( 469) imagine that any fuch are left out. If Scripture be Gods Law, it is a perfect law : And ifit belong to it as a Law to impofe one Hated Symbol, Ordinance, or matter of worfhip, then fo it loth to impofe the refl of the fame nature that are fit tobe impofed. If we will do more of the fame that Scrip--turf was given for to do, we accufe it, while we Teem to amend it. g. 5. Reaf. 4. And by this means we (hull be brought to a lofs for the Rule of our Religion. For if once we leave the holy Scriptures, we fhail not know where to fix. If God have not inflituted all the Ordinances of Worfhip ( filch as Sacramental , or Myflical Rites, c. ) that are meet to be Elatedly Impofed on the Churches,then we are uncertainwho is tobe the inllitutor ofthem. The Pope will claim it:and General Councils will claim it : and Provincial Councils , and particular Bithops will claim it : andPrinces will claim it : and we fhall be at a lofs for our Religion. g. 6. Reaf, 5. But whoever it be that will be the mailer of our Religion they will certainly be men, and fo it will become a humane thing. Whereas Divine worfhip fuppofeth a Di- vine inflittation : and it is an ad of obedience to God, and therefore fuppofeth a Law of God : For without a Divine Law there cannot be obedience to God. g. 7. Reaf. 6. Thefe impofitions feem to be plain violations of thofe prohibitions of God , in which we are forbidden to add to his worfhip, or diminifh from it. As Deut.i 2.32. [ What thing foever I command you, obferve to do it : thou fhalt not add thereto, nor diminifh from it. Obje&.But we addnothing to the Wordof God, though we impofe PlebMyfiical.Rites as he impofethnot. vinfw. The text doth not fay Thou fhalt not add to my Command ] but [ Thou /bait not add to the thing that I command thee. ] It is the Work, Worfhip, or Ordinances that you are forbidden toadd to, or diminifhfrom, and not the Word or Law it felf only. 8. Reaf. 7. It feemeth to be a very great height of Pride that ismanifefled in theft impofitions. I. When men dare think themfelveswife enough to amend the work of Chrifl and his Apoflles, andwife enough toamend the holy Scriptures : is not this exceeding Pride ? How can man more arrogantly lift up 0 o o 3 hitnfelf,
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