A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast…A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast…

The particulars whereof, I shall not touch, till I have in the first place resolved a difficult, yet profitable question.

You may ask, what House, or what Temple doth the Prophet ¹here speak of: and how can it be made to appear that this Scripture is applicable to this time?

You may aske, what House, or what Temple doth the Prophet ¹here speak of: and how can it be made to appeare that this Scripture is applicable to this time?

1. 1Another Temple meant in this vision then that of Jerusalem.

I answer, ^lsome have taken great pains to demonstrate, that this Temple, which the Prophet saw in this vision, was no other then the Temple of Solomon, and that the accomplishment of this vision of the Temple, City, and division of the Land, was the building of the Temple and City again, after the captivity, and the restoring of the Levitical worship, and Jewish Republic, which came to pass in the days of Nehemiah and Zerubbabel. This sense is also most obvious to every one that readeth this Prophecy. But there are very strong reasons against it, which make other Learned Expounders not to embrace it.

I answere, ^lsome have taken great paines to demonstrate, that this Temple, which the Prophet saw in this vision, was no other then the Temple of Solomon, and that the accomplishment of this vision of the Temple, City, and division of the Land, was the building of the Temple and City againe, after the captivity, and the restoring of the Leviticall worship, and Jewish Republike, which came to passe in the dayes of Nehemiah and Zorobabel. This sense is also most obvious to every one that readeth this Prophecie. But there are very strong reasons against it, which make other Learned Expositers not to embrace it.