It shall be so Amen For the whol Earth also must Rest and keep its Sabboth And not only the Land of Israel which was but as the First Fruits of the Earth and That had such a strict Command of observing Sabbatical Years that they must stay so many yeers in Babylon as the Land should have kept Sabboths by the Law while They were in it As we may find in that remarkable Discourse of God on Mount Sinai in the 25 26. of Leviticus which I have somtimes thought not only the Epitome of the whole Law but the Foundation of the Gospel also to be very often considered Yea and the Wilderness shall be as Lebanon and Carmel Yea Every Tree of the Forest shall clap hands and sing and rejoyce in praising God As we read in many places of the Psalms and Prophets Yea and the Gospel must be preached to every Creature under Heaven and the whole Creation longeth and travelleth for it is now made subject to Bondage but in Hope for it shall be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God For God is able even of stones to raise up sons to Abraham Whose seed must be as the Dust and more than all the stones of the Earth And we also can dayly Turn Plants and Beasts yea and Pearls and other stones also into our own selves and our spirits so as that they give us also a New spirit and refresh and joy our souls yea and the Heart of God also as Jotham saith in That remarkable Parable of the Trees choosing them a King How much easier is it for an Infinite God to Turn All these into himself and his own Image by his Spirit making All things New as they All came out first from him and must All return to him For of him and from him and To him are All things From the Throne of God and his Lamb when His Kingdom comes shall issue out Waters of Life Yea to the Sea also even the Dead Sea and they shall bring Healing with them And where ever the Waters come there shall be Life and Healing For the very Leaves of the Trees on the Banks of those Waters shall serve for Healing os the Nations even of the Gentile Nations And the VVilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the Desert shall rejoyce and blossom as the Rose It shall rejoyce abundantly with joy and singing The Glory of Lebanon shall be given to it The Excellency of Carmell and Sharon They shall see the glory of the Lord and the Excellency of our God Yea All the Earth shall Rest and Rejoyce and be full of the Glory of God as Waters fill up the Sea And Then the Lord shall be called the God of All the Earth and the Possessor of Earth as well as Heaven Which was the phrase used by Melchizedeck in blessing Abraham when he had pursued the four Monarchs or four Monarchies to Dan even to Judgment and brought back the Captivity of Sodom also of which we read in several places Although Sodom was so accursed and made a Perpetual Desolation that it is a Type of Hell or of the worst Judgments in all the Bible Yet even Sodom must return again and her Daughters And when our Lord Jesus Exulted in spirit as he saith Abraham did to see his Day he said I bless thee Father Lord of Heaven and Earth even of the Earth also as of Heaven as alluding to that Blessing of Melchizedecks at the return of Sodoms Captivity And the Revelation tells us that when the seventh Angel sounded there was great Voyces or Joy in Heaven saying The Kingdoms of this world are become the Lords and His Christs and he shall reign for ever and ever And the twenty four Elders blessed God that yet at length he had taken to him his great Power and reigned and the Nations were Angry and thy Wrath is come and the time of the Dead that they should be Judged and that thou shouldest Reward Thy Saints c. and shouldest destroy them which destroy the Earth And Then the Temple of God was opened in Heaven c. Where before the twenty four Elders and the four Watchers also had blessed the Lamb that They should come even out of Heaven to Reign upon the Earth even upon the Earth As if the Earth should be the Centre also to All the Glory of God and that it should be more and greater on the Earth than it is in Heaven And yet it may be remembred that from the very first sin of Adam in Paradice the Earth was the Great that I say not the Only Object of the Curse of God The Serpent it self was not Absolutely Cursed but above all Cattel and above every Beast of the field And when the Earth shall be New moulded yet Dust shall be the Serpents meat as we read Esay 65. Adam must labor and sweat the Woman must be in subjection and bring forth in pain but not a word of Cursing them For God had loved them and Blessed them Yea and they shall be Blessed But the Ground is Cursed for Mans sake and in sorrow must he eat thereof All the daies of his life Yea it shall bring forth thorns and thistles and when Nothing else comes after Dews and Rain of Heaven It is nigh unto Cursing as we read in the Epistle to the Hebrews And when the Cursed Earth had also drunk up the blood of Righteous Abel every word of our Savior is Remarkable Then Cain the Murderer as every One is that Hateth his brother was also Cursed from the Earth but not from Heaven that we read and yet a Sacrifice was provided and laid at his door for sin that he may have Dominion over it Though I shall not here dispute the Jews Tradition that Cain also was saved Or that the Earth it self was cursed as a Type of our Heart or somwhat in us more spiritual than our fleshly Heart which is a Metathesis of Earth as in Hebrew of Babel which is Lebab the Heart turned backward And an Heart turned back from God is but Babel Confusion As the Earth which the Lord cursed Bringing forth nothing but Thorns and Thistles yet its Conception is greatly multiplied and its sorrow But I must not here shew How our Body represents the whole World with its three Regions of Heaven above in our Head and the Earth below in our Heart with its Pericardium of Waters compassed with the Lungs as the Air separate by the Firmament of the Midriff from the Heaven above in the Head and the Waters under the Earth in the Bowels which in Heb are expressed by the same word with the Waves of the Sea whose Rowlings and Ebbings and flowings are much akin to the motion and yearnings of our Bowels And in Scripture the off-spring of our Bowels is compared to the Sand of the Sea and the gravel thereof As the Hebrew words for the Thoughts of
Such Seasons and Changes VVhile the Earth endures but also that All Dayes of the Earth should be Those Seasons or such Seasons As the words in Hebrew may be read and we find it so by daily Experience that every Day hath its Seasons and its quarters As the year also And the Half Month added to the Three brings us through the second sabbath of Weeks or 14 Weeks As before we found Abrahams Tenents and Others in Sodom freed from the four Monarchs or Monarchies in the 14 year And our Teeth in Each Jaw are 3 times 4 with 2. Watchers But yet more especially These Three Months and an half bring us from the Pentecost and Sack of Ierusalem That Great New Moon or Change beginning the Month following That Feast of Pentecost as we hinted before to the very Time of that Last and Great Feast of Tabernacles At the fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month and so just 3 Months and an half after the month of Pentecost which was followed by such a visible Change of their Moon or Olam when the Romans fired their City and so made That Full Moon And That also much about the middle of September answering so much to their Seventh Month and Feast of Tabernacles At which Time also their Release and Liberty must begin again as Thereabout it Ended And that their Coming in again with the Fulness of the Gentiles also promised to Ephraim as we saw before was to answer that Full Moon of the Full Month that is the Seventh and Great Feast of all the Feast of Tabernacles Or In gathering All the Fruits of the Earth may be cleer not only from the very Reason and Nature of That Feast and Season but also from many places of Scripture which do so compare them together As the 102 Psalm made as a Form of Prayer for Him that is Afflicted with his soul overwhelmed and pouring out his sighing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the Lord Jesus As we find it cited in the first to the Hebrews I am withered as Grass cut down for Hay in Summer but He shall come down upon the mown Grass in Psal. 72. But Thou wilt arise and have mercy on Zion For the Moed is come the Time and the Moed also And Psal. 75. I will judg Equities when I receive or come to the Moed The very same word used here in Daniel and in many Scriptures for that Great solemnity of Tabernacles which of all the Three Moads was the Moad of Moads Or the most solemn and Greatest of All. And then presently the Psalm addeth So or Then the heathen shall also fear thy Name and All Kings of the earth thy Glory as before in the 72 and divers other Psalms When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appear in his Glory He will regard the prayer of the Destitute or Naked and will not despise it As our Saviours Dying Words on the Crosse Ps. 22. 24. This shall be written for the Generation to come for he looked down from the height of his sanctuary to behold the earth and hear the sighing of the Prisoners and to loose the sons of Death When the Peoples in the Plural are Gathered together as at that Feast of Tabernacles and the Kingdoms also to serve the Lord. That which followeth of shortning his Dayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may allude to Katsyr Summer and Harvest Or the years End When the Dayes Shorten and their Tradition is that Adam quickly found the Sun declining and the Dayes Shortning Which They should consider that beleeve Him and the World Created at the Vernall Equinox So the 126 Psalm In the Lords Turning the Captivity of Zion we are or were like Dreamers Turn again our Captivity O Lord as the streams in the South we touched it before They that sow in Tears shall reap in Joy He that went Weeping and bearing precious Seed shall come with singing bringing his sheaves Which is plainly of Harvest and the Joy of Harvest which we find also in the Prophet Esay coupled with breaking his yoke and staffe of his shoulder and Rod of his Oppressor As in the day of Midian so famous for the Barley Cake of Gideon as alluding to the First Fruits and the Lamps in Earthen Pitchers of which also Saint Paul to the Corinthians And it ended at Succoth or Tabernacles which were Taught by Gideon Yet Plainer in Hoseah There is an Harvest set for thee O Judah when I bring back the Captivity of my People And again I the Lord thy God from Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in Tabernacles As in the Solemn Feast or Moed of which also before What will you do in the Solemn Day of Moed Or That Solemn Feast which is also the Solemn Day or Solemn Feast in Deut. 16 15. 31. 10. Ps. 81. 3. Lament 2. 7. with divers other places And in Zephany I will gather them that Moan it is Heb The Solemn Moed And at That Time I will get them Fame and Praise in Every Land where they have been shamed and at That Time I will bring and gather you and I will make you a Name and a Praise among all people of the Earth when I turn back your Captivity before your Eyen saith the Lord. And the Last of Zechary telleth us that All nations that fought against Jerusalem shall go up to worship the King the Lord of Hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles And again the punishment of Egypt and All Nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles And in that Day On the Bells of the Horses shall be Holinesse to the Lord yea every Pot in Jerusalrm and Jndah shall be Holinesse to the Lord of Hosts and there shall be no more Cananite in the House of the Lord of Hosts The Heb Canange may be Saxon Change Cunning or Koning And in That Day there shall be One Lord and his Name One and the Lord shall be King over all the Earth and in That Day Living Waters shall go out from Ierusalem and Half of them to the Dead Sea or that of Sodom also plain enough in the Text and Ezechiel both the 16. and 47. and in Ioel also Even of that Great Day of Iudgement in the Valley of Iehosaphat which yet was the valley of Blessing or Beraca Crying Put you in the sickle for the Harvest is Ripe Yea and the Vintage also for the Presse is Full. Which we read again in the Revelation where it runs out also by the space of 1600 surlongs which we compared before with Dayes and Years to be added perhaps to the Time of Saint Iohns writing about the 60th year after the Ascention And after All he Seeth the pure River of Life with Trees bearing Fruit every Month whose very leaves were to Heal the Nations And there shall be no more Curse of which before in Iericho And whosocver will let him take the Water of Life Freely Which being compared with our Saviours words in the 7th
All in the Epistle to the Hebrews with so many repetitions as God spake it several times to Joshua That which destroyed Israel was observing the Laws of Omry or other Kings among them and leaving the Law of God which was so good and just and wise that all Nations also should say they were a wise people that had such a Law Which indeed made them the people of God and so owned by him so long as they accepted and owned his Law for their Rule And he never cast them off till they chose a stranger for their King and a New Law to govern them Yea the great badg of Antichrist which we should hate may be to place himself above the Law and think to change the Law which God hath promised to magnifie among all Nations And although it be exceeding sweet to see and know that he was made under the Suffering part of the Law In all its heavy Threatnings and its Curses also so that all the Waves of God and all his Billows rowled over him and all his Arrows did stick fast in Him and in Job David Heman Jonah but as Types of Christ and partakers of his Spirit and acting some part of his Sufferings and when God had so powred out his Anger his Soul rested his Spirit was quiet and he will be no more angry as he often speaketh as an angry person that hath vented his heat and is quiet So was he in Christ when he had born his Wrath the Fathers Soul Rested in him and his Spirit is quiet so that he can be no more angry But we may come to him as the Psalmist Lord Thou hast turned from the fierceness of thine anger and hast put away all thy wrath even All thy Wrath in Christ Why then should it lie on us thy poor Worms O Turn us therefore as thou hast turned thy self and Reconcile us also seeing Thou art Reconciled and art in Christ also Reconciling the World to thy self and not imputing sin Yet because this hath occasioned so many disputes How far and for Whom or How many he so bare the Curses of the Law I shall therefore Now rather consider the Doing part of the Law and what it required of Man to Man as well as to God There being no doubt at all that I know but that he was made under this to All and for All the Law required it So that now look what ever was required of man either to God or to man Christ was surely made and put himself under all that as his Duty to God also whose Law lay upon him and was written in his Heart also as his Pleasure Honor Joy Delight and Happiness as to be made and kept in the Image of God Though also the Suffering part would soon be cleerer to us if we did consider That the Infinite God could have no other fit and full Object of his Infinite Power and Justice or could shew the strength of his Almighty Arm the Power of his Wrath or its heavy weight in no other But himself only or his own Match and his Fellow which surely no meer finite Beeing was or could be If we therefore may imagine God could be any more Angry in Time then he was from all Eternity before the fall or sin of any Creature which sure he could not be in himself but to manifestation and as he maketh us afraid we judg him Angry Or that he had a mind or saw it requisite to shew his mighty Strength and Justice with the Power of his wrath to the uttermost yet sure he would not chuse a little Worm to shew it on or such as are much less than the dust of the Ballance or a drop of a Bucket even nothing less than nothing When he had his full Match and Fellow which his Sword might challenge when it most would wake and shew it self in all its sharpness hardness with all power and strength of that mighty Arm that held and drew and brandished that flaming Sword Which therefore none have cause to fear or strength to feel as Christ but such only as are high and strong and stout to think themselves Gods fellows or his match and so challenge him As He or she that sits as God even in the Throne of God and Temple who must therefore look to feel the Sword of God and all that take that Character which All will take whose names are not written in the Lambs Book of Life even before the Foundation of the World And yet These also shall not feel the Sword of his Hand or Arm as Christ felt it but only the Sword of his Mouth a bright two edged blessed Sword which shall scatter and pierce them so that as the Psalms and Prophets speak in several places He will speak them under him for so the Phrase is and may be so translated rather than he shall destroy or subdue them under him or under us Which Phrase of Speaking them under him even then when they have most cause to expect destruction makes me remember a notable place in the 3. of Zephany Which the Jews also have marked as one of the most especial places in all the Scripture having in one verse every letter of their Alphabet and those also that are only final as they call them with other things observable Which it may be also bids us often read and meditate upon it as One of the most notable descriptions of the mind and purpose of God even in his greatest Judgments or in that we use to call the great or last Judgment Which perhaps is There also hinted While he speaketh Thus Therefore wait upon me saith the Lord to the Day of my Rising up to Eternity which some read to the Prey for my Judgment is to gather the Nations that I may assemble the Kingdoms to powr upon them my Indignation all my fierce Anger for by the fire of my Jealousie All the Earth shall be devoured For though it seem a strange For Then I will turn to the Peoples it is plural in the Original a pure Lip or Language Is not this a Blessed Speaking of them under him That all of them may call upon the Name of the Lord with one consent or with one shoulder Or one Sechem For That is the word in the Hebrew Text being the very same with His Name that circumcised himself and All the men of his City Sechem for the Love of Dinah which also signifies Judgment and may perhaps lead us to the great or last Judgment which may circumcise more men than may be is expected and be a sore surprize or ravishment to those that think to ravish it Which should also be compared with the Judgment on Sechem in Judges But I will come rather to the plain things of the Gospel cleerly comprehended in the Doing Part of the Law Which I am therefore made to study that I may see not only my Duty to God or man but Christs Duty unto me a poor Worm sprauling
