(154) XXIX. He fireareth all his Clergie never to take or in-. terpret Scripture, but according to the unanimous lenfe of the Fathers, (fee the Trent Oath :) whenyet the Fathers do not unanimou«y evpound the Scripture, nor any one Book of it. And few Priefts know what the Fathers are unani- mous in, nor can do, unlefs they read them all ; which by this Oath they feem obliged to do. Was not Greg. Nazianz. one of the Fathers ? who faith, Orat. 18. E"1 " would there were no Prefidency, nor Prerogative of "place, and tyrannical Priviledges ; that fo we might be "known only by Vertue, (or deferts :) But now this " Right fide and Left fide, and Middle and Lower De- " gree, and Prefidency and Concomitancy, have begot `c us many contentions to no purpofe, and have driven "many into theDitch, and have led them away to the " Regionof Goats.] Is not this Herefïe, or worfe, with you ? Was not .adore reluflota a Father- ? ( but a Tharp Re- prover of proud and wicked Priefts and Prelates) who faith, lib. 3. Epíl. 223. ad Hieracem [" And when I have " fhewed what difference there is between the ancient "Miniftry and the prefent Tyranny, why do you not "crown and praife the lovers ofEquality ?] Doth not this defervé a Fagot with you ? How ordinarily doth Cajetan, and others of yours, re- jed (defervedly) the Expofitions of Fathers ? rellar chargeth fuftin, zrenaeus, &c. with error, de ,Beat. SS. li. r. Cap. 6. He faith, [There is no truft to begiven, to Tertullian, de Rom. Pont. li. 4. c. 8. He faith, Eu-; fehiw was ad,dited to Hereticks, and that Cyprian feern ed to fan mortally, de Rom. Pont. Ii. 4. c. 7. Dionyf.r PC'ta- 'vim de Triait, citeth the words of aloft of the an- - cienteft
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