so joyned and seeing the 45 are nearest the State of Blessedness what can they be supposed to have to do with them but as in Execution of Vengeance to their Removal Posit 46 Agreeably in the Revelation the Vials that are plac'd just before the Apocalyptical End must have to do with the Great City with the Dragon as giving his power to the Beast and being Worshipped with Him Rev. 16. with the Beast with the False Prophet with the Gentiles whose Idolatry and Tyranny was represented before in the Revelation as demeriting so great an Execution of Judgment And they must also be in Vindication of the Witnesses in Sackcloath and slain of the Woman in the Wilderness and of the 144000 Sealed and so must look back as far as they Posit 47 Lay back from these 45 Days Daniel's thirty days making the 1260 Days concurrent with the time times and half a time to be 1290 Days and They must have a closer Relation to the 1260 Days and to the taking away the Daily Service c. then the last 45 days had as being so much nearer to them and at farther distance from the Blessed End But yet being removed out of them and nearer to Blessedness as not being the 1260 but 1290 Days They may be well suppos'd loud in Remonstrances and Prayers against all the former Idolatry and Tyranny of taking away c. and with greater Victoriousness than formerly Agreeably in the Revelation the Voices that are plac'd just before the Vials are full of such Remonstrances Posit 48 and Prayers and produce the Vials and are executed by the 144000 who were sealed at the beginning of the 1260 days and by those Instructed by them when They stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion and therefore These Voices look back more wiftly on the 144000 Sealed before the 1260 days began and more fully shew their Concatenation with them Rev. 14.1 but yet they are not so Advanced towards the Glorious State as the 45 the Temple and Ark of the Testimony not being Opened till the Vials Prepared Revel 15. Lay the Distinction made betwixt scattering the Holy People and accomplishing to scatter to the Posit 49 Time and Times and to the Half Time and seeing the scattering must needs be first and longest and the Accomplishing must needs be last and shortest Dan. 12.7 we have Reason to make a Distinction betwixt the time times and Half Time and to lay the longest scattering to the time and times and the Accomplishing to the Halftime and so to find somewhat of the last Efforts to scatter but yet cut off Accomplished or finished and so the Holy People the daily Service lifting up themselves and the Desolating Abomination casting out Agreeably in the Revelation when we find the Time Times and Half Times Expounded into Posit 50 1260 Days and three days and a half we have Reason to lay that breaking out of Divine Power and Truth in the Voice of the Roaring Lyon Rev. c. 11. c. 10. the Thunders uttering their Voices to the Morning of the Half time and the Half day and to the last 180 of of the 1260 days and though there may be the last Efforts and a Comprizing of the Tyranny in some parts of the Reformed Churches as given in three days and a half yet that it can be neither Universal nor long Lay the Oath in Daniel ushering in the Time Times Half a time that so solemnly resolves They Posit 51 shall be to the Oath in the Revelation that Time shall be no more viz. after the Half Time that the Oaths may not contradict one another but that in the days of the Seventh Angel when he shall sound All shall be Finished and we see Reason why the last 45 and 30 making 1335 should be deem'd Joynted more particularly into the last 180 Days of the half time then into the 1080 of the time and times because their is so great an Affinity betwixt the Reformation and the further Preparations to Christ's Kingdom as there is a greater nearness in Time to the End As a further Assurance of the close Connexion of the 180 Days of the half time and the 30 and Posit 52 45 making 1260 to be 1335 There is a common Character though of several Distinctions Dan. 12.10 Rev. 16. extended upon them All at that declaring the Words Sealed Many shall be purified and made white by the Reformation and yet tryed in a Furnace of Martyrdom The Wise shall Vnderstand by the Voices and Vials and come out as God's People from among the Wicked but the Wicked will all along do wickedly and not Vnderstand but more especially they shew it in the time of the Vials when they Repented not but Blasphaem'd It is no wonder then to behold Antichristian Confidence Obstinacy and Obdurateness Consider yet Daniel's complaint that He understood not and that Declarations of the Words closed Posit 53 and Sealed till the End and agreeably the Thunders Sealed v. 9. and the Book bitter in the Prophets Belly in the Revelation Rev. 10.9 and we see the reason why the Half time is made most of a piece with the time and times the 180 with the 1080 Days viz. because the power of the