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A57510 A sermon preached Avgvst the 19th, 1684, at the consecration of the Lord VVeymouth's chapel in Long-leat by Richard Roderick ... Roderick, Richard, 1647 or 8-1730. 1684 (1684) Wing R1771; ESTC R8677 11,539 42

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A SERMON PREACHED AVGVST the 19 th 1684. AT THE CONSECRATION OF THE Lord VVeymouth's Chapel IN LONG-LEAT By RICHARD RODERICK B. D. Vicar of Blandford-Forum in Dorsetshire LONDON Printed by Miles Flesher for Henry Clements Bookseller in Oxford And Sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner in London 1684. TO The Right Honourable THOMAS Lord Thynne BARON of Warmister VISCOUNT Weymouth c. My Lord THough Conscious to my self that the bare Seasonableness of the following Discourse and the accidentally-straitned Preparation of him that spake it might to a Candid Audience palliate the Faults of the hasty Composure and render that acceptable from the Pulpit which may justly be exploded when coming from the Press yet having broke thorough these and other Discouragements I now humbly present to your Lordship this mean Attendant at the Consecration of your Chappel at Long Leat That your Lordship should command me upon so solemn an Occasion to Preach the Sermon was an amazing Honour That the Publication of it should be thought of was a greater Astonishment to me But I perceive that the Favours of the truly great and the Divinely good have always something of Transcendency in them like the Influences of Heaven are freely and unexpectedly showred down not poorly barter'd for While others require them which are imbarked in their Dependance to study their Passions not their Honour to be more solicitous to consider their Nature to feed their Humours than to doe them any real Advantage and always rack and often defeat the most reasonable expectations or perhaps at length hardly part with their Kindnesses to those that have dearly bought them Your Lordship and your Relations I speak experimentally surprize with your Favours scorn to have them at all much less thus basely earn'd but liberally bestow before any particular Service hath deserved them Hence the utmost Performances of your Dependants are already overpaid sooner than begun a●e but the unequal return of a strict Debt which no future Endeavours can fully discharge since the Circumstance of un-engaged and first obliging will ever be only on your Parts That God would enable those which share your Bounties to answer the Designs of them to be usefull in their Stations and that he would be pleased both Temporally and Eternally to bless your Lordship and your Family is the Hearty Prayer of Your Lordships Most Devoted Servant Richard Roderick A SERMON Preached at LONG-LEAT IN WILT-SHIRE August 19. 1684. 2. Chron. 7. 16. Now have I chosen and sanctified this House that my Name may be there for ever and mine Eyes and mine Heart shall be there perpetually GOD spake these words in a Vision to Solomon presently after his building and Dedication of the Temple at Ierusalem A mighty work designed by King David but the Honour of effecting it was reserved for the greatest and wisest of Men. Only the chief Ornament of his Father's House is fit and singled out to lay the Foundation of the Lord's But will God in very deed dwell with Men upon the Earth Behold Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him how much less an Earthly Tabernacle The most High dwelleth not in Temples made with hands as saith the Prophet Heaven is my Throne and Earth is my Foot-stool what House will ye build me saith the Lord Or what is the Place of my Rest 'T is true the Almighty fills all Places is circumscribed by none His Divinity cannot be pent up yet he vouchsafes to stoop his Glorious Majesty and after a peculiar manner to be present in the Congregation of his Saints The God-Head cannot be shrunk up within any Dimensions but his Honour is said especially to dwell in the Temple the Place set a part for his more immediate service on which is engraven as upon the Plate on the fore-front of Aaron's Mitre Holiness unto the Lord. And of every such Place separated for God's publick Worship himself speaks Now have I chosen and sanctified this House that my Name may be there for ever and mine Eyes and mine Heart shall be there perpetually Which words I humbly conceive may be thus paraphrased I accept and approve of this House which according to my will and by my secret suggestion is Chosen and Sanctified or separated from common Uses to the Honour of my Name to be mine for ever and I promise that mine Eyes and mine Heart shall be there perpetually that I will have a particular regard to the Devotions there paid and be affectionately gratious to each Votary that religiously offers them For your present Meditation be pleased to consider 1. That through all Ages Men out of a sense of Duty have Chosen and Sanctified that is separated from common Uses and solemnly set apart Places for the publick Worship of God 2. That God allows yea requires such Places to be Chosen and Sanctified or solemnly set apart for his publick Worship to the Honour of his Name 3. That if Men will be sincerely devout in such Places but not otherwise God promises that his Eyes and his Heart shall be there perpetually He will have a particular Regard to the Devotions there paid and be affectionately gratious to each Votary that religiously offers them These Particulars discust I shall make a very brief Application Of the two former jointly to raise our Devotion when we come into the Lord's House Of the last to quicken our Faith that he will hear and answer the devout Petitions which we there make 1. Through all Ages Men out of a sense of Duty have Chosen and Sanctified that is separated from common Uses and solemnly set apart Places for the publick Worship of God Whoever own the Being of a God must acknowledge that he ought to be Worshipped He that made sustains and preserves us has a Right to the utmost services we can pay him And since it is hard for Earthly-minded Men to be taken off their sensual Delights and to fix their scattered Thoughts upon Religious Duties the best Expedient to dismiss the World for a time the Concerns and Love of it is to have recourse to Holy Places which being separated from common Uses will represent nothing to interrupt Acts of Piety and being dedicated to the Almighty's Honour will in some measure display his Majesty stamp in Men lasting Impressions of Reverence and heighten Devotion A Truth this so certain so clear that the Light of Nature taught it The Notices of a God and of his being to be thus publickly Worshipt were imbibed together Men sometimes were not fully perswaded of a great Super-intendent over the Creation were pleased with the Fancy that Chance threw the World into and continues it in this curious Order but the Creature proving the Creator and successive precarious insufficient Beings inferring a first independent and Almighty as soon as convinced that there was a God the very Heathens built Altars erected Temples many whereof very famous and magnificent and by their Sacrifices Purgations and other Rites