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Propositions as touching Sanctuarie, out of the xxvi. and the rest of the chapters which follow of the booke of Exodus.
Necessarie.
[proposition 1] ALbeit that the holie people might assemble euerie where, yet was it profitable to haue but one onelie sanctuarie, where the sacrifices might be solemnelie offered, and the oracles re∣ceiued.
[proposition 2] As it is now also conuenient to make a diffe∣rence betwéene holie places, for the execution of certeine ceremonies, yet is that difference be∣twéene our temples vngodlie, that men thinke they shall sooner obteine helpe of God in some places, than they shall in other.
[proposition 3] Neither is it godlie doone of anie people to denie principall ceremonies for the place sake: or else to account anie temple the more holie for the secondarie ceremonies: as certeine things in times past were peculiarlie committed vnto bishops, for procuring them greater authori∣tie.
[proposition 4] The ornaments and images in the holie place, although they were not séene, yet did they serue the people to the restoring of godlinesse.
[proposition 5] Things were ordeined for the new people is heare and perceiue in holie places, and not one∣lie to looke vpon.
[proposition 6] Verie well in old time were the priests kept from the innermost holie place, and that which was doone therein: and the people from the ou∣ter place, and those things which were doone there.
[proposition 7] Now maie none of the people of God, except with offense to GOD, be excluded from anie place where the holie ceremonies be exercised, or from anie of the holie actions which be doone in the church of God.
[proposition 8] The holier sort of signes of the good will of God; as the Arke of the couenant, the Propiti∣atorie, the shew-bread, the lights, and the holie incense were profitablie hidden from the sight of the old people of Israel: but it is conuenient, that all the holie signes should be most cléerlie exhibited and shewed to the new people.
Probable.
[proposition 1] BY the holie sanctuarie was represented the maiestie of Christs priesthood; by the holie things were represented the dignitie of the holie ministerie.
[proposition 2] To thinke, that bicause the place of praier ap∣pointed to the old people, was richlie and diuers∣lie adorned, that therefore it is méet that our temples also shuld be magnificallie builded and adorned, is an vngodlie coniecture.
[proposition 3] True and comelie images of things, whose remembrance is comfortable, may serue for a good vse vnto the godlie but yet not in temples: for we may haue them as becommeth Christi∣ans.
[proposition 4] As Saint Ambrose did iustlie did the Empe∣rour depart from out of the place, where the el∣ders of the church were; so to appoint a place in the church for the clergie, in such sort that it may not be lawfull for others to abide therein, dooth rather hinder godlinesse than further it.