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<P>THE NEW JERUSALEM: THE PERFECTION OF BEAUTY: The joy of the whole earth.</P>
<P><HI>DESCRIBED</HI> In the Booke of the REVELATION; <HI>ILL&V;STRATED</HI> In &s;undry Points, according to the Spirituall &s;en&s;e; That devout minds may receive increa&s;e of light and con&s;olation.</P>
<P>IN A SERMON <HI>COMPOSED</HI> For the Learned Society of <HI>A&s;trologers,</HI> At their generall Meeting, <HI>Aug.</HI> 14. <HI>Anno</HI> 1651.</P>
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<L>Glorious things are &s;poken of thee, O Citie of God.</L>
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<L><HI>Dieu Rudimentis Linguae Per&s;icae:</HI></L>
<L>Arcana Dei declarare, res quaedam e&s;t laudabilis.</L>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>J.G.</HI> for <HI>Nath: Brooks,</HI> at the Angel in <HI>Cornhill. MDCLII.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>To the Learned Society of Arti&s;ts, or Students in <HI>A&s;trologie.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT may &s;eeme unto &s;ome unproper, that this Me|ditation concerning the New <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> being the highe&s;t matter in Chri&s;tian Divinity, is de|dicated unto you, again&s;t who&s;e Profe&s;&s;ion &s;ome Divines have inveighed. But if what followeth, be duly con&s;idered, it may appeare otherwi&s;e. <HI>Wigelius</HI> in that his excellent Treati&s;e of <HI>A&s;trologie Theologized,</HI> &s;aith: <HI>A&s;trologie is Philo&s;ophy it &s;elfe, or it is the whole light of Nature, from whence ari&s;eth the univer&s;all Naturall wi&s;dom, or a &s;olid, &s;incere, and exqui&s;ite knowledge of Na|turall things: which light of Nature is twofold, externall and internall: Externall in the Macroco&s;me, internall in the Microco&s;me.</HI> True A&s;trologie therefore being &s;o noble a Science, the Sincere Profe&s;&s;ors and Students thereof are worthy of much honour. And whereas it is objected, That it is an Art to be rejected, becau&s;e vanities are crept thereinto, may not by the &s;ame rea&s;on the Studie of &s;a|cred Theologie bee omitted, &s;eeing that not a few errours
<PB REF="3"> have entred into Bookes of the &s;ame? The holy Prophet <HI>David</HI> &s;aith: The workes of the Lord are great, &s;ought out of all them, that have plea&s;ure thererin. His worke is honourable and glorious: and his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e en|dureth for ever. He hath made His wonderfull workes to be remembred. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 111.3, 4.5. Moreover the God of heaven hath vouch&s;afed a &s;peciall re&s;pect unto the well-minded Students in the Starres, in that Hee made &s;ome &s;uch the fir&s;t publi&s;hers of the Birth of His Son the Lord <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> Of whom S. <HI>Ba&s;il</HI> writing on the Nativity of Chri&s;t, among other things delivereth, that they <GAP DESC="foreign">, were addicted to the ob|&s;erving of Sublime things (matters in the Heaven.) And &s;o <HI>Mun&s;ter</HI> te&s;tifieth likewi&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Edition S. <HI>Matthew</HI> Hebrew.</NOTE> where he writeth: <HI>Hi ma|gi nostri fuerunt praecipui &s;iderum contemplatores, quorum Dominus mi&s;ertus novam condidit &s;tellam, quae ip&s;os ad Chri&s;tum perduceret.</HI> Now as yee are conver&s;ant in con&s;i|dering the mi&s;terie of the Starres, for to under&s;tand what the Eternall God (ble&s;&s;ed for ever) &s;ignifieth and worketh in and by them, that yee may make the right u&s;e thereof unto the wellfare of Mankinde; &s;o are you to have in due con&s;ideration the chiefe of all Starres, the Spirituall Star, whereof the holy Go&s;pel maketh mention, the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uk. 1.78, 79.</NOTE> <HI>Day-&s;pring</HI> from on high, which hath vi&s;ited us, to give light unto them that &s;it in darkne&s;&s;e, and in the &s;hadow of death, and to guide our feete into the way of peace: the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Pet. 1.19.</NOTE> <HI>Day-&s;tarre</HI> which ari&s;eth within our hearts: the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">v. 2.26, 28.</NOTE> <HI>Morning-&s;tarre,</HI> which is given to the overcomers, which keepe <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> workes unto the end, the which is the Lord <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> according to His eternall Divine Nature. Unto the knowledge of who&s;e<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Tim. 3.16.</NOTE> great my&s;terie, this pre&s;ent Medi|tation (how meane &s;oever) may be further&s;ome unto you.
<PB REF="3"> The Coun&s;ell given in the booke of <HI>Iob</HI> is con&s;iderable hereunto and ever memorable, namely,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 22.21, 22 See the marg. 2 <HI>John</HI> 7. &s;igni|fieth, we &s;hould minde Chri&s;ts Spirituall com|ming into us. So the <HI>Greeke</HI> Text intima|teth. And no|tice is taken by <HI>Occumenius,</HI> that whereas <GAP DESC="foreign"> is of the <HI>pre&s;ent</HI> ten&s;e, therefore more is meant than the fir&s;t comming onely. And that &s;uch as under&s;tand not <HI>Latine,</HI> may have &s;ome knowledge in the <HI>Originall</HI> Greeke, we have &s;et forth in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> an <HI>Intro|duction</HI> much helpfull thereunto.</NOTE> Acquaint now thy &s;elfe with God, and be at peace: thereby good &s;hall come unto thee. Receive, I pray thee, the Law from His mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. Whereas the &s;tudy of true Chri&s;tianity being neglected, ill is ones e&s;tate, although he hath much other Learning: as the A|po&s;tle declareth, &s;aying: though I have the gift of Pro|phecie, and under&s;tand all my&s;teries, and all knowledge, and though I have al faith, &s;o that I could remove Moun|taines, and have not Charity, I am Nothing. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13.2.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>From my Lodging in the</HI> Old-Baily.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Yours to be commanded in what&s;oever God approveth, <HI>E. R.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the unpartiall Reader.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Di&s;cour&s;e on the Spirituall <HI>New Jeru&s;alem,</HI> being a matter above the reach of meere<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 2.14.</NOTE> natural under&s;tanding, will unto &s;ome &s;eeme a<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Act. 17.18, 19, 20.</NOTE> &s;trange doctrine, like as did the preaching of <HI>JESUS</HI> &amp; the Re&s;urrection, unto certaine Philo&s;ophers at <HI>Athens.</HI> Unto &s;ome others fearing God it will &s;eeme marvellous, for that they have not<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Acts 19.2. M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t. 4.16. Joh. 3.4, 5, 7, 9, 10.</NOTE> heard of any &s;uch thing to be attained in this life. And therefore it is nece&s;&s;ary to demon&s;trate out of the holy Scriptures, That there is &s;uch a Spirituall Being now en|joyable. It is &s;aid in<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 60.1, 2. Eph. 5.14.</NOTE> <HI>I&s;aiah,</HI> Ari&s;e, be enlightned, for thy light commeth, and the glory of the Lord is ri&s;en upon thee. For behold, the darkne&s;&s;e &s;hall cover the earth, and gro&s;&s;e darkne&s;&s;e the people, but the Lord &s;hall ari&s;e upon thee, and His glory &s;hall be &s;eene upon thee. <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> &s;aid unto His Di&s;|ciples,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Joh. 14 16, 17, 18.</NOTE> The Spirit of truth the world cannot receive, becau&s;e it &s;eeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him, for he dwelleth with you, and &s;hall be in you. Now the true peo|ple of God will like the noble<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Act. 17.11. 1 Joh. 4.1. 1 The&s;. 5.20, 21.</NOTE> <HI>Bereans,</HI> receive the Word with all readine&s;&s;e of mind, and &s;earch the Scriptures daily, whether what is publi&s;hed, be according unto them, or no. It was &s;aid to the Church of<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Rev 3.12.</NOTE> <HI>Philadelphia,</HI> I will write upon the Overcommer, the name of the Citie of my God, which is the new <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> which commeth downe out of heaven from my God, Whence it is manife&s;t, that at that time &s;uch a Citie was inheritable. To the<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l 4.25, 26. <GAP DESC="foreign"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>of the Duall number, noting</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">wo Jeru&s;a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ems.</NOTE> <HI>Galatians</HI> the Apo&s;tle menti|oneth two <HI>Jeru&s;alems,</HI> and &s;aith, But <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> which is a|bove,
<PB REF="4"> is free, which is the mother of us all. It is<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Heb 12.22.</NOTE> expre&s;ly &s;ig|nified, that &s;ome of the <HI>Hebrewes</HI> unto whom S. <HI>Paul</HI> wrote, were then come unto the heavenly <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI> And what the &s;aid City is, it is not unworthy of con&s;ideration, what is de|livered in<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">E&s;d. 8.52, 53, 54.</NOTE> <HI>E&s;dras,</HI> where it is &s;aid, Unto you is Paradi&s;e opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come is prepa|red, plenteou&s;ne&s;&s;e is made ready, a city is builded, and re&s;t is allowed, yea perfect goodne&s;se and wi&s;dome, &amp;c. and in the end are &s;hewed the trea&s;ures of immortality. In the which<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;d. 2.10. Melchi&s;edech <HI>had it in him my&s;tically,</HI> Heb. 7.2. P&s;al. 76.2.</NOTE> Booke <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t is written, I will give my people the kingdome of <HI>Jeru&s;a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">em.</HI> The which appeareth to be the kingdome &s;o often promi|&s;ed el&s;ewhere, which S. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aith is<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Rom. 14.17.</NOTE> righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> is ob&s;erved to &s;ig|nifie the Vi&s;ion of Peace or Per|fection.</NOTE> peace, and joy in the holy Gho&s;t. Whereof <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Luke 17.20.</NOTE> Beheld, the kingdome of God is within you. The which is affirmed by<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al. 145.13.</HI> See in the marg.</NOTE> <HI>David,</HI> to be in every age, and throughout all generations. The &s;pirituall <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> is the city, which the Patriarks in&s;i&s;ted on,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11.</NOTE> who&s;e builder and maker is God. The Apo&s;tle calleth it an<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Ver. 16.</NOTE> heavenly one. Whereas by <HI>Jeremiah</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t is &s;aid,<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Jer. 33.16.</NOTE> <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> &s;hall dwell &s;afely, and this is the name wherewith &s;he &s;hall be called, <HI>The Lord our Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e;</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the &s;aid name<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Jer. 23.5, 6.</NOTE> el&s;ewhere is a name of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> it giveth to be con&s;idered, That the new <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> in the my&s;terie there|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f is the Lord <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> according to His eternall Divine Nature, in the greate&s;t<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 1.13.</NOTE> revelation of Him in this pre&s;ent world. The which may al&s;o appeare, that after the Cities de|&s;cription, the &s;pirituall<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Rev. 22.6, 7, 10, 12, 17, 20.</NOTE> comming of Chri&s;t is &s;o mentioned and de&s;ired, as if it were expre&s;&s;ed, If thou <HI>Lord Je&s;us</HI> do&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ome &s;piritually into us, we have then within us the glorious City de&s;cribed unto us. For the Apo&s;tle &s;aith,<NOTE N="w" PLACE="marg">Col. 3.11. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> <HI>Chri&s;t is The All things in all.</HI> Moreover, whereas the new <HI>Jeru&s;a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">em</HI> is &s;et among the<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Rev. 3.12. &amp; Rev. 21. &amp; Rev. 22.</NOTE> la&s;t Ble&s;sings, which God vouch&s;afeth in this life, and the Scripture a&s;cribeth the la&s;t Divine ope|rations to be from the holy<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Act. 2.17. Joh. 16.7, 8.13.14.15.</NOTE> Gho&s;t, therefore this new <HI>Jeru|&s;alem</HI>
<PB REF="5"> in the Spirituall &s;en&s;e thereof, is ob&s;erved to bee al&s;o that which is called the holy Gho&s;t, it being con&s;idered in the ample&s;t mea&s;ure thereof vouch&s;afed now unto the Saints. And that Really &s;uch<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.15, 16 2 Cor. 1.21, 22 Gal. 4 6. Eph. 1.13, 14. I&s;a. 32.15. Ezech. 39.29. Rom. 55.</NOTE> Spirit doth in Gods appoynted time come into the Spirit of his &s;ervants, very many Scripture: expre&s;ly testifie. So that it is manife&s;t, that the Spirituall new <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> is now attaineable through the grace of Al|mighty God. But whereas faith and hope are to be grounded upon the Word of God, therefore &s;ome Texts are to be men|tioned, testifying of a Reall Spirituall Being, that entreth into obedient Soules.<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rev. 3.20.</NOTE> Behold, &s;aith Christ, I stand at the doore and knocke: if any man heare my voice, and open the doore I will come in to him, and will &s;up with him, and he with mee. If any man love mee, he will keepe my words; and my Father will love him, and We will<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Joh. 14.23.</NOTE> come unto him, and make our abode with him. Hee al&s;o &s;aith:<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e 21.</NOTE> I will ma|nife&s;t my &s;elfe unto him. It is often in the Go&s;pell, that God the Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost, is now<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4 6. Colo&s;. 1 27. 2 Cor. 13.5. 1 Cor. 3.16. &amp; 6.19.</NOTE> in his Saints here on earth. It &s;tandeth written in the Margent of <HI>P&s;al. 68.18. Heb. in the Man.</HI> From whence (as from other Scriptures) we may perceive,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">And in ver. 20. it is in the <HI>vulgar Latine, Portate Deuus in corpore ve&s;tro,</HI> Beare God in your body.</NOTE> that if wee would know Chri&s;t &s;o farre forth as we ought, we are not to re&s;t in the bare knowledge of the &s;acred<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 5 16. Joh. 16.7.</NOTE> history of Him deli|vered by the Prophets, Evangeli&s;ts and Apo&s;tles, but as Saint <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aith, To know him, and the<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Phil. 3.10.11. 2 Tim. 2.11, 12 1 Pet. 3.21. &amp; 4.1. Rom. 8 17.</NOTE> power of his re|&s;urrection, and the fellow&s;hip of his Sufferings, being made conformable unto his death, if by any meanes we may attaine unto the re&s;urrection of the dead. We are to con&s;ider, how <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> is now<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Gal. 1.16, 24</NOTE> within us, and how Hee<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Eph. 2.6.</NOTE> may be in us, ac|cording as his Go&s;pell teacheth. And as the Apo&s;tle pre&s;cri|beth,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 3.18.</NOTE> that we all with open face, as in the gla&s;&s;e beholding the glory of the Lord, bee changed into the &s;ame Image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. It is
