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

& so is all one with that expression here, [Lord God Almighty,] unto which 2 they add this other, Thou King of Saints: And so these two are distinct, and both His titles. Then secondly, here is a double duty suitably due unto him according to these his titles, to fear him, and to worship him, both ⟨p. 33⟩which are expressed by this general, to glorify his Name. Thirdly, here is a double declaration of the justness of these titles, & the ground that calls for both these duties, his great and marvellous works in the world declaring him to be Lord God Almighty, or King of Nations, and therefore Fear is due unto him, (and accordingly in Jeremiah we only read, Who would not fear thee, O King of Nations?) and then there are his just and true ways, declaring him to be King of Saints, (which these here in their song add unto that of Jeremiah) and this calls for Worship from us unto him: Who shall not worship thee, O King of Saints? for true and righteous are thy ways and judgements. In fine, here is Christs supremacy acknowledged both in matters Civill and Ecclesiastical, in his government of the world, and of his Church. And as he is known to be King of Nations by his works of Providence abroad in the world, so to be King of Saints, by those true and righteous ways wherein his Churches are to walk. And a parallel place unto this latter, (as that of Jeremiah was unto the former) is that in Psal. 68. 24. where the Psalmist speaking of this worship of Christ, says, They have seen thy goings, O God, even the [goings] of my [King] in the [Sanctuary.] Mark it; the goings he speaks of are restrained to his goings in the Sanctuary; and spoken of him also as the Churches King, [My King.] And so the words are the very same in sense, that they in the Temple here do utter, [Just and true are thy ways, thou King of Saints.] And the Psalmist evidently speaks of his ways of worship ⟨p. 34⟩in the Church, as appears by the very next words, ver. 25. The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after, &c. expressing the worship of him in his Church in the language of the Old Testament, and he as their King in the midst of them, going in his greatest state. And yet more clearly, ver. 26. Bless ye God in the congregations. Yea and all this proves to be New Testament too, and a prophecy thereof, though uttered in the phrase of and in a prophecy of the Old.