may continue all night yet Joy shall come in the morning and we shall be glad and rejoyce all day Make us glad according to the daies wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil and although I might not see thy Face when I prayed to see thy Glory yet let Thy Work at length appear unto thy Servants and Thy Glory also to our Children when we are dead And let the Beauty also of the Lord our God be on us All and establish Thou the Work of our hands to us yea the Work of our hands do Thou establish it And will he not Then also establish the work of his own hands Which is so often brought as a Reason why the Earth must stand and abide for ever Seeing All the Works of God are perfect and must abide for ever Yea and he hath set the World also or Eternity as the word is often rendered in the Heart of every man And though it may be for a while the Glory of God to hide some things Yet it is not only Lawful but our glory and the Glory of the greatest largest Kingly heart like Solomon to searth it out and to search him out For in God there is No Mole or shadow of Deformity Nor will he envy that All Flesh should see his glorious face together Nay our Saviour promiseth that Nothing Shall be Hid no not in God himself I hope but shall be revealed And every New Revelation of God to All Eternity will be to Jesus Christ as That we now read but to shew it to his Children and his Servants Which have also received a spirit not only to know and discern the things of God as the spirit of man doth the things of a man and to know the things that are freely given us of God but also to search out the Depths or Baths of God Who still speaketh perhaps to them All as to the Prophet Jeremy Ask of me and I will yet shew thee great and wonderful things which thou knowest not For such a God we have so Infinite that still he is a Fountain flowing up still flowing over and a little drop of that infinite Ocean can stretch out our narrow souls still wider and yet wider to receive more and yet more and still more to Eternity till we are wider than the very Heavens For our Saviour and our Head is gone up Over All Heavens still spinning out the spring of his Watch which was wound up Here on Earth while He was straitned and made perfect by suffering that he may now-fill All things and bring us All up to his own Ballance of Eternal Glory Even to the fulness of that stature which each Member is to have in His Great Body Which is the Fulness of Him which filleth All in All. This also of Turning Cursed things or places into Blessed might be yet more cleered from Jericho which was the first Fruits of all the I and of Chanaan And as all first Fruits it was so sacred that all were cursed that but touched it And yet the Vallie of Achan or Achor that is the Troubler afterwards is made a Door of Hope in the great day of Iezreel the Seed of God Yet so accursed it was by prophesie that He that should but attempt to build it again was solemnly Cursed by Iosuah the great Type of Jesus Yet in the Reign of Achab the Brother and the Father as the Name implies the guilty Man of the Kings of Israel there riseth up one Hiell the Living God and ventures to rebuild this Cursed City Yet we read of nothing els of harm to him but onely that he laid its groundwork in his Eldest Son and finished it in his Youngest which we may consider again But notwithstanding all the Curss This Jericho in a very few years grew up to be a Blessed School of Prophets as we may gather from the History of Elijahs taking up into Heaven And to make the Cure yet perfecter the Citizens bemoan themselves before Elisha that the situation of their City was indeed pleasant but the Water Naught and the ground so that it caused to miscarry as some read the place And he said bring me a New Cruse and put salt therein and he went forth to the spring or very Fountain of the cursed Waters and cast in the salt and said Thus saith the Lord I have Healed these Waters there shall be Thence No more Death or Curss or Barrennesse So the Waters were Heald unto this day That Elisha the Prophet was in This also a great Type of Jesus Christ Healing the Earth and taking off the Curss thereof as he bore away the sins of the World I do believe the rather because I find Our Saviour thereabout so often with his Healing Wings also to so many That I say nothing of his famous Parable of the good Samaritan Journying towards Jericho Nor shall I now spend time to shew how all this is also shadowed out in the very Heavens by the frequent Changings of the Moon although the Name of Jericho might lead us to That also Or that as Jericho was the First fruits to the whole Land of Israel So was Israel also to the World As we might prove by many Scriptures besides That of Jeremy the 2. Where it is called the First Fruits unto God of All his Increase and All that eat it or in some other places all that touch it to destroy it are Offenders and be guilty So also is our Saviour himself called the First Fruits of the Resurrection Though but as the Barley Sheaf or Barley Cake of Gideon that was Heaved up before the Lord on the Third day after the Passover was slain as an Emblem of the Resurrection on the third day after his death And This is often called in Scripture as in Genesis Revelation and St. Johns Epistle and Gospel the Beginning of the Creation and the VVorks of God So here the Beginning of the First Fruits Which came after on the day of Pentecost when also we received the First Fruits of the Spirit in the 2 of Acts and those first Fruits were Loaves of fine Flowr and moulded together as a Type of the Elect as the very name of First Fruits in Hebrew may intimate or of Christ in All his Members together as before it was Christ in his own person who was the First First Fruits or Beginning os the First Fruits of the Resurrection and of all that slept And the same Apostle tells us also that if the Root be Holy the Branches are Holy and if the First fruits be Holy so is the whole Lump Which should be considered much with all those places that speak our Saviour and the whole Election of God to be as Israel to the whole World besides but as the First born with the double portion or the first fruits of the Earth as we may read in the Revelation and divers other places As the Barly Sheaf first and Then the
of Iohn lead us plainly to the Feast of Tabernacles and its Evening Songs and joy for Drawing of Water as the Jewes expresse it in their Talmud Adding also That He that never saw That Drawing of Water never saw Ioy in all his Life for more could hardly be expressed on earth then was expressed There And themselves confess it was to shew the Pouring out of the Spirit on All flesh in the Latter Daies which we saw beginning at Pentecost As the fiâ—st Drops of the Former Rain was followed by the great showrs of the Latter Rain After That Feast to prepare the Earth for the Wheat Then to be sown As Barley in the Spring Yea the Prophet Zechary tels us that the very Fast of the 7th Month How solemn and How strictly commanded should be Turned into Ioy and Gladnesse and Solemn Feasting And Then Many peoples plurall and Inhabiters of many Cities Yea the Rabble as the word soundeth shall Goe and say Come and let us Go speedily to seek the faee of God the Lord of Hosts and the Lambs Bride and the Spirit also will say I will Go also Yea Many People and strong Nations shall come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem Yea and Damascus it self shall become his quiet Rest his Menu hath when the Eyn of Men or Mankind shall be to the Lord as All the Tribes of Israel And He that remaineth shall be for our God Yea as a Governor in Judah And then are Both Comings of Christ described as before in the second Chapter First on an Ass the Foal of an Ass of which before on the Fourth Command â—nd other places of the Law And then he shall speak peace to the Heathen and have Dominion srom the River to the Ends of the Earth And to Them afar off in the Sea Which we touched before in America And yet Farther And As sor Thee also by the Blood of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy Prisoners out of the Pit where there is no Water Turne ye to the strong hold O Prisoners of Hope even to day do I declare that I will render Double to Thee And then follows the Conquest of Turk or Greece c. And Then the Lightning from the East So shall his coming be we must touch it again in our Discourse of Barak the word here used And Then the Feast of Trumpets in the Seventh Month and so of the Year of Release at the solemnity of Tabernacles As Moses expresseth it And the Jews bring it as High as Isaacs Release for the Ram and Thence they blow with Rams Horns the Jobelin alluding also to the Turnings and overturning of Jericho that is His Moon before the Sun of Josuah Then follow the Songs and other solemn shoutings of That Feast of Tabernacles of which also Lament 2. 7. and it may be Psalm 74. 3 4. Where Perpetual Desolations shall be Ended And the Chapter concludeth How Great is his Goodness How Great his Beauty Corn shall make the young men speak or sinq and New Wine the Maids A sure Character of That Feast at the Great Vintage of which also before in that chapter and the next and 12th also And in That day I will make the Governors of Judah like a Torch in a sheaf another Character of Harvest And the Lord shall save the Tabernacles of Judah first another Character that David or Jerusalem do not glory or exalt themselves against Judah And I will pour on the House of David and Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and Supplication and they shall look upon me It is Jesus who speaketh This and All whom they have Pierced Of which also St John in his Gospel and yet again how often in the Revelation And we may touch Megiddon again in our Paralels of Kings and Judges And in that day there shall be a Fountain opened for Uncleanness And I will 〈◊〉 off the Names of Idols And then again of Both Comings of the Man that is Gods Fellow And of that Great Feast of Tabernacles which himself also cited or remembred on the Last and Great day of That Feast as we spake before And again in Hosea Great shall be the day of Jesreel it signifies the Seed of God But I will first take away her Corn and Wine and Oyl in the Moads or Seasons thereof and will cause her Mirth to cease her Sabbaths Moons and solemn Moads But I will allure her into the Wilderness and There I will speak comfortably to her And I will give her Vineyards and the Valley of Achor for a Door of Hope How Gracious and she shall sing There as in the Daies of her youth when she came out of Egypt and dwelt in Tabernacles as we read in That Prophet also And in That Day thou shalt call me Ishi my Man and Husband and shalt call me no more Baali my Lord or Master for I will take away the Name of Baalim or Lords out of her mouth and they shall be No more remembred by Their Name And I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and This the Corn and Wine and Oyl and All shal hear Jesreel But the children of Israel shall abide many daies without a King and without a Prince and without a Sacrifice But afterwards they shall return and seek their Lord and their God and David their King and shall fear the Lord and his Goodness in the latter daies or End of the Year And as That greatest Feast of Tabernacles was at the End of the year so was their Greatest Meal at the End of the Day Whence we read of the Lambs Supper and the Lords Supper rather than Dinner which with Them was slight and little or nothing else but a Break fast As the Ravens brought the Prophet Flesh at the Morning and Flesh at the Evening Yea and God also had a Lamb at the Morning and another at Evening And Blessed is the Land whose Princes are Noble Offering Tamid before Break fast and Minha before Supper As the old Targum and other Jewish Writers on That of Solomon And although there were 12 kinds of Minha Yet That in Evening and Time thereof alone was called The Minha Being offered at the End or Evening of the Dayes As we read in Abels Minha or â—ains in Gen. 4. being just at the Time of the Evening Incense the Ketureth As Abrahams Evening Marriage if we may so call it of Keturah brought him More sons then his Morning Marriage of Sara Let my Prayer come like Ketureth and the lifting up of my Hands As the Evening Minha And the Priests of Baal cryed till Minha Then and not till Then God shewed himself by the Prophet Elijah Who was Then As the Evening Star Though in the Revelation compared to the Morning Star scattering the dark Clouds and Nightbirds of Jesabels time as we saw before in the Fourth Church And Then Elijah Treadeth Carmel or Cramel the Vintage of God which from Esay 63 and
And Moadim the Months or Moments of the Witnesses Which in Heaven may be Sun and Moon But As on Earth Josuah and Caleb Jerusalem and Jericho Moses and Aaron Elijah and Elisha Or many other things or persons Which through divers Types or Shadows in Light and Darknesse Day and Night Summer and Winter Man and Woman with many other things which we hinted before in the Temple and the Land of Promise and the Body of Man and the Ark and Tabernacle of Witness also at length All come to be resolved into the Times of Christ and his Church or Churches his Two Witnesses The Dove and the young Pidgeon As Adam had his Lilith they say and then his Eve or Evening that is Lilith also Drest in Night-cloathes And Abraham had his Hagar and Sara and Ketura Jacob his Rachel and Leah David his Abigail and Ahinoam carried captive from Ziglag As Dead Three dayes and an half All which may be Types or shadows of the Church and the World the Jew and the Gentile under such and such Changes of the Moon as it were with Eclipses also or whatever else God please to shew us in his Baths 3 Seas in Heaven above the Earth beneath and waters under the Earth also Which yet may be but As New-moon and Full or Shegell and Sheleg of which again with other forms and motions of those Heavenly bodies which are All measured on Earth plainer then perhaps we think by such and such Moeds Times of Witnessing or Witnesses Which may be Houres or Dayes or Weeks or Moneths or Years or Sabbaths in Dayes in Years in Jubilees and what else we find of Time in Scripture wch is generally very much measured by Three an half As If we take it for Hours it may shew us how long the Moon or the Earth may be kept from the Light of the Sun which we call an Eclipse But a Shadow of that Dark Horror which our Savior and his Church in him felt upon the Cross. We find it in Heathen Records also another Help to fix Chronology And His Eli Eli as in Greek speaketh somwhat of the Sun also For God is a Shield and Sun also He will give both Grace and Glory Blessed are They that Trust in Him Though they go through Baca Bokim weeping and pass from one Hell to another for the Phrase is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hil Hel or Chel by which the Gentiles and Unclean were kept from the Temple So that they may not enter Moriahs Temple Yet they shall see God in Zion Give ear O God of poor flying trembling halting Jacob Look upon the Face of thy Messiah in his Pangs on the Cross. That Psalm as the 15th and 24th is of This Feast of Tabernacles And beginneth O! How Amiable are thy Tabernacles O! How Jedidoth alluding both to David and Solomon Jedidiah Keeping This Feast in such Glory as should be touched again in Samuel Kings and Chronicles The unclean Sparrow are not many sold for a farthing the Swallow Black but Comely O ye Daughters of Jerusalem the very Swallow but in Summer She may make her Nest and lay her Young ones in thy very Altans both of Sacrifice and Incense also O thou God of many feminine Hoasts 499. My God and my King This leads us to the Harvest also For we saw before that Our Savior never called himself a King Till the End of the World which he calleth Harvest And the Son of man shall send His Angels They are the Reapers and till that Time he calleth them Holy Angels and his Fathers Angels Now his own Angels and They shall gather out of His Kingdom All things that offend and Those that Do Iniquity And then the King shall say to Them at his Right Hand A Phrase often used in the Psalms At Thy Right Hand the Queen doth stand in Gold of Ophyr And Look at the Right Hand and see for so is the Text Resuge faileth me And at Thy Right Hand are Pleasures for Evermore And yet That very Psalm sheweth that He was not afraid of His Worst or Left Hand neither No more than she or They that begged to sit at his Left Hand also And so David is Placed There Is it because He was Father to our Saviour the Branch and Root of David and of Jessi my Essence that he placeth himself at the Left Hand and Châ—ist at His Right Hand Mimini Bimini Limini Even as Legatus a Latere is sent a Limine And when Satan is set at Judas Right Hand to accuse him as at Josuahs Right Hand also to Resist him with the Heaviest Curses in the Bible He concludeth Christ shall stand at the Right Hand also to save the Poor at His Left Hand from Him that would judg or condemn his Soul his precious Soul Fury is not in me But if he wil set thorns against me I will eonsume them Or let him lay hold of my strength to make peace And He also shall make Peace with me Esay 27 4 5. And the next Psalm crieth My Judgment shall come from Thy Face Thine Ein will behold or consider Equities which to Justice in Scripture often is As The Chancery to Rigour of Law O shew the Wonders of thy tender Mercies in the Plural O thou saving those that Trust or hope in thy Mercy From or Before them that raise themselves or are raised at Thy Right Hand That which followeth will reach our Times also It should be considered with its Misteries A word There used for Secrets and All the Scriptures speaking of Jemini my Right Hand both in Saul and Shimei Cursing David and Both again in Mordecay from Shimei Kish and Jemini As we read in Ester the Mistriss of so many Great Misteries written in the Revelation and upon the Old Crown or Myter yet to be seen perhaps in Rome as at This day And as Mister is a plain Hebrew word for Hidden as Olam or a Mystery So Mistris Hester also with their usual Article as Hadam That Adam and so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 maketh beyond dispute exactly 666. of which again when we find The Mysterious Woman sitting on the Beast in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 703 in the Wilderness where first the Woman was Hidden Alma Mater for a Time and Times and Half a Time as in our Prophet Daniel also The very next Psalm of deliverance from All his Enemies and Saul or Sheol also both Grave and Hell so oft repeated crieth The Pangs of Death and Kables of Sheol caught me But verse 35 The Shield of Jesus and Thy Jemine shall uphold me And thy Gentleness shall make me Great As Psal. 45. Ride on prosperously because of Truth and Meekness or Gentleness of Righteousness And thy Jemine shall teach thee wonders For Ever and Aed Thy Throne O God and yet This God hath a Father and a God For God Even thy God hath made thee Messiah and hath given thee His Spirit
