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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04847	The spirituall architecture. Or, the balance of Gods sanctuary to discerne the weigh and solidity of a true and sincere, from the leuitie, and vanitie of a false and counterfeit profession of Christianity. Wherein also the sandy foundations of the papisticall faith are briefely discouered. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 16. of Nouember, 1623. by Robert Barrell, Master of Arts, and minister of Gods word at Maidstone in Kent	Barrell, Robert.	1624 (1624)	STC 1498; ESTC S120643	59,486	84

THE SPIRITVALL ARCHITECTVRE OR The Balance of Gods Sanctuary to discerne the weight and solidity of a true and sincere from the Leuitie and vanitie of a false and counterfeit profession of Christianity Wherein also the sandy foundations of the Papisticall faith are briefely discouered A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 16. of Nouember 1623. by ROBERT BARRELL Master of Arts and Minister of Gods word at Maidstone in Kent For we are labourers together with God ye are Gods husbandry and Gods building 1. Cor. 3.9 Si audire vis non facere adificas sed ruinam aedificas ruina tua te tollit ergo vna est securitas aedificare supra Petram aedificare Aug. Tract 7. in Iohannem Printed at London by Augustine Matthewes and Iohn Norton 1624. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD GEORGE BY THE diuine Prouidence Arch-bishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate of all England and Metropolitane one of the Lords of his Maiestes most Honourable Priuy Councell my very singular good Lord. Most Reuerend Father in God IT may bee thought too high a praesumption and that not altogether vniustly that I should seeke to shroud these my poore Labours vnder the roofe of your Gracious Patronage which I doe not out of any confidence of the worth of them for alasse I am too conscious to my owne wants to bee so arrogantly presumptuous but out of the Conscience of that great obligation wherein I stand bound vnto your Grace for your Graces manifold vndeserued fauours whereof I humbly desire to make this publique acknowledgement It is a ruled case in the Ciuill Law mancipato Patre mancipantur filii the Children are inuolued with their Father in the same engagement and the Fruits doe of best right appertaine to him that is owner of the Field To whom then should this my poore Orphant and these fruits of my poore Labours more rightly appereain then to your Grace vpon whom I haue such an especiall dependance in the Place where I liue and to whom I most deseruedly owe my selfe and the best of my poore Seruice Moreouer the whole English Clergy whereof I am a poore vnworthy member and the whole Church of England and Cause of Religion owes much vnto your Grace whereof vnder our most Religious Learned and gracious Soueraigne you are a maine Pillar and Sppor●er not onely by your vigilant eye of circumspection in gouerning this Church according to your high place but by your zealous tongue in Preaching and learned Pen in writing I write not this to flatter your Grace for besides that my nature abhorres such basenesse he needs no false and flattering praises that abounds with true and St. Cyprian saith truly A good Conscience neither desires praise nor feares accusations Epist 31. For my part I should not haue presumed to publish to the world these my poore Labours which doth occasion mee humbly to craue your Graces Patronage but that in these dayes wherein so many Babilonish Tobiahs and Sanballats seeke by all meanes to hinder and if they could to ruine it euery true hearted Israelite that can lay but one stone to further the building of Gods Temple the walls of his Ierusalem must not sit idle Seing therefore your Grace is heerein a Maister-builder vouchsafe I beseech you your gracious approbation of this little Stone that I haue hewen to lay in this Building and your Noble Patronage of me and my poore Labours though the meanest of those that serue at Gods Altar for euen the Sunne in the Firmament shines aswell on the low Shrub as the tall Cedar and sends his bright and glorious beames aswell into the poore-mans Cottage as the Noble-mans Pallace which if your Grace shall vouchsafe to doe you shal therby encourage me to the vtmost of my poore power and skill to bee still hewing more Stones for this Building and binde me euer as already you haue done to be a dayly Suitor and earnest Solicitor to the highest Throne of grace and mercy that the confluence of all wished temporall blessings and spirituall graces may be powred downe vpon your Graces head most abundantly in this Life with the euerlasting addition of a Crowne of Glory in the Life to come Your Graces most bounden and deuoted Seruant ROBERT BARRELL The Authours Preface to the Christian Reader COurteous and charitable Reader not so much the importunity of my friends though I haue been much solicited therevnto hath caused me to publish this Sermon to the view of the world as that Eye which I had therein to Gods glory and thy good for being pressed by some of my especiall friends to publish it as a Sermon which in these dayes of too much tottering inconstancie in Religion might be some stay to wauering and vnstable soules and so doe some good in the Church of God I thought my selfe most vnworthy to receiue a mite much lesse a talent from the Lord if I should not most willingly and cheerefully cast it into Gods treasurie for although of late many other worthies of our Israel haue a Luc. 21.1 c out of the superfluity and abundant riches of their knowledge cast in much more yet I hope this mite which I haue cast in with as good an intention as any though much more able than my selfe to doe good in the Church of God will be accepted of him who loues a cheerfull giuer and whither it be little or much b 2. Cor. 8.12 accepts the gift according to the ability which himselfe hath giuen The Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let all things be done to aedification 1. Cor. 14.26 My scope therefore in this sermon is to teach thee the art of Spirituall Architecture that is how to build vp thy selfe to be an house or temple for the Lord an habitation of God by the spirit which J teach thee as my selfe haue learned it from that greatest and chiefest Architect Christ Iesus by the direction of his holy word For all that be in Christ are likewise c 1 Cor. 16 19. Temples of the holy Ghost to be built in this world but to be dedicated in the world to come where the glory of the Lord shall fill thee with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious as earst his glory filled the materiall Temple Exod 40.34 And as the building of these spirituall Temples here is painefull and laborious to flesh and bloud so the dedication of them there shall bee most ioyfull and glorious To encourage thee to build God himselfe hath laid the chiefe corner stone yea d 1 Pet 5.6 himselfe is the chiefe corner stone elect and pretious and all the faithfull are liuing stones to bee laid vpon this foundation and to be built a spirituall house a Aug. Tom in dedicat Templi Fide formati ●pe formali charitate compacti squared by faith laid fast by hope and cemented together by charitie Build therefore or rather be built vpon this firme foundation both by hearing and