Solomons Songs were 1005 and his Parables 3000 as many make the years of the World to his Temple finished And many that differ in That agree in This that they came out of Egypt 1495 full years before Christ born So that his first year was as many years from Egypt as there came men from Babylon To Jerusalem with Ezra just 1496 as they are numbred in Ezra 8. Or in a round number 1500 As the Spices in the Holy Oyl a Mighty Type of Christ were just 1500 Shekels And Shekles also may shadow Years in divers Scriptures here cited And by these accounts Nimrods Babel may be 666 years before the Golden Calf or Image of the Beast as in the Psalm at coming out of Egypt which was 666 years before Jerusalem was sacked by Joash and twice 666 before the Desolation by Antiochus and so 1335 years as in Daniel before the Temple cleansed by the Maccabees which was 1260 years before the Christians reigned in Jerusalem about 1100 of Christ which was 2555 or 7 Prophetick years from the Jews entring Canaan which was 1455 before our Saviour and by Codoman with those that follow him 2555 years After the Fall which others make 2555 before Canaans Partition Which they entered on the 10th of the 1st Month for the Paschal Lambs whose noon was Hour 234 as it was 234 years after Jacobs Death in Egypt and the number of Jericho to which they passed is 234 As Ramases is just 430 As they came thence at 430 years from the Promise and Succoth that is Tabernacles just 480 As the Tabernacle was 480 years before the Temple and their third station Etham may be the number of years from the Temple finished to Christ which were very few more then 1000. And Etham in Hebrew Letters maketh but 1001. And from Etham where they saw the Glory of God in the Cloud Pillar an emblem of Christ they turned back into Egypt and were carried through the Red-Sea and the Wilderness as Types of all the Sufferings of Christ and his Members And many other instances of Time couched in Hebrew Leters may perswade us that it was more than chance that made so many Harmonies and wrote the Law with an Alphabet that makes as many Unites which both Jews and Christians all agree as there were years from the Law so written to Christ With such consort of the Dayes and Hours of their year As Genesis hath 12 Sections as their year had 12 Months and 50 Chapters as 12 Moons have 50 Weeks and their 50 dayes between the Passover and Pentecost and 1534 Verses as Hours of their year To the Evening Sacrifice before the Pentecost or years of the World before Noahs Ark which is measured Here by its Cubits As also the Tabernacle and the first and second Temple And so may Ezekiels also in consort to the Jewish year and Times of the Bible to be measured by it And as the Holy Garments Veils and Curtains were woven with six Threds of Silk or Linnen called Shesh which is 6 with a Thred of Gold as the Sun with the other six Metals or the Sunday with other six dayes of the week so was all Ezekiels measured by a Reed of six Cubits and a Palm at least which may lead us to the Morning of the Sabbath or 7th day of the Week if we reckon Dayes by Cubits And the Outer Court had seven steps as the Week had seven Dayes but the Inward Court had 8 steps and the Christian Sabbath was their 8th day The Gates or Doors were 10 Cubits broad and 13 Cubits high Their shortest Dayes and Nights were 10 Hours long their longer 13 or 14 and there were 13 dayes of their year before the Passover but the Paschal Lambs were separated on the 10th day And at the 10th year their Children came under the Law for some things and others at 13 which is signal among the Eastern Nations for Ishmaels Circumcision at that age The Gate-houses 25 Cubits broad and 50 long The Levites entred at 25 and served till 50 years old Being for the First-born As the first fruits had 50 Dayes between the Passover and the Pentecost and so the breadth of the Ark was 50 Cubits As the Suburbs of the Sanctuary and divers other things in Ezekiel The Porch and holy Places as in Solomons Temple All the House with its Walls 100 Cubites As each of the Courts And so was the Court of the Tabernacle But in Ezekiel three times repeated as the Length of Noahs Ark was 300 Cubits and its Height was 30 Cubits as the Length of the Tabernacle and the Height of the Temple As their Months had 30 dayes And if Ezekiels Reed do represent a Week 25000 in the length of its holy Portion make about 480 years As between the Tabernacle Raised and the Temple or at most 490 As in Daniels Weeks Of which more in another place With Paralels between the Kings of the North and South till Rome devoured all and so became the King that should exalt and magnifie himself above every god as Dan. 11. 36. But towards the end the King of the South or Saracen shall push at him and the King of the North or Turk shall come against him as a Whirwind and shall overflow and shall enter the glorious Land of Israel and shall conquer many Countries in Asia and Africa but shall not prevail against the Children of Lot or of Edom where the Turk is glad to Guard his Caravans and pay some kind of Homage or Tribute to those Little Great Arabians But the East or Persia with the North or Tartary with the Muscovites or other Northern Princes shall Trouble him sore and though he shall come out with a great Army and with greater Fury then before yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him And his Palace is placed between the Seas rightly called The Port and between the Holy Mountains which all Ages placed in Thrace or some Northern parts of Macedonia But the Bible in the Holy Land Which was to be conquered by Saracens and Turks or Ishmael as the Jews still call them And we do not only read of Ishmael mocking Isaac till he was driven out to Those Arabian Deserts where the Saracens arose but the Prophet Jeremy shews us a Map of this in Ishmaels cutting off the Remnant of Israel in the 7th Month and in that very season when those Ishmaelites did take Jerusalem upon the 2 d or 3 d day of the 7th Month on which the Jews still fast for Ishmaels slaying Gedaliah c. as Jerem 41. But Ishmael also was chased away as before by Johanan the Grace of God which at length shall be the Great Conqueror As it is written In thy Maesty Ride on Prosperously because of Truth and Meekness of Righteousness For Mercy and Truth preserve the King and his Throne is especially Kept up by Mercy Psal 45. 5. Prov. 20. 28. THat God Loved Adam so that he could not
2300 years And from Jehojackims Captivity Till about 1680 of Christ As from the Chaldean Sack To 1691 or there about 2300 years And to clear our way by Daies and Howers of the Jewish year Pliny saith The First consent of Nations was in Letters and the 3 d in Hours Which are first in Daniel at Bab. Whence the Grecians had the Pole and Gnomon with 12 parts of the Day in Herodotus And of Hours the Magi speak to Seleucus Founding Seleucia in Appian And Semiramis Column was of 24 to above 144. As Hours of a Day and a week Lâ—â—edaemon had a Sun-Dyall from Thales or one of His Scholers as old as Cyrus And Plato speaks of Dayly Prayer in a Temple for about the 3 d part of an Hour And Homers Works were parted in Pisistratus by 24. As Hours of the Day and Letters of the Alphabet Which made the Famous Charm in Zonâ—ras that cost so many lives As Names had such or such Letters Time was first parted they say about Phoroneus whom they call the First Man Whence the Forum Pharos and perhaps the name of Pharoh came His Neece or Sister â—… was the Great Isis or Isa Woman Wife and Sara Great in Aegypt much about the time of Isis Gathering up the 24 pieces of Osyris the Sun and Moon with 24 Hours From Hâ—oâ— the Light Or their Horus Son to Osyris or Mizraim the Son of Ham or Hammon and the 12th from Adam As was Chush in Susiana and Javan in Jonia Whence 12 Ancient Gods as Agamemnons Sacrifice 12 Signs 12 months 12 Digits of Sun and Moon with 12 Hours of Day and Night As Egypt had them parted by the Urine of their Cynocephalus or other Living Hour-Glass So the Jews Chaldeans Grecians Romans All Nations Julians Hymns speak As if Plato learned Numbers From Heaven Which a Great Man expounds by the Moons moving 12 Degrees a Day But if her Hourly Motion be Equal to her Diameter or Seldom less then 47 to 48 As Albategnus Then As Day and Night by the Sun Moving 2 Diameters So Hours are made by the Moon moving 24 of Hers To 2 of the Suns And This became the Common Proportion to the Sun and Moon of Metalls Gold and Silver And if Ptolomies Lansbergius Observations be True the Suns Diameter is 24 times Bigger then the Earths Or else the Square of This is 24 times in the Great Circles Area So that Hours may come From Those Proportions of the Sun or Earth About the Sun As Job saith God Sealed up the Sun that it cannot Rise and Turneth the Earth about And yet the Sun may have especial Times of Standing still or Solstice As in Josuah Or of Turning at the Tropick in Hezekiah So the Tropicks are about 24 Degrees from the Aequator As the Polar Circles From the Pole And the Winds in Vitruvius 24. As in Mâ—nilius 12. And Aristotle names Eleven But in Charlemagn They were almost Thrice as many The Ancients Moulded All by 12 or 24. The Great Amphiction Counsel of 12 Counties with double Votes or 24 As Aeschines The Eleutherolacones 24 Towns As the Jonians 12 in Greece and 12 in Asia So the Achaeans 12 Cities and 24 persons in their Councel at Highest When Dieus pressed 24 might be delivered up They quitted place and fled to the Romans Who had 12 and 24 in Vulturs Augurs Fasces Flamens Tables of their Laws and other things from the 12 Tribes of the Old Tuscans or Grecians akin to the Jews in Machabes with 12 Gods Trying Mars As 12 Men Orestes and Others in Areopagus And 12 Labours of Hercules As the Sun in 12 Signes and 12 Hours Rome was Built 24 years After the First Olymp. and had 24 Gates 24 Parishes 24 Cardinals 24 Articles And How they parted their Aes and Estats As their Dayes by 12 is observed by Galen in a Place worth Reading Brittain had 24 Flamens with their Watchers and as many Bishops by 12 and 12. As in the Popes Letters to Austine And the Laws permitted Mariage and required Oaths of Fealty at 12 years age with Juries of 12. and 24 Aldermen Moses saith God Parted out the Heavens to the Nations and They parted them by 12 or 24. And again When he Parted the Sons of Adam he set their Bâ—unds As the Sons of Israel which were 12. As 12 Light Hours After 12 Dark As the Elder Brothers For Time began with Evening before Morning As in Divers Nations And is counted by Nights As Sevenights and Fortnights with English who are Hebrews Calling Night Even to the Day As First it was and so is still about the Equator Their Span had 12 Digits and the Cubit 24. As 240 Gress or 400 Cubits made the Furlong and 24 Furlongs an Hours way they called â—ech Whence our League or Leash of 3 Miles Esay saith God Spanned out the Heavens which were parted by 12 As Their Span. And David Saith Thou hast made my Dayes as a Palm or Tap of 24. as Barley Corns which being soonest ripe was Measure to their Measures An Heb word akin to That they use for Thoughts and Hayrs As the English say a Thought more or lesse and To an Hayr or Hayrs bredth and Cutting Hayr is as old as Hours in Pliny And from Barly Corns To Digits and Inches 12 Inches a Foot As 24 the Rule or Regle Foot in Heb 24 Foot the Perch as Stafford and 24 of Hen. 8. in the Exchequer 24 Blancks a Perit 20 Perits a Droit 24 Droits a Mite and 20 Mites a Grain 24 Grains a Penny and 20 Pennies an Ounce of 24 Scruples and 12 Ounces a Pound But the Hebrew Pound 1200 Gerahs 120 Drams of 60 grains or 60 Sheckles Whence the English Skales 6 Obbols made the Attick 12 the Heb Dram and 24 their Shekle and their Selang as the English Shilling or 12 d. and 24 Aldermen 3000 Shekels made the Talent which was still 6000 Drams But Double to the Grecian So that an Attick Talent of Gold as the Sun to the Jewish Moon of 360 l. As Days in their year And if Paul of Times at Areopagus do allude to That of Moses Then are Times also parted as the Sons of Israel by 12. Jacobs hand on Esau's heel in Ezdras the beginning of a New World As One of the 12 the Jewes record for Doubling the Old as they speak He was from Noah the 12th and Born 12 years after the Death of Arphaxad the 12th from Adam As we saw Chush Mizraim and Javan And as Eber or Ever had Jerâ—ah the Moon with 12 Brethren as 12 Months or 12 Hours of Night in Hazar Maveth So Jacob 12 Sons of Light as Ishmael 12 of Darkness And at all Great Changes of the World we see a signal 12. or 24. As Sodoms 12 years Bondage as hours of Darkness Before the Light with Ab. Who had the Seal and Promise of Isaak at 24 Or 99 from 75. His Eldest Nephews Ishmaels 12 As Esaus before Jacobs
Days of the Week for 2 years together and the Mean Synods and Luminations Which are Equall and may differ from the Visible by 14 Hours or as much as the Longest Day at Jerusalem The Great Sun Dyall To the World And for Eclipses also The Moons Latitude is much alike in 4 years and the Suns Anomaly returns in 4 years And 4 Julian years have just 1461 Days As the Great Egyptian Soth had 1461 years But if any choose another way of Epact The Arabick Lunar year is just 10 dayes and 21 hours less then the Solar of 365 dayes 5 hours and 48 minutes But the Common Julian Greater then 12 Moons by 10 dayes 10 hours 10 halfs and 10 minutes And the Lunar month about a day and half half hour and quarter more then a month of 4 Weeks And though the Lunar year is thus too long by 10 or 12 minutes yet it suits the Julian which is so much also too long So that the Equinox is changed from Evening to Morning in 65 years Which may be one of many reasons for the 65 days of the year in Canaan which Ptolomy placeth at 65 degrees of Longitude And a Great man did make the Suns Radius 64 or 65 times bigger then the Earths And many make the Moons Greatest or Mercuries Least distance to be 65 of the Earths Radij And the Suns Mean Distance 1288 and Greatest 1334 or 1335. As Longomâ—nt Which is but 2 more then twice 666 or 1332. or half 65 more then 20 times 65. And before the Flood 2 were born at 65 Good Enochs Father and Son One After it Eber at Arphaxads 65th Twice 65 is 130. and 130 Hours of Creation brought up Adam As 130 years Seth Set in Abels room As Tabernacles After Pentecost 130 days And in 130 years the Equinox changeth an whole day As 12 Howers in 65 years Seth at 130 and Enos in 235 which make 365 and Then they began to Proclaim the Nune of Jehovah as in Exod. 34. in a way of Churches And the Paschall Lambs to represent the Ch were set apart and Tryed on the 10th Day of the First month Whose Noon is Hour 234 235. And 235 Moons do make the common Cycle which they call the Golden Number of 19 years or Moons 235. Which bring the Synod To the Same Day again But He that useth the former Rule hath little want of other Cycles Enos at 235 and his Sonn at 325 which is 235 Turned and as 235 Hours Tyed up the P. Lambs So 325 came to the morning Sacrifice of the Passover So that These 2 represent the mourning Ch. of God which is still counted but as Sheep for slaughter As the name of Kainan may intimate As Kain and his Son Irad the Beast or Kine in our English Hebrew Kainan Mourning Mahalael Blessing God At his Fathers 70. Type of all the 70 through the Bible As 70 Hours To the Great Minha of the 3 d Day Which beginneth with the Jubilie of 49 Hours 7 by 7 Return and Rest Which are both in the Word Sabbath And the first 3 d day of Creation brought up the first Living things as Herbs Thy Dew is the Dew of Herbs and the Earth shall cast out her Dead and Thence it might be the day of Resurrection As for cleansing the Leper on the 3 d and 7th and Defiled by the Dead For After 2 dayes he will revive us and the 3 d will quicken us And the First Fruit Omer was Heaved up on the 3 d Day after the Pass-over As Christ Raised on the 3 d day and its Evening Sacrifice at 70 hours As Mahalael 70 years after Kainan One of them was Born 1260 years the other 1332 before the Flood One dyed in the year 1235 and the other 1290. the Times of the Mourning and Rejoycing Churches of God in all ages The First Fruit Omer on the 6th Day After the P. Lambs Tyed As Adam came up on the 6th Day of Creation And the Morning Sacrifice of the 6th Day was at Hour 135 As the Evening of the 8th For Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath was at Hour 187. And from Pentecost To the Great Hozanna Days 135. As 187 in all To the Great Atonement And 187 between the Vernall and Autumnall Equinox in Hipparchus and Ptolomy As 187 in the Great Feast of Asuerus in Ester and 187 Chapters in the Pentateuck And the Temple Courts 187 Cubits and 135. Mahalaels name in Heb is 136. and his Son Jared was born 135 and lived 187 After Kainan And as 70 Hâ—urs are signall in the 3 d Day and 70 Days in the 3 d month for Pent so 90 Hours for noon of the 4th Day which was first to the Sun at Creation and 90 days bring up the 4â—h month and 90 years brought up the 4th man Kainan At his Fathers 90. So the 8th Methusela begat Lamech at 187 and Lamech Noah at 182. which is twice 91. As 182 and 187 Hours are Morning and Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day for Rest or Noah Kainans Death from Lamechs Birth 361 as his Birth before Methusela 362 and twice 365 before Noah 365 before Jareds End And as Lamech lived 777 So Kainan was twice 666 before the Flood 669 After Enochs 365. As Mahalaels Death before the Flood 365. And so from the Flood or Arphaxads Birth To Abraham in Canaan 365. As the Jews reckon their Veines and Negative Precepts As Days in a year and Hours before the morning of the First Fruit Omer Which was 135 Hours after the day of Tryall Which began 1335 Hours before the Morning Sacrifice of Pentecost 1260 Hours after the Preparation to the â—assover or First of Hamans Lots And at Pentecost the Lambs and Great Peace-Offerings of the Church were Heaved up with the First Fruits of Wheat an Emblem of the Churches Rising in so many dayes or years As in Daniel and the Revelation And now seeing all these Harmonies to meet in Holy Enoch who was Heaved up as the First Fruit Omer After as many years as Hours To its Morning or Days in a year and begetting his Son at 65 as days to Pent and many other 65 in the Jewish year And the next came up at 187 as Days before Atonement and between the Vernall and Autumnalâ— Equinox We need not doubt to begin our Great Jewish year at Enoch and to go forward To all the Feasts and Fasts of their year Till at length we come To the Greatest Feast of Tabernacles and Release which we are seeking Though it be not easie to fix the season of Creation which is not agreed in the Talmud but some place it At the Great Day of the 2 d Temple and the New Jerusalem in the latter end of the 6th month And they have a kinde of Tradition as if Adam found his First Days shortning and the Sun Declining As the Psalm for one afflicted cryeth Thou hast shortned my Days and I am like a shadow that Declineth As Adam At his Fall Which
