before the worst of sinners And we see how gracious Christ was also to the Woman of Canaan although she were as a Dog or one degenerate into a Dog-like spirit and nature Yet the Dogs also enjoy Crumbs and in great Families and Christ is Lord of All the Family in Heaven and Earth The very Dogs have better Diet than it may be Children have in other houses And That Dog-like Woman of Canaan was received into favor and had great Grace and Faith given her though a cursed Woman under the greatest Curse both of God and Man Noah cursed her and God also cursed her so that he commanded all his people to hate and curse her Nation so that they might neither Treat with them nor seek their good all their daies Which we see how Christ observed towards her when he would not so much as Treat with her or speak to her till his Disciples as the Representatives of his Church interceded with him for her or it may be against her for the Text is somwhat doubtful Yet by Faith Her heart also is purified and there is No difference between Jew and Gentile No not a Cursed Canaanite Which might also be seen long before when the high and proud and stout Gibeonites some of the chiefest of those cursed Canaanites bowed down and though by a Wile only they got into a Covenant with Joshua a mighty Type of Jesus yet they could never be cast off No by no means by no means But when Adonizedech the Lords Justice King of Jerusalem and other Kings with him would have chalenged them back again as to have brought them back into the Curse again Joshua must not only stand up and rise early Yea and march all night in defence of these poor late accursed Canaanites but also the Sun and Moon must stand still over Gibeon and the course of Nature must be changed rather than Gibeon must be deserted or so much as left into the hand of Gods Justice in his own Throne which is Adonizedech King of Jerusalem And Gibeon is not only made one of the greatest Scenes of Gods presence a long time together as we often find in Scripture before it was Solomons greatest High Place Where God also appeared to him after such great Sacrifices in Gibeon But also This very History of the strange Works of God in defending Gibeon is made the Type of what God means to do Hereafter also I suppose for his People and his Enemies also When he shall rise up to do his great and strange Work of Gibeon or as he did at Gibeon or Mount Perazim Where also at Davids coming up the five great Lords of the Philistins rose up against him as at Gibeon the five great Kings of the Amorites or Canaanites against Joshua And about Gibeon also the great Quarrel was ended between David that is Love and the House of Saul that is the Grave or Hell Acted by Abner the Fathers Light or Understanding and by Joab his Will or Affection which were here reconciled and a New Heaven and Earth brought up As afterwards the New Jerusalem when David beat the Jebusites which had their name from Treading down for the Holy City must be Trodden down till the Times of the Centiles be fulfilled And a Type of This Fulfilling of Time might be in That when the twelve men of Joab and Abner ran through one another as the twelve hours of Day and Night and there fell down slain on Sauls side 360. For their common Year had so many Daies in it And though Saul himself was dead cut off by God because he sought to the Devil and would not seek to God as we read in Chronicles although he complained that God would not answer him But the Truth was he would not seek to God who could yet have pardoned All but he would not ask it and God therefore cut him off and for his sparing Amaleck himself was slain by an Amalachite if at least he Lyed not to David who could not be quiet in the Throne till he had also cut off the Amalachites whom Saul spared even after Sauls Death His House and Family was sorely punished and Davids Kingdom also afficted with divers years Famine for Sauls afflicting the poor Gibeonites though it were in Zeal to Israel So much doth God abhor All Cruelty and hard Usage of any poor men though in never so much Zeal for God or his Cause or any of his People Which the Lord make me and all mine and all His still to remember in all my Actions lest I afflict some poor Gibeonite in Zeal to Israel and thinking I do God good service By All which we may also learn that even Those that are most Hated or cursed by God as These Gibeonites and Canaanites were and Children of Wrath and curse as much as any Nation or People we read of Yet they may come to be Blessed and Loved by the same God who so hated and cursed them And yet He changeth not himself but Them whom he first cursed and so shut them up in guilt and sin and sorrow That their cries that is His in them might draw out his own bowels and compassions more to them by how much more he had cursed or afflicted them Which is one of the great Mysteries of the Gospel running Through the Law and the Prophets and the Curses thereof Which should teach us not to despair under the hardest and worst words God doth or ever will speak against us while we live O do not say This Evil is from God and why then should I wait or Hope on Him Yea rather make hast to bow down and Worship and seek his face as the 3d Captain to Elijah For the King of Israel is a merciful King He is a gracious God and He delighteth in those that sear him and Hope in his goodness Trembling at his Word For it is still good for a man to Hope and patiently wait for the salvation of God Let me also tell you It is an honor that God will speak to us though he do but chide us Threaten us sharply rebuke or chasten us which himself and we may call Hating or cursing us But His Frowns and Chidings and Hatings and Cursings as we may interpret them may be better than the Smiles and Loves and Embracings of the whole World besides And we do not only read him saying I have forsaken the dearly beloved of my soul as we see Christ himself was so forsaken but also that he Hated Her even the dearly beloved of his soul as we read in Jeremy and did not only strike her with an hard and sore and Cruel stroke as an Enemy but even Curse her and make her a Curse As we know he dealt with Christ himself his dearly beloved Son and as a Type of Christ with Israel Because he knew them and they should have known him above All Nations of the Earth Therefore he would punish them above All Nations So that he never
