An Exposition of the Last Psalme by John Boys
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Cherubins, and Seraphins, Angels, and Archangels. I say, so long as we
serue the Lord, these pages of his honour and parts of his courts attend vs, and pitch their tents about vs: a doctrine very profitable, very comfortable, yet for as much as I hold it lesse pertinent to the present occasion I thus ouerpasse it, and hast to that other exposition interpreting these words (as our Church readeth) of Gods _noble acts_. [Sidenote da: _Vulgar Latine Castalio._] [Sidenote db: _Pagnin._ In fortitudinibus.] [Sidenote dc: _Vatablus Munster._] [Sidenote dd: _Turrecremat. & Raynerius in loc._] [Sidenote de: _Heb. 1. 14._] Now the workes of God are of two sorts, _ad intra_ & _ad extra_: some be confined within himselfe, other extended towards vs: works of the sacred Trinitie within it selfe (as that the Father begets, and the Sonne is begotten, and the holy Ghost proceeds from both) are wonderfull acts of such an high nature that it is our dutie rather simply to adore, then subtilly to explore them: all his acts extended toward vs are summarilie reduced vnto two, namely the works of creation and redemption. [df]The worke of creation is attributed in the Masse of the matter to God the Father, in the disposition of the forme to God the Sonne, in the preseruation of both to God the holy Ghost. So likewise that of redemption, in election vnto God the Father, in the consummation vnto God the Sonne, in the application vnto the holy Ghost, all which are very _noble acts_, and God is to be praised in them _according to |
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