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A44247	The doctrine of life, or, Of mans redemption, by the seed of Eve, the seed of Abraham, the seed of David, &c. as it was taught in severall periods of time, from Gen. 3. 15. till Christ came in the flesh, to fulfill all typicall prefigurations of him by his death : wherein also sundry other fundamentall points are discussed and cleared from some common mistakes : as Daniels chronologie of seventy sevens, which is cleared from the uncertainty which too many expositors have unadvisedly cast upon it : and about the Jewes calling, that it must not be understand of any return to Canaan, or of their restauration to a perspicuous common wealth any more, but of the calling of a remnant of them to the faith, in the countries where they live dispersed : and with the true nature of our Lords sufferings, with sundry other such like points, as may be seen in the table : propounded by way of question and answer, with annotations thereunto annexed : divided into three parts / by Edward Holyoke of New-England.	Holyoke, Edward, d. 1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing H2534; ESTC R22353	401,616	468

saw no Angell CHAP. XLVI That the point of Chronology was a cheife part of the Angells Message to Daniell for Daniell knew all before the Chronology 1. HE knbw that Salem Daniel saith Seavens Seavens ore exactly ●●●●u●ted for thy people and for thy holy City Sems Tents and people should not alwayes have peculiar glory and that one day the postericy of Japheth should be perswaded to embrace the faith of Sems Tents he knew that all Families that apostated Gen. 11. should be blessed in CHRIST Gen. 12 and that he would also confirme firme the Covenant of his grace for them The blessednesse promised and the confirming the Covenant are all one 2. He knew as well as Esaias that the Temple and holy place should not alwayes be regarded as Stephea cites Esaias and Daniet Act. 6. 7. Esai ●6 1. Dan. 9 26.27 that the holy place Christ would destroy 3. He knew that Esaias had said from Moneth to Moneth and from Sabbathto Sabbath all flesh shall come to worship before me saith the Eternal Esai 66.23 This sheweth an utter abrogation of Moses seeing all Nations cannot come every week to Jerusal●m Mr. Br. in the latter end of Ecclesiastes 4. He knew the Preist hood of Levi should be changed from Psal 110. And he knew if the Preist hood be changed of necessity there must be a change of the Law and therefore the Law of all manner of Sacrifices of Beasts and Birds c. should be abolished this he knew from Psal 40. And all faithfull as Habel thus expected and beleived and by that their faith they were made heires of the justification that is by faith And Daniel sheweth the same that Messias should by his once offering of himselfe make reconciliation for iniquity and bring an everlasting justification and so seal and confirme all the visions and premises and prophesres that himselfe was the end an scope that all aimed at 5. He knew from Esaias that Cyrus should send the Jewes home from Captivity and build City and Temple read Esai 44 45 46. Jer. 30.18 But in what time after the returne from Captivity Esaias told not But the holy Angel did shew the time that within the Seaven Seavens from Daniels prayers and the returne of the forty nine thousand Jerusalem should be builded Street and Wall 6. He knew that HE the holy seed of the Woman of Abraham of David c. should destroy Satans works that by the Seed of the Serpent his foot sole should be bruised that he should be slaine not for himselfe but for us 7. He knew that Esaias had prophecied of the acceptable year● of the Lord in the Jubilee in which should be preached good tidings unto the meek to bind up the broken hearted to proclaime liberty to the Captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound c. Now Daniel told of the last Jubilee when all should be performed Levit. 25. seeing all the promises of God in Christ are yea and amen we are bound to marke the Jubilees beginning and ending and to joyne the last to our LORDS death for indeed they doe so most exactly fall out When the Angel had told the Prophet Daniel of the Seavensy Seavens Then the godly Teachers before the holy Incarnation could say the Majesty of God dwelling in our Tabernacle will be Redemption freedome i. e. justification and Finisher of Sabbaths to Israel in a Iubilee this speach is worthy of golden Letters This they might easily account For they knew how many Jubilees had been past and how many would be the last yeare of the Seavensy Seavens The last Jubilee falls out with the last yeare of the Seavensy Seavens Simeon the just knew this and he wa●ted for the M●ss●as the consolation of Israel and it was reveiled unto him that he should not see death till he had seen the MESSIAS of the Lord. Luk. 2. All this glorious meditation of the Jubilees and this last Jubilee Master P. defaceth utinam bec illi ne imputetur Num. 33 56. Deut. 28.66 Esai 66. P●●l 95. Ez●k 16. 8. He knew from Moses and the Prophets that Christ the King would destroy his own people as with a Floud of Noe that they should be shaken out of their own Land and that that Land should not be their Rest nor an holy Land nor holy Mountaine no more then any place under heaven after the ending of the Seavensy Seavens the Jewes shall be converted they will beleive that City and Temple shal never be restored and then they will not much regard the Land Now the holy Lord God sent his Angell from heaven to tell the time of the accomplishment of all these they are un-utterable wonderfull things and glorious mercies that from the beginning of Daniels prayer this exactly accounted time should begin Mr. Bro● 〈◊〉 Daniel and end at the shewing of CHRIST to be the most holy Redeemer in declaring the power of God in his passion and resurrection as is foretold in Dan. 9. Because the passion marveilously shewed Christ to be the most Holy when he sanctifyed himselfe Ioh. 17.17 and the Centurion said doubtlesse he was the Son of God and his resurrection shewed that he was indeed the Son of Gon. I will add a little to the eighth Section above If the Jews had known the words of the Prophets they would not have stoned Stephen for saying Jesus of Nazaret should destroy the City and the holy Place Great error hath herein been committed by not marking the force of Noes words pursued by Moses by Gabriell by the Lord and by their full Event and by the glorious erecting of the Church tearmed the Jerusalem from Heaven insted of it Iulian the Apostate to satisfy our Lords words indeavoured to repaire Jerusalem but he felt the wrath of Christ for it So in after ages * Anno 1100. 