holy People remain'd still scatter'd in great part the daily Sacrifice not Restor'd nor the Abomination of Desolation fully Remov'd the Beast and his City yet Regnant the Witnesses in Sackcloth the Woman in the wilderness and the 144000 Sealed and not on Mount Zion And so we see them still the Half time of the 1260 Days being not expir'd by Ten and therefore the Reformation is not Perfect as it shall be at that end of them when the Thunders are unsealed in the Voices The time and times must needs be the continued Time of All these Evils of Antichrist during Posit 54 which the Book of the Kingdom was Sealed and they must run back to the time of the second Sealing after the seven Seals Opened and the Oath There should be time times Half time which was the second stop of Christ's Kingdom in his Servants viz. the 144000 Sealed under the Gentiles and the Bestian Tyranny c. Hereby we may understand the whole Time of Sealing its signification and the Cessation of it Posit 55 The Book Sealed is the Book of Daniel's Prophecy of Christ's Kingdom The Times of Seaâ—ing were when that Kingdom had Right to Appear and was Seal'd up in reserve for Future Time 1. At the Resurrection and Annointing with the Holy Spirit on the Apocalyptical Lord's Day Daniel was then bidden according to his former Vision to seal Prophecy at the Annointing the most Holy and to seal it to the time of the End Accordingly the Book is seen Sealed in the Hand of Him on the Throne And it was given to Christ to open Gradually to his Kingdom Dan. 9. â—2 4 And so the Course of time next to the 70 Weeks runs on in the Opening the seven Seals
and a half and is the same thing with the power of the holy People scattered in Daniel Rev. 7.1 2.8.1.11.3 c. 12.6 the Gentiles treading the Sanctuary under foot by means whereof the daily service is taken away forty two months into which months are enterwoven the beasts forty two months in the Worship of whom and of the Image made to him the abomination that maketh desolute is set up c. 11.2 c. 13.5 And the Line in the twice 42 Months so interlock'd one with another are equal with the days and a common Line with them being to be strictly accounted by not Lunar but Solar Time and so falling one into another equal 1260 days This most remarkable many-character'd though but Collatteral line hath first a Distinction of Posit 38 Time at large and of Season or inward Time according to the necessary Explication of our Lord 's three days in the Grave that is a part of each It hath also a plain division into three parts And being the most notorious stop of Christ's Kingdom under the Forgery of it It is thus often remark'd c. 11.9 1. Time or the first Time Beginning Ann. Dom. 437 and running through the first 360 Years with which the Gentiles began their 42 Months within 38 Years of which after their beginning the Beast at the Cessation of the Western Roman Empire was Born into his 42 Months beginning c. 8.10 viz. at A.D. 475 in which the Gentiles Months are merg'd and drown'd as one and the same from that Time at A.D. 606 When the Bishop of Rome Fell as a Star from Heaven to enlighten Rome on the Earth at the Supremacy given him by Phocas and arose to the Honour of having Himself and the Image made to Him worshipp'd at his 666 Number A. D. 725 and was fully settled in his Imperial Beastian Power at the End of this first time 797 c. 13. v. 15. v. 17 18. All procur'd and mannag'd by the other Beast or Antichristian Hierarchy with their Gentiles 2. The two Times wherein the Beast and his Bestians were pursued by the two Woe Trumpets during the former of the two times by the Mahometan Saracens during the latter of the two times by the Mahometan Turks by whom the Grecian Empire was extinguish'd 1453. c. 9. But yet the Beast and his Worshippers Repented not notwithstanding so great Judgments to the very end of these two Times Ending Ann. Dom. 1517. The Third Division is styl'd the Half time in the Morning of which after 1517 aforesaid the Bestian Kingdom was terribly shaken by the Reformation the Witnesses about A. D. 1527 being called Protestants or professed Witnesses But in the after parts of this Half time It resettled it â—elf in a partial Dominion and hath been of late and now with more Appearance of Success c. 10.1 c. endeavouring to remount it self into an entire Dominion and may if God please Epitomize or give in short the Resemblance of its Former Antichristianism and Tyranny but shall certainly have its Papal Garments cut off at the middle and the Beard of its False Prophetism half Shaven at its Half time ending to their Everlasting Disgrace never to be repair'd This will be about the Year 1697 ere the Instant Century take End Posit 39 The Turkish Empire or Woe shall pass away immediately after the decemprincipality or Tenth of the Great City which hath so long Reign'd over the Kings of the Earth is fallen as it shall do at that time c. 11.14 