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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43282	Seder olam, or, The order, series or succession of all the ages, periods, and times of the whole world is theologically, philosophically and chronologically explicated and stated also the hypothesis of the pre-existency and revolution of humane souls together with the thousand years reign of Christ on earth ... : to which is also annexed some explanatory questions of the book of the Revelations ... : and an appendix containing some translated out of Latin by J. Clark, M.D., upon the leave of F.M., Baron of Helmont.; Seder olam. English	Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.; Clark, J., M.D.	1694 (1694)	Wing H1394; ESTC R235336	106,660	246

time of Christ's Incarnation and many more be●ween the Murther of Abel and that time therefore those very Iews had divers times lived in the World before that time yea Cain who killed Abel lived at that time Now That the Fathers of those Iews did kill the Prophets is true for all the Prophets which were killed were either killed by the Fathers of those Iews but in the space of four Generations or by those very Iews themselves 24. Fourthly 'T is proved in that Christ affirms that those very Iews to whom he spoke whilst in the Flesh had killed the Prophets O! Ierusalem Ierusalem said he that killest the Prophets and stonest them that were sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thee but thou would'st not 25. Fifthly it is proved in that St. Paul 1 Thess. 2.15 affirms that the same Iews killed Christ and the Prophets 26. Sixthly In that Christ in his Parable af●irms those Husband-men to have ill treat●d the Servants of the Lord and at last killed the Son himself 27. Seventhly from Christ's Parable of La●ourers hired and sent into the Field some in the Morning others at the third Hour others at the sixth Hour others at the ninth Hour others were called at the eleventh Hour but they who were called at the eleventh Ho●r stood all the Hours of the day idle in the Marke● By those Labourers who were called in the eleventh Hour the Gentiles are to be understood who were called into the Church of Christ by the Minstery of the Apostles after Christ's Resurrection By those who were called in the Morning and at other Hours of the day the Iews are understood the Morning is the beginning of the Wo●ld ●nd therefore certain Iews who lived in the Apostles days liv'd from the beginning of the World and laboured twelve Hou●s in the Field some laboured nine others six three c. And when the Evening came th●y all received a Peny the Gentiles were made equal with the Iews the Iews mu●mur●d but without reason for the Gen●i●es ●h●t believed in Christ and laboured in the Field had done as much and some of them more in the last hour than the Iews had done in the whole day for they had done but little before Christ's Incarnation and Passion and many of them did not labour without grudging therefore Christ said of them Many are call●d but few are chos●n 28. ●ighthly 'T is proved from the Words of P●ter 1. Epist. Chap. 3. v. 18.19 For the same Souls or the same Men who lived before and perished in the Flood liv'd also in Bodies of Flesh upon the Earth when Ch●ist ●u●fer'd Death in the Flesh who being mortified in the Flesh was quicken'd in the Spirit and poured out upon Men a more abundant Life of Grace after he arose from the Dead and then indeed by the ministery of his Life and Grace he preached to those Souls who from the beginning of the World were detain'd in Prison and in Chains of Darkness under the Power of Satan which Souls notwithstanding wer● restor'd to Life in a Body of Flesh to hear the Gospel Pr●ached For the Gospel is not preach'd to Souls that live out of the Flesh but to such as live on Earth in Bodies of Flesh Iohn 1.9 Iohn 3.11.17.59 Luke 2.14 29. 9 ly 'T is proved from the Words of Peter where he affirms in his 1 Epistle Chap. 4. vers 6. that the Gospel was preached to the Dead That they might be judged as Men in the Flesh and therefore they who in time past were dead lived again in the Flesh that they might live to God in the Spirit 30. 10 ly 'T is prov'd in that Christ preached that the Hour should come and was already come in which the Dead should hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live Whereby the Dead he means not only the Spiritually Dead but such as are naturally Dead also who were to live again in the days of Christ that they might hear the Gospel and in hearing might believe and in believing might have eternal Life 31. Proof 11. St. Paul in his Epistle to Romans ● 25 affirms that Redemption is made in Christ Jesus to the remission of Sins past in the patience and long suffering of God Now the aforement●oned Sins are all the Sins committed by all Men from the beginning of the World 32. Proof 12. Christ is said to have reconciled us to God by his Death even when we were enemies to him and to have born our Sins in his Body on the Cross which he could not have done if we had not lived some time before the Death of Christ. 