men It is more than probable there will be and one might take Sanctuary to salve Appearances at some of them But so Great a Revolution as the Return of Miracles is such as will Allow no Subterfuge Either it is or it is not will presently decide Now this Test I have most Freely in the following Discourse put my self upon It is true there is yet a Distance of Time to 97. but not so far off now at 94. as it was at 84 when I Fiâ—st Publish'd that very Year and when it was as Little All will commonly think I Hope Less Acceptable than under the present Reign And have not now nor ever since either mov'd it nearer or further off And I most humbly bless God it is so much nearer that we All write now 1694. The Substance of the Discourse of Miracles was Preach'd in your Hearing to whom I especially write and hath for the most part undergone only such Alterations Additions or Detachments as the Difference between a Free way of Speaking and a more settled Writing requires The Adjoyn'd Treatise Entuled The Great Charter for Interpretation of Prophecy hath been occasionally interspers'd in many Discourses to you though more Compacted in Another Assembly But the Matter being so much Allied and so necessary to Direct Expectation as to the Time of the Return of Miracles Though it be an Addition to what I propos'd and Receiv'd the Contribution of so many for Yet the Discourse propos'd Leaving Room for it so as that it will come just up to the Proposal with this Adjoyn'd and no more I hope it will not be misinterpreted and the rather because it is the Authority I show for All I have Written and Preach'd concerning the Kingdom of Christ in Succession at 1697. And I am so far satisfy'd in what I have through Gracious Assistance been enabled to say that if I may be so Bold to make an Humble Allusion to what our Lord said concerning the Passover I would not set my self to Write I do not say declare any more concerning it Except Any one should call Publickly and in Print for an Answer of Any Objection made to it till it be Fullfill'd in the Succession of the Kingdom of Christ I Know many will be very Forward to blame me in this Confidence as I know it will seem also of Boasting But I have well weigh'd my Grounds and do not Fear I know whom and what I have Believed upon and Rest Secure He will bring it to pass and Hasten it in its own Time I have declared Yet According to the very Infirmity of the Present State I have ballanc'd the matter I know if Things which can neither Deceive nor be Deceived Ratifie what I have written God hath not vouchsafed by Any to Declare Them so Publickly Appearing as he hath by one most Unworthy and Desirous to Lye in the Dust before him and All his People in the Sence of my own Unworthiness If so Whatever hath or shall befall me None shall take This Glory from me nor from the Remembrance of me That I have beon thus Enabled by Him to Speak and Write thus concerning the Kingdom of Christ and the Time of its Succession I Remember yet with due Honor that Fellow-Helper in his Annotations on the Revelation Yet the least in the Succession of that Kingdom shall be much greater than Any can be now But if on the other side I may have been Deceiv'd on such Grounds as I Rest upon I should neither Expect nor Desire to have the mercy so Great a Confidence should be covered in Silence But that my so Great Assurance should he set as a Sea-mark to Caution All Others and to rest as an unremovable Shame and Confusion on my self and Name But I hope better Things and such as shall Lay fast hold on the Kingdom of Christ though I thus speak and as I most Humbly Sollemnly Affectionately Pray for your Abundant and Rich Entrance into this Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ So I most earnestly desire your Prayers for the bringing forth that Kingdom that you would look for and hast on to it even on my behalf also as the Minister of it and that I may so Preach it and all the Doctrines pertaining to it which are indeed all the Doctrines of the Gospel that I may both save my self and them that hear me and that while I Preach it to others I my self may not become a Cast-away from that Kingdom and that you may be Found worthy to stand before the Son of man at that day My most Honoured This 7th Month 7th Day 1694. Your most Faithful and Humble Servant in this Ministry of the Gospel and of the Kingdom of it T. BEVERLEY THE CONTENTS OF THE Discourse upon Miracles CHap. I. The Opening of the Text and the Heads of the Discourse given Page 1 Chap. II. Of the Nature of Miracles and the due place of them p. 4 Chap. III. Giving yet a more Strict and Exact Description of Miracles in Five Particulars p. 15 Chap. IV. Of the Reasons or ends of Miracles as they are generally Assign'd by those who have VVrit