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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02771	The temple A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the fifth of August. 1624. By Tho. Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1624 (1624)	STC 129; ESTC S100422	35,512	74

well fortifie the coasts the raging sea would soone determine the controuersie and by force of her waues take it from them both There is a contestation betwixt vs and the Pontificians which is the true Church but should not wee in meane time carefully defend the Faith of Christ against Idols Superstition would quickly decide the busines and take the possession of truth from vs both A proud peruerse stomach keeps them from yeelding to vs God and his holy word forbids our yeelding to them they will haue Idols or no Temple we wil haue the Temple and no Idols now till the agreement bee made betwixt the Temple and Idols no atonement can be hoped betwixt vs them I Paul say vnto you Gal. 5.2 that if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing He that would not endure a little leauen in the lumpe what would hee haue said of a little poyson If Moses ioyned with Christ the ceremoniall Law with the Gospell were so offensiue to him how would hee haue brooked Christ and Belial light and darknes righteousnes and vnrighteousnes the cup of the Lord and the cup of deuils the Table of the Lord and the table of deuils the Temple of God and Idols In the tuning of an Instrument those strings that be right we meddle not with but set the rest higher or lower so as they make a proportion harmony with the former The same God who of his gracious mercy hath put vs in the right vniarring harmony of truth bring them home in true consent to vs but neuer suffer vs to fall back vnto them Hitherto the contention between vs hath not been for circumstance but substance not for the bounds but for the whole Inheritance whether God or man grace or nature the bloud of Christ or the milke of Mary the written Canon or vnwritten Tradition Gods ordinance in establishing Kings or the Popes vsurpation in deposing them shall take place in our consciences and be the rule of our faiths and liues We haue but one Foundation the infallible word of God they haue a new foundation the voice of their Church which they equalize in presumption of certaintie with the other Wee haue but one Head that is Christ they haue gotten a new head dare not but beleeue him whatsoeuer Christ saies Sponsus Ecclesiae nostrae Christus Christ is our husband they haue a new husband While Rome was a holy Church she had a holy husband but now as Christ said to the woman of Samaria Iohn 4. ●8 He whom thou now hast is not thine husband so he whom the Romanists haue now got is an adulterer he is no husband So that here is Foundation against foundation Head against head Husband against adulterer Doctrine against doctrine Faith against vnbeliefe Religion against superstition the Temple of God against Idols and all these so diametrally opposed that the two Poles shall sooner meet then these be reconciled Michael and the Dragon cannot agree in one Heauen nor the Arke and Dagon in one house nor Iacob and Esau in one wombe nor Iohn and Cerinthus in one Bath nor the cleane and the leprous in one camp nor truth and falshood in one mouth nor the Lord and Mammon in one heart nor religion superstition in one kingdom nor God and Idols in one Temple The silly old Hermite was sory that God and the Deuill should be at such odds and he would vndertake to make them friends but the Deuill bad him euen spare his labour for they two were euerlastingly fallen out No lesse vaine a busines doth that man attempt that would worke an agreement betwixt the Temple of God and Idols I take leaue of this point with a caution Flie the places of infection come not within the smoke of Idols lest it smother the zeale of Gods Temple in your hearts Reuolting Israel cals for gods but why should this god of theirs be fashioned like a Calfe What may bee the reason of this shape Whence had they the originall of such an Idol Most likely in Egypt they had seen a blacke Calfe with white spots worshipped there This Image stil ran in their minds and stole their hearts now they long to haue it set vp before their eyes Egypt wil not out of their fancies when they wanted meat they thought of the Egyptian flesh pots now they want Moses they thinke of the Egyptian Idols They brought gold out of Egypt that very gold was contagious the very Eare-rings and Iewels of Egypt are fit to make Idols The Egyptian burdens made them run to the true God the Egyptian examples led them to a false god What meane our wanderers by running to Rome such superstitious places vnlesse they were weary of the Church of God would fetch home Idols If it were granted that there is some little truth among them yet who is so simple as to seeke his corne among a great heap of chaffe and that far off who may haue it at home winnowed and clensed to his hand The very sight of euill is dangerous and they bee rare eyes that doe not conuey this poison to our hearts I haue heard of some that euen by laboring in the Spanish galleys haue come home the slaues of their superstitions Egypt was alwayes an vnlucky place for Israel as Rome is for England The people soiourned there and they brought home one Calfe Ieroboam soiourned there and he brought home Two calues Iudg. 17. an old woman in all likelihood had soiourned there and shee brought home a great many The Romish Idols haue not the shape of calues they haue the sense and meaning of those calues and to fill the Temple full of Calues what is it but to make Religion guilty of * Non-sence Pulls Consider it well ye that make no scruple of superstitious assemblies it will bee hard for you to dwell in a Temple of Idols vntainted Not to sinne the sins of the place we liue in is as strange as for pure liquor tunn'd vp in a musty vessel not to smel of the caske Egypt will teach euen a Ioseph to sweare a Peter will learne to curse in the high Priests Hall If we be not scorch'd with the fire of bad company we shall be sure to be black'd with the smoke The soundest body that is may be infected with a contagious ayre Indeed a man may trauel through Ethiopia vnchanged but he cannot dwell there without a complexion discoloured How hath the common practise of others brought men to the deuillish fashion of swearing or to the bruitish habit of drinking by their owne confessions Superstition if it haue once got a secret liking of the heart like the plague will hang in the very clothes and after long concealement breake forth in an vnlook'd for infection The Israelites after all their ayring in the wildernesse will still smell of Egypt We read God saying Math. 2.15 Out of Egypt haue I called my Sonne That God did

