incorruptible God even the glory of his wisedom and loue of his goodnes and power of his mercy and truth in devising ordaining the ceremonies callings and gestures appropriated to his own outward worship making the same powerful effectuall to draw mans heart unto him by working effectuall faith into such Images similitudes resemblances and likenesses as they in their discretion thought fittest to stir up devotion to beget reverence or to shew humility thankfulnes by which in time by degrees will get a reverent estimation of Gods ordinances euen his own attributes and titles yea and will presume to professe that Iure divino these are thy Gods O Israel that is this is the true outward worship of the God of Israel these be true callings gestures and ceremonies which by divine institution are ordeined to helpe to draw men to God through faith and sanctification of the spirit and so to be esteemed Therefore the Lord makes it an ordinance for ever that al his true Churches and true servants must onely conforme to such things in his worship and service as he hath in his word Required but the Lord never required kneeling as it is urged nor the other things in controversie therfore Gods true Churches and faithfull servants may not upon any neuer so reasonable termes conforme thereunto And here is either by direct consequent a manifest prohibition or else the Lord reasons most absurdlie which is fearefull blasphemie to thinke or inferre for else they might with the perswaders to conformitie of these dayes haue replied thou hast not forbidden it therefore wee may doe it and thou hast no reason to find fault with it seeing wee doe it to good intents and holy purposes But grant that the things which there are reproved were forbidden yet the manner of Gods reasoning remaines immutable Is there no commandement in the word for it or which is all one doth not the Lord require it then doth hee absolutly forbid conformitie unto it for the Lord hates whatsoever in the word is not required as these words being spoken with detestation do most manifestly declare Seeing then there is not one word of God for kneeling in the very act of receiving the sacrament nor any example of any Apostolick or Primitive Church for the practise thereof but from the beginning it was not so and seeing wee haue Christ his own example for a table gesture and the examples of all the blessed and now glorious Apostles who even after his ascention delivered that which they received of the Lord which must needs be granted was a table gesture and seing wee haue a direct commandement from the holy Ghost to follow them as they follow Christ it being their speciall care so to carrie thēselves in all actions of religious use especiallie as they might bee Examples for all Churches and Christians to follow for so I take this place to be understood and not to bee restrayned to that Church onely or to any particular occasion therein Yea seing this gesture as it is urged is not onely the Invention of man but in the verie first originall establishment of it in the publicke worship of God the direct commandement of that man of sin I referre it to everie godlie heart to consider whether with safetie of conscience wee may leave a table gesture for the use whereof we haue Christ and his disciples in the Institution for a patterne and the Apostles during their time and all Apostolicke Churches after them for 220. years for example and conforme to the gesture of kneeling never heard of in this kind till the Reall presence was established Is this to walke so as having the Apostles of Christ for an ensample or is there not Iust cause of lamentation and weeping to see so many worthie men and of most excellent parts for some worldly respects to become hereby the enemies of the crosse of Christ conforming now to that which formerlie they taught was to be abhorred You do verie ill therfore most Reuerent and learned men in offering to deale with vs poore and private Christians after the scholerlike manner of reasoning both in your publicke teaching pressing vs continually with arguments and that with such vehemencie as if nothing were wanting to our perfection but this conformitie to kneeling and in your private speeches tendring disputation when alas for pittie all our faithfull pastors hauing giuen vp their liues for the name of Christ are taken from vs and if any remaine yet there is no safetie to speake or write of those things If therefore you cannot procure libertie for such a course neuer yet obtained whatsoeuer you may pretend wherein freely and fully these questions may be handled according to that modest offer of dispute long agoe tendred then I humbly beseech you bee pleased either to confute that or the substance of it which hath been written and published against this ceremonie or els to set downe with the like conditions as the learned and godly men our late pastors haue offered your own arguments and reasons for this conformitie which you so eagerly presse and pursue and freeing the same from deceiueable subtilties of that dissembling sophistrie and vaine philosophie the speciall ornaments of that so affected kinde of teaching that wee of the vulgar may see and conceiue the force of them and whence it is drawen from God or men from the holy and inspired scriptures or from the writings and Canons of Councels or Testimonies of Fathers VVee do solemnly pofesse I dare speak in the name of all that in whatsoeuer wee haue no more for our warrant but the graue counsell learned opinion and holie practise of our most reuerent pastors which yet being