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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10073	The beauty of holines: or The consecration of a house of prayer, by the example of our Sauiour A sermon preached in the chappell at the free-schoole in Shrewsbury. the 10. day of September, Anno Dom. 1617. At the consecration of the chappell, by the Right Reuerend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Couentrey and Lichfield. By Sampson Price, Doctor in Diuinity, and chapleine in ordinary to his Maiesty.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1618 (1618)	STC 20328; ESTC S100873	24,384	42

soules before the second comming of Christ of a most religious and well ordered Common wealth will become irreligious and prophane The Eagle-clawed Church-robber seeth a farre off a little portion remayning to the Church and will so are at this by all politique inuentions though hee take but a coale to fire his nest These Locusts nibble at that which the Palmer-worme hath left worse then Pharaoh who had their diet with Pharaoh in the dearth that they might not sell their land Gen. 47 they must haue to their heapes of ill gotten Gen. 47.22 and miserablie kept goods an Impropriate Tithe which is most improper for any but the Church though the Minister and his family sterue Are not these snares vnto them when hauing cōmitted spirituall theft they are so followed by Gods hand into their houses which receiue such stollen goods that Reuenge shaketh the foundation of them for sinne and they in themselues and theirs are vsually punished The scornefull Atheist despiseth the calling of the Teachers of our Temples scorning Priests whose spirituall sacrifice of praier God accepteth as well as he did incense in the old law and like railing Rabshakehs seeke to make themselues sport in blaspheming the God of Israel by rending in pieces his Messengers in their drunken lasciuious raging discourses where they foame out their owne shame not being terrified by the examples of Ieroboams withered hand two Captaines and their fifties fired from Heauen forty two chidren torne in pieces by wilde Beares Corath and his Complices deuoured by the earth Miriam a woman strucken with a leprosie for abusing the Lords seruants The Lord hath and will make good his promise to Leui Blesse Lord his substance and accept the worke of his hands Deut. 33.11 smite through the loines of them that rise against him and of them that hate him that they rise not againe Deut. 33. They that haue honoured the Temple haue been honoured Eccl. 50. Simon the son of Onias repairing the Temple how was he honoured in the midst of the people he was as the Morning-starre in the midst of a cloud and as the Moone at the full as the Sunne shining vpon the Temple of the most high and as the Rainebow giuing light in the bright cloudes as the flowre of Roses in the spring of the yeare as Lilies by the riuers of waters and as the branches of the Frankincence tree in the time of Summer as fire and incense in the Censer and as a vessell of beaten gold set with all manner of pretious stones as a faire Oliue tree budding forth and as a Cypresse tree which groweth vp to the clouds Simon Magus that thought so basely of the best gifts belonging to Gods Temple hee on the other side hath been put to open shame and his necke broken Thus they that stand for holy things dedicated to God haue stood and flourished but others haue perished for abusing the place of the Temple or men of the temple Aq. 2.2 q. 99.2.3 or things dedicated to holy vses in the Temple Such thinke this to be no sinne now because Christ is not present with a whip for thē as hee was in Ierusalem but they may feare a more terrible whip hereafter without restitution and contrition and learne of Iesus to defend the Temple frequent it Iesus walked in the Temple in Salomons Porch How may this encourage vs Vse 2. who haue Churches and Chappels for our frequent and religious assemblies God is not included in any one place Hee is euery where by his power and operation by his knowledge and vision by his immensitie and incircumscription he is in the humanity of Christ by an hypostaticall vnion In his Saints by loue in Heauen by his Maiesty in the Church by an especiall assistance and direction hee is euery where whole filling Heauen and earth his power being present Aug. l. 7. de Ciu. Dei c. 30. Cyp. l. de vanit Idolorum his nature not absent All the world is his Temple yet must wee not vpon this pretence auoide Churches as Ieroboam disswaded from set times and places of Gods worship Ios Ant. l. 8. c. 3.8 because God heareth euery where he especially affordeth his presence in those places which he calleth his houses and therefore Cain for his murther not daring to come to the place appointed for the seruice of God is said to go out from the presence of the Lord Gen. 4 And when Ionas is sayde to flie from the presence of the Lord Ion. 1 Aben Ezra saith Gen. 4.16 Ion. 1.3 that hee fled from that place where the Prophets stood and offered themselues to be sent of God when he should commaund them If God bee in the midst of two or three gathered together in his name how much more gratiously is hee with the multitudes of godly whose prayers are as thunderclaps or the roaring of the sea Such oratories doe wee enioy founded by Iewes and Gentiles Bas as well as any of Romish Religion what was it for them in Popery to build Churches or repayre them Campians speech at the funerall of Sir T White In maxima rerum vilitate multorum opibus adiuti in a time of great cheapnesse of euerie thing and helped with the riches of many men It is a slander that our Faith or Credo pulleth downe those Churches which their Pater Noster founded Their claime is false to bee founders of Churches Constantine the great built Churches before Popery was hatched Charles the great B. Bad in Exod. Schooles of Diuinity and Vniuersities in Germany France Italy not for Popery but for the Bible to bee taught in and the Britaines ancient Inhabiters of this nation had their Churches and Temples and yet no Popery If they built or repayred our Churches Bede we may frequent them being swept and purged and reformed Some zealous professors the Lord rayseth vp to adde more vnto these and to vphold those already built that they may bee dedicated houses vnto God especially hauing so Religious a Leader as our Salomon who daily encourageth and commandeth to such charitable works The Lord his God hauing now giuen him rest on euery side 1. King 5 to these we call as to Fountaines of the water of life that men would taste and see that the Lord is good 1. King 5.4 Psal 34 We say come hither old men and Fathers Psal 34 4. and learne of Simeon to sing a Nunc dimittis Be not loth to depart in peace Come hither young men and brethren Wee will teach you the feare of the Lord. We here sing Praise the Lord all yee Nations Psal 127.1 praise him all yee people To this end is this Chappell this day dedicated vnto God and the lawfulnesse of dedication we haue seene We may reioice now and be glad in the Lord It will become vs wel to be thankfull and to testifie our thankefulnesse by continuing our care in our seuerall