The harmony of the Old and New Testament and the obscure texts explained with a relation especially to the times that preceded Christ and how they meet in him, his genealogie and other mysteries preparatory to his first coming / written in French by John d'Espagne ... ; and published in English by his executor.

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The harmony of the Old and New Testament and the obscure texts explained with a relation especially to the times that preceded Christ and how they meet in him, his genealogie and other mysteries preparatory to his first coming / written in French by John d'Espagne ... ; and published in English by his executor.

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Espagne, Jean d', 1591-1659.

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London :: Printed and to be sold by Thomas Malthus ...,

1682.

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Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• epitaph
• The Subject and Division of this Treatise.
• A Monsieur DESPAGNE Ministre de la parole de Dieu en l'Eglise Francoise de Westminster, recueillie en la Chappele de Sommerset.
• Viro undequaque ornatissimo
• executor to the reader
• The First Part of the HARMONY of the TIMES, &c.
  • The Day wherein the Sun stood still, and was to him as a Sabbath-day, hapned after the Sun was Created in the Year seven times three hun∣dred sixty and five, a Num∣ber that answereth the three hundred sixty and five days of the Annual Course of the Sun, as the Number Seven doth that of the Sabbath.
  • In the Tenth Year of the Tenth Year of Years, expired since the Creation, the Sun went back Ten Degrees, Isa. 38.8.
  • The History of the Old Testa∣ment is of Ten Prophetical Years; and from the ending of it unto the death of Christ, there is the space of another Prophetical Year.
    • The two and twenty Patri∣archs.
    • The two and twenty Genera∣tions of High-Priests.
    • The two and twenty Cover∣nors, otherwise called Judges.
    • The two and twenty Kings.
    • The two and twenty Gene∣rations from the Captivity, inclusively, unto Christ.
  • All the Generations of Christ, even comprehending therein that which is from the days of Eternity, are 77, ranked and distinguished from seven to seven.
  • Since the Promise touching the Seed of the Woman unto the accomplishment, when the Virgin conceived, there passed seven years, or a week of years, seven times seventy years, seventy weeks of years, and yet seven times seventy weeks of years.
  • From the Fall of the first Adam, to the Ascension of the Second (which was in the 33 year of the abode of Christ upon Earth) there passed three and thirty times one hundred years.
  • Since the Creation to the time of the Jews coming out of Babylon, to build the Se∣cond Temple, seven times seventy weeks of years, and forty years; and since their coming out of Babylon to the ruine of the Second Tem∣ple, seventy weeks of years and forty years, which began at the death of Christ.
  • Adam lived thirty years, and thirty times thirty years, (in all nine hundred and thirty). Christ did begin his Ministery at the thirtieth year. Since the Revolt of Adam to the Revolting of the Ten Tribes, when they abandoned the Temple, which was the Figure of Christ, there were 3030 years. And from the death of Adam to the death of Christ, who was the second Adam, there were 3030 years. And from the Revolt of the Ten Tribes to the death of Christ thirty years, and thirty times thirty years, which was the age of the first Adam.
  • Four men, each of them being the seventh in order within some remarkable Period, and illustrious for Miracles; an excellent Gradation from one to the other.
  • As many years as Enoc lived in this world, so many days the world continued under the waters of the Deluge.
  • Several measures of the Time, which the patience of God doth give unto sinners, before he punisheth them.
  • A remarkable Period of seven times as much time as God had prefixed to the World, when he denounced the De∣luge.
  • An Analogy of the Eight Per∣sons that were saved in the Ark: Of the Eight Genera∣ttions that passed since the distinction made between the Sons of God and the Sons of Men: And of the Eighth Part of the greatest Age of the Men of that Time.
  • A Consideration of the Age of Noah, when he was com∣manded to build the Ark.
  • Of Lamech the Father of Noah, the seventh in seve∣ral respects, and dying in the 777th year of his age.
  • Fourteen Generations for the Ʋnity of the Language of Adam, amongst Men; and yet three times fourteen Gene∣rations for the Ʋnity of the same Language amongst the children of God: The first and the last fourteens.
  • Since the Flood, to the Promise given to the Patriarch Abra∣ham, 61 weeks of years. Since the foundation of the first Temple to its ruine 61 weeks of years. Since the foundation of the second Temple was interrupted, to the final ruine of the Empire of the Grecians, who so long persecuted the Church of the Jews, 61 weeks of years.
