Days of the Week for 2 years together and the Mean Synods and Luminations Which are Equall and may differ from the Visible by 14 Hours or as much as the Longest Day at Jerusalem The Great Sun Dyall To the World And for Eclipses also The Moons Latitude is much alike in 4 years and the Suns Anomaly returns in 4 years And 4 Julian years have just 1461 Days As the Great Egyptian Soth had 1461 years But if any choose another way of Epact The Arabick Lunar year is just 10 dayes and 21 hours less then the Solar of 365 dayes 5 hours and 48 minutes But the Common Julian Greater then 12 Moons by 10 dayes 10 hours 10 halfs and 10 minutes And the Lunar month about a day and half half hour and quarter more then a month of 4 Weeks And though the Lunar year is thus too long by 10 or 12 minutes yet it suits the Julian which is so much also too long So that the Equinox is changed from Evening to Morning in 65 years Which may be one of many reasons for the 65 days of the year in Canaan which Ptolomy placeth at 65 degrees of Longitude And a Great man did make the Suns Radius 64 or 65 times bigger then the Earths And many make the Moons Greatest or Mercuries Least distance to be 65 of the Earths Radij And the Suns Mean Distance 1288 and Greatest 1334 or 1335. As Longomâ—nt Which is but 2 more then twice 666 or 1332. or half 65 more then 20 times 65. And before the Flood 2 were born at 65 Good Enochs Father and Son One After it Eber at Arphaxads 65th Twice 65 is 130. and 130 Hours of Creation brought up Adam As 130 years Seth Set in Abels room As Tabernacles After Pentecost 130 days And in 130 years the Equinox changeth an whole day As 12 Howers in 65 years Seth at 130 and Enos in 235 which make 365 and Then they began to Proclaim the Nune of Jehovah as in Exod. 34. in a way of Churches And the Paschall Lambs to represent the Ch were set apart and Tryed on the 10th Day of the First month Whose Noon is Hour 234 235. And 235 Moons do make the common Cycle which they call the Golden Number of 19 years or Moons 235. Which bring the Synod To the Same Day again But He that useth the former Rule hath little want of other Cycles Enos at 235 and his Sonn at 325 which is 235 Turned and as 235 Hours Tyed up the P. Lambs So 325 came to the morning Sacrifice of the Passover So that These 2 represent the mourning Ch. of God which is still counted but as Sheep for slaughter As the name of Kainan may intimate As Kain and his Son Irad the Beast or Kine in our English Hebrew Kainan Mourning Mahalael Blessing God At his Fathers 70. Type of all the 70 through the Bible As 70 Hours To the Great Minha of the 3 d Day Which beginneth with the Jubilie of 49 Hours 7 by 7 Return and Rest Which are both in the Word Sabbath And the first 3 d day of Creation brought up the first Living things as Herbs Thy Dew is the Dew of Herbs and the Earth shall cast out her Dead and Thence it might be the day of Resurrection As for cleansing the Leper on the 3 d and 7th and Defiled by the Dead For After 2 dayes he will revive us and the 3 d will quicken us And the First Fruit Omer was Heaved up on the 3 d Day after the Pass-over As Christ Raised on the 3 d day and its Evening Sacrifice at 70 hours As Mahalael 70 years after Kainan One of them was Born 1260 years the other 1332 before the Flood One dyed in the year 1235 and the other 1290. the Times of the Mourning and Rejoycing Churches of God in all ages The First Fruit Omer on the 6th Day After the P. Lambs Tyed As Adam came up on the 6th Day of Creation And the Morning Sacrifice of the 6th Day was at Hour 135 As the Evening of the 8th For Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath was at Hour 187. And from Pentecost To the Great Hozanna Days 135. As 187 in all To the Great Atonement And 187 between the Vernall and Autumnall Equinox in Hipparchus and Ptolomy As 187 in the Great Feast of Asuerus in Ester and 187 Chapters in the Pentateuck And the Temple Courts 187 Cubits and 135. Mahalaels name in Heb is 136. and his Son Jared was born 135 and lived 187 After Kainan And as 70 Hâ—urs are signall in the 3 d Day and 70 Days in the 3 d month for Pent so 90 Hours for noon of the 4th Day which was first to the Sun at Creation and 90 days bring up the 4â—h month and 90 years brought up the 4th man Kainan At his Fathers 90. So the 8th Methusela begat Lamech at 187 and Lamech Noah at 182. which is twice 91. As 182 and 187 Hours are Morning and Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day for Rest or Noah Kainans Death from Lamechs Birth 361 as his Birth before Methusela 362 and twice 365 before Noah 365 before Jareds End And as Lamech lived 777 So Kainan was twice 666 before the Flood 669 After Enochs 365. As Mahalaels Death before the Flood 365. And so from the Flood or Arphaxads Birth To Abraham in Canaan 365. As the Jews reckon their Veines and Negative Precepts As Days in a year and Hours before the morning of the First Fruit Omer Which was 135 Hours after the day of Tryall Which began 1335 Hours before the Morning Sacrifice of Pentecost 1260 Hours after the Preparation to the â—assover or First of Hamans Lots And at Pentecost the Lambs and Great Peace-Offerings of the Church were Heaved up with the First Fruits of Wheat an Emblem of the Churches Rising in so many dayes or years As in Daniel and the Revelation And now seeing all these Harmonies to meet in Holy Enoch who was Heaved up as the First Fruit Omer After as many years as Hours To its Morning or Days in a year and begetting his Son at 65 as days to Pent and many other 65 in the Jewish year And the next came up at 187 as Days before Atonement and between the Vernall and Autumnalâ— Equinox We need not doubt to begin our Great Jewish year at Enoch and to go forward To all the Feasts and Fasts of their year Till at length we come To the Greatest Feast of Tabernacles and Release which we are seeking Though it be not easie to fix the season of Creation which is not agreed in the Talmud but some place it At the Great Day of the 2 d Temple and the New Jerusalem in the latter end of the 6th month And they have a kinde of Tradition as if Adam found his First Days shortning and the Sun Declining As the Psalm for one afflicted cryeth Thou hast shortned my Days and I am like a shadow that Declineth As Adam At his Fall Which
bringeth his Judgements to Light in the Morning And the Scripture calls for Judgeing in the Morning or before the Judges Head or Heart is Clouded As the Iews expound That saying of Solomon Wo to Thee O Land where Princes Eat in the Morning when they should be Praying or Judging Which may lead us up To the First Judgement Which they place at the 2 d Morning of Creation When the Lord did Judge his Own Acts of the Day before As Examine your selves in Bed and he still and That Judgement did Separate the Waters on the Right Hand and Left Sending some Down and Taking Others Up Above the Firmament As the First Emblems of Election and Reprobation As the Goats of Seir the Goat and Lambs of Rachel the Sheep as in Heb with Her Benjamin or Sâ—n of the Right Hand As Leah the Left But at the Passover the Goats were accepted as the Sheep and some at all New Moons and Solemn Eeasts for Sin-offerings But the First Judgement was about the 40th hour of Creation or 42. As That Number is For Judgements and Punishments in all the Bible As 40 Stripes and 40 Dayes and 40 years and 42 Months or 42 Mansions As 42 Children by the Bears of Elisha And 42 is 6 times 7 or 7 times 6 and so the Great Crisis of 6 and 7 which is Rest and Motion As Fine Twined Linnen called Six in Heb. Doubled on the Tabernacle Door or Turned Every 6 hours Turn the Sun and Moon at Cardinal Points or Quarters of Heaven called Spirits in Heb. As if Angels stood at the 4 Quarters of Heaven or 4 Corners of the Earth as 4 Watches and 4 Winds Turning the Hour Glass of Time Which is but a change and flux of Mite which is Motion or Mites or Moats in Heb. The Vppermost part of the Dust As Skie doth also signifie in that Language As if All the Tides of Time and the Ocean were but Turning an Hour-Glass of the Moon and Earth about the Guilt Rundle of the Sun And as One goes up it empties out the Moats or Sand or little Tinning atomes in Hebr To the Other So that When the Moon is highest the Earth is fullest or the Waters Highest in the Sea Or its Central Fire makes it like a Boyling Pot whose water leaves the bottom as the 64th of Esay with Iob and the Psalms 6 hours Turn the Sun and Moon and 4 times 6 Turn Light into Darknesse Which was first Done at the 25tâ— hour of Creation And 25 is the Lower Root of 666. That great number of Change and Motion to the Sun Moon World Church and All as anon 6 times 6 hours bring up the Sun of the 2 d Day and 10 times 6 the 3 d. Which Turneth downwards at the 65 t and 66 the signal Number in the Jewish year of 24 and 42. 