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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

themselves Dan. c. 2. c. 7. The Sanctuary cleans'd or Justified not till at the same Time viz. at the end of 2300 Evenings Mornings c. 8. 14. Nor Daniel and so all the Saints standing * At the first 75 of which It was Restored by Cyrus at 490. after Annointed Revel 4. at 400. after Seal'd and shut up c. 11. 1. at 1260. after Open'd in Heaven c. 11. at 30. after more fully open'd c. 15. 5. at 45 after comes down out of Heaven from God into the New Heaven and the New Earth the New Heaven as the Throne of God especially describ'd Rev. 21. the New Earth as the place of the Soles of his Feet in this Vision of Ezekiel in their Lots of this Great Blessedness till the end of 1335 Days which are also the End of the 2300 Evenings Morning c. 12. 12. 13. Argum. 4. Because there are such Extraordinaries in this Vision as can fit no State that hath ever yet been in the World and therefore must have an exceeding High and Heavenly State as the Princes Inheritance sufficient to give to his Sons for ever c. 46. 16. 17. with John 8. 35. 36. And so the Princes omnipresent Conduct though Himself in the East yet in the midst of those who went Southward and Northward c. 46. 8. c. the miraculous Waters and Trees and the universal Life the City 18000 Measures each Measure of 18000 Cubits at least too big for this State of the World and an Inheritance great enough for all Israelites and Strangers when such Great Sholes of People and all in a State of Life Represented by Fishes shall be in such an Abundance and Perpetuity of Life c. 47. 9. And yet a Lake of Miry Places not Heal'd as the Dead and the Lake Rev. 20. 5. 10. Argum. 5. Because this Throne and Sanctuary being for ever can never have any other end but that of the Kingdom deliver'd up to God and to the Father at the Time of the White Throne which is not an end but a perfection into an Absolute Etern●ty and all Defilement for ever separated into the Lake 1 Cor. 15. 24. with Revel 20. 11. c. to the End I Have then Fix'd upon the General shades and Lines of this Vision and found by very Great Assurances that it presents a Supernatural State of Purity and Glory Reaching down from the Throne of God or the New Heaven to the New Earth the Place of the Soles of his Feet and in both a Temple State of the Highest Enjoyment of God I have also found by the Exquisiteness of the Date It is the Epoch or Head of Time from the Typical Jubilee at that Time to the Great Jubilee of the World the Kingdom of Christ and that within Two years of it God began the Calendar of Time from this Vision to that Kingdom at the end in Nebuchadnezzar's Image as I have elsewhere made out and Forty years after or at the end of the Forty Days for Years after this Vision wherein Ezekiel bare the Sin of Judah to the end of the Captivity God super-added a second Vision of the same Four Monarchies under the Emblem of Four Beasts Dan. 8. and that the space of those Monarchies might be more distinctly and certainly known He gave also within Two yerrs after 2300 Evens Morns Days also for Years to the Cleansing or as the Original is the Justifying this very Sa●ctuary and to the great Sabbatism of the New Creation and to the Kingdom of the Prince of Princes the Antichristian Desolator of the Sanctuary being Broken first without Hand Dan. 8. 25. which 2300 Evens Morns ending with the 1335 Days This Heavenly State is divided also by Lot Dan. 12. 12. 13. And now we are upon the 2200th and 18th of these Evenings Mornings There remain then but Seven to the Opening this Temple to be seen first in Heaven and but 75 beyond that to the coming down of the New Jerusalem All this being thus settled I come to Adjust the Substantial Spiritual meaning to the External Types of the Vision and to shew the High Rationality of the Correspondencies between the one and the other in answer to the second Question Correspondency 1. This Vision most Evidently and Illustriously presents the Highest Temple State or of the Tabernacle of God with Men A Temple and all the Forms Laws Ordinances and Measures of it runs through the Vision Now a Temple is a Place or Building wherein there is an Expectation of a divine presence or Gods coming down in a Communication of Himself to his Rational Creatures as at a distance from his Highest Glory and Presence and his being also pleas'd Graciously there to Receive their Tenders of Homage and service in Adorations and Praises This is the True notion of a Temple The very Highest Heaven is a Temple to the Angels and Glorified Spirits * He Humbles Himself Psal 113. 