a Pound But Mna the mother to the Roman Mina was 50. Shekles as we read in divers places 12000 Attick Drams 6000 Hebrew or 1200 Ducats or 120 Attick pounds or 60 Hebrew Mnas do make an Hebrew Talent Equal also to That of Alexandria but double to the Attick Which as in all other places was but 6000 of their Drams and 60 pounds And an Attick Talent of Gold as the Sun made 360 of the Hebrew Mnas or pounds as there were Daies in their Year of Silver And generally 12 in Silver made but One in Gold As we found the Moon moved 12 of her Diameters in 12 hours while the Sun moves but One of His. So much quicker is our Brain than our Hearts Diastole and Systole which are as the Suns Day and Night in Hebrew Nihat Rest as Darkness is Cassack which is Hebrew and English but a Covering or a Casing or an Holding in of Light and Motion also And that we may also glance upon the Sacred Number of Seven As Six was common to the World and things and men thereof as we touched in 666. and the Image set up in Dura a Province of Babylon made up of 6 in breadth and 60 in heigth Let us suppose All Time beginning from the Evening Horizon or Sun-setting as we may imagine though there was no Sun appearing till the fourth day As also the great Sun of Righteousness appeared not till after the Night or 12 hours of the fourth Thousand Years If we may so compare the six first daies of Creation with six thousand Years before the Great Sabbath As the Jews also teach us from a very old Tradition From the Evening Horizon to the Nadir or the middle of the Lower Hemisphere there were Then and so are still with Them six hours Motion of the Sun or of the Earth about the Sun And Then six hours more to the Morning Horizon and six more to the Zenith or High Noon and Thence six more to the setting Horizon again whence Time first began So also the Flowing and Ebbing of the Sea are by six hours apiece in the open Ocean and in all Rivers Ebb and Flood together generally make up twelve hours So that after every sixt hour there is a Pauze or Rest as it seems and Then a Turning as it were backward For from the setting till Midnight the Sun seems to go down and Then to Turn up again and so from the other points also And before its Turn it seems to Rest and pauze as all things do before they Turn So that the same word or very neer in Heb signifies to Turn and to Rest. As if This were still implied in That And the Rest or Sabbath of God seemeth to speak some Turning inward or Reflecting on himself and his own Image in all he hath done in which his soul resteth with unconceivable delight and joy And although the First of the following six hours be as it were wholly new from all the six before it yet the Pauze and Turn seem to be made between the sixes as it were by some other distinct Person or Body that is watching at those Cardinal Points and There Turning That which moveth So that the Seventh is as it were more Holy and Sacred that is Separate for so the word Holy signinifies in Heb. and other Languages distinct and separate from all the other six which are profane in comparison of the seventh standing by himself as wholly of another Nature So that besides the twenty four Elders there were four distinct Watchers as we may call them as the Sabbaths to the other four sixes And every of the Four had six wings apiece as we find in the Prophets also and their Great Work seemeth to be Keeping of Sabbath Daies For it was the Lords Day when St. John saith they ceased not day and night being to watch in Both crying Holy Holy Holy which is also Thrice repeated in some Copies Though upon other daies They have other imployment As we see in that they spoke and did at other times in the Revelation Yet if any will bring the Months from These four with six wings apiece as the Hours from the twenty four Elders I do not oppose it but compare them also with the Watches with Four and sixes also about the Temple in Solomons Time but Davids Institution the 24 from Noah As the 14 from Abraham as we touched before But I have yet said nothing How every Circle is naturally parted into six equal parts by its own Radius and that Six equal Circles may touch it and each other in their Circumference or it may be cut into six Triangles or six Circles Touching one another with their Centres all in the Circumference of the seventh as Children play with Compasses And as every seventh Hour was sacred or separate from all the former six Hours so was also every seventh Day and Year which was also Sabbatical and so every Seventh Month which had the seven solemn Daies of the Great Feast of Tabernacles And the Seventh Month from That also had 7 daies of the Passeover As the third from That also the 7 daies of Pentecost And I know not but This Harmony between Hours and Daies and Months and Years may be intimated in That of the four Angels as the four Watches or Watchers loosed at Euphrates being prepared for an Hour a Day a Month and a Year As we read in the Revelation Which yet some compare with the four great Commanders of the Turks that brake out neer Euphrates also about the Year of Christ 1300. when the five Months of the First Woe of the Saracens in the Roman Empire were ended about which time Guns also came in use at least in the Western parts as the Fire and Brimstone out of the mouths of those Turkish Horsmen which by that account should go down again before the Year 1700. I must not so much as glance at all the Harmonies that might be easily found between Hours Daies Months and Years in relation to 6 or 7 and 10. or some of their powers As 5 times 7 make 35 and 6 times 6 make 36. which may be found to equal Sun and Moons Motions more than the usual Golden Number And the 36th Hour brings up the Sun of the second Day And those two Numbers of 35 or 36. drawn into 10. bring up the Sun of the second Year also both Lunar and Solar among the Jews and other Nations 7 times 7 make 49 and the 49 Hour begins the third Nights Rest that good Chord in Musick and the 49 Year brings in the Great Rest or Jubile And 480. Hours bring up the third Sabbath or 21 Day Which from 480 runs out through 490 and 500 Hour And we see great things in Scripture done in those Numbers As the Temple built in the 480 Year from Aegypt And Daniels Weeks make up 490 Years 144 Hours bring up the First Sabbath which begins from That Hour Which may be compared with
every one of them I am the Lord thy God and upon this Rock I will build my whole Law and therefore thou shalt have no other God or make to thy self any Images c. For I am a jealous God which yet I could not be if I did not Love thee dearly as a spouse Or else I should not much care whither thou goest or what thou doest But for my great and spouse-like Love which maketh me so jealouse over thee But this very jealousy causeth such visiting as is most like to recover us again from all our wâ—oorish wanderings from the God of Love and the Guide of our youth And so intended by God to recover them so visited as we may clearly see by Elihues discourse unto Job and the Psalmist in the 107 th and many other Psalms to be compared with the 3 d. of Jeremy and the 2 d. of Hoseah with the first and second of Zechariah with divers other Scriptures And our great comfort is that all the Law also lay on Christ as much or more than any of us or all of us And besides his love to his own flesh and nature or to himself or his Father His very Duty to Him by this Law requires him so to love his God with all his Might also as to propagate his love to all he may and to manifest his Name and Worship with the true way and means thereof That is as the 72 d. Psalm expresseth to redeem our souls from all deceipt and violence or as Ezekiel hath it in the Laws of the New Temple to order a sacrifice for every one that erreth or is simple And the Psalmist saith He hath received gifts for Rebels also that the Lord may dwell among them Yea and to cast down all our vain Imaginations as Saint Paul expresseth it And though we strangely degenerate into very Beasts or to the worst of Beasts or worse than Beasts Yet the very same Law which biddeth us and Christ also to Love a Neighbour biddeth also to love a Stranger and an Enemie Yea and the very Oxe and Asse of an Enemie so as to help it under a Burthen or straying out of the way And is not our heart as Ishmael was foretold to be the wilde Asses Colt on which no man can sit till Christ send his Apostles as in the Gospel who finde it bound and tyed in a broad place where two waies met and They loose our Asses Colte and bring it to Christ who then rideth on it O daughter of Zion Meek and Lowly on an Asse the foal of an Asse And may we not find All this in the very fourth Commandement where every Man and so Jesus Christ also is bid to remember to keep the sabboth so that not only his Children but his servants and his Cattle and the Stranger in his Gate may Rest and keep that Rest of God That they may Rest as well as Thou as it is repeated in Deuteronomy And in the 23. of Exodus it is that thine Oxe and thy Ass may Rest and the Son of thy Handmaid to which the Psalmist may allude several times calling himself the Son of thy Handmaid And that the stranger also may be Refreshed The very same Phrase and word that is used by God of himself and his own Kest and Refreshing on That Sabbath day in the 31. of Exodus And our Saviour maketh the helping of an Oxe or Ass and their Loosing and leading to the Water to be a special work or duty of the Sabbath daies Rest. Which we may compare with that of the Prophet Esay He led them gently as an Horse in the Wilderness or as a Beast is led down a Valley or to a Brook So his spirit caused them to Rest. And in the Proverbs Agur saith I am more bruitish than any Man and the Psalmist so Bruitish was I yea Behemoth with thee as alluding to Behemoth in Job and That some render Congregation of thy People in several Psalms is Beasts or Thy Beasts As under Those Banners of four Beasts or Animals of which we read in Ezekiel and the Revelation Yea Solomon saith the great design of God that is Christ who as Man also is the great Searcher of hearts is to Try us and to make us know we are but Beasts She hem Behema Hemma lahem And that the Stranger also may be Refreshed Which is but a piece of that great Law in the very same chapter of Loving our Neighbor Thou shalt also love a Stranger as thou lovest thy self And in