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A29671	The sacred and most mysterious history of mans redemption wherein is set forth the gracious administration of Gods covenant with man-kind, at all times, from the beginning of the world unto the end : historically digested into three books : the first setteth down the history from Adam to the blessed incarnation of Christ, the second continueth it to the end of the fourth year after his baptisme ..., the third, from thence till his glorious coming to judgement / by Matthew Brookes ...	Brookes, Matthew, fl. 1626-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing B4918; ESTC R11708	321,484	292

of death to look back upon the city In this state the Romans had it and held it till the year of God six hundred and fifteen From whose Empire the Persian wan it and kept it the space of two and twenty years and then the Saracens got it in the year six hundred thirty and seven and possessed it for the space of three hundred seventy and two years But in the year nine hundred and nine the Turks wan it and immediately lost it to the Sultan of Egypt And so the Egyptians were Lords over it by the space of ninety years untill the christian Godfrey Bulloign conquered it in the year of our Lord one thousand ninty and nine and in possession of Christian Princes was it kept by the space of eighty and eight years till in the year one thousand one hundred eighty and seven it was surprised by Saladine Sultan of Egypt and by them was it held three hundred and thirty years though not without much variety of fortune being in or about the year one thousand two hundred twenty and eight regained by the Emperour Frederick the second and in the year one thousand two hundred forty and six won by Cassanus king of the Tartars then destroyed by Tamerlane and then by Mahomet the second When finally in the year one thousand five hundred and seventeen it was invaded and obtained by Selim the Turkish Emperour who conquered Capson and Tomombeus successive Sultans of Egypt where to this day I will not say to the shame of all Christian princes the abhomination of wicked Mahomet is set up Now this City was not without great mystery The mystery and such a city would God have for the administration of his covenant and principally of the Evangelicall part of the testament For Abraham had two wives Hagar and Sarah the one a bond woman the other a free woman And two sons Ishmael the son of the bond-woman born according to the flesh and Isaac the son of the free woman born by promise And two seeds a carnall seed the seed of the bond woman and a spirituall seed the seed of the free woman There be also two mountains mount Sinai in Arabia and mount Sion in the land of Canaan And two testaments the old testament and the new testament the old testament the law delivered by Moses from mount Sinai the new testament the gospell published by Christ from mount Sion And two people the Iewes and the Christians the Iewes seeking to be made righteous by the law the Christians by Christ And two states a state of spirituall bondage to fear and a state of spirituall liberty to believe And two mediatours Moses a human mediatour and Christ the divine mediatour And two cities Ierusalem the type and Ierusalem typed To the legall part of the testament belonged the bond woman and the son of the bond woman and the carnall seed and the mount Sinai and the old testament and the Iewes and the spirituall bondage and the human mediator and Ierusalem the type To the Evangelicall part of the testament belongeth the free woman and the son of the free woman and the spirituall seed and mount Sion and the new testament and the Christians and the spirituall liberty and the divine mediatour and Ierusalem typed Ierusalem which was the type did visibly represent the Church of the new testament teaching them to look for another Ierusalem that Ierusalem which is above and is free and is as Saint Paul saith the mother of us all of which Gal. 4.26 those things which are spoken of Ierusalem in the best sense are to be affirmed in a spirituall and evangelicall sense and meaning This city is founded by Melchisedec indeed Heb. 7 2. Iesus Christ the true king of righteousnesse and peace Her foundations are upon the holy hills not mount Sion and mount Moriah but Iesus Christ is the foundation of this Jerusalem this foundation is a sure rock 1 Cor. 3.11 S. Mat. 16.18 Eph. 1.20 and the Apostles and Prophets are foundations strongly built and laid upon that foundation These foundations are in the holy mountaines the publick places of his worship where Christ is preached the scriptures read the prayers made the sacraments administred unto those mountains hath the Christian to lift up his eyes from whence commeth his help Psal 121.1 for upon those mountains shall he finde the sure foundations Glorious things were spoken of that Ierusalem which was the type far more glorious things are spoken of this Jerusalem which was typed S. Mat. 4.5 Psal 76.2 Isa 22.1 S. Mat. 5.35 This Jerusalem is indeed the holy city the true Salem the