Day of Trying the Paschal Lambs or Preparation of the Passover To the Pentecost Or from the day of Aarons Death and of burning the City and Temple To the Day of Creation or Dedication of the second Temple and of Jerusalem in Nehemiahs Time and to the Feast of Trumpets in the seventh Month which was for Release and Tabernacles were 1260 1290 or 1335 Hours And from the City Taken on the 9th of the 4th Month to the Feast of Tabernacles were 2300 Hours as between the Suns Apogeum and the Equinox And their great Release was in 2300 Dayes As their Release of Hirelings or their three years Tythes and Offerings with the Solemn Confessions of Deut. 26. came out in 1260 or 1335 Dayes So Davids New Jerusalem was gotten from the Jebusites who Trod it down as their name in Heb And the Ark was fixed in Zion and the Temple built in 1260 1290 or at most in 1335 years from the first Desolation of the Flood And Nehemiahs New Jerusalem was finished and dedicated at 1260 hours that is the morning of the 53 d day from its beginning but 1335 hours from his coming thither as Nehem. 2. 11. 6. 15. and in so many years from Jacobs service in Syria Typing Israel in Assyria or from Josephs Bonds in Egypt or Israels coming and Dying there And the great Dedication and Restitution after Antiochus Nicanor was so many Dayes as in Daniel After the City Prophaned and so many years After Egypt and the Golden Calf which was 1335 years before the Maccabees which were 1290 years After the Ark at Shiloh or 1260 years After their first Bondage to the K. of Mesopotamia as a Type of Babylon and 1260 years Before the Christians got Jerusalem and Reigned in it about 1100 of Christ All which were but Types and Shadows of the New Jerusalem to come in those degrees of 1260 1290 or 1335 years After the Abominable Desolation made by Antichrist who was Typed out by Antiochus Which was to come upon the Christian Church as the Assyrian was to fill the breadth of the Land of Emanuel When the Romans had finished their war against Jerusalem in Titus Adrian and Julian After the ten first Christian Persecutions Which lasted as many years as there were Hours in ten Dayes As the Revelation saith they should have Tribulation for Ten Dayes which have Hours 240. and there were so many Years from the first Persecution which began with the Jewish War in 65 or 66 of Christ Till Constantine And the Times of Julian were as slaying of the Paschal Lambs which were Tyed up on the tenth day ending at Hour 240 and slain on the fourteenth at Hour 333 As Julian was 333 years After Christ and Romes deadly Wound was After Jerusalem sack'd 333 years As Hamans Lots or Purim from the Preparation of the Passover 333 dayes 333 was a signal Number to the Jews both for Hours to the Passover and Dayes to Purim and Cubits in the Holy Courts and to Others also As Plutarch observes in Fabius finding Secrets in the Sybils not to be uttered and vowing 333 Sesterces and 333 Denaries Deucalions Flood Phaetons Flames and the first Judgement in Areopagu much about 333 years before the Sack of Troy about 333 before Lycurgus end who renewed the Olympick Games 333 years after Hercules That we speak not of Messenia desolate about 333 years in Aelian 333 is half 666 and 333 Dayes are 12 Times 666 Hours which are the Monthly Change of the Sun and Moon and thence the Great Number of Change to the World and in Years also As it was to Carthage in Paterculus and Rome with Jerusalem and other places here discussed And to clear this way of reckoning Years by Hours of the Jewish Year the Author shews the Rise and Use of Hours with diverse Nations long before they be specifyed in Polibius or Plutarch who yet can tell us the first Hour of Romulus and the Great account of Hours among the Jews whose Year is a Model of time in All Ages So that the old Patriarchs and all the great things of Scripture were in Harmony to the Dayes and Hours of the Jewish Year and to the Site and Motions of the Heavenly Bodies As Hours are made by the Moon moving 24 of her Diameters in 24 Hours and the Earths Diameter 24 times in the Suns which may be distant from the Earth twice 666 Radij As the Moon 66 and Canaans Longitude is 65 or 66 in Ptolomy And as the first Heavenly body is above the Earth 65 of its Radij and the first Fruits of Earth were at 65 Hours of Creation in the 3 d Day which was the first of Herbs and Animals so the Feast of the First fruits was the 65th Day of the Year and in the 3 d Month As the Tabernacles twice 65 or 130 Dayes After Pentecost Adam was about 130 Hours of Creation and Seth at 130 years as many reckon Abraham was After Terah 130 years in which time the Equinox Changeth a whole Day as 12 Hours in 65 Years Enos was born at 235 Years of the World and the Paschal Lambs were Tyed up and Tryed