[31 3] be eared either by the comfort,or the help ofour judgment or fentence. But to this your defire,not fo much our Connfels as Gads Precepts give an an- fwer, in (or by) which it is long ago (or already) by the heavenly voice commanded, and By the Law of God prefcribed, who, and what fort of men muff ferve at the Altar, and celebrate theDivine Sacrifices. For in Exodrvs God fpeaketh to Mofes, and warneth him,faying, Let then-lefts who draw neer to the Lord God be fannified, left God for- fake them ; and when they come neer tominifter at the Altar of the Holy, let them not bring them- felves into fin, left they die. And in Levities God commandeth and faith, Ler not the man that had/ a blemifh or vice dr4w veer to offer gifts to God. A. Which things being already fpoken and manifeft to us, it is neceffary that our obedience attend to God's commands : Neither may mans indulgence accept the perron, or grant any thing to any one in fuch things where God's prescription, interced- eth and giveth a Law. For we mull nor forget what God by the Proper Efaias faith to the Jews, reproving them, and angry with them, that con- temning the commands ofGod, they followed the doctrines of men. This people, faith he, honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far fiparated from me ; and in vain do they wor/lhip me, teaching the commands and do}l races of men: which the Lord alfo in the Gofpel repeateth and faith, Te reject the command of God, that you may eftablafh your own tradition. Having there things before our eyes, and carefully and religioufly confidering ,them, in the Ordinations ofPrieffs, we ought to chufe no Bifhc ps but men unipotred and entire, who holily and worthily offering the Sacri¢; feces
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