may be Ashamed of our present even our Best as a Low and Defiled State is the Humble and Earnest Prayer of My most Revered Your most Unworthy but Faithful Servant in the Prophesies of Jesus Christ T. Beverley THE PREFACE FOR as much as I have Labour'd to the utmost Yet not I but the Grace of God with me in the search what and what manner of Time The Holy Spirit that was in the Prophets of old did signifie in Setting out the Excellent Majesty and Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ in his Kingdom This Great Vision of Ezekiel did in my own Thoughts Vpbraid me that I had made no Attempt of Enquiry at the Divine Oracle Concerning it I Resolv'd by the same Grace therefore to Consider so Stupendious a Model of Divine Truth And I Can in some Humble degree Speak it That I have Found in it like the waters of the Sanctuary the Accesses of Divine Illumination Rising Higher and Higher and Becoming a River Overflowing my Thoughts with Vnexpressible Sweetness and Satisfaction And though I very Freely Acknowledge There is in it an Infinite and unsearchable wisdom as a Boundless River that Cannot be pass'd by any Humane understanding Or as the Hiding of the Divine Power in a Light that no Man Can Approach Yet Beams of Light Coming out of his Hand I have Found to Instruct and direct Let no Man therefore I Humbly Beseech Blame this Freedom of my Ministration in this Dark Scripture Seeing This Vision of Ezekiel as All other Prophetical Scriptures are Scripture in the Reverentiallest Confession of All and therefore are Commanded to be Search'd And These are They which Testifie of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ These are as other Scripture if duly open'd and Apply'd Profitable for Correction Reproof Instruction in the ways of Righteousness It is Witnessed particularly of this Vision That It is to be Shown and is herein Profitable to Excite a Shame of our Iniquities That it is our Duty to Measure this Pattern And as the Apostle Peter Assures us No Prophecy of Scripture is of any Private but Publick Interpretation That All the Servants of God do well in giving Heed to it as the only Light in such a Mid-night Confusion as we are yet in under the Apostacy till that Morning Star of the Rising Witnesses and this Open'd Temple dawn in upon us For as All such Prophecy was Given by the Vniversal Publick Holy Spirit So It leads to the Publick Universal Glory of God and of the Lamb in the Salvation of his Church Further I am very well Assur'd As the Revelation is Taken out of the Prophet Daniel so far as Concerns the Sufferings of the Church of Christ under the Pagan Emperors and then under the Ten Kings Popes and other the Antichristian Hierarchy So unto the very Temple and Throne State in Ezekiel is Daniels Prophecy Adjusted in the Four Monarchies as to the Throne And in the Evens Morns and other Notes of Time as to the Accomplishing the Desolations of and Cleansing the Temple or Sanctuary and Final Judgment on the Last Desolator Antichrist and shewing how Long And so the Temple Representation Rev. c. 4. c. 5. The Throne of God and of the Lamb the Seven Lamps the Rainbow the Holy Angels the Elders the Living Creatures and Every Creature in Heaven and Earth Applauding and making Acclamation to God and to the Lamb It is Taken out of this Vision of Ezekiel And all Times Dated accordingly by what Befell this Temple And whereas It should have Immediately Appear'd in Glory at the Lords Resurrection and God and the Lamb have Come down to be the Temple of Saints There was only an Annointing of it in Heaven As The Sanctuary was Annointed by Moses when prepar'd to be set up of which Annointing of the Holy of Holies Daniel Prophesied c. 9. 24. together with Vision Seal'd or Staid There was yet all along Some Proportion of a Counter point on Earth in Giving the Spirit The Symbols of which are as if Taken out Ezek. c. 47. 9. c. to the Apostles in an Apostolical Ministry Appearing During the Service of the Four Living Creatures which Reach'd Just to the Death of Alexander Severus at the Third Seal And so Long the Ballances and Weights of the Sanctuary were Just and Bore up against the Apostacy or Mistery of Iniquity then working From that Time there was a Declination Yet after Constantine the Elders and Living Creatures Appear under the Sixth Seal but as it were indirectly and with a Glance only on the present State of the Church viz. Only in a Prophecy of the New Jerusalem or Describing it So that in the Seventh Seale There was a Retyring to the Altar of Incense and the Daily Sacrifice was Taking away And then the Temple was shut up and the Court without Trodden under Foot of the Gentiles viz. Just at the First Trumpet And so It Continues a Shut Temple and no Appearance of the Elders or Living Creatures nor the Temple Opened till the Days of the Seventh Trumpet But then It shall be seen more and more and so onward to the Coming down of God and the Lamb to be the Temple of the New Jerusalem Rev. c. 8. c. 9. c. 10. c. 11. till v. 15. It is therefore no Wonder that there are not more Vniversal and Close Researches of Holy and Learned Men and by a Concert of Endeavors to Spring the Mines and Break up the Depths of Prophecy to Cultivate Till and Plough up the Fallow Ground of Prophetical Scripture that Conventions and Convocations are more yet Taken up about the Fescues of Ceremonies then about Eekiels and Johns Reeds to measure the Temple of God in the New Jerusalem Touching which if Any Sober Heathen on Moral Philosophers Judgment might be Taken whether it were not Even Ridiculous when such Great Scripture Prophesies are before us that there are such Disputes about Rituals I am sure They must Give it very Dishonourably to the present Christian Even Reformed Churches Whosoever of Them areso Meanly Engaged when so much Greater Things Stand by Them under the Disregard of not being with utmost Diligence Inquired into But certainly As The Jews Although at Herods Summons They Determin'd aright the Place but never took Care to Inquire Diligently and Accurately the Time of Messiahs being Born Fell into the Great and Ruinous mistake of Rejecting Him Even so The not Stating the Kingdom of Christ and the Time of it may be the Cause of a Grevious Slumber upon the Churches of Christ as Matt. 25. 