the Brass the Silver and the Gold To shew it communicated it self to the whole and by it the force of the blow was distributed through the whole so that All was Broken that made up that Composition of the Image with the Clay and so far as it was tainted with that Antichristianism it is utterly Broken and made as the chaff of the Summer Floor Now as if Samsons strength had pass'd from his Head and Locks where it first dwelt while the dimensions and particular Characters of his person remain'd and so come down from higher to lower to his very Feet and there Broken So have we seen the Monarchic Spirit aod Life here describ'd passing from Mettal to Mettal from part to part comming down to the Feet the Seat of that Antichristianism that is to be Broken and the whole Image with it to Powder And seeing these Feet and Toes have continued so many Ages beyond all the former parts how can we but earnestly pray for that happy Revolution and if we are not so in Love with that state as to pray so for it yet however we should fear and prepare for it Thus far I have been representing the real and solid part of the Calendar of which I cannot doubt the Satisfaction It hath given to every observing Mind It now remains that the numeral though mystic part of it be consider'd under that Characterism of it Time Times and Half a Time in the Prophecy of Daniel And that this may be understood It must be expounded to us by that so divinely Learned and truly infallible Key of it and of the whole Prophecy of Daniel the Apocalyptical Prophecy of the New Testament and the Exposition it gives is as in a Complication of Charactorisms of Time Twice forty two Months Twice twelve hundred and sixty days and Twice three Times and a Half but with the little variation of Three Days and a Half for the great Reason of alluding to our Lords three Days in the Grave that we might learn to find a deeper and more intimate part in the space given as our Lord was but a deep part of the first the whole of the second and a small deep part viz. the very dawn or Morning-Break of the Third Day in the Grave which yet is call'd being Three Days and Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth This plainly teaches us there was parallel-wise in these Time Times and Half a Time a deeper Tyranny of the Beast and of the Apostolical Church cclips'd by it and its Seed the Witnesses suffering under it in some parts of these Times then in others And These Things I have more at large handled in their proper place of the Line of Time and shall now only recal what is necessary to present this Time more at full And in the first place It is duly to be Remark'd that as the Spirit gave a Calendar however Mystic but just at the Rising of the Ten Horns on the Head of the Fourth Roman Beast which appears the seventh Head or Papacy in the Revelation with his Ten Horns or Kings and He a little Horn among them So in the Revelation It affixes those Charecterisms of Time to the Gentiles coming in to the outward Court and to the Witnesses putting on Sackcloth and to the Church fled into the Wilderness upon it as also to the Times of the Beast who is the seventh Head of the Fourth Beast in Daniel which we have proved to be Roman and to his Ten Horns and to the Woman persecuted by the Dragon making War with its Seed by the Beast to whom he gave his Throne Power c. Killing her Seed the Witnesses By which as also by the very express use of Three Times and Half the Spirit hath if we will receive it demonstrated to us That the Ten Horns and Little Horn in Daniel and the Beast and its Ten Horns in the New Testament-Prophet John are the very same Kingdom And the Time is doubled in the Witnesses and the Woman both for the certainty and also explanation of the Church not to be found as the Beasts and Romanists vaunt before Luther but Collectively as a Church Woman or Mother Hid in the Wilderness and yet districutively War'd with and kill d in single Saints or Witnesses as its Seed Now it is most Evident that in every one of these Characterisms of Time Three equal parts and a Half part of Time are still most clearly and peremptorily defin'd that we may thereby be most assuredly guided in the Calculation or Computation of the whole space And then they are made up into eighty four Indictions giving a broad Indication It was a Time soon after Constantine that was intended to be defin'd For so soon after Him Indictions came to be general Characters of Time being as Chronologers most agree instituted under him That we may then find the fundamental Reason of this Time we must consider that the Kingdom of Christ having made an Appearance and given a Specimen of it self as hath been shewn It was Estop'd by that Oath of Christ There