c. Collat. lin 5. And however the Mahometan Greatness have trembled of late to shew how easily God can bring it down in his own time yet it cannot Roll to the Earth till Beastianism first does so The Fifth Collatteral Line is the thirty Years of the Voices which immediately follow on the 1260 Days ending with the sixth Trumpet For as soon as the sixth Trumpet shall cease the seventh shall sound and those great Voices shall be heard as from Heaven which shall proceed each in their Order as they are describ'd Rev. 14. And this Line is so joynted into the former of the 1260 days that it cannot be sundered the 1260 being made 1290 Dan. 12.11 Ending A. D. 1727. Collat. lin 6. The last and finishing Collatteral Line is the 45 Years of the Vials poured out which Vials are Represented as filled up with the Wrath of God gathered by the Prevalency of the last Voice for treading the Winepress Rev. 14.18 c. And this is indented so with 1260 days as not to be divided the whole being given as one entire Line of 1335 days or years Dan. 12.12 Ending A. D. 1727. Posit 40 This last Line of 1335 y. and its backward Conjunction with the former Line of 404 y. by Daniel's command to seal and shut up the Book in the beginning of it and by the Sealing the 144000 in the Revelation in the end of it may be even demonstrated by a close compare of the two Prophecies one with another Dan. 12.4 Rev. c. 6. c. 7. c. 8. and a Retrograde Juxta-position or laying each part backward one to another from the End to that Sealing the 144000 and from thence to the sealed Book Posit 41 For compare Daniel's End and the New Jerusalem the great End of the Revelation and we shall find how exactly they agree Dan. 12. Rev. c. 16. c. 21. c. 20. Daniel's End is a Resurrection of some to everlasting Life of some to shame and everlasting Contempt The End of the Revelation is remarked with Two It is done It is done One of the Destruction of Posit 42 Enemies the other of the Glorious state of the Martyrs and Servants of Christ under the name of a Resurrection Ezek. 42. v. 22. Daniel's End hath its peculiar Lots one of which is assigned to him John's End hath a New Posit 43 Jerusalem the Capital City of the Land of Promise and a Royal Priest-hood to both which the Notion of Lots is in Sacred Writ so Appropriate Posit 44 Blessed together with Daniel in his Lot shall All Those Be who love the Appearance of Christ wait for and come to it viz. into the Enjoyment of it And Blessed and Holy is He saith the Revelation who hath his part in the First Resurrection Dan. 12 13. with Revel 20.6 Posit 45 From Daniel's End lay back the 45 Days that make the 1290 Days to be 1335 and They must of necessity run back with an intimate Reference and Relation into the 1290 and all parts of them because they so closely unite with them as not to be accounted 45 Days without them but with them 45 making 1335 and yet they must be distinct because the 1290 were so many before them So these last 45 Days must have to do with the taking away the Daily Service with the setting up the Abomination that maketh desolate with the scattering the Power of the Holy People which things are doing during the 1335 Days
during the Purity of the Apostolick Doctrine the Character of which is Many shall run to and fro and Knowledge be increas'd by those Voices Come and See or some proportionable Voice and It lasted 404 Years from the Resurrection 2. The Kingdom of our God Rev. 12.10 and Power of his Christ Appearing in the Christian Empire It was enquired with Hope It was near How long to the end of these wonders Christ's Swearing time c. was the second Sealing in the 144000 Rev. 8.9 the force of which Sealâ—ng entred first in the First Trumpet when the western Empire was storm'd by every Blast of the four First Trumpets which all History agrees was about 404 Years from the Resurrection and is by Daniel's Line of 2300 Ev. Morn determin'd so as before Here was a View given of the State of the New Jerusalem for which the 144000 Witnesses were Sealed 3. At the Half time then was again an Appearance of Chrst's Kingdom in the Reformation the Book was opened in Christ's hand but yet the words are declar'd closed and the Book Sealed because It was seal'd to the time of the End c. 7. c. 8. which was not yet The Sealing was therefore Affirm'd and Averr'd and Daniel could not Vnderstand the Thunders were Sealed and the Book Hid in the Bowels of John and the Kingdom still stay'd the Reformation not perfected Posit 56 But here Daniel was discharged from his Office of Sealing on which Account He is bidden to Go his way For after this Sealing the Thunders All should be opening in the Voices and Vials and no more Sealing and he hath also his Quteâ—us or Discharge to his his Rest by Death from the whole Office of Prophecy Dan. 12.9 signifying He Prophecied for Future times and that He had given a Full Account from his own time of Future times and had attain'd the