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A78093	Temple-defilers defiled, vvherein a true visible Church of Christ is described. The evils and pernicious errours, especially appertaining to schisme, anabaptisme, and libertinisme, that infest our Church, are discovered. And directions to preserve from the sin and punishment of temple-defiling, delivered in two sermons preached at the lecture in Kingston upon Thames, Feb. 20. & 27. 1644. out of I Cor. 3.17. / By Richard Byfield pastor in Long-Ditton, Surrey.	Byfield, Richard, 1598?-1664.	1645 (1645)	Wing B6394; Thomason E278_20; ESTC R200019	46,454	48

that concern holinesse and righteousnesse there is the true Church Ephes 2. 19 20. What ever Society of men associating in a religious way do hold Christ and the Prophets and the Apostles Doctrine for faith and holinesse that Society is a particular visible Church Ephes 2. 22. 2. In what ever particular Society religious there is to be found all the furniture of the Temple all the glory the Mercy-seat the two Altars the Table of Shewbread the Candlestick the Laver that is a true particular visible Church It is the Temple of God therefore the Church of God Who can deny that that is Zion where it can be truly said the Tabernacle of God is with these men Behold he dwelleth with you you of Kingstone for of you it may truely be said Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men And to remove all things that may mislead your judgements let us looke upon that Prophesie in Rev. 11. 1. and forwards to v. 14. It concernes the state of the Church during the reigne of Antichrist in which Prophesie so farre as pertaineth to our present purpose two things are beyond all doubt and the more to be heeded First that the outer Court and the Holy City that is the Church visible is given to the Gentiles even the Antichristian or Popish Gentiles and they shall tread it under foot forty and two moneths which is one thousand two hundred and sixty daies Propheticall that is so many yeares this is the time of Antichrists reigne Secondly that this is the time and space in which the two witnesses that is the small but sufficient number for testimony to confirme any truth I say the small number of Christs faithfull Ministers for these two witnesses are expresly called two Prophets v. 10. and their worke is expresly and precisely named to be Prophecying v. 3. Now the Magistrate and his worke by the sword and Edicts is never in all the Bible called by these names the Scripture appropriates this manner of witnessing to the Gospell and against errours to the Ministers and their worke alone which is Preaching of the Gospell Mark 16. 15. 1 Cor. 1 17. if this be not the work of their Office they have no work Christ sends them to Preach and in comparison of this not to Baptize this small number is to Prophesie in sack-cloth Now this time being not expired for Antichrist is not yet destroyed the seven V●●ls are but in pouring out the state of the visible Church is this to be inf●sted and polluted dive●sly with many Gentiles as we see by wofull experienc● there is no Protestant Church in the christian world but is miserably trodden upon at this day by Papists their bloudy rage their errours and superstitious inventions the errours of other Hereticks and Schismaticks all which are appertaining unto and are of the frye of Antichrist as the Apostle Iohn said of the errours of his time there are many Antichrists already to●tered ●nd torn and soyled will be the face of the visible Church untill Antichrist be down Againe the number of faithfull Ministers will not be very great nor their estate any other then a state of mourning they shall yet Prophesie in sack-cloth even so long till the one thousand two hundred and sixty daies or yeares be accomplished they that say otherwise shift as they can they will feele this to be a truth for the time of this burden is not yet expired Is Antichrists reigne expired when Papists so swarme so prevaile with many Kings that are Protestant that they waste Germany Ireland Scotland England besides other parts and yet the Pope sits in Rome I shall adde here but that of learned and godly Chemnitius in his Common Places “ Chemnit Loc. Theol. De Eccles loco cap. 3. Sect. 3. Miser caetus in qu● multae sunt infirmitates quoque non tantum persecutionibus cruce premitu sed etiam offendiculis scandalis deformatur That the Church may be a miserable Society or company in which there are many infirmities and which is not only pressed with Persecutions and the Crosse but also is deformed with stumbling-blocks and scandals of which we ought not to judge by the outward shew but by and according to the Word The Church Visible is the company of those that imbrace Christs Gospell and rightly use his Sacraments in which company God by the Ministery of the Word workes powerfully and regenerates many to life eternall in which society notwithstanding there are many “ Et Sect. 5. 