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
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
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
Charan may see the motion of the Moon in her double state of New and Full crossing the Ecliptick with North and South Latitude attending the Sun also in all his Declinations North and South As Their Journeyings were In all places the Spouse is Lebana so with Laban so at Lebanon so in Aegypt and so also in Arabia whose Frankincense was Lebona And Solomons spouse had the smell of Lebanon and Lebona As alluding to the Temple Ketoreth of which before or to Keturah married to Abraham about the Time of Rebecca's coming from Bethuel and Laban so that she was also Lebana And when the Manna fell they cryed Man or called it Man being like the Good or Goat seed of Laban As the words may sound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which yet some render As Coriander seed or Goid in Dioscorides and it was White Alban a Methathesis of Laban whose Goats also were White and streaked And that of Manna and the white Stone in the Revelation may perhaps allude to That white Good Seed or Saviour which they also called Man not knowing what it was and the Seed of Gad or God whom they also call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And in Esay they sacrificed to Gad whence some bring Godt and God and Guid and Good and Good Nese the Good â—le of Gades the old Elyzian Fields Hesperides or Fortunate Ilands And as Man is the great Reckener on Earth as we touched before from the Hebrew Mana to reckon so is the Moon in Heaven Mone Reckoning or the Counter And as she is called Lebana from VVhiteness so she is called Jareach As Reaking like Incense Lebona Which in the Temple was a VVitness as the Moon in Heaven to the Great Covenant which God made with Man and Mankinde in Noah when he offered Sacrifice at his coming out of the Ark and God smelt a sweet sauour of Rest which should be still remembred all the many times we read that Phrase and said in his Heart However his Face may seem to frown yet All the words of his Heart shall stand and he said in his Heart I will no more Curse the Earth for Adam For or although every would of his Heart be Wrong from his youth or before his youngers neither will I add to sâ—ite or Hack 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All Flesh or Any Flesh As Any Work in the 4th Command and divers other places As I have done c. And this Everlasting Covenant was made when he smelt that sweet savour of Rest which in Hebrew may sound The Moon a Reak of Night or Rest. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As if the Moons Intercessions betwee the Sun and the Earth might also represent the sweet Odours of the Church to Christ and of Christ to his Father who hath made That everlasting Govenant with man for His sweet Odour of Rest as sure as the Moon a faithful VVitness in Heaven as the Psalms express it speaking of the Covenant made with David and his Seed for Ever As before with Abraham and His Seed and with Noah and His Seed for Ever Which is made the measure of all other Covenants So that If This which God made with Noah for Day and Night or other seasons can be disannulled Then also may his Covenant with Israel As himself speaketh in the 33 of Jeremy And as Jareach may come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Reak so also from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the common word for Spirit as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the English Racket a Fan or Vane But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Vaine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yet a little while and God will pour out his Spirit on the Earth as the Sun doth on the Moon He will give us the Upper and the Lower Springs as before in Achsa The Precious things of the Sun and Precious things of the Moon of the Heaven above and the Deep Couching beneath And the good will of him that dwelt in the Bush And when he saw that Moses said I will now turn aside to see This great sight and that he turned aside to see He called to him c. It is This Moses speaketh so of Joseph whom his Father also blessed with the Blessings of Heaven above and the Deep below the Breasts and the Womb. And These on Him that was separate from his brethren see Prov. 18. 1. as in Heb. And they scorned him as they Thrust out Moses also saying Who made thee a Judge among us But God exalted him and so he did Joseph also Sophie the Dreamer And Lo this Dreamer cometh And his Dreams were Sun and Moon and a Crown of 12 Stars also Rachel was the Sheep but He the Shepherd and the Stone of Israel to be compared with Dan. 2. and other Scriptures comparing Christ to a Stone And may we not finde Three Tribes of Rachel in Canaan with an Half also beyond Jordan Or what if Rachels Two sons should also be Stones of VVitness As Jacob spake at Gilead parted also or measured by Three and an Half As we see they were and the Lord dwelling at their Shilo and Mispha Sechem and other Shoulders also While the very Temple it self or its Court was parted between the Tribes of Benjamin and Judah That I speak not of the Tabernacle settled so long at Gibeon and the Ark at Kiriath-jearim another City of the Gibeonites saved on the 3d or 4th day in Josh. 9. who yet were Cursed by Joshuah that is solemnly Devoted to God and His service As the Nethinims in all the Bible I have yet said nothing of the Candlestick in the Tem ple parting it self into three Branches with three Bowls and three Flowers and three Lamps on either side of the Great Lamp in the Midst as the Sun in the middle of the seven Planets which yet so inclined to the West that they commonly call it the Western Lamp still burning Day and Night And measuring Time by Three and an Half on each side or Seven in the Whole while the 12 Cakes of Shew-bread lay by and were changed also every Sabbath or 7th Day And the Incense offered at 7 and 14 as we shewed before With the other Altar without for the Tamid where the Fire was not quenched Day or Night And the Salt Frying as the Worm never Dying And the Spirit of God as the Ayre or Sulphure also which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 somwhat Divine as a River of Brimston Kindling it Yea and the Sea of Sodom also before the Throne as we touched before in the Molten Sea so placed in the Outward Court as the Lake of Sodom was to Jerusalem On the Right Hand South-East As we may read in several places How the Seas Lamps or other things came to be multiplyed by 10 in Solomons Time we may speak in Characters if God permit In the mean time let me add That He that believeth is Childe of the Promise with Isaac and Blessed with faithful Abraham Yea He that is weak in
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
OLBIA THE NEW ILAND LATELY DISCOVERED With its Religion and Rites of Worship Laws Customs and Government Characters and Language With Education of their Children in their Sciences Arts and Manufactures with other things remarkable By a Christian Pilgrim driven by Tempest from Civita Vecchia or some other parts about Rome through the Straits into the ATLANTICK OCEAN The First Part. From the Original For Samuel Hartlib in Ax-yard Westminster and John Bartlet at the Guilt-Cup near Austins-Gate London and in Westminster-Hall 1660. The sum of this Discourse HAving lost his Father and other Relations about the great Sickness in Naples the Author becometh a sad disconsolate Pilgrim all alone by Land till unexpected dangers force him from Rome or there about to the Sea Where in a great Storm and Tempest he falleth into unexpressable Horror and Anguish of Minde till at length by Shipwrack losing all his Company he is cast on a scraggy Rock and There by a Religious Person as an Hermite entertained till recovering his Peace and strength with a quiet minde he also Learned the Religion Laws Customs Language and Characters of That New Iland fully described in the Books following this First Part. In which the Father discourseth the Danger of wrong Judgeing our selves or others with the way to a right understanding and Judgement the great Work of the Spirit promised to the World by Jesus Christ Who was sent to Redeem our souls from All Deceit and violence and to offer sacrifice for every one that Erreth and for him that is simple Cleered from Ezech. 45. 20. with Psal. 72. Of our Access and addresses to Him by Prayer As Saint Paul Learned from the first Martyr at his Death and thence made it the great Character of a Christian cleered from His Epistles and the Acts with the Revelation and other Scriptures in Harmony to the Psalms and Canticles Conversing with Christ and Praying to him From the 17. page to the 44. How Christ taught his Disciples and others to pray Our Father c. How He prayed to His Father and How a Christian to Christ and the Father in and through Christ. As Calebs Daughter to Her Father by her Husband and Her self Of Zelophehads Daughters and Edoms Widows and Orphans from Jer. 49. 