or asleep in their Causes as the Schools express And This being First in the Kind is Measure to All that follow Both in Weeks which have 3 and an Half or 7 Halves of Light in Dayes and as much Darkness in their Nights and in Months the Moon or the Earth may be Eclipsed 3 Hours and an Half or be Hidden in the Rayes of the Sun 3 Dayes and an Half Which Changes of the Moon may represent the Changes of the World also And at every New Creation the Witnesses to be Hidden as Dead for 3 Days and an Half or about the 10th part of the Time of That Month or Age or World and Then Rise with such an Earthquake as we read in Psalm 104 and Rev. 11. 13. and Then the voyce from Heaven Come up Hither is but as the Word at first Creation Let there be Lights in the Firmament As Witnesses c. And the New Moons or Changes were solemn Moeds as appointed by the Sanedrin and not under 2 or 3 Witnesses deposing that they had seen the New Moon Who were therefore Feasted and Encouraged to Watch for it as Holy Job may allude in That All my appointed Time I will Wait Till my Change Come If the New Moon were seen before Noon That was the First of the Month but if not till After Noon the Next Day was accounted First by Their Rule who also tell us that at first the Moon was equal to the Sun but in contest God made her blush and hide her face so long that Adam saw her not till the Afternoon of the 6th Day And to bring it neerer yet to the Revelation The Moon Crossing the Ecliptick in the Zodiack that Crooked Serpent meets a Dragon as they call those Nodes of Dragons Head and Tayl ready to Catch the Woman in Travel or her Child by Eclipses in which the Moon or Earth is Darkned So that Darkness may shadow the Dragon or the Beast of the Bottomless pit or that Abyss we read in Gen. 1. the measure of the Rest. This slayeth the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth and bindeth up our Eyes and other Witnesses also both in our Bodies and the Temple or Tabernacle of Witness also Where all the Witnesses were measured by them in Heaven and their Goings and Comings and by 3 and an Half or 7 Halves and 7 as in the Lamps There being no less Number or other made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers but 7 and those that come of 7. and Seven in Heb notes Fulness and Rest and Turning as in Sabbath as in every 7th Hour of the Sun and Moons Motion And 7 Dayes also make the Moons Quarters and 14 Change her whole Face and bring her up to Those at the Poles also Where she is Hidden Half her Monthly Course and so is the Sun Half his Year Returning in the 7th Month As to All the World in One of the Equinoctials And so ln the Temple As in slaying the Lambs and offering all the Witnesses there might be found Daily 3 or 4 Hours So they ceased also 7 Hours from the Morning Sacrifice to the Evening Minha and Then 14 to the next Morning As Their Longest Night was but 7 minutes more than 14 Hours as the Moons Returns and Fulls in somewhat more then 14 Dayes and yet they made or counted Their Night Even to the Day as the English still call it whose Languages Phrases and Idioms are neer akin to the Hebrew as this Discourse sheweth in very many Instances And as 7 is made of 2 Threes and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half So All Their sprinklings of Blood in their Daily Sacrifice were by 7 or 3 and an Half on their Great Altar made with 3 Corners and an Half being Cut to bring it All into Benjamine and their Incense Altar and divers other things by 2 or 3 Cubits and an Half and the 7 Lamps in the Candlestick branched by 3 and an Half on either side And their Musick with 3 sorts of Instruments besides their breath or spirit and 3 kinds of Blasts with Quavering between 2 plain Songs as singing Catches or Chatses or it may be Watches Some of which had Musick to part them as our Waites and others Silence as the Revelation Silence for Half an Hour while the Incense was offering and the People stood without in silent Meditation or Prayer And as 7 is the Lowest Number made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers so is 14 the next of 3 times 4 and an Half for 3 times 3 and an Half is a Fraction of 10½ As 7 is made of 3 and 4 or 3 times 2 and an Half So is 14 of 3 with 4 and 2. 3 being as the Father of All Numbers and 2 the Mother Great with Child in 4 which is its Square and the First Square as its name and form in Hebrew and the measure to All other squares which may be All Resolved by 4 as Cubes by 8. Here discoursing the Scripture Numbers of 7 and 14 the Author finds them All measured by the Times and Changes made by the Sun upon the Moon or Earth in every 7th Hour 7th Day 7th Month and 7th Year which was also Sabatical as the Seven 7th a Jubilee And the Months so fixed that whether we begin the Year about the Vernal Equinox as the Jewes did after their Coming out of Egipt or at the Autumnal as probably before yet still the 7th Month also will be Holy One of them for the Passover on the 14th Day and the Other for the Tabernacles from the 14th And Both had a solemn Moed of 3 Dayes and an Half for the Witnesses before the Feast As the Paschal Lamb was Tyed up from the 10th to the 14th and so the Daily Lambs were kept and searched and prepared before they might be Offered And Though Sackcloth and Ashes might go off at the Close of the 10th of the 7th Month the Great Day of Attonement yet Their Tradition of Gods Sitting to Judge All Dying That Year made them All as Tyed up in Fasting and Prayer till the Eve of Tabernacles which was As the Resurrection in the Morning Light freeing our Eyes and All the other Witnesses from their Chains of Darkness And he bringeth His Judgment also to Light every Morning Though the wicked will not see it As the Scripture speaketh And the Sun and Moons returns to Them in 14 Hours at Longest Night and in 14 Dayes of the Moon to Them at the Poles and for Changing her own Face and the Earth and Tides may be Measures to all the Great Things in the Temple and other places Done on the 14th Hour or Day or Year in Scripture Where also many Persons or Places as Witnesses lying Dead or as Dead and lost for 3 and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half or 3 times 4 and an Half whlch is 14. As Abrahams Tenents and Sodom recovered in the 14th Year and Then as lost for 3 Dayes and
first Day from Babylon But at Ahava fasteth and chooseth his 12 Apostles or Elders on the 12th of the first going Thence to Jerusalem on the first of the 5th Month and stayed 3 Days and Then to the Great Feast of Tabernacles in the 7th Month. As also in Cyrus at the 7th Month they came as One Man and kept the Feast of Tabernacles as it was Written But the Temple was not founded Ezra the 3d much less come to that End or Motsa of which Ezra 8. 9. and 10. with Neh. 8. 9. 10. which may also lead us from the 7th Month to the 10th in Ester and in Maccabes also for the great Dedication which our Saviour himself pleased to Honour with his Presence in Iohn though not required by God but by the Jewish Church As also That of Purim which they keep with great Solemnities to this day I have not yet said that These great things done in the Womens Court might be but shadows of That yet to be Done by Them also when he shall pour his Spirit on their Daughters and Handmaids also and They shall Prophecy And God shall give a Word and great shall be the Feminine Preachers And so he cries Receive the Law of thy Mother That I say nothing of Miriam Deborah Sampsons Mother or Lemuels Hannah and Anna with Elizabeth and our Saviours Mother with Priscilla Lois Eunice and the Brittish Claudia in a better Calender than Martial with other Women Prophets or Writers of Scripture From the Middle Gate Leading into the Womens Court 135 Cubits to the Gate of Nicanor and 135 years from Nehemiahs coming up in the 20th of Artaxerxes To Seleucus Nicanor the Jewes friend and His Greek Era so much used in the Maccabes And if you please to turn again as they often did in this Court 135 Years more bring us to That Little Horn or Great Type of Antichrist or Antikeimenos Antiochus Epiphanes from 137 of That Era to 145 he confirmed the Covenant as the Learned Diatribe for That Week or for 2300 Natural Days But Then Prophaned the Temple for 1290 Days although there be not so many from the 15th of the 9th of 145 to the 25th of the same Month 148 when it was clensed as we read 1 Mach. 1. and 4. Yet the Weeks may be just 62 to his coming up if we grant them to begin 70 Years before Cyrus in 140 Nabonassar and Epiphanes in 573 7 more for the next week make 580 and 3 Years more and as many Days as from the 17th of the 4th Month in which they fast for the first Temple to the 25th of the 9th Month in which they Feast for the 2d clensed by Judas Machabeus make up near half another Week in the year 444 after the first Temple which may make it the more considerable because it is 2 Thirds of 666 of which again But if Ezekiels 390 Days of the last siege of Jerusalem from the 15th of the 3d Month to the 9th of the 4th in the next and last year of Zedekiah as the Great Primate of Learning and Religion hath observed were as Types of those 390 Years from the great Schism to the Temples End Why may not these also in Antiochus be Types of Years in Antichrist and All Defiling of the Temple to its clensing Seeing Daniel himself is bid to shut or Seal them up being for many Dayes or Years to come as that Phrase of Dayes is in many places we saw before Even Then when the Angel speaks of Evening and Morning the usual Character of Natural Dayes Which we may consider again But first we may note That as first This Gate of Nicanor might remember the first Nicanor their Friend so it might not forget Nicanor their Enemy slain Here as Some or near Jerusalem As 1 Machah 7. by the same Judas about the End of the 64th Week from the Captivity Or 151 of Selâ—ucus soon after Antiochus And from this Last Nicanor Then slain to Herods Samaria finished or Caesarea Or the Temple begun may be just 135 Years As from Epiphanes first to Herods first 135 Years As 135 Cubits from the Middle-Gate to Nicanor From which Gate of Nicanor began the next Court of Israel and the Priests being 187 Cubits as there were 187 Years between That Nicanor slain and our Saviours Baptism Or Pontius Pilate that put him to Death As also from the Death of Antiochus the Great Dan. 11. 19 to our Saviours Birth 187 Years And if we look on Hours as Years The first 7 Hours make the first Rest and Turn of the Sun from the Nadir towards the Morning Horison and 7 Days make the Sabbaths Rest and the first 7 Days of a Woman before her Son Circumcised The first 14 Hours come up to the Morning Sacrifice when it was appointed and their longest Night was 14 Hours the Hiding Resting Slaying Sleeping of the Witnesses And 14 Days brought up the Passover The first 40th Hour is the 2d Morning Tamid or their Breakfast As 40 Days the Womans first coming to the Sanctuary after a Son As their 40 Years before Canaan were for a Son the first-born Son For Out of Aegypt have I called my Son my First-born 49 Hours begin the Third nights Rest as 49 the Jubile 65 Come up to the Third Days Noon or Dinner as the 65th Day is the Pentecost 72 Hours closed the 3d Day as 72 their Sanedrin 80 Hours the 4th Morning Watch and 84 Sun-Rising as the 4th Day from Creation brought up Sun and Moon as the two Witnesses of Heaven measure to All other Witnesses on Earth 120 the number of Moed in Hebrew letters the Hours in 5 Days before Man and Woman Created If about the Tamid Hour of the 6th Morning it might be in Hour 135 As the Men and Womens Court 135 Cubits 144 Hours the square of 12 close the 6th Day and begin the 7th or the Sabbath and their Clakins or Jewish Minutes of 144000 as the First-fruits of Time to God and His Lamb shadowed by the Lamb of the Sabbath distinct from the Daily Tamid 240 Hours close the 10th Day And from Aegypt the Pascal Lamb was Tyed up from the 10th Day of the Month as 3 Daies and Half before he was slain in Hour 333 the Evening Minha of the 14th Day Ending in 336 Hours But they went not out of Aegypt till the close of the next or 15th Day at Sunset which was Hour 360 as Daies in their Year And so Years from This Exodus out of Aegypt are reckoned as Hours from the beginning of their Year to the Passover Pentecost Tabernacles and All their Feasts 1200 Hours in 50 Dayes between the Passover and Pentecost Whose Morning was in 1548 Hour of the Year And so the Great Pentecost Acts 2d might be 1547 or 48 Years from Aegypt If there were 70 Years between the first Temple and Cyrus taking Babylon in 210 of Nabonassar That is 480 from Aegypt to the Temple in Solomons 4th 1 Kin. 6.
no evil against your Neighbour as before in that and the former Chapter All these 10th or Fasting Dayes might be Hinted in the 10th of the first Month when the Thick Darknesse began of 3 Dayes and a Half as the Poets long night of 3 Nights together when the Paschal Lamb was Tyed up and prepared to be slain in Hour 333 just Half 666 or the Evening of the 14th Day which ended in Hour 336. And 337 the next Hour or first of the 15th which was a sad Night to All the first born in Aegipt is just the Number of Seol the Hebrew Word for Death and Hell or the Grave All typed out in Aegipt as Leviathan also with the Dragon in the Sea Giving power to the Beast or Image of the Beast as Psalms 74 106. Comming first from Babylon to Aegypt and thence to the Wilderness and thence to the Calves at Dan and Bethel whence back again to Babylon and There it became an Image of 60 cubits High and 6 in breadth till at length it came to be 666 which is here Discoursed 360 or 6 times 60 Hours come just to Sun set of the 15th Day when Israel was driven out and pursued so on the 3d day they say that on the 4th morning 3 Dayes and Half from the Passeover the Aegyptians are drowned as Job 34. 20. and 26. 12. adding the crooked Serpent in the next Verse and Israel cometh up from the Red sea that great Type of the Last Witnesse or Blood of all the Witnesses singing the Song of Moses and the LAMB in Hour 420 which is 3 and an Half of 120 or Moed in Hebrew made of 3 times 40 4 times 30 6 times 20 10 times 12 or 12 times 10 and 3 times 420 make 1260 in the Revelation alluding to This of Egypt and the Wildernesse in Divers places being but 30 years after Daniel's 1290 beginning at the sack of Jerusalem that is 3 times 430. As a Memorial of these 3 dayes and Half they have 3 more days of Thirst and then come to Marah that is Bitternesse Healed by a Tree And then they find 12 Fountains for 12 Tribes 12 Apostles answering to the 12 Hours of Light and 70 Palms as 70 Elders and 70 souls of Jacob in Egypt shadowed by the Palm-trees in the Temple-Courts as Tamar in Hezron as the Hebrew may intimate This 21st Day began at 480 Hours As the Temple began 480 years from Egypt so that its Feast of Dedication in the 7th month of Tabernacles answered to the Great Feast of Unleavened-Bread or Last of the Passover week in the 21st Day of the Month. By this Thread the Author goeth through All the years from Egypt Whose Dark times might be shadowed in the Philistins and others oppressing Israel Freed by Samson that is the Little Sun setting as many years from Egypt as their year had dayes Saul might be born 337 years from their Entring Canaan as the numher of his Name And Elies 40 years might answer Aarons 40 from Egypt where he was chosen to be Priest as God told Eli 1 Sam. â—27 40 more for Saul and Samuel as Act. 13. bring us to David that is Love Conquering Saul or binding him up for 1000 years when the 12 hours of day and night ran through each other at Gibeon with 360 Dayes of the Year then ending to begin a New Year a New Heaven and a New Earth as a New Jerusalem which David Took from the Jebusites who Trod it down as the name in Hebrew intimates 444 years from Egypt that is 2 Thirds of 666. When David had also reigned at Abrahams Hebron 7 years and 6 months being the 7th son of Jessi My Essence in Gods Language and from Abraham the 14th as from Noah the 24th or last Hour of That day setling the Temple Courses by 24 as his Name in Hebrew may be 24 and 14 as from Abraham he was the 14th Generation Matth. 1. And Davids 70 years an Age or Generation Psal. 90 is the 14th 70 from Abrahams Birth Who received the Promise and came from Haran at 75 Gen. 12 and before their coming out of Egypt just 430 years as Exod. 12 and Then 480 to the Temple in Solomons 4th 1 King 6. So that David dyed in 476 from Egypt and from Abraham's Birth 980 years which is just 14 times 70. 6 times 70 more carry them to Babylon and 7 times 70 bring them home again in the 10th Jubilee from David 490 but from Abrahams Birth the 30th Jubilee 3 times 490 that is 1470 which is the 3d 7th 70 or 21 times 70. And from the First Temple to the Second in the 2d of Darius Hystasp were 70 years Or to Ezra's going up in the 7th of Artaxerxes Long Twice 70 and 7 times 70 more as in Daniels Weeks or 490 years which are 10 more Jubilees bring us to our Saviors Death and Resurrection on the 3d Day as the Barley sheaf or first of First-sruits was heaved up the 3d day after the Passover And his sending down the First-fruits of the Spirit in the Pentecost Acts 2d 1537 years from Egypt as the Day of Pentecost the 65th of the year or 50th from the morrow after the Passover on the 14th began in Hour 1537. As also the First of the Great Moed for Mans Repentance of 120 years began in 1537 of the World and of Noah 480 As the Temple was 480 from the Law And Thus between the Two Great Sacks of Jerusalem and of Both Temples by the Caldeans and the Romans are just 666 years 666 being the Number of Change to the World and in special to Jerusalem which was as the Sun to his Moon as Jericho may signifie being made of 6 the first number of Turn and Change in the Sun and Moon or Heaven and Earth and the Great Ocean or Waters under the Earth And 6 is the First Midnight and 4 times 6 end the first Day and Light was first Turned into Darkness in Hour 25 the least square Root of 666 the Great Number of Darknesse or Change in all its principal parts As we saw in 55 CXI 222 the 10th Midnight or Number of Jerecho 333 the slaying of the Passover 444 in the 19th and 555 the first Watch of the 24th Night as the Last Hour of that Day and 666 comes just to the Sun Darkned by the Moon under his Rays 666 Hours the Middle of the 28th Day or the 3d sixt Hour of the 4th seventh Day which is just 29 Days and 12 Hours the Middle point of Sun and Moons Conjunction allowing 42 Hours for the Moons Hiding the number of Cled or Clade in Hebr the Lowest Age or Hour of Darkness or Temptation being the 24th part of 1008 as the Jewes Clakins were 1080. But Half 84 Hours which are in 3 days and a half the longest stay of the Moon in the Suns Rays in slowest motion Which is very different both in Sun and Moon and so are their Diameters yet so proportional to
Jerusalem shall be as David and every one that Thirsteth receiveth His Everlasting Covenant and His sure mercies or his Holy Things in all things Ordered and sure His seed shall endure for ever His Throne As the Sun before him It shall be established for ever as the Moon as a faithful Witness in Heaven Selah Then follows the Laying or slaying of those faithful Witnesses But How long wilt Thou O Lord be Hidden Here is the Great Nister as the Jewes call the 3d Person As Hidden or Mister as the English or Mistery we touched before and Lanetsach And Cheled the word here used with others leading us to Adam and Abel Then to Enoch and Elijah When we shall resolve that Dying Eclipse on the Cross in Hours and Dayes and Months and Years As we shall be enabled by Him whom to acknowledge on all Occasions is our Happiness and Glory What is the Proper Age of the Moon its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when called Jareach may not be easie to determine We found her before in her Casing sucking the Sun as a Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 till her Heat as That in the Earth and our Heart also the Cause of all motions and clicking Pulses make her first Reak and then Boyl as a seething Pot or a Boyling Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seath Seeth as the Greek 〈◊〉 Spirit boyling up as enflamed by Heat within And so the Moon and Sea also may flow as we touched before to be compared with Esay 64 1. 2. Psal. 147. 18. In Numbers Jareach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 makes 218. Which in Hours is but 2 or 3 more then Three times Three Dayes Or if you will Three Nights because the Moon is to Rule the Night And all the Nights of the week make but 3 whole Dayes of 24 Hours and an Half before the Sun of the Sabbath Riseth As the Lamb of the Sabbath Day with his 144000 Virgins following the Lamb of the Sabbath as the Jewes Clakins of the 144 Hours of the six Dayes before the Sabbath as the first Fruits to God and the Lamb of which before Of Dayes and Months and Years in Characters To 3 times 3 Dayes each 3 is 72 Hours adding6 Hours more we are brought to Midnight of the 10th Night before the 10th Day the time of Jerecho In Hours 222. the 3d part of 666. And Jerichos Walls mightr each to Heaven or at least to the Moon as it signifies Though we have not yet compared its Trumpets with them in the Revelation Or the Last Plagues of God and the Last Woe When it is past No more Curse But as we saw in Jericho though Cursed as Gibeon also yet built again by Hiel the Living High God from Bethel the House of God in the Dayes of Ahab Brother and Father also As we saw before If we go forward to reckon the Age of the Moon and the World together we may remember that although the Jews Night were in Winter about 7 minutes more than 14 Hours long yet they alwayes made or accounted it Even to their Day and so it was There and elsewhere at the Equinox in which they agree the World was Created Let us a little compare it with the first Month in which they came out of Aegypt When the first Night of Time was past as the Cubits first Span of 3 Taps or Watches of 4 Hours apeece or 4 of 3 12 Hours brought up That great Change of Light for Darkness It is made of 3 the Father of all Numbers and Ab in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 3 on 4 the Mother as 7 is 3 with 4 which we found the first square Number or Compound as 3 are all Simples The 2d 12 Honrs were All Children of Light which we called the sons of Israel as the former 12 were sons of Darkness or 12 sons of Ishmael the First-born of Abram the High Father The 25th Hour brought in the next great Change of Darkness for Light and is the nearest Root of 666 the Course of the Moon that Eve of Night as the Sun is the Adam of Day with his 12 also as Apostles the Root of 144. 35 and 36 Brought in the Second Change of Light for Darkness As 350 and 360 Dayes bring up the 2d Year both Solar and Lunar which is as the Day Dawning in the 35th Hour before Full Light in the 36th which is 3 times 12. And the Half being also added maketh 42 which brings up Noon or perfect Light of the 2d Day Which is ended by 12 drawn into 4 the first square Number bringing up the 3d Nights Rest and great Change beginning with 49 or 7 times 7 as the Jubilee and Hebrew Midda Measure of measures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 49. 60 Hours bring up the Morning of the 3d Day and 66 its Noon and 70 is the Hour of its Evening Minha had it been appointed to be compared with the Pentecost and Return from the 70 Years Captivity and many other 70 in Scripture It coming so up in the 3d Day which is also ended with 72 Hours as the 72 Elders of the Sanedrin 6 times 12. 84 Hours bring up the Sun of the 4th Day and frees the Moon from the Sun as we saw before So that Both those Witnesses might Then be seen in Heaven Where One or Both had yet lay hid till the 4th Day or after 3 Dayes and Half which is the Night of the 4th the Moed of these Heavenly Witnesses to measure all other And as the Sun of Righteousness did not appear till the 4th Great Day of the World so perhaps he came in That very Hour of the 1000 years which answereth to the 4th Dayes Minha or some other signal season that may tell us both his Setting and Rising again when we shall consider all his Moeds also of 3 Years and Half 3 Dayes and Half yea and 3 Hours and Half great Eclips on the Cross of which in Characters as God shall help us with the Prayers of his people who must help the Lord against the Mighty Powers of Darkness that He may bring out his Marvellous Light which is Dawning among us 96 Hours end the 4th Day And 7 times 96 are but 6 more than 666. Whos 's 6th part is III. in Hebrew letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Measuring Line we touched in Kav la Kav Sav la Sav. And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also just 96 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 106 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 100 and 11. 120 Hours 10 times 12 bring up the 6th Day in which man was Created and when he had fallen and God grieved or Repented or resolved to change him because he had made him on Earth and not kept him in Heaven He said My Spirit shall not be a Don or Dun to Man for Olam 140 or 700 in their Erring who is Flesh. But his Dayes have been or shall be 120 Year as
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
wilful sinners Of the patience of Christ to a man turning into a Beast and how he deviseth Devises to prevent it or recover him How he fulfilled the Ceremonial Law also and how he was in all the Sacrifices as a Lamb for the Lambs and as a Goat for the Goats Of Benjamin the Son of the right hand with other Children of Rachel a sheep in Hebrew at his right Hand and of the Children of Leah or others at the Left Hand where also of Seir a Goat and of the Goats offered at the New Moons solemn Feasts c. and of the Rams of Ishmael accepted on the Holy Alter Of Gods face in Scripture toward the East and of Bowing to the East and of his Right Hand to the South and Left to the North and of Northern Judgments turned to Mercies and Blessings and of great and good things to come out of the North in the Latter times of the World as from Babylon at the return from Captivity How Christ came in the fulness of time Of Seven Ten the full Rich Numbers of their Powers Compounds for Ages Ever or eternity which yet in Scripture oft hath such or such an End or Revolution in such or such Generations How Christ came out in several Ages and Persons of Note in the Bible to do the Great things of Gods Power Wisdome and Goodness for Man To Man and in Man through all the Times and Seasons of the Scripture and in special the Times of the Witnesses In Heaven the Father and the Word Dabar Bar Bara Creating Heaven and Earth where also the Spirit of the Messiah as the old Jews call it on Gen. 1. 2. Mooving on the Waters an other Witness and parting them by A Dam and Adam of Adama dryed Red Earth akin to Dam in Hebrew Bload the other Witness John 5. and Acts 17. Of one Blood he made all Nations of men and determined the Times appointed and bounds of their Habitations which in parting the sons of Adam he bounded according to the Number of the Sons of Israel Deu. 32. which were 12. and to be measured by the 12 Hours of Day and Night Shadowed on the Tabernacle by the Cloud Pillar of Fire for Light that Beginning of the Creation and works of God and in its outer Court by the Laver of Water and Blood on the Alter of Witness as That called Ed a Witness by the waters also of Jordan where afterward the Baptist heard or saw all the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth to which he bare Record or was made a witness also as divers other in several Ages And All the 7 Washings or Sprinklings of Blood or Water so often required in the Law to represent the 7 Nights and 7 Dayes of the Week As the 7 Lamps in the inner Court or Holy Place as the visible Heavens with its Planets about the Sun in the midst as the greatest Lamp was in the middle of the other 6 or 3 on either side by the 12 Cakes of Shewbread changed every 7th or Sabbath day and made of 24 Omers out of 24 Seahs as the Jewes 24th of Leviticus for the 24 hours of Day and Night Made by the Sun mooving 2 of His Diameters the Moon 24 of Hers in each diurnal motion of 24 Hours parted into 4 great Watches as the 24 Elders in the Revelation had also 4 watchers with 6 wings a piece as in the Prophets And in the Temple also there were 24 courses of Priests and of Levites 24 of Porters and 24 of Singers and 24 courses of Standers or men of the Station representing all the People or 12 Tribes as in the 12 Cakes of 24 as 12 Sons of Jacob or 12 Hours of Light came after the 12 hours of Darkness or 12 Sons of Ishmael or Esau for the 24. Elders And as God gave 24 things to the Priests so they gave 24 to him in their dayly Minha of 12 Rouls at morning and 12 also at Evening And the Seventh in Hours also is very Signal as in Days and Moneths and years by the great Rest and Turn of Sun and Moon as Water and Blood also in the Sea and bodies of Animals after every six hours with Them and All that accounted Lilith that is Night the first Wife to Adam and do call her Eve or Even to the Day As it is to them that are about the Aequator and to All at either Aequinox when Time seemeth to begin And beginning at Sun-set as the Jewes and many other Nations did the First six Hours brought down the Sun to the Midnight Nadir and six more brought it up to the Morning Horizon and six more to the Noon or Zenith and six more to Setting again So that every seventh Hour made a Pauz and Turn And Sabbath is Both in Hebrew As if the watchers stood at the four Corners of Earth or quarters of the Heaven which are called Winds and Spirits also in the Scripture alluding perhaps to the four watching Spirits or Angels to Turn the Sun and Moon or Hour-glass of Waters or Clepsydra in the Seas c. After every six Hours of Day and Night the walks of the Sun and Moon but shadows of the good things within the Vaile or 3d Heaven where the 2 Cherubins of Glory shadowed the Mercy Seat or Heavenly Throne over the Earth or Ark of the Testimony also or Witnes with its 2 Tables or Testaments also For the 2d Covenant as in 29 of Deuteronomy was both Law and Gospel also written in the Ark of the Heart of Christ and all his Members after the first Tables of Stone were broken and disanulled being never put in the Ark or in our Hearts For know you not that your Bodies are the Temple of God As Paul speaketh to the Gentiles also Where our Heads as the Heavens above with two Eyes or Cherubins of Glory The Mercy seat or Throne of God and his Rainbow as in all the Scriptures like our Eye And our Heart Or Altar of Incense As the Earth beneath in the middle Court or 2d Region with its Pericardium of Water and Blood in the Pleura with twelve Ribs on either side and seven distinct from the other Nothi As also the seven Rackets of the neck with its spirit or spinal marrow from the Cerebellum As the Brain hath also seven spirits or pair of Nerves with Animal spirits Veyles and Ventricles which are shadowed in the Lower Regions both of the Earth below in the Heart and Waters under the Earth in our Bowels where the Duodenum and Ilea with all the Rest are but shadowes of things above As of the Laver or Molten sea or great Ocean with its Ebbings and flowings as the Earning of our Bowels and the Altar of Burnt-offerings in our Stomack with its heat or fire never quenched and the seven Planets with the Firmament of the Midrif parting between the Bowels or Waters under it and those above it as high as the Brain
