3.44. The Gofpel of Solomon's Temple. Chrift crucified in the Sacrament, when you fee his Body broken, his Blood poured out, as really as you fee the Bread broken, and the Wine poured out. And ifthere be a real Sight of Chrif, it will have real Effe&s, to fubdue thy Lufts, to keep the Heart in ways of Ho- Ends. Qruefi. But what of God are we to fee in his Temple? Anfw. All his Glory fhines forth there, efpecially his Power and his Grace. ( r.) His Power, Pfal. 63.2. To fee thÿ Power and thy Glory. ( 2.) Efpecial]y the Glory of his Grace, Zech. ç. 7. Cry Grace, Grace unto it from the Foundation to the Top.ftone. .rrov 2 Sam. 7. 13. _16ós. HeJima build an Houfe for my Name, and I will ofablifb the Throne of his Kingdom for ever. "TOW of the Parts ofthe Temple. Taking theWord in the larget Senfe, for all the Holy Buildings and the Appurtenances there- of, fo the Parts of itwere three. r . The Houle. 2. The Courts. 3. The Ye fEels of the Temple. I call them all Parts, for want of a fitter `Term to exprefs it by: For there is a Penury ofWords, from whence there is a Neceffity force- times ofTropes and Figures, and improprieties of Speech. i. The Houfe it felf; that is, the covered Building called vas from raies to inhabit ; as all the holy Ground is called ispir, for the whole "Place, and all the Courts were holy. As to the Houfe it felf, we may confider, t. TheCommon Parts of it, which belong to every Houfe, and fo to this amongft the ref. . And here the Scripture takes notice of the Foundation, the Walls, the Doors, the Windows, the Floor, and the Roof of the Temple. Not that we fhould feek a Myftery in every Thing, butonly fofar as we fee the Scripture going before us we may fafely follow, when we find the Scripture allegorizing any thing and alluding to it in aSpiritual Senfe, we fhould mind, and heedfully take out fuck Leffons and Inftru&ions. I molt fpeak firft to the Letter and Hiftory of them, as parts of the material Temple; and then confider what myftical Application the Scripture makes ofthem. This method I (hall obferve under everyTHeeald.
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