[Transcriber's Note: A few details of transcription are given at the end of this file, along with a list of errata.] * * * * * AN E X P O S I T I O N OF THE LAST PSALME. DELIVERED IN A SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLES Crosse the fifth of Nouember 1613. _Which I haue ioyned to the Festiuals_ as a short Apologie for our _Holy daies in the Church_ _of England_. DEDICATED VNTO MY HONORABLE friend and most respected kinsman Sir _William_ _Monins Baronet_. _By IOHN BOYS, Doctor_ of Diuinitie. _AT LONDON_ Imprinted by FELIX KYNGSTON, for _William Aspley. 1615._ * * * * * GVNPOWDER TREASON DAY. Psalme 150. _O praise God in his holinesse, &c._ All the Psalmes of _Dauid_ are comprised in two words, [a]_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 [b]Conclusion of the whole booke; yea, the beginning, middle, end, to which all the rest (as [c]_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 points especially: 1. For what } God is to be magnified. 2. With what } 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 greatnesse._ 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 yee the Lord._ [Sidenote a: _Gueuara._] [Sidenote b: _Lyra in loc._] [Sidenote c: _In loc._] This in briefe is the whole texts _Epitomie_, I come now to the words _Anotomie_, 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 [d]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 [e]vnsearchable riches of mercie, bestowed the blessings of the [f]life present; and of that which is to come. [Sidenote d: _Chrysost. Basil. Euthym. Arabs apud Muscul. Lyra. Hugo Card. Turrecremat. Anonymus._] [Sidenote e: _Ephes. 3. 8.16._] [Sidenote f: _1. Tim. 4. 8._] First, almightie God is to be 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. [g]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 [h]all grace, saints are [i]whatsoeuer they are. Wherefore praise the Lord in his Saints, often remember their vertues as their true _reliques_, and as it were bequeathed [k]_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. [l]_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[m] 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 [n]one wittily) to bee followers of them as they were followers of Christ; is (as [o]blessed _Latymer_ was wont to say) the right worshipping of Saints, and of God in his Saints. [Sidenote g: _Iames 1. 17._] [Sidenote h: _1. Pet. 5. 10._] [Sidenote i: _1. Cor. 15. 10._] [Sidenote k: _Euseb. Emisen. hom. de S. Maximo._] [Sidenote l: _See Harmon. confess. sect. 16. pag. 486._] [Sidenote m: _Maior præsat. in Psal. 22._] [Sidenote n: _Owin epigram. lib. 3._] [Sidenote o: _Ser. on Christmas day preached at Bexterly, & ser. on S. Stephens day at Grimstorpe._] Againe, for as much as there is a _communion of Saints_, as we cõfesse 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[p] pray to God for our good in generall. It is required on our part I say, to giue God most humble thanks for translating th{~e} out of this [q]valley of teares into Hierusalem aboue, where they be [r]clothed with long white robes, hauing palmes in their hands, and [s]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 iudgment of _Augustine_, _Hierome_, _Hugo_, _Raynerius,_ and other) is to _praise God in his Saints_. [Sidenote p: _Apocal._ 6. 10.] [Sidenote q: _Psal._ 84. 6.] [Sidenote r: _Apocal._ 7. 9.] [Sidenote s: _Apocal._ 4. 4.] 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, [t]who made them both men and martyrs. In the words of [u]_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, [x]that thou maist alway praise God in them, and praise them in God. [Sidenote t: _De ciuit. lib._ 8. _cap._ 27.] [Sidenote u: _Tom._ 2 _fol._ 118] [Sidenote x: _Philip Mornæus de missa, lib. 3 cap. 11. See Melanct. resp. ad art. Bauar. art. 25._] 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 [y]Apologie for the Confession of _Auspurge_) quartermasters with God, and halfe mediatours with Christ, I say ioynt mediatours not of incercession only but of [z]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, [aa]_Maria mater gratiæ, mater misericordiæ_, &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._ [ab]_Giselbertus in lib. altercationis Synagogæ et ecclesiæ, 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: [ac]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 [ad]Rosario Mariæ, reparatrix & saluatrix desperantis animæ_, &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 [ae]_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. [Sidenote y: _Tit. de sanct. inuocat._] [Sidenote z: _See D. Fulke in 1. Tim 2. 