6. wherein God coming out of the Infinity of his own Glory and Being is pleas'd to hold Communion with them The whole lower World and Paradise especially was a Temple to Adam before his Fall And in Regard of the divine omnipresence Every place is a Temple and so He dwells not in Temples made with Hands but is Worshipped every where by Acts 17. 24. John 4. 21. 1 Kings 8. 27. them who Worship Him in Spirit and Truth For seeing the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Him how much less a Temple as Solomon the Builder of his Temple tells us God therefore very Tender of this Glory and the Fallen nature of Man most prone to violate it by Idolatry and Superstition There was no Temple or other place or indeed Form of Worship to be devoted to Him but by his own Appointment The first Appointment of place by God was the Tabernacle Exod. 25. 40. in the Wilderness the exact Measures and Pattern of which Gad gave to Moses and He was with Greatest Caution to observe it Solomon by the same Divine Pattern and Inspiration 1 Chron. 28. 11. Built the Temple It was after the Babylonish Desolation restor'd under Cyrus c. as near as might be to the old form c. All this was too Low and serv'd only as a Shaddow for the Time Being For it was too Low too often defiled and violated by Corruption within and Pagan Fury without It was Finally destroyed by the Romans yet it always remain'd a Type of the True Temple that is to be This Vision of Ezekiel joyn'd with that of John Revel 21. Give that True Temple wherein God and the Lamb will be the Temple and that Temple gives to the City the name Jehovah Shammah The Lord is there Here now is the Reason why there is in this Vision so much of a Temple Frame and Appearance To shew forth and foretell the State of the New Jerusalem wherein the Presence of God in Christ shall be most Free and Illustrious shewing his Love and Favour to his Servants and

Priesthood that It may be known They shall all come forth in Spirit Life and Substance in that Last and most perfect State Else They must never be Fulfill'd For after all the Rationalia or Reasonable Accounts that Learned men have Endeavour'd upon the Levitical Laws and Types The Apostle to the Hebrews c. 8. 5. c. 9. 9 10. c. 10. 1. as was most due when He writ to them Gives us the True one That they are Shaddows and Samples of Heavenly Things Images and not the very Presential Image of Good Things to Come till the Great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Adjustment of All Things In that Heavenly City and Countrey therefore when It Comes down from Heaven All These Things are to be Entirely Absolutely and Ultimately Fulfill'd and presented by Themselves It was therefore Necessary even Those very Types and Manners of speaking Taken from All those Foremention'd Things so well known to the Jews should be made use of in the Description of such a State as by so many Irrefragable Arguments must be the New Jerusalem-State being too High for the present World and yet not Abstracted Spiritual and High as the State of God All in All And thus our Saviour hath Declar'd He Came not to Dissolve the Law and the Prophets Mat. 5. 18. but to Fulfill Them and as it were Pointing to the Time by comparing this with Mat. 24. 3. 35. when They should be so Fulfill'd viz. at the New Heavens and the New Earth He says Till Heaven and Earth shall pass away meaning those which now are One Jot shall in no wise pass from the Law till All be Fulfill d Then Christ will to the utmost Fulfill All even to one Jota And Thus must that so Solemn Divine Asseveration Jer. 33. 29. c. be made Good concerning the Levitical Priesthood to wit in that Spiritual Priesthood of the whole Israel of God Jews and Gentiles serving God and the Lamb Day and Night that is always in his Temple in the perpetual Priesthood Cloath'd in Fine Linnen White and Clean or in Robes made White in the Blood of the Lamb which is the Righteousness of the Saints in that State seeing his Face and having his Name in their Foreheads Rev. c. 7. c. 19. Otherwise The Apostle is Irreconcileable with the Prophet when He Declares Heb. 7. 