several places it is added For thou wast a stranger and thou knowest the heart of a stranger in Aegypt And the word for stranger in the Heb. is so neer to Hagar as if God would put them in mind of that Bond-woman who was an Aegyptian also and as Paul saith Gendered unto Bondage with a spirit of Fear which is another signification of its Root also And Gods Love to Hagar and to her son Ishmael that is God will Hear as he will appear also in the Mount may shew the Heart of God and his Goodness more than all his Kindness to Abraham who was Kind and Thankful unto God also And among other reasons for our Loving strangers it is added that God loveth Strangers and in a special manner provideth for them And it hath been an especial argument used by good men in all ages of the Bible For we are strangers and Pilgrims And when we consider that the Sabboth day did Typifie some greater Rest may it not be hoped that at length we may hear the Lord of that Day also saying to his children and his servants and the Sons of his handmaids also and his Cattel and the stranger also within his gates Come enter into your Masters Rest seeing it is greater than can enter into you For this Commandement I have received of my good Father Do we not also read that the Owles and the Dragons and the Beasts of the field and every thing that hath breath yea and All his Works shall praise the Lord but his Saints shall Bless him Do we not find Sabbatical Years â—nd Jubilees provided for the Poor and Strangers that had no Harvest and for the Beasts of the field and for the Earth also that it might Rest the Rest of God and that every one might return to his own Inheritance and the possession of his Fathers and why not also of our Father Adam in Innocence and that All Debts and Debtors might be remitted which it may be is minded us dayly in the Lords Prayer not only in That Clause of Forgiving our Debtors which yet He doth also for it is He that speaketh in us who else dirst not say Forgive us as we forgive but also in That Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will be done on Earth as in the highest Heaven And He that set us All on Praying so knew very well that it should be so He hath willed it and his people will it also Let it be
to These Courts or the Great Court in distinction from That of the Priests or men of Israel which yet with the lower part of the Altar also in Ezekiel is called by the same name of Azra or Aezra as we saw before when we called it Help and send thee Help from his Holy Place c. Which grew up to Comfort also in Nehemiah the Lords Comforter coming after Ezra the Little Helper as the great Comforter in the Gospel came after our Saviour the great Helper These Subburbs and the 5 steps through the next Wall to the Womens Court as the 12 Years and Half between Ezraes first coming and Nehemiahs for the Court of the Gentiles was All plain till they rose up into Chell by 14 steps as the 2d Passover answering to the other 14 Cubits through the Gate and Pillars of Shushan to Solomons Porâ—h And Nehemiahs great work was to perfect This Separation and from Women also that were left below while Those of Israel that were Purified came in to This Ezra of the Womens Court after their 80 Dayes and 12 Hours of the Night answering the 80 Cubits and 12 Steps as before And comparing Ezra and Nehemiah together it is clear enough that their great work was in This Womens Court where they read the Law as we found before in Deut and There the great Covenant-makers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 670 or 1230 with the Oath and Curse also against Unlawful Women the proper work of This Court and for the Sabbath Day although the Covert of the Sabbath or to Rest in while the King entered to worship or on other ocasions was above or before This And for the Chates or Goats to make Atonement for All Israel and for the Tenths as we saw before with First-fruits and How the People sanctified to Levi Levi to Aarons Sons and many other things But especially the solemn Feast of Tabernacles and Palm Branches with the great Hosanna Not onely as Types of That great Feast of Tabernacles we are seeking in the Times that are to answer These from Babylon the Last and great Babylon in the Revelation But also the Proper work of this Court of Women in which were the Psalms of Degrees the Great Hallel every day with Dancings and other Unexpressable Rejoycings at That great Feast of Pouring waters out as a Pledge of the Holy Ghost to be poured out on Men and Women Sons and Daughters also that might not go Higher than This Womens Court but on some special occasion for their Sacrifice As the Latter Rain in This 7th Month which yet was the First on other account as we saw before from places of the Law to be compared with Joel 2. 23. And as That perfect Cube the Oracle might note our Saviours Kingdom in the Perfect Cube of the New Jerusalem as in Revelation 21. 16. So might the Best Estate below it be shadowed here in this square Court of Men and Women together which was fittest for their greatest Meetings so capacious being a perfect Square of 135 Cubits And as before we saw the first and 2d Passover shadowed in the first and 2d 14 steps or Cubits distinct from the rest before or after them and the Pentecost also in the 66 cubits as That bringeth in the 66th Day of the year and then comes up the First-fruits of Holyness to God in the first Distinction from the Gentiles which they called Chell or Hell So here in This square of 135 Cubits may be represented those 135 Dayes from the Pentecost to the Great Hosanna at the Last and Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles For from the Pentecost which was ever the 65th Day of the Year and the Minha between the Evenings in the Scripture Language shutting up the 65th and beginning the 66th Day As 66 Hours come up to Noon or the 3d Days Dinner as 14 Hours brought up the first Days Breakfast There were still 113 Days to the Feast of Trumpets by a constant Rule we see in their Calendar published by Munster and others and then 10 more brought up the great Day of Atonement and Then 5 Days more began the Feast of Tabernacles and the 8th Day after was the great Hosanna for they sang Hosanna Daily all the Feast but now 7 times about as 7 times about Jericho the last and Great Day of the Feast of which John 7. 37. and John 9. 7. sendeth the Man born blinde to the Fountain Siloam from which Well of Salvation as Esay 12. they Drew Waters with Joy to pour them out with Singing and Dancing with Musick all the Night almost Ezcept the Nights before any Sabbath in that Feast or the 8th Day which was As a Sabbath We have yet said Little of the great Release the Solemnity of Release as Moses expresseth it Deut. 31. In the Feast of Tabernacles at the End of every 7th Year Which we refer to our Glances on the Mysteries of Ester the Hidden woman Daughter of Abihel the Father of Hell and Kill and Heal and Hill and Power also the near Kinsman to Hiel the Living God and Mordecay the Living One that was Dead or in Bitterness or seeming Rebellion of Shimei and Kish or Sheol of Jemini c. She was married to Ahasuerus our Brother and Root who also Hasted but with silence to be Poor to make us sure and Rich and reign with All his Provinces 12 times 10 and 7. As This was in the 10th of the 12 Months of the 7th Year of his Reign and being Then Married to his Jewish Spouse that had been in preparing 12 Months He made a Great Feast even Esters Feast to All his Princes and Servants also and Then he made a Release a Great Release to All his Provinces from India to Aethiopia and besides the Release or Forgiving Debts he gave Gifts also Gifts for Rebbels and they were according to the state and Glory of a great King But we are yet with Ezra and Nehemiah at the Feast of Tabernacles That end of the Law and the Temple also which began with a Tabernacle and will End with the Tabernacle of God with men keeping this great Feast of Tabernacles as we read in the Revelation And to make it up yet nearer to Daniels Motsa the End or Issue of the Temple Built or its Going out As Ezekiel was to shew them its Motsa Goings out as well as Going in 43. 11. The very Place where they used to gather Branches for the Tabernacles neer Kidron of which before was called Motsa the Spring or Goings out of the Waters or Willows also as we may learn from the Talmud it self of These very Tabernacles And that its Place at the Temple was This Womens Court as they call it of 135 Cubits as in Hours the Morning of the 6th Day when Man was Created as he fell they say on the 6th Day and so our Saviour born or crucified on the 6th Day But in Dayes it may be the Time of Ezraes coming Hither the
wilful sinners Of the patience of Christ to a man turning into a Beast and how he deviseth Devises to prevent it or recover him How he fulfilled the Ceremonial Law also and how he was in all the Sacrifices as a Lamb for the Lambs and as a Goat for the Goats Of Benjamin the Son of the right hand with other Children of Rachel a sheep in Hebrew at his right Hand and of the Children of Leah or others at the Left Hand where also of Seir a Goat and of the Goats offered at the New Moons solemn Feasts c. and of the Rams of Ishmael accepted on the Holy Alter Of Gods face in Scripture toward the East and of Bowing to the East and of his Right Hand to the South and Left to the North and of Northern Judgments turned to Mercies and Blessings and of great and good things to come out of the North in the Latter times of the World as from Babylon at the return from Captivity How Christ came in the fulness of time Of Seven Ten the full Rich Numbers of their Powers Compounds for Ages Ever or eternity which yet in Scripture oft hath such or such an End or Revolution in such or such Generations How Christ came out in several Ages and Persons of Note in the Bible to do the Great things of Gods Power Wisdome and Goodness for Man To Man and in Man through all the Times and Seasons of the Scripture and in special the Times of the Witnesses In Heaven the Father and the Word Dabar Bar Bara Creating Heaven and Earth where also the Spirit of the Messiah as the old Jews call it on Gen. 1. 