A Chronological Account OF THE Age of the World; At the Birth of every one of the Ancient Fathers, from Adam to the Flood of Noah, the Kings of Judah, the Captivity of Babilon, and the End there­of, till the Death of the Messiah To which are Added Several Remarks concerning the End of the First Six Thousand Years of this World's-Age, and what may be expected for a Thousand Years thence next following, and some thoughts concerning the End of the World. As Also A Brief Exposition OF THE Thirteenth of the Revelations: Much differing from all that ever was before it. Wherein is Sett forth; First, Who the TWO BEASTS therein men­tioned are. Secondly, When they began. Thirdly, How long they are to Continue. Fourthly, When their End shall be. Wherein that M [...] stical Number of 666, is fully Explained. By William Wright of Colledge-Green, Dublin.

DƲBLIN: Printed by J. [...] in St. Nicholas cholas-street, and are to be Sold [...] of Dublin, 1700.

To the Reverend the Provost Vice-Provost, Fellows and Schollers, of Trinity Colledge in DUBLIN.

Reverend Sirs,

I Am your Tenant, even almost under the Droppings of your House▪ and although unknown to many of you, yet ready to Serve the meanest of you, in any thing in my Power; having but a small Portion of what you have attained to. Nevertheless, my Experience as to length of Time is Double, (I do believe to the Oldest of you) being above Eighty One Years of Age: Having seen more Changes and Revolutions in the World, then you have done; which caused me to search what has been done before my Time; and also to consider, what Ground we have in the Holy Scriptures; to know and believe what may be expected for the time to come: and though it be too late for me to think, to attain to such advantages, as the meanest of you Excel me in; yet if he that had but one Talent, had Improved it, he had not been Rejected by his Lord; Matthew 25. 15. And as Peter said to the Lame-Man Acts 3, Silver and Gold have I none, but such as he had, he freely gave him. So I say, Tongues, Languages, Arts, Sciences, Rhetorick, and Eloquence I have none; but such as I have I humbly present unto you; and although there is nothing herein, but what you may easily find out by Searching as I have done; yet by the method I have taken, it may be Serviceable in sparing some Labour, in the ready finding out of every thing, or Prooff therein mentioned at the very first sight. which if Accepted and Approved of by You, may In­courage him further to proceed. Who is

Reverend Sirs
your meanest and most Humble Servant. William Wright.

To the Reader.

[...]ll who have not, nor ever shall Worship the Beast or his Image, whose Names [...]re Written in The Book of Life, of what Perswassion soever they be, Grace, Health and Peace be given from him who was, and is, and is to come; the Almighty: and from Jesus Christ the Faithful Witness, and First-Fruits of [...]em that Slept.

[...]T is the General Use of Authors and Writers of Books, to Dedicate [...] them to some Great or Noble Person or other; from whom they either [...] have Recieved, or expect to Recieve, some Favourable Gratuitie, [...]ard or Preferment; and some (it may be) doth it out of Flattery and [...]pocrisie, to please Men that are in Great Places; to the End they may [...]steemed or preferr'd by them.

[...]ome Dedicate their Books to those they Love best, or to such as they [...]w or Believe will take most delight in the Subject their Boook Treats of; [...] such I most Commend; and hereby Follow their Example, in Dedi­ [...]ing this my Strange and Small Piece, to those whom I Judge to be the [...]y Fit and most Proper Judges amongst Men in this matter; not that all every one, whose Names are Written in the Book of Life, are Proper Judges [...]his case; for it is not given to all such to Understand or Know this [...]eat Mistery. Neither was it to be Revealed to any till towards the [...]. (As in Daniel 12. 9.) which is now drawing near. But as it Differeth [...]m all that went before it, so it hath no Dependancy upon the Judgment Opinion of any Person whatsoever that ever yet Handled this Text, or [...]rit upon this Chapter: so I have I hope, Built my Work upon that [...]e and firm Foundation, that God hath given forth by his Holy Spirit to the [...]ophets and Holy-Men of Old; I mean the Scriptures of Truth. what I have [...]nd there for my Purpose, as to the opening this Mistery, I have, I hope, [...] the Special Assistance of the True Spirit of God, made Use of, for the bet­ [...] Clearing and Confirming of what is writ in the following Discourse. Ne­ [...]theless I make use of Authentick History, such as agrees and accords with [Page] the Scriptures. Nay I make use of some, that not any of the former Expo [...] ever made use of; and it may be, that some will think it very strange, I should make use of the Alcoran of Mahomet, to prove the Latter Beast, [...] the very Image of the First. But to such I say, Try all Things, Read and [...] sider with True Ʋnderstanding, (if God hath given it) and with Impartial [...] and withal keep Prejudice out of your Mind; and be equal in your Thou [...] like a true Ballance, which doth Justice to all that trys it: wit [...] which, no Man shall ever Reap the Profit which otherwise by a Meek and [...] byassed Mind, he may (by the Blessing of God) do in whatsoever he Rea [...] ▪ Therefore I pray observe, that the Text tells us plainly, That there were Two B [...] that did arise, the first out of the Sea, Rev. 13. 1. The Second out of the E [...] verse 11. These Two Beasts cannot be both One, as many Famous & Le [...] ed Writers of this Subject hath said. Which hereafter shall be named unto y [...] who all of them, make both the Two Beasts to be one Person, or one by [...] cessions of Persons which cannot be.