11 12. a change of the Levitical Priesthood into that Melchizedeckian Priesthood Begun at the Resurrection of Christ but not Appearing till the Kingdom of Christ in its Glory For though I freely Acknowledge All These Things had their Beginning Spirituality of Fulfilling them at our Lords Resurrection Yet as I have said the Holy of Holies that was then Annointed hath been yet Reserv'd in Heaven and was by Reason of the Apostasie Measur'd and shut up and not seen till the Seventh Trumpet nor shall It Come down from and with God and the Lamb till It shall be pronounc'd of the City the New Jerusalem Jehovah Shammah The Lord is There or the Lord God and the Lamb are the Temple of that City And This is the State of the perfect Redemption Expiation and Attonement of Jesus Christ as the End or Consummation of all the Levitical Law or Frame and the Righteousness of it Rom. 10. 4. Appearing in Glory when All Sin is Blotted out to Perfection and when is the Great Reconciliation of All to God and to One Another in Heaven and Earth In Him even in Him And All shall according to that Petition in the Prayer of the Kingdom be both Fully Forgiven and also Plenarily Forgive which now is Done in Great Infirmity only Colos 1. 20. Mat. 6. 12. 14. 15. In all which lyes the Spirituality and Truth of all the Levitical Priesthood Sacrifices Temple c. which are therefore so Fitly made use of here to Represent that State and therefore All Saints are the Spiritual Levitical Priesthood Worshiping God and Christ as his Priests in his Redemption 4. These Types are Fitted to express the Highest Holiness and Separation to God from all Impurity or Semblance of Alienation from Him This shall be in that New Jerusalem State and therefore It is express'd in the Language proper to the Holiness and Purification of the Sanctuary As these This is the Law of the House The Limit thereof upon the Top of the Mountain shall be round about the most Holy Behold this is the Law of the House The Holiness is as it were Guarded round about with a Law It is therefore said at the Beginning and end of the verse c. 43. v. 12. This is the Law of the House Behold This is the Law of the House to be Most Holy All the Whoredoms of Impure Worship and of the Carcasses of the Kings in their Idolatrous Impositions are utterly Remov'd The House is to be Cleans'd and Reconcil'd and the Altar purified Seven days The Priests to Consecrate themselves and their Persons and Garments are by no means to be defil'd None but the Inviolate Sons of Zadok are accepted to draw nigh The Worshippers are to go straight forward in their Worship and Service and not to Return even as the Angels in their Service c. 45. throughout c. 46. 9. with c. 1. 12. The Glory of God comes therefore into the Temple and takes it up for the Residence of his Throne and of the Soles of his Feet for ever and promises and even undertakes It shall be no more defil'd c. 43. 2. 7. Now seeing There never hath been any Temple State on Earth that hath not been defil'd as we must needs be convinc'd if we look back on all History of Scripture or its Pro●●etic History It must needs be that this Temple is that New Jerusalem State wherein God and the Lamb are the Temple coming down from Heaven into a State as in Heaven and upon Earth Now as God and the Lamb cannot be Tempted of Evil So they are a Temple not possible to be Defiled so that it is Security unspeakably High that this Temple cannot be Defiled that God and the Lamb are the Temple And therefore in that Prayer of the Kingdom we pray Thy Name be Sanctified as in Heaven and upon Earth even by such a presence as to be the Temple of his Servants even as his Kingdom comes so as in Heaven and upon Earth and His Will is so Done 5. The Types of this Vision present after the manner of David and the Princes of His House a Single Prince And as Zadok was firm to David and Solomon in the Priestly Office so the Sons of Zadok are here preferr'd in the Priesthood The Worship of the Prince is Appointed His Place of worship His going to it and Returning and all in the East where the Glory of the Lord had made its Entrance His Portion of the Holy Land is Assign'd Him which cannot be Alienated but only to his Sons All these Types Answering the Sollemn Oath of God so often Repeated to David and particularly Jerem. 33. 20. 21. and