John Trapp on Zechariah 3:7

Verſe 7. If thou wilt walk in my wayes, and keep my charge] That is, if thou wilt walk in all the Commandements (moral) and ordinances (Levitical) blameleſſe as holy.Luk. 1 6. Act 20.28. Zachary did, and ſo approve thy ſelf righteous before God, by taking heed to thy ſelf firſt, and then to all thy flock, which is thy charge, the Holy Ghoſts depoſitum, and the purchaſe of Chriſt's own blood. God lineſſe is the high-way to happineſſe: the good old way that hath been ever beaten by all thoſe ſaints, that now finde reſt to their ſouls. The very firſt ſteps in this way are Repentance from dead works, and Faith toward God in Chriſt Jeſus. By theſe, men return to God from whom they have departed: are brought neare to him, and ſet in the way of his ſteps Pſal. 85.13. We are his workmanſhip (ſaith the Apoſtle) created in Chriſt Ieſus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we ſhould walk in them. Eph. 2.10. not without good advice, and due direction. Eph. 5.15. Walk circumſpectly, walk by rule and by line, Gal. 6.16. Lift not up one foot till you finde ſure footing for the other, as thoſe Pſal. 35.6. Chriſtians, (and eſpecially Miniſters) are funambulones, ſaith Tertullian: if they tread but one ſtep awry, they are gone, and may draw many with them.

then thou ſhalt judge mine houſe, and ſhalt alſo keep my courts] i. e. Thou ſhalt rule in my Temple, and wait at mine altar. The Pope and his Prelates catch at the former, but let go the later: where Chriſt ſaith Feed my ſheep, Bellarmine ſaith, the meaning is, Rule like a king; Baronius, Take to thy ſelf the ſupream government of the Church. But a preaching Biſhop is a juſt wonder among them, a Vir portenti, as thoſe prieſts in the next verſe are called.

and I will give thee places to walk among theſe that ſtand by] i.e. Among the Seraphims (as the Chaldee here interprets it,) thou ſhalt walk arm in arm (as it were) with Angels Mat. 22.30. Heb. 12.22. He ſeems to allude to the walks and Galleries that were about the Temple. Heaven is the reward of walking in the way that is called Holy: the end of mens faith, the ſalvation of their ſouls. Chriſt tells us that in his Fathers houſe are many manſions for us, Joh. 14.2. (ſuch as have farre better gardens, and Galleries then Mahomet fondly promiſeth his ſwordmen in his fools-paradiſe) And it is a part of his joy, that we ſhall one day bee where he is, attended with innumerable Angels, John 17.24. who will be glad of our company. How much better cauſe have we then that Heathen to cry out, O praeclarum diem, cum ad illud animorum concilium coetumque preficiſcar: Cic. de ſeneclute. & cum ex hac turba & colluvione diſcedam, &c. O what a brave and bright day will that be, when wee ſhall go to that Congregation-houſe of bleſſed ſpirits: and walk no longer in the way of this world, which is (like the land of Chabul) dirty and dangerous, like the vale of Siddim, ſlimy, and ſlippery,1 Sam 2. full of lime-pits, and pitfalls, ſnares and ſtumbling-blocks, laid by Satan to maime, or miſchieve us! O happy they that walk humbly with God, who keepeth the feet of his Saints, and hath charged his Angels to bear them up in their hands, leſt they daſh their feet againſt a ſtone! This whiles they are here:Pſal. 90.12. and when they go hence, to convey them thorow the air (whereof the devil is the prince) as thorow the enemies countrey, into the heavenly habitations: and there to entertain and welcome them with ſweeteſt varieties, felicities, eternities, ſitter to be beleeved then poſſible to be expreſſed.