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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61638	Shecinah, or, A demonstration of the divine presence in the places of religious worship being an essay, tending to promote piety, prevent apostacy, and to reduce grosly deluded souls, first to their right wits, then to the right waies, of Gods publick instituted worship / by John Stillingfleete ...	Stillingfleet, John, 1630 or 1-1687.	1663 (1663)	Wing S5680; ESTC R9466	109,230	256

hath pleased our Soveraign and Creator to set apart some portion of our time for his Worship and to indulge the rest to us to be employed according to the necessity of our natures § 8. Thus God taking a pattern from his own Creation employing six daies in the production of the world and resting the seventh Hee hath freely indulged six daies for common and ordinary work and a seventh hee set apart for his more solemn Worship and Service And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it Gen. 2.3 because that in it hee had rested from all his work which God created and made Gods sanctifying of the day was setting of it apart for an holy use that is designing it to his Publick Worship and Service It is true the word Sanctifie is variously used in Scriptures but here it must be one of these two waies taken Either 1. By infusion of Holiness and Sanctity into it as holy men are said to be sanctified or else 2. By separation of it from common use and dedication of it to holy use as the Temple and the Altar are said to be sanctified The first cannot be meant here because the circumstance of a seventh part of time is not capable of being made holy by the infusion of Habitual Holiness whereof onely intelligent creatures men and Angels are it must therefore be said to be sanctified in regard of its separation from common use and dedication to holy use as the Temple was which had no inherent holiness Being thus dedicated for an holy use it must be either for Gods use or mans that is that either God should keep this holy day or that man might observe it as an holy day unto God The dishonour that the observation of such an holy day would bring upon God must needs by asse us to beleeve that it was dedicated and consecrated for mans use for him to observe it as holy unto God This day is therefore said to be sanctified of God that man might sanctifie it and dedicate it unto God And hence it follows that as man could never have lawfully dedicated it unto God without a fore-going institution from God so the institution of God implies a known command given by God unto man So that if any desire to know where God commanded the observation of the Sabbath before Moses his time they may see it here necessarily implied in Gods sanctifying of it And that God doth here declare his mind by Moses by way of Prolepsis and Anticipation concerning the sanctification of the Sabbath because his intention was to sanctifie it two thousand five hundred years after Is but a meer shifting evasion of prejudiced minds the vanity of which hath been sufficiently discovered by many worthy and learned Divines Onely this may suffice to evidence that God himself hath interposed in the determination of a portion of time for his Service in that hee hath set apart a seventh part of mans time for his Worship And herein we may observe Gods infinite goodness and condiscention of love If God had asked man how much time hee would willingly allow for the worship of his Maker who had given him his Being and furnished the world with necessaries for the use of man Hee could not for shame have denyed God the one half of his time considering his frame and making that hee is half Spirit when as the holy Angels which are wholly spiritual in their Beings are continually employed in Gods Worship and Service and yet wee see God requires but a seventh part of our time They then must needs act very dis-ingenuously not to say highly dishonourably against God who would rob God of this too Shepheard Pref. to the Moral of Sab. Especially if that hold good which one hath observed That it is easie to demonstrate by Scripture and Argument as well as by experience That Religion is just as the Sabbath is and decaies and grows as the Sabbath is esteemed The immediate Honour and Worship of God which is brought forth and swadled in the three first Commands is nursed up and suckled in the bosome of the Sabbath If Popery will have grosse ignorance and blind devotion continued among its miserable captives let it then be made like the other Festivals a merry and a sporting Sabbath If any State would reduce the people under it to Romish Faith and blinde obedience again let them erect again for lawful sports and pastimes a dancing Sabbath If the God of this world would have all Professors enjoy a total immunity from the Law of God and all manner of licentiousness allowed without check of conscience let him then make an every day Sabbath § 9. 2. That some place also is necessary for man to worship God in is evident by the very light of Nature For every Body such as man hath must by the natural necessity of its Being be contained in some real place in the world and indeed to be in a place is so proper to a Body that wee may as well suppose it not to have a Being as not to admit of a local circumscription If a Body cannot be or exist then neither can it operate or perform any action unless it be in some place now therefore the Worship of God being an external action when publickly performed with others it not onely requires a place but necessarily requires a place capacious of many that must joyn in the same Worship Because Publick Worship speaks a joynt concurrence of several Worshippers for the performance of the same action of Religious Worship So that the very light of Nature gives its clear suffrage for the necessity of convenient places of meeting for the performance of the Publick Worship and Service of God Is it not a shame now not to live closely up to such clear dictates of the Light within must the convenient places of Publick meeting for Gods Worship be forsaken because the necessity of them is thus evident and apparent by Natural Light is not this to cry up inward Light and yet plainly to live in Darknesse voluntarily closing their eyes against the sparkling beams of it And if popular consent and the Christian Magistrates Civil Sanction have interposed in the designation of such places separating them from common and dedicating them to a Religious use and if prevailing Custome hath stiled the meeting places CHURCHES probably according to the languag of Saint Paul himself 1 Cor. 11.18.20 22. 34. verses compared See Mr. Modes Treatise of Churches Is it not meerly sottishness and ignorance to withdraw from these because they are so called and so set apart for Religious Worship How much better did the very Heathens improve their natural dictates than these pretended Patrons of the Light within who from the sight of a necessity of some Publick place for Worship invented their Groves Oratories and Temples for the service of their Idol Gods But I proceed § 10. Propos 5. God by his instituted Law did particularize