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Son, whose attribute is wisdom ; and sins of malice against the 

 Holy Ghost, whose attribute is grace or love. In the motions 

 of it, it either moveth to the right hand or to the left ; either 

 to blind devotion or to profane and libertine transgression 

 either in imposing restraint where God granteth liberty or in 

 taking liberty where God imposeth restraint. In the degrees 

 and progress of it, it divideth itself into thought, word, or act 

 And in this part I commend much the deducing of the law of 

 God to cases of conscience ; for that I take indeed to be a 

 breaking, and not exhibiting whole of the bread of life But 

 that which quickeneth both these doctrines of faith and 

 manners is the elevation and: consent of the heart where- 

 unto appertain books of exhortation, holy meditation, Christian 

 resolution, and the like. 



(22) For the liturgy or service, it consisteth of the reciprocal 

 acts between God and man ; which, on the part of God are 

 the preaching of the word, and the sacraments, which are seals 

 to the covenant, or as the visible word ; and on the part of man 

 invocation of the name of God ; and under the law, sacrifices 

 which were as visible prayers or confessions: but now the 

 adoration being in spiritu et veritate, there remaineth only 

 mtuh labwrum ; 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 consisteth 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 con 

 siderations, 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 in 

 struction of truth, or in form of confutation of falsehood. 

 I he declinations from religion, besides the privative, 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 worship false gods, sup 

 posing them to be true ; and witchcraft, 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 

 lie saith, Quasi peccatum ariolandi estrepugnare, et quasi scelus 

 idololatnce nolle acquiescere. 



(25) These things I have passed over so briefly because I 

 can report no deficiency concerning them : for I can find no 



