An Exposition of the Last Psalme | Page 7

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