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A27590 The command of God to his people to come out of Babylon, Revel. 18. 4, demonstrated to mean the coming out of the present papal Rome with a most earnest perswasive to all to come out who are in it, ... Beverley, Thomas. 1688 (1688) Wing B2132; ESTC R18831 42,746 48

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So that there is nothing more undeniable then that these forty two Months are to be drawn out by the Prophetical Elaboratory into Months of Years 3. When upon a just and severe Computation we find that these forty two Months prophetically expounded will reach from the very Time where according to Prophecy they were to begin down to this Time and allow for the event that is to be still expected at the end of those forty two Months not yet being come to pass and will indeed exactly touch that very period that by Prophecy is affixed to them all together It is the greatest proof of the forty two Months so to be expounded that can be expected or desired until the event justifie all Let us then proceed to an exact Calculation of the Time given us in these forty two prophetical Months and there see what length they reach The great matter in Question will be whether these Months import Time of the Sun or of the Moon for between Time of the Sun and of the Moon there will in the whole forty two Months be near thirty eight years difference But there are these three great Reasons they must according to the strict propriety of the word and Thing Months be regulated by the Moon and not by the Sun. This was always the Sense of the Scripture where ever It Reas 1. mentions Months it intends Time governed by the Moon which had as all know so great Domination over Jewish Time that the great Solemnities of their New Moons and Feasts received Law from it and It created all the Time the Scripture calls Months and because of those New Moons must necessarily do so So that if It were not so here Scripture must vary from its own use of the word throughout all other places for It hath no word that it expresses Months by but precisely taken from the Moon or the Newness of the Moon Now why It should do so here without any Reason It should do so but much the contrary as will appear what Account can be given There is nothing more evident then that this divine Prophecy Reas 2. keeps a strict and severe Distinction betwixt the Children of the day and of the Night betwixt the Witnesses the Seed of the Woman the Church and the Woman the Church it self who are all of the Day and the Gentiles and the Beasts Times who are of the Night For the Times of the former are signally measured by Days as governed by the Sun wherewith the Church is Cloathed But the Times of the latter are charactered by Months as conducted by the Moon the pale and wan Luminary of the Night which Moon the Church is said not without regard to this very matter to have under its Feet and therefore not fit to give its Character of Time. And seeing this hath been taken notice of by many Interpreters of the Revelation It is much of wonder they have not measured these Months by the Course of the Moon which Rules the Night The Latine word Menses hath made the Confusion and I know not what should mislead them but Inobservance seeing the Hebrew and Greek words exactly translated are Moons not Months which kept to had clear'd all doubts There is a third Reason which is very great and would absolutely Reas 3. determin this Point if it were well Comprehended and that is that the Sun is the great measure of Days and Years and of all Time by its superior Motion and the Moon does but borrow from it as its Light so its power of guiding and denominating any Parts of the Course of Time Even so the Church and its Seed who is Cloathed with the Sun must give Law to the Course of that Time that concernes its self and its Seed And It hath the Moon under its Feet in this respect also that it gives Laws to the Course of the Moon 's Time by its own Time so then these forty two Months of the Gentiles and the forty two Months or rather Moons of the Beast can be no other than Lunar or time of the Moon as they must being call'd Moons And so as time of the Moon must be subordinated to the account of Time by the Sun's Motion So these Months must be subordinated in their measure to the Beginning and Ending of the Twelve Hundred and Sixty Years with which they are always match'd as Correspondents viz. of the Woman the Church in the Wilderness and of its Seed the Witnesses in Sackcloth and therefore must needs be Lunar Time or Time of the Moon For if they were Months of the Sun if we might call time of the Sun Months whose very Name denotes Time of the Moon alone and self-dependent Time the False Church even as the True Church must be Cloathed with the Sun and have the Moon under its Feet which is contrary to this Prophecy But if we should attend the full dimensions of this Argument It would lead us into the whole state of the Characters of Time given in Daniel and this Prophecy which would be too large a Discourse for what is here intended and therefore I referr the searching Reader to the Treatise call'd A Scripture-Line of Time which I have made Publick and satisfie my self with what concerns the Matter in hand That the Forty Two Months of the Beast are Lunar Time and must be measur'd according to the time of the Sun or the Twelve hundred and sixty Years of the Woman in the Wilderness and the Witnesses her Seed in Sackcloth which cannot be deny'd upon the proof given and is enough to our present purpose For upon this Ground-work well laid that these Months are as the very Propriety of the Expression requires Months of the Moon and to be apply'd to Twelve hundred sixty Days of the Sun It is very plain the both Days and Months cast a Countenance or Face of Three Years and a half Prophetically to be Expounded Years of Years for Years of Days But as there is an Abbreviation or shortning of the Solar Year or Year of the Sun into Three hundred sixty for Three hundred sixty five Days So let each Year of the Moon be rated in a Proportion and as five Days and upwards of the Sun's Time are taken off so let as many of the Moon 's Years be taken off also and whereas the Year of the Moon is Accounted by the best Accounts of Time at 354 Days let it be accounted at 349 Days and these Fourty Two Months will be as 1222 Years in answer to 1260 Years as near as Time of the Sun and of the Moon can be proportion'd one to another For which I Appeal to the exactest Accountants of Time. Now by all this Discourse I have undeniably as I hope and cannot but be humbly yet fully perswaded for I allow one Year for Rounding the Number gain'd such a space of time as twelve hundred twenty two Years very little under or over for the Woman to Sit the Beast