11. from 44 page to 53. The great Arguments to be pressed on Christ as our Brother Born for a Day of sorrow made of a Woman made under the Law to Redeem them under the Law How the Law lay upon Christ as the great High Priest and Prophet promised to Moses to be raised from our Brethren and Like us in All things and so in the Law also And as our King to write out the Law by which he Ruled and to keep it all his Dayes that so he may do it and prolong his Dayes and Reign in the Heart of his People Where also the way to settle a perpetual Monarchy to a King and his Sons for Ever As God to Moses Joshuah David Solomon or others from 53. to 59. How the Suffering part of the Law lay upon Christ and sor whom but especially the Doing Part. How All was by himself summed up into Love and that but little if onely to Persons Lovely and Loving again How God Commended his Love to the worst of men to whom the Law it self saith I am the Lord Thy God and I have Redeemed Thee and therefore thou shalt Love me and worship me and Glorifie my Name and keep my Rest because I have provided it for Thee and Do and will both Love Honour and Glorifie Thee from 59. to 64. and 94. to 101. How Gods Jealousie speaketh his Love and all his Visiting from 64 to 70 How God Threatned Adam in Paradice and how he visits to fulfil those Threatnings on Him or others from 70 to 77. How much better for us that infinite Goodness and Riches now fill a Finite Nature that longeth to be sucked as a Breast ready to break with fulnes still flowing up still flowing over and a Drop that runneth over can Enrich our Souls and make us ever Bless him who hath said It is a more blessed thing to Give than to receive And He that hath received freely must give freely Of his having All Power in Heaven and Earth being the Wisdome and Power of God and Better for himself to use it for Edification rather than Destruction from 77 to 81. How Christ Loved the World and Prayed for the World how not from 81 to 86. 94 to 101. Of Gods Hating Cursing in order to a Change and how Places or Persons Hated or Cursed may be Recovered Blessed from 85 to 149. 161 308. Of the Earth cursed for Man but Washed or Baptised by the Flood And of Baptising Children how Holy things of old belonged to every one redeemed by the Priests or born in their Families 18 120 186 365. How cursed Canaan was blessed again 122 c. And cursed Jericho Recovered 128 129. And Gibbeon And Aye And Sodom Moab and Ammon Edom and Amaleck of Esau. Egypt and Assyria with the Philistines Of Death and Hell in Saul conquered by Love in David bound up for 1000 Years As coming loose again in Saul of the same Tribe struck down as with Lightning and Named Paul after Sergius Paulus that Prudent Roman Deputy Of Shimei Cursing David or other Shimeis and of Judas and Pauls rising in the House of Judas Of Aeneas Ananias and Saphira Tabitha Dorcas or others Recovered by the Apostles Of Christs Love to his Father and duty by the Law requiring him to propagate his Fathers Love with all his might and manifest his Name and True Worship to bring in all his Children servants sons of his handmaids Strangers and Cattle also to keep the Sabbath to Rest the Rest of God from 100 to 117. 141. Of the Law of Redemption Laid upon Christ as the Kinsman that is able and hath Power and Riches in his Hand and a Tender Heart and Eye when he doth but see the naked and miserable that hath No Helper though they cannot weep it out to him or do not see him who will not hide himself from his own flesh when their Land or Person but especially their pretious and immortal Soul is Sold or pawned or mortgaged or forfaited How he hath promised to draw All men to him and to make All things new 56. 107. 124. to 163. How a man may put himself out of Christs Neighbourhood by degenerating from a Man to a Beast and of Worshipping the Beast receiving the Name Character Image or Number of the Beast Serpent or Dragon and how all the World worship the Beast but those that are written in the Lambs Book of Life How God with all his goodness knoweth how to punish the wicked but especially those that walk in Lust of the flesh and speak Evil of Dignities the sin of Corah c. the crying sins of the last dayes and how there was no sacrifice for
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
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
seemed Thus. Divine Sophia Though I spraul in Clay Yet Thou art neer ally'd and for a Day Of Wo Made of Woman Reach out thy skirt Bow down thine Hemm For It can Heal my Heart Vouchsafe to know me and to let me know Thee When thou hast thy Blackest Mask and though My guilt present thee Frowning Let me see The Frowns I fear are Love that Vaileth thee Made under That most Royal Law of Love That bids thee Love us Heere as Those above Thy Neighbour As thy self And who is He The Stranger Any Man in Misery 'T is Little Love to Love our Like or Friend And Less to Love one Lovely Fair and Kinde All Sinners may do This and Hypocrites Thy Law is Love thine Enemy that fights And Hates Reviles and Offers All Despites Yet if he Want Or if his Ass but stray Thou saist Relieve him Lead him to his way Nor may we stay for Tears But Misery Must melt our Eyes and Heart to Sympathy How dwelleth Else the Love of God I am That Behemoth That Beast that stray's That Ishmael Wild Asses Colt that bray's For want of Fodder Thou art sent to Seek and Help and Save All Lost and Needy That No Helper have To Comfort All that Mourn To Sacrifice For every One that Errs or is Unwise And to Redeem their Soul Their Precious Soul From All Deceit and Violence Thou hast Received Gifts Then Freely Give It makes thee Blessed more then to Receive And Thou hast Gifts for Rebbels And Thy Breast By Flowing alwayes Out is more increast And every little Drop that falleth over Is so Precious that it can recover Any fainting swooning Heart and can stretch out My Narrow Soul As All the Heavens about Thou art gone Over All that Thou mightst fill All Things with Good Then do his Holy Will That sent thee with Eternal Love to Dwell In us to Conquer Wrath and Death and Hell As David Saul To Break the Serpents Head And All his Works and Power To raise the Dead And make All new Which Thou hast also Promised Upon thy â—rone and Lifted up to Draw All Men To Thee Then Do it As Thy Law Requires of All. My Son Give me thy Heart Do Heartily And Do not Act a Part. Nor offer with an Evil Eye lest All Abhorr Thy Dainties Do To All men As thou wouldst be Done unto Or if thou Hate Us Love thy Fathers Name With All thy Might and Propagate his Fame And Manifest his Love As Thou hast said 'T was written in Thy Heart and seen and Read Of All that Reade Thy Words But do the same Do it again 't is sweet Declare his Name In us We shall believe Thou wilt not cease Till Thou hast brought Us All to Rest in Peace Thy Children and thy Servants Hand-maids Child The Strangers in Thy Gates and Cattle wild Must Rest the Rest of God and Sabbath keep Then see our Woful Miseries and Weep With All that Weep And let thy Bowels yearn To Pitty and thy Patience make us Learn It s perfect Work And when we Most thee Grieve O Then Most sweetly Teach us to Believe And know Thy Heart is Love And when we Hear Thy Loudest Thunders and do feel or fear Thy smartest Lightnings Make us sweetly Bow And silently adore and pay the Vow We made thee in our Youth or fears And Pray And Praise for what and whom we ought or May While in us Praying Thou dost say the same Our Heavenly Father Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome Come and let Thy Will be Done On Earth As it is in Thy Heavenly Throne Give us this Day the Bread we need to Live And As We Debtors So do Us Forgive Into Temptation Lead us not But Free Us from The Evil Evil One. For unto Thee Belongeth Kingdom Power and Majesty Through All Eternity Eternity THE Translator also being a Stranger would bespeak his pardon if in any thing his Language shall not suit the Reader or the Subject which yet he hopeth may be the more excusable because he durst not hide some particulars of this following discourse which it may be some after ages may improve or at least excuse the Authors well meaning in describing some of the many things he met in so strange a way So much speaking the goodnesse and bounty of God the great Giver with the Liberal hand upbraiding none nor accepting Persons but in all Nations devising how to keep his Banished from perishing as the woman of Tekoa spake to David and still accepting and rewarding those that fear and diligently seek him hoping in his goodnesse through Jesus Christ the onely way of pleasing him to whom be given as of right belongeth Kingdom Power and Glory through all ages for ever more Amen Touching the Author it may be we should not ask or enquire his Name Nation or Quality seeing himself so Silent in it and it may be as unlawful to pry into others secrets especially of their mind and spirit as to unseal a Letter break