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A18429	Hallelu-jah: or, King David's shrill trumpet, sounding a loude summons to the whole world, to praise God Delivered by way of commentarie and plaine exposition vpon the CXVII. Psalme. By Richard Chapman, minister of the Word of God at Hunmanbie in Yorkshire.	Chapman, Richard, d. 1634.	1635 (1635)	STC 4998; ESTC S122563	120,049	228

the zeale love constancy knowledge of those noble Patriarches and those constant Martyrs in the Primitive times every drop of whose bloud bred and sprung up a new Saint if thou wert glorious as an Angell thy meat as Manna thy garments as Aarons Ephod thy breath as sweete as the perfume of the Tabernacle from the life of Nature to the life of Grace and so to the life of Glory all is from this Fountaine which is God Nay even that thou art not wicked as the most debauched creature in the world it is from the supporting and restrayning grace of God upon whom thou leanest in the wildernesse of this world as the Spouse upon her beloved Cant. 8. Or as Moses hands were supported by Aaron and Hur Exod. 17. 12. Or as the Altar of the Sanctuarie at the base thereof had Lyons for supporters so thou the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah else how is it in man to direct his wayes aright without this Though Peter à Petra a Rocke surnamed Cephas for his stedfastnesse yet fell into a fearefull Apostacie Godly David moulded in the mint of Regeneration into Adultery and Murther these and much more hadst thou committed if God had not prevented Marshall then all thy guifts and graces together let them face one another as the Cherubins upon the Mercy-seate and all looke upon God For of him and through him and for him are all things Rom. 11. 36. Because it is a great part of Gods worship and even the most of that service which he requires at the hands of silly Men David in his Quaere makes it the summe of all Psal 116. 12. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me but onely this I will take the cuppe of thanksgiving and call upon the name of the Lord. For this purpose it is called a sacrifice of praise Heb. 13. 15. The calves of our lippes and the first fruite of faith Acts 2. 46. It is his honour and that hee will not give to another Sing unto the Lord a new song and his praise from the end of the earth c. Esay 42. 10. To teach us not onely to condemne in ourpractise that ingratitude which is a monster in nature As we call the gratefull man a kind man so the ingratefull an unnaturall an absurd soloecisme in manners consisting of two foule vices falshood in not acknowledging iniustice in not requiting a benefit Alexander the Great and Iulius Caesar both renowned the one for liberality the other for patience the one would not give nor the other forgive an ingratefull person Not onely this but forasmuch as every one arrogates a due performance of this duty To teach us how to tread right in the steps of his service And to this purpose consider that God is praised 1. vocally as sing to the Lord 2. Chordally praise him upon the Harpe 3. Pneumatically with Trumpets Shawmes Cimbals c. when our breath is the bellowes 4. Allegorically in our actions contemplations words works life death being not only temples 1 Cor. 3. 16. but also timbrels of the Holy Ghost Know then that thy right praising magnifying of God is thy obedience to his voyce his law his Gospell c. Never boast saith Augustine that thou blessest with thy mouth when thou cursest with thy life and conversation It is not only thy breath but thy breast thy song but thy soule thy voyce but thy life that must be this Davidicall trump of praise thanksgiving 1 Pet. 2. 12. Have your conversation honest among the Gentiles and by this meanes they which are yet without and strangers from God shall have occasion to glorifie God in the day of their visitation Math. 5. 16. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie your Father which is in heaven Our praise is our obedience and our obedience is nothing else but a subiecting of our will to God So that it is with every disobedient person though he can marshall his words adorne his phrase that they be like apples of gold with pictures of Silver Prov. 25 11. as with a secretly disloyall traytor who in the chamber of Presence is highly extolling and commending the King the State Government but being without the Court gate is opening his poysonous jawes and casting whole Seas of contumelious reproches and outragious slanders against the same who will take this for a true subject and who will account a wicked man the servant of God though with his tongue he praise God when he speaks nothing but contradiction in his life and conversation This false and pseudo-christianity makes the Gospell and sincere professors thereof and even God himselfe to be traduced and as Iacob was accounted with the Sichemites Ye have troubled me speaking to his cruell sonnes to make me stincke among the inhabitants of the land Gen. 34. 30. For this cause Rom. 2. 24. The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you professing to knowe God but in workes denying him being abhominable disobedient and to euery good worke reprobate Tit. 1 16. And hence wee see plainely the reason and ground-worke of those foule aspersions daily slanders and Ismaelitish songes of Turkes Iewes Infidels and Papists which are daily cast as dirt into the face of Christianity to be onely our dissolute lives disobedient carriages and disordered conversation Christiani hoc ipso deteriores quo meliores esse deberent Christians are so much the worse as they ought to be better Either then be as thou seemest or seeme as thou art else thou art but like the little bird with the great voyce which the Fowler onely hearing and thinking her to be some great fowle took paines to take her and seeing her little body ill able to countervaile his paines he said Thou art a voice an Eccho an empty outward sound and nothing else Know then that all thine orall profession superficiall adoration and Pharisaicall sepulcher-like guilded outside is in Gods account without the inward subjection of the heart to his holy lawes no better than to cut off a dogges necke to offer swines flesh or to blesse an Idoll Esay 66. 3. so long as thy heart is unsanctified wanting the salt of Grace and remaining unwholesome as the poysonous waters of Bethel Christ reiecteth thy lip-praises and outward service as the sacrifice of fooles Psal 50. 16. Vnto the wicked saith God Why doest thou preach my lawes and takest my covenant into thy mouth wheras thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my wordes behinde thee Christ will not suffer the Devill the father of lies to beare witnesse of his truth Mar. 1. 24. and Paul will not suffer the Pythonesse to proclaime the truth Acts 16. 18. O then the rottennesse of our times how is our obedience if we have any cut short and wee are become like that