to the Pâ—rch And from Alexanders Death to the Death of the Great Antiochus 135 years and Then to the Birth of Christ 187. As from Epiphanes To the Baptism Or From Nicanors Death To the Death of Christ which was from Alexanders Death or Taking Babylon As many years As there be Or they Reckoned Days in a year And Thus the 500 Cubits from the Eastern Gate to the Western might denote So many years From the First Temple Founded To the 2 d and From the 2 d to the 3 d by Herod Or at least To the Times of Herod and Copâ—nius a Great Roman Governour in Judea Friend to Herod in the Western Gate of Coponius As Mark Antony in the Tower of Antonia And we cannot doubt the Time of Nicanors Death or of Antiochus in the Machabes which tell us Judas heard the Romans had beaten Antiochus and Philip and Perseus the Last King of Macedon which is clear enough from a Great Eclips about the Last Battle in so many That tell us also that Afterwards Popilius went From Aemilius To Antiochus Who had not else been so Easily Charmed in a Circle with a Riding Rod. In That Rage as Daniel foretold he leaveth Egypt and prophanes the City and the Temple in the year 145 and dyeth After Judaâ— Cleansed it in 148. And Nâ—â—anor followed in 151 or 2300 days As Antiochus dyed 1290 Days After the City Profaned At Olymp. 153. Soon after the Last Battle with Persâ—us And Nicanor was Slain in the 7th year After or about Olympid 155 and 188 years more come to Olympiad 202 and we all agree that Christ Dyed Before the 203 d Olympiad And before the year of Christ 1100 the Christians took Antioch Which might mind them of Antiochus and Him that made the Jews Free Denezons of Antioch as they were when the Christians First in Antioch as Josephus and soon After Antioch They Took Jerusalem 1260 years after Antiochus As a Type of the New Jerusalem 1260 years After Antichrist Shadowed by Antiochus In 30 more or 1290 From Antiochus They had Gotten Tyre also and Caesarea and at length Ascalon and Gaza So that in 45 years the Christians were Lords of Canaan As the Jews in 45 After Egypt As Daniels 45 between 1290 and 1335. Till Almerich joyned with the Turks and against his Faith Invaded Egypt and at length his Posterity lost the Kingdom To Saladine of Egypt And although there were more Titular Kings of Jerusalem yet they did Little One being a Leper and another Depozed for Laziness And the War diverted Thence Against the Albigenses And Jerusalem was Sackt again about 135 years After the Christians had it And again After the Sicilian Vespers and before the First Roman Jubilie the Rise of Ottoman 1300. The Porch and House and Oracle were 70 Cubits As the Dedication 70 Days from the First of Tabernacles and the 3 d Days Minha was as 70 Hours And to Measure All the Bible Times by 70 years The 7th Man Enoch was Translateed 7 years After 7 times 70 Doubled at 987. Abrahams Birth or Terahs 70 was not Twice 7 lesse then 28 as Enoch 14 70. And The Promise to Abraham 7 lesse then 29 times 70. David was Jesses 7th Son and from Abraham 14 His 70 years was just the 14th 70 from Abrahams Birth 75. 430. 475 in all 980. And from Daids Death To the Captivity 6 times 70 and 70 more To Their Return From the City Sackt To Ezra Twice 70 and 7 times 70 more or Daniels Weeks To our Saviours Death And so there was between the 2 d of Darius Nothus where some place the 2 d Temple To the City Sackt by Titus in the 70th year of Christ And as we saw All Changes by 3 in 6 or 9 in the Watches So is 1260 found to be 3 times 6 or twice 9 times 70. the Great Age in the Ps that saith The Days of our years are 70 years As if Every year were 70. The 70 Cubits of the Temple Floor were Higher then the First Gate Shushan by 22 Cubits and 22 times 70 years are but 45 more then Christs Birth was after the Tabernacle Reared 45 years before it came to Shiloh The Altar 22 Cubits from the Porch and from the Gate of Nicanor also 22. As 22 Letters and 22 Hours at the Dayly Minha 22 Days of the 1st and 7th month for Dismissing and Blessing the People Solomons Altar 20 Cubits square or 400 by 10 in height 4000 As the Cubits of Ezechiels Waters are 4000. As 4000 years of the World to Christ or the Great Pentecost in Act. 2 d. As the First Fruits of the Spirit Or from Noahs Ark To these Times and a few years farther The Porch 10 and 120 as before 1200. As the Hours between the Passover and Pentecest And so the Temple 60 long by 20 Broad 1200 But the 2 d Temple 60 by 60 3600. As the years from the Promise Till 1670 or 1675. The Holy Courts in length 333 Cubits As Hours to the Passover and Days of Hamans Lots To Purim and years from the Ark at Zion To the Sack of Samaria Or Seige of Jerusalem by Senacherib Or from the 1st Temple to Manasses carryed Captive Or from Solomon to Josiah and 333 more to Alexanders coming to the Temple much about 333 before our Saviour To these Holy Courts They did go up by Steps of 7 Cubits in Ezek. and Josephus from the Court of the Gentiles who were to Tread these Holy Courts 333 by 7 or 666 by 3 and an half or 2331 years And Daniels Vision of 2300 was 31 years after the Chaldean Sack in the 19th of Nebuchadnezar Who reigned 43 or 44 and Evilmerodack 2 as Berosus in Josephus and Daniel had his Vision in the 3 d of Belshazzar Son to Nebuchadnezar or at least his Nephew and Born before the Captivity As in Baruchs Epistles Where are also divers parts of Daniels Prayer And the 5 Steps up to the Womens Court of 135 do make 675 the very years from Daniels Captivity to the City Sackt by Titus 666 from the Chaldean Sack which held them but 60 years As the 60 Cubits of the Golden Image in Daniel And 60 by 6 in Bredth is 360 As Days in a year or years from Their Return to Antiochus And this Image is Father to that of 666. As the Talents of Gold to Solomen and Sons to Adonikam in Ezra 666. 15 Steps for the 15 Psalms of Degrees do make the Inward Court of 187 to be 2705. As years from the 1st Temple to These Times and the Outer Court of 135 at the Gate of Nicanor 2025. And 2025 years do come from Nicanor There with Alexander Till 1695 which may be very Signall For the Little Horn from Alex. also For if That or the 2 d Woe be the House of Ottoman with Horses Spitting Fire or Gunpowder Their Hower-glass may be Out at 1695 or sooner being a Year and a Month and a Day and an Hour from 1300 the
Day of Trying the Paschal Lambs or Preparation of the Passover To the Pentecost Or from the day of Aarons Death and of burning the City and Temple To the Day of Creation or Dedication of the second Temple and of Jerusalem in Nehemiahs Time and to the Feast of Trumpets in the seventh Month which was for Release and Tabernacles were 1260 1290 or 1335 Hours And from the City Taken on the 9th of the 4th Month to the Feast of Tabernacles were 2300 Hours as between the Suns Apogeum and the Equinox And their great Release was in 2300 Dayes As their Release of Hirelings or their three years Tythes and Offerings with the Solemn Confessions of Deut. 26. came out in 1260 or 1335 Dayes So Davids New Jerusalem was gotten from the Jebusites who Trod it down as their name in Heb And the Ark was fixed in Zion and the Temple built in 1260 1290 or at most in 1335 years from the first Desolation of the Flood And Nehemiahs New Jerusalem was finished and dedicated at 1260 hours that is the morning of the 53 d day from its beginning but 1335 hours from his coming thither as Nehem. 2. 11. 6. 15. and in so many years from Jacobs service in Syria Typing Israel in Assyria or from Josephs Bonds in Egypt or Israels coming and Dying there And the great Dedication and Restitution after Antiochus Nicanor was so many Dayes as in Daniel After the City Prophaned and so many years After Egypt and the Golden Calf which was 1335 years before the Maccabees which were 1290 years After the Ark at Shiloh or 1260 years After their first Bondage to the K. of Mesopotamia as a Type of Babylon and 1260 years Before the Christians got Jerusalem and Reigned in it about 1100 of Christ All which were but Types and Shadows of the New Jerusalem to come in those degrees of 1260 1290 or 1335 years After the Abominable Desolation made by Antichrist who was Typed out by Antiochus Which was to come upon the Christian Church as the Assyrian was to fill the breadth of the Land of Emanuel When the Romans had finished their war against Jerusalem in Titus Adrian and Julian After the ten first Christian Persecutions Which lasted as many years as there were Hours in ten Dayes As the Revelation saith they should have Tribulation for Ten Dayes which have Hours 240. and there were so many Years from the first Persecution which began with the Jewish War in 65 or 66 of Christ Till Constantine And the Times of Julian were as slaying of the Paschal Lambs which were Tyed up on the tenth day ending at Hour 240 and slain on the fourteenth at Hour 333 As Julian was 333 years After Christ and Romes deadly Wound was After Jerusalem sack'd 333 years As Hamans Lots or Purim from the Preparation of the Passover 333 dayes 333 was a signal Number to the Jews both for Hours to the Passover and Dayes to Purim and Cubits in the Holy Courts and to Others also As Plutarch observes in Fabius finding Secrets in the Sybils not to be uttered and vowing 333 Sesterces and 333 Denaries Deucalions Flood Phaetons Flames and the first Judgement in Areopagu much about 333 years before the Sack of Troy about 333 before Lycurgus end who renewed the Olympick Games 333 years after Hercules That we speak not of Messenia desolate about 333 years in Aelian 333 is half 666 and 333 Dayes are 12 Times 666 Hours which are the Monthly Change of the Sun and Moon and thence the Great Number of Change to the World and in Years also As it was to Carthage in Paterculus and Rome with Jerusalem and other places here discussed And to clear this way of reckoning Years by Hours of the Jewish Year the Author shews the Rise and Use of Hours with diverse Nations long before they be specifyed in Polibius or Plutarch who yet can tell us the first Hour of Romulus and the Great account of Hours among the Jews whose Year is a Model of time in All Ages So that the old Patriarchs and all the great things of Scripture were in Harmony to the Dayes and Hours of the Jewish Year and to the Site and Motions of the Heavenly Bodies As Hours are made by the Moon moving 24 of her Diameters in 24 Hours and the Earths Diameter 24 times in the Suns which may be distant from the Earth twice 666 Radij As the Moon 66 and Canaans Longitude is 65 or 66 in Ptolomy And as the first Heavenly body is above the Earth 65 of its Radij and the first Fruits of Earth were at 65 Hours of Creation in the 3 d Day which was the first of Herbs and Animals so the Feast of the First fruits was the 65th Day of the Year and in the 3 d Month As the Tabernacles twice 65 or 130 Dayes After Pentecost Adam was about 130 Hours of Creation and Seth at 130 years as many reckon Abraham was After Terah 130 years in which time the Equinox Changeth a whole Day as 12 Hours in 65 Years Enos was born at 235 Years of the World and the Paschal Lambs were Tyed up and Tryed at 235 Hours of the Jewish year and the Great Cycle of the Moon called the Golden Number is of 235 Months For which Here is an easier way to reckon the Moons Motions and the Suns Cycle with the Dayes of the Week in any year of Christ or of the Julian Period Kainan was born at 325 years of the World and 325 Hours of their year came to the Morning Sacrifice of the Passover slain at Hour 333 just half 666 and Kainans Birth was 666 Years before Enochs Translation or twice 666 before the Flood Mahalael as many years After Kainan as there were Hours to the Evening Sacrifice of the third Day As the First Fruit Omer heaved up on the 3 d Day After the Passover He was born 1260 as Kainan 1332 before the Flood and dyed in the year of the World 1290. Jared the 6 from Adam was born 135 and lived 187 years After Kainan and the Morning Sacrifice of the 6th Day of the World and of the Month and Year and so of the First fruit Omer from the Tying of the Paschal Lambs was at Hour 135 and the Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day for Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath was at hour 187. As from Pentecost to the Great Hosanna there were Dayes 135 and to the Great Atonement Dayes 187 As between the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox 187 and in the Pentateuch 187 Chapters As the Cubits of the Inward Court of Israel were 187 and the Outer 135 which being added to 130 makes 365 As Dayes in a year or Veins in our Body or Negative Precepts in the Law And Kainan was twice 365 before Noah 365 before Jareds End As Mahalaels was before the Flood and the Flood before Abrahams Call if born at his Fathers 70 As Hours of the Jewish year to the First fruit Omer Reaped After
360 Hours and before 366 the midnight of their 16th day when it was to be Heaved up After 365 Hours As Enoch was After he had lived 365 years as dayes of a year and begat his Son at 65 as dayes to Pentecost and the next came at 187 as dayes of their year To Atonement and between the Equinoctials as before And from Enochs Translation the following thing◠〈◊〉 the Bible may be found in Consâ—â—… to the dayes hours of the Jewish year and Sections of the Pentateuch which are 669 as the years between Enoch and the Flood were 669. The Ark was begun at Noahs 480 as the Temple at 480 from Egypt and the Great Day of Unleavened Bread began at Hour 480 but of the World 1536 and Hour 1536 began the Pentecost which they say continued through the 70th day Which began at Hour 1656 as the Flood in the year 1656 And its first 40 dayes Rain may be Types of the first 40 years of the second Ark in the Wilderness before it came to rest at Shiloh in as many years after the first Ark began as there are Hours in 40 Dayes which are 960. And the first Pentecost in Canaan was as many years after Enoch as there were Hours in the Jewish year to Pentecost or its Preparation And from the first Pentecost in Canaan To the Times of Jeroboam and the Caldean Sack or Desolation by Antiochus or by the Romans and divers others were as many Years as Hours between the Pentecost and Dayes on which those Desolations happened And if we may not guess at things to come by what is past in all the World and Works of God in all ages yet we may say that 1666 After Christ is as many years After their first Pentecost in Canaan or first coming to it as there were Hours from Pentecost to the feast of Tabernacles that is 3120 for they entered Canaan 1455 years before Christ and 1665 more do make 3120 as Hours in 130 dayes from Pentecost to the feast of Tabernacles Or if any please to reckon from some latter Pentecost As That in Acts 2. we may find it As many years from Egypt and their coming thence as there were Hours in the Jewish year to Pentecost or its Preparation And 1666 will be as many years After that Pentecost in Acts 2. as there were Hours from Pentecost to their Great Dooms day against their Entring into Rest and of Burning both Temples on the 9th or 10th of the 5th Mon. But the Author rather thinketh that already past and fulfilled in the Roman Sack of Jerusalem and Burning the last Temple which was as many years After their first Pentecost in Canaan as That Day is Hours from the first Hour of Pentecost and as many years before these times of Christ as there are Hours from their Dooms day To the Feast of Tabernacles which can be but 1600 After 69 of Christ And the Revelations shew the Feast of Tabernacles or Gods Tabernacle with men After the great Harvest and Vintage also which ran out from the City Sacked or Troden in That Vintage 1600 Furlongs as Apoc. 14. And although Furlongs may seem to represent Months or other times as well as Years as there are much about 1600 Months in the Jewish Wars till Adrian raced the City yet they are most proper for years of which there are many instances As Cubits are most proper for Dayes of 24 Hours as They had 24 Digits So the Cubits of the Ark do make the very years of the Ark Driven by the Flood out of the Dragons mouth from 1250 to 1335. As the years between the first and the second Ark at Zion and Davids New Jerusalem with the first Temple Or from Jacobs Service Josephs Bonds or Israels Bondage unto Nehemiahs New Jerusalem Or from Egypt and the Golden Calf and Tabernacle To the Great Dedication in the Maccabees Or from That Desolation by Antiochus To the Christians Reigning in Jerusalem Or from Julian in Jerusalem and from Romes Deadly Wound or Sack till about 1666 now coming Yet as Prophetick dayes may be years so may Cubits also in lesser bodies as the Tabernacle Where the open Court was a hundred Cubits and the Tabernacle closed 3000 which are but 20 less then the Hours between Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles As if the very Cubits of the Tabernacle might denote the years from It Flitting in the Wilderness to the Feast of Tabernacles coming And as the Arks Cubits might note the Churches years driven by the Flood and filled with Beasts rather than men and Trodden by them so the very Cubits of the Beasts skins about the Tabernacles might denote how long those Beasts should press the Church or hold it in Or how long it should be under Veils and Coverings Seeing God himself did after use the Ram and Goat whose Skins and Hair did cover the Tabernacle for Emblems of some of those Monarchies which were all shewed to Abraham and even named in the four Kings he conquered before he met Melchizedeck a Type of Christ at his second coming and in his great Vision when he saw the Time of their coming out of Egypt and those four Monarchies with all the kinds of Birds and Beasts appointed for sacrifice And the Cubits in the Temple and its Courts may represent the years to Christ and other great Periods of Time in the Bible As is here at large discussed And for fixing Times Abrahams birth which hath so divided all Cronologers between his Fathers 70 years and 130 is by these accounts fixed 2000 years before Châ—â—â—â— As 2000 Cubits in the Tabernacle before the most holy Place and 2000 Cubits between the Camp and the Ark and 2000 Cubits in their Sabbath dayes Journey and 2000 Cubits in the Suburbs of their holy Cities And Those 2000 years are parted by 75 before his Call or coming into Canaan as 75 Sons and Nephews of Noah 75 Souls of Jacobs going into Egypt 75 Ancestours of Christ in Luke 75 Dayes from the City Sackt to the Day of Dedication of the second Temple and of Nehemiahs Jerusalem and from the Day of Atonement To the Dedication by the Maccabees and from the Fast for the first Captivity in the 9th Month to the Feast of Purim and 75 Cubits from the Outer Gate to the holy Courts about the Temple And 75 is the Difference between 1260 and 1335 in Daniel and the Revelation And 430 years from Abrahams Entring into Canaan and their Going out of Egypt and receiving the Law Which was 1495 years before our Saviour As the very Number of the Hebrew Alphabet by which God wrote the Law is just 1495 and so parted as the years from Egypt By 9 Unites making 45 As years to the Ark at Shiloh and 9 Decimals making 450 As years to the Ark at Zion 45 years before the Temple finished which was 1000 years before our Saviour As their Centenaries K R S T or Christ do make 1000 or at most 1005. As
