"The breath of religion": Donne on ceremonies

Following on from yesterday's post on the Laudian Bramhall's agreement with Cranmer on ceremonies, an extract from a 1627 Donne sermon at St. Paul's Cross, indicating how the Laudian understanding was also rooted in the pre-Laudian Jacobean Conformity exemplified by Donne:

Ritual, and ceremonial things move not God, but they exalt that devotion, and they conserve that order, which does move him ... though they be not of God's revenue, yet they are of his subsidies, and though they be not the soul, yet are the breath of religion.

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