call his Sonne out of Egypt it is no wonder the wonder is that hee did call him into Egypt It is true that Egypt could not hurt Christ the King doth not follow the Court the Court waits vpon the King wheresoeuer Christ was there was the Church But be our Israelites so sure of their sonnes when they send them into Egypt or any superstitious places It was their presumption to send them in let it bee their repentance to call them out The familiar societie of orthodox Christians with mis-beleeuers hath by God euer been most strictly forbidden and the neerer this coniunction the more dangerous and displeasing to the forbidder No man can chuse a worse friend then one whom God holds his enemy When Religion and Superstition meet in one bed they commonly produce a mungrell generation 2 Sam. 3.3 If Dauid marry Maachah their issue proues an Absolon If Salomon loue idolatrous women here is enough to ouerthrow him with all his wisdome Other strange women only tempt to lust these to mis-religion and by ioyning his heart to theirs hee shall disioyne it from God One Religion matching with another not seldome breed an Atheist one of no religion at all I doe not say this is a sufficient cause of diuorce after it is done but of restraint before it is done They may be one flesh though they be not one spirit The difference of religion or vertue makes no diuorce here the great Iudges sentence shall doe that heereafter And the beleeuing husband is neuer the further from heauen though hee cannot bring his vnbeleeuing wife along with him The better shall not carry vp the worse to heauen nor the worse pull downe the better to hell Quod fieri non debuit factum valet But now is there no tree in the Garden but the forbidden none for me to loue but one that hates the truth Yes let vs say to them in plaine fidelitie as the sonnes of Iacob did to the Shichemites in dissembling policie Gene. 34.14 Wee cannot giue our sister to a man that is vncircumcised either consent you to vs in the truth of our Religion or wee will not consent to you in the league of our Communion Saint Chrysostome calls this a plaine deniall of Christ Hee that eateth of the meate offered to Idols Gustu negauit Christum hath denied Christ with his tasting If hee but handle those things with delight Tactu negauit Christum hee hath denied Christ with his touching Though hee touch not taste not yet if he stand to looke vpon the Idolatry with patience Visu negauit Christum hee hath denied Christ with his eyes If he listen to those execrable charmes Auditu negauit Christum hee hath denyed Christ with his eares Omitting all these if he doe but smell to the Incense with pleasure O doratu negauit Christum hee hath denied Christ with his smelling It is said of the Israelites Commisti sunt inter gentes Psalm 106.35 They were mingled among the Heathen What followed Presently they learned their works The reason why the Rauen returned not to Noahs Arke is giuen by some because it met with a dead carkase by the way Why doe we pray Deliuer vs from euill but that wee imply besides all other mischiefes there is an infectious power in it to make vs euill Let vs doe that wee pray and pray that wee may doe it Yea Lord free vs from Egypt estrange vs from Rome separate vs from Idols deliuer vs from euill For thine is the kingdome the power and the glorie for euer and euer Amen Thus farre we haue taken a literall suruey of the Text concerning the materiall Temple externall or obiectuall Idols and the impossibilitie of their agreement Now to come neerer home to our selues in a morall Exposition here first The Temple of God Is the Church of Christ and they are so like that we often interchange the tearmes calling a Temple the Church the Church a Temple of God The materiall Temple vnder the Law was a figure of the spirituall vnder the Gospell The former was distinguished into three roomes the Porch the holy place and the Sanctum Sanctorum or Holy of holies The Porch prefigured Baptisme which is the doore whereby we enter into the Church of Christ The Holy place the communion of the militant church vply earth separated from the world The Hoon of holies whereinto the high Priest only entred that once a yeare presignified the glorious kingdome of heauen wherinto the Lord Iesus entred once for all There was one Court of the Temple common whither accesse was denied to none though they were vncleane or vncircumcised thus farre they might be admitted There was another Court within that allowed to none but the Israelites of them to none but the cleane There was a third proper only to the Priests and Leuites whither the Laitie might not come thus farre they might bring their offerings but further they might not offer to goe In the Temple it selfe there was one roome into which the Leuites might not enter the Priests might Another whither the Priests might not come but onely the high Priest and euen hee but once yearely Some passages of the Christian Church are common to all euen to the vncleane hypocrites and foule-hearted sinners They haue accesse to Gods holy ordinances and tread in his Courts as the Pharisee came into the congregation and Iudas receiued the Communion Other are secret and reserued wherein the faithfull onely conuerse with God and solace themselues in the sweet fruition of his gracious presence The materiall Temple in three diuisions seemed to be a cleare representation of the Church in three degrees The first signified the externall and visible face of the Church from which no professor of Christ is debarred The second the communion of the inuisible Church vpon earth The last the highest heauen of Gods glorified Saints Neither did those roomes more exceed one another then do these parts of the spirituall house of Christ What are the most polished corners of the Temple to the spirituall liuing stones of the Church What be pebles to Saphirs or marbles to Diamonds Howsoeuer some are more transported with insensible monuments then with liuing Saints As it was a complaint long since Fulget Ecclesia in parietibus luget in pauperibus Yet Temples are built for men not men for Temples and what is a glorious edifice when the whole world is not worth one soule Dead walls bee of small value to the liuing Temples of the holy Ghost yea the temple of our body to the temple of Christs Body his Church yea the Temple of Gods Church militant on earth to that which is triumphant in heauen What is siluer and gold Cedar and Marble to those diuine graces faith truth pietie holinesse Salomons Temple did last but some 430. yeares the Church is for eternitie The Temple took vp but a little space of ground at most the Hill Sion the Church