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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

the Church had again another Sabbath of Rest from her long and groaning slavery in the brick bondage of Egypt this is so plain in Scripture History I need not inlarge upon it as upon the 2 former a word only the blessed Messiah which the 7th Revolution may bring in is greater than Moses as much as a Son than a Servant c. Hebr. 3 3 4 5 6. He will plague the Pharaoh of mystical Aegypt with sorer and severer plagues his Vials of wrath Revel 16 till He make him yeeld and let go his People as Exod. 12.31 He will not only bring his Church into the Wilderness which was all Moses could do leaving the conquest of Canaan to Joshua but bring her also into the Heavenly Country The fourth falls in the 3200. y. of the world adding another 8 to the 24. under Solomon and the Kings of Israel according to incomparable Tycho Brahe this is likewise evident enough in Scripture that the Church had her Sabbath of Rest under Solomon that peaceable King as his Name signifies yea and the Ark of God that had from Moses time hitherto no better harbor than in a Moving and Tottering Tabernacle found a Sabbath of Rest in a standing and stately Temple the wonder of the World not only for his time but for his Godly Successors also Still our Saviour whom the first Revolution ushers into the World in y. 4000. is greater than great Solomon Math. 12 42. He is the Prince of Peace the maker and matter of our peace our Sanctuary and Salvation in whom alone our Souls find a Sabbath of Rest Math 11 29. This needs still less Illustration Go forward then 800. y. more to the Sixth Epocha or Revolution in 4800 y. of the world which brings in Charles the great under whom as the Roman Empire was in its Zenith or most flourishing estate at Christs Birth so now it was translated from Rome into Germany This must be insisted upon a little because 't is beyond Scripture History 't is true the Church could have but a slender Sabbath of Rest in his Time for then Antichrist was Regnant and Leo was Rampant Leo the 3d was then Pope who prostituted his Keys to the Emperors feet for which the Popish People whipt him like a Rogue If not plucked out his Eyes and cut out his Tongue c. Frideaux Introduction pag. 96 yea in this 8th Century Pope Joane made a good proof that the Church of Rome was a Base Whore so that the Rest of the Church in this Age was like-the Rest that the Ark of the Covenant had in the midst of Jordan and that of the Priests of the Lord who attended it Josh 4 9 10 16. with 3 13. The Feet of the Priests that bare the Ark did Rest in the midst of Jordan there they stood and must not stir out of their station until 600000 people were passed over the 4000. Cubits of dry Land within the banks there they stand they Rest in the midst of Jordan with hideous Mountains of water hanging over their Heads a most Ghastly and frightful sight without all peradventure yet there they stood till God cal'd them off betwixt the People and Danger so do all good Ministers in all Ages the first shock falls on them The Church hath such short Restles Rests or Sabbaths sometimes as Act 9 31. then had the Churches Rest and such a Sabbath she enjoyed in this Emperors time whom Eginardus writing his life calls a most pious and glorious Emperor He waged his Wars principally to Extirpate Heathenism and to propagate Christianity more than for Enlarging his Dominions Pareus Med. Hist Eccless pag. 257 He trode in the path of his Father Pipin and of his Grandfather Charles Martel of France in that great Service of Christendom against the Saracens had an Aversensess though he Reconcil'd the Pope and People from allowing the Popish upholding of Images which appear'd in a Councel held at Franckford and his writing against the 2d Councel of Nice He gave for his Motto Christus Regnat Vincit Triumphat Christ Reigns Conquers and Triumphs This was much even then when Antichrist began to be both Regnant and Triumphant in this 8th Century Prideaux Introd pag. 229 230 as this Motto expressed his Christian Humility in the midst of his Grandeur and Greatness to the great shame of the Popes Pride and Ambition in that time so it Demonstrated his prophetick Faith that Christ in due time would Trample Antichrist underfoot and Triumph over Him He is said to give unto the Empire not only a new Body but a new Soul too by promoting Religion in all his Conquer'd Countries Alsted Encuclopaed pag 3019. He made Amicable leagues with sundry Infidel Kings and Princes that they might be more Favorable to their Christian Subjects Pareus Med. Hist Eccles pag. 258. Alcuinus our Oxford man and one of Venerand Bedes Pupils was this Emperors Tutor by whom he gave a large Testimony against Popish Errors Illyr Test Vers pag. 704 and 724. and by whom the Holy Scriptures were translated into the Mothers tongue the Pope at that time not contradicting it Alsted 3020. and Pridea ux 230. pag. to conclude though this Great Emperor had some Tincture of Superstition with his piety saith Osiandor yet was he a Zealous promoter of Christianity insomuch that Christ had his Churches in this 8th Century even in all Lands Where they had a little Sabbath or Rest and kept their Sabbaths as the Centurist saith in Falaestine Aegypt Greece France Germany yea and in our Britain as at London York Beverley Crowland Canterbury c. All named Osiand Epit. Hist Eccles Cent. 8. lib. 1. Cap. 12. pag. 5.6.7.8.9 would to God our King may become a nother Charles the Great to protect the Protestant Religion in all Lands Helvicus saith Aaron King of the Saracens gave this Charls Mount Calvary in Jerusalem and the Sepulchre of Christ God give to our Charls a share in Christs Kingdom Now come we to the 7th or Sabbatical Revolution which makes the former 8th to be now the 16th Century The beginning of which makes the World five Thousand six Hundred years old As the sixt climacterical Conjunction turn'd the Empire from Rome to Germany in the 8th Century So this 7th may both turn it and burn it with the House of Austria and the Pope of Rome out of the World As the 8th Cent. gave a little Rest or Sabbath to the reformed Religion which hath been miraculously Rested though Arrested by the malice of Rome both before and since Charls the 5th but this 16th or last may be a Sabbath of Sabbaths and proclaim a Jubilee of Triumph To apply this General Discourse particularly to our present purpose as also to obviate Objections some Observations both Astrological and Theological may be here usefully added 1st Astrological 1 observe in the General there is no Arrival at perfection in Astronomy the best Artists have erred even in their best works

Keplers Tables Reputed the best in the World which he relates to run thus Though the period of each Climacterical Conjunction be computed to be compleated in the Compass of Seven Hundred Ninety four Years two Hundred and fourteen Days yet saith he for these Fractions or broken Numbers Kepler reckoneth by a round Number so that the Grand Revolution must be reckoned by the Round Number of Eight Hundred Years And he sets down Keplers Tables thus The first great Conjunction Exclusive from the beginning of time was in the 800. Year of the World which was three Thousand two Hundred Years before Christ The second was in the Year of the World 1600 which must be two Thousand four Hundred before Christ The third did fall out in Antio Mundi 2400. which was one Thousand fix Hundred before Christ The fourth falls in the 3200. year of thé World which must be before Christ Eight Hundred Years The fifth was when Christ came in the Flesh to work the Worlds Redemption which was in the four Thousand Year of the World The sixt falls out in 800. years after Christ which was the four Thousand Eight Hundred year of the World And the seventh still multiplying by 8. from the first to this last must fall out in the sixteenth Century 1600 Years after Christ at what time the World is five Thousand six Hundred Years old Alsted adds further in Page 1215. that the Antients did measure Time by these Revolutions as by infallible Rules as thus from the Creation 1 to Arts Cities and Robberies is 800. Years 2 to the Vniversal Deluge and the first Monarchy 1600. Years 3 to Abraham and his Seed going out of Aegypt 2400. 4 to the Destruction of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah 3200. 5 to Christ and the Rise of the New Testament Church 4000. Years 6 to the pressures of Christs Church 4800. 7 to the Church's Deliverance from those pressures by Antichrist c. 5600. So that all these three most Eminent Authors did Vnanimously expect this seventh great Conjunction or compleat Revolution of the Planets which happeneth in this our sixteenth Century that great and vniversal Changes would be the products thereof seeing the Planets in this 7th Revolution shall have run through their Circles and then return to their first Beginnings again which cannot but portend mighty things This being supposed to be the last sundry Astronomers questions whether there ever will be any other after this sev●nth The 6th Remark is the pious Meditation of the Antients that the Septenary or Seventh Number is a plenary perfect and mystical Number which in Scripture hath a peculiar signification 't is compounded of 3. and 4. the Ternary or Three is the Number of God our Creator who is one in Three and Three in one the Quaternary or Four is the Number of Man the Creature who is made up of the four Elements as are also all Sublunary things call'd Elementary compound Bodies hence it is that all things have a wonderful Harmony of Co●aerency and Rest in the Septenary Number hereupon Philosophy calls it Numerus primus Virgineus Sacer Quietarius 1 The first Number because it made up the first Week 2 The Virgin Number because great is its force and efficacy as a Virgin is in the Flower and Strength of Age so every Seventh Year is computed Climacterical