or asleep in their Causes as the Schools express And This being First in the Kind is Measure to All that follow Both in Weeks which have 3 and an Half or 7 Halves of Light in Dayes and as much Darkness in their Nights and in Months the Moon or the Earth may be Eclipsed 3 Hours and an Half or be Hidden in the Rayes of the Sun 3 Dayes and an Half Which Changes of the Moon may represent the Changes of the World also And at every New Creation the Witnesses to be Hidden as Dead for 3 Days and an Half or about the 10th part of the Time of That Month or Age or World and Then Rise with such an Earthquake as we read in Psalm 104 and Rev. 11. 13. and Then the voyce from Heaven Come up Hither is but as the Word at first Creation Let there be Lights in the Firmament As Witnesses c. And the New Moons or Changes were solemn Moeds as appointed by the Sanedrin and not under 2 or 3 Witnesses deposing that they had seen the New Moon Who were therefore Feasted and Encouraged to Watch for it as Holy Job may allude in That All my appointed Time I will Wait Till my Change Come If the New Moon were seen before Noon That was the First of the Month but if not till After Noon the Next Day was accounted First by Their Rule who also tell us that at first the Moon was equal to the Sun but in contest God made her blush and hide her face so long that Adam saw her not till the Afternoon of the 6th Day And to bring it neerer yet to the Revelation The Moon Crossing the Ecliptick in the Zodiack that Crooked Serpent meets a Dragon as they call those Nodes of Dragons Head and Tayl ready to Catch the Woman in Travel or her Child by Eclipses in which the Moon or Earth is Darkned So that Darkness may shadow the Dragon or the Beast of the Bottomless pit or that Abyss we read in Gen. 1. the measure of the Rest. This slayeth the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth and bindeth up our Eyes and other Witnesses also both in our Bodies and the Temple or Tabernacle of Witness also Where all the Witnesses were measured by them in Heaven and their Goings and Comings and by 3 and an Half or 7 Halves and 7 as in the Lamps There being no less Number or other made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers but 7 and those that come of 7. and Seven in Heb notes Fulness and Rest and Turning as in Sabbath as in every 7th Hour of the Sun and Moons Motion And 7 Dayes also make the Moons Quarters and 14 Change her whole Face and bring her up to Those at the Poles also Where she is Hidden Half her Monthly Course and so is the Sun Half his Year Returning in the 7th Month As to All the World in One of the Equinoctials And so ln the Temple As in slaying the Lambs and offering all the Witnesses there might be found Daily 3 or 4 Hours So they ceased also 7 Hours from the Morning Sacrifice to the Evening Minha and Then 14 to the next Morning As Their Longest Night was but 7 minutes more than 14 Hours as the Moons Returns and Fulls in somewhat more then 14 Dayes and yet they made or counted Their Night Even to the Day as the English still call it whose Languages Phrases and Idioms are neer akin to the Hebrew as this Discourse sheweth in very many Instances And as 7 is made of 2 Threes and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half So All Their sprinklings of Blood in their Daily Sacrifice were by 7 or 3 and an Half on their Great Altar made with 3 Corners and an Half being Cut to bring it All into Benjamine and their Incense Altar and divers other things by 2 or 3 Cubits and an Half and the 7 Lamps in the Candlestick branched by 3 and an Half on either side And their Musick with 3 sorts of Instruments besides their breath or spirit and 3 kinds of Blasts with Quavering between 2 plain Songs as singing Catches or Chatses or it may be Watches Some of which had Musick to part them as our Waites and others Silence as the Revelation Silence for Half an Hour while the Incense was offering and the People stood without in silent Meditation or Prayer And as 7 is the Lowest Number made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers so is 14 the next of 3 times 4 and an Half for 3 times 3 and an Half is a Fraction of 10½ As 7 is made of 3 and 4 or 3 times 2 and an Half So is 14 of 3 with 4 and 2. 3 being as the Father of All Numbers and 2 the Mother Great with Child in 4 which is its Square and the First Square as its name and form in Hebrew and the measure to All other squares which may be All Resolved by 4 as Cubes by 8. Here discoursing the Scripture Numbers of 7 and 14 the Author finds them All measured by the Times and Changes made by the Sun upon the Moon or Earth in every 7th Hour 7th Day 7th Month and 7th Year which was also Sabatical as the Seven 7th a Jubilee And the Months so fixed that whether we begin the Year about the Vernal Equinox as the Jewes did after their Coming out of Egipt or at the Autumnal as probably before yet still the 7th Month also will be Holy One of them for the Passover on the 14th Day and the Other for the Tabernacles from the 14th And Both had a solemn Moed of 3 Dayes and an Half for the Witnesses before the Feast As the Paschal Lamb was Tyed up from the 10th to the 14th and so the Daily Lambs were kept and searched and prepared before they might be Offered And Though Sackcloth and Ashes might go off at the Close of the 10th of the 7th Month the Great Day of Attonement yet Their Tradition of Gods Sitting to Judge All Dying That Year made them All as Tyed up in Fasting and Prayer till the Eve of Tabernacles which was As the Resurrection in the Morning Light freeing our Eyes and All the other Witnesses from their Chains of Darkness And he bringeth His Judgment also to Light every Morning Though the wicked will not see it As the Scripture speaketh And the Sun and Moons returns to Them in 14 Hours at Longest Night and in 14 Dayes of the Moon to Them at the Poles and for Changing her own Face and the Earth and Tides may be Measures to all the Great Things in the Temple and other places Done on the 14th Hour or Day or Year in Scripture Where also many Persons or Places as Witnesses lying Dead or as Dead and lost for 3 and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half or 3 times 4 and an Half whlch is 14. As Abrahams Tenents and Sodom recovered in the 14th Year and Then as lost for 3 Dayes and
beginning of the 15th which is shut up with 360 Hours as their Year with 360 Dayes We are now in the Feast of Unleavened bread and at Full Moon As if That were to shadow out the Sun of the â—d Year to be 10 times better then the Light of the â—d Day coming up in 36 Hours And 360 is 3 times 120 Gods Moed for Man which is 3 times 40. 372 Bring up the Morning of the 16th Day the Wave sheaf of Barley the first of First-fruits Heaved up as our Saviour Raised on the Third day after the Passover was slain And from This Day 50 Days to Pentecost are 1200 Hours Added to 360 they make 1560 for the Moed of Pentecost Or Biccurim the first Fruits Of wch 420 bring up the Morning of the 18th Day or Crisis of Their Passing through the Sea or end of three Dayes and Half their Hour of Temptation Beginning from the Passover though they got not out till the Sun-set of the 15th Day or Hour 360 As a new year Deut. 16. 6. Nunb 33. 3. 430 The Evening Minha of that Day answering to their coming from Aegypt 430 Years after the Promise to Abraham That very Night 444 Brings up the next Morning with its Tamid It is Two Thirds of 666. 450 the Noon of That Day But after Moses song and the Lambs they wanted water 3 Days and came to Marah Bitterness till the 12 Fountains and 70 Tamars 480 Brings up the 21st Evening As the Temple after Aegypt Though a very Learned man would have it 580 and 490 the Morning of That great Feast of Unleavened Bread as Daniels Weeks 490 Years 500 To the Minha of That great Feast or the 7th Evening from the Passover And 555 to the first watch of the 24th Evening 600 Hours are in 25 Dayes 36 more bring us to the Morning of the 27th Day By which time the Moon beginneth to approach the skirts of the Suns Robe or Clamyd in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mantle Mantle is Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an upper Garment There she becometh Gloomy Glum in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 639 As the Sun is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 640. And the Hebrew Galum is not only Glum or sad and Glummed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but also Turned or Twisted as Galume Lace And so the Moon in the Suns Rayes an Hebrew word as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Then she is Calm and Clam and Clammed or Clummed as English use that Phrase which is Hebrew made to Blush or be ashamed as the Latine Calumn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 650 and 656. Which in Hours brings us to the Morning Watch of the 28th Day And 666 to the Point of Noon in That Critical Day to the Moon of 4 times 7 and 3 times 9 and 3 quarters And her Cloud or Clade or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of which before makes up the perfect Olam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so near the Morning of the 30th Day And Olam may signifie their Hight as well as Hiding or their Secret as Sodom and Let not my soul be in Their seeret or in Sodom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just 666. Or their Yoaking or Childing or Fooling or being Naught as English use that word akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Night and Râ—sting as we saw before But Sleep may be frm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is to slip off ones Clothes and to slâ—p a Flower Psal. 120 6 7 8. and Ruth 2. 4. or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to slop or sloop or throw down as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or else from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Both slow and slouth which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Safe or Salf and Salve as akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Slack ones hand or to Pardon and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to send out Siloam and Shilo As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Jacobs blessing Judah or Shâ—lah Judahs Son Of which befor in Tamar And what if Childe be Shiloed As Birth may be from Bar a Son as Bara Create and Bar Bare sent out or Bear as also from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Covenant which ever included Children Through all the Bible and mainly for them And Abrahams Berith Olam much about the Burning of Sodom and from Beritus to Sodom was the Length and Cross Bredth of the Land promised in His Berith Olam And the Flames of Sodom might possibly intimate the Ole or Whole and Holy Burnt-Offerings as Seals of That Olam Berith Especially at the Change and Full of every Moon as flaming Fire or as the World Burning at the End of the great Olam when she shall be As Gold afire rather than Ophir Which yet may be akin to the Greek Pyr and English Fire as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as alluding to Ur of the Chaldes whence He was called Or to Ire Wrath which may be onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Fear and that Where no Fear needed As the 90 and other Psalms tell us But That Ketem Ofire Perfect Fire of Love shall cast out Fear and Curss and Sorrow As it did Gomorrah the People of the Curss or Rebellion The Spot fixed on them Gen 14 Though but in Freeing themselves from Tyrants or Usurping Monarchies So little doth God countenance Oppression or Rebellion or such Fighters As Zeboim may signifie And those be the first Goats we read of I think in all the Bible For so also does Zeboimâ—ignifie â—ignifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Zebaoth Armies or Militia and Goats also much akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Woolves and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Flies as we see in Baalzebub the Lord of wanton lustful fighting Flies But our Jesus by the finger of God shall cast him out and even by Silence shall destroy Babling and Babylon He is the Great Zerubbabel and Jerubbaal also And Solomon That King of Peace had but One War I remember and That was onely to destroy Lust and Wrath and Rage of an Army That is in Hebrew Hamath Zobae From Zeboim we go to Admah which are joyned in Genesis and in Hosea also A most Pathetical Scripture He had said Come and let us return unto the Lord For he hath Wounded us and He will Heal us He hath sâ—itten He will binde us up After Two dayes He will quicken us Here are Two Moeds In the 3d Day or 3d Moed He will Raise us up As he raised Jesus so he will Raise his Witnesses And we shall live in his sight Will he also shorten the Time for his Elect as Christ or Esay promised so that he will prevent the last Moed after the 3 are past As he put up his Sword before the last Moed In Davids Pestilence We shall know if we follow on to know the Lord. His going is prepared As the Morning to the Evening Or as the Evening or Dark time and he
That we read in the Revelat. of 12 drawn into 12 or squared And of 12 times 12000 or 144000 like the Clakins which the Jews find in 144 Hours called the First Fruits of the Earth as the Hours of the First Week were the First Fruits of Time or of the World before the Sabbath That also which the Revelation speaks of 666 as the number of the Beast which so many have believed to be an Epocha of some great Change in the World may be compared with the Changes of the Moon and several Months which both Ancient and Modern have observed And 666 Hours bring us to high Noon of the fourth Sabbath or 28 Day Which is the end of one Month and beginning of the Moons Changes and Months from Thence to the 700 Hour in the 30 Day Which I touch the rather because That is the Number of the very Letters in the Hebrew Olam which is both the World and also Ever or Eternity or the Hidden Time of the Worlds Duration or Great Change thereof which it may be still comes out in 666 Years or at most 700. As the Moons Changes are in so many Hours And I know not any Nation or Kingdom of the Earth as another Moon to the Moon that hath not felt great changes in That Revolution And the very Phrase of Olam or Hidden may perhaps lead us to the Moons Hiding in her Change whence she comes Alma which in Heb is a Virgin or an Hidden Beauty As in other Languages Alma Virgo Alma Mater and the like To be compared also with the Wonder in Heaven A Woman in the Sun with the Moon at her Feet Which we touched before Moses maketh 70 Years a Mans Age or His Fulness of Time or Millo And the Hebrew word to fill is 70 or 71. in Numbers And Davids 70. Years was the fourteenth 70. from Abrahams Birth who as the Jews say lived 58 Years with Noah which in Hebrew is 58. which should be considered by Those that make him born 60 Years after Tharahs 70. which yet is not determined by St. Stephen who saith not he went to Canaan the same Year but After his Father died Which yet the Samaritan Pentateuch maketh just 60 Years Sooner than our Hebrew Copies And as 70 Years in Moses reckoning make an Age So the Hebrew words for Age or Ay or Ever and Eternity in their very Numeral Letters are about 70 or some one or other of its powers Ad or Adg the great word they use for Ever or Eternity which preyeth on All and some render it somtime by Prey As in the most famous place Zeph. 3. 7. Where yet it may be also to Eternity Being of the great Judgment as we spake before Maketh 74 in Letters As the Mazorites reckon from Ezra as the Sound may mind us the Helper promised in Daniel as his very Name implies before Nehemiah the Lords Comforter who followed him presently As the Great Comforter the Great Helper Jesus Christ. Ad or Ed is also the word used for Witness or Testimony Testaments and to be compared with the Two Witnesses of which before for the Congregation also or the Church or Elders thereof the Sanhedrin which our Savior also named plain enough but we lose it as many other things by reading it Councel And They were the 70 Elders as they were usually called though they were 72 or 73 or 74. of which â—o oft in Scripture old and new that I speak not of the 70 Palms and 70 Sons of Gideon and of Ahab Or of the 70 Disciples or any other 70. The same word is often added also as the sound may intimate to Olam for a Greater expression of Ever or Eternity which by This also appeareth not to be Absolute For Then it could not be Added to or increased When as Olam it self hath also a Plural and is multiplied by many in the Letter M which is ever 40 and with jod 50 as they used to multiply by 10 and by 50 As we see in divers places But M final as they call it is 600 as we see in the Mazoreth and 600 was so usual to express a Great multitude that with the Romans also it became a Proverb Et Sexcentis aliis c. to be considered with 1666 also Which are all the Numbers which Their Alphabet did make MDCLXVI And as Ad addeth 4 to 70 So Netzach another Hebrew word for Eternity doubleth Ad and makes in Numerals 148 which is Twice 74. And Dor written fully in Heb. maketh 210 which is Thrice 70 the usual word for Age or Generation And especially repeated for Eternity also When yet Both Dors make but 420 Years or 60 of Daniels 70 Weeks or Sabbaths Which is also another great Ever Yea and That multiplied by Ever also For One 7 times 7 or 49 in the Jubilee is very often called Ever and for Ever as we saw before in the Servant for Ever and otherwise How much more when That Ever is also multiplied by 10 and made 490. Which may also be Hinted in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their proper word for Time and season which is English Yet 470 or 480 or 490 as it may be written And if Time and Times and Half a Time be to be reckoned Thus they may make a Number neer to 1666. But the usual word for Season and for such a solemn Time as Daniel calleth Time and Times is Moad from Ad or next akin to it Adding 46 to 74. which makes Thrice 40 or 120. a Number Famous in the Age of Moses and the old Worlds Season for Repentance And in Daniel himself who 〈◊〉 the chief of three Princes set to rule 120 Rulers who were Thus parted into Thrice 40. Which we found before the great Number for Temptation Punishment and other things that I say nothing of the 40 Weeks of the Child in the Womb or of the Time of Life divers times specified in Scripture To be considered with the Fulness of Time in which our Savior also came by Water as at first Creation when they flowed from the Womb of Eternity and by Blood also for the New Creation as All Children come to Birth in Their Months also And the affinity between our Life and a Beast in Hebrew and in Solomon may bid us think again and count the Number of the Beast also which is Man whose Life is Bruitish or a Beast as the Midwives told the King of Aegypt and that the Heb. Women were as Beasts needing No Midwife Some read it Lively And in general Life is unto Being but as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which it only differs in the Root And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the proper Character of Life as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Being as we may see in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and divers other Hebrew words Kedem is also used for Eternity Before as the
not that Watches and Catches also might come from the Hebrew Chatsa Which in This sence is akin to their Kaets to Watch or wake out of sleep which is also applied to God himself the Great Watchman of Israel And what if the Watchers singing Holy Holy Holy at every Watch might allude to the Three Hours in Each of them as well as to the 3 Persons in the Blessed Trinity Though some ancient Copies square the 3 also and make it 9 times Holy Holy Holy c. And seeing All things Here below were but shadows of somwhat above and shewed also in the Mount Why may not That Half Hours Rest or-silence in Heaven of which we read in the Revelation be As the Sabbath to Half Hours There being 7 Halves in 3 and an Half As we found before a Sabbath both in Rest and Turning in every 7 Hours and Daies and Months and Years also Or it may be the Cardinal Watches were distinguished by their Songs as the Temple Waits or Trumpets as David may allude by Rising at Midnight to sing Praises c. As the Others by Rest or silence Which we see cleer enough in 2 of them at the Morning and Evening Incense while the People stood without Praying in silence till the Priest came out and blessed them As we read in That of the Baptists Father strucken Silent also And in all the Jews upon Those places we touched before in the Psalms and Prophets The Lord is in his Holy Place Let all the Earth be Silent and the Lord is Risen Let All flesh keep Silence before him And I charge you that you awake not my Love till He please And as Every seventh Day was Holy from the first Creation As we see by divers things in the Flood and many Scriptures So was Every seventh Honr as we saw before distinct or Holy from the Six before it bringing in some Great change of Midnight or Morning or Noon or Evening whence All Time did first begin And from That First beginning of Time there were Three Daies and an half or 4 Evenings and Three Mornings before the Sun and Moon were seen in the Firmament Which they were not till the fourth Day of Creation as we read in the first of Genesis So That for the whole 3 Daies and an half before That fourth Day those 2 Witnesses of Heaven lay Dead as it were or Asleep in their Causes as the Schools use to speak And at the End of Those 3 Daies and an Half there was a voyce saying Come up hither and Be you placed in Heaven As my 2 Faithful Witnesses So long as These Heavens and This Earth shall Endure And when These are to pass away and be renewed Then also 2 other Witnesses that correspond to These shall lie as Dead or asleep 3 daies and an half As These did at first till a voyce place Them also in Heaven Crying Come up Hither And Then shall be such a spiritual Earthquake As at first a Temporal that made the Rivers break out and the Hills rise up or Valleys sink down of which we read in the 104 Psalm and other Scriptures We cannot wonder that Daniels 3 Times and an Half should bid us look to That or Those set in Heaven to make Times and Seasons or Moeds also And in Hours That Number may Expresse the Duration of an Eclipse As in the Gospels we read of Darknesse from the sixth Hour to the ninth and Then it passed off by Degrees with divers Cries of which again And in Dayes besides the three First before the Sun it may be the Proper Time of the Moons Hiding under the Beams of the Sun as Hours might be under his Body and so long the Sun may be Hidden by Eclipse Or the Moon rather And three Weeks and an Half make up the Time of Distance or Absence of Moon from the Suns Rayes Or her Liberty till she come under Them again and so draw nigh to a Change And it may be added that Three Weeks and an half bring us quite through 24 dayes as the 24 hours of each day to the very morning of the 25th which may be considerable for other things besides the square root of 666. And in Years Our Daniel speaketh of causing the Daily Sacrifice and Minha to Cease in the midst of a Week Which is generally taken for three years and an half that is half a week of years in which onr Saviour preached publiquely and Then by his Own Great offering of Himself Once made put an End in right to All other Sacrifice and Offerings Though they were in Fact continued till the Temple was also beaten down about 40 years after our Saviours Death And That very War Endured just Three Years and an Half But three Moeds and an Half in Daniel may speak Months as well as Hours or Dayes or Weeks or Yeares Though in All and Each of them there may be some Correspondence as we touched before And when the Lights an Hebrew word from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were made at sirst they were for Dayes and Years and Moeds which are therefore properly Neither Dayes nor Years but distinct from Both. And as Dayes and Years in Scripture are generally ascribed to the Sun So are Moeds to the Moon As he appointed the Moon for Moeds and the Sun knoweth his Bowing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or his going Down in that Great Comment on the whole Creation if rightly translated which we Cited but now the 104. Psalm And the very next verse hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Iob and Solomon for Goats as alluding also to the Solemn Goat-offering at every Olam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Hiding of the Moon which so made the Moeds How also Mans Seasons or Moeds are made by the Moon in Him as in Heaven we may see by comparing the third and twelfth Chapters of Ecclesiastes with other places of Solomon and David speaking of his Months and Hidden Times or Allamim or Allamuth As Paul also speaketh of our Life Hidden with Christ in God of which we read in Other places besides many verses of the 89 Psalm as in Hebrew And if we should render the Hebrew Moad or Mognadh by Monach as in Almonack we might easily shew their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be made of N. C. As the figure may hint and more the Number 70 being made of 50 and 20. the number of their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 begins a word or syllable the English sound it much by Cn. Gn or Kn. But when it ends by nc nk or ng And if we consider Three Months in Generall They are to the Year as Three Hours to the Day or Night a Watch or Season as we call it of Winter Summer Spring or Autumn Which are All it seems Some how in every Day also As the very words of God to Noah may seem to intimate saying not only that there should be
