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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75736	The work of the age: or, the sealed prophecies of Daniel opened and applied. VVherein is plainly proved that all the governments in the world, except the government of Christ, are but images, or parts of Nebuchadnezzars image, and shall be suddenly broken in pieces by the little stone cut out of the mountain without hand: together with the means how Christ will effect all this. Shewing also that image-government, and image-worship have always been companions. Explaining likewise Daniels mystical numbers, and discovering some misprisions about the little horn, both in the translation and application of the same. Amending sundry places in our common translation, and clearing some chronological points from the common errours. / By William Aspinwall.	Aspinwall, William, fl. 1648-1662.	1655 (1655)	Wing A4010; Thomason E832_1; ESTC R207510	48,246	60

THE Work of the Age OR The sealed Prophecies of DANIEL opened and applied VVherein is plainly proved that all the Governments in the World except the Government of Christ are but Images or parts of Nebuchadnezzars Image and shall be suddenly broken in peices by the little Stone cut out of the Mountain without hand Together with the means how Christ will effect all this Shewing also that Image-Government and Image-Worship have always been Companions Explaining likewise Daniels mystical Numbers and discovering some Misprisions about the Little Horn both in the Translation and Application of the same Amending sundry places in our Common Translation and clearing some Chronological points from the common errours By WILLIAM ASPINWALL LONDON Printed by R. I. for Livewell Chapman and are to be sold at the Sign of the Crown in Popes-head Alley 1655. The Preface MOses thought it uncomely for Hebrews and follow Brethren to strive together Exod. 2. 13. And when Joseph dismissed his Brethren and sent them back to Canaan to his Father he imposed this charge upon them See yee fall not out by the way Gen. 45. 24. So me thinks it ill becomes Christians and Co-witnesses for Christ to bandy Arguments as men tosse Balls forward and backward drawing black lines one upon another as if they did fearfully and shamefully stretch both the text and reason if they dissent from what is held forth by them This savours not of a Spirit of Christ it is not the language of Canaan Wee may rest our selves satisfied when we have born witness to the truth and held forth the light we have received For this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world to bear witness to the truth Joh. 18. 37. This was Christs work and it should be ours also It is the nature of Light to expel Darkness We shall need to do no more but hold forth the word of truth with as much clearness as we can and apply all other interpretations thereunto and it will appear what is strait and what is crooked For Rectum est index sui obliqui And truly if we pass these limits it is a thousand to one that instead of bearing witness to the truth wee shall bear witness against some truth or other We may possibly with mistaken Arguments beget Disciples to our selves but seldom or never with such Carnal weapons shall we beget Disciples unto Christ or to his Truth The Sun hath no need of Candles or other adventitious lights to inlighten the same or to augment the light thereof Let us hold forth the truth with all clearness and if any thing be obscure in regard of the Dialect wherein it was originally written let it be our care with all faithfulness to explain the same and leave it to the blessing of God a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 2 to perswade and to the breathings of the Spirit whose office it is to b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 convince Job 16. 8. Which were it duly attended unto would spare a great deal of precious time and tedious writing which many times is fruitlesly spent in Answers and Replies that tend little to the honour of Christ or the advantage of his Cause I know it often fares with Christians as with little Children that make haste to their Father sometimes they catch a fall or a knock Peter though he was most resolved and most forward fell foulest And if we look narrowly into the matter we shall ordinarily espy a spice of Spiritual pride as well as a strong affection to our Lord and Master secretly couchant under our precipitancy and prefidence of spirit Whereby it now and then comes to pass that we write crooked or walk crooked and besides our rule The advice therefore which I would give to others which also I desire to take my self is briefly this Let us lye low before the Lord in all our studies and inquiries into the holy Counsels of God especially these mystical Scriptures and seriously weigh every word and every IOTA in the text comparing Scripture with Scripture For holy men of God spake and writ as they were acted by the holy Spirit 2 Pet. 1. 21. And the Lord keep our spiri●s humble For God will teach the humble his way Psal 25. 8. The Apostles advice is singularly useful in this case Let each esteem other better than themselves Phil. 2. 3. And in all our explications of dark and Prophetical Scriptures let there run through all the veins thereof a spirit of love and Self-denial Not in word alone but in deed and in truth for oftentimes there lyes much of Self secretly hidden under verbal Self-denial This in summe is the advice I would give to others and to my self also Let me only adde a word more by way of Cau●●on when we come to treat of sealed Prophesies such as Christ hath commanded to seal until the time of the end a Take heed of ingaging too far Of which ●d Daniels ●phecies are Master Til●ghast well serves p. 157 ●● and beware of pre-occupating Christ in opening the Seals lest we discover our own nakedness and out live our own interpretations Stay we but a little till Christ in a way of Providence open the Seal and then wee may with safety make particular applications of such Prophetical Scriptures as we see the Saints of old have done in applying that which is written of the Little Horn as it is called Dan. 8 9. 25. unto Antiochus Epiphanes To which end you may read the Story of the Maccabees Josephus and others In like manner I doubt not but the Little Horn Dan. 7. 8. may rightly and without injury to the truth be applied to Charls Stuart the late King For as much as there are so many remarkable Characters which Christ in a providential way hath delineated even to the very last stroke as I may say which are applicable all of them unto Charls Stuart and cannot suitably bee accommodated unto any other of the Ten Horns besides him as I suppose But I shall speak more fully of that when I come to treat of that Little Horn the Lord assisting Weigh therefore and consider what is written and the Lord give a right understanding in all things Sixth Month commonly called Febr. 1655. WILLIAM ASPINWALL Daniels Prophecies in the 2 7 8 9 and the 11th Chapters unsealed and opened in some brief exercitations upon those Chapters DANIEL II. Vers 31. Thou O King was contemplating and behold one great Image this Image which was so great and his brightness excellent was standing before thee and the sight thereof terrible 32 This Image the head of it was good gold his breast and his arms of silver his II Or Bowels belly and his * Or Side thigh of brass 33 His leggs of iron his feet part a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of them of iron and part b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of them of clay 34 Thou was contemplating until a