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 nostrâ—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
AN EXPOSITION OF THE LAST PSALME DELIVERED IN A SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLS Crosse the fifth of Nouember 1613. By IOHN BOYS Doctor of Diuinitie Augustine de lib. Arbit lib. 3. cap. 15. Qui Deo non reddit faciendo quod debet reddet patiendo quod debet AT LONDON Imprinted by FELIX KYNGSTON for VVilliam Aspley 1613. AN EXPOSITION of the last Psalme PSALME 150. O praise God in his holinesse c. ALL the Psalmes of Dauid are comprised in two words Halleluiah and Hosanna that is blessed be God and God blesse as being for the greater part either praiers vnto God for receiuing mercies or else praises vnto God for escaping miseries This our present Hymne placed as a Conclusion of the whole booke yea the beginning middle end to which all the rest as Musculus obserueth are to be referred inuiteth vs in prescript and postscript in title in text in euery verse and in euery Clause of euery verse to praise the Lord. Teaching these two poynts especially 1. For what 2. With what God is to be magnified For what vers 1 2. O praise God in his holinesse praise him in the firmament of his power praise him in his noble acts praise him according to his excellent greatnes With what euen with all that is Without vs vers 3 4 5. Praise him in the sound of the trumpet c. Within vs vers 6. Omnis spiritus c. Let euery spirit praise the Lord praise ye the Lord. This in briefe is the whole texts Epitomie I come now to the words Anatomie cutting vp euery part and particle seuerally beginning first at the first O praise God in his holinesse Of which one sentence the Doctors haue many though not aduerse yet diuerse readings especially three Praise God in his saints praise God in his sanctitie praise God in his sanctuarie S. Hierome Augustine Prosper and other as well ancient interpreters as moderne translate here praise God in his saints For if he must be praised in all his creatures how much more in his new creatures if in the witlesse wormes and senselesse vapours Psal. 148. much more doubtlesse as Theodorit here collects in men in holie men in saints vpon whom hee hath out of his vnsearchable riches of mercie bestowed the blessings of the life present and of that which is to come First almightie God is to bee blessed for giuing his saints such eminent gifts of grace for the good of his Church and for the setting foorth of his glorie So Chrysostome Basil Euthymius Prosper Placidus Parmensis expound it Euery good and perfit gift is from aboue descending from the father of lights a good thought in a saint is gratia infusa a good word in a saint is gratia effusa a good deed in a saint is gratia diffusa through his grace which is the God of all grace saints are whatsoeuer they are Wherefore praise the Lord in his saints often remember their vertues as their true reliques and as it were bequeathed legacies vnto Gods people So the wise man Ecclesiasticus 44. Let vs now commend the famous men in old time by whom the Lord hath gotten great glorie let the people speake of their wisdome and the congregation of their praise So the Confession of Bohemia chap. 17. Wee teach that the saints are worshipped truly when the people on certaine daies at a time appointed doe come together to the seruice of God and doe call to minde and meditate vpon his benefits bestowed vpon holie men and through them vpon his Church c. And for as much as it is kindly to consider opus diei in die suo the worke of the day in the same day it was wrought it is well ordered by the Church of England that the most illustrious and remarkable qualities of the saints are celebrated vpon their proper festiuals that on S. Stephens day we may learne by S. Stephens example to loue our enemies on S. Matthewes day to forsake the world and to follow Christ on S. Iohn the Baptist his day to speake the truth constantly and to suffer for the same patiently Thus in stedfastnes of faith and godlinesse of life non legere modò sed degere sanctorum vitas as one wittily to bee followers of them as they were followers of Christ is as blessed Latymer was wont to say the right worshipping of Saints and of God in his Saints Againe for as much as there is a communion of Saints as we cōfesse in the Creed a knot of fellowship betweene the dead Saints and the liuing it is our dutie to praise God for their good in particular as they pray to God for our good in generall It is required on our part I say to giue God most humble thanks for translating thē out of this valley of teares into Hierusalem aboue where they be clothed with long white robes hauing palmes in their hands and crownes of gold on their heads euer liuing in that happie kingdome without either dying or crying Apocal. 21. 4. and this also in the iudgement of Augustine Hierome Hugo Raynerius and other is to praise God in his Saints These reasons are the grounds of certaine holy daies established in England by law namely to blesse God for his Saints eminent grace while they were liuing and exceeding glorie now they be dead Wherein our Church ascribes not any diuine worship to the Saints but all due praise to the sanctifier in celebrating their memorie saith Augustine we neither adore their honour nor implore their helpe but according to the tenour of our text wee praise him alone who made them both men and martyrs In the words of Hierome to Riparius Honoramus reliquias martyrum vt eum cuius sunt martyres adoremus honoramus seruos vt honor seruorum redundet ad dominum If thou desire to doe right vnto the Saints esteeme them as paternes and not as patrones of thy life honour them only so farre that thou maist alway praise God in them and praise them in God The gunpowder men erre very much in this one kinde of honouring God for either they worship his Saints as himselfe or else their owne saintlings and not his Saints In praying to the dead in mingling the blood of their martyrs with the precious blood of their Maker in applying their merits and relying vpon their mercies it is plaine that they make the Saints as Melancthon tels them in his Apologie for the Confession of Auspurge quartermasters with God and halfe mediatours with Christ I say ioynt mediatours not of incercession only but of redemption also Nay they make the blessed Virgin vpon the poynt their only mediatrix and aduocate so they sing and so they say They sing in their publique seruice Maria mater gratiae mater misericordiae c. the which is Gods owne stile 1. Pet. 1. 10. 2. Cor. 1. 3. so
