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Because the witness of an Adversary is a double testimony. Let Balaam (who, as some write of a toad, had a pearl in his head, though his body was poisonous) give in his evidence. How goodly are thy tents O Jacob, and thy Tabernacles O Israel, Numb. 24.5. He speaks both by way of interrogation and admiration; their tents were so comely, and their tabernacles so lovely, that their very enemy was affected ⟨p. 36⟩and ravished with them. But whence came Israel to be such a well marshalled army, that he who came to fight against them, thinks them beyond all compare, nay doth himself admire their postures and order, their glory and gallantry. Why, from the presence of their Lord General. The Lord their God is with them, the shout of a King is amongst them.

Because the witness of an Adversary is a double testimony. Let Balaam (who, as some write of a toad, had a pearl in his head, though his body was poysonous) give in his evidence. How goodly are thy tents O Jacob, and thy Tabernacles O Israel, Numb. 24.5. He speaks both by way of interrogation and admiration; their tents were so comely, and their tabernacles so lovely, that their very enemy was affected ⟨p. 36⟩and ravished with them. But whence came Israel to be such a well marshalled army, that he who came to fight against them, thinks them beyond all compare, nay doth himself admire their postures and order, their glory and gallantry. Why, from the presence of their Lord General. The Lord their God is with them, the shout of a King is amongst them.

The new temple which the spirit of God describeth so exactly in its various dimensions, and curious perfections, such as should never have parallel; hath all its glorious privileges from Gods gracious presence; The name of that City from that day shall be, the Lord is there. Ezek. ult. and ult.