VI. Neither prayer, nor any other part of religious worship, is now under the Gospel either tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed:(c) but God is to be worshipped everywhere,(d) in spirit and truth;(e) as in private families(f) daily,(g) and in secret each one by himself;(h) so, more solemnly, in the public assemblies, which are not carelessly or wilfully to be neglected, or forsaken, when God, by His Word or providence, calls thereunto.(i)
(c) John 4:21.
(d) Mal. 1:11; I Tim. 2:8.
(e) John 4:23, 24.
(f) Jer. 10:25; Deut. 6:6, 7; Job 1:5; II Sam. 6:18, 20; I Pet. 3:7; Acts 10:2.
(g) Matt. 6:11.
(h) Matt. 6:6; Eph. 6:18.
(i) Isa. 56:6, 7; Heb. 10:25; Prov. 1:20, 21, 24; Prov. 8:34; Acts 13:42; Luke 4:16; Acts 2:42.
Speaking of the people of God, John Rainolds, the Puritan who proposed and later contributed to the King James translation of the Bible, wrote, The Summe of the Conference betwene John Rainolds and John Hart touching the Head and the Faith of the Church. Penned by John Rainolds and allowed by John Hart for a faithfull report (1584), cap. 8, divis. 4, p. 491:
...with their spiritual sacrifices of praise, they may now sing the songs of the Lord in all places. To them no land is strange; no ground unholy. Every coast is Jewry, every town Jerusalem, every house Zion, and every faithful company, yea, every faithful body, a temple in which they may serve God.
George Gillespie, A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies (1642, 1993), p. 145:
How much more soundly do we hold with J. Rainolds, that unto us Christians, no land is strange, no ground unholy -- every coast is Jewry, every town Jerusalem, and every house Sion -- and every faithful company, yea, every faithful body, a temple to serve God in.
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