The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

Secondly, This Jesus Christ is the Lord; as he was received before for our High-Priest, so he is received for our Lord and King, if we receive him right as all real Christians do: Zech. 6.12. Behold the man [God directing it, saith Grotius, Pilate fitted these words, or applied them to Christ, John 19.5. Pilate saith to them, Behold the man] whose name is the Branch, [Messiah is his name, saith the Chaldee] ver. 3. even he shall build the Temple of the Lord, (both the material Temple, which Joshua and Zerubbabel could not without him, and the spiritual Temple, the universal Church especially) and he shall bear the glory, (all the glory and excellency of the Church is in Christ, the Head of it, the glory of rearing up and building a Church to God in the world, is a burden too heavy for any but Christ to bear; he builds it, and wears the glory: Munster and Clarius interpret this glory by Revel. 19.16. On his Vesture was written, King of Kings, Lord of Lords) and shall sit and rule upon his Throne: (Christ is King, Psal. 2.6.) and he shall be a Priest upon his Throne, (Christ a Priest, Psal. 110.4.) and the Counsel of peace shall be between ⟨p. 257⟩them both. Here is the glorious Conjunction of the two Supreme Dignities, the Kingdom and the Priesthood in Christs most excellent Person: The Prophetical Office, saith learned Pemble, is not mentioned, which it may be is but an Appendix of his Priesthood. What is meant by these words, Between them both, some between the Jews and Gentiles? this I like not; some between Zerubbabel the Prince, and Joshua the Priest: But 1. Here is no mention of Zerubbabel. 2. Both the Crowns were set upon Joshua's head, ver. 11. 3. The Branch, ver. 12. was to sit on the Throne and rule: De Dieu I see differs from all; he shall sit and rule upon his Throne; he will not have it translated, super thronum suum, but super thronum ejus; by ejus, meaning Jehovah: So by them both, or those two, he understands the Branch and Jehovah: But what then is meant by the Counsel of peace, he doth not interpret. Cor. a Lapide thus, Either, saith he, between both the Thrones, the Kingly power and Priesthood, or the Prince and the Priest, q. d.