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diff --git a/17273.txt b/17273.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..071f51b --- /dev/null +++ b/17273.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1611 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of An Exposition of the Last Psalme, by John Boys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: An Exposition of the Last Psalme + +Author: John Boys + +Release Date: December 10, 2005 [EBook #17273] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN EXPOSITION OF THE LAST PSALME *** + + + + +Produced by Louise Hope, Jason Isbell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: +A few details of transcription are given at the end of this file, along +with a list of errata.] + + * * * * * + + + AN + E X P O S I T I O N + OF THE LAST + PSALME. + + DELIVERED IN A SERMON + PREACHED AT PAVLES + Crosse the fifth of Nouember 1613. + _Which I haue ioyned to the Festiuals_ + as a short Apologie for our + _Holy daies in the Church_ + _of England_. + + DEDICATED VNTO MY HONORABLE +friend and most respected kinsman Sir _William_ + _Monins Baronet_. + + + _By IOHN BOYS, Doctor_ + of Diuinitie. + + + _AT LONDON_ + Imprinted by FELIX KYNGSTON, for + _William Aspley. 1615._ + + + * * * * * + + + GVNPOWDER + TREASON DAY. + + Psalme 150. + _O praise God in his holinesse, &c._ + + +All the Psalmes of _Dauid_ are comprised in two words, [a]_Halleluiah_, +and _Hosanna_, that is, blessed be God, and God blesse; as being for +the greater part either praiers vnto God for receiuing mercies, or else +praises vnto God for escaping miseries. This our present Hymne placed +as a [b]Conclusion of the whole booke; yea, the beginning, middle, end, +to which all the rest (as [c]_Musculus_ obserueth are to be referred) +inuiteth vs in prescript and postscript, in title, in text, in euery +verse, and in euery Clause of euery verse to _praise the Lord_. Teaching +these two points especially: + + 1. For what } God is to be magnified. + 2. With what } + +For what, vers. 1, 2. _O praise God in his holinesse, praise him in +the firmament of his power, praise him in his noble acts, praise him +according to his excellent greatnesse._ + +With what, euen with all that is + + Without vs, vers. 3. 4. 5. _Praise him in the sound of the + trumpet, &c._ + + Within vs, vers. 6. _Omnis spiritus_, &c. _Let euery spirit + praise the Lord, praise yee the Lord._ + + [Sidenote a: _Gueuara._] + + [Sidenote b: _Lyra in loc._] + + [Sidenote c: _In loc._] + + +This in briefe is the whole texts _Epitomie_, I come now to the words +_Anotomie_, cutting vp euery part and particle seuerally, beginning +first at the first, _O praise God in his holinesse_. Of which one +sentence the Doctors haue many (though not aduerse yet diuerse) +readings, especially three: _Praise God in his Saints, praise God in his +sanctitie, praise God in his sanctuarie_. _S. Hierome_, _Augustine_, +_Prosper_, and [d]other as well ancient interpreters as moderne +translate here praise God in his _Saints_. For if he must be praised +in all his creatures, how much more in his new creatures? if in the +witlesse wormes, and senselesse vapours, Psal. 148, much more doubtlesse +(as _Theodorit_ here collects) in men, in holie men, in _Saints_, vpon +whom hee hath out of his [e]vnsearchable riches of mercie, bestowed the +blessings of the [f]life present; and of that which is to come. + + [Sidenote d: _Chrysost. Basil. Euthym. Arabs apud Muscul. Lyra. Hugo + Card. Turrecremat. Anonymus._] + + [Sidenote e: _Ephes. 3. 8.16._] + + [Sidenote f: _1. Tim. 4. 8._] + +First, almightie God is to be blessed for giuing his Saints such eminent +gifts of grace for the good of his Church, and for the setting foorth of +his glorie. So _Chrysostome_, _Basil_, _Euthymius_, _Prosper_, +_Placidus_, _Parmensis_ expound it. [g]Euery good and perfit gift is +from aboue, descending from the father of lights, a good thought in a +saint is _gratia infusa_, a good word in a saint is _gratia effusa_, a +good deed in a saint is _gratia diffusa_, through his grace which is the +God of [h]all grace, saints are [i]whatsoeuer they are. Wherefore praise +the Lord in his Saints, often remember their vertues as their true +_reliques_, and as it were bequeathed [k]_legacies_ vnto Gods people. So +the wise man, Ecclesiasticus 44. _Let vs now commend the famous men in +old time, by whom the Lord hath gotten great glorie, let the people +speake of their wisdome, and the congregation of their praise._ So the +Confession of _Bohemia_, chap. 17. [l]_Wee teach that the Saints are +worshipped truly, when the people on certaine daies at a time appointed, +doe come together to the seruice of God, and doe call to minde and +meditate vpon his benefits bestowed vpon holie men, and through them +vpon his Church_, &c. And for as much as it is kindly to consider, +_opus diei in die suo_, the worke of the day[m] in the same day it was +wrought; it is well ordered by the Church of England, that the most +illustrious and remarkable qualities of the saints are celebrated vpon +their proper festiuals, that on S. _Stephens_ day, we may learne by S. +_Stephens_ example to loue our enemies: on S. _Matthewes_ day, to +forsake the world and to follow Christ: on S. _Iohn the Baptist_ his +day, to speake the truth constantly, and to suffer for the same +patiently. Thus in stedfastnes of faith and godlinesse of life (_non +legere modo sed degere sanctorum vitas_, as [n]one wittily) to bee +followers of them as they were followers of Christ; is (as [o]blessed +_Latymer_ was wont to say) the right worshipping of Saints, and of God +in his Saints. + + [Sidenote g: _Iames 1. 17._] + + [Sidenote h: _1. Pet. 5. 10._] + + [Sidenote i: _1. Cor. 15. 10._] + + [Sidenote k: _Euseb. Emisen. hom. de S. Maximo._] + + [Sidenote l: _See Harmon. confess. sect. 16. pag. 486._] + + [Sidenote m: _Maior praesat. in Psal. 22._] + + [Sidenote n: _Owin epigram. lib. 3._] + + [Sidenote o: _Ser. on Christmas day preached at Bexterly, & ser. on + S. Stephens day at Grimstorpe._] + +Againe, for as much as there is a _communion of Saints_, as we cofesse +in the Creed, a knot of fellowship betweene the dead Saints and the +liuing; it is our dutie to praise God for their good in particular, as +they[p] pray to God for our good in generall. It is required on our part +I say, to giue God most humble thanks for translating th{~e} out of this +[q]valley of teares into Hierusalem aboue, where they be [r]clothed with +long white robes, hauing palmes in their hands, and [s]crownes of gold +on their heads, euer liuing in that happie kingdome without either dying +or crying, Apocal. 21. 4. and this also (in the iudgment of _Augustine_, +_Hierome_, _Hugo_, _Raynerius,_ and other) is to _praise God in his +Saints_. + + [Sidenote p: _Apocal._ 6. 10.] + + [Sidenote q: _Psal._ 84. 6.] + + [Sidenote r: _Apocal._ 7. 9.] + + [Sidenote s: _Apocal._ 4. 