read it As The Lord is in his Holy Place let All Flesh be Silent and again Let All the Earth be Silent before him Let my Prayer be directed as Incense and the Lifting up of my Hands as the Evening Minha of which again And In Thy Name I will Lift up my Hands And in His Name Every Knee must bow Which with Christians was As Lifting up Hands with the Jews Who in praying Stood and seldom Kneeled or fell upon their Faces or much Bowed except very Creat and Good or as they speak Righteous men But generally they Stood Praying and Lifting up their Hands And so Paul also biddeth though himself Kneeled on the sands and Christ Kneeled and fell flat in his Agony I will that men pray Every where or in All Places Lifting up Pure Hands as in the Prophets Pure Incense or Holy hands without wrath and doubting Yea and Christ also lifted up his eyes to Heaven as he bid us sav Our Father in Heaven though he said and knew the Father was in Him And yet when he lifted up his hand to swear that it might appear he owned none greater than himself he sware by himself that every knee should bow to Him And yet as the Apostle saith this also must be to the glory of God the Father which is Reason enough for granting all we can ask For only For Thine is the Kingdom Power and Glory Thus in our Prophet Daniel Lifting up of hands was a figure of Swearing And so in that of Amalech a Branch of Esau by a Concubine because his Hand against the Lords Kiss or Throne or covering of the Moon the Lords hand on his Throne for War with Amalech from Age to Age Middor Dor 448 reaching to David And blotting I will blot out the memorial of Amalech from under Heaven Yet but Under heaven O how cautious and how gracious God is in his lifting up his heavy hand David was as keen against Amalech as any we finde remembring how Saul was cut off and that by an Amalekite for sparing Amalech Nor could David rest till he had cut off Amalech though we find Reliques of them in Hezekiahs time and yet the great end of all this against Amalech also is That they may seek the Pace of the Lord and that they may know that thou JEHOVAH art most High over all the earth As we read of Amalech also in Psalm 83 which may Comment on all those heavy Prayers against Edom and Moab and Amalech and all Gods Enemies also not to destroy them for Ever as some think putting men in little letters The Text is plain enough That They may seek and that They may know c. So God lifted up his Hand in the Wilderness to swear in his Zeal t is often cited what Not that they should not rest But If they enter into My rest How cautious Yet I may add That as there was a Second Moneth for such as could not keep the Mood and Tense of the right Passover and for such The Lord be merciful though they be not according to the strictnes of the Sanctuary as good Hezekiah prayed and the Lord heard and accepted and Healed So there was also a Second Sabbath and a Third and yet an Olam or a New Moon Yea and after all the Changes of That year there was a Sabbatical year also and a Jubile when All must rest and come again into the possessions of their Fathers Yea and the very standing still of Joshvahs Sun and moon and over Gibeon also might intimate a Rest of Heaven for some that had not kept a Rest or Sabbath on Earth And if That were just so many Sabbaths of years from the Creation as there were Dayes in their Solar or Lunar year Or just so many Jubilies from the Creation as there be Weeks in a year it may be some little Help to fix Chronology which may be considered again And That summ of the Law and Gospel too the 20th of Ezekiel sheweth us How and Why God made the Sabbaths for Man and not Man for the Sabbath As Christ himself glosseth on Those words Moreover and above all the Law and Statutes also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and Them That they might know that I the Lord am still sanctifying Them For it is a Participle Present noting a continued Act. And again in the same Chapter That you may know that I am the Lord your God And There also he often speaketh of Lifting up his Hand to swear against them and of That very Oath of not bringing them into Canaan but addeth many times Neverthelefs my Eye spared them and his Heart is better than his Eye from destroying them nor did I make an end of them c. Yea and after All their own and Childrens Blaspheming of Him That is the Word yet the sum of his Threatnings is that He would bring them into the Wilderness of the People and There I will speak kindly to them in Hoseah But Heer Plead with them as I pleaded with their Fathers in the Wildernesse And I will cause you to passe under the Rod and bring you into the Bond of the Covenant or Masoroth thereof And then follow some of the sweetest promises in all the Bible for True Gospel Repentance and Remission of Sins And This after they had forfeited that Good Land of Rest and God took the Forfeiture awhile and drove them out As Adam out of Paradice But Then followed Them with Both Hands lifted up to Blesse them When he went about to swear against them He lifted up but One Hand and That also was pulled back again But to Blesse them he Lifted up Both Hands As Christ also in Healing and Blessing All about him in severall places to be added to Act. 3. 26. And the Priests came Out of the Temple Lifting up Both Hands and opening their fingers as the Holy Windows Blessed Those might not come In. To which also the Psalmist may allude in That The Lord Blesse thee Out of Zion and send thee Help Out of his Holy Place Out of it though thou be not In it but As Jonah said I am Cut off yet I will Look towards his Holy Place As Solomon also Prayed for Those that should so look towards it As we find also Our Prophet Daniel Looking towards it from a Great Distance And That Saying Send thee Help Out As it plainly intimates They were not There but Out at Distance So it may also allude to the usuall name they gave the Temple Court from Ezra Help As Eben-Ezer And there was No Case so Bad They say But There might Help be Had. And so They called it Help As a Present Help in Time of Need. There was One thing more We must observe in Lifting up of Hands and That is Numbering In the very Name of Right Hand Jamin It shall Number Order and Prefer And as Right-Hand Blessings were the Greatest So were their Right-Hand Numbers At her
