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An
E X P O S I T I O N
of the last
Psalme.

Delivered in A sermon
preached at PAVLES
Crosse the fifth of Nouember 1613.
Which I haue ioyned to the Festiuals
as a short Apologie for our
Holy daies in the Church
of England.

Dedicated vnto my honorable
friend and most respected kinsman Sir William
Monins Baronet.

By IOHN BOYS, Doctor
of Diuinitie.

AT LONDON
Imprinted by Felix KYNGSTON, for
William Aspley. 1615.

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treason day.

Psalme 150.
O praise God in his holinesse, &c.

All the Psalmes of Dauid are comprised in two words, [a]_Halleluiah_, and Hosanna, that is, blessed be God, and God blesse; as being for the greater part either praiers vnto God for receiuing mercies, or else praises vnto God for escaping miseries.  This our present Hymne placed as a [b]Conclusion of the whole booke; yea, the beginning, middle, end, to which all the rest (as [c]_Musculus_ obserueth are to be referred) inuiteth vs in prescript and postscript, in title, in text, in euery verse, and in euery Clause of euery verse to praise the Lord.  Teaching these two points especially: 

  1.  For what } God is to be magnified.
  2.  With what }

For what, vers. 1, 2. O praise God in his holinesse, praise 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.