<PB REF="5"> true Chri&s;tianity zealou&s;ly to con&s;ider, what Chri&s;t<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Micah 6.8. Joh. 3.3.5.</NOTE> requireth of us. His<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Prov. 8.31.</NOTE> delight is to be with the Children of men, to live,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 6.16. Gal. 2.20.</NOTE> dwell, and walke in us,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2.5. Heb. 3.6.</NOTE> That wee be now His hou&s;e,<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Eph. 2.21, 22</NOTE> Tem|ple,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Song 6.2.</NOTE> Garden, That he may<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Luke 19.27.</NOTE> now admini&s;ter His Kingdom written us, that wee<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37 4.</NOTE> delight our &s;elves in the Lord, and attaine to<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 58.14.</NOTE> ride upon the high places of the Earth, and be fed with the heritage of <HI>Jacob</HI> our Father, to<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Rev. 2.17.</NOTE> eate of his hid|den <HI>Manna,</HI> and to have the new name, which no man know|eth, &s;aving hee that receiveth it: and to have<NOTE N="v" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 1.2, 3, 4</NOTE> fellow&s;hip with the <HI>Father,</HI> and with his Sonne <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> that our joy may be full. And therefore the Apo&s;tle prayed for the <HI>E|phe&s;ians,</HI> that the eyes of their understanding being en|lightned, they might know what is the hope of His calling, and what the<NOTE N="w" PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 1.16, 17, 18.</NOTE> riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints is:<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 3.19.</NOTE> and to know the love of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> which pa&s;&s;eth knowledge, that they might be filled with all the fulne&s;&s;e of God. To conclude, it appeareth to be no matter of indiffe|rence, whether we minde the new <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> or no.<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Rev. 22.15. and 21.8.</NOTE> The Revelation declareth the ill Spirituall e&s;tate of &s;uch, as ei|ther have it not within them, or are not preparing thereun|to. Yea, the<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.14.9.13. Jer. 4.3, 4. Ezech. 18.31, 32 Rev. 3.16. Prov. 4.18, 19. 2 The&s;. 1.8.10 Heb. 6.7, 8. Heb. 12.14.</NOTE> word of the Lord, even in every booke of the &s;ame, witne&s;&s;eth again&s;t all which are not endeavouring un|to the &s;ame effect. Wherefore let us &s;trive to he minded like<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Acts 13.22.</NOTE> <HI>David,</HI> &s;aid to be a man after Gods own heart, which &s;hall fulfill all his will, who profe&s;&s;ed:<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 137.5, 6.</NOTE> If I forget thee, &amp; <HI>Jeru|&s;alem,</HI> let my right hand forget her cunning. If I doe not re|member thee, let my tongue cleave to the roofe of my mouth, if I prefer not <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> above my chiefe joy:<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 66.11.13</NOTE> That we may &s;ucke and be &s;atisfied with the brea&s;ts of her con&s;olati|ons: that we may milke out, and be delighted with the a|bundance of her glory. And &s;o be comforted in <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI> For<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 62.1.</NOTE> <HI>Zions</HI> &s;ake let us not hold our peace, and for <HI>Jeru&s;a|lems</HI> &s;ake let us not re&s;t, untill the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e thereof go
<PB REF="6"> forth as brightne&s;&s;e, and the &s;alvation thereof as a lampe that burneth. Ye that make<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 62.6, 7,</NOTE> mention of the Lord (&s;aith the Prophet) keepe not &s;ilence: and give him no re&s;t, till he e&s;ta|bli&s;h, and till he make <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> a prai&s;e in the earth. The P&s;almi&s;t writeth:<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 28.1, 5.</NOTE> Ble&s;&s;ed is every one that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his wayes. The Lord &s;hall ble&s;&s;e thee out of Sion: and thou &s;halt &s;ee the<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">The <HI>Ara|bicke</HI> Text is <GAP DESC="foreign"> good things. So the <HI>Greeke</HI> is <GAP DESC="foreign">, and the Vulgar Latine hath it <HI>bona.</HI></NOTE> good of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> all the dayes of thy life. Materiall or earthly <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> hath bin brought into de&s;olation, but &s;pirituall <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> endu|reth for ever. And therefore <HI>David</HI> chiefly intended the in|ward, in &s;undry mentionings of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> whereof the out|ward was &s;ometimes a figure or &s;hadow. And whereas<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Zeph 3.9. Zech. 14.9. 1 Cor. 1.10. Eph. 4.1, 2, 3, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> U|nity in the godly truth eternall, in that which all true Chri&s;tian mindes do wi&s;h for to encrea&s;e among mankinde, the one onely way unto the &s;aid &s;pirituall concord is by recei|ving into us more and more the new <HI>Jeru&s;alem:</HI> for it is builded as a City, that is<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 122.3.</NOTE> compact together in it &s;elfe, or that is at<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">So readeth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he ancient Tran&s;lation.</NOTE> unity in it &s;elfe, as &s;aith the holy Prophet. They which partaked thereof were of<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Acts 4.32.</NOTE> one heart and of one &s;oule. Such could &s;ay,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 12.18</NOTE> Walked we not in the &s;ame &s;pirit? Walked we not in the &s;ame &s;teps?<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The godly Song &s;et afore the beginning of the P&s;alm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s in metre called <HI>Veni Creator,</HI> expre&s;&s;eth much the &s;piri|tuall <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI></NOTE> Now &s;undry of the good things of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> which are Really enjoyed in this life, unto the un&s;peakeable comfort of holy and righteous mindes, this en&s;uing Treati&s;e declareth out of the word of the Lord; the which ble&s;sings and benefits be imparted and multiplied un|to every devout one through <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> Amen.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Edmund Reeve, <HI>Bachelor in Divinity, and In&s;truct|er in all the Tongues pertaining thereunto.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE NEVV JERUSALEM. Illu&s;trated in &s;undry points, according to the Spirituall &s;en&s;e, &amp;c.</HEAD>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>REV. 21.2.</HI></BIBL>
<P>And I Iohn &s;aw the holy citie, new Ieru&s;alem, comming downe from God out of heaven, prepared as a Bride ador|ned for her husband.</P></Q>
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<P>_AFore entrance be into the Interpretation of the Text,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>As</HI> Augu&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>See</HI> Polani S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tag. Theol. li <HI>7.</HI> cap. <HI>6.</HI></NOTE> it is not impertinent to mention in briefe &s;ome of the different under&s;tandings of S. <HI>Johns</HI> De&s;cription of the New <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI> It hath been conceived by many, that it is wholly concerning the &s;tate of the Ble&s;&s;ed, departed out of the body. And it is true, that much of their ble&s;&s;edne&s;&s;e is therein &s;ignified. There are of Antiquity, which have under&s;tood &s;ome deliveries thereof, to be concerning <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> Church on earth: and it is<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Tyconius, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+mafius, &amp; H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> haec omnia <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hi&s;ce duobus pitibus refe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ad Eccle&s;ia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> terris. Aef<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+us in Apoc.</NOTE> re|lated, that certaine of them referred all things contained in the two la&s;t Chapters of the Revelation, unto the Church here on earth. Some of the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">As Mr. <HI>Brightman,</HI> &s;ome other<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Moderne Writers have expounded the &s;aid De&s;cription, to be concerning the Chri&s;tian Church, when as the Jewes are become one with the &s;ame. But mo&s;t high under&s;tand|ing Authors in my&s;ticall Divinity, deliver that there is a Spirituall &s;en&s;e thereof, on the which at this pre&s;ent it &s;hall be altogether in&s;i&s;ted. And that &s;ome places are &s;o to be under&s;tood, it is expre&s;ly &s;ignified in the <HI>Revelation</HI> it &s;elfe, where it is &s;aid,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Rev. 11. See Eph. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 32.</NOTE> <HI>And their dead bodies &s;hall lie in the &s;treet of the great city,</HI> which <HI>Spiritually</HI> is called <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Egypt,</HI> where al&s;o our Lord was Crucified. All Inter|preters
<PB N="2" REF="7"> a&s;well <HI>Hebrew</HI> as <HI>Greeke</HI> and <HI>Latine,</HI> do acknowledge that many Scriptures have a my&s;ticall &s;en&s;e. And they which teach that every place of Scripture hath a<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sunt qui uni|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cuju&s;que loci <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cripturae Sacrae <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">adruplicem <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;um &s;tatuant, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">c.</HI> Polanus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ntag. Theol. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>1.</HI> cap. <HI>45. On Rev. 21.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Depen|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nce.</HI></NOTE> forefold meaning, <HI>viz. Litterall, Allegoricall, Tropologicall,</HI> and <HI>Anagogicall,</HI> doe by Con&s;e|quence grant, what is here affirmed. Yea Mr. <HI>Brightman</HI> teacheth likewi&s;e. For mentioning <HI>Ezechiels</HI> de&s;cription of the Temple, <HI>^f</HI> &s;aith: <HI>The Prophet &s;heweth us that we are not to sticke in the &s;hell of the lutter, but the kernell of the Spirit is to be &s;earched and called forth.</HI></P>
<P>Now S. <HI>Iohn</HI> having in the Ver&s;e afore the Text, &s;ignified of his &s;eeing of a new heaven and of a new earth, and that the fir&s;t heaven and the fir&s;t earth were pa&s;&s;ed away, and that there was no more &s;ea, delivereth, what was then &s;hewed unto him, namely, the &s;aid mo&s;t glorious Cittie. The con&s;ideration of the which D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pendance may give us to under&s;tand, that if we would apprehend this heavenly My&s;terie, and now partake of the Com|fort therof, we are to endeavour to be, as the Go&s;pell pre&s;cribeth, where it &s;aith,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cor. 5.17.</NOTE> If any man be in Chri&s;t, hee is a new creature: old things are pa&s;t away, behold, all things are become new. That &s;aying in <HI>E&s;dras</HI> is con&s;iderable hereunto, <HI>viz.</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">E&s;d. 10.53, 55.</NOTE> I com|manded thee to goe into the field, where no foundation of any building was. For in the place wherin the Highe&s;t beginneth to &s;hew His city, there can no mans building be able to &s;tand. Hence is it that we are &s;o often put in minde of making a<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ec. 18.31.</NOTE> new heart and a new Spirit; and not to be conformed to this world:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 4.22, 23,</NOTE> but (as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith) to be transformed by the renewing of our minde, that we may proove, what is that good, that acceptable and perfect will of God.</P>
<P>Al&s;o it being added, <HI>and there was no more &s;ea,</HI> it teacheth that if wee would now enjoy the &s;aid heavenly ble&s;&s;ing, then the &s;pirituall &s;ea within mankind, is to cea&s;e in us more and more. The Apo&s;tle &s;aith,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om. 12.2.</NOTE> A meeke and a quiet &s;pirit is a thing before God of great price. <HI>David</HI> &s;aith:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pet. 3.4.</NOTE> The meeke will hee guide in judgement: and the meeke will hee teach his way. <HI>Sirach</HI> &s;aith;<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;al 25.9. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">clus 4.19.</NOTE> Many are in high place, and of renowne: but my&s;teries are revealed unto the meeke.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> King. 19.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">3. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l. 65.1.</NOTE> Al&s;o the Lord is in the &s;till &s;mall Voice. And He is &s;ometimes prai&s;ed with the<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cording to Hebrew, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce is prai&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hee.</HI> See <HI>Dor f on</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">2.5.13.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.28.12.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">83.3.</NOTE> &s;ilence of His &s;ervants, namely, when as the &s;ame is Requi&s;ite or enjoyned unto them.</P>
<P>There are foure things to be con&s;idered in this portion of