at 235 Hours of the Jewish year and the Great Cycle of the Moon called the Golden Number is of 235 Months For which Here is an easier way to reckon the Moons Motions and the Suns Cycle with the Dayes of the Week in any year of Christ or of the Julian Period Kainan was born at 325 years of the World and 325 Hours of their year came to the Morning Sacrifice of the Passover slain at Hour 333 just half 666 and Kainans Birth was 666 Years before Enochs Translation or twice 666 before the Flood Mahalael as many years After Kainan as there were Hours to the Evening Sacrifice of the third Day As the First Fruit Omer heaved up on the 3 d Day After the Passover He was born 1260 as Kainan 1332 before the Flood and dyed in the year of the World 1290. Jared the 6 from Adam was born 135 and lived 187 years After Kainan and the Morning Sacrifice of the 6th Day of the World and of the Month and Year and so of the First fruit Omer from the Tying of the Paschal Lambs was at Hour 135 and the Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day for Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath was at hour 187. As from Pentecost to the Great Hosanna there were Dayes 135 and to the Great Atonement Dayes 187 As between the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox 187 and in the Pentateuch 187 Chapters As the Cubits of the Inward Court of Israel were 187 and the Outer 135 which being added to 130 makes 365 As Dayes in a year or Veins in our Body or Negative Precepts in the Law And Kainan was twice 365 before Noah 365 before Jareds End As Mahalaels was before the Flood and the Flood before Abrahams Call if born at his Fathers 70 As Hours of the Jewish year to the First fruit Omer Reaped After
Methuselah To Abraham Or from Noah To Mâ—ses and Aaron From the Flood To the Ark in Zion or the Temple As from Joseph and Jacob To Nehemiah Or from Egypt and the Wilderness To the Dedication by the Machabees And Thence to the Christians Getting Jerusalem As from Gideons Ephâ—d To our Saviour and from the Romans First Taking Jerusalem To the Popes Decretals and Councel of Lateran For Transubstant In the Time of Innocent the 3 d Excommunicating the Emperour As From Christ To the Sicilian Vesters Or the First Roman Jubilie with the Second Wo. or House of Ottoman As from the Sack of Ierusalem or Revel written To the 2 d Roman Iubilie Or To the Golden Bull and order of Iesuans or Iesuats As From the 10 Persecutions ending in Constantine To the Great Change at Queen Elizabeth And From Iulians Time To the Persans Taking Babylon and to K. Charles in England and Free Religion in France And although there were Great Defections in the Christian Churches before Iulian Yet Then was the Great Apâ—stacy which seemeth Pointed out To the Thessalonians And the Last Oracles said that Christian Religion should Stand but a Great Year Which came out in Iulians Time about 365. And Thence the Roman Empire did begin its Mortal Wound As first by the Gauls about 365 of the City Built And whatever else the Revelation Beast may be vet we must All agree To That last verse of the 17th Chapter And the Wâ—man which thousawest is That Great City which Reigneth over the Kings of the Earth Which certainly was Rome in some State or Other That we say nothing of Mysterium written in the Popes old Frontal In Constantine the Empire Trembled In the Western Legions drawing off to New Rome with 7 Hills also but not 7 Kings or Governments And a Kingdom Divided cannot stand The Church did Creep again a little After Julian But with standing stools and Forms of some that did pretend to Teach it first to Go with a strange Chaos of Jewish Rites or Heathen And the Tares of the Envious one grew up Till They could not be Rooted out but with Danger to the Wheat also First in Lent only Till Easter which Crucified all the Body of Christ Marriage is Forbidden And at Laodicea the signal place in the 3 d of Revelation Then at Other Times and Then To the Clergy at All Times in Siricius When the name of Catbolique came up with the Golden Law for Lent about 380. Then Canonical Hours about 390 A very signal Number both to Jewes and Gentiles for the Last Olympiad and the First Vse of Mass with the head of John the Baptist and Then the Bones of Samuel and ere long of Stephen and Nicodemus Brought into Europe The Empire shakes upon Contest of the Emperor and Stilico by whom Alaciâ—us was Beaten Yet so countenanced That he sacketh Rome From That Deadly Wound 1260 years come out about 1666 Or somewhat sooner At the End of the Three Great Years and half or 3500 years of Esaus Strugling with Jacob. Which Esdras makes the End of the Old World and Beginning of a New And all the Bible maketh Them the Great Types of Election and Reprobation or of Children of Light and Darkness