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
10 Cleds or Clades or 3 Moeds and an Half as 70 is 3 score and an Half But 3 of those Dors or Generations being 3 times Thrice 70 or 9 times 70 and an half make just 665. And Dorothenu Our Generations in Hebr. letters may make 666 670 676. And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Word so often used by God For your Generations makes 4 above 1260 which is 10 Moeds and an Half As in the Revelation also 1260 for a Time and Times and Half which is Moed Moeds and Half a Moed in Daniel And His 1335 is but 3 more than Twice 666 or 4 times 333 As the 14th Day ended in 336 Hours 3 more than 333 the Evening Sacrifice or slaying of the Passover And the Temple Witnesses lay as slain by Antiochus 3 years and then Recovered by Iudas Macchabeus in the 148 year of Seleucus Nicanor the very same Month the Temple was polluted 3 years before 1 Macc. 1. 54. 4. 51. That was Twice 666 from Egypt or 1332 years and the Clensing 1335 Which was also 1290 years from Their setling in Canaan as Iosh. 14. 10. which was in the 46th or 47th from Egypt As Noah went into the Ark on the 46th or 47th Day of the Year And if we There fix the Pentecost which was not till they were in Canaan as Levit. 23 25. There may yet be Greater Harmony For as the years before This setling in Canaan may be as Hours from the beginning of the Year to the Day of Pentecost so all the years following This in Canaan may be reckoned as Hours After the Pentecost the 65th Day of the Year and Therfore about the 5th of the 3d Month. 430 more come up to Solomon 470 to Ieroboam As 470 Hours from the beginning of the Day of Pentecost end about the 23d or 24th Day of the 3d Month when the Jewes Fast to this Day for Ieroboams stopping all the First-Fruits of Israel from Ierusalem 430 more to the City Taken by Nebuchadnezzar ending as Hours about the 9th of the 4th Month the very Day when it was broken up As we read in divers places of the Kings and Ieremy 39 and 52. 430 more which make up Daniels 1290 to the Times of Epiphanes for which They Fast also in the latter end of the 4th Month as also for Moses breaking the First Tables at their Golden Image in the Wilderness which themselves account as a Type or cause of the Babylonian Image oppressing them or That Abomination of Desolation as the Macchabees call it of Antiochus that mighty Type of Antichrist Or of any other since On them and the Israel of God And yet again 222 more added to 1290 make 1512 the number of Hours in 63 Dayes between the Day of Pentecost and the 10th of the 5th Month. That Fatal Day when Amalek Canaan destroyed them to Hormah the Curss upon that Heavy Doom of Not Entring into Rest And for the first Temple Burnt by the Chaldeans Jer. 55. 12. and the Second also by the Romans on the very same Day of the 5th Month. The 65th from the Day of Pentecost as This the 65th Day of the year and its Morning Sacrifice was in Hour 1526 from Pentecost As the second Temple Burnt 1526 years from their setling in Canaan 1512 years After Enoch On the 18th of the same 5th Month they Fast for the Lamps put out in Ahaz time and for them that defamed the Good Land on the 17th of the 6th Month but All the first half of the 7th is little else but Fasts as the first half of the 7th Day was Darkness and the latter half was Light and Joyful Feastings ending all that years sorrow and their scatterings which Damel makes the Measure of All things foretold in Him As Chap. 12. 7. And his 9th saith Desolations shall be determined at the End of That War whose very first Crisis lasted till That season of the year in the 7th Month we are now Seeking Shall we view a Map of All in the 39 40 41 52 Chapters of Jeremiah First The City Broken up on the 9th of the 4th Month about 860 Hours after Pentecost As That 860 years from Their First Pentecost in Canaan Then the Temple Burnt on the 10th of the 5th Month As a Type of the 2d Temple Burnt by the Romans on the same Day of the same Month and same Course of Joyarib 666 years after Or 1526 years from That Pentecost in Canaan As 1526 Hours from Pentecost to the Morning Sacrifice of the 10th Day of the 6th Month. In which also they Fast for Aaron's Death a Type of our Saviour Dying before That Temple Burnt Then the Great and Rich and Mighty men were All carried Captive and the Vineyards and Olives c. Left to the Poor As promised Zeph. 3. Ezek. 34. Levit. 