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A68415	A sermon preached at Cern, in the county of Dorset, the 18 day of September 1623 at the visitation of the right reuerend father in God, the Lord Bishop of Bristoll by Robert Lougher pastor of Mapowder.	Lougher, Robert.	1624 (1624)	STC 16828.5; ESTC S103251	21,198	40

adorning of our Churches which are likewise domus Dei domus orationis Gods houses consecrated and dedicared to his worship and seruice as was the Temple in Ierusalem And may not I say to you touching these as the Prophet did here vnto these Iewes touching the Temple Is it time for your selues to dwell in your sieled houses and this house lye wast So is it time for your selues to dwell in your sieled curious costly houses let your Churches which are Gods houses of prayer lye waste or vndecently rude and neglected as in too many places they doe throughout the Country Villages and some better Townes What an eye-soare is it to a Christian that loueth euen the outward beauty of Gods house What an vnwelcome abatement to his deuotion to behold in the place of the best account in this world the worst outside mouldy greene walls ill-fauoured pillers ragged floores vnseemely seates battered windowes homely Carpets and Linnen for Gods Table where his holy Sacrament is administred poore and base Ornaments or none at all for the Pulpits whence Gods Oracles are deliuered and such like And is not all this true in many of your Churches throughout this Countrey And yet who sees any thing amisse as if there were nothing to be presented but Omnia bene All is well Tertullian will tell you that Pietas est pro pietate sumptus facere That it is godlinesse to be at cost with God And I am perswaded that our Churches being Gods sanctuaries and dedicated to his seruice if they had their due habite and hability would serue ought to be more decent and beautiful then the houses of the rich or Nobles in this world nay they cannot be too beautifull Math. 10.16 all superstition and idolatry set aside Christians should bee as Doues without all gall of bitternesse and Doues you know loue to resort to a sweet and a dainty house Aspicis vt veniunt ad candida tecta Columbae Oh how farre short come we of that zeale of the Israelites in the building and beautifying of Gods Tabernacle when the workmen were faine to cry out to hold the peoples hands Plus affert populus quàm necessarium est Exod. 36.5 The people bring too much and more then enough for the vse of the worke Whereas we may cry out as fast on the other side The people bring too little nay they will hardly offer any thing I say not to the adorning and beautifying of Gods house quorsum perditio haec That were wast and superfluity indeed but to the ordinary reparation and maintenance thereof were it not for feare of presentment and danger of the law Brethren these things ought not so to be Againe looke into the 20. verse of the 2. Chapter of this Prophesie Hag. 220. and you shall see how God promised to blesse these Iewes vpon their diligence zeale in building and beautifying his Temple Gods materiall house in Ierusalem Is the seed yet in the Barne as yet the Vine and the Fig-tree and the Pomegranat and the Oliue tree hath not brought forth from this day I will blesse you And will not the Lord thinke you be as ready to blesse vs vpon our diligence and zeale in repairing and adorning our Churches Gods materiall houses among vs but especially in building his spirituall house reuerencing his sanctuary sanctifying his Sabbaths hearing his Word receiuing his Sacraments fearing the Lord and walking in his wayes If thus we shall doe touching Gods spirituall and materiall houses as becommeth good Christians to doe then no doubt the Lord will heare the cry of the Heauens Hos 2.21.22 the Heauens shall heare the cry of the earth and the earth shall heare the cry of the Corne the Wine and the Oyle and the fruites of the earth shall heare the cry of the people and he will blesse vs with plenty and abundance If thus we shall doe with zeale and piety then no doubt the Lord will say to vs as he did vnto this people From this day will I blesse you loe from this day forward will I blesse you One short obseruation more so an end Though time hath wings yet houe I not much transgrest my bounds And therefore listen yet a little I beseech you and I will not ouermuch straine the strings of your attention Here it is said that Prince Priest and People came and did the worke in the House of the Lord of Hostes their God Ezra 4.3 And in the 4 of Ezra we reade that reiecting the aduersaries of Gods true Religion they went about this worke themselues and they went about it together so linckt in concord and vnitie as if they had beene but one man So that they came to this worke as the Tribes came to Dauid with a single heart with a willing heart with one heart And so the Lord of Hostes who is the God of vnitie blessed and prospered the labours of their hands In like manner If we would be blessed and prosper in the building of Gods house which is the Church of the liuing God If we would haue impietie defaced pietie practised true religion imbraced and the Gospel to flourish we must not betake our selues to this businesse like those two Tribes of Israel Manasses readie to eat vp Ephraim and Ephraim Manasses We must not goe about this worke like Sampsons Foxes back to backe one drawing one way and another an other way one building vp and another pulling downe as Iesus Syrach speaketh but rather like the Cherubins on the Mercie seat Exod. 37.9 turning face to face or like those Angels in Ezekiel Ezek. 1.9 ioyning wing to wing so we ioyning hand to hand heart to heart as if that blessing of God Ezek. 37.19 in the 37 of Ezekiel had fallen vpon vs. The wood of Iudah and the wood of Ioseph shall be ioyned in one tree and then shall we prosper in the building of Gods house when we our selues are composed ioyned together like Ierusalem Psal 122 3. which was builded as a Citie that was at vnitie in it selfe We must not then goe about this building like the builders of Babel in the confusion of tongues One speaking in the Language of Atheisme another in the Language of Papisme another in the Language of Brownisme another in the Language of Anabaptisme one speaking in the Language of this Sectary another in the Language of that deuided into companies like Labans Sheepe O no If we would haue this Spirituall building to goe on currantly we must all endeauour to speake one Language euen that which the Prophet Esay tearmeth the Language of Canaan Esay 19.18 by which may be meant the true profession of the one and onely true God and his sincere and true Religion O Lord let neuer the abhomination of desolation defile thy Temple O Lord let neuer the Arke and the Idol Dagon be set to stand vpon one Altar among vs. 2 Cor. 6.14

