Book IV. Chap. LSect. ~ receive it. Zeale doth totally furprize us in what concernes God ; in our zeale we do fo minde the things ofGod , as ifwe minded nothing elfe., To what dangers, hazards, and cenfures did Chrifi here in the ex:ercife of the zeale expofe himfelfe .? his eminent zeale appeares, - ' ' ' 1 . In the weakgeffe of his meanes whereby he did both at- - tempt, and etfect the work; we finde him not armed with any weapons, that might carry dread and_terrour with them, at moil: but with a whip made ot a few fmall cords, which probably were fcattered by the drovers which came thithet: to fell 'heir cat- " tie.--2. In the firength that the oppofite power did hold out which makes the encounter fo much the more dangerous· As - 1. A garrifon of fouldiers ready at hand tQ appeafe oc,afi~nal cbem. in loc. tumulcs. 2. The temper of thofe mt:ns fpirits with whom the b~neffe was, they were men let upon gaine, the worlds god. ~. The great confluence of the people, it being the moll: folemn~ ' mar-t of the Paffeover ; Oh what a zeale was this, that neither the weakneffe of the meanes on the one. fide to etfeCI: it, nor the greatneffe of the power . on theother fide to hinder it, ·did at all difmay him or caufe him to defifi: : feem lle never fo weak or be they never fo ftrong, .he whips them out ofthe Temple, a~d bids them be gone. · This aCI:ion of Chrift fulfills that pr~phefie of Mnllilchy, The MJ\.3 , 1,~,3; Lord whomye feekJlutll fuddudy come to, hiS Temple; b;tt who may abiae the tin] of his coming ? and who fonl! fl'and when ht appeareth ? for he is likf refiners fire, nnd likf fullers [ope; and he jh11/l fit 111 A refiner and purifier offilver, nnd he/hall p~trijie the fomw ofLevi, nndpurge them 11s gold and 111 jilver, thnt they mtl,) offer untu the Lord lin offering in righreeufntfs~ . •' from the maine we may obferve, that a perfwttjionof Chnjls pre.fence in our Cht4rch af!emblies, is a Jp1cial mfllnes or motive to bring all into order. But what is this prefence ofChrift in Church affemblies r if by Chrifts prefence we meane his bodily prefen(;e,it is crue,that Chri£1: . in his humanity, whipped the buyers and fellers out of the Templs of'/eruj nlem ; then in his manhood he was upon ear1h, and accordingly he vouchfafed his bodily prefence to cheir a!femblies and publick places; bat now his manhood is in heaven, and the .Afro 3 ~~; hea71ens muft c"ontnine him till the times of reftirutim of all things : ' 110W
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