The Gofpel ofthe Golden Candlef leks in the Temple. 389 pleat Enumeration of them, that doth occur to my Remembrance any where in Scripture. We may refolve the Words into thefe five Do- étrinal Propofitions. i, That the Old Tellament bad Ordinances of Divine Service, and a worldly Sanúuary. There was a Religion and a way ofWorihip or- dained by God in thofe Times as well as now, though that Worfhip was not fo Spiritual and Evangelical as is the Worfhip of the New Teftament : They had Ordinances of Worfhip, and a Seat of Wor- fhip then ; but they were carnal Ordinances, and a worldly Sanauary, comparatively Carnal. But the Ordinances now are Spiritual, and the Seat of Worfhip Spiritual: For then it was the material Temple to which God was pleated to tie and annex thePublick Church-worfhip and Ordinances of thofe Times : But now the Seat of Worfhip is the fe- yeral Churches and Congregation ofhis People. However a Worfhip, Or- dinances of Worfhip and a Seat of Worfhip they had. Ohferv. 2. There were two parts of that old legal Tabernacle, one called the Sanfluary, and the other called the Holy of Holies : So it was in the Tabernacle, and fo in the Temple. After the fecondVeil] by the firll Veil the Apoftle intends the Curtains and Hangings that were hung about the Tabernacle, of.which you read Exod.26. In the Temple there was but one Veil ; for inftead of thefe Hangings were the Wallsof the Temple. Obfer. 3. That both thefe parts of the Tabernacle had their facred Far- niture offeveral Holy Veffels andVtenfils belonging to them. Obier. 4. That the facred Furniture or Veffels belonging to the Sanauary were the Golden Candleftick and the Table. of Shew-bread. Obier. 5. That the Furniture belonging to the Holy. of Holies were the Golden Vella; for the offering of Incenfe, and the Ark with its Appurte- nances. We are now to fpeak concerning the Furniture of the Sanctuary,, of which the Do&rine is this. That the facred Furniture or Ve f f'els belonging to the Sant uary were the Golden Candleflick and the Table of Shew- bread. There was alto the Golden Altar ofIncenfe, though that did in form refpeíts belong to the Holy of Holies, of which afterwards. But firft, ofthe Golden Candleftick. That this belonged to the Saud auary, you may fee Levit. 24, 3. without the Veil of the Teftimony in the Tabernacle of the Congregation (hall the Lamps barn, &c. The Hi- ftory and firft inftitution of this Type we have in Exod. 25. Mofes made but one for the Tabernacle: But Solomon made ten for the Tem- ple, i Kings 7.49. and the Candleftieks of pure Gold, five on the rightide and
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