M.  Go forward.

      S.  Moreover, ^pto praise and magnify God’s goodness, justice, wisdom, and power, and to give him thanks in our own name and in the name of all mankind, is parcel of the worshipping of God, belonging as properly to his majesty as prayer; wherewith if we do not rightly worship him, surely we shall not only be unworthy of his ^qso many and so great benefits as unthankful persons, but also shall be most worthy of eternal punishments, as wicked against God.

      M.  Sith we also receive benefits of men, shall it not also be lawful to give them thanks?

      S.  Whatsoever benefits men do to us, we ought ^rto account them received of God, because he alone indeed doth give us them by the ministry of men.  For which cause also, though men ought not be beneficial and liberal of intent to get thanks, but to set forth ^sthe glory of God, yet to give thanks to them, that, ^tmoved by kindness, grant us anything beneficially and friendly, why should it not be lawful, sith both ^uequity requireth it, and by law of natural kindness we are bound unto it?  Yea, and God himself by this mean binding us unto them, willeth us to acknowledge the same.

      M.  Dost thou then allow a thankful mind to men also?

      S.  Yea.  Sith our thankfulness to men redoundeth to God himself, because from the spring-head of his divine liberality, as it were by certain guiding of water-courses, God conveyeth ^whis benefits to us by the hands of men; therefore if we shew not ourselves thankful to men, we shall be also unthankful to God himself.  Only this let us look well to, that ^xhis full glory return and redound to God alone, as to the author and fountain of all good things.

      M.  Is there any rule and prescribed form for us certainly to follow, when we glorify and honour God, or give him thanks?

      S.  Innumerable praises of God are commonly to be seen set out in his word, from the rule whereof if we vary not, we shall alway have a good pattern to follow, in giving to God his glory and honour, and in yielding him thanks.  Finally, in a sum, seeing the holy scriptures do teach that God is ^ynot only our Lord, but also our Father and Saviour, and we likewise are his children and servants, it is most meet that we employ all ^zour life to the setting out of his glory, render to him his due honour, worship, pray to and reverence him, and with heart and mouth continually thank him; sith we are to this ^aend created by him, and placed in this world, that his immortal glory should be in most great honour among men, and rise to most high magnificence.