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2. From ho∣ly places.
* 1.12. From holy places. Choosing rather, as oft as oppor∣tunity permits, to offer up also your private prayers in a place that is holy, and consecrated to God's name; and ap∣pointed to be the house of prayer. (Matt. 21.13.) And this; not only, because this place, sequestred from tran∣saction of worldly affairs, hinders us from many secular disturbances; and the reverence thereof makes us more considerate in our behaviour, and fervent in our devotions; and breeds in us (as being his own house) a much stron∣ger imagination of God's presence whilst we pray; But also, because these places seem to have more peculiar pro∣mise of his extraordinary presence there, and giving audi∣ence to our prayers, and granting our requests. See Exod. 20.24. —2. Chron. 7.15, 16. (Which promises why should they not remain still in force; since under the times of the Gospel the publick places of God's worship are not de∣molished, but only multiplied?) And so, of the presence of his Ministers the Holy Angels, who are his ordinary train, and attendants (See 1. Cor. 11.10. Gen. 28.17.19. Psal. 139.1. Gen. 4.12.14.16.) Therefore hath it been the venerable custome of all Antiquity, to repair to Churches,