5._] [Sidenote aa: _Bellar. de sanct. beat. cap. 17._] [Sidenote ab: _Apud Magdeburg. Cent. 10. Coll. 275._] [Sidenote ac: _See Gospell Annunciat._] [Sidenote ad: _Chemnit. exam. Con. Trident. part. 3. pag. 151._] [Sidenote ae: _In Habacuc. cap. 1. num. 32._] 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 [af]_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 [ag]_whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne_: then assuredly these men (as [ah]_Paul_ speaks) _are damned of their owne selues_ in their owne conscience, who (notwithstanding all their doubts) pray still in their publike seruice, [ai]_Deus, qui nos beati Georgij martyris tui meritis & intercessione lætificas, 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. [Sidenote af: _Can. sanct. Roman. dist. 15._] [Sidenote ag: _Rom. 14. 23._] [Sidenote ah: _Tit. 3. 11._] [Sidenote ai: _Missal. Roman. ex Con. Triden. decret. restit. in festo Georgij._] As they worship some who were no men, so many who were not [ak]holy men, as a reuerend [al]Doctor of our Church accutely, _Non martyres domini sed mancipes diaboli_: the Souldiour who peirced Christs holy side was a Pagan,[am] 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 [an]_Eusebius_ and [ao]_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. [ap]_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 [aq]_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 Parsonius Iesuita_, found this _anagramme_, _Personatus versuti oris abi_: the wit-foundred drunkard, _Henry Garnet_ (who did not according to the Counsell of [ar]_Paul_ vse _vino modico_: but as [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 [at]_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, ([au]_portentum nominis portentum hominis_, hauing a great deale of name, though a very little modestie) _Andreas Eudæmon 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 [ax]palmes of his hands, if the Lord himselfe had not kept King _Iames_ as the [ay]apple of his eye, [az]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. [ba]_O Lord God of all power, blessed be thy name, which hast this day brought to nought the enemies of thy people,[bb] so let all thine enemies perish._ _O Lord, that our[bc] mouthes may be filled with laughter and our tongue with ioy._ _Sint diui modo non viui_, let England hang such, although afterward Rome hallow such, he that hath an eye to see without the spectacles of a Iesuit, will affoord as good credit to the register at _Tiburne_ as to the Calender of _Tyber_: for if these be Martyrs, I wonder who are Murtherers? If these be Saints, I pray you who are Scythians? If these bee Catholikes, who are Canibals? [Sidenote ak: _Dr. Sutclif examin. of Rom. cap. 7._] [Sidenote al: _Dr. Abbot Antilog. pag. 3._] [Sidenote am: _Sutclif. vbi sup._] [Sidenote an: _Hist. lib. 3. cap. vlt._] [Sidenote ao: _Catalog. scrip. in vita pap._] [Sidenote ap: _Houenden annal. part. poster. pag. 298._] [Sidenote aq: _Catalog. scrip. Iesuit. in vita Parsonij._] [Sidenote ar: _1. Tim. 5. 23._] [Sidenote as: _Epist. lib. 3. epist. 6._] [Sidenote at: _Sheldon preface before his motiues._] [Sidenote au: _Eliens. epist. lector. ante resp. ad Bellar. apol._] [Sidenote ax: _Esay 49. 16._] [Sidenote ay: _Deut. 32. 10._] [Sidenote az: _Psal. 124._] [Sidenote ba: _Judith. 13. 4._] [Sidenote bb: _Iudges 5. 31._] [Sidenote bc: _Psalm. 126. 2._] I passe to the second exposition of these wordes, _O praise God in his sanctitie_, so _Munster_, _Pagninus_, _Beza_, _Tremelius_ and our old translation heere, _Praise God in his holinesse_: now God is holy _formaliter & effectiuè_, holy in himselfe, and making other holy; the Lord is glorious in holinesse Exod. 15. 11. Wheras other Gods are famous for their vnholinesse, _Venus_ was a wanton, _Mercurius_ a theefe, _Iupiter_ a monsterous adulterer, an ingenious man (as[bd] _Basile_ writes) would blush to report that of beastes, which the Gentiles haue recorded of their Gods. If such imputations are true saith [be]_Augustine_, _quàm mali_ how wicked are these Gods: if false _quàm malè_ how wretched and foolish are these men, adoring the same things in the temple, which they scoffe at in the theater, _in turpitudine[bf] nimium liberi, in superstitione nimium serui_: so that their Gods are not as our God, euen our enemies being Iudges Deut. 32. 