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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

a Colledge for a society of writers against the superstitious Idolatries of the Romane Synagogue the which happily might be like the Tower of Dauid where the strong men of Israel might haue sheildes and targets to fight the Lords battaile Is it time for your selues to dwell in your seiled houses and this houselye waste Remember I beseech you the words of Azariah vnto King Asa and the men of Iuda The Lord is with you while you are with him and if ye seeke him hee will bee found of you but if ye forsake him he will forsake you Bee not cold in a good cause flie not out of the field play not the cowards in the Lords holy 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 posterity will assuredly rue it and haue iust cause to curse their dastardly spirits and worthlesse progenitours 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 hardnes of heart and contempt of thy word and commandement Good Lord deliuer vs. 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 asmuch as it is in Latine I must entreat all such if any such here be present who loue Bonanentures psalter and the Romish seruice to ioyne with vs in this orison Papa noster qui es Romae maledicetur nomen tuum intereat regnum tuum impediatur volunt as tua sicut in Coelo sie et in terra Putum nostrum in Coena dominicada nobis hodie remitte nummos nostr●s quos tibi dedimus ob indulgentias sicut nos remittimus tibi indulgentias 〈◊〉 nos inducas in haeresin sed libera nos a miseria quoniam tuum est infernum pix sulphur in secula seculorum The word of God is a 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 Augustine and therefore diuines vnderstand here by the sounding of the trumpet the preaching of the Gospell whose found went out thorow all the earth vnto the endes of the world at the seuenfold sounding of this trumpet the walles of sericho 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. Other say that the Saints are these trumpets and harpes and Cymbals and that their members make this musicke to the Lord our eyes praise the Lord while they be lifted vp vnto their maker in heauen and waite vpon his mercy our tongues praise the Lord in singing Psalmes and hymnes and spirituall songs vnto the Lord our eares praise the Lord while they heare the word of God with attention our hands praise the Lord while they be stretched out vnto the poore and while they worke the thing that is good our feete praise the Lord when they bee not swift to shed blood but stand in the gates of Gods house ready to run the wayes of his commandements In Tympaeno sicca percussa pellis resonat in choro autem voces sociatae concordant said Gregorie the great wherefore such as mortifie the lusts of the flesh praise God in tympano and they who keepe the 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 chere 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 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 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 Let euery thing that hath breath praise the Lord that is omne spirans omnis spiritualis 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 foule of man aboue all that is in man praise the Lord. Omnis spiritus i. totus spiritus all the heart all the soule all the mind as the psalmist elsewhere I will thanke thee O Lord my God with all mine heart euen with my whole heart or omnis spiritus the spirit of euery man in euery place for this saying is 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 seed of Abraham according to the spirit and heires by promise more Israel saith Augustine then Israel it selfe The sonnes of Abraham as Christ tels vs in the Gospell 〈◊〉 they who doe the workes of Abraham and Abrahams chiefe worke was faith Abraham beleeued saith the text and it was imputed to him for righteousnes Ergo the true beleeuer is a right Isralite blessed with saithfull Abraham Galat. 3. 9. 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 1. Dauid inuiteth all the Citizens of heauen O praise God in his sanctuarie praise him in the firmament

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