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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43789	Dissertation concerning the antiquity of temples wherein is shewn, that there were none before the tabernacle, erected by Moses in the wilderness from histories, sacred and profane.	Hill, Joseph, 1625-1707.	1696 (1696)	Wing H1998; ESTC R19706	45,384	60

Superstition persuaded to build Temples For those Structures which were before Sepulchres being after magnificently built were called Temples But approves the Abbot of Cluny's opinion who writing against the Petrobusions whom Morney accounts good Christians even the same with the Woldensians imputes it is an errour in them quod dicunt Basilicas vel Altaria fieri non debere c. to affirm that Temples and Altars should not be made But the Mass being the chief use of their Temples in those times as Bellarm. de cultu Sanct. l. 3. c. 4. in this regard they might well be opposed for that they denied the lawfulness of Edifices for the solemn Worship of God is no way credible The first Founder of Temples Clem. Alexandr in 's Admonition to the Gentiles p. 28. Gr. Lat. conceives to have been Phoroneus or Merops And so also Arnobius l. 6. Varro in 's Admiranda Aeacus the Son of Jupiter And Lactantius Divin Instit l. 2. c. 10. faith the first Temple was erected in the days of Jupiter Joh. Leo Baptista in 's Book of Architecture thinks Janus's Temple the first But the same Clemens Strom l. 5. writing of Moses faith He suffered not Altars and Temples to be erected in many places having built one Temple he means the Sanctuary did hereby declare unto all that there was but one World and one God alledging Isaiah 66.1 and Acts 17.48 and commending Zeno for saying in 's Book of the Common-wealth non oportere Templa faccre nec simulacra that Temples and Images ought not to be made For a Temple is not of any great price nor an holy thing being it is the Work of Artificers And in his Seventh Book distinguisheth of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 commonly rendred a Temple which he takes for that which is truly holy and this he saith is twofold God himself and that which is built in honour of him and this with him is the Church which he calls the Church of God not made with hands but made the Temple of God by the will of God Non enim nunc locum sed electorum congregationem appello Ecclesiam For I do not now call the place but the Congregation of God's chosen ones the Church Origen also against Celsus l. 8. p. 390 391. professeth Christians beware of building liveless and dead Temples to the giver of all Life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. which he speaks to depreciate those Works of men that men might not think God is honoured by such things which for the matter of them are common and for the figure and shape the works of mens hands As also to refute the Heathens who thought God was more honoured and better served in such Temples than in the poor Conventicles and Oratories of Christians and was in a more especial manner present in such Temples then in other places For we know that now under the Gospel God hath determined his Worship to no place any more than before the Flood or the days of the Patriarchs before Moses Who by God's appointment made the Sanctuary which yet was not confined to any place but portable and moveable to and fro for 400 years till the Temple was built in a place appointed by God to which all Sacrifices acceptable were to be brought and there offered upon his Altar And this was done as Athanasius Epist. ad Adelph contra Arrianos and Austin in Psal 64. for a figure of Christ's Body which was to come and when that Truth signified began evidently to be preached the Shadow was destroyed So Arnobius l. 6. saith We must not think that God is delighted in Temples because built of Marble and gloriously set forth with Gold to overthrow the opinion of the Heathens who professed that if their Gods were prayed unto sub axe nudo sub aethereo regimine nihil audiunt under the cope of Heaven and in the open Air they would not hear And Lactantius Div. Inst. l. 6. c. 25. Non Templa illi congestis in altitudinem saxis extruenda sunt in suo cuique consecrandus est pectore Temples are not to be built unto him of Stones laid one upon another to a great height every one ought to consecrate him in his own heart Not that these Ancients thought it unlawful for Christians to have Temples but in opposition to the Heathens opinion That God accepted of no Worship but that performed in Temples made with hands and that the more costly they were the better he was pleased as Lactant. l. 2. c. 6. Nec ullam religionem putant ubi illa non fulserint They think there 's no Religion where these are not shining i. e. with Gold precious Stones Ivory c. Itaque sub obtentu Deorum avaritia cupiditas colitur credunt cnim Deos amare quicquid ipsi concupiscunt Under colour of Divine Worship covetousness is worshipped For they think the Gods love whatsoever they are in love withal Eusebius in like manner in 's Evangelical Preparation l. 1. c. 9. shews That men in most ancient times took no care or pains about building Temples And that the first builders of them were Heathens with the occasion thereof And in very truth we have not the least colour of Evidence for any built before the Flood tho' we read how God was served from the first by Sacrifice in the story of Cain and Abel and was worshipped no doubt by the holy Patriarchs For tho' a degenerate condition increased amongst the Posterity of Cain yet Adam and Eve after the promise of Grace continued in the same gracious course with others of their Off spring who followed their Institution and Religion especially in the race of Seth. And in his days especially about the birth of his Son Enoch for the Scripture testifies that then men began to call upon the name of the Lord. And near unto the Flood we read of a distinction between the Sons of God and the Daughters of Men tho' afterwards this came to be exceedingly confounded which ended in a natural Confusion of them all through God's just judgment After the Flood 400 years Abram by Divine admonition left his own Country and came into Canan where he and his Posterity liv'd long in Tents like Strangers and erected Altars where God appeared to them and worshipped him in the open Air. And Lib. 3. c. 13. the same Eusebius faith That it becomes wise men with open face to preach unto all that they do not reverence those things which are seen with bodily eyes but him alone whom no man seeth even the Architect and Maker of all with much more to that purpose and that we should not think to worship the Divine Power with building of Temples And accordingly in his first Book of Evangelical Demonstration p. 18. Graeco Lat. To them who thought that God ought to be worshipped only at Hierusalem or on certain Hills and in definite places our Saviour for good cause answered The hour cometh and now is