  • The years of Noah after the Flood being double the years of Abraham.
  • Enoc sojourned less time in this world than any of the Pa∣triarchs who were before the Flood, and his son Methu∣selah lived seven years longer than any man ever lived.
  • Ten times forty years expired at the departure out of Egypt. The tenth and last forty years ended when Mo∣ses was twice forty years of age. Another forty years in the Wilderness ending with the last forty years of Moses.
  • Two Miraclrs of a contrary ef∣fect, the one in the seventh Generation after Adam, and the other in the fourteenth Generation after the seventh.
  • A Concurrence of several Sep∣tenaries in Jacob, and in his son Joseph.
  • Arphaxad the first man born after the Flood, was the twelfth Generation after Adam inclusively. The twelve Patriarchs, the sons of Jacob, were the twelfth Generation after Arphaxad inclusively. The Ʋnion of the twelve Tribes continued after Juda, himself there∣in comprehended, for the space of twelve Generations. And since the division of the Tribes, till the ten Tribes were carried into Assyria, there were twelve Genera∣tions.
  • From the comming out of Egypt, to the foundation of the first Temple, twelve times forty years. From the foun∣dation of the first Temple, to the foundation of the second, twelve times forty years. From the foundation of the second Temple, to the begin∣ing of the week of years, end∣ing at the death of Christ, wherein he rent the veil of the Temple, twelve times forty years. From the finish∣ing of the second Temple to the ruine thereof, twelve times forty years.
  • Since the finishing of the Con∣quest of Canaan by the Is∣raelites, to the time they were carried away to Baby∣lon, twelve times seventy years; and from the time of their transportation into Ba∣bylon, till they return'd into Canaan seventy years; and from their return to Canaan till they procur'd the Death of Christ seven times seventy years.
  • In Joseph's Dream, thirteen Luminaries did homage to him, presaging his Promo∣tion to come; and thirteen years he was a slave, before the thirteen Persons, repre∣sented by the thirteen Lumi∣naries, did homage indeed unto him.
  • The Dead doing homage to the Living.
  • From the time Jacob, his Wife, and his Sons (represented by the Sun, the Moon, and the eleven Stars) did homage unto Joseph, untill the time the Sun and the Moon did really do homage to one of the Descendants of Joseph, there passed 257 years.
  • Of the twelve Sons of Jacob, two onely were without ble∣mish.
  • Of the ten Children of Job, and of the ten Righteous who might have hindred the de∣struction of Sodom: A great Question upon the Compari∣son of these two Examples.
  • Job and Jeremy have cursed the day of their Nativity, but have not made mention what year or month it was.
  • Job's Sons have no names in the Scripture, and yet his Daughters are named there∣in.
  • From the division of Tongues in Babel, to the death of He∣ber, who was the Father of the Hebrews, 430 years. From the Promise made to Abraham, to the Law, 430 years. From the Law, till David was annointed in Bethlehem, 430 years complete.
  • The Waters of Egypt remained blood for seven days. The day of the Sabbath forbidden to the Egyptians. A secret virtue of the Septinary num∣ber towards the waters, ac∣knowledged by the Natura∣lists.
  • The sixth Prophetical Year ex∣pired seventy seven years af∣ter the Promise made to Abraham; and the seventh Prophetical year expired in the seventh year of the wan∣dring of the Israelites in the Wilderness.
  • The distinction of the Tribes hath sometimes served to chastise the Israelites.
  • An Analogy of the seventh day, wherein no Manna fell, and of the seventh day of the hunger of a Man.
  • A Mystery represented under the Character of the Day, where∣in wounds are most painful.
  • An instruction drawn from Levit. 25. that the price of Lands was so much the less, by how much the nearer was the year of Jubilee.
  • A Doctrine drawn from a dis∣proportion, touched on in Levit. 26. vers. 8.
  • Levit. 27. some inequalities in the Estimation of the sex, and of the age of those that were to be ransomed.
  • Three men who knew punctu∣ally, and from above, the place where they should die.
  • Fifteen men have been warned from above, they were not to die before such a Time, or such an Event.
  • God giveth to one man as many days as he taketh away from another, yea, from a whole Generation. The ordinary ages of the Israelites, who were condemned to die with∣in the forty years of their wandring in the Wilderness, was seventy years, the age of Joshua was forty years above seventy.
