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A59383	Olbia, the new i[s]land lately discovered with its religion and rites of worship, laws, customs, and government, characters and language : with education of their children in their sciences, arts and manufactures with other things remarkable / by a Christian pilgrim, driven by tempest from Civita Vecchia, or some other parts about Rome, through the straits, into the Atlantick Ocean ; the first part, from the original.	Sadler, John, 1615-1674.	1660 (1660)	Wing S278; ESTC R9276	335,173	410

he had Blessed him He appeared to Abraham by the Name Elshaddai God Almighty and Abrahams believing but This Power was imputed for Righteousnesse But afterwards by the Name Jehovah which speaketh his Will also And I will be what I will be or what I can be As the Words are and not as some read them I am what I am which the lowest Creature may be said to be And at the Close of the Baptists Testimony of Christ in the third of John This is made the very Ground work of our Faith and Hope in Christ and coming to him because the Father hath loved him and given All things into his hand And so doth himself also make it several times in That very Gospel For the Father Loveth the Son and sheweth him all he doth and will shew him greater things then these that you may Marvel For as the Father quickens the dead even so the Son quickeneth whom he will For the Father judgeth no man but hath commited all judgement to the Son that all men should Honour the Son even as they Honour the Father For as the Father hath Life in himself so hath he given the Son also to have Life in himself and hath given him Authority to execute Judgement also because he is the Son of Man And again the Hour is come that the Son of Man should be Glorisied But as a Corn of Wheat he must first die that so he may be made a quickening Spirit and then he shall bring forth much Fruit for he will not die as a Fool dyeth But will improve his death to the utmost and do as much good as he Can and will Work while he may VVork Least the Night come and then he cannot VVork He will therefore do what is in his Hand and Power to do and will do it with all his Might Remembering him that said withhold not thy hand while it is in thy Power to Work Say not to thy Neighbour goe and come again to Morrow When it is now in thy Power to do him Good And now shall the Prince of this World be cast out And I if I be lifted up from the earth will draw All men unto me and Him that cometh to me will I in no wise I will not I will not cast him off or cast him out But walk while you have the Light least Darknesse come upon you These things he spake and did Hide himself from them But he came and Cryed again He that seeth me seeth him that sent me I am come a Light unto the World and he lighteth every one that cometh into the World that whosoever believeth should not abide in Darknesse If any Man hear my Words and believe not I judge him not for I came not to judge the World but to Save the World and these things I say that you might be Saved And again Jesus knowing that the Father had given All things into his hands and that he was come from God and went to God he riseth from Supper and took a Towel and girded himself and washed his Disciples feet O see his Heart when he hath Power for all this is because the Father had given All things into His Hands And when Judas was gone out immediately after the Sop though St Luke seem to make him present at the Sacrament and one of the twelve of whom or to whom he spake of twelve Thrones and Judging the twelve Tribes of Israel he saith Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him and if God be glorified in him God shall also glorifie him in himself and shall straightway glorifie him And shall not All bow to him and to the Glory of God also And if God be glorified in them God will glorifie them with himself or where is the stress of our Saviors Argument And again It is expedient that I go for else the Comforter will not come and when he comes he shall convince the World of sin For so God loved the World that he sent his Son not to condemn the world or Judg it but to save the world by That which he will give for the Life of the World And again which he shall give unto you for Him hath God the Father sealed And again I have many things to say unto you but you cannot bear them now Howbeit when the Spirit of Truth is come he will guide you into all Truth for he shall glorifie me and shall receive of mine and shew it unto you All things that the Father hath are mine therefore I said that he shall take of mine and shew It unto you And again Father Glorifie thy Son that thy Son also may glorifie Thee a Good Comment on the Lords Prayer for who can first give to God that it may be given or can lend that it may be paid again As thou hast given him