But Mr. Naper, who of all the rest I have Named, was the Second or T [...] that Writ of this Chapter, (as hereafter may appear,) he did Guess at it, an [...] his Arguments Paraphrasical, Exposition, Analysis, Solution, Notes, Rea [...] and Historical Amplifications, and Applications he even fills up his Book; [...] thereby even Darkens the Text; so that it is made more Dark by his W [...] ing than without it.

Now all of the said Writers make the Latter Beast one & the same wit [...] First; which argues, that every one of them Successively had their Depend [...] (I am afraid) one upon another: the Latter on the Former; not duely [...] sidering the True foundation that all ought to Build upon, rather than [...] the Opinions of other Men.

I do believe, there's not one True Understanding Christian that has Rea [...] or any of the aforesaid Expositions (so called upon this Thirteenth Chap [...] that can, or will safely say, they do believe their Exposition to be the [...] Sence and Meaning of the Text; notwithstanding they are Covered & C [...] ed over with several un-necessary Words, (as is before mentioned) some [...] one sorts of words hard to be understood, and some other sorts which [...] nothing to the true meaning of the Text, nor to the Understanding of suc [...] want that degree of Learning which they had; and some if not all, by w [...] placing the Beginning or Rise of these two Beasts, do, and must needs E [...] to their ending: for so long as the one that came up out of the Sea, cam [...] [Page] [...]ore the other that Rose out of the Earth, so long shall the Latter continue [...] on the Earth after the First be Destroyed, I do verily Beileve, except those [...] the Days that God will shorten for his Elects sake, as Christ saith, Mat­ [...]w 24. 22. Now that these Two Beasts, which all the aforesaid [...]positors and divers more, would Joyn together, or have the Actions both fulfilled in one Person, or in one Power, or in the Succession one Person upholding that Power: I don't only prove the con­ [...]ry, (for the very Letter of the Scriptures sufficiently proves it) but I also [...]e, that these Two Beasts were mentioned in several Scriptures in the Old [...]ament by several names, long before ever they appeared in the World; and [...]at their Actions should be: for otherwise it is a thing Incredible, that the [...]tter Beast mentioned at the Eleventh verse, (and so to the end of the Chap­ [...],) which was to do such Great and Strange things, that the Holy Spirit of [...]d (which revealed all to those that Writ the Scriptures,) should not make [...]ention of this Second Beast as well as the First; therefore on the contrary, I [...] believe, that he was both mentioned and made known to the Prophets of [...]ld; and in particular to Ezekiel, Daniel and to Zechariah, and to others, a­ [...]ve a Thousand Years before either of these Two Beasts appeared in the World, [...]d so by these Prophets made Known to us, if we can but believe them; and [...]ve any measure of that Spirit in us, to understand them, which they had.

Object. Now some may think, that we who now Live, (or others after us,) [...] many Ages and Generations since these Misteries were Foretold, that it should [...] harder for any Person in this Age to understand them now, than it was for [...]ose that then Lived when they were newly spoken.

Answer. In Answer to which, I recomend the Reader to these several Scrip­ [...]res beforementioned as Jer. 23. 20. and Chap. 30. 24. Dan. 12. 4. 7. 9, as [...]so these that follow: Ezekiel 38. 8. After many Days thou shalt [...] visited in the Latter Years &c. These words seem to be spoken [...] the Destruction of the Magog Latter of these Two Beasts, mentioned [...] the following Discourse; to wit, the Turk or Successor of Mahomet. But for [...]ant of Printing they were not Known but to a very few in this World. And [...] Daniel 10. 14 there the Angel makes Daniel to understand what shall befal [...]is People in the Latter Days; for yet the Vision is for many Days saith the [...]ngel (as much as to say for many Years) then to come, and now above Two [...]housand one Hundred and Forty Four Years since thy People, saith the Angel [...] Daniel, (meaning the Jews, he himself being one of them) for whom most [Page] certainly God has a Blessing in store, after the End and Destruction▪ Two Beasts that are Reigning.

Likewise in Joel 2. 28. 29. And it shall come to pass afterwards, that [...] pour out my Spirit upon all Flesh; to wit upon Old Men, Young Men, Ser [...] and Handmaids, Jews and Gentiles &c. all sorts.

Object. But it may be Admired by some, why the First of these Two Beast [...] [...] ing the Greatest Idolator in the World, and the Greatest Persecuto [...] the best of Christ's Flock; that God should suffer him to Live so long, [...] not to Destroy him as he did Pharoah; he having Destroyed so many [...] lions of God's best Servants; as by his means have been Murdered, Massa [...] and Martyred.

Answ. But let all such consider, that God always was, is, and ever wi [...] as good as his word; & punctual in his promises; and he has declared to all [...] that this Beast must continue One Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty Days; w [...] Men of all Perswations, understand to be Years:) and God will not de [...] him of his Limited and Appointed Time, which He himself has Appoi [...] for it may be it is all the Joyful Portion that Beast shall have: Neverthele [...] is filling up the measure of his Iniquity all the while, as is the other Beast a [...]

Therefore, Let all wait in Faith, and with Patience, with Humilitie True Submission to God saying, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in Eart [...] it is in Heaven; for he will in his own Appointed Time, bring all to End [...] hath determined. And as he Remembered the unkindness of Ameleck t [...] People Israel above Four Hundred Years, till the Sins of Ameleck were at full, 1 Sam. 15. 23. So assuredly will God do with these Two Beasts [...] his appointed time shall come; and their Crying Sins are at the Height, & [...] Abominations come to the Full: then will be the Time that God will re [...] with them, when his Promise is fulfilled concerning them and their appo [...] Time Expired.

In the mean time many shall run to and fro, and Knowledge shall be Incre [...] Daniel the 12. 14.

[...]nological Account of the Years of the WORLD;

[...]m Adam, to the Birth of every one of the Ancient Fathers of the Right­ous Line to the Flood of Noah; who was the Tenth from Adam, and so on to Abraham who was the Tenth from Noah, and the Twentieth from Adam, and so on to the Death and Suffering of the Mesiah, who then fulfilled the Promise made by the Father to Adam 4000 Years before: Proved by the Scriptures of Truth in the Method following.

