TIMES

OF THE

B I B L E:
VEYLED IN
CUBITS, SHEKELS, TALENTS, FURLONGS;
CHAPTERS, VERSES, LETTERS,
OF THE
SCRIPTURE

WITH THE
Days, Hours, Watches, Weeks, and Months
of the
Jewish Year.

London, Printed, 1667.

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Noahs Ark was built in 120 years and there were 120 hours before
Adams day; and 120 dayes before Aarons: as 120 cubits in the
Veyle, before the Tabernacle; and in the Porch, before the
Tabernacle; and in the Porch, before the Temple: as 120 Shekels of
Gold, for the Tabernacle; and 120 Trumpets, for the Temple: and
Ezra came up in 120 dayes, with 120 men of Note: as the Christian
Church, Act. 1. 15.

It was begun in the year of Noah 480; as the Temple, in 480, from
Ægypt: and the great Sabbath of Unleavened Bread, began at 480,
hours of their year: as the Spans of each Veyle, and Cubits, of both
sides of the Veyles, 480: and the 48 boards of the Tabernacle, by 10
in height, 480 cubits,and 480 Halves with 480 Zizes of Gold, in 120
Shekels.

It began, in the Year of the World 1536: As the hours of their year
to Pentecost: or verses of the Bible, to Exodus: or years, between
their Exodus from Ægypt, and the Death of Christ, or great
Pentecost in Acts 2.

The Flood, at the year 1656: and 1656 hours, come up to the 70th
day, in their year: or close to their Pentecost.

The Ark, being 30 cubits high, in 3 stories; the first, is reckoned of

10 cubits: as the height of the Tabernacle: and of Solomons Altar
and the Chamber over his Oracle: and the length of his Porch: and
the breadth of his Molten Sea: as the hours, to the first Morning
Watch (and Light, and Sun in some seasons:) and dayes, of their
year, to Atonement, or to the Paschal Lambs, tryed and separate:
as years, to their children, at the Temple; or under the Law.

The second story, 20 cubits: as the length of the Tabernacle: or the

door of its Court, and its Utmost Veyle (as the years of all that were
numbe-
red there;) and the breadth of the Temple, was 20 cubits: as the
length and breadth, of Solomons Altar; and Oracle: which was also
20 Cubits high: as the second story, of Noahs Ark.

Its third, was 30 Cubits High: as all the Tabernacle, 30 cubits long;
and so its Outer Curtains; as the Temple, was 30 cubits high: and
the Molten Sea, was 30 cubits about: as dayes of their Months, and
years of their Priests (and Levites first numbered) and of Christ,
about his Baptism.

The breadth of the Ark, was 50 cubits: as the breadth of the

Tabernacle Court (and of Ezekiels Courts) as the length of the
Porch and Temple, before the Oracle: as the Tacks of the
Tabernacle Curtains were 50: and 50 dayes between the Passeover,
and Pentecost; as years, of their Levites Discharge, in a Court of 50
Cubits broad.

The length of the Ark, 300 cubits; as the length and height of the
Tabernacle, or the square of its side, being 30 by 10, 300: as the
Circuit of its Court, 100 long, and 50 broad, 300.

The Front of the first story, 50 by 10, 500: as the cubits of

Hangings, for every side, of the Tabernacle Court, 100 long, by 5 in
depth, 500: as every side, of the Gentiles Court, about the Temple,
was 500 cubits: as the shekels of Myrrh, or Cassia, for the most
Holy Oyntment, were 500: as the years of Noah to his Sons: or from
Abrahams Birth, to their coming out of Ægypt: or thence, to the
First Temple finished, with its Courts: or thence, to the second: or
thence, to the third, or Birth of Christ: 500.

The Front of 2 Stories (in the Ark) 1000 cubits: as about 1000 years
of the World, to Enochs Translation: or thence to Abrahams Birth:
or thence
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to the Temple Finished: and thence 1000 more to Christ: as 1000

Cubits, in the Floor of the Porch and House, before the Oracle: or
50 by 20, 1000.

The Front of its 3 stories, 1500 cubits: as about the years of the
World, before that Ark began: or thence to the Temple: as from
Ægypt, to the Birth of Christ, or his going into Ægypt, 2500 years:
as 1500 cubits of Hangings, about the Tabernacle Court (300 by 5
in depth) or 1500 shekels of Spices, in the most holy Oyntment:
pointing at Christ, and his Anointing.

The square of both Ends (or either side of each story) 3000 Cubits:
as the square of both sides, of the Tabernacle Hangings, 3000
cubits: as the shekels of a Talent: or the Golden Candlestick 3000:
as Solomons Parables, 3000: & the Baths of his Molten Sea 3000:
as the years of the World, to his Temple Finished, 3000: or from
Enoch to the 3d Temple, or the Birth of Christ 3000.

The square of each stories ends, and side, 4000 cubits: as the Cube
of Solomons Altar; or Chamber above his Oracle: as of Ezechiels
Waters, flowing from the Altar: as the Suburbs about the Levites
Cities: or the Camp about the Tabernacle: which was 2000 cubits,
on either side of the Ark: as the Sabbath Dayes Journey: or Cube of
the Tabernacle, before the Oracle: or circuit of the greatest Court,
about the Temple, was 2000 cubits: as the years, from the
Creation, to Abrahams Birth, or thence to Christ.

Whose Birth, is thus fixed, about 4000 years, from the Creation: as
4000 cubits, in the Ark; and 4000 in Solomons Altar; and 4000,
above his Oracle: and 4000, in Ezechiels Waters: and 4000, in the
Levites Suburbs: and 4000 between the sides of the Camp, about
the Ark.

As about 3000 years from Enoch:

as 3000 cubits, in both ends of Noahs Ark (and in either side of
each story) and 3000 cubits, in both sides of the Hangings, for the
Tabernacle Court: and 3000 shekels in a Talent: or in the Golden
Candlestick: as 3000 Parables of Solomon, 3000 Baths in his Sea;
3000 years, to his Temple.

And 2000, from Abrahams Birth: as 2000 cubits, from the Camp to
the Ark: 2000 on either side of the Levites Suburbs: 2000 in the
Tabernacle, before the Oracle: 2000 in Sabbath Dayes Journey:
and 2000 in the Circuit of the greatest Court, about the Temple.

And 1500, from Ægypt, or the Tabernacle Reared: as 1500 cubits,

in each end of Noahs Ark: & 1500 in each side, of the Tabernacle
Hangings: as 1500 shekels, in the most Holy Oyntment, made with
the Tabernacle: as 1500 hours, from the day of its Rearing up to
the Morning Sacrifice before the Pentecost.

And 1460, from Aarons death: as the day of his death, is hours,
before the great Sacrifice of the Feast of Trumpets.

And 1260 years, from Gideons Ephod, and Abimelech: as Types of

the Christian Apostacies, before the Revelation times, of 1260 days,
or years: as 1260 hours, of Hamans Lots and Plots, from the
Preparation for the Passeover, to the Pentecost: and 1260 hours, of
Nehemiahs New Jerusalem: and divers other 1260 hours, and
dayes, and years, to some great change upon Jerusalem.

And 1200 years from Jeptha, with the Siege of Troy.

And 1100, from Eli, and the Ark taken by the Philistins: slaying its
2 Priests, as they had put out Sampsons 2 Eyes: for whom they
gave 1100 shekels.

And 1000, from the first Temple finished, with a Floor of 1000
cubits.

And 500, from the second Temple: as the cubits, of each end, of
each story of
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Noahs Ark: or of the Curtains, of each side, of the Tabernacle

Court: or of each side, of the Court about the Temple: or the
shekels of Myrrh, or of Cassia, in the most holy Oyntment.

And his Death, is thus fixed, with its great Pentecost, in Acts 2, at
as many years, from Their Exodus or the Tabernacle Reared, as the
Verses of the Bible to Exodus: or years of the World to Noahs Ark:
or hours of their year (or of the Tabernacle reared on the first day of
their year) to Pentecost; or the great Sacrifice before it.

And as many years, from their Doom of not entring into Rest, or
dying in the Wilderness, as hours, of that Doomesday, to the close
of the great Atonement; a mighty Type of the Death of Christ.

And from Aarons death, as many years, as hours, from the day of
his death, to the day of the death of Gedaliah (the great Jah,
Captain of the Remnant:) or the number of the Hebrew Alphabet:
which is 1495. As years, from the Law, last written, to the Birth of
Christ: or from the death of Aaron and Moses (the Law-giver) to the
Death of Christ.

And from Ezra, with Nehemiah, so many years, as hours, from their
great day, of finishing the City, to their great Feast of Tabernacles:
just 490.
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And for Times after Christ. The 72 cubits of the Tabernacle Boards,
or length of the Temple, may denote the years of their Temple
Worship and Polity, standing, till the Roman Sack, in 72 years,
after the Birth of Christ.

And 1600 cubits in the Circuit, or the 4 sides, of the Most Holy
Place, may note 1600 years between that Temple, and the Times
shadowed by the Most
holy Place: a type of Time after Christs entering Heaven, & opening
that most Holy Place: as after the seventh Trumpet, the Temple is
opened in Heaven; and the Ark of his Testament is seen: in Apoc.
11.19.

So that, as the Most Holy Place, did represent the Times, after
Christs entering Heaven (as in Heb. 9:8) So the Opening it, and
shewing it, out of Heaven, after the seventh Trumpet, may denote
the glorious Times, of the Tabernacle of God with men: as fulfilling
the great Feast of Tabernacles. Or Ingathering all the fruits of the
earth: or All Nations unto God, & his Christ, as at the seventh
Trumpet. Or that, of the seventh Moneth, beginning with the Feast
of Trumpets, and Atonement, with the Trumpets of Release, and
Jubilee, before the great Feast of Tabernacles. As a shadow of the
New Jerusalem, after the great Harvest and Vintage, in Apoc. 14.

Where it is also said, the Winepress ran out with blood, from the
City (Sacked, or Trodden in it) 1600 Furlongs: or Years: in
harmony, to divers other reckonings, in the Scripture.

As 1600 cubits, in the Circuit of Solomons Altar, and of the

Chamber above his Oracle: & in its 4 sides: which, up to the
Temple height, is 1200: as the Floor in Moses Oracle, was 144
cubits: as the New Jerusalem, is 12000: and 144 cubits: as Aarons
Breast-plate was 144 digits: and 144 hours of the Week brought up
the Sabbath Day. And the great Sabbaths Rest, of the seventh
thousand years, may also be shadowed by the 7000 cubits, in the
circuit of the stories of Noahs Ark: and divers other things here
touched.

And that 1600 years, or 40 by 40, from the Roman Sack of the Last
Temple, coming out between 1666 (which is 1600 years from the
beginning of those
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Wars) and 1675, which is 1600 years from the City sacked, or
ploughed up with a Plough (so that a stone was hardly left upon a
stone) are like to make great changes in the World, is hinted from
many things of the Bible.

As being the Time of the great Sacrifice, and Worship of God, and
Burning those Beasts, which were Emblems of Oppression, and our
Beastly Lusts.

With Rest, to the seed of Abraham after 3600: or 10 great years,

after his first wandering, 3600 dayes: as Noahs Ark was tossed
3600 hours, before it rested on Ararat: a signal number, found in
the cubits of the Tabernacle, and Temples, with other things: as
dayes of 10 years.

As 9 such years, from his seed oppressed in Ægypt: hinted in his

Vision, and Sacrifice of the Bullock, Ram and Goat, of 3 years old
apeice.

And 7 such years, and half, from David: 7 years and half, at
Hebron: before he got Jerusalem, and fixed the Ark at Zion.

And 7 such years, and 5 moneths, from the Temple, built in so

many years and months, or dayes.

And 7 such years, from it repaired by Joash: and the 7 years

Famine, and Wandering of the Widow, Returning and enjoying all
again: as Israel may come to do, after 7 years scattering: or as
many years, as the dayes of 7 years.

And 2300 dayes, or years, from Jo-

siahs Reformation, (made in so many dayes) or Times following:
cleared by Daniels number of 2300 dayes: as hours, from the day of
the Ci y Taken to the Great Feast of Tabernacles.

Coming also in 1600 hours, after the day, of the Temple burnt, by
the Romans: Which is also cleared, by divers things of the Bible,
coming in such a distance of years, as hours of the dayes, on which
they came, in the Jewish year.

As of their Pentecost; and Doomsday: with the day of Aarons death,

and Gedaliah: and the great Atonement, following Aarons Death, in
as many hours, as years, from the Death of Christ, to These Times.

And so the great Feast of Dedication: at that Time, of which God

said, in Haggai, From This very Day, I Will Bless you.

Which was also, before the great Feast of Purim, as many hours, as
These Times are years, after Antiochus, and Nicanor, slain at
Purim. 1260 years before the Christians got Jerusalem, and
reigned in it much about 1100 years After Christ: as the Ark was
recovered from the Philistins, about 1100 years Before Him.

So that, by many things of the Bible, These Times are like to bring
a signal change on the World: and in special, upon the Jews, and
Jerusalem: Which may yet, be more cleared in a larger Discourse.
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I t was a great Question asked by Job, seeing Times are not

hidden from the Almighty; why do they that know Him, not also
know his Dayes? And although Christ told his Apostles, it was
not for them to know the times and seasons which the Father put
in his own power (so that the last Day and Hour was known to no
Man, or Angel, or the Son, but Father only) yet he promised an
Holy Spirit, which should also shew them things to come. And his
spirit in the Prophets searched Times also: And God determined the
Times and Bounds appointed, that men might seek the Lord. And
his Spirit searcheth all things, yea the Depths of God: as I Cor. 2.
10. Act. 17.26,27. I Pet.1.11.

And as Christ increased in Wisdom here, so in him are hid all

Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge, being worthy to receive
Power, and Riches, and Wisdom, as in the Revelation: Which God
gave him, to give, & to shew unto his servants, (for his secret is
with them that fear him, and his Covenant is to make them know
it; And blessed is he that readeth, and they which hear the words of
the Prophecy: For, the Time is at hand: And may be Revealed
There; as veyled before, in many things of the Law and the Prophets
(as Joseph found out days or years, in Grapes, or Kine, or Ears of
corn, which the Poets also put for Years) which we may therefore
search, and compare with the Revelation.

Where an Angel sweareth, Time shall be no longer, but when the

seventh Angel shall begin to sound, the Mystery of God shall be
finished, as he declared to the Prophets.

And the Angel stood, saying, Rise and measure the Temple of God,
and the Altar, and them that worship therein:
which Angels measured before, to the Prophets: But now, it is made
the measure of a Man, as the Number of a man, or such as a Man
may reach.

And besides his hint of Times also to be found in the Cubits, and
Measures of the Temple and Altar; we are plainly told, in the 9th to
the Hebrews, that the Holy Ghost did signifie the Times before
Christ, by the first Tabernacle; and the Times after, by the most
holy Place.

Which in Moses's time was a Square of 12 Cubits, that is 144 (as

Aarons Breast-plate was 144 Digits) But in Solomons time it was
20 long and 20 broad, which by 30 (the Temples height) maketh
just 12000; as the New Jerusalem is 12000 furlongs; and its walls
144 Cubits, as the Floor of Moses Oracle, and Ezekiels Altar, which
was also 12 long and 12 broad, Ezek. 43.16. & 41.1. with Exod. 26.

