leave him for Ever I believe in part From that he saith of the Ostrich and her cruell folly to her Eggs and of the Bears Dragons Ouls and worst of Creatures to their young Ones and of a Woman to the Son of her womb And yet she may forget but I cannot For I have Graven thee on the Palmes of my hands And was not Adam Graven on his heart Or Rooted in it But yet more from That he Is. For God is Love and Vnchangable Love And having Loved himself and his own Image he Loved it to the End and for Ever And if That Love could not hold him to Adam in Innocence It may be hard to know or believe his Word can bind him so to any Creature but he may desert it in the best estate attainable Seeing it is very hard to Vnderstand his Word or any Verbal Promise or to plead it so with him as to oblige him by it If his own heart do not more hold him to Good and Goodness Then All Outward Words and Promises Or at least then Any Creature can do by Them And although Eternal Love might be Eternal Hatred unto Sin which in the mother Language speaketh Hating As their Hate is also Sin Yet That also might be a Better argument why God should Keep him From Sin then why he should Leave him In it For by this it seemeth God is Love and no Hatred only that he Hateth Hating and Putting away Love Thinketh no Evil is not Easily Provoked Suffereth Long Endureth All Believeth All or Hopeth All Beareth All and doth not only Cover a Multitude of Sins but as Solomon saith It shall or will Cover All Transgressions For it is the Glory of Man to Pass by Transgressions And the Glory of God to Cover a Matter And most of all That which his pure and Holy Eyes cannot endure to see And if nothing could preserve him From Sin Or excuse him In it Yet there might be somewhat found to Intercede for the Sinner or to distinguish between his Sin and his Person Who at best was but As a Little Very Little Infant Vnto God And when a Sinner yet His Off-spring and His Image still so remained As a man And So Owned by God to Noah Yea and our Saviour bids them All say Our Father For we Are His Off-spring still and he is the Father of our Spirits Yea and Man that before the Fall was but the Image of God is now called The Image and Glory of God I must not dispute or enquire How Man came to Fall or God to Change his State or Place before the Fall Or to abridge him of somewhat he seemed to Grant before When he gave him All Trees for his food But then came and forbad the Tree of Knowledge Which yet haply may be meant of some other kind of Knowledge then is commonly taken Nor can I determine What God meant by That In Dying thou shalt Dye Seeing even Since the Fall also Job describeth Death as That which might be Loved More then Life And the Wisest man asserts the Day of Death is Better then of Birth and God might set the Cherubins in Love to keep us from That Tree which would have made us Live for Ever notwithstanding All the Threatening of Death Which it seemeth was not so certain but that a Tast of the Tree of Life might have Turned it into Life Eternal But Eternity it self may be a Burthen to One that is Vnhappy In his Life and Being So that it might be an Happiness to Dye And the words Threatning Death to Adam are no worse then God used to David of his Little Child or Other Children of God which sure was not Eternal Death And to Good Hezekiah It was added also Thou shalt Dye and shalt not Live and yet he did not Dye but Live And to Ezekiel God hath said When I say or shall say to a Wicked Man In Dying thou shalt Dye the very words Threatened to Adam yet if he Turn and Repent he shall surely Live he shall not Dye And sure we may hope God meant no worse to Good and Holy Adam in Innocence then he Professeth that he meaneth To a Wicked Man in Wickedness To whom yet the Threatning is but on Condition and he addeth an Oath That he taketh no Pleasure in the Death of a Wicked Man and less in the Death of a Righteous man As Adam was in Innocence And yet he let him Fall To draw out Attributes which could not well appear on Holy Happy Objects Or in a word to Love him More Or draw delight and self complacence which may seem a kind of selfish Love to Better Higher that is Lower yet more Noble Love of Pity and such Tender bowels of compassion as could not be shewed But to Miserable Objects Shut up under Guilt through Vnbelief that so he might have Mercy on them which can appear Only in Misery By which Eternal Wisdom did Contrive at once to Propagate it self and Magnifie its Love So that it now can Truly Love a Loveless Object with the same or a Better Love then he Loved Adam in Innocence That I say not Jesus Christ himself Who saith a Little Love can love a Friend or One alike and it may be Less to Love One Lovely Fair and Kind For Sinners can do This and Hypocrites Nor did he Only defer his Anger For his own Names Sake But that Himself might be the Great Example and Pattern of All Long-suffering and Goodness which he knew Great enough to Conquer All Evil He would not Let the Sun go down upon his Wrath. But on the very same Day in which Adam Fell Vnder the Law God brought out the Gospel and the First Gospel Promise whence some think the Same Day of the Jewish year was both the Great Fast for the Fall and the Feast of Atonement or Expiation For as the Wise woman of Tekoah summed up the Gospel God is no Accepter of Persons But he Still Deviseth Means or Devices that his Banished or those that might be so do not Perish From him who still Hateth Putting away And he Then Devised such a Way as Far surpasseth all our thoughts and Then our Words are like to Darken Counsel without Knowledge Yet there is a Spirit that can make us know the things which are Freely Given us of God The Poets have a Tradition that when the Gyants Rose and Fought against Heaven They could not be Conquered but by the help of some Mortal Man and so the Gods asked avd of Hercules Who slew one of the Greatest Gyants but he soon revived again and waxed Stronger then before Till Minerva Caught him and threw him out of the Moon and so he dyed This and that they have of Hydra and of Python and the Serpent slain by Cadmus or others may be grounded on the First Gospel Promise Vpon the fall The Seed of the Woman shall Break the Serpents Head And yet not by its own Strength or Wisdom but
Day of Trying the Paschal Lambs or Preparation of the Passover To the Pentecost Or from the day of Aarons Death and of burning the City and Temple To the Day of Creation or Dedication of the second Temple and of Jerusalem in Nehemiahs Time and to the Feast of Trumpets in the seventh Month which was for Release and Tabernacles were 1260 1290 or 1335 Hours And from the City Taken on the 9th of the 4th Month to the Feast of Tabernacles were 2300 Hours as between the Suns Apogeum and the Equinox And their great Release was in 2300 Dayes As their Release of Hirelings or their three years Tythes and Offerings with the Solemn Confessions of Deut. 26. came out in 1260 or 1335 Dayes So Davids New Jerusalem was gotten from the Jebusites who Trod it down as their name in Heb And the Ark was fixed in Zion and the Temple built in 1260 1290 or at most in 1335 years from the first Desolation of the Flood And Nehemiahs New Jerusalem was finished and dedicated at 1260 hours that is the morning of the 53 d day from its beginning but 1335 hours from his coming thither as Nehem. 2. 11. 6. 15. and in so many years from Jacobs service in Syria Typing Israel in Assyria or from Josephs Bonds in Egypt or Israels coming and Dying there And the great Dedication and Restitution after Antiochus Nicanor was so many Dayes as in Daniel After the City Prophaned and so many years After Egypt and the Golden Calf which was 1335 years before the Maccabees which were 1290 years After the Ark at Shiloh or 1260 years After their first Bondage to the K. of Mesopotamia as a Type of Babylon and 1260 years Before the Christians got Jerusalem and Reigned in it about 1100 of Christ All which were but Types and Shadows of the New Jerusalem to come in those degrees of 1260 1290 or 1335 years After the Abominable Desolation made by Antichrist who was Typed out by Antiochus Which was to come upon the Christian Church as the Assyrian was to fill the breadth of the Land of Emanuel When the Romans had finished their war against Jerusalem in Titus Adrian and Julian After the ten first Christian Persecutions Which lasted as many years as there were Hours in ten Dayes As the Revelation saith they should have Tribulation for Ten Dayes which have Hours 240. and there were so many Years from the first Persecution which began with the Jewish War in 65 or 66 of Christ Till Constantine And the Times of Julian were as slaying of the Paschal Lambs which were Tyed up on the tenth day ending at Hour 240 and slain on the fourteenth at Hour 333 As Julian was 333 years After Christ and Romes deadly Wound was After Jerusalem sack'd 333 years As Hamans Lots or Purim from the Preparation of the Passover 333 dayes 333 was a signal Number to the Jews both for Hours to the Passover and Dayes to Purim and Cubits in the Holy Courts and to Others also As Plutarch observes in Fabius finding Secrets in the Sybils not to be uttered and vowing 333 Sesterces and 333 Denaries Deucalions Flood Phaetons Flames and the first Judgement in Areopagu much about 333 years before the Sack of Troy about 333 before Lycurgus end who renewed the Olympick Games 333 years after Hercules That we speak not of Messenia desolate about 333 years in Aelian 333 is half 666 and 333 Dayes are 12 Times 666 Hours which are the Monthly Change of the Sun and Moon and thence the Great Number of Change to the World and in Years also As it was to Carthage in Paterculus and Rome with Jerusalem and other places here discussed And to clear this way of reckoning Years by Hours of the Jewish Year the Author shews the Rise and Use of Hours with diverse Nations long before they be specifyed in Polibius or Plutarch who yet can tell us the first Hour of Romulus and the Great account of Hours among the Jews whose Year is a Model of time in All Ages So that the old Patriarchs and all the great things of Scripture were in Harmony to the Dayes and Hours of the Jewish Year and to the Site and Motions of the Heavenly Bodies As Hours are made by the Moon moving 24 of her