1 Chronicles 28

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OF rest] where it might remaine constantly, without being removed from place to place: [for the foot-stoole] the Arke is so called, Psal. 99. 5. and 132. 7. for the Lord being represented sitting above the cherubines which covered the Arke, as upon a throne, the body of the Arke was in stead of a foot-stoole.

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Chose m] me and my posterity untill the comming of the Messia.

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And seek] that you study, and employ your selves therein, to gaine a lively knowledge of them, and employ your selves in the keeping of them.

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Of the mercie seat] the cover of the Ark is so called Exodus 25:17 over the which were the Cherubins, and thereby is understood the whole Arke, and consequently the sanctuary wherein it stood, and more generally the holy place, and the whole body of the Temple.

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By the Spirit] of God, who revealed unto him all that should be done to the Temple, as he had antiently told Moses the so me of the Tbbernacle, Exodus 25:40. see verse; 9 [the treasuries] as much as to say, that those Chambers should be employed to put up the holy treasures in, for the Officers lodgings, which served weekly, according to their turns; and to keep the vessells, and other things, [of the house] of these two kinds of holy treasures, see upon 1 Chronicles 25:20.

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The Candlesticks] these are others, besides the ten golden Candlesticks which were in the holy place, 1 Kings 7:49. for these served in the Chambers, for their domesticall uses, who ministred.

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The Tables of] there is no mention made else where of these silver Tables, nor what use they were for, but questionlesse, they were for some particular, and domestick use.

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The charret] the Arke is so called, which was as Gods throne, not constant as it is in heaven, but moveable. As much as to say, a signe of his presence in grace and power, which served only to direct the faithfull to the heavenly Throne, which is the seat of Gods eternall, and glorious presence; neither was it fixed in the Church, but that it might depart from thence, if the people did shew themselves unworthy of it, as Ezech. 1. 26. and 10. 13. 16.

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Vpon me] the Italian hath it, which was brought unto me, namely, by some Prophet.

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Every willing] the Italian, besides those that shall willingly employ themselves, namely, to build, and make the vessels of the Temple, as Exod. 35. 25 26.