164 h>e LivingTem le. Part II. Being fofill'd, it was a Temple, and mutt now further be a Sacrifice : Both are fignify'd in that one (port Paffage, which himfelf let fall, John 2. 19. Deflroy this Temple : i, e. That He was a Temple, and was to be deflroy'd ; which is carry'd in the Notion of a Sa- crifice. This hefail ofhis Body, v. 21. Strange Myfiery ! The very Temple it felfa confHming Oblation! Self - devoted even to Deftruc ion, and out of that gain Self-rais'd. The Divine 7uflice could not hereby but be well fatisfy'd, and fay, It was enough ; when the whole Temple became all propitiatory; ;!. and the Profanation of the former Temple was expiated by theimmolation of the new : So that, in point of Ho- nour and luflice,. no Exception could now lie againfl the return of the Divine Pretence, to its walled and forfaken Temple. V. Only his return could not, as yet, bepre/ern"), to dwell there , (for it was moll unfit) but to refit, and prepare it for his future Dwelling. It had been long de olate and here- by was become decay'd and ruinous, full of noifon Impurities. Yea, the Habi- tation
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