an Half And so Jacob served 7 Years and 7 for his 2 Wives and 6 for Cattel Then flyeth 3 Dayes and is pursued 7 to Gilead the Stones of Witness Joseph is also Born in the 14th year of his Fathers and Freed in the 14th Year of his Own Bondage and his 2 fellow Prisoners were freed on the 3d Day And so the 2 Searchers of Jericho lay hid or as lost for 3 Dayes and an Half And so Davids Wives and Friends of Ziglag And divers others besides our Saviours 3 Years and an Half Publick Preaching as Daniels Half Week and 3 Dayes and Half from the Passover 3 Hours and Half Anguish on the Cross As in the Grave 3 times 12 Hours and Half or about 40 or 42. And Paul was strucken Down and Blind till the 4th Day and in a great storm by Sea first 3 Dayes and Then they Lightned the Ship and was not fully freed till the 14th and so he went up to Jerusalem or to the 3d Heaven in the 14th year And Jerusalem was freed from the Assyrians in the 14th year of Hezekiah As Sodom or the World perhaps from the 4 Great Monarchies which are all shewed to Abraham in Visions in the 14th year as in the 14th of Genesis and also in the 15th we see the Turtle and the Pigeon as the 2 Witnesses preserved whole and unbroaken between the Heifer Ram and Goat and all of 3 years old Gods own Emblems of the 3 First Monarchies in the Prophets besides That Vision shewed All the kinds of Sacrifice and other things discoursed in This Book But especially the Passover which being the First 14th Day of the First Month of the First year of their Coming out of Egypt is to measure All that follow Which the Author therefore considereth in Hours of the year to the Passover and Thence to Pentecost and so onward to the 7th Month and its Feast of Trumpets Expiation and Tabernacles which was the Great Feast of the year and the Moed of all Moeds The Ingathering of All the Fruits of the Earth and Latter Rain of That which did but Drop in the First Fruits of Pentecost Time first beginning at Evening 12 Hours brought up Light for Darkness which returned again in the 25th Hour so that 25 is the Root of Darkness or That which first Turned Light into Darkness and the Next Number below the square Root of 666. 36 Hours come to the Morning of the 2d Day ending at 48. and 49 the Number of Middah in Hebrew Measure and the Number of Jubilee being 7 times 7 and the first of the 3d nights Rest. Whose Midnight is about 55 so neer the 12th part of 666. 60 The Morning and 70 the Evening Minha of the 3d Day Ending in 72 of 6 times 12 the Number of their Sanedrin 84 Hours or 3 Dayes and Half brought up the Sun of the 4th Day Measure to all the 3 and Half of all other Witnesses 96 come to the Evening of the Fift Day when Blood was first Created and its Morning Sacrifice is at Hour CXI the very Number of Kavh in Hebrew a Measuring Line and 6 of These is just 666. 120 the Hours of 5 whole Dayes Before Man was first Created is the very Number of Moed in Hebrew As 120 years was the Great Moed appointed by God for Men of the Old World 3 of these Moeds of 120 which is 3 times 40 make 360 as Dayes of their year and Half a Moed more 420 3 of which make 1260 in the Revelation which is also Ten Moeds making 1200 and an Half Moed 60 more 135 the 3d Hour of the 6th Day when Adam was Created Afterwards the Morning Sacrifice And about the Temple from That they called Hell or Chel to the Court of Israel were 135 Cubits as 135 Dayes from Pentecost to the Great Hosannah or the Last of Tabernacles 140 That is Twice 70 Hours shewed the Moon to Adam they say in the first Day of his Creation and he worshiped God who afterwards appointed That Hour for slaying of the Evening Sacrifice the Preparation to the Sabbath whose Lamb came up with 144000 Clakins of Time as the First-fruits to God and his Lamb There being just 144 Hours that is 12 times 12 before the Sabbath began and in 6000 Dayes 144000 Hours as the Number Sealed of all the 12 Tribes with the Holy Lamb on Mount Sion Revel 14. 155 The Noon of the Sabbath which was the measure to all Holy Things being the very Number of the Hebrew word for Kane which Ezekiel saith was 6 Cubits and an Hand as reaching into the Sabbath Day for every Cubit had 24 digits as the Day had 24 Hours The 10th Midnight is at Hour 222 the 3d part of 666 or the Number of Jerecho To which they also came on the 10th day of the first Month when they entred Canaan This is a solemn Fast with them for Miriams Death on the 10th of the first Month As Eli and his 2 Sons Dyed on the 10th of the 2d Month. When also the Ark was Taken by the Philistines After so many Hours of the year were past As there were Years between Egypt and the Taking of Jerusalem and Burning of the Temple by the Chaldeans on the 10th Day of the 5th Month. And the 2d Temple was also Burnt by the Romans on the 10th Day of the 5th Month or the same Day of the Month when in the Wilderness it was decreed They should not Enter into the Rest of God And This Day of the 5th Month might be as many Hours after Pentecost or before the Tabernacles As there were Hours before the Pentecost or Years before the Flood or After Egypt to the last sack of Jerusalem or Thence to their Coming in again with the Fulness of the Gentiles at the â—gathering of All the Fruits of the Earth in the Great Feast of the Tabernacles or the Latter Rain of That spirit of which the First Fruits were at Pentecost in Acts 2. which was so many Years After Egypt as the Day of Pentecost was Hours in the Year which is just after 1â—6 the Hours of 64 Dayes before the Day of Pentecost which was the 65th Day of the Year or 50th from the Morrow after the Passover on the 14th The 10th Day of the 7th Month was the only Fast appointed by God or the Great Day of Attonement to which they reckoned 187 Dayes of the year as there were 187 Cubits in the Court of the Priests and Clean men of Israel about the Temple The 10th Day of the 10th Month was their Fast for the Seig of Jerusalem in the 9th of Zedekiah to the 9th of the 4th Month of his Eleventh year but the Temple was not burnt till the 10th of the 5th Month as Jeremy 52. with Zech. 8. saying that the Fasts of the 4th and of the 5th and of the 7th and of the 10th Month also should be cheerful Feasts of Joy and Gladness therefore Love Truth and Peace and think
their Motions that to each 12 Hours we may allow 12 of the Moons Diameters and one of the Suns As Silver and Gold the Measure to other Weights and Measures with the Jews and other Nations here discoursed With Great Changes made in 666 years as Hours to Sun and Moon in special to Jerusalem the Great Sun-Dyal to the World with its Lines of 666 so near 2 3ds of 1000 which is but one more than 3 times 333 or Half 666. As to the Evening Sacrifice at the Passover were Hours 333 and the Length of All the Temple Courts 333 Cubits With 14 steps out of the Gentile Court as 14 Hours to the Morning Sacrifice and 14 days to the Passover and 50 more to the Pentecost which was the 65th day of the year and 135 more to the Great Hosanna closing the Tabernacles As 187 Dayes before the Great Atonement by the Greatest Preist in the Temple which was 70 Cubits Long. Which Numbers are signal in the years of the Patriarchs As in the Measuring Kane of Kainan the 4th from Adam as 4 is the first and measure of All Compound Squares and the Sun on the 4th Day to measure all Motions and Seasons Before Mahalaleel 70 to Jared 65 more that is 135 362 before Methusala 65 after Enochs Birth and before Lamech 187 and Noah 369 4 times 333 or twice 666 before the Flood but 3 times 3 less than 5 times 333 or twice 666 and an half from the Creation and but 3 more than 666 After Enoch The 7th from Adam Born just after the 3d 7th year of His 7th Hundred and the 7th 70 of Seth 491 or 2. He lived on Earth but just so many years as there be dayes in a year 365 As from Mahalaleel to the Flood 365 and from the Flood or Arphaxad the 7th from Enoch and the 12th from Adam were 365 years to the Promise in Abrahams 75 who lived 75 years After the Birth of Isaac As Enoch lived 75 years After Adams Death and 370 before we read of Salem or Beersheba 372 as the Numbers of Sheba and Salem may be in Hebrew and 390 to Isaacs Birth and 430 to his Marriage Noah Lived with Abraham 58 years the Jewes say as the number of his Name in Hebrew He waâ— born 661 years After Mahalaleel and 666 before Eber or Ever being the Longest Liver that was boru after the Flood and Father of Time parted as the World between Peleg his Greater Light and Joctan the Less as in Hebrew with the Moon and 12 Brother-Months among his Children From Sems Birth 100 years to Arphaxad I will dissolve as the Destroyer and I will heal as Shaddais 135 to Sala 35 before Eber 200 to Peleg 260 to Serug 290 to Nahor 320 to Terah 390 to Abraham if his eldest son and to Isaac just 490 years which are 10 Jubilees or 7 times 70 years as to Jacob 550. From the Flood there were 100 years to Peleg 222 to Terah 70 more to Abraham that is 292 and to Noah's Death 350 and 390 to Sodom Burnt as Jerusalem 390 years After the Flood of Schism in Jeroboam 440 to Arphaxads Death to Salahs 470 and to Sems 502 to Eber's 530 to Isaaks 572 which was after Noah 222 the 3d part of 666 and to Jacobs 600 to Josephs 653. So that Israels Cruel Bondage might be in 666 and Levies Death 676 and from the Creation 2331 which is just 3 times 666 and an Half the whole time of Babylons Rule over Israel and the People of God All their Pressures and Darkness being measured by 666 years as the Sun and Moons in 666 Hours So from Egypt to Jerusalem Taken from the Iebusites 444 as we saw before and to Joash sack in the 14th of Amaziah 222 more in all 666. And thence to the Abominations of Antiochus 666 more and to the Sanctuary cleansed by Maccabeus 3 more which make up Daniels 1335 Days of Antiochus But as Ezekiels 390 Days of Jerusalems Siege answered to the years of its Sin from Jeroboam so Daniels Dayes of Antiochus to the years of Antichrist or any defiling the Temple whom God will therefore destroy as Paul witnesseth to the Corinthians and Thessalonians Thus His 1335 Dayes were just so many years from Egypt to Those Times of Antiochus which were also 3 times 430 as Mahalaleels Death from the Creation or just 1290 from their setling in Canaan 45 years after Egypt or Caleb sent to spy the Land as Jos. 14. 10. And so many years there were between their first coming out of Haran in Abraham to their Going thither again in their Captivity to Babylon For Abraham left Haran at 75 430 years before they came out of Egypt Then Calebs 45 or 46 and 430 to David's Death and Then 430 more in Solomons 40 and Ezekiels 390 to Their going into Babylon or Shushan where Daniel was when he heard the Sanctuary should be fully Cleansed in 2300 Days yet sealed up for many dayes or years as we read in Dan. 8. This was in the 3d year of Belshazzar in Baruch Berosus Josephus others 31 years after the City Burnt and All carried Thence to Babylon And 2300 want only 31 of 2331 the whole Time of Babylons oppressing the Israel of God Being also 333 the Temple Courts multiplied by 14 steps upon them from the Court of the Gentiles Treading them down and beginning from the Gate of Shushan in remembrance of Daniels Shushan of Persia Conquering Babylon To Nicanor in the Maccabees and Coponius Gate in the West So many years as Cubits here from Shushan to Coponius the Roman Governor of Judea after Archelaus when Cyrenius was President of Syria 333 by 14 half Cubits or 7 whol is 2331 Which is 3 times 666 aad an half Or 3 Months that had only Fasts and no Feasts as the 3 last Woes and and an half Month from the Month of Pentecost to the Tabernacles when the Fulnesse of the Jew and Gentile with All the Fruits of the Earth at the Full Moon of the Full Month or 7th beginning with the Feast of Trumpets called the 7th because of the 7th Month Though Every Month began with Trumpets The First of Those 3 Months or Moeds of 666 Was from the First Temple to the Second sack'd by the Romans as That by the Babylonians just 666. That is One 70 to the 2d of Darius Hystasp or rather twice 70 to Ezra the Helper before Nehemiah the Lords Comforter in Artaxerxes Long and Thence Daniels 70 weeks or 490 years to our Saviours Death and Half 70 to the Seige of Jerusalem sacked by the Romans after a War of 3 years an Half as our Saviour preached 3 Years and Half and suffered 3 Days and Half but on the Crosse 3 Hours and Half in his last Eclipse a shadow of the Witness Times And for Harmony between 70 and 666 3 times 70 makes 210 the number of the Heb. Dor a Generation or a Great Age. 2 of Those or 6 times 70 make 420
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
siner Loaves at Pentecost were but the first fruits of all the Increase of the Earth which was not gathered All in till the end of all the Harvest and Vintage also about the great Feast of Tabernacles at the End of the yeer Which yet is called on the New account from Exodus the Seventh Month. Which also made every Seventh Month Holy As also every Seventh Year was especially the seventh Seventh as we shall find in the Jubilee and every seventh Week or every seventh Day or Sabboth and perhaps every seventh Hour also in each Day As we see it makes a great Turn in the Sun and Moon beginning our reckoning from Sun-set as the Jews and many other Nations did which we see Dayly attended also with a constant Ebbing and flowing of the Sea six Hours apiece in the great Ocean as we may discourse more largely in the place of Times and Seasons I might add also that although the Curse that was due enough to Man fell on the Earth in general our common Mother crying to us as Rebecca did to her son Jaacob Thy Curse be upon me my son yet there have been several places which in several Ages have been especially under this Curse and yet none of them lay so under it but that they grew up to be Blessed again Yea it may be the more Blessed because they were once so Cursed For it was not only Micha's Mother that blessed her son in the name of the Lord because she had cursed so before but even God himself doth so earnestly Remember One that he hath spoken against as himself saith to Ephraim that his Bowels do the more yern over him and it may be blesseth them more because they were formerly cursed That is under Sorrow as we find the Curse of God so rendered in the Lamentations Give them O Lord thy Curse even Sorrow on their heart And our first Parents had sorrow and sweat and pain for their portion when the Curse fel on the Earth bearing Bryars and Thorns Thistles and Nettles to express this Curse or Wrath of God as the very name of a Nettle in Hebrew may import If there be any place in all the Law more under the Curse than the Land of Canaan it seemeth to be Idumea one of the Neighbor Countries which is expressly called the People of my Curse and threatned to Perpetual desolations when the whol Earth shall rejoyce Edom must mourn and be so cursed also that it is the very Type of Hell as may plainly appear by reading the 34. of Esay It being also the Land of Him or them that God so Hated as was toucht before And yet I know not one word in all the Curse of Edom that we do not also find Inflicted and not only Threatned on Jaacob and Israel Whom God himself saith he had given or devoted to the Curse by that very phrase which is used in that place where Edom is called the People of my Curse And what more frequent than Jerusalem it self to be a Scorn Reproach and Curse yea a Curse to all Nations Yea â—nd Perpetual Desolations never to be Built again or more Inhabited And yet we find That Ever or Eternity run out at the end of seventy years Captivity in which not only the Threatnings but Curse also was accomplished and powred out as we find in that remarkable Prayer left us in the 9. of Daniel to be compared with That of the Apostle Wrath is come upon them to the uttermost and Then it is a Blessed Land again and a Blessed People and a Blessing also to the World and Nations round about For It shall come to pass that As you were a Curse to the Heathen round about so shall you be a Blessing as we read in Zechary yea and a Blessing to All Nations as the Promise is in Malachy and divers other Prophets who doth not only shew them a way how from a Curse they should come to be Blessed and a Blessing also to All Nations But in the very close of that Prophet and so of the whole Law God himself provideth a Cure for the Earth also Lest he should come and smite the Earth with a Curse Even the Earth which was That which God had Cursed so much more than Adam Yet Elijah must come lest That very Cursed Earth should be smitten with the Curse And as the Jews repeat That verse of Elijahs Coming after the last verse lest the Scripture should end in Curse so it seemeth God also meant to repeat His Coming Or to send him or his spirit Twice Or before the latter Coming of Christ as before the Former There being also Two daies of the Lord There spoken of One is called Great and so was his first Coming and the other Dreadful or Terrible which seems the Epithet of his latter Coming much rather than his former And it may be marked that after John the Baptist was dead even at our Saviors coming from his Transfiguration which was such a Type of his second Coming and Kingdom He Then promiseth that Elijah Shall first Come and Shall restore All things Which is a Proverb with the Jews to this day and was also the constant Belief and Expectation of the Primitive Church of Christians as may be shewed by a full Jury of Ancient Fathers of the Christian Church And as John the Baptists Time was called the Day-spring from on High So it may be Elijahs second Coming also before the second coming of Christ is hinted in all those Scriptures which speak of a Morning Star to appear before the Sun of Righteousness which is also the phrase used by the same Prophet Malachy who promiseth the coming of Elijah And the Revelation plainly promiseth That Morning Star in the dark time of Jesabel and in Jesabels time Elijah slew her Prophets and the Prophets of Baal and so made that great change both in Church and State that in the Revel may be hinted by a Power to break the Nations Though That phrase reach up as High as Josuab breaking the seven Nations As the Manna in the Church before may intimate their passing through the Wilderness towards Canaan And that phrase of Breaking the Nations being coupled with that Promise of Elijahs coming under the Notion of the Bright Morning Star may put us in mind of a speech of God himself to Job Hast thou considered the Day-star or the Day-spring which I have made to shake the wicked out of the Earth They shall be turned as wax to the seal c. And when the wicked are cut off Thou shalt see those Promises fulfilled that the Meek shall inherit the Earth As we read in the Psalms and in our Saviours Blessings also and the Revelation addeth to That Blessing that there shall be no more Curse No more Curse For the very Leaves of the Trees about the Waters of Life shall heal the Nations And those Waters flow out round about Even to the Dead Sea or Lake of Sodom for even
before the worst of sinners And we see how gracious Christ was also to the Woman of Canaan although she were as a Dog or one degenerate into a Dog-like spirit and nature Yet the Dogs also enjoy Crumbs and in great Families and Christ is Lord of All the Family in Heaven and Earth The very Dogs have better Diet than it may be Children have in other houses And That Dog-like Woman of Canaan was received into favor and had great Grace and Faith given her though a cursed Woman under the greatest Curse both of God and Man Noah cursed her and God also cursed her so that he commanded all his people to hate and curse her Nation so that they might neither Treat with them nor seek their good all their daies Which we see how Christ observed towards her when he would not so much as Treat with her or speak to her till his Disciples as the Representatives of his Church interceded with him for her or it may be against her for the Text is somwhat doubtful Yet by Faith Her heart also is purified and there is No difference between Jew and Gentile No not a Cursed Canaanite Which might also be seen long before when the high and proud and stout Gibeonites some of the chiefest of those cursed Canaanites bowed down and though by a Wile only they got into a Covenant with Joshua a mighty Type of Jesus yet they could never be cast off No by no means by no means But when Adonizedech the Lords Justice King of Jerusalem and other Kings with him would have chalenged them back again as to have brought them back into the Curse again Joshua must not only stand up and rise early Yea and march all night in defence of these poor late accursed Canaanites but also the Sun and Moon must stand still over Gibeon and the course of Nature must be changed rather than Gibeon must be deserted or so much as left into the hand of Gods Justice in his own Throne which is Adonizedech King of Jerusalem And Gibeon is not only made one of the greatest Scenes of Gods presence a long time together as we often find in Scripture before it was Solomons greatest High Place Where God also appeared to him after such great Sacrifices in Gibeon But also This very History of the strange Works of God in defending Gibeon is made the Type of what God means to do Hereafter also I suppose for his People and his Enemies also When he shall rise up to do his great and strange Work of Gibeon or as he did at Gibeon or Mount Perazim Where also at Davids coming up the five great Lords of the Philistins rose up against him as at Gibeon the five great Kings of the Amorites or Canaanites against Joshua And about Gibeon also the great Quarrel was ended between David that is Love and the House of Saul that is the Grave or Hell Acted by Abner the Fathers Light or Understanding and by Joab his Will or Affection which were here reconciled and a New Heaven and Earth brought up As afterwards the New Jerusalem when David beat the Jebusites which had their name from Treading down for the Holy City must be Trodden down till the Times of the Centiles be fulfilled And a Type of This Fulfilling of Time might be in That when the twelve men of Joab and Abner ran through one another as the twelve hours of Day and Night and there fell down slain on Sauls side 360. For their common Year had so many Daies in it And though Saul himself was dead cut off by God because he sought to the Devil and would not seek to God as we read in Chronicles although he complained that God would not answer him But the Truth was he would not seek to God who could yet have pardoned All but he would not ask it and God therefore cut him off and for his sparing Amaleck himself was slain by an Amalachite if at least he Lyed not to David who could not be quiet in the Throne till he had also cut off the Amalachites whom Saul spared even after Sauls Death His House and Family was sorely punished and Davids Kingdom also afficted with divers years Famine for Sauls afflicting the poor Gibeonites though it were in Zeal to Israel So much doth God abhor All Cruelty and hard Usage of any poor men though in never so much Zeal for God or his Cause or any of his People Which the Lord make me and all mine and all His still to remember in all my Actions lest I afflict some poor Gibeonite in Zeal to Israel and thinking I do God good service By All which we may also learn that even Those that are most Hated or cursed by God as These Gibeonites and Canaanites were and Children of Wrath and curse as much as any Nation or People we read of Yet they may come to be Blessed and Loved by the same God who so hated and cursed them And yet He changeth not himself but Them whom he first cursed and so shut them up in guilt and sin and sorrow That their cries that is His in them might draw out his own bowels and compassions more to them by how much more he had cursed or afflicted them Which is one of the great Mysteries of the Gospel running Through the Law and the Prophets and the Curses thereof Which should teach us not to despair under the hardest and worst words God doth or ever will speak against us while we live O do not say This Evil is from God and why then should I wait or Hope on Him Yea rather make hast to bow down and Worship and seek his face as the 3d Captain to Elijah For the King of Israel is a merciful King He is a gracious God and He delighteth in those that sear him and Hope in his goodness Trembling at his Word For it is still good for a man to Hope and patiently wait for the salvation of God Let me also tell you It is an honor that God will speak to us though he do but chide us Threaten us sharply rebuke or chasten us which himself and we may call Hating or cursing us But His Frowns and Chidings and Hatings and Cursings as we may interpret them may be better than the Smiles and Loves and Embracings of the whole World besides And we do not only read him saying I have forsaken the dearly beloved of my soul as we see Christ himself was so forsaken but also that he Hated Her even the dearly beloved of his soul as we read in Jeremy and did not only strike her with an hard and sore and Cruel stroke as an Enemy but even Curse her and make her a Curse As we know he dealt with Christ himself his dearly beloved Son and as a Type of Christ with Israel Because he knew them and they should have known him above All Nations of the Earth Therefore he would punish them above All Nations So that he never
may be from News brought by Pigeons As in Those Countries To This day And Jonah signifies a Dove sent to Nineveh as Israel to Assyria and Babylon When All or any of These were Burnt Offerings or Sin Offerings for the whole Church or Priest They were All the Lords consumed by Fire as pledges that the persons offending were guilty of cutting off or perishing for their sins But in particular Sin Offerings or Trespass which were greater guilt and Shame as the Heb sounds the Priest had His and in Peace-Offerings the Offerer had also His part to eat besides the Blood poured out and the Fat and Inwards consumed by Fire to the Lord. Which might not only be a Token of Their Peace with God as the Apostle speaks but also that God accepted and pardoned Those who were represented by such Offerings Gods receiving or eating them as himself expresseth it seemed an Emblem of his Turning them and their natures into His As we dayly do to all we eat and wel digest Or that Christ who was Typed out in All of them was made All to All or for All. As Not only a Lamb for the Lambs in the dayly Sacrifice in which God had his Bread and flesh at morning and Bread and flesh at Evening as he allowed to Elijah and other persons But a Goat also for the Goats At the change of the Moon and the solemn Feasts especially the Feast of Atonement About the end of the Year or Fulness of Times as the Apostle speaketh which we shall consider a little more distinctly As there is a measure of Syncerity which the Scripture calls Integrity Perfection or Fulness of Heart as Calebs Heart filled after God and Sardis Works were not filled up before God And the Lord answered Abimelech Thou didst it in the Perfection of thy Heart which yet is not Absolute Perfection So there are such or such periods of Time which the Scripture reckons Perfect and calleth Fulness of Time or some kind of Eternity which yet are not such Absolutely but to man So Long or so uncertain or Hidden as the word intimates which is used for Ever or Eternity Seeing God hath so Hidden some Times and Seasons in his own Breast that the Son himself saith He knew them not Which yet some interpret as That saying I pray not for the World as if he said I do not now speak or manifest My knowing owning or praying for them till its proper season And there were such seasons also or Revelation of Times and Seasons as appeareth in the Revelation And Blessed is He that Readeth That Book Which is cleerer perhaps for the great things of Doctrine Worship and Discipline also than every eye seeth at one or two readings And may we not say with Job Seeing Times are not Hidden from the Almighty why do They that know Him not see his Daies or Times also For That is the sence in the Original rather than as some read or comma the words Thus VVhy do they that know him not see his daies As the Schools make Motion to begin from Rest as in Heb Resit or Rest is the Beginning of Creation and all Motion So the Jews and other old Nations did begin to reckon Time which is the Measure of Motion from Night in Heb Nihat Rest which is as proper to Night as Motion is to Day As our Saviour also speaketh I must work O happy necessity while it is Day for the Night cometh when No man can work And again Walk in the Light and are there not Twelve hours in the Day And so many also they made in the Night Observing perhaps that the Moons mean Motion was her own Diameter Twelve times to the Suns moving One of His and so twenty four for his two breadths of Day and Nights Motion round the Heavens which is also the proportion which the Ancients made and kept between their Sun and Moon in Metals Gold and Silver But on the Twelve sons of Darkness as of Ishmael or Esau and the Twelve sons of Israel which are called Children of Light We glaunced before in the twenty four Elders and the Watches or Watchers also As in our Bodies are twelve Ribs on the one side and twelve on the other with such and such distinctions and Vertebres And in either Jaw or Pallat like the two Hemispheres of Day and Night There are twelve Teeth with their Watchers also which some call Dogs And the common meetings of our Jaws and signal Pulses are in many Languages called Times or Tempora the Temples As the Jews also called Teeth by a word next akin to Years and our Ears are neer our Temples growing up as Time and Years did after the Creation Changing All things by chewing and devouring them as Time and Saturn did with the Poets and so Turning them into our own Natures And the very Name of Year as of Teeth also in Heb intimates Changing and its Numeral Letters make up Three hundred fifty five As there were Daies in their Lunar Year and Three hundred sixty in the Plural Regimen as in their Solar Years as we touched before at the great Change of Time in the last Battel between David and the House of Saul And Their word for Year hath a double Plural both Feminine and Masculine as their Years were Lunar and Solar And such periods of Exact meeting of Sun and Moon after such Courses and Motions make up such or such a Fulness of Time or Perfection which in Scripture Language may be called an Age or Ay or Ever or the like Phrase by which they express the World also which is usual in many languages As where some read He hath set the World in our Heart it is Eternity or the same VVord which is so Rendred in very many places And though it may be hard to determine what the Scripture meaneth by Fulnesse of Time or Times which is so spoken about our Saviour Time especially as if it were the end of one World and beginning of another Or the end of that which was to answer to the first Night of Creation or the Time before the Sun appeared in the World and the beginning of Light or Day as we may often read in the new Testament yet for some little Essay towards it we may remember that the Hebrew word for Seven or Sevang as some sound it the English Saxon being much Hebrew is very neer a kin to That which signifieth Fulnes and their word for Ten is also Riches which turned backwards maketh their Rash or wrech or Rich or Rushing wicked and unquiet man and by a little changing of places the same letters make a Goat and a Devil also to which there may be frequent allusions in Scripture which we may touch again Shall I add that All the Words I now remember in all the Bible to expresse such a Fulnesse or perfection of Time as is stiled Age or Ay or Ever or Eternity in their very numeral Letters if no more
