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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
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.
True, all these were but Figures, Patterns,1 and Shadows of things in the Heavens, and not the very image of the things: But, as was said afore, if God was so circumspect, and exact in these, as not to leave any thing to the dictates of the godly and wisest of men; what! Can we suppose he will now admit of the Wit and Contrivance of men in those things ⟨image 7⟩that are, in comparison to them, the Heavenly things themselves.
- 1Heb. 8.5. Chap. 9.8, 9, 23. Chap. 10.1.
It is also to be concluded, That since those Shadows of things in the Heavens, are already committed by God to Sacred Story; and since that Sacred Story is said to be able to make the man of God perfect in all things, (2 Tim. 3.15, 16, 17.) It is duty to us to leave off to lean to common understandings, and to enquire and search out by that very Holy Writ, and nought else, by what, and how we should worship God. David was for enquiring in his Temple, (Psal. 27.4.)
And although the old Church way of worship, is laid aside as to us, in New-Testament-times. Yet since those very Ordinances were Figures of Things, and Methods of Worship, now; we may, yea, we ought to search out the spiritual meaning of them, because they serve to confirm and illustrate matters ⟨image 8⟩