Diameters in 24 Hours and the Earths Diameter 24 times in the Suns which may be distant from the Earth twice 666 Radij As the Moon 66 and Canaans Longitude is 65 or 66 in Ptolomy And as the first Heavenly body is above the Earth 65 of its Radij and the first Fruits of Earth were at 65 Hours of Creation in the 3 d Day which was the first of Herbs and Animals so the Feast of the First fruits was the 65th Day of the Year and in the 3 d Month As the Tabernacles twice 65 or 130 Dayes After Pentecost Adam was about 130 Hours of Creation and Seth at 130 years as many reckon Abraham was After Terah 130 years in which time the Equinox Changeth a whole Day as 12 Hours in 65 Years Enos was born at 235 Years of the World and the Paschal Lambs were Tyed up and Tryed at 235 Hours of the Jewish year and the Great Cycle of the Moon called the Golden Number is of 235 Months For which Here is an easier way to reckon the Moons Motions and the Suns Cycle with the Dayes of the Week in any year of Christ or of the Julian Period Kainan was born at 325 years of the World and 325 Hours of their year came to the Morning Sacrifice of the Passover slain at Hour 333 just half 666 and Kainans Birth was 666 Years before Enochs Translation or twice 666 before the Flood Mahalael as many years After Kainan as there were Hours to the Evening Sacrifice of the third Day As the First Fruit Omer heaved up on the 3 d Day After the Passover He was born 1260 as Kainan 1332 before the Flood and dyed in the year of the World 1290. Jared the 6 from Adam was born 135 and lived 187 years After Kainan and the Morning Sacrifice of the 6th Day of the World and of the Month and Year and so of the First fruit Omer from the Tying of the Paschal Lambs was at Hour 135 and the Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day for Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath was at hour 187. As from Pentecost to the Great Hosanna there were Dayes 135 and to the Great Atonement Dayes 187 As between the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox 187 and in the Pentateuch 187 Chapters As the Cubits of the Inward Court of Israel were 187 and the Outer 135 which being added to 130 makes 365 As Dayes in a year or Veins in our Body or Negative Precepts in the Law And Kainan was twice 365 before Noah 365 before Jareds End As Mahalaels was before the Flood and the Flood before Abrahams Call if born at his Fathers 70 As Hours of the Jewish year to the First fruit Omer Reaped After
to hear him speak by Mases when they could not hearken for the Anguish of their hearts But I have seen I have seen Ephraim yea and seen his Frowardness also but I will heal And when the Poor want and cannot Cry For their Tongue Cleaves to their Mouth I will open a fountain in the Wilderness As of old I did to Hagar But we must see This also to be part of the Law that so we may lay it on Christ and plead it with him And God did not onely shew us This in his own Bowels Promising to Comfort All that mourn and to Replenish Every Empty Soul and Every sorrowful Heart on which the Prophets sleep was sweet to him But it was so in his Heart that now it is also a part of the Law Which is but an Image or shadow of the Heart of God Beware there be not a Thought in thy Wicked bea rt against thy poor Brother Saying so or so But then shalt sure'y Lend and Give him enough or sufficient for his want and yet not a word of Asking Make thy shadow as the Night in the midst of Noon Hide the out-casts and bewray not him that Wandereth Be a Covert from the Face of the Spoyler Let mine Out-casts Dwell with Thee O Moah As alluding to Davids bringing his Parents Vnto Moah till he knew How God would deal with him And again Is not This the Fast that I have Chosen to loose the bonds of Wickedness and to undo the Heavy Burthens and to let the broken go Free and that ye break Every Yoke Is it not to deal thy Bread to the Hungry and that thou bring the Poor afflicted or cast out into thy House and when thâ—u seest only seest the Naked that thou Cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thine own flesh If thou draw out thy soul to the Hungry and satisfie the afflicted soul Then shall thy light arise in Obscurity and thy Darkness as the Noon day and the Lord shall Guide thee continually and satisfie thy soul in Drought and thou shalt be like a Watered Garden whose waters never fail or lie and from Thee shall be They that shall build up the old waste places and thou shalt be called the Repairer of the Breach One of the Sweetest places in the Bible As lying on our Saviour also when ever he Sees Vs Want For there is not a word of Asking but of Want When thou seest the Naked that thou Clothe him and hide not thy self from thine own flesh and may we not plead it with Christ Is not He Vnder This Law also That He Hide not himself from his own flesh or from That which is Lost or As Holy men cryed in the Scripture O Lord behold mine Affliction And again See O Lord and consider for I am become Vile I am full of Confusion O see my Affliction Or as Hezekiah O Lord I am Pressed Very Hard but Vndertake for me Or be my Surety and Mediator which is clearly spoken to Christ And so David cryeth out Iniâ—uities Prevail Over me But Thou shalt Thou shalt make Atonement or Expiation as the word signifieth Clearly spoken Unto Christ And so again Be surety for me and strike Hands for thy Poor Servant And the Disciple whom our Saviour loved tells us that If a man see his Brother in Wam he must not stay for Tears or Prayers but if he do but see him in Wam and shut up his Bowels How doth the Love of God Dwell in such a Man And again If any man see his Brother sâ—n a sâ—n which is not unto Death He shall Ask it is not left at pleasure but commanded He shall Ask and he shall give him Life A sweet Promise As God bid â—liphaz Go to Job and promised that He should intercede and my Servant shall pray for you and I will accept him Which we should Press on Him that was Typified out by Job Telling him that God hath Promised that He shall pray and He will Hear him for us And when Job prayed for Them God turned His Captivity and Healed Him and Them also And so Here He shall Ask and he shall Give him Life And though he say not He shall Ask for Him that sinneth unto Death Yet he doth not forbid him but only saith I say not that he should pray for such As Christ I say not that I will pray for you And when men do not only Trample Precious Pearls but Turn and burn and Tear those that bring them As they fall out of Others Teachings So they may do Out of their Prayers also that I say not Out of Christs Intercession Which is much in the hearts of his People and I wish and beg and Value This for me and mine Above the World And once a Father told me You may Hope or Know that Others Pray for you when you do Pray for them But we see the Prophet Jeremy praying most sweetly Then when he was forbidden to pray For that People And our Saviour had a Great Portion Given him for pouring out his Soul for sâ—n and making Intercession for Transgressors And the Great Command He ever received from his Father was to Ask Souls of him For it was not only permitted but Commanded As the Great Character by which he should be Known and Owned to be the Son of God And so it is in us also For when ever God begers a Son he gives him a Crying Praying Spirit As if he said Thou art My Son This day have I begotten Thee Nâ—w Ask of Me and I will Give thee Even as Abraham blessed God for Giving him one Great Victory by saying Lord God what wilt thou Give me However it is very Clear It was so required of Christ and expected from him As the Sâ—n. So that here we may Plead he must be More Faithful then Moses Who was Faithful indeed as a Servant But Christ As a Sâ—n. And his Great Work As a Son was This Ask of me and I will Give Thee And it was not only Commanded but written in his heart as himself saith in the 40 Psalm that he should do the Will of God and his Great Will is that he Ever be Asking Souls and what he doth Once in This he doth still and for Ever So that he is Ever Asking and Ever Receiving from his Father and ever Giving Out and This Last he counts his Greatest Happinesse For it is a More Blessed thing to Give then to Receive And he very much disappoints his Fathers End and Ayme in Sending him into the World or Raising him up from the Dead If he be not Very much in Asking of his Father For it is the Only Command he layeth on him when he brought him forth Aske of Me and I will Give thee All Nations and the Vtmost ends of the Earth And That of Solomon Open thy Mouth for the Dumb in behalf of All Appointed to Destruction was but a little Branch of the Great Law of God to Christ
14th year or 2 d 7th And when I bring back Thy Captivity then I will bring back Sodom also thy sister and Samaria As the 2 wives of David at Ziglag or of Jacob who served twice 7 years and Then had Joseph who was bound as long and Then Foretold the 7 years Famine After 7 of Plenty The Ark was a Captive To the Philistines 7 years and Then was brought home at Wheat Harvest or at the Tabs And Ester was taken into the Royal House in the 10th month of the 7th year And David was Persecuted 7 years or Reigned 7 years and an half at Hebron before he got Jerusalem From the Jebusites who Trod it down as their name in Hebr Till He Took it As a Type of the New Jerusalem And then he made the Solemn Feast to All the People and dismissed All with Bread and Wine and flesh Although it be not called the Feast of Tabernacles As Solomons Dedication was In the 7th Month and Dayes of Tabs with his Solemn Feast After 7 years and 6 Months of his Temple As a Type of that to come in 7 Prophetick years and 6 Months After Which end about the year of Christ 1700. But Davids 7 years and half about 1666. And Nehemiah kept the Feast of Tabernacles and Release As it had not been From Josuahs Time As Neh. 8. 