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visible prayers or confessions: but now the adoration 
being 7 spiritu ef verifale, there remaineth only vzfulz. 
labiorum; although the use of holy vows of thankful- 
ness and retribution may be accounted also as sealed 
petitions. : 
23. And for the government of the church, it con- 
sisteth of the patrimony of the church, the franchises of 
the church, and the offices and jurisdictions of the church, 
and the laws of the church directing the whole; all which 
have two considerations, the one in themselves, the other 
how they stand compatible and agreeable to the civil 
estate. 
24. This matter of divinity is handled either in form 
of instruction of truth, or in form of confutation of false- 
hood. The declinations from religion, besides the priva- 
tive, which is atheism and the branches thereof, are three; 
heresies, idolatry, and witchcraft : heresies, when we serve 
the true God with a false worship; idolatry, when we wor- 
ship false gods, supposing them to be true; and witch- 
craft, when we adore false gods, knowing them to be 
wicked and false. For so your Majesty doth excellently 
well observe, that witchcraft is the height of idolatry. 
And yet we see though these be true degrees, Samuel 
teacheth us that they are all of a nature, when there is 
once a receding from the word of God; for so he saith, 
Quast peccatum artolandi est repugnare, el quasi scelus tdolo- 
latrie nolle acquiescere. 
25. These things I have passed over so briefly because 
I can report no deficience concerning them: for I can 
find no space or ground that lieth vacant and unsown in 
the matter of divinity: so diligent have men been, either 
in sowing of good seed, or in sowing of tares. 
