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