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and of the place of the mercy-feat; and the pattern of all that CHA P. he had by the fpirit, of the courts of the house of the Lord, and of all the chambers round about, &c.—All this, faid David, the Lord made me to understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern, 1 Chron. xxviii. 11-19.

And as God was pleased thus to impart to David a pattern whereby the Temple was at firft to be built; fo the measures. of the feveral parts of the Temple, fet down in the prophecy of Ezekiel, chap. xl. &c. are fuppofed by Villalpandus to have been exactly agreeable to the pattern first given.

Now the measures of the feveral parts of the Temple are expreffed in the forecited chapters of Ezekiel, by cubits and reeds which by Villalpandus are supposed to have such a proportion one to the other, as that fixteen of the faid meafuring reeds were equal to an hundred cubits, and confequently one measuring reed was equal to fix cubits and a quarter of a cubit. Wherefore, fuppofing these cubits to have been the fame with those whereby the measures of the Ark of Noah are defcribed by Mofes in the book of Genefis (and this is moft probable, forafmuch as the Divine Wisdom was the defigner of the Ark as well as of this Temple), and confequently fuppofing (with Bishop Wilkins, and other learned perfons that have written of the Ark) the said cubit to anfwer to our foot and an half; it will hence follow, that one fuch measuring reed was equal to nine feet four inches and an half of ours. According to which, fuppofing the length of one fide of the outermoft wall of all that belonged to the Temple, to have been one hundred twenty and five reeds (which is the length affigned to it by Villalpandus), it will follow, that the fame length measured by our feet would contain one thoufand one hundred and feventy-one feet ten inches and an half. And forafmuch as the four fides of the faid outermost wall were each of them of the fame length; hence the whole area or plot of ground inclofed by the faid outermoft wall was a fquare, containing about one million, three hundred feventy three thousand, two hundred and eighty feet square; that is, about one and thirty acres and an half.

In like manner, fuppofing with Villalpandus, that the fe

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CHA P. Cond wall, which inclosed that which was esteemed the outermost court of the Temple (for the ground inclosed by the first or outermoft wall, fpoken of in the foregoing paragraph, was not esteemed one of the courts), and which by Villalpandus is called the court of the Gentiles; fuppofing, I say, the wall of this outermoft court to have been one hundred and ten reeds 'long on each of its four fides, it will follow, according to the aforementioned proportion, that each fide was a little above one thousand and thirty-one of our feet in length.

Laftly, fuppofing with Villalpandus the length of each fide of that wall which encompaffed that which was called the outer court, or the court of Ifrael (because none but Ifraelites, or fuch as obferved the whole Mofaick Law, could enter into it), to have been each fide of it eighty reeds long, it follows, that each fide was feven hundred and fifty of our feet in length.

As for the measures of the upright buildings of the Temple, they may be found by the scale inferted in the orthographical draught of the Temple, as to reeds or cubits, and so (by what has been here faid) as to our feet. As for the feveral parts of the Temple, they are, I think, fufficiently explained in the draughts of the Temple, by the help either of the numerica references, viz. 1, 2, 3, &c. or else of the alphabetical refer ences, viz. A, B, C. I fhall therefore fay nothing more here, but refer the reader to the feveral draughts of the Temple adjoining to these pages, for his further information.

In chap. ix. ver. 10-13. we read, that when Solomon had Of the land built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the King's

of Cabul.

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boufe, that then King Solomon gave Hiram the King of Tyre (who had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees, and with firtrees, and with gold according to all his defire) twenty cities in the land of Galilee. Which not pleafing Hiram, when he came to fee them, he called them the land of Cabul; the word Cabul denoting in the Hebrew tongue difpleasure, or dirty. As to the fituation of these cities, it is but reasonable to suppose, that they were fuch as lay near to Tyre, whereof Hiram was King.

In ver. 15-18. of the fame 9th chapter, among other ci

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