42 .([lofet~~~arer, .!C.hi.mney..Prayers; and think to confineall R~ligion to publick Blaces:yea 'a great ~cholar fa id once,God heard Prayerin aconfe<;ratedplace[Nonquiaprecatur,fedquia. ibi] not bec.~ufe· tn<en pray,bur betaufetheypray there, . . . . ~s though theconceited holinefs of Judaijm~s _eft, allt_- the pla~e added fome vertue to the t,ar~ r;lz·~~onem .• a~ ,Prayer, or rend red it more accepta.. eerta la. .. a. Hofp111.ae bl · d Th' . _ r. h . I . 0ril!.1·emp. lib. 4 .c. 2 • e toGo .. ts ts wor1e t an p .am a · Judai(m, to ~ye Religion toplaces·: .The t;qe Gofpelized Chrifiian hath otherwife learned Chrift.' 'T~strue, intheOid Tet1amentdifpenfation, ~fre·r the erectingof rh~ Temple,Prayer was to bemade · ~t i t., or towards ir., as it typified Chri!l, by w~on1 our prayers are accepted : aur that holinefs being ceremo– nial, 'cisnowaboljfhed bytheGofpel: Now·that rakes place, iil Jt;h, 4· 2 I. Woman,believe me,the hour cometh, ~henye (hall n~~ther in tkis Mountain, nor at Jerufalem, worjhip the Father, i.e. God now doth not_ fo muc~ ftand upon the place, as the manner of ·worfhip, t.hat theyworjhip in_{pirit and in trHth, 11qr."1- 3.24. Now ~s the proph~cy accompli fhed, At~!. I. I I. In every place, In· cenfefhall be ofte-eJ tomy Nar~e . \Vhich the ApofUealfo afferrs· e~prefly~ I T im. 2. 8.. Much hath been {aid in .conrroverfie concerning the holine~s of places ; but this feen1s to be an undeniable argumen t aga.infi that Con· ceii, th~t · iffome pl ~ces beholy b)4 the Churches con.. )ecratioo ·of the~ to holy ufes, then it followeth that 1 9ther placesnot foconfecrated, howheitapplyed tot he fam~.holy ufe,are more prophane,and lefs apt to divine worlbip than places confe~ ated: whieh \Vould diret.tfy · ···. · . · conrraditt the Scriptures )aft men· ~ccle(. pollt. l~b. ~· tio·ned. Indeed Hook._er te·acheth that ·· c• . 1 q. · , · iheferyice of God inplaces not fa·n .. lltfieq, a& Churc;he~ are, hath not.in it fel'f fuch per. fe~~ori 'of grace, .and. co~elinefs, _as when the dignity ~f tJieP:lac~ ( whtcb ~t ·wdh~th f9.1 ) dot~ ~nc~r, an~ ... , .... ;. · '· · · , , .-· -~ . ..... .... ., ,,,;.., . . , ,:~_,.,.· that _.i..~ ·
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