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An appendix to a discourse of indictions and to a newly publish'd discourse of the jubilee of the kingdom of Christ.
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Beverley, Thomas.
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סועד And that the Prophetick Spirit might awaken us to know All is intentional when he makes an Addition to 1260. It is by two Indictions or Fifteens in 1290. When he makes an Addition to 1290 it is by Three Fifteens 1335. Whoever considers these Things can no more think This could be by Chance Then that Things argu'd from their Train Series and connexion in Creation and Providence to be the Products of an infinite Mind could be by Chance Could any one come after the Divine Spirit and find that in his Writings that he had not laid there Or could He lay them there and not know he laid them there himself and could He be suppos'd to lay them there but as a Depositum a Prophetical Treasure prepar'd for great Ends and Purpoposes As 1. That we might know beyond the power of Objection That this whole Line beginning at the Death of Solomon when Israel and Judah became two Houses or Kingdoms is one solid real and not imaginary one continued and Progredient and not divided tho' distinguish'd Line to the Blessed State It therefore begins in the Indictional 390 and so ends in 1335 so even curiously contrived into Indictions and the middle part compriz'd between both into the whole Indictional Frame tho' in various Numbers as is presently to be shewn The supreme Wisdom of the great Arithmetician or Wonderful Numberer as he is call'd Dan. 8. 13. see Margin there is seen in his Arithmetick Frame We cannot attain to its Persection for there is Wonder and Secresie in it But there is what we may apprehend by considering how and when that style of Time Indictions or Fifteens of Years came into Use Lustres or Account of Time by fives of Years had been long before but then these Fives triplicated or three joined together and call'd Indictions according to the very Hebrew Word before noted came into known and publick use at a peculiar Time when Providence knew Prophecy would have need of it And as Indictions are constituted of the Number Five which is the Number giving spring to all Parts of these Numbers and indeed of all the most Cardinal Numbers the whole Composure is most wonderful of Fives so join'd by Threes The Time then of Indictions coming into known and publick Use is that time agreed by all History when the Roman Empire from Pagan became Christian under Constantine memorializ'd The Great the First Christian Emperour Since which time it hath continued in use at Rome and in what is call'd the Empire to this day Now from its first entrance it had a time of settlement and of growing into a generally us'd Character of Time The Roman Papacy was preparing for its Supremacy and the Barbarous Nations that were to be the Kingdoms of the Ten Kings its Horns and who should give their Kingdom and Power to it were pressing into the Empire as into an Outer-Court of Christian Profession without the Power being so much declin'd and so began the 〈◊〉 two Moons af the Gentiles and the Witnesses beginning their 1260 Days of Prophecy cloathed with Sack-cloath both for the Ruine of the Empire as a Publick Calamity and for the Visible Beginnings of the Apostacy And just about the Time when Providence had prepar'd the so now universally known Language of Indictions or Fifteens of Years by which Time Times and Half Indicted Time might had Prophecy been understood have been certainly known to have Entered viz. Some time between the Gentiles Pressing in upon the Empire and their having settl'd into Kingdoms and the Papacy with them Thus the whole Line is setled upon its Frame of Indictions as in its general view but that we may more particularly and distinguishingly understand it and how to discern Times by these Indictions as under particular Distinctions of Time is what I would now present For as if there had been a Line of Indictions and yet no Distinctions in so long a Line we could have made by Indictions alone no Judgment of Time So if there had not been Indictions we could not have so exactly and assuringly Judg'd of the Bounds of Time according to those Distinctions in some Parts of the Line That we may therefore the better Judge hereof we must observe This Indictional Line though so wholly made up of Indictions or Fifteens as hath been shewn yet the Parts of it are variously given Some Parts in Indictions 