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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 70: LXX. Of the Figures that were upon the Walls of the inner Temple.
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The Church on Earth is called God's House, and HE will dwell in it for ever; and Heaven it self is called God's House, and WE shall dwell in it for ever: and that between the Cherubims. This is more then Grace, this is Grace and Glory; Glory indeed.
3. To dwell between the Cherubims, may also be to show that there we shall be equal to the Angels. Mark, Here's a Palm-Tree and a Cherub, a Palm-Tree and a Cherub. Here we are a little lower, but there we shall not be a whit behind the very Chief of them. A Palm-Tree and a Cherub, an Upright One, between the Cherubs, will then be round about the House: we shall be placed in the same rank, neither can they die any more, for they are equal to the Angels, Luke 20.36.
3. To dwell between the Cherubims, may also be to shew that there we shall be equal to the Angels. Mark, Here's a Palm-Tree and a Cherub, a Palm-Tree and a Cherub. Here we are a little lower, but there we shall not be a whit behind the very Chief of them. A Palm-Tree and a Cherub, an Vpright One, between the Cherubs, will then be round about the House: we shall be placed in the same rank, neither can they die any more, for they are equal to the Angels, Luke 20.36.
4. The Palm-Trees thus placed, may be also to show us, that the Elect of God shall there take up the vacancies of the Fallen Angels; they for sin were cast down from the holy Heavens; and we by Grace shall be caught up thither, and be placed between a Cherub and a Cherub. When I say their places, I do not mean the fickleness of that state, that they for want of Electing Love did stand in while in Glory; for the Heavens, by the Blood of Christ, is