71 4 ſtrange country, dwelling in tabernacles with d I- 14ac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the ſame pro
mile. c By the ſame Divine Faith. he paſſed from Tent to Tent, moving
it from Place to _—_ as God ordercd ; ſo as he rather fojourned than dwelt in any. His Journal 1s Icgible in Mojes's Hiſtory, moving from Charran to Shechem, from thence to Beth-el, and then more Southward, and thence to Egypt; See Gen. Chap. 12. ſo that he ſojourn- ed in Canaan, and the adjoyning Countries, which God had Cove- nanted to give for an Inheritance to him and his Secd, Cen. 15. 18,
to 21,yct by Faith he would ſtay God's time for it, but lived in it as a Stranger, not havinz in Poflefſion one Foot of Ground, but- what he bouzht for a Buryinz- place,Gen. 25.9,10. Ads 7.5. d Here h ie with his _ Tſaac, and Grandſon, and their Seed, Coheirs with him of C.ima-
, built no Houſes, bur lived 1n Tents, which they might pitch or remove at God's Pleaſure, and as he called them, as who were Strans ers to this Country, and to the Inhabifants of it, and with wor they were to have no ſpiritual Society, as travelling to a better, be- inz in this World, but neither Citizens nor [nhabitants ot it, but as Denizons of a mire excellent one, Gen. 26. 3. and 28. 13, 14.
10 For he looked for ea City which hath toundati- on, * wioſe builder f/ and maker 4s God.
e The reaſon of this contented Pilgrimage was the excellent end of it, the Place, and State ro which it brought him ; he did realy dif- cern by the Spirit's work 1n him, and pronule to him his Title to it, and vehemently did defire and long for, and yet patiently waited for a better Place and State than this earthly ; and was daily making his Approaches tot, Rrm. 8. 19. 2 Cor. 5.1,2, 8,0, Iu notes both a Place niade up and conſtituted of Building and Houſes, ſuch was the earthly Feruſalem; and a State, Politv, or Community. Here it muſt be underſtood ſpiritually for ſuch a Place and State as is not to be ſhadowed out by any mn this World; it being for Nature, Manſion, Society, Conditicn, ſuch as no earthly one can decipher, or ſet out. Th City is #leaven it felt, often ſo tiled in this Epiſtle, as verſe 15. chap. 12.22, and 13. 14 'Rev. 3. 12, It 1s not movea- ble, as a Tent taſtned by Stakes and Cords, nor as ; Creature- buildings, periſhable. Hiſtories tell us of the riſe and fall of the beſt earthly Ci- ties ; this City is built on the Rock of Ages, as well as by him, whoſe Immutability, Almightinets, and Eternity hath laid and ſetled its Foundations, the Bats and ground-Work firm and incorruptibie, x Pet. 1. 4 The happy Fabrick with Perſons and State endures for ever. f Becauſe of its Raiſer and Founder. The great Archite#, that caſt the Plot and Model of it in his own Mind, and the publick- ly declared Operator and Riifer of it, wholaid the Found-ti ons, reared the Manfions, and fnithed the whole, 1s no lefs Perſon than the Infi- nitely wiſe, Almi2hty and Eternal God. It a!l became him alone, and dof as fir exceed other Citics, as God foth Men. No Hu-
man Art or Power was fit or capable of ſuch a Work but only
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1 $ \W - I} x Cn %F - Js Lick [$/ EC I © =o 'crth the Child of Fromiſc. For tloag't tlie lnſtance 52 Fans fy in Pry page _ ot Abrabu ON OY GiU!DNCNT tor r 1115 ther of Bel, Gas 5» aCQU! rec ae CO TIICO) 1”, EVEN O! the t | C:ICVETS, As the Apt ſtic dec [Ta rei, atm, 4 *; fo Z ae Al: _ joyntly to be conſidered with Sur, mA; the, wil firit throus!? n! ns! Jau: -ht a at th! IC Promile, 1 ot bin r.nroyed BY £ 4 F. T2 " Angel, of the Covenant, for it, belizved. on the F: P-HION Of It, Gen. 18. 5, to 16. and KAVC Teſitronv cf it Ly ner Waiting For the promiſed Merc 'Y. AS Bren as to Wis. wet K ir mide nie fruies when 1t was impoſſile of her fel!” to exnott it for Nature G04 | Years, \et received ſhe Power and Strerz=th ff: Gd by believiin2, CONcetve Seed, tit iS, Laying the FH vndat a, of 27 CO)j 1 c1vii1” 16 Þ | dead Womb, and be arin: 2 Jn h Size * 3 ao one nuturgh | Dirrcn, but of xt Tears 0f Ave, af this time, whan the < mot 'riitfhl were paſt ſuch work ; vet was fhe dolino od £1 Son, and c1:;n8 the Mother of Tj.:ac by b :tit, is he was. ti 6 g-05 Prey; Gen. 15. 4. and 18. 1t. compare Row. 1; 17, 19 1h. 4 Sh | Givry to God by a fem and hearty Cloſure with $1 Promie, p.7 « in:G 7 faithful ty [13s _ and abie to-prriorm 17, and fo roitct « it, ond waited for him, as 4G aham dig RI. 4. by Promite which he madc, was \That thev 1 t9.45 1! = Gen.l 2.2. made it) SEnera!, Chap. 3-15. 1:5. th pt ; 4:5. to both, Ch.c2.17. 15, 15.17, Clap, i2, 10. 2. n+. : I2. 12 Therefore # PEO there oven ofuna, 2.) . | as goud as dead, * {© many us the itn: I mulzicude, and as the ſand which is &7 th.c40 mnunerable, þ Becauſe of this Faith of Abraham and Surah, and the Fruit of it in concciving and brin-in> forth I, Le, Was tatd the Foun Q ion of numerous Seed by God's Promiſe, from Abraham, an hunioed, ai Sarzh nincty years old, and Barren, and both dead as to Fr Rom. 4. 19, there were begotten a vat and uyboundel Int 5-30 Stars inthe tirmamen”, or the Sand cn the Sex. ſhore ; ana amon "1 them the teeming Bleffin.z, the one emmnient 3d of Alratam, if Heftzh, in whom all Nations were to be vlefled, W a 4059 Year: rom tie Birth of Tjuuc, th I <d 1ncreafs d to above Socces fi eITHAG Men, bulides Worm EN 27 d £ Children, in1 aitcs iacrcalid to; 4 frupoti- dous greatneſs #accordinz to, the Promile, Gen. 13. 16. aid 15. 5, Ex14, #2 37. © Chron. 21. 5, 5. PO. 13 Thele all /die: 7 in faith, not having received ',2! = 7 the proiwiles, bur having fern them atir of, and jc jro, end aa ons I -& 2] MES AS 7 - WES ven operiwaded of 1h-;z; 2nd tmvoraced 7h nd fGen.y7.5 * confelicd p that they wer2 {irangers ant pilgrims on 2 E209. «5. un Cal th. io,
[ All theſe, Abraham, Sar 1, Tſaar, and fFeco), 3c. who w "OY Heirs of the ſame promiſes, and who had orortunity to -eturn to { FREEER ſame Country from which they came forth, as wo ns. Ti h not only live according to Faith, walkin with, wont waiting on God, teftifyin: r a&a1m{t Str, md dying accyding to Futth j Evichy, »sthe infirm . mn Faith, as the regu! ain 5 Cmiſo of it ;