Christ and to the Conversion of the Jews and that in the mean Time the very Apprehension and Consideration of so stupendious and wonderful Regularity and Exactness in the Temple State as is here given should exceeding perswade to Model our Religion and Worship of God and of Jesus Christ by the Clearest Closest and Exact-est Conformity to the Pattern of the Word of God The Vision it self follows which may be Comprehended in these following Great Particulars 1. There is the Frame of a Temple with its Holy of Holies outward Temple Altars Chambers Galleries Courts Places of Reception Strengthen'd and Adorn'd with its many Pillars Surrounded with its Strong and High Gates and Walls All upon Stable Foundations as is to be seen throughout the Vision with undeniable Allusions to the Temple at Jerusalem 2. Throughout this Frame there is an Admirable Exactness in measure by a Reed and a Line of Flax in the Hand of the Brazen Measurer and Numberer of number in so many Cubits Reeds Pillars c. as is to be seen throughout and of Weights particularly as to both Sacrifice and Administration of Justice c. 45. 10. And in the measure there is a Magnificence of a Cubit and an Hand Breadth of Great Cubits c. 40. 5. c. 41. 8. and a particular Regard to Four square c. 40. 47. c. 3. There are Sacrifices Solemn Feasts a Priesthood a Law about their Garments keeping their Heads Marriage c. and with a special preference to the Sons of Zadock as having preserv'd the Sacerdotal Integrity All these clearly relating to the Laws of the Levitical Priesthood c. 44. c. 4. In All Things the Law of the House and the Limit of the House is Round about most Holy Separating betwixt God's and Man's Posts and Wall Abominating the Whoredoms of Worship excluding the Vncircumcis'd in Heart and in Flesh c. 44. 6. c. 43. 8. 9. 10. c. 5. There is a single Prince mention'd who shall not who will not oppress with his peculiar Sacrifices and Worship his place and Avenue of worship his peculiar Portion of Land and whose part it shall be to Furnish the most Solemn Sacrifices c. 45. v. 7. 9. c. and there is also mention of Princes under Him who shall also be Just c. 45. v. 7. 9. 6. The Reed by the Hand Breadth of Cubits added to each Cubit becomes a Reed of Seven Ordinary Cubits and all being measur'd by it It Imprints a Sabbaticness on the whole Frame into which All is drawn up c. 40. 5. 7. There is in the Altar a plain Signature of the Israelitish Twelve c. 43. 16. and another Altar that is call'd the Table before the Lord c. 41. 22. 8. The Jews have an undoubted Priority and the Gentiles an Engrafting c. 47. 22. 9. There is a New division of the Land by Lot to both Jews and 〈…〉 â—7 22. 10 â—â—ere is besides the several Ascents to the Temple the place of Gods Throne and the Place of the Soles of his Feet c. 43. 7. 11. There are Stupendious Waters of Life Trees for Medicine and even a Catholick State of Life therein c. 47. 9. 10. 12. The Glory of God comes in and All Results into a Jehovah Shammah The Lord is there and dwells there for ever c. 43. 7. c. 48. ult And now upon this general Survey of the Vision we may very well Humbly say to God as They to Ezekiel c. 24. 19. Wilt Thou not be pleas'd to Tell us what These Things are to us Seeing These Things are written for our Instruction on whom the Ends of the World are come 1 Cor 10. 11. Two Great Questions arise hence 1. What Temple and City and Countrey these are that are here describ'd 2. If we can find These How can we adjust such descriptions to them There are Two Great Pretensions of Opinion concerning this Temple City and Countrey 1. That it should be the Description of the Temple and City Jerusalem and Countrey of Judah that were Restored by Cyrus Now whatever service that Restoration as a Type might perform to this Vision yet that It cannot be the Grand Scope of it may be thus Argued 1. There is no Reference to this Vision to the Measures of the Pattern to any of the Rules and Laws of it no particular Account of the Sons of Zadok among the Priests no Glory of God Returning to it no mention of the Vision by the Prophets Haggai Zechar Malach or by Ezra or Nehemiah in that Restoration as there is of the Prophet Jeremys of the seventy years Captivity by Dan. c. 9. 1. and by Ezra c. 1. 1. 2. Whereas this Temple was to be the Place of the Throne of God and of the Soles of his Feet for ever and to be polluted no more That Temple hath been long since defil'd * 〈◊〉 Antioâ—has and destroyed by the Abomination of Desolation by the Romans 3. There was no Ombrage of the Healing waters as flowing from the Sanctuary or Medicinal Trees 2. There is therefore much more Reason to suppose the coming of Christ into this Temple and drawing it up into the Spirituality of the Christian Temple Church and worship is designed by it till All the Receiv'd up into Gâ—â—ry Now however it is to be Acknowledg'd that the Christian Church was the Beginning of the Fulfilling of this Vision and the State of Eternal Glory be the Complement of it yet that there is a Glorious visible Appearance between those to be expected which hath not yet been I thus argue 1. Because at the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ before the Holy of Holies as it is styl'd Dan. 9. 24. was Annointed by the Giving the Spirit to the Christian Church Vision and Prophecy concerning the Glory of the Church and Kingdom of Christ was Seal'd So the Throne was seen only in Heaven Rev. c. 4. c. 5. The Temple in Heaven afterward was Seal'd and the Worshippers shut up for 1260 years and then the Temple open'd in the days of the Seventh Trumpet and more fully before the Vials Rev. c. 11. c. 15. But it was in Heaven still till the New Jerusalem came down And not only in Heaven for It must come down Argum. 2. Because after that opening the Temple in Heaven and the Divine Glory coming into it immediately as into the Tabernacle and Temple of old signified by the Smoak The New Jerusalem came down from God out of Heaven in a Glorious visible Appearance with many of the Signatures of this Vision upon it Rev. c. 1. 21. c. 22. Argum. 3. Because the self same day so exactly Dated and Recorded makes a Remarkable Epoch to some Great Time And that Time is the Time of Gods Throne so unmovably plac'd in his Temple and of the Sanctuary cleans'd Reconcil d and Justified and of his Servants being plac'd each in their Lots accordingly to Daniel as c. 12. 13. This Time of the Throne is assur'd to be not till after Four Monarchies had run out