come when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth sometime for sincerity in our conversation Ioh. 3. 21. hee that doth truth commeth to the light an Israelite in whom is no guile Ioh. 1. 47. Sometime for the rule of Gods law Rom. 2. 8. Disobeying the truth and obeying vnrighteousnesse and 1. Pet. 1. 22. Your selves are purified by obeying the truth Sometime for the sincere doctrine of the Gospell Gal. 2. 5. that the truth of the Gospell might continue with you Sometime for Iustice Prov. 20. 28. Mercy and truth preserves the King Sometime for such a truth as depends not vpon Opinion which may erre but for that Metaphysicall truth which is affectio Entis and such I take it to be here and so in God it cannot faile so taken Rom. 3. 7. If the verity or truth of God hath more abounded through my lye and so vpon the premisses this doctrine builds it selfe There is nothing more certaine to come to passe in a due and true performance then the truth of all Gods promises Wee neede not stand to prop the truth of this truth vpon any weake foundation of mans building for his truth is himselfe Exod. 34. 6. aboundant in goodnesse and truth Man may be said to be true mercifull just but God is truth mercie and justice it selfe in the abstract so the Prophet here brings his truth in the second place as the sure performer of his mercifull kindnesse whatsoever saith Calvyn He doth promise by his mercy he doth faithfully performe because his mercy and truth are vndissolubly knit together they goe hand in hand and cannot be seperated and as he cannot lye nor deny himselfe Tit. 1. 2. No more can his truth faile Num. 23. 19. God is not as man that he should lye or the sonne of man to repent his truth is confirmed strengthened veryfied and so corroborated toward us for so the word translated great in the Originall signifieth that if we would we cannot put it from us but it will overcome us to acknowledge it if the Lord speake it even to the miraculous continuing of the Meale in the barrell and the Oyle in the Cruse 1. King 17. 14. Even in the preservation and maintenance of the Patriarch Iacob Gen. 32. 10. I am not worthy the least of thy mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed vnto thy servant heere is finem non habitura fides his truth is even decked and clothed with constancy and firmnesse we cannot obiect against him as the Poet against Iason and in him against vnstable Man Mobilis AEsonide vernaque incertior aura Cur tua polliciti pondere verba earent Inconstant sonne of AEson fickle wight and more vnconstant then the wind in spring How is it that thy words are growne so light to want that weight should be in promising He deserves not with Antigonus to be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who promised much and performed little neither with Thaeaginus to be called smoake who promised much being very poore neither with Hermodorus will he sell his words he doth not will not cannot equivocate with man in the truth of his promises as he that promised centum oves and performed centum ova he hath given us an hand-writing and obligation of promises made himselfe our debter not by owing but promising sayth the great Bishop of little Hippo the heavenly Augustine that we cannot say vnto him give that thou owest but we must pray vnto him for what he promiseth his promises are not like the golden shewes nor showers of the World who like Sathan Mat. 4. 9. promise what they cannot perform inverting the words of the wise Phocion who would have great matters performed not promised as Stobaeus witnesseth but they promise golden mountaines the opulency of Lidian Craesus which in performance prove but moale-hills Among the sonnes of the earth some indeed performe that which after ward they repent as Ioshua did to the Gibeonites Ios 9. 23. some promise what they can doe but meane it not as Iacobs sonnes to the Sichemits Gen 34. 26. Some promise willingly but give vnwillingly as Herod Iohn Baptists head to Herodias Mar. 6. 16. Some promise but after deny it as Laban dealt with Iacob Gen. 29. 23. as is complained Cap. 31. 41. Thou hast changed my wages tenne times but the promises of God are to the faithfull in hope without hope above hope and against hope the father of the faithfull proved all this to be true Rom. 4. 18. Who against hope beleeved in hope that he might be the Father of many Nations the ground of whose Faith was the promise according to that which was spoken so shall thy seede bee Gen. 15. 5. This was accompted vnto Abraham for righteousnesse saith Ambrese because he beleeved and required no reason so the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Because he hath made his truth as strong as the brazen pillers of eternitie to encourage his servants wholly to relye vpon him expecting the performance of his promises he made them before the foundation of the World inact them in the great Parliament of Heaven before all time Ephe. 1. 5. they were and are firme stable great and precious to make us partakers of the divine nature 2. Pet. 1 4. performed in time when the time of promise came which God had sworne to Abraham given a word of prmoise Rom. 9. 7 in Isaac shall thy seede be blessed purposed salvation for us before the world began 2. Tim. 1. 9. Purchased inheritance of promise Heb. 6. 12. be not sloathfull but followers of them which through Faith and patience inherit the promises adopted as children of promise Gal. 4. 28. Now we brethren as Isaac are the children of promise drawne Covenants of promise Ephes 2. 12. The spirit of truth the Scrivener of them Ephes 1. 13. And sealed with the spirit of promise having set not onely his hand but the signet of his right hand the character ingraven image of his own person Amen The truth of the father 2. Cor 10. 10. All the promises of God are yea Amen in CHRIST which is the truth it selfe Reu. 3. 14. These things saith the Amen the true and faithfull witnesse the new convenant drawne Ier. 31. 31. And the counterpane thereof Heb. 8. 8. Are of more force and vertue then all the bills bonds and obligations be they never so curiously and cunningly framed in the winding M●ander of a Ploydons braine Heaven and Earth shall passe ereone jot or title of these can perish nay if there were neither booke record inke or paper in the world they are written more surely then with a pen of Iron ingraven more firmely then with the point of a Diamond by the spirit of Gods grace and adoption in the heart of every beleever and further we have not onely his bond