1. The Jews Great Scandal against Jesus Christ Lay here They Expected a Pompous Messiah and an External Glory without Regard in the First place to the Spirituality of his Kingdom We pretend on the other side to be altogether for the Spirituality of his Kingdom and to have no Regard to the Visible Glory of it But we Glory in Transferring all such Expectations to the Eternal State in Heaven But indeed Both
Receiving their Service Praises and Obebience His name shall be in their Foreheads and his Servants shall serve Him without any Violation or defilement shall this Temple be All hitherto hath been too Low too Dark too much polluted even when Purest since the Annointing the Christian Church in the days of the Apostles and will be till this Temple not far hence shall be seen in Heaven Then it will be daily Cleansing A Worldly Sanctuary hath been the Great opposite to this especially when not appointed by God Paganism and Antichristianism are the Abomination of Desolation to it The remains of the Synagogue of Sathan ever since the Reformation still keep it out of sight The most refined Churches are both too narrow and too obscure yet The many Contents and Paper Combates about Hierarchy Liturgies Ceremonies viz. what should be abated or alter'd are even Ridiculous Things before it But all such will Vanish like Smoak before that presence of God that will within short Time fill all Temple-State with another Smoak Even with the Glory of his presence ready to enter and with the Vengeance of his Temple upon all that have defiled it And then the Man whose Name is the Branch shall Build the Temple of the Lord and Bear forth the Glory of it Let us therefore be Ashamed of whatever Temple State seems now most desirable and Earnestly set our Hearts Prayers and Expectations to what is so much above it even to that which the Lord wil pitch and not Man and that God would cause his Face to shine on his Sanctuary which is yet Desolate for his own Name sake Correspond 2. As the Beauty and Grandieur of any Building and also its Security and Stability consists in the Justice Equality and Symmetry of all its Parts So to set out in this Frame a Divine both Stateliness Glory and that Firmness of a Kingdom that cannot be Shaken there is a Construction of all those Admirable Measures we find in this Vision And though They can no more be Found out to Perfection then the Almighty in his Works Job 11. 7. then the Laws and Measures of Creation in the Hanging the Earth by Poize upon Nothing then the Bounds of the House Job 26. 28. 37. 38. c. Psal 147. 4. of Light the Weights for the Winds the Ballance of the Clouds without which they Rage into Storms and Tempests as we see then the Measure of the Dust of the Earth the Decree of the Rain Thunder Sea and Waters then the Number and Names of the Stars the Conduct of Arcturus and Orion The Infinite Vnderstanding can alone do the One and the Other Yet still They are all Admirable and when the Reason of them is expos'd in Glory to Angels and Saints in this Temple-State of the New Jerusalem in the Stupendious Holiness Purity of Spiritual Worship and Enjoyment of God Then the Morning Stars shall Sing together and the Sons of God shall shout for Joy Job 38. 7. And as Number Weight and Measure are so Essentially necessary to All the Great Things that are perform'd in the World as to Astronomy Observation of the Heavens and their Course Geometry Architecture Statics Navigation Survey Experimental Philosophy and to all Commerce and Traffick and even mutual Cohabitation of Mankind So under these Measures in this Vision are shaded the Sublimity of the Divine Communion with his Saints and Servants and of Angels and Saints one with Another and those Lines of Communication signified by Jacobs Ladder Gen. 28. 12. between the New Heaven and the New Earth and all that Abundance of Peace Joy Riches Even Happiness Blessedness in the most Just Order and Equality to Full Satisfaction and Enjoyment and yet so that there are Arch-Angels Eph. 1. last Col. 1. 16. 1 Cor. 15. 41. Rev. 22. 3. and Angels Thrones Principalities and Powers and one Star Excelling Another in Glory and the Lord God and the Lamb on the Throne And as All the Wisdom of Creation in Number Weight and Measure are Transfer'd into the Fear of God and Departure from Evil into the Righteous and wise Government of the World Jobs Description of and search after Wisdom c. 28. Issues at the last into that Divine Decree upon Man The Fear of the Lord That is Wisdom and to Depart from Evil That is Vnderstanding And as Solomons Practical Wisdom Justice Judgment and every Good Path is the same by which Kings Prov. 8. 5. c. 3. 19. with c. 8. 23. Reign and Princes Decree Justice By which Judges Rule and all the Nobles of the Earth are led the same also by which the Lord Founded the Heavens and Established the Earth Flowing from even the Eternal Wisdom Jesus Christ who sets up this Infinite Frame And as this Wisdom since the Fall of Man is as it were new Founded a New Creation in that Height Depth Breadth Length of the Love of God in Jesus Christ which passeth Knowledge and being Filled or Compleated into all the Fulness of God according to the Fullest Dimensions created Nature is capable of which Dimensions every Saint is to comprehend or Take with all Ephes 3. 