Ezekiel 44

The spiritual temple of the New Testament, the New Jerusalem which came down from heaven, the Bride prepared for the Lamb, the Lord Jesus the Christ (Revelation 21:2), may not be unfitly compared to the material temple of Jerusalem, in the letter, whose foundation stone was of e…

For ought we see, this consequence is strong and undeniable, and so the Synod's argument in this place from the Old Testament is not at all overthrown, but rather more strengthned. As for what the Reverend Author says, pag. 18, 9. to the particular texts here alledged, namely Le…

But Sutlivius's gloss does not so, for there were sundry things to be judged which were neither the King's domestic affairs, nor yet causes criminal or civil, such as were questions about vows, questions about the meaning of the law, and judging between the holy and the profane,…

Thirdly, the receiving of Christ into our hearts as into a temple implies to keep the charge of his ordinances and holy things, to offer to him all our sacrifices, and to look that all be performed in such a manner as himself requires. God charges it as a sin upon his people (Ez…

For we are not at liberty to separate commandments which God has joined, so as to keep the one half and disregard the other. Intercourse with wives is not so expressly forbidden as the drinking of wine, (Ezekiel 44:21.) If, under the pretense of the law, the Pope enjoins celibac…

And all the Apostles gloried in the title of servants. The lowest office in which a man can serve God, even that of a Nethinim, or door-keeper, which was the lowest order or rank of officers in the house of God (Ezekiel 44:10-11), is yet preferred by David before the service of…

And Interpreters generally understand these verses of Judicatures and Courts in Israel, and of the lower Courts going to the highest, the great and high Synedrion. Now I find no command nor example recorded in Scripture of any of the Jewish Courts ecclesiastical or civil enquiri…

It is a miserable mistake to think that inward real holiness is the only ground of admission into Church-Membership, as some Anabaptists dispute, but it is federal holiness, whether externally professed as in grown persons, or graciously promised to their seed. Reply 1. But you…

But sometimes with respect unto the second, and then it signifies a sacrifice for sin, to make expiation of it. And so it is rendered by the LXX, sometimes by , Ezekiel 44:27. sometimes , Exodus 30:10. Ezekiel 43:23.

The Priests which come near to the Lord — their whole employment was a divine service. They shall come near to me, to minister to me, and they shall stand before me, to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord God (Ezekiel 44:15). When men come to hear the Word, they dra…

In the Original it is, Above all keepings, keep your heart; but the word translated keeping, signifies two things usually in Scripture phrase; sometimes it signifies keeping a thing in custody, as it were in prison, so the word is taken (Genesis 40:3), and that has reference to…

But as for those who sacrificed in the high places of will-worship, because they sacrificed to the Lord only (as the word is, 2 Chronicles 33:17), therefore Josiah did not put them to death, only he caused them to go out of all the Cities of Judah, and to cease from the Priests…