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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13214	Iacobs vovv A sermon preached before his Maiestie, and the Prince his Highnesse, at Hampton Court, September. 23. 1621. By Christopher Swale, Doctor of Diuinitie, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinarie.; Jacobs vow.	Swale, Christopher, d. 1645.	1621 (1621)	STC 23512; ESTC S106180	14,710	30

had All which were necessary duties and euery one of them hath a necessary relation and dependance vpon other For if God must be worshipped then must hee haue a place to be worshipped in which is here called an House and our SAVIOVR saith Mar. 11.17 shall of all nations bee called the House of Prayer And if a House of Prayer then a maintenance for that House and them that shall say Prayers in it Of these in order and first of the first Then shall the Lord be my God To haue the LORD for our GOD is the very summe of the first Commandement the meaning whereof as all Interpreters expound it is to loue God aboue all to make him our treasure and infinitely to preferre him and his Seruice before our selues and all other things in the world A duetie whereunto euery man is bound as well as Iacob and euery man that is not an Atheist will confesse and professe as much But how they performe this dutie or either loue or preferre God aboue all who so farre preferre themselues their honours pleasures and profits vnto Gods Seruice that they spend more houres of time and pounds of money vpon the one then minutes or pence vpon the other and bestow more cost euen vpon points and shooe-strings in one day then vpon the worshipping of God in a whole yeere iudge ye Aures omnium pulso conscientias singulorum conuenio as Saint Augustine speaketh If the Lord be their God where is his feare where is his loue where is his honour there goeth more to this then the hearing of a Sermon once or twise a weeke especially as it is vsually heard which is scarce worth the name of a hearing and Iacob meant more then so in my Text. For to haue the Lord for our God is to loue him aboue all as I said before and to serue him Semper ad semper with an vniuersall obedience both in regard of time and place and with Dauid to haue respect not vnto some one or two Psal 119.6 but vnto all his Commandements They which serue God on the Sundaies but not on the weeke-dayes in the Church not in their Chambers Closets Callings and whole course of life and that not for praise profit pleasing of men or custome but out of a good and honest heart and a conscience of their duties doe not performe this part of Iacobs Vow to haue the Lord for their God And thus much of the first dutie The second followeth in the next words And this stone which I haue set vp for a pillar shal be Gods House A dutie necessarily depending vpon the former for if God must be worshipped then must he haue a place to be worshipped in here called an House Now some thinke that this place where Iacob slept and set vp this Pillar was Mount Moria and that he called it Bethel or the House of God Prophetically by a Prolepsis because the Temple should afterwards bee built there yet there may be two other reasons why Iacob calleth this pillar Gods House as before he called the very place Bethel 1. Because God had manifested his presence here in an extraordinary manner as he did afterwards both in the wandring tabernacle and in the fixed Temple where he was therefore said to dwell 1. King 8.13 as in an House 2. Because Iacob consecrated this place vnto the Seruice of God and chap. 35. and 14. verse set vp an Altar for his worship in stead of this Pillar and as may probably be thought would haue built a House for Prayer and sacrificed in this place if him selfe and the Church had beene then setled here and had opportunitie and meanes to haue done it But being a Pilgrime and in his iourney he did what he could for the present he anointed a Pillar erected an Altar for Sacrifice and dedicated a place for an House of Prayer whereby we may see what great care this holy Patriarke had of the place of Gods worship his first care was for the worship it selfe which hee vowed in the former words his next care is of the place of his worship in these words To teach vs that as our first care should be of the worship of God so our second care should be of the place of his worship The obiect of our first loue must be God him selfe the obiect of our second loue must be the House of God O Lord I haue loued the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth saith Dauid Psal 26.8 Thy seruants take pleasure in her stones and fauour the very dust thereof Psal 102.14 And Psal 84.10 One day in thy Courts is better then a thousand I had rather be a doore-keeper in the house of my God then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse And he rendreth the reason why he so exceedingly loued the House of God in the very next verse for there the Lord is the sunne and shield Vers 11 there hee will giue grace and glorie and no good thing will he withhold from them that liue a godly life God is in all places by a generall prouidence but hee dwelleth in his house by a speciall presence Hee distilleth the droppes of his mercie vpon euery part of the earth but hee powreth it downe vpon that holy ground which is dedicate to his Seruice There be shineth like the Sunne there hee defendeth like a shield hee filled the Temple at Ierusalem with his glorie hee made many gracious promises to them that praied therein or towards it and still where two or three are gathered together in his Name hee will be in the middest amongst them Mat. 18.20 and no good thing will he with-hold from them that worship him in the beautie of holinesse and wait for his louing kindnesse in the middest of his Temple Psal 48.9 Priuate Conuenticles are not to be compared with the publique Assemblies of the Church that is both the throne of Gods glorie and his Mercie-seat Which euer so inflamed the holy men of God in former ages with the zeale of his House that they spared neither cost nor paines nor euer affected any thing so much as the building and beautifying thereof I will not suffer mine eyes to sleepe nor my eye-lids to slumber saith Dauid vntill I find out a place for the Lord an habitation for the mightie God of Iacob Psal 132. Luke 7.5 The good Centurion in the Gospel builded a Synagogue at his owne charges Great Constantine that mirrour of deuotion bare twelue baskets of earth vpon his owne shoulders towards the founding of a Church And when that noble Captaine Terentius had done such seruice in Armenia that the Emperour Valens bade him aske whatsoeuer hee would for a reward of his seruice his onely suite as Theodoret reporteth was vt Orthodoxis vna praeberetur Ecclesia Hist tripart lib. 8. cap. 13. And when the Emperour tare his petition and bade him aske somewhat els hee still persisted in his