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<HEAD><NOTE PLACE="marg">And the Lord Said, Write the <HI>Vi&s;ion,</HI> and make it plain upon Tables, that He may Run, that read|eth it, for the <HI>Vi&s;ion</HI> is for an Ap|pointed Time, <HI>&amp;c. Heb.</HI> 2.2.3.</NOTE>The Te&s;timony of <HI>T. Beverley</HI> according to Scripture Prophecy, concerning the Kingdom of Chri&s;t near Approoching, Summ'd up in the&s;e Following Po&s;itions.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Po&s;ition</HI> 1. A Truly <HI>&V;niver&s;al, Monarchy,</HI> or <HI>Kingdom</HI> from <HI>Sea to Sea,</HI> and from the <HI>River</HI> to the <HI>Ends of the Earth,</HI> even the <HI>Dominion under the whole Heaven</HI> is decreed by God to our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, at the End of the Fourth, <HI>viz.</HI> the <HI>Roman Monarchy,</HI> yet in Being in the <HI>Papacy,</HI> in Order to Prepare for His <HI>Glorious Kingdom</HI> of a 1000 Years, in the <HI>New Heaven,</HI> and the <HI>New Earth,</HI> never to end, but to be deliver'd up to <HI>God All in All.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Po&s;it.</HI> 2. The Time of this <HI>Kingdom</HI> &s;ucceeding, may be known by due &s;earch of the <HI>Scripture,</HI> and its <HI>Prophe&s;ies;</HI> God ha|ving Given therein a <HI>Line of Time,</HI> drawn throughout all Ages, either by its own <HI>Hi&s;tory,</HI> or by its <HI>Prophecy;</HI> and becau&s;e the <HI>La&s;t Times</HI> are mo&s;t notable, and of Greate&s;t Concern to be known; and Given in <HI>My&s;tical,</HI> and <HI>Prophetical Delineations;</HI> The <HI>Line of Time</HI> drawn over tho&s;e latter <HI>Times,</HI> is &s;upported by Coincident, or Collatteral <HI>Lines,</HI> with &s;uch Evident Characters of Relation and Agreement, that no &s;everal Joynts of a Tube can be more known by any Marks, or fitne&s;s of their <HI>Commi&s;&s;ures</HI> one with Another.</P>
<P><HI>Po&s;it.</HI> 3. By &s;uch Search, There are &s;everal Great Rea&s;ons of A&s;&s;urance, that the Time is 1697. for the Succe&s;&s;ion of that <HI>Kingdom:</HI> But that which may mo&s;t ea&s;ily Run into General Ob&s;ervation, is, That 1697 is the <HI>180th</HI> Year from the <HI>Reforma|tion,</HI> which <HI>Reformation</HI> could not have been with &s;o known a Retrenchment of the <HI>Papal Kingdom,</HI> but after the manner of Chri&s;t's Ri&s;ing on the <HI>Morning</HI> of the <HI>Third day,</HI> call'd yet <HI>Three days;</HI> when <HI>Time, Times,</HI> and <HI>Half a Time</HI> are <HI>Sworn by Chri&s;t</HI> to it, if the <HI>Half Time</HI> had not been Entred; which <HI>Half Time</HI> compared with <HI>Time</HI> and <HI>Times; (Time, Times,</HI> and <HI>Half Time</HI> being ju&s;t equal unto 1260 <HI>Days</HI> for <HI>Years.)</HI> can be but an 180 <HI>Years;</HI> Seeing then the <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie</HI> of the <HI>Chri&s;tian Church,</HI> hath in all <HI>Prote&s;tant Judgment</HI> &s;tood &s;o near 1260 Years, as by the <HI>Prophecy</HI> It ought to &s;tand, and that the mo&s;t Recorded Time of the <HI>Reformation Beginning,</HI> was 1517. The <HI>180th</HI> from it mu&s;t be 1697; And &s;eeing, as &s;oon as ever <HI>Papal Times</HI> cea&s;e, the <HI>King|dom of Christ</HI> according to a Great <HI>Harmony of Scriptures,</HI> mu&s;t &s;ucceed; The Succe&s;&s;ion of that <HI>Kingdom</HI> mu&s;t be at 1697. Who can but lay All this together!</P>
