The city of Jerusalem was never
Thp tabernacle and ark were never fixed, but some? tunes in one place, and sometimes in another; but now God proceeded to choose Jerusalem. thoroughly conquered, or taken out of the hands of till David s time. It is said in Joshua xv.” As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem the children pf Judah could not drive them out: But the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.” But now David wholly subdued it, as we have an account inSam. vAnd now God proceeded to choose that city to place his nam theie, as appears by David s bringing up the ark thither sooi fter s apd therefore this is time God proceeded to choose a city to place ts name there i and chap. xii.Afterward God pro eeeded to show David the very place where he would hav# his temple Mill, vb. in the threshing floor oi Araunah th Jebusite.The city Jerusalem is therefore called the holy dty ; ami it was the greatest type of the church of Christ in aH the Old Tesarment. it was redeemed by Datid, the captaih of th hosts of Israel, out of the hands of the Jebusites, to be God’s city, the holy place of his rest for ever, where he would dwell ; as Christ, the captain of his peopled salvation, redeems Mi church out of the hands of devils, to be his holy and beloved city. And therefore how often does the scripture, wheit speaking of Christ’s redemption of his church, call it by th# names of Zion and Jerusalem ? This was the city that God ban} appointed to be the place of the first gathering and erecting of the Christian church after Christ resurrection, of that re markable pouring out ef the Spirit of God on the apostles and primitive Christians, and the place whence the gospel was te sound forth into aft the world ; the place of the first Christkf church, that was to be, as it were, the mother of all other churches through the world; agteeably to that prophecy, Isa a” Out of Ziofc shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem : And he shall jtodge among the nations, and shpll rebuke many people, &c.