The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applied: or, A discourse concerning the general…The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applyed: or, A discourse concerning the general…

Prop. 6. Between the inchoation and the consummation of Israels deliverance, there will a considerable space of time intervene.

From the time of Israels coming out of Egypt, unto the time of their quiet possessing the Land of Canaan, there was the space of 46 years. Also the second Temple was 46 years in building, (John 2. 20. ^(†)or in Herod's repairing of it.) And some conceive that Ezekiel's Temple will be about 45 years in finishing, because of the difference which is in Daniels numbers, chap. 12. verse 11, 12. But although I am far from their opinion, who think those days are to be understood of natural, and not of Prophetical days; and therefore that they were fulfilled in ^(a)Antiochus his time) yet I believe that both ⟨p. 45⟩the 1290, and the 1335 days or years are past and gone, and that therefore no such conclusion can be grounded upon that place. Nor would I go about to determine how long this work of Israels salvation shall be in finishing after once it is begun. I love not to utter things that have not (to my own understanding at least) a solid foundation upon the Scripture: Only I say in the general, it will be the work of some years. It may be some of you may think that if this work should now begin, that then it would be all over within a few Months, or within a year or two: but you will surely find your selves mistaken, for there are yet divers vials to be poured forth before this work be over. Now the pouring forth of a vial, doth take up a considerable space of time: Some assign ^(f)the space of six times six (i. e. 36) years to every vial, ^(†)others a far larger space of time; but though those principles will not hold, yet every vial must have some considerable time for its pouring forth. For a vial is