190: A liZerdittion the'Apócàlypte. CAP. 4. pleafure : but let him behold here Kings attending to the voyceof the Bead's, nor that once or twice, andAt certaine times, but 'When- foever the "Reals giveglory that is,' ásoften as they 'doe execute their publïgue "01 ce.Thepraifing óif God ofthefé,and their adorati- on ofGod are joys edalwayestog.ether:fo that neither may any think that he is free and difcharged from his duty, neither to have perfor.1 med it enough at tome few times. I r Thou are worthy, O Lord .: The prating which the Elder: ufe in words is no other thing' then a fubfcribmg to the crying out and íhoutingof the Beajts : there celebrate the Holinejfe, Tomi- nion, Omnipotency and Truth of GoD. The Elders now doe fing together , Thou art Worthy indeed, O LORD, to receive glory and honour, which wee and all thy creatures worthily doe give to thee : as though unto the Fongof praifes of the Minifters,'the peo- ple fhould give their content, faying, eí4men. But how may God receive Power ? They mearse the praife of all vertue and power. Power cannot bee given to God otherwife, but only byacknow-. ledging and praifing. Which then fhinethforth molt clearely, when he fheweth hisRrength extraordinarily, both in deliveringhis owne, and alto in deftroyinghis enemies. For thou haft createdall things 7 The people ought not onely to . confent to the thankes given by the Minifbers, in the ¡neane time themfelvrs being voydofall knowledge of their owne) as it corn- meth topafhe in thePapacie, whereafter the prayers not underftood is fling Amen, by the unskilfull common people, or forne as they will, fupplying their place : but theircontent ought tocome from a truefaith, and that not confuted and implicite, but of which a true fenfe and feeling isfetled irreveryones heart peculiarly. For the God of reafon requireth a reafonable worthip, not unknowne rafh and voydof counfell. Whereupon not without caufe isadded from what fountaine the declarationofthe confent of the Elders, flowed, to wit, from their owne acknowledging of the exceeding power of God both in creatingall things, and alto inpreferving the fame and no leihe from the fenfe of his moft free good will, by which alone being moved, he made all things in the beginning, and go- verneth and preferveth the fame at this day, according to that Pay- ing, Who Worketh all things, after the counfell of hù Will, Ephef. chap. I. verf. r T. For which caufe, there is repeated in the end of the verfe, they have been created, that we may underfland that the will of,God not onely hath rule ingoverning thingsat thistithe, but
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