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A02233 The honour of Christian churches and the necessitie of frequenting of divine service and publike prayers in them. Delivered in a sermon at VVite-Hall before the Kings most excellent Majestie on the eight day of December last being Sunday, by Walter Bancanquall ... Balcanquhall, Walter, 1586?-1645. 1633 (1633) STC 1237; ESTC S100539 18,198 32

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THE HONOUR OF CHRISTIAN CHVRCHES AND THE NECESSITIE OF frequenting of Divine Service and Publike Prayers in them Delivered in a Sermon at White-Hall before the Kings most excellent Majestie on the eight day of December last being Sunday BY WALTER BALCANQVALL Doctor of Divinity and Deane of Rochester being then in his ordinarie attendance And now published by his Majesties speciall commandement LONDON Printed by George Miller for Robert Allot at the blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard 1633. MATH 21. Ver. 13. It is written my house shal be called the house of prayer but you have made it a den of theeves THe occasion of which words was briefly this Kings at the first entry unto their Raignes do use to begin with the reformation of abuses crept into the Church and Service of God so did David Iosias Ezekiah before Christ so did the Christian Emperours and Princes after Christ as appeareth in their first rescripts so do yet all Christian Kings their first Acts of State or Parliament take rise at the threshold of the Sanctuarie and begin with confirmation or if need be reformation of the Church Now the Sonne of God in this Chapter making his solemne entrie like a King into Hierusalem and so received by the people he first getteth him to the Temple and finding it most lewdly profaned both by secular and spirituall or Simoniacall negotiation he falleth upon them with both hands as a King with his secular arme he whippeth out the profaners as a Priest he useth the spirituall arme It is written and these words It is written be all the words of this text which may properly be said to be Christs own words the rest are but cited by him from others the first sentence my house shall be called the house of prayer from Isaiah 56. 7. the other but you have made it a den of theeves from Iere. 7. 11. But both of them so rehearsed and withall applied by him that they are now become his own for as well quem benè as quem malè dum recitas incipit esse tuus And as these two sentences when they were first spoken of by these two Prophets were a Prophesie of Christ his times and the iniquitie of the Iewes in his time fulfilled them so as they are now rehearsed by Christ they seeme to have beene a Prophesie of our times which have fulfilled them by repeating the same profanations In which regard I should not perhaps divide these words much amisse if I should divide them into an Appropriation and an Impropriation an Appropriation or the proper use for which God appointed his Temple my house shal be called the house of prayer an Impropriation or the abuse of the Temple whereby men disappoint God of his appointment but you have made it a den of theeves And this division is much about one with our Proverbe wheresoever God hath a Church the Divell hath a Chappell my house shall be called the house of prayer there is Gods Church but you have made it a den of theeves there the Divell goeth about presently to turne it into his Chappell Or these words being spoken of the Materiall Temple of Hierusalem may be divided as in some sort that Temple might have beene divided amongst diverse gates in the Temple there were these two afore-gate and a backe-gate the fore-gate at which the people entred called the Beautifull gate where the diseased lay and begged almes Acts 3. 2. The backe-gate called Shallecheth or the dung-gate out of which was carried all the filth or sulledge of the Temple now betweene these two gates stood the Temple it selfe so here first you have the preface or fore-gate to the text it is written and we may call it the beautifull gate for it pointeth to the very beauty of holinesse that is the Scripture next the Temple it selfe which is the maine structure and building of the text my house shal be called the house of prayer and lastly the backe or dung-gate at which Christ throweth out the profaners of the Temple who had made it a dunghill or a den of theeves but you have made it a den of theeves But there is one word in the text from whence I meane to fetch that division of the words which at this time I purpose to pursue and that is the word appellabitur shal be called since the text is of the right naming calling or as it were christening of the Temple I shall pray you to take notice of these foure particulars First of the Churches name my house and we may call it the proper name of the Church for it giveth God a propriety in it Secondly the Churches surname or appellative name by which it shal be called the house of prayer my house shal be called the house of prayer Thirdly the Churches nicke-nicke-name by which in regard of the great abuse offered unto it Christ miscalleth it a den of theeves but you have made it a den of theeves Fourthly the church-Church-booke or register in which all these names are recorded the name and surname in Isaiah the nick-name in Ieremiah it is written Neither need we doubt but that all these names are very significant for if Adam by that originall wisdome wherewith God indued him was able to give names to all the creatures according to their natures much more is God himselfe able to do so when he will name any thing Now in each of these foure there be two particulars in the first that is the name my house these two First It is fit God should have houses built to him on earth as well as men my house Secondly These houses built unto God become God his houses by propriety so his that they may never be taken from him my house In the second that is the surname of the Church shal be called the house of prayer these two First Houses built unto God are to be solemnly called or as it were christened that is consecrated and dedicated to the service of God shal be called Secondly As they are to be dedicated to all the parts of God his service so especially they are to be consecrated to prayer shal be called the house of prayer In the third that is the Churches nicke-name but you have made it a den of theeves these two First God his Church may become the Divels Chappell Bethel may become Bethaven the house of prayer a den of theeves Secondly The theeves and robbers who make it so are principally the Priests but in their owne place the people too for both are here meant by you the Priests for letting out the shop-keepers standings and the Lay-people for selling in those shops being upon holy ground In the fourth that is the church-Church-booke or Register It is written these two First The authority by which the proper use for the Temple for prayer is to be proved by Scripture next the authority by which the abuse of the Temple is to be reproved by Scripture too Christ indeed who was a King as