A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An alarm in God's holy mountain containing an…A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An allarm in God's holy mountain containing an…

John the Baptist endeavoureth to take off the Jews from their pretended Privileges, of having Abraham to their Father, or their being his natural Seed, or Offspring; and as so ⟨p. 2⟩considered in Covenant with God, and thought their State and Condition good: Which he strove to convince them was a mistake, and this he doth by that Tropical Expression in ver. 10. Now also is the Axe laid to the root of the Trees. And in this 12th. verse, Whose Fan is in his hand, &c. As if he should say, You shall ere long see your selves deceived, for all your great confidence in the flesh, touching your external, federal, relative holiness, and legal privileges: For Christ with his Axe will now quickly cut you down: And with his Fan, fan you away as Chaff, if you have no better right to Church-membership on Earth, and to the glory in Heaven, than that which is derived to you from the account whereof you boast, viz. Having Abraham to your Father. So much only shall now serve as to the Scope and Coherence of the Words.

John the Baptist endeavoureth to take off the Jews from their pretended Priviledges, of having Abraham to their Father, or their being his natural Seed, or Offspring; and as so ⟨p. 2⟩considered in Covenant with God, and thought their State and Condition good: Which he strove to convince them was a mistake, and this he doth by that Tropical Expression in ver. 10. Now also is the Ax laid to the root of the Trees. And in this 12th. verse, Whose Fan is in his hand, &c. As if he should say, You shall e're long see your selves deceived, for all your great confidence in the flesh, touching your external, federal, relative holiness, and legal priviledges: For Christ with his Ax will now quickly cut you down: And with his Fan, fan you away as Chaff, if you have no better right to Church-membership on Earth, and to the glory in Heaven, than that which is derived to you from the account whereof you boast, viz. Having Abraham to your Father. So much only shall now serve as to the Scope and Coherence of the Words.