upon all that have been here below upon Earth during the Thousand Years and a Ratification of whatever was done on the first of the Days of the Son of Man on those who were then Judged to Reign with Christ or Condemned to the Lake What the space of the Spong of Time or of the Last of the Days of the Son of Man viz. of Satan Posit 67 loosed c. and of Final Judgment will be Scripture hath no where declared nor is it given in the Revelation God gave to Jesus Christ so that it is a Time hitherto Reserv'd in the Fathers Power Yet it is most certain It shall Fill up whatever space is allowed by God to Time or any of its Posit 68 Millenaries Till All be Received into Eternity This Kingdom of Christ from the First to the very Last moment of the Last of the Days of the Son Posit 69 of Man is the Kingdom Throne and Reign of Christ not divided but distinguish'd from the Kingdom of God and the Father and from Christ's sitting on the Right Hand of God on his Throne Rev. 3 21. For This is his Own Throne Christ's Sitting therefore on the Right Hand of God untill He makes his Foes his Foot-stool is the Posit 70 Glory to which Christ was advanced at his Resurrection and Ascension till the Time comes that God shall give him immediate Absolute Authority that He as the Son of Man should Himself visibly and by the Power given Him by the Father bring All Things under Him When Christ first Sate down on the Right Hand of the Majesty on High and was Crowned with Glory Posit 71 and Honour The Apostle expresly says We see not yet All Things put under Him Heb. 2.8 9. but we see him Crown'd c. plainly signifying That the Kingdom of the Second Adam Lord of the World to come of which He spake was not yet Come For then All Things together and at once were to be put under Him that nothing could be left that was not put under Him It must be therefore the State of Christ in Heaven at the Right Hand of God while His Kingdom is delay'd or Sealed during most eminently Time Times Half a Time while He suffers the Antichristian Forgery on his Kingdom This distinct Kingdom and Reign is that which Christ delivers up to the Father Which delivery Posit 72 is the Last Final End of All Things or the End of this End viz. of the Kingdom of Christ Heb. 2.13 Rev 6.8 Mat. 25.41 when the last Enemy Death is subdued by being shut up with Satan who had the Power of Death and with Hell that follows Death and the Wicked Men of his Fellowship into their own Lake Thus the Kingdom of Christ is a Kingdom not left to other People but Consumes All and stands Posit 73 it self for Ever and is peculiar to the renewed humane nature of all the Saints in the second Adam Heb. 2. v. 6. with v. 11. For into Eternity This Kingdom is deliver'd up that God may be All in All. Christ's delivery up of the Kingdom or Gods being All in All cannot be understood of the absolute Posit 74 Cessation of the Mediatory Kingdom of Jesus Christ God-Man much less of the Eternal Word But Posit 75 it is the State of the Glory of Christ the Mediator and of his Saints with Him in the Glory that Christ had with the Father before the World was when there was no such Frame of Heaven and Earth and of the Changes of them but one smooth unwrinkled Heb. 2.11 John 17.24 unfurrowed Main of Eternity and into which All Things now Return Throughout which Eternity All Gloy Praise Love Service and Obedience shall be to the Father the Word in our Nature and the Holy Spirit from Glorfied Angels and Saints for Ever and Ever Amen and Amen POSITIONS Giving a Judgment according to the Prophecy of the Revelation upon the State of the Turkish Empire in relation to its Continuance or Fall and in compare with the Continuance or Fall of the Papacy whether of these two shall first be by way fuller Explanation and Assurance of the Line of Time in that Remarkable Joynt the Time Times and Half Time or the 1260 Days of the Witnesses in Sack-cloth And upon Occasion of the late wonderful sinck of the Turkish Affairs and the seeming rise of the Papal yet with a very undoubted Prediction of the Fall of both within ten years and of the Papacy first of the Two if duly understood and limited Posit 1 IT cannot but be acknowledg'd by all men of Reason much more of Christian Reason that the Mahometan Power hath been a very Great Instance of the Sathanick Kingdom in the World Rev. 9.11 and that the King of it may be justly Intitled the Angel of the Bottomless Pit Abaddon and Apollyon signifying destruction Enmity to humane Nature and peculiar Contrariety to Christian Religion wherein the Salvation of Men every way consists Posit 2 All this appears in the detestable Folly of its Religion the Cruelty of its Arms and the Barbarousness of its Tyranny Posit 3 The pressure of it so long upon the World and upon so great parts of it as on purpose to shew the universal Kingdom of Christ stopp'd must needs be acknowledg'd a horrible and dreadful Judgment of God upon the World v. 12. especially upon the Christian World which in regard of the Excellency of its Religion and the Promises to Christ our Lord of its spread with Glory upon the World hath much more Right to so vast a Monarchy and Empire and so may be justly call'd if distributed into the Saracenick and Turkish Mahometanes Two Woes Posit 4 It is most evident to All who are but a little seen in History that its Hegira or Date began A. D. 622. about sixteen years after Supremacy given to the Church and Bishop of Rome by Phocas and accepted by them notwithstanding the Remonstrance of a High Prophet of their own Gregory the Great that such Supremacy was Antichristianism but just before Posit 5 Mahomatanism a Hibris a Mungrel of Religions begotten with its Alcoran betwixt Mahomet the False Prophet Rev. 9.3 c. and Sergius a Monk and taking so deeply in an Age of Superstitions cannot but cast our Thoughts on the Locusts in the Revelation which came out of the Smoke of the Bottomless Pit and were such a Woe and Torment upon the World of men who had not the Seal of God on their Foreheads For immediately after the Armed Saracens drinking in the Poyson of the False Prophetism began their Range in which they tormented Mankind as with the venemous stroke of a Scorpion by their Stings in their Tayls The Bishop of Rome as a Star falling from the Firmament of the Gospel upon the Earth and inlightning Posit 6 Rome with New Supremacy when It had no other Light v. 1. c. 17.15 being ignoble under the Exarch of Ravenna a
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
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