18. Rev. 21. 16. Saints So this City and Temple Result into that City and Temple-State measured with the Apostles Johns Golden Reed wherein the Height and Depth the Breadth and Length are equal as the Moralists 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All is Four Square and every Saint in the perfect Cubical Four square State of Holiness And as All those Foundations Walls Gates Courts Buildings by their exact measure in this Vision must needs have an unexceptionable Firmitude and Stability So they Represent â—eb 12. 27. 28. that Kingdom that shall never be shaken the City that hath Foundations whose Builder and Maker God is and every Saint is a Pillar in this Temple-State that shall Go out c. 13. 14. â— Cor. 15. 24. c. no more Rev. 3. 1â— All this State City Temple therefore is 24. c. continuing and never Ends Till It is Deliver'd up whole and Entire to God All in All. Correspond 3. A Third Correspondency between the Types of this Vision and the New Jerusalem State is That all the Types of this Vision and the New Jerusalem State That all the Types Laws and Ordinances of the Mosaic Law Tabernacle Temple and Priesthood and also of the Land of Canan call'd the Holy Land and all the Predictions Figures and Promises in all the Prophets since the World Began are herein to have their Complement and Perfection For seeing the Truth of God Requires that every such Foretelling Type as well as Express Oracle or Pronunciation should be justly Fulfill'd when once Given and that this New Jerusalem-State is the last IT IS DONE of all These It is most Just and Agreeable that this Vision which is an Old Testament Representation of that New Jerusalem-State should be Cloath'd and Attyr'd in so many of the Types Laws Measures of the Levitical Temple and
Mistakes spring from the same Root We are Afraid of a Kingdom of Christ that should make an Impression on the present State of our Carnal Grandieur and Enjoyment of this World and therefore desire All Things should Run in that Channel till Death and Final Judgment and the State of Eternity Temporal Princes and States-men would not have any change in their Poweâ— and Politicks and are Angry Christ should 〈…〉 told to Take to Him His Great Power and to Reign Ecclesiastical Grandees would have their Jurisdiction their Regiment their Canons their Dignities and Revenues Remain in the order wherein They now Stand And so the same Temper Runs down to the lowest of Both of each sort And thus we even as They Tread such Paths as that not Knowing the Voices of the Prophets Acts 13. 27. though we Read them as They did often Fulfill them in Condemning Him or His Kingdom For the Glory of this Kingdom and World to come whereof we now speak is so plainly declar'd and yet we are so Averse to it that It is Hard to know whether Theirs or Ours is the Greater Blindness Only Blessed be God the Error is not so damnable in our Case as in Theirs In the mean time We Pray for and Profess to desire better Things Even such as the Prophets have Foretold But what Hopes can there be of such a Betterness without a Higher Oeconomy or Administration from Heaven when the fairest Appearances that ever have yet been upon Earth have been Blasted Faded and Wither'd as a Flower in the Field when It hath most spread its Glory Even This is a Demonstration beyond denial that either there is a Despair of any better State or else some Great Prophesies must be Fulfill d according to the High Eloquence of Scripture concerning a Restitution of All Things by the Second Adam from the Time of the Fall of the First Adam and a Spirit pour'd out from on High Suitable to it Oh that therefore by this and other Concurrent Discourses I might however unworthy be Instrumental to perswade That we might with One Consent Give our selves by Books to Understand when the 1260 Years which God will have Accomplish'd for the Desolations of his Sanctury shall come to an End And that we would Set our our Faces to the Lord to Seek by Supplication Fasting and Ashes as the True Witnesses of Christ that They may come to an End Even if it may be sooner then 1697. And I am most assur'd that at that Time at least we shall prevail and the Tabernacle of Testimony and the Ark of the Testament shall Begin to be seen by us in the Temple open'd in Heaven and It will be Filling with the Smoak of Divine Purification by the Spirit of Jugdment and of Burning just before the Glory of the Lord Returning to it For the Time given for the Bringing Ezekiel's Vision into Effect must be at Hand and the New Jerusalem shall come down as the Lord hath spoken Amen 〈…〉 Aâ—justment of the Lords Prayer to thâ— Vision Oâ—R Father which art in Heaven whom yet the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Hallowed be thy Nâ—â—e Bow thy 1 Kings 8. 27. Heavens come down and place the Glory of thy Name in thy self and the Lamb the Temple of thy Holy City the New Jerusalem Filling Heaven and Earth with it Thy Kingdom Rev. 21. 22. come Thy Will be done as in Heaven and on Earth Let thy Throne be Established in the New Heaven above Reaching Ezek. 43. 7. down to the New Earth the place of the Soles of thy Zach. 14. 20. Feet So that an entire Obedience may be Rendred to Thee even Holiness to JEHOVAH throughout Give us this day our Ezek. 41. 22. daily Bread and Forgive us our Trespasses as we Forgive them that Trespass against us Fix then the Table before the Lord of John 6. 33. the Super-substantial Bread the Lamb united with the Rich Ezek. 44. 25. Perfumes of his Intercession Arising from the Seven Times Purified Altar of his whole Burnt Offering of Himself once Heb. 13. 