33. Prof 13. Christ dyed for all Men as well for those that had been dead from the beginning of the World as for those who were then alive and therefore the Efficacy of his Sacrifice extends unto all that have ever lived from the beginning of the World that they might repent and obtain forgiveness of their Sins If they would but believe in Christ and obey his Commandments for the time to come And how absurd is that opinion that Christ should suffer Death for all that dyed since the beginning of the World and yet that the greatest part of them should be wholly ignorant of so great Grace and Favour neither should ever taste of the Fruits of the said Grace after the Death of Christ 34. Proof 14. Christ hath affirmed that all Sins should be forgiven exc●pt the Sin against the Holy Ghost but there were no Sins committed against the Holy Ghost before the Death of Christ. 35. Proof 15. Paul said God winked at Men in the times of ignorance but then he called all to Repentance Therefore he called those also to repent whom he hath formerly winked at ever since the beginning of the World 36. Because otherwise the Patience and long Suffering of God cou'd not be explained for God forbore with much long Suffering the vessels of Wrath c. And the great long Suffering of God allowed much time for Repentance because in the sight of the Lord a thousand years are but as one day 37. Proof 17. Peter in his second Epistle Chap. 3 said God did not come on purpose to execute his tremenduous judgments in the conflagration of the World because he is long suffering and wills all to come to Repentance and therefore the long Suffering of God bears with Men almost two thousand years after the death of Christ before the beginning of the Millenium an● three thousand years before the last Judgment and Conflagration of the Wo●ld which three thousand years are with the Lord but as three days Now to what purpose did God grant Men so long a time But that such as had not lived a thou●and years from the beginning of the World might have the same time to live in a Body of Flesh before the end of the World that they might at last repent and in case they did not repent should be justly punished

those who were afore ordain'd to Condemnation have wilfully committed Sin in their former Life when they liv'd heretofore in former Ages wherefore the most just God hath sentenced them to such a Condemnation 54. Proof 34. For the Apostle Peter 2. Epist Chap. 2. v 3● writeth of certain false Teachers among the Christians whose Judgment then of a long time lingred not what then can be hereby intended but that they committed such Crimes●●●r a long time pas● or in ●o●mer Ages whilst they lived for which God condemned them to that punishment Besides also he does not darkly hint that the same ●alse Teachers among the Christians were he●etofore false Prophets among the People● see Verse 1. which Judgments of God against them i● they had believed in Christ would nevertheless have been cancell'd and blotted ou● for Christ dyed for them also and redeem'd them with his Blood that they might believe and be saved● and because they did not believe in Christ under the former Sentence brought against them therefore it is confirmed de novo or a new 55. Proof 35. God speaking to Abraham of the Amorites said their Iniquity was not as yet to be fulfilled till after 400 Years but because those Amorites were not to live so many years in the Flesh no not one half of those years it evidently ●ollows that they were to be raised up again to Life in a Body of Flesh before the 400 years were compleated that they might ●ul●ill their Iniquity and this wonderfully agrees with the number of 33● years within which compass for that Man's Life is so abbreviated the same Souls shall be newly raised up to L●●e as the following Table dem●nstrates to which 3●3 ●ears if 67 be added they make up the number of 400 or if 97 be added it makes us 430 which number of 67 or 97 was to be allotted to that People that in the succeeding Life they might 〈…〉 their Iniqui●y Moreover the same Amorites cou'd have liv'd twice before this since the Flood and therefore the third time of Life seem'd to have been necessary according to the order of Divine Justice before that they cou'd have fulfilled their Iniquity for which they should deserv● to be erradicated out of the Earth 56. 'T is prov'd 36. Because Salvation and ete●nal Life is the Fruit of good Works which Men sow in the Earth or in an ea●thly Body and therefore those that dye in infancy especially if they have not lived before in a Body of Flesh to ripeness of years must be raised up to Life again that they may grow to maturity and have opport●●ity to sow the Seeds of good Works in the Life of a carnal Body that they may at last rejoyce in the Fruits of their Labour for except our Happiness were the Fruits of our own Work and Labour it were not real and true Happiness nor shou'd we have true Joy therein for it would be like the Son of a strange Mother whom no Mother loves as she doth her own Son 57. 