or Punishment of the House of Judah clasps Fast with the 390 of Bearing Israel's Sin because God commanded Ezekiel when He bad Born the sin of Israel on the Left side without any Intermission to Turn on the Other side and to Bear the sin of the House of Judah on the Right side and the Bearing the Sin of the House of Israel goes back to the Division of the Tribes into Two Houses at Solomon's Death In the Last Place I dare Appeal to the Greatest Chronologers â—â— Historians whether our General Accounts do not within â—ome Fair Proportion Allow the Years of the Papacy of the Paâ—â— Power of the Roman Empire of the Grecian Persian Babyâ—â—sh Kingdoms to serve these Prophetical Accounts and so â—â—ward by the Kings of Israel and Judah to the Death of â—â—lomon Now all these Things were there Room to Represent Them clearly particularly and in Full would Give such certainty â—â— these Points according to the Exactness of Scripture-Time as â—ould amount to the Justification of the Great Hope I so pubâ—â—ly make Offer of and against which in every minute Parâ—â—ar I Humbly Pledge my self to be Ready to Receive Exceptions and to Return Due Satisfaction and therefore shall â—ow Return to the more General Objections This way of Endeavour to Justify every Thing by Plain â—â—counts and Arguments of Reason Approachable by every â—â— Reason and Subject to the Examination of every Man â—oever will take so much Thought and Care of Tryal and â—â— Judgment upon Himself may take off much of that Exceâ—â— Why should All This be Reveal'd to you more than to Any â—er For The Answer I would give is Because God hath â—ngaged my Heart and Thoughts to this Inquiry And it hath been the Principal Subject of my Intellectual Inquiries though I hope not in a Neglect of other Points of Theology and Scripture-Knowledge But by this means I have been looking every way into All the Advertisements of Scripture-Prophecy comparing Prophetical Things with Prophetical and any of the most Accurate Memoirs of History and Chronology I could Attain And This is no other than what Any Other Studious in these Things might have Attained and much Higher according to the Advantages of Learning more enlarged Capacities of Mind Clearness of Expression as is most experimental in that Excellent Person The Annotator on the Reâ—elation and his Annotations Published about Four Years ago The Only Thing that I pretend to of Peculiar Favour herein from the Most High is That he hath thus engaged my Heart and Thoughts to separate my self and to Intermeddle with this Wisdom and Assisted me so far therein When any one vouches any Immediate Revelation that cannot be disprov'd by its plain Disagreeableness to other Sealed Parts of Divine Revelation though indeed from God Hâ— and his Revelation are Inaccessible but by the same Spirit of Revelation in some suitable Efficacy of the same Spirit enabling to discern or to feel the Vertue of it As in the Apostles Days When the Prophets spake one by one 1 Cor. 14. 29. Then the Rest Judged that is Discern'd the Divineness of the Revelation by the Participations of the same Spirit in themselves But when Any offer the Interpretation of written Prophecies or Prophecies of Scripture by the Assistance of the same Spirit that gave them this Interpretation if Just and True and according to the Sense of the Divine Spirit is the Spirit of Proâ—â—cy Because it is the Testimony of Jesus which is the very Essence of the Spirit of Prophecy Now this is plainly Approvable by All who wait upon the same Word of God by the Assistance of the same Spirit I do not therefore in Any of these Prophetical Discourses offer at any such thing as in which the Spirit of the Lord passing by others should have spoken to me but what every one hath the same Right and Open Door to and Freedom of and what every one hath a Riight to Examine and Accept or Reject according to the Evidence he sinds of an Agreeableness with the Sure Word of Prophecy or not That onely I stand up for is That He Judges as a Prophet according to the measure of that Dispensation of the Blessed Spirit now vouchsefed to his Servants That is that he Judge by the Due Compare of Prophecy with Prophecy by Attendance to every Hint and Indication of the Prophetical Mind Flowing from that Spirit and that he lay this First as a Foundation that the Prophecies of Scripture ought to be Given Heed to and that they may be understood as a Light shining in a dark