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A71105	Generation-work, or, A brief and seasonable word offered to the view and consideration of the saints and people of God in this generation, relating to the work of the present age, or generation we live in wherein is shewed, I. What generation-work is, and how it differs from other works, II. That saints in the several generations they have lived in, have had the proper and peculiar works of their generations, III. That it is a thing of very great concernment for a saint to attend to and be industrious in, the work of his generation, IV. Wherein doth the work of the present generation lye, V. How each one in particular may find out that part or parcel of it, that is properly his work in his generation, VI. How generation-work may be so carried on, as that God may be served in the generation / by John Tillinghast ...	Tillinghast, John, 1604-1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing T1175; Wing T1177; Wing T1178; ESTC R17254	317,518	510

upon the Nations i.e. they should lay aside war and strife at least in a great measure in comparison of what was in the days immediately before For a time of tempest and war when every man sees his interest going to wrack is not a time of rejoycing and feasting especially with the dwellers on the Earth who serve no other God nor mind nothing else but their lusts and interests but a time of howling and mourning Withall the boast of the proud Whore Revel 18.7 Of which I have spoken before seems somewhat to countenance this for grant her to have killed the Witnesses yet if when this is done her followers were killing one another and her outward strength tearing it self it peeces she should have but little cause to boast But she boasts and that in such manner as seems to me to argue that she hath her enemies that before she feared under her feet and her own strength also which before was broken and divided united which two things do wonderously lift her up and make her conceit her self as indeed she is in an outward way stronger and more fast in her seat than ever And as her boasting seems to argue this general peace should not be till towards the end of the three days and a half for this boasting of hers is the immediate fore-runner of her ruin which comes in upon her inevitably upon the witnesses rise And to this it s not improper to add the opinion of that eminent Servant of Christ Mr. Archer in his Personal Reign Printed A.D. 1642. who speaking of the ten horns giving up their power to the Beast Rev. 17.12 13 17. saith thus Here is a double giving up of their power to the Beast spoken of though yet they may seem both one but will be found of him who ponders them at two diverse and several times For in the former its onely said they had one mind to give their power to the Beast i.e. saith he they were at that time all alike ignorant and superstitious and so the Papacy easily devoured them But in the latter place it s said God put it into their minds to agree and do it i.e. at this time they were not all alike some of the Kingdoms had light and reformation and had withdrawn from Rome yet by some special over-ruling Providence in respect of which its said God put it into their hearts they who had departed from Popery shall revolt and by some agreement or Covenant with the rest all joyntly shal again give up their power to the Beast So that saith he this act differs much from the former and seems to be a second act of the ten Kings that is of so many of them as were revolted from the Papacy and it also appears to be so because it is made the fore-runner and the immediate fore-goer of Romes ruin but the former giving up was at the beginning of the Papacy Hitherto the very words of Mr. Archer that eminent Witness of Christ who for the testimony of Jesus dyed in Exile fourteen or fifteen years ago Pers Reign p. 50 51. Now this testimony is the more remarkable as to us at this day by how much the giving-up vers 17. which he comments upon followes that remarkable war betwixt the Lamb and the Kings of the Earth which our eies have seen but the worthy Author lived not to see it Yet let me add this that I do not conceive with the Author that this giving up of power to the Beast shall be a revolting of all the ten Horns to Popish Religion for the power here spoken of that is given up to the Beast is civil power only that being properly the power of the horns which by way of League or Covenant with the Beast or those who are consederate with him may be given up to him and yet no receiving nor embracing Romish Religion From these grounds it is a thing conjectural that a general peace shall be in that part of the world commonly called Christendom within the time of the three days and an half My first thoughts hereof were whilst I considered this 11 Chapter onely that this peace should be so general as to take in all those Nations that were formerly under the power of the Beast but since the time I weighed and compared with the truth of this Chapter the truth laid down in the 12 and 14 Chapt. it hath been a Question with me whether that people whom the Holy Ghost sets forth by that Title of the remnant of the womans seed Revel 12.17 shall not be excluded from this agreement One of these two I suppose we may conclude upon that either they shall be excluded or shall renounce this Covenant with Hell before the three days and a half are compleatly expired for the Dragon at the end of the three days and a half makes war upon them Which of these two will be time will determine but being more and more perswaded every day that Christ is coming on upon his people apace I shall not cause this little Book to wait to see the issue SECT X. THe three days and a half fully expired the dead Witnesses rise again The thing that sets them upon their feet is said to be a Spirit of Life from God entering into them vers 11. And after three days and an half the Spirit of Life from God entred into them and they stood upon their feet i.e. a Spirit of boldness and courage zeal and undaunted resolution to appear for Christ against Antichrist whatsoever it cost them shall now fall upon them so that live or dye having so good a Cause they will no longer be Cowards and lurch their Coulours but in the name of the Lord into the field they will go and see whether the Beast dare appear against them Quest It will be here worth our inquiry Whether this Noble Heroick Spirit shall come upon them from God immediately or whether it shall be wrought in them mediately by some means Answ I conceive that look as the killing of the Witnesses is partly mediate being caused by the Beast partly immediate being deserted by God so shall their resurrection also that it may answer to their death be i.e. this Spirit of Life which sets them upon their feet shall be wrought in them partly mediately by some means that shall be used to that end and partly immediately by Gods accompanying those means with a more than ordinary power and efficacy for the effecting this glorious work So that Gods hand shall be much more visible in the thing than the means it self though yet means shall be used Now as for the means I apprehend it shall be some loud call that shall be given to the Witnesses from some Saints from out of some other place who shal be very sensible of their condition and shall have it strongly set home upon their hearts that the time is comein which they are to arise This Call seems to me to be that great voyce