open an house or discover that which is committed to ones greatest Trust. Yet by some passages he seemeth to intimate his Parents Christian and Religious who bred him tenderly and yet strictly in the best way they could both in Learning and Religion which seemed to have taken a deeper impression in his tender years then he well retained afterwards in the croud of this World and worldly employments both in War and Peace with many Civil Relations In all which he found himself so much entangled beyond his expectation or desire that for some years together it seems he wrestled with something within him that oft moved him to a more retired life which yet seemed to flie from him the more he pursued it About the height or greatest heat of the late Plague in Naples having lost his Father with other near and dear Relations he became so disconsolate that in a sad forlorn manner he wandred a while rather then Travelled all alone till among other places coming at length too neer the great City of Rome in that contagious season when he hoped for some little rest he fell into great danger of Death among some strict searches for suspected Persons from infected places But by great mercy escaping that danger also he was yet it seems so followed by the al-seeing eye that he was scarce got out of sight of Civita Vechia or some other place about that City whence he might escape by Sea But in a terrible storme and Tempest he was also seized and arrested with many privie Seals on his Conscience in most unutterable pangs of fear Terror and amazed Horror with a most heavie weight of guilt from all his former course of life which then lay gnawing on him with a grim vizage of death that King of fears staring and gaping on him with its open jaws ready to devour him This grew up to that height at length the storm still lasting and encreasing that there needed no other Processe or
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
did nor ever would do so Hardly to any in the World as to Israel As we read in Ezek. Daniel and from Christ himself in the Gospel And yet This was his darling people and the dearly beloved of his Soul a Type of Jesus Christ and All his Elect or first sruits or Blessed of the Lord that were to have a double portion as his first Born But it was both of shame and glory For even These Darlings and these dearly Beloved of his soul are often called the Forsaken Desolate Afflicted yea Hated Abhorred and Cursed Nay Cursed with a great and sore and heavy bitter Curse as we read in Malachy Where yet to That very People whom he so cursed He presently saith Yet Try me Prove me yet whether notwithstanding all this cursing you yet if you will but do that you may and shall by my Grace if you will and He also giveth to will you shall be Blessed and be Blessings also to your Neighbors and Relations yea and such Blessings that the very Windows of Heaven shall be opened and pour down-blessings on you Notwithstanding all the Curses you lay under So it was with Israel so it shall be For In every Every place Where you were put to shame you shall have Glory and you shall be a praise to All the Earth and where it was said Go you cursed and rejected Loammi and Loruhama on whom I will no more have mercy yet come again ye Blessed for you are my People and I will be your God And you shall be Blessed So it was with Israel and with Gibeon Yet it might be added that This very Gibeon was one of the Cities to which God forbid his People to offer Peace or to shew mercy or to save any living but commanded them utterly to destroy it and to save alive Nothing that breathed in it And so it was with all the Cities of the Amorites the Head of All those Canaanites or if you will the Tongue or Speakers of them All. The Zamzummims or great Thinkers were followed by Amorites great Talkers and their great Lord was Sihon King of Heshbon That is Meditation and Sighing Which are All conquered by Israel Which is also the more considerable because These were Excepted out of that general Law of War which was given to Israel and so to Christ also who was made under the whole Law and was forbidden to kill and commanded to save and keep alive as much or more than Any Being of the Seed of Abraham which was put under the Law More than All other Nations of the World besides So that it may be better for us that he took the Seed of Abraham than the Seed of Any other Man Now the General Law of War given them in Deuteronomy which they might not transgress being but a branch of the sixth Command was This That when ever they went against a City or a People except only those seven Nations which were so cursed by God and devoted to extream destruction They must first offer Peace For the Man and Men of God must be Gentle ready more to save than to kill or to harm Elijah called for Fire from Heaven as it must come on those that compass the Holy City for the Promise to Abraham was to Curse them that Cursed Him and fourty two children were devoured though I do not compare them with the fourty two months in the Revelation But Elisha was generally of another Spirit and especially called the Man of God To which the Apostle may allude or to meek Moses in That to Timothy The Man of God must be gentle But when the Disciples-asked If fire should come from Heaven as to Elijah Christ answered You know not what a sweet spirit you must have and be if you will be Christians or men of God and bearing the Image of God and Christ who was the Man of God more than All the World and gentle unto All even to the worst of Enemies and those that did oppose themselves taken in the snares of Satan and led captive by him at his will Yet even to them and to All the Man of God must be gentle And when he must come to fight against them as we see he threatens sorely in the Revelation but yet closeth sweetly I must come except they repent and yet again Repent lest I come against thee with the Sword of my mouth and whom I love I chasten and Behold I stand at the Door and Gate of the City which I fight against and first I knock and offer peace for so the Law of War commands And if it answer Peace and so His Ministers were sent to every House to offer Peace and Peace be to this House For They and He are sent to Bless us All by Turning us from our sins into the way of Peace and If the Son of Peace be There which the Law expresseth by an Answer of Peace and coming out to them as the Prophet Jeremy intreated Zedekiah to go out to the King of Babylon and to accept his terms of Peace And Then All in the House or City must be kept alive and may be put to Tribute But they may not be destroyed But if it will make no place with thee but will make warr against thee How much wilfulnesse is expressed in this slighting Peace and making War If they will do so thou shalt besiege it But yet so that thou cut not down so much as a Tree any one Tree that yieldeth fruit for mans Life or food to preserve Life And when the Lord shall deliver it into thy hands and thou must be content to stay till thou be clear and sure that God hath delivered it into thy hands Then thou maist destroy the Males but thou shalt preserve the women and the children and the cattel So that the very Cattel must not be slain or hurt These must be kept alive And still take heed thou do not so much as boil a Kid in his dams milk take heed of all and every kind of cruelty besides all superstitious customs of some Eastern Countries which we learn from some of the Karrait writers and thou must not take a bird with its young ones but must let the one or the other go free And thou must not kill the old and young in the same day no not for sacrifice as Jacob cried to God Why shall he smite the Mother and the Children both in one day This great Law of war was also punctually observed by God himself and our Lord Jesus towards the women and children of the Edomites which were hated and accursed people as any in the World as a Type of the greatest Reprobation and yet even to them when their males were to be destroyed or at least so threatned yet Let thy fatherless children come to me for I will preserve them alive as the Law commands and let thy widows trust in me Gods inviting Edoms Widdows and Children with promise to preserve them alive yea and
