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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 35: XXXV. Of the Stairs, by which they went up into the Chambers of 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.
1. These Stairs were winding, so that they turned about that did go up them. So then, he that assayed to go into these Chambers, must turn with the Stairs, or he could not go up, no, not into the lowest Chambers.
2. These Stairs therefore were a type of a twofold repentance. That by which we turn from nature to grace, and that by which we turn from the imperfections which attend a state of grace, to glory. Hence true repentance, or the right going up these turning Stairs, is called repentance to salvation; for true repentance stopeth not at the reception of grace, for that is but a going up these Stairs to the middle Chambers, 2 Cor. 7.10.
Thus therefore the Soul, as it goes up these Stairs, turns and turns, till it enters the Doors of the highest Chambers.
It groans, though in a state of grace, 'cause that's not the state of glory. I count then that from the first to the middle Chambers, may be a type of turning from nature to grace. but from the middle to the highest, these Stairs may signify a turning still from the imperfections and temptations that attend a state of grace, to that of immortality and glory;