26. with Ex. 23. adding that What the Poor left the Beasts should eat Then the Witnesses slain First Gedaliah a Type of Christ the Great Lord and Then the 70 Elders those solemn Witnesses in Mourning and their Hair shorn c. And at Mispa the Watch of Witnesse to Jacob and his two Wives as we saw before And slain by the 10 Great Captains as the 10 Horns of Ishmael the Beast as the Angel called him Pere first mocking Isaac and now slaying him in a Name-sake and of the Seed Royal. And Then the Witnesses Rising again Or All the Captives recovered by Johanan the Lord's Grace or Gracious And at Gibeon where the Sun stood still for a new Heaven in Joshuah and a new Earth and Age in David yet but Types of more when God shall do his Work his strange Work as at Gibeon Isa. 28. Thence they go to Egypt as Christ when Herod slew the Children For Out of Egypt God alwayes called his Son And the Prophets and Revelation speak of their last Return as both from Babylon and Egypt And for the Times also besides the great and only Fast prescribed on the 10th of the 7th Month They Fast on the 7th for the Golden Image of the Beast They made as Psalm 106. a Type of the Beast slaying the Witnesses and on the 3d for Gedaliah slain in the seventh Month as Jer. 41 and the other 70 on the 2d Day after And 1290 Hours from the Temple Burnt on the 10th of the 5th Month 53 dayes and 18 hours come up to this Time which may be compared with Daniels 1290 dayes or years or 1260 in the Revelation written about 30 years After the Temple and City Burnt by the Romans As Daniel's Great Prophecy of 2300 days was just 30 or 31 years after the City sacked by Babylon Whose Times are All but 3 times 666 and an half or 2331 years and so but just 2300 from the 31st year of that account which was in the 3d of Belshazzar as we read in Dan. 8. to be compared with Baruch whence much of Daniels Prayer in the 9th expounding Levit. 26 as an absolute Promise of
lose her two Sons for bondslaves which may be a great Mystery and how he gave a Son to a barren VVoman and then raised him from the Dead and how he Healed the Pottage when Death was in the Pot and fed a great Multitude with a few barly loves and Healed Naaman the Syrian Lepar and struck Gehezy with Leprosie for seeking things of the VVorld in an ill time or season And How his dead bones raised a dead man and many other things we might observe in this great Type of Jesus Christ. But especially His striking his Enemies blind and then bringing them into Samaria and when the King of Israel said shall I smite them my Father shall I smite them He said Noe. Wilt thou smite them whom thou hast taken Prisoners with thy sword and thy bow Set bread and meat before them c. And I have often heard one say he knew not that he ever had a sweeter return from Christ then when once in great anguish he could onely say Now shew thy Kindnesse to thy Poor Enemy Whom thou hast taken Captive with Thy sword and thy bow And the King of Israels Feasting Those Prisoners for he made great provision for them may be more considered hereafter and compared with That of Solomon if thy Enemy hunger feed him and the Lord shall not onely requite but reward thee and this History may be the more considerable because it may perhaps be found the most desperate or most forlorn condition here on earth VVhen a man Degenerates into a judicial blindnesse Except it may yet be worse to come unto a Beastly Spirit and Nature VVhich is when after great and perhaps very long Abusing Light and Love shewed from God and Christ a man doth not only disobey but grieve and quench that good spirit so much and so long that at length it leaves him to degenerate into a blind and seared conscience and a Bruitish Nature till he becomes as a Dog biting and snarling at all about him and returning to his vomit and as the Swine to wallowing in the mire and also Turning and Tearing those that lay good things before him Who now tramples them under his feet and offers despite to the spirit of Grace and accounteth his Saviors blood as unclean and profane This was It perhaps the Psalmist so prayed against not only when he cries against Presumptuous sins but Then also perhaps when he prayeth so earnestly to be kept from the Dog or Dog-like Nature of which he speaketh divers times And This it may be is also in the Revelation under the Notion of Worshiping the Beast and receiving his character where it is also said that All the world should so follow the Beast but those that were written in the Lambs book of Life From the Foundation of the World And I have somtimes inclined to believe that Christ is not only the True Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world but that he Truly loves every man as he loves himself so long as he is a Man But when he degenerates into the Nature and spirit of a Beast and it may be the evil spirits are in the species of Ravening Beasts as good Angels in others and when one so degenerates into the Beastly Nature Then one falls