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 XXXIV.

The 2300 daies, and the 1335 dayes, are likewise both to end at one and the same point. Which is clear.

1 Because the Prophecy of the eighth Chapter, which lays us down the first number, and the Prophecy of the 11 and 12 Chapters, which gives us the second, are one and the same, the subject matter of either, being the three last Monarchies, viz. Medes and Persians, Grecians, Romans; and also either Prophecy terminates at one and the same point, viz. the final destruction of the Fourth and last Monarchy; which thing needs no farther proof, save onely diligently to compare the one with the other; therefore the 2300 days, which bring us to the shutting up of the one Prophecy, and the 1335, which bring us to the shutting up of the other, must of necessity end at one and the same point.

2 Because as the 1335 days bring us to that time in which Daniel was to stand in his Lot, i. e. to rise again, chap. 12.13. But go thou thy way till the end be, for thou shalt rest, and stand up in thy lot (as our old translation reads it) at the end of the days (i.e. at the end of the 1335 days mentioned in the foregoing Verse, Daniel should rise) So the 2300 days brings us to the last end of indig∣nation, Ch. 8.19. Behold I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of indignation. And what is this last end of indignation, but only the last Vial of Gods wrath? Rev. 16. the pouring out of which is at the time of Christs coming, and the Resurrection, as I have elsewhere proved at large. Therefore the 2300 days, and the 1335. do, yea, must terminate at one and the same point.

3 Because the Personal appearance of Christ, is the concluding point of both. The last King, Chap. 8.25. (or the fourth Monarchy) comes to his final end by stand∣ing up against the Prince of Princes, i. e. Christ. Now this standing up, is not a standing up against Christ in his Members, for that he did it before, vers. 24. He shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty, and the holy people. But this standing up is brought in with an also, he shall also stand up against the Prince of Princes, as noting it to be another, and a distinct standing up from the former; that was against Christ and his members onely; but this stan∣ding up shall be a higher act of boldness, and wickedness in him, viz. a standing up against Christ himself in per∣son, who now appears as the Prince of Princes (the very name written on his vesture, and thigh, at the day of his personal appearance to destroy the Beast, Rev. 19.16. King of Kings, and Lord of Lord,) to vindicate the cause of his people; against him shall the power of this fourth Monarchy stand up, and by him, without the help of any Creature, shall it be destroyed, therefore said in the

following words, to be broken without hand, i.e. with∣out mans hand, by Christ alone, agreeing to other places, which speak of the same time, Isa. 63.3. I have trodden the Wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me, Chap. 66.16. The slain of the Lord shall be many, Rev. 19.21. the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat on the Horse, with many others.

The final destruction also of that proud King spoken of, chap. 11. viz. the fourth Monarchy, is by the personal appearance of Christ, as compare chap. 11. ult. He shall come to his end, and none shall help him, with chap. 12.1, And at that time shall Michael (or Christ) stand up.

So that the utmost point of either Prophecy, or the con∣cluding act of that long Tragedy, which we have, First, Rehearsed in brief, chap. 8. Secondly, More fully declared, in that last, and great Prophecy, chapters 10, 11, 12. is the standing up of Michael, therefore the 2300 days, which bring us to the end of the first, and the 1335, which bring us to the end of the second, must both expire at one and the same point, viz. with Christs personal appea∣rance.