and Seven Nines or 63. is accounted the great one as 7. Years in Law is the Term of a Mans life and 3 Sevens are aequivalent to 3 Lives 3 'T is call'd a Sacred Number because it flows from the Ternary which is the Number of God and the Quaternary the Number of the World as is abovesaid this Note savors not so much of Superstition as it Respects the Nature of Harmony hence the Pocts Phrase Perfection of Prosperity by terque quaterque Beati a 3 fold and a 4 fold Happiness 4 'T is the Resting number because the seventh Day and the Seventh Year in sacred Writ were Sabbatical Every week is call'd Septimana consisting of 7. Days and every Seventh Year produceth some material Alteration Beside the Seventh Number is call'd the Limit and Measure of all Inforior numbers and any great number proposed whose Measure is Seven and may be divided by 7. exactly can by no other Means be more certainly found out than by Division with 7. But above all the Holy Scriptures number all by Sevens accounting the 7th Hour Day Month and Year to be all Sabbatical and the Seven Seventh Year to be a Jubilee a Restitution of all c. And this Harmony between Hours Days Months and Years seems to be intimated Revel 9.15 Thus also the Law required 7. washings or sprinklings of blood or water and the 7. Lamps in the Inner Court or Holy Place representing the 7. Planets in the Visible Heavens as the greatest Lamp stood in the middle of the other six having 3. on either side so the Sun is seated in the midst as Prince of the Planets having 3. above Him and 3. below Him all attending him as above All the walks of this glorious Sun are shadows of something within the Vail The Eve or Evening was as Eve was to Adam the Wife of the Morning the Jews and other Nations reckon the Beginning of Time as of the Sabbath at Evening and to them that are about the Aequator and to all at either Aequinox the first 6. Hours brings the Sun to the Mid-night Nadir or Mid-Heaven of the Antipodes and six more to the Morning Horizon six more to the Zenith or noon of the upper Hemisphere six more to its setting again when the Sun hath taken all these Turns of Sixes 6. times over then comes the 7th or Sabbath Day whereon the Cakes of the Shew-bread were changed 1. Sam. 21.6 Every 7th Hour as well as every 7th Day made a Pauze or Rest the Sabbath of the Evening Ps 104.23 of the Midnight or the Morning and of the Noon or Mid-day All Vsherd in by six Hours as the Sabbath is by six days and that 7th is the first Number wherein Heaven and Earth met together God and Man in the first Sabbath worship Numero Deus Impare Gaudet 7. is an odd Number and the 7th Day was not only a Resting but a Refreshing day to God Exod. 31.17 would to God it were so to us above all the other 6. Days And I know not why this 7th Grand Revolution of those Planets may not bring in a blessed Sabbatism or some Extraordinary Rest and Refreshment seeing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Time of Refreshing or as the Gr. signifies of Cooling the Heat is promised Act. 3.19 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Time of the Restitution of all things v. 21. wherein all Ruines by Sin shall be Repaired by our Saviour and Blessed Jesus shall take off the Curse and Corruption under which the Creature groaneth Rom. 8.19.20.21.22 This great Scripture Truth Divine Plato Hammerd at in his Great Revolution when after

but some probable Conjectures partly Astrolog and partly Theolog 1 give me leave to say with Nuntius propheticus Page 35 my Nature hath hitherto abhorr'd predicting Events by the Stars yet seeing the Congress or Conjunction of the 2 Superior Planets have an I had of Evils mostly attending them to fall some where so must portend great Matters yet it is beyond the Knowledge of Man to make any positive Prediction from them upon whom it will fall or precisely when that Great Sabbath or Time of Rest shall come upon the Earth He reckons many Reverend men some that lived while the Bloud of Christ was yet warm who taught freely and fully of this Golden Age or great Sabbath to come with the Applause of all and contradiction of none c. Which future Felicity of Gods Servants upon Earth may well be portended by this 7th Sabbatical and Climacterical Conjunction 2 concerning the precise point of Time when this Day of Refreshing Acts 3 19. and of the Restitution of all things v. 21 shall be no mortal Man can determine indeed so many Men so many Minds One Author assigns this Year Another that a third differs in his Account from both And in truth such is the Vncertainty of Chronology that it is impracticable if not impossible to fix any Certainty here●n The Computation of Time from the Creation to Christ is made in that Variety that Alsted reckons up about 24 several Accounts and Conjectures thereof in his Encuclopaedia Page 2993. Now if there were so much Vncertainty in that Chronology before Christ wherein the Records of the Old Testament run all along as a Thread for