Christ Under the Law, Text (3 of 3)

Christ Under the Law · Text (3 of 3)

p. 50Iſhmael 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 3d Hour of the 22d 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: p. 51or 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 Kall, in Hiphill, make 75. As in Hophal and Niphal 45 and 450 (As the Ʋnits and Decimals, in their Alphabet) and in Hithpael 3645. As, from Creation, To Nehemiahs New Jeruſalem. If it were, As Scaliger puts it, in Artax. Mem. Or To Babylon Taken, by Alexander, or Seleucus; and the Greek Era, in the Machabes. Or from Abrahams Birth, To the year of Chriſt 1645.

The Formatives of their firſt Preſent, Benoni, do make 1451. As the Decimals and Centenaries of their Alphabet. Or years, from the latter end of Enoch, To the Law. Or Thence, to Auguſtus and Herod. Or from the Ark at Shiloh, To our Saviour.

The Letters of their Greateſt Future Legal, or Imperative, may make 1691 (a ſignal Number, from Chriſt;) and their Future Evangelical, or Promiſſory, From 1245 in Kall, and 1400 in Niphal (which make 2645; As in Pyel:) To above 3400; as in Hithpael. p. 52From their Bonds in Egypt, Till about Theſe very Times, or 1670.

And to Come to Shekles and Talents: Cubits and Furlongs. Shekle in Heb, is 430: and as Abraham was told, His Seed muſt ſerve 400 years; He paid 400 Shekles, for his Burying place at Hebron, much about 400 years before Caleb got it: 400 years before David, at the ſame Hebron, with its D…uble Cave, or Machpela.

And tho, our Saviour taxed ſome, that Painted Sepulchers, or were ſuch, yet it may be hoped, that Ere long, He alſo may come (as Nehemiah did) to viſit his Fathers Sepulchers; and Tombs of his Fathers Image alſo. Who promiſeth to make His Tredding Glorious; and that Earth, ſhall not only be E…ets (I will accept it, as himſelf alludes, Ezech. 20. 40.) but Beulah, or Hephzibah, My Darling in her; As the Queens Name, in Hezechiahs time.

The Holy Oyle, in Exodus, of Myrrh and Caſſia 1000; Calamus and Cyna…non, 500: As about 1500 years Before Chriſt: the ſpirit of That pretious Oyntment: As in the Pſalms, and Canticles, and Goſpels.

The Gold about the Tabernacle, was 730 Shekles (As years from Eber) above 29 Talents: As the Lunar Month is divers Hours, above 29 Days. And the Arabians (Who knew the Moon, and gave it, in their Enſignes) have a Cycle of 29, or 30 years; which may be more Conſidered.

The Silver, 100 Talents (As the Tab. Court, and length of the Temples Walls, was 100 Cubits:) and the Braſs 700; which together, make 800: As the Tab was 800 years, from Noahs Ark, or Tebeth, 802. If Abraham were at Terahs 70.

The Silver Shekles 1775. As years from Enochs Birth, To the Tabernacle. Or from Noahs Birth, To Samuel, and the Ark Taken by the Philiſtins.

Or from the Flood, To the 2d Temple. Or from Ebers Birth, To Ezra, or Nehemiah. Or from Abraham To Antiochus the Great. Or from the the Promiſe, To the Dedication. Or from Jacobs Death, To Pompeys Taking Jeruſalem. Or from Iſhmaels Death, before Ebers, and Jacobs Ladder, To our Saviour. Or from His Firſt Dwelling in our Tabernacle, To his Latter Coming, to the Great Feaſt of Tabernacles now Coming. And their Proverb is, They know not Joy, that have not ſeen the Joy of Waters, in the Tabernacles. Which themſelves alſo make an Emblem, of the Latter, Greater ſhowers of the Spirit, in Moſes ſong, and Solomons Prayer: with Eſay 55, and other Scriptures. As the laſt of Zech. For Waters, on All, that Come, To the Feaſt of Tabernacles. And All Nations, are invited, To it. And the Jews will Entertain Strangers, at that Feaſt, in their Booths, at This Day; As Hebrews 13. And our Saviour, ſeemeth to allude To their Cuſtomes, and Singing Eſay 12. As they Drew Waters, with Joy, from the Wells of Siloah.

And as He, Then appeared (after long Hiding himſelf) and came To the Feaſt of Tabernables: ſo it may be Probable, He told his Diſciples, that His 2d Coming, ſhould Fullfil That Laſt and Greateſt Feaſt of Tabernacles. As his Death, fullfilled the Paſſover: and His Riſing, The Firſt Fruit Omer, or Barley Sheaf. And the Firſt Fruits of Wheat, at the Firſt Fruits of the Spirit, in Acts the 2d. So his next Coming, in Glory, ſhould be, As to the Great Day of Tabernacles. For, when Peter ſaw him in his Glory, on the Holy Mount, He cryed, Let us make Tabernacles. As if That, were only, proper, for the Joy of Tabernacles.

p. 53And the Revel. ſings, Now is the Tabernacle, of God, with men. And He ſhall wipe away all Tears. And Then, He that ſate on the Throne, ſaid, Behold! I make All New! And he ſaid, Write: For, Theſe words, are True, and Faithfull. Adding alſo, It is Finiſhed. And to Him that is athirſt, I will give of the Fountain of Living Waters. As alluding both to Beerlaharoi: and to what, he ſaid, and They did, at the Tabernacles, in John 7; And at his laſt Thirſt, on the Croſs: when, Drinking Vineger, he Cryed, It is Finiſhed.

The Pſalmiſt ſaith; His People ſhall be a Free, and Willing People, (as Aminadab) in the Day of His Power: By the Beauties of Holineſs. And He ſhall drink, and lift up his head, &c.

And Aminadab offered 10, of Gold, and 70 Silver (As 10 Days to Tryall, and 70 cloſing Pentecoſt, which they make, as other Great Feaſts, of 7 days) and 130, as Days from Pentecoſt, To Tabernacles. Each Princes Shekles were 210: As they reckoned years of Iſrael in Egypt. All their Gold was 120, as years of Moſes Life: And All their Silver Shekles, were (as the Braſs about the Tabernacle) 2400. For their 24 Courſes; and 24 Hours of the Day; or 2400 days, and years, To the Great Releaſe. As from Abell, or Seth, to the Tabernacle. Or from the Temple, repaired by Joaſh, and cleanſed by Hezekiah, To Theſe Days.

The Redemption Shekles (For the Firſt Born) were 1365: but 30 more then Daniels Number of 1335. As his 1290, is 30 more then 1260, in the Revelation: written, about 30 years, After the Roman Sack.

1260 years before Chriſt, was the Famous Time of Gideon: and His Ephod (Or Firſt Idols of Iſrael) of 1700 Shekels (of earings) As it was 1700 years After Enoch. And Gideons 300 Men, might note 300 years, from the Death of Joſephs Brethren: and the Birth of Moſes, in Egypt.