Apostles 1. Tim. 3.15 Christ Iesus himselfe being the chiefe corner stone in whom all the building coupled together Eph. 2.20 21. groweth vnto an holy Temple in the Lord. And this is that spirituall Temple whereof this materiall temple was a type and a figure here spoken of in my text And the building of this spirituall house we are then said to promote as good Christians generally when we endeauour to liue soberly iustly vprightly and in the feare of God Abstaining from all appearance of euill and keeping our selues vnspotted of the world when we doe follow peace with all men and holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord when we all of vs indeauour to liue euery man in his vocation painefully and honestly and that with a cleere conscience both toward God and towards all men More particularly Then is Zerubbabel and the Magistrate said to further this worke of the Lord when they doe execute iudgement and iustice vprightly for the punishment of euill doers and the praise of them that doe well when they doe execute iudgement rectè sententiando and when they doe execute iustice debitè exequendo When according to Illyricus Illyricus they doe execute iudicium iustitia iustitiam iudicij semper iustitiam in iudicie Et sit verbum sapienti sat And then are Iehoshua and Gods Ministers said to set forward the building of Gods house which is the Church of Christ when wearing Vrim and Thummim vpon their heart they doe preach the word of God instantly when they doe improoue and rebuke and exhort with all long suffering and doctrine When they are ready according to the Scriptures to teach the ignorant to confute the repugnant to reprooue the euill mannered and to instruct and frame the well disposed Among the rest speciall workemen are yee the Sworne-men Church-wardens and Side-men on whose shoulders a weightie burden of this building a weightie burden of this businesse lyeth Peruse then seriously your bookes of Articles weigh well the dreadfull oath you take Reade it ouer againe and againe as it is set downe vnto you in the forefront of your bookes Consider the Maiestie of that great God whom you inuocate as a witnesse of your integritie and vprightnesse And if you would be as indeede you should be then must I tell you that you should in some sort be like vnto Melchisedech Heb. 7.3 who in the 7. of the Heb. is said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. without father without mother without kindred that so yee may say as Cassidore noteth non nouimus Patrem We know not father we know not mother we know not sister we know not brother we know not friend we know not foe we know not rich we know not poore veritatem nonimus We know the truth and the truth we will present all malice all feare fauour and affection laid aside and that according to the tenour of our oath If thus beloued you will truly informe things deformed in the house of God I doubt not but those in authoritie will carefully see all things reformed conformed and performed to the glory of God and to the amendment of what is amisse in the Church of Christ Ezek. 9.4 5. In the 9. of Ezekiel you shall reade of an Angel whom the Lord sent to Ierusalem in the similitude of a man and what was his message Goe through the Citie and cry against all the abhominations that are done in the midst thereof Other then there were which followed him and what was their charge Goe after him through the Citie and smite and let your eye spare none neither haue you pitie Here both Iurors and Iudges may see grafically described a picture of their duties The Romane Senate as Liuy writeth in his Decads vpon some weightie occasion Tit. Liu. li. 24. deca sent a Messenger vnto a certaine people with whom they were in league called Aequi sometimes he calles them Aequitani But they regarding neither the message nor the Messenger willed him to deliuer his errant vnto that tree pointing vnto an Oake that grew thereby Whereupon the Embassadour turning him to the tree said Tum haec sacrata quercus audict quod faedus violatur Why then said he this sacred Oake shall here and beare witnesse that the league is broken And hereupon followed the ruine and destruction of that people Well you haue heard your duties Church-wardens and Sidemen going before to take and to giue notice of abhominations faults defaults innormities You that are Ecclesiasticall Iudges following after to reforme and amend what is amisse to smite to execute iudgement and iustice without all respect of persons Now herein doe you all take heede that you be not remisse you be not partiall you be not negligent lest the timber the walles the windowes and the pillars of this sacred house doe testifie and beare witnesse against you How God plagued these Iewes for their negligence in the building of his Temple Gods materiall house in Ierusalem you may see in this Prophesie Is it time for your selues to dwell in your sieled houses and this house lye wast There is their sinne recorded in the 4. verse of the 1. Chapter Will you know what were the plagues and iudgements inflicted vpon them for this sinne Then looke into the 6. verse You haue sowne much and bring in little you eate but you haue not enough you drinke but ye are not filled ye cloth you but ye be not warme and he that earneth wages putteth the wages into a broken bagge And in the 9. verse Ye looked for much and loe it came to little And when ye brought it home I did blow vpon it And why saith the Lord of hoasts Because of mine house that is wast and ye run euery man vnto his owne house Therefore the Heauen ouer you stayed it selfe from deaw and the earth stayed her fruit And I called for a drought vpon the Land and vpon the Mountaines and vpon the Corne and vpon the Wine and vpon the Oyle vpon all that the ground bringeth forth both vpon Men and vpon Cattle and vpon all the labour of the hands And in the 16. 17. verses of the 2. Chapter before they set themselues about the building of Gods Temple When one came to an heape of twenty measures there were but ten and when one came to the wine-presse for to draw out fifty vessels out of the presse there were but twenty I smote you with blasting and with meldew and with haile in all the labours of your hands yet ye turned not to mee saith the Lord. And hath not the Lord of late yeares plagued vs after the same fashion for our negligence in the building of his spirituall house iust after the same manner making our fruitfull Land barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein And how can we tell but we may be thus plagued partly for our negligence and want of zeale in the repairing in the seemly