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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46347	Hooinh egzainiomnh, or, A treatise of holy dedication both personal and domestick the latter of which is (in special) recommended to the citizens of London, upon their entring into their new habitations / by Tho. Jacomb ...	Jacombe, Thomas, 1622-1687.	1668 (1668)	Wing J118; ESTC R31675	234,541	539

I was upon and I shall add but this Let us with fervent prayer apply our selves often to the Throne of Grace let us unfeignedly humble our selves before the Lord let us sincerely reform what is amiss let us put away sin there there is the greatest discouragement let us thus do and then let the work be never so difficult enemies never so malicious the times never so bad we may engage in what lies before us and God will bless us in it Supplication Humiliation and Reformation will carrie all before them As for me I shall not cease to pray for you it shall be my daily request to God for you that he will direct you to do that which may most tend to his glory the good of this City your own comfort and the benefit of succeeding Generations and then that he will be pleased to encourage and prosper you herein and crown your undertakings with good success The Lord bless everie one of you in your persons relations estates employments habitations in all that concerns you the Lord carry on the work now upon your hands and then hide and defend you continually And as for thee dear London let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I forget thee O that thou Phoenix-like mayest grow out of thy ashes more glorious than ever thou wast that as 't is with mettals new cast it may be better with thee than before that as it was with the person of Job thy latter end may be blessed more than thy beginning that as it was with the Temple the glorie of second London may be greater than the glorie of the first The Lord say concerning thee Though I have afflicted thee I will afflict thee no more Nehem. 1.12 That it may be said of thee The Lord hath taken away thy judgments he hath cast out thine enemies the King of Israel even the Lord is in the midst of thee thou shalt not see evil any more Zeph. 5.15 O let not God any more contend with thee by Fire Plague or any other judgment O Lord God cease I beseech thee by whom shall Jacob arise for he is small Amos 7.4 5. O that the punishment of thine iniquity may be accomplished O daughter of Zion and that God will visit the iniquity of the daughter of Edom and discover her sins Lam. 4.22 The Lord make thee a quiet habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down that not one of thy stakes may be removed nor one of thy cords broken Isa 33.20 The Lord bless thee and make thee an Habitation of Justice and Mountain of Holiness Jer. 31.23 That thou mayest be called the City of righteousness the faithful City Isa 1.26 That thou mayest be as mount Zion which cannot be removed but abideth for ever As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so let the Lord be round about thee from henceforth even for ever Psal 125.1 2. Amen Amen I have now but a few words to add concerning this mean Tractate and I will free you from the further trouble of a tedious Preface If I should fall upon Apologizing for my self and for it many words would be requisite 'T is best for me to forbear that though I acknowledge great need of it and without more ado humbly to cast it first upon Gods blessing and then upon your candor and kind acceptance If it may please the Lord by it to do good to any of you he he only shall have the glory and may I but see that I shall not much regard the censures which it may please some to pass upon me I tell you beforehand that you may not expect and look for that which is not here to be found here 's no high strains of Rhetorick or humane eloquence no fine and curious Metaphors no compt and florid expressions to gratifie your fancy here 's no Margent stuffed with Citations to give me the reputation of an hard student or well-read person here 's no New notions or Novel matter to satisfie such as like nothing but what is so here 's something which may suit with the humble serious hungry Christian and which I hope such an one may receive benefit by but as for others alas here is nothing to answer their expectations The style and language is e'en as plain as your fourth-rate-Buildings yet pray let not the Book be confined to Allies and Lanes but let it be admitted into your Streets also And the matter treated of is common and usual that which several of our worthy Divines under other Heads and in another method have verie fully insisted upon All therefore that I can pretend to to give you encouragement to peruse this Discourse is the seasonableness of it with respect to your present affair of Building upon that I take the advantage of urging old and known Truths upon you and had it not been for that special occasion I had not given you the trouble of Reading or my self the trouble of writing I had no sooner resolved upon this work and made a little Provision for it but it pleased the Soveraign disposer of all things to lay his afflictive hand upon me in a verie acute and dangerous distemper And O that I could say I was yet freed from it but for ought I can see this distemper is like to be to me like Iacobs bruise upon his thigh I must halt of it all my days As soon as my merciful Father gave me some relaxation of my violent Pains I began to pen what here I now publish but God knows the remainders of my disease did verie much unfit me for such an undertaking and I was fain to hasten over things because I feared everie day and so do yet the return of former Paroxisms Had it not been for this possibly I might have tendred you this Treatise somewhat more elaborate but now you must accept of it as it is I intended a Third Branch of Holy Dedication viz. the Dedication of Time but I am prevented and hindred as to that at present 1. The state of my bodie will not bear a studious and sedentary course and I am fain to spend the most of my Afternoon-time in Motion and Exercise for the recoverie of my Health 2. That 's a subject somewhat large according to the method that I have propounded to my self and if I should annex that to these two I fear it would make this Volume too big and bulky If God be pleased to continue Life and to restore Health and if I find that this Piece be in any measure useful I may hereafter publish what I design upon that Argument And now Brethren as to your Building-work I commit it to God and to his Blessing and as to your Selves I commend you to God and to the word of his Grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified That you may heartily sincerely dedicate and devote Person House Estate All to God

