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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02233	The honour of Christian churches and the necessitie of frequenting of divine service and publike prayers in them. Delivered in a sermon at VVite-Hall before the Kings most excellent Majestie on the eight day of December last being Sunday, by Walter Bancanquall ...	Balcanquhall, Walter, 1586?-1645.	1633 (1633)	STC 1237; ESTC S100539	18,198	32

were in Atrio came the penitents such as did penance but no further the third place was the body of the Church which we may call Sanctum and whither the people came to bee partakers of Gods worship and the fourth was as it were the Sanctum Sanctorum the inclosed place where the Altar or Communion-Table stood into which none did enter but such as were in holy Orders and had power to consecrate the blessed Elements so great followers were the Primitive Christians of antiquity rather than incliners unto novelty Now to move our times in which some pull down as fast as our Fathers built and deface as much as they did decke a little to looke to Gods houses and buildings I shall briefly offer two things to your consideration First the great estimation which God hath of these houses next the high esteeme in which men have had them so that if we either feare God or reverence men there can no argument be wanting God his estimation of Temples appeareth by his delivering unto Moses the patterne of the Tabernacle even to the least pin which was to be but a patterne of the Temple by not giving way to David his building of the Temple although a man according to Gods owne heart onely for that exception of bloud which God had against him and not of bloud unlawfully shed but in lawfull warres and undertaken by God his owne commandement for this exception was laid against David before the matter of Vriah by his accepting the Temple at Salomons hands in the very time of the dedication of it filling it so with his presence in the cloud that the Priests were interrupted in performing the rites of consecration by promising to put his name there for ever and to fix his eyes and heart there perpetually by performing this his promise of presence for many times he appeared betweene the Cherubins and in that Temple did inspire diverse with the spirit of prophesie by ordering that the most precious and holy things should be kept in it the Arke of the Testament the Tables of the Law Aarons rod the heavenly fire Vrim and Thummim c. By threatning the destruction of that Temple as the greatest judgement that should ever befall them as indeed it was for after the destruction of that Temple they ceased to be any more a people And as by God so by men this Temple of all buildings had in the highest esteeme Hierusalem in regard of it counted the joy of the whole earth to this Temple came all the people once in the yeare and when they did not come they powred forth their supplications with their faces towards it you know David his one wish although it was not granted him that All his life long he might dwell in the house of the Lord and visit the beauty of his holy Temple he accounted the Sparrowes happy which might but hop and sing and lay their young about the Altars of it he accounted the meanest officer even a doore-keeper in it happier than they that lived in the Pallaces of Princes In a word consider the revenge which Christ who was God taketh here upon the profaners of the Temple and the vast expence laid out upon it by David and Salomon who were men and we must needs see that high esteeme in which that Temple was had both by God and men But what is all this will you say to our Christian Churches Very much for they are come in place of that Temple as the Christian Religion is come in place of the Iewish that Temple was but a type of our Churches as all that service was a type of our Christ We have an Altar saith the Apostle and therefore a Priesthood as that Temple had there was the Arke of the Testament our Churches are the Arkes of two Testaments of theirs which was the old Testament and of another better than theirs the new Testament in our Churches are the daily sacrifices of praise and prayer the two Tables of the Law and they expounded and vindicated from false gloses and interpretations by our Saviour in the 5 of Math. which that Temple had not in our Churches is Aarons rod that is Ecclesiasticall discipline Vrim and Thummim in our Priests and above all in our Churches is celebrated the commemorative sacrifice of the most precious body and bloud of the Sonne of God no doubt then to be made of Gods high esteeme of Christian Churches built unto him Now how they have beene honoured by men witnesse the infinite cost bestowed by our fore-fathers in fabricke and maintenance of them the infinite priviledges granted by Christian Princes unto them although the beginning of our age did scatter as fast as the former age did gather and the later lawes of taking no more from the Church were farre more necessary than those former lawes for giving no more to it Whose charity then can bee straitned when a house of God is to be inlarged when either it is to be built or being built is to be kept from ruine Can men have summer and winter houses and the Temple of God lie so as it keepeth out neither summer Sun nor winter weather the Temple of God I say a name so glorious that even the most glorious all the persons of the Trinity delight to be called by it God the Father Revel 21. 22. Iohn saw no Temple in the holy City For the Lord God Almighty and the Lambe are the Temple of it God the Sonne his person the Lambe in that place is called a Temple by Saint Iohn his body by himselfe Destroy this Temple and I will build it up againe in three dayes The Holy Ghost although he be not called a Temple yet Temples he hath and delighteth to dwell in them even our bodies Know ye not that your bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost The summe of all is houses are to be built unto God and being built are highly to be honoured because they are his houses by propriety which I told you was the second particular in the Church its name and is now the next point to be spoken of My house My house that is mine by propriety and if so then we must looke to three things First if the Church be Gods house then Take heed to thy foot when thou enterest into it Eccles. 4. 17. do not rush rudely nor rashly into it but be sure you keep your distance els you may be turned back with shame enough and sent home unjustified as the Pharisi● was because he kept not the Publican his distance who stood afarre off and would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven How fearefull saith Iacob is this place the Lord was in it and I knew it not it is nothing els but the house of God and the very gate of heaven The truth then is if the Church be my house that is Gods we must observe a reverend distance in all our approaches which we make to