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A02771	The temple A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the fifth of August. 1624. By Tho. Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1624 (1624)	STC 129; ESTC S100422	35,512	74

shall bee called the house of prayer this was Gods Appropriation But you haue made it a den of theeues this is mans Impropriation Let vs take heed of impropriating Gods house remembring howhe hath reuēged such a profanation with scourges Wee are bought with a price 1 Cor. 6.20 therefore let vs glorifie God both in body spirit for they are his His purchase his Temple his inheritance his habitation do not lose so gracious an owner by the most vngracious sacriledge You see many ruined houses which haue bin once kings palaces learne by those dead spectacles to keepe your selues frō the like fortunes lest God say of you Hoc Templum meum fuit this was my house but now because it took in Idols I haue forsaken it Or what if wee doe not set vp Idols in these Temples when we make the Temples themselues Idols or say not with Israel Make vs gods while we make gods of our selues while we dresse altars and erect shrines to our own braines kisse our own hands for the good they haue done vs If we attribute something to our selues how is Christ al in all with vs Do we iustly blame them that worship the Beast of Rome and yet find out a new Idolatry at home Shal we refuse to adore the Saints Angels and yet giue diuine worship to our selues dust and ashes If victory crowne our battels if plenty fill our garners or successe answere our endeuours must the glory of all reflect vpon our own atchieuements This is a rivality that God will not endure to make so many Temples nothing but Idols But as the Lancashire Iustice said of the ill-shap'd Rood thogh it be not well fauoured enough for a god it will serue to make an excellent deuill So proud dust and ashes that arrogates the honor of God and impropriates it to himselfe though he be too foule for a Temple yet he is fit enough for an Idol When Dauid prayes Libera me ab homine malo Deliuer me from the euill man O Lord. Saint Augustine after much study and scrutiny to find out this euill man at last lights vpon him ab homine malo that is à me ipso Deliuer me from the euill man deliuer me from my selfe Deliuer Augustine from Augustine I am that euill man So of all Idolatries God deliuer vs from a superstitious worship of our selues Some haue Idolized their Princes some their Mistresses some their Manufactures but they are innumerable that haue Idolized themselues He is a rare man that hath no Idol no little god in a boxe no especiall sinne in his heart to which he giues vxorious and affectionate Indulgence The only way to mend all is for euery man to begin with himself In vain shall we blame those faults abroad which we tolerate at home That man makes himself ridiculous who leauing his own house on fire runs to quench his neigbors Let but euery man pull a brand from this fire the flame will go out alone if euery soule clense his owne Temple all shall be quit of Idols and God wil accept of all A multitude is but a heap of vnities the more we take away the fewer we leaue behind When a field is ouergrowne with weeds the best course to haue a good generall haruest is for euery man to weed his owne ground When we would haue the street cleansed let euery man sweep his owne doore and it is quickly done But while euery man censures none amends we do but talk against Idols with still vnclensed Tēples Let vs pray for vniuersall repentance like a good Iosias to purge the houses of God till lust and profanenesse pride and couetousnesse fraud and wantonnesse malice and drunkennes be no more found among vs till euery thing be cast out and nothing let in that is vncleane So shall the Lord dwell in vs with content and we shall dwell in him with comfort Here we shall be a Temple for Him hereafter he shall be a Temple for vs. So we find that glorious Citie described I saw no Temple therein Reu. 21.22 but the Lord God Almightie and the Lambe was the Temple of it Wee are Gods Temple on earth God shall bee our Temple in heauen To this purpose the Spirit of God sanctifie vs and bee for euer sanctified in vs. Amen Some may haply long ere this haue preiudicated in their censures How is this Opus diei in die suo What is all this to the businesse of the day I might haue preuented the obiection by comparing Idolatrie with Treason the one being a breach of Allegiance to the Lord the other a breach of allegiance to the Lords Annointed Idolatry is a Treason against God and Treason is a kind of Idolatry against the King From both which the diuine grace and our holy obedience deliuer vs all I conclude with application to the Time This is one of those blessed dayes celebrated for the deliuerance of our gracious Soueraigne and well may the deliuerance of a King of such a King deserue a day of gratulation When God deliuers a priuate man he doth as it were repeat his Creation but the deliuerance of a King is alwayes a choyce piece in the Lords Chronicle The Story how he was endangered and how preserued this place hath diuers times witnessed and that in a more punctuall manner then I haue either strength or art or time to match A hard time it seemed to be when a King was imprisoned when he had no guard with him but his Innocency no subiect