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Theat yethe coynage of yethe money of due weight & finess is a thing of very great consequence to yethe nation as may be understood by the ill consequences of bad money & & by the great punishments of them that clip or counterfeit it both in this & other nations & or that or coyn it worse then the ( such as are the pains of death for as in cases of high treason, boyling in oyle castration &c ) or coin it ill in legal mints ( such as are boyling in oyle &c ) & by th or that in legal mints coyn it worse then the laws allow, ( as of the Mr & Wr of wchwhich in some nations ( is accounted decreed a as in Scotland is adjudged a crime of the same nature wthwith b diminishing or counterfeiting ] . And therefore the IjJury ought to be very That this the nations exact in examining mthe moneys in the Pix for yethe satisffaction of yethe nation.

That they are are to try it by the a these moneys by her majtsmajesty's standards weights & trial pieces kept in her MajtsMajesty's ExcheqrExchequer & now in the Treasury & now produced before them for that purpose & that to satisfy themselves that her MajtsMajesty's trial Pieces is are genuine if they have any sample they are allowed to compare thitem wthwith the Indented trial pieces in their own custody. & if they desin to satisfy theymselves about the trial pieces in the custody of yethe officers of the Mint they are allowed to also to see them compared them with thher st Majesties standard pieces

That they are to in examining the they are to examin the moneys by yethe rules set down in the Indentures made between the crown & the prpresent Master & worker of the Mint & particularly to try if a pound weight 44li 10s in Gold moneys make a pound weigh Troy recconing a Guinea at 20s & if 3li 2s in silver moneys also make a pound weight Troy.

They are also to try if the gold moneys be 22 carats fine gold & two cartats allay & the silver moneys 11 ounces two penny weight fine siversilver & 18 penny weight allay. & if

And because the moneys cannot be coyned exactly b without some accidental error in weight or in finess or in both they toare examin whe to take notice of the error if they find any & see whether it be within the limits all allowed by the Indentures & under the name of & called the Masters remedy, that is, if to say whether in weight or fineness or both together it do not exceed the sixt part of a carat in certain godld moneys or two penny weight in in standard silver moneys in the pound weight Troy. [ And if they know of any error committed by designe, tho it be within these remedies, they are to take notice of it, because an error in the rcoynage of yethe money no error committed by designe makes the money ]

In the constitution of yethe Mint yethe great care has been is taken to have yethe money coyned exactly. The gold & silver is first reduced to standard by the weight & assay before melting & after melting it is again assayed to see if it bee standard, & after coyn in the coynage it is w every piece is weighed & sized & the weight examined by the Offices of apart & reduced to a just weight & after coynage it is again weighed & assayed before delivery & is not deliverable if it be either without the remedy or within the remedy & yet faulty by designe. For no error its allowed in the coynage otherwise then by accident. Yo And After all this circumspection you are now to ensu it remains that they examin the moneys again by weight & assay with the utmost exactness according to ther Majesties standards & Indenture wthwith the utmost exactness to And for greater security one piece of gold moneys in every 15 pounds weight Troy & one piece of silver moneys in every 60 pound weight troy has been taken is put into yethe Pine box before before yethe Officer & to be now tried with by them in weight & assay according to her MajtsMajesty's standards & Indenture in this publick manner wthwith the utmost exactness.

& therefore a limit called the Masters remedy is allowed of the sixt part of a carrat in yethe gold moneys & of two penny weight in the silver moneys in the pound wtweight Troy, wchwhich limit or remedy the error in weight or fineness or both is not to exceed: the Iury is to ab observe if the error doth not exceed this limit, & w wchwhich this error ( if there be any ) & if it doth not exceed this remedy.