include Seven or Ten or some of their Powers expressing Fulness or Riches It would be almost endlesse to shew how many Things and Motions in our Bodies do consist or depend on some of these numbers of Seven or Ten which is visible in our very Fingers and Toes with their Nails or Horns to be compared with the Ten Horns in Daniel or the Revelation That I say nothing of the Ten Horns of the Law or the Ten Sephiroth of which the Jews speak so much in allusion to That of Horns or Rayes comming round about the Lawgiver As the Antients formed Moses also like the Sun in his Rayes of Glory I must not speak of the Seven Hours Dayes Weeks Months and Years the Antients observed in Conception and forming the Embryons Features and its several Ages and Changes with ebbing and flowing coming and going of Hair and Nails and Teeth and many other things by Seven Which is also the number of the True Ribs on each side as they distinguish them and of the Vertebres or Rackets of our Necks as also they parted or paired out our Nerves by Sevens As if in our Brain also or the spinal marrow were the Beast out of the Sea or the Old Serpent or Hydra with Seven Heads also And as the Chymists find seven Metals in the bowels of the Earth below answering to the seven Planets above the seal being stamped quite through the Wax or Wafer as the Jews observe so that all the signatures are also seen below which were made above so also we have our spleen and Liver and Gall and Reins and Bladder and other Members as Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus and other Planets with their Armor-bearers also round the Sun as in our bowels about the stomack or great Centre of Sun-like heat and fire in That Lowest Region As the very utmost Court of the Temple had its Molten Sea like the Ocean or Waters under the Earth with its ebbings and flowings like the rowlings and yearnings of our Bowels and the Altar of burnt offerings burning and devouring all And the middle Court or Temple had the Altar of Incence and the seven Lamps and the twelve Cakes As our middle Region or Breast hath its Heart or Altar of Incence also compassed with its pericardium or purss of Water and the Air of the Lungs with the twelve Ribs or sphers or signs of Heaven Seperate with a Veil or Firmament also from our Head or Heavens above or Waters above the Firmament where are the first Ideahs or Originals of All below that I say nothing of the Mercy Seat of our Eye and its Rainbow representing the Throne of God in the Holy of Holies as we find it described in divers places of Scripture Is there not also some resemblance between the Northern parts of the Earth and the Brain or Head As if the North were made to Rule as may be hinted in divers Scriptures for Preferment cometh not from the East or West or South And from North the man comes that Headeth Kingdoms in the Prophets and their likenesse to our Lungs also may be considered with their Winds and Colds Other parts are as Neck Shoulders Breast and Arms. The Midland Sea as the Midriff or it may be part of the Pericardium about the Heart or Africa and Libiah signifies the Lords Heart As the form is And America the back-parts or the People a far off The Great Sea below the continent as the Waters under the Earth or our Bowels and their Rowlings and yearnings the Chambers of the South and as Waters returning in the South Terra del fuogo the Hips and Nova Guinea Loins Mael strom the Nose or Mouth How by Eating all things we turn them into our own Natures and spirits as a shadow how all things return To God as they come From him we touched before and may I add that Christ gave his own flesh and blood to be eaten by us and to be ours and us and the twelve Tribes were presented in the twelve Cakes of shewbread changed every Sabboth day as to be eaten by God or the Priest and so to be turned into His Nature as the Scripture also may intimate in other places besides our Saviours discourse with Laodicea in the Revelation And some make Shaddai to be All devouring and our God is a consuming fire We might happily measure times and seasons in the great World and changes there of much better then we now do If we knew the exact Times of Circulation of our blood and other humors of our bodies and how long the Chylus stayeth in the stomack or any other Receptacle before it be separate and circuled for assimilation What time in the Duodenum there is somewhat in the very name Jejunum Colon or Ilia Which we should consider often as the shadow that I say not measure of the ebbing and flowing of the Sea That I say nothing of the Infinite Bowels of God which are hinted out in Scripture by the many folds of our Ilia six or seven times longer then Man Nothing also of the Caecum which may speak somewhat Hidden as the Hebrew word for the World or Age or Ay and Ever Nor do I say the very Excrements return again in Grass and Hearbs which feed us with the Beasts we eat Shall we come to the measures of Time which is also the measure of Motion in the Heavens The two faithful Witnesses as the Scriptures intimate like our Eyes in our Heads or Heaven above and some other things below which so many Nations call by the name of Witnesses to be compared with Scripture also making such solemn Oaths by putting the Hand under the Thigh the Sun and Moon were set in the Heavens not onely for Dayes and Years but for Times and seasons Which are all made by Their motions through an Oblique Zodiack That crooked or that crossing serpent which in Hebrew hath almost the very same Letters and Numbers with the word for Year For Shanah is a Metathesis of Nahash the Serpent and the Ammonite which may be compared with Sampson the little Sun and Hercules And as Time began with Night before Day so it may be Winter was before Summer as Seed time before Harvest as the Scripture may intimate in divers places Evening and Morning are for sowing Seed and so the former and the latter Rains and the Harvest and Vintage have their seasons The Latter Works of God are ever the Better and his last Wine is best and he will ever shew himself better and better till all Time be perfected into Eternity and God be all in All. How the Antients might part their Day and Night into twelve hours a piece we shew before It may be compared with That of Moses When the most high separated the Sons of Adam and as St Paul expresseth it determined their Times appointed and bounds of their Habitation He did it according to the Number of the Sons of Israel And Thus the first twelve hours of Time
from the first Creation might represent the twelve Months of the year and the twelve great years the World was to serve the four great Monarchies or watchers and watches of which Daniel also speaketh as of those that gave out the Decree agreed by the Watchers against Nebuchadnezar when he became the Beast As we There also read of the Image of the Beast to be compared with the Revelation of which which twelve years serving the four Monarchies as also the Restitution and Liberty in the second Sabbath or fourteenth Year we first read in the fourteenth of Genesis The Jews had also many other Divisions of Time and Particles they called Clakin As the English Saxons also in their Clackings or Clickings of their Clocks and Watches But we now mainly consider their twelve hours of Day and Night which so many other Nations also have still observed But in Scripture there is Half an hour and silence in Heaven about half an hour And those Twelve hours are most signally parted into six and six and each six halfed again into the little Watches of the Night also which in the Roman times and the New Testament were Four also as the great Watchers or Animals or Angels of the four Quarters of Heaven or Corners of the Earth Though some hints appeer also as if the Old Jews had first but three Watches in their Nights But Nature teacheth us to Halve and quarter things and Thence are made the sweet Chords in Musick For a string of twelve inches or any twelve parts maketh a Diapason to another of six equally strained and a Diapente Diatessaron Epitrite a Fifth a Fourth a Third to others of 3 and 4 and 8 or 9. which are the usual Chords of Harmony All These are in the 12. hours of Day and Night and it may be All measures used by the Hebrews Greeks and Romans or other Nations that we know All their Weights and Money also rising up by such Proportions as we are now seeing in the 12. hours of Day and Night As might be easily shewed by any that will compare the Twelves and parts thereof in the Roman Foot and Assis Pound and Ounces with the Palms and Digits Omers Kabs and Hins Baths or Ephas with other measures and Weights among the Jews and divers other Nations Measure is an Hebrew Word coming from That which in the skie an Heb word is shours which is Hebrew and in us Thoughts the shours of our Heavens and Brain the measure of all measures as the English use to say a Thought more or less or the Hairs of our Head as They speak also to an hairs breadth and on Earth Barly that Hairy Seed of all the quickest Sowen and Mowed and Moughed again in 2 months or lesse in hot Countries 6 Hairs breadths make a Barley breadth and 6 of these a doit or Digit 4 of which or 24 of Those made the Hebrew Tap or Hand Breadth and 12 Digits made their span or Hand stride which is Hebrew made of 12 Doights as the Common Foot of 12 Inches and their Common Day of 12 Hours To which it may be David alluded when he saith Thou hast made my Dayes as a span or Hand breadths And Esay of Christ Spanning out the Heavens parted as their common span or as â—oses expresseth it according to the number of the Children of Israel for to Those Bounds Paul addeth Times also in Areopagus Famous for Mars Tryed There by a Jury of 12. 24 Digits like the 24 Hours or 24 Elders and they had 24 Books in their Bible and it may be 24 Letters as many other Nations and the Finals are but as the VVatchers made the Cubit common with Them and all Nations Though some make their Sacred Cubit to be 7 Palms to be considered with the Sabbath and the 4 new Digits may be as the 4 Watches or Watchers added to the 24 Elders and the 28 Doights may be as 28 dayes of the lesser month and 4 Cubit are a Mans Height 6 Cubits or 144 Digits like the 144 hours of the 6 sirst Dayes made their common measuring Reed or Kane which is also Hebrew of which we read in divers places of Scripture And Goliath was 6 Cubits and a span 400 Cubits or 2400 Palms 600 Roman Feet 240 Gressus 120 Paces made the Greek stadium or furlong shorter then the Roman by 24 Foot or thereabout 1000 Cubits or 2000 spans 6000 Palms 24000 Digits made the Cribat of which we read at Rachels death neer Ephrata with other places of Scripture 2000 Cubits or 12000 Palms 48000 Digits made their Sabbath dayes Journey or distance from their Camp to the Tabernacle as we may find in several places 10000 Cubits or 240000 Digits make a Common League or an Hours way in Heb Leck a Leash of 3 Italian Miles of which each had 5000 Roman Feet 2000 Gressus and 1000 Pases so that 3 of them made 24 Roman Funlongs and about 1666 Heb. Reeds or Kanes VVhich may be considered with 666. and other numbers in Scripture 12 little spoons did make the Cyath Cup and 12 of them the Hebrew Log or 6 Eggs and 24 the â—hoenix which was the usual allowance for a Day which hath 24 hours 24 Eggs made the Hebrew Kab or 4 Logs equal to the Common Chaenix in the Revelation or a Cubick Palm 12 Logs made the Heb Hin of 72 Eggs and 24 Logs their Sea 3 of which made their Bath or Epha which was a Cubick Foot of 10 Omers but the tenth part of an Homor or Asses Burthen 24 Blanks make a Perit which is also Hebrew Part or Particle and Perute Prute is yet in use among the Eastern Coyns as English call a little pritty thing and 20 peruts make a Droit 24 Droits make a Mite 20 mites a Grain as coming from the Heb. Gerah 20 of which made their shekle which was their usual skale which is Hebrew weight of all weights or moneys Shilling is in Heb Selang which is yet used among their moneys 12 pence English 24 Grains make a penny 20 pennies an Ounce and 12 Ounces a pound Troy as the English speak or Brittans from Troy But the Antients had other weights also yet by 12 and 24. As 12 Grains made their Obbol 24 their scruple which is 20 now with some 3 scruples a dram and 8 drams an Ounce and 12 ounces a pound Which with the Romans was Aes or Assis. Which had still 12 parts Though often changed and lessened for great Reasons of State Yet when least of All it had still 12 particles which some also called Unces And of Unces 12 Made their Aes or Assis 120 their Denarius which was io Aera as the name imports or 4 Farthings which were Sestertii of which 1000 made their sestertium 24 made the Hebrew Gerah Grain or Groat io of which make a draehm and 2 drams which were 4 Attick or 20 Gerahs made their shekle half an Ounce 24 Shekles or 12 Ounces made
a Pound But Mna the mother to the Roman Mina was 50. Shekles as we read in divers places 12000 Attick Drams 6000 Hebrew or 1200 Ducats or 120 Attick pounds or 60 Hebrew Mnas do make an Hebrew Talent Equal also to That of Alexandria but double to the Attick Which as in all other places was but 6000 of their Drams and 60 pounds And an Attick Talent of Gold as the Sun made 360 of the Hebrew Mnas or pounds as there were Daies in their Year of Silver And generally 12 in Silver made but One in Gold As we found the Moon moved 12 of her Diameters in 12 hours while the Sun moves but One of His. So much quicker is our Brain than our Hearts Diastole and Systole which are as the Suns Day and Night in Hebrew Nihat Rest as Darkness is Cassack which is Hebrew and English but a Covering or a Casing or an Holding in of Light and Motion also And that we may also glance upon the Sacred Number of Seven As Six was common to the World and things and men thereof as we touched in 666. and the Image set up in Dura a Province of Babylon made up of 6 in breadth and 60 in heigth Let us suppose All Time beginning from the Evening Horizon or Sun-setting as we may imagine though there was no Sun appearing till the fourth day As also the great Sun of Righteousness appeared not till after the Night or 12 hours of the fourth Thousand Years If we may so compare the six first daies of Creation with six thousand Years before the Great Sabbath As the Jews also teach us from a very old Tradition From the Evening Horizon to the Nadir or the middle of the Lower Hemisphere there were Then and so are still with Them six hours Motion of the Sun or of the Earth about the Sun And Then six hours more to the Morning Horizon and six more to the Zenith or High Noon and Thence six more to the setting Horizon again whence Time first began So also the Flowing and Ebbing of the Sea are by six hours apiece in the open Ocean and in all Rivers Ebb and Flood together generally make up twelve hours So that after every sixt hour there is a Pauze or Rest as it seems and Then a Turning as it were backward For from the setting till Midnight the Sun seems to go down and Then to Turn up again and so from the other points also And before its Turn it seems to Rest and pauze as all things do before they Turn So that the same word or very neer in Heb signifies to Turn and to Rest. As if This were still implied in That And the Rest or Sabbath of God seemeth to speak some Turning inward or Reflecting on himself and his own Image in all he hath done in which his soul resteth with unconceivable delight and joy And although the First of the following six hours be as it were wholly new from all the six before it yet the Pauze and Turn seem to be made between the sixes as it were by some other distinct Person or Body that is watching at those Cardinal Points and There Turning That which moveth So that the Seventh is as it were more Holy and Sacred that is Separate for so the word Holy signinifies in Heb. and other Languages distinct and separate from all the other six which are profane in comparison of the seventh standing by himself as wholly of another Nature So that besides the twenty four Elders there were four distinct Watchers as we may call them as the Sabbaths to the other four sixes And every of the Four had six wings apiece as we find in the Prophets also and their Great Work seemeth to be Keeping of Sabbath Daies For it was the Lords Day when St. John saith they ceased not day and night being to watch in Both crying Holy Holy Holy which is also Thrice repeated in some Copies Though upon other daies They have other imployment As we see in that they spoke and did at other times in the Revelation Yet if any will bring the Months from These four with six wings apiece as the Hours from the twenty four Elders I do not oppose it but compare them also with the Watches with Four and sixes also about the Temple in Solomons Time but Davids Institution the 24 from Noah As the 14 from Abraham as we touched before But I have yet said nothing How every Circle is naturally parted into six equal parts by its own Radius and that Six equal Circles may touch it and each other in their Circumference or it may be cut into six Triangles or six Circles Touching one another with their Centres all in the Circumference of the seventh as Children play with Compasses And as every seventh Hour was sacred or separate from all the former six Hours so was also every seventh Day and Year which was also Sabbatical and so every Seventh Month which had the seven solemn Daies of the Great Feast of Tabernacles And the Seventh Month from That also had 7 daies of the Passeover As the third from That also the 7 daies of Pentecost And I know not but This Harmony between Hours and Daies and Months and Years may be intimated in That of the four Angels as the four Watches or Watchers loosed at Euphrates being prepared for an Hour a Day a Month and a Year As we read in the Revelation Which yet some compare with the four great Commanders of the Turks that brake out neer Euphrates also about the Year of Christ 1300. when the five Months of the First Woe of the Saracens in the Roman Empire were ended about which time Guns also came in use at least in the Western parts as the Fire and Brimstone out of the mouths of those Turkish Horsmen which by that account should go down again before the Year 1700. I must not so much as glance at all the Harmonies that might be easily found between Hours Daies Months and Years in relation to 6 or 7 and 10. or some of their powers As 5 times 7 make 35 and 6 times 6 make 36. which may be found to equal Sun and Moons Motions more than the usual Golden Number And the 36th Hour brings up the Sun of the second Day And those two Numbers of 35 or 36. drawn into 10. bring up the Sun of the second Year also both Lunar and Solar among the Jews and other Nations 7 times 7 make 49 and the 49 Hour begins the third Nights Rest that good Chord in Musick and the 49 Year brings in the Great Rest or Jubile And 480. Hours bring up the third Sabbath or 21 Day Which from 480 runs out through 490 and 500 Hour And we see great things in Scripture done in those Numbers As the Temple built in the 480 Year from Aegypt And Daniels Weeks make up 490 Years 144 Hours bring up the First Sabbath which begins from That Hour Which may be compared with
That we read in the Revelat. of 12 drawn into 12 or squared And of 12 times 12000 or 144000 like the Clakins which the Jews find in 144 Hours called the First Fruits of the Earth as the Hours of the First Week were the First Fruits of Time or of the World before the Sabbath That also which the Revelation speaks of 666 as the number of the Beast which so many have believed to be an Epocha of some great Change in the World may be compared with the Changes of the Moon and several Months which both Ancient and Modern have observed And 666 Hours bring us to high Noon of the fourth Sabbath or 28 Day Which is the end of one Month and beginning of the Moons Changes and Months from Thence to the 700 Hour in the 30 Day Which I touch the rather because That is the Number of the very Letters in the Hebrew Olam which is both the World and also Ever or Eternity or the Hidden Time of the Worlds Duration or Great Change thereof which it may be still comes out in 666 Years or at most 700. As the Moons Changes are in so many Hours And I know not any Nation or Kingdom of the Earth as another Moon to the Moon that hath not felt great changes in That Revolution And the very Phrase of Olam or Hidden may perhaps lead us to the Moons Hiding in her Change whence she comes Alma which in Heb is a Virgin or an Hidden Beauty As in other Languages Alma Virgo Alma Mater and the like To be compared also with the Wonder in Heaven A Woman in the Sun with the Moon at her Feet Which we touched before Moses maketh 70 Years a Mans Age or His Fulness of Time or Millo And the Hebrew word to fill is 70 or 71. in Numbers And Davids 70. Years was the fourteenth 70. from Abrahams Birth who as the Jews say lived 58 Years with Noah which in Hebrew is 58. which should be considered by Those that make him born 60 Years after Tharahs 70. which yet is not determined by St. Stephen who saith not he went to Canaan the same Year but After his Father died Which yet the Samaritan Pentateuch maketh just 60 Years Sooner than our Hebrew Copies And as 70 Years in Moses reckoning make an Age So the Hebrew words for Age or Ay or Ever and Eternity in their very Numeral Letters are about 70 or some one or other of its powers Ad or Adg the great word they use for Ever or Eternity which preyeth on All and some render it somtime by Prey As in the most famous place Zeph. 3. 7. Where yet it may be also to Eternity Being of the great Judgment as we spake before Maketh 74 in Letters As the Mazorites reckon from Ezra as the Sound may mind us the Helper promised in Daniel as his very Name implies before Nehemiah the Lords Comforter who followed him presently As the Great Comforter the Great Helper Jesus Christ. Ad or Ed is also the word used for Witness or Testimony Testaments and to be compared with the Two Witnesses of which before for the Congregation also or the Church or Elders thereof the Sanhedrin which our Savior also named plain enough but we lose it as many other things by reading it Councel And They were the 70 Elders as they were usually called though they were 72 or 73 or 74. of which â—o oft in Scripture old and new that I speak not of the 70 Palms and 70 Sons of Gideon and of Ahab Or of the 70 Disciples or any other 70. The same word is often added also as the sound may intimate to Olam for a Greater expression of Ever or Eternity which by This also appeareth not to be Absolute For Then it could not be Added to or increased When as Olam it self hath also a Plural and is multiplied by many in the Letter M which is ever 40 and with jod 50 as they used to multiply by 10 and by 50 As we see in divers places But M final as they call it is 600 as we see in the Mazoreth and 600 was so usual to express a Great multitude that with the Romans also it became a Proverb Et Sexcentis aliis c. to be considered with 1666 also Which are all the Numbers which Their Alphabet did make MDCLXVI And as Ad addeth 4 to 70 So Netzach another Hebrew word for Eternity doubleth Ad and makes in Numerals 148 which is Twice 74. And Dor written fully in Heb. maketh 210 which is Thrice 70 the usual word for Age or Generation And especially repeated for Eternity also When yet Both Dors make but 420 Years or 60 of Daniels 70 Weeks or Sabbaths Which is also another great Ever Yea and That multiplied by Ever also For One 7 times 7 or 49 in the Jubilee is very often called Ever and for Ever as we saw before in the Servant for Ever and otherwise How much more when That Ever is also multiplied by 10 and made 490. Which may also be Hinted in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their proper word for Time and season which is English Yet 470 or 480 or 490 as it may be written And if Time and Times and Half a Time be to be reckoned Thus they may make a Number neer to 1666. But the usual word for Season and for such a solemn Time as Daniel calleth Time and Times is Moad from Ad or next akin to it Adding 46 to 74. which makes Thrice 40 or 120. a Number Famous in the Age of Moses and the old Worlds Season for Repentance And in Daniel himself who 〈◊〉 the chief of three Princes set to rule 120 Rulers who were Thus parted into Thrice 40. Which we found before the great Number for Temptation Punishment and other things that I say nothing of the 40 Weeks of the Child in the Womb or of the Time of Life divers times specified in Scripture To be considered with the Fulness of Time in which our Savior also came by Water as at first Creation when they flowed from the Womb of Eternity and by Blood also for the New Creation as All Children come to Birth in Their Months also And the affinity between our Life and a Beast in Hebrew and in Solomon may bid us think again and count the Number of the Beast also which is Man whose Life is Bruitish or a Beast as the Midwives told the King of Aegypt and that the Heb. Women were as Beasts needing No Midwife Some read it Lively And in general Life is unto Being but as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which it only differs in the Root And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the proper Character of Life as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Being as we may see in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and divers other Hebrew words Kedem is also used for Eternity Before as the
Schools express it It makes 144 if M be only 40. But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Mazorites do often reckon makes 600 Then it may be as we reckoned Olam only 4 above 700. which is 10 Generations or 10 times 70 as we found God himself expounding Ever in the case of Moab and Ammon As Ruth also the 10th from Lot might be married to the 10th from Abraham and about the 10th 70 Years as David was the 14 Generation and the 14th 70 Years who also lived 70 Years Though Christ lived but about half so many Which may shew us more ere long than that Mans Age was Then also shortned As from the Flood or other great Epochaes Ten times 70 may be expressed also by the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ay which is 70 with Ten. Being also joyned with Kedem in Gen. 12. 8. to be compared with Joshua who made it a Desolate Heap for Ever which is Ay in Greek or many other Languages And yet it was rebuilt and Peopled in the Time of Nehemiah as before And if Letters may be so joyned for Multiplication as well as Addition Then may 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also their great word for Ever be 4 times 70 or 70 times 70. that is 70 squared Which is the Great Power of 4 in Scripture Language speaking somwhat Squared as the very figure also of 4 in Heb. which yet is not much unlike 7 or Seven the Full number and so often squared in Scripture that is drawn into 4. or so as 4 is powerful in it as it is in Every Square Which is still made up of 4 and to be so Resolved As Cubes also by 8. whose Character in Heb. represents a Dye Which is yet more visible in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their final M. which is the Mystical Letter as the Jews write in Esay 9. 7. or many other places That God also did intend we should Multiply somtimes by adding Letters to a word may be seen in the Plural Numerals we read in Scripture which are Ten times more than their Singulars and it may be So were All Plurals made by Jod only in Regimen which is 10 and by im which is 50 at length As of Three and Four the Plurals are Thirty and Fourty And by the way it may be considered whether in the Second Command it might not be read Visiting Iniquity for 30 or 40 Daies or Months or Years Seeing 40 was the great Number in Punishing Theirs also in the Wilderness where they stayed 40 Years in 42 Mansions As the 42 Months in the Revelation for Treading the outward Courts and for the Reign of the Beast As also for the Womans being in the Wilderness though reckoned by 1260 Daies which make up 42 Months For their Murmuring and Worshiping the Beast also or the Image of a Beast as we read in Psal. 106. And they have One word for Age and the World also which in Numerals is 42. and That is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eld as Eng. Elder and Old Whence the old Weld for World that is We are Eld or Old And we do not reckon a Man Old till over 40. And if Final 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with them also be but 40 Olam Then without 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will be but 140 or Twice 70. And so is Kum their word for Rising up or Resurrection as with English Come But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be 600 as the Mazorites Then both Kum and Olam is 700 that is 10 Generations or 10 times 70. as we saw before Which may be also more considerable If the Moons Hiding or Covering in so many Hours the measure of All Ages and Changes might also intimate Gods Hiding or Covering of Their Iniquity which is implyed also in Olam And the Taking off Their Yoak which is also Olam so often hinted in Scripture as the great Work of Gods Rest in Sabbath Daies and Years and Jubilee Which was the 7th 7th Year or 49. a Number of Rest as we found it in Hours the beginning of the Third Nights Rest. Yet it brought in Great Motions and Changes also but for the Better still which the Schools call Perfective and not Corruptive Motion So that the very Hebrew Mot which is Motion or Mutation is in Numbers 49. And every 3d. brought up a Change as we found before in Night and Day Rest and Motion as in Leaps or Hopping and in all our movings One foot resteth while the other moveth Mot Turned is Tom and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tam or Tom which as we saw in Jathom an Orphan signifieth Perfect And in least reckoning is 440 and their Tamid Ever or the Daily sanifice 444 without Jod or else 454. But if M Final be 600 Then Tom is 1000 a very Perfect number both in Years or Months or Hours For 1000 Hours bring us to the Morning Sacrifice of the 42 Day of Creation or other Time which is the sixth Sabbath As 444 Hours bring us to the first Sabbath I may add also that if M final be 600 in Hebrew words we may find out many making up the very Number of 666 of which we spake before as the Number of Change in the Moon and all other great Motions and Revolutions in all Generations For the very word Sum which is not only Eng but Heb. is just 666. As if This were the Summ of each Generation or of every Age of the World which is called Age also in many Languages And in Latine Sum is the great Verb of Being As in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or English Is and Jessi is my Being or my Essence Which is much or most or all in the Heb Ish a Man Though not a vulgar low and Weak man which they called Adam or Enos but a great or noble man or an Husband As we see in That famous place Thou shalt not call me Baali my Lord or Master but Ishi my Man or Husband They shall look eye to eye Till they see themselves in my eys or Eishon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Eyn is the Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Eye and a Fountain And among the Rabbins or other Eastern Writers Sum is not onely the Summ but End of all reckonings As in Hebrew Soph. and Sophia or Wisdome is the Lords Perfection or his End To which Solomon also seemeth to allude in his End of man or End of All written with such great Letters in the Hebrew of his Book of Wisdome or Ecclesiastes the Woman Preacher As the 68 Psalm and 11 verse God shall give a Word so it is in Heb and Many shall be the Women Preachers And as Sophia in Hebrew a metathesis of Joseph is with the Grecians Wisdome so with them Foolishness or Moria is in Heb the Lords Teaching or Death or Mountain of the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And when it is said Let him that is Wise count the number of the Beast And here is
Kallath a Spouse and somwhat else also in Hebrew or in English calling our Kall about our Belly by such a name Shall I add also How often God commands his people to abstain from or take heed of Kelaim Though the word be hard enough and never used that I now remember but in Moses Laws and once or Twice in Esay or Solomon complaining of a foolish people that entangled themselves in Kelaim which some translate the Stocks As Solomon speaks of a Fool hasting to the Stocks till a Dart strike through his Liver Or his Reins be consumed among many Witnesses as if he would allude to all the Hebrew words we are now speaking of Prov. 5. 11 14. 7 22 23. It is cleer enough that Kelaim signifies some Mixed seed and that not only in Grains but Beasts also as it is plainly seen in Leviticus 19. And This also makes the very Number of the Beast 666. as it is with the usual Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned Backward Is it not also the very number of the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is not only as the Latine Renes or the English Reins which yet keep course enough with the Moon in our Brain and in Heaven too And taught David every Night as the Heavens in the 19. Psalm and they may teach us every Day also which in Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is just 666. As the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also the Reins of our Brains How neer is the sound to Reins and Rains also as we saw before in Showrs even our very Secret Thoughts or Fancies which should be covered as other Secrets in Nature Which are akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or our Shame in Hebrew or the most privy Secrets whence the Latine Clam And Olam also may signifie Their Iniquity their Folly their Yoak their Shame or Hidden Secrets As also Sodam in Heb is not only the City Sodam of which also the Revelation But also their Secret As Jacob speaks of his cruel Sons Let not my soul be in their secret in Heb Be Sodam Where the very word in Numbers according to the old Mazorites in 666. Let me add also that the word Beast in Hebrew Letters is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also Shame and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my Shame as being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our seat or in Natibus as the Jews also use that word As the English also in a Phrase not to be spoken And the Number of it is 700. And that Beast or Bosht or shame is the Idol which God doth so often complain of in the Prophets As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their Bush and Shame That I say nothing of That part which the Jews call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Fools or Beasts Orion But to return to Numbers It may be like enough that every such Revolution may bring up some Great Change as in the Moon seeing also many if not All the 7th and 10th Persons or Generations in Scripture had some very signal Characters As Enoch the 7th from Adam Noah the 10 th As Abraham was the 10th from Noah and Moses the 7th from Abraham and David the second 7th or 14th as we found in the very number of his Name and Years also Though it be somtimes written by 24 as he was from Noah As the 24th hour of the New Day beginning from Noah that is Rest as at first from the Rest of Night or Nihat Heb. And perhaps David did not make but finde all things about the Priests or Tabernacle setled by 24. Which from the Jews also we may learn to be the Number of Things given to the Priests by God Some of which themselves only might eat Others their Children also and others were common to their very slaves or sons of their Handmaids if born in the Priests Houses or bought with his Money So that it was a saying common enough among the Jews That the Priests Boyes and slaves had more right to Holy Meats than All the Men of Israel Which may be considered by them that deny the Sacrament to the Children of Professors in the visible Church as Children born in the Priests Family or sons of persons Bought or Redeemed which might eat the Holy things that might not be eaten by a man of Judah though Hired to work in the Priests Family Noah is said to be Perfect in his Generations for he saw Two Worlds or Generations coming up at the beginning of the seventh great Week as we may call it or as many years from the Creation as the seventh Week is Hours We see what a change there was in His Time by the Flood in the second Thousand Years As the Waters were Divided in the second Day of Creation What it might Typifie out also in These Daies we touched before Jaacob is said also to be Perfect which some read a Plain man but it is as of Noah before a Perfect man Which hath made me consider whither Jacob might not be the Close of His Generation as Noah of His and David of His who saw the Times or Periods of the Kingdoms or World about him as we read in the close of the first of Cronicles Which the Jews call Words of Dayes Which we may understand Hereafter David also brought up a New Jerusalem and a New World as a New Heaven and a New Earth and bound up Satan or Saul for 1000 Years as we also touched before in Saul or Paul And Elijah also and Elisha with Jehosaphat the Lord Judging Though a good while before Zedekiah the Lords Justice or the General Judgment As Laodicea after Philadelphia the New Jerusalem And Jehoram the High Lord both in Israel and Judah When also Moab and Edom freed themselves from the Yoak of Jaacob as his Father promised in his Blessing Esau so much and so oft supplanted by his brother Jacob though God own him as a Plain man without Guile And among divers other things we read no where but in Esdras of the Roman Empire and Christ also who citeth divens things of that Book we are There also told that Esaus Heel was the End of the World and Jacobs Hand on that heel the beginning of another And as Jaacob was a Perfect man in his Generation one of a Thousand as Solomon speaketh After Elihu in Job So his Children are the True Israelites indeed in whom there is No Guile As our Saviour speaketh of Nathaniel And They are Sons of Light in opposition to the Sons of Esau or Ishmael as sons of Darkness As the 12 hours of Night were before the 12 Hours of Day or Children of Light But there is yet more in it For although All the sons of Jacob were beloved before Fsaus in the Type yet among Jacobs also there was a Joseph and a Benjamin Son of the Right hand and Those were
