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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.
The Candlestick was a type of the Church, and the Knops, and Flowers a type of her Ornaments. But what! Must ⟨p. 176⟩Heaven be hanged round about with the Ornaments of Saints! with the fruits of their graces? Well, it is certain, that something more than ordinary must be done with them, since they are admitted to follow them into the holy place; Revel. 14.13. And since 'tis said they shall have a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory bestowed on them for them in the Heavens; 2 Cor. 4.16, 17.
All was Cedar, there was no stone seen. Take stone in the type for that which was really so, and in the antitype, for that which is so mystically, and then it may import to us, that in Heaven, the antitype of this holiest, there shall never be any thing of hardness of heart in them that possess it for ever: All imperfection ariseth from the badness of the heart, but there will be no bad hearts in glory. No shortness in knowledge, no crossness of disposition, no workings of lusts, or corruptions will be there, no not throughout the whole Heavens. Here alas they are seen, and that in the best of Saints, because here our light is mixed with darkness, but there will be no night there, nor any stone seen.
All was Cedar, there was no stone seen. Take stone in the type for that which was really so, and in the antitype, for that which is so mystically, and then it may import to us, that in Heaven, the antitype of this holiest, there shall never be any thing of hardness of heart in them that possess it for ever: All imperfection ariseth from the badness of the heart, but there will be no bad hearts in glory. No shortness in knowledge, no crosness of disposition, no workings of lusts, or corruptions will be there, no not thoroughout the whole Heavens. Here alas they are seen, and that in the best of Saints, because here our light is mixt with darkness, but there will be no night there, nor any stone seen.