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
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
CHRIST Under the Law WITH The Times of the Gospel AND Fullness thereof LONDON Printed in the Year 1664. ERRATA Page 30. line 15. for years read months p. 33. l. 19. 24 Aldermen Add In divers Cities as it was long in London p. 3. l. 12. in the 2 d Colume and 24 Aldermen to be left out p. 40. l. 1. for Luminations r. Lâ—â—ations p. 44. l. 16. Colume 2 d for the Red Sea r Reed Sea l. 17 18. for Mimum r. Minium l. 39. for Psalms r. Palms p. 59. l. 9. Col. 2. for 2705 r. 2805 without the Parenthesis p. 62. l. 7. Col. 2. Add And their Longest Night was above 13 Hours As the first Night of Creation was till the 13th Hour p. 69. Parag. 3. That of Cubits in some Copies to be left out or amended by the 2 d Paragraph of the 59th page In the Preface p. 6. l. 25. Col. â— for Tabernacles read Tabernacle The PREFACE and SCOPE THis Discourse was written more large and it may be less confused but the Authors distance from the Press and little time to correct it with so many numbers and other occasions prevailed to contract and croud it out as he could being only for private Friends and such as can excuse both matter and manner The first is to express some little part of the unexpressable Goodness of God and Love of Christ which passeth knowledge and to help shed it abroad into our hearts that it may mould us into love to God and all men Have we not all One Father Hath not One God created us Why do we then deal treacherously every man against his brother by prophaning the Covenant of our Fathers And our Saviour did not only bid them all say Our Father but repeated it and pressed it on the multitude that they had All One Father in Heaven and One Master or Teacher even Christ which is twice repeated in Mat. 23. And as Love was his last and great Command on Earth so his first Complaint out of Heaven was of some that had lost their first Love And may he not complain that we have lost All Love which is not only waxen cold but even Dead and quite put out by Lust or Love of the World and Cares thereof which himself said would Choak the good Seed And what Hope is left or means to recover us but in himself Made under the Law of Love to God and Man also So that it is written in his heart to Love his God and his Neighbour As himself To propagate the Name and Love of God with All his Might and to bring his Children Servants and the Strangers in his Gate to Rest the Rest of God as is required in the fourth Command And seeing he bid it be written as a True Saying of God that He would make All Things New the Author doth believe it though he doth not yet see it And he thought it worth enquiring When That great Change is to come into the minds of Men to mould them into Love of God and One another And finding the Psalm for the Afflicted to tell us that God will appear in his Glory when he buildeth up Zion and when the Peoples are Gathered and the Kingdoms to serve the Lord he searched what the Law or the Prophets say of such a Gathering And he found that Moses Dying Charge on Joshuah with succeeded Kings of Israel which he hopes may come to Christ at length was to gather All Israel and their Strangers also and to Read the Law to them All that they may Hear and Learn and fear the Lord and his Goodness in the Latter Dayes At the end of Seven years in the Solemnity of the year of Release in the Feast of Tabernacles which they call the Feast of In Gathering And although this was acted every 7th year in some measure yet seeing God himself doth sometimes use a Day for a Year or a year for as many years as it hath Dayes he began to consider whether it might not be So in This also that the Sabbatical years of Release might intimate their Release from all their Scatterings and Bondage at the Close of seven Prophetick years or in 2555 years which are seven times 365. And first he found that so many years After the Fall did bring Israel to rest in Canaan and so many more did bring the Christians to reign in Jerusalem and that from their First Scatterings out of Canaan in Jorams time when they were first led Captive so many years came out about 1666 now coming and from following scatterings after Joram so many years are out about 1690 and that Daniels greatest number of 2300 dayes or years is then also finished from the time of his Captivity And for beginning those Prophetick years about the time of Joram there are many reasons besides their first scattering out of Canaan Then For it was a very Great Change of the World or as the Jews express it a New World which they believed to be seven or eight times renewed As the old Tuscans also in Plutarchs Sylla and that every such New World was foreshewn by Great Prodigies in Heaven and Earth yea and Divers times by signal Tydes or Turnings and Parting 's of Waters as the great Clepsydra So at the first Creation and again at the Flood and again at passing the Red-Sea and at entring Canaan When Jordan was divided As again by Elijahs Mantle At His Ascension a little before Joram which was followed by their first Captivity As their Last followed our Saviours Ascension shadowed by Elijahs The Assyrian Empire was Then shaken and broken as Israel by Syria and Judah by the Philistines Arabians and Edom which Then first revolted and broke Jacobs Yoak as was foretold by Isaac and rested not till it forced Ahaz to hire Assyria which destroyed Israel about the time of Romulus who might be shadowed by Rummili or Remaliah that in the mask or vizor of Religion Ravished 683 Virgins or 783 as it was 683 years before the Romans first Ravished the Virgin of Zion and 783 before they crucified Christ From that time the Prophets began to threaten Edom by which the Jews say they meant Rome as in that Map of Hell in Isa 34. directed against Edom and the Raemim or Romim v. 7. And as Judahs breach and cutting off might be Typed by Athaliahs cutting off the Royal Seed as Joram had cut off his brethren so might those seven Great years of Scattering and Return be Typed in the seven years of Famine and Wandring of the Widow who then Returned and found the K. talking with Gehazi freed it seems from his Leprosy And by the seven years of Joash Hiding and then coming up and repairing the Temple and by many other seven years which are here touched In this search of Times it is found that 1260 or 1290 and 1335 which are the Great Numbers in Dan. and the Revel may be Years and Dayes and Hours of Jewish years As from the
360 Hours and before 366 the midnight of their 16th day when it was to be Heaved up After 365 Hours As Enoch was After he had lived 365 years as dayes of a year and begat his Son at 65 as dayes to Pentecost and the next came at 187 as dayes of their year To Atonement and between the Equinoctials as before And from Enochs Translation the following thing◠〈◊〉 the Bible may be found in Consâ—â—… to the dayes hours of the Jewish year and Sections of the Pentateuch which are 669 as the years between Enoch and the Flood were 669. The Ark was begun at Noahs 480 as the Temple at 480 from Egypt and the Great Day of Unleavened Bread began at Hour 480 but of the World 1536 and Hour 1536 began the Pentecost which they say continued through the 70th day Which began at Hour 1656 as the Flood in the year 1656 And its first 40 dayes Rain may be Types of the first 40 years of the second Ark in the Wilderness before it came to rest at Shiloh in as many years after the first Ark began as there are Hours in 40 Dayes which are 960. And the first Pentecost in Canaan was as many years after Enoch as there were Hours in the Jewish year to Pentecost or its Preparation And from the first Pentecost in Canaan To the Times of Jeroboam and the Caldean Sack or Desolation by Antiochus or by the Romans and divers others were as many Years as Hours between the Pentecost and Dayes on which those Desolations happened And if we may not guess at things to come by what is past in all the World and Works of God in all ages yet we may say that 1666 After Christ is as many years After their first Pentecost in Canaan or first coming to it as there were Hours from Pentecost to the feast of Tabernacles that is 3120 for they entered Canaan 1455 years before Christ and 1665 more do make 3120 as Hours in 130 dayes from Pentecost to the feast of Tabernacles Or if any please to reckon from some latter Pentecost As That in Acts 2. we may find it As many years from Egypt and their coming thence as there were Hours in the Jewish year to Pentecost or its Preparation And 1666 will be as many years After that Pentecost in Acts 2. as there were Hours from Pentecost to their Great Dooms day against their Entring into Rest and of Burning both Temples on the 9th or 10th of the 5th Mon. But the Author rather thinketh that already past and fulfilled in the Roman Sack of Jerusalem and Burning the last Temple which was as many years After their first Pentecost in Canaan as That Day is Hours from the first Hour of Pentecost and as many years before these times of Christ as there are Hours from their Dooms day To the Feast of Tabernacles which can be but 1600 After 69 of Christ And the Revelations shew the Feast of Tabernacles or Gods Tabernacle with men After the great Harvest and Vintage also which ran out from the City Sacked or Troden in That Vintage 1600 Furlongs as Apoc. 14. And although Furlongs may seem to represent Months or other times as well as Years as there are much about 1600 Months in the Jewish Wars till Adrian raced the City yet they are most proper for years of which there are many instances As Cubits are most proper for Dayes of 24 Hours as They had 24 Digits So the Cubits of the Ark do make the very years of the Ark Driven by the Flood out of the Dragons mouth from 1250 to 1335. As the years between the first and the second Ark at Zion and Davids New Jerusalem with the first Temple Or from Jacobs Service Josephs Bonds or Israels Bondage unto Nehemiahs New Jerusalem Or from Egypt and the Golden Calf and Tabernacle To the Great Dedication in