he was the near Ancestor of Selah or Siloah Rising up 35 years after his Father Arphaxad and 3 and an Half also The great Reconciler of the Sun and Moons Motions more perhaps than 19 or any other Number Half 70 5 times 7 And next to 6 times 6 perhaps the just Age of our Saviour at his Death In Hours it brings us to the Light of the 2d Morning 36 As 360 Dayes bring up the second Year I will love them freely Though before he had said From my House I will drive them Agarsem As Hagar from Abraham and I will not add to Love them Oseph As minding Joseph sold to the Stocks c. All their Saras are Sorerim Sorry Sirs As the English Proverb to this day They shall be Nodding and Noddies Among the Gentiles Gogim perhaps of Gog and Magog also Both in England and other Northern Countries As we finde in Heathen writers But return O Israel to the Lord thy God Even yet Thy God! As Jeremy 3. and many other places And the great Complaint in Zephany is that the Polluted and Rebellious City would not trust in the Lord Nor draw near to Her God As Manasseh but a Type of their Return though They thought themselves Forgotten as that name may intimate after All his sins Yet Bowed to His God and his Fathers God who Heard him Take words and say Take away All Iniquity Not Ours onely but All. O let the Iniquity of the Wicked wicked also come to an end And He was Heard in what he prayed Receive us graciously This Tob mindes me of Tobiah the Lords Goodness There are strange things in that Book and of These Dayes perhaps in the true Hebrew Copy I will be as a Dew to Israel yet the great complaint and punishment was That His Goodness and Mercy was but a Dew He shall flourish as the Lilly Or as Shushan of which before and in Ester 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 661. Or as Susanna Recovered by Daniel from the Elders as Shushan by Ester and Mordecai There is another Mistress also First His Roots under Ground and out of sight like Lebanon Then his little young Suckers Yonikothau as Younger is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 66. 588. His Glory or Beauty or Head Hodo As India How like to Judea Hodi in Ester also And in English Hoddy is joyful and glad As the Olive-Tree and his Reak as Lebanon Jasuâ—u Joseve Betsillo And again His memorial as the Wine of Lebanon From me is All thy Fruit found See Esay 26. 19 20. and Psalm 107. 40 41 42 43 and 91. and 37. 34. with the close of This Prophet Hoseah In the Prophet Joel we have a Form of Prayer prescribed before the Spirit be poured out as There also promised And Esay 32. My Land shall be desolate for ever c. Till the Spirit shall be Poured from on High And then the Wilderness shall be a fruitful Field and That which is Now fruitful shall be accounted but as a Wilderness And Then you shall sing as in the Night of the solemn Moed Chap. 30. to be added to that before of the Feast of Tabernacles And Chap. 59. They shall fear the Name of the Lord from the VVest and his Glory from the Sun-Rising when the Enemy shall come in like a Flood to end That Generation Then even Then the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard against him And the Redeemer or Goel and Kinsman shall come to Zion or out of Zion and shal Turn away Ungodliness from Jacob. As St Paul renders the words in Rom. 11. applying it to the Fulness of the Gentiles as the Resurrection from the Dead when All Israel shall be saved For This is my Covenant with them when I shall take away their sins My Spirit upon thee my words which I have put in thy mouth for the word which I Covenanted with you in your coming out of Aegypt and My Spirit is still standing in you Fear yee not Hag. 2 They shall not depart from Thy mouth or from the mouth of Thy seed or from the mouth of Thy sâ—eds seed saith the Lord from now and for Ever And though they Rebelled and Vexed his Holy Spirit so that he turned to be their Enemy and fought against them yet he remembred the dayes of Old Moses and his people saying VVhere is He that brought them up out of the sea with the Shepherd of his Fock and where is He that put his Holy Spirit within him And again The Spirit of the Lord caused him to Rest c Chap. 63. And then followeth a most sweet and pathetical Prayer for the time of their Captivity to be Paraleld with that in Joel 2. And Then the Lord will be jealous for his Land or for his Earth and will pity his People Yea the Lord will answer and say Behold c. And fear not O Land Be not Tyred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be glad and Rejoyce For the Lord hath been Great to Doe or to work Great things Be not afraid ye Beasts of the Field Be Glad then O children of Zion and Rejoyce in the Lord your God He hath given you the Former Rain for Righteousnesse and He will bring the showre also the gushing waters as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may sound in English the former Teaching Rain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and That also which filleth up the straw or the stalk 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in the first Month or beginning of the year which was also the End of the year before And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the Name of the Lord your God that hath been so Marvellous for you and my People shall never be ashamed And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the Lord your God and none else and my People shall never be ashamed And it shal come to pass Afterward Afterward I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh c. And I will shew Wonders in the Heavens and in the Earth the Sun shall be turned into Darknesse and the Moon into Blood and may not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the Great and Terible Day of the Lord come and it shall come to passe that whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord Iesus as is plain by This cited in Rom. 10 shall be saved or delivered As Paul at Melita which in Greek may be Care but in Hebrew Cure and Deliverance For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be Deliverance Here is also Pelitah which we had before in Paltiel as the Lord hath said and in the Remnant whom the Lord shall call And Peter by these words proveth that This was only begun in Act. 2. and that the same spirit of which They had Then the First fruits as Paul also speaketh was promised to Them and Their Children and to All to All that are afar off even All the Lord shall
wilful sinners Of the patience of Christ to a man turning into a Beast and how he deviseth Devises to prevent it or recover him How he fulfilled the Ceremonial Law also and how he was in all the Sacrifices as a Lamb for the Lambs and as a Goat for the Goats Of Benjamin the Son of the right hand with other Children of Rachel a sheep in Hebrew at his right Hand and of the Children of Leah or others at the Left Hand where also of Seir a Goat and of the Goats offered at the New Moons solemn Feasts c. and of the Rams of Ishmael accepted on the Holy Alter Of Gods face in Scripture toward the East and of Bowing to the East and of his Right Hand to the South and Left to the North and of Northern Judgments turned to Mercies and Blessings and of great and good things to come out of the North in the Latter times of the World as from Babylon at the return from Captivity How Christ came in the fulness of time Of Seven Ten the full Rich Numbers of their Powers Compounds for Ages Ever or eternity which yet in Scripture oft hath such or such an End or Revolution in such or such Generations How Christ came out in several Ages and Persons of Note in the Bible to do the Great things of Gods Power Wisdome and Goodness for Man To Man and in Man through all the Times and Seasons of the Scripture and in special the Times of the Witnesses In Heaven the Father and the Word Dabar Bar Bara Creating Heaven and Earth where also the Spirit of the Messiah as the old Jews call it on Gen. 1. 2. Mooving on the Waters an other Witness and parting them by A Dam and Adam of Adama dryed Red Earth akin to Dam in Hebrew Bload the other Witness John 5. and Acts 17. Of one Blood he made all Nations of men and determined the Times appointed and bounds of their Habitations which in parting the sons of Adam he bounded according to the Number of the Sons of Israel Deu. 32. which were 12. and to be measured by the 12 Hours of Day and Night Shadowed on the Tabernacle by the Cloud Pillar of Fire for Light that Beginning of the Creation and works of God and in its outer Court by the Laver of Water and Blood on the Alter of Witness as That called Ed a Witness by the waters also of Jordan where afterward the Baptist heard or saw all the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth to which he bare Record or was made a witness also as divers other in several Ages And All the 7 Washings or Sprinklings of Blood or Water so often required in the Law to represent the 7 Nights and 7 Dayes of the Week As the 7 Lamps in the inner Court or Holy Place as the visible Heavens with its Planets about the Sun in the midst as the greatest Lamp was in the middle of the other 6 or 3 on either side by the 12 Cakes of Shewbread changed every 7th or Sabbath day and made of 24 Omers out of 24 Seahs as the Jewes 24th of Leviticus for the 24 hours of Day and Night Made by the Sun mooving 2 of His Diameters the Moon 24 of Hers in each diurnal motion of 24 Hours parted into 4 great Watches as the 24 Elders in the Revelation had also 4 watchers with 6 wings a piece as in the Prophets And in the Temple also there were 24 courses of Priests and of Levites 24 of Porters and 24 of Singers and 24 courses of Standers or men of the Station representing all the People or 12 Tribes as in the 12 Cakes of 24 as 12 Sons of Jacob or 12 Hours of Light came after the 12 hours of Darkness or 12 Sons of Ishmael or Esau for the 24. Elders And as God gave 24 things to the Priests so they gave 24 to him in their dayly Minha of 12 Rouls at morning and 12 also at Evening And the Seventh in Hours also is very Signal as in Days and Moneths and years by the great Rest and Turn of Sun and Moon as Water and Blood also in the Sea and bodies of Animals after every six hours with Them and All that accounted Lilith that is Night the first Wife to Adam and do call her Eve or Even to the Day As it is to them that are about the Aequator and to All at either Aequinox when Time seemeth to begin And beginning at Sun-set as the Jewes and many other Nations did the First six Hours brought down the Sun to the Midnight Nadir and six more brought it up to the Morning Horizon and six more to the Noon or Zenith and six more to Setting again So that every seventh Hour made a Pauz and Turn And Sabbath is Both in Hebrew As if the watchers stood at the four Corners of Earth or quarters of the Heaven which are called Winds and Spirits also in the Scripture alluding perhaps to the four watching Spirits or Angels to Turn the Sun and Moon or Hour-glass of Waters or Clepsydra in the Seas c. After every six Hours of Day and Night the walks of the Sun and Moon but shadows of the good things within the Vaile or 3d Heaven where the 2 Cherubins of Glory shadowed the Mercy Seat or Heavenly Throne over the Earth or Ark of the Testimony also or Witnes with its 2 Tables or Testaments also For the 2d Covenant as in 29 of Deuteronomy was both Law and Gospel also written in the Ark of the Heart of Christ and all his Members after the first Tables of Stone were broken and disanulled being never put in the Ark or in our Hearts For know you not that your Bodies are the Temple of God As Paul speaketh to the Gentiles also Where our Heads as the Heavens above with two Eyes or Cherubins of Glory The Mercy seat or Throne of God and his Rainbow as in all the Scriptures like our Eye And our Heart Or Altar of Incense As the Earth beneath in the middle Court or 2d Region with its Pericardium of Water and Blood in the Pleura with twelve Ribs on either side and seven distinct from the other Nothi As also the seven Rackets of the neck with its spirit or spinal marrow from the Cerebellum As the Brain hath also seven spirits or pair of Nerves with Animal spirits Veyles and Ventricles which are shadowed in the Lower Regions both of the Earth below in the Heart and Waters under the Earth in our Bowels where the Duodenum and Ilea with all the Rest are but shadowes of things above As of the Laver or Molten sea or great Ocean with its Ebbings and flowings as the Earning of our Bowels and the Altar of Burnt-offerings in our Stomack with its heat or fire never quenched and the seven Planets with the Firmament of the Midrif parting between the Bowels or Waters under it and those above it as high as the Brain
it self besides all the waters about the Earth of the Heart Or its Ayre of the Lungs whose Inspiration and Respiration as the Hearts Diastole and Systole may be shadows of Air and Light Drawn in or Covered with Darkness Cassach in English and Hebrew and again spread out in Day as Psal. 104 and divers others Scriptures allude But All are Measured by the Pulses of our Hearts and in our Temples called Times and Tempora in many Languages Being as the Commune meetings of the Two Hemisphers of our Jawes with their Hours or in Hebrew Years of 24 Teeth and 4 High Watchers which so Many Called Doggs Every Region hath its Witnesses As the Head hath its 2 Eyes as the Sun and Moon in the Heavens above between 2 Ears or Years As the Heart hath also 2 Aurtcles as the 2 Poles by which it hangs in the Ayre of the Lungs and the Lowest Region hath its 2 Witnesses also Called Testes or somewhat of Witness in so many Languages As also their Solemne Covenants were made by putting the Hand under the Thigh And so also the 2 Tables of Witness in the Ark of the Testimony or Witness And the Witness Bread of Faces and the whole Tabernacle of Witness with its Courts of Witness and Altars of Witness with the Morning and Evening Sacrifice and Sack and Minha Meat and Drink Offerings with Incense or in Hebrew Keturah coming after Sara As at first There were 2 Witnesses to the Great Word or Promise that although the Serpent might nibble the Heels of Messiah as Psalm 89. 51. Yet the Seed of the Woman in the Revelation also should Break the Serpents Head Cut off in a Type before Abrahams Testes or Witnesses At His Covenant about Beersâ—eba As Davids was with Bathsheba the Daughter of Seaven and of the Oath also As God in Levit. 26. I will send the Beast among you and I will punish you in Sheba or Seven But yet I will remember my Covenant with Abraham or my Sheba at Beersheba As also Zachariah the Lords Remembrance alludeth to his own Name and his Wives Elisabeth Gods Oath and Rest also as some sound the Word Luke 1. 72 73. And This Covenant with our Father Abraham and Sure Mercies of David are made Good to the Lowest Least Believer and He that is Weak shall be as David and receive his sure Holy things as Esay 53 with Acts 2d and 13. Rom. 4 and Galat. 3d. And All as sure in all things and as surely Witnessed As the Everlasting Covenant of God with Noah at Arrarat the Bar of Curss and Error Terror and Trembling or Wandering When God smelt a sweet savour of Rest as the Moon a Reak of Night as Jerach Reak Nihat may allude and the Psalms As the Moon a Faithful Witness in Heaven He said in his Heart I will no more smite Any Flesh for so it may be rendered As I have done But Day and Night c. shall be as long as the Earth endures Or in All the Dayes of the Earth And I will Curss the Earth no more But Bless it and accept and delight in it so as himself giveth the Etymology of Erets in Ezekiel 20. 40 That the Saints or Angels in Heaven give Thanks to the Lamb that they shall come from Thence to Reign upon the Earth as if the Earth as the Weaker Vessel should have more abundant Honour and be Centre to the Greatest Glory of God when the Curtains of Heaven shall be drawn or the Canopy rent as the Vail before the Most Holy Place For the Heavens must be no more but pass away and be rowled up as Parchment before the Fire but the Earth Endureth for Ever Though yet to be Changed and renewed so that it shall be a New Earth as a New Heaven And When This is like to be is One Great Part of this Discourse Concluding that As Time began with Night before Day or Evening before Morning so with Winter before Summer Or in Tisry the Seventh Month as the Jewes render Beresith as the Hebrew Letters in the first word of Genesis So it is very probable the New Creation or the New Heaven and the New Earth shall be when the Year that began at Nisan when they came from Egypt shall come to Tisry or the 7th Month and Great Feast of Tabernacles Or Ingathering of all the Fruits of the Earth at the Close of Harvest and Vintage at the End of the Year as the Scriptures speak When also we may Expect the Latter Rain or Great Showres of That Holy Spirit whereof we saw the Former Rain or Lesser Showers or Droppings in the First Fruits of the Spirit at the Time of First Fruits or Pentecost in Acts 2d In the mean time there are Witnesses fixed As at Mispa the Watch and Gilead the Rouls or Stones of Witness That Laban and Haran Wrath and Care and Fear shall pass away As Wrath in Hebrew is somewhat Passing away but shall not pass over Those Witnesses for Hurt to Jacob or his Relations though his Wages be Changed as often as the Moon or Lebana from Laban and he be rouled between Hamath and Haran the Heat of the Sun and Cold of the Moon or its Wandrings Yet Those Changings and the Moon shall pass away but Everlasting Kindness shall not pass away And God will also Watch at Mispa that neither Leah nor Rachel be Wronged Who were also Witnesses to This Covenant and though but Daughters of Laban Yet they may be Mothers to Both Churches of the Jewes from Leah and the Gentiles also from Rachel so often called the Barren Woman and the younger Sister or our Little Sister in the Canticles alluding to This of Laban in Lebana Lebano and Lebanon and Gilead with the Goats of Seir or Esau and Mahanaim with other things in This Discourse And Ephraim from Rachel must be scattered among the Nations till he bring in and be The Fulness of the Gentiles As Jacob said to Joseph and Then All Israel also as well as Judah shall be saved as we read in Rom. 11. How long This Woman shall be subject to the Course and Changes of the Moon and when she shal have the Moon at her feet and when be freed from it as other Women in their Jubilee of 49 is Here more fully Discoursed And the Times of Gods With-drawing or Hiding and Returning to Israel or the World as the Sun to the Moon or the Earth And of the Times of Prophesying and Ceasing or slaying of the Witnesses Which though Divers in several Ages yet are All measured by the Times of the Sun to the Moon or Both to the Earth with Their Goings and Comings Hidings or Changes of the Faithful Witnesses in Heaven Which are still much measured by 3 and an Half As at first Creation which did Bare or Bear out somewhat Hidden before The Sun and Moon did not appear till the 4th Morning and the Jewes assign the 3d Hour Till which they lay as Dead
