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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Matthew is called the Fathers Kingdom Mark 14.25 and Luke 22.18 is the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of God in the Gospel most usually is taken for Christs Kingdom Luke 11.21 The Kingdom of God is within you or among you which must be understood of Christs Kingdom It is to be observed also that what is called the Fathers Kingdom in Matthew is called Christs Kingdom Luke 22.30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom 2. Christs Kingdom is included in the Fathers in that Petition Thy Kingdom come The Prayer is made to the Father Thy Kingdom c. Now in this Petition the coming of Christs Kingdom is first desired and after the Fathers when Christ shall have finished the work given him to do as Mediator Consid 6. This House with the whole Limit thereof and every thing belonging to it shall be most holy Chap. 43.12 This is the Law of the House upon the top of the Mountain the whole Limit thereof round about shall be most holy And 't is added to shew the certainty of it This is the Law of the House Q. But how a Law A. The Law of this House shall not onely be a Law shewing what ought to be For thus 't is a Law now and at all times that all things in the Church should be holy 1 Cor. 3.17 The Temple of the Lord is holy That is ought to be so But also a Law shewing what shall be There is a Law commanding and a Law causing that to be which is commanded like the Law of the Creation Let there be Light and there was Light So God will say Let this House be holy and it shall be so There is the Law in the Word and the Law in the Heart and in relation to this time especially God promises I will put my Laws in their inward parts and write them in their hearts c. The Law in the Scriptures requires obedience the Law in the Heart inclines to it and makes it natural and pleasant Paul said of Timothy I have no man like minded who will naturally care for your state So when the Law is in the Heart it will make Men to care naturally for the things of God I mean with respect to the Divine Nature which Saints partake of Rom. 8.2 Mention is made of the Law of the Spirit Now such will be the Law of this House The Law of the Spirit which is mighty in Christ Jesus shall make the whole Limit of this House holy Ezek. 36.27 I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my Judgments and do them And here let this farther be taken notice of and it will be a very comfortable consideration Not onely the Temple and Altar and those that worship therein are to be measured but also the Courts both inner and outer and the Gates and Chambers thereof all are to be measured and made according to their Pattern and so most holy Now compare with this Rev. 11.1 2. Where the Temple and Altar and those that worship therein are to be measured But the Court without was not to be measured because it was to be given to the Gentiles c. This sets forth the time of Antichrist's Reign who was to possess the outer Court But when the Gentiles thus tread down the Court which is without there is still a Temple and Altar and there are those that worship therein even a true Church holding Christ the Head and holding forth the truth as it is in Jesus and such who worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth And in this time the holy City must be troden down fourty and two Moneths Jerusalem in the Letter was trodden down of the Romans and Mystical Jerusalem hath been trodden down also As that by the Power of Rome when Heathenish so this by the Power of Rome Antichristian but Heathenish still Papists being but Heathens to the true Israel of God This Court trodden down of the Gentiles is cast out and not measured being cut off and separated from the Temple that is the true Church of God by the Reed of the Word as not belonging to the same Thus in John's Vision the outward Court is not measured but Heathens possess it But Ezekiel in his Vision sees the outward Court also measured with the Gates Thresholds Posts and Chambers thereof and all most holy What may be concluded hence but that 1. The State of the Church as it shall be after the Destruction of Antichrist is here set forth when the fourty and two Moneths shall be ended the Witnesses raised and the Jews called for so long as Antichrist remains he possesses the outward Court and it is not measured But being measured as we see in Ezekiel's Vision the Gentiles will be then cast out and Christ will tread in his anger and trample in his fury those who did tread down the Holy City And this measuring of the outward Court shews that the times of the Gentiles will be then fulfilled and the Jews inwardly and in the Spirit even a true Church shall be in the outward Court 2. Churches at this time will be pure yea most holy even the Churches of the outward Court for all will be measured The Wall on the outside of the House chap. 40.5 the Stairs the Gates the Thresholds and every little Chamber v. 6 7. all agree with their Pattern and so there will not be any Antichristian Church left but all will be holy yea most holy How will this be Churches will be as true so pure and in a degree of purity above what they have been at any time yet in the World The Church of the Jews in the Wilderness was holy the measured Churches which have been in the time of Antichrist's Reign have been holy And the Primitive Church gathered by the Apostles was more holy than any before or since But that Glorious Church which shall be after the Calling of the Jews being compared with the former shall be the most holy of all As Christ said of Iohn Baptist A greater than he hath not risen notwithstanding he that is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he So there hath not been a more Glorious Church in the World than the Primitive was but the least in the time here meant will be greater than that The least of Churches in the time of the New Heavens and New Earth will be greater and more glorious than the best in the times of the Old Heavens and the Old Earth And why may we not conceive that God is pleased to make use of the Names of the Types and Figures in setting forth this Glorious Church to declare that this Spiritual House will be framed as exactly according to an Heavenly Pattern as the typical House was and that true holiness will be as perfect and exact in this as typical was in that We know that Moses his Work was according to the Pattern