10. for All By which is made an Universal Reconciliation of All Things in Heaven and Earth in Him even in Him Colos 1. 20. Lead us not into Temptation But Deliver us from Evil And this Thy dwelling place we shall no more defile by our Whoredoms Ezek. 43. 7. 8. and Abominations by the Carcasses of our Kings by our Posts Thresholds Or the Uncircumcision of our Heart c. 44. 7. c. 45. 9. and Flesh Nor any more Violence Curse or Death Heard of in the Holy City of our Melchizedec the Serpent and his Rev. 20. 1. Ezek. 41. 18. c. Rev 19. 6. 1 Cor. 15. 28. Rev. 21. 6. Seed being Seal'd up in the Abyss For Thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory The Cherubims and Palm-Bearing Company shall sing Everlasting Hallelujahs The Lord God Omnipotent Reigns For Ever and Ever In a Kingdom deliver'd up to God and the Father throughout Eternity of Ages Amen So be it and So it shall be So It shall be done The Humble Proposal to the Reader I Have already published however at several Times as I could a Scheme of the whole Scripture Line of Time and Prophecy as a Preface to the Work and with it a Compare of the First State of Things that may be call'd the Stasis at the First Sabboth with the Restitution which the Apostle calls Aâ—â— Catastasis or Re-Enstating Them at the Grand Sabbatism and so proceeded by the Patriarchal Line down to Abraham and from Him to the Going out of Egypt And then beginning at Cyrus have drawn the Line to the Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ I have also strengthen'd the Fixing the Line of Time from Cyrus to that Kingdom by Full discourse on the Visions of the Four Monarchies in Nebuchadnezzars Image c. 2. and the Four Beasts c. 7. and shewn How the Revelation Falls in with and more Fully â—narchy in a Treâ—â—â—se call'd The Kingdom of 〈…〉 Time accordin◠〈◊〉 those Four Monarchies I have also prov'd 〈…〉 â—narchy to be the Roman Pagan Empire and then the Papacy with a short â—â—â—â—â—thesis of the 〈…〉 Empire in both That and Another discourse call'd Gods Command to come out of Babylon I have now published Ezekiels Vision of the Temple and City in the â—â—and design of it the New Jerusalem and shown the several States of the Churches of God and of Jesus Christ till this Temple and City come down in the New Jerusalem are Commensurate to the whole Time of the Four Monarchies and give Dates to the Line of Time ever since first in that entire Line of 2300 Evens Morns after Forty Years from this Vision given to the New Jerusalem and in several Parcel Collatteral Lines and by Name of Daniel's 70 Week and 1335 Days And also herein Joyn'd a discourse on the Reformation the Rising of the Witnesses at 97 when shall be the Great
Re-Reformation I have Lastly published the Prophetical Song of Solomon from the Kingdom of David the Type to the Kingdom of the Great David the Antitipe Shewing its Stupendious Configurations with all Prophecy There now Remains to fill up the Line of Time from the Going out of Egypt to the Building the Temple and so to Solomon's Death and from thence to the Restoring that Temple by Cyrus and therein to Solve the Difficulties of the 480 Years in the History 1 Kings 6. 1. and the 450 Acts 13. 20. and to Clear that the 390 Days and 40 Days of Ezekiel's lying on his side continue the Line from Solomon's Death and the One Kingdom of Israel Becoming Two to the Restoration by Cyrus And upon all this I Find it necessary in an entire Discourse to clear by plain Positive Doctrinal Scripture in compare with Prophetical that There is such a Kingdom of Christ as of the 1090 Years New Heaven above and the New Earth below that Begins with a Judgment by the Vials and ends in the Casting the Last Enemies the Devil Hell and Death into the Lake and between Those is a Thousand Years Kingdom of Visible Glory of Christ and his Saints after the manner of his Transfiguration above and after the manner of Adam in Paradise below and Full of Holy Spirituality and Enjoyment of the Redemption of Christ Free from all Cerinthian or Millenarian Heresie and shining in that Divine Oeconomy or Preparational Glory until the Kingdom is deliver'd up to God and the Father All in All. And Lastly To shew that the Lords Prayer the Sacraments of Baptism and of the Lords Supper even as I have shown the Sabbaths of the Old and New Testament have their Continuance and their Great use as the only Ceremonials of the New Testament in Typing out that Great Kingdom Upon all this I Humbly Propose to every Reader that is Favourable hereunto and of Ability to Assist me by Contributions for Thirty Sheets more to compleat the Work at a Penny a sheet and a Seventh Book to Six Subscribers or as they please in further Assistances to be Given either to my self or to Mr. Salusbury at the Rising Sun in Cornhill And the Press shall be daily going on to Finish the Work And with Faith Hope and Prayer Let us if we Love the Kingdom and Appearance of Christ Humbly and Earnestly wait for the Great Revolution I Affirm of the Kingdom of Christ at 1697 to enter into its Succession and 75 Years after viz. 1772 to begin in the 1000 Years Appearance in Glory Month 11. Day 29. 1689 90. The Pattern of the Divine Temple Sanctuary and City of the New Jerusalem Measur'd according to Ezekiels Last and Greatest Vision c. 40. c. 41. c. to the End AT a day of a most Certain and exact Date when Jerusalem and its Temple lay in Ruins God shews in Vision to Ezekiel not a Model nor a Direction to any persons to Build according to it but a Building in Actual Being and therefore a Building made without Hands 2 Cor. 5. 1 Revel 21 10. Heb. 10. 11. 