Traditions. Viifproved. means of Agreement among themfelves. So faith Rabbi Jehuda Levita the Audidr of the fore-mentioned Cofer, i11 `WU1 í7711]O loD O'tzn77. The Kaneans mul- tiply Laws according to their ownOpinion, which he, inveighs againtt then for, after he had commended them. And the fame is objected againtl themby Maimonides onPirko Allah. As though it were not known, that the greateft part of their 7s;mud, the Sa- cred Treafury of their Oral! Law, is taken up with differences and Difputes, of their Mailers among themfelves, with a multitude of various Opinions, and contradielorÿ conceptions about their Traditions. Thus deal theRomaniffs alto which their Adverfaries, this they charge than withall s I hey are H reticles, Biblifis, and by adhering to the Scripture alone, have no certainty among themfelves, but run into diverfities ofOpini- ons, as having &fertedthe unerring Rule of their Cabala; when the world is filled with the noife of their own confli&s, notwithilanding the pretended reliefwhich they ...have thereby. It remains that we confider how there Traditions come to be communicated unto others, out of the fecretSto're -bottle wherein Originally they were depofited. This as I have elfewhere, andpartly before declared, was by their being committed unto wri- ting by Rabbi yid,: Hakkadofh, whofe colleEtions, with their Expofitions in their Tal- mud, do give us a perfect account, ifwe may believe them, of that fecret Law which camedown unto them by Orall Tradition fromMolls. Anafomething like hereunto is by the Romanspretended. Manyof theirTraditions they fay, are recorded in the Referipts ofPopes, Decrees ofCouncils, andCojof'itutions of the Canon Law , and the like facred means of the declarationof the Orali Iuffrutïions of our Lord Jefus Chrill and his Apoftles. But herein the Sewsdeal with us far more ingenioully than they. They tell us plainly, that now their whole Ora11Law is written, and that they have no referee of autbent ickTraditions not yetdeclared. So that where .4uffin fayes of his Adverfaries Axf.lit). a: Nefeit haberepræter Seripturas Legitimas & Prophetical, 1ud,cos* quafdam traditions fùas con. adore. ze eá Pro quay non Scriptes habent, fed memoriter tenene,.B alter in alterum loquendo transfundir, bet. cap. quam deuterofin vacant; either he knew not of the Mifhne, that was then written, or, I. this opinion of Secret Traditions, was continued, until! the finifhing and promulgation of the BabilonicalTalmud, which was fundry yearsafter his Death. But heretheRoma- nifts fail us ; for although they have givenus heaps upon heaps of their Traditions, by the meansaforementioned, yettheyplead that they have [till an inexhauftible Treafure of them, laid up ip their Church flores, andBreaft of their Holy Father, to be drawn forth at all times as octagon thall require. And thus have we taken a brief i'rofpe& of the Confent of both the Apoffatieal Churches, in that Principle which hath been the means of their Apoffafie, and is the great Engine whereby they arerendered incurable therein. Exercitatio
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