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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.
L. Of the Bowls and Basins belonging to the Temple.
L. Of the Bowles and Basons belonging to the Temple.
AS there were Spoons, so there were Bowls and Basins belonging to the Temple: Some of these were of Gold, and some of Silver: and when they were put together, their number was four hundred and forty. These you read of, Ezra 1.10.
AS there were Spoons, so there were Bowles and Basons belonging to the Temple: Some of these were of Gold, and some of Silver: and when they were put together, their number was four hundred and forty. These you read of, Ezra 1.10.
The Bowls, or Basins were not to wash in, as was the Sea and Lavers of the Temple, they were rather to hold the Messes in, which the Priests at their holy Feasts, did use to set before the People. This being so, they were types of that proportion of faith, by which, or by the measure of which, every man received of the holy food, for the nourishment of his Soul. For, as a Man, had he a thousand Messes set before him, he eating for his health, cannot go beyond what his stomach will bear: So neither can the Child of God, when he comes to worship in the Temple of God, receive of the good things that are there, beyond the proportion of his faith, or, as it is in another place, according to the ability which God giveth,