And supposing 24 hours in every day from the first Creation; the
first Sabbath day began at 144 hours, which the Jews part into so
many little Clakins, that the first Sabbaths Lamb (if there had been
Sacrifice) would have been attended with 144000 Clakins, or first-
fruits of Time: as the Lamb on Zion, with 144000 Virgins, in the
Revelation, as there were 144000 Martyrs in Ægypt, and
thereabout, a little before Constantine, as the best Authors of those
times.

And as the Revelation Woman driven by the flood of the Dragons

mouth, may lead us up to Noahs Ark, driven by the great flood; so
the 1260 days or years may be found in the very Cubits of that Ark;
with all the Times before and after also, perhaps, compared with
the Cubits of the Temple: which Solomons Wisdom saith, he was to
build, in resemblance of the most Holy Ta-
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bernacle: which is opened also in the Revelation.

The great Armagh, puts the Temple finished, in the year of the
World 3000, and 1005 before the years of Christ. And Solomon
spake 1005 Canticles: But the Square of his Temple Floor and
Porch before his Oracle, was but just 1000 (that is 50 long, by 20
broad) the years to the birth of Christ: which the learned Hornius,
fixeth just at 4000 years of the world, although the first of Christ
now reckoned may be 4005.

And as the Square of both ends, and of either side of the first story,
in Noahs Ark, is 4000 cubits, so are Ezekiels holy waters,
measured by 4000 cubits, as the years of Christ from the first
waters of Creation: and as Ezekiels waters flowed 4000 cubits from
the Altar, so the very cubits of Solomons Altar were just 4000: for it
was 20 long, and 20 broad, and 10 high, 4000. And so there were
just 4000 cubits above his Oracle, which was a perfect Cube of 20
cubits: but the Temple being 30 cubits high, there must be 10
cubits height, and 20 broad and long, which are just 4000, (as his
Altar cubits) over his most Holy Place.

And although there be some difference about the birth of Abraham,

yet it is now agreed by Capellus, Simson, Hornius, and the great
Armagh, to be much about 2000 years after the Creation, and 2000
before Christ; which is also fixed at 2000 by Scaliger, Calvisius,
Helvicus, Emmius, and many others; though they differ in the
years before the birth of Abraham.

Who, by this account, was as the Tabernacle, pitched in the midst

of the Camp; at 2000 cubits distance on every side; as the Levites
Cities Suburbs had 2000 cubits on every side, as Numb. 35.5. with
Josh. 3.4. And the Targum on Ruth, and others, fix their
Sabbath Days Journey, at 2000 cubits; as the Circuit of the great
Court about the Temple was 2000 cubits, as the Tabernacle cubits
before the most Holy Place 2000: if but 10 broad (as some make it)
by 20 long, and 10 high, 2000.

And as Abraham is fixed at 2000 years after the first, and 2000
before the second Adam, so the Temple about 2000 years after
Enoch, and 1000 before Christ, and 3000 after the Creation: As the
third Temple, or the Birth of Christ was much about 3000 years
after Enochs Translation.

And as there were 3000 shekels in a Talent, and 3000 Baths in

Solomons Sea, so he spake 3000 Parables (or dark sayings of old,
as in 78 Ps. of the years before him) as 1005 Songs, of the years
after him. And the Square of both sides of the Curtains round
about the Tabernacle Court were 3000 cubits, as the square of
either side of each story in Noahs Ark; or of both its ends, was
3000 cubits. Being 300 long, and 10 high, 3000. and being 50
broad, and 30 high, both ends are 3000, as either end, 1500.

And as Noahs Ark was begun about 1500 years after the world, and
1500 before the Temple, so was Moses Ark at 1500 years before the
birth of Christ. As the square of each side of the curtains round
about the Tabernacle Court, was 1500 cubits: and the spices of the
Holy Oyntment 1500 shekels. And to reckon years by shekels, God
may teach us in the last of Leviticus, valuing a person of 5 years
old at 5 shekels, and of 20 years at 20 shekels.

And as he told Abraham that his seed must serve 400 years (as the
400 cubits in the top of Solomons Altar, and bottom of his Oracle,
and 400 Pomegranats before his Temple, that stood about 400
years) so Abraham payed 400 shekels for his Burying place, 400
years before his seed enjoyed it, in Caleb, who was also
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400 years, before David at the same Hebron: with its double Cave
of Mackpela.

The Holy Oyntment, (as a Type of the most Holy: to be anointed, as

Dan. 9. and Acts 10.38. with Psalm 45.7.) was of 1500 shekels: and
so parted, as the 1500 years to Christ: that is Myrrh 500, as 500
years to the first Temple finished with all its Courts: and 500 of
Cinamon and Calamus, to the second Temple: and 500 of Cassia,
to the third, and Birth of Christ.

3000 Shekels in the Golden Candlestick, and many others, may be

considered in their proper places.

And for reckoning years by Cubits; as the Veil, at the Gate of the
Tabernacle Court was 20 cubits wide, so all the Camp was called,
and numbered There at 20 years old: and the Levites came to enter
at 20: though at first, they served at 30 years. As there were 30
cubits, in the height of Noahs Ark, and on both sides of the Gate of
the Tabernacle Court, and in the length of the Tabernacle, and the
height of Solomons Temple; and the Circuit of his Molten Sea: as a
Type of Christ, baptized about 30 years old: as the Priests were
washed, and anointed, at that age: and so the Levites first served at
30 years, till they were 50: as the Court they served in, was 50
cubits broad.

And being 100 long, its Circuit was 300 Cubits, as the length of
Noahs Ark which was 30 Cubits high, and 50 broad: as the
Tabernacle Court: so that its Curtains round about, were 1500
Cubits: that is 300 by 5 in depth. But the longest Curtain on the
Tabernacle was 30 cubits long (as the Tabernacle; and the Temple,
as Noahs Ark, was 30 cubits high, as their longest Moneths were
30 dayes) and the shortest Curtains 28 cubits, as the shortest
Moneth of 28 dayes.

And to measure the persons also,

(as in Rev. 11.) the Floor of the Tabernacle Court, (of 100 cubits
long, and 50 broad) was 5000 cubits, as the men fed at once, in the
Gospels, by 5 loavs, were 5000; and the greatest Church, expressed
in the Acts, at once, was 5000. And 5000 multiplied by the mean
between the shortest and longest Curtains of the Tabernacle (as the
mean Moneth of 29 dayes, between the shortest of 28 and the
longest of 30) is but 145,000: or 1000 more than 144000 in the
Revelation.

And the most Holy Place, being 144 cubits, by 10 in height, is

1440: and by 100, in the length of the Court 144000.

The Pillars 65 (of which again in Hours) and 4 before the most Holy
Place: as the persons that went down with Israel: which in Acts are
75, as the cubits of Moses's Altar, and about the Door: as the years
of Abraham at his entring Canaan. But the Boards of the
Tabernacle made but 72 cubits, (as the Sanhedrin) and being
doubled, as their Sockets, 144, as in the Oracle, for 144000 as
before. But some were Pillars, as in Galat. Tim. and Revel. 3.

And for reckoning by Letters of the Bible, as our Blessed Lord doth
style himself the First and the Last (as in Esay) by Alpha and
Omega, the first and last of the Greek Letters; So the Number of the
Beast, is expressed only by 3 Letters of that Alphabet, in all the
Copies that we have, or find: which may signifie many other things,
as well as 666; except we yield, the Holy Ghost would have us
number, as others did, and do (and most perhaps in all the East)
by Letters of their Alphabets.

And for Times also: We may not deny, that the very number in the
Hebrew Letters of that Curse to the Serpent, or Blessing to our first
Parents, in Gen. 3.15. (which is 4266) may make
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up the years of the World, by Scaliger, and all that follow him, To
Constantines breaking of Maxentius and Licinius, (or other
members of the Dragon, in the Revelation) or by others, to
Zenobia's prodigious Conquests of Ægypt and Babylon; or most of
That which the Psalms and Prophets call The Dragon. As a Pledge
perhaps, of the Cursed Crossing Serpent, and the Dragon (as in
Esa. 27.) to be bruised in his head, by the seed of the Woman: and
among the Gentiles also, as it then was, by Zenobia's strange
Power, or Life and Vertue, couched in her very Name:

And as all the years from Abrahams Birth, to their coming out of
Ægypt, are in the number of Sara, (their Mother, whence they
came) or Sur, the Place, to which they came (and wandered, as
Hagar, before them) So the years of Abrahams life, after his Call to
Canaan, are in the first words of God calling him: which the Jews
make a new Section of Genesis; and call it, by those calling words,
of Lec Leca, Go to thy self: to which, that of the Prodigal may
allude; who is said, to come To Himself, when he Turned to God, or
his Father.

And the 430 years from that Call, or Promise, to their coming out of
Ramases, are in the very name of Ramases, in Hebrew Letters: as
in shekell: which is first used at the 400 shekels, for the Cave of
Makpela.

From Ramases (wrong Masses, or Burthens) they came to Succoth,

that is Tabernacles: making 480; as the years of the Tabernacle, to
the Temple founded: or 486 to the Temple finished.

Their third Station was Etham: I shall be cut off (as the Temple
was, and all the Remnants of their Great City, in 441 years, the
number of Etham) or else, I shall be Perfected, as Christ speaketh
of His third Day: as This was their third station: and David useth
that word in that sense, in Psalm 19. and as there it is written, it
may be 1011: as the years from David, or the Temple founded, unto
Christ: Typified by the Pillar of Fire, and the glory of God, at
Etham: which was Sues, or Sur, a Lord, as Heroum, and Heren, in
many languages. As Her, of Women, the great Law-givers to the
World: as Solomon may hint in Proverbs 1.8.

From Sur, to Mara, Maratha, Rebellion and Bitterness: but healed

by a piece of Wood, as a Type of the Cross of Christ: and then they
came to Elin, or Elan (whence the Melan Hills: that is from Elan, in
Heb.) where the 12 Fountains, and 70 Palms, for 12 Tribes, and 70
Elders; or 12 Apostles, and 70 Disciples: for, their Sanhedrin were
72.

Thence to Sin, and there, they have Manna (another Type of the
Son of Man:) and the Law at Sinai, just at the Time appointed for
Pentecost: fulfilled at the great Pentecost in Acts 2.

To which there were, as many years, as the numbers of Letters in

their stations to the Law at Pentecost: Or as years of the world, to
Noahs Ark: or Verses of the Bible to Exodus; or Hours in their year,
to the Day of Pentecost, or the Great Minba Sacrifice before it: as a
great Type of the Death of Christ, before the great Pentecost in Acts
2. as we clear more fully, in their proper places.

And the Hebrew Alphabet, by which God wrote the Law, making
1495, may be the number of years from the last writing of the Law
(for the first wanted their Teth, the main Letter of their only word
for Good) to the Birth of Christ: or, from the death of Moses the
Law-giver, to the death of Christ, and his triumph over the Law, by
nailing it on the Cross.

All which, and very many more par-

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ticulars may be cleared in our way, as we shew the great things of

the Bible, past and to come also, shadowed, or pointed out, by the
signal Dayes, and Hours, and Watches, Weeks and Months of the
Jewish year: which we are now to discourse.

And to reckon Time by Dayes and Hours and Watches, we are

taught in divers Scriptures: and our Lord said, Are there not twelve
hours in the day? and he walked on the Sea in the fourth Watch of
the Night: as their Day, was of 4 parts, in Nehemiah 9.3.

The Revelation often mentions Hours, and Watchers: as we may

translate the four Wayts or Wights, by Daniels phrase of Watchers:
He was silent for an hour, in that which was to stay a year: and
there was Silence in Heaven, as for half an hour of Incense, (as
Plato's Temple-Prayer, for the third part of an hour) and a year, a
moneth, a day, and an hour, are all in a Verse, as akin together.

And the Moon, moving 12 of her Diameters, while the Sun moveth
one of his, in an Equinoctial Day, or Night, may shew us both the
Rise of hours, and their harmony, with dayes and moneths, and
years also. Though it was long, before we learned it, from Albateg,
or other Arabians: or from Ægypt, by Isis and Osyris, in 24 pieces:
and their Cynoc maketh Urine, every hour.

They were old, in Babylon (before Selencia, in Appian:) thence in

Greece, as in Herodotus: and in Italy, before the birth of Romulus,
in Plutarch: and Pliny, shewing the consent of Nations, in Letters,
cutting Hair, and counting Time with Hours.

The Jewes observe them very antient: and Tudalensis speaketh of

seeing a Tower, with a Dyall, or Scale of hours, as old as Balaam of
Beor, or Byr, about Euphrates.
And the Revelation Throne hath 7 Spirits, as for 7 dayes of the
week, and 24 Elders, as for 24 hours of the day: and 4 Wayts, with
6 wings apiece, (as in the Prophets) As their year hath 4 quarters,
with 6 Moons apiece (either full or new:) and their Moneth, had 4
Weeks, and 4 Sabbaths, as the Watchers, with 6 common dayes
apiece; and their dayes or nights, had 4 little Watches; as their day
and night, 4 greater Watches, of 6 hours apiece: which make the
great Turns, in Heaven and Earth, as Tides of the Sea; which are 6
hours distant, in the great Ocean; however it be, with Ebbe or
Flood, in little Creeks or Rivers.

For, beginning Time with Evening, as at first Creation: and with

Jews, and others (that begin their dayes at evening; and do reckon
Time, as English-men, by Sevennights, Fortnights, rather than by
dayes;) the first 6 hours, come down to the first Midnight (or
neither Nadir) where there was a kind of Rest, or turning up of
Light: which 6 hours more brought up, to the Rising Horizon:
where it seemed to turn inward, and yet upward; till the next 6
hours bring it up to the Zenith at Noon; and there, as resting again,
it turneth downward; and 6 hours more, bring it to the setting
Horizon; as all the other 6, do Rest, at a Cardinal pint, of Heaven
and Earth.

Which may give us a shadow of Sabbaths, in hours, and dayes, and

months, and years; being all in harmony, with the still water,
between each 6 hours Tyde of Ebb and Flood; which is also found
the great resting time of souls, and death; although there is that
never resteth, day or night, as Solomon speaketh.

And it may shew us the ground of those great changes in the world,
(and Church also) much about 666 years, as 666 hours, come up
to the Zenith point at Noon, in the last day of the Moneth
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in which the Moon beginneth to change; and the Sun is then

turned about, as upon its Axis; as we discourse elsewhere, from
Apelles, Sheinar, or Galileus.

And however, it come to be, the number of the Beast; it is under

the Throne or a Cycle of Time; as made of 4 times 7, or 28, the
dayes of a moneth (and 28, is 7, and all the unites under 7, as
dayes of a week) and 28, by 24, 666 and 6, or 24, devided by 4, the
number of Wayts, about the Throne, or Threeone, or Trione, or
Therion: which is one, and 2, or 3, in many languages. And in
Hebrew, Chaldee, or Syriac Letters, just 666: and in Greek, it is the
word, used for the Beast, as 4 Watchers, are also called Beasts;
and yet One is a Man, and the other three, as Angels.