Achans Shekles, were 250; as the years from Iſrael firſt in Egypt, To their Entring Canaan. But the 50 Gold, were as 600 Silver: and ſo, All his Shekles may be 800. As years from the Flood to the Exodus: Or from Achan To the firſt Captivity to Babylon: which might be Typed in His Babiloniſh Garment. As its Golden Image, in his wedge of Gold.

Goliahs Armour, was 5600 Shekles As the years they were to preſs the Bodies, or Souls, of Gods People: or to Rowle over them (As the Name imports) From Cain, or Tubal Cain (the 1ſt Vulcan) to Theſe Times.

David gave to Ornan, 50 Shekles of Silver, For the Threſſing Place, on which he built the Altar: Then, 600 Shekles of Gold, For All the Hill of Moriah (the Lords Teaching, or Wiſdom, in Heb: But in Greek Fooliſhneſs, as Paul) where Iſaak was Bound; and the Temple Built.

And Though, 600 was a Common Number, (As 600 Danits Sacking L… …hiſh: and the Guard of Saul, Or David was 600: As the Reliques of Benjamin: Cum Sexeentis aliis, in a Proverb:) yet It might hint out Times alſo. As from Abel, to Enoch: From Jared to Noah: From Noah, to the Flood: From the Flood, to Jacobs Death: From Jacob, to David: and thence, almoſt 600, To the 2d Temple Finiſhed. Which ſtood 600 years. As it had 600 Pillers, in J…ſephus: and the Firſt Temple, Targets of 600.

David had 600 Men to follow him; but recoverd his Wives, and others of Ziglag, by 400: As it was 400 years, from entring into Canaan. And the Temple Pillers had 400 Pomgranats: with ſo many Granes, perhaps, as Hours p. 52duplicate page p. 53duplicate page p. 54in a Year. For, the Poets Proſerpina, did taſt 7 Granes, as the Moon was 7 Hours below the Horizon. And the Pomgranat is the Badg of Canaan, in the Hand of Jupiter Coſſins. They are Rimmons in Heb. as the 400 Benjamites, at Rimmon. And Solomons Rimmons, in the Canticles, and on his Pillers, may denote years from Boaz, or Jachin, in the 24 Courſes, of the 24th of Cron. to another Jachin, with Eliaſhi…: As the Firſt was whoſe Names do ſignifie, God will bring Back, and build up, and Eſtabliſh.

And Thoſe Pillers ſtood 400 years, As the Square of his Altar, was 400 Cubits. And ſo, ſome reckon, his Walks about the Temple Courts: a Furlong: or 400 Cubits.

And to come to the Bible Cubits.

Noahs Ark, was 300 Cubits long, and 50 broad. And Noah lived 300 and 50, from the Flood. As alſo 300 and 50, to Abraham, at Terahs 130. But Cubits are for days: of 24 Digits, in 2 Spans, with Jews and Others. As the Great Egyptian King, had his Sepulcher, Circled with a Ring, of 365 Cubits: as Days in a year.

And as the month had 30 days, and then the Moon is Hid, (as the Firſt Light was hid in 30 Hours:) So the Ark, had 30 Cubits Height. And ſo, 300 Cubits Long, may be 300 months; which by 50, Broad, do make 1250 years; of 30 days to a month. Or if All, had not full 30 days; they may be 1260. Or, if we muſt allow another Cubit, cloſing up the Ark at Top, as ſome reckon it; they may come up to 1290: or 1335. And ſo, the Cubits of the Ark, may repreſent the years, it ſhould be Driven, by the Flood, out of the Dragons mouth: and be filled, with Beaſts, rather then men; and be Trodden, by them.

And if Abraham was born at Terahs 70; then 1250, or 1260 years, of the 1ſt Ark, brought up the 2d, to Zion: and 1290 the Temple. But if Abraham was born at 130, then the Temple was, 1335, from the Flood: which was 350 years before Terahs 130. And 350, with 75, & 430, and 480, do make up juſt 1335.

As from Jacobs Flight, or Service; Till Nehemiahs New Jeruſal: or from the Golden Calf, or Image of the Beaſt (in the Pſalm) To the Great Dedication, in the Machabes. And the Sons of Both Elams, in Ezra and Nehemiah, were 1254. but 6 leſs then 1260: or 6 more then the Hours of 52 Days, of Nehemiahs New Jerus. As years from Iſrael, in Egypt.

And whether, Abrahams Birth, was at 70, or 130; yet it may be juſt 2000 years before our Saviour. As 2000 Cubits in the Levites City Suburbs: and 2000 Cubits from the Camp to the Ark: and 2000 Cubits in their Sabbath Days Journey. As their Comments on Ruth and Joſua.

And Cubits might come to repreſent years: As days, are years, in the Prophets: and the word for days, is alſo for years: and ſo, may Cubits alſo. Though the Ark had Bulk enough, to ſhew them in their proper uſe.

The Tabernacles Length (as the Arks Height) 30: by 10 in breadth 300, (as the Arks Length) and by 10 in Height, 3000. that is 2000 (as the Levites Cities, Arks Diſtance, and Sabbaths Journey) in the 1ſt Holy place: and 1000, in the Oracle. Parted by a Veile of 10, by 10, or 100; As the Firſt 100 years of Chriſts Body, Rent (as the Vaile at his Paſſion) in the 1ſt Tearing of Chriſtians, and Jews alſo; From the City Sacked, To the Revelation: or the Vaile Removed, and Ark appearing, as Revel. 11. 19.

1000 Cubits in the Oracle, may hint the 1000 years of Chriſt, in Rev. 20. As there were 1000 years, between the Temple and his Birth. Or from the p. 55Rev. Time, unto the Chriſtians taking Jeruſalem: As a Type of the New Jeruſalem.

The Tabernacles Court (as Ezekiels) 100: being added, to the former 3000; They make 3100. as years from Abrahams Birth, to the Chriſtians Taking Jeruſalem: or from this Tabernacle at Shiloh, To the Times in which we live. And the Cubits of the Court before the Tabernacle, as the years to Shiloh, 45. 100, by 50 broad, are 5000: As the Greateſt Church in the Acts, and 5000 fed at once by Chriſt (as the Tabernacles Court, by 100 and 50.) As 5000 years from Adam or Abel, To the Chriſtians at Jeruſalem. Or from Enoch To Theſe Preſent Times.

Each ſide, 100 by 5 (in height) 500. As, Each Side, of the Temple Court. and ſo, we may part, the 2000 years, from Abraham to Chriſt, by 500, To the Tabernacle: and 500 more, To the Firſt Temple finiſhed: with All its Courts (as 1 King. 7. Where alſo, the Houſe of Lebanon is, As this Tabernacle 30, 50, 100) & 500, To the 2d Temple: and 500 more, to our Saviour.

The Inward Curtains of 28 Cubits, as the month of Weeks: but the outward 30 (As the Ark, Tabernacle, and Temple.) As their months of 30 days. And ſo they ſay, Moſes left his firſt Song, in 30 lines; his 2d in 70.