upon them p. 23 Chap. V. VVherein the Grand Scope of the Discourse is Endeavoured to be truly Fixed viz. That the Chief and Adequate End and Reason of Miracles is That they are Portions and Pledges Peices and Parcels and Portions of the Kingdom of Christ or of the World to Come and to Bring it in at Last p. 30 Chap. VI. A Discussion of the Times wherein Miracles have been most Illustrious and when there hath been greatest Darkness among the People of God in Relation to them Preparatory to the Asserting That Miracles are not ceas'd but a Return of Them is to be Expected p. 46 Chap. VII The Direct Proof of the Power of Miracles Returning by the following Arguments for it p. 58 Chap. VIII Of that Power of Miracles that always Accompanies the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and hath rested upon the Witnesses and yet Rests upon them During the whole Time past and to the End of the Twelve Hunâ—â—ed and Sixty Days of the Woman in the Wilderness and the Witnesses in Sackcloath and the Forty two Months of the Antichristian Apostasy p. 75 Chap. IX An Enquiry upon some late Miraculous Appearances of God according to his own Will that look like a Beginning of Miracles Returning and how far They give Encouragement to wait upon God in any case of Extremity to do for us above his ordinary Course of Providence or Government of the World p. 85. Chap. X. Wherein a Representation of the Excellency of the State of Miracles in the Days of Christ and of the Apostles is given That we may thereby Judg of the Return of such a State of Miracles excelling even that in Vniversality and reaching the utmost Effects p. 88 Chap. XI The Inferences from the whole Discourse of Miracles Tending to make Wise to Sobriety concerning Them and
by the Rising of our Lord from the Dead for our Justification which was in Daniels Phrase bringing in Everlasting Righteousness That then immediately sollows the Sealing Vision and Prophecy viz. The Vision and Prophecy of the Glorious Temple and Kingdom of Christ even to Ezekiel 40. c. Indeed there was a Gradual Unsealing that first Sealing in the Opening the Seven first Seals which produc'd the Appearance of the Kingdom of Christ in the Christian Empire of Constantine and his Successors but because under it the Antichristian State of the Empire made up every day nearer and nearer to Antichrist's 2 Thes 2. own Time wherein he was to be Revealed therefore there was a second sâ—aling of the Servants of God in their Forehead which sealing being contemporary with the Witnesses in Sackcloath and that contemporary with the Forty Two Months of the Gentiles and of the Beast and of the Woman in the Wilderness is by construction a Time of 1260 Days of Years So that the Glory of their State was indeed secur'd but Conceal'd also and Reserv'd Upon which the Kingdom of Christ could not be Reveal'd during that sealing also and this as I shall argue was the True Cause of the cessation of the power of Miracles And when there was a Challenge of the Kingdom of Christ Rev. 10. by the Roar of the Lyon and Seven Thunders uttering their Voices there was yet which shall be the last a sealing up the Voices of the Thunders So that there coald not be the mighty Works of Miracles shewing forth themselves notwithstanding the Reformation I have thus far now shewn the close connexion of Miracles and the Kingdom of Christ all along from the Promise of the Seed of the Woman breakiag the Head of the Serpent unto the very Kingdom of Christ appearing in far Greater Glory than ever yet it hath done and no Time excepted but the Time of Straits from the Restoring Jerusalem to Messiah and the Time of the 1260 Days of the Apostasy not expiring at the Reformation nor yet expired That I may then give what I account the True Reason of the Suspension rather than Cessation of Miracles I will lay down my sense of it in these Following Particulars 1. There is a solemn Oath of Christ That the Potentacy of the Beast would have Time Times and half a Time 42 months or 1260 Days 2. This Potentacy of the Beast was to attain its power by doing Great Wonders and working Miracles For that which is called The other Beast Rev. 13. 13. while he says to them that dwell on the Earth that they should worship the Beast and make an Image to the Beast that is give him in the Image of Spiritual Supremacy Imperial Power He works miracles tho false ones And thus it was to be because as hath been said the Kingdom of the Beast is the Counterfeit of the Kingdom of Christ and so must Appear with Miracles 3. The Kingdom of Christ cannot appear while â—he Beâ—st's Term lasts For those Two Kingdoms can no more stand together in Manifestation and Appearance than the Ark and Dagon 4. In the Kingdom of Christ then Miracles come when his Name in his Kingdom comes For where his Name is near in any Outward Lustre and Visible Glory of his Kingdom in that Psalm of his Kingdom Psal 75. 