given while he was not glorified Or till he was exalted and set on the right hand of God and made a Prince and a Saviour for to Cive repentance and remission of sins Nay he never speaks of himself as a King or Judge till his second coming Being as himself said to go a great journey to receive a Kingdom and after a long time to come again and call his servants to account And if the wicked servant shall say in his heart My Lord delayeth his comming and shall begin so much as once begin to beat or strike his fellow-servants for the Lords servant must be gentle towards all and be no striker when he shall but begin to strike his Master will come when he looketh not for him and will cut him asunder and give him his portion with Hypocrites the Doom of Antichrist who thus took on him so before his time to sit and rule and judge before his master gave him power or leave or indeed was come to sit and reign and judge in his own Person Which was not till other Thrones be cast down or set as we read in Daniel and the Revelation For he must sit at his Fathers Right hand till all his enemies be put under him and then his Throne and Judgement shall sit and judgement shall be given to them also that shall sit with him who still called himself the Son of man and never a King or Prince or Judge till That Comming and That judgement And then he saith They shall see the Son of man come in the Clouds with great power and glory and when you see those things and that sign of the Son of Man comming in the Clouds Then know the kingdom of God is come even at the very doors Then and not till then it is come actually come and till that time but comming and he bids us pray and say Thy Kingdom come And then shal the Son of man send forth his Angels which before he called his Fathers Angels and the holy Angels now His Angels the Son of Man shall send forth His Angels and they shall gather out of His Kingdom which is Then his Kingdom all things which offend and them which do iniquity And then and not till then the Son of Man shall sit upon the Throne of glory and then the King shall say to them at his Right hand and again the King shall answer them But to the goats at his left hand He shal say he saith not the King shall say as if he were only a King to the sheep or they only were members of his Kingdom but to the goats he saith Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels For as the Son of Man hath his Angels so the Devil hath his Angels also of which we read again in the Revelation Where as also in Pauls great charge to Timothy several other Texts of Scripture we read of his Kingdom joyned or annexed to his second comming or appearing again after his Ascention at which time he was asked If he then would restore the Kingdom unto Israel which he doth not deny but waveth only forbidding their curious prying into times and seasons which the Father yet had kept so secret that the Son then knew them not but had them afterwards it seems by Revelation Which God gave him also to shew unto his servants unto whom he saith it was given to know the secrets or the mysteries of that Kingdom and to search them out also by that Spirit which was given to make known the things which were freely given them of God yea and to search the hidden Depths or Baths of God as that Apostle saith who also tells us The natural man believeth not the things of God or of the Spirit of God nor can he know them being only discerned spiritually And no man can so much as see the Kingdom of God till horn again of that Spirit which the World as such neither knoweth nor receiveth but it is promised to the World also and to convince the world also and when a worldly carnal man is born again of the Spirit and so made Spiritual then he also judgeth all things but himself is judged of no man Nor may any man judge another man or any person whatsoever or can judge himself rightly till he be made spiritual and so fitted by Christ the great and only Judge of all Causes and of all Persons And to whom and in what cases Christ committeth this Prerogative of judging either themselves or others I know not any hath declared better then Saint Paul in divers places of the same Epistle But as Christ gave that general rule Judge not according to appearance and then surely we may not judge things that appear not or things of another world and for all Eternity Whereas the Wise man saith A man cannot know Love or Hatred and much less Eternal Love or Hatred by all before him or appertaining to him So Saint Paul giveth us that generall Rule Judge nothing even nothing at all before the time That is as himself addeth Till the Lord come For his comming is the time of judging and his Kingdom as we have seen from that Apostle and from many other scriptures And I would to God your time were come that you might judge and reign that we might reign also But the Kingdom of God and this judging also is not in word but in Power As our Lord taught us Thine is the Kingdom the Power and Glory And in the Revelation Now is salvation and strength the Kingdom of God and Power of his Christ for the Accuser of our Brethren is cast down For Christ also maketh the kingdom of God to be a Power to cast out Satan by the spirit or finger of God and when Judas was gone out as a Type of Satan or Antichrist he saith Now is the Son of man