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A43819	The season for Englands selfe-reflection and advancing temple-vvork discovered in a sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament at Margarets Westminster, Aug. 13, 1644, being an extraordinary day of humiliation / by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1644 (1644)	Wing H2027; ESTC R2603	33,390	45

their glory The Lord make them wise who remaine to study Gods meaning herein Certainly this were a good improvement of it for you who have been preserved to consecrate your lives your Honour to the honour of your good God in the building of his House Quest What preparations should wee make for the building of Gods House what may wee do towards it Answ. Bee pleased to accept of these few plain directions improve your interest and influence for the acting of them First Downe with the old building of Popery and Prelacy The Pope hath been raising himselfe a pompous palace for many yeeres together upon Christs ground a great incroachment upon our deare Saviour who is King of his Church which must come down it is designed to ruine Rev. 14. 8. Prelacy was the Scaffold whereby this building of Popery was raised to so great an heighth and now many would retain it as a crutch to support tottering Babylon Make good your Solemn Covenant If you are not in a capacity for the overthrowing of it by the exercise of the Legisative power in a Bill it 's worthy your wise consideration whether it were not fit to doe what you can by passing an Ordinance of Parliament against it Secondly when you have pulled downe the old building leave no rubbish upon the place It was an unhappy defect in former Reformations though some of the grand Idols were removed yet still there was so much Babylonish sfuffe left behind which now hath occasioned great trouble Away with Ceremonies Altars and Crucifixes away with the Popes Canon Law or whatsoever may give any occasion to Samarit an builders to make such a mixture in the Church as is contrary to the simplicity in Christ 2 Cor. 11. 3. which should bee the rule of the Churches Conformity Thirdly Lay a good foundation in the building of Gods house Christ in his Gospell a sure foundation Isa. 28. 16. The foundation is both the strength and the rule of the building to which it should be commensurate There is a foundation personall Christ himselfe 1. Cor. 3. 11. and doctrinall as hee is held forth in the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles Ephes. 2. 20. The more you minde these in the worke of Reformation the more glorious house you will raise for God to dwell in Fourthly Look to the superstructions when you have laid a good foundation Doe not multiply humane inventions in stead of divine Ordinances Consider what Offices what Administrations the Lord of the house hath prescribed in his Word Hee hath given Pastors and Teachers Ephes. 4. 11. Hee hath set in the Church Helpes Governments 1 Cor. 12. 28. not helpes in government as it is in some Copies mis-printed but Helpes Governments which most learned Expositors make to bee Deacons and Ruling Elders to assist the Pastors and Teachers Let us not bee afraid of admitting such as God himselfe hath prescribed there is no better way of building Gods House then out of his own Materials Fifthly Labour to approve your selves lively stones spirituall Temples to Jesus Christ then indeed you will adde very much to the building of Gods house 1 Pet. 2. 4 5. The Apostle represents Christ as the Living Stone and if you come to him as lively st●nes yee are built up a spirituall house Temple-worke will not bee advanced by dead stones Sixthly Improve your Parliament power to multiply builders in the Church Poore England complains under three great defects First Schooles and Vniversities are much decayed where builders might bee prepared Secondly Ordination is wanting whereby they might bee solemnly set apart for so great a service Thirdly Maintenance to incourage them in their work is miserably and scandalously poore in many places Reckon it your Honour to cherish the Seminaries of Religion and Learning that many Candidates for the Ministery may bee trained up there Bee pleased to quicken your Counsels in ripening the Ordinance for Ordination according to the advice of the Assembly presented to the Honourable Houses that such as are able and willing to helpe to build the Lords House may bee admitted to the work And let your wisdome contrive how the Lords builders may have a sufficient an honourable and a certain maintenance How much might an Ordinance for the reviving of the Ecoffees to recover Impropriations conduce to this happy purpose Hereby shall you bee renowned amongst those who have done much to helpe to build the old waste places and to raise up the foundation of many Generations and you shall bee called the Repairers of the breach the restorers of pathes to dwell in Isa. 58. 12. which is a promise made to such a Fast as God hath chosen As I began so I will end with the counsell of the Lord of Hosts which hee backs with much sweet incouragement to such as are ready to build his house Zach. 8. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. Let your hands bee strong feare not let your hands bee strong FINIS Errata Page 1● l. 25 for retite in words ● inwards p 17. l. 9. ● so p 21. l. 33. ● flashy See Bloody Tenent 1. Cor. 4. 7. Isa. 43. 4. 1 Chr. 22. 