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VVE have said enough to make us de∣sirous to keep the Time, and we should desire as much to keep the Place too.
We find the Apostles keeping of them both. Going up to the Temple at the hour of Prayer. Act. 3. 1.
Solomon, that built the first Temple, ac∣quaints us with the Priviledge of this place.
The eyes of the Lord are open towards this place, day and night. 1. Reg. 8. 31.
God regards that house more then other places, and vouchsafes his presence there, in an especi∣all
manner. And shall not we regard it and afford our presence, to meet Him there?
What is the signe, that the Lord will heale me, and that I shall go up to the House of the Lord? saith K: Hezekiah to the Prophet Isai. 2. Reg. 20. 8.
That is the first thing that He would wish to do, after his recovery from sicknes.
But, of all other, K: David hath most pa∣thetically expressed himself for this place.
Though he was a King, yet He would not have been loth to have been a Door-keeper there.
He thought the very Sparrows happy, that were near it.
And if he had been put to his choice, for one thing, that He would have desired, it should have b•…•…en, to dwell in the House of the Lord, all the dayes of his life.
This love to the place we find also in the Gospel.
We read of Hannah the Prophetesse; in her old dayes. Luc. 237. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉—she went not far from the Temple.
So of the blessed Apostles, Act. 2. 46. They were daily in the Temple (they were loth to leave it, when they knew it was ready to leave them.)
So of all the Faithful with them 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.