1200. the Pontificality stirred the Princes of the West to war for Low Jerusalem but Christ plagued Christendome to this day for that vanity Yea at this day people study not nor beleive the words of the Prophets but as the Jewes are susperstitious so are many the superstition of the Jewes is in part expressed by a godly Teacher And it seems their vanity pleaseth us to write so of them as we doe Christians now a-dayes are so foolish and erroneous as thinking of going to Jerusalem I could name some But it is better for them to alter their opinions and if I might give them counsell to doe as it is reported Jewes doe about their dead bones let them give order to some Feoffee to have care of their dead bones and when they have a sufficient Cargosie to fraight some Vessell to Joppa and to consigne them to some Reverend Mussel-man that he by Waggons may transport them to Jerusalem to be interred Ah let Teachers consider whether they have not been an occasion to people to stumble at the Law in teaching and writing about

of the Land of Canaan by Iesus the son of Nun unto the conquest of JESVS the son of God over Sin death and Satan and all our enemies are twenty eight Iubilees our Lord and Saviour the Lord Iesus Christ who is the second Adam and Sem the Great and Reverend The Jubilee year a wonderful● 〈◊〉 the joyfull sound of the Trumpet in the acceptable year of the Lord sounded all these things The victorious combate with the Serpent and his seed and his triumph over them the fullnesse of times the Sacrifice of eternall Redemption the just for the unjust the open recovery of Paradise the resurrection of the most holy the true Temple destroyed and raised the day of salvation the Jews Prerogative ended the Gentiles called the enmity of Jew and Gentile abolished the shadows flee away Christ shook and ended the things made with hands the Sun is darkned the Vail of the Temple rent because the way into the holy heavens was opend by a better Priest and Sacrifice c. c. c. died in a * Iubilee year The ancient holy Hebrews had an excellent and wonderfull saying among them that The Divine Majesty dwelling in our Tabernacle will be to Israel in a Iubilee remission redemption and finisher of Sabbaths Annotations upon the Questions and Answers of the ninth Chapter QVest 2. and Ans upon the 2. verse of Dan. 9. The reading study and meditation of the holy Scriptures a great furtherance to prayer A man cannot pray with sound spirituall comfort that is ignorant in them as is manifest in this verse and the rest of the Chapter Blessed is the man that delighteth in them and in them doth meditate day and night Psal 1. And anathema maranatha be that man of sin and his locusts and Kingdome that with-holdeth and forbiddeth the reading and study of the holy Scriptures to the people Observe well 2 Sam 7.27 Gods revelation the ground of prayer yea boldnesse in it Upon Daniel 9 23. Conceive the word and perceive it c. By this commandement doubled for vehementer charge he condemneth the world that regardeth not to be instructed in this doctrine sent from heaven by an Angel unto Daniel and penned for all Nations use Wherefore we must give better heed unto the speech lest we perversly swarve for if the word spoken by angels fall out sure and every trespasse received just recompence of reward how shall we ever escape neglecting so great a charge of our King to our own salvation where the vision is so clear that no doubt can be moved by any plain heart that will rest in the clearnesse of the most bright message by an angel of glory who coming to teach all the world was to shine in words as Steph●n by him did in the face Acts 6 when he spake the angell Gabriels words that Jesus of Nazareth would destroy the place City and Temple and change the Laws which Moses gave To this day the blind Jews stand in this that the Laws of Moses shall stand for ever Maymon Tom. 1. delege perek 9. Therefore God fore-seeing their dullnesse of hearing would have an angel of light to teach them by this Prophesie 490 years when from the year of that message unto Daniel the Laws of Moses should have their end and none of the Scribes when Herod was affrighted nor any of the Iews as is seen by their answers in all the Gospel objected disagreement for the time which thing had been done if there had been any colour of disagreement in time but they could not conceive of Christs person and office how that he should be the most holy and King and yet dy for our redemption how he should be Davids Lord and yet his son of these things the main objections arose Now let us look unto the Text s●il Mr. Bro. on the text on both his english Daniels Upon Dan. 9.24 c. In this Scripture we come to behold in its flaming brightnesse of the King that is Sacrificer also by whom and for whom death is vanquished sun is cleansed Iustice is brought redemption is wrought a vision is sealed our soul is healed sacrifice abolished and the Temple destroyed for defacing of this doctrine the Iews be reiected for embracing this doctrine the Gentiles be elected to open calling Mr. Bro. in S. sight