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B12340	Dauids desire to go to church as it was published in two sermons in St. Maries in Oxford. The one the fift day of Nouember in the afternoone to the Vniversity 1609 the other on Christmas day following to the parishioners of that place. By Iohn Day Bachelour of Divinity, and one of the fellowes of Oriell Colledge.	Day, John, 1566-1628.	1612 (1612)	STC 6422; ESTC S115196	42,792	120

world to this day while some preferring the one Life some the other haue wholy addicted themselues or to the one or to the other Much I confesse may be spoken in the behalfe of either of thē but when all comes to all the Life that ioines them both together and vnites these two Roses the White as it were and the Red is the Life in my opinion best accepted with God and man I appeale in this case to Antiquitie it selfe which tooke such strict order that very Monks who had betaken themselues to Contemplation should not be d Vid. A●g de Opere Monach. Tom. 3. labourlesse notwithstanding I they were to worke with their owne hands that to get their owne living Howbeit the Action here meant by the Prophet in this place is not an Action of this nature it was to vse his feet not his hands especially his hands in a Mechanicall kind of sort It was indeed to vse those feet of his to the often comming to the Temple and not vpon the wagging of a strawe or to absent himselfe from thence or to make of his owne house a Chappell of ease Hence it is that he so often e Ps 26.12 voweth vnto God the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving in the Congregation that he so f Ps 134.2 earnestly exhorteth others to sing praises to the Lord in his Courts in his g Ps 134.3 Sanctuary before the h Ps 30.5 Memoriall of his Holinesse and so much complaineth of his owne vncomfortable exile i See M Hoeker Eccles Pol. l. 5. Sect. ●4 wherein although he sustained many most grievous indignities and indured the want of sundry both pleasures and honours before enioyed yet as if this one were his only griefe and the rest not felt his speeches are all of the heavenly benefit of k Ps 27 4.4●.4.84.1 Publike Assemblies and the happinesse of such as had free accesse therevnto And as the Prophet here in this place thus ioineth them together so doubt lesse no good Professor that liued in those times but also did the like ioyning and coupling both together least with idle Contemplation without comming at all to Church Assemblies he might vanish away in his speculation or comming to Church Assemblies without the benefit of Contemplation he should be like to those who l Esay 29.13 came neere to the Lord with their mouthes and honoured them with their lips but their hart was farre from him And thus much of the Reason of the Prophets Petition in this place the Beautie of the Church that so much moved him to be so desirous to goe to Church Now to apply what hath beene spoken and to make such vse of it as is fit to come to the marke it selfe whereat I first aimed when I first made choise of this Text. To behold the faire beauty of the Lord and to visit his Temple Little wrong was done to Saul by the woman of Israel when they made it the burden of their song m 1. Sam. 18.7 Saul hath slaine his thousand and David his ten thousand The vnlike deserts of these two Princes n M.D King on Ionas Lect. 1. saith a worthy Divine of our daies might iustly admit an vnlike commendation Our Saviour in the Gospell indeed o Luk. 5.39 preferreth olde wine before new but in the same Gospell if we marke it he preferreth the New p Luk. 7. ●8 Testament before the old There is no greater Prophet then Iohn q Mat 11.11 saith he among them that are begotten of women neverthelesse he that is least in the kingdome of God is greater then he the kingdome of God being there taken as the kingdome of heauen Matthew the third at the second verse and the Gospell of the kingdome Matthew the fourth at the three twentie verse and the word of the kingdome Matthew the thirteenth at the nineteenth verse in a word as our Savior meant when he said The kingdome of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a Nation which shall bring forth the fruits thereof Matthew the one and twentieth at the three and fortieth verse These things thus Beloved it shall be no disparagement to the Temple here in this place if so be we preferre before it the Beautie of our Temples The Beauty I told you of this Temple consisted in two points First in regard of the Parties that there were present Secondly in regard of the Things performed in those Assemblies The Parties present were first the Lord himselfe then the Priests thē the People The Things performed in those Assemblies was the Publique Solemnitie of Gods worship both in the word and Sacraments and Sacrifices and Prayer and Prayses and doth not the Church of God whereof our Assemblies are every of them parts and parcels of the selfe same nature the Church is evē the meanest Assembly that is so it be a Congregation doth not the Church I say so far excell that Synagogue as the Sunne in his brightnesse the meanest starre Begin wee first of all with Gods presence and is it not more in Christian Assemblies thē it was to the Israelits in that Temple At sundrie times and in diuers maners r Heb. 1.1 saith the Apostle to the Hebrews God spake in the old time to our Fathers by the Prophets in these last dais he hath spoken to vs b●●is Sonne never spake Prophet 〈◊〉 ●●ke the Son Iohn the seaventh 〈◊〉 ●e sixe and fortith verse O but you w● say God him selfe spake to Moses Moses hard his ſ Numb 7.89 owne voice I grant he did and was not the same voice of the same God hard also in the new Testament first vpō the baptisme of our Savior Matthew the third at the seavēteenth vers secondly at another time Iohn the 12 at the eight and twenty verse True it is it was at those times it was then it is not now howbeit as S. Austen in the matter of the Tongues To one that should say t Ang. de Temp. Ser. 188. saith he if thou hast received the Holy Ghost why then speakest thou not as did the Apostles with diversity of tongues thou mayst answer him againe yes I speak with diversity of tongues for I am in the body of Christ that is the Church which speaketh with such diversitie right so may we say in this case no particular Church whatsoever but in regard this was spoken to our Savior Christ the head thereof but hath the benefit of those words and may bee said to haue hard the voice of God Nowe as wee haue God the father here the first Person in Trinity so haue we here God the sonne to even as he testified of himselfe where two or three u Mat. 18.20 saith he are gathered togither in my name there am I in the midst of thē Not as he was in the midst betweene the two theeues giving influence to the one and none at all to the

