A Scripture Line of Time · Thomas Beverley
A Scripture Line of Time, Calendar
A CALENDER OF THE Whole Time contained in Scripture, ennobled with the Events of each Part of Time: diſtinguiſh'd by the true Year of the World according to Scripture, the Years before Chriſt till the Incarnation, then the Year of Chriſt, and of the Reſurrection; to all which is applied the Julian Period.
| Year of the World | Year before Chriſt. | Year of the Reſur. | Julian Period. | |
| TO the perfect Creation, and firſt Sabbatiſm: | 1 | 3987 | 764 765 | |
| To the Flood, containing the Hiſtory of Abel, and the Patriarks of the firſt Roll; of the Gyants, the Tranſlation of Enoch, the ſeventh from Adam; The Ark prepar'd by Noah an Eighth; and the Deſtruction of the old World. | 1656 | 2331 | 2420 | |
| To Terah's Death, containing the Hiſtory of Shem or Melchiſedeck, as he is after known to be, with the Patriarks of the 2d. Roll; Of Babel; the ſpace of 427 Years. | 2083 | 1904 | 2847 | |
| To the going out of Egypt, containing the Hiſtory of the ſojourning of Abraham and his Seed; of the Promiſes; of Sodom, and the …gyptian Bondage and Deliverance; the ſpace of 430 Years; | 2513 | 1474 | 3277 | |
| To the building of the Temple begun, containing the ſetting up of the Tabernacle of Teſtimony, the Conqueſt of Canaan; the Time of the Judges, of David, the ſpace of 480 Years: | 2993 | 994 | 3757 | |
| To Solomon's Death, containing the Building of the Temple, and his illuſtrious Reign, his Fall, and Repentance, 36 Years: | 3029 | 958 | 3793 | |
| To Ezekiel's Viſion of the New Jeruſalem, containing the Hiſtory of the Kings of Judah, the Hiſtory of the Defection of the ten Tribes and their Kings, of the two great Witneſſes Elijah and Eliſha, the Deſtruction of Jeruſalem and the Temple, the Captivity by Nebuchadnezzar; the ſpace of 390 Years. | 3419 | 568 | 4183 | |
| To the End of the Captivity, containing the Continuance of the Captivity, Nebuchadnezzar's Victory over Egypt, Ezek. 29. 17. and Babylon's Fall, the ſpace of 40 Years: | 3459 | 528 | 4223 | |
| From Cyrus to the Sanctuary cleans'd, and to the King of fierce Countenance and underſtanding dark Sentences broken without hand, a Line of 2300 Evenings and Mornings, or 2300 Years: with its collateral Lines, which now follow; being alſo incluſive of the Daily Sacrifice taken away. | ||||
| From the Words firſt going forth by Cyrus, to its compleat being gone forth by Darius, Hyſtaſpis, and ultimately at Artaxerxes Longimanus's ſeventh year, the ſpace of 75 Years: | 3534 | 453 | 4298 | |
| From thence to the Incarnation, containing Antiochus's Tyranny, and other Troubles, the ſpace of 453 Years: | 3987 | 1 Yea. of Chriſt. | 4751 | |
| To the Reſurrection, containing the Birth, private Life, publick Miniſtry, and Death of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, to his Reſurrection 33 Years: | 4020 | 33 | 1 | 4784 |
| To Alexander Severus's Death, the ballance of Time between the Reſurrection and the Apoſtacy, containing the Hiſtory of the Univerſal Preaching of the Goſpel, the ſpace of 202 Years: | 4222 | 235 | 202 | 4986 |
| To the Apoſtacy, or the beginning of the 1260 Days, Or Time, Times, Half TIme. containing a Vindication of the Goſpel by the moſt rational Apologies, conſtant Sufferings of Chriſtians till the Chriſtian Empire, and then the Chriſtian Empire, till the taking away the Daily, or pure publick Worſhip, the ſpace of 202 Years: | 4424 | 437 | 404 | 5108 |
| To the End of the firſt time, and Beginning of the ſecond, or firſt of the two Times, during the Fall of the Weſtern Empire, containing the riſing of the Beaſt at 475, his Fall as a Star from Heaven at 606, his manly Age at 666, from his Conception Anno Domini 59, to that manly Age 725, of the ſpace of 360 Years: | 4784 | 797 | 764 | 5468 |
| To the End of the ſecond Time or firſt of the two Times, and the Beginning of the third Time; containing the Range of the Mahometan Locuſts, or Saraoens, and the Beaſts Promotion to a ſettled Age or of Conſiſtency, the ſpace of 360 Years more: | 5144 | 1157 | 1124 | 5828 |
| To the End of the third or ſecond of the two Times, to the Half-time containing the Cavalcade of the Turkiſh Horſe-men, and the Beaſts declining Age, the ſpace of 360 Years more. | 5504 | 1517 | 1484 | 6188 |
| To the End of the Half-time, or to the ſeventh Trumpet, containing the State of the Reformation, and ſince to the Expectation of the Witneſſes Riſing about 1697, ten Years hence, the ſpace of 180 Years: | 5684 | 1697 | 1664 | 6368 |
| To the End of the laſt Seventy Five Years of the ſeventh Trumpet, containing the ſeven Voices, and the ſeven Vials, and ending in It is done, It is done, at 1772. | 5759 | 1772 | 1739 | 6443 |
| After this follows new Time, or the SABBATISM of the Creation; viz. The cubical thouſand Years of the glorious Kingdom of Chriſt. |