sealed with their great and constant sufferings ought highly to be regarded of us for whatsoeuer they be to others or to your selues they are to vs the most faithfull messengers true and powerfull ministers of Iesus Christ since whose deprivations wee neuer heard men speake like them in that euidence of the Spirit and mightie power of the Holy Ghost to draw from sinne vnto holinesse O yee men of God you are in our very hearts to liue and die with you your memoriall is pretious would God all that we haue might redeeme the libertie of the Gospel in your ministerie notwithstanding I say we will freely for peace sake conforme unto you But if we can evidently produce one word of God against you or that you doe not bring his sacred warrant with you let it not seeme strange unto you that we runne not for company into the broad and easie way with you which none in this poynt Papist or Athiest will ever unfainedly oppose but rather expose our selues by this our refusall to open contempt grievous bands and perpetuall imprisonment professing publickly thereby our willingnesse and most ready minde yea heartie desire that that fire which our Lord and master brought with him and with his own hands
to conclude that if such worthy and reverent men euen masters in in Israel may not simply bee relied on or trusted unto in those great things of the Law VVherein they are most exercised and take greatest paines much more probable it is that they may erre in matters of ceremony which they count triviall and therefore do not halfe so carefullie look into so that undeniably it follows that it is no sufficient argumēt to bind the consciences of Christians to conform to this or that gesture in Gods worship because many grave and learned divines doe hold it indifferent and lawful yea as the cause standeth most fit and convenient seing as wise reverend and learned as they are have donne as much for most horrible errors as the doctrine of Purgatory Freewill merit yea that most damnable heresie of depriving of Princes Neither is it any disparagement to the trueth because those that professe it and will not betray it to conforme to error even mens meere devices are but Bibes some of them ministers and perhaps preachers but of no Reputation or account in the world seing these yea these onely do see and beleeve the trueth when it is hid from the wise and men of understanding Vnlesse therefore those Reverent and learned persons the patrons of conformity doe make it apparant that they ground their perswasions practise not barely though in seeming most strongly upon wit and reason antiquity wisdom or learning but soundly and evidently upon the word of God there is no force to move or bind the conscience in all their arguments or reasons whatsoever yea much rather and more safely they are at the very best to be but esteemed of that number from whom the Lord hath as yet hidden these things In this case therefore that most excellent and primcely saying of his majestie concerning his lawes may verie fitlie in my vnderstanding be vsed that speciall care is to be had to purge them from two corruptions Incerteintie and Noueltie For if our church gouernment or lawes ecclesiastical were freed from these that we might be certaine which are the true callings and which be the true ceremonies then let all peruerse and froward spirites that upon meere peevishnes or other refractarie humor will not conforme and subscribe be irreuocably adiudged vtterly vnworthie the gratious protection of so singular a souerainty But surely if in his most princely care to settle his subiects estates and to prevent the miseries of endles impouerishing suits he truly foresees the absolute necessitie of reforming these two corruptions in the Ciuill government Lett our lamentation finde fauour in his eares who are daily subiect to be most violencly traduced scornfully intreated and verie greevously fined even in the triple valew of our whole personall estates yea and to be perpetually imprisoned without baile or main prise onely because wee dare not in Gods publicke worship conforme vnto mens Inventions nor bowe downe vnto these devowring Cankers that do secretly consume the speciall and most principall ministeriall members of the Churches of Christ yea and haue hitherto fed vpon and are much strengthned or confirmed by euerie remedie which hath beene applied for their cure or remouall for if religion or the outward parte thereof consisting in Religious rites be subiect to these two Corruptions Alas how can poore Christians with any comfort or assurance of faith order their outward serving of God seing they haue no certeine rule for their actions gestures Ceremonies therein and appropriated thereunto but must either forsake the felowshippe of the Churches or conforme to the orders canons and directions which the Ecclesiasticall gouernors in euerie age successiuely shall in their wisedome and discretion thinke to be most fit for the times and meet or conuenient for the occasions Are not the outward actions and ceremonies ordained by the Lord him selfe for his publicke worship most certaine seales and assured evidences of his verie true and essentiall presence hath our holy faith any other help from the sences but by this means and do not all they that hinder the magistrate from establishing them say unto God departe from vs wee will none of these thy waies and from the contrarie are not the Inventions or traditions of men established in Gods outward worship infallible evidences and vnerring testimonies of the real presence of Sathan and do not they then