CPtAp.s. E+piyi letothe 7heffalonlant. VE It. a 1. rant with the people, in efleeme, legitimate ? No letfe defeaiue in this duty are our credulous mul- titude , hand ouer head admitting, whateuer by their teachers is propounded vnto them;forfoorh,their guides (hall anfwer for them, if haply they mitfeleadc them, But haue they not heard Ez: kielr proclamation ; the ¿loud of them that per:1h by default of the Watchman, God (hall require at his hands ;°y etdie the people in the irfinner ? and that of our Sauiour, When the blinde leadr the blinde, blinde Pallor, blinde People, not t the Guide only, but the people fall into the pit. Another fort there are: And they ouercarried with re- uerence of force mens perlons and gifts, in matters of Faith, and iullet1 fcruples ofconfcience, content them - felues with naked judgment of them, whole perfontr they Kane in admiration : a Rule currant they think it for iudgement and confcience, that thus thinks fuch a reue- rend Minister : thus therefore they beleeue and practice. In matter of ceremony, I am Cure the bare opinion of force Minifters, to whom our irregulars haue inclofed fincerity, out faccth Authority ; and beares dowric Rea- fon, without reafon afore it. Alas that reafonable men thould be fo vnreafonable, and pretended conlciencefo blinde, as to warrant it felfe vpon the erroneous iudge- ment of men i and that Sicdicit homo, thould foray vs in there things without, oragainft, Sic licit Deming.. Our wifdom it (hall bee, to make vie of the libertie God hath giuen vs, that we erre not by too much credu- litie ; nor reiea Truth, through ouer-much prejudice and fliffnctie iu opinion. The rule of trial! demanded, Papifts eflignc vs the Churches determinations. Bur, fir[1, if they alto bee fub- ica to trialls, as wee fee by our t Sautourr practice, how may we thinke them the rule and meafure of Truth ? Re- gula is not rep/arum. Secondly ifCouncells be not pri- uilcdged from potfible errours, and haue erred de f47o, L 1 z asii
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