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An appendix to a discourse of indictions and to a newly publish'd discourse of the jubilee of the kingdom of Christ.
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Beverley, Thomas.
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if each Part had been given in Indiction even as the 1005 in the whole But the great Doubt still remains what Proof from Indictions may be given That the time of the Words going forth before the Weeks was 75 for if that be prov'd then it undeniably follows the Time after the Weeks must be 400 and no more and so what Proof can be given the time after the Weeks was 400 for the Time if that be prov'd before the Weeks must be 75. the whole Line requiring there be neither more nor less and the Thousand five of these Portions of Time are even as Indiction requires the same And this further is absolutely necessary to be known to fix the Time viz. when the Twelve hundred sixty of the Witnesses Sackcloth began and where we now are in Time To fix this I therefore consider these further Rules of Indiction That there be no more taken or given from one Joint of the Line to the other then just makes up the Indiction now in the Rule of Proportion I have given there is no more then just Five making the First Forty five which it wanted to make up three Indictions the seventy five I settle upon before the Weeks receive back the five they lent viz. Five from the 490 of the Weeks making them just Five Indictions The 490 of the Weeks having Ten supernumerary to Thirty two Indictions and having lent five to the Time before the Weeks lends also five to the Time after the Weeks making them 405 and Twenty seven Indictions Thus there is as little taken as the very nature of Indictions will bear Whatever is added to or taken from any Partition of Time must be added to or taken from the Beginning and End of each Portion For so this Law of Indictions requires as the Forty have added to their End taken from the Beginning of the Four hundred ninety of the Weeks The Four hundred after the Weeks have Five taken from the End of the Weeks set before their their Beginning for thus only Indictions and Portions of Time will bear and not to be Intruded upon in their intimate Parts 3. That which exceedingly gives Beauty to this Frame is That all is by three Lustres or Fives gathered up into one Indiction Although therefore there might be other Numbers then 75 and 400 and other transposes from one to the other Yet it is even Arithmetical Evidence there could be no other Fixation so Curious Beautiful Symmetrall and agreeable to an Indictional Line as this And it is not to be pass'd by That these 75 as Five Indictions are Symmetrally agreeable to the Seventy Five or the Five Indictions that Run beyond the 1260 to 133â— at the End of the 2300 So the same Number Begins and Ends that long Line 4. There is yet one Assurance more from the Indictional Frame that fills up the measure shaken together pressed down and running over And it is that the Forty two Moons of the Beast enter at that so Recorded Time of the Roman Western Empire ceasing in Vulgar Account 476 and according to the Golden Number of Adequation of Lunar Time to Solar broght in so long ago by Meton Lunar Time bears the proportion of 1222 Years to 1260. There must therefore have run out from 475 Those 1222 Years at 97 ending and they being to be join'd to the Thirty Eight Years of the 1260 before them and to the Moons of the Gentiles All making up the Time Times and half Time or whole 1260 Days There is Room for no more then 400 Years the time of the Seals open'd from that so often mention'd lofty Pyramid of Time the last of the Seventy VVeeks ending 37 Years from the Christian Era or Incarnation so generallly known and accounted by And if there be Room for no more then 400 there must be 75 and no more between the 40 of bearing the Iniquity of the House of Judah and the 490 of the Weeks according to the Prophetical Line given And thus God hath been pleas'd to give such an Assurance to this stating of the Line of Time as is deferr'd to the Julian Period found by Scaliger and so Approved of for its certainty The adjustment of Solar Lunar Time and Indiction one to another Now seeing all this leads so demonstratively to Ninety seven elaps'd and that Scripture cannot be broken or dissolv'd As hath been made out It must needs be That there must be a Reserve of Time in the secret Counsels of Prophecy of the Three Years and half so remarkably given Revel 11. And that have their Place in the First three Years and half of the 30 beyond 1260 viz. in the 1290 which 3 Y. and half shall Expire at the next Springs Equation of Day and N. I humbly