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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10512	Characters of true blessednesse delivered in a sermon preached at Saint Maries Church in Dover. Sep. 21. 1637. At the funeral of Mrs. Alice Percivall, wife of Anthony Percivall Esquire. By Iohn Reading.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1638 (1638)	STC 20787; ESTC S119785	36,032	155

tribulation or anguish or persecution In all these things wee are more than conquerers through him that loved us for I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor any creature shall bee able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. Yea blessed are the dead in the Lord because living or dying we are the Lords fellow citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of the God of the living Which bringeth mee to the next part the Saints Unity with God and his Church That dwell in thy house This tearme sometimes importeth the materiall temple or house of prayer 2 Sam. 7. 13. 1. 1 King 5. 5 1 King 6. 37. Ioh. 2. 14. 16. 17. Somtimes the Church of the living God 1 Tim. 3. 15 the pillar and ground of truth that is the faithfull thereon grounded and established The living temples of the holy Ghost 1 Cor. 6. 19. and so all the faithfull and all the Churches of Christ are but one Catholike Church as all seas however they receive divers denominations from the divers shores they wash are but one sea And this house of God is not in walls and roofes but in the faith and truth in mens hearts this is a faithfull house and an immortall temple which Christ of whom Solomon the sonne of David was a figure did build and to which hee calleth all nations of the earth in one faith one baptisme one truth and one hope of salvation in him who is the sole Saviour and Mediatour betweene God and man 1 Tim. 2. 5. Act. 4. 12. the onely doore of the great temple the way of light the guide to life So that wee are here to consider these three ascensions in the house of God First the house of prayer set apart and consecrated to the service of God where the holy oracles of God and Sacraments are rightly administred whence the spiritual incense of publike prayers and sweete odours of thankesgiving are offered from the golden censer by the Angell of the Covenant before the throne of God Rev. 8. 3 4. where the blessed assemble on earth where the honour of God dwelleth among men where Christ hath promised to bee present Matth. 18. 20. where that blessed Anna continued serving God with fastings and prayers night and day Luk. 2. 37. neither in prosperity nor in adversity ceasing this house the Church militant in sundry parts of the world frequenteth and reverenceth for his sake who there most evidently manifesteth his presence on earth and in his holy ordinance and sacred mysteries is there worshipped it was Davids greatest griefe in his exile as of other Saints that they could not be present here for this they emulated the sparrow and swallow who had free accesse to the places neere Gods altars And undoubtedly all the Saints on earth beare the like affection to the house of God above all amiable places of the earth With this wee may joyne all that are by the outward seales of the covenant admitted into the visible Church as Guests invited to the great Supper without or with the wedding garment to which the atrium Iudae●rum answered or that to which cleane and uncleane might come 2. The communion of Saints who are the body of Christ and temple of Gods holy spirit built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone in whom all the building coupled together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord into which are admitted onely those who have the inward seale of Gods covenant whom hee hath marked for his owne as a royall Priesthood and holy nation to which the Sanctuarie inward house or At●ium sacerdo●um answered 3. The Coelestiall Temple the great city holy Hierusalem into which no uncleane thing shall enter prefigured by that Sanctum S●●ctorum into which Christ our blessed High-priest is entred to obtaine eternall redemption for us which house of God Lyra here understandeth Ierusalem which is above the Saints Metropolis Galat. 4. 26. not now visible but by the eye of faith whereof Christ is a citizen the Concives the Patriarkes Prophets Martyrs Saints and Angells Into the second s●ate of grace and this third of glory may come no stranger none of uncircumcised heart that is unb●l●ever or unholy they only who are holy are truly Priests unto the Lord whence it may appeare that Vnity with God and his Church is a character and mark of true happinesse Unity I say in love and sanctity out of which is misery and indeed hee cannot have God his Father who hath not the Church for his Mother which as I said is but one and that as Iacob said of Be●hel Genes 28. 17. is the house of God and the gate of heaven the house of faith into which if any enter not out of which if any wilfully goe out he alienat th himselfe from all hope of eternall life Hee that eateth the Paschall Lamb out of this house is prophane out of this arke there is no salvation This is as Rahabs house Iosh 6. 22. the covenant of peace is onely with them that keepe within if any go out his blood shall be upon his own head this is the body of Christ whereof he is the head and Saviour Ephes 5. 23. in whom onely and through whom is true blessednesse 1. Bee not deceived the Laver set betweene the tabernacle of the congregation and the Altar to clense all who entred thereinto declared in the figure that no unrighteous person unclean thing alient or uncircum cised in heart shall enter into the house and kingdome of God 2. Beguile not thy selfe with the fruitlesse name of a Christian not to bee called so but to bee so maketh happy If thou art so named but not so natured thou art but as the Church of Sardi Rev. 3. 1. thou hast a name that thou livest but thou art dead It were lesse evill to bee wicked any where in the world than in Gods house the excellencie of the prerogative aggravateth the fault committed which like dirt upon the Raven were lesse conspicuous in persons of lesse eminence and the very religion which a wicked man profesleth and dishonoureth accuseth him Lesse sin hath he who knoweth not the Law of God than hee that contemneth it they cause the holy Name of God to bee blasphemed who in words professe to know God and in deedes deny him therfore is that most damnable wickednesse which some title of goodnesse accuseth and the guilt of the impious is an holy name Looke therefore to thy foot thou that commest into the house of God he is not blessed who dwelleth here as El●es sonnes to make men abhorre the offering of God as the buyers and sellers to the prophanation of the holy Temple as those seventy Ancients of