel from Elkana near akin to the jealous God or God that begat him Jeroham He will be very Gracious and Elihu He is my God from Tohu or the first Chaos of Creation which arose from Zuph Hony-comb or Root of sweetnesse and goodnesse in the Heart of God which also turned Korahs curse into praises and Psalmes of blessing as we find in Heman and other Kindred of Samuel We have shewed How our Saviour was made under the Law for us and we have given instances of divers particular branches of that Law he was made under for the time would fail us to go over All particulars there being yet very many that we have not so much as touched but they may be applied as we meet them So that we shall come to delight to study the Law and long to see it in its fullest Latitude and greatly rejoyce to find some new duty in it that we never knew before because we get a new Argument to presse on Christ on whom the Law lieth as much or more then on any one of us and so became the ground-work or foundation of the Gospel next to the Heart of God and Christ. But there is One Particular which St. Paul maketh the main end of Christs being made under the Law to Redeem them that were under the Law were we not All under the Law How else are we guilty of its Breach or Curse and if we were all under the Law Was not Christ made under it also that he might Redeem us all Which we may also find in divers places of Scripture where the Lord complains of wicked men a sinful Nation and a foolish Generation that did not onely forsake and forget him that made or begot them but also Him that redeemed Them So that the very word that signifies Redeemed is also used to expresse them that are most Polluted as in that remarkable place of Zephany Wo to the Polluted City or to Her that hath been Redeemed and in many other places As for whom Christ dyed and Trampling That Blood by which he was sanctified which seemeth more then Redeemed And that Christ hash so Redeemed us may be hinted in the very Law it self which as it speaketh to every One to whom it is given even to the worst of them all I am the Lord Thy God so it addeth also which have Redeemed thee or brought thee out of Bondage or the land of Misery for so Aegypt soundeth in the Original and to this day as of old also called Mesrie or Misre And the Law of Redemption is One of the great things of the Law and it may be the greatest if we consider it as we ought We find it in Leviticus 25. with many other Scriptures First for the Land in general It shall not be sold for ever Or be quite cut off or wholy alienated For the Land is Mine and you are strangers and sojourners with me In all the Land of your possession you shall grant a Redemption Either for Him that sold it or for his Kindred But doth God take care of Land a little Clod of Earth and of that Earth which himself so Cursed as we saw before will he not yea doth he not more care for our Souls and Bodies also O we of little Faith Doth he not so in that very 25th chapter and 25th verse If thy Brother be waxen Poor and sell any of his Possession much more if it were his inheritance Any of his Kindred shall redeem it and in the 35th verse If thy Brother wax Poor or fall into decay with thee Thou shalt relieve him yea a stranger or a sojourner For thou must love a stranger as thy self Levit. 19. 34. Thou shalt not compel him to serve or serve thy self on him with hard service or as a slave But as an hired servant or a sojourner and onely till the Jubile And then he shall go out both Hee and his Children with him To the Possession of his Father he shall return For they are my servants and thou shalt not rule over him with Rigour but shalt fear thy God And again If thy Brother wax poor and sell himself to a stranger or sojourner or stock of a strangers Family and why not if he sell himself to sin or Satan are They not strangers He may redeem himself if he can Or one of his Kindred shall Redeem him Or however He shall not be ruled over with Rigour And he shall go out in the year of Jubile He and his Children with him May we not and ought we not to apply all this to our Neighbour Kinsman Brother Jesus Christ Was he not made under This Law also a Branch of the Second Table As we spake of before the First The fifth command which the Apostle calleth the First with Promise and the former are Promises rather then commands Though it speak onely of Honouring our Parents which lay also upon Him that was still held out for the Pattern of a Son of Man yet by the Apostles it is brought to All
for such is mans heart And So was Ishmael foretold to be in the Original as was touched before And the 72. Psalm and divers other Scriptures shew us how Christ also was made under All those Laws that concern the Poor and Needy And we should urge and press them All on Him Yea especially to make us Poor in spirit or rightly sensible of all our wants which indeed may be one of our greatest wants and That for which Christ especially calls us to Him As we may see in that most remarkable Epistle to the Church of Laodicea in the Revelation which shews us the Heart of Christ even unto those that are not senfible of their wants But He sees them and remembers the Law If thou see the Naked in Esay or thy poor Neighbor want as we find in St. John and James Yea though they do not weep or word out any of their wants Yet if thou do but See them and thou must not Hide thy self from thy own flesh Which have been exceeding sweet to me in many cases when I could urge them on Christ also and Tell him he hath said a Brother is Born for a day of Sorrow And the very Sigh by which God hath taught us all to express sorrow which is Ah Ah in Hebrew and most Languages I know in Gods Language is Brother Brother to which he seems to allude in Jer. 22. and divers places As if he would have us in all our sorrow cry out Brother brother Help us And Christ was not only sent to Preach the Gospel to the Poor and to comfort All that mourn but also gave That as the demonstrative Character to Johns Disciples that he was the True Messiah That the Poor were Gospelized or Turned into the Gospel As the Phrase imports And himself read his Commission not only to Preach Deliverance to the Captives or opening of prison to them that are bound but also to Deliver and set at Liberty those that are Bruised which is less than Broken with which he began saying he hath sent me to Heal the broken Hearted Or the shivered from the Heb. shiver as in English also to break into atomes or Moats which is also an Hebrew word And though the Prophet speak of a Day of Vengeance where also the word is akin to Repentance and Comfort also yet Christ omits That in his reading it and speaks not a word of Vengeance though but a Day But the Acceptable Year of Jubilee O How Acceptable it is to God! And the Poor were so much upon Gods Heart when he gave the Law that he begins all his Judicial Laws in the 21. of Exodus with the case of a Poor man or woman sold to be a Servant As the Foundation of the great Law of Redemption which is the Gospel And in the next chapter he calls them His People with an especial Emphasis If thou lend mony to any of My People the Poor with thee And again If thou take thy Neighbors Garment for a Pledg Thou shalt deliver it to him again by Sun set For it is his Covering and wherein he sleeps and if he cry to me I will hear For I am Gracious For I am Gracious O how sweet is That to a Poor Soul That also of Delivering the Pledg by Sun set which in the Repetition of that Law is said should be their Righteousness before the Lord a strange expression may occasion us to remember How the same God also commanded that He that was Hanged up as a pledg of the greatest Wrath and Curse as we find in the Law and in Christ whom the Jews to this day call the Tall or Lifted up or Hanged person must be taken down by Sun set As Joshua practised diverstimes at the Going down of the Sun To which it may be That also may allude Let not the Sun go down upon your Wrath nor give place to the Devil the Prince of Wrath and Darkness Which hath also put me in mind that the word Wrath in Heb signifies somwhat that in God also I hope more than any man is to Pass away and not to Endure for Ever Which is one of the first Articles God seems to hold out of our Faith and Hope in Him Who is Wisdom it self Pure and Peaceful Power and Goodness But Wrath resteth only in the Bosom of Fools And is their Weakness also As we read in Solomon And the Prophet Micha saith I will bear the Indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him till he return c. And concludeth Who is a God like unto Thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgressions of the remnant of his Heritage He retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy He will turn again he will have compassion upon us he will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast Their sins into the depths of the sea Thou wilt perform the Truth to Jacob and the Mercy to Abraham which thou hast sworn unto our Fathers from the daies of Old And the very next chapter in Deuteronomy limits the punishing of a wicked man Which must not exceed forty stripes though he that knew his Masters will may be beaten with many stripes but not above fourty And the reason is yet better Lest Thy Brother should seem Vile unto thee And yet stripes were for the fools back and for the vilest slaves they might not touch a Roman and they are here appointed for a Wicked man and yet how careful is God that a Wicked man even a VVicked man for he is still a Brother by this very Law may not be made too vile in the eyes of any Judg and so of Christ also the great Judg But made under this Law also And it is considerable that this number of 40. is the Trying Tempting Punishing number much through all the Bible Fourty Daies in the Flood divers times And so for Purification after a male child and twice forty for a Female Fourty years for Canaans Repentance and Israels wandring in the Wilderness and Fourty years for Judahs sin in Ezekiel and fourty daies or years of Nineveh and of Jerusalem about our Saviors Resurrection and Ascention after fourty daies and the City stood but fourty yeers after And Thrice fourty yeers was the Tryal of the old World or their Day of Repentance And Then the Flood by fourty and fourty daies And though Moses make our longest age but twice fourty or eighty years yet he lived Thrice fourty years and Fasted Thrice fourty daies it may be Representing both Elijah and Christ also fasting fourty daies That which followeth in the same chapter of the Kinsmans raising seed to his dead Kinsman For it is not a Brother only in Hebrew and we see it in Ruth at a greater distance may be applied to Christ also for a spiritual seed to God Seeing the first Adam in us dieth childless Nor may he plead I shall mar my own Inheritance or Family I have a wife or children of my
shall Deliver the Needy Crying or from Crying the Poor also and Him that hath No Helper The very Phrase Here in Daniel and 2 King 14. 26. from Deut. 32. 36. For The Mountains shall bring Peace and the little Hills with Righteousness They shall fear thee with the Sun which is the Arms or God of the Persian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who of old also Worshiped the Sun and before the Moon the Banner and the Emblem of the Turk That Age of Ages Dor Dorim it minds me of the old famous Dores Dorians Peopling All or Many of Those Countries The Righteous shall flourish in His Daies and abundance of Peace untill there be No more Moon Or any such Changings The Kings of Tarshish or the Sea and the Eyelands Eijim and Tsijim or the doleful Creatures in Esay 13. All the Kings of Seba in Arabia and the Queens of Sheba Meroe shall cringe to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with Evening Sacrifice For That they especially called Minha the Phrase here used which may lead us to the Evening of the World As God and Angels much appeared through all the Bible in the Cool of the Day or Evening Sacrifice both in Old and New Testament the ninth hour or Time of Prayer or of Finding as the Hebrew Morning hath its Name from Seeking 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Once he came at the Morning Sacrifice to the three Kings against Moab the Fathers Waters and he brought Waters but they seemed Blood Which yet might represent His coming