may be Ashamed of our present even our Best as a Low and Defiled State is the Humble and Earnest Prayer of My most Revered Your most Unworthy but Faithful Servant in the Prophesies of Jesus Christ T. Beverley THE PREFACE FOR as much as I have Labour'd to the utmost Yet not I but the Grace of God with me in the search what and what manner of Time The Holy Spirit that was in the Prophets of old did signifie in Setting out the Excellent Majesty and Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ in his Kingdom This Great Vision of Ezekiel did in my own Thoughts Vpbraid me that I had made no Attempt of Enquiry at the Divine Oracle Concerning it I Resolv'd by the same Grace therefore to Consider so Stupendious a Model of Divine Truth And I Can in some Humble degree Speak it That I have Found in it like the waters of the Sanctuary the Accesses of Divine Illumination Rising Higher and Higher and Becoming a River Overflowing my Thoughts with Vnexpressible Sweetness and Satisfaction And though I very Freely Acknowledge There is in it an Infinite and unsearchable wisdom as a Boundless River that Cannot be pass'd by any Humane understanding Or as the Hiding of the Divine Power in a Light that no Man Can Approach Yet Beams of Light Coming out of his Hand I have Found to Instruct and direct Let no Man therefore I Humbly Beseech Blame this Freedom of my Ministration in this Dark Scripture Seeing This Vision of Ezekiel as All other Prophetical Scriptures are Scripture in the Reverentiallest Confession of All and therefore are Commanded to be Search'd And These are They which Testifie of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ These are as other Scripture if duly open'd and Apply'd Profitable for Correction Reproof Instruction in the ways of Righteousness It is Witnessed particularly of this Vision That It is to be Shown and is herein Profitable to Excite a Shame of our Iniquities That it is our Duty to Measure this Pattern And as the Apostle Peter Assures us No Prophecy of Scripture is of any Private but Publick Interpretation That All the Servants of God do well in giving Heed to it as the only Light in such a Mid-night Confusion as we are yet in under the Apostacy till that Morning Star of the Rising Witnesses and this Open'd Temple dawn in upon us For as All such Prophecy was Given by the Vniversal Publick Holy Spirit So It leads to the Publick Universal Glory of God and of the Lamb in the Salvation of his Church Further I am very well Assur'd As the Revelation is Taken out of the Prophet Daniel so far as Concerns the Sufferings of the Church of Christ under the Pagan Emperors and then under the Ten Kings Popes and other the Antichristian Hierarchy So unto the very Temple and Throne State in Ezekiel is Daniels Prophecy Adjusted in the Four Monarchies as to the Throne And in the Evens Morns and other Notes of Time as to the Accomplishing the Desolations of and Cleansing the Temple or Sanctuary and Final Judgment on the Last Desolator Antichrist and shewing how Long And so the Temple Representation Rev. c. 4. c. 5. The Throne of God and of the Lamb the Seven Lamps the Rainbow the Holy Angels the Elders the Living Creatures and Every Creature in Heaven and Earth Applauding and making Acclamation to God and to the Lamb It is Taken out of this Vision of Ezekiel And all Times Dated accordingly by what Befell this Temple And whereas It should have Immediately Appear'd in Glory at the Lords Resurrection and God and the Lamb have Come down to be the Temple of Saints There was only an Annointing of it in Heaven As The Sanctuary was Annointed by Moses when prepar'd to be set up of which Annointing of the Holy of Holies Daniel Prophesied c. 9. 24. together with Vision Seal'd or Staid There was yet all along Some Proportion of a Counter point on Earth in Giving the Spirit The Symbols of which are as if Taken out Ezek. c. 47. 9. c. to the Apostles in an Apostolical Ministry Appearing During the Service of the Four Living Creatures which Reach'd Just to the Death of Alexander Severus at the Third Seal And so Long the Ballances and Weights of the Sanctuary were Just and Bore up against the Apostacy or Mistery of Iniquity then working From that Time there was a Declination Yet after Constantine the Elders and Living Creatures Appear under the Sixth Seal but as it were indirectly and with a Glance only on the present State of the Church viz. Only in a Prophecy of the New Jerusalem or Describing it So that in the Seventh Seale There was a Retyring to the Altar of Incense and the Daily Sacrifice was Taking away And then the Temple was shut up and the Court without Trodden under Foot of the Gentiles viz. Just at the First Trumpet And so It Continues a Shut Temple and no Appearance of the Elders or Living Creatures nor the Temple Opened till the Days of the Seventh Trumpet But then It shall be seen more and more and so onward to the Coming down of God and the Lamb to be the Temple of the New Jerusalem Rev. c. 8. c. 9. c. 10. c. 11. till v. 15. It is therefore no Wonder that there are not more Vniversal and Close Researches of Holy and Learned Men and by a Concert of Endeavors to Spring the Mines and Break up the Depths of Prophecy to Cultivate Till and Plough up the Fallow Ground of Prophetical Scripture that Conventions and Convocations are more yet Taken up about the Fescues of Ceremonies then about Eekiels and Johns Reeds to measure the Temple of God in the New Jerusalem Touching which if Any Sober Heathen on Moral Philosophers Judgment might be Taken whether it were not Even Ridiculous when such Great Scripture Prophesies are before us that there are such Disputes about Rituals I am sure They must Give it very Dishonourably to the present Christian Even Reformed Churches Whosoever of Them areso Meanly Engaged when so much Greater Things Stand by Them under the Disregard of not being with utmost Diligence Inquired into But certainly As The Jews Although at Herods Summons They Determin'd aright the Place but never took Care to Inquire Diligently and Accurately the Time of Messiahs being Born Fell into the Great and Ruinous mistake of Rejecting Him Even so The not Stating the Kingdom of Christ and the Time of it may be the Cause of a Grevious Slumber upon the Churches of Christ as Matt. 25. 1. The Jews Great Scandal against Jesus Christ Lay here They Expected a Pompous Messiah and an External Glory without Regard in the First place to the Spirituality of his Kingdom We pretend on the other side to be altogether for the Spirituality of his Kingdom and to have no Regard to the Visible Glory of it But we Glory in Transferring all such Expectations to the Eternal State in Heaven But indeed Both