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A little before yethe death of Philopateor his son Demetrius was sent hostage to RrRome & his brother in the roon place of Antiochus Epiphanes who had been hostage there was set at liberty the brother of Philopator & Antiochus was at Athens w in his way home when Philopator died. Whereupon Heliodorus the treasurer of the kingdom stept into the throne. But Antiochus

& therefore in these few words & after him arms shall stand up , he comprehends all the succesive conquests by wchwhich the Romans str extended their dominion over the Greeks & from the conquer last of those conquests wchwhich was the conquest of Egypt, he steps down down to the next action of great note wchwhich among within the dominions of the Greeeks, wchwhich was the war against the Iews the taking away daily worship, & setting up the heathen Idols by throughout all their land Iudea & thereby dispersing the people into all nations , . that is the set This Daniel calls the setting up of the abomination of desolation, that is the setting up the abomination whereby the land is made desolate & empty of its inhabitants or the setting up of the abomination wchwhich maketh desolate the land desolate Such an abomination Antiochus endeavoured to set u not This was the setting up of idolatry not in the temple alone but in all the cities & towns of Ieudea & compelling all the inhabitants to fly worship them or fly their country. Such an abomination Antiochus endeavoured to set up but his devices against the hol did not prosper without success. The abomination wchwhich he set up did not make the land desolate . Such an abomination [ the Romans ] was effectually set up by the Romans. & by them alone. Daniel kills us that They & they alone set it up wthwith success & ever since they set it up the land has continued desolate & empty of its people the Iews as we see at this day.

Thus all things came to pass as Daniel had foretold, and this destroying the city & sancturary by the Romans & causing desolations in yethe land untill the end of the war, & causing making the daily worship sacrifice to cease & overspreading the land with a wing of abominations making it causitng desolateions therein unto the end of the war & therewithby making it desolate unto the end of the indignation is a full explication of what Daniel in other places calls the setting up of taking away the daily sacrifice & setting up the abomination of desolation.

Yet Before this desolation the Iews – – – who were thereby grafted into the stock of the Iews & became Gods people became Gods people till the abomination of desolation was set up also in their churches.

that is he shall speak them as a lawgiver & by making dictating laws against the laws of God he shall exalt & magnify himself above every God & weare out the saints . For imposing dictating laws in matters of revealed religion is usurping divine authority & setting on & It is usurping sitting in Gods throne, or as the Apostle Paul expressesth, it it is exalting himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped & at that he as God sittingeth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is a God. It is sitting in Gods throne in yethe Temple between the Cherubims where God dictated laws to the Iews & was worshipped by them as their lawgiver. As the When Daniel tells us that the little horn of Danielshis fourth Beast was to should speak great words & even against the most High & wear out the saints of yethe most High : he means that this Horn should spaeak as a lawgiver & by making laws against the laws of God should wearout the saints. For he D he adds in the next words he adds that theis horn should sthink to change times & laws & they should be given into his hand for a time times & half a time . And in the same sense he tells us that the king who doth according to his will should magnify himself above every God & speak marvellous things against the God of Gods

B Among the Heathens of Persia & India there are to this day sects of people who live very austere lives placing their religion in abstinence from weomen marriage & from meats, & in bodily exercises & severities austerities whcich are mischievous to themselves & of no advantage to mankind. And such a sort of superstitious people were the Monks among the Christians. They were a new sort of Christians not known to Christ & his instituted by Christ or his Apostles You may know them by their fruits: For by they were the ringleaders in bringing into the Christian Churches the doctrine of Ghosts, the invocations of the dead, the worshipping of their reliques pictures & images, & the all manner feigning of miracles & legends ofary miracles stories of miracles for promoting these things. of heathen superstitions & feigning of

– and wthwith things of value. Thus shall he do in the most strong holds [ or Temples ] with a strange God whom he shall acknowledge & increase with honour & he shall cause them [ the Mahuzzims ] , to reign rule over many & shall divide the earth [ among them ] for lucre every city town family & trade honouring his Guardian saint with gifts . Now this king by magnifying himself above every God & speaking marvellous things ( in his tlaws ) against the God of Gods & together wthwith a strange God whom his fathers knew not honouring Mahuzzims in thise Temples with things ☉ & ☾ & gems & things of value that is with statues & pictures & altars adorned with these things , removed took away the daily worship of the true God & set up the abomination of desolation in the Christian Churches as the cities & towns as the old Romans had done before in the Iewish; & now the Chirstian nations are now become as desolate of Gods people as the Iewish Iudea is of the Iews & must remain so till the end of the indignation.

