A17384:707
A commentary
A commentary: or, sermons upon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.A commentary: or, sermons vpon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter vvherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of diuinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623
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Secondly, in respect of the adjuncts of the Tabernacle: and those were two. First, moveablenesse: secondly, furniture.
Secondly, in respect of the adiuncts of the Tabernacle: and those were two. First, moueablenesse: secondly, furniture.
For the first. The Tabernacle, though it were Gods House, had no constant or certain resting place, till Solomon, at the building of the Temple, took it into the most holy place; and was taken asunder, and easily dissolved; such are we: though honoured with the presence of Christ, yet our Tabernacle must be dissolved, and we ⟨p. 151⟩shall never be at rest, till we be settled in the most holy place in heaven, 2. Cor. 5.1, 7.
For the first. The Tabernacle, though it were Gods House, had no constant or certain restingplace, till Salomon, at the building of the Temple, took it into the most holy place; and was taken asunder, and easily dissolued; such are wee: though honoured with the presence of Christ, yet our Tabernacle must bee dissolued, and wee ⟨p. 151⟩shall neuer be at rest, till we be settled in the most holy place in heauen, 2. Cor. 5.1, 7.
For the second, which is the furniture of the Tabernacle, it must be considered two ways: either on the inside, or on the outside. First, for the inside: there were curtains of fine linen, and blue silk, and scarlet, &c. and it was furnished with admirable household-stuff, as I may so call it. Within it was the Mercy-seat, the Table of show-bread, the Manna, the Altar of incense, and for burnt offerings, the Candlestick, and such like. Secondly, without it was all covered with Rams skins died red, and Badgers skins upon them: and what doth all this signify in general, but that the Godly, though they be outwardly black and tanned with sin and affliction, yet they are glorious within, and have curtains like the curtains of Solomon; all richly hanged, as the chambers of Princes, with spiritual tapestry?