6 times 6 is 36 and 10 times 36 or 360 Hours bring up the Full Moon and so many Dayes the Full Year To the Eastern Nations Aegypt added 5 Days and at length 6 Hours And this became the Julian year which Caesar had from Aegypt 1461 Aegyptian years of 365 Dayes make 1460 Julian Which they called the Great Cynick or Sothiack year As at the Doâ—-star This was just 200 more then 1260 which is 3 and an half 360. Months in the East had 30 dayes apiece and so we finde 150 Dayes in the 5 first Months of the Flood and 1260 Days in 42 months But they say that if the New Moon were seen in the 30th Day It was counted for the first of the Month following But of late the Jews go by Mean Motions and account 59 Dayes For 2 Months Short of the True Middle Motion by an Hour and about 29 minutes And though they found a way to reconcile their Lunar months To the Solar year we need it not For God hath bounded out our way by Dayes when Ever the year began For the first 14th Day was the Passover and 15th the Feast of Unleavened Bread for 7 Days more and 16th for the First fruit Omer and the 50th next was Pentecost And the Feast of Trumpets was the first Atonement the 10th and Tabernacles 15th of the 7th month of their year when Ever it began Which From Aegypt was about the New Moon next the Vernal Equinox which must be Past they say before the Passover But we need not dispute it Though it might be cleared by their best Authors and by Anatolius and Eusebius As of late by Petitus With the Roman Yoak they shunned so by Crucifying Christ They were forced To the Julian Form also Yet they kept their Feasts by Moons and made them Tables much like Ptolomies In other things they could admit the Julian year and the rather because the 6 odd Hours in single years did keep their Equinox at a Cardinal point or one of their Great Watches But others kept the 6 odd Hours Till they made a Day and so the 4th year was Bissextile from the 6 t Calends of March or 24th of February Doubled That the Dayes of the week or Feriae might keep their wonted letters in the Common Cycle And there is Greater Harmony by Julian years in 4. then seemeth to be known to them that first used it For as the 4th Watch of Creation brought up the First Light and the 4th Day the First Sun and the 4th Week the Moon to meet the Sun again so the 4th Year brings them to meet in the same Day of the Week and is not 2 minutes more or less then 14 dayes above the Jubilie of 49 Moons Which still return To the same Day of the Week And 8 years have 3 minutes more then a full month of Weeks above 98 Moons Or a day and half with 41 minutes less then 99. So that in 8 score years they want but one day and one Hower of meeting as before and in 1600 years but 10 days and 10 Howers So that meeting on the 11th of May and 10 Houers after noon in the First of Christ They met again in 1601 the First of May just at noon And parting the years of Christ by 4 and so the Julian Period After 9 or rejecting 9 The Remainder sheweth how long the year proposed is After a Bissextile And the Quotient sheweth that the Sun and Moon met so many fortnights from their former meeting As there be Vnits in that Quotient Which being added To the year proposed and All divided by 7 The Remainder is the Day of the Week for the First of May And by consequence for the 2 d of Octob. 3 d of Ap. and July 4th of Septemb and Decemb. 5th of June and 6th of March and Novemb. For the year proposed And for the first 8. 15. 22. and 29. of January following and so forward in the next year also But if nothing remain at this Division by 7 The first of May and every Day aforesaid is the 7th Day of the Week the Jewish Sabbath Thus we get the
4 in breadth do make 1320. And so many days do make 44 months and beginning at Nisan they end at the 9th month of the 4th year which had the Great Feast of Dedication for the Temple freed from the Rams or Goats hair of Antiochus Or beginning in Tizri as in Civils They bring up All the 3 years Tithes and Offerings with the First Fruits and First born and both Solemn Confessions and Doxologies of Deut. 26. At the Pentecost of the 4th year Which was 1320 days After the Passover of the 4th year before it As 1335 days After the Feast of Trumpets or the Trumpet of Release As 1335 Hours After the first Hour of the day of Trvall And so many years come from the Tabernacle Reared To the Great Dedication in the Machabes Death of Antiochus or Nicanor As we may find at the Temple Gate Nicanor If the 3 Outer Coverings are equall of 330 by 4 in each They make 3960 Cubits 40 short of Ezechiels 4000 As the 40 years After Christ to the City Sacked And to our Saviours First Acting in the Temple there are just 3960 years of the World in Scaliger and Those that follow him And from the Flood so many years come out about 1666 now coming and so do the 2 Utter Coverings from Jeroboams Flood As a Type of that to Fill the Breadth of Thy Land O Emanuel which come out at 1666. The Badgers Skins as uppermost may be Largest And 1335 as in Daniel But 1320 come from Christs Being in the Temple or the Temples End To the Templers End in one day and the Popes Flying to Avignion At the shaking Times of Ottoman and the Imperial States Protesting against the Popes Right in Electing Emperours And from the Great Apostacy in Julians days They come to the Times in which we live But we come to the Temple Measures And if Josephus rightly place the 2 d Walls on the first Pillars called Solomons Walks or Porches in our Saviours Time They were 500 Cubits every side As the Sept. Vulgarlat read Ezech. 42. not 500 Kanes as others So that All the Sides of the Square did make 2000. As the Levites Suburbs the Distance of the Ark and the Sabbath days Journey and the Square Cubits in the Tabernacle before the Oracle And the years from Abraham to our Saviour 2000. We shall begin As They Entred with the Sun from East to West and so from Haran at first and from Moab Over Jordan and from Babylon and Persia With its Royall Shushan on the first Eastern Gate of the 2 d Temple called Shushan 80 Cubits to the Rising of the Womens Court. As 80 days before the Woman came Thither of a Woman Child As Zion of her Daughter in Mic. 4. The Man-childe was not Born till her Last Throwes as themselves express on Es 66. As 80 Hours of Creation before the Moon and Sun did meet For they were not seen till the 4th Morning And 80 years From Shushan and Cyrus to Ezra Seperating the strange Women and making This Womens Court called Aezra from Ezra Help and so they Blessed as the Ps taught them when the Women or the Mourners took the Left hand Walk as others did the Right The Lord Bless thee out of Zion and send thee Help Out of his Holy Place though thou may not come in it But only look towards it As Jonah did when he was cast out of His Holy Place or Presence The 80th year from Cyrus Taking Babylon As he is called K. of Babylon in Ezra 5. And Thence he gave the Temple Vessels falleth within the 80th Olymp or the 8th of Artaxerxes Long and just 490 years before the Last of Olymp 202 d. Agreed for our Saviours Passion by the Great Earth-make and the strange Eclips in Phlegon and many others The 13 First Cubits in the Gate-house as Ezech. 40. 11. may represent the First Light coming up at 13 Hours of Creation and the 13 Days of their year before the Passover and the first 13 weeks in the year between the Solstice and the Tropick As the 13 months of the year and the 13 years between the Temple Founded and Finished or at least Revived in the 2 d of Darius in the 65 t Olympiad And the 65 Cubits before the Holy Courts As 65 Hours to the Noon of the 3 d Day and the 65 Days in the Jewish year as before and 65 years between the 2 d of Darius in the 65 t Olympiad and the 7th or 8th of Artax When Ezra came up at Olympiad 80 and 80 years After Zerubbabel from about 80 Degrees of Longitude To Jerusalem at 65. As the first Fruits of Emanuel in Esay 7 were 65 years before Jerusalem was freed from Those 2 Kingdoms and our Emanuel 65 years before the Christian Persecutions and the Roman Times Shadowed in the Cuthites contending with Nehemiah Who came after Ezra full 11 years and so there were 11 Cubits in the first Verge of the Holy Courts they called Heb Between The Hill and the Help As Heaven After Hell with its Staires and Latices As the Canticles allude in the Gentiles or Unclean Vnder the Staires and behind the Latices Then came the Womens Court and Ezra's Great Work was To Seperate the Women As their Ruine came by Women Esay 3 d and 32 d with Ezra and Nehemiah just 135 Cubits Long and in the Talmud Square As 135 Hours of Creation before Any Woman Or To the First Morning of Adam and From Tying up the Lambs to Heaving up the First Omer were 135 Hours As 135 Days between the Pentecost and Palms or Great Hozannah Closing the Tabernacles And 135 years To the Great Era of the Greeks and Jews Great Friend Nicanor And 135 more to Antiochus and their Great Enemy Nicanor As the Gate Nicanor At this Womans Court 135 Cubits from Hell and the Death of Nicanor on the 13th of Adar 135 Dayes After the Day of Solemn Covenant both of Men and Women in This Womens Court At the close of the Tabernacles Nehemiah 8 and 9. As 135 years before from the First Temple Founded to Joash who Repaired it From the Gate of Nicanor The Inward Court of Israel and the Priests In length 187 Cubits that is 135 and 52 for Nehemiahs Days As Weeks in a year and 187 Hours came to the Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day For Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath And 187 Days To the Great Atonement As Autumnal Equinox 187 Days After the Vernal And the Great Feast in Ester was 187 days And the Pentatcuch 187 Chapters And 187 years From the 2 d Temple Begun or Finished To Alexanders Reign or Coming To it Or Taking Babylon and Dying at it much about 11 years before the First Nicanor As there were 11 Cubits From the Gentiles Court To That of Nicanor and 11 more from the Gate of Nicanor To the Levits Railes and Ducans parting Israel and the Priests As Twice 11 Before the Altar Twice 11