  • God doubleth the days of a man. After the Murmurers were condemned to die in the Wil∣derness, Joshua lived yet as many years as he had lived till then.
  • Four Miracles God wrought in the Conquest of Canaan; 1 In the Water. 2 In the Earth. 3 In the Aire. 4 In the Heaven.
  • Three Memorable passages of the Israelites hapened by the di∣version of the Waters; 1 Of the Sea; 2 Of Jordan; 3 Of Euphrates: A Gra∣dation from the Greater to the Lesser in the Means im∣ploy'd therein.
  • A Gradation of four Means suc∣cessively interven'd in the Conquest of the Cities of Ca∣naan; The first was gain'd by Miracle, the second by Stratagem, the third by a voluntary Surrender, the fourth and the following by Force.
  • The strange change of Persons in the succession of the Judges or Governors of Is∣rael: after a valiant Man, a Woman; after a wise and pious Man, an unnatural Fool; after a Man of an Il∣lustrious Birth, a Bastard; after an Old Man, a Child; and among the rest, a strong Man of Body, but weak of Ʋnderstanding.
  • Wherefore God being willing to deliver the Israelites, he gave them for a Deliverer, yea, for a perpetual Head and Governor, the son of an Harlot.
  • A marvellous and most exact disproportion betwixt Gide∣on's Troop, and the Army of the Midianites, Judg. 7.16. and 8.10.
  • Satan hath attempted to make men believe he did raise one from the dead, before ever God raised any.
  • The Evil Spirit which counter∣feited Samuel, could not foretel to Saul on what day he should be kill'd.
  • An interval of many months, within which, David com∣posed no Psalm.
  • Why God, having pardon'd David, would never vouch∣safe him the life of the Child he had by Bathsheba.
  • The seven days of the child of David, and the seven days of the Reign of Zimri, 1 King. 16.15.
  • Solomon's Fleet spent three whole years in a Voyage, which might have been per∣formed in less then one year; It is very likely, that for want of a Sea-Compass that Voyage was thus long: Why that Secret was not disco∣ver'd to Solomon.
  • The Temple had stood thirty years after it was finished, when the Ten Tribes forsook it. When, Christ the true Temple, was thirty years of age, Jesus said to the Jews, Destroy this Temple, &c.
  • The first Temple after finished, lasted fourteen times thirty years.
  • A gradation in the extraordina∣ry Means wherby Elija was fed, viz. 1 By Beasts; 2 By an Humane Creature; 3 By an Angel.
  • Sith the Resurrection of the Resurrection is to go before their bodily ascension into Heaven, how cometh it to pass, that the ascension of Enoc hath preceded by ma∣ny ages the Resurrection of all those who have been rais∣ed from the Dead.
  • The Resurrection of one from the dead, was never the first Mi∣racle of any Man, no, not of Christ himself. The Reason that can be given of it.
  • Of the Places where the dead have been raised. The first and the last Miracle of that kind. Both of them were wrought out of the Land of Israel.
  • King Hozias usurping the Of∣fice of the Priests, to whom the judgment of Leprosie ap∣pertained, was himself also struck with Leprosie. And whereas the High-priest car∣ried Holiness on his fore∣head, Hozias did carry Le∣prosie on his fore head.
  • Strange and wonderful concur∣rences of the proportions of Times, which went before, and followed, the going back of the Sun, in the days of Hezekia.
  • If the Sun had leaped ten De∣grees forward, according to the offer was made, the Que∣stion is, By how much his swiftness would have then surpassed the swiftness of his ordinary motion.
  • Why God did not offer to He∣zekia to cause the Sun to stand still, as he did by Jo∣shua, but to make it run ex∣traordinarily.
  • Nebuchadnezzar by three Wonders learned to know God; the last being more ef∣fectual than the two former, his folly the chiefest means whereby he became wise.
  • The last Miracle of the Old Te∣stament, the preservation of Daniel in the Den of Lions. The Inspirations of the spirit of Prophesie continued in Is∣rael 130 years after the cessation of Miracles there.
  • Why the Church, being under the dominion of the Babylo∣nians, Persians, and Ro∣mans, hath had both Pro∣phets and Miracles, but had neither of them under the do∣minion of the Grecians.
  • The dangerous Assertions of many famous Interpreters, who think, that the 74 Psalm was composed on the sub∣ject of the Persecution of Antiochus.