valley of vision the city of the great king wherein Christ doth raigne and rule by his word and by his holy spirit That was the city of David from which he cast out the Jebusites this is the city of Christ from which he hath cast out the devills There Abraham offered up Isaac for a burnt-offering here is Christ offered up for the sins of the whole world There Solomon built his temple here Christ hath his worship That was Gods Aholibah for a time this is his Aholibah for ever Thy walles are continually before me Isa 49.16 There was the throne of David for a time here is the throne of Christ for ever and ever That was often assailed and finally surprised this is often assailed but shall never be surprised for the gates of hell shall not prevail against it S. Mat. 16.18 And all this was mysteriously signified and shewed by that city 7ly To the Evangelicall part of the testament belongeth the holy temple History of the Temple Deut. 12.4 5. 13 14. 1 King 8.29 2 Chron. 7.12 And that such a temple should be built an habitation to the Lord Moses had sufficiently premonished them in the book of Deuteronomy cap. 12. David therefore having obtained rest from his enemies thought that this duty might concern him and consulted with Nathan the prophet about it But God by the mouth of Nathan expresly forbiddeth him to do it giving him to understand that he would accept such a work not at his 2 Sam 7. 1. Chron. 17. 22. but at his sons hands David thereupon having purchased the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite upon mount Moriah maketh ample provision for the building of it and leaveth the work to be performed by Solomon his son Solomon in the fourth year of his raigne begins the work upon mount Moriah 1 Chron. 22.14 2 Chron. 3.1 compasseth and endeth it in the terme of seven years and having also made all the ornaments and utensills of the same in form and matter like unto those of the Tabernacle he brought the Ark with the Tabernacle of David and all the sacred vessells which were in that tabernacle into the temple which he had built concerning which stately structure the magnificence and dimensions of it let him that pleaseth read 1 King 6. 2

and tears which Christ made in the daies of his flesh unto him that was able to save him from death and the efficacy of the same Heb. 5.7 that he was heard in that he feared or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for has piety That he made an attonement upon the hornes of the altar of incense which was placed before the vail which divided the holy place from the holy of holies with the blood of the sin offering of the attonements Exod. 30.10 by putting of the blood of the goat and of the bullock upon the hornes of that altar round about and that he did sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times which he did after that he came forth from within the vail It was to admonish them in the mystery that the prayers and supplications of the Church are no otherwise made clean so as to be accepted with the Father but by the innocent blood of the Redeemer That when he had made the attonement for the holy place and for the tabernacle he then brought the live-goat and did lay both his hands upon the head of it and confesse over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel and all their transgressions in all their sins putting them upon the head of the goat and did send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wildernesse that the goat might bear all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited It was to teach them to know that Christ must be made sin for us and a curse for us 2 Cor. 5.21 Gal. 3.13 Isa 53.6 and that the Lord should lay on him the iniquity of us all as the prophet Isaiah saith that so we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him and that all nations might be blessed in him and that his righteousnesse might be made ours to justification that so our sins might not be imputed For the scape-goat did but bear all their iniquities to a land not inhabited shewing them thereby that Christ should so bear our sin not that it should not be at all but that it should not be imputed That same fit man or man of opportunity was also a type of Christ for like as that fit man or man of opportunity was only fit to have away the scape goat into the wildernesse and did watch and stay his opportunity so to do even so was there no other fit man to bear away our sins by his death nor any other man of opportunity but he that stayed the opportunity to bear them away when his houre was come That after the scape goat so sent away the high priest came into the Tabernacle and there put off those linnen garments which were common to him with the other priests and that he left them there and that he did wash his flesh with water in the holy place and having so done that then he put on the pontificall ornaments in which garments he did come forth and offer his burnt offerings for himselfe and for the people and make the attonement for himselfe and for the people and having burnt the fat of the offering