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
signifies his Moon As if it meant to teach us How all Changings and Numbrings are between the Earth and the Moon which as English Money is from Numbring and Changing as Man also the Great Changer and the Money Changer also But take heed he be not whipped out of the Temple by our Saviour Though by a scourge of smal Cords So that the Moon and the Earth are but the Two Round Glasses of the Klepsydra the Weather Glass or Hour Glass And as One Fills the other Empties Whence the Tyde is Highest Fullest Just as the Moon comes to the Zenith or Highest Point of Heaven over such or such a Place And As she goes down again the Earth goes up and drops its Tide back again And why our Seas and Brains and Reins or Rains are fullest just at Emptiest Moon we call it Full will be no great wonder Except haply we should imagine the Sun and the Earth are indeed the Two Globes of the Hour Glass or Clepsydra and the Moon the little Rundle or the Firmament between them Which seems more proper much to the Earth between Sun and Moon And yet some with great appearance of Reason make the Sun it self the Centre of All the Planets And the Moon whirling about the Earth Which we may touch again And to This of Moon and Waters Above the Firmament Dropping Through to make All Time I might add the English Name of Showr as if it were So Hour or See Hour But This also is Hebrew For with them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are Shoures and Watches or VVatchers also And their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a VVatcher a Porter and a Gate is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which watcheth or Gards as the sound also Though I may add that the VVatches were more usually spoken of Nights as in the 90. Psalm and elsewhere As Hours of Day Which is Ha our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light And Thence Hour As also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shew and See And so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be He that shews the VVatch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And by This time we need not wonder that in Hebrew Jom should be Day and Jam Sea which is Now also in Latine As Olim Then both to Come and Past also Like the Hebrew Olam Jamim Daies and Jammim Seas And All these but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Waters Only in the gathering of Waters which God called Jam or Jammim Seas there is a repeating or adding or multiplying M the proper Letter sound and Character of Humming Waters and multitudes of Peoples also who are but Waters added together Or Many Waters As the Beast rising in Many Waters or Multitudes of People which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Am and Ammon in Hebrew and Ammi my People as Jam a Sea But in English I am is a word of Being and very Rightly too For we are All but Water Nay a Drop of VVater And All Nations are but a little Drop of the Bucket or VVell whence they are Drawn or Dropped As Moab my Fathers Water And to Create in Heb is but to Bear or make Bare a little change of Beer a Fountain or VVell still Bearing out As we see in Beer Lahairoi and in Beershebang the VVell of Seven too as well as of the Oath And so Bar a Son and also to Bar out And the Saxon English Bearns are Children or Free Persons or Barons As our Saviour also alludeth in That of Tribute by strangers and not of Children or Sons or Barin in his Language that is Barons or Free born Bearns As in another place he calleth them Children of the Kingdom that is Free Barons of Heaven or the Church I might add that Bourn is a River also or Brook Which is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebrew Or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Jaar a month and Year and River also For our Time is Drops of Water Flowing As we see also in the English Ye are or Year and we are or were and Jam as the Latin Jam for present and He is or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All are Heb. and Time is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sea or Imum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And all these parts of Time are akin to Seeing In Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whence are and were and ye are and Jare or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Hour and Our and Your But Persons in a Continual flux of Daies Jam and Years Ye are We are and Were and Your But the white sands running in the Hour Glass Or as God expresseth it but as the Little Dust in the Ballance Which yet is an Higher Pedigree than we may think For the Heavens in Heb are but the least and lightest Dusts that Phrase is Hebrew also from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Thresh or as Solomon the Highest part of the Dust of the Earth Which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Skie or See High From a word to Shake into Dust or Moats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Atomes by Metathesis As a Damm between the two VVaters stood the Earth More stable and more firm also perhaps than the Firmament it self For It that is the visible Heavens must pass away like a scrowl of Parchment before the fire And They must be no more as Job speaketh VVhen Man awaketh that is Kaets as To the Resurrection or the End of the world or as Corn in Summer as we spake before But the Earth shall abide and Endure for Ever As That which God called Erets I will accept or be pleased and delight in it and in them that shall come out of Heaven to Raign on the Earth Even As the Rain comes out of Heaven and Returns not Empty As the Rivers come from the Sea and go thither again So the Rain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Yarn or Rivers of Heaven Go and Come As in our Bodies also between our Heb Rin and Brains and Reins and Yearnings c. while our Heart or Earth is in the Centre or Middle of our Bodies as the Lower Sun which by its Fire and Heat and Clickins makes our Pulses Times and Circulations through our whole Bodies Yet if any will derive Erets against that Etimology we shewed in Ezekiel from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Run It is sutable to Water also or the Water Hour Glass Or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Pouder It may suit with That we spake of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Skie or Dust of Heaven As if Those also must Turn Tables with us or be Turned under us When the Dust of Abrahams Seed and the Sand or Gravel of His Sea also shall be made the Stars of Heaven yea of the Heaven of Heavens Thus then the Earth came that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Rose up as a Dam between the Waters in
〈◊〉 in Daniel and the Caldean Rams also Ramming their Walls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Many places besides the 51 of Jeremy O I will Ride them down Oridem as Lambs for slaughter and as Rams with He Goats Which yet may be Greater Goodnesse then we are aware As in answer to That Prayer Jeremy 12. 3. Prepare or Separate or Sanctify and Make them Holy As Lambs for Sacrifice And God calleth those very Babylonian Rams or He Goats His Holy Ones or Sanctified Esay 13. To be compared with That of our Saviour Whom the Father hath Sanctified and sent into the World And again For This Cause I sanctifie my self That They also may be Holy But of These again in Clearing our Prophet Daniel And he Lift up Both Hands but First his Right Hand which is Jamin as from Iam the South Sea Or rather Teman the South is The which is Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jamin or the Right Hand Which as God sate on the Mercy seat in the Holy place was Southward And his Face Eastward Whence as Bowing to his Face They Bowed Westward alwaies in their Comings to the Temple and their solemn Worship As Christ also t is said Bowed Westward on the Cross which indeed was on the West-side of the City As looking to the western Gentiles which have since found the fruit of his Looks and gracious Bows and Tears also But it is not so clear How his Face was placed on the Cross which yet we may Touch again However It is certain in Ezechiel God complaineth of some Elders Bowing to the East with their Backs to him And so putting To his Nose That I may hardly Name though plainer in the Text then as some read it the Branch or somewhat of that word or near it to Their Nose or Mine And so they are Bowing to Shames 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Num 670. But Hezechia turned to the Wall Others to the East But the Right Hand Iamin will number and prefer from the Hebrew Mana to Number Divide and Prefer also As we find plainly in This very Prophet Daniel 1. 10. 11. of a Prince Preferred And again in Mene Mene Tekel of which we may speak again And Thus we see Right Hand persons still preferred and so Blessed more than Others at the Left As Solomon did place his Mother Bathsheba the Daughter of Seven and of the Oath also at his Right Hand And Jesus made a Prince and set at his Fathers Right Hand and yet but as the Nasi with Ab din the Father of judgement in the Sanedrin Where Sitting at the Right Hand of the Throne or Chief Speakers Chair did not speak him above the Speaker or President but onely Next him and above the Rest who sate about in an Ovall form As All things come from a kind of Egg. Even Man himself from Eggs in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bestim Bestes Bullocks to be added to That before of The Beast and 666 or 700 so near the number of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also And That Ovall sitting of the Sanedrin with Their Scribes or Watchers also and officers in the Middle as the 4 Orders of Priests and Levites within the Camp of Israel May be compared with the Throne described in the Revelation with its Elders Round about and the 4 Officers in the Midst also As before we found the 4 Watches and Watchers also among the 12 and 24 Hours of Day and Night As we have 4 High Teeth between the other 24 in both Jawes or Hemispheres of That Heaven also with their Shenim Shining and Shinnim also in Hebrew And from Those 4 Watchers from having Light with them called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who or where is Light the 4 quarters or corners are called spirits in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Winds a Spirit being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tender 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Most extended Matter or Water in Heb. Mater Mother of All. And to That Form also of their Sanedrin with the Father of judgement their usuall expression Christ himself may allude in His Description of the Last or Great Judgement with His Right Hand Jamin dividing and Preferring also As we touched before in Benjamin the son of the Right Hand Who was also of Rachel a Sheep in Hebrew preferred before Leah Laeva the Left Hand and also before All the Goats or Seirs of Esau the Grandsire or Goat of All other Goats of which again anon And This Right Hand blessing or Preferring before the Left hand was observed much by all the Jewes in their Coming into the Temple Court which was called Aezra Help a Present Help in Time of Need. There could be No case they say That might not be Helped There Yea and That also to Them that must stand afar off as our Saviour oft alludeth to Their Custome and but Look over the Rails of Hell or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that kept them off Nay there were others could not come to Touch that Helper but Behind it weeping as the Sinfull Woman came to our Saviour And in Mourning They used to go on the Left side of the walks in Those Courts and Then the Priests and People also did not ask the Matter Why they Mourned which might often be very secret but as Eli to Hanna when he knew She Mourned without asking why Lifted up Hands and Eyes Crying He that Dwelleth Here Give thee Peace or send thee Help according to thy Need. An Expression we found in the Law before of Lending or Giving to a Poor man in Want according to his Need How Great soever He Filleth the Hungry and will Satiate Every empty soul. Nay in some kind of Cutting off or Excommunication you might see the Mourners go softly as Ahab did on the Left hand of the Court and Then the Other Blesing Thus He that dwelleth Here Reconcile thee and Thy Church or VVitness-meetings also To which That may allude How God is in Christ Reconciling the VVorld to himself As He is reconciled Their usuall Capher or Cover and Coffer as before whence it may be the old Saxon English Capher when they met in VValking Though some sound it Gapher or Gaffer As the Jews also called the Elders who admitted or Ordained Fellows in their Colledges or other Meetings by the Name of Chaver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also found in Chavron or Chebron That famous Fellowship of which we may speak more anon And of Laying Hands for Ordination Yea and though the Common people might not come near the Holy place on pain of death yet in Case of extraordinary Danger That-seemeth Dispenced with in Those that ran to the horns of the Altar as we are taught also in the Epistle to the Hebrews As Joab and others did And in such a case they were hardly ever stopped but rather helped as Those yet adaies that run away for some great guilt Or Those that
not that Watches and Catches also might come from the Hebrew Chatsa Which in This sence is akin to their Kaets to Watch or wake out of sleep which is also applied to God himself the Great Watchman of Israel And what if the Watchers singing Holy Holy Holy at every Watch might allude to the Three Hours in Each of them as well as to the 3 Persons in the Blessed Trinity Though some ancient Copies square the 3 also and make it 9 times Holy Holy Holy c. And seeing All things Here below were but shadows of somwhat above and shewed also in the Mount Why may not That Half Hours Rest or-silence in Heaven of which we read in the Revelation be As the Sabbath to Half Hours There being 7 Halves in 3 and an Half As we found before a Sabbath both in Rest and Turning in every 7 Hours and Daies and Months and Years also Or it may be the Cardinal Watches were distinguished by their Songs as the Temple Waits or Trumpets as David may allude by Rising at Midnight to sing Praises c. As the Others by Rest or silence Which we see cleer enough in 2 of them at the Morning and Evening Incense while the People stood without Praying in silence till the Priest came out and blessed them As we read in That of the Baptists Father strucken Silent also And in all the Jews upon Those places we touched before in the Psalms and Prophets The Lord is in his Holy Place Let all the Earth be Silent and the Lord is Risen Let All flesh keep Silence before him And I charge you that you awake not my Love till He please And as Every seventh Day was Holy from the first Creation As we see by divers things in the Flood and many Scriptures So was Every seventh Honr as we saw before distinct or Holy from the Six before it bringing in some Great change of Midnight or Morning or Noon or Evening whence All Time did first begin And from That First beginning of Time there were Three Daies and an half or 4 Evenings and Three Mornings before the Sun and Moon were seen in the Firmament Which they were not till the fourth Day of Creation as we read in the first of Genesis So That for the whole 3 Daies and an half before That fourth Day those 2 Witnesses of Heaven lay Dead as it were or Asleep in their Causes as the Schools use to speak And at the End of Those 3 Daies and an Half there was a voyce saying Come up hither and Be you placed in Heaven As my 2 Faithful Witnesses So long as These Heavens and This Earth shall Endure And when These are to pass away and be renewed Then also 2 other Witnesses that correspond to These shall lie as Dead or asleep 3 daies and an half As These did at first till a voyce place Them also in Heaven Crying Come up Hither And Then shall be such a spiritual Earthquake As at first a Temporal that made the Rivers break out and the Hills rise up or Valleys sink down of which we read in the 104 Psalm and other Scriptures We cannot wonder that Daniels 3 Times and an Half should bid us look to That or Those set in Heaven to make Times and Seasons or Moeds also And in Hours That Number may Expresse the Duration of an Eclipse As in the Gospels we read of Darknesse from the sixth Hour to the ninth and Then it passed off by Degrees with divers Cries of which again And in Dayes besides the three First before the Sun it may be the Proper Time of the Moons Hiding under the Beams of the Sun as Hours might be under his Body and so long the Sun may be Hidden by Eclipse Or the Moon rather And three Weeks and an Half make up the Time of Distance or Absence of Moon from the Suns Rayes Or her Liberty till she come under Them again and so draw nigh to a Change And it may be added that Three Weeks and an half bring us quite through 24 dayes as the 24 hours of each day to the very morning of the 25th which may be considerable for other things besides the square root of 666. And in Years Our Daniel speaketh of causing the Daily Sacrifice and Minha to Cease in the midst of a Week Which is generally taken for three years and an half that is half a week of years in which onr Saviour preached publiquely and Then by his Own Great offering of Himself Once made put an End in right to All other Sacrifice and Offerings Though they were in Fact continued till the Temple was also beaten down about 40 years after our Saviours Death And That very War Endured just Three Years and an Half But three Moeds and an Half in Daniel may speak Months as well as Hours or Dayes or Weeks or Yeares Though in All and Each of them there may be some Correspondence as we touched before And when the Lights an Hebrew word from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were made at sirst they were for Dayes and Years and Moeds which are therefore properly Neither Dayes nor Years but distinct from Both. And as Dayes and Years in Scripture are generally ascribed to the Sun So are Moeds to the Moon As he appointed the Moon for Moeds and the Sun knoweth his Bowing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or his going Down in that Great Comment on the whole Creation if rightly translated which we Cited but now the 104. Psalm And the very next verse hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Iob and Solomon for Goats as alluding also to the Solemn Goat-offering at every Olam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Hiding of the Moon which so made the Moeds How also Mans Seasons or Moeds are made by the Moon in Him as in Heaven we may see by comparing the third and twelfth Chapters of Ecclesiastes with other places of Solomon and David speaking of his Months and Hidden Times or Allamim or Allamuth As Paul also speaketh of our Life Hidden with Christ in God of which we read in Other places besides many verses of the 89 Psalm as in Hebrew And if we should render the Hebrew Moad or Mognadh by Monach as in Almonack we might easily shew their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be made of N. C. As the figure may hint and more the Number 70 being made of 50 and 20. the number of their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 begins a word or syllable the English sound it much by Cn. Gn or Kn. But when it ends by nc nk or ng And if we consider Three Months in Generall They are to the Year as Three Hours to the Day or Night a Watch or Season as we call it of Winter Summer Spring or Autumn Which are All it seems Some how in every Day also As the very words of God to Noah may seem to intimate saying not only that there should be
And Moadim the Months or Moments of the Witnesses Which in Heaven may be Sun and Moon But As on Earth Josuah and Caleb Jerusalem and Jericho Moses and Aaron Elijah and Elisha Or many other things or persons Which through divers Types or Shadows in Light and Darknesse Day and Night Summer and Winter Man and Woman with many other things which we hinted before in the Temple and the Land of Promise and the Body of Man and the Ark and Tabernacle of Witness also at length All come to be resolved into the Times of Christ and his Church or Churches his Two Witnesses The Dove and the young Pidgeon As Adam had his Lilith they say and then his Eve or Evening that is Lilith also Drest in Night-cloathes And Abraham had his Hagar and Sara and Ketura Jacob his Rachel and Leah David his Abigail and Ahinoam carried captive from Ziglag As Dead Three dayes and an half All which may be Types or shadows of the Church and the World the Jew and the Gentile under such and such Changes of the Moon as it were with Eclipses also or whatever else God please to shew us in his Baths 3 Seas in Heaven above the Earth beneath and waters under the Earth also Which yet may be but As New-moon and Full or Shegell and Sheleg of which again with other forms and motions of those Heavenly bodies which are All measured on Earth plainer then perhaps we think by such and such Moeds Times of Witnessing or Witnesses Which may be Houres or Dayes or Weeks or Moneths or Years or Sabbaths in Dayes in Years in Jubilees and what else we find of Time in Scripture wch is generally very much measured by Three an half As If we take it for Hours it may shew us how long the Moon or the Earth may be kept from the Light of the Sun which we call an Eclipse But a Shadow of that Dark Horror which our Savior and his Church in him felt upon the Cross. We find it in Heathen Records also another Help to fix Chronology And His Eli Eli as in Greek speaketh somwhat of the Sun also For God is a Shield and Sun also He will give both Grace and Glory Blessed are They that Trust in Him Though they go through Baca Bokim weeping and pass from one Hell to another for the Phrase is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hil Hel or Chel by which the Gentiles and Unclean were kept from the Temple So that they may not enter Moriahs Temple Yet they shall see God in Zion Give ear O God of poor flying trembling halting Jacob Look upon the Face of thy Messiah in his Pangs on the Cross. That Psalm as the 15th and 24th is of This Feast of Tabernacles And beginneth O! How Amiable are thy Tabernacles O! How Jedidoth alluding both to David and Solomon Jedidiah Keeping This Feast in such Glory as should be touched again in Samuel Kings and Chronicles The unclean Sparrow are not many sold for a farthing the Swallow Black but Comely O ye Daughters of Jerusalem the very Swallow but in Summer She may make her Nest and lay her Young ones in thy very Altans both of Sacrifice and Incense also O thou God of many feminine Hoasts 499. My God and my King This leads us to the Harvest also For we saw before that Our Savior never called himself a King Till the End of the World which he calleth Harvest And the Son of man shall send His Angels They are the Reapers and till that Time he calleth them Holy Angels and his Fathers Angels Now his own Angels and They shall gather out of His Kingdom All things that offend and Those that Do Iniquity And then the King shall say to Them at his Right Hand A Phrase often used in the Psalms At Thy Right Hand the Queen doth stand in Gold of Ophyr And Look at the Right Hand and see for so is the Text Resuge faileth me And at Thy Right Hand are Pleasures for Evermore And yet That very Psalm sheweth that He was not afraid of His Worst or Left Hand neither No more than she or They that begged to sit at his Left Hand also And so David is Placed There Is it because He was Father to our Saviour the Branch and Root of David and of Jessi my Essence that he placeth himself at the Left Hand and Châ—ist at His Right Hand Mimini Bimini Limini Even as Legatus a Latere is sent a Limine And when Satan is set at Judas Right Hand to accuse him as at Josuahs Right Hand also to Resist him with the Heaviest Curses in the Bible He concludeth Christ shall stand at the Right Hand also to save the Poor at His Left Hand from Him that would judg or condemn his Soul his precious Soul Fury is not in me But if he wil set thorns against me I will eonsume them Or let him lay hold of my strength to make peace And He also shall make Peace with me Esay 27 4 5. And the next Psalm crieth My Judgment shall come from Thy Face Thine Ein will behold or consider Equities which to Justice in Scripture often is As The Chancery to Rigour of Law O shew the Wonders of thy tender Mercies in the Plural O thou saving those that Trust or hope in thy Mercy From or Before them that raise themselves or are raised at Thy Right Hand That which followeth will reach our Times also It should be considered with its Misteries A word There used for Secrets and All the Scriptures speaking of Jemini my Right Hand both in Saul and Shimei Cursing David and Both again in Mordecay from Shimei Kish and Jemini As we read in Ester the Mistriss of so many Great Misteries written in the Revelation and upon the Old Crown or Myter yet to be seen perhaps in Rome as at This day And as Mister is a plain Hebrew word for Hidden as Olam or a Mystery So Mistris Hester also with their usual Article as Hadam That Adam and so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 maketh beyond dispute exactly 666. of which again when we find The Mysterious Woman sitting on the Beast in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 703 in the Wilderness where first the Woman was Hidden Alma Mater for a Time and Times and Half a Time as in our Prophet Daniel also The very next Psalm of deliverance from All his Enemies and Saul or Sheol also both Grave and Hell so oft repeated crieth The Pangs of Death and Kables of Sheol caught me But verse 35 The Shield of Jesus and Thy Jemine shall uphold me And thy Gentleness shall make me Great As Psal. 45. Ride on prosperously because of Truth and Meekness or Gentleness of Righteousness And thy Jemine shall teach thee wonders For Ever and Aed Thy Throne O God and yet This God hath a Father and a God For God Even thy God hath made thee Messiah and hath given thee His Spirit
Above thy Gaffers or Teachers and Elders who Ordained thee As we touched before in Chaver and Chebron and hath annointed thee with the Oyl of Shushon I cite it the rather because it is not only To the most excellent Majesty which we read in this Psalm and in Daniel and several times in Luke and the Acts but a Song of Jedidoth also as the 84 and Both are to the Bald Cold Frozen Crackt and Croaking Sons of Korah Cursed and swallowed up into the Pit and yet His sons became the Sweet Singers of Israel as we shewed before in Asaph Heman or Jeduthon and the Genealogy of Samuel And also upon Sushanim Which may Bring us to Shushan and to the Gate of Shushan also leading to the Temple from the Mystery and History of Hester And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in lowest reckoning is 700 But as the Mazorites 1260. of which again in Daniel and the Revelation Mor Myrrh and Moriah Aaloth Aloes and Tabernacles Kassiah Mount Cassius or the End and Corner of the Land of Promise Kings Daughters be Kirotheca for either Hand But at thy Right Hand thy Bedded Wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 333 just half to 666. As the Full Moon is Half to the Change Or the New Moon Half to the Full which is made in 333. hours As the whole Course of the Moon from the Sun Thither again in 666 Hours Her stay under the Rayes on both sides May be 3 Dayes and an half Under the Sun or Shadow of the Earth between her and the Sun Three hours and an half the Duration of that Eclipse which operates as many Months or Years As it was Hours they say and Her Wandering alone from the Sun Three Weeks and an Half But of Months and Years we must speak again and of All Prophetick Numbers in Scripture in a Private Character If God please to enable But why is she called Shegell Even as Alma whence Olam she was Hidden Vailed yea and Captive or Gaoled also Rouled and Tumbled So is the Moon so is Israel and so Shegell But Now She is to Rejoyce with Ioy unexpressable and Glorious because She Loveth One She hath not yet seen or can see being in Light Inaccessible All this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was Led Captive Gaoled Veiled Unveiled and Shorn also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glib Glich Lick and Like 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Smile Simile Sembled or Dissembled as the English Guile and Guild and Gilded also and Gul'd and Gulled and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exult and Rejoyce or Glee and Glee'd Glad And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Roule and be Tumbled as Gallile of the Gentiles and Gilgal where he rouled away the shame of Israel Also the Wheel or Orb or Sphere of the Sun or Moon or Heaven And the Skull of our Head which we often compared to Heaven as we see in Golgotha the place of a Skull in our Saviours Crucifying And Heaps of Sand and Waves of the Sea and Roulings of our bowels Which we compared with the Sea and the sprouts of the Earth with the Thoughts of our Heart As we found in the Bible and Volumes thereof which the Jewes also call Gillajon and Megilla Especially the Five Volumes or Rolls As they call the Little five peeces which they joyn to the five Fifths of the Law Or Pentateuch the Canticles a Comment on This 45th Psalm and Ecclesiastes the Great Turner and Rowler Ruth also with Lamentations but especially the Megillath Ester which I have seen presented by them in a very curious Roule and Dresse as a Great Present These five Rouls have All the Rowlings Vailings and Revealings or Revellings and Rejoycings of the Church and World also the Body of Christ. Shadowed in Heaven by the Sun and Moon in the Temple by the Tamid and Minha Or the Two Alters Courts Testaments Churches of God Jew and Gentile Rachel and Leah And in our Bodies also with our Eyes and Ears of our Head where our Tongue also St Iames unruly Beast the Tatler or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Beast also And somewhat Lower As before And yet again Thus the Suns Chast Casing of the Moon is called in Hebrew Kisse or Kese which the English sound as Cheese and Cheesle is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebrew Geeven as Heaven Hie-even and the Latine Caseus may be Hebrew As the Moons Casing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numbers 80 81 85. As in three Dayes and Half are hours seven times twelve or twelve times seven the Full Number of Rest just 84. As in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cased a kin to their Chesed or Chasid most Tender Mercy and Gracious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 72 6 times 12. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 82. As coming from Chas or Case to Cover spare and Trust Ed which is Ever Witnesse Cloud in Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as English Hide and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both a kin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As Hanna and Anna of Penuel as she with Peninnah a Widow of 84 after 7 years marriage lived chastly at the Temple day and night As the Cloud in and upon the Tabernacle whence Covering Sin as a Cloud Which may be also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 42. the just Half of 84 as if onely 3 Nights and an half 3 times 12 and 6. which is just 6 times Seven And although the whole Time of the Moons Casing or Covering under the light of the Sun which in other Planets they call Combustion may be 3 whole Dayes and an half or 84 Hours Yet seeing Night is the Moons Walk or Rule rather then the Day and that 12 Hours are so clearly signal both in Day and Night one might believe This Cled or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 42 Hours may be the 3 Moeds and an Half or 3 times 12 and 6. As a Measure to All the Rest. But we may begin much Higher Yet in whole Numbers there is none till 7 that is made of any 3 numbers and an half As 3 times 2 and 1. we find it no lower but in fractions as 3 and an half But in whole Numbers 7 is the first so made of 3 and an Half Which is therefore Measure to all the Rest. As the Schools rightly taught us of every First in its kinde which is Min in Heb. from Mana to number Mani and Mina And it may be there is no Number possible to be made of any 3 numbers and an Half But onely Seven and Those which are made of 7. which may haply lead us into the Powers of Numbers more then we yet believe In a word That Number can be made of none but Even Numbers els in Halving we must fall to Fractions What shall we say then Are Odd Numbers for Heaven As the very Poets taught us Numero Deus Impare Gaudet Being the onely simple Numbers as was