  • The admirable dispensation of God in the distribution of the Empires represented unto Daniel, and successively divided amongst the off∣spring of the three sons of Noah.
  • A miraculous observation in the Prediction of Esay, touching Cyrus, Esa. 45.3, 4.
  • As many Provinces as the Em∣pire of Persia did possess, so many years it did continue after the Prediction of its ruine.
  • From the time the Temple was purged of the abominations of Antiochus, till the same Temple was destroyed by the Romans, there were 245 years, which are 35 weeks of years, or the half of seven∣ty weeks.
  • The Empire of the Grecians began by a great Warrior, and ended in a Woman.
  • Diverse measures and propor∣tions of Times given to the Empires of Babylon, Per∣sia, and Greece.
  • The years which passed from the beginning of the Captivity of Babylon, to the destruction of the second Temple, mea∣sured by whole Hundreds.
  • From the closing of the History of the Old Testament, to the destruction of the second Temple, which was the sup∣pression of the service there∣of, there passed the tenth part of the age of the world, after the tenth Prophetical year.
• An Addition of many Historical Observations, included in these fore∣going, and set down ac∣cording to the order of the Times.
  • A Conjecture why the Scripture nameth not the time, viz. the year or the day, when Sin began.
  • A vulgar prejudice of those, who think that the Angels appeared with Wings when∣soever they were seen of men.
  • Since the Judgment given against Cain, God hath ne∣ver immediately pronounced to any sinner the sentence of his condemnation, but onely to one.
  • Of the three several times of the Ascension of Enoc, of Elija, and of Christ.
  • The Generation of Cham, al∣though the holy Ghost hath noted it with infamy, had the honor of the first Empire erected upon Earth.
  • The History of the Times where∣of the Angels have appeared.
  • The oldest Trade t hat we read of hath been that of buying and selling Men.
  • Wherefore God hath often em∣ployed one Angel alone to do great Matters, and hath often sent many Angels to∣gether onely to deliver a Message.
  • Why the Fire that fell down upon Sodom, was sent by good Angels, and that which fell upon the servants of Job was sent by Satan; A gene∣ral Consideration thereupon. When God is willing to make use of Spirits to afflict men, he employeth bad Angels to chastise good men, and on the contrary, good Angels to pu∣nish bad men. Onely one Ex∣ception of this Maxim.
  • Why Abraham, who prayed for the life of Ishmael, yea, and for the lives of the Inabitants of Sodom, did not pray at all for the life of Isaac, when he was commanded to sacri∣fice him.
  • The Birth of Christ procured, both without and against the intention of the Patriarchs his Ancestors.
  • One of the Ancestors of Christ endeavoured to kill him ma∣ny Ages before he was Born.
  • Why the Scripture doth recite the ridiculous Contract be∣twixt Rachel and Leah, Gen. 30.14.
  • The blood of a Kid, for the blood of Joseph, Gen. 37.31, &c.
  • Why in the midst of all the Plagues of Egypt, even in the death of the First-born, God preserved the life of Pharaoh.
  • Why God being willing to pu∣nish with death those that were guilty of the Idolatry of the golden Calf, he destroyed them not by any miraculous punishment (either by Fire, as Nadab and Abihu; or by opening the Earth to swal∣low them up, as Corah; or by some other extraordinary means) but commanded Mo∣ses and others to slay them with the sword.
  • Why God hath been pleased that the knowledge of the signifi∣cation of the Names, repre∣senting the matter or stuffs belonging to the Ceremonial Law, should be lost.
  • The Tables of the Law were shut up in the Ark, and none had power to see them: What was then the use of them?
  • The Miracle that continued the longest.
  • In Israel, none was ever con∣demned to the Penalty of Ba∣nishment. The Errors of ma∣ny Interpreters upon certain terms of the Law.
  • Never was any Pestilence in Israel but one, and that onely for three days.
  • The Pestilence which was in Is∣rael touched no Woman, nor any Male under twenty years of age.
  • The proportion of the number of those who died of the Pesti∣lence, and of those whom David had caused to be numbered.
  • A necessary consideration on the words of the Psalm 26.6.
  • A diminution of the Titles of Solomon from one of his Books unto the other.
  • Why the Spouse in the Song of Solomon doth speak before the Bridegroom.
