Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

[ 3).6 ] ivould continue ? And then all theafter Changes · (which were many) were Schifinatical. · ' X. Do you not too hardly cenfure the Church 'of England as Schifmatical ? Youknow Epiphantm liath a peculiar Treatife to tell us, what then were ,, tlie Cuftoms and Ceremonies of the Univerfal Church ? Aod how many of thefe are forfaken by us, yea, and by almoft all the Churches ? Doyou now clothe the Baptiz.ed amw in White ? Do you dip them over head in \Nater ? Do you anoint them as they did , and cro(s them with the Oint· ment? Do you give them to tafieMilk_and Honey? Do you exorcife them? Do your Bijhop.r only make that Chryfmd? Doall here and in other Churches worfhiponlyverfm Orientem ? Do you all forbear, and forbid Adoration Kneeling,on any Lord's Day, or any Week Day between Eafter andWhitfunday? ,What!when you caft out of the Church thofe that will not Kneel at the Sacrament ? You know thc;t the Council of Nice , · and that at Trull , and the Fathers commonly make this a Rite of .the Uni· verfal Church : .And Dr. Heylin faith , that Rome it felf kept it for a Thoufand Years, ·. and it was never reverfed by ariy other Ger:1eral Council. Do you keep the Memorial of Mar~yrs -~t their Graves as then they did ? Do you ufe their Bones_ and reliets as they did ? Twenty more you may fee in Epi,phanimand others. . . 0 condemn not the Church of Englaiid,as fepa..: rated fi·om the Univerfal Church. (And our Re· formers too.) ~ _ XIr What a cafe would you bring this Church ~ud Kingdom to , by yoU! Law of the~ Cufi9mof --- -- ---· - · · · - -- - -· ' - · the .. / ' - - . ...

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