Contemplations. LrB.XVII. - divifion: Satan that bath no right to the heart, would be content with a peeceofit: A God that made it all, will have either the whole, or none: The erroneous Church !hives with the true, for the living childe offaving dodrine; each claimes it for her owne; Herelie,confcious '?fh.er ownc inj?llice, could be content to goe awaywith a leg,oran arme offound pnnCJples,as hopmg to make up therell: with her ownemixtures: Truth cannot abide to part with a joynt,and will rather endure to kefe all by violence, then a peece through a willing connivency. The Temple. B UT is aweake and injurious cenfur<that taxerh S•lommr flacknes in founding the houfe ofGod: Great bodies mull: have burflow moriom1 He was wife that faid,the matters mull: be al preparedwithout,erewe build within:And if D•vid have laid ready a great part of the metals & rim. ber, yetmany a tree mull: be felled and fquared, & many a ll:one hewn and polilhed,ere this foundation could be laid; neither could thofe llrge Cedars be cut, fawne, feafoned in oneyeare: Foure yeares are foone gone in (o voll: a preporation: D•vid had not been fo intire afriend to Hir4m, if Hirm• had not be<n a friend to God:S•Iom•ns wifdome bath taught him tomake ufe offo good a neighbour,ofa fathers friend; he knew that the Tyri•ns skill was not given them for nothing; Not Jewesonely, but Gentiles mull:havethcir hand ib building the Temple of God; C Onely Jewes medled with the Tabernacle, but the Temple is not builtwithout the aide ofGentil<s; They, together with us, makeup the Church ofGod. Even Pagans have their ans from heaven; how jullly may we improve theirgraces to the fervice ofthe God ofheaven? if their be a Tyrian that can work more curioufly in gold, in filver, in braffe,in iron, in purple,and blew filke, then an lfraelite, why !houldnot he beimployed about the Temple~ their heathenifme is their owne; their skill is their Makers: Many a one workes for the Church ofGod,that yet bath no pare in ir. S•l•••n raifes a tribute forehe worke; not ofmoney, but ofmen : Thirty thou• fand lfraelites are levied for the fervice; yet not conrinuedly,but with inrermitlion, their labour is more generous, and Je!fe preffing: it is enough if theykeep their cour- D fesone moneth in Lebaoon,two at home;fo as ever ten thoufand work,whiles twenty thoufand breathe. Sofavourable is God to his creature, that he requires us not eo be over-royled in the workes ofhis owne fervice. Due refpirations are requilite in the boliell: a~s. The maine ll:re!fe of the worke lies upon Profelytes 1 whofe both number, and paines was hereinmore then the Natives : An hundred and lifly thouland ofthem are imployed in bearing burrhens,in hewing llones;bdides their thr<< rboufand three hundrod over-feers:Now were the defpifed Gibeonitesofgood ufo, and in vaine doth lfrad wilh thatthe zeale of S•ul had not robbed them of fo ferviceable drudges. There is no man fo meane bur may be fome way ufefull to the H<?ufe of God ; Thofe that cannotwork ingold,and filver,and filke,yet may cur and hew; and thole E that cannot do neither,yet may cary burthens:Even th< Cervices thu ate more home• ly,are not le!fe neceffary: Who can dif-hearten himfelfe in the confcience of his owne infufficiency,wbenbe fees,God can as well ferve himfelfe of his labour, as of his skill~ The Temple is framed in Lebanon, and fetupinSion; neither hammer nor axe was beard in that holy ll:ruClure; There was nothing b•t noife in Lebanon, nothing mSion bur filenceand peace, W_hatever tumults are abroad, it is fit tbero fh?uld be all quierne!feand fweetconcord mthe Church;Oh God,that the axes offch1fme?or the hammers of furious contentions !hould be heard within thy SooCluary ! Thme houfe is not built with blowes,with blowes it is beaten downe:Oh knit the hearts of thy fervants together in the unity ofthe fpirir, and the bond ofpeace; that we !'lay m1nde
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