<P>It fairly Con&s;pires, That the <HI>American New World,</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Such a one Mo&s;t Re|markably Branded <HI>Here|&s;ie</HI> in the deep Time of the <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie,</HI> by Pope <HI>Zechary.</HI> Anno 745.</NOTE> and the <HI>Magellanic Sea</HI> were &s;o lately before the <HI>Reformation</HI> di&s;covered; that according to that <HI>Land&s;caph of the Reformation, Revel.</HI> 10. Je&s;us Chri&s;t making his Entry, as we &s;peak, and Claim of his <HI>Kingdom</HI> might &s;et his <HI>Right Foot on the Sea,</HI> and his <HI>Left Foot on the Earth</HI> of a Larger, and Greater World, then had been Known before; and might with his <HI>Hand Lifted up to Heaven, Swear; That there &s;hould be no more Time,</HI> but the <HI>Half Time</HI> Running out; The Time of the <HI>Kingdom &s;ucceeding</HI> to prepare for its Glory, and then his <HI>Kingdom</HI> in Full Glory Brings in Time of a <HI>New date,</HI> as every <HI>New Kingdom</HI> does, and this is &s;uch Time, as never was before.</P>
<P><HI>Po&s;it.</HI> 4. The <HI>Papal Kingdom</HI> having a Greater Intere&s;t in <HI>Half Time,</HI> though as of a <HI>Kingdom</HI> Retrench'd, then Chri&s;t in Regard of hi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Oath for <HI>Half Time</HI> al&s;o, would A&s;&s;ume in it; So many of the <HI>Kings</HI> of the <HI>Chri&s;tian Name,</HI> call'd the <HI>Ten Kongs,</HI> did upon &s;o Great an Invitation to Recall their <HI>Power from the Beast,</HI> as the <HI>Reformation</HI> was; by a Joynt deliberate Act, as it were a Second Act with <HI>One con|&s;ent, Decree</HI> to <HI>Give their Kingdom</HI> &s;till to the <HI>Beast,</HI> mention'd therefore a Second Time, and with this peculiar Remark on that Second Mention, <HI>untill the Words of God &s;hould be Fulfill'd</HI> in the <HI>Half Time</HI> al&s;o. <HI>Rev.</HI> 17.17. Seeing then this Second Act had its date from 1517, and that &s;o many Kings and States could not have gone off, except It had been the <HI>Half Time</HI> entred, and that None of them &s;hall Continue Longer with Him, then till the <HI>Words of God are Fulfill<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d</HI> in that <HI>Half Time</HI> al&s;o; How certain is it, There mu&s;t be &s;o Great a Change at 1697, the <HI>Half Times</HI> End, which &s;o plainly Appears to be 97!</P>
<P>On the &s;ame Account, The <HI>Reformation</HI> cannot be perfect, but in it will be Found Remains of the <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie,</HI> and this on the Account of the <HI>Oath of Christ</HI> for <HI>Half Time</HI> al&s;o; The <HI>Thunders</HI> therefore in that Foremention'd Land&s;caph&punc; that open'd the <HI>Reformation</HI> &s;o far, as we find it, were <HI>Seal'd;</HI> That it &s;hould proceed no further, but a far Greater <HI>Reformation</HI> be Expected at the End of <HI>Half Time, viz.</HI> 97. which will then certainly come to pa&s;s, wherein All Remains of <HI>Antichri&s;tiani&s;m</HI> will be purg'd off.</P>