390 1335 Some Parts in Numbers but not in Indictions 40 490 Some neither in Number nor in Indictions viz. The Time between Cyrus his Decree and the Weeks beginning The Time after the Weeks to the beginning of the 1335 Days And yet both fall in with the whole Line into Indictions And we may humbly conceive of the Reasons of all This. 1. It was necessary the First Time of bearing Israel's Sin or the First Three hundred Ninety Years in the Line should be given in perfect Indiction because it was to introduce the whole indictional Line and to give as it were the Soul of Indiction to it 2. It was as necessary the 1335 should be indictional not only as shutting up and consummating the indictional Line but more principally because that was the Course of Time God was pleased to give the Criterion or Knowledge of by Indictions and Providence had prepar'd according to Prophecy 3. The giving these two Parts of Time in Number viz. The Forty Days of bearing Judah's Sin was necessary that the Time of the Babylonish Captivity ending as a notable Pillar of Time might be plainly known But most necessary the Weeks to Messiah should be so precisely given That that lofty Pyramid of Time called the Fulness of Time might be prepared for before 't was erected and then stand firm to the End of Time and fulness of Times viz. All Times Gal. 4. 4. Ephes 1. 10. or the Kingdom of Christ But they are not given in Indictions even as the Time before the Weeks and after them not so much as in Number because Prophecy was Pleas'd so far to Veil it self That it might by close Search and Enquiry be understood and open'd to those only who through Desire separating themselves are stirr'd up by God to intermeddle with that Wisdom And withal this Fluency of the Line of Time from the End of the First 390 to the Beginning of the 1335 through the several successive Indictions and the several distinctive Divisions of the Line by its Titles of Event upon it as the words going forth the Weeks the Time of the Seals is yet by them kept united and conjoyn'd with it self while the same Indiction takes hold of one Part and of the other in each Distinction and will shew how according to the Laws of Indiction those Years that are not numbred are to be determined in their Numbers And even in the very Parts of the Line that are most under the guard of Indiction yet those most lofty Columns of Event distinguishing Time may fall in the middle of an Indiction or
An APPENDIX TO A DISCOURSE OF INDICTIONS And to a Newly Publish'd Discourse OF THE JUBILEE OF THE Kingdom of Christ Approaching at the next following Vernal Equinox in our Vulgar Account 1701. Proposed to the most Learned in Scripture History Chronology or Arithmetick and Accountancy for deep Consideration THE Prophetick Line of Time from the Death of Solomon to the glorious Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ which I have for several Years last past established upon the greatest Reasons of Scripture Prophecy and its Chronology with the fairest Agreement of Universal History and Chronology is now confirm'd to me by the Indictional Frame or Fifteens of Years of which it is composed that doth demonstrate it to be one and the same entire Line th◠given at several Times in several Cantons or Parts and that it was so constituted by the Divine Spirit that we might know it to be one Line And that by the Laws of Indiction we may know where the Distributions Begin and End That even as by the Historical and Prophetical Assignations of them we have one view of them so by Indictions we may have even Arithmetical Demonstration of their Bounds The Line it self I present in the very Letter of Scripture in plain open view  Years Ezekiel's Visional bearing the Iniquity Ezek. 4. 4. 5 of the House of Israel on his left side a Day for a Year 390 Ezekiel's Turning on his Right-side immediately after the 390 Days accomplished and bearing the Iniquity of the House of Judah forty Days v. 6. 8. without turning from one side to another to confuse one time with another and Bands Layd on him to that purpose by God 40 The long Line beginning with the Persian Monarchy given therefore visionally by the River Ulai in the Palace of Shushan in the Province of Elam All Persian of 2300 Evs-morns according to the Prophetick Standard a Day for a Year During the time of the Sanctuary Trodden under Foot until the cleansing or Justification of it 2300 The distribution of this long Line of 2300 Evs Morns into its several Parts 1. The Time supposed of the Word 's going forth to Restore Judah and Jerusalem after the Seventy years of the Babylonish Captivity and in all appearance ending with the Forty Years of bearing Judah's Sin and beginning just before the Seventy Weeks which commence from the time of the Word 's going forth which took up a valuable Space Dan. 9. 