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
he had Blessed him He appeared to Abraham by the Name Elshaddai God Almighty and Abrahams believing but This Power was imputed for Righteousnesse But afterwards by the Name Jehovah which speaketh his Will also And I will be what I will be or what I can be As the Words are and not as some read them I am what I am which the lowest Creature may be said to be And at the Close of the Baptists Testimony of Christ in the third of John This is made the very Ground work of our Faith and Hope in Christ and coming to him because the Father hath loved him and given All things into his hand And so doth himself also make it several times in That very Gospel For the Father Loveth the Son and sheweth him all he doth and will shew him greater things then these that you may Marvel For as the Father quickens the dead even so the Son quickeneth whom he will For the Father judgeth no man but hath commited all judgement to the Son that all men should Honour the Son even as they Honour the Father For as the Father hath Life in himself so hath he given the Son also to have Life in himself and hath given him Authority to execute Judgement also because he is the Son of Man And again the Hour is come that the Son of Man should be Glorisied But as a Corn of Wheat he must first die that so he may be made a quickening Spirit and then he shall bring forth much Fruit for he will not die as a Fool dyeth But will improve his death to the utmost and do as much good as he Can and will Work while he may VVork Least the Night come and then he cannot VVork He will therefore do what is in his Hand and Power to do and will do it with all his Might Remembering him that said withhold not thy hand while it is in thy Power to Work Say not to thy Neighbour goe and come again to Morrow When it is now in thy Power to do him Good And now shall the Prince of this World be cast out And I if I be lifted up from the earth will draw All men unto me and Him that cometh to me will I in no wise I will not I will not cast him off or cast him out But walk while you have the Light least Darknesse come upon you These things he spake and did Hide himself from them But he came and Cryed again He that seeth me seeth him that sent me I am come a Light unto the World and he lighteth every one that cometh into the World that whosoever believeth should not abide in Darknesse If any Man hear my Words and believe not I judge him not for I came not to judge the World but to Save the World and these things I say that you might be Saved And again Jesus knowing that the Father had given All things into his hands and that he was come from God and went to God he riseth from Supper and took a Towel and girded himself and washed his Disciples feet O see his Heart when he hath Power for all this is because the Father had given All things into His Hands And when Judas was gone out immediately after the Sop though St Luke seem to make him present at the Sacrament and one of the twelve of whom or to whom he spake of twelve Thrones and Judging the twelve Tribes of Israel he saith Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him and if God be glorified in him God shall also glorifie him in himself and shall straightway glorifie him And shall not All bow to him and to the Glory of God also And if God be glorified in them God will glorifie them with himself or where is the stress of our Saviors Argument And again It is expedient that I go for else the Comforter will not come and when he comes he shall convince the World of sin For so God loved the World that he sent his Son not to condemn the world or Judg it but to save the world by That which he will give for the Life of the World And again which he shall give unto you for Him hath God the Father sealed And again I have many things to say unto you but you cannot bear them now Howbeit when the Spirit of Truth is come he will guide you into all Truth for he shall glorifie me and shall receive of mine and shew it unto you All things that the Father hath are mine therefore I said that he shall take of mine and shew It unto you And again Father Glorifie thy Son that thy Son also may glorifie Thee a Good Comment on the Lords Prayer for who can first give to God that it may be given or can lend that it may be paid again As thou hast given him Power over All flesh that he should not onely may but should give Eternal Life to as many as thou hast given him And if That be not yet plain enough before in That very chapter he repeats it again saying I pray for them I pray not for the world but for them which thou hast given me For they are Thine And all Mine are Thine and Thine are Mine and I am glorified in them And his saying here I pray not for the world stands as much alone without a Fellow or any like it as most words in all the Bible And how can we build any great matter of Faith upon That which hath not two or three Witnesses to confirm it Yet if it were said I Will not pray for the world Is it more or more obliging or concluding than That in Hosea Call her Lo-ruhamah I will no more have mercy upon the House of Israel and I will not have mercy on her children and I will not be their God And yet he did turn again and had pity on them because he delighted in Mercy and where it was said You are not my People There it shall be said You are the Sons of the Living God So also Thy Name shall be no more called Jaacob but Israel And yet God himself often called him Jaacob after This. So also I will have Mercy and not Sacrifice And I did not command your Fathers or speak to them concerning Sacrifice And in the same Prophet They shall teach no more saying Know the Lord. And You murmur not against us but God And they have not rejected Thee but Me. As in the Gospel I came not to Judg the world nor will I Judg you And again I do not or I will not call you Servants And You shall ask me Nothing And when thou makest a Feast Thou shalt not invite thy Friends In all which and divers other places sure we do not believe any absolute Negative but Comparative Or at least not so definitive but such as may be reversed And why should that saying I will not Pray for the world if he had said so oblige Christ
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-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
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
