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A64835	Things worth thinking on, or, Helps to piety being remains of some meditations, experiences, and sentences &c. never published till now : and now are as an addition to them which were formerly made publick: together with a sermon entituled The beauty of holines / by Ralph Venning ...	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1664 (1664)	Wing V227; ESTC R38004	77,776	241

if not all interpreters meant and understood the People or Servants or Houshold of God Munster and Clarius who often transcribes Munster word for word express it thus Per Domum ornatam perpetuo perstituram intellige fidelium Ecclesam By this adorned House which is to endure for ever they understand the Church of the Faithful Doctor M. Causabon in these words holiness actively that is all manner of reverence in outward performances and duties but especially an holy life and conversation becometh them that profess themselves to be servants to so great and glorious a Majesty And the Apostles both St. Paul and St. Peter speak of the House and Temple of God in these expressions 1 Cor. 3.16 17. Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God The Temple of God is holy which Temple ye are 1 Pet. 2.5 Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house so that the House is the Houshold or Family of God 2. Holiness all and all manner of holiness becomes all and every one of the houses of God 'T is their desire and delight their beauty and comliness as the word imports and is so render'd by both Jewish and Christian Interpreters Holiness of Doctrine and Worship of heart and life becomes the houses of God not only becomes them as their duty to be holy but being holy is their comliness 'T is their greatest ornament and excellency in the eyes of God Angels and all good men As to fear God and keep his Commandments is the whole or all as duty so happiness of man being opposed to all the rest which the wisest of Men and Kings properly and significantly calls Vanity and vexation of spirit so holiness is the all of their beauty and excellency in distinction from the other exteriour ornaments I told you before that other beauty had many a great and big word attributed to it but we may allow them much more to be the Titles of Honour belonging to this Beauty of Holiness This then is the Glory the Joy the Praise the Excellency the Diadem the Crown the Ornament the Renown the Perfection of Beauty Doth not the Holy Spirit who indited the Scripture tell us so and what need we any further witness If 't were said but once by the Infallible Truth yet it were as true as if said an hundred times over and he that believes not one would not in likelihood believe ten or ten times ten quoted Scriptures though backt with the concurring Suffrages and Authorities of the Fathers and Expositors which the Holy Scripture needs not and therefore I shall not urge them Only to indear the argument and by that the thing viz. Holiness 't is worthy of a remark that the Pen-man of this Text utters it by way of admiration O Lord which indeed speaks the unspeakableness of it Oh how amiable How lovely How beautiful How becoming is Holiness and how doth it become thine House O Lord There 's want in the words that are and need of more words than there are to express it according to its worth and perfection And so in the New Testament we may observe St. Peter speaking of it with an admiration beyond what he could utter 2 Pet. 3.11 What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversations and godlinesses for so the reading is in the Original Greek not only single holiness and godliness but plurality holy conversations and godlinesses and that with an universality all holy c. yea with admiration too 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quanti-quales What manner c. Having thus dispatcht these three things First The discovery of what Holiness is in its proper Notion and Nature Secondly That it is an absolute and incomparable beauty Thirdly That it becomes and is the chiefest ornament of every House of God both above and here below I may come to the Application in the language of St. Paul Rom. 8.31 What shall we then say to these things 1. I say by way of Inference and Information That Sin doth not become but is the disgrace and reproach of the House of God Our blessed Lord and Saviour had not patience the Zeal of his Fathers House did so possess and eat him up to behold the Temple the House of Prayer and Holiness to be turn'd into a Den of Thieves he could not bear it nor endure the sight Matth. 21.12 13. When he found in the Temple those that sold Oxen and Sheep and Doves and the Changers of Money sitting he made a Scourge of small cords and drove them all out of the Temple and said Take these things hence and make not my Fathers House an House of Merchandise Certainly such things as lofty and scorning Pride griping and sordid Covetousness loathsome Lukewarmness un-manning Drunkenness beastial Vncleanness c. are the spots which diminish and disparage the beauty of the House of God as Saint Peter tells us 2 Pet. 2.13 It cannot be imagined that they who are enemies to holiness can be friends to or lovers of God They that live in sin whose practise and delight is to do wickedly are so far from being the House of God that they are but a Cage of unclean birds and like to that house which the Devil calls his own though 't were swept and garnisht Matth. 12.44 To hate holiness and to be in love with sin is by interpretation and true construction to be in love with Hell and to hate Heaven or to be in love with misery and to hate happiness This is that which opens the mouths of Jews Turks and Indians against the Christian Religion and as by the Jews of Old the Name of God and Christ is evil spoken of by reason of these Rom. 2.23 24. who by their evil deeds give great occasion to the enemies of our best friend the Lord Jesus Christ to blaspheme his Name The Christian Religion is Magnetical and attractive 't is of so pleasing an aspect and happyfying a Nature and Influence that did but the Professors of it make their Profession good I should not doubt almost but that the lovely and loving holy Jesus would quickly be the desire of and be embraced by all Nations whereas now when they come among Christians or Christians go among them and they see the Vileness the Injustice the Wantonness and the almost all manner of wickedness that attends and adheres to many of their conversations they are apt though illogically enough to say this is or is this their Religion as they did of Jerusalem of old when her beauty was departed from her Lam. 1.6 and 2.15 Is this the City that men call the perfection of beauty the joy of the whole Earth Thus they twit and taunt clap their hands hiss and wag their head and abhor the excellency of Jacob and beauty of Israel And truly if the Professors of this excellent lovely best and only saving Religion would but do themselves the right to consider of it it were impossible but they would