surely the angel his message concerneth the sum of all the Bible The Jews went weeping to Babel seeing Salomons house and Kingdome ended and the Temple burnt and all Moses ceremonies shaken but they returned rejoycing bringing sheaves of all comfort by Gabriels heavenly message of the seventy sevens concerning MESSIAH the King the Holy of Holy Upon Dan. 9.25 Out going of the word to restore c. mark the word of Proclamation of Cyrus Ezra 1. how it answereth this Prophesie Meditate also how pleasing it is to our God to have a tender affection to his cause Daniel mourned and prayed for the holy City and the holy Mountain and had a gracious answer by the holy angel compare Dan. 9 21.22 Also observe a speech in Zephaniah I will gather them that are sorrowfull for the solemn Assembly who are of thee such are the children of Sion the genuine members of Christs mysticall body to whom the reproach of it was a burden Zeph. 3.18 Psal 137.5 6. So Daniel again was affected when he mourned so bitterly when the building of the temple was hindred by Cambyses in Cyrus his absence Ezra 4 Dan. 10.2 3 4. No losse to the losse of holy things when they are gone God is gone and the enjoying of them no gain so great and no time so acceptable Lam. 2.6 7. H●s 9 12. Ezek. 9 3. 10 4.18 19. and 11.22.23 Mic●hs idolatrous contestation in a contrary must be the thought of every Holy soul for the esteeming procuring and upholding of Holy Assemblies Jud 18 24. Upon Dan. 9.26 The City and holy place shall be distroy The holy Martyr Stephen was called into question and lost his life for this glorious Doctrine of the holy Angell and yet his countenance before the Councill was like the Angels that brought the message Act 6.13 14 15. and all Chap. 7. How did Despisers wonder and perish when Stephen and Paul taught this Act. 6 7 Act. 13.41 45. 21.28 they wondered and in the end perished As of old they wondered at the Prophets Esai 8 18. Jer. 26 6 7 8. Hab. 1.5 so they did at our Lord and his Apostles Doctrine And verily so it is at this day where ever the Commandements of God and the faith of Jesus is truly and zealously taught Upon the same verse verse twenty five about the attribute Messiah which in this message of the Angell is twice expressed as a proper name of the Son of God who became a Son of man the Son of Adam Dan. 7.13 to fulfill all the Angels message And from this time of Dan 9. this attribute Messiah was very usuall among the faithfull

thousand years after it is not ration●● 〈…〉 to think most impertinent assertions As if a godly soul or a 〈…〉 under greivous pressures and afflictions at present should 〈…〉 for consolation must the Teacher then tell stories to 〈…〉 that neither they nor theirs for many genera 5. Again these in captivity were godly and faithfull and knew they were chastised for not regarding Gods * The Iews now are perswaded of no such thing although forewarned Heb. 10.25 26 27. covenant in Christ and therefore they did humble themselves and confesse their sins as Levit. 26. foretold and had gracious promises of return to Canaan and of building city and Temple and that the City should be builded on its own heap and that they should have a policy to buy and sell Ier. 32. and the Prophet Ieremi●h knew well enough that the godly in the state of Iudah were or would be much cast down in their spirits even as Ieremy himself was concerning their most grievous calamities as Ier. 32. * It was ●n that age of God people that needed this satisfaction and thereupon the Lord God did comfort him and all the godly of those dayes and did revive their hearts in divers passages even as he did by Ezekiel see Jer. 29.30 31 32 33. chapters 6. But the Jews now are not godly but grievous apostates for they hold Christ and his Gospel Kingdome and people anathema they are exceeding hard of heart and blaspheme our Christ look for Christ yet to come not one of 1●00 is godly of them nor have been for many hundred years 7. A glorious calling of the Jews from Rom. 11. is not denied in all places where they are scattered and will not this be a wonderfull glory to them and us that they in all places where they are shall yield obedience to the Gospel This should suffice for more cannot be proved and when Christ came we Gentiles were received into their sheepfold Iohn 10 Other sheep I have c. but hereafter the contrary Rom. 11.11 To provoke them to follow them that was their glory this ours 8. So certainly this speech of Ezek. 37. was spoken for the present disconsolate age These were not yet cast off All Zac. z. was consolatory to the returned who were vexed by the Samaritans and others Ierusalem being as yet unwalled although the providence of Christ was as a wail of fire for them till it was walled nor cut off from their own people but they onely were as yet Gods people and that made Zachariah say * that the Lord will yet choose Sion and Ierusalem and that yet he would be jealous for Ierusalem and Sion This was to comfort them under many pressures being under the government of the Persians and under such like pressures they should be under Iavan whole and Iavan parted namely in much affliction therefore it was fit and convenient so to comfort them for the Lord doth alwayes speak sitly to his olive and so the Lord did yet choose them even after this for the time of the Seventy Sevens of years in which space of time they should be the peculiar holy people and Ierusalem should continue to be the holy City but after the Seventy Sevens of years were accomplished according to Dan. 9 they had not any peculiar priviledge nor ever shall We m●s● not regard that strange Doctrine that teacheth otherwise but what tends to that Sion in Hebrews 12. and in Apocalyps 14.1 and to that Jerusalem Hebrews 12. Gal. 4. Apoc. 3 and 21. in too many things we do hinder the conversion of the Jews in Judaizing with them They hope for the building of