glorified and God glorified in him And so Christ said Some standing there should not taste of death till they saw the Kingdom of God come with Power Which another Evangelist expresseth by the Son of man comming in his Kingdom And S. Pet. One of the Eye-witnesses of that glorious Transfiguration which was an Emblem or preludium to his Kingdom calleth it The Power and coming of our Lord Jesus And himself being asked if he would restore the Kingdom bad them stay till they received Power from on High or the Power of the Holy Ghost coming on them which he also calleth the Promise of the Father For the Spirit of Promise which is to be given to all the Lord shall call yea to be poured out on all flesh is called by Esay the Spirit of Power and it is so observed of them that received it in the Acts that they were full of the Holy Ghost and Power And Saint Paul also calleth it a spirit of Power and Love and of a sound mind and saith he came with demonstration of the Spirit and of
prayeth for the World as such No more than a Man ought to love or cherish his Flesh as such But only in order to change it and make it New And this indeed seems one of the most proper sences of Gods Hating any Which in Hebrew is expressed by a word so neer That which is to Change as if Hating were but in order to a Change which is also very neer the sound of the words that in Hebrew signifie both to Change and to Hate And as Sone comes from their Sana to Hate as we touched before So doth Sin which is Hate or Shun And That which English Saxons whose Language is much Hebrew do call Sin is in Gods Language Hatred For he hateth Nothing but Sin And the Eng Sin is in Heb Hate or Chate or Hhate So that God Hateth Nothing but Sin And no person but as Sinful and so in Order to Changing of him As we see in his own Covenant His First Covenant and so his First Creation and the First born in all Dispensations must give place to a Second which is Better And the Elder must still serve the Younger or give place to it God will still shew himself Better and Better and so will ever to All Eternity And finding fault with his first Expressions or Manifestations he Disanuls and rejects or Hates and reprobates them in order to change them and make them Better VVhich he is still Doing For what he doth once he doth ever And the VVheel still goeth round as we find in the 90. Psalm and Solomon in divers places to be compared with that of our Saviour so often repeated They that are First shall be Last and the last first And behold I make All things New As in the beginning so it shall be ever I may add also That in divers Scriptures we may find Love and Hate to be but relative Terms or comparative God as God Loveth Himself only with an Absolute Love and Hateth nothing but sin with absolute Hatred But among Creatures He Loveth One before another as it cometh neerer to himself and his own Image So he prefers it before another which he hateth in comparison So Leah was Hated that is Less loved than Rachel preferred before Leah who was loved also but below Rachel And in such a sence God speaketh If a man have two Wives the one Loved and the other Hated that is less Loved For else sure God would never countenance any mans Hating his VVife But only as he doth a mans Hating his own flesh in order to change it and prefer somwhat before it And so Christ telleth us that no man can be His Disciple except he Hate his Father Mother Brother Sister Wife and self Whom yet he never should or could Hate if he be His Disciple and be moulded into Love But his meaning is as we find in another Evangelist Except he prefer Christ and so Love Him before All Those Which therefore in Scripture Language are All said to be Hated in comparison of Christ. And why may not Jacob the Younger be Thus Loved that is preferred before Esau who in This sence is Hated and rejected that is set behind his younger Brother But however These may be used or looked upon as Types of the Elect and Reprobate we cannot from Thence determine Final Reprobation as the Schools express it in the person of either Though the Scripture give us very sad Characters of Esau calling him a Profane Person yet I know not that it ever shews him to be Eternally Reprobate That Repentance which is spoken of in the Hebrews being his Fathers and not his own but the changing of his Fathers mind towards him which he could not obtain though he sought it with Tears But yet his Father also Blessed him and though he must serve his younger Brother it was but for a season till he could break his yoak as we shall see anon And This also but as generally in all the Dispensations of God out to the World the Elder as we may commonly see in most or All the Elder Sons named in the Bible or the first must give place to the Second Even the first Covenant it self must be rejected and disanulled and judged Faulty also that is Reprobate in order to a Second Better and more Gracious So it was said The Elder shall serve the Younger And Christ himself came to Serve and to Minister and not to be Ministred unto As it is said Joseph in Prison was Trusted with the Care or Government of all the Prisoners and set to serve them As indeed a Governor is a great Servant to his Servants As it is written Jacob have I Loved is it indeed an Interrogation rather than affirmation But Esau have I hated But