they likewise say Maria consolatio infirmorum redemptio captiuorum liberatio damnatorum salus vniuersorum Giselbertus in lib. altercationis Synagogae et ecclesiae cap. 20. Maria quasi maria saith Augustinus de Leonissa sermon 5 vpon Aue maria for as all riuers come from the seas and returne to the seas againe Ecclesiastes 1. 7 so forsooth if you will vndertake to beleeue him all grace is deriued from Mary and ought to be returned again to Mary We finde so much in Rosario Mariae reparatrix saluatrix desperantis animae c. That which is worse their owne Pope who cannot as they teach erre in a poynt of doctrine as Pope calleth her expresly Deam Pet. Bembus in his epistles written in Pope Leo 10. name lib. 8. epist. 17. printed at Strasburg an 1609. that which is worst of all in their most approued Bible they translate Gen. 3. 15. ipsa conteret caput tuum she shall breake thine head although as their owne Iesuit Ribera confesseth honestly the Hebrew text the Chaldee paraphrase the translation of the Septuagint and all good Latin copies reade ipse conteret he shall bruise the serpents head applying it to Christ according to that of Paul The God of peace shall tread downe Satan vnder your feete Rom. 16. 20. by this euidence you may see that the gunpowder crue praise not God in the saints nor the saints in God but on the contrarie the saints as God Againe these S. Peter men and as I haue warrant to terme them on this day Salt Peter men erre from the true meaning of our text because they doe not praise God in sanctis eius in his saints but dishonour God in sanctis eorum in saints of their owne making vsually praying vnto some who were no men and to many who were not holy men It is doubted by the two great lights in their glorious firmament Bellarmine and Baronius whether there were euer any such man as S. George or such a woman as S. Catharine Cardinall Bellarmine lib. de beatitudine sanct cap. vlt. § respondeo sanctorum doth acknowledge that they worship certaine saints whose stories are vncertaine reputing the legend of S. George apocryphall according to the censure of Pope Gelasius and Cardinall Baronius ecclesiast annal Tom. 2. ad an 290. according to the impression at Rome fol. 650. as also de Martyrologio Romano cap. 2. confesseth as much of Quiriacus and Iulitta declaring plainely that their acts are written either by fooles or heretikes and in his annotations vpon the Romane Martyrologie 23. Aprill he taketh vp Iacobus de Voragine for his leaden Legend of our English S. George concluding in fine that the picture of Saint George fighting with a Dragon is symbolicall and not historicall If the Scripture be true whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne then assuredly these men as Paul speaks are damned of their owne selues in their owne conscience who notwithstanding all their doubts pray still in their publike seruice Deus qui nos beati Georgij martyris tui meritis intercessione laetificas Concede propitius c. An Idoll as Paul affirmes 1. Cor. 8. 4. is nothing Ergo the Papists in worshipping S. George which is nothing commit euen themselues being Iudges abominable Idolatrie As they worship some who were no men so many who were not holy men as a reuerend Doctor of our Church accutely Non matyris domini sed mancipes diaboli the Souldiour who peirced Christs holy side was a Pagan neither doth any storie which is authenticall speake of his conuersion and yet they worship him vnder the name of S. Longinus or Longesse March 15. Papias as Eusebius and Hierome report held the heresie of the Millenarians and yet he is honoured as a saint in the Romane Calender vpon the 22. of Februarie Becket was a bad subiect in his life and no good Christian at his death in that hee commended himselfe and the cause of his Church vnto S. Denys and our Lady Yet S. Thomas of Canterburie was honoured at Canterburie in the daies of popish ignorance more then either the worlds Sauiour or the blessed Virgine his mother in which relation I appeale to the records of that Church as also to the very stones vnder his shrine worne with the knees and hands of such as came thither to worship him Boccace reporteth how one Sir Chappelet a notorious Italian Vsurer and Cousoner came to be honoured as a Saint in France Sanders among them is a saint albeit he liued in plotting and dyed in acting rebellion against his gracious Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth of famous and blessed memorie Nay Dauus is Diuus Saul is among the Prophets pater personatus father Parsons all the daies of his life was a perpetual Martyr as his fellow Ribadeneira termeth him and yet one who sometime was his inner man and knew him as I presume better then euer did Ribadeneira transposing the letters of Robertus Pársonius Iesuita found this anagramme Personatus versuti oris abi the wit-foundred drunkard Henry Garnet who did not according to the Counsell of Paul vse vino modico but as Paulinus pretily modio that lecherous treacherous Arch-priest Arch-traitor Arch-diuell in concealing if not in contriuing in patronizing if not in plotting the powder intended massacre is returned a Saint from beyond the seas with à sancte Henrice intercede pro nobis his action is iustified his life commended his death honoured his miracles and memorie celebrated by that Ignatian spirit portentum nominis portentum hominis hauing a great deale of name though a very little modestie Andreas Eudaemon Ioannes Cydonius but notwithstanding his apologie the saintship of Henry Garnet is so buffeted by the replies and antilogies of our accuratlie learned diuines as that his straw face will hereafter hardly be worth a straw Catesbie Winter Rookwood and the rest of the Cole-saints and hole-saints who laboured in the diuels mine by the Popes mint are numbred among the holy ones also Babilon and Egypt praise God in them and for them I haue heard much of roaring gentlemen in London and Canterburie but if the Lord himselfe had not watched ouer his Church if the Lord himselfe had not written England in the palmes of his hands if the Lord himselfe had not kept King Iames as the apple of his eye if the Lord himselfe had not been on our side now may Gods Israell in England say if the Lord himselfe had not been on our side when they rose vp against vs if the Lord himselfe had not out of his vnspeakeable goodnesse toward vs and our posteritie broken their snares and deliuered our soules out of that horrible gunpowder pit these bellowing Buls of Basan and Canon-mouthed hell-hounds would haue made on this day such a roare that all Christendome should haue felt it and the whole world haue feared it O
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
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