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A47212	A sermon preached at the consecration of a chappel in the house of John Collins, Esq., of Chute in Wiltshire, performed by the Right Reverend Father in in [sic] God Seth, Lord Bishop of Sarum, on the 25th of September, 1673 by Joseph Kelsey ...	Kelsey, Joseph, d. 1710.	1674 (1674)	Wing K249; ESTC R2647	19,026	38

A SERMON PREACHED at the Consecration OF A CHAPPEL In the HOUSE of JOHN COLLINS Esq Of CHVTE in Wiltshire Performed by the Right Reverend Father in in God SETH Lord Bishop of Sarum on the 25th of September 1673. By JOSEPH KELSEY B. D. Rector of Newton-Tony in Wiltshire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Autholog in Dedicat. Templi Resurrect Dom. London Printed for Jonathan Edwin at the three Roses in Ludgate-street 1674. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND Father in God SETH Lord Bishop of SARVM My Lord THe occasion of this Sermon which but rarely happen's having perswaded me to the publishing of it The extraordinary favours which I have constantly received from your Lordship will I hope excuse the prefixing so great a Name to so inconsiderable a Paper I humbly beg that it may be accepted as a testimony of my Sincere acknowledgments and that the innocent Design hereof may not be denyed the Protection of so Revered a Sanctuary Your Lordships in all duty most Obedient Servant JOSEPH KELSEY A SERMON Preached at the CONSECRATION of a Chappel in the House of JOHN COLLINS Esq 1 Kings 9.3 And the Lord said unto him I have heard thy Prayer and thy Supplication which thou hast made before me I have hallowed this House that thou hast built to put my Name there for ever and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually THese Words are the beginning of that Answer which God gave to Solomon's Prayer at the Dedication of the Temple The Devotion of which Service set down in the foregoing Chapter equal to the Magnificence of the building worthy if any thing can be so of that Majesty whose acceptance they supplicated doth both invite and justifie and is no less the security than an Example to this dayes solemnity For though a Promise of so much grace and favour may seem proportionate to nothing but the glory of Solomons Temple and the Priviledges here granted too big for a private Chappel yet since immensity can be no more contained in one than in the other and the intentions of the Founders which God alwayes respects may be equally full of Piety and Religion He whose Glory filled that House may also fill a lesser Oratory and He who bids us enter into our Closets doth thereby hallow the place and suppose a presence attentive to every Religious performance Solomon likewise understood very well both as a Philosopher and a Divine by Reason as by Revelation the infinite nature of God and His Omnipresence that the Heaven of Heavens could not contain him much less the House which he had built He intended not to imprison the Godhead in a place of thirty Cubits high or to nail the Divinity as the Heathens did the Goddess of Victory to the Walls of His Temple he forgot not that a clean Heart and a purified Soul were the habitations which God loved and sincere Obedience the Sacrifice wherein He delighted he foresee all those weak reasonings which have since heen used to discourage that Piety in the World which wants much rather to be inflamed and to accuse the most Religious designes of Idolatry and Superstition He see them I say and did confute them and so did God himself For it came to pass when Solomon had finished the House of the Lord the Lord appeared unto him and said I have heard thy Prayer and thy Supplication which thou hast made c. From which words we will consider 1. The meaning of to Hallow or Sanctifie 2. The Dedication of Places to Gods Worship 3. The Effects of it There is a twofold Holiness in Scripture Original and Essential in God and that which is derived in things that have relation to Him The first doth necessarily belong to God as He is the most perfect Being in whom all Excellencies do possess infinite perfection So that the first notion of Holiness in Him is a Supereminent Greatness in all His Attributes of Wisdom Power and Goodness He is often called the Holy One of Israel the Excellency of Jacob. There is none holy as the Lord none comparable to Him in the Greatness of all His Excellencies Hence the Name of God is joyned to words to express their Greatness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 1. Vide R. Solomonem Melech in locum which we translate The Spirit of God the Jewes expound a great and strong wind moving upon the face of the waters Nineveh was a great City 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 very great So the Cedars of God and the Mountains of God So also amongst the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is expounded by the Scholiast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every way great and full of Majesty He that hath arrived to any extraordinary attainment of Power Learning or Piety hath merited to be called Vir Magnus and all the Severity of Stoical virtues did make up that Magnitudo animi of which Cato loved so often to dispute But Holiness in created Beings is founded in that relation they have to God appropriated or separated to His peculiar use and service The Sabbath is called a holy day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Judaea a holy Land Jerusalem a holy City 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Israelites a holy People as God himself speaks I have separated you from other people that you should be mine and ye shall be a holy People unto me And in other places peculiar and proper are the same with Holy Nor are those great Titles wherewith the Apostle hath dignified the Churches to which he writes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of any other signification than that they as of old the Jews had entertained the Profession of a Religion distinct from others of the World and of a far more Divine Revelation whereby they might be excited to the Acquisition of those Excellencies which in the Object of their Worship they did adore and those names of an as extended meaning as that of Christians shew rather what they ought to be than assure us what they were for amongst those Saints were found strange Immortalities altogether contradictory to the Sacredness of their Vocation So fallacious is it from the most specious pretences to infer a Real Sanctity because Hypocrisie is a very Ancient Crime and that Accusation hath always been too just Instit Proemi●m which Quintilian charged upon the Philosophers of his Age Non enim virtute studiis ut haberentur Philosophi labor abant sed vultum tristitiam dissentientem à caeteris habitum pessamis moribus praetendebant To Hallow therefore or to Sanctifie is to treat any thing or to behave our selves towards it as the Nature of its Holiness shall require We then hallow the Name of God when with the deepest sense we acknowledge his Greatness fear his Power love his Goodness trust his Faithfulness devoutly admire and imitate every of his Excellencles when all our thoughts words and actions are still composed most becoming of his Majesty nor in them any