Such Seasons and Changes VVhile the Earth endures but also that All Dayes of the Earth should be Those Seasons or such Seasons As the words in Hebrew may be read and we find it so by daily Experience that every Day hath its Seasons and its quarters As the year also And the Half Month added to the Three brings us through the second sabbath of Weeks or 14 Weeks As before we found Abrahams Tenents and Others in Sodom freed from the four Monarchs or Monarchies in the 14 year And our Teeth in Each Jaw are 3 times 4 with 2. Watchers But yet more especially These Three Months and an half bring us from the Pentecost and Sack of Ierusalem That Great New Moon or Change beginning the Month following That Feast of Pentecost as we hinted before to the very Time of that Last and Great Feast of Tabernacles At the fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month and so just 3 Months and an half after the month of Pentecost which was followed by such a visible Change of their Moon or Olam when the Romans fired their City and so made That Full Moon And That also much about the middle of September answering so much to their Seventh Month and Feast of Tabernacles At which Time also their Release and Liberty must begin again as Thereabout it Ended And that their Coming in again with the Fulness of the Gentiles also promised to Ephraim as we saw before was to answer that Full Moon of the Full Month that is the Seventh and Great Feast of all the Feast of Tabernacles Or In gathering All the Fruits of the Earth may be cleer not only from the very Reason and Nature of That Feast and Season but also from many places of Scripture which do so compare them together As the 102 Psalm made as a Form of Prayer for Him that is Afflicted with his soul overwhelmed and pouring out his sighing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the Lord Jesus As we find it cited in the first to the Hebrews I am withered as Grass cut down for Hay in Summer but He shall come down upon the mown Grass in Psal. 72. But Thou wilt arise and have mercy on Zion For the Moed is come the Time and the Moed also And Psal. 75. I will judg Equities when I receive or come to the Moed The very same word used here in Daniel and in many Scriptures for that Great solemnity of Tabernacles which of all the Three Moads was the Moad of Moads Or the most solemn and Greatest of All. And then presently the Psalm addeth So or Then the heathen shall also fear thy Name and All Kings of the earth thy Glory as before in the 72 and divers other Psalms When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appear in his Glory He will regard the prayer of the Destitute or Naked and will not despise it As our Saviours Dying Words on the Crosse Ps. 22. 24. This shall be written for the Generation to come for he looked down from the height of his sanctuary to behold the earth and hear the sighing of the Prisoners and to loose the sons of Death When the Peoples in the Plural are Gathered together as at that Feast of Tabernacles and the Kingdoms also to serve the Lord. That which followeth of shortning his Dayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may allude to Katsyr Summer and Harvest Or the years End When the Dayes Shorten and their Tradition is that Adam quickly found the Sun declining and the Dayes Shortning Which They should consider that beleeve Him and the World Created at the Vernall Equinox So the 126 Psalm In the Lords Turning the Captivity of Zion we are or were like Dreamers Turn again our Captivity O Lord as the streams in the South we touched it before They that sow in Tears shall reap in Joy He that went Weeping and bearing precious Seed shall come with singing bringing his sheaves Which is plainly of Harvest and the Joy of Harvest which we find also in the Prophet Esay coupled with breaking his yoke and staffe of his shoulder and Rod of his Oppressor As in the day of Midian so famous for the Barley Cake of Gideon as alluding to the First Fruits and the Lamps in Earthen Pitchers of which also Saint Paul to the Corinthians And it ended at Succoth or Tabernacles which were Taught by Gideon Yet Plainer in Hoseah There is an Harvest set for thee O Judah when I bring back the Captivity of my People And again I the Lord thy God from Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in Tabernacles As in the Solemn Feast or Moed of which also before What will you do in the Solemn Day of Moed Or That Solemn Feast which is also the Solemn Day or Solemn Feast in Deut. 16 15. 31. 10. Ps. 81. 3. Lament 2. 7. with divers other places And in Zephany I will gather them that Moan it is Heb The Solemn Moed And at That Time I will get them Fame and Praise in Every Land where they have been shamed and at That Time I will bring and gather you and I will make you a Name and a Praise among all people of the Earth when I turn back your Captivity before your Eyen saith the Lord. And the Last of Zechary telleth us that All nations that fought against Jerusalem shall go up to worship the King the Lord of Hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles And again the punishment of Egypt and All Nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles And in that Day On the Bells of the Horses shall be Holinesse to the Lord yea every Pot in Jerusalrm and Jndah shall be Holinesse to the Lord of Hosts and there shall be no more Cananite in the House of the Lord of Hosts The Heb Canange may be Saxon Change Cunning or Koning And in That Day there shall be One Lord and his Name One and the Lord shall be King over all the Earth and in That Day Living Waters shall go out from Ierusalem and Half of them to the Dead Sea or that of Sodom also plain enough in the Text and Ezechiel both the 16. and 47. and in Ioel also Even of that Great Day of Iudgement in the Valley of Iehosaphat which yet was the valley of Blessing or Beraca Crying Put you in the sickle for the Harvest is Ripe Yea and the Vintage also for the Presse is Full. Which we read again in the Revelation where it runs out also by the space of 1600 surlongs which we compared before with Dayes and Years to be added perhaps to the Time of Saint Iohns writing about the 60th year after the Ascention And after All he Seeth the pure River of Life with Trees bearing Fruit every Month whose very leaves were to Heal the Nations And there shall be no more Curse of which before in Iericho And whosocver will let him take the Water of Life Freely Which being compared with our Saviours words in the 7th
hour maketh such change in the day night so doth every 7th day to the Moon the great Hebrew Moneh that is Reckoner of Time and every 7 Month to the Earth under the Poles or places that are most remote from the Sun who is hidden 6 moneths from them but returneth in the 7 and abideth 6 others with them and departeth again for 6 more and so goeth and cometh yearly as infinite wisedome hath appointed And though there be a visible Change in the Moon every 7 dayes which we call Quarters yet it is more signall in 14. made of 3 times 4 and an half as we see in Full Moones the Moeds of Passover and Tabernacles that I speak not of Pentecost as an Emblem of that great Change on the world when having served the 4 Monarchies Twelve great years as the 12 hours of Dark Night they shall be freed and lightned again in the 14. as we find in the 14 of Genesis But by Abrahams Parting his Enochs by Night As the Watches and as Jacob also parted His Troops And David His to recover his Wives and other Captives after 3 dayes and a Night and the two Spies of Jericho returned after 3 dayes and a Night And the Witnesses in the Revelation and of Heaven were not there till Three dayes and a night or on the 4th day from the Creation And as 14 dayes make such a change in the Moon so to the Earth also under the Poles the Moon goeth and cometh in 14 Dayes or half a Moneth as the Sun in half a year So that 2 Dayes in that Motion are as a Month. The Moon moving 12 of her own Diameters to the Suns moving One of his as we touched before in parting the Day and night into twelve hours apeece And as we find 666 hours in the Monthly Courses of the Moon so the word for 2 Dayes in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is as the Mazorites reckon just 666. And after 2 Dayes he will revive us of which again in Hoseah And such darknings or lightnings of the Moons face by the Sun or the Earths by the Moon in 14 dayes may shadow out somewhat of the 14 years we spake of but now which might also be carryed much farther For Jacob served 14 years for his 2 wives the other 6 for Cattle And Jerusalem was freed from the Assyrian trodden down in the Holy Mountain as we read in the 14. of Esay in the 14 year of Hezekiah who also broke the Serpent and called it Nehustan as a Type of Him that was to break the Serpents Head to which Esay may allude in severall places speaking of the Serpent and the Child daring to grasp the Serpent and to play upon his Hole or Den. Yet that 14 year of Hezekiah was full 7 years after the ten Tribes were Captive after 3 full years seige of Samaria beginning in the 7 of Hoseah which was the 4 of Hezekiah or 3 year and an half of his Raign to be compared also with the seige of Jerusalem and all it's blows in the last of Jeremiah And Ezekiel had his great Vision of the New Jerusalem in the 14 year after the old City was smitten and upon the 10th day of the first Moneth when the Paschall Lamb or Goat was to be set apart 3 dayes and an half before his Offering at the Passover on the 14 day at Evening I have yet spoken little of St. Matthews 14 Generations which I reserve for our Characters or of Pauls going up to Jerusalem and into the 3 Heaven in the 14 year or being freed from his terrible Tempest in his Sea-Voyage on the 14 day when on the 3 day they lightned the ship but lost the light of Sun and Starres many Dayes till the 14 Night Act. 27. 27. 33. I repeat not that touched before of the Common Hebrew Cubit of 6 Taps or 24 Digits and the sacred Cubit 7 Taps or 28 Digits As those that have fewest Teeth have 28 so that either Jaw hath 14 parted by two watchers which they call Doggs between 3 Fours As the Hebrew Zereth or Span was made of 3 Taps of 4 Digits apeece As the old Watches they say were 3 in the Night of 4 hours apeece although the Gospel as the Romans reckon 4 as of 3 hours apeece And the 4 sides of the Great City had 3 Shaars or Watches or Gates apeece And if the Sacred Cubit were 28 Digits How like is their Hand which is Jad and 14 to be half their Holy Cubit As That also which must be so revealed and stretched out as we often read to deliver his People in the 14th day at night or the 14 Great Year of which again As the Temple Witnesses were restored again in the 14 Hour after the Dark Night os the Bottomlesse Pit had put them out or slain them or at least made them to Cease as our eyes also to Rest in darknesse till the Day-star chased away the Nights Darknesse and brought it's Kets or End which is also the Waking or Resurrection as we found in Daniel to be compared with Job 38 Luke 1. 78. 79. 2. Pet. 1. 19. Reve. 2. 28. and divers other places From 14 we come to 21 the next number made of 3 and an half in whole Numbers 3 times 6 and 3. or 3 Sevens or 3 fourths half of 24. bringing us to the Evening Minha in every Day beginning still at Sun-set and to the Last Great Feast of Unleavened Bread after the Passeover and to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Great Hosanna of the Tabernacles the 21 Day of the Moneth as an Emblem of Their Liberty after the 20 Years Bondage under Laban again under Jabin and the Arks 20 Years so neer the Philistines That I say nothing of Solomons being 20 Years in building Gods House and his Own and his Feast was 14 Dayes in the 7. Month of Tabernacles Or of his 20 Cities given to Hiram or of 20. smitten by Jephta or of 20 peeces the price of Joseph as 30 of Christ or of the 20 Cubits of the Cursing Roule in Zachary or any other 20 in Scripture which we may touch in Characters As also the 6 times 20 that great Moed of God with man 120 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is just 120. Of which again and of All the Sevenths As 28 and 35 and 42 Half of three dayes and Half the first Chled or Childe of the Sun and Moon or Her Calends which may come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as Ides from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or her Cloud or Clade which is also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or her Hour of Temptation 42 being to 1000 the Great Day or to 1008 the Jewes Clakins in each hour as an Hour to a Day just the 12th part And 42 is 3 times 12 and an half or 3 times 14 or 6 times 7 a great Moed of the Witnesses In Hours besides the Sun and Moons meeting or Beam and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
〈◊〉 may be 42 it is the Hour of Noon in the 2d day of Creation And in Dayes the Full Moon or Passeover of the 2d Month for the Unclean or Travellers In Weeks it is near the Time of Life or 40 weeks Weeks of the Childe in the Wombe as before And in Months it is 3 Years and an Half or 1260 dayes of the woman in the Wilderness or 42 Months of the Beast and thofe that Tread down the Holy City And Daniel saith All those things shall be finished with the end of scattring the power of the Holy People And 1290 dayes in Him are but 30 more than 1260 in the Revelation and 45 less than 1235 in Daniel which are but 3 more than Twice 666. And if the Revelation were 30 years after the sack of Jerusalem it will be no wonder it should speak 30 years lesse then Daniels 1290. Or that These also should have 45 years added for setling them As 45 Hours brought up the Evening Minha of the 2d Day As the 45 years â—aleb speaketh of Jos. 14. Although they wandred in the Wilderness but 40 years for the 40 dayes of searching the Land whence those 40 years might seem to begin answering to Ezekiels 40 Days or Years for Judah and the 40 years of Jerusalem after the 40 Dayes of our Saviours staying on Earth after his Resurrection As it may be Nineve stood but 40 years after Jonahs 40 dayes a sign to That sinful Generation And if there were just 42 Miles from Beersheba to Jerusalem that is 20 to Hebron and 22 from Hebron to Jerusalem as we finde in Jerome with others That may be considered with the 42 Months and 42 Mansions and 42 Children at Jericho of which before From 42 the next of 3 and an half in whole numbers is 49. 3 times 4 and an half or 7 times 7 the first number squared In Hours it is the first Hour of the 3d Nights Rest. In Dayes it is the 7th Great Day of Unleavened Bread to the Passover of the 2d Month. In Weeks it cometh near the Weeks of the Lunar Year and but 3 short of the Solar In Years it was the Jubilie That Great Rest and yet Motion or Mutation as we noted before in the Hebrew word Mot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 49. which is also the number of the common word for Measure Midda 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As if that number of 49 in their Jubilies were the Measure of All Measures and 49 is also in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be but 40 which we touched before in the Sun and Moons Beams of Meeting and Bowing or coming together weh is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Bo. 60 Hours bring us just to the Morning of the 3d Day and 70 the Evening Minha of that 3d Day which may answer to the Pentecost of the 3d Month. As the first â—amid of the 14th Hour might represent the Passeover of the 14th Day of the first Month. And the Pâ—ntecost being 50 dayes after the first Sheaf waved or Heaved of which before was near the 70th Day of the year And the first Fruits or Biccurim of Pentecost might represent their first coming from Babylon after the 70 years Captivity as the Law was given at their first Pentecost after their coming from Aegypt And That coming from Babylon was but as the first Fruits or Feast of Pentecost to that great Feast of Tabernacles of which we have spoken so much And as 70 is made of 7 and 10 the Full and the Rich number drawn together So it is also 3 times 20 and an half As a Great Moed of the Witnesses There having also been 3 times 20 years of Bondage signal enough before the 70 years Captivity 20 with Laban and 20 with the Philistins and Kiriaâ—l-jearim 1 Sam. 7. and 20 with Jabin also from whom they were freed by Barak Lightning and the Son of man shall come as Lightning Son of Abinoam the Fathers Beauty or Brightness on Mount Tabor where our Saviour shon as Lightning or Barak from Kadâ—h the holy City of Refuge in Nepthali Great Wrestlings as Rachel first and Then Deborah noteth in Her Song Whence the willing people or Aminadab and leading Captivity captive may easily come to the 110 Psalm and 68. where also we read of Women Preachers or Singers a part of Prophecy as we finde in Miriam and in This Deborah Rising up under Tamar which is also the Palm-Tree where the former Deborah Rebecca's Nurse was buried it seems in Genesis called Allon-Bacuth the Oak of Weeping as some render it But in the Targum and Jerome another kinde of Tree And of All Trees the Palm is famous as the Camomel in Plants for Rising up by Treading down As we saw before in Their Great Hosannah of the Greatest Feast of Tabernacles And in This Deborahs Song and Time we may finde Megiddon and Horma As in Gedeons Time also to be compared with Megiddon in Zechary and Harmagedon in the Revelation 14 More added to 70 bring us to 84 which in Hours is just 3 Dayes and an Half the Great Moed of ohe Moon Covered or Cased 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As a secret 84. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 80 81 85. Now she soaaketh or sucketh the sack of the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which she becometh As a Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or a Great Measure of Waters which she poureth on the Earth and so becometh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 white and sick as in Latine Sicca Luna Sitiens And Whiteness argueth Dryness as white Hayrs and whited Cloth Being freed Pad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 84 89 she becometh White and Fair which in Solomon is Lebana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 87. 3 Hours and 3 Dayes and an Half And now being Leavened by the Sun she goeth swelling on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To her Childe and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may also be the Time of her Full as well as Change Till she Wane or Weane her Childe After the Full And then goes on to her Casing again The Earth shall be like the Moon in This also bearing Fruit every Month as we saw before That I speak not of the Chymists Moon impregnate with their Sun which may be in us also though we throw away the Golden Sands and Rivers which the World contend for because we do not know our selves and what we may come to do As Lebana or Levana Dea the Romans Great Midwife she is also the Queen of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As English call the Welken and the Milken way And Milcha was also near akin to Laban Gen. 22 And They have Melcom also Binghams Melcom and Melcom Regis the Kings Kingdom But she is not Lebana till White or quite free from the Suns Rayes or Solomons Hamma 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which may minde us of the Jewes Tradition of Ham with his Wife in the Ark as begetting all that
though Ezra speak but of the Temple Telling us also that This East side repaired after by Agrippa was 400 Cubits Long of fair white Stones of 20 Cubits Long and 6 Broad or High of Solomons Work and Thence called Solomons Porch and Shushan the Kings Gate Though the Jewes say Both were Helped by Ezekiels Measures which they Both followed as much as they could And for the distance of These Courts we may consider that the Royal Galleries Walks were above 60 Cubits Broad with their Pillars And although That south Piazzo were Broader than the Rest yet to make up good Proportions between the outer square of 500 and the Courts within This whose very Area made 333 Cubits as we saw before besides their Walls we need not doubt Their Truth who limit the space between these Courts by 66 cubits And 66 Hours besides all we saw before in the Course of the Moon bring us to the Noon of the 3d Day as we are going to the 3d Wall and added to the 14 before they want but 4 of 84 the great Number we saw of 3 Days and Half for Hiding of the Witnesses As the Sun and Moon did not appear till 3 Dayes and an Half after the Creation the 84th Hour or Morning of the 4th Day And 84 Dayes make up just 3 Months or 12 whole Weeks And when the Womans first 14 Dayes were over for her Daughter yet she must tarry 66 more before she might come out of the Gentile or Unclean Court to Any Holy Place of Israel As for a Manchilde 40 Dayes As Israels 40 years in the Wilderness for Israel my son my First born And the very Day of Pentecost or Biccurim the First-fruits of Holyness to God Closed the 65th and broughtin the 66th Day of the Year So the 66th year after the Temple so begun in Darius Hystasp or 80 from That of Cyrus brings up Ezra in the 7th of Artaxerxes Long As Josephus and so many others And that there were just 490 Years from This 7th of Artaxerxes to our Saviours Death is so cleared by the Great Capellus and divers others that Helviâ—us himself yeeldeth they were praecise 490 Years although he begin them rather from the next Darius to the Roman Sack which yet is due to the Infinite Wisdom of God so ordering that the 70 Weeks may either End with the Temple from the 2d of Darius Noth Or with our Saviour the True Temple from the 7th of Artaxerxes where I rather fix for all the Harmonies we have and are to see And that from Cyrus taking Babylon to Artaxerxes 7th there were just 80 Years is so cleared by the Old Canon and Eclipses also recorded by divers of those times as we may see in Lansbergius Vranometry and Chronology with the great Petavius though so great an Enemy to Scaliger who must not Dye for all his faults that I yet know not what may be said against it The main difference in Helvicus or any I remember being in giving Cyrus Only 3 years as Daniel nameth 3 and yet it may be 3 times 3 before Babylon when as his very Works and Wars may shew us divers more as Lively and others Evince although they had not Ptolomies Canon as now published such a Pillar of Times next the Holy Scripture And that Daniel also might be led to Ezraes Times with Nehemiah I might cite his Naming Ezra in That some read They shall be Helped with a little Help Or Ezra But if That rather speak of the Times after Ezra yet his very words of Returning to build Jerusalem Asib and Tasib may be found in Eliasib God shall return begining to build or repair the sheep-gate as his proper cure Being High Priest As Jehoiada the Old Gate and next the men of Gibeon cursed Gibeon and of Mispa to the Throne of the Governour Which may be more considered with 1000 cubits between the Dung-Gate built by Malchiah the Lord the King and the Valley-Gate Repaired by Hannun He that is Gracious which may give us the Site of Jerusalem with many other things of those Times And that the Prophet Jeremy also spake of those Times and of their Returning to Build is plain by comparing his words with the Dedication of the Wall when they Sought for All the Levites to purifie themselves and the People and the Gates and the Walls also as Neh. 12 when All the Princes were upon the Wall and parted to the Dung-gate on the Right Hand when Nehemiah himself the Lords Comforter went After the other company that were sent to the Left Hand when also they came singing from Gilgal where he rouled away the shame of Israel by Circumcising them that were Baptised already to Moses also in the Cloud and in the Sea Through which Our Fathers passed as St Paul to the Gentile Corinthians to be considered by them that deny Baptism to Children and from strong Death Azmaveth and Netopheti which yet I render not My Patients in Tophet though it be near that sound in Hebrew And the High Priest himself Eliasib God will return Sanctifying Tophet or Gehinnon or the Valley of Dead bodies or Ashes the places in That Prophet named as we saw before and joyned with the Places named Here and the Tower of Hananeel which was also sanctified by this High Priest as we read in Neh. 3. to be compared with the 12th and Jeremy 31. Adding also that It should no more be plucked up for ever Which we may consider But again to the Temple-Courts which may yet lead us to the City also ere long I hope and the New Jerusalem That perfect Cube As the Most Holy Oracle of which again The Suburbs of the Holy Courts were called Hell for so in Proper names the English use to sound the Hebrew Heth by H and so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Hel. As if none could go to Heaven but through Hell as its Suburbs And as if Hell were onely or Mainly for Israel or Children of the Kingdom For None other might go through it or come into it but with a Sacrifice as we touched before Yet if any will sound it rather by Chel it may suit the English Kill and Kell for a Brick-Kill and a Lime-Kill and a Kell for drying Malt c. The Phrase of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is never used that I remember till the Lamentations as we saw before But the Thing is agreed to be as a Gulf of Partition between Israel and the Gentiles that might onely look through its Grates or Lattisses behinde Our Wall as the Spouse speaketh most properly as being so near the Womens Court Made or at least Setled by Ezra himself comming up just at the Year or Cubit where this Court began And making it his great work to Separate the Jewes from the Gentiles as we see Ezra 9. and 10. And the 2d of Chronicles written by Him they say or about His Times as may be clear enough giveth the very Name of Azra or Aezra
