A second general abuse of Scripture, is the turning of consecration into conjuration, or enchantment. To “consecrate” is, in Scripture, to offer, give, or dedicate, in pious and decent language and gesture, a man, or any other thing to God, by separating of it from common use; that is to say, to sanctify, or make it God’s, and to be used only by those whom God hath appointed to be His public ministers (as I have already proved at large in the thirty-fifth chapter), and thereby to change, not the thing consecrated, but only the use of it, from being profane and common, to be holy, and peculiar to God’s service. But when by such words, the nature or quality of the thing itself is pretended to be changed, it is not consecration, but either an extraordinary work of God, or a vain and impious conjuration. But seeing, for the frequency of pretending the change of nature in their consecrations, it cannot be esteemed a work extraordinary, it is no other than a “conjuration” or “incantation,” whereby they would have men to believe an alteration of Nature that is not, contrary to the testimony of man’s sight, and of all the rest of his senses.