A Few Thoughts On The Interior Arrangement Of Churches

Author : Thomas Hill Lowe
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259541868
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book A Few Thoughts on the Interior Arrangement of Churches written by Thomas Hill Lowe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Few Thoughts on the Interior Arrangement of Churches: Being the Substance of a Paper Read at a General Meeting of the Members of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society, March 24, 1842 It would lead us too far from our immediate subject, to give a detailed account of the arrangements of the Tabernacle and its services, all of which were designed either to represent by sensible images the condition of the Church under the first Covenant; or to be types and figures of that second Covenant, of which our lord Himself was the mediator, and of that expia tion which He offered on the Cross for the sins of the world. For our present purpose, it will be sufficient to bear in mind, that the Tabernacle consisted of two principal parts - an outer Court, and an inner Sanc tuary - that the people were admitted no farther than into its outer Court, in which stood the altar of burnt-offering, that at the upper or western extremity of the Court stood the Sanctuary, or Holy place, and that this was again divided into two parts, the first of which, called by St. Paul a worldly Sanctuary, was designed to represent the world, or rather the Church on earth, received into Covenant with go1), but having, as yet, 'no access to Him, except through the mediation of the Aaronical priesthood and that the interior Sanctuary, or 'holy of Hohes the presence-cham ber, as it were, of god, who dwelt there in unap proachable light, under the symbol of the Shechinah, which rested above the Cherubim of glory oversha dowing the mercy-seat - was a type of Heaven itself. Into the first Sanctuary none but the Priests could enter; and into the second, or Most Holy Place, none even of' the Priests might set his foot, or look into that which was within the veil, except the High Priest alone, once in every year, on the Great Day of Expiation, as a type of christ the holy ghost thussignifying that the way into the Holiest of all was not yet made manifest. 9 Afterwards, when Solomon erected his magnificent Temple on Mount Sion, the Temple, properly so called, was surrounded by other Courts for the reception of different classes (of wor shippers, who were permitted to enjoy a nearer access to cod, in proportion to the degree in which they submitted to the requirements of the Mosaic law. Those who simply renounced Polytheism, were admit ted only into the outermost Court, called the Court of the Gentiles; but none were suffered to enter into the Court of the Wor'shippers, unless they had been received into Covenant with Crop by circumcision, and had thereby bound themselves to the observance of that law in all its fulne'ss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.