Chap. I I sea. 'l 548 Book.IV. L,oking Ul$tO 1efus. ---- . --- ~-.-~.------ of the wilderne§e. In this ftory we finde David paffing over this ver· 3<'- brook Cedron with bare head and bare feet; and he and all his men werping as they went up by the ilfcent of mount Olivet : I cannot tbink but in this, King Dlllvid was a type of King Jefus: Chriil: as another David with his fou!diers or difcip!es, goes out of {erufalem, bare-head, a.nd bare-foot, (as this type feems to fpeak) what weeping was m the way I cannot tell; but probably fad· nefs was in the hearts both of him and his difciples, whofe conference was offlying,fuffering, dying the moil grievous death that ever was; all the difference that I finde betwixt the type and antitype in this paffage, is; in that <JJavid fled from the face _of Abfolom, but Chrift goes out of {eruf.zl~m ~otto flye from Jud:u, orthe Jewes, but rather co comrntt htmfelfe into their hands. • 2. When Solomon confined Shimei to his houfe in rerufalem .I Ktng. 1 • 36 • faying,d:we/1 there, undgo not forth thence any whither, (or it fJMII 3 7 • b~ that on the day thou goeft OHt, and pafJefl over the brook..,Cedron, thou flHtlt lzyow for certaine that thou jh11lt furdy dye. Now two of the fervants of Shimei running away from him, he follows after them, and palling over this brook Cedron it became his'deach. why, here was a type of Jefus Chrift, we were thofe fugitive fer: ·vants that run away from God, and to fetch us horne Jefus goes over the brook Cedron ; rather than he willlofe his fervants, he will lofe his life. All tae difference that I finde betwixt Shimei at1d Chrifr in this, is; in that Shimei was but a wicked man, and yet he d,yed an honourable d~ath, ~ot fo; his fervants, bot for his own tranfgreffion; bu~ Chnft bemg a JUfr man ( fo Pil11teJ wife fent her husband word, have thou nozhing to do witbthAt juft man) he d) ed a moft ignominious fhamef~l death, even the death of the cr'otfe, and that . not for htmfelfe, but for us ; he wa1 l r wounded +or our tran!J.greJ!ionJ, hf waJ bruiffd fior our ini· 1&·53·5· J' 1' q-ui ties. 3. When the good Kings,He~ekfah, and A fa, and Jojiah purged the City andtheTempleof Idolatry, they burnt thecurfed 1 ,. , 6 things at the brook K idroH,and caft them therein. And ~fa cut ~ ...mg :, . . J' ,. Cbr.: 9 16. d~ P'n the Idol, and he brou.r,ht out the grove from the houfe of the · L~rd n:ithout [rrufalem unto. the brook_Kidron, And b~rnt it At the brook._KidrBn,-and the Priefts wrnt into the inner part of the b~nfe of the Lord, to deanfe it, 11nd brDut,ht all the imclwwf[e that · the]
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