The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

And now the Lord being about to lay aside the Mosaical Polity, and erect the Gospel Polity of the Ecclesiastical Kingdom of Jesus Christ, it is accompanied with Earthquakes.

And now the Lord being about to lay aside the Mosaical Polity, and erect the Gospel Polity of the Ecclesiastical Kingdome of Jesus Christ, it is accompanied with Earthquakes.

2. The veil of the Temple was rent from top to bottom, probably it was effected by he Earthquake, and the accomplishment of the Prophesy which the Apostle maketh mention of, Heb. 12.26, 27, 28, 29. whose voice then shook the Earth, but now he •ath promised saying, yet once more I shake not Earth only, but also Heaven. And this word yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things •hat are made, that those things which cannot be shaken, may remain, &c. The Prophecy which the Apostle quoteth is Hag. 2.6, 7. which is eminently fulfilled by God, laying aside the Tabernacle and Temple worship, which were the works of mens •ands, by the Commandment of the Lord, and in their stead instituting the Souls of believers to be his Temple, and his visible Church to be built of such materials, who are living stones laid and built upon the Rock of Ages, even Jesus Christ, by •ith, and in the Communion of such a spiritual Temple, hath the Lord erected •is Gospel polity. By this rending of the Veil, Christ hath opened Heaven for •ll that will come unto him, Gentiles as well as Jews, Eph. 2.14. he is our peace, •ho hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of Partition between us, iz. the wall of Partition between the Court of Gentiles and of the Jews. The apostle probably would not say, he hath rent the veil, because he would not provoke the Jews, but it is the same thing that he here speaketh.