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<HEAD>A Looking-Gla&s;s (or VVarning-Peece) for all &s;uch as Prophane Churches, and neglect Prayer, again&s;t the Lawes of GOD, expre&s;t in his Holy Word, The Sacred SCRIPTURES.</HEAD>
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<HEAD><HI>In the reading hereof, I. pray ob&s;erve the</HI> A, B, C, &amp;c. <HI>fir&s;t look on your left hand for</HI> A.</HEAD>
<P>A. <HI>Holy Scriptures again&s;t the heinous &s;ins of the&s;e Times, in Profaning Godsholy Hou&s;e the Church.</HI></P>
<P>Remember God &s;aith, Ye &s;hall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my San|ctuary: I am the Lord, <HI>Lev.</HI> 19. 30. Chap. 26. 2. And the Lord &s;aid (unto wi&s;e <HI>Solomon)</HI> I have heard thy prayer and thy &s;upplication that thou ha&s;t made before me: I have hallow|ed this Hou&s;e which thou ha&s;t built, to put my Name there for ever, and mine Eyes and mine Heart &s;hall be there perpetually, 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 9. 3. Cha. 8. 29.</P>
<P><HI>Mark here Gods Puni&s;hments for the &s;ins of the Prie&s;ts and People.</HI></P>
<P>The Chief of the Prie&s;ts, and the People tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed very much, afte<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> all the Abominations of the Heathen and polluted the Hou&s;e of the Lord which He had hallowed in <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI> Therfore he brought upon them the King of the <HI>Caldees,</HI> who &s;lew their young Men with the Sword, in the Hou&s;e of their Sanctuary, and had no Compa&s;&s;ion upon young Man or Mayden, old Man, or him that &s;toops for Age: He gave them all into his hand, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 36. 14, &amp; 17 ver. (Look up to the Top of the Steeple for B.)</P>
<P>B. <HI>Holy Ground,</HI></P>
<P>Put off thy &s;hooes (&s;aith God) from off thy Feet, for the Place whereon thou &s;tande&s;t is Holy Ground: Ex. 3. 5. Act 7. 33, Sec 1 Cor. 11. 4. (Take heedto thy Foot) or, Keep thy foot when thou en|tre&s;t into the hou&s;e of God, Ecl. 5. 1. &s;ee 1 Tim. 3. 15: look on your right hand for C</P>
<P>C. <HI>Gods Hou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>How dreadfull is this Place, this is none o|ther but the Hou&s;e of God, &amp;c. <HI>Gen.</HI> 28. 17. Ye look for Much, and loe it came to Little: and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it: Why, &s;aith the Lord of Ho&s;ts? Becau&s;e of mine Hou&s;e that is wa&s;t, and ye Runne every Man unto his own hou&s;e. <HI>Hag.</HI> 1. 9. Look again up to your right hand for D.</P>
<P>D. (Mark here, I be&s;eech you, mark) Je&s;us went into the Temple of God, and ca&s;t out all them that Sold and Bought in the Temple, and overthrew the Tables of the Money-Changers, and the &s;eats of them that &s;old Doves, And &s;aid unto them, It is written, My Hou&s;e &s;hall be called a Hou&s;e of Prayer, but ye have made it a Den of Theeves. <HI>Mat.</HI> 21. 12, 13. <HI>Mar.</HI> 11. 15, 16, 17. <HI>Luke</HI> 19 45, 46.</P>
<P>(Now mark) here Chri&s;t did not pull down the Temples, or Churches, for the &s;innes of the Prie&s;ts and Peo|ple. But, then he made a &s;courge of &s;mall Cords, and drave them all out of the Temple, with the Sheep and Oxen, and poured out the Chan|gers money, and overthrew the Tables, And &s;aid unto them that &s;old Doves, Take the&s;e things hence: Make not my Fathers Hou&s;e an Hou&s;e of Merchandi&s;e, And his Di&s;|ciples remembred that it was written, The Zeal of thine Hou&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> hath eaten me up, <HI>Joh.</HI> 2. 15, 16, 17. See for E.</P>
<P>E <HI>And</HI> Jacob <HI>awaked out of his &s;leep, and he &s;aid, &s;urely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not, and he was afraid,</HI> G<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">n. 28. 16.</P>
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<P>_DEar Brother, the P&s;almi&s;t &s;aith, <HI>Holine&s;s becometh thine hou&s;e, O Lord, for ever, P&s;al.</HI> 93. 5. And the Almighty God &s;aith, <HI>Ye &s;hall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my Sanctuary, I am the Lord, Levit.</HI> 19. 30. An&s;werable to which his Saints and Servants have ever carried them&s;elves, e&s;teeming the place of Gods wor&s;hip holier then other places. So <HI>Iacob</HI> did before the Law, <HI>Gen.</HI> 28. 16, 17. and &s;aid, <HI>How fearfull is this place, this is no other but the Hou&s;e of God:</HI> And for the people of God under the Law, they did &s;o re&s;pect the place of Gods wor&s;hip that <HI>David</HI> &s;aid, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 26. 