out of Christs Neighborhood Yea and it may perhaps come so far that they may be no more warned lest they Turn and Tear those that cast such precious Pearls before them And in such a forlorn case it may be hard to shew why they should or how they can expect any more favor from Christ than a Beast or why so much And It may be This is That Sin unto Death of which the Apostle speaks when he addeth also that for such He doth not say that one ought to pray But yet he Doth not say One ought not to pray even for such also Which is One of the reasons why I pray for All I ought and All I may pray for When I am crying to an Infinite God for All my Relations and Truly they are very many as I somtimes say to God for I am Related to the whole Creation of God and yet farther than I can express and I know not But I may somtimes pray for some That I am not Tyed in duty or by express Command to pray for But I am still Tyed to Love my Neighbor as my self and so is Christ also I Trust or else I lose one of the sweetest pieces of the whole Bible and himself also brings the Notion of a Neighbor out so large that it may not only include Strangers but Enemies also And when a mans waies please the Lord he will make his Enemies his greatest Enemies to be at peace with him And if an Angel or if God himself forbid a man to pray for such or such a person City Nation or number of men yet This may be but to draw him larger out by shewing the danger of such persons As we see in the Prophet Jeremy and others that never prayed more sweetly than when they were forbidden to pray for such or such and yet they prayed Then most because they saw there was most need And Gods commands never do never will forbid us to Love our Neighbor as our self And that No man may ever despair we found Gods Love of pity and compassion so to reach to Beasts also that his great Command is that They also must be brought to keep the Sabboth and to rest the Rest of God and a good man and Christ is the Best of men must be and will be Merciful to his very Beast also Yea to the Beast of his Enemy and Him that hates him as we see commanded And for Those also that degenerate into the Beastly Nature lest They also should at length despair not to speak how often men are invited in the Prophets and the Revelation to come back again from the Beast and out of Babylon which shews they might return Repent and live we see How graciously God dealt with Nebuchadnezzar Though he so degenerated into a Beast which may be much worse than to be made a Beast at first and so born How Wisdom also crieth unto Scorners and How it is promised She Shall yet cry even unto Scorners may be here again observed out of the Proverbs To be compared with the 48. of Esay sweetly calling inviting and wooing the most obstinate sinners and Treacherous Revolters Yet for my Names sake and again for my Names sake I will resrain For How shall I cut thee off O that thou hadst or wouldst yet hearken For He speaketh in the present Tence I am yet teaching thee c. And how shall I give away the Glory of my Patience and my Goodness Shall I be weary also of well doing and having begun in the spirit of Goodness shall I also end in a fleshly Wrath or Passion God forbid The Psalmist also saith He received Gifts for Rebels also even for Rebels as we saw
Heb Adama Whence Adam and our Grand Dame or Damm or Parent in many languages from Adam formed out of Earth or Ground that is go run and round as in grinding As Erets also from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but such Earth as was so dryed or baked and made Red and called Adama As English made and Mead it into Mud and Mad is but Dam Blood Turned backward or Mead which is both a Meddow and Red liquor from the Hony Comb suph akin to soph or English sop and that also to Tohu Thou and Tough and Dough and Bohu Bough Bow or Bow which is Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to go Down As we see in the Suns Bowing as the Phrase is in Scripture which is read his going down And so Bohu Tohu was That which went down lowest or Bowing Bo tehom or Bottom of the yarn or Waters became Tough Dough. As bread unbaked And at length Dryed as God speaketh was a Damm between the Waters a Meadow and Mead or Red Water As in Hebrew also Dam is blood and Red as all Waters grow by standing and baking in the Sun As Bread also in an Oven or a Tann as the Jews speak and Mud is so also in English as Mead or Made by That also the Jews call Debora the speaker and the Doer also which devoureth all but turneth all to sweetnesse And so brings it from its bour or nest or pit and bore thereof as English speak who also grace that little Miracle of being with the very name of being