( 294 ) that where Men go about to prefcribe things to be ob- ferved inDivine Worship, not appointed in the Scrip- ture, that no two Churches have agreed therein ; but endlefs contentions have enfued ; that, No man can give an In.ftànce in particular ofany thing that is necef- fary unto the Rule ofthe Church, or the Obfervanceof the commands of Chrift in the Worship of God, that is not contained in the Scripture ; and hereon are ready to refolve to call no man alafier, but Chrifi ; and to admit of nothing in Religion, but what is warranted by his Word. Secondly. The fecond Principle ofthe Reformation, whereon the Reformers juftified their Separation from theChurch ofAome, was this, That Chriian 'Peoplewere not tyed up unto blind Obedience unto Church Guides, but were not only at Liberty, but alfa obliged tojudgefor them- fives, as unto all things that they were to believe andpraïife in ?eligion and the Worfhip of God. They knew that the whole Fabrick ofthe 'Papacydid stand on this Balls or tunghil, that the Miftery of Iniquity was cemented by this Device, namely, that the People were ignorant, and to be kept in Ignorance, being obliged in all things unto an implicite Obedience unto their pretended Guides. And that they might not be capable of; nor fit for any other condition, they took from them the only means of their Inftrueîion unto their Duty, and the Knowledge of it, that is, the LifeoftheHoly Scripture. But thefrf Reformers did not only vindicate theirRight unto the Life ofthe Scripture itfelf, but intfted on it as aPrinciple of the Reformation, (and without which they could never have carried on their Work) that they were in all concernments of Religion to judge for them- Elves.
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