In each a Court with Chimneys or Incense-Places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Keturah 715 or 721 Of 40 long and 30 broad 1200. And there was a Tower 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 round each of the four and Boylers under the Towers or Tires Attires 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 630. But the Courts 100 long and 50 broad as the old Tab. to be compared with the 5000 fed by Christ as after by Peter rancked by 100 and by 50. The front Eastward as of Old the Waters from under the Eastern Threshold to the Right hand that is Southward from the Altar And he brought me out the Track 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Northern Shaar or Shoar or Gate brought me round the Track without to the outward Gate the Track looking Before or Eastward and behold Waters running out from the Right side And in the Mans going forward with a Line in his hand he measured 1000 in or with a Cubit and he brought me through the Waters Waters of the Ankles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 191. or 751. and he measured 1000 and brought me through the waters Waters Knees 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 272. 832. As alluding to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fishponds as Acts 2. and Blessings And he measured 1000 and brought me through Waters of the Loines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 540 1100. And he measured 1000 a River which I could not passe over for the Waters were Gay High or swelling Waters of Soaking Sacking or Swimming 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a River which shall not be passed over And he said These Waters going out to the Eastern Roule and they go down upon the Plain or Arabia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And they bow to the Sea and going out at the Sea the Waters are healed And again They shall Bow to the Sea and there shall be aboundance of Fish and every thing shall live where the River cometh And Fishers shall stand upon it Fishing from Ein to Ein As they shall see Ein to Ein or themselves in my Eyen And these Fishers or Eins shall be to Shoot or Shut out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Harms or Charms or Armes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Curses or Nets for such Fishers of Men and Souls from the Dead Sea of Sodom also And that it is the Dead Sea of Sodom is clear by comparing it with the Great Sea uers 10. and by the places here named En Eglaim of the two Calves of Aarons Cow as the Jews speak that first Calved Eglon the little Calve and at length the Great Eagles that sucked or sacked the Carkas when it 's Spirit was Drawn out to Pella or Piell the Mouth of God But they were bid to say Take away All iniquity Receive us Graciously and we will offer the Calves of our Lips Engedi The Famous Valley where Moab Ammon and Goats of Seir gathered against Jehosaphat the Lords Judgement But the Valley of Jehosaphat in the 4th day is called Beraca the Vale of Blessing as we read in the 20. of the 2. of the 2. of Chron. to be compared with the 3. of Joel It signifies the Fountain of the Goat or Kid as the English render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the place where Saul saught David among the Rocks of the Goats But he was safe in a Sheeps Coat and Thence made the 57. Psalm And Mical saved his Life by an Image with Goats or Goats-Hair And the Spouses Locks are as Flocks of Goats more than once as alluding to the Hebrew Seirs both Locks of Hair and Flocks of Goats as Seirits of Esau. She is not afraid of his Left hand under her head She is bid to feed her Kids 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Engedi sindeth Copher Some read it Camphire But it may allude to the Goats of the great Day of Attonement which is also Copher to Cover All Transgressions as Solomon speaks of Love And Noahs Ark was made of Gopher and covered with Copher And the very Mercy-Seat was called Caphoreth and the Veile by turning it Parocheth whence perhaps Parochie Pariche Parish And the very Lake of Sodom is famous for Copher The Prophet Joel closeth his Discourse of Judgement in the Valley of Jehosaphat with the Sun and Moon or two Witnesses being darkned and the Lords Roaring and shaking Heaven and Earth as in Amos and Haggai and then the holy Jerusalem where no strangers in Zachary Cananites shall abide or passe through her more And than the Mountains shall drop New Wine the Vintage and Feast of Tabs and the Hills Milk and the Rivers of Judah shall flow as in Harvest Jos. 3. 15. And a Fountain from the Lords House shall reach through Jordan and the Dead Sea to Sittim That notorious Vale of Peor where their Lust destroyed 24000 as the 24 Hours of the Day and brought up a new Race of Witnesses both in Priests and Princes For the old ones were hanged up before the Lord and an everlasting Priesthood and Covenant of Peace setled on Phineas for turning away the wrath of God by his Zeale in slaying Zimri and Cosbi Lies Treason For Had Zimri Peace who slew his Master But Sittim also must be Healed by the Holy Waters And it helped also to build a Synagoge or an Ark made of Sittim Wood. And the Sittah Tree must come to see and know and consider that the Holy One of Israel hath Created it as Esay 41. In Zechary Those Holy Waters are parted East and West to both the Seas The great One in the West and the Dead Sea of Sodom in the East Which yet was before the Face of God as the Temple stood And the Fire and Brimstone as the Lake of Soodm in the Revelation were before the Throne of God and his Lamb. As the Molten Sea in the Temple But it is said also there shall be no more Sea as no more Curse but as a Sea of Glasse Harping which may allude to the Sea of Cinereth the Harp which is severall times in the Revelation and the New Jerusalem as Pure Glasse The last Resolution of Bodies And He that can makeit rightly Malleable or can Manage the true Asbeston or live on Hearbs need not much soft Rayment But the Hie-places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Bushes Vitches or Witches Bitches or Beasts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and such as shall not be Healed shall be given for Salt For every one shall be Salted with Fire and every Fire Offering in the Law must be salted with Salt Have salt in your selves and let your speech be savoury seasoned with salt and peace one with another And he caused me to turn How Gracious to the Lip of the River May it not be Daniels River of Time also where we have both the Heels of Messiah as David speaketh as alluding to Gen. 3. 15. and to Jacob named from the Heel and the Ancles also the words used for the Ends of the earth with the
Knees and Loines also In my turning and behold on the Rivers Lip a Tree mighty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on this side and that And he said unto me these waters c. And upon the River shall come up on this side and that Every Tree for Food Are we not come to Eden as in Daniell also Where Time is called Eden whence perhaps the English Then His lease shall not fade as Ps. 1. and Jer. 17. nor fruit â—e consumed For the Righteous shall be green and flourish as Tamar in the Hezrons of God They shall bear in old Age as Tamar did for Judahs Kid after she had stayed long for Shela or till Shilo come We track it in Characters from Joshuah's fixing the Ark at Shilo till it was Captive at Gath Ekron and other places till David brought it in fear for Uzziahs Death to the house of Edom And his Servants also Obed Edom blessed by it or a Watcher and Singer to it Till at length it came to be setled in Zion which God chose before all other places of Judah and Jerusalem As many Psalms speaking of a Temple also before that of Moriah which must be made as Shilo But Zion shall endure for ever and in the latter dayes shall be exalted above All Mountains And All People shall flow to it as if it were below them All. It shall be new or first born or First fruits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 According to it's Moons or Months which are therefore to be considered For his waters from the Sanctuary they are still going And all his Fruits shall be for meat and leaves for Medicine and healing of the Nations also as the Revelation addeth The Chapter endeth with parting that holy Land among Strangers also Strangers All Strangers that would come and stay There till they had a Child and then themselves and Child and Children must have a Portion of Land also for a Possession that is little For an Inheritance also for ever as much or as well as the Children of Israel In our Fathers House is Bread enough and to spare and Land enough and many Mansions and it is a more Blessed thing to give than to receive Amen Halelujah And there shall be no more Curse But the Throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it And his servants shall serve him and delight themselves in God as Esay 58. and they shall see his face But O! His Heart How sweet How Gracious which no man ever did or can see But we may have the Mind of Christ and shall come to see eye to eye and know as we are Known And his Name shall be upon their foreheads And the Sons of Aaron shall put my Name upon the Children of Israel and I will Bless them Numb 6. And soon after they are called Men of name even Korahs Company Whence the Sweet Singers of Israel As the Sons of God and his Children And the Revelation speaketh of Names of Men and 7000 Names and Name of the Beast and his Character or Badge and Livery as of old on Servants who yet had a note above the Slaves Which may be distinguished in Scripture But without are Dogs and Sorcerers to be compared with Ezekiels Caves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Ditches or Witches or not healed and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a Lye As Cosbi slain by Phineas In the midst of the street and of either side of the River the Tree of Life as at first in Eden Pleasure and Time which Adam fell into by falling into pleasure and must be recovered by Sorrow Bearing 12 manner of Fruits or 12 Kinds in Hebrew Min. in Numbers 100. or 750. And Minim or Minnim 140. 150. 700. and 750. And yeilded fruit every Month 12 by 12 144. As his wall 144 Cubits And Ezekiels Altar is 12 by 12 144 Cubits But it 's settle 14 by 14. 3 times 4 and an half That signall number in All Times and first in Dayes and Hours as the measure to All other Measures As the Cubit made of two Zereths or Spans each of which had three Taps of four Digits apeece So that every Cubit had 24 Digits as the Day hath 24 hours And if the sacred Cubit had an Hand-breadth more of 4 Digits than it will be 28 Digits in all as made of two Hands or Jads and Jad is 14 as we saw before And although the Jews counted their Night alwayes Even as the English still call it Even and Evening to the Day Yet besides the neernesse of their longest Night to 14 hours in Winter they might ever have just 14 Hours between their Evening Minha and their Morning Tamid and 7 more from This to That again So that still 3 and an half which in whole numbers are not lesse than 7 and 14 made up the Moads of the Ceasing Resting Hiding or slaying of the Witnesses both in Heaven and Earth The Temple and it's Courts and Altars Sacrifice and Minha with the Two Lambs And in in our Bodies also where our eyes and ears or other witnesses are bound or laid asleep as Dead in our Sodom also where oùr Lord is slain for 3 and an half during the Raign of the Beast of Night and darknesse rising as smoak out of the Bottomlesse pit and slaying or at least Laying the Witnesses for 7 or 14 hours we speak of Dayes and Months and yeares anon and then commeth the End That is Kets and Chetsi my end or half and also the Waking or Rising and Resurrection as also the Summer following the cold night of the Year or 3 Months and an half of Winter And than cometh Harvest or Ketsir as before as Christ speaketh in the Gospel Amos 8. And did not All these meet in David That fulnesse of time also in his Generation He was the 7th Son of Jesse my Essence As if God should say in every 7 My essence shall appear David that is Love And David was also the 14 from Abraham as the 14 th 70 years And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 14. it may be also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4 and 4 or 8. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also a neer Kinsman as Love And again He was the 24 from Noah Rest and Love As they shall Rest in my Love and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 24. And being the 24 and last hour of that great Day he began another of 24 more and setled all the 24 Courses we have spoken of in the Temple But of All his Times and Turnings of his Hour-glasse Nods and Neods also that is Wandrings and Bottles of water in Characters as God shall give to the Prayers of his people so much wished and valued In the mean time we may remember what a Rest and turn and change we found every 7 hour in the Sun and Moons dayly motion from the Evening Horizon to the Nadir Rising Zenith setting again And as every 7
hour maketh such change in the day night so doth every 7th day to the Moon the great Hebrew Moneh that is Reckoner of Time and every 7 Month to the Earth under the Poles or places that are most remote from the Sun who is hidden 6 moneths from them but returneth in the 7 and abideth 6 others with them and departeth again for 6 more and so goeth and cometh yearly as infinite wisedome hath appointed And though there be a visible Change in the Moon every 7 dayes which we call Quarters yet it is more signall in 14. made of 3 times 4 and an half as we see in Full Moones the Moeds of Passover and Tabernacles that I speak not of Pentecost as an Emblem of that great Change on the world when having served the 4 Monarchies Twelve great years as the 12 hours of Dark Night they shall be freed and lightned again in the 14. as we find in the 14 of Genesis But by Abrahams Parting his Enochs by Night As the Watches and as Jacob also parted His Troops And David His to recover his Wives and other Captives after 3 dayes and a Night and the two Spies of Jericho returned after 3 dayes and a Night And the Witnesses in the Revelation and of Heaven were not there till Three dayes and a night or on the 4th day from the Creation And as 14 dayes make such a change in the Moon so to the Earth also under the Poles the Moon goeth and cometh in 14 Dayes or half a Moneth as the Sun in half a year So that 2 Dayes in that Motion are as a Month. The Moon moving 12 of her own Diameters to the Suns moving One of his as we touched before in parting the Day and night into twelve hours apeece And as we find 666 hours in the Monthly Courses of the Moon so the word for 2 Dayes in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is as the Mazorites reckon just 666. And after 2 Dayes he will revive us of which again in Hoseah And such darknings or lightnings of the Moons face by the Sun or the Earths by the Moon in 14 dayes may shadow out somewhat of the 14 years we spake of but now which might also be carryed much farther For Jacob served 14 years for his 2 wives the other 6 for Cattle And Jerusalem was freed from the Assyrian trodden down in the Holy Mountain as we read in the 14. of Esay in the 14 year of Hezekiah who also broke the Serpent and called it Nehustan as a Type of Him that was to break the Serpents Head to which Esay may allude in severall places speaking of the Serpent and the Child daring to grasp the Serpent and to play upon his Hole or Den. Yet that 14 year of Hezekiah was full 7 years after the ten Tribes were Captive after 3 full years seige of Samaria beginning in the 7 of Hoseah which was the 4 of Hezekiah or 3 year and an half of his Raign to be compared also with the seige of Jerusalem and all it's blows in the last of Jeremiah And Ezekiel had his great Vision of the New Jerusalem in the 14 year after the old City was smitten and upon the 10th day of the first Moneth when the Paschall Lamb or Goat was to be set apart 3 dayes and an half before his Offering at the Passover on the 14 day at Evening I have yet spoken little of St. Matthews 14 Generations which I reserve for our Characters or of Pauls going up to Jerusalem and into the 3 Heaven in the 14 year or being freed from his terrible Tempest in his Sea-Voyage on the 14 day when on the 3 day they lightned the ship but lost the light of Sun and Starres many Dayes till the 14 Night Act. 27. 27. 33. I repeat not that touched before of the Common Hebrew Cubit of 6 Taps or 24 Digits and the sacred Cubit 7 Taps or 28 Digits As those that have fewest Teeth have 28 so that either Jaw hath 14 parted by two watchers which they call Doggs between 3 Fours As the Hebrew Zereth or Span was made of 3 Taps of 4 Digits apeece As the old Watches they say were 3 in the Night of 4 hours apeece although the Gospel as the Romans reckon 4 as of 3 hours apeece And the 4 sides of the Great City had 3 Shaars or Watches or Gates apeece And if the Sacred Cubit were 28 Digits How like is their Hand which is Jad and 14 to be half their Holy Cubit As That also which must be so revealed and stretched out as we often read to deliver his People in the 14th day at night or the 14 Great Year of which again As the Temple Witnesses were restored again in the 14 Hour after the Dark Night os the Bottomlesse Pit had put them out or slain them or at least made them to Cease as our eyes also to Rest in darknesse till the Day-star chased away the Nights Darknesse and brought it's Kets or End which is also the Waking or Resurrection as we found in Daniel to be compared with Job 38 Luke 1. 78. 79. 2. Pet. 1. 19. Reve. 2. 28. and divers other places From 14 we come to 21 the next number made of 3 and an half in whole Numbers 3 times 6 and 3. or 3 Sevens or 3 fourths half of 24. bringing us to the Evening Minha in every Day beginning still at Sun-set and to the Last Great Feast of Unleavened Bread after the Passeover and to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Great Hosanna of the Tabernacles the 21 Day of the Moneth as an Emblem of Their Liberty after the 20 Years Bondage under Laban again under Jabin and the Arks 20 Years so neer the Philistines That I say nothing of Solomons being 20 Years in building Gods House and his Own and his Feast was 14 Dayes in the 7. Month of Tabernacles Or of his 20 Cities given to Hiram or of 20. smitten by Jephta or of 20 peeces the price of Joseph as 30 of Christ or of the 20 Cubits of the Cursing Roule in Zachary or any other 20 in Scripture which we may touch in Characters As also the 6 times 20 that great Moed of God with man 120 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is just 120. Of which again and of All the Sevenths As 28 and 35 and 42 Half of three dayes and Half the first Chled or Childe of the Sun and Moon or Her Calends which may come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as Ides from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or her Cloud or Clade which is also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or her Hour of Temptation 42 being to 1000 the Great Day or to 1008 the Jewes Clakins in each hour as an Hour to a Day just the 12th part And 42 is 3 times 12 and an half or 3 times 14 or 6 times 7 a great Moed of the Witnesses In Hours besides the Sun and Moons meeting or Beam and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
〈◊〉 may be 42 it is the Hour of Noon in the 2d day of Creation And in Dayes the Full Moon or Passeover of the 2d Month for the Unclean or Travellers In Weeks it is near the Time of Life or 40 weeks Weeks of the Childe in the Wombe as before And in Months it is 3 Years and an Half or 1260 dayes of the woman in the Wilderness or 42 Months of the Beast and thofe that Tread down the Holy City And Daniel saith All those things shall be finished with the end of scattring the power of the Holy People And 1290 dayes in Him are but 30 more than 1260 in the Revelation and 45 less than 1235 in Daniel which are but 3 more than Twice 666. And if the Revelation were 30 years after the sack of Jerusalem it will be no wonder it should speak 30 years lesse then Daniels 1290. Or that These also should have 45 years added for setling them As 45 Hours brought up the Evening Minha of the 2d Day As the 45 years â—aleb speaketh of Jos. 14. Although they wandred in the Wilderness but 40 years for the 40 dayes of searching the Land whence those 40 years might seem to begin answering to Ezekiels 40 Days or Years for Judah and the 40 years of Jerusalem after the 40 Dayes of our Saviours staying on Earth after his Resurrection As it may be Nineve stood but 40 years after Jonahs 40 dayes a sign to That sinful Generation And if there were just 42 Miles from Beersheba to Jerusalem that is 20 to Hebron and 22 from Hebron to Jerusalem as we finde in Jerome with others That may be considered with the 42 Months and 42 Mansions and 42 Children at Jericho of which before From 42 the next of 3 and an half in whole numbers is 49. 3 times 4 and an half or 7 times 7 the first number squared In Hours it is the first Hour of the 3d Nights Rest. In Dayes it is the 7th Great Day of Unleavened Bread to the Passover of the 2d Month. In Weeks it cometh near the Weeks of the Lunar Year and but 3 short of the Solar In Years it was the Jubilie That Great Rest and yet Motion or Mutation as we noted before in the Hebrew word Mot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 49. which is also the number of the common word for Measure Midda 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As if that number of 49 in their Jubilies were the Measure of All Measures and 49 is also in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be but 40 which we touched before in the Sun and Moons Beams of Meeting and Bowing or coming together weh is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Bo. 60 Hours bring us just to the Morning of the 3d Day and 70 the Evening Minha of that 3d Day which may answer to the Pentecost of the 3d Month. As the first â—amid of the 14th Hour might represent the Passeover of the 14th Day of the first Month. And the Pâ—ntecost being 50 dayes after the first Sheaf waved or Heaved of which before was near the 70th Day of the year And the first Fruits or Biccurim of Pentecost might represent their first coming from Babylon after the 70 years Captivity as the Law was given at their first Pentecost after their coming from Aegypt And That coming from Babylon was but as the first Fruits or Feast of Pentecost to that great Feast of Tabernacles of which we have spoken so much And as 70 is made of 7 and 10 the Full and the Rich number drawn together So it is also 3 times 20 and an half As a Great Moed of the Witnesses There having also been 3 times 20 years of Bondage signal enough before the 70 years Captivity 20 with Laban and 20 with the Philistins and Kiriaâ—l-jearim 1 Sam. 7. and 20 with Jabin also from whom they were freed by Barak Lightning and the Son of man shall come as Lightning Son of Abinoam the Fathers Beauty or Brightness on Mount Tabor where our Saviour shon as Lightning or Barak from Kadâ—h the holy City of Refuge in Nepthali Great Wrestlings as Rachel first and Then Deborah noteth in Her Song Whence the willing people or Aminadab and leading Captivity captive may easily come to the 110 Psalm and 68. where also we read of Women Preachers or Singers a part of Prophecy as we finde in Miriam and in This Deborah Rising up under Tamar which is also the Palm-Tree where the former Deborah Rebecca's Nurse was buried it seems in Genesis called Allon-Bacuth the Oak of Weeping as some render it But in the Targum and Jerome another kinde of Tree And of All Trees the Palm is famous as the Camomel in Plants for Rising up by Treading down As we saw before in Their Great Hosannah of the Greatest Feast of Tabernacles And in This Deborahs Song and Time we may finde Megiddon and Horma As in Gedeons Time also to be compared with Megiddon in Zechary and Harmagedon in the Revelation 14 More added to 70 bring us to 84 which in Hours is just 3 Dayes and an Half the Great Moed of ohe Moon Covered or Cased 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As a secret 84. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 80 81 85. Now she soaaketh or sucketh the sack of the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which she becometh As a Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or a Great Measure of Waters which she poureth on the Earth and so becometh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 white and sick as in Latine Sicca Luna Sitiens And Whiteness argueth Dryness as white Hayrs and whited Cloth Being freed Pad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 84 89 she becometh White and Fair which in Solomon is Lebana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 87. 3 Hours and 3 Dayes and an Half And now being Leavened by the Sun she goeth swelling on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To her Childe and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may also be the Time of her Full as well as Change Till she Wane or Weane her Childe After the Full And then goes on to her Casing again The Earth shall be like the Moon in This also bearing Fruit every Month as we saw before That I speak not of the Chymists Moon impregnate with their Sun which may be in us also though we throw away the Golden Sands and Rivers which the World contend for because we do not know our selves and what we may come to do As Lebana or Levana Dea the Romans Great Midwife she is also the Queen of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As English call the Welken and the Milken way And Milcha was also near akin to Laban Gen. 22 And They have Melcom also Binghams Melcom and Melcom Regis the Kings Kingdom But she is not Lebana till White or quite free from the Suns Rayes or Solomons Hamma 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which may minde us of the Jewes Tradition of Ham with his Wife in the Ark as begetting all that
English also speak as the Hebrew Year for Years as there were 120 Hours before the Day of His Creation which we may consider again when Christ himself shall grow up to be a Perfect Man in the Evening of the 6th Day before the Great Sabbath of which again The Hebrew words for 120 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be just 666 if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be but 40 and if it be 600 Then they make 1226 and with Vau 1232 which wants 100 to make 1332 which is just Twice 666. How near to Daniels 1335 as the other to 1260 in the Revelation 120 Then is Gods great Moed for Man And Moed in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is just 120. 3 Times 120 is 360 3 and an Half 420 and three times 420 are just 1260. And 10 Moads 1200 which may be in Moadim which truly seemeth more than Two Moads as Slashim and other Plural Numbers are 10 fold to their Singulars 140 Hours Twice 70 come up to the Evening Minha of the 6th Day when Man was Created and prepared for the Sabbath following as our Saviour also Rested in the Grave after his Evening Sacrifice and Minha on the Cross. And 144 Hours Twice 72 bring in that Sabbath or 7th Day beginning as the Christian also seemeth to begin where the other ended in the Evening 150 the Sabbath Midnight 156 The Morning 166 The Hour of That Dayes Evening Minha 180 Hours bring up the Morning of the 8th Day 10 times better then the Noon of the First Day which was the 18th Hour 190 That Evening Minha which generally began about the Ninth Hour of each Day Which is therefore called The Hour of Prayer as we saw before in the Cripple healed at the Beautiful Gate and Cornelius also by the same Peter 214 The Evening Minha of the 9th Day 222 The 10th Midnight or Jerecho of which before being the 3d part of 666. Which may therefore be 3 times worse as 3 times bigger then Jerecho was to its Two Spies or Witnesses that were hid by the Woman 3 Dayes and an Half As we saw before As also the 10th Midnight might be 10 times as Dark or worse then the first Night was For we are now come in Hours to the Time of Hiding Slaying or at least Laying the Witnesses Being the Black Dark Dayes of Aegypts Darkness for 3 Dayes and an Half with the 3 last Woes or Plagues in the Revelation before Israels coming out of Aegypt Or if Those dayes of thick Darkness to be felt were begun before This which seemeth very little if at all yet sure they might be Types or at least Warnings to Israel who had Then Light while their Enemies were in the Dark As if to intimate that all the Darkness of the Worst Dayes or Hours of Darkness as our Saviour speaketh should fall on Aegyptians onely the black sons of Ham as before and not at all on Israel Though to These also it was a Great Hour of Temptation As we may see when we come to their going out of Aegypt Now also the Pascal Lamb or Goat must be Tyed up as one of the two Witnesses to be slain on the 14th Evening but set apart and separate or sanctified the Phrase we saw before on the Evening of the 10th Day or beginning of the 11th Day As 3 days and Half before its slaying 240 Hours end the 10th Day and begin the 11th whose Morning is 252. 260 It s Evening Minha 264 brings up the 12th Evening 276 Its Morning 285 It s Minha 288 Bring up the 13th Evening and 300 its Morning 310 The Hour of Minha 324 Bring up the next Morning the 14th Day 3â—3 the 9th Hour of That Day or the Evening Minha when the Two Lambs or Witnesses are slain the Daily Tamid and the Passover which might be a Goat or a Lamb. We are now to look up a while on the Moon the Counter as the Hebrew Mone That Faithful witness in Heaven She was White before from 3 Dayes and Half or 84 hours and Lebana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 87 3 hours and 3 Dayes and an Half But Now she is White as Snow on Hermon which is Sheleg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 333. She ligs or lies in in White as in Childbed and she Lights which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Ligg is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Legit. As Lectus and Electus As Two in a Bed the One Elect the other Left to Lig and lie Or left to the Left hand And Sheleg Turned is Gelesh Glass and Ice in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Shegel the Bedded Wife as before Each is 333. Let the Full Moon then be Sheleg and the New Moon Shegel As the Queen at the Suns Right Hand or South or below him as we saw That Phrase Or as Jericho stood to Jerusalem this had 24000 Standers that 12000 Or as Sodom and the Molten Sea in the Temple In Gold of Ophir Ke Tem As Perfect just 1000 or As Teaming which is Hebrew bringing perfect ones and Twins in Hebrew Teomim As Esau and Jacob were Twins and Perfect also in their Generation as we touched before with Jacobs Hand on Esaus Heel in Ezdras Ophir also may hint her Fruit and fraught which are Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Free and Bear as before in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For Ophir is I will be or make fruitful as well as Gold of Peru or rather Zeilan as the Great Peleg sheweth And Solomons Gold from Ophir made up 666 Talents As the Cours of the Moon in 666 Hours Or the Golden Image in Dura 6 in breadth and 60 in Height of which before And though the Sun be as Gold and the Moon as silver with Chymists Yet This silver Sheling is also Shegel or Shekle in Gold of Ophir As in Hebrew the word for Sun is Feminine or Commune and the Moon is Masculine Shall she also as Sara begat Isaac that Sun of Laughter when she is freed from her Monthly Courses or Changes Then be As the Sun and the Sun seven fold Brighter Shall she Then be as Perfect Gold Ketem Ophir Or as He that is Perfect as our Saviour speaketh Or as the Canticles Clear as the Sun to be compared with the 4th and 60th of Esau where also Thy Sun spoken to the Church Vers. 20 may be just As the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 660. But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be 500 Then is Thy Moon in the same Verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 718. But 52 Hours Or Weeks of the Year more than 666 the Number of the Beast in the Revelation And of the sons of Adonikam my Lord cometh or Riseth at the Return from Babylon a Type of That to come As we see in Ezra 2. 13. the Children of Adonikam 666. And as 333 Hours bring us to the 14th Evening or Minha Passover So 336 to the
