29 Forl fay unto you, Ye ſhall not ſee me hence- forth, till ye thall ſay, * Bleſſed zs he that cometh * in the name of the Lord. :
We have the ſame, Luk. 13. 33,34. {[ 0 Feruſalem ! Jeruſa- lem !) The doubling of the word, thewerh the Vehemency of our Saviour's Affettion. { Thou that kille$ the Prophets, and ſtones them which are fent unto thee. } Thou haſt killed, and abuſed, and arr yer going on to do the like, not taking norice of the Ven- geance of God upon thee before for this very Sin, 2 Chron, 36. 16,17. Nehem. 9.25. | How often would T have gathered thee 2 | Giving thee all External Means proper to have retormed thee, and reconcile thee to God. | As an Hen gathereth her Chickens un- der her Wings: ] Which if thou hadft accepted, and imbraced, the Chickens are not fafer under the Wings of the Hen from the danger of a Kite, than thou wouldſt have been from Enemies.
But thou would$} not.) Inſtead of hearkening ro my Prophets, thou killedft them, and didft ſtone rhoſe ſent unto thee ; and to didſt voluntarily reje& Me, and all my Offers, and Tenders of Grace, Mercy, and Prote#ion, through the meer Obſtinacy of chy perverſe Will. l Bend your Houſe is left unto you deſolate.) Both the Temple, in which you place fuch a Confidence, and your own dwelling Houſes ſhall be deſtroyed, burnt and razed down, or ar leaſt left wichour you as Inhabitants, { For T ſay unto you, vou ſhall not ſee me henceforth, till you ſhall ſay, Bleſſed is he that comes in the Name of the Lord, | T will appear no more to you as a pub- ck Preacher after two or three days, for ever; and you, that the other day fo envied the People's Acclamarions to me, Ble/- ſed #s he that cometh in the Name of the Lord, ſhall be glad your ſelves to ſee one of the Days of the Sin of Man, and lhall ſay the fame thing, Bleſſed #s he, 8c. For whereas ſome interprer the term Till, &c. of the Day ot Judgment, or the Time when the Fews ſhall be Converced, I take chem to be ſtrained In- rerpretations, Till here certainly 1s to be interprered, as P/al. r1o. 1. and Matth. 1. 25, and this comporterh with the Hi- ſtory ; for after this time , our Saviour appeared in the Temp!s publickly no more. For the Diſputes raifed from ver. 37. abour God's ſecret Will , whether he ſerjoutly Willed che Su/vatim of the Jews, &c. I take the Afrrmative Part to have no Founda- rion in this Text; for Would T, is plainly enough here interpre- red by the foregoing Word , Sending them Prophets, and other Miniſters to pertwade them to Repentance, and Reconciliation with God : As the uſe of Means proper to an End, appear to us In- dications of the Will of him that uſech chem.
CHAF. XX
Feſus foretelling the DeſtruFion of the Temple, ſheweth what and h1w great Calamities ſhall precede it, 1 —28. The Sign of his Coming 19 Fudgment, 29—35. 'TheDay and Hour unknown + Therefore he exhorteth to watch, and to be ready, 35—44. Like a faithful and prudent Servant, in all readineſs expecting his Maſter's Coming, 45—51. :
I N D Teſus went our, and departed from the temple, and his diſciples came 79 him tor to ſhew him the buildings of the temple.
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thrown down. | RL bas Mark faith, chap: 14. x; 23. One of his Diſciples. Luke laith, Some, rs 21, $, T6 faich, The Diſciple ſaid , Maſter, what #n.nner of Stanes, and Buildings are here * Luke faith, They ſpake how the Temple was adorned with divers Stones and Gifts. All =_ Evangeliſts agree in the Subſtance of our Saviour sReply. Chr1 had now done his Work in the Temple where he never came more, and was going towards the Mount of Olives, where we fhall find him in rhe next Verſe : His Diſciples, eirher one of chem or more, probably one in the preſence of the reſt, eicher — (conſidering the Struftufe of the Temple) whether 1t = - E deſtroyed, .or ar leaſt rhinking ir pity char ſo tamous 2 vtru _ ſhould come. ro Ruin, come to him, admiring the re Buildings. Moſt think this was the Temple builded by Zorobabe almoſt fix hundred years before, though 1t received great Additions by Herod, (for we have no Record, that that Temple was ever deſtroyed.) Incredible Stories are related abour the —_ ſions of che Stones, and the Ornaments of it. Our Saviour ” unto them, | Verily T ſay unto you, there ſhall not be one Stone Zh upon another :] Thar is, this brave goodly T: emple ſhall be mm 5 Ruin'd: Nor ( if we may believe other Hiſtories) did thus wo phecy fail as tothe letter of it. Tits the Roman Emperor One Feruſalem about forty years after this, commanded his Sou _ to ſpare the Temple when they entred the City, bur rhey in tne Rage burnt of it what was of a combuſtible nature z and Tur- ms Rufus left General of his Army, when he went away, drew 2 Plow over it, as God had ſaid, Ferem. 26. 18. Micah 3. 12. Zion (hall be plowed like a Field : And when after this , Alip- pius by the Command of Fulian the Apoſtate atrempted the re- building of ir with the help of the Fews; it 15 reported by divers, that Balls or Globes of Fire roſe up from the Foundations, deſtroyed many of the Workmen, and made the place inacceſſi- ble for any further ſuch Atremprs. So juſtly are the Dt- vine Threatnings to be feared, whatever improbability of rhe contrary appeareth ro us. We are very apt to betaken with rhe oliſtering Proſperity of Sinners ; bur we ought to meaſure the Duration of it, from the Revelations of the Divine Will , nor from our own Reaſon or Fancy, to Remember the Temple of Feruſa- 1m. There are no places ſo ſtrong, bur an Almighty God is able to deſtroy, and Sin is enough to blow up. We may alſo obſerve how little God values Splendid Houſes of Prayer, when they are made Dens of Thieves,
\ 3 And as he fate upon the mount of Olives, the diſciples came unto him privately, ſaying , Tell us when {hall theſe things be? and what /ha/! be the ſign of thy coming, and of the end of the world ?
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