with Bernard to Eugenius the 4th * Bern. de consid l. 1. f. 238. Plena est ambitiosis ecclesia non est jam quod exhorreat in studiis molitionibus ambitionis non plus quam spelunca latronum in spoliis viatorum The Church of Rome is stufft with ambitious persons they tremble no more in the studious endeavours after ambitious designs then a den of Robbers at dividing the spoyls of innocent travellers and then tells him to his face among other smart but serious reflections upon his Lordliness †id l. 3 f. 240. praesis ut prosis c. ut dispenses non imperes c. Nullum tibi venenum nullum gladium plus formido quam libidinem dominandi govern to edification act like a Servant and Steward not an Emperor I dread no poyson no assassinate more fatal to you then the lust of domination Be not offended at the Church of Christ because of her mean and troublesome State Inser 6. What if the King of Zion come meek and lowly riding upon an Ass Zech 9.9 or his holy Apostles walking on foot for the Conversion of Nations through the World what if the showrs of Heaven sall upon the cheeks of the lovely lowly Lilly and she sit weeping among the briars must true religion and pure worship be never courted but when the Sun shines The way to Canaan lay through stones and rocks Deut. 8.15 amidst Lions and Tygers among Scorpions and fiery flying Serpents true genuine Israel must through all and never be appaled dismayed or dare to face about to Aegypt of which the Lord hath said ye shall return that way no more Deut. 17.16 If we startle at the briars about the lillies flinch for a few prickles we are not worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 10.37 The troubles are but momentany the glory eternal They may hurt the flesh but cannot hinder the flight of the soul into the bosome of Abraham Let not the Churches afflictions obstruct your associating to her company which is passing under the conduct of her 2d Joshua Heb. 4.8.9 into everlasting rest Judge not her beauty 't is under a mask and though besmeared by the soil of her malignant enemies she is all glorious within 'T is our ignorance of the Churches beauty A comely face must not be disingeniously wip't by a malicious tongue till the dust and spots be wash'd off and its aspect clarified nor a sweet temper dropt upon because of calumnies before converse does open it 'T is want of holiness in most and true love to it 1 John 2.10 that causes stumbling at the holy ways of God Resign your selves into his sweet and strong tuition Inser 7. who can incline the worst of brambles to be a fence and security to his lillies and the sharper and stronger they are the more offensive to the Churches enemies Is 46.11 Cyrus a ravenous Bird from East God called to feast upon the sacrifice of his wrath in the Land of Chaldea to root up the briars of Babylon which had so greatly vexed and abused his beloved people All Histories yield notable instances of divine severity against barbarous persecutors when once they stretch out their hands against the Church they are quickly withered To what fearful issues the inraged and infatuated instruments of Satan in the 10 primitive Persecutions were reduced Ecclesiastick and Civil story is very pregnant let 's endeavour with all sincerity and sedulity to lead lives unblameable and keep Conscience unspotted before God and man and arm our selves with holy resolutions against every sinful course wherein we would tremble to appear at the dreadful Judgment seat of Christ and God our gracious father will take care of his part to give us divine protection and preserve us to his heavenly Kingdom What blessed lives might Christians live did they walk always as under the eye of an Omniscient God and with what comfort might they resign their spirits at death into his hands as of a faithful Creator and merciful Redeemer obtaining an abundant entrance into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ FINIS
linnen Dan. 12.6 How long shall it be to the end of these wonders Or as that Saint enquired of the Palmoni or the wonderful Numberer How long shall it be that the Sanctuary and the Host shall be trodden under foot And he said unto him 8.14 2300 days then shall the Sanctuary be cleansed Let 's count then from the burning of the City and Temple of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar in the 19th 2 K. 25.8 Jer. 52.12 Usser 2300 588 1712. year of his Reign which was concurrent with the 588th vulgar year before the Nativity of our blessed Lord From which time if we reckon 2300 years it leads us by the hand to the common year of our Lord 1712. About which time the pure Worship which hath been opposed and confused ever since the ruin of Solomon's Temple it 's very likely may be restored to an Evangelical Glory and the abominations of desolation removed out of the way I know what is said about the literal fulfilling of this Text under Antiochus and the mystical in the days of Julian but I take it to be a more comprehensive Oracle not to be here amply discussed As for Julians time