1. There his wondrous works must and shall declare it 5. Where True Miracles come False Miracles cannot Abide but Vanish as those of Simon Magus Acts 10. of Elymas the Sorcerer Chap. 13. 8. of the Exorcists Chap. 19. 13. as those of Jannes and Jambres before Moses 2 Tim. 3. 8. as the Priests of Baal whose God could not Answer by Fire before the True God by Elijah 1 Kings 18. 28. 38. When God indeed appears All Counterfeits are forced to cry out This is the Finger of God God cannot be out-shot in his own Bow 5. Where the Miracles proper to the Evangelical Kingdom and Glory of Christ come there is also a pouring out of the Divine Spirit in the Hearts of Men by mighty Operations of Grace according to his own Will and in proportion to the Appearance his Kingdom is to make at that time And this must prevail over All that stands in the way of it Lay then these together They make Demonstrative Proof There could be There can be no Miracles while the Antichristian Times last that is no open visible sensible Miracles For if the Beast must by the Oath tf Christ last 1260 Years If it must begin and be sustain'd by Lying Signs and Wonders And if where Christ's Kingdom comes in Glory Miracles come and his Spirit also If the False Miracles of Antichrist's Kingdom cannot stand before the True Miracles of Christ's Kingdom much more with his Spirit Then it necessarily follows there can be no Miracles no Divine Visible Miracles while the Kingdom of the Beast is by the Oath of Christ to continue It would presently break All in pieces over-throw All The Beast's Kingdom cannot stand before them His Kingdom having been so near to 1260 Years so long Miracles must have been suspended and the Miraculous Power have lain still and been quiet as in its Scabbard For what can such Lying VVonders as are done by the Dead Bones of Martyrs Relicks of this or that Saint the Virgin Mary or even pertaining to Christ's Garments VVood of his Cross before the mighty Power of Truly Evangelical Doctrine seal'd with Miracles such as were done by Christ and his Apostles together with the Inward Power and Grace of the Divine Spirit making obedient by Word and Deed What could All the Legendary Miracles of Transubstantiation do in Resistance to Divine Truth so armed or Brutish Excommunications effect before that True Apostolical Power of casting to Sathan The One True Fire from Heaven the other Brutum Fulmen False Fire though pretended to be brought down from Heaven where by the way I cannot but observe how Prophecy hath guided common Language For as Lightnings or Fulminations are Fire from Heaven so common Language hath styled Excommunications Fire as from Heaven though indeed only from the Magical Heaven of the Pope and most truly from the sulpâ—ureous smoak of the bottrmless Pit Revel 9. 1. Falling in with Revel 13. 13. to Great Exactness Now a due Consideration of what I have now Represented makes Full Solution to Two Objections that may arise from an overly Reflection upon it Object 1 It may be asked Why had the Apostasy of the Ten Tribes so Great a Type of the Antichristian Apostasy so many and so great Miracles by Elijah and Elisha Ans The Answer is already given because the Kingdom and Apostasy of Antichrist was sworn by Christ and therefore could not be broken till the End of the 1260 days but it would have been broken by Miracle whereas the Kingdom of the Ten Tribes being Israelitish and Appointed by God was not Touch'd by the Miracles of Elijah and Elisha altho their Paganiz'd Apostasy was
to that last making known which is therefore great Proof the Power of Miracles is not so ceas'd but that it shall Return Argum. 5. Another Argument I would give for the return of Miracles is that Prayer Acts 4. 29 30. Lord grant unto thy Servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word and that Signs and Wonders may be done by the Name of thy Holy Child Jesus I desire to know what words of Limitation are to be found in this Prayer or where any place of Scripture can be found where the Servants of God are Discharg'd from expecting Miraclâ—s any more Where is it said Hitherto shall Miracles go and no further Where is it said they shall cease here or here They are ceased here are the Bounds I have given Leave They shall reach unto this Point but no further There was a Sealing up Scripture from the Day of Malachy the Prophet until John the Baptist his Times With him Scripture began again by the Evangelists There is a sealing up Scripture again by the Apostle John in the end of his Gospel c. 20. 39. c. 21. 