The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…

Although the eternal and incomprehensible majesty of God, the Lord of heaven and earth, ¹whose seat is heaven, & the earth his footstool, can not be enclosed in temples or houses made ⟨p. 5⟩with mans hand, as in dwelling places able to receive or contain his majesty, according as is evidently declared by the prophet Isaiah, and by the doctrine of saint Steven, and saint Paul ²in the Acts of the Apostles. And where king Solomon (who builded unto the Lord the most glorious temple that ever was made) saith, Who shall be able to build a meet or worthy house for him? if heaven, and the heaven above all heavens can not contain him: how much less can that which I have builded? And further confesseth: What am I, that I should be able to build thee an house O Lord? But yet for ³this purpose only it is made, that thou mayest regard the prayer of thy servant and his humble supplication. Much less then be our Churches meet dwelling places to receive the incomprehensible majesty of God. And in deed, the chief and special temples of God, wherein he hath greatest pleasure, and most delighteth to dwell and continue in, are the bodies and minds of true Christians, and the chosen people of GOD, according to the doctrine of the holy scripture, declared in the first Epistle to the Corinthians. Know ye not (saith Saint Paul) that ye be the temple of God, and that the ⁴spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him will God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which ye are. And again in the same Epistle: Know ye not that ⁵your body is the temple of the holy ghost dwelling in you, whom ye have given you of God, and that ye be not your own? for ye are dearly ⟨p. 6⟩bought. Glorify ye now therefore God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods. And therefore as our saviour Christ teacheth in the Gospel of saint John, they that worship God