both by Water and by Blood This might be for Red bloody Edom who was at These Bloody Waters and in Esay 63 As the Waters for Moab For so the Psalm we now cite speaketh He shall come down as Rain upon the mowen Grass and though it be cut down it shall return again and flourish through the sent of Waters as Job speaketh and as the milions of innumerable drops as the Millions of Ephraim Dust or Ashes with Water flourishing by Water As Hoseah may allude to Josephs fruitful Boughs in his Fathers Blessings with his Right Hand giving length of dayes as his left hand also Riches and Honour So good it is to be at His Hand For they be blessed that may stand in his presence and may see his wisdom though but for One day It will be better then 1000 years in any other place Or may come behind him weeping as Paltiel after Mical till Abner said return again Which is an History that will make us all weep for joy t is possible when we shall understand it At the same time Michael shall stand up that Great Prince for the Children of thy people It may lead us to the sweet place we spake of in Levit. 19. Thou shalt not avenge thy self or reserve thine anger against the Children of thy People but thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self Which he is comming to fulfil in the Time here specified in Daniel At the same time which before is called the Time of the End and in the verse before he shall come to his End And five times this Chapter speaketh of End and the End In Heb. Kets or Kats and Katsa is Half Dimidium Plus Toto the whole of any thing or its Perfection Being also as we noted in Tom Perfect in numbers just 1000. Unto which also 666 is that sweet Chord in Musick which they call a Fift next to a Diapason 2 thirds as neer as may be in whole numbers The Hebrew word may also speak waking as hinting a Resurrection and Summer which was the End of their year beginning with Winter as before All time began with Night before Day And that their Year ended at or about the great Feast of Tabernables is cleer enough from many Scriptures And that also beside Exod. 23. 16. or Deut. 31. 10. And the very word Harvest which they call Katsyr may be Kats Yeer or Yeers End Or if you will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the End of the Flood or of Jaar Which was not only a Month with them and especial time of Noahs Flood But also Flood in general and often used for a River So that Jordan it self is but Jeor Dan the River of Dan a City neer its Fountain And Abraham pursued the Four Monarchs to Dan and brought back the Captivity of Sodom from Dan which is also Judgment and may hint that Great Judgment at the Katsyr Harvest or the End of Yeer or of Jaar that is a Month or Yeer or Flood also For it may be added that the Floods were dried up and the Rain of Heaven restrained at their Harvest As we may find hinted in divers places besides 1 Sam. 12. 17. and 2. 21. 10. But there may yet be somwhat more in it For As the Spirit is moving or Hatching it being a participle Present in the Hebrew noting a continued Act upon the VVaters of the first Creation So it is also still Dividing Them below from Them Above the Firmament which is also called by a Name of VVaters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VVhere are VVaters And our Time is Dropping of VVaters from the Top of the Weather-glass or Clepsydra to the Bottom And when All is Run out the Hour Glass is Turned and a New Hour or Day or Month or Yeer or Age begins which you may call a New Generation or if you will a New World We glanced at This before when Elijah parted the Waters of Jordane As before also the same Waters were parted and from Adam also As we read in Josuah 3. 16. Where we are told that Jordan fills all its Banks in Harvest Time as alluding to That we spake before And that the VVaters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numbers 665 Coming down from above Rose up in a great Heap or Bottle or such a Motion as the English call a Nod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which came Far also From Adam as some read from the Jews marginal Keri But in the Text it is In Adam the VVatcher though some read it the City being the same word used by Daniel in his Discourse of 7 Times On Nebuchadnezzar driven out or poured out by the Watcher And again the VVatchers in the same Daniel Of which yet we may speak again As we hinted before also How the Watchers stood at the quarters of Heaven or Corners of the Earth as it were to Turn the Glass still when it is Run As also the great Waters Ebbing and Flowing six Hours apiece in the Great Ocean and Then Turned again at the Seventh which speaketh Both Rest and Turning Which is also noted in Joshua First the VVaters stood 't is said and Then they Rose or were Turned up by the Watcher And Those Running down to the Sea of the Plain or the Evening another pretty allusion were cut off or Curted which is Hebrew and Perfected so that All the People 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in numerals 670 passed over before or over against Jericho Which as We touched before
And to All before of Those places Josuah called all Israel to Sechem and there made that solemn discourse in the 24th And to Shiloh also where Jacob placeth the Gathering of All the People and There he casteth 7 Lots for the 7 Tribes about the 7th Year as very probable from their entering Chanaan as the Root or it may be the Centre of All Sabbatical Years and Jubilies Which was also just 430 Years before Solomons Throne As This was just 430 Years before his Temples End in Zedekiah And Their comming from Aegypt was just 430 Years from the Promise to Abraham Here are 1290. As in Daniel With 45 also to make up 1335. And if that great Meeting at Shiloh should be some few Years after the 7th Year yet it may be just 430 Years before the Temple As the 7th Year was 430 before Solomons Reign As if their setting up the Tabernacle Then at Shiloh were to be a Type of the Temple Raised up just so long after it as the Promise to Abraham was before the Law or coming out of Aegypt Which was 480 Years before the Temple founded in the 4th of Solomon but not finished till the 7th after Was it so many Daies in Building as there will be Years before the House of God finished in the New Jerusalem Of which again The Feast of Dedication in the 7th Month of the 7th Year a Type of that great Feast of Tabernacles of which before And of the Last and great Day of Unleavened Bread on the 21st of the First Month beginning from 480 Hours As the Temple did 480 Years after Aegypt At this great Dedication 120 Priests sounded with Trumpets which were never more than 120 and when All agreed as One in singing He is Good He is Good and his Mercy dureth Ever Then the Glory of God came down and filled the House so that the Priests could not tarry and there was no need and Then Solomon bowed saying But will God indeed dwel on Earth See 2 Chron. 