when the Jews attempted to rebuild the Temple by his Edict in scorn to our Saviours Prophecy in the year 363 when Julian was 4th time Consul with Salustius Promotus We find no account of any Sacrifice then offered for they were but cleering the Rubbish How then can this be an Epoche from the taking away that Sacrifice which was not then offered no nor since the days of Titus Besides Julian did this in a mock-savour to the Jews and stood not with an Army in the Holy Place or City for he came no nearer than about Antioch in his march to Persia and therefore this can be no root of numeration in this case Another gracious manifestation of the time is in the 12th Chapter which must be understood of the taking away Evangelical Worship for the time Dan. 12.7 times and a half mentioned v. 7. are disertly and distinctly applyed to the duration of the ten-horned beast 7.25 Rev. 11.2.3 in the 7th Chapter and is coincident with 1260 days in John 〈◊〉 13.5 or the 42 months of their trampling down the Holy City detaining the Woman in the Wilderness and the Witnesses in sack-cloth But in asmuch that Daniel adds 30 days to the 1260 it may be suggested that he reflects upon the Restitution of Israel and their conversion to offer up spiritual Sacrifice which may be performed some short time after the resurrection of the Estate of the Church in the West So then if the Ten-horned Beast rose in the Ruines of the Roman Empire It 's but considering when that City was taken and the Imperial State demolisht and finisht 1290 410 1700 and connex the 1260 or 1293 and the blessed times will appear to the comfort and joy of the Church Rome was first taken by Alaricus A. 410. A second time by Gensericus A. 455. The third by Odoacer A. 476. When having taken Rome deposed Augustulus Paul Diacon in add ad Eutrop l. 16. p. 155. Paulus Diaconus subjoynes Ita Romanorum apud Romam Imperium toto terrarum orbe venerabile Augustalis illa sublimitas quae ab Augusto quondam Octaviano erecta est cum hoc Augustulo periit Thus the Empire of the Romans at Rome venerable through the whole World and that imperial dignity which rose in Augustus perisht in Augustulus Blessed is he that readeth and they that he are the words of this Prophecy Rev. 1.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that keep the things written therein for the time is at hand The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sometimes signifies Astronomical Observations We ought to be more curious and diligent in calculating the motions of Scripture-times than the most accurate Observer of Eclipses and other Heavenly Configurations which are of great use in Scripture Chronology Ps 89.36 37. The Throne of this 2d David is more establisht than the Sun or the Moon before him and as a faithful Witness in Heaven Behold he cometh quickly Rev. 22 7. blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the Prophecy of this Book Obj. But some may say What comfort is this to us who it may be are never like to see these glorious times let us make our calling and election sure that we may enter into the Eternal Joy of our Lord. A I answer Of all things in the World let 's first make sure of our own Salvation and clear our evidences to eternal life 2 Pet. 1.11 that we may have abundant entrance into the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour And then let the prosperity of Sion lye warm at our hearts All the Holy men of old took great delight in beholding the Churches Glory though but in the Glass of Vision Ps 102.14 Nay they took pleasure in her stones and favoured the dust thereof For when the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory 16. This shall be written for the Generation to come and the people that shall be created 18. shall praise the Lord. The times of refreshing shall come and the restitution of all things whereof God hath spoken by the mouth of all his Holy Prophets since the world began Acts 3.21 2 Pet. 3.2 and we ought to be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy Prophets and Apostles concerning the promise of his coming looking for and hastning to the coming of the day of God 13. when there shall be a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwelleth righteousness 15. testifying that Holy Paul hath spoken of these things in his Epistles Rom. 8.21 When the Creature it self distinct from Saints v. 23. shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God Shall the great God think it meet in his heavenly wisdom and goodness to the Church to foretell by all his Holy Prophets and Apostles these glorious times Shall the Son of God receive this discovery from the Father and signifie it to his Angel and send it by his Angel to his Servant John his beloved Disciple What a magnificent apparatus is here from God the Father to the Son from his Son to the Angel and from the Angel to John Such as is before no Book of Holy Scripture besides and this upon the Lords Day to an Apostle in the Spirits extasie v. 10. and to a bosom Apostle in tribulation and in the Kingdom and Patience of Jesus Christ Nay what a Majestical Scene is laid down in the 4th Chapter which is wholy spent in preparation for these Visions of things to come A door opened in Heaven and a voice like a Trumpet and a glorious Throne appearing and a Person upon it in visage like the various-coloured Jasper and the incarnate Sardine and the Rainbow of the Covenant like the
