Christians, and the chosen people ture as well as faith and piety; and of God, &c. . . . . Yet all this, in the Apocalypse he would find a notwithstanding the material Church description of a city, to which he or temple, is a place appointed, as (Mr. Pugin) could present nothing well by the usage and continual equal, even if he were to collect examples expressed in the Old Tes- all that was most architecturally tament, as in the New, for the noble and grand in the ancient and people of God to resort together modern world, in ancient Rome, unto; there to hear God's holy and Greece, and Asia Minor, and word, to call upon his holy name, Babylon, and the hundred-gated to give him thanks for his innu- Thebes. Of the Apocalyptic city merable and unspeakable bene- it was related, " And the building fits bestowed upon us, and duly of the wall of it was of jasper, and truly to celebrate his holy and the city was pure gold, like sacraments." But whilst be had unto clear glass, and the foundathus evidenced the inferiority of tions of the wall of the city were the Apostles to the Heathens and garnished with all manner of preJews, in regard to material archi- cious stones . . . and the twelve tecture, he felt that as spiritual gates were twelve pearls, every architects they were infinitely supe- several gate was of one pearl, and rior to all who had preceded or the street of the city was pure gold, succeeded them. They laid the as it were transparent glass." And foundations of a temple of most if Mr. Pugin objected that the costly materials, composed of living subject of his essay regarded temstones, and of gold, silver, and ples, and not cities, here he (Mr. precious stones, and so vast in its Finch) felt emboldened to assume immensity, that even if Babel could a higher tone, and he would say, be erected according to the gigantic that if Mr. Pugin were temporarily conceptions of its rebellious pro-invested with ubiquity and omnijectors, and rearing its head above potence, and were to spoil a thouthe clouds, the apostolic temple sand suns and ten millions of planets would be elevated far above it; of whatsoever they contained that for whilst that temple was founded was most splendid and magnificent, upon a rock, its topstone reached and were out of these spoils to even unto the throne of the ever-construct a temple for the service lasting God. And all good Chris- of the Deity, that temple would be tian ministers, like the wise master- as inferior to the Apocalyptic temple builder Paul, were engaged in the as universal nature was inferior to construction of this spiritual fabric; the God of nature. For it was and in the courts of heaven their written-" And I saw no temple relative ministerial excellences therein, for the Lord God Almighty would be determined, not by their and the Lamb are the temple of it." title by succession from the repre- This was the architecture of which sentatives of "the man of sin," but Protestants boasted-this was the by the number of living stones temple which they venerated; and which they had placed in Christ's no other temple was fit for the spiritual temple. And if Mr. Pugin Christian sacrifice, the sacrifice of desired an architectural design that his love offered up upon the altar was more pictorial, he would refer of his heart. Into that temple him to the book of God, to which every true believer had ingress; yes, Protestants referred for architec- every penitent sinner who, rising

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