Re-Reformation I have Lastly published the Prophetical Song of Solomon from the Kingdom of David the Type to the Kingdom of the Great David the Antitipe Shewing its Stupendious Configurations with all Prophecy There now Remains to fill up the Line of Time from the Going out of Egypt to the Building the Temple and so to Solomon's Death and from thence to the Restoring that Temple by Cyrus and therein to Solve the Difficulties of the 480 Years in the History 1 Kings 6. 1. and the 450 Acts 13. 20. and to Clear that the 390 Days and 40 Days of Ezekiel's lying on his side continue the Line from Solomon's Death and the One Kingdom of Israel Becoming Two to the Restoration by Cyrus And upon all this I Find it necessary in an entire Discourse to clear by plain Positive Doctrinal Scripture in compare with Prophetical that There is such a Kingdom of Christ as of the 1090 Years New Heaven above and the New Earth below that Begins with a Judgment by the Vials and ends in the Casting the Last Enemies the Devil Hell and Death into the Lake and between Those is a Thousand Years Kingdom of Visible Glory of Christ and his Saints after the manner of his Transfiguration above and after the manner of Adam in Paradise below and Full of Holy Spirituality and Enjoyment of the Redemption of Christ Free from all Cerinthian or Millenarian Heresie and shining in that Divine Oeconomy or Preparational Glory until the Kingdom is deliver'd up to God and the Father All in All. And Lastly To shew that the Lords Prayer the Sacraments of Baptism and of the Lords Supper even as I have shown the Sabbaths of the Old and New Testament have their Continuance and their Great use as the only Ceremonials of the New Testament in Typing out that Great Kingdom Upon all this I Humbly Propose to every Reader that is Favourable hereunto and of Ability to Assist me by Contributions for Thirty Sheets more to compleat the Work at a Penny a sheet and a Seventh Book to Six Subscribers or as they please in further Assistances to be Given either to my self or to Mr. Salusbury at the Rising Sun in Cornhill And the Press shall be daily going on to Finish the Work And with Faith Hope and Prayer Let us if we Love the Kingdom and Appearance of Christ Humbly and Earnestly wait for the Great Revolution I Affirm of the Kingdom of Christ at 1697 to enter into its Succession and 75 Years after viz. 1772 to begin in the 1000 Years Appearance in Glory Month 11. Day 29. 1689 90. The Pattern of the Divine Temple Sanctuary and City of the New Jerusalem Measur'd according to Ezekiels Last and Greatest Vision c. 40. c. 41. c. to the End AT a day of a most Certain and exact Date when Jerusalem and its Temple lay in Ruins God shews in Vision to Ezekiel not a Model nor a Direction to any persons to Build according to it but a Building in Actual Being and therefore a Building made without Hands 2 Cor. 5. 1 Revel 21 10. Heb. 10. 11. 16. whose Builder and Maker God is Eternal in the Heavens from whence It is to come down in the New Heaven and the New Earth viz. a Temple a City that hath Foundations and a Countrey Lying about it the principal State of which is Heavenly but to shine down to the New Earth from the New Heaven Rev. 21. 24. The Preparation to the Vision 1. The Date is above the Exactness of any Record viz. By the Year of Captivity It is first dated and thereby it is Joyn'd with the Thirtieth Year in the Beginning of Ezekiel's c. 1. 1. Prophecy which being set alone without any other note of Time can in no fair Construction be any other Thirtieth Year but from the Last Jubilee according to General Jewish Style of Time and that being the Fifth year of Jehoiachins Captivity and the present year of the Vision being the Twenty Fifth year of that Captivity It shews it to be the Fiftieth c. 40. 1. year and so the year of Jubilee Fitly to Represent the Great Jubilee of the World that shall be in this Vision Accomplish'd It was on the Tenth day of the Month Answering the day of the first Institution of the Passeover when also will be the Exod. 12. 1. Dan. 12. 1. Matt. 24. 21. Rev. 3. 10. Greatest Passeover of Deliverance from the Great Trouble Tribulation and Temptation which shall come on all the Reprobate Earth but the Saints shall be privilegd'd from it It was in the Beginning of the Year or Spring on which the Greatest Acts of God are Recorded and which God Eâ—od 12. 1. made the Head of the Sacred Year It was in the Fourteenth year after the City was 〈…〉 To shew it was in the deep Desolation of the Temple and City of Jerusalem and Land of Israel as the Season of Mercy For when his Servants are the lowest Then in the Mount the Lord will be seen Gen. 22. 14. with Ez. 40. 2. Lastly It was the Self Same Day and thereby the Time is Gen. 2. 1. c. 7. 11. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 7. 8. Knit to the self same day of the Creation and First Sabboth To the self same day of the Flood when the World that then was Perish'd by Water Answerably the Heavens and Earth that now are are Treasur'd up for Fire Even for the day when this very Vision shall come into high effect All Great Epochs 2. The Theatre of the Vision is the City Jerusalem that then lay in Ruin and the Land of Israel under Desolation whether the Prophet Ezekiel was carried by a Divine Haâ—d in the Visions of God Agreeable to so Great Visions of God as will be when this Jerusalem comes down from Heaven 3. This wonderful Measurer whose Appearance was as Brass as the Feet of Jesus Christ are Represented in the Prophecy of Daniel and in the Revelation This Measurer is parallel to the wonderful Numberer call'd Palmoni in the Margin of the Bible Dan. 8. 13. Knitting both Visions 4. There is a Charge upon Ezekiel obliging all his Powers of Attention and Observation Son of Man see with thy Eyes Hear with thy Ears and set thy Heart upon All that I shew thee c. 40. v. 4. which Charge is renewed c. 44. 5. shewing how weighty and how sublime a State this Temple-Communion with God shall be 5. There is a Charge upon Ezekiel to shew to the House of Israel All that He saw c. 40. v. 40. and then c. 43. 10. to shew them the House that They may be Asham'd of their Iniquities and let Them saith the Lord Measure the Pattern And if They are Asham'd shew them All the Forms Laws and Ordinances c. of the House Now this I look upon as chiefly Prophetical of the Time when the Temple shall be Open'd in Heaven And it shall Tend to the Great Purification of the Churches of
