Mr. s afternoon. Sermon. ititution) is not holy after the Service or Sermon is ended; but then youmay go to play at Foot-ball, and Cudgels, and Drinking, and What not, arid yet that they fhould fay,- that the plaCeol4erform- - ing religious duties in, is fo holy after Religious performances, as that you'rannot come into it without bowing the knee, and put= ting off the hat, and bowing to the Altar and Communion Table, and the like, this I cannot apprehend how it Ihould he, and I with any of you that are of this mind, would in private give me your reafons for it, why it fhouldbe fo. Now having explained the point, and given you a refolution of the.queftion, in thefe particulars, give me leave to wind up all with come Liles. Firfi, We infer the great difference that is between fanaity of places under theOld Teitament,and fanaity andholineis of places under the New Teflament : they under the Old Tefiament had the immediate prefence of God, the fla-nding Symbols and vifible figns ofhis pretence, fo long as there lafted : which was let apart by Gods fpecial Commandment, and fo they were holy, though they were not imployed in a way ofworfhip, but you cannot fay lo now, our places for performance ofholyduties have no filch holinefs, places now, differ from places then. Secondly, By way of Inference, j note the great goodneffe of God to give us 'filch a fWeet and gracious indulgent' difpenfation in the time of the Gofpel under the New Teilament , Fas that he cloth not tye us to Ceremonies or places ; he doth not bind its as he did the Jews, to go three times in the year to the fur- therrnoft part of the Nation to -worfhip : No my Brethren, no Land, fici.GrOund is now unholy, as famous "old Doaor Reynolds laid, every place is now aInded, no coaft but is a 7udea, every houle is a Jerufalern, every Congregation is now a Zion : fee here the goodnefs of God in indulging of us fo far, as to take any fery ice done by us in a folemn and real manner, as if it had been done in thole places which were formerly appointed for it to be done in. Thirdly, I infer hence, there are feveral perfons tobe reproved. t.tWe find hereby. that all the holinels of ReliquelofSaints,doth fall to the ground : and we lee the follie ofthofe that make Pilgri- mages unto Saints and Reliques-as the Papirts do : there was a time (fay they) when fitch a Saints Reliques were laid up in filch a place, and there are more holy then other places ; fo that this you fee falls to the ground in it felf: I might tell you concerning, their lying a- bout their Reliques, as one laid, That there were as many Reli- ques as would fill an hundred Carts : but fuppofing fo, all that would not make the place the more holy, 2. Hence
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