calling it Bee and Dor. Of which again it may be in the Deboraes we find in Scripture This digression also will be pardoned I hope when we shall see Daniel himself alluding also to this Flux of Time or Rivers of Waters or Drops which are yet as little ages which is Dor and Dorim And as if the English Dore must be a kin here also as we noted of shaar a shoar Gate of an House or Has 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Asia the House or Church of the Lord Their Daleth or Deleth is a kin to their Deleph Drop or Delve or Dive or Deep and profound as Delphik Oracles Whither it be neerer to the Hebrew and English Dale for a Valley or Brook as the Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both to Draw and lift up as also Tall and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or to Dall Little Poor Broken in Heb. as in English also Deal Dole we say not but Hasten to Daniels End and Rivers of Pleasure in Eden which is Time in Him also who was like to measure Times and Seasons for Judgement also being the Man of Desires or Delights or Affections also As he is often called And yet they did not hurt his Judgement who was Daniel my Judgement of God or God my Judgment or Judging me At the same Time shall stand up Michael who is as God and yet Man That great mixed Seed and yet contrary to Chelaim as we touched in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Great Sir who is in a present and continued Act still standing up or interceding for the Children of thy People As the Standers or Men of the Station which were chosen and sent by the Tribes to represent them dayly when they were to lay on hands or make confession or for other Service And there was or shall be a Sore Yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Time Such as never was since there was a Nation to That Time Doth it not point at the Destruction of Jerusalem shortly after Christs Birth or Resurrection and standing up Seeing in the Prophets God saith he would deal with That People in That sore hardness as he never did or would to Any other And Christ saith in Matthew Then shall be Great Tribulation Such as was not from the beginning of the World to That Time No Nor Ever shall be Or as Mark expresseth it Such affliction as was not from the beginning of the Creation which God Created unto that time Neither shall be Which may be Comfort to all the World besides Yea in respect of the Great Judgment also Seeing Christ hath assured us it shall not be so Bad or Sore as That of Jerusalem And How then can Daniel speak of a further Time when he saith There shall be a Time of such Trouble as never was till That Time And Is the Resurrection which he speaketh of Such only as was at or about That Time also When we read of some Raised from the Dead also about our Saviours Death who yet is called the First fruits of them that slept and the First that Rose from the Dead However If the Olam or Everlasting there spoken of in Daniel for Honor or Dishonor Droan Be absolute Eternity How comes he then to add some longer Time to it when he speaks of the Wise and Their Ever To which he addeth an Ad Or Somwhat That is Hard to render but by Ever and somwhat Added or as some for Ever and Ever Which is also spoken of the Earth or other things not Eternal or for an absolute Ever as we shewed before But Thou Daniel stum or shut up the words and seal them till the Time of the End or Kets As before Jakitsu They shall awake from sleep and Sleep in Heb hath the same Letters with a Year 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numerals 355. or in Plural reg 360. As Moses may allude in the 90 Psalm 1000 Years in thy eyes but As a Day cut off or Circumcised Yesterday when passed and as a Watch by Night Thou streamest them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They shall be asleep in the morning Chatsyr as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Evening as Circumcised The Dayes of our Years in them are 70 Years We may consider it again Many shall flow together As Waters in a Floud And Knowledg that great Dea shall multiply Even As the Floud or As Waters fill up the Sea as we read in the Prophets often compared to Waters and Gods Teachings to the Rain of Heaven As Solomon also Praying for Rain cryeth And Teach them also the Good way they should walk Or as Esay Thou shalt be as a Garden water'd Every moment and a Water-spring whose waters shall not lye and God shall Guide thee continually which I chuse for my Portion and let all my Friends say Amen And in other places besides That sweet and elegant allusion Esay 28. 9. 10. Eth mi jore Dea veeth mi jabin smua Gemule mechalab Attiki misshadajim Ki Tsav latsav Tsav latsav Kav la kav Kav la kav Zeeir som Zeeir som. I add not that the Maschilin wise men spoken of so much in Daniel are hinted to be such as think themselves least Masculine and most Scallins that is Fools 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So bruitish am I More than Any Man Nor Understanding As a Man And I Daniel saw