wilful sinners Of the patience of Christ to a man turning into a Beast and how he deviseth Devises to prevent it or recover him How he fulfilled the Ceremonial Law also and how he was in all the Sacrifices as a Lamb for the Lambs and as a Goat for the Goats Of Benjamin the Son of the right hand with other Children of Rachel a sheep in Hebrew at his right Hand and of the Children of Leah or others at the Left Hand where also of Seir a Goat and of the Goats offered at the New Moons solemn Feasts c. and of the Rams of Ishmael accepted on the Holy Alter Of Gods face in Scripture toward the East and of Bowing to the East and of his Right Hand to the South and Left to the North and of Northern Judgments turned to Mercies and Blessings and of great and good things to come out of the North in the Latter times of the World as from Babylon at the return from Captivity How Christ came in the fulness of time Of Seven Ten the full Rich Numbers of their Powers Compounds for Ages Ever or eternity which yet in Scripture oft hath such or such an End or Revolution in such or such Generations How Christ came out in several Ages and Persons of Note in the Bible to do the Great things of Gods Power Wisdome and Goodness for Man To Man and in Man through all the Times and Seasons of the Scripture and in special the Times of the Witnesses In Heaven the Father and the Word Dabar Bar Bara Creating Heaven and Earth where also the Spirit of the Messiah as the old Jews call it on Gen. 1. 2. Mooving on the Waters an other Witness and parting them by A Dam and Adam of Adama dryed Red Earth akin to Dam in Hebrew Bload the other Witness John 5. and Acts 17. Of one Blood he made all Nations of men and determined the Times appointed and bounds of their Habitations which in parting the sons of Adam he bounded according to the Number of the Sons of Israel Deu. 32. which were 12. and to be measured by the 12 Hours of Day and Night Shadowed on the Tabernacle by the Cloud Pillar of Fire for Light that Beginning of the Creation and works of God and in its outer Court by the Laver of Water and Blood on the Alter of Witness as That called Ed a Witness by the waters also of Jordan where afterward the Baptist heard or saw all the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth to which he bare Record or was made a witness also as divers other in several Ages And All the 7 Washings or Sprinklings of Blood or Water so often required in the Law to represent the 7 Nights and 7 Dayes of the Week As the 7 Lamps in the inner Court or Holy Place as the visible Heavens with its Planets about the Sun in the midst as the greatest Lamp was in the middle of the other 6 or 3 on either side by the 12 Cakes of Shewbread changed every 7th or Sabbath day and made of 24 Omers out of 24 Seahs as the Jewes 24th of Leviticus for the 24 hours of Day and Night Made by the Sun mooving 2 of His Diameters the Moon 24 of Hers in each diurnal motion of 24 Hours parted into 4 great Watches as the 24 Elders in the Revelation had also 4 watchers with 6 wings a piece as in the Prophets And in the Temple also there were 24 courses of Priests and of Levites 24 of Porters and 24 of Singers and 24 courses of Standers or men of the Station representing all the People or 12 Tribes as in the 12 Cakes of 24 as 12 Sons of Jacob or 12 Hours of Light came after the 12 hours of Darkness or 12 Sons of Ishmael or Esau for the 24. Elders And as God gave 24 things to the Priests so they gave 24 to him in their dayly Minha of 12 Rouls at morning and 12 also at Evening And the Seventh in Hours also is very Signal as in Days and Moneths and years by the great Rest and Turn of Sun and Moon as Water and Blood also in the Sea and bodies of Animals after every six hours with Them and All that accounted Lilith that is Night the first Wife to Adam and do call her Eve or Even to the Day As it is to them that are about the Aequator and to All at either Aequinox when Time seemeth to begin And beginning at Sun-set as the Jewes and many other Nations did the First six Hours brought down the Sun to the Midnight Nadir and six more brought it up to the Morning Horizon and six more to the Noon or Zenith and six more to Setting again So that every seventh Hour made a Pauz and Turn And Sabbath is Both in Hebrew As if the watchers stood at the four Corners of Earth or quarters of the Heaven which are called Winds and Spirits also in the Scripture alluding perhaps to the four watching Spirits or Angels to Turn the Sun and Moon or Hour-glass of Waters or Clepsydra in the Seas c. After every six Hours of Day and Night the walks of the Sun and Moon but shadows of the good things within the Vaile or 3d Heaven where the 2 Cherubins of Glory shadowed the Mercy Seat or Heavenly Throne over the Earth or Ark of the Testimony also or Witnes with its 2 Tables or Testaments also For the 2d Covenant as in 29 of Deuteronomy was both Law and Gospel also written in the Ark of the Heart of Christ and all his Members after the first Tables of Stone were broken and disanulled being never put in the Ark or in our Hearts For know you not that your Bodies are the Temple of God As Paul speaketh to the Gentiles also Where our Heads as the Heavens above with two Eyes or Cherubins of Glory The Mercy seat or Throne of God and his Rainbow as in all the Scriptures like our Eye And our Heart Or Altar of Incense As the Earth beneath in the middle Court or 2d Region with its Pericardium of Water and Blood in the Pleura with twelve Ribs on either side and seven distinct from the other Nothi As also the seven Rackets of the neck with its spirit or spinal marrow from the Cerebellum As the Brain hath also seven spirits or pair of Nerves with Animal spirits Veyles and Ventricles which are shadowed in the Lower Regions both of the Earth below in the Heart and Waters under the Earth in our Bowels where the Duodenum and Ilea with all the Rest are but shadowes of things above As of the Laver or Molten sea or great Ocean with its Ebbings and flowings as the Earning of our Bowels and the Altar of Burnt-offerings in our Stomack with its heat or fire never quenched and the seven Planets with the Firmament of the Midrif parting between the Bowels or Waters under it and those above it as high as the Brain
it self besides all the waters about the Earth of the Heart Or its Ayre of the Lungs whose Inspiration and Respiration as the Hearts Diastole and Systole may be shadows of Air and Light Drawn in or Covered with Darkness Cassach in English and Hebrew and again spread out in Day as Psal. 104 and divers others Scriptures allude But All are Measured by the Pulses of our Hearts and in our Temples called Times and Tempora in many Languages Being as the Commune meetings of the Two Hemisphers of our Jawes with their Hours or in Hebrew Years of 24 Teeth and 4 High Watchers which so Many Called Doggs Every Region hath its Witnesses As the Head hath its 2 Eyes as the Sun and Moon in the Heavens above between 2 Ears or Years As the Heart hath also 2 Aurtcles as the 2 Poles by which it hangs in the Ayre of the Lungs and the Lowest Region hath its 2 Witnesses also Called Testes or somewhat of Witness in so many Languages As also their Solemne Covenants were made by putting the Hand under the Thigh And so also the 2 Tables of Witness in the Ark of the Testimony or Witness And the Witness Bread of Faces and the whole Tabernacle of Witness with its Courts of Witness and Altars of Witness with the Morning and Evening Sacrifice and Sack and Minha Meat and Drink Offerings with Incense or in Hebrew Keturah coming after Sara As at first There were 2 Witnesses to the Great Word or Promise that although the Serpent might nibble the Heels of Messiah as Psalm 89. 51. Yet the Seed of the Woman in the Revelation also should Break the Serpents Head Cut off in a Type before Abrahams Testes or Witnesses At His Covenant about Beersâ—eba As Davids was with Bathsheba the Daughter of Seaven and of the Oath also As God in Levit. 26. I will send the Beast among you and I will punish you in Sheba or Seven But yet I will remember my Covenant with Abraham or my Sheba at Beersheba As also Zachariah the Lords Remembrance alludeth to his own Name and his Wives Elisabeth Gods Oath and Rest also as some sound the Word Luke 1. 72 73. And This Covenant with our Father Abraham and Sure Mercies of David are made Good to the Lowest Least Believer and He that is Weak shall be as David and receive his sure Holy things as Esay 53 with Acts 2d and 13. Rom. 4 and Galat. 3d. And All as sure in all things and as surely Witnessed As the Everlasting Covenant of God with Noah at Arrarat the Bar of Curss and Error Terror and Trembling or Wandering When God smelt a sweet savour of Rest as the Moon a Reak of Night as Jerach Reak Nihat may allude and the Psalms As the Moon a Faithful Witness in Heaven He said in his Heart I will no more smite Any Flesh for so it may be rendered As I have done But Day and Night c. shall be as long as the Earth endures Or in All the Dayes of the Earth And I will Curss the Earth no more But Bless it and accept and delight in it so as himself giveth the Etymology of Erets in Ezekiel 20. 40 That the Saints or Angels in Heaven give Thanks to the Lamb that they shall come from Thence to Reign upon the Earth as if the Earth as the Weaker Vessel should have more abundant Honour and be Centre to the Greatest Glory of God when the Curtains of Heaven shall be drawn or the Canopy rent as the Vail before the Most Holy Place For the Heavens must be no more but pass away and be rowled up as Parchment before the Fire but the Earth Endureth for Ever Though yet to be Changed and renewed so that it shall be a New Earth as a New Heaven And When This is like to be is One Great Part of this Discourse Concluding that As Time began with Night before Day or Evening before Morning so with Winter before Summer Or in Tisry the Seventh Month as the Jewes render Beresith as the Hebrew Letters in the first word of Genesis So it is very probable the New Creation or the New Heaven and the New Earth shall be when the Year that began at Nisan when they came from Egypt shall come to Tisry or the 7th Month and Great Feast of Tabernacles Or Ingathering of all the Fruits of the Earth at the Close of Harvest and Vintage at the End of the Year as the Scriptures speak When also we may Expect the Latter Rain or Great Showres of That Holy Spirit whereof we saw the Former Rain or Lesser Showers or Droppings in the First Fruits of the Spirit at the Time of First Fruits or Pentecost in Acts 2d In the mean time there are Witnesses fixed As at Mispa the Watch and Gilead the Rouls or Stones of Witness That Laban and Haran Wrath and Care and Fear shall pass away As Wrath in Hebrew is somewhat Passing away but shall not pass over Those Witnesses for Hurt to Jacob or his Relations though his Wages be Changed as often as the Moon or Lebana from Laban and he be rouled between Hamath and Haran the Heat of the Sun and Cold of the Moon or its Wandrings Yet Those Changings and the Moon shall pass away but Everlasting Kindness shall not pass away And God will also Watch at Mispa that neither Leah nor Rachel be Wronged Who were also Witnesses to This Covenant and though but Daughters of Laban Yet they may be Mothers to Both Churches of the Jewes from Leah and the Gentiles also from Rachel so often called the Barren Woman and the younger Sister or our Little Sister in the Canticles alluding to This of Laban in Lebana Lebano and Lebanon and Gilead with the Goats of Seir or Esau and Mahanaim with other things in This Discourse And Ephraim from Rachel must be scattered among the Nations till he bring in and be The Fulness of the Gentiles As Jacob said to Joseph and Then All Israel also as well as Judah shall be saved as we read in Rom. 11. How long This Woman shall be subject to the Course and Changes of the Moon and when she shal have the Moon at her feet and when be freed from it as other Women in their Jubilee of 49 is Here more fully Discoursed And the Times of Gods With-drawing or Hiding and Returning to Israel or the World as the Sun to the Moon or the Earth And of the Times of Prophesying and Ceasing or slaying of the Witnesses Which though Divers in several Ages yet are All measured by the Times of the Sun to the Moon or Both to the Earth with Their Goings and Comings Hidings or Changes of the Faithful Witnesses in Heaven Which are still much measured by 3 and an Half As at first Creation which did Bare or Bear out somewhat Hidden before The Sun and Moon did not appear till the 4th Morning and the Jewes assign the 3d Hour Till which they lay as Dead
an Half And so Jacob served 7 Years and 7 for his 2 Wives and 6 for Cattel Then flyeth 3 Dayes and is pursued 7 to Gilead the Stones of Witness Joseph is also Born in the 14th year of his Fathers and Freed in the 14th Year of his Own Bondage and his 2 fellow Prisoners were freed on the 3d Day And so the 2 Searchers of Jericho lay hid or as lost for 3 Dayes and an Half And so Davids Wives and Friends of Ziglag And divers others besides our Saviours 3 Years and an Half Publick Preaching as Daniels Half Week and 3 Dayes and Half from the Passover 3 Hours and Half Anguish on the Cross As in the Grave 3 times 12 Hours and Half or about 40 or 42. And Paul was strucken Down and Blind till the 4th Day and in a great storm by Sea first 3 Dayes and Then they Lightned the Ship and was not fully freed till the 14th and so he went up to Jerusalem or to the 3d Heaven in the 14th year And Jerusalem was freed from the Assyrians in the 14th year of Hezekiah As Sodom or the World perhaps from the 4 Great Monarchies which are all shewed to Abraham in Visions in the 14th year as in the 14th of Genesis and also in the 15th we see the Turtle and the Pigeon as the 2 Witnesses preserved whole and unbroaken between the Heifer Ram and Goat and all of 3 years old Gods own Emblems of the 3 First Monarchies in the Prophets besides That Vision shewed All the kinds of Sacrifice and other things discoursed in This Book But especially the Passover which being the First 14th Day of the First Month of the First year of their Coming out of Egypt is to measure All that follow Which the Author therefore considereth in Hours of the year to the Passover and Thence to Pentecost and so onward to the 7th Month and its Feast of Trumpets Expiation and Tabernacles which was the Great Feast of the year and the Moed of all Moeds The Ingathering of All the Fruits of the Earth and Latter Rain of That which did but Drop in the First Fruits of Pentecost Time first beginning at Evening 12 Hours brought up Light for Darkness which returned again in the 25th Hour so that 25 is the Root of Darkness or That which first Turned Light into Darkness and the Next Number below the square Root of 666. 36 Hours come to the Morning of the 2d Day ending at 48. and 49 the Number of Middah in Hebrew Measure and the Number of Jubilee being 7 times 7 and the first of the 3d nights Rest. Whose Midnight is about 55 so neer the 12th part of 666. 60 The Morning and 70 the Evening Minha of the 3d Day Ending in 72 of 6 times 12 the Number of their Sanedrin 84 Hours or 3 Dayes and Half brought up the Sun of the 4th Day Measure to all the 3 and Half of all other Witnesses 96 come to the Evening of the Fift Day when Blood was first Created and its Morning Sacrifice is at Hour CXI the very Number of Kavh in Hebrew a Measuring Line and 6 of These is just 666. 120 the Hours of 5 whole Dayes Before Man was first Created is the very Number of Moed in Hebrew As 120 years was the Great Moed appointed by God for Men of the Old World 3 of these Moeds of 120 which is 3 times 40 make 360 as Dayes of their year and Half a Moed more 420 3 of which make 1260 in the Revelation which is also Ten Moeds making 1200 and an Half Moed 60 more 135 the 3d Hour of the 6th Day when Adam was Created Afterwards the Morning Sacrifice And about the Temple from That they called Hell or Chel to the Court of Israel were 135 Cubits as 135 Dayes from Pentecost to the Great Hosannah or the Last of Tabernacles 140 That is Twice 70 Hours shewed the Moon to Adam they say in the first Day of his Creation and he worshiped God who afterwards appointed That Hour for slaying of the Evening Sacrifice the Preparation to the Sabbath whose Lamb came up with 144000 Clakins of Time as the First-fruits to God and his Lamb There being just 144 Hours that is 12 times 12 before the Sabbath began and in 6000 Dayes 144000 Hours as the Number Sealed of all the 12 Tribes with the Holy Lamb on Mount Sion Revel 14. 155 The Noon of the Sabbath which was the measure to all Holy Things being the very Number of the Hebrew word for Kane which Ezekiel saith was 6 Cubits and an Hand as reaching into the Sabbath Day for every Cubit had 24 digits as the Day had 24 Hours The 10th Midnight is at Hour 222 the 3d part of 666 or the Number of Jerecho To which they also came on the 10th day of the first Month when they entred Canaan This is a solemn Fast with them for Miriams Death on the 10th of the first Month As Eli and his 2 Sons Dyed on the 10th of the 2d Month. When also the Ark was Taken by the Philistines After so many Hours of the year were past As there were Years between Egypt and the Taking of Jerusalem and Burning of the Temple by the Chaldeans on the 10th Day of the 5th Month. And the 2d Temple was also Burnt by the Romans on the 10th Day of the 5th Month or the same Day of the Month when in the Wilderness it was decreed They should not Enter into the Rest of God And This Day of the 5th Month might be as many Hours after Pentecost or before the Tabernacles As there were Hours before the Pentecost or Years before the Flood or After Egypt to the last sack of Jerusalem or Thence to their Coming in again with the Fulness of the Gentiles at the â—gathering of All the Fruits of the Earth in the Great Feast of the Tabernacles or the Latter Rain of That spirit of which the First Fruits were at Pentecost in Acts 2. which was so many Years After Egypt as the Day of Pentecost was Hours in the Year which is just after 1â—6 the Hours of 64 Dayes before the Day of Pentecost which was the 65th Day of the Year or 50th from the Morrow after the Passover on the 14th The 10th Day of the 7th Month was the only Fast appointed by God or the Great Day of Attonement to which they reckoned 187 Dayes of the year as there were 187 Cubits in the Court of the Priests and Clean men of Israel about the Temple The 10th Day of the 10th Month was their Fast for the Seig of Jerusalem in the 9th of Zedekiah to the 9th of the 4th Month of his Eleventh year but the Temple was not burnt till the 10th of the 5th Month as Jeremy 52. with Zech. 8. saying that the Fasts of the 4th and of the 5th and of the 7th and of the 10th Month also should be cheerful Feasts of Joy and Gladness therefore Love Truth and Peace and think
no evil against your Neighbour as before in that and the former Chapter All these 10th or Fasting Dayes might be Hinted in the 10th of the first Month when the Thick Darknesse began of 3 Dayes and a Half as the Poets long night of 3 Nights together when the Paschal Lamb was Tyed up and prepared to be slain in Hour 333 just Half 666 or the Evening of the 14th Day which ended in Hour 336. And 337 the next Hour or first of the 15th which was a sad Night to All the first born in Aegipt is just the Number of Seol the Hebrew Word for Death and Hell or the Grave All typed out in Aegipt as Leviathan also with the Dragon in the Sea Giving power to the Beast or Image of the Beast as Psalms 74 106. Comming first from Babylon to Aegypt and thence to the Wilderness and thence to the Calves at Dan and Bethel whence back again to Babylon and There it became an Image of 60 cubits High and 6 in breadth till at length it came to be 666 which is here Discoursed 360 or 6 times 60 Hours come just to Sun set of the 15th Day when Israel was driven out and pursued so on the 3d day they say that on the 4th morning 3 Dayes and Half from the Passeover the Aegyptians are drowned as Job 34. 20. and 26. 12. adding the crooked Serpent in the next Verse and Israel cometh up from the Red sea that great Type of the Last Witnesse or Blood of all the Witnesses singing the Song of Moses and the LAMB in Hour 420 which is 3 and an Half of 120 or Moed in Hebrew made of 3 times 40 4 times 30 6 times 20 10 times 12 or 12 times 10 and 3 times 420 make 1260 in the Revelation alluding to This of Egypt and the Wildernesse in Divers places being but 30 years after Daniel's 1290 beginning at the sack of Jerusalem that is 3 times 430. As a Memorial of these 3 dayes and Half they have 3 more days of Thirst and then come to Marah that is Bitternesse Healed by a Tree And then they find 12 Fountains for 12 Tribes 12 Apostles answering to the 12 Hours of Light and 70 Palms as 70 Elders and 70 souls of Jacob in Egypt shadowed by the Palm-trees in the Temple-Courts as Tamar in Hezron as the Hebrew may intimate This 21st Day began at 480 Hours As the Temple began 480 years from Egypt so that its Feast of Dedication in the 7th month of Tabernacles answered to the Great Feast of Unleavened-Bread or Last of the Passover week in the 21st Day of the Month. By this Thread the Author goeth through All the years from Egypt Whose Dark times might be shadowed in the Philistins and others oppressing Israel Freed by Samson that is the Little Sun setting as many years from Egypt as their year had dayes Saul might be born 337 years from their Entring Canaan as the numher of his Name And Elies 40 years might answer Aarons 40 from Egypt where he was chosen to be Priest as God told Eli 1 Sam. â—27 40 more for Saul and Samuel as Act. 13. bring us to David that is Love Conquering Saul or binding him up for 1000 years when the 12 hours of day and night ran through each other at Gibeon with 360 Dayes of the Year then ending to begin a New Year a New Heaven and a New Earth as a New Jerusalem which David Took from the Jebusites who Trod it down as the name in Hebrew intimates 444 years from Egypt that is 2 Thirds of 666. When David had also reigned at Abrahams Hebron 7 years and 6 months being the 7th son of Jessi My Essence in Gods Language and from Abraham the 14th as from Noah the 24th or last Hour of That day setling the Temple Courses by 24 as his Name in Hebrew may be 24 and 14 as from Abraham he was the 14th Generation Matth. 1. And Davids 70 years an Age or Generation Psal. 90 is the 14th 70 from Abrahams Birth Who received the Promise and came from Haran at 75 Gen. 12 and before their coming out of Egypt just 430 years as Exod. 12 and Then 480 to the Temple in Solomons 4th 1 King 6. So that David dyed in 476 from Egypt and from Abraham's Birth 980 years which is just 14 times 70. 6 times 70 more carry them to Babylon and 7 times 70 bring them home again in the 10th Jubilee from David 490 but from Abrahams Birth the 30th Jubilee 3 times 490 that is 1470 which is the 3d 7th 70 or 21 times 70. And from the First Temple to the Second in the 2d of Darius Hystasp were 70 years Or to Ezra's going up in the 7th of Artaxerxes Long Twice 70 and 7 times 70 more as in Daniels Weeks or 490 years which are 10 more Jubilees bring us to our Saviors Death and Resurrection on the 3d Day as the Barley sheaf or first of First-sruits was heaved up the 3d day after the Passover And his sending down the First-fruits of the Spirit in the Pentecost Acts 2d 1537 years from Egypt as the Day of Pentecost the 65th of the year or 50th from the morrow after the Passover on the 14th began in Hour 1537. As also the First of the Great Moed for Mans Repentance of 120 years began in 1537 of the World and of Noah 480 As the Temple was 480 from the Law And Thus between the Two Great Sacks of Jerusalem and of Both Temples by the Caldeans and the Romans are just 666 years 666 being the Number of Change to the World and in special to Jerusalem which was as the Sun to his Moon as Jericho may signifie being made of 6 the first number of Turn and Change in the Sun and Moon or Heaven and Earth and the Great Ocean or Waters under the Earth And 6 is the First Midnight and 4 times 6 end the first Day and Light was first Turned into Darkness in Hour 25 the least square Root of 666 the Great Number of Darknesse or Change in all its principal parts As we saw in 55 CXI 222 the 10th Midnight or Number of Jerecho 333 the slaying of the Passover 444 in the 19th and 555 the first Watch of the 24th Night as the Last Hour of that Day and 666 comes just to the Sun Darkned by the Moon under his Rays 666 Hours the Middle of the 28th Day or the 3d sixt Hour of the 4th seventh Day which is just 29 Days and 12 Hours the Middle point of Sun and Moons Conjunction allowing 42 Hours for the Moons Hiding the number of Cled or Clade in Hebr the Lowest Age or Hour of Darkness or Temptation being the 24th part of 1008 as the Jewes Clakins were 1080. But Half 84 Hours which are in 3 days and a half the longest stay of the Moon in the Suns Rays in slowest motion Which is very different both in Sun and Moon and so are their Diameters yet so proportional to
