334 jpetÍOug4 fait!: Ecclefiit, que fait tempore Apollolorum, qui fue- runt repleti Spiritu fanc`io : No Church fo it to do it as that which had fo much of the holy Spirit; but nothing was done in it in that Age. The fo called Canons of the Apoftles (which in the S 5th. Canon take in three Books of Macchabees into the old Canon, and the Conflitutions and Epiftles of Clement into the new,) are clearly adulterate ; three condemn fecond Marriages, deprive not a Clergy -man of communion for Fornication or Perjury, or Theft, and (peak of Altars, Oblations, Vefels, of Gold and Silver f:nciifed,Cantors and Leîiors; and many other Inch -like altogether unknown in thole Apoftolical times. About theee Canons Miré inter f digladiantur Fontificii, faith one Gelajus in a Roman Synod of feventy Bithops, declares them Apocfypbal, in toto ; Bellarmzne rejefts all but the firf fifty, and I think all the Roman call away the 85th. Canon touching the Scripture as Suppofititious. The flrfl Virgin Century doing nothing in this grand matter ; one might have lookt for it in the fecond or third ; but there is no foot -Rep of it. In the fourth Century about the year 3 20 came the famous Council of Nice,and then it might have been expeaed,as the apteft foun- dation for their Orthodox Conclufons againft ,Arius, and withal for a Rated Rule againIi all future Herefies ; but there is a failure alfo,no- thing was.done in it. And into what Heart can it enter, that in all thole 320 years there was to Canon no Authority of Scripture,no foun- dation
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