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
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
will come as the Latter Rain before the Former O but what shall I do to thee O Ephraim What O Judah Your Goodness or Mercy as a Cloud as a morning Dew Passing away Therefore or because I have â—ewed them â—y the Prophets and slain them by the words of my mouth That as the Latine Vt thy judgements might be Light going forth as at first Creation or in the Morning For I desired Mercy Chesed and not Sacrifice and the knowledge of God before Burnt-Offerings Though They passed the Covenant As Adam There they Cloathed or dissembled against me But in the Close He hath set an Harvest for Thee O Judah in my Turning the Captivity of my people Which we saw before in the Moed of Tabernacles In the next Chapter Ephraim is as Jonah going to Nineveh or Assyria But I will spread my Net 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my Rest As on That Whale Vomiting Jonah after 3 dayes and bring them down as the Fowls of Heaven Orydem Asyrem as alluding to Assyria By which I will Chasten them according to the Report of their Witnesses or Congregaton of Witness As alluding to the Law and their constant Custome That when any one was chastened There were Judges and Witnesses standing by to reckon and report and record the number of strips That they might not exceed 40 How great soever the fault was He that had Many Stripes might have but 40 Least Thy Brother Yet Thy Brother Though but now a wicked man Left thy Brother should be Vile in thy eyes As we saw before Bot woe unto them Though I have or will Redeeme them Yet they speak lies against me Or as Moses song They are Lying Children forgetting their Father that first made them and then also Redeemed them saying Surely They are Children that will Lye no more I will hearken for he will speak peace That they may no more return to folly O Lord I have waited for thy salvation I bound or instructed and at the same time I strengthned their Armes or Strong Sowers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But they Plotted Wrong to me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as alluding to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used before for Binding up contrary to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Yoak a Beast and make it Tame as a Lamb which is also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also Money as stamped with it or exchanged for it As of old Pecunia from Pecus They returned from Assyria or Babylon But not to the High it may be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They are like a Deceitful Bow Their Princes shall fall by the sword For the Rage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 677 of their Tongue Psal. 12. 73 8. And that we cited from Daniel 11. 36. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Till the Rage end for the Determined must be done Then the Trumpet for Alarm and the Roman Eagles As our Saviour also Comments on it Except it be the Caldeans as Types of some other And the very sound of Samariahs Eagle or Calf as we touched in Eglon may allude to those Eagles coming against them Yea and against the Temple also where the Golden Eagle was a sad Omen And they shall say to the Mountains Cover us and to the Hills Fall upon us To be compared with That in the Gospel and Revelation But how shall I give thee up O Ephraim O Israel How shall I give thre up As Admah How shall I put thee as Zeboim My Heart is Turned quite Turned on me My Repentings are kindled together I will not execute the â—ierceness of my Anger I will not return to destroy Ephraim for I am God and not Man the Holy One in the midst of Thee And I will not become a Bear 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a Bruit Beast Cruel and Devouring And yet They shall run as Lacquies after the Lord and he shall shew or shout as a Lyon Arie we touched it too much already in Aries Then shall the sons be afraid or run as an Heard yea and carking care or charge may be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 flying to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As Zippora the Bird or the Goat or Saphira with Moses from Aegypt and as Jonah from Assyria I will House them again in their own Houses saith the Lord. I will make them sit or Turn them