Power over All flesh that he should not onely may but should give Eternal Life to as many as thou hast given him And if That be not yet plain enough before in That very chapter he repeats it again saying I pray for them I pray not for the world but for them which thou hast given me For they are Thine And all Mine are Thine and Thine are Mine and I am glorified in them And his saying here I pray not for the world stands as much alone without a Fellow or any like it as most words in all the Bible And how can we build any great matter of Faith upon That which hath not two or three Witnesses to confirm it Yet if it were said I Will not pray for the world Is it more or more obliging or concluding than That in Hosea Call her Lo-ruhamah I will no more have mercy upon the House of Israel and I will not have mercy on her children and I will not be their God And yet he did turn again and had pity on them because he delighted in Mercy and where it was said You are not my People There it shall be said You are the Sons of the Living God So also Thy Name shall be no more called Jaacob but Israel And yet God himself often called him Jaacob after This. So also I will have Mercy and not Sacrifice And I did not command your Fathers or speak to them concerning Sacrifice And in the same Prophet They shall teach no more saying Know the Lord. And You murmur not against us but God And they have not rejected Thee but Me. As in the Gospel I came not to Judg the world nor will I Judg you And again I do not or I will not call you Servants And You shall ask me Nothing And when thou makest a Feast Thou shalt not invite thy Friends In all which and divers other places sure we do not believe any absolute Negative but Comparative Or at least not so definitive but such as may be reversed And why should that saying I will not Pray for the world if he had said so oblige Christ

or asleep in their Causes as the Schools express And This being First in the Kind is Measure to All that follow Both in Weeks which have 3 and an Half or 7 Halves of Light in Dayes and as much Darkness in their Nights and in Months the Moon or the Earth may be Eclipsed 3 Hours and an Half or be Hidden in the Rayes of the Sun 3 Dayes and an Half Which Changes of the Moon may represent the Changes of the World also And at every New Creation the Witnesses to be Hidden as Dead for 3 Days and an Half or about the 10th part of the Time of That Month or Age or World and Then Rise with such an Earthquake as we read in Psalm 104 and Rev. 11. 13. and Then the voyce from Heaven Come up Hither is but as the Word at first Creation Let there be Lights in the Firmament As Witnesses c. And the New Moons or Changes were solemn Moeds as appointed by the Sanedrin and not under 2 or 3 Witnesses deposing that they had seen the New Moon Who were therefore Feasted and Encouraged to Watch for it as Holy Job may allude in That All my appointed Time I will Wait Till my Change Come If the New Moon were seen before Noon That was the First of the Month but if not till After Noon the Next Day was accounted First by Their Rule who also tell us that at first the Moon was equal to the Sun but in contest God made her blush and hide her face so long that Adam saw her not till the Afternoon of the 6th Day And to bring it neerer yet to the Revelation The Moon Crossing the Ecliptick in the Zodiack that Crooked Serpent meets a Dragon as they call those Nodes of Dragons Head and Tayl ready to Catch the Woman in Travel or her Child by Eclipses in which the Moon or Earth is Darkned So that Darkness may shadow the Dragon or the Beast of the Bottomless pit or that Abyss we read in Gen. 1. the measure of the Rest. This slayeth the Witnesses of Heaven and Earth and bindeth up our Eyes and other Witnesses also both in our Bodies and the Temple or Tabernacle of Witness also Where all the Witnesses were measured by them in Heaven and their Goings and Comings and by 3 and an Half or 7 Halves and 7 as in the Lamps There being no less Number or other made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers but 7 and those that come of 7. and Seven in Heb notes Fulness and Rest and Turning as in Sabbath as in every 7th Hour of the Sun and Moons Motion And 7 Dayes also make the Moons Quarters and 14 Change her whole Face and bring her up to Those at the Poles also Where she is Hidden Half her Monthly Course and so is the Sun Half his Year Returning in the 7th Month As to All the World in One of the Equinoctials And so ln the Temple As in slaying the Lambs and offering all the Witnesses there might be found Daily 3 or 4 Hours So they ceased also 7 Hours from the Morning Sacrifice to the Evening Minha and Then 14 to the next Morning As Their Longest Night was but 7 minutes more than 14 Hours as the Moons Returns and Fulls in somewhat more then 14 Dayes and yet they