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Where the truth of Religion is, there will be shows; ¹painted Religion and painted fire cannot heat, break •orth or ascend; but if it be true fire, or true Religion, it will break forth and show it self, as they say in the Spanish ⟨p. 282⟩proverb, three things cannot be kept in, fire, love, and a mans cough: so I may add grace as a fourth. As there cannot be a candle in a Lantern, but it may be seen through the horn; so there cannot be true grace but there will be shows: so that shows cannot be separated from Religion which is true, no more then light from the Sun, or heat from the fire.

Where the truth of Religion is, there will be showes; ¹painted Religion and painted fire cannot heat, break •orth or ascend; but if it be true fire, or true Religion, it will break forth and shew it self, as they say in the Spanish ⟨p. 282⟩proverb, three things cannot be kept in, fire, love, and a mans cough: so I may add grace as a fourth. As there cannot be a candle in a Lanthorn, but it may be seen through the horn; so there cannot be true grace but there will be shewes: so that shewes cannot be separated from Religion which is true, no more then light from the Sun, or heat from the fire.

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Shows are commanded as well as substance, for as the ¹Glory of a King is in the multitude of his Soldiers, so the Glory of Christ is in them that profess his Name, we are commanded as well to confess in mouth as to believe in heart.