understand, that every one might safely goe up to Hierusalem; nor neede care for their lands; God having promised to keepe them, saith S. Augustin, (quaest. 161, in Exod.) Againe, it is thus promised, Levit. 25.8. Keepe, and doe my judgements, and ye shall dwell in the land, in safety; which is repeated, ver. 19. the Land shall yeeld her fruite, and ye shall eate your fill, and dwell therein in safety; absque ullo pavore, without a∣ny feare (as the vulgar of Santandreanus hath it, in the first place) nullius impetum formid intes, fearing no mans forces, as it is in the 19. verse; so likewise Huntenius. The Interlinearie varieth it thus; ad fiduciam, & ad confidentiam, even to trust, and confidence. A mutuall Covenant, as it were, was betweene God, and the Israelites; if they regarded God, and things divine, God kept, and cared for them, and their humane affaires. Oh let not us neglect things sacred, and spirituall, and God will watch over our Temporalls, for our good. If it were said to the Iew, Exod. 23.15. None shall appeare before me emptie: much more is it said to us, saith Chrysostome, (Homil. 1. in 2. Epist. ad Timoth.) yet alas, who thinkes of this to practise it? Ano∣ther use also may be made of this. When thou commest into the Church, if the poore lye not at the porch of the Temple; but be absent, yet the poore mans boxe is present. That thou mayst obtaine mercy, shew mercy; woe worth the times; the voluntary offertories are ceased; prescription, and custome, even against the Al∣mighty, are commonly esteemed the onely guides of Devotions; but when the children of Israel did breake the Covenant of their God; when their will-worship, was preferred before the prescript of Gods Law; when the tradition of men, carried it, above the Commandements divine, when the Isrelites made, as it were, the salt of the Covenant unsavory, then God held himselfe discharged from the Covenant of salt. Then did the Nations trample over them, and lead Israel captive; and there was none left, but the Tribe of Iudah onely, 2 King. 17.2.6 18. verses. After Senacherib tooke all the fenced cities of Iudah, 2 King. 18.13. And Hezekiah, became Tributary to him, ver. 14. but in Zedekiah his dayes (who did evill in the sight of the Lord, 2 King. 24.19) Nabuzaradan burnt the house of the Lord, and the Kings house, and the houses of Hierusalem, and every great mans house, and brake downe the walls of Hie∣rusalem, round about, 2 King. 25.9.10. And now could no more Passeover be kept in Hierusalem, till the restauration of the Temple, by Zorobabel. No sooner was the Feast of the Dedication of the house of God, kept for the Service of God which is at Hierusalem, but they kept the Passeover, Ezr, 6.16.18.19 verses; which holy duty they continued all the time of the second Temple; till the destruction of it, by Ʋespasian, & Titus. 'Some indeede would have three Temples; Salomons, Zerubabels, and Herods; but these know not what the ancienter Iewes acknowledged, that Herods worke was but an enlargement of the second Temple; which second Temple being made, not without much opposition, as it is to be seene in Ezra, and Nehemiah, and perhaps by a forme prescribed, and limited by the Heathen Monarch's: was not so large, as the first Temple; but was, at the last, gloriously ampliated by Herod.