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A09813	Sunday no Sabbath A sermon preached before the Lord Bishop of Lincolne, at his Lordships visitation at Ampthill in the county of Bedford, Aug. 17. 1635. By John Pocklington Doctor of Divinitie, late fellow and president both of Pembroke Hall and Sidney Colledge in Cambridge, and chaplaine to the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Lincolne.	Pocklington, John.	1636 (1636)	STC 20077; ESTC S114780	31,029	56

ipsis Apostolis Domini aedificata witnesseth Henry the second in his Letters Patents For being burnt in his time he takes a Princely care for the building of it againe as the Kings Majestie now doth for the repairing of that goodly edifice of S. Pauls Church now fallen to decay Anno 71. Crescens sent into Galatia by St. Paul Euseb l. 3. c. 4 Ado. would not content himselfe to preach in private houses but by S. Pauls example caused a Church to be built at Vienna Anno 79. St. Euseb l. 3. c. 20. John caused a goodly Church to be built about Ephesus where himself with an Archbishop divers Bishops of severall Churches in Asia met at a Synode This Church stood over against the hill where he robbed whom S. John converted Euseb l. 2. c. 25 Gaius Bishop of Rome affirmeth that til his time for 220. years together Churches had continued neere unto the Vaticane built by the Apostles which had Church-yards belonging to them and where were to be seen the Tombs and Monuments of the Apostles Anno 110. Ignatius reproved Trajan in a Church Anno 117. Niceph. l. 3. c. 19 Dion in Adrian Adrian caused Churches to be built for Christians wherein he forbade any of the Romane gods to be placed Anno 160. Euseb l. 5. c. 25. Polycarpus received the Sacrament publikely in the Church of Rome Anno 197. Bed l. 1. c. 4. Lucius King of Great Britaine desired of Eleutherius ut per ejus mandatum fieret Christianus which being granted ●lores hist he dedicated the Temples of the Heathen gods to the worship of the true God and made Churches of them and placed in them 28. Bishops and three Archbishops Seas Tertul. adv Va●en in Apolog Anno 203. Tertullian maketh mention of these Churches built before his time and saith that commonly they were built upon an hill as Isaac was offered and Christ crucified on an hill and looked towards the East Nostrae columbae Domus in editis apertis Orientem amat Hence it is saith he that the Heathen traduce us for worshipping the Sun quòd innotuerit nos ad Orientis regionem praecari because it is openly known that all we Christians pray unto God in our Churches with our faces to the East and if they stand not so they are not like Christian Churches nor judged to be consecrated by Christian Bishops S. Ire● l. 3. c. 3. Anno 180. Irenaeus saw Poly carpus sit in his Bishops chaire in Smyrna S. James his chaire stood in the Church of Jerusalem for 326. yeares together saith Eusebius and was there to be seen in St. Austins time Euseb l. 5. c. 20. l 7. c. 19. notwithstanding Dioclesians Decree Anno 239. S. Aug. l 2. Con. lit P●ttl c. 51. Cus●b l. 6. 〈◊〉 34. Fabianus suffered not Philip the first Christian Emperour to joyn with the faithfull in the Church before he had stood in loco poenitentium And so you see the zeale of Christians in building of Churches began in the Apostles times and continued for 280. yeares together at least And how necessary it was for the Apostles and their successours planters of the Gospel to build Churches and not to pray preach administer the Sacraments or exercise Ecclesiasticall discipline of excommunication and absolution in private houses S. Aug contr M●n●● epis 〈◊〉 4 ●●m 6. Irenaeus Tertullian St. Augustine and divers godly Fathers tell us For hereby Catholickes and good Christians were knowne from Heretickes For nullus Haereticorum basilicam suam audet ostendere Heretickes had no Churches to shew nor chaire wherein they succeeded the Apostles Thus Irenaeus confoundeth Valentinus S. Iren. l. 3. c. 3.4.5 Cerdon and Marcion they could not shew how they succeeded the Apostles but he could prove his owne succession and reckon up all those that succeeded the Apostles in their severall Churches and so sheweth who succeeded Peter and Paul in the Church of Rome Whereby their vanity may in part appeare that against all Antiquity upon idle ghesses make fooles beleeve that St. Peter was never at Rome making the succession of Bishops and truth of the Latine Churches as questionable as the Centurists orders Thus Tertullian putteth Valentinus and Apelles to it to shew their descent Tertul. de pra●● ser c. 11. If they will not be accounted Heretickes aedant origines Ecclesiarum suarum evolvant ordinem Sacerdotum c. it a ut primus sit aliquis ex Apostolis let them shew when their Church began so that the first founder be an Apostle as Polycarpus was placed by St. John in Smyrna and Clemens by St. Peter in the Church of Rome Confingant tale quid Haeretici let Heretickes lay their heads together Tert. de prae● ser c. 17. and produce such a pedigree of their faith Which he was sure they could not doe for sine matre sine sede extorres vagantur Ecclesias non habent They were not Christians that had no Churches for 200. yeares after Christ but it