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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 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