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Show ~Of the ttd~tttncenient of leartiing ~~although the. vfe of holy vowes of thankefulne·rre ... ~nd retribution, may be accounted-alfo as fealed pe. / titions. And·for the-lGouernm.cnt of the Church , it ·fconfifteth of the patrimonie of the church,the fran ... "chiles of the .Ch urch,-and the otfic~s, and iurifdiai .. ·-ons of the Church , and the Lawes oft he Church ,·di e&ing the ~vhol~ · ~ All ·wh.ich haue two confi- . derations; · the one in them felues: the other how ··they fiand. compatibleandagr~eable to theCiuill .. sEfiate. · · This matter of Diuinitir is handled either in ·'forme of jnfirudion of truth :or in forme of con .. Jut'!ti0n of taJlhood. The_ declinations from Re. :· ligion befides the·primitiue whith is Atheifme and the Branches thereof; are three, Here(ies, Idolatrie, .and Witch .. cr4ft, :~Herejie.r, ~hen weferuethetrue · G 0 D with a falfe wor1hip. Itl1latrie, when wee \vorfhip falfe ~ads, fuppofing ·thern to be true: and Witch .. crttf~ , \vben wee adore ~falfe Gods · kn~wing tlfem to be wicked and falfc. Forfo your M~ielHe_doth cxceJ,Iendy well obferue, that Witch. . ;.u4fi is the height of Idolatry. And-yet we fee thagh rhefe be truedegrees,-S4mue/ t<:achetb us that they · are all of a nature , when there i·s once a receding · from the \vor.d.of. -G OD, forfo he ~ith , Jl!!ffi Peccatum atiolandi eJl repugn.are, & quaftfteltts Idolb,. -../aJrit£ nolle acquie(cere. The(e thinges I haue paffed ouer fo ·:briefely :hecaufe I --can report noe: 4eficiencc .. concerning I. · ' thetn(J 'The ficond hoo{e. . · ( t J ·lhtm: Fori can findenofpaceotgroundihatJi .. ct.h vacant and vnfowne in the mattrr of ·Diuini. tie, fo diligent _haue ~en berne ,eir h erin !owing of good f~ed(' ,or 1n fo\vJng of Tares. · ~Tkus haue I made as it were a fmaJI Globe of the Intdle.etuall worl~, as truly and fait_hfuJJy as I coulde dtfcouer, wnh a note and defcnption of thofe parts which feeme to mee,- not conllaritly occupate., or not weJJ conuerted by the labour of Man. In which , jflhaue inanypointreced(d from that which is commonly rcceiued, it hath becne·with a purpofe of proceeding in. mtlills, and n~t in t~li11d : a min de of amendment and profici .. ence ; and not of change and dHFerence. For I could not bee true and confiant to the argument I . · handle,"ifi were not willi.ng.to goe beyond others, but yet not more willing, then to hatJeothersgoc: beyond.'mee againe: which may the better appeare ·bythis that I haue propounded myopinionsnake~ and vnarmed,not fee king to preoccupare the Ii- . bertie of mens iudgements by confutations. Fot in · any thing·w hich is well fet downe , I am in good bope,t hat if the firfl:. reading mooue an obie¢liori, . .the fecond reading will make an anfwere. And in rhofe things wherein I hauee~red, I am fure I haue not preiudicC'd the right by litigious arguments; which certainly haue this conrrarie (ffeet and 9pe. , ration, that they add.e authoritie to error, and de. Qroy the authoritie of that which is wellinuenred. H h h · For ) . |