Such Seasons and Changes VVhile the Earth endures but also that All Dayes of the Earth should be Those Seasons or such Seasons As the words in Hebrew may be read and we find it so by daily Experience that every Day hath its Seasons and its quarters As the year also And the Half Month added to the Three brings us through the second sabbath of Weeks or 14 Weeks As before we found Abrahams Tenents and Others in Sodom freed from the four Monarchs or Monarchies in the 14 year And our Teeth in Each Jaw are 3 times 4 with 2. Watchers But yet more especially These Three Months and an half bring us from the Pentecost and Sack of Ierusalem That Great New Moon or Change beginning the Month following That Feast of Pentecost as we hinted before to the very Time of that Last and Great Feast of Tabernacles At the fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month and so just 3 Months and an half after the month of Pentecost which was followed by such a visible Change of their Moon or Olam when the Romans fired their City and so made That Full Moon And That also much about the middle of September answering so much to their Seventh Month and Feast of Tabernacles At which Time also their Release and Liberty must begin again as Thereabout it Ended And that their Coming in again with the Fulness of the Gentiles also promised to Ephraim as we saw before was to answer that Full Moon of the Full Month that is the Seventh and Great Feast of all the Feast of Tabernacles Or In gathering All the Fruits of the Earth may be cleer not only from the very Reason and Nature of That Feast and Season but also from many places of Scripture which do so compare them together As the 102 Psalm made as a Form of Prayer for Him that is Afflicted with his soul overwhelmed and pouring out his sighing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the Lord Jesus As we find it cited in the first to the Hebrews I am withered as Grass cut down for Hay in Summer but He shall come down upon the mown Grass in Psal. 72. But Thou wilt arise and have mercy on Zion For the Moed is come the Time and the Moed also And Psal. 75. I will judg Equities when I receive or come to the Moed The very same word used here in Daniel and in many Scriptures for that Great solemnity of Tabernacles which of all the Three Moads was the Moad of Moads Or the most solemn and Greatest of All. And then presently the Psalm addeth So or Then the heathen shall also fear thy Name and All Kings of the earth thy Glory as before in the 72 and divers other Psalms When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appear in his Glory He will regard the prayer of the Destitute or Naked and will not despise it As our Saviours Dying Words on the Crosse Ps. 22. 24. This shall be written for the Generation to come for he looked down from the height of his sanctuary to behold the earth and hear the sighing of the Prisoners and to loose the sons of Death When the Peoples in the Plural are Gathered together as at that Feast of Tabernacles and the Kingdoms also to serve the Lord. That which followeth of shortning his Dayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may allude to Katsyr Summer and Harvest Or the years End When the Dayes Shorten and their Tradition is that Adam quickly found the Sun declining and the Dayes Shortning Which They should consider that beleeve Him and the World Created at the Vernall Equinox So the 126 Psalm In the Lords Turning the Captivity of Zion we are or were like Dreamers Turn again our Captivity O Lord as the streams in the South we touched it before They that sow in Tears shall reap in Joy He that went Weeping and bearing precious Seed shall come with singing bringing his sheaves Which is plainly of Harvest and the Joy of Harvest which we find also in the Prophet Esay coupled with breaking his yoke and staffe of his shoulder and Rod of his Oppressor As in the day of Midian so famous for the Barley Cake of Gideon as alluding to the First Fruits and the Lamps in Earthen Pitchers of which also Saint Paul to the Corinthians And it ended at Succoth or Tabernacles which were Taught by Gideon Yet Plainer in Hoseah There is an Harvest set for thee O Judah when I bring back the Captivity of my People And again I the Lord thy God from Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in Tabernacles As in the Solemn Feast or Moed of which also before What will you do in the Solemn Day of Moed Or That Solemn Feast which is also the Solemn Day or Solemn Feast in Deut. 16 15. 31. 10. Ps. 81. 3. Lament 2. 7. with divers other places And in Zephany I will gather them that Moan it is Heb The Solemn Moed And at That Time I will get them Fame and Praise in Every Land where they have been shamed and at That Time I will bring and gather you and I will make you a Name and a Praise among all people of the Earth when I turn back your Captivity before your Eyen saith the Lord. And the Last of Zechary telleth us that All nations that fought against Jerusalem shall go up to worship the King the Lord of Hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles And again the punishment of Egypt and All Nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles And in that Day On the Bells of the Horses shall be Holinesse to the Lord yea every Pot in Jerusalrm and Jndah shall be Holinesse to the Lord of Hosts and there shall be no more Cananite in the House of the Lord of Hosts The Heb Canange may be Saxon Change Cunning or Koning And in That Day there shall be One Lord and his Name One and the Lord shall be King over all the Earth and in That Day Living Waters shall go out from Ierusalem and Half of them to the Dead Sea or that of Sodom also plain enough in the Text and Ezechiel both the 16. and 47. and in Ioel also Even of that Great Day of Iudgement in the Valley of Iehosaphat which yet was the valley of Blessing or Beraca Crying Put you in the sickle for the Harvest is Ripe Yea and the Vintage also for the Presse is Full. Which we read again in the Revelation where it runs out also by the space of 1600 surlongs which we compared before with Dayes and Years to be added perhaps to the Time of Saint Iohns writing about the 60th year after the Ascention And after All he Seeth the pure River of Life with Trees bearing Fruit every Month whose very leaves were to Heal the Nations And there shall be no more Curse of which before in Iericho And whosocver will let him take the Water of Life Freely Which being compared with our Saviours words in the 7th
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
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