Ierusalem and daily pray for their return to Canaan and many of us thus Judaize with them in teaching their return thither to b● a glorious Church again 9. And whereas the people of God in Jeremiahs and Ezekiels dayes were much dejected in spirit for the sorrows which they felt by Babel the golden head as they had cause went weeping to Babel not clearly discerning Gods counsel yet at the end of the captivity the holy counsels of God were fully opened by Gabriel the holy angels glorious message from heaven to Daniel * This Text of Dan. 9.24 did comfort them for the losse of the Ark Jer. 3. and the shaking of the rest of the Ceremonies and because the Lord foresaw what he would once more do by the Romane polity therefore he gave to Daniel that glorious revelation that they should expect the MESSIAS the holy of holy to confirm the Covenant for the many by his death Dan. 9.24 That they need not mourn nor lament for destroying Salomons Progeny and Kingdome because the holy angel had told them of the MESSIAS their King greater than Salomon who was also of the house of David for it is said he shall be great and shall be called the Son of the most high and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdome there shall be no end Luc. 1.32 33. and hence we learn that Christs spirituall kingdome shall never be ended nor overthrown nor his heavenly progeny extinct who are Princes and Priests in all the earth Psal 145.16 and the Metropolis of his kingdome is the heavenly Sion and Jerusalem builded by the Gospel over all the four quarters of the world and this city 1500 mile square compassed about with a wall of precious truth invincible that no power of the enemie can scale it or make any breach in it and the foundations of the wall are twelve compounded of twelve precious Jewels The holy Doctrine of the Lambs twelve apostles that there can be no Satanicall pioneers to make any mynes to blow it up no if they be as deep in their counsels as Garnet and Faux of that hellish crue and the Temple within this holy city is so glorious that it secretly affrights all opposers more than that in the times of Psal 48. For the Lord God of hosts even the LAMB is the Temple who is also the Rock of defence of his Church 10. Now though all this be our glory under the new Testament yet the Doctrine of many is contrarie for in effect they teach the Jews to lament and mourn for earthly Canaan and for the low Ierusalem and Temple Teachers may as well follow their Thalmudicall fables as this doctrine and so they do in part for they look for a pompous Kingdome in Canaan and continue against Gods oath the line of Salomon Ier. 22. These things will be touched again as the argument calls for it 11. The Prophesie of Amos chap. 9. is expounded in Acts 15. by the holy Councel and it will confine all our expositions that we make upon Esaias Ezekiel and Zacharias for such a calling of the Jews as I have shewed The last of Amos expounded by the Apostles themselves I take it is a key to open

Israel that the heathen should have nothing to do in their policy as long as their Prerogative did continue and whereas Ezekiel saith wither they be gone he calls to mind all their oppressors as well ashur as Babel and from these heathen they shall be brought into their own Land but when the Iews are called to the faith they will est em of Canaan no better than any other countrey as indeed they ought not 5. Now we will touch a little of Zachariah who utters many consolatory promises and prophesies to the present age of his time and for the times of the Seventy Sevens because they were slack in returning to their * It is a singular observation I think of B●roaldus that Hamans Plot against the Iews in 127 Provinces was a chastisement to them for their slacknesse in returning they loved their outward comforts and settled habitation too much they should have done as 2 Chron. 11.13 16. I hope the Lord will remember poor new England and our posterity as Ier. 2.2 3. brethren that had already returned had ●elt some hardship by some of the former Kings of Persia and were put into many fears by Sanballat and his associates of the Samaritans yet the Lord God promiseth that he would put into their hearts to return to be as one with Iudah 6. I will expresse some Scriptures of Zac. 26 7 Ho ho come so●th and flee from the Land of the North saith the Lo●d for I have s●●ed you abroad as the four winds of the beaven saith the Lord. Deliver thy self O Zion that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon This earnest call of the Lord might well cause Ezra and his company to return and of them many might be of the ten Tribes as well as of Iudah his return was four or five years after for this Prophesie was uttered in the second of Darius Artaxast and Ezra returned in the seventh 7 Zachary 8. sheweth that the returned were somewhat disconsolate because Ierusalem was so scant of inhabitants as Nehemiah 11. read Zac. 8. Therefore God promiseth I will save my people from the East countre and from the West countrey and I will bring them and they shall dwell in the midst of Ierusalem c. in verse 13. it is said And it shall come to passe that as ye were a curse among the heathen O house of Iudah and house of Israel so will I save you and you shall be a blessing fear not we are not to doubt but the Lord brought them of the ten Tribes as well as of Iudah read verses 20.21 8. Zac. 9.13 When I have bent Iudah for me and filled the bow with Epraim and raised up thysons O Zion against thy sons O Javan and made thee as a sword of a mighty man The Lord made Iuhah and Ephraim a bew and arrows against the enemies in the dayes of the Seleuco-Logidae as the Macchabees shew and this sheweth that many of the ten Tribes had returned as well as Judah See Tremellius on Zac. 9. Zach. 10.6 I will strengthen the house of Iudah and I will save the house of Ioseph and will