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the
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Scripturesn-ere
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phets
and
Apoflles
who lined
in
their
feueral
times,fecing
the
Church hathreceiucd
them from time to
titne,and
delittcred
them
to their
fucceffors
to this day.
l'Mïoreouer,the
law
publi-
fhed
by
Moris
was
not
in fecret
or in
a
corner before
i
me
few witneí
es,
but
in
the
pretence
of600000.
men, betides
women and children,and the
firange miracles
and
workes
of
God
full
ofwonder,which
he
wrought
for the
better
confir-
mation
ofhis
law
giuen,
were
done
&performed in
the
pre-
fence
ofmany
thouf
tnds,who
made
relation
ofthem
to
their
pofteritie,and
they to theirs to this
day.
Neither
was
it
eafe
to
be corrupted, altred or changed,
Peeing
the
lawgiuer did
ftraightly
charge
all
men
that
they fhould
not
adde,
detract,
or
alter
any
thing
vponpaine
of
prefent
death
in
this
world,
and euerlafling death
in
57
life
to
come
;
who therfore would,.
incur
ÿ
danger
of
fuch
fearful punifhment
for
the fatisfying
ofhisfruitleffe
phantafie
?Moreouer,this
book
ofthe
law was
fafely
kept in the Tabernacle,
and
after
in
the Temple in
the
Arke
which
was placed in
the
holy
ofholiell,
and
diuers
au
thenticall
copies
written
out
ofit
for
euery
one
ofthe
twelue
tribes,which
were euery
Sabbath
day
read
and expounded in
their
Synagogues;
yea
fo
familiar
were thefe
writings
with
thelewes, that
they were written
in
their
houfes, and
vpon
their garments,fo
as
it
was
not
poffìble
for any man to
falfifie
them
but it
would prefently be
efpied. Yea (will the
tempter
fay)but though
they could
not
be depraued or
corrupted,yet
they
might
at
firfl
be
invented
by
fome
more fubtill
than
the
refl,and
fo
thrufl
vpon men vnder
the authority
ofGod
him=
felfe,
as
being the writings
of
his
Prophets and Apoflles.To
which
I
anfwere,
that
there
is
no probabilitie
oftruth
in
this
obie3tion;
for
I
would
faine
know
in
what
age this man
Mould
write.In
the time ofll4ofss?
how then
could he
write
the
hiaorie
ofthe
Iudges who
fucceeded
him
?In
the time
of
the
Iudges
?
how then could
he
write
th
e
hiílorie
of
Kings?
What
then
?
could hee
write
thefe
things
in
the
time
ofthe
.Kings,and
fo
faine
a
relation
of
fuch
things
as
went before?
why
thé
it
is
neceffarie
that
he
fhould
haue
Hued
in
the
time
of
the lafl
Kings,
or
els
he
could
not
haue
penned
their
hullo--
rie
alto
:
but
before
this
tirne,there were many copies abroad
'
of