Exposition of the Festival Epistles and Gospels, Title page – Dedication
An EXPOSITION OF THE FESTIVALL EPISTLES AND Gospels vsed in our English Liturgie.
Together with a reason why the Church did chuse the same.
By IOHN BOYS Doctor of Diuinitie.
The first part from the Feast of S. ANDREVV the Apostle, to the Purification of blessed MARY the Virgin.
Psalme 151.1.
Laudate Dominum in Sanctis eius.
LONDON, Printed by EDVVARD GRIFFIN for William Aspley. 1615.
TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, GEORGE BY the diuine prouidence, Lord Archbishop of CANTERBVRIE, Primate of all England, and Metropolitane, &c. My very good Lord.
I Finde three sundrie readings of the first words in the last Psalme; Praise God in vis aHieron. Augustin. …Saints, praise God in his bAn…nymus and our old English translat.sanctitie, praise God in his cVatabius, Caluin, English Gene…bib. & Gesebr..r…s ex Cl ald….Sanctuarie. God is to be praised in his Saints, as hauing out of the riches of his merciemercy bestowed on them eminent gifts of grace, the which as their bequeathed d…. Imi…en. him de S. maxim….legacies and onelyonly true reliques are to be remembred often in Gods Church vntounto Gods people, that (as eSer. on C…ristmas day prea…hed at Bexterly.B. Latimer speakes) wee may worship the Saints in following their good examples. And so these three lines meeting in one center, intimate that the most holy (being donor of eueryevery good and perfect gift) ought to be magnified in his Sanctuarie for his sanctitie conferred vponupon his Saints, whereby they shined as fPhilip. 1.1…lights in this heauen on earth, and now shine like gD…. 12.3.starres in heauen of heauen. For this end I hauehave begun, and I hope to finish an exposition of the Festiuall Epistles and Gospels vsed in our English Liturgie. The which (howsoeuer herein I may seeme bold) yet am I bound to dedicate vntounto your Grace for many respectiue considerations, especially for this one, because your honourable disposition in the middest of a crooked nation is euermore to be both a patron and a paterne of vnfained sanctitie. Thus humbly beseeching the Lord to blesse, and your Grace to sauour these my labours; I rest
Your Graces seruant in all dutie, IOHN BOYS.