<PB N="3" REF="7"> Scriprure. 1. Why it is &s;aid, I <HI>John</HI> &s;aw the holy Cittie, new <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI> 2. Whether it is &s;ignified to come downe from God out of heaven. 3. Sundry particular matters of the &s;aid mo&s;t glorious City. 4. The profit or u&s;e of all the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="1">1. Concerning the words, I <HI>Iohn</HI> &s;aw the holy City, &amp;c. whereas the name <HI>Iohn</HI> is here expre&s;&s;ed, and<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Rev. 22.8. &amp; 1.1.4.9.</NOTE> els where after &s;ome peculiar manner, and the name Signifieth the grace of the Lord, it teacheth, that they are to be Spirituall <HI>Iohns,</HI> gracious Per&s;ons, to whom God will now vouch&s;afe an in&s;ight into the &s;aid &s;pirituall and heavenly<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">See Ezech. 40.2.</NOTE> Frame. Yea this is te&s;tified in the very beginning of this booke, where it is written:<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Rev. 1.1.</NOTE> The Revelation of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> which God gave unto them, to &s;hew unto His &s;ervants things, which mu&s;t &s;hortly come to pa&s;&s;e, and Hee &s;ent and &s;ignified it by his Angel unto His &s;ervant <HI>Iohn.</HI> For none but<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 2.14, 1</NOTE> &s;pirituall <HI>Iohns</HI> are capable of the my&s;teries of the Go&s;pell, as <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> &s;aid unto His obedient Di&s;ciples,<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Mat. 13.11. 1 Cor. 2.14. Refutation.</NOTE> It is given unto you to know the My&s;teries of the kingdom, but not unto others. And this point is confirmed by many Scriptures, as <HI>Mat.</HI> 11.25, 26, 27. <HI>Dan.</HI> 12.10. and 9.13. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 25.12.14. and 1 <HI>Joh.</HI> 4.7.8. &amp;c.</P>
<P>The u&s;e whereof is fir&s;t for Refutation, to declare that they are in errour, which &s;uppo&s;e that they can comprehend the knowledge of this citty by their naturall wi&s;dom and learning. The citty is &s;aid to have a wall great, and<NOTE N="w" PLACE="marg">Rev. 21.1</NOTE> high: it is &s;o high, as that none can looke over it or into it. The Apo&s;tle &s;aith:<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 2.9.2</NOTE> Eye hath not &s;eene, nor the eare heard, neither have entred into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. And there he writeth afore, That none of the<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e 8.</NOTE> Princes of this world knew the wi&s;dom of God: for had they known it they would not have Crucified the Lord of glory. And then hee &s;heweth, how the knowledge of &s;uch things commeth, &s;aying:<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e 10.</NOTE> But God hath reveal|ed them unto us by His Spirit, for the Spirit &s;earcheth all things, yea the deep things of God. Experience in all ages teacheth, that they come not into the<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4.13.</NOTE> unity of the Faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God; but fall into &s;ome contrariety &amp; much diver&s;ity which proceed not, in<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">James 4.8. Jer. 4.14. 1 Joh. 3.3. P&s;al. 119 9. Reproofe.</NOTE> purification, as the holy Go&s;pell pre&s;cribeth.</P>
<P>The &s;econd u&s;e is for reproofe of &s;uch as &s;trive not to bee Spirituall <HI>Iohns,</HI> to be endued with the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13.9.</NOTE> grace of the Lord, and with univer&s;all Chri&s;tian<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2.9. Margent. 2 Pet. 1.2. Phil. 4.8. P&s;al 119.6.</NOTE> vertues, and yet think that they &s;hall &s;ee
<PB N="4" REF="8"> the &s;aid holy citty, not con&s;idering that it is with them, as with tho&s;e Women, of whom the Apo&s;tle &s;peaketh, that being<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 8.6, 7.</NOTE> laden with &s;ins, and led away with divers lu&s;ts, are ever learning; and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Whereas were the Exhortation onely hearkned unto, <HI>viz.</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cor. 7.1.</NOTE> Having therefore the&s;e promi&s;es (dearly beloved) let us clean&s;e our &s;elves from all filthines of the fle&s;h and &s;pirit, perfecting holines in the feare of God, <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> would give us<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Eph. 5.14.</NOTE> light, the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oh. 16.13.</NOTE> Spirit of truth will more and more come into us, and guide us into all truth, and teach us all things, which pertain unto<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pet. 1.3.</NOTE> life and godlines.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;truction.</NOTE>A third u&s;e is for In&s;truction, that we for to &s;ee this glorious citty de&s;cending out of heaven from God, doe like <HI>Iohn</HI> enter into &s;pirituall<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The <HI>Greeke</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">deth in P&s;al. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.5. <GAP DESC="foreign">, he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th di&s;po&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en&s;ions in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> heart. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ol. 1.3.2. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">il. 3.20. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">v. 21.10. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;a. 33.17.</NOTE> A&s;cen&s;ion, with heart and mind to have our conver|&s;ation in heaven: then (as <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;aith) our eyes &s;hall<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 143.10.</NOTE> &s;ee the King in His beauty: wee &s;hall behold the Land that is very farre off, which <HI>David</HI> calleth the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Eph. 1.17.18</NOTE> Land of righteou&s;nes, which is this citty and kingdome of the Lord. Concerning the &s;eeing here menti|oned, that it may the better be under&s;tood, it is to be noted, that the Scripture &s;ignifieth of eyes within the &s;oule, the which being opened, there is that &s;een, which the eyes of the body behold not. The<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cts 26.18.</NOTE> Apo&s;tle prayed for the <HI>Ephe&s;ians,</HI> that the eyes of their under&s;tanding might be inlightened. And Saint <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Num.</HI> 24.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">4.</NOTE> hee was &s;ent to open the eyes of the Gentiles. <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> prayed the Lord to open the eyes of his &s;ervants, that he might &s;ee. And the Text &s;aith:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Rev. 14.6.7.</NOTE> The Lord opened his eyes, and hee &s;aw that round about <HI>Eli&s;ha,</HI> which the eyes of his body perceived not. Al&s;o that is &s;ometimes &s;aid to be &s;een, which is &s;hewed to the under&s;tanding for to come to pa&s;&s;e in his time. As <HI>Iohn</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;econd <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">xt. The <HI>Vulgar <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ine</HI> hath in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k. 1.1. <HI>Nar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ionem, quae in nobis completae &s;unt, rerum,</HI> a declaration of the things, which are fulfilled in us. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> al&s;o <HI>Arias Montanus,</HI> the mo&s;t great Divine <HI>John Arnet,</HI> in his fir&s;t booke of true <HI>Chri&s;tianity,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 6. teacheth, that the whole New Te&s;tament is in &s;ome manner to be in us.</NOTE> I &s;aw another Angel flie in the mid&s;t of heaven, having the everla&s;ting Go&s;pell to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, &amp;c. Hee under&s;tood, what &s;hould bee in the latter times.</P>
<P>The &s;econd point to bee con&s;idered is, Whether the New <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> is &s;ignified to come downe from God out of heaven? And that the ver&s;e immediatly following doth declare, it being there &s;aid: <HI>And I heard a great voyce out of heaven, &s;aying, Behold
<PB N="5" REF="8"> the Tabernacle of God is with men, and Hee will dwell with them, and they &s;hall bee His people, and God him&s;elfe &s;hall bee with them, and bee their God.</HI> The which words doe expre&s;ly call the new <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> Gods Tabernacle, and declare that it de&s;cendeth into his holy ones here on earth. This the Lord by <HI>Ezechiel</HI> promi&s;eth to His people &s;aying:<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg"><HI>Exech.</HI> 37.26 27.</NOTE> I will &s;et my Sanctuarie in the<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">In ip&s;orum cor|dibus habitabo &amp; inambulabo Trentel. &amp; Iu|nius.</NOTE> midde&s;t of them for evermore. My Tabernacle al&s;o &s;hall bee with them: yea I will bee their God, and they &s;hall bee my people. And of &s;uch Beeing of God within man, the Tabernacle made by <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was al&s;o a &s;ignification. For as that con&s;i&s;ted of three parts, &s;o the<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">1 Ioh. 5.7. Gal. 3.2.4. Joh. 6.44. Rom. 5.1, 2. John 14.26.</NOTE> <HI>Three</HI> (the holy, ble&s;&s;ed and glorious Trinity) have their operation within mans &s;oule. The Father with the Law, the Son with the Faith, and the holy Gho&s;t with all other things which pertain to godline&s;&s;e, and comfort everla&s;ting. And it being added, <HI>Prepared as a Bride adorned for her husband,</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See the 18. workings of the holy Gho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> reckoned up <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Polanus Syrt.</HI> 3. <HI>cap.</HI> 6.</NOTE> thereby among other things is &s;hewed the exceeding great excellencie thereof. It is called the<NOTE N="w" PLACE="marg">Lament. 2.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> perfection of beauty; it is &s;aid to have the<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Rev. 21.11 John 50.2. Sundry parti+cular matter of the City. The Cities Wall. The fir&s;t pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+cious &s;tone.</NOTE> glory of God, and her light to bee like unto a &s;tone mo&s;t precious, even like a Ia&s;per &s;tone, cleare as chri&s;tall.</P>
<P>So now in the third place, &s;undry particular matters of the &s;aid New <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> are to be con&s;idered, as the Wall thereof. Who&s;e foundations are garni&s;hed with all manner of precious &s;tones, the which are ob&s;erved to be Chri&s;tian vertues. The fir&s;t founda|tion is Ja&s;per.<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Sundry ob+&s;ervations a|bout the&s;e Stones are t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ken out <HI>Mr. Brightman.</HI></NOTE> This &s;tone is noted to bee of an heavenly bright|ne&s;&s;e, who&s;e beauty it is ea&s;ier to admire than for to declare. It is &s;aid to have a variety of &s;weetne&s;&s;e in it, and therefore to &s;ignify the rich trea&s;ure of Gods gifts in his &s;ervants, &s;uch as are mentio|ned in the Epi&s;tle to the <HI>Corinthians,</HI> where it is &s;aid:<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 12<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 9, 10, 11. The &s;econd &s;tone.</NOTE> To one is given by the Spirit, the word of Wi&s;dom; to another the word of knowledge; to another faith, to another the gifts of healing, to another the working of miracles, to another Prophecie, to a|nother di&s;cerning of &s;pirits, to another divers kindes of Tongues, to another the Interpretation of Tongues.</P>
<P>The &s;econd precious &s;tone is Saphire, It is &s;aid to gli&s;ter with golden points, and &s;o to betoken godly plea&s;antne&s;&s;e in manners and conver&s;ation.<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 2.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Such a vertue the Apo&s;tles profe&s;&s;ed and practi&s;ed. It is &s;aid in the booke of Wi&s;dome,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;d. 8.1.</NOTE> Wi&s;dome doth reach from one end to another mightily: and &s;weetly
<PB N="6" REF="9"> doth &s;he order all things. See <HI>James</HI> 3.17. <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 3.12, 13.</P>
<P>The third &s;tone<NOTE PLACE="marg">The 3. &s;tone.</NOTE> is a Calcedonie. And it is &s;aid to gli&s;ter with a fierie brightne&s;&s;e, and &s;o to &s;ignifie zeale and fervencie in Chri|&s;tianity. The vertue of<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 7.11. Galat. 4.18. Tit. 3.14.</NOTE> right zeale is much renewed in Scripture. It is that holy<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mat. 3.11.</NOTE> fire with which the people of God become Bap|tized, when as they are baptized with the holy Gho&s;t.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119.59.90. P&s;al. 139.21, 22, 23, 24. P&s;a. 101.3.4.8. Rev. 3.19.</NOTE> It doth burne up and con&s;ume more and more all evill thinkings, &s;peakings and doings.</P>
<P>The fourth precious &s;tone<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fourth Stone.</NOTE> is an Emrald, the which is &s;aid to have a mo&s;t plea&s;ant greenne&s;&s;e, &s;o as nothing can more delight the eyes. And (&s;aith Ma&s;ter <HI>Brightman</HI>) this greenne&s;&s;e is the mo&s;t Divine<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Prov. 3.13, 14, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">5. Wi&s;d. 7.7, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 9, 10.</NOTE> knowledge of matters, on which the minde of man doth de&s;ire to bee fixed, more than on any thing el&s;e. And (&s;aith hee) it is placed next after Calcedonie, that &s;o knowledge may accompany<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Rom. 10.2.</NOTE> zeale. The Apo&s;tle &s;aith:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 14.20.</NOTE> Brethren, bee not Children in un|der&s;tanding, howbeit, in malice bee ye children, but in under&s;tan|ding bee men.</P>
<P>The fift &s;tone<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he fifth &s;tone.</NOTE> is a Sardonix. It is &s;aid to &s;hine, or to have &s;uch a lu&s;tre, as hath the naile of a man, growing on his finger, having whitene&s;&s;e mingled with redne&s;&s;e. And it is ob&s;erved to note out unto us the vertue of humanity and ingenuity,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Phil. 2.15, 16. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;h. 24.14. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cor. 1.12. &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.17. 1 The&s;. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.3, 4, 5.10.</NOTE> &s;incerity and faire|ne&s;&s;e of di&s;po&s;ition.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> John 1.47. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hil. 4.8 9.</NOTE> <HI>Nathaniel</HI> was endued with this precious &s;tone &s;piritually: for the Lord te&s;tified of him, &s;aying: Behold, an I&s;raelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.</P>
<P>The &s;ixt &s;tone<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;ixth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">one.</NOTE> is a Sardius: and it is &s;aid to be red all over with a bloody colour: and that &s;o it may &s;ignifie a certaine &s;everity. It is ob&s;erved to bee joyned with the Sardonix, to very good pur|po&s;e, le&s;t perhaps<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Tit. 2.15. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">de 23.</NOTE> gentlene&s;&s;e &s;hould waxe vile and contemptible, for want of &s;uch a companion as this is. The commandement is,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cor. 14.40.</NOTE> That all things bee done decently and in order. It is al&s;o pre&s;cri|bed,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4.8. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e the Mar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t there.</NOTE> that what&s;oever things are venerable, be thought upon.</P>