5. and the like at Jehosaphats Valley of Blessing 2 Chron. 20. 22. Next to 48 is 49 the Jubilee and â—om This great Feast of Dedication 490 Years bring us to the 2d Temple in the 2d Year of Darius Hystasp Or the close of the 70 Years Captivity of the City and Temple As the first of Cyrus taking Babylon ended the 70 Years of Ezekiels Captivity just 490 Years from Solomons comming to the Crown So that the Feast of Dedication is very near the Centre of Time from Aegypt and from Babylon to the 2d Temple which was just 490 Years after That which was but 2 or 3 less than 490 After Aegypt Taking out 70 Years of the City and Temple desolate there remain just 420 Years from That Dedication to the Temples end in Zedekiah Which was just 390 Years after Solomon who reigned 30 Years after the Dedication as the 30 Daies of That Month. 420 Is 3 Moeds and an Half that is 3 times 120 and 60. As the 70 Years Captivity was 3 times 20 and an Half And 120 is 6 times 20 or 3 times 40. And the Great Moed for Man as we saw before The first of These 3 bring up Athaliah which signifies the Lords Time or Time for the Lord 120 Years from the Dedication There also beginneth Jehu in Israel which never so meets with Judah but in Rehoboam with Jeroboam And as Time devoureth All things so did Athaliah the Lords Time destroy All the Seed Royal. But Joash even He that despaireth is preserved and brought up again in the 7th Year by Jehosheba the Lords Oath or the Lords Seven Daughter of Joram the High Lord and Sister to Ahaziah the Lords Possession But it was Jehoiadah the Lords Knowledge that brought him out and made him King and restored the Worship of God And when He Died and Joash degenerates his son Zechariah the Lords Remembrance puts him in minde of his Duty but is stoned crying The Lord remember or requite it It seemeth the same with Him or His Type at least of whom our Saviour speaketh in Matth. 23. As slain between the Temple and the Altar or in the Court of the House of the Lord Though the People might not come to the Altar But the Prophet Zechary was also the son of Barachiah the Lord Blessed and Zechary the Baptists Father alludeth to his own Name and Elizabeths saying The Lord remembered his Oath c. Athaliahs 6 and Joash 40 and Amaziahs 14 make up 60 just Half another Moed of 120. for the Sack of Jerusalem by Joash of Israel breaking down 400 Cubits of the City Wall from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate To be added to All before of 400 with Josephus placing This in the 14th of Amaziah Now comes up the Prophet Jonah and the 2d Jeroboam who recovers Hamath and Damascus which must both be joyned in a meek and quiet spirit as we saw before And to make it yet more signal That Sack of Jerusalem may be just 666 Years from Aegypt and 600 Years from the same Ierusalem taken burnt by Judah in Judges 1. and 222 after David took it from the Jebusites 444 Years from Aegypt when he quitted Abrahams Hebron for Jerusalem 60 Years more the other Half Moed may bring us to Uzziahs Leprosie And that Israel might not insult They fall into confusions after Jeroboams 40 a 3d of 120 and had no King for divers years As we read in Hoseah the next Prophet to Jonah compare Hos. 3. 4. with the 10th and 3d. And 2 Kings 15. with Joel and Amos living in These Daies And then the Prophet Esay and Micha towards the Latter end of Uzziah That famous Time for the Olympiads and the Birth of Romulus who founded Rome with his Brother Remus Blood Much about Hezekiahs Birth and beginning of the 7th Olympiad And about 7 Years before the famous Era of Nabonassar in Babylon Uzziah the 10 King from David and the 10th before Zedekiah As a Type of that Tenth or Holy seed that should yet be in them and restore them As the Trees in the stately Causey of Shalleketh as we saw in Esay 6. But Israel had 10 Families to Rule over them Many are the Princes of a wicked People But the Witnesses were that He should not pass those Stones in Wrath Though he had changed his wages 10 Times And he will remember his Holy Covenant The other Half Moed comes near that great Change of Israels Moon after an hard siege about 3 Years and Half for slaying Those Witnesses also beginning in the 7th of Hosea the same Name with the Prophet and Ending about the 7th of Hezekiah Or 777 Years from Aegypt But Cxi as the measuring Line or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Amos saw above 666. And So the Flood came at Lamechs End who lived just 777 Years or 666 from Enochs Translation Whose 365 Years might be to measure All Years which have now with us 365 Dayes and 6 Hours