<P><HI>Po&s;it.</HI> 5. Tho&s;e Two <HI>Scriptures</HI> urg'd &s;o much again&s;t Search into <HI>Prophetic Times, Mark</HI> 13.32. <HI>Of that Day and Hour Knoweth no Man,</HI> &amp;c. and <HI>Acts</HI> 1.7. <HI>It is not for you to Know the Times, and the Sea&s;ons, which the Father hath &s;et in his own Power,</HI> may according to the Be&s;t, and mo&s;t Agreed Rules for <HI>Interpreting Scripture,</HI> be demon&s;tratively clear'd, to Intend no &s;uch Foreprizal, &s;eeing &s;o many <HI>Scriptures</HI> make plain the Abundant Communication of the <HI>Knowledge of Times</HI> from God to Chri&s;t, and from Chri&s;t to his Servants, e&s;pecially in the <HI>Revelation, God Gave to Him to &s;hew to His Servants;</HI> So that That <HI>Scripture</HI> &s;tands Immutably Firm again&s;t all Cavill <HI>Rev.</HI> 1.3. <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed is He that Readeth, and They that Hear the words of his Prophecy,</HI> mo&s;t e&s;pecially, now the <HI>Time is &s;o near at Hand.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Po&s;it.</HI> 6. The <HI>Turki&s;h Tyranny,</HI> being a Judgment on purpo&s;e de&s;igned, and &s;et out in <HI>Prophecy,</HI> as a Jugdment on the <HI>Antichri&s;tian Apo&s;ta&s;ie,</HI> It cannot pa&s;s off either according to the nature of the Thing, or according to the Repre&s;entation of <HI>Prophecy,</HI> till the Time Allowed to the <HI>Antichri&s;tian Apo&s;ta&s;ie</HI> be Ended, and that Remov'd.</P>
<P><HI>Po&s;it.</HI> 7. The Fir&s;t Great Dawn of the Great Change, that will be at the Succe&s;&s;ion of the <HI>Kingdom of Christ,</HI> will be &s;een in the <HI>Suffering Reformed Churches,</HI> lying among the yet Continuing <HI>Popi&s;h Powers;</HI> wherein the <HI>Vaudois</HI> and the <HI>French Prote&s;tants,</HI> being the mo&s;t Eminent, the Dealings of God towards Them, are e&s;pecially to be Eyed according to the nearne&s;s of the pre&s;ent Time, to the <HI>Kingdom of Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> and to be waited for as the Great Signal of it; And it is now every day to be expected, and to be prayed for with all Fervent Prayer, as the effect of this next Summers Action, and our Prince's Appearance in it.</P>
<P><HI>Po&s;it.</HI> 8. The De&s;olations on the <HI>Jewi&s;h</HI> People and State, are decreed, till the End of the <HI>War</HI> again&s;t Chri&s;t and his <HI>Kingdom,</HI> fir&s;t by the <HI>Roman Pagan,</HI> and then by the <HI>Roman Antichri&s;tian Empire:</HI> As therefore the word <HI>War</HI> is made u&s;e of by <HI>Daniel, c</HI> 9.26. as the Bound|ing of <HI>Jewi&s;h De&s;olations;</HI> So the word <HI>War</HI> is us'd by the Spirit of God as its own word, which It Kept in Memory in the <HI>Revelation,</HI> con|cerning the <HI>Pagan Empire, Rev.</HI> 12.7. and concerning the <HI>Antichri&s;tian Empire;</HI> The word <HI>War</HI> is Three Times us'd, c. 11.7. c. 13. 7 c. 17.14. Now when the <HI>Kingdom of Chri&s;t</HI> is in Succe&s;&s;ion, the <HI>War</HI> will End, and &s;o There is a Great A&s;&s;urance, The <HI>Jews</HI> will be Call'd by the Preaching the <HI>Everla&s;ting Go&s;pel.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Po&s;it.