may continue all night yet Joy shall come in the morning and we shall be glad and rejoyce all day Make us glad according to the daies wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil and although I might not see thy Face when I prayed to see thy Glory yet let Thy Work at length appear unto thy Servants and Thy Glory also to our Children when we are dead And let the Beauty also of the Lord our God be on us All and establish Thou the Work of our hands to us yea the Work of our hands do Thou establish it And will he not Then also establish the work of his own hands Which is so often brought as a Reason why the Earth must stand and abide for ever Seeing All the Works of God are perfect and must abide for ever Yea and he hath set the World also or Eternity as the word is often rendered in the Heart of every man And though it may be for a while the Glory of God to hide some things Yet it is not only Lawful but our glory and the Glory of the greatest largest Kingly heart like Solomon to searth it out and to search him out For in God there is No Mole or shadow of Deformity Nor will he envy that All Flesh should see his glorious face together Nay our Saviour promiseth that Nothing Shall be Hid no not in God himself I hope but shall be revealed And every New Revelation of God to All Eternity will be to Jesus Christ as That we now read but to shew it to his Children and his Servants Which have also received a spirit not only to know and discern the things of God as the spirit of man doth the things of a man and to know the things that are freely given us of God but also to search out the Depths or Baths of God Who still speaketh perhaps to them All as to the Prophet Jeremy Ask of me and I will yet shew thee great and wonderful things which thou knowest not For such a God we have so Infinite that still he is a Fountain flowing up still flowing over and a little drop of that infinite Ocean can stretch out our narrow souls still wider and yet wider to receive more and yet more and still more to Eternity till we are wider than the very Heavens For our Saviour and our Head is gone up Over All Heavens still spinning out the spring of his Watch which was wound up Here on Earth while He was straitned and made perfect by suffering that he may now-fill All things and bring us All up to his own Ballance of Eternal Glory Even to the fulness of that stature which each Member is to have in His Great Body Which is the Fulness of Him which filleth All in All. This also of Turning Cursed things or places into Blessed might be yet more cleered from Jericho which was the first Fruits of all the I and of Chanaan And as all first Fruits it was so sacred that all were cursed that but touched it And yet the Vallie of Achan or Achor that is the Troubler afterwards is made a Door of Hope in the great day of Iezreel the Seed of God Yet so accursed it was by prophesie that He that should but attempt to build it again was solemnly Cursed by Iosuah the great Type of Jesus Yet in the Reign of Achab the Brother and the Father as the Name implies the guilty Man of the Kings of Israel there riseth up one Hiell the Living God and ventures to rebuild this Cursed City Yet we read of nothing els of harm to him but onely that he laid its groundwork in his Eldest Son and finished it in his Youngest which we may consider again But notwithstanding all the Curss This Jericho in a very few years grew up to be a Blessed School of Prophets as we may gather from the History of Elijahs taking up into Heaven And to make the Cure yet perfecter the Citizens bemoan themselves before Elisha that the situation of their City was indeed pleasant but the Water Naught and the ground so that it caused to miscarry as some read the place And he said bring me a New Cruse and put salt therein and he went forth to the spring or very Fountain of the cursed Waters and cast in the salt and said Thus saith the Lord I have Healed these Waters there shall be Thence No more Death or Curss or Barrennesse So the Waters were Heald unto this day That Elisha the Prophet was in This also a great Type of Jesus Christ Healing the Earth and taking off the Curss thereof as he bore away the sins of the World I do believe the rather because I find Our Saviour thereabout so often with his Healing Wings also to so many That I say nothing of his famous Parable of the good Samaritan Journying towards Jericho Nor shall I now spend time to shew how all this is also shadowed out in the very Heavens by the frequent Changings of the Moon although the Name of Jericho might lead us to That also Or that as Jericho was the First fruits to the whole Land of Israel So was Israel also to the World As we might prove by many Scriptures besides That of Jeremy the 2. Where it is called the First Fruits unto God of All his Increase and All that eat it or in some other places all that touch it to destroy it are Offenders and be guilty So also is our Saviour himself called the First Fruits of the Resurrection Though but as the Barley Sheaf or Barley Cake of Gideon that was Heaved up before the Lord on the Third day after the Passover was slain as an Emblem of the Resurrection on the third day after his death And This is often called in Scripture as in Genesis Revelation and St. Johns Epistle and Gospel the Beginning of the Creation and the VVorks of God So here the Beginning of the First Fruits Which came after on the day of Pentecost when also we received the First Fruits of the Spirit in the 2 of Acts and those first Fruits were Loaves of fine Flowr and moulded together as a Type of the Elect as the very name of First Fruits in Hebrew may intimate or of Christ in All his Members together as before it was Christ in his own person who was the First First Fruits or Beginning os the First Fruits of the Resurrection and of all that slept And the same Apostle tells us also that if the Root be Holy the Branches are Holy and if the First fruits be Holy so is the whole Lump Which should be considered much with all those places that speak our Saviour and the whole Election of God to be as Israel to the whole World besides but as the First born with the double portion or the first fruits of the Earth as we may read in the Revelation and divers other places As the Barly Sheaf first and Then the
