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that which quickeneth both these doctrines of faith and 

 manners, is the elevation and consent of the heart ; 

 whereunto appertain books of exhortation, holy medi- 

 tation. Christian resolution, and the like. 



22. For the liturgy or service, it consisteth of the re- 

 ciprocal acts between God and man ; which, on the part 

 of God, are the preaching of the word, and the sacra- 

 ments, 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, sacrilices ; which were as 

 visible prayers or confessions : but now the adoration 

 being in spiritu et veritate, there remaineth only vittdi 

 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 

 falsehood. The decUnations 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 ; idola- 

 try, when we worship false gods, supposing them to be 

 true ; and witchcraft, when we adore false gods, know- 

 ing 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 peccatum ariolandi est repugnare, et 

 quasi scelus idololatriae 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 