</HI> 9. For the <HI>Preaching the Everl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ting Go&s;pel,</HI> (by which the Great Atchievments of the <HI>Kingdom of Chri&s;t</HI> will be obtain'd;) There will be a <HI>Pouring out of the Spirit,</HI> as in the <HI>Apo&s;tles days,</HI> and with a much more Perfect Univer&s;ality, which &s;hall fir&s;t Bring forth the <HI>Full Orb'd Light,</HI> &s;tyled the <GAP DESC="foreign"> of the <HI>Gentile Churches,</HI> that have been &s;o long under an <GAP DESC="foreign"> or Eclip&s;e, and &s;o &s;hall Ha&s;ten in the <HI>Jews;</HI> Even All <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and make them Ready for the <HI>First Re&s;urrection;</HI> For Their <HI>Full Light,</HI> or <GAP DESC="foreign">, much more then their <GAP DESC="foreign"> or <HI>Eclip&s;e,</HI> or &s;o long <HI>Diminution</HI> &s;hall be the <HI>Riches of the World,</HI> and that <HI>Life from the Dead of the first Re&s;urrection.</HI> Rom. 11.18.</P>
<P><HI>Po&s;it.</HI> 10. The Ce&s;&s;ation of the Extraordinary and Miraculous Gifts of the <HI>Holy Spirit,</HI> hath been in Permi&s;&s;ion of, and during the State of the <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie;</HI> For the Fullne&s;s of the <HI>Spirit</HI> is even E&s;&s;ential to the <HI>Glory of Redemption,</HI> and to the <HI>Kingdom of Me&s;&s;iah.</HI> Acts 2.17. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 59.21.</P>
<P><HI>Po&s;it.</HI> 11. As a Specimen of the <HI>Line of Time,</HI> drawn over the <HI>Last Times;</HI> I Affirm, that after that Great <HI>Vi&s;ion of Ezekiel's Temple and City,</HI> and the <HI>Throne of God</HI> in it; There is that Grand Line of the 2300 <HI>Evens. Morns.</HI> in <HI>Daniel,</HI> as the Line of all Time, to the <HI>Kingdom of Chri&s;t</HI> from the End of the <HI>Babyloni&s;h Captivity,</HI> and the Entrance of <HI>Cyrus</HI>'s Decree to Re&s;tore it; <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">From <HI>Litte|ral</HI> to <HI>My&s;tical Babylon</HI> Fal|ling.</NOTE> <HI>c.</HI> 8. which is in the after <HI>Vi&s;ions of Daniel,</HI> and of the <HI>Revelation,</HI> Parcell<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d out into le&s;&s;er <HI>Lines;</HI> and all, and every one Engraven with Notes of the <HI>Temple, Sanctuary,</HI> or <HI>Dayly Sacrifice,</HI> to Indent with <HI>Ezekiels Vi&s;ion,</HI> viz, 75 <HI>Y.</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">With Great Beauty 75 <HI>Y.</HI> at fir&s;t prepare for the <HI>Litteral.</HI> 75 at la&s;t pre|pare for the <HI>New Jeru&s;alem.</HI></NOTE> as may by Computation be Found, for the <HI>Word going forth</HI> according to the Commandment of the <HI>God of I&s;rael,</HI> by <HI>Cyrus, Darius,</HI> and <HI>Artaxerxes,</HI> Kings of <HI>Per&s;ia, Ezra</HI> 6.14. From thence 490 in the 70 <HI>Weeks</HI> Expre&s;s, till the <HI>Anointing the Holiest</HI> by the <HI>Spirit, pour'd out on Chri&s;t without Mea&s;ure;</HI> and then on his <HI>Apo&s;tles,</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> as the <HI>Spiritual Temple, Dan.</HI> 9.24. <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 2.21. Repre&s;ented <HI>Rev. c.</HI> 4. From thence to the <HI>Temple, Mea&s;ur'd</HI> and <HI>Shut up,</HI> with its <HI>Wor&s;hippers,</HI> and the <HI>Outward Court ca&s;t out,</HI> and <HI>Trodden under Foot</HI> of the <HI>Gentiles, Rev.