Final Blessed End and the Assurance of his own Happiness and Reward in it v. 13. even his Lot in the Kingdom of Christ the Resurrection and Restitution of All Things which is the End throughout his Prophecy agreeable with the Revelation which also declares the Sealing at an End when that Blessed State was revealed Revel 22.10 Posit 57 We are now in the twenty two hundredth and fifteenth Year of Danielâ—s 2300 v. Morn within ten Years of that great Revolution of the Kingdoms of this world becomming the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ of the witnesses coming out of Sackcloth and Ascending the Tenth of the Great City Falling and the Turkish woe passing away And within Eighty five Years of the Blessed End or the Glory of that Kingdom it self which is the End of the 2300 Evenings and Mornings Posit 58 This defining of times to the Coming of Christ by the Word of God and in the â—ight of that bears no opposition to that Saying of our Lord Mar. 13.32 Of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man not the Angels not the Son but the Father only For our Saviour's Word to Know of speaks Authoritative Cognizance and Determination and the Divine Order of the Revelation given by God the Father to Christ to shew to his Servants c. Before which given Daniel could not be Expounded nor this Time known and so the hasty Curiosity of the Apostles to know the Coming of Christ and of the End of this State of the World or Course of it was curb'd and restrained onely as those Things were not yet Reveal'd Next Follows Sabbatical Time Intersabbatical Time being expir'd Posit 59 The Thousand Years called the End are an exact Cube of Time and being neither more nor less are the very Perfection of whole Time less than which is the Defect and Imperfection and more is the Excursion Extravagancy and Superfluity of Time So that this Cube is the Just state of the Glory of Christ's Kingdom and was never attained before or after in time and are both litterally so much Time and also the Symboll of Times Perfection Posit 60 The Thousand Years of Christ's Kingdom are not therefore called the End as if they were One single Period set to Time but because they are One even level space of Time giving End to the hard Toyl and dying Labour of Intersabbatical Time and are therefore called the Sabbatism of the People of God and are admirably set out to us in the Prayer of Moses for the Thousand Years Psal 90. in the Great and Perfect Security which attends Psal 91. and by the Song or Psalm composed for this Sabbath psal 92. and a Course and Order of Psalms Celebrating the Kingdom of Christ in those that Follow Posit 61 The Expiration of a Thousand Years is not the Expiration of the Kingdom of Christ but the Expiration of the Time Rev. 20. in which Satan was bound so that He could not deceive the Nations during that space the Expiration of that Time in which the Saints so Reign with Christ that there is no Appearance of an Enemy nor any Appearance of the Churches growing Luke-warm toward an Apostacy There is therefore a small Spong of Time after in which Satan is loosed the Nations under the Name of Gog and Magog ascend against the Beloved City the Fervor of the Church here below Cools into a Lukewarmness but none of these Things have a Course For they are immediately Posit 62 surpriz'd with the Final Judgment which last Judgment is also the Throne Rev. 20.3 v. 7. c. c. 3.14 c. c. 3.21 c. 20.11 and Kingdom of Christ The Coming of Christ at the beginning of the Thousand Years is the First of the Days of the Son of Man which we Translate Onely ONE a day that cannot be mistaken nor hasten'd any more than the Day of Judgment in the general notion of it and so can no way be dangerous to the Governments of the World For who can make the Lightning to lighten from under one End of the Posit 63 Heaven and to shine to under the other End of it but He that shall come at that Day and do so Luc. 17. â—2 v. 24. At the First of the days of the Son of Man is the subduing of All Enemies and Chaining up Satan that his Kingdom may have absolute Peace and no Disturbance but that He may Reign over Posit 64 the World to Come of which we now speak as the Second Adam in a Full dominion over All. Re. 20.1 v. At the Completory or Full last Judgment is the utter Eradication of All Enemies and shutting Posit 65 up Satan and all his Seed Sin Death and Hell in their own Lake v. 14.15 1 Cor. 15.26 And this is the Last of the Days of the Son of Man There is a full Agreement betwixt the First and Last of the days of the Son Man in the determination Posit 66 of the Good and Bad to their Unchangeable state Rev. 20.5.6 so that the Last is a filling up and perfecting the First