8. <HI>Lord I have loved the habitation of thy Hou&s;e, &amp; thy place where thine Honor dwelleth:</HI> And moreover &s;aid, as one that had been ravi&s;hed therewith, <HI>How amiable are thy Tabernacles, thou Lord of ho&s;ts,</HI> P&s;al. 84. And in his ab&s;ence, &s;aid, <HI>My &s;oul longeth, yea, and &s;ainteth for the Courts of the Lord:</HI> And e&s;teems even the Swallows and the Spar|rows happy that might make their ne&s;ts neer it, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 3. And in the time of the Go&s;pel, while our Lord was on earth, he &s;hewed more wrath and jealou&s;ie again&s;t &s;uch as profaned the place of Gods wor&s;hip, then he did about any other thing; for he made a whip, and drove the cattel that were for &s;acrifice out of the Court-yard, overturned the Tables that they told money on, and &s;aid, <HI>Make not my Fathers hou&s;e a hou&s;e of merchandi&s;e:</HI> And he would not &s;uffer that any &s;hould carry any ve&s;|&s;el thorow the Temple, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 2. 14, 15, 16. <HI>Mar.</HI> 11. 16. And after our Lord was a&s;cended, before Churches were built, having on|ly &s;ome <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ooms dedicated to that u&s;e, S. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;harply reproveth the profaners thereof. <HI>What</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>have ye not hou&s;es to eat and drink in, but de&s;pi&s;e ye the Church of God?</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 22. This being &s;o, it &s;heweth plainly, that tho&s;e which put no diffe|rence between a Church and a dwelling hou&s;e, are not of God; for his people neither before the Law, or under the Law, in the dayes that Chri&s;t was upon the earth, nor after his a&s;cen&s;ion, never did &s;o: and who&s;e example &s;uch do follow, I know not, except it be King <HI>Bel&s;hazar, Dan.</HI> 5. that made the ve&s;&s;els of the Temple common drinking bouls, he is the father of &s;uch wretches, and let them expect to inherit his &s;hame, either here or hereafter. But &s;ome will &s;ay, How can there be difference in dayes, in places, in ve&s;&s;els, in per&s;ons, in ve&s;tments, &amp;c. <HI>For the light of every day is of the Sun, and he hath made of one blood all Nations, Act.</HI> 17. 26. The &s;on of <HI>Sirach</HI> gives an&s;wer, <HI>Ecclus.</HI> 33. <HI>By the knowledge of the Lord they were di&s;tingui&s;hed:</HI> Some he hath made high dayes, and hallowed them, and &s;ome of them he hath made ordinary dayes; though all men be from the &s;ame earth, yet in much knowledge hath he divided them; &s;ome of them hath he ble&s;&s;ed, and exalted, and made Kings, and &s;ome of them hath he &s;anctified, and &s;et neer him&s;elf, made Prie&s;ts; of whom he &s;aith in another place, <HI>Touch not mine A|nointed, nor do my Prophets no harm.</HI> And therefore I will conclude and &s;ay, he that regards not the&s;e di&s;tinctions, is a mo&s;t profane wretch to his God, and in his mind little better than a enemy to the Commonwealth.</P>
<P><HI>Now</HI> Peter <HI>and</HI> John <HI>went up together into the Temple, at the hour of Prayer, being the ninth hour,</HI> Act, 3. 1.</P>
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<P>ONe thing I prayed you to con&s;ider, that if we mu&s;t have no &s;et-form of Prayer, no &s;olemn wor&s;hip of God, no evening and morning &s;acrifice, but that which every man in his fancie, extemporarily powreth forth, in what condition then will this Engli&s;h Church be in, and if it once be &s;o, whether it may not then be truly &s;aid, <HI>The glory thereof is departed:</HI> for the &s;tream will be as the fountain, what is in the heart will out at the mouth, and then may we truly &s;ay, Good Lord what &s;tuff &s;hall we have: One man though zealous, yet but &s;illy, ye &s;hall have from him a great deal of non&s;en&s;e and vain repetitions, O Lord, O God, O, Oh: and another, he affects words &amp; o&s;tentations, by which he ofttimes appears to his auditor like one preaching or acting a part upon a &s;tage; another, his memory being not good, e&s;pecially beng out of his me|thod, he hackers and hammers, but brings forth nothing readily: another, being given to &s;tzife and contention, lets fall pa&s;&s;a|ges tending to anger and wrath, exclaiming again&s;t &s;uch, as he &s;uppo&s;eth, hath done him wrong: another, being affected with &s;uper&s;titious cu&s;toms, his affections and words in prayers will be bya&s;ed thereafter: another, being a Schi&s;matick, prayes again&s;t the Cu&s;toms of that Church whereof him&s;elf is a member, and he cries out for reformation, and removing of &s;uch things, as in his profound judgement &s;hould not be, he al&s;o prayes for vengeance upon &s;uch as are the hinderers of his &s;uppo|&s;ed reformation: another, being an heretick, his &s;acrifice tends to here&s;ie &amp; bla&s;phemie: another, being &s;editious, as his mind runs upon &s;tate bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, &s;o an&s;werable thereto, his prayer is interlaced, &s;ometimes with matter no better than trea&s;on it &s;elf: in this wofull condition &s;hould we be in, if for our &s;ins God &s;hould cau&s;e our daily &s;acrifice to cea&s;e, and &s;uffer the idle fancies of mens brains to be offered in &s;tead thereof. From the which good Lord deliver us.</P>
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