2. Mooving on the Waters an other Witness and parting them by A Dam and Adam of Adama dryed Red Earth akin to Dam in Hebrew Bload the other Witness John 5. and Acts 17. Of one Blood he made all Nations of men and determined the Times appointed and bounds of their Habitations which in parting the sons of Adam he bounded according to the Number of the Sons of Israel Deu. 32. which were 12. and to be measured by the 12 Hours of Day and Night Shadowed on the Tabernacle by the Cloud Pillar of Fire for Light that Beginning of the Creation and works of God and in its outer Court by the Laver of Water and Blood on the Alter of Witness as That called Ed a Witness by the waters also of Jordan where afterward the Baptist heard or saw all the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth to which he bare Record or was made a witness also as divers other in several Ages And All the 7 Washings or Sprinklings of Blood or Water so often required in the Law to represent the 7 Nights and 7 Dayes of the Week As the 7 Lamps in the inner Court or Holy Place as the visible Heavens with its Planets about the Sun in the midst as the greatest Lamp was in the middle of the other 6 or 3 on either side by the 12 Cakes of Shewbread changed every 7th or Sabbath day and made of 24 Omers out of 24 Seahs as the Jewes 24th of Leviticus for the 24 hours of Day and Night Made by the Sun mooving 2 of His Diameters the Moon 24 of Hers in each diurnal motion of 24 Hours parted into 4 great Watches as the 24 Elders in the Revelation had also 4 watchers with 6 wings a piece as in the Prophets And in the Temple also there were 24 courses of Priests and of Levites 24 of Porters and 24 of Singers and 24 courses of Standers or men of the Station representing all the People or 12 Tribes as in the 12 Cakes of 24 as 12 Sons of Jacob or 12 Hours of Light came after the 12 hours of Darkness or 12 Sons of Ishmael or Esau for the 24. Elders And as God gave 24 things to the Priests so they gave 24 to him in their dayly Minha of 12 Rouls at morning and 12 also at Evening And the Seventh in Hours also is very Signal as in Days and Moneths and years by the great Rest and Turn of Sun and Moon as Water and Blood also in the Sea and bodies of Animals after every six hours with Them and All that accounted Lilith that is Night the first Wife to Adam and do call her Eve or Even to the Day As it is to them that are about the Aequator and to All at either Aequinox when Time seemeth to begin And beginning at Sun-set as the Jewes and many other Nations did the First six Hours brought down the Sun to the Midnight Nadir and six more brought it up to the Morning Horizon and six more to the Noon or Zenith and six more to Setting again So that every seventh Hour made a Pauz and Turn And Sabbath is Both in Hebrew As if the watchers stood at the four Corners of Earth or quarters of the Heaven which are called Winds and Spirits also in the Scripture alluding perhaps to the four watching Spirits or Angels to Turn the Sun and Moon or Hour-glass of Waters or Clepsydra in the Seas c. After every six Hours of Day and Night the walks of the Sun and Moon but shadows of the good things within the Vaile or 3d Heaven where the 2 Cherubins of Glory shadowed the Mercy Seat or Heavenly Throne over the Earth or Ark of the Testimony also or Witnes with its 2 Tables or Testaments also For the 2d Covenant as in 29 of Deuteronomy was both Law and Gospel also written in the Ark of the Heart of Christ and all his Members after the first Tables of Stone were broken and disanulled being never put in the Ark or in our Hearts For know you not that your Bodies are the Temple of God As Paul speaketh to the Gentiles also Where our Heads as the Heavens above with two Eyes or Cherubins of Glory The Mercy seat or Throne of God and his Rainbow as in all the Scriptures like our Eye And our Heart Or Altar of Incense As the Earth beneath in the middle Court or 2d Region with its Pericardium of Water and Blood in the Pleura with twelve Ribs on either side and seven distinct from the other Nothi As also the seven Rackets of the neck with its spirit or spinal marrow from the Cerebellum As the Brain hath also seven spirits or pair of Nerves with Animal spirits Veyles and Ventricles which are shadowed in the Lower Regions both of the Earth below in the Heart and Waters under the Earth in our Bowels where the Duodenum and Ilea with all the Rest are but shadowes of things above As of the Laver or Molten sea or great Ocean with its Ebbings and flowings as the Earning of our Bowels and the Altar of Burnt-offerings in our Stomack with its heat or fire never quenched and the seven Planets with the Firmament of the Midrif parting between the Bowels or Waters under it and those above it as high as the Brain
deceived and God needeth not your Lye for him or against your self in any thing And if you judge amisse of your self God is so Holy and Just that you never need fear that He will confirm or execute your wrong Judgement And if you judge rightly of your self you are not so miserable as you conceive your self but as you do that which is one of the Highest and Hardest Acts possible which is to judge ones self rightly so you have one of the Greatest Bbessings which God giveth to the Sons of men or to his own Son which is a right understanding of a right Judgement which was the Great Argument used by the greatest and best man that ever lived to prove that he was of God and had His Spirit and a Will also moulded into His Holy Will for else he saith he could not Judge Righteous Judgement And who ever doth this of himself and his own sins is in a special manner partaker of the Holy Ghost whose proper work is to convince us rightly of sin Righteousnesse and Judgement and who ever judgeth himself rightly shall not be judged of God Here he stopt and sweetly bowed and turned aside a little but returned soon again looking as cheerful as he could well force himself It being not very easie so to clear up his eyes and face but that it might be seen though he hid it that he had wept Which also pierced his Guest both to see the Fathers affection and his own misery Who was still so unhappy as he some way expressed to be a burthen to himself and all he conversed with supposing he had grieved or displeased him by some of his expressions But when the Good Father perceived those thoughts with a most sweet tender and melting look he replyed No my Dear Brother no you do not burthen me at all or in any thing displease me But as my general duty bids or helps me in some measure to mourn with every one that mourneth and to weep with every one that weepeth So my particular respect and affection now forceth me if at least it can be force upon a Fathers tender bowels to yearn over his son or a brother over his own dearly beloved brother Yet there is somewhat in You that maketh me melt in Joy rather then sorrow tho it may be unutterable for I cannot expresse it I saw you were my Neighbour at the first as a Man and so I found my self obliged This is Little and low both to Love and Honour you for that Image of God I ought to acknowledge in you and the great Law of Love that commands Brotherly kindenesse bids us adde Love also yea and to strangers also for the same chapter that bids us Love our Neighbour as our self bids us Love a stranger also as we love our selves And among divers reasons why we should love strangers it is sometimes added Because God loveth strangers Yea and we are bid to entertain them so As if they were or might be Angels seeing some had unawares so entertained Angels But now I see somewhat more in you not onely a Man and my Neighbour but a Christian also and my Dear and pretious Brother whom the Angels do attend and love and honour as a lively Image of their great Lord and Master Jesus Christ. And how is it that the Brother of my Lord thus cometh to visit me And you are so far from having committed that great sin against the Holy Ghost which you so much fear that you are still under the most gracious workings of that Holy Spirit Whose great work is to convince the world even the world and not onely the Apostles or Disciples but the World of Sin Righteousnesse and Judgement which is also promised to the World even to the World and is fulfilled in you who are thus under the convincing spirit of Promise And it will also comfort you for the same spirit that convinceth is also the Comforter and where it wounds it heals and when it hath convinced both of Sin Judgement and Righteousness which is there promised it will also comfort It being the promise or indeed the property and nature yea and heart of God to heal and quicken whom he wounds and kills which from Moses Song runs all along through the Psalms and Prophets Who tell us If he wound he will heal Yea though he kill for two dayes He wil revive and quicken on the Third For he will turn again and have compassion on us because he delighteth in mercy though he cause grief for a while and yet not willingly or from his heart afflicteth the children of men which is his Strange work But Mercy is his Child his Son and comes as naturally from him as a child from any father For he is the Father of Mercy yea of a multitude of mani-fold Mercies which are also One with the heart of Christ for He is the onely begotten of the Father and yet His Father is also the Father of Mercies so that Christ and Mercies lay together in one womb and indeed are the same for how else is Christ the Onely begotten of the Father And you are under the tender mercies of Christ even that Christ who is Mercy it self and this holy Spirit of Promise will certainly be your Comforter being already I see your Remembrancer to bring to mind his words one of his proper Works having also convinced you of Righteousnesse enough in him Everlasting Righteousnesse to satisfie God and sanctifie you And I hear you not onely acknowledge him to be the Son of God and sent of God to be the Saviour of the World but also you are convinced of sin because you have not believed on him the great promise of that Comforter and are made most truly and highly to value defire long and pray for him and To him which you could not but by the gracious workings of that Holy Spirit of promise whose great work was and still is to set up Christ as he set up his Father Which Character given by Christ of his own spirit is repeated also by the Apostles And St. John gives it as the Touch-stone whereby we should try the spirits saying Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus is come in the flesh is of God and again he that confesses that Jesus is the Son of God dwelleth in God and God in him and again whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and again He that is born of God sinneth not that sin or worketh not sin which is a common phrase in the Language of the Law of Moses and other places of Scripture Doeth not sin So but that the seed of God still remaineth in him as the sap of an Oake or Teile when it casteth its leaves as the Prophet Isaiah in that most remarkable Chap. cited in the six first books of the New Testament For the Jews rejection and return again as an emblem of the whole Worlds Restoring or Resurrection it being plain in the
