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46: of the Place of prayer.- towards the fame, z Chron. 7.38. r. Kings 8.445 48. Pf11. 138. 2. Dan. 6. to. yet now all fuch di- flinCion and difference of place ,being but ceremo- nial!, is abolifhed. For that one place ofprayer and facrifice was a type of Chrift Jefus the alone altar; and the praying in or towards the fame did figure out thus much,That onely in the mediation of f efus Chrifl, who is the onely Mediatour both of redem- ption and allo of interceffion, we are to call upon the Lord:Wherefore feeing thefe were but fhadows and ceremonies of things to come, and feeing the fubflance and truth it felf, Jefus Chrif}, is already exhibited, whereunto the fhadows and ceremonies do and ought to give place; we are not now tied to one place more then another, as one being more typically holy then another. In the 4. of John V. s r, z 2, 23, 24. our Saviour himfelf refolveth this doubt: for when the Samaritane had demanded of him, which is that place wherein God is to be wor- Ihipped, the mount Gerizzim where the Samari- tanes temple was, or the mountMoriah whereon the temple of Solomon was built;Chrifl giveth her this anfwer, That now the time was come where- in all thefe differences of places, being but ceremo- niall,were taken away 586 that now the Lord was no more to be worfhipped by ceremonies but in f iris and truth: and therefore that it was lawfull to wor- fhip God not onely in Jerufalem or in mount Geriz- zim but alto in other places. The Prophet Malachi feemeth to foretell the fame, chap. i. t r. For fo the Lord fpeaketh by him, From the rif ng of the forme to the going dorm of the fame