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 XVII.

The 1290 days, and the 1260 (alias forty two months) are both to end at one and the same point; that is, the Jews delivery from their long Captivity, which is the thing set forth by the 1290 days, is to begin at that point where the Gentile Churches delivery from the tyranny of Anti∣christ, set forth by the forty two month, the 1260 days is to end, and so consequently either number concenter in their end, and terminate at the same point, which is clear.

1 Because the time, times, and a half, Dan. 12.7. Rev.

12.14. which ends at the same point with the 1260. ends also at the same point with the 1290, as I have proved at large in my fore-going Discourse, Chap. 2. Sect. 5.

2 Because our Saviour, Luk. 21.24. fore-telling the time how long the Jews Captivity should continue, and Jerusalem should be trodden under foot of the Gentiles, tels us, that the same should be untill the times of the Gentiles should be fulfilled. And they shall fall by the edge of the Sword; and shall be led away captive into all Nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, untill the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled; the meaning whereof is not, that the Jewish Captivity should continue, untill such time as the Gentiles should cease to be Gods people any longer, for the stream of the Prophets run against such a conjecture, they every where fore-telling of a wonderful access of Gentiles to the Lord, about the time of the Jews coming in, from which day the Gentiles are not to be rejected, but Jew and Gentile together to be the people of God. But the meaning I conceive to be this, until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled, that is, untill the time of the Gentiles Captivity, and sufferings under Antichrist is at an end, so long shall the Jews Captivity remain, but with the end of the one, shall the other also have end. Now the Gentiles Captivity ending at the end of the forty two months, the 1260 days, which is the term of the Beasts Tyranny, and the Womans being in the Wilderness, therefore must the Jews also, and so consequently the 1260 days, and the 1290. end to∣gether.

3 Because Daniel, chap. 9.26. telling us how long de∣solations are determined upon the Jewish Nation, makes their desolations to end with the end of the War, Unto the end of the War desolations are determined.

Quest. What War is this?

Answ. Doubtless the War he had spoken of before,

chap. 7.21. viz. the War of the little Horn against the Saints; I beheld, and the same Horn made War with the Saints, and prevailed against them; the continuance of which War is but untill the end of the time, times, and a half, where the time of the little Horns reign and Tyranny expires, vers. 25. He shall wear out the Saints of the most High, and think to change times and Laws, and they shall be given into his hand, until a time, and times, and the dividing of time.

Now observe, with the end of this War the Jewish de∣solations end, and their restauration begins; now this War ending with the end of the time, times, and a half, and the end of the time, times, and a half, and the 1260 days being one and the same, it necessarily follows, that the 1260 days, and the 1290 should end together.