Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

¹2. When Solomon confined Shimei to his House in Jerusalem, saying, Dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither; for it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the Brook Cedron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die. Now two of the servants of Shimei running away from him, he follows after them, and passing over this Brook Cedron, it became his death; why, here was a type of Jesus Christ; we were those fugitive servants that run away from God; and to fetch us home, Jesus goes over the brook Cedron; rather than he will lose his servants, he will lose his life, ⟨p. 343⟩All the difference that I find betwixt Shimei and Christ in this, is, in that Shimei was but a wicked man, and yet he died an honourable death, not for his servants, but for his own transgression; but Christ, being a just man (so Pilate's wife sent her Husband word, Have thou nothing to do with that just man) he died a most ignominious shameful death, even the death of the Cross, and that not for himself, but for us;² He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities.

1. 11 Kin. 2.36, 37
2. 2Isa. 53.5.

3. When the good Kings, Hezekiah, and Asa, and Josiah purged the City and the Temple of Idolatry, they burnt the cursed things at the Brook Kidron, and cast them therein. And Asa cut down the Idol, ¹and he brought out the Grove from the House of the Lord without Jerusalem unto the Brook Kidron, and burnt it at the Brook Kidron;—and the Priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought all the uncleanness that they found in the Temple of the Lord, into the Court of the house of the Lord; and the Levites took it to carry it out abroad into the Brook Kidron.—and they arose and took away the Altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the Altars for Incense took they away,