25. For it was by the Commandment and according to the Decree of Cyrus Darius Artaxerxes and whose Decrees are written by Ezra Ezr. 6. 14. This space is by great Scripture and Chronologick Reasons and now by Indictions shall be demonstrated to be 75 The Time of the seventy Weeks Forty nine of which join with the time of the Word 's going forth to restore and make an 124 Years with the Building the Wall by Artaxerxes His Letter on that Account Nehem. 2. c. of which Nehemiah gives the History Sixty two of the Weeks run to the publick Appearance of the Messiah Dan. 9. During his more retir'd Life 'till his appearance as a Prince and Leader at the one Week of his Publick Ministry v. 25. Confirming the Covenant and sealing it by his Death v. 27. in the half or middle of the Week then for the other half Week committing it to his Apostles with the Spirit poured out Revel 6. 1. Represented by Christ's opening the First Seal going out Conquering and to Conquer According to the Prophets Standard 490 From the End of the Weeks to the Beginning of the little Horns Dan. 7. 25. Time Times and half Time made out by great Scriptural and Historical Arguments and Indictionally demonstrated The Time of the Seals Open'd The 400 The Time of the Time Times and half Time of the little Horns c. 12.7 wearing scattering the Saints of the most High and of the Church in the Wilderness Rev. 11. 3. c. 12. 6 14. the Witnesses Prophecy in Sackcloth with which concur the Gentiles Rev. 11. 1. c. 13. 5. and the Beasts 42 Moons 1260 The Additional time of Thirty or two Indictions added to the Times and half of 1260 making 1290 under the Character of Time From the taking away the daly Sacrifice 30 The Addition of Forty Five or Three Indictions to 1290 making 1335 reaches to the Blessed state of the Kingdom of the Resurrection when Daniel shall stand in his Lot of the New Jerusalem which cannot be without the Resurrection 45 Now as it is most certain by Account that these Sums laid together make 2730  Indict So it is most certain even to Arithmetick Demonstration they arise by Indictions or Fifteens 182 That the Divine Spirit hath put an Honour upon the Number Fifteen in chusing it for the Day of the so solemn Feast of Tabernacles which he made a great Type of his Kingdom as appears by the most awful reading the Law on an indicted Time in it in the Year of Release Deut. 31. 10. Adorning it with Paradisiac Appearance in the most goodly Boughs and by the Prophetick Representation of the state of the Kingdom of Christ under the keeping that Feast Zech. 14. 16. and the Misery of those who are shut for ever out of that Kingdom in their not keeping it and the peculiar mention of it in the Vision of Ezekiel's glorious Temple Ezek. 45. 25. But that he hath chosen it in this Line of Time is the Business now in hand and to be made out beyond Contradiction for the whole Twenty seven hundred thirty is all composed of Fifteens Some peculiar Parts of it are given in such Numbers as Fall into Fifteens of themselves as 390 1260 1290 1335 each of which deserve great Consideration The Three hundred Ninety as the First Part of the Line of Time hath this peculiar Remark That as it is the First Part so it gives Measure and Frame to the whole For as it is perfectly compos'd of Indictions So it is most observable Three Hundred Ninety multiplyed by the Number Seven of which Scripture makes so great Use in all Things and in all Prophecy both on Accounts of Mercy of Grace and of punishment for Iniquity Levit. 26. I say the First Three Hundred Ninety multiplied by Seven makes up the whole Prophetical Line of Twenty seven Hundred Thirty and so casts all into Indictions or Fifteens as any one moderately skill'd in Accountancy will easily find In the Thirteen hundred thirty five the End and shutting up of the whole Line in the Fulness of all Times There is as I may humbly express a Care and Diligence and even an Industry of the Divine Spirit to compose it into Indictions or Fifteens For in the twelve hundred and sixty as the whole is all Indiction so each Division is according to indicted Time Time or one Time 36◠Years Two Times or one Time doubl'd 720 Years One time halv'd or 180 Y. each is perfect Indictional and so the Hebrew first gave it its Style