men who must be Honoured and Loved also as the Image of God our Father And the Greater Honour must be Given to the Weaker Vessel even as God also hath given it to That which might seem the most uncomely Which is an Argument that may be well pressed on Christ not only to bear with them that are weak but to give them the more Honour as the Weaker Vessel And those commands yea and Prayers also that we love and honour all men speak more of the unspeakable love of Christ who is the Root of this Spirit in All then can be Here exptessed by many Words The sixth Command Thou shalt not kill or thou shalt do All thou mayest to preserve thy own Life and thy Neighbours lyeth also on our blessed Saviour as the Text commented by many Scriptures Being by his Death to bring in Life and Immortality and to destroy Him who had the Power of Death the Devil and to redeem them who through fear of Death were all their life time subject unto Bondage Even as that pretious Psalm foretells He shall save the Children of the Needy and shall break in pieces the Oppressor He shall spare the Poor and Needy and shall save the souls of the Needy He shall Redeem their soul frrm Deceit and Violence from force and fraud and pretious shall their Blood be in his sight He shall Live and shall be tender of his Neighbours Life and how much more of his Neighbours Soul which himself hath said is so exceeding pretious and unvaluable From whence come Wars and Contentions Come they not from our lusts within us but the Wisdom from on high and sure then more as it is on high is Pure and then peaceful for without Peace and Holiness No man shall ever see God Gentle and easie to be entreated For the man of God must be gentle towards All men even those that oppose themselves being in the snares of Sathan and led Captive at his will A very sweet place when it is applyed to Christ also who is the great and good and best Man of God and therefore must be gentle unto All. No striker no quareler but gentle unto All. The man of God must not strive or fight Which also puts me in mind of That prophecyed of him He shall not strive nor Cry or braul in the streets the bruised reed he shall not break nor quench the smoaking flax till he bring out Judgement to victory over all Lusts and Pride Passions and Contentions Seeing This is the great Rule given us in the Psalms and new Testament also that he that loves Life and would see long dayes as Christ ever shall must refrain from strife and guile must follow peace and persue it and who will harm you in so doing when Himself also said next to the Pure in Heart Blessed are the Peacemakers which is much to be applyed in our Prayers unto him for They shall be called the Children of God as if himself also came to enjoy That Glorious Title of the Son of God by being so Peaceful and the Great Peace-maker To which also I may add Davids Blessing of Abigael and her Councel saying that when himself should rest from all his Enemies and Troubles it should be no Grief of Heart to him or offence that he had spared his Enemies also and had not shed their blood All This or much more lyeth in the sixth Command and from Thence is branched out in divers Laws in Exodus and other books of Scripture which all lie upon Christ made under the Law as much or more then any man to Man also as well as unto God his Father And we lose very much of the sweetnesse of the Gospel by not pressing the Law Yea the whole Law upon Christ that he may still keep it to us also as to God his Father seing it is vain to talk of Loving God if he do not also Love his poor Neighbour And who his Neighbour is we may see by divers places of the Law and Gospel compared especially in those which are branches of these great commands for loving our Neighbour as our self He that smiteth a man that he dye shall be surely put to death As of old to Noah the great Father of us all and so the very Law of Nations or Nature He that sheddeth Mans blood by Man his blood shall be shed for in the Image of God he created Man And that Image is still so continued and preserved by Christ who is the Head of every Man that the same Apostle calleth Man not onely the Image but glory of God If a man smite his servant or his maid with a rod that he dye under his hand he shall be surely avenged Which should keep a man in aw even to All under him For the Man of God must be gentle towards all c. If an Ox and by Consequence any other Beast or offensive Creature be wont to push with his Horn and it be told his Owner and He do not keep him in the Beast killing a man or woman shall be stoned and his Owner also shall be Put to death Which may be sweetly applyed to Christ who is the great Owner and Master of Sathan and all other pushing Horns of which if we complain as wont to Push and goar us or our Children is he not bound to keep him in and set us at rest from Him that pusheth at us Which may be hinted also in the Psalms where we find some complaining of pushing Horns as in the Prophets also and of the tearing Lion and Bear and the power of the Dog or other Beasts of Prey which the great Owner and Master must keep in upon Complaint that they were wont to push yesterday and the day before If a man dig a pit or do but Open a Pit digged by some other and do not cover it again so that an Ox or Ass fall into it he shall surely make it good How much sorer punishment if a man or his Child fall into it and perish which we may haply come One day to presse upon Christ also least he suffer us to fall into a Pit of his own digging or opening or any other Ye shall not afflict any Widow or fatherlesse Children for if thou afflict them in any Wise and they cry at all or do but begin to cry to me I will hear and surely hear their cry and my wrath shall be hot and I will kill you with the sword and your wives shall be widows and your Children Fatherlesse The word used in Heb for an Orphan is Jathom He shall be made perfect as well as He is wanting And the whole History of Jotham the Orphan of Gideon should be often read in These and all Times and the rather because That of Arma Gedeon in the Revelation may perhaps lead us to Gedeon As that of Sechem to Dina or Judgement as we touched before If thouâ—end mony to any of my people who are They the Poor that
VVisdom it might ocasion us to think how neer Sophia or Sophos which was the great word with them that called it and their wise man a Die for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned backwards also is still the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comes to that very number of 666. Which we find also in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as his Name may be written who was so notorious in the VVest with Mahomet in the East about the year 666. And although I cannot deny but Ireneus scholar to St. John or his scholar found That number in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as others also in Romijith and divers other VVords or Names yet Some interpret That Phrase of the Number of a man as if it were a mans reckoning or to be counted onely by Him who of all the Creatures can onely so Number Numbers As if man an Hebrew word also came from Mana to Number And Manath or month is reckoning and 490. As if That Solemn Number of 7 Sevenights as we read in Daniels VVeeks were some way That which in Gods reckoning was The Number or the Manath or Month and it may be some way in every month also And in Hebrew manim or minae Pounds or mans or if you will men are 700 as mani number 100. And when Jacob complained that Laban had changed his wages so many times it is manim in Hebrew as the English also use many and for many also they use some which is Hebrew also as we found before in sum a sum or end of number and in numerals 666. as in Latine also Sexcenti for Many Shall I add also that as money or Monie is plainly an Hebrew word for Numbring as with English so also Zemanins which is Times or seasons as the word soundeth for every thing as Solomon speaketh is but 7 added to 700. That is monim or numbring or reckoning by seven as if all seasons were made up of the number Seven And as the Hebrew Sum is a kin to the Latine Sum and Turned backward is their Mus as Sumus also turned backward is still Sumus as if all our being and our summing also were but mus a mouse and all our musing also which is English and many other languages so also both sums are very neer to the Greek soma by which they expresse our body And it may be some will so render That phrase in the Revelation For it is the Number of a man as if it were not onely of mans numbring or of mans reaching or bearing or using as in Scripture often the Rods of a man and the Cords of a man and the pen of a man and the words of a man and the way of a man and the son of man and Children of men and to speak or walk as a man and Temptations of a man or common unto men But also some special Thing in mans body just of that Number And what if it should be That which makes him a man and yet so much and so oft to degenerate into a Beast For as man in the Image of God he was above all beasts and made to Rule them all with all his lusts and beastly Passions as we shewed before from Gods own words and great consult at mans Creation But lust conceiving brought forth sin and sin complete or grown up to be of age brought forth Death as we read in St. James and in Peter also that fleshly lusts Fight against the spirit and that it is very dangerous for any that have once escaped the pollution of the world which came in by lust to return with the Dog to his vomit or the sow to wallowing in the mire in a word to degenerate into a beast or beastly nature VVhich is very much by lust and that which causeth lust in our Bodies and Minds VVhich indeed is a strange kinde of Beast rising out of the sea or our lower Region or VVaters under our Heart or Earth Where also we found the 7 fleshly heads or Planets answering also to the 7 above and in our Brains also the heavens above or the waters above the Heavens as we shewed before where we glaunced at the Serpent also or Hydra a strange beast with 7 heads and 10 horns VVhich are somewayes in the worlds both great and little also which they call the Microcosm and in all its Regions also and in All Generations Most of All perhaps in That or Those which may be called the very Principles of All or every Generation What in our Bodies answered to the Two Faithful Witnesses in Heaven was hinted before May I now add that as Shemesh the Sun in Hebrew where yet it is Feminine is neer akin to somwhat we may scarcely Name at least As the Rabbines often use that word So is Jerach which is Moon and Masculine akin to That which the Scripture makes so much the Instrument of Generation the Thigh or Jareck whence the English Jerk or Yerk to strike upon the Thigh As we read also in Scripture And if the Latine Thorus were but written in Hebrew or Syriack might it not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which would also be Taurus a Beast And either of those words is just 666. And How neer is Ferus as in Greek also Beastly or Fierce to that Name or Number also May I not add that Shimshon or Samson or Hercules in Greek stories signifies the Little Sun crossing the Crossing Serpent of the Zodiack and its 12 Signs as the Labors of Hercules where also the Hydra or the Dragon or Beast and Serpent with 7 Heads and that it may be 666 or 700 in its numeral Letters also Or How Samson Dallyed with Dallilah till he was overcome by Lust also that cut off his Hairs as the Rayes of the Sun and at length put out his Eyes or the Two Witnesses in one Region which have Two also in other places called Testes or Witnesses by Many Nations And they bring Fire also from our Heavens and do strange wonders in us All. But they must be Put out before That Great Change will come which is so generally expected at 666. Which He may understand perhaps that knows why Christ himself did no Miracles till at a Wedding also he could say Woman what have I to do with thee and Then she said to the servants Do whatever He bids you So that Christ himself Did no Miracle Till his Mother bid it also If one should ask a Jew what maketh Men to be Men He might answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their VVeapons or their Vessels what they mean by those expressions one may easily know that understandeth Pauls discourse to the Corinthians about Marriage and keeping their Vessels clean or Holy or separate As David also spake to Ahimelech in number 665 or 666. And so also is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Heb. Vessels Yea and the Reins also or very neer akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and That to Kalla or