Day of Trying the Paschal Lambs or Preparation of the Passover To the Pentecost Or from the day of Aarons Death and of burning the City and Temple To the Day of Creation or Dedication of the second Temple and of Jerusalem in Nehemiahs Time and to the Feast of Trumpets in the seventh Month which was for Release and Tabernacles were 1260 1290 or 1335 Hours And from the City Taken on the 9th of the 4th Month to the Feast of Tabernacles were 2300 Hours as between the Suns Apogeum and the Equinox And their great Release was in 2300 Dayes As their Release of Hirelings or their three years Tythes and Offerings with the Solemn Confessions of Deut. 26. came out in 1260 or 1335 Dayes So Davids New Jerusalem was gotten from the Jebusites who Trod it down as their name in Heb And the Ark was fixed in Zion and the Temple built in 1260 1290 or at most in 1335 years from the first Desolation of the Flood And Nehemiahs New Jerusalem was finished and dedicated at 1260 hours that is the morning of the 53 d day from its beginning but 1335 hours from his coming thither as Nehem. 2. 11. 6. 15. and in so many years from Jacobs service in Syria Typing Israel in Assyria or from Josephs Bonds in Egypt or Israels coming and Dying there And the great Dedication and Restitution after Antiochus Nicanor was so many Dayes as in Daniel After the City Prophaned and so many years After Egypt and the Golden Calf which was 1335 years before the Maccabees which were 1290 years After the Ark at Shiloh or 1260 years After their first Bondage to the K. of Mesopotamia as a Type of Babylon and 1260 years Before the Christians got Jerusalem and Reigned in it about 1100 of Christ All which were but Types and Shadows of the New Jerusalem to come in those degrees of 1260 1290 or 1335 years After the Abominable Desolation made by Antichrist who was Typed out by Antiochus Which was to come upon the Christian Church as the Assyrian was to fill the breadth of the Land of Emanuel When the Romans had finished their war against Jerusalem in Titus Adrian and Julian After the ten first Christian Persecutions Which lasted as many years as there were Hours in ten Dayes As the Revelation saith they should have Tribulation for Ten Dayes which have Hours 240. and there were so many Years from the first Persecution which began with the Jewish War in 65 or 66 of Christ Till Constantine And the Times of Julian were as slaying of the Paschal Lambs which were Tyed up on the tenth day ending at Hour 240 and slain on the fourteenth at Hour 333 As Julian was 333 years After Christ and Romes deadly Wound was After Jerusalem sack'd 333 years As Hamans Lots or Purim from the Preparation of the Passover 333 dayes 333 was a signal Number to the Jews both for Hours to the Passover and Dayes to Purim and Cubits in the Holy Courts and to Others also As Plutarch observes in Fabius finding Secrets in the Sybils not to be uttered and vowing 333 Sesterces and 333 Denaries Deucalions Flood Phaetons Flames and the first Judgement in Areopagu much about 333 years before the Sack of Troy about 333 before Lycurgus end who renewed the Olympick Games 333 years after Hercules That we speak not of Messenia desolate about 333 years in Aelian 333 is half 666 and 333 Dayes are 12 Times 666 Hours which are the Monthly Change of the Sun and Moon and thence the Great Number of Change to the World and in Years also As it was to Carthage in Paterculus and Rome with Jerusalem and other places here discussed And to clear this way of reckoning Years by Hours of the Jewish Year the Author shews the Rise and Use of Hours with diverse Nations long before they be specifyed in Polibius or Plutarch who yet can tell us the first Hour of Romulus and the Great account of Hours among the Jews whose Year is a Model of time in All Ages So that the old Patriarchs and all the great things of Scripture were in Harmony to the Dayes and Hours of the Jewish Year and to the Site and Motions of the Heavenly Bodies As Hours are made by the Moon moving 24 of her Diameters in 24 Hours and the Earths Diameter 24 times in the Suns which may be distant from the Earth twice 666 Radij As the Moon 66 and Canaans Longitude is 65 or 66 in Ptolomy And as the first Heavenly body is above the Earth 65 of its Radij and the first Fruits of Earth were at 65 Hours of Creation in the 3 d Day which was the first of Herbs and Animals so the Feast of the First fruits was the 65th Day of the Year and in the 3 d Month As the Tabernacles twice 65 or 130 Dayes After Pentecost Adam was about 130 Hours of Creation and Seth at 130 years as many reckon Abraham was After Terah 130 years in which time the Equinox Changeth a whole Day as 12 Hours in 65 Years Enos was born at 235 Years of the World and the Paschal Lambs were Tyed up and Tryed at 235 Hours of the Jewish year and the Great Cycle of the Moon called the Golden Number is of 235 Months For which Here is an easier way to reckon the Moons Motions and the Suns Cycle with the Dayes of the Week in any year of Christ or of the Julian Period Kainan was born at 325 years of the World and 325 Hours of their year came to the Morning Sacrifice of the Passover slain at Hour 333 just half 666 and Kainans Birth was 666 Years before Enochs Translation or twice 666 before the Flood Mahalael as many years After Kainan as there were Hours to the Evening Sacrifice of the third Day As the First Fruit Omer heaved up on the 3 d Day After the Passover He was born 1260 as Kainan 1332 before the Flood and dyed in the year of the World 1290. Jared the 6 from Adam was born 135 and lived 187 years After Kainan and the Morning Sacrifice of the 6th Day of the World and of the Month and Year and so of the First fruit Omer from the Tying of the Paschal Lambs was at Hour 135 and the Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day for Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath was at hour 187. As from Pentecost to the Great Hosanna there were Dayes 135 and to the Great Atonement Dayes 187 As between the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox 187 and in the Pentateuch 187 Chapters As the Cubits of the Inward Court of Israel were 187 and the Outer 135 which being added to 130 makes 365 As Dayes in a year or Veins in our Body or Negative Precepts in the Law And Kainan was twice 365 before Noah 365 before Jareds End As Mahalaels was before the Flood and the Flood before Abrahams Call if born at his Fathers 70 As Hours of the Jewish year to the First fruit Omer Reaped After
Solomons Songs were 1005 and his Parables 3000 as many make the years of the World to his Temple finished And many that differ in That agree in This that they came out of Egypt 1495 full years before Christ born So that his first year was as many years from Egypt as there came men from Babylon To Jerusalem with Ezra just 1496 as they are numbred in Ezra 8. Or in a round number 1500 As the Spices in the Holy Oyl a Mighty Type of Christ were just 1500 Shekels And Shekles also may shadow Years in divers Scriptures here cited And by these accounts Nimrods Babel may be 666 years before the Golden Calf or Image of the Beast as in the Psalm at coming out of Egypt which was 666 years before Jerusalem was sacked by Joash and twice 666 before the Desolation by Antiochus and so 1335 years as in Daniel before the Temple cleansed by the Maccabees which was 1260 years before the Christians reigned in Jerusalem about 1100 of Christ which was 2555 or 7 Prophetick years from the Jews entring Canaan which was 1455 before our Saviour and by Codoman with those that follow him 2555 years After the Fall which others make 2555 before Canaans Partition Which they entered on the 10th of the 1st Month for the Paschal Lambs whose noon was Hour 234 as it was 234 years after Jacobs Death in Egypt and the number of Jericho to which they passed is 234 As Ramases is just 430 As they came thence at 430 years from the Promise and Succoth that is Tabernacles just 480 As the Tabernacle was 480 years before the Temple and their third station Etham may be the number of years from the Temple finished to Christ which were very few more then 1000. And Etham in Hebrew Letters maketh but 1001. And from Etham where they saw the Glory of God in the Cloud Pillar an emblem of Christ they turned back into Egypt and were carried through the Red-Sea and the Wilderness as Types of all the Sufferings of Christ and his Members And many other instances of Time couched in Hebrew Leters may perswade us that it was more than chance that made so many Harmonies and wrote the Law with an Alphabet that makes as many Unites which both Jews and Christians all agree as there were years from the Law so written to Christ With such consort of the Dayes and Hours of their year As Genesis hath 12 Sections as their year had 12 Months and 50 Chapters as 12 Moons have 50 Weeks and their 50 dayes between the Passover and Pentecost and 1534 Verses as Hours of their year To the Evening Sacrifice before the Pentecost or years of the World before Noahs Ark which is measured Here by its Cubits As also the Tabernacle and the first and second Temple And so may Ezekiels also in consort to the Jewish year and Times of the Bible to be measured by it And as the Holy Garments Veils and Curtains were woven with six Threds of Silk or Linnen called Shesh which is 6 with a Thred of Gold as the Sun with the other six Metals or the Sunday with other six dayes of the week so was all Ezekiels measured by a Reed of six Cubits and a Palm at least which may lead us to the Morning of the Sabbath or 7th day of the Week if we reckon Dayes by