The word of God is a [ef]two edged sword, sharp in a literal, and sharp in an allegoricall exposition.  Hitherto you haue heard the history, now there remaineth a mistery, nihil enim hic ludicrum aut lubricum saith [eg]_Augustine_, and therefore [eh]diuines vnderstand here by the sounding of the trumpet, the preaching of the Gospell, [ei]whose sound went out thorow all the earth vnto the endes of the world:  at the seuenfold sounding of this trumpet the walles of [ek]Iericho fal, that is all the pompes and powers of this world are conquered & brought to nought, this trumpet is mightie thorough God to cast downe holdes, and Imaginations, and euery high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God. 2.  Cor. 10. 4.

  [Sidenote ef:  Heb. 4. 12.]

  [Sidenote eg:  In loc.]

  [Sidenote eh:  Prosper Luther Hugo Card.]

  [Sidenote ei:  Rom. 10. 18.]

  [Sidenote ek:  Iosua. 6.  Strictior est tuba ex parte buccinantis
  quam ex altera, quia praedicator strictius se debet examinare.  Hugo
  Card. in loc.]

[el]Other say that the Saints are these trumpets, and harpes, and Cymbals, and that their [em]members make this musicke to the Lord, our eyes praies the Lord, while they be [en]lifted vp vnto their maker in heauen, and waite vpon his mercy:  our tongues praise the Lord, in singing [eo]Psalmes, and hymnes, and spirituall songs vnto the Lord:  our eares praise the Lord, while they [ep]heare the word of God with attention:  our hands praise the Lord, while they be [eq]stretched out vnto the poore, and while they [er]worke the thing that is good:  our feete praise the Lord, when they bee not [es]swift to shed blood, but [et]stand in the gates of Gods house, ready to [eu]run the wayes of his commandements. In Tympano sicca & percussa pellis resonat, in choro autem voces sociatae concordant said [ex]_Gregorie_ the great:  wherefore [ey]such as mortifie the lusts of the flesh praise God in tympano, and they who keepe the [ez]vnity of the spirit in the bond of peace, praise God in choro:  the Brownist in separating himselfe from the Church though he seeme to praise God in tympano, yet hee doth not praise God in choro:  and the carnall gospeller albeit he ioyne with the Church in choro, yet he prayseth not God in tympano; they praise God in well tuned Cymbals who tune their soules before they preach or pray, whosoeuer desires to bee a sweete singer in Israel must bee learned in the schoole, before hee be lowd in the temple:  the heart likewise must be prepared for praying, as the harpe for playing, if our instruments of praise be not in tune, then our whole deuotion is like the [fa]sounding brasse or as the tinckling Cymbal:  in Gods quier there is first tune well, and then sound well, if once we can say with [fb]_Dauid_, O God mine heart is ready, mine heart is ready, then our lute and harpe will awake right early:  let thy soule praise the Lord, and then all that is either without or about thee will instantly doe the same.