of Gods and the Image of the Beast and Dragon also instead of Gods Image Therefore he carryed them beyond Babylon as the Prophet and Stephen also And if you will not be instructed to me by these things but wil walk Keri may it allude to their walking by Tradition rather then written Rule As they rejected the written Ketif for the Keri I will walk with you Keri and I will strike or Hack you Even I Seven And I will bring a Sword avenging the Quarrel of the Covenant which they Brake before His first stroak And when you shall be gathered together as to the songs of Asaph the little Gatherer of the people as a Type of Shilo the great Gatherer promised Gen. 49. 10. the Hebrew word wanteth 3 of 1200. I will send the Pestilence among you and into the Enemies Hand you shall be given up As God gave up Job the very letters of the word here used for Enemie into the hands of Satan the great Ojeb Ob Pytho and Python see also Rev. 2. 10. And in Micha we found They shall be given up till she that Travelled bring forth As here you shall be Given up Which may be more considered and the rather because the place is clear enough of the great siege of Jerusalem and its Pestilence and Famine also with Women eating their own Children as in the Lamentations And if you will not for all This hearken unto me but walk in Keri or contrary to me Then I will walk contrary to you in Fury Hamath Keri as we saw in Hamath Zoba And I will correct or instruct you Even I Seven upon your sins or against them as twice in this Chapter but once Verse 21. it is According to your sins And you shall eat the flesh of your Sons and the flesh of your Daughters ye shall eat And I will destroy your High places and cnt down your Hammons and cast your Carkases upon the Carkases of your Idols and all your Cities shall be waste and the High Places desolate That your Altars may be laid waste and made Desolate and your Idols may be broken and cease and your Images may be cut down and your Works may be abolished Ezek. 6. 6. And my soul shall abhor you And I will scatter you among the Heat heu c. And your Land shall keep her Sabbaths One great Reason of all this Desolation And you shall perish among your Enemies and their Land stall eat you up And they that are left of you shall Pine away in their Iniquity and also in the Iniquities of their Fathers with them they shall Pine away As Ezek. 24. and Dan. 9. confessing their Fathers iniquity saith also that Shame belongeth to their Fathers As if their Childrens sins should also be punished on their Fathers God be merciful to me a great sinner in others also But is there Hope in Israel yet concerning This also Yea Verily for our God is the God of Hope and of All Consolation and the Father of Mercies One with Christ who is the Only Begotten of the Father Now follow some of the sweetest Promises in all the Bible although the former part of them is wronged much by adding an If before them in some Translations a Serpent that may hazard Paradice again and turn the Gospel of Free Grace into a Condition Out of our Power more than Circumcision But the Original hath no If but a Promise that they should be brought to acknowledge as Jer. 3. Only acknowledge Their own and Fathers vileness in walking So to God and He so to them Or Then their Uncircumcised Heart shall be humbled and Then they shall Accept their punishment And I will remember my Covenant with Jacob and my Covenant with Isaac and also my Covenant with Abraham I will Remember How often repeated And I will Remember the Land For the Land shall be left and enjoy her Sabhaths And they shall How sweet Accept their Punishment because even because they despised my Judgements and their soul abhorred my Statutes And yet for All That when they be in the Land of their Enemies How gracious I will not I will not cast them off or despise them Psal. 22. 24. Ioh. 6. 37. neither will I abhor them to destroy them Utterly Psal 119. 8. Jer. 14. 19 20 21. and to break my Covenant with them For I am the Lord Their God a Reason strong enough as we saw in Hosea and divers other places But for Them or Their sakes How strange is this I will remember the Covenant of their Ancestors whom I brought out of Aegypt in the sight of the Heathen to this very end to be to Them for a God I am Jehovah These are the Statutes and Judgements and Lawes which the Lord gave between him and between the Children of Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses As also before Chap. 25. Which two Chapters deserve a Volume by themselves But God will Teach us and make us wise and prosper in All we do If we would but observe the Law of Moses as the last of the last Prophet Malachy and the last speech of David to Solomon though now in the First Psalm from Gods own words to Josuah upon Moses Death Jos. 1. 7 8. And that great Arcanum Imperii Deut. 17. and 3 last Verses which we discoursed before as the best pâ—ce I know for Successive Monarchy And that Levit. 26 is such a gracious Promise the foundation of the Gospel may be yet more cleared by that Letter written by good Hezekiah in full Parliament of Lords and Commons 2 Chron. 30. To the Ten Tribes after their Captivity begun But they are invited to Return to That which was Sanctified for ever by a most gracious God there described In their Returning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which yet some render If you Return citing that of Leviticus and Deuteronomy with Exod. 34. c. And Nehemiah citing these also leaves out the If though some Translations put it in There also but in little letters desiring God to remember he had promised Moses that although he would scatter them for their sins yet They should turn again keep his Commandments c. Compare the First Chapters and 9th with the 9th of Ezra and 9th of Daniel Which is not onely in the Hebrew Tobit so remarkable but in divers places as an Absolute Promise else they could not build upon it as Assuring their Return Except they came up to that Condition which they knew not that they should Except It also were There promised to be given them even in their Enemies Land Which is so promised and clearly in Ezekiel several times You shall-abhor your selves and Blush and loath your own Doings c. the most genuine and Gospel Repentance When you shall see me Pacified towards you for All that you have done But not by your Covenant or any thing you do or can do Be it known unto you O you House of Israel And Daniel that Wise