4.] + +These reasons are the grounds of certaine _holy daies_ established in +England by law, namely to blesse God for his Saints eminent grace while +they were liuing, and exceeding glorie now they be dead. Wherein our +Church ascribes not any diuine worship to the Saints, but all due praise +to the sanctifier: in celebrating their memorie (saith _Augustine_) we +neither adore their honour, nor implore their helpe: but (according to +the tenour of our text) wee praise him alone, [t]who made them both men +and martyrs. In the words of [u]_Hierome_ to _Riparius_: _Honoramus +reliquias martyrum, vt eum cuius sunt martyres adoremus: honoramus +seruos, vt honor seruorum redundet ad dominum:_ If thou desire to doe +right vnto the Saints, esteeme them as paternes, and not as patrones of +thy life; honour them only so farre, [x]that thou maist alway praise God +in them, and praise them in God. + + [Sidenote t: _De ciuit. lib._ 8. _cap._ 27.] + + [Sidenote u: _Tom._ 2 _fol._ 118] + + [Sidenote x: _Philip Mornaeus de missa, lib. 3 cap. 11. See Melanct. + resp. ad art. Bauar. art. 25._] + +The gunpowder men erre very much in this one kinde of honouring God, +for either they worship _his Saints_ as himselfe, or else their owne +saintlings, and not _his Saints_. In praying to the dead, in mingling +the blood of their martyrs with the precious blood of their Maker, in +applying their merits, and relying vpon their mercies; it is plaine that +they make the Saints (as _Melancthon_ tels them in his [y]Apologie for +the Confession of _Auspurge_) quartermasters with God, and halfe +mediatours with Christ, I say ioynt mediatours not of incercession only +but of [z]redemption also. Nay they make the blessed Virgin vpon the +poynt their only _mediatrix_ and _aduocate_, so they sing, and so they +say. They sing in their publique seruice, [aa]_Maria mater gratiae, mater +misericordiae_, &c. the which is Gods owne stile, 1. Pet. 1. 10. & 2. +Cor. 1. 3. so they likewise say, _Maria consolatio infirmorum, redemptio +captiuorum, liberatio damnatorum, salus vniuersorum._ [ab]_Giselbertus +in lib. altercationis Synagogae et ecclesiae, cap. 20. Maria quasi maria_, +saith _Augustinus de Leonissa_, sermon 5 vpon _Aue maria_, for as all +riuers come from the seas, and returne to the seas againe, Ecclesiastes +1. 7: [ac]so forsooth (if you will vndertake to beleeue him) all grace +is deriued from _Mary_, and ought to be returned again to _Mary_. We +finde so much _in [ad]Rosario Mariae, reparatrix & saluatrix desperantis +animae_, &c. That which is worse, their owne Pope (who cannot, as they +teach, erre in a poynt of doctrine as Pope) calleth her expresly _Deam_. +_Pet. Bembus_ in his epistles written in Pope _Leo 10._ name, _lib. 8. +epist. 17._ printed at _Strasburg an. 1609._ that which is worst of all, +in their most approued Bible: they translate Gen. 3. 15. _ipsa conteret +caput tuum_: she shall breake thine head, although (as their owne Iesuit +[ae]_Ribera_ confesseth honestly) the _Hebrew_ text, the _Chaldee_ +paraphrase, the translation of the _Septuagint_, and all good _Latin_ +copies reade _ipse conteret_, he shall bruise the serpents head, +applying it to Christ, according to that of _Paul_, _The God of peace +shall tread downe Satan vnder your feete_, Rom. 16. 20. by this euidence +you may see that the gunpowder crue praise not God in the saints, nor +the saints in God: but on the contrarie the saints as God. + + [Sidenote y: _Tit. de sanct. inuocat._] + + [Sidenote z: _See D. Fulke in 1. Tim 2. 5._] + + [Sidenote aa: _Bellar. de sanct. beat. cap. 17._] + + [Sidenote ab: _Apud Magdeburg. Cent. 10. Coll. 275._] + + [Sidenote ac: _See Gospell Annunciat._] + + [Sidenote ad: _Chemnit. exam. Con. Trident. part. 3. pag. 151._] + + [Sidenote ae: _In Habacuc. cap. 1. num. 32._] + +Againe these S. _Peter_ men (and as I haue warrant to terme them on this +day _Salt Peter men_) erre from the true meaning of our text, because +they doe not praise God _in sanctis eius_, in his saints: but dishonour +God _in sanctis eorum_, in saints of their owne making, vsually praying +vnto some who were no men, and to many who were not holy men. It is +doubted by the two great lights in their glorious firmament, +_Bellarmine_ and _Baronius_, whether there were euer any such man as +S. _George_, or such a woman as S. _Catharine_. Cardinall _Bellarmine_ +_lib. de beatitudine sanct. cap. vlt. Sec.. respondeo sanctorum_ doth +acknowledge that they worship certaine saints whose stories are +vncertaine, reputing the legend of S. _George_ apocryphall according to +the censure of Pope [af]_Gelasius:_ and Cardinall _Baronius ecclesiast. +annal. Tom. 2. ad an. 290._ according to the impression at Rome, fol. +650. as also _de Martyrologio Romano, cap. 2._ confesseth as much of +_Quiriacus_ and _Iulitta_, declaring plainely that their acts are +written either by fooles or heretikes, and in his annotations vpon the +_Romane Martyrologie_ 23. Aprill, he taketh vp _Iacobus de Voragine_ for +his leaden Legend of our English S. _George_, concluding in fine, that +the picture of Saint _George_ fighting with a Dragon is _symbolicall_, +and not _historicall_. If the Scripture be true [ag]_whatsoeuer is not +of faith is sinne_: then assuredly these men (as [ah]_Paul_ speaks) +_are damned of their owne selues_ in their owne conscience, who +(notwithstanding all their doubts) pray still in their publike seruice, +[ai]_Deus, qui nos beati Georgij martyris tui meritis & intercessione +laetificas, Concede propitius, &c._ An Idoll as _Paul_ affirmes, 1. Cor. +8. 4. is nothing, _Ergo_, the Papists in worshipping S. _George_ which +is nothing, commit (euen themselues being Iudges) abominable Idolatrie. + + [Sidenote af: _Can. sanct. Roman. dist. 15._] + + [Sidenote ag: _Rom. 14. 23._] + + [Sidenote ah: _Tit. 3. 11._] + + [Sidenote ai: _Missal. Roman. ex Con. Triden. decret. restit. in + festo Georgij._] + +As they worship some who were no men, so many who were not [ak]holy men, +as a reuerend [al]Doctor of our Church accutely, _Non martyres domini +sed mancipes diaboli_: the Souldiour who peirced Christs holy side was a +Pagan,[am] neither doth any storie which is authenticall speake of his +conuersion, and yet they worship him vnder the name of S. _Longinus_, +or Longesse, March 15. _Papias_ (as [an]_Eusebius_ and [ao]_Hierome_ +report) held the heresie of the _Millenarians_, and yet he is honoured +as a saint in the Romane Calender vpon the 22. of Februarie. _Becket_ +was a bad subiect in his life, and no good Christian at his death, in +that hee commended himselfe and the cause of his Church vnto S. +[ap]_Denys_ and our Lady. Yet S. _Thomas of Canterburie_ was honoured at +Canterburie in the daies of popish ignorance more then either the worlds +Sauiour, or the blessed Virgine his mother: in which relation I appeale +to the records of that Church, as also to the very stones vnder his +shrine worne with the knees and hands of such as came thither to worship +him. _Boccace_ reporteth how one Sir _Chappelet_ a notorious Italian +Vsurer and Cousoner came to be honoured as a Saint in France. _Sanders_ +among them is a saint, albeit he liued in plotting, and dyed in acting +rebellion against his gracious Soueraigne Queene _Elizabeth_ of famous +and blessed memorie. Nay _Dauus_ is _Diuus_, _Saul_ is among the +Prophets, _pater personatus_, father _Parsons_ all the daies of his life +was a perpetual Martyr, as his fellow [aq]_Ribadeneira_ termeth him: and +yet one (who sometime was his inner man, and knew him as I presume, +better then euer did _Ribadeneira_) transposing the letters of _Robertus +Parsonius Iesuita_, found this _anagramme_, _Personatus versuti oris +abi_: the wit-foundred drunkard, _Henry Garnet_ (who did not according +to the Counsell of [ar]_Paul_ vse _vino modico_: but as [as]_Paulinus_ +pretily _modio_) that lecherous treacherous Arch-priest, Arch-traitor, +Arch-diuell in concealing, if not in contriuing: in patronizing, if not +in plotting the powder intended massacre, is returned a Saint from +beyond the seas with [at]_a sancte Henrice intercede pro nobis_: his +action is iustified, his life commended, his death honoured, his +miracles and memorie celebrated by that _Ignatian_ spirit, +([au]_portentum nominis portentum hominis_, hauing a great deale of +name, though a very little modestie) _Andreas