again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1329. How near to Daniels 1335 or Twice 666 Is Judah also One of the Faithful Witnesses in the next Verse and Then Jacobs Birth and Life and Travels and Weeping and Wrestling at Mahanaim And of Succoth Moed of Tabernacles as before with Labans service and Lebana and Aegypt again They shall be as a Cloud and a morning Dew Their sin and their Punishment and as Moats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Grain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And as smoak Ashan as the English Ashes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yet I am the Lord thy God from Aegypt And thou shalt know no God besides me For there is no Saviour besides me made under all those Commands also From the Hand of Seol Grave and Hell as St Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will redeem them From Death I will ransom them As Goel the Kinsman that had Right and Command of Redemption as we saw before And Gole is also an English word as Goal I will be thy Plague O Death to devour or speak down as before in the Psalms O Seol I will be â—hy Cut off or most Deadly destruction Being promised to Break the serpents Head to loose all his knots and to destroy his works and Him that had the Power of Death which is the Devill Apoc. 20. 14. Repentance shall be Hidden from me Issater 670. with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it makes 1328 we touched it in Hester As God himself in Moses song Esterah where also the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is final as before to make Hester just 666 and again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the same song It shall be a Mistery to you a Promise rather than a Threatning As Paul also going to cite This place of Hosea saith Behold I shew you a Mistery or The Great Mistery With â—hee the Orphan shall be made Perfect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall finde most tâ—nder Compassions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not only the Womb or Bowels but Their own Spirit also I will heal their Backslidings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1342. and with 1348. I will Heal leads us to Arphaâ—sad I will loose or dissolve as the Destroyer But also I will Heal As Shaddai the Almighty I will be as Good as Great or Powerful And that for my Names sake The son of Sem the great Name They that know it shall finde Rest or Noah Sem they say was the great Melchisedeck the King of Righteousness and Peace which is Salem But sure
Enlarge them also as the word hinteth by freeing them from Lot as Gen. 13. 14 And he will also take away the Lot from all Faces As we found him speaking in Esay Jephta's 6 years as 6 Hours of the 14th Day bring us so near the Moed of Passover that it seemeth possible his very Daughter How like Agamemnons in the Poets may represent the Lamb or young Kid to be offered in the 4th Day from Hour 312 to 333. And Jephta came so near That number of Hours or Years from Aegypt that he sent Ammon word thâ—t Israel had possessed Sâ—hons Land about 300 years as Jâ—dges 11. 26. Yet 40 years after their coming out of Aegypt that I speak not of any former Conquest from Zippor that Goat or Seir also There is certainly some great matter in that of Jephta's Daughter If she were Devoted Cherem as Levit. 27. 28 29. she must Die and could not be Redeemed And her Father vowed He would make it an Ole Burnt-Offering as the Tamid or the daily Lamb which was also Burnt at the Evening of the Passover That Law is very Terrible if it intimate the Cursed Reprobates as it may do Even such as the Son of Man himself devoteth to the Curse and will not Pardon as himself expresseth of the Father and the Son So that during His Time or Administration and I know not that he ever speaks of more or longer Such must be punished with Eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power when he shall come or at His Coming in his glorious Kingdom or during its Ever or Olam Such perhaps as by many Acts have gotten the worst Habit of sinning willingly or wilfully and as it were by Nature or by their very Essence ex ousias as the word Ecousios may intimate And to such Remaining So Actually Rebelling and presuming as the words in Greek and Hebrew also of Deut. 29 being Participles and of present Time not any Past There was no Sin-offering or Sacrifice prescribed in the Law which yet in that very Epistle to the Hebrews was so distinct from Burnt-offerings that These might be Accepted where no Sacrifice was admitted or at least not commanded And although God required no Burnt Offering of private persons but in very few cases yet he prescribed Rules if