Repentance and Returning from Captivity c. One of Those 666 years or hours from the City broken up by the Babylonians on the 9th of the 4th And the Temple Burnt on the 10th of the 5th To the Second Temple Burnt by the Romans on the same Day of the same Month in the Year of Christ 70 or 71. And though we do not know the just Hour of that Day It seemeth very early so that some assign it to the 9th as that Decree They should not enter into Canaan and 1526 Hours As Years from the First Pentecost came to the Morning Sacrifice of the 64th Day ending in 1536 Hours as it beginneth in 1512. And the First Pentecost in the 46 or 47 from Egypt was but 1512 from Enoch Then 860 more to the First And 666 to the Second Temple Burnt make just 1526 hours or years from that First Pentecost or 1572 from Egypt and 36 after the Great Pentecost Act. 2. which we found 1536 from Egypt 1290 more in Hours come about the very day of the 7th Month Fasting for Gedeliah slain by Ishmael As so many years of Christ bring up the Ottoman Family which the Jews call Ishmael as Hagarens in the East As many Great Motions and Earth-quakes in the West besides the Sicilian Vespers and the first great Jubilee setled by Boniface the 8th with the Christians driven out of Judea and the Jews out of England c. And so many years from Jerusalems sack brought up the Golden Bull of Charles the 4th with the Great Order of Jesuites besides That so many call Nocticidium Tigur And 1572 That famous Year in France and other Nations may thus close the 10th of the 7th Month being but just 240 the hours of ten dayes more than 1332 being twice 666 or two Changes of the Moon from the last Great Sack of Jerusalem by the Romans And if the 2d Change begun the 7th Month or 7th Trumpet Then 333 more come up to the Evening Sacrifice of the 14th Day or Preparation for the Feast of Tabernacles which begins the 15th Day of the same Month the great Time here Enquired As that Great Solemnity of Davids Dance before the Ark or Solomons Great Feast of Dedication of the First Temple and of the 2d also by Zorobabel and Nehemiah with Ezra but Types of This Great Return from Babylon that is All Oppression and Confusion called Babel in Hebrew and English also being but Lebab Our Heart in Hebrew Turned quite Backward And if the Turk coming up as Ishmael on the 3d of the said Month be to rule in Europe but 391 years as dayes in a Year and a Month and a Day and an Hour in Apoc. 9. 15. first hinting This Comparison of Years with Hours Those Hours make but 16 Days and 7 Hours ending in the 19th Day the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles which must darken both the Persian Sun and Turkish Moon also as may be hinted in Isa. 24 and Matth. 24. with Joel 2d and 3d. And the First of that Feast of Tabernacles or the 15th of the 7th Month is the 3d 65th As 3 Patriarchs born in 65 that is Eber of Arphaxad and Jared of Mahalaleel and Methusala of Enoch living 365 as dayes in a year So that from him we may begin the Great Year here measured by Hours or any other We found tbe Romans Burning the 2d Temple in the 70 or 71 year of Christ and on the 10th of the 5th Month the Hour we do not know Suppose the first or to be reckoned so or Evening Turning Light into Darkness in that Great Eclipse of the Jewish State And then the 24th or last Hour of that Day will be at the 95th of Christ which so many make the first year of the Revelation being about the end of Domitian 50 Dayes more or 1200 hours bring us quite through the 5th and 6th Months although Both of them should have 30 days As the Scripture Months in the Revelation where 42 Months have 1260 Dayes and other places besides the Flood of 365 Dayes So that 1200 added to 95 come to the Feast of Trumpets or to the 7th Trumpet beginning the 7th Month in 1295. 360 more in 15 Days come up to 1655 The first Day of Tabernacles Which may also be sooner if the Roman Sack were not Till the Morning of the 10th Day Or if each other Month had but 29 days as the Jews now reckon by Middle Motions However it may be Hereabout by all Accounts yet so that the first Day of Tabernacles must begin as all other with 12 hours of Night before Day And they Dance not till the Evening Minha or Incence closing the Evening Sacrifice with All its Songs and Waters from the Wells of Salvation as they called them from Isa. 12. So that if it began in 1654 we are yet but at Midnight and the Sun of This Day will not Rise till 1666 twice 666 and an half And we found 666 and all its principal parts very signal to Jerusalem Troden down by the Jebuzites 444 years after Aegypt Then Recovered by David Then again by Sesac K. of Aegypt in the 5th of Rehoboam which may be 444 years from Judahs Burning it in Judges 1. As That about 444 years from Sodoms flames After Abraham was met by the K. of Sodom and Melchizedech of Salem which must meet also at this Great Return both of Jerusalem and Sodom as we find in That to Abraham with Ezek. 16 and divers other Scriptures Here discoursed And That First Burning of Jerusalem in Judges might be as long After Their First Pentecost As the Last Burning of it was After the Last Great Pentecost in Act. 2. Then again by Joash in the 14th of Amaziah just 666 years from Egypt As Samaria much about 777. Then besieged by Senacherib in the 14th of Hezekiah 666 years before it was Taken again by Herod As by Pompey 666 years from the Assyrians first coming on Israel And the Temple sacked by Crassus slain at Abrahams Haran 666 years after Hezekiahs Death As by Antiochus 666 years from Joash sacking it 666 from Egypt and by the Babylonians just 666 before its Last Sack by the Romans To whom 666 is also very signal from the very Building of Rome coming up with Hezekiah Born of Ahaz but 12 years old which in page 149 is Two and 75 for 57 in This Sum printed These Times are also cleared by the Measures of Both Temples with Herods also and the Times of Nabonassar and of Rome through all the latter part of This Discourse from pag. 196. to 380. where This First Part endeth Which though now presented as One Continued Discourse was many and at severall times interrupted also by Questions and Objections with other matters interwoven which may come in the following Parts With Musick also sometimes heard at distance As Harpers or Melodious Voyces with Theorboes or other Instruments Some of the Hymns that could be Taken but abrupt and â—ost by Translation
may be from News brought by Pigeons As in Those Countries To This day And Jonah signifies a Dove sent to Nineveh as Israel to Assyria and Babylon When All or any of These were Burnt Offerings or Sin Offerings for the whole Church or Priest They were All the Lords consumed by Fire as pledges that the persons offending were guilty of cutting off or perishing for their sins But in particular Sin Offerings or Trespass which were greater guilt and Shame as the Heb sounds the Priest had His and in Peace-Offerings the Offerer had also His part to eat besides the Blood poured out and the Fat and Inwards consumed by Fire to the Lord. Which might not only be a Token of Their Peace with God as the Apostle speaks but also that God accepted and pardoned Those who were represented by such Offerings Gods receiving or eating them as himself expresseth it seemed an Emblem of his Turning them and their natures into His As we dayly do to all we eat and wel digest Or that Christ who was Typed out in All of them was made All to All or for All. As Not only a Lamb for the Lambs in the dayly Sacrifice in which God had his Bread and flesh at morning and Bread and flesh at Evening as he allowed to Elijah and other persons But a Goat also for the Goats At the change of the Moon and the solemn Feasts especially the Feast of Atonement About the end of the Year or Fulness of Times as the Apostle speaketh which we shall consider a little more distinctly As there is a measure of Syncerity which the Scripture calls Integrity Perfection or Fulness of Heart as Calebs Heart filled after God and Sardis Works were not filled up before God And the Lord answered Abimelech Thou didst it in the Perfection of thy Heart which yet is not Absolute Perfection So there are such or such periods of Time which the Scripture reckons Perfect and calleth Fulness of Time or some kind of Eternity which yet are not such Absolutely but to man So Long or so uncertain or Hidden as the word intimates which is used for Ever or Eternity Seeing God hath so Hidden some Times and Seasons in his own Breast that the Son himself saith He knew them not Which yet some interpret as That saying I pray not for the World as if he said I do not now speak or manifest My knowing owning or praying for them till its proper season And there were such seasons also or Revelation of Times and Seasons as appeareth in the Revelation And Blessed is He that Readeth That Book Which is cleerer perhaps for the great things of Doctrine Worship and Discipline also than every eye seeth at one or two readings And may we not say with Job Seeing Times are not Hidden from the Almighty why do They that know Him not see his Daies or Times also For That is the sence in the Original rather than as some read or comma the words Thus VVhy do they that know him not see his daies As the Schools make Motion to begin from Rest as in Heb Resit or Rest is the Beginning of Creation and all Motion So the Jews and other old Nations did begin to reckon Time which is the Measure of Motion from Night in Heb Nihat Rest which is as proper to Night as Motion is to Day As our Saviour also speaketh I must work O happy necessity while it is Day for the Night cometh when No man can work And again Walk in the Light and are there not Twelve hours in the Day And so many also they made in the Night Observing perhaps that the Moons mean Motion was her own Diameter Twelve times to the Suns moving One of His and so twenty four for his two breadths of Day and Nights Motion round the Heavens which is also the proportion which the Ancients made and kept between their Sun and Moon in Metals Gold and Silver But on the Twelve sons of Darkness as of Ishmael or Esau and the Twelve sons of Israel which are called Children of Light We glaunced before in the twenty four Elders and the Watches or Watchers also As in our Bodies are twelve Ribs on the one side and twelve on the other with such and such distinctions and Vertebres And in either Jaw or Pallat like the two Hemispheres of Day and Night There are twelve Teeth with their Watchers also which some call Dogs And the common meetings of our Jaws and signal Pulses are in many Languages called Times or Tempora the Temples As the Jews also called Teeth by a word next akin to Years and our Ears are neer our Temples growing up as Time and Years did after the Creation Changing All things by chewing and devouring them as Time and Saturn did with the Poets and so Turning them into our own Natures And the very Name of Year as of Teeth also in Heb intimates Changing and its Numeral Letters make up Three hundred fifty five As there were Daies in their Lunar Year and Three hundred sixty in the Plural Regimen as in their Solar Years as we touched before at the great Change of Time in the last Battel between David and the House of Saul And Their word for Year hath a double Plural both Feminine and Masculine as their Years were Lunar and Solar And such periods of Exact meeting of Sun and Moon after such Courses and Motions make up such or such a Fulness of Time or Perfection which in Scripture Language may be called an Age or Ay or Ever or the like Phrase by which they express the World also which is usual in many languages As where some read He hath set the World in our Heart it is Eternity or the same VVord which is so Rendred in very many places And though it may be hard to determine what the Scripture meaneth by Fulnesse of Time or Times which is so spoken about our Saviour Time especially as if it were the end of one World and beginning of another Or the end of that which was to answer to the first Night of Creation or the Time before the Sun appeared in the World and the beginning of Light or Day as we may often read in the new Testament yet for some little Essay towards it we may remember that the Hebrew word for Seven or Sevang as some sound it the English Saxon being much Hebrew is very neer a kin to That which signifieth Fulnes and their word for Ten is also Riches which turned backwards maketh their Rash or wrech or Rich or Rushing wicked and unquiet man and by a little changing of places the same letters make a Goat and a Devil also to which there may be frequent allusions in Scripture which we may touch again Shall I add that All the Words I now remember in all the Bible to expresse such a Fulnesse or perfection of Time as is stiled Age or Ay or Ever or Eternity in their very numeral Letters if no more
include Seven or Ten or some of their Powers expressing Fulness or Riches It would be almost endlesse to shew how many Things and Motions in our Bodies do consist or depend on some of these numbers of Seven or Ten which is visible in our very Fingers and Toes with their Nails or Horns to be compared with the Ten Horns in Daniel or the Revelation That I say nothing of the Ten Horns of the Law or the Ten Sephiroth of which the Jews speak so much in allusion to That of Horns or Rayes comming round about the Lawgiver As the Antients formed Moses also like the Sun in his Rayes of Glory I must not speak of the Seven Hours Dayes Weeks Months and Years the Antients observed in Conception and forming the Embryons Features and its several Ages and Changes with ebbing and flowing coming and going of Hair and Nails and Teeth and many other things by Seven Which is also the number of the True Ribs on each side as they distinguish them and of the Vertebres or Rackets of our Necks as also they parted or paired out our Nerves by Sevens As if in our Brain also or the spinal marrow were the Beast out of the Sea or the Old Serpent or Hydra with Seven Heads also And as the Chymists find seven Metals in the bowels of the Earth below answering to the seven Planets above the seal being stamped quite through the Wax or Wafer as the Jews observe so that all the signatures are also seen below which were made above so also we have our spleen and Liver and Gall and Reins and Bladder and other Members as Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus and other Planets with their Armor-bearers also round the Sun as in our bowels about the stomack or great Centre of Sun-like heat and fire in That Lowest Region As the very utmost Court of the Temple had its Molten Sea like the Ocean or Waters under the Earth with its ebbings and flowings like the rowlings and yearnings of our Bowels and the Altar of burnt offerings burning and devouring all And the middle Court or Temple had the Altar of Incence and the seven Lamps and the twelve Cakes As our middle Region or Breast hath its Heart or Altar of Incence also compassed with its pericardium or purss of Water and the Air of the Lungs with the twelve Ribs or sphers or signs of Heaven Seperate with a Veil or Firmament also from our Head or Heavens above or Waters above the Firmament where are the first Ideahs or Originals of All below that I say nothing of the Mercy Seat of our Eye and its Rainbow representing the Throne of God in the Holy of Holies as we find it described in divers places of Scripture Is there not also some resemblance between the Northern parts of the Earth and the Brain or Head As if the North were made to Rule as may be hinted in divers Scriptures for Preferment cometh not from the East or West or South And from North the man comes that Headeth Kingdoms in the Prophets and their likenesse to our Lungs also may be considered with their Winds and Colds Other parts are as Neck Shoulders Breast and Arms. The Midland Sea as the Midriff or it may be part of the Pericardium about the Heart or Africa and Libiah signifies the Lords Heart As the form is And America the back-parts or the People a far off The Great Sea below the continent as the Waters under the Earth or our Bowels and their Rowlings and yearnings the Chambers of the South and as Waters returning in the South Terra del fuogo the Hips and Nova Guinea Loins Mael strom the Nose or Mouth How by Eating all things we turn them into our own Natures and spirits as a shadow how all things return To God as they come From him we touched before and may I add that Christ gave his own flesh and blood to be eaten by us and to be ours and us and the twelve Tribes were presented in the twelve Cakes of shewbread changed every Sabboth day as to be eaten by God or the Priest and so to be turned into His Nature as the Scripture also may intimate in other places besides our Saviours discourse with Laodicea in the Revelation And some make Shaddai to be All devouring and our God is a consuming fire We might happily measure times and seasons in the great World and changes there of much better then we now do If we knew the exact Times of Circulation of our blood and other humors of our bodies and how long the Chylus stayeth in the stomack or any other Receptacle before it be separate and circuled for assimilation What time in the Duodenum there is somewhat in the very name Jejunum Colon or Ilia Which we should consider often as the shadow that I say not measure of the ebbing and flowing of the Sea That I say nothing of the Infinite Bowels of God which are hinted out in Scripture by the many folds of our Ilia six or seven times longer then Man Nothing also of the Caecum which may speak somewhat Hidden as the Hebrew word for the World or Age or Ay and Ever Nor do I say the very Excrements return again in Grass and Hearbs which feed us with the Beasts we eat Shall we come to the measures of Time which is also the measure of Motion in the Heavens The two faithful Witnesses as the Scriptures intimate like our Eyes in our Heads or Heaven above and some other things below which so many Nations call by the name of Witnesses to be compared with Scripture also making such solemn Oaths by putting the Hand under the Thigh the Sun and Moon were set in the Heavens not onely for Dayes and Years but for Times and seasons Which are all made by Their motions through an Oblique Zodiack That crooked or that crossing serpent which in Hebrew hath almost the very same Letters and Numbers with the word for Year For Shanah is a Metathesis of Nahash the Serpent and the Ammonite which may be compared with Sampson the little Sun and Hercules And as Time began with Night before Day so it may be Winter was before Summer as Seed time before Harvest as the Scripture may intimate in divers places Evening and Morning are for sowing Seed and so the former and the latter Rains and the Harvest and Vintage have their seasons The Latter Works of God are ever the Better and his last Wine is best and he will ever shew himself better and better till all Time be perfected into Eternity and God be all in All. How the Antients might part their Day and Night into twelve hours a piece we shew before It may be compared with That of Moses When the most high separated the Sons of Adam and as St Paul expresseth it determined their Times appointed and bounds of their Habitation He did it according to the Number of the Sons of Israel And Thus the first twelve hours of Time
a Pound But Mna the mother to the Roman Mina was 50. Shekles as we read in divers places 12000 Attick Drams 6000 Hebrew or 1200 Ducats or 120 Attick pounds or 60 Hebrew Mnas do make an Hebrew Talent Equal also to That of Alexandria but double to the Attick Which as in all other places was but 6000 of their Drams and 60 pounds And an Attick Talent of Gold as the Sun made 360 of the Hebrew Mnas or pounds as there were Daies in their Year of Silver And generally 12 in Silver made but One in Gold As we found the Moon moved 12 of her Diameters in 12 hours while the Sun moves but One of His. So much quicker is our Brain than our Hearts Diastole and Systole which are as the Suns Day and Night in Hebrew Nihat Rest as Darkness is Cassack which is Hebrew and English but a Covering or a Casing or an Holding in of Light and Motion also And that we may also glance upon the Sacred Number of Seven As Six was common to the World and things and men thereof as we touched in 666. and the Image set up in Dura a Province of Babylon made up of 6 in breadth and 60 in heigth Let us suppose All Time beginning from the Evening Horizon or Sun-setting as we may imagine though there was no Sun appearing till the fourth day As also the great Sun of Righteousness appeared not till after the Night or 12 hours of the fourth Thousand Years If we may so compare the six first daies of Creation with six thousand Years before the Great Sabbath As the Jews also teach us from a very old Tradition From the Evening Horizon to the Nadir or the middle of the Lower Hemisphere there were Then and so are still with Them six hours Motion of the Sun or of the Earth about the Sun And Then six hours more to the Morning Horizon and six more to the Zenith or High Noon and Thence six more to the setting Horizon again whence Time first began So also the Flowing and Ebbing of the Sea are by six hours apiece in the open Ocean and in all Rivers Ebb and Flood together generally make up twelve hours So that after every sixt hour there is a Pauze or Rest as it seems and Then a Turning as it were backward For from the setting till Midnight the Sun seems to go down and Then to Turn up again and so from the other points also And before its Turn it seems to Rest and pauze as all things do before they Turn So that the same word or very neer in Heb signifies to Turn and to Rest. As if This were still implied in That And the Rest or Sabbath of God seemeth to speak some Turning inward or Reflecting on himself and his own Image in all he hath done in which his soul resteth with unconceivable delight and joy And although the First of the following six hours be as it were wholly new from all the six before it yet the Pauze and Turn seem to be made between the sixes as it were by some other distinct Person or Body that is watching at those Cardinal Points and There Turning That which moveth So that the Seventh is as it were more Holy and Sacred that is Separate for so the word Holy signinifies in Heb. and other Languages distinct and separate from all the other six which are profane in comparison of the seventh standing by himself as wholly of another Nature So that besides the twenty four Elders there were four distinct Watchers as we may call them as the Sabbaths to the other four sixes And every of the Four had six wings apiece as we find in the Prophets also and their Great Work seemeth to be Keeping of Sabbath Daies For it was the Lords Day when St. John saith they ceased not day and night being to watch in Both crying Holy Holy Holy which is also Thrice repeated in some Copies Though upon other daies They have other imployment As we see in that they spoke and did at other times in the Revelation Yet if any will bring the Months from These four with six wings apiece as the Hours from the twenty four Elders I do not oppose it but compare them also with the Watches with Four and sixes also about the Temple in Solomons Time but Davids Institution the 24 from Noah As the 14 from Abraham as we touched before But I have yet said nothing How every Circle is naturally parted into six equal parts by its own Radius and that Six equal Circles may touch it and each other in their Circumference or it may be cut into six Triangles or six Circles Touching one another with their Centres all in the Circumference of the seventh as Children play with Compasses And as every seventh Hour was sacred or separate from all the former six Hours so was also every seventh Day and Year which was also Sabbatical and so every Seventh Month which had the seven solemn Daies of the Great Feast of Tabernacles And the Seventh Month from That also had 7 daies of the Passeover As the third from That also the 7 daies of Pentecost And I know not but This Harmony between Hours and Daies and Months and Years may be intimated in That of the four Angels as the four Watches or Watchers loosed at Euphrates being prepared for an Hour a Day a Month and a Year As we read in the Revelation Which yet some compare with the four great Commanders of the Turks that brake out neer Euphrates also about the Year of Christ 1300. when the five Months of the First Woe of the Saracens in the Roman Empire were ended about which time Guns also came in use at least in the Western parts as the Fire and Brimstone out of the mouths of those Turkish Horsmen which by that account should go down again before the Year 1700. I must not so much as glance at all the Harmonies that might be easily found between Hours Daies Months and Years in relation to 6 or 7 and 10. or some of their powers As 5 times 7 make 35 and 6 times 6 make 36. which may be found to equal Sun and Moons Motions more than the usual Golden Number And the 36th Hour brings up the Sun of the second Day And those two Numbers of 35 or 36. drawn into 10. bring up the Sun of the second Year also both Lunar and Solar among the Jews and other Nations 7 times 7 make 49 and the 49 Hour begins the third Nights Rest that good Chord in Musick and the 49 Year brings in the Great Rest or Jubile And 480. Hours bring up the third Sabbath or 21 Day Which from 480 runs out through 490 and 500 Hour And we see great things in Scripture done in those Numbers As the Temple built in the 480 Year from Aegypt And Daniels Weeks make up 490 Years 144 Hours bring up the First Sabbath which begins from That Hour Which may be compared with