Theſe may ſhew, How long the Church ſhould be, in Veyls: or Skins of Beaſts: To hold it in; and Preſs it down: As the Ark before.

10 Inward Curtains, by 28, 280: and by 4 in breadth, 1120. and As, they may be years After Chriſt, To the Chriſtians Reigning in Jeruſalem: So they may be years Before: and perhaps, During the Firſt Monarchy. For the 2d and 3d, are Here, in their proper Skins; of Rams, and Goats (as in Daniel) and the Romans, in the Badger. Or in Heb. Tax: Tachs. or Tahaſh. Of the Same Name, with one, from the Concubine Reuma, Ruma, Roma, Gen. 22. 24.

And from Enoch To Jacoh, were as many years, as Cubits, in the Inward Curtains: 1120. And from Jacobs Birth (or Abrahams Death) To the Tabernacle, were as many years, as Cubits, in its Outer Curtains: 330. (that is 11 by 30.) As there were alſo 330 years, from the Tabernacle, to Sampſon: Or from the Ark at Shiloh, To its Taking by the Philiſtins. And 330 Hours of the year, come juſt to Noon of the Paſsover: and 330 days, from Paſsover, to Purim.

The 50 Tacks and Loops of the Curtains, may hint the 50 days, and Nights between the Paſsover and Pentecoſt: as 50 Weeks, in the Lunar years: or 50 years, before the Solemn Meetings at Shiloh, or Sechem: where they were All Tackt together.

330, by 4 (in breadth) do make 1320. And ſo many days, do make 44 months. and beginning at Niſan, they end, at the 9th month (of the 4th year) which had the Great Feaſt of Dedication for the Temple freed, from the Rams, or Goats, hair, of Antiochus.

Or beginning in Tizri (as in Civils) They bring up All the 3 years Tithes, and Offerings; with the Firſt Fruits, and Firſt born; and both Solemn Confeſſions, and Doxologies (of Deut. 26.) At the Pentecoſt of the 4th year. Which was 1320 days, After the Paſsover (of the 4th year, before it:) As 1335 days After the Feaſt of Trumpets, or the Trumpet of Releaſe. As 1335 Hours, After the firſt Hour of the day of Trvall. And ſo many years, come from the Tabernacle Reared, To the Great Dedication, in the Machabes; & Death of Antiochus, or Nicanor: As we may find, at the Temple Gate Nicanor.

If the 3 Outer Coverings, are equall (of 330 by 4, in each) They make p. 563960 Cubits (40 ſhort of Ezechiels 4000: As the 40 years After Chriſt to the City Sacked.) And to our Saviours Firſt Acting in the Temple, there are juſt 3960 years of the World in Scaliger, and Thoſe that follow him.

And from the Flood, ſo many years, come out about 1666, now coming: and ſo do the 2 Utter Coverings, from Jeroboams Flood: As a Type of that, to Fill the Breadth of Thy Land, O Emanuel: which come out at 1666.

The Badgers Skins, as uppermoſt, may be Largeſt, And 1335 (as in Daniel.) But 1320, come from Chriſts Being in the Temple, or the Temples End; To the Templers End, in one day: and the Popes Flying to Avignion: At the ſhaking Times of Ottoman: and the Imperial States Proteſting againſt the Popes Right, in Electing Emperours. And from the Great Apoſtacy, in Julians days, They come to the Times, in which we live.

But we come to the Temple Meaſures. And if Joſephus rightly place the 2d Walls, on the firſt Pillars (called Solomons Walks or Porches, in our Saviours Time:) They were 500 Cubits; every ſide: As the Sept. & Vulgarlat. read Ezech. 42. & not 500 Kanes, as others.

So that All the Sides of the Square, did make 2000. As the Levites Suburbs; & the Diſtance of the Ark; and the Sabbath days Journey: and the Square Cubits, in the Tabernacle; before the Oracle: And the years, from Abraham, to our Saviour, 2000.

We ſhall begin, As They Entred (with the Sun, from Eaſt to Weſt) and ſo from Haran, at firſt; and from Moab, Over Jordan: and from Babylon, and Perſia: With its Royall Shuſhan; on the firſt Eaſtern Gate, of the 2d Temple, called Shuſhan.

80 Cubits, to the Riſing, of the Womens Court. As 80 days, before the Woman came Thither, of a Woman Child. As Zion of her Daughter in Mic. 4. The Man-childe was not Born, till her Laſt Throwes: as themſelves expreſs, on Eſ. 66.

As 80 Hours, of Creation, before the Moon, and Sun did meet: For, they were not ſeen, till the 4th Morning.

And 80 years, From Shuſhan, and Cyrus, to Ezra: Seperating the ſtrange Women: and making This Womens Court called Aezra: from Ezra, Help. and ſo, they Bleſſed (as the Pſ. taught them) when the Women, or the Mourners took the Left hand Walk: as others did the Right. The Lord Bleſs thee out of Zion: and ſend thee Help; Out of his Holy Place: though thou may not come in it; But only look towards it; As Jonah did, when he was caſt out: of His Holy Place or Preſence.

The 80th year from Cyrus, Taking Babylon (As he is called K. of Babylon, in Ezra 5. And Thence he gave the Temple Veſſels:) falleth within the 80th Olymp: or the 8th of Artaxerxes Long: and juſt 490 years before the Laſt of Olymp 202d. Agreed for our Saviours Paſſion: by the Great Earth-make, and the ſtrange Eclips, in Phlegon, and many others.

The 13 Firſt Cubits, in the Gatehouſe (as Ezech. 40. 11.) may repreſent, the Firſt Light, coming up, at 13 Hours of Creation: and the 13 Days, of their year, before the Paſſover: and the firſt 13 weeks, in the year, between the Solſtice, and the Tropick: As the 13 months of the year: and the 13 years between the Temple Founded, and Finiſhed: or at leaſt Revived, in the 2d of Darius: in the 65t Olympiad.

And the 65 Cubits, before the Holy Courts: As 65 Hours, to the Noon of the 3d Day: and the 65 Days, in the Jewiſh year (as before) and 65 years between the 2d of Darius, in the 65t p. 57Olympiad; and the 7th or 8th of Artax: When Ezra came up, at Olympiad 80: and 80 years After Zerubbabel; from about 80 Degrees of Longitude; To Jeruſalem, at 65. As the firſt Fruits of Emanuel, in Eſay 7, were 65 years before Jeruſalem was freed from Thoſe 2 Kingdoms: and our Emanuel, 65 years before the Chriſtian Perſecutions, and the Roman Times: Shadowed in the Cuthites, contending with Nehemiah. Who came after Ezra, full 11 years: and ſo, there were 11 Cubits in the firſt Verge, of the Holy Courts, they called Heb (Between The Hill, and the Help: As Heaven After Hell:) with its Staires, and Latices. As the Canticles allude: in the Gentiles, or Unclean: Ʋnder the Staires; and behind the Latices.

