That Solomon, to whose History our Text belongs, was a Type of Christ, is too manifest to need any digression for the proof of it: though all things written in his Life cannot with reason be reckoned Typical. That wherein God more peculiarly chose Solomon to represent Christ, was his Kingly Office: for which end he furnished him with Wealth, Honour, and Wisdom surpassing all the Monarchs, which ever had been, or should be. And this Wisdom of his, though it grasped in its comprehension, a knowledge universal of things natural, civil and divine, yet is more eminently celebrated in the well-ordering and settling the Affairs of his Kingdom; in which, his first care was about the House of God, and his Instituted Worship, in which he exactly followed the Divine Prescript, and the Patterns left him by his Father David, which he received from God by Immediate Revelation: Nextly, and subordinately, for the well-ordering and settling of the Outward Affairs of his Kingdom in matters Civil and Military; and this last is the thing about which we are at present concerned.
That Solomon, to whose History our Text belongs, was a Type of Christ, is too manifest to need any digression for the proof of it: though all things written in his Life cannot with reason be reckoned Typical. That wherein God more peculiarly chose Solomon to represent Christ, was his Kingly Office: for which end he furnished him with Wealth, Honour, and Wisdom surpassing all the Monarchs, which ever had been, or should be. And this Wisdom of his, though it grasped in its comprehension, a knowledge universal of things natural, civil and divine, yet is more eminently celebrated in the well-ordering and settling the Affairs of his Kingdom; in which, his first care was about the House of God, and his Instituted Worship, in which he exactly followed the Divine Prescript, and the Patterns left him by his Father Davd, which he receved from God by Immediate Revelation: Nextly, and subordinately, for the well-ordering and setling of the Outward Affairs of his Kingdom in matters Civil and Military; and this last is the thing about which we are at present concerned.
