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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

to see their charmers because one of them laughed not to see another in their antique and apish Idolatries which are more fit to please babes than any way to satisfie the conscience of man all in the shadowe nothing in the substance If these then or any such have forestalled the market of our affections and have taken a lodging in our hearts let us deale with them as Iacob did with his false Gods or as Ephraim with his Idols cast them out And let the current of our affections run in the right streame and be fixed on the right obiect Praise ye the Lord. Whence and from what hath bin spoken and the naturall genuine sence of the words themselves let us erect for our supportance in this duty the doctrine following viz. It is a chiefe duty necessarily enioyned to all creatures and especially to man to become instruments of the glorious praise of their omnipotent Creator This was the gracious practise of old Zacharie Luke 1. 68. for receiving his gracefull sonne Iohn supposed to be the Messiah Ioh. 1. 21. a blessing from God no sooner given but a blessing from man returned Blessed be the Lord God of Israel c. rightly called in the language of Canaan a blessing ingratitude being the devils text wicked men the Glossers and Expositors both which must end in a cursed destruction Blessed Marie in her song cals it a magnifying Luke 1. 46. My soule doth magnifie the Lord. To magnifie is to make great Now God is the best the greatest and cannot in himselfe be made lesser or greater by us all that we can doe either in the magnifying or vilifying of him is in regard of others when we sweare falsely protest rashly blaspheame like an Atheist or Turke we do to our power lessen his greatnes when we unthankefully returne not his due praise for his mercies we vilipend debase as much as we can his gracious goodnes and when we magnifie him wee make him great wee proclaime him good To make this more plaine and to drive this dutie deeper into our soules it is in regard of vs the end of our election foreseene in the mercy and love of God before the foundation of the World as over-looking our estate in Adam as changeably good to that in Christ immutably glorious Ephes 1. 6 To the praise of his glorious Grace It is the end of our creation even enjoyned to insensible animals the visible and legible booke of our instruction and lessoning in this duty the sunne moone day night Psal 19. 1. and every thing that hath breath are summoned by Davids Trumpet to become the well uned Cymball of their Creators praise But Man the rare Epitome of all these hath an instrument of speech to tune it to a higher key Rev. 4. 11. Thou art worthy O Lord to receive honour and praise for thou hast created all things for thy wils sake and for thy pleasures sake were they created It is the end of our redemption Rev. 5. 9. Thou art worthy to take the booke and open the seales thereof for thou wast slaine and hast redeemed us to God by thy bloud And thus I must instance in the rest even to the lowest particular deliverance from the hellish and the highest to the least and lowest danger as Exod. 15. Iudg. 5. c. no sooner a deliverance but a song of thanks giving to the deliverer And it is the summe of what thy God for this requires of thee Psal 50. 15. Call upon me in the time of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt praise mee Reas 1. Because as all rivers come from the sea and returne thither againe returning as it were a thankefull tribute to their Lord Even so all things come from the Father of lights Iam. 1 17. which are for our good as from the fountaine of goodnesse and must or at least ought in thankefulnesse to returne to him againe All the gifts of fortune falsely so called as riches and possessions the gracefull endowments of the body as agility beauty strength all the goods of the minde as wit learning No silver in Benjamins sacke till Ioseph put it in and no good in man except God bestowe it Even that noble skill in physicke standing upon two legs Reason and Experience is an excellent meanes to preserve our health and yet for all this it is the great Doctor which hath Heaven for his chaire that keepeth us alive for so soone as he is angry wee are gone wee bring our yeares to an end as a tale that is told Psal 90. 