_Hierome_, _Hugo_, _Raynerius,_ and other) is to _praise God in his
Saints_.

[Sidenote p: _Apocal._ 6. 10.]

[Sidenote q: _Psal._ 84. 6.]

[Sidenote r: _Apocal._ 7. 9.]

[Sidenote s: _Apocal._ 4. 4.]

These reasons are the grounds of certaine _holy daies_ established in
England by law, namely to blesse God for his Saints eminent grace while
they were liuing, and exceeding glorie now they be dead. Wherein our
Church ascribes not any diuine worship to the Saints, but all due praise
to the sanctifier: in celebrating their memorie (saith _Augustine_) we
neither adore their honour, nor implore their helpe: but (according to
the tenour of our text) wee praise him alone, [t]who made them both men
and martyrs. In the words of [u]_Hierome_ to _Riparius_: _Honoramus
reliquias martyrum, vt eum cuius sunt martyres adoremus: honoramus
seruos, vt honor seruorum redundet ad dominum:_ If thou desire to doe
right vnto the Saints, esteeme them as paternes, and not as patrones of
thy life; honour them only so farre, [x]that thou maist alway praise God
in them, and praise them in God.

[Sidenote t: _De ciuit. lib._ 8. _cap._ 27.]

[Sidenote u: _Tom._ 2 _fol._ 118]

[Sidenote x: _Philip Mornæus de missa, lib. 3 cap. 11. See Melanct.