  their BirthProved.worlds Age
1ADam Created the 1st Year of world   
2he Begat Seth when he was130Gen, 5. 3.0130
3Seth being 105, Begat Enos105verse 6.0235
4Enos at his age of 90, Begat Cainan090verse 9.0325
5thence to Mehelael070verse 12.0395
6thence to [...] Jared065verse 15.0460
7thence to [...] Enoch162verse 180622
8thence to Methusala065verse 210687
9thence to Lamech187verse 250874
10thence to Noah, the Tenth from Adam182verse 28.1056
11thence to Shem, Ham & Japhet500verse 321556
 thence to the Flood100Gen. 7. 11.1656
12thence to Arphaxad after the Flood002Chap. 11. 10.1658
13thence to Selah035verse 121693
14thence to Eber030verse 141723
15thence to Peleg034verse 161757
16thence to Rew030verse 181787
17thence to Serug032verse 201819
18thence to Nahor030verse 221849
19thence to Terah029verse 241878
20thence to Abraham the 20th from Adam070verse 261948
 from his birth to his Call out of Caldea052 2000
Noah [...]ed till [...] 58 [...]ar of A­ [...]ham [...]. Gen. 9. [...].Now is the World Two Thousand Years Old, at which time God renew­ed his Promise to Abraham, which he had made to Adam Two Thousand Years before, saying to Abraham that in [Page 4] thee shall all the Families of the Earth be Blessed. Chap. 12. 3. & Chap. 18. 18. & Chap, 22. 18. [Page 4] Gen. 12. 3. 
Sodom desroyed in Anno Mundi 2047.From Abrams Age of 52 to Isaac's birth048Gen. 25. 26.20 [...]
 now is Abram 100. thence to Jacob060 2 [...]
 Jacob stood before Pharoah at his age of130Chap. 47. 9. 28.22 [...]
 after which Moses was Born135Exod. 2. 223 [...]
 He led Israel out of Egpyt when he was080Exod. 7. 7.24 [...]
 He led Israel in the Wilderness afterwa.040Deut. 2, 7.24 [...]
 Joshua Conquered & Ruled040Josh. 23. 1.25 [...]
 the Elders that out-lived him027Judges 2. 7.25 [...]
 they sin against God & he brought Chu­shan K. of Mesopotamia against them for008Chap,25 [...]
 Othniel Subdued him & Ruled Israel for040verse 11.26 [...]
 then Eglon K. of Moab oppressed them018verse 14.26 [...]
 Left-handed Ehud slew Eglon & Ruled080verse 30.27 [...]
 Jabin K. of Canaan oppressed them020Chap. 4. 3.27 [...]
 Delivered by Debora & Barac, she judged040Chap. 5. 3127 [...]
 The Midianites oppress grieveously for007Chap. 6.27 [...]
 Subdued by Gideon who Judged them040Chap. 8. 2828 [...]
 Abimelech Ruled Wickedly for003Chap. 9. 2228 [...]
 Tolo Judged 23, Jair 22. together045Chap. 10. 2328 [...]
 the Philistines & Amonites oppress for018Chap. 1128 [...]
 Subdued by Jephthah who Judged006Chap. 12, 728 [...]
 Ibson Judged 7 Years. Elon 10 in all017verse 13. 1429 [...]
 Abdon Judged 8008Chap. 13. 1,29 [...]
 The Philistines oppress again040 29 [...]
 About this time is Sampson Born, who is said to Judge Israel 20 Years, and Ely is said to Judge 40; but both was while the Philistines Rul'd, there­fore not to be here Accounted: Ely Judged as High-Priest only. Judges 14. 4. Chap. 15. 9, 10,29 [...]
   1 Sam. 7. 15 & Chap. 8. 5,3 [...]
 Now Samuel Succeeds Ely, and he and Saul Ruled & Judged Israel for 40, after the 40 Years that the Philistines Ruled. after which David Reigned0401 Kings 2, 11 
  040  
 Now Solomon after he had Reigned 3003  
  [...] Years, begun to Build the Temple, [...] 3 Years being added to the Years since they left Egypt, and it makes just 580, in Anno Mundi 3033.  3033
 But to proceed, Soloman Reigned afterward 370371 Kings 11. 423070
 Rehoboam Reigned017Chap. 14. 213087
 Abijam or Abijah032 Chron. 13. 23090
 Asa Reigned41Chap. 16. 133131
 Jehosaphat25Chap. 20. 313156
 Jehoram08Chap. 21. 203164
 Ahasiah01Chap: 22. 23165
 Athaliah the Queen07verse 123272
 Johas40Chap. 24. 13212
 Amaziah29Chap. 25. 13241
 Ʋzziah or Azariah52Chap. 26. 133293
 Jotham16Chap. 27. 13309
 Ahaz16Chap. 28. 13325
 Hezekiah29Chap. 29. 13354
 Manasseh55Chap. 33. 13409
 Amon02verse 21.3411
 Josiah31Chap. 34. 13442
 Jehojakim or Eliakim is all one, 2 Chron 36. 4. he Reigned in Jerusalem: but Nebuchadnezar carried him to Babylon. Jehojachin Son of Jehojakim or Eliakim being made King Reigned 3 Months and 10 Days; & was carried to Baby­lon: also both Reigned but 6 Months and 10 Da [...]s. Chap. 36 Daniel 1. 1 verse 6 verse 9 verse 11 
 At the end of Josiah's Reign who Reign'd (Jehoahaz 3 Months, and Jehojachin 3 Months,) Jehojakim was carried to Babylon after he had Reigned 2 Years, for in the 3d Year of his Reign Nebuchadnezar took him.312 Chron. 34. 1 Chap. 36. 5 verse 93442
 02Dan. 1. 13444
 Now doubtless begins the Captivity, and although Zedekiah was said to Reign 11 Years, [...]et he was made K. by Nebuchadnezar to whom he was in [Page] [...] [...]is Reign is not here to be Accounted; for he Re­belled against him and broke his Oath: so here comes in the Captivity, which continued 70 Years, & which ended the Babylonian or Caldean Monarchy, or Em­pire; which was in the first Year of Cyrus King of Persia who gave out a Pro­clamation or a Command to Build the House of the Lord in Jerusalem as you may see in 2 Chron. 36. 21, 22, 23. and in Ezra 1. 1. 3.702 Chron. 36 21, 22, 23 Ezra 1. 1. verse 2, 33 [...]
