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A27621	The pattern of the divine temple, sanstuary [sic], and city of the New Jerusalem measured according to Ezekiels last and greatest vision, chap. 40 to the end ... : designed as a preface to two late treatises, viz. The prophetic history of the Reformation, and The grand apocalyptick vision of the witnesses, rising and ascending ... / by Tho. Beverley ...	Beverley, Thomas.; Beverley, Thomas. Prophetical history of the Reformation.; Beverley, Thomas. Grand apocalyptick vision of the witnesses slain.	1690 (1690)	Wing B2167; ESTC R4196	30,253	36

Re-Reformation I have Lastly published the Prophetical Song of Solomon from the Kingdom of David the Type to the Kingdom of the Great David the Antitipe Shewing its Stupendious Configurations with all Prophecy There now Remains to fill up the Line of Time from the Going out of Egypt to the Building the Temple and so to Solomon's Death and from thence to the Restoring that Temple by Cyrus and therein to Solve the Difficulties of the 480 Years in the History 1 Kings 6. 1. and the 450 Acts 13. 20. and to Clear that the 390 Days and 40 Days of Ezekiel's lying on his side continue the Line from Solomon's Death and the One Kingdom of Israel Becoming Two to the Restoration by Cyrus And upon all this I Find it necessary in an entire Discourse to clear by plain Positive Doctrinal Scripture in compare with Prophetical that There is such a Kingdom of Christ as of the 1090 Years New Heaven above and the New Earth below that Begins with a Judgment by the Vials and ends in the Casting the Last Enemies the Devil Hell and Death into the Lake and between Those is a Thousand Years Kingdom of Visible Glory of Christ and his Saints after the manner of his Transfiguration above and after the manner of Adam in Paradise below and Full of Holy Spirituality and Enjoyment of the Redemption of Christ Free from all Cerinthian or Millenarian Heresie and shining in that Divine Oeconomy or Preparational Glory until the Kingdom is deliver'd up to God and the Father All in All. And Lastly To shew that the Lords Prayer the Sacraments of Baptism and of the Lords Supper even as I have shown the Sabbaths of the Old and New Testament have their Continuance and their Great use as the only Ceremonials of the New Testament in Typing out that Great Kingdom Upon all this I Humbly Propose to every Reader that is Favourable hereunto and of Ability to Assist me by Contributions for Thirty Sheets more to compleat the Work at a Penny a sheet and a Seventh Book to Six Subscribers or as they please in further Assistances to be Given either to my self or to Mr. Salusbury at the Rising Sun in Cornhill And the Press shall be daily going on to Finish the Work And with Faith Hope and Prayer Let us if we Love the Kingdom and Appearance of Christ Humbly and Earnestly wait for the Great Revolution I Affirm of the Kingdom of Christ at 1697 to enter into its Succession and 75 Years after viz. 1772 to begin in the 1000 Years Appearance in Glory Month 11. Day 29. 1689 90. The Pattern of the Divine Temple Sanctuary and City of the New Jerusalem Measur'd according to Ezekiels Last and Greatest Vision c. 40. c. 41. c. to the End AT a day of a most Certain and exact Date when Jerusalem and its Temple lay in Ruins God shews in Vision to Ezekiel not a Model nor a Direction to any persons to Build according to it but a Building in Actual Being and therefore a Building made without Hands 2 Cor. 5. 1 Revel 21 10. Heb. 10. 11. 16. whose Builder and Maker God is Eternal in the Heavens from whence It is to come down in the New Heaven and the New Earth viz. a Temple a City that hath Foundations and a Countrey Lying about it the principal State of which is Heavenly but to shine down to the New Earth from the New Heaven Rev. 21. 24. The Preparation to the Vision 1. The Date is above the Exactness of any Record viz. By the Year of Captivity It is first dated and thereby it is Joyn'd with the Thirtieth Year in the Beginning of Ezekiel's c. 1. 1. Prophecy which being set alone without any other note of Time can in no fair Construction be any other Thirtieth Year but from the Last Jubilee according to General Jewish Style of Time and that being the Fifth year of Jehoiachins Captivity and the present year of the Vision being the Twenty Fifth year of that Captivity It shews it to be the Fiftieth c. 40. 1. year and so the year of Jubilee Fitly to Represent the Great Jubilee of the World that shall be in this Vision Accomplish'd It was on the Tenth day of the Month Answering the day of the first Institution of the Passeover when also will be the Exod. 12. 