Thus the Empire of the Greeks according to is by Daniel desen distinguished into several successive periods. The first is of the Greeks alone before the Romans began to conquer them, the second is of the rise & reign of the Romans over the Greeks untill the Roman Empire became divided into the Greek 2r & Latin Empires the Third is of the Greek Empire after separation from the Latins , untill the rise of the mahometans religion The fourth is of the Empires of the Mahometans Empires & their wars upon the Greeks. [ And this third is distinguished into two principal parts the first of wchwhich preceedes the time of the time of the end & the last is the time conteins the rise & standing of the Saracen & Turkish Empires & is called the time of the end ] And these three periods are distinguished by saying at the end of the first & second that it between the first & second & between the second & third that the end is yet at for at time appointed & by calling the fourth the time of the end. . The first precededs the attempts practises against the daily sacrifice of the Iews the second begins wthwith conteins those at the attempts of A acting against the daily sacrifice by Antiochus & the Romans those attemps beginning wthwith the spoiling a of the Temple by Antiochus, the third the history of those practises & of the primitive Christian religion succeeding the Iewish & the third conteins the history of the religion of the Moncks succeeding the religion of the first Christians. ‡And This third is distinguished into two parts the last of which conteins the history is called the time of the end , & the fourth conteins the history of the Mahometans. In the first of these two parts third yethe religion of the Moncks proceedetd to the invocation of Saints wchwhich was a breach of yethe first commandmtcommandment in the second fourth it proceeded to the making & worshipping of their Images wchwhich is a breach of the second, & is by Daniel called the abomination of desolation And by setting up these abominations the Christian Churches were made desolate. as the Iewish had been before. And these Idols being being abominated by true Christians, have And while true Chirstians abominate & fled from , these Idols, they & left the Idol-Churches desolate of Gods people , & were not suffered to assemble in other places, the Idols are first called the abomination of desolation. the setting up of these Idols was setting up the abomination of desolation. among Chirstians in the Christian Churches among Christians The first endsed & the second begians an. Abr. 1831 when Antiochus Epiphanes & Philometor the kings of Egypt & Syria spa plottetd mischief & spake lyes at one table in Eg against the holy Covenant & Antiochus immediately marched to Ierusalem & spoiled the Temple. The second ended & the third began when the religion of the Monks & particularly the invocation of Saints or worship of Mahuzzims began to Mahuzzims began prevalled & overspread the Greek Empire. This when the yethe veneration of Mahuzzims or invocation of Saints ( a breach of the first commandment ) began to prevaile & over spreadoverspread the Greek Empire. This third is distinguished into two principal parts one The first part of wchwhich of wchwhich preceded the time of the end & the second other is called the time of the end. [ In the first the religion of the Moncks grew up & was became established ware out the saints & became universal. In The second conteins the history of the kings of the South & north rising rose up & makideng war upon the Greek Empire, & therefore the time of the end begins with the rise of yethe Ma Empire of the Saracens. o [ or perhaps wthwith the rise of the Mahometan religion. [ At that time the Greek Emperor Phocas granted to the Bishop of Rome the Vniversal Bishopric & the temple Pantheon to set up the Images of the Virgin Mary & all the Christian saints in the room of all the heathen Gods & from that time forward the erecting of images By the influence of the Bishop of Rome the universall Bishopric images were erected to yethe Saints in Churches overspread both in the whole throughout in all the Greek Empire as well as in the Latine. the his In the first part of the third period the invocation of Saints prevailed generally & grew general, in the second part called the time of the end the erecting of Images to the saints & worshipping them grew gener prevailed & grew general, but not without some opposition made by some of the Greek Emperors. [ For after Images had been erected Leo Isaurus, Constantines Copronymus & Leo IV caused the Images them to be abolished throw abolished their use of & p Images , Constantine VII & his mother Irene restored them, Leo V, Michael Balbus, & his son Theophilus th abolished them again, & Michael the son & successor of Theophilus wthwith his mother Theodora restored them again A. C. 841 & the next year established est established their use & worship by a council called at Constantinople & in memory of their restauration institudted an annual festival. A. C. And this was the last act of setting up the abomination of desolation in the Christian Churches of the Greek Empire. ] wchwhich end wchwhich did not end till the reign wchwhich till the reign of T the Emperor Theophilus & his mother Theodora A. C. 841. ] In the first the religion of the Moncks proceeded to yethe breach of the first commandmtcommandment byyethe invocation of Mahuzzims wchwhich was a breach of the first commandment. In the second it proceeded to the ve setting up of images to the Mahuzzims & venerating the Images wchwhich was a breach of yethe second commandement . & completed the setting up the Ab And by these abominable abom sorts of worship the Churches a And its observable that now first the heathen And by setting up these abominations the Christian churches were made desolate of Gods people. Pictures & Images were at first set up only to instruct the people. w A At length the people began in great numbers to worship the erected images & wchwhich caused some of the Greek Emperors to abolish them & they were not fully enstablished till the reign of the Emperor Theophilus & his mother Theodora A. C. 841. But I Pictures & Image The