the last Hour of the 14th Day it makes 1533 or 1535 the number of Wrath and Fury to be Passed over as Daniel 9. 16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aphek and Hamath words ominous enough to Israel beaten so often at Aphek and as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 5 times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 5 times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the Ark was taken and again when Saul was slain besides all else And though Solomon as a Type of Jesus conquered Wrath and Hamath as we saw before yet the King of Assyria gloried in it as His and conquered by Him Whence also he carried some to people Samaria though they brought the Wrath of God and Asima and Lions with them O Ariel And the King of Aegypt Chained a King of Judah in the Land of Hamath as the King of Babylon did binde and blinde Zedechiah in the Land of Hamath as we read in Jeromy And the Prophet Esay saith that God will set his Hand the 2d time to recover his people from Hamath also which in Zechary must be joyned to Damascus when it is Menucha made Meek and quiet as we saw before And though I may be out in Time as well as Place what if God shall shew us All these Hours to measure Years from Aegypt Onward Thus 480 to the Temple in Solomons 4th who Reigned 40. Thence Ezekiels 390 to the Temples End Thence 3 times 666 and an Half may bring us to the Great Tabernacles in the 7th Month or just to 1666 after the 2d Temple was destroyed And by This account there may be just 666 Years between the two great Changes of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and Romans as the two Changes of the Moon under Hamath the Heat and Raies or Rage of the Sun That is 70 and 66 and 490 and 40 from That Pentecost Act. 2. To the Roman Sack of Jerusalem just 70 Weeks after the 2d of Darius Nothus 106 or measuring 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Captivity as That Pentecost and Passion of our Saviour was 70 Weeks from Esraes Time in Artaxerxes 66 or what if 70 from the 2d of Darius Hystasp who restored the Temple in Haggaies Time ending its 70 Years and the Cities 70 as Cyrus first ended Ezekiels 70 at his taking of Babel which was the first and last as Lebab in our Body of Oppression and Confusion to the World or Church of God in most or All the Monarchies So to Nimrod Belus Belochus Nabonassar Nebuchadnezar Nabonidus Darius the Mede Cyrus the Persian Darius Hystasp by Zopyrus and Darius the last Pushed by the Goat at Granicum Thrown down at Issus and Trampled at Arbela near Charan as Daniel foretold of Alexander who got the Empire lost his Manners and his Life at Babylon As Seleucus after him the Root of the Seleucidae till the Romans also were poysoned by swallowing or gaping at Babylon which they could not swallow Being the Fatal bound of their Empire several times besides that shameful flur of Crassus at the foresaid Charan of Abraham and Laban as we saw before As a Parallel to Hamath which to Haran is as Rage to Wrath or as the Western Sun of the Afternoon to the Morning Sun of the East As Charan lies to Hamath and Both at Gods left Hand or North-ward And as Jonahs 40 Dayes might be 40 Years to Niniveh As Ezechiels 40 Daies to 40 Years of Judah so the 40 Dais of Christ on Earth to the 40 Years of Jerusalem after him as the 40 Years in the Wilderness to the 40 Daies of searching the Land Or to the first 40 Daies of Moses in the Mount As Christ 40 Years in Heaven after his 40 Daies and Then came down and brake the two Witnesses of the Law as Moses did the two Tables But as Types of two other to be Broken renued again as They were 480 Years from Aegypt to the Temple may answer both to 48 Hours in two Daies beginning also the 49th of 7 times 7 as the Jubilee and to the first 480 Hours of the Month and of the Year of 360 just the Time of Exodus so that it is much one to begin There or at the beginning of any Year and 480 Hours bring us to the 21 Day the last and Great Feast of Unleavened Bread And Solomons 14 Daies of Dedication may point at the Tamid of That 21st Day with its solemn Offerings in the of That Day 14th Hour The First 40 of the 480 bring us to Moses Death at the 4th Hour of the 2d Morning while he repeateth the Law and 2d Covenant in Deut. 29 and singeth his Swan-like song and Blessings Chap. 32 and 33. 41 Their Hour of Temptation Passing Jordan as the Red Sea at the Exodus and entring Canaan much as the Lamb was to be Tyed up on the 10th Day as we saw before in Jericho Yet 41 and 42 the Number of the 2d Days Noon Dines them with that Country Bread Six Hours or Years of War and Trouble bring them at length to quiet Rest in the Evening Minha of that Day ending in 48 and 49 as the Root of Sabattical Years and Jubilies the 10th part of 480. In That Night Josuah the Sun of That Day is taken from them He had stayed the Sun and was buried in Timnath Heres Image of the Sun as the Name speaketh And that Nights Darkness holdeth them 8 Hours more in 8 Years Bondage under the Blackmoor Cushan as akin to Cush of Ham the Father of Nimrod Lord of Babel as This of Mesopotamia where was Haran of Abraham Laban and Jacob their Ancestors So that Cushan seemed to call them back again into their first Bondage A Type of Assyria and Babylon that were to be their first and last Enemies For Rome never hurt them till infected with Babylon But I saw the Tents of Cushan in affliction and the Curtains of Midian Tremble As we read in Habacuk This Hour of Darkness as the other 5 of Moab Canaan Midian Ammon Philistines as the 6 Hours to the first Midnight or 6 Daies of the first Week before the Sabbath but as Parts of Their Daies who judged Israel and freed them from these 6 Hours of Darkness in 8 18 20 7 18 40 in all 100 and 11 the measuring Line or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we saw before for the 6th part of 666 the great Number of Darkness or Course of the Moon in absence distance or opposition to the Sun of Light And These 100 and 11 dark Hours being taken out of 444 from Aegypt to David in Abrahams Hebron leave 333 or half 666 which we may meet again Othniel with Achsa Both akin to Caleb is to shew both the Time and Wonders of God as the name may hint His 40 as Moses swallow up Cusans 8 Hours of Darkness and bring us about the first watch of the 5th Night And then Eglon the Calf of Moab an Heifer of three Years old Esay 15. 5. Jer. 48.
