Jennon_r~ 3·--~--~0-~_t_h~e_R~E_s_u_R~R~E-C~T_I_O~N~·----------$-2I--oodJikin" to their cuflomes, that they remembred themwithout booke that greatg 0 · · · h · L dS d"d N ' rhevneverneeJedto beputmwrmng, as t e1r awes an , tatures 1 . ow,aseves" · 11 ,., fo thecb 11 rch, befides her habemu; legem, hath her habemm confuetudinws ry OCI , • [ " . There is [uch a dung, as mospop11 t Det. . roo. And feare nor'l'raditions a whir. Thofe refpeCl: credenda, points of doctrine : Thefe bur agmd&, matter of practice: And that, not in points offubfl:ance; reach onely 'ro matter of circumfl:ance, goe_nof~rrher. Nor doe wee even them wtth, · hle"'coppoferhcm to that whtch IS wrzttcn. Neveranycuflome, aga1nfl: that: rnuc '" ' "11 · f · Cl: S 1· l Nocuftome, rhatcomesfrom thewt or Wtt o man, agam ,·rtpture, w1lC1 comes . from the wifdome and will of Go D. But, h£c oportet facere, & tlla n01< ommcre. Mmh.>p;. 0~~ . The church then, bath her ctt.'lomes. I adde, thefe (wee) here (that IS ) the Tho Ap•tll" t.fipoflles had them; and theCh!frches underthem, hadthe~rs. It wasbu~ early ~h::~~~\,J daythen, yet had they th~ir_ et~ffemes, eventhen. At t?e wnnng of thts ~pt. It>, lt thu. c;.;il,,,., wasllot (atthemoll) th1meyearesfrom CHRIsT s Afcenfion. Ifrna were / timeenough, to ma'ke acufiome : Now, afrer thefe twenrie times thmie yearcs, and thirtie times thirrie yeares, and an hundred yeares to fpare, !hall it not be a caftome now, by much better right ~ A cu!lome is fufceptible of more a:m1 Jelfe: The further it goerh, the longer it runneth, the more firength it gathereth; the more gray haires it getteth , the more venerable it is : for indeed, the more a cuftome it is. Now then, as thechurchhaththem, fo fl1elbnds upon them: feares not (wee z fee) roalltdge them, to fay httbemtu, or non habemm. Habcmm, to uphold an ancient The Ch""~ good one: 'l{pn habemm, to Jay downe an evil! one, new taken up. ;~~:~~~~ h'" Here, negative, Nonhaben:m talem_. As ?ut SA ~ I o u 11. likewife, tAprinci- In the Ne""" pio nonfuit fie. And yet, by tmphcanon, th1s here ts, one wee have, bnt notfuch u· '· an one. And our S Av 1 o uas there, A way there was (rmahe beginning, but M,tth.• 9 8 this was not it. But other-where, irispofitivealfo, toaffirme, :1nd to maintaine a good : And In the Alii,•• men politively referred, to know, what hath beene the ufeinformer times. m,nvo. Higher than r.Mofes, wecannot goe. Mofes as a Law-giver, one would thinke, H"h ..,, would be all for Law. HeispojitivHull, for cupometoo. Enq11ire (faith he) of the •lkdsc– dayesthat bepajl, how ithathgone, fince the day Go n rreatedtheurtk. (And that in :;•!•'· rhefecond edition, orfettingforth ofthe Law.) ' cut+·' . Job is for it too. Enquire,!pray you, oftheformer Age, andJetyour [elves to ,uke Iob u. tfterthe Fathers (for we arc but ofyeflerday) fba/1not they tellyou,thus,and rhus it was · intheirrimes ~ ' ' And, fay not the Prophets the fame~ Stand u;on •the wayu (itisleremie) and 1'h• Propbm. there looke for the good old way, and that way take, it is the onely WIIJ toJinde reflfor Ier. 6. •6. Jourj'ot1les, . To all w~ich ~greeable_is that wherewith I will !hut up this point; which all rbeF4tbert, the Fathers m rhe lirfl: J{j_cene Councell rooke up, and which, ever fince, hath beene.rheChurches cne, ~.:p~~ ii'7n ~.p,•1.l-m>, <.Mos antiqtlm obtineat: Let old cuftomu prevatle, let them carry It. By this you fee, HabemHOconfuettldinem hath beene' ~ounted a found allegation, not one!y from the tApoflles, but even' from r.Mo~ J'' ume. NotAnd now, forth~ talem. For, i~ i_s not the ~abemm that bindes, but the ta!em: j hecaufe we htWetr, but becaufettiS fo quahlied. It tS not everycuflame, hand TheBadg,,; ~>Ver head,we may fiand on. Why bindes nouhis ~ 1. Becaufe though it m2y be, of' right'"~ lt~asar Corinth (EccleflaDei, aChurch of Go», one Church) yer E&cle(i£ Dei, rhe·JI•m,, ,,.,o, ht ~~- ch.r,·hes of G o D, had it not; the word is plurall. a. Becau(e, though it (t~ td fome,.not long fince to like well ofit; yet the Apo(lles never knew it: or liked~t er 1 way) tftt have liked them todillikeir,and lay ir downe ; yet the Apojl!es e tt we enough. . ':l&n lalem (faith the Apojlle) noneJuch. k_,ale~n then~ How !hall wedoeto know
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