Then came the Womens Court (and Ezra's Great Work was To Seperate the Women: As their Ruine came by Women: Eſay 3d and 32d, with Ezra and Nehemiah:) juſt 135 Cubits Long, and in the Talmud, Square.

As 135 Hours, of Creation, before Any Woman: Or To the Firſt Morning of Adam: and From Tying up the Lambs, to Heaving up the Firſt Omer; were 135 Hours. As 135 Days, between the Pentecoſt and Palms, or Great Hozannah, Cloſing the Tabernacles. And 135 years, To the Great Era, of the Greeks, and Jews Great Friend, Nicanor. And 135 more, to Antiochus: and their Great Enemy, Nicanor. As the Gate Nicanor, At this Womans Court 135 Cubits from Hell: and the Death of Nicanor (on the 13th of Adar) 135 Dayes After the Day of Solemn Covenant (both of Men and Women) in This Womens Court; At the cloſe of the Tabernacles, Nehemiah 8, and 9. As 135 years, before, from the Firſt Temple Founded, to Joaſh, who Repaired it.

From the Gate of Nicanor; The Inward Court of Iſrael and the Prieſts: In length 187 Cubits (that is, 135, and 52, for Nehemiahs Days: As Weeks in a year:) and 187 Hours, came to the Evening Sacrifice of the 8th Day, For Circumciſion and the Chriſtian Sabbath: And 187 Days, To the Great Atonement: As Autumnal Equinox, 187 Days, After the Vernal: And the Great Feaſt in Eſter, was 187 days. And the Pentatcuch, 187 Chapters.

And 187 years, From the 2d Temple Begun, or Finiſhed, To Alexanders Reign; or Coming To it: Or Taking Babylon, and Dying at it; much about 11 years before the Firſt Nicanor. As there were 11 Cubits, From the Gentiles Court, To That of Nicanor: and 11 more, from the Gate of Nicanor, To the Levits Railes, and Ducans (parting Iſrael and the Prieſts:) As Twice 11 Before the Altar; Twice 11, to the P…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 2d: and From the 2d, to the 3d, by Herod. Or at leaſt, To the Times of Herod and Cop…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, p. 58from 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 Juda… Cleanſed it, in 148. And N…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 Perſ…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 203d 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 3d 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 2d of Darius Nothus (where ſome place the 2d 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 p. 59400 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. 2d. 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 2d 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 3d 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 2d Woe, be the Houſe of Ottoman (with Horſes Spitting Fire, or Gunpowder:) Their Howerglaſs may be Out, at 1695, or ſooner: being a Year, and a Month, and a Day, and an Hour, from 1300: the Riſe of Ottoman, and firſt Roman Jubilie of B… niface the 8th. Who did as much, for Temporalls; As B…niface the 3d, for Spiritualls: about the Time of Mahomet: 666 before Ottoman.

And Purim (in the 7th Month from Doomeſday: As 7 years of Releaſe: 333 Days from the Paſsover:) became the Feaſt, for the Death of Nicanor: After Antiochus. As Types of Theſe, and others, Ending all, at 7 times 333: or 3 times 666 and an Half: From Daniels Captivity.

Kainan was 666, before Enochs Tranſlation; or twice 666 before the Flood: As Enoch was Before Abraham or Methuſela before the Promiſe, twice 666. As Kainans Son, about 666 before Noah. And Noah, 666 before Eber: and Eber, 666 before the Great Cecrops, or the Time of M…ſes. As the Flood about 666, before the Death of Joſeph, and Bondage in Aegypt. And Abr… hams Death, about half 666, before the Tabernacle Reared.

And from Aegypt, 666 years, brought p. 60up Joaſh of Judah, or Joas of Iſrael; Sacking Jeruſalem (in the 14th of Amaziah: As Joſephus, with the Bible:) and 666 more, the Deſolation of Antiochus. And that God would Raiſe them, at 666▪ might be Hinted in 666 Sons of Ad…n…kam: or, The Lord will Raiſe up again: at the Return from Babylon, in Ezea.

And Thus we might find 666, the Great Criſis, To the Greateſt Kingdoms. As To the Firſt, and Oldeſt, in Greece, or Sici…n. As alſo, To Nimrods Babel; about 666 before the Exodus, and Twice 666, before its Ruine; in the S…n of Pull, or Sard…napalus; 333 before Cyrus. As 666, from Solomons 666 Talents of Gold; to Alexanders Crown 333 before Chriſt. Who was Thrice 666, After Abraham, or 2000 as before. And ſo, between Their Birth years Thrice 666: and Twice 666, and an Half, to Theſe very Times, or to 1666.

And to fix our Eye upon Jeruſalem (the Sun to its Moon, or Jerecho:) the Great Sun Dyall, to the World; withall the Turns of Light and Darkneſs.

It was Built about Abrahams Coming to Canaan (in Joſ. with Hegeſip.) twice 666, before the Caldees Sackt it.

Taken by Judah, much about 666 from Terah, Babylon, or Ninive. By David, about 666 from Iſaaks Death, or Joſephs Dungeon: and 444 (23ds of 666) from Aegypt.

By Shiſhack, 666 from Joſephs Death; or their Bondage in Egypt.

By Joas, 666 After Aegypt, and 666 Before Antiochus: (As Joaſh Repair of the Temple, was about 666 After Moſes firſt from Aegypt.)

By the Chaldees, 666 before Titus: and twice 666, After Abrahams Coming into Canaan.

By Bag…as (under Ochus) 666 from David, or the Temple Founded. By Ptolomy Lag. 666 After Shiſhack, and 666 before Julian.

By Antiochus, 666 After Joas Sack: and twice 666 from Egypt. And from Cyrus, ſo many years, as Days in their year.

By Pompey, 666 from Aſſyrs Sack of Iſrael, or Samaria. By Craſſus, Robbing the Temple, 666 After Senacherib Robbed it, of all he could get from Hezekiah: Then beſeiged it, with a vaſt Army: ſtrangely deſtroyed, in Herodotus, beſides the Bible. A Type of what God means to do, when Antichriſt ſhall fill the Land of Emanuel; As Eſay 8. and 14. and 17, 18. Micha 5.

By the Parthians: and by Soſius, and Herod; about 666, from Babels firſt Coming to Jeruſalem, in Hezekiahs Time: or Manaſſeh Carried Captive.

By Titus, 666 After the Caldean Sack: and 60, before Adrian Raced it, 666 After Cyrus Built it.

By Julian, 666 After Ochus: and by Cozroes, 666 After Pompey: and by Omer, 666 After S…ſius and Herod: 666 Before Ottoman.

Again by the Saracens, 666 After Adrian: and by the Caliph of Babylon, 650 from Julian: and Then, by the Turks, After Titus, 666½.

Then by the Chriſtians, 1260 from Antiochus: and by Saladin, twice 666, from Antiochus and Nicanor. By Egypt again, in 1234: and by the Saracens, 1290. By Selim, 1516.

