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

Secondly, If you attentively observe it, you shall find that killing expressed by an allusion unto Christs being crucified at last, and then their rising again like his rising again with an earthquake, and ascending into Heaven, as these are said to do, ver. 11, 12, 13. Now with what doth Christ comfort himself before he was to dye? Destroy this Temple, (says he) and in three days I will raise it up again: With the same may you be encouraged also, (though you supposed it yet to come.) It is but a Destruite hoc Templum, a destroying of that you are about to repair, this Temple, ⟨p. 58⟩and but for three days and an half, no longer, for After three days and an half, (as it is twice said, in the 9. and 11. verses) God will rear it up again, and that with advantage, making a better edition of it, even an Holy of Holies, in which the Ark is seen, (as ver. 19.) in comparison of the former. Yea, and further, (as some think) this killing shall be but a Civill death, that is, of them as witnesses only; not a natural death, as men: (For how else are their bodies said to lye dead for three years and an half?) And so the same persons shall rise again and enjoy the fruit of their former labours, and ascend into a greater glory.

Secondly, If you attentively observe it, you shall finde that killing expressed by an allusion unto Christs being crucified at last, and then their rising againe like his rising againe with an earthquake, and ascending into Heaven, as these are said to doe, ver. 11, 12, 13. Now with what doth Christ comfort himselfe before he was to dye? Destroy this Temple, (sayes he) and in three dayes I will raise it up againe: With the same may you be encouraged also, (though you supposed it yet to come.) It is but a Destruite hoc Templum, a destroying of that you are about to repaire, this Temple, ⟨p. 58⟩and but for three dayes and an halfe, no longer, for After three dayes and an halfe, (as it is twice said, in the 9. and 11. verses) God will reare it up againe, and that with advantage, making a better edition of it, even an Holy of Holies, in which the Arke is seene, (as ver. 19.) in comparison of the former. Yea, and further, (as some think) this killing shall be but a Civill death, that is, of them as witnesses onely; not a naturall death, as men: (For how else are their bodies said to lye dead for three yeeres and an halfe?) And so the same persons shall rise again and enjoy the fruit of their former labours, and ascend into a greater glory.