man saw such a stress on This that citing Moses and the fulfilling of his Threatnings so that never was the like done under Heaven as at Jerusalem nor ever shall be as we saw before And yet saith he We have not sought the Face of the Lord our God to turn or that we might turn from our iniquities and understand thy Truth And yet according to all thy Righteousness a strange expression I beseech thee let thy Anger and thy Fury in other Prophets and Psalms Thy Hating Loathing Abhorring Cursing be turned away from thy City Jerusalem the Mountain of thy Holiness And concludeth For the Lords sake Or the Messiah as That Phrase in their most antient Authors Or as himself expresseth it clear enough Because Thou art Our Lord Adonai Their usual expression of That God-Man As other Lords onely by Adoni or at most Hadoni Their common Salutation when they met as we may finde in Plautus sounding it much as the English How don ye For it is Christ he speaketh to Or the whole Trinity Bow down thine Ear to hear and open thine Eye to see Hear Adonai Adonai Pardon Adonai Hearken and Doe Defer not for thy own sake O our God! And not for our Righteousnesses which are as filthy Raggs even All of them and worse But for thy great Mercies Which in other places are also Manifold Mercies as manifold and more than All our sins Or as his 9th and 9th To the Lord our God belong Multitudes of Mercies and Forgivnesses in the Plural as also cited by St Paul Though we have Rebelled even Down Right Rebelled against him And Then comes out the Angel at the Minha with the 70 Weeks and after with 1290 and 1335 Dayes Which may be also in that 26 of Leviticus Where we read of 4 Sevens and Chastning or Instructing which is the same in Hebrew 4 times 7 which make a Month or 28 in Dayes or Hours or Years or somwhat worth enquiring after In general it may Hint the 4 7 Dayes or Month of the Moon from the Sun As if Here also God would intimate They should return again after Those 4 Sevens as the Moon to the Sun as we saw in 4 7 Dayes or 666 Hours The word Seven is Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numerals 372. which in Hours is the very Morning of the 16th Day of the First Month or the great Heave-offering or Wave-sheaf of Barley the Resit or First of First Fruits In memorial of the Morning after their coming out of Aegypt which was the 15th Day at Sunset just in the 360 Hour as their year came out in 360 Dayes and the 2d Morning from Creation in 36 Hours as we saw before and how this First Fruits was also a Type of our Saviours Rising up from the Dead as this Sheaf of Barley Heaved up on the 3d Morning after the Passover was slain on the 14th Minha 333 Hour or 40 the 40 Hours of Christ in the Grave before 372 the Morning of the Wave-Sheaf The morrow after the Passover the 15th Day of the Month or first of Unleavened Bread was a solemn Sabbath or Rest from servile Labour and a Feast of joy as the Jewes call it because of the Peace-Offerings then to be offered and eaten which they also called the Feast of Passover As in the Gospel They would not go into Pilates Hall lest they might be kept from the Passover or Paschal Feastings for the Lamb was Eaten on the Night before as we see in our Saviour though some think he was before the Jewes in that also of which Deut. 16. 2. 2 Chron. 30. 24. and 35. 7 8. But the next or 16th Day was for Offering the Sheaf or Omer both an Handful and a 10th part of an Epha equal to the Bath 3 Seas the 10th part of an Homer gathered in the Dusk of the 15th Day called the Sabbath after the Passover yet by 3 men saying On This Sabbath sabbath sabbath In This Basket basket basket with this Sickle Sickle sickle the Men 3 and the Baskets 3 and the Sickles 3 and they must reap enough to make 3 Seas from the Valley of the Brook Kidron He shall drink of the Brook in the way and so lift up his Head Then they pass it through the Fire that it may be Parched Corn and Ground also For it pleased the Lord to put him to pain though a Son that he might learn Obedience and by sufferings be made perfect From this Sickle they must count the 50 Days as Deut. 16. 9. Which in Levit. 23. 15. are begun from the Morrow after the Sabbath or First Day of Unleavened Bread after the Passover or the Day of the first Sheaf So that the morrow after the 7 compleat weeks or 50th Day as the Jewes themselves call it was the Day of Pentecost and of Biccurim the First-Fruits in two loaves of fine Flour leavened The Jewes observe no Rejoycing commanded at the Passover which must be eaten with Bitter Herbs but at Pentecost they sang the great Hallel Once being Once commanded to Rejoyce and Twice at Tabernacles Double and more then Double or seven-fold to the joy of Pentecost As we may finde in Deut. 16. and 11th for Pentecost but 14. and 15 for Tabernacles on the 15th Day of the 7th Mouth And thou shalt observe the Feast of Tabernacles 7 Dayes the Pentecost but one when thou hast gathered in thy Corn and thy Wine and thou shalt Rejoyce in thy Feast Thy Feast Thou and thy Sou and thy Daughter and thy Man-servant and thy Maid servant and the Levite the stranger and the fatherless and the Widow that is within thy Gates 7 Dayes shalt thou keep a solemn Feast unto the Lord thy God in the Place which the Lord shall choose because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy increase and in all the works of thy Hands Therefore thou shalt surely Rejoyce They observe also the Pure Unleavened Bread of the Passover was a Memorial to endure for ever But not that of the Pentecost being to fall or be little spoken of when All was brought in as we saw before of Tythes and First-fruits in Ezekiel and Revelation And though the Passover and all its Week had onely Pure Unleavened Bread a Type of Christ without sin yet the Pentecost had both Unleavened in its Minha and Leavened also in its two Cakes of Biccurim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Elect as we saw before in Bahurim And might not Those two Cakes represent the two Churches of Jew and Gentile or the two Witnesses to be Broken as the two Cakes Or the Turtle Dove and the young Pigeon in Abrahams Vision Sara and Hagar or Keturah whom the Jewes account Hagar with Rebecca or Rachel and Leah Abigail and Ahinoam and divers others as before and yet again Types of the two Witnesses Those two Cakes were attended with 7 Lambs and two Rams and a Bullock for an Ole a young Goat for
soul also As God himself expresseth it And they had their commune Representatives or Standers men of the Station as we touched before in which All persons were represented as if All had been Present And the Jewes say There were 24000 of these Standers for Jerusalem and 12000 for Jericho Poor Cursed Jericho Which yet grew up to be the next to Jerusalem As the Moon to the Sun in Heaven As the Name may intimate This great Burnt-Offering also in the daily Tamid had This great advantage over all others That where in private or particular Cases they often stayed long in Guilt or Fear and Sorrow till they could present their Sacrifice which they seldom did but at the 3 solemn Moeds at Jerusalem This was every day and Twice aday so fixed and constant that Wherever or However they were Absent from God Yet He was still providing and accepting Their Sacrifice in which They All had share of Charge and Profit as we saw before in that of Hezekiah and divers other Scriptures Yea an whole Burnt-Offering by God himself in all things Ordered and sure As David speaketh of his Holy things and sure Mercies in which All Thirsters do pertake as we saw before As sure as if They were All actually present in Person Laying on their own Hands or confessing their own secret sins over its Head As the men of the Station many a time for Those that were Eating Drinking Sleeping Playing or doing worse perhaps at a great distance And besides the Ole Burnt-Offering there was Daily Minha with Incense for Strangers also Or Aliens to Israel Being as old as Abels Offering and renued by Noah as a Seal to the great Covenant with all Mankinde As we saw before when the Lord smelt that sweet favour of Rest and said in his Heart his Heart I will not strike Any Flesh as I have done c. And because the sweet Odours of this Incense was to go forth to so many that could not see it as the Spouse may allude in the Canticles Therefore before its offering just with the Evening Minha the Priests gave a great Blow on a Vast Bell or Migrepha that sounded so loud they say that All Jerusalem or round about might Hear and know Their Incence and their Interest was then presenting to the Lord. And Then the Standers hasted to their private Charges also being Trusted often for divers particular Persons in their own private cases And although they all stood silent without and Praying it seemed while the Priest offered Incence Yet Then he came with both Hands lifted up and spread abroad and his Fingers also very wide they say to represent the Holy Windows of the most Holy Place though some deny it Light that so the Blessing might be more and wider spread on those without abroad at distance As we saw before on That The Lord bless thee Out of Zion and send thee Help Out of his Holy Place Out of it although thou maiest not come into it but at a great Distance and it may be farther than Those only kept out in the Gentiles Court by That Rayl or Wall they called Chell or Hell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a Great Gulf they might not Pass as was seen before I crave your Prayers and Pardon if in This or ought I go beyond my bounds or purpose to express when first I thought to glance on Jephta's Daughter or Burnt-Offering Which before we found so near the Minha of the Passover that it might be akin to a Type or Draught of that Great Sampler which a Virgin might haply shadow out as well or better than a Man Was She than to shadow Him or Her for it was Israel also That God himself so solemnly devoted to the Curss as himself speaketh even by that very word of Cherem used in Leviticus 27. 28. As we read in Esay 42 and 43. And yet Fear not O Jacob for I have chosen thee and I have Redeemed Thee Though the Law be that no Cherem the very word there used may be Redeemed But they are all Bahurim c. As the words are in the Hebrew of that 42. 22. As from the 39th forward cannot be too much considered How Places or Persons forsaken hated abhorred and Cursed might be Blessed again we saw before from the Law Psalms and Prophets in divers places Shall I add That also Cut off thy Hair O Jerusalem and cast it away Take up a Lamentation For the Lord hath Abhorred and Rejected the Generation of his Wrath. Eth Dor Everatho 1289. Coming just to Daniels 1290 to be compared with Nehemiah I contended with them and smote some of them and Pluck'd off their Hair a great Reproach As Esay's Cheek or Christs to them that plucked off his Hair And the Hired Rasor for they Hired Assyria to come upon them as the Prophets oft allude to 2 King 16. to shave off the Hair of their Heads and the Hair of their Feet also Yet a greater Reproach As Ezekiels Hair Chap. 5. But more yet to Women as we may see in Ezek. 16. 7. who must have Power or a Veil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 over them Even because of the Angels of the Churches who judge their Reverence by their Holy Meen not Reaching to our Hearts as God but by our Looks and Gestures And their Hair was given for a Covering and Ornament though the Locusts also had Hair as Women and a Womans long Hair is a Glory to Her and if she will not be Covered in Church-meetings where They sate apart as yet with the Jews David alone and his Wives alone Nathan alone and his Wives alone Let her be shaven The great Reproach to that Sex And so here Cut off thy Hair O Jerusalem But O! the Kindeness and the Goodness of the Heart of God! May not This Reproach also give them an Hint or Dore of Hope and Comfort And that not onely as Strip thee and make thee Bare and lay aside thine Ornaments that I may yet know what to do to Thee But also as the great Characters of Leprosie were taken from the Hair and colour of the Hair So the means and Hope of Cure were still by shaving off the Hair The Priest shall shut him up 7 Dayes For if her Father spit in her Face shall she not Blush 7 Daies And Then if the Priest see any Hope He shall be shaven But yet not the skall And Then 7 Dayes more As the Dove in Noahs Ark which may measure us the Times of the good waters in the Gospel also and seasons thereof as God shall please and Then if it spread he need not look for Hair But if it spread not and the Hair be Black as a Raven in the Canticles Anacreon or other Greek Poets He is Healed Yea Though the Hair fall off He is Bald or as Korah was But he is Clean. This in Skalls And the Leaper to be cleansed must shave off All his Hair and tarry 7 Daies and then he must