And for the Fates of Rome: or Edom, in the Prophets: As the Jews Tradition is. It roſe, at Edoms Breaking Jacobs Yoak, and Carrying Judah Captive: in 2 Cron. 28. which cauſed Ahaz to hyre Aſſyria: which deſtroyed Iſrael, and Iudah.

This was about 666, before Pompeys Sack: which was 666, Before Phocas and Boniface. As Caeſars Iulian Aera, was 666 years (and odd days) before the Great Hegyra, of Mahomet; 666 before Ottoman, & the firſt Roman Iubilie.

The 660th year of Rome, was ſignal, p. 61for Peace at home and abroad. But 666, very Fatal. For the Maſſacre, of 15 miryads, of them, in One Day, in Aſia, (As the Danes in England:) and for the Civil Wars; which beſeiged Rome, with 4 Armies at once: Till one Conſul was ſlain, as Sacrifice at the Altar, and Cn. Pompey, by Thunder: and the reſt affrighted, by Prodigies: till Sylla diverted, beſeiged Athens, and took it, with the Flowr of Greece in a year.

And though Their Legions were not Conſtant; yet we may find 666, very ſignal in them: or their Cohorts: and their Greater Legion, 6666.

And to Parallell Britain, with the Jews. As both, were invaded, in Caeſars time; ſo both, revolted in Neroes: and although reduced to a Province, yet not as others, at the Senates Order, but the Emperours Peculiers. Veſpatian is deſigned to quiet Both: and both, rebel again, in Adrian; about 666 before the Saracens ſeized Ieruſalem, and the Danes England. A Monarchy by Egbert: Though Ina be Called the Firſt, in the Saxon Laws; Taught by an Angel; Payed Peterpence (but firſt to an Engliſh Colledge in Rome) about 666, from Titus at Ieruſalem.

Auſtine was Here, in 600: and ere long, received a Pali from Rome (Tanquam Grande Chriſti Sacramentum, ad Miſſarum Solennia:) with power to make 12 Biſhops: As York had 12: in the Learned notes on Bede. The Monks of Bangor, 1250 (or 1260) in the Saxon Chronology: ſlain about 666, from Caeſar Here, or Pompey at Ieruſalem.

In 636, Ieruſalem is Sacked by Omar, and Cambridge by Sigebert (a King, and ere long a Monk) Chriſtiana factia & Catholica. In 637, we read of Pariſhes (as Cambden:) but an old Mſs brings them, To Theodore, about 666.

In That very year, the Engliſh received Latine Service, and other Ceremonies (with the Popes Supremacy) As Bale and the Mag. Centuries.

Tithes, in Ethelbert; By K. Barons and Commons. As in the Confeſſors Acts. And Ethelbert Dyed, 666, After Craſſus at Ieruſalem.

Lent Here by Parliament (As the Saxon Bede: which in Lat. is, Authoritate Principali:) In Ercombert: Who Dyed about 666. And Then, was Bede Born.

Alfred, the Firſt Adopted Son of the Pope: who Crowned him at Rome (But his Will, owneth his Kingdom, To the Bounty of God and his Subjects: Free, as His own Thoughts: in Menevenſis:) about 666, before the Change in H. 8. When the Parliament denyed the Popes Supremacy: forbad Latine Service: or Commanded the Bible in Engliſh.

Their ſetling All the Power, of the Pope Here, upon the Crown; might be a Reverter, of what was There before (As often Adjudged:) Yet I know not, that Ever before, the K. was left, to the Diſcretion of Cant (which had the Pall and Belt; or Great Symboles, of Dependance on Rome, and Homage to it:) As the Statute leaves him: For Licenſes and Diſpenſations (and others of the Popes Peculiers:) If the Arch-biſhop judge it meet.

But After Times, did help the Crown, by giving it leave, To make its Biſhops by a Patent: As Edward the 6t had made a preaching Sheriff: or many ſuch things; with Collations: and receiving Reſignations; To moſt Spiritual Cures.

About 666 from Antiochus, This Land came to have 7 Heads, or Kingdoms (as Rome:) and at Gogmagog Leap, or other Hill about it, a Dragon was ſeen, or thought, ſo Great and Worthy, that it Sirnamed a Great King, Ʋ therpendragon. And its Image was Conſecrate, and Dedicate, in a Great Cathedral: and from Thence p. 62became the Royal Standard. That I ſpeak not of the Dragon, ſlain by One on Horſe back: Or any other Beaſt, or Image of a Beaſt, ſlain by the ſword: and yet reviving, and admired, or adored, by All that were not written in the Lambs Book of Life, before the Foundation of the World. Which muſt be opened, and muſt Judge both Great and ſmall: who have no Book of Works, to Judge them.

And the Dragon purſued the Woman, flying to the Wilderneſſe (As Hagar did: and is in Bondage with her ſeed To This day: as Gal. 4.) and made war with her ſeed.

The firſt Creature Animal, was the Dragon: we read it Whales, in Gen, 1. 21. Created in the Waters: coupled with Dragons: as Eſay 27. Ezech. 29. and ſo in Job, and divers places. And Behemoth is next: the firſt on Earth, as the Dragon in the Seas. It is Plural (as Dragons) in Heb. As many Femimine Beaſts: Or Mother of All the Beaſts: As Wiſdom is of All her Children: and yet ſhe alſo, is Plural, in Heb. As Behemoth. Which David applieth to himſelf in the 73 Pſalm. And I am Behemoth with thee. I am that Behemoth: more bruitiſh then a Beaſt: or Behemoth.

Thoſe 2 Ruled, Till Adam came up: and had a Commiſſion, which he did not Execute. And yet we do not find All the Beaſts, put under him: and the Serpent was more ſubtle then the Beaſts. But Noahs Patent, is a Promiſe alſo; Your dread ſhall be on every Beaſt (that Conquer'd Adam) and upon All Fiſhes of the Sea, or Dragons: Into your Hands they are Delivered. Thou haſt kept the Good wine untill Now.

The Dragon is Prince of Darkneſs (as it walks in Darkneſs: while the Beaſts are Couching:) and the ſhorteſt night of Darkneſs, in Iudea, was of 10 Hours, or Horns; as of 7 Heads, or Dayes, in a week.

And if their ſhorteſt Day, or Night, be as 1000 years (as Pſal. 90. and 91. of the Dragon and Beaſts:) Then is Every Hour, as 100 years. And ſo, the Dragon and Beaſt, muſt Reign, about 1330 years: As They Reigned, 133 Hours, before Adam was Created.

And if the whole Day and Night, be As 1000, Then the Longeſt time of Darkneſs, in the Bible Meridian, is but 666: or 2 thirds of 1000; As one third of 2000.

But if their Little Watches, alſo, be 1000 (as the Pſalm hinteth) Then is Every Hour, 333. And ſo Platoes third part of an hour, may be 111. which is alſo, the number of Kaveh: the Common Heb word, for a Meaſuring Line. And Thus, 666, may be paralel to the 6 Hours Turns of Tide, and Sun and Moon, at the Cardinal points of Heaven: As before.

