.li1!:11gin~tions ~touching the ii;anner ofdtii'lierj. ,For, evert in it alfo,fof s In the .failing, men mull imagine W!Ifethi.ng, that, when they can take oo ex- "'"""" •f · h h · h c. • · · dh · d<t.wry. cepnontot ematter, yett eymay1tc arteranewmanner,an . eare1~ · after,(uch and fi1ch a fort delivered, or they will not heare at all, and therefore af~er their owne likiogget th'em aheape ofTeaciJers•.. I. They : tim.t:f! lflllil hearct1JoJ.a#!l~, .n~J: Greeke; no, though it be interpreted. Ameere imaginat.joJJ. For, the .ApoStleW•riting to the Corin~hians, which wereGre- , cians, •ha~hnot feared to ufe ter.mes as Jlrange to them,as Latint or Greeke is to us (Waranat!Ja, :Belial, .Abba.) All whkh he might eafily e,nough 1 Cor..~.~;;; have exprdfed in~eirvulgar, but that itliked him to retaine his liberty ~Cor. 8 6 ·lf· • L . . ._om. ·'5• m t~11S pomt. · z. N9.r none ofthe .Apocrypb4cited. Another imagilzatio11: For, S.lude in his Epifl!e, hath npt feared to alleage, out of the booke of Enoc!J (Iude 14.) which booke hath l!Verbeene re.ckoned Apocrypha. And, by his e1t~ ample 5111 the anci~nt Write.rs are full of al!tgations from them, ever; to thefe'Wrifings yeeldiog the next place after the Canon ofthe Scriptures;' •nd preferring thembefore aU.foueine Writers w.hatfoever. J 3 Nor any thiqg alleagedoutt>ftheiewes 'Halmud; a ehirdimagin~ Jion. F9r, from their Records; S. P.a;tl is j~Jdged..co have fet dbwne<the Aa~es ~f the .So.rcere.rs that .wuhfl:oqOI MosEs_, eobe lannes a~d lambres i ')'Ti 111• ~.~l Whlc;_l:} ~n ~'fod~U, ouhe wholeCanon of ~11:9ptu.res are ~otnamed. As ,many other thingsin the new)eftmz.)nt,-ftom,t~em receive·g.reat light: ~d th~ Je~es themkl'ieS arethereir\ dmeJy confuted. . 4 ~.ut, elpeciallylDo heathem example or authority (for, With allega: ~ion 9f~h~ ;t.ncient Fathers Ihave often dealt) a m;<tter which·tbe Primi• :tive Ch.nr.ch never imagin1=d unlawfull. For, Clem.ens .Alexandrin~U (in Strom.7.) .by aUufion toBara wd'Agar., teaclltionlt'hecon'trary. So doth f/3ajil, in a[et Treatile de tegendu Ethnicorumfcriptu~ andGregory Nylf:1z ~ervitj, Mojis, ouulthe XXI. of ~eut. b:y the rites t(;)uchimg.rh~ marir– lllg of h~atheo w-or:nen taken cap~we t andlafl.ofall S. Augiillmemt>(} plainly, 'De 'DoElrina Cbrtrriana, 2. 40. And thefe all reckoned '<'>frhe cdn– trary, .~s .a. Vl!ry imaginatio'n. Which Cbey.did the-rather, for that, bdides divers oth~rplaces,not fo,apparant,th.ey findSJP:aul,inmatter ofdo&rine; -·alleaging Ar,at~U a heathen Writer, in his Sermon·at Athens. And againe, Aa$ i7. ;.g: in .matter _oflif~; allea_ging Men~tnde'r, a "Writcr}~f, Come~ies, in ~is 1 cor.1H3~ E.p1!He : A,nd thirdly, mmatter of report ooe1y •Without any·urgent ne~· ceffity, alleagiogEpimenides, or as-fotnf thinke Callimdch~U. · A-nd lurely, if~t be lawfull to reafon frCDm that whichNature tea: cheth, asS. Paul doth againft mens iWeari.ng"ienghaire; it is not.unlaw- 1 Cor;u:ri; ~ull neither,to reafen from the wifefl: andmoftpithy fayings ofnaturall . .. - · · - ~cccc 4 · men~ ..
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