V , OftheR&sURRECTION. ~ further,than the Text: If Anyfu{h {teme tobe,this Text tells whatto doe: If :An uponii.pbelnone{eemeto 6el it is but acafe put. Andfo, by way of foppojitiun, beau( 0 .nde poGt;on. that lhal! be. <I ' TbeDilvifi.,. Vpon theview, threepoints give forth themfelves: 1 Hcrearecontttni 0111 • d J. •here are fu.ftornes ; and l rufloines, o'ppofed eo the contentiom. Thefe the three h~a3 T'<? b~eakethem yet funher, inro cmaine Thefes or propoqtions: to proc:ed Contcndon>. by. 1 F1rll, 1t lhm~cld feeme, there were contm11ons 10 rhe Apojlles tunes. •Contentions about what~ About matter of cir~umfbnce. So was this here, Whether men ll'er' topray uncovered, andwomm veiled, or no ~ l And that there were, which did no~ only {Ontend,but (which is more) were evencontentiomabout thefe. "Forrhofethat were fo, herels aSi quidet up, If any (eemetobefuch, what to doe to them. IJ," Notto paffe rheminfilence, and Jay nothing to them: But this to fay: We h 4 v 1 ' no fuch mjlome, nor the Churches of Go o. And fo oppofecheChNr{heu'!flo 1111 to ce.~tention. The church. tiiPomcr~ In which fayiog,rhere are thefe heads: • Firll, that the Chttrchbathheuu.f1 11 m 1 , • As lheharh them, fo lhe may, and dotha!ledge them. J. And alledge them finally (as the .Apojllehere, we fee, refolveth the whole matter toto them, as intoafinall refolution.) i And aH this by Scripture confirmed: even by this Scripture: on which, thecNflome. of the ch~r<h are grounded, and the powerthat il1allbeeverin them, to over-rule thecomentlom. N••M'"'"' A~d let not this move you, that it feemes to b~ ne.gati·ve, Non hahemmt•lem, A~ ~~·~· (this nme twelvemonth) Non dabttur niji (a neganve 10 lhew) provedan affirmative Th:• ;:.;~Hhe Dabitt~r.,fed non nifi: So wi!l this Non habcmm talcm, prove to Habemus, fed non t•~ hfiy•~···. lem. Cujlomcwehave, but nonefoch. To apply it totheApojl!espurpofe: None, to t:::f:~""" fit tli'tJe~·cd atprayer, Non talem, none[ttch; But the contrary rather; To he.uncovmd "'f.~m<tiovt,in then, talem, Such u our Ct<flome; Srtchan one, theChurch hath. < •l!. Where, becaufe the negative referres not tohabemm, but to t~t!em. And, acu– ~~.~;;:,'} a jloJtJe is not therefore good, becaufe we have it, but becaufeit is ta!em, fo quaiified; <igh""fi'"''· Thet~!em to be: 1 Firll, If we (that is) theApojlles have had ir, ifit were Apojlolike: 1 The nontalem robe, ifour new M¥llers have taken it up rhe other day, and the A}". flies never knew ir. • The t•lcm robe, if tbechurchesofGoo ingenerallhavehad ir, if it be Catho!ilu. The non ta!cm to be, if the Chu"h of CoriNth, or fome one Church perhaps had it, but the reil never had any fuch. I IJ. Then, will wee defcend to fl1ew the keeping ofEajler, to be fuch: Everin ufc lfhc church, with theChilrches of Go o, from the rimeofthe Apojlles themfelves. Which, ifwe it'~:·r~~Ji'tr cari make plaine,here is a plaine Text fo~it: That ifone lhould aske, What Scrip· P g ture have you, whyE'!fler may not be latd downe ~ It maywell beanfwered, 'l(J4 habemr<s talcm confieetudinem, nee Ecc!cfi,. Dei. Cteflome to keepe it we have the AJ'– jlles, theChrtrchhad it: but to abolilh ir,[ttch creflome have wenone; wee depart from them both, ifwe doe. 'Tbcrt: W:tnts not Scripture for E.afler. Epij}.<19. lllp. tf. . l'f.<l.<l8,>f· Prorelling yet, rhat Wee have no purpofe to wave Scripture quite, for thekee– ping ofEafier. Saint A~tgujline is plaine : Hoc ex allthoritate divinarumScriptNrArnm, peranfli>ver[arium Pafcha cele~ratur. Even by authority ofdivine Scriptureitis, that every yeare, Eajler is kept folemnely. We have touched two Scriptures hereto– fore : The day, which the Lo R " bath made (I I 8. P fa/me) app!yed ever to this Feafl• ThatTextforrheOid. And for the New Teibmenr, that verfeinrhis Epiflle, ·, Cor.s.7,8. C H R I s 't our Pajfe-over isojftred,let m therefore keepeaFeajl. . llut"the cburBut every thing ftandeth fafell and furcll, upon his owne bafe: And the nght ••,; <uf/om• is bafeofthis, Itake to beCu.ftome. Wee doe but make our felves robepitied other– !"'!!; kindly. while, when we !land wl'inging the Scriptures, to ll:raine rhat out ofthem, that ts not in them, and fo can never come liqrlide from them: when yet we have for thf f.1me point, theChurc.hes Cuftomecleare enough. And that is enough, by venue o this Text. There is, and fl1all be enough ever in this Text, to avowany Cufiome; TheApojiles, thechurchesofGo o had it: todifavow any; The Apoftles, the churches of Go o, h11dit not, Th~
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