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‹ Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two
Contents
Introduction To The Works Of Jonathan EdwardsAdvertisement respecting the First SermonSermon I. God glorified in Man's DependenceSermon II. Sinners in the Hands of an angry God.Sermon I. A Divine and Supernatural LightSermon II. The Church's Marriage · Part 1Sermon II. The Church's Marriage · Part 2Sermon II. The Church's Marriage · Part 3Sermon III. True Saints · TRUE SAINTS, WHEN ABSENT FROM THE BODY, ARE PRESENT WITH THE LORD.Sermon III. True Saints · APPLICATIONSermon IV. God's Awful JudgmentSermon V. True Grace · Part 1Sermon V. True Grace · Part 2Sermon V. True Grace · Part 3PrefaceSermon I. Manner of Salvation of SoulsSermon II. THE UNREASONABLENESS OF INDETERMINATION IN RELIGIONSermon III. UNBELIEVERS CONTEMN THE GLORY AND EXCELLENCY OF CHRISTSermon IV. THE FOLLY OF LOOKING BACK IN FLEEING OUT OF SODOMSermon V. THE FOLLY OF LOOKING BACK IN FLEEING OUT OF SODOM.Sermon VI. THE WARNINGS OF SCRIPTURE ARE IN THE BEST MANNER ADAPTED TO THE AWAKENING AND CONVERSION OF SINNERSSermon VII. HYPOCRITES DEFICIENT IN THE DUTY OF PRAYERSermon VIII. HYPOCRITES DEFICIENT IN THE DUTY OF PRAYER.Sermon IX. THE FUTURE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED UNAVOIDABLE AND INTOLERABLE.Sermon X. THE FUTURE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED UNAVOIDABLE AND INTOLERABLE.Sermon XI. THE ETERNITY OF HELL TORMENTS.Sermon XII. THE PEACE WHICH CHRIST GIVES HIS TRUE FOLLOWERS.Sermon XIII. THE PERPETUITY AND CHANGE OF THE SABBATH.Sermon XIV. THE PERPETUITY AND CHANGE OF THE SABBATH.Sermon XV. THE PERPETUITY AND CHANGE OF THE SABBATH.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · Part 1Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · GOD THE BEST PORTION OF THE CHRISTIAN.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · APPLICATION.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · THE SOLE CONSIDERATION, THAT GOD IS GOD, SUFFICIENT TO STILL ALL OBJECTIONS.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · APPLICATION.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · GREAT GUILT NO OBSTACLE TO THE PARDON OF THE RETURNING SINNER.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · APPLICATION.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · THE MOST HIGH A PRAYER-HEARING GOD.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · APPLICATION.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · THE NATURE AND END OF EXCOMMUNICATION.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · APPLICATION.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · WHEN THE WICKED SHALL HAVE FILLED UP THE MEASURE OF THEIR SIN, WRATH WILL COME UPON THEM TO THE UTTERMOST.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · APPLICATION.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · WICKED MEN USEFUL IN THEIR DESTRUCTION ONLY.Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · APPLICATION.MEN NATURALLY GOD'S ENEMIESSECTION I. In what respects, enemiesSECTION II. The degree of natural enmitySECTION III. Why enemies to GodSECTION IV. That natural men are unconscious of enmity, answeredSECTION V. That they show respect to God, answeredSECTION VI. Restraining grace a privilegeSECTION VII. Why unwilling to come to ChristSECTION VIII. Mercy, justly withheldSECTION IX. Practical improvementIntroductionSECTION I. Wonderful things doneSECTION II. God greatly glorifiedSECTION III. The good attained wonderfully variousSECTION IV. Angels benefit by salvationSECTION V. Wonderful glory redounds to GodSECTION VI. The manner of obtaining salvationSECTION VII. The overthrow of SatanSECTION VIII. Superiority of this wisdom to that of angelsSECTION IX. The subject improvedSECTION X. The misery of unbelieversSECTION XI. Exhortation to come to ChristIntroductionSECTION I. What is intended by divinity, as the object of this knowledgeSECTION II. What kind of knowledge in divinity is intended in the doctrineSECTION III. The usefulness and necessity of the knowledge of divine truthSECTION IV. Why all Christians should make a business of endeavouring to grow in the knowledge of divinitySECTION V. An exhortation that all may diligently endeavour to gain Christian knowledgeSECTION VI. Directions for the acquisition of Christian knowledgeCHRISTIAN CHARITYSECTION I. The words explainedSECTION II. Of the obligations of Christians to perform the duty of charity to the poorSECTION III. An exhortation to the duty of charity to the poorSECTION IV. Objections which are sometimes made to the exercises of charity answeredIntroductionSECTION I. The necessity of self-examinationSECTION II. Why many living in sin, know it notSECTION III. Directions for self-examinationSECTION IV. Examination about the Lord's day, &cSECTION V. Examination about secret sins, &c.SECTION VI. Our temper of mind, &c. towards our neighbourSECTION VII. Our charity, &c. towards our neighbourSECTION VIII. Self-examination respecting our familiesSECTION IX. Awakening considerationsA WARNING TO PROFESSORSIntroductionSECTION I. The ordinances of God are holySECTION II. Ordinances, by whom profanedSECTION III. A call to self-examinationSECTION IV. Address to profaners of ordinancesIntroductionSECTION I. God is the supreme judgeSECTION II. Publicity of final judgmentSECTION III. Jesus will be the judgeSECTION IV. Christ's coming, the resurrection, &c.SECTION V. All will be done in righteousnessSECTION VI. Immediate consequences of judgmentSECTION VII. The uses of this doctrineSECTION I. Who are sinners in ZionSECTION II. How fearfulness will surprise themSECTION V. An earnest exhortation to sinnersIntroductionSECTION I. Saints not grieved, &c.SECTION II. Why the sufferings of the wicked, &c.SECTION III. An objection answeredSECTION IV. The ungodly warnedCHRIST EXALTEDSECTION I. How evil of all kinds has prevailed and highly exalted itself in the worldSECTION II. How Jesus Christ, in the work of redemption, appears gloriously above all these evilsSECTION III. The subject improved and appliedSELF-FLATTERIESSECTION I. Sinners flatter themselves with the hope of impunitySECTION II. Some of the various ways wherein sinners flatter themselves in their own eyesSECTION III. The subject applied: OR THE SIN OF THEFT AND INJUSTICESECTION I. The dishonesty of withholding what is our neighbour'sSECTION II. The dishonesty of unjustly taking a neighbour's propertySECTION III. Dishonest excusesSECTION IV. The subject applied—The dishonest warnedSECTION V. An exhortation to honestyTEMPTATION AND DELIVERANCESECTION I. Why we should avoid what tends to sinSECTION II. What things lead and expose to sinSECTION III. A serious warning to all, and especially young peopleTHE PRECIOUSNESS OF TIMESECTION I. Why time is preciousSECTION II. Reflections on time pastSECTION III. Who are chiefly deserving of reproof from the subject of the preciousness of timeSECTION IV. An exhortation to improve timeSECTION V. Advice respecting the improvement of timePROCRASTINATIONSECTION I. Needful precautionsSECTION II. The precept explainedSECTION III. When men act as though they depend on another daySECTION IV. Why we ought not to boast of to-morrowSECTION V. Serious inquiriesSECTION VI. How to spend every dayTHE CHRISTIAN PILGRIMSECTION I. That this life ought to be so spent by usSECTION II. Why the Christian's life is a journey, or pilgrimageSECTION III. Instruction afforded by the consideration, that life is a journey, or pilgrimageSECTION IV. An exhortation, so to spend the present life, that it may only be a journey towards heavenMAN'S NATURAL BLINDNESS IN RELIGIONSECTION I. Introductory observationsSECTION II. From men's open professionSECTION III. From men's experience and practiceSECTION IV. Practical inferences and applicationsSECTION V. Address to sinnersMr. Cooper's PrefaceIntroductionSECTION I Negative signs of a spiritual workSECTION II. Positive signsSECTION III. Practical inferences and applicationAdvertisementPreface by a former English editorPreface by the American editorsPART I. The Text opened, and in Account of the Affair proposedPART II. Motives to Compliance with what is proposed · Part 