may be from News brought by Pigeons As in Those Countries To This day And Jonah signifies a Dove sent to Nineveh as Israel to Assyria and Babylon When All or any of These were Burnt Offerings or Sin Offerings for the whole Church or Priest They were All the Lords consumed by Fire as pledges that the persons offending were guilty of cutting off or perishing for their sins But in particular Sin Offerings or Trespass which were greater guilt and Shame as the Heb sounds the Priest had His and in Peace-Offerings the Offerer had also His part to eat besides the Blood poured out and the Fat and Inwards consumed by Fire to the Lord. Which might not only be a Token of Their Peace with God as the Apostle speaks but also that God accepted and pardoned Those who were represented by such Offerings Gods receiving or eating them as himself expresseth it seemed an Emblem of his Turning them and their natures into His As we dayly do to all we eat and wel digest Or that Christ who was Typed out in All of them was made All to All or for All. As Not only a Lamb for the Lambs in the dayly Sacrifice in which God had his Bread and flesh at morning and Bread and flesh at Evening as he allowed to Elijah and other persons But a Goat also for the Goats At the change of the Moon and the solemn Feasts especially the Feast of Atonement About the end of the Year or Fulness of Times as the Apostle speaketh which we shall consider a little more distinctly As there is a measure of Syncerity which the Scripture calls Integrity Perfection or Fulness of Heart as Calebs Heart filled after God and Sardis Works were not filled up before God And the Lord answered Abimelech Thou didst it in the Perfection of thy Heart which yet is not Absolute Perfection So there are such or such periods of Time which the Scripture reckons Perfect and calleth Fulness of Time or some kind of Eternity which yet are not such Absolutely but to man So Long or so uncertain or Hidden as the word intimates which is used for Ever or Eternity Seeing God hath so Hidden some Times and Seasons in his own Breast that the Son himself saith He knew them not Which yet some interpret as That saying I pray not for the World as if he said I do not now speak or manifest My knowing owning or praying for them till its proper season And there were such seasons also or Revelation of Times and Seasons as appeareth in the Revelation And Blessed is He that Readeth That Book Which is cleerer perhaps for the great things of Doctrine Worship and Discipline also than every eye seeth at one or two readings And may we not say with Job Seeing Times are not Hidden from the Almighty why do They that know Him not see his Daies or Times also For That is the sence in the Original rather than as some read or comma the words Thus VVhy do they that know him not see his daies As the Schools make Motion to begin from Rest as in Heb Resit or Rest is the Beginning of Creation and all Motion So the Jews and other old Nations did begin to reckon Time which is the Measure of Motion from Night in Heb Nihat Rest which is as proper to Night as Motion is to Day As our Saviour also speaketh I must work O happy necessity while it is Day for the Night cometh when No man can work And again Walk in the Light and are there not Twelve hours in the Day And so many also they made in the Night Observing perhaps that the Moons mean Motion was her own Diameter Twelve times to the Suns moving One of His and so twenty four for his two breadths of Day and Nights Motion round the Heavens which is also the proportion which the Ancients made and kept between their Sun and Moon in Metals Gold and Silver But on the Twelve sons of Darkness as of Ishmael or Esau and the Twelve sons of Israel which are called Children of Light We glaunced before in the twenty four Elders and the Watches or Watchers also As in our Bodies are twelve Ribs on the one side and twelve on the other with such and such distinctions and Vertebres And in either Jaw or Pallat like the two Hemispheres of Day and Night There are twelve Teeth with their Watchers also which some call Dogs And the common meetings of our Jaws and signal Pulses are in many Languages called Times or Tempora the Temples As the Jews also called Teeth by a word next akin to Years and our Ears are neer our Temples growing up as Time and Years did after the Creation Changing All things by chewing and devouring them as Time and Saturn did with the Poets and so Turning them into our own Natures And the very Name of Year as of Teeth also in Heb intimates Changing and its Numeral Letters make up Three hundred fifty five As there were Daies in their Lunar Year and Three hundred sixty in the Plural Regimen as in their Solar Years as we touched before at the great Change of Time in the last Battel between David and the House of Saul And Their word for Year hath a double Plural both Feminine and Masculine as their Years were Lunar and Solar And such periods of Exact meeting of Sun and Moon after such Courses and Motions make up such or such a Fulness of Time or Perfection which in Scripture Language may be called an Age or Ay or Ever or the like Phrase by which they express the World also which is usual in many languages As where some read He hath set the World in our Heart it is Eternity or the same VVord which is so Rendred in very many places And though it may be hard to determine what the Scripture meaneth by Fulnesse of Time or Times which is so spoken about our Saviour Time especially as if it were the end of one World and beginning of another Or the end of that which was to answer to the first Night of Creation or the Time before the Sun appeared in the World and the beginning of Light or Day as we may often read in the new Testament yet for some little Essay towards it we may remember that the Hebrew word for Seven or Sevang as some sound it the English Saxon being much Hebrew is very neer a kin to That which signifieth Fulnes and their word for Ten is also Riches which turned backwards maketh their Rash or wrech or Rich or Rushing wicked and unquiet man and by a little changing of places the same letters make a Goat and a Devil also to which there may be frequent allusions in Scripture which we may touch again Shall I add that All the Words I now remember in all the Bible to expresse such a Fulnesse or perfection of Time as is stiled Age or Ay or Ever or Eternity in their very numeral Letters if no more
include Seven or Ten or some of their Powers expressing Fulness or Riches It would be almost endlesse to shew how many Things and Motions in our Bodies do consist or depend on some of these numbers of Seven or Ten which is visible in our very Fingers and Toes with their Nails or Horns to be compared with the Ten Horns in Daniel or the Revelation That I say nothing of the Ten Horns of the Law or the Ten Sephiroth of which the Jews speak so much in allusion to That of Horns or Rayes comming round about the Lawgiver As the Antients formed Moses also like the Sun in his Rayes of Glory I must not speak of the Seven Hours Dayes Weeks Months and Years the Antients observed in Conception and forming the Embryons Features and its several Ages and Changes with ebbing and flowing coming and going of Hair and Nails and Teeth and many other things by Seven Which is also the number of the True Ribs on each side as they distinguish them and of the Vertebres or Rackets of our Necks as also they parted or paired out our Nerves by Sevens As if in our Brain also or the spinal marrow were the Beast out of the Sea or the Old Serpent or Hydra with Seven Heads also And as the Chymists find seven Metals in the bowels of the Earth below answering to the seven Planets above the seal being stamped quite through the Wax or Wafer as the Jews observe so that all the signatures are also seen below which were made above so also we have our spleen and Liver and Gall and Reins and Bladder and other Members as Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus and other Planets with their Armor-bearers also round the Sun as in our bowels about the stomack or great Centre of Sun-like heat and fire in That Lowest Region As the very utmost Court of the Temple had its Molten Sea like the Ocean or Waters under the Earth with its ebbings and flowings like the rowlings and yearnings of our Bowels and the Altar of burnt offerings burning and devouring all And the middle Court or Temple had the Altar of Incence and the seven Lamps and the twelve Cakes As our middle Region or Breast hath its Heart or Altar of Incence also compassed with its pericardium or purss of Water and the Air of the Lungs with the twelve Ribs or sphers or signs of Heaven Seperate with a Veil or Firmament also from our Head or Heavens above or Waters above the Firmament where are the first Ideahs or Originals of All below that I say nothing of the Mercy Seat of our Eye and its Rainbow representing the Throne of God in the Holy of Holies as we find it described in divers places of Scripture Is there not also some resemblance between the Northern parts of the Earth and the Brain or Head As if the North were made to Rule as may be hinted in divers Scriptures for Preferment cometh not from the East or West or South And from North the man comes that Headeth Kingdoms in the Prophets and their likenesse to our Lungs also may be considered with their Winds and Colds Other parts are as Neck Shoulders Breast and Arms. The Midland Sea as the Midriff or it may be part of the Pericardium about the Heart or Africa and Libiah signifies the Lords Heart As the form is And America the back-parts or the People a far off The Great Sea below the continent as the Waters under the Earth or our Bowels and their Rowlings and yearnings the Chambers of the