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

But now if you would know why other things are dark, they are dark because the Lord intends in them to manifest some glorious thing, that he will do towards the latter end of the world for his People, that the truth is, God would not have generally known till then. You will say, why then have we the Scriptures? Yes, we have them now, that God may appear so much the more glorious when they are fulfilled, that they may be manifested to his Saints that these are no other things than the Prophets did Prophesy of divers thousand Years ago. Now this will mightily add to the Joy of the Saints, when they shall come to see, O this is partly fulfilling of such a Prophecy in Isa. and in Ezek. and in the Revelations; now it adds to the Joy of the Church, to know that these things that now they have, are no other than God did foretell by his holy Prophets, as no question now when ⟨p. 45⟩Christ was Prophesied of. For he was Prophesied of for four thousand Years before he came into the world, and in a Mighty dark way, as now this first Prophecy of Christ: The seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents Head; what could they understand of this? and yet under this Prophecy was the whole Gospel Prophesied of: and he shall bruise thy heel; there all the sufferings of Jesus Christ were Prophesied of under that Prophecy. Now I am confident, that for the general part of the Jews, they understood no more of that Prophecy to be meant of Christ and his sufferings, than we when we Read in Ezekiel and in the Revelations, do understand what God will do for his Church in time to come: But now when this Prophecy is fulfilled, that we find the seed of the Woman is come, and how he hath overcome Principalities and Powers, and how the Devil hath opposed him; now we see the meaning of this Prophecy: And now, we can bless God so much the more for Christ.

But now if you would know why other things are dark, they are dark because the Lord intends in them to manifest some glorious thing, that he will do towards the latter end of the world for his People, that the truth is, God would not have generally known till then. You will say, why then have we the Scriptures? Yes, we have them now, that God may appear so much the more glorious when they are fulfill'd, that they may be manifested to his Saints that these are no other things than the Prophets did Prophesie of divers thousand Years ago. Now this will mightily add to the Joy of the Saints, when they shall come to see, O this is partly fulfilling of such a Prophecy in Isa. and in Ezek. and in the Revelations; now it adds to the Joy of the Church, to know that these things that now they have, are no other than God did foretel by his holy Prophets, as no question now when