e him in
the firmament of his power, praise him in his noble acts, praise him
according to his excellent greatnesse._
With what, euen with all that is
Without vs, vers. 3. 4. 5. _Praise him in the sound of the
trumpet, &c._
Within vs, vers. 6. _Omnis spiritus_, &c. _Let euery spirit
praise the Lord, praise yee the Lord._
[Sidenote a: _Gueuara._]
[Sidenote b: _Lyra in loc._]
[Sidenote c: _In loc._]
This in briefe is the whole texts _Epitomie_, I come now to the words
_Anotomie_, cutting vp euery part and particle seuerally, beginning
first at the first, _O praise God in his holinesse_. Of which one
sentence the Doctors haue many (though not aduerse yet diuerse)
readings, especially three: _Praise God in his Saints, praise God in his
sanctitie, praise God in his sanctuarie_. _S. Hierome_, _Augustine_,
_Prosper_, and [d]other as well ancient interpreters as moderne
translate here praise God in his _Saints_. For if he must be praised
in all his creatures, how much more in his new creatures? if in the
witlesse wormes, and senselesse vapours, Psal. 148, much more doubtlesse
(as _Theodorit_ here collects) in men, in holie men, in _Saints_, vpon
whom hee hath out of his [e]vnsearchable riches of mercie, bestowed the
blessings of the [f]life present; and of that which is to come.
[Sidenote d: _Chrysost. Basil. Euthym. Arabs apud Muscul. Lyra. Hugo
Card. Turrecremat. Anonymus._]
[Sidenote e: _Ephes. 3. 8.16._]
[Sidenote f: _1. Tim. 4. 8._]
First, almightie God is to be blessed for giuing his Saints such eminent
gifts of grace for the good of his Church, and for the setting foorth of
his glorie. So _Chrysostome_, _Basil_, _Euthymius_, _Prosper_,
_Placidus_, _Parmensis_ expound it. [g]Euery good and perfit gift is
from aboue, descending from the father of lights, a good thought in a
saint is _gratia infusa_, a good word in a saint is _gratia effusa_, a
good deed in a saint is _gratia diffusa_, through his grace which is the
God of [h]all grace, saints are [i]whatsoeuer they are. Wherefore praise
the Lord in his Saints, often remember their vertues as their true
_reliques_, and as it were bequeathed [k]_legacies_ vnto Gods people. So
the wise man, Ecclesiasticus 44. _Let vs now commend the famous men in
old time, by whom the Lord hath gotten great glorie, let the people
speake of their wisdome, and the congregation of their praise._ So the
Confession of _Bohemia_, chap. 1
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