Of the Worfoipping - 1 Cor.to.23 Omniamil~ilicent: and, loitbenotcondemnedasunlawft~0 Col+ 11. bones ofIt: which tendeth to all prophanenelfe. Others fay Toucl t Tafle net, Handfe n~t; ~hi~hfpeak~ ofthe things indilferem,~s rn:e;:l; 1 Cor. 7·35· unlawfull: which 1magmat1on ends mfuperjlttwn. Ameane Waywo Id be holden bet\Vee~e them both,.t~at neither.afnare be call on mens c~nGal-5 .13; fciences, by turmng No1uxped1t mt~Non ltcet : nor ourliberty inChrist be made an occajion to the flefh, by cafhng1'\on exped1t out ofdoores. Fo th~ ~piritof CH R 1 s .T i~ thefpir.it ofingen~Jity, .which will freely fi1b~ mit It felfe to that wh1ch wexped1ent, even m thmgs of their owne na. ture lawfull. The not obferving whereof with good heed and difcre– tion, hath in old time filled the world with many a fuperflitio 1 u ima. ginati~ll ; and in oUr daies hath healed the imagination and fuptrftition and bypocrijie, with another ofriot and licentiouo liberty, as bad as the former ' yea a great deale worfe. i ImdginAti, 1m.:ginations touching the ceremony: Fidl, I take it tobeaphancie· •nJ in the«· to imagine, there needs none : for, without them neither cornelinelfe1 """"J· nor orderly uniformity, \ 1 vill be in the Church. Women will pray unco~ 1 Cor.tt.tj. l!ered(an uncomely fight)unle.lfe theAportleenjoyne the contrary: there~ r Cor.x'f.«lt fore, Let e-very thing bedone decently mzd in order. No\v,to advifewhat is comely and orderly in each Age and Place, is left in the power and ctif. cretion ofthe Governours ofeach Church, Vifum eft Spiritui SanCta & no– bir. And the cuflome of each Church is peaceably to be obferved by the members of it. In a matter ceremoniall, touching the rveili1Jg of Thomm (after fome reafons alleadged, which yet a troublefome body ·1 Cor.u; -might quarrell with)thus clothS.Pa11l determine the matter definitively: t 6. If any lift to be conte(ltiou.s. Nos non T1abemuo talem conjuetudimm, nee Ec. cleft..: 'Dei. As ifhdhould fay: Inmatters ofthatquality, each Churches cuflom.eis to over-rule, a~ from that place S. Hierome(Ep.:z.S.)andS. Aug. (Ep.86.&: u8.)doe both refolve. It hath been ever thought meet(faithS.Gregory)that there f110uld beIn unitate fidei conjuetudo diwr(a: thatis;thediverfityofcuftomes, fhould be in diverfeClmrches, all in the unity of one faith, to thew thi: Clmrches li– berty in thofe matters. And therefore, the eating ojtf,ings offered to Idols, wholly reltrained the Churches ofSyriaand[ilicia, feerneth in fome for~ 1 Cor.to. permitted the Church of[orinth, .in cafe no~andidchal!engeit. . . · 1 7· . And as for diverfe Churches, this hath been JUdged reqUifite;fohat~ )t likewife been deemed no leffe requifite, that every perfon fbould InVIO• lably obferve the rites, andmflomes of his ownCburch. Th~n:f?re thole former ordinances, which, were not urged upon the [ormtlnans; up· on the Galatbians, within the compa!Te ofthe Regions wheretheytooke place, (as we fee) they were urged (as the fathers interpretthofepJa. Gal. 1.9 . ces,) under the paine ofAnathema, which cenfure is due to all rhofe that Gal. P •· tro':lble the Qlurcb : as thofe.doe, who fo! fetting light bythcmJtomet - - ·· ·- · ··· · · · · and
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