touched before in 3 And Even Numbers for Earth And 7 the first Number in which Heaven and Earth do meet and are Reconciled And the first made of any Three whole Numbers and an Half The next is 14 for 10 and an half is a Fraction As famous for the Passover to Israel as 7 for the Sabboth To Israel I say for when they did not enter His Rest and keep His Sabbath or first seventh as they should have done in great kindnesse he prepared or sanctified the next Sabbath for Them Or the fourteenth day of the first Moneth for their Passover And for their Vnclean or Travellers which God did own and encourage as in Strangers a second Passover on the fourteenth day of the second Moneth But in the New Jerusalem or That described in Ezekiel 45 The Sanctuary is cleansed and the Posts of the House and Gates of the Court also with the Corners of the Alters Settle are sprinkled with Blood On the very first Day of the first Moneth So quick will he be in Cleansing his House And Then on the very first Seventh Day of the first Moneth a Sacrifice is ordered and offered for All and every One that Erreth As also Heb. 5. 2. And least This might leave out Any He addeth also For Him whoever that is Simple or Seduced 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Even as English use the word Pity and a Piteous simple Creature which is just 490. as in Daniels Weeks from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both in Greek and Hebrew to lead one in or from ones Path and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in Greek also the great Seducer Which I may not English Though a kin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both full and foul and fool as well as folly and folium Faba sed abstinendum est a fabis and to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yea and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also Though it be often used in a good sence as to pun or pound or ponder ones path as Caleb was of Jephunne much a kin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fane and faine and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What ever Time This in Ezekiel may intimate It seems to lessen the great work of Aarons Family and sets up the King or Nasi Is it not the time of Melchisedech who he saith shall no more oppress the people Yet They shall All be His and for Him and but an Offering for him And upon him it shall be to order or offer All the Oles or whole offerings and Minhaes and Sack also the Drink offerings In the Haggings or feasting dayes and New Moons and Sabbaths In All the Moeds of the House of Israel He shall Doe cum vitulo faciam the sins and sin offerings and the Minha and the Ole and Solemn Salems in the Ever of the House of Israel As if Jerusalem it self were but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jeru Salem They shall see peace When the first stone was laid they cryed Grace grace But now Peace also Grace and Peace Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and Peace of God that passeth All Passovers and all Pentecosts also with All understanding shall preserve and keep your hearts first and then your Minds also Through Christ Jesus and no wonder Then the next words be Finally my brethren Yet a little while and it shall be Eternally my Brethren For Your Fathers good pleasure is to give you a Kingdom And you shall See Eye to Eye Grace and Peace also He hath willed it and through His Grace We will it also Say Amen and say it Boldly Yet with Reverence Kiss him also but with Reverence Concerning his Sons and his Daughters Ask him They are All Princes and you must but Ask of Them or for Them But concerning the VVorks of his Hands you may Command Be of good cheer He calleth you And stayeth for you Unaware I am carried Back by the Hand to the Number 14. For just so many are in the Hebrew word for Hand which is Jad It shall Cast and It shall Bless As in Juda. The same letters and numbers are in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Day Sufficient for the Day is the Bread and Good and Evil thereof And Shadai who is still Sufficient And how near akin Jad is to Jah 14 to 15 we may come to know when we also see how near the Lamb or the Goat of the 14th Evening was to the Lamb also of the 15th Morning And both and All to the Holy Lamb of God that beareth away the Sin of the Lambs the World This was yet at Bethabara the House of Wrath and beyond Jordan but also the House of That which must Pass Over yea and Pass away which is Wrath in Hebrew Before the sun go down and the Cursed Hanged Ones must then be down also The next Day and next and third He came also But I knew him not but had read in Esay that the Spirit must Rest upon him As a Dove or Master of the Wing on a Branch or Natsar But Now I saw and bear Record Here is is One Witness and when He was Taken off Then Christ followed for His three Dayes and an Half also of which we ought to speak again and then comes Stephan the Crown to the Conqueror and then Paul a Witness with a Witness or a Martyr But after Three Dayes being as Dead or Blinde and then recovered by Ananias the Lords Grace But where is Poor Saphira We may finde Her also And thy Eyes from Tears for there is Hope in the latter End And yet All this while but Saul 1000 years after David and Ananias sent to the house of Judas also to seek Saul as we saw before and Saul of Tarsus a City Built by Lascivious Sardanapalus or by others in pursuit of Io Turned to a Beast they say and now a Beast must be recovered As the sound may hint As Tauros And Mount Taurus Thereabout began to all the East which from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Syriac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just 666. As Tyrus Tyras Thrace Threscos how near to Japhets Tiras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who shal be perswaded yet to dwell in the Tabernacles of Sem in this Feast of Tabernacles But Paul is now at Damsack Blood-sucking or sacking Damascus Though it had suckt the Blood of Righteous Abel as they say There slain yet It had also an Eliezer my God Helping and a King anointed by Elisha God Jesus For Damascus also must be Menuha as we saw before And the Prince that carryed the Heavy Doom to Babilon it self was Seriah the Lords Sir and Servant Son of Neriah the Lords Light Son of Maasiah the Lords Trust and Refuge And he went with Zedekiah the Lords Justice to Babel which is Lebab our Heart Turned Backward in the Fourth year or after Three years and an Half And this