And although 666 be made of 6 and 10, (which we shall find the
great numbers of change, and light and darkness) yet it is also
made of 3, to 3, Leshalosh, in Hebrew, 666: as Shillush, Triplicate:
shelash, to slice in 3. or slash, with a lash of 3 cords, as their
lashes were.

And their Golden Candlestick, had one Foot; with all the Wayts,
about the Throne; as that carried by Titus, in Triumph. And from
one shaft there were 3 Branchings: and three branches, on either
side (as 3 witnesses, in Heaven, and 3 on earth:) which came to be
7 Lamps, at top; as the 7 spirits, before the Throne.

And the Bowls, or Knobs, or both, are 24; as 3 in each branch, and
4 in the shaft: but so, that one is under every branching, as Exod.
24. 33, 34, 35.

And their Bible, shadowed by the Lamp (as divers Scriptures) was
one, in 3: The Law, and the Psalms, and the Prophets (which they
part in 2) and all, in 24 Books: so that the r common Title-Page, is
The Twenty Four: and we may find them parted, by Sections,
Chapters, and Verses, most sui-
table to the dayes and hours of their year.

As the Law, hath 187 Chapters: as hours, to the great Minha of the
eighth day, for Circumcision, Consecration of Priests and Nazarites,
as cleansing of Lepers, Issues, and defiled by the Dead: as also for
the Christian Sabbath, as we touch again: and 187 dayes, of their
year, to the Great Atonement.

And 669 Sections; as hours to the great Minha for the last day of
the month: and years from Enoch to the Flood.

And so many Verses, that their comeing to the Land of Rest, in

Joshuah 3. 13. beginneth the seventh thousand: as the great
number of Rest, in hours, and days, and years, and all.

And the Verses of Genesis, are as many as the hours of their year,
to the great Minha Sacrifice before the Pentecost.

And it might not be hard to shew the Throne of God shadowed in

divers things below; as in the Lilly, with 4 wayts about its Centre,
and 6 leaves, as its name in Hebrew, neer akin to Sushan the
Pallace and Susanna, much about 666; as also Lilium, in Hebrew
Letters, Night and Day.

But especially, in a Mans eye, with its Rainbow, as about the

Throne of God; with 3 and 4, or 7, and 24.

The Head hath its 7 great spirits before, in 2 ears, two eyes, two
nostrils, and the tongue (in a circle of 24 teeth, with 4 watchers
between them, higher than the rest) with 4 Arteries; 2 Parotides,
and 2 Vertebrall: and 24 nerves, about the Cerebellum. As the
spinall Marrow in 24. which we finde also in 24 rackets of the back,
with 7 upper spondils or rackets in the neck.

And the heart hath its 4 and 7. in a circle of 24, or 12 ribs on either
side, with 4 loabs of the lungs, or the liver in the lower Region, with
7 principal parts (as the 7 Planets in Heaven, and
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7 Metals in Earth) with 6 bowels: and one is of 12 digits or

Duodenum, with Ilia scarce to be measured, with all its yearnings,
as the waves of the Sea, with an Hebrew name, a-kin to our bowels.

As also the lower outer Court of the Tabernacle, had its Sea, or
Laver, not covered, or measured, (like the bowels) and its Altar,
consuming all (as the stomack) having 4 sides, and 24 cubits about
the middle.

And the Middle Court, or Tabernacle had its Altar of Incense (as the
heart) of 24 digits; and 12 Cakes of 24 omers, (as Levit. 24.) and its
7 lamps before the Throne: in

The most Holy Place; which was also circled with 24 Boards and
Cherubims, in white: as also the Tabernacle had its 24. (there
being 48 boards in all, so that the Oracle had 8 at the end, and 8 at
each side; and the Tabernacle 12 on either side) and the Veil
between them had 4 Pillars, as 4 Watchers at the Gates; which
might represent much higher persons than the 4 Wives of Jacob,
Mothers to the 12 Tribes.

And as the Cherubims had 4 faces, so in the Temple, there were 4

Cherubims about the Ark (as 4 Watchers about the Throne) and the
two outer and greater, were Olive-trees, as in divers Scriptures, like
the Olives in the Prophet, and Revelation; sending Oyl through the
golden Pipes; as the staves of the Ark, drawn out so to the Veil, that
the stuck out as Dugs, as the Jews, with 1 Kings 8.8. Isa. 66.11.

And b.sides the 3 Sons of Adam, and 3 Sons of Noah, there were
also 3 Families of Levites, which came out into 7 Branches, besides
the Priests: Of which also there were four chief; as first, the four
sons of Aaron: and when two of them were dead, yet there was
Moses, Aaron, and his two sons, as the four
Watchers; and afterwards the High-Priest had his Second, or
Sagan, and two Catholicim, as the four Watchers, and four
Squadrons of Levites, as of Israel also, round about the Tabernacle.

With 24 Courses of Priests, Levites, Watchers, Porters, Singers, and

Standers for the people, setled by David the 24th from Noah, but
from Abraham 14. as his name in Hebr. meaketh 14 and 24. But
they may be more antient: as at first, 12 Hours of Darkness, and
12 of Light; and then 12 Sons of Ishmael or Esau, and 12 of Israel:
so God also made 12 Princes or Judges, and others for Dividers,
(Who made me a Judge or a Divider?) And they were commanded to
make Judges, and Officers, in all their Gates, or Cities.

And for the least matters, they had never less than 3 Judges (as 3
Rabbies, or Teachers in their Synagogues) as they note on Elohim
(the Gods, or Judges, in Psal. 82.1.) which is Plurall, and 3 at least,
as their Duall is of 2. But for greater matters, they had a President
in 23 or 24 Elders, as a Maior and 24 Aldermen, in many Cities,
and Councils of divers Nations, which we touch elsewhere.

And of those, there were 3 at Jerusalem; and the greatest was of 3

times 24. As their weights and measures, Most things else, were in
24; as their 24 Courses, which had also their Presidents, for every
day of the week; as the 7 b.fore the Throne; and the Temple had 7
Officers, with Keyes, they called Amarcalim: As their Synagogues,
and the Christian Churches, had also 7 Deacons, or Ministers.

And 24 is three times 7, and 3. or three times 8. which was also

very signal for many things, we touch elsewhere.

Cad in Heb. 24. and so their Cab, was 24, in 4 logs, of 6 apiece (as
four
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Watches of 6 hours apiece, and their Seah 24 logs. Their Ephah 3

times 24.

As with others also, 24 blanks, make a perit, 24 droits a mite, 24

grains a penny, 24 scruples an ounce, as 24 inches the common
Rule, and 24 furlongs, a League or Leach (an Hours way) or Leash
of 3 miles.

Their Altar of Incense, 24 Digits, the other, 24 cubits (and one in

the middle) but in the second Temple, it was 24, on either side: As
the height of their walls, or breadth of their walks, with 24 Pillars,
of 24 spans about.

And as their publick Minha Cakes of Shew-bread, were of 24

Omers, so the Priests daily Minha was in 24 pieces, 12 at Evening,
12 at Morning; as God also gave them 24 Gifts, from the People.

Their Miter, was a Roll of 24 foot, or 16 cubits, and the cubit of 24

digits, as their Holy Breast-plate was of 24, but (being doubled) 12
were hidden, as the 12 hours of night; and 12 open; with 12
precious stones, as 12 hours of Day, 12 sons of Light; and the two
shoulder Gemms, had in each, 24 Letters, with one in the midst.

The blew Robe of 24 threds, or 12 double, and its Bells were 3

times 24, and so its Pomegranates. And the golden Threds, in 4
golden Garments, twisted with 6 of blew, 6 purple, 6 scarlet, and 6
linnen, called Shesh, or six (as well as silk) and so distinguished
from that they called Bad, which is single (as the name imports,)
and yet most proper, to the most Holy Place, and great Day of
Atonement; as if God delighted most in that which is most simple
and single; as his Altars were commanded plain, and without any
plants of mans setting; to which, the Prophet Esay, threatneth
desperate sorrow, even in Ahaz time, who brought in the new Altar
from Damascus: unto which, the
Prophets seem to allude in divers places.

And though we read not of Dials in the Bible, till Ahaz time, yet
they are elder much, if Benjamin the Jew deceive us not. However
there was Time, from the first Creation, which we may suppose so
parted by hours, that it may shew us great Harmonies, in much of
that which is past, and it may be, some to come.

Three hours, a little watch, as 6 the greater; 3 of those did bring up

light, and the Sun, in some seasons, as 3 of these, did bring it up
to Noon.

Three hours from Morning, brought up the first Sacrifice, as three

from Noon, the last: which was the time of finding and enjoying
God, through all the Scripture, as the Morning was the Mourning,
and the Seeking time, as several of its names imply.

The first 7th hour was Rest, and turning up of Light (as we saw
before) the 2d 7th came to the Morning, and the 3d to the Evening
Sacrifice; as the 2d 7th day of their year was for the Passeover; and
the 3d 7th for the Great Sabbath, at the close of Unleavened Bread.
The 7th week of their year was for the 2d Passeover; as the 7th
Moneth, for the Feast of Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles.
The 7th year for Release; and seven times 7, came up to the
Jubilee.

The 3d from the 7th, or the 10th from Evening, brought up Light in
some seasons, and the Sun in others, the 10th from Morning, the
Evening Incense. And the 10th day of many Moneths was very
signall: as for tying and trying the Paschal Lambs; and for the
death of Miriam, in the first moneth; as for the death of Eli and his
two sons, with the Ark taken; on the 10th of the 2d: and the 10th
week, was for Pentecost; the 9th or 10th of the 4th,
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was a Great Fast, for the City taken by the Caldees: as the 10th of
the 5th for both Temples, and the City Bither, with their Heavy
Doom of not entring into Rest. The 10th of the 7th was the great
Atonement: and the 10th of the 10th the Fast for the siege.

The 10th Hour from Morning, was the 22d from Evening; and as
they have 22 letters, so they had 22 cubits signal in the Temple-
floor, above the most Eastern Gate, and between the Gate Nicanor
and the Altar; and again between the Porch and the Altar, where
they killed Zechary, and were carryed captive in the 22d
Generation. Solomon offered 22000 Bullocks, as there were 22000
Levites, at the Tabernacle. And the last, and great Day of the Feast
of Tabernacles was the 22d day of the 7th moneth, as the 22d hour
of each day closed the great Minha, and 22d day of their year,
closed the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and dismissed the people.

The first Hours that ever turned light into darkness, were 25 and
26; but light came up again at 36 or 6 times six.

And as 666 is made of 3, or of 6 and 10, so it is the square of a

Root between 25 and 26, whose square is 10 more than 666; as the
square of 24, is 25 and 600, the Hours of 25 days, so it is also
made of 36, and all the Unites under 36; as the common Centre of
all their Watches great and small (as the sweetest chords in
Musick, are wholes, and halves, and quarters) and so it is, 3 times
6, and 3 times 6, by 6 times 6, or 36, as in the Table annexed.
 1. 2. 3. ----- 6
4. 5. 6. ----- 15
7. 8. 9. ----- 24
10. 11. 12. ----- 33
13. 14. 15. ----- 42
16. 17. 18. ----- 51
19. 20. 21. ----- 60
22. 23. 24. ----- 69
25. 26. 27. ----- 78
28. 29. 30. ----- 87
31. 32. 33. ----- 96
34. 35. 36. ----- 105
666

Where all the summs differ by 3 times 3, or the square of 3, which

is 9, and backwards and forwards, or up and down, they are the
same figures; which by addition, make up 6 (or 6 and 9) and so, in
these which follow in the same proportion:

37 38 39 ----- 114 Where each

summs
40 41 42 ----- 123 figures being
43 44 45 ----- 132 added, make
6, which
46 47 48 ----- 141 added,
49 50 51 ----- 150 maketh 666.

Which is but a little piece of the Secret of 666, the very number of
Sithra, in Heb. His Secret.

The first Day, parted Light and Darkness, the 2d parted the waters,
(as Emblems of Elect and Reprobate) upon a great Judgment,
placed in the Morning: which is time of Judging, and of Judgments,
in all the Bible. Where also 40 and 42 (the Morning Hours on the
2d day) are signall, for Tryals and Judgments.

And accounting each Day of Creation, for 1000 years (as the Jews
and others do, from divers Scriptures) every Hour of such a Day, is
about 42 years, or 6 times 7; and by this ac-
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count, the light of such a day, will be at 500, and its Morning
Sacrifice, about 666, of 1000. which is also the proportion of light
and darkness, in the differing seasons of the year in the Scripture
Scene, in which the Light may be one third, or two thirds, of a Day
of 24 Hours: as our shortest day is about 8 hours, and our longest
about 16.

And if it were ever equal (as the Jews began it always, at 6 Hours
from Noon) As the Morning would be still at 500 years of 1000, so
the next Watch for the Morning Sacrifice, must end, between 620.
and 667, of the Day of 1000 years.

As Enochs Birth at 622 years of the World, was at the time of the
Morning Sacrifice of the first Great Day: and his Translation, as its
Evening Sacrifice, at 987.

So the Morning of the 2d great day, began with the Birth of Noahs
Sons, and continued to the flood: and the Ark was built, about the
Morning Sacrifice of that Day.

The flood, was as washing of the Priest and Sacrifice, which Noah
offered, at his coming out of the Ark, at the close of the first Watch
of that day.

So the waters of the flood, were in the same time of the 2d great
day, as the waters were first divided, in the 2d day of Creation:
ending at 48 Hours.

And although the Rain began not till the 47th day of the year (on
the 17th of the 2d moneth) yet the Ark was filled, on the 40th day:
which was 10th of the 2d month, as afterwards, the 2d Ark was
taken, on the 10th of the 2d month.

Which was the 40th day of the year, (as 40 hours parted the
waters) and it rained 40 days on Noahs Ark; and the 2d Ark slitted
40 years in the Wilder-
ness, being first removed, on the 20th day of the 2d month (as the
first floated on the same day of the same month) and in 40 years
came to Jordan, and parted those waters, in the 2d week of their
year (as the first were parted on the 2d day) and upon the same day
of the month, on which the first Ark was filled with Beasts, and the
2d taken by the beastly Philistins.

And as the first Ark did separate the Church from the World; so did
the 2d separate Israel, and parted Jordan, on the same day on
which the Lambs were separate from the Flock; as Types of Gods
Elected Church in Christ, which was shadowed by the first and
second Ark, baptized in the flood and Jordan.

This was on the tenth day of the year, beginning at Nisan: But
beginning at Tizry (as it used for Civils) the tenth day was the great
Atonement, which had as many washings and sprinklings of water
and blood, as the sins, that were threatned with cutting off, or the
hours of the World, to the parting of the first waters.

And though the Tabernacle had but one Laver, the Temple had 10,
of 40 Baths apiece: as 40 hours parted the waters, and 40 days
rain on the first Ark; and 40 years slitting of the second; and 40
sprinklings of the blood of Atonement.

