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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16559	An exposition of the last psalme delivered in a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the fifth of Nouember, 1613. By Iohn Boys, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Boys, John, 1571-1625.	1613 (1613)	STC 3464; ESTC S112973	19,487	30

Lord God of all power blessed be thy name which hast this day brought to nought the enemies of thy people so let all thine enemies perish O Lord that our 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 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 Basile writes would blush to report that of beastes which the Gentiles haue recorded of their Gods If such imputations are true saith Augustine quàm mali how wicked are these Gods if false quàm malè how wretched and foolish are these men adoring the same things in the temple which they scoffe at in the theater in turpitudine 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 often in holy Scripture the holy one yea thrice holy holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts Esay 6. 3. his name is holy his law is holy his 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 seruice holy wherefore praise God in his holinesse 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 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 frō 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 Caluin 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 in heauen O praise the Lord all ye blessed Angels and Saints inhabiting his sanctuarie which is highest and holiest 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 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 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 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 haue ye not houses to eate and drinke in despise yee the Church of God Doest thou come to pray 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 not the word of a mortall man but the 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 prophaned with ordinarie though lawfull worlds businesse much lesse with vnlawfull pastimes and enterludes it is a place for praise not for playes O praise God in his sanctuarie Or as Martine Luther interprets it praise God in his sanctuarie that is for his sanctuarie for 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 true Church established for the