9. If the keepers of our house doe not tremble and the grinders cease not and the golden ewer be not broken and our eyes the windowes of our bodies be not darke it is from the Father of lights Hence renowned Salomon and all the learned Clearkes have their wisedome and the same it was which tooke away that great knowledge from the learned Trapezuntius who was not onely infatuated in his learning but forgot his owne name Hence are all students counselled by Sarisburiensis in Policratico to knocke at heaven gate to God for their good speede that the key of knowledge may open a doore of utterance So there are diversities of gifts diversities of administrations and diversities of operations but all from the same Spirit from the same Lord who worketh all in all 1 Cor. 12. Among the Apostles Paul was good at planting Apollos at watering Among the Fathers some construed the Scriptures all egorically as Origen who excelled others either in effect or defect Augustine dogmatically Hierome more literally Gregory the great Morrally and Chrysostome pathetically And also among our moderne writers Erasmus was full of matter and words Luther had store of matter without many words Carolostadius neither c. as Luther himselfe wrote upon the wals of his Chamber So also among our ordinary Preachers some have good utterance but a bad conceite some an excellent utterance but a meane wit some both some neither As for the gifts appertaining to the will 2 Cor. 3. 5. All our sufficiencie is of God For faith which as some thinke belongeth both to the will and understanding it is also the gift of God 10. 6. 29. This is the gift of God that ye beleeve on him whom he hath sent God worketh in man the first desire to beleeve ipsumvelle credere saith Augustine The staying of the bloudy fluxe of thy corruption comes from some vertue in Christ Mar. 5. 30 The purging of thy lippes from lying swearing blaspheaming c. is by a coale from the Altar Esay 6. 6. The gift of Prayer powerfully solliciting the throne of mercy and filling heaven and earth with Abba father proceedes from none but the Spirit which makes intercession for us with groanes which cannot be expressed Rom. 8. 26. The tongue of the learned it is from the Lord Esay 50. 4. If thou hadst

how backward wee are in the performance thereof that must so often be called upon Now to gather all these into an handfull as a well composed Posie pleasant to the smell Consider that this which stands in the porch of this Psalme is not superfluous but notes the fervent ardency which is required in this Duty which must be performed not superficially orally but zealously heartily which must or ought to be the salt and season of all our Duties and Devotions Our prayers and our praises must not freeze betwixt our teeth but even with Eliah must be transported to Heaven in a fierie Chariot winged with the heate of our zeale and there is no Sacrifice so incomparably pleasing to Almighty God Next the thing enjoyned is to Praise which is nothing else as Aristotle sayth but to elucidare make manifest and knowne as it were a cunning Herald the greatnesse of vertue as to praise Alexander for his Liberality Iulius Caesar for his Patience c. To praise Mercy Power Iustice Wisedome what is it but to magnifie those eminent backe-parts and attributes of I●HOVA the mighty GOD in and by which hee hath revealed himselfe unto his Creatures Men and Angels Exod. 34. 6 And so this leades us to the true object of our Duty The Lord as hee is called God in respect of his goodnesse so is hee Lord in regard of his Majesticke greatnesse This title is given to a great man upon earth and more is Sycophantically given to the Pope to be called besides Lord a God which are but onely so in title How great then is hee which makes and unmakes these Lords at his pleasure There be many Gods and many Lords 1 Cor. 8. 5. but this is he which controls and commands them all Others by Authority of usurpation Psal 82. 1. But he is judge among the Gods able to do more by his absolute power than he will by his actuall able in potent not impotent workes He is called Omnipotent saith Augustine in doing what he pleaseth not in suffering what he pleaseth not Which makes him and none but him the true object of our praise and service not the World Flesh or Devill but the Lord not the Saints in heaven Iob. 5. 1. To which of the Saints wilt thou turne not to Baal-zebub the God of Ekron nor Belz●bub the Prince of Devils but with David Psal 73. 28. It is good for mee to drawe neare unto the Lord. Our prayers and praises confidence and hope doe here levell at him as the surest marke Make him the beginning and end the first and last of all thy labours and endeavours saith Gregory Nazianzen the very Heathen could both acknowledge and practise this So then this stands as one of the Priests upon a turret of the Temple or as a monitor to tell us what praise belongs not to our selves Prov. 27. 2. Let another man praise thee and not thine owne mouth a stranger and not thine owne lips This is Pharisee-like Luke 18. Because he had slow neighbours he becomes his owne trumpet and sounds an Alarum to his owne follie this is but a cold praise to blow the coales with thine owne breath This fault was sometimes in the Church of C●●inth 1 Cor. 4. 