prophane, unbclieving and ignorant fort of Jews wonder at they and their Hopes at their Labour and Expences in attempting tg build ſuch a Houſe, with fo little Helps to raiſe ſuch a Structure ay of Rubbiſh. e God the Father. f Will bring forth a muck ow wonderful Work. g Chriſt Meffiah, the Branch, 1/a. 4. 2, and x; ' Fer. 33+ 15, ” 9 For þ behold, the ſtone that I have laid before To- ſhua : upon * one 7 ſtone ſhall be * ſeven eyes, beholg. 1 "tin, will engrave # the graving thereof, faith the LORD of (6.2, hoſts, and 1 will remove / rhe iniquity of thar lang jy g.#% me 2 Nep, 4.6 one day. & h Here is an Ellipfis, and to make 1t up we muſt repeat that «© t 8th verſe, Hear now,&c. For behold, (pointing to a particular Stone) that Stone which [ have laid, ſaith God, in the fight of Joby, c; which he ſaw laid in the building of the Temple. 7 On that one Stone are ſeven Eyes, and Joſhua and his Fellows are commanded to 9g). ſerve it; the meaning of which the Angel will ſuggeſt to them Pre- - ſently. It is not improbable this one Stone might be a corner Stone and a principal cqrner Stone, and the Eyes engraver on it,ſo placed. that they might look many ways 3 ſo 'twill be a more exact Emblem of Chriſt the chief corner Stone, and of his perfe&t Knowledge and Wiſdom,fitting him to govern his Church, and provide for it. b The Engraving engraved, 7. e. moſt artificially, lively, and with EXcellenr Contrivance. / Or, and I have removed, I have pardoned the 1ni. quity of this Land at ence: Thus the Emblem or Type, which 1 ſhall once more'ſet before you in plainer words, than thoſe of our Verſion: Hear now, O Foſhua, thou and thy Fellows; for behold there is one - Stone, and on thar Stone ſeven Eyes moſt curiouſly engraved, ang this laid in thy fight, and in the fight of thy Fellows: This learn by it, that the Temple, founded on ſuch a corner Stone, builr by the Wiſdom of the chief Builder, guarded and watch'd over by all-ſeein Providence, is the Bleſſing and Honour of that People, whoſe Sins are all forgiven, The farther ſpiritual meaning diſcovers the Mef. fiah, the chief corner Stone, the Goſpei-Church founded thereon guided by perfe& Wiſdom, and preſerved by never erring Proyi. dence, and blefi with the Pardon of all her Sins, taken away in one day by the meritorious Death of her Redeemer. 10 In that day », faith the LORD of hoſts, ſhall ye call z every man his neighbour * under the vine o, and i, under the hg-tree. m Of building my Temple, when 'tis finiſh'd, and in the Day of re. moving the Sins of my People; literally referring to the returned captive Jews, myſtically to the whole Church in Goſpel-days, when Chriſt the chief corner Stone ſhall have purged away Sin, and eſt. bliſh'd his Church. 7» Invite with Love and Peace, ſuch as become; Neighbours, who are Partakers of the ſame Grace of God, and Blef. ſings of a Redeemer. 0 To feaft or refreſh themſelves under the pleaſing Shadow, and with the ſweet delicious Fruit of the Vine and Fig-tree of both which there were ever greateſt ſtore, and of choj- ceſt raſte, when the People of God, the Jews, did obey, worſhip,and fear the Lord, and long for the Meffiah, and loyed each other.
CHAP. IV.
The golden candleſtick and two olive-trees, ſheweth the ſucceſs of Zerit babel in building the temple : he prayeth for farther explication of this viſion, and obtaineth it, 1—14. >
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Nd the angel that talked with me 2, came again # and waked c me, as a man that is wakened out cf his ſleep,
a Chriſt, who for ſome time had lefr Zechariah, and beſtowed ſome time on new dreffing and cleanſing, and adorning Foſhua the High Prieſt. b This 1s the fourth time of Chriſt's revealing his Mind to this Prophet by Viſion. c Either rouzed him out of a drowfie Fit, and bodily Sleep, or out of an Exſtacy, or Wonder, that ſurprizing [ftir, he was as if aſleep, -or ſhaked him out of a ſluggiſh Negligence to an obſervance of theſe things.
2 And faid unto me, What ſeeſt thou 4? And I faid, | ] have looked e, and behold, a candleſtick f all of golds, | with + a bowl Þþ upon the top of it z, and his feventi lamps thereon, and || ſeven pipes / to the ſeven lamps,"
the Lord Chrift himſelf. p Withdrew not till all this was done. 6 And the angel of the LORD 7 proteſted + unto - Joſhua, ſaying,
g The Lord Chriſt. him ro know,
7 Thus faith the LORD of hoſts s, If thou z7 wilt
[| Or, walk in my ways z, and if thou wilt keep my ||charege x, ordinance- then thou ſhalt alſo judge y my houſe, and ſhalt alſo + Heb. Keep 5 my courts, and I will give thee Þ places to walk walks. among theſe that ſtand by.
s The Father, whoſe WillZhrift reveals to us" # oſhua. u Obey the Preceprs and holy. Commands of rhe Law. x The ſpecial Charge and Office of the High Prieſt, » Be Chief, and Ruler in the Tem- ple, aad in the rhings that pertain to the Worſhip of God there. 7 Not as a Door-keeper or Servant, but as the Chief,on whom others may wait, and give Attendance, and at laſt ſhalt have place among
* Pl. 71. 7. glorious Angels, Heb. 12, 22,
If1.2.i% + Hear now «, O Joſhua the high prieſt, thou-and 1429 thy teliows b rhar fit c before thee : for they are * men * {f1. 22.4, © Wondred at d: for behold, I ewill bring forth f * my * 52.123. ſervant the * BRANCH p... |
| a Hitherto thou haſt been entertained with Emblems and Hiero- 2.6. 12, glyphicks; but now, O Joſhua, kear what theſe mean. b The other uke 1, 72, Vriefts, thy Aflociates 1m the Prieſtly Office, tho' inferiour to thee.
r Solemnly declared, and averred it, gaye