or asleep in their Causes as the Schools express And This being First in the Kind is Measure to All that follow Both in Weeks which have 3 and an Half or 7 Halves of Light in Dayes and as much Darkness in their Nights and in Months the Moon or the Earth may be Eclipsed 3 Hours and an Half or be Hidden in the Rayes of the Sun 3 Dayes and an Half Which Changes of the Moon may represent the Changes of the World also And at every New Creation the Witnesses to be Hidden as Dead for 3 Days and an Half or about the 10th part of the Time of That Month or Age or World and Then Rise with such an Earthquake as we read in Psalm 104 and Rev. 11. 13. and Then the voyce from Heaven Come up Hither is but as the Word at first Creation Let there be Lights in the Firmament As Witnesses c. And the New Moons or Changes were solemn Moeds as appointed by the Sanedrin and not under 2 or 3 Witnesses deposing that they had seen the New Moon Who were therefore Feasted and Encouraged to Watch for it as Holy Job may allude in That All my appointed Time I will Wait Till my Change Come If the New Moon were seen before Noon That was the First of the Month but if not till After Noon the Next Day was accounted First by Their Rule who also tell us that at first the Moon was equal to the Sun but in contest God made her blush and hide her face so long that Adam saw her not till the Afternoon of the 6th Day And to bring it neerer yet to the Revelation The Moon Crossing the Ecliptick in the Zodiack that Crooked Serpent meets a Dragon as they call those Nodes of Dragons Head and Tayl ready to Catch the Woman in Travel or her Child by Eclipses in which the Moon or Earth is Darkned So that Darkness may shadow the Dragon or the Beast of the Bottomless pit or that Abyss we read in Gen. 1. the measure of the Rest. This slayeth the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth and bindeth up our Eyes and other Witnesses also both in our Bodies and the Temple or Tabernacle of Witness also Where all the Witnesses were measured by them in Heaven and their Goings and Comings and by 3 and an Half or 7 Halves and 7 as in the Lamps There being no less Number or other made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers but 7 and those that come of 7. and Seven in Heb notes Fulness and Rest and Turning as in Sabbath as in every 7th Hour of the Sun and Moons Motion And 7 Dayes also make the Moons Quarters and 14 Change her whole Face and bring her up to Those at the Poles also Where she is Hidden Half her Monthly Course and so is the Sun Half his Year Returning in the 7th Month As to All the World in One of the Equinoctials And so ln the Temple As in slaying the Lambs and offering all the Witnesses there might be found Daily 3 or 4 Hours So they ceased also 7 Hours from the Morning Sacrifice to the Evening Minha and Then 14 to the next Morning As Their Longest Night was but 7 minutes more than 14 Hours as the Moons Returns and Fulls in somewhat more then 14 Dayes and yet they made or counted Their Night Even to the Day as the English still call it whose Languages Phrases and Idioms are neer akin to the Hebrew as this Discourse sheweth in very many Instances And as 7 is made of 2 Threes and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half So All Their sprinklings of Blood in their Daily Sacrifice were by 7 or 3 and an Half on their Great Altar made with 3 Corners and an Half being Cut to bring it All into Benjamine and their Incense Altar and divers other things by 2 or 3 Cubits and an Half and the 7 Lamps in the Candlestick branched by 3 and an Half on either side And their Musick with 3 sorts of Instruments besides their breath or spirit and 3 kinds of Blasts with Quavering between 2 plain Songs as singing Catches or Chatses or it may be Watches Some of which had Musick to part them as our Waites and others Silence as the Revelation Silence for Half an Hour while the Incense was offering and the People stood without in silent Meditation or Prayer And as 7 is the Lowest Number made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers so is 14 the next of 3 times 4 and an Half for 3 times 3 and an Half is a Fraction of 10½ As 7 is made of 3 and 4 or 3 times 2 and an Half So is 14 of 3 with 4 and 2. 3 being as the Father of All Numbers and 2 the Mother Great with Child in 4 which is its Square and the First Square as its name and form in Hebrew and the measure to All other squares which may be All Resolved by 4 as Cubes by 8. Here discoursing the Scripture Numbers of 7 and 14 the Author finds them All measured by the Times and Changes made by the Sun upon the Moon or Earth in every 7th Hour 7th Day 7th Month and 7th Year which was also Sabatical as the Seven 7th a Jubilee And the Months so fixed that whether we begin the Year about the Vernal Equinox as the Jewes did after their Coming out of Egipt or at the Autumnal as probably before yet still the 7th Month also will be Holy One of them for the Passover on the 14th Day and the Other for the Tabernacles from the 14th And Both had a solemn Moed of 3 Dayes and an Half for the Witnesses before the Feast As the Paschal Lamb was Tyed up from the 10th to the 14th and so the Daily Lambs were kept and searched and prepared before they might be Offered And Though Sackcloth and Ashes might go off at the Close of the 10th of the 7th Month the Great Day of Attonement yet Their Tradition of Gods Sitting to Judge All Dying That Year made them All as Tyed up in Fasting and Prayer till the Eve of Tabernacles which was As the Resurrection in the Morning Light freeing our Eyes and All the other Witnesses from their Chains of Darkness And he bringeth His Judgment also to Light every Morning Though the wicked will not see it As the Scripture speaketh And the Sun and Moons returns to Them in 14 Hours at Longest Night and in 14 Dayes of the Moon to Them at the Poles and for Changing her own Face and the Earth and Tides may be Measures to all the Great Things in the Temple and other places Done on the 14th Hour or Day or Year in Scripture Where also many Persons or Places as Witnesses lying Dead or as Dead and lost for 3 and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half or 3 times 4 and an Half whlch is 14. As Abrahams Tenents and Sodom recovered in the 14th Year and Then as lost for 3 Dayes and
no evil against your Neighbour as before in that and the former Chapter All these 10th or Fasting Dayes might be Hinted in the 10th of the first Month when the Thick Darknesse began of 3 Dayes and a Half as the Poets long night of 3 Nights together when the Paschal Lamb was Tyed up and prepared to be slain in Hour 333 just Half 666 or the Evening of the 14th Day which ended in Hour 336. And 337 the next Hour or first of the 15th which was a sad Night to All the first born in Aegipt is just the Number of Seol the Hebrew Word for Death and Hell or the Grave All typed out in Aegipt as Leviathan also with the Dragon in the Sea Giving power to the Beast or Image of the Beast as Psalms 74 106. Comming first from Babylon to Aegypt and thence to the Wilderness and thence to the Calves at Dan and Bethel whence back again to Babylon and There it became an Image of 60 cubits High and 6 in breadth till at length it came to be 666 which is here Discoursed 360 or 6 times 60 Hours come just to Sun set of the 15th Day when Israel was driven out and pursued so on the 3d day they say that on the 4th morning 3 Dayes and Half from the Passeover the Aegyptians are drowned as Job 34. 20. and 26. 12. adding the crooked Serpent in the next Verse and Israel cometh up from the Red sea that great Type of the Last Witnesse or Blood of all the Witnesses singing the Song of Moses and the LAMB in Hour 420 which is 3 and an Half of 120 or Moed in Hebrew made of 3 times 40 4 times 30 6 times 20 10 times 12 or 12 times 10 and 3 times 420 make 1260 in the Revelation alluding to This of Egypt and the Wildernesse in Divers places being but 30 years after Daniel's 1290 beginning at the sack of Jerusalem that is 3 times 430. As a Memorial of these 3 dayes and Half they have 3 more days of Thirst and then come to Marah that is Bitternesse Healed by a Tree And then they find 12 Fountains for 12 Tribes 12 Apostles answering to the 12 Hours of Light and 70 Palms as 70 Elders and 70 souls of Jacob in Egypt shadowed by the Palm-trees in the Temple-Courts as Tamar in Hezron as the Hebrew may intimate This 21st Day began at 480 Hours As the Temple began 480 years from Egypt so that its Feast of Dedication in the 7th month of Tabernacles answered to the Great Feast of Unleavened-Bread or Last of the Passover week in the 21st Day of the Month. By this Thread the Author goeth through All the years from Egypt Whose Dark times might be shadowed in the Philistins and others oppressing Israel Freed by Samson that is the Little Sun setting as many years from Egypt as their year had dayes Saul might be born 337 years from their Entring Canaan as the numher of his Name And Elies 40 years might answer Aarons 40 from Egypt where he was chosen to be Priest as God told Eli 1 Sam. â—27 40 more for Saul and Samuel as Act. 13. bring us to David that is Love Conquering Saul or binding him up for 1000 years when the 12 hours of day and night ran through each other at Gibeon with 360 Dayes of the Year then ending to begin a New Year a New Heaven and a New Earth as a New Jerusalem which David Took from the Jebusites who Trod it down as the name in Hebrew intimates 444 years from Egypt that is 2 Thirds of 666. When David had also reigned at Abrahams Hebron 7 years and 6 months being the 7th son of Jessi My Essence in Gods Language and from Abraham the 14th as from Noah the 24th or last Hour of That day setling the Temple Courses by 24 as his Name in Hebrew may be 24 and 14 as from Abraham he was the 14th Generation Matth. 1. And Davids 70 years an Age or Generation Psal. 90 is the 14th 70 from Abrahams Birth Who received the Promise and came from Haran at 75 Gen. 12 and before their coming out of Egypt just 430 years as Exod. 12 and Then 480 to the Temple in Solomons 4th 1 King 6. So that David dyed in 476 from Egypt and from Abraham's Birth 980 years which is just 14 times 70. 6 times 70 more carry them to Babylon and 7 times 70 bring them home again in the 10th Jubilee from David 490 but from Abrahams Birth the 30th Jubilee 3 times 490 that is 1470 which is the 3d 7th 70 or 21 times 70. And from the First Temple to the Second in the 2d of Darius Hystasp were 70 years Or to Ezra's going up in the 7th of Artaxerxes Long Twice 70 and 7 times 70 more as in Daniels Weeks or 490 years which are 10 more Jubilees bring us to our Saviors Death and Resurrection on the 3d Day as the Barley sheaf or first of First-sruits was heaved up the 3d day after the Passover And his sending down the First-fruits of the Spirit in the Pentecost Acts 2d 1537 years from Egypt as the Day of Pentecost the 65th of the year or 50th from the morrow after the Passover on the 14th began in Hour 1537. As also the First of the Great Moed for Mans Repentance of 120 years began in 1537 of the World and of Noah 480 As the Temple was 480 from the Law And Thus between the Two Great Sacks of Jerusalem and of Both Temples by the Caldeans and the Romans are just 666 years 666 being the Number of Change to the World and in special to Jerusalem which was as the Sun to his Moon as Jericho may signifie being made of 6 the first number of Turn and Change in the Sun and Moon or Heaven and Earth and the Great Ocean or Waters under the Earth And 6 is the First Midnight and 4 times 6 end the first Day and Light was first Turned into Darkness in Hour 25 the least square Root of 666 the Great Number of Darknesse or Change in all its principal parts As we saw in 55 CXI 222 the 10th Midnight or Number of Jerecho 333 the slaying of the Passover 444 in the 19th and 555 the first Watch of the 24th Night as the Last Hour of that Day and 666 comes just to the Sun Darkned by the Moon under his Rays 666 Hours the Middle of the 28th Day or the 3d sixt Hour of the 4th seventh Day which is just 29 Days and 12 Hours the Middle point of Sun and Moons Conjunction allowing 42 Hours for the Moons Hiding the number of Cled or Clade in Hebr the Lowest Age or Hour of Darkness or Temptation being the 24th part of 1008 as the Jewes Clakins were 1080. But Half 84 Hours which are in 3 days and a half the longest stay of the Moon in the Suns Rays in slowest motion Which is very different both in Sun and Moon and so are their Diameters yet so proportional to
Flood was such a Baptism to the Earth also As helped to wash away its Curss and Then God said in his Heart I will no more Or I will not yet add or go on to Curss the Earth for mans sake For or although all the mouldings of his heart be evil continually Which was the great reason brought for the Flood and yet now against it and the Curse or its continuance So gracious was God seeing the Flood also did not change mans heart but still left it as bad as it found it he resolved another Course and that he would Overcome Man with Kindness For it it was not only the Heathen Poet that told us Love would Conquer All Nor the Apostle only that Love covereth a multitude of sins but Solomon expressly saith Love covereth or shall cover as the Original expresseth All Transgressions Which St. Paul also Comments on Love beareth All believeth All hopeth All endureth All. Which was seen before in Davids that is Loves perfect Victory over All his Enemies Yea and Saul also which is the Grave and Hell to which David also alludeth perhaps in That very Psalm Crying the Kables of Hell laid hold of me Kable Seol I shall not digress Here to shew How the Flood it self was a Blessing also to the Earth and a Type of a greater Blessing to come When the skies shall pour down Righteousness and the Earth also shall bring forth Salvation When we shall receive the great showrs and the Latter Rain of the Spirit as we have received the Former little drops and first fruits of it hinted in divers places of Scripture For the whole Earth also must be full of the Knowledg of God as the Waters fill up the Sea and did once cover the Earth yea once and again But the Spirit also moved on the Waters and formed out the Heaven and the Earth so also it shall bring forth a new Heaven and a new Earth in which Righteousness shall dwell And in the Revelation the Earth also holped the woman and drunk up the Flood cast out of the Dragons mouth May it not also be about 1656 from Christs Resurrection or the New Creation as the Flood was so long after the Old Creation And That very Earth which God so cursed even This Cursed Earth must become the Blessed of the Lord. Yea so much his Darling That he resolveth to make it the very Centre of All his Glory and to fill it so with his glorious presence that the very Saints or Angels in Heaven rejoyced in the Revelation that they should come out of Heaven to reign upon the Earth Which is many times also hinted in the Psalms and All the Prophets to be compared with that most remarkable Discourse of God with Moses on Mount Sinai of the Lands enjoying her Sabboth of Rest in Leviticus And the very Song of Moses which is as the Bass to All following Prophesies concludeth with This He will be gracious to his Land as to his People or he will Cover or Atone or Expiate his Land Yea the very word by which God named the Earth which is one of the few things God Himself named and would not leave to Adams Naming as he did other things is such a word as might be also rendered I will delight or be pleased as if Here he meant to take his pleasure and delight rather than in All the Heavens Which must pass away as a Scroul of Parchment before the fire and They shall be no more being only as a Canopy or Curtains now to hide the Glory of God which must ere long fill the Earth which therefore shall Endure for ever and be never moved though renewed and filled both with Righteousness and Peace And God will come to keep his Sabboth of Rest and will delight on Earth and take his pleasure Here and Here also accept his People as himself seemeth sweetly to allude to the very Name Erets by which he named the Earth in the 40. verse of the 20. chapter of Ezekiel Where also This allusion is more sweet and fuller much in the Original than other Languages can well express Berets sam eretsem And in the 34. of the same Prophet he saith I will make them and the places about my Hill a Blessing I will cause the showr to come in his season there shall be showers of Blessing And the Tree of the field shall yield her fruit and the Earth even the whole Earth shall then yield her Increase Which we also read in the 67. 96 97 98 99. and divers other Psalms and in the second of Hosea and divers other Prophets And this Land of Canaan more Accursed than the whole Earth besides while it was held by those accursed Nations so devoted to destruction came to be the Pleasant Land the Holy Land the place of Gods Delight and Residence on which his Eyes and Heart were fixed All the Year And This also but as the First fruits of the Earth For it must All be Full of the glory of God And All Nations must worship him and All Kingdoms must be His. So it is prayed and promised in many places of Scripture Let All the Earth fear the Lord let all the Inhabitants of the World Reverence him For he looketh on them and fashioneth their hearts alike and his Eyes are on them that fear him and Hope in his Mercy All his Works are done in Truth He loveth Righteousness and Judgment All the Earth is full of his Goodness And the next Psalm is Davids Heart or Christs when driven out from Abimeleck the King my Father or the Father of the King he Changed his Habit c. And among other sweet Expressions That may be One When the Face of God is against the wicked to cut them off from Earth They Cry for so is the Original and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their Trouble And again All the Ends of the World shall remember and Turn unto the Lord. And All Nations and Kindreds shall worship him Yea All Kings shall fall down before him and All Nations shall serve him For he shall deliver the Needy when he Cryeth the Poor also and Him that hath no Helper And again All Nations which thou hast made shall come and Worship before thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name And the reason is in the same Psalm For the Lord is Good and ready to forgive and plenteous in Mercy to all that call upon him O sing unto the Lord a New Song which is cited also in the Revelation Sing unto the Lord All the Earth Fear before him All the Earth Say among the Heathen the Lord Reigneth and the whole World shall be Established that it thall not be moved Let the Heavens rejoyce and let the Earth be glad Let the Sea Dance and Rowl with All the Fulness thereof which hereafter we may understand Let the Field be Joyful and All in it Yea Then shall all the Trees of the Wood rejoyce before the
Lord. For he Cometh He Cometh to Judg the World The Lord Reigneth let the Earth rejoyce and let the many Isles be glad The Heavens declare his Righteousness and all the People see his Glory Which in the next Psalm is All the ends of the Earth have seen the Salvation of God As in Luke also All flesh shall see the salvation of God Which in Esay is Thus The Glory of God shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together And in the same Prophet Sing O Heavens for the Lord hath done it Shout O lower parts of the Earth break forth into singing ye Mountains O Forrest and every Tree therein And again Look unto me and be saved All the ends of the Earth For I am God and there is None else I have sworn by my self for there is No Greater that to me every Knee shall bow and every Tongue shall swear and pray and praise and confess to the Glory of God and my Father who said Ask of me and I will give thee the utmost ends of the Earth And while our Saviour lived on Earth he travelled to Aegypt and to other places about the Holy Land As taking possession of them Blessing them also by his blessed presence For the time was coming yea and Then come when not only at That or other Mountains of that Holy Land but in All places men should Worship God in Spirit and in Truth For the Father Seeketh such to worship him Yea and Those Lands also that had so afflicted and oppressed the People of God in all Ages even Aegypt and Assyria must come to sharers with the Land of Israel it self in the greatest Blessings For in that day shall Israel be a Third and but a Third with Aegypt and Assyria even a Blessing in the midst of the Earth whom the Lord of Hosts himself shall bless saying Blessed be Aegypt my People and Assyria the work of my hands as we read in the Prophet Esay to be compared with other places And the Reason given in the very Law of Redemption speaketh This because the Land was Gods Land and they were but Gods Tenants in it though in the Best and freest Fee for it was given to Abraham and his seed for Ever who was Heir of the World as the Apostle speaks And yet So that they must still acknowledg God to be their Lord Paramount their Grand Landlord And They might never give or sell or aliene no nor forfeit it which is very comfortable but so that it still must and should and shall be Redeemed again by the Tenant himself or his Kinsman Or however which was still to be observed it must go out Free wholly Free at the great Year of Jubilee of which more ere long And the Reason was This Because the Land was Gods Land and He would still retain his Right to it and in it and would still dispose it as he pleased whatever the present Tenant did And doth not the same Reason hold for All the Earth Yea did it not hold from the very first Fall of Adam and Man-kind in him Was not Then also the Earth even the whole Earth the same Landlords Had he not as much Right to it as to This Land of Canaan Would he so easily quit his Right in it Though Man a weak and vain and foolish Creature made a Forfeiture of His Possession or His Right shall it not then be as it was divers times with this Land of Canaan that when he shall have purged out the filth thereof by the spirit of Judgment and of Burning That which remaineth shall be Holy And why may it not be Thus also with our bodies and our flesh which hath so long been As the accursed Earth Yea as Babylon it self an Habitation of unclean spirits and a Cage of all unclean birds Why may it not also become the blessed Land of Promise and the Land of Rest Yea the Holy Place and Temple of the Lord of all the Earth Which is a Phrase very much to be marked As a name in which the Lord himself seemeth to glory being also the same Lord that is stiled the God of the Spirits of All flesh Which may be the Foundation of That Prayer and That Promise also that All flesh may and shall be brought to praise and bless the Lord as also that All the Earth must be full of the Glory of God For the place of his very Feet must be Glorious And what Glory Then will be upon This Earth when the Curtains or Canopy of the Heavens shall be drawn and the Glory of God shall appear and will the Earth as his chiefest Residence Will he not Then Give the Greatest Honour to the Weaker Vessel and the more abundant honor to the most uncomly parts or That which lacked most before It might be added also that the very City Jerusalem was not only Accursed as the rest but longer than other parts of the Land Trodden down by the accursed Jebusites which had their very name from Tredding down as the Revelation also seemeth to allude and These Jebusites grew up to be so Odious that before he conquered them 't is said His Soul even Davids Soul that is Love it self Hated them Even Them who possessed That very Fort which was afterwards his Darling and the dearly beloved of his Soul Yea That which God Chose-above all the Gates or Cities of Judah Yet in it self besides its accursed possessors it was but a dry barren Rock and so called Zion Drought or a Dry barren place And Morijah also where the Temple stood was but the Threshing place of one of these accursed Jebusites though as a Liberal Prince to David himself And though in Hebrew it may signifie the Lords Teaching yet others bring it up to Myrrh or Bitterness and in Greek it signifieth Foolishness to which also the Apostle may allude in several places And by This time I may conclude this Discourse of Turning accursed places or unholy into Blessed and Holy with That solemn saying of our Saviour The last shall be first and the first last Which he repeated so that I often think it might intimate a greater Mystery than I am yet sensible of As if All the Course of Gods Providence were as a Wheel in constant Motion pulling down the high Spoaks and bringing up the low ones Which Moses also long before described in his Psalm of Nature Grace and Glory Thou turnest man about as grinding him with the upper and the lower Milstone of Grief and Pain to clay or dust and Then thou sayest Return again Again ye Sons of Man Return again O Lord How long and let it repent thee concerning thy servants That is Make them Turn and Repent as we find it plain enough in the 80. Psalm and divers other places that Gods Effects In Man are expressed as His Affections To Man O satisfie us with thy Free Grace in the morning when our Night of pain and sorrow is past For Though sorrow