31. there is none holy as the Lord 1. Sam. 2. 2. called[bg] often in holy Scripture _the holy one_, yea thrice holy; _holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts_ Esay. 6. 3. his [bh]name is holy, his [bi]law is holy, his [bk]spirit is holy, his will holy, his word holy, _righteous in all his waies, and holy in all his workes_ Psalm. 145. 17. making vs also which are his seruants an _holy people_ Deut. 7. 6. an _holy priest-hood_ 1. Pet. 2. 5. _his holy temples_ 1. Cor. 6. 19. our bodies, our soules, our selues, our whole [bl]seruice holy, wherefore _praise God in his holinesse_. [Sidenote bd: _Lib. de legend. libris gentilium._] [Sidenote be: _De Ciuit. Dei lib. 6. cap. 6._] [Sidenote bf: _August. contra faust. man. li. 12. cap. 40._] [Sidenote bg: _Esay 1. 4. & 10. 20._] [Sidenote bh: _Luk. 1. 49._] [Sidenote bi: _Psal. 19. 7._] [Sidenote bk: _Mark. 12. 36._] [Sidenote bl: _1. Pet. 3. 2._] [bm]_Luther_, _Caluin_, _Vatablus_, your _English-Geneua_ bibles, & our new translation haue praise God in his _sanctuarie_, the which in holy scripture signifieth either heuen, or the temple, heauen is often called in sacred writ _Gods sanctuarie_, for [bn]thus saith he that is high and excellent, he that inhabiteth eternitie, whose name is the holy one, _I dwell in the high and holy place_. Christ in comming to vs is said to _breake the heauens_ Esay 64. 1. and when he went from vs vnto his father _a cloud tooke him vp into heauen_ Acts 1. and _frõ heauen_ he shal come againe to iudge the quicke and the dead 1. Thes. 4. 16. That _his sanctuarie_ may be taken heere for heauen, is gathered out of the very next clause (_praise him in the firmament of his power_) the which (as [bo]_Caluin_ & [bp]other expositors haue well obserued,) is exegeticall, and expoundes the former, as if Dauid should haue said, praise the Lord in his sanctuary, that is _in the firmament of his power_, for the heauens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy worke Psalm. 19. 1. let all people praise God our father in heauen, especially such as dwell with him [bq]in heauen, O praise the Lord all ye blessed Angels and Saints inhabiting his sanctuarie which is highest and holiest. [Sidenote bm: _Idem Genebrard et alij._] [Sidenote bn: _Esay 57. 15._] [Sidenote bo: _In loc._] [Sidenote bp: _Bellarmine in loc._] [Sidenote bq: _Genebrard Agellius Acernensis epist. in loc._] [br]Other apply the word _sanctuary_ to the Temple, so termed for two respects especially. 1. because God manifesteth _his holines_ toward vs in that holy place more principally, calling it expresly [bs]_his house_. 2. a _sanctuarie_ in regard of our _holy seruice_ toward God, for albeit euery day be to the good man a sabbath, and euery place a temple; yet the God of Order hath appointed certaine times, and certaine places also, wherein hee will bee worshipped publiquely, saying Leuiticus 19. 30. _Ye shall obserue my sabbaths, and reuerence my sanctuary_. For our holines toward God concerneth vs [bt]one way in that we are men, and another way in that we are ioyned as parts to that visible mystical body which is his Church as men, wee are at our owne choyce both for time, and place, and forme, according to the exigence of our owne occasions in priuate, but the seruice which is to bee done of vs as the members of a publique body, must of necessity bee publique, and so consequently to bee performed on holy daies in holy places, and for this doctrine the scriptures afford both patent and paterne, the patent is reported by the Prophet _Esay_: Chap. 56. vers. 7. and repeated by Christ in [bu]three seuerall Euangelists: _my house shall be called an house of prayer for all people_. The paterns are manifold, _I will enter into thine house in the multitude of thy mercies, and in thy feare will I worship toward thine holy temple_, saith our Prophet, Psal. 5. 7. The Publican and the Pharisie went _into the temple to pray_, Luke 18. _Peter_ and _Iohn_ went vp together _into the temple at the ninth houre of prayer_, Acts 3. _Anna_ fasted and _prayed in the temple_, Luke 2. This one word, _sanctuarie_ teacheth vs how we should behaue our selues in the Church as in Gods presence: Doest thou come to that holie place to receiue the blessed Supper of our Lord? remember that the temple is _sanctuarium, non promptuarium_, a sanctuarie, not a buttrie, [bx]_haue ye not houses to eate and drink in, despise yee the Church of God?