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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10073	The beauty of holines: or The consecration of a house of prayer, by the example of our Sauiour A sermon preached in the chappell at the free-schoole in Shrewsbury. the 10. day of September, Anno Dom. 1617. At the consecration of the chappell, by the Right Reuerend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Couentrey and Lichfield. By Sampson Price, Doctor in Diuinity, and chapleine in ordinary to his Maiesty.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1618 (1618)	STC 20328; ESTC S100873	24,384	42

remayne amongst vs not lamenting praying labouring for a redresse but auoyding the land which is no true valour to run away especially to places which are common harbours of all opinions and heresies where they cannot but draw in some stench of these hauing left the free and cleare aire of the Gospel swallowing in Camels there who could not endure Gnats here Augustine tooke another course For the chaffes sake wee doe not forsake the threshing-floore of the Lord Aug. Ep. 48. nor for the bad fishes doe we breake the net of the Lord nor for the Goates which are to be seuered in the end do we leaue the Flocke of the Lord nor for the vessels made to dishonour doe wee flit out of the house of the Lord. Let vs resolue so to pray for any thing that may seem to be amisse knowing that the Spouse will be blacke while she is vpon earth Cant. 1 Can. 1.5 that in the best field where Christ sowed seede and the best seede tares spring vp as well as wheate and both must grow together till the Haruest M●● 1● 30 Mat. 13. Let vs not flie from these materiall dedicated Temples but hold it our ioy that here wee may come to dedicate and deuote our selues vnto God Wee our selues are spirituall Temples 1. Cor. 3.17 A●pirituall Temple Our soules are the Temples of God If any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy for the Temple of God is holy which Temple yee are Our bodies in comparison of our soules are but as wals of clay encompassing a treasure as the woodden boxes of pretious Iewels a course case to a sweete instrument or a maske to a beautifull face It is holie we must not prophane it God created it in infusion and infused it in creation It should bee holy as he is holy without holinesse wee can neyther bee named nor be Christians It is the Riches of the Saints the beauty of Angeis delight of God Whosoeuer hath this is a Temple of God and he that wanteth it is a dwelling place of Sathan Let the soule be free from sinne 〈…〉 and Sathan will bee driuen farre from the soule of the finner and he shall dedicate this Temple vnto God A celestiall Temple There is another Temple and it is celestiall which if wee desire to feast in we must bee dedicated in bodies and soules vnto God we must glorifie God here and then wee shall bee glorified by him there Blessed are al they that dwel in this house they shall euer be praysing of God Psal 64.4 there Charitie shall bee perfect ●umb l. 4. l. 49. Euery man shall reioyce as much for anothers good as he doth for his owne they that looked downward here at sorrow not to be repented of shall there looke vpward at ioy they that walked here in redde shall there be cloathed with white Thinke that thou one day mayest come into this Temple as thou doest now into a material Temple Per 〈◊〉 Ecclesia intramus in ●o●●ā Paradisi This is the gate by which we must enter in Here we must bee polished as corner stones for the heauenly Citie of Ierusalem Heere we fitte our selues with wedding garments that wee be not cast out into that place where is weeping and gnashing of teeth Here we are in Gods chamber of Presence that we may be brought into his presence and chamber of ioy whence we shall neuer bee shut out Let vs then while the house of the Lord is established encourage one another saying Let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob and he will teach vs of his wayes and wee will walke in his pathes Isa 2. Isa 2.2.3 The Temple was Christs walke as we find in these words And Iesus walked in the Temple in Salomons Porch Amongst the Iewes the Temple was had in much reuerence Chrys in Act. 6.14 Ier. 7.4 Act. 4.1 Bar. Ioh. 12.20 Act. 8.27 Ios 11. Ant. c. vlt. it was held a great honour to liue neere vnto it theyr common cry was The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord Ier. 7. The Temple had a captaine Act. 4. as afterwardes Souldiers called Templarij dwelling neere to the Temple Knights of Ierusalem instituted Anno 1230. The Gentiles came to worship at the Temple as that Eunuch of great authority vnder Candace Queene of the Ethiopians Act. 8. and Alexander the Great 2. Mac. 3.3 35 Seleucus King of Asia Heliodorus Ios Gor. l. 3. c. 1. Antiochus and others mentioned by Gorionides Famous haue been the temple of Caesar the temple of Bellona M. Purch in Pilg hauing sixe thousand seruants a●out it in Cappadocia the temple of Iupiter in Morimena with three thousand votaries at Carrhae they had the Temple of the Moone at Taxilla a temple of the Sunne at Athens they had a temple of Mercie 〈…〉 causing a decree to bee made that they which fled thither for succour might not be pulled away from thence Such a Sanctuarie was the Temple of Theseus such an immunity was translated vnto the Temples of Christians to Abbies and Monasteries 〈…〉 when Princes had dedicated their names vnto Christ prouiding by lawes that whosoeuer should violently draw away any from thence they should incurre the crime of treason which was the cause that whē Alaricus the King of the Gothes had surprised the City of Rome so many as fledde vnto the great Church of Saint Peter were through a wonderfull worke of God preserued But abuses hauing hence growne and the Church Common-wealth iniuried these are in many places abrogated when seruants hence tooke occasion to bee disobedient and vndutifull vnconscionable debters defrauded their creditors thieues encreased and that was verefied Nullos tam saepe ad Ecclesiae asylum sugere quàm qui nec Deum nec Ecclesiam curabant None more vsually and often fledde to the Sanctuary of the Church then they that cared neyther for God nor the Church The Temples of our times are for prayer preaching administration of the Sacraments and so Sanctuaries for troubled soules who desire to bee fed with the sincere milke of the word wherein not onely the Lambe may wade but the Lyon may swimme Christ honoured the Temple with his walke in Salomons Porch His passion was neere and as it were at the dore therefore he walked in the Porch in Salomons porch where sacrifices were offered that we might much more frequent those places where there is a remembrance of his offering vp of himselfe once for all In Salomons Porch because there often Salomon vsed to pray or it is called Salomons Porch because it was made in imitation of that the length whereof was twenty cubites and the bredth thereof ten cubites 1. Kin. 6.3 1. King 6. Here he walked shewing that sometimes a man may retire and rest himselfe but not so that he rust for hee tooke