place And whoever doth not thus address himself can no more Judge then any one could of the Revelations then made by the Spirit to the Prophets of those First Times when they met in those Prophetical Exercises without the Communication of the same Spirit to themselves or then an Illitterate or unknowing Person in any Science or Art Can Judge of the Exercitations of the most knowing Persons or Artists when they meet together for the Communication of their most Elaborate Exercitations therein And so I do indeed Claim and Insist on this Priviledge That none undertake to Judge of what I have offered in these things but by such Prophetical Preparations and Attendances upon Scription Prophesies that are indeed open to every one that Desires to â—nter by the Key of Scripture Prophetical Knowledge and shut to others And this is no more Presumption then what every one thinks his Priviledge that no one Judge of his Art but He that Understands it first Himself And this I hope Vindicates from any undue Assumption of any more then the Gracious Direction of my Heart and Thoughts to that Book of Scripture Prophecy that Lies open to every one that draws nigh with due Preparation And that every one may Judge of by the same Preparation It may be further Objected that yet it is very hard if not Impossible to attain the Sense of the Divine Spirit to a Year or any such Precise Definitive Account of Time To this I Answer It will easily be allowed that the Divine Spirit hath Determin'd and knows according to that its Expression of it self to the very Self same Day And therefore seeing it hath given Numbers of Time it must be to the very Self same Day For the end of every Number is so Precise and Definite That It must needs be to the very Self same Year and even Day if we could have as Punctual Account of Days as of Years But I find not the Holy Spirit ordinarily is more particular then Years By therefore a due Poize of that Trine Aspect of Prophetick Emblems Prophetick Numbers and Providential Effects in Event and Matters of Fact of the Records of which It hath taken Care by General History and Chronology we may come to know to a Year And of this Besides several other Assurances that Require more Discourse There is that Time of the Reformation more Easy and Immediate to every
in Vain Even for the understanding of the Prophecies of my Word And in the very same Chapter God Encourages to Ask of Him Things to Come Even as his Spirit is said to shew to his Servants Things to Come All which I hope will appear a sufficient Answer to the Suspicion That God gave the Prophesies of his Word and so Eminent a Part of them Numbers of Time and did not intend they should be understood If it be taken as in this very Joinct and Objected How câ—mâ— it to pass That All who hitherto have Writ on Prophet … Scripture have much differed one from another and they 〈◊〉 Fix'd Time have either liv'd to see themselves mistaken 〈…〉 hath appear'd after their Death They have been so I des … 〈◊〉 should be considered Those who as the Holy Servants of Christ and Ministers of his Word have Sett Themselves to Understand have Given Great Light and Broken the Way for Those who have Followed and Their Memory and Services are precious to All Wise and Good Men notwithstanding some Mistakes and thereupon Differences which are yet not more or Greater than Those we Find in most Points not Fundamental and in All Interpretation of Scripture And as to their Mistakes in Point of Time It is to be Allowed Their Distances some of Them from the Time of Completion might be their Disadvantage God not vouchsafing such Light concerning that Time till nearer upon it as not to Daniel but upon the very Year of the 70 Years Ending It is further to be considered That there are some Eminent and Learned Persons who have though upon somewhat Different Grounds yet concentred upon this very 97. and some so near it as upon 98 99 and especially 1700. That their Expectations are yet as I may say in Abeyance and Things most probably will be so Conducted as easily to Reconcile so small Disagreements by the First Breakin gs out of Light and further Illustrations But Herein I Humbly Magnifie and Adore the Freeness of Grace and Divine Assistance to his Unworthiest Servant That He hath Granted to me to Lay before me the Whole â—nd Entire Prophetical Table of his Word which is the Greatest Security against Mistake that can be vouchsafed Because by the View