394 The Gofpel of the Tableof Shay-bread in theTemple. frefh Oil. jefus Chritt is the Fountain, and the Holy Ghoft the imme- diate Difpenfer of it, Zech. q.. 12. and thence you are to fetch your frefh Supplies. 2. Stir up that which you have, as well as take in new Supplies, 2 Tim. i, 6. Stir up the Gift that is in thee. Rev. 3. 2. Strengtbcn the things that remain and are ready to die : Stir up thy felf to lay hold on God. 3. Snuff the Wiek, Exod. 25. 38. mortifie Corruption, cut off that faperfluity of Naughtinefs, games x. 23. This mutt be your frequent and daily Work. 2. The Golden?able of Sbew-bread . This was another of the Holy Veffels in the San&uary. The Hill* of it you have in Exod. 25. and in Lev. 24. Mofes made but one, but Solomon made ten Tables, and placed them in the Temple, five on the right Side, and five on the Left, 2 Chron. .. 8. The Matter of Mores's Table was Shittim-wood : The Dimenfions two Cubits in length, a Cubit the breadth thereof, and a Cubit and an half the height thereof, Exod. 25. 23. A Cubit is about a Foot and an half of our Meafure. It was overlaid with pure Gold, and a Crown of Gold was made round about, ver. 24. There was alto a Border round about, with a Golden Crown ; and four Rings of Gold in the four Corners of it to put in the Staves to carry it. Moreover there were feveral other Vefl'els belonging to it, viz. Difhes, Spoons, Covers, and Bowls, all of pure Gold, ver. 29. The ufe of it was to fet the Bread thereon, ver. 30. And thou (halt jet upon the Table Shew-bread before me alway. Which is explained more fully in Lev. 24.. ver. 5. to the loth. Thou (halt take fine Flower, and bake twelve Cakes or Loaves thereof Two tenth Deals (hall be in one Cake, or two Orners, Exod. r6. 16. that is, about two Quarts -f our Meafitre. And thou (halt fet them in two Rows, fix on a Row upon the pure Table before the Lord, ver. 6. of Levit, 24, and a DO of Incenfe upon each Row, ver. 7. This is the lam of the Hìftory of this Ordinance. In the Explication whereof, the ufe of the Table being to fet the Bread and the Incenfe thereon, and there being feveral m;y(lical and lignificant Anions ordained about the Bread and the Incenfe, we mutt inquire into them all, and not confider the Table alone, but with re- ference to its Life, and. to the Bread and Incenfe, and the Sacred A i- runs about them. There was a threefold Myítery in this Type, 1, The
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