Zerubbabels encouragement to finish the temple. A sermon preached before the honourable House of…

you have the Son of man crowned, the Lamb having overcome the Kings, to profess and countenance the Protestant Religion with their authority: And then ver. 15. you have mention of a Temple, Churches being in all these Northern parts publicly erected by their allowance and commandment; as the Jews did build the Temple by the Decree of Cyrus. And Chap. 15. the pourers out of the vials do come all forth of the Temple, ver. 6. And if we consult the 11. Cap. (the main occurrences of which are evidently contemporary, and do sum up the story of the same time with the Vials, as by comparing the one with the other, late Interpreters have observed. This Book running over two entire Prophecies of all times, (each of them) ⟨p. 16⟩whereof the first ends at the end of Cha. 11.) Now in that Chapter (which therefore contains the story of the last times) there are three editions of that Temple plainly intimated. The first, supposed to be already standing when the Vision is given; but imperfect in this, that it hath too great an outward Court of an ignorant and profane multitude laid to it. And therefore John, bearing the person of the godly of that age, is stirred up to set upon a second Reformation of it, and is bidden to measure that Temple, Altar, and worshippers anew, and to cast out that outward Court that had defiled it. And then ver. 19. there is a third edition of an Holy of Holies, for therein the Ark is said to be seen; now the Ark stood only in the Holy of Holies: noting out a more perfect Church at last then all the former had been. A manifest allusion this is unto those three parts of Solomons Temple, the outward Court, the inward Temple, and the Holy of Holies.

you have the Son of man crowned, the Lambe having overcome the Kings, to professe and countenance the Protestant Religion with their authority: And then ver. 15. you have mention of a Temple, Churches being in all these Northerne parts publiquely erected by their allowance and commandement; as the Jewes did build the Temple by the Decree of Cyrus. And Chap. 15. the pourers out of the vials doe come all forth of the Temple, ver. 6. And if we consult the 11. Cap. (the maine occurrences of which are evidently contemporary, and doe summe up the story of the same time with the Vials, as by comparing the one with the other, late Interpreters have observed. This Book running over two entire Prophecies of all times, (each of them) ⟨p. 16⟩