The Hidden sorcerer, difcovered. 135 exaUand curious workmen , and fcarce ever queflioned in many generations, but received as if made by God himfelfe: yet even thefe things (hall be difcovered and deteîted, and the Idols andIdol-makers fhall be confounded together. And, why (hall all thefe things bedone ? It follows in the laf# words read, And thoufbalt no more worfbip the work, of thy hands. Beloved, what doe all men when they by their wiJ= dom and inventions cut out forms and platforms ofReligion, and one fquares his Idol this way, and another tother way ; this Church hath this way andrule,& tother another form,as every one thinks bell; fomany Churches,(as they call them) fo manyfeverall forms,and thefe they pranke,and adore,and admire themfelves in admiring them,this form and that new cut, and that mode: and the next he muff mend,and pare,and adde, andhe thinks to neatijie it, and make it more pitiable and commendable, and fo more generally to be received, that the more may like it, that he may have the more tobe of his members andChurch, and they may be eíleemed the bell re- formed,and neareft the rule : what (I fay) doe all thefe men doe but wortbip the work of their own hands ? And, becaufe they are fquard according to the rule (as they fay) and have flood long in the efleem of the world, therfore he that (hall quefion their way, and their wifdom, and their Religion or their principles, mull be no hire then an tieretic&e,a deceiver, a Iefuit any thing. Loo7 upon the Papifis, and obferve how many genera- tions they have flood in theirform ofworlhip, and how gene- rally it hath been received in one halfe of the world ; yet we conclude they are no other but Idolaters. And ifwe !hall examine, and bring to the touch many received opinions con- cerning Chrift, and concerning the Scriptures, and the word ofGod, and wafl,inQs, and baptizings, and breaking of bread, as they arenow ufed , and as they are and have been gene- rally in ufe, we (hall finde them no other but inventions of men, according as they underfland the Scriptures, and fay, thefe are the things themfelves, though not in words yetin their practices they fay no leite, and areno other (as they ufe them) but Idols, and the work of their own hands : and thefe
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