17. And to Clear this by the Numbers in Daniel and the Revelation 1260 or 1290 and 1335 are Dayes or Years As Hâ—urs of signal Fasts Feasts in the Jewish year As first They Fast on the 10th of the 1â—t For Mâ—riams Death and of the 2 d for Elies and his Sons with the Ark Taken Shadowing the Church As the P. Lambs Tyed up and Tryed on the 10th Which we call The Day of Tryal slain on the 14th in Hour of that year 333. As there were 333 Dayes of Hamans Lots From the 13th of the 1st To the 13 of the 12th which was also the Annual Feast for Nicanor slain as Haman at Purim the 14th and 15th of the 12th and there were 333 Dayes between the Day of Tryal and the 13th of the 12th month called Adar Pentecost the 65 t of the year and 65 more To the Great Doom of not Entring into Rest and Burning Both Temples the 9 or 10 of the 5th we call it Dooms Day Which was 65 before Tabs As the Palms or Hozanna was 65 before the Feast of Dedication on the 25 of the 9. As the Fast on the 10 of the 7 was 65 before the Desolation on the 15 of the 9. As the Fast for the Seige on the 10 of the 10 was 65 before the Last of Purim Thus the Passeover was 52 Dayes Before Pentecost the 52 d After Pass As the Fast for Jeroboams Sins was 50 Dayes before Doomsday the 52 d before the Feast of Trumpets And Nehems New Jerusalem was finished in 52 Dayes as weeks of a year or 1260 Hours which are Dayes 52. ½ As 1290 Hours come up to Noon of 54 Dayes Signal To the Jews For Reading the Law in 54 Sections As the City was Burnt 54 Dayes before the Feast of Trumpets And their annuall Fast for Aarons Death was 54 Dayes before the 24 or 25 of the 6 month For Creation in the Talmud and the 2 d Temple in Hag As for Finishing the City in Nâ—h 6. 15. But he was at Jerusalem 3 dayes before he began to work and so 54 or 55 Dayes which make 1290 or 1335 Hours As the Feast of Trumpets was so many Hours After the Day before the City Fired in the last of Kings As Pentecost was 1335 Hours After the first of the Day of Tryal which was 1290 Hours before the Preparation to Pentecost which was 1260 Hours from the Preparation to the Passover which was the first of Hamans Lots and Plots against the Jews As Ester 3. 12. 1260 Dayes are 3 years and 6 Months Ending at the 7th For Release of Hirelings Deut. 18. Esay 16. Or beginning the year in the 7th month As it did in Civils They come out in the 1st month or 1st Pass As 1290 Days in the 2 d month or 2 d Passover And brought up the 3. years Tithes and Offerings with One of the Solemn Confessions and Doxologies in Deut. 26. And the other came with the First Born and First Fruits of Wheat in the 3 d. Month about the Pentecost Which was 1335 Dayes From the said year so beginning in the 7th Month As 1335 Hours From the 1st Hour of the Day of Tryal But 1260 Hours From the Preparation to the Pass-over And for Years The Ark was at Zion in 1260 and the Temple was 1290 Or 1335 From the First Desolation of the Flood As Nehems New Jerus about 1260 from Jacob or 1290 from Joseph in Aegypt or 1335 from Jacobs Flight To Laban As the Dedication in the Macabs was just 1335 from Aegypt or the Golden Calf and 1290 from Their Setling in Canaan or 1260 From their First Bondage of 7 or 8 years To Mesopotamia Typing These 7. Prophetick years as 70. years in Babylon and 70 more To Nehemiahs Times And just 1260 years before the Christians Took Jerusalem A Type of the New Jer. to come And for Dayes also The City was Profaned by Antiocbus but 1260 Days or 3 years and half The Temple was clensed by Judas and Antiochus Dead in 1290 Dayes Azotus Taken and All cleared in 1335. As the Machabes and Jacob Cap. But Eupator got the Tower of Zion and Nicanor Swore to Burn the Temple So that All was not Fully Cleansed Till He was slain in 2300 Dayes from the First Profanation As in Dan. 8. 2300 Dayes are 6 years and as many Dayes As From the 15 of the 9th Month when the Temple was Profaned To the 13 of the 12th For Nicanor slain As Haman before And 2300 Hours come to the Evening Sacrifice of the 96 Day in which Time the Sun cometh from the Vernal Equinex To his Highest Apogeum As From the City Taken by the Caldees on the 9th of the 4th month To the Great Feast of Tabernacles on the 15 of the Seventh And in Lunar Months 2300 days are 6 years and 6 Months Coming to the Great Day of Creation or Finishing the 2 d Temple and Nehems New Jerus the 25 of the 6 Month. Or To the Beginning of the 7th with its Feast of Trumpets and Solemn Release and Feast of Tabernacles kept by Nehemiah So that 2300 Dayes are a Piece of the Law of Release which was a part of the 4th Command For the Lords Sabbath Which may be the Sum of All the Second Table As we saw before And From the Blood of Righteous Abell or First Bondage of the Church of God To the Coming out of Aegypt Or From the Great Declension of the Church In Jareds Time as his Name imports To Davids Zion Or from Enochs Birth To Solomon or from Enochs Translation To Josiah Or from the Flood To our Saviour there were much about
Days of the Week for 2 years together and the Mean Synods and Luminations Which are Equall and may differ from the Visible by 14 Hours or as much as the Longest Day at Jerusalem The Great Sun Dyall To the World And for Eclipses also The Moons Latitude is much alike in 4 years and the Suns Anomaly returns in 4 years And 4 Julian years have just 1461 Days As the Great Egyptian Soth had 1461 years But if any choose another way of Epact The Arabick Lunar year is just 10 dayes and 21 hours less then the Solar of 365 dayes 5 hours and 48 minutes But the Common Julian Greater then 12 Moons by 10 dayes 10 hours 10 halfs and 10 minutes And the Lunar month about a day and half half hour and quarter more then a month of 4 Weeks And though the Lunar year is thus too long by 10 or 12 minutes yet it suits the Julian which is so much also too long So that the Equinox is changed from Evening to Morning in 65 years Which may be one of many reasons for the 65 days of the year in Canaan which Ptolomy placeth at 65 degrees of Longitude And a Great man did make the Suns Radius 64 or 65 times bigger then the Earths And many make the Moons Greatest or Mercuries Least distance to be 65 of the Earths Radij And the Suns Mean Distance 1288 and Greatest 1334 or 1335. As Longomâ—nt Which is but 2 more then twice 666 or 1332. or half 65 more then 20 times 65. And before the Flood 2 were born at 65 Good Enochs Father and Son One After it Eber at Arphaxads 65th Twice 65 is 130. and 130 Hours of Creation brought up Adam As 130 years Seth Set in Abels room As Tabernacles After Pentecost 130 days And in 130 years the Equinox changeth an whole day As 12 Howers in 65 years Seth at 130 and Enos in 235 which make 365 and Then they began to Proclaim the Nune of Jehovah as in Exod. 34. in a way of Churches And the Paschall Lambs to represent the Ch were set apart and Tryed on the 10th Day of the First month Whose Noon is Hour 234 235. And 235 Moons do make the common Cycle which they call the Golden Number of 19 years or Moons 235. Which bring the Synod To the Same Day again But He that useth the former Rule hath little want of other Cycles Enos at 235 and his Sonn at 325 which is 235 Turned and as 235 Hours Tyed up the P. Lambs So 325 came to the morning Sacrifice of the Passover So that These 2 represent the mourning Ch. of God which is still counted but as Sheep for slaughter As the name of Kainan may intimate As Kain and his Son Irad the Beast or Kine in our English Hebrew Kainan Mourning Mahalael Blessing God At his Fathers 70. Type of all the 70 through the Bible As 70 Hours To the Great Minha of the 3 d Day Which beginneth with the Jubilie of 49 Hours 7 by 7 Return and Rest Which are both in the Word Sabbath And the first 3 d day of Creation brought up the first Living things as Herbs Thy Dew is the Dew of Herbs and the Earth shall cast out her Dead and Thence it might be the day of Resurrection As for cleansing the Leper on the 3 d and 7th and Defiled by the Dead For After 2 dayes he will revive us and the 3 d will quicken us And the First Fruit Omer was Heaved up on the 3 d Day after the Pass-over As Christ Raised on the 3 d day and its Evening Sacrifice at 70 hours As Mahalael 70 years after Kainan One of them was Born 1260 years the other 1332 before the Flood One dyed in the year 1235 and the other 1290. the Times of the Mourning and Rejoycing Churches of God in all ages The First Fruit Omer on the 6th Day After the P. Lambs Tyed As Adam came up on the 6th Day of Creation And the Morning Sacrifice of the 6th Day was at Hour 135 As the Evening of the 8th For Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath was at Hour 187. And from Pentecost To the Great Hozanna Days 135. As 187 in all To the Great Atonement And 187 between the Vernall and Autumnall Equinox in Hipparchus and Ptolomy As 187 in the Great Feast of Asuerus in Ester and 187 Chapters in the Pentateuck And the Temple Courts 187 Cubits and 135. Mahalaels name in Heb is 136. and his Son Jared was born 135 and lived 187 After Kainan And as 70 Hâ—urs are signall in the 3 d Day and 70 Days in the 3 d month for Pent so 90 Hours for noon of the 4th Day which was first to the Sun at Creation and 90 days bring up the 4â—h month and 90 years brought up the 4th man Kainan At his Fathers 90. So the 8th Methusela begat Lamech at 187 and Lamech Noah at 182. which is twice 91. As 182 and 187 Hours are Morning and Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day for Rest or Noah Kainans Death from Lamechs Birth 361 as his Birth before Methusela 362 and twice 365 before Noah 365 before Jareds End And as Lamech lived 777 So Kainan was twice 666 before the Flood 669 After Enochs 365. As Mahalaels Death before the Flood 365. And so from the Flood or Arphaxads Birth To Abraham in Canaan 365. As the Jews reckon their Veines and Negative Precepts As Days in a year and Hours before the morning of the First Fruit Omer Which was 135 Hours after the day of Tryall Which began 1335 Hours before the Morning Sacrifice of Pentecost 1260 Hours after the Preparation to the â—assover or First of Hamans Lots And at Pentecost the Lambs and Great Peace-Offerings of the Church were Heaved up with the First Fruits of Wheat an Emblem of the Churches Rising in so many dayes or years As in Daniel and the Revelation And now seeing all these Harmonies to meet in Holy Enoch who was Heaved up as the First Fruit Omer After as many years as Hours To its Morning or Days in a year and begetting his Son at 65 as days to Pent and many other 65 in the Jewish year And the next came up at 187 as Days before Atonement and between the Vernall and Autumnalâ— Equinox We need not doubt to begin our Great Jewish year at Enoch and to go forward To all the Feasts and Fasts of their year Till at length we come To the Greatest Feast of Tabernacles and Release which we are seeking Though it be not easie to fix the season of Creation which is not agreed in the Talmud but some place it At the Great Day of the 2 d Temple and the New Jerusalem in the latter end of the 6th month And they have a kinde of Tradition as if Adam found his First Days shortning and the Sun Declining As the Psalm for one afflicted cryeth Thou hast shortned my Days and I am like a shadow that Declineth As Adam At his Fall Which
