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XXIV. Of the Pinacles of the Temple.
1. THere was also several Pinacles be∣longing to the Temple. These Pinacles stood on the top aloft, in the air, and were sharp, and so difficult to stand upon: what men say of their number and length, I wave, and come directly to their signification.
2. I therefore take those Pinacles to be types of those lofty, airy Notions, with which some Men delight themselves, while they hover like Birds, above the solid and godly truths of Christ. Satan attempted to entertain Christ Jesus with this type, and antitype, at once, when he set him on one of the Pinacles of the Temple, and offered to thrust him upon a false confidence in God, by a false and unsound interpretation of a Text, Matt. 4.5, 6. Luke 4 9, 10, 11.
3. You have some men cannot be con∣tent to worship IN the Temple, but must be aloft, no Place will serve them, but Pinacles, Pinacles; that they may be speaking in and to the air, that they may be promoting their heady Notions, in∣stead