upon the altar the bullock and the goat whose blood was brought in to make the attonement in the holy place were carried forth without the camp and wholly burnt there It did teach them that the true high priest after that he had suffered for our sins would then deposite his body to the grave and that afterwards he would put on robes of glory and that although enrobed in everlasting glory he would evermore make intercession both for priest and people and that he would sanctifie us with his own blood by suffering without the gate Heb. 13.12 For the better understanding of all which things the reader is to be admonished judiciously to compare that which he shall read fusely set forth in the Epistle to the Hebrewes to that which God ordained to be done by the high priest Levit. cap. 16. And also to excuse this our prolixity seeing that it could not but be most pertinent to this our sacred history that we should shew how excellently the Gospell was preached by divine and mysterious ceremonies which were appointed to be solemnly performed by the high priest upon that day The feast of Tabernacles did set forth Christ our Tabernacle in whom all his people who belong unto that tabernacle which he hath pitched shall finde shelter from all the winds and storms of temptation and adversity and persecution It did also set forth the brevity and uncertainty of this present life giving them to understand that in this world the people of God are strangers and pilgrims who like Abraham Isaac and Jacob heires of the promise do sojourne here as in tabernacles looking for a citie which hath a foundation whose builder and maker is God Finally the Sabbath of the seventh year and the Jubile of the fiftieth year did signifie that true liberty which Christ the son of God would proclaim unto the world in the time of the Gospell That the worship of God should then be more plain more generall and more free More plain as being no longer to be involved in those legall obscurities more generall as being extended all the world over more free as being not tyed to any particular place And that all distinctions should then be taken away not in respect of that relation which is betwixt man and man in the world but in respect of that relation which is betwixt Christ and his Church For like as the redeemer would buy them all with the same price and would shed no more nor no other blood for the Jew then for the Gentile for the bond then for the free for the male then for the female even so that they should be all saved by the same grace justified by the same faith have the same word the same sacraments the same worship an equall interest in Christ So saith Saint Paul to the Galatians Gal. 3.28 There is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus Col. 3.11 And so to the Colossians There is neither Greek nor Jew circumcision nor uncircumcision Barbarian Scythian bond nor free but Christ is all and in all 6ly To the Evangelicall part of the Testament belonged the holy citie Mat. 4.5 Mat. 27.53 History of the holy city Hierusalem for so is Jerusalem styled in the scripture It was anciently a Fort of the Jebusites upon mount Sion and was not conquered till David's time it was then so impregnable that when David assailed it they bragged that their lame and blinde and impotent people should defend it Yet David took it and built thereon the city which from thence obtained to be called the city of David 2 Sam. 5.6 7. Nigh whereunto adjoyned the mount Moriah upon which mountain Abraham in obedience to Gods commandement offered up Isaac his son for a burnt offering

Gen. 22. In the same place David having purchased the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite 2 Sam. 24. built an Altar for the pacifying of Gods wrath when he had slain in three daies space from Dan to Beersheba no lesse then seventy thousand with the plague of pestilence There also King Solomon built his most sumptuous and most magnificent Temple This city was first built as it is most probably affirmed by Melchisedec supposed by divers of the ancients to have been Sem the son of Noah not long after the flood and was by him called Salem But afterwards the Jebusites had it in possession and called it Jebus after their own name Josh 18.28 Jud. 19.10 which name it held a long time as it may be seen in the bookes of Ioshua and Iudges But when that King David had gotten it he expelled the Iebusites from thence and called it Ierusalem Salem signifieth peace and Ierusalem doth signifie a sight or vision of peace It hath other names in the Scripture for the prophet Isaiah peradventure therein respecting the scituation and strong habitation of the same peradventure the vertue and valour of the inhabitants thereof calleth it Ariel Isa 29.1 17. that is to say the lion of God And Lebanon because it was much built of Cedar trees brought from mount Libanus And the valley of vision because there the prophets prophesyed Isa 21.1 Ezech. 