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A50843	Samaritanism reviv'd, a sermon preached at the parish church of Great Yarmouth, upon the ninth of September being the day appointed for a solemn thanksgiving for the discovery of the late horrid plot, against His Majesty's person and government / by Luke Milbourne.	Milbourne, Luke, 1649-1720.	1683 (1683)	Wing M2037; ESTC R7778	45,022	57

made it a Den of Thieves In such cases if God be angry who can wonder If God confound that People who labour to cloud his Glory and to render his Service sordid and nauseous he must then be justified when he speaks though in anger and clear when he is judged That Publick and Solemn Worship of God the Contempt of which has such dreadful effects ought first to be regarded when the Almighty sheaths his Sword again and restores Peace and Prosperity to a People So soon as the Israelites were freed from the Aegyptian Bondage and but yet on their way to the Promis'd Land they were call'd upon by God himself to build a Tabernacle and Ark with all their Furniture before which they might offer their daily Sacrifices David when he fled from Absolom Exod. 25. was careful lest this Ark should suffer by being carry'd with him in his flight Carry it back says he into the City if I shall find favour in the sight of the Lord 2 Sam. 15.25 he will bring me again and shew me both it and his habitation When he return'd indeed he presently was for raising a Temple to the God of Israel his Redeemer and since God permitted him not to build it he provided Treasure for his Son to build it with He prescrib'd the method of Divine Service 1 Chron. Chapters 22 23 24 25 26 27 c. and fixt Orders for its exact performance in that Temple As for the Temple it self where this cost was to be bestow'd and these Orders observ'd David declares The House that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical of fame and of glory throughout all Countries 1 Chron. 22.5 and the Reason he gives is remarkable The work is great 1 Chron. 29.1 for the Palace is not for Man but for the Lord God And this care of David's was so just and ●ffectual that in Hezekiah's time we find the Priests and Levites obeying the past Commands of David using the Instruments of David 2 Chron. 29.25 30. and praising God in the Words of David and he that shall but read profane Story Multa epulenta ibi Regum populorumque visuntur munera quaeque magnificentiâ suâ reddentium vota gratam voluntatem Decrum responsa manifestant Justinus de templo Delphico Lib. 24. c. 8. and see what large Donaria all Countries appropriated to their Sacred Temples upon Dangers escap'd or Victories obtain'd or the Sacred History and view the prodigious Liberalities of David Solomon and the Nobles of Israel to the Temple of God must needs conclude the Service of God was by that means render'd glorious and beautiful the gratitude of Men to God very commendable and that those who left us those great Examples were not all of them either Mad-men or Fools And indeed Men may pretend what they will they 'l never perswade any in their senses to believe them thankful to God for removing Common Judgements who do not repair the decays of Divine Worship and endeavour to restore its pristine exactness and splendor and an Vniform celebration of Gods Praises is the best proof of an agreeing sense of his infinite Goodness And thus the Christians of old in each Distinct respectively were United in the same Forms of Worship and the Vniversal Church Concordant in the same matter and the whole World convinced of the Beauty and Harmony of that Religion whose Professors addrest themselves to God so Vnitedly for Matter and with so little disparity in Words and Methods even that disparity confirming the truth of Christianity the greatness of the true God and the Divinity of the Man Christ Jesus whom though Crucified the Christian World with the greatest fervour and devotion ador'd and invocated 'T is easie to Object That though great thankfulness is really due to God after great Deliverances yet 't is indifferent in what place by what person in what order Gods praise in his Worship is declar'd 'T is true a Man may be heard with Job from a Dunghil with Jonah from the Oceans bottom with Jeremiah from the miry Dungeon or with Daniel from the Lions Den but scarce any wise Man would chuse those places for his Devotions if he were at Liberty And my Groom or Scullion may be heard in their Prayers as soon as I but it would shew little respect to Gods Service should I call them to officiate in the Head of my Family in a Scullery or Stable with their