C 17e)) pery are riot properly our Religion; any more than our fpcaking agamft Difeafes is our Health : But as our health containeth our own freedom from anhundred difé cafes which we never thought of, as well as thole that, we once hador feared ; fo our Faith and Religion is free from Popery, and containeth that which is againft it. XVII. "APapa is for (wearing men to take Scripture "in that fenfe as theholy MotherChurchdothhold; and "hath held it : Whereas, r. Their Church hath given " them no Commentary on the Scripture, one way or C' other. 2. And their Tranflations have been altered in "many hundred places by Clement 8. and sixtus 5. fo "that theirClergy is (worn to take one Tranflation to " to be right one year, and a different one to be right the next. XVIII. " They are for fwearitig men to take or inter- " pret Scripture but according to the unanimous fenfeof " the Fathers, ' and confequently never to ` interpret the "moff of it at all. XIX. " A Papif} hath a thriving Faith and Religion; " which groweth bigger and bigger, as fait as General. " Councils add new Decrees ; fo that they know not "when they (hall have all : Andyet they cry out againft g` noveltyandchange, and boaft of Antiquity. XX. " He holdeth that Priefis or Prelates may not CC fall down to Princes, or,eat at their Tables, nor debafe " themfelves to them ; but Emperours mutt take them " as equals. Concil. Gen. 8. Conti. Can.14. XXI. He is fatisfied that their Churchhatha Judge " of Controverfies, though he decide them not : And " he gloryeth in the Unity and great Concord of their "Church, whole Doflors differ de file even in the Ex- pc IronofmanyhundredTexts ofGods Word ; and Z 2 " where
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