" In these things have they set all their religion,
teaching the people that by these God may be duly pacified, spirits be
driven away, and men's consciences well quieted. For these, lo, be the
orient colours and precious savours of Christian religion; these things
doth God look upon and accepteth them thankfully; these must come in
place to be honoured, and put quite away the institutions of Christ and
of His Apostles. And like as in times past, when wicked King Jeroboam
had taken from the people the right serving of God, and brought them to
worship the golden calves, lest perchance they might afterward change
their mind and slip away, getting them again to Jerusalem to the temple
of God, there he exhorted them with a long tale to be steadfast, saying
thus unto them: "O Israel, these calves be thy gods. In this sort
commanded your God you should worship Him, for it should be wearisome and
troublous for you to take upon you a journey so far off, and yearly to go
up to Jerusalem, there to serve and honour your God." Even after the
same sort every whit, when these men had once made the law of God of non-
effect through their own traditions, fearing that the people should
afterward open their eyes and fall another way, and should somewhence
else seek a surer mean of their salvation, Jesu, how often have they
cried out, "This is the same worshipping that pleaseth God, and which He
straitly requireth of us, and wherewith He will be turned from His wrath.
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