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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…
Solomon's temple spiritualized, or, Gospel-light fetched out of the temple at Jerusalem, to let us more easily into the glory of New-Testament-truths by John Bunyan.Solomon's temple spiritualiz'd, or, Gospel-light fetcht out of the temple at Jerusalem, to let us more easily into the glory of New-Testament-truths by John Bunyan.
London : Printed for and sold by George Larkin ..., 1688
Chapter 16: XVI. Of the Chains that were upon these Pillars that stood before the Temple.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
AS there were Nets to catch, and Pomegranates to bait, so there were Chains belonging to these Chapters on these Pillars. And he made Chains, as in the Oracle, and put them upon the head of the Chapters, 2 Chr. 3.16.
AS there were Nets to catch, and Pomgranates to bait, so there were Chains belonging to these Chapiters on these Pillars. And he made Chains, as in the Oracle, and put them upon the head of the Chapiters, 2 Chr. 3.16.
But what were these Chains a type of? I answer, They were (perhaps) a type of those bonds which attend the Gospel, by which Souls taken, are tied fast to the horns of the Altar. Gospel-grace, and Gospel Obligations, are ties and binding things: They can hold those that are entangled by the Word. Love is strong as death, bands of love and the cords of a Man, and Chains take hold on them that are taken by the Gospel, Hos. 11. Song 8.6.
But this strength to bind, lieth not in outward force, but in a sweet constraint, by virtue of the displays of undeserved love. The love of Christ constraineth us: ⟨p. 36⟩2 Cor. 5.14. Wherefore as you find the Nets, so the Chains had Pomegranates on them. And he made an hundred Pomegranates, and put them upon the Chains, 2 Chr. 3.16