5. nibyn Afcenfiones Spiritus veftri. xl. In his Temple, 26, 31. Steps, Stairs. The Jews talk of Stairs where this was fung. They had no Temple, fo no Stairs in David's Time. There were Steps or Afcents to Mount Olivet, to the City of David, to the Sepulchre, to the Throne: And if it be allowed that he could forefee Steps; if there were any, there should have been Directions to fing them there, or there would have been by before Stairs. I doubt this and those Traditions from Sinai have the fame Authors. Neh. ix. 4. by Pulpit of the Levites, they make it Plural. The rest of or the other Titles are not where they were to be fung, but to whom and what about. The Temple being fet on a Mountain on high, and the Steps to it, if any, however Afcent, was all typical. (byn they make a Root, is Prævaricatio) Afcenfions of the fecond and third Perfons to David. 1 Par. xvii. 17. and haft regarded me according to the Estate of a Man on Jehovah Aleim. Qu. Afcenfion from the Grave and from the Earth. They say they fung thefe at the Jubilee. To Jehovah in ftrict Union with me, Jehovah was in him,-to another, Ver. 4. What shall be given unto thee-Wo is me that I fojourn To the Drawer*, Attractor (Brix. Muscovy Barbarians( Ihave dwelt in the Tents of black, Son of Ishmael, Arabia Petrea, See Brix. takes thefe * The Word is often applied to drawing a Party after one, See Jud. iv. 6. Cant. i. 4. &c. A a 4 No Nomades for a Figure borrowed to express the Jews. Pfal. cxxi. A Song of Degrees. The first fays, I will lift up my Eyes unto the Mountains, then to another, be will not fuffer thy Foot to be moved. by Day the Shemofh fhall not fmite thee-from all Evil fhall be preferve thy Body. Pfal. cxxii. A Song of Degrees, Th. I was glad when they faid unto me, let us go into the Beth Jehovah. Our Feet were flanding in thy Gates, O Jerufalem. The City put for Believers. -For my Brethren and my Companions Sake, I will speak Peace unto thee. Because of the Houfe of Jehovah our Aleim I will feek to do thee Good. Pfal. cxxiii. A Song of Degrees. lift I up thine Eyes Unto thee The Dwellers in the Names. Behold, as the Eyes of Servants look unto the Hand of their Mafters - So our Eyes wait on Jehovah our he bave Mercy on us ed, &c. Aleim (all Plural) until because we have fuffer our Pfal. cxxiv. A Song of Degrees, to David. Soul and Body. But for Jehovah who was s to us, may Ifrael now fay, they had fwallowed us up· the Waters bad overwhelmed us Body is efcaped as a Bird out of the Net of the Fowlers; the Net is broken and we are delivered. Soul and Body or Him and Believers. Refurrection. Joh. iii. 11. Chrift fays, we speak what we do know, and teftify what we have feen, and ye receive not our Witness. (Then diftinctly) If I have told you earthly Things (which the one could tell) and ye believe not, how fhall ye believe if I (which the other could tell) tell you of heavenly Things? There are other Instances where the Perfons in Christ speak jointly and separately. John iii. 31. fpeaks of one. Pfal. cxxv. A Song of Degrees; They that trust in Jehovah fhall be as Mount Sion. Jerufalem jhall not be moved, it shall be inhabited for ever. The Mountains are round about her, and Jehovah round about his People, from henceforth even for ever. For the Rod of the Wicked fhall not rest upon the Lot of the Righteous: left, &c. Do good, Jehovah, unto the Good, and upright in their Hearts; as for fuch as turn afide -deftroy. Pfal. cxxvi. A Song of D. When Jehovah turned again the Captivity of Sion, we were like them that dream. Then was our Mouth filled with Laughter, and our Tongue with Singing: Then faid they among the Heathen turn again our Captivity, Jehovah, as the Streams in the South. They that fow in Tears, Shall reap n with shouting. This fhews what return from Captivity is, and what Praconia or Shoutings. Pfal. cxxvii. A Song of D. To Solomon * If Jehovah build not the Houfe, in vain its Builders *The Temple was the Type of Chrift's Body, which would have been built to little Purpose had not Jehovah built the Antitype. And this is a Promise that he would do it, Builders labour in it. So Keepers of the City Pfal. cxxviii. Borrowed Ideas of the true House, City, Family, &c. Pfal. cxxix. A Song of D. Greatly have they afflicted me from my Youth, may Ifrael now fay.— Jehovah the Maker juft bath cut afunder the Cords of the Wicked.-they shall be as the Grafs, &c. Pfal.cxxx. A Song of D.Out of the DEPTHS have I cried unto thee Jehovah. Adoni, hear my Voice: Let thine Ears be attentive to the Voice of my Supplications. If thou Jah Adoni ¬ keepeft Iniquities: Who shall ftand? But there is on Pardon by Expiation: That thou mayft be feared. I wait for Jehovah. Body to Adoni, more than they which watch for the Morning. So Ifrael to expect Redemption. חסליחה my Ver. 2. It is in vain for you to rife up early, to fit up late (is not this the Morning and Evening Sacrifice, or is it Diligence only described as being early and late at a Thing is used with us, and the Words which fignify Morning in Hebrew, fignify Diligence) eating the Bready of Sorrows, is this the Shew-bread, and Parts of the Sacrifices which represented the Sufferings?n is the Support the Merits of Chrift purchased for us; that seems to be the Senfe because it follows 1 certainly he will lay 17 on his beloved one & the Wrath. So the Types were to cease, the D'asy Dn' would ferve them in no Stead. Ver. 3. Children, regenerated Ones, This is plain of the Refurrection, fo plain that Soul and Body are Actors. Pfal. cxxxi. Song of D. 7. Jehovah my Heart is not haughty; the Humility of his Body like a weaned Child upon its Mother. Hence none could enter the Kingdom of Heaven till he became fuch. Pfal. cxxxii. A Song of D. Remember, Jehovah, David and all his Afflictions: How he fwore to Jehovah, (the Covenant) and vowed to the mighty One of Jacob, (David made no such Oath nor Vow.) Surely I will not come into the Tabernacle of my Houfe, nor go up into my Bed -until I find out-Lo, we heard of it at Ephrata * We (who?) will go into. -we (who?) will worship- -arife, Jehovah, into thy Reft: Thou and the Ark of thy Strength, Let + Pfal. cxxxii. A Song byn of the Steps towards Perfections. by is ufed in this Senfe, Deut. xxviii. 13. the Lord fhall make thee Head and not Tail, and thou shalt be by going on to Perfection, or, going on fuccessfully. * There the Man Chrift, the Temple of God was born, Mich. v. 2. and thou Bethleem Ephrata, &c. to + Arife into thy nm refting Place, Jehovah, thou and the Ark of thy Strength. When the Ark marched before the Children of Ifrael find out a refting Place, it is recorded that Mofes faid, Numb. x. 36. Rife up Jehovah, and let thy Enemies be fcattered: and when it refted, he said, return, or bring back n the many Thousands of Ifrael. And at the Dedication of the Temple, 2 Chron. vi. 41. When the Emblems were placed in the Church, Solomon faid, arife Jehovah Aleim |