: inten- j, ©. he Father had keard the Son and anſw ; : 'tis a Synechdoche, Horſes and Horſemen are both inten-} 7 7. When t1 | ered him - bu == eſs es Abects.ver. zo] now the Colour of theſe Horſes is, | £1515 ſpoken to our Ap Rn ſo muſt be underſtood. 0 Of ho 1. Red, denoting probably the bloody Condition of States and King: the Covenant, the Lord Chriſt. þ Kr _—_ k: 9 Now publiſh he doms by Wars one againit another, eithcr when God puniſherh his what thou heareſt; preach oy _— wn Irom me, and afſure my; t , Church, or when he avengeth himlelf and his Church on his Ene- | PT, captive, impoverlih's —_ a pans 6; Fee and her God, mies and hers, which will appear on a ſurvey of the Times paſt, | will do good for her. r —_ what God, 4 ot Hoſts, and Father of t when Aſſyrian, Babylonian, Perſian, Grecian, or Roman Empires, did of his People, promiſed to do or them. s I have been jealous againſt, ſucceſſively by Wars do God's Work, his ſtrange Work, 0c. I/a. | Þut "high d one Sons | oa —koby rp, rv an _ 69: poply hes. th. A mixt Colour, made up parrly of white, very high degree of Compathon tor my Pic, and OT Indignation mg Ro Vlack A bot an Emblem of Afffairs of different a her 1 ome _ Cppreiioe 5 ONO gone W my Name,
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| Il proſperous, nor all unproſperous ; not all dark, | # vnere my temp! 3 5 oved more |
ER - my ga ny laghet Ea q he Day nor | than all the Dwellings of Facob. x That Zeal 1 bear, and now will ſhou Night : Such Times did the Fews know, during the 70 Prophetick ſhew for them, is great to a wonder 3 1t 15 the Zeal of a Gd who Miſc Weeks, from the beginning of them, to the Meſſtah's coming. d An infinitely loves and piticth his People. putt Emblem of the beſt Days and Stare the Church thould be in,ſfo Rev. 15 And I y am very ſore diſpleaſed Z with the crue 19. Il, I4. and the Empire to with it. heathen #hat are at eale a : for I was bur Pl lit- "Inv troy
9 Then e faid I f, O my lord g, what are thele Þ&[ 1. 4:-11fked b, and they c helped forward 4 ſtrike Avd the angcl i that talked with ine, ſaid unto me, I | p:g: i by Jy P the af: |
will ſhew thee what theſe be. . ; y TheLordof Hofts, God of Iſrael. x Exceedingly algry,and will | w_ e So ſoon as he had ſeen and obſerved. f Zechariah. g This was | ſthew it that they may ſee and feel itz my diſpleaſure is grown up to Chriſt the Lord of Hoſts. þ Whar is the meaning ot theſe Appea- | the higheſt againſt them. @ Securein their ſtrength, ſing a Requiem rances or Viſions ? 7 Chriſt, the Angel of the Covenant; fol take | ,, themſelves, and trouble to Iſrael : See v, 11, let. y, z b Wit wer, 1 this Angel that promiſeth to inform the Prophet to be, the ſame | qjne own People 3 7. e. in compariſon with the Anger I dear againſt that appears as 2 Man on the red Horſe among the Myrtles. the Heather, 'twas little, Pſal. 137. tot. c The Heathen, Babyloniang Io And the man that ſtood among the myrtle- d Attempted to deſtroy whom I would bur corre, Iz. to. & I4. I trees + an{wered / and {a1d. Theſe 2 are they whom the | whiprt to ſmart, you wounded to blood ; I did wound to bind up, you
. | "i did wound to kill, gc. It is an Anthropopatheia. eIt was more t} LORD hath ſent » to walk to and fro through 0 the they could do to provoke me niore againſt chem than their own = m earth . did; but what I permitted tor a while, they did, and added x0 the
þ Vid. ver. 8. let. ft, u, x,y. I Gave anſwer to what I asked. | af:Rion of Iſrael : 1 would prune, but they ſtruck at the Root, 1 Horſemen. n A Periphrafis of Angels, who are Servants and Mi- 16 Therefore f thus ſaith the LOR D: I am retyr-
iſters of the Divine Providence in the Gevernment of the World. . y" . : EGod is pleas'd after the manner of Men to ſpeak of his managing ned g to Jeruſalem with mercies Þ : my houſe 7 ſhall hs
the Affairs of the World : Men muſt employ others, becauſe they built in 1t &, faith the LORD of hoſts /. and a line 8 need them; God will employ Angels, though he needs them nor. ſhall be ftrerched forth upon Jeruſalem. p The Empires which his Churches were either help'd or injurd by: | Ff Becauſe the Enemy hath fo barbarouſly and inhumanly adde4 Theſe were partly by the Pride of their Emperors, partly by the Flat-] afiition to the atflited, *tis time to ſave and relieve. g When [ rery of their Servants and Miniſters, and partly by the Ignorance of | was departed,and had withdrawn my Preſence, thus cruelly were m: the World at that time in matters of Geography thought to be the People handled; but now I will return, I will be with them; my Pre- whole Earth 3 and the Scripture ſometimes uſeth Phraſes, uſed and | fence ſhall reſtrain the Violent, and prote& the Innocent. h With well known among Men,though there be.tome Impropriety 1n them. _—_ abundant,and promiſed Mercies now they ſhall be comforted L : indeed. 7 The Temple of God, the Excellency of Facob. 11 And they 7 I the $9=f + 4 ary a7 be finiſhed, the rape ſhall be ad ng plow
ſtood among the myrtie-trees 5, and 141d, VE nave wal-l viſed by Haggat, ch. 2.9. I will put upon this Houſe of minein ked 7 to and iro through the earth ., and behold Xx. all Feruſalem, I This confirms the Promiſe, and eſtabliſheth our Faith the earth {itrerh {till Y, and is art reſt >. if we know the import hercof. m The Builders meaſuring Line ſhall Hierog:
r The miniſterial Angels, fignified by the Horſes and Horſe-men. be ſtretched out,to mark out Walls, Gates, Palaces, Strects, and Hou- JANES s Or rather the Angel,the Lord, the uncreated Angel ; who ſent them ſesin Feruſalem,that they may be builr again in Beauty and Strength aft Dim out,and receives account what they had done. # As Men who would with Skill and Art; and ſhall be once more the Glory of the Earth pable tc give an exadt Account,ſuryey every part; ſo we have ſearch'd all Na- | 4nd Joy of 1ſrael. : ; kereafte tions and Kingdoms, walk'd the length and breadth of them. « The 17 Cry yet 7, ſaying, Thus ſaith the LORD of hoſts, A World,but chiefly through the Babyloniſh Empire, which accounts it [My cities o through + proſperity Þ thall yer be ſpread +84 LI
ſelf Lord of all the Earth. x 'Tis wonderful to be ſeen, and there- ok” fore we beſeech thee, O Lord, to behold, and conſider this. - y As abroad 9, and the LORD 7 thall yer comfort Zion s ,and