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A52819	A strange and wonderful trinity, or, A triplicity of stupendious prodigies consisting of a wonderful eclipse, as well as of a wonderful comet, and of a wonderful conjunction, now in its second return, seeing all these three prodigious wonders do joyntly portend wonderful events, all meeting together in a strange harmonious triangle : and all are the three royal heralds, successively sent from the King of Heaven, to sound succeeding alarms, for awakening a slumbering world : beware the third time ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1683 (1683)	Wing N465; ESTC R42196	44,056	49

many Thousands of Years He saith all things shall be again in statu quo prius as they were at the Worlds beginning in a state of perfection The World waxeth worse and worse and the last being but Dregs are the worst of Times yea not only the Earth but Heaven also grows faint and feeble through old Age. Insomuch that the Sun as Ptolomy saith Runs much ne arer the Earth many Thousand Miles now than at the Creation If so then by the same Rule the Planets must do the same and then neither of them have kept their first perfection from whence some Salvo's to arising Doubts may be deducted if this Hypothesis should be taken for Granted But whatever may be said to Ptolomys Assertion I shall endeavor to illustrate that of Noble Tycho Brahe saying that all the 6. Great Conjunctions which only have happened since the Foundation of the World Exclusive to this 16. Century have been Auspicious to the World and Vsherd in some signal Mercies to Man-kind So this 7th in our Century will certainly exceed them all c. as the 6. Days Creation had each of them their Tob Good but the 7th Days Rest was attended with Tob Meod very good So the●● former Revolutions all brought Tob good to the Church but this 7th suppos'd to be the last will undoubtedly bring Tob Meod very good things with it The Bridegroom at the Marriage feast reserves his Best Wine for the Last Time John 2.9.10 Take a short Land-skip of all the former 6. The first under Enoch 800. Years of the World his Name signifies Catechised as Gen. 14.14 Chanikan Catechised or Trained up in Religion as well as Warfare He was taught of God to walk with God Gen. 5.24 Hebr. 11.5 Ecclesiasticus 44.16 and 49.14 A great Type of Christ in his Ascension living 365 Years before his Translation after a God pleasing Life and just so long did Christ live in the Purity of the Primitive Church to Julian the Apostate in the Year 365 after Christ He was as all the Patriarks were the Chief Bishop of his Time by whose Labours the Church of God was preserved in that prophane Age He prophecyed of the Destruction of Sinners before Noah did of the Deluge foretelling the Day of Judgment and the Coming of our Lord. Syr. Maran-Atha hence the Jews make him the Author of the great Excommunication Jude v. 14.15 As Enoch is call'd the 7th from Adam the Church had some Sabbath or 7th Time of Refreshing by him a Rest and Respit from that Vniversal Destruction which came upon the World afterwards Thus Elijah Enochs Brother candidate of Immortality is Stiled the 7th from Adam also not in Respect of Degrees or Gradual Descent as was Enoch the 7th Patriarch not the 7th Person but by way of Computation and in Respect of so many Generations as some Reckon between them Elijah is computed the 7th Prophet from Adam and the first sent to the Gentiles a great Reviver of the Church as his Brother Enoch was and a Restorer of the Law Now here be two 7ths from Adam both Translated into Heaven which may intimate that after the 6000. Year of the World comes the 7th from Adam or 7th Millennium with its strange Translation likewise However this Translation of Enoch is call'd Annus Sabbaticus Calvisius Opus Chronolog Page 3. Enoch predicts as a late Reverend writer saith Judicium matutinum the Morning part of the Judgment Day explain'd Dan. 7.7.8.9 as if then to be seen behold he cometh which was not to be till the 7000. Year begin and the Vespertinum or Evening part is after it explained in Revel 20.7 The Second Climacterical Conjunction by doubling the Number 8 here and all along was in the 1600. Year of the World under Noah in which Century the Universal Deluge destroy'd the wicked World which was then drowned in wickedness before it was drown'd in water Yet the Church had then her Annum Sabbaticum a compleat Year of Rest in Noahs Ark for from November when Noah had laid up all his Stores of the Earthly Fruits and entred the Ark with his Beasts Fowls and Family he remained there till the Beginning of November following As Enoch had been a Cooler to the Church when the wicked world was Hot in wickedness by his contrary Profession prophecying and Practice for which God took him up into Heaven as thinking no place good enough for him upon Earth and whose Translation gave to the Church the first Specimen or Proof that God had prepared another Life after this for his Saints wherein they should live with him in Glory for ever So Noah as his Name signifies