that hinder the magistrate from casting them out fall down and worship him The Reverent Bishops in King Edwards dayes and all the first times of the most famous and blessed Qu. Eliz. of holy and verlasting memory held it necessarie that the Ancient and primitive discipline should bee restored and therefore these controverted ceremonies to be onely for a time retained as by the publick decree of the whole state more at large doth appeare which blessed be God is most religiously by our dread and soveraine Lord still retained and kept in force Now the most learned grave Bishops of this age professe that the King and state shall commit a greevous sin against the Lord if they do remooue any one of these things in question whatsoever and their Reason is undeniable if they can make it good viz. because they are every one of them ordeyned by God for so much directly doth their Iure divino and no Ceremony no Bishop being put together necessarily imply Now let our adversaries search all the the reporrs of the Common lawes and see if it bee possible to find any one case so full of contradiction and manifest Incertainty for suppose the next succession of these seas a thing I tell your greatly to be feared shall think it fit upon certaine good causes and considerations to bring in Images into our churches pressing only the old pretence ornamenti gratia and the crosse into the Lords supper for Reverence spittle and salte into Baptisme only for significancy and mysterie where shal Incertainty have an end unlesse of absolute necessity an unerring power be established for whose safe foundation they have in these things most wisely provided for can any doubtful matter possibly bee of Faith may any thing of religious use which is not of faith be conformed vnto in the worship of God and can any thing of this nature have certainty for the lawfulnes of it unlesse it bee evidently warranted by the word of God I conclude therefore that to conforme to any thing of religious use which is not commanded in the word of God or which is all one truely grounded thereon and so warranted thereby is to conforme to meere Incertainty Novelty even to I know not what which at the very best must needs be an ignorant worship a gesture at Random and a ceremony at all a very venture And if it be sin to vse Idle words in our ordinary talke and if those civill workes of our callings be they gestures or other actions if they be vnfruitfull not sauouring of the spirit
of Christ are to be esteemed even the least of them in their degree meere workes of Darknes must it not needs followe even by infinite degrees that much more it is horrible iniquite to conform to or vse idle words or gestures not comely in the most special presence of our most holy God even when wee are at his owne holy table and is not euerie thing Rash hastie Idle uncomely which is not warranted by the word of God must not the heart be prepared before the body or any part thereof can bring forth any word action or gesture which is good and can the heart possibly bee prepared any way but by conforming to the spirit of God according to the scriptures yea is not every other conformitie parcell of that Evill treasure Incertainty therefore and Novelty are very evill yea most deadly corruptions and being thus iustified in the publick worship of God will corrupt and eate into all the civill procedings of the state whatsoever If then it bee subiect to his non fuit sic ab initio though it be of never so great antiquity yea therin may be coryval with the real presence and though the ordeyners thereof and pleaders for it had all the wit and learning of whole universities and the most absolute wisdom of a nationall Synode yet hee that could not erre hath adjudged it to bee a meare Novilty was it not so from the beginning of the sacrament did this gesture or these ceremonies creepe into the worship of God after the Apostolicall times mentioned in the scripture then with out all question though all the learned men in the whole world hold it and them lawfull yet it is a Novelty and they meere and idle Incerteinties for nullum tempus occurrit Regi wherefore as our said soveraine Lord and most learned King sayd to the grave and learned Iudges of the land Remember you are no makers of law but interpreters of the Law according to the true sence thereof even so I beseech al godly pastors and learned divines if they sincerely desire to build up the house of God and not to breake down the carved work thereof with axes and hammers bee pleased to remember that they are not to make rules or lawes cannons or constitutions in the Churches of Christ to bind the Consciences of Christians withall but onely to interprete and divide the word of God aright being the onely Cannon and sole rule of the Conscience and that not after this fathers or that Counsels opinion or Iudgement or the practise of later or more ancient Churches but according to the true sence of the spirit alwayes and onely evident in the scriptures And is it the Kings office to protect and settle the true interpretation of the law of God within his Dominions oh blessed and for ever blessed shall such bee then questionles will our Lord and master the great King of heaven and earth protect all those that stand for the true interpretation thereof and are readie to conforme to any thing that is evidently grounded thereon and refuse not conformity unto anithing but what is not warranted thereby Therefore brethren all that seeke the Lord with upright and honest hearts let them in these cases of Controversie not Runne into this or that