THE PATTERN OF THE Divine Temple Sanstuary and City of the New Jerusalem Measured according to Ezekiels Last and Greatest Vision Chap. 40. to the End Each Temple shall be seen opened 〈…〉 the Days of the Seventh Trumpet at the End of the 1260 Days of the Apostasie 1697. That there may be a Daily Preparation in Conformity to it until It Comes down from Heaven at the End of the 2300 〈…〉 Dan. 8. 4. and 〈◊〉 the 1335 Days â—â—n 12. 12. at 1772. Assigned as a Preface to Two late Treatises viz. The PROPHETIC HISTORY of the Reformation till the Great Re-Reformation And the Grand Apocalyptick Vision of the Witnesses 〈◊〉 and Ascending which shall Contemporate with this Temple open 〈◊〉 Heaven at the â—men 1697. Ezek. 40. 4. and c. 43. 10. 〈◊〉 of Man see with Thy Eyes Hear with thy Ears 〈…〉 Thy Heart on all that I shall show Thee 〈…〉 of Man 〈◊〉 the House to the 〈◊〉 of Israel 〈…〉 be 〈◊〉 of their 〈◊〉 and let them measure the Pattern By Tho. Beuerley a most Humble Reader in the Prophesies of Jesus Christ Printed and are to be Sold by John Salusbury at the Rising Sun in Cornhill To the Archbishop of Canterbury To the Bishops of London Asaph Salisbury Worcester Chichester To Dr. Tillotson Dr. Sharp Dr. Tennison Dr. Kidder Dr. Goodman Dr. Fowler Dr. Burnet Master of the Charter-house Dr. Woodroff Dr. Cressener Mr. Baxter Dr. Bates Mr. How Mr. Cole Mr. Mede My much Revered I Most Humbly and in a deep sense of my own Vnwortâ—iness yet Take upon my self to be a Minister of Jesus Christ to Recommend to you the most Profâ—und and Serious Setting your Hearts to Measure to the utmost we can Attain this Pattern of Ezekiels Temple and Throne And that You would to that End beg of God the Use of the Reed of much more value then Pastoral Staves Crosiers or the much disputed Power of the Keys till He comes whose Right indeed the Keys are with the Golden Reed which is the Measure of the Full Stature of the Mystical Man Jesus Christ that is the Angel of the Covenant even Jehovah in our Nature whom we seek coming by Himself into Himself the Temple and Throne In this Pattern undoubtedly lie Hid the Treasures of the many ways Variated wisdom of God till It be shown by the Church to Principalities and Powers All Dates therefore of Time are Given as I shew by this Temple in its various States till at the Ascension of Christ It was Rear'd and Anointed as Appears in that Vision Rev. c. 4. c. 5. But as the Apostle speaks in a like case It is in Heaven and there Reserv'd But a Counter part is Given on Earth in such proportions as Infinite Wisdom hath Thought fit In as much as He permitted and Swore to permit an Apostasie or Mystery of Iniquity to have Time Times and Half a Time and to Work Early in order to it There are therefore Four Living Creatures Revel 6. sent as it were out of this Temple with their Voices Come and see this Temple and Throne in the Gospel Frame The First had only the High Great Note of Thunder in the First Preaching of the Apostles While in that Time the Mighty Man of War the Lord is his Name went forth Conquering and to Conquer Then Things Flatted Yet while the Living Creatures were in Motion the Apostolic Ministery was yet Continuing Till at the Beginning of the Fourth Seal the Last Voice was Given out And They ceas'd just at the Death of Alexander Severus Who as a Renownedly Just Prince was ordained by God to be in his Just Ballances a Symbol of the Half Time of the Church Pure or at the Equipoiz of it Purity according to Ezek. 46. v. 9. c. From that Time It Declin'd yet so that there were Emissions from the Temple in Heaven not yet shut and Appearances from it the Apostasie not being entred But at the First Trumpet the Apostasie of 1260 Days or Years entred Then that Temple was Measur'd and shut c. 11. 1. and the Court without cast to the Gentiles to be Trodden under Foot This lasts till the Seventh Trumpet and is not expir'd by Seven Times or Years viz. till 97. From that Time All Church States shall Return more and more to the Apostolical First State The Temple in Heaven being Open'd and the Ark of Testament and Tabernacle of Testimony more and more also seen Till the Voice comes out of this Temple in the Seventh Vial IT IS DONE or All Prophecy is Fulfill'd in Vengeance on the Defilers and Desolators of the Sanctuary especially That Last and Great one the Antichristian Papacy And then a Voice from the Throne It is done in this Temple Throne and City coming down from Heaven in the New Jerusalem Rev. 27. 6. Our duty is therefore in the mean Time to come as near as we can to the Pattern as it were in our Inward Secret Temple worship viz. of every ones Private Judgment For a High open One of Uniformity we cannot yet Attain whatever we may Think And to See that we do All according to it by keeping Close to all that is Written without Least Additionals seeing All Shades are Taken from Heavenly Things Themselves Who then can Appoint them but He who Alone hath the Proto-Type We ought also with all the Love Condescension Forbearance of one Another in our Dissents to be Assistant one to Another While the Temple is yet shut and we in a Dark Place as to a Publick though not a Private Glory And not to fall out and wrong one Another because we see not yet as in that Opened Temple we shall and are All Brethren now moving to it To you therefore who seem to me to be Pillars and of whom I have Great Confidence You shall be Pillars in that Temple and shall go out no more Having in some Measure observ'd your Doctrine manner of Life Purpose Faith Long-Suffering Charity Patience by your Sermons or Writings or more particular Knowledge of some of You To You I first present This as it were Affixing Prophecy as of old to the Pillars of the Temple to make it most notable And have made bold to Represent as in a Figure in you thus Join'd however seemingly distant the High union that ought to be now and shall be of All such e're long in the Churches of Christ And I Hope You will not and I Beseech You do not Slight these Toings as Fancies For I Rest upon the very Testimony of Jesus Christ which you know is the Spirit of Prophecy and I Trust that God hath enabled me my only Province to Transferr from Scripture to Scripture and to Lay All together by Words and Symbols of the Holy Spirit which in such a Chain did never yield to a Phantasm especially Agreeing so with All History Now that God would make to You and to all His Churches this discourse a Shewing of the Pattern Bless'd by Himself That we