many place about the Great Fast of Expiation As if the Fall of the Leaf in Autumn were an annuall Emblem of Adams Fall and eating of the Tree from which the Leaves Then fall and the Floods Rising at that season were as Natures Weeping over the Fall or washing us with Tears As our Blushing at the sence of Guilt may seem the voyce of Nature washing us with Blood or crying Somewhat Now is Done that must be washt with Blood and without it Nâ— Remission The Flood was At the season of the Sun in Aquarius Then about the Winter Solstice just at Methuselas Death As his Name in Heb His Death a Dart or Deluge And he Dyed at 969 years As Hours to the Morning Watch of the 41st Day of the year at which they say he was Dead When Noah was bid to fill the Ark. Which began at His 480 year As the Temple at 480 from Moses Ark and of the World 1536. As Hours 1536 come just To Pentecost As 480 To the last and Great Day of Vnleavened Bread The Flood was in the year 1656 and Hours 1656 come just to the 70th Day very like to make Great Changes There were 40 Days of the year before the Death of Methusela or filling the Ark and 40 days of Rain and 40 days of Decrease before the Raven 40 Days are Hours 960. As Methusala and Noah lived to the last of twice 960 years And again there were 960 years between the first and 2 d Ark at Shiloh Peace and Rest a Type of Jacohs Shiloh 45 from Egypt 430 from the Promise 365 from the Flood which began 120 years after the Ark and mans day of 120 years As some make the Equinox to Change a day in 120 years As from Moses Ark of Bulrush To the Flood of Jordan when and where he dyed As 120 Shekles of Gold in His Tabernacle 120 Cubits in the Temple Porch 120 Priests and 120 Trumpets at Solomon Who had 120 Talents Given him and offered 120000 Sheep at his Dedication As 120 Levits of Note in David and 120 Christians in Acts the 1st As 120 men of the Great Councel in Ezra who came in 120 dayes from Babylon which had 120 Provinces in Daniels time So the Jews had 120 Days from the Day of Tryall To their Doomsday As 120 years of Tryall before the Flood and 120 days from Doomsday To the Profanation of the Temple on the 15th of the 9th As from the Last of Pentecost To the Great Fast 120. 3 Times 120 makes 360 3 and half 420 and 3 of these or 3 and half 360 make 1260 the Time of the Ch Driven or Trodden by the Beast As at first the Beasts Reigned till Adam came up to govern them Which wasnot till 120 Hours or 5 Days As between the Day of Tryall and the First Fruit Omer And as the first Ark began 960 years before the 2 d was fixed at Shiloh so the Flood began 960 years before the Flood Kishon sweeping Jabin or Sisera before Barak and Debora Types of the Churches Rest in the 83 d Psalm and 84 Hours are 3 days and half And Barak may allude To the Flood in That of Kishon the Ancient Flood O my Soul Thou hast Trodden down strength And Esay saith You make a Ditch of the Old Pool but regard not Him that made it Long agoe And again 960 years between the 2 d Temple and the 2 d Ark which Flitted 40 years in the Wilderness from the 20th day of the 2 d month As the first Ark floated on the same day of that month through the 40 days of Rain and 3 times 40 more as the 2 d Ark 40 years from the Philistins before it rested on Ararat As Those that flew Senacherib Compared to the Flood in the 8th and 17th of Esay upon the 17th of the 7th month which came to be the 3â— of Tabernaâ—les As if God would hint his Churches Rest should Come about the Time of the Feast of Tabernacles That 17th day of the 7th month did end the first 150 dayes of the Flood and 150 Days have Hours 3600 As seconds in an Hour And 3600 years come from the Mourning Church at Enos or Kainan To our Saviour Or from Abrahams Call to Canaan whence we may begin the Churches Flittings in Tents and â—abernacles To the year of Christ 1670 or 1675. And if That be the 3 d of Tabernacles Then its First is about 1666. First the Raven or Evil spirit sent or cast out of Heaven or the Church as in Revel 12. and Luke 10. 18. and Then the Dâ—ve both went and came As the Good Spirit on our Saviour Coming out of Jordan As the First Baptized Noah did from the Flood And the Olive branch which must be Green or else no sign of the Floods decrease for it might have Swum from the very first may shew us the season of the year as Luke 21. 30. About 292 days of the Flood or year as others reckon it And Terahs 70 was 292 years After the Flood and so the Jews account Abraham came and Lived with Noah 58 years as the number of Noah And Thus the Promise to Abraham or his coming to Canaan was as many years from Enochs Son as Hours from the day of Tryall To Pent. and from the Flood or Arphs. Birth as many years as Hours To the First Fruit Omer or as Days in a year Or in the Flood if its months were Lunar But if each had 30 days as the first 5 It was more then 365 days from the 17th in the 1st year to the 27th of the 2 d month in the 2 d year Which was much about 1332 hours of That 2 d year as it was 1332 years After Kainans Birth And Enochs Translation was about the middle Or as near 666 After Kainan as before the Flood just twice 666 from Kainan And Enochs Birth was 1326 and so but 6 less then twice 666 before Abraham Who recovered Sodom by 3 persons and 318 Enâ—chs in Heb. or Catechists As about 318 years of Eber who was 666 After Noah and about twice 666 After Mahalael and twice 666 After Enochs Son Methuselah The 4 Kings Conquered by Ab As Types of the 4 Great Watchers on Earth or 4 Monarchies Of Shinaar or Babylon Elam Mâ—des and Persians Elas Sar the Prince of Eâ—as or Greece And the 4th was Head of the Gentiles or Gojim in Heb. which may be Romans though there were especial Gojim at the Sea of Sodom and Galilce of the Gentiles As Harosheth of the Gentiles in Josuah The 12 years Bondage are 4320 days or years which added to the Floods 1656 do make 5976. As the Preparation to the Sabbath of 7000 As the Suns Apogeum comes about in 7000 years and 5976 want but 24 of 7000. Abrahams Vision hath the Pigeon and Turtle as Abraham and Lot the Good Jews and Gentiles unbroken in the breakings or division of the Bullock a Script emblem both of Egypt and Babylon with its
K. eating Grass as an Ox and of the Ram or Medes and Persians in Dan. and the Goat for the Grecian Monarchy The Fowls Chased by Abraham may note the Romans famous for Ravens in the Punick Warr and Eagles as in Daniel and our Saviour As the Babylonians were for Doves in their Ensigns and letters about Doves necks As fly from the Dove of the North and as a Trembling Dove or Jonah from Assyria Which also worshipped the Dove as That which kept Semyramis or Semyrian Kept by the Dove And Abrahams Vision had All Beasts and Birds for sacrifice And Divers Nations learned such a way of Covenants and Lustration Cutting a Bullock as in Jeremy with a Ram and Goat also in Greece And the Macednians bowed To the Goats Hans in Justine and Plutarchs Pyrrhus And the Heifer of 3 years old may denote 1080 years as Dayes of 3 years and Clakins of their Hours As years from Abraham To the Fall of the first Monarchy and Rising of the 2 d. at the 7th year of Joash or in Amaziâ—h Or of Rome and Nibonassar with the Greek Olympiads in Vzziah 3 times 3 years are 3240 Dayes or years From Babel Built To the Christians Taking Jâ—rusalem Or from the Covenant made with Abraham or the Birth of Isaak To Ottoman and the first Roman Jubilie So also From Mâ—ses To These Dayes Abraham saw his Seed should be gotten out by many Plagues As Sara was Recovered Thence by Plaguing Pharaohs House and at Sun-set the very season of their coming out as Gen. 15. 17. Deut. 16. 6. They were called up at Midnight after the Passover but got not out of Aegypt till the next Sun-set at Hour 360. bringing up the Full Mâ—on as Dayes 360 the Full year and That was Afterwards the season of the First Fruit Omers Reaping Which was Heaved up As They were and Christ was to be And so they carried up the Bones of Joseph and the Patriarchs as Acts 7. From Ramases they came to Succoth Tabernacles and Then to Etham in the 3 d station As our Saviour said I Walk to day and tomorrow and the 3 d day I shall be Perfect As David also Then I shall be Perfect Which is Faham in Heb. There they saw the Glory of God in his Cloud and Piller Promised to every Cotage on mount Zion and to All her Churches which are therefore many in Esw 4. This might be Minba time of the 3 d Day from Aegypt or at Hour 430. As it was year 430. They Past the Red Sea upon the 21st of that Month the Last and Great Day of Unleavened Bread wch began at hour 480. As the Temple at year 480. and was Dedicated in the 7th month Ethanim and Tabernacles as alluding both To Succoth and Eâ—ham The Red Sea in Heb might be called Red from the Great Trade for Mimum and Vermilion at a Port of it in very ancient Authors or from Erythrus that ruled in the Ilands where Edom never was Though once his borders reach to Fzion-geber on that Sea But Israel did Compass Edoms Land and might not tread upon it which was so remote from This Sea that the Prophets say His Cry should reach unto it at his Fall But Edom is a Glutton as Adam in the Orientall tongues whence Eâ—o and Eat in many Languages And though Edon may be Red also yet improbable to name That Sea which reached unto India in very many Authors From This Sea they came to Sur or Sure on the 22 d day and in 3 days more To Marah Bitter and Rebellion much about Hour 666 or noon of the 28th day At Elim 12 Fountains and 70 Psalms Which grow by Bowing as their Heb name Tamar As she that grew Fruitful in her old age As Psalm 92 the Righteous flourish as Tamar in the Hezrons of God They bear much fruit in Old age as Tamar did before