mighty Thundrings saying Hallelujah It teacheth us thus much That Christ will raise up some such faithful Instrument to bee his Lieutenant General to lead on this his 144000 whose name shall be as a great Thunder in the world dreadful and terrible to the Antichristian party And whereas it is the voyce of but one Thunder it intimates that at this first Rendezvouz there shall appear but some one noted Head for Christ but a while after when the work is gotten a little forwarder we hear of many Thundrings Rev. 19.6 i.e. many great One Heads Rulers who either wanted opportunity or courage at first shall now come in and joyn with this party 2 They shall begin their march with praises The Lamb being now upon Mount Sion his remnant gathered about him an eminent Head by Christ raised up and set over them the first work they do is to sing praises I heard the voyce of Harpers harping with their Harps The Holy Ghost in these words alludes to the way of praising God in time of Old when Gods people in their praises made use of Instruments of Musick and particularly and as that which was in most common use of the Harp Psal 33.2 Psal 43.4 Psal 71.22 And methinks the first setting forth of the 144000. seems to be much like Jehoshaphats march against the children of Ammon Moab and Mount Seir 2 Chron. 20. An infinite multitude of people and Nations like the sand of the Sea come up together against Jehoshaphat and Judah The noise and rumor of their coming doth 〈…〉 ●istress the people but seeking God the Lord setting it home upon the heart of Jehoshaphat and his people that the morrow should be the day of his power he would do the work for them they should not need so much as to fight only stand and behold the salvation of the Lord fear and faint-heartedness now flyes away they do not consult whether are we strong or whether are we weak how is it possible we should deal with this multitude But being assured of the Victory and that the day should be theirs they begin a March with pr●●●es singing and rejoycing before ever a stroke is struck as if they had carried the Field already So will it be with this remnant at this day the raging Dragon in his wrath and fury comes on gaping upon them It is a miracle in reason if ever they scape his mouth but against this to bear up their spirits they have the glorious presence of the Lamb in the midst of them this doth so wondrously animate them that in the mouth of danger they fear none but march o● in the very face of the Dragon harping with their Harps i. e. praising and rejoycing as knowing assuredly the Lamb will manifest his power they shall tread the Dragon under their feet Thus much as touching our second particular from the whole note That notwithstanding the Witnesses themselves are undoubtedly after their rise to be esteemed a part of this 144000 yet shall the beginning of this glorious company be not with them but there where that remnant of the Womans seed shall be found th● the Dragon wars against I shall here in the close of this Section adde a word or two as touching Daniels Stone the looking upon this Rendezvouz presenting that to mine eye The first rise of this Stone we are doubtless to place with the beginn●●● of the third Vial. My Reasons are 1 Because it being the Stone alone that breaks the Great Image by smiting him on the Feer and Toes we are there to place the rise of it where the Civil power of Antichrist in any of the ten Horns represented by the ten Toes is irrecoverably broken to peeces But the doing of this is begun with the third Vial therefore with the beginning of that are we to place the beginning of the Stone 2 Because Daniels Stone that smites Chap. 2. and his Ancient of dayes that sits Chap. 7. being one and the same we are to reckon the rise of the Stone from the first day that the Ancient of dayes began to sit and to cast down any of the Thrones of the fourth Beast But this work was begun with the beginning of the third Vial therefore there are we to begin the Stone Now let us look upon the work done of late yeers under either of these notions either as it is a breaking of the great Image or as it is casting down the Thrones of the fourth Beast for both are substantially the same and instrumentally wrought by the Stone and hath it not been done by a despised handful which worldly powers would not have raised up at first could they have holpen it nor continued when raised could they have had their will but as the raising so the continuing hath been from God more immediately than by the endeavour of hands i.e. humane means But now observe as God never doth any wonderful work but in the beginning of it he puts some death upon it so the most remarkable work that ever yet was in the world viz. the Stone smiting the great Image is no sooner on foot but presently even within that very Vial that the Stone begins to smite comes the saddest blow the blackest cloud over the work of God that ever one of them the world saw namely the death of the Witnesses this stops the work a while the Stone lyes still by lying still it seems to moulder In this extremity God ariseth ●●kes the Scone into his hands again forms it more strongly by casting out the loose earthly matter and firmly uniting and cementing the rest adding withal more matter to it that so upon its next smiting it may break in peeces whatsoever stands in its way This is done in this glorious Rendezvouz of which we have spoken SECT V. OUr third Particular comes now into consideration namely to consider of the Characters of this 144000. As for the several Characters we have vers 3.4 I have given my thoughts of them already in the Epistle Dedicatory to my late Discourse upon the Vials But what I then wrote being but as the first day-break of light into this Prophecie and hoping through grace that I do now begin to see those things a little more clearly distinctly and fully than at that time I did I shall notwithstanding go over the whole again The first Character of them viz. That they stand with the Lamb upon Mount Sion relating more to their condition than their qualification I shall be silent as touching it and the rather because I have opened it already Sect. 1. That omitted we have besides it eight Characters in the Text. I CHARACTER They have their Fathers Name written in their fore-heads vers 1. i.e. they shall bee such who shall know one another by no mark but only the Image of the Father the Fathers Name written in their-fore-heads And I take it that this is spoken of the 144000 followers of the Lamb in opposition to the Beasts followers