 From this Command of Cyrus to Christ's Suffering, we are not to reckon full 70 Weeks or 490 Years, as some account, but only 69 Weeks and an half, or 486 Years: for in Dan, 9 25. it is said, there shall be 7 Weeks, & Threescore and 2 Weeks; that is 69 and After Threescore and 2 Weeks shall th [...] Messiah be cut off, and at verse 27, it is said, He shall confirm the Covenant with many for one Week; and in the midst of the Week he shall cause the Sacrifices & Oblations to cease; And that was when he was Offered up once for all. Dan, 9. 25, 26 verse 27 Hebrews 940 [...]
 SO that by this true Account, our Blessed Saviour Suffer­ed for Man's Salvation, in the Fourth Thousand Year of the World; or as some Account in the 80th Jubile from the Creation, Forty Hundred Year after the first Promise made to Adam and his Wife. For the Jubile being Fifty Years, 4000 or Forty Hundred Years, makes 80 Jubilies or 4000 Years. Leviticus 25. 9, 10, 11, &c,4000
 And the best Authors do conclude, that Christ Died in the 4000 Year of the World; and to begin with the Tra­vels of the Partriarchs, written by Henry Bunting, and Printed at London, in Anno Domini 1629: in page the 416, he saith, That the Angel Gabril in the Year of the World 3967, declared to the Virgin Mary the Conception of Christ, in which Year he was Born; to which if we add 33 being the time he lived on Earth, it makes up just 4000. And in page 431 he saith, That Christ was brought from Bethlehem to Jerusalem and presented in the Temple in the same Year 3967; to which add 33, and it makes just the same 4000 Years as aforesaid. 
 There are above Twenty places more in the said Mr. Buntin's Book, that concludeth Christ Died in the 4000 Year of the World or 80th Jubile; as saith Thomas Heynes in his General View of the Holy Scriptures, page 159 and Mr. Thomas Brightman in his Exposition on the Revelations, page 1083, goes one Year over, and makes the World to be at Christ's Death 4001: which is so near the matter that it admits of no Dispute. 
 I could name many Authors that hits the very Year, of 4000 at Christ's Death: but I am not willing to enlarge beyond what I intended, for my intention was to make a Short, Brief and True Chronicle. 
 It is said, that Solomon in the 4th Year of his Reign be­gan to Build the House of the Lord in the 480th Year after the Children of Israel came out of the Land of Egypt, 1 Kings 6. 12; but by Collecting the several Years from the first of Judges to the 16th, and so on to Solomon's 4th Year, and you will find it to be 580 Years. So that Dr. William Howel and some of the Antients are of Opinion, that there are an 100 Years ommited in that of the 1 Kings 6. 12; [Page 8] which as he saith (in his Sacrad History, page 44) might be ommited by the Neglect or want of Care of the Clerks or Scribes that first Writ it, it being but the Historical part of the Scripture. 
 It is said that Shamgar who slew 600 Philistines with an Ox Goad, that he Judged Israel, but how long is not mentioned. It is likewise said that Sampson Judged Israel 20 Years; and Ely Judged 40; but all this time was while the Philistines Ruled over Israel: therefore I leave out the time that Shamgar, Sampson and Ely Judged, out of this Ac­count, because their time of Judging was in the 40 Years that the Philistines Ruled; and yet for all that, I find 580 Years instead of 480, mentioned as aforesaid.Ju [...] 3. [...]
Acts 13And further to strengthen what is aforesaid, see what St. Paul saith in the 13th of the Acts & 18th verse, and so on he confirms the same, speaking of the Children of Israel he saith, that about the space of 40 Years God suffered their manners in the Wilderness. (that was when Moses led them out of Egypt) So here let us begin a New Account, from their coming out of Egypt to the 4th Year of Solomon. 
 They were led by Moses in the Wilderness 040 Years 
 Joshua Subdued & Divided the Land 007 
 After that he gave them Judges, (whereof Joshua was the first) by the Space of 450 Years 
 Afterward they desired a King, and God gave them 
 Saul the Son of Kish by the Space of 040 
 Afterward David Reigned 1 Kings 2. 11 040 
 After David to the begining of Solomon's 4th Year 003 
 So by St. Paul's account also he makes it 580 
 So that Doubtless there is an Omission of an Hundred Years in that 1 Kings 6. 12. 
 Now observe that at the end of 2000 Years after the Promise made to Adam, which happened to be in the 52d Year of Abraham's Life, the same Lord God renewed his Promise to Abraham, which he had made to Adam just 2000 Years before. 