1. Dan. 12. 1. Matt. 24. 21. Rev. 3. 10. Greatest Passeover of Deliverance from the Great Trouble Tribulation and Temptation which shall come on all the Reprobate Earth but the Saints shall be privilegd'd from it It was in the Beginning of the Year or Spring on which the Greatest Acts of God are Recorded and which God E●od 12. 1. made the Head of the Sacred Year It was in the Fourteenth year after the City was 〈…〉 To shew it was in the deep Desolation of the Temple and City of Jerusalem and Land of Israel as the Season of Mercy For when his Servants are the lowest Then in the Mount the Lord will be seen Gen. 22. 14. with Ez. 40. 2. Lastly It was the Self Same Day and thereby the Time is Gen. 2. 1. c. 7. 11. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 7. 8. Knit to the self same day of the Creation and First Sabboth To the self same day of the Flood when the World that then was Perish'd by Water Answerably the Heavens and Earth that now are are Treasur'd up for Fire Even for the day when this very Vision shall come into high effect All Great Epochs 2. The Theatre of the Vision is the City Jerusalem that then lay in Ruin and the Land of Israel under Desolation whether the Prophet Ezekiel was carried by a Divine Ha●d in the Visions of God Agreeable to so Great Visions of God as will be when this Jerusalem comes down from Heaven 3. This wonderful Measurer whose Appearance was as Brass as the Feet of Jesus Christ are Represented in the Prophecy of Daniel and in the Revelation This Measurer is parallel to the wonderful Numberer call'd Palmoni in the Margin of the Bible Dan. 8. 13. Knitting both Visions 4. There is a Charge upon Ezekiel obliging all his Powers of Attention and Observation Son of Man see with thy Eyes Hear with thy Ears and set thy Heart upon All that I shew thee c. 40. v. 4. which Charge is renewed c. 44. 5. shewing how weighty and how sublime a State this Temple-Communion with God shall be 5. There is a Charge upon Ezekiel to shew to the House of Israel All that He saw c. 40. v. 40. and then c. 43. 10. to shew them the House that They may be Asham'd of their Iniquities and let Them saith the Lord Measure the Pattern And if They are Asham'd shew them All the Forms Laws and Ordinances c. of the House Now this I look upon as chiefly Prophetical of the Time when the Temple shall be Open'd in Heaven And it shall Tend to the Great Purification of the Churches of

may be Ashamed of our present even our Best as a Low and Defiled State is the Humble and Earnest Prayer of My most Revered Your most Unworthy but Faithful Servant in the Prophesies of Jesus Christ T. Beverley THE PREFACE FOR as much as I have Labour'd to the utmost Yet not I but the Grace of God with me in the search what and what manner of Time The Holy Spirit that was in the Prophets of old did signifie in Setting out the Excellent Majesty and Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ in his Kingdom This Great Vision of Ezekiel did in my own Thoughts Vpbraid me that I had made no Attempt of Enquiry at the Divine Oracle Concerning it I Resolv'd by the same Grace therefore to Consider so Stupendious a Model of Divine Truth And I Can in some Humble degree Speak it That I have Found in it like the waters of the Sanctuary the Accesses of Divine Illumination Rising Higher and Higher and Becoming a River Overflowing my Thoughts with Vnexpressible Sweetness and Satisfaction And though I very Freely Acknowledge There is in it an Infinite and unsearchable wisdom as a Boundless River that Cannot be pass'd by any Humane understanding Or as the Hiding of the Divine Power in a Light that no Man Can Approach Yet Beams of Light Coming out of his Hand I have Found to Instruct and direct Let no Man therefore I Humbly Beseech Blame this Freedom of my Ministration in this Dark Scripture Seeing This Vision of Ezekiel as All other Prophetical Scriptures are Scripture in the Reverentiallest Confession of All and therefore are Commanded to be Search'd And These are They which Testifie of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ These are as other Scripture if duly open'd and Apply'd Profitable for Correction Reproof Instruction in the ways of Righteousness It is Witnessed particularly of this Vision That It is to be Shown and is herein Profitable to Excite a Shame of our Iniquities That it is our Duty to Measure this Pattern And as the Apostle Peter Assures us No Prophecy of Scripture is of any Private but Publick Interpretation That All the Servants of God do well in giving