Aegypt to encourage them And Malachy saith Judah loveth the Daughter of a strange God as a Cananite in Genesis wherefore God will cut off Er and Oneh in One day David might remember That of Tamar and Hezcon when he read how the women Blessed his Grand-mother saying Let thy House be As Tamars seed To Judah A strange Emblem of the Church by the seed of the Father while she tarried for Shelah Shilâ—h From Elim To Sin on the 15th of the 2 d month as from Aegypt on the 15th of the first and There they Sin again by murmuring Till the Manna came upon the 3 d day after the Time for the 2 d Passover As the First Fruit Omer on the 3 d day After the first Passover And the Law was at the Time of â—entecost The Golden Calf was in the 4th month Then they fast for Breaking the Tables And the Caldees broke up the City on the 9th of the 4th month In the 5th month They Fast again for the Heavy Doom of not Entering into Rest Which they reckon the Day of Both Temples Burnt Or Doomsday In the 6 â— they Fast again for the Judgements on the Evil Spies And the 7th began with Trumpets yet they Fast again upon the 3 d for Ishmacl But the 10th is the Great Fast for Adams Fall as is thought when the Sun declined and Day shortned Till the Flood And thence increased again and at their leaving Aegypt the Sun was in Aries Horned as the Aegyptian Hammon at the Vernal Equinex And Moses promised that God would make their Days As the Days of Heaven Which Increased till the Height and Heat of the Sun and sin and wrath which are all in the Hebr Hamma brought a flood of fire upon their City and Temple about the Height of the Summer Sun And at That Tropick Their Sun Turned again as in Amos 8. And at Hezekiahs sicknesse and our Saviourâ— Death and Declined as their Dayes shortned as Isalm 102 Till the Autumnal Equinox and Great Renewing of the year or Restitution of All things Acts 3 d. At the Great Release and Feast of Tabernacles which we seek and Expect They Entred Canaan on the 10th of the first month As Ezech. saw the New Jerusalem upon the 10th of the 1st month the very day for setting apart the Paschal Lambs It s Noon is hour 234 as before in Enos and the Golden Number And it was 234 years after Jacobs Death We may begin the Great year we discusse At This Entering Canaan or Their Leaving Aegypt Or the first Rearing of the Tabernacle on the first Day of the year On which the Earth appeared Dry to Noah and Hezekiah began to Cleanse the Temple as Ezekiel is Commanded and Ezra began to come from Babylon the first day of the year Flee out of Bobylon make hast and look not back least you partake of her Plagues and Remember Lots Wife But Ezra came not to Jerusalem till the first of the 5 â— the Annual Fast for the Death of Aaron whom Ezra was to supply and with Nehemiah To repair the City Burnt in
that very month in which they came up Thither from Babylon And then he purged the people which was finished on the first day of the 2 d year From Babylon As the Tabernacle was Reared on the first of the 2 d year from Aegypt 1530 Hours of the year came to the Preparation Evening before the Pentecost beginning at Four 1536 As Noahs Ark began in year 1536. And so many years from Egypt come to the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. As is more discussed in The Nâ—w Island Where is most or All or more then All This Book And there can be but 66 more Days To the Great Dâ—om on the 9th or 10â—h of the 5â—h Month. For They assign it to both those days And it might be at Evening between them both 66 days have 1584 Hours and 48 more for the day Before and After make but 1632. So that the Great Dâ—om Cometh in 1632 Hours or Years After the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. Which was certainly before the End of the 34th of Christ Although we do not yet fix his Birth but That it may be 2 or 3 years before the Common Account And we Therefore use to say About such or such a year And by this account The Great Dâ—om will be About the year of Christ 1665 or at most 1666. Which is 1632 years After the Great Pentecost in His 34th or raâ—her 33 d Which is most generally agreed for the year of His Pâ—ssion and the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. But I rather look for the Feast of Tabernacles Which was As many Hours After the Burning of Both Temples As These were After Pentecost And I suppose the Burning of That City and Temple by the Romans within 40 years After the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d To be the Fiery Tryal or Dooms-day foretold in divers places Ezech. and other Prophets say God would deal Worse with Iâ—rael then with other Nations and our Saviour said the Dâ—om of That City should be Worse then Ever was or should be more Which yet Daniel seems to place At Their Riâ—ing again About the Great Feast of Tabernacles now coming Which will be a Fiery Trâ—al and a Day or Hour of Great and Sore and Quick Temptation As the Jews Tradition is that before their Feast of Tabernacles God doth sit in Judâ—emâ—nt on the Dead of That Year And so the use to Fast as some now to know Who Must Dye that Year by their Shadows or Ghosts as Job and the Psalms Which yet often call for all the World to leap and dance and sing at the Coming of Christ to Judge the World For Loe he Cometh He Cometh to Judge the World And His Throne is White And yet All run away and call to the Mountains to fall and Cover them As I shall do If He be not very Gracious Which I hope he will And the rather because he promiseth to gather All Tongues and Nations to see his Glory and When he Calleth all Nations and Kingdoms to receive his Doom in Zeph 3 d. He Promiseth the Holy Ghost and Fire with a Pure Language but to a Poor People that they may Alâ— serve him with one Consent or Sechem as before Which I wish and beg and long for more then Firing Any Place in all the world And for this Great Feast of Tabernacles we may proceed by Dayes and Hours of the Jewish year As we did before for Pentecost or the Great Doom Which was As many Dayes After Pentecost As Before Tabernacles And We may begin That Great Year At any Great and Noted Time Before or After Egypt But Rather Before For in Egypt They seem to be as the P Lambs Tyed up before the Passover They reckon Amram Born at 65 from Jacobs going Down As Pentecost was 65 t Day of the Year and 65 years more To Aaron Who dyed a little before the Great Doom in the 5 t month or 65 Dayes After Pentecost And about Aarons Birth they place the Cruel Edict of slaying the Male Children 84 years before their Coming out and 84 Hours are just 3 dayes and Half Or the Time between the Day of Tryall and the morning of the Passe-over which was Past before their Coming out As if the Wrath of God did Passe over them To the Aegyptians Before their Coming Thence At the day of the First Fruit Omer and they passed not the bounds of Egypt or the Sea Till about the Last Day of Unleavened Bread Which was 45 Days before Pentecost As 45 years before their setling in Canaan or Calebs Hebron in Josh 14. and 45 is half 90 the 4th of 360 and 90 Hours are just the Noon of the 4th Day And the 4th of Creation was the First of the Sun and Moon the 2 Faithful Witnesses in Heaven as the 89th Psalm From That 45th year After Egypt we may begin Their Pentecosts or from the first Sabattical year in Canaan As many years from Egypt As the Day of Pentecost is Dayes from That on which They came from Egypt And so many years After Enoch As there are Hours in the year To Pentecost or its Preparation Day which began at Hour 1512 and ended at 1536 as before For Enoch was 669 before the Flood which was 292 before Abraham or his Fathers 70 and 75 more To his Call or Coming to Canaan and 430 more To their Coming out of Egypt and 40 more to Canaan so that 6 more make up 1512 the first Hour of the Preparation To the Pentecost And if Abraham were Born After his Fathers 70 There may be as many years from Enoch To their Entering Canaan As there were Hours To the first or last of Pentecost beginning at 1536 and Ending in 1560. And to go forward From the First Pentecost in Canaan To the First Born stopped by Jeroboam were as many years As Hours from the first of Pentec To the Close of the 23 d Day of the 3 d month on which They still Fast for That of Jeroboam 456. Which is also the more remarkable because the Plots of Haman held against the Jews Till That very day of the 3 d month Est 8 9. And From Jeroboam To the Captivity there were as many years as Days in a year or Hours From That 23 d of the 3 d To the 9th of the 4th on which They Fast for the City Taken as in Kings and Jeremy Which was from the first of Pentecost as many Hours As years from the First Pentecost To that Captivity about 860. In the same month They Fast again for Breaking the Tables of the Law 430 years After the Promise and for Burning the Law by Antiochus 430 years from the City Taken and 430 Hours are about 17 Days and their Fast is on the 17th Day of that Month. In the 5 t Month They Fast for Aarons Death which was followed by Arad Taking them Captive and by Fiery Serpents Till the Brazen Serpent Healed Them As Christs Death was followed by the Roman Sack