and Survey of things together They are seen in â—heir Just Scituations and Allowances of Room and placed â—qually one in proportion to another That there may be no croud Confusion Justle upon or Interfere one with another Whereas if this be not a plausible Semblance or Sound of Agreement may mislead If such a Scheme be Reflected upon as Imaginary and the Work of Fancy I make an Humble Challenge to all the Wit â—he Fancy the Learning that is in the World to Give a Pa … el Scheme in such an Agreement with the Word of God and 〈◊〉 Providential Events in Concert with it By which I am … ed It is not nor cannot be my own but as Found in Sa … Writings seeing Fancy and Imagination cannot create in … f-subsistent Things or Erect into undoubted matter of Fact As it is That there are such and such Prophetical Emblems and Representations Such Examples of the Way and Manner of Interpretation as that Nâ—buchadnezzar was the Head of Gold the King of Persia the Ram the King of Grecia the He Goat The Babylonish Woman the City on Seven Mountains that at the Time of the Revelation Given was then Reigning over the Kings of the Earth All These Give such a Pattern of the Manner of Interpreting Prophetick Images and what way the Spirit of God means They should be Expounded and Discypher'd that They are Equal to Matter of Fact That there are such Numbers as 2300 Eves Morns 70 Weeks Time Times Half a Time Three Days and an Half 1260 1290 1335 Days 42 Moons And all these to be multiplied by the Prophetical Standard of Time or Days for Years And that These are some of Them Repeated variously plac'd is plain Matter of Fact To find therefore the Concert of these and to place Them in their Just Order one towards another and in the Greatest Friendliness Peace Harmony and Beautifull â—ymmetry and with the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Admirable Air and Mien of the Divine Wisdom finding out the Knowledge of All Witty Inventions herein and then Supervening or Coming upon All These Substantial Undoubted Matters of Fact the Greatest Events that have been in the World Adjustable to these Numbers of Time Comprobated and Assured by the most Valuable History and Chronology that are in the World All Make up such a Plerophory a Fullness of Assurance that must needs deliver from the Scruple that Fancy and Imagination have had the Architecture of such a Triangular as I may call it Compage of Things in such a Justice of Respect one to another such a Trine or Threefold strongest Combination one with another For to give a Summary Delineation on what Grand Pillars of Event the Emblems of Prophecy are Planted or drawn and what Proportions of Time are adjusted to them and then 〈◊〉 well it is known That such Events and within some General Ken of such Allowances of Time are own'd by History 〈◊〉 Chronology to those Events is the Greatest satisfaction th … can be given For either small Petite or Obscure Events 〈◊〉 Disgrace any Prophetick Scheme And to be out of all Bounda … of Time is as Dishonourable The Root therefore of Prophetick Time I make that Stupendious Failure of the so Illustrious Types of the Kingdom of Christ the Reigns of David and Solomon at the Death of Solomon and the Incredible Depression of Them had not Sacred Writ assur'd it in the Division of the Tribes into the Two Houses of Israel and Judah Till Both Involv'd each in a dreadful Captivation distinct to Each The Rescue and Deliverance of the Two Tribes from their Captivity in Babylon was by the Destruction of that Monarchy the First of the Four and the Decree of Cyrus the Founder of the Persian Monarchy at the End of the 390 and 40 Years of the Visional Bearing of Iniquity for them and settling the Prophetical Standard of a Day for a Year by Ezekiel In Cyrus his Universal Monarchy so Favourable to the people of God and so Great a Type of Christ as to be called Messiah or God's Annointed Begin the 2300 Eves and Morns That staple Line of Time that Reaches to the very Glorious Kingdom of Christ In the First Hundred Twenty Four Years of them there is though with Interruptions a Gradual Restoration of Judah and Jerusalem Entring within the First Seven Weeks or Forty Nine Years of that so Famous and by Christians Universally Agreed Character of Time confirming the Prophetick … ndard of a Day for a Year to 490 Years Viz. The 70 Weeks Through these runs the very Dwarf-like and Tributary Condition of the Jews besides some horrible Inroads upon them under the latter part of the Persian the whole of the Grecian Monarchy and