 Now certainly Abraham could not be less than 30 or 32 Years Old when he took Sarah to Wife; for all his Prede­cessors for Six or Seven Generations before took them Wives or had their First-Born about that Age, and they Lived in Ʋr, their Native Country in Chaldea for 20 Years more, at least, before God call'd Abraham to leave his Country: for his Wife (it is said) was barren, and there must needs be some Space of time to prove her Barrenness.See Gene­sis 11
[...]enesis [...] & 17And if Abram took Sarah at his Age of 32, then was Sarah but 22; for she was Ten Years younger than he, and 20 Years after, when Abraham was 52, God then called him out of his Native Country, to go into a Land which he would shew him; and withal Renewed to Abraham the Promise he had made to Adam, just 2000 Years before; in which time were Twenty Generations; that was Ten from Adam to Noah; and Ten from Noah to Abraham as before.Genesis 2, 3.
 So that it is very considerable to be Observed, that as God Renewed his Promise to Abraham, which he had made to A­dam just 2000 Years before, so that just 2000 Years more by the Death of the Messiah, God fulfilled his first Promise made to Adam, and his Second made Abraham, by Bruising the Serpent's Head, by the Death and Suffering of Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer, at the end of the Second 2000 Years, or the end of 4000 Years from Adam. 
 When I was but a child of about 8. or 9, Years old, I was a diligent listner to all Mens Discourse; so that I would forsake my play-fellows and stand at the backs of the Men (if Discoursing) to hear their discourse; about which time I heard some say that the World was to continue 6000 Years; which they divided thus; 2000 before the Law; 2000 under the Law; and 2000 under the Gospel; and this dicourse I do remember since before the Year 1630, which this Year 1700 is now 70 Years since; which I have pon­dered in my mind, but I find that they were much out of the way: for if they had placed the first 2000 Years from the Creation, to the two and fiftieth Year of Abram's age, (being the time when GOD called him out of his Native Country, and renewed the promise to him which he made [Page 10] to Adam 2000 Years before,) and from thence to the Death of Christ other 2000; and the Third 2000 in Anno Domi. 2033 if so their discourse had been more credible and more true, and very certain. 
 So that in Anno. Dom. 1700. being 1667. Years since the Suffering of Christ, to which add 4000. that was before his Death, and since Adams Creation to this present Year of our LORD 1700; the world is just 5667 Years old, as hath been proved: so that 333. Years hence, the world will be 6000 Years old; before which time there well be neither Pope nor Turk left in this world, I hope and believe. 
 But then look for the Resurrection of the just, or first Re­surection; and the Begining of the Seventh Thousand Year, wherein Christ shall Reign; and at the end thereof will be the second, or latter Resurection, and the Dissolution of this world, as you may see in Rev. 20, v. 5. 6. and 1 Thes. 4 16. the dead in Christ shall rise first: so that from this present Year of our LORD 1700 there is but 333. Years to come, to compleat & fulfill all Prophesies; & to end the 6000 Years of this evil world: and to Raise the Righteous from their Graves to meet the LORD Christ in the Air, at his coming, and to Reign with him, and wait upon him for the 1000 Years, till the Second or latter Resurection; and for ever; where and how he shall apoint them. And then Blessed indeed shall they be for ever, to whom the LORD shall say, come ye Blessed, &c. but endless wee will be to them, to whome it shall be said, Go ye Curssed or, Depart ye Curssed into Everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angles Math. 25. 41. 
 But blessed and Holy is he that hath part in the first Re­surrection; for on such the Second Death hath no power: but they shall be Priests of GOD, and of Christ; and shall Reign with him a 1000 Years, Rev. 20. 6. At or about the end thereof, Satan who was chained up for 1000 Years, shall then be Loosed for a little Season, v. 3, and shall go out to Deceive the Nations, which are in the four Quarters of the Earth, as he had formerly done before he was bound up to make them wicked against the Second or last Resurection; [Page 11] then saith John v. 1, 2, I saw the Dead Small and Great stand before GOD, and the Books was opened, and another Book was opened, which is the Book of life; and the Dead were Judged out of those things which were written in the Books, ac­cording to their works Cha. 20. 12. and Cha. 14, 13, and the Sea gave up the dead, which was in it, and Death & Hell De­livered up the dead that were in them; and they were judged every Man according to their works, 