The first Dragon or Beast of the Bottomless pit with 7 Heads and 10 Horns or 10 Hours for 7 dayes of the week And the shortest Night had 10 Hours And as the Light might Rise in 7 hours so the Sun might Rise in 10. And Those 2 Numbers of 7 and 10 were Sacred to others also As in Justine Curtius Arrianus and others of the Persians and Alexanders Weeks before the Roman in the Attick Nights or Genial Days and Saturnals And as the Revelation hath its 4 Watchers and 24 Elders for the 24 hours So the 7 Spirits For the 7 days of the week which return in a Circle As the Months of Nisan and Tizri Which were Sevenths to each other and had â—easts alike As 7 equal Circles in a Ring of 6 and one in the Centre as 6 Tones and 2 Halvs in and an Eight or Diapason 7 being the only Number of 3 Wholes and a Half The Jews Law had 7 Heads to Noah 10 Horns to Moses with 666 Sections or at most 669. And its Heb name is akin to Thorus or Taurus a Beast wch in Hebr leters maketh just 666. And None might buy or sell among them or be Denisons that did not submit to the 7 Heads of Noahs Laws 7 Things were left by Moses for the Poor 7 Sabbaths 2 in Tabernacles one in Pentecost and 2 at Pass and 7 Passovers in Script besides Atonement and the weekly Sabbath Which 2 last forbad All work the other 5 but Servile only 7 Servitudes in the Iudges 7 Liquors in Moses Song 7 Lamps and 7 Spirits on the Messiah Esay 11 As 7 Spirits before the Throne or 7 Eyes or 7 Planets in Heaven and 7 Metals in Earth seven pair of Nerves and 7 Principal parts in the Bowels So they had 7 Elders or Deacons in their Churches or Synagogues wch must be of 10 at least As usually a Paschal Lamb was for 10 Recorded and so the Romans could reckon them at the Last Passover And at 10 they brought their Children to Fast and other points of the Law and their Lowest Consistories were at places of 10 Families As the Saxon Decennars or Tithings And the Romans had their signal Tithings and 10 Circuits in their Provinces 10 Kingdoms as Horns on the Last Head of the Beast Which may be the Great Spirit of the World with 7 Heads and 10 Horns As God also pleased to manifest himself in 10 Laws and 7 Spirits for 7 Days of the week and One of Them had also a Deadly Wound as it was the Jewish Sabbath but Got up again and yet so changed That it was as an Eight Day and yet but One of the 7 As the 7 or 8 Heads in Revel But there is a Man can be our peace when the Assyrian Overflows us When he shall Tread in our Palaces Then we shall raise against him 7 Shephards and 8 Principal Men. Yea and the Spirit of the Lord shall set up a Standard against him The Revelation doth require a Volume by it self Now Only the Holy City Trodden down As David Got it from the Tredding Jebusites and Nehemiah from the Cuthites and Machabeus from Antiochus And Jerusalem shall be Trodden down of the Gentiles Till the Times af the Gentiles be fulfilled Or as Paul Until the Fulness of the Gentiles And Then All Israel shall he saved or Redeemed For the Time of your Redemption draweth Nigh The 42 Months are 1260 Dayes as 5 months of the First Wo are 150 days As the 5 first months of the Flood quite hiding the Earth in Water as the Baptists Mother was Hidden 5 months and in the 6 t the Angel came to the Virgin And at 30 Dayes apiece 42 Months are 1260 Dayes As the Dayes of the Woman and
not Planted And if Sin come Vnder These Plants or Those Promises may we not hope it shall be Rooted out and quite destroyed As the Church is bid to Cry Take away All Iniquity Not onely Ours but All. and Let the Iniquity of the Wicked come to an end As it is Prayed and Therfore Promised in the Psalms and we are bid to cry for All Forgive Vs our Sins Yea and Christ Prayeth This In us and with us Therefore it shall be Granted for He sayeth Lord Forgive As I and These and All my Children Do forgive And we do not read God Cursed Adam or Eve but the Serpent Though he laid Pain and Travel on Eve with Labour Toyle and Sweat on Adam But of Noah it was said This Man shall give us Rest or Comfort in our work and Toyl because of the Earth which the Lord hath Cursed And when Noah built an Altar After the flood God smelt a savour of Rest as alluding to the Name of Noah Rest and said in his Heart his very Heart I will not again Curse the Ground Any more for Mans sake Which may speak it Cursed before for Mans sake or else For Mans sake I will bless it Now and Curse it no more And God Blessed Noah and his Sons which is not read of Adams Sons and did not only give him Leave to Rule the Creatures as before to Adam but a Larger Commission in the Beasts of the field which were not so put Vnder Adam and the Serpent was more subtile then All other Beasts and other Particulars which are now All put under Noah and delivered up into his Hands