beginning of the 15th which is shut up with 360 Hours as their Year with 360 Dayes We are now in the Feast of Unleavened bread and at Full Moon As if That were to shadow out the Sun of the â—d Year to be 10 times better then the Light of the â—d Day coming up in 36 Hours And 360 is 3 times 120 Gods Moed for Man which is 3 times 40. 372 Bring up the Morning of the 16th Day the Wave sheaf of Barley the first of First-fruits Heaved up as our Saviour Raised on the Third day after the Passover was slain And from This Day 50 Days to Pentecost are 1200 Hours Added to 360 they make 1560 for the Moed of Pentecost Or Biccurim the first Fruits Of wch 420 bring up the Morning of the 18th Day or Crisis of Their Passing through the Sea or end of three Dayes and Half their Hour of Temptation Beginning from the Passover though they got not out till the Sun-set of the 15th Day or Hour 360 As a new year Deut. 16. 6. Nunb 33. 3. 430 The Evening Minha of that Day answering to their coming from Aegypt 430 Years after the Promise to Abraham That very Night 444 Brings up the next Morning with its Tamid It is Two Thirds of 666. 450 the Noon of That Day But after Moses song and the Lambs they wanted water 3 Days and came to Marah Bitterness till the 12 Fountains and 70 Tamars 480 Brings up the 21st Evening As the Temple after Aegypt Though a very Learned man would have it 580 and 490 the Morning of That great Feast of Unleavened Bread as Daniels Weeks 490 Years 500 To the Minha of That great Feast or the 7th Evening from the Passover And 555 to the first watch of the 24th Evening 600 Hours are in 25 Dayes 36 more bring us to the Morning of the 27th Day By which time the Moon beginneth to approach the skirts of the Suns Robe or Clamyd in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mantle Mantle is Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an upper Garment There she becometh Gloomy Glum in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 639 As the Sun is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 640. And the Hebrew Galum is not only Glum or sad and Glummed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but also Turned or Twisted as Galume Lace And so the Moon in the Suns Rayes an Hebrew word as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Then she is Calm and Clam and Clammed or Clummed as English use that Phrase which is Hebrew made to Blush or be ashamed as the Latine Calumn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 650 and 656. Which in Hours brings us to the Morning Watch of the 28th Day And 666 to the Point of Noon in That Critical Day to the Moon of 4 times 7 and 3 times 9 and 3 quarters And her Cloud or Clade or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of which before makes up the perfect Olam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so near the Morning of the 30th Day And Olam may signifie their Hight as well as Hiding or their Secret as Sodom and Let not my soul be in Their seeret or in Sodom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just 666. Or their Yoaking or Childing or Fooling or being Naught as English use that word akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Night and Râ—sting as we saw before But Sleep may be frm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is to slip off ones Clothes and to slâ—p a Flower Psal. 120 6 7 8. and Ruth 2. 4. or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to slop or sloop or throw down as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or else from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Both slow and slouth which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Safe or Salf and Salve as akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Slack ones hand or to Pardon and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to send out Siloam and Shilo As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Jacobs blessing Judah or Shâ—lah Judahs Son Of which befor in Tamar And what if Childe be Shiloed As Birth may be from Bar a Son as Bara Create and Bar Bare sent out or Bear as also from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Covenant which ever included Children Through all the Bible and mainly for them And Abrahams Berith Olam much about the Burning of Sodom and from Beritus to Sodom was the Length and Cross Bredth of the Land promised in His Berith Olam And the Flames of Sodom might possibly intimate the Ole or Whole and Holy Burnt-Offerings as Seals of That Olam Berith Especially at the Change and Full of every Moon as flaming Fire or as the World Burning at the End of the great Olam when she shall be As Gold afire rather than Ophir Which yet may be akin to the Greek Pyr and English Fire as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as alluding to Ur of the Chaldes whence He was called Or to Ire Wrath which may be onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Fear and that Where no Fear needed As the 90 and other Psalms tell us But That Ketem Ofire Perfect Fire of Love shall cast out Fear and Curss and Sorrow As it did Gomorrah the People of the Curss or Rebellion The Spot fixed on them Gen 14 Though but in Freeing themselves from Tyrants or Usurping Monarchies So little doth God countenance Oppression or Rebellion or such Fighters As Zeboim may signifie And those be the first Goats we read of I think in all the Bible For so also does Zeboimâ—ignifie â—ignifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Zebaoth Armies or Militia and Goats also much akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Woolves and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Flies as we see in Baalzebub the Lord of wanton lustful fighting Flies But our Jesus by the finger of God shall cast him out and even by Silence shall destroy Babling and Babylon He is the Great Zerubbabel and Jerubbaal also And Solomon That King of Peace had but One War I remember and That was onely to destroy Lust and Wrath and Rage of an Army That is in Hebrew Hamath Zobae From Zeboim we go to Admah which are joyned in Genesis and in Hosea also A most Pathetical Scripture He had said Come and let us return unto the Lord For he hath Wounded us and He will Heal us He hath sâ—itten He will binde us up After Two dayes He will quicken us Here are Two Moeds In the 3d Day or 3d Moed He will Raise us up As he raised Jesus so he will Raise his Witnesses And we shall live in his sight Will he also shorten the Time for his Elect as Christ or Esay promised so that he will prevent the last Moed after the 3 are past As he put up his Sword before the last Moed In Davids Pestilence We shall know if we follow on to know the Lord. His going is prepared As the Morning to the Evening Or as the Evening or Dark time and he
he was the near Ancestor of Selah or Siloah Rising up 35 years after his Father Arphaxad and 3 and an Half also The great Reconciler of the Sun and Moons Motions more perhaps than 19 or any other Number Half 70 5 times 7 And next to 6 times 6 perhaps the just Age of our Saviour at his Death In Hours it brings us to the Light of the 2d Morning 36 As 360 Dayes bring up the second Year I will love them freely Though before he had said From my House I will drive them Agarsem As Hagar from Abraham and I will not add to Love them Oseph As minding Joseph sold to the Stocks c. All their Saras are Sorerim Sorry Sirs As the English Proverb to this day They shall be Nodding and Noddies Among the Gentiles Gogim perhaps of Gog and Magog also Both in England and other Northern Countries As we finde in Heathen writers But return O Israel to the Lord thy God Even yet Thy God! As Jeremy 3. and many other places And the great Complaint in Zephany is that the Polluted and Rebellious City would not trust in the Lord Nor draw near to Her God As Manasseh but a Type of their Return though They thought themselves Forgotten as that name may intimate after All his sins Yet Bowed to His God and his Fathers God who Heard him Take words and say Take away All Iniquity Not Ours onely but All. O let the Iniquity of the Wicked wicked also come to an end And He was Heard in what he prayed Receive us graciously This Tob mindes me of Tobiah the Lords Goodness There are strange things in that Book and of These Dayes perhaps in the true Hebrew Copy I will be as a Dew to Israel yet the great complaint and punishment was That His Goodness and Mercy was but a Dew He shall flourish as the Lilly Or as Shushan of which before and in Ester 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 661. Or as Susanna Recovered by Daniel from the Elders as Shushan by Ester and Mordecai There is another Mistress also First His Roots under Ground and out of sight like Lebanon Then his little young Suckers Yonikothau as Younger is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 66. 588. His Glory or Beauty or Head Hodo As India How like to Judea Hodi in Ester also And in English Hoddy is joyful and glad As the Olive-Tree and his Reak as Lebanon Jasuâ—u Joseve Betsillo And again His memorial as the Wine of Lebanon From me is All thy Fruit found See Esay 26. 19 20. and Psalm 107. 40 41 42 43 and 91. and 37. 34. with the close of This Prophet Hoseah In the Prophet Joel we have a Form of Prayer prescribed before the Spirit be poured out as There also promised And Esay 32. My Land shall be desolate for ever c. Till the Spirit shall be Poured from on High And then the Wilderness shall be a fruitful Field and That which is Now fruitful shall be accounted but as a Wilderness And Then you shall sing as in the Night of the solemn Moed Chap. 30. to be added to that before of the Feast of Tabernacles And Chap. 59. They shall fear the Name of the Lord from the VVest and his Glory from the Sun-Rising when the Enemy shall come in like a Flood to end That Generation Then even Then the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard against him And the Redeemer or Goel and Kinsman shall come to Zion or out of Zion and shal Turn away Ungodliness from Jacob. As St Paul renders the words in Rom. 11. applying it to the Fulness of the Gentiles as the Resurrection from the Dead when All Israel shall be saved For This is my Covenant with them when I shall take away their sins My Spirit upon thee my words which I have put in thy mouth for the word which I Covenanted with you in your coming out of Aegypt and My Spirit is still standing in you Fear yee not Hag. 2 They shall not depart from Thy mouth or from the mouth of Thy seed or from the mouth of Thy sâ—eds seed saith the Lord from now and for Ever And though they Rebelled and Vexed his Holy Spirit so that he turned to be their Enemy and fought against them yet he remembred the dayes of Old Moses and his people saying VVhere is He that brought them up out of the sea with the Shepherd of his Fock and where is He that put his Holy Spirit within him And again The Spirit of the Lord caused him to Rest c Chap. 63. And then followeth a most sweet and pathetical Prayer for the time of their Captivity to be Paraleld with that in Joel 2. And Then the Lord will be jealous for his Land or for his Earth and will pity his People Yea the Lord will answer and say Behold c. And fear not O Land Be not Tyred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be glad and Rejoyce For the Lord hath been Great to Doe or to work Great things Be not afraid ye Beasts of the Field Be Glad then O children of Zion and Rejoyce in the Lord your God He hath given you the Former Rain for Righteousnesse and He will bring the showre also the gushing waters as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may sound in English the former Teaching Rain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and That also which filleth up the straw or the stalk 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in the first Month or beginning of the year which was also the End of the year before And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the Name of the Lord your God that hath been so Marvellous for you and my People shall never be ashamed And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the Lord your God and none else and my People shall never be ashamed And it shal come to pass Afterward Afterward I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh c. And I will shew Wonders in the Heavens and in the Earth the Sun shall be turned into Darknesse and the Moon into Blood and may not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the Great and Terible Day of the Lord come and it shall come to passe that whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord Iesus as is plain by This cited in Rom. 10 shall be saved or delivered As Paul at Melita which in Greek may be Care but in Hebrew Cure and Deliverance For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be Deliverance Here is also Pelitah which we had before in Paltiel as the Lord hath said and in the Remnant whom the Lord shall call And Peter by these words proveth that This was only begun in Act. 2. and that the same spirit of which They had Then the First fruits as Paul also speaketh was promised to Them and Their Children and to All to All that are afar off even All the Lord shall
man saw such a stress on This that citing Moses and the fulfilling of his Threatnings so that never was the like done under Heaven as at Jerusalem nor ever shall be as we saw before And yet saith he We have not sought the Face of the Lord our God to turn or that we might turn from our iniquities and understand thy Truth And yet according to all thy Righteousness a strange expression I beseech thee let thy Anger and thy Fury in other Prophets and Psalms Thy Hating Loathing Abhorring Cursing be turned away from thy City Jerusalem the Mountain of thy Holiness And concludeth For the Lords sake Or the Messiah as That Phrase in their most antient Authors Or as himself expresseth it clear enough Because Thou art Our Lord Adonai Their usual expression of That God-Man As other Lords onely by Adoni or at most Hadoni Their common Salutation when they met as we may finde in Plautus sounding it much as the English How don ye For it is Christ he speaketh to Or the whole Trinity Bow down thine Ear to hear and open thine Eye to see Hear Adonai Adonai Pardon Adonai Hearken and Doe Defer not for thy own sake O our God! And not for our Righteousnesses which are as filthy Raggs even All of them and worse But for thy great Mercies Which in other places are also Manifold Mercies as manifold and more than All our sins Or as his 9th and 9th To the Lord our God belong Multitudes of Mercies and Forgivnesses in the Plural as also cited by St Paul Though we have Rebelled even Down Right Rebelled against him And Then comes out the Angel at the Minha with the 70 Weeks and after with 1290 and 1335 Dayes Which may be also in that 26 of Leviticus Where we read of 4 Sevens and Chastning or Instructing which is the same in Hebrew 4 times 7 which make a Month or 28 in Dayes or Hours or Years or somwhat worth enquiring after In general it may Hint the 4 7 Dayes or Month of the Moon from the Sun As if Here also God would intimate They should return again after Those 4 Sevens as the Moon to the Sun as we saw in 4 7 Dayes or 666 Hours The word Seven is Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numerals 372. which in Hours is the very Morning of the 16th Day of the First Month or the great Heave-offering or Wave-sheaf of Barley the Resit or First of First Fruits In memorial of the Morning after their coming out of Aegypt which was the 15th Day at Sunset just in the 360 Hour as their year came out in 360 Dayes and the 2d Morning from Creation in 36 Hours as we saw before and how this First Fruits was also a Type of our Saviours Rising up from the Dead as this Sheaf of Barley Heaved up on the 3d Morning after the Passover was slain on the 14th Minha 333 Hour or 40 the 40 Hours of Christ in the Grave before 372 the Morning of the Wave-Sheaf The morrow after the Passover the 15th Day of the Month or first of Unleavened Bread was a solemn Sabbath or Rest from servile Labour and a Feast of joy as the Jewes call it because of the Peace-Offerings then to be offered and eaten which they also called the Feast of Passover As in the Gospel They would not go into Pilates Hall lest they might be kept from the Passover or Paschal Feastings for the Lamb was Eaten on the Night before as we see in our Saviour though some think he was before the Jewes in that also of which Deut. 16. 2. 2 Chron. 30. 24. and 35. 7 8. But the next or 16th Day was for Offering the Sheaf or Omer both an Handful and a 10th part of an Epha equal to the Bath 3 Seas the 10th part of an Homer gathered in the Dusk of the 15th Day called the Sabbath after the Passover yet by 3 men saying On This Sabbath sabbath sabbath In This Basket basket basket with this Sickle Sickle sickle the Men 3 and the Baskets 3 and the Sickles 3 and they must reap enough to make 3 Seas from the Valley of the Brook Kidron He shall drink of the Brook in the way and so lift up his Head Then they pass it through the Fire that it may be Parched Corn and Ground also For it pleased the Lord to put him to pain though a Son that he might learn Obedience and by sufferings be made perfect From this Sickle they must count the 50 Days as Deut. 16. 9. Which in Levit. 23. 15. are begun from the Morrow after the Sabbath or First Day of Unleavened Bread after the Passover or the Day of the first Sheaf So that the morrow after the 7 compleat weeks or 50th Day as the Jewes themselves call it was the Day of Pentecost and of Biccurim the First-Fruits in two loaves of fine Flour leavened The Jewes observe no Rejoycing commanded at the Passover which must be eaten with Bitter Herbs but at Pentecost they sang the great Hallel Once being Once commanded to Rejoyce and Twice at Tabernacles Double and more then Double or seven-fold to the joy of Pentecost As we may finde in Deut. 16. and 11th for Pentecost but 14. and 15 for Tabernacles on the 15th Day of the 7th Mouth And thou shalt observe the Feast of Tabernacles 7 Dayes the Pentecost but one when thou hast gathered in thy Corn and thy Wine and thou shalt Rejoyce in thy Feast Thy Feast Thou and thy Sou and thy Daughter and thy Man-servant and thy Maid servant and the Levite the stranger and the fatherless and the Widow that is within thy Gates 7 Dayes shalt thou keep a solemn Feast unto the Lord thy God in the Place which the Lord shall choose because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy increase and in all the works of thy Hands Therefore thou shalt surely Rejoyce They observe also the Pure Unleavened Bread of the Passover was a Memorial to endure for ever But not that of the Pentecost being to fall or be little spoken of when All was brought in as we saw before of Tythes and First-fruits in Ezekiel and Revelation And though the Passover and all its Week had onely Pure Unleavened Bread a Type of Christ without sin yet the Pentecost had both Unleavened in its Minha and Leavened also in its two Cakes of Biccurim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Elect as we saw before in Bahurim And might not Those two Cakes represent the two Churches of Jew and Gentile or the two Witnesses to be Broken as the two Cakes Or the Turtle Dove and the young Pigeon in Abrahams Vision Sara and Hagar or Keturah whom the Jewes account Hagar with Rebecca or Rachel and Leah Abigail and Ahinoam and divers others as before and yet again Types of the two Witnesses Those two Cakes were attended with 7 Lambs and two Rams and a Bullock for an Ole a young Goat for
a Chate and two Lambs also for the onely Salems of the whole Corgregation which were most Holy to be waved up with the two Cakes or Biccurim Which the Jewes also may teach us to be 7 Taps long was it the Sacred Cubit and 4 broad and 4 high As to represent a Month of 4 Sevens in that 26th of Levit. If one of these Sevens be 372 as in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and bring us just to the 16th Morning of the Wave-sheaf of Barley which was just 372 Hours Why may not the other 3 bring us to the Pentecost Or 50th Day after that Feast of Barley 3 Times 372 make 1116. which are just 84 less then 1200 the number of Hours in 50 Dayes that make up the Pentecost from That Barley sheaf And 84 in Hours make up just 3 Dayes and an Half for the Slaying or Laying of the Witnesses as we found in the Sun and Moon Hid in the Suns Beams or Hamma 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 53 or 93 till she be first Malta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just 84 and then Lebana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 87 in three Hours more and Melit or Melita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 89 and 94 and Malcha Melcha Milcha 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 95 and Sach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 98. And so forward to Sheleg and Shegel as we saw before I add not That the Hebrew words for that we saw but now in Levit. 26 You shall be given up into the Hand of the Enemy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 either with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or without it make but 3 more or 3 less than 1488 which are just 4 times 372 the number of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4 times repeated in that Chapter for their Chastisments But we may yet have a more sure Key for That and all other Prophetick numbers In the mean time we may remember that 222 Hours the 3d part of 666 brought us to the 10th Midnight before Jericho And in Josua 4 19 we read that they came out of Jordan to Gilgal the East border of Jericho just upon the 10th Day of the First Month and the number of Jericho is the Hour of Noon in that 10th Day The Pascal Lamb or Goat began to be Tyed up or separate 3 Dayes and Half for the Passover on the 14. As Pauls Tempest went off in the 14th Day and Then he came to Melitah or Malta which hath also been Deliverance against the Turks many a time As Sodom was delivered by Abraham in the 14th Year and Jacob served Laban for his two Daughters 14 Years and Jerusalem was freed from the Assyrians in the 14th Year of Hezekiah and Ezekiel saw his New Jerusalem in the 14th Year after the Citie was smitten and in the 10th Day of the first Month just as the Lamb was to be Tied up And Daniel had his great Vision of which we have spoken on the 14th Day after That Lamb so tied up but not slain till the 14th Day about the Evening Minha or the 333d Hour just Half of 666. But they came out of Rameses on the 15th Day Numb 33. 3. and at Sunset Deut. 16. 6. just 360 Hours of the Month. As if now they were to begin a New Year of 360 Dayes 10 times as good as the 2d Dayes Light Rising up 36 Hours from the Beginning The Morning after was fixed for Heaving up the Barley-sheaf as Emblem of their Rising out of Aegypt and our Lords Lifting up on the Cross and Rising also from the Grave on the 3d Morning after his Death as the Sheaf was the 3d Morning after the Passover slain In Hesekiahs time they began to clense the Temple polluted by Ahaz on the first Day of the first Month but they passed not the Porch till the 8th Day nor the House till the 16th Day the Time of this Barley-sheaf which was one of the Reasons why they could not keep the Passover on the 14th of the First Month as commanded on pain of Cutting Off. But Hesekiah rose early and called the Rulers of the Citie and All laid their hands on 7 Goats for a Chate and the Priests killed them and with their Blood made atonement on the Altar for All Israel as the King commanded And the King and his Princes and all the Congregation made an Act of Parliament for the Passover on the 14th of the 2d Month and then Hesekiah prayed The good Lord Pardon c though not according to the Purity of the Sanctuary or Lawes thereof And the Lord hearkened to Hesekiah and Healed the people And the King spake comfortably to the Levites and they kept the first 7 Dayes as in the first Month and the whole Assembly took Counsel to keep other 7 Dayes and they did so with great gladness as the like was not since Solomons 14 Dayes also And the Priests the Levites rose and blessed the people and their voice was heard and the Praier came up to his Holy Habitation unto Heaven Pentecost the 50th Day from the Sheaf of the 16th as in Levitieus But in Deuteronomy from the Sickle which was the Day before and that so strictly maintained against the Zadduces as the Jewes may teach us that from Thence They cryed Thrice On this Sabbath Sabbath Sabbath or the morrow after the Passover slain the 14th Evening with this Sickle sickle sickle as we saw before as a beginning to the 50 Dayes of Pentecost Deut. 16. 9. When thou put test in the Sickle In 50 full Dayes there are 1200 Hours to be compared with 12000 of a Tribe The First-fruits to God and the Lamb in the Revelation And Moadim are just 1200 if Moed be 120 as we saw before and Moadim be 10 Moads as it may be For the Hebrew Duall is for Two and their Plural for 3 at least as we saw in Elohim and Plural numbers are generally 10 fold to their Singulars as we saw 10 a Congregation As the least plural Regimen is made with Jod that is 10 and Im may be 50 or 610 and through all the Bible we see numberings by 10 and by 50 and the least Captain of 10 As also the English yet observe in their old good Tithings and Tithing men with Headboroughs and Constables of Hundreds The 7 Weeks were but 49 Daies as a foundation for Daniels 7 Weeks of 490 Years of which again And though the Pentecost were the 50th yet the Biccurim or first Fruits of the Spirit Acts 2d came on the 3d Hour of that 50th Day So that we may begin the 50 Daies or 1200 Hours before the Barley sheaf And sure it must be 12 Hours at least before that Morning else we shall disturb the course of Nature which began Time as God doth All with the Worst first as Evening before Morning and probably with Winter before Summer That is Sowing time before Harvest whose last end ended the whole Year and began another If 1200 be added to 333 the Minha Passover or to 335 or 6
the last Hour of the 14th Day it makes 1533 or 1535 the number of Wrath and Fury to be Passed over as Daniel 9. 16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aphek and Hamath words ominous enough to Israel beaten so often at Aphek and as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 5 times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 5 times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the Ark was taken and again when Saul was slain besides all else And though Solomon as a Type of Jesus conquered Wrath and Hamath as we saw before yet the King of Assyria gloried in it as His and conquered by Him Whence also he carried some to people Samaria though they brought the Wrath of God and Asima and Lions with them O Ariel And the King of Aegypt Chained a King of Judah in the Land of Hamath as the King of Babylon did binde and blinde Zedechiah in the Land of Hamath as we read in Jeromy And the Prophet Esay saith that God will set his Hand the 2d time to recover his people from Hamath also which in Zechary must be joyned to Damascus when it is Menucha made Meek and quiet as we saw before And though I may be out in Time as well as Place what if God shall shew us All these Hours to measure Years from Aegypt Onward Thus 480 to the Temple in Solomons 4th who Reigned 40. Thence Ezekiels 390 to the Temples End Thence 3 times 666 and an Half may bring us to the Great Tabernacles in the 7th Month or just to 1666 after the 2d Temple was destroyed And by This account there may be just 666 Years between the two great Changes of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and Romans as the two Changes of the Moon under Hamath the Heat and Raies or Rage of the Sun That is 70 and 66 and 490 and 40 from That Pentecost Act. 2. To the Roman Sack of Jerusalem just 70 Weeks after the 2d of Darius Nothus 106 or measuring 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Captivity as That Pentecost and Passion of our Saviour was 70 Weeks from Esraes Time in Artaxerxes 66 or what if 70 from the 2d of Darius Hystasp who restored the Temple in Haggaies Time ending its 70 Years and the Cities 70 as Cyrus first ended Ezekiels 70 at his taking of Babel which was the first and last as Lebab in our Body of Oppression and Confusion to the World or Church of God in most or All the Monarchies So to Nimrod Belus Belochus Nabonassar Nebuchadnezar Nabonidus Darius the Mede Cyrus the Persian Darius Hystasp by Zopyrus and Darius the last Pushed by the Goat at Granicum Thrown down at Issus and Trampled at Arbela near Charan as Daniel foretold of Alexander who got the Empire lost his Manners and his Life at Babylon As Seleucus after him the Root of the Seleucidae till the Romans also were poysoned by swallowing or gaping at Babylon which they could not swallow Being the Fatal bound of their Empire several times besides that shameful flur of Crassus at the foresaid Charan of Abraham and Laban as we saw before As a Parallel to Hamath which to Haran is as Rage to Wrath or as the Western Sun of the Afternoon to the Morning Sun of the East As Charan lies to Hamath and Both at Gods left Hand or North-ward And as Jonahs 40 Dayes might be 40 Years to Niniveh As Ezechiels 40 Daies to 40 Years of Judah so the 40 Dais of Christ on Earth to the 40 Years of Jerusalem after him as the 40 Years in the Wilderness to the 40 Daies of searching the Land Or to the first 40 Daies of Moses in the Mount As Christ 40 Years in Heaven after his 40 Daies and Then came down and brake the two Witnesses of the Law as Moses did the two Tables But as Types of two other to be Broken renued again as They were 480 Years from Aegypt to the Temple may answer both to 48 Hours in two Daies beginning also the 49th of 7 times 7 as the Jubilee and to the first 480 Hours of the Month and of the Year of 360 just the Time of Exodus so that it is much one to begin There or at the beginning of any Year and 480 Hours bring us to the 21 Day the last and Great Feast of Unleavened Bread And Solomons 14 Daies of Dedication may point at the Tamid of That 21st Day with its solemn Offerings in the of That Day 14th Hour The First 40 of the 480 bring us to Moses Death at the 4th Hour of the 2d Morning while he repeateth the Law and 2d Covenant in Deut. 29 and singeth his Swan-like song and Blessings Chap. 32 and 33. 41 Their Hour of Temptation Passing Jordan as the Red Sea at the Exodus and entring Canaan much as the Lamb was to be Tyed up on the 10th Day as we saw before in Jericho Yet 41 and 42 the Number of the 2d Days Noon Dines them with that Country Bread Six Hours or Years of War and Trouble bring them at length to quiet Rest in the Evening Minha of that Day ending in 48 and 49 as the Root of Sabattical Years and Jubilies the 10th part of 480. In That Night Josuah the Sun of That Day is taken from them He had stayed the Sun and was buried in Timnath Heres Image of the Sun as the Name speaketh And that Nights Darkness holdeth them 8 Hours more in 8 Years Bondage under the Blackmoor Cushan as akin to Cush of Ham the Father of Nimrod Lord of Babel as This of Mesopotamia where was Haran of Abraham Laban and Jacob their Ancestors So that Cushan seemed to call them back again into their first Bondage A Type of Assyria and Babylon that were to be their first and last Enemies For Rome never hurt them till infected with Babylon But I saw the Tents of Cushan in affliction and the Curtains of Midian Tremble As we read in Habacuk This Hour of Darkness as the other 5 of Moab Canaan Midian Ammon Philistines as the 6 Hours to the first Midnight or 6 Daies of the first Week before the Sabbath but as Parts of Their Daies who judged Israel and freed them from these 6 Hours of Darkness in 8 18 20 7 18 40 in all 100 and 11 the measuring Line or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we saw before for the 6th part of 666 the great Number of Darkness or Course of the Moon in absence distance or opposition to the Sun of Light And These 100 and 11 dark Hours being taken out of 444 from Aegypt to David in Abrahams Hebron leave 333 or half 666 which we may meet again Othniel with Achsa Both akin to Caleb is to shew both the Time and Wonders of God as the name may hint His 40 as Moses swallow up Cusans 8 Hours of Darkness and bring us about the first watch of the 5th Night And then Eglon the Calf of Moab an Heifer of three Years old Esay 15. 5. Jer. 48.
