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XXII 



That the more divisions there are in Church and State, 

 the more trouble and confusion is apt to ensue ; wherefore 

 too many controversies and disputes in the one, and too many 

 law cases and pleadings in the other, ought to be avoided and 

 suppressed. 



XXIII 



That disputes and factions amongst statesmen are fore- 

 runners of future disorders, if not total ruins. 



XXIV 



That all books of controversies should be writ in Latin, 

 that none but the learned may read them, and that there 

 should be no disputations but in schools, lest it breed factions 

 amongst the vulgar, for disputations and controversies are 

 a kind of civil war, maintained by the pen, and often draw 

 out the sword soon after. Also that all prayer-books should 

 be writ in the native language ; that excommunications should 

 not be too frequent for every little and petty trespass ; that 

 every clergyman should be kind and loving to his parishioners, 

 not proud and quarrelsome. 



xxv 



That ceremony is nothing in itself, and yet doth everything ; 

 for without ceremony there would be no distinction, neither in 

 Church nor State. 



XXVI 



That orders and professions ought not to entrench upon 

 each other, lest in time they make a confusion amongst them- 

 selves l , 



XXVII 



That in a well-ordered state or government, care should be 



1 Compare Clarendon's remarks (Book iv, sect. 38) on the encroachments of the com- 

 mon lawyers on the Church. 