shall be Time Times and half a Time for that Kingdom to be under an Eclipse In which Time That He the little Horn made so Famous Dan. 7. should scatter the Power of the Holy People or drive the Church into the Wilderness for those Times and Half a Time. Accordingly Revel 12. This very Eclipse is represented to come to pass For the Kingdom of Christ from Constantines Christian Retgn to the Death of Theodosius the Great as the Church cloathed with the Sun had the Bestian Pagan Kingdom compar'd with the Moon under its Feet as it were diametrally Hereupon there begins a gradual darkness or Eclipse upon the True Church For the Pagan Bestian Kingdom being now to become Antichristian-Beastian That Antichristian Beastian Kingdom borrows as the Moon in an Eclipse does most Light and Glory from the Sun and yet Eclipses that Light from the World For it turns its own dark obscure shade downward and retires the Light from above How does this most admirably Resemble the Antichristian Church in which former Paganism finding it self so to lye under the Sun takes as it were the advantage to guild it self with the Beams of Christianity It takes upon it self the Apostolick Faith the Acknowledgment of Scripture the names of Christ and of his Saints the style of Catholick Church And all this it does That it may engross to it self Those Titles of honour and Glory that Riches and splendor which is onely due to the True and pure Christianity in the Kingdom of Christ Hereby it robs the World of the Light and glory of Christianity for instead of those powerful and enlivening rays it casts upon the Earth Idolatry Superstition Ceremony Foppery of Religion which are ancient Paganism Antichristianiz'd and must needs chill make wan and pale all appearances of Gospel Truth so far as any were but in deed rather darken and obscure them altogether as truly Gospel
as of returning Pagan Bestianism should Eclipse and obscure the Kingdom of Christ after it had given an Emblem and appearance of it self which is the Foundation of the whole Type the very Frame and aspect of such a Calendar necessarily imports that the Time and Times are Three equal parts viz. The Time one single part and Times Two equal parts in themselves but double when conjoyn'd and then the Half Time the just Half of any of those equal parts And thus the explication of Time Times Half a Time by those so particular Characterisms assure us For Twelve hundred sixty days and Forty two Monnhs necessarily carry us upon Three equal years and one Half year and Three days and a Half are yet more express that There are Three equal parts and one Half part of any of the Three equal parts intended to be given Now that these are explanatory of these three Times and a Half is in two Instances viz. of the twelve Hundred sixty days and of the Beasts Forty two Months most clear which is enough to the present purpose For the twelve Hundred sixty days and the Three Times and Half are both the measure of the space of the Woman in the Wilderness and so the same And the three Times and Half and the Beasts Forty two Months are both given as the space of the Power of the little Horn in Daniel and of the Beast in the Revelation both which I have already prov'd are the same and therefore the Times and the Forty two Months must be necessarily the same and so equal in the Three parts and a half part But further when the Times and Half are thus distributed and with such allusion to the Death and Burial of Jesus Christ as in the Witnesses lying dead three days and a Half. It is both in the thing it self as in the allusion most evident that the first Time is allowed for the Ascendency of this Kingdom of the Beast till the Eclipse of the Kingdom of Christ by it becomes Total The two Times are the uniform Continuation of things in that very State the end of the First Time left Them But when It comes to a Half Time the Kingdom of the Beast being at the very moment of that Half Time entring what It was all the Two Times It just then comes under a check and surprise and can continue the Total Eclipse no longer but shall continue a partial Eclipse till the Half Time given to Him be also expir'd Then that Kingdom shall be prescinded as at the middle with both Ruin and Infamy upon which the Glory of Christ his Kingdom Church and People so long Eclipsed shall at the End of that Half Time shine out much more gloriously then ever yet It hath done and after a short preparation to a perfect day without any more Night Let us then examine at what Time the Half Time enter'd which may be certainly known by that check and surprize upon the Antichristian Kingdom that It could no longer totally Eclipse the Church of Christ as it had done And what Time that was