A30242:1324
The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole…
The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole third chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians to which is annexed The godly and the natural mans choice, upon Psal. 4, vers. 6, 7, 8 / by Anthony Burgess ...The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole third chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians to which is annexed The godly and the natural mans choice, upon Psal. 4, vers. 6, 7, 8 / by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for T.U., 1659
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.
Secondly, This Temple that was built, it was very magnificent and glorious, and was accounted equal to the seven great wondrous buildings of the world. It was a great building, and yet Solomon at the dedication of it removeth all carnal and low conceits from God, as if he were circumscribed within that place: For, saith he, The Heaven of Heavens do not contain thee, much less this place, 1 King. 8 20. It was not therefore that God needed such an house, or because he was contained in it, but because he was a great God full of Majesty, as Solomon saith; and therefore according to the Jewish Pedagogy, which consisted in external and sensible Rites and Administrations, it was made so glorious.
Secondly, This Temple that was built, it was very magnificent and glorious, and was accounted equal to the seven great wonderous buildings of the world. It was a great building, and yet Solomon at the dedication of it removeth all carnal and low conceits from God, as if he were circumscribed within that place: For, saith he, The Heaven of Heavens do not contain thee, much lesse this place, 1 King. 8 20. It was not therefore that God needed such an house, or because he was contained in it, but because he was a great God full of Majesty, as Solomon sai•h; and therefore according to the Jewish Pedagogie, which consisted in external and sensible Rites and Administrations, it was made so glorious.
Thirdly, This Temple had a proper and peculiar holiness, a relative holiness, being dedicated by Gods command unto his worship, and a typical holiness. It was typically holy, because a type of Christs body▪ Destroy this Temple, said our Saviour, and I will raise it up in thr•e days, John 2 19. Now when Christ the fullness came, this Temple was to be destroyed, as the Altars and Sacrifices with the Levitical Priesthood; even as the flower falls to the ground, when the fruit comes in stead thereof. It was relatively holy from two grounds: