Galat. 4. 3.
The text.
So we also, when we were litle ones, were seruing vnder the elements of the world.
The note.
That is, the rudiments of religion wherein the carnall Iewes were trained vp, or the corporall creatures, wherin their manifold sacrifices, sacraments, and rites did consist.
The answer.
If the corporall creatures vsed in the multitude of their sacri∣fices, sacraments, and rites, were an argument of their seruile estate vnder the law: then consider the great heape of rites, and ceremonies in your church, and sée whether they doo not serue to bring Christians into seruitude, and bondage againe, by making them to serue, vnder the elements of the world againe. Naie the state of the Iewes was lesse seruile, and more tolerable, both in respect of number, and multitude of ceremonies, and in respect of the commander. For the greater the dignitie of the comman∣der is, the more tolerable, and better is the condition and state of the seruant.