South and as Waters returning in the South Terra del fuogo the Hips and Nova Guinea Loins Mael strom the Nose or Mouth How by Eating all things we turn them into our own Natures and spirits as a shadow how all things return To God as they come From him we touched before and may I add that Christ gave his own flesh and blood to be eaten by us and to be ours and us and the twelve Tribes were presented in the twelve Cakes of shewbread changed every Sabboth day as to be eaten by God or the Priest and so to be turned into His Nature as the Scripture also may intimate in other places besides our Saviours discourse with Laodicea in the Revelation And some make Shaddai to be All devouring and our God is a consuming fire We might happily measure times and seasons in the great World and changes there of much better then we now do If we knew the exact Times of Circulation of our blood and other humors of our bodies and how long the Chylus stayeth in the stomack or any other Receptacle before it be separate and circuled for assimilation What time in the Duodenum there is somewhat in the very name Jejunum Colon or Ilia Which we should consider often as the shadow that I say not measure of the ebbing and flowing of the Sea That I say nothing of the Infinite Bowels of God which are hinted out in Scripture by the many folds of our Ilia six or seven times longer then Man Nothing also of the Caecum which may speak somewhat Hidden as the Hebrew word for the World or Age or Ay and Ever Nor do I say the very Excrements return again in Grass and Hearbs which feed us with the Beasts we eat Shall we come to the measures of Time which is also the measure of Motion in the Heavens The two faithful Witnesses as the Scriptures intimate like our Eyes in our Heads or Heaven above and some other things below which so many Nations call by the name of Witnesses to be compared with Scripture also making such solemn Oaths by putting the Hand under the Thigh the Sun and Moon were set in the Heavens not onely for Dayes and Years but for Times and seasons Which are all made by Their motions through an Oblique Zodiack That crooked or that crossing serpent which in Hebrew hath almost the very same Letters and Numbers with the word for Year For Shanah is a Metathesis of Nahash the Serpent and the Ammonite which may be compared with Sampson the little Sun and Hercules And as Time began with Night before Day so it may be Winter was before Summer as Seed time before Harvest as the Scripture may intimate in divers places Evening and Morning are for sowing Seed and so the former and the latter Rains and the Harvest and Vintage have their seasons The Latter Works of God are ever the Better and his last Wine is best and he will ever shew himself better and better till all Time be perfected into Eternity and God be all in All. How the Antients might part their Day and Night into twelve hours a piece we shew before It may be compared with That of Moses When the most high separated the Sons of Adam and as St Paul expresseth it determined their Times appointed and bounds of their Habitation He did it according to the Number of the Sons of Israel And Thus the first twelve hours of Time
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
VVisdom it might ocasion us to think how neer Sophia or Sophos which was the great word with them that called it and their wise man a Die for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned backwards also is still the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comes to that very number of 666. Which we find also in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as his Name may be written who was so notorious in the VVest with Mahomet in the East about the year 666. And although I cannot deny but Ireneus scholar to St. John or his scholar found That number in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as others also in Romijith and divers other VVords or Names yet Some interpret That Phrase of the Number of a man as if it were a mans reckoning or to be counted onely by Him who of all the Creatures can onely so Number Numbers As if man an Hebrew word also came from Mana to Number And Manath or month is reckoning and 490. As if That Solemn Number of 7 Sevenights as we read in Daniels VVeeks were some way That which in Gods reckoning was The Number or the Manath or Month and it may be some way in every month also And in Hebrew manim or minae Pounds or mans or if you will men are 700 as mani number 100. And when Jacob complained that Laban had changed his wages so many times it is manim in Hebrew as the English also use many and for many also they use some which is Hebrew also as we found before in sum a sum or end of number and in numerals 666. as in Latine also Sexcenti for Many Shall I add also that as money or Monie is plainly an Hebrew word for Numbring as with English so also Zemanins which is Times or seasons as the word soundeth for every thing as Solomon speaketh is but 7 added to 700. That is monim or numbring or reckoning by seven as if all seasons were made up of the number Seven And as the Hebrew Sum is a kin to the Latine Sum and Turned backward is their Mus as Sumus also turned backward is still Sumus as if all our being and our summing also were but mus a mouse and all our musing also which is English and many other languages so also both sums are very neer to the Greek soma by which they expresse our body And it may be some will so render That phrase in the Revelation For it is the Number of a man as if it were not onely of mans numbring or of mans reaching or bearing or using as in Scripture often the Rods of a man and the Cords of a man and the pen of a man and the words of a man and the way of a man and the son of man and Children of men and to speak or walk as a man and Temptations of a man or common unto men But also some special Thing in mans body just of that Number And what if it should be That which makes him a man and yet so much and so oft to degenerate into a Beast For as man in the Image of God he was above all beasts and made to Rule them all with all his lusts and beastly Passions as we shewed before from Gods own words and great consult at mans Creation But lust conceiving brought forth sin and sin complete or grown up to be of age brought forth Death as we read in St. James and in Peter also that fleshly lusts Fight against the spirit and that it is very dangerous for any that have once escaped the pollution of the world which came in by lust to return with the Dog to his vomit or the sow to wallowing in the mire in a word to degenerate into a beast or beastly nature VVhich is very much by lust and that which causeth lust in our Bodies and Minds VVhich indeed is a strange kinde of Beast rising out of the sea or our lower Region or VVaters under our Heart or Earth Where also we found the 7 fleshly heads or Planets answering also to the 7 above and in our Brains also the heavens above or the waters above the Heavens as we shewed before where we glaunced at the Serpent also or Hydra a strange beast with 7 heads and 10 horns VVhich are somewayes in the worlds both great and little also which they call the Microcosm and in all its Regions also and in All Generations Most of All perhaps in That or Those which may be called the very Principles of All or every Generation What in our Bodies answered to the Two Faithful Witnesses in Heaven was hinted before May I now add that as Shemesh the Sun in Hebrew where yet it is Feminine is neer akin to somwhat we may scarcely Name at least As the Rabbines often use that word So is Jerach which is Moon and Masculine akin to That which the Scripture makes so much the Instrument of Generation the Thigh or Jareck whence the English Jerk or Yerk to strike upon the Thigh As we read also in Scripture And if the Latine Thorus were but written in Hebrew or Syriack might it not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which would also be Taurus a Beast And either of those words is just 666. And How neer is Ferus as in Greek also Beastly or Fierce to that Name or Number also May I not add that Shimshon or Samson or Hercules in Greek stories signifies the Little Sun crossing the Crossing Serpent of the Zodiack and its 12 Signs as the Labors of Hercules where also the Hydra or the Dragon or Beast and Serpent with 7 Heads and that it may be 666 or 700 in its numeral Letters also Or How Samson Dallyed with Dallilah till he was overcome by Lust also that cut off his Hairs as the Rayes of the Sun and at length put out his Eyes or the Two Witnesses in one Region which have Two also in other places called Testes or Witnesses by Many Nations And they bring Fire also from our Heavens and do strange wonders in us All. But they must be Put out before That Great Change will come which is so generally expected at 666. Which He may understand perhaps that knows why Christ himself did no Miracles till at a Wedding also he could say Woman what have I to do with thee and Then she said to the servants Do whatever He bids you So that Christ himself Did no Miracle Till his Mother bid it also If one should ask a Jew what maketh Men to be Men He might answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their VVeapons or their Vessels what they mean by those expressions one may easily know that understandeth Pauls discourse to the Corinthians about Marriage and keeping their Vessels clean or Holy or separate As David also spake to Ahimelech in number 665 or 666. And so also is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Heb. Vessels Yea and the Reins also or very neer akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and That to Kalla or
