An Exposition of the Last Psalme | Page 6

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