bring them again to place them c. and they of Ephraim shall be as a mighty man I will hisse for them and gather them v. 10 I will bring them again also out of Egypt and Ashur into Gilead and Lebanon c. These speeches and others do shew that Ephraim had returned as well as Judah and were as one stick 10. And the new Testament sheweth that Israel in the Tribes were multiplied great multitudes fol'owed the Lord Jesus where ever he came and he dwelt and taught much in those places where captivity began by the Kings of Ashur there the light of the Gospel first began in the Land of Zabulon and Naphtali Esaias had prophesied it should be so Esai 9 And there are histories and writers that shew how at the holy feasts of the Jews there were hundreds of thousands that assombled which sheweth that many of the ten Tribes had returned and were as one stick joined together in holy worship 11. And this will further be evidence by Zac 11. that they had returned both Iudah and Israel and were as one because the Lord threatned them that he would break the brotherhood of Ephraim and Judah for their departing from the faith and did not regard the Law of the Angel of the Covenant which he by Mases gave at Horeb for he had charged them by the Ministery of Ma●achi to remember the lively oracles Mal. 4 4. with the Statutes and judgements that were commanded for all Israel for they should have no more Prophets ●ill John-Elias 12. But they followed the wicked doctrine of the three shepherds Sadducisme Pharisailme c. many Jews that despised the holy Covenan● became treacherous therefore God brought upon Jerusalem c all Jullea heavy miseries that they destroyed one another before our Lords incarnation and after very many sorrows by civill dissentions and schismes so that then was broken the brotherhood of Judah and Ephraim and thus Zac 11. must be understood of these times and to this effect 13. And further to dilate on the Text. They took Jerusalem from one another by domesticall seditions and they cut down the Cedar-great men spoiling and destroying the great ones among themselves and the great ones did roar like Lions on the meaner sort as they had gotten power over them so their vintage of consblations was taken away not so much literally to be understood but the Temples holy worships were heathenishly and otherwayes corrupted and their exercises in their Synagogues were greatly suspended for as either of their factions prevailed they blessed themselves as though the Lord God favoured them But the Lord took his pity from them and did deliver them every one into the hand of his neighbour and into the hands of their Kings the Seleucidae the Herods and the Romanes whom they also called to their quarrells and yet for all this Canaan was yet the holy Land and Ierusalem was yet the holy city Sion the holy mountain for in all these troubles the Lord had a care of the poor of the flock that waited on him 14. the stories of these things are manifest and that Zach. 11. must not be understood of the times after now our dayes many passages will tedder and confine the times of some mens apprchensions as that Scripture of their under-valuing MESSIAS their King the Lord of glorie at the price of a slave and so applied by the Evangelists upon which followed a further breach of brotherhood and civil dissentions Zac. 11.10 11 12 13 14. horrible distresse and wrath vid. Tremellius and Zach. and Iosephus on the wars of the Jews 15. Zach. 11. may well and must be accommodated to the times somewhat preceding our Lords dayes and some what after but there is not the least shew of intimation of applying the Prophet to the Jews calling now after our times

Let the godly Christian Student diligently read the Scriptures We erre not knowing the Scriptures and then Josephus and Macchabees and other authors and with all observe the times the families or Nations and the places of their habitations and for the times of the new Testament mark allusions as hath and will be touched but so far as Propriety will reach for times and persons that must be still adhered unto CHAP. XXI Of the Jewes calling the 12 13 14. Chapters of Zachary that it cannot be applyed to the Jewes calling yet to come as many Ministers do too unadvisedly teach WEE are to consider many passages in Dan. 7 8 9 10 11 12. Chapters 1. That all the time of the Holy Angel Gabriels message of the Seventy Sevens the Jewes were called the holy people Michaels people Daniels people their Religion is called the truth Sion and the Temple is called the holy Mountaine Jerusalem the holy City and the only place of holy worship in the World Joh. 4. And the Son of God is called MICHAEL the great Prince before his blessed Incarnation and that he had over them a speciall regard during the date and lease of their prerogative of the Seventy Sevens 2. Therefore we are diligently to observe Zach. 12. that although those troubles were among them yet still Jerusalem was the holy City and that God had respect to them because the holy faith of the Gospell was among them and also among the Godly dispersed Jewes and the same holy faith was maintained by the many godly that exhorted one another but the most of them were of the meaner sort called the poor of the flock and for their sakes Jerusalem was a burdensome Stone to all the ungodly whither the Heathens or the lawlesse Apostates of Daniels people Dan. 11. And sometimes the better part that had some life of Religion were their Leaders and did governe them and they were as a Torch of fire in a sheafe to burne and devour the Enemies and Jerusalem was defended and as yet adhuc permaneat did abide in her own place and so it was to abide untill the ending of the S●venty Sevens Zach. 12.6 3. And whereas Zachariah saith in Chap. 12.6 Jerusalaima adhuc permaneant Jerusalem is there and I think in all other places in the old Testament in the plurall teaching them celestial meditations as Psal 15.1 And that although the Saints of them the high Trinity should yet inhabite the Low-Jerusalem in much affliction they should notwithstanding account themselves but strangers Levit 25.23 and should rather look to the Jerusalem that is above the sight of true peace the Heavenly City as Abraham Jsaac and Iacob did to the Heavenly Countrey Eby 11. 