Receiving their Service Praises and Obebience His name shall be in their Foreheads and his Servants shall serve Him without any Violation or defilement shall this Temple be All hitherto hath been too Low too Dark too much polluted even when Purest since the Annointing the Christian Church in the days of the Apostles and will be till this Temple not far hence shall be seen in Heaven Then it will be daily Cleansing A Worldly Sanctuary hath been the Great opposite to this especially when not appointed by God Paganism and Antichristianism are the Abomination of Desolation to it The remains of the Synagogue of Sathan ever since the Reformation still keep it out of sight The most refined Churches are both too narrow and too obscure yet The many Contents and Paper Combates about Hierarchy Liturgies Ceremonies viz. what should be abated or alter'd are even Ridiculous Things before it But all such will Vanish like Smoak before that presence of God that will within short Time fill all Temple-State with another Smoak Even with the Glory of his presence ready to enter and with the Vengeance of his Temple upon all that have defiled it And then the Man whose Name is the Branch shall Build the Temple of the Lord and Bear forth the Glory of it Let us therefore be Ashamed of whatever Temple State seems now most desirable and Earnestly set our Hearts Prayers and Expectations to what is so much above it even to that which the Lord wil pitch and not Man and that God would cause his Face to shine on his Sanctuary which is yet Desolate for his own Name sake Correspond 2. As the Beauty and Grandieur of any Building and also its Security and Stability consists in the Justice Equality and Symmetry of all its Parts So to set out in this Frame a Divine both Stateliness Glory and that Firmness of a Kingdom that cannot be Shaken there is a Construction of all those Admirable Measures we find in this Vision And though They can no more be Found out to Perfection then the Almighty in his Works Job 11. 7. then the Laws and Measures of Creation in the Hanging the Earth by Poize upon Nothing then the Bounds of the House Job 26. 28. 37. 38. c. Psal 147. 4. of Light the Weights for the Winds the Ballance of the Clouds without which they Rage into Storms and Tempests as we see then the Measure of the Dust of the Earth the Decree of the Rain Thunder Sea and Waters then the Number and Names of the Stars the Conduct of Arcturus and Orion The Infinite Vnderstanding can alone do the One and the Other Yet still They are all Admirable and when the Reason of them is expos'd in Glory to Angels and Saints in this Temple-State of the New Jerusalem in the Stupendious Holiness Purity of Spiritual Worship and Enjoyment of God Then the Morning Stars shall Sing together and the Sons of God shall shout for Joy Job 38. 7. And as Number Weight and Measure are so Essentially necessary to All the Great Things that are perform'd in the World as to Astronomy Observation of the Heavens and their Course Geometry Architecture Statics Navigation Survey Experimental Philosophy and to all Commerce and Traffick and even mutual Cohabitation of Mankind So under these Measures in this Vision are shaded the Sublimity of the Divine Communion with his Saints and Servants and of Angels and Saints one with Another and those Lines of Communication signified by Jacobs Ladder Gen. 28. 12. between the New Heaven and the New Earth and all that Abundance of Peace Joy Riches Even Happiness Blessedness in the most Just Order and Equality to Full Satisfaction and Enjoyment and yet so that there are Arch-Angels Eph. 1. last Col. 1. 16. 1 Cor. 15. 41. Rev. 22. 3. and Angels Thrones Principalities and Powers and one Star Excelling Another in Glory and the Lord God and the Lamb on the Throne And as All the Wisdom of Creation in Number Weight and Measure are Transfer'd into the Fear of God and Departure from Evil into the Righteous and wise Government of the World Jobs Description of and search after Wisdom c. 28. Issues at the last into that Divine Decree upon Man The Fear of the Lord That is Wisdom and to Depart from Evil That is Vnderstanding And as Solomons Practical Wisdom Justice Judgment and every Good Path is the same by which Kings Prov. 8. 5. c. 3. 19. with c. 8. 23. Reign and Princes Decree Justice By which Judges Rule and all the Nobles of the Earth are led the same also by which the Lord Founded the Heavens and Established the Earth Flowing from even the Eternal Wisdom Jesus Christ who sets up this Infinite Frame And as this Wisdom since the Fall of Man is as it were new Founded a New Creation in that Height Depth Breadth Length of the Love of God in Jesus Christ which passeth Knowledge and being Filled or Compleated into all the Fulness of God according to the Fullest Dimensions created Nature is capable of which Dimensions every Saint is to comprehend or Take with all Ephes 3. 18. Rev. 21. 16. Saints So this City and Temple Result into that City and Temple-State measured with the Apostles Johns Golden Reed wherein the Height and Depth the Breadth and Length are equal as the Moralists 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All is Four Square and every Saint in the perfect Cubical Four square State of Holiness And as All those Foundations Walls Gates Courts Buildings by their exact measure in this Vision must needs have an unexceptionable Firmitude and Stability So they Represent â—eb 12. 27. 28. that Kingdom that shall never be shaken the City that hath Foundations whose Builder and Maker God is and every Saint is a Pillar in this Temple-State that shall Go out c. 13. 14. â— Cor. 15. 24. c. no more Rev. 3. 1â— All this State City Temple therefore is 24. c. continuing and never Ends Till It is Deliver'd up whole and Entire to God All in All. Correspond 3. A Third Correspondency between the Types of this Vision and the New Jerusalem State is That all the Types of this Vision and the New Jerusalem State That all the Types Laws and Ordinances of the Mosaic Law Tabernacle Temple and Priesthood and also of the Land of Canan call'd the Holy Land and all the Predictions Figures and Promises in all the Prophets since the World Began are herein to have their Complement and Perfection For seeing the Truth of God Requires that every such Foretelling Type as well as Express Oracle or Pronunciation should be justly Fulfill'd when once Given and that this New Jerusalem-State is the last IT IS DONE of all These It is most Just and Agreeable that this Vision which is an Old Testament Representation of that New Jerusalem-State should be Cloath'd and Attyr'd in so many of the Types Laws Measures of the Levitical Temple and