expertness in affairs was a notable step to his personal honour his further advancement in the rising Persian Court and a return for the Church of God out of Babylon Let 's descend to apply the Use is two-fold to the thorns and lillies Vse 1 1. To the Thorns in some particulars 1. Remember your vile original what are you but the cursed sruit of the fall whose bramble natures breed unkind and pricking spirits God planted no thorns in Paradise The state of innocency knew no such crooked tempers Ecc. 7.29 He created man upright but he sought out many inventions 2. To the Thorns among Lillies Most of the Worlds briars grow without any lillies among them They live among Nettles Hemlock and Henbane and other poysonous Plants stinging and tearing and choaking one another Tit. 3.3 living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another but remember you that have Lillies among you their humility fragrancy lenity purity should provoke you to holy emulation They live peaceably by you scratch them not Happy thorns did you know it God would soon fold you up into bundles and deliver you to the surnace of his wrath were it not for his Chosen among you Mat. 13.30 Suffer them a while let the Briars grow till the Harvest says our Lord Then shall his Angels gather out of his Kingdom v. 41. all things that offend and them which do iniquity and cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth 3. Let wicked persecuting thorns consider their end Heb. 6.8 That earth that beareth thorns and briars is rejected and is nigh unto cursing whose end is to be burnt Unserviceable unprofitable wretches cumber the ground suck away the juice from Gods Plants unfit for building and injurious that which their prickly venome heat and infest the hands that touch them Take heed of persecuting the meek and humble Lillies There 's no one sin more criminal and provoking in the sight of God He ordains his arrows against the Persecutors and dooms them to eternal fire Ps 7.13 When once persons fall to that sin Ps 58.9 God maketh way and room for his wrath Before the pots can feel the thorns c. a dark place but sharp against Gods enemies Arias and Glassius translate it antequam spinae intelligant rhamnum c. Before the Thorns apprehend a Bramble an elegant metaphor from the growth of rational creatures Before the young tender thorns shall arise to the capacity of a great bramble to do more mischief The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the plural masculine signifies thorns and the Targum glosses the Text thus while they are tender and green Isa 54.13 Eccl. 7.8 while in their youth and vigour as Husbandmen cut down thorns before they grow rampant so will the Lord tear off wicked Persecutors with the whirlwind and burn them with the fire of his wrath before they grow old withered and dry while yet in the sap and strength while they are lively and flourishing The design of the Psalmist expresses the wrath of God against his enemies before they shall finish their purposes to bring utter destruction to the Congregation of the just Vse 2 To the Lillies themselves 1. Resemble your heavenly pattern Take heed of morosity you never found a thorn in the root leaf or flower of a lilly but what was thrust in by a Briar it agrees not to the meek and gentle nature of holiness Pride and imperiousness of spirit is contrary to the humility of a Lilly stiffness and perversness are unsuitable to the flexible temper of that lovely plant Drooping and desponding unbecomes the erect and brisk aspect of its flower Saints should labour to joy in the Lord always Study for such innocency mildness winning ingenious tempers and candour of spirit as may silence the ignorance of foolish men that by holy and heavenly frames of heart and life they may convince the briars that tear them of their fiery unrighteous sharpness Saints must shew a better spirit dwelling in them then the world knows off sweet thoughts issuing into courteous and affable words smelling fragrantly of heavens influence and the dews of Zion moistning their lovely hearts with a conversation so amiable as may glorifie their heaven-born race that all about them may delight to come within them to taste of their delicious spirits as if they dwelt in a garden of Pomegranats Song 4.13 A Lilly is a tractable Plant a briar is of a sullen churlish rough Nabal-like spirit Wicked mens tempers are commonly like nettles and thorns thrust away that cannot be taken with hands 2 Sam. 23.6.7 he that touches them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear and they shall be utterly burnt with fire in the same place not to be handled