will not forsake his People for his great Names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his People Moreover as for me God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you but I will Teach you the good and the Right way Onely fear the Lord and serve him in Truth with all your Heart as Davids Dying words to Solomon and Christ also God is a Spirit and they that worship him must do it in Spirit as here with All the Heart and Truth also For Such the Father Seeketh to worship Him And such he will finde For consider How great things he hath done for you But if you will still do wickedly you shall be consumed both you and your King There is yet much more in That History of Nahash of Ammon of Lot the Veyl which must be separate from the face of all people As at first from Abraham as we saw before from Esay and divers places And now Here also he would not onely cover their Eyes but put them quite out or at least their Right Eyes and that also must be A Reproach for All Israel Though This was onely at Jabesh-Gilead the Reliques of that woful business at Gibeah which did not onely cut off Benjamin but Jabesh-Gilead also by 12000 chosen men of Israel as the first Fruits to God and the Lamb as we may see in Judges 21. Where also both Gilead and Mispeh lead us to the Watch and Stones of Witness we saw before in Jacob their Father and Laban when Rachel was going to her long home at Bethlehem Ephrata with this Benjamin the youngest of her sons for whom she wept so much and so long because They were not Joseph was not and Ephraim was not see 1 Chron. 7. 21. and now they Take Benjamin also All these things are against her And yet little Benjamin that had so ruined Jabesh-Gilead must now save it by Saul the first King of that Tribe coming up because of Nahash besieging Jabesh-Gilead And the men of Jabesh-Gilead said Forbear us 7 Dayes and if none can save us we will come out to thee Then came Messengers to Gibeah of Saul That very Gibeah which had caused all the mischief both to Benjamin and Jabesh-Gilead also Then the people wept and Saul yearneth over their Tears so good it is to go or be with a Mourning weeping people of God For who can tell but their tender Eyes may affect and soften our hard Heart and Then the Spirit of God came upon him and remembring that All the mischief came by hewing a woman into pieces He now slayeth the Beast and heweth it into 12 pieces and by Those summons the 12 Tribes as One man with one consent or as the Prophet speaks with One Sechem He had now 300000 of Israel and 30000 of Judah a bad Omen that they should be so Divided and they must be Parted into 3 Bands and by Night also as Abraham his 300 and Gideon his 300 and Jacob his at Mahanaim and Joshuah his at Gibeon and David his for Ziglag and again As Jacob at Mahanaim and in the Morning Watch as before in the Red Sea and Barak or Gideon against the Midnight Midianites who though so near akin to Abraham and Isaak and Moses yet had been the Buyers of Joseph in the Pit and Sellers to Aegypt so that Moses must not dye before he had avenged God on Midian and recovered such a spoyl as possibly may help us to number all the Times and Numbers in their Bondage ever after Now is Nahash defeated and his Ammonites scattered so that two remained not together while Israel was as One man the onely way to destroy the Serpent and to break his Head And when also They shall be As a Beacon on an Hill the Lord will Wait that he may be Gracious to them and Therefore be exalted Therefore That he may have mercy on them and on All that wait for him For the Lord is a God of judgement Blessed are All They that wait for him As we read in the 30th of Esay How Jabesh-Gilead remembred and requited This of Saul even to his Dead body we observed before How David also blessed them for it when he shewed the kindness of God to the House of Saul Dead Saul And which is yet stranger even to this very Nahash or his Son or Namesake King of Ammon also Till they so abused his Embassadors An History that may be more considered And the people said to Samuel Who is he that said shall Saul Reign over us Bring the men that we may put them to death But Saul said There shall not a man be put to death this day for to day the Lord hath wrought salvation in Israel And David also in his sweet Return after his Banishment from his Kingdom would not slay Cursing Shimei because he knew he was That day King of Israel As we saw before with divers circumstances Then said Samuel to the People Come and let us go to Gilgal and Renue the Kingdom There Even There where God in Joshuah Rouled away the shame of Israel And now They rouled away This shame also of Nahash the Serpent on All Israel Though I add not here again how Circumcision it self was a Type or Pledge of their cutting off Nahash or the Serpents Head in every Age and World and Region also of the little World as we saw before How David or any other of the Kings cut off this Serpent or Nahash also in that remarkable History 2 Sam. 10. we leave for another season as God shall please And though Solomon had but One War as we saw before with Hamath Zoba the Wrath of an Army or fighting Rage or Fury Yet These also as All within the River Euphrates became his Servants or his Tributaries Even to the River of Aegypt whence he married his Queen as we saw before Of Solomons Temple I have little to add to Those Excellent Books lately written by English men also of Both Temples with That of a very Learned man before the Great Bible there also published That may never dyâ— Or Those that did or yet do labour to perfect it But I suppose Many if not All the Numbers we have spoken of may be in those Temples also with the Tabernacle and Noahs Ark in proportion to a mans body with its Three Regions also 30 Cubits High and 50 Broad and 6 times as Long. 300 by 50 is 15000 and the Waters prevailed 15 Cubits Upwards and that by 30 is 450000 filled up with 8 Persons and Beasts Unclean also with their Food and Ayre and other requisites of which again as God shall help us The Tabernacle 30 long and 10 broad that is 300 as the Ark and 10 high 3000. And its Court 100 long and 50 broad 5000. As we touched before in the 5000 fed by our Saviour as after by Peter Ranked by 100 and 50. Solomons Temple Double to the Tabernacle 60 long and 20
