and instruments for the public worship, as table, table-cloths, &c. _Ans._ 1. The Bishop, I see, taketh upon him to coin new distinctions at his own pleasure; yet they will not, I trust, pass current among the judicious. To make things holy by consecration of them to holy uses for policy, is an uncouth speculation, and, I dare say, the Bishop himself comprehendeth it not. God’s designation of a thing to any use, which serves for his own glory, is called the sanctification of that thing, or the making of it holy, and so the word is taken, Isa. xiii. 3; Jer. i. 5, as G. Sanctius noteth in his commentaries upon these places; and Calvin, commenting upon the same places, expoundeth them so likewise; but the church’s appointing or designing of a thing to an holy use, cannot be called the making of it holy. It must be consecrated at the command of God, and by virtue of the word and prayer: thus are bread and wine consecrated in the holy supper, _Res sacrae_, saith Fennerus,(472) _sunt quae Dei verbo in praedictum usum sanctificatae et dedicatae sunt_. Polanus, speaking of the sacramental elements, saith,(473) _Sanctificatio rei terrenae est actio ministri, qua destinat __ rem terrenam ad sanctum usum, ex mandato Dei, &c._ The Professors of Leyden(474) call only such things, persons, times and places holy, as are consecrated and dedicated to God and his worship, and that _divina praescriptione_. If our ordinary meat and drink cannot be sanctified to us, so that we may lawfully, and with a good conscience, use those common things, but by the word of God and prayer, how then shall anything be made holy for God’s worship but by the same means? 1 Tim. iv. 5. And, I pray, which is the word, and which be the prayers, that make holy those things which the Bishop avoucheth for things consecrated and made holy by the church, namely, the ground whereupon the church is built, the stones and timber of an hospital; the rents, lands, money, or goods given to the ministry and the poor; the vessels, vestures, tables, napkins, basons, &c., appointed for the public worship.