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 ...

THESIS XXVII.

The thing I am speaking of affords us a notable con∣firmation of the truth of either beginning; for they must be so placed as that both Numbers may end together: by consequence therefore the heads of either Number must be set at thirty years distance from each other; and in this distance too, the head of the 1290 must be by so many years the higher, and the head of the one thou∣sand two hundred and sixty the lower, or else they cannot end together. Now is it not a thing very observable, that two things so remarkable, and made famous by so many Histories, the one a thing so like the setting up of the Abomination of Desolation, that no particular act recorded in any History former or latter, doth more patly agree to Daniels words than this of Julian doth: The other a thing so like the rise of the Beast, that we cannot, should we search Histories over and over, find a time, which in all things will afford us more proper Characters than this doth, should fall out at thirty years distance each from other? And also which is very observable in this distance too, that that which looks most like the 1290 dayes, the greater number by thirty years, should be the highest, and that which looks most like the 1260 the lowest? Cer∣tainly this Harmony is not a thing accidental, but so or∣dered by the All-wise Disposer of times and seasons, who through all the actions of the sons of men carries on his own Designs, and performs his own eternal Will.

If either of these beginnings be disallowed by any, let it by them be considered where they will find Heads, if not here, to begin these two Numbers upon, so as that the Harmony may not be broken, but either made from such beginnings as they shall state, to Terminate at the same point.

Now compute the years from either beginning, as we have before stated them, and the concluding time of each number will be A.D. 1656.