34. Gen. 15. 9. cometh up to minde them of their Golden Calf while Moses was in the Mount as many Daies from the Law as now perhaps he had been Years in Heaven And Eglon was destroyed by Josuah 10 34. But about the Evening Minha of the 6th Day Ehud helpeth them and Shamgar so that they Rest from That Moed all the 6th and 7th or Sabbath Day Which may be observed also in all the Sabbaths of those Daies or Years which we are now measuring by Hours of the first Month. Othniels 40 Ehud and Shamgars 80 make up 120 Years the Great Moed for Man as we saw before And 120 Hours make 5 Daies which added to Moses and Josuahs 2 Daies bring us quite through the Sabbath or 7th Day into the 8th And Then Jabin Instructeth or Teacheth them to understand as the word may intimate akin to the Hebrew Phrase we saw before to Correct and Instruct As the men of Succoth were Taught with Briers made to Know Judg. 8. 16. and Jabins 20 bring us about the Morning watch of the 9th Day And Then Awake Awake Deborah Awake Awake As there were 4 Hours to the Morning Utter a Song Arise Arise O Morning Star or Bright and Light Barak Lead Captivity Captive Let All thine Enemies fall O Lord as Saul with Lightning But his Lovers be like the Sun in his brightness For This Barak was also the son of Abinoam the Fatbers Brightness or Beauty As we saw before in glancing on That song in Judges 5. Barak and Deborahs 40 made them Rest till about the end of the 10th Day And Then the Lamb is prepared for the Passover As being Then tyed up by Midian oppressing them And now comes out Gideons Fleece as alluding to That Lamb and his Lamps also in Earthen Pitchers as St Paul remembers and the Barley Cake rouling in a Dream at the Middle Watch or soon after Midnight For the 7 Hours or Years of Midian came to Midnight and an Hour after And Then Gidion as a little Kid Rising by night to destroy Baal Lord of Darkness is Jerubbaal and the Watchman of Israel for That morning and offers the 2d Bullock yet akin to Eglon that Calf and his 40 giveth them Rest till the 11th Daies Evening There is more to be spoken of the Times of Sibboleth and Shibboleth and of Abimelech or King Father and of Sechem and Dinah Judgement and Jotham the Orphan If indeed you dealt kindely with my Father for he did deliver you Then c. But Quis talia Abimelech dwelt at Aruma from Rome to Roam and Ramp in Hebrew letters 254 which may be the very year of his Coming up though others make it about 260. And so with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 added as Verse 31 it will be near 666 when he slew his 70 Brethren of which again His 3 and Tola's 23 and Jairs 22 make up just 48 as 48 Hours of two Daies more which bring us to the 14th Day or 2d Sabbath It had a very sad Night to paralel the Time when Angry Pharaoh said to Moses Get thee from me see my Face no more but Dye So God himself frowned on Israel in that Night of Darkness under Ammon son to Lot the Veyle as we saw before saying Go and and see my Face no more Or Go and cry to the gods which you have Chosen Let Them deliver you in the time of your Tribulation For you have forsaken me and Feared other gods of whom I said You shall not Fear them as it is often pressed and given for the great Reason of their final Captivity 2 Kings 17. from Judges 6. 10. and 10. Therefore I will deliver you no more As in Hosea I will no more have mercy on you and you shall be no more My People Loammi and Loruhamah and I will be no more your God As bad or worse I think them That I do not yet Pray for the World Of which so much before But the Children of Israel said unto the Lord as Job saith it is still meet to say I have sinned I will bear the Rod till he turn and have pity on me For He will will Turn again and have pity on us and Who is a God as Thou art that is Micha Do unto us what seemeth good in thine own eyes If he will he can bring me back and shew me his Arck also and the New Jerusalem but if not and that he have no pleasure in me which yet is worse much worse than Brown bread and my own Tears for Water Here I am by his Grace I will not worship the Golden Image or of the Beast slain with the sword but his Deadly wound was Healed and the World all worshipped but Those in the Lambs Book of Life Let him do what seemeth good in his own eyes Father if it be possible it is possible Save me from this hour of Temptation But However let Thy will which is Holy still and wiser and better also for me than my own will Let Thy will be done and not mine in My Earth as in thy Heaven So we Chatter as a Crane or a Swallow when we cannot mourn as a Dove even Then when we reckon at Morning He will break all our Bones And they put away the strange gods from in and among them and served the Lord And his soul was grieved sor the Misery of Israel It shortned his very Spirit and Breath as in us when we would sigh and cannot O! how is our Heart Burnt as bound and straitned in us O! How am I straitned till it be Accomplished we saw it before Then Ammon encamped in Gilead thestones of Witness and Israel at Mispa the Watch they prayed and also set the Watch and we shall come to Mahanaim For we are already at the times when Jacob said The Lord Help me and watch over me and Laban also God is my Witness and These also for there be Witnesses in Heaven and They are All One as on Earth they agree in One And to what But That Haran or Wrath shall pass away but never Pass over these Stones of Witness to do me Hurt and that I never pass These Witnesses to grieve thy Spirit or to wrong thy Daughters Though thou hast changed my wages 10 or 12 times as often as the Moon or Lebana Now Jephta was a Mighty Valiant man but the son of a common woman which they call an Harlot though the greatest Norman Princes came from Arlott the Mother to That English word And Boaz also that mighty man of whom before in Ruth the Jewes count him Ibsan the Judge was son to Rahab the Harlot as she is called but the mother of Christ in David so that it is almost impossible there should be 580 Years from Aegypt to Solomon or Solomons Temple As that great man will have it from Acts 13 with other Arguments And God perswaded Japhet or his Anagram and Names-sake Jephta to dwell in the Tabernacles of Sem and to
Enlarge them also as the word hinteth by freeing them from Lot as Gen. 13. 14 And he will also take away the Lot from all Faces As we found him speaking in Esay Jephta's 6 years as 6 Hours of the 14th Day bring us so near the Moed of Passover that it seemeth possible his very Daughter How like Agamemnons in the Poets may represent the Lamb or young Kid to be offered in the 4th Day from Hour 312 to 333. And Jephta came so near That number of Hours or Years from Aegypt that he sent Ammon word thâ—t Israel had possessed Sâ—hons Land about 300 years as Jâ—dges 11. 26. Yet 40 years after their coming out of Aegypt that I speak not of any former Conquest from Zippor that Goat or Seir also There is certainly some great matter in that of Jephta's Daughter If she were Devoted Cherem as Levit. 27. 28 29. she must Die and could not be Redeemed And her Father vowed He would make it an Ole Burnt-Offering as the Tamid or the daily Lamb which was also Burnt at the Evening of the Passover That Law is very Terrible if it intimate the Cursed Reprobates as it may do Even such as the Son of Man himself devoteth to the Curse and will not Pardon as himself expresseth of the Father and the Son So that during His Time or Administration and I know not that he ever speaks of more or longer Such must be punished with Eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power when he shall come or at His Coming in his glorious Kingdom or during its Ever or Olam Such perhaps as by many Acts have gotten the worst Habit of sinning willingly or wilfully and as it were by Nature or by their very Essence ex ousias as the word Ecousios may intimate And to such Remaining So Actually Rebelling and presuming as the words in Greek and Hebrew also of Deut. 29 being Participles and of present Time not any Past There was no Sin-offering or Sacrifice prescribed in the Law which yet in that very Epistle to the Hebrews was so distinct from Burnt-offerings that These might be Accepted where no Sacrifice was admitted or at least not commanded And although God required no Burnt Offering of private persons but in very few cases yet he prescribed Rules if any would freely bring it as they might Yea and Gentiles also in such cases might â—read the Temple 〈◊〉 as may be also Promised rather than Threatned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by distinction of Corban or a Gift for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a waâ— for Gentiles also to bring 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 although there be an express com◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of their God from the Hand of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈 ◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prayer for Strangâ—rs also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such access and Courts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 Nâ—me of Gentile Courts that we may believe those gracious words of Christ in Esay 56 making Them also Priests and Levites as the word Leviim or Lovim from Loveh whence the English Love also may plainly intimate And in the Gospel also he citeth the Prophets saying My House shall be called an House of Prayer even to All Nations and Gentiles And for all the Threatnings of Cutting off the Jewes will tell us Few were ever so Cut off by Heaven and and why Then from Heaven If they came in and submitted to Stripes which they say prevented Cutting off or Death by the Hand of Heaven as they used to speak Adding also a Third step they called the Rebhels stroak to which the Psalmist may seem to allude by Gifts for Rebbels also And in another place he saith Let the Righteous scourge me c. Even when he had deserved Cutting off Or else they might come in with Burnt-Offerings which they tell us confessed as the Bringer did over its Head that they had deserved to be quite consumed as That which they call Ole or Whole as English also to be considered with Olam their Ole or Whole also as we touched before And indeed the very Face of the Moon it self at the Full may put us in minde of their Ole or whole Burnt-Offering set on fire and flaming unto God As the World or Olam also must Do at the like distance from the Great or Good Flood as Sodom did of old perhaps Of which we may have more to speak And to This also the Hebrews may allude in his Phrase of fiery Wrath concerning Actual Enemies when after Light and 〈◊〉 received One sinneth Willingly There is no Sacrifice by â—aw but still for All that err and are simple as that â—pistle from Ezâ—iel 4. 5 yea and the very Law 〈◊〉 sacrifice for Lying and for Swearing falsly 〈◊〉 wâ—ich Agur may allude in Proverbs 30. 9. to be added 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Syriack of the Fourth Petition in our Lords 〈◊〉 But for Wilful sinners No â—acrifice But onely that Fâ—ery Sacrifice or Burnt-Offering to which also that may allude of saved as by fire or by a fiery tryal which might very justly as acknowledged consume the Bringer also as the fiery Furnace did All those that cast in the three Children as some call them who were yet delivered from That fiery Furnace by One in the Kings eyes also as Caiephas Prophecying like the Son of God The Ram caught in the Thicket which was offered up for Isaac Yea and for Ishmael also it seems by that gracious speech of God in Esay 62 They shall come up with Acceptance on my Holy Altar And they flock as Doves to the Windows Which were yet Goats of Seir and Rams of Ishmaels Kedar and Nehaioth as we saw before Nay the Case might be so secret or so desperate that they durst not bring any Offering at all And David rightly observed that God required No Burnt-Offering and yet though he had despised the Law as is charged yet he found a way to be Accepted So might others also that they might Hear and learn to do No more Presumptuously As God graciously speaketh Hinting that Israel also could do Once or Sometimes Presumptuously Yea when their Burnt-Offerings also might not be Accepted as they tell of some that wilfully brake the sabbath Day or did Apostatize from their Religion in which cases they speak as if the Priest might not accept their Burnt-Offerings Yet when things were most forlorne and desperate There was a Sacrifice by God as some interpret That Chate for Kain a Sin-Offering brought and laid at his very door For besides That wch we cited but now for every one that erreth or is simple They had All a share in the Daily Sacrifice or Tamid with the Meat and Drink-Offerings thereof which were as Peace-Offerings also And there were Publique Peace-Offerings for the whole Congregation to be yearly offered And in Publique Charge They All had part in Lambs and Wood and Salt and Wine and Oyl or other things yearly bought by the Holy Tribute-Money Paid by every One both Rich and Poor for the Redemption of his
shave again his Head and Beard and Eye-brows and all his Hair Lev. 14. 9. and Then after Blood and Oyl upon his Ear and Thumb and Toe in All the Three Regions of the Great little World He was cleansed by the Priest O what work he had to do for the Poorest man that was Unclean and could not bring the offerings prescribed And for every House infected also Doth our God take care of Houses and of Clay that Cursed Adama The Hysop Cedar-wood and Scarlet to the Hebrews and Two Birds in Heb. nere akin to Goats One killed in Earth over Water as St Peter on Genesis and Psalms and 2d Command and the other a Scape Bird as the Scape Goat And the Plants and Trees and Fishes and Fowles and Earth and Water and All must Hear and serve Israel and Jezreel also near in Hebrew to the Leaper as the Seed of God! There was also an other shaving for the Nazarite when the Hair of his Separation is shaven as we read in Numb 6. immediately before the Solemn Blessing prescribed As if This had some relation to the Nazarite or Separate person after his coming in again And the very word in Jeremy 7 29 Nizrek may allude to the Law of the Nazarite But yet there was more Hope and Comfort in a Womans shaving than a Mans. For if Her Lord bid her shave off her Hair it might be a sign he meant to marry her For so the Law was If thou lead Captivity Captive as Christ hath done and see a Woman that thou lovest She shall shave her Head and pair her Nails or Goatishness Sipharnea We saw it in Saphira the Goat as also Seir is Hair and a Goat Yea the very Time may be There Hinted perhaps for God is Infinite How long Christ must stay for his poor Captive Spouse before he may be Married to her though she be prepared and adorned as Ester was in order for her going in to the King As the Lambs Bride in the Revelation cometh down from Heaven As if There All the Saints departed were but perfuming and preparing to be his Bride on Earth and Reign on Earth at the End of the Weeks How Long Thou shalt bring her Home to thine House and the souls under the Altar cryed How long Lord and she shall put off her Captive Weeds and shall remain in thine House and bewayle her Father and her Mother in their Enemies Land they shall confess their Fathers sins we saw it before A Full Month or Moon of Dayes And after That Thou mayst be her Husband And if afterwards she please thee not Thou mayst leave her to her own soul which is the great thing to be feared of a Backsliding heart from Christ But thou mayst not sell her because thou hast Humbled her Jacob also stayed with Laban before he asked his Daughter a full Month or Moon of Dayes Chodesh Jamim but in the Law of Deut. it is Jerach Jamim As also 2 Kings 15. 13. May we not also compare That in Jer. 2. Thy own wickedness shall instruct thee thy backslidings shall rebuke thee See and know that it is an evil and a bitter thing that thou dost forsake the Lord and yet more Thy God! For of old I broke thy Yoke and burst thy Bonds Ezek. 16. and Epistle of Baruck I planted thee a Noble Vine wholly a Right seed How Then art thou Degenerate And How canst thou say I am not Polluted A Wilde Ass as the Angel said to Hagar we are now There with Ishmael But God will Hear Taught in the VVilderness as Hagar was and snuffing up the VVinde or snuffing at the Spirit in the Lust of her own heart or soul the very word we saw in Deut. 21. 14. VVho can turn her All that seek her will not weary themselves to finde her Or rather Let them not faint or despair For in her Month Chodsha They shall finde her Then withhold thy Foot and Throat But thou saidst It is Desperate But can a Maid forget her Ornament and a Bride her Attire Yet My People My people have forgotten me Dayes without number But why do My people say We are Lords or have Power Radnu VVe will come no more to Thee But then follows the sweetest Chapter of the Bible to an Adulterous Spouse Yet turn again Yet Turn again Return return O Shulamith For I am Married to You c. Which at length melts her into Tears and sweet supplications In the close of the 3d Chapter and God answers in the 4th If a woman bear a son she was Unclean 7 Dayes as in her common separation not observing which cut off and spued out the very Heathens Levit. 18. Ezek. 18. Esay 30. 22. Lam. 1. 17. and her son not Circumcised till the 8th Day and Then she must remain 33 Daies as the Moon 333 Hours and then she may eat the Holy things and come into the Sanctuary with two Turtles or Pigeons if she could not bring a Lamb which made them so dear that the Sanedrin altered this Law it seems and our Saviour scourged the sellers of Doves also which were brought by his Poor Blessed Mother Who presented her self and Him also in the Temple at 40 dayes being the Sabbaths of his 40 Weeks in the Womb As at 40 Daies after his 40 Hours in the womb of the Grave He was presented to his Father in his Heavenly Temple 40 Years before the Sack of Jerusalem But for a Daughter the Woman was Unclean 14 Daies the 2d Sabbath and the Day of Passover and Then she must not enter the Sanctuary in 66 Daies Which is the very Number of Pentecost or Feast of first Fruits or 50th Day after the sheaf which was the 16th Day of the Year And as this was 66 Daies so the Moon returneth to the Sun in 666 Hours And when any Woman or the Church is freed from the Power or Rule of the Moon and her Changes or Courses at the Jubilee of 49 or 7 times 7 Then she need not fear That or any other separation in common course And if she should be sick so long as the Woman in the Gospel spending all her Substance yet she may be healed if she come behinde him and but touch the Hemb of his Garment It is all Perfumed with precious Ointments as we saw before from Psal. 133. Jephtas Daughter returned after Two Months bewailing her Bethulia which again in Judith and the Daughters of Israel went from Dayes to Dayes a Day for a year to lament the Daughter of Jephta 4 Daies in the year Jephta's 6 and Ibsans 7 Elans 10 and Abdons 8 bring us to the Sun of the 15th Day with some Healing in his wings also though but a little Sun as Samson may signifie with his 30 Companions as their Month had 30 Daies and 7 Daies also for the Week and Sabbath Both his Eyes or Witnesses put out He pulls down the House and more are slain by his Death than all his Life And there
was a great Earthquake and the City fell with 7000 Names c. This Angel in the Sun might Preach the everlasting Gospel and Judgement also Bedan In Dan or in Mahane Dan as the Hebrew of Judges 13. 25. 1 Sam. 12. 11. which may shew us He was After That History of the Danites Judges 18. 12. An Angel also appeared to Josuah to Gideon as now to Manoah from Noah Rest. This man must give them Rest also and carry them through the Flood of His Generation As Noah did in His and Moses in His. And as they came out of Aegypt on the 15th Day at Sun-set or 360 Hours So this Sun also set about 360 Years from Aegypt or the Minha of the 15th Day 3 Times 40 make 120 the Moed and 3 of these Moeds make 360. 3 Times 40 more in Elies 40 Samuels 40 with Saul and Davids 40 bring us to Solomon Peace and the Temple founded in his 4th Year as the close of the 4th Moed or 4 times 120 or 12 times 40 being just 400 and 4 score Years from Aegypt as we read in the 6th of the First Book of Kings And 480 Hours bring up the last and great Day of Unleavened Bread the close of the Feast of Passover or 21st Day of the Month For Solomons great Feast of Dedication To be compared with the great Feast of Tabernacles in the 7th Month of the Year As His Feast was the 7th Month of the 7th Year of the Temple when it was fully finished and 14 Dayes as 14 Hours we saw before And although the Tabernacle was a good while at Gibeon of Benjamiu As the Ark at Kiriath-jearim of Judah as the very Temple Courts were parted between Those two Tribes Yet little Bethlehem also became a great Scene of Action during these Times of the Judges Thereabout was Rachel buried with her Idols which we may finde growing up Thence again In Michaes 〈◊〉 and the Falss Prophet also a poor Levite of Bethlehem Ephrata Spreading also to Dan as a Type of Jeroboams Calves of Aarons Cow to Dan also with Jonathan of Gershom of Manasseh where the Mazorites observe a signal Character to bid us pause till the Captivity of the Land as we read in Judges 18. Though it may lead us also to the Ark taken by the Philistines at Elies Death And as Elimelech carried his Wife and Children from Bethlehem to the Land of Moab so did David also of the same Bethlehem and of Elimelech by Ruth carry His to the same Moab And afterwards also to the Philistines where he sojourned as the Ark and Abraham and Isaak had done before him Dayes or a Year and 4 Months And so the Levites Concubine of Bethlehem also played the Harlot and stayed Dayes or a Year 4 Months In which places as that also of Rebecca Let her stay Dayes or a Year or 10 Daies in the Plural seem to speak a full Year As Two Daies in the Dual seem to intimate a Month. As Numb 9. 22. Dayes or a Year or a Month or Two Dayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just 666. As the Moon returneth to the Sun in 666 Hours and to them at the Poles in Twice so many Dayes as the Sun in Months as we saw before We see how Idolatry was followed with Adultery and Both from the same Bethlehem as in divers Scriptures So St Paul ranketh their sins in the Wilderness by Idolatry Fornication Tempting of Christ and Murmuring 1 Cor. 10 and Jesabels Charge even in the Revelation is enticing to Adultery or Fornication with Eating but Eating things offered to Idols Both those Adulteries were severely punished For notwithstanding his Infinite goodness he knoweth How to punish the Ungodly but especially those that walk after the Flesh and speak evil of Dignities 24000 slain at Peor about 66000 at Gibeah which infected all the 12 Tribes with the 12 pieces of the Concubine and cut off Little Benjamin All but 600 men that fled and hid themselves 4 Months and Elizabeth hid her self Five Months in the Rock of Rimmon As Saul of that Tribe also had but 600 men left him after God had rejected him 1 Sam. 13 and chosen David who had also 600 men with him and parted also as These 600 by 200 and 400 to recover Ziglag and these 600 were kept up for his Guard we see in his flying from Absalon As also the Danites that Sacked Laish and set up Idolatry were 600 men as Shamgar slew 600 Philistines with an Ox goad of which we may read in Hoseah with other Prophets To be added to All before of 600 and 666. And as those things in the Wilderness followed Israels Vow Numb 21. So do These in Judges Jephtae's Vow and the peoples also for putting away their strange gods And as Serpents seized on them There so did Nahash the Serpent Here also till he was swallowed up by Saul as Death and Hell must swallow up the Serpent also in the Revelation Moses was bid to make a Seraph as the Serpents are called Seraphim the word for Angels in the 6th of Esay But Moses made a Nahash of Nehust a mighty Type of Christ who only can deliver us from the Serpent as old as Paradise and the Dragon and the Beast and its Image also made by Aaron or Micha or Babel or any other And yet Hezekiah durst destroy That Brazen Serpent and call it Nehustan a little piece of Brass So Dangerous is a lawful expedient or requisite Matter of Worship also when it degenerates to Idolatry or Superstition As the sourest Vineger from the quickest Best and sweetest Wine There was a strange Fate may we say that followed Those Serpents which bit Jacobs Heel so that he Halted ever after and their very next step was to Oboth Pytho's or Pythons As from the Serpent to the Devil And so also in Samuels time They were bitten with the Serpent Nahash and they murmur for Saul which is Hell Sheol Gods Scool and Mans Soul if God leave it as he did Israel here till they chose and sought their Saul As Samuel alludes and gives its Etymology 1 Sam. 12. And when you saw Nahash the Serpent You said Nay but a King shall Reign over us when the Lord your God was your King And now behold the King whom you have chosen and sought him or Saultem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1331 coming up to the double of 666 the number of the Serpent just 1332. But 3 less than Daniels 1335. And again he threatens a sign to make them see their great evil in rejecting God to Saul them a King Lisheol Verse 17. And when they heard the great Thunders in Harvest which should be remembred when ever so they cryed unto Samuel Pray for thy servants Nay but a King and now Thy servants Lest we Dye For we have dded to All our sins This evil also to Saul us a King Lisheol And then comes One of the sweetest places in the Bible Fear not c. For the Lord
