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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

may be drawne from that rule of the Apostle 1. Ioh. 4 4.5 1. Ioh. 4. Euery creature of God is good and nothing to bee refused if it bee receyued with thanksgiuing Pet. Mart. 4.4 of common place pag 66. For it is sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer It is meete that wee should giue thankes vnto God who hath giuen a place vnto his people wherein they may meete together for the practise of holie things and that wee should pray for a right and perfect vse of such a place that God there may bee glorified sinnes confessed holy doctrine administred zealous Prayers frequented a right discipline exercised and almes cheerefully distributed Was it not a Lawe Deut. 20.5 Deut. 20 that an Officer should speake vnto the people in battell What man is there that hath built a new house and hath not dedicated it Let him goe and returne to his house lest hee dye in the battell and another man dedicate it and shall not Gods house bee dedicated Psal 20 Thus Dauid did dedicate his house and intitled the thirtieth Psalme Schic Channucath Beth Le Dauid A song at the Dedication of the house of Dauid And Salomon his sonne dedicated Gods house At the dedication of the wall of Ierusalem the Leuites were sought out of their places to keepe the dedication with gladnes with thanksgiuing and with singing with Cymbals Psalteries with Harpes and the sonnes of the Singers gathered themselues together both out of the plaine Country round about Ierusalem and from the villages of Netophathi Neh. 12.28 Euseb l. 9. c. 10. bist Eccles l. 4. de vita Const Magni Neh. 12. Thus Constantine when he had repayred Bizantium and determined to vse that City for the seat of the Roman Empire desired to dedicate it to God and to that end called 318 Fathers which then held the Synode of Nice This great Emperour went to Hierusalem and built a Temple dedicating vnto God the same by Bishoppes which held a Councell at Tyrus Gregory Nazianzene giueth a reason why Churches were dedicated Greg 〈…〉 de vsu Eccl●siae Psal 51 10. 〈◊〉 4.24 Col. 3.10 to remember the hearers of renuing themselues by a right Spirit as Psal 51. To put on the new man Ep. 4. which is renewed in knowledge Col. 3. For there is no holinesse in outwarde things they are not capable of diuine qualities but beeing consecrate doe become instruments of the Spirit whereby our Faith is stirred vp The Lord by his Word commaundeth the faithfull to vse common Prayers Calu. Ins●●● l. 3. c. 20 s 30. and for this purpose there must bee common Temples so that men refusing to communicate theyr prayers with the people of God and entring into their chambers breake the commaundement of God These common Temples must bee dedicated by common prayers For if Saint Paul would not vndertake his iourney without Prayer Act. 20.36 Act. 20. If Dauid dedicated the morning vnto God by prayer Psal 143. and the Euening by Prayer Psal 143.8 Psal 77.6 Psal 71.18 Psal 141.2 Soz. l. 4 c. 13. Psal 77. his olde age by prayer Psal 71. and his prayers by a prayer Psal 141. Why should not the house of Prayer bee dedicated vnto God by Prayer By Prayer Basil dedicated a Temple which hee had newly built calling vnto him his Neighbour Bishopps Clem. Ep. ad Licobum So Clemens ordained Make Churches in fit places and let them be sanctified by Prayer So Athanasius confessed of the African Churches that they were thus dedicated Athan in Apo ad Constantin Lau●e Su●ius to 1. de vitis Sanctorum So practised Auxibius a Scholler of Saint Maries and an Archbishop if wee beleeue Metaphrastes He came into a Church newly built fell downe wept and praied Lord God which madest heauen and earth the Sea and all that therein is Strengthen me thy seruant giue me boldnesse that I may preach thy word freely and without feare Illuminate these present with thy grace that being conuerted from the error of Sathan they may acknowledge thee to be the true God and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ Mercifull God let thy holy Spirit dwell in this holy house which is built in thy holy name confirme and establish it keepe it immoueable in thy faith euen vnto the end of the world This was the forme of Dedication then and that Salomons consisted of a Prayer 1. King 8.22.23 wee finde 1. King 8. Vse 1. Which being so it may direct vs to auoyd the errors of the Church of Rome in her dedications holding from the 2. Councell of Braca Conc 2. C●n 5. that a Church should not be consecrated till prouision be made for gifts and reuenues and that there should still be lights in the Church the first part whereof is conuenient but the second needlesse what vse is there of lightes vnlesse men meete earely in the mornings as those Christians were constrained to doe in Plinies time Can. de conscer Dist 1. or late in the darke euenings holding that Temples should not be built or consecrated