` `t` 46 ) all of amind and praaice in every cufrome or variable circnrn- fiance that God bath left indifferent. g. 4. I need no other Infrance then r. what Grotins path See my wri_ given of himfelf * (in bis Difcufs. Apologet. Rivet.) who p-o- ting of Gro :i- feffeth that he turned off upon that account, becaufe the Prote- 4S Religion. flatus had n luch unity : And 2. What he laid before of others (by'whom he cook no warning, but did imitate them ) in his Ep iût. to Mr. Dury (citedby Mr. Barksda'e in his Memo - r;als ofGrotises life) where he faith [Many do every day forfake the Proteftants, andjoyn with the Remanifts for no other Reafon bat becaufe they are not one Body, but difirafled parties, feparated Congregations bavixg every one a peculiar Communion and rites --- And they that will turn Papills on fuch an induce - ment, deicrve to take what they get by their folly. g. 5. Did not thefe menknow that the Church bath aiwaies alloweddiverftyof Rites ? Didnot the Churches differ till the N.teneCouncil about Eafter day, and one half went one way,, . and another half the other way ? and yet Polycarp and the Bifhop of Rome held communion for all theit differences? and Ireneas pleads this againft Victors temerity in excommunica- ting the Afsan Churches ? D.d they not know that the Greek, and Armenian, and Romane Churchesdiffer in many Rites, that yet may be parts of the Catholck Church notwithftanding Inch differences ? Yea the Romanifts themfelves would have allowed the Greeks, and Abafìines, and other Churches a difference of ceremonies and cuflomes,fo they could buthave fubjugated them to the Pope. g. 6. Yea more, the feveral orders ofFryarsandother Religi- ous men among th"e Papifls themfelves are allowed their diffe- rences inRites and Ceremonies ; and the exercifeofthis allowed D.fference doch make no great breach among them, becaufe they have the liberty for this variety from one Pope in whom they are all united. What abundance of obfervations do the yrfuites, Francifcans, Dominicans, Beneditlines,Carthafsans, and othersdiffer in ? And mull men needs turn Papifls becaufe of thedifferent Rites of Protefrants, when they mull find more va- riety among them that they turn to ? The matter's well amend- ed with them, when among us, one countrey of t't three or four Ceremonies which Qeh= =.s dQ difufe : and among the Paptíls,
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