  • The Angels having eaten the Bread of Men, returned them the like, causing them to eat the Bread of Angels, but far more substantial then that Bread they had received from the hands of men.
  • The action of that Angel who brought meat to Elija was quite contrary to the first action that ever Angels did towards Men.
  • Why God hath often punished Idolaters, who had plundred the Temple of the false gods, and hath given a reward to those who plundred and burn∣ed his own Temple; as name∣ly, to Nebuchadnezzar.
  • Why Daniel having fore-seen the calamity of Nebuchad∣nezzar, advised him to re∣pent; und having fore-seen the ruine of Belshazzar, said nothing to him of Repen∣tance.
• Chronological Tables of se∣veral Matters contained in this Harmony of the Times.
  • Each of them is of 365 Solary years, which are as many years as there are days in a year.
  • The Prophetical years, each of them is of 360 Solary years.
  • The three and thirty Periods of 120 years, expired in the 33th and the last year of the abode of Christ upon earth.
  • The Septenaries of Years since the credtion of the first Adam, to the conception of the Second.
    • Of these seven seventies, here are the most remarkable in their closure.
  • Seven times seventy weeks of years, followed by forty years more, ended the Captivity of Babylon: And seventy weeks of years, followed by forty years, ended the State of the Jews, in the destructi∣on of the second Temple.
  • The tenth and last part of all the time which ran from the Cre∣ation to the burning of the second Temple; that Tenth subdivided into another Tenth, and the illustrious marks which have distingui∣guished them from the other times.
• THE PARTICULAR TABLES OF The Years of the World.
  • The Seventh year.
  • The year 120
  • The year 235
  • The year 365
  • The year 365
  • The year 497.
  • The year 720
  • The year 730
  • The year 930
  • The year 987.
  • The year 1636.
  • The year 1650
  • The year 1651.
  • The year 1656.
  • The year 1658.
  • The year 1723.
  • The year 1757.
  • The year 2008.
  • The year 2094.
  • The year 2108.
  • The year 2113.
  • The year 2168.
  • The year 2245.
  • The year 2276.
  • The year 2298.
  • The year 2460.
  • The year 2513.
  • The year 2515.
  • The year 2520.
  • The year 2553.
  • The year 2555.
  • The year 2560.
  • The year 2570.
  • The year 2949.
  • The year 2975.
  • The year 2989.
  • The year 2990.
  • The year 3000
  • The year 3030.
  • The year 3160, &c.
  • The year 3175, or thereabouts.
  • The year 3252.
  • The year 3285
  • The year 3295.
  • The year, 3302.
  • The year 3400
  • The year 3471.
  • The year 3473.
  • The year 3600.
  • The year 3755
  • The year 3848.
  • The year 3900.
  • The year 3920.
  • The year 3926.
  • The year 3946.
  • The year 3954
  • The year 3960.
  • The year 4000.
• READER, This Work would be less defectuous, if I had therein inserted some Points contained in some of my former Treatises; but I haue forebore it, to avoid Repetitions: Yet take these few Heads of them.
  • In my Observations on the Creed.
  • In my Observations upon the Decalogue.
• to the reader
• The First MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The Second MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The Third MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The Fourth MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The Fifth MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The Sixth MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The Seventh MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The Eighth MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The Ninth MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The tenth MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The eleventh MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The twelfth MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The 13th MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The 14th MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The 15th MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The 16th MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The 17th MAXIM of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• The particular Opinion of a Modern Author, touching the Salvation of the Jews.
  • The Examination.
• Of the Times that preceded the Days of Christ, and how they meet in Him. His Ge∣nealogy, and other Myste∣ries, Preparatory to His First Coming.
  • Six days for the Creation fi∣nish'd in Adam. Six periods, each of them of 660 years, from the creation of the first Adam, to the death of the Second. The correspondency of the six Periods with the six days of the Creation.
  • Of ENOS his name, wrong spell'd in several Versions, both Latine and French.
  • A dangerous Note in one of the French Editions of the New Testament upon Luk. 3.36.
  • The first Millenary of the years of the world, expired seventy years after the death of the first Adam. The fourth Mil∣lenary was accomplished seventy years, or a little more, after the Nativity of the se∣cond Adam.
  • The seven years of Jacob's ser∣vitude with Laban, and the six years of an Hebrew's servitude.
  • An admirable Proposition and Inclusion of the years of Christ, from his Birth to his Death, within the years that passed from the birth of Da∣vid to the death of Christ.