Eudaemon Ioannes Cydonius_: +but notwithstanding his apologie, the saintship of _Henry Garnet_ is so +buffeted by the replies and antilogies of our accuratlie learned +diuines, as that his straw face will hereafter hardly be worth a straw. +_Catesbie_, _Winter_, _Rookwood_, and the rest of the Cole-saints and +hole-saints (who laboured in the diuels mine by the Popes mint) are +numbred among the holy ones also: Babilon and Egypt praise God in them, +and for them. I haue heard much of _roaring_ gentlemen in _London_ and +_Canterburie_, but if the Lord himselfe had not watched ouer his Church, +if the Lord himselfe had not written England in the [ax]palmes of his +hands, if the Lord himselfe had not kept King _Iames_ as the [ay]apple +of his eye, [az]if the Lord himselfe had not been on our side (now may +Gods Israell in England say) if the Lord himselfe had not been on our +side, when they rose vp against vs, if the Lord himselfe had not (out of +his vnspeakeable goodnesse toward vs and our posteritie) broken their +snares, and deliuered our soules out of that horrible gunpowder pit; +these bellowing Buls of Basan, and Canon-mouthed hell-hounds would haue +made on this day such a roare, that all Christendome should haue felt +it, and the whole world haue feared it. [ba]_O Lord God of all power, +blessed be thy name, which hast this day brought to nought the enemies +of thy people,[bb] so let all thine enemies perish._ _O Lord, that +our[bc] mouthes may be filled with laughter and our tongue with ioy._ +_Sint diui modo non viui_, let England hang such, although afterward +Rome hallow such, he that hath an eye to see without the spectacles of a +Iesuit, will affoord as good credit to the register at _Tiburne_ as to +the Calender of _Tyber_: for if these be Martyrs, I wonder who are +Murtherers? If these be Saints, I pray you who are Scythians? If these +bee Catholikes, who are Canibals? + + [Sidenote ak: _Dr. Sutclif examin. of Rom. cap. 7._] + + [Sidenote al: _Dr. Abbot Antilog. pag. 3._] + + [Sidenote am: _Sutclif. vbi sup._] + + [Sidenote an: _Hist. lib. 3. cap. vlt._] + + [Sidenote ao: _Catalog. scrip. in vita pap._] + + [Sidenote ap: _Houenden annal. part. poster. pag. 298._] + + [Sidenote aq: _Catalog. scrip. Iesuit. in vita Parsonij._] + + [Sidenote ar: _1. Tim. 5. 23._] + + [Sidenote as: _Epist. lib. 3. epist. 6._] + + [Sidenote at: _Sheldon preface before his motiues._] + + [Sidenote au: _Eliens. epist. lector. ante resp. ad Bellar. apol._] + + [Sidenote ax: _Esay 49. 16._] + + [Sidenote ay: _Deut. 32. 10._] + + [Sidenote az: _Psal. 124._] + + [Sidenote ba: _Judith. 13. 4._] + + [Sidenote bb: _Iudges 5. 31._] + + [Sidenote bc: _Psalm. 126. 2._] + +I passe to the second exposition of these wordes, _O praise God in his +sanctitie_, so _Munster_, _Pagninus_, _Beza_, _Tremelius_ and our old +translation heere, _Praise God in his holinesse_: now God is holy +_formaliter & effectiue_, holy in himselfe, and making other holy; the +Lord is glorious in holinesse Exod. 15. 11. Wheras other Gods are famous +for their vnholinesse, _Venus_ was a wanton, _Mercurius_ a theefe, +_Iupiter_ a monsterous adulterer, an ingenious man (as[bd] _Basile_ +writes) would blush to report that of beastes, which the Gentiles haue +recorded of their Gods. If such imputations are true saith +[be]_Augustine_, _quam mali_ how wicked are these Gods: if false _quam +male_ how wretched and foolish are these men, adoring the same things +in the temple, which they scoffe at in the theater, _in turpitudine[bf] +nimium liberi, in superstitione nimium serui_: so that their Gods are +not as our God, euen our enemies being Iudges Deut. 32. 31. there is +none holy as the Lord 1. Sam. 2. 2. called[bg] often in holy Scripture +_the holy one_, yea thrice holy; _holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of +hosts_ Esay. 6. 3. his [bh]name is holy, his [bi]law is holy, his +[bk]spirit is holy, his will holy, his word holy, _righteous in all his +waies, and holy in all his workes_ Psalm. 145. 17. making vs also which +are his seruants an _holy people_ Deut. 7. 6. an _holy priest-hood_ +1. Pet. 2. 5. _his holy temples_ 1. Cor. 6. 19. our bodies, our soules, +our selues, our whole [bl]seruice holy, wherefore _praise God in his +holinesse_. + + [Sidenote bd: _Lib. de legend. libris gentilium._] + + [Sidenote be: _De Ciuit. Dei lib. 6. cap. 6._] + + [Sidenote bf: _August. contra faust. man. li. 12. cap. 40._] + + [Sidenote bg: _Esay 1. 4. & 10. 20._] + + [Sidenote bh: _Luk. 1. 49._] + + [Sidenote bi: _Psal. 19. 7._] + + [Sidenote bk: _Mark. 12. 36._] + + [Sidenote bl: _1. Pet. 3. 2._] + +[bm]_Luther_, _Caluin_, _Vatablus_, your _English-Geneua_ bibles, & our +new translation haue praise God in his _sanctuarie_, the which in holy +scripture signifieth either heuen, or the temple, heauen is often called +in sacred writ _Gods sanctuarie_, for [bn]thus saith he that is high and +excellent, he that inhabiteth eternitie, whose name is the holy one, +_I dwell in the high and holy place_. Christ in comming to vs is said +to _breake the heauens_ Esay 64. 1. and when he went from vs vnto his +father _a cloud tooke him vp into heauen_ Acts 1. and _fro heauen_ he +shal come againe to iudge the quicke and the dead 1. Thes. 4. 16. That +_his sanctuarie_ may be taken heere for heauen, is gathered out of the +very next clause (_praise him in the firmament of his power_) the which +(as [bo]_Caluin_ & [bp]other expositors haue well obserued,) is +exegeticall, and expoundes the former, as if Dauid should haue said, +praise the Lord in his sanctuary, that is _in the firmament of his +power_, for the heauens declare the glory of God and the firmament +sheweth his handy worke Psalm. 19. 1. let all people praise God our +father in heauen, especially such as dwell with him [bq]in heauen, +O praise the Lord all ye blessed Angels and Saints inhabiting his +sanctuarie which is highest and holiest. + + [Sidenote bm: _Idem Genebrard et alij._] + + [Sidenote bn: _Esay 57. 15._] + + [Sidenote bo: _In loc._] + + [Sidenote bp: _Bellarmine in loc._] + + [Sidenote bq: _Genebrard Agellius Acernensis epist. in loc._] + +[br]Other apply the word _sanctuary_ to the Temple, so termed for two +respects especially. 1. because God manifesteth _his holines_ toward +vs in that holy place more principally, calling it expresly [bs]_his +house_. 2. a _sanctuarie_ in regard of our _holy seruice_ toward God, +for albeit euery day be to the good man a sabbath, and euery place a +temple; yet the God of Order hath appointed certaine times, and certaine +places also, wherein hee will bee worshipped publiquely, saying +Leuiticus 19. 30. _Ye shall obserue my sabbaths, and reuerence my +sanctuary_. For our holines toward God concerneth vs [bt]one way in +that we are men, and another way in that we are ioyned as parts to that +visible mystical body which is his Church as men, wee are at our owne +choyce both for time, and place, and forme, according to the exigence of +our owne occasions in priuate, but the seruice which is to bee done of +vs as the members of a publique body, must of necessity bee publique, +and so consequently to bee performed on holy daies in holy places, and +for this doctrine the scriptures afford both patent and paterne, the +patent is reported by the Prophet _Esay_: Chap. 56. vers. 7. and +repeated by Christ in [bu]three seuerall Euangelists: _my house shall +be called an house of prayer for all people_. The paterns are manifold, +_I will enter into thine house in the multitude of thy mercies, and in +thy feare will I worship toward thine holy temple_, saith our Prophet, +Psal. 5. 