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land_n	egypt_n	moses_n	pharaoh_n	2,863	5	10.3611	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62256	[N]ews of a new world from the word and works of God compared together evidencing that the times of the man of sin are legally determin[ed] and by the same right the days of the S[o]n of Man are alre[ady] commenced : being some account of eight sermons delivered at a lecture in London : whereto for further evidence are added two small tracts, the one touching the times of Gog & Magog, the other touching the 3 last vials / by J.S.	J. S.	1676 (1676)	Wing S77; ESTC R31797	131,955	209

the space of 42 months unto the coming down of the new Jerusalem and Christs glorious appearance and having dispatch't that I came to the application and the last time I spent the whole in an use of exhortation to watching to watch for the Lords coming thinking to have gone on with other duties that this season calls for But it hath been cast into my thoughts since I was here that there may remain some doubts touching the times and I may be thought too forward and early a reckoner and that chiefly upon the account of the Vyals which many very serious and enquiring souls many that are very much enlightned in the works of God in this day and have great hopes for the kingdom of Christ and do wait heartily for redemption in Jerusalem yet cannot get over the stumbling block of the Vyals thinking they are not yet poured out whereas I have intimated often that we are under the 6th Vyal and have been so long Therefore though it may seem to be a great undertaking to remove this obstrnction and to give satisfaction in this point and I cannot say that I have so prepared my self for it that I can promise this will be the fruit of it yet I am willing to appear though in weaknesse and hold forth that light which I have for this thing that the Vyals most of them are poured forth I shall first give you my grounds for this and then I shall answer an objection or two that are come to my knowledge against it and so we shall go on afterwards with one application Now in discerning this point as indeed in discerning all prophetical mysteries there are two rules that do exceedingly avail to the guiding of us in fynding out the minde of God in prophetical truths and the first is this to look to the type and compare the type and the antitype together and the second is to compare the works of God in the world with his word for these works of God are the comment upon his word and the best comment that we can have Now for the first I would premise this that there is not any thing in the new Testament not any period of time nor any scene that concerns us Christian gentiles but there is the prototype the resemblance of it in the antient Church of the Jews these times of the new Testament are called the fulnesse of times they are the times of the fulfilling of prophecies prophecy though not as to fulfilling yet as to delivery was compleated and made up in the times of the old Testament and therefore it is said the prophets prophecyed until John and our Saviour when he began his ministry says the time is fulfilled now then to the point in hand what are the types of the Vyals We do finde that expositors have not amiss paralelled these Vyals with the judgments that God did execute upon Egypt when he brought forth Israel for they are a manifest allusion unto those judgments as you may see if you do compare them though they do not correspond in point of number yet they are called plagues here is the scab as was in Egypt as when Moses threw up the dust into the air so it is in the first Vyal there is a scab and a sore upon those that worshiped the beast then another plague was upon the rivers and fountains as here in the Vyals the 3d Vyal turns the rivers into blood and there was darknesse over the land of Egypt so under the 5th Vyal the kingdom of the beast is darkned so that I say there is a warrantable ground for an allusion of the Vyals to the plagues in Egypt but yet withall I say the allusion is not only unto the plagues of Egypt For the Vyals are poured forth by the witnesses and we shall finde that there is an allusion to 3 several pairs all in that vision of the witnesses or that doctrine of the witnesses as you may call it if you will Revel 11. there is I say an allusion to three pair of witnesses the first pair is Moses and Aaron Elijah and Elisha the second and Joshua and Zerubbabel the third pair and as they were called two witnesses so they did fulfil their testimony in 2 parts there was 2 parts of their witness and two seasons of the fulfilling thereof the first part was in a time of suffering before they were escaped from under their suffering-state that was their first part but in the second part they were upon the upper ground they were as I may say the heyrs apparent of a kingdom and an interest which was upon the rising hand I shall shew this to you clearly in all the three First you know that Moses and Aaron before they lest Egypt while Israel was under the yoak they did pour out several plagues upon Egypt but this was not all the work they had to do there was the greatest plague of all was powred out afterwards when they were escaped on t of Egipt at the red-sea there was the destruction of Pharaoh and all his hosts And Joshua who was indeed for a supply unto Moses when Moses was taken off to carry on and compleat the work he led Israel into Canaan and gave them that land so that he did enter upon the labours of Moses and he knew the work there is the first pair and from the time of the red-sea Israel was a prevailing in terest untill they were settled in Canaan so likewise you may see in the second pair Elijah was a man of contention all his days and fled for his life yet before his death he had power to restrain the heavens that they should not rain and he slayes the Prophets of Baal I might shew you how that Ahab and Jezabel and her prophets were exceeding apt types of the Beast the false Prophet and the whore under the times of the new testament as Elijah was a type of the witnesses Now Elisha comes with a double portion of Elijahs spirit he anoints John and brings down the house of Ahab and he perfects the work of Elijah in the spirit of the kingdom Elijah represents the time of the witnesses under their persecution and his ascention was a type of the ascention of the witnesses these are the second pair But the last pair is Joshua and Zerubbabel Joshua he was clothed with filthy garments as were the witnesses that prophecyed in sackcloth Zach. 33. Joshua was the priest the high priest and Zerubbabel he was the Prince the civel ruler Now you know that it is said in the Revelation that he hath made us kings and priests to God his father and the witnesses come first as priests in a suffering state and thereia they do part of the work they do execution against Babylon by powring out several of the Vyals but from the time of their slaughter and their ascention then Christ comes forth in his witnesses as acting immediately towards his kingdom and then he anoints them