How Hated The very next words of the Prophet who is cited by the Apostle shew us that This Hating was some frowning of Gods Face as we may say but not of his Heart and but upon the outward Man or Estate of Esau whom he therefore saith he Hated because he laid his Mountains and his Heritage waste for the Dragons of the Wilderness But may or can any man know or judg of True Real Love or Hatred especially That which is Eternal by All that is without or before him Is there not much worse spoken of Jacob and Israel in that very Prophet than of Esau Doth not the same Malachy say of Israel VVill the Lord regard your persons Even your persons And no wonder then his Soul abhors their Sacrifice Which yet is one of the worst things that Solomon observes of a wicked man But How frequent in the Prophets against Israel And in Jeremy 12. we see How God Forsook and Hated the deerly beloved of his soul. As an Emblem of Christ himself so forsaken Hated cursed and Rejected by God or of all the Elect who once were as Paul to the Fphesians children of VVrath or curse as well or much as Any others And the same Malachy doth not only observe the Jews so neglected and rejected but Cursed also by God himself several times Yea and that the Lord would also curse their very Blessings Yea and had cursed them already One of the heaviest or worst Curses in the Bible And This is for Spiritual Adultery and Judahs marrying the Daughter of a strange god As Gen. 38. Judah leaving his Brethren for it is not good for man to be alone Turned in to a Canaanite who bore Er and Onan so wicked that the Lord slew them Which is also in Malachy though lost by reading it Therefore will the Lord cut off the Master and the Teacher which in Heb is Er and Oneh And the Scripture seems often to allude to Tamar also at the end of that History Mother of All Judahs Posterity As the Church or every Christian waiting for Christ that Shilo or Shela till with child by his Father also leaving his Signet and Bracelets which save her at the fiery Judgment But we translate Tamar the
Schools express it It makes 144 if M be only 40. But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Mazorites do often reckon makes 600 Then it may be as we reckoned Olam only 4 above 700. which is 10 Generations or 10 times 70 as we found God himself expounding Ever in the case of Moab and Ammon As Ruth also the 10th from Lot might be married to the 10th from Abraham and about the 10th 70 Years as David was the 14 Generation and the 14th 70 Years who also lived 70 Years Though Christ lived but about half so many Which may shew us more ere long than that Mans Age was Then also shortned As from the Flood or other great Epochaes Ten times 70 may be expressed also by the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ay which is 70 with Ten. Being also joyned with Kedem in Gen. 12. 8. to be compared with Joshua who made it a Desolate Heap for Ever which is Ay in Greek or many other Languages And yet it was rebuilt and Peopled in the Time of Nehemiah as before And if Letters may be so joyned for Multiplication as well as Addition Then may 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also their great word for Ever be 4 times 70 or 70 times 70. that is 70 squared Which is the Great Power of 4 in Scripture Language speaking somwhat Squared as the very figure also of 4 in Heb. which yet is not much unlike 7 or Seven the Full number and so often squared in Scripture that is drawn into 4. or so as 4 is powerful in it as it is in Every Square Which is still made up of 4 and to be so Resolved As Cubes also by 8. whose Character in Heb. represents a Dye Which is yet more visible in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their final M. which is the Mystical Letter as the Jews write in Esay 9. 7. or many other places That God also did intend we should Multiply somtimes by adding Letters to a word may be seen in the Plural Numerals we read in Scripture which are Ten times more than their Singulars and it may be So were All Plurals made by Jod only in Regimen which is 10 and by im which is 50 at length As of Three and Four the Plurals are Thirty and Fourty And by the way it may be considered whether in the Second Command it might not be read Visiting Iniquity for 30 or 40 Daies or Months or Years Seeing 40 was the great Number in Punishing Theirs also in the Wilderness where they stayed 40 Years in 42 Mansions As the 42 Months in the Revelation for Treading the outward Courts and for the Reign of the Beast As also for the Womans being in the Wilderness though reckoned by 1260 Daies which make up 42 Months For their Murmuring and Worshiping the Beast also or the Image of a Beast as we read in Psal. 106. And they have One word for Age and the World also which in Numerals is 42. and That is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eld as Eng. Elder and Old Whence the old Weld for World that is We are Eld or Old And we do not reckon a Man Old till over 40. And if Final 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with them also be but 40 Olam Then without 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will be but 140 or Twice 70. And so is Kum their word for Rising up or Resurrection as with English Come But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be 600 as the Mazorites