Con. of Wormes c. 3. in c. Missarum solennia Tribis ●ensis Synod Ann. 812 but by the will of the Bishop of Rome which is a palpable tyranny and vsurped authority holding that seruice must not bee sayd or sung but in places so dedicated whereas in case of necessity it may bee otherwise and deuotions may bee performed somtimes in other places as Izhak prayed in the field Israel in Egypt Moses at the Sea Elias vnder a tree Ieremie in a dungeon Ionas in the belly of the Whale Christ vpon the toppe of a mountain the Disciples in a shippe holding that all things must be done now in the dedicating of the Temples of christians which were done in dedicating the Temples of the Iewes Gratian dist 1. de Consecr whereas howsoeuer in morall duties we are more bound then they were yet not in ceremonies figures shadowes seeing the commaundements of that kind were abolished by the death of Christ Holding that the dedicating of Churches driueth thence Diuels Cont. Col Anno ●● 36 ●● 14. whereas Romanists cannot challenge this power to driue away Sathan at their pleasure For the Spirit diuideth seuerally to euery man as hee will 1. Cor. 12. They know not whether any bad Spirits bee there 1. Cor. 12 11. though sometimes it appeareth that in some wicked places euill Spirites haue haunted and inhabited Pln. 2 l. 7. Epist as by their effects hath appeared which hath caused none willingly there to inhabite they may as well coniure the whole world seeing Saint Paul calleth the Diuels the Rulers of the darkenesse of this World Ep. 6. Yea often it is knowne that worse Spirits can not frequent those places then themselues Epi. 6.13 Their other Ceremonies are ridiculous of twelue Candles before twelue Images signifying the twelue Apostles Hospin de Orig dedicat and

that we must walke in light of three times walking round signifying Christs triple circuite more then he made from heauen to the world from the world to Limbus Io Sleid l. 21. Commenta● from Limbus to heauen or the threefold estate of the Church of married of widdowes of Virgins Dura in Rationali Diu●no●ū l. 1 c. 6. of three times knocking at the doore signifying the three-fold right which God hath in our hearts because he made vs redeemed vs and hath giuen himselfe vnto vs of sprinckling water signifying Baptisme and Repentance of making characters in ashes cast vpon the pauement with lines drawne from the right hand vnto the left and from the left hand vnto the right signifying the coniunction of two people Their ascribing pardons at such times of Dedication are as vaine Anns Dom. 1066. as Alexander the second gaue vnto any one that came deuoutly to the dedication at Cassina 40 dayes remission G●eg Nicae Synod 2. Anno 788. their burning of incense in them their bringing of reliques to such dedications their inuocating of the Martyrs to whom they build Churches Wee stand for a Dedication by prayer of such places but cast away those gulleries Aug. de Ciu l. 8. c. 27. The Gentiles saith Austin erected temples to their Gods so did our Brittaines sometimes in Scotland a Temple to Mars in Cornewall a Temple to Mercurie Stow Ann●l Cambd Brittan B. Iewel Tract de Sacris Scriptu● pag. 129. in Bangor a temple to Minerua in Essex a temple to Victoria in Leycester a temple to Ianus in Yorke where Peters is now a temple to Bellona in London where Paul is now a temple to Diana No more then three and fifty yeares before the Incarnation of Christ when Iulius Caesar came out of France into England so absurd were our people to serue these falsly supposed Gods and Goddesses but now the gospell being preached these are banished such darknesse dispelled Our Churches and Chappels are dedicated to the true God the very name Kirke or Church an abbreuiation of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords house sounding so much D●n l. 4 c. 16 Wee say as Damascene We build Temples vnto God in the names of the Saints as Aug Aug. l 8. de Ciuit Dei c. vlt. l. 22. de Ciu. c. 10 We build not temples vnto our Martyrs as vnto Gods but memorials as vnto dead men whose Spirits with God are still liuing Wee doe not crye at the Altars O Peter O Paul O Cyprian wee offer vnto thee our oblation but at theyr Memorials we offer to God who made them men and Martyrs giuing thanks for theyr victories and encouraging our selues by calling vpon God to the like Crowns of Martyrdome If we retaine the names of some who were not Christians by calling Churches after theyr names we doe but as Saint Luke who vsed the name of Mars hill where the Areopagites sate Act. Act. 17.19.22 Act 28.11 17 and the names of Castor and Pollux false Gods Act. 28 and Iob and Amos the names of Arcturus Iob. 9.9.38.31 Amos 5.8 Orion Pleiades Iob. 9 notwithstanding they had fabulous and poeticall fictions The most of our Churches haue the names of Saints and Martyrs which we vse as they doe also in Geneua that miraculous Sanctuarie for many distressed Protestants their chiefe