The Gofpel of Solomon's Temple. 349 Marginal Note, the Battlement wherewith the flat Bof the Temple was compaíred about that no Man might fall down, Dent. 22.8. and tho' flat, yet might be fome gentle rifig in the middle, tocaft off the Rain-water. The Scripture feems to apply the Covering of the Temple as an Em- blem of Divine Shelter and Protection pver the Church, Ifa. 4. 5, 6. For upon all the Glory ¡hall be a Defence, or as the Margin reads it a Co- vering And there ¡hall bp 'a Tabernacle for a Shadow in the Day time from the Heat, andfor a Piace'of Refuge, and for a Covert from the Storm, and from the Rain. This Covering and Shelter is the Lord Jefus Chrift, ¡fa. 12. 2. Cant. 2. 4. Ms Banner over me was Love. 2 Sam. 7. t3. Nay. 5. i668. He flail build an Hòufe for my Name, and I will ef?abliA the Throne of his Kingdom for ever.. IOTE have fpokenof theFoundation, the Walls, the Doors, the Win- dews, the Floors, and the Roof of the Temple: Thefe 1 call, the common parts of the Temple, becaufe they are fuch as are in every Houfe, of what Form, or of what Ufe foever. But the fpecial parts, or the Rooms in a Houfe may be various and dim vers, according to the Mindof theArchitea, and the Ufehe puts it to. The Rooms in this facred Building andHoufe of the Lord were chiefly. Three, the Porch, theSanctuary, and the Oracle, with theSide- Chambers . belonging to them. It will be needful here to fpeak fomething firft concerning the Letter. and. Hiftory of thefe things; and then concerning their myflical lignifi- cations, becaufe we cannot fo well fee theGround and the Truth .of the. myftical Application, unlefs we have a right Idea and conceiving, of the Letter of the Type it felt'. r. And firft for the literal or hiftorical Explication of thefe parts of the Temple, you may eafily corfceive of them by the Form of our. Churches, as they are called ; only there was a difference in the po- fition or fituation of the Parts, but the Parts themfelves are alike in both. For firft there was a great Court about the Temple, to which anfwers the Churchyard about our Churches. Then there was a ftately Tower- porch, four times as high as the Temple it felf : To this anfwers that, which is called the Steeple. To the Sanlliiary atafwers. the Body of the Church,
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