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170 taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken, Isaiah xxxiii. 20, not to mention other passages, as Isaiah xxiv. 23; chap, xxxvii. 32. chap. lxvi. 10 to 16. Zech. xii. 3, 6 to 10. chap. xiv. 8, 11, 12, 21. Mal. iii. 4. Psalm cxxii. 1 to 7. Psalm cxxxvii. 5, 6, 7. That by Jerusalem in these passages is meant a church that was to be established by the Lord, and not the city of Jerusalem inhabited by the Jews, is plain from every particular of its description therein; as that Jehovah God was about to create a new heaven and a new earth, and also a Jerusalem at the same time; and that this Jerusalem would be a crown of glory and a royal diadem; that it was to be called holiness, and a city of truth, the throne of Jehovah, a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; that the wolf and the lamb shall feed together therein, and that the mountains should drop down with new wine, and the hills flow with milk, and that it should remain from generation to generation; besides other circumstances respecting the people therein, that they should be holy, all written for life; and should be called the redeemed of Jehovah. Moreover all those passages relate to the coming of the Lord, particularly to his second coming, when Jerusalem shall become such as it is there described; for heretofore she was not married, that is, made the bride and wife of the lamb, as the New Jerusalem is said to be in the Revelation. The former or present church is meant by Jerusalem in Daniel, and its commencement is described in these words, Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the word, to restore and to build, unto Messiah the prince, shall be seven weeks, and after threescore and two weeks the streets shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times, chap. ix. 25; but its end is described by these words, At length upon the bird of