Horse or Kitchen Habiliments about them Days of deliverance are days of Joy and Feasting and the garments of Gladness ought then to be worn and our gratitude to put on the fairest face of Order Loveliness and Beauty those Sins for which we suffer should be forsaken our thankful Resentments of Gods Goodness should be expos'd to the Worlds view and that so that Religion for its deformity may not be made a Scar-crow nor Slovenliness the measure of Divine Worship nor Enthusiasm the Essence of Devotion From the practice of the Samaritans in the Text we may Observe Observ 2. That the Enemies of Religion always apply themselves to hinder the Restauration of Gods Solemn and Publick Worship The Charms of pure and undefil'd Religion and the Worship attending it are terrible and odious to the Prince of Darkness he renders it a Mormo or Bugbear to his wretched Slaves and cannot endure its allurements should reach the Souls of thinking persons and therefore as by his Wiles and Policies he endeavours to put a slur upon Piety to render it ugly and ridiculous in the sight of Men that so it may crouch to growing Impieties So when men formerly mad after Sin begin to return to their almost lost Wits again he tries all ways to hinder the good Effects of Repentance that so profest Penitents may return with the Dog to his Vomit and with the Sow that is wash'd to her wallowing in the mire That Sin should abound and that Vengeance should once more deluge the World is his aim and therefore he studies to obstruct whatsoever tends to Reformation in those things that are really amiss Whatsoever mischief the Devil designs his busie Agents here on Earth who think scorn to be damn'd alone carry on with the greatest vigour and labour to engage all whom possibly they can pervert into the same Service so the People of Israel of old when God had scourg'd them frequently for their Sins and by his punishments reduced them to Reason though their Vows and Resolutions were never so many of reforming themselves to the Pattern God had prescrib'd them their Resolutions all vanish'd into Air and easie Temptations drew them to dangerous relapses as we read in the Book of Judges Manasseh King of Judah was eminent in wickedness as his Father Hezekiah had been in piety He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord like to the Abominations of the Heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the Children of Israel

nay he made Judah and all the Inhabitants of Jerusalem to erre worse than the Heathen whom the Lord had destroy'd for which God deliver'd him a Captive to the King of Babylon where when he humbled himself God was entreated of him and return'd him to his Kingdom This Mercy made him know that the Lord only was God but though he endeavour'd afterwards in Gratitude to his Deliverer to clear Gods Temple to repair his Altar and to reduce the Temple Service to its Ancient Glory it was but in vain His Son the Heir of his Crown the Witness of his Repentance and the Reasons of it was upon his Death too easily seduced and instead of perfecting the good work begun by his Father he only outstript him in Sin He sacrificed to all the Carv'd Images which Manasses in his folly had made 2. Chron. 23.2 9 13 16 22. but humbled not himself as Manasses had done but trespassed more and more If we examine the Case of these return'd Exiles we shall see that notwithstanding Gods and the Kings Favour to them the excellent Examples of Zerubbabel Jeshua Nehemiah and the other Chiefs and the Divine Excitatives of Haggai and Zechariah notwithstanding the forward Zeal they shew'd at first to repair the sacred Ruins of the Temple they were so unhappy that even some of their own Nobles for whom as well as the rest God had done such great things held Correspondence with the Enemies of their Church ●●hem 5.17 18 19. to the notorious hazard of their Religion but when all these obstacles were past over when the House of God was built the Ancient forms of Worship were reestablish'd and their compleat Joy outwardly exprest by that Care for that the Lord had made them joyful E●●● 16 〈…〉 22. and turn'd the Heart of the King of Assyria to them to strengthen their hands in the work of the House of God the God of Israel But alas Wickedness too too soon prevail'd again and the prophaness and contempt of Gods Service grew intolerable on which account God made the Kings of Syria their Scourge that Temple their Pride and Glory was defil'd by their Enemies as it had been by themselves and Judas Maccabeus once more compell'd to a Reformation but still Wicked men were busie and active And