the Lords Goodness and Jedaiah the Lords Knowledge and of All These Make Crowns for Jeshuah and for Zorobabel also For He is bid to go to to the House of Josiah in the North or Hidden Secret of the Lord which is Zephaniah As alluding to the Prophet Zephaniah who was in the Dayes of Josiah as we saw before And now also the House of Josiah was in the Lords Zephaniah Secret Councels of the North or if you please in the Holy Spleen of God As our Spleen is at our Left side As Babylon and All of Spleen or Wrath is at the North or Left Hand of God which is also the Hidden Secret as the Hebrew word intimates And the Temple North Gate Tedi was named from Hiding as Hidden by Antonia or by the Hill Bezetha From This House of Josiah Hidden in the North came first Jeconiah through a Northern Gate of the Temple called Jeconiahs Gate and Then Zorobabel a Nephew of Josiah by Jehojachim who begat this Jechoniah the Cursed Man in Jeremy 22. They shall not lament for him saying Ah my Brother 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as we saw before As I live saith the Lord If Coniah were the Signet on my Right Hand yet would I pluck thee Thence to put him on his Left But Do not his Bowels begin to yearn already In that pathetical Question following Is this Coniah a Despised broaken Idol Is He a Vessel of no Pleasure Good for Nothing Why is he Driven out c. Hear O Earâ—h Earth Earth Not a word of Heaven What Write you For He must be written in the Dust as Jer. 17. 13. Or esteem and reckon you This Man Ariri as akin to Arur Cursed As Childless But yet he was not Childless As This very Text may shew us For it Asketh before Why is he cast out and his Seed also to a Land they know not And to put it out of Doubt the very Gospel tells us that After his carrying into Captivity He begat Zalathiel in the 1st Chron. 3. Shealtiel that is I Sought God the son of Jehojachin Assir or Bound As Psal. 146. The Lord Raiseth them that are bowed Down He openeth the blind Eyes as Christ was sent for these ends and He looseth the Prisoners Assyrim and so Here Assyr the Prisoner And his Name was Jehojachin the Lord will Establish both Jachim He will Raise and Jachin He will Establish And so we have Jachin a Prince as before Jachin a Priest Two Witnesses Jeshuah salvation or Jesus the son of Jozedek the Lords Justice so near akin to Jachin the Priest and Zerubbabel the stranger or Fan of Babel from Jachin the Prince also but in Bonds Assyr he Bowed and besought the Lord it seems as may be sweetly promised in Jeremy 22. 22. Compared with Ezek. 16 and 37. and so was freed also from his Bonds set above All the Princes with him So gracious is God in afflicting us as we saw before in Menasseh and many others So he calls this son of his bonds as Pauls Onesimus alluding also to That Is Jechoniah a Vessel of no profit Shealtiel I sought God As alluding also to Saul as if He were Here come up again who Dyed as we read 1 Chron. 10. because he would not seek God but Ob or the Devil Lisheol As alluding to His Name also as we saw before And that God heard Him also may be Hinted in His Sons Hosama which is He was Heard and Pedaiah the Lord Redeemed Who begot Shimei that Cursed David and Zerubbabel and Shelomith as we saw before on the Canticles By which and other things we may see Solomon had also a Prophetick spirit when he cryed Return Return O Shulomith Return Return And That of Mahanaim also from Padan may allude to Pedaiah Their Redemption And His Right Hand Pillar Jachin Yea and what If his 400 Pomgranates might look Forward also as well as Backward Seeing from His works finished There were very few years if any more than 400 to this Jachin we are now getting out And as we touch'd before in Jachins Tenth So also by Ezra 2. we mâ—y see there returned but a Tenth and scarce a Tenth of those that came from Aegypt Whence were above 600000 and Here not 60000 12 years old as in Esdras Though He reckons the very Servants and Handmaids also not a Pin must be lost of the whole Tabernacle and the Vessels in full tale Yea and the very Camels Mules Horses Asses and the very Hairs of your Head are All Numbred As remembring that we saw before in the 4th Command Thy Servant and thy Handmaid Yea and the Son of thy Handmaid often urged by David Thine Ishmael Thy Ass and thy Ox must Rest and be refreshed also or New Souled All their Sons and all the Congregation were but 360 as Dayes in their Year and 12 years old as Hours in the Day above 42000. As alluding to their 42 Mansions in the Wilderness as 42 Months in the Revelation and 42 Children by Elishas Bears To which God may allude in that of Hoseah I am God and not a Bear or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to devour you Yea I will give you 42000 from Babylon for Chose 42 Children devoured and the Years also or Women Eaten by the Cankers and the Locusts that had Hair as Women in the Prophet Joel and the Revelation Being returned to Jerusalem with 12 Elders Neh. 7. 7. as the 12 Hours of Day and Adonikam also My Lord Riseth or Commeth with 666 Sons as Ezra 2. 13. They set up the Altar in fear 3. 3. and Offered the Daily Tamid c. From the First Day of the 7th Month the Great Month we seek and kept the Tabernacle Feast before the Temple Founded in the 2d Month as Solomons in the 2d Year as Moses Tabernacle Raised Ex. 40. And Then they sung and sounded Trumpets with great Praises but others wept and yet God Accepted Both though there is a way He Best accepteth and That he will teach the Humble As in our Bodies Hot and Cold Dry and Moist Up and Down Draw in and Thrust out Yet All good Harmony So in Israel So in the Body of Christ. Even After Babylon also Some Weep and Pray when others Sing Praise and with Musickalso and yet Both I hope for a good End and from a good Heart and God accepteth our calling him Father As a Childe calling Dappo Though we know not why the Childe so calleth Him or whom it meaneth by its words perhaps but by its signs and looks or sighing somwhat else O the Heart and Kindeness of God our Father Do but go forward or if you cannot go forward Do but stand still quietly and you shall see the salvation of God O the Heart of God which cannot be seen but you shall see the Face of God But Do not fall out by the way Nor be Afraid with any Amazement Love will cast out Fear And Ezra called them Even All His Company to Ahava
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
to These Courts or the Great Court in distinction from That of the Priests or men of Israel which yet with the lower part of the Altar also in Ezekiel is called by the same name of Azra or Aezra as we saw before when we called it Help and send thee Help from his Holy Place c. Which grew up to Comfort also in Nehemiah the Lords Comforter coming after Ezra the Little Helper as the great Comforter in the Gospel came after our Saviour the great Helper These Subburbs and the 5 steps through the next Wall to the Womens Court as the 12 Years and Half between Ezraes first coming and Nehemiahs for the Court of the Gentiles was All plain till they rose up into Chell by 14 steps as the 2d Passover answering to the other 14 Cubits through the Gate and Pillars of Shushan to Solomons Porâ—h And Nehemiahs great work was to perfect This Separation and from Women also that were left below while Those of Israel that were Purified came in to This Ezra of the Womens Court after their 80 Dayes and 12 Hours of the Night answering the 80 Cubits and 12 Steps as before And comparing Ezra and Nehemiah together it is clear enough that their great work was in This Womens Court where they read the Law as we found before in Deut and There the great Covenant-makers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 670 or 1230 with the Oath and Curse also against Unlawful Women the proper work of This Court and for the Sabbath Day although the Covert of the Sabbath or to Rest in while the King entered to worship or on other ocasions was above or before This And for the Chates or Goats to make Atonement for All Israel and for the Tenths as we saw before with First-fruits and How the People sanctified to Levi Levi to Aarons Sons and many other things But especially the solemn Feast of Tabernacles and Palm Branches with the great Hosanna Not onely as Types of That great Feast of Tabernacles we are seeking in the Times that are to answer These from Babylon the Last and great Babylon in the Revelation But also the Proper work of this Court of Women in which were the Psalms of Degrees the Great Hallel every day with Dancings and other Unexpressable Rejoycings at That great Feast of Pouring waters out as a Pledge of the Holy Ghost to be poured out on Men and Women Sons and Daughters also that might not go Higher than This Womens Court but on some special occasion for their Sacrifice As the Latter Rain in This 7th Month which yet was the First on other account as we saw before from places of the Law to be compared with Joel 2. 23. And as That perfect Cube the Oracle might note our Saviours Kingdom in the Perfect Cube of the New Jerusalem as in Revelation 21. 16. So might the Best Estate below it be shadowed here in this square Court of Men and Women together which was fittest for their greatest Meetings so capacious being a perfect Square of 135 Cubits And as before we saw the first and 2d Passover shadowed in the first and 2d 14 steps or Cubits distinct from the rest before or after them and the Pentecost also in the 66 cubits as That bringeth in the 66th Day of the year and then comes up the First-fruits of Holyness to God in the first Distinction from the Gentiles which they called Chell or Hell So here in This square of 135 Cubits may be represented those 135 Dayes from the Pentecost to the Great Hosanna at the Last and Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles For from the Pentecost which was ever the 65th Day of the Year and the Minha between the Evenings in the Scripture Language shutting up the 65th and beginning the 66th Day As 66 Hours come up to Noon or the 3d Days Dinner as 14 Hours brought up the first Days Breakfast There were still 113 Days to the Feast of Trumpets by a constant Rule we see in their Calendar published by Munster and others and then 10 more brought up the great Day of Atonement and Then 5 Days more began the Feast of Tabernacles and the 8th Day after was the great Hosanna for they sang Hosanna Daily all the Feast but now 7 times about as 7 times about Jericho the last and Great Day of the Feast of which John 7. 37. and John 9. 7. sendeth the Man born blinde to the Fountain Siloam from which Well of Salvation as Esay 12. they Drew Waters with Joy to pour them out with Singing and Dancing with Musick all the Night almost Ezcept the Nights before any Sabbath in that Feast or the 8th Day which was As a Sabbath We have yet said Little of the great Release the Solemnity of Release as Moses expresseth it Deut. 31. In the Feast of Tabernacles at the End of every 7th Year Which we refer to our Glances on the Mysteries of Ester the Hidden woman Daughter of Abihel the Father of Hell and Kill and Heal and Hill and Power also the near Kinsman to Hiel the Living God and Mordecay the Living One that was Dead or in Bitterness or seeming Rebellion of Shimei and Kish or Sheol of Jemini c. She was married to Ahasuerus our Brother and Root who also Hasted but with silence to be Poor to make us sure and Rich and reign with All his Provinces 12 times 10 and 7. As This was in the 10th of the 12 Months of the 7th Year of his Reign and being Then Married to his Jewish Spouse that had been in preparing 12 Months He made a Great Feast even Esters Feast to All his Princes and Servants also and Then he made a Release a Great Release to All his Provinces from India to Aethiopia and besides the Release or Forgiving Debts he gave Gifts also Gifts for Rebbels and they were according to the state and Glory of a great King But we are yet with Ezra and Nehemiah at the Feast of Tabernacles That end of the Law and the Temple also which began with a Tabernacle and will End with the Tabernacle of God with men keeping this great Feast of Tabernacles as we read in the Revelation And to make it up yet nearer to Daniels Motsa the End or Issue of the Temple Built or its Going out As Ezekiel was to shew them its Motsa Goings out as well as Going in 43. 11. The very Place where they used to gather Branches for the Tabernacles neer Kidron of which before was called Motsa the Spring or Goings out of the Waters or Willows also as we may learn from the Talmud it self of These very Tabernacles And that its Place at the Temple was This Womens Court as they call it of 135 Cubits as in Hours the Morning of the 6th Day when Man was Created as he fell they say on the 6th Day and so our Saviour born or crucified on the 6th Day But in Dayes it may be the Time of Ezraes coming Hither the
who reigned 36 more and thence 390 to the Cities End and Temples make 906. Thence 70 to Cyrus and 80 to Ezraes 7th of Artaxerxes and 490 Thence for Daniels Weeks to the Month of our Saviours Passion make 1546 or 47. So that the Passover at which he suffered and the 3d Day following for the 16th Morning or Barley-sheaf the first of All First-fruits to be Heaved up before the Lord as our Saviour Rose from the Dead upon the 3d Day after his Death and then his Ascension 40 Daies After the Grave As he was presented in the Temple 40 Daies after the Womb by his Mother coming to the Sactuary 40 Daies after her Son was born And Pentecost the 50th Day from his Resurrection might be All in the Year 1547 or 48 From Aegypt But if the 70 Years ending at Cyrus did begin at Jehojakim which is Daniels or Jehojakin Ezekiels often called Our Captivity as many Great men begin them Yet in some respects there may be Greater Harmony For Then abating 11 years from 1547 or 1548 there will remain 1536 or 1537 the very first Hour of the Day of Pentecost beginning from the Evening and allowing 12 or 14 more for Nehewiahs coming after Ezra to finish the Cities Walls and Government we come to the very Tamid of That Day of Pentecost when the Holy Ghoâ— came down in the Third Hour of the Morning Acts 2d But However 1536 Hours bring us just to the Beginning and 1548 to sun-Rising of the Day of Pentecost the 65th of the Year As 65 or 66 Hours bring us through the Tamid of the 3d Day to Noon or Dinner time To 65 135 make just 200 which in Hours bring us quite through the 8th Day on which the Son was Circumcised And in Daies they bring us quite through the Feast of Tabernacles and conclude the 8th or Last and Great Day of That Feast which they call the Great Hosanna Which may also intimate that as a new Year began from their coming out of Aegypt at 360 Hours So also from the First Day of Tabernacles which is the 15th of the 7th Month as That was the 15th of the first Month. And now we may begin all our Acounts from This 7th Month As from the First and from the First of Tabernacles on the 15th of the 7th as from the First of the First Seeing 15 Days in either make up just 360 Hours As Dayes in their Year From 65 the Day of Pentecost taking out the Days before the Passover we leave but 52 as Weeks in the Year and so many just there are between those two Holy Courts of the Temple 135 and 187 But 65 out of 135 leave 70 for the Area of the Porch Temple and Oracle As the 70 Elders many other Seventies in Scripture And as 65 with 135 brought us to the great Hosannah So 187 the Length of the Priests Court in Hours bring us just past Noon or Dinner of the Day of Circumcision or the 8th Day So in Daies they bring us just to the great Day of Atonement or the 10th Day of the 7th Month which as we saw before was by a perpetual Rule 123 Days from Pentecost And as Pentecost did respect All the People who were All to bring and All concerned in the First-fruits which might not be offered before Pentecost or after the Dedication so the Priests were in special concerned in Circumcision though it might be done by Others and yet more in that of Atonement which yet concerned All Israel also And so the same Court of 187 Cubits coming up just to the Day of Atonement was for the Priests and the People also that were Clean men of Israel standing in the same Court about the Altar as we saw before with little Rails And the Standers also came within the Rails and so did All that laid their Hands upon their Sacrifice And though Only the Elders and Watchers said those words in the Revelation Thou hast Redeemed us by thy Blood and hast made us Kings and Priests to God and we shall Reign upon the Earth Yet they said it As the 24 Orders of Standers for All Saints for so 't is said They had Viols full of Odours to the Lamb also the Prayers of Saints And at Solomons great Dedication in the 7th Month also we found the Cloud so filling all the House that the Priests could not enter but stood without among the Common-people as if Then there should not be or need Any such Dictinction as there yet must be observed wâ—reverence lest we fall into the great and proper crying sins of the Last Times and Last Daies also which St Paul distinguished And those are Corahs Rebellion and speaking Evil of Dignities Of which St Peter and Jude also with This Addition that God knoweth How to punish such Sinners in the Flesh and against the Spirit which the Lord forgive in me and All his People Healing us and let his People say Amen I must not omit One more Harmony of Numbers and in These Courts also And that is the famous Number 666 with All its Parts but especially 333 its Half and Half the Moons Course from the Sun or Full Moon Or Hour of the Minha Passover 333 of the Year And All the Courts of Israel made up just 333 Cubits from East to West as we saw before in the Chell before 135 of the Womens and 187 of the Priests and People All concerned in the Full Moon and Passover of 333 Just Half 666 which is but 3 times 3 lesse than 135 by 5 the steps up to it and 5 times 135 make just 675. â—ut if we begin at the bottom of Those 333 Cubits where the first steps began if those were 12 as Some say Then 333 by 12 as the Full Moons and Changes in every Year want onely 4 of 4000. But the 12 are but Half Cubits or 6 Wholes and 333 by 6 make 1998 which want but two of 2000. And Josephus an Eye-witness reckons 14 steps of Half Cubits or 7 whole which may be more sutable to all we saw before of 7 and 14. And so 333 by 14 Halves or 7 wholes are just 3 times 666 and an Half or 2331. Which in Hours bring us into the 98th Day and 98 Daies make just 3 Months and an Half So that This may be the 3 Moeds and Half for the Witnesses If God so please to help us reckon it The rather also because with All we found of 7 before we saw it the very first Number that was made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers and now by these very Measures of the Temple-Courts we are come to a Number made of 7 and of 3 and an Half Which may contain the Fates as they speak of the Jewish State or Church or if you will of Benjamin and Judah or of Israel and Judah that is indeed both Jew and Gentile For we saw before that Ephraim must make the Fulness of the Gentiles Or what ever other
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
we saw before We may add Noah born 666 after Mahaleel and 666 before Eber the Father of the Hebrews and of Time or Ever as we saw before 666 Years from the Flood bring us to the Night of Israel in Aegypt after Josephs Death And as many from the Promise to Gideons famous Victory over Midian Oreb and Zeeb Zeba and Salmunna so often spoken of in Scripture 444 Years from Aegypt bring up David from Abrams Hebron to Jerusalem or Jebus Trodden down by the Jebusites His 7 Years and 6 Months at Hebron may help us to measure Other Times also besides Solomons 7 years and 6 Months in building the Temple 521 bring up Sesack from Aegypts Pyramids in Learned Greaves the 5th of Rehoboam 666 bring up Joash sacking Jerusalem in the 14th of Amaziah 666 more may be just the time of Antiochus And then His Days in Daniel may be just 1290 Years from their settling in Canaan Jos. 14. 10. and 1335 from Aegypt Dying at the end of 3 years more than 1332 or Twice 666. And as Antiochus Days may also be a Type of Antichrists Years so may Macchabeus be a Type of Christ or Michael And Michab in His Banner may allude to Michael in Daniel or Mi el camocha in Micha as well as to Mi camocha baelim in Moses song 777 To the Sack of Samaria And from Assyrias first coming on Israel to Pompeys Sack of Jerusalem may be 666 Years As from its great siege by Senacherib in the 14th of Hezekiah or his Great sickness to the Temple Sacked by Crassus slain at Abrams Charan 666. As from Hezekiahs Death to the Parthian Sack or Jerusalem taken by Herod which is also the very year or next to the Head of the great Aera so common in the Councels and other accounts of Spain Conquered by the Romans or Taxed by Augustus or Receiving the Julian Year but 8 Year old from Julius Caesar to That in Augustus Rome was Born with Hezekiah very near his Birth about Cxi years the measuring Line before Josiah 222 before the Jewes return from Babylon as many reckon 333 before the 70 Weeks if they End in the Roman Sack 444 Before the first Nicanor and his Greek Aera in the Maccabes Olympic 470. 555 to their seizing Asia from Antiochus the Great 666 to Tigranes who was conquered by Pompey sacking Jerusalem 777 to Pontius Pilate who crucified our blessed Saviour about 1536 years from Aegypt as the Pentecost began from 1536 Hours of the Year And if we multiply 70 the Jewes great Number for their Elders and years of Captivity and the whole Area of the Temple Porch and House and Oracle by any 22 we found before in their Alphabet or number of High Priests before the Captivity or the Cubits of the Priests and Peoples Court before the Alâ—ar or between it and the Temple or its Floors Height above the Gate of Shushan or any other 22 the sum will be 1540 But 4 more than 1536 the first Minute of the day of Pentecost As the great Pentecost in Acts 2d was from Aegypt 1536 years And adding so many as may make our Saviours Birth just 70 or his Baptism 40 before the Last Sack of Jerusalem we come just to 666 from the Chaldean Sack and so near to 1666 from Aegypt or 1670 that This last great Roman Sack after our Saviour may be just the Centre or Middle Point of Time between Aegypt and the End of Babilon with All the Times thereof in the Prophets or Rev. For as between the two Great Sacks there are just 666 years as Hours between the Changes of their Moon or visible state So afterwards there were but twice 666 or Two Months more between the Month begun at that great change or Roman Sack after the Pentecost Acts 2d And the Month of Tabernacles Till which from Pentecost there were no more Feasts at all but Fasts as 3Wo Months in the Jewish Calendar as an Emblem of that Long time in Hoseâ— now fulfilled while they must be without the good of a King or Prince or Sacrifice or Ephod as the bad of an Image or Teraphim From That Month so begun Two Moeds more of 666 or 1332 come to the 7th Month Beginning with the solemn feast of Trumpets or the 7th Trumpet of the 7th Month Which we may Reckon Thus 240 Hours or Years make up the 10th Day of Atonement as before or Great Affliction of the Witnesses or Congregation and Tabernacle of Witness as the Jewes called it Then mourning in Sackcloth and Ashes as Apoc. 11. 3. And they lie dead as we saw before for 3 days and and an half or 84 Hours which end in Hour 324 the Morning Sacrifice of the 14th Day whose Evening Minha beginneth in Hour 333 which added to 1332 the other two Moeds or Twice 666 comes just to 1666 the Evening before the Feast of Tabernacles when also The Tabernacle of God shall be with men If we have reckoned Right Which may yet be more cleared by our Tables and Characters if God so please
it self besides all the waters about the Earth of the Heart Or its Ayre of the Lungs whose Inspiration and Respiration as the Hearts Diastole and Systole may be shadows of Air and Light Drawn in or Covered with Darkness Cassach in English and Hebrew and again spread out in Day as Psal. 104 and divers others Scriptures allude But All are Measured by the Pulses of our Hearts and in our Temples called Times and Tempora in many Languages Being as the Commune meetings of the Two Hemisphers of our Jawes with their Hours or in Hebrew Years of 24 Teeth and 4 High Watchers which so Many Called Doggs Every Region hath its Witnesses As the Head hath its 2 Eyes as the Sun and Moon in the Heavens above between 2 Ears or Years As the Heart hath also 2 Aurtcles as the 2 Poles by which it hangs in the Ayre of the Lungs and the Lowest Region hath its 2 Witnesses also Called Testes or somewhat of Witness in so many Languages As also their Solemne Covenants were made by putting the Hand under the Thigh And so also the 2 Tables of Witness in the Ark of the Testimony or Witness And the Witness Bread of Faces and the whole Tabernacle of Witness with its Courts of Witness and Altars of Witness with the Morning and Evening Sacrifice and Sack and Minha Meat and Drink Offerings with Incense or in Hebrew Keturah coming after Sara As at first There were 2 Witnesses to the Great Word or Promise that although the Serpent might nibble the Heels of Messiah as Psalm 89. 51. Yet the Seed of the Woman in the Revelation also should Break the Serpents Head Cut off in a Type before Abrahams Testes or Witnesses At His Covenant about Beersâ—eba As Davids was with Bathsheba the Daughter of Seaven and of the Oath also As God in Levit. 26. I will send the Beast among you and I will punish you in Sheba or Seven But yet I will remember my Covenant with Abraham or my Sheba at Beersheba As also Zachariah the Lords Remembrance alludeth to his own Name and his Wives Elisabeth Gods Oath and Rest also as some sound the Word Luke 1. 72 73. And This Covenant with our Father Abraham and Sure Mercies of David are made Good to the Lowest Least Believer and He that is Weak shall be as David and receive his sure Holy things as Esay 53 with Acts 2d and 13. Rom. 4 and Galat. 3d. And All as sure in all things and as surely Witnessed As the Everlasting Covenant of God with Noah at Arrarat the Bar of Curss and Error Terror and Trembling or Wandering When God smelt a sweet savour of Rest as the Moon a Reak of Night as Jerach Reak Nihat may allude and the Psalms As the Moon a Faithful Witness in Heaven He said in his Heart I will no more smite Any Flesh for so it may be rendered As I have done But Day and Night c. shall be as long as the Earth endures Or in All the Dayes of the Earth And I will Curss the Earth no more But Bless it and accept and delight in it so as himself giveth the Etymology of Erets in Ezekiel 20. 40 That the Saints or Angels in Heaven give Thanks to the Lamb that they shall come from Thence to Reign upon the Earth as if the Earth as the Weaker Vessel should have more abundant Honour and be Centre to the Greatest Glory of God when the Curtains of Heaven shall be drawn or the Canopy rent as the Vail before the Most Holy Place For the Heavens must be no more but pass away and be rowled up as Parchment before the Fire but the Earth Endureth for Ever Though yet to be Changed and renewed so that it shall be a New Earth as a New Heaven And When This is like to be is One Great Part of this Discourse Concluding that As Time began with Night before Day or Evening before Morning so with Winter before Summer Or in Tisry the Seventh Month as the Jewes render Beresith as the Hebrew Letters in the first word of Genesis So it is very probable the New Creation or the New Heaven and the New Earth shall be when the Year that began at Nisan when they came from Egypt shall come to Tisry or the 7th Month and Great Feast of Tabernacles Or Ingathering of all the Fruits of the Earth at the Close of Harvest and Vintage at the End of the Year as the Scriptures speak When also we may Expect the Latter Rain or Great Showres of That Holy Spirit whereof we saw the Former Rain or Lesser Showers or Droppings in the First Fruits of the Spirit at the Time of First Fruits or Pentecost in Acts 2d In the mean time there are Witnesses fixed As at Mispa the Watch and Gilead the Rouls or Stones of Witness That Laban and Haran Wrath and Care and Fear shall pass away As Wrath in Hebrew is somewhat Passing away but shall not pass over Those Witnesses for Hurt to Jacob or his Relations though his Wages be Changed as often as the Moon or Lebana from Laban and he be rouled between Hamath and Haran the Heat of the Sun and Cold of the Moon or its Wandrings Yet Those Changings and the Moon shall pass away but Everlasting Kindness shall not pass away And God will also Watch at Mispa that neither Leah nor Rachel be Wronged Who were also Witnesses to This Covenant and though but Daughters of Laban Yet they may be Mothers to Both Churches of the Jewes from Leah and the Gentiles also from Rachel so often called the Barren Woman and the younger Sister or our Little Sister in the Canticles alluding to This of Laban in Lebana Lebano and Lebanon and Gilead with the Goats of Seir or Esau and Mahanaim with other things in This Discourse And Ephraim from Rachel must be scattered among the Nations till he bring in and be The Fulness of the Gentiles As Jacob said to Joseph and Then All Israel also as well as Judah shall be saved as we read in Rom. 11. How long This Woman shall be subject to the Course and Changes of the Moon and when she shal have the Moon at her feet and when be freed from it as other Women in their Jubilee of 49 is Here more fully Discoursed And the Times of Gods With-drawing or Hiding and Returning to Israel or the World as the Sun to the Moon or the Earth And of the Times of Prophesying and Ceasing or slaying of the Witnesses Which though Divers in several Ages yet are All measured by the Times of the Sun to the Moon or Both to the Earth with Their Goings and Comings Hidings or Changes of the Faithful Witnesses in Heaven Which are still much measured by 3 and an Half As at first Creation which did Bare or Bear out somewhat Hidden before The Sun and Moon did not appear till the 4th Morning and the Jewes assign the 3d Hour Till which they lay as Dead
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