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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66765	Paralellogrammation an epistle to the three nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whereby their sins being parallel'd with those of Judah and Israel, they are forewarned, and exhorted to a timely repentance, lest they incur the like condempation : to render it the more effectual, some considerable notions are therein expressed touching ceremonies, and things indifferent, the Lords supper, the civil government, the taking of oaths, the mark of the beast, the library of conscience, the great Sabbath, and the two witnesses, with other particulars of concernment interwoven / written by Geo. Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3176; ESTC R11575	78,735	140

offence at what I have expressed It is also to be Considered that the Ceremonial observation of a seventh part of time for the competent rest of mens bodies and providing due nourishments and refreshments for the Soul as also for performance of Holy Duties neither is nor was or can be essential to the morality of Rest or of Religious Duties but Circumstantial and Ceremonial only in regard a due portion of time or any set time for these purposes cannot be just the same portion or a like expedient for all but must be more or less oftener or seldomer according to the differing strengths weaknesses ignorances or other defects necessities or occasions of Individual persons who shall need the same and who must take and be allowed such times and so much time as shall be necessary and is required by that morality which was written in the hearts of all men among the residue of universal Morals at the beginning of time And the Rest of that Mystical Sabbath which GOD is said to have sanctified as aforesaid is neither pertinent nor communicable to Beasts or meer natural Men or to any save to those Saints who are made one with GOD in Christ Jesus and who have wrought and are to work with GOD and him in the six dayes of a thousand years a piece upon the work of Regeneration and in maintaining Good against Evil until it shall obtain the Conquest These things considered the sanctifying of a more excellent Sabbath than that which was observed by the Jews or than that which is called the LORD's day seemeth to have been intended by that which GOD is said to have sanctified at the Creation and the Mystery which I would shew forth relating to a confutation of the Error occasioned by the long continuance of Wickedness and Tyranny in the World and which was in part discovered unto me by meditating the fore-going Circumstances is this GOD having finished his Work of Creation the sixth day wherein Man was also made for whose sake the World was made His Wisdom fore-seeing what the Devil's malice and humane curiosity would produce by desiring the knowledge of Good and Evil it was his good pleasure all his Operations as to things Temporary being in Number Weight and Measure and a thousand years with him but as one day and one day as a thousand years that as he had wrought six common dayes upon the work of Creation so his Intellectual and Reasonable Creatures having made themselves work by their Prevarications should have six mystical dayes of a thousand years a piece according to the vulgar Accompt wherein to do those works which they ought to do or had a desire to do that so they might have a sufficient time wherein to compleat their knowledge of Good and Evil according to their longing as aforesaid And the seventh day which GOD sanctified after the work of Creation is as I believe that mystical day of a thousand years or that seventh part of time be it sooner or later wherein Christ according to their expectation in the main whom you call Fift-Monarchy-men shall visibly Reign upon the Earth with his Saints as John hath Prophesied Revel 20. 5. At which time will begin that great and Everlasting Sabbath wherein they shall rest from their labours and wherein they who have seen Christ upon the Earth in his Humiliation shall there also behold him in his Glorification to the rejoycing of his chosen People and to the confusion of his Adversaries not in such a gross carnal manner as is fancied by some but as becomes glorified Bodies and as was partly typified by our Saviours Transfiguration upon the Mount when his Disciples then present well knew not what they either saw or said or as it was at the hour of his Ascention which is neither expressible or intelligible in the state wherein we now are During the first six thousand years of time Good and Evil are permitted to execute their distinct and mixt Powers and Faculties in working out their ends and in struggling for the mastery and manifestation of their Natures as they best can in and by all those who are to them respectively inclinable And when that six thousand years are compleated abating so much thereof only as the violent fury of the Devil Antichrist and their Confederates shall diminish of their own time within the last six thousand years then the Wickedness of the wicked the Righteous endeavours of good men so far forth as it is meerly their own and all that seems good or evil in their own strength weakness wisdom folly ungodliness or piety shall come to an end and be of no force or esteem Whereof the Devil began to be afraid when he said to Christ Art thou come to torment us before the time That seems to me the seventh day which GOD is said to have sanctified and to rest on after his six dayes work aforesaid and in my apprehension the preceding thousand years before that great Sabbath are the six mystical dayes wherein men should have permission as I said before to do those works which they had a desire to be doing for perfecting their knowledge in Good and Evil in this life after they had by disobeying GOD in our first Parents entered into a Confederacy with the Devil This sense of that Mystery I received not from men but by meditating an Interpretation of the first Chapters of the Old Testament by comparing them with the last Chapters of the New Testament and by what I collected out of that Prayer which Christ himself left unto us to be a Pattern of what we might absolutely pray for in regard whatsoever I am taught by him to pray for I am warranted undoubtingly to believe Now according to the Contents of that Prayer I do believe that the Name of our Heavenly Father shall be Hallowed upon Earth and his Kingdom come down visibly among us and his Will be here done as it is in Heaven which can never be until that great Sabbath I believe also That all who seek after his Kingdom which is to come with sincerity in the first place shall be daily fed with the bread of eternal life and supplied with all things necessary for prosecuting their Work in the mean time That our sins shall be forgiven us as we by his example forgive those who have trespassed against us That in all our Tryals and Temptations whereby GOD exerciseth our Faith we shall be delivered from whatsoever is evil in them and be at last partakers of his Kingdom Power and Glory even here upon Earth where we have suffered with him when that great Sabbath afore-mentioned begins and in Heaven for ever But you may think perhaps to your discouragement the mean while that time is very far off because by our ordinary Computation of Times and Years there will seem to be about 300 years unexpired of the last thousand of those 6000 years in which Antichrist with his Mystery of Iniquity was permitted