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new.fpeci1k,
it
is
not contrary to
the
Word
,
becáii
c
the
Lo
rd
fad
of
the Church,
He
that heáreth
yott,
heareth
me:
in
which after
a fort
all
thofe thi
:gs
which
the Church
Ihould
determine,
are
includ.d
;
as
praying
for Sain`s, dirges
for
thedead,Pogatory,
&c. So
that,rhough
they
fay
every
thing
to
bee believed,mutt
bce
Aporho
icall
,
yet they
bring nu]. r this their unwritten
verities,
their owne
fentes
of
Scrip
-1
cure,
what points
foever
their Church
(hall
determine,
though
never
lodifferenr
from
the
Word
written; w'tich
are
not
contrary
,
be-
caufe
in
the
generals at
the leaft , which biddeth;us
heave
the
Church,
they
are
infolded.
Now
the
true
expofition
of
this doctrine
flandeth
in
three bran-
ches.
r.
in
(hewing
that
the Apoftolick doEtrineísno word betide,
but
this onely
which
we
have written.
2. In (hewing that the Scripture
is a
glaffe
in it
lelfe
,
and
w,e
are
to hang
on
no conftruCtion
furtherthen
it is
.warran-
table by
Scripture.
3.
That
the generals
and
particulars to
be
believed,
are
ex.
prefTed in
the Scripture.
For the
fiat,
I
prove it from
the
office
of
the Apollles to preach
by mouth
and writing to the
world, by writing to continue,
ram
04
ntarh.ts.:o.
you to
the endof the world.
Which
could
not
be
meant
of
their perfo-
nall
miniftry
and word
of
mouth which
palled
,
but
of
their duetting
penned
to
be
a
word
of
Faith to
the end. Secondly, from the all
-fuf
ficiency
of
the Scripture
,
in
all
that
is
nece(fary
to
falvation,
¡oh.
20.
30,
3
t.
Exceptions againft ir,
fee in
them
that
handle
controverfe;.
z.
For the fenfe: the Scripture it
felfe
(heweth the
fence
of
Scripture: either
the
fenfe
of
fcripture
mutt
be
brought ,from the
fcri-
pture,
or brought unto
it:
But we
mull not bring
fences
to ir,,for çhey
are
not the
fenles
of fcripture, bar our prefumptron.
What
doth
prea
ching hold out
in lively
voyce,
that conttru.tion the
fcripture maketh
of
it felfe.
fcripture
is
both the
glo(fe and text:
For that which
is
the ¡;o
to
gather
fenfe
of
fcripture , mutt bee
brought
from
circum(tánce,
of
the
text,
or
III'
scripcuae.
from
conference,:from
proportion of
Faith,
Yea
the
Papifts
them-
Rives fall unto it: for aske
then,
whether
the
Pope
and
Counfell
de-
termine immediately
:
No
;
for
that
is
the
difference
betwixt
his
de-
termination and fcripture,
there mull
be,
iydy
and confulcation
about
the fcriptures. But
in
truth they
denythis
,
for the myftery
of
their
lca;nitsigdothtakc
away
this: For
they
move fcriptures
and
Fathers
but
as
cyphers;
What
are
all
Fathers
but the
writings
of
private
Do-
étors,
therefore
lyableto
errourc And what are the fcriptures from
a
whifpered
tradition, and from
a
perfonall fpirit
of
the
Pope
and his
Clergy)
they robbe the
fenfe,
of
fcripture;,fuffer
not,thcmfelves to be
ruled
by it.
They
thinke the
fcriptures
not
of
abfglute,tlecef icy they
are Anabapti(is
in
effect: for
they
have
a
fpirit reaçliipg-them ,
ogt
of
this written fcripture,
the
foundation
of
our
-
faith.
Thirdly,we
-fay,
that
tbis,yvgtfí.writrr
iw.hiclititigW,cflx.fprtka
con
-
ftruetion