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A10073	The beauty of holines: or The consecration of a house of prayer, by the example of our Sauiour A sermon preached in the chappell at the free-schoole in Shrewsbury. the 10. day of September, Anno Dom. 1617. At the consecration of the chappell, by the Right Reuerend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Couentrey and Lichfield. By Sampson Price, Doctor in Diuinity, and chapleine in ordinary to his Maiesty.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1618 (1618)	STC 20328; ESTC S100873	24,384	42

aemulation of the Iewes neyther at Hierusalem the glory of the World For God is a Spirit and they that worshippe him must worshippe him in Spirit and Truth Iohn 4 Loco non coneluditur Ioh. 4.24 Hee is not shutte vp in place When we thinke vpon his dwelling Theoph. wee must remember sayth Aug Aug. E● 57. the congregation of Saints especially in Heauen where God is sayd to dwell because there his will is perfectly done 1 Kin. 8 43. where there is perfect obedience yet his next habitation is his Church vpon earth a dreadfull place none other but the house of God Gen. 28.17 Is 56.7 and gate of heauen Gen. 28. A house of Prayer for all people Is 56. Whereupon Dauid reasoned I dwel in an house of Cedar but the Arke of God dwelleth within Curtaines 2 Sam. 7.2 purposing to build an house to the Lord God of Israel but he was inhibited by Nathan because he had shedde bloud aboundantly and made great warres 1 Ch. 22 8 1. Chr. 22. yet in his trouble hee prepared for the house of the Lord a hundreth thousand talents of gold 1 Ch. 22.14 a thousand thousand talents of siluer and of b●asse and yron without weight timber also and stone charging Salomon to arise and be doing and the Lord would be with him He built this house of Habitation for the Lord a place for his dwelling for euer 2. Chr. 6.2 but it was conditionall from God 2. Chr. 6.2 If yee turne away and forsake my statutes and my commandements this house which I haue sanctified for my name will l cast out of my sight and will make it to be a Prouerbe and a by-word among all nations And this house which is high shall be an astonishment to euery one that passeth by it 2. Chr. 7. Nabucadnezzar King of Bayblon in the ninth yeare of his raigne 2 Chr. 7.21 besieged it Nebuzardan Captaine of his Guarde in the nineteenth yeere of his raigne burnt this house of the Lord and the Kings house and all the houses of Ierusalem and euery great mans house with fire 2. King 25. 2 Kin. 25.9 So that there was little hope euer to see it restored againe yet Cyrus proclaimed the reedefying of it restored the fiue thousand and foure hundreth vessels of golde and siluer which Nabucadnezzar had put in the house of his gods Ezra 1.11 ● 7 and gaue a grant to bring Cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Ioppa Yet againe it was hindered till the second yeare of Darius who was so resolute for the building thereof that he made this decree Whosoeuer shall alter this word let timber be pulled downe from his house and being set vp let him be hanged thereon and let his house be made a dung-hill for this And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all Kings and people that shal put to their hand to alter and to cestroy this house of God which is at Ierusalem I Darius haue made a decree let it be done with speed Ezra 6. It was finished Ezra 6.12 and afterward Iudas Macchabeus purged it from the prophanation of the Gentiles vpon the fiue and twentieth day of the Moneth Casleu answerable to our December ordayning that the dedication should be kept in its season from yeere to yeere with mirth and gladnes 1. Macc. 4.59 A Ceremonie continuing til Christ honored by his presence in an annuall memoriall mentioned in these wordes And it was at Ierusalem c. Great was the glory of Salomons Temple the length wherof was 60. cubites and the bredth 20. cubits and the height 30 cubits 1. King 6.7 years in building ouerlayd with pure gold 1 King 6.38 21. the altar tables wheron the Shew-bread was set were of gold the candlesticks flowers lamps tongs of perfect gold the snuffers basons spoons censers of pure gold the entry of the house 2 Chr. 4.22 and the doores of the house of the Temple were of gold 2. Chr. 4. insomuch that many of the Priests and Leuites and chiefe of the Fathers who were ancient men that had seen the first house when the foundation of the second was layd before theyr eyes Ez. 3 12. Hagg. 2.9 they wept with a loud voyce Ez. 3. Haggai encouraged them The glory of this latter house shal be greater then the former Ribera in Hag. 2 King 45. Hag. 2. which Ribera thinketh fulfilled in Herods reparations when the gold ouerualued al the rest the stones were in length 25. cubits in bredth 12. in height 8 I sephus l. 15. antiq c. 14. Mat. 13. 