14th year or 2 d 7th And when I bring back Thy Captivity then I will bring back Sodom also thy sister and Samaria As the 2 wives of David at Ziglag or of Jacob who served twice 7 years and Then had Joseph who was bound as long and Then Foretold the 7 years Famine After 7 of Plenty The Ark was a Captive To the Philistines 7 years and Then was brought home at Wheat Harvest or at the Tabs And Ester was taken into the Royal House in the 10th month of the 7th year And David was Persecuted 7 years or Reigned 7 years and an half at Hebron before he got Jerusalem From the Jebusites who Trod it down as their name in Hebr Till He Took it As a Type of the New Jerusalem And then he made the Solemn Feast to All the People and dismissed All with Bread and Wine and flesh Although it be not called the Feast of Tabernacles As Solomons Dedication was In the 7th Month and Dayes of Tabs with his Solemn Feast After 7 years and 6 Months of his Temple As a Type of that to come in 7 Prophetick years and 6 Months After Which end about the year of Christ 1700. But Davids 7 years and half about 1666. And Nehemiah kept the Feast of Tabernacles and Release As it had not been From Josuahs Time As Neh. 8. 17. And to Clear this by the Numbers in Daniel and the Revelation 1260 or 1290 and 1335 are Dayes or Years As Hâ—urs of signal Fasts Feasts in the Jewish year As first They Fast on the 10th of the 1â—t For Mâ—riams Death and of the 2 d for Elies and his Sons with the Ark Taken Shadowing the Church As the P. Lambs Tyed up and Tryed on the 10th Which we call The Day of Tryal slain on the 14th in Hour of that year 333. As there were 333 Dayes of Hamans Lots From the 13th of the 1st To the 13 of the 12th which was also the Annual Feast for Nicanor slain as Haman at Purim the 14th and 15th of the 12th and there were 333 Dayes between the Day of Tryal and the 13th of the 12th month called Adar Pentecost the 65 t of the year and 65 more To the Great Doom of not Entring into Rest and Burning Both Temples the 9 or 10 of the 5th we call it Dooms Day Which was 65 before Tabs As the Palms or Hozanna was 65 before the Feast of Dedication on the 25 of the 9. As the Fast on the 10 of the 7 was 65 before the Desolation on the 15 of the 9. As the Fast for the Seige on the 10 of the 10 was 65 before the Last of Purim Thus the Passeover was 52 Dayes Before Pentecost the 52 d After Pass As the Fast for Jeroboams Sins was 50 Dayes before Doomsday the 52 d before the Feast of Trumpets And Nehems New Jerusalem was finished in 52 Dayes as weeks of a year or 1260 Hours which are Dayes 52. ½ As 1290 Hours come up to Noon of 54 Dayes Signal To the Jews For Reading the Law in 54 Sections As the City was Burnt 54 Dayes before the Feast of Trumpets And their annuall Fast for Aarons Death was 54 Dayes before the 24 or 25 of the 6 month For Creation in the Talmud and the 2 d Temple in Hag As for Finishing the City in Nâ—h 6. 15. But he was at Jerusalem 3 dayes before he began to work and so 54 or 55 Dayes which make 1290 or 1335 Hours As the Feast of Trumpets was so many Hours After the Day before the City Fired in the last of Kings As Pentecost was 1335 Hours After the first of the Day of Tryal which was 1290 Hours before the Preparation to Pentecost which was 1260 Hours from the Preparation to the Passover which was the first of Hamans Lots and Plots against the Jews As Ester 3. 12. 1260 Dayes are 3 years and 6 Months Ending at the 7th For Release of Hirelings Deut. 18. Esay 16. Or beginning the year in the 7th month As it did in Civils They come out in the 1st month or 1st Pass As 1290 Days in the 2 d month or 2 d Passover And brought up the 3. years Tithes and Offerings with One of the Solemn Confessions and Doxologies in Deut. 26. And the other came with the First Born and First Fruits of Wheat in the 3 d. Month about the Pentecost Which was 1335 Dayes From the said year so beginning in the 7th Month As 1335 Hours From the 1st Hour of the Day of Tryal But 1260 Hours From the Preparation to the Pass-over And for Years The Ark was at Zion in 1260 and the Temple was 1290 Or 1335 From the First Desolation of the Flood As Nehems New Jerus about 1260 from Jacob or 1290 from Joseph in Aegypt or 1335 from Jacobs Flight To Laban As the Dedication in the Macabs was just 1335 from Aegypt or the Golden Calf and 1290 from Their Setling in Canaan or 1260 From their First Bondage of 7 or 8 years To Mesopotamia Typing These 7. Prophetick years as 70. years in Babylon and 70 more To Nehemiahs Times And just 1260 years before the Christians Took Jerusalem A Type of the New Jer. to come And for Dayes also The City was Profaned by Antiocbus but 1260 Days or 3 years and half The Temple was clensed by Judas and Antiochus Dead in 1290 Dayes Azotus Taken and All cleared in 1335. As the Machabes and Jacob Cap. But Eupator got the Tower of Zion and Nicanor Swore to Burn the Temple So that All was not Fully Cleansed Till He was slain in 2300 Dayes from the First Profanation As in Dan. 8. 2300 Dayes are 6 years and as many Dayes As From the 15 of the 9th Month when the Temple was Profaned To the 13 of the 12th For Nicanor slain As Haman before And 2300 Hours come to the Evening Sacrifice of the 96 Day in which Time the Sun cometh from the Vernal Equinex To his Highest Apogeum As From the City Taken by the Caldees on the 9th of the 4th month To the Great Feast of Tabernacles on the 15 of the Seventh And in Lunar Months 2300 days are 6 years and 6 Months Coming to the Great Day of Creation or Finishing the 2 d Temple and Nehems New Jerus the 25 of the 6 Month. Or To the Beginning of the 7th with its Feast of Trumpets and Solemn Release and Feast of Tabernacles kept by Nehemiah So that 2300 Dayes are a Piece of the Law of Release which was a part of the 4th Command For the Lords Sabbath Which may be the Sum of All the Second Table As we saw before And From the Blood of Righteous Abell or First Bondage of the Church of God To the Coming out of Aegypt Or From the Great Declension of the Church In Jareds Time as his Name imports To Davids Zion Or from Enochs Birth To Solomon or from Enochs Translation To Josiah Or from the Flood To our Saviour there were much about
From Aegypt 12 Tribes 12 Fountains 12 Stones in Jordan 12 more at Gilgali and at Eball God Appointed 12 Princes and Then 12 Parâ—ers to Divide the Land And who made me a Judge or a Divider David was the 12th from Jacob and the 24th from Noah Then a Giant had 24 Digits And his Last Battle with Abner Father of Light destroyed 12 on either side with 360 for Dayes and Hours also To make a New World at His New Jerusalem And Time Passed away Vpon Him and All Kingdoms As 1 Cron. 29 30 As Time Passeth away at the 7th Trumpet before the New Jerusalem And for Watches of 3 Hours Samuel spake to Saul of 3 Dayes 3 Men 3 Kids and 3 Loaves David had 3 Brethren with Saul who had 3 Sons Slain together hid himself 3 Dayes and then bowed 3 times to Jonathan and had 3 Sons of Serviah with 3 other Worthies 3 years of Famine and 3 Dayes of Pestilence which he Chose before 3 Months War or 3 years Dearth Absalon was banished 3 years and had 3 Sons and 3 Darts in his Heart Elijah Stretched on the Child 3 times and bid them pour water thrice on his Altar Which had 12 Stones and 12 Barrels of Water And Elisha ploughed with 12 Yoak of Oxen and himself with the 12th Ezra from Ahava the 12th Day with 12 Priests and 12 Levites offering 12 Bullocks and 12 Goats at Jerusalem Nehemiah's Time had 12 Elders and 12 Levites keeping Watches in Reading Singing Praising and Praying Whence haply Watching to Pray And comparing him with Zech. we may find 12 Gates in his New Jerusalem on the 24th of the 6th Month As His Covenant on the 24th of the 7th As Daniels Great Vision was the 24th of the first Zechs the 24th of the 10 h Haggies the 24th of the 6 t and 24th of the 9th From this Day I will Bless you As the 2 d Temple was Founded on the 24th and afterwards clensed on the 25th of the 9th in Hagâ—y and Machabes Our Saviour wiâ—h the Doctors at 12 years had 12 Disciples 12 Baskets and 7 Loaves for 7 Dayes and 12 Hours and healed an issue of 12 and Raised one of 12 years Which may allude To the 12 hours of Darkness As the 12 years of Sodoms Bondage which may be Types of 12 Prophetick years before His Coming To fulfill That of Ab. and Melchizedeck Blessing him by the Most High God Possessor of Earth as of Heaven before As our Saviour when he exulted in Spirit and the 24 Elders or Presidents of All the 24 Hours At the Trumpet of the 7th Month in Rev. 11. For Every month began with Trumpets But the Feast of Trumpets did begin the 7th For Atonement Release and Tabernacles The Jews Holy things in 12 and 24. The Common Title of their Bibles is The 24. And the First hath 12 Great Sections As the last 12 Little Prophets And the Priests had 24 things from God and offered 24 or 12 Cakes in 24 halves Dayly And the Shew-bread was in 12 of 24 Omers As 24 Leviticus 12 Holy Garments had 12 Pretious Stones in Ouches Kâ—hath 24 Cities Or Levi Twice 24. As the Little Sections of Genesis The Temple Courts 24 Cubits high and either walk had 24 Pillers of 12 Cubits round As the Brazen Sea had 12 Oxen and Both Temples As Ezekiels 12 Little Chambers on either side As Day and Night had 12 hours apiece Their Last Altar 24 Cubits As they took Ezech 43 of 12 and 12. Though some of 12 by 12 or 144 As the Walls of the New Jerusalem With 12 Gates 12 Pearls 12 Fruits The Woman in the Sun with the Moon and 12 Stars As Josephs Dream of Sun and Moon and 12 Stars All the Standers or their Representatives As the Priests and Levits with Nethinims Singers Porters or Watchers at 24 places in 24 Courses by David from Noah the 24th The Camp and Levits Under 4 Standards as the 4 Watches And our Saviour walked on the Sea at the 4th Watch. As the Roman Times had 4 Watches both of Day and Night in Censorinus First about Camillus Time we find their Hours in Livy Watches in their Ancient Laws and Histories As Scipio came to Trebia the 4th Watch. Hanibal for Tarentum at the 4th Watch. Antiochus fled To Sardis by Midnight and to Apamea by the 4th Watch. Crassus jested at Dejotarus Building in the 4th Watch or 11th Hour of his Life The Little Watches had but 3 Hours a piece Though some contend for 4 and a Middle Watch in Judges As our Saviours Twelve Hours parted at the 3 d and 6 t and 9th And so the Watchers which is Daniels word Cryed Holy Holy Holy Thrice As 3 Hours in a Watch. But Antient Copies have it 9 times the square of 3 and both were Sacred to Others also For their 3 Graces and 9 Muses And as 1 and 2 make 3 and 3 more 6 or twice 3 So the Sum of These 3 differs from the next 3 by 9. and the 3 d 3 maketh 24. As the 3 d from it 42 which is 24 Turned 24 and 42 make 66. As the 7th 3 60. and the 8th 69. For the Summes differ All by 9. And They are Up and down or forward and backward the Same figures 0. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. As in this Table 1. 2. 3. = 06. 4. 5. 6. = 15. 7. 8. 9. = 24. 10. 11. 12. = 33. 13. 14. 15. = 42. 16. 17. 18. = 51. 19. 20. 21. = 60. And supposing Numbers to be Lines As there are but 4 Simple Chords as 4 Watches So but 8 Simple Arks As the parts of Day and Night are Arks in Heaven And as 4 is the First of All Sonares as its Name in Heb. So is 8 of Cubes which may All be Resolved by 8 As Sonares by 4. And as 4 and 8 make 12 which is 3 times 4 So 3 times 8 make 24 As Hours in All the Watches Arks of Heaven Which are All easily parted by 3 which is to Slice in Hebr. As Each Ark is made of 3 differing lesser Arks or Sides of a Triangle Which may also be represented by 3 Points As a Chord by 2. And if we find the Proper sound of All these Characters and give them Proper Names We may express All Persons Things and Motions with their Moods and Times In an Easy way of Speaking and Writing With an Alphabet of Natures plainest Characters As Points for Spirits and Vowels Chords for the 4 Liquids and Simple Bodies As Archs for Mixt or Mâ—â—es which may be made Aspirate Or Animate by a Point or Spirit in them and of Things also To be Known by Characters expressed by Proper Sounds But to the Jewish Watches As the Less had 3 Hours apiece so the Greater 6. and so the Greatest Harmonies are made by Halves and Quarters to their Wholes As Eights and Fifts and Thirds in Musick And As Day or Night had 4 of 3 a piece So Both together 4 of 6 apiece
As the 4 Corners in 6 Sides of a Cube To be resolved by 6 also As by 8. Divids Solomons and Nehemiahs Day was Parted by 4 Parts And so the 4 Watchers had 6 wings apiece which made up 24. And so their Tap or Palm had 24 parts in 4 Digits of 6 apiece and their Cab had 24 in 4 Logs and 24 Logs made their Seah 3 Seahs their Bath or Epha 6 Hins or 10 Omers As 10 Ephas made their Hâ—mor or an Asses Load or Attick Corus Whose Dragm was 6 Obbols and their Cadus or Amphora 12 Congii Choes and the very number of Cad in Hebr is 24. The Temple Walls 24 in Hight to 6 Cubits breadth And of 4 Kinds of Death They had 6 For strangling and Thrice 6 for Stoning And in Sacrifice God took 6 Parts The Cheek and Breast and Shoulder For the Upper Regions and the Reins and Mâ—w for the Lower with The Midriff As the Firmament Between the Upper and the Lower Waters As Psal 148. Our Body the Little World Our Foot the 6â— part of our Hight As our Cubit the 4th Our Head the Heavens Abâ—ve with all its Sphears in Circles of the Cerebellum Our Jawes Open As the Horizon between the 2 Hemisphears And Jamb is akin to the Hebr Jom a Day as Jam Now and I am in the Present Tence Our Ears akin to Years and the Heb. Years akin to Teeth or Shinne Whence our Chin and Shin And the Fewest Teeth are 24 with 4 Watchers Higher then the Rest As 4 Sabbaths of the Month with 24 Dayes And Time is Kept in our Temple Pulses called Tempora Here also the 7 Spirits before the Throne As 7 Planets in our 7 Nerves As the 7 Lamps of the Candle-stick before the Oracle with its Cherubins of Glory Shadowing the Mercy-Seat As our Eyes with their Rain-bows the Throne of God and Christ in the little Pupill of our Eye they called Elshon or the Little Man of the Eyn As Taking in the Visible Species at that Pinhole of the Dark Closet And the Species may be Direct and not Reversed As Our Eyes see them But in One Eye at Once almost demonstrative Our Heart the Earth beneath with its Sphear of Waters in the Pericardium and of Ayr in the Lungs With a mutual Tide of Light and Darknesse in Respiration and the Hears Diastole Like the Altar of Incense before the Veile With 12 Cakes of Shew Bread Made of 24. As our Heart is Circled with 12 Ribs on either side and 7 of them Better then the rest and 24 Rackets of the Back as 7 Spondils in the Neck And the same Heb words are Thoughts of our Heart and Branches of a Tree which is also the Back-bone or Spinal Marrow and for Sprouts of the Earth Our Bowels The Waters under the Earth And their Name akin to the Waves of the Sea and their Off-spring As the Gravel thereof as Esay 48. and their Yearings or Yarnings As the Tides of the Sea With a Constant Circulation of Blood and All Humours for Intermitting â—eavours This Region hath our Stomach As the Fire Altar in the Lower Court and Laver. For the Priest came As our Saviour and Every Child by Water and by Blood and the Spirit in the Blood So that Here also were All the 3 Witnesses on Earth As those in Heaven And the 7 Metalls or Planets of the Lower Heaven In Our Spleen Liver Gall Saturn Jupiter Mars Above the Sun of our stom As Venus Mercury the Moon below it Bladder Reins and Testicles These Testes draw down Fire From our Heaven Also 6 Bowels One Duodenum or 12 Digits and the Ilia 12 Times as Long. Their many Folds and Yarnings are the Scripture shadow of Gods Manifold Bowels akin to the Womb also The Bowels are as Many Cubits as Hours and Watchers in a Day or Dayes in a Month. As in Theon long before the Italian of our Bodies Symmetry Mersennus Rules for Respiration and Others for our Pulses in an Hour may shew it possible to reckon Times as Canaan did by the Flowings of Jordan Which had its 3 Regions and Seas also Merom the Vpper Waters As our Brain Above the Firmament And Kinsereth the Harp and Heart beneath And Sâ—dam Their Secrets in Heb. As the Greatest Secret in Nature and Grace also When we see the Return of Sodam and its Great Mysteries with Those of Ester The Misterious Daughter of Hades akin to the Moon and Myrtils and to Him among the Myrtils in the Bottom with the Grim Horses Speckled and white in Zechary Tides are Turned at 6 Hours in the Great Ocean As the Sun and Moon at the 4 Cardinal Points Distant 6 Hours apiece As the Trepicks 6 Months And the Solstices As the Poets make Proserpina 6 in Heaven 6 in Hell And 6 is the Number of Change and Motion As 7 of Rest And That For Earth As This for Heaven also For the Iâ—ws distinguish the Watches on Earth and Heaven by Differing time and themselves Dispute whether the Little Watches had 3 or 4 hours apiece And to end the quarrel They had Either or Neither at several seasons For the Little Watches of their shortest Day had but 2 hours and half and their Longest 3 and an half which was signal with Them also for daily sacrifice and for the Passeover at 3 hours and half from Noon As in the Talmud 3 and half is half 7 and their Service was at a 7th hour as the morning Sacrifice at the 2 d 7th or 14th hour and the Evening at the 3d 7th or 21st But the 9th Hour of the Day from Morning the Hour of Prayer and the Great Minha For although the Morning was for Seeking as its Heb Names imply yet Evening was for Finding God in all the Bible Who appeared at the Evening Sacrifice the Time of Feasting As the Marriage Supper and the Supper of the Lamb or the Passover with the Lords Supper As in Primitive Times much rather then at Dinner or in Morning Which was Mâ—urning Time and for Judgement as Evening for Mercy As if God would come and shew his Mercies more in the Close or Evening of the World then in the Morning which he chose for Iudgements So to Sodom Aegypt Corah Dathan and Abiram so to Israel also divers Times As at the Pestilence in David Who saith My Rebuke is in the Morning Chastened every Morning As the Scholler called up to School And in the Morning I will cut off the Wicked and in the Morning the Righteous shall have Dominion over them and when thou awakest Thou wilt despise their Image And hast thou considered the Morning Spring which I made to shake the wicked out of the Earth As the black Clouds by the Morning Light as Job 38. and Rev. 2. Esay saith The wicked shall not know the Morning of their Iudgement For the Bridegroom comes at Midnight and the Foolish Virgins Cry in the Morning Watch. As at the Red Sea Zephany saith He
bringeth his Judgements to Light in the Morning And the Scripture calls for Judgeing in the Morning or before the Judges Head or Heart is Clouded As the Iews expound That saying of Solomon Wo to Thee O Land where Princes Eat in the Morning when they should be Praying or Judging Which may lead us up To the First Judgement Which they place at the 2 d Morning of Creation When the Lord did Judge his Own Acts of the Day before As Examine your selves in Bed and he still and That Judgement did Separate the Waters on the Right Hand and Left Sending some Down and Taking Others Up Above the Firmament As the First Emblems of Election and Reprobation As the Goats of Seir the Goat and Lambs of Rachel the Sheep as in Heb with Her Benjamin or Sâ—n of the Right Hand As Leah the Left But at the Passover the Goats were accepted as the Sheep and some at all New Moons and Solemn Eeasts for Sin-offerings But the First Judgement was about the 40th hour of Creation or 42. As That Number is For Judgements and Punishments in all the Bible As 40 Stripes and 40 Dayes and 40 years and 42 Months or 42 Mansions As 42 Children by the Bears of Elisha And 42 is 6 times 7 or 7 times 6 and so the Great Crisis of 6 and 7 which is Rest and Motion As Fine Twined Linnen called Six in Heb. Doubled on the Tabernacle Door or Turned Every 6 hours Turn the Sun and Moon at Cardinal Points or Quarters of Heaven called Spirits in Heb. As if Angels stood at the 4 Quarters of Heaven or 4 Corners of the Earth as 4 Watches and 4 Winds Turning the Hour Glass of Time Which is but a change and flux of Mite which is Motion or Mites or Moats in Heb. The Vppermost part of the Dust As Skie doth also signifie in that Language As if All the Tides of Time and the Ocean were but Turning an Hour-Glass of the Moon and Earth about the Guilt Rundle of the Sun And as One goes up it empties out the Moats or Sand or little Tinning atomes in Hebr To the Other So that When the Moon is highest the Earth is fullest or the Waters Highest in the Sea Or its Central Fire makes it like a Boyling Pot whose water leaves the bottom as the 64th of Esay with Iob and the Psalms 6 hours Turn the Sun and Moon and 4 times 6 Turn Light into Darknesse Which was first Done at the 25tâ— hour of Creation And 25 is the Lower Root of 666. That great number of Change and Motion to the Sun Moon World Church and All as anon 6 times 6 hours bring up the Sun of the 2 d Day and 10 times 6 the 3 d. Which Turneth downwards at the 65 t and 66 the signal Number in the Jewish year of 24 and 42. 6 times 6 is 36 and 10 times 36 or 360 Hours bring up the Full Moon and so many Dayes the Full Year To the Eastern Nations Aegypt added 5 Days and at length 6 Hours And this became the Julian year which Caesar had from Aegypt 1461 Aegyptian years of 365 Dayes make 1460 Julian Which they called the Great Cynick or Sothiack year As at the Doâ—-star This was just 200 more then 1260 which is 3 and an half 360. Months in the East had 30 dayes apiece and so we finde 150 Dayes in the 5 first Months of the Flood and 1260 Days in 42 months But they say that if the New Moon were seen in the 30th Day It was counted for the first of the Month following But of late the Jews go by Mean Motions and account 59 Dayes For 2 Months Short of the True Middle Motion by an Hour and about 29 minutes And though they found a way to reconcile their Lunar months To the Solar year we need it not For God hath bounded out our way by Dayes when Ever the year began For the first 14th Day was the Passover and 15th the Feast of Unleavened Bread for 7 Days more and 16th for the First fruit Omer and the 50th next was Pentecost And the Feast of Trumpets was the first Atonement the 10th and Tabernacles 15th of the 7th month of their year when Ever it began Which From Aegypt was about the New Moon next the Vernal Equinox which must be Past they say before the Passover But we need not dispute it Though it might be cleared by their best Authors and by Anatolius and Eusebius As of late by Petitus With the Roman Yoak they shunned so by Crucifying Christ They were forced To the Julian Form also Yet they kept their Feasts by Moons and made them Tables much like Ptolomies In other things they could admit the Julian year and the rather because the 6 odd Hours in single years did keep their Equinox at a Cardinal point or one of their Great Watches But others kept the 6 odd Hours Till they made a Day and so the 4th year was Bissextile from the 6 t Calends of March or 24th of February Doubled That the Dayes of the week or Feriae might keep their wonted letters in the Common Cycle And there is Greater Harmony by Julian years in 4. then seemeth to be known to them that first used it For as the 4th Watch of Creation brought up the First Light and the 4th Day the First Sun and the 4th Week the Moon to meet the Sun again so the 4th Year brings them to meet in the same Day of the Week and is not 2 minutes more or less then 14 dayes above the Jubilie of 49 Moons Which still return To the same Day of the Week And 8 years have 3 minutes more then a full month of Weeks above 98 Moons Or a day and half with 41 minutes less then 99. So that in 8 score years they want but one day and one Hower of meeting as before and in 1600 years but 10 days and 10 Howers So that meeting on the 11th of May and 10 Houers after noon in the First of Christ They met again in 1601 the First of May just at noon And parting the years of Christ by 4 and so the Julian Period After 9 or rejecting 9 The Remainder sheweth how long the year proposed is After a Bissextile And the Quotient sheweth that the Sun and Moon met so many fortnights from their former meeting As there be Vnits in that Quotient Which being added To the year proposed and All divided by 7 The Remainder is the Day of the Week for the First of May And by consequence for the 2 d of Octob. 3 d of Ap. and July 4th of Septemb and Decemb. 5th of June and 6th of March and Novemb. For the year proposed And for the first 8. 15. 22. and 29. of January following and so forward in the next year also But if nothing remain at this Division by 7 The first of May and every Day aforesaid is the 7th Day of the Week the Jewish Sabbath Thus we get the
