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…

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. The Chains then had baits, as well as the Nets, to show that the Bands of the Gospel are unresistible goodnesses: such with which men love to be bound, and such as they pray they may be held fast by. He binds his Foal to the Vine, his Saint unto this Saviour, Gen. 49.11.

But this strength to binde, lieth not in outward force, but in a sweet constraint, by vertue 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 Pomgranates on them. And he made an hundred Pomgranates, and put them upon the Chains, 2 Chr. 3.16