the falne and corrupt state wherein there is both weakness and corruption and both these must be removed or else we cannot enter into the kingdom of God now the Lord give us a sence of this how unfit we are in our present fram and temper for that which we are so earnestly calling for may it not be said unto us as the prophet speaks it is not for you to desire the day of the Lord the day of the Lord is darkness and not light what will you do in the day of the Lord I tell you my brethreu the day of the Lord is a trying day alas when it comes to demand of us the giving up of such and such interests or lusts we cry O let me fly unto this it is a little one and my soul shall live O let not the Lord dsscompose this part of the old building we are for keeping up of one or other shedd of the old building I have been more within these two days thinking upon those words the carnal minde is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be then I ever was in my life that I know of and it is that I should be glad to hear others sensible of even the enmity that is in the carnal minde it is enmity aga nst God it is not subject neither can it be I tell you if yon do not know this by your selves you know not your own hearts and do we think that we shall pass into that new state of things by translation we might iudeed have done so if Adam had not sinned out of that which is natural into that which is spiritual But now believe it there must be knocking work there must be dissolving work and you will feel this it will put you to pain I would not discourage you for the Lord will be ut the whole charge of taking down the old state of things as well as the setting up of the new and he doth and wil make his people a willing sacrifice as Isaac was he can make this cup to pass from you or otherwise he can sweeten it to you though it be a cup that Chrish natutal flesh it self desired might pass yet I say the spirit is willing and if the Lord please to call up his spirit in us it will make us a willing sacrifice but then is a great change to be brought upon us Now hen having spoken so much of the time let me come a little to minister of this strength and help unto you we should look up to God that we might be ministers of the spirit when we converse in the things of God I shall propound two or there things unto you to help you in this tydeing it out with patience The first is this to reconcile you to all he hardships and tryals all the bitter things that God sees good to exercise his people with all consider the harmony that there is in all the ways and works of God how all of them conspire and work together they clash not one with the other but they are all of them by his wise contrivance set in their places as he says he hath set prosperity over against adversity he hath set evil days over against good days and they all of them deliver us up as from Constable to Constable one dispensation hands us unto another and that to a third and so they all bring us in our journey as the waves and billows of the sea do that makes the passage rough but yet they carry on the vessel so do all the waves and works of God and although you may think here comes a providence that will set me quite back again as Israel was set back in the wildernesse they were within a little of Canaan at their coming out of Egypt they were over against the land of Canaan where unto they did passe at the last and then they were brought back again yet God calls this a strait way yet if you had seen it delineated as I have done and observed their wandrings in the wildernesse you never saw such a crooked line in all your life but the rubbs of a bow I make it run so much the stronger And this I will propound to your further consideration that all the whole schem and all the scenes of Gods providences and dispensations to his people when they are set before us in an entire view as in some parts of the Scripture they are they are called a song as in that Deut. 32. Where Moses speaks of the several changes that should befall that people he calls it a song so like wife the book of Canticles which doth prophetically hold forth the feveral changes of the state of things from Solomons time to Christs coming it is called a song so if we could but look upon the whole body of divine counsel and of divine dispensations as a peice of poesy or a song it would sweeten it unto us you know this age is much given to plays to Comedies especially which begin tragically but end very satisfactorily so do the ways of God but if you should in a song leave out some or any of the feet in any of the lines the song will be lame it will hobble as I may say so I say if any thing of Gods dispensations if any of his purposes should fail and should not have their accomplishment alas ye whole would want something of its beauty so here in my text Let patience have it's perfect work that you may be perfect and entire lacking nothing men would be contented might they come to the end of their journey though they lost a great deal of the glory that God intends them by the way though they lost the advantages that afflictions would work out for them as that text says a far more exceeding wait of glory Look upon the contrivance of God the project of God there is not any one passage in his whole contrivance that can be spared not any one trouble either to the Church or to any particular member but all conduces to the beauty and the entrance of the whole Secondly consider this and it is a main thing and I pray set your hearts to it withdraw your own concerns out of the work of God and wholly look upon it as the Lords concern Let God alone be concerned do you engage him by your faith as the himself is engaged in his own glorious counsel and purpose That which makes things so troublesome is that we take Gods part upon our selves and that makes it so heavy we set our selves like Atlas to bear up the heavens and the pillars of the earth alas it is not our work to do it it is wholly Gods work it is his project and his undertaking and it is that which he would have us wholly to concern him in it is his work it is him glory so that he himself is concerned and he would suffer it any of his work should fail or miscarry pray