 Now observe and consider, First, that in or about the Year of the world 1780. Babel the Tower and City of confusion, was in building but God confounded their work & Language. 
 Secondly consider also from the Birth of Christ, till the Year of Christ 1780. MISTIRY BABILON THE GREAT; THE CHEIF CITY OF IDOLATRY AND CONFU­SION, may, and I hope will come to her last end, or the end of that beast, or Antichrist his 1260 Days or Years. 
 Thirdly, consider to Begin the 2300. Days (which doubt­less are years) mentioned in Daniel 8. 14. I say to Begin them before the Birth of Christ 520. Years, and from thence to Hormisda Bishop of Rome, and First that was called Par­triarch there; and also the First that was, (or strove to be) called Ʋniversal Bishop; tho he held not that Title above 2 Years: I say from the Birth of Christ, to the said Hormisda, was Just 520 Years more, which makes 1040 to which add the whole time of Antichrist, or the Beast 1260, and all these numbers will end together in Anno. Domini. 1780. 
 Then shall the Sanctuary be Cleansed as the Angel told Daniel Chap. 8. 14. 15. &c. that is just 80. Years to be compleated from this present Year 1700. viz. the Year 1780. which I hope, and believe is all the time that that Beast or Antichrist has to Reign. 
 Mr. John Tillinghurst a Minister in Yarmouth in Norfolk, in or about the Year 1651. or 52 Printed a Book in large Octavo, called the Knowledge of times; wherein he strove to end all the aforesaid Numbers in the Year 1656. but there was more desired that it might prove true, then did belive it to be true▪ but when it was seen to fail, to Excuse the [Page 12] mistake, they added ten Years more to Antichrists Reign, & in 1666. down he must by all means: but I bore my Testimonie against both those periods, as having no Foundation, or right time of begining his Account. I could recite many Errors in Mr. Tillinghurst's book, although at that time, it was highly es­teemed & cry'd up: but I am loath to inlarge any more at this time; therefore what I have hear already writ, I leave to the se­rious consideration of every one that takes delight in the know­ledge of these things, & of the times, which if it may be approved of or desired, or servicable to this present or future generations, that any thing therein be worthy of praise, give that to God only; and if the like of it was ever done by any before, yet it was not done by any so Meanly Learned as the Writer there­of, much of whose Knowledge in these things he has ga­thered by dicourse, long Experience, much reading the Holy Scriptures, in which he delighted most; also in Chronicles and other Authentick History, But his cheif Instructer was God. I am now past 81 years of Age, & believe, that a child born this Year 1700, and shall live so long in this World as I have done, may see the last Pope that will bear sway in ROME. 
 At the Death of Belshazzar, was the end of the Babilo­nian or Caldean Monarchy, Dan. 5. At which time the Median or Persian Monarchy began to be Great; soon after which time the Jews were Delivered out of Captivity, a­bout the Year of the World 3510, after which the Persian Monarchy continued about 214 as some Account, which ended about Anno Mundi, 3724. 
 About which time it was Subdued by the Graecian Mon­arch, Alexander the Great; after whose Death his Domi­nions were Confused and Divided into several Divisions, but chiefly Four; all which about 234 Years more, were Subdued by Julius Caesar the First Roman Emperor, in or about the Year of the World 3956: And now they leave off to Reckon in all publick Account, by the Year of the World; and from thenceforth all is Reckoned from the beginning of Caesar's Reign, when he had Subdued all the [Page 13] fore-named Monarchies to the Obedience of Rome; and that Account was continued all along during the Reigns of all the Heathen Emperors, till Constantine the Great; about which time they begun to Account from the Nativity of our Redeemer Christ Jesus. Now observe, John Writ the Re­velations in the time of that Account, which began when Julius Caesar began to Reign, which was before the Nati­vity of Christ just 44 Years. To which if we add after Christ's Nativity 622, it makes up that Mistical Number of (Revel. 13, and the 18 or last verse, which John saith is the Number of a Man which was to Rise, and did Rise in that very Year. As I have in the following book more at large set forth, and sufficiently proved Maho­met to be the Second Beast mentioned in the 13 of the Re­velations, and the very Image of the Pope who is the first Beast there mentioned. 

