The unbelievers preparing for Christ. By T.HThe vnbeleevers preparing for Christ. By T.H

And first to make way for our selves and then ⟨p. 156⟩to press on unto the point, we must therefore understand that our Saviour Christ came in the last day of asking, as it were, to Jerusalem, they had had many Priests to teach them, and many Prophets to exhort them, and a great many of means of life and salvation vouchsafed unto them; now when Christ was coming towards the city and saw it a far off, and fo•• saw also the desolation that should come upon it his bowels yearned within him towards the people, and he mourned secretly within himself, Oh these famous monuments and goodly buildings shall all be laid waste, thou hast had many Priests to advise thee, and many Prophets to instruct thee in the ways of life, but now those days are gone and past: Nay the great Prophet of the world Christ Jesus is now come to woe thee to receive the things belonging to thy peace, and yet thy heart is hardened, and thou will not receive the things belonging to thy peace, and therefore now I will turn my preaching into mourning and sighing; Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that thou hadst known at least in this thy day the things belonging to thy peace, but now they are hidden from thine eyes, now those golden days are gone, and the gate of mercy is shut, there is no more means of grace and salvation offered, the Gospel shall never more be vouchsafed unto thee, and because thou hast rejected the means of salvation offered, they shall never more be granted: so that now here we have the passing peal of Jerusalem by our Saviour, look as it is with a man that is carrying to be buried, his ⟨p. 157⟩wife she weeps, and his children they mourn, and his friends they lament. So it is here, our Saviour he follows Jerusalem to the grave as it were, and when he could do no more for it, then he weeps and mourns over it, Oh that thou hadst known in this thy day the things belonging to thy peace; and the exhortation that here Christ presseth upon Jerusalem, depends upon three circumstances;

And first to make way for our selves and then ⟨p. 156⟩to presse on unto the point, we must therefore understand that our Saviour Christ came in the last day of asking, as it were, to Ierusalem, they had had many Priests to teach them, and many Prophets to exhort them, and a great many of means of life and salvation vouchsafed unto them; now when Christ was comming towards the city and saw it a far off, and fo saw also the desolation that should come upon it his bowells yearned within him towards the people, and he mourned secretly within himselfe, Oh these famous monuments and goodly buildings shall all be layd waste, thou hast had many Priests to advise thee, and many Prophets to instruct thee in the wayes of life, but now those dayes are gone and past: Nay the great Prophet of the world Christ Iesus is now come to woe thee to receive the things belonging to thy peace, and yet thy heart is hardned, and thou will not receive the things belonging to thy peace, and therefore now I will turne my preaching into mourning and sighing; Oh Ierusalem, Ierusalem, that thou hadst knowne at least in this thy day the things belonging to thy peace, but now they are hidden from thine eyes, now those golden dayes are gone, and the gate of mercy is shut, there is no more meanes of grace and salvation offered, the Gospell shall never more be vouchsafed unto thee, and because thou hast rejected the meanes of salvation offered, they shall never more be granted: so that now here we have the passing peale of Ierusalem by our Saviour, look as it is with a man that is carrying to be buried, his