23.4 The prophet Ezechiel calleth it Aholibah My fixed tent or pavilion because God had chosen it before all the nations and places of the earth to put his name there In that city stood the throne of David called in the book of Psalmes the thrones of the house of David Ps 122.5 through the succession of one and twenty Kings of himselfe and his sons It was often assailed before the finall surprisall of it Neither is it altogether impertinent to this our sacred history to continue a briefe and succinct narration of it 1st Therefore it was assailed by Shishack King of Egypt in the fifth year of the raigne of Rehoboam who took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the Kings house viz. all the riches of Solomon and all those spoiles which David had gotten from Hadadezer the Moabites the Ammonites and other nations 2 Sam. 8.11 12. 1 King 14.26 together with the presents of Toi which David had dedicated to God and all the shields of gold which Solomon had made 2ly By Iehoash King of Israel in Amaziah's raigne who being provoked by Amaziah king of Iudah came up against him and took him prisoner at Bethshemesh and then went to Hierusalem and brake down foure hundr●d cubits of the wall having taken away all the gold and silver and all the vessells that were found in the house of the Lord and the treasures of the Kings house he received hostages and then returned to Samaria 3ly It was besieged by Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel in the raigne of king Ahaz 2 King 14.14 2 King 16.5 Isa 7.1 but God kept it so that they could not prevail against it 4ly By Zenacherib king of Assyria in the fourteenth year of the raigne of king Hezechiah but the Lord kept it and sent his Angel who made a great slaughter in the camp of the Assyrians 2 King 19.34 5ly By Pharaoh Necho who carried away Iehoahaz prisoner into Egypt and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold Finally by Nebuchadonozer king of the Caldees 2 Chron. 36.4 who made a great slaughter of the people carried away all the treasures and vessells of the temple all the treasures of the king and of the princes burnt the Temple and the city brake down the wall and carried away the people captive into Babylon 2 Chron. 36.18 19 20. where they remained in exile for the space of threescore and ten years And having first caused the sons of Zedechiah to be slain before his face he put out his eyes and bound him with fetters of brasse and carried him to Babylon A just reward for a perjur'd rebell 2 King 25.7 2 Chron. 36.13 which the Scripture observeth expresly saying He rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear by God After the return of the people both the city and the temple were re-built by the people that returned But the state of it was various For first Ptolemeus the son of Lagus took it by a stratagem which was this He entred the city upon a sabbath day pretending to offer sacrifice and while the Iewes suspected nothing but spent the day in idlenesse and quiet he surprised the city without resistance and oppressed the citizens with hatefull captivity 2ly Antiochus being brought thither by a faction received it by surrender where he committed great slaughters robbed the temple of all the pretious things thereof closed it up with high walls and towers planted a garrison therein caused swines flesh to be offered upon the altar interdicted Circumcision and the observation of the law and raised most grievious persecution against those that stuck fast to the religion of their country 3ly It was conquered by Pompey and made tributary to the Romans from whom Herod received the kingdome and then was Christ to come for then was the scepter departed from Judah according to the prophecy of Jacob Gen. 49.10 When Christ came he found it rather to be as the prophets said the valley of slaughter Jer. 19.6 Jer. 7.11 and a den of robbers than the royall seat of the King or the place of holy worship guilty of all the righteous blood shed upon the whole earth from the blood of the righteous Abel S. Mat. 23 35 to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias supposed to be the father of St. John the Baptist whom they slew between the temple and the altar for asserting it is said the perpetuall virginity of Christs blessed mother who also filled up the measure of their iniquity in the blood of the great one even Jesus the Lord of life who by his death therein suffered sealed the redemption of the world and put an end to the ceremonies and glory of the place Dan. 9.27 according to the prophecy of Daniel But it was that which the Iewes most wickedly imprecated upon themselves S. Mat. 27.25 saying His blood be on us and on our children Which wicked imprecation of theirs was neither forgotten nor forgiven in Gods most righteous judgment Therefore it came to passe that their city by their own seditions and by the Caesars cruelties was made so desolate that a stone was not left standing upon a stone but were all cast down as in the destruction of Sodom the walls removed mount Sion excluded and Calvary taken in the name of Jerusalem changed into Aelia an unclean swine set over the chief gate of entrance and the Iewes forbidden upon pain