Hcb.,.j; Cbri;fs bod1 ::mdTtrnJIIIM ht~ewhtrtlD ii{t• . OftheRE suR RE c T 1 oN. Sermon 10 , 11i5body with themateriaOTemple(it was taken for) to which,there is nod~ intent was to re[cmblc it. ' 15 The llabbins, intheir Spemlative Divinitie, doe much bulie themfelves to fhew , that, in theTemple, there was a modell of the whole world, and that all th~ Spher' inheaveh,andall theE!emmtsinearchwere recapttul:ue in it. They were wid~' TheFathers tooke the nght, and bellowed theirtime and travell more to the point: to 01ew,how,that Templeand all that was in it, was nothing dfe, but acompendiou~ reprcfcntation ofCH R1sT, for whom, and inwhofe honour, was that aAd all mher tmeTemples. And this they didbyWarrant, from the Apojlle, who (inHeh.IX.) aimeth at fome (uch thing. Now the points of congruitie, they found, were m'any, they may be reducedm thefe foure: I. Whether youlookero thecompolition orparts of it. 1. Or,tothe furnirure,andv~elsofit. 3· Or,tow·hatwasdoneinit. 4• Or,towhatwasd, 111 -to it (that is) what, lirll and !all,befell it. In all which, they hold, that .Timplu,. ho• might more truly be affirmed of Him, that was in theTemple; than ofthe r 1111 • ple, He was in. . · . The !all: ofthe foure (what was doneto that Temple, what befell it, and fo what befell the Temple of CH RI s T's bodie) that (I take) to be moft proper to this Text and to that we have in hand. (For, to goethrough all foure, wouldtake up a wh~eSermon.) So,I takemy felfe to the Congruitie onely. Pr.t.·,l.,6· Marke then what befell either: by that, iliall you bdl:linde, that Fatautri•[que Mauh.>.' • Templi, thedeJiiniuof bothTemples Were alike. · . They began alike. The lirft newes oftheTemple.was heard at Ephrata (whichis Bethlehem.) So was it of Him ;forthere was He born~. Li(e in sotvitt Like, in their beginnings : and in their ends, no le!fe. I appealetothis Text 'and and tzri,.bo. content me with thofe two, He inlills on Himfelfe. Both weredeJrO'fed,both~ere reared ag•ine ; that in all things, HiJ Body, andHi&Temple might be {uitable. 'oChro.r6,t 9 • That Temple wasdeftnyedby. the ch~ldees;downe w1thit even unto thegrou 111 l.Irru: Ffal.•J1·7· tared by them here: downewtth tt,evea tnto theground. For they never left it, till they had f!inl there: pall: Excita6~ (as they thought)pall rifinganymore. Bur,as theTem. !lgge •·•of· ple, after it was(o raud,hadanExcitaho; was raifedag4i11e up byZorolrabel: Sowas this too. Solvite, tooke place: but, there came anEx,·itaboafrer, that made amends for it. And, as thegkryofthefecund Honfe, WMgreater, than thefiri1: So the eflate, .Agg<>·'"· Herofe to, fatre more glorious than that He was in before. And marke(I pray you)ifthefe two were noico be feen as brim,inthe litdeglaf– fes about it,as in the great Mirro11r it felfe.For,theTemple was asagreatMirrour,and the{urnit11re,as fo many littleglaffas round about it.Take but the Arke (theEpitolllt Col.s.r: lixod.Jt.IJ. JH• as it were oftheTemple.) The two Tables init, the type of rhe true treafures ofWif , dome and Kmwledge hid inHim: they were broken lirA:, there is$olvite; but they weremwhetVen, and written over againe, there is excitabo. The Pot ofManna (a per· feet refemblance ofHim; the Jl'rna, or the veffcll being made ofearth, (o earth&; ixod.•6.>o. The Mann~,thecontents ofit, being from heaven, fo heavetlly:) The Man11a(wee Exod.,,,;~·. know) would not keepe pall: two dayesat the moft, there is Solvite: but,being put i~-' to the Vrna, the third day it came againe to ir felfe, and kept in the Pot without pum. Num.t 7 . 8 • fying ever afier; there is Excitaho. Aaro11s rod,(the type ofHis Prief1-ho1dandofthe rule offoules annexed to itlthat Rod,was quitedeadand drie; but revivtdagaineand bloj[omed, yea, broughtforth ripe Almonds. In every and in each ofthem,Hisdelliny whom they reprefenred; Solviteand Excitabo inaU. Butthe End is all in all; andinrefpeet ofthat (ofthe end) wellfaith L.A'mbrofo, of Hi> bodfe, Vere Temp_lum, in q11o no.ftrorum eftpurijicatiopeccatorum. True!yaTun. pleH?, noTemple ever fo truly,aswherein was offered up the truepropitiationfor, aad the ,ruept~rifcatio;< oforerfinnes; and ofus from them : which is the end of all '{till– pies that ever were or iliall be; atld was but iliadowed in all belides, butin.thistru· lyperformed. · · . There,the only trueHokca11ff ofHis entirHGedimce, whichburnt inHilll br·;~
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