then he will dispence with loving our Neighbour yea but shewing pitty to his Oxe or Ass fallen into a pit And as if God would measure all our Love to himself by our loving our poor Neighbour St. John saith Let a man never talk of loving God whom he never saw if he do not love his Brother whom he hath seen and if he do but see him in want and shut up his bowels though his wants be not wept or worded out but only Seen How doth the love of God dwell in such a man as we found also in Esay when thou Seest the naked that thou cover him Which hath sometimes been very sweet to me when I had no words or tears to expresse my miseries to Christ or was sensible enough of any of my wants Yet I have often spoken to him from that place and others in the Psalmes or Job or Lamentations Crying See my affliction though I do not see it or am afflicted for it as I should or would Yet do thou See my miseries Even when I see them not and let thy tender eye affect thy tender heart for the Love of God dwelleth in thee Do not therefore shut up thy bowels when thou seest my want though I do not see it or am not affected with it Give me Eye salve that I may see And thou hast promised an holy Spirit to Convince the world of sinne Righteousnesse and Judgement Withhold not Good whilst it is in the God of thy hand to do it Why then wilt thou send me away saying Come again to morrow when it is in the power of thy hand to do me good For thou hast All power in Heaven and Earth Thou art the Wisdome of God and the Power of God And a Brother is born for a day of Adversity And there may be also the greatest â—ffering where there is but little sorrow yea and the greatest sorrow where the least Expâ—ession either in tears or words A piercing look with an eye fixed on Christ in a promise as one able to help and made for it and why then do we doubt of his Will may be a better Prayer than a great many words or tears They are little Griefs that speak or are spoken Great ones are stupid or at least silent So also are Praises They may be best when they attend God in Silence As the Jews also teach us on those passages of the Psalms My soul is silent before thee and Praise waiteth on thee in silence for so it is And Silence is commanded us all not only in those places which bid our words be Few as Solomon and our Saviour also But when God ariseth and doth manifest himself out of his Temple or in his Holy place as his Presence Chamber we are especially commanded to be Silent before him as we read in the last words both of the second of Habakkuk and the second of Zechary And there is not only an Evil but a Good Day also when All prudent men will hold their Peace as we read in another Prophet But it is yet sweter than many words or any can express to consider that if Christ did neither love Us nor Himself nor his Father as he surely doth Yet his very Duty to Him and that Law which bids him Love the Lord his God with all his heart and soul and minde bâ—ddeth him do it also With all his Might And so also to propagate his love to All he can by all means he may Yea and to work while it is Day and to do whatever is in his hand to do with all his might least the night cometh on him also and there be no more working or Councel in the place whether we are all going Is it indeed enough for Him in himself and his own person to have no other God or other wayes of worship than are Right and set by God and not to bear his Name in vain who yet beareth it more upon him both in words and Actions than all men living Except he also propagate this Love of God his waies of worship and his Name his True Name which is his Nature all he can or may and he may quicken whom he will with all his Might to all his Children Servants Neighbours Subjects and Relations under him and in his Povver and they are All. May I indeed suffer any Servant or any other though I may bear vvith children vvhile they are children and vvith Naturals or Ideots alas vve are All so to Him all our lives May I suffer any man within my power or Family to worship a false God or the True God in a False manner or to take his Name in vain while I can help it Is He not Lord of All the Family both in Heaven and Earth Are we not All in his hand and under his power who hath All Power in Heaven Earth and hath All things delivered to him of his Father Can we wonder now why he so often promiseth to manifest the Name of God that All may know it from the greatest to the least Yea and his Enemies also It being so usuall in Ezekiel and other Prophets to close up all his Threatnings with this You shall all know me or I will bring you to Know my Name Which is also the great end of the Psalmists sharp and bitter prayers against All the enemies of God which we find mustered up together in the 83. Psalm That they may seek thy Name O Lord and that they may know that Thou whose name is Jehovah art the most high God over all the Earth which was also the great end of that great work on Nebuchadnezar And the same Psalms tell us also that when men come or are brought to Know the name of God they will trust in it And there also Christ often promiseth He will declare his Name to his Brethren and as if they were too few to the great Congregation also And how great that Congregation is or shall be I cannot tell When also he came to dye he acknowledgeth this for the great work he had to do in the World I have finished thy work I have manifested thy Name unto the men thou gavest me out of the world And as if this were not yet enough towards the end of that prayer he prayeth for More this being the Covenant Ask of me and I will give thee All Nations and Peoples and persons even the utmost ends of the Earth and those also afarr off in the Seas And is his heart so narrow that he will not Ask when he might have us All and all things for asking Ask then heartily that thou maist receive seek us All heartily and thou shalt find us All Knock heartily at the door of our hearts and by virtue of the promise and Covenant of God they shall be opened to thee Neither pray I for these alone which thou hast yet given me shallâ—at â—at any tâ—me hereafter beleeve on me through their word That they All may be
Lord. For he Cometh He Cometh to Judg the World The Lord Reigneth let the Earth rejoyce and let the many Isles be glad The Heavens declare his Righteousness and all the People see his Glory Which in the next Psalm is All the ends of the Earth have seen the Salvation of God As in Luke also All flesh shall see the salvation of God Which in Esay is Thus The Glory of God shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together And in the same Prophet Sing O Heavens for the Lord hath done it Shout O lower parts of the Earth break forth into singing ye Mountains O Forrest and every Tree therein And again Look unto me and be saved All the ends of the Earth For I am God and there is None else I have sworn by my self for there is No Greater that to me every Knee shall bow and every Tongue shall swear and pray and praise and confess to the Glory of God and my Father who said Ask of me and I will give thee the utmost ends of the Earth And while our Saviour lived on Earth he travelled to Aegypt and to other places about the Holy Land As taking possession of them Blessing them also by his blessed presence For the time was coming yea and Then come when not only at That or other Mountains of that Holy Land but in All places men should Worship God in Spirit and in Truth For the Father Seeketh such to worship him Yea and Those Lands also that had so afflicted and oppressed the People of God in all Ages even Aegypt and Assyria must come to sharers with the Land of Israel it self in the greatest Blessings For in that day shall Israel be a Third and but a Third with Aegypt and Assyria even a Blessing in the midst of the Earth whom the Lord of Hosts himself shall bless saying Blessed be Aegypt my People and Assyria the work of my hands as we read in the Prophet Esay to be compared with other places And the Reason given in the very Law of Redemption speaketh This because the Land was Gods Land and they were but Gods Tenants in it though in the Best and freest Fee for it was given to Abraham and his seed for Ever who was Heir of the World as the Apostle speaks And yet So that they must still acknowledg God to be their Lord Paramount their Grand Landlord And They might never give or sell or aliene no nor forfeit it which is very comfortable but so that it still must and should and shall be Redeemed again by the Tenant himself or his Kinsman Or however which was still to be observed it must go out Free wholly Free at the great Year of Jubilee of which more ere long And the Reason was This Because the Land was Gods Land and He would still retain his Right to it and in it and would still dispose it as he pleased whatever the present Tenant did And doth not the same Reason hold for All the Earth Yea did it not hold from the very first Fall of Adam and Man-kind in him Was not Then also the Earth even the whole Earth the same Landlords Had he not as much Right to it as to This Land of Canaan Would he so easily quit his Right in it Though Man a weak and vain and foolish Creature made a Forfeiture of His Possession or His Right shall it not then be as it was divers times with this Land of Canaan that when he shall have purged out the filth thereof by the spirit of Judgment and of Burning That which remaineth shall be Holy And why may it not be Thus also with our bodies and our flesh which hath so long been As the accursed Earth Yea as Babylon it self an Habitation of unclean spirits and a Cage of all unclean birds Why may it not also become the blessed Land of Promise and the Land of Rest Yea the