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A61269 A sermon preached at the temple, the Svnday after the church was opened being then newly repaird, adorned and beautified at the joynt expense of the two honorable societies / by John Standish. Standish, John, d. 1686. 1683 (1683) Wing S5219; ESTC R33852 11,999 33

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are convicted by the Apostle there not only for lying to the holy Ghost but for keeping back part of the price of the Land given to maintain the Church in the communion of Gods Service From whence it followeth that that which is consecrated to Gods Service under the Gospel is Anathema for the same reason as under the Law because the thing is accursed to them that withdraw and rob God thereof And now what remains but that we make some practical Inferences upon this whole matter And 1. From the first Enquiry resolved I infer That if the Temple and the Altar were Dedicated by Judas and his Brethren and commemorated by an Annual Feast and that approved also by our Saviours own presence as it though it pretended to no more than humane Institution then let no man charge us with superstition if we upon occasion follow their Example to maintain and cherish in the minds of men that reverence due to Places consecrated to God Almighties Service and to the holy Offices to be performed therein 2. From the Second I infer That if the piety and Bounty of others have built repaired and adorned Places for our Religious Assemblies we should be beyond parallel Ingratefull to them not to say contemptuous to God should we not remember them concerning this Prov. 31.31 and suffer their own works to praise them in the Gates Say not thou saies Solomon what is the cause that the former daies were better than these Eccles 7.10 for thou enquirest not wisely concerning this Times have sometimes changed for the worse but that they must needs do so always is no good consequence for I must observe in spight of all popular murmurs and clamours to the contrary that the former daies we spoke of P. 1. were far worse than These as in many others so in this respect also that the sober wiser part of men amongst us now do not only abhor Popish Idols but detest Fanatick Sacrilege too They take more solid pleasure and satisfaction in building and adorning Churches than any of those blind Zealots did in plucking them down as cumbering the ground And this Kings Reign is likely to be as famous to after-ages for their Repairing and Restauration as that Rebellion was for their ruine And blessed be the Lord God who hath put it into your Hearts also vindicate the Honour of his House and Name and to Dedicate part of your substance to his Sanctuary of your own meer motion and good will in restoring this Sacred Ancient Curious Pile to yea and beyond its primitive Lustre that your Second Temple also might be more glorious than the first even in the literal sence Hereby all the world may see and know that you have a due and just sence of Gods discriminating Mercy in sparing this his House out of two several consuming Fires that more than threatned it as if He had said to them both thus far shall ye go and no farther and to the destroying Angel It is enough stay now thine hand 2. Sam. 24. And may this goodly Structure be still Armor of proof against all future Casualties to transmit your Praise and Bounty to all posterity but chiefly to preserve Gods Glory and Worship in the beauty of Holiness even till that general Conflagration of all things when this great Machine of the World shall be dissolved and Time it self shall be no more but go out like Fire and be extinguished in the bottomless Ocean of Eternity 3. And lastly from the last Enquiry resolved I infer that if these consecrated Places be Holy then let us beware of polluting or prophaning them in any wise Put off thy shoes from thy feet saies God to Moses for thou standest on holy ground Ex. 3.5 And his Command by Solomon reacheth us also Eccles. 5.1 Keep thy foot when thou goest into the House of God A Motto generally written over the door of the Synagogue saith Buxtorf The very Heathen Idolaters were not without some sence of this for when the Ark of God was by the Philistims set in the Temple of Dagon Dagon fell down and because by that mischance Dagons head and hands were cut off by the threshold of the door therefore neither Priest nor People durst ever tread on that threshold more 1. Sam. 5. And of the many typical precepts in Leviticus that the Israelites should wash and cleanse themselves by divers cenemonies before they enter into the Sanctuary we ought to make this Moral that Christianity requireth us to wash our Souls from all that filch of lust and passion before we presume to enter into the Holy Place Be we therefore more ready to hear says Solemon than to offer the sacrifice of fools Eccle. 5.1 who are rash heady and presumptuous and think their Sin is expiated for though they never think to change their wicked minds For they that come hither with malicious hearts and polluted hands and bring their Gift to the Altar with so little St. Matt. 5. Charity that they are ready like Cain to sprinkle it with their Brothers Blood do make the House of prayer a Den of Thieves indeed and turn the Church of God into the Devils Chappel Revel 3.9 the Lords Sanctuary into the Synagogue of Satan Procul O Procul ite prophani But let us all rather approach the Holy Place with holy and humble hearts and pay our Devotions to Almighty God not in word and tongue only St. John 4.23 but in Spirit and Truth as becometh those who are living Temples of the Holy Ghost that so our daily Sacrifices may be as sweet Incense our Sins pardoned our Prayers Alms and Persons accepted and all our hearty performances Crowned at the last day with an Euge well done good and faithful Servants St. Matt. 25.23 enter ye into the Joy of your Lord even that Sanctum Sanctorum that everlasting Temple not made with hands there to sing eternal Halelujahs to the Holy Blessed and Glorious Trinity the Father Son and Holy Ghost and all through the mercy and Merits of our only Lord and Saviour JESVS CHRIST to whom with the Father and Holy Spirit be all the Dominion Power and Glory now and ever Amen FINIS