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An exposition of the last psalme delivered in a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the fifth of Nouember, 1613. By Iohn Boys, Doctor of Diuinitie.
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Boys, John, 1571-1625.
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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 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 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 his excellent greatnesse The worke of creation is so mightie that none could bring it to passe but the Father almightie that God should haue nothing but nothing whereof wherewith whereby to build this high huge goodly faire frame is a principle which nature cannot teach and Philosophie will not beleeue The worke of redemption is of farre greater might and mercy for the making of the world was if I may so speke onely lip-labour vnto God he spake the word and it was done be commanded and it stoodfast Psalm 33. 9. but Christ in redeeming the world said many words and did many wonders and suffered also many wounds It is true that the least ake of his least finger is infiniti meriti sed non definiti meriti that is of an infinite merit yet not that determined ransome for the sinnes of the whole world It cost him more to redeeme soules he dyed for our sinnes and rose againe for our iustification hee suffered for vs and that death and that a violent death and of all violent deaths the most accursed death on the Crosse. The worke of sanctification is a noble act also for euery man if you rightly consider his making is a wonder I am saith our Prophet fearfully and wonderfully made but a good man if you consider his new making is a wonderfull wonder as Paul speakes a spectacle to men and Angles as the vulgar Latine runnes in the 68. Psalme at the last verse mirabilis deus in sanctis O God wonderfull art thou in thy Saints But Dauid here meaneth especially the valiant acts of God in gouerning garding his people from their enemies O come hither and behold the workes of God how wonderfull hee is in his doing toward the Children of men he turned the sea into drye land so that his people went on foot thorough the middest of the sea the waters were a wall vnto them on the right hand and on their left but the waues of the Sea returned and couered the chariots and horsemen euen all the hoast of Pharaoh that pursued them Almighty God raigned hailstones out of heauen vpon the cursed Amorites at Bethoran and they were more saith the text that dyed with the haile then they whom the Children of Israell slew with the sword And when Duke Iosua prayed Sunne stay thou in Gibeon thou Moone in the valey of Aialon the Sunne abode and the Moone stood still vntill the people auenged themselues vpon their enemies When Zenacherib and his innumerous hoast came to fight against Hezekiah King of Iuda Gods Angell in one night flew an hundred eighty and fiue thousand Assyrians 2. Kings 19. And vndoubtedly beloued there is no nation vnder the cope of Heauen hath had greater occasion to praise God in this kind then England the preseruation of the most illustrious princesse the Lady Elizabeth vnder the fiery triall of her vnkind sister Queene Marie was a noble act and the seminary of much happinesse vnto this kingdome for many yeares after and so much the more noble because Philip King of Spaine hath often confessed that he spared her life when wildy Winchester and bloodie Bonner had brought her into the snare not out of any pietie or pittie but onely out of policie Her exaltation to the Crowne was another noble act so noble that some Popish Prelats in their enuie burst a sunder and dyed for very griefe of heart Well might that good Lady sing and say with the blessed Virgine He that is mightie hath magnified me and holy is his name he hath put downe the mightie from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meeke her flourishing in health wealth and godlinesse more then 44. yeares in despite of all her foes abroad at home schismaticall hereticall open intestine was another noble act for after once the Bull of Pope Pius Quintus had roared and his fat Calues had begunne to bellow in this Island there passed neuer a yeare neuer a moneth neuer a weeke I thinke I might say neuer a day neuer an houre but some mischiefe was intended either against her person or her people the resisting of the rebellion in the Northerne parts of England was a noble act the discouering and so consequently the defeating of Campians treason a noble act of Parris treason a noble act of the Lupus Lopus his treason a noble act of Squires treason a noble act Her glorious victories against her fell and insolent enemies the Spaniards in Ireland in Flanders in France in their owne dominions of Portugal Indies and Spaine were noble acts It was a wonder of wonders that a Mayden Queene should at one time be both a staffe to Flanders and a stay to France a terror to Pope a mirror to Turke feared abroad loued at home Mistresse of the Sea wonder of the world Shee might truely bee called a Prince of Peace for shee was Crowned in Peace shee liued in Peace she dyed in Peace she was buried in Peace and when shee had slept with her Fathers it was another noble act of the Lord to send vs in the midst of all our feare so learned so meeke so pious a Prince as King Iames in such exceeding sweet peace that neuer a sword was drawn happily neuer a word spoken against him All these were noble acts and ought to be had in a perpetuall remembrance But of all other noble preseruations Our deliuerance from that intended mercilesse and matchlesse Massacre both in fact and fiction the fifth of Nouember in the yeare 1605. is most noblie noble King Iames on this day might haue said with King Dauid O Lord which art my rocke and my fortresse thou hast giuen me the necks of mine enemies that I might
they likewise say Maria consolatio infirmorum redemptio captiuorum liberatio damnatorum salus vniuersorum Giselbertus in lib. altercationis Synagogae et ecclesiae cap. 20. Maria quasi maria saith Augustinus de Leonissa sermon 5 vpon Aue maria for as all riuers come from the seas and returne to the seas againe Ecclesiastes 1. 7 so forsooth if you will vndertake to beleeue him all grace is deriued from Mary and ought to be returned again to Mary We finde so much in Rosario Mariae reparatrix saluatrix desperantis animae c. That which is worse their owne Pope who cannot as they teach erre in a poynt of doctrine as Pope calleth her expresly Deam Pet. Bembus in his epistles written in Pope Leo 10. name lib. 8. epist. 17. printed at Strasburg an 1609. that which is worst of all in their most approued Bible they translate Gen. 3. 15. ipsa conteret caput tuum she shall breake thine head although as their owne Iesuit Ribera confesseth honestly the Hebrew text the Chaldee paraphrase the translation of the Septuagint and all good Latin copies reade ipse conteret he shall bruise the serpents head applying it to Christ according to that of Paul The God of peace shall tread downe Satan vnder your feete Rom. 16. 20. by this euidence you may see that the gunpowder crue praise not God in the saints nor the saints in God but on the contrarie the saints as God Againe these S. Peter men and as I haue warrant to terme them on this day Salt Peter men erre from the true meaning of our text because they doe not praise God in sanctis eius in his saints but dishonour God in sanctis eorum in saints of their owne making vsually praying vnto some who were no men and to many who were not holy men It is doubted by the two great lights in their glorious firmament Bellarmine and Baronius whether there were euer any such man as S. George or such a woman as S. Catharine Cardinall Bellarmine lib. de beatitudine sanct cap. vlt. § respondeo sanctorum doth acknowledge that they worship certaine saints whose stories are vncertaine reputing the legend of S. George apocryphall according to the censure of Pope Gelasius and Cardinall Baronius ecclesiast annal Tom. 2. ad an 290. according to the impression at Rome fol. 650. as also de Martyrologio Romano cap. 2. confesseth as much of Quiriacus and Iulitta declaring plainely that their acts are written either by fooles or heretikes and in his annotations vpon the Romane Martyrologie 23. Aprill he taketh vp Iacobus de Voragine for his leaden Legend of our English S. George concluding in fine that the picture of Saint George fighting with a Dragon is symbolicall and not historicall If the Scripture be true whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne then assuredly these men as Paul speaks are damned of their owne selues in their owne conscience who notwithstanding all their doubts pray still in their publike seruice Deus qui nos beati Georgij martyris tui meritis intercessione laetificas Concede propitius c. An Idoll as Paul affirmes 1. Cor. 8. 4. is nothing Ergo the Papists in worshipping S. George which is nothing commit euen themselues being Iudges abominable Idolatrie As they worship some who were no men so many who were not holy men as a reuerend Doctor of our Church accutely Non matyris domini sed mancipes diaboli the Souldiour who peirced Christs holy side was a Pagan neither doth any storie which is authenticall speake of his conuersion and yet they worship him vnder the name of S. Longinus or Longesse March 15. Papias as Eusebius and Hierome report held the heresie of the Millenarians and yet he is honoured as a saint in the Romane Calender vpon the 22. of Februarie Becket was a bad subiect in his life and no good Christian at his death in that hee commended himselfe and the cause of his Church vnto S. Denys and our Lady Yet S. Thomas of Canterburie was honoured at Canterburie in the daies of popish ignorance more then either the worlds Sauiour or the blessed Virgine his mother in which relation I appeale to the records of that Church as also to the very stones vnder his shrine worne with the knees and hands of such as came thither to worship him Boccace reporteth how one Sir Chappelet a notorious Italian Vsurer and Cousoner came to be honoured as a Saint in France Sanders among them is a saint albeit he liued in plotting and dyed in acting rebellion against his gracious Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth of famous and blessed memorie Nay Dauus is Diuus Saul is among the Prophets pater personatus father Parsons all the daies of his life was a perpetual Martyr as his fellow Ribadeneira termeth him and yet one who sometime was his inner man and knew him as I presume better then euer did Ribadeneira transposing the letters of Robertus Pársonius Iesuita found this anagramme Personatus versuti oris abi the wit-foundred drunkard Henry Garnet who did not according to the Counsell of Paul vse vino modico but as Paulinus pretily modio that lecherous treacherous Arch-priest Arch-traitor Arch-diuell in concealing if not in contriuing in patronizing if not in plotting the powder intended massacre is returned a Saint from beyond the seas with à sancte Henrice intercede pro nobis his action is iustified his life commended his death honoured his miracles and memorie celebrated by that Ignatian spirit portentum nominis portentum hominis hauing a great deale of name though a very little modestie Andreas Eudaemon Ioannes Cydonius but notwithstanding his apologie the saintship of Henry Garnet is so buffeted by the replies and antilogies of our accuratlie learned diuines as that his straw face will hereafter hardly be worth a straw Catesbie Winter Rookwood and the rest of the Cole-saints and hole-saints who laboured in the diuels mine by the Popes mint are numbred among the holy ones also Babilon and Egypt praise God in them and for them I haue heard much of roaring gentlemen in London and Canterburie but if the Lord himselfe had not watched ouer his Church if the Lord himselfe had not written England in the palmes of his hands if the Lord himselfe had not kept King Iames as the apple of his eye if the Lord himselfe had not been on our side now may Gods Israell in England say if the Lord himselfe had not been on our side when they rose vp against vs if the Lord himselfe had not out of his vnspeakeable goodnesse toward vs and our posteritie broken their snares and deliuered our soules out of that horrible gunpowder pit these bellowing Buls of Basan and Canon-mouthed hell-hounds would haue made on this day such a roare that all Christendome should haue felt it and the whole world haue feared it O