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conscience_n	child_n	spirit_n	witness_v	1,106	5	9.8469	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02771	The temple A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the fifth of August. 1624. By Tho. Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1624 (1624)	STC 129; ESTC S100422	35,512	74

this world is enmity to God and the East West shall sooner vnite their forces thē these be recōciled It is the Deuils especiall ayme to bring these Idols neere the Temple he finds no such pleasure to dominere in his owne hell but he hath a mind to Paradise One wittily obserueth that Christ chose poore Fishermen as the fittest to receiue his Oracles to plant his Church because Satan scorned to looke so low as to tempt them He studied to preuent Christ among the Kings of the earth and great Doctors neuer suspecting silly fishers But when he found himself deceiued he will then make their whole profession to fare the worse for it he beares the whole succession of their Tribe an old grudge Before he passed by them and tempted the great Masters now he wil sooner tempt them then Kings and Emperors 1. Cor. 5.12 The Church doth not iudge them that are without but them within and Satan had rather foile one within then a hundred without Hee hath a desire to all but especially he loues a religious soule he would eat that with more greedines then Rachel did her Mandrakes The fall of one Christian better pleaseth him then of many vnbeleeuers No King makes war against his owne loyall subiects but against rebels enemies The deuill is to subtill to spend his malice vpō them that do him ready seruice He cares not so much to multiply Idols in Babylon as to get one into Sion To maintaine priests of Baal in the land of Israel at the table of Iesabel as it were vnder Gods nose or to set vp Calues at Bethel in scorne of the Temple this is his ambition The Fox seldome preyes neere home nor doth Satan meddle with his owne they are as sure as temptation can make them What Iailor laies more chaines vpon the shackled malefactor that loues his prison and would not change The Pirate spends not a shot vpon a cole-ship but he lets flie at the rich Merchant Cantabit vacuus the empty traueller may passe vnmolested it is the full barne that inuites the thiefe If we were not belonging to the Temple we should not be assaulted with so many Idols if not Christians fewer tentations Now the more potent and malicious our aduersaries the more resolute and strong bee our resistance The more extreame the cold is without the more doth the naturall heat fortifie it selfe within guard the heart It is the note of the vngodly that they blesse Idols Esay 66.3 if we would not bee such let vs blesse our selues from Idols And as wee haue banished the materiall Idols out of our Temples so let vs driue these spirituall ones out of our hearts Let vs say with Ephraim we haue heard God seene him Hos 14.8 What haue we to doe any more with Idols The vices of the religious are the shame of religion the sight of this hath made the stoutest Champions of Christ melt into teares Psal 119.136 Riuers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law Dauid was one of those great Worthies of the world not matchable in his times yet he weepes Did hee teare in pieces a beare like a kid rescue a lambe with the death of a lyon foile a mighty gyant that had dared the whole army of God Did he like a whirlewind beare and beat down his enemies before him and now does he like a childe or a woman fall a weeping Yes he had heard the name of God blasphemed seene his holy rites prophaned his statutes vilipended and violence offered to the pure and intemerate Chastity of that holy virgin Religion this resolued that valiant heart into teares Phil. 3.18 Riuers of waters run down mine eyes So Paul I tell you of them weeping that are enemies to the Crosse of Christ Had he with so magnanimous a courage endured stripes and persecutions run through perils of all sorts and sizes fought with beasts at Ephesus been rapt vp to heauen and learn'd his Diuinitie among the Angels does he now weep Yes he had seene Idols in the Temple Impiety in the Church of God this made that great spirit melt into teares If we see these Idols in others or feele them in our selues and complaine not we giue God and the Church iust cause to complaine of vs. Now the Lord deliuer his Temples from these Idols But all this while wee haue walked in generals and you will say Quod omnibus dicitur nemini dicitur let mee now therefore come to particulars The Temple of God Is euery Christian as the Church is his great Temple so his little temple is euery man We are not onely through his grace liuing stones in his Temple but liuing temples in his Sion each one bearing about him a little shrine of that infinite Maiestie Wheresoeuer God dwels there is his Temple therefore the beleeuing heart is his Temple for there he dwels As wee poore creatures of the earth haue our being in him so he the God of heauen hath his dwelling in vs. It is true that the heauen of heauens is not able to containe him yet the narrow lodgings of our renewed soules are takē vp for him What were a house made with hands vnto the God of spirits vnlesse there bee a spirit for him to dwell in made without hands Here if the Body be the Temple the Soule is Priest if that be not the offerer the Sacrifice will not be accepted In this Spirituall Temple first there is the Porch which we may conceiue to be the Mouth Therefore Dauid prayes to haue a Watch set at the doore of his lips to ward the gate of Gods Temple This may seeme to be one reason of saluting in former times by a kisse they did kisse the gate of Gods Temple Here the Feare of God is the Porter who is both ready to let in his friends and resolute to keepe out his enemies Let him specially watch for two sorts of foes the one a traitor that goes out euill speaking the other a thiefe that steales in too much drinking The Holy place is the sanctified mind that which S. Paul cals the Inner man Herebe those riches and ornaments the diuine graces Here not onely Iustice and Faith and Temperance sing their parts but the whole Quire of heauenly vertues make vp the harmony The Holy of holies is the purified Conscience wherin stand the Cherubins Faith Loue and the Mercy-seat shaded with the wings of those glorious Angels frō which Propitiatory God giues the gracious testimonies of his good Spirit Rom. 8.16 witnessing with our spirits that we are his children In this Sacrary doth the Lord conuerse with the soule takes her hūble confession giues her sweet absolution It is a place whither nor man nor Angell can enter only the high Priest Iesus comes not once a yeare but daily and communicates such inestimable fauours and comforts as no tongue can expresse Here we find the Arke wherein the Royall