but a Traytor But there was a stronger with him then all they could be against him A good Prince hath more guards then one he hath 1. a subsidiary guard consisting of mortall men 2. An inward guard the integritie of his owne Conscience 3. A spirituall guard the prayers of his faithfull subiects 4. A celestial guard the protection of diligent powerfull Angels 5. A diuine guard his Makers prouidence that fenceth him in with a wall of fire which shall at once both preserue him and consume his enemies But my purpose is not to bring your thoughts back to the view of his perill but to stir your hearts vp to thankfulnesse for his preseruation He is iustly styled The Defender of the Faith he hath euer defended the Faith and the Faith hath euer defended him Hee hath preserued the Temple of God from Idols and therefore God hath preserued him from all his enemies Surely that Prouidence which deliuered him from those early Conspiracies wherewith he hath been assaulted from his cradle meant him for some extraordinary benefit and matchlesse good to the Christian world Hee that gaue him both life and Crowne almost together hath still miraculously preserued them both from all the raging violences of Rome and Hell Now when the Lord deliuered him what did he else but euen deliuer vs all That we might reioyce in his safety as the Romans did in the recouery of Germanicus when they ran with lampes and sacrifices to the Capitoll and there sung with shouts and acclamations Salua Roma salua Patria saluus Germanicus the Citie is safe the Country is safe and all in the safetie of Germanicus While we consider the blessings which we enioy by his gracious Gouernment that the estates we haue gotten with honest industry may be safely conueyed to our posterity that we sit vnder the shadow of peace and may teach our children to know the Lord that the good man may build vp Temples and Hospitals without trembling to thinke of sauage and barbarous violences to pull them down that our Deuotions be not molested with vproares nor men called from their callings by mutinies that our Temples be not profaned with Idols nor the Seruice of God blended with superstitious deuices that our temporall estate is preserued in liberty our spirituall estate may bee improued in pietie and our eternall estate assured vs in glory that our liues be protected and in quiet our soules may be saued for such a King of men blesse we the God of Kings and sing for his deliuerāce as they did for their Germanicus as priuatly euery day so this day in our publike Assemblies Salua Britannia Salua Ecclesia saluus IACOBVS Our Kingdome is safe the Church of God is safe our whole Estate is safe wee are all safe and happie in the safetie and happinesse of King IAMES O that as we haue good cause to emulate so also we would truly imitate the gratulation of Israel we for our King that hath preserued the Temple 2 Chron. 5.12.13 as they for their King that built the Temple while the Leuites and singers stood with Harps and Cymbals and Viols and the Priests blowing with Trumpets as if they had all been one man and made one sweet harmony to the praise of God For these publike extraordinary blessings God requires publike and extraordinary praises that this great Assembly with prepared hearts and religious affections should magnifie his glorious Name if it were possible by some vnusuall strain of our vnited thāks pierce the very skies giue an Eccho to those celestiall Quires singing Honor praise and glory bee to our gracious God for all his mercifull deliuerances both of Prince and people Yea O Lord still preserue thine own Annointed conuert or confound all his enemies but vpon his head let his Crown florish Long long liue that royal keeper of Gods holy Temple the Defender of that Faith which he hath of old giuen to his Saints and let all true-hearted Israelites say Amen yea let Amen the faithfull witnes in heauen the Word Truth of God say Amen to it For our selues let vs heartily repent of our former sins religiously amend our future liues abandon all our intestine Idols serue the Lord with pure hearts and still and still God shall deliuer both Him and vs from all our enemies This God grant for his mercies sake Iesus Christ for his merits sake the Holy Ghost for his Names sake to whom three persons and one eternall God be all praise and glory obedience and thanksgiuing world without end FINIS

not rather go home to his house Peter and Iohn went vp into the Temple at the houre of Prayer Actes 3.1 they thought it not sufficient to pray in their priuate chambers but ioyne themselues with the Congregation as a Nauy Royall to transport their holy Merchandise to heauen Psalm 134.2 Lift vp your hands in the Sanctuary and blesse the Lord. Pure hands are accepted in euery place but especially in the Sanctuary What followes The Lord that made heauen and earth blesse thee out of Sion Hee sayes not the Lord that made heauen blesse thee vpon earth nor the Lord that made earth blesse thee out of heauen but the Lord that made heauen and earth blesse thee out of Sion Blessings come originally from heauen mediately through Sion In the Temple let vs seeke in the Temple wee shall finde those precious treasures and comforts of Iesus Christ This Temple is not without some enemies Besides those prophane Polititians that thinke with one Eustathius that there is no vse of Temples or