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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 8: VIII. Of the richness of the Stones which were laid for the Foundations of the Temple.
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This is still more Amplified, where it is written of the New Jerusalem (which is still the New Testament-Church on Earth, and so the same in substance with what is now) The Foundations of the Wall of the City, saith he, were garnished with all manner of precious Stones, Revel. 21.19. True, these there are called, The Foundations of the WALL of the City, but it has respect to the matter in hand, for that which is before called a Temple, for its comparative smallness, is here called a City, for, or because of its great Increase: And both the Foundations of the Wall of the City as well as of the Temple, are the twelve Apostles of the Lamb, Rev. 21.14.
This is still more Amplified, where it is written of the New Jerusalem (which is still the New Testament-Church on Earth, and so the same in substance with what is now) The Foundations of the Wall of the City, saith he, were garnished with all manner of precious Stones, Revel. 21.19. True, these there are called, The Foundations of the WALL of the City, but it has respect to the matter in hand, for that which is before called a Temple, for its comparitive smallness, is here called a City, for, or because of its great Increase: And both the Foundations of the Wall of the City as well as of the Temple, are the twelve Apostles of the Lamb, Rev. 21.14.
For these Carvings and Inlayings, with all other Beautifications, were types of the extraordinary Gifts and Graces of the Apostles. Hence the Apostle calls such gifts, signs of Apostleship, Rom. 15.19. 2 Cor. 12.21.