The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

SECT. VI. The Altar of Incense.

THE Candlestick stood on the one side of the House, and the Table on the other, and this Altar in the middle: not just betwixt them, but somewhat higher in the House toward the most Holy place than they were: These three Ornaments and furnitures of the Holy place, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a were set in a 1.1 third part of the House; that is, whereas the House (meaning the Holy place) was forty cubits long, when you had gone up six and twenty cubits, and two third parts of a cubit into the room, there stood the Table and Candlestick, and somewhat further higher towards the Veil stood this Altar.

b 1.2 It was a cubit square, and two cubits high, had four Horns at the four corners of it, and a Crown about the brim or edge of it, which the Jews say denoted the Crown of the Priest-hood: It stood not so nigh the Veil of the most Holy place, but that one might go about it; and so how the Priest did on the day of Expiation, and besprinkled the Horns of it with Blood, we observe elsewhere.

On this Altar (commonly called the golden Altar) Incense was offered Morning and Evening every day: a Figure, if you apply the action to Christ, of his Mediation; and if to man, a resemblance of the duty of Prayer. The twelve cakes which resembled the sustenance and sustentation of the Twelve Tribes, which was ever before the Lord, were renewed only once every week, but the Lamps drest, and the Incense offered twice every

day, for we have more need of the light of Gods Word, and of Prayer, than of our dayly food. And if we will apply all the three to Christ, The Kingly Office of Christ provided Bread for his People, his Prophetick Office provided the light of his Word, and his Priestly Office the Incense of Mediation.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Maym. in Beth habhec. per. 3.
• b 1.2

  Exod. XXX. 1, 2. Maym. ubi sup.