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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.
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Boys, John, 1571-1625.
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his courts attend vs and pitch their tents about vs a doctrine very profitable very comfortable yet for as much as I hold it lesse pertinent to the present occasion I thus ouerpasse it and hast to that other exposition interpreting these words as our Church readeth of Gods noble acts Now the workes of God are of two sorts ad intra ad extra some be confined within himselfe other extended towards vs works of the sacred Trinitie within it selfe as that the Father begets and the Sonne is begotten and the holy Ghost proceeds from both are wonderfull acts of such an high nature that it is our dutie rather simply to adore then subtilly to explore them all his acts extended toward vs are summarilie reduced vnto two namely the works of creation and redemption The worke of creation is attributed in the Masse of the matter to God the Father in the disposition of the forme to God the Sonne in the preseruation of both to God the holy Ghost So likewise that of redemption in election vnto God the Father in the consummation vnto God the Sonne in the application vnto the holy Ghost all which are very noble acts and God is to be praised in them according to his excellent greatnesse The worke of creation is so mightie that none could bring it to passe but the Father almightie that God should haue nothing but nothing whereof wherewith whereby to build this high huge goodly faire frame is a principle which nature cannot teach and Philosophie will not beleeue The worke of redemption is of farre greater might and mercy for the making of the world was if I may so speke onely lip-labour vnto God he spake the word and it was done be commanded and it stoodfast Psalm 33. 9. but Christ in redeeming the world said many words and did many wonders and suffered also many wounds It is true that the least ake of his least finger is infiniti meriti sed non definiti meriti that is of an infinite merit yet not that determined ransome for the sinnes of the whole world It cost him more to redeeme soules he dyed for our sinnes and rose againe for our iustification hee suffered for vs and that death and that a violent death and of all violent deaths the most accursed death on the Crosse. The worke of sanctification is a noble act also for euery man if you rightly consider his making is a wonder I am saith our Prophet fearfully and wonderfully made but a good man if you consider his new making is a wonderfull wonder as Paul speakes a spectacle to men and Angles as the vulgar Latine runnes in the 68. Psalme at the last verse mirabilis deus in sanctis O God wonderfull art thou in thy Saints But Dauid here meaneth especially the valiant acts of God in gouerning garding his people from their enemies O come hither and behold the workes of God how wonderfull hee is in his doing toward the Children of men he turned the sea into drye land so that his people went on foot thorough the middest of the sea the waters were a wall vnto them on the right hand and on their left but the waues of the Sea returned and couered the chariots and horsemen euen all the hoast of Pharaoh that pursued them Almighty God raigned hailstones out of heauen vpon the cursed Amorites at Bethoran and they were more saith the text that dyed with the haile then they whom the Children of Israell slew with the sword And when Duke Iosua prayed Sunne stay thou in Gibeon thou Moone in the valey of Aialon the Sunne abode and the Moone stood still vntill the people auenged themselues vpon their enemies When Zenacherib and his innumerous hoast came to fight against Hezekiah King of Iuda Gods Angell in one night flew an hundred eighty and fiue thousand Assyrians 2. Kings 19. And vndoubtedly beloued there is no nation vnder the cope of Heauen hath had greater occasion to praise God in this kind then England the preseruation of the most illustrious princesse the Lady Elizabeth vnder the fiery triall of her vnkind sister Queene Marie was a noble act and the seminary of much happinesse vnto this kingdome for many yeares after and so much the more noble because Philip King of Spaine hath often confessed that he spared her life when wildy Winchester and bloodie Bonner had brought her into the snare not out of any pietie or pittie but onely out of policie Her exaltation to the Crowne was another noble act so noble that some Popish Prelats in their enuie burst a sunder and dyed for very griefe of heart Well might that good Lady sing and say with the blessed Virgine He that is mightie hath magnified me and holy is his name he hath put downe the mightie from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meeke her flourishing in health wealth and godlinesse more then 44. yeares in despite of all her foes abroad at home schismaticall hereticall open intestine was another noble act for after once the Bull of Pope Pius Quintus had roared and his fat Calues had begunne to bellow in this Island there passed neuer a yeare neuer a moneth neuer a weeke I thinke I might say neuer a day neuer an houre but some mischiefe was intended either against her person or her people the resisting of the rebellion in the Northerne parts of England was a noble act the discouering and so consequently the defeating of Campians treason a noble act of Parris treason a noble act of the Lupus Lopus his treason a noble act of Squires treason a noble act Her glorious victories against her fell and insolent enemies the Spaniards in Ireland in Flanders in France in their owne dominions of Portugal Indies and Spaine were noble acts It was a wonder of wonders that a Mayden Queene should at one time be both a staffe to Flanders and a stay to France a terror to Pope a mirror to Turke feared abroad loued at home Mistresse of the Sea wonder of the world Shee might truely bee called a Prince of Peace for shee was Crowned in Peace shee liued in Peace she dyed in Peace she was buried in Peace and when shee had slept with her Fathers it was another noble act of the Lord to send vs in the midst of all our feare so learned so meeke so pious a Prince as King Iames in such exceeding sweet peace that neuer a sword was drawn happily neuer a word spoken against him All these were noble acts and ought to be had in a perpetuall remembrance But of all other noble preseruations Our deliuerance from that intended mercilesse and matchlesse Massacre both in fact and fiction the fifth of Nouember in the yeare 1605. is most noblie noble King Iames on this day might haue said with King Dauid O Lord which art my rocke and my fortresse thou hast giuen me the necks of mine enemies that I might