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…

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, Rom. 12.6. 1 Pet. 4.11.

The Bowles, or Basons 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 stomack 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, Rom. 12.6. 1 Pet. 4.11.

And hence it is, that at the self same Ordinance, some receive three times as much as others do: for that their Bowl, I mean their faith, is able to receive it. Yea, Benjamin's Mess was five times as big as was the Mess of any of his Brethren; and so it is with some Saints, while they eat with their Brother Joseph in the House of the living God.