and Firing the 2 d Temple on the Day of their Heavy Doom and of Firing the First Temple Which was but a Type or Shadow of the 2 d Fired much about 666 years After the first and about 1536 years After their Entring Canaan As Pentecost was 1536 Hours of the year and the 9th of the 5 t month 1536 Hours Af-the first Hour and the 10th 1536 Hours After the Last Hour of Pentecost Upon the 3 d of the 7th they Fast again for Gedaliah and the 70 slain by Ishmael A plain Type of the Turk or Saracen whom They call Ishmael who Took Jerusalem from the Christians on the very 2 d Day of That 7th month in Bapt. Grammay and others As they Fast the 3 d. The 15th of That 7th month must begin the Great Feast of Tabernacles and it can be but 1600 Hours After the Day of Doom or Burning of the Temples and it Therefore must be within 1600 years if an Hour be As a year After the City Sacked in 69 or 70 of Christ As the Blood of the Vintage before the Tabernacles in the Revel ran out 1600 furlongs from the City which was then Sacked And if it were Burnt in the very morning of the 9th Day of the 5 t month yet Tabs must come at 1669 or 1670. And it seemeth to begin sooner As the Sack was rather on the 10th then 9th and so nearer To the Tabernacles For they say it was the very same Day and same Course as the old Hâ—b Ode on which the First Temple was Burnt and That was the 10th Day As Jer 52. 12. Though the City Burnt 2 or 3 days before as 2 Kings 25. And suppose it were the very First Hour of the 9th day yet there can be but 22 days of the 5 t month and 30 days of the 6 â— and 15 more to the Close of the first of Tabernacles When they first began their Dancing and Joy of Pouring out Waters Though the King did not begin to Read the Law Till Afterwards As the Law Commanded it At the Close of the year and Feast of Tabernacles As our Saviour did not appear at That Feast in John 7. Till the Latter End In the Last and Great Day of the Feast He stood and Cryed O Every One that Thirsteth 22 and 30 and 15 Dayes are 67 which are Hours 1608 and by This account the day of Tabernacles must begin 12 Hours or Years before 1678 which is just 1666. If we rightly account it by the Hours of the Jewish Years We may Confirm This by all the Cubits Shekles and other things in the Bible As first the Verses and Sections of the Pentateuch in the Mazoreth Genesâ—s hath 12 Great Sections as the year 12 months and 50 Chapters as the Lunar year hath 50 weeks as 50 Days between the Passover and Pentecost and 1534 verses As the year had Hours To the evening sacrifice before the Pentecost and as the World had years To the first Command and model of the Church in Noahs Arke as we saw before 120 years before the Flood Exodus hath 11 Sections As the year had 11 months After That in which they came out and 40 Chapters As 40 years between the Exodus and Canaan and 1209 Verses As hours from the Passover at which they came out To the morning of Pentecost and so many years there were from the Ark to Jephta or from the Flood To David Or from Josephs Death To Ezra or Nehemiah Leviticus hath 10 Great Sections as of Tenâ—hs for Priests and Levits And the Law was Given at Pentecost 10 months before the End of the year and 52 smaller As Pentecost was the 52 d day from the Passover and Nehemiahs New Jâ—rusalem in 52 days as weeks of a Solar year and 859 Verses or twice 430. As years from the Flood to the Maâ—riage of Isaak Or From the Promise To the Law and from Thence to David or from entring Canaan To Solomon or from the Ark at Shiloh to the Temple or from Thence To the Captivity and 430 more To the Machabes Numbers hath also 10 Great Sections as 10 days to the Tryal of the P Lambs 10 weeks To the Close of Pentecost or 10 months To the Great Dedication in the Machabes with 66 little Sections which they call Sethume Secret with the flittings of the Ark and Camp Through the Wildernesse its Heb name in 1288 verses as years of the Church in the Wildernesse As in Daniel 1290. And so many Hours bring up 54 days As from the day of Tryal to Pentecost or Preparation To it And from Pentecost To the day of Aarons Death and Thence To the Great day of Creation or of the 2 d Temple and the New Jerusalem in Hag. and Neh. who began the 54 Law Lectures for 54 days Deuteronomie hath 1055 verses as Hours from the first Omer Heaved unto Pentecost or years from Abrahams Father To David or from David To our Saviour or from our Saviours Death and the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d To the Christians Reigning in Canaan All the Chapters of the Pentateuch are 187 As Hours To the Ev. sic of the 8th day for Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath and as dayes To Atonement and between the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox of years again in the Temple Courts All its little Sections are 669 as Hours To the Ev. Sac. of the 28 h or 4th 7th day the last of the month of weeks as years from Enochs Translation To the Flood 669. All its verses 5945 As years to the Preparation To the Great Sabbath of 7000 years In which also the Suns Apogeum cometh about To the same point it had at first Shall we come to the Numbers in the Heb. Alphabet when God did first write the Law as it is in Exodus he left out Teth the first letter of their Only word for Good As hinting that He gave them Laws at first Not Good as in Ezckiel Afterwards he repeated it as in Deut with Teth added and a special Emphasis upon the word of Good That it may be Good or well with Thee and Thy Children c. And the 9 first Letters of that Alphabet wch end in Teth are Units and do make 45 as years from the Law To the Ark at Shiloh or Caleb at Hebron Jos 14. The 9 next letters are Decimals and make 450. as years from the Law To the Ark at Zion and the first New Jerusalem when David came from Hebron Or from Calebs being there or the Ark at Shiloh To the Temple finished The 4 last are Centenaries making K. R. S. T or Christ and 1000. As years from the Temple finished To Christ who was from the latter end of Moses 1460 years As in the Great Aeâ—yptian Sotâ— or Julian Cycle before But from Aegypt and the Law He was just 1495 years as the Number of the Hebr Alphabet by which God wrot the Law at Horch where Moses was about 1495 years after Enoch and 1495 years before
4 in breadth do make 1320. And so many days do make 44 months and beginning at Nisan they end at the 9th month of the 4th year which had the Great Feast of Dedication for the Temple freed from the Rams or Goats hair of Antiochus Or beginning in Tizri as in Civils They bring up All the 3 years Tithes and Offerings with the First Fruits and First born and both Solemn Confessions and Doxologies of Deut. 26. At the Pentecost of the 4th year Which was 1320 days After the Passover of the 4th year before it As 1335 days After the Feast of Trumpets or the Trumpet of Release As 1335 Hours After the first Hour of the day of Trvall And so many years come from the Tabernacle Reared To the Great Dedication in the Machabes Death of Antiochus or Nicanor As we may find at the Temple Gate Nicanor If the 3 Outer Coverings are equall of 330 by 4 in each They make 3960 Cubits 40 short of Ezechiels 4000 As the 40 years After Christ to the City Sacked And to our Saviours First Acting in the Temple there are just 3960 years of the World in Scaliger and Those that follow him And from the Flood so many years come out about 1666 now coming and so do the 2 Utter Coverings from Jeroboams Flood As a Type of that to Fill the Breadth of Thy Land O Emanuel which come out at 1666. The Badgers Skins as uppermost may be Largest And 1335 as in Daniel But 1320 come from Christs Being in the Temple or the Temples End To the Templers End in one day and the Popes Flying to Avignion At the shaking Times of Ottoman and the Imperial States Protesting against the Popes Right in Electing Emperours And from the Great Apostacy in Julians days They come to the Times in which we live But we come to the Temple Measures And if Josephus rightly place the 2 d Walls on the first Pillars called Solomons Walks or Porches in our Saviours Time They were 500 Cubits every side As the Sept. Vulgarlat read Ezech. 42. not 500 Kanes as others So that All the Sides of the Square did make 2000. As the Levites Suburbs the Distance of the Ark and the Sabbath days Journey and the Square Cubits in the Tabernacle before the Oracle And the years from Abraham to our Saviour 2000. We shall begin As They Entred with the Sun from East to West and so from Haran at first and from Moab Over Jordan and from Babylon and Persia With its Royall Shushan on the first Eastern Gate of the 2 d Temple called Shushan 80 Cubits to the Rising of the Womens Court. As 80 days before the Woman came Thither of a Woman Child As Zion of her Daughter in Mic. 4. The Man-childe was not Born till her Last Throwes as themselves express on Es 66. As 80 Hours of Creation before the Moon and Sun did meet For they were not seen till the 4th Morning And 80 years From Shushan and Cyrus to Ezra Seperating the strange Women and making This Womens Court called Aezra from Ezra Help and so they Blessed as the Ps taught them when the Women or the Mourners took the Left hand Walk as others did the Right The Lord Bless thee out of Zion and send thee Help Out of his Holy Place though thou may not come in it But only look towards it As Jonah did when he was cast out of His Holy Place or Presence The 80th year from Cyrus Taking Babylon As he is called K. of Babylon in Ezra 5. And Thence he gave the Temple Vessels falleth within the 80th Olymp or the 8th of Artaxerxes Long and just 490 years before the Last of Olymp 202 d. Agreed for our Saviours Passion by the Great Earth-make and the strange Eclips in Phlegon and many others The 13 First Cubits in the Gate-house as Ezech. 40. 11. may represent the First Light coming up at 13 Hours of Creation and the 13 Days of their year before the Passover and the first 13 weeks in the year between the Solstice and the Tropick As the 13 months of the year and the 13 years between the Temple Founded and Finished or at least Revived in the 2 d of Darius in the 65 t Olympiad And the 65 Cubits before the Holy Courts As 65 Hours to the Noon of the 3 d Day and the 65 Days in the Jewish year as before and 65 years between the 2 d of Darius in the 65 t Olympiad and the 7th or 8th of Artax When Ezra came up at Olympiad 80 and 80 years After Zerubbabel from about 80 Degrees of Longitude To Jerusalem at 65. As the first Fruits of Emanuel in Esay 7 were 65 years before Jerusalem was freed from Those 2 Kingdoms and our Emanuel 65 years before the Christian Persecutions and the Roman Times Shadowed in the Cuthites contending with Nehemiah Who came after Ezra full 11 years and so there were 11 Cubits in the first Verge of the Holy Courts they called Heb Between The Hill and the Help As Heaven After Hell with its Staires and Latices As the Canticles allude in the Gentiles or Unclean Vnder the Staires and behind the Latices Then came the Womens Court and Ezra's Great Work was To Seperate the Women As their Ruine came by Women Esay 3 d and 32 d with Ezra and Nehemiah just 135 Cubits Long and in the Talmud Square As 135 Hours of Creation before Any Woman Or To the First Morning of Adam and From Tying up the Lambs to Heaving up the First Omer were 135 Hours As 135 Days between the Pentecost and Palms or Great Hozannah Closing the Tabernacles And 135 years To the Great Era of the Greeks and Jews Great Friend Nicanor And 135 more to Antiochus and their Great Enemy Nicanor As the Gate Nicanor At this Womans Court 135 Cubits from Hell and the Death of Nicanor on the 13th of Adar 135 Dayes After the Day of Solemn Covenant both of Men and Women in This Womens Court At the close of the Tabernacles Nehemiah 8 and 9. As 135 years before from the First Temple Founded to Joash who Repaired it From the Gate of Nicanor The Inward Court of Israel and the Priests In length 187 Cubits that is 135 and 52 for Nehemiahs Days As Weeks in a year and 187 Hours came to the Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day For Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath And 187 Days To the Great Atonement As Autumnal Equinox 187 Days After the Vernal And the Great Feast in Ester was 187 days And the Pentatcuch 187 Chapters And 187 years From the 2 d Temple Begun or Finished To Alexanders Reign or Coming To it Or Taking Babylon and Dying at it much about 11 years before the First Nicanor As there were 11 Cubits From the Gentiles Court To That of Nicanor and 11 more from the Gate of Nicanor To the Levits Railes and Ducans parting Israel and the Priests As Twice 11 Before the Altar Twice 11
