~ [ 217 ] how lhall we know that none of the Six did fo ? It was not their Number ·nor Confent that proved them in the right. Tell us how to know the Councils that we mull obey from all the reft ? Is it by other Councils 'refiimony ? that is, to r~:~n in a Vain Circle: How know we that the later .is right other way than of the former ·? Is i,t' by Scripture or by Reafon. Tell us how, wi~hout fubverting you-r own Foundation, the Soveraignty of Councils. . 4· Do you hold all the Six Councils frill obliga– tory as the Rule of our Obedience and Commu– nion E. g. · 1. -That at Nice I· and . the .Q.e}ni Sex– tum at Trull forbid Adoring by genuflexion on any . Lords Day, &c. And po General.Council hath re· voked it, ·but above a Thoufand Years after it wore out by·degrees in mofi Churches : And yet Thoufands of Chrifiians are here to be denied Sacramental Communion, if they keep thefe Ca- · t nons even in the reception of the Eucharift : and Hundreds, yea Thoufands of Chrifi's rvtinifters 1hall be filenced, ejected, and ruined .if they will , not Affent and Confent fo to ufe them. Howma~ ny Canons in the Six Councils can I name whiCh , do not now bind us? §. 1'3• -.As to the work of Councils and Biiliops named by ,-you ; . I..As to our recei"V~ing the true Scripture from an Univerfal Church-Governing Authority. I •. Paul's Epifiles were received other– .wife. Yea, there is no mention of any part of the New Tefiament that was not received till fuch Univerfal Government required it. · , 2. If I mufi firfi know the faid Church Autho– rity ·before I receive the Scripture, how !ball I know.ir? Not by theSc;riptul'es; for that is fup= . , ·' - • pofed •
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