33g iv THE Gofpel of SOLOMON's TEM P L E. abb. ss: 1668. 2 Sam. VII. 13. He flail build an Houfe for my Name, and I. willefliabl the Throne of his Kingdomfor ever. O F their Holy Places under the Law the chief was the Tabernacle and the Temple. The Difference between which two, was not in their typical life and Signification, wherein they were the fame ; but only that the one was moveable, the other fixed. The Tabernacle was a moveable Temple, the Temple was a fixed Tabernacle : And accordingly they differed in theirQuantity and Dimenfions, theTem- ple being double the Quantityof the Tabernacle, fuitable to its fixed State ; but the Tabernacle was leiler and lighter, becaufe it was to be portable and fit for the Shoulders of the Levites, who were to car- ry it from place to place. The Templebeing the greater and more glorious of the two, I have chofen to fpeak to that, and in fo doing fhall fpeak of the Tabernacle allo, fo far as is requifite to this End of opening the typical Significa- tions of thefe legal Shadows. The Text fpeaks of two Things, the Temple and the Kingdom; it s the former, of which I am to fpeak. The Doárinal Propofition in the Words is this. Dolt. That God appointed Solomon to build him a Temple, or an Houfe into bis Name. A Temple is an Houfe inhabited by a Deity. As a Man dwells in his Houfe, fo God dwelt in the Temple : Or as Satan dwells in the Temples of Idols, and in falfe Churches, which are there- fore called Synagogues of Satan, and Habitations of Devils : So God dwells in the Temple, and in the true Gofpcl- Churches. I give thefe oppofite Initances, becaufe Contraries put together do illustrate one another. To dwell there, is to vouchfafe his Pretence there. The
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