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Idolatry; either the worshipping of the creature for God, or the worshipping of God in and by the creature, as by images, &c.
Witchcraft; the product of compacts with the devil; by virtue of which, the persons so contracting are assisted by the power of evil spirits to produce effects beside the ordinary course and order of nature, and for the most part mischievous to others. And not these gross crimes only are the fruits of the flesh, but also abiding
hatred of our brethren in our hearts, enmities to others, as the word signifieth. The result of which are,
variance; men’s quarrellings and contendings one with another for little or no cause:
emulations; people’s endeavouring to hinder others of such good things as they see them desirous of:
wrath; heats and immoderate passions of men one against another:
strife; a continual readiness and proneness to quarrelling:
seditions; dividing into parties, which in the state is called sedition, in the church, schism:
heresies; that is, differing and false opinions in the grand doctrine of religion.