was a Comforter to the Church saving her from the Deluge which Reduced the World to its first Chaos or Confusion Gen. 1.2 when the Waters above the Firmament and the Waters under met again together and brings the Earth once more into her first posture to be covered with Water 'T was a peculiar priviledge that Noah brought the Church night God in this great Floud of Waters Psal 32.6 Enoch was a Prophet foretelling Christs coming and Noah was a Preacher of Christs Righteousness had greater Blessings than Adam having the Promise I will no more destroy c. Gen. 8.21.22 the Bow in the Cloud and a new String to his Bow the Everlasting Covenant the pattern of all Covenants with Israel oft mention'd by the Prophets and the Floud made such a Baptism to the Earth also as help'd to wash away its Curse which Cursed Earth shall become so Renewed so Blessed of the Lord yea so much Christs Darling that He Resolves to make it the Centre of his Glory as some suppose at the 7th Millennium or last Revolution of the Superior Planets Revel 5.9.10 where the Saints or Angels Rejoice that they shall come out of Heaven to Reign upon Earth thus God tells Moses in the Mount that the Land shall enjoy her Sabbath of Rest not only a Temporal Levit. 26.34.46 and 2. Chron. 36.21 and Levit. 25.2.6 But an Eternal one Hebr. 4.9 which the Lord of the Sabbath Math. 12.8 Mark 2.27.28 Rom. 9.29 Jam. 5.4 hath made for man The whole Earth shall be filled with his Glory Numb 14.21 He will Cover or Atone it Deut. 32.43 God not Adam named the Earth Erets which signifies of Ratsah to Delight as If He meant to take his pleasure upon it when the Heavens that Canopy and Curtain now hiding his Glory shall pass away as a Scroll of parchment before the Fire God will come to keep his Sabbath of Rest on Earth and here accept his People then the Land of Canaan more accursed than all Lands while possessed by the accurs d Nations shall be most blessed the Glory of all Lands The place of Gods Residence and Delightful Rest Ezek. 26 6.40 and 34.26.30 Hos 2 20 23. c. The Third great Revolution still adding another 800 falls out in the 2400. y. of the World under Moses when

Stars rise together yet do not set together yet none vary an Hairs-breadth from their appointed Lines of Circumference Neither 2 do they vary the time appointed them but do precisely observe it even to a Minute hereupon the Psalmist celebrates Gods Praise For the outgoings of the Morning and Evening Psal 65.8 for the exact Vicissitude of Day and Night and the admirable Equipage the Host of Heaven marcheth in according to the Ordinances of Heaven from the Lord of Hosts Jer. 31. 35. The Sun Moon and Stars know and observe precisely their time both of going down and of rising up Psal 104.19.20 which all the Powers of Hell and Potontates on Earth can neither Hinder nor Hastem Job 38.12 Psal 74.16.17 Yea so exact and regular is their Mation that Men who knows not where themselves shall be or what shall befall them to Morrow Prov. 27.1 can write Ephemerides what Eclipses will be for many Years to come in what point of Heaven and what Hour of Day or Night such and such Positions Conjunctions Oppositions c. will happen yea not only when the Sun will rise and set all the Round Year but also that the Tail-Star of the Great Bear will early and late point directly to Arcturus that Arcturus shall rise exactly when the Sun sets upon the 10th of March and that the great Star of the Lyon and of the Great-Dog though they rise together yet the Dog Star will set some Hours before Cor Leonis because their Sphere is oblique as to us this latter being neerer to the Tropick of Cancer as the former is to that of Capricorn these and many more Instances not mentioned may demonstrate how they all exactly observe their time and way without wandring Yea and 2dly All this the Stars do Without weariness also In an Host of men on Earth some Soldiers will be found both wandring and weary But in this Host of Heaven so called As none are found wandring in sano sensu So nor can we find one Star that may be reputed weary The Prophet compares God to a Chief Commander calling forth his Companies the Host of Heaven all in his Muster-Roll and laying his Commands upon them though some Soldiers may fail in their March either through Fear or Feebleness as that Aegyptian did 1. Sam. 30.11.12.13 but not so much as one Star ever failed Isa 40.26 though their March be many Millions of Miles round the Circumference and that without Rest and Respit Night or Day Yea and now for almost 6000 Years But one Instance for brevity to wit that afore mentioned 'T is a Matter of of great Admiration that Canis Major and Cor Leonis among the fixed Stars should Run a Race Round about the Globe of the Earth which the Hebrews say is distant from Heaven a 500. Years Journey rise together at their first Creation in one point of time yet though they have been Running their restless Course for neer 6000 Years now neither of them hath fainted or failed in the way so as at any time to outrun each other but still both of those Great Stars