A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

(7) That will be a time of the greatest temporal prosperity. Such a spiritual state as we have just […] a natural tendency to temporal prosperity: it has a tendency to health and long life; and that this will actually be the case, is evident by Zech. viii.4. "Thus saith the Lord of […] ▪ There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age." It has also a natural tendency to procure ease, quietness, pleasantness, and cheerfulness of mind, and also wealth, and great increase of children; as is intimated in ⟨p. 266⟩Zech. viii.5. "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls pl•ying in the streets thereof."—But further, the temporal prosperity of the people of God will also be promoted by a remarkable blessing from heaven: Is. lxv.21. "They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them." And in Mic. iv.4. "But they shall set every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree, and none shall make them afraid." Zech. viii 12. "For the seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give her •ruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give her dew, and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things." See also Jer. xxxi.12.13 and Amos ix.13. Yea then they shall receive all manner o• tokens of God's presence, and acceptance, and favour Jer. x•xiii 9. "And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and […] before all the nations of the earth, which shall •ear all the good that I do unto them• and they shall fear and tremble […] and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it." […] the days of Solomon were but an image of those days, as to the […] prosperity which shall obtain in them.