the Moone Why because say they then hadde wee plenty of victuales Iere 44 17. we were wel and felt no euill Such was the illusion of sathan to feede their adoration with a worldly sauour of security as though the true blessednes did consist in the peace and plenty of this worldly life Also the Pharesies did obserue that whole Law in outward shewe Pharisies they fasted they truly tythed mynt annise and commin what could the world sée in them but the whole body of godlines but yet Christe who knoweth the secrets of all harts said they were hipocrits dissemblers Who were more deuoute Math 23 and more gyuen to fasting then the Manichies Maniches which gaue straight order for the obseruing thereof and refrained from the eating of fleshe and yet concerning all other cates and deynties they so porred themselues that they cracked And I pray you what greater shewe of godlines charity humility chastity c was there séene in our Papists Papists in al their actions here in England and els where they were ful of prayers night watches Dirges and solemnities but in what straunge tongue and straunge deuise and in what deuotion the world knoweth they were so full of chastitie that none of them woulde marrye and yet few but had his Curtisan they were full of charity and yet Tyrants yea such Wolues as did daily sucke the bloode of Christ his flocke they gaue almes plentifully but they had politike deuises to extort it from others they ordeyned obserued many holy dayes which bredd and hatched many idellers Idolaters feasters gamsters in all sorts dauncers incontinent match-makers and such like abuses great store scarce was there one that coulde make account of hys fayth for the comfort of the Gospell was hydde from them and all good godly exercises in asmuch as if euer the kingdome of ignorance raigned it florished in theyr dayes And now in these last daies wherin the Gospell God be thanked florisheth Protestants and the word of God is dayly preached we sée a great many lip Gospellers which haue the word of God in theyr mouth euen from the téeth forward how they wil dispute daily of it how they wil make choise of theyr companies yet by their workes ye shall know them for some of them are great slanderers backbiters and scornfull dispisers of other men many of thē great enemies to the poore such hold the gospell sometimes for the fauour they beare to theyr fréends sometime for the malyce they bere to others some are so couetous that they are become priuy vsurers and open extortioners It is a lamentable world to sée in this present age the verye picture of the yong man that wold learne to enter into the kingdome of heauen but would not forsake and sell all that hee had to follow Christ An other sorte you shall sée to be like Cleophas to goe with Christ and yet not to know him these are lyke such as S. Paule speaketh of that wyll come in the latter dayes hauing a shewe of godlines 2 Tim. 3 but denying the vertue therof and as the Apostle sayeth in an other place They say that they know God whē as they déeme him in theyr déedes because they are themselues abhominable The Prophet Esay doth sharply reprooue such hypocrits saying Esay 48 1.2 Heare ye this O house of Iacob which are called by the name of Israell and are come out of the waters of Iuda which sweare by the name of the Lord and make mention of the God of Israel but not in trueth nor in righteousnes for they are called of the holy cittye and stay themselues vpon the God of Israel whose name is the Lord of hostes The very like hipocrites doth the Prophet Ieremy recite saying Run to and fro by the stréetes of Ierusalem Iere. 5.1 2 and behold nowe and knowe and enquire in the open places thereof if yee can find a man or if there be any the executeth iudgment and séeketh the trueth and I wil spare it for though they say the Lorde liueth yet they sweare falsely Thus may yee sée in this briefe discourse the heape of aduersaries which the church alwaies hath had and yet hath woorking vnder the colour of holines by reason whereof they haue not onely brought their mischiuous purposes the sooner to passe as it is sayde before in hindering the building of true holines but by this meanes the credite and honor of the godly hath béene embased and oftentimes hadde in suspition yea condemned amongst a great many of indifferent worldlings wherefore that the one may the better be known from the other euen as I haue before layde downe the maner and behauiour of the wycked and theyr hypocrisie so wyll I as my text leadeth me lay downe the conuersation and behauiour of the godly with theyr profession that as the one is séene knowne by hypocrisie so the other may bee seene and knowen by constancy In Zerubbabell otherwise