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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 5: V. Who was to fell those Trees, and to dig those Stones with which Solomon built the Te…
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But why, may some say, do you make so homely a Comparison? I Answer, because I believe it is true; for 'tis Grace, not Gifts, that makes us Sons, and the beloved of God. Gifts make a Minister; and as a Minister, one is but a servant to hew Wood, and draw Water for the house of my God. Yea Paul, tho' a Son, yet counted himself not a Son but a Servant, purely as he was a Minister: A Servant of God, a Servant of Christ, a Servant of the Church, and your Servant for Jesus sake, Tit. 1.
A man then is a Son as he is begotten and born of God to himself, and a servant as he is gifted for work in the house of his Father: And though it is truth, the servant may be a Son, yet he is not a Son, because he is a servant. Nor doth it follow, that because all Sons may be servants, that therefore all servants are Sons; no, all the servants of God are not Sons; and therefore when time shall come, he that is only a servant here, shall certainly be put out of the house, even out of that house himself did help to build. The servant abideth not in the house for ever: The servant, that is, he that is only so. Ezek. 46.16, 17. John 8.35.