Exod. 27. 1. and from Solomon's which was Twenty Cubits square as too much 2 Chron. 4. 1. And why was this but to shew the True Attonement for the whole Israel of God Jews and Gentiles in its Symbolical Twelve Tribes is Jesus Christ declared to be so in the Doctrine of the New Testament established by the Apostolical Twelve And the Spiritual Levitical Priesthood concerning which God Lift up his Hand Jerem. 33. 19. c. is diffus'd through all Saints who shall be Priests of God and Christ in Robes wash'd in his Blood and daily Rejoycing in his Sacrifice and Altar most Holy And Other Tribe of Levi scatter'd through this whole Israel as that of old in Type Gen. 49. 7. and so Bless'd by Moses Deut. 33. 17. The New Testament Acknowledges none So Great is that mistake of calling the Elders Pastors and Doctors of the Gospel so of which the Gospel says nothing but the Contrary nor hath It come into its Mind And of the other Altar c. 41. 22. It is expresly said This is the Table before the Lord Leading us to that Great Supper of the Kingdom call'd the Lords Table wherein we shew forth the Lords 1 Cor. 11. 26. death till He come when we shall Eat and Drink at his Table in his Kingdom in that Passeover Fulfill d and that Fruit of the Vine New in the Kingdom the Father as the Ancient of Days hath given to the Son and to the Saints of the most High Dan. 7. v. 9. 13. 27. Matt. 26. 29. Luke 22. 16. And to shew the Spirituality of this State The Altar of Incense and the Table viz. of the Shew Bread Become One For I see no Reason to think as some Interpreters do that that v. 22. c. 41. consists of Two Things viz. The Declaration of the Altars Measures and then a Declaration to Ezekiel as by the by That near the Altar is the Table before the Lord But rather herein is this Great Mystery The Melchizedekian Priesthood brings forth the Super-substantial Bread of the Kingdom and with it the Power of the Endless Liv'd Intercession signified by Incense and Interpreted to be the Melchizedekian Priesthood of Christ Heb. 7. throughout with Revel 8. 2. So that They Became both one Correspon 8. The Jews have an undoubted Priority and the Gentiles an Engrafting and are even 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Body together a whole Israel one Temple Ephes 2. 21. c. 3. 6. Rom. 11. 17. 26. The first is so plain that the Vision is made up wholly of it So that I am fully convinc'd No Spiritual Mystical Evangelical sense can Satisfie it There must be therefore a Reception a Reduction of the Twelve Tribes which He Knows how to Gather and sift for who can Summon Them from Aâ—â—s 9. 9. and as it were by the Four Winds So that as their Reduction shall be like the Sifting of the Resurrection for Every mans Own Body and Life from the Dead to Themselves Of which we have that Illustrous Vision Ezek. c. 37. 1. c. So It shall be to the Gentile Churches Engrafted into that Olive that is the Jews Own the Time of the First Resurrection Even to All the Dead in Christ whom God will bring with Him And to the Saints who shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tâ—e Living The Remaining 1. Thess 4. 15. 17. There shall be such Issues of Living waters as are after to be declar'd Now as to the Latter part viz. the Gentiles Engrafting though indeed there are only Silent mentions of the Gentiles by the Strangers Sojourning among Them having the same Interest by Lot that They Had Yet It is because the Vision is Given in Jewish Types and Language But the Gospel declaring Jews and Gentiles are All One Body One Temple One New Man in the Stature of the Fulness of Christ One Olive Tree with its Natural and Engrafted Branches It is made Certain The Twelve Tribes with the Sojourners are the whole Israel of God c. 47. 22. In as much then as the Apostle Rom. 11. v. 12. hath declar'd a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Ecclips under which the Jews lye to this day and that there is also a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a Full ORB'D LIGHT to which They are to Arise And that by Esa 60 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 25. Speaking of the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Full Orb'd Light of the Gentile Church The Apostle did privatly Foretell an Ecclipse by the Apostacy under which That Gentile Church was to Fall and then Ballanc'd the order of Each Churches Time We may thus understand it First the Gentile Church is to Come out of its Eclipse and Apostacy to its Full Orb'd Light when as our Saviour says The Gentiles Times shall be Fullfil'd Luc. 21. 24. Then Judah first of the Two and Israel of the Ten Tribes shall be Receiv'd both When This is perfected Then shall be the First Resurrection or as the Apostle Calls it Life from the Dead v. 15. For as the Jews could not be made perfest according to this Vision without the Gentiles which They not enduring became Enemies for their sakes So that their Casting away was the Riches v. 25. with â—2 of the World Even so the Gentiles becoming the prime Church of Christ could not be made perfect without them God therefore cast the Gentile Church into Martyrdoms under the Pagan Empire for 400 Years of the Seals then under an Apostasie of 1260 Years under the Antichrist not yet expir'd And when the Gentile Church is so far prepar'd by Sufferings It must come to that Full Orb But because it cannot be Fully perfect without the Twelve Tribes They must be Receiv'd that Both may be together perfected according to this Vision and as the Apostle v. 15. says by the Gentile Churches Mercy or Glory that must by promise be after the 1260 Days Joyn'd with the 400 Years of the Seals so long the Souls under the Alone slain by Paganism must Rest till the Rest slain by Antichristianism should be Fulfill'd according to Revel 6. 11. Then the Jews obtain Mercy v. 31. and must be Receiv'd that All may be Glorified together On which Mysterious Ordination the Apostle cries out Oh the Depth v. 33. So we see this Vision cannot be Accomplish'd till the Full Orb'd Light of the Twelve Tribes together with the Gentile Church Both which are yet under Eclipse till the 1260 End And then Preparation shall be daily made for the after Glory at the 1335 Days ending by the Everlasting Gospel Freach'd to all Tongues c. or to all the Gentiles And the Twelve Tribes shall then be also Receiv'd and the Veil or Eclispe Remov'd It is very Remarkable therefore though at the Resurrection of Christ Revel c. 4. c. 5. there was a Representation of the Apostolâ— Church of both Jews and Gentiles in the Living Creatures It was as in Heaven and after shut up there during
