Heavy metal

But should not judges be men of courage?

Should not the standard be of steel?

The chief posts in the house be heart of oak?

Solomon’s tribunal was under propped with lions, to show what metal a magistrate should be made of.

How should all the saints be

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,
which shall never hold their peace day nor night:
ye that make mention of the Lord,
keep not silence. (Isaiah 62:6)

Ye that make mention of the Lord.

Or, Ye that are the Lord’s remembrancers, that jogged him as it were, and remind him of his people’s necessities and miseries. The kings of Israel, Persia, and of other nations, had their Mazkirim, or remembrancers, to mind them of those matters that concerned the weal public, and to these he here alludeth.

All the saints are such like officers, and must be active.