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Religion. Religio.

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_Godliness_, 1. the Queen of Vertues, _worshippeth God_, 4. devoutly, _Pietas_, 1. Regina Virtutum _colit Deum_, 4. humiliter, the Knowledge of God being drawn either from the _Book of Nature_, 2. (for the work commendeth the Work-master) Notitiâ Dei, haustâ vel ex _Libro Naturæ_, 2. (nam opus commendat Artificem) or from the _Book of Scripture_, 3. she meditateth upon his Commandments contained in the _Decalogue_, 5. vel ex _Libro Scripturæ_, 3. recolit Mandata ejus comprehensa in _Decalogo_, 5. and treading Reason under foot, that _Barking Dog_, 6. she giveth _Faith_, 7. and assent to the Word of God, & conculcans Rationem, _oblatrantem Canem_, 6. præbet _Fidem_, 7. & assensum Verbo Dei, and _calleth_ upon him, 8. as a Helper in adversity. eumque _invocat_, 8. ut Opitulatorem in adversis.

_Divine Services_ are done in the _Church_, 9. in which are the _Quire_, 10. with the _Altar_, 11. _Officia Divina_ fiunt in _Templo_, 9. in quo est _Penetrale_ (Adytum, 10.) cum _Altari_, 11. the _Vestry_, 12. the _Pulpit_, 13. _Seats_, 14. _Galleries_, 15. and a _Font_, 16. _Sacrarium_, 12. _Suggestus_, 13. _Subsellia_, 14. _Ambones_, 15. & _Baptisterium_, 16.

All men perceive that there is a God, but all men do not rightly know God. Omnes homines sentiunt esse Deum, sed non omnes rectè nôrunt Deum.

Hence are divers _Religions_ whereof IV. are reckoned yet as the chief. Hinc diversæ _Religiones_ quarum IV. numerantur adhuc primariæ.