<P>The &s;eventh &s;tone<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;eventh <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne.</NOTE> is a Chry&s;olite. It &s;hineth throughout with a golden colour: and is noted to &s;ignify dignity and maje&s;tie. Gods Servants are to be endued with<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ph. 4.14. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ov 10.20. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ach 28.25. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ov. 15.28.</NOTE> weighty mindedne&s;&s;e: and as they are not to overvalew them&s;elves, &s;o not to undervalew them&s;elves overmuch. The Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul</HI> had to doe with tho&s;e, which did much undervalew him: and therefore hee was con|&s;trained, &s;ometimes to<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Rom. 11.13. Cor. 11.16. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp;c.</NOTE> declare his worth received of the Lord.</P>
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<P>The eighth &s;tone<NOTE PLACE="marg">The eighth Stone.</NOTE> is a Berill. It is &s;aid to be skye coloured, and &s;omewhat dark like water. And it is ob&s;erved that the watry co|lour thereof betokeneth<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">S. <HI>Paul</HI> be|&s;eeched the <HI>Corinthians</HI> by the meekne&s;s and gentlene&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Chri&s;t. 2 Cor. 10.1. The <HI>Geneva</HI> note interpret+eth gentlene&s;s to be that na|ture, which is inclined to mercy, rather than to rigour of ju&s;tice.</NOTE> lenity and humility, &s;uch as water it &s;elf is, which will ea&s;ily give place to every one. And &s;o it is mo&s;t meet company to follow the Maje&s;ty &s;ignified by <HI>Chry&s;olite,</HI> that &s;o it may keep all within mea&s;ure and compa&s;s. The vertue of lenity and humility is much held forth unto us in holy Scripture. It is &s;aid concerning <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> that he was very<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Numb. 12.3. Sir. 45. 4.</NOTE> meek above all the men, which were upon the face of the earth. S. <HI>Peter</HI> &s;aith:<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 5.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Be ye clo|thed with humility. And <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> hath commanded, &s;aying:<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Matth. 11.29.</NOTE> Learn of mea, for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye &s;hall finde re&s;t unto your &s;oules.</P>
<P>The ninth &s;tone<NOTE PLACE="marg">The ninth Stone.</NOTE> is a Topaz. One Writer &s;aith, It hath in it the colours of all &s;tones: and therefore it &s;ignifieth the &s;tudy to be repleni&s;hed with all vertues. Spiritual Topaz was in the high Prie&s;t <HI>Onias,</HI> concerning whom it is te&s;tified,<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">2 Mac. 15.1 It is remarka|bly &s;aid in 2 <HI>Mac.</HI> 31. That the holy city was inha|bited with al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> peace, and th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lawes were kept very well, becau&s;e of the godline&s;s of <HI>Onias</HI> the High Prie&s;t, and his hatred of wickedne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> He is prai&s;ed <GAP DESC="foreign"> for hating of evill. P&s;al. 97.10.</NOTE> That he was a vertuous and good man, reverend in conver&s;ation, gentle in condition, well &s;po|ken al&s;o, and exerci&s;ed from a child in all points of vertue. <HI>Zacha|rias</HI> and <HI>Elizabeth</HI> are &s;ignified to have been endued with the &s;ame endeavour: for S. <HI>Luke</HI> writeth of them, That they were<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Luke 1.6.</NOTE> both righteous before God, walking in all the Commandements and Ordinances of the Lord blamele&s;s.</P>
<P>The tenth &s;tone<NOTE PLACE="marg">The tenth &s;tone.</NOTE> is a Chry&s;opra&s;us, which is &s;aid to be of a co|lour golden and green. And therefore it is ob&s;erved to be the pre|cious vertue the true and<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 92.12 13, 14. I&s;a. 40.31.</NOTE> lively faith in <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> The Apo&s;tle &s;aith,<NOTE N="w" PLACE="marg">Gal. 5.6.</NOTE> That in <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us</HI> neither Circumci&s;ion availeth any thing, nor uncircumci&s;ion, but faith which worketh by love. The faith of the <HI>The&s;&s;alonians</HI> was &s;aid to<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 1.</NOTE> grow exceedingly, and the charity of every one of them all towards each other for to abound.</P>
<P>The eleventh &s;tone<NOTE PLACE="marg">The eleven<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;tone.</NOTE> is a Jacinct. It is &s;aid to be of the colour of water having in it the Sun-beams &s;hining. And therefore it is no|ted to &s;ignifie the<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Sir. 43. 33. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 50. 29. &amp; 51. Deut. 4.6, 7</NOTE> Saints endued with wi&s;dom and prudence. It is
<PB N="8" REF="10"> the holy Commandement, that we &s;hould be<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Mat. 10.16.</NOTE> wi&s;e as Serpents, and harmle&s;s as doves. <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;aith:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Prov. 4.7.</NOTE> Wi&s;dom is the principal thing: therefore get wi&s;dom, and with all thy getting, get under&s;tanding <HI>Job</HI> delivereth, that God hath &s;aid unto Man:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Job 28.28.</NOTE> Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wi&s;dom, and to depart from evill that is under|&s;tanding.</P>
<P>The twelfth &s;tone<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he twelfth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">one.</NOTE> is an Amethy&s;t, the which is &s;aid to have a purple colour. And whereas to wear purple was in old time the cu&s;tome of the greate&s;t per&s;onages, therefore this precious &s;tone is ob&s;erved to &s;ignify the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">It is read in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e margent <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 24.23. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">here &s;hall be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ory before <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is ancients. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hey are the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iritual Eagles gathered to the body, and feeding thereon. <HI>Luke</HI> 17.37. They hear the joyful <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iritual &s;ound. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 89.15. They are rai&s;ed up together with <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and made to &s;it toge|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er in heavenly places in <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</HI> Eph. 2.6.</NOTE> &s;upreme &s;olace in Chri&s;tianity, attainable in this world, the which S. <HI>John</HI> profe&s;&s;ed to have enjoyed, when as he &s;aid:<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 John 1.1, 2, 3, 4.</NOTE> That which we have &s;een and heard, declare we unto you, that ye al&s;o may have fellow&s;hip with us; and truly our fel|low&s;hip is with the <HI>Father,</HI> and with the Son <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> And the&s;e things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.</P>
<P>Venerable<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><P>So <HI>Haraeus</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th related on <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ev.</HI> 21. in his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dition of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lgar Bible <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th Expo&s;iti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ther expo&s;i|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s deliver <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">her ob&s;erva|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ns on the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;tones; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> unto the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">omoting of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rtue, and &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y are profit|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le.</P></NOTE> <HI>Beda</HI> writeth, that in the Ja&s;per is &s;ignified the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;al. 51.18, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> live|line&s;s of faith; in the Saphire, the height of heavenly hope; in the Chalcedony, the flame of inward Charity; in the Emerald, the con|fe&s;&s;ion of a &s;trong faith in adver&s;ity; in the Sardonix, the Saints hu|mility among the vertues; in the Sardius, the honoured blood of Martyrs; in the Chry&s;olite, &s;piritual preaching among Miracles; in the Berill, the perfect operation of the Preachers; in the Topaz, their fervent contemplation; in the Chry&s;opra&s;us the work and likewi&s;e the reward of the ble&s;&s;ed Martyrs; in the Jacinct, the Teachers heavenly mounting up unto high things, and by rea&s;on of the weak, a low de&s;cending unto humane things; in the Ame|thy&s;t, a remembrance always of the heavenly Kingdom, in the minde of hmmble ones. Whereas <HI>David</HI> in the confe&s;&s;ion of his &s;ins prayed for the buildings up of the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;al. 51.18, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> walls of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> adding that then God &s;hould be plea&s;ed with the Sacrifices of righteou&s;|ne&s;s, is it not my&s;tically &s;ignified, that the wall in the &s;piritual <HI>Je|ru&s;alem</HI> within <HI>David</HI> had &s;uffered &s;ome<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 51.12.</NOTE> decay, he giving way un|to his lu&s;ts and evil de&s;ires; and that the vertues of Cha&s;tity, Tem|perance, &amp;c. being repaired in him, he &s;hould then offer unto the Lord an<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Mal. 3.3.</NOTE> offering in righteou&s;ne&s;s?</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="9" REF="10">2. There may next be con&s;idered the Pearle of the Cities gates.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Gates pearl.</NOTE> The Text is: The twelve gates were twelve pearls, every &s;everal gate was of one pearle. It is true, what &s;ome do mention in ex|pounding this place, that <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> is the<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg"><HI>Chri&s;t</HI> is the foundation. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.11. And yet <HI>E&s;r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> is called, the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> foundation o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the coming out of <HI>Baby<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ezra</HI> 7.9. See the mar|gent. The Apo&s;tle &s;ait<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> is bef<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> all things, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by him all things con&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> In all thing<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> He hath the preheminen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Col. 1.17, 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Gate and the pearl. And He is the mo&s;t precious of all pearls, which God the Father hath given unto the Church, Mo&s;t great is the my&s;tery of <HI>Christ:</HI> He is &s;aid to be <HI>The all things in all.</HI> But S. <HI>John</HI> de&s;cribing this glorious City, doth a&s;cribe unto <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> for to be the &s;piritual Temple within the &s;ame. We may therefore &s;ee, how the Holy Gho&s;t el&s;ewhere hath expre&s;&s;ed, what &s;piritual gates there are. <HI>David</HI> &s;aith:<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 118.20.</NOTE> Open to me the gates of righteou&s;ne&s;s: I will go into them, and I will prai&s;e the Lord.<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">So readeth the ancient Tran&s;lation, and al&s;o the <HI>Geneva.</HI></NOTE> This is the gate of the Lord, the righteous &s;hall enter into it, So that righteou&s;ne&s;s is &s;ignified to be a gate al&s;o. And that Chri&s;tian righteou&s;nes is al&s;o an heavenly pearl, it may appear from the te&s;timony thereof, which <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> giveth; where he &s;aith:<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Matth. 7.12.</NOTE> what&s;oever ye would that men &s;hould do unto you, do ye even &s;o to them: for this is the Law and the Prophets. If ye (&s;aith S. <HI>John</HI>) that <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> is righteous, know ye, that every one which doth<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">John 2.</NOTE> righteou&s;nes, is born of Him. In this the children of God are manife&s;t, and the children of the Devil:<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">1 John 3.10.</NOTE> who&s;oever doth not righteou&s;nes, is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.</P>
<P N="3">3.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ange<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> In the third place we may have &s;ome meditation on Angels at the gates. The Apo&s;tle &s;aith:<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Heb. 1.14<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Are they not all Mini&s;tring &s;pi|rits, &s;ent forth to mini&s;ter for them, which &s;hall be heirs of &s;alvati|on? And where he mentioneth, that the <HI>Hebrews</HI> were then come unto the heavenly <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> he addeth al&s;o,<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12.2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> to an innumerable company of Angels. It is written in<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Zech. 3.6, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> <HI>Zechariah,</HI> that the Angel of the Lord prote&s;ted unto <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> the high Prie&s;t, &s;aying: Thus &s;aith the Lord of Ho&s;ts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou &s;halt al&s;o judge mine hou&s;e, and &s;halt al&s;o keep my Courts, and I will give thee walkes to walk among tho&s;e that &s;tand by. Tho&s;e &s;tanders by are interpreted<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">In the <HI>Ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+dee paraphra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> it is <HI>Seraphi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"></NOTE> An|gels.<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">John 1.5<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Who&s;oever hath the new <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> de&s;cending into him, &s;hall more and more have &s;ome mea&s;ure of under&s;tanding in the Scriptures deliveries concerning the Mini&s;tration of Angels. Mr.