many place about the Great Fast of Expiation As if the Fall of the Leaf in Autumn were an annuall Emblem of Adams Fall and eating of the Tree from which the Leaves Then fall and the Floods Rising at that season were as Natures Weeping over the Fall or washing us with Tears As our Blushing at the sence of Guilt may seem the voyce of Nature washing us with Blood or crying Somewhat Now is Done that must be washt with Blood and without it Nâ— Remission The Flood was At the season of the Sun in Aquarius Then about the Winter Solstice just at Methuselas Death As his Name in Heb His Death a Dart or Deluge And he Dyed at 969 years As Hours to the Morning Watch of the 41st Day of the year at which they say he was Dead When Noah was bid to fill the Ark. Which began at His 480 year As the Temple at 480 from Moses Ark and of the World 1536. As Hours 1536 come just To Pentecost As 480 To the last and Great Day of Vnleavened Bread The Flood was in the year 1656 and Hours 1656 come just to the 70th Day very like to make Great Changes There were 40 Days of the year before the Death of Methusela or filling the Ark and 40 days of Rain and 40 days of Decrease before the Raven 40 Days are Hours 960. As Methusala and Noah lived to the last of twice 960 years And again there were 960 years between the first and 2 d Ark at Shiloh Peace and Rest a Type of Jacohs Shiloh 45 from Egypt 430 from the Promise 365 from the Flood which began 120 years after the Ark and mans day of 120 years As some make the Equinox to Change a day in 120 years As from Moses Ark of Bulrush To the Flood of Jordan when and where he dyed As 120 Shekles of Gold in His Tabernacle 120 Cubits in the Temple Porch 120 Priests and 120 Trumpets at Solomon Who had 120 Talents Given him and offered 120000 Sheep at his Dedication As 120 Levits of Note in David and 120 Christians in Acts the 1st As 120 men of the Great Councel in Ezra who came in 120 dayes from Babylon which had 120 Provinces in Daniels time So the Jews had 120 Days from the Day of Tryall To their Doomsday As 120 years of Tryall before the Flood and 120 days from Doomsday To the Profanation of the Temple on the 15th of the 9th As from the Last of Pentecost To the Great Fast 120. 3 Times 120 makes 360 3 and half 420 and 3 of these or 3 and half 360 make 1260 the Time of the Ch Driven or Trodden by the Beast As at first the Beasts Reigned till Adam came up to govern them Which wasnot till 120 Hours or 5 Days As between the Day of Tryall and the First Fruit Omer And as the first Ark began 960 years before the 2 d was fixed at Shiloh so the Flood began 960 years before the Flood Kishon sweeping Jabin or Sisera before Barak and Debora Types of the Churches Rest in the 83 d Psalm and 84 Hours are 3 days and half And Barak may allude To the Flood in That of Kishon the Ancient Flood O my Soul Thou hast Trodden down strength And Esay saith You make a Ditch of the Old Pool but regard not Him that made it Long agoe And again 960 years between the 2 d Temple and the 2 d Ark which Flitted 40 years in the Wilderness from the 20th day of the 2 d month As the first Ark floated on the same day of that month through the 40 days of Rain and 3 times 40 more as the 2 d Ark 40 years from the Philistins before it rested on Ararat As Those that flew Senacherib Compared to the Flood in the 8th and 17th of Esay upon the 17th of the 7th month which came to be the 3â— of Tabernaâ—les As if God would hint his Churches Rest should Come about the Time of the Feast of Tabernacles That 17th day of the 7th month did end the first 150 dayes of the Flood and 150 Days have Hours 3600 As seconds in an Hour And 3600 years come from the Mourning Church at Enos or Kainan To our Saviour Or from Abrahams Call to Canaan whence we may begin the Churches Flittings in Tents and â—abernacles To the year of Christ 1670 or 1675. And if That be the 3 d of Tabernacles Then its First is about 1666. First the Raven or Evil spirit sent or cast out of Heaven or the Church as in Revel 12. and Luke 10. 18. and Then the Dâ—ve both went and came As the Good Spirit on our Saviour Coming out of Jordan As the First Baptized Noah did from the Flood And the Olive branch which must be Green or else no sign of the Floods decrease for it might have Swum from the very first may shew us the season of the year as Luke 21. 30. About 292 days of the Flood or year as others reckon it And Terahs 70 was 292 years After the Flood and so the Jews account Abraham came and Lived with Noah 58 years as the number of Noah And Thus the Promise to Abraham or his coming to Canaan was as many years from Enochs Son as Hours from the day of Tryall To Pent. and from the Flood or Arphs. Birth as many years as Hours To the First Fruit Omer or as Days in a year Or in the Flood if its months were Lunar But if each had 30 days as the first 5 It was more then 365 days from the 17th in the 1st year to the 27th of the 2 d month in the 2 d year Which was much about 1332 hours of That 2 d year as it was 1332 years After Kainans Birth And Enochs Translation was about the middle Or as near 666 After Kainan as before the Flood just twice 666 from Kainan And Enochs Birth was 1326 and so but 6 less then twice 666 before Abraham Who recovered Sodom by 3 persons and 318 Enâ—chs in Heb. or Catechists As about 318 years of Eber who was 666 After Noah and about twice 666 After Mahalael and twice 666 After Enochs Son Methuselah The 4 Kings Conquered by Ab As Types of the 4 Great Watchers on Earth or 4 Monarchies Of Shinaar or Babylon Elam Mâ—des and Persians Elas Sar the Prince of Eâ—as or Greece And the 4th was Head of the Gentiles or Gojim in Heb. which may be Romans though there were especial Gojim at the Sea of Sodom and Galilce of the Gentiles As Harosheth of the Gentiles in Josuah The 12 years Bondage are 4320 days or years which added to the Floods 1656 do make 5976. As the Preparation to the Sabbath of 7000 As the Suns Apogeum comes about in 7000 years and 5976 want but 24 of 7000. Abrahams Vision hath the Pigeon and Turtle as Abraham and Lot the Good Jews and Gentiles unbroken in the breakings or division of the Bullock a Script emblem both of Egypt and Babylon with its
K. eating Grass as an Ox and of the Ram or Medes and Persians in Dan. and the Goat for the Grecian Monarchy The Fowls Chased by Abraham may note the Romans famous for Ravens in the Punick Warr and Eagles as in Daniel and our Saviour As the Babylonians were for Doves in their Ensigns and letters about Doves necks As fly from the Dove of the North and as a Trembling Dove or Jonah from Assyria Which also worshipped the Dove as That which kept Semyramis or Semyrian Kept by the Dove And Abrahams Vision had All Beasts and Birds for sacrifice And Divers Nations learned such a way of Covenants and Lustration Cutting a Bullock as in Jeremy with a Ram and Goat also in Greece And the Macednians bowed To the Goats Hans in Justine and Plutarchs Pyrrhus And the Heifer of 3 years old may denote 1080 years as Dayes of 3 years and Clakins of their Hours As years from Abraham To the Fall of the first Monarchy and Rising of the 2 d. at the 7th year of Joash or in Amaziâ—h Or of Rome and Nibonassar with the Greek Olympiads in Vzziah 3 times 3 years are 3240 Dayes or years From Babel Built To the Christians Taking Jâ—rusalem Or from the Covenant made with Abraham or the Birth of Isaak To Ottoman and the first Roman Jubilie So also From Mâ—ses To These Dayes Abraham saw his Seed should be gotten out by many Plagues As Sara was Recovered Thence by Plaguing Pharaohs House and at Sun-set the very season of their coming out as Gen. 15. 17. Deut. 16. 6. They were called up at Midnight after the Passover but got not out of Aegypt till the next Sun-set at Hour 360. bringing up the Full Mâ—on as Dayes 360 the Full year and That was Afterwards the season of the First Fruit Omers Reaping Which was Heaved up As They were and Christ was to be And so they carried up the Bones of Joseph and the Patriarchs as Acts 7. From Ramases they came to Succoth Tabernacles and Then to Etham in the 3 d station As our Saviour said I Walk to day and tomorrow and the 3 d day I shall be Perfect As David also Then I shall be Perfect Which is Faham in Heb. There they saw the Glory of God in his Cloud and Piller Promised to every Cotage on mount Zion and to All her Churches which are therefore many in Esw 4. This might be Minba time of the 3 d Day from Aegypt or at Hour 430. As it was year 430. They Past the Red Sea upon the 21st of that Month the Last and Great Day of Unleavened Bread wch began at hour 480. As the Temple at year 480. and was Dedicated in the 7th month Ethanim and Tabernacles as alluding both To Succoth and Eâ—ham The Red Sea in Heb might be called Red from the Great Trade for Mimum and Vermilion at a Port of it in very ancient Authors or from Erythrus that ruled in the Ilands where Edom never was Though once his borders reach to Fzion-geber on that Sea But Israel did Compass Edoms Land and might not tread upon it which was so remote from This Sea that the Prophets say His Cry should reach unto it at his Fall But Edom is a Glutton as Adam in the Orientall tongues whence Eâ—o and Eat in many Languages And though Edon may be Red also yet improbable to name That Sea which reached unto India in very many Authors From This Sea they came to Sur or Sure on the 22 d day and in 3 days more To Marah Bitter and Rebellion much about Hour 666 or noon of the 28th day At Elim 12 Fountains and 70 Psalms Which grow by Bowing as their Heb name Tamar As she that grew Fruitful in her old age As Psalm 92 the Righteous flourish as Tamar in the Hezrons of God They bear much fruit in Old age as Tamar did before Aegypt to encourage them And Malachy saith Judah loveth the Daughter of a strange God as a Cananite in Genesis wherefore God will cut off Er and Oneh in One day David might remember That of Tamar and Hezcon when he read how the women Blessed his Grand-mother saying Let thy House be As Tamars seed To Judah A strange Emblem of the Church by the seed of the Father while she tarried for Shelah Shilâ—h From Elim To Sin on the 15th of the 2 d month as from Aegypt on the 15th of the first and There they Sin again by murmuring Till the Manna came upon the 3 d day after the Time for the 2 d Passover As the First Fruit Omer on the 3 d day After the first Passover And the Law was at the Time of â—entecost The Golden Calf was in the 4th month Then they fast for Breaking the Tables And the Caldees broke up the City on the 9th of the 4th month In the 5th month They Fast again for the Heavy Doom of not Entering into Rest Which they reckon the Day of Both Temples Burnt Or Doomsday In the 6 â— they Fast again for the Judgements on the Evil Spies And the 7th began with Trumpets yet they Fast again upon the 3 d for Ishmacl But the 10th is the Great Fast for Adams Fall as is thought when the Sun declined and Day shortned Till the Flood And thence increased again and at their leaving Aegypt the Sun was in Aries Horned as the Aegyptian Hammon at the Vernal Equinex And Moses promised that God would make their Days As the Days of Heaven Which Increased till the Height and Heat of the Sun and sin and wrath which are all in the Hebr Hamma brought a flood of fire upon their City and Temple about the Height of the Summer Sun And at That Tropick Their Sun Turned again as in Amos 8. And at Hezekiahs sicknesse and our Saviourâ— Death and Declined as their Dayes shortned as Isalm 102 Till the Autumnal Equinox and Great Renewing of the year or Restitution of All things Acts 3 d. At the Great Release and Feast of Tabernacles which we seek and Expect They Entred Canaan on the 10th of the first month As Ezech. saw the New Jerusalem upon the 10th of the 1st month the very day for setting apart the Paschal Lambs It s Noon is hour 234 as before in Enos and the Golden Number And it was 234 years after Jacobs Death We may begin the Great year we discusse At This Entering Canaan or Their Leaving Aegypt Or the first Rearing of the Tabernacle on the first Day of the year On which the Earth appeared Dry to Noah and Hezekiah began to Cleanse the Temple as Ezekiel is Commanded and Ezra began to come from Babylon the first day of the year Flee out of Bobylon make hast and look not back least you partake of her Plagues and Remember Lots Wife But Ezra came not to Jerusalem till the first of the 5 â— the Annual Fast for the Death of Aaron whom Ezra was to supply and with Nehemiah To repair the City Burnt in
that very month in which they came up Thither from Babylon And then he purged the people which was finished on the first day of the 2 d year From Babylon As the Tabernacle was Reared on the first of the 2 d year from Aegypt 1530 Hours of the year came to the Preparation Evening before the Pentecost beginning at Four 1536 As Noahs Ark began in year 1536. And so many years from Egypt come to the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. As is more discussed in The Nâ—w Island Where is most or All or more then All This Book And there can be but 66 more Days To the Great Dâ—om on the 9th or 10â—h of the 5â—h Month. For They assign it to both those days And it might be at Evening between them both 66 days have 1584 Hours and 48 more for the day Before and After make but 1632. So that the Great Dâ—om Cometh in 1632 Hours or Years After the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. Which was certainly before the End of the 34th of Christ Although we do not yet fix his Birth but That it may be 2 or 3 years before the Common Account And we Therefore use to say About such or such a year And by this account The Great Dâ—om will be About the year of Christ 1665 or at most 1666. Which is 1632 years After the Great Pentecost in His 34th or raâ—her 33 d Which is most generally agreed for the year of His Pâ—ssion and the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. But I rather look for the Feast of Tabernacles Which was As many Hours After the Burning of Both Temples As These were After Pentecost And I suppose the Burning of That City and Temple by the Romans within 40 years After the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d To be the Fiery Tryal or Dooms-day foretold in divers places Ezech. and other Prophets say God would deal Worse with Iâ—rael then with other Nations and our Saviour said the Dâ—om of That City should be Worse then Ever was or should be more Which yet Daniel seems to place At Their Riâ—ing again About the Great Feast of Tabernacles now coming Which will be a Fiery Trâ—al and a Day or Hour of Great and Sore and Quick Temptation As the Jews Tradition is that before their Feast of Tabernacles God doth sit in Judâ—emâ—nt on the Dead of That Year And so the use to Fast as some now to know Who Must Dye that Year by their Shadows or Ghosts as Job and the Psalms Which yet often call for all the World to leap and dance and sing at the Coming of Christ to Judge the World For Loe he Cometh He Cometh to Judge the World And His Throne is White And yet All run away and call to the Mountains to fall and Cover them As I shall do If He be not very Gracious Which I hope he will And the rather because he promiseth to gather All Tongues and Nations to see his Glory and When he Calleth all Nations and Kingdoms to receive his Doom in Zeph 3 d. He Promiseth the Holy Ghost and Fire with a Pure Language but to a Poor People that they may Alâ— serve him with one Consent or Sechem as before Which I wish and beg and long for more then Firing Any Place in all the world And for this Great Feast of Tabernacles we may proceed by Dayes and Hours of the Jewish year As we did before for Pentecost or the Great Doom Which was As many Dayes After Pentecost As Before Tabernacles And We may begin That Great Year At any Great and Noted Time Before or After Egypt But Rather Before For in Egypt They seem to be as the P Lambs Tyed up before the Passover They reckon Amram Born at 65 from Jacobs going Down As Pentecost was 65 t Day of the Year and 65 years more To Aaron Who dyed a little before the Great Doom in the 5 t month or 65 Dayes After Pentecost And about Aarons Birth they place the Cruel Edict of slaying the Male Children 84 years before their Coming out and 84 Hours are just 3 dayes and Half Or the Time between the Day of Tryall and the morning of the Passe-over which was Past before their Coming out As if the Wrath of God did Passe over them To the Aegyptians Before their Coming Thence At the day of the First Fruit Omer and they passed not the bounds of Egypt or the Sea Till about the Last Day of Unleavened Bread Which was 45 Days before Pentecost As 45 years before their setling in Canaan or Calebs Hebron in Josh 14. and 45 is half 90 the 4th of 360 and 90 Hours are just the Noon of the 4th Day And the 4th of Creation was the First of the Sun and Moon the 2 Faithful Witnesses in Heaven as the 89th Psalm From That 45th year After Egypt we may begin Their Pentecosts or from the first Sabattical year in Canaan As many years from Egypt As the Day of Pentecost is Dayes from That on which They came from Egypt And so many years After Enoch As there are Hours in the year To Pentecost or its Preparation Day which began at Hour 1512 and ended at 1536 as before For Enoch was 669 before the Flood which was 292 before Abraham or his Fathers 70 and 75 more To his Call or Coming to Canaan and 430 more To their Coming out of Egypt and 40 more to Canaan so that 6 more make up 1512 the first Hour of the Preparation To the Pentecost And if Abraham were Born After his Fathers 70 There may be as many years from Enoch To their Entering Canaan As there were Hours To the first or last of Pentecost beginning at 1536 and Ending in 1560. And to go forward From the First Pentecost in Canaan To the First Born stopped by Jeroboam were as many years As Hours from the first of Pentec To the Close of the 23 d Day of the 3 d month on which They still Fast for That of Jeroboam 456. Which is also the more remarkable because the Plots of Haman held against the Jews Till That very day of the 3 d month Est 8 9. And From Jeroboam To the Captivity there were as many years as Days in a year or Hours From That 23 d of the 3 d To the 9th of the 4th on which They Fast for the City Taken as in Kings and Jeremy Which was from the first of Pentecost as many Hours As years from the First Pentecost To that Captivity about 860. In the same month They Fast again for Breaking the Tables of the Law 430 years After the Promise and for Burning the Law by Antiochus 430 years from the City Taken and 430 Hours are about 17 Days and their Fast is on the 17th Day of that Month. In the 5 t Month They Fast for Aarons Death which was followed by Arad Taking them Captive and by Fiery Serpents Till the Brazen Serpent Healed Them As Christs Death was followed by the Roman Sack