with a Promise also that his Dread should be upon them And That Promise is made Good in Christ In whom he makes a Covenant for us with the Beasts of the field when He hath Marryed Vs and saved us by the Lord Jehovah as the Prophet Hoze And Then the Earth also shall yeeld her increase and God even our God shall bless us and his saving light shall be Vpon All Nations As the Psalms in divers Places And our Saviour may allude to Those Promises to Noah and His name of Rest and Giving Rest from Labour when he calleth All That Labour and are heavy Laden Adding I will Give you Rest And again You shall find Rest to your Souls however it be to your Bodies That of the Rainbow we find in other Scriptures describing the Throne of God As by an Eye with its Rainbow and the Revelation Cloatheth Christ with the Rainbow As a Circle which himself can never break Which is also Round about the Throne that it may be Ever seen and Never out of Sight or Mind To witness the Everlasting Covenant with Noah and Mankind As afterward with Israel in the Prophets Esay and Jeremy And we All are In That Covenant made with Noah and it is no small Matter to be in Any One Covenant with God That of Slaying the Man-slayer may seem to put Every Man Vnder Coertion That cannot be dispenced with For if it be laid on All Mankind to slay the Blood shedder who can Exempt himself or others And is God indeed so careful for our Blood and is he not more for our Souls Is He so strict which Beasts and Men and every Mans Brother and is he not As strict with Satan or Any that devour our Souls And is not Christ in This also Seeing himself branded Cain for Hating his Brother or saying Am I my Brothers Keeper But God hath made Every Man his Brothers Keeper and our Saviour more then All. As Psal 72. He shall save the Soul of the Needy and Pretious shall their Blood be in his sight He shall Redeem their Souls from Deceit and Violence Men shall be Blessed in Him All Nations shall Call him Blessed The Blessed Seed for he speaketh not of Seeds as of Many but of One which is Christ to Bless All Nations and All Families or Every Family of the Earth As it is repeated both to Abraham and Jacob and the Psalmist saith God hath set him for Everlasting Blessings or Blessings for ever and to the Great Multitude in the Temple Courts The Apostle said God hath sent him to Blesse you by Turning Every one of you From your Iniquities God hath sent him on This Errand and hath put him Vnder this Law which is much to be pleaded with him And the 4th Command requireth him to Keep the Rest of God not only himself and his Sons and Daughters but his Men-Servants and Maid-Servants and Cattle and Stranger also in his Gate They must All be brought to Rest the Rest of God That thy Man-Servant and thy Maid-Servant may Rest as well as Thou That thine Ox and thine Asse may be refreshed And the Psalmist may allude to This as often as he Calls himself A Stranger with God or the Son of His Handmaid And This 4th Command may be found the Sum of All the 2 d. Table Which requireth Every Man and Christ also as a Man to Love his Neighbour as himself and to endeavour that Servants and Strangers also may be brought To the Rest of God and be Refreshed As well as We. And moulded into the Image of God For they All Groan for the Glorious Rest and Freedom of the Sons of God And the Beauty of That Image To be Formed in them will so recompence All the Labour of Christ that He will Never Repent it And He is so much in Love with That Image to be Formed in Vs that his Many years of Suffering and Service are but As a Few Dayes in his Eyes For the Rachel of his Love For he shall see the Travel of his Soul and shall be Fully Satisfied and be at Rest And the Sabbatical year of Rest was For the Earth also the Earth which the Lord Cursed Nor might they reap What grew of its Self For it is a year of Rest unto the Land and the Sabbath of the Land shall be meat for Thee and thy Maid and Hired Servant and for the Stranger that Sojourneth with thee and the Gleaning of every Harvest must be left for the Poor and Stranger As the 19th of Levit. Where we have also the Sum of All the Royal Law of Love As it lieth on Every Man as Man and so on Christ Also Thou shalt not Hate thy Brother in thy Heart Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy Neighbour and not suffer Sin upon him A blessed Law to be pressed much on Christ And the Sum of our Coven ant is To submit to his Teachings and Rebukes or Chastenings which are called the Rods of the Covenant Very pretious things And Thus he promised the Holy Spirit to Reprove the World And we should beg it much As David Cryes O Search and Try me If any Evil way be in Me and Lead me in the Way Everlasting All other wayes will quickly end As Thorns in a fire Thoushalt not Avenge or Bear any grudge against the Children of thy People But