_ Doest thou come to pray? [by]_take heede to thy foote when thou entrest into Gods house_, compose thy knees, and eyes, and hands, and heart after such a deuout manner: as that thou maist not onely praise God vpon the loud cymbals, but (as it is vers. 5.) _praise him vpon the well tuned cymbals_ also. Doest thou come to heare the sermon? remember that the preaching of the Gospel is [bz]not the word of a mortall man, but the [ca]power of the immortall God vnto saluation: and albeit the Preacher be neuer so simple, neuer so sinfull; yet the word is holy, the action holy, the time holy, the place holy, ordained by the most holy to make thee holy. Vpon whatsoeuer occasion thou commest into the Temple, remember alwaies that the ground is holy whereon thou standest, it is a _sanctuarie_, the habitation of God, and place of his _holinesse_: and therefore not to be [cb]prophaned with ordinarie though lawfull worldly businesse, much lesse with vnlawfull pastimes and enterludes, it is a place for praise, not for playes, _O praise God in his sanctuarie_. [Sidenote br: _Luther Vatablus Chald. apud Genebrard english Com. dedicated to Mr. Herlakinden._] [Sidenote bs: _Esay. 56. 7._] [Sidenote bt: _Hooker eccles. pol. lib. 5. §. 24._] [Sidenote bu: _Mark 11. 7. Luke 19. 46. Matth. 21. 13._] [Sidenote bx: _1. Cor. 11. 22._] [Sidenote by: _Ecclesiastes 4. 17._] [Sidenote bz: _1. Thess. 2. 13._] [Sidenote ca: _Rom. 1. 6._] [Sidenote cb: _Canon 88._] Or (as [cc]_Martine Luther_ interprets it) praise God _in his sanctuarie_, that is, _for his sanctuarie_, for [cd]shewing his word vnto _Iacob_, his statutes and ordinances vnto _Israel_, for his adoption, and his couenants, and his promises, and his seruice, Rom. 9. 4. O praise the Lord for his [ce]true Church established for the present among the Iewes, and hereafter in the fulnesse 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 [cf]house, but also Gods [cg]temple, yea, Gods heauen, as [ch]_Augustine_ expounds the words of Christ, _Our father which art in heauen_, that is, in holy men of heuenly conuersation, in whose sanctified hearts hee dwelleth as in his [ci]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, he that will bee reputed a Saint, and so take vpon him to remoue men earthly minded from their worldinesse, must himselfe at the least haue one foote out of the world, seeking (as the blessed [ck]Apostle speakes) the things aboue, that [cl]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. [Sidenote cc: _In loc._] [Sidenote cd: _Psal. 147. 19._] [Sidenote ce: _Christ. Corn. in loc._] [Sidenote cf: _Heb. 3. 6._] [Sidenote cg: _1. Cor. 3. 16_] [Sidenote ch: _Lib. 2. de ser. dom. in mont._] [Sidenote ci: _Bellarm. & Corn. in loc. vel hoc dicit de populo, vel de vita sancta Chrysost. Basil. in loc._] [Sidenote ck: _Coloss. 3. 1._] [Sidenote cl: _Mat. 5. 16._] Heere then all the three diuers lines (_praise God in his Saints, praise God in his sanctitie, praise God in his sanctuarie_) meet in one centrie; namely, God is to be praised in his sanctuarie for his sanctitie conferred vpon his Saints, whereby they shined as [cm]lights in this heauen on earth, and shine like [cn]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 holie Saints_, established in our Church by good order of law. Their principal obiection is taken out of _Pauls_ Epistle to the Galathians, chap. 4. verse 10. _Yee obserue dayes and monethes, 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 [co]foure-fold obseruation of {Naturall. {Politicall. daies {Ecclesiasticall. {Superstitious. Of all which onely the superstitious is condemned, as _Aretius_ and _Illiricus_, and [cp]other Protestant Diuines vpon the place. Now the superstitious obseruation is either _Iudaicall_ or _Idolatricall_; it is apparant that _Paul_ meant the first hereof especially, [cq]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.