4. This speach that Ierusalem should yet abide and be inhabited is consolatory both for the present State of the Church against the plottings of Sanballat c. and for that Daniel had shewed that Iavan in the fourth Beast should bring great affliction of trampling Daniels holy people and taking away the dayly sacrifice and altering the times of the the holy Feasts and the Law And that Antiochus should distresse the holy Mountaine Ierusalem and the Temple c. notwithstanding all these troubles Jerusalem should yet abide an holy City They were not yet to be cut off from their Olive Tree And Gods dealing for his people was a burdensome Stone and a Torch of fire to all the Hornes of the fourth Beast and all the Enemies to the ending of the Seventy Sevens 5 And Zach. 12. saith God would raise up noble worthies for them so God gave them sometimes valiant men to be for their comfort as the worthies of old in the reign of David Valiant in acting and suffering for the truthes sake that was only among them The Jewes were then the holy people and Ie●usalem the holy City and Sion the holy Mountaine though b So Babel going about to dash Ierusalems hope is bent to set his Throne above the highest in destroying his Temple but Gods vengeance was a burthen some stone to make the golden Head dust Esai 14. Jer. 50. Dan. 2. Anti●chus had greatly polluted the Temple And the godly the poor of the flock did observe these things and still did inhabite Ierusalem or still did so desire though driven into Mountaines and Dens and Caves of the Earth looking for the Kingdome of Heaven to appeare now drawing on towards the ending of the Seventy Sevens And for their sakes as is said God destroyed all Enemies that came against the holy City Ierusalem whither the Heathens or the Law-lesse Jewes that profaned the holy covenant Dan. 11. 6. And we must not slightly passe over this Epithet Ierusalem the Holy City It is so called at the beginning and ending of the Seventy Sevens likewise so called at the begining of our Lords Preaching and at his Resurrection Mat 4 27 marke it was so at that very time they had crucified MESSIAS their King the Lord of glory but after our Savidurs a●eension that title was never bestowed upon it For then the date of their prerogative was out and the Gentiles brought into equall Covenant But for the whole time of the Seventy Sevens as the Angel from Heaven had declared while the preferment of the circumcised Jew was in honour Christ had a speciall eye to them and the Low Jerusalem As when it was destroyed by the Chaldean the Lord bade his dispersed people to remember it in all Countries Ier. 51.50 and so Daniel did and 49000. though in the dust Psal 102. But after our Saviours ascention and sending the Spirit furnishing his holy Disciples with gifts to be Master-builders for the erecting the New Jerusalem there is not any word of intimation in all the Evanglists Acts Epistles or Apocalyps nay nor in any Prophet of the old Testament that they should remember the Low Ierusalem c. But more of this hereafter 7. Ierusalem the sight of peace the faithfull held and looked to hold in possession till our Lords dayes Esai 66. Psal 110. 95. would instruct them so to beleive as they did Observe well 1. King 11.13.32.36 2. King 21.4 Ier. 51.50 Dan. 9. Psal 102. And we must consider that although the Kings of North and South afflicted Israel and Ierusalem Dan. 11. and had a great hand in bruising the holy people yet Christ plagued those Kings and Kingdomes And although the Jewes in the times of the Macchabees were mutinous and became wicked and Law-lesse and brought much trouble to their own Brethren as also did the Remainders of the Sel●ucidae the Herods and the Romans yet among all these Enemies of the faith Christ caused from his firy Throne Dan. 7. that Rivers of fire ran among them God had ever a speciall eye of regard to them for his promise sake Zach. 2.8 1. King 11.32 He shall have one Tribe for my Servant Davids sake and for Jerusalem the City which I have chosen out of all the

Babel had so ruinated them they could not chuse but have many sad thoughts of discomfort that they should never return So when the Churches saw wrath so full of fierie indignation on the Jews they thought the day of Christ was at hand The Apostle satisfied them and the Prophet Jeremiah comforts them with this speech as yet and the Prophets often reiterate these words which must be marked And in all those prophesies of their return there are many promises of Christ mixed for he is the radix of all comforts to the Church because God will send Christ to destroy Satans work and his seed and to blesse us All promises are made in him to be yea and Amen as that promise to Achaz although he despised it Esai 7. and would not put the safety of his Kingdome on such promises but would seek as his stubborn and unbelieving heart taught him help from Assur but because God had made promise yet to protect Ierusalem the City he had chosen to put his name there therefore he would protect it and because our heavenly Father would send his Son to be immanuel God with us therefore he would yet save Iudah Sion and Ierusalem Ieremiahs Prophecies are of this nature to be understood Esaias before Ieremiah had said by prophecie that although Babel had sorely afflicted the Church Isa 14 1.2 3. notwithstanding the Lord would have mercy on Iacob and would yet choose Israel and set them in their own Land the Land of Iehovah called elsewhere the Holy Land and pleasant Land and