7. which the Apostle reproveth Who maketh thee to differ from another and what hast thou that thou hast not received gifts of mind as learning wisedome gifts of body strength agility beautie if thou hast received them why boastest thou as if thou hadst not received them Which is a Metaphor taken from swolne vessels which have in them nothing but ayre Or from some member in the body sweld with rotten putrifaction and corrupt humors Know then that every good and perfect gift comes downe from the Father of lights Iam. 1. 17. This is the ground-worke of all Christian modesty Hast thou Faith It is from thy calling hast thou Remission of sinnes and Iustification It is from Christ The gift of Prayer Prophecy Preaching or of the Tongues it is from the Spirit all which or whatsoever else thou hast doe offer thee occasions of humility and modesty more than of pride or haughtines because thou hast received them Yet consider this that a man may speake in his owne praise in the case of necessity when a mans person or cause is calumniated or whereby the glory of God may be advanced to the credit of his calling and the profit of the Church as Paul the most modest of the Apostles as appeareth 1 Cor. 15. 9 I am the least of the Apostles which am not worthy to be called an Apostle because I persecuted the Church of God ashamed and yet not ashamed to confesse 1 Tim. 1. 15. A blasphemer a persecuter and iniurious the chiefe of all sinners Yet when the credit of his calling came into question and the wonderous worke of God in him seemed to bee disparaged by false Apostles he was then a chiefe Apostle one that spake more languages than they all had more revelations and was more extraordinarily called and if any one may boast this holy elect vessell of salvation the learned Doctor of the Gentiles may boast and will praise himselfe and so may you Neyther must wee hunt after others to praise us where there is good Wine there needs no Ivie-bush and where there is true worth there needs no flatterer It is but a poore reputation that is pinned upon another mans Tongue and hangs upon the sound of his clapper This man must bee left as a prey for his Parmeno and carry with him the badge of Pride as Augustine sayth Hee that desires to bee praised needes no other witnesse of his ambitious heart and the apparent danger of a swelling Impostume Neyther must wee settle our admiration and praise upon any particular Person or Sect to pinne our salvation onely upon them as if they were the onely Oracles of GOD to account of them as the people voyced of Herod Act. 12. 22. The voyce of God and not of Man And thus to despise others as not sufficiently guifted for their calling and embassage what is this but to have mens persons in admiration The Apostle accounts such to be but Carnall 1. Corinth 3. 3. For yee are yet Carnall there being among you envying strife and divisions are yee not carnall and walke as men While one sayth I am of Paul and another I am of Apollos are yee not carnall For what is Paul or Apollos but the Ministers by whom yee beleeve Nihil aliud molitur Apostolus nisi quòd personarum ratio non habeatur in Ecclesia In this the Apostle aymes at nothing else but that there should be no Prosopolepsie or acception of persons in the Church Hee reproves their judgement in this because they gave to their Ministers more than was requisite and expedient as if the Spirit of God were too

2. Which may have the ordinary giftes of the Spirit they may prophecy with Saul and Cajaphas preach and doe miracles with Iudas speake like the Oracle of God with Achi tophel cry Lord Lord Math. 7. 22 challenge an interest in the free demesnes of heaven Math. 25. 11. Open to us and yet are sent packing to their hell home with a nescio vos I know ye not If ye aske the reason and cause of it Our Saviour CHRIST orally and oraculously returnes it Math. 11. 25. This mystery of Salvation is hid from some and revealed to others even So Father for so it seemed good in thy sight as in a Princes Proclamation It is our pleasure All the workes of these men failing in their end not done in faith to the glory of God and if God rewarded them it was temporally for temporall respects the good of mankind civill order and society not shewing any approbation thereof in respect of himselfe their mercy justice continency c. being without faith was sinne as Augustin● saith which indeed ariseth not from the act of compassion but from the privation of faith they may have these and many more honest civill moralities but they never have the inward calling the donation of faith the true knowledge of God I know my sheepe and am knowne of mine Iohn 10. 14. which knowledge is like the Sunne casting his beames upon us by whose reflection we looke upon and viewe the Sunne Gal. 4. 9. Seeing ye know God or rather are knowne of God If they have any it is a literall no saving or spirituall knowledge no true love of God for he never knew or loved them 1 Iohn 4. 