</HI> 11.1. <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and &s;o the <HI>Dayly Sacrifice Taken away,</HI> as may be Computed 400 <HI>Y.</HI> From thence during the <HI>Abomi|nation of the Apo&s;ta&s;ie,</HI> making <HI>De&s;olate</HI> to the <HI>Temple,</HI> &s;een on <HI>Mount Zion</HI> by the Followers of the <HI>Lamb</HI> in the Time of the <HI>7th Trumpet,</HI> 1260 Expre&s;s Years; From thence to the <HI>Temple open'd,</HI> and the <HI>Tabernacle of Te&s;timony</HI> more Fully &s;een, (<HI>c.</HI> 15.5.8.) 30 Expre&s;s Years making the 1260 1290. as <HI>Dan.</HI> 12. when the <HI>Temple was filled with Smoak</HI> from the <HI>Glory of the Lord,</HI> and his <HI>Power,</HI> during the <HI>Pouring out of the Vials, &s;o that none could enter, v.</HI> 8. From thence to <HI>God</HI> and the <HI>Lamb,</HI> Bringing down their <HI>Tabernacle to be with Men, c.</HI> 21. <HI>v.</HI> 3. <HI>v.</HI> 22. and being the <HI>Temple of the New Jeru|&s;alem</HI> 45 Expre&s;s Y. making the 1290 1335, when All the Servants of God &s;hall &s;tand in their <HI>Lots, Dan.</HI> 12.13. as the Kings and Prie&s;ts of the <HI>New Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and <HI>Ezekiel's Vi&s;ional Throne, Ezek.</HI> 43.7. Even the <HI>Throne of God,</HI> and of the <HI>Lamb</HI> are in it, <HI>Rev.</HI> 22 3. All which make the 2300 <HI>Evens Morns.</HI> of Years to the <HI>Great Sabbati&s;m,</HI> So from the <HI>Temple</HI> are the Two Voices, <HI>It is done, It is done. Rev.</HI> 16.17. <HI>c.</HI> 21.6.</P>
<P><HI>Po&s;it.</HI> 12. There is no <HI>Parcel,</HI> or <HI>Collatteral Line</HI> of The&s;e 2300 <HI>Evens. Morns.</HI> but is under Expre&s;s Prophetical Number, except the 75 of the <HI>Word going forth</HI> before the 70 <HI>Weeks,</HI> and the 400 from the 70 <HI>Weeks</HI> ending, unto the <HI>Churches going into the Wilderne&s;s</HI> upon the <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie</HI> Beginning. Now if the 400 <HI>Y.</HI> can be any way A&s;certain'd, the 75 before the <HI>Weeks</HI> mu&s;t needs be A&s;certain'd al&s;o; becau&s;e all the other parts but the&s;e Two being numbred, if the Certain Number of the 400 be fix'd, There can be no more then 75 at the fir&s;t; Now therefore be&s;ides many Rea&s;ons of E&s;&s;ential Intimacy to the <HI>Prophecy</HI> of the <HI>Revelation,</HI> and to <HI>Hi&s;tory,</HI> A&s;&s;uring this Time was ju&s;t 400 <HI>Y.</HI> as is el&s;ewhere Fully Argued; It hath pleas'd God to bring to my mind this Great Ob&s;ervation.</P>
<P>The only <HI>Prophetical,</HI> and <HI>My&s;tical</HI> Time God gave to his <HI>Church</HI> before the <HI>Babyloni&s;h Captivity,</HI> when All Time was drawing up into <HI>Prophecy,</HI> was the 400 <HI>Years,</HI> Given to <HI>Abra|ham</HI> till His <HI>Po&s;terities going out of AEgypt</HI> into the <HI>Wilderne&s;s,</HI> and the 40 <HI>Days</HI> for <HI>Years</HI> in the <HI>Wilderne&s;s;</HI> Between which 400 <HI>Years,</HI> and the 400 <HI>Years</HI> to the <HI>Chri&s;tian Churches, Going into the Wilderne&s;s,</HI> and its being in the <HI>Wilderne&s;s,</HI> There are &s;o many Admirable Agreements that mu&s;t needs per&s;wade, One was Intended for the other as a <HI>Type.</HI></P>
