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CHRISTMAS DAY Morning Prayer.
PSALME 19.The Heauens declare the glorie of God, &c.
THE World resembleth a Diuinitie-Schoole, (saitha 1.1 Plutarch) and Christ (as theb 1.2 Scripture telleth) is our Doctor, instructing vs by his workes, and by his words. For asc 1.3 Aristotle had two sorts of wri∣tings, one called Exoterical for his common auditors, another Acroamatical for his priuate schollers and familiar acquaintance: so God hath two sorts of books, as Dauid intimates in this Psalm: namely,
- The Booke of his Creatures, as a Common-place booke for all men in the world, The heauens declare the glorie of God, vers. 1.2.3.4.5.6.
- The Booke of his Scriptures, as a statute-booke for his domesticall auditorie the Church, The law of the Lord is an vndefiled law, v. 7, 8, &c.
The great booke of the Creaturesd 1.4 in folio, may bee termed aptly the Sheepheards Kalender, and the Plough∣mans Alphabet, in which euen the most ignorant may runne (as thee 1.5 Prophet speakes) and reade. It is a Letter Patent, or open Epistle for all, as Dauid in our text, Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words into the ends of the world; there is neither speech nor language but haue heard of their preaching. For albeit heauen, and