the beginning of the Fourth or Roman At the last of these Weeks there is that so Glorious Exaltation of … me to its Fulness in the Appearance of our true Messiah and in the midst of it His Death and Resurrection Greater things then which all his Glorious Appearance the Fulness of Times or of all Time Time cannot contain In the other Half the Loud Publication of the Gospel of these Things as by the Heraldry of Thunder 〈◊〉 in the First Seal Opened by the Apostles In the Next Four Hundred the First Seal is continued and the 〈◊〉 Three Seals are Opened in very Great and New Productions the Roman Empire till in that Conclusive Persecution of the … stians within the Fifth Seal under Dioclesian and the Con … porary Pagan Emperors In the Sixth Seal That so indeed â—â—st Revolution of the Roman Empire from Pagan to Christian begun by Constantine in the Sixth Seal continued Julian's short Reign Excepted till Vindicated and Statuminated by Theodosius the Great in the Seventh Seal a Great Precursory Emblem of the Glorious Kingdom of Christ But Early under Constantine and so Going on That Appearance of the Kingdom of Christ began to be Eclips'd And the Barbarous Nations Rushed in on the Empire in the Just Revenges of Christ upon Antichristian Supplantation who yet after United as his People and as Ten Kingdoms under his Ecclesiastick Empire and Undermine by the Interposal of the Antichristian Moon so soon that Prophecy gives the Notice of it as Immediate in the Sealing the Servants of God against both the Antichristianism and the Vengeance in those Trumpets of Vengeance Given into the Hands of the Angelick Ministers of it the Witnesses Entring into Sackcloth and the Churches Flight into the Wilderness or being so Hidden that it was hard to be Discovered before the Reformation These Early Notices do beyond All Reasonable Contradiction Assure the Times and Hair Sworn to Antichrist must needs be now upon the Expiration which as before Noted are cast into Fifteens in the 1260 Days into which they are Expounded to shew their Nearness to Constantine's Time and because so Determinate a Time and Short Compared with the Glory to follow is styl'd a Short Time in Godâ— Answer to the Souls under the Altar And the Devil considering it Reflected on it as a Short Time not as the Father of Lyes but as it was Extorted from him by God shew it near Ending At the End of 400 Years from the Weeks of 404. from the Resurrection and 437. from the Incarnation Begin the Time Times and Half with the High Sounds of the Four First Trump … Of which That Year was not without its Answerableness to this Prophetick Character by reason of the Incursions of the Barbarous Nations as a Storm of Hail and Fire mingled with Blood who because They were to Become the Subjects of the Antichristian Papacy are call'd The Gentiles Entring into the Outward Court And their 42 Moons Commence being Solemnly as it were Inaugurated into Them by Cyril Bishop of Abexandria the very Year so Earnest in Adjusting Lunar Time to Solar At the same Time began that Apostacy the Apostle Paul speaks of in Delay of the Kingdom of Christ And in such Corruptions of the Doctrine Worship and Conversation of Christianity the True Church was Hidden under the Publick Profession so Corrupted as to be the Church as in a Wilderness and on which the Witnesses Prophecy That is Declare Chrsts Kingdom in Delay as in Sackcloth of which That Year there was a Sample in a Persecution Rais'd by Gensericus a Vandal Prince against the Servant of God Holding the Testimony of Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God and It was continued against Those who Kept the Commandments of God and Held the Testimony of Jeâ—us Christ by the Papal Tyranny Within the Four First Trum … t s Fall the so often Burning and Sacking Rome the utter Cessation of the Name of Emperor of Rome in the West and even of Consular Dignity At that very Time of the Cessation of Empire begin the Moons of the Papal Antichristian Power which Prophecy styles The Beast as a Preparation to which the Hierarchy as the Historian Sozomen Relates had been Rising stilly as Feet of Clay from the Earth and crept silently Forward into a Dynasty styl'd therefore The Other Beast which procurated for the Grand Beast thus Came in the Succession of the Beast Dated to this very Year 476 and so its Succession