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A48434	The harmony, chronicle and order of the New Testament the text of the four evangelists methodized, story of the acts of the apostles analyzed, order of the epistles manifested, times of the revelation observed : all illustrated, with variety of observations upon the chiefest difficulties textuall & talmudicall, for clearing of their sense and language : with an additional discourse concerning the fall of Jerusalem and the condition of the Jews in that land afterward / John Lightfoot ...	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1655 (1655)	Wing L2057; ESTC R21604	312,236	218

Spirit to a great and high mountain Compare Ezek. 40.2 That great City holy Ierusalem c. This referres to great dimensions of Ezekiels Ierusalem as also to the squarenesse the three gates of a side c. The glory of it described from thence and from Isa. 58.8 60.2 3. 54.11 12 c. The wall of it 12000 furlongs square or 1500 miles upon every quarter East West North and South 3000 miles about and 1500 miles high Wall of salvation Isa. 26.1 60.14 The foundations of the wals garnished with twelve precious stones see Isa. 54.11 as the stones in the Ephod or holy Breastplate three upon every side as these were three and three in a row The first foundation stone here is the Iaspar the stone of Benjamin for Pauls sake the great agent about this building of the Church of the Gentiles The Ierus Talmud in Peah fol. 15. col 3. saith expresly that the Iaspar was Benjamins stone for it saith Benjamins Iaspar was once lost out of the Ephod and they said Who is there that hath another as good as it Some said Damah the sonne of Nethina hath one c. And I saw no Temple therein c. ver 22. here this Ierusalem differs from Ezekiels that had a Temple this none and it is observable there that the platform of the Temple is much of the measures and fashion that the second Temple was of but the City of a compasse larger then all the Land which helpeth to clear what was said before of the double significancy of those things they promised them an earthly Temple which was built by Zerobabel but foretold a heavenly Ierusalem which is described here REVEL CHAP. XXII FRom Ezekiel Chap. 47. and from severall passages of Scripture besides Iohn doth still magnifie the glory happinesse and holinesse of the new Ierusalem Lively waters of clear Doctrine teaching Christ and life by him flowing through it continually Ezek. 7.1 9. Cant. 4.15 The Tree of Life lost to Adam and Paradise shut up against him to keep him from it here restored Then a curse here There shall be curse no more ver 3. See Zech. 14.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anathema non erit amplius c. He concludeth These sayings are faithfull and true so he had said before at the marriage of the Lamb Chap. 19.9 and again at his beginning of the story of the new Ierusalem Chap. 21.5 referring to the severall Prophecies that had been of these things and now all those sayings and Prophecies were come home in truth and faithfulnesse He is commanded not to seal his Book as Daniel was Dan. 12.4 because the time of these things was instantly beginning and Christs coming to reveal his glory in avengement upon the Jewish Nation and casting them off and to take in the Gentiles in their stead was now at the door within three and an half or thereabout to come if we have conjectured the writing of this Book to its proper year There are two years more of Nero and one of confusion in the Roman Empire in the Warres of Otho Vitellius and Vespasian and the next year after Ierusalem fals And thus if this Book of the Revelation were written last of the Books of the new Testament as by the consent of all it was then may we say Now was the whole will of God revealed and committed to writing and from henceforth must Vision and Prophesie and Inspiration cease for ever These had been used and imparted all along for the drawing up of the minde of God into writing as also the appearing of Angels had been used for the further and further still revealing of his will and when the full revelation of that was compleated their appearing and revelations to men must be no more So that this Revelation to Iohn was the topping up and finishing of all revelations The Lord had promised that in the last daies of Ierusalem he would pour down of his Spirit upon all flesh Act. 2.17 And Christ promised to his Apostles that he would lead them into all truth Ioh. 16.12.13 To look for therefore the giving of those extraordinary gifts of the Spirit beyond the fall of Ierusalem there is no warrant and there is no need since when the inspired penmen had written all that the holy Ghost directed to write All truth was written It is not to be denied indeed that those that had these extraordinary gifts before the fall of Ierusalem if they lived after had them after for the promoting of these ends for which they were given but there is neither ground nor reason whereupon to beleeve that they were restored to the next generation or were or are to be imparted to any generation for ever For as it was in Israel at the first setling of their Church so was it in this case in the first setling of the Gospel The first fathers of the Sanhedrin in the wildernesse were indued with Divine gifts such as we are speaking of Numb 11.25 but when that generation was expired those that were to succeed in that Function and imployment were such as were qualified for it by education study and parts acquired So was it with this first age of the Gospel and the ages succeeding At the first dispersing of the Gospel it was absolutely needfull that the first planters should be furnished with such extraordinary gifts or else it was not possible it should be planted As this may appear by a plain instance Paul comes to a place where the Gospel had never come he staies a moneth or two and begets a Church and then he is to go his way and to leave them Who now in this Church is fit to be their Minister they being all alike but very children in the Gospel but Paul is directed by the holy Ghost to lay his hands upon such and such of them and that bestows upon them the gift of tongues and Prophesying and now they are able to be Ministers and to teach the Congregation But after that generation when the Gospel was setled in all the world and committed to writing and written to be read and studied then was study of the Scriptures the way to inable men to unfold the Scriptures and fit them to be Ministers to instruct others and Revelations and Inspirations neither needfull nor safe to be looked after nor hopefull to be attained unto And this was the reason why Paul coming but newly out of Ephesus and Crete when he could have ordained and qualified Ministers with abilities by the imposition of his hands would not do it but left Timothy and Titus to Ordain though they could not bestow those gifts because he knew the way that the Lord had appointed Ministers thence forward to be inabled for the Ministry not by extraordinary infusions of the Spirit but by serious study of the Scriptures not by a miraculous but by an ordinary Ordination And accordingly he gives Timothy himself counsell to study 1 Tim. 4.13 though he were