though before hand as often it gives the Sum before hand Ezr. 7.1 Ez. 6.14 or together It affirms the Temple finish'd by the Commandment of the God of Israel as the supreme going forth of the Word and by the Commandment of Cyrus Darias and Artaxerxes Kings of Persia the Subordinate and Humane which was the perfect fulfilling of Dans Prophecy of the Commandment and the Word going forth And then is particularly recited Ataxerxes his Decree Posit 28 It appears further that by Artaxerxes in his Seventh Year the Word went forth because by the same Artaxerxes in his Twentieth Year Nehem. 2.7 when there went forth a Commission by Letters in some Resemblance of the Word going forth It is expresly directed on the building the Walls and Gates which in Dans Prophecy is a Note of the Seven first Weeks in their Course which assures the VVord was Gone forth and the Weeks began before that and therefore necessarily Gone forth at the last Word in the Seventh Year Posit 29 From the VVord then Going forth first by Cyrus to its going on still forth further by Darius and its Complete being Gone forth by Artaxerxes in his Seventh Year must be a Considerable space and by the Examination of the After parts of these principal and collatteral Lines together with other Symbolisms of Scripture on which great weight is oft hung It may be known to be Seventy Five Years and so by being lay'd to the Principal must be a Collatteral Line Line Coll. 2. From the VVord thus Completely Gone forth is drawn the second Supporting or Collatteral Line of Seventy prophetical Weeks till the solemn Promulgation of the Everlasting Covenant and the Sealing up Vision and Prophecy Dan. 9.24 viz. that great Prophecy of Chriâ—â—s Kingdom by Daniel Posit 30 This line of Time is divided into three Parts And is agreed to be 490 Years in the whole by All Expositors v. 25. Nehem. 1. c. 1. The Seventy VVeeks to which the Building of the wall is to be apply'd as its Character Which Seven immediately followed the Word gone forth as before Asserted for Restoring Jerusalem of which the Temple was the Principal part 2. Sixty Two VVeeks to which is to be apply'd Time of Trouble or in Straits viz. in the Jews low and Tributary State to other Princes among which Troubles by Daniel's Prophecy Antiochus his Tyranny was peculiarly remark'd These lasted till the Messiah publickly appear'd not a Prince but a publick Leader Guide and Prophet in his publick Ministry As the Hebrew Nagith imports 3. One Week of all highest Confirmations of the Everlasting Covenant in the First Half Week by Messiah Himself Mat. 4.17 at the end of which Half or in the midst of that Week Messiah was cut off sometime after the sixty two Weeks viz. three Years and a Half and by the Sacrifice of Himself and his Resurrection and Ascension after it caused typical Sacrifice and Oblation to cease a much different thing from taking away the Daily Sacrifice and so left the Confirmation of the same Covenant to his Apostles by the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven which three Years and half of the last Half Week Run out and the Gospel not accepted by the Body of the Jews Acts 8.1 They were Rejected to Desolations till the End or near the Glorious Kingdom of Christ although these Desolations are not set out in the Revelation as not becomming the Apocalyptical Glory of Israelitism and of the New Jerusalem the Types all along of Christ's Kingdom first in its Purity then in its Glory throughout the Revelation Coll. Line 3. Immediately after the End of the last Half Week follows the Third Collatteral line of four hundred Years of the Time of the Book Sealed in Daniel's Prophecy and seen in the Hand of Him on the Throne Sealed with seven Seals in Revelation Rev. c. 5.1 â— 6. â— 7. â— 10. And when six of those Seals were open'd before the seventh open'd a second Sealing viz. of the 144000 enter'd to carry on the Sealing further immediately after the Apparance of the Christian Empire then a Third Sealing followed viz of the Thunders at the time of the Reformation that so Daniel's Sealing might reach the End Posit 31 The Connexion of this line with the former is thus made certain Daniel's last Half Week must immediately run on from the end of the Former Half Week in Confirmation of the Covenant when Sacrifice and Oblation was made to Cease by the Death Resurrection Ascension of Christ and sending down the Holy Spirit Because the Character of whole Week is Confirmation of the Covenant Accordingly the Apostles immediately proceeded to Confirm the Covenant as appears in the Sacred Posit 32 History of the Acts of the Acts of the Apostles Answerably hereunto as the period of the first half week and the beginning of the last half week Posit 33 the Lords day of the Resurrection and sending the holy spirit is fixed as the Apocalyptical Epoch when the first Seal is opened in the Apostles solemn promulgation of the Covenant of Salvation that was begun to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed by them that heard him Heb. 2.3 God also bearing them witness by Miracles c. With the first Seal all the rest are conjoyn'd and opened in an