Guidance in that Labyrinth how much more since Christ which hath not a Scripture-Chronicle to direct us beyond the first Hundred years And in the very first Century there must be much Obscurity for the Pagans who were so Cruel as to Kill the Authors would not be so Kind as to Keep their Books See my Discovery of Antichrists Rise Reign and Ruine pag. 147 148 149. c. 3 Notwistanding the Variety of Minds in stating this great Matter as to Time yet all do agree vnanimously and there is a Concurrence of Sentiments on all Hands that this thrice happy and golden Age is now at hand the Nearer we may well suppose it because the 7th Conjunction must be attended as all the former 6 have been with Great Revolutions The great Champion of this Sabbatical Doctrine Alsted doth confidently enough determine the year of Christ 1694 which is now about 12 y. hence for the first Year of that Triumphant State or Happy Jubilee And I cannot but wonder to find Trithemius Spineus Cardan and Tycho Brahe all speaking of a new erected Kingdom about the Year 1700. which is about 5 or 6 years beyond Alsteds Account In quo omnia Nutu Vnius Regentur c And betwixt this great Conjunction renew'd again Jan. 30 and May 2d of the next year and in that 17 Century I find not any other of these 2 Superior Planets nor will be till their 20 y. Return from this Meeting only as great an Ecclipse of the Sun I find March 29 in the y. 1693 about Alsteds year aforementioned as was that in the y. 1652. which than gave the Denomination of Black Munday accompanyed with most Black Effects 4 As to those that have put so much stress upon the y. 1666 a year fatal to London not to Rome thàt mystical Babylon Time it self the best Interpreter of dark Mysteries hath confuted That was before this Great Conjunction though not before a Great Comet in the y. 64 vnless we reckon from Christs not Birth but Ascension for then was made Christs Visible Conquest which will be a fit Salvo for the aforesaid as adding 34 y. more to 1666 betwixt Christs Ascension and Descension to Restore all things which is not yet elaps'd but falls upon the 17. Century 5 there be others who judge the Time vncertain and certainly their Judgment in my Judgment is most certain However this is a sovereign Cordial against all our interveing Cordoliums that our Redemption draweth nigh Luke 21 28. therefore are we bid to look up and to lift up our Eyes on high upon those Heavenly Wonders the Conjunctions and the Comets Isa 40 26. And lift up your Heads c. as before or exhilarate corda cheer up your Hearts as that Luke 21 28. is interpreted or stretch forth your Necks as ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 8.19 signifies which is either a Metaphor from Birds that thrust forth a long Neck out of a Cage or else from Men that earnestly look and long for some special Friend a coming as Siseras Mother did looking out at a Window and crying why is his Charet so long in coming Judg. 5 28. when ye see those things come to pass saith Christ that is when ye behold these Signs Prodigies Ecclipses c. Then know your full and final Deliverance is not far off see Rom. 8 19 to 22. 6 Whereas this Intimation cutts the Worlds continuance in status quo short of 6000 years 't is true it seemeth to do so The Hebrew Cabbalists do indeed observe that in the first Verse of the Holv Bible there are six Alephs who from thence conclude that the World shall last six Thousand Years reckoning each Aleph as it stands in Gen. 1.1 for a Thousand Suitable to this in point of Time is that other Rabbinical Notion that as Solomons Temple was finished in the 3000 y. of the World so the spiritual Temple shall be consummated in three Thousand more According to this Tenure likewise doth the known Prophecy of Elias not the Tisbite but a later Learned Rabbi run in his Reckoning that as there weree 2000 y. plùs minùs before the Law and 2000 y. more or less under the Law So there are to be 2000 y. also vnder the Gospel Agreable also to these 3 former Computations is the Notion of comparing the six Thousand years of the Worlds Redemption whereof the first four Thousand belong'd to the prophetical Office of Christ and the last two Thousand to his Sacerdotal or Priestly unto the six first Days of the Worlds Creation Because both the Old and New Testament do testify that a Thousand Years with God are as one Day Psal 90 4. and 2. Pet. 3 8. As likewise because God promiseth to shew Mercy to a 1000 Generations that is as some interpret it for 7000 y. For as after the 6 Days came the Sabbath so after the six Thousand comes the 7th or Sabbatical Millennium And after the prophetical and priestly Offices be accomplished in the four and two Thousand as aforesaid then begins his Regal Office wherein he takes to himself his great power and Reigns Revel 11 15 17. for which He hath been in long Expectation Hebr. 10 13. with 1 13. and Ps 110 1. and 1. Cor. 15 24.25 this is his Kingly Office 7 These aforesaid Divisions of Times are