[cr] _Are yee 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 [cs]differences of daies dismall and fortunate, either by curious arts, or by particular fansies, or popular obseruations) are worthily reputed superstitious. And the [ct]_Papists_ also (solemnizing holie 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, & idlenesse) _turn againe to the beggarly rudiments and fashions of the world_: But the festiuals of England (celebrated according to the doctrine and Iniunctions of our Church) are verie farre from these and all other kindes of superstition. [cu]For then is God truly worshipped in the publike congregation, I say the true God is truly praised in his true Saints; on our holie 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 sortes of error and impietie whatsoeuer. [Sidenote cm: _Philip 2. 15._] [Sidenote cn: _Dan. 12. 3._] [Sidenote co: _Illiric. in Galat. 4._] [Sidenote cp: _See Sir Christop. Heydons answer to Mr. Chambers, pag. 368. and how the fathers answere this. Bellarmin. de sanct. Cultu, cap. 10._] [Sidenote cq: _English glosse._] [Sidenote cr: _Galat. 3. 3._] [Sidenote cs: _See Ambrose in Galat. 4. & August. epist. 119. cap. 7._] [Sidenote ct: _Dr. Fulke in Galat. 4. 10._] [Sidenote cu: _See Dr. Whitgifts defence of his answere to the admonit. fol. 538. 539._] Yea, but the words of the Commandement are, _sixe daies shalt thou labour_: _Ergo_, there should be no holie day besides the Lords day. [cx]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 holie, 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. 15. _Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemne assemblie._ [cy]Daies of publike fasting for some great iudgement, daies of publike reioycing for some great benefit, are not vnlawfull, but exceeding commendable, yea necessarie. Whosoeuer doubts 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 goodnesse 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 Whitgift_, in the [cz]defence of his answere to the Admonition) I proceede in the text, _praise him in his noble acts, praise him according to his excellent greatnesse_. [Sidenote cx: _B. Babington in 4. com. Caluins Cat. Dr. Whitgift vbi supra fol. 542. & 553. six daies thou maiest labour._] [Sidenote cy: _Perkins aur. Cat. cap. 23._] [Sidenote cz: _From pag. 538. to 555._] [da]Some reade _Laudate eum in [db]virtutibus eius_, praise him in his _powers_: [dc]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 [dd]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 Angels in the quier of Heauen, there be _Seraphins_, Esay 6. 2. _Cherubins_, Gen. 3. 24. _Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, and Powers_, Colloss. 1. 16. in all which and for all which God is to be praised, as being his [de]ministring spirits for the good of such as shall be 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 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_. [Sidenote da: _Vulgar Latine Castalio._] [Sidenote db: _Pagnin._ In fortitudinibus.] [Sidenote dc: _Vatablus Munster._] [Sidenote dd: _Turrecremat. & Raynerius in loc._] [Sidenote de: _Heb. 1. 14._] 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. [df]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, he commanded and it stood fast_, 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, [dg]_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. [Sidenote df: _Aduancement of learning lib. 2. pag. 116._] [Sidenote dg: _Rom. 4. 25._] 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 [dh]Prophet fearfully and wonderfully made: but a good man if you consider his new making is a wonderfull wonder, as [di]_Paul_ speakes _a spectacle to men and Angels_, 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. [Sidenote dh: _Psalm. 139. 13._] [Sidenote di: _1. Cor. 4. 9._] But _Dauid_ [dk]here meaneth especially the valiant acts of God in gouerning & garding his people from their enemies, [dl]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 [dm]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 ([dn]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 slew an hundred eighty and fiue thousand Assyrians. 2. Kings 19. [Sidenote dk: _Placid. Parmen and the english Com. dedicated to M. Herlakinden._] [Sidenote dl: _Psalm. 66. 4._] [Sidenote dm: _Exod. 14. 29._] [Sidenote dn: _Iosua 10._] 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 [do]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 [dp]_Dauid_, _O Lord which art my rocke and my fortresse, thou hast giuen me the necks of mine enemies, that I might 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_. [dq]_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_. [Sidenote do: _See M. Foxe Martyr. in fine._] [Sidenote dp: _2. Sam. 22. 41._] [Sidenote dq: _Psalm. 