First of the Bullock, and then of the Goat: but once upwards,
before the Ark, as once offered to God; yet both were 7 times
sprinkled downwards, within the Veyl and without; and upon the
Altar of Incense; and dipped, on either horn: and poured at the
bottom of the Brazen Altar. Multiply washings as the 51 Psalm: and
not only my feet, but my hands and my head (but chiefly my
Heart.) As the feet and inwards, were washed, in their Sacrifice:
and all blood, was sprinkled; but the Sin offe-
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ring, dipped with the Finger: as the Finger of God, in Luke, but the
Spirit of God, in Matthew 12.28.

The third day of Creation was the first of Life; as the 3d Watch
brought up Light; and the third hour of the day, the Morning, as
the 3d from Noon, the Evening Sacrifice: And the third day brought
up the first fruits of the Earth; Rising up as from the Dead; and
they were first baptized for the Dead, or sprinkled, on the third day,
and then upon the 7th.

And their third week, and third day after the Passeover, brought up
their first fruit Omer: Heaved up, as a Type of Christ to be raised
on the 3d day (which was also the 3d from the Passover:) as their
Omer, on the third day; with a Lamb that had a double portion of
Flower, (for a Meat-offering) to any other Lamb, through all the
year; as a Type of Him that was annointed above his fellowes.

And their third month, brought up their first fruits of Wheat, and
other first fruits, at Pentecost; a Type of the first Fruits of the
Spirit, and Christian Church, at the great Pentecost in Acts the
second.

These were in two Loaves, as two Churches of Jew and Gentile:

which might be shadowed in their partition from Ephraim, to whom
old Jacob promised the Fullness of the Gentiles: as the Hebrew
words, of Gen. 48.19.

And Leavened: as the Best on Earth: except the first Fruits of all,
which was Christ: without Leaven of sin: and yet the Kingdom of
Heaven, (which is only used by Matthew) compared to Leaven,
which a woman put in three measures: which may allude to Sarahs
three measures for the three Angels (of 432 Eggs, as there were 432
years from the Promise to the first using
Ephaes in Sacrifice, which made up those three measures called
Seahs) or to the three measures of Barley leafed by Ruth; whence
our Lord came, as typed by the Barley Sheaf, called the Omer; as
by the Barley Cake, that cast down Midian, in Gideons time; and
the Wheaten Loaves had leaven, but the Barley none; as the Barley
sheaf, was with unleavened Bread.

There were other Types of Christ to be raised on the third day: As

Josephs Brethren, were loosed on the third day; as David recovered
Zicklag; and Hezekiah went up to the Temple, upon the third day,
after his sentence of death: and our Lords Parents lost him three
days, and then found Him in the Temple.

And as his death was shadowed by the Bullock and Goat, that were
slain on the great day of Atonement; so his life again, by the living
Goat, that bore away the sins for which the other dyed.

And the third day of their Civil year, beginning at Tizri (which many
hold the Season of Creation, and of Adams fall) is their great Fast
for the death of Gedaliah (the great Jah) slain by Ishmael of the
seed Royall; as the Jews slaying the Lord of life: and all the
Remnant was scattered at his death: but all was recovered again by
Johanan, the Lords Grace, as in Hebrew.

And Noahs Ark did rest on Ararat, upon that day which came to be
the 3d of Tabernacles; or as others reckon, the third of Unleavened
Bread, as the third after the first fruit Omer Reaped; as a Type of
the death of Christ: as its Heaving up, was of his Resurrection.

49 days more came up to the first-fruit Feast of Pentecost, in the

3d Month: as 49 hours of the World, came up to
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the third day; the first of life, and first-fruits of the Earth; and the
3d day of their Months and Years must begin with 49 hours.

And the Tradition is, that the fire which tryed the 3 Children, in the
fiery Fornace (as the first fruits of the third day, and 3d week, and
3d moneth) flamed out 49 cubits; as we may read before their Song,
in the Fragments of Daniel.

And there were 49 years, in, or between their Jubilees; which

brought them to their Rest; in 7 times 7, the number of Rest.

And as there were 7 weeks of first-fruits before their Pentecost, so

they payed 7 kindes; which are all in Deut. 8.8.

Their lowest proportion of First-fruits, which was a 60th part, from

Ezek. 45. which also states their pound at 60 shekels (as 60
minutes, with 60 2ds in an Hour). And as that 60th part was payed
in the third day, third week, or third moneth; so did 60 days begin
their third Month, and 60 hours their third Morning, and its Noon
is from 65 to 66 hours.

And the third Months Feast of first-fruits, the Pentecost, was the
65th day of their Year; and the next 65th was their great Dooms-
day, for the Oath of God, against their entring into Rest, and of
burning both Temples, and of Ploughing Jerusalem, and sacking
Bither: which they place on the same day of the Month; but some
call it the 9th, and some the 10th of the 5th, or the Evening
between them.

The third 65th begins their greatest Feast of Tabernacles, on the

15th of the 7th Month, ending with the great Hozannah, 7 days
after.

And 65 days more, come up, to the Great Dedication; on the 25th
of the 9th Month: which was also 65 b.fore
the first of Adar: with the Feast Purim, which was 65 dayes, after
their Fast, for the siege, on the 10th of the 10th moneth.

And as 65 hours, and 65 days, were signal to them, so 65 years, for

the Birth of Enoch's father and son, and of Eber, after Arphaxad:
and for Sarahs age, at her entring Canaan: and the 65, in Esai. 7.8.
compared with the 65 Pillars about the Tabernacle.

To which we may add, that 65 years change the Equinox from

evening to morning: and as old Geographers do place the land of
Canaan, at 65 degrees of Longitude; so, great Astronomers do find
the Moons common distance from the earth, to be 65 of its Radii.
As if God had disposed the First-fruits of Heaven and Earth and all,
at the same proportion and distances, with the First-fruit hours,
and days, in Canaan.

And though the Law speak but of one day, of Pentecost, yet the
Jews kept it, as other great Feasts, for 7 dayes together: as in the
Talmud. And the Karraits making it the 50th day from the weekly
Sabbath, following the Passeover, it might come to be, as many
days in the year, as there were hours to the close of the third day:
or its Evening Sacrifice at 70, to 72: the number of their Sanhedrin,
as of the Cubits, of the Boards, of the Tabernacle of Witness: and
its whole Circuit, was 84 Cubits.

And 84 Hours of Creation, brought up the 2 faithfull Witnesses, in

Heaven (as the 89 Psalm) the Sun and the Moon: in the morning of
the fourth day: which was just the middle of the week of Creation.
So that the 3 days and half, of the Revelation Witnesses, may
allude to the 3 days and half, in which the Heavenly Witnesses, did
first lye hid, and then shine, in the first week of Creation.

And as we found Noahs Ark, and Sa-

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crifice, in the second great day of the world, so Abraham began the
third; and its Morning Sacrifice, at Moses's Ark; as its Evening, in
David, at Zion. And the Temple came in the first Watch of the
fourth day; and its noon, at the second Temple: and its Evening
Sacrifice, at the Reformation and Dedication by Judas Machabeus;
Till the Son of Righteousness came up (as the Sun in the fourth
day) at the Birth of Christ: about 4000 years of the world, as we
saw before.

And as the third Morning, was at 60 Hours, and the third moneth
at 60 days, of their year; So the fourth noon, was just at 90 Hours:
and their fourth moneth, at 90 Dayes. And the fourth man, from
Adam, came up, at his fathers 90th Year.

The fifth Day came out, at 120 hours; and their fifth moneth came
up at 120 dayes: and then Aaron went up to Mount Hor, As Ezra to
Jerusalem, upon the first day of the fifth moneth, after 120 hours
of their year. As Adam came up after 120 hours of Creation. And
Noahs Ark was built in 120 years: the set time (for mans
Repentance) or Moed, in Hebrew, just 120. As the years, between
Moses's first Ark of Bulrush, and second at Jordan: or the shekels
of Gold, in the Tabernacle, or the Cubits, in either of its Veils: as in
Solomons Porch: who offered 120 thousand sheep, and had 120
Priests sounding with Trumpets: as 120 Senior Levites, in Davids
time, 120 Provinces in Daniels: 120 men of Ezra's Council: and 120
of note, in the first Church Acts the first.

130 Hours, the morning Watch of the sixth Day, the first of Adam:
and his son Seth came up, in 130 years: As the Tabernacles, after
Pentecost, 130 days: As the Tabernacle Chargers, were 130
shekels: and the Equinox is changed
one whole day, in 130 years: which was Adams Age, as Seth: or
Terahs, at Abrahams Birth: as Jacobs, at his coming to Ægypt:
and Jehojadahs, at his Death.

135 Hours, came to the time of the morning Sacrifice of the sixth
Day: the first of Adam: As from the day of Trying the Paschall
Lambs, to the First fruit Omer, are 135 Hours: as 135 days from
Pentecost, to the Feast of Palms: as 135 Cubits, their outward
Court of the Temple: As God is called Adonai, 135 times in their
Bibles. And the great Roots of all their Sacrifices, Levi, Kohath, and
Amram, lived all but two years more or less than 135. And as that
was the signal hour, of the sixth day, so the sixth man from Adam
came up, at 135 years, after Keinan: and of the World, 460: which
in Hours came in to the sixth day of Unleavened Bread.

144 Hours came just to the Beginning of the first Sabbath: As their
common Measure Seah, was of 144 Eggs (or Bits, in Hebrew.) And
Aarons Breastplate was of 144 Digits, or a span-square: and Moses
Oracle, 144 Cubits, in its Floor. As the Walls of the new Jerusalem,
144 Cubits.

At 150 Hours, the Sun turned from Midnight to the first Sabbath
Morning: and in 150 Days, the Flood Turned, and the Ark Rested,
on Ararat: After it had been tossed 5 months, and the earth lay hid,
as the Baptists mother, 5 months: As the Revelation Locusts had
power to hurt the Earth, but 5 months: and the 42 months, or
1260 days, may be found in the Cubits of the Ark, in his proper
place.

162 Hours, came just to the Noon of the seventh Day: and the
seventh month was 162 days after their first fruit Omer: and the
seventh man Enoch, came at 162 years, After his father: and in the
seventh Century, from Creation:
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As he was Translated, in the seventh year, after twice 7 times

seventy, that is 987. And he Pleased God, as the seventh Days
Sabbath: But was Translated: and so was the seventh Day, for the
eighth,

Which was to be the Christian Sabbath: as signal to the Jews; for

Consecration of their Priests, and Cleansing of Lepers, Issues, and
Defiled by the Dead; especially Nazarites: and other things, besides
their Circumcisions, on the eighth Day. And the first man
Circumcised, lived as many years, as there were Hours, to the first
Watches of the Day for Circumcision: or Watchers, in Nehemiahs
New Jerusalem: as Neh. 11.19.

And his son Isaac lived as many years, as there were Hours to the
morning of the eighth, or Circumcision Day: which began at 180
Hours: as the Days of their year to the Feast of Trumpets: or from
the Passeover to the Feast of Tabernacles, as the years of their
father Isaac, were 180.

The morning sacrifice of the eighth day, at 182 Hours, as the days
of their year to the Death of Gedaliah, (Typing Christ as we saw
before) or from the Passeover to the third of Tabernacles: or from
the Great Day of Unleavened Bread, to the great Hosannah, were
182: as the years of Lamech (the poor afflicted man) to Noah, Rest:
as a Type of Christ, and the Christian Rest; of which Matth. 11.28
as alluding to Lamechs name, and words of Noahs Rest, and giving
Rest.

Its Evening Sacrifice began from 187 Hours: and they reckon 187
Days in their year, before the great Atonement, made by their
greatest Priest: as the length of the Priests Court about the Temple,
was 187 Cubits: as the next without it, 135: with a fair descent,
they called Yared (as our English Yard) or akin to Jared; Born at
135, and living
187, years after Keinan: as 162 before Enoch, the seventh man: (as
there are 162 Hours to the Noon of the seventh Day:) and his son
begat, at 187 years: as 187 Hours, the first from Noon of the eighth
day. And the Pentateuch hath 187 Chapters: as the Hours to that
great Minha: and Days of the year, between the Vernal and
Autumnal Equinox: as in the great Feasts of Ahasuerus; as the Sun
to the Moon, or in their Language Esther (as in English a Star:)
both as Full or round

and New, or Hidden,

each of which, in Heb letters are 666: as the Hours, between the
Turnings of the Sun, or the Changes of the Moon.

The third day following is the Tenth as signal to them, for Tenths,
and other things, as the third was for First Fruits: and 10, is 3
times 3, and one. Their tenth week had the Pentecost: their tenth
month Tebeth, from Goodness: in which Esther was brought to the
Throne; as their children to the Temple, in their tenth year. And 10
persons made a Church, and might eat their Paschall Lambs: and
10 families must have a Synagogue. The lowest story of Noahs Ark
was 10 Cubits High; and so was the Tabernacle, and Solomons
Altar; As his Porch was 10 Cubits long.

The tenth Hour of their Days, came to their morning Watch, and
Light, and Sun, in some seasons: The tenth day of their Civil year,
was the great Atonement: and the tenth of their Sacred year, was
the day of Tryall, for their Paschall Lambs.

Which was just 240 Hours: as the 10 first persecutions, (or from
that of Nero, to Dioclesians) were 240 years: or afflictions for 10
days (as in the Revelation) or for as many years, as the hours of 10
days: which are 240: as the years from 66 of Christ
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to 306; when they ended, in Constantine.

And the Paschal Lambs were Tyed up, on the first tenth day of their
year, and seperate from the Flock (as the tenth Hour parted Light
and Darkness;) and so remained 3 days and an half, till they were
slain for the Passeover: to which also, the 3 days and half, of the
Revelation Witnesses, may allude. And so was Israel separate from
the world, and Moab, on the tenth of the first month; when they
passed Jordan to the plain of Jericho.

Which in Hebrew, maketh just 234, the hour of Noon, in that tenth
day. As it was 234 years, after their father Jacob dyed in Ægypt:
which was about 234 years, after Abraham entered Ægypt, or
Canaan; as now they did, by the plain of Jericho.

Which is akin to their word for a month, and the Moon; (to which it
seemed like;) and the Moons great Cycle, or the Golden number, is
of 235 months; as the first hour, of that days Minha; for the
Paschall Lambs, and for passing Jordan, and entering Canaan; yea
and for the New Jerusalem, in Ezek. 40. As the First Church was at
Enos, born in the year 235.

And the next man Keinan, came at 325, and 325 hours of their
year, come up to the morning Sacrifice of their Passeover. Which
was slain at 333 hours of their year, or 3 a clock, in the afternoon,
of the fourteenth day; which endeth at hour 336; the number of
Purim in Hebrew: which began, at their Preparation, to the
Passeover; and continued to the middle of Adar: as many days, as
there were hours, to the Passeover slain, 333. Which made 666
Changes, of Light and Darkness, in day and night: as 333 Cubits,
of Holy ground about the Temple, made 666 spans.

And as Keinan was born at 325, so

his son came 70 years after: as the Evening Sacrifice of the third
day, after the Passeover, which was for the First-fruit Omer,
Heaved up, with Blessing God: which is Mahallael; as Keinan is
mourning. As if those 2, were to represent the Mourning, and
Rejoicing Church of God.

