THE Subjects of this privilege are the House of David, and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem. These are Typical Expressions, and •here is a spiritual meaning that is to be sought in them, though the literal meaning is •ot to be excluded; and here is a double Type, tho' the thing aimed at in it is one and the same. How far this shall be literally accomplished in bo•h the parts of it, when the Nation of the Jews shall be Converted to the Christian Religion, I shall not enquire now, but confine my present discourse to the Mystical and Spiritual meaning of i•. David was a Type of Christ; and in how many things Christ was represented by him, would be too great a digression now to enquire: but it is certain, that by a frequent Scripture Metonymy, Christ the Antitype, is called by the name of David the Type, Jer 30.9. They shall serve the Lord their God, and David their King, whom I will raise up to them. Ezek. 34 23. I will set up one Shepherd over them, and he shall lead them, even my Servant David. and elsewhere. And there are many things spoken in the Psalms concerning David, that can be properly applied to ⟨p. 45⟩none but Christ. By the House of David, we may literally understand his natural Posterity, or those that descended from him by Natural Generation, so the word, House, is frequently used; under which is shadowed Christ's Spiritual Seed, or those who were given him by his Father, and were to descend from him by a Spiritual Regeneration; such a Seed is promised him, Psal 22.30. A Seed shall serve him; it shall be counted to the Lord for a Generation. And under the Type of David, the Seed of Christ is eminently set forth, in Psal. 89. And it comprehends in it all the Elect of God, whom he tells us that his Father had given to him, and they were in due time to be born of him by a new birth. Jerusalem was a City which God chose out of all the Tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: there he settled his Ordinances, and therefore is said to have a peculiar respect for it, Psal. 87.2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. And hence it is usually applied to the Church of God; sometimes to the Militant, […] 26. Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all; sometimes to the Triumphant, Heb. 12.22. Ye are come to the Heavenly Jerusalem. And in the former of these respects it is here to be understood;
THE Subjects of this priviledge are the House of David, and the Inhabitants of •erusalem. These are Typical Expressions, and •here is a spiritual meaning that is to be sought in them, though the literal meaning is •ot to be excluded; and here is a double Type, tho' the thing aimed at in it is one and the same. How far this shall be literally accomplished in bo•h the parts of it, when the Nation of the Jews shall be Converted to the Christian Religion, I shall not enquire now, but confine my present discourse to the Mystical and Spiritual meaning of i•. David was a Type of Christ; and in how many things Christ was repre•ented by him, would be too great a digression now to enq•ire: but it is certain, that by a frequent Scripture Metonymie, Christ the Antitype, is called by the name of David the Type, Jer 30.9. They shall serve the Lord their God, and David their King, whom I will raise up to them. Ezek. 34 23. I will set up one Shepherd over them, and he shall lead them, even my Servant David. and elsewhere. And there are many things spoken in the Psalms concerning David, that can be properly applied to ⟨p. 45⟩none but Christ. By the House of David, we may literally understand his natural Posterity, or those that descended from him by Natural Generation, so the word, House, is frequently used; under which is shadowed Christ's Spiritual Seed, or those who were given him by his Father, and were to descend from him by a Spiritual Regeneration; such a Seed is promised him, Psal 22.30. A Seed shall serve him; it shall be counted to the Lord for a Generation. And under the Type of David, the Seed of Christ is eminently set forth, in Psal. 89. And it comprehends in it all the Elect of God, whom he tells us that his Father had given to him, and they were in due time to be born of him by a new birth. Jerusalem was a City which God chose out of all the Tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: there he settled his Ordinances, and therefore is said to have a peculiar respect for it, Psal. 87.2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. And hence it is usually applied to the Church of God; sometimes to the Militant, 〈…〉 26. Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all; sometimes to the Triumphant,