Holy Place and Temple of the Lord of all the Earth Which is a Phrase very much to be marked As a name in which the Lord himself seemeth to glory being also the same Lord that is stiled the God of the Spirits of All flesh Which may be the Foundation of That Prayer and That Promise also that All flesh may and shall be brought to praise and bless the Lord as also that All the Earth must be full of the Glory of God For the place of his very Feet must be Glorious And what Glory Then will be upon This Earth when the Curtains or Canopy of the Heavens shall be drawn and the Glory of God shall appear and will the Earth as his chiefest Residence Will he not Then Give the Greatest Honour to the Weaker Vessel and the more abundant honor to the most uncomly parts or That which lacked most before It might be added also that the very City Jerusalem was not only Accursed as the rest but longer than other parts of the Land Trodden down by the accursed Jebusites which had their very name from Tredding down as the Revelation also seemeth to allude and These Jebusites grew up to be so Odious that before he conquered them 't is said His Soul even Davids Soul that is Love it self Hated them Even Them who possessed That very Fort which was afterwards his Darling and the dearly beloved of his Soul Yea That which God Chose-above all the Gates or Cities of Judah Yet in it self besides its accursed possessors it was but a dry barren Rock and so called Zion Drought or a Dry barren place And Morijah also where the Temple stood was but the Threshing place of one of these accursed Jebusites though as a Liberal Prince to David himself And though in Hebrew it may signifie the Lords Teaching yet others bring it up to Myrrh or Bitterness and in Greek it signifieth Foolishness to which also the Apostle may allude in several places And by This time I may conclude this Discourse of Turning accursed places or unholy into Blessed and Holy with That solemn saying of our Saviour The last shall be first and the first last Which he repeated so that I often think it might intimate a greater Mystery than I am yet sensible of As if All the Course of Gods Providence were as a Wheel in constant Motion pulling down the high Spoaks and bringing up the low ones Which Moses also long before described in his Psalm of Nature Grace and Glory Thou turnest man about as grinding him with the upper and the lower Milstone of Grief and Pain to clay or dust and Then thou sayest Return again Again ye Sons of Man Return again O Lord How long and let it repent thee concerning thy servants That is Make them Turn and Repent as we find it plain enough in the 80. Psalm and divers other places that Gods Effects In Man are expressed as His Affections To Man O satisfie us with thy Free Grace in the morning when our Night of pain and sorrow is past For Though sorrow
may continue all night yet Joy shall come in the morning and we shall be glad and rejoyce all day Make us glad according to the daies wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil and although I might not see thy Face when I prayed to see thy Glory yet let Thy Work at length appear unto thy Servants and Thy Glory also to our Children when we are dead And let the Beauty also of the Lord our God be on us All and establish Thou the Work of our hands to us yea the Work of our hands do Thou establish it And will he not Then also establish the work of his own hands Which is so often brought as a Reason why the Earth must stand and abide for ever Seeing All the Works of God are perfect and must abide for ever Yea and he hath set the World also or Eternity as the word is often rendered in the Heart of every man And though it may be for a while the Glory of God to hide some things Yet it is not only Lawful but our glory and the Glory of the greatest largest Kingly heart like Solomon to searth it out and to search him out For in God there is No Mole or shadow of Deformity Nor will he envy that All Flesh should see his glorious face together Nay our Saviour promiseth that Nothing Shall be Hid no not in God himself I hope but shall be revealed And every New Revelation of God to All Eternity will be to Jesus Christ as That we now read but to shew it to his Children and his Servants Which have also received a spirit not only to know and discern the things of God as the spirit of man doth the things of a man and to know the things that are freely given us of God but also to search out the Depths or Baths of God Who still speaketh perhaps to them All as to the Prophet Jeremy Ask of me and I will yet shew thee great and wonderful things which thou knowest not For such a God we have so Infinite that still he is a Fountain flowing up still flowing over and a little drop of that infinite Ocean can stretch out our narrow souls still wider and yet wider to receive more and yet more and still more to Eternity till we are wider than the very Heavens For our Saviour and our Head is gone up Over All Heavens still spinning out the spring of his Watch which was wound up Here on Earth while He was straitned and made perfect by suffering that he may now-fill All things and bring us All up to his own Ballance of Eternal Glory Even to the fulness of that stature which each Member is to have in His Great Body Which is the Fulness of Him which filleth All in All. This also of Turning Cursed things or places into Blessed might be yet more cleered from Jericho which was the first Fruits of all the I and of Chanaan And as all first Fruits it was so sacred that all were cursed that but touched it And yet the Vallie of Achan or Achor that is the Troubler afterwards is made a Door of Hope in the great day of Iezreel the Seed of God Yet so accursed it was by prophesie that He that should but attempt to build it again was solemnly Cursed by Iosuah the great Type of Jesus Yet in the Reign of Achab the Brother and the Father as the Name implies the guilty Man of the Kings of Israel there riseth up one Hiell the Living God and ventures to rebuild this Cursed City Yet we read of nothing els of harm to him but onely that he laid its groundwork in his Eldest Son and finished it in his Youngest which we may consider again But notwithstanding all the Curss This Jericho in a very few years grew up to be a Blessed School of Prophets as we may gather from the History of Elijahs taking up into Heaven And to make the Cure yet perfecter the Citizens bemoan themselves before Elisha that the situation of their City was indeed pleasant but the Water Naught and the ground so that it caused to miscarry as some read the place And he said bring me a New Cruse and put salt therein and he went forth to the spring or very Fountain of the cursed Waters and cast in the salt and said Thus saith the Lord I have Healed these Waters there shall be Thence No more Death or Curss or Barrennesse So the Waters were Heald unto this day That Elisha the Prophet was in This also a great Type of Jesus Christ Healing the Earth and taking off the Curss thereof as he bore away the sins of the World I do believe the rather because I find Our Saviour thereabout so often with his Healing Wings also to so many That I say nothing of his famous Parable of the good Samaritan Journying towards Jericho Nor shall I now spend time to shew how all this is also shadowed out in the very Heavens by the frequent Changings of the Moon although the Name of Jericho might lead us to That also Or that as Jericho was the First fruits to the whole Land of Israel So was Israel also to the World As we might prove by many Scriptures besides That of Jeremy the 2. Where it is called the First Fruits unto God of All his Increase and All that eat it or in some other places all that touch it to destroy it are Offenders and be guilty So also is our Saviour himself called the First Fruits of the Resurrection Though but as the Barley Sheaf or Barley Cake of Gideon that was Heaved up before the Lord on the Third day after the Passover was slain as an Emblem of the Resurrection on the third day after his death And This is often called in Scripture as in Genesis Revelation and St. Johns Epistle and Gospel the Beginning of the Creation and the VVorks of God So here the Beginning of the First Fruits Which came after on the day of Pentecost when also we received the First Fruits of the Spirit in the 2 of Acts and those first Fruits were Loaves of fine Flowr and moulded together as a Type of the Elect as the very name of First Fruits in Hebrew may intimate or of Christ in All his Members together as before it was Christ in his own person who was the First First Fruits or Beginning os the First Fruits of the Resurrection and of all that slept And the same Apostle tells us also that if the Root be Holy the Branches are Holy and if the First fruits be Holy so is the whole Lump Which should be considered much with all those places that speak our Saviour and the whole Election of God to be as Israel to the whole World besides but as the First born with the double portion or the first fruits of the Earth as we may read in the Revelation and divers other places As the Barly Sheaf first and Then the
