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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57683	A sermon preached at a visitation in Honiton in Devon, on Wensday in Easter week, 1676 by J.R. Rector of Lezant in Cornwall.	J. R. (James Rossington), b. 1642 or 3.	1676 (1676)	Wing R1995; ESTC R23078	23,190	40

of the Lord Gen. 4.16 and Abel though he sacrificed abroad and in an open place yet it seems it was in a place prepared or set apart for that purpose Gen. 4.4 but I shall content my self to speak only to the time of the Gospel and the next succeeding Ages not to mention the Gentile Court of the Temple which our Saviour declared to be a place consecrated by virtue of that Text of Isaiah 't is well known how that our Saviour and his Apostles often repaired for the publick exercise of Religion to the Jewish Synagogues and Temple besides here were then other places of prayer set apart by the Jews and frequented by the Christians nay by Christ himself as Luk. 6.12 and continued all night 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Gods house of prayer for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies a house of prayer as well as prayer it self in which sence Juvenal useth the words In quâ te quaero Proseu cha and it must be so understood here or else there cannot well be any true grammatical construction made of the words without wronging or at least streightning the sence Vid. Tremel in locum so Act. 16.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where a house of prayer was famed or reputed to be the Arabick locus orationis the Syriack domus orationis and St. Paul made it a place to preach in also we have the same word again in the 16th verse and in the like manner may we render it as we went 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to a house of prayer a Damsell met us nay their going from one place to another to pray doth argue as much viz. that they had then some places more peculiar for prayer then others Christ and his Apostles found other consecrated places which they made use of for publick and Divine Service such were the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or upper Rooms so often mentioned in the Old and New Testament which as the learned Gregory observes in his critical Notes were no other then places set apart for prayer and other religious exercises now 't is certain that Christ and his Apostles repaired not to these places in compliance with Moses's Rites or because of any command in Moses's law but that they might perform their Christian Solemnities in places hallowed or fit for such sacred uses and it is probable that the Apostles themselves in some short process of time or some other convert Christians as were contemporary with them did destinate and set apart houses of their own which after Dedication for distinction sake as they called the Christian-Sabbath the Lords day so they called these Christian Synagogues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Churches and in some time after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say the Lords from whence the the English work Kurk or with an aspirate Church which is as much as to say the Lords now that 't is very likely that Christians did consecrate and set apart such houses of their own even in the Apostles time appears because we finde the Apostle mentioning some such place or places distinguished by name from any as were in use among the Jews as is evident from 1 Cor. 14.28 35. and 1 Cor. 11.18 compared with v. 20. this is made yet more probable from Instances out of ancient history which speaks of many Churches even in the Apostles times St. Martialis who lived near their time Epist ad Tolos Chap. 8. makes mention of such religious structures then already in use Cat. Epist 5.8 the like doth Niceph. Constantipolitanus and he instances in one among the rest founded by St. Andrew Hist vit St. Luk. Catch 6. Simeon Metaphrastes tells of Temples and Altars built by St. Luke St. Cyril saith that that place was a Church consecrated by the Apostles in which they were assembled at the day of Pentecost some likewise think that the house in which the blessed Virgin Mother dwelt at Nazareth was made a Temple Tursel lib. 11. Annal. Vid l. 8. c. 1. and lib. 4. c. 45. and consecrated by the Apostles and Alexander reports in the life of St. Bernard that St. Marks house Act. 12.12 was a Christian Temple or Oratory probably such an one as Eusebius calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for such the Primitive Christians had in imitation of the Jews and St. Jerome mentions a famous Church there Eusebius likewise speaks of Oratories and Churches which he calls prisca Aedificia which denotes they were of some hundred years standing otherwise they could not be well termed old or ancient and therefore they were such doubtless as were built in the Apostles times but if we look to the Ages immediately succeeding the Apostles even to the time of Constantine and lower I need not descend we cannot want Instances to prove that there were houses consecrated and set apart by Christians themselves and that they had every where Oratories and Churches of their own which they made use of for their Religious solemnities Philo the Jew speaking of the worshippers of Aegypt saith Euseb l. 2. 17 in every village they had a Religious house which they call Seminon which comes near the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies a place of worship and if Lucian may be believed Dial Philos he describes one of the Christian Churches richly guilt and adorned in Trajans time Socrat. l. 2. c. 8. who lived Anno 103. nor is it but to be admired how zealous the Emperour Constantine was for having a house of prayer Zozomon l. 3. c. 5. who as Socrates and Zozomon tell us built many himself and such as were very magnificent Euseb de Vit. Const lib. 4. c. 56. Socrat. lib. 1. c. 14. and being about to make war with the Persians he caused a Tabernacle or moving Temple to be made to carry with him that therefore he might always have a holy house for his God sanctified and prepared for religious worship And now as it hath been thus the custome in all Ages to have places set apart for prayer and other religious Rites so there have been Laws and Constitutions made as now at this day in our Church to enjoyn the people to repair thereunto 't was made a law in Israel that the Tribes should go up to the Temple and consonant thereto is Ignatius's Injunction in the first times of the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all to one place all to the Temple of God in his undoubted Epistle reason of the first building or erecting of Churches Non ut divisi simus cum convenire oportet sed ut divisi conjungamur q. d. to prevent Conventicles and such like clandestine factious meetings The Act against them calls them seditious Conventicles Siquis docet domum Deicontemptibile in esse conventusqui in ce aguntur Anaathmasit Cannon 5. Canon 38. and such like the Law of our Land accounts all religious Assemblies in private houses and places