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

To the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem] to signify the Vicinity wherein God will have his People ⟨p. 9⟩be to him, as Jerusalem was to Zion, their Houses and Dwellings being near to his own; the City to the Temple. ¹And this Passage may also look back upon their former State: whereas they had heretofore nothing but Wilderness, they had now a City. To which that also agrees, Heb. 10. 16. Their earlier Progenitors were Wanderers and Strangers even in Canaan it self, but now God had prepared for them a City in the Heavenly Canaan, as before he did in the Earthly. But lest their Minds should stay in the external Sign, he lets them know he means the heavenly Jerusalem, i. e. the Christian Church, which was the Kingdom of Heaven begun; and Heaven it self, as being that Kingdom, in its final and consummate State.

To the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem] to signify the Vicinity wherein God will have his People ⟨p. 9⟩be to him, as Jerusalem was to Sion, their Houses and Dwellings being near to his own; the City to the Temple. ¹And this Passage may also look back upon their former State: whereas they had heretofore nothing but Wilderness, they had now a City. To which that also agrees, Heb. 10. 16. Their earlier Progenitors were Wanderers and Strangers even in Canaan it self, but now God had prepared for them a City in the Heavenly Canaan, as before he did in the Earthly. But lest their Minds should stay in the external Sign, he lets them know he means the heavenly Jerusalem, i. e. the Christian Church, which was the Kingdom of Heaven begun; and Heaven it self, as being that Kingdom, in its final and consummate State.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Id. ibid.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Id. ibid.