That we read in the Revelat. of 12 drawn into 12 or squared And of 12 times 12000 or 144000 like the Clakins which the Jews find in 144 Hours called the First Fruits of the Earth as the Hours of the First Week were the First Fruits of Time or of the World before the Sabbath That also which the Revelation speaks of 666 as the number of the Beast which so many have believed to be an Epocha of some great Change in the World may be compared with the Changes of the Moon and several Months which both Ancient and Modern have observed And 666 Hours bring us to high Noon of the fourth Sabbath or 28 Day Which is the end of one Month and beginning of the Moons Changes and Months from Thence to the 700 Hour in the 30 Day Which I touch the rather because That is the Number of the very Letters in the Hebrew Olam which is both the World and also Ever or Eternity or the Hidden Time of the Worlds Duration or Great Change thereof which it may be still comes out in 666 Years or at most 700. As the Moons Changes are in so many Hours And I know not any Nation or Kingdom of the Earth as another Moon to the Moon that hath not felt great changes in That Revolution And the very Phrase of Olam or Hidden may perhaps lead us to the Moons Hiding in her Change whence she comes Alma which in Heb is a Virgin or an Hidden Beauty As in other Languages Alma Virgo Alma Mater and the like To be compared also with the Wonder in Heaven A Woman in the Sun with the Moon at her Feet Which we touched before Moses maketh 70 Years a Mans Age or His Fulness of Time or Millo And the Hebrew word to fill is 70 or 71. in Numbers And Davids 70. Years was the fourteenth 70. from Abrahams Birth who as the Jews say lived 58 Years with Noah which in Hebrew is 58. which should be considered by Those that make him born 60 Years after Tharahs 70. which yet is not determined by St. Stephen who saith not he went to Canaan the same Year but After his Father died Which yet the Samaritan Pentateuch maketh just 60 Years Sooner than our Hebrew Copies And as 70 Years in Moses reckoning make an Age So the Hebrew words for Age or Ay or Ever and Eternity in their very Numeral Letters are about 70 or some one or other of its powers Ad or Adg the great word they use for Ever or Eternity which preyeth on All and some render it somtime by Prey As in the most famous place Zeph. 3. 7. Where yet it may be also to Eternity Being of the great Judgment as we spake before Maketh 74 in Letters As the Mazorites reckon from Ezra as the Sound may mind us the Helper promised in Daniel as his very Name implies before Nehemiah the Lords Comforter who followed him presently As the Great Comforter the Great Helper Jesus Christ. Ad or Ed is also the word used for Witness or Testimony Testaments and to be compared with the Two Witnesses of which before for the Congregation also or the Church or Elders thereof the Sanhedrin which our Savior also named plain enough but we lose it as many other things by reading it Councel And They were the 70 Elders as they were usually called though they were 72 or 73 or 74. of which â—o oft in Scripture old and new that I speak not of the 70 Palms and 70 Sons of Gideon and of Ahab Or of the 70 Disciples or any other 70. The same word is often added also as the sound may intimate to Olam for a Greater expression of Ever or Eternity which by This also appeareth not to be Absolute For Then it could not be Added to or increased When as Olam it self hath also a Plural and is multiplied by many in the Letter M which is ever 40 and with jod 50 as they used to multiply by 10 and by 50 As we see in divers places But M final as they call it is 600 as we see in the Mazoreth and 600 was so usual to express a Great multitude that with the Romans also it became a Proverb Et Sexcentis aliis c. to be considered with 1666 also Which are all the Numbers which Their Alphabet did make MDCLXVI And as Ad addeth 4 to 70 So Netzach another Hebrew word for Eternity doubleth Ad and makes in Numerals 148 which is Twice 74. And Dor written fully in Heb. maketh 210 which is Thrice 70 the usual word for Age or Generation And especially repeated for Eternity also When yet Both Dors make but 420 Years or 60 of Daniels 70 Weeks or Sabbaths Which is also another great Ever Yea and That multiplied by Ever also For One 7 times 7 or 49 in the Jubilee is very often called Ever and for Ever as we saw before in the Servant for Ever and otherwise How much more when That Ever is also multiplied by 10 and made 490. Which may also be Hinted in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their proper word for Time and season which is English Yet 470 or 480 or 490 as it may be written And if Time and Times and Half a Time be to be reckoned Thus they may make a Number neer to 1666. But the usual word for Season and for such a solemn Time as Daniel calleth Time and Times is Moad from Ad or next akin to it Adding 46 to 74. which makes Thrice 40 or 120. a Number Famous in the Age of Moses and the old Worlds Season for Repentance And in Daniel himself who 〈◊〉 the chief of three Princes set to rule 120 Rulers who were Thus parted into Thrice 40. Which we found before the great Number for Temptation Punishment and other things that I say nothing of the 40 Weeks of the Child in the Womb or of the Time of Life divers times specified in Scripture To be considered with the Fulness of Time in which our Savior also came by Water as at first Creation when they flowed from the Womb of Eternity and by Blood also for the New Creation as All Children come to Birth in Their Months also And the affinity between our Life and a Beast in Hebrew and in Solomon may bid us think again and count the Number of the Beast also which is Man whose Life is Bruitish or a Beast as the Midwives told the King of Aegypt and that the Heb. Women were as Beasts needing No Midwife Some read it Lively And in general Life is unto Being but as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which it only differs in the Root And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the proper Character of Life as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Being as we may see in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and divers other Hebrew words Kedem is also used for Eternity Before as the
Kallath a Spouse and somwhat else also in Hebrew or in English calling our Kall about our Belly by such a name Shall I add also How often God commands his people to abstain from or take heed of Kelaim Though the word be hard enough and never used that I now remember but in Moses Laws and once or Twice in Esay or Solomon complaining of a foolish people that entangled themselves in Kelaim which some translate the Stocks As Solomon speaks of a Fool hasting to the Stocks till a Dart strike through his Liver Or his Reins be consumed among many Witnesses as if he would allude to all the Hebrew words we are now speaking of Prov. 5. 11 14. 7 22 23. It is cleer enough that Kelaim signifies some Mixed seed and that not only in Grains but Beasts also as it is plainly seen in Leviticus 19. And This also makes the very Number of the Beast 666. as it is with the usual Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned Backward Is it not also the very number of the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is not only as the Latine Renes or the English Reins which yet keep course enough with the Moon in our Brain and in Heaven too And taught David every Night as the Heavens in the 19. Psalm and they may teach us every Day also which in Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is just 666. As the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also the Reins of our Brains How neer is the sound to Reins and Rains also as we saw before in Showrs even our very Secret Thoughts or Fancies which should be covered as other Secrets in Nature Which are akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or our Shame in Hebrew or the most privy Secrets whence the Latine Clam And Olam also may signifie Their Iniquity their Folly their Yoak their Shame or Hidden Secrets As also Sodam in Heb is not only the City Sodam of which also the Revelation But also their Secret As Jacob speaks of his cruel Sons Let not my soul be in their secret in Heb Be Sodam Where the very word in Numbers according to the old Mazorites in 666. Let me add also that the word Beast in Hebrew Letters is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is also Shame and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my Shame as being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our seat or in Natibus as the Jews also use that word As the English also in a Phrase not to be spoken And the Number of it is 700. And that Beast or Bosht or shame is the Idol which God doth so often complain of in the Prophets As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their Bush and Shame That I say nothing of That part which the Jews call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Fools or Beasts Orion But to return to Numbers It may be like enough that every such Revolution may bring up some Great Change as in the Moon seeing also many if not All the 7th and 10th Persons or Generations in Scripture had some very signal Characters As Enoch the 7th from Adam Noah the 10 th As Abraham was the 10th from Noah and Moses the 7th from Abraham and David the second 7th or 14th as we found in the very number of his Name and Years also Though it be somtimes written by 24 as he was from Noah As the 24th hour of the New Day beginning from Noah that is Rest as at first from the Rest of Night or Nihat Heb. And perhaps David did not make but finde all things about the Priests or Tabernacle setled by 24. Which from the Jews also we may learn to be the Number of Things given to the Priests by God Some of which themselves only might eat Others their Children also and others were common to their very slaves or sons of their Handmaids if born in the Priests Houses or bought with his Money So that it was a saying common enough among the Jews That the Priests Boyes and slaves had more right to Holy Meats than All the Men of Israel Which may be considered by them that deny the Sacrament to the Children of Professors in the visible Church as Children born in the Priests Family or sons of persons Bought or Redeemed which might eat the Holy things that might not be eaten by a man of Judah though Hired to work in the Priests Family Noah is said to be Perfect in his Generations for he saw Two Worlds or Generations coming up at the beginning of the seventh great Week as we may call it or as many years from the Creation as the seventh Week is Hours We see what a change there was in His Time by the Flood in the second Thousand Years As the Waters were Divided in the second Day of Creation What it might Typifie out also in These Daies we touched before Jaacob is said also to be Perfect which some read a Plain man but it is as of Noah before a Perfect man Which hath made me consider whither Jacob might not be the Close of His Generation as Noah of His and David of His who saw the Times or Periods of the Kingdoms or World about him as we read in the close of the first of Cronicles Which the Jews call Words of Dayes Which we may understand Hereafter David also brought up a New Jerusalem and a New World as a New Heaven and a New Earth and bound up Satan or Saul for 1000 Years as we also touched before in Saul or Paul And Elijah also and Elisha with Jehosaphat the Lord Judging Though a good while before Zedekiah the Lords Justice or the General Judgment As Laodicea after Philadelphia the New Jerusalem And Jehoram the High Lord both in Israel and Judah When also Moab and Edom freed themselves from the Yoak of Jaacob as his Father promised in his Blessing Esau so much and so oft supplanted by his brother Jacob though God own him as a Plain man without Guile And among divers other things we read no where but in Esdras of the Roman Empire and Christ also who citeth divens things of that Book we are There also told that Esaus Heel was the End of the World and Jacobs Hand on that heel the beginning of another And as Jaacob was a Perfect man in his Generation one of a Thousand as Solomon speaketh After Elihu in Job So his Children are the True Israelites indeed in whom there is No Guile As our Saviour speaketh of Nathaniel And They are Sons of Light in opposition to the Sons of Esau or Ishmael as sons of Darkness As the 12 hours of Night were before the 12 Hours of Day or Children of Light But there is yet more in it For although All the sons of Jacob were beloved before Fsaus in the Type yet among Jacobs also there was a Joseph and a Benjamin Son of the Right hand and Those were
read it As The Lord is in his Holy Place let All Flesh be Silent and again Let All the Earth be Silent before him Let my Prayer be directed as Incense and the Lifting up of my Hands as the Evening Minha of which again And In Thy Name I will Lift up my Hands And in His Name Every Knee must bow Which with Christians was As Lifting up Hands with the Jews Who in praying Stood and seldom Kneeled or fell upon their Faces or much Bowed except very Creat and Good or as they speak Righteous men But generally they Stood Praying and Lifting up their Hands And so Paul also biddeth though himself Kneeled on the sands and Christ Kneeled and fell flat in his Agony I will that men pray Every where or in All Places Lifting up Pure Hands as in the Prophets Pure Incense or Holy hands without wrath and doubting Yea and Christ also lifted up his eyes to Heaven as he bid us sav Our Father in Heaven though he said and knew the Father was in Him And yet when he lifted up his hand to swear that it might appear he owned none greater than himself he sware by himself that every knee should bow to Him And yet as the Apostle saith this also must be to the glory of God the Father which is Reason enough for granting all we can ask For only For Thine is the Kingdom Power and Glory Thus in our Prophet Daniel Lifting up of hands was a figure of Swearing And so in that of Amalech a Branch of Esau by a Concubine because his Hand against the Lords Kiss or Throne or covering of the Moon the Lords hand on his Throne for War with Amalech from Age to Age Middor Dor 448 reaching to David And blotting I will blot out the memorial of Amalech from under Heaven Yet but Under heaven O how cautious and how gracious God is in his lifting up his heavy hand David was as keen against Amalech as any we finde remembring how Saul was cut off and that by an Amalekite for sparing Amalech Nor could David rest till he had cut off Amalech though we find Reliques of them in Hezekiahs time and yet the great end of all this against Amalech also is That they may seek the Pace of the Lord and that they may know that thou JEHOVAH art most High over all the earth As we read of Amalech also in Psalm 83 which may Comment on all those heavy Prayers against Edom and Moab and Amalech and all Gods Enemies also not to destroy them for Ever as some think putting men in little letters The Text is plain enough That They may seek and that They may know c. So God lifted up his Hand in the Wilderness to swear in his Zeal t is often cited what Not that they should not rest But If they enter into My rest How cautious Yet I may add That as there was a Second Moneth for such as could not keep the Mood and Tense of the right Passover and for such The Lord be merciful though they be not according to the strictnes of the Sanctuary as good Hezekiah prayed and the Lord heard and accepted and Healed So there was also a Second Sabbath and a Third and yet an Olam or a New Moon Yea and after all the Changes of That year there was a Sabbatical year also and a Jubile when All must rest and come again into the possessions of their Fathers Yea and the very standing still of Joshvahs Sun and moon and over Gibeon also might intimate a Rest of Heaven for some that had not kept a Rest or Sabbath on Earth And if That were just so many Sabbaths of years from the Creation as there were Dayes in their Solar or Lunar year Or just so many Jubilies from the Creation as there be Weeks in a year it may be some little Help to fix Chronology which may be considered again And That summ of the Law and Gospel too the 20th of Ezekiel sheweth us How and Why God made the Sabbaths for Man and not Man for the Sabbath As Christ himself glosseth on Those words Moreover and above all the Law and Statutes also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and Them That they might know that I the Lord am still sanctifying Them For it is a Participle Present noting a continued Act. And again in the same Chapter That you may know that I am the Lord your God And There also he often speaketh of Lifting up his Hand to swear against them and of That very Oath of not bringing them into Canaan but addeth many times Neverthelefs my Eye spared them and his Heart is better than his Eye from destroying them nor did I make an end of them c. Yea and after All their own and Childrens Blaspheming of Him That is the Word yet the sum of his Threatnings is that He would bring them into the Wilderness of the People and There I will speak kindly to them in Hoseah But Heer Plead with them as I pleaded with their Fathers in the Wildernesse And I will cause you to passe under the Rod and bring you into the Bond of the Covenant or Masoroth thereof And then follow some of the sweetest promises in all the Bible for True Gospel Repentance and Remission of Sins And This after they had forfeited that Good Land of Rest and God took the Forfeiture awhile and drove them out As Adam out of Paradice But Then followed Them with Both Hands lifted up to Blesse them When he went about to swear against them He lifted up but One Hand and That also was pulled back again But to Blesse them he Lifted up Both Hands As Christ also in Healing and Blessing All about him in severall places to be added to Act. 3. 26. And the Priests came Out of the Temple Lifting up Both Hands and opening their fingers as the Holy Windows Blessed Those might not come In. To which also the Psalmist may allude in That The Lord Blesse thee Out of Zion and send thee Help Out of his Holy Place Out of it though thou be not In it but As Jonah said I am Cut off yet I will Look towards his Holy Place As Solomon also Prayed for Those that should so look towards it As we find also Our Prophet Daniel Looking towards it from a Great Distance And That Saying Send thee Help Out As it plainly intimates They were not There but Out at Distance So it may also allude to the usuall name they gave the Temple Court from Ezra Help As Eben-Ezer And there was No Case so Bad They say But There might Help be Had. And so They called it Help As a Present Help in Time of Need. There was One thing more We must observe in Lifting up of Hands and That is Numbering In the very Name of Right Hand Jamin It shall Number Order and Prefer And as Right-Hand Blessings were the Greatest So were their Right-Hand Numbers At her