and Firing the 2 d Temple on the Day of their Heavy Doom and of Firing the First Temple Which was but a Type or Shadow of the 2 d Fired much about 666 years After the first and about 1536 years After their Entring Canaan As Pentecost was 1536 Hours of the year and the 9th of the 5 t month 1536 Hours Af-the first Hour and the 10th 1536 Hours After the Last Hour of Pentecost Upon the 3 d of the 7th they Fast again for Gedaliah and the 70 slain by Ishmael A plain Type of the Turk or Saracen whom They call Ishmael who Took Jerusalem from the Christians on the very 2 d Day of That 7th month in Bapt. Grammay and others As they Fast the 3 d. The 15th of That 7th month must begin the Great Feast of Tabernacles and it can be but 1600 Hours After the Day of Doom or Burning of the Temples and it Therefore must be within 1600 years if an Hour be As a year After the City Sacked in 69 or 70 of Christ As the Blood of the Vintage before the Tabernacles in the Revel ran out 1600 furlongs from the City which was then Sacked And if it were Burnt in the very morning of the 9th Day of the 5 t month yet Tabs must come at 1669 or 1670. And it seemeth to begin sooner As the Sack was rather on the 10th then 9th and so nearer To the Tabernacles For they say it was the very same Day and same Course as the old Hâ—b Ode on which the First Temple was Burnt and That was the 10th Day As Jer 52. 12. Though the City Burnt 2 or 3 days before as 2 Kings 25. And suppose it were the very First Hour of the 9th day yet there can be but 22 days of the 5 t month and 30 days of the 6 â— and 15 more to the Close of the first of Tabernacles When they first began their Dancing and Joy of Pouring out Waters Though the King did not begin to Read the Law Till Afterwards As the Law Commanded it At the Close of the year and Feast of Tabernacles As our Saviour did not appear at That Feast in John 7. Till the Latter End In the Last and Great Day of the Feast He stood and Cryed O Every One that Thirsteth 22 and 30 and 15 Dayes are 67 which are Hours 1608 and by This account the day of Tabernacles must begin 12 Hours or Years before 1678 which is just 1666. If we rightly account it by the Hours of the Jewish Years We may Confirm This by all the Cubits Shekles and other things in the Bible As first the Verses and Sections of the Pentateuch in the Mazoreth Genesâ—s hath 12 Great Sections as the year 12 months and 50 Chapters as the Lunar year hath 50 weeks as 50 Days between the Passover and Pentecost and 1534 verses As the year had Hours To the evening sacrifice before the Pentecost and as the World had years To the first Command and model of the Church in Noahs Arke as we saw before 120 years before the Flood Exodus hath 11 Sections As the year had 11 months After That in which they came out and 40 Chapters As 40 years between the Exodus and Canaan and 1209 Verses As hours from the Passover at which they came out To the morning of Pentecost and so many years there were from the Ark to Jephta or from the Flood To David Or from Josephs Death To Ezra or Nehemiah Leviticus hath 10 Great Sections as of Tenâ—hs for Priests and Levits And the Law was Given at Pentecost 10 months before the End of the year and 52 smaller As Pentecost was the 52 d day from the Passover and Nehemiahs New Jâ—rusalem in 52 days as weeks of a Solar year and 859 Verses or twice 430. As years from the Flood to the Maâ—riage of Isaak Or From the Promise To the Law and from Thence to David or from entring Canaan To Solomon or from the Ark at Shiloh to the Temple or from Thence To the Captivity and 430 more To the Machabes Numbers hath also 10 Great Sections as 10 days to the Tryal of the P Lambs 10 weeks To the Close of Pentecost or 10 months To the Great Dedication in the Machabes with 66 little Sections which they call Sethume Secret with the flittings of the Ark and Camp Through the Wildernesse its Heb name in 1288 verses as years of the Church in the Wildernesse As in Daniel 1290. And so many Hours bring up 54 days As from the day of Tryal to Pentecost or Preparation To it And from Pentecost To the day of Aarons Death and Thence To the Great day of Creation or of the 2 d Temple and the New Jerusalem in Hag. and Neh. who began the 54 Law Lectures for 54 days Deuteronomie hath 1055 verses as Hours from the first Omer Heaved unto Pentecost or years from Abrahams Father To David or from David To our Saviour or from our Saviours Death and the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d To the Christians Reigning in Canaan All the Chapters of the Pentateuch are 187 As Hours To the Ev. sic of the 8th day for Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath and as dayes To Atonement and between the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox of years again in the Temple Courts All its little Sections are 669 as Hours To the Ev. Sac. of the 28 h or 4th 7th day the last of the month of weeks as years from Enochs Translation To the Flood 669. All its verses 5945 As years to the Preparation To the Great Sabbath of 7000 years In which also the Suns Apogeum cometh about To the same point it had at first Shall we come to the Numbers in the Heb. Alphabet when God did first write the Law as it is in Exodus he left out Teth the first letter of their Only word for Good As hinting that He gave them Laws at first Not Good as in Ezckiel Afterwards he repeated it as in Deut with Teth added and a special Emphasis upon the word of Good That it may be Good or well with Thee and Thy Children c. And the 9 first Letters of that Alphabet wch end in Teth are Units and do make 45 as years from the Law To the Ark at Shiloh or Caleb at Hebron Jos 14. The 9 next letters are Decimals and make 450. as years from the Law To the Ark at Zion and the first New Jerusalem when David came from Hebron Or from Calebs being there or the Ark at Shiloh To the Temple finished The 4 last are Centenaries making K. R. S. T or Christ and 1000. As years from the Temple finished To Christ who was from the latter end of Moses 1460 years As in the Great Aeâ—yptian Sotâ— or Julian Cycle before But from Aegypt and the Law He was just 1495 years as the Number of the Hebr Alphabet by which God wrot the Law at Horch where Moses was about 1495 years after Enoch and 1495 years before
our Saviour The final letters often in the Mazoreth do make 3500. As years of the World To Nehemiahs New Jerusalem or his meeting with Ezras Great Counsel or first Mazoreth Or from Seth To Alexanders being at the Temple or Babylon Taken by Him or Nicanor and his Greek Era in the Mach or from Enos To the Contest of the Great Antiochus with Aegypt Dan. 11. Or from Kainan to Hircanus who began the Kingdom in the Machabes Or from Mahalael to Pompeys sack of Jerusalem Or from Jared to our Saviour Or from Sem to the Christians at Jerusalem And from the Birth of Jacob to the very days in which we live And the Jews as Esdâ—as make Jacob the beginning of a new World And those Last Letters which are only Final may lead us to the very last Days of the Last Times as Paul to Tim. And that God intended somewhat of Times also by those Letters which himself used may be probable from very many words in Scripture As the Word for a year doth make 355 as Days in a Lunar year and with their usual Article 360 as Days of their Solar year and so its Common Plurall in Construction Shene 360. for it hath 2 Plurals as Masculine for Solar and Feminine for Lunar years And as the Full Moon came in as many Hours as the year had days so the Word for Moons and Months is in number 362 if its M final be but 40. But if 600 it is then as many as the Scripture owneth for Many Days As Jos 23. and 1 King 18. 1. Where yet it was but about 3 years which is the Lowest Number they use in their Plurals who have a Duall for 2. Which might be pressed on them for 3 persons in the plural Elohim As all Grammers have 3 persons in their Verbs and Theirs hath All its words in 3 Classes As the 3 Sons of Noah filling all the World And the number of Noah is 58 as They say he lived years with Abraham in number 243 or 248. as Hours into the Evening After the Lambs set apart as Abrahams Family As years from Abraham To the Bondage in Aegypt But if M finall be Here 600 Then Abrahams Name hath as many as the years between the 2 Arks of Moses and Noah whose Ark is Tebeth 802. And much akin to the Month in which Ester was taken into the Royal House which was the 10th as Noahs Ark rested and the Mountain Tops appeared in the 10th of Tebeth Ishmael is 451. but one more then the numbers in their Decimal Letters As years from Ishamael to Canaan Isaak and Jacob make 390. As from the Flood to Isaacks Birth and the Burning of Sodom As Jerusalem was Burnt 390 years after Jeroboams Flood Isaak lived 180 years and the number of his Son Jacob is 182. 365 years from the Flood or Arphaxads Birth brought Abraham to Sechem in Heb Sechema 365. And Melchisedecks Salem 370. As years from the Flood or from Jacob there To the Ark at Salem or Shiloh 335. As it stayed there about 335 years As from Abraham to the Ark in Moses time Which was 345 from the Birth of Jacob As the number of Moses is 345. And his Birth 345 from Abrahams Call or comming to Canaan and Aegypt whence they came out by Moses to Jericho in 345 years As the Sons of Jericho in Nehem and Ezra just 345. 430 years brought them from Ramases whose number is 430. And Etham 441. And Succoth 480. And Metham 481. As we saw it before at 480 Hours and 480 years from Abraham to Moses or from the Promise to the Ark at Shiloh or from Aegypt to the Temple From the Red Sea to Sur or Sure 506. As the 3 d Hour of the 22 d day when they came thither and 506 years after Abrahams Birth who was 75 at his coming to Canaan and 430 more are 505. So that this year was 506. And they crossed Jordan at 234 Hours of the year the noon of the 10th day and 234 years after Jacob and the number of Jericho To which they then crossed Jordan is 234. So signall a number that it may be Rule or Regle in Heb 233. to all the Rest 335 at Shiloh as its number brought up Saul 337. And the Ark was taken at Elies Death and Samuel succeeded from the Sons of Corah the sweet Singers of Israel and his Name is 377. As years from Egypt to His Call or from the Ark at Shilob where the Lord did Call him To his Great Victory at Ebenezer After the Ark Restored Of the Judges Times we speak Else where and of Davids Noddings and his Tears in the Noad of God as himself alludes He was the 14th from Abraham and the 24th from Noah So his Name is 14 and 24. As diversly written in Heb. Solomons Temple was Finished about 1000 years before our Saviour Born or at most 1005. As His Songs or Canticles 1005 and his Parables 3000 As Dark sayings of Old or Times Past As years from Creation if Abraham were born at Therahs 130. He Dyed before the first Captivity To Bab. 375. As his Name is 375. He Prayed God would Turn their Captivity If They Turned and Prayed As he might Take Levit. 26 40. which we translate with If not in the Text. And God Turned Solomons word and made an Absolute Promise I will bring them back for I am Gracious in Heb 1288. and 1335. As in Daniel who took the promise as Absolute and so confessed that They had not so much as Prayed that they might be Turned And so doth Nehemiah cite it as Absolute although we There also put alittle If not in the Text. And the word used For the Princes in Ester and for Daniels Partners Hapartimim is just 1335. As God Turned Solomons word in 2 Cron. 6. 25. and Jer. 12. 15. and Zech. 10. 6. Where his saying He will save the House of Joseph may Hint Those Numbers do begin from Joseph As we found them Come from Thence To Nehemiah And the word used for Finishing the first Temple is 1336. As years from the Flood if Abraham were at Terabs 130 and so for Nehemiahs New Jerusalem Nehem. 6. 15. As from Josephs Bonds To Nehemiah and from Egypt and the Golden Calf To the Great Dedication in the Machabes or Times of Antiochus The Type of Antichrist and His 1260 Days We saw How it came from 120 which is the very Number of Moed in Heb the word used by Daniel for a Time and Times or Moed and Moadim Gods Moods and Tenses As we saw before in his Day of 120 years of Repentance To the old World As some make the Equinox to Change a Day in 120 years And to glance at the Hebrew Tenses or Grammer Times The Formatives of their first Praeter make 2167 As years to Jacob the New World if Abraham were born at his Fathers 130. Jacob was 75 at his Going To Haran As Abraham 75 at His Coming from it And the Letters added
To Kall in Hiphill make 75. As in Hophal and Niphal 45 and 450 As the Vnits and Decimals in their Alphabet and in Hithpael 3645. As from Creation To Nehemiahs New Jerusalem If it were As Scaliger puts it in Artax Mem. Or To Babylon Taken by Alexander or Seleucus and the Greek Era in the Machabes Or from Abrahams Birth To the year of Christ 1645. The Formatives of their first Present Benoni do make 1451. As the Decimals and Centenaries of their Alphabet Or years from the latter end of Enoch To the Law Or Thence to Augustus and Herod Or from the Ark at Shiloh To our Saviour The Letters of their Greatest Future Legal or Imperative may make 1691 a signal Number from Christ and their Future Evangelical or Promissory From 1245 in Kall and 1400 in Niphal which make 2645 As in Pyel To above 3400 as in Hithpael From their Bonds in Egypt Till about These very Times or 1670. And to Come to Shekles and Talents Cubits and Furlongs Shekle in Heb is 430 and as Abraham was told His Seed must serve 400 years He paid 400 Shekles for his Burying place at Hebron much about 400 years before Caleb got it 400 years before David at the same Hebron with its Dâ—uble Cave or Machpela And tho our Saviour taxed some that Painted Sepulchers or were such yet it may be hoped that Ere long He also may come as Nehemiah did to visit his Fathers Sepulchers and Tombs of his Fathers Image also Who promiseth to make His Tredding Glorious and that Earth shall not only be Eâ—ets I will accept it as himself alludes Ezech. 20. 40. but Beulah or Hephzibah My Darling in her As the Queens Name in Hezechiahs time The Holy Oyle in Exodus of Myrrh and Cassia 1000 Calamus and Cynaâ—non 500 As about 1500 years Before Christ the spirit of That pretious Oyntment As in the Psalms and Canticles and Gospels The Gold about the Tabernacle was 730 Shekles As years from Eber above 29 Talents As the Lunar Month is divers Hours above 29 Days And the Arabians Who knew the Moon and gave it in their Ensignes have a Cycle of 29 or 30 years which may be more Considered The Silver 100 Talents As the Tab. Court and length of the Temples Walls was 100 Cubits and the Brass 700 which together make 800 As the Tab was 800 years from Noahs Ark or Tebeth 802. If Abraham were at Terahs 70. The Silver Shekles 1775. As years from Enochs Birth To the Tabernacle Or from Noahs Birth To Samuel and the Ark Taken by the Philistins Or from the Flood To the 2 d Temple Or from Ebers Birth To Ezra or Nehemiah Or from Abraham To Antiochus the Great Or from the the Promise To the Dedication Or from Jacobs Death To Pompeys Taking Jerusalem Or from Ishmaels Death before Ebers and Jacobs Ladder To our Saviour Or from His First Dwelling in our Tabernacle To his Latter Coming to the Great Feast of Tabernacles now Coming And their Proverb is They know not Joy that have not seen the Joy of Waters in the Tabernacles Which themselves also make an Emblem of the Latter Greater showers of the Spirit in Moses song and Solomons Prayer with Esay 55 and other Scriptures As the last of Zech. For Waters on All that Come To the Feast of Tabernacles And All Nations are invited To it And the Jews will Entertain Strangers at that Feast in their Booths at This Day As Hebrews 13. And our Saviour seemeth to allude To their Customes and Singing Esay 12. As they Drew Waters with Joy from the Wells of Siloah And as He Then appeared after long Hiding himself and came To the Feast of Tabernables so it may be Probable He told his Disciples that His 2 d Coming should Fullfil That Last and Greatest Feast of Tabernacles As his Death fullfilled the Passover and His Rising The First Fruit Omer or Barley Sheaf And the First Fruits of Wheat at the First Fruits of the Spirit in Acts the 2 d. So his next Coming in Glory should be As to the Great Day of Tabernacles For when Peter saw him in his Glory on the Holy Mount He cryed Let us make Tabernacles As if That were only proper for the Joy of Tabernacles And the Revel sings Now is the Tabernacle of God with men And He shall wipe away all Tears And Then He that sate on the Throne said Behold I make All New And he said Write For These words are True and Faithfull Adding also It is Finished And to Him that is athirst I will give of the Fountain of Living Waters As alluding both to Beerlaharoi and to what he said and They did at the Tabernacles in John 7 And at his last Thirst on the Cross when Drinking Vineger he Cryed It is Finished The Psalmist saith His People shall be a Free and Willing People as Aminadab in the Day of His Power By the Beauties of Holiness And He shall drink and lift up his head c. And Aminadab offered 10 of Gold and 70 Silver As 10 Days to Tryall and 70 closing Pentecost which they make as other Great Feasts of 7 days and 130 as Days from Pentecost To Tabernacles Each Princes Shekles were 210 As they reckoned years of Israel in Egypt All their Gold was 120 as years of Moses Life And All their Silver Shekles were as the Brass about the Tabernacle 2400. For their 24 Courses and 24 Hours of the Day or 2400 days and years To the Great Release As from Abell or Seth to the Tabernacle Or from the Temple repaired by Joash and cleansed by Hezekiah To These Days The Redemption Shekles For the First Born were 1365 but 30 more then Daniels Number of 1335. As his 1290 is 30 more then 1260 in the Revelation written about 30 years After the Roman Sack 1260 years before Christ was the Famous Time of Gideon and His Ephod Or First Idols of Israel of 1700 Shekels of earings As it was 1700 years After Enoch And Gideons 300 Men might note 300 years from the Death of Josephs Brethren and the Birth of Moses in Egypt Achans Shekles were 250 as the years from Israel first in Egypt To their Entring Canaan But the 50 Gold were as 600 Silver and so All his Shekles may be 800. As years from the Flood to the Exodus Or from Achan To the first Captivity to Babylon which might be Typed in His Babilonish Garment As its Golden Image in his wedge of Gold Goliahs Armour was 5600 Shekles As the years they were to press the Bodies or Souls of Gods People or to Rowle over them As the Name imports From Cain or Tubal Cain the 1st Vulcan to These Times David gave to Ornan 50 Shekles of Silver For the Thressing Place on which he built the Altar Then 600 Shekles of Gold For All the Hill of Moriah the Lords Teaching or Wisdom in Heb But in Greek Foolishness as Paul where Isaak was bound and the Temple Built