Corner or country after an old Rabbie or a new Doctor but goe directly and plainly to the Law and to the testimonie for resolution truely given by the word of God doth onely bind the consciences of men And all Fathers or Counsels Doctors or Canons how Ancient and universall soever which Command or perswade to Conforme to any thing in Gods worship of Religious use and do not speake according to this word it is most certain they have no light in them But here my Lord indifferents light horsmen offer a light skirmish and say that these things not being forbidden in the word Christians have liberty to use or not to use as they think good or as the magistrate is pleased to command No saith the holy Ghost whosoever speaks not according to the word that is according to the doctrine of the word or practise of the Church mentioned in and approved by the word there is verily nothing but darknes in them for Christ is that light even the whole and onely light of the whole universall Church and is not the light of his word in these things which are so pressed and urged then whosoever followes or conforms unto them walks in darknes even as those that conforme to any thing truely grounded on the word follow Christ and so do not walk in darknes Is not his light of the word then but the darknes of mans wisdom and humane learning onely in these things then verily is the Prince of darknes strongly and most firmely for them oh how fearefull if he prevail which the Lord of light forbid must needs that darknes be and who dare conforme therunto will the pretence of not being forbidden shift off these things If therefore your pastors cannot make it appeare that the things which they perswade you to conform unto are according to the word of God you are bound in conscience not to yeeld unto them because you may not have any kind of fellowship with any actions gestures or other works which have no light but Darknes in them and all things are made manifest onely by the light of the word lykewise you know that Jesus Christ is that faithfull and true witnesse we may more falsely depend on his Testimony then on all the fathers and Counsels Cannons and Doctors in the whole world But they say that all these do sweare directly that kneeling even as it is vrged and so all things els in controuersie is both lawfull and Convenient but what saith that vneerring witnes heere our aduersaries reply that as he saith nothing for the gesture so he hath not one word against it or any of the rest I demand then whether this gesture be a true gesture or a lying gesture they must needs say a true gesture or els they shame all but can it possibly be so and that faithful and true wittnes never gaue any kind of testimony vnto it and wee haue a direct comandement to heare him in all things not in doctrines of faith only but in doctrins of gestures and ceremonies also yea in whatsoeuer is in any degree of religious vse do not stumble at the next wordes for they are all plain to him that will vnderstand for wherein consists the faithfullnes of Christ his Testimony but in revealing or making knowne all things concerning faith or gouernmēt gestures or ceremonis yea whatsoeuer the father would haue the Churches at any time in his worship and service to conforme vnto but to vse onely his owne wordes All things that I haue heard of my father I haue made knowne vnto you but he made knowne unto them that a
maine question then is which is the true gesture for on all sides it will be granted that that onely is to be conformed unto Shall we take the Reede of reason or the Rule of mans wisedome and learning to measure this withall verily no for these savour not the things of the spirit neither are they neither can they be subiect to the Law of God Let us looke therefore what was in the beginning Our Lord and Saviour used without all question in the first institution of the Supper whatsoever was essentially necessarie either for substance or decēcie but a gesture yea a tru gesture in the institution was essentially necessarie for a false gesture had been sinne and without a gesture it could neither be delivered nor receiued therefore that which hee used was and is without all contradiction the true gesture and therefore also that which was and is onely and for the action essentiallie necessarie Seeing then he used a table gesture and all they that did represent the whole universall and particular succeeding Churches to the end of the world did receiue the blessed Sacrament of the most pretious body and bloud of our Lord with a table gesture unlesse like Divine authoritie for another gesture as well as for altering the time place and number of communicants can bee produced Gods holy word and my blessed Saviours and his Apostles example are sufficient and sound warrant for my faith to beleeue that a Table gesture is the onely true and lawfull gesture and that no other in any respect ought to be conformed unto But here starts out a gallant company of most braue fellowes that haue laine close in ambush till fit opportunitie served and they set verie hotlie upon the hinder parts of the truth with a terrible noise crying out That this is utterly against the current of the Scripture yea directly against that libertie wherewith Christ hath made us free For howsoever to conforme to the Iewish ceremonies is not onely to be intangled againe with the yoake of bondage for looke whose ceremonies we use or conforme to we make our selues thereby his bondmen but to loose the whole profit and benefite of all Christ his merits yea even to be utterly abolished from Christ and to fall from grace how fearfull a thing therefore is conformity to unwarranted ceremonies yet notwithstanding in cases of conveniencie though nothing of the like extremitie as ours and for the preservation of the Churches peace as verie now it fares with us the same Apostle was content for a time to conforme himselfe to divers of those verie ceremonies and therefore where the like causes doe concurre we may yeeld to the like effects Here of necessity wee must make a stand they come on so hotly as if they meant to share the spoyle forthwith and making strong head against them as with a valiant crue of Targetteers of good proofe VVee referre therefore to their learned consideration first that the Iewish ceremonies here spoken of were in their first original good and holy being ordained by God himselfe so was never any of these things in controversie but at the very first unwarrantable and therfore wicked and sinfull and secondly we giue them to understand out of the English long bow that though these ceremonies were indeed to be abolished yet the time of their enduring was not fully expired till that the Gospell was planted and lastly by the report of a Canon their security is to be admonished and themselues informed that the ceremonies of the Law were to be buried with honour and entombed in princely sepulchres but these of mens devising with all possible reproch contempt and disgrace so that here is no proportion betwixt the liberty of Paul and that which they pretend and brag of unlesse therefore they can shew that in some place where the Gospel was planted Paul did conforme to some of the said ceremonies as of religious use in Gods publicke worship they may verie well lay down their weapons and betake them to their heeles VVhat needs that quoth a bold Corporall when a better man then ever Paul was did absolutely conforme in the first famous Church that was called Christian even Peter the Prince of all the Apostles but good sir the Holie Ghost his directly reproving him by PAVL for the same doth fully answer all obiections of that kinde But here fearing a foil they wynd about and make two half circles and with one wherin the principal of their force cōsists they make quick reply and say that God commaunded that in all matters too hard for vs to iudge we must repaire to the magistrate preist cōform according to that which they shall inform not decline to the right hand nor to the left now both these they say in this controuersie about the gesture and the other ceremonies do directly determine that kneeling euen as it is urged is absolutely the true and best gesture and all the other things in question both lawfull and most convenient and therefore all that will do presumptuously and not conforme to these things ex animo ought not to be fined in thousands and committed to perpetuall imprisonment but even to loose their liues for that is to take away Evill from Israell Hereunto keeping our first ground without any alteration or disorder in our Ranks we do say that the Priesthood is quite remooved out of the Church and ought not so much as once to be mentioned in these dayes of the cleere light of the Gospell as a title in any respect unbefitting the ministers of the word yea seing that goverment is absolutely taken away this law being meerely politicall is utterly repealed The other 2 quarters or half circles having by this time well refreshed themselves thinking they had us now at a great advantage and in a strait ioyn with the former so make one full compleat body and making great shew of a Resolution even to set their rest upon it they come forward with great courage and in very good order and reply that the Equitie of that law is morall and binds perpetually and therefore by direct consequent obligeth us to conformity Here the Corporal cries yeeld yeeld But to this knowing that there is not one iot of manhood or true valour in them and that when it comes to the push indeed they dare not for their liues abide the triall by dint of the sword of the spirit wee ioyne with them and receive their shock most ioyfullie and tell them that this is very true and we do most readily subscribe thereunto seeing then these and all other types were removed to Christ this Equitie being morall doth perpetually bind all Christian Churches in matters too hard and difficult to heare him yea in all things seeing hee is that beloved Sonne in whom God is well even fully and perfectly and onely pleased look what he
sensible savouring the things that are of men as how we ought to pitty our selues our wiues and children and so prevent the unavoidable evils of non-conformitie but yet they understand not in this poynt the things that are of God namelie that rather then we should conforme to anie thing in his worship which he hath not in the word commanded we must forsake yea we must hate or denie in this case all affection of dutie reverence loue tender care or whatsoever to father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and our owne liues also or else we cannot bee the disciples of Christ Must not these graue and learned perswaders then of absolute necessitie bee an offence unto every faithfull and tender heart Goe on therefore my brethren and be of good courage and assure your selues that in suffering for not conformitie to kneeling you suffer for the Lord Christ and to yeeld against the light of your hearts is to be ashamed of him seeing these things doe directly follow from his own words even wheÌ„ for feare of men spiritually adulterated we will conforme to things of divine use in his