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

Secondly, We find that God saith, that his Church is his Inheritance. Isa. 19.25. It is his own Inheritance; Yet how do the wicked break into the Inheritance of God for the present! But ⟨p. 32⟩there is a time a coming, that the Lord will make it appear to all the World, that his People are his Inheritance.

Thirdly, The Church is called the Dearly Beloved of Gods Soul, Jer. 12.7. It is a very high Expression, the Dearly Beloved of his Soul: And yet at that time the Lord saith there, that he will give the dearly Beloved of his Soul into the hand of their Enemies. Oh! but how doth it appear then that the Church is the dearly Beloved of Gods Soul? Well, though it doth not so appear now to the World, God hath a time to make it appear before all the World, that his Church is the dearly Beloved of his Soul.

A fourth Expression is, That it is the Peculiar Treasure of God, in the 19 of Exod. v. 5. Ye shall be a peculiar Treasure unto me above all People. Men make much of their Treasure, but especially Treasures that are Peculiar: Now the Lord hath another Treasure besides the Church; the Blessings of God in Nature are God's Treasure; therefore in the 28 of Deut. 12. verse, the Scripture saith, that God did bring out of ⟨p. 33⟩his good treasure, when he speaks of the outward blessings of his People: when God gives us of the good things of nature, he gives us out of his good treasure; I, but that's a Common Treasure, the treasure of nature: But God hath a Peculiar Treasure, and that's his Church, there's the Riches of God: Just as if a Merchant should be trading for divers sorts of Commodities, perhaps he trades for Clothes, or Lumber stuff, there is some treasure there; I, but he trades for Jewels and Pearls besides, and he hath them locked up under divers Locks, and there he accounts all his treasure to be: Now I may compare all the good things of this world, in respect of the Excellency of the Church to a deal of Lumber, of Clothes, and such things indeed as have some worth in them: But when you come to the Church there be the Jewels of God, the Pearls of God, and the heart of God is upon them: there God communicates the Riches of his goodness: Oh! it's a blessed thing to be one of Gods people, then thou art one of his Jewels, of his treasure, of his peculiar treasure. Now doth it appear to the World that the Church is the