patent is reported by the Prophet _Esay_: Chap. 56. vers. 7. and
repeated by Christ in [bu]three seuerall Euangelists: _my house shall
be called an house of prayer for all people_. The paterns are manifold,
_I will enter into thine house in the multitude of thy mercies, and in
thy feare will I worship toward thine holy temple_, saith our Prophet,
Psal. 5. 7. The Publican and the Pharisie went _into the temple to
pray_, Luke 18. _Peter_ and _Iohn_ went vp together _into the temple at
the ninth houre of prayer_, Acts 3. _Anna_ fasted and _prayed in the
temple_, Luke 2. This one word, _sanctuarie_ teacheth vs how we should
behaue our selues in the Church as in Gods presence: Doest thou come to
that holie place to receiue the blessed Supper of our Lord? remember
that the temple is _sanctuarium, non promptuarium_, a sanctuarie, not a
buttrie, [bx]_haue ye not houses to eate and drink in, despise yee the
Church of God?_ Doest thou come to pray? [by]_take heede to thy foote
when thou entrest into Gods house_, compose thy knees, and eyes, and
hands, and heart after such a deuout manner: as that thou maist not
onely praise God vpon the loud cymbals, but (as it is vers. 5.) _praise
him vpon the well tuned cymbals_ also. Doest thou come to heare the
sermon? remember that the preaching of the Gospel is [bz]not the word
of a mortall man, but the [ca]power of the immortall God vnto saluation:
and albeit the Preacher be neuer so simple, neuer so sinfull; yet the
word is holy, the action holy, the time holy, the place holy, ordained
by the most holy to make thee holy. Vpon whatsoeuer occasion thou
commest into the Temple, remember alwaies that the ground is holy
whereon thou standest, it is a _sanctuarie_, the habitation of God,
and place of his _holinesse_: and therefore not to be [cb]prophaned with
ordinarie though lawfull worldly businesse, much lesse with vnlawfull
pastimes and enterludes, it is a place for praise, not for playes,
_O praise God in his sanctuarie_.