called Barachias together with Ieshua the reste fathers of Israell was founde this godlye disposition 1 That they refused the aduersaries offered helpe lothing to ioyne with them 2 They professed themselues to build together 3 Vnto the God of Israel In the first fruit of their good profession constancy it appeareth that they allowed not of the offered helpe and assistaunce of the aduersaries although indéede the present occasion of newe repayring theyr Citty Anno mun 3419. and laying the foundation of theyr Temple requyred al helpe and assistance yet theyr purpose and labor considered they meant nothing les beeing the children of God then themselues to doo it that as the Temple was a place of holye exercises and a mistery of an euerlasting sanctuary so it shoulde be erected by none but such as were vnfainedly the Lordes workmen wherefore this séemed to bée a godly purpose in the children of God to refuse these aduersaries and not to estéeme of theyr labours for two causes First for that they wexed not faynte nor weary in the trauell performance of good thinges dedicated to the Lord. Secondly that they refused to ioyne themselues to the wicked knowing the inconueniences of a wicked participation in the which two considerations if Gods people doo well consider of this president so long layde before theyr eyes as a good example it cannot chuse but be a fruitful patterne for in that they shrinked not at so great a labour but were wylling to doo it themselues it is notable for vs to learne specially in these dayes to doo our godly exercises labors especially which are dedicated to the lord our owne selues without the care of our owne paynes or the trust wee shoulde repose in others and then wee shoulde see howe the Byshop sometimes woulde refuse hys Register the Iustice hys Clark the pastor hys seruing priest the Sherife hys arrant Baylyues the master hys seruant and so foorth of many other professions of
Temple of God and what Idols we haue set vppe in the same to the great confusion of our selues if we repent not in time Second parte Nowe as in the first part I haue shewed you what we are so in this second part I purpose to shewe whose we are The text sayth Ye are not your owne bryngeth in the reason for ye are bought for a price In these wordes are many excellent comfortable consolations In that our vnworthines and state of damnation considered wee are translated from darknes to light from death to lyfe from mortality to immortality from a miserable world to an euerlasting worlde replenished with all ioy and consolation Againe so much the more is our comfort in that we are no more our owne or resting in our owne power for if wee were such were our weakenes that wée should fall againe to damnation and such were our insufficiency that we could not ryse agayne of our selues but shoulde bée vtterly lost wherefore wee are nowe hys that can sustaine and vphold vs that wyll preserue and kéepe vs and who in this life hath sealed vs with grace and in the world to come with life euerlasting and none els can doo it or could doo it but the only blessed God which already hath doon it And againe in that we féele the force of shine alwaies working in our bodies and continually suffer the tyranny of sathan howbeit it shall not bee imputed vnto death for the blood of Christ Iesus hath taken away the force of the Law and the sentence of guiltines into whom wee are now graffed and vnited So that nowe to sée our translation out adoption estate to be changed into the sonnes of God and we our selues as children in his seruice are in a most comfortable estate in that wee are his who will not lose but preserue vs. Now in that the Apostle sayth Ye are not your owne but that wee are bought for a price it doth appeare whose we are and who hath bought vs for we are as I sayd the sonnes of God and members of Christ Iesus purchased by his precious bloodshedding as appeared to the Ephesians But now in Christ Iesus yee which once were farre of Eph 2.13.14.15 16. are made néere by the blood of Christ for hee is our peace which hath made of both one and hath broken the steppe of the partition wall in abrogating through his flesh the hatred that is the Law of commandements which standeth in ordinances for to make of 〈◊〉 one nowe â—an in himselfe so makyng peace and that he might reconcile bothe vnto God in one body by his crosse and â—â—t hatred thereby And as touching that we are not our owne neyther haue â—â—wer 〈◊〉 our selues but translated into a better estate and into a surer safegarde it dooth most comfortably appeare in Saint Paule to the Romaines Rom 14 9 where he sayth Christ therefore 〈◊〉 and â—ose â—â—â—â—â—e and reuiued that he might be Lord both of the dead and