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Jerusalems glory breaking forth into the world being a Scripture-discovery of the New-Testament Church…
Jerusalems glory breaking forth into the world being a Scripture-discovery of the New-Testament Church in the latter days, immediately before the Second Coming of Christ.Jerusalems glory breaking forth into the world being a Scripture-discovery of the New-Testament Church in the latter dayes, immediately before the Second Coming of Christ.
London: printed by J.A., 1684
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For the first, To compare some Scriptures; the Scriptures are very remarkable, especially in the Prophet Isaiah, compared with divers Scriptures in the Book of the Revelations; you may see (as it were) how they do Echo one to another, whereby we may see apparently, that Isaiah was an Evangelical Prophet (as he is called by many Divines.)
For the first, To compare some Scriptures; the Scriptures are very remarkable, especially in the Prophet Isaiah, compared with divers Scriptures in the Book of the Revelations; you may see (as it were) how they do Eccho one to another, whereby we may see apparently, that Isaiah was an Evangelical Prophet (as he is called by many Divines.)
The first is in the 24. Isa. v. 23. compared with the 4. Rev. 4. v. In the 24. of Isa. Then (speaking of God's deliverance of his Church from evil, then he makes this promise) the Moon shall be confounded, and the Sun ashamed, when ⟨p. 13⟩the Lord of Hosts shall Reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his Ancients gloriously. The Moon shall be confounded, and the Sun ashamed: The meaning of it is this: There shall be so much glory, as shall darken the glory of the Sun and Moon, and because their glory shall be darkened, they shall be as it were ashamed: As a man when he sees others come that have more glory than himself, it puts him to some shame; so they shall be ashamed; why? because the Lord of Hosts shall Reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, before his Ancients gloriously. Certainly this hath not been yet fulfilled, the Lord hath not so reigned in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem before his Ancients gloriously, so as to darken the glory of the Sun and Moon.
The first is in the 24. Isa. v. 23. compared with the 4.