having enced their Toil, or weather'd the Storm, compoſed their * ſhall yet choote d Jeruſalem. "lin Differences,and ſheathed their Swords z are full of Peace, and fir ſtill | _ 7 The Prophet's Commiſſion 1s either entarged,or more ſull Inſtru- © had fo I to take their Eaſe. 2 Either the ſame thing repeated, to heighten QHions given tahim,to raiſe the Hope and ſtabliſh the Faith of the Peo- tle-trees, the Quiet of theſe States, or to confirm the truth of che Thing, or to ple of God. o Feruſalem, and the Cities of 7udah are mine,ſaith the perhaps 1 expreſs the inward Quiet of Mind the People had wich their outward Lord, and as mine I Il build, beautifie,enrich, forcifie, defend ,and en- to meaſu Quiet: The Fuvlick peaceablc, and every one's Mind ſatisfied z this large them. p Through increate of Faintlies aud Perſons, they ſhall became h is the State of the Earch, the Empire which at thar time ruled all. | ſend — gr te nawns Towns and Ciries z and through Angels, 12 © Then « the angel of the LORD 56 anſwered wire a ag - pat doorggprkry hav A o 4 At and 12d c, O L ORD of holts d, how long wilt thou [r Their God. s Zn his Church, with Comforts fit for a Church. man, ia not have mercy e on Jeruſalem f, and on the cities of Ju- |*, Type of the Ciyil State as here joined with Zjon;z the Kingdom without
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threeſcore and ten years þ © . : nOr, 4 a When the ſurveying Angels had made their Report of the Pro- 19 Then @ lift 1 up mine eyes x, and ſaw Y, and to bim; f ſperity of the Heathen. b The Angel, the Lord Chriſt, Mediator of behold, tour horns 5. to that A
the Church, and Head of the Church. c Prays as one interceding. | # After I had ſeen thoſe things,and heard thoſe comfortable words, _ bs d Chriit ſpeaks to his Father, ſpeaks as one much affefed with the | and received Commiſſion to publiſh all the good News I had heard. b ——_—_— ſtate of his afflied Church. e It is the Expoſtulation that well be- | xz He was ſo intent before, that he look'd on nothing elſe; now he _ in Ri fits a praying Soul 3 1t 1s not the Ei:quiry of a diſcontended Mind, but | lifts up his Eyes. y Clearly, certainly, and diſtintly, 2 Emblems of whig | the Requeſt of one [pnging for Mercy: $9 David, Pſal. 13.1, 2, and | the Enemies of the Fews, for Strength, Fierceneſs and Pride; and ws all be the Sculs under the 8lJtar, Rev. 6. —M] Jeruſalem, thy choſen Moun- | for their Number, from all parts of the World. «rs tain, Heir of the Promiles to bere-edified z and on Fadah's Cities roo, 19 And I faid unto the angel that talked with me 2, Preſence, cf whoſe rebuilding, Peace and Proſperity thou halt, O Lord, ſpoken : f
or.at things, Jer. 30. 31, 31, and 33 Chapters, and Ezek. 36, and 37, What be theſe b ? And he antwered me, Theſe are the or Sacrifi
&c. Chapters. g They have felt thine Anger and hot Diſpleaſure ; | horns c which have ſcattered Judah d, rae] &, and [e- 5 Fo! it was juſt, and 1s ſo ſtil}, but 1t 1s not to be perpetual; thine Anger | ruſalem. 9, wall of
tath ſroaked againft the Sheep of chy Paſture. h The Term pre- : in the fx'd for the Captivity is tully come, 'tis the ſeventicth Year of their | wh js the Deſt, Terror, bhi ra be Ee re gf aſe Whit miſerable Captivity 3 now thew Mercy, build $70n, and glorifie thy Horns, which I ſee and know to be Horns,and four in number ? c Pow- In this by ſelf in doing 1t, tor rne ſet time 15 come : It 15 now 70 Years fince | ers, States and Kingdoms, which have from all fides puſh'd ar, broken ſo much a thy Temple was burnt, and 7 eraſalem ſack'd , and full 20 Years fince | 1nq roffed my People, ſorely bruſed ſome,and deſtroy'd others; theſe Ereat for { Feconias with many of thy People were carried captive into Babylon, | ory; are probably on the North, the Syrians, Aſſrians,and Babylont- petted, Go and ſomewhar mure 3 fince many were Carr iced with 7 ehotachim, ans; on the Eaſt, the Moabites and Ammonites z on the South, Edv- be ſcaled ; from which to the ſecond of Darizs are much about eighty cight or mites and Ezyptians ; on the Weſt the Philiſtines : All which had mi- none could nine Years. : ny a time 1poiled the Fews. d The two Tribes, which were the 2 King. 6.1 13 And the LORD Þ an{wered the angel 7 that tal-|Kingdom of Judah. e The ten Tribes carried away by Shalmaneſ?!, tisan Ally ked + with me, with good / words, and comfortable 2 | or the Relicks of 1/ael, which adhered to the Houſe of David. Countries :
Words. 20 And the LORD f thewed g me four carper:- CN h God rhe Father. 7 Chriſt, the uncreated Angel, Lord of Angels | ters h. T |
and Redeemer of Iſrael. þ Who had firſt talked by Signs and Vitions, f Jehovah, who before is the Angel, 7. e. Chriſt; he is the eterval | 1 24
and nextby exylaining the Mind and meaning of them, & anſwering | One, tic great God. 7g Both propoſed the thing to be ſeen, and gave ard of t
the Enquiries Zechariah made. Þ Satable and teaſforable. m The Eyes to ſee, and diſcernit. þ Known by their Garb and Tools to be
words minifter'd Comfort to 7eraſalem and the Captivesz the words Carpenters or Smiths, as the Hebrew bears it.
upported Deliverauce and Bickiings, |
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; I. | hap Then i ſaid I #&, What come theſe to do /? And 21 ſake, ſaying, Theſe 7 are the horns which have oY adah, ſo that no man did lift up his head 9 : hut theſe 7 are, OMe tO fray rhem 2, to caſt out the —_ 7 of the Gentiles s, which lift up her horn 7 over
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[ _ enters. k Zechariah. I He ſaw they were Men,enquires of the _ were, but what was their Buſineſs and Deſign ; per- not —— for us to reſt alſo in the knowledge of what they are haps 'tis 4 enquire no farther who they were. m The Lord Chriſt an "Prophet. n Chriſt doth, in order to farisfie the En-