and There Where it was said Loamâ—ni and Lorubama I will yet have Mercy on you and you shall be my People and I will be your God And in other places he saith he will have Mercy on the Whole House of Israel Though he had said I will not have Mercy on them Or I will not declare it for a Long or Vncertain Time Which is often called Ever or Never As the servant shall serve for Ever yet but Till the Jubilie and Moth shall Never Enter which another text limits by 10. Generations and Ruth was about the 10th from Lot As Boaz from Abraham Or at most I will not have is but I will not shew Mercy on them Or I will so Chasten As if I meant to shew No Mercy Thus Solomon bids a Father Chasten his Son and not spare or Pardon And Esay saith Forgive them not And He will not Forgive or not Acquit the Guilty Which is said of Job and of Gods Dearest Children several times in Jeremy with the very worst phrase ever used in the Law which is the Root or measure To the Worst in all the Bible And Christ doth demean himself To the World As if he did not Pray for them And yet he saith God sent him not to Condemn but to save the World And again I came not to Judge the World but to saâ—e the World And so he is called The Saviour of the World and That Lamb of God that beareth away the Sins of the World And God was in Christ Reconciling the VVorld to himself And He often speaketh of Gods Loving the World also As Moses in his Blessing Israel saith God loved the Nations or All Peoples also as the words import a Carrying in his Bosom but he hath a peculiar Chosen People who sit at his Feet and receive the Law at his Mâ—uth And these he Loveth with Delight and others with Pity And in That very Prayer also Christ seemeth to Act as at his Going to the Feast of Tabernacles â—ot Openly but as it were Secretly And so he prayeth for the World also That they may know God hath sent him and hath Loved His as he Loved Him And he Plainly saith that To know God and Christ is Life Eternall Which is yet promised to All and All shall Know my Name And himself remembers it written in the Prophets You shall All be Taught of God And All flesh shall see the Glory of God As it is in Esay with some of the Psalms but in others Thus All flesh shall praise him and All the Trees of the Forrest shall Clap hands and rejoyce and every Eye shall see his salvation As also the Gospel expresseth it For our Salvation is the Glory of God And he promised to Convince the World of Sin Righteousness and Judgment And When I am lifted up I will Draw All men unto me And he is gone up Above all Heavens To fill All things And when Paul received his Commission to the Gentiles It was to make All men see What is the fellowship of the Mistery which from the beginning of the VVorld was hid in God who Created All things by Jesus Christ That the Angels also might know by the Churches and of several Forms and Latitudes and yet by All and manifold Churches the Angels must Vouchsafe to Learn the manifold wisdom of God According to his Eternall purpose Which in 2. Epistles he declareth to be To gather together in One and to Reconcile All things to himself by Jesus Christ Whom we preach Warning Every Man and teaching Every Man in All Wisdom That we may present Every man Perfect in Christ Jesus Whereunto also I labour striving according to his working which worketh in me mightily For I would you knew what Great Agony I have For you and for them of Laodicea and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh that their Hearts might be comforted being knit together in Love And when King Agrippa said Thou doest almost perswade me to be a Christian he replyed I would to God not only Thou but All that hear me this day were both almost and altogether such as I am except these bonds And I could wish my self Accursed For my Brethren and my Kinsmen in the flesh And to the Thessalonians he writeth thus Now the Lord make you to increase and abound in Love to one another and to All men even as we do towards you That so he may establish your hearts Vnblameable in Holiness As plainly shewing Their hearts would not be established in Holiness Without Abundant Love to All Men. And To Brotherly Kindness Add Love And when he requireth Prayers For All Men he plainly saith This was Good and Acceptable unto God our Saviour VVho would have All men to be saved and come to the Knowledg of the Truth VVho gave himself a Ransome For All to be Testified in Its Proper Seasons As the Words are For as Peter expresseth it He is not willing that Any should Perish but that All should come to Repentance And account the Long suffering of God to be Salvation As our beloved Brother Paul hath written to you As before Whence was All This Striving and