Cubits And the Outer Court had seven steps as the Week had seven Dayes but the Inward Court had 8 steps and the Christian Sabbath was their 8th day The Gates or Doors were 10 Cubits broad and 13 Cubits high Their shortest Dayes and Nights were 10 Hours long their longer 13 or 14 and there were 13 dayes of their year before the Passover but the Paschal Lambs were separated on the 10th day And at the 10th year their Children came under the Law for some things and others at 13 which is signal among the Eastern Nations for Ishmaels Circumcision at that age The Gate-houses 25 Cubits broad and 50 long The Levites entred at 25 and served till 50 years old Being for the First-born As the first fruits had 50 Dayes between the Passover and the Pentecost and so the breadth of the Ark was 50 Cubits As the Suburbs of the Sanctuary and divers other things in Ezekiel The Porch and holy Places as in Solomons Temple All the House with its Walls 100 Cubites As each of the Courts And so was the Court of the Tabernacle But in Ezekiel three times repeated as the Length of Noahs Ark was 300 Cubits and its Height was 30 Cubits as the Length of the Tabernacle and the Height of the Temple As their Months had 30 dayes And if Ezekiels Reed do represent a Week 25000 in the length of its holy Portion make about 480 years As between the Tabernacle Raised and the Temple or at most 490 As in Daniels Weeks Of which more in another place With Paralels between the Kings of the North and South till Rome devoured all and so became the King that should exalt and magnifie himself above every god as Dan. 11. 36. But towards the end the King of the South or Saracen shall push at him and the King of the North or Turk shall come against him as a Whirwind and shall overflow and shall enter the glorious Land of Israel and shall conquer many Countries in Asia and Africa but shall not prevail against the Children of Lot or of Edom where the Turk is glad to Guard his Caravans and pay some kind of Homage or Tribute to those Little Great Arabians But the East or Persia with the North or Tartary with the Muscovites or other Northern Princes shall Trouble him sore and though he shall come out with a great Army and with greater Fury then before yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him And his Palace is placed between the Seas rightly called The Port and between the Holy Mountains which all Ages placed in Thrace or some Northern parts of Macedonia But the Bible in the Holy Land Which was to be conquered by Saracens and Turks or Ishmael as the Jews still call them And we do not only read of Ishmael mocking Isaac till he was driven out to Those Arabian Deserts where the Saracens arose but the Prophet Jeremy shews us a Map of this in Ishmaels cutting off the Remnant of Israel in the 7th Month and in that very season when those Ishmaelites did take Jerusalem upon the 2 d or 3 d day of the 7th Month on which the Jews still fast for Ishmaels slaying Gedaliah c. as Jerem 41. But Ishmael also was chased away as before by Johanan the Grace of God which at length shall be the Great Conqueror As it is written In thy Maesty Ride on Prosperously because of Truth and Meekness of Righteousness For Mercy and Truth preserve the King and his Throne is especially Kept up by Mercy Psal 45. 5. Prov. 20. 28. THat God Loved Adam so that he could not
2300 years And from Jehojackims Captivity Till about 1680 of Christ As from the Chaldean Sack To 1691 or there about 2300 years And to clear our way by Daies and Howers of the Jewish year Pliny saith The First consent of Nations was in Letters and the 3 d in Hours Which are first in Daniel at Bab. Whence the Grecians had the Pole and Gnomon with 12 parts of the Day in Herodotus And of Hours the Magi speak to Seleucus Founding Seleucia in Appian And Semiramis Column was of 24 to above 144. As Hours of a Day and a week Lâ—â—edaemon had a Sun-Dyall from Thales or one of His Scholers as old as Cyrus And Plato speaks of Dayly Prayer in a Temple for about the 3 d part of an Hour And Homers Works were parted in Pisistratus by 24. As Hours of the Day and Letters of the Alphabet Which made the Famous Charm in Zonâ—ras that cost so many lives As Names had such or such Letters Time was first parted they say about Phoroneus whom they call the First Man Whence the Forum Pharos and perhaps the name of Pharoh came His Neece or Sister â—… was the Great Isis or Isa Woman Wife and Sara Great in Aegypt much about the time of Isis Gathering up the 24 pieces of Osyris the Sun and Moon with 24 Hours From Hâ—oâ— the Light Or their Horus Son to Osyris or Mizraim the Son of Ham or Hammon and the 12th from Adam As was Chush in Susiana and Javan in Jonia Whence 12 Ancient Gods as Agamemnons Sacrifice 12 Signs 12 months 12 Digits of Sun and Moon with 12 Hours of Day and Night As Egypt had them parted by the Urine of their Cynocephalus or other Living Hour-Glass So the Jews Chaldeans Grecians Romans All Nations Julians Hymns speak As if Plato learned Numbers From Heaven Which a Great Man expounds by the Moons moving 12 Degrees a Day But if her Hourly Motion be Equal to her Diameter or Seldom less then 47 to 48 As Albategnus Then As Day and Night by the Sun Moving 2 Diameters So Hours are made by the Moon moving 24 of Hers To 2 of the Suns And This became the Common Proportion to the Sun and Moon of Metalls Gold and Silver And if Ptolomies Lansbergius Observations be True the Suns Diameter is 24 times Bigger then the Earths Or else the Square of This is 24 times in the Great Circles Area So that Hours may come From Those Proportions of the Sun or Earth About the Sun As Job saith God Sealed up the Sun that it cannot Rise and Turneth the Earth about And yet the Sun may have especial Times of Standing still or Solstice As in Josuah Or of Turning at the Tropick in Hezekiah So the Tropicks are about 24 Degrees from the Aequator As the Polar Circles From the Pole And the Winds in Vitruvius 24. As in Mâ—nilius 12. And Aristotle names Eleven But in Charlemagn They were almost Thrice as many The Ancients Moulded All by 12 or 24. The Great Amphiction Counsel of 12 Counties with double Votes or 24 As Aeschines The Eleutherolacones 24 Towns As the Jonians 12 in Greece and 12 in Asia So the Achaeans 12 Cities and 24 persons in their Councel at Highest When Dieus pressed 24 might be delivered up They quitted place and fled to the Romans Who had 12 and 24 in Vulturs Augurs Fasces Flamens Tables of their Laws and other things from the 12 Tribes of the Old Tuscans or Grecians akin to the Jews in Machabes with 12 Gods Trying Mars As 12 Men Orestes and Others in Areopagus And 12 Labours of Hercules As the Sun in 12 Signes and 12 Hours Rome was Built 24 years After the First Olymp. and had 24 Gates 24 Parishes 24 Cardinals 24 Articles And How they parted their Aes and Estats As their Dayes by 12 is observed by Galen in a Place worth Reading Brittain had 24 Flamens with their Watchers and as many Bishops by 12 and 12. As in the Popes Letters to Austine And the Laws permitted Mariage and required Oaths of Fealty at 12 years age with Juries of 12. and 24 Aldermen Moses saith God Parted out the Heavens to the Nations and They parted them by 12 or 24. And again When he Parted the Sons of Adam he set their Bâ—unds As the Sons of Israel which were 12. As 12 Light Hours After 12 Dark As the Elder Brothers For Time began with Evening before Morning As in Divers Nations And is counted by Nights As Sevenights and Fortnights with English who are Hebrews Calling Night Even to the Day As First it was and so is still about the Equator Their Span had 12 Digits and the Cubit 24. As 240 Gress or 400 Cubits made the Furlong and 24 Furlongs an Hours way they called â—ech Whence our League or Leash of 3 Miles Esay saith God Spanned out the Heavens which were parted by 12 As Their Span. And David Saith Thou hast made my Dayes as a Palm or Tap of 24. as Barley Corns which being soonest ripe was Measure to their Measures An Heb word akin to That they use for Thoughts and Hayrs As the English say a Thought more or lesse and To an Hayr or Hayrs bredth and Cutting Hayr is as old as Hours in Pliny And from Barly Corns To Digits and Inches 12 Inches a Foot As 24 the Rule or Regle Foot in Heb 24 Foot the Perch as Stafford and 24 of Hen. 8. in the Exchequer 24 Blancks a Perit 20 Perits a Droit 24 Droits a Mite and 20 Mites a Grain 24 Grains a Penny and 20 Pennies an Ounce of 24 Scruples and 12 Ounces a Pound But the Hebrew Pound 1200 Gerahs 120 Drams of 60 grains or 60 Sheckles Whence the English Skales 6 Obbols made the Attick 12 the Heb Dram and 24 their Shekle and their Selang as the English Shilling or 12 d. and 24 Aldermen 3000 Shekels made the Talent which was still 6000 Drams But Double to the Grecian So that an Attick Talent of Gold as the Sun to the Jewish Moon of 360 l. As Days in their year And if Paul of Times at Areopagus do allude to That of Moses Then are Times also parted as the Sons of Israel by 12. Jacobs hand on Esau's heel in Ezdras the beginning of a New World As One of the 12 the Jewes record for Doubling the Old as they speak He was from Noah the 12th and Born 12 years after the Death of Arphaxad the 12th from Adam As we saw Chush Mizraim and Javan And as Eber or Ever had Jerâ—ah the Moon with 12 Brethren as 12 Months or 12 Hours of Night in Hazar Maveth So Jacob 12 Sons of Light as Ishmael 12 of Darkness And at all Great Changes of the World we see a signal 12. or 24. As Sodoms 12 years Bondage as hours of Darkness Before the Light with Ab. Who had the Seal and Promise of Isaak at 24 Or 99 from 75. His Eldest Nephews Ishmaels 12 As Esaus before Jacobs
