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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 65: LXV. Of the Chains which were in the Oracle or Inner Temple.
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.
AS there were Chains on the Pillars that stood before the Porch of the Temple, and in the first House: so, like unto them there was Chains in the Holiest, here called the Oracle.
These Chains were not Chains in show, or as Carved on Wood, &c. but Chains indeed; and that of Gold: And they were prepared to make a Partition before the Oracle within, 1 King. 6.21. 2 Chron. 3.16.
These Chains were not Chains in shew, or as Carved on Wood, &c. but Chains indeed; and that of Gold: And they were prepared to make a Partition before the Oracle within, 1 King. 6.21. 2 Chron. 3.16.
I told you before, that the Holiest was called the Oracle, not because in a strict sense the whole of it was so, but because such answer of God was there, as was not in the outward Temple; but I think that the Ark and Mercy-seat, was indeed more specially that called the Oracle; for there will I meet with thee, said God, and from above that will I commune with thee. When David said, I lift my Hands toward thy holy Oracle; he meant not so much towards the Holiest House, as toward the Mercy-seat that was therein. Or as ⟨p. 196⟩he saith in the Margin, Toward the Oracle of thy Sanctuary, Psal. 28 2.