there is a Vox Populi a common saying even of the Antichristian People that indeed is Vox Dei the very Oracle of God concerning the Half Time Where say They was your Church before Luther that is It was before indeed all along from Christ but It was for Time and Two Times under an Eclipse even Total that It could not be seen before Luther's Time From his Time It hath been blessed be God to be seen but not as It shall be at the End of the Half Time so here is evidently the Half Time begun Now what Chronology is not agree'd that Luther appear'd at 1517 Here then viz. at 1517 the Half Time most certainly Began For from that Time not any accidental change or for a Time but an unmoveable Reformation and Retrenchment upon the Antichristian Kingdom hath ensued in the revolt of several Kingdoms and States from it And how unmovable it hath been So universal consent in the late Revolution as it appear'd against Popery is in this Protestant Nation a Monument undoubtedly set up by God as a Specimen what shall be at the end of the Half Time whatever Judgment our sins may in the mean Time provoke upon us Being thus assur'd then when the Half Time began we are also most certain the Half Time is a Half equal to each of the Three equal parts In twelve hundred and sixty therefore an equal Half part to each equal whole part must be one hundred and eighty And if this Half part begin at 1517. It must end at 1697. by a consequence undeniable And then if from 1517. where the Half Time began we carry backward one Thousand and Eighty the just Amount of the three equal parts They must needs reach back by a retrograde motion to Anno 437. of the Christian Account at which Time the Ten Kings were every where carving their Kingdoms out of the Empire under the play of the first Trumpet So the Gentiles at that very time came as before explain'd into the outward Court and their Forty two Months began and gave Thirty eight Intercalar years till the Beast and the Ten Kings receiv'd Power as hath been explain'd which was at 475 as was before explain'd And thus the Times of the Beasts Moon so under the Feet of the Church as to Ecclipse it by surprizing the Glory proper to it as Cloath'd with the Sun are made equal to the Times of the Church in the Wilderness and of the Witnesses in their Sackcloth and run equal with them to the end and the Gentiles Months are of no further considerations but most naturally and simimilarly sink into the Months of the Beast and are united with them And yet lastly to make this Calendar most undoubted If we should lay aside the distinction betwixt Lunar and Solar Time and the Intercalation upon it and take the Time Times and Half Time as of the little Horn onely absolutely and by themselves Yet allowing the Little Horn the same with the Beast the eigth King succeding the Christian Empire at 475 as hath been so fully prov'd and let the Half Time as hath been also prov'd enter with Luther they will come to the very same point of 1697 if we allow but five Years from Luther 1517 viz. till 1522 for the revolts from the Bestian Kingdom which Reformed Princes and States in that Time made and which have continued to this day at which very Time Images and the worship of them of greatest Interest in Bestianism began to be cast out And then proportion the Times and half Time among themselves as was before most undeniably stated The expedients of Lunar Time and of Intercalation will be more necessary to set the Bestian Time at an even ballance with the whole Apocalyptical Emblem both of the state and Characters of this Time then to make certain the Calendar and its computation For Luther's appearance or so
and Brethren Your most unworthy Fellow Servant in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ T B … THE General Preface With a Table of Contents THE Preface I intend shall be to present a Key of the following Discourse in the plainest manner I can The great Intencion of it is to Assert so Happy a Revolution of the World as the Kingdom of Christ in its Succession within so few Years as lye betwixt the present 1689 and the next ensuing 1697. This Kingdom however the Prophane and wicked World may take it and be Angry at it must needs be the Joy and desire of all good Men and Women The change will be so Great and Happy that the Heathen Empire becoming Christian under Constantine was so dark a shade of it that notwithstanding it the Churches flight Rev. 12. 6. into the Wilderness for 1260 days Is immediately upon it given out At this 97. It shall return from the Wilderness and not before How much more Glorious shall that Time then be The Pope and Turk shall go off the Stage of Power and which is much greater to us The Reformation or Protestant State shall be purg'd from all the Remains of Antichristianism in Doctrine Worship Jurisdiction and Manners which God knows are very great For Rev. 3. 