1. Mar. 13 1. Orig. Chrys Theoph. which made the Disciples shew Christ the buildings of the Temple Mat. 24. and say Master see what maner of stones and what buildings are here Mar. 13. pittying that euer it should or thinking it impossible that euer it might be left desolate as was threatned Mat. 23.38 but howsoeuer it was Satans policy saith iuditious Caluin by Herods imposture to draw away the minds of men from adorning their spirituall Temples Calu in Agg. 2. by looking vpon the superfluous glory of that outward Temple Carthus Abulensis Ios l. 8 Ant c. 3 sic vocatur in hystoria Ethiopica quam cit it Glossa 1. King 10.7 Vatablus Dec. in Agg. Au. l. 18. ciu c. 45. I cannot beleeue it came neere to Salomons for state which the Queene of Saba wondred at Malceda which came to proue him with hard questions concluded seeing his wisdom and the house that he had built thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard 1 Kin. 10. In another respect this Temple was more illustrious then Salomons In Christs presence in it and miracles as Ierom and Austen thinke Now hee graced the Feast of the Dedication at Ierusalem And it was at Hierusalem A Text well befitting the occasion of this Christian Assembly met to behold the Consecrating and Dedicating of a little Temple vnto God warranting the blessing and sanctifying of it by the Prayers of a Reuerend Father of our Church I will not follow the words in an Allegorie that Christ being a new-Lawgiuer bringing a New Testament 2. Cor. 3. a new Spirit Ez. 36. A new cōmandement 2. Cor 3 6 Ez. 36.26 Ioh. 13.34 Reu. 21 1. Reu. 21. He would therfore come to a new Temple to the Porch of Salomon in that Temple because as in Salomons time Peace was in Israel 1. Ch 22.9 1. Chr. 22. so Christ came to make Peace betwixt heauen and earth In Winter because their hearts were frozen and loue cold Bulling no life or spring of goodnes appearing amongst the Iewes I cannot handle the particulers as they offer themselues would be followed if the time out-ran me not Aug. Bed Euthym the place Hierusalem the triumph at Ierusalem in a Feast the quality of the feast of the Dedication the season when

places Ne longo sermone morer tua tempor a Praesul Reuerend and Honourable Father of this Diocesse Be as hetherto you haue been to this religious towne a faithfull Patron to Church and Schoole as Timothie to Ephesus Titus to Crete Polycarpus to Smyrna Paulinus to Nola Primasius to Vtica Eucherius to Lions Chrysostome to Constantinople Cyprian to Carthage Ambrose to Millaine Austin to Hippo This towne yet flourisheth in many blessings and so it wil if faction and schisme preuayle not against the peace of it Worthy and carefull Magistrates M. Iohn Nichols M. Richard Winn then the two Bailiues both present and some of the 12 Aldermen and 24 Counsellours A Sermon before the election of new Bailiues Be you with your Brethren trusty Guardians of the Schooles and Schollers defend their foundation reuenues priuiledges The Magistrate defendeth the scholler with his sword and the scholler defendeth the Magistrate with his penne Let Learning be countenanced by you and the learned shall praise you I shall hereafter giue you a more ample charge out of another Text of Scripture where you shall see that you must giue an account of your office to the God of Gods Prouident and industrious Masters of this Schoole so teach your Schollers that they may haue this testimony which Cyprian gaue Christians Cyp ad Iubaianum Veniunt vt discant Discunt vt viuant They come to learne and learne here the Art of liuing well All your Art is now reduced into two words Deus Rex Instruct them to Feare God and honour the King Intus si recte ne labora and then the Motto of your Schoole may be engrauen vpon your consciences We deserue not iust censures and passe by vniust Be content with that you haue countenance none to challenge that which is the portion of another If they pull from the Church that