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LIX. Of the Golden Nails of the Inner-Temple.

I Shall not concern my self with all the Nails of the Temple, as of those made of Iron, &c. 1 Chron. 22.3. but only with the Golden ones, of which you read 2 Chron. 3.4. where he saith, And the weight of the nails was fifty Shekels of Gold: These Nails, as I conceive, were all fastened to the place most Holy, and of form most apt to that of which they were a Figure.

I Shall not concern my self with all the Nails of the Temple, as of those made of Iron, &c. 1 Chron. 22.3. but only with the Golden ones, of which you read 2 Chron. 3.4. where he saith, And the weight of the nails was fifty Shekels of Gold: These Nails, as I conceive, were all fastned to the place most Holy, and of form most apt to that of which they were a Figure.

1. Some of them represented Christ Jesus our Lord, as fixed in his Mediatory Office in the Heavens; wherefore in one place, when the Holy Ghost speaks of Christ, as he sprang from Judah to be a Mediator, saith, Out of him came the Corner (the Corner-stone) out of him the Nails,