14 Turn, O backſliding children, m faith the LORD ; for I am married unto you : and I will take you one of a City, and two of a family, » and I will bring you to Zion 6. » IT am in Covenant with you, Dewt: 29. 1, lo, 11 this Covenant notwirhſtanding all your unfaithfulneſs, | = a= to renew with you. Hef: 2. 19, 20. #» This word Family is not al- ways to be takenſtrialy for an houſhold ; for then the expreflion would ſeem to imply more in a Family than in a City ; but fre quently for a Country or Nation, compare Gen. 12. 3. with 22. 18 Sce Chap. 1. 15 orfor a Tribe : and this may partly reſpe& the few neſs of thoſe that will be found Penitents and return. God will have a ſprinkling in every City, and in every Family, or Tribe, oz Country ; bur chiefly it re1pe&s Geds exaCt care of them, that bee ing now married tc them, there ſha)l nor be one in a City, or two in a Country or Tribe, but he will find them out, if there be bur oneor two, he will not overlook them, this ſeems to be intimated Ja. 27. 12. a Text that points at the ſame thing. 07. e To Jeru« ſalem, a Type of the Church, a double Meronymy of the Subjeft Tt is che manner of the Prophets, when they are treating of tem; ora! Deliverances, ef] pecially from Bobylon,frequently to break out Sn t ly into the ſpiritual Deliverance by Chriſt, and ſo probably he Sch here ; and therefore bringing them to Zion muſt be underſtood, ceithe of joyning them to his Church, under the Meſſiah, or bringing —_ again to Worſhip with Judah at Jeruſalem : as may ſeem to be inti- mated Chap, 31. 6. but the Ten Tribes did never return into their own Land, and therefore that Text muſt be underſtood of a ſpiritu- al going up to Zn, viz. when all Iſrael ſhall be ſaved, Rom. 171. 26 See Iſa. 56. 7, 8 and 66: 20. and this Chapter wer. 18. Thus we ma 7 icok upon this part of the Prophecy to have reſpe&, partly co wen ah _ - _ _ mo oy this Verſe, and partly what e would hereafier do, when they ſhould be ag3i 1 1 own Land, under rhe Meſfiah, — 17, 18, - _ nk
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at the great work of Converſion, that ſhould be among them. eſpecially in the days of the M /fiah, and how greatly the Church ſhould be encreaſed by the acceſſion of the Gentiles, a beginning whereof we read As 2: 41: and 4: 4 # A Synecdochical expreſſion: for all the legal Ceremonies, whereof the Ark was a chief part,thc ſenſe is, that whole Worſbip with all the Rites and Ceremonies belonging to it ſhould wholly ceaſe, Chriſt being come, who was the ſubſtance of whar the Ark, and all other Rires did but ſhadow out for a time, he being now our propitiatory, initead of the co- vering of the Ark, or Mercy-ſeat, Rom, 3: 25. He anſwers all the uſes and purpoſes thereof. In the Ark was laid up the Manna, Aa- ron's Rod, and the Tables of the Law, Hcb. 9: 4. He is now the breaa
of Life, Joh. 6: 35. he is our Rod of Government, Pal. 23: 4. in him
is the whole Law fulfilled, Rom. 10, 4. and now God ſh3ll reign glo- riouſly in his.Church by his Word and Spirit, and ſhall be to wor-
ſhipped without Ceremony, Jon 4: 21, 23- For if this ſo eminent, and comprehenſive a token of God's preſence muſt ceaſe in the days of the Goſpel, much more the Temple Service, with all the
Rites belonging to it, Joh. 1: 17. Col. 2; 17. Heb. 10. 8:9. » Cal-
led alſo the 4rk of theTeftimony, Exod. 25: 22. and 30. 26: and 31:7.
and the reaſon is, becauſe the two Tables of the Law, which
were the Teſtimony, or witneſs of the Covenant were cloſed up in it, Exod. 25: 16, 2t- and 49. 20. » #.e, It ſhall be no more in
uſe, neither thall there be any miſs of it,or any thing like it,there; ſhall be no ſuch thing; Men ſhall not trouble their thoughts about it, or mention it, compare 1/4. 65: 17. or repair to'it as an. Ocacle to receive the anſwers of God; nor for God's compare Je#- 16: 14, 15. or to the place of its reſidence, as if no where elſe to be had ; in a word,it ſhall not ar >!) be had in hon.. nour or reſpe& or made much of. The word "WY Hhaſah, done