Then both Kum and Olam is 700 that is 10 Generations or 10 times 70. as we saw before Which may be also more considerable If the Moons Hiding or Covering in so many Hours the measure of All Ages and Changes might also intimate Gods Hiding or Covering of Their Iniquity which is implyed also in Olam And the Taking off Their Yoak which is also Olam so often hinted in Scripture as the great Work of Gods Rest in Sabbath Daies and Years and Jubilee Which was the 7th 7th Year or 49. a Number of Rest as we found it in Hours the beginning of the Third Nights Rest. Yet it brought in Great Motions and Changes also but for the Better still which the Schools call Perfective and not Corruptive Motion So that the very Hebrew Mot which is Motion or Mutation is in Numbers 49. And every 3d. brought up a Change as we found before in Night and Day Rest and Motion as in Leaps or Hopping and in all our movings One foot resteth while the other moveth Mot Turned is Tom and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tam or Tom which as we saw in Jathom an Orphan signifieth Perfect And in least reckoning is 440 and their Tamid Ever or the Daily sanifice 444 without Jod or else 454. But if M Final be 600 Then Tom is 1000 a very Perfect number both in Years or Months or Hours For 1000 Hours bring us to the Morning Sacrifice of the 42 Day of Creation or other Time which is the sixth Sabbath As 444 Hours bring us to the first Sabbath I may add also that if M final be 600 in Hebrew words we may find out many making up the very Number of 666 of which we spake before as the Number of Change in the Moon and all other great Motions and Revolutions in all Generations For the very word Sum which is not only Eng but Heb. is just 666. As if This were the Summ of each Generation or of every Age of the World which is called Age also in many Languages And in Latine Sum is the great Verb of Being As in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or English Is and Jessi is my Being or my Essence Which is much or most or all in the Heb Ish a Man Though not a vulgar low and Weak man which they called Adam or Enos but a great or noble man or an Husband As we see in That famous place Thou shalt not call me Baali my Lord or Master but Ishi my Man or Husband They shall look eye to eye Till they see themselves in my eys or Eishon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Eyn is the Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Eye and a Fountain And among the Rabbins or other Eastern Writers Sum is not onely the Summ but End of all reckonings As in Hebrew Soph. and Sophia or Wisdome is the Lords Perfection or his End To which Solomon also seemeth to allude in his End of man or End of All written with such great Letters in the Hebrew of his Book of Wisdome or Ecclesiastes the Woman Preacher As the 68 Psalm and 11 verse God shall give a Word so it is in Heb and Many shall be the Women Preachers And as Sophia in Hebrew a metathesis of Joseph is with the Grecians Wisdome so with them Foolishness or Moria is in Heb the Lords Teaching or Death or Mountain of the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And when it is said Let him that is Wise count the number of the Beast And here is
VVisdom it might ocasion us to think how neer Sophia or Sophos which was the great word with them that called it and their wise man a Die for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned backwards also is still the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comes to that very number of 666. Which we find also in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as his Name may be written who was so notorious in the VVest with Mahomet in the East about the year 666. And although I cannot deny but Ireneus scholar to St. John or his scholar found That number in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as others also in Romijith and divers other VVords or Names yet Some interpret That Phrase of the Number of a man as if it were a mans reckoning or to be counted onely by Him who of all the Creatures can onely so Number Numbers As if man an Hebrew word also came from Mana to Number And Manath or month is reckoning and 490. As if That Solemn Number of 7 Sevenights as we read in Daniels VVeeks were some way That which in Gods reckoning was The Number or the Manath or Month and it may be some way in every month also And in Hebrew manim or minae Pounds or mans or if you will men are 700 as mani number 100. And when Jacob complained that Laban had changed his wages so many times it is manim in Hebrew as the English also use many and for many also they use some which is Hebrew also as we found before in sum a sum or end of number and in numerals 666. as in Latine also Sexcenti for Many Shall I add also that as money or Monie is plainly an Hebrew word for Numbring as with English so also Zemanins which is Times or seasons as the word soundeth for every thing as Solomon speaketh is but 7 added to 700. That is monim or numbring or reckoning by seven as if all seasons were made up of the number Seven And as the Hebrew Sum is a kin to the Latine Sum and Turned backward is their Mus as Sumus also turned backward is still Sumus as if all our being and our summing also were but mus a mouse and all our musing also which is English and many other