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A49971	Orbis miraculum, or, The temple of Solomon pourtrayed by Scripture-light wherein all its famous buildings, the pompous worship of the Jewes, with its attending rites and ceremonies, the several officers employed in that work, with their ample revenues, and the spiritual mysteries of the Gospel vailed under all, are treated at large.	Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing L903C; ESTC R41591	488,038	394

is altogether lovely and this they cannot but experimentally affirm if so be they have (d) 1 Pet. 2.3 tasted that the Lord is gracious How (e) Psalm 119.103 sweet are thy words to my taste cries David yea sweeter then Hony to my mouth 1. Manna descended from Heaven in a miraculous manner Such was the birth of Christ his Divine Nature he brought from above his humane body was produced by the unspeakable (f) Luke 1.36 power of the Holy Ghost Manna was divided equally among the Israelites So Christ gives out himself without (g) Act. 10.34 respect of persons the meanest may have as great a portion in him as the greatest 3. Manna was a plentiful food none wanted but all had it fully and freely Of his (h) John 1.16 fulness have all we received even grace for grace It s call'd the (i) Psalm 73.24 Corn of Heaven Angels bread not as if it fell like crumbs from their Table but as descending from Heaven their habitation or as some think because it was dispensed by the ministration of Angels or so call'd rather by way of excellency that if Angels were to feed they would like Manna this Ambrosia would suit their palate It fell in the night or towards morning Our Lord was born in the (k) Luke 2.8 night in the night of Jewish Ceremonies but toward the dawning of the Gospel-morning Whereof Paul speaks (l) Rom. 13.12 Dr. Taylor of Types pag. The night is far spent the day is at hand 5. It fell round about the Camp of Israel The food of life is no where to be found but in the Church It was merè gratuitum a gift of Grace to Israel they plowed not sowed not planted not for it No labour no merit of theirs procured it Adam indeed might get his bread with the sweat of his brows but if Angels sweat out their hearts they could not obtain this bread without a free gift of Grace 'T is so with Christ all the good nature and moral honesty in the world cannot of itself procure one glance of love from God not one smile of Grace through Christ 'T is of (m) Eph. 2.9 gift that no man should boast For (n) Rom. 3.27 boasting is excluded by the Law of Faith It was a miraculous food its beyond the limits of nature to produce it All the Application of Actives to Passives will yield but an abortive Birth I may apply hither that expression of Job a Who hath begotten these drops of dew Out of whose womb came Manna and this bread of Heaven who hath gendred it In like manner the coming of Christ out of his Father's bosom was a miracle of love To reconcile Justice and mercy each to other Job 38.29 was a miracle of Wisdom To spare the sinner and kill the sin A miracle of grace and favour To regenerate fallen sinners and give them a life of Faith A mysterious miracle of divine power All Heaven born Christians are so many walking-Miracles so many pillars of Wonder It s observed by some that the works of Creation are said to be performed by Gods fingers When I consider thy Heavens sayes David the work of thy fingers Stolla in Luk. Psalm 8.3 the Moon and Stars which thou hast ordained Whereas his extraordinary and miraculous works are represented as done by his powerful Arm. The deliverance of Israel out of Egypt and causing them to pass over the red-sea Exod. 6.6 15.16 1 Psalm 77.15 Luke 1.51 was performed by his out-stretched Arm. So sayes the Virgin Mary He hath shewed strength with his Arm To note the miraculous production of Christ into the world Now though that be but a nice Notion yet there is truth in the thing that the work was performed by the extraordinary power of God 7. The raining of Manna was in the week time there was none upon the Sabbath to note an eternal Sabbath coming wherein shall be no ordinances at all But twice as much the day before to note their plentiful distribution in the end of the world Now is the time for these golden Showers of Manna It began to rain on the Lords-Day and ceased on the Jewish Sabbath Origen pag. 87. Hos 2.14 15. It rained to note its plenty a double portion on the 6th day to signifie our fulness of it in the la●ter ages of the Gospel When once the Israelites were past over Jordan they had no Manna but while they were in the howling Wilderness God many times ends sweet messages of Christ to the soul when in the Sinai of a troubled estate when the bryars and thorns of the Wildernesse prick the soul when the heart is thorowly stung with sin when its weary laden Christ is sent to give it rest I will allure her and bring her into the Wilderness and speak to her heart saith the Lord to his Church and give her Vineyards in the Valley of trouble When once past over Jordan the River of Lethe that runs into the Mare Mortuum the sea of Death expect no