the â—uiâ—ke so that our seruice and all that euer we haue bee inâ—â—â—â—erely bought by his precious bloode is subiecte to his dominioâ— and rule wherin we may to our great comfort behold our safety in that we are imâ—â—â—ked in so strong â—aâ—tell and defence as he is against whome the power of hell cannot preuaile And in that we are alienated changed from our accusable and damnable estate to become by the righteousnes of Christ the acceptable children of God in thys coâ—â—isteth our honour nobility aboue all the creatures that God hath made which chaunge we find in the Apostls words to the Galathians saying Wherfore the art no more a seruant but a Sonne yf thou be a sonne Gal 4 7 thou art also the heyre of GOD through Christ It is a most excellent comfort where this alienation or chaunge is founde among men especially where God himselfe doth it for he doth it alwayes for the better Wee finde that the name of Abram was changed into the name of Abraham the name of Iacob into the name of Israell and the name of Saule into the name of Paule the significations of whych named are bettered in their exchaunge And so dooth it happen in vs in that our exchange is for the best for nowe we are beautified wyth grace that were deformed by the accusation of the Lawe and for that wee are the sons of God the riches of grace is bestowed vpon vs as S. Paule saith By whome that is by Christe wée haue accesse through faith vnto thys grace wherein we stande Rom 5. â— for thys occasions sake we are called the temple of god because we are incorporated by grace into Christ Iesus who is the very pure and vndefiled Temple in whom his father is truely glorified we had béene a filthy and polluted temple if we had stoode of our selues and depended on our owne power without this gift of grace but because we haue accesse through faith into this grace hauing apprehended grace the spirit of God doth worke mightily in the faithfull beleeuer Therefore it is a necessary doctrine procéeding out of this text of ours Ye are not your owne For vs to learne and sée first what the power of man is and what frée wil he hath and theÌ„ what merite he deserueth before God In the which considerations wee shall finde so great knowledge of our imperfection that by the view thereof we shal attribute the more honor glory and thanks vnto God who worketh all in all As touching our power it is so small so slender that wee are not able of our selues to thinke one good thought wee are not able to doo any good thing wee can not strengthen our weakenes we cannot make our selues to grow we cannot lengthen our dayes nor yet can we resist death neither purchase vnto our selues life As the Prophet Ieremy sayth Iere 10 23 O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himselfe neyther is it in man to walke and direct his steps and as S. Paule sayth 1 Cor. 11 what hast thou that thou hast not receiued If man hath any good thing in him it procéedeth from aboue as the Apostle Iames sayth Iam 1. Euery good and perfit gift commeth from aboue whether it be knowledge life strength fayth honesty c it is all from God and by God Iob. 7 1 Iob speaking of mans time sayth Is ther not an appointed time to maÌ„ vpon earth and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling Our Sauiour Christ sayth we cannot adde one ynche vnto our stature And therfore as we haue no power of our selues to doo what wee list as appeared by Balam Numb 22. who was hyred by Balake to curse the people of God and he and hys Asse were interrupted by the way and were not able to go forth And as s Paule in his blindnes of minde was strokeÌ„ with blindnes and inhibited to persecute Gods
Two fruitfull and godly Sermons preached at Dorchester in Dorsetshyre the one touching the building of Gods Temple the other what the Temple is Haggai 1.8 Goe vp to the Mountaine and bring woode and build this house and I will be fauourable in it Imprinted at London by John Charle-wood dwelling in Barbican at the signe of the halfe Eagle and the Key 1585. To the right worshipfull M. George Trenchard Esquire one of her Maiesties Iustices of the peace in the County of Dorset and one of the deputies Lieuetenants of the same sheyre W. Chub wisheth the plenty of Gods graces in Christe Iesu THe great zeale of good King Iosias 2. King 22. and the singuler care he had in repairing the Temple of God maintaining true holines was not onely prophesied by Iddo 300. yeeres before his byrth but is now remēbred many hundred yeeres after his death as a most worthy president for all godlye and well affected mindes for in him was first found lyberality in disbursing money toward the building therof then wisedom in appointing godly ouerseers to see it well doone