1PART II. Motives to Compliance with what is proposed · SECT. I.PART II. Motives to Compliance with what is proposed · SECT. II.PART II. Motives to Compliance with what is proposed · SECT. III.PART II. Motives to Compliance with what is proposed · SECT. IV.PART II. Motives to Compliance with what is proposed · SECT. V.PART II. Motives to Compliance with what is proposed · SECT. VI.PART II. Motives to Compliance with what is proposed · SECT. VII.PART III. Objections answered · Part 1PART III. Objections answered · SECT. I.PART III. Objections answered · SECT. II.PART III. Objections answered · sect. iiiPART III. Objections answered · SECT. IV.PART III. Objections answered · SECT. V.PrefacePART I. From his birth to the time when he began to study for the ministryPART II. From his beginning to study, till his being examined and licensed to preachPART III. From his being licensed to preach, till he was appointed Missionary to the IndiansPART IV. From his appointment, to his entrance on the mission at KaunaumeekPART V. From his beginning to instruct the Indians, to his ordination · Part 1PART V. From his beginning to instruct the Indians, to his ordination · Part 2PART V. From his beginning to instruct the Indians, to his ordination · Part 3PART V. From his beginning to instruct the Indians, to his ordination · Part 4PART VI. From his ordination, till he began to preach to the Indians at Crossweeksung, where he had his most remarkable success · Part 1PART VI. From his ordination, till he began to preach to the Indians at Crossweeksung, where he had his most remarkable success · Part 2PART VI. From his ordination, till he began to preach to the Indians at Crossweeksung, where he had his most remarkable success · Part 3PART VI. From his ordination, till he began to preach to the Indians at Crossweeksung, where he had his most remarkable success · Part 4PART VII. Return from his last journey to Susquehannah in a consumption, whereof he died · Part 1PART VII. Return from his last journey to Susquehannah in a consumption, whereof he died · Part 2PART VII. Return from his last journey to Susquehannah in a consumption, whereof he died · Part 3PART VII. Return from his last journey to Susquehannah in a consumption, whereof he died · Part 4PART VII. Return from his last journey to Susquehannah in a consumption, whereof he died · Part 5PART VIII. From his return to Susquehannah, till his death · Part 1PART VIII. From his return to Susquehannah, till his death · Part 2PART VIII. From his return to Susquehannah, till his death · Part 3PART VIII. From his return to Susquehannah, till his death · Part 4AdvertisementPrefacePART I. The Rise and Progress of a remarkable Work of grace, &c. From A.D. 1745, June 19 to Nov. 4, at Crossweeksung and Forks of Delaware · Part 1PART I. The Rise and Progress of a remarkable Work of grace, &c. From A.D. 1745, June 19 to Nov. 4, at Crossweeksung and Forks of Delaware · Part 2PART I. The Rise and Progress of a remarkable Work of grace, &c. From A.D. 1745, June 19 to Nov. 4, at Crossweeksung and Forks of Delaware · Part 3PART I. The Rise and Progress of a remarkable Work of grace, &c. From A.D. 1745, June 19 to Nov. 4, at Crossweeksung and Forks of Delaware · Part 4PART II. From A. D. 1745, Nov. 24, to June 19, 1746, do. · Part 1PART II. From A. D. 1745, Nov. 24, to June 19, 1746, do. · Part 2PART II. From A. D. 1745, Nov. 24, to June 19, 1746, do. · Part 3PART II. From A. D. 1745, Nov. 24, to June 19, 1746, do. · Part 4PART II. From A. D. 1745, Nov. 24, to June 19, 1746, do. · Part 5SECTION I. The doctrine preached to the IndiansSECTION II. Morality, sobriety, and external duties promoted by preaching Christ crucifiedSECTION III. Continuance, renewal, and quickness of the workSECTION IV. But little appearance of false religionSECOND APPENDIXSECTION I. His method of learning the Indian languageSECTION II. His method of instructing the IndiansSECTION III. Difficulties attending the Christianizing of the IndiansSECTION IV. Second difficulty, To convey divine truths to their understanding, and to gain their assentSECTION V. Third difficulty.SECTION VI. Fourth difficulty, The designs of evil-minded persons to hinder the workSECTION VII. Attestations of divine grace displayed among the IndiansTHIRD APPENDIX--Containing his brief account of the endeavours used by the Missionaries of the Society in Scotland, for propagating Christian Knowledge, to introduce the Gospel among the Indians, on the borders of New York. &c. in a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Ebenezer PembertonMR. BRAINERD'S REMAINSAdvertisementI. Letter to his brother John, then a studentII. Letter to his brother John, then a studentIII. Letter to his brother IsraelIV. Letter to a special friendV. Letter to a minister of the GospelVI. Letter to his brother JohnVII. Letter to IsraelVIII. Letter to IsraelIX. Letter to a young gentleman, a candidate for the ministryX. Letter to his brother John, at BethelI. Scheme of a Dialogue in the Godly SoulII. Thoughts of a Soul under ConvictionIII. Some signs of GodlinessA Sermon preached in Newark at the Ordination of Mr. David Brainerd, by E. Pemberton, A. M.Reflections and Observations · REV. DAVID BRAINERD.Reflections and Observations · SECT. I.Reflections and Observations · SECT. II.Reflections and Observations · SECT. III.Reflections and Observations · SECT. IV.Reflections and Observations · SECT. V.Reflections and Observations · REFLECT. II.Reflections and Observations · REFLECT. III.Reflections and Observations · REFLECT. IV.Reflections and Observations · REFLECT. V.Reflections and Observations · REFLECT. VI.Reflections and Observations · REFLECT. VII.Reflections and Observations · REFLECT. VIII.PrefaceAdvertisementPART I. Observations on the Facts & Evidences of Christianity, & the Objections of Infidels · CHAP. I.PART I. Observations on the Facts & Evidences of Christianity, & the Objections of Infidels · CHAP. II.PART I. Observations on the Facts & Evidences of Christianity, & the Objections of Infidels · CHAP. III.PART I. Observations on the Facts & Evidences of Christianity, & the Objections of Infidels · CHAP. IV.PART I. Observations on the Facts & Evidences of Christianity, & the Objections of Infidels · CHAP. V.PART I. Observations on the Facts & Evidences of Christianity, & the Objections of Infidels · CHAP. VI.PART I. Observations on the Facts & Evidences of Christianity, & the Objections of Infidels · CHAP. VII.PART I. Observations on the Facts & Evidences of Christianity, & the Objections of Infidels · CHAP. VIII.PART I. Observations on the Facts & Evidences of Christianity, & the Objections of Infidels · CHAP. IX.PART I. Observations on the Facts & Evidences of Christianity, & the Objections of Infidels · CHAP. X.PART II. Observations concerning the Mysteries of Scripture · Part 1PART II. Observations concerning the Mysteries of Scripture · Part 2PART II. Observations concerning the Mysteries of Scripture · Part 3PART II. Observations concerning the Mysteries of Scripture · Part 4PART II. Observations concerning the Mysteries of Scripture · Part 5CHAPTER I. Of God's Moral GovernmentCHAPTER II. Of Endless Punishment · Part 1CHAPTER II. Of Endless Punishment · Part 2CHAPTER II. Of Endless Punishment · Part 3CHAPTER III. Concerning the Divine Decrees · Part 1CHAPTER III. Concerning the Divine Decrees · Part 2CHAPTER III. Concerning the Divine Decrees · Part 3CHAPTER III. Concerning the Divine Decrees · Part 4CHAPTER III. Concerning the Divine Decrees · Part 5CHAPTER IV. Concerning Efficacious Grace · Part 1CHAPTER IV. Concerning Efficacious Grace · Part 2CHAPTER IV. Concerning Efficacious Grace · Part 3CHAPTER IV. Concerning Efficacious Grace · Part 4CHAPTER IV. Concerning Efficacious Grace · Part 5CHAPTER IV. Concerning Efficacious Grace · Part 6CHAPTER IV. Concerning Efficacious Grace · Part 7CHAPTER V. Of Satisfaction for Sin · Part 1CHAPTER V. Of Satisfaction for Sin · Part 2CHAPTER V. Of Satisfaction for Sin · Part 3CHAPTER V. Of Satisfaction for Sin · Part 4CHAPTER VI. Concerning Faith · Part 1CHAPTER VI. Concerning Faith · Part 2CHAPTER VI. Concerning Faith · Part 3CHAPTER VI. Concerning Faith · Part 