<P>1. The 400 <HI>Y.</HI> were Given to <HI>Abraham</HI> on the <HI>Covenant</HI> Renewed by <HI>Sacrifice,</HI> &s;o to the <HI>Chri&s;tian Church,</HI> 400 <HI>Y.</HI> at the <HI>Covenant</HI> on Greate&s;t <HI>Sacrifice</HI> Confirmed by <HI>Christ</HI> and his <HI>Apo&s;tles.</HI> Gen. 15.13. Dan. 9.27. 2. The fir&s;t 400 <HI>Y.</HI> Reach'd to <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> as a Dragon, E&s;&s;aying to de&s;troy <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> God's <HI>First born,</HI> by Killing the <HI>Male Children;</HI> &s;o the <HI>Pagan Emperour</HI> Thought to devour the <HI>Imperial Manly Child Je&s;us Chri&s;t, King of Kings,</HI> and <HI>Lord of Lords.</HI> Revel. 12.2. <HI>&amp;c.</HI> 3. When the <HI>Church of I&s;rael</HI> went out from under <HI>Pharoah,</HI> It Immediately pa&s;s'd into the <HI>Wilderne&s;s;</HI> The <HI>Chri&s;tian Church</HI> was no &s;ooner Fully Free from the <HI>Pagan Per&s;ecution,</HI> but it went into the <HI>Wilderne&s;s,</HI> as the <HI>Revelations</HI> &s;ets out, <HI>c.</HI> 12. 4. God carried <HI>I&s;rael</HI> in|to the <HI>Wilderne&s;s,</HI> as on <HI>Eagles Wings.</HI> The <HI>Chri&s;tian Church</HI> was carried into a Retired State by a &s;pecial Care of God to be <HI>Nouri&s;h'd in its place.</HI> 5. The <HI>Wilderne&s;s</HI> State was a State of <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie;</HI> So the <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie of Antichri&s;t</HI> covered the General <HI>Chri&s;tian Profe&s;&s;ion,</HI> and the True <HI>Church</HI> was Hid, as in a <HI>Wilderne&s;s.</HI> 6. There were <HI>Days</HI> for <HI>Years</HI> in the <HI>Wilderne&s;s;</HI> &s;o in the <HI>Chri&s;tian Church,</HI> the 1260 <HI>Days</HI> are <HI>Days</HI> for <HI>Years,</HI> and the 42 <HI>Months</HI> are <HI>Months of Years.</HI> 7. There were 42 <HI>Encampings,</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">As it were Months.</NOTE> as the excellent Mr. <HI>Mede</HI> long ago ob&s;erv'd, and They are <HI>Numb.</HI> 33, &s;trictly reckon'd, and there are 42 <HI>Months</HI> of the <HI>Gentiles,</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">As it were Man&s;ions.</NOTE>and of the <HI>Beast</HI> Complicated into one. 8. As the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> provoking God by their <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie,</HI> caus'd their Long Stay in the <HI>Wilderne&s;s,</HI> &s;o the <HI>Apo&s;tolizing Ea&s;tern,</HI> and <HI>We&s;tern Roman Empires VVings</HI> carried the <HI>Chri&s;tian Church</HI> &s;o far into the <HI>Wilderne&s;s.</HI> 9. As <HI>I&s;rael</HI> was Fed with <HI>Manna,</HI> &s;o the <HI>Chri&s;tian True Church</HI> was Fed with <HI>Hidden Manna</HI> during the <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie.</HI> 10. As it had a <HI>Balam</HI> then to Seduce it, &s;o had the <HI>Chri&s;tian Church</HI> in its <HI>Wilderne&s;s</HI> State, <HI>Rev.</HI> 2.14.17. 11. As the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> had divine Protection as a <HI>Pillar of Cloud</HI> on the <HI>Tabernacle,</HI> that made the 42 <HI>Man&s;ions</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">As it were Months.