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THe son of Barachiah. He warns the Jews to repent, to build the Temple, he makes mention of his visions, and explains them by the effusion of the Spirit of grace and prayers, He prophesied after the return from Babylon, in the year of the world 3456.
516. Zech. 1. 3. Turn unto me, and I will turn unto you. Joh. 6. 44. No man comes unto me unlesse my Father draw him.
The first place is legall, requiring of us
what we ought, and not what we can do. The latter is evangelicall, for no man comes unto God unlesse God draw him by his Spirit. Therefore we must pray diligently, Convert me O Lord that I may be converted, because thou O Lord art my God.
517. Zech. 1. 17. Chap. 2. 10. The Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem. Eph. 1. 4. God the Father chose us in Christ before the foundations of the world.
The election of a certain people to be a vi∣sible Church, in the first place is taken meto∣nymically, for by that deed God sheweth that he hath confirmed the election of Jerusalem. In the latter God speaks of our election unto eter∣nall life.
518. Zech. 2. 8. He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of mine eye. Isai. 3. 1. Behold the Lord of hosts doth take away from Jerusalem the whole stay of bread.
In the first place is contained the promise of God to the faithfull that keep his Covenant. In the latter is the pronouncing of judgement against the obstinate Jews. God is said to have kept his people as the apple of his eye so long as they were obedient. But temporall punish∣ments inflicted on the wicked do not infringe the truth of his promise and of divine perfor∣mance.
519. Zech. 3. 9. I will remove the iniquity of his land in one day. Revel. 13. 8. Christ is slain from the beginning of the world.
In one day is the performance of Christs passion, who dying for our sins restored us unto life. But he was slain from the begin∣ning of the world in Gods determinations by election, virtue, efficacy, and accepta∣tion, and in respect of the fruits of it, which redounded to the Church under the old Testament.
520. Zech. 6. 13. He shall sit and rule upon his throne. Isai. 9. 7. He shall sit upon the throne of Daaid, and upon his King∣dome. Luk. 1. 33.
Christ in respect of his divine nature hath his throne from everlasting to everlasting. But in respect of his humanity, being he is born of the seed of David according to the flesh, the Lord God hath given him a throne, that he may reign over the house of Jacob forever.
521. Zech. 11. 12. They weighed for my price 30 pieces of silver. Mat. 27. 9. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, they took 30 pieces of silver the price of him that was valued, whom they did value.
Eusebius saith, that Jeremiahs name was put for Zecharias name, by the errour of the Scri∣vener. Out of Jeremiah some make the computation, where he makes mention of 17 shekels, which make 30 pieces of silver, Jer. 32. 9.
522. Zech. 13. 7. Awake O sword against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts, smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall
be scattered. Joh. 10. 10. No man takes away my life from me.
The Prophet mentioneth God the Fa∣ther commanding in the name of the whole Trinity, whose words outwardly are com∣mon to the three Persons, and undivided, that his shepheard, namely Christ, should be slaine, that contradicts not Christs words, who willingly laid down his life for us.
523. Zech. 13. 7. The sheep shall be scatte∣red. Joh. 17. 12. Those that thou gavest unto me I have kept them. Chap. 18. 9, 10. I have not lost one.
God the Father speaks of the scattering, Christ of the keeping. That scattering takes not away Christs keeping, because none of the Apostles which his Father gave to him perished but the son of perdition.
Jer. 31. 18.
Deut. 32. 10. Psal. 17. 8.
De Demon∣stra•••• l. 10. c. 4.