16. whose Builder and Maker God is Eternal in the Heavens from whence It is to come down in the New Heaven and the New Earth viz. a Temple a City that hath Foundations and a Countrey Lying about it the principal State of which is Heavenly but to shine down to the New Earth from the New Heaven Rev. 21. 24. The Preparation to the Vision 1. The Date is above the Exactness of any Record viz. By the Year of Captivity It is first dated and thereby it is Joyn'd with the Thirtieth Year in the Beginning of Ezekiel's c. 1. 1. Prophecy which being set alone without any other note of Time can in no fair Construction be any other Thirtieth Year but from the Last Jubilee according to General Jewish Style of Time and that being the Fifth year of Jehoiachins Captivity and the present year of the Vision being the Twenty Fifth year of that Captivity It shews it to be the Fiftieth c. 40. 1. year and so the year of Jubilee Fitly to Represent the Great Jubilee of the World that shall be in this Vision Accomplish'd It was on the Tenth day of the Month Answering the day of the first Institution of the Passeover when also will be the Exod. 12. 1. Dan. 12. 1. Matt. 24. 21. Rev. 3. 10. Greatest Passeover of Deliverance from the Great Trouble Tribulation and Temptation which shall come on all the Reprobate Earth but the Saints shall be privilegd'd from it It was in the Beginning of the Year or Spring on which the Greatest Acts of God are Recorded and which God Eâ—od 12. 1. made the Head of the Sacred Year It was in the Fourteenth year after the City was 〈…〉 To shew it was in the deep Desolation of the Temple and City of Jerusalem and Land of Israel as the Season of Mercy For when his Servants are the lowest Then in the Mount the Lord will be seen Gen. 22. 14. with Ez. 40. 2. Lastly It was the Self Same Day and thereby the Time is Gen. 2. 1. c. 7. 11. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 7. 8. Knit to the self same day of the Creation and First Sabboth To the self same day of the Flood when the World that then was Perish'd by Water Answerably the Heavens and Earth that now are are Treasur'd up for Fire Even for the day when this very Vision shall come into high effect All Great Epochs 2. The Theatre of the Vision is the City Jerusalem that then lay in Ruin and the Land of Israel under Desolation whether the Prophet Ezekiel was carried by a Divine Haâ—d in the Visions of God Agreeable to so Great Visions of God as will be when this Jerusalem comes down from Heaven 3. This wonderful Measurer whose Appearance was as Brass as the Feet of Jesus Christ are Represented in the Prophecy of Daniel and in the Revelation This Measurer is parallel to the wonderful Numberer call'd Palmoni in the Margin of the Bible Dan. 8. 13. Knitting both Visions 4. There is a Charge upon Ezekiel obliging all his Powers of Attention and Observation Son of Man see with thy Eyes Hear with thy Ears and set thy Heart upon All that I shew thee c. 40. v. 4. which Charge is renewed c. 44. 5. shewing how weighty and how sublime a State this Temple-Communion with God shall be 5. There is a Charge upon Ezekiel to shew to the House of Israel All that He saw c. 40. v. 40. and then c. 43. 10. to shew them the House that They may be Asham'd of their Iniquities and let Them saith the Lord Measure the Pattern And if They are Asham'd shew them All the Forms Laws and Ordinances c. of the House Now this I look upon as chiefly Prophetical of the Time when the Temple shall be Open'd in Heaven And it shall Tend to the Great Purification of the Churches of
themselves Dan. c. 2. c. 7. The Sanctuary cleans'd or Justified not till at the same Time viz. at the end of 2300 Evenings Mornings c. 8. 14. Nor Daniel and so all the Saints standing * At the first 75 of which It was Restored by Cyrus at 490. after Annointed Revel 4. at 400. after Seal'd and shut up c. 11. 1. at 1260. after Open'd in Heaven c. 11. at 30. after more fully open'd c. 15. 5. at 45 after comes down out of Heaven from God into the New Heaven and the New Earth the New Heaven as the Throne of God especially describ'd Rev. 21. the New Earth as the place of the Soles of his Feet in this Vision of Ezekiel in their Lots of this Great Blessedness till the end of 1335 Days which are also the End of the 2300 Evenings Morning c. 12. 12. 13. Argum. 4. Because there are such Extraordinaries in this Vision as can fit no State that hath ever yet been in the World and therefore must have an exceeding High and Heavenly State as the Princes Inheritance sufficient to give to his Sons for ever c. 46. 16. 17. with John 8. 35. 36. And so the Princes omnipresent Conduct though Himself in the East yet in the midst of those who went Southward and Northward c. 46. 8. c. the miraculous Waters and Trees and the universal Life the City 18000 Measures each Measure of 18000 Cubits at least too big for this State of the World and an Inheritance great enough for all Israelites and Strangers when such Great Sholes of People and all in a State of Life Represented by Fishes shall be in such an Abundance and Perpetuity of Life c. 47. 9. And yet a Lake of Miry Places not Heal'd as the Dead and the Lake Rev. 20. 5. 10. Argum. 5. Because this Throne and Sanctuary being for ever can never have any other end but that of the Kingdom deliver'd up to God and to the Father at the Time of the White Throne which is not an end but a perfection into an Absolute Eternâ—ty and all Defilement for ever separated into the Lake 1 Cor. 15. 24. with Revel 20. 