7. The Publican and the Pharisie went _into the temple to +pray_, Luke 18. _Peter_ and _Iohn_ went vp together _into the temple at +the ninth houre of prayer_, Acts 3. _Anna_ fasted and _prayed in the +temple_, Luke 2. This one word, _sanctuarie_ teacheth vs how we should +behaue our selues in the Church as in Gods presence: Doest thou come to +that holie place to receiue the blessed Supper of our Lord? remember +that the temple is _sanctuarium, non promptuarium_, a sanctuarie, not a +buttrie, [bx]_haue ye not houses to eate and drink in, despise yee the +Church of God?_ Doest thou come to pray? [by]_take heede to thy foote +when thou entrest into Gods house_, compose thy knees, and eyes, and +hands, and heart after such a deuout manner: as that thou maist not +onely praise God vpon the loud cymbals, but (as it is vers. 5.) _praise +him vpon the well tuned cymbals_ also. Doest thou come to heare the +sermon? remember that the preaching of the Gospel is [bz]not the word +of a mortall man, but the [ca]power of the immortall God vnto saluation: +and albeit the Preacher be neuer so simple, neuer so sinfull; yet the +word is holy, the action holy, the time holy, the place holy, ordained +by the most holy to make thee holy. Vpon whatsoeuer occasion thou +commest into the Temple, remember alwaies that the ground is holy +whereon thou standest, it is a _sanctuarie_, the habitation of God, +and place of his _holinesse_: and therefore not to be [cb]prophaned with +ordinarie though lawfull worldly businesse, much lesse with vnlawfull +pastimes and enterludes, it is a place for praise, not for playes, +_O praise God in his sanctuarie_. + + [Sidenote br: _Luther Vatablus Chald. apud Genebrard english Com. + dedicated to Mr. Herlakinden._] + + [Sidenote bs: _Esay. 56. 7._] + + [Sidenote bt: _Hooker eccles. pol. lib. 5. Sec.. 24._] + + [Sidenote bu: _Mark 11. 7. Luke 19. 46. Matth. 21. 13._] + + [Sidenote bx: _1. Cor. 11. 22._] + + [Sidenote by: _Ecclesiastes 4. 17._] + + [Sidenote bz: _1. Thess. 2. 13._] + + [Sidenote ca: _Rom. 1. 6._] + + [Sidenote cb: _Canon 88._] + +Or (as [cc]_Martine Luther_ interprets it) praise God _in his +sanctuarie_, that is, _for his sanctuarie_, for [cd]shewing his word +vnto _Iacob_, his statutes and ordinances vnto _Israel_, for his +adoption, and his couenants, and his promises, and his seruice, Rom. +9. 4. O praise the Lord for his [ce]true Church established for the +present among the Iewes, and hereafter in the fulnesse of time to be +constituted among Christians vntill the worlds end. For this clause may +bee construed of the mysticall heauen and temple, so well as of the +materiall heauen and temple. The good man (I meane the true Christian) +is not only Gods [cf]house, but also Gods [cg]temple, yea, Gods heauen, +as [ch]_Augustine_ expounds the words of Christ, _Our father which art +in heauen_, that is, in holy men of heuenly conuersation, in whose +sanctified hearts hee dwelleth as in his [ci]sanctuarie. _Archimedes_ +in his conference with _Hiero_ said, _Giue me a place where I may stand +out of the world, and I will moue the whole earth_. In like manner, he +that will bee reputed a Saint, and so take vpon him to remoue men +earthly minded from their worldinesse, must himselfe at the least haue +one foote out of the world, seeking (as the blessed [ck]Apostle speakes) +the things aboue, that [cl]other may see his good workes, and glorifie +God which is in Heauen, that is (according to the true soule of our +text) _praise God in his Saints_ which are his sacrarie, his sanctuarie, +his house, his heauen. + + [Sidenote cc: _In loc._] + + [Sidenote cd: _Psal. 147. 19._] + + [Sidenote ce: _Christ. Corn. in loc._] + + [Sidenote cf: _Heb. 3. 6._] + + [Sidenote cg: _1. Cor. 3. 16_] + + [Sidenote ch: _Lib. 2. de ser. dom. in mont._] + + [Sidenote ci: _Bellarm. & Corn. in loc. vel hoc dicit de populo, + vel de vita sancta Chrysost. Basil. in loc._] + + [Sidenote ck: _Coloss. 3. 1._] + + [Sidenote cl: _Mat. 5. 16._] + +Heere then all the three diuers lines (_praise God in his Saints, praise +God in his sanctitie, praise God in his sanctuarie_) meet in one +centrie; namely, God is to be praised in his sanctuarie for his +sanctitie conferred vpon his Saints, whereby they shined as [cm]lights +in this heauen on earth, and shine like [cn]starres in that heauen of +heauen. If I were not (according to the text and the time) foreward to +prosecute the Gunpowder men, as the more dangerous enemies of God and +his Gospell, I might vpon this ground take vp the bucklers against +idle _Nouelists_, vtterly condemning the _festiuals of holie Saints_, +established in our Church by good order of law. Their principal +obiection is taken out of _Pauls_ Epistle to the Galathians, chap. 4. +verse 10. _Yee obserue dayes and monethes, and times and yeares, I am +afraid of you, lest I haue bestowed vpon you labour in vaine._ To which +answere is made, that there is a [co]foure-fold obseruation of + {Naturall. + {Politicall. + daies {Ecclesiasticall. + {Superstitious. +Of all which onely the superstitious is condemned, as _Aretius_ and +_Illiricus_, and [cp]other Protestant Diuines vpon the place. Now the +superstitious obseruation is either _Iudaicall_ or _Idolatricall_; it is +apparant that _Paul_ meant the first hereof especially, [cq]because the +Galathians after they were conuerted vnto Christ, were seduced by false +teachers vnto the ceremonies of the Iewes, as concerning the Sabbaths & +the new Moones, and the like, the which were figures of Christ and had +their end in him.[cr] _Are yee so foolish, that hauing begun in the +spirit, yee would now be made perfit by the flesh?_ As for +_Idolatricall_ obseruing of times, it is granted easily that the +_Pagans_ (in dedicating feasts vnto false gods, and in making +[cs]differences of daies dismall and fortunate, either by curious arts, +or by particular fansies, or popular obseruations) are worthily reputed +superstitious. And the [ct]_Papists_ also (solemnizing holie daies of +the Saints in their Churches with idolatrous worshipping of the +creatures, and their Images: and out of their Churches with Epicurelike +belly-cheere, reuelling, & idlenesse) _turn againe to the beggarly +rudiments and fashions of the world_: But the festiuals of England +(celebrated according to the doctrine and Iniunctions of our Church) are +verie farre from these and all other kindes of superstition. [cu]For +then is God truly worshipped in the publike congregation, I say the +true God is truly praised in his true Saints; on our holie daies the +sacraments are rightly ministred, the Scriptures are fruitfully read, +the Word is faithfully preached; all which are maine meanes to withdraw +men not only from superstition and idolatrie, but also from all sortes +of error and impietie whatsoeuer. + + [Sidenote cm: _Philip 2. 15._] + + [Sidenote cn: _Dan. 12. 3._] + + [Sidenote co: _Illiric. in Galat. 4._] + + [Sidenote cp: _See Sir Christop. Heydons answer to Mr. Chambers, + pag. 368. and how the fathers answere this. Bellarmin. de sanct. + Cultu, cap. 10._] + + [Sidenote cq: _English glosse._] + + [Sidenote cr: _Galat. 3. 3._] + + [Sidenote cs: _See Ambrose in Galat. 4. & August. epist. 119. + cap. 7._] + + [Sidenote ct: _Dr. Fulke in Galat. 4. 10._] + + [Sidenote cu: _See Dr. Whitgifts defence of his answere to the + admonit. fol. 538. 