The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /

Well, This Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth ⟨p. 99⟩to Jerusalem, which now is, and is in bondage with her children, he sets out the estate of the Church of the Jews, the Jerusalem that now is, to be an estate of bondage, in comparison of the Church of the Gospel; because they had so little knowledge of the Gospel, but were in bondage unto the law, and knew little else but the law. But Jerusalem which is above, that is the state of the Church under the new Testament, is above, in regard of the Gospel, which is free, and is the mother of us all: the Church of God under the Gospel is the Jerusalem which is above; but now it is written, rejoice thou barren that bearest not, break forth and cry thou that travellest not; for the desolate hath many more children then she which hath an husband. That is, those that acknowledge the doctrine of the liberty of the Gospel, at first are but as desolate, as the barren woman, before it be revealed; as Sarah was barren for a while, but afterward she had a child: so the doctrine of the liberty of the Gospel, is but as a barren thing for a while, till people are acquainted with it; and we that are Ministers of the Gospel, it is our work to beget children to Christ, If we should be legal and preach only the law, we should beget children to bondage, to Hagar, but this is our chief work, to beget children to the free woman; to beget children to the free grace of God in Christ. And O that I could beget one child to this free woman! I cannot think, but that there may be many here that are children of Hagar, that it may be have had terrors, and fears in their consciences; and yet are but children of the bond-woman still: Now it is the Gospel that proclaims the Trumpet of Jubilee to those that are under bondage; therefore it is observable what time the Trumpet of the Jubilee was to be blown, Levit. 29. 9. Then shalt thou cause the Trumpet of the Jubilee to sound, on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the your land. What was this day of atonement? it was the day of the public humiliation of all the people for their sins: the day of fasting and prayer appointed by God to afflict their souls, is called a day of atonement, and the Trumpet to proclaim the Jubilee must be blown upon that very ⟨p. 100⟩day, wherein the people had been afflicting their souls for their sins:

Well, This Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth