Generation-work, or, A brief and seasonable word offered to the view and consideration of the saints and people of God in this generation, relating to the work of the present age, or generation we live in wherein is shewed, I. What generation-work is, and how it differs from other works, II. That saints in the several generations they have lived in, have had the proper and peculiar works of their generations, III. That it is a thing of very great concernment for a saint to attend to and be industrious in, the work of his generation, IV. Wherein doth the work of the present generation lye, V. How each one in particular may find out that part or parcel of it, that is properly his work in his generation, VI. How generation-work may be so carried on, as that God may be served in the generation / by John Tillinghast ...

SECT. VI.

FRom what hath been said, many useful truths arise, which confirm us in the things before asserted, upon Chap. 11. and also are a good confirmation by reason of that sweet harmony of truth it carries with it, of the method laid down in this Chapter; as,

1 That the three days and a half, Chap. 11.9. are not the s••me with the one thousand two hundred and sixty days, because we have a manifest difference here made betwixt the time, times, and a half (which answers to the three days and a half) and the 1260 days.

2 That the killing of the Witnesses shall not be a ge∣neral act, an act in all places at once, because within the time, times, and a half, which is the term of the Witnesses lying dead, there is elsewhere a remnant of the Womans Seed standing up for Christ, vers. 17.

3 That the particular place in which the Witnesses are to lye dead, is Germany, because the War leading to their killing, is in that Land.

4 That the Witnesses in their killing time shall be de∣prived (if not totally, yet in a great measure) of such outward Means and Ordinances as they enjoyed, though in a mournful and suffering condition all the time of their Prophecy, yet notwithstanding shall have a principle of life kept alive in them, by the way of Christs more secret working; therefore it is said of the Woman the 1260 days they fed her, v. 6. but in the time, times, and a half she is non-rished, vers. 14.

5 That the People, and Kindreds, and Nations, and Tongues, Chap. 11.9. are such persons who drive on a worldly and earthly interest, for they are here called the earth, vers. 16. And the earth helped the woman.

6 And last, That the people of God elsewhere, within

the time that the Witnesses lie dead, shall have a cloud upon them, and be brought into some straits, for a War is attempted within the time, times, and a half, by the Dragon, upon the remnant of the Womans seed, vers. 17.