in Times of old on his Enemies Terror upon them Castingthem Headlong into the River Does I hope Intimate a near approaching Final Destruction And that All this is come to pass in this Year 1697. According to the Line of Time and in those Remarkable Months we Call August and September and in the very prophetic Hour of August I have so Remarked upon and so upon the Time of the Scripture Jubilee In All which I cannot but hope God hath been pleased to take off much of the Scandal of my mistake And this is the Consummating Reason of my Hope I have now dispatched the Second Head of this Apology and come to the Third Or what It is I expect when Time shall be no more but for the Finishing of the mystery of God Which I shall but just represent in the several uses the Spirit of God makes of the Word Mystery in the New Testament And shew That the Mystery of God in every of those Things shall be Finished in the Kingdom of Christ Beginning and Going on to open it self into its Fullest Glory 1. The Gospel the Comprehensive Mystery the Mystery of Faith of Godlyness The Mystery of God of the Father of Christ With All its Divine and Glorious Truths The Mysterys of the Kingdom of Heaven shall be Finished by the Full Revelation of it in the Everlasting Gospel Preached to every Nation under Heaven And particularly in that Branch Christ Received up into or rather for Glory Viz. The Glorious manifestation of Himself upon which the Apostacy hath so long layn as an Eclipse and Delay 2. The Mystery of the Union betwixt Christ and Believers in the Spiritual Marriage shall be Finished in the Bride the Lamb's Wife making her self Ready and the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb. 3. The Mystery of the Gentiles Universally brought in and illustriously united as a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or One Body with the Israel of God And further The Eclipse taken off that is yet upon the Gentile Churches and their return to a Full orb'd Light according to the Promises made to the Churches in the Glorious Kingdom of Christ 4. The Mystery of Reconciliation Reception Salvation and Fulness of All Israel when that Full Glory of the Gentiles is Then shall be a Great Appearance of the Fulfilling All the Great promises and Prophecys we find in both the Old and New Testament to that People when the Gentiles Times are Fulfilled as was Noted a Summary Assurance of which is the very Name of that City The New Jerusalem 5. The Mystery of the Seven Churches as Seven Golden Candlesticks in the midst of which The Son of Man walks and the Seven Stars of the Evangelick Ministry seen in his Right Hand in all the Glory of each The Seven Churches as Types of the Churches of the New Testament successively with their Angels And comprehending under them Those Grecian Churches of Asia All brought into the Glory and Purity of the Philadelphian Church and the New Jerusalem the City of our God coming down into it shall then be fully Finished 6. The Mystery of the Antichristian Church City and the whole Hierarchy of it with All its Abominations shall be laid open understood of All and come to an utter end by the mighty Spirit of Christs Mouth by the Brightness of his Appearance and by the Judgments He will execute according to Rev. 17. and C. 18. On the Womans Forehead was written Mystery The Mystery of the Woman and the Beast that Carryed Her and the Judgment of the Great Whore were made known to John by the Angel and it shall be a Mystery Finished that is Laid open and brought to an utter End 7. The Mystery of the Divine will in Recapitulating and Recollecting All Things in Heaven and Earth in Christ even in Him as the Head in the fullness of Times of All Times that is in the Glorious Thousand Years-Kingdom of Christ Eph. 1. 10. 8. The Mystery of the Living Saints changed who shall Inherit the New Earth during the 1000 Years and walk in the Light of the New Heavens or Jerusalem above in the sight of Christ and of his Saints of the First Resurrection and in Bodys every way Proportioned to that Blessed State and Healed with the Leaves of the Tree of Life This the Apostle shews as a Great Mystery 1 Cor. 15. Now other then these eight Great uses of the word Mystery or what is most clearly referring to Them I do not find in Scripture and seeing the Spirit of Prophecy hath so comprehensively used the word Mystery concerning its Finishing and that each of these things is Styled Mystery in the Gospel and shall have so certain a Consummation and Complement in the Kingdom of Christ We may very well Expound the one by the other and be sure of their coming into their Finishing when Time of a former sort that is of the Time Times and Half Time shall be no more And because there are such direct assurances of the Finishing of each of these in the Prophecy of the Revelation How clear is it And now I come to the Fourth and Last Head To give the duest and justest Apology concerning no more Appearance of the Finishing of the mystery of God in All these Great mentions of it already in this Year 1697 And to adjust between the Humblest Acknowledgment of my own mis-understanding in what Hath fallen so much below and yet with equal Acknowledgment of what hath been already reflected upon to have passed as an Earnest and Pledge And wherein yet I have sure Grounds as I most Humbly conceive and believe in the sure word of Prophecy concerning 97. And hereof I will give Account in this short but yet full Declaration of my self and of my Sense herein The Year 1697. I must still look upon as I have all along Remonstrated to be the very Year in which the Time Times and Half Time of the Antichristian Apostacy and of the 1260 Years of the Witnesses in Sackcloth and of the Church in the Wilderness are to Expire and End But now whether in the Beginning of the Year 97. as I first Hoped or towards the Middle of the Year on the Twenty Third of the Month we call August Answering to the Twenty Third of the same Month 476. on which the Roman Western Empire ceased in Augustulus as I had Entertained Hopes when I found no such Appearances in the Beginning of the Year or that in and with the very Ending of the present 1697. the aforenamed Terms Expire Solomon says The Desire of a Man is his Kindness I desire with all Sense of Unworthyness to speak it The earnest desire of my Soul in Love to the Kingdom of Christ and the Hope of it deferred making my Heart even sick excited my Zeal to prefer the Times that I had any Reason to pitch upon that were nearest And this as I now find produced the mistake which I desire with All Self-Humiliation to confess before God
