Yea, thou excell'st in rich attire The lamp that lights the globe Thy sparkling garment heav'ns admire, Thy husband is thy robe. This raiment never waxes old, 'Tis always new and clean: From summer-heat and winter-cold, Thy husband can thee screen. All who the name of worthies bore, Since Adam was undrest, No worth acquir'd, but as they wore Thy husband's purple vest. This linen fine can beautify The soul with sin begirt. 0 bless his name, that e'er on thee Thy husband spread his skirt. Are dunghills decked with flow'ry glore, Which Solomon's outvie: : Sure thine is infinitely more, Thy husband decks the sky. Thy hands could never work the dress, By grace alone thou'rt gay. Grace vents and reigns through righteousness, Thy husband's bright array. To spin thy robe no more dost need Than lilies toil for theirs; Out of his bowels ev'ry thread Thy husband thine prepares. Ralph Erskine |
"Heaven is my throne...Isaiah 63"
GOD'S REJECTION OF ALL MATERIAL TEMPLES. There was a time when it could be said that there was a house of God on earth. That was a time of symbols, when as yet the Church of God was in her childhood. She was being taught her A B C, reading her picture-book, for she could not as yet read the Word of God, as it were in letters. She had need to have pictures put before her, patterns of the heavenly things. Even then, the enlightened amongst the Jews knew well that God did not dwell between curtains, and that it was not possible that He could be encompassed in the most holy place within the veil It was only a symbol of His presence. But the time of symbols is now passed altogether. In that moment when the Saviour bowed His head, and said "It is finished! " the veil of the temple was rent in twain, so that the mysteries were laid open. So, one reason why God saith He dwelleth not in temples made with hands, is, because He would have us know that the symbolical worship is ended...
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