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Here is a strange inversion,¹ Veritas illuminate Magos; Infidelit as obcoecat Magistro•: Trueth guides the Magicians, Unbelief blinds the Priests. They that were used to Necromantic Spells and Charms, begin to understand the truth of a Saviour: whiles they that had him in their Books, lost him in their Hearts. Utuntur paginis, quarum non credunt eloquijs: They turn over the leaves, and believe not their Contents. To what end were all their quotidian Sacrifices? If they were not types and figures of a Mes•ias, what other thing made they their Temples, but a Butchers shambles?

Heere is a strange inuersion,¹ Veritas illuminat Magos; Infidelit as obcoecat Magistro•: Trueth guides the Magitians, Vnbeliefe blindes the Priestes. They that were vsed to Necromanticke Spelles and Charmes, begin to vnderstand the truth of a Sauiour: whiles they that had him in their Bookes, lost him in their Hearts. Vtuntur paginis, quarum non credunt eloquijs: They turne ouer the leaues, and beleeue not their Contents. To what end were all their quotidian Sacrifices? If they were not types and figures of a Mes•ias, what other thing made they their Temples, but a Butchers shambles?

1. 1Leo serm. 3. in Loc. cap. 3.

Now the Mercy and Grace of our Lord Jesus, keep us from this apostate wickedness. Let Trueth never speak it of us, that we have the Book of the Lord in our Hands, not the doctrine in our Consciences. That we have Gods Seals, yet un-marked Soules. That De virtutibus vacui loquim••: ¹