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heaven_n	bless_v	lord_n	zion_n	2,766	5	12.0182	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02590	A sermon preached at the happily-restored and reedified chappell of the Right Honorable the Earle of Exceter in his house, of S. Iohns On Saint Stephens day. 1623 By Ios. Hall, Deane of Worcester.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1624 (1624)	STC 12714; ESTC S115163	12,555	54

coarctation is greater then the former What care I nay What doth God care for the worke of a Lapidary or Painter or Mason One zealous Prayer one Orthodoxe Sermō is a more glorious furniture then all the precious rarities of mechanique excellencies I doe most willingly as what good hart doth not honour the vertuous actions and godly intentions of our worthie fore-fathers which no doubt it hath pleased God in mercy to accept and crowne but withall it must be yeelded that they liued vnder the tyrannous iniurie and vsurpation of those Pharises who kept the keyes of knowledge at their owne girdles and would neither draw for them nor suffer them to draw for themselues Blessed be God for better conditions the Well of life lyes open to vs neither are wee onely allowed but inuited to those heauenly liquors Jnebriamini O charissimi Drinke yea drinke abundantly O beloued Cant. 5. 1. This happie liberty of the sauing Gospell of Iesus Christ daily and sincerely preached to vs Noble and beloued Christians is worthy to bee more worth vnto vs then all the treasures ornaments priuiledges of this transitory World this since through the inestimable goodnesse of God ye doe and may find in this latter House Well hath God verified this Word in your eies and eares The glorie of the latter House shall be greater then of the former Hitherto the comparatiue prayse of the latter House the positiue followes in the promise of a gracious effect In this place will I giue peace wherein I know not whether the blessing doth more grace the place or the place the blessing both grace each other and both blesse Gods people In this place will I giue peace If yee looke at the blessing it selfe it is incomparable Peace that whereby the Hebrews had wont to expresse all welfare in their salutations and wel-wishes the Apostolicall benediction dichotomizes all good things into Grace and Peace wherein at the narrowest by Grace all spirituall fauours were signified temporall by Peace The sweet Singer of Israel could not wish better to Gods Church then Peace be within her walls and behold this is it which God will giue Dabo pacem yea our eyes should stoope too low if they should fixe here The sweete Quiristers of Heauen when they sung that diuine Caroll to the honour of the first Christmas next to Gloria in excelsis Deo said In terris pax Yet higher the great Sauiour of the World when he would leaue the most precious Legacie to his deare ones on earth that they were capeable of he sayes My peace I giue you And what he there giues he here promises Dabo pacem I will giue it But where Whence In this place Not any where not euery where but in his own house in his latter house his Euangelicall House as if this blessing were confined to his holy walls he saith In this place will I giue peace This flower is not for euerie syle it growes not wilde but is onely to be found in the Garden of Sion It is very pregnāt which the Psalmist hath Psal 128. 5. and 134. 3. The Lord that made Heauen and Earth blesse thee out of Sion He doth not say The Lord that made the Earth blesse thee out of Heauen nor The Lord that made Heauen blesse thee out of Heauen but blesse thee out of Sion As if hee would teach vs that all blessings come as immediately and primarily frō heauen so immediatly and secondarily frō Sion where this Temple stood Some Philosophers haue held the Moone to be the receptacle of al the influēces of the heauenly bodies and the conueyances of thē to this inferior World so as all the vertue of the vpper Orbes and Starres are deriued by her to this elementary Sphere Such doth both Dauid and Haggai repute the house of God whither as to Iosephs Storehouse doth God conuey the blessings of peace that they may be thence transmitted to the sonnes of men How and why then doth God giue peace in this his House Because here as Bernard well Deus audit auditur God heares and is heard here audit orantes erudit audientes hee heares his suppliants and teacheth his hearers As this place hath two vses it is both Oratorium and auditorium so in respect of both doth it blesse vs with peace our mouth procures it in the one our care in the other God workes in our hearts by both In the first God sayes as our Sauiour cites it Domus me a domus orationis My House shall be called The House of Prayer And what blessing is it euen the best of Peace that our prayers cannot infeoffe vs in Salomon when hee would consecrate the Church hee had built solemnely sues to God that he would inuest it with this priuiledge of an vniuersally-gracious audience and nūbring the occasions of distressed Suppliants makes it euer the foot of his request Then hearken to the prayer that thy seruant shall make towards this place Heare thou in beauen thy dwelling place and when thou hearest haue mercy If euer therefore wee would haue peace outward inward priuate publike secular spirituall If wee would haue peace in our estate peace in our Land peace in our Church peace in our soules pray for it And if euer we will pray for it pray here in Gods house for in this place will I giue peace In vaine shall wee looke for it elsewhere if we aske it not here It is true we are bidden euery where to lift vp pure hands to God but they cannot bee pure that are profane and they cannot be but profane that contemne the holy ordinances of God He said well In templo vis orare in te ara for Know you not that your bodies are the Temples of the liuing God but let me as truly returne it In te vis or are in templo ora Wouldst thou pray with effect at home Pray at Church else thy deuotion is but the sacrifice of fooles for hee hath said it who hath good reason to appoint the circumstances of his owne beneficence Jn this place will J giue peace Will yee then see the reason why there is so much emptie Caske in the Celler of God Therfore are men void of grace because they are voyd of deuotion They seeke not God where he may bee found and therefore it is iust with God not to be found of them where they pretend to seeke him for Jn hoc loco Jn this place will I giue peace Gerson distinguishes well in his Sermon de Angelis that there is Duplex Coelum A double Heauen Gloriae Ecclesiae of Glory aboue of the Church below the Church is the Heauen on earth where God is seene heard spoken vnto Where are his Saints whose Assemblies are here where are his Angels Let the woman haue power on her head because of the Angels 1. Cor. 11. As the Iewes then whilest the Church of God was Nationall were wont according to command to