An Exposition of the Last Psalme | Page 5

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 _fr? 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