more Manna no more bread of Life no more time for Repentance or reception of mercy Wherefore to allude that place where the son of man is said to have power upon earth to forgive sins thereby Luke 5.24 is not only intimated the annexion of the Divinity ●o his humane Nature God being manifest in the flesh and his having power co-equal with the Father But also that when once we are off the earth if not forgiven here no more remission or means of Grace is to be expected hereafter Here indeed we want this bread the staffe of our spiritual life to lean upon and in the support thereof to walk from strength to strength till we all appear before God in Zion Then we shall feed upon the Corn of the good land of Canaan upon the Milk and Honey of Heavenly joyes and Drink of that River of pleasure which flows at his right-Hand for evermore 8. Manna before it was eaten was ground in Mills beaten in Morters baked in pans sodden in pots to prepare it for use and afterwards it tasted and relished according to that which each person most affected or longed for If the Jews do not fail in their Stories All to set forth Christ how he was scourged reviled pierced dead and buried He trod the Wine-press he stood in the fiery burning Furnace of his Fathers wrath that he might be prepared for Believers to feed upon him by Faith and indeed whatever is said of Manna that Christ is even and much more abundantly all and in all to a Saint whatever we stand in need of is to be found in Christ Joy in tribulation Wisdom in difficulties Srength against enemies support in desertions Riches of Grace here and a massy Crown of Gold for heaven hereafter Manna when gathered if not eaten before the morning putrefied and bred worms and stank If we do only gather the word by hearing and

larger pieces of the Temple For unlesse such a smaller material be admitted to commence the degree of a Type especially when some Gospel truth may properly and without straining be applyed to it in concomitancy with the greater there may possibly appear some chasm or widening deficiency in the main material to be challenged by the captious for a blemish and imperfection in the designment of it for a typical signification of spiritual matters Yet herein it is not my intention to be critically and anxiously inquisitive into every minute and inconsiderable particle prying through the microscope of fancy into the knop of every spoon the fashion of the slaughter knives the thicknesse of each cauldron the situation of each vessel or the cubital dimensions of each material as if some rare Mystery were laid up in their numbers In which Ribera and some others are too curious in finding out Mysteries where most probably none were intended and dividing most subtlely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their small cummin into nice portions shewing themselves if I may so speak to be overmuch wise in the phrase of Solomon I had rather consider those lesser parts ut Typo ministrantia as only subservient to the main Type as (b) In Exod. Cap. 26. p. 1127. in folio Dr. Rivet conceives in his exposition upon Moses his Tabernacle As to the work then in hand I shall in the first place implore the divine aid of heaven and the assisting presence of the holy spirit in the illumination of my mind by the Lamps of the Sanctuary and beg that my eye-sight may be washed and cleansed with those waters that issue from under the (c) Ezek. 47.1 threshold of the sacred Temple That he who beareth the key of David would graciously please to open a door of entrance for me that so I may rightly understand and properly expresse my conceptions in reference to these Mysterious affaires Secondly I shall cautiously indeavour to proceed in this businesse generally according to the 6 forementioned Canons as to the explication of the nature of these excellent Types Yet herein I shall not need in the unfolding of their meaning to alleadge and apply the aforesaid rules which will prove tedious and uselesse seeing common reason is a sufficient Cynosure or load-starre in that particular Thirdly It shall be my study and care to give diligent and deep intention of spirit to the things in hand and yet I desire to propose them with all modesty and sobriety not challenging any determinate assertion unlesse where Scripture proves exceeding plain and evident Intreating the Courteous Inquirer to pardon my infirmities and not to passe too precipitant a censure upon the expositions before he have conferred the explications with the preceding Canons and the opinions of learned Divines both ancient and modern to whose apprehensions I freely and humbly submit my self Fourthly I shall crave leave to acquaint my ingenuous Reader that it is not the designe of this work to enlarge most amply upon all the significant parts of the Temple much lesse upon all the antient Types and Ceremonies they being a subject matter fit for persons of deeper insight and knowledg then I have arrived to Who having bin much intreated by a neer Relation somewhat concerned in this peice as at whose cost all the figures were cut in brasse to contrive