made or counted Their Night Even to the Day as the English still call it whose Languages Phrases and Idioms are neer akin to the Hebrew as this Discourse sheweth in very many Instances And as 7 is made of 2 Threes and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half So All Their sprinklings of Blood in their Daily Sacrifice were by 7 or 3 and an Half on their Great Altar made with 3 Corners and an Half being Cut to bring it All into Benjamine and their Incense Altar and divers other things by 2 or 3 Cubits and an Half and the 7 Lamps in the Candlestick branched by 3 and an Half on either side And their Musick with 3 sorts of Instruments besides their breath or spirit and 3 kinds of Blasts with Quavering between 2 plain Songs as singing Catches or Chatses or it may be Watches Some of which had Musick to part them as our Waites and others Silence as the Revelation Silence for Half an Hour while the Incense was offering and the People stood without in silent Meditation or Prayer And as 7 is the Lowest Number made of 3 and an Half in whole Numbers so is 14 the next of 3 times 4 and an Half for 3 times 3 and an Half is a Fraction of 10½ As 7 is made of 3 and 4 or 3 times 2 and an Half So is 14 of 3 with 4 and 2. 3 being as the Father of All Numbers and 2 the Mother Great with Child in 4 which is its Square and the First Square as its name and form in Hebrew and the measure to All other squares which may be All Resolved by 4 as Cubes by 8. Here discoursing the Scripture Numbers of 7 and 14 the Author finds them All measured by the Times and Changes made by the Sun upon the Moon or Earth in every 7th Hour 7th Day 7th Month and 7th Year which was also Sabatical as the Seven 7th a Jubilee And the Months so fixed that whether we begin the Year about the Vernal Equinox as the Jewes did after their Coming out of Egipt or at the Autumnal as probably before yet still the 7th Month also will be Holy One of them for the Passover on the 14th Day and the Other for the Tabernacles from the 14th And Both had a solemn Moed of 3 Dayes and an Half for the Witnesses before the Feast As the Paschal Lamb was Tyed up from the 10th to the 14th and so the Daily Lambs were kept and searched and prepared before they might be Offered And Though Sackcloth and Ashes might go off at the Close of the 10th of the 7th Month the Great Day of Attonement yet Their Tradition of Gods Sitting to Judge All Dying That Year made them All as Tyed up in Fasting and Prayer till the Eve of Tabernacles which was As the Resurrection in the Morning Light freeing our Eyes and All the other Witnesses from their Chains of Darkness And he bringeth His Judgment also to Light every Morning Though the wicked will not see it As the Scripture speaketh And the Sun and Moons returns to Them in 14 Hours at Longest Night and in 14 Dayes of the Moon to Them at the Poles and for Changing her own Face and the Earth and Tides may be Measures to all the Great Things in the Temple and other places Done on the 14th Hour or Day or Year in Scripture Where also many Persons or Places as Witnesses lying Dead or as Dead and lost for 3 and an Half or 3 times 2 and an Half or 3 times 4 and an Half whlch is 14. As Abrahams Tenents and Sodom recovered in the 14th Year and Then as lost for 3 Dayes and

lose her two Sons for bondslaves which may be a great Mystery and how he gave a Son to a barren VVoman and then raised him from the Dead and how he Healed the Pottage when Death was in the Pot and fed a great Multitude with a few barly loves and Healed Naaman the Syrian Lepar and struck Gehezy with Leprosie for seeking things of the VVorld in an ill time or season And How his dead bones raised a dead man and many other things we might observe in this great Type of Jesus Christ. But especially His striking his Enemies blind and then bringing them into Samaria and when the King of Israel said shall I smite them my Father shall I smite them He said Noe. Wilt thou smite them whom thou hast taken Prisoners with thy sword and thy bow Set bread and meat before them c. And I have often heard one say he knew not that he ever had a sweeter return from Christ then when once in great anguish he could onely say Now shew thy Kindnesse to thy Poor Enemy Whom thou hast taken Captive with Thy sword and thy bow And the King of Israels Feasting Those Prisoners for he made great provision for them may be more considered hereafter and compared with That of Solomon if thy Enemy hunger feed him and the Lord shall not onely requite but reward thee and this History may be the more considerable because it may perhaps be found the most desperate or most forlorn condition here on earth VVhen a man Degenerates into a judicial blindnesse Except it may yet be worse to come unto a Beastly Spirit and Nature VVhich is when after great and perhaps very long Abusing