[ 2 44] is Government , and Lay Men ~and Worile)l go~ vern by receiving. And I have proved how mu~, table and how uncertain Reception is: They fay all the Church was againfi Adoration by genu-' flexion on' the Lord's Day, and for Milk and Honey, and the white (;arment in Baptifm : And 'yet particular Churches laid them down before any Univerfal Judicature allowed it. ' Xlli.~.__ Qu. If yo;, kpow that all the Bijhops of the World receive any Doctrine or PraCI:ice as needful or good, will not yort do fo too ? ttnd do yo·u not fo receive the Creed and Bible? . ' A nfw: 1. I receive ~he Laws of the Land only as authorized by the Law#givers : But I know them to be the fame Laws that the King and Par– liament made, by the concurrent Tefiimony and Ufe ·of all Judges, Lawyers and People of the Land, (and Proclamation by the Proclaimers)But I know them riot by my obeying all thefe Judges, Juftices and People as one authorized College, that is under the King to Govern the whole Land: Sb here, I know the Writings of Homer, Virgil, · Cicero, to be theirs \ the more confidently by Uni– verfil Tradition: But _pot becaufe I believe that _ all the Witneffes in the World that have fo re– ,ceived them , are Commiffioried to be Rulers or a Judicature to rhe World ; I receive Divine Truths , as Delivered in the Creed and Scriptures, as from Chrifl: and his Apofiles, efpecially Comrniflioned and qualified to teach all Men whatever he cam.. manded them, and this by the hand of my Pa– rents and Pafiors ; and fince I undedl:oodHifiory common COI)fent pUtS me the more out of.doubt of the Matter of Faet , that thefe are their true vVritings and DoCtrines : . But not from tbe Bi- ~ · · ' , · !hopsJ
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