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will be wicked Workers. þ Dried arid caſt into the Oven, conſumed | þ Though the Spirit of Propheey ceaſe for 400 Years, yet at the as ſoon as caſt in. 7 Of which aiready, ch. 3. 15. and this ver. let.c. expiring of thofe Years, you ſhall have one ſent, as great as Eltjah & Totally and ſpeedily conſume them. 1 Added to confirm the} and thereforehe is now called Elijah, that ſhall prepare Meſſia's Wav.
certainty of the thing 3 the Lord of Hoſts bach ſaid it ſhall be, and he can do what he faith he will. m la alluſion to the utter extirpation of Trees tor the fire, whoſe Branches lopt off, the Body clett, and the Roots ft>ck'd up, ard all caſt into the fire; ſo that nothing
7 Nt the fame in Perſon, who reproved idolatrous Iſrael, who de- ſtroved Baal, though both Jews and many Chriſtians would gladly have it ſo, in favour of ſome Errors they have adopred and would maintain : Buf this Perſon here called Elijah, was John Baptiſt, as 1s
remains but the Aſhes, into which al: 15 turned ; and this was fully | cjear from Mat. 17. 9, to 13. Elias is come, and they have done to him, accompliſhed upon rhe irreligious Zews when the Romans burnt their | wharſhever they lifted: Ver. 12. Then underſtood the Diſciples that h2 ſpate City aud Temple, and deftroyed the People. of John the Baptiſt. And he was that Elias if they would receive hum,
+ Mat. 11.10, 11, 12, 13. Elias was to come wheii Malachi lived 2 q Bur unto you that fear _F Name 7 ſhall the Elias was come, and the Jews had ill treated him, a::d #04 had
14 fun o of righteouſneſs p ,arite with healing in his] beheaded him, when Chirft here lived: This Elfas then was Fon 19 wings 9 ; and ye 1hall go forth 7, and grow up s as calves | the Baptiſt,who came in the Spirit and Power of Elijah, Lukc 1; 17. $2. Cf the fall 7. and therefore bears his name in this Prophecy. k& Who foretold | n So ch. 3- 16. are they deſcribed to us who were written in the Chrift rhe true Meſſiah's ſudden Manifeſtarion ; who indeed was al-
Book of Remembrance, who loved the Law of their God,and kept. it; | 1<24y among them, bur had nor yet diſcovered himſelf; on whom who believed his Promiſes, and rejoyced in expeRation of the Good he perſwades the Fews to believe, and receive his Pcrion and his promiſed 5 who believed his Threats, aud trembled at them, that | Law, Luke 1. 15, 16, 17. and Mark I. 7, 8. who was nga chan a they might reſt in the Day of Trouble, as Hab. 3. 16. who walked | Prophet, Mar. 11.9. nor doth ohn's denying himfelt ro be a | rophct, humbly with their God. o Chriſt,whois, Zuke 1. 78. the Day-ſpring Fobn 1,21. in their ſeile contradiet this. / That 1s immediately from on high : Or, as moſt elegantly deſcribed Iz. 60. 1, 2,3. who is | 2<forez ſo he was born fix Months betore Chriſt, and began his very fitly compared to the Sun, Foutitain of Light, and vital Hear to | Preaching but 2 while betore Chrilt began to exerciſe his publick his Church 3 heenlightens and enlivens everyone, 7oh.1.4,5. p And | Office. m This Day was grear indeed, yet tis not the Day of the of Mercy and Benignity; for the Heb.word imports both, and neither | ft and great Judgment,though the Fews perverſly affirm ir to eyade may be here exguded : His Juſtice is ſeen in executions of Judgment | *"© acknowledgmentot Meſſab's being already come: But this Day of on the Proud and Wicked, who are conſumed in the Fire of his Meſſiah was great tor the Alrerations he was to make in Worſhip,and Wrath, and his Righteouſneſs and Mercy are ſeen in the Preſeryati- Church-Afffairs, taking down the Moſatc Ceremonies, and enlarging onand Remuneration of thoſe thar fear the Lord ; ſo greatly diffe- | *Þ< Church 3 great for the Miracles he wrought, and empowered rent ſhall this time be, to the Wicked and the Godly : To theſe a | ®*Þ<r5 t9 doz great for the Reconciliation between God aud Man, for Day of benign Light and kindly Influences through the Mercy of the conguering of Sztan, and caſting him out ot his Throne : It was God, to the Wicked a Day of DeſtruRtion and utter Extirpatior. | $"<" 99 againſt the Fews his obſtinate Enemies. n It was a time of 9 His Beams ard Rays ſhall bring Health and Strength, with Delight Vengeance, exccuted upon a People whole Sins were full ripe; and and Joy, Safety and Security : It may be ( as ſome have obſerved ſuch Sufferings fell on the Fews ar that time, as may very well be an from the word) an ivtimation of the healing Virtue that from Chriſt | £9blem of the Day of Judgment, and which may be remotely meanr went forth to ſuch as in Faith touch'd the Hem of his Garment, Mat. | M<r<Þy * But the firft, literal and plain meaning of the words refer 5.20, 21, and is as effeRual for the healing of Soul-Maladies and 1u- | *9 he times of Vengeance upon the Fews from cither the Birth, or rmities, as of Bodily Diſeaſes. r Go out of harms way, out of Fe- firft Preaching, or Death of Chriſt to the final defolation of the Ciry Tuſalem, before the fatai Siege, obeying the Call from Heaven, Go and Temple, aud irrecoverdble Overthrow of their Government, of hence to Pella, and that of Curiſt, Hat. 24. 15, 16. s In Strength, | Wc! Chriſt ſpeaks at Jarge, Mat. 24. I. & Mark 13. to 32 ver. QC. Vigour, and Spiritual Starure. # Where they are ſafe guarded,and which Places point our firſt the ſad and diſmal Milerics ot the fews, well ordered : So will the Lord keep fate, and luok well to his pre- | 294 next by accommodation, the End of the World and lait Judge ſerved Ones when the Wicked are deftroved: ment: Such a Deſcription of rhis Day, 792! 2. 3r. by St. Peter inter- ) : _ [vretedand applicd to this Day of Chriſt, 4s 2. 20. more tully elears