languages so also both sums are very neer to the Greek soma by which they expresse our body And it may be some will so render That phrase in the Revelation For it is the Number of a man as if it were not onely of mans numbring or of mans reaching or bearing or using as in Scripture often the Rods of a man and the Cords of a man and the pen of a man and the words of a man and the way of a man and the son of man and Children of men and to speak or walk as a man and Temptations of a man or common unto men But also some special Thing in mans body just of that Number And what if it should be That which makes him a man and yet so much and so oft to degenerate into a Beast For as man in the Image of God he was above all beasts and made to Rule them all with all his lusts and beastly Passions as we shewed before from Gods own words and great consult at mans Creation But lust conceiving brought forth sin and sin complete or grown up to be of age brought forth Death as we read in St. James and in Peter also that fleshly lusts Fight against the spirit and that it is very dangerous for any that have once escaped the pollution of the world which came in by lust to return with the Dog to his vomit or the sow to wallowing in the mire in a word to degenerate into a beast or beastly nature VVhich is very much by lust and that which causeth lust in our Bodies and Minds VVhich indeed is a strange kinde of Beast rising out of the sea or our lower Region or VVaters under our Heart or Earth Where also we found the 7 fleshly heads or Planets answering also to the 7 above and in our Brains also the heavens above or the waters above the Heavens as we shewed before where we glaunced at the Serpent also or Hydra a strange beast with 7 heads and 10 horns VVhich are somewayes in the worlds both great and little also which they call the Microcosm and in all its Regions also and in All Generations Most of All perhaps in That or Those which may be called the very Principles of All or every Generation What in our Bodies answered to the Two Faithful Witnesses in Heaven was hinted before May I now add that as Shemesh the Sun in Hebrew where yet it is Feminine is neer akin to somwhat we may scarcely Name at least As the Rabbines often use that word So is Jerach which is Moon and Masculine akin to That which the Scripture makes so much the Instrument of Generation the Thigh or Jareck whence the English Jerk or Yerk to strike upon the Thigh As we read also in Scripture And if the Latine Thorus were but written in Hebrew or Syriack might it not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which would also be Taurus a Beast And either of those words is just 666. And How neer is Ferus as in Greek also Beastly or Fierce to that Name or Number also May I not add that Shimshon or Samson or Hercules in Greek stories signifies the Little Sun crossing the Crossing Serpent of the Zodiack and its 12 Signs as the Labors of Hercules where also the Hydra or the Dragon or Beast and Serpent with 7 Heads and that it may be 666 or 700 in its numeral Letters also Or How Samson Dallyed with Dallilah till he was overcome by Lust also that cut off his Hairs as the Rayes of the Sun and at length put out his Eyes or the Two Witnesses in one Region which have Two also in other places called Testes or Witnesses by Many Nations And they bring Fire also from our Heavens and do strange wonders in us All. But they must be Put out before That Great Change will come which is so generally expected at 666. Which He may understand perhaps that knows why Christ himself did no Miracles till at a Wedding also he could say Woman what have I to do with thee and Then she said to the servants Do whatever He bids you So that Christ himself Did no Miracle Till his Mother bid it also If one should ask a Jew what maketh Men to be Men He might answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their VVeapons or their Vessels what they mean by those expressions one may easily know that understandeth Pauls discourse to the Corinthians about Marriage and keeping their Vessels clean or Holy or separate As David also spake to Ahimelech in number 665 or 666. And so also is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Heb. Vessels Yea and the Reins also or very neer akin to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and That to Kalla or
How near to Love in Hebrew There they Fast and Pray and seek a way for Themselves and for their Little Ones For he was ashamed to ask of the King because he had spoken saying The Hand of our God is on All for Good that Seek him Davids dying words to Solomon but his Power and Wrath on All that for sake him We are now come to one of the hardest Knots of Time Daniels Weeks And though it may not be so easie to fix Their beginning Or their End as it is their Number of 490 that is 7 times 70 years Yet for an Essay as God shall enable us Esay saith of Cyrus He is my Shepherd and shall perform All my Pleasure Saying to Ierusalem Thou shalt be Built and to the Temple Thy Foundations only shall be laid And in 45. He shall Build My City and let go My Captives And Ezra 4. 