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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12309	A sermon preached before the King at VVhite-Hall, the third of December. By Robert Skinner chaplaine in ordinary to His Maiestie. Published by His Maiesties command	Skinner, Robert, 1591-1670.	1634 (1634)	STC 22628; ESTC S121771	14,611	48

beyond all discovery Holinesse hath had her habitation As for Tatnai and Shetherbosnai and Sanballat open or clandestine enemies to the beauty of Holinesse Fill their faces with shame that they may seeke thy name O Lord That we and they and all that lay claime to true Holinesse may preferre the beauty of Holinesse before all other beauties and with cleane hands and pure hearts delight to worship the Lord in the proper place of his Worship the beauty of Holinesse I haue done at last with the properties of the place Holy and beautifull Now followes the Prophets entreaty which I shall treate of in very few words and so conclude O worship the Lord in the beauty of Holinesse Take it joyntly together and it is not more a Precept than a Prayer a very emphaticall obsecration full of holy importunitie and which argues in our Princely Prophet an extraordinarie love to the Place and the Service here commended that his chiefe delight was there For How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord of Hosts Ps 84. And how disconsolate when hee was driven thence Woe is mee that I am constrained to dwell in Mesech and to have my habitation among the Tents of Kedar Ps 120. seemes to envie the filly Birds The Sparrowes and Swallowes may lay their young even by thine Altars O Lord of Hosts my King and my God nor so desirous though to be there alone but there with his people I was glad when they said unto me We will goe into the House of the Lord Ps 122. It joyed him to be seene In medio Ecclesiae in the midst of the Congregation will I prayse thee Ps 22. Hee would pay his Vowes in an exemplarie way in the presence of all his people Ps 116. And wee cannot otherwise understand him here Come children hearken unto me doe as yee see mee doe adorate and adorabo went together we may be sure And a blessed sight it was to see Religion countenanced and the people religious not more by his Regall Precepts and Edicts than his Presence and Practice Now blessed are the people that be in such a case Looke we then to the practice of King David what he was wont to doe in Gods House and wee shall soone discerne why hee is so earnest to send us thither Thither went David as well for resolution as devotion and his religious attention was a good part of his adoration there I will hearken what the Lord God will say Psal 85. Et quaeram in Templo ejus and I will enquire in his Temple Psal 27. And he tells us hee could not be satisfied till hee went into the Sanctuary of God Psal 73. For the Sanctuary of old was the set place for satisfaction in doubtfull cases even from Moses to David omnis populus qui habebat aliquam quaestionem Exod. 33. All that had ought to say any doubt to bee resolved resorted thither for expedition Prince and People all without exception And now it is a cleere case it might vvell import him as a King to be earnest in this point that his people vvould goe and receive instruction in publique in the place appointed the right place because Conventicles and private meetings under colour of Religion too often serve unto dangerous practises Seditious opinions and turbulent positions have beene ever first invented and vented in private There it is that peremptory pens and sawcie tongues are thought consciencious because audacious and hee commonly reputed the best man that is the worst subject Or consider him if yee please as a Prophet so I am sure he could not be too earnest for worship in publique For the only way this to preserve Religion and the truth untainted to have Holinesse duely taught in the beautie of Holinesse Your intermingling and adulterate doctrines have beene still begotten in private and have passed by peece-meale from the Chamber to the Chappell and so to Church For when or where I pray you did the envious man sowe his tares it was dormientibus hominibus while men slept in all likelihood in some private meeting about midnight when the watchmen of Israel were asleepe Wee may not doubt but peace and truth both depend upon it that we assemble to worship the Lord in the proper place of his worship But David they will say though a King and a Prophet was under the Law and is he a fit president for professours of the Gospell Let them appeale then if they will from David to the sonne of David our blessed Saviour And how stood he affected That he was all in all for the publique most manifest it is by the good confession which he made Ioh. 18.20 I spake openly to the world I ever taught in the Synagogue and in the Temple whither the Iewes daily resort and in secret have I said nothing Heare this you that love to whisper it in a corner that stand so much for Privatus aliquis a private spirit or a private brother in a private place how directly contrary are you to Christ you for omnia Christ for nihil in occulto good Christians in the meane while For that our Saviour could not away with this Parlour-preaching and these Chamber-congregations plaine it seemes by that charge which he left to his Church Matt. 24.26 If they shall say unto you behold hee is in the desart goe not forth behold he is in the secret chambers beleeve them not For I beseech you where hath beene the meeting place of our Anti-Canonicall Canonists and where have they enacted their Antisynodicall Sanctions but in deserto or in Cubiculo there is therefore no beleeving them Alas when they have set up once in private the great idoll of their own imaginations have consulted their grand Oracle I was saying at the Idols table they will not sticke to say and decree any thing No appealing then from David to the son of David in this case both are for the publique for the solemne assembly both for the Temple and the holy place the beautie of Holinesse And now represent we David to our thoughts as a King or a Prophet we must needs confesse that this entreatie here is to singular good purpose that it makes very much for truth and unitie and pietie Now the God of peace and truth leade us into all truth and bring us unto that peace which passeth all understandding bring us all in mercy from the beautie of Holinesse in the kingdome of Grace to the Holy of Holies in the kingdome of Glory Amen FINIS