1 Kings 7

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. VII.—Great men may lodge and live in a manner becoming their station. But great builders had need to beware of neglecting to build up their own souls in their most holy faith, and of forgetting the building not made with hands, the house eternal in the heavens. If therefore we wish to be honoured, let our great and earliest care be to honour God. It is an agreeable thing to have instruments employed in the church who are at once active, 42 45. honest, and faithful. But great is our mercy that, instead of these material utensils, we have the blessed Jesus as our pillar of stability and strength. We have him as the great propitiation—and full of grace and truth—to be our sea, our laver, for washing our hearts and hands in our approaches to, and dealings with, God.—We have him to be our altar of incense, our light, and our true bread, which cometh down from heaven. 4 P