f Either 1. your Idols, which you think to be ſtrong, and able to defend you, as appears by your Confidenee in them ; or 2. the ſtrongeſtPerſons ameng you,who think to ſecure themſelves againſt the threatned danger by their Wealth, or Power, or Wiſdom ; and much more they that are wezk and helpleſs. g Shall be as tud- denly and eaſily conſumed by my Judgments,as Tow 1s by Fire b The Maker ofthe Idol, who can neither fave himſelfnor his Work. manſhip. Or, his Work; either all that he doth or can do, or that which he hath done, his wicked courſe of Life, ſha)l bring him ta
CHAP. II. | A Prophecy of Chriſts Kingdom, and the Calling of the Gentiles, 1, F And Rejettion of the Jews for their 1dolatry and Pride, 6, 9. The grea Majeſty and Power of God: and hu Terrours on the Wicked : With an Exhortation to fcar Goa, and not totruſt in Man, 10, 22. ;
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b2 abolifh:d, but Chris Inftitutions were to continue to the end of the Worid.a The Temple of the Lord which is upon Mount M- riah; which yet is not to be underſtood literally of chat Material Temple. but myſtically of the Church of God, as appears from
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that Temple, nor indeed was fulfilled til! thar Temple was deſtroy- ed ; andfrom the frequent uſe of this Metaphor, the Temple, or the Houſe of the Lord, concerning the Chriſtian Church both in the Old and the New Teſtament. e Shall be placed anii ſettled ina moſt con- ſpicuous and glorious manner, being advanced above all other Churches and Kingdoms in the World. f Thoſe Gentiles, whom ycu now deſpiſe, and judge to be abhorred and quite foriaken by God, g Shall comein great abundance, and with great egerneſs, like a Ri- ver, as the Word ſignifies. ES
3 And many People ſhall go h and ſay ;, * Come ye,and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,to the houſe of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths & ; for / out of Zion ſhall go forth the Law mn, and the Word of the
LORD from Jeruſalem ». ; b Shall not only have ſome weak deſires of going, but ſhall be ready to take pains, and fhall aftually go. 7 Such ſhall be their Zeal, that they ſhall nor only go themſelves,but ſhall perſwade and preſs others to go with them. & They ſhew the Truth of their Converſion, by their hearty deſire ro be inſtufted in the way or method of worſhipping and ſerving God acceprably, and by their firm purpoſe of pra&iſing the InftruQtions given to them. /! This laſt Clauſe conrains the ReaſIn why the People ſhould be ſo forward to , go, and to invite others to go with them 3 and they may be the Words either of the People, continuing their Speech 3 or of the Prophet ; now returning to ſpeak in his own Name. » The New Law, the Doctrine of the Goſpel, which is frequently called a Law, becauſe it hath the Nature and Power of a Law, obliging us noleſs to the Belief and Practice ofir, than the Old Law did. » For the ac- compliſhment of this Promiſe, ſee Luke 24. 47: Atts 1: 8: Rom: j©; Ivo
4 Andhe ſhall judge among the Nations o, and ſhall rebuke p many people:and * they ſhall bear theirſwords
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o Chriſt ſhall ſerup and uſe his Authority among and over all Nations, not only giving Laws to them, as other Rulers do, bur . doing that which no other Powers can do, convincing their Minds and Conſciences, conquering and changing their Hearts, and orde- ring their Lives. p Eithcr verbally, by his Word and Spirit repro- ving or convincing the World of Sinz or really, by his Judgments upon his implacable Enemies, which obſtru& the Propagztion of the Goſpel. q He ſkallroot out thoſe grear Animoſities and HoſtiJities which were berween the Jews and Gentiles, Eph: 2: 13, &c. and between ſeveral Nations, ſubduing Mens Pride, and Pafſions, and Luſts, which are the Cauſes of all Wars and Contenrions ; and working Humility, and Meekneſs, and Self-denial, and true and fer- vent Love to all Men, from whence Peace neceſſarily follows. This was the Deſign of the Goſpel in all, and rhe Ef.& of it in thoſe that rightly received ir. And that War and Diſſenſion wiich was occa- ſioned by the Preaching of the Goſpel,as was foretold Mar: 1 0: 21,22: 3t was wholly accidental, by reaſon of Mens corrupt Intereſts and Luſts, which the Goſpel oppoſed ; and it was nor amongſt thoſe who received the Goſpel in the love of it, bur berween them and thoſe who were either open Enemies or falſe Friends ro them and to the Goſpel. Bur if this Place be underſtood of an external and general Peace which was to bein the World in the Days of the Meſias, this alſo may in due time be verified, when all 1rael ſhall be
A ſaved,and the fulneſs of the Gentiles ſhall be brought in, and both