(17) not long left the Cuflom of adoring on the Lords-ddy,t without genuflexion, though the firfl great General Coun- cil ( Nic. Can. 2.0. ) and the ancient Fathers commonly, made it a Tradition., and Practice of the whole Church ? and it was Decreed to be fo tiled by all ? Abundanceof fuch Inflances may be given. Q. 13. You dovery injurioufly to your own Sect and Caule, here to pretend Tradition as coming down from theApoffles, for inch things as your own Dodors plead but your Churches later Institution for : It's fully proved byDaleus dej,junits, that the Lent Fail was long but for a fhort time, before it came to fourty days : And it's ari odd thing, if you will pretend Tradition from the Apo- flles, for the Holy-days, or theVigil Falls, of thole Saints that were born many hundred years after the Apoffles death ? We confefs our Faith is not fo big as yours ? We have many fcore Texts ofScripture that promife Salvation to them that believe much let's than the Bible it fell contain - eth. Yet we profefs our fèlves ready tobelieve as much more as you (hall ever prove to us, to have been delivered by the Apoflles, to the Church, tobe believed. II. And for the fecond, ( that we receive not our Faith the way that you dog that is, from the Authority of the Pope and Papis, and from your 'Tradition: ) We crave your conideration ofthere Queflions. i . When the Apoffles ( andDifciples, ,4cß. 8,) were fcattered,and preached theGofpel to many Ñations,Were they not true Chriflians, and faved, that received the Gol pet from anyone of them, or from any Perron what- foever ? IfAquila or Prifeilla Converted a Sinner, fuch a one faved a Soul from Death, though Peter .did it not; nor his Authority was known to fuch a one ? C 2. D©
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