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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 40: XL. Of the Instruments wherewith this Sacrifice was slain, and of the four Tables they…
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5. But we must not confine these Tables only to the hearts of the bloody Jews, they were our sins for the which he died. Wherefore these Instruments should be laid upon our Tables too, and the Lord lay them there for good, that we also may see our horrid doings, and come bending to him for forgiveness.
5. But vve must not confine these Tables only to the hearts of the bloody Jevvs, they vvere our sins for the vvhich he died. Wherefore these Instruments should be laid upon our Tables too, and the Lord lay them there for good, that we also may see our horrid doings, and come bending to him for forgiveness.
6. These Instruments thus lying on the Tables in the Temple, became a continual Motive to God's People to Repentance, for so oft as they saw these bloody and cruel Instruments, they were put in mind how their sins should be the cause of the death of Christ.
7. It would be well also, if these Instruments were at all times laid upon our Tables, for our more humbling for our sins in every thing we do, especially upon the Lord's Table, when we come to eat and drink before him. I am sure the Lord Jesus doth more than intimate, that he expects that we should do so, where he saith, When ye eat that Bread, and drink that Cup, Do this in remembrance of me: In remembrance that I died for your sins, and consequently, that they were the meritorious cause of the shedding of my blood.
7. It would be well also, if these Instruments were at all times laid upon our Tables, for our more humbling for our sins in every thing we do, especially upon the Lord's Table, when we come to eat and drink before him. I am sure the Lord Jesus doth more than intimate, that he expects that we should do so, where he saith, When ye eat that Bread, and drink that Cup, Do this in remembrance of me: In remembrance that I died for your sins, and consequently, that they were the meritorious cause of the sheding of my blood.