  • Of the fifteen years added to the life of Hezekia.
  • Of the fifteen Stairs whereby men ascended, or went up to the Temple, answering the fifteen years added to the life of Hezekia.
  • The last fifteen years of Heze∣kia, multiply'd by their own number, do reach to the year that follow'd the finishing of the second Temple.
  • Why among the Ancestors of Christ, who had Brethren, he descended from the young∣est rather then from the eldest.
  • Of all such as Christ descended from, according to the flesh, 'tis not reported, that any of them died a violent death.
  • Why some of the Children of Adam have lived longer then himself.
  • Of the Times the nearest to the coming of Christ, or which immediately preceded the same.
    • Eighty four years before Christ's Nativity
    • Seven years before Christ's Nativity.
    • Consideration.
    • A year and three months before Christ's Nativity.
  • The Conception of Christ six months, after the Angel had spoken to Zacharias. From the Conception of Christ to his Resurrection, thirty three years and three months, therein including or adding thereto the three days of his abode among the Dead.
  • Six months after the Birth of our Lord, a Writing was made between the Old Testa∣ment, which was finishing, and the New Testament, that was beginning.
• GENERALITIES.
  • On the measure of the time of the abode of Christ on earth.
  • The first Year of Christ.
  • The Tribe of Anne the Pro∣phetess.
  • The first and the last forty days of Christ upon Earth.
  • Again, The first year of Christ; or, the second, according to some Expositors.
  • Why God, having sent warning to Joseph and Mary, to car∣ry his Son out of Judea, did not likewise warn the other Fathers and Mothers that were in Bethlehem, to carry away also their Children, to prevent their murther?
  • Why the Angel did not carry Jesus Christ into Egypt, but gave that charge to Jo∣seph?
  • The Habitation of Christ in Galilee; and why a long time after he spake of the sign of Jona?
  • The twelfth year of Christ.
  • The seventeen years of the age of Joseph the Patriarch, when the Luminaries of Heaven did homage to him in a Dream; and the seventeen years of Jesus Christ's pri∣vate life, at another Joseph's house, from the time of his dispute in the Temple, untill the Heaven was opened to him, and he was declared the Son of God, by the voice of the Father, and by the com∣ing down of the holy Ghost.
  • The first words of Christ that are recorded to be pronounced in the Temple.
  • The 15th year of Christ.
  • The 19th year of Christ.
  • The 29th year of Christ.
    • Of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. Matth. 3.
    • The Ax is laid to the root of the Trees, Matth. 3.
    • The unquenchable fire, Matth. 12.3.
  • The 30th year of Christ, and the first of his Ministery.
  • CONSIDERATIONS.
  • The Season of the forty days of Christ's abode in the Wil∣derness.
  • All such as have miraculously fasted, have likewise mira∣culously fed others.
  • The days of Moses his fast were not so hard as those of Eli∣jah's fast, nor those of Eli∣jah's fast so hard as those of Christ's fast.
  • Satan, when he presented him∣self to Christ, did say who he was.
  • Satan took up Christ and set him on the Pinacle of the Temple, and on a high Moun∣tain; but we read not, that ever any good Angel trans∣ported Christ from one place to another.
  • Never any man was carried by the Angels: What then do the words of the Psalmist signifie, They shall bear thee up in their hands.
  • Since the Angels performed that service to Christ, after his Temptation in the Wil∣derness, they never render'd him any visible service until the Eve of his Death.
  • Again, The 30th year of Christ, and the first of his Ministery.
  • A gradation of Christ's Mira∣cles to that of the bodies of of Men.
  • Of the Element on which the first Miracle of Christ was wrought.
  • Why the first Miracle of Christ was not reiterated?
  • An Addition to what hath been said concerning the Prehe∣minence of the Miracles of Christ, above those of Mo∣ses and any other.
  • Again, The 30th year of Christ.
  • The time that ran since Christ began to foretel his Death and his Resurrection, to the ac∣complishment thereof, Joh. 2.19, 20, 21, 22.
  • The Question of Nicodemus, Can a man enter the second time into his Mothers womb, and be born again?
  • The 31 year of Christ, and the second of his Ministery.
  • CONSIDERATIONS.
  • Five several degrees of Means whereby Christ displayed his miraculous Power towards the Sick.
