364 The Gofpet of the Brazen Altar. There be two Properties of a good Pillar, it muff be ftrait, and firong. It is a fad thing when they that fhould be Pillars in the Heide- ofGod are warping, and leaning, and bending this way and that way, when they should ffand upright and fleetly. And there were two Coronets upon the tops of thefe-Pillars : So they that pertvere to the. end (Pall receive the Crown of Life, a Tim. 4., 7, 8. There Pillars were broken in pieces, and carried away to Babylon, . bat living Pillars in the Spiritual Temple ¡hall go out no more, Rev. 5.12. but abide in the Houfe for ever, 'obn 8.3.5. A true Believer is (as one faith) .Monrsmentism sere perennius, more durable then Pillars of Brafs. Would you be aftured of the Crown of Glory ? Is there in thee this reaitude and ffraitnefs, this Strength and Firmnefs in the ways of God ? Thqu art then a Pillar in. the Houle of God, and (halt: go no more out. T H E; Gofpel of the BRAZENALTAR a Chron. 4. v: Moreover he made an Altar, of Brafs, twenty Cubits thé length thereof, and twenty. Cubits. the breadth thereof, and ten. Cubits t+heheight; thereof. lh` THE Vefï'elsof the Temple ( beloved.) we are upon. They may be referred,to-two forts, either fib dio, or fib teao; either with-. out Doors or within, either in the Courts, or in the Temple : Thofe.. without Doors were o Brafa, thofe within were ofGold. Of the former f, there was, ( r. ).The two, Pillars Y'acbin and Boyas, which were of Brafs, and placed either in or by the Porch,,. ( 2.) The Altar of Burnt- Offering, (3. The molten. Sea, and the ten Lavers a Of the two Pillarswe have treated.
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