And Though 600 was a Common Number As 600 Danits Sacking Lâ—â—hish and the Guard of Saul Or David was 600 As the Reliques of Benjamin Cum Sexeentis aliis in a Proverb yet It might hint out Times also As from Abel to Enoch From Jared to Noah From Noah to the Flood From the Flood to Jacobs Death From Jacob to David and thence almost 600 To the 2 d Temple Finished Which stood 600 years As it had 600 Pillers in Jâ—sephus and the First Temple Targets of 600. David had 600 Men to follow him but recoverd his Wives and others of Ziglag by 400 As it was 400 years from entring into Canaan And the Temple Pillers had 400 Pomgranats with so many Granes perhaps as Hours in a Year For the Poets Proserpina did tast 7 Granes as the Moon was 7 Hours below the Horizon And the Pomgranat is the Badg of Canaan in the Hand of Jupiter Cossins They are Rimmons in Heb. as the 400 Benjamites at Rimmon And Solomons Rimmons in the Canticles and on his Pillers may denote years from Boaz or Jachin in the 24 Courses of the 24th of Cron. to another Jachin with Eliashiâ— As the First was whose Names do signifie God will bring Back and build up and Establish And Those Pillers stood 400 years As the Square of his Altar was 400 Cubits And so some reckon his Walks about the Temple Courts a Furlong or 400 Cubits And to come to the Bible Cubits Noahs Ark was 300 Cubits long and 50 broad And Noah lived 300 and 50 from the Flood As also 300 and 50 to Abraham at Terahs 130. But Cubits are for days of 24 Digits in 2 Spans with Jews and Others As the Great Egyptian King had his Sepulcher Circled with a Ring of 365 Cubits as Days in a year And as the month had 30 days and then the Moon is Hid as the First Light was hid in 30 Hours So the Ark had 30 Cubits Height And so 300 Cubits Long may be 300 months which by 50 Broad do make 1250 years of 30 days to a month Or if All had not full 30 days they may be 1260. Or if we must allow another Cubit closing up the Ark at Top as some reckon it they may come up to 1290 or 1335. And so the Cubits of the Ark may represent the years it should be Driven by the Flood out of the Dragons mouth and be filled with Beasts rather then men and be Trodden by them And if Abraham was born at Terahs 70 then 1250 or 1260 years of the 1st Ark brought up the 2 d to Zion and 1290 the Temple But if Abraham was born at 130 then the Temple was 1335 from the Flood which was 350 years before Terahs 130. And 350 with 75 430 and 480 do make up just 1335. As from Jacobs Flight or Service Till Nehemiahs New Jerusal or from the Golden Calf or Image of the Beast in the Psalm To the Great Dedication in the Machabes And the Sons of Both Elams in Ezra and Nehemiah were 1254. but 6 less then 1260 or 6 more then the Hours of 52 Days of Nehemiahs New Jerus As years from Israel in Egypt And whether Abrahams Birth was at 70 or 130 yet it may be just 2000 years before our Saviour As 2000 Cubits in the Levites City Suburbs and 2000 Cubits from the Camp to the Ark and 2000 Cubits in their Sabbath Days Journey As their Comments on Ruth and Josua And Cubits might come to represent years As days are years in the Prophets and the word for days is also for years and so may Cubits also Though the Ark had Bulk enough to shew them in their proper use The Tabernacles Length as the Arks Height 30 by 10 in breadth 300 as the Arks Length and by 10 in Height 3000. that is 2000 as the Levites Cities Arks Distance and Sabbaths Journey in the 1st Holy place and 1000 in the Oracle Parted by a Veile of 10 by 10 or 100 As the First 100 years of Christs Body Rent as the Vaile at his Passion in the 1st Tearing of Christians and Jews also From the City Sacked To the Revelation or the Vaile Removed and Ark appearing as Revel 11. 19. 1000 Cubits in the Oracle may hint the 1000 years of Christ in Rev. 20. As there were 1000 years between the Temple and his Birth Or from the Rev. Time unto the Christians taking Jerusalem As a Type of the New Jerusalem The Tabernacles Court as Ezekiels 100 being added to the former 3000 They make 3100. as years from Abrahams Birth to the Christians Taking Jerusalem or from this Tabernacle at Shiloh To the Times in which we live And the Cubits of the Court before the Tabernacle as the years to Shiloh 45. 100 by 50 broad are 5000 As the Greatest Church in the Acts and 5000 fed at once by Christ as the Tabernacles Court by 100 and 50. As 5000 years from Adam or Abel To the Christians at Jerusalem Or from Enoch To These Present Times Each side 100 by 5 in height 500. As Each Side of the Temple Court and so we may part the 2000 years from Abraham to Christ by 500 To the Tabernacle and 500 more To the First Temple finished with All its Courts as 1 King 7. Where also the House of Lebanon is As this Tabernacle 30 50 100 500 To the 2 d Temple and 500 more to our Saviour The Inward Curtains of 28 Cubits as the month of Weeks but the outward 30 As the Ark Tabernacle and Temple As their months of 30 days And so they say Moses left his first Song in 30 lines his 2 d in 70. These may shew How long the Church should be in Veyls or Skins of Beasts To hold it in and Press it down As the Ark before 10 Inward Curtains by 28 280 and by 4 in breadth 1120. and As they may be years After Christ To the Christians Reigning in Jerusalem So they may be years Before and perhaps During the First Monarchy For the 2 d and 3 d are Here in their proper Skins of Rams and Goats as in Daniel and the Romans in the Badger Or in Heb. Tax Tachs or Tahash Of the Same Name with one from the Concubine Reuma Ruma Roma Gen. 22. 24. And from Enoch To Jacoh were as many years as Cubits in the Inward Curtains 1120. And from Jacobs Birth or Abrahams Death To the Tabernacle were as many years as Cubits in its Outer Curtains 330. that is 11 by 30. As there were also 330 years from the Tabernacle to Sampson Or from the Ark at Shiloh To its Taking by the Philistins And 330 Hours of the year come just to Noon of the Passover and 330 days from Passover to Purim The 50 Tacks and Loops of the Curtains may hint the 50 days and Nights between the Passover and Pentecost as 50 Weeks in the Lunar years or 50 years before the Solemn Meetings at Shiloh or Sechem where they were All Tackt together 330 by
4 in breadth do make 1320. And so many days do make 44 months and beginning at Nisan they end at the 9th month of the 4th year which had the Great Feast of Dedication for the Temple freed from the Rams or Goats hair of Antiochus Or beginning in Tizri as in Civils They bring up All the 3 years Tithes and Offerings with the First Fruits and First born and both Solemn Confessions and Doxologies of Deut. 26. At the Pentecost of the 4th year Which was 1320 days After the Passover of the 4th year before it As 1335 days After the Feast of Trumpets or the Trumpet of Release As 1335 Hours After the first Hour of the day of Trvall And so many years come from the Tabernacle Reared To the Great Dedication in the Machabes Death of Antiochus or Nicanor As we may find at the Temple Gate Nicanor If the 3 Outer Coverings are equall of 330 by 4 in each They make 3960 Cubits 40 short of Ezechiels 4000 As the 40 years After Christ to the City Sacked And to our Saviours First Acting in the Temple there are just 3960 years of the World in Scaliger and Those that follow him And from the Flood so many years come out about 1666 now coming and so do the 2 Utter Coverings from Jeroboams Flood As a Type of that to Fill the Breadth of Thy Land O Emanuel which come out at 1666. The Badgers Skins as uppermost may be Largest And 1335 as in Daniel But 1320 come from Christs Being in the Temple or the Temples End To the Templers End in one day and the Popes Flying to Avignion At the shaking Times of Ottoman and the Imperial States Protesting against the Popes Right in Electing Emperours And from the Great Apostacy in Julians days They come to the Times in which we live But we come to the Temple Measures And if Josephus rightly place the 2 d Walls on the first Pillars called Solomons Walks or Porches in our Saviours Time They were 500 Cubits every side As the Sept. Vulgarlat read Ezech. 42. not 500 Kanes as others So that All the Sides of the Square did make 2000. As the Levites Suburbs the Distance of the Ark and the Sabbath days Journey and the Square Cubits in the Tabernacle before the Oracle And the years from Abraham to our Saviour 2000. We shall begin As They Entred with the Sun from East to West and so from Haran at first and from Moab Over Jordan and from Babylon and Persia With its Royall Shushan on the first Eastern Gate of the 2 d Temple called Shushan 80 Cubits to the Rising of the Womens Court. As 80 days before the Woman came Thither of a Woman Child As Zion of her Daughter in Mic. 4. The Man-childe was not Born till her Last Throwes as themselves express on Es 66. As 80 Hours of Creation before the Moon and Sun did meet For they were not seen till the 4th Morning And 80 years From Shushan and Cyrus to Ezra Seperating the strange Women and making This Womens Court called Aezra from Ezra Help and so they Blessed as the Ps taught them when the Women or the Mourners took the Left hand Walk as others did the Right The Lord Bless thee out of Zion and send thee Help Out of his Holy Place though thou may not come in it But only look towards it As Jonah did when he was cast out of His Holy Place or Presence The 80th year from Cyrus Taking Babylon As he is called K. of Babylon in Ezra 5. And Thence he gave the Temple Vessels falleth within the 80th Olymp or the 8th of Artaxerxes Long and just 490 years before the Last of Olymp 202 d. Agreed for our Saviours Passion by the Great Earth-make and the strange Eclips in Phlegon and many others The 13 First Cubits in the Gate-house as Ezech. 40. 11. may represent the First Light coming up at 13 Hours of Creation and the 13 Days of their year before the Passover and the first 13 weeks in the year between the Solstice and the Tropick As the 13 months of the year and the 13 years between the Temple Founded and Finished or at least Revived in the 2 d of Darius in the 65 t Olympiad And the 65 Cubits before the Holy Courts As 65 Hours to the Noon of the 3 d Day and the 65 Days in the Jewish year as before and 65 years between the 2 d of Darius in the 65 t Olympiad and the 7th or 8th of Artax When Ezra came up at Olympiad 80 and 80 years After Zerubbabel from about 80 Degrees of Longitude To Jerusalem at 65. As the first Fruits of Emanuel in Esay 7 were 65 years before Jerusalem was freed from Those 2 Kingdoms and our Emanuel 65 years before the Christian Persecutions and the Roman Times Shadowed in the Cuthites contending with Nehemiah Who came after Ezra full 11 years and so there were 11 Cubits in the first Verge of the Holy Courts they called Heb Between The Hill and the Help As Heaven After Hell with its Staires and Latices As the Canticles allude in the Gentiles or Unclean Vnder the Staires and behind the Latices Then came the Womens Court and Ezra's Great Work was To Seperate the Women As their Ruine came by Women Esay 3 d and 32 d with Ezra and Nehemiah just 135 Cubits Long and in the Talmud Square As 135 Hours of Creation before Any Woman Or To the First Morning of Adam and From Tying up the Lambs to Heaving up the First Omer were 135 Hours As 135 Days between the Pentecost and Palms or Great Hozannah Closing the Tabernacles And 135 years To the Great Era of the Greeks and Jews Great Friend Nicanor And 135 more to Antiochus and their Great Enemy Nicanor As the Gate Nicanor At this Womans Court 135 Cubits from Hell and the Death of Nicanor on the 13th of Adar 135 Dayes After the Day of Solemn Covenant both of Men and Women in This Womens Court At the close of the Tabernacles Nehemiah 8 and 9. As 135 years before from the First Temple Founded to Joash who Repaired it From the Gate of Nicanor The Inward Court of Israel and the Priests In length 187 Cubits that is 135 and 52 for Nehemiahs Days As Weeks in a year and 187 Hours came to the Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day For Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath And 187 Days To the Great Atonement As Autumnal Equinox 187 Days After the Vernal And the Great Feast in Ester was 187 days And the Pentatcuch 187 Chapters And 187 years From the 2 d Temple Begun or Finished To Alexanders Reign or Coming To it Or Taking Babylon and Dying at it much about 11 years before the First Nicanor As there were 11 Cubits From the Gentiles Court To That of Nicanor and 11 more from the Gate of Nicanor To the Levits Railes and Ducans parting Israel and the Priests As Twice 11 Before the Altar Twice 11
Licenses and Dispensations and others of the Popes Peculiers If the Arch-bishop judge it meet But After Times did help the Crown by giving it leave To make its Bishops by a Patent As Edward the 6 t had made a preaching Sheriff or many such things with Collations and receiving Resignations To most Spiritual Cures About 666 from Antiochus This Land came to have 7 Heads or Kingdoms as Rome and at Gogmagog Leap or other Hill about it a Dragon was seen or thought so Great and Worthy that it Sirnamed a Great King Vtherpendragon And its Image was Consecrate and Dedicate in a Great Cathedral and from Thence became the Royal Standard That I speak not of the Dragon slain by One on Horse back Or any other Beast or Image of a Beast slain by the sword and yet reviving and admired or adored by All that were not written in the Lambs Book of Life before the Foundation of the World Which must be opened and must Judge both Great and small who have no Book of Works to Judge them And the Dragon pursued the Woman flying to the Wildernesse As Hagar did and is in Bondage with her seed To This day as Gal. 4. and made war with her seed The first Creature Animal was the Dragon we read it Whales in Gen 1. 21. Created in the Waters coupled with Dragons as Esay 27. Ezech. 29. and so in Job and divers places And Behemoth is next the first on Earth as the Dragon in the Seas It is Plural as Dragons in Heb. As many Femimine Beasts Or Mother of All the Beasts As Wisdom is of All her Children and yet she also is Plural in Heb. As Behemoth Which David applieth to himself in the 73 Psalm And I am Behemoth with thee I am that Behemoth more bruitish then a Beast or Behemoth Those 2 Ruled Till Adam came up and had a Commission which he did not Execute And yet we do not find All the Beasts put under him and the Serpent was more subtle then the Beasts But Noahs Patent is a Promise also Your dread shall be on every Beast that Conquer'd Adam and upon All Fishes of the Sea or Dragons Into your Hands they are Delivered Thou hast kept the Good wine untill Now. The Dragon is Prince of Darkness as it walks in Darkness while the Beasts are Couching and the shortest night of Darkness in Iudea was of 10 Hours or Horns as of 7 Heads or Dayes in a week And if their shortest Day or Night be as 1000 years as Psal 90. and 91. of the Dragon and Beasts Then is Every Hour as 100 years And so the Dragon and Beast must Reign about 1330 years As They Reigned 133 Hours before Adam was Created And if the whole Day and Night be As 1000 Then the Longest time of Darkness in the Bible Meridian is but 666 or 2 thirds of 1000 As one third of 2000. But if their Little Watches also be 1000 as the Psalm hinteth Then is Every Hour 333. And so Platoes third part of an hour may be 111. which is also the number of Kaveh the Common Heb word for a Measuring Line And Thus 666 may be paralel to the 6 Hours Turns of Tide and Sun and Moon at the Cardinal points of Heaven As before And the Jewes parted all their hours into as many Clakins as days in 3 years 1080. and each of them by as many more as their Sanhedrin or Noahs Nephews or their Families in Egypt Or our Saviours Ancestors in Luke Or years of Abrahams coming to Canaan and 75 is the difference between 1260 1335. but 3 more then Twice 666. And for Hours in the Revelation The 2 d Church must suffer Tribulation for 10 Dayes Which have Hours 240. And the 10 First Persecutions lasted just 240 years From 65 or 66 of Christ when the Jewish War began Till Constantine at 306. And the Southern Martyrs of the 10th Perseâ—ution are 144000 in Eusebius and others As the Lamb before the Sabbath had 144000 Clakins before it As First Fruits of Time and the Lamb for the Sabbath And if Constantine did close the 10 first daâ—es as the P Lambs were Tyed and Tryed in the first 10th day of the year and That be in the 2 d. Ch. Then the 3 d which stood when Antipas was slain and yet stumbled at the block of Balaam and the Nicolaitans must be with Constantine or at his Times When poyson sowed in the Ch. as was written in the Lateran at His Donation to the Pope was swallowed by the Clergy which began to Prophecy for Hire as Baalam the peoples Belly or their Bell as the Priests of Bell and the Dragon in Dan. Apoc. And Nicolas is one above the Laity or proper to the Clergy And Austin Euseb Clem. and Epiphan may shew us That which God abhorred in the Nicolaits was somewhat besides Eating things to Idols and Fornication Demeaning themselves As Diotrephes a Priest of Iupiter or Belus and mixing Heathen Rites or Iewish which began in Peters Time with Christian Worship Of which God is more Iealous then of other Gods As an Husband is only Jealous of Her that continues a Wife but with an Whorish dress or forehead As the Lord Complains and Threatens Desperate Sorrow unto Planting Strange Plants about His Altars which He so forbad and abhorred This Spread in the Church as Arianism did about the very first years of Constantine and Pope Marcelâ—us who Created Cardinals or Parish Priests To Bury the Dead and to Baptise Infants Which was presently followed with Albs and Corporals At the Altar and with Tapers and Candles in the Sun Shine as a Prologue To the Flames that followed and Compulsions to Religion which began about the Time of the first Iudictions which we may Translate by Impositions First commanded At the Councel of Nice Meletius the First Bishop that opposed and Degraded Arius did first deny Restoring Laymen Lapsed Though perhaps the fault was more in Churchmen which on Penance were Restored but with divers washings and some Jewish Rites The Donatists opposed with so much Zeal that some affrm They called themselves the Only True Church and Rebaptised The Cross was found they say about those Times and a Greater Cross in Arianism with the Great Contests for Easter Day which Toar the Seamless Coat of Christ the Souldiers Spared And though Paul the Eremite and Anthony resisted and began the Monkish Orders yet Those Times had also Sad Complaints of Gluttony among the very Clergy which were therefore called Priests of Bell. As Jesabel in the Revelation may allude to Jesuâ— and Bell. As the Prophets of Jesabel with Those of Baall or Bell in Jesabel And so we come to the Temples Tredding down or the Holy City by the Christian Antichristian Jebusites for 1260 Days or Years Which we found very signal in Hours and Days and Years As From the Birth of Cainan and Mabaleel To the Flood and Rising of the Church After it As from Enoch and
