( 136 ) whatever Come except againft it, declared with much Judgement and Moderation. This Beginning., I fay, had the Impofition ofunfcrip- tural, uninftituted Rites, Ceremonies, and Religious Obfervations, among the Churches of Chrift, and this fòlemn Rebuke was given unto it. Howbeit the Igno- rance, Superftition, and Intereft of following Ages, with the contempt of all Modefty, brake through the boundaries of this Holy Rebuke, until their own Impo- fitions and Obfervations, became the fubftance of all their Church Difcipline, unto the total fubverfion of Chriftian Liberty. Wherefore to allow Church Rulers, or fuck as pre- tend fo to be, a Liberty and Power, to appoint a Mule of Communion, comprizing Inftitutions and Commands offundry things, to be confiantly obferved in the whole Worship and Difcipline of the Church, not warranted in themfelves by divine Authority, and then to charge Beleivers, abiding firm in the Do&rineof the Faith with Schifine, for a Won-compliance with fuch Commands and Appointments, is that which neither in the Scripture nor in Primitive Antiquity, hath either Inftance, Exam- ple, Prefident, Teftimony, Rumour or Report to give Countenance, unto it The Pedigree of this PraEtife cannot be derived one ftep higher than the fait of I/ for the Bifhop of Rome, in the Excommunication of the Churches and Chriftians of .fora, which was fòlemnly condemned as an Entrenchment on Chriftian Liberty. ;. After thefe things the Notion of Schifee began to be mannaged varioufly, according unto the Intereft of them,
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