From Aegypt 12 Tribes 12 Fountains 12 Stones in Jordan 12 more at Gilgali and at Eball God Appointed 12 Princes and Then 12 Parâ—ers to Divide the Land And who made me a Judge or a Divider David was the 12th from Jacob and the 24th from Noah Then a Giant had 24 Digits And his Last Battle with Abner Father of Light destroyed 12 on either side with 360 for Dayes and Hours also To make a New World at His New Jerusalem And Time Passed away Vpon Him and All Kingdoms As 1 Cron. 29 30 As Time Passeth away at the 7th Trumpet before the New Jerusalem And for Watches of 3 Hours Samuel spake to Saul of 3 Dayes 3 Men 3 Kids and 3 Loaves David had 3 Brethren with Saul who had 3 Sons Slain together hid himself 3 Dayes and then bowed 3 times to Jonathan and had 3 Sons of Serviah with 3 other Worthies 3 years of Famine and 3 Dayes of Pestilence which he Chose before 3 Months War or 3 years Dearth Absalon was banished 3 years and had 3 Sons and 3 Darts in his Heart Elijah Stretched on the Child 3 times and bid them pour water thrice on his Altar Which had 12 Stones and 12 Barrels of Water And Elisha ploughed with 12 Yoak of Oxen and himself with the 12th Ezra from Ahava the 12th Day with 12 Priests and 12 Levites offering 12 Bullocks and 12 Goats at Jerusalem Nehemiah's Time had 12 Elders and 12 Levites keeping Watches in Reading Singing Praising and Praying Whence haply Watching to Pray And comparing him with Zech. we may find 12 Gates in his New Jerusalem on the 24th of the 6th Month As His Covenant on the 24th of the 7th As Daniels Great Vision was the 24th of the first Zechs the 24th of the 10 h Haggies the 24th of the 6 t and 24th of the 9th From this Day I will Bless you As the 2 d Temple was Founded on the 24th and afterwards clensed on the 25th of the 9th in Hagâ—y and Machabes Our Saviour wiâ—h the Doctors at 12 years had 12 Disciples 12 Baskets and 7 Loaves for 7 Dayes and 12 Hours and healed an issue of 12 and Raised one of 12 years Which may allude To the 12 hours of Darkness As the 12 years of Sodoms Bondage which may be Types of 12 Prophetick years before His Coming To fulfill That of Ab. and Melchizedeck Blessing him by the Most High God Possessor of Earth as of Heaven before As our Saviour when he exulted in Spirit and the 24 Elders or Presidents of All the 24 Hours At the Trumpet of the 7th Month in Rev. 11. For Every month began with Trumpets But the Feast of Trumpets did begin the 7th For Atonement Release and Tabernacles The Jews Holy things in 12 and 24. The Common Title of their Bibles is The 24. And the First hath 12 Great Sections As the last 12 Little Prophets And the Priests had 24 things from God and offered 24 or 12 Cakes in 24 halves Dayly And the Shew-bread was in 12 of 24 Omers As 24 Leviticus 12 Holy Garments had 12 Pretious Stones in Ouches Kâ—hath 24 Cities Or Levi Twice 24. As the Little Sections of Genesis The Temple Courts 24 Cubits high and either walk had 24 Pillers of 12 Cubits round As the Brazen Sea had 12 Oxen and Both Temples As Ezekiels 12 Little Chambers on either side As Day and Night had 12 hours apiece Their Last Altar 24 Cubits As they took Ezech 43 of 12 and 12. Though some of 12 by 12 or 144 As the Walls of the New Jerusalem With 12 Gates 12 Pearls 12 Fruits The Woman in the Sun with the Moon and 12 Stars As Josephs Dream of Sun and Moon and 12 Stars All the Standers or their Representatives As the Priests and Levits with Nethinims Singers Porters or Watchers at 24 places in 24 Courses by David from Noah the 24th The Camp and Levits Under 4 Standards as the 4 Watches And our Saviour walked on the Sea at the 4th Watch. As the Roman Times had 4 Watches both of Day and Night in Censorinus First about Camillus Time we find their Hours in Livy Watches in their Ancient Laws and Histories As Scipio came to Trebia the 4th Watch. Hanibal for Tarentum at the 4th Watch. Antiochus fled To Sardis by Midnight and to Apamea by the 4th Watch. Crassus jested at Dejotarus Building in the 4th Watch or 11th Hour of his Life The Little Watches had but 3 Hours a piece Though some contend for 4 and a Middle Watch in Judges As our Saviours Twelve Hours parted at the 3 d and 6 t and 9th And so the Watchers which is Daniels word Cryed Holy Holy Holy Thrice As 3 Hours in a Watch. But Antient Copies have it 9 times the square of 3 and both were Sacred to Others also For their 3 Graces and 9 Muses And as 1 and 2 make 3 and 3 more 6 or twice 3 So the Sum of These 3 differs from the next 3 by 9. and the 3 d 3 maketh 24. As the 3 d from it 42 which is 24 Turned 24 and 42 make 66. As the 7th 3 60. and the 8th 69. For the Summes differ All by 9. And They are Up and down or forward and backward the Same figures 0. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. As in this Table 1. 2. 3. = 06. 4. 5. 6. = 15. 7. 8. 9. = 24. 10. 11. 12. = 33. 13. 14. 15. = 42. 16. 17. 18. = 51. 19. 20. 21. = 60. And supposing Numbers to be Lines As there are but 4 Simple Chords as 4 Watches So but 8 Simple Arks As the parts of Day and Night are Arks in Heaven And as 4 is the First of All Sonares as its Name in Heb. So is 8 of Cubes which may All be Resolved by 8 As Sonares by 4. And as 4 and 8 make 12 which is 3 times 4 So 3 times 8 make 24 As Hours in All the Watches Arks of Heaven Which are All easily parted by 3 which is to Slice in Hebr. As Each Ark is made of 3 differing lesser Arks or Sides of a Triangle Which may also be represented by 3 Points As a Chord by 2. And if we find the Proper sound of All these Characters and give them Proper Names We may express All Persons Things and Motions with their Moods and Times In an Easy way of Speaking and Writing With an Alphabet of Natures plainest Characters As Points for Spirits and Vowels Chords for the 4 Liquids and Simple Bodies As Archs for Mixt or Mâ—â—es which may be made Aspirate Or Animate by a Point or Spirit in them and of Things also To be Known by Characters expressed by Proper Sounds But to the Jewish Watches As the Less had 3 Hours apiece so the Greater 6. and so the Greatest Harmonies are made by Halves and Quarters to their Wholes As Eights and Fifts and Thirds in Musick And As Day or Night had 4 of 3 a piece So Both together 4 of 6 apiece
that very month in which they came up Thither from Babylon And then he purged the people which was finished on the first day of the 2 d year From Babylon As the Tabernacle was Reared on the first of the 2 d year from Aegypt 1530 Hours of the year came to the Preparation Evening before the Pentecost beginning at Four 1536 As Noahs Ark began in year 1536. And so many years from Egypt come to the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. As is more discussed in The Nâ—w Island Where is most or All or more then All This Book And there can be but 66 more Days To the Great Dâ—om on the 9th or 10â—h of the 5â—h Month. For They assign it to both those days And it might be at Evening between them both 66 days have 1584 Hours and 48 more for the day Before and After make but 1632. So that the Great Dâ—om Cometh in 1632 Hours or Years After the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. Which was certainly before the End of the 34th of Christ Although we do not yet fix his Birth but That it may be 2 or 3 years before the Common Account And we Therefore use to say About such or such a year And by this account The Great Dâ—om will be About the year of Christ 1665 or at most 1666. Which is 1632 years After the Great Pentecost in His 34th or raâ—her 33 d Which is most generally agreed for the year of His Pâ—ssion and the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. But I rather look for the Feast of Tabernacles Which was As many Hours After the Burning of Both Temples As These were After Pentecost And I suppose the Burning of That City and Temple by the Romans within 40 years After the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d To be the Fiery Tryal or Dooms-day foretold in divers places Ezech. and other Prophets say God would deal Worse with Iâ—rael then with other Nations and our Saviour said the Dâ—om of That City should be Worse then Ever was or should be more Which yet Daniel seems to place At Their Riâ—ing again About the Great Feast of Tabernacles now coming Which will be a Fiery Trâ—al and a Day or Hour of Great and Sore and Quick Temptation As the Jews Tradition is that before their Feast of Tabernacles God doth sit in Judâ—emâ—nt on the Dead of That Year And so the use to Fast as some now to know Who Must Dye that Year by their Shadows or Ghosts as Job and the Psalms Which yet often call for all the World to leap and dance and sing at the Coming of Christ to Judge the World For Loe he Cometh He Cometh to Judge the World And His Throne is White And yet All run away and call to the Mountains to fall and Cover them As I shall do If He be not very Gracious Which I hope he will And the rather because he promiseth to gather All Tongues and Nations to see his Glory and When he Calleth all Nations and Kingdoms to receive his Doom in Zeph 3 d. He Promiseth the Holy Ghost and Fire with a Pure Language but to a Poor People that they may Alâ— serve him with one Consent or Sechem as before Which I wish and beg and long for more then Firing Any Place in all the world And for this Great Feast of Tabernacles we may proceed by Dayes and Hours of the Jewish year