16. Preface Search the method of the books of Scripture amongst themselves See Ludo● Capel Hister Apostol. See Danaeus his Presace to Comment on the small Prophets See Paraeus in his Prol●gom on the Epist. to the Romans 〈◊〉 Nehemia● In reading Scripture compate Historicall and Propheticall bookes Verse 1. Note See Sleiden Comments Psal. 102. 13 14. Marke the constellation of divine Providences in Scotlands and Englands Reformation Verse 2. Note A strong antipathy against rebuilding the Temple in all ages Verse 3 4 5 6. 2 Sam. 7. 2. Division of the Text 1. Observat. V. Bish. Lake Serm. 8. on lsa. 9. 7. Exerci●● 1 A●●pia 2. Propter ordinem 3 Propter obedientian V. Paraeum in Genes c. 2. v. 1. Vse 1. Instruction Ephes. 3. 10. 1 Pet. 56. Vse 2. Caution against carnall feare in conflicting times On Marsionmoore July 2. 1644. Vse 3. Direction Ingage the Lord of Hosts by Prayer Oratio lenit ●●chryma cogit Vide Paraeum in Gen. 32. Praying Christians shall bee wrastlets Junius renders it Decres 〈◊〉 millum And the Geneva ten hundred thousand When you play single out the most prevailing Arguments Appeal to the Lord of Hosts Act as well as pray in times of trouble 2. Observ. Ponite cor vestrum super vias vestras i expendite quaeso negotiorum vestrorum eventus atque successus Inspicite penitius ut res vestiae sele habeant mox aperta videbi tis Dei vobis irati argumen ta Gualt. in Hagg. Excellency of self-considering Quest Answ. 1. Reasons why conside●ation of our wayes is so seasonable in times of trouble 1 Kings 8. 47. 2. Cor. 6. 17 18 Vse 1. Instruction Error 1. Error 2. 1. Pet. 4. 15. Aliono●umm spectores 〈◊〉 Alieni specul●tores Cypt. Vse 2. Caution Against carnall security under Gods hand Prudens ● spicit inspicit prospicit Security in sins lengthens Englands calamities Vse 3. Exhortation Let Gods hand lead you into your selves to consider your owne wayesa The Sword a grievous evill Levit. 26. 25 Jer. 9. 16. It were excellent wisdome to know the cause and remedy of Englands●vill● Plaga anini j● 1. Now tank●n patint●● mala quae cernun●●● 〈…〉 al scond●●a quae lantum ille nov●● qui ea pati●● conscientiae reclamatronem 〈…〉 peccata Pet. Mart. in locum Directions in considering your personall wayes Luk. 1. 75. Some quaeres in the considering of our publick wayes 1 Quaere 2 Quaere 3 Quaere 4 Quoere 5 Quaere 6 Quaere Jer. 93. Rom. 12. 11. Luk 10 27. a See 〈◊〉 his Chron. b See Lausbergn● 3. Observ. Compare Ezra and the Acts of the Apostles Reasons why Temple-work is not easily not suddenly accomplished Reas. 1. An Anripathy in the most against it 1 Pet. 2. 5. Reas. 2. The Devill implacably opposite to it Rev. 17. 12. Exod. 1. Matth. 2. Reas. 3. Adversaries subtile and industrious ●ach 4. 7. 4. Reas. Instruments 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Reason 5. Power and authority seldom forward to incourage it Reas. 6. God wil be acknowledged All in all therein Vse No reason to bee so much offended with out delayes difficulties in Reformation Great things done in England towards Church Reformation 1 Cor. 3. 19. Temple-work goes on in the midst of all our troubles with advantage Montanus Hierome Qui inf●a teiram habitant non possunt aedificare Templum Dei Ambros p. 12. 4 Observat. Quomodo quaerenda fuit ejus gratia nisi ut in Sanctuarium venirent ac inde rursum conscenderent animis et fide in 〈◊〉 Calv. Reas. 1. Their advantage Visible speculū praesentia meae enter v●s Calv. Reas. 2. His own glory Vse 1. Caution Two sor●s of Retarders of Temple-work 1. Prophane Atheists Isa 40. 3. 2 Carnall selfe-seekers Two sorts of underminers of Temple-work 1 Some would allow nothing by divine right in the Church I ●ame wisely to disting●●●h betwixt Christs Institutions mans prudennails 2. others would allow a Tol●ration of all Religions in the Church Remember the Covenant Vse 2. Exh●●tation Remember Gods diverting providences for our good Improve humbling providences Directions how to help● forward the building of Gods House 1 Down with the old building 2. Away with all the rubbish 3 Lay a good foundation Fundatto fundaussima sun 4 Look to the superst●●ctions 5 Approve your selves lively stones 6 Multiply Builders The ordinance for Ordination is since ●ully passed Salarium ministri sit 1 Sufficiens 2. Honorificum 3. Fixum

appeare in his glory Is building Gods house the ready way to obtaine Gods blessings Then as you desire to approve your selves friends to Englands tranquillity take heed you bee not found either Retarders or Vnderminers of the building in these times of Reformation The first Item shall be against Retarders of Temple-work who are of two sorts First prophane Atheists who cannot endure to thinke of any such Reformation as will confine and straiten them in making provision for their lusts There are too many of all rankes who combine in this confederacy They are not onely poore Peasants the prafanum vulgus who quarrell against the strictnesse of Reformation I wish none of our great ones were to bee found in this Catalogue I feare many of our Ministers will help to fill it up When Christ was to come into his Temple there needed a John Baptist to prepare the way to make the mountaines l●w and the rough places plaine and all little enough Mal. 3. 2. But who may abide the day of his ●omming and who shall stand when bee appeareth For hee is like a Refiners fire and the Fullers sope In such a posture Christ appeares in England in these Reforming times which makes profane ones who are not willing to be refined retard what they can Secondly Carnall Selfe-Seekers are deeply guilty of retarding Temple-worke you shall find in 2 Tim. 3. 