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
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
Jesus Christ be with you all Which he wrote with his own hand it seems in all his true epistles From Antioch Paul and Barnabas came to Iconium and there spake boldly in the Lord which gave Testimony to the Word of his Grace granting signes and wonders to be done by their hands And returning again to Antioch and other places confirming the souls of the Disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith and that we must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God which St. Matthew onely calleth the Kingdom of Heaven and ordaining them Elders in every Church praying with fasting they commended them to the Lord Iesus in whom they believed Thence coming up to the Counsel at Ierusalem they there declared the Miracles and Wonders God had wrought by them among the Gentiles where Iames whom Paul calls an Apostle and so Peter also owned him as chief among the Brethren in the twelfth of the Acts which tells us before of Herods killing the Apostle Iames discourseth of Gods promise to raise up the Tabernacle of David that the residue of men might seek after the Lord and all the Gentiles upon whom My Name is called saith the Lord even Jesus who doth all these things For we may generally observe that by Lord especially where distinct from God they mean the Lord Jesus who is Lord of All as St. Paul to the Romanes and rich unto All that call upon him and we have but one God the Father and One Lord Christ Jesus And to Him the Apostles and whole Church prayed at the Election of Matthias calling him the Lord Jesus and then set two saying Thou Lord that knowest or searchest the Hearts of All men the proper character of Christ as he writes to Thiatyra all the Churches shall know that I search the reins and hearts and that also as God Man for as God only he need not search our Hearts From that great Counsel It seemed good to the Apostles and Elders with the whole Church to send chosen men with their beloved who had hazzarded their lives for the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ Barnabas and Paul For the Holy Ghost setteth Barnabas generally before Saul and often also before Paul which name is not given him till he taught Sergius Paulus that prudent Roman Governour Assaying to go into Bithynia the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them for so it is read in some of the best copies At Philippi called by a man of Macedonia in a vision Paul meets a Damsel possessed with a spirit of Divination tho she cried These men are the servants of the most High God which shew unto us the way of salvation For an evil spirit may preach true Doctrine but Paul being grieved turned and said to the spirit I command thee in the Name of Iesus Christ to come out of her and he came out the same hour And on this being beaten and cast in prison and there loosed at midnight to the Trembling Jayler they say Believe on the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house Thine House also Even as salvation came to Zacheus House also when to him and to Lydias Houshold also when to her At Ephesus finding certain Disciples they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Iesus Which seems equal therefore to the name of Father Son and Holy Ghost for the Apostles were commanded to baptize in the Name of Father Son and Holy Ghost and yet they did it in the Name of Christ onely and no wonder For the full latitude or fulnesse of the god-head dwelt in Him and there is no other God but in him and one with him and therefore he that sees him sees the Father also and he that worships him worships the Father also and him that serves him will his Father honour as himself saith and by consequence him that prayes to him which a great piece of worship and service He is thy Lord Worship him as the Psalmist to the Spouse or whole Church which therefore prayeth unto him all along the Canticles and Revelation also where the Bride or whole Church and Spouse of Christ and the Spirit also prayeth to Him saying Come Lord Iesus When Paul had laid his hands on the Twelve Disciples also of the Gentiles at Ephesus which then might be the head of the Gentiles and the first that received an Epistle from Christ in the Revelation the Holy Ghost came upon them and they spake with Tongues and Prophesied as the Twelve Apostles at Pentecost To which also Saint Paul seems plainly to allude in the first Chapter of his Epistle to that Church at Ephesus or to the Saints there and faithfull in Christ Jesus as he styleth them and not a Church as at Corinth and other places Some Vagabond Jews adjure evil spirits there in the Name of Jesus whom Paul preacheth and the evil spirit answering Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are you and leaping beat them through the man possessed Whence fear fell on them all and the Name of the Lord Jesus was magnified As we read at the close of that History Acts 19. At Miletus calling the Elders from Ephesus also most pathetically he discourseth how for divers years he had served the Lord Jesus among them with all humility of minde and with many tears and temptations testifying both to Jewes and Greeks Repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ. But none of these troubles move me nor count I my life dear to me so I may finish my course with joy and the Ministry which I have received of the Lord Iesus to testifie the gospel of the grace of God even of the grace of God And now I know that ye all among whom I have gone preaching the Kingdom of God shall see my face no more And yet that he came after this also again to that very place is probable or certain from his leaving Trophimus at Miletus sick in the 2. to Tim. who now went with him to Jerusalem Acts 21. 29. Or shall we say he was deceived when from Rome also he wrote to so many neer those countreys that he trusted to be given to their prayers and to come to them again O how watchful must a good man be least his own spirit rise too much with the true Spirit of God or least the Envio us one sow Tares with the good mans Wheat And when Agabus had bound his hands and feet with Pauls girdle he saith What mean you to weep and to break my heart For I am ready not only to be bound but to die also for the Name of the Lord Iesus Then they ceased saying The will of the Lord that Lord be done From Jerusalem where he spake often of that Name and in it and of praying to it as I observed before he is brought by a dangerous Voyage and shipwrack to Rome It is no sign that a man is out of the way or not sent by God or called