539._] + +Yea, but the words of the Commandement are, _sixe daies shalt thou +labour_: _Ergo_, there should be no holie day besides the Lords day. +[cx]Protestant Diuines answere that the clause (_sixe daies shalt thou +labour_) is a permission, or a remission of Gods right, who might +chalenge to himselfe all our time for his worke, and not a restraint for +any man from seruing of God on any day. For the Iewes beside the Sabbath +had diuers other feasts; as _Easter_, _the feast of vnleauened bread_, +_the feast of first fruits_, _Whitsuntide_, _the feast of blowing +Trumpets_, _the feast of Tabernacles_; all which (as we reade Leuiticus +23) they kept by Gods appointment holie, notwithstanding these words of +the law, _sixe daies shalt thou labour_. And so the Christian Church in +all ages hath vpon iust occasions separated some weeke daies vnto the +praising of the Lord, and rest from labour. Ioel 2. 15. _Blow the +trumpet in Sion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemne assemblie._ [cy]Daies +of publike fasting for some great iudgement, daies of publike reioycing +for some great benefit, are not vnlawfull, but exceeding commendable, +yea necessarie. Whosoeuer doubts of the Churches libertie herein, or of +the practise of this libertie, may peruse the ninth chapter of _Ester_, +in which it will appeare, that Gods people by the commandement of +_Mordecai_, did euery yeare solemnize and keepe holy the fourteenth and +fifteenth day of the moneth _Adar_, in remembrance of their great +deliuerie from the Treason of _Haman_. Vpon these grounds the last euer +renouned Parliament enacted, That wee should for euer spend the prime +part of this present fifth of Nouember in praying and praising the Lord, +for his vnspeakable goodnesse in deliuering our King, Queene, Prince and +States of this realme from that hellish, horrible, bloody, barbarous +intended massacre by Gunpowder. Now that I may for my part execute the +will of the Parliament (sparing the _Nouelists_, and referring such as +desire to bee further satisfied in this argument of holy dayes, vnto +the iudicious writings of my most honoured and honourable maister, +_Archbishop Whitgift_, in the [cz]defence of his answere to the +Admonition) I proceede in the text, _praise him in his noble acts, +praise him according to his excellent greatnesse_. + + [Sidenote cx: _B. Babington in 4. com. Caluins Cat. Dr. Whitgift + vbi supra fol. 542. & 553. six daies thou maiest labour._] + + [Sidenote cy: _Perkins aur. Cat. cap. 23._] + + [Sidenote cz: _From pag. 538. to 555._] + +[da]Some reade _Laudate eum in [db]virtutibus eius_, praise him in his +_powers_: [dc]other _ob fortitudinem eius_, praise him in his _power_; +and according to these two diuerse translations, I find two different +expositions; one construing it of Gods glorious [dd]Angels, and the +other applying it to Gods glorious acts: For the first it is euident in +holy writ, that there bee certaine distinctions and degrees of Angels in +the quier of Heauen, there be _Seraphins_, Esay 6. 2. _Cherubins_, Gen. +3. 24. _Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, and Powers_, Colloss. 1. 16. +in all which and for all which God is to be praised, as being his +[de]ministring spirits for the good of such as shall be heires of +saluation; as long as wee serue God, all these serue vs, euen the +Cherubins, and Seraphins, Angels, and Archangels. I say, so long as we +serue the Lord, these pages of his honour and parts of his courts attend +vs, and pitch their tents about vs: a doctrine very profitable, very +comfortable, yet for as much as I hold it lesse pertinent to the +present occasion I thus ouerpasse it, and hast to that other exposition +interpreting these words (as our Church readeth) of Gods _noble acts_. + + [Sidenote da: _Vulgar Latine Castalio._] + + [Sidenote db: _Pagnin._ In fortitudinibus.] + + [Sidenote dc: _Vatablus Munster._] + + [Sidenote dd: _Turrecremat. & Raynerius in loc._] + + [Sidenote de: _Heb. 1. 14._] + +Now the workes of God are of two sorts, _ad intra_ & _ad extra_: some +be confined within himselfe, other extended towards vs: works of the +sacred Trinitie within it selfe (as that the Father begets, and the +Sonne is begotten, and the holy Ghost proceeds from both) are wonderfull +acts of such an high nature that it is our dutie rather simply to adore, +then subtilly to explore them: all his acts extended toward vs are +summarilie reduced vnto two, namely the works of creation and +redemption. [df]The worke of creation is attributed in the Masse of the +matter to God the Father, in the disposition of the forme to God the +Sonne, in the preseruation of both to God the holy Ghost. So likewise +that of redemption, in election vnto God the Father, in the consummation +vnto God the Sonne, in the application vnto the holy Ghost, all which +are very _noble acts_, and God is to be praised in them _according to +his excellent greatnesse_. The worke of creation is so mightie, that +none could bring it to passe but the Father almightie: that God should +haue nothing but nothing, whereof, wherewith, whereby to build this +high, huge, goodly, faire frame; is a principle which nature cannot +teach, and Philosophie will not beleeue. The worke of redemption is of +farre greater might and mercy, for the making of the world was (if I may +so speke) onely lip-labour vnto God, _he spake the word and it was done, +he commanded and it stood fast_, Psalm. 33. 9. but Christ in redeeming +the world said many words, and did many wonders, and suffered also many +wounds. It is true that the least ake of his least finger is _infiniti +meriti, sed non definiti meriti_, that is of an infinite merit, yet not +that determined ransome for the sinnes of the whole world. It cost him +more to redeeme soules, [dg]_he dyed for our sinnes and rose againe for +our iustification_, hee suffered for vs and that death, and that a +violent death, and of all violent deaths the most accursed death on +the Crosse. + + [Sidenote df: _Aduancement of learning lib. 2. pag. 116._] + + [Sidenote dg: _Rom. 4. 25._] + +The worke of sanctification is a noble act also, for euery man if you +rightly consider his making is a wonder, I am saith our [dh]Prophet +fearfully and wonderfully made: but a good man if you consider his new +making is a wonderfull wonder, as [di]_Paul_ speakes _a spectacle to men +and Angels_, as the vulgar Latine runnes in the 68. Psalme, at the last +verse, _mirabilis deus in sanctis_, O God wonderfull art thou in thy +Saints. + + [Sidenote dh: _Psalm. 139. 13._] + + [Sidenote di: _1. Cor. 4. 9._] + +But _Dauid_ [dk]here meaneth especially the valiant acts of God in +gouerning & garding his people from their enemies, [dl]O come hither and +behold the workes of God, how wonderfull hee is in his doing toward the +Children of men, he turned the sea into drye land so that his people +went on foot thorough the middest of the sea, the [dm]waters were a wall +vnto them on the right hand and on their left; but the waues of the Sea +returned and couered the chariots and horsemen euen all the hoast of +_Pharaoh_ that pursued them. Almighty God raigned hailstones out of +heauen vpon the cursed Amorites at Bethoran, and they were more +([dn]saith the text) that dyed with the haile, then they whom the +Children of Israell slew with the sword. And when Duke _Iosua_ prayed, +_Sunne stay thou in Gibeon, & thou Moone in the valey of Aialon_: +_the Sunne abode and the Moone stood still vntill the people auenged +themselues vpon their enemies_. When _Zenacherib_ and his innumerous +hoast came to fight against _Hezekiah_ King of Iuda, Gods Angell in one +night slew an hundred eighty and fiue thousand Assyrians. 2. Kings 19. + + [Sidenote dk: _Placid. Parmen and the english Com. dedicated to + M. Herlakinden._] + + [Sidenote dl: _Psalm. 66. 4._] + + [Sidenote dm: _Exod. 14. 