include Seven or Ten or some of their Powers expressing Fulness or Riches It would be almost endlesse to shew how many Things and Motions in our Bodies do consist or depend on some of these numbers of Seven or Ten which is visible in our very Fingers and Toes with their Nails or Horns to be compared with the Ten Horns in Daniel or the Revelation That I say nothing of the Ten Horns of the Law or the Ten Sephiroth of which the Jews speak so much in allusion to That of Horns or Rayes comming round about the Lawgiver As the Antients formed Moses also like the Sun in his Rayes of Glory I must not speak of the Seven Hours Dayes Weeks Months and Years the Antients observed in Conception and forming the Embryons Features and its several Ages and Changes with ebbing and flowing coming and going of Hair and Nails and Teeth and many other things by Seven Which is also the number of the True Ribs on each side as they distinguish them and of the Vertebres or Rackets of our Necks as also they parted or paired out our Nerves by Sevens As if in our Brain also or the spinal marrow were the Beast out of the Sea or the Old Serpent or Hydra with Seven Heads also And as the Chymists find seven Metals in the bowels of the Earth below answering to the seven Planets above the seal being stamped quite through the Wax or Wafer as the Jews observe so that all the signatures are also seen below which were made above so also we have our spleen and Liver and Gall and Reins and Bladder and other Members as Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus and other Planets with their Armor-bearers also round the Sun as in our bowels about the stomack or great Centre of Sun-like heat and fire in That Lowest Region As the very utmost Court of the Temple had its Molten Sea like the Ocean or Waters under the Earth with its ebbings and flowings like the rowlings and yearnings of our Bowels and the Altar of burnt offerings burning and devouring all And the middle Court or Temple had the Altar of Incence and the seven Lamps and the twelve Cakes As our middle Region or Breast hath its Heart or Altar of Incence also compassed with its pericardium or purss of Water and the Air of the Lungs with the twelve Ribs or sphers or signs of Heaven Seperate with a Veil or Firmament also from our Head or Heavens above or Waters above the Firmament where are the first Ideahs or Originals of All below that I say nothing of the Mercy Seat of our Eye and its Rainbow representing the Throne of God in the Holy of Holies as we find it described in divers places of Scripture Is there not also some resemblance between the Northern parts of the Earth and the Brain or Head As if the North were made to Rule as may be hinted in divers Scriptures for Preferment cometh not from the East or West or South And from North the man comes that Headeth Kingdoms in the Prophets and their likenesse to our Lungs also may be considered with their Winds and Colds Other parts are as Neck Shoulders Breast and Arms. The Midland Sea as the Midriff or it may be part of the Pericardium about the Heart or Africa and Libiah signifies the Lords Heart As the form is And America the back-parts or the People a far off The Great Sea below the continent as the Waters under the Earth or our Bowels and their Rowlings and yearnings the Chambers of the South and as Waters returning in the South Terra del fuogo the Hips and Nova Guinea Loins Mael strom the Nose or Mouth How by Eating all things we turn them into our own Natures and spirits as a shadow how all things return To God as they come From him we touched before and may I add that Christ gave his own flesh and blood to be eaten by us and to be ours and us and the twelve Tribes were presented in the twelve Cakes of shewbread changed every Sabboth day as to be eaten by God or the Priest and so to be turned into His Nature as the Scripture also may intimate in other places besides our Saviours discourse with Laodicea in the Revelation And some make Shaddai to be All devouring and our God is a consuming fire We might happily measure times and seasons in the great World and changes there of much better then we now do If we knew the exact Times of Circulation of our blood and other humors of our bodies and how long the Chylus stayeth in the stomack or any other Receptacle before it be separate and circuled for assimilation What time in the Duodenum there is somewhat in the very name Jejunum Colon or Ilia Which we should consider often as the shadow that I say not measure of the ebbing and flowing of the Sea That I say nothing of the Infinite Bowels of God which are hinted out in Scripture by the many folds of our Ilia six or seven times longer then Man Nothing also of the Caecum which may speak somewhat Hidden as the Hebrew word for the World or Age or Ay and Ever Nor do I say the very Excrements return again in Grass and Hearbs which feed us with the Beasts we eat Shall we come to the measures of Time which is also the measure of Motion in the Heavens The two faithful Witnesses as the Scriptures intimate like our Eyes in our Heads or Heaven above and some other things below which so many Nations call by the name of Witnesses to be compared with Scripture also making such solemn Oaths by putting the Hand under the Thigh the Sun and Moon were set in the Heavens not onely for Dayes and Years but for Times and seasons Which are all made by Their motions through an Oblique Zodiack That crooked or that crossing serpent which in Hebrew hath almost the very same Letters and Numbers with the word for Year For Shanah is a Metathesis of Nahash the Serpent and the Ammonite which may be compared with Sampson the little Sun and Hercules And as Time began with Night before Day so it may be Winter was before Summer as Seed time before Harvest as the Scripture may intimate in divers places Evening and Morning are for sowing Seed and so the former and the latter Rains and the Harvest and Vintage have their seasons The Latter Works of God are ever the Better and his last Wine is best and he will ever shew himself better and better till all Time be perfected into Eternity and God be all in All. How the Antients might part their Day and Night into twelve hours a piece we shew before It may be compared with That of Moses When the most high separated the Sons of Adam and as St Paul expresseth it determined their Times appointed and bounds of their Habitation He did it according to the Number of the Sons of Israel And Thus the first twelve hours of Time
Schools express it It makes 144 if M be only 40. But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Mazorites do often reckon makes 600 Then it may be as we reckoned Olam only 4 above 700. which is 10 Generations or 10 times 70 as we found God himself expounding Ever in the case of Moab and Ammon As Ruth also the 10th from Lot might be married to the 10th from Abraham and about the 10th 70 Years as David was the 14 Generation and the 14th 70 Years who also lived 70 Years Though Christ lived but about half so many Which may shew us more ere long than that Mans Age was Then also shortned As from the Flood or other great Epochaes Ten times 70 may be expressed also by the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ay which is 70 with Ten. Being also joyned with Kedem in Gen. 12. 8. to be compared with Joshua who made it a Desolate Heap for Ever which is Ay in Greek or many other Languages And yet it was rebuilt and Peopled in the Time of Nehemiah as before And if Letters may be so joyned for Multiplication as well as Addition Then may 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also their great word for Ever be 4 times 70 or 70 times 70. that is 70 squared Which is the Great Power of 4 in Scripture Language speaking somwhat Squared as the very figure also of 4 in Heb. which yet is not much unlike 7 or Seven the Full number and so often squared in Scripture that is drawn into 4. or so as 4 is powerful in it as it is in Every Square Which is still made up of 4 and to be so Resolved As Cubes also by 8. whose Character in Heb. represents a Dye Which is yet more visible in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their final M. which is the Mystical Letter as the Jews write in Esay 9. 7. or many other places That God also did intend we should Multiply somtimes by adding Letters to a word may be seen in the Plural Numerals we read in Scripture which are Ten times more than their Singulars and it may be So were All Plurals made by Jod only in Regimen which is 10 and by im which is 50 at length As of Three and Four the Plurals are Thirty and Fourty And by the way it may be considered whether in the Second Command it might not be read Visiting Iniquity for 30 or 40 Daies or Months or Years Seeing 40 was the great Number in Punishing Theirs also in the Wilderness where they stayed 40 Years in 42 Mansions As the 42 Months in the Revelation for Treading the outward Courts and for the Reign of the Beast As also for the Womans being in the Wilderness though reckoned by 1260 Daies which make up 42 Months For their Murmuring and Worshiping the Beast also or the Image of a Beast as we read in Psal. 106. And they have One word for Age and the World also which in Numerals is 42. and That is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eld as Eng. Elder and Old Whence the old Weld for World that is We are Eld or Old And we do not reckon a Man Old till over 40. And if Final 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with them also be but 40 Olam Then without 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will be but 140 or Twice 70. And so is Kum their word for Rising up or Resurrection as with English Come But if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be 600 as the Mazorites Then both Kum and Olam is 700 that is 10 Generations or 10 times 70. as we saw before Which may be also more considerable If the Moons Hiding or Covering in so many Hours the measure of All Ages and Changes might also intimate Gods Hiding or Covering of Their Iniquity which is implyed also in Olam And the Taking off Their Yoak which is also Olam so often hinted in Scripture as the great Work of Gods Rest in Sabbath Daies and Years and Jubilee Which was the 7th 7th Year or 49. a Number of Rest as we found it in Hours the beginning of the Third Nights Rest. Yet it brought in Great Motions and Changes also but for the Better still which the Schools call Perfective and not Corruptive Motion So that the very Hebrew Mot which is Motion or Mutation is in Numbers 49. And every 3d. brought up a Change as we found before in Night and Day Rest and Motion as in Leaps or Hopping and in all our movings One foot resteth while the other moveth Mot Turned is Tom and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tam or Tom which as we saw in Jathom an Orphan signifieth Perfect And in least reckoning is 440 and their Tamid Ever or the Daily sanifice 444 without Jod or else 454. But if M Final be 600 Then Tom is 1000 a very Perfect number both in Years or Months or Hours For 1000 Hours bring us to the Morning Sacrifice of the 42 Day of Creation or other Time which is the sixth Sabbath As 444 Hours bring us to the first Sabbath I may add also that if M final be 600 in Hebrew words we may find out many making up the very Number of 666 of which we spake before as the Number of Change in the Moon and all other great Motions and Revolutions in all Generations For the very word Sum which is not only Eng but Heb. is just 666. As if This were the Summ of each Generation or of every Age of the World which is called Age also in many Languages And in Latine Sum is the great Verb of Being As in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or English Is and Jessi is my Being or my Essence Which is much or most or all in the Heb Ish a Man Though not a vulgar low and Weak man which they called Adam or Enos but a great or noble man or an Husband As we see in That famous place Thou shalt not call me Baali my Lord or Master but Ishi my Man or Husband They shall look eye to eye Till they see themselves in my eys or Eishon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Eyn is the Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Eye and a Fountain And among the Rabbins or other Eastern Writers Sum is not onely the Summ but End of all reckonings As in Hebrew Soph. and Sophia or Wisdome is the Lords Perfection or his End To which Solomon also seemeth to allude in his End of man or End of All written with such great Letters in the Hebrew of his Book of Wisdome or Ecclesiastes the Woman Preacher As the 68 Psalm and 11 verse God shall give a Word so it is in Heb and Many shall be the Women Preachers And as Sophia in Hebrew a metathesis of Joseph is with the Grecians Wisdome so with them Foolishness or Moria is in Heb the Lords Teaching or Death or Mountain of the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And when it is said Let him that is Wise count the number of the Beast And here is