<PB N="10" REF="11"> <HI>Brightman</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">On Rev. 21.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> ob&s;erveth it to be &s;ignified, that <HI>in the new Jeru&s;alem men &s;hall have a mo&s;t &s;weet ta&s;te of the familiar conver&s;ing of the Saints among the holy Angels.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. In the next place there may be con&s;idered the City it &s;elf.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he City it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f.</NOTE> It is &s;aid to be of pure gold, like unto cleer gla&s;s. And whereas gold is the mo&s;t excellent of mettals, there is to be noted, what vertue is the mo&s;t excellent in the life and conver&s;ation of man|kinde, and &s;o we may perceive, what the &s;aid &s;piritual gold is.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 12.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> The Apo&s;tle having reckoned up to the <HI>Corinthians</HI> &s;undry of Gods gifts, willeth them to covet earne&s;tly the be&s;t; adding, <HI>And yet I &s;hew unto you a more excellent way.</HI> The which he<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cor. 13.</NOTE> immediately afterward declareth to be the way of Charity, &s;hewing the nece&s;&s;i|ty thereof, and &s;ixteen properties of it, and<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er&s;e 13. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Joh. 4.16. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">8, 12. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h. 5.2. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ob 22.25.</NOTE> concludeth, &s;aying: now abideth Faith, Hope, Charity, the&s;e three, but the greate&s;t of the&s;e is Charity. Who&s;e excellency S. <HI>John</HI> &s;ignifieth, where he &s;aith:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e the mar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t there, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Tran&s;lati|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Iunius.</HI></NOTE> God is Charity, and he that dwelleth in Charity, dwelleth in God, and God in him. Who is al&s;o &s;aid to be His peoples gold as it is written in the book of <HI>Job.</HI> Yea, and the Almighty &s;hall be thy <HI>a</HI> gold, and thou &s;halt have plenty of &s;ilver.</P>
<P N="5">5. Now concerning the Cities Street,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Cities <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et.</NOTE> it is &s;aid to be pure gold, as it were tran&s;parent gla&s;s. Mr. <HI>Brightmans</HI> words hereon are very m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">morable, <HI>viz.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n <HI>Rev.</HI> 21.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. And on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e 17. They <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll do no|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng at their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n plea&s;ure, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l as their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es li&s;t, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y &s;hall re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ct the will God in all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gs, as if <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> were the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gels of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d: and in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ort they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l fulfill the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e will of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> mo&s;t pro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ou&s;ly through the guidance of Gods &s;pirit, which &s;hall lead them into the land of righteou&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> The Streets be the high ways, wherein the Citizens meet together, when they have ought to do one with another. Even as therefore the ways of a man are the actions about which a man is conver&s;ant, &s;o tho&s;e &s;treets of the city are tho&s;e publike duties and traffickings, whereabout the citizens are imployed diligently for the maintaining of this bodily life. The holy Gho&s;t &s;aith, That all the&s;e &s;hall be holy, pure, clean, precious; for the place, wherein men &s;hall meet to di&s;patch the&s;e affaires, is made of pure and glittering gold, as above, <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 18. How ho|ly and unblamable &s;hall this city be, wherein the common con|ver&s;ation of men, than which nothing u&s;eth to be more filthy and defiled, &s;hall be free from all filthy wickednes. Now &s;hall ju&s;tice run down through the &s;treets like a river, and true godline&s;s &s;hall &s;hine forth in all the affairs of men.<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">The Authors of the Book called <HI>Zions</HI> joy, &amp;c.</NOTE> Another &s;aith: This golden lu&s;tre is &s;aid to be as cleer as gla&s;s, thorow &s;hining with brightne&s;s, that
<PB N="11" REF="11"> all men may cleerly &s;ee the graces &amp; favour of God, and even God Him&s;elf &s;hining in the Saints, and &s;o are the very &s;treets of this holy city, where the Saints conver&s;e, of the &s;ame golden brightne&s;s of life and conver&s;ation in all their dealings, without &s;uch fraud and circumventions, as now the world is full of.</P>
<P N="6">6. The cities Temple may next be con&s;idered. S. <HI>John</HI> &s;aith:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Temp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> I &s;aw no Temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the Temple thereof.<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ezech. 11<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> God &s;aid unto the hou&s;e of <HI>I&s;ra|el:</HI> Although I have ca&s;t them far off among the heathen, and al|though I have &s;cattered them among the countries, yet will I be unto them as a little Sanctuary, in the countries where they &s;hall come. It is &s;aid in <HI>I&s;aiah;</HI><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">I&s;aiah 54.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> All thy children &s;hall be taught of the Lord, and great &s;hall be the peace of thy children. S. <HI>John</HI> &s;aid to the Ancients in Chri&s;t:<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 John 2.27.</NOTE> Ye have an Unction from the holy one, and ye know all things. But the Anointing which ye have received of Him, abideth in you: and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the &s;ame anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie: and even as it hath taught you, ye &s;hall abide in Him.</P>
<P N="7">7. The citie hath a &s;pecial light;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Citie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> light.</NOTE> for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. <HI>David</HI> &s;aith;<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 45.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> The Kings daughter is all glorious within. Where the<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 24.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 9, 10.</NOTE> King of glory entereth, there is abundance of &s;piritu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l glory. It is to be ob&s;er|ved, that as the light which cometh down from the<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">James 1.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Father of lights is termed a<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 1.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Rev. 2.28.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> &s;tar, &s;o is it al&s;o called a Sunne, a Moon, and a candle. <HI>David</HI> &s;aith:<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 84.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> The Lord God is a Sun and a Shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will He with|hold from them that walk uprightly. <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;aith to the people of God:<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 60.2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Thy Sun &s;hall no more go down, neither &s;hall thy Moon withdraw it &s;elf: For the Lord &s;hall be thine everla&s;ting light. It was &s;aid unto<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;dr. 14<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> <HI>E&s;dras:</HI> I will light a candle of under&s;tanding in thine heart. And (&s;aith our Saviour) a<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Mat. 5.1</NOTE> candle is not lighted to be put under a Bu&s;hel; but on a Candle&s;tick, and it giveth light to all that are in the hou&s;e. Let your light &s;o &s;hine before men, that they may &s;ee your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.</P>
<P N="8">8. The city hath a river. It is a pure river of water of life,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Cities river.</NOTE> clear as Chri&s;tal, proceeding out of the throne of God, and of the
<PB N="12" REF="12"> Lamb. <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> &s;aid to the woman of <HI>Samaria:</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hn 4.13,</NOTE> Who&s;oever drink|eth of the water, that I &s;hall give him, &s;hall never thir&s;t: but the water that I &s;hall give him, &s;hall be in him a well of water &s;pring|ing up unto everla&s;ting life. Who al&s;o<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hn 7.38,</NOTE> pronounced: He that be|lieveth in me, as the Scripture hath &s;aid, out of his belly &s;hall flow rivers of living waters. S. <HI>John</HI> &s;aith, This &s;pake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him, &s;hould receive. As the Lord giveth<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hn 8.12.</NOTE> light of life in minde and conver&s;ation; &s;o doth He<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ev. 22.1.</NOTE> water of life. In <HI>Ezechiel</HI> it is<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">zek. 47.3, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> &s;ignified, to be at the fir&s;t as waters but up to the anckles; afterward to become as waters up to the loynes. But at length to be as waters to &s;wimme in, a river that cannot be pa&s;&s;ed over.</P>
<P N="9"><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Cities <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE>9. The city hath a con&s;tant food, the which is &s;aid to be the Tree of life, which beareth twelve manner of fruits, and yieldeth her fruit every moneth. It is &s;ignified to be a<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ev. 2.7.</NOTE> Tree in the mid&s;t of the Paradi&s;e of God. And a &s;anctified &s;oul is a &s;piritual Paradi&s;e, as may appear from the Scripture,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ong 8.13.</NOTE> O thou that dwelle&s;t in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voyce: cau&s;e me to hear it. It is true that <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> is the tree of life, He is (as was afore&s;aid) <HI>The all in all.</HI> Now here for the more di&s;tinct expre&s;&s;ing of matters, we are to con&s;ider, what holy Writ al&s;o &s;aith, that the tree of life is. <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;aith:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ov. 3.18.</NOTE> The wi&s;dom of God is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her. He writeth al&s;o:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ov. 11.30.</NOTE> The fruit of the righte|ous is a tree of life. And the &s;aid wi&s;dom hath furni&s;hed her Ta|ble, &s;aying.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rov. 9.5.</NOTE> Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 24.19.</NOTE> Come unto me all ye that be de&s;irous of me, and fill your &s;elves with my fruits. Twelve manner of fruits the Tree of life beareth: for the Apo&s;tle &s;aith:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ph. 3.10.</NOTE> Manifold is the wi&s;|dom of God, and<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ph. 3.8.</NOTE> un&s;earchable are the riches of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> which He communicateth more and more in His time. The Tree of life (as the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ov. 11.30.</NOTE> Text teacheth) is the fruit of the righteous, it is a nature, which is &s;piritual, upright, and ju&s;t. The Lord <HI>Christ</HI> &s;aid unto his Di&s;ciples:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hn 15.16,</NOTE> I have cho&s;en you, and ordained you, that you &s;hould go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit &s;hould remain. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, &s;o &s;hall ye be my Di&s;ciples. Who &s;aid,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hn 4.34.</NOTE> My meat is to do the will of Him that &s;ent me, and to fini&s;h His work.</P>
<P N="10"><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Cities <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ick.</NOTE>10. There is Phy&s;ick al&s;o in the city. It is &s;aid: The leaves of
<PB N="13" REF="12"> the Tree of life are for the healing of the Nations. As the Tree is &s;piritual, &s;o are the leaves al&s;o. The infinite wi&s;dom of God, which knoweth all maladies in the minde of mankinde, hath<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">There is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> balm in <HI>Gile</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ther are Sp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+tual Phy&s;itia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Jer. 8.22.</NOTE> means for the curing of every one of the &s;ame in the nations, that fear his great and glorious name. The Lord &s;aith to <HI>Malachi:</HI><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Mal. 4.2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Unto you that fear my name, &s;hall the Sun of righteou&s;ne&s;s ari&s;e with heal|ing in his wings. <HI>David</HI> &s;ignifieth it to be unto the prai&s;e of the Lord, healing<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 103.3</NOTE> all his di&s;ea&s;es, and that his youth was renewed like the Eagles. It is &s;aid for the healing of the Nations. Such as have received the city into them&s;elves, are in a comfortable mea&s;ure of &s;piritual health. <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 33.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> The Inhabitant &s;hall not &s;ay, I am &s;ick. But &s;uch as are &s;trangers have need of<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Rev. 3.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Acts 26.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> eye &s;alve, that they may &s;ee, in what condition they are, whiles they are (as the Apo&s;tle de&s;cribeth)<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Eph 2.12</NOTE> without <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> being aliens from the Common|wealth of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and &s;trangers from the Covenants of Promi&s;e, ha|ving no hope, and without God in the world.</P>
