An Exposition of the Last Psalme eBook

John Boys
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 36 pages of information about An Exposition of the Last Psalme.

An Exposition of the Last Psalme eBook

John Boys
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 36 pages of information about An Exposition of the Last Psalme.
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

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