the Maccabees Or from That Desolation by Antiochus To the Christians Reigning in Jerusalem Or from Julian in Jerusalem and from Romes Deadly Wound or Sack till about 1666 now coming Yet as Prophetick dayes may be years so may Cubits also in lesser bodies as the Tabernacle Where the open Court was a hundred Cubits and the Tabernacle closed 3000 which are but 20 less then the Hours between Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles As if the very Cubits of the Tabernacle might denote the years from It Flitting in the Wilderness to the Feast of Tabernacles coming And as the Arks Cubits might note the Churches years driven by the Flood and filled with Beasts rather than men and Trodden by them so the very Cubits of the Beasts skins about the Tabernacles might denote how long those Beasts should press the Church or hold it in Or how long it should be under Veils and Coverings Seeing God himself did after use the Ram and Goat whose Skins and Hair did cover the Tabernacle for Emblems of some of those Monarchies which were all shewed to Abraham and even named in the four Kings he conquered before he met Melchizedeck a Type of Christ at his second coming and in his great Vision when he saw the Time of their coming out of Egypt and those four Monarchies with all the kinds of Birds and Beasts appointed for sacrifice And the Cubits in the Temple and its Courts may represent the years to Christ and other great Periods of Time in the Bible As is here at large discussed And for fixing Times Abrahams birth which hath so divided all Cronologers between his Fathers 70 years and 130 is by these accounts fixed 2000 years before Châ—â—â—â— As 2000 Cubits in the Tabernacle before the most holy Place and 2000 Cubits between the Camp and the Ark and 2000 Cubits in their Sabbath dayes Journey and 2000 Cubits in the Suburbs of their holy Cities And Those 2000 years are parted by 75 before his Call or coming into Canaan as 75 Sons and Nephews of Noah 75 Souls of Jacobs going into Egypt 75 Ancestours of Christ in Luke 75 Dayes from the City Sackt to the Day of Dedication of the second Temple and of Nehemiahs Jerusalem and from the Day of Atonement To the Dedication by the Maccabees and from the Fast for the first Captivity in the 9th Month to the Feast of Purim and 75 Cubits from the Outer Gate to the holy Courts about the Temple And 75 is the Difference between 1260 and 1335 in Daniel and the Revelation And 430 years from Abrahams Entring into Canaan and their Going out of Egypt and receiving the Law Which was 1495 years before our Saviour As the very Number of the Hebrew Alphabet by which God wrote the Law is just 1495 and so parted as the years from Egypt By 9 Unites making 45 As years to the Ark at Shiloh and 9 Decimals making 450 As years to the Ark at Zion 45 years before the Temple finished which was 1000 years before our Saviour As their Centenaries K R S T or Christ do make 1000 or at most 1005. As
Solomons Songs were 1005 and his Parables 3000 as many make the years of the World to his Temple finished And many that differ in That agree in This that they came out of Egypt 1495 full years before Christ born So that his first year was as many years from Egypt as there came men from Babylon To Jerusalem with Ezra just 1496 as they are numbred in Ezra 8. Or in a round number 1500 As the Spices in the Holy Oyl a Mighty Type of Christ were just 1500 Shekels And Shekles also may shadow Years in divers Scriptures here cited And by these accounts Nimrods Babel may be 666 years before the Golden Calf or Image of the Beast as in the Psalm at coming out of Egypt which was 666 years before Jerusalem was sacked by Joash and twice 666 before the Desolation by Antiochus and so 1335 years as in Daniel before the Temple cleansed by the Maccabees which was 1260 years before the Christians reigned in Jerusalem about 1100 of Christ which was 2555 or 7 Prophetick years from the Jews entring Canaan which was 1455 before our Saviour and by Codoman with those that follow him 2555 years After the Fall which others make 2555 before Canaans Partition Which they entered on the 10th of the 1st Month for the Paschal Lambs whose noon was Hour 234 as it was 234 years after Jacobs Death in Egypt and the number of Jericho to which they passed is 234 As Ramases is just 430 As they came thence at 430 years from the Promise and Succoth that is Tabernacles just 480 As the Tabernacle was 480 years before the Temple and their third station Etham may be the number of years from the Temple finished to Christ which were very few more then 1000. And Etham in Hebrew Letters maketh but 1001. And from Etham where they saw the Glory of God in the Cloud Pillar an emblem of Christ they turned back into Egypt and were carried through the Red-Sea and the Wilderness as Types of all the Sufferings of Christ and his Members And many other instances of Time couched in Hebrew Leters may perswade us that it was more than chance that made so many Harmonies and wrote the Law with an Alphabet that makes as many Unites which both Jews and Christians all agree as there were years from the Law so written to Christ With such consort of the Dayes and Hours of their year As Genesis hath 12 Sections as their year had 12 Months and 50 Chapters as 12 Moons have 50 Weeks and their 50 dayes between the Passover and Pentecost and 1534 Verses as Hours of their year To the Evening Sacrifice before the Pentecost or years of the World before Noahs Ark which is measured Here by its Cubits As also the Tabernacle and the first and second Temple And so may Ezekiels also in consort to the Jewish year and Times of the Bible to be measured by it And as the Holy Garments Veils and Curtains were woven with six Threds of Silk or Linnen called Shesh which is 6 with a Thred of Gold as the Sun with the other six Metals or the Sunday with other six dayes of the week so was all Ezekiels measured by a Reed of six Cubits and a Palm at least which may lead us to the Morning of the Sabbath or 7th day of the Week if we reckon Dayes by Cubits And the Outer Court had seven steps as the Week had seven Dayes but the Inward Court had 8 steps and the Christian Sabbath was their 8th day The Gates or Doors were 10 Cubits broad and 13 Cubits high Their shortest Dayes and Nights were 10 Hours long their longer 13 or 14 and there were 13 dayes of their year before the Passover but the Paschal Lambs were separated on the 10th day And at the 10th year their Children came under the Law for some things and others at 13 which is signal among the Eastern Nations for Ishmaels Circumcision at that age The Gate-houses 25 Cubits broad and 50 long The Levites entred at 25 and served till 50 years old Being for the First-born As the first fruits had 50 Dayes between the Passover and the Pentecost and so the breadth of the Ark was 50 Cubits As the Suburbs of the Sanctuary and divers other things in Ezekiel The Porch and holy Places as in Solomons Temple All the House with its Walls 100 Cubites As each of the Courts And so was the Court of the Tabernacle But in Ezekiel three times repeated as the Length of Noahs Ark was 300 Cubits and its Height was 30 Cubits as the Length of the Tabernacle and the Height of the Temple As their Months had 30 dayes And if Ezekiels Reed do represent a Week 25000 in the length of its holy Portion make about 480 years As between the Tabernacle Raised and the Temple or at most 490 As in Daniels Weeks Of which more in another place With Paralels between the Kings of the North and South till Rome devoured all and so became the King that should exalt and magnifie himself above every god as Dan. 11. 36. But towards the end the King of the South or Saracen shall push at him and the King of the North or Turk shall come against him as a Whirwind and shall overflow and shall enter the glorious Land of Israel and shall conquer many Countries in Asia and Africa but shall not prevail against the Children of Lot or of Edom where the Turk is glad to Guard his Caravans and pay some kind of Homage or Tribute to those Little Great Arabians But the East or Persia with the North or Tartary with the Muscovites or other Northern Princes shall Trouble him sore and though he shall come out with a great Army and with greater Fury then before yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him And his Palace is placed between the Seas rightly called The Port and between the Holy Mountains which all Ages placed in Thrace or some Northern parts of Macedonia But the Bible in the Holy Land Which was to be conquered by Saracens and Turks or Ishmael as the Jews still call them And we do not only read of Ishmael mocking Isaac till he was driven out to Those Arabian Deserts where the Saracens arose but the Prophet Jeremy shews us a Map of this in Ishmaels cutting off the Remnant of Israel in the 7th Month and in that very season when those Ishmaelites did take Jerusalem upon the 2 d or 3 d day of the 7th Month on which the Jews still fast for Ishmaels slaying Gedaliah c. as Jerem 41. But Ishmael also was chased away as before by Johanan the Grace of God which at length shall be the Great Conqueror As it is written In thy Maesty Ride on Prosperously because of Truth and Meekness of Righteousness For Mercy and Truth preserve the King and his Throne is especially Kept up by Mercy Psal 45. 5. Prov. 20. 28. THat God Loved Adam so that he could not