And one of them was born 1332, or twice 666 years before the
Flood: the other 1260: and dyed in 1290, of the world. Which
numbers may be dayes, or years in Daniel, and the Revelation: as
they be signal Hours, in the Jewish year, to Pentecost.

Whose morning sacrifice is 1332 hours, from the first Watch, or

1335 from the first hour of the Day of Tryall: which is 1290 hours,
before the Preparation to Pentecost: which is 1260 hours, after the
preparation to the Passeover: which was also, the first of Hamans
lots, and plots against the Jews: which were all to be slain, as the
Paschall Lambs, at the Passeover: but were delivered in the third
moneth, or that for Pentecost: as Esther 8.9.

And allowing 120 years, for making the Ark (as God allowed it to
the old World:) as it began, in the year of Noah 480, as the great
day of unleavened Bread began at 480 hours of their year, and the
Temple at 480 years from Ægypt: So it was, in the year of the
World 1536: and 120 more, come up to 1665, the year of the Flood,
or hours to the 70th Day.

And Pentecost began at 1536 hours of their year: for it was the
50th day, from Reaping their Omer (on the first of Unleavened
Bread, the 15th of their first moneth:) and by consequence, the
65th day of their year: which began at 1536 hours, which make up
just 64 days: and the noon of the 64th (or preparation of the
Pentecost) is at 1530 hours: as the Cubits of the Front of Noahs
Ark: with its Height.
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For, it was 30 Cubits High, (as the height of the Temple, and length
of the Tabernacle, and its longest Curtains, as the Circuit of the
Molten Sea, was 30 Cubits:) which by 50 Cubits, the breadth of the
Ark, (and Tabernacle Court, and length of Solomons Porch, and
House before the Oracle) maketh 1500: as the Curtains about the
Tabernacle Court, of 1500 Cubits.

As the years from Ægypt, or the Tabernacle pitched, to Christ were

1500: as the shekels of the most Holy Oyntment 1500: as the
Cubits of each end of Noahs Ark.

And the other end, making 1500 more, are both 3000: as both
sides of the Tabernacle hangings; or the shekels of a Talent. As the
years, of the World, To Solomons Temple; or the Baths of his
Molten Sea; and his Parables, were 3000.

And so was the square of each side of each story, in Noahs Ark,
3000; for, it was 300 long (as the square of each side of the
Tabernacle, 30 long and 10 high, 300; as the Circuit of its Court,
100 long and 50 broad, 300,) And being 30 Cubits High, we may
follow them, which allow to Cubits, to each story (as the height also
of the Tabernacle and of Solomons Altar, and length of his Porch
was 10 Cubits;) and 300 by 10 is 3000; as the Cubits of both ends.

And thus the squares of each stories end, being 500 apiece (that is
50 broad, by 10 high) added, to the square of each side, make up
4000; as the Cubits of Solomons Altar, 20 long, and 20 broad, and
10 high, 4000. As the Cubits above his Oracle were 4000; and the
Cubits of Ezekiels Waters 4000; and the years of the world, to the
Birth of Christ, 4000; as we saw before.

The superficial Cubits, of both ends, and sides, of either storie of

Noah's Ark, are 7000 (each side being 3000, and
each end 500, at 50 broad and 10 high:) and 7000 is signall for the
Sabbath, in Hours, and Days, and Weeks, and Months, and Years,
in which the Suns Anomaly, or Apogeum, may come about, or be
reduced.

And the single length and breadth, 350, the years from the Flood to
Noahs death, or Abrahams Birth; which at his Fathers 130, can be
but a year or two more, than the death of Noah, just 350 from the
Flood: and the Arks length, and breadth, and height, are the
common proportions of a Mans Body.

And for Days also, as well as Years; there is great harmony betwen
them and cubits: And as David saith, his days were as Palms or
spans, so they might be liker Cubits; which had 24 digits, as days
had 24 hours: And that the Antients reckoned Days by Cubits, may
be seen by the Tomb of the great Ægyptian King, in a Ring of 365
cubits, as their Year had 365 days.

And the Ark being 30 cubits high, as their Month had 30 days (as
150 days are five Months, and 1260, 42 Months, of 30 days apiece)
300 long, by 50 broad, do make 15000 Months, or 1250 years, of
30 days to a Month. But if every Month had not full 30 days (as
now they allow but 59 to 2 Months) or if we allow another cubit, for
closing the Ark at the top, as some expound the Text; they may
come to 1260 years: as the Revelation time of the Woman, driven
by the Flood, out of the Dragons mouth; as Noahs Ark was driven
by the great Flood.

And accounting Cubits thus for Days, the whole content of the Ark,
will be the years to the Ark taken by the Philistins (on the same day
of the second Month on which Noah filled his Ark) at Elies death.
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Which was much about 400 years after they came from Ægypt;
(and so 1250 years after the Flood) and 1100 before the Birth of
Christ; as Michals Shekels, were 1100. and so were Dalilaes, given
her by the Philistins; when they took Samson, and put out both his
Eyes; as they took the Ark, and killed both its Priests in one day.

But if Abraham were born at his Fathers 70th year (as Scaliger and
all that follow him) the Cubits of Noahs Ark may bring us to the 2d
Ark setled at Zion; and Davids New Jerusalem: Taken from the
Jebusites, that Trod it down, as their Name implies in Hebrew; and
the Gospel, and Revelation may allude to this, in the Gentiles
Treading the holy City, for 1260 days or years; and then it should
be recovered, as David got it, in so many years after the Flood; and
called it by a New, and a Duall Name, as hinting Two Jerusalems;
as the Mother. and the Daughter; as, the Daughter of Zion; which
might be Zion after the Return from Babylon; or Nehemiahs New
Jerusalem.

Which was in so many years from Israels going into Ægypt, as

Davids was from the Flood; or as hours in 52 days, (as weeks in a
year) in Nehemiah 6.15. so that the Morning of the 53rd day, for
the Dedication, was just at 1260 Hours.

And again it was recovered by Judas Macchabeus, and the Temple

and Altar restored, in 1260 years after their bondage to the King of
Mesopotamia, a Type of Babylon; or 1260 years before the
Christians got it, and reigned in it, as a Type of the New Jerusalem
to come, in 1260 years after Antichrist, as that was 1260 years
after Antiochus: a Type of Antichrist.

And that Recovery of Jerusalem by the Christians, was about 1100

years
after Christ, as the Ark was strangely recovered, from the Philisins,
about 1100 years before Christ.

And for Daniels Numbers of 1290 and 1335. as they may allude to
signall Hours, in the Jewish year, so they may be Days, and Years
also.

And beginning their year, as they did for Sabbaths and Jubilees at
Tizri, their three years Tithes and Offerings might come up, with
the solemn Confessions of Deut. 26. in 1260, 1290, or 1335 days;
either at the first or second Passeover, or about their Pentecost; as
we discourse elsewhere.

And Davids Reign, was at 1290; as the Temple, 1335 years, after
the Flood; if 350 before Abraham; and 505 more, as many reckon
to the Law; and 480 more to the Temple founded (or as others
reckon, to it finished, do make 1335.

And for that of Antiochus, the City was profaned 1260 days: and
the Temple cleansed, and Antiochus slain in 1290: and all the Land
recovered, in 1335 days; as the Macchabees, cleered by Jacobus
Capelius: And as it was 1335 years, from their coming out of
Ægypt, (or the Abomination of the Golden Calf) so it was 1290
years, after they enjoyed Canann: 45 years after Caleb was sent to
search the Land, as in Jos. 14.10 and 1335 is but 45 more than
1290.

And as the Christians got Jerusalem 1260 years after Judas

Macchabeus, so they lost it again, at 1290 years after Christ: and
the Turks or Tartars (which great men did think a branch of the 10
Tribes) have possessed it long.

And if it be lawfull to look into Future Times, by all that is past, we

may hope, there are not many more years of wrath to come upon
that City: or the people of Israel that enjoyed it.

For which also, we finde the Wine-

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press of the wrath of God, running out with Blood, from the City
(trodden in it) 1600 furlongs: as in Revel. 14.

And if these also be for years, they will end between 1666, and
1675, now coming.

For, the Warrs that trod that City, as in a Wine-press (as before, in
Lam. 1.15.) began from 66 of Christ: and by 75 the City was
sacked, or ploughed up, with a Plough (as themselves record) upon
their great Doomsday, of not entring into Rest; and of Burning both
Temples: on the 9th or 10th of their 5th Month. And it seemeth
about 72 or 73. which yet may be 75, from the true Birth of Christ.

And that Furlongs may be years, we found the New Jerusalem to be

12000 furlongs, as Solomons Oracle, up to the Temple height, was
12000 Cubits, which we finde for years in many things.

And if they be for Days, there may be yet more reason why furlongs
should be Years, seeing there were as many Cubits in the furlong,
as their longest year had days. Though at first it seems there were
but 300 Cubits in their Stadion, (as the Schohast on Theocritus)
But more, in Eratosthenes: and Ptolomy contracted Him.

And though the Grecians fixed their stadion, by the feet of

Hercules, yet it seemeth most proper for the stage of the Sun;
which was also represented by Hercules, and his 12 Labours; as
the 12 Signs, and 12 Monthly stages of the Sun: or the Giant,
running a Race, as in the 19th Psalm.

And the Apostle Paul also useth the same word stadion, for a
Christian Race, and most proper, to the Olympick stadion: And it is
no wonder, that Times and Years should be expressed by that
Olympick phrase, when All did then reckon Years by Olympiads, or
Olympick
stages, or stadia, the word used here for 1600 furlongs.

And as we found the Cubits of the Tabernacle Court, and Hangings,

to be as the years from the Tabernacle, to the Birth of Christ, 1500;
as each end of Noahs' Ark, and shekels of the Holy Oyntment,
1500:

So the 72 Cubits, of the Boards of the Tabernacle, may be 72 years,

after the birth of Christ, before the destruction of their City and
Polity: Which may be shadowed by the Tabernacle: as the 9th to
the Hebrews shews us the way into the most Holy, was not open,
while the first Tabernacle was standing; or their outward Temple.

And about the Temple, as we finde the Circuit of the greatest Court
(which hemmed in the Gentiles) to be 2000 Cubits; as the years
from Abrahams Birth to Christ: and the Floor of all before the
Oracle, 1000: as the years between the Temple finished, and
Christ: So the Porch, and its House and Oracle, was 70 cubits long,
or 72 (as in the Boards of the Tabernacle) with Partitions between
them: as the years which their Temple stood, after the Birth of
Christ.

And for these 1600 years (between the Ruine of the Temple, and
their signal Change) we finde just 1600 cubits, in the Circuit of the
most Holy Place: or in the superificial Square of its sides; which are
20 by 20, 400, and so its 4 sides are 1600 Cubits.

And if the 4000 Cubits above the Oracle, did represent 4000 years
before the time of Christ, or end of the Temple, (as we found in
many Harmonies) why may not the 1600 Cubits round about the
Oracle, present as many years between the Temple, and that state
which was shadowed by the most Holy Place? which by many
things, appears to be a shadow of the New Jerusalem:
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of 144 Cubits (as the floor of Moses's Oracle) and 12000, as

Solomon's.

And these 1600 years, coming out at 1675 of Christ, will be 3600
years from Abrahams entring Canaan: for he was then 75 (as Gen.
12.4.) and he was born 2000 years before Christ (as we saw by
many Harmonies) and so 1675 of Christ, is just 3600, from
Abraham, first in Canaan.

And the Ark was tossed by the Flood, 3600 hours, or 150 days,
(from the 17th of the 2nd month, to the 17th of the 7th) and then
rested on Ararat, in the season of Tabernacles.

Which may also be hinted in the Revelation: where the 7th Trumpet
may allude to the Feast of Trumpets, in the 7th month: as every
month began with Trumpets, but the 7th with the Feast of
Trumpets: and again, on the great Atonement, it had the Trumpet
of Release, in sabbatical years, and Jubilees: and again, the
greatest Feast of all, the Tabernacles: called the Feast of
Ingathering all the Fruits of the Earth.

As before, they had the first fruits of Barly, called the Omer, and of
wheat and other, at Pentecost, fulfilled at the great Pentecost, in
Acts 2. So there must be the Feast of Harvest, or Ingathering all;
and Vintage also. Which are both past, in the same 14th Chapter of
the Revelation; before the blood had run out, 1600 furlongs; which
was the blood of the Vintage; and before the Tabernacles; which
seemth but a Type of that happy time, when the Tabernacle of God
shall be with men on earth; as afterwards in the Revelation.

And as the Cubits of the length and breadth of Noah's Ark, do bring
us unto Abrahams Time, as we saw before, so the very hours of its
tossing by the Flood, may be the years [missing text owing to a fold
in the page] Abraham and [missing text owing to a fold in the page]
they shall
finally Rest, in their promised land of Rest, 3600; the hours of 5
moneths, or 150 days.

And the Tabernacle, 30 long, by 12 broad, and 10 high, is just

3600 Cubits.

And as Solomon had 10 Lavers, and 10 Candlesticks for one of the

Tabernacles; so his whole Temple is 10 time so much as the
Tabernacle, or 36000 Cubits: being 60 long, besides his Porch; and
20 broad and 30 high, 36000.

And as his Workmen were 150000, so their Overseers were just

3600; as the Cubits of the Tabernacle; and the hours of the Ark
tossed by the Flood; which might be shadowed in his great Sea.

Which was 3000 Baths, (as the golden Candlestick, 3000 shekels,
or a Talent) but with 600 faces, on its brim; as the Jews, on 2
Chron. 4.3. as if he would allude, to that signal number of 3600.
and as his Temple was 60 long; so the 2d. was also 60 broad; and
3600 is 60 by 60, which we found the number of first-fruits, and of
shekels in their pound; as of minutes in an hour of 3600 seconds;
as the hourly Pulses of a man in perfect health, whence haply our
Temple pulses, have the name Tempora, Times, in so many
languages.

And for days also, which many Scriptures make as years; There are
just 3600 days, in 10 years of 360 days; or 12 moneths of 30 days
apiece; as the 5 moneths of the Ark tossed by the Flood to Ararat,
make 150 dayes; and 1260 dayes, in the Revelation, are 42 months
of 30 days apiece.

And when Abraham came to Canaan, he wandered 10 years, in

Ægypt, and Gerar, and other places (as [missing text owing to a
fold in the page]) did in Moab till at length, he recovered [missing
text owing to a fold in the page] ...chants of Sodom (that [missing
text owing to a fold in page] return with His seed; as Ezek. 16.53)
and conquered the 4 Mo-
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narchs, or Monarchies, as their names may import, and was then

met by Melchizedek a Type of Christ at his second coming; and
then he fixeth and stayeth in the land of Rest, and hath seed in
Hagar; at 10 years, after he came to Canaan; or 3600 days; as a
Type perhaps that his seed should finally Rest, in their Land of
Promise, after 10 Prophetick years; which are 3600 days or years;
and from his 75 year (when he first entered) 3600 years, are out, at
1675 after Christ.

Which is 3665 from Sarahs Birth, and 3675 from Abrahams; as

from his Death 3500; which is half 7000; or 3 days and an half, of
the longest day of 1000 years; for the suffering of the Witnesses, in
Abraham's seed.

