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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

shew many miracles at the Tombes and Sepulchers of the Martyrs and therefore the Christians did there erect Churches and call them by the names of those Martyrs out of a desire to honour those whom God had so much honoured and the world so much despised The summe then of all is Christian Churches may be called by the names of Saints and Martyrs but must be dedicated onely to God and his service and as to all parts of his service so especially to prayer which I told you was the second particular in the Churches surname and is now the next point to be spoken of shal be called the house of prayer Why not the house of Sacrifice Sacraments Prophecying Preaching Because all these are worth nothing unlesse they be seasoned with prayer It is not to be passed over with sleight observation that although all these except their Sacraments were performed in the Iewish Temple and all of them are performed in Christian Churches yet the duties of the Temple most commonly have their denomination in Scripture from that of prayer Salomon in the dedication of his Temple as he conceived it in the forme of a prayer especially beggeth of God his attention to the prayers that should be made in that place and the whole tenour of his dedication runneth upon it and God his answer to Salomon is accordingly for prayer Anna in the 2. of Luke is said not to have gone out of the Temple but to have continued in it fasting and praying In Luke 2. 37. the Pharisie and the Publican went up to the Temple to pray Acts 3. 1. Peter and Iohn went up to the Temple about the houre of prayer being the ninth houre which to the Iewes was the third houre before the setting of the Sun the very houre of the evening Sacrifice here the Temple is called the house of prayer and the Christian Churches accordingly were called Oratories why all this To teach us two things First the excellency of prayer among all other religious duties Secondly the excellency of publike prayer above all other private prayers made any where els For the first I will not in a Sermon enter upon the common place of prayer onely this you shall not find in Scripture any man registred for one of God his speciall friends and favourites who was not likewise a man of prayers and supplications Moyses Abraham Iob David but above all looke upon Christ so given to prayer that as he was called by the Prophet vir dolorum a man of sorrowes so he might have been called vir clamorum a man of cryings and supplications for he used them at home and abroad upon the Mount in the Garden upon the Crosse dying nay after his death which maketh highly for the commendation of prayer Christ was a Priest now the office of the Priest consisted in these two things in offering up sacrifice for the sinnes of the people and in offering up prayers for the sinnes of the people that part of Christ his Priesthood which concerned sacrifice expired with his life for he offered up the perfect sacrifice of his body once for all but so did not that part of his Priesthood which concerneth prayer for as he died praying so he still continueth a Priest in regard of prayer two wayes First because he himselfe at the right hand of God still maketh intercession for us Heb. 7. 25. Wherefore he is utterly able to save all them that come to him since he ever liveth to make intercession for us Secondly because as our Advocate he offereth up into the bosome of his Father all the Prayers which we make to God in his name Rev. 8. 3. It is said of Christ the Angell of the covenant that he offereth up many sweet odours which are the prayers of the Saints Secondly the Temple is called the house of prayer as to shew us the excellency of prayer in generall so in particular to expresse unto us the excellency of publike prayer in the Temple And here I am sorie that the iniquity of the times should put me upon two comparisons which to some will seeme odious the one is betweene prayer in the Temple and preaching in the Temple the other betweene prayer in the Temple and prayer any where els For preaching far be it from any Christian to under-value the holy and blessed Ordinance of God onely I would have men as upon preaching so likewise to set a true value upon prayer in the Temple There is a generation of fooles risen up in the world who think that all religion consisteth in preaching and hearing of Sermons and will run some miles to heare them But for the publike prayers of the Church they will hardly crosse the street but cast themselves to come into the Church about the ending of Divine Service and beginning of Sermon now S. Pauls question poseth them all If all were hearing where were seeing and the rest of the senses so doth this name which Christ here giveth to the Temple the house of prayer But they will say can there be too much preaching or hearing Yes there may be too much of any thing Take this for a rule no truth can be repugnant to another truth in any science whatsoever much lesse can Theologicall truths be repugnant one to another and therefore all Theologicall truths must be expounded as they may stand in grosse one by another He that hath said Be swift to heare hath likewise said Pray continually and he that provideth not for his family is worse than an Infidell Men then must so heare as they neglect not prayer as that in weeke dayes if their families be sustained by their trade and calling they neglect not that to run after Sermons for there is no religious worke which may not be over-done we are commanded to give almes but if one shall give all he hath knowing that he must become chargeable to others it is sin and that voluntary poverty which we condemne in many of the Mendicant Friers Fasting is a religious duty but if one shall abstaine so much as he knoweth he shal be accessary to his owne death it is a sinne as Gregory Nazianzen complained of his sister Gorgonia Even prayer it selfe which I am now commending when it is over-done it is called by our Saviour vaine babling and idle repetitions So for hearing we ought to heare on that day which God hath set apart for his service all excuses laid aside and on the weeke dayes too omit no good occasion of hearing so farre as our callings and places will permit but so as we never omit the frequenting of the Divine Service and Publike Prayers of the Church Next from this that the Temple is called the house of prayer we may see the excellency of publike prayer in the Temple above private prayer any where els which I pray you may not be taken as spoken any way in derogation from private prayer to which I find our Saviour was so much addicted as