so it was to the ending of the Seventy Sevens but then any Land City and Assembly where the Gospel of Christ was and is taught believed and professed was and is as holy as that Land CHAP. XXVI That the Covenant of God in Christ made with Israel in Deuteronom is the very same that God made with Israel in Exodus and Leviticus and so to the end of the 19. chap. of Numbers in answer to them that hold the former to be only a covenant of works and the latter in Deut. to a covenant of grace because it is said in Deut. 21.9 beside the Covenant which he made with them in Horeb. Mr. Ainsworth saith it is the same Covenant but onely renewed to the children And Tremellius speaketh to the same effect we must remember that Malachi in shutting up the old Testament chargeth Israel from Christ to cleave to the Law given by Moses at Horeb Mal 4. as the onely good means to secute them from the Apostasie that would come upon them in the dayes of Antiochus Epiphanes yea it began even in the dayes of Malachi then stout words were spoken that it was in vain to serve God c. Like the apostacy of the old world Dan. 11.14.30 31 32. Job 21. 14 15. and 22.17 Mal. 3.13 14. And the angel foretold of the lawlesse crew of Daniels people that would deal corruptly concerning the holy covenant 2. It was greatly consequent to renew the covenant to the children for now all their fathers were dead of the first numbring and so it was very fit that the children should be taught the fathers holy Religion by way of covenant the better to watch over their hearts before they went over Jordan to possesse Canaan 3. Moses repeats divers passages of Christ in three former chapters of Deuteronomie as a preparation and then most pathetically exhorteth to the obedience of Christ Deut. 4. and prosecutoth the same exhortation in chap. 5. where he repeat Exod. 20. and mark the second and third verse of chap. 5. in these words The word onely must be understood as in Cor. 1.17 Deut. 6.13 10 20. and so the Rabbins of the Jews understood it vid. Mr. Ainsworth Not with our fathers onely made Jehevah this Covenant but with us This doth not onely look to them of the first numbring that died in the wildernesse but to Jacob Isaac and Abraham and so Tremellius it was verily the same covenant for substance that was made with Abraham renewed in the wildernesse and exhibited fully and plainly in Christ but in respect of times and persons it is called a divers form of covenant vid. Heb. 8. So he yea I doubt not but we may go higher even to that promise of God to our first Parents Gen. 3.15 and to Noah Gen. 6. Promise and covenant are often taken promiscuously and it is for our comfort so to understand It is much for our edification and comfort in the holy faith so rounderstand the same promise made to our first Parents concerning Christ for they had sacrifices to seal the covenant of their salvation to him the same was made with Noah Gen 6. and the same with S●m whose God was God blessed for ever Abraham Isaac and Iacob and in that covenant all the visible Church were ingaged before Moses to observe it and it is called the way of Christ and his charge in his commandements statutes and Laws Gen 26.5 These were enjoyned by Christ and by most godly tradition propagated in godly families from father to child untill Christ commanded Moses to put all these Laws and histories of Genesis into writing with sundry other Laws because the Church was now grown into a large common-weal and were to dwell in a Land by themselves as Christs peculiar people I will adde one Text in Leviticus to stablish our hearts in sound Doctrine chap. 25.23 The Land shall not be sold for ever for the Land is mine for ye are strangers and sojournens with me This text shews what all the Polity of Christ by Moses aimed at even faith and love in the Son of God Christ Iesus this text hath irradiant beams over all the holy Doctrine What a worthy exercise might a godly Oratour of a congregation a Scribe taught unto the Kingdome of heaven that hath his wits exercised in the word of righteousnesse make hence to an Auditory 1. You are strangers and sojourners with me How might he amplisie this from other Scriptures 1 Chron. 29. Psal 39. and 119. Heb. 11. by the godly example of the Nobles of all ages 1 Pet. 1. and 2.11 2. From the coherence of matter in the verses preceding and following that those that confesse in heart this Doctrine of Christ that they are but strangers and sojourners in this cursed world they must not oppresse and vex one another in setting and leting in buying and selling but deal justy and mercifully one with another 3. It will afford an heavenly meditation to consider how and why the Lord should say he is a stranger and sojourner in this world surely this Text sheweth how Light Life and immortality was brought to light by the Gospel in Moses and in Leviticus 4 All Deuteronomie is the abridgement of Moses Sermons for one moneth The Apostle Heb. 9. doth dilate much on Exodus and sheweth it was a Covenant of grace in Christ Deuteronomie must be understood to be the same covenant with Exodus

