Produced by Louise Hope, Jason Isbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's Note: A few details of transcription are given at the end of this file, along with a list of errata.] * * * * * 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._ * * * * * 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, praise him in the firmament of his power, praise him in his noble acts, praise him according to his excellent greatnesse._ With what, euen with all that is Without vs, vers. 3. 4. 5. _Praise him in the sound of the trumpet, &c._ Within vs, vers. 6. _Omnis spiritus_, &c. _Let euery spirit praise the Lord, praise yee the Lord._ [Sidenote a: _Gueuara._] [Sidenote b: _Lyra in loc._] [Sidenote c: _In loc._]