Kallath a Spouse and somwhat else also in Hebrew or in English calling our Kall about our Belly by such a name Shall I add also How often God commands his people to abstain from or take heed of Kelaim Though the word be hard enough and never used that I now remember but in Moses Laws and once or Twice in Esay or Solomon complaining of a foolish people that entangled themselves in Kelaim which some translate the Stocks As Solomon speaks of a Fool hasting to the Stocks till a Dart strike through his Liver Or his Reins be consumed among many Witnesses as if he would allude to all the Hebrew words we are now speaking of Prov. 5. 11 14. 7 22 23. It is cleer enough that Kelaim signifies some Mixed seed and that not only in Grains but Beasts also as it is plainly seen in Leviticus 19. And This also makes the very Number of the Beast 666. as it is with the usual Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned Backward Is it not also the very number of the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is not only as the Latine Renes or the English Reins which yet keep course enough with the Moon in our Brain and in Heaven too And taught David every Night as the Heavens in the 19. Psalm and they may teach us every Day also which in Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is just 666. As the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also the Reins of our Brains How neer is the sound to Reins and Rains also as we saw before in Showrs even our very Secret Thoughts or Fancies which should be covered as other Secrets in Nature Which are akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or our Shame in Hebrew or the most privy Secrets whence the Latine Clam And Olam also may signifie Their Iniquity their Folly their Yoak their Shame or Hidden Secrets As also Sodam in Heb is not only the City Sodam of which also the Revelation But also their Secret As Jacob speaks of his cruel Sons Let not my soul be in their secret in Heb Be Sodam Where the very word in Numbers according to the old Mazorites in 666. Let me add also that the word Beast in Hebrew Letters is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also Shame and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my Shame as being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our seat or in Natibus as the Jews also use that word As the English also in a Phrase not to be spoken And the Number of it is 700. And that Beast or Bosht or shame is the Idol which God doth so often complain of in the Prophets As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their Bush and Shame That I say nothing of That part which the Jews call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Fools or Beasts Orion But to return to Numbers It may be like enough that every such Revolution may bring up some Great Change as in the Moon seeing also many if not All the 7th and 10th Persons or Generations in Scripture had some very signal Characters As Enoch the 7th from Adam Noah the 10 th As Abraham was the 10th from Noah and Moses the 7th from Abraham and David the second 7th or 14th as we found in the very number of his Name and Years also Though it be somtimes written by 24 as he was from Noah As the 24th hour of the New Day beginning from Noah that is Rest as at first from the Rest of Night or Nihat Heb. And perhaps David did not make but finde all things about the Priests or Tabernacle setled by 24. Which from the Jews also we may learn to be the Number of Things given to the Priests by God Some of which themselves only might eat Others their Children also and others were common to their very slaves or sons of their Handmaids if born in the Priests Houses or bought with his Money So that it was a saying common enough among the Jews That the Priests Boyes and slaves had more right to Holy Meats than All the Men of Israel Which may be considered by them that deny the Sacrament to the Children of Professors in the visible Church as Children born in the Priests Family or sons of persons Bought or Redeemed which might eat the Holy things that might not be eaten by a man of Judah though Hired to work in the Priests Family Noah is said to be Perfect in his Generations for he saw Two Worlds or Generations coming up at the beginning of the seventh great Week as we may call it or as many years from the Creation as the seventh Week is Hours We see what a change there was in His Time by the Flood in the second Thousand Years As the Waters were Divided in the second Day of Creation What it might Typifie out also in These Daies we touched before Jaacob is said also to be Perfect which some read a Plain man but it is as of Noah before a Perfect man Which hath made me consider whither Jacob might not be the Close of His Generation as Noah of His and David of His who saw the Times or Periods of the Kingdoms or World about him as we read in the close of the first of Cronicles Which the Jews call Words of Dayes Which we may understand Hereafter David also brought up a New Jerusalem and a New World as a New Heaven and a New Earth and bound up Satan or Saul for 1000 Years as we also touched before in Saul or Paul And Elijah also and Elisha with Jehosaphat the Lord Judging Though a good while before Zedekiah the Lords Justice or the General Judgment As Laodicea after Philadelphia the New Jerusalem And Jehoram the High Lord both in Israel and Judah When also Moab and Edom freed themselves from the Yoak of Jaacob as his Father promised in his Blessing Esau so much and so oft supplanted by his brother Jacob though God own him as a Plain man without Guile And among divers other things we read no where but in Esdras of the Roman Empire and Christ also who citeth divens things of that Book we are There also told that Esaus Heel was the End of the World and Jacobs Hand on that heel the beginning of another And as Jaacob was a Perfect man in his Generation one of a Thousand as Solomon speaketh After Elihu in Job So his Children are the True Israelites indeed in whom there is No Guile As our Saviour speaketh of Nathaniel And They are Sons of Light in opposition to the Sons of Esau or Ishmael as sons of Darkness As the 12 hours of Night were before the 12 Hours of Day or Children of Light But there is yet more in it For although All the sons of Jacob were beloved before Fsaus in the Type yet among Jacobs also there was a Joseph and a Benjamin Son of the Right hand and Those were
shall Deliver the Needy Crying or from Crying the Poor also and Him that hath No Helper The very Phrase Here in Daniel and 2 King 14. 26. from Deut. 32. 36. For The Mountains shall bring Peace and the little Hills with Righteousness They shall fear thee with the Sun which is the Arms or God of the Persian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who of old also Worshiped the Sun and before the Moon the Banner and the Emblem of the Turk That Age of Ages Dor Dorim it minds me of the old famous Dores Dorians Peopling All or Many of Those Countries The Righteous shall flourish in His Daies and abundance of Peace untill there be No more Moon Or any such Changings The Kings of Tarshish or the Sea and the Eyelands Eijim and Tsijim or the doleful Creatures in Esay 13. All the Kings of Seba in Arabia and the Queens of Sheba Meroe shall cringe to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with Evening Sacrifice For That they especially called Minha the Phrase here used which may lead us to the Evening of the World As God and Angels much appeared through all the Bible in the Cool of the Day or Evening Sacrifice both in Old and New Testament the ninth hour or Time of Prayer or of Finding as the Hebrew Morning hath its Name from Seeking 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Once he came at the Morning Sacrifice to the three Kings against Moab the Fathers Waters and he brought Waters but they seemed Blood Which yet might represent His coming both by Water and by Blood This might be for Red bloody Edom who was at These Bloody Waters and in Esay 63 As the Waters for Moab For so the Psalm we now cite speaketh He shall come down as Rain upon the mowen Grass and though it be cut down it shall return again and flourish through the sent of Waters as Job speaketh and as the milions of innumerable drops as the Millions of Ephraim Dust or Ashes with Water flourishing by Water As Hoseah may allude to Josephs fruitful Boughs in his Fathers Blessings with his Right Hand giving length of dayes as his left hand also Riches and Honour So good it is to be at His Hand For they be blessed that may stand in his presence and may see his wisdom though but for One day It will be better then 1000 years in any other place Or may come behind him weeping as Paltiel after Mical till Abner said return again Which is an History that will make us all weep for joy t is possible when we shall understand it At the same time Michael shall stand up that Great Prince for the Children of thy people It may lead us to the sweet place we spake of in Levit. 19. Thou shalt not avenge thy self or reserve thine anger against the Children of thy People but thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self Which he is comming to fulfil in the Time here specified in Daniel At the same time which before is called the Time of the End and in the verse before he shall come to his End And five times this Chapter speaketh of End and the End In Heb. Kets or Kats and Katsa is Half Dimidium Plus Toto the whole of any thing or its Perfection Being also as we noted in Tom Perfect in numbers just 1000. Unto which also 666 is that sweet Chord in Musick which they call a Fift next to a Diapason 2 thirds as neer as may be in whole numbers The Hebrew word may also speak waking as hinting a Resurrection and Summer which was the End of their year beginning with Winter as before All time began with Night before Day And that their Year ended at or about the great Feast of Tabernables is cleer enough from many Scriptures And that also beside Exod. 23. 16. or Deut. 31. 10. And the very word Harvest which they call Katsyr may be Kats Yeer or Yeers End Or if you will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the End of the Flood or of Jaar Which was not only a Month with them and especial time of Noahs Flood But also Flood in general and often used for a River So that Jordan it self is but Jeor Dan the River of Dan a City neer its Fountain And Abraham pursued the Four Monarchs to Dan and brought back the Captivity of Sodom from Dan which is also Judgment and may hint that Great Judgment at the Katsyr Harvest or the End of Yeer or of Jaar that is a Month or Yeer or Flood also For it may be added that the Floods were dried up and the Rain of Heaven restrained at their Harvest As we may find hinted in divers places besides 1 Sam. 12. 17. and 2. 21. 10. But there may yet be somwhat more in it For As the Spirit is moving or Hatching it being a participle Present in the Hebrew noting a continued Act upon the VVaters of the first Creation So it is also still Dividing Them below from Them Above the Firmament which is also called by a Name of VVaters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VVhere are VVaters And our Time is Dropping of VVaters from the Top of the Weather-glass or Clepsydra to the Bottom And when All is Run out the Hour Glass is Turned and a New Hour or Day or Month or Yeer or Age begins which you may call a New Generation or if you will a New World We glanced at This before when Elijah parted the Waters of Jordane As before also the same Waters were parted and from Adam also As we read in Josuah 3. 16. Where we are told that Jordan fills all its Banks in Harvest Time as alluding to That we spake before And that the VVaters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numbers 665 Coming down from above Rose up in a great Heap or Bottle or such a Motion as the English call a Nod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which came Far also From Adam as some read from the Jews marginal Keri But in the Text it is In Adam the VVatcher though some read it the City being the same word used by Daniel in his Discourse of 7 Times On Nebuchadnezzar driven out or poured out by the Watcher And again the VVatchers in the same Daniel Of which yet we may speak again As we hinted before also How the Watchers stood at the quarters of Heaven or Corners of the Earth as it were to Turn the Glass still when it is Run As also the great Waters Ebbing and Flowing six Hours apiece in the Great Ocean and Then Turned again at the Seventh which speaketh Both Rest and Turning Which is also noted in Joshua First the VVaters stood 't is said and Then they Rose or were Turned up by the Watcher And Those Running down to the Sea of the Plain or the Evening another pretty allusion were cut off or Curted which is Hebrew and Perfected so that All the People 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in numerals 670 passed over before or over against Jericho Which as We touched before
read it As The Lord is in his Holy Place let All Flesh be Silent and again Let All the Earth be Silent before him Let my Prayer be directed as Incense and the Lifting up of my Hands as the Evening Minha of which again And In Thy Name I will Lift up my Hands And in His Name Every Knee must bow Which with Christians was As Lifting up Hands with the Jews Who in praying Stood and seldom Kneeled or fell upon their Faces or much Bowed except very Creat and Good or as they speak Righteous men But generally they Stood Praying and Lifting up their Hands And so Paul also biddeth though himself Kneeled on the sands and Christ Kneeled and fell flat in his Agony I will that men pray Every where or in All Places Lifting up Pure Hands as in the Prophets Pure Incense or Holy hands without wrath and doubting Yea and Christ also lifted up his eyes to Heaven as he bid us sav Our Father in Heaven though he said and knew the Father was in Him And yet when he lifted up his hand to swear that it might appear he owned none greater than himself he sware by himself that every knee should bow to Him And yet as the Apostle saith this also must be to the glory of God the Father which is Reason enough for granting all we can ask For only For Thine is the Kingdom Power and Glory Thus in our Prophet Daniel Lifting up of hands was a figure of Swearing And so in that of Amalech a Branch of Esau by a Concubine because his Hand against the Lords Kiss or Throne or covering of the Moon the Lords hand on his Throne for War with Amalech from Age to Age Middor Dor 448 reaching to David And blotting I will blot out the memorial of Amalech from under Heaven Yet but Under heaven O how cautious and how gracious God is in his lifting up his heavy hand David was as keen against Amalech as any we finde remembring how Saul was cut off and that by an Amalekite for sparing Amalech Nor could David rest till he had cut off Amalech though we find Reliques of them in Hezekiahs time and yet the great end of all this against Amalech also is That they may seek the Pace of the Lord and that they may know that thou JEHOVAH art most High over all the earth As we read of Amalech also in Psalm 83 which may Comment on all those heavy Prayers against Edom and Moab and Amalech and all Gods Enemies also not to destroy them for Ever as some think putting men in little letters The Text is plain enough That They may seek and that They may know c. So God lifted up his Hand in the Wilderness to swear in his Zeal t is often cited what Not that they should not rest But If they enter into My rest How cautious Yet I may add That as there was a Second Moneth for such as could not keep the Mood and Tense of the right Passover and for such The Lord be merciful though they be not according to the strictnes of the Sanctuary as good Hezekiah prayed and the Lord heard and accepted and Healed So there was also a Second Sabbath and a Third and yet an Olam or a New Moon Yea and after all the Changes of That year there was a Sabbatical year also and a Jubile when All must rest and come again into the possessions of their Fathers Yea and the very standing still of Joshvahs Sun and moon and over Gibeon also might intimate a Rest of Heaven for some that had not kept a Rest or Sabbath on Earth And if That were just so many Sabbaths of years from the Creation as there were Dayes in their Solar or Lunar year Or just so many Jubilies from the Creation as there be Weeks in a year it may be some little Help to fix Chronology which may be considered again And That summ of the Law and Gospel too the 20th of Ezekiel sheweth us How and Why God made the Sabbaths for Man and not Man for the Sabbath As Christ himself glosseth on Those words Moreover and above all the Law and Statutes also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and Them That they might know that I the Lord am still sanctifying Them For it is a Participle Present noting a continued Act. And again in the same Chapter That you may know that I am the Lord your God And There also he often speaketh of Lifting up his Hand to swear against them and of That very Oath of not bringing them into Canaan but addeth many times Neverthelefs my Eye spared them and his Heart is better than his Eye from destroying them nor did I make an end of them c. Yea and after All their own and Childrens Blaspheming of Him That is the Word yet the sum of his Threatnings is that He would bring them into the Wilderness of the People and There I will speak kindly to them in Hoseah But Heer Plead with them as I pleaded with their Fathers in the Wildernesse And I will cause you to passe under the Rod and bring you into the Bond of the Covenant or Masoroth thereof And then follow some of the sweetest promises in all the Bible for True Gospel Repentance and Remission of Sins And This after they had forfeited that Good Land of Rest and God took the Forfeiture awhile and drove them out As Adam out of Paradice But Then followed Them with Both Hands lifted up to Blesse them When he went about to swear against them He lifted up but One Hand and That also was pulled back again But to Blesse them he Lifted up Both Hands As Christ also in Healing and Blessing All about him in severall places to be added to Act. 3. 26. And the Priests came Out of the Temple Lifting up Both Hands and opening their fingers as the Holy Windows Blessed Those might not come In. To which also the Psalmist may allude in That The Lord Blesse thee Out of Zion and send thee Help Out of his Holy Place Out of it though thou be not In it but As Jonah said I am Cut off yet I will Look towards his Holy Place As Solomon also Prayed for Those that should so look towards it As we find also Our Prophet Daniel Looking towards it from a Great Distance And That Saying Send thee Help Out As it plainly intimates They were not There but Out at Distance So it may also allude to the usuall name they gave the Temple Court from Ezra Help As Eben-Ezer And there was No Case so Bad They say But There might Help be Had. And so They called it Help As a Present Help in Time of Need. There was One thing more We must observe in Lifting up of Hands and That is Numbering In the very Name of Right Hand Jamin It shall Number Order and Prefer And as Right-Hand Blessings were the Greatest So were their Right-Hand Numbers At her
of Iohn lead us plainly to the Feast of Tabernacles and its Evening Songs and joy for Drawing of Water as the Jewes expresse it in their Talmud Adding also That He that never saw That Drawing of Water never saw Ioy in all his Life for more could hardly be expressed on earth then was expressed There And themselves confess it was to shew the Pouring out of the Spirit on All flesh in the Latter Daies which we saw beginning at Pentecost As the fiâ—st Drops of the Former Rain was followed by the great showrs of the Latter Rain After That Feast to prepare the Earth for the Wheat Then to be sown As Barley in the Spring Yea the Prophet Zechary tels us that the very Fast of the 7th Month How solemn and How strictly commanded should be Turned into Ioy and Gladnesse and Solemn Feasting And Then Many peoples plurall and Inhabiters of many Cities Yea the Rabble as the word soundeth shall Goe and say Come and let us Go speedily to seek the faee of God the Lord of Hosts and the Lambs Bride and the Spirit also will say I will Go also Yea Many People and strong Nations shall come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem Yea and Damascus it self shall become his quiet Rest his Menu hath when the Eyn of Men or Mankind shall be to the Lord as All the Tribes of Israel And He that remaineth shall be for our God Yea as a Governor in Judah And then are Both Comings of Christ described as before in the second Chapter First on an Ass the Foal of an Ass of which before on the Fourth Command â—nd other places of the Law And then he shall speak peace to the Heathen and have Dominion srom the River to the Ends of the Earth And to Them afar off in the Sea Which we touched before in America And yet Farther And As sor Thee also by the Blood of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy Prisoners out of the Pit where there is no Water Turne ye to the strong hold O Prisoners of Hope even to day do I declare that I will render Double to Thee And then follows the Conquest of Turk or Greece c. And Then the Lightning from the East So shall his coming be we must touch it again in our Discourse of Barak the word here used And Then the Feast of Trumpets in the Seventh Month and so of the Year of Release at the solemnity of Tabernacles As Moses expresseth it And the Jews bring it as High as Isaacs Release for the Ram and Thence they blow with Rams Horns the Jobelin alluding also to the Turnings and overturning of Jericho that is His Moon before the Sun of Josuah Then follow the Songs and other solemn shoutings of That Feast of Tabernacles of which also Lament 2. 7. and it may be Psalm 74. 3 4. Where Perpetual Desolations shall be Ended And the Chapter concludeth How Great is his Goodness How Great his Beauty Corn shall make the young men speak or sinq and New Wine the Maids A sure Character of That Feast at the Great Vintage of which also before in that chapter and the next and 12th also And in That day I will make the Governors of Judah like a Torch in a sheaf another Character of Harvest And the Lord shall save the Tabernacles of Judah first another Character that David or Jerusalem do not glory or exalt themselves against Judah And I will pour on the House of David and Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and Supplication and they shall look upon me It is Jesus who speaketh This and All whom they have Pierced Of which also St John in his Gospel and yet again how often in the Revelation And we may touch Megiddon again in our Paralels of Kings and Judges And in that day there shall be a Fountain opened for Uncleanness And I will 〈◊〉 off the Names of Idols And then again of Both Comings of the Man that is Gods Fellow And of that Great Feast of Tabernacles which himself also cited or remembred on the Last and Great day of That Feast as we spake before And again in Hosea Great shall be the day of Jesreel it signifies the Seed of God But I will first take away her Corn and Wine and Oyl in the Moads or Seasons thereof and will cause her Mirth to cease her Sabbaths Moons and solemn Moads But I will allure her into the Wilderness and There I will speak comfortably to her And I will give her Vineyards and the Valley of Achor for a Door of Hope How Gracious and she shall sing There as in the Daies of her youth when she came out of Egypt and dwelt in Tabernacles as we read in That Prophet also And in That Day thou shalt call me Ishi my Man and Husband and shalt call me no more Baali my Lord or Master for I will take away the Name of Baalim or Lords out of her mouth and they shall be No more remembred by Their Name And I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and This the Corn and Wine and Oyl and All shal hear Jesreel But the children of Israel shall abide many daies without a King and without a Prince and without a Sacrifice But afterwards they shall return and seek their Lord and their God and David their King and shall fear the Lord and his Goodness in the latter daies or End of the Year And as That greatest Feast of Tabernacles was at the End of the year so was their Greatest Meal at the End of the Day Whence we read of the Lambs Supper and the Lords Supper rather than Dinner which with Them was slight and little or nothing else but a Break fast As the Ravens brought the Prophet Flesh at the Morning and Flesh at the Evening Yea and God also had a Lamb at the Morning and another at Evening And Blessed is the Land whose Princes are Noble Offering Tamid before Break fast and Minha before Supper As the old Targum and other Jewish Writers on That of Solomon And although there were 12 kinds of Minha Yet That in Evening and Time thereof alone was called The Minha Being offered at the End or Evening of the Dayes As we read in Abels Minha or â—ains in Gen. 4. being just at the Time of the Evening Incense the Ketureth As Abrahams Evening Marriage if we may so call it of Keturah brought him More sons then his Morning Marriage of Sara Let my Prayer come like Ketureth and the lifting up of my Hands As the Evening Minha And the Priests of Baal cryed till Minha Then and not till Then God shewed himself by the Prophet Elijah Who was Then As the Evening Star Though in the Revelation compared to the Morning Star scattering the dark Clouds and Nightbirds of Jesabels time as we saw before in the Fourth Church And Then Elijah Treadeth Carmel or Cramel the Vintage of God which from Esay 63 and
And Moadim the Months or Moments of the Witnesses Which in Heaven may be Sun and Moon But As on Earth Josuah and Caleb Jerusalem and Jericho Moses and Aaron Elijah and Elisha Or many other things or persons Which through divers Types or Shadows in Light and Darknesse Day and Night Summer and Winter Man and Woman with many other things which we hinted before in the Temple and the Land of Promise and the Body of Man and the Ark and Tabernacle of Witness also at length All come to be resolved into the Times of Christ and his Church or Churches his Two Witnesses The Dove and the young Pidgeon As Adam had his Lilith they say and then his Eve or Evening that is Lilith also Drest in Night-cloathes And Abraham had his Hagar and Sara and Ketura Jacob his Rachel and Leah David his Abigail and Ahinoam carried captive from Ziglag As Dead Three dayes and an half All which may be Types or shadows of the Church and the World the Jew and the Gentile under such and such Changes of the Moon as it were with Eclipses also or whatever else God please to shew us in his Baths 3 Seas in Heaven above the Earth beneath and waters under the Earth also Which yet may be but As new-New-moon and Full or Shegell and Sheleg of which again with other forms and motions of those Heavenly bodies which are All measured on Earth plainer then perhaps we think by such and such Moeds Times of Witnessing or Witnesses Which may be Houres or Dayes or Weeks or Moneths or Years or Sabbaths in Dayes in Years in Jubilees and what else we find of Time in Scripture wch is generally very much measured by Three an half As If we take it for Hours it may shew us how long the Moon or the Earth may be kept from the Light of the Sun which we call an Eclipse But a Shadow of that Dark Horror which our Savior and his Church in him felt upon the Cross. We find it in Heathen Records also another Help to fix Chronology And His Eli Eli as in Greek speaketh somwhat of the Sun also For God is a Shield and Sun also He will give both Grace and Glory Blessed are They that Trust in Him Though they go through Baca Bokim weeping and pass from one Hell to another for the Phrase is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hil Hel or Chel by which the Gentiles and Unclean were kept from the Temple So that they may not enter Moriahs Temple Yet they shall see God in Zion Give ear O God of poor flying trembling halting Jacob Look upon the Face of thy Messiah in his Pangs on the Cross. That Psalm as the 15th and 24th is of This Feast of Tabernacles And beginneth O! How Amiable are thy Tabernacles O! How Jedidoth alluding both to David and Solomon Jedidiah Keeping This Feast in such Glory as should be touched again in Samuel Kings and Chronicles The unclean Sparrow are not many sold for a farthing the Swallow Black but Comely O ye Daughters of Jerusalem the very Swallow but in Summer She may make her Nest and lay her Young ones in thy very Altans both of Sacrifice and Incense also O thou God of many feminine Hoasts 499. My God and my King This leads us to the Harvest also For we saw before that Our Savior never called himself a King Till the End of the World which he calleth Harvest And the Son of man shall send His Angels They are the Reapers and till that Time he calleth them Holy Angels and his Fathers Angels Now his own Angels and They shall gather out of His Kingdom All things that offend and Those that Do Iniquity And then the King shall say to Them at his Right Hand A Phrase often used in the Psalms At Thy Right Hand the Queen doth stand in Gold of Ophyr And Look at the Right Hand and see for so is the Text Resuge faileth me And at Thy Right Hand are Pleasures for Evermore And yet That very Psalm sheweth that He was not afraid of His Worst or Left Hand neither No more than she or They that begged to sit at his Left Hand also And so David is Placed There Is it because He was Father to our Saviour the Branch and Root of David and of Jessi my Essence that he placeth himself at the Left Hand and Châ—ist at His Right Hand Mimini Bimini Limini Even as Legatus a Latere is sent a Limine And when Satan is set at Judas Right Hand to accuse him as at Josuahs Right Hand also to Resist him with the Heaviest Curses in the Bible He concludeth Christ shall stand at the Right Hand also to save the Poor at His Left Hand from Him that would judg or condemn his Soul his precious Soul Fury is not in me But if he wil set thorns against me I will eonsume them Or let him lay hold of my strength to make peace And He also shall make Peace with me Esay 27 4 5. And the next Psalm crieth My Judgment shall come from Thy Face Thine Ein will behold or consider Equities which to Justice in Scripture often is As The Chancery to Rigour of Law O shew the Wonders of thy tender Mercies in the Plural O thou saving those that Trust or hope in thy Mercy From or Before them that raise themselves or are raised at Thy Right Hand That which followeth will reach our Times also It should be considered with its Misteries A word There used for Secrets and All the Scriptures speaking of Jemini my Right Hand both in Saul and Shimei Cursing David and Both again in Mordecay from Shimei Kish and Jemini As we read in Ester the Mistriss of so many Great Misteries written in the Revelation and upon the Old Crown or Myter yet to be seen perhaps in Rome as at This day And as Mister is a plain Hebrew word for Hidden as Olam or a Mystery So Mistris Hester also with their usual Article as Hadam That Adam and so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 maketh beyond dispute exactly 666. of which again when we find The Mysterious Woman sitting on the Beast in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 703 in the Wilderness where first the Woman was Hidden Alma Mater for a Time and Times and Half a Time as in our Prophet Daniel also The very next Psalm of deliverance from All his Enemies and Saul or Sheol also both Grave and Hell so oft repeated crieth The Pangs of Death and Kables of Sheol caught me But verse 35 The Shield of Jesus and Thy Jemine shall uphold me And thy Gentleness shall make me Great As Psal. 45. Ride on prosperously because of Truth and Meekness or Gentleness of Righteousness And thy Jemine shall teach thee wonders For Ever and Aed Thy Throne O God and yet This God hath a Father and a God For God Even thy God hath made thee Messiah and hath given thee His Spirit