  • The first of the seven Sabbaths which Christ marked by his Miracles.
  • A digression against certain Persons, saying, they have the virtue of healing a sick body by the meer touching of their hand.
  • The first sick of the Palsey our Lord cured, Mar. 2.1.15. Why among so many diseased persons, the Son of God hath healed, he speake to none of their sins, but to the man sick of the Palsey.
  • Again, The 31 year of Christ. The second Feast of the Pass∣over falling within the time of his Ministery, and other Occurrences that fol∣lowed it within the said Year.
  • The thirty eight years of the sick of the Palsey, followed by other thirty eight years till the Water of the Rock dried up.
  • Another Consideration on the thirty eight years that fol∣lowed the healing of the sick of the Palsey.
  • The second Sabbath which the Son of God solemnized with a Miracle.
  • Questions touching that sick of of the Palsey, and other de∣ceased miraculously healed.
  • Such as were miraculously heal∣ed were in danger to be more sharply handled, then in their former diseases, in case they should make themselves unworthy of health.
  • The third Sabbath solemnised by the Son of God with a Mi∣racle.
  • The raising from the dead the young man of Naim, Luk. 7.11, &c.
  • The number of the Wonders Christ wrought on the dead, answering to the number of the years of his Ministery.
  • An admirable dispensation of God, under the New Testa∣ment, in that after every ex∣ample of Martyrdom, there is always an example of the Re∣surrection. A mysterious ex∣ception of that Rule.
  • The two first persons whom the Son of God raised from the dead.
  • No little Infants raised from the dead under the New Testa∣ment.
  • Most of the Miracles of one kind have happened twice at least.
  • The first and the last of those that have been raised from the dead under the New Te∣stament.
  • Why the Son of God raised cer∣tain dead, without being de∣sired by any; and others af∣ter intreated it.
  • Four degrees of Means, where∣by the Son of God manifested his Power to the Dead.
  • Christ is the first, who in raising the Dead commanded them.
  • Six examples of Sleep follow∣ed by miraculous acts, three under the Old Testa∣ment, and three under the New.
  • The Gadarenes, who had prayed Jesus Christ to de∣part from them, were the first that were besieged during the Wars of the Romans against the Jews.
  • A Particularity concerning the Daughter of Jairus.
  • The fourth Sabbath solemnized by Christ with a Miracle.
  • An example of the two Sparrows propounded by Jesus Christ to his Apostles, Matth. 10.29.
  • The 32 year of Christ, the third of his Ministery.
  • The particular Reason why John Baptist was so soon ta∣ken out of the world.
  • The greatest resemblance that ever was between two men, as to the Spirit.
  • Why the Son of God going to his Disciples that were on the Sea, made not a way to himself through the waters, but walked upon them.
  • Of all the kinds of Miracles happened under the Old Te∣stament, Christ being yet up∣on Earth, onely reiterated seven of them, and gave them a greater extent then they had had formerly.
  • Again, The 32 year of Christ.
  • Some kinds of Miracles Christ reserved to himself, during the time of his Ministery.
  • Whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth, shall be bound in Heaven, &c.
  • Of Christ's Transfiguration; and first, of the four Orders of men that were found there.
  • A Distinction between the three Apostles that were specta∣tors of the Transfiguration of our Lord.
  • A Considerable Mystery in the Apparition of Elijah and Moses.
  • Three kinds of Witnesses, 1 From Heaven. 2 From Earth. 3 From under the Earth.
  • Why among so many holy men, that were out of this World, Elijah and Moses were chosen to be present at the Transfiguration of our Lord?
  • Elijah came not back again in∣to the world, till after John Baptist was gone out of it; and why?
  • The Assembly of those that ap∣peared at the Transfigura∣tion of our Lord, and their distinction.
  • The voice from the midst of the Clowd.
  • Why no Angel appeared at the Transfiguration of our Lord.
  • Almost all such as God made extraordinarily to taste hea∣venly Joy, did presently after meet with some great subject of sorrow or sadness.
  • The 33 year of Christ, the fourth of his Ministery.
  • These latter six months of Christ's Ministery were more abundant, and more illustri∣ous in Miracles, then the former.
  • Why the Son of God refusing his Disciples to command fire to come down from Heaven on the Samaritans, gives them a reason of it, which seemeth to be contradicted by an act done since by him, Luk. 9.56.
