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Excerpt from The Duties of the Pastoral Office: A Sermon, Delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, at the Ordination of Wells Andrews, January 11, 1818; Before the Presbytery of Winchester
See that th 011 make all things aecb'rding to the shewed to the m the mount, was the admoiiition of God to Moses when about to make the tabernacle. He was not left til construct it according to the plan Which his own Wisdom could furnish. Its length and its breadth, its depth and its height, its ceverihg and its sides, its rings and its bal s, wele all prescri bed by him for whose Worship it was intended. Even Solomon, the wisest of men, was not pei mitted to draught the plan of that magnifieent temple Which be feared for the worshin of J ehovah 1101 that Splendid edifiee, a pattern, embracing in detail, its 11101101 hens and materials, its porches and courts, its chambers and treasmies, its pillars and their cl1apite1 s, the Weight of gold 'fm use and for emament, was delivered to him by his father, ijaviil, who received it by the spirit of the Lord making him understand, by his hand upon him, all the 11 01118 (if this pattern. 1 of Solomon and his architects consist ed 111 filling up this plan, sketched by the Wisdom of him, Who launched the World in its 01bit, a11d framed the heavens by his.
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