29._] + + [Sidenote dn: _Iosua 10._] + +And vndoubtedly (beloued) there is no nation vnder the cope of Heauen +hath had greater occasion to praise God in this kind then England, the +preseruation of the most illustrious princesse the Lady _Elizabeth_ +vnder the fiery triall of her vnkind sister Queene _Marie_ was a _noble +act_, and the seminary of much happinesse vnto this kingdome for many +yeares after, and so much the more noble because _Philip_ King of Spaine +hath often confessed that he spared her life (when wildy _Winchester_ +and bloodie _Bonner_ had brought her into the snare) not out of any +pietie or pittie, but onely out of policie. Her exaltation to the Crowne +was another _noble act_, so noble that some [do]Popish Prelats in their +enuie burst a sunder and dyed for very griefe of heart. Well might that +good Lady sing and say with the blessed Virgine, _He that is mightie +hath magnified me, and holy is his name, he hath put downe the mightie +from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meeke_: her flourishing +in health, wealth, and godlinesse, more then 44. yeares (in despite +of all her foes abroad, at home, schismaticall, hereticall, open, +intestine) was another _noble act_: for after once the Bull of Pope +_Pius Quintus_ had roared, and his fat Calues had begunne to bellow in +this Island: there passed neuer a yeare, neuer a moneth, neuer a weeke +(I thinke I might say) neuer a day, neuer an houre, but some mischiefe +was intended either against her person or her people: the resisting of +the rebellion in the Northerne parts of England, was _a noble act_: the +discouering and so consequently the defeating of _Campians_ treason _a +noble act_: of _Parris_ treason _a noble act_: of the _Lupus Lopus_ +his treason, _a noble act_: of _Squires_ treason, _a noble act_. Her +glorious victories against her fell and insolent enemies the _Spaniards_ +in _Ireland_, in _Flanders_, in _France_, in their owne dominions of +_Portugal_, _Indies_, and _Spaine_ were _noble acts_. It was a wonder of +wonders, that a _Mayden Queene_ should at one time be both a staffe to +_Flanders_, and a stay to _France_, a terror to _Pope_, a mirror to +_Turke_, feared abroad, loued at home, Mistresse of the Sea, wonder of +the world. Shee might truely bee called a _Prince of Peace_, for shee +was Crowned in Peace, shee liued in Peace, she dyed in Peace, she was +buried in Peace: and when shee had slept with her Fathers, it was +another _noble act_ of the Lord to send vs in the midst of all our +feare so learned, so meeke, so pious a Prince as King _Iames_, in such +exceeding sweet peace, that neuer a sword was drawn, happily neuer a +word spoken against him. All these were _noble acts_, and ought to be +had in a perpetuall remembrance. But of all other noble preseruations, +_Our deliuerance from that intended mercilesse and matchlesse Massacre +both in fact and fiction, the fifth of Nouember, in the yeare 1605._ is +most _noblie noble_. King _Iames_ on this day might haue said with King +[dp]_Dauid_, _O Lord which art my rocke and my fortresse, thou hast +giuen me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate +me, that I might breake them as small as the dust of the earth, and +tread them flat as the clay of the streete_. [dq]_O giue thankes vnto +the Lord, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for euer. Let +Israel now confesse that he is gracious, and that his mercy endureth for +euer. Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for +euer. Yea let all such as feare the Lord now confesse that his mercy +endureth for euer._ All the Congregations of the Saints in the whole +world, haue good cause to thanke God our strength and deliuerer. +_Scotland_ hath good cause, for if _England_ had been but a _Tuesday +breakefast_, assuredly _Scotland_ should haue been but a _Fridaies +drinking_, one morsell as it were for the greedy deuourer. The Churches +in _France_ relieued often by vs, haue good cause to reioyce with vs. +Our neighbours of _Holland_ haue good cause to triumphe as they doe, for +if our house had been set on fire, their house being the next would haue +been quickly pulled downe. The Churches in _Germanie_, _Denmarke_, +_Hungarie_, _Geneua_ likewise haue good cause to _praise God in this +noble act according to his excellent greatnesse_. + + [Sidenote do: _See M. Foxe Martyr. in fine._] + + [Sidenote dp: _2. Sam. 22. 41._] + + [Sidenote dq: _Psalm. 118._] + +More principally the Common-weale of England, and in it all men of all +factions, and all fashions whatsoeuer. _Atheists_ (if they think there +be a God) haue good cause to thanke God, acknowledging his mercie toward +them in sparing vs, and so sauing the bad for the [dr]righteous sake. +_Carnall Gospellers_ haue good cause to thanke God, confessing that so +long as [ds]_Lot_ is in _Sodome_, it can not be destroyed; and so long +as _Moses_ standeth in the [dt]gap, and [du]prayeth for his people, Gods +wrathfull indignation can not deuoure vs. Yea, let the _Gunpowder men_ +themselues (if they haue any sparke of grace) confesse that God is to be +praised in this _noble act_; for suppose (God be thanked, we may suppose +and dispose thus of these matters vnto our comfort) I say suppose, their +diuelish plot had been acted, I assure my selfe our cause had been farre +better, and our number farre greater than theirs; and as for our sinnes +(which are indeede our greatest enemies) they would haue brought into +the field so many as we: so that hauing so much armour of light, and +more armour of proofe then they, [dx]_Causa iubet melior superos sperare +secundos_. + + [Sidenote dr: _Gen. 18. 26._] + + [Sidenote ds: _Gen. 19. 22._] + + [Sidenote dt: _Psalm. 106. 23._] + + [Sidenote du: _Exod. 32. 11._] + + [Sidenote dx: _Lucan._] + +But suppose the least and the worst part had ouercome the bigger and +the better, yet (if they bee not hewen out of hard rockes) if these +_Romanists_ haue not sucked the milke of wolues (as it is reported +of the first founder of Rome) they would haue relented to see their +natiue Country made nothing else but a verie shambles of _Italian_ and +_Ignatian_ butchers. When _Alexander_ saw the dead corps of _Darius_; +and _Iulius Caesar_, the head of _Pompey_; and _Marcus Marcellus_, +_Syracusa_ burne; and _Scipio_, _Numantia_ spoild; and _Titus_, +_Hierusalem_ made [dy]euen with the ground, they could not abstaine from +weeping, albeit they were mortall enemies. But aboue all other in this +kingdome, the truely zealous, and zealously true hearted protestants +haue greatest occasion of reioycing; for if the Lord had not (_according +to his excellent greatnes_, and according to his excellent goodnes too) +deliuered vs out of this gun-powder gulfe, our bodies happily might haue +beene made food for the foules, or else fewell for the fire; and that +which would haue grieued our posteritie more, supersition and Idolatrie +might in short time haue been replanted in this land; I meane that +vpstart Antichristian religion of _Rome_, wherein many things, +especially foure (as iudicious [dz]_Fox_ well obserued) are most +abominable. + + 1. Vnlimited jurisdiction, derogatorie to all Kings and Emperours. + + 2. Insolent titles, preiudiciall to all Bishops and Prelates. + + 3. Corrupt doctrine, injurious to all Christians. + + 4. Filthie lise, detestable to all men. + + [Sidenote dy: _Luc. 19. 