4th. They are yet more superstitious, for that they are not only used in God’s worship unnecessary and unprofitably, but likewise they hinder other necessary duties. They who, though they serve the true God, “yet with needless offices, and defraud him of duties necessary,” are superstitious in Hooker’s judgment.(443) I wish he had said as well to him as from him. What offices more unnecessary than those Roman rituals? yet what more necessary duties than to worship God in a spiritual and lively manner,—to press the power of godliness upon the consciences of professors,—to maintain and keep faithful and well qualified ministers in the church,—to bear the bowels of mercy and meekness,—not to offend the weak, nor to confirm Papists in Popery,—to have all things in God’s worship disposed according to the word, and not according to the will of man,—not to exercise lordship over the consciences of those whom Christ hath made free,—to abolish the monuments of by-past and badges of present idolatry; yet are those and other necessary duties shut quite out of doors by our needless ceremonial service. _Sect._ 5. 5th. The ceremonies are not free of superstition, inasmuch as they give to God an external service, and grace-defacing worship, which he careth not for, and make fleshly observations to step into the room of God’s most spiritual worship. Augustine(444) allegeth that which is said,—“The kingdom of God is within you,” Luke xvii. against superstitious persons, who _exterioribus principalem curam impendunt_. The Christian worship ought to be “in spirit, without the carnal ceremonies and rites,” saith one of our divines;(445) yea, the kingdom of God cometh not _cum apparatu aut pompa mundana, ita ut observari possit tempus vel locus_, saith a Papist.(446) Carnal worship, therefore, and ceremonial observations, are (to say the least) superfluous in religion, and by consequence superstitious.