The world as a theatrical performance follows a “script,” instructing performers in their practice of praise. But it is also a garden of the senses, awakening yearning within them. As Calvin says: We see, indeed, the world with our eyes, we tread the earth with our feet, we touch innumerable kinds of God’s works with our hands, we inhale a sweet and pleasant fragrance from herbs and flowers, we enjoy boundless benefits; but in those very things of which we attain some knowledge, there dwells such an immensity of divine power, goodness, and wisdom, as absorbs all our senses.65