plainely appeares by St. Irenaeus and Tertullian that they were Hereticks that were so long without Churches These had no Church for their Mother no Sea for their Bishops nor succession of them from the Apostles but were meere stragglers And for this cause saies St. Cyprian Haereticus sanctificare non potest S. Cyp. l. 1. ep 12. quia nec Ecclesiam nec Altarehabet an Hereticke cannot consecrate the Sacrament because he hath neither Church nor Altar for Eucharistia in Altari sanctificatur Without Churches no Sacrament could be consecrated nor received In this sort St. Augustine confoundeth the Donatists and Sectaries of his time S. Aug l. 2. cont Petil. c. 51. Numerate Sacerdotes vel ab ipsa sede Petri in illo ordine quis cui successit videte Reckon up your Priests who succeeded one another after St. Peter in his chaire if you will be esteemed members of the Church Hereby we may by Gods mercy make good the truth of our Church For we are able lineally to set down the succession of our Bishops from St. Peter to S. Gregorie and from him to our first Archbishop St. Austin our English Apostle as Bishop Godwin calls him downeward to his Grace that now sits in his chaire Primate of all England and Metropolitane This succession of Bishops to the Apostles and exercise of Ecclesiasticall discipline preaching of the word of God and consecrating of the Eucharist on the Lords Boord or holy Altar was judged a thing so necessary by the Apostles and their successors Eus●● l. 8. c. 1. that as Eusebius reports Christians never ceased building repairing and inlarging of Churches even in the hottest times of persecution And though the Pastours were many times driven out of them and wandred up and down in Mountaines and Dens and Caves of the earth yet they found such favour with the Emperours that the Churches still continued And their chaires were never empty nor the succession of their Bishops interrupted no not in Dioclesians time when so many Churches were demolished True it is Cecilius in Minutius Foelix and Celsus in Origen and other Gentiles reviled Christians and called them Atheists quia nec templa nec deos haberent because they had neither temples nor Gods And indeed they had no such temples nor worshipped such gods as they did Yet Christians were never without Churches to serve the true God in Howbeit they were not called Temples or Basilicae before the Emperour Constantines time who built them in that stately and magnificent maner that they might equalize or surmount the sumptuous Temples erected by the Heathen to Diana Venus Jupiter or other heathen gods Thus necessity of Gods service and exercise of Ecclesiasticall discipline caused and continued the use of Churches from time to time and their zeale inflamed them to beautifie and adorne them in the most sumptuous maner that might be that with David and Solomon they might shew so farre as their poverty would suffer them in such glorious and magnificent buildings and by the sumptuous costlinesse bestowed in adorning of them with gold silver and precious stones the incomparable glory and infinite greatnesse of the Majestie of their God to whom that poore house was dedicated and before whom they presented themselves to performe such service as himselfe and his Vicegerents have appointed which doubtless as by the practice of S. Paul and the Apostles and the best Saints of God may appeare is much more acceptable unto him being performed in an house of his own than if it had been continued in one of ours in some upper chamber as now upon necessity it was Wherefore since by Gods mercy we doe in part enjoy the piety and bounty of our Predecessours and have the houses of God left us to serve God in let us abandon the irregular fashion of straggling Schismatickes in making Conventicles praying preaching and breaking bread in corners private houses and dining rooms And on the other side let us conforme our selves in frequenting the Lords house to the practice of the Lords Church especially on the Lords day and say with David O come let us goe into the house of the Lord and fall flat on our faces before his footstoole And if we doe not onely bend or bowe our body to his blessed Boord or holy Altar but fall flat on our faces before his footstoole so soone as ever we approach in sight thereof what Patriarch Apostle blessed Martyr holy or learned Father would condemne us for it or rather would not be delighted to see their Lord so honoured and their devotion so reverently imitated and so good hope given to have it in such sort continued in the Lords house on the Lords day by the Lords servants unto the Lords comming againe who doubtlesse will then ratifie what he hath already pronounced Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he commeth shall finde so doing Amen FINIS PErlegi hanc concionem habitam in visitatione Trionnali Reverendi in Christo Patris Episcopi Lincolniensis in quâ nihil reperio sanae doctrinae aut bonis moribus contrarium quominùs cum utilitate pablicâ imprimatur it a tamen ut si non intra tres menses proximè sequentes typis mandetur haec licentia sit omnino irrita Ex Aedibus Lambethanis II. Calend. Martii 1635. GUIL BRAY Rmo. Patri D. Arch. Cant. Sacellanus domesticus