11. c. to the End I Have then Fix'd upon the General shades and Lines of this Vision and found by very Great Assurances that it presents a Supernatural State of Purity and Glory Reaching down from the Throne of God or the New Heaven to the New Earth the Place of the Soles of his Feet and in both a Temple State of the Highest Enjoyment of God I have also found by the Exquisiteness of the Date It is the Epoch or Head of Time from the Typical Jubilee at that Time to the Great Jubilee of the World the Kingdom of Christ and that within Two years of it God began the Calendar of Time from this Vision to that Kingdom at the end in Nebuchadnezzar's Image as I have elsewhere made out and Forty years after or at the end of the Forty Days for Years after this Vision wherein Ezekiel bare the Sin of Judah to the end of the Captivity God super-added a second Vision of the same Four Monarchies under the Emblem of Four Beasts Dan. 8. and that the space of those Monarchies might be more distinctly and certainly known He gave also within Two yerrs after 2300 Evens Morns Days also for Years to the Cleansing or as the Original is the Justifying this very Saâ—ctuary and to the great Sabbatism of the New Creation and to the Kingdom of the Prince of Princes the Antichristian Desolator of the Sanctuary being Broken first without Hand Dan. 8. 25. which 2300 Evens Morns ending with the 1335 Days This Heavenly State is divided also by Lot Dan. 12. 12. 13. And now we are upon the 2200th and 18th of these Evenings Mornings There remain then but Seven to the Opening this Temple to be seen first in Heaven and but 75 beyond that to the coming down of the New Jerusalem All this being thus settled I come to Adjust the Substantial Spiritual meaning to the External Types of the Vision and to shew the High Rationality of the Correspondencies between the one and the other in answer to the second Question Correspondency 1. This Vision most Evidently and Illustriously presents the Highest Temple State or of the Tabernacle of God with Men A Temple and all the Forms Laws Ordinances and Measures of it runs through the Vision Now a Temple is a Place or Building wherein there is an Expectation of a divine presence or Gods coming down in a Communication of Himself to his Rational Creatures as at a distance from his Highest Glory and Presence and his being also pleas'd Graciously there to Receive their Tenders of Homage and service in Adorations and Praises This is the True notion of a Temple The very Highest Heaven is a Temple to the Angels and Glorified Spirits * He Humbles Himself Psal 113. 6. wherein God coming out of the Infinity of his own Glory and Being is pleas'd to hold Communion with them The whole lower World and Paradise especially was a Temple to Adam before his Fall And in Regard of the divine omnipresence Every place is a Temple and so He dwells not in Temples made with Hands but is Worshipped every where by Acts 17. 24. John 4. 21. 1 Kings 8. 27. them who Worship Him in Spirit and Truth For seeing the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Him how much less a Temple as Solomon the Builder of his Temple tells us God therefore very Tender of this Glory and the Fallen nature of Man most prone to violate it by Idolatry and Superstition There was no Temple or other place or indeed Form of Worship to be devoted to Him but by his own Appointment The first Appointment of place by God was the Tabernacle Exod. 25. 40. in the Wilderness the exact Measures and Pattern of which Gad gave to Moses and He was with Greatest Caution to observe it Solomon by the same Divine Pattern and Inspiration 1 Chron. 28. 11. Built the Temple It was after the Babylonish Desolation restor'd under Cyrus c. as near as might be to the old form c. All this was too Low and serv'd only as a Shaddow for the Time Being For it was too Low too often defiled and violated by Corruption within and Pagan Fury without It was Finally destroyed by the Romans yet it always remain'd a Type of the True Temple that is to be This Vision of Ezekiel joyn'd with that of John Revel 21. Give that True Temple wherein God and the Lamb will be the Temple and that Temple gives to the City the name Jehovah Shammah The Lord is there Here now is the Reason why there is in this Vision so much of a Temple Frame and Appearance To shew forth and foretell the State of the New Jerusalem wherein the Presence of God in Christ shall be most Free and Illustrious shewing his Love and Favour to his Servants and
Priesthood that It may be known They shall all come forth in Spirit Life and Substance in that Last and most perfect State Else They must never be Fulfill'd For after all the Rationalia or Reasonable Accounts that Learned men have Endeavour'd upon the Levitical Laws and Types The Apostle to the Hebrews c. 8. 5. c. 9. 9 10. c. 10. 1. as was most due when He writ to them Gives us the True one That they are Shaddows and Samples of Heavenly Things Images and not the very Presential Image of Good Things to Come till the Great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Adjustment of All Things In that Heavenly City and Countrey therefore when It Comes down from Heaven All These Things are to be Entirely Absolutely and Ultimately Fulfill'd and presented by Themselves It was therefore Necessary even Those very Types and Manners of speaking Taken from All those Foremention'd Things so well known to the Jews should be made use of in the Description of such a State as by so many Irrefragable Arguments must be the New Jerusalem-State being too High for the present World and yet not Abstracted Spiritual and High as the State of God All in All And thus our Saviour hath Declar'd He Came not to Dissolve the Law and the Prophets Mat. 5. 18. but to Fulfill Them and as it were Pointing to the Time by comparing this with Mat. 24. 3. 35. when They should be so Fulfill'd viz. at the New Heavens and the New Earth He says Till Heaven and Earth shall pass away meaning those which now are One Jot shall in no wise pass from the Law till All be Fulfill d Then Christ will to the utmost Fulfill All even to one Jota And Thus must that so Solemn Divine Asseveration Jer. 33. 