which is due and pretend to bring it hither it is like Iudas proiect that would not haue Christs body annointed but the poore relieued It is an hon●●ring of the members and vncouering of the head That little which they take away and but little all is left eateth as we see into their wealth who seeke to robbe Church or Schoole Let your diligent labours make such that may defend you from vniust wrongs and then as Herod the great though at home Ioseph Antiq l. 16.6 was most vnhappy in his wife and children yet abroad was most happy for his friends acquaintance and other prosperity so though you may haue some who seeke your hurt being neere yet others who are imployed farre from you may defend you Young Plants of this consecrated Vineyard I say to you as Salomon to his young man Remember now your creator in the dayes of your youth Eccl. 12.1 Eccl. 12. Dum vires annique sinunt While strength and yeeres suffer you Be diligent and constant in preparing your selues to be hereafter ornaments of the Church and common wealth Now is your Haruest Let your Schoole be as it is called Ludus literarius a place wherein you take pleasure to learne rather then a paine Redeeme the time the daies are euill Life is short Hippocrates Art is long Let vs all Beloued heare the end of all Feare God and keepe his commandements for this is the whole duty of man All of vs must appeare Eccl. 12 13. where we must giue a reckoning of our Stewardship as yesterday diuinely we were admonished In a Sermon by the reuerend Bishop in S. Chaddes Church Let vs performe all duty to our Temples Let vs remember that wee were redeemed to bee Temples of the holy Ghost Holinesse becommeth Gods Temples If we labour here truely to bee holy then hereafter wee shall bee truly happy and being receiued into the holy Ierusalem which is aboue and onely free and the mother of vs all wee shall sing Hosanna the song of children Halleluiah the song of the Elders Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty the song of Cherubims Seraphims and shall for euer liue in glory with the Father the Sonne and the Spirit To which Frinitie we shall ascribe prayse and power in a vnitie for euer and euer So be it Amen FINIS

THE BEAVTY OF HOLINES OR THE CONSECRATION of a House of Prayer by the Example of our Sauiour A Sermon Preached in the Chappell at the Free Schoole in Shrewsbury the 10. day of September Anno Dom. 1617. At the Consecration of the Chappell by the Right Reuerend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Couentrey and Lichfield BY SAMPSON PRICE Doctor in Diuinity and Chapleine in Ordinary to his Maiesty LONDON Imprinted by B A for Richard Meighen and are to be solde at his Shop neere S. Clements Church without Temple-Barre 1618. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull the Bailiues of Shrewsbury the 12. Aldermen the 24. Counsellours together with the other Members of that flourishing Corporation Grace Mercy and Peace bee multiplied vnto you from GOD. KIng Solomon began to build his temple in the moneth April or Zif Vatablus and the Chaldee Paraphrase when flowres open and finished it in the moneth Bul when hearbes beginne to close vp and wither answerable to our December This Sermon was preached among you in the beginning of Winter and since hath been shut vp yet now vpon the importunity of some friends commeth to life againe with the beginning of the Spring My warning for it was short and being then in the Country with you to tender my labours among you according to my promise vppon your free grant of a worthy fauour vnto mee I was constrained to vse onely the helpe of my deare and Reuerend Fathers Library Your former acceptance of my paines assure me that I shall not be misconstrued in this labour which I vndertooke out of that loue I owe vnto you all and yours Many things in themselues of no moment Plinie haue beene highly prized because they haue beene dedicated to Temples This sudden Sermon I hope shal finde acceptance because it was dedicated at the Consecration of your little Temple Your Schoole founded by gracious King Edward a Prince of blessed memorie and confirmed by Q. Elizabeth a Princesse worthy neuer to be forgotten for loue to the Gospel still flourisheth and long may it yet neuer was consecrated till now Continue your care of it your loue to the church and respect of those who are instruments to instruct you in the way to Heauen So shall you continue those many blessings which already you enioy and multiplie them for your posterity which I shall pray for and endeauour by all Christian respects which I may performe vnto you From my Study in London April 5. 