other Luke the three twētith at the three and fortith verse but as he was in the midst of the c Luk. 2.46 Doctors or in the midst of the x Luk. 24.36 eleaven Apostles or if not so personally for he is nowe at the right hand of God there setteth as speak the y Mark 16.19 Scriptures yet as he was in the midst of the candleslickes Revelation the first at the thirteenth verse Over and besides the Sonne of God we haue God the holy Ghost to of whō our Saviour himselfe said that hee should abide with vs for ever and is therfore called by Tertullian The z Tertull. de Vir. Veland Vicar of Christ vpō earth True it is they had in their Temple this Trinity as well as we the Father and Sonne and Holy Ghost for they were but one God both then now ever but come to the manner of their being there being with vs in our Assemblies and it was a ridle to the Iewes we that haue plowed with a Iudg. 14.18 Sampsons heyfer that is with the holy Scriptures haue easily found it out You shall heare Dichers Delvers saith b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theodor. ad Graec. Infid Ser. 5. Theodoret of the Christians in his time and he spake it not in skorne neither reasoning about the Trinity Over and besides the Holy Trinity we haue the Angels to here present in regard of whom the Apostle in his Epistle to the c 1. Cor. 11 10. Corinthians The woman ought to haue power on her head that is to haue her head covered because of the Angels Nor are they present only as Spectators but they assist vs after a sort I they solace themselues in the beauty of this house according to that of St d 1. Pet. 1.12 Peter The which things the Angels desire to behold speaking of the misteries published in the Gospell The word e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beza in 1. Pet. 1.12 Beholding there vsed being the same that was vsed of himselfe when he lookt so diligently into the f Luk. 24.12 sepulcher and the Apostle alluding thereby as it is thought to the figure of the Cherubins that were so fashioned by the hand of the work man as if they had g Exod. 25.20 looked into the Arke Concerning the other Parties that were present namely the Priestes and People how infinitly in each of them doe we Christians out strip the Iewes First concerning our Priests they are not in deede so gorgeous in attire as they were but being Ministers of better things how are they more beautifull notwithstanding How beautifull h Rom. 10.15 saith the Apostle are the feet of them wh●ch bring glad tidings of peace and bring glad tidings of good things And St Chrysostome he compares thē in one i Chrys de Eucharist in E●●●n place to the Angels in another k Chrys de S●●ced l. 3. place he prefers them farre before thē To them saith he that inhabit the earth and are conversant therein is committed the dispensing of those things which are in h●avē They haue that power given vnto them which he neuer gaue to Angels no not Archangels thēselues Concerning the People they indeed were a Natiō but they were but one Nation we the whole world And therefore as our Saviour l Mark 28. ●9 said to his disciples Go and teach all Nations so they went and taught them severally m See Eus●b l. 3. c. 1. Hieron Catal. script Ecclesiast S. Iohn the Asians S. Andrew the Achaians S. Matthew the Ethiopians S. Philip the Phrygians S. Bartholmew the Indians S. Thomas the Parthians and so forth their soūd n Rom. 10.18 saith the Apostle went out through all the earth and their words into the end of the world Or if so be they went not to all places in their owne proper persons as S. Austen o Aug. ep 80 seemes to be of opinion yet hath every Nation now or at the least wise hath had the benefit of that doctrine which the Apostle delivered to those nations that in their owne persons they then visited We may well adde vnto this point that peculiar honour and testimoniall that is given vnto Christians in that they are saide so p 1. Cor. 3.16 2 Cor. 6.16 many times to bee themselues the Temple of God I every of them in particular in regard of their q 1. Cor. 6.19 bodies to be the Temple of the holy Ghost But thus much of outstripping them in regard of the Parties present that we no lesse outstrip them to in regard of the Publike Solemnity of Gods worship namely in the Word and Sacraments and Sacrifices and Praier and Praises remaineth now to be declared first concerning the Word First then concerning the Worde they had Moses I grant and they had the Prophets Moses as speakes Theodoret who was the r Theodoret. ad Graec. Infid s●r 2. Ocean of Diuinity and instructed mouth to mouth as it were by God himselfe the Prophets who were the floods and so many riuers as it were derived from him Moses he delivered them the Law the Prophets they were the Interpreters of that Law Both Moses and Prophets so complete at that time for the salvatiō of the Iews that that of Abraham vnto Diues concerning the salvation of his Bretheren then living ſ Luk. 16.29 They haue Moses and the Prophets let them heare them was an argument that woulde not admit of any reply that Diues made For when hee answered therevpon t v. 30. Nay Father Abraham but if one come vnto them from the dead they will amend their liues the Patriarch holds himselfe to his first resolutiō u v. 31. If they heare not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rise from the dead againe Now if they were then taught so wholy and perfectly by Moses the Prophets alone howe much better is our case who haue the Apostles and Evangelists annexed vnto them Moses and the Prophets indeede being a light as S. Peter c 2. Pet. 1.19 speaketh that shineth in a darke place but the Apostles and Euangelists as the day star arising in our hearts And thus much of the Word How far we outstrip them in the Sacraments S. d Aug epist 118. de Doct. Christ l. 3. c. 9. Austen wil bear vs witnes who speaking of theirs and ours we saith he are not pressed with the heavy burden they were but our Lord his Apostles haue delivered vnto vs a few Sacraments in steed of many and the same in performing most easie in signification most excellent in obseruation most reverend and he nameth in that place Baptisme and the Supper True it is the Apostle e 1. Cor. 10 1. saith they were all vnder the clowd and all passed through the sea and were baptised vnto Moses in the clowd and in the sea