worship which he never commanded but are onely warranted to our consciences by the advise of the learned or the precepts of men the traditions of the Elders and other like humane authorities All which without warrant from the word even euery one of them in particular and generally altogether are Lyars and therefore all the gestures or actions ceremonies or or callings of religious use in the worship of God which they perswade unto without warrant from the word are lying gestures lying actions lying ceremonies and lying callings not but like the Divel they may speake professe and acknowledge some excellent truths but that the maine thing they aime at is to maintaine some errour or other and therefore all the volumes in the world filled with all the Art learning wisedome and discretion of the whole world compared with or set against one verse in the sacred Scriptures are to bee esteemed most filthy and stinking dung But haue we but one sentence in the Bible for a table-gesture which yet were sufficient against all humane opinions and authorities whatsoever haue we the first institution onely or barely mentioned do not everie one of the Evangelists make mention of a supper or a table of rising from supper and sitting down and of sitting even in the act of administring and receiving the sacrament yea doe not diuers places in the Acts and Epistles plainly inferre the continuance of a table gesture and therefore to bee the direct ordinance of Christ But it seems an impudent generation is come up who dare affirm that the Sunne of the Church must if they make such a charme or Canon stand still continually and not stir at all as once it did for one whole day in Gibeon but the Moone especially not to moue one inch as for that time it did not in the valley of Aielon further then they in their discretion shall thinke to bee fit and so by their wit and learning are bold to defend that the earth is in circular motion all the world and the creatures therein turning round continuallie yea they are most confident if they may haue audience to make any indifferent hearer that comes without preiudice to conforme and subscribe to â—his opinion Doth not the spirit of giddinesse possesse the heads of these men are not these the true successors of those learned Divines graue Rabbies great Doctors that still cried out to Christ Shew us a signe make it appeare that there is a Sun in the firmament proue unto us that there is a God or which was as evident that thou art the Messias Seeing then all things whatsoeuer of religious use which the father would haue the Church to know and conforme unto are treasured up in the word though every one indeed can not come at them deny this if they dare it must needs follow that either the gesture of kneeling as it is urged is a a humane Invention or as you would say in playne termes a very starke lie though hansomlie lapped up and therefore of the divell the father of lies though artificially painted perhaps by some of his limmers with the very best Italian beauties or else if it bee a trueth and therefore to bee conformed unto then there be some unwritten trueths or vereties which the Churches are bound of conscience to beleeve and conform unto and yet not commanded in the word of truth then it must needes follow besides the scriptures and either let our learned adversaries make this large breach for the Iesuites at pleasure to enter by or else for starke shame discharge no more such furious Cannon shot against our bullet-beaten fortresse The scriptures sufficiency Is it not high time to take away these presumptuous causes which purposely teach and perswade Conformity to such blasphemous doctrins out of Israel being the best seeds of the verie worst evils thereof I conclude therefore it is farre better to expose our estates and bodies to the greatest malice of our greevous adversaries by standing for a gesture without all exception then by conforming to one which that Prophet never taught no nor so much as once mentioned in that manner and forme as it is urged and so to be by him Destroyed out of the people For must we have his warrant and heare him onely in the doctrine of the sacrament and shall wee not care for his warrant nor regard what his word saith for the gesture of the sacrament And for those who in these matters of God concerning his publick worship insist so much and with such violence upon prohibitions a service sometimes not very acceptable to them crying out unto us shew one place where the Lord forbids these things and wee will yeeld that it is a damnable sin to conforme unto them I am bould with their good leave to Remember them of one other argument of the Lords own making concerning this very subiect of the actions ceremonies and gestures in this publick worship and service which he purposely framed and committed also to writing for the use of all posterity even to bee a lanthorne of our feet and an unerring light to our paths in these very occasions and in most plain evidence of the spirit it stands thus By the light of nature all mankind knows that there is a God therfore everie one wil worship him as wel as he caÌ„ though it bee not according unto knowledge to glorifie him as God for that is impossible without direction from his spirit according to the scriptures but though they have excellent wisdom and admirable understanding yet even the learnedest of them when they professe themselves greatest Clarkes proue themselues the veriest fooles because they become vain in their thoughts their foolish hearts are full of darknes for they turn the glory of the