2. Christ hath not Found our works perfect or Fill'd up before God. It is a dangerous thing to say if God hath said it How shall this thing be How did he raise the World in Six days when as yet there was none of it How did he bring in a Christian Empire after the Cruelties of those Salvage Emperors Dioclesian and the other Tyrants of that Time just before Raging in the Last and greatest Christian Persecution by the Pagan Empire The great Question is then whether he hath said it or not To shew he hath said it These Two Visions of Daniel are expounded by themselves together with the Light of the New Testament as a Calendar and here offer'd To make out this It is first Intimated which in its proper place pag. 1. is more fully prov'd that Daniel's great Visions throughout his Prophecy and so these two are on purpose to shew how long it would be e're Ezekiels vision of the Glorious City and Temple would come out of Vision into the Everlasting Throne and the Sanctuary cleans'd as Real Event To shew it would be a long Time God gives in these two Visions a Substantial Calendar of Four great Monarchies running out themselves e're the Everlasting Throne would be Erected At the end of them It would As in another Vision He gives 2300 Evenings and Mornings till the Sanctuary cleans'd as a numeral Calendar of the whole Time. The best Key that can be given to this is to give the Contents of the Discourse Referring to the pages wherein each part is discours'd in the way of Argument That these two Visions give so Substantial a Calendar of more value then Seth's pillars if Extant and then a Numeral Calendar ending 1697. The first Vision is in the Exquisite frame and admirable contrivance of it and the most Illustrious Remarks Providence so designedly gave it in Daniel's Exposition of it made out to be such a Calendar pag. 2. and to end in a Kingdom of Christ neither the Heavenly nor the Spiritual Evangelical Kingdom onely nor that of the Christian to pag. 13. Empire or Christian Princes and States since Constantine But One to Come The second Vision is then shown to be doubled to Fix the Certainty p. 14. 15. 16 as also that It is more particular as given to Daniel a Domestick of the Divine Kingdom above what was allowed to Nebuchadnezzar an Alieu The Grand Argument of such a Calendar propos'd and all along pursued is That Things have been successively and are to this day in Motion according to this Calendar And by express Scripture as pag. 16. 17. to the Babylonian the Persian the Graecian Monarchies All acknowledg'dly pass'd and gone off It is therefore in the next place shown the Calendar could not expire in the Graecian Monarchy as it stood divided after Alexander the Great And that therefore it must subsist in the Roman Monarchy and how Agreeably with Prophecy and History of the New Testament even to the Evidence of an Article of Faith It doth there subsist is argued And that this Monarchies having no Name in the Old or New Testament as the other Monarchies p. 18. to p. 25. have nor any particular shape in Daniel as the other Kingdoms have in the three Beasts does not weaken but strengthen the Calendar is also Argued That the Calendar therefore might continue in the Roman Monarchy That Monarchy remain'd unbroken at the Resurrection p. 26. and Ascension of Christ and from thence it is to be divided into three Periods 1. The Period of the Pagan Empire before Constantine's most p 26. 27. Livelily Symbold in the Revel c. 12. 1. c. 2. The Period of the Christian Empire from Constantine p. 28. till the Abdication of Augustulus The Symbol of it in the Revelation and the wonderful care Prophecy takes about it Shown at to p. 38. large Because it was not Bestian but a shade of the Kidgdom of Christ That yet the Calendar should not be thought destroyed is displayed from the Apostle Paul. 2. Thess 2. and from several Apocalyptical Concerts concerning it The Calendar as brought down to the Christian Empire and plac'd there as on a Grand pillar of Time is Reviewed as in that p. 39. Christian Empire Beginning and Ceasing 3. The third Period is of the Roman Papacy wherein is prov'd that whatever succeeded the Christian Roman Empire and hath continued all along to this day must be the Bestian State of the Roman Empire and it could be no other but the Papacy with the p. 40. Ten Kings and Kingdoms into which that Empire was after the Christian Empire Divided Because the State of the Roman Empire under the Papacy and the Ten Kings would be so long that the Calendar could not be enough supported by the Real substantial Notes of distinction nor known how long Here therefore the Numeral Calendar of Time p. 41. 42. Times and Half a Time is given which had been in vain given if not to be understood The explication is therefore undertaken in that Assurance and Ballanced with Forty Two Months Prophetically divided and multiplyed The Epoch or Beginning of these Times and Half Time is argued to be at the Abdication of Augustulus where by the way p. 43. to 45. the true Notion of Abdication is â—lear'd and urg'd and the Ten Kings thereupon Receiving Power with the Beast at one Hour which Receiving at One Hour is explain'd and argued The real Calendar in the Times and Half Time is argued by such undeniable and unparalellable Agreements betwixt the Prophecy of Daniel and the Revelation and the State of the Roman Empire p.
Testament gives no Representation of them any further then as They are Recapitulated in the Beast So that the whole Apocalyptick Prediction appertains onely to and gives the Schemes of the state of the Roman Empire after it had subdued all the Three first Kingdoms under it self and become the Vniversal Monarchy of the World. And this it does with Relation to the Church of Jesus Christ as its principal object and aim which is a most remarkable Consideration Assuring us the Revelation is a Continuation and further Explication of what remain'd unfulfill'd of Daniel's Prophecy from those very first days of the New Testament or when They began That we may then go on with the Prophecy of Daniel As the Calendar we are upon was most declaredly brought down to the Roman Monarchy at the Birth of Jesus Christ So there are several Periods of the Calendar from that Time wherein the Prophecy of Daniel and of the New Testament Agree most Illustriously with History in Relation to the Roman Empire Period 1 It is most notorious notwithstanding the Birth Death Resurrection Ascension of Jesus Christ and the Apostolical preaching The Roman Empire continued one and continued Pagan in the supreme Powers and in the Body and Bulk of the People From hence it is evident the Calendar was not Run out because the Kingdom of Christ did not onely not Fill the Earth but did not consume other Kingdoms as it is first to do before it Fills the Earth And therefore no Interpretation of Filling the Earth with the Gospel or Spiritual Kingdom can stand Good And further the Calendar was not come down to the Feet and Toes of the Image nor into the Head of the Beast dishevelling it self into Ten Horns as it must in its last state But during the Pagan Empire it remained perfectly One and therefore was not in its last state Now of this Pagan Empire Two Things are most known That Jesus Christ having come into the Flesh under the Roman Monarchy Sathan the old Serpent and Dragon being aware that that Kingdom which shall utterly destroy his Kingdom was entred He as a Dragon watch'd that manly Birth to destroy it if it were possible first He then inhabiting the Pagan Roman Empire it is fitly Resembled to a Dragon in regard of that Spirit that inhabited it by a most particular influence over it And because when Christianity began to spread it self in that Empire in a multitude of Christians It had a Jealous eye over it and over the Empire it might raise Therefore by Ten so known and Famous Persecutions it endeavour'd as a Dragon to devour it and to surprize that Supreme Monarch Jesus Christ who should Rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron which the Christian Church compar'd to a Travelling woman was to Bring forth Herein the Pagan Empire is Resembled to Pharoh the Egyptian King of Old who fearing the overgrowth of Israel into a Kingdom as a Dragon lying in the Nile waited to devour it by Killing the Male Children And thus Herod the Roman Vassal though King of the Jews watch'd to have devour'd Jesus Christ the Incarnate King who shall sit on the Throne of his Father David and of whose Kingdom there shall be no End. Thus admirable is the Concinnity and Agreement between the Pagan Emperors of Rome that was to be a Spiritual Egypt and the Dragon How plain therefore is the Calendar of the Roman Empire in this particular to the very last of it as Pagan Dioclesian and the other last Heathen Emperors being among the Persecutors of the first rank and therefore we must needs be certain whereabout the Time of the Calendar then was For we know this state lasted about 300 Years after the Resurrection and in the clearness and particularity of this the New Testament exceeds the old Consider further this Imperial power with relation to the rest of the World and it was Salvage Dreadful and Terrible as Daniel styles it and as the Revelation styles it as a Dragon devouring and Consuming all other powers as with Iron Teeth and stamping on them as with Legs of Iron on which account the Dragon is said as it were to sweep down the Third part of the Stars or other Princes Rev. 12. 