What Religion is.
TO describe Religion, according to the properties therof: First, we may call it Religion, of reelection; because where by our sinnes we had lost Gods fauour, by Religion wee were chosen and brought into grace again: Second¦lie, we may call it religion, of relecti∣on, that is of reading ouer: because he that wil be religious must often read & studie ouer the Scriptures: Thirdly, we may call it religion, of reliction; that is, of leauing of our wickednes and our owne wayes, and cleauing to God and his wayes: lastly, we may cal it reli∣gion, of religation, that is, because it bindeth vs againe vnto god, frō whom we were seperated: so that of these per¦ticulers, we may conclude this gene∣neral,