19. We love God because he loved us first If these carnall Capernaites follow CHRIST doing his will in any thing it is more for his loaves than his love Ioh. 6. 26. all proceeding from some s●nister respect their praise or profit they never have the inward beautifying of the Church To be all glorious within Psal 45. 13. the rich habiliments and garments wherewith as Isaac decked his beloved Rebecca and the King of Persia religious Mordecai CHRIST I●SVS bespangleth his spouse These be the foolish Virgins which a long time had their lives blossoming as if their soules had bin the maidenly bride of CHRIST when in the end they were unvailed and found the speckled adulteresses and uncleane concubines of Satan Math. 25. This is the man boldly intruding himselfe into the marriage supper not having on a wedding garment his faith but figge leaves notable to cover his nakednes Math. 22. These walke like friends in the Church of God together But many are called and fewe are chosen In the third ranke are they which out of the brazen mountaines of Gods election flowing out of the rivers of his endlesse mercy which are not onely within the skirts and territories of his regiment as the former but they are inwardly sanctified called and culled out of the whole heape and masse of Mankind by a lively Faith engraffed and planted into the mysticall body and have as neare an union and communion with their head CHRIST as the branch hath with the vine the members with the head or the husband with the wife Ephes 5. 30. We are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones these are built upon the sure foundation the rocke of safety and horne of salvation Luke 1 69. He is the corner stone upon which their whole building is coupled Eph. 2. 20 No other foundation can any man lay than that which is already laid which is IESVS CHRIST 1 Cor. 3. 11. and These are living stones built upon him 1 Per 2. 5. Othoniel delivered the Israelites from Chushan and is therefore called their Saviour Iudg. 3. 9. but they fell againe into the hand of Moab Ehud rescued them from the Moabites and they became servants to the Canaanites Iudg. 4. 2. A Physitian may cure a man of one disease and he may after fall into another or the same and dye of it But CHRIST hath them sure Iohn 10. 28. I give my sheepe eternall life and they shall never perish hee hath washed away the●r sinnes and made a passage to heaven a perfect and sure rocke of safety upon which these are placed Antiquam generis labem mortalibus agris Abluit obstructique viam patefecit Olympi Poore mortals sicke he washed hath from auncient staine Originall And opened wide Olympus path that barred was and shut to all So that here the gates of Hell and Luciferiall powers of darknesse may shoote their darts of poysoned malice as against CHRIST the head Math. 4. so against these the members to be retorted upon themselves as from a tower of brasse for ●hee that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleepe and though the two first parts be cut off and dye the third will the Lord fine as Silver and Gold Zach. 13. 9. And from this consideration ariseth a Cordiall a Caveat and a dolefull Madrigall First it affords a comfortable cordiall to the Christian that he is one of those secret ones inwardly called separated from the world and endued with power from above This is the summum bonum and chiefe dignitie and blessednesse of all other So that it may be said of him as a certaine heathen of a wise man of a wise man He is onely lesse then God And as another spake of the vertuous He that hath vertue hath with her as a dowrie all good things As the Lord of hoastes and of the whole earth and all that therein is Psal 24. 1. accounteth it his greatest dignity and title of honour to be stiled The Lord God of Israel of his Church Luk. 1. 67. as thence receiving his greatest honour So is it the chiefest honour of a man to be an Israelite a limme and member of that Society of the Communion of Saints It is indeed the worlds felicity to build pillars with Absalom towers with Nimrod to call our lands after our owne names to engrosse rich revenewes Parsonages and patrimonies for our posterity to build our nests on high and to covet an evill covetousnes to our houses while The stones cry out of the wall and the beame out of the timber answere it Hab. 2. 9. worse than the King of Sodome Gen. 14. 21. Give me the soules and take the goods to thy selfe But we say to the spirituall king of Sodome the divell give us the goods and take our soules to thy selfe This is our hope and our posterity praise our doing selling our Saviour for thirty pence our heaven for a messe of pottage and our soules laied in the banke for a quid dabitis What will ye give me Ps 4. 6. Who will shew us any good O miserable mucke-worme that sellest thy soule and thy solace thy heaven and thy happinesse for these faile-friends which in the time of neede cannot so much as cure the aking of