CHAPTER XII.

For conclusion of our Confession we must earnestly ad- monish you, that you cast away, if not all, yet most of the worthless books of pseudo chymists, to whom it is a jest to apply the Most Holy Trinity to vain things, or to deceive men with monstrous symbols and enigmas, or to profit by the curiosity of the credulous ; our age doth produce many such, one of the greatest being a stage-player, a man with sufficient ingenuity for imposition ; such doth the enemy of human welfare mingle among the good seed, thereby to make the truth more difficult to be believed, which in her- self is simple and naked, while falshood is proud, haughty, and coloured with a lustre of seeming godly and humane wisdom. Ye that are wise eschew such books, and have recourse to us, who seek not your moneys, but offer unto you most willingly our great treasures. We hunt not after your goods with invented lying tinctures, but desire to make you partakers of our goods. We do not reject par-
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ables, but invite you to the clear and simple explanation of all secrets ; we seek not to be received of you, but call you unto our more then kingly houses and palaces, by no motion of our own, but (lest you be ignorant of it) as forced thereto by the Spirit of God, commanded by the testament of our most excellent Father, and impelled by the occasion of this present time.