353 The Gofpel of Solomon's Temple. in Kind, but only in Degree. Grace is Glory begun ; Glory is Grace perfeacd, Heb. 12. 23. the Spirits of YUJ1- Men made perfetJ. A Belie- ver hath eternal Life begun in him in this World, t john 3. r 5. 5. The Side-Chambers and all the Buildings about the Chambers, wherein the Prietts and Levites had their feveral Lodgings and Stati- ons appointed them, may inftrua and mind us of thole Manfions that areprepared for us in Heaven, john rq.. 2. in my Fathers Horsfe are ma- ny Man/ions, if it were not fo, I would have told your, I go toprepare a Place foryou. 6. Whereas in thefe Chambers were kept and laid up the Standards of all Weights and Meafures; for fo fome underftand that Place, i Cbron. 23.29. fpeaking of the Levites work in their feveral Places and Sta- tions, it is faid, their Office was to wait on the Sonsof Aaron, as for ether Things, fo for all manner ofMeafure and Size ; that is, as fome expound it, that unto their Truft were committed the Standard mea- fures of Things,andhere laid up under their Cuftody, as in a molt fafe and facred Repoliitory ; and thefe were called the Meafures of theSan- auary ; as with us the Standards and Meafures are laid up in the Tower. We may here learn, that God regards Yuji-ice among Men next to bis own Worfhip. To unjuft Perfons he faith, as Ifa. t. t t. to what purpofe is the Multitude ofyour Sacrifices unto me? Whobath required this at your Hands to tread my Courts ? Verf. t 2. The reafon is given, Verf. II. your Hands arefull ofBlood. And wouldyou know that thereare Man- fions prepared in Heaven for you ? You may take this as one Evidence of it, "Pfal. t 5. t. Lord, who (hall abide in "a. thy Tabernacle 4 Who 'hag dwell in thy holy Mill? He anfwers in the fecund Verfe, He that walketb ,iprightly, and workethRighteoufnef, and fpeaketb the Truth in bit Heart,. And let me add this further, Do not judge ofyour Spiritual Stale by your getting into the outer Court : For Hypocrites may get in there, if they be but outwardly Clean. But art thou admitted as a Spiritual Priefi into the Sanauary, to enjoy true Communion with God in his Ordinances, :and to WorlhipGod in the Spirit ; art thou a Member of the Church Militant, as well as of the vifible Church ? The Church Militant thall be at laft Triumphant : They íhall pafs from and through the Sanauary into the Holy of Holies, even into `Heaven it felf whither Jefus our fore- runner is entred for us. THE
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