4. and powers of the World with its Syrma its Tail or Train of Power and enlarged Empire And in that it is call'd the Third part of the Stars It thus sweeps down It is agreeable that its Succession to the Third or Graecian Empire should be Connoted which it so particularly drew down from whence the Third or Third part becomes in this Prophecy a Cypher or private Character of the Roman Empire Whether in the West the most proper peculiar Rome and Roman Empire or in the East that affected also to be call'd Roman Empire even as Constantinople New Rome and These Two are therefore in these Prophetick Hieroglyphics call'd Two Wings of the one Great Eagle or Roman Empire And that we may know the Prophetick Calendar was taken care of in this Pagan state of Roman Empire the whole Roman Beast that is said to be diverse from the other Beasts in regard of its many and more Eminently Seven forms of Government very strange to the other Three Kingdoms before it especially in the last the Papal Supremacy was pictured as with Seven Heads Heads of that City that when St. John wrote the Revelation Reign'd over the Kings of the Earth and therefore could be no other then Rome And it is particularly said Five were Fallen One then was which we know could be no other then the Pagan Emperors Thus exact is the Calendar or account of Time till Constantine under whom the Empire became Christian Because all History Agrees whereabouts in Time it was Period 2 The second Period of the Roman Empire since the Resurrection according to Prophecy and most known in History is the Christian Roman Empire under Constantine and his successors And the Time is very well known in History and Agreed whereabouts it was But it must be acknowledged this Period or change of the Empire from Pagan to Christian is not at all shaddowed in Daniel's Prophecy in either of the Two Visions of the Image or of the Beasts it hath no Lines or Mentions And the reason is very clear and plain For when the Spirit of Prophecy was pleas'd to give a Calendar of Time by Two Visions Both representing a Monarchic Frame though of Four Monarchies Yet they were but One in a Bestian enmity and Contrariety to the great Kingdom of Jesus Christ A Christian Monarchy that was given for a short space as an Emblem shade or Specimen though but a dark one of that Kingdom of Christ could have no proper place there but must have confus'd the Frame But as if it were on purpose to compensate the silence of the Christian Monarchy in Daniel and because it may seem a Discontinuer in the Bestian Calendar of Kingdoms and in that Frame of Four and
and this indeed was turning Christianity as much as is possible into Fable according to that Papal Prophaness that styl'd it so when themselves had made it so Together with this obscuring of Truth that Honour and Glory most due to the Church of Christ and to his Servants that should fill the World is so intercepted by the Children of the Night usurping it that while the Church is in the Wilderness and unseen tho' cloath'd with the Sun its Seed the Witnesses that should shine with the same Beams are cover'd with Sackcloth according to the Prophetical allusion the Sun became as Sackcloth of Hair and Kill'd all the day long Never was shade or portraicture thus fitted to the life but who as the divine Spirit can at the same Time hide in Cyphar and yet declare the thing plentifully as it is But now this Time of the Eclipse is determin'd to be Twelve Hundred sixty prophetical days or years of the Sun whose state is to guide and determine this Time In which regard the Moon that is the Times of the Moon are under its Feet and to be guided and over-rul'd by it It comes then to be consider'd that the Times of the Moon are not equal to the Times of the Sun For the Time in which the Moon measures the Zodiac twelve Times and hath as often New Congresses with the Sun and thereby makes the lunar year is agreed to be as near as can be computed a thirty eighth part less then what the Sun requires to visit the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac and to give twelve meetings to the Moon in its yearly Course so that the Moon is advanced near eleven days in the stage of a New Year before the Sun hath finish'd any year Proportionably the Beasts Times and Half Time are expounded in the Revelation by Forty two not only Months but Moons For every several Month is as under another Moon call'd therefore a New Moon and therefore Months must be Times of the Moon for they are Moons but the Moon is not the Sun If therefore These Moons had begun at