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Title: An Exposition of the Last Psalme

Author: John Boys

Release Date: December 10, 2005 [EBook #17273]

Language: English

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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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GVNPOWDER
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, prais