Longing in Paul or Any other for the Salvation of All men but from His Spirit who promised to Draw All men to him and though we do not yet see it done we may Remember who also said we do not yet see All things Put under him which yet must be Nor may we think he offereth Any thing to Men but what he Heartily desireth they should take and enjoy For he bids us not to eat the bread of Him that hath an evill eye Saying Eat and Drink When his Heart is not so And he that hateth Hypocrisie so much in Others Sure will hate it more in himself and He that sweareth he hath no Pleasure in the Death of a Wicked man but that he Turn and Live is very Active also in the use of means to turn him and Reall in it Devising meanes that his Banshed also may not Perish but return to him And as It is Said He doth not afflict from his Heart so when ever he doth afflict or punish his Greatest Enemies As Moab Ammon Edom yet he doth it Weeping So his Heart doth mourn for Moab and his Bowels yearn and are Pained for him And his fugitives shall flee to Zoar As his Father Lot from Sodom And the Heifer of 3 year old may allude to the Covenant made with Lot and Abraham as the Turtle and the Pigeon in Gen 15. 9. As the Lot or Veile in Esay 25 To Gen. 13. 14. And he pitties Edoms Widows and Children As the Daughters of Zelophehad Though their Father Dyed in his Sin And so he Wept over Jerusalem And in Judgment still remembreth Mercy As his Throne is White and yet the World will run away And so we shall All except he stay and Turn us And as the Law requireth that the King even when he sate upon the
that very month in which they came up Thither from Babylon And then he purged the people which was finished on the first day of the 2 d year From Babylon As the Tabernacle was Reared on the first of the 2 d year from Aegypt 1530 Hours of the year came to the Preparation Evening before the Pentecost beginning at Four 1536 As Noahs Ark began in year 1536. And so many years from Egypt come to the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. As is more discussed in The Nâ—w Island Where is most or All or more then All This Book And there can be but 66 more Days To the Great Dâ—om on the 9th or 10â—h of the 5â—h Month. For They assign it to both those days And it might be at Evening between them both 66 days have 1584 Hours and 48 more for the day Before and After make but 1632. So that the Great Dâ—om Cometh in 1632 Hours or Years After the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. Which was certainly before the End of the 34th of Christ Although we do not yet fix his Birth but That it may be 2 or 3 years before the Common Account And we Therefore use to say About such or such a year And by this account The Great Dâ—om will be About the year of Christ 1665 or at most 1666. Which is 1632 years After the Great Pentecost in His 34th or raâ—her 33 d Which is most generally agreed for the year of His Pâ—ssion and the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d. But I rather look for the Feast of Tabernacles Which was As many Hours After the Burning of Both Temples As These were After Pentecost And I suppose the Burning of That City and Temple by the Romans within 40 years After the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d To be the Fiery Tryal or Dooms-day foretold in divers places Ezech. and other Prophets say God would deal Worse with Iâ—rael then with other Nations and our Saviour said the Dâ—om of That City should be Worse then Ever was or should be more Which yet Daniel seems to place At Their Riâ—ing again About the Great Feast of Tabernacles now coming Which will be a Fiery Trâ—al and a Day or Hour of Great and Sore and Quick Temptation As the Jews Tradition is that before their Feast of Tabernacles God doth sit in Judâ—emâ—nt on the Dead of That Year And so the use to Fast as some now to know Who Must Dye that Year by their Shadows or Ghosts as Job and the Psalms Which yet often call for all the World to leap and dance and sing at the Coming of Christ to Judge the World For Loe he Cometh He Cometh to Judge the World And His Throne is White And yet All run away and call to the Mountains to fall and Cover them As I shall do If He be not very Gracious Which I hope he will And the rather because he promiseth to gather All Tongues and Nations to see his Glory and When he Calleth all Nations and Kingdoms to receive his Doom in Zeph 3 d. He Promiseth the Holy Ghost and Fire with a Pure Language but to a Poor People that they may Alâ— serve him with one Consent or Sechem as before Which I wish and beg and long for more then Firing Any Place in all the world And for this Great Feast of Tabernacles we may proceed by Dayes and Hours of the Jewish year As we did before for Pentecost or the Great Doom Which