0. 26. and 31. 7. and the reaſon ts, becauſe the two Tables or the | Law,which were th Teſtimony,or W:rnets of rhe Covenant were | cloſed upin it, Exod. 25. 16, 21.and 49. 20, ), Le. Ir ihall be; No more in uſe, neither ſhall there be any miſs of it, or any ring | like it, there {hall be no ſuch thing 3 Men ſhall nor trouble their | rhoughrs about it, or mention it, compare 1ſ3. 65. 17. Or repair! 0 ir 25 an Oracle toreceive the anſwers of God ; nor for God's! Worthip, compare Jer. 16. 14, 15» Or to the place of 1s relidence, | as if no where elſe to be had ; in a word, it ſhall nor art al! be hz] in honour or reſye& or made much of. The word IWP 21, | done or made, ſignifies ro 1agrifie, as it ſeems to be uted, Dza2. 32.6. and 1 $21. 12. 6- The whole Church ſhall now be tz Throne of God, Ver. 17. to which purpoſe the Ark former!y ter- ved. Now God foreſeeing, partly how hard a thing it wou'd be ro be believed, and partly the PJeas that rhe corrupt Wir and Inven- tion of Man would find out for the retaining of the!e Rires, anc by conſequence their loathnels to forgo chem, he ulerh | heap, and variety of expreſſions to the ſame thing, tar ht my leave no room for doubting in a thing ſo plainly, and tuily prom» bired in Goſpel-tmies,
17 At that time they ſhall call Jeruſalem the throne & of the LORD: and all the nations fhall be gathered a unto it, to thename of the LORD, to Je- ruſalem 5 : neither ſhall they * walk any more atcer the F imagination of their evil heart c.
2 Inſtead of the Ark, whereon was the Mercy-ſ{cat, now the meſs. Church typiied by Fernjalem , Gal. 4. 26. and Rv. 2f. 2. {hall bethe place of God's Relidence, where by his Spirit he will rule and a& in his Word and Ordinances, and in {pectal the Moir. gee Chap. 14. 21. and Ver. 16, @ Intimating both their readinels to come in, ard their number, a ccording to thar Prophecy of 7acov, Gen. 49. 19. See Iſa. 2.2. By Nations here underſtand, either the Tin Tri3es who are called many People, both 1/-ae! and Jud united, their diſtance being taken away, ſec Yer. 18. or rather lome of a)l Nations, thar ſhall flock into the Goſpel Church ; for when che Prophets foretel this ſtate, they generally uſher it in with the return of this People, at which time the Church ſhall be greatly en- larved. 6, i.e. Dwelling in Jeruſalem, or where the Lord placed his Name, /z. of old in Jeruſalem, Pal. 122.2, 3, &. but now in the Church, Rev, 21. 2, 3- without Ark or Temple, Rcv.21.22. where h2 will be known as it were by his proper Name, 1/z. 60.9. or as manifeſt in the fleſh. c Both Jew and G2: 7/1) ſhall now £con- form themſelves ro the Will of God, Iſa. 2. 3. The word i177- nation here comes from a roor, that ſignifies ro ſce, and thus 1t 15 ſometimes applied to the judgment, P/al. 17. 2. and tometimes to the affeftion, Pſal. 66. 18. here it may comprehend both, they will follow neither their own judgmenr, or affection, but wholly the Word of God. The word is thus phraſed, Nuwv.15. 39. and Eccl. 11. 9. ſome read it after :he hardneſs, Deuteremomy 29.19.
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