An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…

7. That this number is expressly opposite to the number of the Lamb in the next verse, in the following Chapter: The number of the Beast is one thing, and the number of the Lamb ⟨p. 252⟩is another thing: For enough this be not the number of the Beasts followers, six hundred threescore and six, yet it is the number of the Beast; and the number of the Lambs followers is an hundred forty & four thousand, what will that hold forth? You shall find what the Holy Ghost intends expressly in that number in some other parts of this book, that this hundred forty and four thousand hath his original and rise from 12. And 12. multiplied by 12. will arise from so many scores to so many hundreds, and 12. times twelve-thousand is an hundred forty and four thousand. So that that is the number of an hundred forty and four thousand, the basis of the number is 12. and multiplied by 12. it will still be derived into the same 12. Now thus doth the Holy Ghost lead us by the hand to consider of more distinctly; In Rev 12. 14. 16. He tells us, The walls of the City had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb, and the City lieth four-square, and the length is as broad as the breadth, &c. He measured the City with the read, 12000. furlongs, the length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal. There he lays the number according to the number of the 12. Apostles, the foundation of the Church of the living God: And further, ma•k how he multiplies on that 12. saith he, They are all equal, twelve thousand furlongs in breadth, twelve thousand furlongs in length, twelve thousand furlongs in height: Which argueth still, that as the City of the new Jerusalem is built upon them, so it is multiplied from them: And when he comes to measure the wall, he tells you in vers. 17. that it was an hundred forty and four: Just the Lambs company; Still the whole Fabric of Jerusalem is 12. the foundation of the number is Apostolical, it is numbered by 12. and multiplied by 12. It ariseth still but to Apostolical simplicity, their number, and their measure, and their order, in all their dimensions; when you have summed it up to the highest, their Laws and Orders that they set up, you shall find 12. there, and you shall find no more. Now then what is the number of the Beast? You see what the Lambs number is, An hundred forty and four thousand:

7. That this number is expresly opposite to the number of the Lamb in the next verse, in the following Chapter: The number of the Beast is one thing, and the number of the Lamb