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…

These Candlesticks are said sometimes to be ten, sometimes seven, and sometimes one. Ten here, seven Revel. 1. and one in Zech. 4. Ten, is a note of a multitude, and seven, a note of perfection, and one, a note of unity.

Now as the precious stones with which the House was garnished, were a type of Ministerial gifts: so these Candlesticks were a type of those that were to be the Churches of the New Testament. Wherefore he says, The Candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven Churches; Revel. 1.12, 13, 20.

1. The Candlesticks were here in number ten, to show that Christ under the New Testament would have a many Gospel Churches. And I, if I be lifted up from the Earth, saith he, will draw all men unto me; that is, abundance: For the Children of the desolate, that is, of the New Testament Church, shall be many more ⟨p. 108⟩then they of the Jews were; Joh. 12.32. Gala. 4.27.

1. The Candlesticks were here in number ten, to shew that Christ under the New Testament would have a many Gospel Churches. And I, if I be lifted up from the Earth, saith he, will draw all men unto me; that is, abundance: For the Children of the desolate, that is, of the New Testament Church, shall be many more ⟨p. 108⟩