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A29242 A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the lord mayor and aldermen of this city at the Cathedral Church of St. Pauls, on Sunday 3d. of April by H. Bagshaw. Bagshaw, H. (Harrington) 1698 (1698) Wing B428; ESTC R24719 10,441 27

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Edwin Mayor Martis xii die Aprilis 1698 Anno Regn. Regis Willielmi Tertii Angliae c. Decimo THis Court doth desire Mr. Bagshaw to Print his Sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Pauls on Sunday the 3d. of this Instant April before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City GOODFELLOW A SERMON PREACHED Before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor AND ALDERMEN Of this CITY AT THE Cathedral Church of St. PAVLS on Sunday 3d. of April By H. BAGSHAW A. M. LONDON Printed for Sam. Keble at the Turks Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleet-street 1698. TO Sir JOHN JOHNSON Kt. AND One of the Court of ALDERMEN Sir YOur having made choice of this particular Discourse and being your self in all respects a most eminent example of the Duties it recommends As it gives you a double title to the performance so I hope it will in some measure excuse the freedom I take in honouring it with your name and in publishing my thoughts on this Subject as your own by Approbation I heartily wish they may be in the least instrumental towards promoting the true interest of Religion among us but if the success be not answerable there is yet a certain secret satisfaction which is the necessary result of a well grounded Intention I am not ignorant with what profound Learning and perswasive eloquence this Subject has been already treated insomuch that it may seem a great peice of vanity to trouble the World with another Discourse of of this nature especially when 't is almost as difficult to write any thing new upon it as it is to form any thing material against it but since this is purely calculated for the better guidance and direction of Christian practice I hope the plainness and simplicity of it's dress will admit of a better natur'd construction and that your wonted goodness a quality well known to all those who are so happy as to be of your acquaintance will incline you to Patronize this Discourse and to accept the Dedication as atestimony of gratitude and respect from Your most Obliged Most faithful Humble Servant H. BAGSHAW St. Matt. XXI part of the 13th ver My House shall be called the House of Prayer THese words were spoken by our Blessed Saviour by way of reproof to those persons whom he found buying and selling in the Temple at Jerusalem and to let them know how much they prophaned that Sacred Pile which had been dedicated to the worship and Service of God by turning it to an Exchange or Market-place where their whole business was cunningly to undermine their Brethren and to make the greatest advantages they could of each other in their way of Dealing and Traffick This infamous abuse of his Fathers House exasperated our Blessed Lord and made him express his resentments of such an Indignity and Affront by overthrowing the Tables of the Mony-Changers and the Seats of them that sold Doves as we read in the Verse immediately foregoing As if he had said tho' your practice hitherto hath been by no means answerable to that awful reverence you ought to pay a Place of that Nature yet notwithstanding it shall be restored to it's Primitive use set apart and appropriated to the work of Devotion implyed in these words My House shall be called the House of Prayer The design of this Discourse is to recommend the duty of frequenting those Places which it hath pleased Almighty God to set apart for the performance of Religious Duties which I shall endeavour to inforce by shewing I. That such places do justly challenge an extraordinary respect and reverence from us II. By shewing what influence the distinguishing respect which we owe to them ought to have on our lives and Actions as also what qualifications are necessary to accompany us in our attendance on them First then I am to prove that we ought to have an extraordinary respect and reverence for those Places which it hath pleased God to set apart for the performance of Divine Worship In speaking to which head I would not be so understood as tho' these Holy Places were to be esteemed or reverenced upon the account of any internal sanctity inherent in them or that the regard we ought to bear to them should be terminated in the Places themselves but only that we ought to esteem and respect them in a relative sence as being appointed by God as the proper Seats and Instruments of His Worship and adoration and which He has promised to sancttifie with His Divine Presence When but two or three are gathered together in his Name 'T is true indeed God cannot properly be said to be absent from any place who fills the Universe with his Omnipresence but with respect to His special acceptation and readiness to assist the Prayers and Suplications of such who call upon him in his Holy Temples we may affirm according to the Scripture Phrase Surely this place is no other than the House of God and by consequence to be esteemd and respected by us with that profound submission and awful Reverence which is due to the Sanctuary of the Lord. And that more especially for these following reasons 1. Because of that different respect which God Himself bears to things set apart to his own Worship from what he does to all other things of common and ordinary use of which we can't have a stronger Argument than the many and remarkable Judgments pour'd down by God upon such profligate Offenders who have presumed to violate by Sacrilegious means things consecrated to the more immediate and peculiar use and service of Himself And tho' History both Sacred and profane abounds with many Instances of this kind yet I shall content my self at present with only marking out two of them which whether they are more exemplary for their punishment or to be abhorred for their Crime is a Question not easily determined The first I shall mention is Antiochus who when all his projects were frustrated his Commanders fallen and his hopes out off with the flower of his Army whilst he was reflecting with himself upon the happiness he had lost and the misery he sustained his Conscience immediately flies in his face and represents to him those wicked practices which had occasion'd his fall and he repenting too late recites the black Catalogue after this manner Now I remember the evils I did at Jerusalem how I took the vessels of Gold and Silver I perceive therefore that for this cause these evils are come upon me and behold I perish for greif in a strange Land The other Instance is that Monster of iniquity and profaneness the great Belshazzar who having made a great Feast to entertain the Nobles of his Court commanded as the Prophet Daniel informs us the Golden and Silver vessels which his Father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the Temple to be brought unto him that himself and his Princes his Wives and his Concubines might drink therein One would have thought the heavy