29. c. be made Good concerning the Levitical Priesthood to wit in that Spiritual Priesthood of the whole Israel of God Jews and Gentiles serving God and the Lamb Day and Night that is always in his Temple in the perpetual Priesthood Cloath'd in Fine Linnen White and Clean or in Robes made White in the Blood of the Lamb which is the Righteousness of the Saints in that State seeing his Face and having his Name in their Foreheads Rev. c. 7. c. 19. Otherwise The Apostle is Irreconcileable with the Prophet when He Declares Heb. 7. 11 12. a change of the Levitical Priesthood into that Melchizedeckian Priesthood Begun at the Resurrection of Christ but not Appearing till the Kingdom of Christ in its Glory For though I freely Acknowledge All These Things had their Beginning Spirituality of Fulfilling them at our Lords Resurrection Yet as I have said the Holy of Holies that was then Annointed hath been yet Reserv'd in Heaven and was by Reason of the Apostasie Measur'd and shut up and not seen till the Seventh Trumpet nor shall It Come down from and with God and the Lamb till It shall be pronounc'd of the City the New Jerusalem Jehovah Shammah The Lord is There or the Lord God and the Lamb are the Temple of that City And This is the State of the perfect Redemption Expiation and Attonement of Jesus Christ as the End or Consummation of all the Levitical Law or Frame and the Righteousness of it Rom. 10. 4. Appearing in Glory when All Sin is Blotted out to Perfection and when is the Great Reconciliation of All to God and to One Another in Heaven and Earth In Him even in Him And All shall according to that Petition in the Prayer of the Kingdom be both Fully Forgiven and also Plenarily Forgive which now is Done in Great Infirmity only Colos 1. 20. Mat. 6. 12. 14. 15. In all which lyes the Spirituality and Truth of all the Levitical Priesthood Sacrifices Temple c. which are therefore so Fitly made use of here to Represent that State and therefore All Saints are the Spiritual Levitical Priesthood Worshiping God and Christ as his Priests in his Redemption 4. These Types are Fitted to express the Highest Holiness and Separation to God from all Impurity or Semblance of Alienation from Him This shall be in that New Jerusalem State and therefore It is express'd in the Language proper to the Holiness and Purification of the Sanctuary As these This is the Law of the House The Limit thereof upon the Top of the Mountain shall be round about the most Holy Behold this is the Law of the House The Holiness is as it were Guarded round about with a Law It is therefore said at the Beginning and end of the verse c. 43. v. 12. This is the Law of the House Behold This is the Law of the House to be Most Holy All the Whoredoms of Impure Worship and of the Carcasses of the Kings in their Idolatrous Impositions are utterly Remov'd The House is to be Cleans'd and Reconcil'd and the Altar purified Seven days The Priests to Consecrate themselves and their Persons and Garments are by no means to be defil'd None but the Inviolate Sons of Zadok are accepted to draw nigh The Worshippers are to go straight forward in their Worship and Service and not to Return even as the Angels in their Service c. 45. throughout c. 46. 9. with c. 1. 12. The Glory of God comes therefore into the Temple and takes it up for the Residence of his Throne and of the Soles of his Feet for ever and promises and even undertakes It shall be no more defil'd c. 43. 2. 7. Now seeing There never hath been any Temple State on Earth that hath not been defil'd as we must needs be convinc'd if we look back on all History of Scripture or its Proâ—â—etic History It must needs be that this Temple is that New Jerusalem State wherein God and the Lamb are the Temple coming down from Heaven into a State as in Heaven and upon Earth Now as God and the Lamb cannot be Tempted of Evil So they are a Temple not possible to be Defiled so that it is Security unspeakably High that this Temple cannot be Defiled that God and the Lamb are the Temple And therefore in that Prayer of the Kingdom we pray Thy Name be Sanctified as in Heaven and upon Earth even by such a presence as to be the Temple of his Servants even as his Kingdom comes so as in Heaven and upon Earth and His Will is so Done 5. The Types of this Vision present after the manner of David and the Princes of His House a Single Prince And as Zadok was firm to David and Solomon in the Priestly Office so the Sons of Zadok are here preferr'd in the Priesthood The Worship of the Prince is Appointed His Place of worship His going to it and Returning and all in the East where the Glory of the Lord had made its Entrance His Portion of the Holy Land is Assign'd Him which cannot be Alienated but only to his Sons All these Types Answering the Sollemn Oath of God so often Repeated to David and particularly Jerem. 33. 20. 21. and