when our Saviour came into the World to rectifie the Errors of mistaken Mankind the opposition he found was so strong as seem'd and was indeed to Humane powers irremediable And Lastly Let us view those Laws and Rules prescrib'd by the Apostles themselves for the settling Vnity and Vniformity in the Church of Christ and we shall see so many Schisms and Heresies rais'd by the Devil and wicked Men to pervert and disannul them that nothing less than an Omnipotent Power could have preserv'd them to this day And yet that due and regular Veneration of the Divine Majesty is so naturally fixt in the minds of Men that the most resolv'd Enemies of Goodness are frequently balkt themselves and downright Opposition to Publick Solemn and Decent Worship oft-times disgusts both themselves and others Hell in this case drives them to the other Extream and makes them overdo what God and the Circumstances of his Publick Worship require as if there could be no Mean between the sluttery and nastiness of a Common prostitute and the garish Extravagance of a gentile Harlot And thus did Ill Men prevail formerly upon the Jewish Church and taught them by this means to preach for Doctrines the Commandments of Men and thus the Christian Worship in the Church of Rome was perverted where so many things not only unnecessary but inconvenient not only superfluous but ridiculous have been introduc'd that Paganism in its greatest Wildness could not outvy them and by this means the very Substance of true Sacred Worship has been expos'd to contempt and some have been so far bewitcht with an empty shew as to rest in that without examining the real weight of things These have been the sad Effects of that Opposition which the Enemies of Piety have made to the resettling Gods Worship in a Publick solemn Way and that they should not always study for and effect thus much there can be no reason given but from the infinite Divisions among these very Adversaries themselves from whence 't is hop'd that according to our Saviours expression the Kingdom of Satan divided against it self cannot stand Matt. 12.26 'T is true were Piety once totally banish'd the World those intestine Feuds among the Slaves of Hell would soon grow irreconcileable Sin would make them like those who sprung from the Dragons Teeth sown by Cadmus to draw their Swords in an immmediate War till they had ruin'd one another But alas the Case is nothing so happy here while God has any Servants though their Quarrels are never so great among themselves they unite but too too close in persecuting and afflicting them So these Samaritans though of so many different Countries and engag'd in such disagreeing Idolatries yet could all joyn to hinder the building the Temple of the true God for though wicked Men of all kinds are at never so great a distance among themselves yet Truth being equally an Enemy to them all it moves their Hatred so much against it self that other Di●gusts and Broyls are soon forgotten Matth. 16.1 Ch. 22.16 So the Pharisees Sadduces and Herodians labour'd at all times to undermine each other but readily combin'd together to destroy our Saviour The more vigorous and bright Truth 's Lustre is the more violent will the assaults of its Opposers be So it prov'd in the Primitive Church many and absurd Haeresies sprung up in it the Breaches between the different Hereticks were irreparable and yet they liv'd almost in a constant Conspiracy against the true Catholick Church of Christ and he that examines Church History will find that when Peace gave the greatest Ornaments to Christianity the Mushroom Heresies and Schisms grew up the fastest as on the contrary when Religion grew indifferent and the Professors of it Luke-warm Hereticks and Schismaticks seem'd to lay down their Weapons as if Hell had then no more employment for them But when those who ador'd the true God to maintain his Honour judg'd no Cost too great to adorn his Temples and the Devil found it impossible to eradicate that Principle out of Mens minds which taught them to do so he try'd another way and resolv'd himself not to be inferior to his Soveraign no Temples should be rais'd more magnificent no Vtensils more costly no Sacrifices more expensive to the Supream Deity than those he assum'd to himself and the worst of Men in this respect seem'd aemulous of their Bounty who expended most for the Ornature of a Christian Oratory a thing which observ'd but not well understood by many made them afraid of even a decent Beauty and Magnificence in the House of God as if approaching too near Paganism or Superstition as if because some Heathen