7. [l]_Wee teach that the Saints are
worshipped truly, when the people on certaine daies at a time appointed,
doe come together to the seruice of God, and doe call to minde and
meditate vpon his benefits bestowed vpon holie men, and through them
vpon his Church_, &c. And for as much as it is kindly to consider,
_opus diei in die suo_, the worke of the day[m] in the same day it was
wrought; it is well ordered by the Church of England, that the most
illustrious and remarkable qualities of the saints are celebrated vpon
their proper festiuals, that on S. _Stephens_ day, we may learne by S.
_Stephens_ example to loue our enemies: on S. _Matthewes_ day, to
forsake the world and to follow Christ: on S. _Iohn the Baptist_ his
day, to speake the truth constantly, and to suffer for the same
patiently. Thus in stedfastnes of faith and godlinesse of life (_non
legere modo sed degere sanctorum vitas_, as [n]one wittily) to bee
followers of them as they were followers of Christ; is (as [o]blessed
_Latymer_ was wont to say) the right worshipping of Saints, and of God
in his Saints.

[Sidenote g: _Iames 1. 17._]

[Sidenote h: _1. Pet. 5. 10._]

[Sidenote i: _1. Cor. 15. 10._]

[Sidenote k: _Euseb. Emisen. hom. de S. Maximo._]

[Sidenote l: _See Harmon. confess. sect. 16. pag. 486._]

[Sidenote m: _Maior praesat. in Psal. 22._]

[Sidenote n: _Owin epigram. lib. 3._]

[Sidenote o: _Ser. on Christmas day preached at Bexterly, & ser. on
S. Stephens day at Grimstorpe._]

Againe, for as much as there is a _communion of Saints_, as we cofesse
in the Creed, a knot of fellowship betweene the dead Saints and the
liuing; it is our dutie to praise God for their good in particular, as
they[p] pray to God for our good in generall. It is required on our part
I say, to giue God most humble thanks for translating th{~e} out of this
[q]valley of teares into Hierusalem aboue, where they be [r]clothed with
long white robes, hauing palmes in their hands, and [s]crownes of gold
on their heads, euer liuing in that happie kingdome without either dying
or crying, Apocal. 21. 4. and this also (in the iudgment of _Augustine_,
_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 t