observe a precise point of time for their Rising together now as they did at their first setting forth yea and of setting together to those under the Aequinoctial though not so to us through the obliquity of their Circle and Circumference in our Horrizon The same may be said of the other Stars The 4th Remark is that the Great God hath created not only Innumerable and Vnnameable Stars that are fixed in the 8th Sphere call'd the Starry Heaven but also seven Planets or wandring Stars as the word Planet fignifies so called not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Simply but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Secundum quid or Comparatively If those Planets be Simply and by themselves considered they have made their several Revolutions in their own distinct Orbs at the most fixed and most unchangeable certain Periods from the Beginning of the World to this present day but to speak comparatively in Respect of the fixed Stars all these Planets are placed under them have a differing Motion from them and hold an unequal distance to them yea and one to another in Respect of their seeming Vagabond and Eccentrick Motion they have various Longitudes Latitudes Conjunctions Oppositions Sextile Square and Trine Asp●cts Sometimes they move more swiftly sometimes more slowly as they are higher or lower in their Epicycles sometimes Retrograde Direct or Stationary never keeping the same distance among themselves or to any of the fixed Stars nor holding one and the same Situation in the Firmament as the fixed do Notwithstanding all this no Stars wander less than they do but have a most certain constant stated and regular Motion Duely performing the precise points and periods of their compass in their appointed Times As the Sun knows his going down Psal 104.19 So do all the other six Planets comprehended in one Ver●e Post Sim Sum Sequitur proxima Luna subest Wherein S is Saturn J Jupiter M Mars The next S is Sol the Sun V Venus and M Mercury with Luna the Moon All these 7 are call'd wandring Stars for the Reasons above named and this Denomination hath a Divine warrant from the Apostle Jude v. 13. where wandring Stars are mentioned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the sense only of the common Judgment of Sense which beholds them carryed about in a differing Course to the whole Circuit of Heaven beside Two of those 7. Planets are these 2. Great Luminaries or Lights of the World the Sun and Moon both which be a whole Bundle of Wonders The Sun is the Prince of Planets yet as his Hebrew Name Shemesh Signifies is a Servant to Gods Servants He cometh out of his Chamber as a Bridegroom with marvellous Splendor Pomp and Bravery when he first sheweth himself above our Horizon and Rejoyceth as a Champion to Run his Race Psal 19.4.5 This he Runs with such a wonderful Swiftness as exceedeth the Eagles Flight more than the Eagle exceeds the slow Motion of the Snail Bellarmine saith the Sun runneth seven Thousand Miles in the Eight part of an Hour Bell. de Ascens Mentis in Deum grad 7. and with such Incomparable Sweetness Eccless 11.7 that Eudoxus the Philosopher profess'd his Willingness to be burnt up presently by the Sun so he might be but admitted to come so near it as to learn the admirable Nature of it and Chrysostom cannot but wonder at the Suns darting down its Rayes towards the Earth whereas all Fire shooteth and hasteth up toward Heaven I might mention many more Marvels in the Sun were it not Besides my present Design Design As likewise in the other Great Light the Moon cal'd Hebr. Jareach of Rauach to Refresh or Refrigerate because she cools the Earth with her Influences and Moses mentioneth that as the Sun by warmth so the Moon by Moysture make the Earth fruitful Deut. 33.14 as some will needs place Hell in the Hollow of the Sun so

Indeed Fair and plausible but as they are not Divine and Scriptural wanting a Warrant from the Spirits Inspiration so there is 1 a plus and a minus a more and a less Attending them and if the two former periods why not the latter 2 Christ hath said that this latter period shall be shortened for the Elects sake Matth. 24 22. which words may have a special Relation to the world in general as well as to Jerusalem in particular 3 There is a German Doctor who tells us we have lost more in the Chronology of Time than Two Hundred years 4 Consider that Tycho Brahe calls the Former Epoches of great Revolutions Vneven ones and why may not this last be so 5 Remember how the Antients make 960 y. betwixt one Climacterical Conjunction and another this will Advance c. 6 so will a Reckoning from Christs Ascension and not from his Birth 7 This Planetary Revolution being the 7th we may expect the sooner a Restitution of all things All Sabbatick Circulations are Reputed as Rings of Gold and the 7th is the Diamond and Sparkling Jewel of Daily Monthly and Annual Revolutions I shall therefore Conclude with this precious double 7th both in the paragraph and in the Subdivision and with that old Hebrew prayer Bimerah Bejamenu let this 7th Millennium