1617. Yours in the Lord in all faithfull obseruance SAMPSON PRICE THE BEAVTY OF HOLINESSE Lord Iesu begin and end IOHN X. XXII XXIII And it was at Hierusalem the Feast of the Dedication and it was winter and Iesus walked in the Temple in Salomons Porch WHEN King Salomon that mirrour of Wisedome Vnderstanding Riches and Honour so that there was None like him before him neither after him shall any arise like vnto him 1. King 3 had raysed a leuie out of all Israel 1. King 3.12 of thirty thousand men to fetch Cedars from Lebanon threescore and ten thousand to beare burthens fourescore thousand hewers in the mountaines and three thousand and three hundred which ruled ouer the people that wrought in the worke 1. King 5. 1. King 5.16.1 1. Ring 6. 2. Chr. 3 1. In the foure hundreth fourescorth yeere after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt hee beganne to build the house of the Lord at Ierusalem in Mount Moriah Aquila of ●oorth Light Mo● Myrrhe Raah to see where the Lord appeared vnto Dauid his Father a place so called sayth Aquila of shining because there was the Oracle of God or of the aboundance of myrrhe which was there as Oleaster deriueth it or more fitly it was so called of seeing because there the Lord was seene of Abraham when the Ramme was offered by him in stead of his Son Gen. 22.13 Gen. 22.13 and the Lord foresaw that there his Temple should bee built Damast l. 2. defi●e Ortho. l c. 14 Gen. 8.4 Vpon a Mountaine Paradise was situated the Arke rested vpon the mountains of Ararat Gen. 8. Lot was commanded to escape to the mountaine lest he should be consumed Gen. 10. Vpon a Mount the Law was giuen Gen. 19.17 Exod. 19 2● Exod. 19. Christ is described by the Church to come leaping vpon the mountaines Chap. 2. He was tempted vpon a mountaine Chap. 2.8 Math. 4. Preached vpon a mountaine Math. 5.1 wrought Miracles vpon a mountaine Mat 4.1 Mat. 15.29 Ordained the twelue vpon a mountaine Mat. 3.13.14 Departed to a mountaine when by force they would haue made him a King Iohn 6.15 Conferde with the woman on a mountaine Ioh. 4.20 Prayed on a mountaine all night Luc. 6.12 Celebrated h s last Supper in a large vpper roome Luc. 22.12 which Ambrose placeth on a mountaine Amb. l. 10. 〈…〉 Was crucified on mount Caluarie Luc. 23 3● Appeared to his Disciples after his resurrection vpon a Mount Math. 28.16 Ascended into heauen from a mount Act. 19.12 and therefore appointed his Temple to be built vpon a mount His Foundation is in the holy mountaines Psal 87.1 The first ground of his Temple Hee will bee worshipped at his holy hill Psal 99.9 A hill which hee desireth to dwell in yea the Lord will dwell in it for euer Psalm 68 which Salomon truely acknowledged at the feast of the dedication of the Temple where were the Elders of Israel and all the heads of the Tribes the chiefe of the Fathers of the children of Israel and all the Congregation sacrificing sheepe and oxen that could not be numbred the glory of the Lord filled the house in a cloud He had made a brazen Scaffold and set it in the midst of the Court and kneeling downe vpon his knees before all the Congregation hee spreade forth his hands towards heauen and sayde Haue respect to the prayer of thy seruant that thine eyes may be open vpon this house day and night vpon the place whereof thou hast sayd that thou wouldst put thy name there Arise O Lord God into thy resting place 2. Chr. 6. For howsoeuer as Prosper speaketh 2. Chr. 6 13 20.41 Prosper ex Aug. Volens in templo orare in te ora ita semper age vt Dei templum sis Art thou willing to pray in a Temple pray within thy selfe and so still carry thy selfe that thou mayest bee a Temple Howsoeuer Heauen and the Heauen of Heauens cannot containe him much lesse such a house Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands 2. Ch 16.18 Act. 7.48 Act. 7. and that prophecie is fulfilled which Christ deliuered to the woman of Samaria when he was a fruitfull bough by a well Yee shal neyther in this mountaine Gen. 49 22 Ioseph in Ant. 41. c. 7. nor yet in Hierusalem worship the Father that is neyther in Gerizim where the Samaritanes built a Temple out of a proud