And that the days of Creation shadowed out so many 1000 years of
the Worlds duration and changes, we noted before, from the Jews
and others; for divers reasons, besides That of Moses and other
Scriptures, saying, With God, a Day is as 1000 years; and 1000
years, as one Day.

And the Revelation Vials (and Trumpets) observe the method of the
days of Creation; first on Earth, and next on the Sea, and Rivers of
Waters: and the fourth is upon the Sun, which was made on the
fourth day: and the fifth on the Beast, and Dragon, made one the
fifth; and the sixth brings up the Rulers of the East, as Adam in
Eden, to Rule the World: and the 7th endeth in a Sabbath of Rest,
as the 7th day of Creation.

And although there have been great changes in all the great days,
or 1000 years, of the worlds Duration (as we touched before) yet are
greater like to come, in the latter days, than in all the Former.

As there was greater [missing text owing to a fold in page] Light and
Life, in the latter days of Creation [missing text owing to a fold in
the page] after the 3d and 4th, which were the first
of Life, and Light of the Sun; and of living Creatures. And of
Animals, the Dragon was first, (as the Heb. words of Gen. 1.21.)
and the Beast, of Behemoth, The chief of the works of God, (as in
Job) or first that Reigned on earth, as the Dragon in the Deep: till
Adam came up, to rule them both, on the sixth day of Creation.

And we are yet, but in the Morning, of the sixth great day of the
World; or of its 6th 1000 years. And if Christ came not till 4000
years of the World (as we saw before, from the greatest men, and
Harmonies of many things in the Bible;) We are now, at the Time,
that answers to the Morning Sacrifice, of the 6th day; which was
the first of Adam, and of any Sacrifice, or Worship of God, by any
Rational Creature.

And although we do not read of Adams Sacrifice, upon that day, yet
it was the first that could have a Sacrifice; although we suppose it
all along, and observed the Times, that came to be the Morning, or
Evening Sacrifice, in every day; but none could have it really so, till
Adam was made.

And although the Morning Light of this 6th thousand years, came
up about 1500 years after Christ (which was a signal time of Light
and Change in the World, and Church also;) yet it is like to
increase till it come to the full Noon; and a signall crisis, is like to
be, at the time of its Morning Sacrifice, about 666 of the thousand;
as we saw before; and so about 1666, of Christ, if born at 4000
years of the world.

But if He were not born till 4008 (which was 2000 years after 2008,
or Terahs 130) 1675 of Christ, may be but 666, of the 6th 1000:
and by such a clock, we are between 9 and 10 [missing text owing
to a fold in the page] of this great Day, [missing text owing to a fold
in the page].
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And this Morning Sacrifice may not only shadow the setting up of
God, and his Worship in a right manner; but also, the pulling down
of the Beast, and his burning in Fire; as the Revelation may allude,
to the burning of Beasts in Sacrifice.

And although the common daily Sacrifice was Lambs (as Types of
them, which are counted as sheep for the slaughter) yet at all great
times, and in special, at the new Moons and Changes (shadows of
change, to the World, and Church also, compared to the Moon)
there were Bullocks, Rams and Goats, to be burnt in fire: as those
Devouring Beasts, which God himself made emblems of those great
oppressing Monarchies; as shadows of the Revelation Beast to be
burnt in fire, as the Beasts of Sacrifice: which never was, nor could
be, till the 6th day: and the Morning Sacrifice answering to the 6th
great day is about 1666, or 1675, from the Birth of Christ.

Which is 10 Prophetick years from Abraham's coming into Canaan;

and 9 such years, from his seed oppressed in Ægypt; whence it
was recovered as Abraham was, by Plaguing Pharoah's house,
when he had almost lost his Wife: as a Type of his seed to follow.

And those 9 years, in the Bullock, Ram, and Goat, which Abraham
was bid to take, with a Turtle and a Pigeon; which were kept
unbroken, undevided, (as the Church of the Jew and Gentile) in the
midst, and breaking, of those great oppressing Monarchies, which
God had named before, in the King of Shinar or Babylon, Elam or
Persia, with Ellassar, the Prince of Ellas or Greece. And the times of
all, in 12 great years Bondage to them: as Gen. 14.4.

But 10 such years, from Abrahams coming into Canaan; as Gen.

16.3.

And 9, from their Bondage in Ægypt:

which is shewed in his Vision, Gen. 15. of the Bullock, Ram and
Goat, of 3 years apiece: or 9 in all.

As also the 3 years Heifer, or Bullock (so often cited in the

Scripture) may denote the 3 prophetick years, of 1080 days, or
years, from their Bondage in Ægpyt, to their coming out of
Babylon: seeing God himself compareth Ægypt and Babylon to an
Heifer or Bullock: in Jer. 46.20. 50.11. And the Jews still keep that
signal number of 1080, in the little clakins of their hours, which we
touched before.

The Ram and Goat, are emblems of the Persian and Grecian
Monarchies in Daniel, and they may be so, in Abrahams Vision.
They are found again, in the Tabernacle Curtains of Rams skins,
and Goats hair: with a rough Thatch, or Taxus, of the same name
with one from the Concubine Ruma, or Roma, Gen. 22. 24. And the
times of all may be veiled, in the Cubits of those Curtains; which
we discourse elsewhere: with the times of Moses and the Judges.

Gideons Pitchers, shadowed great things to come, in the Psalms

and Prophets, Gospel Light in Earthen Vessels (as 2 Cor. 4.7.) his
name implyeth passing away of time, or of iniquity. And if his 1700
shekels, be for years also, they may reach from him, to the
Christian Ephods and Teraphims, about 400 years from Christ:
when both the Church and Empire, were troden down by Arrians
and others more Barbarous. Or to the years of Christ, that may
finish Ephods and Israels whoring from him, Typed by Gideon.

Jeptha's 300 years (in Judges 11.26.) are as many as the Cubits of
each side of the Tabernacle: (30 by 10) or the circuit of its Court: or
the length of Noahs Ark. A very signal time, in divers Nations: and
for other things besides the siege of Troy. And some have
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thought, the Poets Iphigenia, was Jepthigenia: about 1200 years
before the Birth of Christ.

As Elies Death was 1100: as the shekels of Micha, and Dalia: for
Samson and his 2 eyes: as shadows of the Ark taken with its 2
Priests.

We found the time, in the Cube of Noahs Ark: and thought it were
but 7 months with the Philistins, yet it slitted up and down, till
David found it at Kiriath Jearim, the City of Woods (as Psal. 132)
notwithstanding the signal Victory at Eben Ezar (where the Ark was
taken before) and Beth Cir: the house of the Lamb. As Samuel
offered a Lamb, in great Thunder: as the Psalms and Revelation
may allude.

It was 377 years, after they entered Canaan (being 20, before
Davids 40: and the 4th of Solomon was 480 from Ægypt:) and the
number of Samuels name, in Heb. is 377.

David in Heb. 24. as he was from Noah: but as commonly written,

but 14: as from Abraham. And Davids 70 years, was the 14th 70,
from Abrahams birth: or 980: if Abraham were 504 years before
they left Ægypt; 430 years after the Promise.

Which is commonly fixed at Abrahams 74, or 75. but the Jews

place it at his 70th year (and 13 times 70 more, will come to the
Temple founded:) as they place his birth, at his fathers 70, which is
followed by Saliger, Petavius, and other great Chronologers.

And by this account, the years, we found in the Cube of Noahs Ark,
do bring us to the 2d Ark, fixed at Zion, and Davids new
Jerusalem: after he had Reigned at Hebron, 7 years and 6 months,
or 2700 days.

And so many years will come from 1035 before Christ to 1666 after
Christ, which will also be 2670 years, from the Temple finished in
so many days: or in
6 years and 5 months: for it was begun in the 2d month of
Solomons 4th year, and dedicate in the 7th month of his 11th year:
which the great Aemagh fixeth at the year of the world 3000, and
before the years of Christ 1005: which was also 30 years, after the
Ark at Zion (as 2 Sam. 5. with 2 Esdras 10:) which was after
Davids 7 years and 6 months, as the Temple was built in 7 years,
and 5 months.

Which 5 odd months (as those of the Ark, before it Rested) are 3600
hours, or 150 days; as there were, 150 years, to the Temple,
repaired by Joash: in his 23d year, or 855 before Christ; and 2520
more, the dayes of 7 years, come out at 1665, or 1666.

And these 7 Prophetick years, may be Typed in the 7 years Famine,

in which the Widdow wandered abroad, and then returned, and
enjoyed her land again: with all the mean profits: in the time of
Joram, talking with Gehazi. Who by this, seemeth freed from his
Leprosie; which else, would have kept him from the King's
presence.

The scatterings of Israel began with Ahabs death, at Ramoth; High

places (which had been their sin, and now began to be their
Punishment:) and at Gilead; the stones of witness, for Jacob and all
his Children; whom it had so often helped: as it did Mephibosheth;
who was preserved, by Machir of Ammiel, Lodebar: that is, a
Kinsman of Gods People, to whom is his word. And David was
maintained by the same, when he fled from Absalom; at Jacobs
Mahanaim; to which Solomon may allude, in the Hebrew words of
Cant. 6.13. And again the Christians were preserved thereabout, in
the mountains of Gilead, whither they fled, as Christ had warned
them, when the Romans rose from their first besieging of
Jerusalem, before Titus came and sacked it.
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And of their first scatterings at Ramoth-Gilead, Michaiah said, I

saw all Israel scattered, as sheep without a shepherd; which yet
might be but a shadow, of their following scatterings: But Gods
saying, Let them return in Peace, might intimate, they should
return in Peace from all their future scatterings: As the Prophets
use that Phrase. For, He that scattereth Israel will gather him.

And that they should be gathered in 7 Prophetick years; might be

shaddowed in their Sabbaticall years; and Moses's Dying Charge (in
Deut. 31.12.) which may be a Promise: That all Israel should be
Gathered, with their Strangers also, to hear the Law, at the close of
7 years, in the Solemnity of the year of Release; in the Feast of
Tabernacles; which was called the Feast of In-gathering, as we saw
before.

And 7 such Prophetick years, from the Fall, did bring Israel to
possess Canaan; and 7 more such years, did bring the Christians
to Reign at Jerusalem, about 1100 years after Christ, and 7 such
years from Israels scatterings, may recover Jew and Gentile too,
(for, Moses names the Stranger also) to the great Feast of
Tabernacles coming; and perhaps, beginning now, between 1666
and 1675. Which is 7 Prophetick years, (or as many as the days of
7 years) from their scatterings in Ahab, Joram, and Jeheahaz,
(when they were made as the Dust, and had only 10 Chariots left,
with 50 Horsemen:) who began in the very year of the Temple
Repaired, which was the 23d of Joash. The man that despaired (as
his Name implies, but was preserv'd by the Lords Oath, and
Knowledge, that is, Jehosheba, and Jehojada: when Athaliah, the
Lords Time, had cut off, the send Royall of Judah: as Jezibel cut off
the Prophets and seed of God, in Israel, that is, Naboth in Jezrael.
And Joash coming up in 7 years, might also be a Type of their
Rising again, in 7 Prophetick years: and His Repair of the Temple,
may shaddow the Restoring of the Church and Worship of God;
after its great Decay; and slaying the Witnesses: which might be
Typed in Naboth of Jezrael, and the seed Royall of Judah.

So the Temple, and Worship of God, was restored by Hezekiah,

after the Pollutions of Ahaz; and by Josiah, after Manasseh.

And Daniel was told, that the Sanctuary should be fully cleansed in
2300 days; as he had probably seen it done in Josiahs time. For it
began in his 12th, and ended in his 18th year: a signal time in
Jeremy, with Ezekiel, and it may be, in Daniel: where 2300 days, in
the time of the Macchabees, may answer to as many days, in the
Reformation of Josiah.

For, as all was profaned by Manasseh (and Restored by Josiah, in

so many Days) so was it by Antiochus, and Restored by
Macchabeus; who recovered the Temple in 1290 days, and the
Land in 1335, as we saw before. But Eupator got the Tower of Zion,
and Nicanor swore to burn the Temple; till he also was slain in
2300 days: or in 6 years, and so many days, as from the Temple
profaned, on the 15th of the 9th Month, to the 13th of the 12th, on
which Nicanor was slain: as we read in both Books of the
Macchabees, cleared by Capelius.

But as they may be days, in Antiochus, so they may be years to the

end of Antichrist: being commanded to be shut, or sealed up, for
many days; and for the Time of the end, and for the last end of
Indignation: which may be compared with the Revelation Vials of
the last Plagues.

And if those 1300 days or years, be-

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gin at Josiahs Reformation (as the 40 years of Judahs sin, in Ezek.
with Jeremy:) they will end with the 1600 years, or furlongs from
the City sacked.

And if they begin with Daniels Captivity, they will not be much
later; for, He was carryed Captive in the 3d or 4th of Jehojachim,
the Son of Josiah.

And from the Temple burnt, they will not be much longer. As the
Prophet was told, the Sanctuary should be cleansed in so many
days: as if they began with somewhat done to the Sanctuary; before
it was destroyed.

And though it was cleansed by Josiah, yet they say, much emptied;
of the Ark, and Holy Fire, with other things, hidden by Josiah, with
Jeremy: as we may also read in the 2d of Machab. 2d.

So that, the 2300 days, or years, of cleansing the Sanctuary, may

begin from its emptying in Josiahs time: when it lost some Glories,
which they say, were never recovered. As they note on the want of

their letter for 5, in the very word of Glory, promised to the 2d

Temple, in Hag. 1.8.

And from the Temple Burnt, they may come out, with the close of
the 2d Woe, in the Revelation: or the Turk (as is very probable:)
Prepared, for a year, a month, a day, and an Hour (or 391 years, to
be added, to 1300. when these came up, upon the Roman Scene:)
to slay the 3d part of men, with Fire and Brimstone, as Gunpowder.

But if the 2300 days begin at the time of the Vision, it was, in the
3d of Belshazzar; or 31 years after the Temple: So that 2300, would
be 2331 from the City burnt: and 2331, are 3 times 666, and an
half, or 7 times 333.

As if the steps of 7 cubits, from the Gentiles Court to the Holy

Ground, of 333 cubits, might intimate how long
the Gentiles should tread down those Holy Courts; to the last Ruine
of Babylon.

As the 5 steps, up to the Womens Court of 135 cubits, (which by 5,

is 675) may shew us the very years, from the first Captivity, (which
Ezekiel and Matthew fix on Jeconiah) to the last, or Roman Sack, of
Jerusalem.

But if that Court were made in Ezra's time (as may be probable
from divers things, besides its name of Æzra) being a Square of
135, on each side, the Circuit being 540 cubits, may be the years it
stood from Ezra's time.

Which was 490 years before the death of Christ, as is cleered

elsewhere, on Daniels Weeks. And the greatest Court about the
Temple, was 500 cubits long, and as many broad.

The 80 first cubits, to the Womens Court, may shaddow both the
80 days, the Women stayed (for a female) till they might enter the
Womens Court: and 80 years, between their first Return from
Babylon, and Ezra's coming up, and purging out the Gentile
Women, or making that Womans Court.

