An Exposition of the Last Psalme

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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 bConclusion 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:
Heere then all the three diuers lines ( praise God in his Saints, praise God in his sanctitie, praise God in his sanctuarie ) meet in one centrie; namely, God is to be praised in his sanctuarie for his sanctitie conferred vpon his Saints, whereby they shined as cmlights in this heauen on earth, and shine like cnstarres in that heauen of heauen. If I were not (according to the text and the time) foreward to prosecute the Gunpowder men, as the more dangerous enemies of God and his Gospell, I might vpon this ground take vp the bucklers against idle Nouelists , vtterly condemning the festiuals of holie Saints , established in our Church by good order of law. Their principal obiection is taken out of Pauls Epistle to the Galathians, chap. 4. verse 10. Yee obserue dayes and monethes, and times and yeares, I am afraid of you, lest I haue bestowed vpon you labour in vaine. To which answere is made, that there is a cofoure-fold obseruation of
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