Solomon's temple spiritualized, or, Gospel-light fetched out of the temple at Jerusalem, to let…Solomon's temple spiritualiz'd, or, Gospel-light fetcht out of the temple at Jerusalem, to let…

For, though we are not now to worship God in those Methods, or by such Ordinances as once the Old Church did: Yet to know their Methods, and to understand the Nature and Signification of their Ordinances, when compared with the Gospel, may, even now, when themselves, as to what they once enjoined on others, are dead, may minister Light to us. And hence the New-Testament Ministers, as the Apostles, made much use of Old Testament-Language, and Ceremonial Institutions, as to their signification, to help the Faith of the Godly in their preaching of the Gospel of Christ.

For, though we are not now to worship God in those Methods, or by such Ordinances as once the Old Church did: Yet to know their Methods, and to understand the Nature and Signification of their Ordinances, when compared with the Gospel, may, even now, when themselves, as to what they once enjoyned on others, are dead, may minister Light to us. And hence the New-Testament Ministers, as the Apostles, made much use of Old Testament-Language, and Ceremonial Institutions, as to their signification, to help the Faith of the Godly in their preaching of the Gospel of Christ.

I may say, that God did in a manner tie up the Church of the Jews to Types, Figures and Similitudes, ⟨image 3⟩I mean to be butted and bounded by them in all external parts of Worship. Yea, not only the Levitical Law and Temple, but as it seems to me, the whole Land of Canaan, the Place of their Lot to dwell in, was to them as Ceremonial, or a Figure. Their Land was a Type of ^*Heaven, their passage over Jordan into it, a similitude of our going to Heaven by death. The Fruit of their Land was said to be uncircumcised, as being at their first entrance thither unclean, in which their Land was also a Figure of another thing, even as Heaven was a Type of Sin and Grace.

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