John 2:20–21

These Jewes mistaking Christs speech, do again carp, supposing he had meant of the material Temple. But John cleareth Christs meaning, whereas they (as would appear) were lest to their mistakes. Whence learn, It is Gods judgement on haters of truth, that Christ speaketh in parables to them; and that they are given up to mistake and carp at him, and are left in their mistakes, for, so fared it with these Jewes, to whom Christ spake of his body under the name of the Temple. 2, As it is no new thing to see men wrest Christs speeches, so a maine cause of mens mistakes in Religion, is, when they understand figurative speeches, as if they were proper; for, the Jews erre, in taking what Christ spake of his body under the name of the Temple, the type thereof, as if it had been spoken of the type it selfe. 3. A work of Reformation is a work of great difficulty, and may encounter with much opposition and many delays, before it be perfected; for, so much doth the Jewes exception against Christs words, taken in their own sense, import, Fourtie and six years was the Temple in building, reckoning all the time betwixt Cyrus edict, of their laying the foundation, and the sixth yeare of Darius, wherein it was finished, after many delayes, Ezr. 6.15. Or, however their supputation hold, yet it was certainly long in building. 4. Men do mistake Christ, (take his words as they will,) when they measure his power by their carnal reason: for, take them even in their own sense, it was not impossible for him to reare up the Temple in three dayes, since he was God, and did undertake a greater work, even to raise up his own body from the dead. 5. Scripture doth expound it self, and what is dark in one place, is cleared in another; for, John doth here clear Christs meaning, He spake of the Temple of his body. 6. Christs body is the truth of that type of the Temple; for, as God did declare the Temple to be his dwelling place, so in him dwelleth the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily: As the Temple was the trysting place, whese sinners found God in the Mercy-seat, and where he gave out his Oracles; so in Christ incarnate God is to be found reconciled with sinners, and he is to be heard, revealing the Father and his minde; And, as the Temple was a magnificent stately Palace, yet more glorious within then in outward shew; so also was Christs body and humane nature, framed by the finger of the Holy Ghost, without original corruption, and filled with excellent endowments, and the inhabitation of the Godhead; therefore is his body spoken of under the name of the type, and called, The Temple of his body.