'T is proved 37. Because otherwise the Doctrine of God's Universal Grace and Love cou'd not be establish'd or defended for certainly we find not a few who from their Infancy are so harden'd and buried in Sin that all the time of this present Life they seem wholly uncapable of Repentance 58. 'T is proved 38. Because the Apostle Rom. 1● writeth that many of the Iews were blinded according to the Prophesies of Scripture for many Ages that they cou'd not believe till the fulness of the Gentiles were gather`d unto Chri●t and then they who were formerly blinded were to be again illuminated when they should return again into the World 59. 'T is proved 39. Because in Christ's Parable of the Figg-Tree that bore no Fruit for three Years this very thing is clearly hinted Luke 13.6 7 8 9. For what is to be understood by those three yea●s but three thousand years for every Millenium is mystically signified by one year under the Law and therefore the Seventh Millenium of the World which is the Sabbath was signified by the seventh year and by the Figg-tree that bore no Fruit for those three thousand years many of the Iews are to be unders●ood who had lived d●vers ti●es on Earth from the beginning 〈◊〉 the World and yet bore no Fruit but in the fourth Millenium the Husband-man inte●cedes for the barren Figg-Tree and applies Dung to the Roots thereof that is dieth for the Sins of the Iews and applies the abundant Grace of his holy Spirit to them that they might bring forth good Fruit And therefore the Patience and Long-suffering of God suffers all Men 4 Years that is 4000 Years whereof they live 1000 Years by parts in an Earthly Body that they might at length repent 60. 'T is proved 40. Because Iohn the Baptist provokes the Iews to Repentance by this Argument And now is the Ax laid to the Root of the Trees Matth. 3.10 Therefore every Tree that brings not forth good Fruit shall be hewen down and cast into the Fire Now why did he say and now the Ax is laid to the Root of the Trees Certainly because that time of Life was the last Revolution and the last Hour with a great many of the Iews signifying by these Words if the Iews did not then repent whilst they lived in a Body of Flesh that there was no Hope for them to be raised up to Life in the days of the Messias and to be call'd to Repentance for that was the last time wi●●● great many that they should have and none could know whether he should have any ot●er time to live in the da●s of the M●ssi●h and therefore he truly s●id the 〈◊〉 is laid to the Root of the Tr●es to wit of a g●eat man● But such whose twelve Hours of Revolutions were not yet elapsed might indeed in regard they were to live again in the Flesh a●ter six or seven Generations as from a Root le●● in the Earth not as yet cut off sprout and put ●orth as it were new Branches in the Ear●h 61. This is proved 41. In that the rich Man who was tormented in Hell knew that he should at length depart out of the place and ●e born again into the World which is plainly hinted in the●e words● for he had five Brethren whom he would not have come into that place and there●ore he desired some Body to be sent from the D●ad to call them to Repentance To what ●urpos● then should he take so great care of his Brethren Did he not look at his own Interest therein Yes doubtless for he k●ew that he himself after six or seven G●n●rations should be born of one of the Sons of thos● his Brethren whom therefore he desir●d to be good that he himself might then have an opportunity to become so after he was born of good Parents into the World 62. 'T is prov'd 42. Because after Christ's Resurrection from the Dead and Ascension into Heaven all

that were detain'd under the Chains of Satan from the beginning of the World were to be res●ored again from Death unto Li●e that they might hear the Gospel and have that benefit offered to them which Christ purchased for them as is manifest f●om Psal. 68.18 19 20 21 22 23 24. and Isaiah Chap. 26.19 63. 'T is proved 43. Because those 144000 who were sealed even before the Trumpets sounded were raised up in the Interval of the sixth Trumpet that they might become the first Fruits to God and the Lamb which thing begins already to be fulfilled and will be compleatly fulfilled in the year 1●●2 64. 'T is prov'd 44. because those 144000 altho they are accounted Gentiles yet they are really Iews and Israelites to wit 120●0 from each Tribe of the Children of I●rael I●ws I say truly and properly and not only mystically that is have the Souls of true Iews who were in time past Iews and s●rang of I●●●s● Parents 65● ' ●is prov'd 45. Because God promised t● Si●n that is to the I●●●sh Church that her Sons should be brought to her in the Gentiles Arms and upon their shoulders which plainly intimates that they should be born of gentile Parents See Isaiah 49● 21 22. Rom. 11.30 31 32. Rom. 9.23 24 25.26 66. 'T is prov'd 46. Because from the beginning of the World a People was prepared ●or Christ both among the Iews and G●ntiles Luk. 1.17 Ioh. 4.38 67. 'T is prov'd 47. From Rom. 11.30 where the Apostle Paul speaks of the Gentiles that believ'd on Christ who in times past did not believe in God and now they obtain Mercy by times past we are to understand former Ages when they liv'd heretofore in the World without either the true knowledge of God or hope in God Compare herewith those sayings of Ephes. 