signifies his Moon As if it meant to teach us How all Changings and Numbrings are between the Earth and the Moon which as English Money is from Numbring and Changing as Man also the Great Changer and the Money Changer also But take heed he be not whipped out of the Temple by our Saviour Though by a scourge of smal Cords So that the Moon and the Earth are but the Two Round Glasses of the Klepsydra the Weather Glass or Hour Glass And as One Fills the other Empties Whence the Tyde is Highest Fullest Just as the Moon comes to the Zenith or Highest Point of Heaven over such or such a Place And As she goes down again the Earth goes up and drops its Tide back again And why our Seas and Brains and Reins or Rains are fullest just at Emptiest Moon we call it Full will be no great wonder Except haply we should imagine the Sun and the Earth are indeed the Two Globes of the Hour Glass or Clepsydra and the Moon the little Rundle or the Firmament between them Which seems more proper much to the Earth between Sun and Moon And yet some with great appearance of Reason make the Sun it self the Centre of All the Planets And the Moon whirling about the Earth Which we may touch again And to This of Moon and Waters Above the Firmament Dropping Through to make All Time I might add the English Name of Showr as if it were So Hour or See Hour But This also is Hebrew For with them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are Shoures and Watches or VVatchers also And their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a VVatcher a Porter and a Gate is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which watcheth or Gards as the sound also Though I may add that the VVatches were more usually spoken of Nights as in the 90. Psalm and elsewhere As Hours of Day Which is Ha our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light And Thence Hour As also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shew and See And so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be He that shews the VVatch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And by This time we need not wonder that in Hebrew Jom should be Day and Jam Sea which is Now also in Latine As Olim Then both to Come and Past also Like the Hebrew Olam Jamim Daies and Jammim Seas And All these but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Waters Only in the gathering of Waters which God called Jam or Jammim Seas there is a repeating or adding or multiplying M the proper Letter sound and Character of Humming Waters and multitudes of Peoples also who are but Waters added together Or Many Waters As the Beast rising in Many Waters or Multitudes of People which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Am and Ammon in Hebrew and Ammi my People as Jam a Sea But in English I am is a word of Being and very Rightly too For we are All but Water Nay a Drop of VVater And All Nations are but a little Drop of the Bucket or VVell whence they are Drawn or Dropped As Moab my Fathers Water And to Create in Heb is but to Bear or make Bare a little change of Beer a Fountain or VVell still Bearing out As we see in Beer Lahairoi and in Beershebang the VVell of Seven too as well as of the Oath And so Bar a Son and also to Bar out And the Saxon English Bearns are Children or Free Persons or Barons As our Saviour also alludeth in That of Tribute by strangers and not of Children or Sons or Barin in his Language that is Barons or Free born Bearns As in another place he calleth them Children of the Kingdom that is Free Barons of Heaven or the Church I might add that Bourn is a River also or Brook Which is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebrew Or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Jaar a month and Year and River also For our Time is Drops of Water Flowing As we see also in the English Ye are or Year and we are or were and Jam as the Latin Jam for present and He is or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All are Heb. and Time is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sea or Imum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And all these parts of Time are akin to Seeing In Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whence are and were and ye are and Jare or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Hour and Our and Your But Persons in a Continual flux of Daies Jam and Years Ye are We are and Were and Your But the white sands running in the Hour Glass Or as God expresseth it but as the Little Dust in the Ballance Which yet is an Higher Pedigree than we may think For the Heavens in Heb are but the least and lightest Dusts that Phrase is Hebrew also from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Thresh or as Solomon the Highest part of the Dust of the Earth Which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Skie or See High From a word to Shake into Dust or Moats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Atomes by Metathesis As a Damm between the two VVaters stood the Earth More stable and more firm also perhaps than the Firmament it self For It that is the visible Heavens must pass away like a scrowl of Parchment before the fire And They must be no more as Job speaketh VVhen Man awaketh that is Kaets as To the Resurrection or the End of the world or as Corn in Summer as we spake before But the Earth shall abide and Endure for Ever As That which God called Erets I will accept or be pleased and delight in it and in them that shall come out of Heaven to Raign on the Earth Even As the Rain comes out of Heaven and Returns not Empty As the Rivers come from the Sea and go thither again So the Rain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Yarn or Rivers of Heaven Go and Come As in our Bodies also between our Heb Rin and Brains and Reins and Yearnings c. while our Heart or Earth is in the Centre or Middle of our Bodies as the Lower Sun which by its Fire and Heat and Clickins makes our Pulses Times and Circulations through our whole Bodies Yet if any will derive Erets against that Etimology we shewed in Ezekiel from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Run It is sutable to Water also or the Water Hour Glass Or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Pouder It may suit with That we spake of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Skie or Dust of Heaven As if Those also must Turn Tables with us or be Turned under us When the Dust of Abrahams Seed and the Sand or Gravel of His Sea also shall be made the Stars of Heaven yea of the Heaven of Heavens Thus then the Earth came that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Rose up as a Dam between the Waters in
other places may lead us to That in the Revelation Running out 1600 Furlongs As before and putting his Face between his Knees which we may come to understand After seven Returns of his Servant A little Cloud ariseth Bigg enough to bring up another Flood to End That Generation perhaps As in Noahs Time And in Elijahs time we have Two Witnesses bringing Fire from Heaven Blood and Water also after a drought of three years and an half To be compared with That in the Revel and with Daniels Moed Moads and Half Generally through all the Scriptures As the Morning hath its name from Seeking 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So the Evening is the Time of Finding And of Sweetning as its name imports in Hebrew or Composing thoughts and Wrath which in Heb is Passing as at Evening For the Sun must not go down upon it nor any Token of Curss Hang up any longer than the Evening So that God himself and the Angels did generally appear in the Cool of the Day or Evening-Tide the Evening Sacrifice The Time of Prayer in the Acts but the Time of the Angel to Cornelius Daniel with others And it may be That Evening season may be called Moed also As to Pharaoh To morrow At Moed I will do it And Davids Pestilence did reign from Morning till Moed And if Moed here be the Time Appointed which was Three full dayes what need of fear of any longer punishment Or why was the Angels Sword still Naked till a Command to sheath it upon Davids Sacrifice at Moed or the Evening Minha the Dayes Moed So in Gods proclaiming his Moads with Sabbath which yet is often distinguished from the Moads comes the Daily Tamid and