<P N="11">11. The citizens have a delightful pro&s;pect. It is written,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Cities pto&s;pect.</NOTE> they &s;hall &s;ee Gods face. The Apo&s;tle &s;aith;<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> God who commanded light to &s;hine out of darkne&s;s, hath &s;hined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of <HI>Je|&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> And <HI>David</HI> &s;aith:<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 17.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> As for me, I will behold thy face in righteou&s;ne&s;s. God in His time, in &s;ome mea&s;ure and manner vouch&s;afeth unto His holy ones, to have within their &s;pirits a cer|tain beholding of Him, which though it be as through a<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 3.</NOTE> gla&s;s, yet it is unexpre&s;&s;ably joyful. It is written, that the Lord hath<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">2 Chro. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 1 Kings 3.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and 9.2. Gen. 12.7 Acts 26.13<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 15, 16.</NOTE> ap|peared at &s;undry times, and in divers manners to his &s;ervants here on earth, unto their great con&s;olation. <HI>Job</HI> attained at length to &s;ay:<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Job 42.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye &s;eeth thee. <HI>Jacob</HI> &s;aid.<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Gen, 32.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> I have &s;een God face to face, and my life is pre&s;erved. <HI>David</HI> &s;aid:<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 27.4</NOTE> One thing have I de&s;ired of the Lord, that will I &s;eek after, that I may dwell in the hou&s;e of the Lord, all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His Temple.<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 63.1, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> It is wor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the noting, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ome of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+cient Genti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> are &s;ignifie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> have apprehended, that there is now &s;ome manner and mea&s;ure of &s;eeing God attainable, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> al&s;o of knowledge of holy Angels. <HI>Polanus</HI> in his <HI>Synt. lib.</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 1. &s;aith: <HI>Per Theurgicas con&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+tiones idoncum &s;icri animum Gentiles credebant, ad &s;u&s;ceptionem &s;pirituum Angelicorum, &amp; ad D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+videndum.</HI></NOTE> He therefore &s;aith el&s;e|where: O God, thou art my God, early will I &s;eek thee: my
<PB N="14" REF="13"> &s;oul thir&s;teth for thee, my fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h longeth for thee, in a dry and thir|&s;ty land, where no water is: To &s;ee thy power and thy glory, &s;o as I have &s;een thee in thy Sanctuary. S. <HI>Stephen</HI> being full of the Holy Gho&s;t, looked up &s;tedfa&s;tly into heaven, and &s;aw the glory of God, and <HI>Je&s;us</HI> &s;tanding on the right hand of God, and &s;aid, Behold, I &s;ee the heavens opened, and the Son of man &s;tand|ing on the right hand of God. <HI>Acts</HI> 7.55, 56.</P>
<P N="12"><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Cities <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ntinulng.</NOTE>12. It is a continuing city. There is added in conclu&s;ion of the D&s;ecription,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Rev. 22.5.</NOTE> They &s;hall reign for ever and ever. <HI>New Je|ru&s;alem</HI> is a<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12.28.</NOTE> Kingdom, that cannot be &s;haken, it is a city invinci|ble. It is &s;aid in <HI>I&s;aiah:</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;a. 26.1.</NOTE> We have a &s;trong city, &s;alvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 38.20, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 22.</NOTE> Thine eyes &s;hall &s;ee <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> a quiet habitation, a Tabernacle that &s;hall not be taken down, not one of the &s;takes thereof &s;hall ever be removed, neither &s;hall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and &s;treams, wherein &s;hall go no galley with oares, neither &s;hall gallant &s;hip pa&s;&s;e thereby. For the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Law-giver, the Lord is our King, he will &s;ave us. It is &s;aid, the city<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Rev. 21.16.</NOTE> lieth four &s;quare: and one de|livereth this<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t is among <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> larger <HI>Gene|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> notes.</NOTE> note thereon, that a four-&s;quare figure hath equall &s;ides, and outright corners; and therefore the <HI>Grecians</HI> call by this name tho&s;e things that are &s;teady, and of continuance, and perfect.</P>
<P>And now in the fourth and la&s;t place there is to be con&s;idered the u&s;e and profit of the whole. A &s;aying therefore in <HI>E&s;dras</HI> may fir&s;t be mentioned, <HI>viz.</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he fourth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> la&s;t matter <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">out the Text. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> E&s;dras 7.6, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">8, 9, 10.</NOTE> A city is builded and &s;et upon a broad field, and is full of all good things. The entrance thereof is nar|row, and is &s;et in a dangerous place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water. And one on|ly path between them both, even between the fire and the water, &s;o &s;mall that there could but one man go there at once. If this city now were given to a man for an inheritance; if he never &s;hall pa&s;s the danger &s;et before it, how &s;hall he receive this inheritance? Even &s;o al&s;o is <HI>I&s;raels</HI> portion.</P>
<P>There have been even in every age &s;ome, which have endeavou|red to<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Another me|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rable. Simi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">de is afore <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;es 3, 4, 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e narrow is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> be gon tho|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for to come <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the broad. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t. 7.13, 14. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t is almo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">redible, that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re have been &s;o many divers opinions about the <HI>Summum bonum,</HI> as <HI>Varro</HI> relateth, He is &s;aid <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> have collected 188. thereabout.</NOTE> finde out the <HI>Summum Bonum</HI> in this life, to comprehend in
<PB N="15" REF="13"> what under&s;tanding and meditation the minde of man may enjoy mo&s;t content: and &s;ome have conceived it to be one thing, and others another. But they which ob&s;erve the harmony of the uni|ver&s;al Scripture hereunto, and con&s;ider unto what Being now, every of the cour&s;es bringeth, do plainly perceive, that the enjoy|ing of the &s;piritual <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> is the Soveraign Good attainable in in this world. <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;aith:<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 2.3.</NOTE> I &s;ought in mine heart to give my &s;elf unto wine, (yet acquainting my heart with wi&s;dom) and to lay hold on folly, till I might &s;ee what was that Good for the Sons of men, which they &s;hould do under the heaven, all the dayes of their life. And he afterward writeth;<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e 12, 13<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 14.</NOTE> Let us hear the conclu&s;ion of the whole matter; Fear God, and keep his Commandements; for this is the whole duty of man. For God &s;hall bring every work into judgement, with every &s;ecret thing, whether it be good, or whe|ther it be evil.<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 23.2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> <HI>Sirach</HI> &s;aith: And they that remain &s;hall know, that there is nothing better then the fear of the Lord, and that there is nothing &s;weeter than to take heed unto the Commande|ment of the Lord. Wherefore for to enter into the &s;aid Spiritual city, S. <HI>John</HI> after the De&s;cription declareth the way thereinto, &s;ay|ing:<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Rev. 22.14<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Ble&s;&s;ed are they that do His Commandements, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in thorow the gates into the city. The &s;tudy of all the<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. 19.16, 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 18, 19. Sir. 1.5.</NOTE> everla&s;ting precepts is the paths thereinto. <HI>David</HI> &s;aith:<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119.16<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Great peace have they which love thy Law, and nothing &s;hall offend them. Whereas they which<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 1.2. P&s;al. 119.97.</NOTE> delight not in the Law of the Lord, though they have a &s;ound bo|dily health, and abundance of earthly wealth, yet they are voyd of the<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 57.20<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 21. Rev. 14.11. P&s;al. 11.6.</NOTE> peace of God in their con&s;ciences, they (as <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;aith) are like the troubled Sea, when it cannot re&s;t, who&s;e waters ca&s;t up mire and dirt. The Apo&s;tle &s;aith:<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Rom. 2.8, 9. John 3.36.</NOTE> Tribulation and angui&s;h, in|dignation and wrath is upon every &s;oul of man that doth evill. And they which harden their hearts, and go on in di&s;obedience, and &s;it in the &s;eat of the &s;cornfull, at length (as <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> delivereth) become to have bred within them the gnawing worm, which dieth not; and to have a fire kindled within them, which goeth not out.<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 66.24. The Hebrew there &s;ignifie not literally have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed, but tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing; it &s;peaketh of the pre&s;ent. <GAP DESC="foreign"> See Prov. 9.18. Mat. 3.10.</NOTE> They are in a &s;piritual Hell, whiles they are in the body. We
<PB N="16" REF="14"> are required to humble our &s;elves for to<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Micah 6.8. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en 6.9 and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 22.</NOTE> walk now with God, in the company of who&s;e holy Spirit there is comfort unexpre&s;&s;able. But if He &s;eeth us to &s;et our affection on earthly riches or bo|dily<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3.4. Heb. 12.10.</NOTE> plea&s;ures more then on Him, and do neglect<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pet. 1.4.</NOTE> partaking of his holine&s;s, and growing in the Chri&s;tian nature, and<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ames 4.8.</NOTE> drawing neerer and neerer unto him in holy under&s;tanding and upright Conver&s;ation, that &s;aying of <HI>David</HI> is to be remembred:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;al. 73.27, 28</NOTE> For loe, they that are far from thee &s;hall peri&s;h: thou de&s;troye&s;t all them that go a whoring from thee. We are to con&s;ider, that we came to be on the face of the earth, for to<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Acts 17.26, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">7, 28.</NOTE> &s;eek the Lord (as Saint <HI>Paul</HI> teacheth) if haply we might feel after Him and finde H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m, though He be not farre from every one of us. For in Him we live, and move, and have our being. Al&s;o now to endeavour to<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4.24. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ol. 3 10.</NOTE> live in His image and likne&s;s, which is heavenly wi&s;dom, righteou&s;ne&s;s, and true holine&s;s. And to<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Phil. 3.14.</NOTE> pre&s;s toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</HI> We are not to make it our chiefe&s;t care, how to<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Hab. 2.6.</NOTE> lade our &s;elves more and more with thick clay (as the Lord &s;peaketh in <HI>Habakkuk</HI>) much le&s;s to<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Phil. 3.19. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ol. 3.2. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">al. 62.10.</NOTE> &s;et our whole hearts on thick clay (as innumerable do, and at le&s;t per|ceive that they lived not in a right minde:) for <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> pronounce|eth him to be a<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Tim. 6.17, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 19. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at. 6.19, 20, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Luke 12.20, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">od requireth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at every one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m his youth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> do increa&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;piritual <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hes, together <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th a due en|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">avour for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e nece&s;&s;ary <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ngs of this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut. 31.12, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cle&s;. 12.1. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he&s;. 6.4. and 2 Tim. 3.15. P&s;al. 84.7. and 2 The&s;. 3.8. and 1 Tim. 5.8.</NOTE> fool, that layeth up trea&s;ure for him&s;elf, and is not rich towards God.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t thing therefore that every one is to do, that would lay a firm foundation for his &s;piritual welfare now and everla&s;tingly, is throughly to know his own<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 44.20. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m. 3.40.</NOTE> heart, to examine and &s;earch unto what it is inclined, whether towards<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 6.17. and 2.16. and 2 Cor. 4.10, 11. <HI>No&s;ce teip&s;um.</HI></NOTE> union with the Creatour (ble&s;&s;ed for ever) with His Spirit, minde, and life; or whether for to cleave unto &s;omewhat which is not the Creatour. <HI>Jeremiah</HI> &s;aith<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jer. 17.9, 10.</NOTE> the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and de&s;perate|ly wicked: who can know it? The Lord &s;earcheth the heart, and trieth the reins, even to give every man according to his wayes, and according to the fruit of his doings. <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;aith:<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Prov. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.8.</NOTE> The wi&s;dom of the prudent is to under&s;tand his way. It is to &s;ee how it agreeth with all Gods word, how we are decrea&s;ing in what is not good, and how we encrea&s;e in the Chri&s;tian vertues, and how we do now