2 Tim. 2. 20. In Ecclesiae caetu multi sunt non sancti Non-sancti not holy but yet consenting with the godly in the point of true Doctrine Thus of the first Doctrine The ●econd Doctrine is this That there are many yea many within the visible Church that are defilers and violaters of this Temple of God If it had not been so in vaine had been the Apostles reasoning if it would not be so in vaine were this sentence written and left registred in the Canon of the New Testament The Apostle did not deale this blow in the ayre and fight with shadowes and that we may not so doe and only beate the ayre and lose our labour let us inquire who are they that stand guilty of this sin the thing is filthy and odious and no man will willingly owne it though he will not be taken off but will willingly doe it To come then to charge the guilt of this great si● upon the particular offenders 1. All scandalous Christians I begin with you for though you are not the first intended by the Apostle in this Text yet you deservedly goe in the front you make and cause others to defile and wrong the Church by Schismes The offence you give makes them forsake the fellowship of the Church of God to which you doe belong you are many waies guilty of this Temple-pollution for the present you may be ranked into three sorts 1. Fornicators Adulterers ●ffeminate and uncleane persons these defile their owne bodies 1 Cor. 6. 15 18 19. they take the member of Christ and make it the member of an Harlot these defile the Church of God this is a Leaven a little of which leaveneth the whole lumpe 1 Cor. 5. 6. it is a leaven to be purged ou● by Church-censures 2. The Covetous Raylers Ex●ortioners Drunkards Theeves Swearers that feare not an O●●h the prophane unholy malicious and all unrighteous persons these make Gods house a d●nne of Theeves they that live in these and the like sins against the holy Law of God and yet come before him as his people and cry The Temple of the Lord and rest in the name and priviledges of Christ●ans these live as if they were delivered to doe those abominations I●r 7. 4 8. they are abominable polluters of Gods Temple 3. The Ph●ri●●●c●ll Hypocrites ●hat pretend the glory of God and good of the Church but under that colour drive a trade Ioh. 2. 14 15. of the Publiq●e

Temple-defilers defiled VVherein a true Visible CHURCH OF CHRIST Is described The Evils and pernicious Errours especially appertaining to Schisme Anabaptisme and Libertinisme that infest our Church are discovered And Directions to preserve from the sin and punishment of TEMPLE-DEFILING DELIVERED In Two Sermons preached at the Lecture in Kingston upon Thames Feb. 20. 27. 1644. out of 1 Cor. 3. 17. BY RICHARD BYFIELD Pastor in Long-Ditton Surrey Mal. 3. 1 2. The Lord cometh suddenly to his Temple But who may abide the day of his coming For he is like a Refiners fire and like Fullers sope Miror quod non cogitant posse aliquem aliquando utrumque novum scilicet vetusque Testamentum legere divina ope intellectum utrumque laudare ●raudemque istorum atque malitiam vel dolere tanquam hominum vel cavere tanquam Haereticorum vel irridere tanquam imperitorum superborum Aug. Tom. 6. l. contra Adimantum Manichaei discipulum cap. 13. London Printed by John Field for Ralph Smith at the sign of the Bible in Cornhill neer the Royall-Exchange 1645. To the Right Worshipfull and the rest Dearly Beloved in CHRIST JESUS the Auditory at the Lecture in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey IT is the mighty worke of God beset with wonders of fatherly Providence that you enjoy againe a Thursdaies Lecture Preached by some of the Ministers now standing on their feet by the spirit of life from God entring into them who upheld it heretofore untill Prelaticall usurpation with furious tyranny suspended them and spoiled their Nest as their proud threats phrased their malicious Pharisaicall Act a little before they had fully acted it The fourth Commandement must be turned up by the rootes the power of godlinesse and of faithfull Preaching with Prayer in the Holy Ghost as bad with them as Preaching the undeniable enemies of the Prelaticall Kingdome Crown and Dignity must all be outed Lectures by godly Ministers that desired to be found faithfull may not b● endured and now for this work that was their day Their power through their interest in the Royall favour was superlatively great their