And the Jewes parted all their hours, into as many Clakins, as days in 3 years: 1080. and each of them by as many more as their Sanhedrin: or Noahs Nephews: or their Families, in Egypt: Or our Saviours Anceſtors, in Luke: Or years of Abrahams coming to Canaan. and 75, is the difference, between 1260 & 1335. but 3 more then Twice 666.

And for Hours, in the Revelation. The 2d Church muſt ſuffer Tribulation for 10 Dayes. Which have Hours 240. And the 10 Firſt Perſecutions, laſted juſt 240 years. From 65, or 66, of Chriſt (when the Jewiſh War began) Till Conſtantine: at 306. And the Southern Martyrs, of the 10th Perſe…ution, are 144000; in Euſebius and others. As the Lamb before the Sabbath had 144000 Clakins before it: As Firſt Fruits of Time and the Lamb for the Sabbath.

And if Conſtantine did cloſe the 10 firſt da…es (as the P Lambs were Tyed, and Tryed, in the firſt 10th day of the year) and That be in the 2d. Ch. Then p. 63the 3d, which ſtood, when Antipas was ſlain; and yet ſtumbled, at the block, of Balaam and the Nicolaitans; muſt be with Conſtantine: or at his Times.

When poyſon ſowed in the Ch. (as was written in the Lateran, at His Donation to the Pope) was ſwallowed by the Clergy: which began to Prophecy for Hire; as Baalam: the peoples Belly: or their Bell: as the Prieſts of Bell and the Dragon. in Dan. Apoc.

And Nicolas, is one above the Laity: or proper to the Clergy. And Auſtin, Euſeb. Clem. and Epiphan. may ſhew us That which God abhorred in the Nicolaits, was (ſomewhat beſides Eating things to Idols, and Fornication) Demeaning themſelves, As Diotrephes (a Prieſt of Iupiter, or Belus:) and mixing Heathen Rites, or Iewiſh, (which began in Peters Time) with Chriſtian Worſhip. Of which, God is more Iealous, then of other Gods. As an Husband, is only Jealous of Her, that continues a Wife: but with an Whoriſh dreſs, or forehead: As the Lord Complains: and Threatens Deſperate Sorrow, unto Planting Strange Plants, about His Altars; which He ſo forbad, and abhorred.

This Spread, in the Church, as Arianiſm did; about the very firſt years of Conſtantine, and Pope Marcel…us: who Created Cardinals, or Pariſh Prieſts; To Bury the Dead, and to Baptiſe Infants. Which was preſently followed, with Albs, and Corporals, At the Altar; and with Tapers, and Candles, in the Sun Shine (as a Prologue To the Flames, that followed:) and Compulſions to Religion: which began, about the Time of the firſt Iudictions: (which we may Tranſlate, by Impoſitions:) Firſt commanded, At the Councel of Nice.

Meletius, the Firſt Biſhop, that oppoſed, and Degraded Arius; did firſt deny, Reſtoring Laymen, Lapſed; Though perhaps, the fault was more, in Churchmen: which on Penance, were Reſtored; but with divers waſhings, and ſome Jewiſh Rites. The Donatiſts oppoſed; with ſo much Zeal, that ſome affrm, They called themſelves the Only True Church: and Rebaptiſed.

The Croſs, was found, they ſay, about thoſe Times: and a Greater Croſs, in Arianiſm; with the Great Conteſts, for Eaſter Day: which Toar the Seamleſs Coat, of Chriſt; the Souldiers Spared.

And though Paul, the Eremite; and Anthony, reſiſted; and began the Monkiſh Orders; yet Thoſe Times, had alſo, Sad Complaints, of Gluttony; among the very Clergy: which were therefore called Prieſts of Bell.

As Jeſabel (in the Revelation) may allude, to Jeſu… and Bell. As the Prophets of Jeſabel, with Thoſe of Baall, or Bell: in Jeſabel.

And ſo, we come, to the Temples Tredding down: or the Holy City: by the Chriſtian, Antichriſtian, Jebuſites: for 1260 Days, or Years.

Which we found very ſignal, in Hours, and Days, and Years. As From the Birth of Cainan, and Mabaleel; To the Flood; and Riſing of the Church After it. As from Enoch and Methuſelah; To Abraham. Or from Noah, To M…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 Eph…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 3d: Excommunicating the Emperour. As From Chriſt, To the Sicilian p. 64Veſters; Or the Firſt Roman Jubilie; with the Second Wo. or Houſe of Ottoman

As from the Sack of Ieruſalem (or Revel. written) To the 2d 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 Ap…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 W…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 3d 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 Ʋſe 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, Alaci…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 …eaſts alike.

As 7 equal Circles in a Ring of 6 p. 65and 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 6t, the Angel came to the, Virgin.

And at 30 Dayes apiece, 42 Months, are 1260 Dayes: As the Dayes of the Woman: and the Beaſt alſo, 42 months. And yet, they do not ſeem to end together. Except, we grant him, More, then his Reigning Time, of 42 Months, From his Deadly Wound. For, he lives, and proſpers ſo, at the End of 1260 Days, that he killeth the 2 Witneſſes: and They lye Dead 3 dayes and an half: which may be 3 years and an half: or ſomewhat more then 3 dayes: or 75 Hours. and 1335, are 75, more then 1260.

And at Riſing of the Witneſſes, the 10th part only, of the City fell: whether it be the Great City following (which Reigned over the Kings of the Earth:) Or the Holy City Before: yet called Sodom, where the Lord was ſlain. As in the Prophets. p. 66And the 10th of that City, may allude To Neehmiahs Time. When the Tenths▪ of All the people, were choſen out by lot, to dwell in Ieruſalem; ſo that All that City was but, as the Tenth of Iſrael.

And the Tenth (in Eſay 6, and other places) ſeems a Type of Gods Elect: Or elſe there may be ſomewhat more, in it. For, the Firſt Fruits, are The Elect: whoſe Heb name, is akin to That, of Firſt Fruits. As we touch on Davids Micol, and Baburim: in another place.

But Tenths, are proper moſt, to the Iewiſh Church. And when the Fruits, of All the Earth, come in (as All Kingdoms: At the Riſing of the Witneſſes:) It is no great wonder, That Tenths ſhould Fall. With All, the Ceremonious Pendants, To the Iewiſh Levites.

And the very word for Dragon, is in Hebrew, Tan [or Tannin] and Levitan: akin, to Levi Tan, or Ten: And the Levites crying, Ten, Ten; which is Give, Give, (as the Horſleach:) Elſe I will Take it, with This Fleſhook: by Force. And Levitan, may be, Levi the Dragon: or Cruel Levi. As Their Father Iacob ſaid. Adding alſo, But my ſoul ſhall not be in their Secret, or in Sodam (As the word is There: and maketh juſt 666:) alluding unto Lots, flying out of Sodom, to Zoar. As Moab, of Lot, is bidden, in Eſay 16. As, to mind, the Heifer of 3 years old, in Gen. 15.

