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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.
These Tables were made of Stone, of hewen Stone, on which this work was done; Ezek. 40.40, 41, 42, 43, 44.
Now since the burnt-offering was a figure ⟨p. 100⟩of the Body of Christ, the Tables on which this Sacrifice was slain, must needs, I think, be a type of the heart, the stony heart of the Jews: For had they not had hearts hard as an Adamant, they could not have done that thing.
Upon these Tables therefore, was the death of Christ contrived, and this horrid murder acted, even upon these Tables of Stone.
Upon these Tables therefore, vvas the death of Christ contrived, and this horrid murder acted, even upon these Tables of Stone.
In that they are called Tables of hewen Stone, It may be to show, that all this cruelty was acted under smooth pretences, for hewen stones are smooth. The Tables were finely wrought with Tools, even as the hearts of the Jews were with hypocrisy. But alas they were stone still, that is, hard and cruel, else they could not have been an Anvil for Satan to forge such horrid Barbarism upon. The Tables were in number the same with the Lavers, and were set by them, to show what are the fruits of being devoted to the Law, as the Jews were, in opposition to Christ and his holy Gospel: there flows nothing but hardness, and a stony heart from thence. This was showed in its first writing, it was writ on Tables of stone, figures of the heart of Man, and on the same Tables or hearts was the death of Jesus Christ compassed.