319 IIIIMMallailsagemomMerale THE 1 Gospel of the Two Brazen Pillars in the. TEMPLE. ,Kings VII. 2 I, 2 2... Nos. S. 1668.. Andhe fet up the Pillars in the Porch ofthe Temple : Andhefit up the right Pillar, and called the Name thereofJachin And heJet up the left , Pillar, andcalled the Name thereof Boaz.. And upon the top .ofthe. Pillars wait Lillie-work: So waa. the Work ofthePillarsfinifbed Co:much of the Houfe and the Courts. Now follow the VeJJels or Vtenfils of the Temple, the facred Houlhold -ítuff or Furniture of. this Houfe of God. They were many. We read in Ezra t. i t. all. thekVeffels of Gold and Silver werefive tboufand andfour hundred. We Tray diftinguifh the Veffels.ofthe Temple into two forts. 1. Such as were ofnatural Neceffity andConveniency for the Worfhip that FPO there to be performed ; as Knives, Pots, Flefh=hooks, Q7c.. which had not their particular myftical Significations. But yet thus much we may obferve from them, that the meaneft Inf raiment in the ChurchofGod is.of fome ufe, and therefore not to be defpifed. And of this fort there were fome larger Veflels ; as the King's Scaf fold, 2 Chron. 6. 13. on which he ftood when he came into the Prieft's Court, to prefent hisSacrifices before the Lord, or upon any other oc- cation. For you muff remember, that though none but Prielts were ordinarily to refide and attend there; yet others might come into ir.. upon any ¡oft Occafion, as the Gibeonites did every Day, to bring in: Wood and Water,, and every Man that offered Sacrificewas to come with it, and lay his Hand upon the Head of it, 1'c, And fo the King, with.
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