[da]Some reade _Laudate eum in [db]virtutibus eius_, praise him in his _powers_: [dc]other _ob fortitudinem eius_, praise him in his _power_; and according to these two diuerse translations, I find two different expositions; one construing it of Gods glorious [dd]Angels, and the other applying it to Gods glorious acts: For the first it is euident in holy writ, that there bee certaine distinctions and degrees of Angels in the quier of Heauen, there be _Seraphins_, Esay 6. 2. _Cherubins_, Gen. 3. 24. _Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, and Powers_, Colloss. 1. 16. in all which and for all which God is to be praised, as being his [de]ministring spirits for the good of such as shall be heires of saluation; as long as wee serue God, all these serue vs, euen the Cherubins, and Seraphins, Angels, and Archangels. I say, so long as we serue the Lord, these pages of his honour and parts of his courts attend vs, and pitch their tents about vs: a doctrine very profitable, very comfortable, yet for as much as I hold it lesse pertinent to the present occasion I thus ouerpasse it, and hast to that other exposition interpreting these words (as our Church readeth) of Gods _noble acts_. [Sidenote da: _Vulgar Latine Castalio._] [Sidenote db: _Pagnin._ In fortitudinibus.] [Sidenote dc: _Vatablus Munster._] [Sidenote dd: _Turrecremat. & Raynerius in loc._] [Sidenote de: _Heb. 1. 14._] Now the workes of God are of two sorts, _ad intra_ & _ad extra_: some be confined within himselfe, other extended towards vs: works of the sacred Trinitie within it selfe (as that the Father begets, and the Sonne is begotten, and the holy Ghost proceeds from both) are wonderfull acts of such an high nature that it is our dutie rather simply to adore, then subtilly to explore them: all his acts extended toward vs are summarilie reduced vnto two, namely the works of creation and redemption. [df]The worke of creation is attributed in the Masse of the matter to God the Father, in the disposition of the forme to God the Sonne, in the preseruation of both to God the holy Ghost. So likewise that of redemption, in election vnto God the Father, in the consummation vnto God the Sonne, in the application vnto the holy Ghost, all which are very _noble acts_, and God is to be praised in them _according to his excellent greatnesse_. The worke of creation is so mightie, that none could bring it to passe but the Father almightie: that God should haue nothing but nothing, whereof, wherewith, whereby to build this high, huge, goodly, faire frame; is a principle which nature cannot teach, and Philosophie will not beleeue. The worke of redemption is of farre greater might and mercy, for the making of the world was (if I may so speke) onely lip-labour vnto God, _he spake the word and it was done, he commanded and it stood fast_, Psalm. 33. 9. but Christ in redeeming the world said many words, and did many wonders, and suffered also many wounds.