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A23677 The mystery of the temple and city described in the nine last chapters of Ezekiel unfolded ... by William Alleine ... Alleine, William, 1614-1677. 1679 (1679) Wing A1077; ESTC R28209 178,039 306

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agree with their rule then shall they agree one with another 3. Churches and Saints in them shall be like themselves As like Christ like one another so like themselves not subject to declinings and decays as now they are All shall be growing onwards towards perfection and none shall backslide Round things are easily turned this way or that way but what is of a four square Figure lies firm All will be firm and stable in the Church here set forth Saints will not be like Reuben unstable as Water or double-minded Men unstable in their ways but like David who said My heart is fixed O God my Heart is fixed It is a good thing that the heart be established with Grace Heb. 13.9 And at this time the Lord will perform this good thing in establishing the Hearts of all his People with Grace so that they shall not fall from their own stedfastness but he that is righteous shall be righteous still Rev. 22.11 Consid 4. A Sabbath will be observed in this time when the Jews shall be called both by them and the saved Nations Chap. 46.1 mention is made of Six Working-days and of the Sabbath-day not a Jewish but a Gospel Sabbath the First day of the Week which is conceived to be hinted Chap. 43.26 27. Seven days shall they purge the Altar and when these days are expired it sha●● be that upon the eighth day and so forward the Priests shall make your Burnt-Offerings c. when the seven days are expired and so the Seventh which was the Jewish Sabbath ended then upon the Eighth day the First day of the Week which is the Christian Sabbath shall the Priests make your Burnt-Offerings And so forward that is upon every First day after the ending of the Jewish Sabbath Now the Sabbath mentioned Chap. 46.1 is this Eighth day so called in relation to the Seventh expired but the First day of the Week to be observed by the Jews when they shall be called This of the Sabbath may well be taken in a literal sense for we ought not to leave the literal and go to a mystical sense when there is no necessity for it What is spoken of the New Moon must be taken in a mystical sense because that was an observation purely shadowy and ceremonial but not so the Sabbath Let it be owned then as truth that a Sabbath shall in this glorious state of the Church be purely kept True in the New Jerusalem there will be a perpetual Sabbath but not so amongst the Tribes in the Land As Adam in Paradise had work to do and if he had continued in his innocency should have wrought the six days and have kept the Sabbath So shall the Saints do in the times of restitution for they will be restored to the doing of that which Adam should have done As they shall be restored to Priviledges so to the performance of Duties of which the exact keeping of a Sabbath is one And for the farther clearing of this so considerable a truth let Isa 58.13 c. be compared with this place of Ezekiel If thou shalt call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord c. Where observe that several great and precious Promises are made to the Jews and the keeping of the Sabbath is the condition upon which the accomplishment of them doth depend And these Promises were not fulfilled at the Return of the Jews from Babylonish Captivity or at any time since but shall be fulfilled when the Jews shall be called Let the particulars be well weighed v. 8. Then shall thy Light break forth as the Morning and thine Health shall spring forth speedily What Light is this but that mentioned Isa 60.1 Arise and shine for thy Light is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee The Jews have been long in Darkness but the Glory of the Lord shall at last be revealed and the Veil shall be taken from their hearts that they may see it And thy oighteousness shall go before thee that is The Lord thy righteousness This then respects the time when the Jews shall be called by this Name which hath not been yet for they at Christ's first coming went about to establish their own righteousness and did not submit to the righteousness of God they would not then be called by this Name And farther 't is said The Glory of the Lord shall be their reward It shall be with them as with the Jews in the Wilderness when they had the Cloud and smoke by Day and the shining of a flaming Fire by Night Which when Pharaoh pursued them was their reward v. 10. Then shall thy Light rise in obscurity and thy Darkness as the Noon-day The Jews are under Darkness within and without Darkness covers their Hearts and their State for they lie hid in obscurity and darkness and none knows where the Ten Tribes are but at last they shall be brought forth to the wonder of the World for it shall be said These where had they been Isa 49.21 v. 12. They that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places and raise up the foundations of many Generations When they returned from Babylon they were the Foundations onely of one Generation of Seventy years that were raised up This promise then must look further v. 14. I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the Earth Not onely of Canaan but of the Earth And lastly I will feed thee with the Heritage of Jacob thy Father Which intimates the calling and gathering of the Ten Tribes also When the Jews returned from Babylon they were fed onely with Judah's Inheritance For the Ten Tribes did not then return which may be proved from Hos 1.6 7. I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel but will utterly toke them away But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah and will save them by the Lord their God Therefore when Judah was saved from Babylonish Captivity Israel was not saved But at last Judah and Israel shall be saved together v. 11. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together and appoint them one Head and then they shall be fed with the Heritage of Jacob. 'T was the whole Land of Canaan which was Jacob's Heritage which he divided amongst his twelve Sons And how exactly doth this agree with Ezekiel's Prophecy about the division of the Land amongst the twelve Tribes which shall be fed with the Heritage of Jacob their Father It s most evident then that these Promises are to have their accomplishment when the Jews shall be called But observe what must be done by them If thou shalt call the Sabbath a delight Therefore first a Sabbath will then be kept even a Christian Sabbath by the Jews And if a Sabbath was to be kept by Adam in Paradise if it was to be observed from the beginning and shall be by the Jews when called If the Church in the times