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 XXXII.

The end of the 1290 dayes, the 1260, the 42 months, being so neer,

1 Hence the several Discourses and hints laid down in our first Part, our second, and third, tending to per∣swade, That the day of the resurrection of the dry bones, or the Jews stirring, is neer, are confirmed, and made good.

2 Hence, what I have written, Vial 5. p. 52. ap∣pears to be a truth, viz. That the suffering of the Gen∣tile Churches will shortly bee at an end; for the 42 Months of the Beasts tyranny, and treading underfoot the holy City, the 1260 Dayes of the Witnesses pro∣phesying in sackcloth, the Womans being in the Wil∣derness, will shortly expire. Now the Beasts Tyranny and treading under foot the holy City, the Womans be∣ing in the Wilderness, the Witnesses wearing sackcloth, being the original cause of all the sufferings of the Gen∣tile Churches, their sufferings shall therefore end with the end of these; for the Beasts limited time being once cut, he shall have no new Lease of time to persecute the Woman, tread the holy City underfoot; the Woman once out of the Wilderness shall not return thither again, the Witnesses having once put off their sackcloth shall not put it on again.

3 Hence that which I have said Chap. 1. Sect. 5. viz. That the Witnesses do in all likelihood at this present

day lie dead, appears a truth, for their killing is to be (as I have proved Chap. 1 sect. 4.) in the last three years and a half of the 1260; and according to this our com∣putation there are not at the utmost above three years of the 1260 to expire.

4 Hence, the glorious Rendezvouz of the 144000 (of which our third Chapter treats) cannot be full three years off: for that is to be some little time before the com∣pleat expiration of the 1260 days. Thus much as touching the Numbers of the first Rank.