44._] + + [Sidenote dz: _Martyr. pag. 1._] + +The greater was our danger, the greater was our deliuerance; the greater +our deliuerance, the greater our thankes should be; for as it followeth +in my text, _God is to be praised according to his excellent greatnes_. +It is true that our most and best praises are few for the number, and +little for the measure; whereas God is infinite for his goodnes, and in +his greatnesse incomprehensible. So that the meaning of [ea]_Dauid_ is, +that we should praise him according to our capacitie, and not according +to his immensitie; according to the grace bestowed vpon vs, and not +according to the glorie which is in him. Ecclesiasticus 43. 30. _Praise +the Lord, and magnifie him as much as ye can, yet doth he farre exceed. +Exalt him with all your power, and be not weary, yet can ye not attaine +vnto it._ + + [Sidenote ea: _Basil. Musculus, Placid. parnen. in loc._] + +Now where the Lord giueth a greater meane, there he requireth a greater +measure; where he bestoweth a greater portion of giftes, he doth expect +a greater proportion of glorie. Wherefore seeing the Lord hath out of +his abundant mercie conferred vpon this kingdome inestimable blessings, +in the preaching of his word for the space of more then fiftie yeares; +it is questionlesse he lookes for no little thankes or small praise, but +for great thankes and great praise according to his excellent greatnesse +manifested in this our deliuerance. I come therefore to the second part +of this Psalme, shewing _with what_ God is to be praised, _In the sound +of the trumpet, &c._ + +God is to be praised (saith [eb]_Augustine_) _totis votis de totis +vobis_ with all your soules, and with all your selues. That therefore +we may manifest our inward affections by such outward actions as are +commendable, where there be _trumpets_, let them sound: where there be +_lutes_ and _harpes_, let them strike vp: where there be _loud Cymbals_ +and _well tuned Cymbals_, let them ring, let them sing the praises of +God for this our most happy deliuerance; let trumpet and tongue, viol & +voice, lute & life, witnes our hartie reioycing in the Lord. If our true +zeale were more fierie within, it would doubtlesse break forth into moe +publike workes, then it doth, against that bloody brood of the +Gun-powder crue. There haue been many collections in euery Dioces for +the reedifying of the Churches of Saint _Albanes_ and _Arthuret_, the +which I assure my selfe were good works: there haue been in this latter +age many gorgeous, I might say glorious buildings erected about and in +this honorable Citie, to the great ornament of our Country, the which I +thinke you may number among your good workes: there haue bin Lotteries +to further _Virginean_ enterprises, and these (for any thing I know) +were good workes also: there haue been many new play-houses, and one +faire Burse lately built; _Paris_-garden in a flourishing estate makes a +great noyse still, and as I heare _Charing_ Crosse shall haue a new coat +too: but in the meane time while so many monuments are raised, either +to the honour of the dead, or else for the profit and pleasure of the +lyuing: _Dic mihi musa virum_, I pray Muse and shew me the man, who +ioynes with that euer zealous, reuerend, learned Deane in founding a +Colledge for a Societie of writers against the superstitious Idolatries +of the Romane Synagogue, the which happily might be like _the [ec]Tower +of Dauid_, where the strong men of Israel might haue shieldes and +targets to fight the Lords battaile: [ed]_Is it time for your selues +to dwell in your seiled houses, and this house lye wast?_ + + [Sidenote eb: _In Psalm. 147._] + + [Sidenote ec: _Cant. 4. 4._] + + [Sidenote ed: _Haggai. 1. 4._] + +Remember I beseech you the words of [ee]_Azariah_ vnto King _Asa_ and +the men of Iuda, _The Lord is with you while you are with him, and if +yee seeke him, he will be found of you; but if yee forsake him, he will +forsake you_. Benot cold in a good cause, flie not out of the field, +play not the cowards in the Lords holie wars; for albeit happily your +selues are like for your time to do wel enough in despite of the Diuell, +and the Pope his darling: yet your posteritie will assuredly rue it, and +haue iust cause to curse their dastardly, spiritlesse and worthlesse +progenitors. I say no more concerning this point, only I pray with our +forefathers in the first English Letany, set out in the dayes of King +_Henry_ the 8. _from all sedition and priuie conspiracie, from the +tyrannie of the Bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities, from +all false doctrine and heresie, from hardnesse of heart, and contempt of +thy word and commandement._ + + _Good Lord deliuer vs._ + + [Sidenote ee: _2. Chron. 15. 2._] + +Where note by the way, that the Popes abominable tyrannie is hedged in +(as it were) on the one side with _sedition_ and _priuie conspiracy_, +and on the other side with _false doctrine_ and _heresie_. I haue +another prayer, and for as much as it is in Latine, I must entreat all +such (if any such here be present, who loue _Bonauentures_ psalter and +the Romish seruice) to ioyne with vs in this orison. _Papa noster qui es +Romae maledicetur nomen tuum, intereat regnum tuum, impediatur voluntas +tua, sicut in Coelo sic et in terra. Potum nostrum in Coena dominica +da nobis hodie, & remitte nummos nostros quos tibi dedimus ob +indulgentias, sicut & nos remittimus tibi indulgentias, & ne nos inducas +in haeresin, sed libera nos a miseria, quoniam tuum est infernum, pix & +sulphur in secula seculorum._ + +The word of God is a [ef]two edged sword, sharp in a literal, and sharp +in an allegoricall exposition. Hitherto you haue heard the history, now +there remaineth a mistery, _nihil enim hic ludicrum aut lubricum_ saith +[eg]_Augustine_, and therefore [eh]diuines vnderstand here by the +_sounding of the trumpet_, the preaching of the Gospell, [ei]whose +sound went out thorow all the earth vnto the endes of the world: at the +seuenfold sounding of this trumpet the walles of [ek]Iericho fal, that +is all the pompes and powers of this world are conquered & brought to +nought, this trumpet is mightie thorough God to cast downe holdes, and +Imaginations, and euery high thing that is exalted against the knowledge +of God. 2. Cor. 10. 4. + + [Sidenote ef: _Heb. 4. 12._] + + [Sidenote eg: _In loc._] + + [Sidenote eh: _Prosper Luther Hugo Card._] + + [Sidenote ei: _Rom. 10. 18._] + + [Sidenote ek: _Iosua. 6. Strictior est tuba ex parte buccinantis + quam ex altera, quia praedicator strictius se debet examinare. Hugo + Card. in loc._] + +[el]Other say that the Saints are these _trumpets_, and _harpes_, and +_Cymbals_, and that their [em]members make this musicke to the Lord, our +eyes praies the Lord, while they be [en]lifted vp vnto their maker in +heauen, and waite vpon his mercy: our tongues praise the Lord, in +singing [eo]Psalmes, and hymnes, and spirituall songs vnto the Lord: +our eares praise the Lord, while they [ep]heare the word of God with +attention: our hands praise the Lord, while they be [eq]stretched out +vnto the poore, and while they [er]worke the thing that is good: our +feete praise the Lord, when they bee not [es]swift to shed blood, but +[et]stand in the gates of Gods house, ready to [eu]run the wayes of his +commandements. _In Tympano sicca & percussa pellis resonat, in choro +autem voces sociatae concordant_ said [ex]_Gregorie_ the great: wherefore +[ey]such as mortifie the lusts of the flesh praise God _in tympano_, and +they who keepe the [ez]vnity of the spirit in the bond of peace, praise +God _in choro_: the _Brownist_ in separating himselfe from the Church +though he seeme to praise God _in tympano_, yet hee doth not praise God +_in choro_: and the _carnall gospeller_ albeit he ioyne with the Church +_in choro_, yet he prayseth not God _in tympano_; they praise God in +_well tuned Cymbals_ who tune their soules before they preach or pray, +whosoeuer desires to bee a sweete singer in Israel must bee learned in +the schoole, before hee be lowd in the temple: the heart likewise must +be prepared for praying, as the harpe for playing, if our instruments of +praise be not in tune, then our whole deuotion is like _the [fa]sounding +brasse or as the tinckling Cymbal_: in Gods quier there is first _tune +well_, and then _sound well_, if once we can say with [fb]_Dauid_, +_O God mine heart is ready, mine heart is ready_, then our lute and +harpe will awake right early: let thy soule praise the Lord, and then +all that is either without or about thee will instantly doe the same. + + [Sidenote el: _Augustin in loc._] + + [Sidenote em: _Chrysost. Euthym. in loc._] + + [Sidenote en: _Psalm. 