An Exposition of the Last Psalme by John Boys
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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 |
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