Christ Under the Law, Title page – Preface
CHRIST Under the Law; WITH The Times of the Goſpel, AND Fullneſs thereof.
LONDON. Printed in the Year, 1664.
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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 Partings, 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 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 53d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 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 Conſ… 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 Ch…
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 2d or 3d 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.