the Apostasie and not so much as seen Nor any Appearance of those Elders and Living Creatures from c. 8. when the Apostasie was entring till the Seventh Trumpet c. 11. And when it is seen more and more c. 15. Yet it does not come down till c. 19. c. 21. And of this there is also this observable in the First Appearance of the Church in Heaven c. 4. The Gentile Apostolic Church in the Living Creatures is First and so when the Gentile Apostolic Church is restor'd under the Great Voices viz. of the Four Living Creatures c. 11. 15. 9. and c. 14. 1. is Returning to its Full Orb. But in every Vision of the New Jerusalem as c. 7. 11. c. 19. 4. The Elders are First signifying the Priority of the Israelitish Apostolic Church Receiv'd Till in that order the Priority is continued to Israel in the name of the New Jerusalem for ever So that must be first in the Elders But the Gentile Church is also Included in the Living Creatures looking universally to East West North South and Both are one Israel one New Jerusalem Correspond 9. The State of Blessedness and Happiness being Typ'd out by the Land of Canan divided by Lot is in this Vision also Represented as divided or distributed by Lot though as Interpreters Agree after a Divine Heavenly Spiritual and not an Earthly manner Thus it is promis'd to Daniel in Admirable Agreement with this Type That He shall stand in his Lot in the End of the 1335 Days plainly shewing when this Vision shall be Accomplish'd viz at the end of the 1335 Years the Last of the 2300 Evens Morns which 1335 began in just Succession upon the 965th which as is elsewhere shown ended in 437 of our Christian Account of Them and the 1335 at 1772. when Daniel shall Appear in Body with All the Dead Saints And as Inheritance and Priesthood fell under Lots so the Royal Inheritance and Priesthood of the New Jerusalem is fitly Typ'd out by Lots the Heavenly Inheritance being call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a distribution by Lot And so Rev 21. 7. He that Overcometh as the Israelites the Cananites shall Inherit all Things by Lot but the Fearful c. Even as those Fearful Spies Num. 13. 32. 33. were cut off shall be cast out into the Lake Correspond 10. The State of the New Heaven in the New Jerusalem is fitly given in Symbol or Type by the very Top of the â—zek 43. 12. Mountain the Limit of which Round about shall be a Holy of Holies and by the place of Gods Throne and the New Earth in all the various degrees of Approach to God by the Lower Gradual descents from that Holy of Holies and by the Place of the Soles of Gods Feet as if a Throne reached from Heaven down to Earth by its Footstool as was said before in Jacob's Ladder and as in the Prayer of the Kingdom as in Heaven and upon Earth * So the Throne lifted up the Tram filld All Eâ—ai 6. Correspond 11. As the first Paradise had its noted Rivers as of Living Waters and a Tree of Life And as the New Jerusalem hath a River clear as Chrystal proceeding from the Throne of God and of the Lamb and a Tree of Life whose Leaves were for the Healing of the Nations c. 22. 1. c. And as in that Happy State the Lamb Feeds his delivered Servants and Leads Them to the Fountains of Living Waters So in this Vision there are Rev. 7. 17. Waters issuing from the Temple and the Altar Running into the Desert and into the Sea and Healing it so that It becomes an Ocean of Life And the Trees that grow by this River of these Waters are both for Food and Medicine and their Fruit New every Month as Rev. 22. 2. with Ezek. 47. 12. From whence issue an Universality and Perpetuity of Life For whatever Lives shall Live Even as in the First Resurrection of the New Jerusalem Blessed and Holy is He that hath his part in that First Resurrection either as in the New Heaven above or in the New Earth below For It is All one Life to Eternity The Living the Remaining dye not but are Changed and Caught up even as the Children of the Resurrection in the New Heaven cannot dye Rev. 20. 6. with 1 Thess 4. 17. 1 Cor. 15. 51. and Luke 20. 36. But as in the New Jerusalem of the Revelation There is a Lake and the Dead slain with the Sword of Christ's Mouth Live not again till the 1000 Years are Ended that is Never For then the Dead are cast together with the Devil Hell and Death into the Lake which is the Second Death oppos'd to the First Resurrection with which it begins and continues to Everlasting All one Death Whatever is Dead and not in the Book of Life dyeth for ever without a First Death even as the First Resurrection is All one Life without a Second Resurrection Rev. 20. 5. So in this Vision there are Marishes and Miry places that are not Heal'd but Given to Salt even the Salt of Fire and Brimstone and make the same Lake shewing both Prophecies of Ezekiel and John describe one State so parallel in so many Great Things Ezek. 47. 11. And now it is well known such a State hath never yet been so much as Spiritually much less Litterally Fulfill'd on Earth Nor can it be a Heavenly Paradise here intended For what Nations Desert or Sea will be then to be Heal'd What Fish to be propagated in such Abundance or to be Taken Which according to our Saviours Great Gospel-Parable of Fishers of Men signifie the very same Thing with the Dew of Christs Youth numerous as the drops of Dew from the Womb of the Psal 110. 3. Morning It must needs be therefore the New Jerusalem State on Earth when Christ shall have an Off-Spring so numerous as to make Recompense for the over-number of the Lost now And in All that State There shall be to the Second Adam Then to come in this New Jerusalem State when the Apostle wrote more of the Reign of Righteousness and Life then to the First Adam of Sin and Death Rom. 5. 12. to the End And this shall be when that False Fisher-man Antichrist with all his Nets is cast into the Lake of these Marishes and Miry Places never to be Heal'd Now These Waters were Four Times Measur'd by a Line viz. the Line of Flax Recorded c. 40. 10. and mention'd on this occasion only Each Measure was a 1000 Cubits But in Regard of the Great Dryness and Barenness of the Earth before though the Divine Manifestation was so GRAND Yet It Reach'd only to the Ancles having small success This may very well Resemble the Few to whom the Arm of the Lord was Reveal'd by the divine Preaching of Christ Himself and his Apostles before the Resurrection The Second 1000 Reach'd to the Knees in the Preaching of the Apostles and their Immediate