As we did before for Pentecost or the Great Doom Which was As many Dayes After Pentecost As Before Tabernacles And We may begin That Great Year At any Great and Noted Time Before or After Egypt But Rather Before For in Egypt They seem to be as the P Lambs Tyed up before the Passover They reckon Amram Born at 65 from Jacobs going Down As Pentecost was 65 t Day of the Year and 65 years more To Aaron Who dyed a little before the Great Doom in the 5 t month or 65 Dayes After Pentecost And about Aarons Birth they place the Cruel Edict of slaying the Male Children 84 years before their Coming out and 84 Hours are just 3 dayes and Half Or the Time between the Day of Tryall and the morning of the Passe-over which was Past before their Coming out As if the Wrath of God did Passe over them To the Aegyptians Before their Coming Thence At the day of the First Fruit Omer and they passed not the bounds of Egypt or the Sea Till about the Last Day of Unleavened Bread Which was 45 Days before Pentecost As 45 years before their setling in Canaan or Calebs Hebron in Josh 14. and 45 is half 90 the 4th of 360 and 90 Hours are just the Noon of the 4th Day And the 4th of Creation was the First of the Sun and Moon the 2 Faithful Witnesses in Heaven as the 89th Psalm From That 45th year After Egypt we may begin Their Pentecosts or from the first Sabattical year in Canaan As many years from Egypt As the Day of Pentecost is Dayes from That on which They came from Egypt And so many years After Enoch As there are Hours in the year To Pentecost or its Preparation Day which began at Hour 1512 and ended at 1536 as before For Enoch was 669 before the Flood which was 292 before Abraham or his Fathers 70 and 75 more To his Call or Coming to Canaan and 430 more To their Coming out of Egypt and 40 more to Canaan so that 6 more make up 1512 the first Hour of the Preparation To the Pentecost And if Abraham were Born After his Fathers 70 There may be as many years from Enoch To their Entering Canaan As there were Hours To the first or last of Pentecost beginning at 1536 and Ending in 1560. And to go forward From the First Pentecost in Canaan To the First Born stopped by Jeroboam were as many years As Hours from the first of Pentec To the Close of the 23 d Day of the 3 d month on which They still Fast for That of Jeroboam 456. Which is also the more remarkable because the Plots of Haman held against the Jews Till That very day of the 3 d month Est 8 9. And From Jeroboam To the Captivity there were as many years as Days in a year or Hours From That 23 d of the 3 d To the 9th of the 4th on which They Fast for the City Taken as in Kings and Jeremy Which was from the first of Pentecost as many Hours As years from the First Pentecost To that Captivity about 860. In the same month They Fast again for Breaking the Tables of the Law 430 years After the Promise and for Burning the Law by Antiochus 430 years from the City Taken and 430 Hours are about 17 Days and their Fast is on the 17th Day of that Month. In the 5 t Month They Fast for Aarons Death which was followed by Arad Taking them Captive and by Fiery Serpents Till the Brazen Serpent Healed Them As Christs Death was followed by the Roman Sack
our Saviour The final letters often in the Mazoreth do make 3500. As years of the World To Nehemiahs New Jerusalem or his meeting with Ezras Great Counsel or first Mazoreth Or from Seth To Alexanders being at the Temple or Babylon Taken by Him or Nicanor and his Greek Era in the Mach or from Enos To the Contest of the Great Antiochus with Aegypt Dan. 11. Or from Kainan to Hircanus who began the Kingdom in the Machabes Or from Mahalael to Pompeys sack of Jerusalem Or from Jared to our Saviour Or from Sem to the Christians at Jerusalem And from the Birth of Jacob to the very days in which we live And the Jews as Esdâ—as make Jacob the beginning of a new World And those Last Letters which are only Final may lead us to the very last Days of the Last Times as Paul to Tim. And that God intended somewhat of Times also by those Letters which himself used may be probable from very many words in Scripture As the Word for a year doth make 355 as Days in a Lunar year and with their usual Article 360 as Days of their Solar year and so its Common Plurall in Construction Shene 360. for it hath 2 Plurals as Masculine for Solar and Feminine for Lunar years And as the Full Moon came in as many Hours as the year had days so the Word for Moons and Months is in number 362 if its M final be but 40. But if 600 it is then as many as the Scripture owneth for Many Days As Jos 23. and 1 King 18. 1. Where yet it was but about 3 years which is the Lowest Number they use in their Plurals who have a Duall for 2. Which might be pressed on them for 3 persons in the plural Elohim As all Grammers have 3 persons in their Verbs and Theirs hath All its words in 3 Classes As the 3 Sons of Noah filling all the World And the number of Noah is 58 as They say he lived years with Abraham in number 243 or 248. as Hours into the Evening After the Lambs set apart as Abrahams Family As years from Abraham To the Bondage in Aegypt But if M finall be Here 600 Then Abrahams Name hath as many as the years between the 2 Arks of Moses and Noah whose Ark is Tebeth 802. And much akin to the Month in which Ester was taken into the Royal House which was the 10th as Noahs Ark rested and the Mountain Tops appeared in the 10th of Tebeth Ishmael is 451. but one more then the numbers in their Decimal Letters As years from Ishamael to Canaan Isaak and Jacob make 390. As from the Flood to Isaacks Birth and the Burning of Sodom As Jerusalem was Burnt 390 years after Jeroboams Flood Isaak lived 180 years and the number of his Son Jacob is 182. 365 years from the Flood or Arphaxads Birth brought Abraham to Sechem in Heb Sechema 365. And Melchisedecks Salem 370. As years from the Flood or from Jacob there To the Ark at Salem or Shiloh 335. As it stayed there about 335 years As from Abraham to the Ark in Moses time Which was 345 from the Birth of Jacob As the number of Moses is 345. And his Birth 345 from Abrahams Call or comming to Canaan and Aegypt whence they came out by Moses to Jericho in 345 years As the Sons of Jericho in Nehem and Ezra just 345. 430 years brought them from Ramases whose number is 430. And Etham 441. And Succoth 480. And Metham 481. As we saw it before at 480 Hours and 480 years from Abraham to Moses or from the Promise to the Ark at Shiloh or from Aegypt to the Temple From the Red Sea to Sur or Sure 506. As the 3 d Hour of the 22 d day when they came thither and 506 years after Abrahams Birth who was 75 at his coming to Canaan and 430 more are 505. So that this year was 506. And they crossed Jordan at 234 Hours of the year the noon of the 10th day and 234 years after Jacob and the number of Jericho To which they then crossed Jordan is 234. So signall a number that it may be Rule or Regle in Heb 233. to all the Rest 335 at Shiloh as its number brought up Saul 337. And the Ark was taken at Elies Death and Samuel succeeded from the Sons of Corah the sweet Singers of Israel and his Name is 377. As years from Egypt to His Call or from the Ark at Shilob where the Lord did Call him To his Great Victory at Ebenezer After the Ark Restored Of the Judges Times we speak Else where and of Davids Noddings and his Tears in the Noad of God as himself alludes He was the 14th from Abraham and the 24th from Noah So his Name is 14 and 24. As diversly written in Heb. Solomons Temple was Finished about 1000 years before our Saviour Born or at most 1005. As His Songs or Canticles 1005 and his Parables 3000 As Dark sayings of Old or Times Past As years from Creation if Abraham were born at Therahs 130. He Dyed before the first Captivity To Bab. 375. As his Name is 375. He Prayed God would Turn their Captivity If They Turned and Prayed As he might Take Levit. 26 40. which we translate with If not in the Text. And God Turned Solomons word and made an Absolute Promise I will bring them back for I am Gracious in Heb 1288. and 1335. As in Daniel who took the promise as Absolute and so confessed that They had not so much as Prayed that they might be Turned And so doth Nehemiah cite it as Absolute although we There also put alittle If not in the Text. And the word used For the Princes in Ester and for Daniels Partners Hapartimim is just 1335. As God Turned Solomons word in 2 Cron. 6. 25. and Jer. 12. 15. and Zech. 10. 6. Where his saying He will save the House of Joseph may Hint Those Numbers do begin from Joseph As we found them Come from Thence To Nehemiah And the word used for Finishing the first Temple is 1336. As years from the Flood if Abraham were at Terabs 130 and so for Nehemiahs New Jerusalem Nehem. 6. 15. As from Josephs Bonds To Nehemiah and from Egypt and the Golden Calf To the Great Dedication in the Machabes or Times of Antiochus The Type of Antichrist and His 1260 Days We saw How it came from 120 which is the very Number of Moed in Heb the word used by Daniel for a Time and Times or Moed and Moadim Gods Moods and Tenses As we saw before in his Day of 120 years of Repentance To the old World As some make the Equinox to Change a Day in 120 years And to glance at the Hebrew Tenses or Grammer Times The Formatives of their first Praeter make 2167 As years to Jacob the New World if Abraham were born at his Fathers 130. Jacob was 75 at his Going To Haran As Abraham 75 at His Coming from it And the Letters added