and last of all care in hauing skilfull workmen to doo it the which godly disposition of his expressed the very fruits of a good mind in asmuch as he wold willingly haue the place erected wherein the name of God myght bee glorified and hys lawes statutes read and exercised and the people of God taught and instructed such dispositions are the very badges and shewes of a feeling conscience and a godly setled minde I may think no lesse in you right worshipfull but as a seconde Iosias haue endeuoured your selfe very carefully for the erecting of gods glory in the Towne of Dorchester my natiue towne in that you haue not onely ben willing for the exercising of preaching in the same towne but haue offred your liberality for the furthering continuing and establishing thereof to the great comfort of the towne no les ioy to the borderers By occasion whereof I was not onely moued with a comfortable minde for my natiue country to see the prosecuting of so good a purpose but was also bent vpon the same argument to preach these two Sermons following which as well in thankfulnes for your proceedinges as in signification of mine vnfained goodwyll I humbly present vnto your worship beseeching you to allow of the slender gyfte and to couer the vnwoorthines therof with your accustomed clemency And therein as I shall think my pains cased my works bettered and my trauell well bestowed euen so shall I perswade my self to be much bound vnto your worship for your louing acceptation And for the same shal continue mine vnfained hart in faithfull prayers vnto GOD to blesse your dayes with the increase of his benefits to whose mercifull tuition I commend you Your vvorships poore countryman ready at commandement W. Chub. Minister VVritten in Froome zelwood the xii of December 1585. ¶ A Sermon concerning the building of Gods Temple Ezra 4. Cap. 1.2.3 verses 1. But the aduersaries of Iudah and Beniamin heard that the Children of the captiuity builded the Temple vnto the Lord God of Israell 2. And they came to Zerubbabel to the chefe fathers and sayd vnto them wee wyll builde with you for we seeke the Lord your God as ye doo we haue sacrificed vnto him euer since the time of Esar Haddon king of Ashur which brought vs vp hether 3. Then Zerubbabel and Ieshua and the rest of the cheefe fathers of Israell sayde vnto them It is not for you but for vs to build the house vnto our God for we our selues together will build it vnto the Lord God of Israell as Kyng Cirus the Kyng of Persia hath commaunded vs. THe moste comfortable doctrine of the building of Gods Temple is expressed in many places of the olde Testament as a notable example how the godly endeuoured themselues to set vp that place wherein the name of the Lord should alwaies be glorified and hys lawes exercised not that the same place should simply be the Temple made wyth lime and stone wherin God should dwell for God dwelleth not in Temples made with stone but because God had ordeyned that a place should be erected for that purpose wherin his Lawes should bee read published learned established and by God himselfe heard and allowed And for thys cause many the godly kings as Salomon Cyrus Darius Iosias Zerubbabell c. endeuoured with all study to accomplyshe and erecte it and which God hath specially commaunded hauing relacion principally vnto that Temple wherein indéede his name ought to be glorified his lawes established and wherin himselfe as chéefe patron is alwaies resident which is our bodye which by the vertue of our heade Christ is called the Temple Nowe for asmuch as the people of GOD in those dayes were specially knowen by theyr great zeale paine and trauel in erecting that holye Sanctuary as hauing an onely care for the furthering of holy thinges least they might otherwise bee drowned with prophane and worldly matters euery good and godly man endeuoured to sētt his hand to the building by which occasion the godly were discerned and knowen from the vngodly but sithence that tyme through the weakenes of mannes iudgement and the diligence of Sathan the vngodly hauing no other credite to afoorde Sathans marchandise and sathan hauing no better meanes but by woorking hys slights and deceipt in the vngodly they I say haue vnder the pretence of holines wrought sathans purpose and deceyued many séely yong ones in these dayes as appereth by thys text which I haue now in hand wherein is shewed howe the aduersaries of the Church would haue builded with the people of God 2. verse and how they sought the Lord God and how they hadde doone sacrifice vnto him which profession of theirs and ioyning themselues to the people of God to build with them was but a slight to bring their deuilish practises to passe as appereth in