25. These things are written that ye might Beleive and if All things were written the World could not contain them It seems order'd by Peculiar Disposes of Providence that the Books of Scripture should be clasp'd up with that End of the Revelation c. 22. 18 19. But there is no bound set to Miracles or Miraculous Power It is true it hath ceased but by no Act cutting off as I may say the Entail tho there is a suspension This Prayer therefore altho it hath had a long Interruption in its effect yet it hath no cessation put upon it but It shall prevail unto the Kingdom of Christ from the Promise of which Psal 2. it was taken The Hand of God we know is not shortned that it should work no more Miracles but the Apostasy fallen upon the Profession of Christianity hath brought forth this long Interval yet the Lords Hand shall be again stretched out and shall not be called back till he hath accomplished the thoughts of his Heart and whatever he hath spoken concerning the Glory and Kingdom of Christ and of that World to Come whereof saith the Apostle we speak when we speak of the various Miracles and Gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his own will there being so close a Connexion between the one and the other CHAP. VIII Of that Power of Miracles that always Accompanies the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and hath Rested upon the Witnesses and yet Rests upon them During the whole Time past and to the end of the Twelve Hundred and Sixty Days of the Woman in the Wilderness and the Witnesses in Sackcloath and the Forty two Months of the Antichristian Apostasy IT may seem that by giving such Accounts of the Cessation of Miracles and such Arguments for the Return of Miracles that it is the Intention of this Discourse to deny all Miraculous Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ now with his Gospel I shall therefore to clear that Part spend this Chapter in the Stating and Vindicating so weighty a point in these following Particulars shewing the Constancy of Spiritual Miracles 1. Those Mighty Miraculous Spiritual Powers of the Gospel never remove from it wherever the Gospel comes they come wherever the Gospel-Styl'd the Kingdom of God Removes being taken from any they Remove also And tho these are not accounted Miracles because they do not assure themselves to sense yet the Intrinsick Inward excellency of them is such that they are indeed the true Miraculous Nature if I may so speak both as they are Effects and Emanations of Immediate Power from Heaven and as they are so many essential Parts and peices of the World to come And First The Gospel is its own Miracle so rich a Manifestation of Truth that had been Hid from Ages and Generations and now manifested in these last Times But besides It is Truly Miraculous in its Effects 2. The Acceptance of Believers in Jesus Christ to Righteousness before and with God through Free Pardon and Justification by the Blood and Obedience of Jesus Christ. 3. The Renovation and change of the Whole man and of the Action and Conversation by the Spirit of Jesus Christ mortifying the corrupt Lusts Inordinate Affections and filling the Soul with every Grace to Newness of Life and Obedience 4. Dying or Sleeping in and by Jesus Christ when Saints Spirits call'd out of the Body go up to God and Christ 5. When any one is Assured in his own mind hath full Evidence when he Finds all he ever did is brought under Conviction and Confession as in the Woman of Samaria and that the Heart and Life are chang'd why should Miracles be narrowed so much to sense while thus there is surmounting Evidence to the whole man Now altho the Working and Actings hereof are Invisible and Indiscernible by Sense yet they are as Spiritual greatest Realities every way above the Power of Nature or its Comprehension Asserted in all Scripture to be the mighty Power of God and giving a Rich or abundant Entrance into the Kingdom of our Lord und Saviâ—ur Jesus Christ and therefore wanting only the Externe Appearance and Assurance but giving greatest Inward Assurance For they are Acknowledged and Comprehended by All Saints even this Heighth Depth Breadth and Length of which the Apostle speaks Ephes 3. 