with odd Minutes Preter propter And as He was the 7th from Adam as Moses the 7th from Abraham the 10th from Noah the 10th from Adam So he was born in the 7th Hundred or 3d 7th Year of that Hundred or 621 or 22 Year of the World Now is Israel become Loammi and Loruhamah Not my People and I will not have mercy on them Yea and God called to contend with Fire But Amos prayed O Lord God Cease I beseech thee As before spare and forgive by whom shall Iacob Rise for he is very small And God repented of the Evil and said It shall not be And yet when God had called the Fire to devour It must devour and so it did But what Even the Great Deep or Abyss which was the great thing to be feared and the Spirit of God also to kindle the Fire but in devouring the Deep or the Devourer it also devoured a Part of Israel as the words may hint Amos 7. 4. And the word Clack which we often saw before for a Click Clack Clakin of Time as in a Clock And from a part of Time it is also used for a part of other things and may hint to us How Time and All else below may perish by Fire Devouring the great Deep or Abyss of Waters the same word used Gen. 1. 2. when there shall be No more Sea As in the Revelation or Fishes Zeph. 1. 8. but a Sea of Glass with Harpers as on Cinnereth we saw before Amos also saw a Tenth reserved for Israel 5. 3. to Help her up Though his doleful Ditty was The Virgin is fallen and shall Rise no more Nafela lo Tosiph Kum Bethulath Israel Which the Iewes say should have been in the Psalm of Praise 145. which gives Title to the Book of Psalms in Hebrew Praises and there wants the Letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But when David was bringing it out they say the Spirit stopt and said The Lord upholdeth All that Fall and Raiseth All that are Bowed down As that Psalm We have now but One Moed more to the 70 Years Captivity in Ioachin As if God would now give Iudah that Moed of 120 Years for Repentance as he gave it to the Old World before the Flood Ahaz had hired Assyria that sharp Rasor to shave off Rezin and Syria but he came to the Neck and Throat also And because This people refuse the Waters of Siloah that run softly and rejoyce in Rezin and the son of Remaliah the Lords Height Now therefore behold the Lord Bringeth on them the waters of that great Flood the King of Assyria and all his Glory who shall overflow and reach to the Neck and with his stretching Wings fill the breadth of thy Land O Emanuel a Type of Antichrist to fill the Church or Emanuels Land As the Wings of the Cherubins filled the Breadth of the Oracle As Ezekiel also speaketh of a Covering Cherub and Annointed also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 388 so near His 390 Or as the English George on Horsback a Covering Cherub and from Those parts also where yet they shew his Castle or the Reliques of the Dragon which from Thence might come to the Saxon standard or from the Dragon seen in Heaven also as so many great Historians speak besides the Dragon in the Revelation so long before Merlins Dragon Hezekiahs Revolt from this King of Assyria hired by his Father Ahaz is called Rebellion 2 Kin. 18. 7. And it cost him Dear besides That humble Confession Verse 14 with All his own and the Temples Tresures So little did God ever countenance Rebellion Yet when Assyria becommeth Insolent and sendeth Rayling Rabshakeh from Lachish that Mother of Idolatry the Lord rebuketh him while Hezekiah spreads the Rayling Letter having also sent to the Prophet Esay It is a Day of Trouble of Rebuke and Blasphemy the Children c. Now therefore lift up thy Prayer for the Remnant left after the 10 Tribes who first parted themselves from David with Sheba c. before God ever parted them In the Mount God will be seen Iehovah Jireh And the Decree was that Assyria must be troden down in the Holy Mountain And That also but a Type of what God meant to do in All the Earth as we read in Esay 14 24 c. So that it may reach through All the Times of the Witnesses also Till That Fire came down on Them that compass the Holy City As now the Destroying Angel came down on the Assyrians round about Ierusalem A story famous enough in Iosephus Berosus Herodotus with divers others How This great Deliverance was in the 14th year of zekiah As Abraham freed his friends and Sodom also in the 14 year and Joreph was freed in the 14th year being then 30 years old when he stood before Pharaoh but 17 when he was sold as Gen. 37. 2. 41. 46. we saw before With many other things of 14 being the 2d Number made of 3 whole Numbers and an half as 7 is the first The next Half Moed may carry Menasseh to Babilon As a Type of Judahs Captivity and Return also As Manasseh returned and Zedekiah was visited in Babylon it self and Jeconia freed and advanced above All the Princes with him And How after All his horrid sins Menasseh judged himself and Bowed greatly praying to His God! O the mans confidence and to his Fathers God a Blessed thing to have a Fathers God! and How he heard and Bowed down to Hear we saw before And though God brought him to his Throne again as also Nebuchadnezar Yet the Blood he shed is often brought as a great Cause of the following Captivity Yea and That also although Josiah was so good a King and made so great a Reformation Yet God sent him even Him This Message My Wrath shal be poured out on This Place and shal not be quenched Yet it was so quenched that from This also a poor soul may learn how to interpret All Gods Frownings and Threatnings on it So also the Prophet Zephany concludeth his most terrible Threatnings in the time of Josiah I will gather them that sorrow for the solemn Moed c. I will undo them that afflict thee As to Abram They that Curse Thee shal be Cursed I will save Her that Halteth and Gather Her that was driven out and I will get them Praise and Fame in every Land where they are put to shame For I will make you a Name and a Praise among All people of the Earth Their Last 40 years as the 40 from Christ or his Baptism to their End beginning with Jeremy in Josiahs 13 or his solemn Covenant and Passover a while after run out with Ezekiels 390 for All Israel from the great Schism in Jeroboam As their sister Sodoms Flames were 390 years from the Great Flood 365 hefore the Promise 370 as in Salem before Melchisedeck met Abraham 372 as in Sheba before his â—nant at Beersheba The 70 years Captivity beginning with Daniel at the