therefore present this so Full Representation that I could not nor durst Conceal That when God had upon the several Arguments from Prophetick Images join'd with Scripture and general Chronology and History been pleas'd to Found me on this very Scripture Line of Time as appears by the Treatise Entituled the Scripture Calendar of Prophetick Time Publish'd 1684. About an Indiction past at 1699. He should be pleas'd to shew me then such a Frame from Indictions or Fifteens of Years of which it is so undeniable his Word makes so great Account even Arithmetically demonstrative That it is even to my Admiration and Astoment And I desire it should be wholly to the Glory and Praise of his Grace and for the exciting Faith Hope Prayer And I most freely submit it to the severest Examination that is Scripturally Rational I am most assured Except very Letter of Scripture only Nothing depending on Argument can be more Firmly proved And I find such an inward Assurance That if God should call me to it I hope I should through the Blood of the Lamb and the word of his Testimony Overcome even to the not loving of my Life to the Death on Account of it Nor could I rejoice to survive it if a Failure could possibly be suppos'd but most humbly beg with submission to the Divine Will that he would grant me so much more of Life as to see Ezekiels Ha-Galgal that great Revolution of his Kingdom That it might be cryed in my hearing Oh wheele c. 10. 13. And because what I have now Written is the very highest I can hope should be reveal'd in this great Point I have added this Publication as an Appendix to a Treatise Entituled Indiction or accounting by Fifteens the Great Style of Prophetick Time Publish'd 99. and to another Entituled The Good Hope through Grace The Jubilee of the Kingdom of Christ shall come on the Popish Jubilee Published this 1700. And have nothing now to do but with the Spirit and the Bride restlesly Day and Night to say Come in the great Preparations to thy Kingdom at the next Spring-time of thy Resurrection viz. the Cessation of Anti-Christian Persecution the Down-fall of Antichrist the rising of the Witnesses c. Making it the Beginning of the sacred Year Anew and then in thy Kingdom it self And oh that all Saints would Joyn in the Harmony Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly The END ERRATA P. 9. l. 7. for twenty two Moons put Forty two Moons The Postscript in supply of a Preface to the Reader AS it is truly said Knowledge and Learning have no Enemy but Ignorance so Re search into the more retired Parts of Knowledge hath no Eâ—emy but Prejudice and a loathness either through the wait of Leisure or vigour of Thoughts or too great a â—ove of Easiness and a walking on in a beaten or plain â—râ—ck and a Choice to staâ— in Principle and the Beginnings of the Doctrine of Christ And when Men have chosen this they seek a Justification from some Appearances 〈◊〉 Scripture and Reason But â—till Anâ— can make it appear There are some Prophecies and Numeralls of them which we are forbidden to enquire or as I know they affect to express themselves to pry into Tâ—â—y can never perswade Any to whom God hath given Minds that have Understanding to surcease their Diligence therein And as to the present Indictional Frame presented they have but one â—f these two things to do 1. To deny that these Numbers are found in the Scriptures of Truth Or that there is a mistake in the casting them up Neither of which I am sure can be attempted by any in their Vnderstanding And as it is supremely to be acknowledged to the Divine Being that the very Excellency of that Being proves it self So This very Line I have hâ—re offerr'd proves it self in its kind And therefore That Ninety seuen is passed off without so great Effecs as were expected We must either acquiese in God's Reserving the Three Days and half viz. Three Years and half as a Time of Delay to make his Infraction and Breach on the Line given us known to us because of our unsuitable Frame to so great a Glory as his Kingdom 's Opening or we may suppose there may be a Mistake in our Vulgar Computation from the Christian Era of the Incarnation But the Râ—formation so monumentally entring according to it 1517 at the just Half-Time according to Indiction so exactly forbids that Thought Or Lastly We must suppose there were Disposes of Providence in this lâ—st Ninety seven wherein the Seeds of great Changes are laid up though they do not appear yet visible to our Sense or Observation The Fiâ—st â—s the Best I therefore beg this One Favour of the Candid Christian Reader Close Application and Consideration under Divine Illumination LONDON Printed for W. and J. Marshall in Newgate and Grace-Church-street 1700.