Seriah was also Menuah from Noah Rest a Meek and Quiet Prince As Christ speaketh of Moses and of Himself Rejoyce O Zion For thy Prince is Meek and Lowly which with God is of Great Price and Value As Saint Peter speaketh Who yet struck down Ananias and Saphira But this Boanerges must become a Barnabas Ye know not what spirit You must be And Barnabas Took Saul and knit him to the Church of Christ who sent him back to Tarsus his Native Countrey As Israel to Babylon the Hole or Pit whence they were taken and called And then was Great Peace and Comfort of the Holy Ghost for Jerusalem it self was scattered through All Judea and Samaria and Galilee of the Gentiles also the three Regions of Heaven and Earth and the little World also as we have touched divers times And Then Peter also must come down to Lydia as alluding to Lud with Tarsis and Ludi and Lydia Saint Pauls Convert of Thiatire Divine Tyre or the Sacrificer For Her Hire also must be Holinesse to God and Sarran Tyrian or Sharon of which before with Carmel For That also must blesse Him and Hermon the Cursed Hill And Tabor the very Navel of the Belly or the Lower VVaters Here must Christ be Transfigured an Emblem of this Kingdom and Then must cast out the Foul Spirit which so Mastered All his Apostles Till Himself came down and found the people in a very hot dispute with his Apostles about a Devil they could not master And yet at his going up He had given them Power over All Unclean spirits But This was Beelzebub it seems the Prince of Devils with his Legions Every one 6000 and 666 also If a great Author besides Hesychius do not deceive us A strange spirit with Three Epithites in Three Evangelists As if Cerberus with his Tripple Throat The Devil in the VVorld Or Utmost Court and Antichrist in the Church or Temple But the Old Man in our Heart There the Dragon Then the Beast and the Image of the Beast and the False Prophet also directly opposite to God and Man who was made to Rule the Beast with the Image of God in Man or God-Man and the True Prophet the Holy Ghost See Ja. 3. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 3. Rom. 8. 6. But How long Ever since there was a Childe In the VVaters Above As the Crossing Serpent which we shewed before in Shemes Samson and his 12 Labors also through the Zodiak full of Beasts Aries Taurus Cancer Leo worse In the Earth Below Even in Paradise The Serpent the most subtile Beast and Head of all Beasts Turning Isha into Eva 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Before whom Adam only conversed with Lilith the Nights Darkness and Dreams which the Jewes call the Mother of Hobgoblins and make a white Circle with Chuts Lilith Out Night In the Waters Below Leviathan and Tannin the Dragon in the Great Depth or Bottomless-pit as Esay 27. with Iob of Behemoth Leviathan and the Revelation But He shall be cast out of Earth also as first he was out of Heaven Whence he fell like Lightning Though That but as a Prophecy before Apoc 11 and 12. Which brings up the Kingdom of Christ with Casting out Satan As Christ also said If I by the finger of God Cast out Beelzebub Then know the Kingdom of God is very near you But you must say Let it Come on Earth as it is in Heaven Where yet Satan came among the Angels to accuse and resist the Brethren as we may find in Job with Dan. Zech. But at our Saviours coming from the Mount All the three Foul Spirits shall be cast out Yet they may Tear us first and leave us as Dead But for Three dayes and Half and Then Come up hither And the Father said with Tears Lord I believe Help thou my Unbelief Being told that All things even All things are possible to Him that Believeth The same Works Yea and greater Works For I go to my Father And a Grain of True Faith can remove This Mountain also where I was transfigured while Peter would have built three Tabernacles Howbeit This strange and strong and last kinde of Devils go not out but by Fasting and Prayer Yet They had Oyl and so raised the Sick and laying on of Hands Cast out Devils For it was and still is and will be and appear a very Mighty Name of Jesus of Nazareth And Peter at length coming to Japho the old Town of Japhet Who began it before the Flood as hinted in Heathen Authors Having first healed Aeneas Aeneas And after eight years By the same Name by which Himself and Iohn had cured the Cripple at the 9th Hour the Time of Prayer As to Cornelius also the first fruits of the Gentiles He findeth Tabitha Dorcas a Doe of a Goat which in Hebrew and Syriac is also Saphira 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Raiseth Her also from the Dead A greater work perhaps than curing a Daughter of Abraham whom Satan had Bound Lo and Behold these 18 Years And another with the Bloody Flux of which before for 12 years And a Third Talitha 12 years old Here are three Twelves and an Half And a man at the Pool of Bethesda the House of Chesed Tender Mercy 38 Years Here are three Twelves and two also for a Cheâ—si Which I note the rather because it was first shewed Abraham in a Map that his Friends and Tenants of Promise and Sodom also must serve the four Monarchs 12 Years And not be delivered till the second after the 12. or second Sabbath which is the 14th Year as Assyrians broken in the 14th year of Ezekiah as the 14th of Genesis And the 14 Teeth of either Jawe may represent Years also as we shewed before from Shinim Teeth and Shenim Years Where we touched the Turtle and the Pigeon as the two little Witnesses preserved undivided which is their only way of safety between the Divided Heifer and the Ram and Goat also and All of Three years old And Then the Fiery Furnas and Great Horror But at Evening or Sun-setting God speaketh to him in a Vision which he saw not till he had said to the King of Sodom Thou shalt never make me Rich. And After Those words God came in a Vision and said Fear not Abraham for c. And they brought him to an Upper Chamber it is oft spoken of and should be marked where the women were and shewed the Coats of Dorcas For she also loved us and helped to build us a Tabernacle As we touched before in the Curtains or Coverings of Goats-hair and Badgers-skins But He put the Women All out O Woman what have I to do with Thee And Touch me not for I am not yet Ascended Which he had learned also from Him that so Acted before Him and James and John which were His three VVitnesses generally Who put them All out and cryed Talitha Kumi May it not be Rise up the Third Day or Year or Moed As They