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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57651	Gods house, or, The hovse of prayer vindicated from prophanenesse and sacriledge delivered in a sermon the 24 day of February, Anno 1641 in Southampton / by Alexander Rosse ...	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1955; ESTC R11294	11,257	20

GODS HOUSE OR THE HOVSE OF PRAYER Vindicated from prophanenesse and sacriledge Delivered in a Sermon the 24. day of February Anno 1641. in Southampton By Alexander Rosse his Majesties Chaplaine in Ordinarie LONDON Printed in the yeare 1642. To the Orthodoxe Reader GOod Reader it was the least of my thoughts to publish this Sermon in print but that now I am forced partly by the sollicitation of my friends and partly by the slanderous speeches of some new upstart Sectaries in this Towne whose unreverent gesture in the Church disesteeme of Church prayers and disgracefull speeches against the outward splendour of Gods house gave mee occasion to Preach it and now their ignorant and malicious censures thereof have necessitated me to publish it One calls it a pernicious Sermon another sayes it was fit to be preached at Rome a third that it is false doctrine I have preached many hundred Sermons in this Towne I have spent twenty five yeares in this peaceable and well governed Corporation I have studied Divinitie these thirty sixe yeares and till now I never knew that I delivered erroneous doctrine but perhaps I may bee blind in my owne cause therefore I have exposed this Sermon to the publicke view that if there be any passage in it heterodox I may being convinced by the judicious and learned Reader recant and retract if there bee none that my credit may be vindicated from the censorious clamours of such ignorant criticks A. R. MATH 21. 13. It is written my house shall be called the house of prayer but you have made it a den of theeves THe first part of the text is written in Isaiah I will make them joyfull in mine house of prayer and my house shall be called an house of prayer for all people The second part is written in Ieremie Is this house which is called by my Name become a den of robbers in your eyes It is written then and that is more then a bare tradition And if hee that is the God of truth and Lord of the house is content to backe his sayings with a Scriptum est why should his pretended Vicar obtrude his owne dictates upon the Church without scriptum est or warrant of Gods word as though his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or bare word were sufficient 2. My house God then wants not a house 3. Shall bee called It is not then namelesse men build houses and call them by their names shall not God have the same libertie 4. S. Marke saith shall be called of all Nations his Churches then in England shall and should be called houses of prayer as well as the Temple of Ierusalem 5. S. Luke saith My house is the house of prayer it is not then nicknamed for as it is called so it is indeed the house of prayer 6. The house of prayer and good reason for it By prayer it was dedicated for prayer it was built and consecrated from prayer it is denominated and our prayers in it are heard and accepted hee that heareth prayer in every place will not shut his eares when we pray to him in this place If the prayer of Ionas was heard when he said he would looke towards the holy Temple shall not our prayers be heard when they are poured out by us in his holy Temple Hee that heard Moyses on the Sea shore Eliah in the Desart Ionas in the Whales belly Iob on the dunghill Daniel in the Lyons den the three Children in the fierie fornace will doubtl●sse heare them that call upon him in his owne house What place so meete for preferring of Petitions as the Court of Requests and where shall wee honour God better by prayer then in the place where his honour dwelleth Gods name is fit to bee invoked in Gods house himselfe hath promised that his eyes shall bee open and his eares attent unto the prayer that is made in this place For now saith he I have chosen and sanctisied this house that my Name bee there for ever and my eyes and my heart shall bee there perpetually Therefore Solomon in his dedicatorie prayer desires that when the Land is afflicted with Death Pestilence Blasting Mildew Caterpillers or any other calamitie that God would open his eyes upon and hearken to the supplications made in this place that he would heare from his dwelling place in heaven and forgive This house then is the house of prayer But c. this But is the flye that spoyles the Apothecaries oyntment and the Colloquintida that marres the pottage You that is covetous Priests captious Scribes and hypocriticall Pharisees who indeed are painted sepulchers whited walls whose religion consists in large Phylacteries broad fringes long prayers which devoure Widowes houses the outside of whose vessels are pure and washed within full of filth and corruption under sheepes skins are ravenous wolves But fromi nulla fides trust not outsides all is not gold that glisters Malice pride selfe-conceipts are never more dangerous then when shrowded with Pharisaicall puritie These were called in Greeke {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in Hebrew Paratzim that is Separatists for other men they counted prophane Gam haerets people of the earth but themselves the onely holy men in the Land With others they would not converse for feare of defilement therefore the proud Pharisee thanked God that hee was not as other men nor like that Publican who notwithstanding went home justified It is easily seene of what religion these Pharisees were and their avaritious Priests they made no more reckoning of the Temple then of a stable a sheepfold a pigeon house a counting roome for else what did oxen and sheepe pigeons and money changers doe there what is that house built for men or for beasts for Iehovah or for Mercurie Thus you see the qualitie of the persons reproved But what have they done that they must be lashed they have not pulled downe the Temple and burned it as the Chaldeans did nor have they robbed it of its treasures as Pompey and Crassus did Nor have they so grosly prophaned it as Antiochus and Caligula did nor have they carried away the Cherubims the Arke and propitiatorie the golden Candlesticks the Altars and lavers nor any other ornaments and utensils of it as some furious Pharisees of this age have done in some places where they have pulled downe Chancels defaced Cathedrals sold away Organs Bells Challices and the very lead of the Churches giving them a warmer cover of thatch using them as that prophane Emperour used Iupiters and Aesculapius images from the one pulling away his golden beard saying the gods must alwayes looke young and from the other his golden cloake affirming that a frize coat would keepe him warmer Surely the Jewish Pharisees did not goe so fa●re in this impiety therefore they were onely whipped with cords But those Christian Pharisees that have layd violent hands upon the houses of God have beene partly in themselves and partly in