also As some of the Jewes cite for the Messiah to be born before Their last Sack of Jerusalem though He lie hid they say in Rome or other place Now when a Woman was delivered of a Daughter as Here where God by Cyrus delivered this Jewish Church or woman she must stay 80 Dayes before she may eat the Holy things or come into the Sanctuary as we saw before And that the longest Hiding of the Moon is about 80 Hours or at most 84 which is 3 Dayes and Half when slowest motion Or else much shorter but 40 or 42. As a Womans Daies also for a Man-childe But That also by degrees of 7 and 33 Daies for a Son as 7 and 33 Hours in the Moon and 14 and 66 for a Daughter which is now our Case in Hand And so from Cyrus Decree to the Temple finished in Darius Hystasp were at least 14 Years First 11 answering to the 11 first of the Captivity from Johojachim which was Daniels or Jehojachin Ezekiels to Zedekiahs last or 11 Year And so many there were from Cyrus Decree to the 2d of Darius As the Utmost Court of All Israel about the Temple which they called Chell or Hell was 11 Cubits Broad and Then 5 steps more of 5 half Cubits as the Woman came not up till the Morning after the 14th Day into the VVomens Court as they called it in the 2d Temple which we are now going here to Build in its Times and Seasons So it was not finished till the 6th Year of Darius Ezra 6. 15. And there may be somwhat said to End the 14 Years sooner also and yet So that there may be 14 Years from Cyrus First to Darius 2d But However from the first 14 Years after Cyrus Decree the next 66 will reach to Artaxerxes sending Ezra or Nehemiah Darius Reigned 34 as some but 36 as others and Xerxes 21. Artabamus not a Year And the next Artaxerxes in whose 7th Ezra and 20th Nehemiah went to Jerusalem with those gracious Decrees we finde in them And from the 7th of Artaxerxes to our Saviours death there were very near 490 Years So that Ezra might well live within 400 Years of Christ as we read in 2d Esdras 7. And if Daniels Half Week be as some believe to reach 3 Years and Half below his Death As its first Half from his Baptism to his Death yet it may very well answer to the Temple finished in 3 Years and an Half after the 2d of Darius Although Scaliger Calvisius Helvicus and other Great men begin the Weeks or 490 Years from the 2d of Darius Nothus Whence also to the Roman Sack of Jerusalem there may be very near 490 Years if they were to end with the City and not with our Saviour which I think more agreeable to Scripture and Reason in many things besides the Age of Ezra Josuah Zerubbabel with All that saw Both Temples as we see in Ezra 3. 12. And besides All for This before and the great Harmonies between the Times in the Law and the Gospel also with the Temples and the Cities It may be remembred that we found the Day of Pentecost to begin just from 1536 Hours of the Year For 333 brought us to the Evening Minha of the 14th Day of the Month or Evening of the Passover Which ended just in 336 Hours 50 Dayes more make up just 1200 Hours coming to the Day of First-fruits or Pentecost 50 Daies from the Sickle as we saw before and Therefore it began just in 1536 Hour of the Year which as we saw before was to be Reckoned from their coming out of Aegypt Whence 480 brought us to Solomons Temple 36 more to Solomons Death and 390 more to the Cityes End and Temples If we There begin the 70 Years Captivity and Then add the 14 and 66 and 490 we last spake of They make 1546. But beginning the Captivity Ten full Years before the End of the City and Temple as before we have than but just 1536 which is the very last Hour before the Day of Pentecost and so those Years bring us just to the great Pentecost in the 2d of Acts being the same Year of our Saviours Death and Resurrection and Ascention also So that In This One Year were All things fulfilled that were before That Pentecost from which we are to Reckon to the Feast of Tabernacles And if Any yet will bring the Captivity or the 2d Temple any lower or begin Daniels VVeeks at Nehemiahs going in the 20th Year rather than Ezraes in the 7th There may yet be greater Harmony For although the 50th Day or Pentecost began from 1536 hours of the Year Yet the Sun of that Day rose not till 12 Hours after As Nehemiah came up 12 Years after Ezra This was an Helper as our Saviour but Nehemiah the Lords Comforter as the Holy Ghost coming in the Morning of the Day of Pentecost And there may be yet somwhat more in it to be cleared also from the Scripture Numbers or Measures of This Temple and its Courts which we shal therefore yet a little more consider with Herods also as we did that of Solomon However it was in His first Temple It is clear enough there was at the Second from Babylon an Hill an Hell an Help before the Altar Porch and House or Holy and Most Holy Place or Oracle Which had All their several Measures and Degrees of Holiness to which God himself seemeth to allude in divers Places As in that I wil bring them to my Holy Mountain and Then I will make them joyful in my House of Prayer And I will accept them on my Holy Altar And Send thee help out of the Holy Place And An House of Prayer to All Gentiles c. The Walled Hill a square of 2000 Cubits the Distance of the Camp from the Ark Ios. 3. 4. and a Sabbath Daies journey as we may learn from the old Chalde Paraphrase on Ruth Each side being 500 may be compared with Ezekiels Sanctuary 500 long and 500 broad as the Suburbs 50 Cubits about Taken out of 25000. Chap. 45. As 42 speaketh of 500 Reeds I need not add the Cubit was 2 Spans or 6 Taps of 24 Digits as Hours in a Day The Wall was generally 24 or 25 Cubits High and the Gates 30. 15 Broad but the Doors 20 10 Onely That at the East was lower than the Rest by 4 Cubits That the Priest might look over it from Olivet at the Red Cowes Ashes or other Reasons before The East Gate in memorial of their Captivity and Deliverance at Shushan in Ester had the Name and form of the City Shushan by command some say from the Persian King at Shushan the Royal City for about 34 Years after This 2d Temple was Built Which yet was a more lovely or Holy Prospect than Solomons House for Chemosh and Moloch in Tophet on the Right Hand also from This Gate to Olivet But the whole Valley of the Dead bodies and of the Ashes in