wonder at the great respect and love that my Sovereign Lord doth manifest to me hi hand-maid that he should afford such his amiable society I doe perceiv your most ardent and indeared love to me above any of your honorable weomen your kind and fervent desire towards me though most unworthy hath fired my heart towards your sacred Majesty I am your Servant and at your Graces command and so ever will be to perform all loyall and dutifull observance I would I were able to expresse the fervency of my heart unto my Sovereign Lord and seeing it hath pleased the King so royally to manifest himselfe I hope I may present and importune my fo●mer humble request unto my Lord my gracious Sovereign for the building of a Chappell for my maids and my Houshold Servants and Attendants it shall not be so much for my selfe as for them whom I humbly confesse are not worthy to come into the confines of Jerusalem your holy City 1 Chr. 8.11 much lesse into the Palaces of Zion the City of David your Father your love is so great unto me which if I should distrust I should most highly offend For I know you hate Atheisme and as it is an abomination unto you it greives my heart that I have no place of devotion to resort unto when all the Ladies of Israel may resort unto your Temple and I and my maids sit moping at home all amort as they worship their God so would I serve my God the God of my Father And shee gave the King a gentle stroke on the breast and said my noble consort my Sovereign my ●oyall Lord I know I have your heart I know you love me and what shall or can be wanting from a loving heart c. c. And the King being ravished with her love and with such words sweeter then honey softer then oyl and all subtle flatteries and after some discourse the King was captivated with her dalliance and snared with her devilish devices and her hands were as bands she perswaded him shee enticed him and forced him to yeild that shee had his license to build a Temple on Mount Olivet to Chemosh the Devil the idol the abomination of Moab Now the Queen and her Attendants followed their businesses with diligence they slacked no time Masons and Carpenters are sent for to hew Stone and to square and saw Timber and so an high place was builded on the Mount of co●ruption which did give a most vile affront to CHRISTS holy Templ● for they could over-look all Jerusalem from Mount Olivet When King Salomon was thus caught by this Lady of Moab then all the other strange wives might thus prattle and they plyed their businesses diligently and used all their agents men and woemen as there ever are in Kings Courts too many time servers and hypocrites for such projects and negotiations And things went so ill in the State that not one of his thousand Wives and Concubines would disswade the King if halfe the World were a Church a Troop or squadron of a thousand of such creatures if suffered would overturn all these were so pampered with pride ease wantonnesse and fulnesse of bread that no holy Doctrine could take with them but rather the Jedidiah the precious servant of the Lord was taken and snared and corrupted by their pleasing and insinuating incantations Those thousand wretches could not spend so little each of them with their Maids and Attendants as seven hundred or eight hundred pounds per annum and some of them would consume more like the Locusts Apoc. 9. fruges consumere nati And the charges in Building thir Temples was great All these expenses might amount unto eight hundred thousand pounds per annum if not to a million an excessive charge which very likely the subjects stumbled at and after Salomons death craved ease of taxations of Rechoboam They would not take it ill to build stronge Cities and Chariot-Cities and Store-Cities c. that charge was for the profit of the Common-Weal But to be at such rates excises and taxations for the maintenance of such a number of base creatures the subject was not able to bear and craved release of such oppressions Common-Weals should have a diligent inspection that rates and taxations collected for the common profit be not imployed by men to private interests to make great purchases to maintain themselves wives and children and flattring Attendants in pride idlenesse and luxury Such coveteousnesse selfe-love and loving of pleasures more then lov●rs of God will breed perilous times and undoe all The Son of God to whom the Father hath committed all authority and power who is King in Sion and the onely Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords he knows how as we have seen to put fire into Subjects hearts to destroy oppressours An● let Rulers and Governours consider all the Chariot-cities ●enced Cities and Store cities which Salomon had repaired fortified and furnished with all provisions and ammunitions in the ten Tribes and in part of Benjamin all this fell to Jeroboom in one day 1 King 9. Thi● was a punishment to the Kingdome for Salomons transgression in toleration of false Religions and bad opinions And observe also the story of Gideon He was a man of no great estimation and authority in the Tribe of Manasseh or among the thousands of Israel his was the meanest yet when the Son of God would advance him to do his work he made him Generall of Israels Common Weal and he by the Sword of Christ and his own Sword avenged the quarrell of Gods Covenant against the seed of the Serpent in many exploits upon which the people were so affected that they would have conferred on him and his posterity the Government of the State which he modestly and religiously denyed but his wicked opinion of will worship in making an Ephod to worship God by was the ruine of his house the cause of much trouble to the whole Common-Weal Jud. 6.15 8.27 ch 9. Wherefore let all States be admonished concerning toleration of wicked opinions in pretence of conscience especially of the papisticall opinions which draweth to the second death we must remember the whoredoms of the seven-Mountain City is a mistery and Christ hath said Mysticall Babylon shall fall and be cast as a mil-stone into the Sea and what State soever seeks by toleration to uphold it must sink with it undoubredly We have the providence of Christ fresh before our eyes how he hath resisted all cunning plots and wit of man to bring in Popery the toleration of Popery is a countermanding of Christs project for it is said the Kingdomes of the world shall be our Lord Gods and his Christs and he shall reign for ever Toleration of Popery doth uphold the King of Locusts Kingdome and the Lord JESUS saith he that gathereth not with me scattereth CHRIST saith come out of her my people and toleration hinders their coming The reverend Master Perkins