4CHAPTER VI. Concerning Faith · Part 5CHAPTER VI. Concerning Faith · Part 6CHAPTER VII. Of the Perseverance of SaintsI. AngelsII. Fall of the AngelsIII. The DevilIV. Confirmation of the AngelsV. Heaven · Part 1V. Heaven · Part 2V. Heaven · Part 3V. Heaven · Part 4V. Heaven · Part 5V. Heaven · Part 6V. Heaven · Part 7V. Heaven · Part 8XII. TYPES OF THE MESSIAH · Part 1XII. TYPES OF THE MESSIAH · Part 2XII. TYPES OF THE MESSIAH · Part 3XII. TYPES OF THE MESSIAH · Part 4XII. TYPES OF THE MESSIAH · Part 5XII. TYPES OF THE MESSIAH · Part 6XII. TYPES OF THE MESSIAH · Part 7XII. TYPES OF THE MESSIAH · Part 8XII. TYPES OF THE MESSIAH · Part 9Pentateuch · Part 1Pentateuch · Part 2Pentateuch · Part 3Pentateuch · Part 4Genesis · Part 1Genesis · Part 2Genesis · Part 3Genesis · Part 4Genesis · Part 5Genesis · Part 6Genesis · Part 7Genesis · Part 8Exodus · Part 1Exodus · Part 2Exodus · Part 3Exodus · Part 4Leviticus to DeuteronomyJoshuaJudges to 2 Chronicles · Part 1Judges to 2 Chronicles · Part 2Judges to 2 Chronicles · Part 3Judges to 2 Chronicles · Part 4Nehemiah-EstherJobPsalmsProverbs to CanticlesIsaiahjeremiahEzekielDanielMinor ProphetsMatthew · Part 1Matthew · Part 2Matthew · Part 3Matthew · Part 4MarkLukeJohnActsRomans1-2 CorinthiansGalatians to 2 TimothyHebrews to Revelation · Part 1Hebrews to Revelation · Part 2Hebrews to Revelation · Part 3SERMON I. Natural Men in a dreadful Condition · Part 1SERMON I. Natural Men in a dreadful Condition · Part 2SERMON I. Natural Men in a dreadful Condition · Part 3SERMON I. Natural Men in a dreadful Condition · Part 4SERMON II. God makes Men sensible of their Misery before he reveals his Mercy and Love · Part 1SERMON II. God makes Men sensible of their Misery before he reveals his Mercy and Love · Part 2SERMON II. God makes Men sensible of their Misery before he reveals his Mercy and Love · Part 3SERMON III. Hope and Comfort usually follow genuine Humiliation and Repentance · Part 1SERMON III. Hope and Comfort usually follow genuine Humiliation and Repentance · Part 2SERMON III. Hope and Comfort usually follow genuine Humiliation and Repentance · Part 3SERMON III. Hope and Comfort usually follow genuine Humiliation and Repentance · Part 4SERMON IV. God's Sovereignty in the Salvation of MenSERMON V. The Character of Paul an Example t · Part 1SERMON V. The Character of Paul an Example t · Part 2SERMON V. The Character of Paul an Example t · Part 3SERMON V. The Character of Paul an Example t · Part 4SERMON VI. Christ's Agony · Part 1SERMON VI. Christ's Agony · APPLICATION.SERMON VI. Christ's Agony · APPLICATION.SERMON VII. The Portion of the Wicked · Part 1SERMON VII. The Portion of the Wicked · Part 2SERMON VII. The Portion of the Wicked · Part 3SERMON VII. The Portion of the Wicked · Part 4SERMON VIII. The Portion of the Righteous · Part 1SERMON VIII. The Portion of the Righteous · Part 2SERMON VIII. The Portion of the Righteous · Part 3SERMON VIII. The Portion of the Righteous · Part 4SERMON VIII. The Portion of the Righteous · Part 5SERMON VIII. The Portion of the Righteous · Part 6SERMON IX. The Pure in Heart blessed · Part 1SERMON IX. The Pure in Heart blessed · Part 2SERMON IX. The Pure in Heart blessed · Part 3SERMON X. Praise, one of the chief Employments of HeavenSERMON XI. Wicked Men inconsistent with themselves · Part 1SERMON XI. Wicked Men inconsistent with themselves · Part 2SERMON XI. Wicked Men inconsistent with themselves · Part 3SERMON XI. Wicked Men inconsistent with themselves · Part 4SERMON XII. Safety, Fullness, and sweet Refreshment, to be found in Christ · Part 1SERMON XII. Safety, Fullness, and sweet Refreshment, to be found in Christ · Part 2SERMON XII. Safety, Fullness, and sweet Refreshment, to be found in Christ · Part 3SERMON XIII. Christians a chosen Generation, a royal Priesthood, a holy Nation, a peculiar People · Part 1SERMON XIII. Christians a chosen Generation, a royal Priesthood, a holy Nation, a peculiar People · Part 2SERMON XIII. Christians a chosen Generation, a royal Priesthood, a holy Nation, a peculiar People · Part 3SERMON XIII. Christians a chosen Generation, a royal Priesthood, a holy Nation, a peculiar People · Part 4SERMON XIV. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to-day, and for everSERMON XV. The true Excellency of a gospel ministerSERMON XVI. Christ the Example of ministersSERMON XVII. The Sorrows of the Bereaved spread before Jesus

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XII. TYPES OF THE MESSIAH · Part 6

David was a great saviour. He saved Israel from Goliath, and the Philistines, and from all their enemies round about. 2 Sam. iii. 18. “The Lord hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David will I save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies”; agreeably to the prophecies of the Messiah. David was greatly persecuted, and his life sought unjustly; agreeably to prophecies of the Messiah. David’s marriage with Abigail, the wife of a son of Belial, a virtuous woman, and of a beautiful countenance, is agreeable to the innumerable prophecies that represent the church of the Messiah, that the prophecies speak of as his spouse, as brought into that happy state from a state of guilt and bondage to sin. David was resorted to by every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was bitter of soul, and he became their captain; which is agreeable to innumerable prophecies that represent the Messiah as the Captain and Saviour of the poor, afflicted, distressed sinners and prisoners, &c. David’s host is compared to the host of God, 1 Chron. xii. 22. which is agreeable to what the prophecies represent of the divinity of the Messiah, and God’s people in his times, and under him becoming as an host of mighty valiant men, that shall thresh the mountains, and tread down their enemies, &c. David, as it were raised from the dead, was wonderfully delivered from death, when from great danger he was brought back from the wilderness, and from banishment, and from caves of the earth that resembled the grave; (Psal.xxx. 3. “O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave;”) which is agreeable to the prophecies of the Messiah’s restoration from his low and suffering state and resurrection from death. David was made king over the strong city Hebron, that had been taken from the Anakims, the gigantic enemies of God’s people: which is agreeable to the prophecies of the Messiah’s conquering the strong city, bringing low the lofty city, conquering the devil, and taking possession of the mightiest and strongest kingdoms of the world. David’s followers that came to him to make him king, were men of understanding, mighty men of valour, and men of a perfect heart: 1 Chron. xii.: which is agreeable to what the prophecies represent of the followers of the Messiah. David was made king by the act and choice both of God and his people. 1 Chron. xi. 1-3. and xii. 2 Sam. ii. 4. v. 1. &c. This is agreeable to the prophecies of the Messiah. Hos. i. 11. “Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head.” David was made king with great feasting and rejoicing, 1 Chron. xii. 39, 40. which is agreeable to what the prophecies do abundantly represent of the joy of the introduction of the Messiah’s kingdom. David was the first king of Jerusalem, that city so often spoken of in the prophecies as a type of the church of the Messiah. David insulted the idols as lame and blind, and destroyed them. 2 Sam. v. 21. Agreeable to § 132-135, 153. David conquered the strongest hold of the Jebusites and reigned there. See what was said before concerning his reigning in Hebron. He rescued Zion from the strong possession of idols, and the enemies of God’s people, and reigned in mount Zion: agreeable to innumerable prophecies of the Messiah. David’s kingdom gradually increased from small beginnings till he had subdued all his enemies. It was first in David’s time, that God chose him a place to put his name there. Through him God made Jerusalem his holy city, and the place of his special gracious residence: agreeably to the prophecies of the Messiah. Psal. cxxxii. 