Methuselah To Abraham Or from Noah To Mâ—ses and Aaron From the Flood To the Ark in Zion or the Temple As from Joseph and Jacob To Nehemiah Or from Egypt and the Wilderness To the Dedication by the Machabees And Thence to the Christians Getting Jerusalem As from Gideons Ephâ—d To our Saviour and from the Romans First Taking Jerusalem To the Popes Decretals and Councel of Lateran For Transubstant In the Time of Innocent the 3 d Excommunicating the Emperour As From Christ To the Sicilian Vesters Or the First Roman Jubilie with the Second Wo. or House of Ottoman As from the Sack of Ierusalem or Revel written To the 2 d Roman Iubilie Or To the Golden Bull and order of Iesuans or Iesuats As From the 10 Persecutions ending in Constantine To the Great Change at Queen Elizabeth And From Iulians Time To the Persans Taking Babylon and to K. Charles in England and Free Religion in France And although there were Great Defections in the Christian Churches before Iulian Yet Then was the Great Apâ—stacy which seemeth Pointed out To the Thessalonians And the Last Oracles said that Christian Religion should Stand but a Great Year Which came out in Iulians Time about 365. And Thence the Roman Empire did begin its Mortal Wound As first by the Gauls about 365 of the City Built And whatever else the Revelation Beast may be vet we must All agree To That last verse of the 17th Chapter And the Wâ—man which thousawest is That Great City which Reigneth over the Kings of the Earth Which certainly was Rome in some State or Other That we say nothing of Mysterium written in the Popes old Frontal In Constantine the Empire Trembled In the Western Legions drawing off to New Rome with 7 Hills also but not 7 Kings or Governments And a Kingdom Divided cannot stand The Church did Creep again a little After Julian But with standing stools and Forms of some that did pretend to Teach it first to Go with a strange Chaos of Jewish Rites or Heathen And the Tares of the Envious one grew up Till They could not be Rooted out but with Danger to the Wheat also First in Lent only Till Easter which Crucified all the Body of Christ Marriage is Forbidden And at Laodicea the signal place in the 3 d of Revelation Then at Other Times and Then To the Clergy at All Times in Siricius When the name of Catbolique came up with the Golden Law for Lent about 380. Then Canonical Hours about 390 A very signal Number both to Jewes and Gentiles for the Last Olympiad and the First Vse of Mass with the head of John the Baptist and Then the Bones of Samuel and ere long of Stephen and Nicodemus Brought into Europe The Empire shakes upon Contest of the Emperor and Stilico by whom Alaciâ—us was Beaten Yet so countenanced That he sacketh Rome From That Deadly Wound 1260 years come out about 1666 Or somewhat sooner At the End of the Three Great Years and half or 3500 years of Esaus Strugling with Jacob. Which Esdras makes the End of the Old World and Beginning of a New And all the Bible maketh Them the Great Types of Election and Reprobation or of Children of Light and Darkness The first Dragon or Beast of the Bottomless pit with 7 Heads and 10 Horns or 10 Hours for 7 dayes of the week And the shortest Night had 10 Hours And as the Light might Rise in 7 hours so the Sun might Rise in 10. And Those 2 Numbers of 7 and 10 were Sacred to others also As in Justine Curtius Arrianus and others of the Persians and Alexanders Weeks before the Roman in the Attick Nights or Genial Days and Saturnals And as the Revelation hath its 4 Watchers and 24 Elders for the 24 hours So the 7 Spirits For the 7 days of the week which return in a Circle As the Months of Nisan and Tizri Which were Sevenths to each other and had â—easts alike As 7 equal Circles in a Ring of 6 and one in the Centre as 6 Tones and 2 Halvs in and an Eight or Diapason 7 being the only Number of 3 Wholes and a Half The Jews Law had 7 Heads to Noah 10 Horns to Moses with 666 Sections or at most 669. And its Heb name is akin to Thorus or Taurus a Beast wch in Hebr leters maketh just 666. And None might buy or sell among them or be Denisons that did not submit to the 7 Heads of Noahs Laws 7 Things were left by Moses for the Poor 7 Sabbaths 2 in Tabernacles one in Pentecost and 2 at Pass and 7 Passovers in Script besides Atonement and the weekly Sabbath Which 2 last forbad All work the other 5 but Servile only 7 Servitudes in the Iudges 7 Liquors in Moses Song 7 Lamps and 7 Spirits on the Messiah Esay 11 As 7 Spirits before the Throne or 7 Eyes or 7 Planets in Heaven and 7 Metals in Earth seven pair of Nerves and 7 Principal parts in the Bowels So they had 7 Elders or Deacons in their Churches or Synagogues wch must be of 10 at least As usually a Paschal Lamb was for 10 Recorded and so the Romans could reckon them at the Last Passover And at 10 they brought their Children to Fast and other points of the Law and their Lowest Consistories were at places of 10 Families As the Saxon Decennars or Tithings And the Romans had their signal Tithings and 10 Circuits in their Provinces 10 Kingdoms as Horns on the Last Head of the Beast Which may be the Great Spirit of the World with 7 Heads and 10 Horns As God also pleased to manifest himself in 10 Laws and 7 Spirits for 7 Days of the week and One of Them had also a Deadly Wound as it was the Jewish Sabbath but Got up again and yet so changed That it was as an Eight Day and yet but One of the 7 As the 7 or 8 Heads in Revel But there is a Man can be our peace when the Assyrian Overflows us When he shall Tread in our Palaces Then we shall raise against him 7 Shephards and 8 Principal Men. Yea and the Spirit of the Lord shall set up a Standard against him The Revelation doth require a Volume by it self Now Only the Holy City Trodden down As David Got it from the Tredding Jebusites and Nehemiah from the Cuthites and Machabeus from Antiochus And Jerusalem shall be Trodden down of the Gentiles Till the Times af the Gentiles be fulfilled Or as Paul Until the Fulness of the Gentiles And Then All Israel shall he saved or Redeemed For the Time of your Redemption draweth Nigh The 42 Months are 1260 Dayes as 5 months of the First Wo are 150 days As the 5 first months of the Flood quite hiding the Earth in Water as the Baptists Mother was Hidden 5 months and in the 6 t the Angel came to the Virgin And at 30 Dayes apiece 42 Months are 1260 Dayes As the Dayes of the Woman and
restrained in Harvest As 1 Sam. 6. and 12. 17. and 2 Sam. 21. 10. And Those Showers might hint the Waters of the Spirit To be Poured out at the Joy of of Harvest As the Waters of Bethlehem David Longed for at Harvest Time as 2 Sam. 23. And Samson came to visit his wife in Wheat Harvest and Then Burnt the Philistines Corn. And we may compare Psalm 126. 129. Esay 9. and 12th and 18 With That of Jeremy The Harvest is Past and yet we are not Saved As we hoped by the Types But Is there no Balm in Gilead or the Witness Meetings As of old for Iacob at Gilead and Mispa Samuel also Cryed at a Mispa The Lord is Witness And They Answered Witness And again the Harvest is come and Time of Thressing Babylon Which yet is made Too Narrow by Confining it to One any One City or People in the World It was the Head of All Oppression and Confusion As it signifies And yet it is Too much in my Heart And Babell is Lebab the Heart in Hebrew Turned Backward or Distracted and Confused As Solomom saith Gods work is much to make men see They are but Beasts to themselves Shehem Behema Hemma Lahem and the World is in their Heart and Madness also while we Live and After That we Dye But O Iudah He hath set an Harvest for thee When I return the Captivity of my People Hos 6. 11. And at the Valley of Iehosaphat or Beraca Put in the Sickle For the Harvest is Ripe get you down and Hither Cause Thy Mighty Ones to come For the Wine-Press is Full and the Fat 's Overflow For Their Wickedness is Great And so the Great Doom and Feast of Tabernacles in Zech. To which our Saviour may allude in the Last and Great Day of Tabernacles and the Mighty Ones or Angels to come down At That Day in Ioel and Zech. For They must Ascend first and Then Descend on the Son of Man As the Great Angel in the 14th of the Revelation or the Son of Man Who bid them Let the Tares alone with the Wheat Till the Angel Reapers Came at the Harvest or End of the World And as This Harvest and Vintage began with the Jews and House of God As in the Prophets Gospels and Epistles So it is All measured From That City Sackt and Prest As Grapes in a Winepress As in divers places So that our Saviour makes the Ruin of that City a Shadow of the Great Judgment And the Blood As Moses Song The Blood of Grapes came up to the Bridles of the Horses Tredding it as in the 2 d Woe and it flowed out From the City Trod and Pressed 1600 Furlongs And if Cubits be proper for Days Then Furlongs are proper for Years And so we may find them in Many Places and Cities Built and Sackt or Changed at a signal Number of Furlongs or Miles in their own Buildings or Distance to some others so or so Related to them As the Olbian Tables and Characters And though the Furlong be with some 400 Cubits as before and a year have Fewer Days yet They could not take a Round Number as they call it Nearer To Their Greatest year which had a full Month of 30 Days beyond the Common year As often They were forced to allow When either Floods or Frost did hinder coming To the Passover which God dispensed in Case of Sickness and of Iourney Or the Vernal Equinox were After That which should be the Passover Or their Barly were not Ripe enough For Heaving up the First Fruit Omer Then the Jewish year had near 400 Days And so the word for 2 years space is 800. If m be only 40 in Shenothaim And the Attick Fuclong had not so many Feet as the Roman by 24 or 25 and was no more then One did run in a Breath or 10 seconds As we must Breath about 360 times in an Hower As Dayes in a year And the Ancients measured a Degree by 666 Furlongs The Revelation was at Patmos a Greek Iland Somewhat before 100 of Christ or 60 from His Passion or 30 from the City Sack And we may remember All these years by That of the Good Ground bearing 30 60 or 100. And our Saviour hints somewhat in Furlongs When They had Rowed 30 Furlongs as Himself had lived 30 years They fell into a very Great Storm which might denote the City Storm and Sinking in the War that Rose 30 years After Him Who Walked on the Sea and Calmed the Storm Although They thought him an Evil Spirit As we use to do in All of other Judgments or Practise from us And his First Revelation of himself was at Emaus when they had walked 60 Furlongs As the Revelation was 60 years After his Death And the Roman War full 60 years After his Birth And 60 more To Adrian Rasing the City about 130 years or 1600 months as Furlongs The New Jerusalem is 12000 Furlongs And If they be Months it is but 1000 years as Chapter 20. But if Years and the Circuit be 12000 Then Every side of the Square is 3000. As the years from Shiloh To these Times or very near us As we saw at the Tabernacles 3000 Cubits And if the Temple Cubits be Days 30 by 30 make 3600 and by 20 72000 or 6000 years and the very Porch of 10 by 20 200 by 120 24000 of which before We saw how Ninive did Sack Samaria and Babylon Jerusalem at 666. And They were Distant from them 666 miles and the Least of them 444 Furlongs about As the Biggest 480. And Judah came From Them about 480 years After the Temple Built at 480 years from Egypt Which is also distant by 240 and some parts 480 miles As Haran was 430. And Abraham coming Thence was told of 430 years As Memphis was From the North of Canaan but from Old Babylon 960 As years From Egypt to their coming from Babylon And Babylon was 480 miles from Damascus As it came to be 480 Furlongs or 60 Miles about As one of its Castles 60 Furlongs and its Golden Image 60 Cubits And its River had a Wall of 360 Furlongs And Cyrus took it as Jeremy spake by 360 Sluces as Days in a year Which was also 240 year of Iphitus Olympicks or of Rome 216 or of Nabonassar 210. As His Tygris was 210 Furlongs from Cyrus Susan Which was also much about 210 Furlongs in Circuit As Cyrus Took Babylon 210 years before the Persians End in Alexander Taking Babylon 210 years After Cyrus As Cyrus 210 After Nabonassar and 10 years before his Son began The New Babylon in Egypt or was There with his Sister Meroe for Sheba Daniel speaketh of Cyrus 3 d year and Xenophen of 7 or 8 years Journeys and Ptolomies Canon of 9 years in Babylon The Head of All the Monarchs Nimrod Nabonassar Nebuchadnezzer Nabonidus Darius the Medâ— and Cyrus the Persian Darius Histasp Alexander Seleucus All. Till Rome also lost it self as Alexander did by Gaining
Babylon or Parts about it As Thera in Justine akin to Abraham And Cyrus Took Babylon about 1666 years After its first Building at 100 years After the Flood And Peleg was born 101 and His Name is Scattering as at Babel And to look Westward Creete is about 1600 Furlongs in length and 666 miles from Jerusalem Taken by Pompey As That by Metellus 66 years before our Saviour Eubaea So many Furlongs Round as Days in a Year And Athens Twice so many miles from Jerusalem Or from Canaan about 666. Rome was Built as many years After the First Olympiad As there be Hours in a Day and From the Flood as many years as Hours from Pentecost To the Doom of Both Temples A little before Hoseahs Captivity about 1666 from the Birth of Sem. As about so many Miles from the Tents of Sem or 1600 from Jerusalem And the Blood ran out from the City 1600 Furlongs And there was no place of Canaan so far from Jerusalem or Any of Ezypt much nearer But if it be for years from the First Christian Persecution and the Roman War at 65 1600 years are fully out at 1666. As at 1670 from the City Sackt Or 1695 from the Revelation About 95 by All the Antients but Epiphanius who placeth it sooner As before Thyatyra swallowed by Earthquake But it was soon Rebuilt again As by the Subscriptions of Divers Councels before Strabo and Ptolomy mention it with All the Rest But the Revelation hints an Hour of Darkness and Temptation which must come and Try the World immediately before the New Jerusalem of Those that Conquer in That Last Great assault As when the Foule Spirit was to be Cast out at our Saviours coming Down It Tore the Child most Sore and left him As Dead This Last and Great Hour of Temptation just before the New Jerusalem As Chap. 3. 10 11 12 may be That which afterwards is called The Slaying of the Witnesses Or Tearing and Leaving Them As Dead And some long since described it a Civill Death rather then Natural Or so at least That they be not Buried If Dead but their Carkases lye in the Streets of the City As the Hasidim or Puritans the very word of the Psalm cited in that famous account of the Asideans slain against the Publick Faith that All the People said There is no Truth or Righteousnesse in These that have broken the Covenant and Oath themselves made oâ— Took As both Books of the Machabes and Josephus of Nicanors Time at Purim 333 days from the Passover As Ester is in Heb near 666. Which might also be shadowed in the P Lambs Tied up 3 Days and an Half from the 10th To the midst of the 14th And then slain 3 Hours and Half before the Paschal Supper and 3 Days before the Lambs of the Congregation were Raised or Heaved up with the First Fruit Omer on the 3 d Day As Christ was raised on the 3 d Day And so about the 7th Month also Before the Great Feast of Tabernacles The Jews assert a General Judgement on the Dead of the year before And As the Paschal Lambs were Tyed up in the first month So was Israel in the 7th To a Solemn Fast and Expiation by Blood also Upon the 10th of the 7th And although it were commanded but for One Day Yet They used Fasting much for 3 or 4 Days together as Preparation To the Feast of Tabernacles But They were not slain as the P Lambs and Christians of the Primitive Times but only Lay in Sackcloath and Ashes As Rev 11th Retired or Hidden and Useless To the World but in Fasting and Praying or the Last Act of Their Prophesie Which was hinted before in the Seed Royal slain by Athaliah with Naboth and his Sons in Jezerel which is Prophets or Prophesy in the Seed of God By Jezabel To which the Revelation doth allude But They shall Rise again As we saw before in Joash or the Man Despairing Raised in the year of Release As an Emblem of some Greater Thing to follow Though he Then also Repayred the House of God but slew Zechariah between the Porch and Altar As if Cutting off the Lords Remembrance Hinted All things New and Forgetting Old and all that is past in Esay with the Revelation The First Witnesses were Lambs at Beershebah the next at Mispa and Gilead the Stones of Witness For Jacob and his 2 Wives as Emblems of the 2 Churches of Jews and Gentiles As Davids 2 Wives led Captive from Ziglag and detained 3 days and Then recovered As the 2 Spies of Jericho were Hidden for 3 days and Esters Fast of 3 Days Which was also the Time of Isaaks being Dead in his Fathers eyes and of Egyptian Darkness and of Preparation for the Law and again for Entring Canaan and spying Jericho And for years also Elijah prayed till it rained not for 3 years and Half Samariahs Seige was 3 full years and the Jewish Wars 3 years and Half The Famine for Saul was 3 years and Davids Pestilence 3 days As of Jonas in the Whale And of Jesus in the Grave As Lazarus 3 days and part of the 4th And Paul had 3 days Darkness at Damascus and we read of the 3 d day of his Storm Which ended not Till the 14th Day As the 14th Day for Passover and 14th year in Gen. 14. And the Crises of Jerusalem in the 14th of Amaziah the 14th of Hezekiah And Paul went up to Jerusalem in the 14th year And the 14th Hour of the Day brought up the morning Sacrifice and 14th from the Morn Evening Sacrifice Which may be called the Daily Witnesses At the Tabernacle of Witnesse the Ark of the Testimony and Altar of Witnesse As in Iosuab Iudges Ps Vnto which the Tribes of the Lord go up unto the Testimony of Israel And the Congregation hath an Hebrew Name akin to Witnesse And God calleth them His Witnesses in divers places as in Esay 43. and 44. As the Cloud of Witnesses in Hebrews 12. Yet some special Persons are Especial Witnesses in several Ages As Moses and Aaron Caleb and Josuah Barak and Deborah Lightning and Thunder Elijah and Elisha Zorobabel and Joshuah Nehemiah and Ezra the Helper and the Lords Comforter as Types of Jesus and the Comforter As From Jesus Christ the Faithful Witnesse and again Who is the Amen the Faithful and True Witnesse As in Esay You are my Witnesses and He whom I have Chosen And the Witnesses in Revelation times are Divers As he saw the Souls of them beheaded for the Witnesse of Iesus And the Angel saith I am thy fellow Servant and of the Prophets who have the Witnesse of Iesus And again The Witnesse of Iesus is the Spirit of Prophecy and All that had That Spirit are Witnesses Yet in comparison of others They are very Few and therefore called Two As the Lowest Number which the Law required for Witnesse And there may be Two more especial in the Latter Times also As the Outer Court
of the Tabernacle had but Two only Visible and yet a third Included The Spirit in the Blood at the Altar and Water in the Laver as the Piller in the Cloud And the 2 daily Witnesses in the Morning and Evening Sacrifice As the Minha with Perfume at the Altar of Incense With the Loaves of Shewbread and the Lamps As Spirits before the Throne or the Ark and Mercy Seat with the two Cherubins of Glory Like our two eyes in our Face and 2 ears in our Head and the Spirit within the Wheels As in our Heart with 2 Auricles as 2 Loabs of the Lungs and Two yet Lower called Testes or somewhat of Witnesse in divers Languages As putting the Hand under the Thigh in solemn Witnessing As the Great World also hath its several Pairs of Witnesses in Earth and Water Fire and Ayr and yet much Higher and Brighter as the Eyes of Heaven called also the Faithful Witnesses in the Ps the Sun and the Moon Which were as Dead or Hidden Asleep in their Causes as the Schooles speak for 3 dayes and an Half Or Till the Morning of the 4th Day of Creation when they first appeared And at Every New Creation or at bringing up a New Heaven and a New Earth The Witnesses of That Generation may lye hid and be as Dead For 3 Dayes and an Half Till a voyce come from Heaven saying Come up Hither As at first Let there be Lights in Heaven and it was so Darknesse As the First Beast or Dragon Draco Dark and Tenebrae the Dragon of the Evening in Hebrew where also Eeve or Eeph is Darknesse a Beast or Serpent as in english Evet and the Jews tell us that Adams Wife was Lilis First or Night and Then Eeve which is also Night as in english Eeve and Evening Day and Night being as Man and Woman Husband and Wife As the Womb of the Morning in the Bible This Dragon fighteth with the Two Faithful Witnesses the Sun and Moon Which are weekly Hidden 3 dayes and half or 7 nights in a week as at first 3 dayes and half together And when These Witnesses meet with the Crossing Serpent in Heaven or the Ecliptick with its Nodes of Dragons Head and Dragons Tail They be Eclipsed which may hold 3 Hours and Half as at the Passion And the Moons monthly Hidings are about 3 dayes and half as Emblems of the Worlds and Churches Changes and her Absence From the Sun and shinings are about 3 weeks and Half And for 666 in This Beasts Fighting with Those Witnesses we found 6 hours or Great VVatches Turning the Tides as Sun and Moon at the Cardinal Points and making up 666 and its lower Root 25 the First hour that Ever Turned Light into Darkness And as many make the Moons Apogeum 65 or 66 of the Earths Radâ—i So do some make the Suns Radius 65 times Greater then the Earths or his Apogeum Twice 666 as we saw before And all made his daily Motion about a Degree and some made That about 666 Furlongs as Ricciolus from Posidonius in Cleomedes Where also the Moons Periodick Month is 27 dayes and half Which in others is 27 â…“ but in Martiaw Cap. 27 days 16 hours but 2 lesse then 666 which is also very near the Month for Anomaly and Latitude As often For Appearance Though Vncertain And the Suns Monthly Rotation now agreed is from 26 dayes as the Caroline Tables To 29 half and the mean is 27. ¾ Which is just 666 hours As Apelles or Scheinar and Galileus When they found One of the Semicircles to be 13 dayes and 20 hours and an half Which doubled maketh 27 dayes and 17 hours but One lesse then 666. 12 such Months are 333 dayes and 24 666 and 666 Moons about 54 years As 54 Sections of the Law in 669 Little Ones And that the 7 Churches also may shadow out Successive Times as the 7 dayes of the week and 7 months of the Jewish year and 7 years To Release I do the rather believe From the Glanâ—es on Successive Times As Paradise and Tree of Life in the first Church the Flood or Egyptian Death in the 2 d. The VVhite Stone and Manna from Aegypt in the 3 d. And Breaking the 7 Nations by Jâ—suah To the Times of Elijah slaying the Prophets of Baal and Jesabel the Type of the Great Whore in the 4th and to the Coming of Christ in the 5th and the New Jerusalem in the 6 t and General Judgement in the very Name of Laodicea With All things New again as the 3 last Chap. of that Blessed Revelation which doth Blessits Readers From our Blessed Jesus who received it to Give Or that he might shew it To his Servants Or beginning at Christ or at That Revelation to John The name of Ephesus may hint Declining Times of the Primitive Church As at Adams Fall in Paradise There Named Smyrna may signifie Beaten Myrrh As in the Christian Persecutions and Antichristian Jesabel Till the Morning Star arise before the Sun of Righteousness shadowed in Elijah at Jesabel and so to the coming of Christ and the New Jerusalem The Poets say the Great Io wandring came to Ioppa built before the Flood in Mela with Solinus Thence to Egypt and there had a Son from whom came Belus Father to Egyptus and Danaus with Agenor Who returning to Joppa begat Cadmus Phoenix and Europâ— that played with a white Bull Till he swam away with her to Creet and There she had Minos and other Judges in Hell From whom they bring K. Erithrus and the Lycians As Cilicians from Cilix an other Brother to Cadmus Who being sent to seek his Sister came so near as Greece and there was bid to build a City Where he saw a Beast Lye down and Thence Baeotia with Thebes in Greece and Egypt also from Thebeth Noahs Ark and Beasts And though he killed the Serpent he became a Serpent with his Wife and Children very Miserable One being Mother to Acteon Turned into a Stag and Torn by his own Dogs for seeing Diana Bathing Two others destroying themselves and Children The 4th Burnt by Jupiter Thundring as with Juno But catching his Bacchus from her and Hiding him in the Hollow of his Thigh Their Brother wanders up and down till at length One of his Ravisheth a Child of Pelops who had maintained him But Then Prayed for Vengeance Till Oedipus killeth his own Father and marrieth his own Mother knowing neither Till some secret Characters discover it And then for shame and grief They hide a while till all the Family destroy themselves or one another But a Child comes out at length called Tisamenus Or Revenged And His are glad to leave the Country and to wander To an Iland That had Risen out of the Sea and was called Thera The Beast And thence came Battus As Batten and Batein to Play the Beast with His Cyrenians in the Acts. And our Saviour bids us not Battologise as Battus did This may
