iust occasions separated some weeke daies vnto the praising of the Lord, and rest from labour.  Ioel 2. 15. Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemne assemblie. [cy]Daies of publike fasting for some great iudgement, daies of publike reioycing for some great benefit, are not vnlawfull, but exceeding commendable, yea necessarie.  Whosoeuer doubts of the Churches libertie herein, or of the practise of this libertie, may peruse the ninth chapter of Ester, in which it will appeare, that Gods people by the commandement of Mordecai, did euery yeare solemnize and keepe holy the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the moneth Adar, in remembrance of their great deliuerie from the Treason of Haman.  Vpon these grounds the last euer renouned Parliament enacted, That wee should for euer spend the prime part of this present fifth of Nouember in praying and praising the Lord, for his vnspeakable goodnesse in deliuering our King, Queene, Prince and States of this realme from that hellish, horrible, bloody, barbarous intended massacre by Gunpowder.  Now that I may for my part execute the will of the Parliament (sparing the Nouelists, and referring such as desire to bee further satisfied in this argument of holy dayes, vnto the iudicious writings of my most honoured and honourable maister, Archbishop Whitgift, in the [cz]defence of his answere to the Admonition) I proceede in the text, praise him in his noble acts, praise him according to his excellent greatnesse.

  [Sidenote cx:  B.  Babington in 4. com.  Caluins Cat.  Dr. Whitgift
  vbi supra fol. 542. & 553. six daies thou maiest labour.]

  [Sidenote cy:  Perkins aur.  Cat. cap. 23.]

  [Sidenote cz:  From pag. 538. to 555.]

[da]Some reade Laudate eum in [db]virtutibus eius, praise him in his powers:  [dc]other ob fortitudinem eius, praise him in his power; and according to these two diuerse translations, I find two different expositions; one construing it of Gods glorious [dd]Angels, and the other applying it to Gods glorious acts:  For the first it is euident in holy writ, that there bee certaine distinctions and degrees of Angels in the quier of Heauen, there be Seraphins, Esay 6. 2. Cherubins, Gen. 3. 24. Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, and Powers, Colloss. 1. 16. in all which and for all which God is to be praised, as being his [de]ministring spirits for the good of such as shall be heires of saluation; as long as wee serue God, all these serue vs, euen the Cherubins, and Seraphins, Angels, and Archangels.  I say, so long as we serue the Lord, these pages of his honour and parts of his courts attend vs, and pitch their tents about vs:  a doctrine very profitable, very comfortable, yet for as much as I hold it lesse pertinent to the present occasion I thus ouerpasse it, and hast to that other exposition interpreting these words (as our Church readeth) of Gods noble acts.