t not go out of the church the way that we came
in (that were a door of defection), but hold our faces forward till we go
out by the door of death.

Thirdly, The text hath twice "all the forms thereof," which I understand
of the outward forms and of the inward forms, which two I find very much
distinguished by those who have written of the form and structure of the
temple. The church is exceedingly beautified, even outwardly, with the
ordinances of Christ, but the inward forms are the most glorious: "For,
behold, the kingdom of God is within you," Luke xvii. 21; and it "cometh
not with observation," ver. 20; "The king's daughter is all glorious
within;" yet even "her clothing is of wrought gold," Psal. xlv. 13. When
the angel had made an end of measuring the inner house (Ezek. xlii. 15),
then he brought forth Ezekiel by the east gate, which was the chief gate
by which the people commonly entered, and measured the outer wall in the
last place. God's method is first to try the heart and reins, then to give
to a man according to his works, Jer. xvii. 10. So should we measure, by
the reed of the sanctuary, first the inner house of our hearts and minds,
and then to measure our outer walls, and to judge of our profession and
external performances.

Lastly, The Prophet is commanded to write in their sight "all the
ordinances thereof, and all the laws thereof;" for the church is a house
not only in an architectonic, but in an economic sense. It is Christ's
family governed by his own laws; and a temple which hath in it "them that
worship," Rev. xi. 1, it hath its own proper laws by which it is ordered.
_Alioe sunt leges Coesarum, alioe Christi_ (saith Jerome(1387)),--Caesar's
laws and Christ's laws are not the same, but divers one from another.
Schoolmen say,(1388) that a law, properly so called, is both illuminative
and impulsive: illuminative, to inform and direct the judgment; impulsive,
to move and apply the will to action. And accordingly there are two names
in this text given to Christ's laws and institutions: one(1389) which
importeth the instruction and information of our minds; another,(1390)
which signifieth a deep imprinting or engraving (and that is made upon our
hearts and affections), such as a pen of iron and other instruments could
make upon a stone. It is not well when either of the two is wanting; for
the light of truth, without the engraving of truth, may be extinguished;
and the engraving of truth, without th