the Apostasie and not so much as seen Nor any Appearance of those Elders and Living Creatures from c. 8. when the Apostasie was entring till the Seventh Trumpet c. 11. And when it is seen more and more c. 15. Yet it does not come down till c. 19. c. 21. And of this there is also this observable in the First Appearance of the Church in Heaven c. 4. The Gentile Apostolic Church in the Living Creatures is First and so when the Gentile Apostolic Church is restor'd under the Great Voices viz. of the Four Living Creatures c. 11. 15. 9. and c. 14. 1. is Returning to its Full Orb. But in every Vision of the New Jerusalem as c. 7. 11. c. 19. 4. The Elders are First signifying the Priority of the Israelitish Apostolic Church Receiv'd Till in that order the Priority is continued to Israel in the name of the New Jerusalem for ever So that must be first in the Elders But the Gentile Church is also Included in the Living Creatures looking universally to East West North South and Both are one Israel one New Jerusalem Correspond 9. The State of Blessedness and Happiness being Typ'd out by the Land of Canan divided by Lot is in this Vision also Represented as divided or distributed by Lot though as Interpreters Agree after a Divine Heavenly Spiritual and not an Earthly manner Thus it is promis'd to Daniel in Admirable Agreement with this Type That He shall stand in his Lot in the End of the 1335 Days plainly shewing when this Vision shall be Accomplish'd viz at the end of the 1335 Years the Last of the 2300 Evens Morns which 1335 began in just Succession upon the 965th which as is elsewhere shown ended in 437 of our Christian Account of Them and the 1335 at 1772. when Daniel shall Appear in Body with All the Dead Saints And as Inheritance and Priesthood fell under Lots so the Royal Inheritance and Priesthood of the New Jerusalem is fitly Typ'd out by Lots the Heavenly Inheritance being call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a distribution by Lot And so Rev 21. 7. He that Overcometh as the Israelites the Cananites shall Inherit all Things by Lot but the Fearful c. Even as those Fearful Spies Num. 13. 32. 33. were cut off shall be cast out into the Lake Correspond 10. The State of the New Heaven in the New Jerusalem is fitly given in Symbol or Type by the very Top of the â—zek 43. 12. Mountain the Limit of which Round about shall be a Holy of Holies and by the place of Gods Throne and the New Earth in all the various degrees of Approach to God by the Lower Gradual descents from that Holy of Holies and by the Place of the Soles of Gods Feet as if a Throne reached from Heaven down to Earth by its Footstool as was said before in Jacob's Ladder and as in the Prayer of the Kingdom as in Heaven and upon Earth * So the Throne lifted up the Tram filld All Eâ—ai 6. Correspond 11. As the first Paradise had its noted Rivers as of Living Waters and a Tree of Life And as the New Jerusalem hath a River clear as Chrystal proceeding from the Throne of God and of the Lamb and a Tree of Life whose Leaves were for the Healing of the Nations c. 22. 1. c. And as in that Happy State the Lamb Feeds his delivered Servants and Leads Them to the Fountains of Living Waters So in this Vision there are Rev. 7. 17. Waters issuing from the Temple and the Altar Running into the Desert and into the Sea and Healing it so that It becomes an Ocean of Life And the Trees that grow by this River of these Waters are both for Food and Medicine and their Fruit New every Month as Rev. 22. 2. with Ezek. 47. 12. From whence issue an Universality and Perpetuity of Life For whatever Lives shall Live Even as in the First Resurrection of the New Jerusalem Blessed and Holy is He that hath his part in that First Resurrection either as in the New Heaven above or in the New Earth below For It is All one Life to Eternity The Living the Remaining dye not but are Changed and Caught up even as the Children of the Resurrection in the New Heaven cannot dye Rev. 20. 6. with 1 Thess 4. 17. 1 Cor. 15. 51. and Luke 20. 36. But as in the New Jerusalem of the Revelation There is a Lake and the Dead slain with the Sword of Christ's Mouth Live not again till the 1000 Years are Ended that is Never For then the Dead are cast together with the Devil Hell and Death into the Lake which is the Second Death oppos'd to the First Resurrection with which it begins and continues to Everlasting All one Death Whatever is Dead and not in the Book of Life dyeth for ever without a First Death even as the First Resurrection is All one Life without a Second Resurrection Rev. 20. 5. So in this Vision there are Marishes and Miry places that are not Heal'd but Given to Salt even the Salt of Fire and Brimstone and make the same Lake shewing both Prophecies of Ezekiel and John describe one State so parallel in so many Great Things Ezek. 47. 11. And now it is well known such a State hath never yet been so much as Spiritually much less Litterally Fulfill'd on Earth Nor can it be a Heavenly Paradise here intended For what Nations Desert or Sea will be then to be Heal'd What Fish to be propagated in such Abundance or to be Taken Which according to our Saviours Great Gospel-Parable of Fishers of Men signifie the very same Thing with the Dew of Christs Youth numerous as the drops of Dew from the Womb of the Psal 110. 3. Morning It must needs be therefore the New Jerusalem State on Earth when Christ shall have an Off-Spring so numerous as to make Recompense for the over-number of the Lost now And in All that State There shall be to the Second Adam Then to come in this New Jerusalem State when the Apostle wrote more of the Reign of Righteousness and Life then to the First Adam of Sin and Death Rom. 5. 12. to the End And this shall be when that False Fisher-man Antichrist with all his Nets is cast into the Lake of these Marishes and Miry Places never to be Heal'd Now These Waters were Four Times Measur'd by a Line viz. the Line of Flax Recorded c. 40. 10. and mention'd on this occasion only Each Measure was a 1000 Cubits But in Regard of the Great Dryness and Barenness of the Earth before though the Divine Manifestation was so GRAND Yet It Reach'd only to the Ancles having small success This may very well Resemble the Few to whom the Arm of the Lord was Reveal'd by the divine Preaching of Christ Himself and his Apostles before the Resurrection The Second 1000 Reach'd to the Knees in the Preaching of the Apostles and their Immediate