2300 years And from Jehojackims Captivity Till about 1680 of Christ As from the Chaldean Sack To 1691 or there about 2300 years And to clear our way by Daies and Howers of the Jewish year Pliny saith The First consent of Nations was in Letters and the 3 d in Hours Which are first in Daniel at Bab. Whence the Grecians had the Pole and Gnomon with 12 parts of the Day in Herodotus And of Hours the Magi speak to Seleucus Founding Seleucia in Appian And Semiramis Column was of 24 to above 144. As Hours of a Day and a week Lâ—â—edaemon had a Sun-Dyall from Thales or one of His Scholers as old as Cyrus And Plato speaks of Dayly Prayer in a Temple for about the 3 d part of an Hour And Homers Works were parted in Pisistratus by 24. As Hours of the Day and Letters of the Alphabet Which made the Famous Charm in Zonâ—ras that cost so many lives As Names had such or such Letters Time was first parted they say about Phoroneus whom they call the First Man Whence the Forum Pharos and perhaps the name of Pharoh came His Neece or Sister â—… was the Great Isis or Isa Woman Wife and Sara Great in Aegypt much about the time of Isis Gathering up the 24 pieces of Osyris the Sun and Moon with 24 Hours From Hâ—oâ— the Light Or their Horus Son to Osyris or Mizraim the Son of Ham or Hammon and the 12th from Adam As was Chush in Susiana and Javan in Jonia Whence 12 Ancient Gods as Agamemnons Sacrifice 12 Signs 12 months 12 Digits of Sun and Moon with 12 Hours of Day and Night As Egypt had them parted by the Urine of their Cynocephalus or other Living Hour-Glass So the Jews Chaldeans Grecians Romans All Nations Julians Hymns speak As if Plato learned Numbers From Heaven Which a Great Man expounds by the Moons moving 12 Degrees a Day But if her Hourly Motion be Equal to her Diameter or Seldom less then 47 to 48 As Albategnus Then As Day and Night by the Sun Moving 2 Diameters So Hours are made by the Moon moving 24 of Hers To 2 of the Suns And This became the Common Proportion to the Sun and Moon of Metalls Gold and Silver And if Ptolomies Lansbergius Observations be True the Suns Diameter is 24 times Bigger then the Earths Or else the Square of This is 24 times in the Great Circles Area So that Hours may come From Those Proportions of the Sun or Earth About the Sun As Job saith God Sealed up the Sun that it cannot Rise and Turneth the Earth about And yet the Sun may have especial Times of Standing still or Solstice As in Josuah Or of Turning at the Tropick in Hezekiah So the Tropicks are about 24 Degrees from the Aequator As the Polar Circles From the Pole And the Winds in Vitruvius 24. As in Mâ—nilius 12. And Aristotle names Eleven But in Charlemagn They were almost Thrice as many The Ancients Moulded All by 12 or 24. The Great Amphiction Counsel of 12 Counties with double Votes or 24 As Aeschines The Eleutherolacones 24 Towns As the Jonians 12 in Greece and 12 in Asia So the Achaeans 12 Cities and 24 persons in their Councel at Highest When Dieus pressed 24 might be delivered up They quitted place and fled to the Romans Who had 12 and 24 in Vulturs Augurs Fasces Flamens Tables of their Laws and other things from the 12 Tribes of the Old Tuscans or Grecians akin to the Jews in Machabes with 12 Gods Trying Mars As 12 Men Orestes and Others in Areopagus And 12 Labours of Hercules As the Sun in 12 Signes and 12 Hours Rome was Built 24 years After the First Olymp. and had 24 Gates 24 Parishes 24 Cardinals 24 Articles And How they parted their Aes and Estats As their Dayes by 12 is observed by Galen in a Place worth Reading Brittain had 24 Flamens with their Watchers and as many Bishops by 12 and 12. As in the Popes Letters to Austine And the Laws permitted Mariage and required Oaths of Fealty at 12 years age with Juries of 12. and 24 Aldermen Moses saith God Parted out the Heavens to the Nations and They parted them by 12 or 24. And again When he Parted the Sons of Adam he set their Bâ—unds As the Sons of Israel which were 12. As 12 Light Hours After 12 Dark As the Elder Brothers For Time began with Evening before Morning As in Divers Nations And is counted by Nights As Sevenights and Fortnights with English who are Hebrews Calling Night Even to the Day As First it was and so is still about the Equator Their Span had 12 Digits and the Cubit 24. As 240 Gress or 400 Cubits made the Furlong and 24 Furlongs an Hours way they called â—ech Whence our League or Leash of 3 Miles Esay saith God Spanned out the Heavens which were parted by 12 As Their Span. And David Saith Thou hast made my Dayes as a Palm or Tap of 24. as Barley Corns which being soonest ripe was Measure to their Measures An Heb word akin to That they use for Thoughts and Hayrs As the English say a Thought more or lesse and To an Hayr or Hayrs bredth and Cutting Hayr is as old as Hours in Pliny And from Barly Corns To Digits and Inches 12 Inches a Foot As 24 the Rule or Regle Foot in Heb 24 Foot the Perch as Stafford and 24 of Hen. 8. in the Exchequer 24 Blancks a Perit 20 Perits a Droit 24 Droits a Mite and 20 Mites a Grain 24 Grains a Penny and 20 Pennies an Ounce of 24 Scruples and 12 Ounces a Pound But the Hebrew Pound 1200 Gerahs 120 Drams of 60 grains or 60 Sheckles Whence the English Skales 6 Obbols made the Attick 12 the Heb Dram and 24 their Shekle and their Selang as the English Shilling or 12 d. and 24 Aldermen 3000 Shekels made the Talent which was still 6000 Drams But Double to the Grecian So that an Attick Talent of Gold as the Sun to the Jewish Moon of 360 l. As Days in their year And if Paul of Times at Areopagus do allude to That of Moses Then are Times also parted as the Sons of Israel by 12. Jacobs hand on Esau's heel in Ezdras the beginning of a New World As One of the 12 the Jewes record for Doubling the Old as they speak He was from Noah the 12th and Born 12 years after the Death of Arphaxad the 12th from Adam As we saw Chush Mizraim and Javan And as Eber or Ever had Jerâ—ah the Moon with 12 Brethren as 12 Months or 12 Hours of Night in Hazar Maveth So Jacob 12 Sons of Light as Ishmael 12 of Darkness And at all Great Changes of the World we see a signal 12. or 24. As Sodoms 12 years Bondage as hours of Darkness Before the Light with Ab. Who had the Seal and Promise of Isaak at 24 Or 99 from 75. His Eldest Nephews Ishmaels 12 As Esaus before Jacobs
From Aegypt 12 Tribes 12 Fountains 12 Stones in Jordan 12 more at Gilgali and at Eball God Appointed 12 Princes and Then 12 Parâ—ers to Divide the Land And who made me a Judge or a Divider David was the 12th from Jacob and the 24th from Noah Then a Giant had 24 Digits And his Last Battle with Abner Father of Light destroyed 12 on either side with 360 for Dayes and Hours also To make a New World at His New Jerusalem And Time Passed away Vpon Him and All Kingdoms As 1 Cron. 29 30 As Time Passeth away at the 7th Trumpet before the New Jerusalem And for Watches of 3 Hours Samuel spake to Saul of 3 Dayes 3 Men 3 Kids and 3 Loaves David had 3 Brethren with Saul who had 3 Sons Slain together hid himself 3 Dayes and then bowed 3 times to Jonathan and had 3 Sons of Serviah with 3 other Worthies 3 years of Famine and 3 Dayes of Pestilence which he Chose before 3 Months War or 3 years Dearth Absalon was banished 3 years and had 3 Sons and 3 Darts in his Heart Elijah Stretched on the Child 3 times and bid them pour water thrice on his Altar Which had 12 Stones and 12 Barrels of Water And Elisha ploughed with 12 Yoak of Oxen and himself with the 12th Ezra from Ahava the 12th Day with 12 Priests and 12 Levites offering 12 Bullocks and 12 Goats at Jerusalem Nehemiah's Time had 12 Elders and 12 Levites keeping Watches in Reading Singing Praising and Praying Whence haply Watching to Pray And comparing him with Zech. we may find 12 Gates in his New Jerusalem on the 24th of the 6th Month As His Covenant on the 24th of the 7th As Daniels Great Vision was the 24th of the first Zechs the 24th of the 10 h Haggies the 24th of the 6 t and 24th of the 9th From this Day I will Bless you As the 2 d Temple was Founded on the 24th and afterwards clensed on the 25th of the 9th in Hagâ—y and Machabes Our Saviour wiâ—h the Doctors at 12 years had 12 Disciples 12 Baskets and 7 Loaves for 7 Dayes and 12 Hours and healed an issue of 12 and Raised one of 12 years Which may allude To the 12 hours of Darkness As the 12 years of Sodoms Bondage which may be Types of 12 Prophetick years before His Coming To fulfill That of Ab. and Melchizedeck Blessing him by the Most High God Possessor of Earth as of Heaven before As our Saviour when he exulted in Spirit and the 24 Elders or Presidents of All the 24 Hours At the Trumpet of the 7th Month in Rev. 11. For Every month began with Trumpets But the Feast of Trumpets did begin the 7th For Atonement Release and Tabernacles The Jews Holy things in 12 and 24. The Common Title of their Bibles is The 24. And the First hath 12 Great Sections As the last 12 Little Prophets And the Priests had 24 things from God and offered 24 or 12 Cakes in 24 halves Dayly And the Shew-bread was in 12 of 24 Omers As 24 Leviticus 12 Holy Garments had 12 Pretious Stones in Ouches Kâ—hath 24 Cities Or Levi Twice 24. As the Little Sections of Genesis The Temple Courts 24 Cubits high and either walk had 24 Pillers of 12 Cubits round As the Brazen Sea had 12 Oxen and Both Temples As Ezekiels 12 Little Chambers on either side As Day and Night had 12 hours apiece Their Last Altar 24 Cubits As they took Ezech 43 of 12 and 12. Though some of 12 by 12 or 144 As the Walls of the New Jerusalem With 12 Gates 12 Pearls 12 Fruits The Woman in the Sun with the Moon and 12 Stars As Josephs Dream of Sun and Moon and 12 Stars All the Standers or their Representatives As the Priests and Levits with Nethinims Singers Porters or Watchers at 24 places in 24 Courses by David from Noah the 24th The Camp and Levits Under 4 Standards as the 4 Watches And our Saviour walked on the Sea at the 4th Watch. As the Roman Times had 4 Watches both of Day and Night in Censorinus First about Camillus Time we find their Hours in Livy Watches in their Ancient Laws and Histories As Scipio came to Trebia the 4th Watch. Hanibal for Tarentum at the 4th Watch. Antiochus fled To Sardis by Midnight and to Apamea by the 4th Watch. Crassus jested at Dejotarus Building in the 4th Watch or 11th Hour of his Life The Little Watches had but 3 Hours a piece Though some contend for 4 and a Middle Watch in Judges As our Saviours Twelve Hours parted at the 3 d and 6 t and 9th And so the Watchers which is Daniels word Cryed Holy Holy Holy Thrice As 3 Hours in a Watch. But Antient Copies have it 9 times the square of 3 and both were Sacred to Others also For their 3 Graces and 9 Muses And as 1 and 2 make 3 and 3 more 6 or twice 3 So the Sum of These 3 differs from the next 3 by 9. and the 3 d 3 maketh 24. As the 3 d from it 42 which is 24 Turned 24 and 42 make 66. As the 7th 3 60. and the 8th 69. For the Summes differ All by 9. And They are Up and down or forward and backward the Same figures 0. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. As in this Table 1. 2. 3. = 06. 4. 5. 6. = 15. 7. 8. 9. = 24. 10. 11. 12. = 33. 13. 14. 15. = 42. 16. 17. 18. = 51. 19. 20. 21. = 60. And supposing Numbers to be Lines As there are but 4 Simple Chords as 4 Watches So but 8 Simple Arks As the parts of Day and Night are Arks in Heaven And as 4 is the First of All Sonares as its Name in Heb. So is 8 of Cubes which may All be Resolved by 8 As Sonares by 4. And as 4 and 8 make 12 which is 3 times 4 So 3 times 8 make 24 As Hours in All the Watches Arks of Heaven Which are All easily parted by 3 which is to Slice in Hebr. As Each Ark is made of 3 differing lesser Arks or Sides of a Triangle Which may also be represented by 3 Points As a Chord by 2. And if we find the Proper sound of All these Characters and give them Proper Names We may express All Persons Things and Motions with their Moods and Times In an Easy way of Speaking and Writing With an Alphabet of Natures plainest Characters As Points for Spirits and Vowels Chords for the 4 Liquids and Simple Bodies As Archs for Mixt or Mâ—â—es which may be made Aspirate Or Animate by a Point or Spirit in them and of Things also To be Known by Characters expressed by Proper Sounds But to the Jewish Watches As the Less had 3 Hours apiece so the Greater 6. and so the Greatest Harmonies are made by Halves and Quarters to their Wholes As Eights and Fifts and Thirds in Musick And As Day or Night had 4 of 3 a piece So Both together 4 of 6 apiece
Days of the Week for 2 years together and the Mean Synods and Luminations Which are Equall and may differ from the Visible by 14 Hours or as much as the Longest Day at Jerusalem The Great Sun Dyall To the World And for Eclipses also The Moons Latitude is much alike in 4 years and the Suns Anomaly returns in 4 years And 4 Julian years have just 1461 Days As the Great Egyptian Soth had 1461 years But if any choose another way of Epact The Arabick Lunar year is just 10 dayes and 21 hours less then the Solar of 365 dayes 5 hours and 48 minutes But the Common Julian Greater then 12 Moons by 10 dayes 10 hours 10 halfs and 10 minutes And the Lunar month about a day and half half hour and quarter more then a month of 4 Weeks And though the Lunar year is thus too long by 10 or 12 minutes yet it suits the Julian which is so much also too long So that the Equinox is changed from Evening to Morning in 65 years Which may be one of many reasons for the 65 days of the year in Canaan which Ptolomy placeth at 65 degrees of Longitude And a Great man did make the Suns Radius 64 or 65 times bigger then the Earths And many make the Moons Greatest or Mercuries Least distance to be 65 of the Earths Radij And the Suns Mean Distance 1288 and Greatest 1334 or 1335. As Longomâ—nt Which is but 2 more then twice 666 or 1332. or half 65 more then 20 times 65. And before the Flood 2 were born at 65 Good Enochs Father and Son One After it Eber at Arphaxads 65th Twice 65 is 130. and 130 Hours of Creation brought up Adam As 130 years Seth Set in Abels room As Tabernacles After Pentecost 130 days And in 130 years the Equinox changeth an whole day As 12 Howers in 65 years Seth at 130 and Enos in 235 which make 365 and Then they began to Proclaim the Nune of Jehovah as in Exod. 34. in a way of Churches And the Paschall Lambs to represent the Ch were set apart and Tryed on the 10th Day of the First month Whose Noon is Hour 234 235. And 235 Moons do make the common Cycle which they call the Golden Number of 19 years or Moons 235. Which bring the Synod To the Same Day again But He that useth the former Rule hath little want of other Cycles Enos at 235 and his Sonn at 325 which is 235 Turned and as 235 Hours Tyed up the P. Lambs So 325 came to the morning Sacrifice of the Passover So that These 2 represent the mourning Ch. of God which is still counted but as Sheep for slaughter As the name of Kainan may intimate As Kain and his Son Irad the Beast or Kine in our English Hebrew Kainan Mourning Mahalael Blessing God At his Fathers 70. Type of all the 70 through the Bible As 70 Hours To the Great Minha of the 3 d Day Which beginneth with the Jubilie of 49 Hours 7 by 7 Return and Rest Which are both in the Word Sabbath And the first 3 d day of Creation brought up the first Living things as Herbs Thy Dew is the Dew of Herbs and the Earth shall cast out her Dead and Thence it might be the day of Resurrection As for cleansing the Leper on the 3 d and 7th and Defiled by the Dead For After 2 dayes he will revive us and the 3 d will quicken us And the First Fruit Omer was Heaved up on the 3 d Day after the Pass-over As Christ Raised on the 3 d day and its Evening Sacrifice at 70 hours As Mahalael 70 years after Kainan One of them was Born 1260 years the other 1332 before the Flood One dyed in the year 1235 and the other 1290. the Times of the Mourning and Rejoycing Churches of God in all ages The First Fruit Omer on the 6th Day After the P. Lambs Tyed As Adam came up on the 6th Day of Creation And the Morning Sacrifice of the 6th Day was at Hour 135 As the Evening of the 8th For Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath was at Hour 187. And from Pentecost To the Great Hozanna Days 135. As 187 in all To the Great Atonement And 187 between the Vernall and Autumnall Equinox in Hipparchus and Ptolomy As 187 in the Great Feast of Asuerus in Ester and 187 Chapters in the Pentateuck And the Temple Courts 187 Cubits and 135. Mahalaels name in Heb is 136. and his Son Jared was born 135 and lived 187 After Kainan And as 70 Hâ—urs are signall in the 3 d Day and 70 Days in the 3 d month for Pent so 90 Hours for noon of the 4th Day which was first to the Sun at Creation and 90 days bring up the 4â—h month and 90 years brought up the 4th man Kainan At his Fathers 90. So the 8th Methusela begat Lamech at 187 and Lamech Noah at 182. which is twice 91. As 182 and 187 Hours are Morning and Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day for Rest or Noah Kainans Death from Lamechs Birth 361 as his Birth before Methusela 362 and twice 365 before Noah 365 before Jareds End And as Lamech lived 777 So Kainan was twice 666 before the Flood 669 After Enochs 365. As Mahalaels Death before the Flood 365. And so from the Flood or Arphaxads Birth To Abraham in Canaan 365. As the Jews reckon their Veines and Negative Precepts As Days in a year and Hours before the morning of the First Fruit Omer Which was 135 Hours after the day of Tryall Which began 1335 Hours before the Morning Sacrifice of Pentecost 1260 Hours after the Preparation to the â—assover or First of Hamans Lots And at Pentecost the Lambs and Great Peace-Offerings of the Church were Heaved up with the First Fruits of Wheat an Emblem of the Churches Rising in so many dayes or years As in Daniel and the Revelation And now seeing all these Harmonies to meet in Holy Enoch who was Heaved up as the First Fruit Omer After as many years as Hours To its Morning or Days in a year and begetting his Son at 65 as days to Pent and many other 65 in the Jewish year And the next came up at 187 as Days before Atonement and between the Vernall and Autumnalâ— Equinox We need not doubt to begin our Great Jewish year at Enoch and to go forward To all the Feasts and Fasts of their year Till at length we come To the Greatest Feast of Tabernacles and Release which we are seeking Though it be not easie to fix the season of Creation which is not agreed in the Talmud but some place it At the Great Day of the 2 d Temple and the New Jerusalem in the latter end of the 6th month And they have a kinde of Tradition as if Adam found his First Days shortning and the Sun Declining As the Psalm for one afflicted cryeth Thou hast shortned my Days and I am like a shadow that Declineth As Adam At his Fall Which
many place about the Great Fast of Expiation As if the Fall of the Leaf in Autumn were an annuall Emblem of Adams Fall and eating of the Tree from which the Leaves Then fall and the Floods Rising at that season were as Natures Weeping over the Fall or washing us with Tears As our Blushing at the sence of Guilt may seem the voyce of Nature washing us with Blood or crying Somewhat Now is Done that must be washt with Blood and without it Nâ— Remission The Flood was At the season of the Sun in Aquarius Then about the Winter Solstice just at Methuselas Death As his Name in Heb His Death a Dart or Deluge And he Dyed at 969 years As Hours to the Morning Watch of the 41st Day of the year at which they say he was Dead When Noah was bid to fill the Ark. Which began at His 480 year As the Temple at 480 from Moses Ark and of the World 1536. As Hours 1536 come just To Pentecost As 480 To the last and Great Day of Vnleavened Bread The Flood was in the year 1656 and Hours 1656 come just to the 70th Day very like to make Great Changes There were 40 Days of the year before the Death of Methusela or filling the Ark and 40 days of Rain and 40 days of Decrease before the Raven 40 Days are Hours 960. As Methusala and Noah lived to the last of twice 960 years And again there were 960 years between the first and 2 d Ark at Shiloh Peace and Rest a Type of Jacohs Shiloh 45 from Egypt 430 from the Promise 365 from the Flood which began 120 years after the Ark and mans day of 120 years As some make the Equinox to Change a day in 120 years As from Moses Ark of Bulrush To the Flood of Jordan when and where he dyed As 120 Shekles of Gold in His Tabernacle 120 Cubits in the Temple Porch 120 Priests and 120 Trumpets at Solomon Who had 120 Talents Given him and offered 120000 Sheep at his Dedication As 120 Levits of Note in David and 120 Christians in Acts the 1st As 120 men of the Great Councel in Ezra who came in 120 dayes from Babylon which had 120 Provinces in Daniels time So the Jews had 120 Days from the Day of Tryall To their Doomsday As 120 years of Tryall before the Flood and 120 days from Doomsday To the Profanation of the Temple on the 15th of the 9th As from the Last of Pentecost To the Great Fast 120. 