hap. LXVT. 18 A 14 HE Chap. LXV1, | Chap: | | « Captivity of Babylen, without any pain, without ſo fy ceived fome fall, or miſchief. Eieraſalem now mourneth, and you 7 4 papers ron or "ſe in the erecting of wal Goſoel Church, | mourn with her, bur ſhe tball recover from her affliction and * Foie into which all the Jews that reccived Chritt; were gathered as well Þ her ſorrows, and thall be comforted ; and you that mourn for he, 25 the Gentiles, making both one, Eph. 2. 14. e Which ſeems to be ihall partake of her joys, as you now ſhare witi her in her aMiQtions, meant by the Earths bringing forth in one day, as great a work ef Prov | God in the day that he wipeth tears from her Eyes, thall alſo Wipe vidence, as if all the women in the world thould have brought | them from yours : and you ſhall have as great an occaſion of joy forth in aday ; or as if all the planrs of the Earth had brought | from the happy, as now you have of ſorrow from the afflited ſtare * ' Forth their flowers and fruit in one day. f As toon as the Chuich | of Hrerujalem. ; of the Jews began to move out of the Captivity of Babjlon,God put I 4 And when you ſee this, your heart ſh 1 rejoice, it into the hearts of multitudes ro go ap, Exod. 1.5. <. 2. 1,2, &c | and your bones ſhall flouriſh like an herb « : and the
Or, as ſoon as theVoice of the Goſpel put the Church of the Jews | ,_. : ; 7 into her Travelin John Baptiſts, Ghriſts and the Apoſtles time, ut pre- hand of the Ford fhall be Known toward his Servants x, fently brought forth. In John Baptiſts rime, the Kingdom of Hearven . and his indignation tOwWar d his Enemies ). | ſuffered Viclence, and the violent take it by force, Mar. 11. 12. and it u The peace, and tranquillity ofthe Church and the ProPogatie continued fo, as 3000 were converted at Peters Sermon, AQs 2. The | on of the Kingdom of Chriſt, 1s alwife the cauſe of an heart-re- Gentiles were the Children of Zion, being planted into their ſtock; | joycing to luch as fear God, P/al: 105. 3. the reaſon is becaule ir the law of the Goſpel firſt going out of Zion. : is the greateſt object of their detires, which are then ſatisfied, and IO 3ve4 9, Shall I bring to the birth, and not || cauſe to bring __ ware me man os _—— are ys of the "1,8 forth ? ſaith the Lord g ; ſhall I caule to bring forth, gg apapnge nes, which before are dry and whithe-
> red, Ezek. 37. 1, 2. and the ſinevs, andthe fleſh, comes again upon the and ſhut the womb ? faith thy God þb. > and the kin covers them abuve, fo as they flouriſh gas = in FE