Mistakes spring from the same Root We are Afraid of a Kingdom of Christ that should make an Impression on the present State of our Carnal Grandieur and Enjoyment of this World and therefore desire All Things should Run in that Channel till Death and Final Judgment and the State of Eternity Temporal Princes and States-men would not have any change in their Poweâ— and Politicks and are Angry Christ should 〈…〉 told to Take to Him His Great Power and to Reign Ecclesiastical Grandees would have their Jurisdiction their Regiment their Canons their Dignities and Revenues Remain in the order wherein They now Stand And so the same Temper Runs down to the lowest of Both of each sort And thus we even as They Tread such Paths as that not Knowing the Voices of the Prophets Acts 13. 27. though we Read them as They did often Fulfill them in Condemning Him or His Kingdom For the Glory of this Kingdom and World to come whereof we now speak is so plainly declar'd and yet we are so Averse to it that It is Hard to know whether Theirs or Ours is the Greater Blindness Only Blessed be God the Error is not so damnable in our Case as in Theirs In the mean time We Pray for and Profess to desire better Things Even such as the Prophets have Foretold But what Hopes can there be of such a Betterness without a Higher Oeconomy or Administration from Heaven when the fairest Appearances that ever have yet been upon Earth have been Blasted Faded and Wither'd as a Flower in the Field when It hath most spread its Glory Even This is a Demonstration beyond denial that either there is a Despair of any better State or else some Great Prophesies must be Fulfill d according to the High Eloquence of Scripture concerning a Restitution of All Things by the Second Adam from the Time of the Fall of the First Adam and a Spirit pour'd out from on High Suitable to it Oh that therefore by this and other Concurrent Discourses I might however unworthy be Instrumental to perswade That we might with One Consent Give our selves by Books to Understand when the 1260 Years which God will have Accomplish'd for the Desolations of his Sanctury shall come to an End And that we would Set our our Faces to the Lord to Seek by Supplication Fasting and Ashes as the True Witnesses of Christ that They may come to an End Even if it may be sooner then 1697. And I am most assur'd that at that Time at least we shall prevail and the Tabernacle of Testimony and the Ark of the Testament shall Begin to be seen by us in the Temple open'd in Heaven and It will be Filling with the Smoak of Divine Purification by the Spirit of Jugdment and of Burning just before the Glory of the Lord Returning to it For the Time given for the Bringing Ezekiel's Vision into Effect must be at Hand and the New Jerusalem shall come down as the Lord hath spoken Amen 〈…〉 Aâ—justment of the Lords Prayer to thâ— Vision Oâ—R Father which art in Heaven whom yet the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Hallowed be thy Nâ—â—e Bow thy 1 Kings 8. 27. Heavens come down and place the Glory of thy Name in thy self and the Lamb the Temple of thy Holy City the New Jerusalem Filling Heaven and Earth with it Thy Kingdom Rev. 21. 22. come Thy Will be done as in Heaven and on Earth Let thy Throne be Established in the New Heaven above Reaching Ezek. 43. 7. down to the New Earth the place of the Soles of thy Zach. 14. 20. Feet So that an entire Obedience may be Rendred to Thee even Holiness to JEHOVAH throughout Give us this day our Ezek. 41. 22. daily Bread and Forgive us our Trespasses as we Forgive them that Trespass against us Fix then the Table before the Lord of John 6. 33. the Super-substantial Bread the Lamb united with the Rich Ezek. 44. 25. Perfumes of his Intercession Arising from the Seven Times Purified Altar of his whole Burnt Offering of Himself once Heb. 13. 10. for All By which is made an Universal Reconciliation of All Things in Heaven and Earth in Him even in Him Colos 1. 20. Lead us not into Temptation But Deliver us from Evil And this Thy dwelling place we shall no more defile by our Whoredoms Ezek. 43. 7. 8. and Abominations by the Carcasses of our Kings by our Posts Thresholds Or the Uncircumcision of our Heart c. 44. 7. c. 45. 9. and Flesh Nor any more Violence Curse or Death Heard of in the Holy City of our Melchizedec the Serpent and his Rev. 20. 1. Ezek. 41. 18. c. Rev 19. 6. 1 Cor. 15. 28. Rev. 21. 6. Seed being Seal'd up in the Abyss For Thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory The Cherubims and Palm-Bearing Company shall sing Everlasting Hallelujahs The Lord God Omnipotent Reigns For Ever and Ever In a Kingdom deliver'd up to God and the Father throughout Eternity of Ages Amen So be it and So it shall be So It shall be done The Humble Proposal to the Reader I Have already published however at several Times as I could a Scheme of the whole Scripture Line of Time and Prophecy as a Preface to the Work and with it a Compare of the First State of Things that may be call'd the Stasis at the First Sabboth with the Restitution which the Apostle calls Aâ—â— Catastasis or Re-Enstating Them at the Grand Sabbatism and so proceeded by the Patriarchal Line down to Abraham and from Him to the Going out of Egypt And then beginning at Cyrus have drawn the Line to the Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ I have also strengthen'd the Fixing the Line of Time from Cyrus to that Kingdom by Full discourse on the Visions of the Four Monarchies in Nebuchadnezzars Image c. 2. and the Four Beasts c. 7. and shewn How the Revelation Falls in with and more Fully â—narchy in a Treâ—â—â—se call'd The Kingdom of 〈…〉 Time accordin◠〈◊〉 those Four Monarchies I have also prov'd 〈…〉 â—narchy to be the Roman Pagan Empire and then the Papacy with a short â—â—â—â—â—thesis of the 〈…〉 Empire in both That and Another discourse call'd Gods Command to come out of Babylon I have now published Ezekiels Vision of the Temple and City in the â—â—and design of it the New Jerusalem and shown the several States of the Churches of God and of Jesus Christ till this Temple and City come down in the New Jerusalem are Commensurate to the whole Time of the Four Monarchies and give Dates to the Line of Time ever since first in that entire Line of 2300 Evens Morns after Forty Years from this Vision given to the New Jerusalem and in several Parcel Collatteral Lines and by Name of Daniel's 70 Week and 1335 Days And also herein Joyn'd a discourse on the Reformation the Rising of the Witnesses at 97 when shall be the Great