- For what Feare comprehends not, it enclines To make a God; whose Nature it beleeves Much more enclin'd to punish then releeve.

It is very observable against the Jewes, that none ever did any Miracle in the Temple of God; but the God of the Temple, J. C. himselves; who called his Body the Temple; suitably to which we reade that when his side was pierced, the Vaile of the Temple was rent in sunder.

In the 7th of Leviticus, we find that it was expresly forbidden to eate any sacrifice on the third day after the sacrificing. For the Sacrifices being Types of Christ, & also consider'd as slaine for the Expiation of their Sins that offer'd them, it were improper to have them eaten on the Third Day, on which their Antitipe resum'd his life. But tho this thiscorrect reading is repeated word were requisite before the Comming of the Messias; yet now under the Gospell, we may on Easter or any other Day, celebrate the Memoriall of it: because Christ Dy'd once for all the Elect unto the World's End. There was never any but he, that resum'd Life on the third Day. And he therefore sends the Jewes to consider the signe of the Prophet Jonas; not only for the 3 Days there mentionn'd; but also for that as Jonah after the Whale had restor'd him †præa deleted præfixt the Ninevites 40 days for their Repentance; so did our Savior after his Resurrection, allow the Jews 40 Yeares; after which he finally & totally destroy'd them & their State.

God did himself give particular Instructions for 4 severall Buildings; (all representing his Church) in which there is an observable Gradation, in reference to settlenessecorrect reading is settledness & Permanency. The Arke, which floated on the Waters; the Tabernacle, which rested indeed on the Ground but had no Foundation there. The Temple, which was indeed built upon a Rocke, but obnoxious to Casualtys'C' altered from 'S', witnesse it's Desolations under the Chaldeans & the Romans & the New Jerusalem of the Revelations; which shall never have an End.