18. As if he hereby intended Mathematical Assurance They are Inwardly Seen Heard Tasted and Felt and they have the Odours the Flavours of the Kingdom of Christ causing the Triumphs of his Servants the certain Observation of all by standers who cannot but acknowledg their good Conversation the Holy Lives and Comfortable Dying of the Saints of Christ and many have been wrought upon hereby to Faith in Jesus Christ the acknowledged Principal End of Miracles But besides these which are always Inseparable from the Gospel There are those the Spirit of God hath told us are proper to the very Time of the Apostasy as a Counterpoison to it manifested in and by the Witnesses of that Time I would therefore open as I have before shewn Miracles are to be Divided into Miracles of Mercy and of Judgment How far Miracles continue even all the Time of the Antichristian Apostasy in each way or manner of Exercise But it is Heedfully to be Remembred They were not Represented and Counterparted with those open and sensible Miracles which are indeed the Miracles that more properly we are now in Discourse of such as force the Sense and call upon men Universally to say Here is the Finger of God For the Witnesses and their Miracles were under the Seal of the Living God as I have already Reason'd and so were not seen and acknowledged but by comparing Spiritual Things with Spiritual and therefore not by Natural Men even Men of Sense great Reasoners as they are Reputed without the help of the Divine Spirit 1. It was truly a Miracle to
a Spiritual Eye and wherein the Power of God appear'd That He held up a pure and sincere state of Christianity in the midst of all the Roman Apostasy altho it was so dark and Dangerous a Time or Place as the Spirit of God calls it by the Apostle Peter 2 Pet 1. 19. And as he assures it must needs be because the Witnesses were in Sackcloth and War made upon them and they were kill d and the Woman or the Witnesses Collectively taken were in the Wilderness Rev. 11. c. 12. or as Daniel speaks the Power of the Holy People was scattered Dan. 12. 7. God was pleas'd to keep it up not only since the Reformation but throughout the whole Time or space of the Time and Times from 437 to 1517. the 1080 as well as the 180 of the 1260 Days when by the Reformation there was a Party-Rising of the Witnesses and Party-Retrenchment of the The Fresh Memorial of Christs Kingdom Papal Power and Apostasy at the Half Time according to the two Oaths of Christ Dan. 12. and Rev. 10. Allowing it as I have made out in a Discourse wholly to that purpose 2. For this is that which is spoken of Rev. 1â— 3. And I will give Power to my two Witnesses and they shall Prophecy in Sackcloâ—h a Thousand two Hundoed and Threescore days cloath'd in Sacâ—cloth I will give them Power but yet that Power shall be hid they shall be Cover'd or Cloath'd with Sackcloth So a place shall be prepared for the Woman the Church where she shall be nourished but it shall be in a Desert State not known or acknowledged it shall be in the Wilderness But saith God I will give Power to my Witnesses Now Power is one of the Words expressive of Miracles They are call'd Power and by that we have had the Great Truth of the Gospel Continued so as to be Restor'd to us in the Reformation by their Constancy of Declaring and Maintaining Professing and Teaching the Truths after Godliness the Doctrine of Salvation by Christ And this in Regard of the Darkness of that Time is call'd Prophecy and Power to Prophecy in regard of Miraculous Virtue in so doing For there hath been a Connexion a linking between Witness and Witness between one Age of Witnesses and another Age and with the Reformation it self which we are All so willing to acknowledg It hath been from the Power God gave to his Two Witnesses in the midst of all the Barrenness and Darkness of the Papal Apostasy These are the Two Olive-Trees the Two Green Olive-Trees Emptying their Oyl into the Two Golden Candlesticks that stand before the God of the Whole Earth not by might nor by Power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts These were the worthy Witnesses of Christ throughout that Dark Time when no man could any sooner look out with any of the purest Truths of the Gospel that stem'd that Apostasy but presently Heretick Heretick was cryed out upon him or â—ince the Reformation among those who hold of the part of the Synagogue of Sathan some Finer parts of that Apostasy venerated as purer Antiquity Schismatick Schismatick was as vehemently Fasten'd on any one if he broach'd any thing as they call it against the Hierarchic Church They have been Anathematised Excommunicated Prosecuted with Corporal or Pecuniary Punishments even to the most cruel Deaths and Imprisonments Fire hath been call'd down from Heaven and fetch'd up from Hell against them yet notwithstanding a Miraculous Power hath been given to them to Prophecy for the 1260 Days I know Many cannot understand how these Witnesses could be said to Prophecy while they lay Dead Three Days and an Half But I have endeavour'd in a peculiar Discourse to Assoyle that also in the Vision of the Witnesses and to shew that as it is said of Abel the first Martyr Being Dead he yet speaketh so of these his Successors although Kill'd they yet Prophecy And it is much more plain on their side For their Death however Violent-Natural also yet is chiefly Mystic They were Kill'd as Witnesses Hateful