ſalem. x Ophel, as*tis Hebrew, and perhaps were better rendred a pro- per Name of that impregnable Fort, 2 Chron. 27. 3. another conlide- rable Part put for the whole. y Or, 0 Daughter of Zion, ſo "twill be an Explication of what the Prophet before meant by the Tower Eder and Cphel, 7. e. O Zion, O Feruſuem, both in the typical and in the myſtical Senſe. # The former Dominion, not in outward Splendor, but becauſe the Government and ſupreme Dignity among the People was reſtored (after ſeventy Years Captivity) to the former Royal Fa- mily, and continued in it till Shzloh came. This in the T ype was ful- filled upon the Settlement under Zerubbabel and his Succeflors ; but the whole Antitype concerns the Meſhah's Kingdom, and the Goſpel Feruſalem, and is fulfilled in the fpiritual Glory of it. Chriſt's King- dom is the antient, ſupreme. and moſt glorious Kingdom, and by his redeeming us from Bondage of. Hell is ſet up, and ſhall be continued firm and unmoveable, more than Eder, Ophel, Zion or Feruſalem, ty- pical, as Zak? 1, 32, 32. and more large than ever David's or Solomon's Kingdom, Dan. 7. 14+ and therefore greater.in Glory, tor Chrilt is King of Kings, Rev. 17.14, and 19.16. This ſpiritual Kingdom came firſt to the Fews, Als 13. 46, '/t was neceſſary that the IVord of God Jhould firſt have been ſpoken 16 you. The Goſpel -was to be preached firſr to the Daughter of Feruſalem, There the Preachers of Pepentance and Remiſhon of Sins was to begin, and thence they were to publiſh it
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a Now that I have from the T.o:d promif-1 ſach great 9gga we. Senacher to you,afrer the ſeventy Years Captivity, an in the Davs 6 ttc», ances | ah. 6b As if this caſe were deſperate, or 25 if it would > e: 22 N; b_ ed to Se with thee, or . as if thy Hopes would not outwejzh thy Fears OE” in one | future Joy would not cepnter-bullance thy preient Griefs, ; i. fomewh haft loft thy King Zedeliah, and now art become tributary « ts ,. Church, God, thy King is with thee, and will be with thee to prelerys ron chriſtian eſtabliſh, enlarge, enrich, and to beautify thee with Salvation 4, though : reign over thee in Mount Zten for ever, Ver.7. Thy Loſs at neon, ? they ma great, but thy tuture Advantage may well top thele Qutcrics, 117, ed into © thou none among thy wiſe Coanſellors left in thee ? Hath 7." 997 Wii 16, 17) 1 z4r cruelly flain all he took of them, and are the reft fled; y.. ..* 13 F wonderful Counſellor is with thee, doth contult and reſolve thar 14, will Mz ſhalt not be undone and periſh for ever. Meſſiah, the Wiſdom .c.
aj . : : _ on ef his braſs k Farher, hath the Condu@ of thy Sufferings, Deliverance and Reef ; bliihment, in which thou mayeſt at laſt glory. e This great Di&. ph and. of Spirit appears by thy Outcries, like thoſe of a Woman in ; ey {and thi of which no great Reaſon can be given,all things conſidered; ng i earth 7. than a Woman at her full time, and bringing forth the Fruit gf i” | g Thi Womb, to the preſent Increaſe and future Honour of the Eamjjr expreſs I whoſe Pains end in Joy, Fobn 16. 21. ', Daughter
19 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth f Church, daughter of Zion y , like a woman in travail þ,", State, and now 7 ſhalt thou go forth out of the City k, and thoy og ſhalt dwell in the field }, and thou ſhalt go evey tg Ba. Church e1 bylon mz, there ſhalt thou be delivered » : there the than her 0 LORD o ſhall redeem p thee from the hand of thire _ _ -nemies 3
enemies g.. f Tt may be read, Thou ſhalt be in pain, and thou ſhalt labour, gc, c, It will be a Prediction of t:- Troubles, Sorrow: 114 Dangers that the
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ſhall meet with in the Wars againſt the Babylonians, and in their Cap. ps tivity under them. g All the Houſe of Judzh, particularly you thx = take | dwell in Jeruſalem, and near Mount Zion. h Whoſe Sorrows are very which the ſharp, but ſomewhat mitigated by ExpeCtation of a good Delivery doexpreſs and the Birth of a living Child, Iet your Hopes ſo mitigate your Sr. down her 1 rows too, 7 E're long, within a few Years you will ſee or hear thr Zion expre Iſrael is carried captive, (which Micah lived to ſee) this may he 44. er of Enem monition, it is certainly a Token that you ſhall be Captives too, an! js thresh'd this came upon them one hundred and thirty Years after, when in 22. the rebuilc dekiah's time the Daughter of Zzon was deplorably waſted, Conquered their Wars and captivated by Necbuchadnezzar. k Forced thereto by the prevailing nemies in Þ Power of the Babylonians, who took Zedekiah and thoſe that accomp. Words, as nied him when they ſtole out of the City, theſe did go out when they hard Heart could keep in it no longer, 1 As conquered, made Priſoners, ar! ſelf. And held ſo in the Fields under a ſtrong Guard,until all theConquered yere port his ov brought together, that they might in one Body be led away. Intheir down and t Journey to Babylon they were forced to lodge in the Fields, alſoer- he hath ſom poſed to all the Inconveniencies of Heat-in the Day, and of Coldin ances he he the Night, weary, hungry, thirſty and faint, near to Death. n0 Church-Hiſt Daughter of Zo, thou ſhalt certainly be carried Captive to Babylm, of the Inſcr where thy Dwelling ſhall be little bettered, thou ſhalt dwell by the Ri ſhalt conquer, ver, without the City. #* By Cyrus firſk, and by Darius #yſtaſpinext, wards the Je and by Artaxerxes in Nehemiah's time, alþthis as Type of a greater De both many a
liverance. 0 The everlaſting God, thy God, whoſe Servants the 7 fan Kings that favoured the Fews were,and by whoſe Motion they did incline to releaſe them. p The Hebrew Word points out a Redemp- tion by the next Kinſman, and fo fairly minds us of the Meſſub, the great Redeemer of the Church. And to him and the Redemption of che Church by him do theſe Deliverances ultimately and principally
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to all Nations, Luke 24. 47. This Text, and ſuch like, the blinded Few doth take in a literal Senſe only,as if it promiſed a temporal Do- minion over all Nations, and a worldly Kingdom to the Meſhah, in which they expe a large ſhare z but whar is literal, and concerned the Fews alone, was limited to them that came out of Zabyloniſh Capti- Vity, and hath been fulfilled to them. ;