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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

Christ and to the Conversion of the Jews and that in the mean Time the very Apprehension and Consideration of so stupendious and wonderful Regularity and Exactness in the Temple State as is here given should exceeding perswade to Model our Religion and Worship of God and of Jesus Christ by the Clearest Closest and Exact-est Conformity to the Pattern of the Word of God The Vision it self follows which may be Comprehended in these following Great Particulars 1. There is the Frame of a Temple with its Holy of Holies outward Temple Altars Chambers Galleries Courts Places of Reception Strengthen'd and Adorn'd with its many Pillars Surrounded with its Strong and High Gates and Walls All upon Stable Foundations as is to be seen throughout the Vision with undeniable Allusions to the Temple at Jerusalem 2. Throughout this Frame there is an Admirable Exactness in measure by a Reed and a Line of Flax in the Hand of the Brazen Measurer and Numberer of number in so many Cubits Reeds Pillars c. as is to be seen throughout and of Weights particularly as to both Sacrifice and Administration of Justice c. 45. 10. And in the measure there is a Magnificence of a Cubit and an Hand Breadth of Great Cubits c. 40. 5. c. 41. 8. and a particular Regard to Four square c. 40. 47. c. 3. There are Sacrifices Solemn Feasts a Priesthood a Law about their Garments keeping their Heads Marriage c. and with a special preference to the Sons of Zadock as having preserv'd the Sacerdotal Integrity All these clearly relating to the Laws of the Levitical Priesthood c. 44. c. 4. In All Things the Law of the House and the Limit of the House is Round about most Holy Separating betwixt God's and Man's Posts and Wall Abominating the Whoredoms of Worship excluding the Vncircumcis'd in Heart and in Flesh c. 44. 6. c. 43. 8. 9. 10. c. 5. There is a single Prince mention'd who shall not who will not oppress with his peculiar Sacrifices and Worship his place and Avenue of worship his peculiar Portion of Land and whose part it shall be to Furnish the most Solemn Sacrifices c. 45. v. 7. 9. c. and there is also mention of Princes under Him who shall also be Just c. 45. v. 7. 9. 6. The Reed by the Hand Breadth of Cubits added to each Cubit becomes a Reed of Seven Ordinary Cubits and all being measur'd by it It Imprints a Sabbaticness on the whole Frame into which All is drawn up c. 40. 5. 7. There is in the Altar a plain Signature of the Israelitish Twelve c. 43. 16. and another Altar that is call'd the Table before the Lord c. 41. 22. 8. The Jews have an undoubted Priority and the Gentiles an Engrafting c. 47. 22. 9. There is a New division of the Land by Lot to both Jews and 〈…〉 ●7 22. 10 ●●ere is besides the several Ascents to the Temple the place of Gods Throne and the Place of the Soles of his Feet c. 43. 7. 11. There are Stupendious Waters of Life Trees for Medicine and even a Catholick State of Life therein c. 47. 9. 10. 12. The Glory of God comes in and All Results into a Jehovah Shammah The Lord is there and dwells there for ever c. 43. 7. c. 48. ult And now upon this general Survey of the Vision we may very well Humbly say to God as They to Ezekiel c. 24. 19. Wilt Thou not be pleas'd to Tell us what These Things are to us Seeing These Things are written for our Instruction on whom the Ends of the World are come 1 Cor 10. 11. Two Great Questions arise hence 1. What Temple and City and Countrey these are that are here describ'd 2. If we can find These How can we adjust such descriptions to them There are Two Great Pretensions of Opinion concerning this Temple City and Countrey 1. That it should be the Description of the Temple and City Jerusalem and Countrey of Judah that were Restored by Cyrus Now whatever service that Restoration as a Type might perform to this Vision yet that It cannot be the Grand Scope of it may be thus Argued 1. There is no Reference to this Vision to the Measures of the Pattern to any of the Rules and Laws of it no particular Account of the Sons of Zadok among the Priests no Glory of God Returning to it no mention of the Vision by the Prophets Haggai Zechar Malach or by Ezra or Nehemiah in that Restoration as there is of the Prophet Jeremys of the seventy years Captivity by Dan. c. 9. 1. and by Ezra c. 1. 1. 2. Whereas this Temple was to be the Place of the Throne of God and of the Soles of his Feet for ever and to be polluted no more That Temple hath been long since defil'd * 〈◊〉 Antio●has and destroyed by the Abomination of Desolation by the Romans 3. There was no Ombrage of the Healing waters as flowing from the Sanctuary or Medicinal Trees 2. There is therefore much more Reason to suppose the coming of Christ into this Temple and drawing it up into the Spirituality of the Christian Temple Church and worship is designed by it till All the Receiv'd up into G●●ry Now however it is to be Acknowledg'd that the Christian Church was the Beginning of the Fulfilling of this Vision and the State of Eternal Glory be the Complement of it yet that there is a Glorious visible Appearance between those to be expected which hath not yet been I thus argue 1. Because at the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ before the Holy of Holies as it is styl'd Dan. 9. 24. was Annointed by the Giving the Spirit to the Christian Church Vision and Prophecy concerning the Glory of the Church and Kingdom of Christ was Seal'd So the Throne was seen only in Heaven Rev. c. 4. c. 5. The Temple in Heaven afterward was Seal'd and the Worshippers shut up for 1260 years and then the Temple open'd in the days of the Seventh Trumpet and more fully before the Vials Rev. c. 11. c. 15. But it was in Heaven still till the New Jerusalem came down And not only in Heaven for It must come down Argum. 2. Because after that opening the Temple in Heaven and the Divine Glory coming into it immediately as into the Tabernacle and Temple of old signified by the Smoak The New Jerusalem came down from God out of Heaven in a Glorious visible Appearance with many of the Signatures of this Vision upon it Rev. c. 1. 21. c. 22. Argum. 3. Because the self same day so exactly Dated and Recorded makes a Remarkable Epoch to some Great Time And that Time is the Time of Gods Throne so unmovably plac'd in his Temple and of the Sanctuary cleans'd Reconcil d and Justified and of his Servants being plac'd each in their Lots accordingly to Daniel as c. 12. 13. This Time of the Throne is assur'd to be not till after Four Monarchies had run out

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-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