Rise of Ottoman and first Roman Jubilie of Bâ—niface the 8th Who did as much for Temporalls As Bâ—niface the 3 d for Spiritualls about the Time of Mahomet 666 before Ottoman And Purim in the 7th Month from Doomesday As 7 years of Release 333 Days from the Passover became the Feast for the Death of Nicanor After Antiochus As Types of These and others Ending all at 7 times 333 or 3 times 666 and an Half From Daniels Captivity Kainan was 666 before Enochs Translation or twice 666 before the Flood As Enoch was Before Abraham or Methusela before the Promise twice 666. As Kainans Son about 666 before Noah And Noah 666 before Eber and Eber 666 before the Great Cecrops or the Time of Mâ—ses As the Flood about 666 before the Death of Joseph and Bondage in Aegypt And Abrâ—hams Death about half 666 before the Tabernacle Reared And from Aegypt 666 years brought up Joash of Judah or Joas of Israel Sacking Jerusalem in the 14th of Amaziah As Josephus with the Bible and 666 more the Desolation of Antiochus And that God would Raise them at 666 might be Hinted in 666 Sons of Adâ—nâ—kam or The Lord will Raise up again at the Return from Babylon in Ezea And Thus we might find 666 the Great Crisis To the Greatest Kingdoms As To the First and Oldest in Greece or Siciâ—n As also To Nimrods Babel about 666 before the Exodus and Twice 666 before its Ruine in the Sâ—n of Pull or Sardâ—napalus 333 before Cyrus As 666 from Solomons 666 Talents of Gold to Alexanders Crown 333 before Christ Who was Thrice 666 After Abraham or 2000 as before And so between Their Birth years Thrice 666 and Twice 666 and an Half to These very Times or to 1666. And to fix our Eye upon Jerusalem the Sun to its Moon or Jerecho the Great Sun Dyall to the World withall the Turns of Light and Darkness It was Built about Abrahams Coming to Canaan in Jos with Hegesip twice 666 before the Caldees Sackt it Taken by Judah much about 666 from Terah Babylon or Ninive By David about 666 from Isaaks Death or Josephs Dungeon and 444 23 ds of 666 from Aegypt By Shishack 666 from Josephs Death or their Bondage in Egypt By Joas 666 After Aegypt and 666 Before Antiochus As Joash Repair of the Temple was about 666 After Moses first from Aegypt By the Chaldees 666 before Titus and twice 666 After Abrahams Coming into Canaan By Bagâ—as under Ochus 666 from David or the Temple Founded By Ptolomy Lag 666 After Shishack and 666 before Julian By Antiochus 666 After Joas Sack and twice 666 from Egypt And from Cyrus so many years as Days in their year By Pompey 666 from Assyrs Sack of Israel or Samaria By Crassus Robbing the Temple 666 After Senacherib Robbed it of all he could get from Hezekiah Then beseiged it with a vast Army strangely destroyed in Herodotus besides the Bible A Type of what God means to do when Antichrist shall fill the Land of Emanuel As Esay 8. and 14. and 17 18. Micha 5. By the Parthians and by Sosius and Herod about 666 from Babels first Coming to Jerusalem in Hezekiahs Time or Manasseh Carried Captive By Titus 666 After the Caldean Sack and 60 before Adrian Raced it 666 After Cyrus Built it By Julian 666 After Ochus and by Cozroes 666 After Pompey and by Omer 666 After Sâ—sius and Herod 666 Before Ottoman Again by the Saracens 666 After Adrian and by the Caliph of Babylon 650 from Julian and Then by the Turks After Titus 666½ Then by the Christians 1260 from Antiochus and by Saladin twice 666 from Antiochus and Nicanor By Egypt again in 1234 and by the Saracens 1290. By Selim 1516. And for the Fates of Rome or Edom in the Prophets As the Jews Tradition is It rose at Edoms Breaking Jacobs Yoak and Carrying Judah Captive in 2 Cron. 28. which caused Ahaz to hyre Assyria which destroyed Israel and Iudah This was about 666 before Pompeys Sack which was 666 Before Phocas and Boniface As Caesars Iulian Aera was 666 years and odd days before the Great Hegyra of Mahomet 666 before Ottoman the first Roman Iubilie The 660th year of Rome was signal for Peace at home and abroad But 666 very Fatal For the Massacre of 15 miryads of them in One Day in Asia As the Danes in England and for the Civil Wars which beseiged Rome with 4 Armies at once Till one Consul was slain as Sacrifice at the Altar and Cn. Pompey by Thunder and the rest affrighted by Prodigies till Sylla diverted beseiged Athens and took it with the Flowr of Greece in a year And though Their Legions were not Constant yet we may find 666 very signal in them or their Cohorts and their Greater Legion 6666. And to Parallell Britain with the Jews As both were invaded in Caesars time so both revolted in Neroes and although reduced to a Province yet not as others at the Senates Order but the Emperours Peculiers Vespatian is designed to quiet Both and both rebel again in Adrian about 666 before the Saracens seized Ierusalem and the Danes England A Monarchy by Egbert Though Ina be Called the First in the Saxon Laws Taught by an Angel Payed Peterpence but first to an English Colledge in Rome about 666 from Titus at Ierusalem Austine was Here in 600 and ere long received a Pali from Rome Tanquam Grande Christi Sacramentum ad Missarum Solennia with power to make 12 Bishops As York had 12 in the Learned notes on Bede The Monks of Bangor 1250 or 1260 in the Saxon Chronology slain about 666 from Caesar Here or Pompey at Ierusalem In 636 Ierusalem is Sacked by Omar and Cambridge by Sigebert a King and ere long a Monk Christiana factia Catholica In 637 we read of Parishes as Cambden but an old Mss brings them To Theodore about 666. In That very year the English received Latine Service and other Ceremonies with the Popes Supremacy As Bale and the Mag. Centuries Tithes in Ethelbert By K. Barons and Commons As in the Confessors Acts. And Ethelbert Dyed 666 After Crassus at Ierusalem Lent Here by Parliament As the Saxon Bede which in Lat. is Authoritate Principali In Ercombert Who Dyed about 666. And Then was Bede Born Alfred the First Adopted Son of the Pope who Crowned him at Rome But his Will owneth his Kingdom To the Bounty of God and his Subjects Free as His own Thoughts in Menevensis about 666 before the Change in H. 8. When the Parliament denyed the Popes Supremacy forbad Latine Service or Commanded the Bible in English Their setling All the Power of the Pope Here upon the Crown might be a Reverter of what was There before As often Adjudged Yet I know not that Ever before the K. was left to the Discretion of Cant which had the Pall and Belt or Great Symboles of Dependance on Rome and Homage to it As the Statute leaves him For
of the Tabernacle had but Two only Visible and yet a third Included The Spirit in the Blood at the Altar and Water in the Laver as the Piller in the Cloud And the 2 daily Witnesses in the Morning and Evening Sacrifice As the Minha with Perfume at the Altar of Incense With the Loaves of Shewbread and the Lamps As Spirits before the Throne or the Ark and Mercy Seat with the two Cherubins of Glory Like our two eyes in our Face and 2 ears in our Head and the Spirit within the Wheels As in our Heart with 2 Auricles as 2 Loabs of the Lungs and Two yet Lower called Testes or somewhat of Witnesse in divers Languages As putting the Hand under the Thigh in solemn Witnessing As the Great World also hath its several Pairs of Witnesses in Earth and Water Fire and Ayr and yet much Higher and Brighter as the Eyes of Heaven called also the Faithful Witnesses in the Ps the Sun and the Moon Which were as Dead or Hidden Asleep in their Causes as the Schooles speak for 3 dayes and an Half Or Till the Morning of the 4th Day of Creation when they first appeared And at Every New Creation or at bringing up a New Heaven and a New Earth The Witnesses of That Generation may lye hid and be as Dead For 3 Dayes and an Half Till a voyce come from Heaven saying Come up Hither As at first Let there be Lights in Heaven and it was so Darknesse As the First Beast or Dragon Draco Dark and Tenebrae the Dragon of the Evening in Hebrew where also Eeve or Eeph is Darknesse a Beast or Serpent as in english Evet and the Jews tell us that Adams Wife was Lilis First or Night and Then Eeve which is also Night as in english Eeve and Evening Day and Night being as Man and Woman Husband and Wife As the Womb of the Morning in the Bible This Dragon fighteth with the Two Faithful Witnesses the Sun and Moon Which are weekly Hidden 3 dayes and half or 7 nights in a week as at first 3 dayes and half together And when These Witnesses meet with the Crossing Serpent in Heaven or the Ecliptick with its Nodes of Dragons Head and Dragons Tail They be Eclipsed which may hold 3 Hours and Half as at the Passion And the Moons monthly Hidings are about 3 dayes and half as Emblems of the Worlds and Churches Changes and her Absence From the Sun and shinings are about 3 weeks and Half And for 666 in This Beasts Fighting with Those Witnesses we found 6 hours or Great VVatches Turning the Tides as Sun and Moon at the Cardinal Points and making up 666 and its lower Root 25 the First hour that Ever Turned Light into Darkness And as many make the Moons Apogeum 65 or 66 of the Earths Radâ—i So do some make the Suns Radius 65 times Greater then the Earths or his Apogeum Twice 666 as we saw before And all made his daily Motion about a Degree and some made That about 666 Furlongs as Ricciolus from Posidonius in Cleomedes Where also the Moons Periodick Month is 27 dayes and half Which in others is 27 â…“ but in Martiaw Cap. 27 days 16 hours but 2 lesse then 666 which is also very near the Month for Anomaly and Latitude As often For Appearance Though Vncertain And the Suns Monthly Rotation now agreed is from 26 dayes as the Caroline Tables To 29 half and the mean is 27. ¾ Which is just 666 hours As Apelles or Scheinar and Galileus When they found One of the Semicircles to be 13 dayes and 20 hours and an half Which doubled maketh 27 dayes and 17 hours but One lesse then 666. 