118._] More principally the Common-weale of England, and in it all men of all factions, and all fashions whatsoeuer. _Atheists_ (if they think 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 [dr]righteous sake. _Carnall Gospellers_ haue good cause to thanke God, confessing that so long as [ds]_Lot_ is in _Sodome_, it can not be destroyed; and so long as _Moses_ standeth in the [dt]gap, and [du]prayeth for his people, Gods wrathfull indignation can not deuoure vs. Yea, let the _Gunpowder men_ themselues (if they haue any sparke of grace) confesse that God is to be 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 than 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, [dx]_Causa iubet melior superos sperare secundos_. [Sidenote dr: _Gen. 18. 26._] [Sidenote ds: _Gen. 19. 22._] [Sidenote dt: _Psalm. 106. 23._] [Sidenote du: _Exod. 32. 11._] [Sidenote dx: _Lucan._] 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 else but a verie shambles of _Italian_ and _Ignatian_ butchers. When _Alexander_ saw the dead corps of _Darius_; and _Iulius Cæsar_, the head of _Pompey_; and _Marcus Marcellus_, _Syracusa_ burne; and _Scipio_, _Numantia_ spoild; and _Titus_, _Hierusalem_ made [dy]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 fewell for the fire; and that which would haue grieued our posteritie more, supersition and Idolatrie might in short time haue been replanted in this land; I meane that vpstart Antichristian religion of _Rome_, wherein many things, especially foure (as iudicious [dz]_Fox_ well obserued) are most abominable. 1. Vnlimited jurisdiction, derogatorie to all Kings and Emperours. 2. Insolent titles, preiudiciall to all Bishops and Prelates. 3. Corrupt doctrine, injurious to all Christians. 4. Filthie lise, detestable to all men. [Sidenote dy: _Luc. 19. 44._] [Sidenote dz: _Martyr. pag. 1._] 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 greatnesse incomprehensible. So that the meaning of [ea]_Dauid_ is, that we should praise him according to our capacitie, and not according to his immensitie; according to the grace bestowed vpon vs, and not according to the glorie 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._ [Sidenote ea: _Basil. Musculus, Placid. parnen. in loc._] 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 glorie. Wherefore seeing the Lord hath out of his abundant mercie conferred vpon this kingdome inestimable blessings, in the preaching of his word for the space of more then fiftie yeares; it is questionlesse he lookes for no little thankes or small praise, but for great thankes and great praise according to his excellent greatnesse 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 [eb]_Augustine_) _totis votis de totis vobis_ with all your soules, and with all your selues. That therefore we may manifest our inward affections by such outward actions as are commendable, where there be _trumpets_, let them sound: where there be _lutes_ and _harpes_, let them strike vp: where there be _loud Cymbals_ and _well tuned Cymbals_, let them ring, let them sing the praises of God for this our most happy deliuerance; let trumpet and tongue, viol & voice, lute & life, witnes our hartie reioycing in the Lord. If our true zeale were more fierie within, it would doubtlesse break forth into moe publike workes, then it doth, against that bloody brood of the Gun-powder crue. There haue been many collections in euery Dioces for the reedifying of the Churches of Saint _Albanes_ and _Arthuret_, the which I assure my selfe were good works: there haue been in this latter age many gorgeous, I might say glorious buildings erected about and in this honorable Citie, to the great ornament of our Country, the which I thinke you may number among your good workes: there haue bin Lotteries to further _Virginean_ enterprises, and these (for any thing I know) were good workes also: there haue been 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 lyuing: _Dic mihi musa virum_, I pray Muse and shew me the man, who ioynes with that euer zealous, reuerend, learned Deane in founding a Colledge for a Societie of writers against the superstitious Idolatries of the Romane Synagogue, the which happily might be like _the [ec]Tower of Dauid_, where the strong men of Israel might haue shieldes and targets to fight the Lords battaile: [ed]_Is it time for your selues to dwell in your seiled houses, and this house lye wast?