I ·m 52.8 Ofthe Rx s URR IL c TION. Ser~1 .,..,,.u;,., 14 5 Tertullianhadthiscuflome. ~Manyplac-esin~ 11"'""" "'il.e. fourteenth chapter, de Iqumo: .Qyd fi omnem in totum devotionuJJ diemm e lnthe 3· aduxom• 1· .ftol~«, cur P•fohacelebram~~< annuo circulD? Ifit were the Apofiles tiJi.nde to'~ 11 Apo. •· <·of· """· 11 d br . fd . . rr ' tace out Nar<·H· a evout o tervmg o ayes quue,howcomes 11 to paue,we celebrateE".fter ye H· ly, at the circle oftheyeare turning aboun• are~ 'l~~«· 6 Irm£H< had this cuffome: His Epill:le to Vifior lheweth it :tol'iElor and · 1< &J 6 n,'any more (faithEufebiH<) about that quefrion, (underfrand frill the que!\i~n of 1~0 'E•' .s.r.• · ttme,not oftheFeafl.) A bookealfo (we finde)hewrotede Pafchate,in the It}.q 114 / in lt1ffin Martyr. So, he will be for it, certain!y. '. ~:~~~i:C~~ . 7 Andicisfirange, evenduring the perfecution, howmanybookesweefinde forir. wrmen, to deduce thecuffome by. 1 Befide that o(Iren£111, • One byA?latoliwrhe Luftb./.7·':3'· great!earned Bilhop ofLaodicea: 3 ByTheophiiH< Bilhop ofc£{area, and 4by B4C ~~r.d•Smp. chyUmBilhop ofCoTintb, either of them one. 1 Another bytHifpolitH<, that mad~ Hi<r011.d< up the firfr cycle. Yet, 6 another by clemens AlexandrinH<. Andlafr, w,hich indeed ~~J'"J"' was firll: in time ofall, rwo bookes, 1 by the holy Martyr and Prophet MelitoBilhop Jb;d:: 3 s:· ()fSardu,(in the next Age to the Apofrl.es rhemfelves) fer fonh by him (as he &irh) Jbid<m •4· at the time oftheFea.fl,and in the very holy-dayesofit. F;o~o~~~wttlt Nay, there wante? not Co~ncels then neither, and that infeve~feverall parts of i~rheper!«•· the world at once: all m:he.mtdfr .ofthe fervour <:Jfthe firy mall, when the Church "'"· . (Go o wot) could butevtll mtend tt. It was no umetocontmdthen. Butitlhewes .~~:~:::.· they made:a m~tter of it and no flight reckoning ofthe retaining it. El(e mightthey 3 ofr"""' have!!tpt u, wrrhout any more adoe. · 4 '; 1'· Enough(I trow)to lhew,(i,cbAeu.ftome there was in all the cburches,tb&parries ~: .C::::t. lived in,which were all the churches Go o then had. They mu!tnecds feemecomm. 7·.1f'"';""· tiosu, that will contend againfr all rhefe. I fee not how they can fcapetheApoftles z.,, · 1 ·f·P3· Siqr1>s,rhat doe. And this I fay,iffome one example offomeeminentmanofwonh will ferve tomake an authority: if, that : Then this cloudofwitneffis, and tho[e • no~ perfons, but whole CountelsandchuYGhes : • notinfomeone Region, butindivers all the world over: 3 and that not for one time, butfo many ages fucccffivelyconti~ nued, from generation to generation : what manner of authority ought that robe~ 'Froores. That this CU• {l:~mewas.J!t•il•li;e. 1 Proofc by tdlimony. .JMf/dJilffo the grearell:lure, and none greater, but of Go o Himfelfe. ' Nowto (Nos) that is, to the Apo.fllesrhemfelves. Firfi,that it was a cujlemeA1 p#olikeand fo taken, Saint At~grifline is direcc in his C X V I I I. Epill:le to .T,.1nUI· rim, who had purpofely lent to him, ro know his opinion touching certaine quefti. ons,all ofthem about Eajler. Th~s faith he there. For {uch things a; come to mmt 6y writing ,hut by praffice (andyet{tl(h tU are ohfervedquite1horew the world)wee aregi– 'IJen ID underjl4nd, they come comrnendedto H<, andwere in.ftituted either by the .Apojllts themfelves,or ~ygeneral! Councels, whofe authority bath ever beene accountedof, tU wh/1.· fome in the Cht~rclt. Now what be rho!erhings fo generally obferved toto orbettrra.' rum i Thefe: that the !'afi'iov, the 1/.efurreflion, the A{cenfien of C H11. 1 s T am/the eomming ofthe Ho L y G HosT from heaven, anniverfaria folennitate cdebranrur, •reyearely infolemne mdnner celebrated, And (faith he)ifthere be aTJy hejidahe(e: for thefe, are moll: cleere. Firfr, he is cleere, It was theeuflome of the Church, farre and wide theworld 'thorow. Then, that it mull: either by the Apojlles be in(litute, or by [omeCeuncelf. Nor by any Councell: Many met about the time : about the Fea.ft never an¥: that, not quefiioned at all: takenpro eonfeffo ever, and fo, .Apojlolike. They be his owne words(lib.4.de BApt.contra DDnat. cap.z4.) Ifthewhols Church obferveany thmg, nol having heene Drdainedby fornegenmt/1CgtmceR, recriffime creditur, we are to beleeve, r.e· Cti!lime,~y M good right tU any w• be, right in theft•perlative,that it came tom, non ~1fi -ab Apoftolis,from the Apoll:les,andfrom none elfe, nor by any other way. So Salllt . . • Attgu.ftine is for nos habemu; talem. So he held it. . ~~~'7.';~~i,. An hundred yeares before _him, Conjlant!ne is as direcrin his Epill:leadeii1Jilf ~.,ftanl!~' Ecclejtt~. Many remarkable thtngs there aremthat Ep1frle. 1 The rnofl holy Feaj/ :! :elljler, foure times he c:alleth it. Thatisthegood E;npero~ .fiy.le> I,nfogrea , - - · · ·· ·· · -·- ·· ma(~f!J
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