13,. &c. Zech. i.17. and ii. 12. and Isa. xiv. 1. David provided a settled habitation for God, and God is represented as through his favour to David taking up a settled abode with them, no more walking in a movable tent and tabernacle that might be taken down, and giving Israel a constant abode, that they might no more be afflicted, and carried into captivity; 2 Sam. vii. 6, 10, 24.; according to many prophecies of the Messiah. David provided a place for God’s habitation in Zion and in mount Moriah; agreeably to Zech. vi. 12. “He shall build the temple of the Lord.” David brought up the ark to in the midst of God’s people; after it had departed into the land of the Philistines, and had long remained in the utmost confines of the land, in Kirjath-jearim: which is agreeable to what the prophecies represent of the benefit which the people of God in the Messiah’s days shall receive, in the return of the tokens of God’s presence to them, after long absence, and his placing his tabernacle in the midst of them, and his soul’s no more abhorring them. David ascended into the hill of the Lord with the ark, at the head of all Israel, rejoicing, and gave gifts to men. 2 Sam. vi. But this is agreeable to what is said of the ascension of the Messiah. Psal. lxviii. David ascended with the ark wherein was the law of God; as the Messiah ascended with that human nature that was the cabinet of the law. David after he had ascended returned to bless his household, as the Messiah especially blessed his church after his ascension. But Michal his first wife despised his abasement, and received no part in this blessing, but was as it were repudiated; as the prophecies do represent the Jews, as despising the Messiah for his humiliation, and so, as not receiving the benefits and blessing that he should bestow after his ascension, but as being repudiated. When David came to the crown, God broke forth on his enemies, as the breach of water, and in a dreadful storm of thunder, fire, and hail. 2 Sam. v. 20. 1 Chron. xiv. 9. and Psalm xviii. which is agreeable to Isa. xxiv. 18-20. Dan. ix. 26. Ezek. xxxviii. 22. Isa. xxx. 30. xxxii. 19. Yea, the destruction of the enemies of God’s people, in the days of the Messiah, is expressly compared to that very breaking forth of God on the enemies of David; Isa. xxviii. 21. “For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim.” The king of Tyre (that was, above all others in the world, a city noted for merchandise and seafaring) built David a house. 2 Sam. v. 11. 1 Chron. xiv. 1. David was not only a king, but a great prophet, 2 Sam. xxiii. 2. and also was a priest. He officiated as such on occasion of the bringing in of the ark. 2 Sam. vi. 13-18. 1 Chron. xv. 27. Again he officiated as such, 2 Sam. xxvii. 17,. to the end, and 1 Chron. xvi. 21,. &c. And in some respects he officiated as chief in all sacerdotal matters, ordering all things in the house of God, directing and ordering the priests in things relating to their function, disposing them into courses, &c. So the prophecies do abundantly represent the Messiah as prophet, priest, and king. David is spoken of as the man that was raised up on high; which is agreeable to what is said of the Messiah in Psalm lxxxix. 19. “I have exalted one chosen out of the people;” and ver. 27. “I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.” Psalm xiv. “Thy throne, O God, is for ever;” and Psalm cx. “Sit thou on my right hand;” and innumerable other places. He is spoken of as eminently a just ruler, one that fed God’s people in the integrity of his heart and executed judgment and justice; 2 Sam. viii. 15. 1 Chron. xviii. 14. which is agreeable to that which is abundantly spoken of the Messiah, as the just Ruler over men; the King that shall reign in ; he shall sit on the throne of his father David, to order and establish it with judgment and justice; the righteous branch that shall grow up to David, &c. God made David a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth. See also 2 Sam. vii. 9. viii. 13. agreeable to Isa. liii. 12. “Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great.” The fame of David went out into all lands; the Lord brought the fear of him upon all nations. 1 Chron. xiv. 17. Agreeable to Psal. xiv. 17. “I will make my name to be remembered.” Psal. lxxii. 11. “All nations shall serve him.” Ver. 17. “His name shall endure for ever;” and innumerable other places. David carried up the ark, clothed with a robe of fine linen; 1 Chron. xv. 27. agreeable to Isa. lxi. 10. “He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation; he hath covered me with a robe of .” Zech. iii. 4. “Take away the filthy garments from him; and unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.” See also Dan. x. 5. compared with 13, and 21. and xii. 1. God was with David whithersoever he went, and cut off all his enemies. 2 Sam. vii. 9. and viii. 6, 14. 1 Chron. xvii. 8, 10. xviii. 6, 13. 2 Sam. xxii. 1,. &c. agreeable to Psal. ii. and xlv. cx. lxxxix. and innumerable other places. David subdued all the remainder of the Canaanites, and the ancient inhabitants of the land, and so perfected what Joshua had began in giving the people the land. See what is said of Joshua as a type of the Messiah in this respect. David brought it to pass that the Canaanites and enemies of Israel should no longer dwell with them, as mixed among them in the same land. Joel iii. 17. “No stranger shall pass through thee any more.” Zech. xiv. 21. “In that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord.” Psal. lxix. 35, 36. “For God will save Zion and will build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. The seed also of his servants shall inherit it, and they that love thy name shall dwell therein.” Isa. lxv. 9-11. “And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob and out of Judah, an inheritor of my mountains; and mine shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.” Isa. xxxv. 8. “An highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of : the unclean shall not pass over it.” Ezek. xx. 38. “And I will purge out from among you the rebels and them that against me. I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel.” David subdued the Philistines, and the Moabites and Ammonites, and the Edomites, agreeably to Isa. xi. 14. Num. xxiv. 17. Psal. lx. 8. and cviii. 9. Isa. xxv. 10. chap. xxxiv. and lxiii. Ezek. xxxv. xxxvi. 5. David’s kingdom reached from the river to the ends of the earth. 2 Sam. viii. 3. 2 Chron. xviii. 3. agreeable to Psal. lxxii. 8. Zech. ix. 10. David’s reign was a time of the destruction of giants; he slew all the remnant of the race of giants; 1 Sam. xvii. 2 Sam. xxi. 18,. to the end, and xxiii. 20, 21. 1 Chron. xx. 4,. to the end, and xi. 22, 23. agreeable to Isa. x. 33. “And the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.” This seems (as I observed before) to be connected with the prophecy in the beginnings of the next chapter, next verse but one. Isa. xlv. 14. “The Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to thee: in chains shall they come over.” Psal. lxxvi. 5. “The stout-hearted are spoiled; they have slept their sleep.” David destroyed the chariots and houghed the horses of the enemies of God’s people. 2 Sam. viii. 4. x. 18. 1 Chron. xviii. 4. and xix. 7. agreeably to Psal. xlvi. 9. “He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder. He burneth the chariot in the fire.” Psal. lxxvi. 3. “There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Ver. 6. “At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.” See also Ezek. xxxix. 9, 10, 20. and Zech. xii. 3, 4. What David says, Psal. xviii. and 2 Sam. xxii. of the manner in which God appeared for him against his enemies, to destroy them in a terrible tempest with thunder, lightning, earthquake, devouring fire, &c. is agreeable to many things in the prophecies of the Messiah. See what has before been observed, when speaking of the deluge and destruction of Sodom, and the destruction of the Amorites in Joshua’s time. Other kings brought presents unto David and bowed down unto him. 2 Sam. v. 11. 1 Chron. xiv. 1. 2 Sam. viii. 2,10. 1 Chron. xviii. 10. 2 Sam. x. 19. 1 Chron. xxii. 4. agreeable to Psal. lxxii. 10, 11. xlv. 12. lxviii. 29. Isa. xlix. 7. and lx. 9.