Moſes told the Levites, they were a ſtiff, Rebellious Generation. Deut. 31. 25. 27. And it was a Levites Concubine, that plaid the Whore, at Bethlem: Till at length, ſhe was filled; and divided into 12. As the 10, and 2 Tribes: ſcattered all about: Till there were not left 666, Reliques of Benjamin. And yet, he Had the Ruler, Saul (and He cut his Oxen, As the Levites Concubine:) and then the Temple came, in Little Benjamin. The Lord muſt dwell between His ſhoulders. And the Altar had a corner cut, that ſo it might be all in Benjamin. To Devour the Prey, in the morning ſacrifice; and to gnaw the Bones, in the Evening: As Jacob firſt; and Then, the Prophets do allude.

And the Jews obſerve, the Levites were but 22000, to Teach their 22 Letters: & for neglecting That, They were carried Captive, in their 22d Generation. As the Prieſts, cut off, by Saul: Before Davids New Jeruſalem: And Solomon Put off, Abiathar alſo: the Relique of the Prieſts. And Nehemiah chaſed a Son of the High Prieſt, allied to Samballat.

And when Solomon came to Dedicate his Temple (which perhaps, the Prieſts expected: But) As ſoon, As all the people did agree, to Bleſſe the Lord, and ſing, For he is Good: Becauſe (a mighty word! As if, He were not Good, But That) His Mercy doth Endure for Ever: Then, the Glory of God, came Down, and Filled the Temple ſo, that the very Beſt, of All the Prieſts, could not Enter: or Durſt not.

So that Solomon was fain, to Pray (will God Indeed, Indeed, come Dwell in Clay?) and Bleſſe the People. Which by Gods Command, was moſt Peculier, to the Sons of Aaron: and Solomon was neither Prieſt, nor Levite; But of Judah, whence our Lord did ſpring. And he cut off, 22000 Beaſts, in One Day: which Themſelves compare, to the 22000 Levites. Adding alſo, that Pompey ſlew 22000, about the Temple; and was Beaten, after it, by Caeſars 22000; To as many more, in Pompeys Army. As 22000, in That of Apolonius, in the Machabes.

And when Joaſh came up, in the 7th year, and did deſire, the Levites, to Repair the Temple: or to help it forward: They Pretended, but 'tis ſaid, They Haſtned it not. And again, in Twice 7 years, The Prieſts, had not Repaired the Houſe: as 2 Kings 12. with 2 Cron. 24. (as 12, and 24, in all, Temple matters.) p. 67And at length, They conſent, to Receive no more money: nor to Repair the Houſe: which was therefore, Put out (as the Vineyard) To Other perſons: That did work; and do it, Faithfully: without Prieſts and Levites. Which might be, a Type of ſomewhat in our Saviours Times; and Farther. And though, we read, of Firſt Fruits ſtill: Even in Ezechiels New Ieruſalem: Yet of Tithes, very Seldom, or never, that I find, in all the Bible, of the Goſtel Times: but of the Phariſees Boaſt, of Paying Tithes: and Tithing Mint, or Any-ſeed.

But the Tenth, might alſo Note, The Tribute, Paid to Kings, over them: Which Samuel fixed by the Tenth, of All they had, or Got. And when the Romans Took the Didragm (or half ſhekle, For Redemption of Souls: As in Matthew, with Joſephus:) They had Tithes alſo: The Common Tribute, to Hercules, with other Demigods. And ſo the 10th days of all, or divers, months, were mourning faſting Dayes: as we ſaw before.

And thus, the Fall of the Tenth of the City (Whither it be Jeruſalem, or Rome, or Any Other: or All Others: For it may be, in All, Succeſſively:) may ſpeak the Fall, of All Their Tolls, and Tributes, Tythes, and Offerings: or whatever elſe, was Appendant to the Levitical Policy: or mearly Jewiſh: Or Legal Bonds: or Bondage. And They, that defend Thoſe things, ſhould be ſure, They come not, to confeſs, They have Acted, As Jews: but were not: As in ſeveral of the Churches. Which were much Diſtinct: Although, ſo near (in One Lydian, Aſian Province) That they might have ſoon made, One National Church (if That had been the Only way:) and All their Angels, might have laid their Faults, upon One High, Arch Angel.

But Ezechiels New Altar, rejecteth all the Old Levites, that ſtayed with Iſrael: and Chooſeth the Houſe of Zadoch (the Righteous) as Solomon took him, for Abiathar.

And Ezechiel 45, determines All Tribute, to their King, alſo: with a ſtrikt Command, upon the Prince: To Take away his Exactions, on his People. whoſe Exactors muſt be Peace. And One of 200, Lambs, with a 60th part of Corn: or 100 part, of Oyle: is Fixed, for the Tribute.

But How Long, Theſe Tenths, or other Tolls, may laſt: I know not any Text, determines clearer, Then the 14th of the Revelation. Bringing us, To the Feaſt, of Tabernacles (in the following Chapters:) After Harveſt, and Vintage. As Exod. 23. 16, and 34. 22. Deut. 16. 13.

As the Ark came Home (From 7 Months Wandring: as 7 years Releaſe:) and Reſted in the Field of Joſuah,) ſome Type of Jeſus:) when the Jews were At Their Wheat, or Laſt Harveſt. Before the Showers fell: that were reſtrained, in Harveſt (As 1 Sam. 6. and 12. 17. and 2 Sam. 21. 10.) And Thoſe Showers, might hint, the Waters of the Spirit: To be Poured out, at the Joy of of Harveſt. As the Waters of Bethlehem, David Longed for, at Harveſt Time, as 2 Sam. 23. And Samſon came to viſit his wife, in Wheat Harveſt: and Then Burnt, the Philiſtines Corn.

And we may compare, Pſalm 126. 129. Eſay 9. and 12th, and 18; With That, of Jeremy. The Harveſt is Paſt; and yet, we are not Saved (As we hoped, by the Types:) But, Is there no Balm in Gilead? or the Witneſs Meetings? As of old, for Iacob; at Gilead, and Miſpa? Samuel alſo, Cryed, at a Miſpa, The Lord is Witneſs: And They Anſwered: Witneſs.

And again, the Harveſt is come; and Time of Threſſing Babylon. Which yet, is made, Too Narrow; by Confining it, to One, any One, City, or p. 68People, in the World. It was, the Head of All Oppreſſion, and Confuſion: As it ſignifies. And yet, it is, Too much, in my Heart. And Babell, is Lebab (the Heart, in Hebrew) Turned Backward; or Diſtracted, and Confuſed. As Solomom ſaith: Gods work is much, to make men ſee, They are but Beaſts to themſelves (Shehem, Behema, Hemma, Lahem:) and the World, is in their Heart: and Madneſs alſo; while we Live, and After That, we Dye.

But O Iudah! He hath ſet an Harveſt for thee. When I return, the Captivity of my People, Hoſ. 6. 11. And, at the Valley of Iehoſaphat (or Beraca) Put in the Sickle; For, the Harveſt is Ripe: get you down (and Hither, Cauſe, Thy Mighty Ones to come:) For, the Wine-Preſs is Full; and the Fats Overflow: For, Their Wickedneſs is Great.

