A sermon preached at the christening of a certain Jew at LondonA sermon preached at the christening of a certaine Iew at London

¹I have somewhat declared unto you concerning the seventy weeks. For the better perseverance of the orderly proceedings and interchanged successes whereof, a threefold distinction of times ought severally to be considered. Namely: Seven weeks, then three score two weeks, and one week. In the first seven weeks,² all that intercourse of time is comprehended, that must grow betwixt the laying the foundation of the second temple & building thereof, until the full finishing of the same: for so many years are accounted from the first year of Cyrus reign, unto the vii. or viii. year of Darius, before the building of the Temple was throughly performed: which will amount to 49. years.³ Again the three score two weeks do note unto us, the remnant of the time, wherein Messiah the Lord should be borne in the city of David, after that the city & Temple were repaired & ⟨image 78⟩built again: which building was completed in the 32. year of the reign of Darius the Assyrian, or Artaxerxes. Now that other one week which remained,⁴ doth signify unto us the anointing, preaching, revealing & suffering of the same Messiah: & of those other things, which were to ensue after his death. In the middle part of which week,⁵ shall Messiah be slain: to wit, three years & an half, after his baptism and anointing. By which death he shall accomplish the mystery of mans redemption, whereof the prophets did so oft prophesy and prognosticate, long time before.

¹I haue somewhat declared vnto you concerning the seuentie weekes. For the better perceiuerāce of the orderly proceedings and enterchaunged successes whereof, a threefold distinction of tymes ought seuerally to bee considered. Namely: Seuen weekes, then three score two weekes, and one weeke. In the first seuen weekes,²