_ [Sidenote eb: _In Psalm. 147._] [Sidenote ec: _Cant. 4. 4._] [Sidenote ed: _Haggai. 1. 4._] Remember I beseech you the words of [ee]_Azariah_ vnto King _Asa_ and the men of Iuda, _The Lord is with you while you are with him, and if yee seeke him, he will be found of you; but if yee forsake him, he will forsake you_. Benot cold in a good cause, flie not out of the field, play not the cowards in the Lords holie 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 posteritie will assuredly rue it, and haue iust cause to curse their dastardly, spiritlesse and worthlesse progenitors. 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 hardnesse of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandement._ _Good Lord deliuer vs._ [Sidenote ee: _2. Chron. 15. 2._] 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 as much as it is in Latine, I must entreat all such (if any such here be present, who loue _Bonauentures_ psalter and the Romish seruice) to ioyne with vs in this orison. _Papa noster qui es Romæ maledicetur nomen tuum, intereat regnum tuum, impediatur voluntas tua, sicut in Coelo sic et in terra. Potum nostrum in Coena dominica da nobis hodie, & remitte nummos nostros quos tibi dedimus ob indulgentias, sicut & nos remittimus tibi indulgentias, & ne nos inducas in hæresin, sed libera nos a miseria, quoniam tuum est infernum, pix & sulphur in secula seculorum._ The word of God is a [ef]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 [eg]_Augustine_, and therefore [eh]diuines vnderstand here by the _sounding of the trumpet_, the preaching of the Gospell, [ei]whose sound went out thorow all the earth vnto the endes of the world: at the seuenfold sounding of this trumpet the walles of [ek]Iericho 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. [Sidenote ef: _Heb. 4. 12._] [Sidenote eg: _In loc._] [Sidenote eh: _Prosper Luther Hugo Card._] [Sidenote ei: _Rom. 10. 18._] [Sidenote ek: _Iosua. 6. Strictior est tuba ex parte buccinantis quàm ex altera, quia prædicator strictius se debet examinare. Hugo Card. in loc._] [el]Other say that the Saints are these _trumpets_, and _harpes_, and _Cymbals_, and that their [em]members make this musicke to the Lord, our eyes praies the Lord, while they be [en]lifted vp vnto their maker in heauen, and waite vpon his mercy: our tongues praise the Lord, in singing [eo]Psalmes, and hymnes, and spirituall songs vnto the Lord: our eares praise the Lord, while they [ep]heare the word of God with attention: our hands praise the Lord, while they be [eq]stretched out vnto the poore, and while they [er]worke the thing that is good: our feete praise the Lord, when they bee not [es]swift to shed blood, but [et]stand in the gates of Gods house, ready to [eu]run the wayes of his commandements. _In Tympano sicca & percussa pellis resonat, in choro autem voces sociatæ concordant_ said [ex]_Gregorie_ the great: wherefore [ey]such as mortifie the lusts of the flesh praise God _in tympano_, and they who keepe the [ez]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 choro_, 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 [fa]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 [fb]_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. [Sidenote el: _Augustin in loc._] [Sidenote em: _Chrysost. Euthym. in loc._] [Sidenote en: _Psalm. 123._] [Sidenote eo: _Colos. 3. 16._] [Sidenote ep: _Mat. 13. 9._] [Sidenote eq: _Ecclesi. 7. 32._] [Sidenote er: _Ephes. 4. 24._] [Sidenote es: _Psal. 14. 6._] [Sidenote et: _Psal. 122. 2._] [Sidenote eu: _Psal. 119. 32._] [Sidenote ex: _Pastoral. part. 3. admonit. 23._] [Sidenote ey: _August. Cassiod. Hugo. Card. in loc._] [Sidenote ez: _Ephes. 4. 3._] [Sidenote fa: _1. Cor. 13. 1._] [Sidenote fb: _Psalm. 108. 1._] _Let euery thing that hath breath praise the Lord_, that is [fc]_omne spirans_, [fd]_omnis spiritualis_, [fe]_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 soule of man aboue all that is in man praise the Lord. _Omnis spiritus, i. [ff]totus spiritus_, [fg]all the heart, all the soule, all the mind, as the psalmist [fh]elsewhere, I will thanke thee O Lord my God with all mine heart, euen with my [fi]whole heart, or _omnis spiritus_ the spirit of euery man in euery place, for this saying is [fk]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 [fl]seed of _Abraham_ according to the spirit, and heires by promise, more Israel saith [fm]_Augustine_ then Israel it selfe. The sonnes of _Abraham_ (as Christ tels vs in the [fn]Gospell) are they who doe the workes of _Abraham_, and _Abrahams_ chiefe worke was faith, _Abraham_ beleeued (saith the [fo]text) and it was imputed to him for righteousnes. _Ergo_, the true beleeuer is a right Isralite, blessed with faithfull _Abraham_. Galat. 