A96104:26
Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safety in eying the churches security, wherein is showed…Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safetie in eying the churches security, wherein is shewed…
Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safety in eying the churches security, wherein is showed the captives redress: being an invitation to all the different minded men in the world to become one; with the advantage of unity, and the danger of variety from the example of the saints and servants of God, as well in former as these latter times. Offered to the view of the 97 builders employed in that work, for the building of the true temple, and all others. / By Thomas Watson, a lover of peace.Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safetie in eying the churches security, wherein is shewed the captives redress: being an invitation to all the different minded men in the world to become one; with the advantage of unity, and the danger of variety from the example of the saints and servants of God, as well in former as these latter times. Offered to the view of the 97 builders imployed in that work, for the building of the true temple, and all others. / By Thomas Watson, a lover of peace.
London: printed by J.C., 1661
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. The thing demanded.
4. Their answer to the thing demanded.
5. And I astly, the answer of God to them in the thing Answered.
1. The People demanding were the Babylonians, or men of Babel; for so it is plainly understood in the first clause of my text, for there they that carried us away captive, If any one be so scrupulous as to know where it is detracted from, let him but cast his eye to the first words of this Psalm, and he may answer himself, it was by the rivers of Babylon, or the rivers in Babylon, for there was it that these prisoners of hope were carried.
1. The People demanding were the Babilonians, or men of Babel; for so it is plainly understood in the first clause of my text, for there they that carried us away captive, If any one be so scrupulous as to know where it is detracted from, let him but cast his eye to the first words of this Psalm, and he may answer himself, it was by the rivers of Babylon, or the rivers in Babylon, for there was it that these prisoners of hope were carried.