A01981:1731
The saints sacrifice
The saints sacrifice: or, a commentary on the CXVI. Psalm Which is, a gratulatory psalm, for deliverance from deadly distress. By William Gouge, D.D.The saints sacrifice: or, a commentarie on the CXVI. Psalme Which is, a gratulatory psalme, for deliverance from deadly distresse. By William Gouge, D.D.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1632
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1Not without cause therefore doth the Psalmist stile the Church (Psal. 26. 8.) The place where Gods honour dwelleth. He thought it not enough to say, The place where God dwelleth, but where his honour dwelleth, which maketh much to the glory of the Church.
- 1Non sufficit dicere, locus habitationis Dei▪ sed locus habitationis gloria Dei. Aug. Enar. in Psal. 25.
Do not these things make the Church worthy to be ⟨p. 268⟩sought after to be loved, to be delighted in? Many, many more are the prerogatives thereof which make it most amiable; but these may be sufficient to such as are not of a Stoical disposition, very blocks, sensible of no delightsome object.
Doe not these things make the Church worthy to bee ⟨p. 268⟩sought after to be loved, to be delighted in? Many, many more are the prerogatives thereof which make it most amiable; but these may be sufficient to such as are not of a Stoicall disposition, very blockes, sensible of no delightsome object.
The affection of our Prophet towards Jerusalem, the Church of God, is even for imitation worthy of all due observation: that our hearts also may be so enamoured with her, as not to think or speak of her, but with delight.