Light and Love shewed from God and Christ a man doth not only disobey but grieve and quench that good spirit so much and so long that at length it leaves him to degenerate into a blind and seared conscience and a Bruitish Nature till he becomes as a Dog biting and snarling at all about him and returning to his vomit and as the Swine to wallowing in the mire and also Turning and Tearing those that lay good things before him Who now tramples them under his feet and offers despite to the spirit of Grace and accounteth his Saviors blood as unclean and profane This was It perhaps the Psalmist so prayed against not only when he cries against Presumptuous sins but Then also perhaps when he prayeth so earnestly to be kept from the Dog or Dog-like Nature of which he speaketh divers times And This it may be is also in the Revelation under the Notion of Worshiping the Beast and receiving his character where it is also said that All the world should so follow the Beast but those that were written in the Lambs book of Life From the Foundation of the World And I have somtimes inclined to believe that Christ is not only the True Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world but that he Truly loves every man as he loves himself so long as he is a Man But when he degenerates into the Nature and spirit of a Beast and it may be the evil spirits are in the species of Ravening Beasts as good Angels in others and when one so degenerates into the Beastly Nature Then one falls out of Christs Neighborhood Yea and it may perhaps come so far that they may be no more warned lest they Turn and Tear those that cast such precious Pearls before them And in such a forlorn case it may be hard to shew why they should or how they can expect any more favor from Christ than a Beast or why so much And It may be This is That Sin unto Death of which the Apostle speaks when he addeth also that for such He doth not say that one ought to pray But yet he Doth not say One ought not to pray even for such also Which is One of the reasons why I pray for All I ought and All I may pray for When I am crying to an Infinite God for All my Relations and Truly they are very many as I somtimes say to God for I am Related to the whole Creation of God and yet farther than I can express and I know not But I may somtimes pray for some That I am not Tyed in duty or by express Command to pray for But I am still Tyed to Love my Neighbor as my self and so is Christ also I Trust or else I lose one of the sweetest pieces of the whole Bible and himself also brings the Notion of a Neighbor out so large that it may not only include Strangers but Enemies also And when a mans waies please the Lord he will make his Enemies his greatest Enemies to be at peace with him And if an Angel or if God himself forbid a man to pray for such or such a person City Nation or number of men yet This may be but to draw him larger out by shewing the danger of such persons As we see in the Prophet Jeremy and others that never prayed more sweetly than when they were forbidden to pray for such or such and yet they prayed Then most because they saw there was most need And Gods commands never do never will forbid us to Love our Neighbor as our self And that No man may ever despair we found Gods Love of pity and compassion so to reach to Beasts also that his great Command is that They also must be brought to keep the Sabboth and to rest the Rest of God and a good man and Christ is the Best of men must be and will be Merciful to his very Beast also Yea to the Beast of his Enemy and Him that hates him as we see commanded And for Those also that degenerate into the Beastly Nature lest They also should at length despair not to speak how often men are invited in the Prophets and the Revelation to come back again from the Beast and out of Babylon which shews they might return Repent and live we see How graciously God dealt with Nebuchadnezzar Though he so degenerated into a Beast which may be much worse than to be made a Beast at first and so born How Wisdom also crieth unto Scorners and How it is promised She Shall yet cry even unto Scorners may be here again observed out of the Proverbs To be compared with the 48. of Esay sweetly calling inviting and wooing the most obstinate sinners and Treacherous Revolters Yet for my Names sake and again for my Names sake I will resrain For How shall I cut thee off O that thou hadst or wouldst yet hearken For He speaketh in the present Tence I am yet teaching thee c. And how shall I give away the Glory of my Patience and my Goodness Shall I be weary also of well doing and having begun in the spirit of Goodness shall I also end in a fleshly Wrath or Passion God forbid The Psalmist also saith He received Gifts for Rebels also even for Rebels as we saw

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