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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 9: IX. Which way the Face or Front of the Temple stood.
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.
2. It was set also with its Face towards the East, to keep the People of God from committing of Idolatry, to wit, from worshipping the Host of Heaven, and the Sun whose rising is from the East. For since the Face of the Temple stood toward the East, and since the worshippers were to worship at, or with their Faces towards the Temple, it follows, that both in their going to, and worshipping God towards that place, their Faces must be from, and their Backs towards the Sun. The thus Building of the Temple, therefore was a Snare to Idolaters, and a proof of the Zeal of those that were the true worshippers: As also to this day the true Gospel instituted worship of Jesus Christ is: Hence he is said to Idolaters to be a Snare and Trap, but to the Godly a Glory, Isa. 8.14. Chap. 60.19.
2. It was set also with its Face towards the East, to keep the People of God from committing of Idolatry, to wit, from worshiping the Host of Heaven, and the Sun whose rising is from the East. For since the Face of the Temple stood toward the East, and since the worshippers were to worship at, or with their Faces towards the Temple, it follows, that both in their going to, and worshiping God towards that place, their Faces must be from, and their Backs towards the Sun. The thus Building of the Temple, therefore was a Snare to Idolators, and a proof of the Zeal of those that were the true worshippers: As also to this day the true Gospel instituted worship of Jesus Christ is: Hence he is said to Idolaters to be a Snare and Trap, but to the Godly a Glory, Isa. 8.14. Chap. 60.19.
3. Do but see how God catched the Idolatrous Jews by this means in their ⟨p. 18⟩naughtiness; And he brought me, said the Prophet, into the inner Court of the Lords House, and beheld at the Door of the Temple of the Lord, even between the Porch and the Altar, were about five and twenty men with their Backs towards the Temple of the Lord, and their Faces towards the East,