two Witnesses we may finde to be measured by the Sun and Moons Times of 666. So that 3 of These and an half or 7 times 333 or 3 Months or Moeds and Half may bring us to the End of all the Numbers yet fixed in the Prophets and the Revelation And the rather also because we finde the Sun and Moons 333 and 666 so Signal in Jerusalem as the Sun to his Moon or Jeâ—icho As All the Fulls and Changes of the Moon in all the World also We saw before that Enoch lived just as many Years as there are Daies in a Year and that from Him 666 Years come very near the Flood and that there wanted but 3 times 3 of 4 times 333 which is 1665 in 1656 the Year of the Flood And from the Flood as many years as Enoch lived bring us to the Promise made to Abraham near about 3 Moeds of Gods fixing before the Flood for Three times 120 make 360 3 And an Half make 420 3 of these 1260 in the Revelation written 30 years after the Sack or begining of Daniels 1290 which is just 3 times 430 45 more make up Daniels 1335. The very Number of his Fellow-Witnesses or Princes in Hebrew letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1335 the Noble Princes As the Fruitful Branches as Jacob said to Joseph or coming from Perat or Euphrates found in Dan. 1. 3. and Ester 1. 3. and 6. 9. 1335 Are but 3 more than Twice 666 or 4 times 333 which come to the Evening Minha of the Passover but want 3 Hours which Daniel supplies to the End of the 14 th Day the Day of the Lords Passover and Passing away of Wrath as the 2d Sabbath also and 14 Days of the Woman for a Daughter and the Moon returneth to them at the Poles in 14 days And Paul was freed from his storm in the 14th day went up to Jerusalem or Heaven in the 14th Year And Abrams Lot and Sodom were freed in the 14th year and Joseph was Born in the 14th year of his Fathers and Freed in the 14th year of his Own Bondage As Jerusalem in the 14th year of Hezekiah And 1335 is 35 within the 14th Hundred Year Again 1335 is but 45 above 1290 that is 3 times 430. First from the Promise to their coming out of Aegypt 430 and 45 more to Calebs settling in Canaan with Josuah the two Witnesses as Jos. 14. 10. Twice more 430 or 860 making up 1335 bring us to the last Siege of Jerusalem in Zedekiah Now Daniel is a Captive bemoaning those Desolations as he often calleth them in Chap. 9. 2. 17. 18. Perpetual Desolations Psal. 73. 79. 80. Threatned as before Levit. 26 And now the Daily Sacrifice was taken away and the Place of his Sanctuary Thrown down which was not so or at least so much by Epiphanes who Polluted it but did not Throw it down as now it was by the Chaldeans and afterwards by the Romans So that Daniel speaketh of Both These great Desolations rather than that Little Short one by Antiochus who yet might be a Type of the great Antichrist or Antikeimenos who was to defile and profane the Temple Rather than cast it Down As First the Chaldeans did and Then the Romans or the Jewes themselves and their Factions While the Roman Eagles and Armies overflowed them also with a Wing of Abominations making desolate as Daniel and our Saviour speak of those Times And yet I suppose the Days of Antiochus might be Types or Shadows of the Years of this Desolation also Seeing besides the days specified in Daniel the word for He stamped on them the Stars of Heaven as the Dragon did against the Jewish Woman or Jacobs Wife with Josephs Crown of 12 Stars Apoc. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is above 1300 as his Numbers First 1290 and then 1335. Yea and 2300 Days in the 8th Chapter Though so many Natural days of Evening and Morning as the Phrase is Yet must be shut up or Sealed for Many Dayes or Years as we saw before This was in the Third year of Belshazzar and 31 years from Zedekiah For in 37th of Jeconiah Evilmerodach was King but reigned only Two years in Berosus So that the 3d of the next King Belshasher was but 31 years from Zedekiah Though 41 or 42 from Jeconiah Daniel is Then at Shushan where our Temple Courts and Numbers doe begin And There about the Midst of the sad Desolations both on Israel and Judah He heareth One Saint asking of Palmoni the Wonderful Numberer as the Wonderful Councellor Esay 9 How long the Vision of the Tamid and Transgression shaming or making desolate to give both the Sanctuary and the Hâ—st of Heaven before to be as Mire or Mirmas To this Question as perplext almost as That of the Temples End and the Worlds with our Saviours Coming Matth. 24 He said to Me not to Him that asked the question Ad Ereb Boker 648 Until or as long as Evening Morning 2300 and the Sanctuary shall be Clensed Beginning with This great Desolation of the 70 years Captivity in which He Then was and taking 31 years of that Captivity to the Time they were speaking out of 2331 the Number which we found before of the Holy Courts or 333 by 14 steps or 7 whole days or Cubits there remaineth just 2300. As another Argument we are not wholly out in pitching on That Number as the Temple measures lead us As if those Holy Courts must be Trodden Down as many years as there were steps so multiplyed on them Which answer also to the 7 Days of the Week And yet 2331 came short of 2400. As if all these Desolations should be shorter than the Hours of a Great Day if we allow 100 Years for every Hour which is not far from Moses reckoning Psal. 90. Where the Day as God also made it is distinct from Night or Watches by Night Yet if the whole Day be but 1000 years Then 2331 is as the Morning of the 3d Day in which he will revive them in Hoseah After Two dayes of which the Hebrew letters make 666 as we saw before in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The first 666 ended just in the End of their Temple and City by the Romans That is Twice 70 to Ezra in the 7th of Artaxerxes as we saw before and 7 times 70 Thence to our Saviours Death and Half 70 Thence to the year in which it was Sacked After a War of 3 Years and half as answering to the 3 years and half of Christs publick Preaching after his Baptism and his 3 Days and Half from his Passover to his Resurrection or 3 Hours and Half Eclips and Suffering upon the Cross As the 3 Days or Years and Half of the Witnesses in the Revelation which we found also shadowed in the 3 days and half of the two Witnesses hidden by Rahab or Those Recovered by Abraham or by David after Ziglag and other things before How the Flood came about 666 years after Enoch