To find how many Shekles make a TALENT.

IN Exodus 38. 26 and 29 it is there said, that 603550 Men offered every Man a Bekah or an half Shekle; one half thereof is 301775 whole Shekles, according to the She­kle of the Sanctuary, which by computation, is Two Shillings and Six-pence, or Half a Crown English.

One half of that Sum is 150887 whole Crowns, and one Half Crown. Half of the said Crowns make 75443 and an half, these are Angels or half Pounds, Half of the said Angels makes 37721 Pounds, Ten Shil­lings. The Total of this Great Offering amounts (be­ing Reckoned after our English Pounds) to the Sum of 37721 Pounds 17 Shilllings and 6 Pence.

Now to know how many of these make a Talent. the 301775 being Shekles or half Crowns, and being Divided by 3000, the Quotient will be 100, (that is an Hundred Talents) and 1775 Shekles remaining, so that this remain­der is but part of a Talent, and so would 2999 be but part because it wanted one of 3000 which is a Talent, So that 3000 Shekles of the Sanctuary, which is a Talent, is in Value of English Money 375 Pound. But if we Reckon 3000 of the common Shekles, it comes but to one half of the Shekle of the Sanctuary, which is but 187 Pound ten Shillings.

Certain Scriptures Justifying and Vindicating just and Law­ful Weights, Ballances and Measures, and Condemning those that Use the contrary.
Levi. 19th verse 35.YE shall do no Ʋnrighteousness in Judgment, in Mete, Yard Weight, or in Measure. 
verse 36.Just Ballances, just Weights, a just Ephah and a just Hin shall ye have. 
Deut. 25. verse 13.Thou shalt not have in thy Bag divers weigth, a great, & a small (that is a great one to Buy by, & a small one to Sell by.) 
verse 14.Thou shalt not have in thine House divers Measures a great and a small. [* Beware of this you that are Gulilty] 
verse 15.But thou shalt have a Perfect and Just Weight, a Perfect and Just Measure shalt thou have, that thy Days may be long lengthened in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. For all that do such things, and all that do Ʋnrighteously, are an Abomination unto the Lord thy God. 
verse 16.  
Prov. 11. 1A False Ballance is Abomination to the Lord, a just Weight in his Delight. 
Ch. 16. 11A just Weight and Ballance are the Lords, all the Weights of the Bag are his Work. 
Ch. 20. 10Divers Weights and divers Measures, both of them are a like Abomination to the Lord. 
Ch. 20. 23.Divers Weights are an Abomination unto the Lord, And a false Ballance is not good. 
[...] 6. [...] 11.Shall I count them pure with the wicked Ballance, and with the Bag of Deceitful Weights. 
[...]7. 12Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that Men should do unto you, do ye even so to them. 
[...]6. 31.For this is the Law and the Prophets. 
1 HEre Adam stands, the first of all.
Although in him we all did Fall.
2 Then Seth was rais'd in Abel's stead,
Who was by Wicked Cain struck Dead.
When Seth an Hundred Years and Five.
3 Enos his Son became alive.
When he had Lived Ninty Year▪
4 Cainain his Son did then appear.
5 Maheleal at Seventy more,
6 Jared his Son Named before.
7 From Jared Righteous Enoch Sprung,
8 And then Methsala begun.
9 Then Lamech Father unto Noah,
10 The Tenth from Adam I find so:
Noah made an Ark to save himself;
Wife, Sons and Daughters and their Wealth;
All this he did, at God's Command
Before the Lord Destroyed the Land.
11 Arphaxad next, the Son of Shem,
12 Of the Right Line began again;
13. 14 Selah and Eber next I find.
15 16 Peleg and Reu of the same Kind.
18 19 Then Serug, Nahor and Terah;
20 And now to Abraham we draw,
Which was the Tenth from Noah and then
The Twentieth from the first of Men,
To whom the Promise God renew'd,
Which Christ did at his Death conclude.
FINIS.

POSTSCRIPT To the Reader.

IN the Printing of this small Chronicle, I found that it did [...] Fill Two Sheets of Paper; therefore (with the Advice of [...] Printer,) I added something which I thought convenient [...] be known, to fill up the Second Sheet; concerning Sheck [...] Talents▪ Just Weights and Measures, and some other things: A [...] when I had so done, I thought these Two Sheets too little to be pu [...] lished alone; and therefore I have added to them, Ten She [...] more, which here follows, being; A Brief Exposition of the Th [...] teenth Chapter of the Revelation; concerning the Two Beasts ther [...] mentioned, wherein that Mistical Number of 666 is fully Explai [...] ed, not to belong to the First Beast, mentioned in t [...]e first Ten ver [...] which doubtless is the Pope: but there are Eight verses more, whi [...] properly belongs to the Second Beast; to whom the Number doth a [...] belong, (and not the Pope;) although so many Famous and Lear [...] ed Men have endeavoured to make that Number belong to hi [...] not Building upon the right Foundation, which was the cause [...] their Great Mistake, as to the Number and the Person also, to whi [...] it doth properly belong, as by Reading and Understanding the fo [...] lowing Discourse may Satisfie the Impartial Reader, although Exceedingly Differs from all that ever yet was made publick as [...] the Latter Beast.

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