Which was 135 cubits, to the Gate of Nicanor, as it was about 135
years, before the first Nicanor, and 135 more, before the last; which
was slain about Purim: 135 days, after the 24th of the 7th Month;
which was the Day of the Solemn Covenant made in this Court, by
Nehemiah, The Lords Comfort, after Ezra, as the Comforter after
Christ, or the Helper, for Ezra is Help: and there were 11 compleat
years between them, as 11 cubits of Hell or Chell, before the
Womens Court of Help: or Ezra. The Lord send thee Help, out of his
Holy Place; as Psal. 20.2.

From the Gate Nicanor, there were 187 cubits more of Holy
Ground: as 187 years from Nicanors death, to the death of Christ.
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And to compare, That we expect, in Times to come, with that which

is past, in Harmony, with hours, as well as days of the Jewish year.

We found their great Feasts, or Fasts, at the distance of 65 Days:

so that their Pentecost, being the 65th day of their year, began at
the Hour 1536: as Noahs Ark began at the year of the World 1536.

And the Birth of Christ, (or his going into Ægypt) being 1500 years,
from their coming out of Ægypt, his Death being agreed in the
34th, or at most the 36th of his Life, must be 1534, from that
Exodus; as the Verses of the Bible, to Exodus, or the Hours of their
year, to the great Sacrifice before the Pentecost (as his Death was
before the great Pentecost, in Acts 2d) or at most, 1536; as the
years to the Ark; or as Hours to Pentecost.

And as he said, his coming or his days should be, as the days of
Noah: so, the years may be as many from Him, so speaking; as the
years of the Flood: 1656: which in Hours, comes up to the 70th day
of their year: which is like to make a signal Change, (as it did in the
Flood) and may be a kinde of Doomsday to the World: as their
Doomsday was, within so many Hours after their preparation to the
Pentecost, which is agreed as fulfilled at the death of Christ, and
great Pentecost following.

And the stopping of the First-born, or first-fruits, (and other things

after Pentecost) for which they yet fast, on the 23d of the 3d month,
may represent that great Apostacy, which seized on the Christian
Church, in so many years (after the Pentecost, in Acts the 2d) as
that day, on which they yet fast, was Hours after Pentecost.

Or if we begin, at their beginning of Pentecost; which could not be,

till they
were setled in Canaan: We are come to as many years, after their
first Pentecost, as the first Morning Sacrifice of Tabernacles was
Hours, after the full of Pentecost: which was but 130 days before
the first of Tabernacles.

And the Hours of 130 days, are 3120: so that the Morning Sacrifice
of the next day, the first of Tabernacles, is at 3135 Hours, after the
first Hours of Pentecost.

And if their first Pentecost, were the very fist year of their coming
into Canaan, it was but 1460 years, before the first of Christ: so
that 1666 of Christ will be 3135, compleat years, from their entring
Canaan: and they could hardly keep the Pentecost, untill they were
setled there, and had both subdued, and parted the Land, in 6 or 7
years, after their entring: which are therefore to be added to 1666,
to come up, to the Morning Sacrifice of the first of Tabernacles;
though the Day may be some years before it.

And if we consider the great things of the Bible, after their setling in
Canaan, we may finde them, in as many years, as Hours, to the
Days, in which they were in the Jewish year.

Of the Judges times, and Davids, we speak elsewhere; and of the

Temple begun at 480 years from Ægypt; as the Ark began at 480
Years of Noah; and the Great Sabbath of Unleavened Bread, at 480
Hours of the Jewish Year.

And for times of the Temple; till its Ruine: Jeroboam was as many
years from their first Pentecost, as the Hours of Pentecost, or its
Preparation, to the close of the Day, on which they yet fast, for his
Apostacy: the 23d of the 3d Month.

And the 10th of the 4th, when the City was taken, was 36 days, or
864 hours, from the first hour of Pentecost:
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As it was so many years from their first Pentecost: which must be

somewhat more than 40 years, from Ægypt: and somewhat less
than 440 years, before the Temple: which was 36 years before
Jeroboam: who was 390 years before the City taken: which was
therefore 866 years, after they entered Canaan: And their first
Pentecost, must be some few years After. Or the City might be
taken some few hours before the 10th day: for, the bread failed on
the 9th and the City was broken up, and the King fled out by night:
as it seems, between the 9th and 10th days, as 2 King. 25. with
Jerem. 52.

And if it were the 9th day, it was 96 dayes before the first of
Tabernacles: or 2300 hours, before the great Evening Minha of the
first day of that Feast: as Daniels great number, of 2300 days, or
years; of which before: and in 2300 hours the sun cometh, from the
Equinox, to his highest Apogeum.

And the Roman Sack, or Burning of the last Temple, was as many
years, after their first Pentecost, as there were hours, between the
day of Pentecost, and the 10th of the 5th month, on which the
Temple was burnt.

Which were as many, as the years, from their coming out of Ægypt,
to the death of Christ: or hours of their year, to Pentecost: which
began at 1536 hours: and so many there were again between
Pentecost, and the 10th of the 5th moneth: which was the 65th
after Pentecost, as this was the 65th of their year.

And 65 days more, begin the Feast of Tabernacles, so that its first
day can be but 1560 hours (as in 65 days) after the 10th of the 5th
moneth: which we call Doomesday; because of their great Doom of
not entering into Rest: and of burning both Temples, and of other
things against them.
Which they place on the same day of the same month, in divers
years; although some speak of the 9th, and some of the 10th day;
which was the day of the first Temple burnt: as in Jeremy 52.12.
and it might burn both in the 9th and 10th also: or the evening
between them.

And if it were the 9th, as some will have it, the very first hour, of
the 9th day, could be but 1608 hours, before the close of the first
day of the Tabernacles: which was the 15th of the 7th month; and
so could be, but the 67th day, from the 9th of the 5th, and 67
whole days, are but 1608 hours.

So that by this, as by other accounts before, the first Morning

Sacrifice of the great feast of Tabernacles coming, must be, in 1600
hours, or years, after the Temple burnt: or in the language of the
14th of the Revelation, after the harvest, and vintage hath run out,
1600 furlongs from the City; Trodden by the Roman Gentiles, as in
a Winepess of wrath. Which was about 72, or at most by 75 of
Christ, so that the 1600 years, or furlongs of Blood, from that
winepress, will be fully compleat, in 1675 of Christ: Or that, we
now reckon, 1672. Which by these accounts, should be, for the
great Feast of Tabernacles coming: as we have already seen the
former Feasts, of the Passeover, and Pentecost, fulfilled in Christ,
and the great Pentecost, in Acts 2d.

But if the Feast of Tabernacles were then also fulfilled: either in

Christ at that Feast; or the Christian churches, gathered in, of Jew
and Gentiles, in the times of the Apostles (Though those
beginnings, were but as the 2 loaves, at Pentecost with leaven (as
we touched before) or as the Apostle speaketh, but the first fruits of
the Spirit;) yet, there was another Feast which followed the
Tabernacles, at the same distance, of
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65 days (as we saw before) the Feast of Dedication.

And that was, a very great Feast also: though not commanded by
God, yet countenanced by Christ himself: and his presence at it, as
we read in John 10:27. And it may seem foretold, by God himself,
in Hag. 2. 19. speaking of the 2nd Temple Founded, (or continued,
and reassumed) on the 24th of the 9th moneth: of which he saith,
From this day, I will bless you.

And the great Restoration of the Temple, and Worship of God, by

Judas Machabeus, that begat that annual Feast of Dedication, was
upon the very next Day, to that on which the Prophet spake: the
25th of the 9th moneth: as 1 Mach. 4.

Which may be a Type, of the great Restoration of Religion, and the

right Worship of God, after the pollutions of Antichrist, or any
other, typified by Antiochus; of which before.

And by this account also, that which shall fulfill that Feast of
Dedication, must begin, in as many years, after the Acts and
Churches founded by the Apostles, as there were hours in 65, or 66
days; which we find the distance of those Feasts of Tabernacles
and Dedication: and a great change coming, or to be within 1600
hours, or years, after the time of the Acts: or Apostles following
Christ, or the first Gentile Churches, and destruction of Jerusalem.

We have fixed the times of Antiochus, and the Machabees b.fore, at

1335 years from Ægypt; and by consequence, 165 before Christ: or
1260 years, before the Christians reigned in Jerusalem: and 1840
years, before 1675 now coming: and 1840 hours bring up the
Morning Sacrifice of the 77th day: which, from the 25th of the 9th
month (or Feast of Dedication) is the 13th of Adar: which is another
great
Feast of the Jews for the death of Nicanor, in the Machabees: and
for their great deliverance from Hamans plots and lots, or Purim:
which were cast for that day. But the Lot was cast into the Lap,
and the disposal thereof, was from the Lord: as Solomon foretold:
and God disposed it so, that it fell upon the head of Haman, and
those that devised it, against the Jews: who thus came to have
power and rule over them that hated them, as Esther 8. and 9.

Which was also a map, or emblem of such another conquest they

got, over their great enemy Nicanor, and his Army: of which we
read, in both books of the Machabees. And both those things,
coming on the same day, of the same month, in successive years,
are a more evident pledge of Gods delivering all his people from
their enemies.

And the days of Purim did answer to the hours of the Passeover
slain, at 333; and the day endeth at 336, the number of Purim,
which began with the preparation to the Passeover, and should
have been acted on the 13th of Adar; but were disannulled on the
23d of the 3d moneth; which was as many days from the tying up
of the Paschal Lambs, as the 13th of Adar was, from the 9th
month, in which was the great Dedication, and recovery from
Antiochus; who was followed by Nicanor, slain on the 13th of Adar,
as we saw before.

And although the Jews had a great deliverance present, at the first
Purim, yet, as it was kept in all following times, so it might also
shadow some greater thing to come: when the Jewish church shall
come in again, after the fulness of the Gentiles, as Esther, after
Vasti, like the new Moon after the Full; as we saw shadowed in the
name of Esther.
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And by this account, also, the great Feast of Purim, or that, which
is to fulfill it, is to come in our times; or by the year 1675 of Christ,
which is, as many years, from Antiochus and Nicanor slain, as
there are hours, from the Dedication day to Purim, or its morning
Sacrifice.

Which we may yet farther clear, by the days of other great things
past in the Bible; which we shall find followed by some other
change, upon the Jews, in so many years, as there are hours in
their year, between the great Feasts, or Fasts, for those changes on
them. And most of all in 1600 years: which is 40 by 40. Which we
found their great number of Tryal and Judgement: as of parting the
first Waters, at the 40th hour of Creation.

And if we begin at their 40 years in the Wilderness; we found them

answering to the 40 days Rain, on the first Ark; which began to
float, in the Flood, at the same season, of the 2d month, as the 2d
Ark slitted in the Wilderness.

And there were also 40 dayes of the year to the first Ark filled: on
the 10th of the 2d month, on which also the 2d Ark was taken by
the Philistins: and 40 days have 960 hours; so that the next
morning Watch cometh at 969, as the years of Methuselahs life:
who dyed they say, about the filling of Noah's Ark.

And so many years, will come from the first Ark begun, to the 2nd
slitting in the Wilderness: or from the 2d Ark, to the 2d Temple.

For, 120 years of the Ark, before the Flood; and 350 more to
Abraham; and 500 more to their coming out of Ægypt, make up
970 years, to the 2d Ark: in the Wilderness.

As again, 480 years to the Temple,

and 36 more to Jeroboam, and 390 more to the City taken, and 64
more, do make up 970 years, betwen the 2d Ark, and the 2d
Temple.

And although we cannot tell the day of the 2d Ark formed: or of the
Tabernacle: yet by the Law, given at Pentecost; and Moses days in
the mount; we may follow the Jews, that account his coming down
to make the Tabernacle, at the time which came to be the Feast of
Tabernacles: which was also the season of Noahs Ark resting on
Ararat, if the 7th month then, were the 7th after they came from
Ægypt: of which we speak elsewhere.

However, it is plainly said, in the last of Exodus, that the

Tabernacle was Reared, on the first day of the first month, of the 2d
year, from Ægypt.

As many years, before the Birth of Christ, or his going into Ægypt,
as the Cubits of the Curtains about its Court, or the shekels of the
Holy Oyntment, that annointed it: which were 1500: as the Cubits,
of each end of Noahs Ark: as we saw before.

And as the spices of the Holy Oyntment were parted by 500, and
500, and 250 and 250; so also the Cubits of the hangings about the
Court, by 500 in one side, and 500 on the other; and 250 at either
end; which was but 50 broad, by 5 deep, 250; as either side 100,
by 5 deep, 500.

And thus also the death of Christ will be, as many years, from the
Tabernacle reared, as the hours from the first of the day upon
which it was reared unto Pentecost; or the great Sacrifice before it:
or Verses to Exodus; or years of the world to Noahs Ark. Or from
Enoch to the 2d Ark.

And as 480 years, from Ægypt to the Temple, do answer to 480

Hours, of their year, to the great Sabbath of Unleavened Bread; so
to 480 Cubits, in
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both sides of the Tabernacle Veyls: being 12 broad, and 10 high: or

120 Square, in each side; as the height of the Temple Porch, was
120 cubits, as the Hours before Adam, and years of the Ark, or of
Mans Repentance, before the Flood.

Each side of the Veyl was alike, (as the Jews expound the Curious
work) and each being 120, both are 240, the hours of 10 days; and
both the Veyls do make 480 cubits; as the years to the Temple: as
its years from Creation, were in the cubits of both ends of Noahs
Ark.

The top of the Altar was 25 cubits; as the years of the Levites age at
entrance, and of their service till 50: as the Court was 50 broad.

25, by 3 in height, are 75: as the square cubits of either side of the
Door; or 15 cubits by 5 in depth, which are also 75: as the years of
Abraham, at his coming into Canaan; or of Jacob, at his going out
to Haran; or the number of his Family, in Ægypt.

And that the Sacrifices of that Altar, should be turned into Prayers
and Praises, might be shewed by Solomons making a Brazen
Scaffold, just like Moses's Altar (in all dimensions) for his own
kneeling and praying on it; as 2 Chron. 6.13.

And his House of the Forrest of Lebanon, was 100 long and 50
broad, was the Tabernacle Court, and 30 high, as the Ark and
Temple, were 30 high, and the Tabernacle 30 long: which by 12
broad, was 360 cubits, in its floor: as the hours of their Month, to
full Moon, and of their year, to their coming out of Ægypt: and
days of their year, of 12 Months, of 30 days apiece: and their
common word for a year, doth make 355, as days of their Lunar
year: but with its usual Article, 360.

360 cubits in the Tabernacle floor,

by 10 high, are 3600: as the days of 10 years; at which they
brought their children to the Tabernacle, or Temple, with many
other things we touch before.

The Oracle being 144, in its floor, and 1440 in all, leaveth 2160
cubits, of 3600, for the Tabernacle, before the Oracle. Which are
neer the number made by the Formatives of their first Præter, or
the years of the World to Jacob; which they make as the beginning
of a New World; as 2 Esdras. 6 9. And from the Tabernacle reared,
so many years, come up to 660 (or as other reckon, to 666) of
Christ.

