Chap. I .SeC!. 2 • I Looking tmto 1efm, Booic JV 547 thqf6~tndintheTempleoftheLord into the Court of the houfeof the Latd; and the Levites toolz. it to carry it out abro11d into the 2. Chr 30, J 4 : broob__Kidron.- ttnd thq arofe and toob__ away the Altars that wore in 'ferufalem, and all the Altars for inoenfe too/z.they away, ~.md caft them into the brook Kidron, or {edron. All thefe note unto us, that the brook was·as it were the finke ofthe Temple, into which all the purgamenta, and uncleanneffes of Gods houfe, and all the acli:urfed things were to be caft : and here againe was a type ofChriil ; upon him was caft all the filths ofour fins, that as a river or fountaine he might cleanfe us from them ; in this ref peel: he is faid to be made fin for us who b__new no fin, that we might be made the righteoufnej[e ~f God in ._him : he was made C finneforus and acurfeforus, that fohe might fwallowup 2 or.>· 21 ' finne, and' death, and might be the ddlruction of hell, and all. I cannot paffe over this palfage of the brook, without fome V ~'e •.· ufe, or application to Gur fclves. J ' r. It informes. Methinks this va1ley,and this brook ef Cedron, is a right reprefentation of a Chrifrians life; Jefus went forth with hisdifciples over the brook Cedron; what is our life )fwe are Chrifts, but a paffage through a vale ofteares, and over a brook offeveral affiiCl:ions? many are the tro~tbles of the righteous. The Pfal. 34· r9, very word (edron, which Ggtaifies darkneffe, denotesthis fi:ate, an horror ofgreat dark.zuffe was faid to fall on Abr4hllm, and then faid God, ~ow of afurery that thy feed /hall be a ftranger in a land that · io not theirs, and foal! ferve them, and they /half affiifl them foure Gen. 1 p 2 1 1 hundreth yean. As God made the evening and the morning the ' · firft day; ::1nd fecond day, and third day, &c. See 0 the life of Gods Saints is as the evening of troubles, and their happineO'e hereafter is as the morning of glory, Gods worft is firft , with . thofe that are his; the way to Canaan is through.the wildernefs; theway to Sian i,- through the valley of Brtca. Throu,~h much trihulation we muff enter into the Kingdome of Gd. In the worldye p· 1 8 /hall have tribulation faitH Chrift; yea, all that will live god!J in A~ '1 4 ' 6 • Chrifl [efus muft f ujf'fr perfecution, faith the Apotlle; --,-our Job~ {(/3~3 . reft is not here in this world; what is this world, but an Ark of travel, a fchoole of vanities, afeare of deceits, a labourinth of 1 Tim.3.r z~ errour, a barren wilderneffe, a tlrong field, a tempefteous fea, a fwelling brook, avale of teares full of all miferies? A a. a a 2 2 . It
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