without hedgers gloves without guards and fences but so must not Saints yet take heed of offences even to the Sons of Belial A Lilly will not cannot hurt a thorn You never heard a Sheep barking at a Dog or saw a Dove fly after a Bird of Prey A Saint must not be of a sturdy dogged proud rapacious insolent and revengeful temper but commit themselves to God For Vengeance is mine saith the Lord Rom. 12.9 I 'll repay it Q Q. But may not a Saint sometimes use the prick of reproof A A. When the necessity of their calling station and relation requires it 't is their duty Lev. 19.17 They must in no no wise hate their Brother in their heart but shew their love by rebuking him and not suffer sin upon him But Pro. 15.12 if he be a scorner he 'll never love his reprover neither will he go unto the wise but sight and quarrel and backbite most venomously Pro. 9.7 He that reproveth a scorner gets shame and blots and hatred Therefore remember the sphere of thy station and go no further Thorns are always scratching and censuring Saints for reproof though bound in duty and though never so mild wherefore let the Lillies whiteness purity and humility be a silent standing reproof against their neighbouring briars 2. Do you belong to this heavenly Plant are you like to Christ are ye his lillies indeed Let 's try can you bear their prickly thorns with meekness of patience A good nature is seen more in bearing and passing by injuries that might provoke a nettling temper then in bestowing of benefits Will ye pretend to a lilly and cant bear a prick in your good name for Christ nor a thorn in your liberty for the Gospel sake nor a scratch in your purses for pure worship and the honourable name of the great Lillie of the Vallies what conformity bear we to Christ The Head of the Church was girt and gored with a Crown of thorns for us and must not the Churches Sides expect the like Delicatus es Christiane c. said Jerome thou art too dainty that must be Crowned with roses
here and glory hereafter what swim in a River of oil into the river of Paradise no no! Canaanites will be thorns in your sides till ye come to that Canaan above Deceive not your selves scandals at the Cross make formalists stumble into Apostacy A great Roman Emperor tryed his Courtiers and State Officers by Proclamation who would renounce Christianity to prove their constancy and such who for flattery or sear fled back from the truth he turned out of their places telling them that such who were false to their Saviour would never be true to their Emperor Our great Lord and King of the Church sometimes tries whether we will suffer thorns in our comforts rather then in our consciences Turning times are trying times 3. Pray for the dews of heavenly grace to fall like Orient Pearls upon your lillies No matter what briars among us so heavens influences showr down upon us What need we beso much concerned for a scratch if a Balsam drop from Heaven presently cure it Ps 94 19. If multitudes of thoughts ramble and tumble within us let divine comforts delight our souls a rare word in the Hebrew taken from the solaces 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dancings dandlings singings of tender Mothers to their froward and sretful Children If thou canst find and feel God to be in Covenant with thee and taking thee in arms and cherishing thee on the knees of his affection like a Father what matter what the scullions in the Kitchin and wicked men the rods of his wrath the Hang-men and Executioners of Divine Judgments in the earth be they never so great speak and twit against thee thou knowest thy Fathers love is solid and permanent though by an affliction he chide for a fault yet his heart is with thee Joh. 14.3.17.24 he 'll never leave thee till he bring thee to himself and to the high inheritance Let all the Devils in Hell fling their ragged firebrands at thee make but a tush of it in the name of the Father of mercies they can't hurt thee Pray for the gentle Zephyrus the sweet breathings of Gods Spirit to flow down and invigorate your Beds of Spices Song 4.16 4. Care not what the World counts If God pronounce you to be his Lillies Labour to be more eminently what God styles you for what he loves you and for what the World hates you John 15.18 If the World hate you saies our Lord ye know that it hated me before it hated you If ye were of the World the World would love its own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the World hateth you In his heavenly prayer our Lord also addresseth thus to the Father John 17.14 I have given them thy word and the World hath hated them because they are not of the world even as I am not of the world Disgrace from the world let it arm you from going back and let holy emulation edge you forward Love not the world nor the things of this world the childish fashion the apish attire the vain pomp and glistering gewgaws the tickling and soul-alienating pleasures of this transient and perishing life Be solid and serious persons let your affections be risen with Christ to the pleasures and treasures that are above Col. 3.1 5. Take heed of the thorns within more then them without While your soul tabernacles in flesh it dwells in a Thicket of thorns scarce sees Heaven but through Crannies Paul had this thorn 2 Cor. 12.7 a thorn given but it bore roses at last His sufferings incensed him to fight the good fight of faith the more couragiously O the piercing thorns of temptation that annoy the choicest Saints he mourns more intensely for the thorns at his heart then those at his feet He cuts down the former but they grow again Hinc ille lachrymae hence his continual spring of tears the others without him he tramples down valiantly Worldly cares fiery tryals dark desertions that touch his heart these exercise his saith and patience But O the fearful Bramble of Original lust a bramble like the Oakes in Bashan as big as the Waste of his soul Here he lays on with the ax of Repentance every day and makes the Chips to fly till death help him to fetch the killing stroke upon all his deadly enemies He sweats and pants till he gets the Victory 6. Be very solicitous to keep your selves from the thorns without To live holy and ward off wicked mens blows with all prudence consistent with confession of truth and the name of Christ Col. 4.5 walk in wisdom toward them that are without let your speech be alway with grace seasoned with Salt If your salt be unsavoury wherewith says our Lord shall it be seasoned A violent calcining fire takes away much of the grateful savour of salt Take heed of fiery tryals that are to try them that dwell upon the earth If ye draw back Heb. 10.38 my soul saith God shall have no pleasure in you a dreadful saying Hosea 8.8 to be like Israel's vessel wherein there 's no pleasure Hieronym in loc Immundum vas seu inutile c. quo ad projicienda stercora uti sobemus a vessel made for the requisites of nature to be fill'd with things unseemly let Saints study to be holy and useful and likewise to be careful and watchful against the tinctures and temptations of a prophane World A Saint must always carry about him a dove-like heart and sometimes use the nimble sparkling eye of the Serpent to guard his dove-like innocency Spina poena est thorns will be afflictive To live near them and not to be hurt is the fruit of divine grace and power but 't is usually connext with our use of holy wisdom towards them Persecutions are oftentimes chastisements for sin and preparations for glory Though a fruit of the fall yet they become medicinal to a Saint his troubles being his comforts Boysterous winds hurry a Ship to its haven Dangerous diseases often ferment the bloud into a purity for more prosperous health The poison of sin mingles the potion of repentance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 evipera Andromachus's Treakle composed of a Viper cures its venome The flesh of a Scorpion applyed to the place affected healed Olearius of his pain and torment Olear Travels p. 195 A Saints inward bitings from Satan are cured by the Dragons bloud slain by the Spear of Christ VVendelin de nilo C. 16. G. §. 11. It s said that Crocodile's tears pierce the skull of man I am sure that a Saints penitent tears dissolve the head and all the inventions of Satan To end a gracious soul may gather the flowers of assurance from the sharp prickles of temptation and persecution He sucks much hony of the thorns that molest and afflict him 7. Associate with heavenly Lillies All the World besides are but thorns The common
Daughters of Jerusalem are lillies in shew but have thorns in heart and sometimes grow out from the midst of their seeming flowers They 'll prick sometimes as peevishly and perversely as open wicked men and as the Daughters of Babylon What delight can a Saint take in their vain converse their pride and worldliness Many strange Professors start up now adays that bear the leaves of their godly Fathers but not their fruit they go for Daughters of Zion but are haughty Is 3.16 walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes mincing or tripping nicely as they go and making a tinkling with their feet Crepitantibus Calceis Crepidis insistentes A Lap. With their flaps and slaps proclaiming their levity and folly but their hearts are little worth Pro. 10.20 and their tongues like Serpents fork'd with enmity and sharp like crooked thorns against the ways of holiness Song 6.2 let 's depart from them and go with our Beloved into the Gardens to the beds of Spices to feed in the Gardens and to gather Lillies where Christ has his sets and knots of Lillies has pure and holy worshiping Churches there let 's assemble though briars be near yet Christ is nigher 8. Long for Heaven Send up the fragrant odours of your prayers into Paradise where no bleak wind no chilling showrs no piercing thorns shall trouble more Let these Wilderness-prickles sharpen thy pace towards Heaven Eph. 6.15 being well shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace yet leap nimbly through them and hasten from them Cry out of the