123._] + + [Sidenote eo: _Colos. 3. 16._] + + [Sidenote ep: _Mat. 13. 9._] + + [Sidenote eq: _Ecclesi. 7. 32._] + + [Sidenote er: _Ephes. 4. 24._] + + [Sidenote es: _Psal. 14. 6._] + + [Sidenote et: _Psal. 122. 2._] + + [Sidenote eu: _Psal. 119. 32._] + + [Sidenote ex: _Pastoral. part. 3. admonit. 23._] + + [Sidenote ey: _August. Cassiod. Hugo. Card. in loc._] + + [Sidenote ez: _Ephes. 4. 3._] + + [Sidenote fa: _1. Cor. 13. 1._] + + [Sidenote fb: _Psalm. 108. 1._] + +_Let euery thing that hath breath praise the Lord_, that is [fc]_omne +spirans_, [fd]_omnis spiritualis_, [fe]_omnis spiritus_, let euery +creature praise the lord for his estate of confection, euery Christian +praise the Lord for his estate of refection, euery blessed spirit loosed +out of the worldes misery praise the Lord for his estate of perfection, +let euery creature, man aboue all the Creatures, and the soule of man +aboue all that is in man praise the Lord. _Omnis spiritus, i. [ff]totus +spiritus_, [fg]all the heart, all the soule, all the mind, as the +psalmist [fh]elsewhere, I will thanke thee O Lord my God with all mine +heart, euen with my [fi]whole heart, or _omnis spiritus_ the spirit +of euery man in euery place, for this saying is [fk]propheticall, +insinuating that God in time to come, shall not only be worshipped of +the Iewes at Ierusalem with outward ceremonies, _in the sound of the +trumpet and vpon the lute and harpe_: but in all places, of all persons +in spirit and truth as Christ expounds _Dauid_ in the 4. of Saint +_Iohns_ Gospell at the 23. verse, whereas vnbeleeuing Iewes are the +sonnes of _Abraham_ according to the flesh only, beleeuing Gentiles are +the [fl]seed of _Abraham_ according to the spirit, and heires by +promise, more Israel saith [fm]_Augustine_ then Israel it selfe. The +sonnes of _Abraham_ (as Christ tels vs in the [fn]Gospell) are they who +doe the workes of _Abraham_, and _Abrahams_ chiefe worke was faith, +_Abraham_ beleeued (saith the [fo]text) and it was imputed to him for +righteousnes. _Ergo_, the true beleeuer is a right Isralite, blessed +with faithfull _Abraham_. Galat. 3. 9. [fp]some stretch this further, +applying it not onely to the spirits of men in the Church militant, but +also to the blessed Angels and Saints in the triumphant, for this Psalme +consists of a threefold _apostrophe_. + + [Sidenote fc: _Agellius Vatablus_.] + + [Sidenote fd: _Hieron. August._] + + [Sidenote fe: _Genebrard & alij plerique._] + + [Sidenote ff: _Hugo. Iunius._] + + [Sidenote fg: _Luk. 10. 27._] + + [Sidenote fh: _Psal. 86. 12._] + + [Sidenote fi: _Psal. 111. 1._] + + [Sidenote fk: _Caluin. Genebrard. in loc._] + + [Sidenote fl: _Galat. 3. 29._] + + [Sidenote fm: _Psalm. 148._] + + [Sidenote fn: _Iohn 8. 39._] + + [Sidenote fo: _Gen. 15. 6. Rom. 4. 3._] + + [Sidenote fp: _Genebrard._] + +1. _Dauid_ inuiteth all the Citizens of heauen, _O praise God in his +sanctuarie, praise him in the firmament of his power_. + +2. All the dwellers vpon earth, _praise him in the sound of the trumpet, +praise him vpon the lute and harpe, &c._ + +3. Both and all, _let euery thing that hath breath_, euery thing which +hath either the life of nature, or of grace, or of glorie, let _euery +spirit_ [fq]whether it be terrestriall or celestiall, of whatsoeuer +condition, age, sexe, _praise the Lord_. + + [Sidenote fq: _Placidus parmensis & Bellarmin. in loc._] + +It is a [fr]_Rabbinical_ conceit that this hymne consists of 13. +_Halleluiahs_, answering 13. Properties of God mentioned Exod. 34. 6.7. +verses, and in that our Prophet after a dozen _Halleluiahs_ hath not +done, but addeth a thirteenth, hee doth insinuate that when all our +deuotion is finished, it is our dutie to begin againe with Gods praise, +for as [fs]of him, and thorough him, and for him, are all things, euen +so to him is due all glorie for euermore: as his mercies are from +euerlasting to euerlasting, from euerlasting election, to euerlasting +glorification: so likewise his praises are to bee sung for euer and +euer. In this life we begin this hymne singing (as musitians speake) in +_breifs_ and _semibriefs_ a staffe or two, but in the world to come +standing before the throne of the Lambe, clothed in long white robes, +accompanied with all the sweet voyces of heauens incomparable melodious +quire: we shall eternally sing, [ft]_Holy, holy, holy, Lord God +almightie, which was, and which is, and which is to come, [fu]praise, +and glorie, and wisdome, and power, and might, be vnto our God for +euermore._ Amen. + + [Sidenote fr: _Genebrard._] + + [Sidenote fs: _Rom. 11. 36._] + + [Sidenote ft: _Apocalip. 4. 8._] + + [Sidenote fu: _Apocalip. 7. 12._] + + + FINIS. + + * * * * * + * * * * + * * * * * + +[Notes and Errata + +In the Latin words "Coelo" and "Coena", the letter combination "oe" was +printed in single-letter (ligature) form, analogous to ae for ae. + +The titles "Mr." and "Dr." were printed with superscript r, properly +transcribed M^{r}. and D^{r}. They have been simplified for readability. + +Years are always printed with following period (full stop), regardless +of place in the sentence. + +Sidenotes--here equivalent to footnotes--were labeled sequentially a-z, +repeating as often as necessary. For this e-text they have been given +unique identifiers adding a, b, c... to successive series. Note that the +23-letter alphabet has no j, v or w. + +page 2 / leaf A2v + Sidenote d: ...Turrecremat. + _the name "Turrecremata" is better known in its Spanish form, + "Torquemada"_ + +page 3 / leaf A3 + for translating th{~e} out of this [q]valley of teares + _{~e} represents "e" with overline (unique in this text)_ + +page 6 / leaf A4v + Non martyres domini sed mancipes diaboli + _text reads_ matyris + +page 8 / leaf A5v + Sidenote bk: _Mark. 12. 36._ + _citation unclear_ + +page 18 / leaf B2v + But of all other noble preseruations, _Our deliuerance from..._ + _text reads_ ...preseruations (_Our... + +page 21 / leaf B4 + that bloody brood of the Gun-powder crue + _text reads_ Gun-dowder + the Churches of Saint _Albanes_ and _Arthuret_ + "Arthuret" is a place name + +page 24 / leaf B5v + _Let euery thing that hath breath praise the Lord_, that is [fc]_omne + spirans_ + _text reads_ ...the Lord_) that is... + _Omnis spiritus, i. [ff]totus spiritus_ + "i." _as in original: short for_ "intellege"? + +page 25 / leaf B6 + Sidenote fq [simple "q" in original] + _text has "p" for "q", but reference in body text is correct_] + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's An Exposition of the Last Psalme, by John Boys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN EXPOSITION OF THE LAST PSALME *** + +***** This file should be named 17273.txt or 17273.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/2/7/17273/ + +Produced by Louise Hope, Jason Isbell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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