3. 9. [fp]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_. [Sidenote fc: _Agellius Vatablus_.] [Sidenote fd: _Hieron. August._] [Sidenote fe: _Genebrard & alij plerique._] [Sidenote ff: _Hugo. Iunius._] [Sidenote fg: _Luk. 10. 27._] [Sidenote fh: _Psal. 86. 12._] [Sidenote fi: _Psal. 111. 1._] [Sidenote fk: _Caluin. Genebrard. in loc._] [Sidenote fl: _Galat. 3. 29._] [Sidenote fm: _Psalm. 148._] [Sidenote fn: _Iohn 8. 39._] [Sidenote fo: _Gen. 15. 6. Rom. 4. 3._] [Sidenote fp: _Genebrard._] 1. _Dauid_ inuiteth all the Citizens of heauen, _O praise God in his sanctuarie, praise him in the firmament of his power_. 2. All the dwellers vpon earth, _praise him in the sound of the trumpet, praise him vpon the lute and harpe, &c._ 3. Both and all, _let euery thing that hath breath_, euery thing which hath either the life of nature, or of grace, or of glorie, let _euery spirit_ [fq]whether it be terrestriall or celestiall, of whatsoeuer condition, age, sexe, _praise the Lord_. [Sidenote fq: _Placidus parmensis & Bellarmin. in loc._] It is a [fr]_Rabbinical_ conceit that this hymne consists of 13. _Halleluiahs_, answering 13. Properties of God mentioned Exod. 34. 6.7. verses, and in that our Prophet after a dozen _Halleluiahs_ hath not done, but addeth a thirteenth, hee doth insinuate that when all our deuotion is finished, it is our dutie to begin againe with Gods praise, for as [fs]of him, and thorough him, and for him, are all things, euen so to him is due all glorie for euermore: as his mercies are from euerlasting to euerlasting, from euerlasting election, to euerlasting glorification: so likewise his praises are to bee sung for euer and euer. In this life we begin this hymne singing (as musitians speake) in _breifs_ and _semibriefs_ a staffe or two, but in the world to come standing before the throne of the Lambe, clothed in long white robes, accompanied with all the sweet voyces of heauens incomparable melodious quire: we shall eternally sing, [ft]_Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almightie, which was, and which is, and which is to come, [fu]praise, and glorie, and wisdome, and power, and might, be vnto our God for euermore._ Amen. [Sidenote fr: _Genebrard._] [Sidenote fs: _Rom. 11. 36._] [Sidenote ft: _Apocalip. 4. 8._] [Sidenote fu: _Apocalip. 7. 12._] FINIS. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [Notes and Errata In the Latin words "Coelo" and "Coena", the letter combination "oe" was printed in single-letter (ligature) form, analogous to æ for ae. The titles "Mr." and "Dr." were printed with superscript r, properly transcribed M^{r}. and D^{r}. They have been simplified for readability. Years are always printed with following period (full stop), regardless of place in the sentence. Sidenotes--here equivalent to footnotes--were labeled sequentially a-z, repeating as often as necessary. For this e-text they have been given unique identifiers adding a, b, c... to successive series. Note that the 23-letter alphabet has no j, v or w. page 2 / leaf A2v Sidenote d: ...Turrecremat. _the name "Turrecremata" is better known in its Spanish form, "Torquemada"_ page 3 / leaf A3 for translating th{~e} out of this [q]valley of teares _{~e} represents "e" with overline (unique in this text)_ page 6 / leaf A4v Non martyres domini sed mancipes diaboli _text reads_ matyris page 8 / leaf A5v Sidenote bk: _Mark. 12. 36._ _citation unclear_ page 18 / leaf B2v But of all other noble preseruations, _Our deliuerance from..._ _text reads_ ...preseruations (_Our... page 21 / leaf B4 that bloody brood of the Gun-powder crue _text reads_ Gun-dowder the Churches of Saint _Albanes_ and _Arthuret_ "Arthuret" is a place name page 24 / leaf B5v _Let euery thing that hath breath praise the Lord_, that is [fc]_omne spirans_ _text reads_ ...the Lord_) that is... _Omnis spiritus, i. [ff]totus spiritus_ "i." _as in original: short for_ "intellege"? page 25 / leaf B6 Sidenote fq [simple "q" in original] _text has "p" for "q", but reference in body text is correct_] --- Provided by LoyalBooks.com ---