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

That Promise [I will build my Church] is the Magna Charta, yea, the Prima Charta, the Great and First Charter of the Saints in the New Testament; those words in the 16. of Mat. being the ⟨p. 29⟩first that Christ uttered about it; and so, contain within them, all lesser Promises of all sorts, that follow, that concern the building of his Church, or any piece of it. Now all that concern the Building of his Church, are reducible unto these two heads: First, the preservation and enlarging of his Church Mystical, and of his Saints on earth; and thus considering them personally, although they should be scattered each from other: or secondly, the Building up his Church, as gathered in Assemblies to hold forth his public worship in the world, as that place forementioned, is apparently to be understood by the next words: For he speaks of the Keys in the following verse; whereby are meant all Media cultus, all Ordinances of worship, whereby his Church is built. So then this Reason taken from [aedificabo Ecclesiam] branches it self into two Parts;¹ The first is taken from his love to his Church Mystical, on his Saints simply considered as such: The second is from his interest in his own worship: for which he loves his Churches that are the Seat of it, more then all the world.

That Promise [I will build my Church] is the Magna Charta, yea, the Prima Charta, the Great and First Charter of the Saints in the New Testament; those words in the 16. of Mat. being the ⟨p. 29⟩first that Christ uttered about it; and so, contain within them, all lesser Promises of all sorts, that follow, that concerne the building of his Church, or any piece of it. Now all that concerne the Building of his Church, are reducible unto these two heads: First, the preservation and enlarging of his Church Mysticall, and of his Saints on earth; and thus considering them personally, although they should be scattered each from other: or secondly, the Building up his Church, as gathered in Assemblies to hold forth his publique worship in the world, as that place forementioned, is apparently to be understood by the next words: For he speakes of the Keyes in the following verse; whereby are meant all Media cultus, all Ordinances of worship, whereby his Church is built. So then this Reason taken from [aedificabo Ecclesiam] branches it selfe into two Parts;