3 Times 120 makes 360 3 and half 420 and 3 of these or 3 and half 360 make 1260 the Time of the Ch Driven or Trodden by the Beast As at first the Beasts Reigned till Adam came up to govern them Which wasnot till 120 Hours or 5 Days As between the Day of Tryall and the First Fruit Omer And as the first Ark began 960 years before the 2 d was fixed at Shiloh so the Flood began 960 years before the Flood Kishon sweeping Jabin or Sisera before Barak and Debora Types of the Churches Rest in the 83 d Psalm and 84 Hours are 3 days and half And Barak may allude To the Flood in That of Kishon the Ancient Flood O my Soul Thou hast Trodden down strength And Esay saith You make a Ditch of the Old Pool but regard not Him that made it Long agoe And again 960 years between the 2 d Temple and the 2 d Ark which Flitted 40 years in the Wilderness from the 20th day of the 2 d month As the first Ark floated on the same day of that month through the 40 days of Rain and 3 times 40 more as the 2 d Ark 40 years from the Philistins before it rested on Ararat As Those that flew Senacherib Compared to the Flood in the 8th and 17th of Esay upon the 17th of the 7th month which came to be the 3â— of Tabernaâ—les As if God would hint his Churches Rest should Come about the Time of the Feast of Tabernacles That 17th day of the 7th month did end the first 150 dayes of the Flood and 150 Days have Hours 3600 As seconds in an Hour And 3600 years come from the Mourning Church at Enos or Kainan To our Saviour Or from Abrahams Call to Canaan whence we may begin the Churches Flittings in Tents and â—abernacles To the year of Christ 1670 or 1675. And if That be the 3 d of Tabernacles Then its First is about 1666. First the Raven or Evil spirit sent or cast out of Heaven or the Church as in Revel 12. and Luke 10. 18. and Then the Dâ—ve both went and came As the Good Spirit on our Saviour Coming out of Jordan As the First Baptized Noah did from the Flood And the Olive branch which must be Green or else no sign of the Floods decrease for it might have Swum from the very first may shew us the season of the year as Luke 21. 30. About 292 days of the Flood or year as others reckon it And Terahs 70 was 292 years After the Flood and so the Jews account Abraham came and Lived with Noah 58 years as the number of Noah And Thus the Promise to Abraham or his coming to Canaan was as many years from Enochs Son as Hours from the day of Tryall To Pent. and from the Flood or Arphs. Birth as many years as Hours To the First Fruit Omer or as Days in a year Or in the Flood if its months were Lunar But if each had 30 days as the first 5 It was more then 365 days from the 17th in the 1st year to the 27th of the 2 d month in the 2 d year Which was much about 1332 hours of That 2 d year as it was 1332 years After Kainans Birth And Enochs Translation was about the middle Or as near 666 After Kainan as before the Flood just twice 666 from Kainan And Enochs Birth was 1326 and so but 6 less then twice 666 before Abraham Who recovered Sodom by 3 persons and 318 Enâ—chs in Heb. or Catechists As about 318 years of Eber who was 666 After Noah and about twice 666 After Mahalael and twice 666 After Enochs Son Methuselah The 4 Kings Conquered by Ab As Types of the 4 Great Watchers on Earth or 4 Monarchies Of Shinaar or Babylon Elam Mâ—des and Persians Elas Sar the Prince of Eâ—as or Greece And the 4th was Head of the Gentiles or Gojim in Heb. which may be Romans though there were especial Gojim at the Sea of Sodom and Galilce of the Gentiles As Harosheth of the Gentiles in Josuah The 12 years Bondage are 4320 days or years which added to the Floods 1656 do make 5976. As the Preparation to the Sabbath of 7000 As the Suns Apogeum comes about in 7000 years and 5976 want but 24 of 7000. Abrahams Vision hath the Pigeon and Turtle as Abraham and Lot the Good Jews and Gentiles unbroken in the breakings or division of the Bullock a Script emblem both of Egypt and Babylon with its
and Firing the 2 d Temple on the Day of their Heavy Doom and of Firing the First Temple Which was but a Type or Shadow of the 2 d Fired much about 666 years After the first and about 1536 years After their Entring Canaan As Pentecost was 1536 Hours of the year and the 9th of the 5 t month 1536 Hours Af-the first Hour and the 10th 1536 Hours After the Last Hour of Pentecost Upon the 3 d of the 7th they Fast again for Gedaliah and the 70 slain by Ishmael A plain Type of the Turk or Saracen whom They call Ishmael who Took Jerusalem from the Christians on the very 2 d Day of That 7th month in Bapt. Grammay and others As they Fast the 3 d. The 15th of That 7th month must begin the Great Feast of Tabernacles and it can be but 1600 Hours After the Day of Doom or Burning of the Temples and it Therefore must be within 1600 years if an Hour be As a year After the City Sacked in 69 or 70 of Christ As the Blood of the Vintage before the Tabernacles in the Revel ran out 1600 furlongs from the City which was then Sacked And if it were Burnt in the very morning of the 9th Day of the 5 t month yet Tabs must come at 1669 or 1670. And it seemeth to begin sooner As the Sack was rather on the 10th then 9th and so nearer To the Tabernacles For they say it was the very same Day and same Course as the old Hâ—b Ode on which the First Temple was Burnt and That was the 10th Day As Jer 52. 12. Though the City Burnt 2 or 3 days before as 2 Kings 25. And suppose it were the very First Hour of the 9th day yet there can be but 22 days of the 5 t month and 30 days of the 6 â— and 15 more to the Close of the first of Tabernacles When they first began their Dancing and Joy of Pouring out Waters Though the King did not begin to Read the Law Till Afterwards As the Law Commanded it At the Close of the year and Feast of Tabernacles As our Saviour did not appear at That Feast in John 7. Till the Latter End In the Last and Great Day of the Feast He stood and Cryed O Every One that Thirsteth 22 and 30 and 15 Dayes are 67 which are Hours 1608 and by This account the day of Tabernacles must begin 12 Hours or Years before 1678 which is just 1666. If we rightly account it by the Hours of the Jewish Years We may Confirm This by all the Cubits Shekles and other things in the Bible As first the Verses and Sections of the Pentateuch in the Mazoreth Genesâ—s hath 12 Great Sections as the year 12 months and 50 Chapters as the Lunar year hath 50 weeks as 50 Days between the Passover and Pentecost and 1534 verses As the year had Hours To the evening sacrifice before the Pentecost and as the World had years To the first Command and model of the Church in Noahs Arke as we saw before 120 years before the Flood Exodus hath 11 Sections As the year had 11 months After That in which they came out and 40 Chapters As 40 years between the Exodus and Canaan and 1209 Verses As hours from the Passover at which they came out To the morning of Pentecost and so many years there were from the Ark to Jephta or from the Flood To David Or from Josephs Death To Ezra or Nehemiah Leviticus hath 10 Great Sections as of Tenâ—hs for Priests and Levits And the Law was Given at Pentecost 10 months before the End of the year and 52 smaller As Pentecost was the 52 d day from the Passover and Nehemiahs New Jâ—rusalem in 52 days as weeks of a Solar year and 859 Verses or twice 430. As years from the Flood to the Maâ—riage of Isaak Or From the Promise To the Law and from Thence to David or from entring Canaan To Solomon or from the Ark at Shiloh to the Temple or from Thence To the Captivity and 430 more To the Machabes Numbers hath also 10 Great Sections as 10 days to the Tryal of the P Lambs 10 weeks To the Close of Pentecost or 10 months To the Great Dedication in the Machabes with 66 little Sections which they call Sethume Secret with the flittings of the Ark and Camp Through the Wildernesse its Heb name in 1288 verses as years of the Church in the Wildernesse As in Daniel 1290. And so many Hours bring up 54 days As from the day of Tryal to Pentecost or Preparation To it And from Pentecost To the day of Aarons Death and Thence To the Great day of Creation or of the 2 d Temple and the New Jerusalem in Hag. and Neh. who began the 54 Law Lectures for 54 days Deuteronomie hath 1055 verses as Hours from the first Omer Heaved unto Pentecost or years from Abrahams Father To David or from David To our Saviour or from our Saviours Death and the Great Pentecost in Acts 2 d To the Christians Reigning in Canaan All the Chapters of the Pentateuch are 187 As Hours To the Ev. sic of the 8th day for Circumcision and the Christian Sabbath and as dayes To Atonement and between the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox of years again in the Temple Courts All its little Sections are 669 as Hours To the Ev. Sac. of the 28 h or 4th 7th day the last of the month of weeks as years from Enochs Translation To the Flood 669. All its verses 5945 As years to the Preparation To the Great Sabbath of 7000 years In which also the Suns Apogeum cometh about To the same point it had at first Shall we come to the Numbers in the Heb. Alphabet when God did first write the Law as it is in Exodus he left out Teth the first letter of their Only word for Good As hinting that He gave them Laws at first Not Good as in Ezckiel Afterwards he repeated it as in Deut with Teth added and a special Emphasis upon the word of Good That it may be Good or well with Thee and Thy Children c. And the 9 first Letters of that Alphabet wch end in Teth are Units and do make 45 as years from the Law To the Ark at Shiloh or Caleb at Hebron Jos 14. The 9 next letters are Decimals and make 450. as years from the Law To the Ark at Zion and the first New Jerusalem when David came from Hebron Or from Calebs being there or the Ark at Shiloh To the Temple finished The 4 last are Centenaries making K. R. S. T or Christ and 1000. As years from the Temple finished To Christ who was from the latter end of Moses 1460 years As in the Great Aeâ—yptian Sotâ— or Julian Cycle before But from Aegypt and the Law He was just 1495 years as the Number of the Hebr Alphabet by which God wrot the Law at Horch where Moses was about 1495 years after Enoch and 1495 years before