Above thy Gaffers or Teachers and Elders who Ordained thee As we touched before in Chaver and Chebron and hath annointed thee with the Oyl of Shushon I cite it the rather because it is not only To the most excellent Majesty which we read in this Psalm and in Daniel and several times in Luke and the Acts but a Song of Jedidoth also as the 84 and Both are to the Bald Cold Frozen Crackt and Croaking Sons of Korah Cursed and swallowed up into the Pit and yet His sons became the Sweet Singers of Israel as we shewed before in Asaph Heman or Jeduthon and the Genealogy of Samuel And also upon Sushanim Which may Bring us to Shushan and to the Gate of Shushan also leading to the Temple from the Mystery and History of Hester And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in lowest reckoning is 700 But as the Mazorites 1260. of which again in Daniel and the Revelation Mor Myrrh and Moriah Aaloth Aloes and Tabernacles Kassiah Mount Cassius or the End and Corner of the Land of Promise Kings Daughters be Kirotheca for either Hand But at thy Right Hand thy Bedded Wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 333 just half to 666. As the Full Moon is Half to the Change Or the New Moon Half to the Full which is made in 333. hours As the whole Course of the Moon from the Sun Thither again in 666 Hours Her stay under the Rayes on both sides May be 3 Dayes and an half Under the Sun or Shadow of the Earth between her and the Sun Three hours and an half the Duration of that Eclipse which operates as many Months or Years As it was Hours they say and Her Wandering alone from the Sun Three Weeks and an Half But of Months and Years we must speak again and of All Prophetick Numbers in Scripture in a Private Character If God please to enable But why is she called Shegell Even as Alma whence Olam she was Hidden Vailed yea and Captive or Gaoled also Rouled and Tumbled So is the Moon so is Israel and so Shegell But Now She is to Rejoyce with Ioy unexpressable and Glorious because She Loveth One She hath not yet seen or can see being in Light Inaccessible All this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was Led Captive Gaoled Veiled Unveiled and Shorn also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glib Glich Lick and Like 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Smile Simile Sembled or Dissembled as the English Guile and Guild and Gilded also and Gul'd and Gulled and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exult and Rejoyce or Glee and Glee'd Glad And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Roule and be Tumbled as Gallile of the Gentiles and Gilgal where he rouled away the shame of Israel Also the Wheel or Orb or Sphere of the Sun or Moon or Heaven And the Skull of our Head which we often compared to Heaven as we see in Golgotha the place of a Skull in our Saviours Crucifying And Heaps of Sand and Waves of the Sea and Roulings of our bowels Which we compared with the Sea and the sprouts of the Earth with the Thoughts of our Heart As we found in the Bible and Volumes thereof which the Jewes also call Gillajon and Megilla Especially the Five Volumes or Rolls As they call the Little five peeces which they joyn to the five Fifths of the Law Or Pentateuch the Canticles a Comment on This 45th Psalm and Ecclesiastes the Great Turner and Rowler Ruth also with Lamentations but especially the Megillath Ester which I have seen presented by them in a very curious Roule and Dresse as a Great Present These five Rouls have All the Rowlings Vailings and Revealings or Revellings and Rejoycings of the Church and World also the Body of Christ. Shadowed in Heaven by the Sun and Moon in the Temple by the Tamid and Minha Or the Two Alters Courts Testaments Churches of God Jew and Gentile Rachel and Leah And in our Bodies also with our Eyes and Ears of our Head where our Tongue also St Iames unruly Beast the Tatler or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Beast also And somewhat Lower As before And yet again Thus the Suns Chast Casing of the Moon is called in Hebrew Kisse or Kese which the English sound as Cheese and Cheesle is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebrew Geeven as Heaven Hie-even and the Latine Caseus may be Hebrew As the Moons Casing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numbers 80 81 85. As in three Dayes and Half are hours seven times twelve or twelve times seven the Full Number of Rest just 84. As in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cased a kin to their Chesed or Chasid most Tender Mercy and Gracious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 72 6 times 12. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 82. As coming from Chas or Case to Cover spare and Trust Ed which is Ever Witnesse Cloud in Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as English Hide and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both a kin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As Hanna and Anna of Penuel as she with Peninnah a Widow of 84 after 7 years marriage lived chastly at the Temple day and night As the Cloud in and upon the Tabernacle whence Covering Sin as a Cloud Which may be also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 42. the just Half of 84 as if onely 3 Nights and an half 3 times 12 and 6. which is just 6 times Seven And although the whole Time of the Moons Casing or Covering under the light of the Sun which in other Planets they call Combustion may be 3 whole Dayes and an half or 84 Hours Yet seeing Night is the Moons Walk or Rule rather then the Day and that 12 Hours are so clearly signal both in Day and Night one might believe This Cled or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 42 Hours may be the 3 Moeds and an Half or 3 times 12 and 6. As a Measure to All the Rest. But we may begin much Higher Yet in whole Numbers there is none till 7 that is made of any 3 numbers and an half As 3 times 2 and 1. we find it no lower but in fractions as 3 and an half But in whole Numbers 7 is the first so made of 3 and an Half Which is therefore Measure to all the Rest. As the Schools rightly taught us of every First in its kinde which is Min in Heb. from Mana to number Mani and Mina And it may be there is no Number possible to be made of any 3 numbers and an Half But onely Seven and Those which are made of 7. which may haply lead us into the Powers of Numbers more then we yet believe In a word That Number can be made of none but Even Numbers els in Halving we must fall to Fractions What shall we say then Are Odd Numbers for Heaven As the very Poets taught us Numero Deus Impare Gaudet Being the onely simple Numbers as was
Jerusalem shall be as David and every one that Thirsteth receiveth His Everlasting Covenant and His sure mercies or his Holy Things in all things Ordered and sure His seed shall endure for ever His Throne As the Sun before him It shall be established for ever as the Moon as a faithful Witness in Heaven Selah Then follows the Laying or slaying of those faithful Witnesses But How long wilt Thou O Lord be Hidden Here is the Great Nister as the Jewes call the 3d Person As Hidden or Mister as the English or Mistery we touched before and Lanetsach And Cheled the word here used with others leading us to Adam and Abel Then to Enoch and Elijah When we shall resolve that Dying Eclipse on the Cross in Hours and Dayes and Months and Years As we shall be enabled by Him whom to acknowledge on all Occasions is our Happiness and Glory What is the Proper Age of the Moon its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when called Jareach may not be easie to determine We found her before in her Casing sucking the Sun as a Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 till her Heat as That in the Earth and our Heart also the Cause of all motions and clicking Pulses make her first Reak and then Boyl as a seething Pot or a Boyling Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seath Seeth as the Greek 〈◊〉 Spirit boyling up as enflamed by Heat within And so the Moon and Sea also may flow as we touched before to be compared with Esay 64 1. 2. Psal. 147. 18. In Numbers Jareach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 makes 218. Which in Hours is but 2 or 3 more then Three times Three Dayes Or if you will Three Nights because the Moon is to Rule the Night And all the Nights of the week make but 3 whole Dayes of 24 Hours and an Half before the Sun of the Sabbath Riseth As the Lamb of the Sabbath Day with his 144000 Virgins following the Lamb of the Sabbath as the Jewes Clakins of the 144 Hours of the six Dayes before the Sabbath as the first Fruits to God and the Lamb of which before Of Dayes and Months and Years in Characters To 3 times 3 Dayes each 3 is 72 Hours adding6 Hours more we are brought to Midnight of the 10th Night before the 10th Day the time of Jerecho In Hours 222. the 3d part of 666. And Jerichos Walls mightr each to Heaven or at least to the Moon as it signifies Though we have not yet compared its Trumpets with them in the Revelation Or the Last Plagues of God and the Last Woe When it is past No more Curse But as we saw in Jericho though Cursed as Gibeon also yet built again by Hiel the Living High God from Bethel the House of God in the Dayes of Ahab Brother and Father also As we saw before If we go forward to reckon the Age of the Moon and the World together we may remember that although the Jews Night were in Winter about 7 minutes more than 14 Hours long yet they alwayes made or accounted it Even to their Day and so it was There and elsewhere at the Equinox in which they agree the World was Created Let us a little compare it with the first Month in which they came out of Aegypt When the first Night of Time was past as the Cubits first Span of 3 Taps or Watches of 4 Hours apeece or 4 of 3 12 Hours brought up That great Change of Light for Darkness It is made of 3 the Father of all Numbers and Ab in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 3 on 4 the Mother as 7 is 3 with 4 which we found the first square Number or Compound as 3 are all Simples The 2d 12 Honrs were All Children of Light which we called the sons of Israel as the former 12 were sons of Darkness or 12 sons of Ishmael the First-born of Abram the High Father The 25th Hour brought in the next great Change of Darkness for Light and is the nearest Root of 666 the Course of the Moon that Eve of Night as the Sun is the Adam of Day with his 12 also as Apostles the Root of 144. 35 and 36 Brought in the Second Change of Light for Darkness As 350 and 360 Dayes bring up the 2d Year both Solar and Lunar which is as the Day Dawning in the 35th Hour before Full Light in the 36th which is 3 times 12. And the Half being also added maketh 42 which brings up Noon or perfect Light of the 2d Day Which is ended by 12 drawn into 4 the first square Number bringing up the 3d Nights Rest and great Change beginning with 49 or 7 times 7 as the Jubilee and Hebrew Midda Measure of measures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 49. 60 Hours bring up the Morning of the 3d Day and 66 its Noon and 70 is the Hour of its Evening Minha had it been appointed to be compared with the Pentecost and Return from the 70 Years Captivity and many other 70 in Scripture It coming so up in the 3d Day which is also ended with 72 Hours as the 72 Elders of the Sanedrin 6 times 12. 84 Hours bring up the Sun of the 4th Day and frees the Moon from the Sun as we saw before So that Both those Witnesses might Then be seen in Heaven Where One or Both had yet lay hid till the 4th Day or after 3 Dayes and Half which is the Night of the 4th the Moed of these Heavenly Witnesses to measure all other And as the Sun of Righteousness did not appear till the 4th Great Day of the World so perhaps he came in That very Hour of the 1000 years which answereth to the 4th Dayes Minha or some other signal season that may tell us both his Setting and Rising again when we shall consider all his Moeds also of 3 Years and Half 3 Dayes and Half yea and 3 Hours and Half great Eclips on the Cross of which in Characters as God shall help us with the Prayers of his people who must help the Lord against the Mighty Powers of Darkness that He may bring out his Marvellous Light which is Dawning among us 96 Hours end the 4th Day And 7 times 96 are but 6 more than 666. Whos 's 6th part is III. in Hebrew letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Measuring Line we touched in Kav la Kav Sav la Sav. And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also just 96 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 106 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 100 and 11. 120 Hours 10 times 12 bring up the 6th Day in which man was Created and when he had fallen and God grieved or Repented or resolved to change him because he had made him on Earth and not kept him in Heaven He said My Spirit shall not be a Don or Dun to Man for Olam 140 or 700 in their Erring who is Flesh. But his Dayes have been or shall be 120 Year as
English also speak as the Hebrew Year for Years as there were 120 Hours before the Day of His Creation which we may consider again when Christ himself shall grow up to be a Perfect Man in the Evening of the 6th Day before the Great Sabbath of which again The Hebrew words for 120 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be just 666 if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be but 40 and if it be 600 Then they make 1226 and with Vau 1232 which wants 100 to make 1332 which is just Twice 666. How near to Daniels 1335 as the other to 1260 in the Revelation 120 Then is Gods great Moed for Man And Moed in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is just 120. 3 Times 120 is 360 3 and an Half 420 and three times 420 are just 1260. And 10 Moads 1200 which may be in Moadim which truly seemeth more than Two Moads as Slashim and other Plural Numbers are 10 fold to their Singulars 140 Hours Twice 70 come up to the Evening Minha of the 6th Day when Man was Created and prepared for the Sabbath following as our Saviour also Rested in the Grave after his Evening Sacrifice and Minha on the Cross. And 144 Hours Twice 72 bring in that Sabbath or 7th Day beginning as the Christian also seemeth to begin where the other ended in the Evening 150 the Sabbath Midnight 156 The Morning 166 The Hour of That Dayes Evening Minha 180 Hours bring up the Morning of the 8th Day 10 times better then the Noon of the First Day which was the 18th Hour 190 That Evening Minha which generally began about the Ninth Hour of each Day Which is therefore called The Hour of Prayer as we saw before in the Cripple healed at the Beautiful Gate and Cornelius also by the same Peter 214 The Evening Minha of the 9th Day 222 The 10th Midnight or Jerecho of which before being the 3d part of 666. Which may therefore be 3 times worse as 3 times bigger then Jerecho was to its Two Spies or Witnesses that were hid by the Woman 3 Dayes and an Half As we saw before As also the 10th Midnight might be 10 times as Dark or worse then the first Night was For we are now come in Hours to the Time of Hiding Slaying or at least Laying the Witnesses Being the Black Dark Dayes of Aegypts Darkness for 3 Dayes and an Half with the 3 last Woes or Plagues in the Revelation before Israels coming out of Aegypt Or if Those dayes of thick Darkness to be felt were begun before This which seemeth very little if at all yet sure they might be Types or at least Warnings to Israel who had Then Light while their Enemies were in the Dark As if to intimate that all the Darkness of the Worst Dayes or Hours of Darkness as our Saviour speaketh should fall on Aegyptians onely the black sons of Ham as before and not at all on Israel Though to These also it was a Great Hour of Temptation As we may see when we come to their going out of Aegypt Now also the Pascal Lamb or Goat must be Tyed up as one of the two Witnesses to be slain on the 14th Evening but set apart and separate or sanctified the Phrase we saw before on the Evening of the 10th Day or beginning of the 11th Day As 3 days and Half before its slaying 240 Hours end the 10th Day and begin the 11th whose Morning is 252. 260 It s Evening Minha 264 brings up the 12th Evening 276 Its Morning 285 It s Minha 288 Bring up the 13th Evening and 300 its Morning 310 The Hour of Minha 324 Bring up the next Morning the 14th Day 3â—3 the 9th Hour of That Day or the Evening Minha when the Two Lambs or Witnesses are slain the Daily Tamid and the Passover which might be a Goat or a Lamb. We are now to look up a while on the Moon the Counter as the Hebrew Mone That Faithful witness in Heaven She was White before from 3 Dayes and Half or 84 hours and Lebana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 87 3 hours and 3 Dayes and an Half But Now she is White as Snow on Hermon which is Sheleg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 333. She ligs or lies in in White as in Childbed and she Lights which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Ligg is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Legit. As Lectus and Electus As Two in a Bed the One Elect the other Left to Lig and lie Or left to the Left hand And Sheleg Turned is Gelesh Glass and Ice in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Shegel the Bedded Wife as before Each is 333. Let the Full Moon then be Sheleg and the New Moon Shegel As the Queen at the Suns Right Hand or South or below him as we saw That Phrase Or as Jericho stood to Jerusalem this had 24000 Standers that 12000 Or as Sodom and the Molten Sea in the Temple In Gold of Ophir Ke Tem As Perfect just 1000 or As Teaming which is Hebrew bringing perfect ones and Twins in Hebrew Teomim As Esau and Jacob were Twins and Perfect also in their Generation as we touched before with Jacobs Hand on Esaus Heel in Ezdras Ophir also may hint her Fruit and fraught which are Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Free and Bear as before in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For Ophir is I will be or make fruitful as well as Gold of Peru or rather Zeilan as the Great Peleg sheweth And Solomons Gold from Ophir made up 666 Talents As the Cours of the Moon in 666 Hours Or the Golden Image in Dura 6 in breadth and 60 in Height of which before And though the Sun be as Gold and the Moon as silver with Chymists Yet This silver Sheling is also Shegel or Shekle in Gold of Ophir As in Hebrew the word for Sun is Feminine or Commune and the Moon is Masculine Shall she also as Sara begat Isaac that Sun of Laughter when she is freed from her Monthly Courses or Changes Then be As the Sun and the Sun seven fold Brighter Shall she Then be as Perfect Gold Ketem Ophir Or as He that is Perfect as our Saviour speaketh Or as the Canticles Clear as the Sun to be compared with the 4th and 60th of Esau where also Thy Sun spoken to the Church Vers. 20 may be just As the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 660. But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be 500 Then is Thy Moon in the same Verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 718. But 52 Hours Or Weeks of the Year more than 666 the Number of the Beast in the Revelation And of the sons of Adonikam my Lord cometh or Riseth at the Return from Babylon a Type of That to come As we see in Ezra 2. 13. the Children of Adonikam 666. And as 333 Hours bring us to the 14th Evening or Minha Passover So 336 to the
he was the near Ancestor of Selah or Siloah Rising up 35 years after his Father Arphaxad and 3 and an Half also The great Reconciler of the Sun and Moons Motions more perhaps than 19 or any other Number Half 70 5 times 7 And next to 6 times 6 perhaps the just Age of our Saviour at his Death In Hours it brings us to the Light of the 2d Morning 36 As 360 Dayes bring up the second Year I will love them freely Though before he had said From my House I will drive them Agarsem As Hagar from Abraham and I will not add to Love them Oseph As minding Joseph sold to the Stocks c. All their Saras are Sorerim Sorry Sirs As the English Proverb to this day They shall be Nodding and Noddies Among the Gentiles Gogim perhaps of Gog and Magog also Both in England and other Northern Countries As we finde in Heathen writers But return O Israel to the Lord thy God Even yet Thy God! As Jeremy 3. and many other places And the great Complaint in Zephany is that the Polluted and Rebellious City would not trust in the Lord Nor draw near to Her God As Manasseh but a Type of their Return though They thought themselves Forgotten as that name may intimate after All his sins Yet Bowed to His God and his Fathers God who Heard him Take words and say Take away All Iniquity Not Ours onely but All. O let the Iniquity of the Wicked wicked also come to an end And He was Heard in what he prayed Receive us graciously This Tob mindes me of Tobiah the Lords Goodness There are strange things in that Book and of These Dayes perhaps in the true Hebrew Copy I will be as a Dew to Israel yet the great complaint and punishment was That His Goodness and Mercy was but a Dew He shall flourish as the Lilly Or as Shushan of which before and in Ester 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 661. Or as Susanna Recovered by Daniel from the Elders as Shushan by Ester and Mordecai There is another Mistress also First His Roots under Ground and out of sight like Lebanon Then his little young Suckers Yonikothau as Younger is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 66. 588. His Glory or Beauty or Head Hodo As India How like to Judea Hodi in Ester also And in English Hoddy is joyful and glad As the Olive-Tree and his Reak as Lebanon Jasuâ—u Joseve Betsillo And again His memorial as the Wine of Lebanon From me is All thy Fruit found See Esay 26. 19 20. and Psalm 107. 40 41 42 43 and 91. and 37. 34. with the close of This Prophet Hoseah In the Prophet Joel we have a Form of Prayer prescribed before the Spirit be poured out as There also promised And Esay 32. My Land shall be desolate for ever c. Till the Spirit shall be Poured from on High And then the Wilderness shall be a fruitful Field and That which is Now fruitful shall be accounted but as a Wilderness And Then you shall sing as in the Night of the solemn Moed Chap. 30. to be added to that before of the Feast of Tabernacles And Chap. 59. They shall fear the Name of the Lord from the VVest and his Glory from the Sun-Rising when the Enemy shall come in like a Flood to end That Generation Then even Then the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard against him And the Redeemer or Goel and Kinsman shall come to Zion or out of Zion and shal Turn away Ungodliness from Jacob. As St Paul renders the words in Rom. 11. applying it to the Fulness of the Gentiles as the Resurrection from the Dead when All Israel shall be saved For This is my Covenant with them when I shall take away their sins My Spirit upon thee my words which I have put in thy mouth for the word which I Covenanted with you in your coming out of Aegypt and My Spirit is still standing in you Fear yee not Hag. 2 They shall not depart from Thy mouth or from the mouth of Thy seed or from the mouth of Thy sâ—eds seed saith the Lord from now and for Ever And though they Rebelled and Vexed his Holy Spirit so that he turned to be their Enemy and fought against them yet he remembred the dayes of Old Moses and his people saying VVhere is He that brought them up out of the sea with the Shepherd of his Fock and where is He that put his Holy Spirit within him And again The Spirit of the Lord caused him to Rest c Chap. 63. And then followeth a most sweet and pathetical Prayer for the time of their Captivity to be Paraleld with that in Joel 2. And Then the Lord will be jealous for his Land or for his Earth and will pity his People Yea the Lord will answer and say Behold c. And fear not O Land Be not Tyred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be glad and Rejoyce For the Lord hath been Great to Doe or to work Great things Be not afraid ye Beasts of the Field Be Glad then O children of Zion and Rejoyce in the Lord your God He hath given you the Former Rain for Righteousnesse and He will bring the showre also the gushing waters as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may sound in English the former Teaching Rain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and That also which filleth up the straw or the stalk 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in the first Month or beginning of the year which was also the End of the year before And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the Name of the Lord your God that hath been so Marvellous for you and my People shall never be ashamed And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the Lord your God and none else and my People shall never be ashamed And it shal come to pass Afterward Afterward I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh c. And I will shew Wonders in the Heavens and in the Earth the Sun shall be turned into Darknesse and the Moon into Blood and may not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the Great and Terible Day of the Lord come and it shall come to passe that whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord Iesus as is plain by This cited in Rom. 10 shall be saved or delivered As Paul at Melita which in Greek may be Care but in Hebrew Cure and Deliverance For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be Deliverance Here is also Pelitah which we had before in Paltiel as the Lord hath said and in the Remnant whom the Lord shall call And Peter by these words proveth that This was only begun in Act. 2. and that the same spirit of which They had Then the First fruits as Paul also speaketh was promised to Them and Their Children and to All to All that are afar off even All the Lord shall