not that Watches and Catches also might come from the Hebrew Chatsa Which in This sence is akin to their Kaets to Watch or wake out of sleep which is also applied to God himself the Great Watchman of Israel And what if the Watchers singing Holy Holy Holy at every Watch might allude to the Three Hours in Each of them as well as to the 3 Persons in the Blessed Trinity Though some ancient Copies square the 3 also and make it 9 times Holy Holy Holy c. And seeing All things Here below were but shadows of somwhat above and shewed also in the Mount Why may not That Half Hours Rest or-silence in Heaven of which we read in the Revelation be As the Sabbath to Half Hours There being 7 Halves in 3 and an Half As we found before a Sabbath both in Rest and Turning in every 7 Hours and Daies and Months and Years also Or it may be the Cardinal Watches were distinguished by their Songs as the Temple Waits or Trumpets as David may allude by Rising at Midnight to sing Praises c. As the Others by Rest or silence Which we see cleer enough in 2 of them at the Morning and Evening Incense while the People stood without Praying in silence till the Priest came out and blessed them As we read in That of the Baptists Father strucken Silent also And in all the Jews upon Those places we touched before in the Psalms and Prophets The Lord is in his Holy Place Let all the Earth be Silent and the Lord is Risen Let All flesh keep Silence before him And I charge you that you awake not my Love till He please And as Every seventh Day was Holy from the first Creation As we see by divers things in the Flood and many Scriptures So was Every seventh Honr as we saw before distinct or Holy from the Six before it bringing in some Great change of Midnight or Morning or Noon or Evening whence All Time did first begin And from That First beginning of Time there were Three Daies and an half or 4 Evenings and Three Mornings before the Sun and Moon were seen in the Firmament Which they were not till the fourth Day of Creation as we read in the first of Genesis So That for the whole 3 Daies and an half before That fourth Day those 2 Witnesses of Heaven lay Dead as it were or Asleep in their Causes as the Schools use to speak And at the End of Those 3 Daies and an Half there was a voyce saying Come up hither and Be you placed in Heaven As my 2 Faithful Witnesses So long as These Heavens and This Earth shall Endure And when These are to pass away and be renewed Then also 2 other Witnesses that correspond to These shall lie as Dead or asleep 3 daies and an half As These did at first till a voyce place Them also in Heaven Crying Come up Hither And Then shall be such a spiritual Earthquake As at first a Temporal that made the Rivers break out and the Hills rise up or Valleys sink down of which we read in the 104 Psalm and other Scriptures We cannot wonder that Daniels 3 Times and an Half should bid us look to That or Those set in Heaven to make Times and Seasons or Moeds also And in Hours That Number may Expresse the Duration of an Eclipse As in the Gospels we read of Darknesse from the sixth Hour to the ninth and Then it passed off by Degrees with divers Cries of which again And in Dayes besides the three First before the Sun it may be the Proper Time of the Moons Hiding under the Beams of the Sun as Hours might be under his Body and so long the Sun may be Hidden by Eclipse Or the Moon rather And three Weeks and an Half make up the Time of Distance or Absence of Moon from the Suns Rayes Or her Liberty till she come under Them again and so draw nigh to a Change And it may be added that Three Weeks and an half bring us quite through 24 dayes as the 24 hours of each day to the very morning of the 25th which may be considerable for other things besides the square root of 666. And in Years Our Daniel speaketh of causing the Daily Sacrifice and Minha to Cease in the midst of a Week Which is generally taken for three years and an half that is half a week of years in which onr Saviour preached publiquely and Then by his Own Great offering of Himself Once made put an End in right to All other Sacrifice and Offerings Though they were in Fact continued till the Temple was also beaten down about 40 years after our Saviours Death And That very War Endured just Three Years and an Half But three Moeds and an Half in Daniel may speak Months as well as Hours or Dayes or Weeks or Yeares Though in All and Each of them there may be some Correspondence as we touched before And when the Lights an Hebrew word from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were made at sirst they were for Dayes and Years and Moeds which are therefore properly Neither Dayes nor Years but distinct from Both. And as Dayes and Years in Scripture are generally ascribed to the Sun So are Moeds to the Moon As he appointed the Moon for Moeds and the Sun knoweth his Bowing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or his going Down in that Great Comment on the whole Creation if rightly translated which we Cited but now the 104. Psalm And the very next verse hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Iob and Solomon for Goats as alluding also to the Solemn Goat-offering at every Olam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Hiding of the Moon which so made the Moeds How also Mans Seasons or Moeds are made by the Moon in Him as in Heaven we may see by comparing the third and twelfth Chapters of Ecclesiastes with other places of Solomon and David speaking of his Months and Hidden Times or Allamim or Allamuth As Paul also speaketh of our Life Hidden with Christ in God of which we read in Other places besides many verses of the 89 Psalm as in Hebrew And if we should render the Hebrew Moad or Mognadh by Monach as in Almonack we might easily shew their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be made of N. C. As the figure may hint and more the Number 70 being made of 50 and 20. the number of their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 begins a word or syllable the English sound it much by Cn. Gn or Kn. But when it ends by nc nk or ng And if we consider Three Months in Generall They are to the Year as Three Hours to the Day or Night a Watch or Season as we call it of Winter Summer Spring or Autumn Which are All it seems Some how in every Day also As the very words of God to Noah may seem to intimate saying not only that there should be
Above thy Gaffers or Teachers and Elders who Ordained thee As we touched before in Chaver and Chebron and hath annointed thee with the Oyl of Shushon I cite it the rather because it is not only To the most excellent Majesty which we read in this Psalm and in Daniel and several times in Luke and the Acts but a Song of Jedidoth also as the 84 and Both are to the Bald Cold Frozen Crackt and Croaking Sons of Korah Cursed and swallowed up into the Pit and yet His sons became the Sweet Singers of Israel as we shewed before in Asaph Heman or Jeduthon and the Genealogy of Samuel And also upon Sushanim Which may Bring us to Shushan and to the Gate of Shushan also leading to the Temple from the Mystery and History of Hester And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in lowest reckoning is 700 But as the Mazorites 1260. of which again in Daniel and the Revelation Mor Myrrh and Moriah Aaloth Aloes and Tabernacles Kassiah Mount Cassius or the End and Corner of the Land of Promise Kings Daughters be Kirotheca for either Hand But at thy Right Hand thy Bedded Wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 333 just half to 666. As the Full Moon is Half to the Change Or the New Moon Half to the Full which is made in 333. hours As the whole Course of the Moon from the Sun Thither again in 666 Hours Her stay under the Rayes on both sides May be 3 Dayes and an half Under the Sun or Shadow of the Earth between her and the Sun Three hours and an half the Duration of that Eclipse which operates as many Months or Years As it was Hours they say and Her Wandering alone from the Sun Three Weeks and an Half But of Months and Years we must speak again and of All Prophetick Numbers in Scripture in a Private Character If God please to enable But why is she called Shegell Even as Alma whence Olam she was Hidden Vailed yea and Captive or Gaoled also Rouled and Tumbled So is the Moon so is Israel and so Shegell But Now She is to Rejoyce with Ioy unexpressable and Glorious because She Loveth One She hath not yet seen or can see being in Light Inaccessible All this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was Led Captive Gaoled Veiled Unveiled and Shorn also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glib Glich Lick and Like 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Smile Simile Sembled or Dissembled as the English Guile and Guild and Gilded also and Gul'd and Gulled and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exult and Rejoyce or Glee and Glee'd Glad And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Roule and be Tumbled as Gallile of the Gentiles and Gilgal where he rouled away the shame of Israel Also the Wheel or Orb or Sphere of the Sun or Moon or Heaven And the Skull of our Head which we often compared to Heaven as we see in Golgotha the place of a Skull in our Saviours Crucifying And Heaps of Sand and Waves of the Sea and Roulings of our bowels Which we compared with the Sea and the sprouts of the Earth with the Thoughts of our Heart As we found in the Bible and Volumes thereof which the Jewes also call Gillajon and Megilla Especially the Five Volumes or Rolls As they call the Little five peeces which they joyn to the five Fifths of the Law Or Pentateuch the Canticles a Comment on This 45th Psalm and Ecclesiastes the Great Turner and Rowler Ruth also with Lamentations but especially the Megillath Ester which I have seen presented by them in a very curious Roule and Dresse as a Great Present These five Rouls have All the Rowlings Vailings and Revealings or Revellings and Rejoycings of the Church and World also the Body of Christ. Shadowed in Heaven by the Sun and Moon in the Temple by the Tamid and Minha Or the Two Alters Courts Testaments Churches of God Jew and Gentile Rachel and Leah And in our Bodies also with our Eyes and Ears of our Head where our Tongue also St Iames unruly Beast the Tatler or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Beast also And somewhat Lower As before And yet again Thus the Suns Chast Casing of the Moon is called in Hebrew Kisse or Kese which the English sound as Cheese and Cheesle is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebrew Geeven as Heaven Hie-even and the Latine Caseus may be Hebrew As the Moons Casing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numbers 80 81 85. As in three Dayes and Half are hours seven times twelve or twelve times seven the Full Number of Rest just 84. As in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cased a kin to their Chesed or Chasid most Tender Mercy and Gracious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 72 6 times 12. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 82. As coming from Chas or Case to Cover spare and Trust Ed which is Ever Witnesse Cloud in Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as English Hide and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both a kin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As Hanna and Anna of Penuel as she with Peninnah a Widow of 84 after 7 years marriage lived chastly at the Temple day and night As the Cloud in and upon the Tabernacle whence Covering Sin as a Cloud Which may be also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 42. the just Half of 84 as if onely 3 Nights and an half 3 times 12 and 6. which is just 6 times Seven And although the whole Time of the Moons Casing or Covering under the light of the Sun which in other Planets they call Combustion may be 3 whole Dayes and an half or 84 Hours Yet seeing Night is the Moons Walk or Rule rather then the Day and that 12 Hours are so clearly signal both in Day and Night one might believe This Cled or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 42 Hours may be the 3 Moeds and an Half or 3 times 12 and 6. As a Measure to All the Rest. But we may begin much Higher Yet in whole Numbers there is none till 7 that is made of any 3 numbers and an half As 3 times 2 and 1. we find it no lower but in fractions as 3 and an half But in whole Numbers 7 is the first so made of 3 and an Half Which is therefore Measure to all the Rest. As the Schools rightly taught us of every First in its kinde which is Min in Heb. from Mana to number Mani and Mina And it may be there is no Number possible to be made of any 3 numbers and an Half But onely Seven and Those which are made of 7. which may haply lead us into the Powers of Numbers more then we yet believe In a word That Number can be made of none but Even Numbers els in Halving we must fall to Fractions What shall we say then Are Odd Numbers for Heaven As the very Poets taught us Numero Deus Impare Gaudet Being the onely simple Numbers as was
touched before in 3 And Even Numbers for Earth And 7 the first Number in which Heaven and Earth do meet and are Reconciled And the first made of any Three whole Numbers and an Half The next is 14 for 10 and an half is a Fraction As famous for the Passover to Israel as 7 for the Sabboth To Israel I say for when they did not enter His Rest and keep His Sabbath or first seventh as they should have done in great kindnesse he prepared or sanctified the next Sabbath for Them Or the fourteenth day of the first Moneth for their Passover And for their Vnclean or Travellers which God did own and encourage as in Strangers a second Passover on the fourteenth day of the second Moneth But in the New Jerusalem or That described in Ezekiel 45 The Sanctuary is cleansed and the Posts of the House and Gates of the Court also with the Corners of the Alters Settle are sprinkled with Blood On the very first Day of the first Moneth So quick will he be in Cleansing his House And Then on the very first Seventh Day of the first Moneth a Sacrifice is ordered and offered for All and every One that Erreth As also Heb. 5. 2. And least This might leave out Any He addeth also For Him whoever that is Simple or Seduced 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Even as English use the word Pity and a Piteous simple Creature which is just 490. as in Daniels Weeks from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both in Greek and Hebrew to lead one in or from ones Path and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in Greek also the great Seducer Which I may not English Though a kin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both full and foul and fool as well as folly and folium Faba sed abstinendum est a fabis and to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yea and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also Though it be often used in a good sence as to pun or pound or ponder ones path as Caleb was of Jephunne much a kin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fane and faine and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What ever Time This in Ezekiel may intimate It seems to lessen the great work of Aarons Family and sets up the King or Nasi Is it not the time of Melchisedech who he saith shall no more oppress the people Yet They shall All be His and for Him and but an Offering for him And upon him it shall be to order or offer All the Oles or whole offerings and Minhaes and Sack also the Drink offerings In the Haggings or feasting dayes and New Moons and Sabbaths In All the Moeds of the House of Israel He shall Doe cum vitulo faciam the sins and sin offerings and the Minha and the Ole and Solemn Salems in the Ever of the House of Israel As if Jerusalem it self were but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jeru Salem They shall see peace When the first stone was laid they cryed Grace grace But now Peace also Grace and Peace Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and Peace of God that passeth All Passovers and all Pentecosts also with All understanding shall preserve and keep your hearts first and then your Minds also Through Christ Jesus and no wonder Then the next words be Finally my brethren Yet a little while and it shall be Eternally my Brethren For Your Fathers good pleasure is to give you a Kingdom And you shall See Eye to Eye Grace and Peace also He hath willed it and through His Grace We will it also Say Amen and say it Boldly Yet with Reverence Kiss him also but with Reverence Concerning his Sons and his Daughters Ask him They are All Princes and you must but Ask of Them or for Them But concerning the VVorks of his Hands you may Command Be of good cheer He calleth you And stayeth for you Unaware I am carried Back by the Hand to the Number 14. For just so many are in the Hebrew word for Hand which is Jad It shall Cast and It shall Bless As in Juda. The same letters and numbers are in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Day Sufficient for the Day is the Bread and Good and Evil thereof And Shadai who is still Sufficient And how near akin Jad is to Jah 14 to 15 we may come to know when we also see how near the Lamb or the Goat of the 14th Evening was to the Lamb also of the 15th Morning And both and All to the Holy Lamb of God that beareth away the Sin of the Lambs the World This was yet at Bethabara the House of Wrath and beyond Jordan but also the House of That which must Pass Over yea and Pass away which is Wrath in Hebrew Before the sun go down and the Cursed Hanged Ones must then be down also The next Day and next and third He came also But I knew him not but had read in Esay that the Spirit must Rest upon him As a Dove or Master of the Wing on a Branch or Natsar But Now I saw and bear Record Here is is One Witness and when He was Taken off Then Christ followed for His three Dayes and an Half also of which we ought to speak again and then comes Stephan the Crown to the Conqueror and then Paul a Witness with a Witness or a Martyr But after Three Dayes being as Dead or Blinde and then recovered by Ananias the Lords Grace But where is Poor Saphira We may finde Her also And thy Eyes from Tears for there is Hope in the latter End And yet All this while but Saul 1000 years after David and Ananias sent to the house of Judas also to seek Saul as we saw before and Saul of Tarsus a City Built by Lascivious Sardanapalus or by others in pursuit of Io Turned to a Beast they say and now a Beast must be recovered As the sound may hint As Tauros And Mount Taurus Thereabout began to all the East which from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Syriac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just 666. As Tyrus Tyras Thrace Threscos how near to Japhets Tiras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who shal be perswaded yet to dwell in the Tabernacles of Sem in this Feast of Tabernacles But Paul is now at Damsack Blood-sucking or sacking Damascus Though it had suckt the Blood of Righteous Abel as they say There slain yet It had also an Eliezer my God Helping and a King anointed by Elisha God Jesus For Damascus also must be Menuha as we saw before And the Prince that carryed the Heavy Doom to Babilon it self was Seriah the Lords Sir and Servant Son of Neriah the Lords Light Son of Maasiah the Lords Trust and Refuge And he went with Zedekiah the Lords Justice to Babel which is Lebab our Heart Turned Backward in the Fourth year or after Three years and an Half And this