was As many Dayes After Pentecost As Before Tabernacles And We may begin That Great Year At any Great and Noted Time Before or After Egypt But Rather Before For in Egypt They seem to be as the P Lambs Tyed up before the Passover They reckon Amram Born at 65 from Jacobs going Down As Pentecost was 65 t Day of the Year and 65 years more To Aaron Who dyed a little before the Great Doom in the 5 t month or 65 Dayes After Pentecost And about Aarons Birth they place the Cruel Edict of slaying the Male Children 84 years before their Coming out and 84 Hours are just 3 dayes and Half Or the Time between the Day of Tryall and the morning of the Passe-over which was Past before their Coming out As if the Wrath of God did Passe over them To the Aegyptians Before their Coming Thence At the day of the First Fruit Omer and they passed not the bounds of Egypt or the Sea Till about the Last Day of Unleavened Bread Which was 45 Days before Pentecost As 45 years before their setling in Canaan or Calebs Hebron in Josh 14. and 45 is half 90 the 4th of 360 and 90 Hours are just the Noon of the 4th Day And the 4th of Creation was the First of the Sun and Moon the 2 Faithful Witnesses in Heaven as the 89th Psalm From That 45th year After Egypt we may begin Their Pentecosts or from the first Sabattical year in Canaan As many years from Egypt As the Day of Pentecost is Dayes from That on which They came from Egypt And so many years After Enoch As there are Hours in the year To Pentecost or its Preparation Day which began at Hour 1512 and ended at 1536 as before For Enoch was 669 before the Flood which was 292 before Abraham or his Fathers 70 and 75 more To his Call or Coming to Canaan and 430 more To their Coming out of Egypt and 40 more to Canaan so that 6 more make up 1512 the first Hour of the Preparation To the Pentecost And if Abraham were Born After his Fathers 70 There may be as many years from Enoch To their Entering Canaan As there were Hours To the first or last of Pentecost beginning at 1536 and Ending in 1560. And to go forward From the First Pentecost in Canaan To the First Born stopped by Jeroboam were as many years As Hours from the first of Pentec To the Close of the 23 d Day of the 3 d month on which They still Fast for That of Jeroboam 456. Which is also the more remarkable because the Plots of Haman held against the Jews Till That very day of the 3 d month Est 8 9. And From Jeroboam To the Captivity there were as many years as Days in a year or Hours From That 23 d of the 3 d To the 9th of the 4th on which They Fast for the City Taken as in Kings and Jeremy Which was from the first of Pentecost as many Hours As years from the First Pentecost To that Captivity about 860. In the same month They Fast again for Breaking the Tables of the Law 430 years After the Promise and for Burning the Law by Antiochus 430 years from the City Taken and 430 Hours are about 17 Days and their Fast is on the 17th Day of that Month. In the 5 t Month They Fast for Aarons Death which was followed by Arad Taking them Captive and by Fiery Serpents Till the Brazen Serpent Healed Them As Christs Death was followed by the Roman Sack
of the Tabernacle had but Two only Visible and yet a third Included The Spirit in the Blood at the Altar and Water in the Laver as the Piller in the Cloud And the 2 daily Witnesses in the Morning and Evening Sacrifice As the Minha with Perfume at the Altar of Incense With the Loaves of Shewbread and the Lamps As Spirits before the Throne or the Ark and Mercy Seat with the two Cherubins of Glory Like our two eyes in our Face and 2 ears in our Head and the Spirit within the Wheels As in our Heart with 2 Auricles as 2 Loabs of the Lungs and Two yet Lower called Testes or somewhat of Witnesse in divers Languages As putting the Hand under the Thigh in solemn Witnessing As the Great World also hath its several Pairs of Witnesses in Earth and Water Fire and Ayr and yet much Higher and Brighter as the Eyes of Heaven called also the Faithful Witnesses in the Ps the Sun and the Moon Which were as Dead or Hidden Asleep in their Causes as the Schooles speak for 3 dayes and an Half Or Till the Morning of the 4th Day of Creation when they first appeared And at Every New Creation or at bringing up a New Heaven and a New Earth The Witnesses of That Generation may lye hid and be as Dead For 3 Dayes and an Half Till a voyce come from Heaven saying Come up Hither As at first Let there be Lights in Heaven and it was so Darknesse As the First Beast or Dragon Draco Dark and Tenebrae the Dragon of the Evening in Hebrew where also Eeve or Eeph is Darknesse a Beast or Serpent as in english Evet and the Jews tell us that Adams Wife was Lilis First or Night and Then Eeve which is also Night as in english Eeve and Evening Day