(41) though they underftood not the matter when theycarne to the Council, ( or though thePope were an unlearn - ed Lad) yet prefently can infallibly expound Scripture, and defide Controverfies. As you praife Mr. rhorndike, youmight have acceptedof the kindnefs ofone Mr. war- ley of Cambridge, in a -Book lately dedicated to the Lord Chancellor, called, The Notua al Fanatick, who will al- low the Church and Councils a higher way of certain determination, than by Reafon ; and will tell you how doubtful its left toReafon, whether there be a God, or the soul be immortal, and will curb men that will fet their Reafon againft Councils or the Church. But to remem- ber and rehearfe only the words that the Apoftles deli vered, is a work that Reafon may perform, without any infpired infallibility. But if Tradition by immediate Parents, yea and Pa- ftors be fo fore, the Aba,nes, the Greeks, and many others, are fure that the Papacy is an Ufurpation : And fo were the old Britains, and the Scots, a little before Beda's time, who would neither conform to the Church of Rome, nor fo much as eat with them. Pag. 4.2. You fay Elf God Almighty will 'oblige me to believe what was taught i600 years before I w,u born, how lhould he expea I fhoulod come to the knowledge of this, but by fuch Books as were written in thofe times, and near thofe times, and by the toft imony ofall Chrifian countries; what kath been immemorially believed by them, ever lince they were Chriflians.] Anrw. Well contradiaed This is our very Religion We (land toVincent. Lernienf. Rule, Q!odfemper, ubique, ab omnibus. But, i. Here then Books be not made to unfe'rviceable as before. 2. GodAlmighty obligeth t s hrfl-to'believe his own Book before any others : And 2 how
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