our Saviour The final letters often in the Mazoreth do make 3500. As years of the World To Nehemiahs New Jerusalem or his meeting with Ezras Great Counsel or first Mazoreth Or from Seth To Alexanders being at the Temple or Babylon Taken by Him or Nicanor and his Greek Era in the Mach or from Enos To the Contest of the Great Antiochus with Aegypt Dan. 11. Or from Kainan to Hircanus who began the Kingdom in the Machabes Or from Mahalael to Pompeys sack of Jerusalem Or from Jared to our Saviour Or from Sem to the Christians at Jerusalem And from the Birth of Jacob to the very days in which we live And the Jews as Esdâ—as make Jacob the beginning of a new World And those Last Letters which are only Final may lead us to the very last Days of the Last Times as Paul to Tim. And that God intended somewhat of Times also by those Letters which himself used may be probable from very many words in Scripture As the Word for a year doth make 355 as Days in a Lunar year and with their usual Article 360 as Days of their Solar year and so its Common Plurall in Construction Shene 360. for it hath 2 Plurals as Masculine for Solar and Feminine for Lunar years And as the Full Moon came in as many Hours as the year had days so the Word for Moons and Months is in number 362 if its M final be but 40. But if 600 it is then as many as the Scripture owneth for Many Days As Jos 23. and 1 King 18. 1. Where yet it was but about 3 years which is the Lowest Number they use in their Plurals who have a Duall for 2. Which might be pressed on them for 3 persons in the plural Elohim As all Grammers have 3 persons in their Verbs and Theirs hath All its words in 3 Classes As the 3 Sons of Noah filling all the World And the number of Noah is 58 as They say he lived years with Abraham in number 243 or 248. as Hours into the Evening After the Lambs set apart as Abrahams Family As years from Abraham To the Bondage in Aegypt But if M finall be Here 600 Then Abrahams Name hath as many as the years between the 2 Arks of Moses and Noah whose Ark is Tebeth 802. And much akin to the Month in which Ester was taken into the Royal House which was the 10th as Noahs Ark rested and the Mountain Tops appeared in the 10th of Tebeth Ishmael is 451. but one more then the numbers in their Decimal Letters As years from Ishamael to Canaan Isaak and Jacob make 390. As from the Flood to Isaacks Birth and the Burning of Sodom As Jerusalem was Burnt 390 years after Jeroboams Flood Isaak lived 180 years and the number of his Son Jacob is 182. 365 years from the Flood or Arphaxads Birth brought Abraham to Sechem in Heb Sechema 365. And Melchisedecks Salem 370. As years from the Flood or from Jacob there To the Ark at Salem or Shiloh 335. As it stayed there about 335 years As from Abraham to the Ark in Moses time Which was 345 from the Birth of Jacob As the number of Moses is 345. And his Birth 345 from Abrahams Call or comming to Canaan and Aegypt whence they came out by Moses to Jericho in 345 years As the Sons of Jericho in Nehem and Ezra just 345. 430 years brought them from Ramases whose number is 430. And Etham 441. And Succoth 480. And Metham 481. As we saw it before at 480 Hours and 480 years from Abraham to Moses or from the Promise to the Ark at Shiloh or from Aegypt to the Temple From the Red Sea to Sur or Sure 506. As the 3 d Hour of the 22 d day when they came thither and 506 years after Abrahams Birth who was 75 at his coming to Canaan and 430 more are 505. So that this year was 506. And they crossed Jordan at 234 Hours of the year the noon of the 10th day and 234 years after Jacob and the number of Jericho To which they then crossed Jordan is 234. So signall a number that it may be Rule or Regle in Heb 233. to all the Rest 335 at Shiloh as its number brought up Saul 337. And the Ark was taken at Elies Death and Samuel succeeded from the Sons of Corah the sweet Singers of Israel and his Name is 377. As years from Egypt to His Call or from the Ark at Shilob where the Lord did Call him To his Great Victory at Ebenezer After the Ark Restored Of the Judges Times we speak Else where and of Davids Noddings and his Tears in the Noad of God as himself alludes He was the 14th from Abraham and the 24th from Noah So his Name is 14 and 24. As diversly written in Heb. Solomons Temple was Finished about 1000 years before our Saviour Born or at most 1005. As His Songs or Canticles 1005 and his Parables 3000 As Dark sayings of Old or Times Past As years from Creation if Abraham were born at Therahs 130. He Dyed before the first Captivity To Bab. 375. As his Name is 375. He Prayed God would Turn their Captivity If They Turned and Prayed As he might Take Levit. 26 40. which we translate with If not in the Text. And God Turned Solomons word and made an Absolute Promise I will bring them back for I am Gracious in Heb 1288. and 1335. As in Daniel who took the promise as Absolute and so confessed that They had not so much as Prayed that they might be Turned And so doth Nehemiah cite it as Absolute although we There also put alittle If not in the Text. And the word used For the Princes in Ester and for Daniels Partners Hapartimim is just 1335. As God Turned Solomons word in 2 Cron. 6. 25. and Jer. 12. 15. and Zech. 10. 6. Where his saying He will save the House of Joseph may Hint Those Numbers do begin from Joseph As we found them Come from Thence To Nehemiah And the word used for Finishing the first Temple is 1336. As years from the Flood if Abraham were at Terabs 130 and so for Nehemiahs New Jerusalem Nehem. 6. 15. As from Josephs Bonds To Nehemiah and from Egypt and the Golden Calf To the Great Dedication in the Machabes or Times of Antiochus The Type of Antichrist and His 1260 Days We saw How it came from 120 which is the very Number of Moed in Heb the word used by Daniel for a Time and Times or Moed and Moadim Gods Moods and Tenses As we saw before in his Day of 120 years of Repentance To the old World As some make the Equinox to Change a Day in 120 years And to glance at the Hebrew Tenses or Grammer Times The Formatives of their first Praeter make 2167 As years to Jacob the New World if Abraham were born at his Fathers 130. Jacob was 75 at his Going To Haran As Abraham 75 at His Coming from it And the Letters added
to the Pâ—rch And from Alexanders Death to the Death of the Great Antiochus 135 years and Then to the Birth of Christ 187. As from Epiphanes To the Baptism Or From Nicanors Death To the Death of Christ which was from Alexanders Death or Taking Babylon As many years As there be Or they Reckoned Days in a year And Thus the 500 Cubits from the Eastern Gate to the Western might denote So many years From the First Temple Founded To the 2 d and From the 2 d to the 3 d by Herod Or at least To the Times of Herod and Copâ—nius a Great Roman Governour in Judea Friend to Herod in the Western Gate of Coponius As Mark Antony in the Tower of Antonia And we cannot doubt the Time of Nicanors Death or of Antiochus in the Machabes which tell us Judas heard the Romans had beaten Antiochus and Philip and Perseus the Last King of Macedon which is clear enough from a Great Eclips about the Last Battle in so many That tell us also that Afterwards Popilius went From Aemilius To Antiochus Who had not else been so Easily Charmed in a Circle with a Riding Rod. In That Rage as Daniel foretold he leaveth Egypt and prophanes the City and the Temple in the year 145 and dyeth After Judaâ— Cleansed it in 148. And Nâ—â—anor followed in 151 or 2300 days As Antiochus dyed 1290 Days After the City Profaned At Olymp. 153. Soon after the Last Battle with Persâ—us And Nicanor was Slain in the 7th year After or about Olympid 155 and 188 years more come to Olympiad 202 and we all agree that Christ Dyed Before the 203 d Olympiad And before the year of Christ 1100 the Christians took Antioch Which might mind them of Antiochus and Him that made the Jews Free Denezons of Antioch as they were when the Christians First in Antioch as Josephus and soon After Antioch They Took Jerusalem 1260 years after Antiochus As a Type of the New Jerusalem 1260 years After Antichrist Shadowed by Antiochus In 30 more or 1290 From Antiochus They had Gotten Tyre also and Caesarea and at length Ascalon and Gaza So that in 45 years the Christians were Lords of Canaan As the Jews in 45 After Egypt As Daniels 45 between 1290 and 1335. Till Almerich joyned with the Turks and against his Faith Invaded Egypt and at length his Posterity lost the Kingdom To Saladine of Egypt And although there were more Titular Kings of Jerusalem yet they did Little One being a Leper and another Depozed for Laziness And the War diverted Thence Against the Albigenses And Jerusalem was Sackt again about 135 years After the Christians had it And again After the Sicilian Vespers and before the First Roman Jubilie the Rise of Ottoman 1300. The Porch and House and Oracle were 70 Cubits As the Dedication 70 Days from the First of Tabernacles and the 3 d Days Minha was as 70 Hours And to Measure All the Bible Times by 70 years The 7th Man Enoch was Translateed 7 years After 7 times 70 Doubled at 987. Abrahams Birth or Terahs 70 was not Twice 7 lesse then 28 as Enoch 14 70. And The Promise to Abraham 7 lesse then 29 times 70. David was Jesses 7th Son and from Abraham 14 His 70 years was just the 14th 70 from Abrahams Birth 75. 430. 