the fourth verse following Their purpose Where it is declared that they discouraged the people of God troubled them in their building and hired counsellers to hinder theyr deuise A common practise amonge the vngodly to pretende some mischiefe wickednes vnder the colour of holines such hath béene the pollicies of all the wicked and vngodlye from the beginning to credite theyr wycked pretences vnder the colour of sanctimony As in these appeared who sayde first that they woulde builde with them that is to say with the godly This is a notable policy of sathan to cause the wicked to bring their purpose to effect the rather to deceiue the weaker sort by counterfeyting holines and by making thēselues as it were seruaunts of one houshold and shéepe of one flock for this cause doth sathan himselfe sometimes transforme him selfe into an Angell of light because by the glorious shape he wil the rather beguile and deceiue allure and confound the simple true meaning sorte euen as the Wolfe by putting
on a shéepes skyn may the rather haue accesse to the flocke to murther and deuoure at his pleasure After the same sort dyd Iudas salute and kysse hys maister Christ which kisse and salutation was a signe and token of loue but it hatched hatred and treason (a) The gest without a wedding garment that thrust in among the bidden gests shewed the like effect I may very well liken them to a great many in these dayes which vnder the colour of comming to the Church and frequenting the company of good men with fréendly faces and bountifull gifts doo further theyr wycked pretences in ouerthrowing the estate and confounding religion In whom hath treason appeared strongest of late yeeres here in England but in those that haue béene admitted into fauour After that they had protested great loyalty and fréendship the old saying is verified In trust is treason and in the fayrest rose is soonest found a canker Vnder the coloure of a fréendly quaffyng King Iohn was poysoned by pledging a Fryer such are colours of dissemblers whose affections are farre from their outward shew Pylate in a fayre shew of Iustice fauoure could wash his hands from condemning the giltles blood of Christe and yet gaue sentence on him such counterfeyted fauor is ioyned in stéede of fréendship and such abhomination in stéede of holines that we may say the wood which they bring is wormeaten and the stones they builde withall is as rubble not fit for so glorious a sanctuary as the Lords Temple They haue made estimation of their owne houses more then the Temple of the Lorde Agge 1 9 which lieth waste and yet they say they will ioyne with the true and godly builders furdermore they say that they sought the Lorde but as they did after a dissembling sort ioyne with the godly offering to build with them purposing nothing lesse euen so now do they say that they haue sought the Lorde whose diligence and industry is iudged the weaker because they haue not founde him for no doubt the Lorde is not so doubtfull to bée found nor so strange to be spoken withal but that if they had sought him with faith and with a harty desire they might haue found him As our sauiour Christ hymselfe sayth Querite et inuenietis séeke and ye shall find and as the Prophet Dauid fayth Psal 119 2 Blessed are all they that keepe his testimonies and seeke him with their hole hart Deu. 4 29. and as Moyses sayth If from thēce thou shalt seeke the Lord thy God thou shalt find him if thou seeke him with al thy hart but peraduenture if they sought him it was as Christe saith with their lips but their hart was far of wherfore if we behold both their actions that is to say to ioyne with the builders and to bring nothing to the buidling and to seke the Lorde and not to finde him sheweth their bad pretences Their religion But now sée further and behold their profession and relygion which was that they had doone sacrifice vnto the Lord in the which profession and religion of theirs they expresse howe deuoutly and orderly they shewed themselues in as much as they take theyr originall from Esar Haddon otherwise called Sardanapalus who was Senahcrib his sonne who worshipped the Idoll Nisroch as his God 2. Re. 17.26 It doth appeare in the booke of the Kyngs how this people at their first enterance into Samaria and possessing the Citties thereof they feared not the Lorde wherfore God sent Lyons to deuour them Then they told the Kyng what happened who commaunded that one of the priestes of the country shoulde teache them what to doo how be it euery nation made them their Gods and put them in the houses of the high places And this séemeth was their sacrifice vnto their Gods that they thēselues had made euen a sacrifice agréeable to their profession