[ 3)7 ] the Major·- part ? ~uff~e have · all the Opinions; Rites or Ceremomes whiCh the Greeks, Mofco~ vires, Armenians and Papifis have many Hundred Y,ears in their Ignorance and Superfiition agreed in as to the ~1ajor part ? :t\.1ull we be able to con– fute their preten{ions of Antiquity and Cufiom as to all thefe ? He that readeth the Defcription of their Cu.ftoms, methinks, fl1ould be loth that we fhould be· fuch. XII. And .your Do6trine of Traditions as cer~ tainly received from the Apofiles, when'the Ma– jority ufe them, is fo much againft the Church of England's Judgment, and fo copioufly confutedb:r the whole fiream of Prote.ll:ant Biiliops and Drs. and foreign Divines , that I will not flay now to repeat that work : were all the Tradition~ fore– mentioned fince laid by, received from the Apo– files ·? (About Genuflexions, Milk and Hoi)ey, Chryfme, the white Garment ?) You infiancein Synods meeting and making Laws. To meet for worihip or neceffary confulra– tion and Concord, is no ·unwritten ceremonial Tradition , but the obeying of Chrifi's written Law,which r~guir~th fuch mutual help,and that we' · dp all to EdificatiOn , Concord and Peace. But Communion·of many N"tions is one thing , and a Government over all is another thing. It was the. Emperor's Commiffion and Power that made Ca~ nons tobe Laws. And do you not here write againft the King's Commiffion by which you fie, which declareth from that Aet of H . 8. that your Canons are no · Laws, till Kipg and Parliament make them fo? Ask the Lawyers. Were not the Canons of Aa3 · ~ 6401\ -
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