C H A P.2. Epiflle latheThefalonians. V E R.2. yet for fublunarie Cteatures , vndergoing fo many , fo continual! mutations,and through mutations,enfeeblings; Reafon it felfe would eafly finde out fomething more then probabilitie, whereout to conclude certainely of their fi.. nail wafting : that they Rand lo long inexhaufled is not fo much out of their owne flrength, but as Saint Teter ob- ferues; by the word of God fupporting them. The heauens and earth that now are, are kept in fiore h by the word of god , refereed to fire vnto the Judgement of the . great day. 3. Rathefl thus : word or leech; becaúfe it followes, as from vs. It more then feemes ; the fe falle Teachers pre- tended they had heard it from Paulsmouth;whither equi- uocating they built themfelues on that Nos quiviuimus, i Thef4. r s. milinterpreted; or, which I rather thinke,by impudent fiaion.they fathered their errour vpon Paul, as they had heard him teaching in other Churches; or, as falfely they might boaf},privately imparting it, as tome fecret to themfelues : how euer, Its but the tricke of an Heretique to fly from verbum Scriptum, to verbum Tra- dition : I meare, where the doecrine is vrged as matter ofneceffary faith :belike Apofiles had forgotten the charge of their Matter, to 3 pub on the houfe tops, what they had heard in fecret when they muff whifper in fecret the ab- flrufer points of knowledge, to the more perfea; concei- ling them from all notice ofthe vulgar. Saint 4ußin makes mention ofthe Deuterofis ludeorum,which to them was a fécond Mifhne, equalled with c.í`I'tofes his written Deete- ronomie. Vnwritten traditions (who doubts but preten- ded from c/Ttyès or force other great Prophet ?) which they equalled with the Scriptures of the Law and Pro- phets. Laid' noltri ? The written word is but partialis Regula; fupplie it mufi haue from Tradition : No nay; for where elle (hall we finde Purgatorie, Inuocation of Saints, Adoration of Images,Sacrament, Reliques ? &c. Thus I judge : t Euer fince the Church had a word written,fhe had in that written word a perfe& rule of faith and praaife;perfeól I meare pro tempore.The quare is vfu- all h a Pet.3,7. MAI*, 27. cont.Rducr(.'leg prephet.lib.x, cap'''.
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