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2 The place must be public:¹ such a place as all that ought to meet may know, and have liberty to come unto: at first this was in some Family, yea, afterwards when all the world almost forsook God, God chose out of the world some peculiar families, who with their household worshipped God in their houses; as Noah in his time, so Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, in their times. But when Gods people increased in the wilderness, he caused a Tabernacle to be built; that then was their place of⟨p. 432⟩ public worship, afterwards a Temple was built, which because it was the place of public worship, was by a propriety called,^l The house of Prayer. To this place if the people could not come,^m they would at least pray towards it: for which they had their warrant fromⁿ Solomons prayer.

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