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secret and undeclared, though it have some counte 

 nance from the civil law, yet it is so opposite &quot; ex 

 diametro&quot; to the sense and course of the common 

 law, as it may well receive some limitation. 



CONCERNING THE LITURGY, THE CEREMONIES, 

 AND SUBSCRIPTION. 



FOR the liturgy, great respect and heed would be 

 taken, lest by inveighing against the dumb ministry, 

 due reverence be not withdrawn from the liturgy. 

 For though the gift of preaching be far above that of 

 reading ; yet the action of the liturgy is as high and 

 holy as that of the sermon. It is said, &quot; Domus 

 mea domus orationis vocabitur :&quot; &quot; the house of 

 prayer,&quot; not the house of preaching : and whereas 

 the Apostle saith, &quot; How shall men call upon him, 

 on whom they have not believed ? And how shall 

 they believe unless they hear ? And how shall they 

 hear, without a preacher ?&quot; it appeareth that as 

 preaching is the more original, so prayer is the more 

 final ; as the difference is between the seed and the 

 fruit : for the keeping of God s law, is the fruit of 

 the teaching of the law ; and prayer, or invocation, 

 or divine service, or liturgy, for these be but varieties 

 of terms, is the immediate hallowing of the name of 

 God, and the principal work of the first table, and of 

 the great commandment of the love of God. It is true 

 that the preaching of the holy word of God is the 



