To it] That is, to Jerusalem. Wherefore1 this City must be built before they all of them will fall in love with her. Indeed, I do conceive, that some of them will lay their hand to help forward the work of this City, as did Hiram with2 Solomon, and Darius, Cyrus & Artaxerxes with Ezra and Nehemiah, at the building and repairing the City, in the letter, in the days of old; But yet, I say, the great conquest of the Kings will be by the beauty and glory of this City, when she is builded. Thou shalt arise, O Lord, and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favour her, yea, the set time is come: for 3thy Servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof: So the Heathen shall fear the Name of the Lord, and all Kings thy Glory. And indeed, before this City is set up, and established in her own place, most of the Kings and great ones of the Earth will be found employed and taken up in another work, than to4 fall in love with Mount Zion, and with the Hill thereof. They will be found in love with Mistress Babylon, the Mother of ⟨p. 223⟩Harlots, the Mistress of Witchcrafts, and Abominations of the Earth. They will, I say, be committing Fornication with her, and will be as the horns upon the heads of the Beast, to defend the riding Lady from the Gunshot that the Saints continually will be making at her by the force of the Word and Spirit of God. They will be shaking the sharp end of their weapons against the Son of God, continually labouring to keep him out of his Throne, and from having that rule in the Church, and in the World as becomes him who is the head of the body, and over all principality and5 power. These shall make war with the Lamb: but I say, it shall so come about, at the last, by the illuminating Grace of God, and by the faithful and patient enduring of the Saints, together with the glory that every-where shall now be abiding on the Church and Congregation of Jesus, that they shall begin to receive a mans heart, and shall consider things that have not been told them: wherefore at last they shall withdraw themselves from the love of this Mistress, and shall leave her to scrape for her self in the world, and shall come with repentance ⟨p. 224⟩and rejoicing to Zion; nay, not only so, but to avenge the Quarrel of God, and the Vengeance of his Temple; and to recompense her also for the delusion and enchantments wherewith she hath entangled them:
To it] That is, to Jerusalem. Wherefore1 this City must be built before they all of them will fall in love with her. Indeed, I do conceive, that some of them will lay their hand to help forward the work of this City, as did Hiram with2 Solomon, and Darius, Cyrus & Artaxerxes with Ezra and Nehemiah, at the buliding and repairing the City, in the letter, in the days of old; But yet, I say, the great conquest of the Kings will be by the beauty and glory of this City, when she is builded. Thou shalt arise, O Lord, and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favour her, yea, the set time is come: for 3thy Servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof: So the Heathen shall fear the Name of the Lord, and all Kings thy Glory. And indeed, before this City is set up, and established in her own place, most of the Kings and great ones of the Earth wil be found imployed and taken up in another work, than to4 fall in love with Mount Zion, and with the Hill thereof. They will be found in love with Mistris Babylon, the Mother of ⟨p. 223⟩Harlots, the Mistris of Witchcrafts, and Abominations of the Earth. They will, I say, be committing Fornication with her, and will be as the horns upon the heads of the Beast, to defend the riding Lady from the Gunshot that the Saints continually will be making at her by the force of the Word and Spirit of God. They will be shaking the sharp end of their weapons against the Son of God, continually labouring to keep him out of his Throne, and from having that rule in the Church, and in the World as becomes him who is the head of the body, and over all principality and5 power. These shall make war with the Lamb: but I say, it shall so come about, at the last, by the illuminating Grace of God, and by the faithful and patient enduring of the Saints, together with the glory that every-where shall now be abiding on the Church and Congregation of Jesus, that they shal begin to receive a mans heart, and shall consider things that have not been told them: wherefore at last they shall withdraw themselves from the love of this Mistris, and shall leave her to scrape for her self in the world, and shall come with repentance ⟨p. 224⟩
- 12 Chron. 2. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
- 2Ezra. 1. 1, 2, 3, 4. & 6. 1, 2, 3 & 7. 21.
- 3Psal. 102 13, 14, 15
- 4Rev. 17. •, 12, 13, 14. and 18. 3, 9.
- 5Rev. 17. 14.
