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A26350	The duty of daily frequenting the publick service of the church recommended in a sermon preached in a chapel at Wragby in Lincoln-shire erected to that purpose by Sir Edmound Turnor, Kt., and consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln the 18th day of July, 1697 / by John Adamson.	Adamson, John.	1698 (1698)	Wing A500; ESTC R27093	17,308	34

of their Guilt or Danger Further by daily Reading or hearing read at the Publick Service of our Church a Portion of the I salms of David so full of Piety and Devotion and some Chapters in the Bible too generally I fear neglected by Christians in private where we have excellent Rules and Examples of Holy Living and powerful Motives to it This must needs be granted to conduce very much to the directing and reforming our Lives If this blessed Effect be not wrought upon all who come daily to the Publick Prayers of our Church more is the Pity But the Fault is in themselves and not in our Prayers If some frequent them only in Formality and Hypocrisie 't is no wonder they are never the better for them Do thou frequent them with Sincerity Devotion and Attention and be assured thou shalt receive great spiritual Improvement by them as I doubt not but thousands of the sincere Members of our Church to their inexpressible Comfort do find 2. This advantage of a good Life by Frequency in Publick Prayer is also and that chiefly to be ascribed to the Blessing of God and the powerful working of his Grace upon us which Blessing is promised to us and to be obtain'd by us only in the serious Use of the Duty of Prayer so qualified as I before hinted Thus our Blessed Saviour instructs us Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find Knock and it shall opened unto you where that he refers particularly to this Blessing of his Grace and Holy Spirit appears from these following words If ye being evil know how to give good gifts unto your Children how much more shall your Father which is in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him This I acknowledge is spoken of Prayer in in general but it holds true of Publick Prayer with a great advantage as you have already heard If then Frequency in Publick Prayer does thus promote the Honour of God and our Religion if it procures those Blessings we want either for our selves or others and greatly tends to promote a good Life if we have any regard to the Honour of God and our Religion if any real desire to be Happy here or hereafter we shall rejoyce in all Opportunities of Publick Prayer and heartily endeavour so to Order our Affairs that nothing may hinder our constant Attendance at them And if Frequency in Publick Prayer be so needfull a Duty as you have seen the like Frequency and that with the greatest Seriousness in receiving the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper which is the highest Solemnity of Prayer is upon the Account of the same and greater Reasons as needful a Duty where there are the happy Opportunities of it And in this also the worthy Founder of your Chapel hath very piously provided for you And as I understand many of you purpose very commendably to Communicate on this day so I hope and earnestly exhort you will do it with that Sincerity in a hearty Repentance for your Sins and serious Resolutions of a Holy Life that you may receive much spiritual Comfort and Improvement by it and then you will even rejoyce in the frequent Opportunities of this Holy Sacrament in this place and make it your constant Care as it is your certain Duty to dispose your selves for a worthy partaking of them Consider well and always bear it in mind how great your Guilt will be how heavy your Condemnation if ye shall slight and neglect or any ways abuse such powerful means of Salvation But I must not insist upon this copious Subject I only crave your Patience whilst I observe unto you three or four practical Inferences from what has been discoursed INFERENCES 1. If these Places be Houses of Prayer and by our Saviour's own direction not to be employ'd in common Uses then let us always treat them with Respect and Reverence considering they are God's Houses Consecrated to his more immediate Service and in which he is pleased to vouchsafe his more peculiar Presence In respect of this his Presence God declares that the Place where he appear'd to Moses was Consecrated and therefore required him to shew Reverence to it Put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place whereon thou standest is Holy Ground The like was commanded to Ioshua upon the same account and this as a Token of Respect Obedience and Humility The Custom being taken as some Conjecture from Captives or Bond-Slaves who used to go barefoot in token of their Subjection Hence arose that Custom amongst the Jews for the Priests to enter into the Temple barefoot The like was observed amongst the very Heathen who had their Nudipedalia Sacra and put off their Shoes when they enter'd the Temple of Apollo So some have observ'd That even amongst the Turks and Aethiopick Christians they go not into their Sacred Assemblies but with their Feet naked That was the ancient way amongst them of expressing their Reverence as uncovering the Head is now amongst us And will not all these rise up in Judgment against us and condemn us if we permit them to shew more Respect and Honour to the Places of their false Worship than we to those of the True Thus we find St. Paul requiring Decency in the Church particularly that Men be uncovered and Women covered there Because of the Angels they being supposed both under the Old and New Testament to be present in the places of God's Publick Service observing the Behaviour of all there present and accusing every Indeceney and Disrespect to God And from this their presence it is that God is said to be peculiarly present in Churches whose presence in one place more than in another in respect of himself is not easily conceivable and so to fit them to be the Houses of God according to the Explication of Iacob who upon the Vision of Angels at Luz awakes and says How venerable is this Place the Lord is in it this is none other but the House of God Upon this Account we read that the Primitive Christians were wont to shew very great Respect and Reverence in the Church as being the solemn Place of Worship and where God did more peculiarly manifest his Presence and are told by a learned Author That they came into the Church as into the Palace of the Great King with Fear and Trembling and that the Emperors themselves who otherwise never went without their Guard about them yet when they came to go into the Church used to lay down their Arms to leave their Guard behind them and to put off their Crowns all as Tokens of that high Respect they bare to those Religious Places Let them always then be esteemed Holy by us as being set a part for holy Uses and in relation to God and to their End I mean not otherwise and let them accordingly be always treated by us 2. If they be Houses of Prayer