orderly succession and course of Posit 34 Time and make by things themselves applyed to the principal Line of 2300 Evens Morns a third Collateral Line though not given in express numbers Before the last half week of the last Line ended this following Line of the Seals running 400 Posit 35 years beyond the three years and half of the last half week is adopted and engrafted into the former Line of the weeks by uniting the last half week in the common symbol of these seven Seals so closely succeeding in a course of Time with the sealing Vision at Christs Death This Line must continue till the following Line of the 1260 Prophetical days or years joyn it Posit 36 at the beginning of the Trumpets This Line is by several notes of Time in the course of the Seals and by the notes of Time determining Posit 37 the beginning of the 1260 days Rev. 6.5.6 assur'd to be 404 from the Epoch of the Lords day of the Resurrection and Ascention And that remarkable symbol of the Ballances in the Hand of that so known Just Prince Alexander Severus in the third Seal determines the half time at his Death 202 years from the Resurrection to the vulgar Ann. Dom. 235 by the Agreement of undoubted Humane History Next follows as it does the solemn Oath in Daniel so the second sealing which entred with the first Trumpet into its force in the Revelation Time Times half a Time Collat. lin 4. concurrent with the six first Trumpets within the continent of which lye the 1260 days of the Woman the Church in the Wilderness the Witnesses in Sackcloth and slain three days
POSITIONS Containing a Full Account of a Scripture-Line of Time in the whole and from Joynt to Joynt together with a Judgment according to Scripture Prophecy on the present Turkish Affairs I Here present in as much plainness and shortness as I could contrive it into this Scripture Line of Time upon these Great Considerations 1. There is not a Greater or more sensible Argument for the Being of God than his declaring the course of Times and their Events before-hand in so even and settled a Continuation nor more Enforcive of practical Piety then when we see Times are not hidden from the Almighty 2. There is no stronger Conviction of the whole Antichristian Imposture than that Table of Time Scripture hath given of his so long Domination and Tyranny and Ruine at last and especially when now so near 3. There cannot be a more seasonable kind of Instruction for the present Time in which we are so near so wonderful'd chanâ—â— of the World as within Ten years of the Proclamation of Christ's Kingdom nâ—â— in a Seditious or Rebellious way but the most Heavenly Orderly and Regular by Princes and Sovereigns themselves That therefore we may 1 Chron. 12.32 as the children of Issachar comming to make David King at Hebron judiciously and as knowing the Times and what Israel ought to do so prepare our selves for the Kingdom of the Root of David the Bright Morning-Star and may not as the Pharisees be charg'd with Hypocrisy for not discerning the Signs of the Times I present this short Table of Times to become as familiar to every one as the most known principles in these following Positions THere is a Line of Time drawn by Scripture from that Point It calls The Beginning Posit 1 Genes 1.1 to that Point It calls The End Dan. 12. ult and oft elsewhere This Line of Time is not drawn in one entire continued Line of 5000 or 6000 Posit 2 years at length and together but in several Parcel Lines and those of unequal length This Line is not drawn industriously or in a Formal show of such a Line But it is with Divine Posit 3 Art occasionally Extended and Applied to the things measur'd by its parcel Lines and so in Longer or Shorter of those Parcel Lines according to those occasions The Joynts of those Parcel Lines are such as lye most visibly close One to Another and have Posit 4 least need of Conjecture or Inference to Derive or Assure the Connexion of each Parcel Line with the Precedent or subsequent Parcel Lines The Beginning and End of this Line are Two Points that bound the Intermedious Space Posit 5 The first Point is that First and Perfect Sabbatism of the World at the First Inviolate Creaation Posit 6 which was its Stasis or the First State given it by God And It is inclusive of the space to that Grand Oracle The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents Head Within which Space the first Parents Fell and in them their Posterity But what Space that was Scripture hath thought fit to conceal as to any positive definition of it viz. when our First Parents Fell. The last Point is That Sabatism of the Creation Restor'd or made New sacred Scripture styles the Posit 7 Apocatastasis or the Restitution of All things in counter distinction to its Fore-nam'd State and the Fall from it and so it is the Point of Revolution And it is the Thousand Years after which is a short Interval of the Serpent loosed of Gog and Magog and the Laodicean