which was altogether as I said before in dissimulation they were glad that they had caught the verye bare worde sacrifice because it was the profession of the priests of the law instituted by God as a figure of Christes priesthoode which signification was as farre from their knowledge I meane of the true vse of the sacrifice as their religion was from good deuotion or as farre as Iudas differed from an honest disciple yet as Iudas gloried of the title of a Disciple though he vsed not him selfe as a Disciple so these spake of sacrificing 2. Kin 17. Esra 4 4 yet knew not the vse thereof as appered by theyr Idolatrye and dissimulation enuy interruption trouble and hindering the godly buildings but as I sayde before so I say still all the vngodly from the beginning haue had some shewe of godlines the rather to vtter theyr deuilish purposes The maner of the Scorpion is to smyle and shew a louing countenance to them that he wyll sting vnto death Honny many times beguileth hym that is poysoned so it happeneth alwayes with double consciences whose conscience is wicked and profession good The priestes of Baal and Elias dyd both sacrifice but not alike nor with the like conscience for the priests of Baal dyd it in Idolatry and superstition Elias did it in good deuotion and with a pure hart vnto the almightie therefore the old saying is true The hoode maketh not the Monke Hence is it that pure religion is grounded vppon a spirituall profession and not a ceremoniall shew and hence is it that we shoulde beholde the Lorde in trueth and vnderstand him in righteousnes not in a profession whose signification we know not otherwise we might reason well to say the papists did well to vse the worde of God in the Latine tongue because it was the worde of God but that could not be because the knowledge and vse and necessity therof was hidden from men But so is the sleight and subtilty of the deuill to colour in the wicked theyr wickednes and deuilish pretences wyth godly titles or godly names or godly ceremonies without the true vse and signification of them The Ammonits Ammonits did offer and vse sacrifice but howe moste filthily and abhominably when they offered their sonnes and daughters to Moloch 1. Kin. 11. The Iewes did put their truste in their Temple saying Templum domini the Tēple of the Lord and not in the liuing lord himselfe and that with a faithfull harte as Dauid did in many places and as is required of all the godly This is to be noted that betwixt the godly and the vngodly the matter is all one but the manner differeth for trust being required of all is found in all but not alike for the vngodly trust in their Idols and in stocks and stones and the godly in the lyuing Lord who is theyr maker preseruer and gouernour Israelites Iere 7 18 Likewise the Israelites did worship but whom did they worshyp not the hygh and mighty Iehouah but the Quéene of heauen that is the Sunne
calling it (a) Deu. 4 wisdome some a (b) Psa 119 light some the (c) Rom 1 power of God and some (d) Eph 6 a sword according to the mighty working and power thereof from the which foundation if any man flée following his owne wyll or the inuentions of men let him be perswaded that his workmanship is in vaine for his building will not stande The third and last disposition of these godly men The thyrd disposition of the godlye differed far from the purpose of the vngodly as appereth euen in the plaine words for the aduersaries sayd vnto Zerubbabell and the rest We seeke and doo sacrifice vnto the Lord your God and Zerubbabell the rest sayd Wee will builde vnto the Lorde our God in the which let vs sée euen the confession of the vngodly in that they haue not the power to name the Lord their God and againe the confession of the godly in that they hold a firme faith assurance to cal the Lord their God nowe in that they are directed the one by Ezer Haddon an Idolater and the other by Cirus a worthy and noble King it dooth appeare that the one fauoured Idolatry and the other true religion for in that Zerubbabel with the reste builded together vnto their God which they farder interpreted to bee the God of Israel they shewed a good a deuout and a godly christian profession for as indéede we ought to offer the sacrifice vnto God and put our trust in God as the prophet sayth so ought we to haue a spirituall care to vnderstand what he is Psal 4 5. whether of right all honor appertaineth vnto him which we shall easily perceiue by beholding hys maiesty his power his strength his mercy his loue his omnipotencye in creating vs and all the worlde in gouerning vs ruling all things in defending vs in redéeming vs in sanctifying vs and in calling vs and in giuing all things necessary for vs in lightning