12. Be it known unto the King that the Iewes are come from Thee to Ierusalem Building the Rebellious City c. And the King returned Cause the men to cease from Building the City Or that it be no more Built till farther Order So the work ceased till the 2d of Darius Then stood up Haggai saying Is it time for you to dwell in Cieled Houses and This House lie waste And again Verse 9. Ye run every man unto his own House This was the First of the 6th Month and Then They came and wrought in the 24th of that Month but so slowly that he spake again on the 21st of the Seventh Monrh the Last and Great Day of Tabernacles and again on the 24th of the 9th Month And now I pray consider from this Day and Upward from before a Stone was laid upon a Stone in the Temple of the Lord But consider now from This Day and Upward from the 24th of the 9th Month from the Day the Foundation of the Lords Temple was Laid c. By which it seems plain enough that They had leave to build the City and had Will enough to Build it and to Ciel their own Houses rather and much sooner than the Lords Which by Esayes words was onely to be Founded by Cyrus when Jerusalem should be Built And so Ezra found it plain enough and Nehemiah was told indeed that the Remnant of the Captivity were in great affliction and Reproach and that the Wall of Ierusalem was broken down and the Gates burnt with Fire Which yet may seem some Later matter then That Sack in Zedekiah which sure was known enough to Nehemiah That he needed not be told of That But now he heard some late or New affliction and Reproach upon the Remnant that had built the City up again after their Return And when Himself came up He did but onely Repair the Walls and set up the Gates And There also the men of Iericho repaired next to the Very High Priest Of so great repute was Iericho the cursed City even in Those dayes and Returning from Babylon also being as the Iewes say the 2d to Ierusalem Or as the Moon as it soundeth to the Sun Yea some observe that in the very Hebrew Letters of Ierusalem there only wanteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of All in Iericho and Salem its first Name It may not therefore be said but That Cyrus also gave forth a Word to Return and Build Ierusalem as we read in Daniels Weeks Which were given out to Him in the very first Year of Darius the Mede which seemeth also the First of Cyrus the Persian though not in Babylon and at the very beginning of his Prayer the Word went out as the Angel tells him Verse 23. with the very same Phrase in the 25th From the Going sorth of the Word to Return and Build Ierusalem But the Phrase Motsa doth not onely note the first Going out of a Word or Thing but a Continued Motion and going on or growing up or constant flowing As in a Spring of Water Esay 58. the growing up of the Grass Job 38. Or a Mine of silver or other Mettal Job 27. Or Sun-Rising and going forward Psal. 19. Or the East it self Psal. 75. And His going is prepared as the Morning we found in Hoseah And his Goings forth from Eternity the Dayes of Old in Micha Where we still read the same Phrase and in many other places So that Here also in Daniel we may not tye it up to the First word of Cyrus or any other to return or build but to the Whole Matter as Dabar signifies as well as a Word or Command or full Process and Progress of That Business with All its full Execution which is Motsa also the End Issue or finishing of a Matter as well as its first going out So that if the Word or Command of Cyrus were in Doing or delaying very many Years yet it was still so going forth and going up as the Sun from East to West And so Cyrus may signifie in the Persian or in Hebrew also being a Vessel of Fire as the sun is or at least seemeth And there is a famous Record of Cyrus seeing the Sun at his Beds Feet as Joseph and others perhaps have seen it as Bowing or coming towards And his Catching at it Thrice was Thrice 10 Years they said of his Reign And the Sun also was the Persian Armes or God And the Prophet brings him up from the East like the Suns Rayes upon the Temple and Jerusalem And though the Sun stood still for one whole Day in Josuah and went backward in Hezekiah So that some that had fixed Nabonasses Era in Babylon came to enquire of That VVonder 2 Chron. 32. 31. yet it went forward again and got ground perhaps by staying So did Cyrus also For Darius did but Build on Cyrus Foundation and the Decree of Cyrus So that it may be said of Him as of Zerubbabel His Hand began and His Hand finished And I will make thee a signet on my Hand also for I have Chosen thee As I threatned to Cast off thy Grand-Father Though a signet on my Right Hand How long this City or this Temple should be in Building by That Decree may be very hard to determine from the Scripture which yet must determine All great matters of Faith and Doctrine and other things also of great moment before we can much rest and be confident in them Which is One of many things I so much love in the Chain of Scripture Chronology by T. A. So industrious in clearing Scripture which I am loath to leave in This or any thing else in which we differ But for This also by Scripture That Israel and Judah those two VVitnesses were now slain or lay as Dead in That Captivity and that Judah returned but in Childe-bed and newly Delivered Is so clear from Mich. 4. 10. that it needeth little other proof And but of a Daughter the Daughter of Zion For the Man-childe was not yet Born Though before she Travelled her last Thraws she must bring forth a Man-childe