Jerusalems glory breaking forth into the world being a Scripture-discovery of the New-Testament Church…

This is not spoken only unto Godly men, personally and particularly, but to Godly men as in a Society, as in the Church; they shall be made an Eternal Excellency, and a Joy of many Generations.

And again, for the 9. of Zech. v. 16. And the Lord their God shall save them, in that day, as the Flock of his People: ⟨p. 68⟩For they shall be as the stones of a Crown lifted up, as an Ensign upon his Land. They shall be as the stones of a Crown lifted up: This shows the Excellent glory that shall be put upon the Saints: Now they are as stones in the dirt; but then they shall be as the stones in a Crown that's lifted up. And so in the 12. Chap. vers. 5. And the Governors of Judah shall say in their hearts, The Inhabitants of Jerusalem, shall be my strength in the Lord of Hosts their God. It is not, shall be, that's in another Character, and they in that Jerusalem, they shall be honoured by the Governors of Judah; And the Governors of Judah shall say, well, our strength it is in the Inhabitants of this Jerusalem; In the Lord of hosts their God; We accounted them before but as Schismatics and precise Fools, but we see that God is with them. And the Governors of Judah shall say, Our strength is in the Inhabitants of Jerusalem, in the Lord of Hosts their God. This will be a blessed time, when Governors shall acknowledge the Saints to be those that the Lord doth own; and they shall acknowledge the very strength of a ⟨p. 69⟩Nation to consist in the Saints: They shall see that the Saints have a propriety in God beyond others; there is such a time a coming, however they be despised now. In the third of Mal. v. 3. The Lord makes a promise that he will gather up his Jewels, and there shall be a time when there shall be a known difference between him that feareth God and him that feareth him not; The Saints of God are compared to Jewels that lie in the dirt, and Swine trampling upon the Jewels, but there is a time that the Lord will gather up these Jewels, and at that day there shall be known a difference between him that feareth God, and him that feareth him not: this time is coming, and this is the time that my Text speaks of, that we should give the Lord no rest until he make Jerusalem thus: Certainly when this is, it will be the praise of the whole Earth.