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[ 1182] Reverend and devout behaviour to be used in the Church of God.
ADaman in Bede tells,* 1.1 in his discourse of holy places, from the mouth of a Bi∣shop who had been there, that in a Church erected in that place, from whence our Saviour ascended, there rushed annually in those times, asilent gale of wind from Heaven upon Ascension day, which forced all those it found standing, to fall prostrate on the earth. The story may not be justifiable, yet 'tis antient; and it were to be wished, that when we enter into the house of God, we needed no wind to blow us upon our knees, but that falling down by the dejection of our bodies, we may rise up again by the exaltation of our souls.* 1.2 Besides, let all men take notice, that he which comes thither, as he is without preparation, goes away as he was, without a blessing; and he that praies, as if God were not there, when he hath prayed, shall find him no where. We must enter all ear, while God speaks to us; all heart and tongue, whilst we speak to him; because if the heart go one way, and the tongue another;* 1.3 if we turn Gods house into an Exchange or Stewes, by thinking on our gains and lusts, we defile not the Temple, as Antiochus did, by painting un∣clean beasts on the doors without, but by bringing them within, into the body of the place.