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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02233	The honour of Christian churches and the necessitie of frequenting of divine service and publike prayers in them. Delivered in a sermon at VVite-Hall before the Kings most excellent Majestie on the eight day of December last being Sunday, by Walter Bancanquall ...	Balcanquhall, Walter, 1586?-1645.	1633 (1633)	STC 1237; ESTC S100539	18,198	32

God in it els we run upon certaine danger are you in this house to speake unto God by prayer be sure you make a curtsie low enough with David I am a worme and no man or if you will a little lower with Abraham Since dust and ashes have begun to speake unto thee els you may justly feare that your prayers shal be turned into sinne Are you in this house to heare God speake unto you by his Word read or preached Be sure you keepe your distance as the people were commanded at the hearing of the Law els you know your danger For if so much as a beast shall touch the smoaking mountaine it shal be stoned to death or thrust through with a dart Are you in this house to converse with God in the blessed Sacrament Use first a reverent preparation Let a man examine himselfe and so let him eat of that bread and drinke of that cup els you know the danger You shall be guilty of the body and bloud of the Lord. For observing this distance in Gods house I will but name unto you two reasons First we do not find in Scripture that God hath used to be familiar with any to entertaine them or be entertained by them unlesse they have observed this distance and first prepared themselves for that interviewe or parlie Before God would speake one word to Moses on the backe of Mount Horeb he first biddeth him put off his shoes because the place on which he stood was holy ground when God delivered his Law to his people from the top of Mount Sinai he first commanded them to sanctifie themselves three dayes before that all that while they might be the more reverently prepared to harken unto that which God was to say unto them so must we when we come into the house of God if we be to speake to him by prayer or to heare him speake to us by his Word put off our shoes that is all worldly thoughts and affections and sanctifie our selves that is put on all new and holy thoughts and affections The second reason is this We do not find that God hath ever yet suffered the unreverent handlers or lookers upon the places of his presence to go away unpunished Vzza did but irreverently touch the Arke of the Lord and the Lord presently killed him the men of Bethshemesh did but irreverently looke into the Arke of the Lord and the Lord presently slew fifty thousand of them How few be they in our times who by observing this distance do declare that they believe the Church to be Gods house how many that come in without preparing themselves at first by devotion and prayer How many who clap on their hats when God is speaking to them by his Word I meane in the time when the very text is reading Nay the servant who wil be uncovered before this master in his owne house will many times be covered before him in Gods house all which bewrayeth that many men do either take the Church not to be my house that is Gods or which is worse Gods house not to be so good as their owne Next if the Church be my house that is Gods then the zeale of the Church must eat us up to this we are warranted both by David and by Christ the Sonne of David The Zeale of thine house hath eaten me up saith David and in this Christ shewed himselfe truly to be the Sonne of David for we do not find that Christ in his life did ever use severity with his hands but once twice he did it but it was one and the same case the profanation of the Temple When he was apprehended bound buffered smitten mocked reviled scourged spit upon tortured crucified he bare all patiently and As a sheepe before the slaughterer is dumbe so he opened not his mouth but if he see the least indignity offered to his Fathers house his zeale bursteth out into a flame he setteth his hand to the whip and his tongue to the t●xt When his Disciples did see that fiercenesse of his in the 2. of Iohn they were astonished at it especially comparing it with his usuall meeknesse at other times when they thought there was greater occasion offered but at the 17 Verse of that Chapter they were easily satisfied when They remembred how it was written The Zeale of thine house hath eaten me up Now the best way to try whether we have this zeale towards Gods house is the comparative rule if we expresse more reverence in this house than in the house of any other man whosoever if we be more forward according to our places to punish an offence or irreverence in this house than those that are committed any where els if we can be contented to be at more cost for repairing and adorning this house than if it were our owne if not then certainly either we do not believe the Church to be my house that is Gods or which is worse Gods house not to be so good as our owne Thirdly if the Church be my house that is Gods then no humane power may take it from him his title is like the Character of his Priesthood indelebilis no time no prescription can prejudice it for if nullum tempus occurrit Regi if no time can prescribe against our King his title to the Patronage of a Church much lesse can it prescribe against his title who is the King of Kings Before thou buildedst a house to God the ground and the cost were thine own and thou mightest have done with them what thou wouldest as Peter told Ananias but when thou hast once given them to God it is no more thine but my house for as Gods gifts towards us are without repentance so ought our gifts towards God to be He who among us shall kill himselfe and become fello de se maketh all his goods Deodands and it is as true inverted he who hath made any of his goods Deodands and shall afterward do any act of resumption is fello de se a murtherer of himselfe and a destroyer of his owne soule Stories are full of their tragedies who any wayes went about to alter either the propertie or use of the Temple of Hierusalem we know what became of Antiochus after he set up the statue of Iupiter Olympius in it upon the Caldeans destruction of that Temple followed the losse of their Empire the Macedonians after their violation of it lost their Dominions Pompey after his comming up to the Sanctum or holy place which was not lawfull for him to do had never luckie day after no more had Cassius after his profanation of it They who have medled with the Christian Churches have not fared much better for they who have pulled downe these houses of God have found that withall they have pulled downe their owne houses and they who have built their own houses where Gods house stood have found that they have built upon sandy and sinking ground and that the Church-stones