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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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4. By what means a people may be said to be made capable, or learned in this School to sing the Lords song?
1. What this song of Zion is, or what the Jews enemies might here mean by the demands of Israel? Zion is the City that God doth accept of for the improvement of all those that are of the stock of Abraham, and the Linage of David, in that state wherein it is witnessed that Abraham was Gods friend, and David a man after Cods own heart, and therefore God giveth this restimony of it, as he witnesseth, that he would and did delight himself in them, to wit, Abraham and David, even so he witnesseth that his dwelling is in Zion, & that He hath desired it for his habitation, Psalm 132.13. and as he hath it Psalm 76.2. Zion is the City of the living God, ⟨p. 5⟩and Psalm 84. and 7. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. And so the song of Zion ariseth from the occasion of Gods dealing with his people in that dispensation, that he shows and manifests himself to his people in.
1. What this song of Zion is, or what the Jewes enemies might here mean by the demands of Israel? Zion is the City that God doth accept of for the improvement of all those that are of the stock of Ahraham, and the Linage of David, in that state wherein it is witnessed that Abraham was Gods friend, and David a man after Cods own heart, and therefore God giveth this restimony of it, as he witnesseth, that he would and did delight himself in them, to wit, Abraham and David, even so he witnesseth that his dwelling is in Zion, & that He hath desired it for his habitation, Psalm 132.13. and as he hath it