one Chapter concerning the Temple-Mysteries I was in a good measure unwillingly drawn to this work in particular as indeed to the whole by a strange over-ruling Providence as may possibly somewhat more appear in the prefixed Epistle Wherefore I humbly and most earnestly entreat the kind interpretation of my poor labours the passing over my weaknesses by all learned and sober persons hoping that this so thin and slender an Essay may quicken and incite some abler quill taken from some Seraphims wing to pierce deeper into the heaven of these divine Mysteries dictated by the all wise Majesty of God himself As to some moderate explication whereof at present that I may proceed in a Methodical path Let me first in general treat a while concerning the time and place of its erection together with the Famous builder King Solomon who undertooke the care and charges of that Excellent work and then descend to speak to the several particulars in six Sections that so the Temple-Mysteries may be digested according to the method of the several preceding Chapters in the Compilement of its History So far fotth as there is any thing of spiritual signification in them All which may be very Commodiously reduced to these 6 heads following whereof I shall endeavour to discourse with all perspicuity and convenient brevity 1. Of the covered Temple and its several included divisions 2. Of the Courts and buildings round about it 3. Of its various Utensils and Ornaments 4. Of the several divine Officers 5. Of the solemn services in the Worship of Gods Majesty 6. Of the beneficial Endowments wherewith the Officers were encouraged in the performance of their several duties incumbent on them Which particulars when I shall have handled with all expedition and succinctnesse possible for such a work through divine permission and assistance A close shall be then affixed to this Chapter whose subject is the most choise and excellent most rare and difficult of all the rest Concerning the Mysteries of the holy Temple respecting the Time of its Erection IN this Paragraph containing an enquiry of what Mystery might possibly be wrapped up in the Circumstance of time wherein this glorious Edifice was erected I shall only mention some apprehensions of others who delight much to converse with numbers in the School of Pythagoras (a) In Heptaplo Lib. 7. c. 4. p. 35. Picus Mirandula a Learned man yet deeply affected with such kind of Mysteries conceited that the 6 dayes of the worlds Creation did prenote 6000 years of the worlds continuance each day being put for a thousand years Moreover that in each thousand years continuance there was somewhat notably correspondent with the Created works of each particular day So that as the waters were distinguisht into their several seats on the second day even so within the compasse of the second interval of a thousand years the great overflowing deluge covered the face of the Earth In like manner as the fourth day produced the glorious luminaries So within the compasse of the 4th interval of a 1000d years did Christ the (b) Mal. 4.2 Sun of Righteousnesse arise in the world and the Church signified by the (c) Cant. 6.10 Moon and the (d) Rev. 12.1 12 Star●s of the Apostles shined in her Horizon Nay the Temple which prefigured Christ and his Church was compleatly finished in the three thousandth year of the world and fasted a whole millenary of years viz. through the whole fourth day of the world bating the intercision of a few years during the Captivity of Babylon which was supplyed by its continuance about the same quantity of years

close to him with the curious Girdle of the Ephod Lev. 8.7 of Gold Blue and Purple of Scarlet and fine twined Linnen 6 The next thing is the Breast-Plate of Judgment made of cunning-Work just like the Ephod It was four-square being a span each side of the square and it was doubled that is the cunning-work of Gold and Blue and Purple and Scarlet and fine twined Linnen was double that it might be the stronger to bear the stones Exod. 39.9 In it were set four Rows of Stones In the first Row was a Sardius a Topaz and a Carbuncle In the second an Emerald a Saphire and a Diamond Exod. 39.13 In the third a Ligure an Agate and an Amethyst In the fourth a Beryl an Onyx and a Jasper 13 in all each engraven in order with the names of the 12 Tribes of Israel and each was inclosed in Ouches of Gold In the four Corners were Gold Rings The uppermost Corners had two Ouches of Gold two Gold Rings and in them fastned two Golden Chains of Wreathen-Work one at each end which Chains reached up to and were fastned in the two Golden Ouches of the Shoulder-pieces of the Ephod At the two lower corners were two Rings of Gold also which had a Lace of Blue running through them to fasten the Breast-Plate therewith to two other Rings that were set in the Ephod beneath 7 After this there was placed in this Breast-Plate of Judgment Exod. 28.30 the Vrim and Thummim that they might be upon the High Priests Heart when He went in before the Lord to bear the Judgment of the Children of Israel upon his Heart before the Lord continually