Heed to it as the only Light in such a Mid-night Confusion as we are yet in under the Apostacy till that Morning Star of the Rising Witnesses and this Open'd Temple dawn in upon us For as All such Prophecy was Given by the Vniversal Publick Holy Spirit So It leads to the Publick Universal Glory of God and of the Lamb in the Salvation of his Church Further I am very well Assur'd As the Revelation is Taken out of the Prophet Daniel so far as Concerns the Sufferings of the Church of Christ under the Pagan Emperors and then under the Ten Kings Popes and other the Antichristian Hierarchy So unto the very Temple and Throne State in Ezekiel is Daniels Prophecy Adjusted in the Four Monarchies as to the Throne And in the Evens Morns and other Notes of Time as to the Accomplishing the Desolations of and Cleansing the Temple or Sanctuary and Final Judgment on the Last Desolator Antichrist and shewing how Long And so the Temple Representation Rev. c. 4. c. 5. The Throne of God and of the Lamb the Seven Lamps the Rainbow the Holy Angels the Elders the Living Creatures and Every Creature in Heaven and Earth Applauding and making Acclamation to God and to the Lamb It is Taken out of this Vision of Ezekiel And all Times Dated accordingly by what Befell this Temple And whereas It should have Immediately Appear'd in Glory at the Lords Resurrection and God and the Lamb have Come down to be the Temple of Saints There was only an Annointing of it in Heaven As The Sanctuary was Annointed by Moses when prepar'd to be set up of which Annointing of the Holy of Holies Daniel Prophesied c. 9. 24. together with Vision Seal'd or Staid There was yet all along Some Proportion of a Counter point on Earth in Giving the Spirit The Symbols of which are as if Taken out Ezek. c. 47. 9. c. to the Apostles in an Apostolical Ministry Appearing During the Service of the Four Living Creatures which Reach'd Just to the Death of Alexander Severus at the Third Seal And so Long the Ballances and Weights of the Sanctuary were Just and Bore up against the Apostacy or Mistery of Iniquity then working From that Time there was a Declination Yet after Constantine the Elders and Living Creatures Appear under the Sixth Seal but as it were indirectly and with a Glance only on the present State of the Church viz. Only in a Prophecy of the New Jerusalem or Describing it So that in the Seventh Seale There was a Retyring to the Altar of Incense and the Daily Sacrifice was Taking away And then the Temple was shut up and the Court without Trodden under Foot of the Gentiles viz. Just at the First Trumpet And so It Continues a Shut Temple and no Appearance of the Elders or Living Creatures nor the Temple Opened till the Days of the Seventh Trumpet But then It shall be seen more and more and so onward to the Coming down of God and the Lamb to be the Temple of the New Jerusalem Rev. c. 8. c. 9. c. 10. c. 11. till v. 15. It is therefore no Wonder that there are not more Vniversal and Close Researches of Holy and Learned Men and by a Concert of Endeavors to Spring the Mines and Break up the Depths of Prophecy to Cultivate Till and Plough up the Fallow Ground of Prophetical Scripture that Conventions and Convocations are more yet Taken up about the Fescues of Ceremonies then about Eekiels and Johns Reeds to measure the Temple of God in the New Jerusalem Touching which if Any Sober Heathen on Moral Philosophers Judgment might be Taken whether it were not Even Ridiculous when such Great Scripture Prophesies are before us that there are such Disputes about Rituals I am sure They must Give it very Dishonourably to the present Christian Even Reformed Churches Whosoever of Them areso Meanly Engaged when so much Greater Things Stand by Them under the Disregard of not being with utmost Diligence Inquired into But certainly As The Jews Although at Herods Summons They Determin'd aright the Place but never took Care to Inquire Diligently and Accurately the Time of Messiahs being Born Fell into the Great and Ruinous mistake of Rejecting Him Even so The not Stating the Kingdom of Christ and the Time of it may be the Cause of a Grevious Slumber upon the Churches of Christ as Matt. 25. 1. The Jews Great Scandal against Jesus Christ Lay here They Expected a Pompous Messiah and an External Glory without Regard in the First place to the Spirituality of his Kingdom We pretend on the other side to be altogether for the Spirituality of his Kingdom and to have no Regard to the Visible Glory of it But we Glory in Transferring all such Expectations to the Eternal State in Heaven But indeed Both