<PB N="17" REF="14"> enjoy more and more the promi&s;es or the ble&s;&s;ings, that are be|&s;towed in this<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 4.8.</NOTE> life. The one only cau&s;e, why there is &s;o much dif|ference, is, becau&s;e we judge others, afore we have<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Mat. 7.5. 1 Cor 11.31.</NOTE> duely judged our own &s;elves by Gods<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119.9. 2 Tim. 3.16, 17. Rom. 15.4. 1 Cor. 4.5.</NOTE> univer&s;al Scripture. It is a great property in the fall of man,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3.2.</NOTE> <HI>Self-love,</HI> a good<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Luke 18.9. and 16.15.</NOTE> opinion of ones own &s;piritu|al e&s;tate, afore he hath throughly examined it. He that would enjoy now the Spiritual City, may obey the Apo&s;tles coun&s;el:<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 3.18, 19.</NOTE> If any man among you &s;eem to bee wi&s;e in this world, let him become a foole, that hee may bee wi&s;e. It was a charge laid again&s;t <HI>Moab;</HI><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Jer. 48.11.</NOTE> <HI>Moab</HI> hath bin at ea&s;e from his youth, and hee hath<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Zeph. 1.12. Gen. 12.1.</NOTE> &s;etled on his lees, and hath not bin emptied from ve&s;&s;ell to ve&s;&s;ell, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his ta&s;t remained in him, and his &s;ent is not changed. And &s;aith the Prophet:<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Jer. 5 25. Jonah 2.8.</NOTE> Our &s;innes have withholden good things from us. It is &s;ignified therefore that they in<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">So it is read in the <HI>vulgar Latine</HI> Text. Sap. 5.14. <HI>Talia dixerunt in inferno hi, q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> peccaverunt.</HI> See Wi&s;d. 5.3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.</NOTE> Hell, repenting and groaning for angui&s;h of &s;pirit, &s;hall &s;ay with them&s;elves: Wee have erred from the way of truth, and the light of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e hath not &s;hined unto us, and the Sunne of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e ro&s;e not upon us. Wee wearied our &s;elves in the way of wickedne&s;&s;e and de&s;truction: Yea, wee have gone thorow de&s;arts, where there lay no way: but as for the way of the Lord. wee have not knowne it. What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us?</P>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The way unto the New <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> &s;piritual, in which the Patriarchs, Prophet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Apo&s;tles, and all the people of God, have ever walked, and &s;o in this life enjoyed it, is i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> plain and perfect manner declared in the Treati&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> intituled. <HI>A way unto true Chri&s;tian unity.</HI></NOTE>
<P>The next thing is to<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 16.8, 9<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 10, 11. Jer. 3.17.</NOTE> &s;et the new <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> &s;pirituall before our eyes, to be a marke whereat to aime and to pre&s;&s;e towards it, me|ditating on the good things therein, and to u&s;e all meanes furthering the pa&s;&s;ing therinto. Al&s;o not to in&s;i&s;t much on<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Mat. 7.13, 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> great company in the journey, but to<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Acts 2.40. 1 Tlm. 4.16.</NOTE> &s;ave our owne &s;elves, to get as &s;oone as may be into the city for the increa&s;e of our owne<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Prov. 9.12. Deut. 10.13. and 6.21.</NOTE> good. For it is a land flowing with<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Numb. 12.13.27.</NOTE> milke and hony: a land which the Lord God careth for:<NOTE N="w" PLACE="marg">Deut. 28.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> It is continually fulfilled in the &s;piritual &s;en&s;e.</NOTE> the eyes of the Lord God are alwayes upon it, from the beginning of the yeere even unto the end of the yeere. And &s;o now<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12.22, 23, 24. M. <HI>Bright.</HI> on Rev. 21.2. I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+terpreteth <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> there mentioned to the Hebrews, for to be here on earth: &s;o &s;ome others al&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> comming unto mount Sion, and unto the
<PB N="18" REF="15"> City of the living God, the heavenly <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and to an innu|merable company of Angels; to the Generall a&s;&s;embly, and Church of the fir&s;t borne, which are written in heaven, and to God Iudge of all, and to the &s;pirits of ju&s;t men made perfect: and to Je&s;us the mediatour of the new covenant; and to the blood of &s;prinkling, that &s;peaketh better things than that of <HI>Abel,</HI> wee &s;hall<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Mark 4.26.28 Numb. 17.8.</NOTE> more and more receive the knowledge of all the&s;e, unto that<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 29.19.</NOTE> in|crea&s;e of holy joy, and have faith and hope for enjoying the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4.13.</NOTE> ful|nes there of for evermore.</P>
<Q>Pray for the Peace of <HI>Jeru&s;alem:</HI> they &s;hall prosper that love thee. <BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 122.6.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<PB REF="15">
<HEAD>AN APPENDIX Concerning ASTROLOGIE.</HEAD>
<P>_GOD Almighty him&s;elf (ble&s;&s;ed for ever) having &s;aid:<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job 38</NOTE> Knowe&s;t thou the <HI>Ordinances</HI> of Heaven? can&s;t thou &s;et the <HI>Dominon</HI> thereof in the Earth? giveth to be under&s;tood that there is an appointed Cour&s;e for the Heavenly bodies, and that they have a great oppera|tion in Naturall things here on earth. <HI>Junius</HI> in his annotation on the ver&s;e doth thus expound: <HI>An coeli cur&s;um &amp; effecta in inferiora moderari potes, quae in&s;tituerat D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us?</HI> The which al&s;o the Lord hath expre&s;&s;ed, where afore He &s;aid:<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Job. 38.3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Can&s;t thou binde the &s;weet Influences of the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">So it is r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+dred in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Margent.</NOTE> &s;eaven Starres? or loo&s;e the bands of <HI>Orion? Ca&s;tellio</HI> interpreteth the &s;weet Influences to be the plea&s;antne&s;&s;e of the Spring time, whereof tho&s;e Starres are In&s;truments. And <HI>Junius</HI> &s;aith on the <HI>bands</HI> of <HI>Orion,</HI> That with them he is wont to bring (or cau&s;e) &s;howres, tempe&s;ts, and colds.<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver.</HI> 32.</NOTE> It is al&s;o &s;aid: can&s;t thou bring forth the <HI>twelve</HI><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">So in M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> <HI>&s;ignes</HI> in their &s;ea&s;on, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Or can&s;t thou guide <HI>Arcturus</HI> with his Sonnes? It is written, that they fought from Heaven, the Starres in their cour&s;es<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jud. 5.20</NOTE> fought again&s;t <HI>Si&s;era.</HI> The which <HI>Junius</HI> &s;ignifieth to be by ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nes, windes, hailes, stormes. The Lord al&s;o &s;aith:<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 2.2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> I will heare the Heavens, and they &s;hall heare the earth. In the booke of <HI>Daniel</HI> it is written:<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Dan. 4.3</NOTE> God doth according to his will in the Army of Heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. Seeing then that the heavenly bodies have dominion in the earth, as God hath &s;ignified, &s;undry of His &s;ervants have bin conver&s;ant in meditating on the &s;ame, according to the Scripture.<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 111.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> The works of the Lord are great, &s;ought out of all them, that have plea&s;ure therein. Doth not <HI>Job</HI> declare to have had &s;ome knowledg in the Stars &s;aying:<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Job 9.9.</NOTE> Which maketh <HI>Arcturus, Orion,</HI> and <HI>Pleiades,</HI> and the chambers of the South. <HI>Solomom</HI> de|livereth, that among other matters of wi&s;dom,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;. 7.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 18, 19.</NOTE> which God gave unto Him, hee received the knowledge of the <HI>Po&s;itions</HI> of the Starres. And he &s;ignifieth, that the power and vertue of the lights of Heaven is &s;o great, as that men have bin<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;d. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> a&s;toni&s;hed in the con&s;ideration of the
<PB REF="16"> &s;ame. And he writeth:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e 5.</NOTE> By the greatne&s;&s;e and beauty of the crea|tures proportionably, the maker of them is knowne. The Apo&s;tle &s;aith:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m. 1.20.</NOTE> The invi&s;ible things of Him from the Creation of the World are cleerely &s;een, being under&s;tood by the things that are made, even His eternall Power and Godhead. The Jews report of <HI>Abraham,</HI> that he was an excellent looker into the Stars. So<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">his greater <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ean Lexi.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Buxtorfius</HI> delivereth to be the meaning of their &s;aying <GAP DESC="foreign"> A&s;tronomie (or<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> there hee <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">preteth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aid Word.</NOTE> A&s;trologie) was in the minde of <HI>Abraham.</HI> They have al&s;o a deliverie con&s;iderable hereunto concerning the Starres operations in things here on earth: <GAP DESC="foreign"></P>
<P>That is,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Shindler</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e roote</NOTE> thou ha&s;t not any hearb below, unto the which there is not a Starre in the Firmament, and that &s;tar &s;triketh it, and &s;aith unto it, grow thou.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut. 33.14.</NOTE> <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> mentioneth of precious things brought forth by the Sun, and of precious things put forth by the Moone. He teacheth, that God &s;et lights in the Firmament of Heaven, and among other cau&s;es, that they &s;hould be for<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n. 1.14.</NOTE> &s;ignes, and for &s;ea&s;ons, and for dayes and yeeres. And now whereas true A&s;trologie doth abundantly declare Gods won|derfull workes in Nature, it is therefore a Science much to be honoured for the excellency of the Learning. But yet &s;ome Object again&s;t it, who&s;e mi&s;take we will endeavour to di&s;cover, that Truth may appeare the more plainly.</P>
<P>It is Objected, That whereas in <HI>Deut. 18.10.</HI> the u&s;ing of divination is forbidden, and that divining is a part of A&s;trologie, therefore the &s;aid Art is unlawfull.</P>
<P>An&s;wer. As there is an unlawfull divining, &s;uch as is acted by help of the ill Spirit; &s;o is there al&s;o a<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Prov. 16.. Margent. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 44.5.15.</NOTE> lawfull divining. It is &s;aid in <HI>Micah 6.3.</HI> Therefore night &s;hall be unto the Prophets, that yee &s;hall not have a vi&s;ion, and it &s;hall be darke unto you, that ye &s;hall not divine. It is much con&s;iderable, what is writtren in <HI>I&s;a 3.1.2.</HI> That the Lord would take from <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> the mighty man, and the man of War, the Judge, and the Prophet, and the <HI>Diviner, &amp;c.</HI> Here the <HI>Di|viner</HI> is &s;et among tho&s;e, which were of a lawfull condition. The word is rendred <HI>Prudent.</HI> The <HI>Chaldean Praphra&s;e</HI> hath it <GAP DESC="foreign"> one which is asked and coun&s;elled withall concerning matters to come, as <HI>Shindler</HI> the reputed mo&s;t learned interpreter of the Nobler Ea&s;tern Tongues hath expounded, The Lord <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> declareth,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t. 16.2.3. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 2.24, 25.</NOTE> that in &s;ome
<PB REF="16"> naturall things there may be of foretelling, what is likely to come to pa&s;&s;e as &s;omtimes by the evening to conjecture of the day following, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Moreover, it is ob&s;erved, that &s;uch were the children of <HI>I&s;&s;achar,</HI> con|cerning whom it is written,<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">1 Chr. 12<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> that they were men which had under&s;tan|ding of times, to know what <HI>I&s;rael</HI> ought to doe. And the Scripture &s;aith, all their brethren were at their commandement, they followed the words of their mouth.<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">In his co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ment on th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> place.</NOTE> <HI>O&s;iander</HI> &s;aith: <HI>Hebraice, Scientes intelle|ctum temporum, ad cogno&s;cendum (id e&s;t) qui norant, quomodo in bello opportunitate &amp; occa&s;ione temporis utendum e&s;&s;et: ut &s;ciretur in exercitu, quid pro re nata facere deberet populus I&s;rael. In bello enim pleraque con&s;ilia extemporalia &s;unt.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> The <HI>Arabicke</HI> Tran&s;lation hath rendred the <HI>Hebrew</HI> word, <HI>Hee that exerci&s;eth A&s;trologie.</HI> Therefore the &s;aid Art is there for|bidden.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> No Ver&s;ion is of &s;ufficient Authority to prove or di&s;prove by, in matters of controver&s;ie, but the Originall Scripture only. The five bookes of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> are extant al&s;o in the <HI>Samaritane</HI> Tongue, and in the <HI>Per&s;ian:</HI> the <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> is &s;et forth in the <HI>Syrian</HI> and <HI>Ethiopian.</HI> And good u&s;e may be made of the&s;e antient Tran&s;lations for the illu&s;tration of many a point.<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">The mul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+tude of Tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;lations into <HI>Latine,</HI> &s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> how men k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in part. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13.9.</NOTE> But whereas Tran&s;latours doe &s;ometimes render Texts according to the Divinity of the country wherein they dwell; and &s;ometimes they expre&s;&s;e matters according to their owne private affe|ction, and &s;ometimes in difficult &s;ayings, they knowing not the minde of the holy Ghost, doe interpret unperfectly, therefore no doctrine is to bee grounded upon their meere Tran&s;lation. Yet the Learned have a &s;peci|all con&s;ideration of the<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>See</HI> Helvi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>de</HI> authorita<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Targumim.</NOTE> <HI>Chaldean</HI> Ver&s;ion of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the Prophets; and of the<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">See <HI>Tro&s;ti</HI> his Preface his edition thereof.</NOTE> <HI>Syrian</HI> of the Evangeli&s;ts and the Apostles, in regard of their antiquity, and al&s;o of the <HI>Greeke</HI> called the <HI>Septuagint,</HI> and of the <HI>Vulgar Latine.</HI> But that which we are to in&s;i&s;t on, is the <HI>Hebrew, Chaldean,</HI> and <HI>Greeke,</HI> which the Divinely In&s;pired men wrote, and is in the Church pre&s;erved unto this day. From the <HI>Arabicke</HI> Ver&s;ion therefore nothing can be concluded, fora&s;much as al&s;o in the <HI>Hebrew</HI> word there is no maner of &s;ignification of Astrologie, there is no impor|ting of <HI>Starre</HI> therein.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> But the next word <HI>an ob&s;erver of times</HI> must needs bee an A&s;trologer, becau&s;e there are of the learned <HI>Iewes,</HI> Which under|&s;tand it &s;o.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The <HI>Rabbins</HI> doe not agree about the Interpretation of &s;undry
