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 LVII.

Four years of the 490 are in our account to be de∣ducted, the reason is because Christs death, or the cut∣ting off of the Messiah, was not at the end, but in the midst of the 70 or last week; for in the beginning of the 70 week Christ is anointed, therefore this is one Character of the 70 week, vers. 24. Seventy weeks are determined to anoint the most holy. Christ being anointed goes forth preaching, and submitting to the Law about half of the week, and then is cut off, and therefore it is said, vers. 27. He shall confirm the Covenant with many for one week, and in the midst of the week (i e. of that one week, which is the 70 and last) he shall cause the Sacrifice and Oblation to cease; that is, Christ the Messiah being bap∣tized at the very beginning of the 70 week, went about preaching and performing active obedience to the Law part of that week, and then about the midst of that week (which words (I take it) are therefore added, lest other∣wise we should think his Death to be not till the very end of the 70 or last week) he is put to death, by which death of his, he causeth the Sacrifice and Oblation to cease, that is, puts an end to the Jewish worship, which lay in Sa∣crifices, and Oblations; and hence likewise it is said vers. 26. after 62 weeks, that is, 62 added to the other seven spoken of, vers. 25. which make 69, shall the Mes∣siah be cut off, and not after 70 weeks shall the Messiah be cut off, because indeed Christs sufferings came before the 70 week was fully and compleatly expired. These four deducted, there remains to be accounted upon, only 486 years, which passed from the 20 of Artaxerxes Mne∣mon, until Christs Passion.