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visible prayers or confessions: but now the adoration 

 being in spiritu et veriiate, there remaineth only viluli 

 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, 

 Quasi peccalum ariolandi est repugnare, el quasi scelus idolo- 

 latricc 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. 



