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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
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2. These Doors did represent Christ, as he is the way to the Father, as also did the Door of the Tabernacle, at which the People were wont to stand, when they went to enquire of God. Wherefore Christ saith, I am the door, (alluding to this) by me if any man enter he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture; Exod. 33.9, 10. Chap. 38.8. Chap. 40.12. ⟨p. 65⟩Levit. 1.3, 4. Chap. 8.3, 4, 13: Chap. 15.14. Numb, 6.13, 18. Chap. 10.3. Chap. 25.6. Chap. 27.2. 1 Sam. 2.22. Joh. 10 9.
1. I am the Door. The Door into the Court, the Door into the Porch, the Door into the Temple, the Door into the Holiest, the Door to the Father. But now we are at the Door of the Temple.
2. And observe it, this Door by Solomon was not measured, as the Door of the Porch was: for though the Door into the Court, and the Door into the Porch were measured, to show that the right to Ordinances, and the inlet into the Church, is to be according to a prescript Rule, yet this Door was not measured; to show that Christ, as he is the inlet to saving grace, is beyond all measure, and unsearchable. Hence his grace is called unsearchable riches, and that above all we can ask or think, for that it passeth knowledge: