The canonizing of saints is another relic of Gentilism: it is neither a misunderstanding of Scripture, nor a new invention of the Roman Church, but a custom as ancient as the commonwealth of Rome itself. The first that ever was canonized at Rome was Romulus, and that upon the narration of Julius Proculus, that swore before the senate he spake with him after his death, and was assured by him he dwelt in heaven, and was there called Quirinus, and would be propitious to the state of their new city: and thereupon the senate gave “public testimony” of his sanctity. Julius Caesar, and other emperors after him, had the like “testimony”; that is, were canonized for saints; for by such testimony is “canonization” now defined; and is the same with the ἀποθέωσις of the heathen.