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The first preceedes the endeavours to take away the Mosaical daly sacrifice. In the second that sacrifice is taken away & the abomination placed in all Iudea. succeeded in Iudea by the In the third the Chr

In yethe first the Mosaical daily sacrifice continues wthwithout interruption. In the second it is taken away & the true worship remains only among the Christians. In the third the primityive Christianity is succeeded by the religion of the Moncks. In the fourth the abomination of desolation reigns.

Thus Daniel has described by steps, all the great chief changesactions & revolutions in yethe Gre Empire of the Persians & Greeks down from his own days to orsours & in doing this has he has distinguished the times into five grand cardinal periods. The first of the reign of the Persians, the second is of the reign of the Greeks alone until the Romans began to conquer them the third is of the rise & reign of the Romans over the Greeks until the division of their Empire into the Empires of the Greeks & Latines the fourth is of the Greek Empire at Constantinople after separation from the Latines untill the reise & reigne of the Mahometans religion & the fift is of the Mahometans reigning successively in the South & north & making warr upon the Greeks. The sec And the four last periods are distinguished from one another by saying between the first & second & between the se third & again between the third & fourth that the end is yet at the at ta time appointed & calling the fift the time of the end. The third began with the practises against the daily sacrifice of the Iews, the fourth with the rise of the religion of the Moncks & fift with yethe rise of the religion of the Mahomethans. In yethe third the heathen abomination of desolation was set up in all Iudea. In the firsourth the Monkish abomination of einvokatioingn of Saints, was s wchwhich is a breach of the first commandment, was set up in the Christian Churches throu th in all the Empire. In the fift the Monks abominaabletion of worshippiofng Images, wchwhich is a breach of the second commandment, & the abo abomination of desolation among Christia to true Christians was also set up & also in all the Empire , . & this is has these have made the Christian Churches desolate of God to this day. ever since to this day. & the abettors of these abominations have worn out the Saints & made Christendome desolate & And these abominations makde a desolation of Gods both people wherever they were set up. Af In Iudea th the heathen abomination made a desolation only of the unbelieving Iews, in Christen the believing Iews flying their country & the unbelieving being slaughtered & expelled. In Christendom hethe made a desolation o Monkish abomination wore out the saints & made a desolation of all Gods people & The first act against yethe holy covenant was in autumn in the Iudaic year of Seleucus 143 ( 1 Maccab. 1.20 ) when Antiochus spoiled the Temple. the last act of setting up thise abomination was in the beginning of the year of Christ 842 that is toward the end of the Iudaic year of Seleucus 1153 2443 1153 when a Council called at Constantinople by the Empress Theodora decreed that Images wchwhich had been condemned & thrown down & by some former Emperors should be set up again & in memory of their restitution was commemorated annually in a festivall instituted for that purpose an annual festival was kept on Febr. 11. & venerated as before & & an annuall festival was instituted on Febr. 11 in memory of their restitution. And the first act against the holy covenant And And its observable that and that the difference between these periods being 1010 Iudaic years is the same with the difference between the 2300 & the 1290 years, viztvidelicet 1010 Iudaic years. prophetic days days putting a prophetic day for a Iudaic year