his People and to own it as a Rebuke from Him Though I trust in Love that I might not trust in my own understanding or be any way Exalted in any Communications from his Word but Lye low before Him and that his Truth and Wisdom may be seen in my Folly and Weakness and in this regard I take pleasure in it That his Power may Graciously yet Tabernacle over me and His strength be perfected in my weakness and his Grace sufficient for me Under this Correction I have come to consider That this Year 97 must perfectly run out Ere the Time Times and Half a Time the 1260 Days and the 42 Months End And that as God appointed the Beginning of the Sacred Israelitish Year to be in the Month Nisan or about the Vernal Equinox And that this was the Time of the Children of Israel Going out of the Bondage of Literal Egypt So that the Slavery under Spiritual Egypt should end with the Year and Deliverance begin in 98. beginning 2. I always Accounted The Apocalyptical Epoch or the Beginning of Times Given in the Prophecy of the Revelation take Their Commencement from the Day of the Lords Resurrection which falls in as is well known with the Beginning of the aforenamed Israelitish Year and consequently the Beginning of the 1260 Years must be at the same time of the Year and consequently also They must there end when therefore they are ended In the beginning of the Following Year 98. shall the Passeover from Spiritual Egypt be Celebrated by the Spirit of Life on the Witnesses Proportionably shall Follow the Pentecost of the Spirit poured out Proportionably also shall follow the Fall of the Greai City in the Month call'd August at the Cessation of the Beasts Months 3. Herein shall be seen the Exactness of Divine Truth and of the Justness of Christ to his Oath That there should be Time Times and Dan. 12. Half a Time to the utmost Hour The Antichristian State then Ending with the End of 97. In the very Beginning of 98. The Sun of Righteousness shall come from under the Eclipse by the Moon of Antichrist and shine out with Healing in his Wings and so Things go forward to the Kingdom of Christ And then comes in the other Oath Indented with it Time of such sorts shall be no more Rev. 10. If any should say How if you are mistaken in the Beginning of 98 as you was in 97. The Answer I must make is I should then lay my Hand upon my Mouth and say with Job I am vile Once yea Twicâ— have I spoken But I will do so no more I would through Grace Repent and abhor my self in Dust and Ashes before God as having provoked Him so Justly to Deny his Presence and Powerful Attestation to what I have declared out of his word Because He was not pleased to Lead me to the true Interpretation of it And yet I can no more be perswaded the Appearance of that Kingdom of Christ I have so much spoken of can be far off then I can be perswaded The Prophecy of Daniel and the Revelation are not true Because I find so Great Assurance the whole Scope and Tendency and the order of the Visions and so many and great Events Recorded in undoubted History and Chronology do so set it beyond all doubt That this Kingdom must be near Approaching But if the Humble hopes I have in the End of this and the Beginning of the Following Year and Prayers for it be not Answered I shall look upon my self obliged to Acknowledge The very particular Year when it shall be God hath hidden from the most Humble and Industrious search and Enquiry into the Prophecy of Scripture concerning it which I have the Testimony of Conscience I have waited upon Him in Obj. If it be said why will you then having been confessedly in an Error concerning the Former parts of the Year 97. Presume on the End of it and so of the Beginning of 98. Answ 1. Because I find all the Great Reasons I have Founded my Determination for 97 upon stand as Good and as Firm for the End of it and for the Entrance of the Kingdom of Christ in the Beginning of 98 as in any other part of 97. And in this Regard more Firm that hereby the Computation of Years from the Resurrection of our Lord whith is the Apocalyptick Epoch is more Ascertained It is more certainly known where to Begin and where to End Hereby it is known the 2300 Eves Morns of Years Dan. 8. Begin in the Vernal Beginning of each Year and so End where the following Year Begins That the 1260 Years of the Witnesses Sackcloth-Prophecy and of the Churches Wilderness-State must Begin and End so And that the Fourty two Moons of the Gentiles and of the Beast must be Correspondently Governed and so the mistake of August the 23 was only in a Circumstance as if the Lunar Years of the Beast might have begun there and so end there But if the Beginning of all Account of Apolyptical Time and so of the End be the Beginning of each Year in the Spring Then must the Event Answering the 23d of August when the Roman Western Empire ceased Fall into the Year not of the last of the 1260 Because the Time of the Months will not be run out while the Last is Current but The first Year of the New Era of Time for Finishing the Mystery and when the Seventh Angel shall begin to Sound must produce that Great Event in that Month we Call August and follow the Rising of the Witnesses in the Beginning of that Year Answerable to our Lords Resurrection and the Powring out of the Spirit Answerable to the Apostolic Pentecost and so the Fall of the Beastian-Power and his Months quite darkened Answerable to that 23d of August when they began But if there had been the Change of the very Year it self and so the Loss of it The very Frame of my Scripture Line it self must have been altered If the Year 97 Must end it self that that whole-Course of Time may end and a new one begin in the Spring of the following Year and the Finishâ—ng our Lord in that Vision Rev. 10. speaks of Begin with it All stands clear and firm in the main And for this therefore I wait and pray Answ 2. When I duly consider the Imperial Victory not only as I have already spoken of it but as I have kept in Reserve till now That it is to be compar'd as with the Time of the Cessation of the Western Empire of Rome in Augustuâ—us so with the Determination of Prophecy upon and with Relation to that Cessation and what it Intended and Designed upon it I cannot but Acknowledge a very Extraordinary Hand of God in it and such as owns a peculiar Regard to it and gives a Pledge of Future Expectation upon it so that I cannot with Just Estimation of and Acknowledgment due to that lay down either my
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