To Kall in Hiphill make 75. As in Hophal and Niphal 45 and 450 As the Vnits and Decimals in their Alphabet and in Hithpael 3645. As from Creation To Nehemiahs New Jerusalem If it were As Scaliger puts it in Artax Mem. Or To Babylon Taken by Alexander or Seleucus and the Greek Era in the Machabes Or from Abrahams Birth To the year of Christ 1645. The Formatives of their first Present Benoni do make 1451. As the Decimals and Centenaries of their Alphabet Or years from the latter end of Enoch To the Law Or Thence to Augustus and Herod Or from the Ark at Shiloh To our Saviour The Letters of their Greatest Future Legal or Imperative may make 1691 a signal Number from Christ and their Future Evangelical or Promissory From 1245 in Kall and 1400 in Niphal which make 2645 As in Pyel To above 3400 as in Hithpael From their Bonds in Egypt Till about These very Times or 1670. And to Come to Shekles and Talents Cubits and Furlongs Shekle in Heb is 430 and as Abraham was told His Seed must serve 400 years He paid 400 Shekles for his Burying place at Hebron much about 400 years before Caleb got it 400 years before David at the same Hebron with its Dâ—uble Cave or Machpela And tho our Saviour taxed some that Painted Sepulchers or were such yet it may be hoped that Ere long He also may come as Nehemiah did to visit his Fathers Sepulchers and Tombs of his Fathers Image also Who promiseth to make His Tredding Glorious and that Earth shall not only be Eâ—ets I will accept it as himself alludes Ezech. 20. 40. but Beulah or Hephzibah My Darling in her As the Queens Name in Hezechiahs time The Holy Oyle in Exodus of Myrrh and Cassia 1000 Calamus and Cynaâ—non 500 As about 1500 years Before Christ the spirit of That pretious Oyntment As in the Psalms and Canticles and Gospels The Gold about the Tabernacle was 730 Shekles As years from Eber above 29 Talents As the Lunar Month is divers Hours above 29 Days And the Arabians Who knew the Moon and gave it in their Ensignes have a Cycle of 29 or 30 years which may be more Considered The Silver 100 Talents As the Tab. Court and length of the Temples Walls was 100 Cubits and the Brass 700 which together make 800 As the Tab was 800 years from Noahs Ark or Tebeth 802. If Abraham were at Terahs 70. The Silver Shekles 1775. As years from Enochs Birth To the Tabernacle Or from Noahs Birth To Samuel and the Ark Taken by the Philistins Or from the Flood To the 2 d Temple Or from Ebers Birth To Ezra or Nehemiah Or from Abraham To Antiochus the Great Or from the the Promise To the Dedication Or from Jacobs Death To Pompeys Taking Jerusalem Or from Ishmaels Death before Ebers and Jacobs Ladder To our Saviour Or from His First Dwelling in our Tabernacle To his Latter Coming to the Great Feast of Tabernacles now Coming And their Proverb is They know not Joy that have not seen the Joy of Waters in the Tabernacles Which themselves also make an Emblem of the Latter Greater showers of the Spirit in Moses song and Solomons Prayer with Esay 55 and other Scriptures As the last of Zech. For Waters on All that Come To the Feast of Tabernacles And All Nations are invited To it And the Jews will Entertain Strangers at that Feast in their Booths at This Day As Hebrews 13. And our Saviour seemeth to allude To their Customes and Singing Esay 12. As they Drew Waters with Joy from the Wells of Siloah And as He Then appeared after long Hiding himself and came To the Feast of Tabernables so it may be Probable He told his Disciples that His 2 d Coming should Fullfil That Last and Greatest Feast of Tabernacles As his Death fullfilled the Passover and His Rising The First Fruit Omer or Barley Sheaf And the First Fruits of Wheat at the First Fruits of the Spirit in Acts the 2 d. So his next Coming in Glory should be As to the Great Day of Tabernacles For when Peter saw him in his Glory on the Holy Mount He cryed Let us make Tabernacles As if That were only proper for the Joy of Tabernacles And the Revel sings Now is the Tabernacle of God with men And He shall wipe away all Tears And Then He that sate on the Throne said Behold I make All New And he said Write For These words are True and Faithfull Adding also It is Finished And to Him that is athirst I will give of the Fountain of Living Waters As alluding both to Beerlaharoi and to what he said and They did at the Tabernacles in John 7 And at his last Thirst on the Cross when Drinking Vineger he Cryed It is Finished The Psalmist saith His People shall be a Free and Willing People as Aminadab in the Day of His Power By the Beauties of Holiness And He shall drink and lift up his head c. And Aminadab offered 10 of Gold and 70 Silver As 10 Days to Tryall and 70 closing Pentecost which they make as other Great Feasts of 7 days and 130 as Days from Pentecost To Tabernacles Each Princes Shekles were 210 As they reckoned years of Israel in Egypt All their Gold was 120 as years of Moses Life And All their Silver Shekles were as the Brass about the Tabernacle 2400. For their 24 Courses and 24 Hours of the Day or 2400 days and years To the Great Release As from Abell or Seth to the Tabernacle Or from the Temple repaired by Joash and cleansed by Hezekiah To These Days The Redemption Shekles For the First Born were 1365 but 30 more then Daniels Number of 1335. As his 1290 is 30 more then 1260 in the Revelation written about 30 years After the Roman Sack 1260 years before Christ was the Famous Time of Gideon and His Ephod Or First Idols of Israel of 1700 Shekels of earings As it was 1700 years After Enoch And Gideons 300 Men might note 300 years from the Death of Josephs Brethren and the Birth of Moses in Egypt Achans Shekles were 250 as the years from Israel first in Egypt To their Entring Canaan But the 50 Gold were as 600 Silver and so All his Shekles may be 800. As years from the Flood to the Exodus Or from Achan To the first Captivity to Babylon which might be Typed in His Babilonish Garment As its Golden Image in his wedge of Gold Goliahs Armour was 5600 Shekles As the years they were to press the Bodies or Souls of Gods People or to Rowle over them As the Name imports From Cain or Tubal Cain the 1st Vulcan to These Times David gave to Ornan 50 Shekles of Silver For the Thressing Place on which he built the Altar Then 600 Shekles of Gold For All the Hill of Moriah the Lords Teaching or Wisdom in Heb But in Greek Foolishness as Paul where Isaak was bound and the Temple Built
And Though 600 was a Common Number As 600 Danits Sacking Lâ—â—hish and the Guard of Saul Or David was 600 As the Reliques of Benjamin Cum Sexeentis aliis in a Proverb yet It might hint out Times also As from Abel to Enoch From Jared to Noah From Noah to the Flood From the Flood to Jacobs Death From Jacob to David and thence almost 600 To the 2 d Temple Finished Which stood 600 years As it had 600 Pillers in Jâ—sephus and the First Temple Targets of 600. David had 600 Men to follow him but recoverd his Wives and others of Ziglag by 400 As it was 400 years from entring into Canaan And the Temple Pillers had 400 Pomgranats with so many Granes perhaps as Hours in a Year For the Poets Proserpina did tast 7 Granes as the Moon was 7 Hours below the Horizon And the Pomgranat is the Badg of Canaan in the Hand of Jupiter Cossins They are Rimmons in Heb. as the 400 Benjamites at Rimmon And Solomons Rimmons in the Canticles and on his Pillers may denote years from Boaz or Jachin in the 24 Courses of the 24th of Cron. to another Jachin with Eliashiâ— As the First was whose Names do signifie God will bring Back and build up and Establish And Those Pillers stood 400 years As the Square of his Altar was 400 Cubits And so some reckon his Walks about the Temple Courts a Furlong or 400 Cubits And to come to the Bible Cubits Noahs Ark was 300 Cubits long and 50 broad And Noah lived 300 and 50 from the Flood As also 300 and 50 to Abraham at Terahs 130. But Cubits are for days of 24 Digits in 2 Spans with Jews and Others As the Great Egyptian King had his Sepulcher Circled with a Ring of 365 Cubits as Days in a year And as the month had 30 days and then the Moon is Hid as the First Light was hid in 30 Hours So the Ark had 30 Cubits Height And so 300 Cubits Long may be 300 months which by 50 Broad do make 1250 years of 30 days to a month Or if All had not full 30 days they may be 1260. Or if we must allow another Cubit closing up the Ark at Top as some reckon it they may come up to 1290 or 1335. And so the Cubits of the Ark may represent the years it should be Driven by the Flood out of the Dragons mouth and be filled with Beasts rather then men and be Trodden by them And if Abraham was born at Terahs 70 then 1250 or 1260 years of the 1st Ark brought up the 2 d to Zion and 1290 the Temple But if Abraham was born at 130 then the Temple was 1335 from the Flood which was 350 years before Terahs 130. And 350 with 75 430 and 480 do make up just 1335. As from Jacobs Flight or Service Till Nehemiahs New Jerusal or from the Golden Calf or Image of the Beast in the Psalm To the Great Dedication in the Machabes And the Sons of Both Elams in Ezra and Nehemiah were 1254. but 6 less then 1260 or 6 more then the Hours of 52 Days of Nehemiahs New Jerus As years from Israel in Egypt And whether Abrahams Birth was at 70 or 130 yet it may be just 2000 years before our Saviour As 2000 Cubits in the Levites City Suburbs and 2000 Cubits from the Camp to the Ark and 2000 Cubits in their Sabbath Days Journey As their Comments on Ruth and Josua And Cubits might come to represent years As days are years in the Prophets and the word for days is also for years and so may Cubits also Though the Ark had Bulk enough to shew them in their proper use The Tabernacles Length as the Arks Height 30 by 10 in breadth 300 as the Arks Length and by 10 in Height 3000. that is 2000 as the Levites Cities Arks Distance and Sabbaths Journey in the 1st Holy place and 1000 in the Oracle Parted by a Veile of 10 by 10 or 100 As the First 100 years of Christs Body Rent as the Vaile at his Passion in the 1st Tearing of Christians and Jews also From the City Sacked To the Revelation or the Vaile Removed and Ark appearing as Revel 11. 