12 such Months are 333 dayes and 24 666 and 666 Moons about 54 years As 54 Sections of the Law in 669 Little Ones And that the 7 Churches also may shadow out Successive Times as the 7 dayes of the week and 7 months of the Jewish year and 7 years To Release I do the rather believe From the Glanâ—es on Successive Times As Paradise and Tree of Life in the first Church the Flood or Egyptian Death in the 2 d. The VVhite Stone and Manna from Aegypt in the 3 d. And Breaking the 7 Nations by Jâ—suah To the Times of Elijah slaying the Prophets of Baal and Jesabel the Type of the Great Whore in the 4th and to the Coming of Christ in the 5th and the New Jerusalem in the 6 t and General Judgement in the very Name of Laodicea With All things New again as the 3 last Chap. of that Blessed Revelation which doth Blessits Readers From our Blessed Jesus who received it to Give Or that he might shew it To his Servants Or beginning at Christ or at That Revelation to John The name of Ephesus may hint Declining Times of the Primitive Church As at Adams Fall in Paradise There Named Smyrna may signifie Beaten Myrrh As in the Christian Persecutions and Antichristian Jesabel Till the Morning Star arise before the Sun of Righteousness shadowed in Elijah at Jesabel and so to the coming of Christ and the New Jerusalem The Poets say the Great Io wandring came to Ioppa built before the Flood in Mela with Solinus Thence to Egypt and there had a Son from whom came Belus Father to Egyptus and Danaus with Agenor Who returning to Joppa begat Cadmus Phoenix and Europâ— that played with a white Bull Till he swam away with her to Creet and There she had Minos and other Judges in Hell From whom they bring K. Erithrus and the Lycians As Cilicians from Cilix an other Brother to Cadmus Who being sent to seek his Sister came so near as Greece and there was bid to build a City Where he saw a Beast Lye down and Thence Baeotia with Thebes in Greece and Egypt also from Thebeth Noahs Ark and Beasts And though he killed the Serpent he became a Serpent with his Wife and Children very Miserable One being Mother to Acteon Turned into a Stag and Torn by his own Dogs for seeing Diana Bathing Two others destroying themselves and Children The 4th Burnt by Jupiter Thundring as with Juno But catching his Bacchus from her and Hiding him in the Hollow of his Thigh Their Brother wanders up and down till at length One of his Ravisheth a Child of Pelops who had maintained him But Then Prayed for Vengeance Till Oedipus killeth his own Father and marrieth his own Mother knowing neither Till some secret Characters discover it And then for shame and grief They hide a while till all the Family destroy themselves or one another But a Child comes out at length called Tisamenus Or Revenged And His are glad to leave the Country and to wander To an Iland That had Risen out of the Sea and was called Thera The Beast And thence came Battus As Batten and Batein to Play the Beast with His Cyrenians in the Acts. And our Saviour bids us not Battologise as Battus did This may
CHRIST Under the Law WITH The Times of the Gospel AND Fullness thereof LONDON Printed in the Year 1664. ERRATA Page 30. line 15. for years read months p. 33. l. 19. 24 Aldermen Add In divers Cities as it was long in London p. 3. l. 12. in the 2 d Colume and 24 Aldermen to be left out p. 40. l. 1. for Luminations r. Lâ—â—ations p. 44. l. 16. Colume 2 d for the Red Sea r Reed Sea l. 17 18. for Mimum r. Minium l. 39. for Psalms r. Palms p. 59. l. 9. Col. 2. for 2705 r. 2805 without the Parenthesis p. 62. l. 7. Col. 2. Add And their Longest Night was above 13 Hours As the first Night of Creation was till the 13th Hour p. 69. Parag. 3. That of Cubits in some Copies to be left out or amended by the 2 d Paragraph of the 59th page In the Preface p. 6. l. 25. Col. â— for Tabernacles read Tabernacle The PREFACE and SCOPE THis Discourse was written more large and it may be less confused but the Authors distance from the Press and little time to correct it with so many numbers and other occasions prevailed to contract and croud it out as he could being only for private Friends and such as can excuse both matter and manner The first is to express some little part of the unexpressable Goodness of God and Love of Christ which passeth knowledge and to help shed it abroad into our hearts that it may mould us into love to God and all men Have we not all One Father Hath not One God created us Why do we then deal treacherously every man against his brother by prophaning the Covenant of our Fathers And our Saviour did not only bid them all say Our Father but repeated it and pressed it on the multitude that they had All One Father in Heaven and One Master or Teacher even Christ which is twice repeated in Mat. 23. And as Love was his last and great Command on Earth so his first Complaint out of Heaven was of some that had lost their first Love And may he not complain that we have lost All Love which is not only waxen cold but even Dead and quite put out by Lust or Love of the World and Cares thereof which himself said would Choak the good Seed And what Hope is left or means to recover us but in himself Made under the Law of Love to God and Man also So that it is written in his heart to Love his God and his Neighbour As himself To propagate the Name and Love of God with All his Might and to bring his Children Servants and the Strangers in his Gate to Rest the Rest of God as is required in the fourth Command And seeing he bid it be written as a True Saying of God that He would make All Things New the Author doth believe it though he doth not yet see it And he thought it worth enquiring When That great Change is to come into the minds of Men to mould them into Love of God and One another And finding the Psalm for the Afflicted to tell us that God will appear in his Glory when he buildeth up Zion and when the Peoples are Gathered and the Kingdoms to serve the Lord he searched what the Law or the Prophets say of such a Gathering And he found that Moses Dying Charge on Joshuah with succeeded Kings of Israel which he hopes may come to Christ at length was to gather All Israel and their Strangers also and to Read the Law to them All that they may Hear and Learn and fear the Lord and his Goodness in the Latter Dayes At the end of Seven years in the Solemnity of the year of Release in the Feast of Tabernacles which they call the Feast of In Gathering And although this was acted every 7th year in some measure yet seeing God himself doth sometimes use a Day for a Year or a year for as many years as it hath Dayes he began to consider whether it might not be So in This also that the Sabbatical years of Release might intimate their Release from all their Scatterings and Bondage at the Close of seven Prophetick years or in 2555 years which are seven times 365. And first he found that so many years After the Fall did bring Israel to rest in Canaan and so many more did bring the Christians to reign in Jerusalem and that from their First Scatterings out of Canaan in Jorams time when they were first led Captive so many years came out about 1666 now coming and from following scatterings after Joram so many years are out about 1690 and that Daniels greatest number of 2300 dayes or years is then also finished from the time of his Captivity And for beginning those Prophetick years about the time of Joram there are many reasons besides their first scattering out of Canaan Then For it was a very Great Change of the World or as the Jews express it a New World which they believed to be seven or eight times renewed As the old Tuscans also in Plutarchs Sylla and that every such New World was foreshewn by Great Prodigies in Heaven and Earth yea and Divers times by signal Tydes or Turnings and Parting 's of Waters as the great Clepsydra So at the first Creation and again at the Flood and again at passing the Red-Sea and at entring Canaan When Jordan was divided As again by Elijahs Mantle At His Ascension a little before Joram which was followed by their first Captivity As their Last followed our Saviours Ascension shadowed by Elijahs The Assyrian Empire was Then shaken and broken as Israel by Syria and Judah by the Philistines Arabians and Edom which Then first revolted and broke Jacobs Yoak as was foretold by Isaac and rested not till it forced Ahaz to hire Assyria which destroyed Israel about the time of Romulus who might be shadowed by Rummili or Remaliah that in the mask or vizor of Religion Ravished 683 Virgins or 783 as it was 683 years before the Romans first Ravished the Virgin of Zion and 783 before they crucified Christ From that time the Prophets began to threaten Edom by which the Jews say they meant Rome as in that Map of Hell in Isa 34. directed against Edom and the Raemim or Romim v. 7. And as Judahs breach and cutting off might be Typed by Athaliahs cutting off the Royal Seed as Joram had cut off his brethren so might those seven Great years of Scattering and Return be Typed in the seven years of Famine and Wandring of the Widow who then Returned and found the K. talking with Gehazi freed it seems from his Leprosy And by the seven years of Joash Hiding and then coming up and repairing the Temple and by many other seven years which are here touched In this search of Times it is found that 1260 or 1290 and 1335 which are the Great Numbers in Dan. and the Revel may be Years and Dayes and Hours of Jewish years As from the