_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._ _But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby._ _For the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king, he will save us._ _Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast; they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey:_ _And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people that shall dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity._ In which words we have the place from whence salvation is to proceed, _Jerusalem, a quiet habitation_; the eternity of it, _a tabernacle that shall not be taken down, &c_; the Saviour of it, _the Lord, their judge, their law-giver, their king, he will save us; the salvation, the Lord shall be to them as a broad moat of swift waters, &c_; the condition of their enemies, _their tacklings are loose, their masts weak, the lame shall take the spoil of them_; the condition of the saved, _the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick_: and lastly, all this is comprehended in forgiveness of sin, _the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity_. By which it is evident, that salvation shall be on earth, then, when God shall reign, at the coming again of Christ, in Jerusalem; and from Jerusalem shall proceed the salvation of the Gentiles that shall be received into God’s kingdom: as is also more expressly declared by the same prophet, (_Isaiah_ lxvi. 20, 21), _And they_ (that is the Gentiles who had any Jew in bondage) _shall bring all your brethren, for an offering to the Lord, out of all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain, Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord._ Whereby it is manifest, that the chief seat of God’s kingdom, which is the place from whence the salvation of us that were Gentiles shall proceed, shall be Jerusalem: and the same is also confirmed by our Saviour in his discourse with the woman of Samaria, concerning the place of God’s worship; to whom he saith (_John_ iv. 22) that the Samaritans worshipped they knew not what, but the Jews worshipped what they knew, _for salvation is of the Jews_ (_ex Judæis_, that is, begins at the Jews): as if he should say, you worship God, but know not by whom he will save you, as we do, that know it shall be by one of the tribe of Judah; a Jew, not a Samaritan. And therefore also the woman not impertinently answered him again, _We know the Messias shall come_. So