and Cursed Hereticks being the Sambenito the Disguise whereinto they were presently put but still they Prophetied tho they were slain And in this Sense also they continued Prophecying because as any were Naturally Killed others still rose up in their Room and which is great Miracle They were Dead yet they could never be Buried The People Nations Tongues and Languages would not suffer them to be Buried because their Doctrine however Condemned before hand was still kept above-ground as we speak in several parts of this Universal Roman Empire under the Pope and his Ten Kings the Princes of Europe notwithstanding all their Fury against it their Joy in hopes they had suppressed their Prophecy and their sending Gifts one to another for it yet it hath and shall continue to the Kingdom of Christ in regard of which to Come till it comes Their Doctrine is call'd Prophecy also And All this may be most justly Styled Miracle because it is not in the Train and Connexion of Things according to the general Order and Government of the World For so when Men Dye even all the Living World is in hast They be Buried what way soever it be But these Witnesses were not suffered to be Buried Their Doctrine their Slain Testimony must Remain Above to Annoy and Nusance the Papal and half Reform'd World And with these Gospel Witnesses Those Gospel Miracles before Named were Deposited all this Time the Turning and Changing Men from Sin and Sathan to God which must needs be Miracle For in the Train and Order of Things a wicked Man will go on in his Wickedness and Lewdness and not be purged from it till he Dye All the Justifying Sanctifying Grace of the Gospel the Dying and Sleeping in and by Jesus tho by Violent Deaths under the Rage of Persecutors was all in the Tenure in the Conveyancings of these VVitnesses Churches are Candlesticks Fed from these Sons of Oyl Ministerily Originally from Christ and his Spirit Consider then Spiritual Inward Miracles Miracles apprehended by Faith and Scripture-Reason never ceas'd For if they had the Everlasting Kingdom given to Christ must have Ceased And this is an Infallible Argument there shall be a Return of Miracles in an outward and Glorious Appearance because inward Miracles to which the outward as an externe Transparent Air are Due have never ceased The outward shall whenever the Reasons of State as I may say in that Kingdom shall Require it appear greater than ever yet and this I propose to Universal Consideration but more especially of the Wise Judg you what I say 2. In the Second Place I will propose the Judiciary Miraculous Power The Spirit of God affirms the Witnesses to have had and this consists of several Particulars 1. Fire proceeds out of their Mouths and Devoureth their Enemies And if any one will Hurt them in this manner must he be Killed Rev. 11. This was
finding the Iconismes or Images of Prophecy every way Agreeing herewith both in the Freest Analogical and even Litteral Interpretation as I have shewn all parts squaring one with Another I cannot but be thus far assur'd The Interpretation of the sure word of Phrophesy must needs be Fair Just and Right or seeing no other Interpretation can be Found thus to Square Prophecy must be indeed of Private Interpretation altho the Apostle assures it is not so More particularly with Relation to the Prophetical Numbers of Time I Found the purely prophetical Time on that Basis or Ground of it the Three Hundred Ninety Days of Years of Ezekiel his Bearing the Iniquity of the House of Israel These I make Sevenfold according to the Standard of Seven God so often fixes in the punnishment of Iniquity Leviâ— 26. And so they comprehend in that Seven foldness which makes the 390 2730 the Forty Days of Years of Ezekiels Bearing the Iniquity of the House of Judah and the Twenty Three Hundred Eves Morns of the Sanctuary Troden under Foot until the Sanctuary Cleansed or Justified according to Ezekiels Vision in the Glorious Kingdom of Christ These Twenty Seven Hundred Thirty Years making Seven Times Three Hundred and Ninety is one of the Transcendents I find in the Scripture-Line of Time according to my Computation of it and the Third Standard now given In this Grand Portion of the Line viz. Of the Twenty Three Hundred Eves Morns Fall Evenly and Justly All the Numbers of Time given after in Daniel and the Revelation or that can be supposed necessary to fill up any Spaces according to History or that are necessary to make up the 2300. although the Numbers are not in Lesser or Collatteral Lines to the 2300 Named in Prophecy which Yet must be and are Seventy Five before the Weeks and Four Hundred Years after the Weeks For all others are expresly named in Scripture-Prophecy But however as I have often shewn All Agree in their Just Order