  • Why Christ's enemies, being come to ensnare him in words, withdrew for one one∣ly word he spake to them? Joh. 8.3, &c.
  • The first Temple was violated by the Jews, who stoned therein a Prophet; and the second Temple was by the Jews violated, when they offered therein to stone to death the Head of the Pro∣phets.
  • In the Temple, where the Jews took up stones to stone Jesus Christ, not one stone stood on the other.
  • Two great wonders which were never wrought by any, but by the Son of God, and that but once, and onely towards the latter end of his Mini∣stery; the one having imme∣diately followed after the other, and both expressed in one and the same verse of a Psalm.
  • Two considerable Circumstances in both these Miracles, viz. one in each of them.
  • The fifth Sabbath solemnized by Christ with a Miracle.
  • The sixth Sabbath solemnized by Christ with a Miracle.
  • The season of the year Christ gave the sight to that blind.
  • Why Jesus Christ never gave Almes to the Beggars he healed.
  • Several of the greatest Miracles were wrought, either alter∣natively, or indifferently, in the behalf of the Poor and of the Rich, of the Meanest, and of the Greatest.
  • A Digression on the mis-rekon∣ing of such as confound the seasons of the year, which the Evangelists have distin∣guished.
  • The second time the Jews offer∣ed to stone Jesus Christ in the Temple, (Joh. 10.31.) A question on that subject.
  • The seventh and last Sabbath which the Son of God so∣lemnized by Miracle.
  • The Parabolical History of Dives and Lazarus.
    • The first Observation.
    • The second Observation.
    • The third Observation.
    • The fourth Observation.
    • The fifth Observation.
  • The Petition of the two blind men not far from Jericho, Matth. 20.30, &c.
  • Of the Stature of Zacheus.
  • Why the Son of God stayed four days before he raised Laza∣rus from the dead?
  • Why Jesus Christ wept for Lazarus, and wept not for John Baptist?
  • The seven days immediately preceding Christ's Resur∣rection.
  • The first Day.
    • A dead man raised, and he who raised him, did eat together at one Table.
    • Mary's intention, in annointing the feet of Jesus Christ.
    • If these should hold their peace, the stones would cry out, Luk. 19.40.
    • The small interval of time be∣tween Christ's turning out such as were selling in the Temple, and the vail of the Temple's being rent.
    • The Blind and the Creeple came to the Temple to Christ.
    • The third time of the proclaim∣ing of the Son of God from Heaven, by the voice of his Father.
  • The Second Day.
    • Of the Fig-tree cursed; the de∣fending of the common read∣ing of that Text against some modern learned men.
    • An Observation on the cursing of the Fig-tree.
    • A Parenthesis concerning the Trees usually planted in the Land of Canaan.
    • Another Digression touching the Fruits prohibited by the Law, and sanctifi'd by Christ.
  • The third Day.
    • If ye had faith, ye shall say to this Mountain, Be removed, &c.
    • The time that passed since the blood of Zecharias the son of Barachias began to be re∣venged, to the full vengeance thereof, Matth. 23.35.
    • If the ruine of the second Temple happened for revenging the blood of Zecharias, how can Christians say, that it hap∣pened for revenging the blood of Christ?
    • The last time Christ was in the Temple. An Observation on the circumstance of that day, Matth. 24.
    • Two Observations on the Para∣ble of the Virgins, Matth. 25.
  • The fourth Day.
  • The fifth day.
  • The sixth Day.
    • On that day, which was also the day of the Passover, Jesus Christ died.
    • The more the death of Christ drew near, the less resem∣blance was between him, and the Types that represented him.
    • The Scripture never mentions the Soul of Christ, but when it speaks of his sufferings.
    • Twice onely the Angels appeared to Christ. The difference of those two Apparitions. An Observation thereupon.
    • The Angels never spoke in the presence of Jesus Christ. A review of the common opini∣on touching that Angel that appeared to him.
    • Of the twelve Legions of An∣gels, Matth. 26.53.
    • Of the Cock that gave warning to St. Peter.
    • Six High-Priests, whom the Scripture declares to have been guilty, and a seventh who hath been more guilty then all the former.
    • Barabbas.
    • Why did God pardon many of those that procured Christ's death, and not Pilat's wife, who opposed her self to that death?
    • Judas his death.
    • Christ praying for those that crucifi'd him.
    • The onely time when Christ speaking to God, did not call him Father.