state of the Church On which last Interval-Scripture hath thrown a veil of secrecy also giving us no Account what space of Time it is within this also lies the final Judgment Posit 8 The Line of Time that comes first to be enquired of is that which lyes between the Two Points of the first and the last Sabatism Posit 9 The Parcel Lines of this whole Line are neither conceal'd nor so dogmatically given but that they require Investigation Discussion Debate and Computation by way of Argument to settle and ascertain them Psit 10 By such Elaborate search into the Word of God They may be determin'd to be in Express or number'd Numbers Five Thousand seven Hundred and Fifty nine Years with some small Latitude of more or less in some very small difference Posit 11 Yet is this no Derogation from the Truth of our Saviour's Assertion or seeming Prohibition of enquiry into these Things Acts. 1.7 viz. It is not for you to know c. such an Enquiry as that Answer was given to being hasty and curious and not according to the Order of Divine Revelation in its own Time and Method or according to the Order of search into such Revelation already given by diligent Endeavour to compare Scripture with Scripture with earnest Prayer to be guided into the right Understanding thereof Posit 12 The Line of Scripture-Time is either Historical and applied to Things that were already past when that Line was subtended to them Or it is prophetical and applyed to Things that were to come to pass when that Line was drawn out for and applied to them or that are yet remaining to come to pass and to be fulfilled before the End Posit 13 That we may find out this whole Line we must lay together these Historical and Prophetical Parcel-Lines and by casting the Account How many of the Fore-recited number are past we may know how many remain to come and what year we are upon Line 1 There is evidently a Line of Sixteen hundred Fifty six years made up of Lineoles or little Lines of each Patriarhs Age before his Teknogony or Begetting Genes 6. and this Line reaches to the Self-same day of the Flood Line 2 There is a second Parcel Line evident as the Former of four Hundred twenty seven or eight Years by a second Roll of Patriarchs before their Begetting each succeeding Patriarch from the Line 3 Flood to the Terahs Death Genes 10. and Abrahams sojourning and the series of Promises beginning to him immediately at Terahs Death Line 4 From thence to the going out of Egypt there is a Line of four hundred thirty years eight hundred fifty eight years from the self same day of the Flood to the self same day of the going out of Egypt 1 King 6.1 1 Kings 11.47 From the going out of Egypt is carried on the same kind of express Line in four hundred eighty years to Solomons first beginning the Temple and reductively thirty six years from thence to Solomons Death Thus far the Line is purely Historical Line 5 In a Line partly Historical partly Prophetical runs a Course of three hundred ninety years to the very self same day of Ezekiels Vision of the New Jerusalem Ezek. 4.5.6 Ezek. 40.1 and from the self same day of the going out of Egypt to the self same day of that Vision Given nine hundred and six years Line 6 With these three hundred and ninety
years are closely conjoyn'd forty years more to the end of the Captivity Dan. 9.20 or to Cyrus-Messiah in Type and to the Vision Preparatory to his Decree of Judahs Redemption from Babylon in the first year of Darius as a Type of the True Messiah and his Redemption given in the same Vision Posit 14 These three hundred ninety years and the forty making four hundred and thirty are numbred by the days of Ezekiels lying on his side a day for a year and they commence from the House of Judah and the House of Israel becoming two distinct Houses And are accounted by the Kings of Israel as they ought to be till Israels Captivity then by Judahs Kings and its Captivity And here by especial care of Providence the prophetical Cyphar of a day for a year is brought in for after Use Posit 15 After this very joynt of Time the Line ceases to be Historical and becoms purely Prophetical being altogether applyed to things to come when the Line was given on and This last part This very Joynt is partly Historical viz. to the year of Ezekiels Captivity c. 1.3 partly Prophetical viz. to the Vision of the New Jerusalem and from thence to the end of the Captivity and to the Vision of restoring Jerusalem by Cyrus and of the Great Messiah Jesus Christ Dan. 9.20 and in Prophetick Figure to the New Jerusalem it self The Line of Time as ceasing to be Historical and becoming Prophetical is divided as into two Psiot 16 equal or about equal halves For from the Creation to the end of the Captivity we find by Scripture Account three thousand four hundred fifty nine years and the Line of prophetical Time is twenty three hundred Prophetical Evens Morns or years to the Sabbath of the thousand years