Which may be considered with 666, in the Revelation, as Printed

Books express it: though in the old Copies, or Manuscripts, it be in
3 Letters, as we touched before: as one hint, of counting, by
number of Letters also.

And as we finde the years between the Law and the Birth of Christ,
or between his death, and the death of the Law-giver; in the very
Alphabet, by which it was last written, by God himself: So we may
finde a Cycle of Times in it also; for much of that which is past, and
it may be somewhat to come also.

As the 9 first letters, being Unites, making 45, (as the spans of
Moses's Ark) may be the years from the Law so written, to the Ark
at Shiloh: or the 45 years, of which Caleb speaketh, in Josh. 14.
10.

And the 9 next, being Decimals, 450; the years to the Ark at Zion:
which we found at 450 years from Ægypt; or 30 years before the
Temple; which began at 480.

The 4 last, being Centenaries, make 1000. as the years from the
Temple finished (with its Courts) to Christ: or K R S T their 4 last
letters.

Which in their language are akin to

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the Word for the Boards of the Tabernacle: which might represent
the flesh of Christ: which is also Kreas, or somewhat akin to their
last Letters, in divers languages.

And as their 22 Letters make 45, 450 and 1000, or 1495, so their 5
finals, often in the Mazorites, do make 3500; or half 7000: 3 great
days and an half, from Abrahams Death, for his seed to suffer; till
they return, and enjoy their Promised Land of Rest: which will also
come out, with the 1600 years, or furlongs of the Revelat. in 1675
of Christ, as we saw before.

And by such account, the same word Etham, may denote the years
of the Temple, till its ruine; or to the Birth of Christ: allowing m to
be 40, as in its common use; and 600, as it is final.

And so the famous word Lemarbe, (with m final in its middle) may
denote 837 years, from the Prophets first beginning, to the death of
Christ, who is the childe and Son, there spoken of, in Esai. 9. 7.

But However, it is agreed by all, that the Hebrew Alphabet, in its

first numbers, maketh 1495; as the years from the Law written, to
the Birth of Christ, (as all that follow Scaliger) or from the death of
Moses the Law-giver, to the death of Christ: which being 34, or 35
years after his Birth, must be 1495, after their last year in the
Wilderness; which was 1460 years before his Birth, if this were
1500 years from Ægypt, or the Tabernacle reared; as so many
things do fix it.

And beginning with the first day of the 5th Month, on which Aaron
dyed, as a Type of Christ: 1460 Hours, bring up the greatest
Sacrifice, of the Feast of Trumpets, in the first of the 7th Month:
which was so fulfilled in the Baptist, and in Christ.
For, 60 dayes of the 5th and 6th Month, making 1440 Hours (as
the cubits of Moses's Oracle) do come to the first of the 7th, or
Feast of Trumpets: and its Evening Sacrifice about 1460 Hours,
from the first Hour of the 5th Month; and Aaron dyed on the first of
the 5th of their last, before they entred Canaan, as in Numb. 33.38.

And 35 Hours more, do make 1495: which come to the 3d day;

after the Feast of Trumpets: which is their great Fast, for the death
of Gedaliah (the great Jah) which commanded the Remnant; and
was slain by Ishmael (as a Type of Christ, slain by his own Nation)
in as many years, from the death of Aaron, as the day of his death
is Hours, before the death of Gedaliah.

And to remember that number the better: as Ezra came up to

Jerusalem upon the day of Aarons death (as in Ezra 7.9) so his
Company was 1496; as they are numbred in Ezra 8. with their
chief Leaders: which yet may be included in that number.

Moses also dyed in the same year, with Aaron; and although we do
not read the day of his death in the Bible, yet it is thus also fixed,
to be, as many years, before the death of Christ, as the number of
that Alphabet by which God wrote the Law; and gave it to Moses,
and Israel, by Moses's hand; with such a final number, as the
years, in which the Seed of the Woman should break the Serpents
head, and triumph over Death and Hell, and the Devil; by nailing
the law, and its sting, and Power, to his own Cross.

And if we go forward, from Aarons death, we finde them stung with

fiery Serpents: till the Brazen Serpent was lifted up; as a Type of
Christ: as himself explaineth it. And about that time, they were also
beaten by Arad: who took some of them Captive; as a Type
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perhaps of their last Captivity by the Romans; after the death of

Christ: as that of Arad was after the death of Aaron; as in Numb.
20, & 21.

And the fiery Serpents, after his death also, might foretell their fiery
Judgments and afflictions, which did follow the death of Christ,
and their own wishing his blood upon themselves and their
children.

The 9th or 10th of the same Month in which Aaron dyed, is their
solemn Fast for their heavy Doom, of not entring into Rest; which is
as many Hours before the great Atonement, as the day of Aarons
death is, before the Feast of Trumpets.

So that by this also, Christ did come to make Atonement, in as

many years, from their being in the Wilderness, as their day of
Atonement, was Hours from the day of their Doom, in the
Wilderness.

And that both Temples were destroyed, on the same day, with their
Doom, in several years, and their City ploughed up; and Bither
sacked also (with other things, upon the same day of their year, on
which they received that heavy Doom) is so common among them,
that I know not any one denying it; although some call it the 9th,
as others the 10th, of the same 5th Month.

And the first Temple was burnt on the 10th day; but the City, on
the 7th of the same Month, as in 2 Kin. 25. And as Ezra came up,
on the first of the same Month: so Nehemiah, much about the same
time, in which the City had been burnt; and began its repair; and
finisht it all in 52 days: so that, the next Morning, for its
Dedication, was 1260 Hours, from his first beginning to repair it:
As if the very Hours of his New Jerusalem, with its 12 Gates (as in
Nehem. and Zech.) were to sha-
dow the years of the New Jerusalem, in the Revelation: or the Time,
of the Church, recovered from Babylon; as Nehemiahs Jerusalem
was from the Babylonian Sack.

And again, the Christians gained it, and reigned there, in 1260
years, after the Times of Antiochus, the Type of Antichrist, as we
saw before.

And as Nehemiahs Hours, were signall, in his Building; so we may

finde the Hours after it, to the Feast of Tabernacles, (which he kept
so solemnly) to be as many, as the years, from thence, to the death
of Christ.

Which is agreed to be 490 years, after Ezra's coming up, or

Nehemiah's; and they met together, and kept the Feast of
Tabernalces; as we read in Nehem. 8.

And the 25th of the 6th Month Elul, on which Nehemiah finished
the City, (as Nehem. 6.15.) was just 490 Hours before the Morning
Watch of the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles: on the 15th of
the 7th Month; being the 21st day, after the 25th of the 6th, whose
Morning Light came up, with 490 Hours.

As the morning of the great Sabbath of Unleavened bread, came up

with 490 hours of their year: for, it was the 21 day, of their year:
and 20 days have just 480 hours; as the years, of the Temple built,
after Ægypt: or the Tabernacle reared, on the first day, of their first
month; in the 2d year from Ægypt.

So that the Tabernacle stood, as many hours, before that day of

Unleavened bread, as years before the Temple; and so Nehemiahs
New Jerusalem, was as many hours, before the Feast of
Tabernacles, as years, before our Lords presence, at the last and
great day, of the Feast of Tabernacles, as in John 7.37.
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And if that were fulfilled then; so that we must expect no more

Feast of Tabernacles, then what was Acted by Christ and his
Apostles soon after him; yet, we found another great Feast of
Dedication after, in the same distance, from the Feast of
Tabernacles (or Palms) as that was, after Doomesday; or this, after
Pentecost.

And if that, were also fulfilled by Christ and his presence, at the
Feast of Dedication: yet will Purim come also, by 1675, as we
cleared before.

As as that is now the greatest Feast, among the Jews, so they keep
it every where; in any Nation: being setled first in Persia. Whereas
other Feasts, were in Canaan, and fixed to that Country: so, that
other places, have but shadows, of their Passeover, Pentecost, or
Dedication.

And the Tabernacles, mainly There also; but yet so, that in other
places they have Booths, or Tents; and entertain strangers also:
but out of their houses; as shadowing their dwelling in Tents
abroad; and so, that strangers also did, and do, and must come in,
to their Feast of Tabernacles: as in the last of Zechariah. For, it was
the Feast of Ingathering all the fruits of the earth; as shadows of all
Nations, coming to the Kingdom of God, and of Christ, as the
seventh Trumpet, or that of the 7th month, and Feast of Trumpets,
before Atonement, and the Tabernacles.

And their pouring out Waters, which themselves reckon an emblem

of the Holy Ghost, to be poured out (as Christ expressed it, in Joh.
7.37,38,39.) was done with such joy, and singing, of Esai. 12, with
dancing also: that their common Proverb is, They know not joy,
who never saw the joy of Waters: which they poured, at that Feast.

But Purim used to abound with Wine: for which they have also
Pura,
for the Wine fat, or the Winepress: as Gideon behind the Winepress
(with his servant Pura:) shadowing him, that was to tread the
Winepress; and to break the plots of Hamans Purim. And the
Revelation winepress, running out with blood, for 1600 furlongs,
from the City trodden, may lead us to Purim also; with that, which
is to fulfill that great Feast, at the time we saw before: or when He
shall please, that is Lord of all times and seasons, things, and
persons also.

Shall we not then Blush, and be ashamed when we shall see our
sisters, Sodom and Samaria, come bowing in, but not by our
Covenant? as in Ezek. 16.

And our very blushing, and flowing of blood through all our face
and body, seems to tell us we are guilty of that, which Blood alone
can purge; and without blood is no remission. Whence it was every
sprinkled, or dipped, in all their Sacrifice, as the Paschall Blood, on
the Posts and Lintells; at the close of the 14th day, or 336 hours;
the number of Purim.

And in so many hours, a mans blood will so depurate it self, if

some great obstruction hinder not, that a continued Feaver may be
certainly cured; as an intermitting also, when its fits have made up
so many hours, as their year had to the blood of the Passeover; or
number of Purim; which began, about that time, as we saw before.

Which is but a little grain of the many Talents of good, and health,
and peace, and happiness, coming on the world; when the
Winepress hath fully run out; its 1600 furlongs: with the 7 last
Plagues, or Vials (which come up, with the winepress, in the 14, 15,
16 Chapters of the Revelation;) in which, the wrath of God, is filled
up, or finished upon the earth.
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Which shall then be free from its Curse, and Barrenness: as the
waters of Cursed Jericho, were healed by the new Curse of salt,
cast in by Elisha: a mighty type of Jesus, God the Saviour, as the
name of Elisha speaketh, in Hebrew.

When the Lord will remember, and fulfill his everlasting Covenant,
made with Noah; whom he blessed, and his sons also. And said, in
his heart, his very heart, I will no more curse the earth; which he
cursed, for mans sake, or Adams; as in Gen. 3.17. and 8. 21. and
9. With Psal. 67. 6. and 85. 12. Esai. 4. and 30. 23, 24, 25, 26. and
32. 15. and 60. and Jer. 31. and 33. and Ezek. 36. and 47.8, 9, 12,
22. Hos. 2. 18, 21, 22, 23. Joel 2. 21, &c. and 3.18. Amos 9. 11,
13, 14, 15. Zeph. 3.8, 19, 20. Zech. 8. 12. and 14.

Which the good Lord hasten in its season.

And because there cannot be Happiness without true Holiness; He

promiseth the remnant shall be Holy: and that every House in
Mount Zion, and all her assemblies, shall enjoy the Cloud and
Pillar: or Emblems of his Presence, as in the Tabernacle: and that
he will dwell among them, and walk among them. And not only be
as a little child, in swathing cloaths (or in a cradle: or as before in
the Ark:) but will stretch out his hands and his feet, as he that
swimmeth among them: and that he will remove the Iniquity of the
Land in one day.

For which also, it may be remembered, that although there was

Atonement made by the Blood of the Bullock and Goat, carryed into
the most Holy place (as a type of Heaven; whither Christ hath
carryed His Atoneing Blood;) yet the Sin was not taken or born
away, till he came out again of the Holy place: and laid it all upon
the head of the living Goat; who bore
it away: as the other had by death atoned it.

And when Aaron Offered his first Offerings (in Levit. 9.) he came
down, and lifted up his hand to bless the people: but the blessing
did not come, or appear (at which the Jews speak as if Aaron were
sad) till he went into the Holy place, and came out again: and then
the glory of God came down, and the Fire from Heaven: as an
emblem of the Holy Ghost: which came not, till Christ had entred
into Heaven: though he had lifted up both his hands before (as
Aaron did one of his) and blessed them: saying also, Receive the
Holy Ghost. But yet after, stay at Jerusalem, till it come upon you.
Which was at Pentecost, and as many years from that in which
Aaron offered, at the Tabernacle Reared up, as the Day of its
Rearing, or first offering, was hours, before the day of Pentecost.

And so the last day of Aaron, which was his death (or a Type of the
death of Christ: who was also shadowed by Ezra, coming up, on the
same day of Aarons death, before Nehemiah the Lords comfort, as
Christ before the Comforter:) was as many hours, before the day of
Atonement, as years, from the death of Christ, to these times of
which we speak.

Aaron went up, to Mount Hor, and Ezra to Jerusalem, upon the
first of the 5th month; and the great Atonement, was on the 10th of
the 7th month. And if every month, had full 30 days (as the
Scripture seemeth to allow) yet the day of Atonement could be but
the 70th day after the first of the 5th: and it will therefore come
after it, in the same distance of hours, as the years of the Flood,
after the Fall: 1656. Which in hours are just the beginning of the
70th Day. And the great Atonement, being the 70th day, from
Aarons Death, must
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begin with 1656 hours, after the first hour of Aarons day.

But as it is almost certain that he dyed not the first hour of that
day, in which he went up to Mount Hor; so there may be fewer
years, than 1656, as hours between his death, and the day of
Atonement.

And if we reckon his death, at the morning Sacrifice, of that day,

upon which he dyed: It is then 1640 hours, before the day of
Atonement. And if Christ dyed not till his 36th year (which is the
longest time that any I know give him on earth) 1640 more, will
come out, in 1675, or 1676 from his Birth: which may be 2 or 3
years, before that, we now reckon the years of Christ.

And if the day of Atonement then begin, it will not be long before
the living Goat do carry away the sins, for which the other dyed.

But there was a foul, unclean spirit, which could

not be cast out, by all the Apostles: who had yet power given them
over all unclean spirits. But That was a deaf Spirit, and would not,
could not hear the Apostles, till Christ himself came down again
from the Holy Mount (as in 2 Pet. 1.) as an emblem of Heaven; and
cast out That which was too hard for all his Ministers; till himself
appeared again, as the High Priest, out of the Holy place, bearing
away the sins, which were Atoned before.

But if all this time, He be but the Lamb of God, (or that which ful-
filleth the daily Sacrifice, or Lamb of God) O when shall he be, and
appear, not only the Goat, that dyed for the sins of the world; but
also that living Goat, who will bear them away, into a Land of For-
getfulness? Who is a God like until thee, that pardoneth iniquity,
and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?
he retain-eth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in
mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us: he will
subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the
depths of the Sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the
mercy to Abraham, which thou has sworn unto our fathers from
the days of old, Micah 7. 18, 19, 20.

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