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

To illustrate all this by a similitude from other Kings. Two things manifest a King to be a ⟨p. 35⟩King, & show forth the glory of his Majesty: 1. His power and rule abroad throughout all his Dominions: 2. The observance, the worship, and State ceremonies that are at Court; and these show him to be King as much as the former. This we may see in Solomon, whose Royalty and Majesty was held forth thereby, as much as by his power, 2 Chron. 9. 4. When the Queen of Sheba had seen the house that he had built, the meat of his Table, the attendance of his Ministers, and their apparel, and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord, it was said, there was no more spirit in her. And in the 17. & 19. verses, He made a Throne for the glory of his Majesty, the like whereof was not made in any Kingdom. Now Christs Court on earth are his Churches, which are called Gods House, Heb. 10. 21. and 25. compared. And there his throne is set up, as in the Temple of old. In all the Visions of God, as sitting on a throne made unto the Prophets, that throne is presented as in the Temple: So Isaiah 6. 1. I saw the Lord sitting upon a Throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the Temple. The Temple was therefore called the place where Gods honour dwells, Psal. 26. 8. that is, his Court: as some of our Kings houses are called Honours. And thus in the New Testament, in the representation of the Church on earth as worshipping him, Rev. 4. 8, 9, and 10. verses: This Church hath a Throne in the midst of it, and God sits thereon, ver. 5, 6, 7. So that indeed, there is nothing doth more exalt and glorify God then his public worship, and the government of his ⟨p. 36⟩Church purely and rightly administered. 1 Chron. 16. 29. Give unto the Lord the [glory] due unto his Name, [worship] the Lord in the beauty of holiness. These two are joined together. (The like you have