call of which we have also a most sure Character in our Hearing and Attending to Him and Calling on the mighty Name of Iesus of Nazareth as we cleared before out of 1 Cor. 1. Rom. 10. and many other Scriptures And That This was to reach much beyond That Pentecost Act. 2. may be cleared from our Saviour speaking of the sack of Ierusalem and their Great afflictions divers years after That Pentecost and then saith he immediately after the Tribulation of those dayes and in Mark After that Tribulation in those dayes which in Luke are called the Times of the Gentiles Treading down Jerusalem the Holy City in the Revelation 42 Months and Then shall the Sun be darkned and the Moon not give her Light and the Stars shall fall from Heaven and the Powers of Heaven shall be shaken and Then shal appear the Sign of the Son of man in Heaven and Then shall all the Tribes of the Earth mourn and they shall see the Son of man coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory Which is also in Mark and Luke though Both omit the Sign of him in the Clouds who addeth also for the Jewes and not onely for the Apostles When These things begin begin to come to pass Then look up and Lift up your Heads for your Redemption draweth Nigh Even in That Generation As summer when the Figg-tree blossometh And those signes There given by our blessed Saviour more by giving tâ—an receiving are in the Prophet Zechary with Hâ—ggai and Malachy after Babylon and especially in Thâ—t place of Joel with That very Pouring out of the Holy Spirit which was therefore not fulfilled in Acts 2d but onely begun before that Tribulation and Horror there spoken of with signs in Sun and Moon and Blood and Fire and Pillars of smoak For Behold In Those Dayes and in That Time I will bring back the Captivity of Judah and Jerusalem and I will gather all Nations into the Valley os Jehosaphat Thither cause thy mighty Ones to come down O Lord. Amen Let the Heathen be Wakened for it is Kets both the End and the Waking or Resurrection as we saw before and com up into the Valley of Jehosaphat For there will I sit to judge All the Heathen round about as before in that very Valley as we found at Engedi and Beraca Put you in the sickle for the Harvest is Ripe and the Press is Full c. As in Christ of the Harvest added to That of his Coming and the Revelation also of the Vintage for 1600 Furlongs And now the Sun and Moon shall be darkned and the Stars withdraw their Light and Heavens shake c. Twice repeated in this Prophet and twice in Haggai as also the Author to the Hebrews Again and yet Again I will shake as at Jerusalem pulled down and again at its setting up again And so the Prophet Esay 14 and 24 as 24 of Matthew After all the Powers of Earth shaken and the Kings of the Earth upon the Earth who yet shall be visited even in the Pit also as Zedekiah was in Babylon Blinde Until I visit him saith the Lord in Jeremiah 32. with 27 and 29. And in the 24th They were carryed thither for their good Even as the Gibeonites were Cursed by Josuah that great Type of Jesus but for their Good also though to draw Water for the House of God yet to be There and Nethinims And so here also in Esay They shall be shut up in Prison in the Pit but after many dayes they shall be visited and Then the Moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his Ancients Glorioufly As those glorious songs in the two next Chapters and the 27th is of the Binding of Satan Leviathan the Dragon or the Crossing Serpent As the Primitive Church did generally understand it Which may reach the Powers of Heaven or the Zodiack which must also be shaken with its Beasts also when the Sun and Moon or two Witnesses are put out or slain for 3 dayes and Half as ever when there hath been a new World or a new Heaven And Solomon speaketh as if more were still to follow than had gone before to the Beth Moed We might Track it up to Moses also as most things in all the Prophets Then will the Lord be jealous for his Land his Land and pity his People which Joel hath from Moses Song That is Gods given to Moses and Joshua more solemnly perhaps than the Law it self in the Tab. He will be jealous for them and moove them to jealousie and Then he will be merciful to His Land his Land even cursed Adama As in Joel also and to His People But when They are shut up and none left to help them as was rightly observed by the Prophet Jonah 2 Kin. 14. as we saw before in Daniel and Psalm 72. And lest This might seem less Durable because from the flitting Tab we may finde it also among the secret Councels of God hinted to Moses at his private retirement in one of his Three 40 dayes as he lived Three 40 years on Mount Sinai Though now placed in Leviticus 26. which may be the sum of the Law and the Gospel also Yea and the Fata Imperii or Their Changes also as of the Moon in Heaven I will set my Tâ—bernacle among you and my soul shall not abhor you which St Paul applyeth also to the Gentile Corinthians and I will walk among you as if the Ark did straiten him as a Childe in a Cradle or in swathing bands and I will be your God! I will be so Yea and I will stretch out my Hands and feet among you as one that swimmeth But if you will not Hearken and will not O! How much wilfulness is still expressed in it And if you will despise my Statutes chaâ—ged on David himself And your soul abhor my judgements so that you break my Covenant Not a word of Threat till sin came up so High as could hardly be worse one would think And Then I will appoint over you Terrour Consumption and burning Agues to consume the Eyes our great occasions of sin and cause sorrow of Heart which the Lamentation calleth the Curse of God And I will set my Face when they had set Their Heart against you and they that Hate you shall Reign over you And if you will not yet for All this Hearken unto me O! how Tender Then I will add to Teach or Chasten you Seven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And if you will walk with me at adventure Keri and will not hearken to me I will yet add stroke or plague Seven And I will send the wilde Beast of Tooth or Teeth as the Syriac in the Revelation who shal destroy the Tame Beasts and the Children also As Molock did in His fiery Claws and Babel in his fiery Furnace And because they bare the Tabernacle of Molock instead
man saw such a stress on This that citing Moses and the fulfilling of his Threatnings so that never was the like done under Heaven as at Jerusalem nor ever shall be as we saw before And yet saith he We have not sought the Face of the Lord our God to turn or that we might turn from our iniquities and understand thy Truth And yet according to all thy Righteousness a strange expression I beseech thee let thy Anger and thy Fury in other Prophets and Psalms Thy Hating Loathing Abhorring Cursing be turned away from thy City Jerusalem the Mountain of thy Holiness And concludeth For the Lords sake Or the Messiah as That Phrase in their most antient Authors Or as himself expresseth it clear enough Because Thou art Our Lord Adonai Their usual expression of That God-Man As other Lords onely by Adoni or at most Hadoni Their common Salutation when they met as we may finde in Plautus sounding it much as the English How don ye For it is Christ he speaketh to Or the whole Trinity Bow down thine Ear to hear and open thine Eye to see Hear Adonai Adonai Pardon Adonai Hearken and Doe Defer not for thy own sake O our God! And not for our Righteousnesses which are as filthy Raggs even All of them and worse But for thy great Mercies Which in other places are also Manifold Mercies as manifold and more than All our sins Or as his 9th and 9th To the Lord our God belong Multitudes of Mercies and Forgivnesses in the Plural as also cited by St Paul Though we have Rebelled even Down Right Rebelled against him And Then comes out the Angel at the Minha with the 70 Weeks and after with 1290 and 1335 Dayes Which may be also in that 26 of Leviticus Where we read of 4 Sevens and Chastning or Instructing which is the same in Hebrew 4 times 7 which make a Month or 28 in Dayes or Hours or Years or somwhat worth enquiring after In general it may Hint the 4 7 Dayes or Month of the Moon from the Sun As if Here also God would intimate They should return again after Those 4 Sevens as the Moon to the Sun as we saw in 4 7 Dayes or 666 Hours The word Seven is Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numerals 372. which in Hours is the very Morning of the 16th Day of the First Month or the great Heave-offering or Wave-sheaf of Barley the Resit or First of First Fruits In memorial of the Morning after their coming out of Aegypt which was the 15th Day at Sunset just in the 360 Hour as their year came out in 360 Dayes and the 2d Morning from Creation in 36 Hours as we saw before and how this First Fruits was also a Type of our Saviours Rising up from the Dead as this Sheaf of Barley Heaved up on the 3d Morning after the Passover was slain on the 14th Minha 333 Hour or 40 the 40 Hours of Christ in the Grave before 372 the Morning of the Wave-Sheaf The morrow after the Passover the 15th Day of the Month or first of Unleavened Bread was a solemn Sabbath or Rest from servile Labour and a Feast of joy as the Jewes call it because of the Peace-Offerings then to be offered and eaten which they also called the Feast of Passover As in the Gospel They would not go into Pilates Hall lest they might be kept from the Passover or Paschal Feastings for the Lamb was Eaten on the Night before as we see in our Saviour though some think he was before the Jewes in that also of which Deut. 16. 2. 2 Chron. 30. 24. and 35. 7 8. But the next or 16th Day was for Offering the Sheaf or Omer both an Handful and a 10th part of an Epha equal to the Bath 3 Seas the 10th part of an Homer gathered in the Dusk of the 15th Day called the Sabbath after the Passover yet by 3 men saying On This Sabbath sabbath sabbath In This Basket basket basket with this Sickle Sickle sickle the Men 3 and the Baskets 3 and the Sickles 3 and they must reap enough to make 3 Seas from the Valley of the Brook Kidron He shall drink of the Brook in the way and so lift up his Head Then they pass it through the Fire that it may be Parched Corn and Ground also For it pleased the Lord to put him to pain though a Son that he might learn Obedience and by sufferings be made perfect From this Sickle they must count the 50 Days as Deut. 16. 9. Which in Levit. 23. 15. are begun from the Morrow after the Sabbath or First Day of Unleavened Bread after the Passover or the Day of the first Sheaf So that the morrow after the 7 compleat weeks or 50th Day as the Jewes themselves call it was the Day of Pentecost and of Biccurim the First-Fruits in two loaves of fine Flour leavened The Jewes observe no Rejoycing commanded at the Passover which must be eaten with Bitter Herbs but at Pentecost they sang the great Hallel Once being Once commanded to Rejoyce and Twice at Tabernacles Double and more then Double or seven-fold to the joy of Pentecost As we may finde in Deut. 16. and 11th for Pentecost but 14. and 15 for Tabernacles on the 15th Day of the 7th Mouth And thou shalt observe the Feast of Tabernacles 7 Dayes the Pentecost but one when thou hast gathered in thy Corn and thy Wine and thou shalt Rejoyce in thy Feast Thy Feast Thou and thy Sou and thy Daughter and thy Man-servant and thy Maid servant and the Levite the stranger and the fatherless and the Widow that is within thy Gates 7 Dayes shalt thou keep a solemn Feast unto the Lord thy God in the Place which the Lord shall choose because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy increase and in all the works of thy Hands Therefore thou shalt surely Rejoyce They observe also the Pure Unleavened Bread of the Passover was a Memorial to endure for ever But not that of the Pentecost being to fall or be little spoken of when All was brought in as we saw before of Tythes and First-fruits in Ezekiel and Revelation And though the Passover and all its Week had onely Pure Unleavened Bread a Type of Christ without sin yet the Pentecost had both Unleavened in its Minha and Leavened also in its two Cakes of Biccurim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Elect as we saw before in Bahurim And might not Those two Cakes represent the two Churches of Jew and Gentile or the two Witnesses to be Broken as the two Cakes Or the Turtle Dove and the young Pigeon in Abrahams Vision Sara and Hagar or Keturah whom the Jewes account Hagar with Rebecca or Rachel and Leah Abigail and Ahinoam and divers others as before and yet again Types of the two Witnesses Those two Cakes were attended with 7 Lambs and two Rams and a Bullock for an Ole a young Goat for
shave again his Head and Beard and Eye-brows and all his Hair Lev. 14. 9. and Then after Blood and Oyl upon his Ear and Thumb and Toe in All the Three Regions of the Great little World He was cleansed by the Priest O what work he had to do for the Poorest man that was Unclean and could not bring the offerings prescribed And for every House infected also Doth our God take care of Houses and of Clay that Cursed Adama The Hysop Cedar-wood and Scarlet to the Hebrews and Two Birds in Heb. nere akin to Goats One killed in Earth over Water as St Peter on Genesis and Psalms and 2d Command and the other a Scape Bird as the Scape Goat And the Plants and Trees and Fishes and Fowles and Earth and Water and All must Hear and serve Israel and Jezreel also near in Hebrew to the Leaper as the Seed of God! There was also an other shaving for the Nazarite when the Hair of his Separation is shaven as we read in Numb 6. immediately before the Solemn Blessing prescribed As if This had some relation to the Nazarite or Separate person after his coming in again And the very word in Jeremy 7 29 Nizrek may allude to the Law of the Nazarite But yet there was more Hope and Comfort in a Womans shaving than a Mans. For if Her Lord bid her shave off her Hair it might be a sign he meant to marry her For so the Law was If thou lead Captivity Captive as Christ hath done and see a Woman that thou lovest She shall shave her Head and pair her Nails or Goatishness Sipharnea We saw it in Saphira the Goat as also Seir is Hair and a Goat Yea the very Time may be There Hinted perhaps for God is Infinite How long Christ must stay for his poor Captive Spouse before he may be Married to her though she be prepared and adorned as Ester was in order for her going in to the King As the Lambs Bride in the Revelation cometh down from Heaven As if There All the Saints departed were but perfuming and preparing to be his Bride on Earth and Reign on Earth at the End of the Weeks How Long Thou shalt bring her Home to thine House and the souls under the Altar cryed How long Lord and she shall put off her Captive Weeds and shall remain in thine House and bewayle her Father and her Mother in their Enemies Land they shall confess their Fathers sins we saw it before A Full Month or Moon of Dayes And after That Thou mayst be her Husband And if afterwards she please thee not Thou mayst leave her to her own soul which is the great thing to be feared of a Backsliding heart from Christ But thou mayst not sell her because thou hast Humbled her Jacob also stayed with Laban before he asked his Daughter a full Month or Moon of Dayes Chodesh Jamim but in the Law of Deut. it is Jerach Jamim As also 2 Kings 15. 13. May we not also compare That in Jer. 2. Thy own wickedness shall instruct thee thy backslidings shall rebuke thee See and know that it is an evil and a bitter thing that thou dost forsake the Lord and yet more Thy God! For of old I broke thy Yoke and burst thy Bonds Ezek. 16. and Epistle of Baruck I planted thee a Noble Vine wholly a Right seed How Then art thou Degenerate And How canst thou say I am not Polluted A Wilde Ass as the Angel said to Hagar we are now There with Ishmael But God will Hear Taught in the VVilderness as Hagar was and snuffing up the VVinde or snuffing at the Spirit in the Lust of her own heart or soul the very word we saw in Deut. 21. 14. VVho can turn her All that seek her will not weary themselves to finde her Or rather Let them not faint or despair For in her Month Chodsha They shall finde her Then withhold thy Foot and Throat But thou saidst It is Desperate But can a Maid forget her Ornament and a Bride her Attire Yet My People My people have forgotten me Dayes without number But why do My people say We are Lords or have Power Radnu VVe will come no more to Thee But then follows the sweetest Chapter of the Bible to an Adulterous Spouse Yet turn again Yet Turn again Return return O Shulamith For I am Married to You c. Which at length melts her into Tears and sweet supplications In the close of the 3d Chapter and God answers in the 4th If a woman bear a son she was Unclean 7 Dayes as in her common separation not observing which cut off and spued out the very Heathens Levit. 18. Ezek. 18. Esay 30. 22. Lam. 1. 17. and her son not Circumcised till the 8th Day and Then she must remain 33 Daies as the Moon 333 Hours and then she may eat the Holy things and come into the Sanctuary with two Turtles or Pigeons if she could not bring a Lamb which made them so dear that the Sanedrin altered this Law it seems and our Saviour scourged the sellers of Doves also which were brought by his Poor Blessed Mother Who presented her self and Him also in the Temple at 40 dayes being the Sabbaths of his 40 Weeks in the Womb As at 40 Daies after his 40 Hours in the womb of the Grave He was presented to his Father in his Heavenly Temple 40 Years before the Sack of Jerusalem But for a Daughter the Woman was Unclean 14 Daies the 2d Sabbath and the Day of Passover and Then she must not enter the Sanctuary in 66 Daies Which is the very Number of Pentecost or Feast of first Fruits or 50th Day after the sheaf which was the 16th Day of the Year And as this was 66 Daies so the Moon returneth to the Sun in 666 Hours And when any Woman or the Church is freed from the Power or Rule of the Moon and her Changes or Courses at the Jubilee of 49 or 7 times 7 Then she need not fear That or any other separation in common course And if she should be sick so long as the Woman in the Gospel spending all her Substance yet she may be healed if she come behinde him and but touch the Hemb of his Garment It is all Perfumed with precious Ointments as we saw before from Psal. 133. Jephtas Daughter returned after Two Months bewailing her Bethulia which again in Judith and the Daughters of Israel went from Dayes to Dayes a Day for a year to lament the Daughter of Jephta 4 Daies in the year Jephta's 6 and Ibsans 7 Elans 10 and Abdons 8 bring us to the Sun of the 15th Day with some Healing in his wings also though but a little Sun as Samson may signifie with his 30 Companions as their Month had 30 Daies and 7 Daies also for the Week and Sabbath Both his Eyes or Witnesses put out He pulls down the House and more are slain by his Death than all his Life And there
was a great Earthquake and the City fell with 7000 Names c. This Angel in the Sun might Preach the everlasting Gospel and Judgement also Bedan In Dan or in Mahane Dan as the Hebrew of Judges 13. 25. 1 Sam. 12. 11. which may shew us He was After That History of the Danites Judges 18. 12. An Angel also appeared to Josuah to Gideon as now to Manoah from Noah Rest. This man must give them Rest also and carry them through the Flood of His Generation As Noah did in His and Moses in His. And as they came out of Aegypt on the 15th Day at Sun-set or 360 Hours So this Sun also set about 360 Years from Aegypt or the Minha of the 15th Day 3 Times 40 make 120 the Moed and 3 of these Moeds make 360. 3 Times 40 more in Elies 40 Samuels 40 with Saul and Davids 40 bring us to Solomon Peace and the Temple founded in his 4th Year as the close of the 4th Moed or 4 times 120 or 12 times 40 being just 400 and 4 score Years from Aegypt as we read in the 6th of the First Book of Kings And 480 Hours bring up the last and great Day of Unleavened Bread the close of the Feast of Passover or 21st Day of the Month For Solomons great Feast of Dedication To be compared with the great Feast of Tabernacles in the 7th Month of the Year As His Feast was the 7th Month of the 7th Year of the Temple when it was fully finished and 14 Dayes as 14 Hours we saw before And although the Tabernacle was a good while at Gibeon of Benjamiu As the Ark at Kiriath-jearim of Judah as the very Temple Courts were parted between Those two Tribes Yet little Bethlehem also became a great Scene of Action during these Times of the Judges Thereabout was Rachel buried with her Idols which we may finde growing up Thence again In Michaes 〈◊〉 and the Falss Prophet also a poor Levite of Bethlehem Ephrata Spreading also to Dan as a Type of Jeroboams Calves of Aarons Cow to Dan also with Jonathan of Gershom of Manasseh where the Mazorites observe a signal Character to bid us pause till the Captivity of the Land as we read in Judges 18. Though it may lead us also to the Ark taken by the Philistines at Elies Death And as Elimelech carried his Wife and Children from Bethlehem to the Land of Moab so did David also of the same Bethlehem and of Elimelech by Ruth carry His to the same Moab And afterwards also to the Philistines where he sojourned as the Ark and Abraham and Isaak had done before him Dayes or a Year and 4 Months And so the Levites Concubine of Bethlehem also played the Harlot and stayed Dayes or a Year 4 Months In which places as that also of Rebecca Let her stay Dayes or a Year or 10 Daies in the Plural seem to speak a full Year As Two Daies in the Dual seem to intimate a Month. As Numb 9. 22. Dayes or a Year or a Month or Two Dayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just 666. As the Moon returneth to the Sun in 666 Hours and to them at the Poles in Twice so many Dayes as the Sun in Months as we saw before We see how Idolatry was followed with Adultery and Both from the same Bethlehem as in divers Scriptures So St Paul ranketh their sins in the Wilderness by Idolatry Fornication Tempting of Christ and Murmuring 1 Cor. 10 and Jesabels Charge even in the Revelation is enticing to Adultery or Fornication with Eating but Eating things offered to Idols Both those Adulteries were severely punished For notwithstanding his Infinite goodness he knoweth How to punish the Ungodly but especially those that walk after the Flesh and speak evil of Dignities 24000 slain at Peor about 66000 at Gibeah which infected all the 12 Tribes with the 12 pieces of the Concubine and cut off Little Benjamin All but 600 men that fled and hid themselves 4 Months and Elizabeth hid her self Five Months in the Rock of Rimmon As Saul of that Tribe also had but 600 men left him after God had rejected him 1 Sam. 13 and chosen David who had also 600 men with him and parted also as These 600 by 200 and 400 to recover Ziglag and these 600 were kept up for his Guard we see in his flying from Absalon As also the Danites that Sacked Laish and set up Idolatry were 600 men as Shamgar slew 600 Philistines with an Ox goad of which we may read in Hoseah with other Prophets To be added to All before of 600 and 666. And as those things in the Wilderness followed Israels Vow Numb 21. So do These in Judges Jephtae's Vow and the peoples also for putting away their strange gods And as Serpents seized on them There so did Nahash the Serpent Here also till he was swallowed up by Saul as Death and Hell must swallow up the Serpent also in the Revelation Moses was bid to make a Seraph as the Serpents are called Seraphim the word for Angels in the 6th of Esay But Moses made a Nahash of Nehust a mighty Type of Christ who only can deliver us from the Serpent as old as Paradise and the Dragon and the Beast and its Image also made by Aaron or Micha or Babel or any other And yet Hezekiah durst destroy That Brazen Serpent and call it Nehustan a little piece of Brass So Dangerous is a lawful expedient or requisite Matter of Worship also when it degenerates to Idolatry or Superstition As the sourest Vineger from the quickest Best and sweetest Wine There was a strange Fate may we say that followed Those Serpents which bit Jacobs Heel so that he Halted ever after and their very next step was to Oboth Pytho's or Pythons As from the Serpent to the Devil And so also in Samuels time They were bitten with the Serpent Nahash and they murmur for Saul which is Hell Sheol Gods Scool and Mans Soul if God leave it as he did Israel here till they chose and sought their Saul As Samuel alludes and gives its Etymology 1 Sam. 12. And when you saw Nahash the Serpent You said Nay but a King shall Reign over us when the Lord your God was your King And now behold the King whom you have chosen and sought him or Saultem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1331 coming up to the double of 666 the number of the Serpent just 1332. But 3 less than Daniels 1335. And again he threatens a sign to make them see their great evil in rejecting God to Saul them a King Lisheol Verse 17. And when they heard the great Thunders in Harvest which should be remembred when ever so they cryed unto Samuel Pray for thy servants Nay but a King and now Thy servants Lest we Dye For we have dded to All our sins This evil also to Saul us a King Lisheol And then comes One of the sweetest places in the Bible Fear not c. For the Lord