and Agree among themselâ—es and Agree with the Notes of Discerning them Scripture hath given and lastly Agree with History and General Chronology All which make as great Assurance as can be of a True Computation and Account seeing neither Chance nor Art can Tune Thinâ—s to such a Manifold Agreement For as They say Res nolunt Decipi Things will not be deceived nor imposed upon so they cannot be Forc'd Compell'd nor Flatter'd into an Agreement and so manifold an Agreement when the Natural Mutual Respect they have one to another does not incline them That particular Portion of the Line of Time given to measure the Time of the Apostasy by so often and so variously given viz Time Times Half a Time Twice Forty Two Months Twice Twelve Hundred Sixty Days and Three Days and an half and so the Last Thirty and Forty Five most Evenly and Justly according to the Line of Time take hold of and succeed one another in their Just Places The 1260 concert with the Ten Kings Receiving Power at one hour with the Beast The Beasts Supremacy the Mahometan Times So as to give all the Assurance that can be Fall in One with Another All according to the Justest Configurations of Prophetical Images and Historical Events And herein I observe Four Transcendencies which most unexpectedly and surprizingly meet the Considerer herein according to the Third Standard here given and would make the Meditative upon them cry out I have found I have found 1. That as Scripture-Prophecy gives the Time by Moons to the Gentiles and to the Beast and Days of the Sun to the Witnesses and the Woman and that these Days of the Sun and Moons are to Agree one with another as Lunar and Solar Time do I find according to my Calculation they do Agree according to the so celebrated Rule of the Golden Number and that thereby the Succession of the Beast or the Antichristian Papacy according to the Exact Laws of Succession to the Christian Emperor as Seventh Head and Eighth King Revel 17. 10 11. is fix'd at 475 or 6. as it ought according to all History to be and determin'd to its End or Going into perdition at 1697. Lunar Time and Solar Falling in Exactly according to all Chronology with this Prophecy 2. According to my Calculation by the Time the so known Character of Time Indiction or accounting by Fifteens of Years was well known and settled after Constantine the Spirit of Poophecy hath Adopted it to Enter into its Own Computation of Time For the Time Times and half Time beginning accordingly at 437. are in the whole and in each Division cast into Indictions or Fifteens of Years viz. the Three Times or Thrice Three Hundreds and Sixties and the Half Time or the One Hundred Eighty and for their sakes the Thirty making 1260 1290 by Two Fifteens and the Forty Five making 1290 to be 1335. Dan. 12. 11. 12. is evidently by Three Indictions or Fifteens And to All this may be added the Observation that the Words chosen out by the Spirit of God in the Chaldee Hebrew and Greek to express Time Times and Half Time so Sworn by Christ as to be Determinate Time may be Emphatically Translated Indiction or Indicted Time Now what can this mean but that Over-Ruling Providence so Disposes All that such Notations of Time should be found out and come into Use as when it self hath Occasion for them to Ascertain its own Calendar of Prophetick Time and who also would Direct and Guide his Servants into the Observation of and most Assured Distinction of Prophetick Time by Them according to the fit Seasons appointed by himself to make them so known to them so that it is no wonder they have not been known before or that they are made known to some and not to others when they are made known 3. It is even of Transcendent Remark that the Reformation at that so Agreed Epoch of it should be at 1517. as the just Point of Half Time beginning that necessarily casts the beginning of the Time and Times upon 437. according to my Fixation of it before I can Truely Appeal I had made a Reflection upon the Wonderful Service it does to assure the Line of Time and the beginning of those 1260 days at 437 but according to the Natural Progress of the 2300 Eves Morns in the Assignation of Each to their Proper Points of Time Adorn'd with their Suitable Events Each I say of the Collatteral Lines so Assign'd Led me to 97. Now all these Transcendencies of Evidence eoncerning the just Interpretation of Prophecy I have from Time to Time fully opened declar'd and argued in their Proper Treatises according to further and further Light Euidence and Assurance given in by the Father of Lights and which are in many Hands 4. That which it hath pleased the Lord further to open and manifest to his Unworthy Servant by way of Transeendency is That whereas I was led to fix upon 437. as the Beginning of the