our minds with vnderstanding in refreshing our consciences with good things whereas on the other side for the iudgment of Idolatry we finde not the like vertues consolations in the workmanship of mans hands made to be honored worshipped as a god no nor in any the creaturs vnder heauē nor in heauē as the sun moone stars woods stons calfs hylls gold siluer c. Wherfore this name God being an vnspeakable name among the Iewes dooth minister vnto the godly so many powers and operations that when they shal say Our God they haue a heape of comforts and consolations in their hart which doth worke many godly knowledges and exercises and extinguishe many ignoraunt and Idolatrous opinions As for example if we shold reason this wyth our selues who hath made vs and hetherto preserued vs God who sustaineth the heauens to giue light and to powre downe dewes for the comfort of the earth God who giueth encrease on the earth for our sustenaunce God who giueth all things necessary for vs here on earth God who hath redéemed vs from the bondage of sathan God who hath prepared for vs the kingdome of heauen GOD the same God with hys mightye power worke so in the heartes of all good beléeuers that they may so learne him know him follow him in this world the in the world to come euen in the kingdome of heauen they may haue life euerlasting to the which I beséech God the father the son and holy ghost to send vs all Amen A Sermon shewing what the Temple of God is 1 Cor 6 19.20 Know ye not that your body is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you whom yee haue of God and ye are not your owne For ye are bought for a price Glorifie therefore God in your body and in your spirite for they are Gods THe Temple which is consecrated and dedicated to an holy vse for the learning and exercising of holy thinges for the reading of the Lawe couenant and promises of GOD and for the enriching of our selues in the true knowledge of Gods worde and the vse of the Sacraments finally for all godly vses and exercises is the same place where in all the congregation dooth méete together in a deuout minde and pure hart to call vpon God the creator and maker of all things to whom he dooth in the power of hys spirit appeare which place is therefore called the Temple or his house because of the holy exercises and godly seruices which are there doone and for those exercises sake because it is called Gods house it ought to be kept cleane and not defiled neyther ought it to be reserued for any other vse then for the exercise of holy thinges Ioh. 2.15 and for that cause our Sauiour Christ did cast out the buiers and sellers out of the Temple yet buying selling is a lawfull trade among men Howbeit because of the place it was not allowed but shaply and with expulsion reprooued by our sauiour Christ himselfe But now the Apostle speaketh not of a Temple made of stones lyme and sande in this place but of our bodyes which he calleth a Temple because of the vse and exercise which ought to be therein vsed and daily exercised which is godlines therefore it is called the Temple or tabernacle of the holy ghost wherin the holy ghost as a patron president of Gods power dwelleth And as on the one side euery manne and woman should in hys hart reade learne exercise and dayly vse godly meditations godly lawes and godly obseruations and also yéelde the Sacrifice of thanksgiuing and the offering of righteousnes and dayly strengthen the same with a féeling conscience a faithfull hart a charitable mind and an humble deuotion So on the other side hath God gyuen hys holy spirit to be resident therein as a pledge of his loue which dayly worketh in vs knowledge desire chéerefulnes ioyfulnes patience loue al heauenly riches assuring our spirits that we are the children of God to our great and endles comfort for which occasions sake we are wylled by the Apostle not to gréeue the same spirit of God by the which we are sealed vnto the day of redemption for in that hée is dwelling in vs and remayning as in an house among vs wee trouble greeue him when we prophane and abuse his tabernacle or dwelling eyther with pryde whoredome drunkennes enuy theft murther idlenes filthy talke surfeyting or like because they are not exercises agréeable for the Temple of God and then yf buying and selling which is lawfull bee prohibited the Temple in respect of the materiall Temple much more these filthy abuses ought to bee caste out of the Temple in respect that it is our bodyes being of greater price and estimation then the building of stone Herevpon the Apostle spake in this place of the abuse of filthy fornication and incestuous incontinencye that it was such a great spot as greatly defiled and polluted the whole body