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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52086	A sermon of simony & sacriledge by Edward Marston.	Marston, Edward.	1699 (1699)	Wing M814; ESTC R26803	14,579	26

Truth Prayer testifieth that we acknowledge his Goodness to be the only Fountain of all Blessings Preaching bringeth Knowledge without which Devotion is Blind Prayer exerciseth Devotion without which Knowledge is Lame and Unprofitable The own soweth the Seed the other fetcheth a shower of Graces from Heaven to make it grow By Preaching God doth serve us with that Heavenly Manna the Food of our Souls by Prayer we do serve God which is the End of all our Preaching Be it far from us then to make a Divorce between these two which can so well agree Secondly That these Sacred means might take effect in working Holiness in the Church of God he hath Sanctify'd and set apart in the second Rank Time Place and Person for the Ministry of the Word Prayer and Sacraments For Time he hath selected the Lord's Day for Place the Temple for Persons the Clergy 1. The Lord's Day Sanctify'd or set apart from common use to God's Service is then devour'd when it is Prophan'd by weekly Business or lewd Sports The Ends why the Lord's Day was Ordain'd are these 1. For the Exercise of all Duties of Piety in Publick especially 2. For the Practice of all Duties of Charity and Piety 3. To remember the great Works of God especially of the Creation and Redemption of the World And if in every Week or Month or Year we should set some time apart to Commemorate God's Mercy in all his other Acts of Gracious Providence belonging to our Preservation it would be no Superstition but an Act of Piety in any single Christian or if Authority should think good in any Publick Society of them So likewise the Birth Passion Ascension of Christ the Descent of the Spirit the Birth or Martyrdom of the Apostles and Saints of Scripture and any remarkable temporal Deliverance or by proportion also any matter of Humiliation any Sin or Judgment on a Kingdom will by the example of God himself both in this Fourth Commandment and in other Feasts and Fasts of the Church prescribed by him be resolv'd to be fit Seasons and Opportunities to Consecrate some considerable part of our time to God 2. The Holiness of the Place is devoured when the Temple of God is made an Exchange John 2.16 I mean not only the Temple at Hierusalem but every place Consecrated to God's Worship is Holy and therefore saith the Apostle not to be Prophan'd by common Employments 1 Cor. 11.22 Have ye not houses to eat and drink in or despise ye the Church of God 3. Sanctify'd Persons set apart for the Ministry of the Gospel are devour'd a thousand ways yea rather than fail we our selves will devour our selves That unhappy Faction amongst us about Mint and Annice had brought such a Snare upon this Church as if God's especial Providence had not preserved us the Papist on the one side and the prophane Atheist on the other had devour'd both sides with open Mouth Verily 't is a Snare to devour any thing that is Sanctified But yet I am not come to the chief part of my Text. As the Sacred Ordinance of God the Word and Sacraments cannot be Ministred without convenient Time Place and Person set apart for that purpose So neither can Place nor Person be fit for that Ministry without convenient Maintenance Wherefore God of his Goodness out of those Temporal Blessings in abundance bestowed upon the Sons of Men hath resum'd a Portion for this purpose Which Portion is said in my Text to be Sanctified because 't is set apart from common use to the Maintenance of God's Service For 't is laid down for a Principle in Levit. 27.28 Every thing separate from common use is holy to the Lord So that where the Scripture speaketh of this Portion there to be separate and to be Holy be Synonima diverse Terms expressing one and the self-same thing These ly open to be devour'd by Covetous and Needy Persons these be alluring Baits to entice a Man to devour them but Solomon giveth us a Caveat that under this Bait there lieth an Hook to ensnare the Conscience of the Devourer so as he may swallow the Bait and wound himself Win the World and lose his Soul Be it far from me to ensnare the Judgment of the Weak or any ways to darken the Truth by Ceremonial or Levitical Shadows I know where I speak in the Presence of God and of those who are able to discern and judge what I say Give me leave to enlighten my self in the unfolding of this Text so far only as the Moral Law of God which is perpetual and the Evidence of his Gospel do second the same That Precept of Wisdom to her Son in this Book Chap. 3. ver 9. Honour God with thy substance albeit she had written it in the Hearts of Men by Nature Yet she had need to renew it since many endeavour to blot it out For 't is a conceit commonly conceiv'd that for those Temporal Blessings we possess if we use them soberly without excess justly without oppression of others and charitably with some portion relieve the Poor we are thereby discharged as if no part thereof was due to God or did any wise appertain to the first Table The Nicodemites were content to become Christians thus far that they would give their Hearts unto Christ so they might dispose of their Bodies as occasion serv'd These go a degree farther They will Worship God in Soul and Body both That of the abundance of the heart the Mouth may speak the Knee bow the Hands and Eyes be lifted up But for Honouring God in their Riches they think 't is more than needs They will offer to God the Oblations of their Hearts and Calves of their Lips too but not of their Stalls We will go with the Wise Men saith St. Bernard to seek Christ from the East yea we will fall down and worship him but we be grown too wise to open our Treasuries that is the renting of our Hearts we cannot endure to be ty'd unto it If St. Paul therefore will make Agrippa a Christian he must except these Bands too But God will not release us For as God is the owner and giver of all Sacrum vectigal Calvin in Heb. 1.4 so he will be acknowledged by a Sacred Rent to be Lord of all He gave Blessing to Abraham Abraham repay'd part in acknowledgment of that gift Gen. 14.20 The Land of Canaan was given unto his Posterity but that Sacred Tribute was reserv'd as Holy to the Lord. For want of the payment whereof God doth often distrain and re-enter upon his own restraining the influence of the Heaven and the sap of the Earth as Mal. 3.10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house and prove me now herewith saith the Lord of hosts if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing c. Therefore the Windows of Heaven were shut before because this Duty