be more than Hivites that is Serpents flying from Joshua Though the Times agree with the Poets Penulus and other Remains of Hebrew Pillers or some flying from Canaan And their Brother Phoenix is the Great Man in Phaenicia Father to another Belus whence Sicheus Pigmaleon and the Famous Dido As perhaps also to the Red Sea or Phaeniciax that is Red and a kin to Erythrâ—â— Phinâ—us and Cepheus with his Daughter Saved from the Dragon by Perseus With Wings also For flying from These Dragons or Serpents and a Flood from the Dragons Mouth And the Phaenix Rising out of her Ashes and Odors may be an emblem of Him and Them that were by Death to Conquer Death and live beyond the Phaenix Which yet liveth 660 or 666 years The Jews give it 1000 as the only bird that did not taste the Forbidden Fruit As they speak on that of Job I shall dye in my Nest as the Phaenix In Herodotus or others though the Romans knew it not till after Christ or 66 of Augustus 666 from Josiah 1666 from the Flood or 5 times 666 from Creation Slain by a King of Egypt or Sodom where our Lord was slain When Jacob cursed Levies Cruelty He said Let not my Soul be in their Secret or in Sodam which in Hebrew is just 666. And Cheleem that makes them Men the Number of a Man 665. And God doth much forbid Chelaim their Mixing Seeds As they are caught in Chelaim which some translate the Stocks in Isa 42. And Chelaim is Michael Turned almost Backward Myster or Mystery an Hebrew word As Sithrah and Hester Hidden Making 666 As Thorus or Taurus in Hebrew 666 and so is Satur 666 Secret or Full and ready to vomit As he speaketh at his Making All things New In Laodicea As at drinking on the Cross It is finished Which was from Egypt as many years as there were Hours in the year before Pentecost or its Prep and from the first Pentecost in Canaan as many years as That was after Enoch And as Moses Face shining might represent our Saviours shining with Moses in the Transfig So might His Long stay in the Mount denote ours Saviours stay in Heaven while the Chief Levite or False Prophet makes a Golden Calf or Image of the Beast as Psalm 106. with Revelat. â—3 And Moses Last Coming from the Mount to make the Tabernacle at the Feast of Tabernacles might denote our Saviours Last coming to the Feast of Tabernacles yet to come And as 40 dayes Rain in the Flood did shew us so many years between the first Ark and the 2 d at Shilch As there be Hours in 40 dayes So there were as many years between the 2 d Ark and 2 d Temple As Hours in Moses 40 Dayes 960. And Moses Breaking the first Tables at his first 40 dayes might note their Breaking of the Law and their City Broken by the Caldees in the same month and season when he brake the Tables And the Renewing of Those by God might shadow both Their Renewall by Joshua Zorobbabel Ezra and Nehemiah And the Law renewed and written in our Hearts As put in the Ark and Mercy-Seat by our Saviour and His Making All things New As at the Tabernacles in the Revelation And the Feast of Tabernacles was After the Day of Pentecost or giving the Law to Moses 130 Dayes or 3120 Hours As there are 3120 years from Moses To 1666. which is from Christ As many years as from Creation to the Church Restored After the Flood As If His saying The Dayes of the Son of Man shall be as the Dayes of Noah did intimate as many years from his speaking That To his Coming There described As there were Years to Noahs Flood Which was at the first Hour of the 70th Day of the World Or at 1656 years As 1656 Hours come to the 70th Day ending at 1680 Hours And then He should come again before 1680 or at most about 1690. which is from His speaking As many years as the Flood was from Creation And his saying No man knew the Day and Hour of the End of the World may teach us to measure Times by Dayes and Hours also Which may be now better known since the Revelation And although there may be Hints of his Coming To the Great Feast of Tabernacles As he came and shewed himself In the Last and Great Day of Tabernacles John 7. yet i◠〈◊〉 be said that No man knoweth the End of the World with its Day or Hour For though there must be a New Heaven and a New Earth yet All the Works of God and in special The Earth shall abide for ever But the Meek shall inherit the Earth and Righteousness shall dwell in it Righteousness and Peace Wait on the Lord and he shall exalt thee To inherit the Earth And When the Wicked are cut off Thou shalt see it So that a man shall say Verily there is a Reward for the Righteous Verily there is a God that Judgeth in the Earth FINIS
CHRIST Under the Law WITH The Times of the Gospel AND Fullness thereof LONDON Printed in the Year 1664. ERRATA Page 30. line 15. for years read months p. 33. l. 19. 24 Aldermen Add In divers Cities as it was long in London p. 3. l. 12. in the 2 d Colume and 24 Aldermen to be left out p. 40. l. 1. for Luminations r. Lâ—â—ations p. 44. l. 16. Colume 2 d for the Red Sea r Reed Sea l. 17 18. for Mimum r. Minium l. 39. for Psalms r. Palms p. 59. l. 9. Col. 2. for 2705 r. 2805 without the Parenthesis p. 62. l. 7. Col. 2. Add And their Longest Night was above 13 Hours As the first Night of Creation was till the 13th Hour p. 69. Parag. 3. That of Cubits in some Copies to be left out or amended by the 2 d Paragraph of the 59th page In the Preface p. 6. l. 25. Col. â— for Tabernacles read Tabernacle The PREFACE and SCOPE THis Discourse was written more large and it may be less confused but the Authors distance from the Press and little time to correct it with so many numbers and other occasions prevailed to contract and croud it out as he could being only for private Friends and such as can excuse both matter and manner The first is to express some little part of the unexpressable Goodness of God and Love of Christ which passeth knowledge and to help shed it abroad into our hearts that it may mould us into love to God and all men Have we not all One Father Hath not One God created us Why do we then deal treacherously every man against his brother by prophaning the Covenant of our Fathers And our Saviour did not only bid them all say Our Father but repeated it and pressed it on the multitude that they had All One Father in Heaven and One Master or Teacher even Christ which is twice repeated in Mat. 23. And as Love was his last and great Command on Earth so his first Complaint out of Heaven was of some that had lost their first Love And may he not complain that we have lost All Love which is not only waxen cold but even Dead and quite put out by Lust or Love of the World and Cares thereof which himself said would Choak the good Seed And what Hope is left or means to recover us but in himself Made under the Law of Love to God and Man also So that it is written in his heart to Love his God and his Neighbour As himself To propagate the Name and Love of God with All his Might and to bring his Children Servants and the Strangers in his Gate to Rest the Rest of God as is required in the fourth Command And seeing he bid it be written as a True Saying of God that He would make All Things New the Author doth believe it though he doth not yet see it And he thought it worth enquiring When That great Change is to come into the minds of Men to mould them into Love of God and One another And finding the Psalm for the Afflicted to tell us that God will appear in his Glory when he buildeth up Zion and when the Peoples are Gathered and the Kingdoms to serve the Lord he searched what the Law or the Prophets say of such a Gathering And he found that Moses Dying Charge on Joshuah with succeeded Kings of Israel which he hopes may come to Christ at length was to gather All Israel and their Strangers also and to Read the Law to them All that they may Hear and Learn and fear the Lord and his Goodness in the Latter Dayes At the end of Seven years in the Solemnity of the year of Release in the Feast of Tabernacles which they call the Feast of In Gathering And although this was acted every 7th year in some measure yet seeing God himself doth sometimes use a Day for a Year or a year for as many years as it hath Dayes he began to consider whether it might not be So in This also that the Sabbatical years of Release might intimate their Release from all their Scatterings and Bondage at the Close of seven Prophetick years or in 2555 years which are seven times 365. And first he found that so many years After the Fall did bring Israel to rest in Canaan and so many more did bring the Christians to reign in Jerusalem and that from their First Scatterings out of Canaan in Jorams time when they were first led Captive so many years came out about 1666 now coming and from following scatterings after Joram so many years are out about 1690 and that Daniels greatest number of 2300 dayes or years is then also finished from the time of his Captivity And for beginning those Prophetick years about the time of Joram there are many reasons besides their first scattering out of Canaan Then For it was a very Great Change of the World or as the Jews express it a New World which they believed to be seven or eight times renewed As the old Tuscans also in Plutarchs Sylla and that every such New World was foreshewn by Great Prodigies in Heaven and Earth yea and Divers times by signal Tydes or Turnings and Parting 's of Waters as the great Clepsydra So at the first Creation and again at the Flood and again at passing the Red-Sea and at entring Canaan When Jordan was divided As again by Elijahs Mantle At His Ascension a little before Joram which was followed by their first Captivity As their Last followed our Saviours Ascension shadowed by Elijahs The Assyrian Empire was Then shaken and broken as Israel by Syria and Judah by the Philistines Arabians and Edom which Then first revolted and broke Jacobs Yoak as was foretold by Isaac and rested not till it forced Ahaz to hire Assyria which destroyed Israel about the time of Romulus who might be shadowed by Rummili or Remaliah that in the mask or vizor of Religion Ravished 683 Virgins or 783 as it was 683 years before the Romans first Ravished the Virgin of Zion and 783 before they crucified Christ From that time the Prophets began to threaten Edom by which the Jews say they meant Rome as in that Map of Hell in Isa 34. directed against Edom and the Raemim or Romim v. 7. And as Judahs breach and cutting off might be Typed by Athaliahs cutting off the Royal Seed as Joram had cut off his brethren so might those seven Great years of Scattering and Return be Typed in the seven years of Famine and Wandring of the Widow who then Returned and found the K. talking with Gehazi freed it seems from his Leprosy And by the seven years of Joash Hiding and then coming up and repairing the Temple and by many other seven years which are here touched In this search of Times it is found that 1260 or 1290 and 1335 which are the Great Numbers in Dan. and the Revel may be Years and Dayes and Hours of Jewish years As from the
Rise of Ottoman and first Roman Jubilie of Bâ—niface the 8th Who did as much for Temporalls As Bâ—niface the 3 d for Spiritualls about the Time of Mahomet 666 before Ottoman And Purim in the 7th Month from Doomesday As 7 years of Release 333 Days from the Passover became the Feast for the Death of Nicanor After Antiochus As Types of These and others Ending all at 7 times 333 or 3 times 666 and an Half From Daniels Captivity Kainan was 666 before Enochs Translation or twice 666 before the Flood As Enoch was Before Abraham or Methusela before the Promise twice 666. As Kainans Son about 666 before Noah And Noah 666 before Eber and Eber 666 before the Great Cecrops or the Time of Mâ—ses As the Flood about 666 before the Death of Joseph and Bondage in Aegypt And Abrâ—hams Death about half 666 before the Tabernacle Reared And from Aegypt 666 years brought up Joash of Judah or Joas of Israel Sacking Jerusalem in the 14th of Amaziah As Josephus with the Bible and 666 more the Desolation of Antiochus And that God would Raise them at 666 might be Hinted in 666 Sons of Adâ—nâ—kam or The Lord will Raise up again at the Return from Babylon in Ezea And Thus we might find 666 the Great Crisis To the Greatest Kingdoms As To the First and Oldest in Greece or Siciâ—n As also To Nimrods Babel about 666 before the Exodus and Twice 666 before its Ruine in the Sâ—n of Pull or Sardâ—napalus 333 before Cyrus As 666 from Solomons 666 Talents of Gold to Alexanders Crown 333 before Christ Who was Thrice 666 After Abraham or 2000 as before And so between Their Birth years Thrice 666 and Twice 666 and an Half to These very Times or to 1666. And to fix our Eye upon Jerusalem the Sun to its Moon or Jerecho the Great Sun Dyall to the World withall the Turns of Light and Darkness It was Built about Abrahams Coming to Canaan in Jos with Hegesip twice 666 before the Caldees Sackt it Taken by Judah much about 666 from Terah Babylon or Ninive By David about 666 from Isaaks Death or Josephs Dungeon and 444 23 ds of 666 from Aegypt By Shishack 666 from Josephs Death or their Bondage in Egypt By Joas 666 After Aegypt and 666 Before Antiochus As Joash Repair of the Temple was about 666 After Moses first from Aegypt By the Chaldees 666 before Titus and twice 666 After Abrahams Coming into Canaan By Bagâ—as under Ochus 666 from David or the Temple Founded By Ptolomy Lag 666 After Shishack and 666 before Julian By Antiochus 666 After Joas Sack and twice 666 from Egypt And from Cyrus so many years as Days in their year By Pompey 666 from Assyrs Sack of Israel or Samaria By Crassus Robbing the Temple 666 After Senacherib Robbed it of all he could get from Hezekiah Then beseiged it with a vast Army strangely destroyed in Herodotus besides the Bible A Type of what God means to do when Antichrist shall fill the Land of Emanuel As Esay 8. and 14. and 17 18. Micha 5. By the Parthians and by Sosius and Herod about 666 from Babels first Coming to Jerusalem in Hezekiahs Time or Manasseh Carried Captive By Titus 666 After the Caldean Sack and 60 before Adrian Raced it 666 After Cyrus Built it By Julian 666 After Ochus and by Cozroes 666 After Pompey and by Omer 666 After Sâ—sius and Herod 666 Before Ottoman Again by the Saracens 666 After Adrian and by the Caliph of Babylon 650 from Julian and Then by the Turks After Titus 666½ Then by the Christians 1260 from Antiochus and by Saladin twice 666 from Antiochus and Nicanor By Egypt again in 1234 and by the Saracens 1290. By Selim 1516. And for the Fates of Rome or Edom in the Prophets As the Jews Tradition is It rose at Edoms Breaking Jacobs Yoak and Carrying Judah Captive in 2 Cron. 28. which caused Ahaz to hyre Assyria which destroyed Israel and Iudah This was about 666 before Pompeys Sack which was 666 Before Phocas and Boniface As Caesars Iulian Aera was 666 years and odd days before the Great Hegyra of Mahomet 666 before Ottoman the first Roman Iubilie The 660th year of Rome was signal for Peace at home and abroad But 666 very Fatal For the Massacre of 15 miryads of them in One Day in Asia As the Danes in England and for the Civil Wars which beseiged Rome with 4 Armies at once Till one Consul was slain as Sacrifice at the Altar and Cn. Pompey by Thunder and the rest affrighted by Prodigies till Sylla diverted beseiged Athens and took it with the Flowr of Greece in a year And though Their Legions were not Constant yet we may find 666 very signal in them or their Cohorts and their Greater Legion 6666. And to Parallell Britain with the Jews As both were invaded in Caesars time so both revolted in Neroes and although reduced to a Province yet not as others at the Senates Order but the Emperours Peculiers Vespatian is designed to quiet Both and both rebel again in Adrian about 666 before the Saracens seized Ierusalem and the Danes England A Monarchy by Egbert Though Ina be Called the First in the Saxon Laws Taught by an Angel Payed Peterpence but first to an English Colledge in Rome about 666 from Titus at Ierusalem Austine was Here in 600 and ere long received a Pali from Rome Tanquam Grande Christi Sacramentum ad Missarum Solennia with power to make 12 Bishops As York had 12 in the Learned notes on Bede The Monks of Bangor 1250 or 1260 in the Saxon Chronology slain about 666 from Caesar Here or Pompey at Ierusalem In 636 Ierusalem is Sacked by Omar and Cambridge by Sigebert a King and ere long a Monk Christiana factia Catholica In 637 we read of Parishes as Cambden but an old Mss brings them To Theodore about 666. In That very year the English received Latine Service and other Ceremonies with the Popes Supremacy As Bale and the Mag. Centuries Tithes in Ethelbert By K. Barons and Commons As in the Confessors Acts. And Ethelbert Dyed 666 After Crassus at Ierusalem Lent Here by Parliament As the Saxon Bede which in Lat. is Authoritate Principali In Ercombert Who Dyed about 666. And Then was Bede Born Alfred the First Adopted Son of the Pope who Crowned him at Rome But his Will owneth his Kingdom To the Bounty of God and his Subjects Free as His own Thoughts in Menevensis about 666 before the Change in H. 8. When the Parliament denyed the Popes Supremacy forbad Latine Service or Commanded the Bible in English Their setling All the Power of the Pope Here upon the Crown might be a Reverter of what was There before As often Adjudged Yet I know not that Ever before the K. was left to the Discretion of Cant which had the Pall and Belt or Great Symboles of Dependance on Rome and Homage to it As the Statute leaves him For