Minha Like the Two Witnesses in the Temple As the two Altars also Like That at Jerusalem and That also below Jordan as in the lowest Court by the Molten Sea which is also called Ed a Witness As our Eyes in our Head and the Eyes of Heaven also the Sun and Moon of which we must speak again The first Command I have yet observed for any such Ceremonial was for their Evening Lights or Incense As Time also began with Evening before Morning And so English also reckon by Nights as the Jewes rather than Mornings a Sevennight and a Fortnight There is scarce any other thing commanded but onely spoken And the Lord said to Moses Say This and Say That But for the Evening Lights or Incense or Minha They are commanded And So also for giving Cities to the Levites and Putting out Men and Women also that were Unclean by the Dead Issues and Leprosie Such a Command or Appointment in Hebr is called Moed for Place or Time or Meeting The Grave is called Beth Moed And Job complains as if God were cruel in not hearing Cryes or Cryers from Sheol or Moed to All Living As our Saviour also For to Him They All Live though they be Dead The Tabernacle almost ever called The Hall of Moed Most of all for that Great Moed of All the Moeds which were Three in the Year The Passeover at the Moed of Evening also which is Ereb as Eber Pass-out as well as Pass-over For they passed out at Suns-set as we read in Deut 16. 1. 6. And the Pentecost at Evening also to the Jewes But in the Morning at the Third Hour Act. 2. Most especially the Tabernacles at Evening That Solemnity of All Solemnities The Moed of All Moeds Yet a Type of That Greater Moed at the Evening of the World when God shall come and dwell with Man in Tabernacles As we read in the Revelation After the six Trumpets of the six former Monhs which still began with Trumpets were quite past yea and the Woes also were past for there were three months after Pentecost that had No Solemn Moed or any such Feast to Bless them but onely Fasts And when Those were Over also Then comes the Seventh Trumpet of the Full Month the Seventh First the Feast of Trumpets Then the Great Day of Atonement when the Jewes say God sits and judgeth All that Dye that Year May it be Hinted by the Seven last Plagues before the Seven Great Dayes of Tabernacles and then the Trumpet of the Jubile when The Tabernacle of God is with men as we read in several places From Levit. 26. and Ezek. 37. And God sball also perswade Japhet to dwell in Those Tabernacles of Sem that is the Name of God himself as Represent ing Him in whom God placed his Name for ever And he dwelt among us and will yet much more in Tabernacles in a Scene or Skeins as Englisk speak and Saint Johns Word intimates And Saint Lukes Phrase of Shepherds Watching their Flocks by night may hint That season of Tabernacles also when the Angels sang Glory to God on High and Peace on Earth with Good will to men or men of Good will For the Angels shall Ascend and Descend on the Sons of men when They also shall be of Good Will or a Willing People as the Chariots of Aminadab in the Day of His Power Or Chell or Hell or Hill For we read also of the Hill of Moed in the sides of the North of which we may speak again and of other places of Moed also And the very Cities of Refuge are called Meuds also as being so often solemnly Appointed by God by Moses by Josuah For the three Moads and Chatsa On That side of Jordan and on This. They began from Kadesh and ended in Kadesh From Kadesh Barnea the Holy Bar or Bound of Wandering by Beersheba to Hebron in the Hill of Judah Thence to Sechem in the Hill of Ephraim and Thence to Kadesh which Kadeshu They sanctified in Mount Nepthaly or Galile of the Gentiles The other three with the other Chatsa were on lower Ground It may be considered again As also That all the six were out of the 48 Cities given to the Levites As they had 48 Courses in the Temple 24 of Porters and 24 of Singers As the Standers also had 24 Courses and for Jerusalem 24000 they say as for Jericho 12000. And the Priests also had 24 Courses and 24 things given them by God who also received 24 things fâ—om them Daily In their 12 Cakes as also the Shew-breads were 12. broken into 24. 12 at Evening and 12 at Morning And there were 12 kindes of Minha But as These and all other Moads might be from Appointing so they may be called Moeds from Witnessing or Witnesses to all such Appointings which were All as English men express it very Happily Done with a Witness which in Hebrew is Ed as we saw in the Alter Ed and in Gileed the Heaps of Witness of which again So that indeed the Revelation speaking of the Witnesses for three Dayes and Half or for any other Three times and Half doth plainly allude to Daniels Moeds That is the proper Times of the Witnesses or Witnessing For as Moab iâ— from Ab a Father so Moed from Ed a Witnesse
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-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
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
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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
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
call of which we have also a most sure Character in our Hearing and Attending to Him and Calling on the mighty Name of Iesus of Nazareth as we cleared before out of 1 Cor. 1. Rom. 10. and many other Scriptures And That This was to reach much beyond That Pentecost Act. 2. may be cleared from our Saviour speaking of the sack of Ierusalem and their Great afflictions divers years after That Pentecost and then saith he immediately after the Tribulation of those dayes and in Mark After that Tribulation in those dayes which in Luke are called the Times of the Gentiles Treading down Jerusalem the Holy City in the Revelation 42 Months and Then shall the Sun be darkned and the Moon not give her Light and the Stars shall fall from Heaven and the Powers of Heaven shall be shaken and Then shal appear the Sign of the Son of man in Heaven and Then shall all the Tribes of the Earth mourn and they shall see the Son of man coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory Which is also in Mark and Luke though Both omit the Sign of him in the Clouds who addeth also for the Jewes and not onely for the Apostles When These things begin begin to come to pass Then look up and Lift up your Heads for your Redemption draweth Nigh Even in That Generation As summer when the Figg-tree blossometh And those signes There given by our blessed Saviour more by giving tâ—an receiving are in the Prophet Zechary with Hâ—ggai and Malachy after Babylon and especially in Thâ—t place of Joel with That very Pouring out of the Holy Spirit which was therefore not fulfilled in Acts 2d but onely begun before that Tribulation and Horror there spoken of with signs in Sun and Moon and Blood and Fire and Pillars of smoak For Behold In Those Dayes and in That Time I will bring back the Captivity of Judah and Jerusalem and I will gather all Nations into the Valley os Jehosaphat Thither cause thy mighty Ones to come down O Lord. Amen Let the Heathen be Wakened for it is Kets both the End and the Waking or Resurrection as we saw before and com up into the Valley of Jehosaphat For there will I sit to judge All the Heathen round about as before in that very Valley as we found at Engedi and Beraca Put you in the sickle for the Harvest is Ripe and the Press is Full c. As in Christ of the Harvest added to That of his Coming and the Revelation also of the Vintage for 1600 Furlongs And now the Sun and Moon shall be darkned and the Stars withdraw their Light and Heavens shake c. Twice repeated in this Prophet and twice in Haggai as also the Author to the Hebrews Again and yet Again I will shake as at Jerusalem pulled down and again at its setting up again And so the Prophet Esay 14 and 24 as 24 of Matthew After all the Powers of Earth shaken and the Kings of the Earth upon the Earth who yet shall be visited even in the Pit also as Zedekiah was in Babylon Blinde Until I visit him saith the Lord in Jeremiah 32. with 27 and 29. And in the 24th They were carryed thither for their good Even as the Gibeonites were Cursed by Josuah that great Type of Jesus but for their Good also though to draw Water for the House of God yet to be There and Nethinims And so here also in Esay They shall be shut up in Prison in the Pit but after many dayes they shall be visited and Then the Moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his Ancients Glorioufly As those glorious songs in the two next Chapters and the 27th is of the Binding of Satan Leviathan the Dragon or the Crossing Serpent As the Primitive Church did generally understand it Which may reach the Powers of Heaven or the Zodiack which must also be shaken with its Beasts also when the Sun and Moon or two Witnesses are put out or slain for 3 dayes and Half as ever when there hath been a new World or a new Heaven And Solomon speaketh as if more were still to follow than had gone