C7? not the Stoicks,and Epicureans;and others,as'fully know now as Arifiot-es and Plato's, if Memorywithout Books could have done ? Have you as. full notice now óf the Ads offaces, 7ohn, watthew, rho «,Bartholomew, bc. Without Book, as you haveotïPur's by the ir3ook é' Is me- mory fuffi&ient to have preferred to us theStatutes of the Land, without Books and Record ;e Yea; or the Corn- mon-Law without any Records or Book Cafes ? Why are 211 your Councils written ? and all theDecretals ? to fay nothing of. the Civil Roman Lake's hiditutes, ' Pan- deas, and Digef}s. Can ,loci decide the Corìtroverfies about the Decretais, pubiifhed by c.'ore Mercator, by Tradition ? What are all your Libraries for at the veti can, F'orence, Parv., and in each Learned Mans Houle; if ,Books be fo ufelefs and unintelligible ? If one of your Relations ask you,. what is inheCouncil of 'rent, Flo- rence, Laterane, and fo upward,, can you tell him fully without Book by Tradition ? And are not thefe Councils your very Religion ? Doth every Papin Neighbour c,.rry them all in his brain, more certainly than in,Books ? Or couldyour Grandfather and Grandmother have told us more certainly what is in them, than Crab, Suurilrs, Bi- ni s , BaroniY-5, 7ageltpr,s, Albafpinx.,bs Petaviu4 Sir- aond. 6Nc. could do ? Or is all left uncertain becaufe it is written ? Through Gods Mercy our Effentials, and fomewhat more, are delivered certainly own to us by two hands, by Oral and Praaical Tradition, and by the Scripture, beclufe they lye in a narrow:room. But yet if you had the front to tell theWorld, that your immutable Church Bath never changed the Creedit felf, we Could not be- lieve y<)U : becaufe Books contradidyou Tradition from your Great Grandfather cannot afire us that [Fi!ioq;] D z was
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