475 in all 980. And from Daids Death To the Captivity 6 times 70 and 70 more To Their Return From the City Sackt To Ezra Twice 70 and 7 times 70 more or Daniels Weeks To our Saviours Death And so there was between the 2 d of Darius Nothus where some place the 2 d Temple To the City Sackt by Titus in the 70th year of Christ And as we saw All Changes by 3 in 6 or 9 in the Watches So is 1260 found to be 3 times 6 or twice 9 times 70. the Great Age in the Ps that saith The Days of our years are 70 years As if Every year were 70. The 70 Cubits of the Temple Floor were Higher then the First Gate Shushan by 22 Cubits and 22 times 70 years are but 45 more then Christs Birth was after the Tabernacle Reared 45 years before it came to Shiloh The Altar 22 Cubits from the Porch and from the Gate of Nicanor also 22. As 22 Letters and 22 Hours at the Dayly Minha 22 Days of the 1st and 7th month for Dismissing and Blessing the People Solomons Altar 20 Cubits square or 400 by 10 in height 4000 As the Cubits of Ezechiels Waters are 4000. As 4000 years of the World to Christ or the Great Pentecost in Act. 2 d. As the First Fruits of the Spirit Or from Noahs Ark To these Times and a few years farther The Porch 10 and 120 as before 1200. As the Hours between the Passover and Pentecest And so the Temple 60 long by 20 Broad 1200 But the 2 d Temple 60 by 60 3600. As the years from the Promise Till 1670 or 1675. The Holy Courts in length 333 Cubits As Hours to the Passover and Days of Hamans Lots To Purim and years from the Ark at Zion To the Sack of Samaria Or Seige of Jerusalem by Senacherib Or from the 1st Temple to Manasses carryed Captive Or from Solomon to Josiah and 333 more to Alexanders coming to the Temple much about 333 before our Saviour To these Holy Courts They did go up by Steps of 7 Cubits in Ezek. and Josephus from the Court of the Gentiles who were to Tread these Holy Courts 333 by 7 or 666 by 3 and an half or 2331 years And Daniels Vision of 2300 was 31 years after the Chaldean Sack in the 19th of Nebuchadnezar Who reigned 43 or 44 and Evilmerodack 2 as Berosus in Josephus and Daniel had his Vision in the 3 d of Belshazzar Son to Nebuchadnezar or at least his Nephew and Born before the Captivity As in Baruchs Epistles Where are also divers parts of Daniels Prayer And the 5 Steps up to the Womens Court of 135 do make 675 the very years from Daniels Captivity to the City Sackt by Titus 666 from the Chaldean Sack which held them but 60 years As the 60 Cubits of the Golden Image in Daniel And 60 by 6 in Bredth is 360 As Days in a year or years from Their Return to Antiochus And this Image is Father to that of 666. As the Talents of Gold to Solomen and Sons to Adonikam in Ezra 666. 15 Steps for the 15 Psalms of Degrees do make the Inward Court of 187 to be 2705. As years from the 1st Temple to These Times and the Outer Court of 135 at the Gate of Nicanor 2025. And 2025 years do come from Nicanor There with Alexander Till 1695 which may be very Signall For the Little Horn from Alex. also For if That or the 2 d Woe be the House of Ottoman with Horses Spitting Fire or Gunpowder Their Hower-glass may be Out at 1695 or sooner being a Year and a Month and a Day and an Hour from 1300 the
Babylon or Parts about it As Thera in Justine akin to Abraham And Cyrus Took Babylon about 1666 years After its first Building at 100 years After the Flood And Peleg was born 101 and His Name is Scattering as at Babel And to look Westward Creete is about 1600 Furlongs in length and 666 miles from Jerusalem Taken by Pompey As That by Metellus 66 years before our Saviour Eubaea So many Furlongs Round as Days in a Year And Athens Twice so many miles from Jerusalem Or from Canaan about 666. Rome was Built as many years After the First Olympiad As there be Hours in a Day and From the Flood as many years as Hours from Pentecost To the Doom of Both Temples A little before Hoseahs Captivity about 1666 from the Birth of Sem. As about so many Miles from the Tents of Sem or 1600 from Jerusalem And the Blood ran out from the City 1600 Furlongs And there was no place of Canaan so far from Jerusalem or Any of Ezypt much nearer But if it be for years from the First Christian Persecution and the Roman War at 65 1600 years are fully out at 1666. As at 1670 from the City Sackt Or 1695 from the Revelation About 95 by All the Antients but Epiphanius who placeth it sooner As before Thyatyra swallowed by Earthquake But it was soon Rebuilt again As by the Subscriptions of Divers Councels before Strabo and Ptolomy mention it with All the Rest But the Revelation hints an Hour of Darkness and Temptation which must come and Try the World immediately before the New Jerusalem of Those that Conquer in That Last Great assault As when the Foule Spirit was to be Cast out at our Saviours coming Down It Tore the Child most Sore and left him As Dead This Last and Great Hour of Temptation just before the New Jerusalem As Chap. 3. 10 11 12 may be That which afterwards is called The Slaying of the Witnesses Or Tearing and Leaving Them As Dead And some long since described it a Civill Death rather then Natural Or so at least That they be not Buried If Dead but their Carkases lye in the Streets of the City As the Hasidim or Puritans the very word of the Psalm cited in that famous account of the Asideans slain against the Publick Faith that All the People said There is no Truth or Righteousnesse in These that have broken the Covenant and Oath themselves made oâ— Took As both Books of the Machabes and Josephus of Nicanors Time at Purim 333 days from the Passover As Ester is in Heb near 666. Which might also be shadowed in the P Lambs Tied up 3 Days and an Half from the 10th To the midst of the 14th And then slain 3 Hours and Half before the Paschal Supper and 3 Days before the Lambs of the Congregation were Raised or Heaved up with the First Fruit Omer on the 3 d Day As Christ was raised on the 3 d Day And so about the 7th Month also Before the Great Feast of Tabernacles The Jews assert a General Judgement on the Dead of the year before And As the Paschal Lambs were Tyed up in the first month So was Israel in the 7th To a Solemn Fast and Expiation by Blood also Upon the 10th of the 7th And although it were commanded but for One Day Yet They used Fasting much for 3 or 4 Days together as Preparation To the Feast of Tabernacles But They were not slain as the P Lambs and Christians of the Primitive Times but only Lay in Sackcloath and Ashes As Rev 11th Retired or Hidden and Useless To the World but in Fasting and Praying or the Last Act of Their Prophesie Which was hinted before in the Seed Royal slain by Athaliah with Naboth and his Sons in Jezerel which is Prophets or Prophesy in the Seed of God By Jezabel To which the Revelation doth allude But They shall Rise again As we saw before in Joash or the Man Despairing Raised in the year of Release As an Emblem of some Greater Thing to follow Though he Then also Repayred the House of God but slew Zechariah between the Porch and Altar As if Cutting off the Lords Remembrance Hinted All things New and Forgetting Old and all that is past in Esay with the Revelation The First Witnesses were Lambs at Beershebah the next at Mispa and Gilead the Stones of Witness For Jacob and his 2 Wives as Emblems of the 2 Churches of Jews and Gentiles As Davids 2 Wives led Captive from Ziglag and detained 3 days and Then recovered As the 2 Spies of Jericho were Hidden for 3 days and Esters Fast of 3 Days Which was also the Time of Isaaks being Dead in his Fathers eyes and of Egyptian Darkness and of Preparation for the Law and again for Entring Canaan and spying Jericho And for years also Elijah prayed till it rained not for 3 years and Half Samariahs Seige was 3 full years and the Jewish Wars 3 years and Half The Famine for Saul was 3 years and Davids Pestilence 3 days As of Jonas in the Whale And of Jesus in the Grave As Lazarus 3 days and part of the 4th And Paul had 3 days Darkness at Damascus and we read of the 3 d day of his Storm Which ended not Till the 14th Day As the 14th Day for Passover and 14th year in Gen. 14. And the Crises of Jerusalem in the 14th of Amaziah the 14th of Hezekiah And Paul went up to Jerusalem in the 14th year And the 14th Hour of the Day brought up the morning Sacrifice and 14th from the Morn Evening Sacrifice Which may be called the Daily Witnesses At the Tabernacle of Witnesse the Ark of the Testimony and Altar of Witnesse As in Iosuab Iudges Ps Vnto which the Tribes of the Lord go up unto the Testimony of Israel And the Congregation hath an Hebrew Name akin to Witnesse And God calleth them His Witnesses in divers places as in Esay 43. and 44. As the Cloud of Witnesses in Hebrews 12. Yet some special Persons are Especial Witnesses in several Ages As Moses and Aaron Caleb and Josuah Barak and Deborah Lightning and Thunder Elijah and Elisha Zorobabel and Joshuah Nehemiah and Ezra the Helper and the Lords Comforter as Types of Jesus and the Comforter As From Jesus Christ the Faithful Witnesse and again Who is the Amen the Faithful and True Witnesse As in Esay You are my Witnesses and He whom I have Chosen And the Witnesses in Revelation times are Divers As he saw the Souls of them beheaded for the Witnesse of Iesus And the Angel saith I am thy fellow Servant and of the Prophets who have the Witnesse of Iesus And again The Witnesse of Iesus is the Spirit of Prophecy and All that had That Spirit are Witnesses Yet in comparison of others They are very Few and therefore called Two As the Lowest Number which the Law required for Witnesse And there may be Two more especial in the Latter Times also As the Outer Court
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