before to the Beth Moed We might Track it up to Moses also as most things in all the Prophets Then will the Lord be jealous for his Land his Land and pity his People which Joel hath from Moses Song That is Gods given to Moses and Joshua more solemnly perhaps than the Law it self in the Tab. He will be jealous for them and moove them to jealousie and Then he will be merciful to His Land his Land even cursed Adama As in Joel also and to His People But when They are shut up and none left to help them as was rightly observed by the Prophet Jonah 2 Kin. 14. as we saw before in Daniel and Psalm 72. And lest This might seem less Durable because from the flitting Tab we may finde it also among the secret Councels of God hinted to Moses at his private retirement in one of his Three 40 dayes as he lived Three 40 years on Mount Sinai Though now placed in Leviticus 26. which may be the sum of the Law and the Gospel also Yea and the Fata Imperii or Their Changes also as of the Moon in Heaven I will set my Tâ—bernacle among you and my soul shall not abhor you which St Paul applyeth also to the Gentile Corinthians and I will walk among you as if the Ark did straiten him as a Childe in a Cradle or in swathing bands and I will be your God! I will be so Yea and I will stretch out my Hands and feet among you as one that swimmeth But if you will not Hearken and will not O! How much wilfulness is still expressed in it And if you will despise my Statutes chaâ—ged on David himself And your soul abhor my judgements so that you break my Covenant Not a word of Threat till sin came up so High as could hardly be worse one would think And Then I will appoint over you Terrour Consumption and burning Agues to consume the Eyes our great occasions of sin and cause sorrow of Heart which the Lamentation calleth the Curse of God And I will set my Face when they had set Their Heart against you and they that Hate you shall Reign over you And if you will not yet for All this Hearken unto me O! how Tender Then I will add to Teach or Chasten you Seven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And if you will walk with me at adventure Keri and will not hearken to me I will yet add stroke or plague Seven And I will send the wilde Beast of Tooth or Teeth as the Syriac in the Revelation who shal destroy the Tame Beasts and the Children also As Molock did in His fiery Claws and Babel in his fiery Furnace And because they bare the Tabernacle of Molock instead
a Chate and two Lambs also for the onely Salems of the whole Corgregation which were most Holy to be waved up with the two Cakes or Biccurim Which the Jewes also may teach us to be 7 Taps long was it the Sacred Cubit and 4 broad and 4 high As to represent a Month of 4 Sevens in that 26th of Levit. If one of these Sevens be 372 as in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and bring us just to the 16th Morning of the Wave-sheaf of Barley which was just 372 Hours Why may not the other 3 bring us to the Pentecost Or 50th Day after that Feast of Barley 3 Times 372 make 1116. which are just 84 less then 1200 the number of Hours in 50 Dayes that make up the Pentecost from That Barley sheaf And 84 in Hours make up just 3 Dayes and an Half for the Slaying or Laying of the Witnesses as we found in the Sun and Moon Hid in the Suns Beams or Hamma 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 53 or 93 till she be first Malta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just 84 and then Lebana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 87 in three Hours more and Melit or Melita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 89 and 94 and Malcha Melcha Milcha 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 95 and Sach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 98. And so forward to Sheleg and Shegel as we saw before I add not That the Hebrew words for that we saw but now in Levit. 26 You shall be given up into the Hand of the Enemy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 either with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or without it make but 3 more or 3 less than 1488 which are just 4 times 372 the number of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4 times repeated in that Chapter for their Chastisments But we may yet have a more sure Key for That and all other Prophetick numbers In the mean time we may remember that 222 Hours the 3d part of 666 brought us to the 10th Midnight before Jericho And in Josua 4 19 we read that they came out of Jordan to Gilgal the East border of Jericho just upon the 10th Day of the First Month and the number of Jericho is the Hour of Noon in that 10th Day The Pascal Lamb or Goat began to be Tyed up or separate 3 Dayes and Half for the Passover on the 14. As Pauls Tempest went off in the 14th Day and Then he came to Melitah or Malta which hath also been Deliverance against the Turks many a time As Sodom was delivered by Abraham in the 14th Year and Jacob served Laban for his two Daughters 14 Years and Jerusalem was freed from the Assyrians in the 14th Year of Hezekiah and Ezekiel saw his New Jerusalem in the 14th Year after the Citie was smitten and in the 10th Day of the first Month just as the Lamb was to be Tied up And Daniel had his great Vision of which we have spoken on the 14th Day after That Lamb so tied up but not slain till the 14th Day about the Evening Minha or the 333d Hour just Half of 666. But they came out of Rameses on the 15th Day Numb 33. 3. and at Sunset Deut. 16. 6. just 360 Hours of the Month. As if now they were to begin a New Year of 360 Dayes 10 times as good as the 2d Dayes Light Rising up 36 Hours from the Beginning The Morning after was fixed for Heaving up the Barley-sheaf as Emblem of their Rising out of Aegypt and our Lords Lifting up on the Cross and Rising also from the Grave on the 3d Morning after his Death as the Sheaf was the 3d Morning after the Passover slain In Hesekiahs time they began to clense the Temple polluted by Ahaz on the first Day of the first Month but they passed not the Porch till the 8th Day nor the House till the 16th Day the Time of this Barley-sheaf which was one of the Reasons why they could not keep the Passover on the 14th of the First Month as commanded on pain of Cutting Off. But Hesekiah rose early and called the Rulers of the Citie and All laid their hands on 7 Goats for a Chate and the Priests killed them and with their Blood made atonement on the Altar for All Israel as the King commanded And the King and his Princes and all the Congregation made an Act of Parliament for the Passover on the 14th of the 2d Month and then Hesekiah prayed The good Lord Pardon c though not according to the Purity of the Sanctuary or Lawes thereof And the Lord hearkened to Hesekiah and Healed the people And the King spake comfortably to the Levites and they kept the first 7 Dayes as in the first Month and the whole Assembly took Counsel to keep other 7 Dayes and they did so with great gladness as the like was not since Solomons 14 Dayes also And the Priests the Levites rose and blessed the people and their voice was heard and the Praier came up to his Holy Habitation unto Heaven Pentecost the 50th Day from the Sheaf of the 16th as in Levitieus But in Deuteronomy from the Sickle which was the Day before and that so strictly maintained against the Zadduces as the Jewes may teach us that from Thence They cryed Thrice On this Sabbath Sabbath Sabbath or the morrow after the Passover slain the 14th Evening with this Sickle sickle sickle as we saw before as a beginning to the 50 Dayes of Pentecost Deut. 16. 9. When thou put test in the Sickle In 50 full Dayes there are 1200 Hours to be compared with 12000 of a Tribe The First-fruits to God and the Lamb in the Revelation And Moadim are just 1200 if Moed be 120 as we saw before and Moadim be 10 Moads as it may be For the Hebrew Duall is for Two and their Plural for 3 at least as we saw in Elohim and Plural numbers are generally 10 fold to their Singulars as we saw 10 a Congregation As the least plural Regimen is made with Jod that is 10 and Im may be 50 or 610 and through all the Bible we see numberings by 10 and by 50 and the least Captain of 10 As also the English yet observe in their old good Tithings and Tithing men with Headboroughs and Constables of Hundreds The 7 Weeks were but 49 Daies as a foundation for Daniels 7 Weeks of 490 Years of which again And though the Pentecost were the 50th yet the Biccurim or first Fruits of the Spirit Acts 2d came on the 3d Hour of that 50th Day So that we may begin the 50 Daies or 1200 Hours before the Barley sheaf And sure it must be 12 Hours at least before that Morning else we shall disturb the course of Nature which began Time as God doth All with the Worst first as Evening before Morning and probably with Winter before Summer That is Sowing time before Harvest whose last end ended the whole Year and began another If 1200 be added to 333 the Minha Passover or to 335 or 6