[ 218 ] pofed yet not received: If by the Affertors Au= thority, that is to know they have it, becaufe they have it, which is the Qyefiion. If by fome foreknown Character of Infallibility, what is it ? un– lefs with Knot you come to the Miracles of the ' prefent Church, I know not what can be faid. ~. Bet is not the comm,on Protefiant way (which you call Chillingworth~s) much furer? r. VVe firfi receive ,the Matter of Faet Hifiorically , (chat fuch Perfons were,• and wrote fuch Books, and did fuch Deeds) from the Concurrent Tefl:i.. mony of all Credible VVitneffes, fome Enemies, fome Hereticks, the generality of Lay-Chrifiians, Presbyters that in 41l Churches received and ufed I 'them, and Bifhops alfo as credible entrufied Keep- · ers of rhefe Records : As we know the Laws of the Land, by Judges, Lawyers, People, and all that make up a full Hifiorical Certainty, and not from (ome fore-known Univerfal-Governing Bi~ fhops Judicial Sentence. 2. And the Matter of FaCt: being known by certain 1-:lifiorkal Evidence, i I have fo .largely {hewed how the refi is kn~wn in 'my Reafons of Chriftian Religion,and Life ofFaith, &c. that I will not repeat it : Do you think that moll: (or any) Chrifiians before they received the Scriptures, did firft otherwife know that all the Bi{}1ops on Earth are by qod authorized .to be a Supreme Collective Sovereign to the Church, and to jl}dge infallibly which are the true ~ctipturesfor alhhe People,and that they are now moll: of them ;true Bifhops? ftc. Which way areall thefe things to be known? . \ 1 \Ve delJy not that Minill:ers are by Office en– trufied to keep, expound and preach the S. Scri– ptnres' : But we ufe againll: the Papifis h7r~in, _to . ' ' ' : . dllhnau1!h ' . 0
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