The honour, dominion, and crown of David’s enemies was given unto him. 2 Sam. xii. 30. and 1 Chron. xx. 2. Ezek. xxi. 26, 27. “Thus saith the Lord, Remove the diadem and take off the crown; this shall not be the same. Exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high: perverted, perverted, perverted will I make it, until he come whose right it is, and I will give it him.” David’s sons were princes. David’s sons were chief rulers or princes, as it is in the margin; agreeably to Psal. xlv. 16. “Instead of thy lathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.” David brought the wealth of the into Jerusalem and dedicated it to God, and as it were built the temple with it. 2 Sam. viii. 11,12. 1 Chron. xviii. 11. and xxvi. 26, 27. and chap. xxii. throughout, and xxix.; agreeably to Mic. iv. 13. “Arise, thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make thine horn iron, and thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many people; and I will their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.” Isa. xxiii. 17,18. “The Lord will visit Tyre and her merchandise and hire shall be unto the Lord. It shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.” See also Isa. lx. 5, 6, 9, 11, 13. lxi. 6. and Zech. xiv. 14. David was a ; he stood between God and the people, both to keep off judgments and the punishment of sin, and also to procure God’s favour towards them. For his sake God granted his gracious presence and favour with Israel. 2 Sam. vii. 10. Thus we read of favour which God showed to Israel, and withholding judgments from time to time for his servant David’s sake. 1 Kings xi. 12, 13, 32, 34. xv. 4. 2 Kings viii. 19. xix. 34. and xx. 6. And he stood between God and the people of Jerusalem, when he saw the sword of justice drawn against it to destroy it. 2 Sam. xxiv. 17,. to the end. So the Messiah is spoken of as in like manner the ; being himself peculiarly God’s and beloved, is given for a of the people, Isa. xlii. 6. xlix. 8. and the messenger of the , and a prophet like unto Moses, who was a . And the prophecies speak of the forgiveness of sin, and the greatest mercy towards God’s people, and an everlasting , and the pure mercies of David, as being through the Messiah.

David as saved the people of Jerusalem from destruction, by offering himself to suffer and die by the sword of the destroying angel, and by building an altar and offering sacrifice; 2 Sam. xxiv. 17,. to the end, agreeably to the prophecies of the Messiah.

David not only made a tabernacle for God in mount Zion, and so provided a habitation for the Lord, but he in effect built the temple. He bought the ground on which it was built, built an altar upon it, and made provision for the building of the temple. It was in his heart to build a house to God’s name, and he directed and ordered precisely how it should be built, and ordered all its services, 1 Chron. xxii. and xxiii. xxiv. xxv. xxvi.: agreeably to Zech. vi. 12, 13. Herein David was as the Messiah, a prophet like unto Moses, who built the tabernacle and the altar according to the pattern God gave him, (as he gave David the pattern of the tabernacle,) and gave the of the house, and ordered all things appertaining to the worship of the tabernacle. God by David gave to Israel new , a new law of worship, appointed many things that were not in the law of Moses, and some things that superseded the of Moses. This is agreeable to the things said of the Messiah. David made all manner of preparation for the building of the temple, and that in vast abundance; he laid up an immense treasure; 1 Chron. xxii. 14. xxviii. 14,. &c. xxix. 2,. &c. agreeably to Isa. xxv. 6. “And in this mountain shall the Lord make unto all people a feast of fat things,” &c. Isa. lv. 1-9. “Ho, every one that thirsteth,” &c. Hag. ii. 7. “I will fill this house with glory.” Jer. xxxiii. 6. “I will reveal unto them the abundance of truth and peace.” Isa. lxiv. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,” &c. Isa. lxvi. 12. “I will extend peace to her as a river.” Psal. lxxii. 3. “The mountains shall bring peace.” Ver. 7. “There shall be abundance of peace.” Amos ix. 13. “The mountains shall drop sweet wine.” Joel iii. 18. “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Chittim.” And Isa. lx. throughout; besides the things which the prophecies say of the perfect satisfaction of God’s justice, by the sacrifice of the Messiah, and the abundance of his and excellency. David made such great provision for the building of the temple, in his trouble by war, and by exposing his own life, which is agreeable to what the prophecies represent of Christ’s procuring the immense blessings of his church, by his extreme sufferings and precious blood. David was the head of God’s people, the prince of the congregation of Israel, not only in their civil affairs, but in ecclesiastical affairs also, and their leader in all things appertaining to religion and the worship of God. Herein he was as the Messiah is represented in the prophecies, which speak of him as a prophet like unto Moses, and as the head of God’s people, as their great king, prophet, and priest; and indeed almost all that the prophecies say of the Messiah, implies that he shall be the great head of God’s people in their religious concerns. David regulated the whole body of the people, and brought them into the most exact and beautiful order; 1 Chron. xxvii. which is agreeable to what is represented of the church in the Messiah’s days, as “beautiful for situation.”Psal. xlviii. 2. “The perfection of beauty.”Psal. 1. 2. “An eternal excellency, the joy of many generations.” And what is represented in Ezekiel of the exact measures and order of all parts of the temple, the city, and the whole land. David built the altar in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, on ground; which is agreeable to what the prophecies represent of the church of the Messiah being erected in lands, and being made up of those that had been sinners.