or Blessed Jubilee come quickly and in our Day Before we be lodged in the silent Grave even so Come Lord Jesus come quickly So prayeth C. N. FINIS POST-SCRIPT 'T is true when this Sabbatick Jubilee shall begin no mortal man can determin the Hour Day Mouth or Year Tacente Scripturà Taceamus nos where the Scripture hath not a Mouth to speak we should not have a Tongue to ask no man nor Angel knows when the Son of man will come to Restore all things Matth 24 36. Acts 3 21. The Truth is Certain that it shall be but the Time is Vncertain when it will be for the Scripture is silent upon a 2 fold account 1 to suppress our Curiosity eorum quae scire nec datur nec fas est Docta est Ignorantia saith Austin An Itch of knowing secrets is a sort of madness saith Calvin Arcana Dei sunt Arca Dei a prying into Gods Secrets which belong not to us Deut. 29 29. may have the same measure with presumptuous prying into Gods Ark. 1. Sam. 6 19. and Peter gives the same charge against Curiosity as against Theft or Murder 1. Pet. 4 15. Tu fuge ceu pestem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To be too pragmatical and inquisitive after matters unrevealed falls under a severe Reproof Acts 1 6 7 11. Judg. 13 18. God hath set us our Bounds as Exod 19 12. His Revealed will we must be wise to Sobriety not above what 's written The 2d Account is to oblige our Vigilancy Ideò later vnus Dies ut observentur omnes saith Austin Christ would not tell his Disciples the day or time of his Return though he told them all that was expedient John 14 2 16 7. yet pronounces them 3 times Happy that are always upon their watch Luke 12 37 38 43. so Mark 13.37 Nevertheless we may safely say this Day of Redemption Draweth nigh and must now be at the very Door as may further be Demonstrated as it is with the Microcosm or little World Man so 't is with the Microcosm or great World As Mans first Age is Infancy reckon'd from his Birth till he be 7 y. old His 2d Age is Childhood from 7 to 14. His third is Adolescency or his stripling Age from 14 to 21. His fourth is his Youth from 21 to 35. His fift is his middle Age or Fulness of Strength which lasts from 35 to about 50. these 2 last are uneven Numbers lasting longer in the Course of Nature than the former 3 wherein Natural Vigor is shooting up in growth as a plant till it come to its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or full Strength then comes the sixt his old Age wherein he declines daily and droops towards the Earth from whence he came therefore is it call'd the evil Age Eccles 12 1. senium malum are convertible Terms because it is attended with manifold Maladys and Miserys then he saith with Isaac Behold now I am old and I know not the Day of my Death Gen. 27 2. and with Jacob behold I dye and the Time draweth nigh that I must dye Gen. 47 29. and 48 21. and with Paul I protest that I dye daily 1 Cor. 15 31. Even so it is with the great World whose Infancy was to Enoch the first Climacterical Conjunction it 's Childhood to Noah at the second it 's Adolescency to Moses at the third it 's Youth to Solomon c. at the fourth it 's middle Age to Christ at the fift it 's old Age brings in Charls the Great at the sixt This is further illustrated thus Paul the Apostle adjusteth this Metaphor not only comparing God to a great Householder who disposeth of Times to his Family the World as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies in which Dispensation there is a Time of Tutorage Pupillage and Pedagogy which comprehends all those Times before Christ whose coming in the Flesh He calls the Fulness of Time twice over Gal. 4.1 2 3 4. and Eph. 1 10. that is the full grown Age of the World and of the Church in the World to be freed from Wardship c. And the same Apostle calls the Times afterwards the Ends of the World 1. Cor. 10 11. which can signify no other than its old Age. the very Lees and Dregs of Time So the same Apostle calls them the last and therefore the worst Days 2. Tim. 3 3. and the Lord is at Hand Phil. 4 5. the Author to the Hebrews calls them also the last Days Hebr. 1 2. and the End of the World Hebr. 9 26. and the Apostle James saith the Coming of the Lord draws nigh and the Judge is standing at the Door I am 5 7 8 9. and the Apostle Peter saith the End of all things is at Hand 1. Pet. 4.7 and 2. Pet. 3.3 and John the Apostle saith expresly it is the last Time and we know it is the last Time 1 John 2.18 and He further addeth yet a little while and Christ will come quickly Revel 1.7 and 3 11. and 22 7 12 20. So that all the Apostles seem to expect then the End of the World and Paul points to his own Body when he said this Corruptible shall put on Incorruption c. 1 Cor. 15 53. and expected by the coming of Christ to be Changed rather than to Dye 1 Thess 4 17. yet after other things were Revealed to him 2 Thess 2 2 3. c. And so to John likewise in his Seal and Book-prophesy Wherein he discovers 1. The Fata Imperii 2. the Fata Ecclesiae as a Seal represents the State and a Book the Church All to be Accomplished before the End or they might