<PB REF="17"> <HI>Hebrew</HI> words: and therefore being at &s;uch difference among them|&s;elves the private opinion of any one of them is of no authority.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pagnins <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me, <HI>at</HI></NOTE> <HI>Ge|mination</HI> of letters in a Word doth le&s;&s;en the &s;ignification, &s;aith <HI>R. Abraham;</HI> but <HI>R. David</HI> &s;aith, it doth increa&s;e the &s;ame, Certaine Nounes ending in <HI>ai</HI> are by the <HI>Chaldee</HI> rendred plurally;<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in <HI>Buxt.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. at pa. 79. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ird or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th edition. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t. 18.15. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 3.22, 23.</NOTE> but <HI>R. Solomon</HI> would have them to be &s;ingular. <HI>D. For&s;ter</HI> in the preface afore his Learned <HI>Hebrew</HI> Dictionary undertaketh to demon&s;trate great imperfection to be in the <HI>Iewes,</HI> as concerning the interpretation of the &s;acred <HI>Hebrew.</HI></P>
<P>Moreover, the Learned Hebrician <HI>Buxtorfius</HI> rendreth the word <HI>prae&s;tigiis utens, prae&s;tigiator,</HI> a jugler. Hee &s;aith: The wi&s;e antients derived the word from <GAP DESC="foreign"> an eye: and that they have written <GAP DESC="foreign"> That <HI>Megnonem</HI> turned an ob&s;erver of times, is hee that holdeth the eyes, that dazles the eyes of the behold|er. And therefore he hath &s;et the word as a Derivative from the pri|mitive&mdash; <GAP DESC="foreign"> an eye.</P>
<P>But though the word be read an ob&s;erver of times; yet pure A&s;tro|logie is not spoken again&s;t thereby. It speaketh of &s;uch ob&s;erving of times which the wicked <HI>Canaanites</HI> u&s;ed, in whom the ill Spirit ruled and reigned. And that there is &s;ome lawfull ob&s;erving of times, continuall experience teacheth it, in Phy&s;itians, Hu&s;bandmen, Marriners, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Who by ob&s;erving of times about matters in the common cour&s;e of Na|ture, doe prevent many inconveniencies and dangers, which they fore&s;ee likely to come to pa&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Wee will conclude this An&s;were with Learned <HI>O&s;ianders</HI> delivery on the <HI>Hebrew</HI> word, who writeth: <HI>Hi creduntur e&s;&s;e ii, qui certis incantationibus homines, aut jumenta curaturos &s;e promittunt: item qui horas ob&s;ervant, non Phy&s;ice, juxta motum Lunae alio|rumve planetarum: &s;ed &s;uper&s;titio&s;e, nulla evidente ratione. Ta|les &s;unt etiam, qui in magna &s;exta feria, neque equum calciare &s;i|nunt; neque terram aratro pro&s;cindere, quod utrumque infau|&s;tam fal&s;o opinentur.</HI></P>
<P>Obj. Only Chri&s;t the great Prophet, and they to whom he gives the divinely inspired gift of Prophecie, mu&s;t foretell things to come: no art may undertake it; for it is oppo&s;ite unto Christ.</P>
<P>An&s;. There is Prophecie concerning Matters Spirituall, and pro|phecy concerning Matters Naturall. A&s;trologie teacheth, what is likely to come to pa&s;&s;e in things according to the &s;et cour&s;e of Nature.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Cor. 12.28.4.11, 12, 13.</NOTE>
<PB N="23" REF="17"> It is true al&s;o, God hath given unto his people his Chri&s;t, and he hath ordained Mini&s;ters to teach. We have al&s;o his mo&s;t holy<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Colo&s;. 3 16.</NOTE> Word, unto every tittle and jote whereof we are duly to<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">John 12.48. 1 Pet. 1.19.</NOTE> attend; and Saint <HI>Paul</HI> &s;ignifieth, we &s;hould &s;trive to<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Col. 1.25. Mat. 3.15. Rom. 8.4.</NOTE> fulfill the word of God: but yet there are many particular ca&s;es in worldly matters, in which what to doe, the Sacred Scripture expre&s;&s;eth not, as in Matters of Phy&s;iche, Hu&s;ban|dry, the Sea, and &s;uch like.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> It is &s;aid:<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 2.6.</NOTE> Therefore thou ha&s;t for&s;aken thy people, becau&s;e they are South&s;ayers like the <HI>Phili&s;tims,</HI> &amp;c. Therefore for their A&s;tro|logie, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> God had for&s;aken them.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> If it can be proved, that Sooth&s;aying is any part of true A&s;tro|logie, then the argument holdeth again&s;t it. But whereas it cannot bee &s;o demon&s;trated; therefore the Objection is void of power.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> It is &s;aid:<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 44.25.</NOTE> That fru&s;trateth the tokens of the liars, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> That is of A&s;trologers.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> If it can be proved, that true A&s;trologie hath in it any lying tokens, that any lying tokens are grounds in the &s;aid Art or Science, then there is &s;ome likelihood of truth in the Application: but whereas it cannot be proved, therefore the Inference is not true.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> It is &s;aid:<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 47.13.</NOTE> Let now the A&s;trologers, the Starre-gazers, the Monethly Progno&s;ticators &s;tand up, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Sure enough here A&s;trologers expre&s;ly, and under &s;everall other names and notions al&s;o are bitterly inveighed again&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Let us &s;ee whether the <HI>Hebrew</HI> Word &s;ignifieth A&s;trologers, It is rendred in the Margent, <HI>Viewers of the Heavens.</HI> And others are viewers of the Heavens be&s;ides A&s;trologers, as A&s;tronomers, natu|rall Philo&s;ophers, &amp;c.</P>
<P>But Objection is, That it is a viewing of the heavens for to declare &s;ome matter to come to pa&s;&s;e thereby. And is it a &s;inne, to view the heavens, for to &s;ee what is likely to fall forth, according to the common cour&s;e of Nature, and in naturall things?</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> But the next speech <HI>Starre-gazers</HI> hath the word Starres therein: and therefore it mu&s;t needs meane A&s;trologers.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The Hebrew is <GAP DESC="foreign"> which <HI>Shindler</HI> turneth <HI>videntes in &s;tellis,</HI> &s;eers in the Starres. It appeareth, that it is not ab|&s;olutely forbidden unto any for to looke into the Stars: for then A&s;tro|nomy it &s;elf were unlawfull.</P>
<P>The la&s;t &s;peech is the <HI>Monethly Progno&s;ticators.</HI> The Margent &s;aith
<PB N="24" REF="18"> the Hebrew is, <HI>that give knowlede concerning the Moneths.</HI> And is it unlawfull to make a Prognostication, to &s;et downe concerning every moneth in the yeere, what is con&s;iderable according to the common cour&s;e of nature? It is manife&s;t, that the holy Prophet <HI>I&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">h</HI> doth not &s;ignifie, that to view the heavens, or to looke into the Starres, or to give knowledge concerning the moneths (for &s;o the <HI>Hebrew</HI> Text speaketh) are matters of &s;inne and wickednes; but hee findeth fault with tho&s;e which were conver&s;ant in the&s;e exerci&s;es, that they u&s;ed not them aright. Is it good rea&s;on to &s;ay, that the profe&s;&s;ion of Phy&s;icke is unlawfull, becau&s;e &s;ome practi&s;ing therein doe abu&s;e that honourable Science?</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> It is &s;aid:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Jer. 10.2.</NOTE> Learne not the way of the heathen, and be not di&s;mayed at the &s;ignes of Heaven, for the heathen are di&s;m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">yed at them. Here A&s;trologie is forbidden.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The &s;cope and drift of the Prophets words is, that the People of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> &s;hould not &s;o stand in awe of the &s;ignes of heaven, as the hea|then were. For many of the heathen looked no higher then the Firma|ment. They con&s;idered not, that there is an eternall Almighty God<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 103.19.</NOTE> ruling over all. The Lord &s;aith by <HI>Amos:</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Amos 4.7.</NOTE> I have withholden the raine from you, when there were yet three moneths to the harve&s;t: and I cau&s;ed it to raine upon one Citty, and cau&s;ed it not to raine upon ano|ther Citty: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not, withered.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Deut. 28.23. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">evit. 26.19.</NOTE> God denounced to the <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> that for their Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions He would make the heaven over their head to be bra&s;&s;e, and the earth under them to be iron. He would change Natures cour&s;e, acco<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ding to his holy and righteous plea&s;ure. And whereas hee will do &s;o &s;ometimes, His people are not &s;o to feare the Iudgements &s;ignified in the heaven as do the heathen, which know not the God of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> as if there were no way to e&s;cape them; but to remember, what the Lord &s;aith by <HI>Ioel,</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Joel 3.16. See <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Tran&s;lati|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in the Mar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt.</NOTE> that though he doth roare out of <HI>Sion,</HI> and the heavens and the earth &s;hake, He will be the place of repaire or harbour to his people, and the &s;trength of the children of <HI>I&s;rael. Zephaniah</HI> therefore teacheth them their duty, &s;aying:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Zeph. 3.i, 2, 3</NOTE> Seeke righteou&s;nes, &s;eeke meekenes; it may be yee &s;hall be hid in the day of the Lords anger.</P>
<P>Wee conclude this An&s;were with <HI>O&s;ianders</HI> words on the Text: <HI>Ne di&s;catis impietatem gentium, quoe non modo meteora inu&s;itata, &amp; motus &s;yderum ob&s;ervant, atque ex iis de futuris eventibus pro|nunciant, verum etiam ita metuunt a con&s;tellationibus, ut earum
<PB REF="18"> effectus evitare non po&s;&s;e exi&s;timent. Haec enim Gentium e&s;t im|pietas, nec popu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">um Dei decet. Non damnatur A&s;trologia pura, (quae nihil habet de magia) &s;i modo quis A&s;trologicas praedictiones pro conjecturis, non autem pro vaticiniis certis habeat.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> In <HI>Dan 2.</HI> A&s;trologers are named among Magicians and Sorcerers; therefore their profe&s;&s;ion is unwarrantable al&s;o.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The word there rendred A&s;trologers; in the la&s;t Tran&s;lation, is by <HI>Shindler</HI> otherwi&s;e expounded. Hee &s;aith <GAP DESC="foreign"> &s;ignifieth a Philo&s;opher, an A&s;tronomer and Phy&s;itian, which by the Pul&s;e and &V;rine can judge of the Bodies pa&s;&s;ions, which dreames doe imitate or follow. <HI>R. Abraham</HI> al&s;o doth &s;o expound the word. <HI>Avenarius</HI> ob&s;erveth, that <GAP DESC="foreign">, wi&s;e, an&s;wereth to the &s;aid <HI>Hebrew</HI> word. Learned<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg"><HI>Encycl.</HI> P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 140.</NOTE> <HI>Al&s;tedius</HI> doth in like manner where he writeth: <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>&s;apiens. Hinc</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>ni&s;i malis</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>&s;apienter cogitavit.</HI></P>
<P>To conclude this an&s;were. If there were any one Hebrew Word, which properly &s;ignifieth an A&s;trologer, why then doe the<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">See in <HI>Bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+torfs</HI> greater <HI>Chaldaicall</HI> Lexicon.</NOTE> <HI>Rabbins</HI> u&s;e the words <GAP DESC="foreign"> and <GAP DESC="foreign"> in <HI>Heb:</HI> letters, as <GAP DESC="foreign"> an A&s;trologer, and <GAP DESC="foreign"> A&s;trologie?</P>
<P>In the holy Bible printed <HI>Anno 1540.</HI> to be read in Churches, and continued therein many yeeres (for ought which can be found) there is not any the lea&s;t mention of the word A&s;trologer, A&s;trologian or A&s;tro|logie. And it may be ob&s;erved, that in &s;undry Tran&s;lations, the words rendred A&s;trologers and A&s;trologians are otherwi&s;e interpreted.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> It is &s;aid in <HI>Act. 19.19.</HI> Many of them which u&s;ed curious Arts, brought their bookes together, and burnt them before all men. And they were bookes of A&s;trologie. And therefore A&s;trologie is dam|nable.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> If it can be proved, that among the &s;aid curious Arts, true A|&s;trologie was one, then it would follow, that it is unlawfull. But whereas that cannot bee, therefore that Text maketh nothing again&s;t the &s;ame.</P>
<P>The <HI>Syriacke</HI> Text hath it <GAP DESC="foreign"> which <HI>Treme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l us</HI> rendreth <HI>Magicam artem exercentes.</HI> And <HI>Jun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us</HI> in his annotation thereon &s;aith: <HI>Lucas</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>vocat</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>amuleta &amp; periapta quaelibet Magica, quorum Scientiam &amp; artem libris expre&s;&s;erant. Recte itaque Syrus &amp; Arabs interpretes de rebus Ma|gicis interpretati &s;unt.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE N="v" PLACE="marg">In his Tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ti&s;e concerni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> A&s;trologie i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his <HI>Encyclop<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></NOTE><HI>Al&s;tedius</HI> that late Learned Writer delivereth thus concerning A&s;trologie: <HI>qui illam &s;uper&s;titionis damnant, u&s;um per abu&s;um
<PB REF="19"> tolli putare videntur, admodum &s;ophi&s;tice. Utilitas autem ip&s;ius inde manife&s;ta e&s;t; quod eclip&s;es, tempe&s;tates, &amp; alia infinita per hanc &s;cientiam p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aedicantur. Hinc A&s;tronomia traditur propter A&s;trologiam, &amp; ad eam refertur tanquam ad finem &amp;</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Cut enim docemus &amp; di&s;cimus &s;phaeram &amp; theorias planetarum? Annon, ut vires &s;tellarum cogno&s;camus, &amp; res futuras, quatenus per no&s;tram imbecillitatem fieri pote&s;t, praedicamus?</HI> Whereof the Summe is, that though the profe&s;&s;ion of A&s;trologie hath bin abu&s;ed by &s;ome, yet the lawfull u&s;e of it is not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">herefore to bee taken away. For what is there, how good &s;oever, that hath not bin abu&s;ed? Many are the profits of it about naturall matters pertaining unto this life, and therefore it is to bee duely respected.</P>
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