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

Fourthly, These truths that have been delivered about this glory of the new Jerusalem, they call for heavenly hearts, they call off all our hearts from the Earth, why should we have our hearts: grovelling upon the Earth, when as God hath revealed such glorious things as these are? In the 60. of Isa. v. 1. Arise, shine, for thy Light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

Fourthly, These truths that have been delivered about this glory of the new Jerusalem, they call for heavenly hearts, they call off all our hearts from the Earth, why should we have our hearts: groveling upon the Earth, when as God hath revealed such glorious things as these are? In the 60. of Isa. v. 1. Arise, shine, for thy Light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

I may make use of it, at least by way of Allusion, thus: O arise, and shine in heavenliness, and shake off the dust of this Earth, for here you hear of the glory of this Lord, and who knows but it may very suddenly, within a little time arise upon us? yet the very hearing of it were enough to cause us to shake off all Earthliness from our Spirits: when John was shown the new Jerusalem, he was carried up upon the mountain; so if we would understand the glory of this Jerusalem, we must get up our hearts on high. It is an Observation of Mr. Brightman, upon the 4th. of Revel. ⟨p. 106⟩Where we have described the four living Creatures, the Lyon, the Ox, the Man, and the Eagle. Now (saith he) these four living Creatures do set forth the four Estates of the Church. The Lyon sets forth the state of the Church in the Primitive times, they had Lyon-like Spirits, that were able to encounter the rage of persecuting Emperors, to endure all kind of Torment without having their hearts daunted at all.— The second State of the Church was the Ox, that is, Antichrist prevailing, they were as an Ox that is a heavy and dull Creature, fit to bear burdens.—But then the third is the Man, that is, a man comes to inquire after the reason of things, and to understand things, and doth desire liberty. Why now (saith he) in the beginning of the Reformation, the state of the Church was like a Man. They would not be under such base Thraldom to take the yoke of Antichrist as they did before; before they were lead like beasts, but now they were as Men, they would understand what they did.—And then the fourth was like an Eagle, that is, soaring aloft, on high. When the Church