which with the thousand years of that Sabbatism and a subindication of a short space beyond may draw this last part to an Equality with Historical Time especially the latter end of this Joynt being partly Historical partly Prophetical and so communicates of it self to each From Cyrus King of Persia and the Persian Monarchy in him beginning is drawn the longest of Line 7 these parcel Lines reaching the two Pillars It is done It is done Dan. 8.14 Revel 16.17 c. 21.6 which bound whole Intersabbatical Time at its end This longest of Lines being purely Prophetical is given in the prophetical Cyphar of days for years and that It may be known to reach the new Heavens and the new Earth and their great Sabbatism Posit 17 It is given in Evens Morns according to the Character of the six days of the first Creation Gen. 1.5 c. reckoned by six Evens Morns till its Sabbath The Line is given at so great length as twenty three hundred years in prophetick Style 2300 Posit 18 Evens Morns That it being purely prophetical might be more definite certain and less subject to Ambiguity through a multiplicity of Joynts and oâ— the beginnings and endings of them In the infinite Wisdom of God and in his care over his own sacred Prophecy there are given Posit 19 four collateral Lines in express definite numbers that take up eighteen hundred twenty five of the twenty three hundred years so that there remain only Four hundred seventy five undetermin'd And they also may be determin'd by close Scripture researches together with undoubted Testimony of humane History to their just Scituations as shall be presently shown in each particular collateral Line By these Collateral Lines this general Line of Time becoms double and more assured and while Posit 20 the General and principal Line is so assured it adjusts the collateral Lines and shews how they may be regularly plac'd and accounted so as neither to exceed nor come short of the principal on the other side the Collateral distinguish the General that it may not be all of one Face and give no instructions for the differencing of Time and orderly distinction and distribution of it The first Collateral Line is that of the word going forth to restore and to build Jerusalem Col. Line 1. Dan. 9.25 first by Cyrus then by Darius call'd by Humane History Hystaspis then by Artaxerxes called also by humane History Longimanus in his seventh year when the weeks began And it was the space of seventy five years It must needs be that the principal Line and the first Collateral Line must begin together seeing Posit 21 they mutually necessarily suppose one another if one be the Principal and the other the first Collateral they must needs begin together The Prophecy of Daniel places the Vision of the 2300 Evens and Morns in the beginning of the Posit 22 Persian Monarchy which Monarchy began in Cyrus both which are most evident the first in the Ram expounded into the King of Persia Dan. 8.3.20 the second in the universal consent of History that Cyrus was the founder of the Persian Monarchy Dan. 8.3 with 20. If then the 2300 Evens Morns begin in the Persian Monarchy it must begin in Cyrus in whom the Persian Horn became higher than the Median as the Vision requires Whatever began with Cyrus must begin with the 2300 Evs. Morns which began with Cyrus Posit 23 And if there be no Collatteral Line given in Number yet the Principal Line applied to the Course of Events shall necessarily be as a Collatteral Line to it whose length shall be defin'd by the next Collatteral Number and other Collatteral Lines subjoyned till the very end of the 2300 Evs. Morns It is most certain The Word going forth must needs begin with Cyrus as it did 2 Cron. 36.22 Ezr. 1.5 Esa 44. ult Es 45.1 because All the Posit 24 Prophecies went before of him as of God's Shepherd that should say to Jerusalem Thou shalt be built c. and He was therefore renown'd with the Name of Messiah with which no other Pagan Prince was grac'd Yet the Word could not be perfectly so Gone forth by Cyrus as to be to go forth no further Because it was so notoriously stopp'd in its going forth in his dayes and for the Reigns of two Princes after Posit 25 So that the Prophecy could by no means be Answer'd but by a further going forth Ezr. 4. of which that by Cyrus was only a Foundation and in that regard only a fulfilling of all God's Pleasure viz. of giving an original Decree for after Decrees or going forth of the Word Posit 26 It also appears It did not go forth by Cyrus so as to go forth no further because Sacred History Records it to go forth so remarkedly in the second Year of Darias and that yet it did not perfectly Go forth by Darias Ezr. 6.1 because there was so August a further Going forth by Artaxerxes in his Seventh Year Posit 27 Then it was It completely went forth and the seventy Weeks began of which the Spirit of God is Witness by the large Recital of so full and illustrious a Decree and