hour maketh such change in the day night so doth every 7th day to the Moon the great Hebrew Moneh that is Reckoner of Time and every 7 Month to the Earth under the Poles or places that are most remote from the Sun who is hidden 6 moneths from them but returneth in the 7 and abideth 6 others with them and departeth again for 6 more and so goeth and cometh yearly as infinite wisedome hath appointed And though there be a visible Change in the Moon every 7 dayes which we call Quarters yet it is more signall in 14. made of 3 times 4 and an half as we see in Full Moones the Moeds of Passover and Tabernacles that I speak not of Pentecost as an Emblem of that great Change on the world when having served the 4 Monarchies Twelve great years as the 12 hours of Dark Night they shall be freed and lightned again in the 14. as we find in the 14 of Genesis But by Abrahams Parting his Enochs by Night As the Watches and as Jacob also parted His Troops And David His to recover his Wives and other Captives after 3 dayes and a Night and the two Spies of Jericho returned after 3 dayes and a Night And the Witnesses in the Revelation and of Heaven were not there till Three dayes and a night or on the 4th day from the Creation And as 14 dayes make such a change in the Moon so to the Earth also under the Poles the Moon goeth and cometh in 14 Dayes or half a Moneth as the Sun in half a year So that 2 Dayes in that Motion are as a Month. The Moon moving 12 of her own Diameters to the Suns moving One of his as we touched before in parting the Day and night into twelve hours apeece And as we find 666 hours in the Monthly Courses of the Moon so the word for 2 Dayes in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is as the Mazorites reckon just 666. And after 2 Dayes he will revive us of which again in Hoseah And such darknings or lightnings of the Moons face by the Sun or the Earths by the Moon in 14 dayes may shadow out somewhat of the 14 years we spake of but now which might also be carryed much farther For Jacob served 14 years for his 2 wives the other 6 for Cattle And Jerusalem was freed from the Assyrian trodden down in the Holy Mountain as we read in the 14. of Esay in the 14 year of Hezekiah who also broke the Serpent and called it Nehustan as a Type of Him that was to break the Serpents Head to which Esay may allude in severall places speaking of the Serpent and the Child daring to grasp the Serpent and to play upon his Hole or Den. Yet that 14 year of Hezekiah was full 7 years after the ten Tribes were Captive after 3 full years seige of Samaria beginning in the 7 of Hoseah which was the 4 of Hezekiah or 3 year and an half of his Raign to be compared also with the seige of Jerusalem and all it's blows in the last of Jeremiah And Ezekiel had his great Vision of the New Jerusalem in the 14 year after the old City was smitten and upon the 10th day of the first Moneth when the Paschall Lamb or Goat was to be set apart 3 dayes and an half before his Offering at the Passover on the 14 day at Evening I have yet spoken little of St. Matthews 14 Generations which I reserve for our Characters or of Pauls going up to Jerusalem and into the 3 Heaven in the 14 year or being freed from his terrible Tempest in his Sea-Voyage on the 14 day when on the 3 day they lightned the ship but lost the light of Sun and Starres many Dayes till the 14 Night Act. 27. 27. 33. I repeat not that touched before of the Common Hebrew Cubit of 6 Taps or 24 Digits and the sacred Cubit 7 Taps or 28 Digits As those that have fewest Teeth have 28 so that either Jaw hath 14 parted by two watchers which they call Doggs between 3 Fours As the Hebrew Zereth or Span was made of 3 Taps of 4 Digits apeece As the old Watches they say were 3 in the Night of 4 hours apeece although the Gospel as the Romans reckon 4 as of 3 hours apeece And the 4 sides of the Great City had 3 Shaars or Watches or Gates apeece And if the Sacred Cubit were 28 Digits How like is their Hand which is Jad and 14 to be half their Holy Cubit As That also which must be so revealed and stretched out as we often read to deliver his People in the 14th day at night or the 14 Great Year of which again As the Temple Witnesses were restored again in the 14 Hour after the Dark Night os the Bottomlesse Pit had put them out or slain them or at least made them to Cease as our eyes also to Rest in darknesse till the Day-star chased away the Nights Darknesse and brought it's Kets or End which is also the Waking or Resurrection as we found in Daniel to be compared with Job 38 Luke 1. 78. 79. 2. Pet. 1. 19. Reve. 2. 28. and divers other places From 14 we come to 21 the next number made of 3 and an half in whole Numbers 3 times 6 and 3. or 3 Sevens or 3 fourths half of 24. bringing us to the Evening Minha in every Day beginning still at Sun-set and to the Last Great Feast of Unleavened Bread after the Passeover and to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Great Hosanna of the Tabernacles the 21 Day of the Moneth as an Emblem of Their Liberty after the 20 Years Bondage under Laban again under Jabin and the Arks 20 Years so neer the Philistines That I say nothing of Solomons being 20 Years in building Gods House and his Own and his Feast was 14 Dayes in the 7. Month of Tabernacles Or of his 20 Cities given to Hiram or of 20. smitten by Jephta or of 20 peeces the price of Joseph as 30 of Christ or of the 20 Cubits of the Cursing Roule in Zachary or any other 20 in Scripture which we may touch in Characters As also the 6 times 20 that great Moed of God with man 120 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is just 120. Of which again and of All the Sevenths As 28 and 35 and 42 Half of three dayes and Half the first Chled or Childe of the Sun and Moon or Her Calends which may come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as Ides from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or her Cloud or Clade which is also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or her Hour of Temptation 42 being to 1000 the Great Day or to 1008 the Jewes Clakins in each hour as an Hour to a Day just the 12th part And 42 is 3 times 12 and an half or 3 times 14 or 6 times 7 a great Moed of the Witnesses In Hours besides the Sun and Moons meeting or Beam and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
〈◊〉 may be 42 it is the Hour of Noon in the 2d day of Creation And in Dayes the Full Moon or Passeover of the 2d Month for the Unclean or Travellers In Weeks it is near the Time of Life or 40 weeks Weeks of the Childe in the Wombe as before And in Months it is 3 Years and an Half or 1260 dayes of the woman in the Wilderness or 42 Months of the Beast and thofe that Tread down the Holy City And Daniel saith All those things shall be finished with the end of scattring the power of the Holy People And 1290 dayes in Him are but 30 more than 1260 in the Revelation and 45 less than 1235 in Daniel which are but 3 more than Twice 666. And if the Revelation were 30 years after the sack of Jerusalem it will be no wonder it should speak 30 years lesse then Daniels 1290. Or that These also should have 45 years added for setling them As 45 Hours brought up the Evening Minha of the 2d Day As the 45 years â—aleb speaketh of Jos. 14. Although they wandred in the Wilderness but 40 years for the 40 dayes of searching the Land whence those 40 years might seem to begin answering to Ezekiels 40 Days or Years for Judah and the 40 years of Jerusalem after the 40 Dayes of our Saviours staying on Earth after his Resurrection As it may be Nineve stood but 40 years after Jonahs 40 dayes a sign to That sinful Generation And if there were just 42 Miles from Beersheba to Jerusalem that is 20 to Hebron and 22 from Hebron to Jerusalem as we finde in Jerome with others That may be considered with the 42 Months and 42 Mansions and 42 Children at Jericho of which before From 42 the next of 3 and an half in whole numbers is 49. 3 times 4 and an half or 7 times 7 the first number squared In Hours it is the first Hour of the 3d Nights Rest. In Dayes it is the 7th Great Day of Unleavened Bread to the Passover of the 2d Month. In Weeks it cometh near the Weeks of the Lunar Year and but 3 short of the Solar In Years it was the Jubilie That Great Rest and yet Motion or Mutation as we noted before in the Hebrew word Mot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 49. which is also the number of the common word for Measure Midda 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As if that number of 49 in their Jubilies were the Measure of All Measures and 49 is also in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be but 40 which we touched before in the Sun and Moons Beams of Meeting and Bowing or coming together weh is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Bo. 60 Hours bring us just to the Morning of the 3d Day and 70 the Evening Minha of that 3d Day which may answer to the Pentecost of the 3d Month. As the first â—amid of the 14th Hour might represent the Passeover of the 14th Day of the first Month. And the Pâ—ntecost being 50 dayes after the first Sheaf waved or Heaved of which before was near the 70th Day of the year And the first Fruits or Biccurim of Pentecost might represent their first coming from Babylon after the 70 years Captivity as the Law was given at their first Pentecost after their coming from Aegypt And That coming from Babylon was but as the first Fruits or Feast of Pentecost to that great Feast of Tabernacles of which we have spoken so much And as 70 is made of 7 and 10 the Full and the Rich number drawn together So it is also 3 times 20 and an half As a Great Moed of the Witnesses There having also been 3 times 20 years of Bondage signal enough before the 70 years Captivity 20 with Laban and 20 with the Philistins and Kiriaâ—l-jearim 1 Sam. 7. and 20 with Jabin also from whom they were freed by Barak Lightning and the Son of man shall come as Lightning Son of Abinoam the Fathers Beauty or Brightness on Mount Tabor where our Saviour shon as Lightning or Barak from Kadâ—h the holy City of Refuge in Nepthali Great Wrestlings as Rachel first and Then Deborah noteth in Her Song Whence the willing people or Aminadab and leading Captivity captive may easily come to the 110 Psalm and 68. where also we read of Women Preachers or Singers a part of Prophecy as we finde in Miriam and in This Deborah Rising up under Tamar which is also the Palm-Tree where the former Deborah Rebecca's Nurse was buried it seems in Genesis called Allon-Bacuth the Oak of Weeping as some render it But in the Targum and Jerome another kinde of Tree And of All Trees the Palm is famous as the Camomel in Plants for Rising up by Treading down As we saw before in Their Great Hosannah of the Greatest Feast of Tabernacles And in This Deborahs Song and Time we may finde Megiddon and Horma As in Gedeons Time also to be compared with Megiddon in Zechary and Harmagedon in the Revelation 14 More added to 70 bring us to 84 which in Hours is just 3 Dayes and an Half the Great Moed of ohe Moon Covered or Cased 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As a secret 84. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 80 81 85. Now she soaaketh or sucketh the sack of the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which she becometh As a Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or a Great Measure of Waters which she poureth on the Earth and so becometh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 white and sick as in Latine Sicca Luna Sitiens And Whiteness argueth Dryness as white Hayrs and whited Cloth Being freed Pad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 84 89 she becometh White and Fair which in Solomon is Lebana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 87. 3 Hours and 3 Dayes and an Half And now being Leavened by the Sun she goeth swelling on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To her Childe and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may also be the Time of her Full as well as Change Till she Wane or Weane her Childe After the Full And then goes on to her Casing again The Earth shall be like the Moon in This also bearing Fruit every Month as we saw before That I speak not of the Chymists Moon impregnate with their Sun which may be in us also though we throw away the Golden Sands and Rivers which the World contend for because we do not know our selves and what we may come to do As Lebana or Levana Dea the Romans Great Midwife she is also the Queen of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As English call the Welken and the Milken way And Milcha was also near akin to Laban Gen. 22 And They have Melcom also Binghams Melcom and Melcom Regis the Kings Kingdom But she is not Lebana till White or quite free from the Suns Rayes or Solomons Hamma 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which may minde us of the Jewes Tradition of Ham with his Wife in the Ark as begetting all that
Jerusalem shall be as David and every one that Thirsteth receiveth His Everlasting Covenant and His sure mercies or his Holy Things in all things Ordered and sure His seed shall endure for ever His Throne As the Sun before him It shall be established for ever as the Moon as a faithful Witness in Heaven Selah Then follows the Laying or slaying of those faithful Witnesses But How long wilt Thou O Lord be Hidden Here is the Great Nister as the Jewes call the 3d Person As Hidden or Mister as the English or Mistery we touched before and Lanetsach And Cheled the word here used with others leading us to Adam and Abel Then to Enoch and Elijah When we shall resolve that Dying Eclipse on the Cross in Hours and Dayes and Months and Years As we shall be enabled by Him whom to acknowledge on all Occasions is our Happiness and Glory What is the Proper Age of the Moon its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when called Jareach may not be easie to determine We found her before in her Casing sucking the Sun as a Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 till her Heat as That in the Earth and our Heart also the Cause of all motions and clicking Pulses make her first Reak and then Boyl as a seething Pot or a Boyling Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seath Seeth as the Greek 〈◊〉 Spirit boyling up as enflamed by Heat within And so the Moon and Sea also may flow as we touched before to be compared with Esay 64 1. 2. Psal. 147. 18. In Numbers Jareach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 makes 218. Which in Hours is but 2 or 3 more then Three times Three Dayes Or if you will Three Nights because the Moon is to Rule the Night And all the Nights of the week make but 3 whole Dayes of 24 Hours and an Half before the Sun of the Sabbath Riseth As the Lamb of the Sabbath Day with his 144000 Virgins following the Lamb of the Sabbath as the Jewes Clakins of the 144 Hours of the six Dayes before the Sabbath as the first Fruits to God and the Lamb of which before Of Dayes and Months and Years in Characters To 3 times 3 Dayes each 3 is 72 Hours adding6 Hours more we are brought to Midnight of the 10th Night before the 10th Day the time of Jerecho In Hours 222. the 3d part of 666. And Jerichos Walls mightr each to Heaven or at least to the Moon as it signifies Though we have not yet compared its Trumpets with them in the Revelation Or the Last Plagues of God and the Last Woe When it is past No more Curse But as we saw in Jericho though Cursed as Gibeon also yet built again by Hiel the Living High God from Bethel the House of God in the Dayes of Ahab Brother and Father also As we saw before If we go forward to reckon the Age of the Moon and the World together we may remember that although the Jews Night were in Winter about 7 minutes more than 14 Hours long yet they alwayes made or accounted it Even to their Day and so it was There and elsewhere at the Equinox in which they agree the World was Created Let us a little compare it with the first Month in which they came out of Aegypt When the first Night of Time was past as the Cubits first Span of 3 Taps or Watches of 4 Hours apeece or 4 of 3 12 Hours brought up That great Change of Light for Darkness It is made of 3 the Father of all Numbers and Ab in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 3 on 4 the Mother as 7 is 3 with 4 which we found the first square Number or Compound as 3 are all Simples The 2d 12 Honrs were All Children of Light which we called the sons of Israel as the former 12 were sons of Darkness or 12 sons of Ishmael the First-born of Abram the High Father The 25th Hour brought in the next great Change of Darkness for Light and is the nearest Root of 666 the Course of the Moon that Eve of Night as the Sun is the Adam of Day with his 12 also as Apostles the Root of 144. 35 and 36 Brought in the Second Change of Light for Darkness As 350 and 360 Dayes bring up the 2d Year both Solar and Lunar which is as the Day Dawning in the 35th Hour before Full Light in the 36th which is 3 times 12. And the Half being also added maketh 42 which brings up Noon or perfect Light of the 2d Day Which is ended by 12 drawn into 4 the first square Number bringing up the 3d Nights Rest and great Change beginning with 49 or 7 times 7 as the Jubilee and Hebrew Midda Measure of measures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 49. 60 Hours bring up the Morning of the 3d Day and 66 its Noon and 70 is the Hour of its Evening Minha had it been appointed to be compared with the Pentecost and Return from the 70 Years Captivity and many other 70 in Scripture It coming so up in the 3d Day which is also ended with 72 Hours as the 72 Elders of the Sanedrin 6 times 12. 84 Hours bring up the Sun of the 4th Day and frees the Moon from the Sun as we saw before So that Both those Witnesses might Then be seen in Heaven Where One or Both had yet lay hid till the 4th Day or after 3 Dayes and Half which is the Night of the 4th the Moed of these Heavenly Witnesses to measure all other And as the Sun of Righteousness did not appear till the 4th Great Day of the World so perhaps he came in That very Hour of the 1000 years which answereth to the 4th Dayes Minha or some other signal season that may tell us both his Setting and Rising again when we shall consider all his Moeds also of 3 Years and Half 3 Dayes and Half yea and 3 Hours and Half great Eclips on the Cross of which in Characters as God shall help us with the Prayers of his people who must help the Lord against the Mighty Powers of Darkness that He may bring out his Marvellous Light which is Dawning among us 96 Hours end the 4th Day And 7 times 96 are but 6 more than 666. Whos 's 6th part is III. in Hebrew letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Measuring Line we touched in Kav la Kav Sav la Sav. And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also just 96 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 106 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 100 and 11. 120 Hours 10 times 12 bring up the 6th Day in which man was Created and when he had fallen and God grieved or Repented or resolved to change him because he had made him on Earth and not kept him in Heaven He said My Spirit shall not be a Don or Dun to Man for Olam 140 or 700 in their Erring who is Flesh. But his Dayes have been or shall be 120 Year as
