Note 472 — TABLE DES MATIÈRES CONTENUES DANS LE DEUXIÈME VOLUME.

:.... As if they could make God earthly and fleshy, because they could not make themselves heavenly and spiritual, they began to draw down all the divine intercourse betwixt God and the soul, yea the very shape of God himself, into an exterior and bodily form.... They hallowed it, they fumed it, they sprinkled it, they bedecked it, not in robes of pure innocence, but of pure linnen, with other deformed and fantastick dresses, in palls and mitres, and guegaws fetched from Aaron's old wardrobe, or the Flamin's vestry. Then was the priest set to con his motions and his postures, his Liturgies and his Lurries, till the soul by these means of overbodying herself, given up justly to fleshy delights, bated her wing apace downward; and finding the ease she had from her visible and sensuous collegue the body, in performance of religious duties, her pinions now broken and flagging, shifted off from herself the labour of high-soaring any more, forgot her heavenly flight, and left the dull and drailing carcase to plod on the old road, and drudging trade of outward conformity. (Of Reformation in England.)