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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.
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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; 2 Cor. 5.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
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 signifie a turning still from the imperfections and temptations that attend a state of grace, to that of immortality and glory; 2 Cor. 5.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.