God and him to answer the great End of this his Bounty to you by living to the Honour of God and your Religion particularly by a constant and devout attendance at the Prayers and Sacraments which will be performed in this Place Be very careful I beseech you to approve your selves Widows indeed that so you may be worthy of ' that Honor i. e. Relief and Maintenance as the Original Word often signifies in Scripture which the Apostle would have to be given to such in 1 Tim. 5. 3. Honor i. e. Relieve Widows that are Widows indeed And who are such he tells us v. 5 7 10. And such I hope and heartily pray All you may be She trusteth in God and continueth in Supplications and Prayers night and day She is blameless and well reported of for good Works and has diligently followed every good Work This is the sum of what your Blessed Saviour and I presume to say your pious Benefactor also expects from you viz. That you be Constant and Serious at Prayers and Sacraments That your Conversation be Blameless and of good Report particularly for Humility Gravity Sobriety Contentedness Weanedness from the World Love and Peaceableness amongst your selves and towards all Men Graces which more especially adorn your Station and that you be diligent Followers of every good Work Then shall you approve your selves Widows indeed in the Apostles Sense to the Honor of your Lord the Reputation of your Religion the great Satisfaction of your Benefactor and the mighty Encouragement of such Pious and Charitable Acts to your own great Comforts whilst you live in this World and to your eternal Happiness in the World to come Which eternal Happiness God in his due time make you and all of us Partakers of for the sake of his dear Son Iesus Christ our Saviour To whom with the Father and Blessed Spirit be ascribed all Obedience Adoration and Praise now and for evermore Amen For the Direction and Assistance of the more Ignorant let me here add 'T is very Adviseable that all Persons when they intend to partake of our publick Prayers hasten to the House of Prayer as soon as the Bell begins to call to it that so they may have some little time before Prayers begin to raise their Devotions and fix their Thoughts upon the Duties before them by considering the Weightiness of them and the Presence of God humbly and earnestly Begging his Assistance in the Performance of them which may be done by those who are not better provided in this or the like short Prayer following Let thy merciful Ears O Lord be open to the Prayers of thy humble Servants And grant that we may now and at all times ask faithfully and obtain effectually through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this Most gracious God who hast commanded us to pray without ceasing Incline my Heart to this Duty and so assist me with thy holy Spirit now and at all times in the Performance of it that I may so ask that I may receive and so hear thy Word that I may practice it and by these Opportunities for which I bless thy Name I may daily more and more improve in Righteousness and true Holiness until I come to thine everlasting Kingdom through Iesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen At the Conclusion of Divine Service and before thou risest from thy Knees say to thy self this or the like short Prayer Lord in Mercy hear our Prayers and relieve all our Wants Continue unto us these means of Grace make me and all that profess thy Name to delight in them with Reverence and godly Fear to approach unto them and always to become better by them through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this Blessed be thy Name O God for this Opportunity of waiting upon thee in thine House Lord pardon the Iniquity of my holy Things and make me a partaker of the Benefit of those Prayers which have been put up unto thee at this time In Mercy continue unto me these Opportunities and fit me more and more for thy Service here and for thy Kingdom hereafter for Iesus Christ his sake Amen FINIS * Hist. Eccles. l. 10. c. 3. † Exod. 30. 15 16. ‖ Godwyn's Jewish Antiq l. 6. c. 10. And Pool's Synopsis in loc * So some interpret Ier. 11. 5. and Isa. 26. 10. † Joh. 2. 16. † Matt. a 1. 12. * So it is to be understood in Isa. 9. 6. Matt. 5. 19. Luke 1. 32 35 36. Rev. 19. 13. See Dr. Hammond on Matt. 2. 23. note l. * 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. † St. Joh. 9. 31. ‖ 1 Tim. 2. 8. * Prov. 15. 8. ‖ Rom. 12. 11. † God win's Jewish Antiquit l. 2. c. 2. ‖ David Psal. 95. 6. Solomon 2 Chron. 6. 13. Daniel c. 6. v. 10. * St. Stephen Acts 7. 60. St. Petër Acts 9. 40. St Paul Acts 20 36. 21. 5. † Dr. Cave's Prim. Christ. part 1. c. 9. Tertull. de Orat. c. 12. p. 134. Contra Scripturam fecerit fi quis in Cathedrâ aut subsellio sederit factum isthud irreligiosum est nisi exprobramus Deo quod nos Ordtio fatigaverit c. * 2 Chron. 6. 8. † St. Luke 7. 5. * St. Jam. 5. 16. † Ver. 17 18. ‖ Apol. 39. A. * St. Matt. 18. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epist. ad Ephes. p. 122. † St. Matt. 18. 20. * St. Luk 11. ver 9. † Ver. 13. * Exod. 3. 5. † Ioshua 5. 15. ‖ V. Pool's Synopsis on Exod. * Aynsworth on Exod. 30. 19. † Mr. Pcole ut prius Id. ib. † 1 Cor. 11. 10. Dr. Hammond in loc note d. ‖ Gen. 18. v. 16 17. * Dr. Cave's Frim Christianity part 1. cap. 6. * 1 Kings 8. * Read the Rules for our more Devout Behaviour in the time of Divine Service in the Church of England Printed in 1695. * The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety By the Author of the VVhole Duty of Man c. 8. * Dr. Cave in his Prim. Christianity Part 1. c. 9. † Hom. 56. tom 1. p. 623. † Psal. 42. v. 2. * Mal. 1. 13. * St. Luke 2. v. 37. † Acts 2. 45. ‖ St. Luke 24. v. 53. * Dr. Hammond Annot. on Acts 1. note d. * Heb. 10. v. 25. † The Widows of the Alms-House adjoyning to the Chapel * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. Dr. Hammond on 1 Tim. c. 5. note d.