</NOTE> or Delays to <HI>Canaan</HI> before &s;poken of: So the <HI>Chri&s;tian Glory</HI> is under a divine Re&s;erve, till the End of the <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie</HI> &s;ecur'd from All Enemies to its Future State, during the 42 Months of delay.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">As it were Man&s;ions.</NOTE> 12. As the Cloud was a Night, and darkne&s;s to the <HI>AEgyptians,</HI> and Light to the <HI>I&s;raelites. Exod.</HI> 14.20. So Spiritual <HI>Egypt</HI> is in a Dark Foul Place as in a Night, Accounted by Time of the <HI>Moon,</HI> or 42 M. but the True <HI>I&s;raeliti&s;h Chri&s;tian Church</HI> had, as the Appearance of Fire to Guide all its Motions: Saints Time is therefore accounted by the Day 1260 <HI>D.</HI> although in <HI>Sackcloth,</HI> becau&s;e of the <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie.</HI> 13. As the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> moves to|wards <HI>Canaan,</HI> were by divine direction by the <HI>Cloud taken off:</HI> &s;o the Moves of All the <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> of Chri&s;t again&s;t <HI>Idolatry, Image-wor&s;hip, Super&s;tition</HI> was by that Dark <HI>Cloud</HI> of the <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie</HI> taken off from Them: &s;o in the Enemies of <HI>Images,</HI> the <HI>Walden&s;es, John Hus, Jerome of Prague, Wickliff,</HI> the <HI>Bohemians,</HI> the <HI>Reformation,</HI> which was indeed like that &s;mall part of the Tribes, <HI>Reuben, Gad,</HI> the <HI>Half Tribe of Mana&s;&s;eh</HI> before the Re&s;t, Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing part of the <HI>Promi&s;ed Lands,</HI> but &s;till to be in Arms, as the <HI>Prote&s;tant Churches</HI> ought to be,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bind up the <HI>Te&s;timony,</HI> &s;eal the Law among my Di&s;ciples, and I will wait, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> I&s;a. 8.16.17. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> and not to Take Re&s;t, Grandieur and &s;plendor to Them&s;elves till the Full <HI>Reformation,</HI> lea&s;t that &s;in Find them out, as <HI>Numb.</HI> 32.23. 14. The End of the <HI>Wilderne&s;s</HI> was the <HI>Promi&s;ed Land</HI> by <HI>Jo&s;huah</HI> or <HI>Je&s;us:</HI> &s;o the True <HI>Je&s;us</HI> and his Kingdom &s;hall be the End of the <HI>Wilderne&s;s</HI>-&s;tate of the <HI>Chri&s;tian Church.</HI></P>
<P>From All this I Conclude, That there being other mo&s;t Sub&s;tantial Proof, This Parallel is a very A&s;&s;uring Illu&s;tration, that the Time from the 70 W. ended to the <HI>Church of Christ,</HI> going into the <HI>Wilderne&s;s,</HI> or being out of &s;ight during the <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;ie,</HI> was ju&s;t 400 <HI>Y.</HI> ending at 437, and &s;o It mu&s;t come out of the <HI>Wilderne&s;s</HI> 1697. after the 1260 <HI>Days for Years,</HI> and the 42 <HI>Months of Years</HI> Ended, and &s;o is mo&s;t certainly to be Expected; For 1260 <HI>Years</HI> from 437, mu&s;t Terminate in 1697.</P>
<TRAILER>The TESTIMONY is FINISH'D.</TRAILER>
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