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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

present among the Iewes and hereafter in the fulnes 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 house but also Gods temple yea Gods heauen as Augustine expounds the words of Christ Our Father which art in heauen that is in holy men of heauenly conuersation in whose sanctified hearts hee dwelleth as in his 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 hee that will be reputed a Saint and so take vpon him to remoue men earthly minded from their worldlinesse must himselfe at the least haue one foote out of the world seeking as the blessed Apostle speakes the things aboue that 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 Heere then all the three diuers lines praise God in his Saints praise God in his sanctitie praise God in his sanctuarie meete in one centree namely God is to bee praised in his sanctuarie for his sanctitie conferred vpon his Saints whereby they shined as lights in this heauen on earth and now shine like 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 holy Saints established in our Church by good order of law Their principall obiection is taken out of Pauls epistle to the Galathians chap. 4. vers 10. Ye obserue daies and moneths 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 fourefold obseruation of daies Naturall Politicall Ecclesiasticall Superstitious Of all which onely the superstitious is condemned as Aretius and Illiricus and other Protestant Diuines vpon the place Now the superstitious obseruation is either Iudaicall or Idolatricall it is apparent that Paul meant the first hereof especially 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 Are ye 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 differences of daies dismall and fortunate either by curious arts or by particular fansies or popular obseruations are worthily reputed superstitious And the Papists also solemnizing holy 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 and idlenes turne againe to the beggerly rudiments and fashions of the world but the festiuals of England celebrated according to the doctrine and Iniunctions of our Church are very farre from these and all other kindes of superstition for then is God truly worshipped in the publike congregation I say the true God is truly praised in his true Saints on our holy 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 sorts of error and impietie whatsoeuer Yea but the words of the Commandement are sixe daies shalt thou labour Ergo there should be no holie day besides the Lords day 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 holy 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. 14. Blow the trumpet in Sion sanctifie a fast call a solemne assemblie Daies of publike fasting for some great iudgement dayes of publike reioycing for some great benefit are not vnlawfull but exceeding commendable yea necessarie Whosoeuer doubtes 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 goodnes 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 Whitegift in the defence of his answere to the Admonition I proceede in the text praise him in his noble acts praise him according to his excellent greatnes Some reade laudate eum in virtutibus eius praise him in his powers 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 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 Angles in the quier of heauen there be Seraphins Esay 6. 2. Cherubins Gen. 3. 24. Thrones dominions principalities and powers Coloss. 1. 16. in all which and for all which God is to be praised as being his ministring spirits for the good of such as shall bee 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