the last Hour of the 14th Day it makes 1533 or 1535 the number of Wrath and Fury to be Passed over as Daniel 9. 16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aphek and Hamath words ominous enough to Israel beaten so often at Aphek and as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 5 times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 5 times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the Ark was taken and again when Saul was slain besides all else And though Solomon as a Type of Jesus conquered Wrath and Hamath as we saw before yet the King of Assyria gloried in it as His and conquered by Him Whence also he carried some to people Samaria though they brought the Wrath of God and Asima and Lions with them O Ariel And the King of Aegypt Chained a King of Judah in the Land of Hamath as the King of Babylon did binde and blinde Zedechiah in the Land of Hamath as we read in Jeromy And the Prophet Esay saith that God will set his Hand the 2d time to recover his people from Hamath also which in Zechary must be joyned to Damascus when it is Menucha made Meek and quiet as we saw before And though I may be out in Time as well as Place what if God shall shew us All these Hours to measure Years from Aegypt Onward Thus 480 to the Temple in Solomons 4th who Reigned 40. Thence Ezekiels 390 to the Temples End Thence 3 times 666 and an Half may bring us to the Great Tabernacles in the 7th Month or just to 1666 after the 2d Temple was destroyed And by This account there may be just 666 Years between the two great Changes of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and Romans as the two Changes of the Moon under Hamath the Heat and Raies or Rage of the Sun That is 70 and 66 and 490 and 40 from That Pentecost Act. 2. To the Roman Sack of Jerusalem just 70 Weeks after the 2d of Darius Nothus 106 or measuring 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Captivity as That Pentecost and Passion of our Saviour was 70 Weeks from Esraes Time in Artaxerxes 66 or what if 70 from the 2d of Darius Hystasp who restored the Temple in Haggaies Time ending its 70 Years and the Cities 70 as Cyrus first ended Ezekiels 70 at his taking of Babel which was the first and last as Lebab in our Body of Oppression and Confusion to the World or Church of God in most or All the Monarchies So to Nimrod Belus Belochus Nabonassar Nebuchadnezar Nabonidus Darius the Mede Cyrus the Persian Darius Hystasp by Zopyrus and Darius the last Pushed by the Goat at Granicum Thrown down at Issus and Trampled at Arbela near Charan as Daniel foretold of Alexander who got the Empire lost his Manners and his Life at Babylon As Seleucus after him the Root of the Seleucidae till the Romans also were poysoned by swallowing or gaping at Babylon which they could not swallow Being the Fatal bound of their Empire several times besides that shameful flur of Crassus at the foresaid Charan of Abraham and Laban as we saw before As a Parallel to Hamath which to Haran is as Rage to Wrath or as the Western Sun of the Afternoon to the Morning Sun of the East As Charan lies to Hamath and Both at Gods left Hand or North-ward And as Jonahs 40 Dayes might be 40 Years to Niniveh As Ezechiels 40 Daies to 40 Years of Judah so the 40 Dais of Christ on Earth to the 40 Years of Jerusalem after him as the 40 Years in the Wilderness to the 40 Daies of searching the Land Or to the first 40 Daies of Moses in the Mount As Christ 40 Years in Heaven after his 40 Daies and Then came down and brake the two Witnesses of the Law as Moses did the two Tables But as Types of two other to be Broken renued again as They were 480 Years from Aegypt to the Temple may answer both to 48 Hours in two Daies beginning also the 49th of 7 times 7 as the Jubilee and to the first 480 Hours of the Month and of the Year of 360 just the Time of Exodus so that it is much one to begin There or at the beginning of any Year and 480 Hours bring us to the 21 Day the last and Great Feast of Unleavened Bread And Solomons 14 Daies of Dedication may point at the Tamid of That 21st Day with its solemn Offerings in the of That Day 14th Hour The First 40 of the 480 bring us to Moses Death at the 4th Hour of the 2d Morning while he repeateth the Law and 2d Covenant in Deut. 29 and singeth his Swan-like song and Blessings Chap. 32 and 33. 41 Their Hour of Temptation Passing Jordan as the Red Sea at the Exodus and entring Canaan much as the Lamb was to be Tyed up on the 10th Day as we saw before in Jericho Yet 41 and 42 the Number of the 2d Days Noon Dines them with that Country Bread Six Hours or Years of War and Trouble bring them at length to quiet Rest in the Evening Minha of that Day ending in 48 and 49 as the Root of Sabattical Years and Jubilies the 10th part of 480. In That Night Josuah the Sun of That Day is taken from them He had stayed the Sun and was buried in Timnath Heres Image of the Sun as the Name speaketh And that Nights Darkness holdeth them 8 Hours more in 8 Years Bondage under the Blackmoor Cushan as akin to Cush of Ham the Father of Nimrod Lord of Babel as This of Mesopotamia where was Haran of Abraham Laban and Jacob their Ancestors So that Cushan seemed to call them back again into their first Bondage A Type of Assyria and Babylon that were to be their first and last Enemies For Rome never hurt them till infected with Babylon But I saw the Tents of Cushan in affliction and the Curtains of Midian Tremble As we read in Habacuk This Hour of Darkness as the other 5 of Moab Canaan Midian Ammon Philistines as the 6 Hours to the first Midnight or 6 Daies of the first Week before the Sabbath but as Parts of Their Daies who judged Israel and freed them from these 6 Hours of Darkness in 8 18 20 7 18 40 in all 100 and 11 the measuring Line or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we saw before for the 6th part of 666 the great Number of Darkness or Course of the Moon in absence distance or opposition to the Sun of Light And These 100 and 11 dark Hours being taken out of 444 from Aegypt to David in Abrahams Hebron leave 333 or half 666 which we may meet again Othniel with Achsa Both akin to Caleb is to shew both the Time and Wonders of God as the name may hint His 40 as Moses swallow up Cusans 8 Hours of Darkness and bring us about the first watch of the 5th Night And then Eglon the Calf of Moab an Heifer of three Years old Esay 15. 5. Jer. 48.
first Day from Babylon But at Ahava fasteth and chooseth his 12 Apostles or Elders on the 12th of the first going Thence to Jerusalem on the first of the 5th Month and stayed 3 Days and Then to the Great Feast of Tabernacles in the 7th Month. As also in Cyrus at the 7th Month they came as One Man and kept the Feast of Tabernacles as it was Written But the Temple was not founded Ezra the 3d much less come to that End or Motsa of which Ezra 8. 9. and 10. with Neh. 8. 9. 10. which may also lead us from the 7th Month to the 10th in Ester and in Maccabes also for the great Dedication which our Saviour himself pleased to Honour with his Presence in Iohn though not required by God but by the Jewish Church As also That of Purim which they keep with great Solemnities to this day I have not yet said that These great things done in the Womens Court might be but shadows of That yet to be Done by Them also when he shall pour his Spirit on their Daughters and Handmaids also and They shall Prophecy And God shall give a Word and great shall be the Feminine Preachers And so he cries Receive the Law of thy Mother That I say nothing of Miriam Deborah Sampsons Mother or Lemuels Hannah and Anna with Elizabeth and our Saviours Mother with Priscilla Lois Eunice and the Brittish Claudia in a better Calender than Martial with other Women Prophets or Writers of Scripture From the Middle Gate Leading into the Womens Court 135 Cubits to the Gate of Nicanor and 135 years from Nehemiahs coming up in the 20th of Artaxerxes To Seleucus Nicanor the Jewes friend and His Greek Era so much used in the Maccabes And if you please to turn again as they often did in this Court 135 Years more bring us to That Little Horn or Great Type of Antichrist or Antikeimenos Antiochus Epiphanes from 137 of That Era to 145 he confirmed the Covenant as the Learned Diatribe for That Week or for 2300 Natural Days But Then Prophaned the Temple for 1290 Days although there be not so many from the 15th of the 9th of 145 to the 25th of the same Month 148 when it was clensed as we read 1 Mach. 1. and 4. Yet the Weeks may be just 62 to his coming up if we grant them to begin 70 Years before Cyrus in 140 Nabonassar and Epiphanes in 573 7 more for the next week make 580 and 3 Years more and as many Days as from the 17th of the 4th Month in which they fast for the first Temple to the 25th of the 9th Month in which they Feast for the 2d clensed by Judas Machabeus make up near half another Week in the year 444 after the first Temple which may make it the more considerable because it is 2 Thirds of 666 of which again But if Ezekiels 390 Days of the last siege of Jerusalem from the 15th of the 3d Month to the 9th of the 4th in the next and last year of Zedekiah as the Great Primate of Learning and Religion hath observed were as Types of those 390 Years from the great Schism to the Temples End Why may not these also in Antiochus be Types of Years in Antichrist and All Defiling of the Temple to its clensing Seeing Daniel himself is bid to shut or Seal them up being for many Dayes or Years to come as that Phrase of Dayes is in many places we saw before Even Then when the Angel speaks of Evening and Morning the usual Character of Natural Dayes Which we may consider again But first we may note That as first This Gate of Nicanor might remember the first Nicanor their Friend so it might not forget Nicanor their Enemy slain Here as Some or near Jerusalem As 1 Machah 7. by the same Judas about the End of the 64th Week from the Captivity Or 151 of Selâ—ucus soon after Antiochus And from this Last Nicanor Then slain to Herods Samaria finished or Caesarea Or the Temple begun may be just 135 Years As from Epiphanes first to Herods first 135 Years As 135 Cubits from the Middle-Gate to Nicanor From which Gate of Nicanor began the next Court of Israel and the Priests being 187 Cubits as there were 187 Years between That Nicanor slain and our Saviours Baptism Or Pontius Pilate that put him to Death As also from the Death of Antiochus the Great Dan. 11. 19 to our Saviours Birth 187 Years And if we look on Hours as Years The first 7 Hours make the first Rest and Turn of the Sun from the Nadir towards the Morning Horison and 7 Days make the Sabbaths Rest and the first 7 Days of a Woman before her Son Circumcised The first 14 Hours come up to the Morning Sacrifice when it was appointed and their longest Night was 14 Hours the Hiding Resting Slaying Sleeping of the Witnesses And 14 Days brought up the Passover The first 40th Hour is the 2d Morning Tamid or their Breakfast As 40 Days the Womans first coming to the Sanctuary after a Son As their 40 Years before Canaan were for a Son the first-born Son For Out of Aegypt have I called my Son my First-born 49 Hours begin the Third nights Rest as 49 the Jubile 65 Come up to the Third Days Noon or Dinner as the 65th Day is the Pentecost 72 Hours closed the 3d Day as 72 their Sanedrin 80 Hours the 4th Morning Watch and 84 Sun-Rising as the 4th Day from Creation brought up Sun and Moon as the two Witnesses of Heaven measure to All other Witnesses on Earth 120 the number of Moed in Hebrew letters the Hours in 5 Days before Man and Woman Created If about the Tamid Hour of the 6th Morning it might be in Hour 135 As the Men and Womens Court 135 Cubits 144 Hours the square of 12 close the 6th Day and begin the 7th or the Sabbath and their Clakins or Jewish Minutes of 144000 as the First-fruits of Time to God and His Lamb shadowed by the Lamb of the Sabbath distinct from the Daily Tamid 240 Hours close the 10th Day And from Aegypt the Pascal Lamb was Tyed up from the 10th Day of the Month as 3 Daies and Half before he was slain in Hour 333 the Evening Minha of the 14th Day Ending in 336 Hours But they went not out of Aegypt till the close of the next or 15th Day at Sunset which was Hour 360 as Daies in their Year And so Years from This Exodus out of Aegypt are reckoned as Hours from the beginning of their Year to the Passover Pentecost Tabernacles and All their Feasts 1200 Hours in 50 Dayes between the Passover and Pentecost Whose Morning was in 1548 Hour of the Year And so the Great Pentecost Acts 2d might be 1547 or 48 Years from Aegypt If there were 70 Years between the first Temple and Cyrus taking Babylon in 210 of Nabonassar That is 480 from Aegypt to the Temple in Solomons 4th 1 Kin. 6.
every one of them I am the Lord thy God and upon this Rock I will build my whole Law and therefore thou shalt have no other God or make to thy self any Images c. For I am a jealous God which yet I could not be if I did not Love thee dearly as a spouse Or else I should not much care whither thou goest or what thou doest But for my great and spouse-like Love which maketh me so jealouse over thee But this very jealousy causeth such visiting as is most like to recover us again from all our wâ—oorish wanderings from the God of Love and the Guide of our youth And so intended by God to recover them so visited as we may clearly see by Elihues discourse unto Job and the Psalmist in the 107 th and many other Psalms to be compared with the 3 d. of Jeremy and the 2 d. of Hoseah with the first and second of Zechariah with divers other Scriptures And our great comfort is that all the Law also lay on Christ as much or more than any of us or all of us And besides his love to his own flesh and nature or to himself or his Father His very Duty to Him by this Law requires him so to love his God with all his Might also as to propagate his love to all he may and to manifest his Name and Worship with the true way and means thereof That is as the 72 d. Psalm expresseth to redeem our souls from all deceipt and violence or as Ezekiel hath it in the Laws of the New Temple to order a sacrifice for every one that erreth or is simple And the Psalmist saith He hath received gifts for Rebels also that the Lord may dwell among them Yea and to cast down all our vain Imaginations as Saint Paul expresseth it And though we strangely degenerate into very Beasts or to the worst of Beasts or worse than Beasts Yet the very same Law which biddeth us and Christ also to Love a Neighbour biddeth also to love a Stranger and an Enemie Yea and the very Oxe and Asse of an Enemie so as to help it under a Burthen or straying out of the way And is not our heart as Ishmael was foretold to be the wilde Asses Colt on which no man can sit till Christ send his Apostles as in the Gospel who finde it bound and tyed in a broad place where two waies met and They loose our Asses Colte and bring it to Christ who then rideth on it O daughter of Zion Meek and Lowly on an Asse the foal of an Asse And may we not find All this in the very fourth Commandement where every Man and so Jesus Christ also is bid to remember to keep the sabboth so that not only his Children but his servants and his Cattle and the Stranger in his Gate may Rest and keep that Rest of God That they may Rest as well as Thou as it is repeated in Deuteronomy And in the 23. of Exodus it is that thine Oxe and thy Ass may Rest and the Son of thy Handmaid to which the Psalmist may allude several times calling himself the Son of thy Handmaid And that the stranger also may be Refreshed The very same Phrase and word that is used by God of himself and his own Kest and Refreshing on That Sabbath day in the 31. of Exodus And our Saviour maketh the helping of an Oxe or Ass and their Loosing and leading to the Water to be a special work or duty of the Sabbath daies Rest. Which we may compare with that of the Prophet Esay He led them gently as an Horse in the Wilderness or as a Beast is led down a Valley or to a Brook So his spirit caused them to Rest. And in the Proverbs Agur saith I am more bruitish than any Man and the Psalmist so Bruitish was I yea Behemoth with thee as alluding to Behemoth in Job and That some render Congregation of thy People in several Psalms is Beasts or Thy Beasts As under Those Banners of four Beasts or Animals of which we read in Ezekiel and the Revelation Yea Solomon saith the great design of God that is Christ who as Man also is the great Searcher of hearts is to Try us and to make us know we are but Beasts She hem Behema Hemma lahem And that the Stranger also may be Refreshed Which is but a piece of that great Law in the very same chapter of Loving our Neighbor Thou shalt also love a Stranger as thou lovest thy self And in several places it is added For thou wast a stranger and thou knowest the heart of a stranger in Aegypt And the word for stranger in the Heb. is so neer to Hagar as if God would put them in mind of that Bond-woman who was an Aegyptian also and as Paul saith Gendered unto Bondage with a spirit of Fear which is another signification of its Root also And Gods Love to Hagar and to her son Ishmael that is God will Hear as he will appear also in the Mount may shew the Heart of God and his Goodness more than all his Kindness to Abraham who was Kind and Thankful unto God also And among other reasons for our Loving strangers it is added that God loveth Strangers and in a special manner provideth for them And it hath been an especial argument used by good men in all ages of the Bible For we are strangers and Pilgrims And when we consider that the Sabboth day did Typifie some greater Rest may it not be hoped that at length we may hear the Lord of that Day also saying to his children and his servants and the Sons of his handmaids also and his Cattel and the stranger also within his gates Come enter into your Masters Rest seeing it is greater than can enter into you For this Commandement I have received of my good Father Do we not also read that the Owles and the Dragons and the Beasts of the field and every thing that hath breath yea and All his Works shall praise the Lord but his Saints shall Bless him Do we not find Sabbatical Years â—nd Jubilees provided for the Poor and Strangers that had no Harvest and for the Beasts of the field and for the Earth also that it might Rest the Rest of God and that every one might return to his own Inheritance and the possession of his Fathers and why not also of our Father Adam in Innocence and that All Debts and Debtors might be remitted which it may be is minded us dayly in the Lords Prayer not only in That Clause of Forgiving our Debtors which yet He doth also for it is He that speaketh in us who else dirst not say Forgive us as we forgive but also in That Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will be done on Earth as in the highest Heaven And He that set us All on Praying so knew very well that it should be so He hath willed it and his people will it also Let it be