and Night being as Man and Woman Husband and Wife As the Womb of the Morning in the Bible This Dragon fighteth with the Two Faithful Witnesses the Sun and Moon Which are weekly Hidden 3 dayes and half or 7 nights in a week as at first 3 dayes and half together And when These Witnesses meet with the Crossing Serpent in Heaven or the Ecliptick with its Nodes of Dragons Head and Dragons Tail They be Eclipsed which may hold 3 Hours and Half as at the Passion And the Moons monthly Hidings are about 3 dayes and half as Emblems of the Worlds and Churches Changes and her Absence From the Sun and shinings are about 3 weeks and Half And for 666 in This Beasts Fighting with Those Witnesses we found 6 hours or Great VVatches Turning the Tides as Sun and Moon at the Cardinal Points and making up 666 and its lower Root 25 the First hour that Ever Turned Light into Darkness And as many make the Moons Apogeum 65 or 66 of the Earths Radâ—i So do some make the Suns Radius 65 times Greater then the Earths or his Apogeum Twice 666 as we saw before And all made his daily Motion about a Degree and some made That about 666 Furlongs as Ricciolus from Posidonius in Cleomedes Where also the Moons Periodick Month is 27 dayes and half Which in others is 27 â…“ but in Martiaw Cap. 27 days 16 hours but 2 lesse then 666 which is also very near the Month for Anomaly and Latitude As often For Appearance Though Vncertain And the Suns Monthly Rotation now agreed is from 26 dayes as the Caroline Tables To 29 half and the mean is 27. ¾ Which is just 666 hours As Apelles or Scheinar and Galileus When they found One of the Semicircles to be 13 dayes and 20 hours and an half Which doubled maketh 27 dayes and 17 hours but One lesse then 666. 12 such Months are 333 dayes and 24 666 and 666 Moons about 54 years As 54 Sections of the Law in 669 Little Ones And that the 7 Churches also may shadow out Successive Times as the 7 dayes of the week and 7 months of the Jewish year and 7 years To Release I do the rather believe From the Glanâ—es on Successive Times As Paradise and Tree of Life in the first Church the Flood or Egyptian Death in the 2 d. The VVhite Stone and Manna from Aegypt in the 3 d. And Breaking the 7 Nations by Jâ—suah To the Times of Elijah slaying the Prophets of Baal and Jesabel the Type of the Great Whore in the 4th and to the Coming of Christ in the 5th and the New Jerusalem in the 6 t and General Judgement in the very Name of Laodicea With All things New again as the 3 last Chap. of that Blessed Revelation which doth Blessits Readers From our Blessed Jesus who received it to Give Or that he might shew it To his Servants Or beginning at Christ or at That Revelation to John The name of Ephesus may hint Declining Times of the Primitive Church As at Adams Fall in Paradise There Named Smyrna may signifie Beaten Myrrh As in the Christian Persecutions and Antichristian Jesabel Till the Morning Star arise before the Sun of Righteousness shadowed in Elijah at Jesabel and so to the coming of Christ and the New Jerusalem The Poets say the Great Io wandring came to Ioppa built before the Flood in Mela with Solinus Thence to Egypt and there had a Son from whom came Belus Father to Egyptus and Danaus with Agenor Who returning to Joppa begat Cadmus Phoenix and Europâ— that played with a white Bull Till he swam away with her to Creet and There she had Minos and other Judges in Hell From whom they bring K. Erithrus and the Lycians As Cilicians from Cilix an other Brother to Cadmus Who being sent to seek his Sister came so near as Greece and there was bid to build a City Where he saw a Beast Lye down and Thence Baeotia with Thebes in Greece and Egypt also from Thebeth Noahs Ark and Beasts And though he killed the Serpent he became a Serpent with his Wife and Children very Miserable One being Mother to Acteon Turned into a Stag and Torn by his own Dogs for seeing Diana Bathing Two others destroying themselves and Children The 4th Burnt by Jupiter Thundring as with Juno But catching his Bacchus from her and Hiding him in the Hollow of his Thigh Their Brother wanders up and down till at length One of his Ravisheth a Child of Pelops who had maintained him But Then Prayed for Vengeance Till Oedipus killeth his own Father and marrieth his own Mother knowing neither Till some secret Characters discover it And then for shame and grief They hide a while till all the Family destroy themselves or one another But a Child comes out at length called Tisamenus Or Revenged And His are glad to leave the Country and to wander To an Iland That had Risen out of the Sea and was called Thera The Beast And thence came Battus As Batten and Batein to Play the Beast with His Cyrenians in the Acts. And our Saviour bids us not Battologise as Battus did This may