those Massilians who as Damascen reports did adde to other Heresies Templorum contemptum or those Pseudo-Apostoli that laughed at a Temple full of Suppliants as a house full of fooles Or those that bee of Ieroboams mind who to settle himselfe in the kingdome of Israel diuerts the people from Gods house at Ierusalem In stead of that snowy glittering Temple they shall haue two golden representations Sion is too farre off these shall bee neere home that is a tedious way of deuotion these both compendious and plausible Antiqu. lib. 8. cap. 3. As Iosephus brings him in perswading them My good people and friends you cannot but know that no place is without God and that no place doth containe God wheresoeuer we pray he can heare vs wheresoeuer we worship hee can see vs therefore the Temple is superfluous the iourney needlesse God is better able to come to you then you are to goe to him Beside these the Temple of God hath two kinds of foes 1. The Anabaptists tell vs that the old superstition hath made those houses fitter for Stables then for Churches that they ought no more to be called Templa Dei but Templa Idolorum as they pretend the Passeouer was called in those corrupt times Iohn 2.13 not Pascha Dei but Pascha Iudaeorum By the same reason they would haue remoued all Princes because some haue abused their gouernments But we say though euill men abuse good things yet if a kingdome were not a lawfull State Dauid and Iosias would neuer haue been Kings for good men doe not vse euill things The Temple in Christs time was become a denne of theeues yet euen then and there did hee send vp deuout and holy Prayers It is a grosse ignorance that cannot distinguish betwixt a fault that proceeds ex natura facti Th. 1. qu. 41. art 6. and that which proceeds ex abusu boni the former is malum simpliciter the other is but malum per accidens No man pulles downe his house because vncleannesse hath been committed in one of the chambers Let offenders be remoued from the Temple not the Temple demolished because of offences The Kingdome of God shall be taken from you Math. 21.43 saith Christ not quite taken away but onely taken from the Iewes When GOD threatned the like to Saul 1 Sam. 15.28 he did not meane to haue no more Kings or to reduce it to the former state of Iudges no onely the kingdome shall lose Saul but Israel shall not lose the kingdome It is a Maxime in nature Things dedicated to God are not to bee transferred to the vses of men a principle in Philosophy Plato Quae rectè data sunt eripi non licet and a prouerbe among our children To giue a thing and take a thing is fit for the Deuils darling 2. The Sacrilegious to whom God is beholding if they let his Temple stand but for the maintenance of it they will bee so bold with him as either to share halfe or leaue him none There bee many that pray in the Temple who yet also prey on the Temple as if a thiefe should doe homage to that house in the day which hee meanes to robbe in the night But alas why should I touch that sore which is all dead flesh or speake against Sacriledge In orbe sacrilego among them that delight in it Where Lawyers are feeed hired bribed to maintaine Sacriledge God and his poore Ministers may euen hold their peace Something would be spoken for Sions sake but I take this place and time for neither the right Vbi nor Quando We know Abigail would not tell Nabal of his drunkennesse till hee was awoke from his wine Whensoeuer it shall please God to awake you from this intoxication we may then find a season to speak to you But God keepe you from Nabals destiny 1 Sam. 25.37 that when this sinne shall bee obiected to your Consciences on your death-beds your hearts doe not then die in you like a stone One thing let me beg of you in the Name of him whom you thus wrong Howsoeuer you persist to robbe the Temple of the due Salary yet doe not stand to iustifie it By imploring mercy perhaps you may bee saued but by iustifying the Iniury you cannot but be lost As the French King Francis the first said to a woman kneeling and crying to him for Iustice Stand vp woman for Iustice Iowe thee if thou beg'st any thing beg mercy So if you request any thing of God let it bee mercy for he owes you Iustice and in this poynt God be mercifull to you all It was Dauids earnest prayer One thing haue I desired of the Lord Psalm 27.7 and that will I seeke after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the beautie of the Lord and to enquire in his Temple There are many that pray Dauids words but not with Dauids heart Vnum petij one thing I haue desired De praeterito for the time past hoc requiram this I will still seeke after de futuro for the time to come I haue required it long and this suite I will vrge till I haue obtained it What to dwell in some of the houses of God all the dayes of my life and to leaue them to my children after me not to serue him there with deuotion but to make the place mine owne possession These loue the House of God too well they loue it to Haue and to Hold but because the Conueyance is made by the Lawyer and not by the Minister their Title will bee found naught in the end and if there bee not a Nifi prius to preuent them yet at the great day of vniuersall Audite the Iudge of all the world shal condemne them By this way the neerer to the Church the further from God The Lords Temple is ordained to gaine vs to him not for vs