any would freely bring it as they might Yea and Gentiles also in such cases might â—read the Temple 〈◊〉 as may be also Promised rather than Threatned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by distinction of Corban or a Gift for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a waâ— for Gentiles also to bring 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 although there be an express com◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of their God from the Hand of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈 ◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prayer for Strangâ—rs also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such access and Courts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 Nâ—me of Gentile Courts that we may believe those gracious words of Christ in Esay 56 making Them also Priests and Levites as the word Leviim or Lovim from Loveh whence the English Love also may plainly intimate And in the Gospel also he citeth the Prophets saying My House shall be called an House of Prayer even to All Nations and Gentiles And for all the Threatnings of Cutting off the Jewes will tell us Few were ever so Cut off by Heaven and and why Then from Heaven If they came in and submitted to Stripes which they say prevented Cutting off or Death by the Hand of Heaven as they used to speak Adding also a Third step they called the Rebhels stroak to which the Psalmist may seem to allude by Gifts for Rebbels also And in another place he saith Let the Righteous scourge me c. Even when he had deserved Cutting off Or else they might come in with Burnt-Offerings which they tell us confessed as the Bringer did over its Head that they had deserved to be quite consumed as That which they call Ole or Whole as English also to be considered with Olam their Ole or Whole also as we touched before And indeed the very Face of the Moon it self at the Full may put us in minde of their Ole or whole Burnt-Offering set on fire and flaming unto God As the World or Olam also must Do at the like distance from the Great or Good Flood as Sodom did of old perhaps Of which we may have more to speak And to This also the Hebrews may allude in his Phrase of fiery Wrath concerning Actual Enemies when after Light and 〈◊〉 received One sinneth Willingly There is no Sacrifice by â—aw but still for All that err and are simple as that â—pistle from Ezâ—iel 4. 5 yea and the very Law 〈◊〉 sacrifice for Lying and for Swearing falsly 〈◊〉 wâ—ich Agur may allude in Proverbs 30. 9. to be added 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Syriack of the Fourth Petition in our Lords 〈◊〉 But for Wilful sinners No â—acrifice But onely that Fâ—ery Sacrifice or Burnt-Offering to which also that may allude of saved as by fire or by a fiery tryal which might very justly as acknowledged consume the Bringer also as the fiery Furnace did All those that cast in the three Children as some call them who were yet delivered from That fiery Furnace by One in the Kings eyes also as Caiephas Prophecying like the Son of God The Ram caught in the Thicket which was offered up for Isaac Yea and for Ishmael also it seems by that gracious speech of God in Esay 62 They shall come up with Acceptance on my Holy Altar And they flock as Doves to the Windows Which were yet Goats of Seir and Rams of Ishmaels Kedar and Nehaioth as we saw before Nay the Case might be so secret or so desperate that they durst not bring any Offering at all And David rightly observed that God required No Burnt-Offering and yet though he had despised the Law as is charged yet he found a way to be Accepted So might others also that they might Hear and learn to do No more Presumptuously As God graciously speaketh Hinting that Israel also could do Once or Sometimes Presumptuously Yea when their Burnt-Offerings also might not be Accepted as they tell of some that wilfully brake the sabbath Day or did Apostatize from their Religion in which cases they speak as if the Priest might not accept their Burnt-Offerings Yet when things were most forlorne and desperate There was a Sacrifice by God as some interpret That Chate for Kain a Sin-Offering brought and laid at his very door For besides That wch we cited but now for every one that erreth or is simple They had All a share in the Daily Sacrifice or Tamid with the Meat and Drink-Offerings thereof which were as Peace-Offerings also And there were Publique Peace-Offerings for the whole Congregation to be yearly offered And in Publique Charge They All had part in Lambs and Wood and Salt and Wine and Oyl or other things yearly bought by the Holy Tribute-Money Paid by every One both Rich and Poor for the Redemption of his