The things that are said of Solomon fall little, if any thing, short of those that are said of David, in their remarkable agreement with things said of the Messiah in the prophecies. His name Solomon, signifies peace or peaceable, and was given him by God himself, from respect to the signification, because he should enjoy peace, and be a means of peace to God’s people. 1 Chron. xxii. 9. “Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about. For his name shall be Solomon; and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.” This is agreeable to Isa. ix. 6, 7. “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called The Prince of Peace: of the increase of his peace there shall be no end.” Psal. cx. “Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedec,” who as the apostle observes, was king of Salem, that is, king of peace. Psal. lxxii. 3. “The mountains shall bring peace unto the people.” Ver. 7. “In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.” Psal. xxxv. 10. “ and peace have kissed each other.” Isa. lii. 7. “How beautiful are the feet of him that publisheth peace.” Jer. xxxiii. 6. “I will reveal unto them the abundance of truth and peace:” and many other places. When Solomon was born it is said the Lord loved him. 1 Sam. xii. 24. And the prophet Nathan for this reason called him by the name Jedidiah; i. e. the beloved of the Lord. He is also spoken of as the beloved son of his father. Prov. iv. 3. “For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.” Solomon was the son of a woman that had been the wife of a Hittite, a by nation; fitly denoting the honour that the prophecies represent, that the should have by their relation to the Messiah. God made mention of Solomon’s name as one that was to be the great prince of Israel and means of their happiness from his mother’s womb; agreeably to Isa. xlix. 1. “The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.” God promised to establish the throne of Solomon for ever, in terms considerably like those used by the prophets concerning the kingdom of the Messiah. 2 Sam. vii. 12. “I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thine own bowels: and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.” Also 1 Chron. xxii. 10. Isa. ix. 6, 7. “Of the increase of his government there shall be no end upon the throne of David and his kingdom to establish it from henceforth even for ever.” Psal. cx. “Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedec.” Dan. vii. 14. “His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away; and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” Solomon is spoken of as God’s son. 1 Chron. vii. 14. “I will be his father, and he shall be my son.” 1 Chron. xxii. 9, 10. “His name shall be Solomon he shall be my son, and I will be his father.” chap. xxviii. 6. “And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts. For I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.” Solomon was in an eminent manner God’s . 1 Chron. xxviii. 5,6. “And of all my sons (for the Lord hath given me many sons) he hath chosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. And he said, Solomon thy son have I chosen to be my son.” chap. xxxix. 1. “David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen.” Though David had many sons, and many born before Solomon, yet Solomon was made his first-born, higher than all the rest, and his father’s heir and his brethren’s prince; agreeably to Psal. lxxxvii. 27. “I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.” Psal. xlv. 7. “Thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.” The word which Nathan, the minister of the Lord, spake to Bathsheba, David’s wife, and Solomon’s mother, and the counsel he gave her, was the occasion of the introduction of the blissful and glorious reign of Solomon, 1 Kings i. 11-13. So the prophecies represent the preaching of God’s ministers as the means of introducing the glorious kingdom of the Messiah. Isa. lxii. 6, 7. “I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” Chap. lii. 7, 8. “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings! Thy watchmen shall lift the voice; with the voice together shall they sing. For they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.” This earnest incessant preaching of ministers shall be in the first place to the visible church of God, that is represented in the Old Testament both as the wife and mother of Christ. She is represented as his mother, Mic. iv. 10. “Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail;” with the next chapter, ver. 2, 3. “Thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, out of thee shall he come forth unto me, that is to be ruler in Israel Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth.” Isa. ix. 6. “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.” Cant. iii. 11. “Behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him.” Solomon’s father had solemnly promised, and , and sworn to Bathsheba long beforehand, that Solomon should reign and sit on his throne. So the sending of the Messiah and introducing the blessings of his reign, was the grand promise, , and oath of God to his church of old, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and in David’s and the prophets’ times. Ps. lxxxix. 3, 4. 35, 36. 2 Sam. xxii. 3-5. Jer. xxxiii. 17, to the end,. and many other places. The glorious reign of Solomon is introduced on the earnest petitions and pleadings of Bathsheba with his father. 1 Kings i. 15-21. So the prophecies often represent that the glorious peace and prosperity of the Messiah’s reign shall be given in answer to the earnest and prayers of the church. Ezek. xxxvi. 37. “I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them.” Jer. xxix. 11-14. Cant. ii. 14. Zech. xii. 10. Bathsheba pleads the king’s promise and . So the church is often represented as waiting for the fulfilment of God’s promises with respect to the benefits of the Messiah’s kingdom. Gen. xlix. 18. Isa. viii. 17. and xxx. 18. xl. 31. and xlix. 23. Zeph. iii. 8. Isa. xxv. 9. xxvi. 8. and lxiv. 4. Solomon came to the crown after the people had set up a false heir, one that pretended to be the heir of David’s crown, and for a while seemed as though he would carry all before him. This is agreeable to the prophecies of the Messiah, which represent that his kingdom shall be set upon the ruins of that of others, who should exalt themselves and assume the dominion. Ezek. xvii. 24. “I the Lord have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree,” &c. Ch. xxi. 26. “Thus saith the Lord God, Remove the diadem, take off the crown; this shall not be the same. Exalt him that is low; abase him that is high,” Ps. ii. “The kings of the earth set themselves; the rulers take counsel together, saying, Let us break their bands, &c. Yet have I set my king on my holy hill of Zion.” Ps. cxviii. 22. “The stone which the builders refused, the same is become the head of the corner.” And particularly this is agreeable to what the prophet Daniel says of the reign of antichrist, that shall precede the glorious day of the Messiah’s reign, who shall set up himself in the room of the Most High, as law-giver in his room, shall think to change times and laws, whose reign shall continue till the Messiah comes to overthrow it, by setting up his glorious kingdom. When David understands the opposition that was made to Solomon’s reign by him that had usurped the kingdom, and by the rulers and great men that were with him, he solemnly declares his firm and immutable purpose and decree of exalting Solomon that day to his throne which was in mount Zion. 1 Kings i. 29, 30. agreeable to Ps. ii. “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed; saying, Let us break their bands. Yet have I set my king on my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree. The Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.” Solomon was made king by a most solemn oath of his father, that he declares he will not of, but fulfil. 1 Kings xxix. 30. “And the king sware, and said, As the Lord liveth, that hath my soul out of all distress, even as I sware unto thee by the Lord God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.” Agreeable to Ps. cx. 4. “The Lord hath sworn, and will not , Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedec.” When the time came for Solomon to be proclaimed king, all the opposition and interest of his competitors, though very great, and of great men, (and though they seemed to have made their part strong, and to have got the day,) all vanished away as it were of itself, and came to nothing at once, like a dream when one awakes; agreeably to Ps. ii. “The Lord shall laugh at them. Yet have I set my king on my holy hill of Zion.” Isa. xxix. 7, 8. “And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, shall be as a dream of a night vision. It shall be even as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold, he eateth; and he awaketh, and his soul is empty,” &c. Ps. lxviii. 1, 2. “Let God arise; let his enemies be scattered; let them also that hate him flee before him, as smoke is driven away, as wax melteth before the fire.” Isa. lxiv. 1. “Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence.” Dan. ii. 34, 35. “Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, and the wind carried them away.” The followers of Adonijah were dispersed without any battle, only by what they heard and saw of what David had done in exalting Solomon, and the manner in which he was introduced and instated in the kingdom; which is agreeable to Ps. xlviii. 