Valley the Settims the sharp Bushes in the Plains of Moab and pant for Lebanon where thy Lilly shall be planted under the true Vine and the Tree of Life where thorns in duties relations enjoyments shall make thy spirit to bleed no more Where thorns from Devils and a wicked World shall affront and gash no more where thorns from our own hearts or others tongues shall wound no more whether from the Daughters of Gath or Jerusalem 2 Sam. 1.20 from outragious wickedness or perverse formalisme shall touch or prick or punish the Church no more O pray for that Sabbath of rest that Jubilee of joy when from all thy labours sorrows and tears thou shalt rest in the bosome of eternal love when the furrows made by the torrent of tears in thy hollow cheeks shall be fill'd up by the Balm of Gilead when all thy wounds and scarrs shall be bathed into smoothness and beautifully heal'd in those rivers of pleasure that flow at the right hand of him that sits upon the Throne for evermore I should come now to the Second branch of the Doctrine to set forth the love of Christ to his Church and each holy Soul while sighing and groaning among the thorns of this Valley of Achor Add. whereof briefly and close 1. He forms holy sighs and groans in thy Spirit by his Spirit He sends his dove into our hearts Ezek. 36.27 and then we mourn like doves in the clefts of the rock of Ages He puts his spirit within us and then hearkens to the groanings of his own Spirit Rom. 8.27 Song 2.14 O my dove let me hear thy voice why because thy Countenance is comely Non placet vox si displiceat facies Bern. our face is comely in the beauty of his righteousness and therefore our voice is pleasant through the melody of his Spirit 2. Christ sighs with thee He mingles the tears of his Cross with the tears of thy crucifiing afflictions In all their affliction he is afflicted Is 63.9 The thorn never pricks the sides of the Church Zach 2.8 but it touches the apple of his eye Is this lilly parch'd with the Sun Cor Christi aestuat the heart of Christ is affected with holy sympathy Is it blasted with East-winds he comforts and relieves it by sweet Western Gales of his Spirit Is it spotted and stained with dirt struck up by the foot of Beasts he washes it clean in his own laver our very hairs are numbred Ps 56.8 our tears bottled our desires known our steps and wandrings are measured our groans are not hid from him our members are written in his Book that not a bone is broken but he sets them again 3. Christ appears graciously in time of distress he came into the Church when the doors were shut for fear of the Jews and breathed his peace upon them He was with the Church in the Wilderness he visited the lillys in the thorny bush and conducted them planted them in the Land of Canaan It was his hortus pensilis ambulatorius he delighted in his walking Garden through the howling Desarts of Arabia the Type and Emblem of his Gospel Church in all her scatterings and thirsty marches and will never forsake them till like conquering Joshua he bring them to their appointed rest Neither is there any of the least of his beloved ones but he will vouchsafe a gracious ear to their petitions Is 40.41.63.9.4 and carry them in his bosome as all the days of old He delivers frequently incessantly perseveringly he loves them to the end Is 43.3 He gave Aegypt for their Ransome Aethiopia and Seba for them This is matter of argument in our prayer thou hast delivered this people out of Aegypt until now Numb 14.19 And what if we be not fit for mercy he is always fit to shew it when heavenly wisdom judges meet The times of the Church are in the hands of a Father who consults his own bowels and the expediency of his own glory In that day when the design and decrees of mercy unite in accomplishment he can form the hearts of men and fashion them upon the wheel of Providence Let none despond because the Church is not prepared for approaching deliverance The Prophets are full of this encouragement that in such a day he will powr out another spirit and make all things fall in joint and to hit the mark of his appointment The time is hastening and at the doors that the Lord will powr out clean water upon his Sanctuary he will do a new thing on the earth now it shall spring forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nunc germinabit Is 43.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a manifest allusion with that of Zachary Zech. 3.8.6.12 I will bring forth my Servant Zemach the BRANCH called by Luke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Branch from on High when the Beasts of the field the Dragons and Owls of the Gentile Wilderness shall honour me Then shall Zion bud forth and great shall be the glory of her Children from the North and from the West Is 49.12 and those from the Land of Sinim Which some as Arias and others understand of China but more likely of Sin or Pelusium by a trope for the Land of Aegypt Sin being the great fortress at the entrance of Aegypt and South of the Land of Canaan 5. He is