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
we saw before We may add Noah born 666 after Mahaleel and 666 before Eber the Father of the Hebrews and of Time or Ever as we saw before 666 Years from the Flood bring us to the Night of Israel in Aegypt after Josephs Death And as many from the Promise to Gideons famous Victory over Midian Oreb and Zeeb Zeba and Salmunna so often spoken of in Scripture 444 Years from Aegypt bring up David from Abrams Hebron to Jerusalem or Jebus Trodden down by the Jebusites His 7 Years and 6 Months at Hebron may help us to measure Other Times also besides Solomons 7 years and 6 Months in building the Temple 521 bring up Sesack from Aegypts Pyramids in Learned Greaves the 5th of Rehoboam 666 bring up Joash sacking Jerusalem in the 14th of Amaziah 666 more may be just the time of Antiochus And then His Days in Daniel may be just 1290 Years from their settling in Canaan Jos. 14. 10. and 1335 from Aegypt Dying at the end of 3 years more than 1332 or Twice 666. And as Antiochus Days may also be a Type of Antichrists Years so may Macchabeus be a Type of Christ or Michael And Michab in His Banner may allude to Michael in Daniel or Mi el camocha in Micha as well as to Mi camocha baelim in Moses song 777 To the Sack of Samaria And from Assyrias first coming on Israel to Pompeys Sack of Jerusalem may be 666 Years As from its great siege by Senacherib in the 14th of Hezekiah or his Great sickness to the Temple Sacked by Crassus slain at Abrams Charan 666. As from Hezekiahs Death to the Parthian Sack or Jerusalem taken by Herod which is also the very year or next to the Head of the great Aera so common in the Councels and other accounts of Spain Conquered by the Romans or Taxed by Augustus or Receiving the Julian Year but 8 Year old from Julius Caesar to That in Augustus Rome was Born with Hezekiah very near his Birth about Cxi years the measuring Line before Josiah 222 before the Jewes return from Babylon as many reckon 333 before the 70 Weeks if they End in the Roman Sack 444 Before the first Nicanor and his Greek Aera in the Maccabes Olympic 470. 555 to their seizing Asia from Antiochus the Great 666 to Tigranes who was conquered by Pompey sacking Jerusalem 777 to Pontius Pilate who crucified our blessed Saviour about 1536 years from Aegypt as the Pentecost began from 1536 Hours of the Year And if we multiply 70 the Jewes great Number for their Elders and years of Captivity and the whole Area of the Temple Porch and House and Oracle by any 22 we found before in their Alphabet or number of High Priests before the Captivity or the Cubits of the Priests and Peoples Court before the Alâ—ar or between it and the Temple or its Floors Height above the Gate of Shushan or any other 22 the sum will be 1540 But 4 more than 1536 the first Minute of the day of Pentecost As the great Pentecost in Acts 2d was from Aegypt 1536 years And adding so many as may make our Saviours Birth just 70 or his Baptism 40 before the Last Sack of Jerusalem we come just to 666 from the Chaldean Sack and so near to 1666 from Aegypt or 1670 that This last great Roman Sack after our Saviour may be just the Centre or Middle Point of Time between Aegypt and the End of Babilon with All the Times thereof in the Prophets or Rev. For as between the two Great Sacks there are just 666 years as Hours between the Changes of their Moon or visible state So afterwards there were but twice 666 or Two Months more between the Month begun at that great change or Roman Sack after the Pentecost Acts 2d And the Month of Tabernacles Till which from Pentecost there were no more Feasts at all but Fasts as 3Wo Months in the Jewish Calendar as an Emblem of that Long time in Hoseâ— now fulfilled while they must be without the good of a King or Prince or Sacrifice or Ephod as the bad of an Image or Teraphim From That Month so begun Two Moeds more of 666 or 1332 come to the 7th Month Beginning with the solemn feast of Trumpets or the 7th Trumpet of the 7th Month Which we may Reckon Thus 240 Hours or Years make up the 10th Day of Atonement as before or Great Affliction of the Witnesses or Congregation and Tabernacle of Witness as the Jewes called it Then mourning in Sackcloth and Ashes as Apoc. 11. 3. And they lie dead as we saw before for 3 days and and an half or 84 Hours which end in Hour 324 the Morning Sacrifice of the 14th Day whose Evening Minha beginneth in Hour 333 which added to 1332 the other two Moeds or Twice 666 comes just to 1666 the Evening before the Feast of Tabernacles when also The Tabernacle of God shall be with men If we have reckoned Right Which may yet be more cleared by our Tables and Characters if God so please