The Gofpel of Solomon's Temple. 353 'Meafures: But others on the contrary conceive, there was but oneCu- `bit, and but one Shekel : And that Phrafe, the Shekel of the Sanítuary, they Interpret of exét Meafure, the Standard of all Meafures being laid Up in the Sanftuary, t Chron. 23. 29. It is true, the Temple is -laid to be fo long, according to the Cubits of thefirß Meafure, z Chron. 3, 3. but this is various ways Interpreted. Some underftand it of the Meafures left in the Written Pattern by David to his Son Solomon. Others underftand it of the Tabernacle- meafures left by Mofes. See the Belgick Annot. in i Chron. 3.3. If the Cubit ufed in the Temple were double to the Ordinary, there would haveneeded Pillars in the midft of the Houfe to fupport the Roof; but the Scriptures fpeaks not of any fuch Pillars. Obj. But if a Cubit was no more but a Foot and an half, wherein then confifted the Magnificence of Solomon's Temple ? For it is laid, t Chron. 22.5. The Hoffe that is to be builded for the Lord muß be ex seeding magnifical of Fame, andofGlory throughout all Countries. Antre. This Magnificence did not conflit in the Houfe only, but in all the facred Buildings, the Courts and Vtenfsls belonging to it. Nos did it confift in the bignefs, fo muchas in the fumptuoufnefs of it : For there is a Competency and a Meafure in things, which to exceed is not Magnificent, but rather Monftrous. It is not the Excellency of a dwelling Houfe, to have wild vaft Rooms, but fit Rooms for ufe. The Sumptuoufnefs of the Temple was unparáläel'd. It feems in this Reè fpeEt to have been incomparably the mote Itately StruEture that ever . was in the World : For I havenever Read in any Hiftóry of any Houle betide this, that was overlaid with Gold all over, both the Walls, and the Roof, and the Pavement of it, and garnifhedwith Jewels andpre- cious Stones fixed and fparkling in the Wails like fo many Stars in the Firmament. But fo much for the Figure and Dimenftons. z. Now fecondly of the Pofitionor Situationof there Parts to each o- ther, which was this. The Porch flood to the Eaft, the Sanatory or Holy Place in the middle, and the Oracle in the Weft end of theTem- ple. For Ezekiel standing in Vifion, in the inner Court, cap. 8. i6. be faw five and twenty Men between the Porch and the Altar, with their Backs towards the Temple of the Lord, and their Faces towards the Eaft, and they wor¡hipped the Sun towards the Eaft. And Ezek. 44. t. there is mention of the Gate of the outward San&uary, which looketh towards the Eaft. And again, Ezek. 47. I. behold Waters Viedfromunder the thre- ¡hold of the Roufs Eaffward. For the förefront of the Houle flood to- wards the Eaft. z IThe
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