Worship of God so as that things of a worldly nature may not there be managed 'T is the first thing only that I design Thirdly In the handling of House-dedication I do not in the least mean such a dedication as is attended with the alienation of the civil property As the civil use so the civil property is not struck at by me Pray keep your Right and Title to your Houses and take the comfort of them let them be yours still only let God be acknowledged served exalted in them 'T is true in some Dedications the Proprietary lost his Right after he made them he had nothing further to do with what he had dedicated for by this act he passed over his Right to God As in this particular case of Houses you read Levit. 27.14 If a man did sanctifie or dedicate by a vow or gift his House to be holy to the Lord he had then no right to it till he had redeemed it by paying the price or rate which the Priest did set upon it and then it was to be his own again I do not urge the dedication of your Houses in this sense or notion so as that the civil property should be alienated only let it be improved for God Nor fourthly Do I put you upon House-dedication in the setting up of Family-worship so as to take you off from Publick-worship and from God's Ordinances in the publick Administration of them Both have their proper use and worth and neither of them are to be omitted God forbid that the one should jostle out the other David here dedicates his House to God but yet withall he was for Sanctuary-worship and when he was deprived of this how passionately did he desire it You may see this in Psal 63.1 2 3. and in several other places 'T is said Psal 87.2 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. In the dwellings of Jacob the worship of God was more confined it was shut up in his Family but in Zion there the worship of God was more open and publick and therefore God loved the gates of Zion more than the dwellings of Jacob O there are signal and extraordinary Blessings attending Publick Ordinances and therefore when the people of God have been deprived of these it hath been a great affliction to them notwithstanding their Family-enjoyments you read of them that were sorrowful for the solemn Assembly Zeph. 3.18 The more there are in the Consort the sweeter is the Musick the Application is obvious So that when your Houses are dedicated as to the setting up of Religion in them I would not have them to say to the places of Publick-worship what once they said to Moses and Aaron Ye take too much upon you seeing all the Congregation are Holy wherefore then lift you up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord Numb 16.3 So here I would not have private Houses to say to places where the Worship of God is publickly and duely administred We have Prayer as well as you and the Scriptures read as well as you and therefore why do you take so much upon you O though I would be earnest with you for Family-Religion yet I desire you to keep up high esteems of the Publick-Worship and Ordinances of God Fifthly In the present discourse I do not only aime at the bare walls the external structure the material building as though Dedication-work did only refer to this but under the dedicating of the House I take-in all the Persons there inhabiting the whole Family Domestick mercies Creature-accommodations all are to be dedicated to God Sixthly The Persons upon whom the duty is incumbent are those who stand in the relation and capacity of Superiors Masters Parents Housholders Governors or call them what you please where Power and Authority is there House-Dedication-work lies 'T is true such as are Inferiors they must dedicate themselves to the Lord but as to the dedication of the House that 's the duty of Superiors And therefore my business in this discourse is mainly with such Seventhly In speaking to these I will not so far enlarge as to set before them all the Relative duties that lie upon them that I leave to those who have gone thorough the body of Relative duties I will limit my self to those only which have an immediate reference to the dedication of the House to God These things being premised for the ends fore mentioned I come now to show you What this House-Dedication is A little will be sufficient for the opening of the nature of it but the applying of it will call for a more full Discourse CHAP. II. The Nature of Domestick Dedication opened THe great Question to be resolved is this What is it to dedicate the House or How are men now under the Gospel to dedicate their Houses I will answer this in a few particulars I make this House-dedication to consist in four things 1. In a religious entrance upon Houses by solemn Prayer and Praise 2. In an humble and fiducial commitment of them to God's Protection 3. In the setting up and promoting of Religion in them 4. In the devoting and improving of Domestick Mercies to and for God To some possibly the duty as generally propounded may seem novel and strange and not at all belonging now to Christians under the Gospel but surely as 't is reduc'd to these Heads it will appear to be a standing and constant Duty and that which in all Ages ever hath and ever will be a duty incumbent upon men A word and but a word to each of these Particulars First To dedicate the House it is to enter upon it by solemn Prayer and Praise I spoke to this in the explication of the words showing that Dedication is the entring upon a place or taking possession of it by solemn religious rites or acts 't is a Religious entrance upon possession Now what are these religious rites or acts They are Prayer and Praise And I call it solemn Prayer because in House-dedication there must be something more than usual and ordinary Prayer such as is performed in the Family every day there must be solemn and extraordinary prayer suited in special to this occasion But I say Prayer and Praise are those religious acts which are to be performed by persons when they enter into their Houses in order to the dedicating of them to God That House-dedication was used amongst the Jews none doth question but what their particular * V. Sed quibus Ceremomis dedioatio illa fuerit peracta nus quam traditur Piscator Tum Homines initiare Domus dicuntur cum primùm in eis edere bibere habitare incipiunt Quod pii citra preces gratiarum actiones minimè faciunt Hospin de Orig. Templ f. 114. Hoc genus exercitii veteri populo mandatum fuit at agnoscerent nullius rei usum sine gratiarum actione purum legitimum esse Calv. Nunt quamvis cessaverint Legis