244 godsEfleem o f the Deathofhis Saints. rho..e4gnin. sad lib. 9. aft. . 6. Caiet. Traft. de In- deig. Cana, i. s. eau. 1. God benevolous,and merciful unto him, inthc fenfe ofWhich he rejoye'es, and (as, it was inhis duty) gives thanks and praifes unto God. He faith in the fourteenth verfe,he wouldmake publick bufinefs of it, andwould pay his voue:, corampopulo, in theprefenceof all thepeople; and good reafonhe had, for God hash oft relieved him, and taken much care to preferve his life, asheis ever tender of the fafety of all his people, for Peetiofain oculis Jehove,dc. Pretioau in thefight ofthe Lord is the death ofbù Saints. Thewords are a Simple,univerfal,afñrmative popofition g wherein, r. The fub- je& or thingfpoken of ; is, The deathof Gods Saints. z. That which is fpokenof it, is, That it is precious in thefight ofthe Lord. Which propofitionmaybe refol- ved into thefe three obfervations. 1. That there be fome that are GodsSaints. z. That Gods Saints do alfo Die. 3. That the¶Deatb ofGods Saints Lepretiosu in Gods fight. I. There be fome that are GodsSaints. Sanii`orum ejus ] fo the vulgar Latine reads it. J (ifericordium] foPagnin after S. Hterome. Beñeficorum] fo Pefcator. Piorutn] fo Moderate. TheKings tranfiators have rendred it in our laft Englifh, His Saints, though theyhave given themfelves a liberty in other places to render theHebrew that is hereby our Englifh (Holy, ) as Pf. ss . so. hbafdelah, Thy Holy one : and the Hebrewword that properly lignifies holy, by ourEnglifh (Saints) as Pfal. 16. 3. Kedofhim , To the Saints. The Saint in theText is in Hebrew hha/ìd, and bbafid, is benefcut, and but ina fecundary fence Santïus : Yet whereas it is rendred by the Septuagintonce ion. e, venerandue, venerable, which our Englith tranflates, Thegood man, e.í`Ytic. 7. z. and once i,,x41ae,c9-, reverend, or as our Englifh bath it, Righteous, Prov. I. 8. Yet in all other placesit is tranflatedby the word ioiW, Sanilus, Saint, or Holy : and it feems according to the very notion 6f theword inufeamong theJews themfelves, among whom the pofterity offonadab, becaufeoftheirholinefso life, and ffri&nefsinreligion, were calledhhaftdim, Sa..,, e.4fsdaans, I Mach. 7.13. as much as, Holy-ones, good men, orSaints.. Butnot to infiff farther upon the tranlation; The name ofsaints, is given fome- times by the Fathers toholy men departed, and reigning withGod, but fo the word is ver..y rarely ufed in the Scripture: but more ordinarily it is given to thefaithful in this life, and fo the notion in Scripture is moff frequent. So I, Car. r. z. To the ChurchofGodat Corinth, called to be Saints, or Saints by calling : Soalto, Eph.6.t8. 2kom.IZ.13,&c. There is a double fan&ity ; I. Ofoutward profcffion. z. Of inwardregenera- tion, and fo the word is here more fpeciallyunderffood ; They are GodsSaints, whom he feparates tohimfelf,or calls untoholinefs of life; The Saints on the earth, filch asexcel in vertue, Pfal. 16.3. And there is reafonfor it,that therebe fome Saints in this life,becaufe that which makes Saints is attainable here ; not Popifh Canonization,but GodsEle&ion,6ods Spirit,Gods grace,theMeritand holinefs ofChriff ; as it is 1 Cor.1a. Thofe ofthe Church of Corinthwere Called to be Saints, with all thatinevery placecall onthename of RioCbrili; Who was both, I. A pattern ofholinefs, that his people might be fo by hisexample, and z. A foundation ofholinefs,that his fulnefs might becon- veyed to his members. Life I. If there beSaints in thislife,it is againff the Church ofRjme,wbich (huts up all. theSaints intoheaven, and fullers none to be Saints, but fuch whom thePope canonizeth. Bellarminedelivers it, I. That Canonization,which is apublick telti- fication of the allured holinefs, and glory of fotne, by which publick worfhips are decreed them, is piousand lawful. z. That this power ofCanonization is only in the Pope. ;. That the Popes judgement onCanonization is infallible. But Beftde, that, this third propofition is gain-laid bymen ofhisown fide ; The pra&iceit fell alfo of Canonizationwas unknowntill Leo the thirds time, anno800. or till four: fooe years after that, till the time of Adrian ; and it was ever anciently held, that no man can jiadge infallibly of anthers condition, or may admit any into thi number of Saints. Theancient Churchhad theircommemorations ofholyn en,.and women
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