Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…

XXI. Reason: Their Religion greatly tendeth to Mortify Christianity, and turn it into a dead Image, by destroying much of its life and power: 1. By befriending Ignorance, and hiding the holy Scripture, forbidding all the people to read them in a known tongue without a special license: blaspheming Gods Word, as if so read, it had more tendency or likelihood to hurt men than to profit them, to damn them than to save them; when they will say otherwise of all their own Vulgar postils and such like writings.

XXI. Reason: Their Religion greatly tendeth to Mortifie Christianity, and turn it into a dead Image, by destroying much of its life and power: 1. By befriending Ignorance, and hiding the holy Scripture, forbidding all the people to read them in a known tongue without a special license: blaspheming Gods Word, as if so read, it had more tendency or likelihood to hurt men than to profit them, to damn them than to save them; when they will say otherwise of all their own Vulgar postils and such like writings.

2. And by teaching the people a blind devotion, viz. to pray in an unknown tongue, and to worship God by words not understood.

3. And by making up a Religion much, if not far most, of external formalities, and a multitude of ceremonies, and the opus operatum of their various Sacraments; ⟨p. 71⟩As if God delighted in such actions as befit not the acceptance of a grave and sober man; or as if Guilt and Sin would be wiped off, and charmed away into virtue and holiness, by such corporeal motions, shows and words.