[Sidenote br: _Luther Vatablus Chald. apud Genebrard english Com. dedicated to Mr. Herlakinden._]
[Sidenote bt: _Hooker eccles. pol. lib. 5. §. 24._]
[Sidenote bu: _Mark 11. 7. Luke 19. 46. Matth. 21. 13._]
Or (as [cc]_Martine Luther_ interprets it) praise God _in his sanctuarie_, that is, _for his sanctuarie_, for [cd]shewing his word vnto _Iacob_, his statutes and ordinances vnto _Israel_, for his adoption, and his couenants, and his promises, and his seruice, Rom. 9. 4. O praise the Lord for his [ce]true Church established for the present among the Iewes, and hereafter in the fulnesse of time to be constituted among Christians vntill the worlds end. For this clause may bee construed of the mysticall heauen and temple, so well as of the materiall 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 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._]
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 [cs]differences of daies dismall and fortunate, either by curious arts, or by particular fansies, or popular obseruations) are worthily reputed superstitious. And the [ct]_Papists_ also (solemnizing holie daies of the Saints in their Churches with idolatrous worshipping of the creatures, and their Images: and out of their Churches with Epicurelike belly-cheere, reuelling, & idlenesse) _turn againe to the beggarly rudiments and fashions of the world_: But the festiuals of England (celebrated according to the doctrine and Iniunctions of our Church) are verie farre from these and all other kindes of superstition. [cu]For then is God truly worshipped in the publike congregation, I say the true God is truly praised in his true Saints; on our holie daies the sacraments are rightly ministred, the Scriptures are fruitfully read, the Word is faithfully preached; all which are maine meanes to withdraw men not only from superstition and idolatrie, but also from all sortes of error and impietie whatsoeuer.