Hierarchy fastly rooted in the ancient Lawes and grown up with the body of the Kingdome Parliaments exploded the Vniversities theirs All preferment in their hands thousands of their Enemies gone in Colonies to the Indies the utmost ends of the earth many great and choice wits with them some of them profound Schollers some with them preferred by them to the choisest Sees for ancient fame and present maintenance as good men and of as good report even among the godly as ever any Age had all the rest of them painted Tombs goodly Pharisees to see to And their old friend Rome had got no little ground among us by matching one of his Daughters here and for all the Reformed Churches beyond sea they were brought very low What wisdom of man would not have thought but that in such a day they should undoubtedly have ●ad the day For my part I sate down under their unjust illegall Sentence with this saying to some of my acquaintance yet alive through Gods mercy There is no coming in for me again but with the breaking of the whole State An alteration that must change the Kingdom and the Laws thereof I sate down willing to see the way of God in his work the desires of my soul were towards him in that hour and power of darknesse I drew a small draught of it for my own direction Little did I think the return of our captivity had been so neer and who could conceive the glory and terrour of it Neverthelesse in the time of that four yeers and four weeks suspension and sequestration that I suffered my thoughts among other things were on that Text in Zach. 2. 13. Be silent O all flesh before the Lord for he is raised out of his holy habitation In which collecting the signes of the Lords arising I saw the ruine of these Luciferian Vsurpers yet not conceiving it to be so neer in such unparalleld wayes of high providence with such well founded proceedings of legality that hath slain all them and cast out their carc●ses and their worm dyeth not and their fire is not quenched and they are an abhorring unto all flesh With such streams of blood with such executions ●pon a sensuall Nobility Gentry seat of Iudges shop of Lawyers ●●nke of Civilians and sinfull body of a Malignant Commo●alty Of which we may say not without astonishment and high ●raises What hath God wrought Must this be the way of Vindication of the Ministeriall Liberty of such a miserable sinfull worme as I am From the Lords right hand went a flame of that fiery Law for us A fiery Law is the Decalogue of the ten Commandments called the fourth Commandment is then a flame of the fire Deut. ●3 2. and it hath fiered the State and habitations of these transgressors that sentence warmed and refreshed my heart and touched my tongue in that winter season and now should fire us with Gods praises for the time draweth on ●pace of the Churches Hallelujahs Rev. 19. I write this that you may not forget how we come to preach again unto you at all But now when I came to preach to you at this time not only neighbourhood of habitation and former ancient relation to you and my unfeighned desire to do you good by imparting some spirituall gift but your desires your divisions and the care of the Churches which towards you came upon me because of your divisions did much move me I had no thought at all of making these Sermons publique your import●●ity brings them forth that word Paul Apolles Cophas all the Ministers ar● your● that word bound me Being bound two things more facilitated my yeildance when I durst not withstand the suitablenesse of the subject to the times and the diseasednesse of the Congrega●ion of Kingston to which I was once though most unworthy a Teacher this year disease is The Lord help and heal the disease of the Church of England through grievous poverty grown upon her under the impositions and oppositions of her Diotrephesses the Spring of the year of glorious Gospel-●iberty coming on there appears a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ph●hiriasis she begins Ph●hiriasis to swarme with Vermine this ariseth from want of concocting the wholesome food of sound Doctrine even the truth which is after Godlinesse if we feed favourly on the solid substantiall truths that concerne faith and love which is in Christ Iesus and not turn aside after watery trash that food will quickly set us sound and so nourish us that we should ru● off and rid us of these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pht●ires these Lice and Wormes Phthires Wash you with the waters from under the Sanctuary and that is Soveraigne to kill them and clear the body and cleanse the skin of the Church I le reach you some that flowes out of one vein of Scripture it r●ls