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Show DESTRUCTION 14 f . eer This situation, the joy of the whole earth, « Beautiful for Zion Mount was this DESTRUCTION JERUs ALEM. OF the i.ord hath alluding primarily to this city; \ For Here lf. himse for chosen Zion to be an habitation s thing )Here great will | dweil, for I have desired un. led the psa ed were done ip divine faithfulness; which ces fora renee ist to say 3 f God is known in her pata ; they ‘They saw it, and so they maryelled together. ff The . d away were troubled, and so they haste our — at - orig of Jacobs Lord of hosts is with us ; the God le ; aes rnac tabe refuge.’ (‘ In Salem stood his oe ae he here brake dwelling place in Zion. neace. Oa alue. en we find recorded “contained two parts, called the Upper and Lower City. hoe een ov 2 OY£ sentiment in sacred their oracies: fuifiiied 5 gainst the [lebrews. subdued them; _ es and their prophets had long the) apes DP ever if that soiemn denunciations, he s:y 4 ae of his wrath. fail execution did im prou of the character which they most signal judgments And the Messiah of God shouid uttered against them, ae ase ion of their rejecting him, a new edit Matt. nunciations, which we fina in Luke xix. 41—44. / = 4 the a iu a ag ee econo chap. XX1. and xxiii. 27— . the Jewish commonwealth. Ee Pe take place on ment Christ assured should fuihiied, Hone Aud the denunciation was ee iat genera and called their city a- till David The City of Da- 4 (or rather re- , state and strength when it was destroyed. Most of this city was surrounded with three walls. : In some places, where had only one. it was deemed ‘The wall first built was inaccessible, it adorned and strengthened with sixty towers. Fourteen towers rested on the middle wall. The outside one, (most remarkable for its workmanship) was secured with ninety hese were to cA Ps which the reader is referred. a desolation of Jerasaict primary fulfilment in the r. o. Here they remained, tlerod the Great, when he repaired % Sod latter on builded) the temple, added vast strength and embcllishments to this city ; which accounts for its superb eo i hew the oud. fe + = the denunciations and they fell under Sion; rael entered Canaan. ln the hisher city they long defended themselves ith him; but if ye forLord is with you while ye be » Ys re cast you off.” sake him, he will — d the ifie cruc nal ; car ame bec Jews The olory; built on Mount Solyma.. The warhke Jebusites possessed it when Is- er 4d hey nation of the Jews, a fatal reverse. ‘he former was Mount Acra. The city 1s supposed to have been founded by Meichisedec, and then called Salem, or oe of this city. exhibiteda type of EE. feng did i e. Jeru. they shall see; Salem. peac God, there see ap church. while they waikea wiih ntaAY the awful jad¥ment upon the infidel Jews, and vindicated bis cause against his persecutors and murderers. But _ Some preliminary remarks will first be made. This noted city was built on two mountains ; and battle. name,— sword of the of the bow, the shield and the well to its This city of God long answered as tt demonstrated church, and frequently contemplated. Itis a subject too mach neglected and forgotten in the present Christian world. I design thea, to give a concise de- | scription of the event, in which Jesus Christ came in by were assembled; they passed the Kings to, fulfilment, inasmuch the destruction of Antichrist, and of the wicked at the end of the world ; and shows the danger of rejecting the Son of God——-ought to be duly noted in the centuryes, city of the Great King.” \'This, for many said, God might be called God’s Capital on earih. For JERUSALEM. truth and divinity of our Saviour, the of the north, on the sides OF The towers. tower Psephinos was most celebrated. was seventy cubits high ; had eight angles; manded might a most beautiful (in view of the prospect. Tt and com- Here the visitor a clear atmosphere) delight himself with 4 Mediterranean, forty miles to the west and of most of the Jewish dominions. Some of these towers were nearly ninety cubits in height 5; and fine |