And ſo the Great Doom, and Feaſt of Tabernacles, in Zech. To which, our Saviour may allude, in the Laſt, and Great, Day of Tabernacles: and the Mighty Ones, or Angels, to come down At That Day; in Ioel, and Zech. For They muſt Aſcend firſt, and Then Deſcend, on the Son of Man.

As the Great Angel, in the 14th of the Revelation: or the Son of Man. Who bid them, Let the Tares alone, with the Wheat: Till the Angel Reapers Came, at the Harveſt: or End of the World.

And as This Harveſt, and Vintage, began with the Jews, and Houſe of God (As in the Prophets, Goſpels, and Epiſtles:) So it is All, meaſured, From That City: Sackt, and Preſt; As Grapes, in a Winepreſs: As in divers places. So, that our Saviour, makes the Ruin, of that City, a Shadow, of the Great Judgment

And the Blood (As Moſes Song, The Blood of Grapes) came up, to the Bridles of the Horſes: Tredding it (as, in the 2d Woe:) and it flowed out, From the City (Trod and Preſſed) 1600 Furlongs.

And if Cubits, be proper for Days; Then, Furlongs, are proper, for Years. And ſo, we may find them, in Many Places: and Cities Built, and Sackt, or Changed, at a ſignal Number of Furlongs (or Miles) in their own Buildings: or Diſtance, to ſome others: ſo, or ſo, Related to them. As the Olbian Tables, and Characters.

And though, the Furlong, be with ſome, 400 Cubits (as before:) and a year, have Fewer Days: yet They could not take a Round Number (as they call it) Nearer; To Their Greateſt year: which had, a full Month, of 30 Days, beyond the Common year. As often, They were forced to allow.

When either, Floods, or Froſt, did hinder, coming To the Paſſover: which God diſpenſed, in Caſe of Sickneſs, and of Iourney. Or, the Vernal Equinox, were After That, which ſhould be, the Paſſover. Or, their Barly, were not Ripe enough; For Heaving up, the Firſt Fruit Omer.

Then, the Jewiſh year, had near 400 Days. And ſo, the word, for 2 years ſpace, is, 800. If m, be only 40, in Shenothaim.

And the Attick Fuclong, had not ſo many Feet, as the Roman, by 24, or 25: and was no more, then One did run, in a Breath: or 10 ſeconds. As we muſt Breath, about 360 times, in an Hower: As Dayes in a year.

And the Ancients, meaſured a Degree, by 666 Furlongs.

The Revelation, was at Patmos; a Greek Iland. Somewhat before 100, of Chriſt: or 60, from His Paſſion: or 30, from the City Sack. And we may remember, All theſe years, by That, of the Good Ground, bearing 30, 60, or 100.

And our Saviour hints, ſomewhat in Furlongs. When They had Rowed 30 Furlongs (as Himſelf, had lived, 30 years:) They fell, into a very Great p. 69Storm: which might denote the City Storm and Sinking, in the War: that Roſe, 30 years, After Him: Who Walked, on the Sea, and Calmed the Storm. Although, They thought him, an Evil Spirit. As we uſe to do, in All, of other Judgments, or Practiſe, from us.

And his Firſt Revelation, of himſelf, was at Emaus: when they had walked, 60 Furlongs. As the Revelation, was 60 years; After his Death: And the Roman War, full 60 years, After his Birth. And 60 more, To Adrian, Raſing the City; about 130 years; or 1600 months, as Furlongs.

The New Jeruſalem, is 12000 Furlongs. And, If they be Months, it is but 1000 years: as Chapter 20. But if Years: and the Circuit be 12000: Then Every ſide, of the Square, is 3000. As the years, from Shiloh, To theſe Times, or very near us. As we ſaw, at the Tabernacles 3000 Cubits. And if the Temple Cubits, be Days: 30, by 30, make 3600: and by 20, 72000: or 6000 years. and the very Porch, of 10, by 20, 200; by 120, 24000; of which before.

We ſaw, how Ninive, did Sack Samaria: and Babylon, Jeruſalem: at 666. And They were Diſtant, from them, 666 miles: and the Leaſt of them, 444 Furlongs, about. As the Biggeſt, 480.

And Judah, came, From Them, about 480, years, After the Temple Built, at 480 years from Egypt. Which is alſo, diſtant, by 240: and ſome parts, 480 miles. As Haran was 430. And Abraham, coming Thence, was told, of 430 years. As Memphis was, From the North of Canaan: but from Old Babylon, 960: As years, From Egypt, to their coming from Babylon.

And Babylon, was 480 miles, from Damaſcus: As it came to be, 480 Furlongs, or 60 Miles, about. As one of its Caſtles, 60 Furlongs: and its Golden Image, 60 Cubits: And its River, had a Wall of 360 Furlongs. And Cyrus took it (as Jeremy ſpake) by 360 Sluces; as Days in a year.

Which was alſo, 240 year, of Iphitus Olympicks: or of Rome, 216: or of Nabonaſſar, 210. As His Tygris, was 210 Furlongs, from Cyrus Suſan. Which was alſo, much about 210 Furlongs, in Circuit. As Cyrus Took Babylon, 210 years before the Perſians End, in Alexander Taking Babylon: 210 years, After Cyrus. As Cyrus, 210, After Nabonaſſar: and 10 years, before his Son, began The New Babylon, in Egypt: or was There: with his Siſter Meroe: for Sheba.

Daniel ſpeaketh, of Cyrus 3d year: and Xenophen, of 7, or 8, years Journeys: and Ptolomies Canon, of 9 years, in Babylon. The Head of All the Monarchs. Nimrod; Nabonaſſar: Nebuchadnezzer: Nabonidus; Darius the Med…; and Cyrus the Perſian: Darius Hiſtaſp: Alexander: Seleucus. All. Till Rome alſo, loſt it ſelf (as Alexander did) by Gaining 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 p. 70ſo 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, o… 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 3d Day. As Chriſt was raiſed, on the 3d 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.

p. 71The 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 3d 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. Ʋnto w^ch 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 p. 72Water; 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 Rad…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 ⅓. 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 Glan…es, on Succeſſive Times. As Paradiſe, and Tree of Life, in the firſt Church: the Flood, or Egyptian Death, in the 2d. The VVhite Stone and Manna, from Aegypt, in the 3d. And Breaking the 7 Nations by J…ſuah: To the Times of Elijah, ſlaying the Prophets of Baal and Jeſabel (the p. 73Type of the Great Whore) in the 4th, and to the Coming of Chriſt, in the 5th, and the New Jeruſalem, in the 6t, 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 Europ…; 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 Erythr…, Phin… 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 p. 74from 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. …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 2d at Shilch; As there be Hours, in 40 dayes: So there were, as many years, between the 2d Ark, and 2d 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.

End of the text · John Sadler, Christ Under the Law (1664)