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A Key to the Mystical Numbers of Daniel, and the Revelations: Or. certain Theses, tending to re∣solve the great Question of the present time, How long shall it be unto the end of Wonders? Added as a Motive to the several parts of Generation-Work.
THESIS I.
THere is a certain definite and determined time, that God in his Word hath set, how long the Captivity and Sufferings of the Church of the New Testament shall con∣tinue, beyond which they shall not be ex∣tended. That such a determined time should be, is a thing of special use, both for the comfort of Gods Church un∣der suffering, the firengthning of their faith, and the helping them in prayer; and it cannot be thought that God who was so careful to measure out the time of his Churches sufferings under the Old Testament, and that to a yeer, yea a day seventy yeers in Babylon, 430 in Egypt, and in the self-same day the determined time was expired, God brings them out, Exod. 12.41, 51. should be altogether careless (as if his grace in Gospel-times were less) of measuring out, and determining the time of the Captivity and Sufferings of the Church of the New Testament.
THESIS II.
The knowledge of this time, is a thing attainable, or otherwise there could be no advantage arising hence;