the same Time the twelve hundred sixty days began They must have ended Thirty eight years sooner then They could end according to the Symbol For then the Eclipse should have lasted when the Moon had no longer been so posited as to intercept the Suns Beams that is the Glory of Christ in his Church Therefore in the Jews Times from whom This as All the other Types in this Prophecy relating to the Church and Servants of Christ are taken There was the Intercalation of a second Adar the last Jewish Month betwixt each precedent and following year that was to be intercalar that it might supply the hollow or vacuity in the Moons Time and guide the Paschal New Moon in its due regard to the vernal Sun to keep Time with it Now the Rule of this Intercalation because the balance betwixt the Motion of the Sun and of the Moon was the Decem-Novennal Cycle or so generally known Golden Number And lastly this Intercalation was generally necessary but every Third year of all which particulars the Treatise of that learned Jew Maimonides concerning the New Moons and Intercalation is a Great Testimony and his sixth Chapter gives Great Light to the Type we are are upon For proportionably The Forty two Months of the Gentiles are as Intercalary to the Months of the Beasts and begin Thirty eight years before them and are as it were a second supplemental Adar to the Time of the Draconic sixth Head and come in as a fit space of the Dragons giving his Throne to the Beast For the Barbarous Nations are call'd Gentiles because They ravag'd on the Christian Empire the Emblem of Christs Kingdom though indeed Sathan by Them as hath been say'd miss'd his Aim For the Empire was now Antichristianiz'd and the True Church hid Yet their coming into the outward Cuort of the Empire and of the Profession of Christianity and to become the Beasts People manag'd at first by the other Beast or Antichristian Roman Hierarchy God was pleas'd to ordain as the beginning of the Apostasie upon which the Witnesses put on their Sackcloth and the Woman actually fled into the Wilderness and the Twelve hundred sixty days began And because the Beasts Moons did not begin till thirty eight years after Here is the Intercalation of the Thirty eighth part the Beasts Moons would want and given in two Nineteens or Cycles of the Moon setting right the Moon to the Sun that so the Moon of the Antichristian Bestian Kingdom might be in its just Time under the Suns Feet with which the Church was cloath'd to Eclipse it Now this Type is so wonderful as not possibly to fall into this Model of Time by chance with that admirable Congruity and therefore cannot be look'd upon but as divinely design'd and so to be accepted as demonstrative That the Beasts Months beginning at 475. There must have been Thirty eight years of Bestian preparatory Time before them with the first of which the twelve hundred sixty days or years beginning All may end together 1697. And if it be ask'd what becomes of the Months of the Gentiles after the Beasts Months enter'd and of the Action of the other Beast or Antichristian Hierarchy who exercis'd the Power of the First Draconic Beast and spake as the Dragon not dead but to live in the Antichristian Beast The Answer is The Gentiles Months merg'd into the Beasts who had Power given Him over all Kindreds Tongues and Nations as an Antichristian Head and so though for the Grace of the Type They are given as Forty two Months yet They are drown'd in the Beasts Months after They have done their Service of Intercalation before the Beasts Months began even as smaller Accounts of Time are swallowed up in that of the Reigns of Supreme Princes dating All Times Then also the other Beast became the Beasts false Prophet the Tutor or Guardian of his Infantile Power till He came to his manly Number 666. and after that his Inseparable Spirit and Intelligence as hath appear'd in all Councels before the Beasts Times wherein the Hierarchy had been Heaving the Papacy into an Antichristian Idolatrous Supremacy The Dawn of which was visible in the Councel of Chalcedon within the Gentiles Intercalary Months within his Times confirming and swelling it to a Height as in the second Councel of Nice and in the Lateran Councels of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Or supporting the declining State of it as in that last Famous Councel of Trent in his Half Time. But besides all that hath been spoken let us but take Time Times and Half a Time and we may by one easie way of Argument and in which any one may satisfie himself assure our selves in this determination of Time that I have made For when a Calendar of Time is given in Time Times and Half a Time as the measure of that space wherein a Kingdom and Government