5. Conclusion of this Chapter.
To conclude this point, seeing the Church is the kingdome of God, and That it is like∣ned to a precious pearle, and to a rich treasure hidden in the fields, which whosoeuer findeth, he hideth * 1.1 it, and for ioy thereof selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Let vs esteeme nothing more deare, nor more precious, then to be in his Church, all the daies of our life. Saying with Dauid, Oh Lord of Hosts, how amiable are thy Tabernacles, my soule longeth, yea, and fainteth for the courts of the Lord, for my heart and flesh reioice in the liuing God, blessed are they that dwell in * 1.2 thy house they will praise thee vncessantly. For a day in thy house is better then a thousand elsewhere. I had rather bee a doore keeper in the house of my God, then to dwell in the tabernacle of wickednesse. * 1.3 For if Dauid a man and a Prophet, so excellently endued with faith and godlinesse, here∣in plainely confessed, and so often in many other places also, the necessity that hee had to be in the Church of God, feeling himselfe in a manner rauished with an ardent desire to enioy so great a benefit: what ought wee to acknowledge and feele: wee I say, that are so ignorant, so weake, and so corrupt, in the middle of an infinite number of dangers and assaults, which wee daily incurre and sustaine in this world? And seeing that this Church cannot bee without her misteries, order, and pollicie, and that the Word of God, and the holy doctrine thereof, is as the soule of the Church, and the Sacraments and prayers, the true and quickning foode, and as it were the sinewes of the whole body of Christ to mainetaine the same; Let vs be carefull holily and orderly to obserue all the ex∣ercises of piety, and Christian discipline established in the Church.