A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and…

They are in the whole a Figure, an Allegory, which is expounded, Gal. 3. In their way to their Terrestrial Canaan, this People come to Mount Sinai. The Emblem of their Jewish Church-state, under rigorous Severities, which they were to pass from, and so shall we. The Text expresses what they were come, and were tending, to. The Representation whereof hath a double Reference intermediate to the State and Constitution of the Christian Church, and final to the Heavenly State: The former being both a Resemblance, and some Degree of the latter.

Ye are come (saith he) to Mount Zion] the Seat of the Sacred Temple, the Shechinah, the Habitation of the Divine Presence, not ambulatory, as the Tabernacle was, while they were journeying through the Wilderness, but the fixed Residence of the Eternal King, where the Order of Worship was to be continued, to the Fullness of time, as afterwards in the Christian Church it was to be permanent, and unchanged to the end of time; and in the Heavenly State unalterable and eternal. And here in opposition to the case at Mount Sinai, where the People were to stay beneath the Mount, (whereas they ¹were to go up to the House of God on Mount Zion) they are now to ascend, and be higher than Heaven; as their glorious Head and Lord is said to be.²

Ye are come (saith he) to Mount Sion] the Seat of the Sacred Temple, the Shechinah, the Habitation of the Divine Presence, not ambulatory, as the Tabernacle was, while they were journeying through the Wilderness, but the fixed Residence of the Eternal King, where the Order of Worship was to be continued, to the Fulness of time, as afterwards in the Christian Church it was to be permanent, and unchang'd to the end of time; and in the Heavenly State unalterable and eternal. And here in opposition to the case at Mount Sinai, where the People were to stay beneath the Mount, (whereas they ¹