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 LIX.

Within this Period we are to account upon 1622 years, thus, Christ was thirty years old when he began to preach, Luke 3.23. from the time he began to preach until his Passion, the common opinion holds three years and a half, but we are to account three years only, as is clear from Christs own words, Luke 13.32. Go ye, and tell that Fox, Behold, I cast out Devils, and I do cures to day, and to morrow, and the third day I shall be per∣fected, vers. 33. Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following; Shewing us, that Christ in preaching spent three full years, and yet but three; for as he is baptised at the very beginning of the seventieth week, i.e. at the beginning of the first day, or year of that week, so he is perfected at the end of the third day of that week, or the third year from the time he began to preach. Christ then at the day of his Passion was three and thirty years old, which three and thirty years, because our com∣mon account begins from the year of Christs Nativity, we are to deduct; these deducted of 1655, there remains only 1622, which we are to account upon.