also As some of the Jewes cite for the Messiah to be born before Their last Sack of Jerusalem though He lie hid they say in Rome or other place Now when a Woman was delivered of a Daughter as Here where God by Cyrus delivered this Jewish Church or woman she must stay 80 Dayes before she may eat the Holy things or come into the Sanctuary as we saw before And that the longest Hiding of the Moon is about 80 Hours or at most 84 which is 3 Dayes and Half when slowest motion Or else much shorter but 40 or 42. As a Womans Daies also for a Man-childe But That also by degrees of 7 and 33 Daies for a Son as 7 and 33 Hours in the Moon and 14 and 66 for a Daughter which is now our Case in Hand And so from Cyrus Decree to the Temple finished in Darius Hystasp were at least 14 Years First 11 answering to the 11 first of the Captivity from Johojachim which was Daniels or Jehojachin Ezekiels to Zedekiahs last or 11 Year And so many there were from Cyrus Decree to the 2d of Darius As the Utmost Court of All Israel about the Temple which they called Chell or Hell was 11 Cubits Broad and Then 5 steps more of 5 half Cubits as the Woman came not up till the Morning after the 14th Day into the VVomens Court as they called it in the 2d Temple which we are now going here to Build in its Times and Seasons So it was not finished till the 6th Year of Darius Ezra 6. 15. And there may be somwhat said to End the 14 Years sooner also and yet So that there may be 14 Years from Cyrus First to Darius 2d But However from the first 14 Years after Cyrus Decree the next 66 will reach to Artaxerxes sending Ezra or Nehemiah Darius Reigned 34 as some but 36 as others and Xerxes 21. Artabamus not a Year And the next Artaxerxes in whose 7th Ezra and 20th Nehemiah went to Jerusalem with those gracious Decrees we finde in them And from the 7th of Artaxerxes to our Saviours death there were very near 490 Years So that Ezra might well live within 400 Years of Christ as we read in 2d Esdras 7. And if Daniels Half Week be as some believe to reach 3 Years and Half below his Death As its first Half from his Baptism to his Death yet it may very well answer to the Temple finished in 3 Years and an Half after the 2d of Darius Although Scaliger Calvisius Helvicus and other Great men begin the Weeks or 490 Years from the 2d of Darius Nothus Whence also to the Roman Sack of Jerusalem there may be very near 490 Years if they were to end with the City and not with our Saviour which I think more agreeable to Scripture and Reason in many things besides the Age of Ezra Josuah Zerubbabel with All that saw Both Temples as we see in Ezra 3. 12. And besides All for This before and the great Harmonies between the Times in the Law and the Gospel also with the Temples and the Cities It may be remembred that we found the Day of Pentecost to begin just from 1536 Hours of the Year For 333 brought us to the Evening Minha of the 14th Day of the Month or Evening of the Passover Which ended just in 336 Hours 50 Dayes more make up just 1200 Hours coming to the Day of First-fruits or Pentecost 50 Daies from the Sickle as we saw before and Therefore it began just in 1536 Hour of the Year which as we saw before was to be Reckoned from their coming out of Aegypt Whence 480 brought us to Solomons Temple 36 more to Solomons Death and 390 more to the Cityes End and Temples If we There begin the 70 Years Captivity and Then add the 14 and 66 and 490 we last spake of They make 1546. But beginning the Captivity Ten full Years before the End of the City and Temple as before we have than but just 1536 which is the very last Hour before the Day of Pentecost and so those Years bring us just to the great Pentecost in the 2d of Acts being the same Year of our Saviours Death and Resurrection and Ascention also So that In This One Year were All things fulfilled that were before That Pentecost from which we are to Reckon to the Feast of Tabernacles And if Any yet will bring the Captivity or the 2d Temple any lower or begin Daniels VVeeks at Nehemiahs going in the 20th Year rather than Ezraes in the 7th There may yet be greater Harmony For although the 50th Day or Pentecost began from 1536 hours of the Year Yet the Sun of that Day rose not till 12 Hours after As Nehemiah came up 12 Years after Ezra This was an Helper as our Saviour but Nehemiah the Lords Comforter as the Holy Ghost coming in the Morning of the Day of Pentecost And there may be yet somwhat more in it to be cleared also from the Scripture Numbers or Measures of This Temple and its Courts which we shal therefore yet a little more consider with Herods also as we did that of Solomon However it was in His first Temple It is clear enough there was at the Second from Babylon an Hill an Hell an Help before the Altar Porch and House or Holy and Most Holy Place or Oracle Which had All their several Measures and Degrees of Holiness to which God himself seemeth to allude in divers Places As in that I wil bring them to my Holy Mountain and Then I will make them joyful in my House of Prayer And I will accept them on my Holy Altar And Send thee help out of the Holy Place And An House of Prayer to All Gentiles c. The Walled Hill a square of 2000 Cubits the Distance of the Camp from the Ark Ios. 3. 4. and a Sabbath Daies journey as we may learn from the old Chalde Paraphrase on Ruth Each side being 500 may be compared with Ezekiels Sanctuary 500 long and 500 broad as the Suburbs 50 Cubits about Taken out of 25000. Chap. 45. As 42 speaketh of 500 Reeds I need not add the Cubit was 2 Spans or 6 Taps of 24 Digits as Hours in a Day The Wall was generally 24 or 25 Cubits High and the Gates 30. 15 Broad but the Doors 20 10 Onely That at the East was lower than the Rest by 4 Cubits That the Priest might look over it from Olivet at the Red Cowes Ashes or other Reasons before The East Gate in memorial of their Captivity and Deliverance at Shushan in Ester had the Name and form of the City Shushan by command some say from the Persian King at Shushan the Royal City for about 34 Years after This 2d Temple was Built Which yet was a more lovely or Holy Prospect than Solomons House for Chemosh and Moloch in Tophet on the Right Hand also from This Gate to Olivet But the whole Valley of the Dead bodies and of the Ashes in
first Day from Babylon But at Ahava fasteth and chooseth his 12 Apostles or Elders on the 12th of the first going Thence to Jerusalem on the first of the 5th Month and stayed 3 Days and Then to the Great Feast of Tabernacles in the 7th Month. As also in Cyrus at the 7th Month they came as One Man and kept the Feast of Tabernacles as it was Written But the Temple was not founded Ezra the 3d much less come to that End or Motsa of which Ezra 8. 9. and 10. with Neh. 8. 9. 10. which may also lead us from the 7th Month to the 10th in Ester and in Maccabes also for the great Dedication which our Saviour himself pleased to Honour with his Presence in Iohn though not required by God but by the Jewish Church As also That of Purim which they keep with great Solemnities to this day I have not yet said that These great things done in the Womens Court might be but shadows of That yet to be Done by Them also when he shall pour his Spirit on their Daughters and Handmaids also and They shall Prophecy And God shall give a Word and great shall be the Feminine Preachers And so he cries Receive the Law of thy Mother That I say nothing of Miriam Deborah Sampsons Mother or Lemuels Hannah and Anna with Elizabeth and our Saviours Mother with Priscilla Lois Eunice and the Brittish Claudia in a better Calender than Martial with other Women Prophets or Writers of Scripture From the Middle Gate Leading into the Womens Court 135 Cubits to the Gate of Nicanor and 135 years from Nehemiahs coming up in the 20th of Artaxerxes To Seleucus Nicanor the Jewes friend and His Greek Era so much used in the Maccabes And if you please to turn again as they often did in this Court 135 Years more bring us to That Little Horn or Great Type of Antichrist or Antikeimenos Antiochus Epiphanes from 137 of That Era to 145 he confirmed the Covenant as the Learned Diatribe for That Week or for 2300 Natural Days But Then Prophaned the Temple for 1290 Days although there be not so many from the 15th of the 9th of 145 to the 25th of the same Month 148 when it was clensed as we read 1 Mach. 1. and 4. Yet the Weeks may be just 62 to his coming up if we grant them to begin 70 Years before Cyrus in 140 Nabonassar and Epiphanes in 573 7 more for the next week make 580 and 3 Years more and as many Days as from the 17th of the 4th Month in which they fast for the first Temple to the 25th of the 9th Month in which they Feast for the 2d clensed by Judas Machabeus make up near half another Week in the year 444 after the first Temple which may make it the more considerable because it is 2 Thirds of 666 of which again But if Ezekiels 390 Days of the last siege of Jerusalem from the 15th of the 3d Month to the 9th of the 4th in the next and last year of Zedekiah as the Great Primate of Learning and Religion hath observed were as Types of those 390 Years from the great Schism to the Temples End Why may not these also in Antiochus be Types of Years in Antichrist and All Defiling of the Temple to its clensing Seeing Daniel himself is bid to shut or Seal them up being for many Dayes or Years to come as that Phrase of Dayes is in many places we saw before Even Then when the Angel speaks of Evening and Morning the usual Character of Natural Dayes Which we may consider again But first we may note That as first This Gate of Nicanor might remember the first Nicanor their Friend so it might not forget Nicanor their Enemy slain Here as Some or near Jerusalem As 1 Machah 7. by the same Judas about the End of the 64th Week from the Captivity Or 151 of Selâ—ucus soon after Antiochus And from this Last Nicanor Then slain to Herods Samaria finished or Caesarea Or the Temple begun may be just 135 Years As from Epiphanes first to Herods first 135 Years As 135 Cubits from the Middle-Gate to Nicanor From which Gate of Nicanor began the next Court of Israel and the Priests being 187 Cubits as there were 187 Years between That Nicanor slain and our Saviours Baptism Or Pontius Pilate that put him to Death As also from the Death of Antiochus the Great Dan. 11. 19 to our Saviours Birth 187 Years And if we look on Hours as Years The first 7 Hours make the first Rest and Turn of the Sun from the Nadir towards the Morning Horison and 7 Days make the Sabbaths Rest and the first 7 Days of a Woman before her Son Circumcised The first 14 Hours come up to the Morning Sacrifice when it was appointed and their longest Night was 14 Hours the Hiding Resting Slaying Sleeping of the Witnesses And 14 Days brought up the Passover The first 40th Hour is the 2d Morning Tamid or their Breakfast As 40 Days the Womans first coming to the Sanctuary after a Son As their 40 Years before Canaan were for a Son the first-born Son For Out of Aegypt have I called my Son my First-born 49 Hours begin the Third nights Rest as 49 the Jubile 65 Come up to the Third Days Noon or Dinner as the 65th Day is the Pentecost 72 Hours closed the 3d Day as 72 their Sanedrin 80 Hours the 4th Morning Watch and 84 Sun-Rising as the 4th Day from Creation brought up Sun and Moon as the two Witnesses of Heaven measure to All other Witnesses on Earth 120 the number of Moed in Hebrew letters the Hours in 5 Days before Man and Woman Created If about the Tamid Hour of the 6th Morning it might be in Hour 135 As the Men and Womens Court 135 Cubits 144 Hours the square of 12 close the 6th Day and begin the 7th or the Sabbath and their Clakins or Jewish Minutes of 144000 as the First-fruits of Time to God and His Lamb shadowed by the Lamb of the Sabbath distinct from the Daily Tamid 240 Hours close the 10th Day And from Aegypt the Pascal Lamb was Tyed up from the 10th Day of the Month as 3 Daies and Half before he was slain in Hour 333 the Evening Minha of the 14th Day Ending in 336 Hours But they went not out of Aegypt till the close of the next or 15th Day at Sunset which was Hour 360 as Daies in their Year And so Years from This Exodus out of Aegypt are reckoned as Hours from the beginning of their Year to the Passover Pentecost Tabernacles and All their Feasts 1200 Hours in 50 Dayes between the Passover and Pentecost Whose Morning was in 1548 Hour of the Year And so the Great Pentecost Acts 2d might be 1547 or 48 Years from Aegypt If there were 70 Years between the first Temple and Cyrus taking Babylon in 210 of Nabonassar That is 480 from Aegypt to the Temple in Solomons 4th 1 Kin. 6.
two Witnesses we may finde to be measured by the Sun and Moons Times of 666. So that 3 of These and an half or 7 times 333 or 3 Months or Moeds and Half may bring us to the End of all the Numbers yet fixed in the Prophets and the Revelation And the rather also because we finde the Sun and Moons 333 and 666 so Signal in Jerusalem as the Sun to his Moon or Jeâ—icho As All the Fulls and Changes of the Moon in all the World also We saw before that Enoch lived just as many Years as there are Daies in a Year and that from Him 666 Years come very near the Flood and that there wanted but 3 times 3 of 4 times 333 which is 1665 in 1656 the Year of the Flood And from the Flood as many years as Enoch lived bring us to the Promise made to Abraham near about 3 Moeds of Gods fixing before the Flood for Three times 120 make 360 3 And an Half make 420 3 of these 1260 in the Revelation written 30 years after the Sack or begining of Daniels 1290 which is just 3 times 430 45 more make up Daniels 1335. The very Number of his Fellow-Witnesses or Princes in Hebrew letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1335 the Noble Princes As the Fruitful Branches as Jacob said to Joseph or coming from Perat or Euphrates found in Dan. 1. 3. and Ester 1. 3. and 6. 9. 1335 Are but 3 more than Twice 666 or 4 times 333 which come to the Evening Minha of the Passover but want 3 Hours which Daniel supplies to the End of the 14 th Day the Day of the Lords Passover and Passing away of Wrath as the 2d Sabbath also and 14 Days of the Woman for a Daughter and the Moon returneth to them at the Poles in 14 days And Paul was freed from his storm in the 14th day went up to Jerusalem or Heaven in the 14th Year And Abrams Lot and Sodom were freed in the 14th year and Joseph was Born in the 14th year of his Fathers and Freed in the 14th year of his Own Bondage As Jerusalem in the 14th year of Hezekiah And 1335 is 35 within the 14th Hundred Year Again 1335 is but 45 above 1290 that is 3 times 430. First from the Promise to their coming out of Aegypt 430 and 45 more to Calebs settling in Canaan with Josuah the two Witnesses as Jos. 14. 10. Twice more 430 or 860 making up 1335 bring us to the last Siege of Jerusalem in Zedekiah Now Daniel is a Captive bemoaning those Desolations as he often calleth them in Chap. 9. 2. 17. 18. Perpetual Desolations Psal. 73. 79. 80. Threatned as before Levit. 26 And now the Daily Sacrifice was taken away and the Place of his Sanctuary Thrown down which was not so or at least so much by Epiphanes who Polluted it but did not Throw it down as now it was by the Chaldeans and afterwards by the Romans So that Daniel speaketh of Both These great Desolations rather than that Little Short one by Antiochus who yet might be a Type of the great Antichrist or Antikeimenos who was to defile and profane the Temple Rather than cast it Down As First the Chaldeans did and Then the Romans or the Jewes themselves and their Factions While the Roman Eagles and Armies overflowed them also with a Wing of Abominations making desolate as Daniel and our Saviour speak of those Times And yet I suppose the Days of Antiochus might be Types or Shadows of the Years of this Desolation also Seeing besides the days specified in Daniel the word for He stamped on them the Stars of Heaven as the Dragon did against the Jewish Woman or Jacobs Wife with Josephs Crown of 12 Stars Apoc. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is above 1300 as his Numbers First 1290 and then 1335. Yea and 2300 Days in the 8th Chapter Though so many Natural days of Evening and Morning as the Phrase is Yet must be shut up or Sealed for Many Dayes or Years as we saw before This was in the Third year of Belshazzar and 31 years from Zedekiah For in 37th of Jeconiah Evilmerodach was King but reigned only Two years in Berosus So that the 3d of the next King Belshasher was but 31 years from Zedekiah Though 41 or 42 from Jeconiah Daniel is Then at Shushan where our Temple Courts and Numbers doe begin And There about the Midst of the sad Desolations both on Israel and Judah He heareth One Saint asking of Palmoni the Wonderful Numberer as the Wonderful Councellor Esay 9 How long the Vision of the Tamid and Transgression shaming or making desolate to give both the Sanctuary and the Hâ—st of Heaven before to be as Mire or Mirmas To this Question as perplext almost as That of the Temples End and the Worlds with our Saviours Coming Matth. 24 He said to Me not to Him that asked the question Ad Ereb Boker 648 Until or as long as Evening Morning 2300 and the Sanctuary shall be Clensed Beginning with This great Desolation of the 70 years Captivity in which He Then was and taking 31 years of that Captivity to the Time they were speaking out of 2331 the Number which we found before of the Holy Courts or 333 by 14 steps or 7 whole days or Cubits there remaineth just 2300. As another Argument we are not wholly out in pitching on That Number as the Temple measures lead us As if those Holy Courts must be Trodden Down as many years as there were steps so multiplyed on them Which answer also to the 7 Days of the Week And yet 2331 came short of 2400. As if all these Desolations should be shorter than the Hours of a Great Day if we allow 100 Years for every Hour which is not far from Moses reckoning Psal. 90. Where the Day as God also made it is distinct from Night or Watches by Night Yet if the whole Day be but 1000 years Then 2331 is as the Morning of the 3d Day in which he will revive them in Hoseah After Two dayes of which the Hebrew letters make 666 as we saw before in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The first 666 ended just in the End of their Temple and City by the Romans That is Twice 70 to Ezra in the 7th of Artaxerxes as we saw before and 7 times 70 Thence to our Saviours Death and Half 70 Thence to the year in which it was Sacked After a War of 3 Years and half as answering to the 3 years and half of Christs publick Preaching after his Baptism and his 3 Days and Half from his Passover to his Resurrection or 3 Hours and Half Eclips and Suffering upon the Cross As the 3 Days or Years and Half of the Witnesses in the Revelation which we found also shadowed in the 3 days and half of the two Witnesses hidden by Rahab or Those Recovered by Abraham or by David after Ziglag and other things before How the Flood came about 666 years after Enoch
Knees and Loines also In my turning and behold on the Rivers Lip a Tree mighty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on this side and that And he said unto me these waters c. And upon the River shall come up on this side and that Every Tree for Food Are we not come to Eden as in Daniell also Where Time is called Eden whence perhaps the English Then His lease shall not fade as Ps. 1. and Jer. 17. nor fruit â—e consumed For the Righteous shall be green and flourish as Tamar in the Hezrons of God They shall bear in old Age as Tamar did for Judahs Kid after she had stayed long for Shela or till Shilo come We track it in Characters from Joshuah's fixing the Ark at Shilo till it was Captive at Gath Ekron and other places till David brought it in fear for Uzziahs Death to the house of Edom And his Servants also Obed Edom blessed by it or a Watcher and Singer to it Till at length it came to be setled in Zion which God chose before all other places of Judah and Jerusalem As many Psalms speaking of a Temple also before that of Moriah which must be made as Shilo But Zion shall endure for ever and in the latter dayes shall be exalted above All Mountains And All People shall flow to it as if it were below them All. It shall be new or first born or First fruits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 According to it's Moons or Months which are therefore to be considered For his waters from the Sanctuary they are still going And all his Fruits shall be for meat and leaves for Medicine and healing of the Nations also as the Revelation addeth The Chapter endeth with parting that holy Land among Strangers also Strangers All Strangers that would come and stay There till they had a Child and then themselves and Child and Children must have a Portion of Land also for a Possession that is little For an Inheritance also for ever as much or as well as the Children of Israel In our Fathers House is Bread enough and to spare and Land enough and many Mansions and it is a more Blessed thing to give than to receive Amen Halelujah And there shall be no more Curse But the Throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it And his servants shall serve him and delight themselves in God as Esay 58. and they shall see his face But O! His Heart How sweet How Gracious which no man ever did or can see But we may have the Mind of Christ and shall come to see eye to eye and know as we are Known And his Name shall be upon their foreheads And the Sons of Aaron shall put my Name upon the Children of Israel and I will Bless them Numb 6. And soon after they are called Men of name even Korahs Company Whence the Sweet Singers of Israel As the Sons of God and his Children And the Revelation speaketh of Names of Men and 7000 Names and Name of the Beast and his Character or Badge and Livery as of old on Servants who yet had a note above the Slaves Which may be distinguished in Scripture But without are Dogs and Sorcerers to be compared with Ezekiels Caves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Ditches or Witches or not healed and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a Lye As Cosbi slain by Phineas In the midst of the street and of either side of the River the Tree of Life as at first in Eden Pleasure and Time which Adam fell into by falling into pleasure and must be recovered by Sorrow Bearing 12 manner of Fruits or 12 Kinds in Hebrew Min. in Numbers 100. or 750. And Minim or Minnim 140. 150. 700. and 750. And yeilded fruit every Month 12 by 12 144. As his wall 144 Cubits And Ezekiels Altar is 12 by 12 144 Cubits But it 's settle 14 by 14. 3 times 4 and an half That signall number in All Times and first in Dayes and Hours as the measure to All other Measures As the Cubit made of two Zereths or Spans each of which had three Taps of four Digits apeece So that every Cubit had 24 Digits as the Day hath 24 hours And if the sacred Cubit had an Hand-breadth more of 4 Digits than it will be 28 Digits in all as made of two Hands or Jads and Jad is 14 as we saw before And although the Jews counted their Night alwayes Even as the English still call it Even and Evening to the Day Yet besides the neernesse of their longest Night to 14 hours in Winter they might ever have just 14 Hours between their Evening Minha and their Morning Tamid and 7 more from This to That again So that still 3 and an half which in whole numbers are not lesse than 7 and 14 made up the Moads of the Ceasing Resting Hiding or slaying of the Witnesses both in Heaven and Earth The Temple and it's Courts and Altars Sacrifice and Minha with the Two Lambs And in in our Bodies also where our eyes and ears or other witnesses are bound or laid asleep as Dead in our Sodom also where oùr Lord is slain for 3 and an half during the Raign of the Beast of Night and darknesse rising as smoak out of the Bottomlesse pit and slaying or at least Laying the Witnesses for 7 or 14 hours we speak of Dayes and Months and yeares anon and then commeth the End That is Kets and Chetsi my end or half and also the Waking or Rising and Resurrection as also the Summer following the cold night of the Year or 3 Months and an half of Winter And than cometh Harvest or Ketsir as before as Christ speaketh in the Gospel Amos 8. And did not All these meet in David That fulnesse of time also in his Generation He was the 7th Son of Jesse my Essence As if God should say in every 7 My essence shall appear David that is Love And David was also the 14 from Abraham as the 14 th 70 years And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 14. it may be also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4 and 4 or 8. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also a neer Kinsman as Love And again He was the 24 from Noah Rest and Love As they shall Rest in my Love and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 24. And being the 24 and last hour of that great Day he began another of 24 more and setled all the 24 Courses we have spoken of in the Temple But of All his Times and Turnings of his Hour-glasse Nods and Neods also that is Wandrings and Bottles of water in Characters as God shall give to the Prayers of his people so much wished and valued In the mean time we may remember what a Rest and turn and change we found every 7 hour in the Sun and Moons dayly motion from the Evening Horizon to the Nadir Rising Zenith setting again And as every 7