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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,