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

Now for a Conclusion, and winding up of all. Is this Word of the Lord spoken to you, in a way of general Application only, such as similitudinary examples (which in some things hold a likeness) use to have, (All things happening in the Old Testament for examples, and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come, as the Apostle speaks, 1 Cor. 10. 11?) Or is there not some more special word that applies this Vision of the Candlestick & Olive Trees, as Prophetic Types of the like work of finishing the Temple, to fall out under the times of ⟨p. 54⟩the Gospel, when the Church is come out of Popery? That Babylon was the Prophetic Type of Rome, you all know where to find that; it is in the 17. and 18. of the Rev. and so applied by the holy Ghost. And that the foundation of this Temple was the type of our first Reformation when we came out from Babylon, was in the first Observation shown you, out of Chap. 14. and 15. And that the Samaritans are by the holy Ghost made the type of those that shall in any Age corrupt the worship of God, by mingling Idolatrous or Popish superstitions, as our Innovators have done; we meet with the application thereof, by the holy Ghost himself, unto some living in the best of Churches under the Gospel, namely, that of Philadelphia, Revel. 3. 9. who say they are Jews, and are not; Behold, (says God) I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee, (as speaking unto that Church.) Now whereas the holy Ghost describing them to be such as say they are Jews, but are not, it is in a Periphrasis of speech all one, as to say they are Samaritans. Josephus tells us, that when the Jews were in a prosperous estate, the Samaritans would then say that they were Jews; and that fore-mentioned place, the 4. of Ezra, manifestly implies as much; for they there plead, We worship God as you do, &c. And although we pass not this judgement on mens persons, yet we may speak of causes and things as the Scripture hath done before us.

NOw for a Conclusion, and winding up of all. Is this Word of the Lord spoken to you, in a way of generall Application onely, such as similitudinary examples (which in some things hold a likenesse) use to have, (All things happening in the Old Testament for examples, and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come, as the Apostle speaks,