Some think those words were written Some think there was either two other Stones or pieces of Gold and indeed they knew not what Others think there was nothing added onely it signified the meaning of the 12 Stones that when the Children of Israel or any particular Tribe or the King or any other should enquire the Mind of God then they should receive an Answer from the High Priest in the Name of God which Answer as to future things should be as Vrim that is as Light clear and perspicuous and either concerning past present or future should be Thummim that is perfect and full of all Integrity and Truth As to which it is conceived that when the Lord did answer Positively and Affirmatively the Stones did shine most radiantly but continued in their common hue upon the Negative There is this Reason urged by some Why they did not note any new material added to the Breast-Plate because when Moses relates the making of things according to the given Pattern we read of no such thing made Exod. 39.32 Lev. 8.8 though the Text says expresly that all was done that the Lord commanded Moses yet in Leviticus it says He did which I leave to mature consideration 8 The Mitre lastly was put upon his head and upon the Mitre a Holy Crown of Gold and on the Fore-front of the Crown a Plate of Gold which was fastned to the Mitre with a Blue Lace and on that Plate was engraven as on a Signet these words HOLYNESSE TO THE LORD The inferiour Priests in their order and the High Priest according to His Superiour Dignity being thus set forth in their goodly Array were afterwards anointed with Holy Oyl consecrated and sanctified by the blood of some Sacrifices and so were prepared for the Services of the Temple in the next Chapter CHAP. V. Concerning the Solemn Worship and Service of GOD in the Temple THis Chapter might be distinctly methodized and accordingly handled either as the Worship hath respect to the various Persons or Officers employed in several Sacred Functions Or secondly as to the different Solemn Times of Service and Worship in their Mysterious Solemnities Or thirdly as to the various Sacrifices and Offerings commanded by God to smoak upon His Holy Altar All which Particulars we shall crave leave in as brief a manner as possible to exhibite in their due order and method in three distinct Sections following SECT I. Of the Temple Officers their Names and Employments IN the first place we shall speak of the different sorts of Officers about the Temple which are particularized under five several Names in Scripture viz. Priests Levites Singers Porters Nethinims The Priests are distinguisht into the chief Priests and the other interiour Priests of the 24 Courses Of the chief Priests Ezra 7.24 The chief Priests were two the High Priest and his Second the High Priest was by the Appointment of God that Person who was the Lineall Heir in Aaron's Posterity the eldest living that descended in the most direct Line from his Loins His Office was mainly upon the Expiation Day being the 10th of the 7th Moneth to perform the Solemn Rites of that Service in entring the Holy of Holies not without blood and to persume the Oracle with fragrant Incense Exod. 30.10 Lev. 16.34 Heb. 9.7 Unto which Josephus adds that He assisted in the Work on every Sabbath De Bell. Judaic l. 6. c. 6. p. 9 18. F. in every New-Moon and every Solemn Festival as may appear out of the 1 Chron. 6.49 The second Priest was the most eminent among the rest who in case of Sickness Pollution or other Emergency befalling the High-Priest did supply that Office Therefore is it that some think Moses of old to have be●n a substitute to Aaron seeing Scripture doth expresly call both of them the Priests of the Lord Ps 99.6 We read moreover that Moses did officiate in the Priests office at the consecration of Aaron his Brother Levit. 8. Howexer it be wee find for cerain Eleazar and Ithamar c. usually put together in the Days of Moses Hophni and Phinehas in the old Age and blindness of Eli. Zadock and Ahimelech in the days of David 2 Sam. 8.17 Chap. 15.35 2 King 25.18 Luke 3.2 and afterwards Zadeck and Abiathar Serajah the chief Priest and expresly in so many terms Zephaniah the second Priest in the time of Judah's Captivation by Nebuchadnezzar And lastly in the days of our Saviour Annas and Caiphas are called the High Priests not that there were two in that great Office at once as some have conceited through the Jewish Corruption of the Commandements of God at that time but that the one was a present help and constant substitute to the other in case of necessary detention from his actuall service Of the Ordinary Priests The ordinary Priests were such as sprang from the Loins of Aaron and were in a Collateral Line of Kindred allied to the High Priest which were all Levites as flowing from Levi who was the Abavus or Great Grand-Father of Aaron But being separated from the rest of the Levites for some more immediate service unto God are generally termed Priests whereas the term of Levite is restrained to all others of the Posterity of Levi besides the Line of Aaron These Priests for the more easie