is Given as the 7th Head and Eighth King Rev. 17. For it is in Immediate Succession to the Seventh King no Head which was the Christian Emperor in the West Then the Bestian Anti-christian Power grew up to its height or Supremacy at 606 as the Star Fallen to the Earth within his First Time and pursued by God with the First Woe or the Maâ—ometan Imposture at 622 and so to 797 Arm'd in the Saracenick Inrodes upon the Western Parts of the Empire This continued along â—e Second Time or First of the Two Times of his settled or consistent Power till the Second Turkish Woe starts out in the Third Time or Second of the Two Times where His stint or the Bounds of his Power were set Till it came down to the Reformation at the Beginning of his Half Time at the Year 1517. Where it hath continued an 180 Years down to the present 1697 a declined and decayed but not a Fallen Power according to the very Importance of Two Times degraded to a Half Time Now I would Appeal to all the Reason and Understanding 〈◊〉 Man whether when all the Prophetical Images are so expressive of these Events And that the Line of Time that Prophecy hath proportion'd to them when laid to them is so fairly every way Adjustable Viz. From Cyrus before the Weeks Since the Weeks to the Death and Resurrection of Christ After the Death and Resurrection of Christ and the Preaching of the Apostles at the End of the Weeks in 400 Years of the Seales and the Greater Cantons of Time Times-Half Time dividing and distributing 1260 Years into 360 720 180 and All so according with the very Years we Vulgarly Account to 1697. I would I say appeal to all Sense and Understanding whether this â—ccount can be the Creature of Fancy and Imagination or so much as of Accident Except they think such a Conspiration of so many things of so great Concernment to the World and to the Churches of Christ be below the Notice of the Divine Spirit or its Care to make them known For that the very things themselves cannot be contriv'd into such Representations cannot be once said when it is so Experimental that the things if not so Design'd by the All-seeing Spirit must by Accident be so subject to the Elaboration of Fancy and Imagination or rather of J … ment and Understanding Seeing this Threefold Respect is found in Reality and Substance of Scripture-Emblems of Scripture-Numbers of Correspondent Events in History
and Chronology To say which Undermines All Rationality of Inference from the Greatest Correspondency of Effects in Creation and Providence with the Wisdom and Power of the Supreme Creator and Governour of All Vâ—â— If we may not Reason from these to the Intention of Divine Spirit Now from hence reach the Additional 75 to the Thousand Years of the Blessed State Viz. From the Kingdom of Christ in Succession in Thirty years of the Sealed Thunders opened in Rev. c. 14. Making the 1260 1290. Wherein First there is a Glorious shini … out of the Gospel and the Glory of Christianity for the Conversion and bringing Multitudes to Christ and for a Testimony against those who remain obstinate the Filthy being Filthy still And then the Vials poured out that Time of Trouble such as never was since Man was upon Earth Through the Forty Five Additional to the 1290 and making them 1335 to the Glorious and Blessed State and the Lots of the New Jerusalem in the End of these Days Dan. 12. 11 12 13. And in the same way of Evidence and Assurance I find mâ—self through the Gracious Assistance of God able to go backward in the Analytical or Retrograde method to the very Death of Solomon where I began and find the Connexion of one thing to another so Just so True so Stedfast and so Unmoveable that they cannot be dislocated nor Disjoynted And the Numbers of Scripture-Time so Lock'd one within another That they cannot be Wrench'd or Forced asunder All which I have in Readiness to offer to every Judicious Considerer and of which I would give the Briefest Specimen in this following Scheme that I can Contrive The Thousand Years are by all the Wonders of it the most undoubted End or Finishing of Wonders And the very same with the Mystery of God to be Finish'd by the Seventh Angel sounding according as he hath spoken in Gospel to and by his Servants the Prophets This being the Fullness of Times all Times Center or flow down and rest in it Here rest the 45 Last of the 2300 Eves Morns as is exprest in Daniel The 45 take such hold of the 30 that all the force in