pears into
pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more." Here is the building of such a temple as
shall bring peaceable and quiet times to the church, of which that
evangelical prophet speaketh in other places also, Isa. xi. 9; lx. 17, 18.
And if we shall read that which followeth, Isa. ii. 5, as the Chaldee
paraphrase doth, "And the men of the house of Jacob shall say, Come ye,"
&c., then the building of the temple there spoken of shall appear to be
joined with the Jews' conversion; but, howsoever, it is joined with a
great peace and calm, such as yet the church hath not seen.

4. We find in this vision, that when Ezekiel's temple shall be built,
princes shall no more oppress the people of God, nor defile the name of
God, Ezek. xlv. 8; xliii. 7;(1373) which are in like manner joined, Psal.
cii. 15, 16, 22, "The heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the
kings of the earth thy glory. When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall
appear in his glory; when the people are gathered together, and the
kingdoms (understand here also kings, as the Septuagint do), to serve the
Lord;" which psalm is acknowledged to be a prophecy of the kingdom of
Christ, though under the type of bringing back the captivity of the Jews,
and of the building again of Zion at that time. The like prophecy of
Christ we have Psal. lxxii. 11, "All kings shall fall down before him; all
nations shall serve him." But I ask, Have not the kings of the earth
hitherto, for the most part, set themselves "against the Lord, and against
his Anointed"? Psal. ii. 2. And how then shall all those prophecies hold
true, except they be coincident with Rev. xvii. 16, 17, and that time is
yet to come, when God shall put it in the hearts of kings to "hate the
whore (of Rome), and they shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat
her flesh, and burn her with fire"? It is foretold that God shall do this
great and good work even by those kings who have before subjected
themselves to Antichrist.

5. That which I now draw from Ezekiel's vision is no other but the same
which was showed to John, Rev. xi. 1, 2,--a place so like to this of
Ezekiel, that we must take special notice of it, and make that serve for a
commentary to this,--"And there was given me (saith John) a reed like unto
a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God,
and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court