Promise will be at Christ's Second coming as is evident from what follows Ye shall go forth that is from your bondage and Tread down that they shall be ashes under the Soules of your feet which was not done at his first coming Now observe this Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in his Wings what are the Wings of this Sun the Beams of this Sun are its Wings which coming into the Heart shall heal it of all its Wounds which the killing Letter shall make which the Conviction of Sin especially against Christ in Piercing persecuting slighting Christ shall have made So we find concerning the Jews when Christ shall first appear they shall remember their piercing of Christ which will then pierce through their own Souls and shall cause them to mourn and be in bitterness as for a first-born Zach. 12.10 and Rev. 1.7 The first effect of Christ's appearing will be a great mourning and wailing but quickly after this comes healing for the Sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings and will restore health and heal all these Mourners of their Wounds I shall mention two places of Scripture for the clearing of this one is Jer. 31.18 c. I heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thou hast chastised me and I was chastised turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God This is a Prophecy of the calling of the Ten Tribes none can say that the fulfilling of this Prophecy is past already for no such thing hath been yet done amongst the Ten Tribes Now when Ephraim shall thus bemoan himself what shall the Lord say That we see verse 20. Is Ephraim my dear son is he a pleasant child since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him And thus the Lord will quickly comfort Ephraim and give the Oyl of Joy for Mourning The other place is Isa 33.24 When Jerusalem shall be a quiet habitation a tabernacle that shall not be taken down When the Jews shall say The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King as verse 20.22 Then at that time no inhabitant of Jerusalem no man walking in the light of it shall say I am sick for the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquities Sin shall be forgiven and every Saint shall know it and have assurance of it as is evident from that Promise None shall say I am sick Surely if there be knowledge of Sin and no assurance of Pardon the Soul will be sick with Sin guilt remaining in the Conscience will trouble it so long as 't is there but no Inhabitant shall say I am sick therefore all shall have assurance of the forgiveness of their sins and this assurance shall continue with them Secondly 'T will be a healing light amongst the Saints many Rents have been made in the Church Saints by their divisions have made wounds amongst themselves through divisions there have been great thoughts of heart great heart-burnings and thence have they come to that Paul complains of amongst the Galatians Chap. 5.15 even to biting and devouring one another Now the Light of that Great Day of the Lord will heal all Wounds which have been made amongst the Saints by Rents and Divisions for Christ will spread his wings even the beams of his light which shall then most gloriously shine forth and he shall gather all the Saints under his wings as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and so will restore health to them and heal them of their wounds This we have set forth Zeph. 3.8 9. Wait ye upon me saith the Lord till the day that I rise up to the prey for my determination is to gather the Nations that I may assemble the Kingdomes to pour upon them mine Indignation even all my fierce anger for all the Earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealously We may observe what an admirable harmony of Prophecies there is This is the same in substance with that Prophecy of Gog and Magog in Ezek. and also with that great gathering of the Nations to the Battel of Armageddon Now consider what great mercy God will at that time bring forth to his People Then will I turn to the people a pure language that they may call upon the Lord to serve him with one consent There shall be one Lip and Language and that a pure one and so there shall not be divisions amongst the Saints but they shall all speak the same things and be perfectly United together of the same mind and the same Judgment 2. The time of the New Heavens will be a time of great purity this we see foretold Ezek. 36.25 c. Great Promises are made to the Jews to be fulfilled in the latter days and amongst other things 't is promised that they shall be made a very pure and holy People Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean and from all your filthiness and from all your Idols will I cleanse you a new heart also will I give you a new spirit will I put within you and I will cause you to walk in my Statutes God promises that this shall go with their outward Mercies verse 33. What time I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities I will cause you to dwell in the Cities and the desolate places shall be built up Psa 110.3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power in the beauties of holiness What is meant by the Beauties of Holiness the Church is meant hereby this is an ordinary Periphrasis of the Church say our Annotators the Sanctuary was so called Psa 29.2 Worship the Lord in the beauties of holiness that is in the Sanctuary the true Church is always holy but then it shall be much more eminently holy it shall be even the Beauties of Holiness that is very beautiful and glorious in holiness yea it shall be the beauties of holiness having variety of Graces even all meeting together and appearing in their beauty without spot or wrinkle or any such thing As the Sanctuary was called the beauty of holiness even the typical Sanctuary so then tho true spiritual Sanctuary shall be called the beauty of holiness and be as perfect and exact in true holiness as the worldly Sanctuary was in ceremonial and typical holiness Isa 35.8 There shall be an high-way and it shall be called the way of holiness the unclean shall not pass over it But it shall be for those the wayfaring-men though Fools shall not err therein There hath been an high-way of Prophaneness an high-way of Superstition of Antichristian Idolatry and great multitudes have gone in this way and the ways of Sion have been desolate very few have gone in these but at last that high-way of Prophaneness Idolatry c. will become desolate and the way of Holiness and Godliness will be the great