the World can't divide them As is Apparent by 1290 made 1335 the Thirty take the same hold of the 1260 Which are the Times and Half That they can no more be separated then the others The 1260 in the Three Divisions Viz. The Half Time takes hold of the 720 or the two Times And the two Times of the First Time or 360 And they can endure no distance Because they are together one 1260. The 1260 necessarily take hold of whatever Time went before and lay between the 490 of the Weeks and the 1260 This can be no way contested Because the Weeks by Express Scripture End Three Years and Half or Half a Week from the Death of Christ And then we know a Time there must be from the Beginning of the 1260 â—f some distance of Space from the End of the Weeks Because him the Three Years and Half after the Death of Christ so many more Years then 1260 are now passed and yet the Great Events at the End of the 1260 not yet come to pass and therefore not the 1260 themselves And yet that space must take hold of the End of the Weeks Because the Half Week Ends a Three Years and a Half Half a Week from the Death of Christ The Seventy Weeks Notwithstanding They are divided to Joynts yet are as close as the Joynted parts of any the same Member of the Body being together the Seventy Weeks The Seventy Weeks lay an Indisputed Claim to whatever Time went before to â—rus And every part must be Joyned Each to other Because all the several Portions of Time stand United in the 2300 Aâ—â— seeâ—â—g so much Time hath already passed since the End of the Weeks as leaves no more then 75 before the Weeks of the 2300 to Cyrus we are sure there can be no more I confess there may be Fewer and so more of the 1260 to Run out then to 97 But so far as we can be sure there can be no more than 400 before the 1335. We may be sure there can be no Fewer than 75 before the Weeks From Cyrus backward must be the 40 of Judah's Sin Bâ—â—n Lying Close to the End of the 390 Days of Israel's Sin Born which Bring back to the Division of the Tribes into the Two Houses of Israel and Judah All which Things have been and are Ready to be Fully made out to any who Desire it in particular The Undoubted Emblems of Scripture Answering to these Numbers of Time may be Accounted for with the same Evidence in this Retrospective Motion as in the Progression For the very End of the Wonders is plac'd in the Beastâ— â—â—d the False Prophet cast alive into the Lake And the Glory oâ— Christ's Appearance and the Armies of Heaven for whom Throâ—â— were Set and They Sate upon Them and They Lived and â—igâ—ed with Christ a Thousand Years were such as did not Worship the Beast nor Receive his Mark c. The Vials that Brought in the Thousand Years are Noted to Fall on the Beast 〈◊〉 them that Worshipp'd the Beast and had Receiv'd his Mark. â—â—e Voices that prepar'd for the Vials and at the End of which thâ— Vials Began were also upon the Beast and the Witnesses coming out of the Death the Beast had laid them under plainly Entwist the Vials and the Voices with the Beast and the Witnesses and â—â— their Times one with another viz. with the 1260 Days 〈◊〉 42 Moons the Times and Days and Half And in this 〈◊〉 manner the Dragon and they that were Beheaded for the Word of God and for the Testimony of Jesus and the Dragon cast down and the Martyrs of Christ Overcoming by the Blood of the Lâ—â— and the Word of his Testimony and not Loving their Livâ— unto Death Seeing the Dragon Gave his Power and his Seat unâ— the Beast shew very Evidently that the Moons of the Gentilâ—â— and of the Beast Began at the End of the Seals Even 〈◊〉 is most clear in a Progressive Motion the Seals Issue into â—â— Trumpets by the Seventh Seal conveying to them The Trumpets into the Voices by the Seventh Trumpet the Voices by the Seventh Voice into â—he Vials the Vials by the Seventh Vial into the Thousand Years The Seals Run plainly Back into the Weeks Beginning in the Confirmation of the Covenant by that Preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles Emblem'd by Christ Riding out on his White Horse conquering and to conquer at the Ending of the Weeks The Weeks Run back into the Time of the Word Going forth for the Restoring Judah and Jerusalem from whence they are Dated The Going forth of the Word into the Babylonish Captivity which gave Occasion to the going forth of that Word and the Last Forty Years of the Babylonish Captivity which was the Ground of Bearing the Iniquity