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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

destroy them that hate me that I might breake them as small as the dust of the earth and tread them flat as the clay of the streete O giue thankes vnto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer Let Israel now confesse that he is gracious and that his mercy endureth for euer Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for euer Yea let all such as feare the Lord now confesse that his mercy endureth for euer All the Congregations of the Saints in the whole world haue good cause to thanke God our strength and deliuerer Scotland hath good cause for if England had been but a Tuesday breakefast assuredly Scotland should haue been but a Fridaies drinking one morsell as it were for the greedy deuourer The Churches in France relieued often by vs haue good cause to reioyce with vs. Our neighbours of Holland haue good cause to triumphe as they doe for if our house had been set on fire their house being the next would haue been quickly pulled downe The Churches in Germanie Denmarke Hungarie Geneua likewise haue good cause to praise God in this noble act according to his excellent greatnesse More principally the Common-weale of England and in it all men of all factions and all fashions whatsoeuer Atheists if they thinke there be a God haue good cause to thanke God acknowledging his mercie toward them in sparing vs and so sauing the bad for the righteous sake Carnall Gospellers haue good cause to thanke God confessing that so long as Let is in Sodome it cannot be destroyed and so long as Moses standeth in the gap and prayeth for his people Gods wrathfull indignation cannot deuoure vs. Yea let the Gunpowder men themselues if they haue any sparke of grace confesse that God is to bee praised in this noble act for suppose God be thanked we may suppose and dispose thus of these matters vnto our comfort I say suppose their diuelish plot had been acted I assure my selfe our cause had been farre better and our number farre greater then theirs and as for our sinnes which are indeede our greatest enemies they would haue brought into the field so many as we so that hauing so much armour of light and more armour of proofe then they Causa iubet melior superos sperare secundos But suppose the least and the worst part had ouercome the bigger and the better yet if they bee not hewen out of hard rockes if these Romanists haue not sucked the milke of wolues as it is reported of the first founder of Rome they would haue relented to see their natiue Country made nothing els but a very shambles of Italian and lgnatian butchers When Alexander saw the dead corps of Darius and Iulius Caesar the head of Pompey and Marcus Marcellus Syracuse burn and Scipio Numantia spoild and Titus Hierusalem made euen with the ground they could not abstaine from weeping albeit they were mortall enemies But aboue all other in this kingdome the truely zealous and zealously true hearted protestants haue greatest occasion of reioycing for if the Lord had not according to his excellent greatnes and according to his excellent goodnes too deliuered vs out of this gun-powder gulfe our bodies happily might haue beene made food for the foules or else sewel for the fire and that which would haue grieued our posterity more superstition and Idolatry might in short time haue beene replanted in this land I meane that vpstart Antichristian religion of Rome wherein many things especially foure as iudicious Fox well obserued are most abominable 1. Vnlimited iurisdiction derogatorie to all Kings and Emperours 2. Insolent titles preiudiciall to all Bishops and Prelates 3. Corrupt doctrine iniurious to all Christians 4. Filthie life detestable to all men The greater was our danger the greater was our deliuerance the greater our deliuerance the greater our thankes should be for as it followeth in my text God is to be praised according to his excellent greatnes It is true that our most and best praises are few for the number and little for the measure whereas God is infinite for his goodnes and in his greatnes incomprehensible so that the meaning of Dauid is that wee should praise him according to our capacity and not according to his immensity according to the grace bestowed vpon vs and not according to the glory which is in him Ecclesiasticus 43. 30. praise the Lord and magnifie him as much as ye can yet doth he farre exceed Exalt him with all your power and be not weary yet can ye not attaine vnto it Now where the Lord giueth a greater meane there he requireth a greater measure where he bestoweth a greater portion of giftes he doth expect a greater proportion of glory wherefore seeing the Lord hath out of his abundant mercy conferred vpon this kingdome inestimable blessings in the preaching of his word for the space of more then fifty yeares it is questionles hee lookes for no little thankes or small praise but for great thankes and great praise according to his excellent greatnes manifested in this our deliuerance I come therefore to the second part of this Psalme shewing with what God is to be praised in the sound of the trumpet c. God is to be praised saith Augustine totis votis de totis vobis with all your soules with al your selues That therefore we may manifest our inward affections by such outward actions as are commendable where there bee trumpets let them sound where there be lutes and harpes let thē strike vp where there be loud Cymbals and well tuned Cymbals let them ring let thē sing the praises of God for this our most happy deliuerance let trumpet and tongue viol and voice lute life witnes our harty reioycing in the Lord If our true zeale were more fiery within it would doubtlesse breake forth into moe publike workes then it doth against that bloody brood of the gun-powder crue There haue beene many collections in euery dioces for the reedifying of the Churches of Saint Albanes and Arthuret the which I assure my selfe were good workes there haue bin in this latter age many gorgeous I might say glorious buildings erected about and in this honorable City to the great ornament of our Country the which I thinke you may number among your good workes there haue bin lotteryes to further Virginean enterprises and these for any thing I know were good workes also there haue bin many new play-houses and one faire Burse lately built Paris garden in a flourishing estate makes a great noyse still and as I heare Charing Crosse shall haue a new coat too but in the meane time while so many monuments are raised either to the honour of the dead or else for the profit and pleasure of the liuing dic mihi musa virum I pray muse and shew me the man who ioynes with that euer zealous reuerend learned Deane in founding

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