though Ezra speak but of the Temple Telling us also that This East side repaired after by Agrippa was 400 Cubits Long of fair white Stones of 20 Cubits Long and 6 Broad or High of Solomons Work and Thence called Solomons Porch and Shushan the Kings Gate Though the Jewes say Both were Helped by Ezekiels Measures which they Both followed as much as they could And for the distance of These Courts we may consider that the Royal Galleries Walks were above 60 Cubits Broad with their Pillars And although That south Piazzo were Broader than the Rest yet to make up good Proportions between the outer square of 500 and the Courts within This whose very Area made 333 Cubits as we saw before besides their Walls we need not doubt Their Truth who limit the space between these Courts by 66 cubits And 66 Hours besides all we saw before in the Course of the Moon bring us to the Noon of the 3d Day as we are going to the 3d Wall and added to the 14 before they want but 4 of 84 the great Number we saw of 3 Days and Half for Hiding of the Witnesses As the Sun and Moon did not appear till 3 Dayes and an Half after the Creation the 84th Hour or Morning of the 4th Day And 84 Dayes make up just 3 Months or 12 whole Weeks And when the Womans first 14 Dayes were over for her Daughter yet she must tarry 66 more before she might come out of the Gentile or Unclean Court to Any Holy Place of Israel As for a Manchilde 40 Dayes As Israels 40 years in the Wilderness for Israel my son my First born And the very Day of Pentecost or Biccurim the First-fruits of Holyness to God Closed the 65th and broughtin the 66th Day of the Year So the 66th year after the Temple so begun in Darius Hystasp or 80 from That of Cyrus brings up Ezra in the 7th of Artaxerxes Long As Josephus and so many others And that there were just 490 Years from This 7th of Artaxerxes to our Saviours Death is so cleared by the Great Capellus and divers others that Helviâ—us himself yeeldeth they were praecise 490 Years although he begin them rather from the next Darius to the Roman Sack which yet is due to the Infinite Wisdom of God so ordering that the 70 Weeks may either End with the Temple from the 2d of Darius Noth Or with our Saviour the True Temple from the 7th of Artaxerxes where I rather fix for all the Harmonies we have and are to see And that from Cyrus taking Babylon to Artaxerxes 7th there were just 80 Years is so cleared by the Old Canon and Eclipses also recorded by divers of those times as we may see in Lansbergius Vranometry and Chronology with the great Petavius though so great an Enemy to Scaliger who must not Dye for all his faults that I yet know not what may be said against it The main difference in Helvicus or any I remember being in giving Cyrus Only 3 years as Daniel nameth 3 and yet it may be 3 times 3 before Babylon when as his very Works and Wars may shew us divers more as Lively and others Evince although they had not Ptolomies Canon as now published such a Pillar of Times next the Holy Scripture And that Daniel also might be led to Ezraes Times with Nehemiah I might cite his Naming Ezra in That some read They shall be Helped with a little Help Or Ezra But if That rather speak of the Times after Ezra yet his very words of Returning to build Jerusalem Asib and Tasib may be found in Eliasib God shall return begining to build or repair the sheep-gate as his proper cure Being High Priest As Jehoiada the Old Gate and next the men of Gibeon cursed Gibeon and of Mispa to the Throne of the Governour Which may be more considered with 1000 cubits between the Dung-Gate built by Malchiah the Lord the King and the Valley-Gate Repaired by Hannun He that is Gracious which may give us the Site of Jerusalem with many other things of those Times And that the Prophet Jeremy also spake of those Times and of their Returning to Build is plain by comparing his words with the Dedication of the Wall when they Sought for All the Levites to purifie themselves and the People and the Gates and the Walls also as Neh. 12 when All the Princes were upon the Wall and parted to the Dung-gate on the Right Hand when Nehemiah himself the Lords Comforter went After the other company that were sent to the Left Hand when also they came singing from Gilgal where he rouled away the shame of Israel by Circumcising them that were Baptised already to Moses also in the Cloud and in the Sea Through which Our Fathers passed as St Paul to the Gentile Corinthians to be considered by them that deny Baptism to Children and from strong Death Azmaveth and Netopheti which yet I render not My Patients in Tophet though it be near that sound in Hebrew And the High Priest himself Eliasib God will return Sanctifying Tophet or Gehinnon or the Valley of Dead bodies or Ashes the places in That Prophet named as we saw before and joyned with the Places named Here and the Tower of Hananeel which was also sanctified by this High Priest as we read in Neh. 3. to be compared with the 12th and Jeremy 31. Adding also that It should no more be plucked up for ever Which we may consider But again to the Temple-Courts which may yet lead us to the City also ere long I hope and the New Jerusalem That perfect Cube As the Most Holy Oracle of which again The Suburbs of the Holy Courts were called Hell for so in Proper names the English use to sound the Hebrew Heth by H and so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Hel. As if none could go to Heaven but through Hell as its Suburbs And as if Hell were onely or Mainly for Israel or Children of the Kingdom For None other might go through it or come into it but with a Sacrifice as we touched before Yet if any will sound it rather by Chel it may suit the English Kill and Kell for a Brick-Kill and a Lime-Kill and a Kell for drying Malt c. The Phrase of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is never used that I remember till the Lamentations as we saw before But the Thing is agreed to be as a Gulf of Partition between Israel and the Gentiles that might onely look through its Grates or Lattisses behinde Our Wall as the Spouse speaketh most properly as being so near the Womens Court Made or at least Setled by Ezra himself comming up just at the Year or Cubit where this Court began And making it his great work to Separate the Jewes from the Gentiles as we see Ezra 9. and 10. And the 2d of Chronicles written by Him they say or about His Times as may be clear enough giveth the very Name of Azra or Aezra