An Exposition of the Last Psalme | Page 4

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]_�� 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 Eud?mon 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 & effectiu��_, 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, _qu��m mali_ how wicked are these Gods: if false _qu��m mal��_ 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.