362 The Gofpel of the Two Brazen Pillars in the Temple. work, and Wreaths of Chain-work, a very artificial Work, and with two rows of Pomegranates upon each Coronet, four hundred goodly Pomegranates in all, which were put upon Chains in two rows ; tho' but ninety fix did appear upon a Chain, the reft being hid by theWall. This Coronet or Chapiter upon the top of the Pillar was a curious and comely Crown upon the Head of it : Or ( as force note ) the Chapiter was like two Crowns joined together. The Pillar on the right fide, he called 5achin, or rather Yakin, which lignifies, He ( that is the Lord ) will eflablijh, (akin is the Conjuga- tion fliphil, from the VerbKoun, fbabilivit, frmava. The other Pillar on the left }land, he called Boyaz, in him is Power, Bo in it, or in him, and Taz ftrong or ftrength, from the Verb, Yazar roboravit. Thus you fee the literal or hiftorical part of this Type, thefe two Pillars of the Temple, yakin and Boyaz, Now for the Significations. Certainly thefe things are not without a klyilery, not without a Meaning; for thefe Pillars were extraordinary, and very remarkable in four Refpe&s. r. In their height ; being eighteen Cubits, that is, feven and twenty foot of out Meafure. z. In their Thicknefs and Compafs ; being twelve Cubits, that is, eighteen foot in the Circle round about. 3. Iii their carious and admirable Ornaments ; the Lillies on the upper end of the Pillars, and the Coronets or Chapiters upon the tops of them, with the curious Chains, and Nets, and Rowe of Pomegranates round about thefe Crowns. 4. In their Vfe; which was not only for Ornament, but as it were to fupport the Temple, as Pillars do fupport an Houfe : Not that they did fupport or bear it up properly, as if they had been placed in the material Building, no more than the twelve Brazen Oxen did indeed carry the molten Sea to the four Quarters of the World, 2 Chron, 4, 4, but only as in an Emblem or Figure, as Abraham received Iraac in a Figure, Heb. i.r. 19. fo here : For the Temple had no Pillars in it, for the Beams of the Roof refted upon the Walls, as you have formerly heard, and not upon thefe Pillars ; but they were ,an Emblem or Figure of fupport. Now the Temple is. the Church of God ; and we may apply this Type threeways. T. ToGod and Chrift,. To the Church. 3 ,. To particular Saints. i At..
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