2.2 3 11 12 13. Gal. 3.4 68. 'T is Proved 48. From 2 Thess. 2.10.11 where Paul affirms of such whom Satan shou'd deceive in the days of Anti-Christ who were to be deliver'd up to strong delusions by the just Judgment of God that they might come into Condemnation because they did not receive the love of the Truth which clearly unveils the Reason wherefore God suffered so thick a mist and Cimmerian darkness to invade the World about 409 years after Christ's ●esurrection Also why he suffer`d that ●arkness so long to blind the Minds and ●earts of Men that Men were in a man●er more blinded for some Ages past in the ●eign of Antichrist than they were hereto●ore whilst they liv'd under Ethnicism be●ore the incarnation of Christ I say the ●eason of this is because they who were ●●us blinded under Antichrist when they ●●v'd under the clear Light of the Gospel ●id not love that Light nor believe on ●hrist that true Light enlightning every ●an that comes into the World and there●ore by God's most just Judgment are blinded and darkened when they return into ●his Life in a Body of Flesh with this ●ross and obscure darkness and therefore ●●e Light of the Gospel shone in the World ●ith so much lustre for so small a time to ●it the space of 333 years and not longer that the greatest part of Mankind might have a sufficient opportunity to embrace the said light but seeing they depised it it was not convenient that this ●ight shou'd shine any longer to them in ●ts lustr● for the coming of Christ in his day is 〈◊〉 the morning bri●htness which suddenly ha●tens 〈◊〉 ●he East to the West and ●h●●e●ore they who love not that light n●r ●mb●ace it are worthy to be left in da●kne●s●●or the negle●● of so great Grace● but they who have not had the clear light of the Gospel●Truth propos'd unto them in the aforesaid space of 333 Years from Christ's Death and Resurrection shall live again 75 Years before the beginning of the Millenium and shall have the truth of the Gospel clearly shining before the Eyes of their Minds that so all that perish may be left without excuse for there shall not be a Man on Earth to whom the clear light of the Gospel shall not shine before the end of the World and that too immediately as well as by Means of the preaching of the true Servants of God even such who are truly sent and commission'd by God and Christ● For the Gospel must be preach'd to every Creature before the end of the World 69. 'T is proved● 49. Because God punis●ed the iniquities of the Fathers upon the third and fourth Generation that the Children of the third and fourth Generation which underwent that punishment might be meliorated and reduc'd to a better State and Condition of Life that so at length from these so meliorated after the third and fourth Generation i. e. from their Children thus meliorated they may be again born into the World and become better as being born of better Parents for it is a singular Gift o● God to be born of good Parents 70. It is proved 50. Because for this Reason a Bastard was not admitted into the Congregation of the Lord until the tenth Generation so that when he shall be born the second time into the World in the 14 or 15 Generation the punishment which God inflicts on him and his Children shall reduce him to a better State and Condition and that defilement of Lust and Depravity shall be in some measure purged away But since by Christ every sinfull pollution is more effectually and perfectly purged away from those who believe on him therefore that severe Law concerning Bastards and a spurious issue together with all others of the like nature is repeal'd and abolish'd and hence also the Words of Paul may be understood where he speaks concerning Fornication that he that commits Fornication sins against his own Body infects and depraves his own Root and Original from whence he is to spring again and be raised unto Life with the odious stain of his own filthy Lust. 71. Lastly 't is proved because when certain of the Jews thought Christ was Elias or Ieremias or one of the Prophets which pesuppos'd the Truth of such a Doctrine in general Christ did not generally condemn the same but rather confirmed it saying that Iohn was Elias Moreover also he did the same in his Answer to his Disciples concerning him that was born Blind and so also when he conversed with Nicodemus concerning Regeneration or being born again tho' he chiefly intended Spiritual Regeneration There are other Arguments not a few which might be brought to confirm the Truth of this Doctrine which for brevity are omitted● 72. Moreover this Doctrine of the return of Souls to live again and be born in a Body of Flesh very easily answers to many of the most weighty objections to the ●●opping of the Mouths of Atheists who dispute against the justice of God concerning the state of Infants dying in their Infancy and the state of Fools and such as are possess`d with unclean Spirits from their Infancy to the last