19. 1000 Cubits in the Oracle may hint the 1000 years of Christ in Rev. 20. As there were 1000 years between the Temple and his Birth Or from the Rev. Time unto the Christians taking Jerusalem As a Type of the New Jerusalem The Tabernacles Court as Ezekiels 100 being added to the former 3000 They make 3100. as years from Abrahams Birth to the Christians Taking Jerusalem or from this Tabernacle at Shiloh To the Times in which we live And the Cubits of the Court before the Tabernacle as the years to Shiloh 45. 100 by 50 broad are 5000 As the Greatest Church in the Acts and 5000 fed at once by Christ as the Tabernacles Court by 100 and 50. As 5000 years from Adam or Abel To the Christians at Jerusalem Or from Enoch To These Present Times Each side 100 by 5 in height 500. As Each Side of the Temple Court and so we may part the 2000 years from Abraham to Christ by 500 To the Tabernacle and 500 more To the First Temple finished with All its Courts as 1 King 7. Where also the House of Lebanon is As this Tabernacle 30 50 100 500 To the 2 d Temple and 500 more to our Saviour The Inward Curtains of 28 Cubits as the month of Weeks but the outward 30 As the Ark Tabernacle and Temple As their months of 30 days And so they say Moses left his first Song in 30 lines his 2 d in 70. These may shew How long the Church should be in Veyls or Skins of Beasts To hold it in and Press it down As the Ark before 10 Inward Curtains by 28 280 and by 4 in breadth 1120. and As they may be years After Christ To the Christians Reigning in Jerusalem So they may be years Before and perhaps During the First Monarchy For the 2 d and 3 d are Here in their proper Skins of Rams and Goats as in Daniel and the Romans in the Badger Or in Heb. Tax Tachs or Tahash Of the Same Name with one from the Concubine Reuma Ruma Roma Gen. 22. 24. And from Enoch To Jacoh were as many years as Cubits in the Inward Curtains 1120. And from Jacobs Birth or Abrahams Death To the Tabernacle were as many years as Cubits in its Outer Curtains 330. that is 11 by 30. As there were also 330 years from the Tabernacle to Sampson Or from the Ark at Shiloh To its Taking by the Philistins And 330 Hours of the year come just to Noon of the Passover and 330 days from Passover to Purim The 50 Tacks and Loops of the Curtains may hint the 50 days and Nights between the Passover and Pentecost as 50 Weeks in the Lunar years or 50 years before the Solemn Meetings at Shiloh or Sechem where they were All Tackt together 330 by
of the Tabernacle had but Two only Visible and yet a third Included The Spirit in the Blood at the Altar and Water in the Laver as the Piller in the Cloud And the 2 daily Witnesses in the Morning and Evening Sacrifice As the Minha with Perfume at the Altar of Incense With the Loaves of Shewbread and the Lamps As Spirits before the Throne or the Ark and Mercy Seat with the two Cherubins of Glory Like our two eyes in our Face and 2 ears in our Head and the Spirit within the Wheels As in our Heart with 2 Auricles as 2 Loabs of the Lungs and Two yet Lower called Testes or somewhat of Witnesse in divers Languages As putting the Hand under the Thigh in solemn Witnessing As the Great World also hath its several Pairs of Witnesses in Earth and Water Fire and Ayr and yet much Higher and Brighter as the Eyes of Heaven called also the Faithful Witnesses in the Ps the Sun and the Moon Which were as Dead or Hidden Asleep in their Causes as the Schooles speak for 3 dayes and an Half Or Till the Morning of the 4th Day of Creation when they first appeared And at Every New Creation or at bringing up a New Heaven and a New Earth The Witnesses of That Generation may lye hid and be as Dead For 3 Dayes and an Half Till a voyce come from Heaven saying Come up Hither As at first Let there be Lights in Heaven and it was so Darknesse As the First Beast or Dragon Draco Dark and Tenebrae the Dragon of the Evening in Hebrew where also Eeve or Eeph is Darknesse a Beast or Serpent as in english Evet and the Jews tell us that Adams Wife was Lilis First or Night and Then Eeve which is also Night as in english Eeve and Evening Day and Night being as Man and Woman Husband and Wife As the Womb of the Morning in the Bible This Dragon fighteth with the Two Faithful Witnesses the Sun and Moon Which are weekly Hidden 3 dayes and half or 7 nights in a week as at first 3 dayes and half together And when These Witnesses meet with the Crossing Serpent in Heaven or the Ecliptick with its Nodes of Dragons Head and Dragons Tail They be Eclipsed which may hold 3 Hours and Half as at the Passion And the Moons monthly Hidings are about 3 dayes and half as Emblems of the Worlds and Churches Changes and her Absence From the Sun and shinings are about 3 weeks and Half And for 666 in This Beasts Fighting with Those Witnesses we found 6 hours or Great VVatches Turning the Tides as Sun and Moon at the Cardinal Points and making up 666 and its lower Root 25 the First hour that Ever Turned Light into Darkness And as many make the Moons Apogeum 65 or 66 of the Earths Radâ—i So do some make the Suns Radius 65 times Greater then the Earths or his Apogeum Twice 666 as we saw before And all made his daily Motion about a Degree and some made That about 666 Furlongs as Ricciolus from Posidonius in Cleomedes Where also the Moons Periodick Month is 27 dayes and half Which in others is 27 â…“ but in Martiaw Cap. 27 days 16 hours but 2 lesse then 666 which is also very near the Month for Anomaly and Latitude As often For Appearance Though Vncertain And the Suns Monthly Rotation now agreed is from 26 dayes as the Caroline Tables To 29 half and the mean is 27. ¾ Which is just 666 hours As Apelles or Scheinar and Galileus When they found One of the Semicircles to be 13 dayes and 20 hours and an half Which doubled maketh 27 dayes and 17 hours but One lesse then 666. 12 such Months are 333 dayes and 24 666 and 666 Moons about 54 years As 54 Sections of the Law in 669 Little Ones And that the 7 Churches also may shadow out Successive Times as the 7 dayes of the week and 7 months of the Jewish year and 7 years To Release I do the rather believe From the Glanâ—es on Successive Times As Paradise and Tree of Life in the first Church the Flood or Egyptian Death in the 2 d. The VVhite Stone and Manna from Aegypt in the 3 d. And Breaking the 7 Nations by Jâ—suah To the Times of Elijah slaying the Prophets of Baal and Jesabel the Type of the Great Whore in the 4th and to the Coming of Christ in the 5th and the New Jerusalem in the 6 t and General Judgement in the very Name of Laodicea With All things New again as the 3 last Chap. of that Blessed Revelation which doth Blessits Readers From our Blessed Jesus who received it to Give Or that he might shew it To his Servants Or beginning at Christ or at That Revelation to John The name of Ephesus may hint Declining Times of the Primitive Church As at Adams Fall in Paradise There Named Smyrna may signifie Beaten Myrrh As in the Christian Persecutions and Antichristian Jesabel Till the Morning Star arise before the Sun of Righteousness shadowed in Elijah at Jesabel and so to the coming of Christ and the New Jerusalem The Poets say the Great Io wandring came to Ioppa built before the Flood in Mela with Solinus Thence to Egypt and there had a Son from whom came Belus Father to Egyptus and Danaus with Agenor Who returning to Joppa begat Cadmus Phoenix and Europâ— that played with a white Bull Till he swam away with her to Creet and There she had Minos and other Judges in Hell From whom they bring K. Erithrus and the Lycians As Cilicians from Cilix an other Brother to Cadmus Who being sent to seek his Sister came so near as Greece and there was bid to build a City Where he saw a Beast Lye down and Thence Baeotia with Thebes in Greece and Egypt also from Thebeth Noahs Ark and Beasts And though he killed the Serpent he became a Serpent with his Wife and Children very Miserable One being Mother to Acteon Turned into a Stag and Torn by his own Dogs for seeing Diana Bathing Two others destroying themselves and Children The 4th Burnt by Jupiter Thundring as with Juno But catching his Bacchus from her and Hiding him in the Hollow of his Thigh Their Brother wanders up and down till at length One of his Ravisheth a Child of Pelops who had maintained him But Then Prayed for Vengeance Till Oedipus killeth his own Father and marrieth his own Mother knowing neither Till some secret Characters discover it And then for shame and grief They hide a while till all the Family destroy themselves or one another But a Child comes out at length called Tisamenus Or Revenged And His are glad to leave the Country and to wander To an Iland That had Risen out of the Sea and was called Thera The Beast And thence came Battus As Batten and Batein to Play the Beast with His Cyrenians in the Acts. And our Saviour bids us not Battologise as Battus did This may