Seriah was also Menuah from Noah Rest a Meek and Quiet Prince As Christ speaketh of Moses and of Himself Rejoyce O Zion For thy Prince is Meek and Lowly which with God is of Great Price and Value As Saint Peter speaketh Who yet struck down Ananias and Saphira But this Boanerges must become a Barnabas Ye know not what spirit You must be And Barnabas Took Saul and knit him to the Church of Christ who sent him back to Tarsus his Native Countrey As Israel to Babylon the Hole or Pit whence they were taken and called And then was Great Peace and Comfort of the Holy Ghost for Jerusalem it self was scattered through All Judea and Samaria and Galilee of the Gentiles also the three Regions of Heaven and Earth and the little World also as we have touched divers times And Then Peter also must come down to Lydia as alluding to Lud with Tarsis and Ludi and Lydia Saint Pauls Convert of Thiatire Divine Tyre or the Sacrificer For Her Hire also must be Holinesse to God and Sarran Tyrian or Sharon of which before with Carmel For That also must blesse Him and Hermon the Cursed Hill And Tabor the very Navel of the Belly or the Lower VVaters Here must Christ be Transfigured an Emblem of this Kingdom and Then must cast out the Foul Spirit which so Mastered All his Apostles Till Himself came down and found the people in a very hot dispute with his Apostles about a Devil they could not master And yet at his going up He had given them Power over All Unclean spirits But This was Beelzebub it seems the Prince of Devils with his Legions Every one 6000 and 666 also If a great Author besides Hesychius do not deceive us A strange spirit with Three Epithites in Three Evangelists As if Cerberus with his Tripple Throat The Devil in the VVorld Or Utmost Court and Antichrist in the Church or Temple But the Old Man in our Heart There the Dragon Then the Beast and the Image of the Beast and the False Prophet also directly opposite to God and Man who was made to Rule the Beast with the Image of God in Man or God-Man and the True Prophet the Holy Ghost See Ja. 3. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 3. Rom. 8. 6. But How long Ever since there was a Childe In the VVaters Above As the Crossing Serpent which we shewed before in Shemes Samson and his 12 Labors also through the Zodiak full of Beasts Aries Taurus Cancer Leo worse In the Earth Below Even in Paradise The Serpent the most subtile Beast and Head of all Beasts Turning Isha into Eva 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Before whom Adam only conversed with Lilith the Nights Darkness and Dreams which the Jewes call the Mother of Hobgoblins and make a white Circle with Chuts Lilith Out Night In the Waters Below Leviathan and Tannin the Dragon in the Great Depth or Bottomless-pit as Esay 27. with Iob of Behemoth Leviathan and the Revelation But He shall be cast out of Earth also as first he was out of Heaven Whence he fell like Lightning Though That but as a Prophecy before Apoc 11 and 12. Which brings up the Kingdom of Christ with Casting out Satan As Christ also said If I by the finger of God Cast out Beelzebub Then know the Kingdom of God is very near you But you must say Let it Come on Earth as it is in Heaven Where yet Satan came among the Angels to accuse and resist the Brethren as we may find in Job with Dan. Zech. But at our Saviours coming from the Mount All the three Foul Spirits shall be cast out Yet they may Tear us first and leave us as Dead But for Three dayes and Half and Then Come up hither And the Father said with Tears Lord I believe Help thou my Unbelief Being told that All things even All things are possible to Him that Believeth The same Works Yea and greater Works For I go to my Father And a Grain of True Faith can remove This Mountain also where I was transfigured while Peter would have built three Tabernacles Howbeit This strange and strong and last kinde of Devils go not out but by Fasting and Prayer Yet They had Oyl and so raised the Sick and laying on of Hands Cast out Devils For it was and still is and will be and appear a very Mighty Name of Jesus of Nazareth And Peter at length coming to Japho the old Town of Japhet Who began it before the Flood as hinted in Heathen Authors Having first healed Aeneas Aeneas And after eight years By the same Name by which Himself and Iohn had cured the Cripple at the 9th Hour the Time of Prayer As to Cornelius also the first fruits of the Gentiles He findeth Tabitha Dorcas a Doe of a Goat which in Hebrew and Syriac is also Saphira 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Raiseth Her also from the Dead A greater work perhaps than curing a Daughter of Abraham whom Satan had Bound Lo and Behold these 18 Years And another with the Bloody Flux of which before for 12 years And a Third Talitha 12 years old Here are three Twelves and an Half And a man at the Pool of Bethesda the House of Chesed Tender Mercy 38 Years Here are three Twelves and two also for a Cheâ—si Which I note the rather because it was first shewed Abraham in a Map that his Friends and Tenants of Promise and Sodom also must serve the four Monarchs 12 Years And not be delivered till the second after the 12. or second Sabbath which is the 14th Year as Assyrians broken in the 14th year of Ezekiah as the 14th of Genesis And the 14 Teeth of either Jawe may represent Years also as we shewed before from Shinim Teeth and Shenim Years Where we touched the Turtle and the Pigeon as the two little Witnesses preserved undivided which is their only way of safety between the Divided Heifer and the Ram and Goat also and All of Three years old And Then the Fiery Furnas and Great Horror But at Evening or Sun-setting God speaketh to him in a Vision which he saw not till he had said to the King of Sodom Thou shalt never make me Rich. And After Those words God came in a Vision and said Fear not Abraham for c. And they brought him to an Upper Chamber it is oft spoken of and should be marked where the women were and shewed the Coats of Dorcas For she also loved us and helped to build us a Tabernacle As we touched before in the Curtains or Coverings of Goats-hair and Badgers-skins But He put the Women All out O Woman what have I to do with Thee And Touch me not for I am not yet Ascended Which he had learned also from Him that so Acted before Him and James and John which were His three VVitnesses generally Who put them All out and cryed Talitha Kumi May it not be Rise up the Third Day or Year or Moed As They
of Gods and the Image of the Beast and Dragon also instead of Gods Image Therefore he carryed them beyond Babylon as the Prophet and Stephen also And if you will not be instructed to me by these things but wil walk Keri may it allude to their walking by Tradition rather then written Rule As they rejected the written Ketif for the Keri I will walk with you Keri and I will strike or Hack you Even I Seven And I will bring a Sword avenging the Quarrel of the Covenant which they Brake before His first stroak And when you shall be gathered together as to the songs of Asaph the little Gatherer of the people as a Type of Shilo the great Gatherer promised Gen. 49. 10. the Hebrew word wanteth 3 of 1200. I will send the Pestilence among you and into the Enemies Hand you shall be given up As God gave up Job the very letters of the word here used for Enemie into the hands of Satan the great Ojeb Ob Pytho and Python see also Rev. 2. 10. And in Micha we found They shall be given up till she that Travelled bring forth As here you shall be Given up Which may be more considered and the rather because the place is clear enough of the great siege of Jerusalem and its Pestilence and Famine also with Women eating their own Children as in the Lamentations And if you will not for all This hearken unto me but walk in Keri or contrary to me Then I will walk contrary to you in Fury Hamath Keri as we saw in Hamath Zoba And I will correct or instruct you Even I Seven upon your sins or against them as twice in this Chapter but once Verse 21. it is According to your sins And you shall eat the flesh of your Sons and the flesh of your Daughters ye shall eat And I will destroy your High places and cnt down your Hammons and cast your Carkases upon the Carkases of your Idols and all your Cities shall be waste and the High Places desolate That your Altars may be laid waste and made Desolate and your Idols may be broken and cease and your Images may be cut down and your Works may be abolished Ezek. 6. 