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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54286	A discourse concerning the worship of God towards the holy table or altar	Penton, Stephen, 1639-1706.	1682 (1682)	Wing P1438; ESTC R31106	36,950	124

meant by the house of God by which I mean the Christian Oratories and Churches places devoted and set apart for the solemn and publick Worship of Almighty God And first I will shew the necessity of such places and then the Holiness of them which two things many will hardly believe The necessity I prove 1 The necessity of Churches proved because it is a principle in Nature the very Common-Law of Nature did ever suggest unto men that God was to have a place set apart in peculiar manner to his Worship This I will demonstrate first by reason and then confirm it by example 1. 1 By reason I suppose none will deny but that it is a main Principle in Nature 1. That there is a God 2. That he is to be worshipped 3. That there must be some time set apart for his Worship Now if we hold as who doth not that it is part of the Moral Law that God must have a distinct and peculiar time consecrated and set apart for his Worship which is the Effect of the fourth Commandment it will then also follow by the same Law of Nature that he must have a place Sanctified unto him Therefore the fourth Commandment doth though not directly yet by necessary consequence inforce and enjoyn a Holy-Place as well as a Holy-day or time For time and place are both alike necessary Circumstances of Divine Worship And he can no more be worshipped without a place than without a time And therefore if the time ought to be consecrate and solemn so must the place likewise 2. 2 By examples of the Old Testament This may be confirmed from the example of God's Saints approved by God himself from the beginning Before ever there was a Tabernacle or Temple made by God's special appointment Gen. 8.20 Gen. 12.7 Noah built an Altar so soon as he came out of the Ark and there called upon God with Sacrifice Abraham builds an Altar that is a special place to invocate at in the place where God appeared to him c. 13.4 and wherever he came in his Journeys he still erected an Altar or place of Worship and when ever he came into any of tose places afterwards there he still worshipped God at the place where he had formerly dedicated The same I might shew of Isaac and Jacob who still erected Altars in the place where they Pitched their Tents and that without any special appointment of God Jacob vowed a place for Divine Worship by the name of Gods house where he would pay Tithes of all that God should give him Yea Moses Gen. 20.22 before the Ark and that glorious Tabernacle were made pitched a Tabernacle for the same purpose without the Camp whither every one that sought the Lord was to go Ezek. 33.7 which he called the Tabernacle of the Congregation or rather of Meeting because God meets with man there as I shall shew hereafter Thus you see men naturally were wont to accommodate the Worship of God from the beginning with consecrate places as well as times Yea before the Law was given of any set or precise time for that was not until the Decalogue was given by Moses Which argues that Nature likewise had taught them that the work was honoured and dignified by the peculiarness of the place appointed for it And that such a place best beseemed the Worship of God the most peculiar and incommunicable Act. In the New Testament it is likewise apparent Of the New Testament that Christians had their peculiar Oratories and set places for their Assembling and Meeting to celebrate Gods Worship 1 Cor. 14.8 For Saint Paul gives Rules of behaviour how to carry our selves in such places Let the Women keep silence in the Church which that he understands not of the Company only gathered together but of the place likewise where they were met it is evident because he puts a distinction between this and other places If they will learn any thing let them ask their Husbands at home for 't is not permitted a Woman to speak in the Church where you see he puts a plain difference between their own Houses and the places of publick meeting for God's Service which he could not do if there had been no such places So likewise 1 Cor. 11.22 have ye not houses to eat and to drink in or dispise ye the Church of God He chides them for their Irreverent receiving of the Lord's Supper and puts a difference between their houses and the places where they met for that purpose Thus much to evince the necessity of Houses and Oratories for God's publick Service The Sanctity of Churches Come we now to prove the Sanctity and Holiness of them where we will consider 1. What it is 2. Where it is 3. How long it is 1. There is a double Holiliness one Positive the other Relative What this Holiness is The Positive is either essential as God is whose Holiness is his essence or communicated as is the Holiness of Saints and Angels which consists in positive habits of Holiness inherent in them and imparted to them by God the fountain of Holiness Relative Relative Holiness is so called because all such Holiness consisteth only in the Reference and Relation the things invested therewith have to God who is Holy and to the Holy end whereunto they are destined Common to persons and things And this Holiness was not only proper to men but common to all other things that might be dedicated and consecrated to God In this sense men are often called Holy either in regard of their Function or some State and Condition which puts them in peculiar relation unto God In the first respect three sorts of people were called Holy Kings Priests and Prophets Who therefore were solemnly Consecrated with Holy Oyl and termed God's annointed In the other respect all the first born of men and beasts all votaries as Nazarites were likewise Holy unto the Lord. Nor were men only thus Holy but all other things that might be dedicated unto God and were so as all Places Vessels Garments Times all things as Holy Oyl Tithes Incense Sacrifices Oblations Vows c. which were in special order to God's Service and thereto devoted this is plain in the Old Testament Now this Holiness did not make the persons or the things Holy by any positive Inherent Holiness by any Sanctifying Graces infused for a man might be Holy in regard of his Function and yet unholy in his life witness Hophny and Phineas but by reason of the Holy Object and the Holy end and use whereunto they had relation This latter Holiness we ascribe to Churches and to all other things whatsoever given to God and set apart for his Service Now that Churches have this Holiness Churches are relatively Holy proved I prove 1. That places in the Old Testament dedicated to Gods Worship were Holy all will grant For 't was a received maxim among