1 Kings 6

8. Believers at Death shall gain honor and dignity, they shall reign as kings; therefore we read of the ensigns of their royalty, their white robes, and crowns celestial (2 Timothy 4:7). We read that the doors of the Holy of Holies were made of palm-trees and open flowers covere…

Grace is the root, peace is the flower that grows out of it; it is Pax in procella, such peace that no worldly affliction can shake. The doors of Solomon's Temple were made of olive tree, carved with open flowers (1 Kings 6:32). In a gracious heart is the olive of peace, and the…

Learned Cameron has but one note upon this whole fifth chapter, and it falls to be upon this very word [who has wrought] and it is this: This word (says he) as used by the Septuagint, signifies Rem expolire rudem & informem, to polish a thing that is rude, and without fashion: f…

To show you, that if the Holy Ghost does but give a Christian soul so much resolution and confidence, as not to give over praying, till God be pleased to give over answering, it is a good sign, this spirit of faith will certainly prevail at length, all things are possible to the…

Hence we conclude that, so long as the priests were attending in their turns, they did not enter their own houses, that they might be entirely devoted and attached to the worship of God. For this purpose galleries were constructed around the walls of the temple, in which they ha…

A great revival of religion is expressly compared to this gradual production of vegetables (Isaiah 61:11): "As the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring f…