6. And my soul shall abhor you And I will scatter you among the Heat heu c. And your Land shall keep her Sabbaths One great Reason of all this Desolation And you shall perish among your Enemies and their Land stall eat you up And they that are left of you shall Pine away in their Iniquity and also in the Iniquities of their Fathers with them they shall Pine away As Ezek. 24. and Dan. 9. confessing their Fathers iniquity saith also that Shame belongeth to their Fathers As if their Childrens sins should also be punished on their Fathers God be merciful to me a great sinner in others also But is there Hope in Israel yet concerning This also Yea Verily for our God is the God of Hope and of All Consolation and the Father of Mercies One with Christ who is the Only Begotten of the Father Now follow some of the sweetest Promises in all the Bible although the former part of them is wronged much by adding an If before them in some Translations a Serpent that may hazard Paradice again and turn the Gospel of Free Grace into a Condition Out of our Power more than Circumcision But the Original hath no If but a Promise that they should be brought to acknowledge as Jer. 3. Only acknowledge Their own and Fathers vileness in walking So to God and He so to them Or Then their Uncircumcised Heart shall be humbled and Then they shall Accept their punishment And I will remember my Covenant with Jacob and my Covenant with Isaac and also my Covenant with Abraham I will Remember How often repeated And I will Remember the Land For the Land shall be left and enjoy her Sabhaths And they shall How sweet Accept their Punishment because even because they despised my Judgements and their soul abhorred my Statutes And yet for All That when they be in the Land of their Enemies How gracious I will not I will not cast them off or despise them Psal. 22. 24. Ioh. 6. 37. neither will I abhor them to destroy them Utterly Psal 119. 8. Jer. 14. 19 20 21. and to break my Covenant with them For I am the Lord Their God a Reason strong enough as we saw in Hosea and divers other places But for Them or Their sakes How strange is this I will remember the Covenant of their Ancestors whom I brought out of Aegypt in the sight of the Heathen to this very end to be to Them for a God I am Jehovah These are the Statutes and Judgements and Lawes which the Lord gave between him and between the Children of Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses As also before Chap. 25. Which two Chapters deserve a Volume by themselves But God will Teach us and make us wise and prosper in All we do If we would but observe the Law of Moses as the last of the last Prophet Malachy and the last speech of David to Solomon though now in the First Psalm from Gods own words to Josuah upon Moses Death Jos. 1. 7 8. And that great Arcanum Imperii Deut. 17. and 3 last Verses which we discoursed before as the best pâ—ce I know for Successive Monarchy And that Levit. 26 is such a gracious Promise the foundation of the Gospel may be yet more cleared by that Letter written by good Hezekiah in full Parliament of Lords and Commons 2 Chron. 30. To the Ten Tribes after their Captivity begun But they are invited to Return to That which was Sanctified for ever by a most gracious God there described In their Returning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which yet some render If you Return citing that of Leviticus and Deuteronomy with Exod. 34. c. And Nehemiah citing these also leaves out the If though some Translations put it in There also but in little letters desiring God to remember he had promised Moses that although he would scatter them for their sins yet They should turn again keep his Commandments c. Compare the First Chapters and 9th with the 9th of Ezra and 9th of Daniel Which is not onely in the Hebrew Tobit so remarkable but in divers places as an Absolute Promise else they could not build upon it as Assuring their Return Except they came up to that Condition which they knew not that they should Except It also were There promised to be given them even in their Enemies Land Which is so promised and clearly in Ezekiel several times You shall-abhor your selves and Blush and loath your own Doings c. the most genuine and Gospel Repentance When you shall see me Pacified towards you for All that you have done But not by your Covenant or any thing you do or can do Be it known unto you O you House of Israel And Daniel that Wise
man saw such a stress on This that citing Moses and the fulfilling of his Threatnings so that never was the like done under Heaven as at Jerusalem nor ever shall be as we saw before And yet saith he We have not sought the Face of the Lord our God to turn or that we might turn from our iniquities and understand thy Truth And yet according to all thy Righteousness a strange expression I beseech thee let thy Anger and thy Fury in other Prophets and Psalms Thy Hating Loathing Abhorring Cursing be turned away from thy City Jerusalem the Mountain of thy Holiness And concludeth For the Lords sake Or the Messiah as That Phrase in their most antient Authors Or as himself expresseth it clear enough Because Thou art Our Lord Adonai Their usual expression of That God-Man As other Lords onely by Adoni or at most Hadoni Their common Salutation when they met as we may finde in Plautus sounding it much as the English How don ye For it is Christ he speaketh to Or the whole Trinity Bow down thine Ear to hear and open thine Eye to see Hear Adonai Adonai Pardon Adonai Hearken and Doe Defer not for thy own sake O our God! And not for our Righteousnesses which are as filthy Raggs even All of them and worse But for thy great Mercies Which in other places are also Manifold Mercies as manifold and more than All our sins Or as his 9th and 9th To the Lord our God belong Multitudes of Mercies and Forgivnesses in the Plural as also cited by St Paul Though we have Rebelled even Down Right Rebelled against him And Then comes out the Angel at the Minha with the 70 Weeks and after with 1290 and 1335 Dayes Which may be also in that 26 of Leviticus Where we read of 4 Sevens and Chastning or Instructing which is the same in Hebrew 4 times 7 which make a Month or 28 in Dayes or Hours or Years or somwhat worth enquiring after In general it may Hint the 4 7 Dayes or Month of the Moon from the Sun As if Here also God would intimate They should return again after Those 4 Sevens as the Moon to the Sun as we saw in 4 7 Dayes or 666 Hours The word Seven is Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Numerals 372. which in Hours is the very Morning of the 16th Day of the First Month or the great Heave-offering or Wave-sheaf of Barley the Resit or First of First Fruits In memorial of the Morning after their coming out of Aegypt which was the 15th Day at Sunset just in the 360 Hour as their year came out in 360 Dayes and the 2d Morning from Creation in 36 Hours as we saw before and how this First Fruits was also a Type of our Saviours Rising up from the Dead as this Sheaf of Barley Heaved up on the 3d Morning after the Passover was slain on the 14th Minha 333 Hour or 40 the 40 Hours of Christ in the Grave before 372 the Morning of the Wave-Sheaf The morrow after the Passover the 15th Day of the Month or first of Unleavened Bread was a solemn Sabbath or Rest from servile Labour and a Feast of joy as the Jewes call it because of the Peace-Offerings then to be offered and eaten which they also called the Feast of Passover As in the Gospel They would not go into Pilates Hall lest they might be kept from the Passover or Paschal Feastings for the Lamb was Eaten on the Night before as we see in our Saviour though some think he was before the Jewes in that also of which Deut. 16. 2. 2 Chron. 30. 24. and 35. 7 8. But the next or 16th Day was for Offering the Sheaf or Omer both an Handful and a 10th part of an Epha equal to the Bath 3 Seas the 10th part of an Homer gathered in the Dusk of the 15th Day called the Sabbath after the Passover yet by 3 men saying On This Sabbath sabbath sabbath In This Basket basket basket with this Sickle Sickle sickle the Men 3 and the Baskets 3 and the Sickles 3 and they must reap enough to make 3 Seas from the Valley of the Brook Kidron He shall drink of the Brook in the way and so lift up his Head Then they pass it through the Fire that it may be Parched Corn and Ground also For it pleased the Lord to put him to pain though a Son that he might learn Obedience and by sufferings be made perfect From this Sickle they must count the 50 Days as Deut. 16. 9. Which in Levit. 23. 15. are begun from the Morrow after the Sabbath or First Day of Unleavened Bread after the Passover or the Day of the first Sheaf So that the morrow after the 7 compleat weeks or 50th Day as the Jewes themselves call it was the Day of Pentecost and of Biccurim the First-Fruits in two loaves of fine Flour leavened The Jewes observe no Rejoycing commanded at the Passover which must be eaten with Bitter Herbs but at Pentecost they sang the great Hallel Once being Once commanded to Rejoyce and Twice at Tabernacles Double and more then Double or seven-fold to the joy of Pentecost As we may finde in Deut. 16. and 11th for Pentecost but 14. and 15 for Tabernacles on the 15th Day of the 7th Mouth And thou shalt observe the Feast of Tabernacles 7 Dayes the Pentecost but one when thou hast gathered in thy Corn and thy Wine and thou shalt Rejoyce in thy Feast Thy Feast Thou and thy Sou and thy Daughter and thy Man-servant and thy Maid servant and the Levite the stranger and the fatherless and the Widow that is within thy Gates 7 Dayes shalt thou keep a solemn Feast unto the Lord thy God in the Place which the Lord shall choose because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy increase and in all the works of thy Hands Therefore thou shalt surely Rejoyce They observe also the Pure Unleavened Bread of the Passover was a Memorial to endure for ever But not that of the Pentecost being to fall or be little spoken of when All was brought in as we saw before of Tythes and First-fruits in Ezekiel and Revelation And though the Passover and all its Week had onely Pure Unleavened Bread a Type of Christ without sin yet the Pentecost had both Unleavened in its Minha and Leavened also in its two Cakes of Biccurim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Elect as we saw before in Bahurim And might not Those two Cakes represent the two Churches of Jew and Gentile or the two Witnesses to be Broken as the two Cakes Or the Turtle Dove and the young Pigeon in Abrahams Vision Sara and Hagar or Keturah whom the Jewes account Hagar with Rebecca or Rachel and Leah Abigail and Ahinoam and divers others as before and yet again Types of the two Witnesses Those two Cakes were attended with 7 Lambs and two Rams and a Bullock for an Ole a young Goat for