4-6. “For lo, the kings were assembled; they passed by together; they saw it, and so they marvelled. They were troubled, and hasted away. Fear took hold upon them there, and pain as of a woman in travail.” After David had declared the decree, that Solomon should be king in Zion, it was dangerous for the princes and rulers not to submit themselves to Solomon, and behave with suitable respect to him, lest he should be angry, and they should perish. Ps. ii. Solomon, in his way to the throne, is made as it were to drink of the brook. He first descended from the height of mount Zion down into a low valley without the city, to the water-course of Gihon. There he had a baptism to be baptized with. And then he ascended into the state and majesty of a king. Agreeable to Psalm cx. “He shall drink of the brook in the way, therefore shall he lift up the head:” and the many prophecies that speak of his humiliation, and sufferings, and glorious exaltation consequent thereon. Solomon, after he had descended into the valley to the waters of Gihon, ascended up into the height of Zion in a manner resembling the ascension of the Messiah, very much after the same manner that the ascension of the ark resembled it. For he went up with the sound of the trumpet, all the people following him with songs, and instruments of music, and hosannas, rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth rent again. 1 Kings i. 39, 40. Agreeable to Psalm lxviii. and xlvii. 5. and xxiv. That the peaceful, happy, and glorious reign of Solomon should be introduced with such extraordinary joy, shouting, songs, and instruments of music in Zion, is agreeable to what is often foretold concerning the introduction of the glorious day of the Messiah’s reign. Zech. ix. 9. “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem behold, thy King cometh unto thee.” To the like purpose, chap. ii. 10. Isaiah xl. 9. and lii. 7-9. Psalm xcvi. 10,. &c. “Say among the , the Lord reigneth; the world also shall be established, that it shall not be moved. He shall judge the people righteously. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad. Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof. Let the field be joyful and all that is therein. Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord:” and Psal. xcvii. 1, 8, 12. xcviii. 4. to the end, and c. 1, 2. Isaiah xlv. 23. xlix. 13. Isaiah lv. 12. and many other places. The great prosperity of Israel through the reign of Solomon was introduced with the sound of the trumpet. 1 Kings i. 34, 39. 1 Chron. xxix. 21, 22. Agreeable to Isaiah xxvii. 13. “The great trumpet shall be blown,” &c. Solomon was the Messiah or anointed in an eminent manner. He was anointed by the special direction both of David and of Nathan the prophet. 1 Kings i. 11, 34, 39. He was anointed with God’s holy anointing oil out of the tabernacle, verse 39. not only was Solomon anointed of God, but he was anointed also by the people. They made him king over them by their own act, 1 Chron. xxix. 22. agreeable to Hos. i. 11. “Then shall the children of Judah, and the children of Israel, be gathered together, and appoint over them one head; and they shall come up out of the land. For great shall be the day of Jezreel.” David made Solomon to ride on his own mule, and he sat on his father’s throne, while David was yet living, and was king. His father solemnly invested him with his kingly authority; and himself gives him his charge. 1 Kings i. 30, 33, 35, 47, 48. ii. 12. 1 Chron. xxviii. xxix. This is agreeable to the account that is given of God the Father’s investing the Messiah with his dominion in Dan. vii. See also Zech. vi. 12,13. and Ezek. xlvi. 1, 2. with xliv. 2. Solomon is spoken of as not only sitting on the throne of his father David; but also as sitting on God’s throne, and reigning in some respect in God’s stead, as his vicegerent. 1 Chron. xxviii. 5. “The Lord hath chosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.”. chap. xxxix. 23. “Then Solomon sat upon the throne of the Lord as king in stead of David his father.” 2 Chron. ix. 8. “Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to seat thee on his throne, to be king for the Lord thy God.” So the prophecies do represent the Messiah, as sitting on the throne of David his father. Isa. ix. 7. “On the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it,” &c. Jer. xxxiii 17, 21. And also as sitting on the throne of God. Zech. vi. 13. “He shall build the temple of the Lord, and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne.” Also Dan. vii. 13, 14. and Psal. ii. “I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.” Psal. cx. “Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.” Psal. xlv. 6. “Thy throne, O God, is for ever.” The beginning of Solomon’s reign was a remarkable time of vengeance on the wicked, and such as had been opposers or false friends of David and Solomon. Many such were then cut off. 1 Kings ii. So that it was as it were the righteous only that delighted themselves in that abundance of peace, and partook of the glory, prosperity, and triumph of God’s people, that was enjoyed in this feign, which is agreeable to Isa. lxi. 2. “To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God:” lxv. 12,. &c. “Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter my servants shall eat; but ye shall be hungry,” &c. Chap. lxvi. 14-.16. “And the hand of the Lord shall be known towards his servants, and his indignation towards his enemies. For behold, the Lord will come with fire and with his chariots, like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury and the slain of die Lord shall be many.” Isa. xxxiii. 14,. &c. “The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrite. He that walketh righteously shall dwell on high thine eye shall see the king in his beauty.” Mal. iv. 1-3. “All the proud, yea, all that do wickedly, shall be as stubble. But unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun of arise with healing in his wings. And ye shall tread down the wicked.” Ezek. xx. 38. “And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that against me.”. Psal. xxxvii. 9-11. “For evil-doers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, shall inherit the earth. For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. But the shall inherit the earth, and delight themselves in the abundance of peace.” And many other places. Solomon did not immediately cut off these rebels and ; but gave them opportunity to enjoy the blessings of his reign with others, if they would turn from their evil way, and submit to him, and approve themselves worthy men and faithful subjects. But when they went on still in their he cut them off. Agreeable to what is foretold should be at the introduction of the glory of the Messiah’s reign, in Psal. lxviii. 18,. &c. ” Thou hast ascended on high thou hast received gifts for men, yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them. Blessed be the Lord, who daily loaded us with his benefits. But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.” Solomon was a man of great and unparalleled wisdom. This is agreeable to Isa. ix. 6. “His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor.” xi.2, 3. “The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and of might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; and shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord.” Zech. iii. 9. “Upon one stone shall be seven eyes.” See also Isa. xli. two last verses, with xlii. 1. God was with Solomon and greatly established his throne. 1 Kings ii. 12. 2 Chron. i. 1. agreeable to Isa. ix. 7, 9. “Upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it and to establish it from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.” Psal. lxxxix. 2, 3. “Mercy shall he build up for ever: thy faithfulness will thou establish in the very heavens. I have made a with my chosen.” 20, 21. “With my holy oil have I anointed him, with whom my hand shall be established; mine arm also shall strengthen him.” 36,37. “His throne shall endure as the sun before me: it shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.” Psal. ii. throughout. Psal. xlv. “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.” Psal. cx. “Sit thou at my right band, the Lord hath sworn,” &c. Isa. xlii. 1, 4. “Behold my servant whom I uphold he shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth, and the isles shall wait for his law.” And xlix. 8. “I have helped thee, and I will preserve thee, to establish the earth.” The Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any before him in Israel. 1 Chron. xxix. 25. 2 Chron. i. 1.; agreeable to Psal. xlv. 2,. &c. ” Thou art fairer than the children of men gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.” Ver. 6. “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever. Isa. ix. 6. “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Solomon married Pharaoh’s daughter, a stranger; agreeably to Psal. xlv. 10. “Hearken, O daughter, consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people,” &c. “She was the daughter of a king;” agreeably to Psal. xlv. 13. “The King’s daughter,” &c. a , agreeably to Hos. ii. 16. “Thou shalt call me Ishi,” (i. e. my husband.) Ver. 19, 20. “And I will betroth thee unto me.” Ver. 23. ” And I will have mercy upon her that hath not obtained mercy; and I will say unto them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God;” with innumerable other prophecies of the calling of the . She was an Egyptian, and Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Agreeably to Psal. lxxxvii. 4. “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me.” Psal. lxviii. 31. “Princes shall come out of Egypt.” Isa. xix. 18, to the end. “In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan and there shall be an altar unto the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt and the Lord shall be known unto Egypt: and the Egyptians shall know the Lord and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed shall be Egypt my people.” Pharaoh’s daughter being an Egyptian, was of a swarthy complexion; agreeably to Cant. i. 5. “I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.” We read of no person that ever offered such great sacrifices as Solomon did. 1 Kings iii. 4,. and viii. 5. 63, 64. 1 Kings ix. 25. This is agreeable to what the prophecies represent of the Messiah, as the great priest of God, who by the sacrifices he should offer, should perfectly satisfy divine justice, and truly procure the favour of God for his people; his sacrifices being herein of greater value than thousands of rams and ten thousands of rivers of oil, and all the beasts of the field. Solomon built the temple; agreeably to Zech. vi. 12, 13. He made the dwelling-place of God, that before was only a movable tent, to become a stable building, built on a rock or everlasting mountain; agreeably to Isa. xxxiii. 