be more than Hivites that is Serpents flying from Joshua Though the Times agree with the Poets Penulus and other Remains of Hebrew Pillers or some flying from Canaan And their Brother Phoenix is the Great Man in Phaenicia Father to another Belus whence Sicheus Pigmaleon and the Famous Dido As perhaps also to the Red Sea or Phaeniciax that is Red and a kin to Erythrâ—â— Phinâ—us and Cepheus with his Daughter Saved from the Dragon by Perseus With Wings also For flying from These Dragons or Serpents and a Flood from the Dragons Mouth And the Phaenix Rising out of her Ashes and Odors may be an emblem of Him and Them that were by Death to Conquer Death and live beyond the Phaenix Which yet liveth 660 or 666 years The Jews give it 1000 as the only bird that did not taste the Forbidden Fruit As they speak on that of Job I shall dye in my Nest as the Phaenix In Herodotus or others though the Romans knew it not till after Christ or 66 of Augustus 666 from Josiah 1666 from the Flood or 5 times 666 from Creation Slain by a King of Egypt or Sodom where our Lord was slain When Jacob cursed Levies Cruelty He said Let not my Soul be in their Secret or in Sodam which in Hebrew is just 666. And Cheleem that makes them Men the Number of a Man 665. And God doth much forbid Chelaim their Mixing Seeds As they are caught in Chelaim which some translate the Stocks in Isa 42. And Chelaim is Michael Turned almost Backward Myster or Mystery an Hebrew word As Sithrah and Hester Hidden Making 666 As Thorus or Taurus in Hebrew 666 and so is Satur 666 Secret or Full and ready to vomit As he speaketh at his Making All things New In Laodicea As at drinking on the Cross It is finished Which was from Egypt as many years as there were Hours in the year before Pentecost or its Prep and from the first Pentecost in Canaan as many years as That was after Enoch And as Moses Face shining might represent our Saviours shining with Moses in the Transfig So might His Long stay in the Mount denote ours Saviours stay in Heaven while the Chief Levite or False Prophet makes a Golden Calf or Image of the Beast as Psalm 106. with Revelat. â—3 And Moses Last Coming from the Mount to make the Tabernacle at the Feast of Tabernacles might denote our Saviours Last coming to the Feast of Tabernacles yet to come And as 40 dayes Rain in the Flood did shew us so many years between the first Ark and the 2 d at Shilch As there be Hours in 40 dayes So there were as many years between the 2 d Ark and 2 d Temple As Hours in Moses 40 Dayes 960. And Moses Breaking the first Tables at his first 40 dayes might note their Breaking of the Law and their City Broken by the Caldees in the same month and season when he brake the Tables And the Renewing of Those by God might shadow both Their Renewall by Joshua Zorobbabel Ezra and Nehemiah And the Law renewed and written in our Hearts As put in the Ark and Mercy-Seat by our Saviour and His Making All things New As at the Tabernacles in the Revelation And the Feast of Tabernacles was After the Day of Pentecost or giving the Law to Moses 130 Dayes or 3120 Hours As there are 3120 years from Moses To 1666. which is from Christ As many years as from Creation to the Church Restored After the Flood As If His saying The Dayes of the Son of Man shall be as the Dayes of Noah did intimate as many years from his speaking That To his Coming There described As there were Years to Noahs Flood Which was at the first Hour of the 70th Day of the World Or at 1656 years As 1656 Hours come to the 70th Day ending at 1680 Hours And then He should come again before 1680 or at most about 1690. which is from His speaking As many years as the Flood was from Creation And his saying No man knew the Day and Hour of the End of the World may teach us to measure Times by Dayes and Hours also Which may be now better known since the Revelation And although there may be Hints of his Coming To the Great Feast of Tabernacles As he came and shewed himself In the Last and Great Day of Tabernacles John 7. yet i◠〈◊〉 be said that No man knoweth the End of the World with its Day or Hour For though there must be a New Heaven and a New Earth yet All the Works of God and in special The Earth shall abide for ever But the Meek shall inherit the Earth and Righteousness shall dwell in it Righteousness and Peace Wait on the Lord and he shall exalt thee To inherit the Earth And When the Wicked are cut off Thou shalt see it So that a man shall say Verily there is a Reward for the Righteous Verily there is a God that Judgeth in the Earth FINIS
bringeth his Judgements to Light in the Morning And the Scripture calls for Judgeing in the Morning or before the Judges Head or Heart is Clouded As the Iews expound That saying of Solomon Wo to Thee O Land where Princes Eat in the Morning when they should be Praying or Judging Which may lead us up To the First Judgement Which they place at the 2 d Morning of Creation When the Lord did Judge his Own Acts of the Day before As Examine your selves in Bed and he still and That Judgement did Separate the Waters on the Right Hand and Left Sending some Down and Taking Others Up Above the Firmament As the First Emblems of Election and Reprobation As the Goats of Seir the Goat and Lambs of Rachel the Sheep as in Heb with Her Benjamin or Sâ—n of the Right Hand As Leah the Left But at the Passover the Goats were accepted as the Sheep and some at all New Moons and Solemn Eeasts for Sin-offerings But the First Judgement was about the 40th hour of Creation or 42. As That Number is For Judgements and Punishments in all the Bible As 40 Stripes and 40 Dayes and 40 years and 42 Months or 42 Mansions As 42 Children by the Bears of Elisha And 42 is 6 times 7 or 7 times 6 and so the Great Crisis of 6 and 7 which is Rest and Motion As Fine Twined Linnen called Six in Heb. Doubled on the Tabernacle Door or Turned Every 6 hours Turn the Sun and Moon at Cardinal Points or Quarters of Heaven called Spirits in Heb. As if Angels stood at the 4 Quarters of Heaven or 4 Corners of the Earth as 4 Watches and 4 Winds Turning the Hour Glass of Time Which is but a change and flux of Mite which is Motion or Mites or Moats in Heb. The Vppermost part of the Dust As Skie doth also signifie in that Language As if All the Tides of Time and the Ocean were but Turning an Hour-Glass of the Moon and Earth about the Guilt Rundle of the Sun And as One goes up it empties out the Moats or Sand or little Tinning atomes in Hebr To the Other So that When the Moon is highest the Earth is fullest or the Waters Highest in the Sea Or its Central Fire makes it like a Boyling Pot whose water leaves the bottom as the 64th of Esay with Iob and the Psalms 6 hours Turn the Sun and Moon and 4 times 6 Turn Light into Darknesse Which was first Done at the 25tâ— hour of Creation And 25 is the Lower Root of 666. That great number of Change and Motion to the Sun Moon World Church and All as anon 6 times 6 hours bring up the Sun of the 2 d Day and 10 times 6 the 3 d. Which Turneth downwards at the 65 t and 66 the signal Number in the Jewish year of 24 and 42. 6 times 6 is 36 and 10 times 36 or 360 Hours bring up the Full Moon and so many Dayes the Full Year To the Eastern Nations Aegypt added 5 Days and at length 6 Hours And this became the Julian year which Caesar had from Aegypt 1461 Aegyptian years of 365 Dayes make 1460 Julian Which they called the Great Cynick or Sothiack year As at the Doâ—-star This was just 200 more then 1260 which is 3 and an half 360. Months in the East had 30 dayes apiece and so we finde 150 Dayes in the 5 first Months of the Flood and 1260 Days in 42 months But they say that if the New Moon were seen in the 30th Day It was counted for the first of the Month following But of late the Jews go by Mean Motions and account 59 Dayes For 2 Months Short of the True Middle Motion by an Hour and about 29 minutes And though they found a way to reconcile their Lunar months To the Solar year we need it not For God hath bounded out our way by Dayes when Ever the year began For the first 14th Day was the Passover and 15th the Feast of Unleavened Bread for 7 Days more and 16th for the First fruit Omer and the 50th next was Pentecost And the Feast of Trumpets was the first Atonement the 10th and Tabernacles 15th of the 7th month of their year when Ever it began Which From Aegypt was about the New Moon next the Vernal Equinox which must be Past they say before the Passover But we need not dispute it Though it might be cleared by their best Authors and by Anatolius and Eusebius As of late by Petitus With the Roman Yoak they shunned so by Crucifying Christ They were forced To the Julian Form also Yet they kept their Feasts by Moons and made them Tables much like Ptolomies In other things they could admit the Julian year and the rather because the 6 odd Hours in single years did keep their Equinox at a Cardinal point or one of their Great Watches But others kept the 6 odd Hours Till they made a Day and so the 4th year was Bissextile from the 6 t Calends of March or 24th of February Doubled That the Dayes of the week or Feriae might keep their wonted letters in the Common Cycle And there is Greater Harmony by Julian years in 4. then seemeth to be known to them that first used it For as the 4th Watch of Creation brought up the First Light and the 4th Day the First Sun and the 4th Week the Moon to meet the Sun again so the 4th Year brings them to meet in the same Day of the Week and is not 2 minutes more or less then 14 dayes above the Jubilie of 49 Moons Which still return To the same Day of the Week And 8 years have 3 minutes more then a full month of Weeks above 98 Moons Or a day and half with 41 minutes less then 99. So that in 8 score years they want but one day and one Hower of meeting as before and in 1600 years but 10 days and 10 Howers So that meeting on the 11th of May and 10 Houers after noon in the First of Christ They met again in 1601 the First of May just at noon And parting the years of Christ by 4 and so the Julian Period After 9 or rejecting 9 The Remainder sheweth how long the year proposed is After a Bissextile And the Quotient sheweth that the Sun and Moon met so many fortnights from their former meeting As there be Vnits in that Quotient Which being added To the year proposed and All divided by 7 The Remainder is the Day of the Week for the First of May And by consequence for the 2 d of Octob. 3 d of Ap. and July 4th of Septemb and Decemb. 5th of June and 6th of March and Novemb. For the year proposed And for the first 8. 15. 22. and 29. of January following and so forward in the next year also But if nothing remain at this Division by 7 The first of May and every Day aforesaid is the 7th Day of the Week the Jewish Sabbath Thus we get the