church retayning the name of Saint Peter another of Saint Magdalen another of Saint Geruase whither they vsually resort to holy exercises If any of our Churches were erected by the superstitious wee must acknowledge how much wee are bound to God that wee may haue such houses which we builded not wels which wee digged not Deut. 6 enioy those Churches which wee prepared not Deu. 6.11 as Noah had the benefit of that Arke which was framed by some prophane Ship-wright Ludolphus Our Churches haue the pure Gospell the true Sacraments and are dedicated vnto God by prayer which we defend as following our Sauiour who will haue his house to bee called a house of Prayer being present at the Feast of the dedication of it in Ierusalem VSE 2. Vse 2. Which may serue for an Instruction to vs to bee carefull for the dedicating of our Temples vnto God both Materiall and Spirituall A Materiall Temple Our Materiall Temples are Houses of wood and stone prepared for the assemblies of Christians yet Few vse them as dedicated vnto God Popish Recusants are out of loue with our dedicated houses becau●●●●erein their Masse-Priests and vnknowne languag● is silenced their Images defaced their idolatrous inuocations adorations abandoned and would haue their refractarie fancie to be called by the name of Conscience they are inuited here to the Supper of the Lambe yet will not come and therefore well by the Magistrate may be compelled to come in Luc. 14.23 that the house may be full A blessed compulsion it is for a man to be driuen to truth for a woman to bee forced to heauen The idle Libertine preferreth his Couch before our dedicated Temples Amban Psal 129. Isa● 29.13 herein worse then the Iew who did yeeld his speech and presence to the word but he forsooth will not come so farre as the Church though he be very neare it or if such come we may say as Chrysostome of some in his time We see them stand and trifle while Prayer is sayde Chrys●●●om 24 in Acta yea not onely when Prayer is sayde but when the Priest blesseth Doe you not know that you stand with the Angels sing and say Hymnes with them stand you laughing It were no maruel if God should send out a thunderbolt not only vpon them Hom 36. in 1. ad Cor. but vpon vs also for surely these thinges deserue a thunderbolt The Church is not a Barbars shoppe or an Apothecaries house or a common court but a place of Angels the Court of Heauen and Heauen it selfe Chrys 15 in Heb. Were they to enter into a Princes court they would order their habite looke and gate but entring into the Church the Court of the heauenly King they laugh iangle walke and make bargaines It is Gods house Aug. Regula Let nothing bee done heere but what may be fit for the presence of God the name of it teacheth vs to pray It is house of Prayer Reuerence is due to the very Cloysters Churchyards the bodyes of many Saints lodging there in peace whose soules rest with God in Heauen The Anabaptist or Donatist an old Rogatian is so peeuish that hee abstaineth from the assemblies of all other men whatsoeuer not of his opinion and vpon conceit of some spots in our dedicated Churches singles himselfe with his schismatical troupe to som odde corner in a priuate house wood or barne in the night and darkenesse louing darkenesse and therefore walking in darkenesse or thinking their priuate conuenticle to be the onely true Church because they conceiue some spots and spotted men doe

remayne amongst vs not lamenting praying labouring for a redresse but auoyding the land which is no true valour to run away especially to places which are common harbours of all opinions and heresies where they cannot but draw in some stench of these hauing left the free and cleare aire of the Gospel swallowing in Camels there who could not endure Gnats here Augustine tooke another course For the chaffes sake wee doe not forsake the threshing-floore of the Lord Aug. Ep. 48. nor for the bad fishes doe we breake the net of the Lord nor for the Goates which are to be seuered in the end do we leaue the Flocke of the Lord nor for the vessels made to dishonour doe wee flit out of the house of the Lord. Let vs resolue so to pray for any thing that may seem to be amisse knowing that the Spouse will be blacke while she is vpon earth Cant. 1 Can. 1.5 that in the best field where Christ sowed seede and the best seede tares spring vp as well as wheate and both must grow together till the Haruest M●● 1● 30 Mat. 13. Let vs not flie from these materiall dedicated Temples but hold it our ioy that here wee may come to dedicate and deuote our selues vnto God Wee our selues are spirituall Temples 1. Cor. 3.17 A●pirituall Temple Our soules are the Temples of God If any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy for the Temple of God is holy which Temple yee are Our bodies in comparison of our soules are but as wals of clay encompassing a treasure as the woodden boxes of pretious Iewels a course case to a sweete