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 to blesse God for his Saints eminent grace while they were liuing, and exceeding glorie now they be dead. Wherein our Church ascribes not any diuine worship to the Saints, but all due praise to the sanctifier: in celebrating their memorie (saith _Augustine_) we neither adore their honour, nor implore their helpe: but (according to the tenour of our text) wee praise him alone, [t]who made them both men and martyrs. In the words of [u]_Hierome_ to _Riparius_: _Honoramus reliquias martyrum, vt eum cuius sunt martyres adoremus: honoramus seruos, vt honor seruorum redundet ad dominum:_ If thou desire to doe right vnto the Saints, esteeme them as paternes, and not as patrones of thy life; honour them only so farre, [x]that thou maist alway praise God in them, and praise them in God. [Sidenote t: _De ciuit. lib._ 8. _cap._ 27.] [Sidenote u: _Tom._ 2 _fol._ 118] [Sidenote x: _Philip Mornaeus de missa, lib. 3 cap. 11. See Melanct. resp. ad art. Bauar. art. 25._]