20. “Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities. Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down: not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed; neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.” chap. xxviii. 16, 17. “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation judgment also will I lay to the line, and to the plummet.” Ezek. xxxvii. 26. “Moreover I will make a of peace with them: it shall be an everlasting with them; and I will place them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore,” taken together with the prophetical description of that sanctuary in the fortieth and following chapters. Solomon’s temple and his other buildings in Jerusalem were exceeding stately and magnificent, so that he vastly increased the beauty and glory of the city. Isa. 1. 13. ” The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee. The fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box-tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary: and I will make the place of my feet glorious.” Ver. 15. “I will make thee an eternal excellency.” chap. liv. 11,12. “Behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires; and I will make thy windows of agates and the gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.” The temple that Solomon built was exceeding magnifical of fame and of glory throughout all lands. 1 Chron. xxii. 5.; agreeably to Isa. ii. 2. “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow into it.” See also Mic. iv. 1, 2. Isa. lx. at the beginning. “Arise, shine; for thy light is come the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee; and the shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.” Solomon enlarged the place of sacrificing, so that sacrifices were not only offered on the altar, but all the middle part of the court was made use of for that end, by reason of the multitude of worshippers and the abundance of sacrifices. 1 Kings viii. 64. 2 Chron. vii. 7. which is agreeable to Jer. iii. 16, 17. “And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the of the Lord,” &c. at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall be gathered unto the name of the Lord unto Jerusalem.” Mal. i. 10, 11. “From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the , and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering:” and many other places. Solomon was a great for Israel, and by his he obtained that God should forgive their sins, and hear their prayers, and pity them under their calamities, and deliver them from their enemies, and fulfil his promises, and supply all their necessities, that they might find mercy and find to help in a time of need, and that God might dwell with Israel, and take up his abode among them, as their king, saviour, and father. (2 Kings viii. 2 Chron. vi.) By his and prayer he brought fire down from heaven, to consume their sacrifices; and obtained that God should come down in a cloud of glory to fill his temple. 2 Chron. vii. 1-3. 1 Kings viii. 54. His was as it were continual, as though he ever lived to make for his people, that they might obtain mercy and find to help in time of need. See those remarkable words, 1 Kings viii. 59. Solomon was not only an for Israel, but for the stranger that was not of Israel, but came out of a far country for God’s name sake, when he should hear of his great name and great salvation. 1 Kings viii. 41-43. 2 Chron. vi. 32, 33. which is agreeable to what the prophecies do abundantly represent of the joint interest of the in the utmost ends of the earth, with Israel in the Messiah, through hearing his great name, and the report of his salvation. Solomon prayed for all the people of the earth that they might know the true God. 1 Kings viii. 60. So the prophecies do abundantly show, that the Messiah should actually obtain this benefit for all nations of the world. Solomon did the part of a priest in blessing the congregation. 1 Kings viii. 14. 2 Chron. vi. 3. with Numb. vi. 23. which is agreeable to the prophecies which do represent the Messiah as a priest, and also to Gen. xxii. 18. “In thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” To the like purpose, chap. xii. 3. xviii. 18. and xxvi. 4. and Psal. lxxii. 17. “And men shall be blessed in him.” Solomon made a with the king of Tyre, and the servants of the king of Tyre were associated with the servants of Solomon in the building of the temple: which is agreeable to the prophecies of the Messiah’s being a light to the and of the people; and the being associated with the Jews and becoming one people with them; and their coming and building in the temple of the Lord. Zech. vi. 15. Isa. lx. 10. “And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee.” And particularly the prophecies that represent that the nation in the islands and ends of the earth and maritime places, the chief nations for arts, wealth, merchandise, and seafaring, should be brought into the kingdom of the Messiah, bringing their silver and gold to the name of the Lord, &c. And that the Tyrians in particular should be the people of the Messiah. Solomon brought the glory of Lebanon, or the best and fairest of its growth, to build the temple of God; agreeably to Isa. lx. 13. Solomon in an eminent manner executed judgment and justice. 1 Kings iii. 11, 28. andx. 9, 18. His throne of judgment was of ivory, a white, pure, and precious substance, used in the Old Testament as a symbol of purity and . This is agreeable to innumerable prophecies of the Messiah. It was in Solomon’s time that God first gave his people Israel fully to enjoy that rest in Canaan, that he had promised them in the time of Moses; and Solomon’s rest was glorious. 1 Kings v. 4. “But now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every side.” And chap. viii. 56. “Blessed be the Lord God, that hath given rest unto his people Israel; according to all that he promised, there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.” This is agreeable to Isa. xi. 10. “And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people: to it shall the seek; and his rest shall be glorious.” Jer. xxx. 10. “So I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return and be in rest and quiet, and none shall make him afraid.” Isa. xxxii. 20. “Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities. Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down.” And xxxii. 17, 18. “And the work of shall be peace, and the effect of , quietness and for ever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.” Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his own vine, and under his own fig-tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. 1 Kings iv. 25.; agreeable to Mic. iv. 4. “But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, and none shall make them afraid.” Zech. iii. 10. “In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, ye shall call every man his neighbour under his vine, and under his fig-tree.” In Solomon’s reign there were neither adversary nor evil occurrent. So according to the prophecies in the Messiah’s times there shall be no adversary. Isa. xxv. 5. “Thou shall bring down the noise of strangers as the heat in a dry place, even the heat with the shadow of a cloud; the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.” Isa. liv. 14. “In shall thou be established. Thou shall be far from oppression, for thou shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near thee.” And xlix. 19. “They that swallowed thee up shall be far away.” Isa. lx. 13. “Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders.” And xi. 13. “The adversaries of Judah shall be cut off.” So Ezek. xxxvi. 12,13. and many other places. So by the prophecies of the Messiah’s times, there should not be evil occurrent. Isa. xxv. 8. “He will wipe away tears from off all faces.” And xxxv. 10. “Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” Isa. xxxv. 24. “And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick.” Isa. lxv. 19. “And the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.” Ver. 21. “And they shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.” Zech. viii. 12. “The seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit; and the ground shall give her increase; and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things;” and many other places. In Solomon’s time Israel were possessed of great riches, silver, and gold, and other precious things in vast abundance. 1 Kings x. 21-23, 27. agreeable to Isa. lx. 5. “The abundance of the sea shall be unto thee. The forces (or wealth) of the shall come unto thee.” Ver. 6. “The multitude of camels shall cover thee. The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah they shall bring gold.” Ver. 9. “The ships of Tarshish shall bring their silver and their gold.” Ver. 11. “Thy gates shall be open continually, they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces (or wealth) of the .” Ver. 17. “For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron.” lxi. 6. “Ye shall eat the riches of the , and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.” lxvi. 11, 12. “That ye may milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the like a flowing stream; then shall ye suck,” &c. and many other places. Solomon’s reign was a time of great feasting and rejoicing in Israel. 1 Kings iv. 20-22, 23. viii. 65. and x. 5. agreeable to Isa. xxv. 6. “And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.” Isa. lxv. 13, 14. “Behold, my servants shall eat my servants shall drink my servants shall rejoice my servants shall sing for joy of heart.” Ver. 18. “Behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy.” Jer. xxxi. 12. “Therefore shall ye come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock, and of the herd, and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow any more at all.” Zech. viii. 19. “Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah joy, and gladness, and cheerful feasts.” Chap. ix. 15. “They shall drink and make a noise as through wine, and they shall be filled like bowls and as the corners of the altar.” Also Isa. xxxv. 1, 2, 10. xliv. 23. xlix. 13. and lxi. 3. and li. 11. and very many other places.