instrument or a maske to a beautifull face It is holie we must not prophane it God created it in infusion and infused it in creation It should bee holy as he is holy without holinesse wee can neyther bee named nor be Christians It is the Riches of the Saints the beauty of Angeis delight of God Whosoeuer hath this is a Temple of God and he that wanteth it is a dwelling place of Sathan Let the soule be free from sinne 〈…〉 and Sathan will bee driuen farre from the soule of the finner and he shall dedicate this Temple vnto God A celestiall Temple There is another Temple and it is celestiall which if wee desire to feast in we must bee dedicated in bodies and soules vnto God we must glorifie God here and then wee shall bee glorified by him there Blessed are al they that dwel in this house they shall euer be praysing of God Psal 64.4 there Charitie shall bee perfect ●umb l. 4. l. 49. Euery man shall reioyce as much for anothers good as he doth for his owne they that looked downward here at sorrow not to be repented of shall there looke vpward at ioy they that walked here in redde shall there be cloathed with white Thinke that thou one day mayest come into this Temple as thou doest now into a material Temple Per 〈◊〉 Ecclesia intramus in ●o●●ā Paradisi This is the gate by which we must enter in Here we must bee polished as corner stones for the heauenly Citie of Ierusalem Heere we fitte our selues with wedding garments that wee be not cast out into that place where is weeping and gnashing of teeth Here we are in Gods chamber of Presence that we may be brought into his presence and chamber of ioy whence we shall neuer bee shut out Let vs then while the house of the Lord is established encourage one another saying Let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob and he will teach vs of his wayes and wee will walke in his pathes Isa 2. Isa 2.2.3 The Temple was Christs walke as we find in these words And Iesus walked in the Temple in Salomons Porch Amongst the Iewes the Temple was had in much reuerence Chrys in Act. 6.14 Ier. 7.4 Act. 4.1 Bar. Ioh. 12.20 Act. 8.27 Ios 11. Ant. c. vlt. it was held a great honour to liue neere vnto it theyr common cry was The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord Ier. 7. The Temple had a captaine Act. 4. as afterwardes Souldiers called Templarij dwelling neere to the Temple Knights of Ierusalem instituted Anno 1230. The Gentiles came to worship at the Temple as that Eunuch of great authority vnder Candace Queene of the Ethiopians Act. 8. and Alexander the Great 2. Mac. 3.3 35 Seleucus King of Asia Heliodorus Ios Gor. l. 3. c. 1. Antiochus and others mentioned by Gorionides Famous haue been the temple of Caesar the temple of Bellona M. Purch in Pilg hauing sixe thousand seruants a●out it in Cappadocia the temple of Iupiter in Morimena with three thousand votaries at Carrhae they had the Temple of the Moone at Taxilla a temple of the Sunne at Athens they had a temple of Mercie 〈…〉 causing a decree to bee made that they which fled thither for succour might not be pulled away from thence Such a Sanctuarie was the Temple of Theseus such an immunity was translated vnto the Temples of Christians to Abbies and Monasteries 〈…〉 when Princes had dedicated their names vnto Christ prouiding by lawes that whosoeuer should violently draw away any from thence they should incurre the crime of treason which was the cause that whē Alaricus the King of the Gothes had surprised the City of Rome so many as fledde vnto the great Church of Saint Peter were through a wonderfull worke of God preserued But abuses hauing hence growne and the Church Common-wealth iniuried these are in many places abrogated when seruants hence tooke occasion to bee disobedient and vndutifull vnconscionable debters defrauded their creditors thieues encreased and that was verefied Nullos tam saepe ad Ecclesiae asylum sugere quàm qui nec Deum nec Ecclesiam curabant None more vsually and often fledde to the Sanctuary of the Church then they that cared neyther for God nor the Church The Temples of our times are for prayer preaching administration of the Sacraments and so Sanctuaries for troubled soules who desire to bee fed with the sincere milke of the word wherein not onely the Lambe may wade but the Lyon may swimme Christ honoured the Temple with his walke in Salomons Porch His passion was neere and as it were at the dore therefore he walked in the Porch in Salomons porch where sacrifices were offered that we might much more frequent those places where there is a remembrance of his offering vp of himselfe once for all In Salomons Porch because there often Salomon vsed to pray or it is called Salomons Porch because it was made in imitation of that the length whereof was twenty cubites and the bredth thereof ten cubites 1. Kin. 6.3 1. King 6. Here he walked shewing that sometimes a man may retire and rest himselfe but not so that he rust for hee tooke