by him to a journey when he meets with great storms and danger of death by shipwrack or otherwise For the Lord met Moses in the Inn and sought to slay him in his way to Aegypt though he sent him thither on so great an errand Noah brought rest to the World through the Floud and many tossings in great Waters And we might have lost some of the sweetest portions of the Gospel but for such storms by Sea In one of them Christ is in the Ship but asleep and they wake him crying Carest thou not that we perish And he soon took care and rebuked the winds though blaming their unbelief and fear with amazement which is Peters phrase to the Daughters of our good Mother Sara and he might learn it from our Saviour in their storms and fears with such amazement which is a phrase used several times in the Gospel But doth God take care of bodies Will he not be more careful of our souls and pity them more If we would cry and wake him also when he seems asleep about or in us and among us and say to him Master carest thou not that our souls perish Even those precious and Immortal souls which thou seemest to value above the whole World saying What shall a man give in exchange for his soul It is said Our blood shall be precious in thy eyes and shall not our Souls be more precious O we of little faith At another time Our Saviour did not onely send away his Disciples but constrained them to go in a ship when they might have gone another way But they would have sent away the poor people supperlesse from him and when he had supped them He sends away his Hard Disciples to be tossed in the Sea while he blessed the poor people In the fourth watch of the night he shews himself God is nearer us in a storm then we believe or Expect and he saw them tossed some pretty while it seems but would not help them or appear till the last watch and then they are more afraid and cryed out supposing it to be an evil spirit So easily may we mistake the kindnesse of God and think him to be the Devil to devour us even then when he comes in goodnesse to save us But he first rebuketh their fears and saith It is I be not afraid And when Peter would venture out beyond his strength and ready to sink cryed Save me I perish He is moved with compassion and immediately stretcheth out his hand and catcheth him the very phrase used to the Hebrews He caught not the nature of Angels but he caught the seed of Abraham He suddenly reached out his hand and caught as we snatch a thing perishing in fire or water So he caught Peter As he would do us also if in our fears and sinking we would so cry out to Him Help Lord I perish How quickly did he bring him into the Ship and it with them all safe in a calme to their wished Haven O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and wonderful kindnesse to the sons of men as the Psalmist repeats it several times in the 107. Psalm Such goodnesse and wonderful kindnesse did the Lord shew to Paul also in that stormy voyage to Rome wherein yet he did not onely preserve Him safe but all his fellow passengers also as he told him in a night vision saying Fear not Paul thou must be brought to Cesar and lo God hath given thee all them which sail with thee And when he came to Rome he expounded and testified the Kingdom of God perswading them of Jesus both out of the Law of Moses and out of the Prophets And for two years dwelt in an hired house receiving All that came to him Preaching the Kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence As we read in the Acts. That he also taught them to pray to Jesus Christ is plain enough from the stresse he putteth on it in his Epistle to those very Romanes in the tenth chapter Where to believing with the heart he joyns also confession with the mouth and explaineth it by praying to him For it is written Whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved For the same Lord over All is Rich unto All that call upon him But how shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed And the first Epistle to the Corinthians is directed to the Church of God at Corinth to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints with All that in every place call upon the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours And concludes thus The Salutation of me Paul with my own hand If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you my love be with you all in Christ Jesus Amen Which belongeth to every one that in any place calleth on Jesus Christ. And to All us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are All things and we by him as he speaketh in the same Epistle And the second Epistle concludeth with the Grace of Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you All. As that Epistle so all his Epistles generally begin with Grace and Peace and some add Mercy also from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ who as the Epistle to the Galathians addeth gave Himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil World according to the will of God and our Father and I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the Grace of Christ. And concludes that Epistle From henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus Brethren the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit Amen And to the Ephesians among many other remarkable passages of Jesus Christ he prayes that Christ may dwell in their hearts by Faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that ye may be filled with all the fulnesse of God Namely by him in whom All fulnesse dwelleth Yea all the fulness of the Godhead And therefore He that desireth Him and prayeth to Him prayeth to the whole fulnesse of the Godhead and desireth it And in the same Epistle He that descended is now ascended far above all Heavens that he might fill All things and gave gifts c. for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the