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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67020	A call to humiliation for the grievous sin of persecution in two sermons, preached at the publick fasts in Lemster, in the county of Hereford, Wednesday May 21 and June 18, 1690 / by William Woodward ...	Woodward, William, Minister of the Gospel.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3522; ESTC R23484	25,666	38

Jerusalem to the best of my knowledge there was never any before or since John 4. 21. Jesus saith unto her Woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet in Jerusalem worship the Father God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in truth ver 24. 3. Though there had been many Temples in the land of Canaan used by the Natives in Honour of their false Gods yet the Lord would make use of none of them but directs they should be all demolished and a new one built Deut. 12. 2. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the Nations which ye shall possess served their Gods upon the Mountains and upon the Hills and under every green Tree The Land of Canaan was a place of learning before Israel came into it and of Religion too but it was corrupted with superstition and Idolatry in Josh 15. 15 42. We read of Kirjath Sepher Kirjath Sanna Cities of Books of learning or the Law called Deber as the Oracle for Wisdom Eloquence and Acuteness these Temples were Rich and pompous so far as we can guess by the remains we have of the History of those Times yet the Lord in his Jealousie would have none of them spared for Synagogues or Houses of Prayer because they had been set apart for Idolatrous purposes 4. Let 's observe the Nature and Condition of the Place which the Wisdom of God singles forth out of all the world where his Holy Temple should be built 't was Ornans Threshing floor 2 Chron. 3. 1. with the 2 Sam. 24. 18. Then Solomon began to build the House of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah where the Lord appeared unto David his Father in the Place that David had prepared in the Threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite There were many places at that time where the Holy People were wont to Sacrifice as Gilgal Shilo illa omnia post-ponit but the Lord slights all these and chooses the Threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite it 's likely that this Ornan was of Princely descent as he had a Princely mind which could readily part with any worldly Interest for Gods Service and Honour his mind was as great as his Birth and his devotion equal to both there might be some mystery in this choice which the Lord made of the Threshing Floor of Ornan to shew 1. That Temple-Work is hard work 't is Threshing 2. That Temple-Work is to separate between the Chaff and the Wheat the precious and the vile 3. That the separation will not be perfect till the end of all things mali in area nobiscum esse possunt in horreo non possunt The wicked may mingle with us in the Floor they shall not in the Garner 5. And Lastly Let 's consider what the Heathen would say of this Temple at Jerusalem which was the most magnificent and stately structure in the World excelling in glory no doubt but they would load it with Reproaches and say This Temple upon which King Solomon spent a hundred thousand Talents of Gold and a thousand thousand Talents of Silver is after all but Ornan's Threshing-floor 't is but a Barn our Temples are Holy Places and to be preferred before that at Jerusalem Now I have great assurance that King Solomon with all his wisdom was able to vindicate the House of God which he had built and upon a fair hearing to confound all those that disgraced it King Solomon could tell those Heathens that all their Temples were stained with Superstition and Idolatry which Ornan's Threshing-floor never was All their Temples were places of Spiritual Whoredoms they were Erected by Idolaters and Consecrated for Idolatrous uses and that his Temple at Jerusalem did as much excel all the Temples of the Heathen as a pure spotless Virgin doth an old wrinkled Harlot We shall now quit this Use of Examination and search no further into the stuff The Protestant Dissenters dare not flatter the Prerogatives of Princes to their Destruction they dare not Assent and Consent solemnly to that which they inwardly dislike they dare not depart from that Ordination which is according to the Scriptures and the practice of the purest Churches they dare not offer to the Lord that which costs them nothing nor submit to those Forms of Prayer which quench the Spirit of Prayer they dare not renounce Covenants as contrary to the known Laws when the Laws to them are utterly unknown they dare not but appear humbly in their places for the Restauration of the Godly Discipline of the Primitive Church since all allow 't is to be wished for they dare not but with Moses and Solomon keep to the pattern in the Mount notwithstanding the Inventions and Commandments of Men and if in all these things the Nonconformists are in the right and have in their Sackcloth witnessed to the Truth then ought the Church of England to hang down her head smite upon her breast and walk softly because she hath been cruel like the Ostrich in the Wilderness the Tongue of the sucking Child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst the young Children ask bread and no man breaketh it unto them they that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets they that were brought up in Scarlet embrace Dunghills Lam. 4. 3 4 5. We come now to the Second Use which is for Exhortation and here let me beg and beseech you to lay aside all consideration of our own and our Brethrens Sufferings and as the Elect of God put on bowels of compassion Col. 3. 12. It will be some evidence to us that we are the elect of God if we can put on bowels of Mercy if we can say in sincerity as I hope we shall O that our head were Waters and our eyes fountains of tears that we might make our Meeting Place a Bochim Judg. 2. 5. A place of bitter mourning like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddo Zech. 12. 11. Because of all the Provocations and Abominations of England Scotland and Ireland the cry of our Sins is gone up to Heaven against us O let us endeavour by the cry of our Prayers and Tears to silence the cry of our Sins O Lord God put bowels of mercy into every one of us in the Hebrew language one word Rahem signifies both Bowels and Mercy and by a Metathesis of the Radical Letters is made herein which signifies Anathema to shew that if we are without bowels of Mercy in this day of our Kingdom 's Distress we are under the Curse and none of the Elect of God It is a Cain's mark upon Judas he lost his bowels Acts 1. 18. and upon King Jehoram too that he was diseased in his bowels 2 Chron. 21. 15. O! let us mingle our hearts and our prayers no less than our Faith with the holy Word of God as we go along and cry aloud that the God of all Grace and Father of Mercies would