2. 4. there is a wicked Regiment a wretched conspiracy of such men as make the last times perilous In the very front comes selfe-love ver. 2. Men shall bee lovers of their own selves and withall ver. 4. Such as are lovers of pleasures more then of God They who value their carnall-selfe at so high a rate that they will preferre their owne ends their ease their pleasures any thing of themselves before God and his Honour will bee ready upon every occasion to hinder Reformation and will rather imploy their wit and influence to keep down Gods House then that the building of Gods House should occasion the pulling down of their beloved carnall-self The second Item is for underminers of Templework of whom there are likewise two sorts swayed by two different undermining principles First Such who would have nothing jure divino nothing stand by divine right in Church affaires but resolve all wholly into State power and civill policy Gods House will never bee built but by the Line of his own word Moses had the pattern of the Tabernacle Solomon of the Temple and the Apostles of the Christian Church as the Lord directed Doubtlesse there may bee an extreame on both hands some would winde up jure divino too high and seek an expresse institution for those things which are dictated by the very light of reason common to all or wrapped up in the generall Rules of Scripture Others are so much afraid of jure divino that they would turne it out of the Church and bring all to jure humano and so farre subordinate the Church to the State that Jesus Christ the Lord of the house shall not bee allowed either to build or rule his own house according to his 〈◊〉 I confesse it is good to bee wise herein not to put the stampe of Jus divinum upon any thing without cleare warrant from the word of God And withall as you are to bee carefull that you doe not 〈◊〉 prudentials into the Throne of Divine institution so you should beware that you seek not to bring down divine Institutions into meere State prudentials lest you bee found underminers of the Lords Temple Bee not shie of Jus divinum where you have verbum divinum for it The Kingdome of Christ is not inconsistent with any Civill policy which tends to the publick good it never hurts any States but such as do oppose it them indeed it will break all to peeces witnesse the foure Monarchies one after another Secondly Such who would have a toleration of all wayes of Religion in this Church These would lamentably undermine the building of Gods house amongst us as being so contrary to the indevouring of a Scripure reformation unto which wee have so solemnly ingaged our selves Doubtlesse the word of God holds forth one true way of Religion in the Christian Church Let there bee a most exact inquiry what Latitude the Scripture doth allow for different opinions and practises in that one true way But to set the doore so wide open as to tolerate all Religions to make London an Amsterdam which yet some contend for and would now bee content to tolerate Popery it selfe so they might enjoy their own way though not many yeeres since their spirits would have risen at the mention of such a thing in England is such an undermining of the Temple that this would soon pull down Gods house here but never build it up God forbid that any of you should bee sound either retarders or underminers of such a worke If the advancing of Temple-work bee the most compendious way to obtain the blessing of the Lord of Hosts Then Right Honourable and Worthy Senators as you desire to contribute towards England welware quicken your selves and one another to diligence in building the Lords Temple The more you desire to see your own decayed houses and estates repaired and setled bee the more zealous and faithfull in re-building Gods house It may bee the wise God will not suffer you to injoy your Palaces till you have finished the work of Reformation that hee may injoy his Temple I desire you may remember all Gods diverting providences working for your good that your active prudence may bee ingaged for his service Had not the Lord of Hosts diverted the Kings Army from comming up towards London when they had gotten Bristoll and the Earle of New-Castles Forces from comming up to the then Associating Counties when hee set down before Hull yea had not the Lords mighty hand kept Prince Ruperts formidable Army from comming Southward when hee had got so great an advantage by raising the Siege at Yorke how much more sad might Englands condition have been before this time And I hope you will upon this day of humiliation so wisely observe his humbling providences in our present straites and troubles that you may bee awakened to a more serious consideration of your own wayes and in an holy revenge of your former negligence set your selves upon the building of the Lord Christs house O that there were amongst our Nobles and Gentry many more of Davids spirit who made great preparations for the building of the Temple 1 Chron. 22. 5. Yea in his trouble hee prepared for the house of the Lord ver. 14. They have had a large share in these devouring troubles Much of the blood of our Nobles and Gentry hath been spilt and many of their houses and estates ruined in this unnaturall Warre as if the Lord had a speciall quarrell against them intending to staine the pride of